Seriah is joined by prolific fiction and nonfiction author, researcher, and esoteric initiate Robert Guffey. Topics include Robert’s writing, dream experiences, Masonic initiation, the book “Chameleo: A Strange but True Story of Invisible Spies, Heroin Addiction, and Homeland Security”, cyberpunk author Rudy Rucker, Carlos Castaneda, William S. Burroughs, an entire story that emerged as a dream, dream journaling, experiences in publishing, a bizarre experience with Robert’s wife and a precognitive dream, John Keel’s book “Strange Creatures from Space and Time”, Flannel Man, Timothy Renner and the ”Strange Familiars” podcast, a weird lucid dream involving a shark, programming oneself to lucid dream, a disturbing shared erotic dream, Rick Strassman’s DMT research, the book “The Spirit Molecule”, Australian Aboriginal beliefs, authors Dennis Etchison and George Clayton Johnson, a meeting between Whitley Streiber and Terence McKenna, Gnostic Bishop Stephen Hoeller, ritual magic and UFO experience, Manly P. Hall, Israel Regardie, psychedelics and psychological stability, the dangers of falling down the rabbit hole, conspiracy theories, moon-landing denialism, flat earth theory, Ufology as religion, the problems of literalism and metaphor in religion, Linda Moulton Howe, UFO contactee literature, Carl Jung, Orfeo Angelucci, “The Secret of the Saucers” book, Alan Moore, magick as a branch of art, Paul Kimball, UFO phenomena as an art project, Freemasonry in Shakespeare, a strange dream involving Masonry and aliens and owls, surrealist art, Antonio Vilas-Boas, abduction as esoteric initiation, Timothy Leary, psychedelics and set and setting, Whitley Streiber and Catholicsm, the article “Invisible Predators”, modern cloaking technology, Richard Schowengerdt and electro-optical camouflage, invisibility and Rosicrucianism, invisible aliens, the Philip K. Dick novel “V.A.L.I.S.”, King James and demonology and the Lesser Key of Solomon, Kenneth Arnold’s visits from invisible beings, John Keel’s “Operation Trojan Horse”, Albert K. Bender’s encounter with a bizarre entity, the book “UFO Warning” by John Stuart, Doreen Wilkinson, sexual assault by invisible beings, the 1970’s “Entity” case, bizarre later information about John Stuart, the Netflix series “3 Body Problem” , the novella “The Open Doors” by Whitley Streiber, Trevor James Constable, rods, spontaneous human invisibility, Donna Good Higbee, Christopher Bledsoe, an attack in the woods by invisible entities, possible various natures of invisibility, a witness encounter with invisible creatures that use language, the Glimmer Man phenomena, a family’s strange encounter with what appears to be high-tech optical camouflage, a radio host who took legal action against a corporation that was experimenting on him with cloaking and hologram technology, adaptive camouflage, surveillance of civilians, Josephine Grace- targeted artist and journalist, inothernewsradio podcast, cybertronic technology, misuse of gifted programs to seek out psychic individuals, Tessa Dick (Philip’s widow), “A Scanner Darkly” novel, Robert’s latest novel “Dead Monkey Rum”, the Rondo awards, and much more! This is a classic discussion, jam-packed with information!

• Recap by Vincent Treewell of The Weird Part Podcast

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