Mind the Shift

Like most people, writer and filmmaker Jack Kelley thought Plato’s account of Atlantis was just an allegory when he, during a vacation on the Greek island of Santorini, was drawn into a world of research that takes the Platonic story seriously.Even in that world, however, there are diverging opinions about the location of the lost civilization.Jack came across the work of Greek engineer and linguist George Sarantitis and thought: “This guy might actually have cracked it.” He made contact, and the collaboration that followed resulted in the newly released documentary The Atlantis Puzzle, based on Sarantits’ groundbreaking findings (watch and give a review here or here).Taking Plato’s account seriously is controversial.“The very idea of Atlantis is frightening to mainstream academic researchers. They could easily end up looking like fools. The risk-reward is not there. That keeps a lot of first-class minds from seriously addressing what this subject is really about. And Sarantitis is a first-class mind”, Jack says.George Sarantitis refused to believe the two Plato dialogues Timaeus and Critias, where Atlantis is discussed, were just nonsense fables. He retranslated the texts and realized that important concepts had been misinterpreted for centuries.For example, an ‘Atlantic pelagos’ does not mean ‘The Atlantic ocean’. ‘Pelagos’ is a lesser sea. Earlier translators had only made an assumption, because nobody had ever heard of an ‘Atlantic pelagos’.Sarantitis found a few other things that hadn't been well delineated. For instance, three words for ‘island’ are being thrown around.This retranslation led him to the conclusion that ‘the pillars of Herakles’, a crucial reference, probably doesn’t mean the strait of Gibraltar, which completely changes the idea of where Atlantis may have been located.Sarantitis’ surprising hypothesis is that the ‘pelagos’ was a series of navigable inland megalakes in northwest Africa where one could sail to the empire known as Atlantis. It is a fact that there are a series of huge salt lakes in the area that indicate that there was once a large body of water, and we now know that the Sahara was a lot wetter at the time Plato points to.Then there is the much-talked-about Richat structure, the ‘Eye of the Sahara’, which well matches Plato’s description of the Atlantean capital.So, if there was a civilization in this area, why did it disappear?If the extreme climatological changes during the latter part of the Younger Dryas (matches Plato’s time frame) were accompanied by earthquakes, tsunamis and other geophysical disasters, a civilizational collapse is plausible.Jack engaged preeminent earthquake expert Dr Scott Ashford for the documentary.“According to Ashford, Plato is accurately describing what the effects of the combination of these natural disasters would have been”, Jack says.Was Atlantis advanced? In Jack’s mind, it was sort of advanced for its time but probably more of a hunter-gatherer than a bronze age kind of society. He does not subscribe to the more grand theories out there.But he does give other independent researchers credit for pushing the idea that mainstream academia is ignoring many signs of lost human worlds in lands that are now below water, not just the one Plato is talking about. There are hundreds of ancient flood myths, for example.“Clearly there were kingdoms, tribes, even empires that we don’t have any names for today”, Jack says.🎗️ Support Mind the Shift🔷 ⁠Patreon⁠🔷 ⁠Paypal⁠🔷 Host's ⁠website⁠

Julia Mossbridge is a scientist in the true sense of the word, a curious and open-minded investigator and seeker. She has balanced beautifully on the perceived border between traditional science and the esoteric realms. She has created two institutes, whereof one bears the intriguing name The Institute for Love and Time (TILT). It is about creating technologies that support wellbeing related to feeling unconditional love. How can love and time go together? “Both are powerful and healing to humans”, Julia says. On a deeper level, she explains, people experience that when the boundaries of time are removed, the conditions of connection are also removed, which opens the door to unconditional love. The way Julia describes the experience of time is somewhat at odds with the “live in the now” mantra. We can extend the self in time, she says. And by doing that we break down boundaries. “It gives you a lot more chances to do good for yourself and the world. It doesn’t have to be all at once. We have all this time.” “Folks say you can’t do anything about the past, and the future is all about potentialities, so you can only do something about it in the now. The reason this is so enticing is that we’re built to experience free will. So that’s how we’re gonna make a lot of money on self-help books”, Julia laughs. “I think it’s a racket. I think it makes people look for control rather than take responsibility.” In reality, we are not in control. Everything we experience has already happened. That has even been measured (the thought of doing something sudden arises after we’ve done it). “To even come close to being in control, we must extend the definition of ‘I’. To really be in control we must extend it indefinitely to include the whole universe and everything that has happened and everything that is going to happen.” The Iroquios have a word for this extension: the long body. Julia Mossbridge has done extensive research on precognition, the intuitive knowledge about a future event. She uses a metaphor: An event that triggers precognition is like a stick in the stream of consciousness. The stick creates a wake, which is the slowly fading memory of the event after it has happened. But on the front end it also creates an area where the “arrow of time” is reversed. “There's backpressure. The stream of consciousness ‘prepares’ itself to go around the stick.”  Precognition most commonly appears in dreams. “The conscious mind is like our story of what is happening, but the unconscious mind really has access to all the incoming data from the universe”, Julia says. She agrees with psychology pioneer William James that the brain is like a filter. “When your brain is damaged, you're not changing consciousness, you're changing the capacity to receive it.” She is also in agreement with the theories of cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman, who describes physical reality as an interface, where living beings are “conscious agents”. If we were to look “under the hood” (which may be what enlightenment entails), we would see a completely different reality that doesn’t make sense in the physical world. Mossbridge also delves into what AI does to us, and with us, and what we can do with AI. “Human potential is going to explode with AI if we do it right. It can be a partner in our evolution. We are in this together.” Julia’s bio: Affiliate professor in the Dept. of Biophysics and Physics at University of San Diego Senior consultant with Tangible IQ Co-founder of TILT: The Institute for Love and Time Founder of Mossbridge Institute Author and co-author of multiple books and scientific articles related to time travel, artificial intelligence and unconditional love PhD in Communication Sciences and Disorders (Northwestern University) MA in Neuroscience (UC San Francisco) BA in Neuroscience with highest honors (Oberlin College) Julia on Linkedin Julia on Medium The Institute for Love and Time (TILT) The Mossbridge Institute

