Jesse Michels

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"This is like the structure of scientific revolutions, written by a guy named Thomas, who was actually friends with John Mack and encouraged him to investigate the alien abduction stuff at Harvard."

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"The Chinese science fiction novel, the Three-Body Problem — you might not show yourself overtly in the dark forest teaming with life, it's actually dangerous to show yourself."

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"John Marco Allegro, the guy who wrote The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross — the guy who was on the Dead Sea Scrolls Commission, who was an ordained minister but also was agnostic — after 14 years of deciphering the Dead Sea Scrolls, he's like, 'I think this is all about fertility rituals and the consumption of psychedelic mushrooms.'"

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"If you like Brian Muraresku — I know you've had him on multiple times — The Immortality Key, or Carl Ruck, they all sort of come to that conclusion."

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"There's a great book by the great Arthur C. Clarke called Childhood's End. He talks about aliens sort of incepting the world through telepathic children."

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"There's a great book called What Is Real by a guy named Adam Becker about all of this, where Einstein was saying the quantum stuff is too spooky — they call it spooky action at a distance — and we need to reconcile it with some sort of ontological truth or reality."