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Kelly Chase

Inquiry with Kelly Chase is an investigative podcast about how we know what we know—and what happens when official reality stops making sense. Drawing on the history of psychological operations, ufology, psi phenomena, consciousness research, and anomalous experience, Kelly Chase investigates the places where reality misbehaves—because those are the places where it most often tells the truth.

Presented by SpectreVision Radio

This is also where you can find the archive for Kelly's previous shows—Cosmosis and The UFO Rabbit Hole.

Kelly Chase is a writer, researcher, executive producer, and public speaker whose work focuses on anomalous phenomena, consciousness, and narrative. She is the writer and executive producer of Cosmosis: UFOs & A New Reality, the host of Inquiry with Kelly Chase, and the former host of The UFO Rabbit Hole, and has been featured in UFO Revolution (TMZ) and Beyond (Bad Robot). Her work centers fidelity to firsthand testimony, ethical storytelling, and intellectual rigor over spectacle.

The UFO Rabbit Hole Podcast

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The Great Reordering with Robin Lassiter [Earth: A Love Story]

This episode began as an investigation into Sigmund Freud, Edward Bernays, propaganda, psychoanalysis, and the hidden machinery through which modern perception management came to be. But somewhere along the way, it became something much more personal.

In Starlight Sickness, Kelly traces the strange lineage between Freud’s abandonment of the seduction theory, Bernays’s engineering of consent, and the ways power moves harm out of view by relocating it into the minds of the harmed.

From the origins of modern public relations to the hall of mirrors inside ufology, this episode asks what happens when the tools we use to interpret reality also become the tools used to obscure it. How do we practice discernment without losing trust in our own perception? How do we make room for complexity without allowing complexity to become fog? And what does accountability look like when the story you were living inside begins to collapse?

In light of recent allegations against her former best friend and creative partner Jay Christopher King, Kelly turns the same questions back on herself, beginning the process of untangling what happened, what she believed, what she may have gotten wrong, and what this community is owed now.

This is an episode about gaslighting, trauma, consent engineering, ufology, and the terrifying difficulty of finding solid ground in a world built to manage perception.

Topics explored: Sigmund Freud | Edward Bernays | propaganda | psychoanalysis | gaslighting | consent engineering | perception management | public relations | the unconscious | repression | seduction theory | the Oedipus complex | Jeffrey Masson | Freud Archives | Emma Eckstein | Wilhelm Fliess | institutional betrayal | therapeutic language | expert authority | trauma | memory | interpretation | accountability | narrative control | invisible government | torches of freedom | United Fruit Company | Guatemala coup | ufology | experiencer communities | anomalous experience | sexual trauma | abduction narratives | vulnerability and power | Jay Christopher King | The Experiencer Group | spiritual abuse | trust and betrayal | epistemic instability | discernment | reality testing | | truth and coherence | symbols and meaning | systems of control | manufactured consent | moral injury | the hall of mirrors

Referenced in this Episode:

 
Addressing the Allegations Against My Former Creative Partner, Jay Christopher King

 
Starlight Sickness — Helico Tele

 
Propaganda — Edward Bernays (1928)

 
The Engineering of Consent — Edward Bernays (1947)

 
The Aetiology of Hysteria — Sigmund Freud (1896)

 
The Interpretation of Dreams — Sigmund Freud (1900)

 
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality — Sigmund Freud (1905)

 
The Assault on Truth: Freud’s Suppression of the Seduction Theory — Jeffrey Masson (1984)

 
Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Mystical Tradition — David Bakan (1958)

 
Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator — Ryan Holiday (2012)

 
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell — Tucker Max (2006)

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TIMESTAMPS

05:27 Propaganda and The True Ruling Power

09:20 Freudian Ick10:58 Jeffrey Masson, Heretic

13:18 Sigmund Freud and The Source of the Nile

17:49 Wilhelm Fliess, A Passionate Friendship

19:55 Emma Eckstein and The Stronger Sex

22:06 A Little Sleight of Hand24:21 The Oedipus Complex and The Nucleus of Neuroses

32:02 The Baby and the Bathwater

33:21 Trust the Experts

34:44 You Can’t Do Anything With This Information

37:54 The Torches of Freedom

40:31 The Coup

43:11 A Koan

48:15 The Abstract Becomes Horrifyingly Personal

52:21 Responding to Jay Christopher King’s Statement

01:01:03 Fall 2023

01:05:21 The Epistemic Black Boxes of Ufology

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Starlight Sickness: Gaslighting, Consent Engineering, & How I Got Lost In Ufology's Hall of Mirrors

What if the worldview functioning as an opiate today is not religion, but its absence?

