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

edges sketch 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.

Lauded author and thinker of the anomalous, Dr. Jeffrey Criple, coined the term the flip

to describe the experience of having one's worldview leveled by a tectonic shift in perspective.

The UFO phenomenon is often compared to a Zen koan.

Like the proverbial sound of one-hand clapping,

a koan 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.

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