So Raya Runs, Where Did the Road Go? A Brilliant podcast.

I'm a very good friend to me over the last 10 years. I first went on his show probably 10 years ago.

It's a long-running show, a lamplit journey into the margins of reality,

a place where certainty freys and the map ends.

Each episode wanders deliberately off the known path into realms haunted by UFO encounters, whispered paranormal events, altered

states of consciousness, ancient mysteries, and the unsettling sense that the world is not

what it pretends to be.

Savaya, we're going to talk about your life today because you've had so many strange,

lifelong experiences.

And I've been saying to you for years, when are you going to finish your book?

And how is it getting on?

The book is technically written.

I'm going through the proofreading stages now.

It should be at the beginning of this year.

Brilliant.

How many pages?

I know it's going to be big.

So it went from being a book about my paranormal experiences to an autobiography.

Mm-hmm.

So it's the first part, which only goes up to 1996, is about 450 pages.

The reason I included everything was because of Mike Cleland. Mike said to me, when I was talking about my big UFO encounter I had, he said, what was going on in your life at the time? And I went, I don't know. And so I went and looked and went, oh, that was like at one of the biggest changes in my entire life. And then right in the middle of it, I saw right before it all happened,

I saw this giant UFO. And so I started looking at other events and I'm like, oh, all this stuff is intertwined. I can't take my life out of these events. These events happen at points of

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