In this field notes episode of Inquiry, Kelly Chase examines atheism not as a private belief or philosophical conclusion, but as a very recent mass cultural formation that now functions as the default worldview of educated Western society. Beginning with Marx’s famous claim that religion is the opiate of the masses, she asks whether modern secular materialism may now be serving a similar sedating function by making vast areas of human experience feel intellectually off-limits.

From there, the episode turns toward elite metaphysics. The public is often told that materialism is the rational, mature, evidence-based position, yet many of the people and institutions shaping the future take seriously spirituality, consciousness, simulation theory, mysticism, ritual, and esoteric frameworks. The question is not whether any single belief system is true, but whether citizens trained to dismiss the symbolic and metaphysical have been given a map that cannot represent the terrain power is actually navigating.

Finally, the episode considers the empirical and philosophical pressure points inside strict materialism: the hard problem of consciousness, near-death experience research, the PEAR Lab at Princeton, Dean Radin’s work at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and anomalous findings that are usually met not with rigorous refutation but with studied disregard. These findings are not treated as proof of any particular metaphysics. They are treated as evidence that the question remains open, and that a genuine skeptic should apply suspicion not only to extraordinary claims, but to the dominant worldview that decides in advance which claims are allowed to count.

Topics explored: Marx and religion | opiate of the masses | atheism as ideology | secularization | materialism | consciousness | the hard problem | non-material reality | elite belief | WEF and spirituality | Silicon Valley mysticism | simulation theory | René Girard | Peter Thiel | Elon Musk | Bohemian Grove | ritual and power | Skull and Bones | esotericism | operative metaphysics | near-death experiences | PEAR Lab | Dean Radin | anomalous cognition | mind-matter interaction | dogma and skepticism | worldview enforcement | social sanction | epistemic humility | the metaphysics of power

Inquiry with Kelly Chase is brought to you by SpectreVision Radio.Produced in partnership with Voltage.fm. 

Referenced In This Episode

 
A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right — Karl Marx (1843/44)

 
The Death of Christian Britain: Understanding Secularisation 1800–2000 — Callum G. Brown (2001)

 
Religion’s Sudden Decline: What’s Causing It, and What Comes Next? — Ronald F. Inglehart (2021)

 
The Role of Faith in Systemic Global Challenges — World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Role of Faith (2016)

 
Faith, the Internet and Improving the State of the World — World Economic Forum (2016)

 
Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness — David J. Chalmers (1995)

 
Near-Death Experience in Survivors of Cardiac Arrest: A Prospective Study in the Netherlands — Pim van Lommel et al. (2001)

 
Margins of Reality: The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World — Robert G. Jahn & Brenda J. Dunne (1987)

 
Experiments Testing Models of Mind-Matter Interaction — Dean Radin (2006)

 
The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena — Dean Radin (1997)

 
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World — René Girard (1978)

 
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning — René Girard (1999)

Support The Show

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TIMESTAMPS

00:27 Braving Belief Talk

01:26 Atheism as Opiate

02:22 How New Secularism Is

04:21 Elites Aren't Secular

07:03 Materialism's Blind Spots

08:35 Anomalies and Dogma

10:01 Social Enforcement of Belief11:53 A Better Skepticism

12:37 Waking Up to Metaphysics
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[Field Notes] Atheism Is the Opiate of the Masses: Probing The Blind Spots of Secular Certainty

Why do anomalous experiences so often arrive in the wake of trauma? And what happens when the people who understand that connection decide to use it as a weapon?