Dan Waites displays an impressive depth and insightfulness in the videos on his You Tube channel World Astrology Report, but he actually didn’t start working as a mundane astrologer until 2020 (mundane refers to the use of astrology to understand world events and phases).Dan had studied the subject matter and been mesmerized before that, but when the pandemic happened, it was a watershed moment for him. He realized with stark clarity that several astrologers had predicted the event – not in detail, but that there would be a global event that would shake society.“Then I knew I had to take this seriously. I have to learn this, understand this and devote myself to it”, says Dan.So, how does astrology work, really? Does it even have to do with the stars?“Skeptics often say things like ‘there is no plausible explanation for how astrology works, and therefore it does not work, therefore it’s a figment of your imagination’”.“But astrology is essentially a science of consciousness. It's an interpretation of meaning. And we don’t know how consciousness works! It's a bit ludicrous to expect there’s going to be a simple answer to the question of how astrology works”, says Dan.There are some very interesting astrological cycles that reveal things about the times we are living in. The Jupiter-Saturn cycle, for instance. The two planetary giants meet every 20 years, and during a period of roughly 200 years, they meet in the same astrological element (earth, air, water, fire). ‘Earthiness’ characterized the 19th and 20th centuries, but ‘airiness’ will characterize the period we recently entered.The difference can be seen in the media, according to Waites. In the 200 years of earth, the media was centralized, and there was a sharing of assumptions, even if people didn’t agree politically. Now, in the air era, we have adopted a new communication technology, the internet, which is decentralized, leading to a fragmentation of assumptions and narratives.In one of his essays on Substack, Dan Waites claims that we are in ‘The Hermetic Age’. This has to do with the extremely long Pluto-Neptune cycle. From the late 14th century, these two outer planets (in astrology, Pluto hasn’t lost its planetary status) started to meet in Gemini, the sign of Hermes. They will continue to do so for another 1,800 years or so.As long as the conjunctions took place in the preceding earth sign of Taurus, society was feudal, based on landownership. Then came the printing press, the protestant Reformation and the Copernican revolution. The era of capitalism was ushered in, and power moved away from landowners to bankers.Right now, multiple cycles are suggesting that pivotal events and discoveries are under way in the fields of the UAP phenomenon and of humanity’s deep history. Which is exactly what we are seeing.“An awakening to the truth about ancient history began in the 19th century, such as the interest in Atlantis. It is coming back now”, says Dan.The turbulence on the world scene also has astrological fingerprints. Pluto is currently out of bounds (it exceeds the normal range of declination from the Sun's path) to the south. This coincides with it being in the sign of Aquarius. Both phenomena signify a revolutionary energy.“The last time this happened, we had the French and the American revolutions, and before that we had the protestant Reformation”, explains Dan.Pluto will express this energy until 2035.__________✅ ResourcesDan’s World Astrology ReportWebsiteSubstackYou Tube

“Science isn't about showing off. It’s about attending to unusual data, unusual evidence”, says astrophysicist Avi Loeb.“We can only learn new things from anomalies, from what doesn't line up.”Paying attention to anomalies is precisely what he does as head of the Galileo Project at Harvard, whose purpose is to search for evidence of extraterrestrial technology.Loeb is frustrated. Almost all the research money that is allocated to the search for extraterrestrial life goes to projects for picking up radio signals and scanning for molecular fingerprints of microbes on exoplanets.“It’s like lonely people waiting for a phone call. Nobody might call you”, says Loeb.“And personally, I think microbes are boring. I am more interested in intelligent life. Yes, there are more microbes, but it is arguably easier to detect evidence of technology.”Loeb became famous in 2017 when he suggested that the first detected interstellar object traversing our solar system, named 1I/Oumuamua, might be artificial because of its strange behavior.His suggestion was not well received in the scientific community. He was academically attacked by many colleagues.Now, the third interstellar object ever detected, 3I/Atlas, is hurling past the planets in our home system at breakneck speed. This visitor also features very odd properties. It doesn’t look like a comet. It seems to be extremely large, it doesn’t have the classic cometary tail, its glow is preceding it, the composition of its coma is unique, and its trajectory is in line with the plane of the planets.“If you were to construct a spacecraft that were to visit this solar system, you would make it go in the plane of the planets”, Loeb says.Yet mainstream astronomers call it a comet, or more specifically a “black“ comet.“It’s like having only seen zebras and then suddenly see an elephant and go: ‘Look, a zebra without stripes, and with a trunk’.”Loeb has developed a scale for assessing whether a space object is natural or artificial, where 0 means decidedly natural and 10 means decidedly artificial. Loeb has given 3I/Atlas a 4, the same score he gave 1I/Oumuamua.It might drop on the scale – or climb – as more data is collected. By the end of October 2025 we probably know more, because that is when the object will be at its closest to the sun.Avi Loeb has always been an outlier in the scientific community, he says. He would “trade everything” he has of modern life to go back 95 years, to the time of quantum pioneers like Bohr and Heisenberg.“Because they were open-minded and willing to replace an old worldview with something completely new.”Science is more rigid today, he feels. Paradoxically, this may have to do with the fact that there are so many more scientists today. With a large enough population, ideas tend to regress to the mean.Avi Loeb isn’t afraid of airing ideas that would appear outrageous in conventional quarters. Have there been advanced civilizations on earth millions of years ago? Could our species have been genetically manipulated by interstellar visitors a long, long time ago? Loeb is open to both propositions.“We tend to think we are first. But it’s fully plausible that there was a technologically advanced civilization millions of years ago that was destroyed in a major catastrophe.”The Galileo ProjectPersonal page at HarvardEssays on MediumThe Book Interstellar (2024)The Book Extraterrestrial (2022)

It was a pleasure to have Gary Heseltine back on the program, a former detective turned independent UAP investigator. In 2023, after years of research, he released a book, “Non-Human”, about the 1980 Rendlesham forest incidents (RFI), one of the most spectacular and complex UAP events in history.In July of 2025, a documentary about RFI, “Capel Green”, was released (at the time of recording this video, neither Gary nor I had seen the whole film, only trailers). Gary was involved in the early stages of the production, but he decided to walk away years ago because he wanted to get the book out. He knew he was sitting on unique information.“I wanted to get the truth out there.”In the early days, the RFI was to some extent covered in the media, because of a memorandum a commander of the air force base where the incidents took place released. It described parts of what had been seen and experienced. There was also one open witness.But soon, things began to be covered up by the higher echelons. Gary unveils much of it in his book.One compelling category of evidence the new documentary goes more into than Gary did in his book is the scientific proof that something strange happened. Gary had agreed with the film team not to talk about it in the book. But now he can.“There have been background radiation checks done where people said they saw craft or lights. And yes, there’s weird underground isotopic ratios that shouldn't be there.”The film should be well received in the UFO community, Gary thinks.“But there is still a lot of politics around the RFI. The narrative is being controlled.”One thing the controllers don’t want to talk about is the evidence of a conspicuous second UFO landing, where beings were seen – and filmed – by several witnesses (the whereabouts of the film material is unknown).Gary’s book and the “Capel Green” documentary land in a time of unprecedented UAP disclosure activity. Gary closely follows the legislative process in the US congress. He is both excited and frustrated.“We’ve moved forward slightly, but not enough.”The first witness hearing in 2023 (with whistleblower David Grusch) had a profound impact, but the second one in 2024 didn’t. The UAP Disclosure Act has been gutted twice. Hopefully it can pass in full later this year.There are still attempts at whitewashing and downplaying the subject by the Pentagon and its loyal journalists. But at the same time, people in the know are becoming more open, and new whistleblowers emerge.“The Pentagon is hanging on by their fingernails to keep this story down.”Trump has also appointed many people in prominent positions who are surprisingly open about their wish for UAP transparency, like Intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.A pivotal documentary, “The Age of Disclosure”, premiered at a film festival in March but has so far not gotten general distribution. Gary thinks it is meant to be part of a broader, coherent disclosure event.If official disclosure continues to be stalled, Gary believes there is a risk of ‘catastrophic disclosure’, meaning an incontrovertible mass sighting livestreamed by millions before the public has been prepared for it.Finally, Gary drops a bombshell piece of news: A large, week-long UAP conference with major players, including politicians, is in the works. He points out that he cannot reveal all details and that it is not entirely set in stone yet, but it is supposed to happen somewhere in the Middle East, probably in October.“This UAP conference will be the most important conference in the world”Gary's bookICER (where Gary is vice-president)

