Mysterious Universe

8th Kind
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Always interesting and often hilarious, join hosts Joe Hodgdon and Brandon Thomas as they investigate the latest in reality, futurology, weird science, consciousness research, alternative history, cryptozoology, UFOs, and new-age absurdity.

  1. (AI) - Artificial Insemination and the Human Zoo

    5d ago

    (AI) - Artificial Insemination and the Human Zoo

    What does one do when one finds oneself nose to absence of nose with those who claim they are on a mighty quest to save that which they themselves have admittingly destroyed? Fortuitously encountering you, along their journey for Sur-thrival and deemed lucky you scoop-up-able simply for being in their path. Like so much wildlife in some sort of unannounced breeding program that you remain ignorantly unaware of the role that you play concerning their “cosmic” visions for some grand design or even just a simple curiosity. Thank you for joining us as we ponder the peculiar puzzle that is the genetic interest and undertaking of the exceptionally icky. Is this Woo Woo just trying to get its Freak on? Or is this something much more disturbing? For our Plus+ extension, we cover Anita Moorjani's Dying to Be Me, one of the most remarkable and widely discussed near-death experience accounts of the modern era. We follow her journey from a multicultural upbringing in Hong Kong, through years of fear, people-pleasing, and a devastating battle with lymphoma, to the extraordinary experience she reported during a 2006 coma and the unexpected recovery that followed. Along the way, we explore identity, mortality, and the idea that sometimes the hardest thing in life is simply being yourself. Intruders: The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods Cryobiology, Embryo Transfer, and Artificial Insemination in Ex Situ Animal Conservation Programs KPBS Public Media Video - Artificial Insemination Yields Rhino Embryo At Zoo's Safari Park Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing LinksPlus+ ExtensionThe extension of the show is EXCLUSIVE to Plus+ Members. To join. click HERE.Links Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 21m
  2. Reality.exe - The Simulation Hypothesis

    Jun 12

    Reality.exe - The Simulation Hypothesis

    In the back half of The Simulation Hypothesis, Rizwan Virk leaves the gaming and physics foundations behind and heads straight into the deep end: dreams, reincarnation, karma, synchronicity, near-death experiences, UFOs, AI consciousness, and the possibility that ancient mystics were describing the same reality modern technologists are now stumbling toward from the opposite direction. Along the way, he tries to connect Buddhism, Philip K. Dick, quantum mechanics, and modern computing into one giant framework where reality behaves less like dead matter and more like an interactive information system. Welcome to your Plus+ Extension and thank you for joining us on Plus+! Many a fine folk feel a sense of safety from the grasp of the paranormal under the bright lights of the populated pieces of this place we call home. The lights merely illuminating perhaps a false sense of protection against that which bumps in the neon night. Roy Stubblefield is out there setting the record straight about what lurks about after dark on the mean streets of these cities with his busty brush with the bizarre when he encountered a Dog”man” type creature leaving him in a wet mess of his own making. The Simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Computer Scientist Shows Why AI, Quantum Physics, and Eastern Mystics All Agree We Are in a Video Game Roy Stubblefield Reveals His Most Terrifying Encounter In New Orleans Article - Fight or flight turns hair white LinksPlus+ ExtensionThe extension of the show is EXCLUSIVE to Plus+ Members. To join. click HERE.Links Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 14m
  3. UFO Reflections | Abductions