This episode of Inquiry follows trauma as the hidden throughline connecting UFOs, consciousness, psychological operations, and the engineering of belief at scale. Kelly Chase starts with how human perception actually works, drawing on Donald Hoffman's "The Case Against Reality," James Madden's umwelt and über-umwelt from "Unidentified Flying Hyperobject," and Jeffrey Kripal's Filter Thesis, then grounds it all in the predictive processing model of the brain and Karl Friston's free energy principle. The picture that emerges is unsettling: trauma doesn't only wound a person, it makes them porous, loosening the filters that hold consensus reality in place.

From there the conversation turns toward how that vulnerability has been exploited. It traces belief manipulation from the 1980 "From PSYOP to MindWar" paper by Michael Aquino and Paul Vallely, through MKULTRA and Operation Mockingbird, to the declassified reality of Operation Northwoods and the manufacturing of consent. It brings in Jacques Vallée's control system hypothesis and Colm Kelleher's concept of bidirectional mimicry to ask whether human institutions and the phenomenon itself may be using the same lever: disruption, destabilization, and the reshaping of belief in the rupture's aftermath.

Then it turns the dread on its head. Research on openness to experience and Post-Traumatic Growth suggests the architects of mass stress made a critical miscalculation. Trauma creates openings, and openings go both ways. You can crack the shell of consensus reality to make people malleable, but you cannot control what hatches.

Topics explored: Trauma and anomalous experience | experiencer patterns | the Filter Thesis | Donald Hoffman | perception as interface | umwelt and über-umwelt | James Madden | Jeffrey Kripal | predictive processing | Karl Friston | free energy principle | belief malleability | shattered assumptions | meaning violation | belief engineering | MindWar | Michael Aquino | Paul Vallely | psychological operations | MKULTRA | Operation Mockingbird | cognitive sovereignty | bidirectional mimicry | Colm Kelleher | black triangle craft | Jacques Vallée | control system hypothesis | Operation Northwoods | manufactured consent | openness to experience | Post-Traumatic Growth | consciousness-level immune response | non-human intelligence | contact experiences

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Referenced In This Episode

 
The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes — Donald Hoffman (2019)

 
Unidentified Flying Hyperobject: UFOs, Philosophy, and the End of the World — James Madden (2023)

 
How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else — Jeffrey J. Kripal (2024)

 
The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge — Jeffrey J. Kripal (2019)

 
"The Free-Energy Principle: A Unified Brain Theory?" — Karl Friston (2010)

 
"Trauma or Drama: A Predictive Processing Perspective on the Continuum of Stress" — Valery Krupnik (2020)

 
"Predictive Processing and the Varieties of Psychological Trauma" — Sam Wilkinson, Guy Dodgson & Kevin Meares (2017)

 
"Assumptive Worlds and the Stress of Traumatic Events" — Ronnie Janoff-Bulman (1989)

 
Shattered Assumptions: Towards a New Psychology of Trauma — Ronnie Janoff-Bulman (1992)

 
"PTSD as Meaning Violation: Testing a Cognitive Worldview Perspective" — Crystal L. Park, Mary Alice Mills & Donald Edmondson (2012)

 
"Making Sense of the Meaning Literature: An Integrative Review of Meaning Making and Its Effects on Adjustment to Stressful Life Events" — Crystal L. Park (2010)

 
From PSYOP to MindWar: The Psychology of Victory — Paul E. Vallely & Michael Aquino (1980)

 
MindWar: The New Battle for the Mind — Michael Aquino (2016)

 
Project MKULTRA, the CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification — U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (1977)

 
MKULTRA Collection — CIA Reading Room

 
Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans, Book II (Church Committee Report) — U.S. Senate (1976)

 
Justification for US Military Intervention in Cuba (Operation Northwoods) — Joint Chiefs of Staff (1962)

 
"The Anxious State: Stress, Polarization, and Elections in America" — The Conversation (2025)

 
"Politics Is Taking a Toll on People's Well-Being" — Psychology Today (2025)

 
"Stressful Life Events and Openness to Experience: Relevance to Depression" — Chiappelli et al. (2021)

 
"The Social Psychology of Responses to Trauma: Social Identity Pathways Associated with Divergent Traumatic Responses" — Orla Muldoon et al. (2019)