Humans have always tried to augment and enhance bodily flaws, from eye glasses to prostheses and pacemakers. But something qualitatively different is happening today. The transhumanist movement basically sees humans as biological algorithms.They want to break into the genetic code and the brain and change what a person is into something else. They believe nature has come as far as it can, and now it is we who drive evolution. We are the ones in charge of creating the next version of Homo Sapiens.“It’s a new religion”, says psychologist and philosopher Harald Walach, who has written a comprehensive report about transhumanism.It’s a staunchly materialist, godless religion.Seeing the body as a machine and the brain as a computer are metaphors that can be useful in some instances, like when we have had an accident. But it is a category mistake to take these metaphors to be the whole reality.“It’s like taking the menu for lunch. You can’t eat the menu”, says Harald Walach.A crucial and tricky question is whether the interventions transhumanists envision might mess around with consciousness. Harald distinguishes between psyche and soul.“These interventions can definitely change the mental state of people. But the soul is very likely untouchable.”The transhumanists are a heterogeneous collection of people.“They are various groups with different intentions. Some dedicate their efforts to abolishing death and aging. Some are more on the tech side, connecting human and machine. Others have a more philosophical approach reminiscent of the Nietzschean übermensch.”“A common theme is that they all want to create a transhumanist being with enhanced faculties that are greater than in current humans.”Interestingly, transhumanists aren’t particularly good at science.“I don’t think many scientists are transhumanistic, because scientists generally know about the intricate problems associated with what transhumanists talk about”, says Harald.“Transhumanists are science fanatics who don’t really do science. Many are in the tech industry.”At the core of the transhumanist agenda are medical interventions, in particular genetic manipulation.“We’ve already seen it happening during the pandemic: Genetic prevention technologies masquerading as vaccines”, says Harald.Was there a nefarious agenda?“That’s irrelevant. The thinking, the ideology and the technology were there. As I see it, it is like mushrooms. If you walk in a forest you may not see any mushrooms, but the mycelium is there, under the surface. When the conditions are right, they pop up everywhere.”To materialists, death is the ultimate catastrophe. There are transhumanists, like Aubrey de Grey, who want to abolish it.Ethical and logical objections aside, abolishing death would lead to absurd consequences, Harald points out: The population would quickly increase. By default one would have to prohibit procreation. This in turn would lead to fascistoid governing. Without young people, there would be no new ideas.“Philosophically speaking, life’s finiteness creates meaning. If we don’t die, we don’t need to make any important decisions:, says Harald.He thinks it’s imperative that we have an open discussion about the transhumanist agenda now. The proponents are a minority, but they are influential.“We need to ask ourselves: Are we willing to accept a transcendent realm that is beyond our human grip, that we cannot control?”Harald's websiteHarald's Transhumanism report

Freddy Silva is an author, a speaker and an independent researcher of ancient knowledge and lost civilizations, in particular the temples and other megalithic sites our ancestors built and left behind. The old cultures knew where to build these things to harness the flow of energy. In Freddy Silva’s mind, they are portals.“All of these places around the world that we call temples, for lack of a better word, are located at seismically active spots, and the foundation on which they stand create an electrical charge or current along the landscape.”The builders also carefully chose the rocks they used to build their temples. They would sometimes go hundreds of miles to find the right stones, which have the properties to act as a kind of energy field.“All this makes the laws of physics act differently within these sites”, says Freddy.Very few of the megalithic temples were burial sites. They were used for out of body experiences, shamanism and “accessing information from an astral reference library”.“We can call them portals because they literally punch a hole in the way we view the third dimension, and they get you to access another level of reality.”Today we know that the heightened energetic lines where old megalithic temples are found are telluric currents. NASA has actually mapped them.“Anywhere these telluric currents cross on the surface of the earth, you’ll find a standing stone, a dolmen, a mound, a pyramid, a stonehenge”, says Freddy.Thousands of years ago, people knew how to pick up on these energetic lines. They didn’t really need to build anything to harness the energy. So why did many of them do that? Freddy Silva thinks they wanted to “x-mark” the highly charged places by placing megaliths on them and preserve them, because they knew that humans in the future – us – would forget this knowledge.“That’s the only explanation that makes sense to me.”In fact, not all ancient cultures built megaliths. Neither the indigenous Australians nor the Hopis did, for example. They just knew where the sacred places were.When Christianity arrived, we were well into forgetfulness. Interestingly enough, however, the Gothic cathedrals of the late medieval era were built on sacred sites. The ancient knowledge had gone underground and secretly been preserved and conveyed, starting with the mystery schools of Egypt and continuing with the Essenes and the Gnostics. The Knights templar were one of these groups that were privy to the old wisdom“They were essentially the Essenes under a different name.”The Templars oversaw the erection of some of the most magnificent Gothic cathedrals in Europe in the 12th and 13th century. “They built sacred spaces disguised as catholic churches. This is the best joke in history”, Freddy quips.He believes that the knowledge of “the gods” – how nature really works – goes all the way back to the Atlantean civilization, which collapsed in the Younger Dryas period 12,000 to 13,000 years ago.The cataclysm that ended the previous high civilizations was likely caused by a devastating bombardment of cosmic debris, which gave rise to an obsession our ancestors had with looking at the sky.“Like in Central America. Why this obsession with long range calendars? The Maya have something like 14 calendars, and some cover hundreds of thousands of years.”Our ancestors are telling us a cautionary tale. Today scientists know that the chunks of rock that created the big flood – the bulk of the Taurid meteor stream – are coming back between 2036 and 2042.But Freddy Silva is hopeful. We can be prepared.“The old cultures teach us that we are the Gods we’ve been waiting for. The help is there for us to find.”Freddy Silva's website