    Jun 5

    UFO Reflections | Abductions

    UFOs capture our attention like nothing else can as we hear stories of these flying wonders and contemplate their origins, missions, and purposes. Some captivate more than others, literally capturing unsuspecting citizens to be brought aboard these enigmas for more baffling experiences. Philip Mantle is an outstanding researcher, author, and firsthand witness to the world of the freaky woo-woo.His new book, “UFO Reflections,” boasts a wide variety of said “woo” and offers us all greater insights into this highly strange phenomenon. In our Plus+ extension, we visit an MIT computer scientist and game designer Rizwan Virk in his book The Simulation Hypothesis as he takes a swing at one of the wildest ideas floating around modern culture: what if reality itself is basically a massively multiplayer simulation? He tries to connect ancient mystical ideas with modern computational thinking. Whether he’s onto something profound or just brilliantly overthinking Zelda, this one opens up a ton of questions about consciousness, perception, and what this place actually is. UFO REFLECTIONS by Philip Mantle Flying Disk Press Video- Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction? | Unexplained UFOs The Simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Computer Scientist Shows Why AI, Quantum Physics, and Eastern Mystics All Agree We Are in a Video Game LinksPlus+ ExtensionThe extension of the show is EXCLUSIVE to Plus+ Members. To join. click HERE.Links Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 5m
  4. The Golden Wave

    May 29

    The Golden Wave

    Welcome back to MU! This week we look into Children of the New Earth by Jill M. Jackson, a wild blend of Starseed mythology, psychic children, spiritual evolution, and humanity’s technological crossroads. From Indigo children to the "Solar Rays", we go through the variety of children appearing with the apparent mission of healing the earth and ushering us into the next age of human ascension! Buckle up for this one, it's a wild ride! Did you know that there are shapeshifters and mighty morphers are all around you? Offering oodles of fun questions like, what defines the definition of something? Is it the way it appears? What if looks are not what they seem and the thing you are looking at, so certain of its form, is not that at all, but an imposter out to bewilder the bewilderable? From mimic jellyfish to giant flying jellyfish, who’s to say what anyone is really seeing?    Children of the New Earth: How Starseeds Are Shaping Humanity’s Future Dr. Edith Ubuntu Chan | Human Possibilities Article - Some shape‑shifting animals that can morph to fool others Video - The Amazing Paradise Flying Snake | Wildest Islands Of Indonesia Article - The Pentagon Just Released Even More Weird Videos And Reports From The UFO Files. See Them Here Video - Ancient Aliens: Shape Shifting Object Spotted by Alaskan Pilot Article - The Vikings Used Sunstone For Navigation LinksPlus+ ExtensionThe extension of the show is EXCLUSIVE to Plus+ Members. To join. click HERE.Links Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 18m
  5. Many Mini Mysteries - Making a big deal of the small stuff

    May 22

    Many Mini Mysteries - Making a big deal of the small stuff

    Welcome to Mysterious Universe Season 35 episode 20!This realm boasts a massive amount of tiny happenings. Many Mini Mysteries can be found to surround you in every wee way within every micro moment of every diminutive day. Satisfying the appetite for the petite. We're talking about making a big deal out of the small stuff with a mini flying saucer invasion of tiny ray-gun-toting one-armed aliens appearing to children in Malaysia and more Mini Mysteries. In our Plus+ extension, we dive into one of the strangest blind spots in human nature: the way intelligent people become trapped inside their own certainty. Using everything from scientific fraud and broken paradigms to toxic marriages, we explore how ego, ideology, and institutional momentum can distort reality itself. The deeper you get into it, the harder it becomes to tell where honest inquiry ends and psychological self-defense begins. Stowell Primary School UFO Incident in Bukit Mertajam 1970 Malaysia’s Miniature Alien Mystery: Unveiling the Enigmatic Encounters of Tiny Visitors Aliens and UFOs - Frontpage news of the Straits Times? The 1973 UFO Chronology - A World-Wide Wave Book - The Hidden Folk - S D Tucker Book - Symmetry: A True UFO Adventure - Preston Dennettt Book - Alien Contacts and Abductions: The Real Story from the Other Side - Jenny Randles Mysteries: The Powerful Sequel to The Occult The Great Pat Mahan Interstate 60 LinksPlus+ ExtensionThe extension of the show is EXCLUSIVE to Plus+ Members. To join. click HERE.Links Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 21m
  6. The Inner Signal