 
"Posttraumatic Growth: Conceptual Foundations and Empirical Evidence" — Richard Tedeschi & Lawrence Calhoun (2004)

 
"The Post-Traumatic Growth Approach to Psychological Trauma" — Richard Tedeschi (2023)

 
"Confidence in U.S. Institutions Down; Average at New Low" — Gallup (2022)

 
2025 Edelman Trust Barometer — Edelman (2025)

Support The Show

 
Patreon: inquirywithkellychase.com

 
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Connect with Kelly

 
Website: kellychase.media

 
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TIMESTAMPS

04:12 Trauma and The Anomalous 

07:01 Perception Is an Interface 11:05 Umwelt and Uber Umwelt 

14:05 Kripal and Filter Thesis 

18:27 Predictive Brain and Trauma 

23:11 Belief Becomes Malleable 

28:08 MindWar Doctrine 

32:36 MKUltra and Mockingbird 

36:58 Mimicry and Control System 

42:17 False Flags and Consent 

46:09 Algorithms as Trauma Engine 

49:23 Openness and Growth 

55:59 Consciousness Immune Response 

57:18 Closing and Next Steps

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The Weaponized Wound: Trauma, Belief Engineering & the Fatal Flaw in the Control Mechanism

I recently received an email from an individual who said they wanted to share a concerning series of online interactions they had with my former creative partner, Jay Christopher King. This person shared that they are an experiencer who started a correspondence with Jay on Instagram after seeing him on Cosmosis. They allege that, in the course of this conversation where they also shared vulnerable details of their history, Jay crossed sexual boundaries and sent an explicit photo. Screenshots were shared with me in support of these claims. They said they were reaching out because they were concerned by the brazenness of this behavior, particularly given that Jay is a public figure. And given his role working with vulnerable people in The Experiencer Group, they were concerned that others might be at risk.

I initially didn’t believe it. Jay is someone I have worked with very closely over the last three years. He’s been my business partner and my closest friend. We have spoken extensively about his work as the director of The Experience Group, and had many conversations—often initiated by him—about how vulnerable people can be when processing anomalous experiences, and how important it is to maintain clear boundaries and ethical standards. It is only because we’d had these conversations at length that I was ever comfortable recommending that people join The Experiencer Group. I did not think it was possible that the person I knew could have done something like this.

But as someone who has been the victim of sexual assault that went unpunished, and as a woman in this community who has publicly endorsed Jay as someone safe, this was not something I could ignore.

From the moment I first allowed for the possibility that this might be true to the time I was on the phone with a woman sharing another deeply distressing account involving Jay was just a few hours. I have since heard from multiple women who have described concerning behavior.

These stories are not mine to tell. But I want to be clear about the nature of what has been reported to me: I have heard from multiple individuals who have described concerning experiences, including allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior involving Jay. Some of these accounts come from individuals who describe having approached him while seeking support for their anomalous experiences.

I cannot independently verify these accounts, but given their seriousness, I felt it was important to take immediate action.

 
I am taking the necessary steps to permanently sever all ties with Jay 

 
The Cosmosis podcast, “Inquire Anomalous Presents” content, and any content featuring Jay has been permanently removed from all public feeds

 
Production of Season 2 of Cosmosis has been permanently suspended

 
At the time of this posting, I’m still not sure what’s going on with season 1 of the docuseries, but I will not be promoting it moving forward. 

I am devastated and mortified to have to come to the community that has inspired, held, uplifted, supported, and, at times, truly saved me, and tell you this. This is my greatest nightmare, and I’m sitting with the heartbreak and complexity of having given my endorsement to Jay over these past few years. For that, I want to apologize to the entire community, and to the experiencer community, in particular. 

I want to thank the person who reached out to me with the initial allegations. Your bravery and intuition broke a spell and helped a lot of people—including me. And thank you to the other brave women who have shared your stories with me in the interest of helping others. You all have my eternal gratitude. I am here for you, and you have my full support.

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Addressing the Allegations Against My Former Creative Partner, Jay Christopher King

You're not hallucinating. This is a repost. This episode accidentally got deleted. New episodes of Inquiry are coming soon.