Arabella Thaïs is a philosopher in the renaissance person style. Her research spans quantum mechanics, cosmology, chaos theory, literature, aesthetics, higher-dimensional mathematics, ontology, and metaphysics. She runs The Temple of Truth, a school of consciousness and self-realization.When we throw ourselves into our conversation, it quickly takes off in all conceivable directions.BeautyArabella emphasizes the importance of beauty, in a profound sense of the word.Beauty and love are not the same, but they are intimately intertwined.She cites Dante Alighieri, who said beauty will save the world.“It’s about moral beauty. Beauty is related to truth and the good.”Beauty is also related to the experience of this life.Nonhuman intelligenceA few years ago, Arabella had several direct interactions with nonhuman intelligence. She saw lights and orbs appearing and disappearing, and she saw and communicated with shape shifting entities.“That changed my life forever.”“They’re here to support us. They help us remember what we already know.”Free willWe are born with a divine blueprint, Arabella thinks. What about free will, then?“It’s a paradoxical both-and”, she says.The script is already written, but it is when we align with the path we chose before we were born here that we truly exert our free will.“And when you truly believe this, you’re not worried, because you know that everything will work out for you. It’s all perfect.”The latter assertion raises morally tricky questions.Everything being perfect doesn’t mean that everything is as it should be, Arabella points out.“None of the evil stuff is okay. It needs to be resolved and eliminated. But the journey of experience and then transcendence is perfect.” A dream worldThere are different terms for what the Hindu tradition calls maya, the material illusion we live in. Arabella prefers ‘dream’ before ‘simulation’.The fact that we all live in this dream means that if we all shared a vision of an ideal reality, we would realize it almost instantly.“Like in a lucid dream. When you become lucid you can create anything.”This is also where astrology comes in. Astrological principles, by which every point in spacetime has its particular qualities, are a part of the dream construct.A new societyHow might we reorganize this world? How might we transcend the detrimental hierarchical structures and live according to our true essence?Arabella makes a case for anarchy, which she means is a misconstrued concept. It doesn't mean chaos, it means organizing organically, without hierarchical leader figures.“Democracy kind of works, but it’s actually not ideal. We need to move beyond that.”“The new paradigm necessitates a higher level of consciousness to create a society that is safe, abundant and beautiful.”AwakeningArabella had a spontaneous spiritual awakening when she was 27.“For many years, I was wandering this earth in a state of absolut despair, confused and perturbed. Only through the spontaneous awakening I knew my path. I just remembered everything, who I was and the nature of the universe.”And what will precipitate humanity’s great awakening?“It’s multi-faceted.”Our connection with nonhuman intelligence will be part of it, Arabella thinks. But we will likely also experience systems collapsing faster than ever before, leading to civil unrest. This will force people to realize ‘we can’t go on like this’. We will probably see spontaneous awakenings as well, when people will start remembering.“And the old materialist paradigm will collapse.”Arabella’s websiteCosmic Codex podcastTemple of Truth

Kirsty Tait describes herself as an entrepreneur turned “soulpreneur”.“You can’t really be an entrepreneur if you’re not connected to your soul”, she says.The last few years she has been following signs in life, which has led her to shuttle back and forth between continents, with a special focus on the Central American nation of Panama. We’ll get back to why.Kirsty accidentally entered entrepreneurship, she says, and years later she also accidentally entered spirituality. She tells a fascinating, uplifting, beautiful and also funny story about how a failure to properly microdose psilocybin changed her life.“I had my whole world shift. It was the ultimate awakening. I went into pure consciousness. I went into past lives. I understood there's no such thing as good and evil. I understood energy, death, birth and rebirth.”The meaning of life?“To be here now and experience whatever it is that you are experiencing.”Kirsty realized that all this new understanding was in fact not new but past memories (including around a hundred past lives). After the psychedelic experience she tried other modalities to achieve a similar inner elevation, particularly breathwork and deep meditation. One day, on the sofa, she plunged into a three hour out-of-body experience.“Breath is the most powerful technique we have. Just sitting in silence and working with the breath is an amazing medicine for your body.”We actually get sneak peeks into the “other side” on a daily basis, Kirsty points out, for example when we sleep and dream.“Consciousness is limitless. The brain limits us because we are told that it limits us.”Are we living in crucial times?“We couldn’t live in any other time than this one. Everything happening now is perfect. it cannot not be perfect. If everything in the world wasn’t happening right now in perfect synchronicity with the existence of the tapestry of life, you would not be here. So, crucial times don’t really exist.”Time is a notoriously elusive concept. But, to be practical about it, what about the historic human integration of our time? Doesn’t that affect us in unique ways?Kirsty isn’t sure. Today we interconnect via technology, but maybe ancient cultures were interconnected spiritually, she thinks. Maybe cultures in different continents that supposedly didn’t have any concept of each other (as far as we know) were in contact in other, natural ways.Kirsty Tait sees a perhaps surprising link between spirituality, authenticity and entrepreneurship.“I honestly don’t think there can be a difference”, she says.“If you’re truly showing up as your authentic self, you are spiritual, regardless of whether you believe in spirituality or not.”“‘Who am I’ and ‘how do I want to show up in the world’. Those are the only two questions we need to ask ourselves.”“When you feel what is true for you, and it really lands, you feel it in your whole body. Your nervous system will calm down. There will be no fight or flight reactions.”Many people perceive the world right now as messy. How to handle that? “Mother Theresa would always go to a peace rally, never to an anti-war rally. Why? The energy in the peace rally promotes peace, and the energy in the anti-war rally promotes war.”Where attention goes, energy flows, as it were.And what about Panama? Kirsty is passionately involved in a project called “The Conscious Island” on a peninsula in Bocas del Toro on the Caribbean coast in western Panama. The idea is to create a conscious community, including an event space and a wellness space, by amalgamating with the traditions of an indigenous community still living on the peninsula.The Conscious IslandKirsty on LinkedinKirsty on Instagram

“You see bald-headed people who have been treated for cancer. ‘You're trying to kill cancer cells, why the hell are you going bald?’”The provocative rhetorical question is asked by professor Thomas Seyfried, whose research at Boston College will revolutionize our understanding of cancer and other chronic diseases.“Metabolic therapy kills cancer cells and keeps your hair”, he says.“People are being brutalized by the system. They’re being treated by people who don’t know the biology and biochemistry behind the disease.”“Cancer is not a genetic disease, it’s a metabolic problem. The reason everybody says it’s a genetic disease is confirmation bias. It’s been hammered into everybody’s brain”, Seyfried says.We can see that conventional oncology is not addressing the right problem, because the death rates aren't dropping the way they should, he points out."The promise of the gene theory has not come to fruition, nor will it ever do. Meanwhile, thousands of people are dying every day. It’s the greatest tragedy in the history of medicine."Thomas Seyfried does not dismiss conventional methods like radiation and chemo, but the problem is that those are being employed first, when they should be employed last.Seyfried contends that cancer is “a remarkably simple disorder” when you understand the biology. But we have made it complicated and mysterious by focusing on downstream phenomena instead of the actual cause, metabolic dysfunction.“You really have to work hard to get your body to get cancer”, he says.“Our paleolithic ancestors and those who live according to traditional ways rarely have cancer. Animals in nature rarely have cancer.”“Before antibiotics and orthopedic surgeons we died from injuries and infections. What’s killing us now, whether it’s dementia, cancer, cardiovascular disease or diabetes, is civilization itself.”Which means: Not exercising, being under stress, having poor sleep and eating ultra-processed food (sometimes food-like substances).Our bodies become less and less capable of using oxygen to generate energy. Cells resort to fermentation, like cells in primitive life forms once did. This is the crux of the matter. When cells switch from oxygen to glucose (a sugar) and glutamine (an amino acid) to generate energy, they become cancer cells.The solution? Starving the tumor.German doctor Otto Warburg discovered the metabolic mechanism behind dysregulated cell growth already a century ago. But other theories outmaneuvered his findings.Before rediscovering Warburg’s theory and improving it, Thomas Seyfried was “just as indoctrinated as everybody else”, he says.Seyfried and his colleagues developed a diet-drug combination to destroy tumors by doing away with the detrimental fuels glucose and glutamine.A low-carb, high fat diet plus fasting targets glucose (healthy cells can burn fatty acids and ketone bodies, cancer cells cannot), and a “press-pulse” method including certain repurposed anti-parasite drugs targets glutamine. Add exercise.Patients can keep track of the levels of glucose and ketones in their blood with a simple device.“We’re getting longer and longer survivors for the so-called terminal cancers.”One big obstacle to getting established medicine to rethink is that there is no money in metabolic therapy. There’s no pill or shot for Big Pharma to sell. But Seyfried is optimistic:“When you educate people in certain ways and make certain products that will keep the entire body healthy, this will be a new industry. It’s coming.”Seyfried's research at Boston CollegeIHMC Lecture by Seyfried

