Seriah is joined by Chris Ernst and Mat Festa for a Wandering the Road episode. Topics include personal vs public paranormal events, Jacques Vallee’s idea of a control system, ascended masters, spiritual pushes for progress, the Hudson Valley UFO event, Mothman, Adam Sayne and Serfiel Stevenson, Dr. Wham, paranormal events as filtered through cultural lenses, the discounting of the personal aspect of the paranormal, Joseph Smith and the origins of the Mormon religion, the media’s tendency to treat the paranormal exclusively as horror material, fear and the shamanic experience and personal growth, kundalini experiences, Seriah’s TV experience, the question of whether the personal growth aspect of a paranormal experience requires an actual anomaly, the ancient Greek mystery schools, the tic-tac video, the Pheonix lights, Marian apparitions, the Fatima events, paranormal activities as social control devices, the Seth material, NDEs and being outside of time, Chris’s strange dream of the future, the disappearing drone flap, Seriah’s black dog experience and related synchronicities, Gary Luckman’s book “The Lost Knowledge of the Imagination” , life destiny patterns, the so-called hitchhiker effect, one-off monsters, lizardman, Bigfoot in places he couldn’t physically be real and undetected, witness accuracy in runaway Google blimp, Paratopia, Emma Woods being hypnotized David Jacobs, scandals at MUFON, J.Z. Knight, Robert Bigelow, Vallee’s “Messengers of Deception” and “Dimensions” and “Forbidden Science” journals, Vallee’s invention of word search engines, celebrities as normal people, the podcast and book and TV show “The Edge of Sleep”, Driftless Times substack “The Color of Belief” by Walker Jaroch, generational differences in perspectives, the advantages and disadvantages of the internet, serious and spurious trigger warnings, Seriah’s ongoing autobiography, the lost practice of physical letter writing, a bizarre wish granted experience chain, Seriah’s violent vampire dream, fiction writing as therapeutic, late night artistic inspiration, things appearing online that deny randomness, and much more! This a fascinating, eclectic conversation!

• Recap by Vincent Treewell of The Weird Part Podcast
• Outro Music is Fox 45 with Awake in the Dark, live on The Last Exit for the Lost

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