Ep 19: Waking Up Inside The Cave [Pt 1]: Everything You Know Is Wrong

In many ways, our trip down the rabbit hole has been leading us, inevitably, to this episode. It’s in this episode that we reach a decisive inflection point. Nothing will be the same after this—maybe not even you.

Over the previous 18 episodes, I have done my best to make the case, not only that the UFO phenomenon is real, but that the complexity, ubiquity, and unintelligibility of the phenomenon are so great as to suggest that many of our most fundamental assumptions about the nature of reality itself may be incorrect.

This episode is my closing argument in the case of The Phenomenon vs. Consensus Reality. And when it’s done, I hope that you’ll agree with me that it’s time to burn it all down. Or at the very least, I hope you’ll agree that perhaps it’s time to consider some new models of reality that have the potential to reintroduce meaning and intelligibility into our broken world where impossible things won’t stop happening.

In this episode, we’ll begin by talking about what’s broken with our current models including the Big Bang, the hard problem of consciousness, quantum mechanics, and space-time. And we begin to ask, what do our broken models suggest about the nature of the cave that we find ourselves in? And what does all of this have to do with UFOs?

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LISTEN TO THESE EPISODES FIRST If these ideas are new to you, you might find it helpful to go back and listen to the previous two episodes to get greater context. Ep 17: An Interview with Dr. Diana Walsh Pasulka Ep 18: An Interview with Dr. James Madden

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MUSIC Theme: Cabinet of Curiosities by Shaun Frearson Music Break: Digital Abyss by Stephen Keech

TIMESTAMPS 00:00:30 Introduction 00:04:03 The “Official Story of Everything” 00:07:00 The Dream of the Cave 00:13:55 Everything You Know Is Wrong 00:19:45 The Big Bang 00:29:28 The Ghost in the Machine 00:37:35 Music Break 00:38:32 The Hard Problem of Consciousness 00:45:52 Quantum Mechanics Breaks Everything 00:55:22 Space-Time Is Doomed 00:57:35 The Emperor Has No Clothes 01:01:25 The Walls of the Cave

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