New Paradigm Institute Chief Counsel Danny Sheehan, a former Jesuit and founder of the Christic Institute, offers his considered opinion about how Pope Leo will treat UFO disclosure and how the Catholic Church will react to disclosure and a possible alien presence. He explores deeply into the nature of close encounter and the relationship between quantum physics, the soul and religion. This remarkable show starts with the controversial and then dives deep into questions about the future of our understanding of consciousness and how it may deepen understanding of what Jesus meant when he said, “this is my body, this is my blood.”
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Before watching this interview, I want to say that I WAS STUNNED with the choice of the new POPE. Thinking it was going to be Cardinal Pietro Parolin. Well, for sure I was wrong. What is interesting was the stunned look on so many faces. Later when looking at some of the footage, Norah O’Donnell as a reporter even looked speechless for a few seconds.
This Dreamland is really epic. I’d definitely put it in the top five for the year. The way Danny lays everything out and how things happened -the ulterior motives -the compromises the alliances of the global powers -makes all the sense in the world to me now, when the new pope was selected out of the concave, it made it seem like it was strategic because the guy was American and he was there to balance out the bad current America.And he is so right about Gilded Age aversion 2. , it made it seem like it was strategic because the guy was American and he was there to balance out the bad American. And he is so right about Gilded Age V-2 Have a great weekend everybody!
I want to thank you Danny Sheehan for this important interview. May God bless and guide our new Pope Leo XIV.
Danny Sheehan is always an interesting guest, with his own take on things.
I do confess to being more than a bit uncomfortable when religion is brought into the picture in regards to disclosure. I was surprised, but not shocked, that an American became a pope, but I could see immediately lots of ‘political’ reasons why he was chosen, with disclosure a mere blip on the list. The fact that JD Vance met with Pope Francis, the day before he died, played a part in the choice of an American too, and was not lost on me.
I was familiar with everything that was discussed by Sheehan, and history is everything in these matters, particularly in regards to the 1933 UFO that crashed near Milan, Italy…which ended up in American hands with assistance from Pius XII. It also explains why information about what happened in New Mexico after Trinity and not long after, Roswell, fell off the radar, and quickly, for many years. We already had a clue about what we were dealing with due to 1933.
While I recognize and have experienced spiritual aspects of the phenomenon myself, I’m just not at ease with any formal religion playing a part in disclosure, although I can see churches, temples, and mosques becoming crowded after disclosure worldwide.
Here’s a perspective that gets lost, even though the media tries to be all over it. While a lot of people are Catholic in the world, and in the USA, a lot of Christian denominations don’t recognize the Pope at all, although the media acts like he is the leader of the Christian world. He is not, even though that seems to be by proclamation. While I’m not Christian now, I was raised in another Christian faith that didn’t appreciate being lumped together with the Catholic faith, and certainly did not see the Pope as important at all. Other denominations, while seeing the Pope as the leader of the Catholic Church, don’t see him in their realm at all. As a matter of fact, there are Christian denominations that DO NOT consider themselves ‘Protestant’ either.
Some Christian denominations pre-date the Catholic Church but were forced underground when the Emperor Constantine formed the Catholic Church in the 4th century.
I wish the Pope well, as I do any person. But who or who isn’t the Pope is no big deal for most of the world’s population…but ‘he’ seems to hold the power. That I find vaguely disturbing considering the damage that has been done to so many over hundreds of years by the Catholic Church and the Pope.
I have not yet listened to/watched the podcast. I was not raised in the Catholic faith either and who the Pope is or isn’t matters not at all to me. But, the Catholic church estimated worth is $73 to $293 billion… according to Google. IMO, this is why they have so much clout.
As an aside some of their early wealth was gained by the witch hunts that were promoted by the Catholic church. Much property and wealth was then seized and confiscated by the church. Anti-Semitism also accomplished the same goals. All it’s ever been about is Greed.
This made me think a lot again about Diana Pasulka, her Catholicism, and her ex-friend Tyler (am I remembering his name right?), the inventor and contactee who went to Rome with her and ended up becoming Catholic himself.
It seems like so many of those who experience and/or write about contact, as well as the very evangelical types Whitley writes about who think the Visitors are demons, are unusually religious. And often in very mainstream faiths. I’m not quite sure what to make of that. It’s difficult for me to imagine having the broad range of education and experiences that Pasulka has had, and still being devoted to one limited religious sect. But then, perhaps that focus and depth makes more sense of the breadth.
I went to 12 years of Catholic school but pretty much didn’t believe a word of the dogma after age 10. We were taught to be suspicious of Baptists in particular, and apparently that was mutual. I’ve read some evangelicals’ exceedingly hateful comments about the Pope– any Pope I guess but they were really rough on Francis– with memes putting horns on him and accusing him of being satanic and the like.
For me, standing outside of Christianity, it’s hard to fathom. To me it seems like all the Christian churches ought to be more or less in harmony with each other on the most basic beliefs, but that’s far from the case. It’s more like the old saw that Christianity would be a great idea if anyone ever tried it.
Still, the Pope is a recognizable world leader and has a huge platform from which to influence anyone who is listening. Despite his flaws, Francis did fulfill his role of being a voice of conscience, and he lived up to his name by being humble and living as simply as a person in that office could.
Leo has come out swinging right away, and it does appear that he can act as a counterbalance to our UNbalanced prez who had the audacity not only to show himself in papal robes but to say that he runs the world. Get the popcorn.
By the way, the nuns who were my teachers belonged to the Sisters of the Humility of Mary, but that name didn’t fit them well, I’d say– it makes them sound like submissive shrinking violets. They were strong, vibrant, often very independent thinkers who did social justice work in South America and in challenged city neighborhoods in the US, among other things. That made them role models for me.
Stardust, I tend to agree. And most faiths are male-dominated, too.
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/02/26/religious-landscape-study-religious-identity/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_religious_organizations
Recommended reading: ‘When God was a Woman’ by Merlin Stone from 1978. It makes you wonder about a lot of things…In ‘Arrival’, the big breakthrough in communication with alien beings is because of a very patient, female linguist who works through unimaginable fear to make a peaceful connection, without making assumptions that the beings are here to do evil and destroy humanity, something her male counterparts, the government, and the military had a problem grasping.
I LOVED “Arrival” and think everyone should check it out. The beings could hardly have been more different from humans, but one woman made that bridge and didn’t give up. It was maybe not that much like what contactees are experiencing with our actual visitors, but then…. maybe the patterns of circles etc. have some resonance with the messages real people are getting. The concept was certainly creative.
I saw it near the end of my mother’s life, and it connected heavily with what I was experiencing then.
There were some teenage boys in the theater who were clearly expecting something else and totally not getting what this beautiful story had to offer. I thought, to understand this movie one had to have lived quite a while, and it would help to be female. A movie especially for middle-aged ladies, I guess. There aren’t all that many of those.
My gratitude to both of you for this deep and complex discussion of so many important issues. The interview brought greater understanding and Light that helps to see these issues with “new eyes” and greater heart. Thank you!
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