Danny Sheehan is an acclaimed civil rights attorney. He is at the forefront of the movement advocating for UAP disclosure and transparency, but he has a history of being at the center of a number of famous big cases.This episode has two parts.1 The UFO/UAP partIn the 1970s, Danny Sheehan got to see the classified portions of a long-running UFO program called Project Blue Book.“There they were, the photographs of a crash retrieval. There wasn’t any doubt about what they were. It was a classic UFO.”Today, he is deeply engaged in the process of shedding light on the UFO cover-up. Whistleblowers have testified before the US Congress, under oath, that nonhuman craft have been retrieved by secret programs for many decades.Danny wants to see a gradual and responsible disclosure. That’s why he founded the New Paradigm Institute, whose purpose is to push for precisely that, on the political level and in society at large. And it’s getting closer.“The cat is out of the bag now. It’s running around.”Before he became an attorney, Danny wanted to be an astronaut, to be able to get into close contact with the extraterrestrial beings he knew were there.“Many planets in the Universe are billions of years older than ours. Those civilizations have had a lot more time to explore the fundamental questions, like the origin of the universe and the relationship between consciousness and the material realm.”ET spacecraft seem to operate telepathically, for example.We also have capabilities like that, but they have been suppressed, Danny contends.“Institutional religions have kept the secret.”This means that disclosure is required not only on the part of the government.“It requires disclosure also on the part of the major religious institutions, which have withheld this information.”Danny is critical of the nation state and its institutions:“People need to understand that there is a structure in place that is fundamentally unjust. I discovered this when I came into the world of law.”“When we encounter an ET civilization that is billions of years in advance of us, we need to reorganize the structures of our planet towards fairness, and to relieve us of the danger of self-imposed thermonuclear destruction.”2 The JFK part (which also features as a separate video on Youtube)Danny Sheehan was one of the people who began scouring the JFK files as soon as they were released in mid-March of 2025. In fact, he had been doing that only minutes before this interview.The JFK assassination connects the dots between several huge political, economic and military crises and events, and it even has a connection to the UFO phenomenon, according to Danny.It's complicated, but Danny’s explanation makes sense. And if true, it forces us to rewrite history.New Paradigm InstituteRomero InstituteCongressional hearing with Grusch et. al.Congressional hearing with Elizondo et. al.News Nation’s interview with Jake BarberThe documentary 'The Age of Disclosure'🎗️ Support Mind the Shift🔷 Patreon🔷 Paypal🔷 Host's website

Exploring the idea of Atlantis is irresistible within the sphere of alternative archaeology. Most independent researchers find irrefutable evidence of a civilization-ending cataclysm some millennia before the ‘official’ start of civilization.But what areas were affected? Does ‘Atlantis’ refer to sunken lands in the Atlantic, a wiped-out culture in North Africa or a lost global empire? Or something else? And exactly when did it happen? Was it really in the Younger Dryas period?Independent researcher Ronnie Gallagher offers a few unusual angles to the concept of a lost ancient civilization.He agrees with others that something extremely dramatic happened to the planet, and that the main part of this catastrophe was a huge flood. But he differs from most in terms of timing, places and cause:The flood happened some 10,000 years ago, a couple of thousand years later than the Younger Dryas.The disastrously affected high culture area that the Egyptians (and Plato) refer to was in the Caucasus region.The cataclysmic flood was most likely caused by a temporary tilting of the Earth, in turn caused by massive solar outbursts tugging on our planet’s magnetic fields.On the latter point, Ronnie is in some agreement with geophysicist Robert Schoch.The ‘smoking guns’ are primarily geological and geophysical, such as high strandlines and giant sand waves.“I’ve kept on being pleasantly surprised by the things I’ve been looking into, getting corroborating evidence”, Ronnie says.But he has also found cultural similarities between ancient Egypt and the area around the Caspian sea and the Black sea, not least in Azerbaijan. He points out what Plato’s two Atlantis dialogues actually say:“Atlantis was never an island, it was an isthmus.”And he refers to the famous 19th century Egyptologist Flinders Petrie:“Petrie concluded that the early Egyptians had ancestry in the Caucasus.”The long-term elevated sea level was 100 to 200 meters above today's level, according to Ronnie Gallagher, but it seems that there were short-term tsunamis of over 700 meters. It was one of those that buried the much debated archaeological site of Göbekli Tepe, he believes.The standard story is that the site was intentionally covered.“I don't believe that for a moment. The earth around the structures is in evenly distributed layers. It wouldn't have looked like that if people had ritually buried the site.”Ronnie’s research papers at ResearchgateRonnie’s research papers at AcademiaEpisode with Jack Kelly (referenced Atlantis theory)🎗️ Support Mind the Shift🔷 Patreon🔷 Paypal🔷 Host's website

Cailín Callaghan is a writer and a spiritual cognitive coach. She has been a mystic since the age of five.Her childhood was fraught with peril and abuse. But she had the ability to bi-locate, to separate body and soul. And she had her spirit guide, Michael, who she later realized is “the Source consciousness from which I spring into this world venue”.People around Cailín told her Michael was merely a figment of her childish imagination. In her teens, she tried to ignore her connection with the nonphysical realm and lead a conventional, materialistic, life. She began building a career in science. The magic drained out.But a near-death experience at the age of 20 changed everything.She met Michael again, in the ‘lustrous vast of quantum imminence’. He explained how life on earth works.“From the lustrous vast, the world is clearly a dream. It cannot even touch you, much less hurt you”, says Cailín.Michael said to her: “Only the lucid dreamer can change the dream.”And she remembered her mission. She remembered she was part of a huge team with the task to enter ‘earth venue’ and help humanity.“I thought, ‘I have to go back. I have to tell everybody this. If i can just make them lucid in the dream of the world, it will end suffering.’”Cailín's life today is about teaching lucidity and how we create our lives. She has coined the term imagifesting.“It’s important to stop worrying, because you’re borrowing from a future that may never occur”, she says.“You have to be lucid enough in the dream to observe the worry and then choose to do something much more productive in its stead. You imagine and manifest how the things you normally worry about unfold to their ideal resolution.”Then you create what you really want.“To imagifest is to summon the experience of every dimension of what you want to occur, especially the feeling you will have when it occurs.”Our physicality is part of what we are, but not the essence. The essence is immortal. Life on earth is an illusion, a game, a play, a dream.“People identifying as the dream character is what creates all the suffering in the world. They are unconsciously creating a world they don’t want. And then they blame that world for being unhappy!”This also relates to strong opinions and beliefs.“When you identify with the dream character, you want to be right more than you want to be happy.”And the solution?“People being lucid in the dream of the world.”The vast of quantum imminence, Cailín explains, is the substrate in which all worlds, i.e. all dreams, take place.“There is no separation. There are points of view, and there are selves, but there are no separate selves. Truth is unity. But Source enjoys being you. That identity is perfect, because you’re a godling.”We should confront what frightens us the most, says Cailín.“It’s a sign post: Confront this, so you can get past it.”It’s probably not such a good idea to apply this to the news cycle, however. To enhance your lucidity, you cannot get caught in the news drama.Cailín's websiteCailín's YoutubeCailín's Facebook🎗️ Support Mind the Shift🔷 ⁠Patreon⁠🔷 ⁠Paypal⁠🔷 Host's ⁠website⁠

