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To start it off, I'm reading American Trickster by Ru Marshall. It's a biography of Carlos Castaneda. It's dense, it doesn't pull any punches, and it's already pretty bonkers and I'm not that far in. I'm about halfway into Chameleo, and had to give it a break because it's unhinged in a "it's making me feel a little paranoid here" way. I've been listening to the Stuff They Don't Want You Know podcast and some non-murder-y true crime podcasts, one of which is Love Trapped, which I would recommend.
I've been teaching myself to grill this summer and I'm enjoying it. So I spend a good chunk of the week thinking about food. LOL
 
Currently reading a lot of short fiction that is very intense and bizarre: Joy Williams, Joyce Carol Oates, Raymond Carver, David Means, Yoko Ogawa.

Paranormal Land: for a couple years now I have been listening almost exclusively to first person accounts of encountering Sasquatch. I find Bigfoot narratives to be endlessly fascinating and very strange. While the Patterson Gimlin film may have recently been proven to be a fake (which entirely makes sense to me as I've never felt we could ever get visual clarity on anything paranormal and that it would just look like a blob of light, or foggy or the cameras won't work.) but the abundance of first person witness events to Bigfoot up close and personal reaffirm for me a certain enchantment that still exists in the world.

I thought almost all of the "Our Strange Skies" podcast was excellent for well researched tales of the UFO, and recently I've been listening to "Stories Lost" which relies heavily on little known Nordic, Russian and Asian UFO stories - very good stuff. I just started listening to Six Degrees of John Keel - it has some unique insights into being an experiencer. Sasquatch Chronicles is my go to for whenever I need to mainline a good Bigfoot story or two before bed.
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I've been thinking a lot about a parallel existence, home to all things paranormal and strange, that is lurking all around us, right under our noses, but not always accessible. I think it very much has to do with the right person right place - set and setting defines these experience imho. Perhaps we sometimes fall through a weord doorway without knowing it when we are surrounded by strange circumstance.
 
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Burnt State said:
I've been thinking a lot about a parallel existence, home to all things paranormal and strange, that is lurking all around us, right under our noses, but not always accessible. I think it very much has to do with the right person right place - set and setting defines these experience imho. Perhaps we sometimes fall through a weord doorway without knowing it when we are surrounded by strange circumstance.
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Have you listened to the podcast Penny Royal? Your musings above immediately brought it to mind.

I can relate to being endlessly fascinated, but my fascination is with the deception in UFO spaces, like Mirage Men, Project Beta, etc.
 
Red said:
Have you listened to the podcast Penny Royal? Your musings above immediately brought it to mind.

I can relate to being endlessly fascinated, but my fascination is with the deception in UFO spaces, like Mirage Men, Project Beta, etc.
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I listened to the first Penny Royal season and loved its bizarre dive into folklore, local legends and strange paranormal histories. It is superior to the Hellier material, that I put up alongside The Blair Witch Project as a construction and manufactured narrative.

Mirage Men was a brilliant piece of investigation necessary for all UFO fans to watch and understand the powers that are working behind the UFO mechanism.Project Beta is also necessary reading regarding manipulation of the "disclosure witness" to better recognize all these ridiculous hearings we are having recently.

As for Mr.Bishop, he was just in town recently for a conference and I got to go out for lunch with him talk about his latest projects. He told me that Radio Misterioso will be rebooting soon.
 
Burnt State said:
I listened to the first Penny Royal season and loved its bizarre dive into folklore, local legends and strange paranormal histories. It is superior to the Hellier material, that I put up alongside The Blair Witch Project as a construction and manufactured narrative.
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Fun fact, I have a great great grandparent who came from a county adjacent to where most of Penny Royal takes place.

Burnt State said:
Mirage Men was a brilliant piece of investigation necessary for all UFO fans to watch and understand the powers that are working behind the UFO mechanism.Project Beta is also necessary reading regarding manipulation of the "disclosure witness" to better recognize all these ridiculous hearings we are having recently.
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Right? I'll probably purchase the Saucers, Spooks, and Kooks documentary this winter when things slow down a little.
Burnt State said:
As for Mr.Bishop, he was just in town recently for a conference and I got to go out for lunch with him talk about his latest projects. He told me that Radio Misterioso will be rebooting soon.
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Excellent news. I've been at a loss for podcasts to listen to. Most of the ones I've tried veer into woowoo territory with a lack of discernment I find troubling.
 
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