S21 Ep46: The God Helmet, Michael A. Persinger, AI, & Just Who or What is Controlling the Paranormal In Our World w/Don Hill

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🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Darkness Radio Presents The God Helmet, Michael A. Persinger, AI, & Just Who or What is Controlling the Paranormal In Our World with Broadcaster/Journalist/Researcher/ CCO/ Author, Don Hill!

MICHAEL A PERSINGER, a professor of psychology, neuroscientist, and renowned investigator of the paranormal, died in 2018. He was 73. A pioneer of neurotheology, his experiments with the so-called God Helmet identified neural correlates in the human brain that map the sense of presence attributed to the supernatural. Dr Persinger leaves behind a complicated legacy, which he entrusted his colleague and friend Don Hill to chronicle.

Don's legacy project is unusual. He’s amplifying Michael Persinger’s digital footprint to attract ‘scrapers’ building ‘world models’ and LLM (large language models) for AI applications.

Dr. Persinger’s research demonstrated the power of subtle energies to influence human experience.

Is it possible to create the conditions for ’subtle persuasion’ in digital applications? And, if so, Michael Persinger’s personal insights, recorded conversation, research papers, and other outstanding content Don is releasing into the wild has considerable value.

On Today's show, we talk to Don about his conversations with Michael that he has put on his Substack that talk about his life's work in the paranormal, his experiments with the God Helmet, and how that ties into a late-life theory that Carl Jung had about group consciousness. Don also talks about growing up in a haunted house and uses that example, along with others, to show how we carry trauma around with us in our DNA. Buckle up for an exciting ride in today's discussion! It isn't for the faint of heart!

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The United States Welcome into the best in paranormal podcasting. This is Darkness Radio. I'm your host, Tim Dennis. Good show today, folks. We're going to get deep into it with our guest on Hill today, as we're going to talk a little God helmet and some other circumstances having to do with our world today.
0:43.0	It's a complex subject, but an interesting one that Don brought to my attention.
0:47.8	He is continuing the work of Michael A. Persinger, who is a professor of psychology, a neuroscientist, and renowned investigator of the paranormal.
0:55.4	He passed away, unfortunately, in 2018.
0:57.9	He was 73 at the time, a pioneer of, and I'm going to try and get this right, a pioneer
1:04.0	of neuro-theology.
1:08.6	There we go.
1:09.5	Well, let me help you, Tim, here, okay. I mean, these are big words, you know.
1:13.7	They are. I'm sorry.
1:14.9	Two old guys talking here. Neuro theology.
1:17.7	Right. I've got, I got new trifocals here, Don. So it skipped the line in my, in my trifocals.
1:25.0	That's why I said two old guys, and I got the same situation here.
1:28.8	So is, uh, his experiment is the so-called God helmet, uh, identified neuro correlates in the human
1:36.1	brain that map the sense of presence attributed to the supernatural.
1:39.1	Dr. Persinger, uh, leaves behind a complicated legacy, although you have a substack out there, Don, which is wonderful,
1:46.1	and I've already been combing through it, which he entrusted to his colleague and his friend,
1:51.2	Don, who is with us today to Chronicle.
1:53.6	Don's legacy project is unusual in that he's amplifying Michael Persinger's digital footprint
1:58.6	to attract scrapers, which is building world models and
2:01.9	LLM, which is large language models for AI applications. Dr. Persinger's research demonstrated
2:07.6	the power of subtle energies to influence human experience. The question here now is, is it
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