Third eye drops are intended for open-minded adults.

Now administering the third eye drops. Welcome, welcome back to the Mind Meld. I am very excited to commune with you today because we will be talking about one of the most stupefying, tantalizing mysteries of our time,

honestly, potentially much further reaching than just now.

And that question is, whether or not we are alone in the universe.

Not only the universe, are we alone here?

Or is there some other resident?

Are we potentially being visited? I seriously cannot imagine being a human being equipped

with any normal amount of curiosity and having not wondered about it.

That said, like everything mysterious, this topic is just cloaked in dubiousness, wishful thinking, fear, far-fetched speculation and what I suspect

is just regular old bullshit. So it can be hard to talk about this, particularly in a nuanced way,

because as you probably know, if you listen to the pod,

it's very important to me to do that,

to maintain a sense of wonder and open-mindedness,

of course, yet not entertain circus ideas.

At least not too much.

I might start calling him that more often.

Circus ideas. I like that.

That said, reports of phenomena that do sound quite inexplicable, I would say, have been openly acknowledged by mainstream authorities

as of late.

You know, fighter pilots, the New York Times, politicians, official documents.

So this whole extraterrestrial wonder zone for lack of a better term is really heating up. I am certainly more curious than ever

about what's really going on, about what we know, what we don't know, whether or not the breakaway civilization

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