News, science, the unexplained space in the cosmos, exploring our past, our future, and

the mysteries of our universe, taking a critical look at reality and a journey to the edges

of human understanding.

The future is now.

This is Micahanks.

From the high mountains of Appalachia in a bunker below ground, welcome when it all

it is the Micahanks program glad, as always, to be your host, to be getting into gear,

looking ahead, and going in pursuit of the mysteries of our existence like we do every

week, here on the program available, listen on demand via a podcasting app all around

the globe any time, any place, at your service, and glad to be here indeed, so we've got

a lot to cover, including a brief travel update, that's right, I've been on the road

for the last three weeks, did you miss me?

A lot of you guys may not have even realized I was gone.

That and of course news, but in recent days, a number of publications have been touching

on the topic of aliens, and more importantly, people who claim to have had contact with

them.

In fact, fiction, something else.

Joining us to discuss this and all matters uphilogical is an award-winning former New York

Times reporter, who has authored a book called The Believer, which chronicles the work

of the late Harvard psychiatrist John Mack, that's right Ralph Blumenthal.

We'll be my guest, this has been a conversation a long time coming, let me tell you, because

Ralph of course was the co-author, one of three in fact, on the landmark 2017 article

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