Michael Cremo is a known name in the alternate archaeology community. His and Richard Thompson’s 1993 book “Forbidden Archaeology” has been called anunderground classic.But he is an outlier when it comes to extreme human antiquity. Cremo has come to the conclusion that humans – modern humans – have existed on the planet for millions, if not hundreds of millions, of years.This almost dizzying perspective can be derived from the ancient Vedic texts, a tradition that has influenced Michael’s worldview deeply.Michael Cremo looked into standard archaeology and found that many archaeologists and paleoanthropologists, over the last century or so, had found anatomically modern human artefacts like bones or footprints embedded in geological strata that were known to be millions of years old.“I thought, why aren’t these reports mentioned in the literature today?” Michael says.Well, they are, he explains, but they are interpreted in a way that they can fit in with the current ideas of human history.One example are the footprints paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey found at Laetoli in Tanzania in 1979.Another smoking gun is a finger bone found in Olduvai Gorge, not far from the site of the footprints. The bone does not quite look like it would if it were from another primate or a known prehistoric hominid, but it fits well with the anatomy of modern humans.“Theoretical preconceptions can influence how scientists will react to various categories of evidence”, Michael says.“Evidence that conforms to a particular paradigm will easily pass through this social intellectual filter. You will hear scientists talk about it at seminars. Evidence that doesn't conform is filtered out: ‘It’s an anomaly, we’ll get to that later’.”An alternative to the rational, physicalist paradigm that dominates archaeology in the West today would be to have a plurality of archaeologies. Cremo highlights theWorld Archaeological Congress and its scientific journal “Archaeologies”.He appreciates the boom in alternative archaeology in recent years.“But we deal with different parts of the time spectrum.”In Michael Cremo’s view, the study of paleoarchaeology cannot really be separated from the study of consciousness and what a human being is.“The cosmos is no accident. There is a purpose to it.”“But the cosmos goes through cycles of manifestation and unmanifestation. These cycles go on eternally. In that sense, there is no creation, there is an ongoing event.”And part of that ongoing event is the existence of human beings.“We are present, I believe, because it’s in the human bodily vehicle that a conscious self can come to understand the real answer to the question ‘who am I?’”This entails that entire human civilizations have risen and fallen, time and time again, for millions of years.In the Vedic worldview, what science calls the Big Bang is perhaps merely one exhalation in the cosmic breathing, by which universes expand and collapse incessantly.Many people want simple explanations, Michael notes. That goes for Christian literalists and physicalist scientists as well as new age types, who want to explain the mysterious human evolution with extraterrestrial influence.“But the real situation may be a little more complex. There may be threads of all of those things, woven into a beautiful tapestry, and with some overall guiding intelligence”, he says.Our time is crucial in many ways, but with a cyclic Vedic view, this isn’t the only crucial era. We entered the most problematic of the fouryugas, world ages, some 5,000 years ago, and we will not leave it until over 400,000 years from now. But there is a silver lining, according to Michael:“Even in the winter there are warmer periods, and we are entering one such now. It will last for 10,000 years.”Michael’swebsiteMichael’sFacebook🎗️ Support Mind the Shift🔷 ⁠Patreon⁠🔷 ⁠Paypal⁠🔷 Host's ⁠website⁠

Hypnosis can be healing and liberating. It isn’t spooky manipulation, like in the movies. No pendulums. No turning into chickens on a stage.“I have a high hit rate with my clients”, says hypnotherapist Ylva Wegler.“I can never guarantee a result, because we all have our unique journeys. But I am still amazed by the results.”She believes the best ingredient in her sessions is that she is good at creating a safe space. She also shares many experiences with her clients.“I say jokingly that I am an excellent grief recoverer. This enables them to open their hearts.”“I put my limited self aside and let my unlimited self work. Then we’re rocking”, she laughs.The crucial part in hypnotherapy is to get the controlling part of ourselves out of the way, Ylva explains. The whole body is involved, especially when working with emotions and feelings.“Many think it’s going to be painful. And sometimes it is, but mostly it isn’t.”That is, if you manage to not resist what you are experiencing. Because resistance is the issue. That is what causes pain.Ylva has had a lot of experience of what is referred to as past lives. Both personally and in treatment.“I am most curious about time as a dimension. Are these experiences previous lives or something else?”Her conclusion is that it doesn't really matter. It is something you can access.Ylva has initiated a large book project, where hundreds of people are invited to share their stories of miracles in their lives. Ordinary or extraordinary doesn’t matter. The main thing is how people experience and interpret these events, which have miraculous impacts in their lives.The spark to this idea came when Ylva was doing the Camino walk in Spain. She was able to realize the project after a major personal financial setback, a lot of inner work and a beautiful synchronicity. “It was a huge, beautiful download. I am just here watching it unfold.”The book series, “A Miracle Cure for the Soul”, also led to the creation of a big event at a theater in Stockholm, which Ylva arranges in collaboration with a friend.What is a miracle?“To me it’s all about the inner state”, says Ylva.“It’s about being aware of our thoughts. A thought births a feeling, and the feeling creates the state. If you stay open to miracles, you see them every day.”“To me it wasn’t about miracles from the start. It was about seeing proof that we’re more than our physical selves.”She is not fond of spiritual labels, she says. But she is convinced that we have a beautiful innate ability to empower ourselves and to create our lives and steer it in a direction we prefer.“The more we see that and learn that, the more harmonious we get. And the end result is a more loving world, a peaceful world. That’s what my whole work is about.”The Ylva of 25 years ago was quite different from the Ylva of today. She has made a journey both within and without.It began with a postpartum depression. One thought in her mind told her to end her life. But there was also another voice that said: ‘There’s something really, really wrong here’.“I chose to listen to that latter voice.”Her spiritual a-ha moment happened during a seance 20 years ago. A psychic medium told details about Ylva’s life that nobody but Ylva herself could have knownOur modern society is overdue for a holistic health revolution. And it is underway, Ylva believes.These are crucial times in many ways. It looks messy, but perhaps some of the disruption is necessary. How should people handle it?“First of all: Guard your inner state. We are creating a new world from our inner state. I believe that the 'heaven on Earth' the Bible speaks of is a state. And we can choose it every second of our lives.”“The more we choose to see the good in the world, the more good we are going to get.”Ylva’s websiteFacebookEmail address: ylva@trinitycare.seBook seriesMirakeldagen (The Miracle Day)🎗️ Support Mind the Shift🔷 ⁠Patreon⁠🔷 ⁠Paypal⁠🔷 Host's ⁠website⁠