Apocalyptic visions are one of the most persistent patterns in anomalous experience—and one of the least examined. Across abduction accounts, contact experiences, downloads, and altered states, experiencers consistently report visions of a coming cataclysm. The pattern holds across cultures, across centuries, and across radically different frameworks for understanding contact with non-human intelligence. And the prophecy never comes true.

That doesn't make it meaningless. It might make it more significant.

In this Field Notes episode, Kelly Chase lays out four theories for what these visions actually are—and what they're doing. Is this species-level PTSD, the trauma of civilizational collapses encoded in our collective psyche and mistaken for prediction? Are these translation artifacts—non-human intelligence reaching for the most legible human metaphor for an ontological rupture that has no literal equivalent? Is the phenomenon itself functioning as a control mechanism, using apocalyptic certainty to fragment, isolate, and neutralize experiencer communities at precisely the moments they begin to cohere? Or is something considerably more terrestrial at work?

The apocalypse may not be coming. But understanding why so many people have been shown it—and who benefits from that vision—may be one of the most important questions in the field.

Find the full transcript on my Substack.

🗒️ About Field Notes

Field Notes are short-form episodes where Kelly thinks aloud—tracing patterns, chasing questions, and working through ideas that haven't yet reached their conclusion. The path of inquiry is messy and non-linear, and Field Notes is where that process lives out loud. For access to the full archive of written Field Notes, visit inquirywithkellychase.substack.com.

Topics explored: Apocalyptic visions in anomalous experience | experiencer patterns | species-level trauma | collective unconscious | noosphere | Akashic record | ancestral memory | Younger Dryas | civilizational collapse | geological cataclysm | Jacques Vallée | Eric Davis | non-human intelligence communication | symbolic translation | ontological rupture | contact phenomenon | control mechanism | psychological operations | MKULTRA | Voice of God technology | anomalous cognition | experiencer communities | belief manipulation | abduction accounts | contactee testimony | field notes

Inquiry with Kelly Chase is brought to you by SpectreVision Radio.Produced in partnership with Voltage.fm. 

Referenced In This Episode

 
Incommensurability, Orthodoxy, and the Physics of High Strangeness — Jacques Vallée & Eric Davis (2003)

Support The Show

 
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TIMESTAMPS00:47 Apocalyptic Visions and Anomalous Experiencet

02:31 Theory One: Ancestral Memory

04:20 Theory Two: Translation Artifacts

05:56 Theory Three: Control Mechanism

08:08 Theory Four: Human Interference

11:01 What the Pattern Reveals

12:05 Closing and Where to Follow

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[Field Notes] Why Do Experiencers Have Visions of Apocalypse? Meaning, Memory, and Manipulation

Something shifted in 2021 — not just for Kelly, but for an unusual number of people all at once. In this Field Notes episode, she thinks aloud about a pattern she keeps running into: waves of consciousness-altering experiences that clustered around a single year, reported independently, with near-identical features and near-identical language. More than a few people, without any prompting, reached for the exact same phrase to describe what happened to them: a sleeper agent, activated.

She traces the pattern outward — from veteran UFO researcher Stan Gordon's description of 2021 as the year "they opened all the cages at the Cryptid Zoo," to Edgar Mitchell's overview effect, to the measurable weakening of Earth's electromagnetic field and the approaching solar maximum — and keeps arriving at the same question: what changed?

This episode doesn't offer a single answer, just a few working theories held together honestly and the growing sense that 2021 may have been a threshold rather than an anomaly.

If you're a member of the anomalous class of 2021, this one's for you.

Find the full transcript on my Substack.

🗒️ About Field Notes

Field Notes are short-form episodes where Kelly thinks aloud—tracing patterns, chasing questions, and working through ideas that haven't yet reached their conclusion. The path of inquiry is messy and non-linear, and Field Notes is where that process lives out loud. For access to the full archive of written Field Notes, visit inquirywithkellychase.substack.com.

Topics explored: Anomalous class of 2021 | consciousness shifts | sleeper agent activation | collective awakening | overview effect | Edgar Mitchell | space psychology | Earth's electromagnetic field | solar cycles | geomagnetic weakening | pandemic isolation | shared reality collapse | threshold events | hundredth monkey effect | cryptid surges | window areas | Stan Gordon | Kecksburg | high strangeness | collective observation | quantum mechanics and perception | reality porosity | precognitive dreams | non-human intelligence contact | experiencer testimony | field notes

Inquiry with Kelly Chase is brought to you by SpectreVision Radio.

