The planet's puppet masters almost surely have a plan.

There's clearly maybe something there be a morale of man.

And until you thoroughly tested every last close test it for you.

I find the more you think you know the less you really do.

Where would we be without THC?

Cause we know they're lying to us just don't know to what degree.

Where would we be without THC?

The higher sides at show, brick carl wood and company.

What a world, what a world.

From the sunshine state, I'm Greg Carlewood and our current culture does a great job of preoccupying itself with mundane human affairs, political drama and entertaining distractions.

While remaining blissfully ignorant of the larger than human world, the complex layers of consciousness and deeper reflections on what it even means to live.

We don't know much about the deep lore of the fairy folk, the long history of visits from tiny frail beans or the detailed instructions for navigating death laid out by those who came before us.

Yet some of us are occasionally plucked from our simplistic existence and shown scenes behind the curtain like stuffed animals in some cosmic claw machine.

Only to have our minds blown momentarily before we're tossed back onto the pile.

Other see things at the edge of the woods that defy what we've been told about reality.

Some experience a kaleidoscope of psychedelic colors and conversations with dead relatives when you eat the right mushrooms.

And occasionally one might barely survive a car accident only to be transported to some other plane and taught the lesson that there is no such thing as death and they will be waiting for us on the other side when we're ready.

You would think these things would be worthy of discussion, but we have allowed the very mild threat of ridicule to keep us quarantined inside a culture of silence.

But fear not dear listeners because today's returning guest Joshua Kuchin just can't take it anymore and has laid it all on the line with yet another masterwork to add to his growing collection with his latest two-parter titled the ecology of souls, a new mythology of death and the paranormal.

It clocks in and over 700 pages of 40 and goodness and provides one of the best comparative explorations of all things fringe and how they overlap with death, consciousness and the human spirit.

Long time listeners should know that Josh and I have done the dance several times before originally in 2016 to talk about his book, a Trojan feast, the food and drink offerings of aliens, fairies and sasquatch.

Again in 2017 going over his book, the Brimstone Deceit, an in-depth examination of supernatural sense, otherworldly odors and monstrous measmas.

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