Meredith Oke's calling is to spread the knowledge of the emerging science of quantum biology and the pivotal role of light to health.This devotion emerged in her late thirties, when she suffered from chronic fatigue. (Or maybe it was actually seeded in her late twenties, when she had a spiritual awakening, which later helped her to step up.)“I was unwell. I felt tired all the time. Doctors didn’t have any answers. I tried everything; acupuncture. diets. fitness stuff. Some of it helped. but I wasn’t feeling normal”, Meredith says.In the ‘gift of desperation’ moment, she remembered an interview she had heard with an expert on circadian rhythm, the notion that a balance between light and dark is conducive to health. Meredith re-listened and had an epiphany. It had a hugely positive impact. She knew she wanted to create a structure for this info to be widely dispersed.“It’s now uncontroversial to say that circadian biology controls and affects almost every aspect of our health”, she says.This has become ever more important as our lighting environment has changed. With artificial light 24/7, laptops, tablets and phones, we have inadvertently contributed to the chronic health problems in the industrialized world.“We’re telling our body that it’s noon in June when it’s 8 pm in January.”“The light controls all of our hormone production. Our body is a symphony and light is the conductor”, says Meredith.What happens if we screw up our circadian rhythm? In the short term our energy is low, we feel tired and grumpy, and our digestion is off.“In the long term the disruption leads to alzheimer’s, parkinson’s, cancer and all sorts of diseases.”We have also more or less been lied to about the sun. It is not our enemy. Being exposed to sunlight has all sorts of beneficial effects, and we have a natural understanding of how to get healthy amounts of it.Quantum biology is at the intersection of quantum physics and biology. Meredith highlights the book “Life on the Edge – The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology” by Jim Al-Khalil and Johnjoe McFadden.The weird thing about the current dogma in mainstream science is that quantum effects cannot happen within living systems. Al-Khalil and McFadden challenged that constrained idea and did research that confirmed they were right.Realizing there is a quantum aspect to life has huge practical consequences for human health.“The body is a liquid crystal matrix, filled with fourth phase water that acts as a quantum communication medium”, says Meredith.Does Western medicine do more harm than good?“It does more good in acute situations, like accidents or major infections. But to maintain or regain optimal health, Western medicine does more harm. We can’t outsource our health to our doctors.”Like many other spiritually oriented people, Meredith Oke is convinced we live in crucial times.“I think health care is in for a major shakeup. I already see it in the US.”The media and the education system will also go through big changes, Meredith thinks.When times are shaky, it is important to have like minded people close – one’s ‘soul family’, perhaps.“We have to invest in connections with other humans that we feel safe and free and happy to talk to – to stay aware and taking total responsibility for our experiences.”Quantum Biology Collective podcast and membershipMeredith on LinkedinMeredith on Instagram🎗️ Support Mind the Shift🔷 ⁠Patreon⁠🔷 ⁠Paypal⁠🔷 Host's ⁠website⁠

Jacob Nordangård used to be an enthusiastic member of the environmentalist movement. Always inquisitive, he began looking into its origins.To his surprise, not to say dismay, he found that much of the green agenda, including the climate change narrative, had been developed by global elites – organizations, associations and large corporations, even Big Oil.“The environmental movement I was a part of was set up by very powerful people. It made me angry.”Jacob started writing hardrock music to let the steam out. He also went into academia to do deeper research. His PhD thesis covered the history of the EU’s biofuel policy.What Jacob did, and what nobody previously had done in this context, was to expose the links between the policies and the coterie of elite figures pushing for them. The head of the Club of Rome tried to stop the thesis.Jacob Nordangård delved further into the matrix of behind-the-scenes decision makers. He wrote books about it. One is about the Rockefellers, a powerful family that, according to Jacob, has been instrumental for the agenda of the global elite. But there is a whole global network of large foundations, corporations, banks, think tanks and families that shape much of the policies that later appear on the national level.“It’s not like they took over the climate agenda, they created it“, says Jacob.He quotes Vladimir Lenin: “It’s better to run the opposition yourself. Then they will work for you.”As Jacob sees it, the goal of this elite is to create a world which is managed globally. There are several avenues to achieve this if you focus on features that are truly global, such as climate, infectious diseases, digitization and money.They also push the now very questionable narrative of ‘overpopulation’.“We won’t need people, they think.”These elite groups have had an enormous impact on the UN policies, Jacob says.His latest book “Temple of Solomon” (out in December of 2024) ties together his earlier work, but it adds a spiritual perspective and has a more personal touch. He makes references to many of the large spiritual traditions, which have been used as an inspiration for the elitist agenda of a ‘new human’.But are those traditions themselves nefarious?“No, they’re not. I follow much of the teachings myself. But the technocratic elite has hijacked them”, says Jacob.He doesn’t want to claim that these people are intentionally evil. A lot of them want a better world. They believe they are doing a good thing. But they try to cheat in a natural system.“They want to create a perfect world with technology. But that takes away what’s human.”__________✅ ResourcesJacob’s websiteBooksJacob’s hardrock band Wardenclyffe🎗️ Support Mind the Shift🔷 ⁠Patreon⁠🔷 ⁠Paypal⁠🔷 Host's ⁠website⁠

In the midst of a spiritual ceremony in the fall of 1996, Sten Linnander had a deeply transforming experience: The Earth made contact with him. As Sten heard a voice, he could see the planet in all her beauty, as if from space.He was instructed to go up on a mountain in Phoenix, Arizona, to continue the communication.“I hesitated. I am no Moses. But the voice came back. I was asked to come back to the mountain three times a week for three months. Then the transmission would end. And I did. And it was”, Sten tells.At first, he didn’t know what to do within the information, or teachings, from Mother Earth. But almost fifteen years later he went back to his notes, dug deeper, made renewed contact and wrote two books about what he had learned. It is hard for a modern human, detached from nature, to imagine how a planet could communicate.“Well, if you see the Earth from space, like I was made to do, it is obviously a living entity. As I see it, I am speaking to the sum of all the Earth consists of. In a sense, I am speaking to an Earth that includes me. The Earth also told me she experiences everything that we experience. She is so close to us”, Sten says.What was her core message?“The main statement was that she is alive and conscious.”The Earth also told Sten that humans have been like her children, but that we have now grown up. She said: 'I ask you to enter a living relationship with me, and the rest will follow.'She asked us to embrace beauty and sexuality. Beauty means 'mirroring the inside to the outside'.Sten’s communication with our living planet has led to two concrete projects.One is to build a device, preferably simple, that will enable intelligible communication between the Earth and humanity as a whole. Sten has made trials in collaboration with tech savvy people, but so far it hasn’t been successful.The Earth has said that later on, when communication can become more sophisticated, she wants to show us what the history of the Earth really has been like. We are unaware of many things that have transpired, she claims.Another project is to produce small, affordable ‘living globes’ that display what the Earth looks like in real time – daylight, weather patterns etc – and that everybody can have in their living room. The idea is inspired by the so-called ‘overview effect’, the awe astronauts feel when they see our common cosmic home in all its beauty and vulnerability.Many environmentalists hate humanity and blame every adverse event on humans.“If we hate humanity, it’s like a part of the Earth hating itself, because we are the Earth”, Sten says.“I have no time for negativity. There are plenty of negative aspects, but if you want to change things, you have to bet on the positive aspects of both humanity and the Earth.”“Some people are afraid of the Earth being conscious, because they think she’s going to hate us and kill us all.”But we really fear ourselves?“Yes.”The final thing the Earth told Sten was a beautiful prospect: If we were in intimate, conscious connection with our planet, the possibilities would be limitless. We would be able to improve energy systems, housing, transportation, water and food supply, disease prevention, love relations and relations with animals.“When I heard that, I thought, if this is true, I just can’t say ‘this is not for me’. I am on to something that is so incredibly big it’s high time I do something.”Sten’s personal website“I Am With You” website: Living globes project🎗️ Support Mind the Shift🔷 ⁠Patreon⁠🔷 ⁠Paypal⁠🔷 Host's ⁠website⁠