Produced in partnership with Voltage.fm. 

Referenced In This Episode

Here are the episodes where Kelly talks about her anomalous experience in 2021:

 
Through The Looking Glass [Pt 1]: My Initiation Into The Anomalous

 
Spotify

 
Apple Podcasts

 
YouTube

Support The Show

 
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TIMESTAMPS

01:43 Sleeper Agent Pattern

03:37 Is 2021 a Wave

05:09 Kecksburg Turning Point

06:34 Threshold Consciousness Theory

09:01 Overview Effect Clues

10:40 Earth Field and Solar Cycles

12:43 Pandemic Isolation Theory

15:53 What It Means Going Forward

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[Field Notes] What Happened in 2021? Analyzing A Hidden Wave of Consciousness Shifts

Something has shifted dramatically in the last few years. The institutions and information structures we were trained to trust have failed in ways that are now difficult to ignore, producing a kind of generalized mistrust that makes it hard to think, hard to act, and hard to know what a good life even looks like anymore.

In this episode, Kelly sits down with philosopher and author James Madden to examine what it means to navigate belief and meaning when the ground beneath shared reality has already given way. Jim is the author of Unidentified Flying Hyper-Object: UFOs, Philosophy, and the End of the World and Thinking About Thinking: Mind and Meaning in the Era of Techno-Nihilism, the cohost of The Great Dangerous Books Podcast, and a longtime thinking partner whose refusal to offer easy answers has made him a favorite among listeners of Kelly's previous work.

They talk about the complacent indifference that has settled over people in the wake of seemingly endless waves of institutional scandal and revelation. They talk about conspiracy thinking as a cognitive response to the collapse of trusted authority—and why the fact that some conspiracies turn out to be real makes the situation harder to navigate, not easier. They talk about why generalized epistemic mistrust is such an effective mechanism for preventing meaningful action. And they talk about what it means to keep trying to live well when you can no longer trust the information you would need to do it.

Topics explored: epistemological collapse | conspiracy thinking as cognitive response | institutional trust failure | the "big other" | generalized skepticism as paralysis | information warfare | the psychology of indifference | epistemic mistrust and political action | radical self-reliance | faith and probability | living well under uncertainty | Žižek | Lacan | Plato's Republic

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Referenced In This Episode

 
Unidentified Flying Hyperobject: UFOs, Philosophy, and the End of the World, James Madden

 
Thinking about Thinking: Mind and Meaning in the Era of Techno-Nihilism, James Madden

 
Republic, Plato

 
The Agnostic Inquirer: Revelation from a Philosophical Standpoint, Sandra Menssen & Thomas D. Sullivan

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The Great Dangerous Books Podcast

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Support The Show

 
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TIMESTAMPS

04:50 Indifference and Partisan Filters

06:03 Frozen by Mistrust

07:41 Ontological vs Epistemic

09:33 Medical Trust Breakdown

13:13 Sheep Bandits Skepticism

18:23 Conspiracy Comfort Trap

22:07 Secrecy and Leaks

26:00 How Conspiracies Operate

28:32 Black Budgets Disinfo

30:57 UFO Skepticism In Principle

34:34 Portal Claims and Psyops

35:56 Trading Obscurity for Obscurity

38:43 Counting Humans Knowledge Limits

41:32 Good Life in Uncertainty

44:09 Moron Idiot Imbecile Framework

46:14 Radical Self Reliance and Trust

50:16 Skepticism Without Denial

55:29 Faith, Doubt, and Jesus

01:01:09 Keep Seeking Do Good

01:02:17 Credits and Where to Listen

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Truth Crisis: The Deliberate Collapse of Shared Reality with Philosopher James Madden

Something has been building quietly in the UFO space for the past few years. The Overton window around non-human intelligence has shifted. Insider sources are whispering about a contact event in 2026 or 2027. And a very old theory—that a fake alien invasion could be engineered to manufacture consent—is surfacing again in places Kelly can no longer dismiss as fringe. In this Field Notes episode, she doesn't tell you what to believe. Instead, she runs the thought experiment: if someone were preparing the public for something, how would it unfold, and what would it accomplish? The scenario she constructed is fiction. The mechanisms it describes are not.

