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How To Judge The Impossible

Say an authority figure in the humanities like Jeffrey J. Kripal gets it wrong about any of the people he uses as examples to back up his theory, does it doom his theory? Does it call him into question as a researcher or is it acceptable and expected that most every researcher will get it wrong sometimes?

What is important about studying mystical phenomena in the first place given that it is to be engaged with personally to have any meaningful effect in one's life? And how can we tell if someone is legitimately engaging with mystical phenomena or deluding themselves? 

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Paratopia Live From 03.04.2012

Because the Paratopia podcast just wasn't enough, Paratopia Live was born. Here Jeff Ritzmann, Jeremy Vaeni, and the official unofficial third host, Lee Townsend, talk about their high strangeness experiences and take calls live!

 

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Paratopia 158: Our Quest for Alien DNA

Dr. Tyler Kokjohn, now-retired Professor of Microbiology at Midwestern University and Project Core researcher, joins Jeff & Jer to talk about the latest developments in sci tech that will once and for all tell us whether there are alien hybrids, starseed, and Indigo children among us. Also, he talks about his time at his first UFO conference over the weekend, the UFO Congress in Arizona. 

But most intriguing of all, he speaks candidly about his being a reformed debunker and gives us some real insights into the mind of the “nasty, noisy negativists,” as Stan Friedman was fond of saying. That, and a whole lot more including the limits of science, the near-death experience, the mysteries of consciousness, and helping Jeff gather evidence from his paranormal encounters. That's a lot of description because there's a lot here on this special, extensive interview! (originally aired 03.01.2012)

Weirdness, Madness, Liberation

How do we arrive at authority sources for topics of Mystery where, frankly, the alleged authority figure could be lying or nuts? Speaking of nuts, can the paranormal or the spiritual drive an experiencer insane? Is host Jeremy Vaeni lying or nuts? If not, how did he pull through unscathed? How can we have real discernment in any of this?

This is more of Tom Cheetham and Jeremy Vaeni in dialogue. And this conversation is framed around Jeffrey J. Kripal's new book, How To Think Impossibly.

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Paratopia Live From 02.26.2012

Because the Paratopia podcast just wasn't enough, Paratopia Live was born. Here Jeff Ritzmann, Jeremy Vaeni, and the official unofficial third host, Lee Townsend, talk about their high strangeness experiences and take calls live!

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Paratopia 157: Chris Carter On Near-Death Experiences

Chris Carter, author of Science And The Near-Death Experience, joins The Jeff & The Jer to talk about near-death experiences, Persinger's so-called God Helmet, and the skeptics' very vocal reaction to his work. Also, he fields questions from listeners who wrote in on our message board, as well as Dr. Tyler Kokjohn who wrote us privately. In fact, they had a nice exchange on our message board, which Jeremy will read and comment on during the afterchat. (originally aired: 02.23.2012) 

To learn more about Science And The Near-Death Experience, please visit: www.scienceandtheneardeathexperience.com

Truth And The Imaginal Realms

The conversation with Tom Cheetham continues, answering such questions as: Do Henry Corbin’s angels fit in here anywhere? What clarity is? Is there REALLY no path to Truth? Why do so-called "enlightened" people build monuments in time and call that timelessness?

 

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Faking Your Own Death

Our chat with Tom Cheetham starts to cook....

 

Are religious states reducible to psychedelic trips? Do people experience death of self on psychedelics? What is the difference between death of self and being torn apart and pieced back together as a shaman? Is Jeremy Vaeni in agreement with Henry Corbin about Truth with a capital T and beings living from Truth’s 1st-person point of view?

Whew! All that and more in about  half an hour!

Paratopia 2024 Halloween Spooktakular

It's Halloween! Time to celebrate Jeff Ritzmann on his favorite holiday. How do we do that this year, you ask? By talking to two guests we never had on Paratopia whom Jeff would have loved engaging with: Mike Fiorito, author of For All We Know, a surprising and excellently-written novel about UFOs that runs in the direction of consciousness over materiality. And Allison Jornlin, co-creator of American Ghost Walks tours and blogger/creator for ParanormalWomen.com, who talks about hauntings in surprisingly deep and historically contextualized ways.

Surprising depths may surface here, but we give you no tricks! Only treats!

To purchase Mike's book and keep up with his latest projects, please visit: https://mikefiorito.com/

To learn more about Allison's work and read all about the important women buried in paranormal history, read her: www.paranormalwomen.com

 

Beyond The Imaginal

In the third installment of this unique longform dialogue, Tom Cheetham takes us on a deep dive into the imaginal with Henry Corbin, Jeffrey Kripal, gnostism, angels, and … Is Jeremy Vaeni Moses? 

 

Once that's answered, we circle back to Tom’s iboga experiences in South America as touched upon last episode. 

 

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