The The Welcome back to the UFO Rabbit Hole Podcast. I'm your host Kelly Chase.

As most of you know, I started this podcast two years ago after my own trip down the UFO rabbit hole triggered a radical shift in my

worldview that changed me in profound ways that I'm frankly still trying to process.

Getting your Edgesketch shaken like that is not an experience that's easy to convey.

But if you've ever been there, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

Laudid author and thinker of the anomalous, Dr. Jeffrey Kripel, coined the term the The at perspective. The UFO phenomenon is often compared to a Zen

Cohen. Like the proverbial sound of one hand clapping, a Cohen is an idea that is

designed to provoke the great doubt in the student, which opens the gateway to the initial insights of enlightenment.

In order to conceptualize the sound of one hand clapping, one must be able to conceive of a universe in which such a thing

is possible. In the world of consensus reality, the UFO phenomenon can't exist. So to encounter the phenomenon, either in person or through the

avalanche of evidence, is to hear the sound of one hand clapping and realize that

the world that you occupy is not the world as you imagined it to be,

the great doubt seizes you. What is the nature of our reality such that the UFO phenomenon exists with all of its Baroque and

bizarre paradoxes and what is the nature of the intelligence behind it or now that you

mention it what is intelligence and what are we, and what is anything?

The process of the flip is often talked about in terms of ontological shock.

The process of questioning not just one's beliefs, but the foundational concepts and categories that one uses to make sense of everything from the being you see in the mirror to what the definition of is is, can trigger a visceral kind of shock in people.

And like skydiving, whether you later see the experience as exhilarating or

annihilating, mostly depends on how and where you land.

But like with any other life-changing loss and or liberation,

once the shock and newness wear off, you're left with a space to fill.

You have to decide what you're going to build there.

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