    May 15

    The Inner Signal

    Welcome back! This week we continue from last week's extension with Colin Wilson's The Occult, and his interesting perspective on what these heightened states are, how they are achieved and maintained, as well as some notable characters associated with the topic. We also question why this area of research is so rife with charlatans and fakes? As always, make of this what you will, but Wilson really makes a great case for all of it. Welcome to your Plus+ Extension, and thank you for joining us on Plus+! This is a weird, wild realm we have here, riddled with strange happenings in the sky. High strangeness is intimately interwoven with everyday-ness. Today, we examine a smattering of seemingly unconnected events, accounts, and perspectives of some of the most bizarre encounters by some day-to-day dwelling, normal folks just living out their lives and then, suddenly…Whammmy, they are visited by the freaky, and it woos them into further investigation. The Occult: A History Aleister Crowley and the Aeon of Horus: History. Magick. Psychedelia. Ufology The Temple of High Witchcraft: Ceremonies, Spheres and The Witches' Qabalah Éliphas LéviPlus+ ExtensionThe extension of the show is EXCLUSIVE to Plus+ Members. To join. click HERE. A small compilation of oddly shaped UFOs The Varied Shapes of UFOs: A Review of Reported Phenomena The What's What of UFOs: The Five Most Common Shapes Silver Screen Saucers: Sorting Fact from Fantasy in Hollywood's UFO Movies The 1973 UFO Chronology - A World-Wide Wave LinksLinks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 13m
  7. From the Mundane to the Magnificent

    May 8

    From the Mundane to the Magnificent

    On this episode we are continuing our mind-blowing adventure with Vera Stanley Alder’s “From the Mundane to the Magnificent”. Today, friends, we discover the inner workings of nature itself with a gander at the logistics of Fairyland before a view of human beings in various mental and emotional states as we gain greater insight into the “insane”. For our Plus+ extension we begin Colin Wilson’s The Occult, exploring his argument that the real mystery isn’t ghosts or magic, it’s human consciousness itself. From primitive shamans to the bombastic Crowley types, we go over the idea that people have always brushed up against deeper layers of awareness, but just never quite learned how to control them. At its base, Wilson tries to argue that this is less about the supernatural and more about whether we’re living at a fraction of our actual potential.   From the Mundane to the Magnificent The Occult: The Ultimate Guide for Those Who Would Walk with the Gods LinksPlus+ ExtensionThe extension of the show is EXCLUSIVE to Plus+ Members. To join. click HERE.Links Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 18m
  8. Where Science Meets Spirit

    May 1

    Where Science Meets Spirit

    This week we’re continuing down the Sheldrake path with The Physics of Angels by Matthew Fox and Rupert Sheldrake, where a theologian and a scientist try to make sense of angels in a modern context. Pulling from figures like Aquinas and Hildegard, we explore whether these “beings” might actually point to forms of intelligence or organization we still don’t fully understand. Whether you buy it or not, it’s a solid look at how our view of reality might be a lot more limited than we think. Welcome to this banger Plus+ Extension! The long awaited uber saga that is From the Mundane to the Magnificent is at hand! This remarkably fun story is very much an epic tale loaded with insights that will take your mind off of the nonsense found littered about this so called “reality”. Part one offers us instructions for leaving the restrictive body for astral exploration, a new look at the Earth and solar system only to bring it all home by shrinking to the size of an atom, and stopping to have a chin wag with a cell offering their interpretation of life from their perspective. Thank you for being on Plus+ with us! Sit back and enjoy a fresh perspective that could change everything about your Youniverse and unlock hidden potential within yourcelf.  The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet   From the Mundane to the Magnificent - Vera Stanley Alder LinksPlus+ ExtensionThe extension of the show is EXCLUSIVE to Plus+ Members. To join. click HERE.Links Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 7m
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Always interesting and often hilarious, join hosts Joe Hodgdon and Brandon Thomas as they investigate the latest in reality, futurology, weird science, consciousness research, alternative history, cryptozoology, UFOs, and new-age absurdity.

Information

  • Creator
    8th Kind
  • Years Active
    2009 - 2026
  • Episodes
    20
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 8th Kind
  • Show Website
    Mysterious Universe

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