Read the transcript on Substack.

🗒️ About Field Notes

Field Notes are short-form episodes where Kelly thinks aloud—tracing patterns, chasing questions, and working through ideas that haven't yet reached their conclusion. The path of inquiry is messy and non-linear, and Field Notes is where that process lives out loud. For access to the full archive of written Field Notes, visit inquirywithkellychase.substack.com.

Topics explored: Project Bluebeam | staged contact events | belief engineering | psychological operations | UFO disclosure narratives | epistemic collapse | information warfare | AI-assisted surveillance | blockchain identity systems | consent manufacturing | the Overton window | insider testimony | thought experiment as inquiry method

Inquiry with Kelly Chase is brought to you by SpectreVision Radio.Produced in partnership with Voltage.fm. 

Referenced In This Episode

 
UFO Revolution: Season 2

Support The Show

 
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Substack: inquirywithkellychase.substack.com

Connect with Kelly

 
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TIMESTAMPS

00:49 Patterns Behind The Post

01:28 Overton Window Shifts

01:59 Contact Dates And Grooming

02:27 Fake Invasion Narrative

04:23 Project Bluebeam Explained

05:56 Why Run The Thought Experiment

07:02 Scenario Begins The Sky Event

08:15 Reality Corruption And Babel

10:19 The Proposed Solution Clearinghouse

10:43 Verification Architecture And Control

11:49 Outro And Where To Follow

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[Field Notes] The Fake Alien Invasion: How An "Impending Threat" Can Be Used To Manufacture Consent

After years immersed in the deep end of ufology, one question has proven impossible to shake: how is it that certain factions of the intelligence community—people who possess more evidence than most that consciousness survives death, that the soul is real, and that we are more than our physical bodies—so consistently engage in profound acts of moral evil?

This Field Notes episode explores the contradiction at the heart of anomalous research: the same fundamental knowledge about non-material reality that tends to moralize everyday experiencers, deepening their compassion, ethical sensitivity, and sense of consequence, appears to have the opposite effect in certain institutionalized contexts. Why? And what does that divergence reveal?

Kelly argues that the answer isn't hypocrisy, isn't power, and isn't institutional pressure alone. It's theology—not in the formal religious sense, but in the deeper sense: the set of assumptions a person holds about what is real, what matters, and what counts. Every action presupposes a theory of reality. And when someone is willing to deceive, coerce, and harm others in service of a greater purpose, that willingness is not an operational detail. It's a theological commitment.

What kind of belief system allows someone to acknowledge the reality of the soul while treating human beings as expendable? What does it tell us about the UFO coverup that the people closest to the truth appear to have constructed a secret theology that quietly authorizes evil?

This is one of the most important questions in ufology—and almost no one is asking it.

Get the episode transcript on Substack.

🗒️ About Field Notes

Field Notes are short-form episodes where Kelly thinks aloud—tracing patterns, chasing questions, and working through ideas that haven't yet reached their conclusion. The path of inquiry is messy and non-linear, and Field Notes is where that process lives out loud. For access to the full archive of written Field Notes, visit inquirywithkellychase.substack.com.

Topics explored: UAP disclosure | consciousness and survival of death | anomalous experience research | intelligence community secrecy | moral philosophy | secret theology | FREE Foundation data | PSYOP doctrine | the ethics of the coverup

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Referenced In This Episode

 
Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness & Contact with Non Human Intelligence by Reinerio Hernandez J.D., Rudy Schild PH.D., Jon Klimo PH.D. 

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Welcome to Field Notes

00:48 The Question That Haunts Me

01:51 What Experiencers Report

04:09 The Intelligence Contradiction

04:48 Everything Is Theology

06:42 Belief Shapes Behavior

08:18 Why Knowledge Diverges

10:04 A Secret Theology of Ufology’s Elite

10:24 Closing and Credits

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