JP was raised a pagan. His mother is a powerful witch who performs exorcisms on haunted houses. He has spent his life in high strangeness, often invoking it as opposed to having it happen to him. In this talk, we go down the list of some entity types we’ve talked about on the show to see if he has experienced them, too. If he has, and he’s not an "abductee," what does this tell us about the nature of–and the closeness of–these phenomena our culture has deemed alien?
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This Christmas-New Year’s Special will run for two weeks.

You may know Bill Birnes as a UFO Hunter. What you may not know is his extensive background in abnormal psychology. Given what he knows about psychology and the human brain, how does he receive testimony from someone like last week’s guest "Lindsay," who says that anti-depressants stopped her paranormal experiences and yet she believes they are not manifestations of her brain? Knowing what he knows, why does he believe in paranormal/visitor phenomena when so many psychologists and neurologists do not? And then, in a conversational twist, we’ll find out if deeply disturbed people such as serial killers and mass murderers report these types of phenomena in their lives.
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Many of us involved in the close encounter experience have discovered that, whether it is alien contact or not, it is also connected to encounters with our own dead, and with powerful energies that are mostly ignored and denied in the modern world, but were respected, understood and used in the past. Margot Adler, author of one of the seminal books on modern paganism, Drawing Down the Moon, here discusses the power of ritual and describes rituals she has developed herself.
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