And I've had a lot of different kinds of entity experiences. Entity contact or alien contact is a universal human experience across cultures from the beginning of human history.

Whether someone is doing occult magic to intentionally evoke spirits or someone is abducted by aliens, someone goes through shamanic initiations to have altered state experiences,

to be in contact with these beings,

calling it a spirit, a demon, an angel, an alien.

Like, these are just labels.

If we are in a kind of matrix or simulation and life is a dream,

these would be dream symbols in a sense that is the high ultimate

intelligence of the one mind trying to reach itself in order to produce evolution of consciousness.

That's a whole other like definite parallel with all this because Jack Parsons, who was a pioneering rocket scientist,

was doing thalemic magic. That's when you start seeing these significant UFO events.

So it makes you wonder if these ritual magicians did actually open some kinds of portals

in the collective unconscious to allow these types of experiences to occur more readily.

Are the entities encountered during alien contact experiences, magical rituals, and psychedelic or shamanic journeys,

really all masks worn by the same underlying mysterious mercurial, multifaceted intelligence?

Or do we live in a whole ecosystem of unseen consciousnesses?

Well, if you've been following these transmissions as of late, you know that I am obsessed with questions like this, and this tension in particular.

And in this episode, I'm joined by a fellow seeker who is one of my most favorite beings ever to riff with about such questions because he's both intellectually

interested in these ideas and an experiencer of them. He is a consciousness explorer. He is an

occult initiate and a mind-blowingly talented visionary artist, Jake Cobran. He's also the author of

The Path Within Ritual Magic and the Gateway to Self-Mastery.

Jake is really at the nexus point of so many of my favorite topics. Entity encounters,

Western esotericism, idealist philosophy, Carl Jung. And through an alchemy of those lenses, I would say,

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