As far as research of the non-physical world is concerned, Simon Duan should have quite a bit of credibility. He began his career in a robustly materialist environment. He has a PhD in materials science from Cambridge university and worked for many years with technology commercialisation. Then he had a paranormal experience at a dentist and began exploring what lies behind the material world.Simon has developed a theory known as “Platonic computation”, which unifies consciousness, mind and matter. The theory provides an explanation for how matter is derived from consciousness.According to the theory, this physical world is a finite and malleable simulation, created by consciousness, of which we are aspects, and whose highest form in Simon’s terms is metaconsciousness. Various traditions have given it other names: Brahma, Dao, God.Metaconsciousness is the ultimate reality. It is contentless but contains infinite potential. Simon has adopted Plato’s term for it: the realm of forms. In the realm of forms, everything is perfect. When a concept is manifested on the physical plane, it becomes a poor copy of the original ideal concept. Thus, in Simon Duan’s model, this 3D universe is assumed to be a simulation, rendered by the “Platonic computer” of metaconsciousness outside of time and space. Multiple other realities are also rendered on different levels.Thoughts, feelings and memories are in a database – a modern word for the Akashic records. The brain is a display of thoughts, feelings and memories. It’s not the generator.Psychics can “hack” the codes of the simulation. They can activate their higher selves more easily. For instance, if you can switch off the codes for gravity, you levitate.Why has this simulation been created?“Pure creativity wants to experience itself, so it diversifies”, says Simon.Since the pure creativity of metaconsciousness is the highest aspect of ourselves, it is ultimately we who do it. How do we diversify? We create content.But some of us are less aware of what is actually going on in this divine game.“We can choose to be NPCs, non-playable characters, or to be co-creators”, says Simon.In the latter case, we become conscious that we can shape this world as we wish, or update the simulation.The game we (our highest aspect) have created is so elaborate that we even forget our true nature when we arrive here.In order to keep the game interesting, evolution has to happen. The rules sometimes change.“Then we get a change of perception. In science we call it a paradigm shift.”Simon Duan thinks physical reality will shift in ways that will force people to awaken, sometimes through disasters and suffering.“I think this world will become much better, but it will be worse before it gets better”, he says.He emphasizes that he refers to enlightenment in this particular physical world.“On other levels we are already enlightened. There is no work to be done there.”Metacomputics LabsSimon’s essay “Stop Asking If the Universe is a Computer Simulation”Simon on XAnders’ essay that is mentioned🎗️ Support Mind the Shift🔷 ⁠Patreon⁠🔷 ⁠Paypal⁠🔷 Host's ⁠website⁠

Marjorie Woollacott was a scientist with a materialist worldview when she, in her 30s, had a spiritually transformative experience. Her heart opened. There was a feeling of total peace and equanimity. She felt at home.After the experience, Woollacott gradually reoriented her research and teaching in physiology and neuroscience towards the nonphysical human experience. Many of her 200 peer reviewed scientific articles are about the effects of meditation.“When we meditate, we begin to let go of our feeling of smallness and separateness to a feeling of interconnectedness with everything else in the world”, Marjorie says.Later, she began looking more fully into the nature of consciousness.In that context, she wants to highlight two scientists-philosophers in particular, Bernardo Kastrup and Federico Faggin (the inventor of the microprocessor).“They show us scientifically why seeing consciousness as fundamental is essential to our understanding of the universe.”Woollacott is co-editor of an anthology that is fresh on the shelves as we record this episode, The Playful Universe. It is about meaningful coincidences, something psychology giant Carl Jung called synchronicities.Cultural historian and archetypal cosmologist Richard Tarnas, who has written the introduction to the book, defines synchronicities like this: observed coincidences, in which two or more independent events, having no apparent causal connection, nevertheless seem to form a meaningful pattern in our lives.Synchronicities are often seemingly trivial. It could be something quotidian you haven’t thought about in 20 years, but when you do, that same thing suddenly appears all around you; in newspapers, signs, things you hear.Another contributor to the anthology, Jungian psychologist and mythologist Roderick Main, describes the evolution of our human understanding of the universe as having gone from enchantment to disenchantment (the scientific revolution) to reenchantment, which is happening now.“Life is still mysterious.” How can synchronicities happen? In Marjorie Woollacott’s view, we are points of consciousness within the universal consciousness, and we are all entangled and co-creating this universe.“Within that playful entanglement, we draw the situations to ourselves that are most important for the unfolding of our paths in this universe.”She also points out that our beliefs create our reality, which means that what we pay attention to in our lives is what we allow to unfold.So, how should we act on synchronicities?“Value them highly and explore them.”Marjorie Woollacott believes we have some kind of guidance from the nonphysical reality. She refers to research she has done on mediumship, where mediums say they are in contact with people from “the other side”.“I saw the incredibly strong evidence about these people communicating with us, telling us things we didn’t know that turned out to be true, and that could help us.”This is documented in peer reviewed papers,Many feel – and claim – that this world is unfair, and not only to themselves but to millions.“I believe it’s a fundamental misunderstanding”, Marjorie says.“But we all have these thoughts. We are both a soul with infinite awareness and a tiny point of awareness. And the tiny point, where our ego resides, is always making judgments about what’s pleasurable, what’s painful, what causes suffering, and what causes expansion. And from that point of view, yeah, things can be really difficult.”“But if we can take the view of the whole, which is our essence, there is probably something we can learn from that moment of pain that will move us forward in our expansion of knowing who we are.”Marjorie’s websiteThe Playful UniverseBio at AAPSBio at Galileo Commission🎗️ Support Mind the Shift🔷 ⁠Patreon⁠🔷 ⁠Paypal⁠🔷 Host's ⁠website⁠