Where Did the Road Go?

Seriah is joined by Mike Clelland, Joshua Cutchin, and Red Pill Junkie. Topics include scheduling difficulties, Mike and Josh’s new fiction books, RPJ’s cover artwork, Mike’s page lay-out art directing, Joshua’s proof-reading, Mike’s “The Unseen”, words Mike avoided, Christopher Knowles and “The Secret Sun” podcast, comic books/graphic novels, owls. The color blue, Carl Jung, “The Red Book”, Carlos Castaneda, psychedelics, Josh’s “Them Old Ways Never Died”, symbolism, the phenomenon of characters seeming to have personalities of their own, alcoholism and other addictions, the two books shared universe, the impact of the pandemic on live musicians, the film “Unwanted”, difficulties in portraying the Fae in fiction, “King of Morning, Queen of Day” novel by Ian McDonald, Josh’s “The Brimstone Deceit”, Morgan Daimler, Graham Hancock’s fiction, the oil painting process, artist Billy Shank, Mike’s memoir “Hidden Experience”, Mike’s time wearing the Kool Aid man costume, the changes in the ease of taking pictures and filming over the decades, RPJ’s methods of cover art, Mike’s three non-fiction books on UFOs and owls, creative people and the paranormal, nuts and bolts ufology, trauma and the Phenomenon, dissociation and the paranormal, Kenneth Ring and the experience-prone personality, Jeff Ritzmann, unrecognized and unremembered trauma, depression, the movie “They Live”, childhood experiences, Seriah’s teenage traumas, similarities between alien encounters and NDEs, Dr. Michael Newton, “Life Between Lives” book, audiobooks and their production, Micah Hanks, “Limelight” BBC podcast, Jake “the Snake” Roberts, the differences between writing fiction and nonfiction, planners vs pantsers, Jim Marrs and “The Sisterhood of the Rose”, the difficulties of portraying villains, the movie “Watchers”, the video games “Control”, “Alan Wake”, and esoteric things contained in them, Remedy Studios, Eric Wargo’s book “Time Loops”, “Oxenfree” video game, possible sequels to Mike and Josh’s fiction, other projects in the works, Barbara Fisher, and much more! This a riveting conversation featuring three all-time favorite guests!- Recap by Vincent TreewellOutro Music is Vrangvendt with The Hunt

Seriah is joined by Chris G from New Zealand. Topics include differences between New Zealand and Australia, personal experiences, interactions with celebrities, the fluidity of time, free will, an incident involving a terminally ill relative and apparent precognition, Alex Whitcombe, time slips, Michael Talbot, “The Holographic Universe”, AI and sentience, plants and fungi communication and intelligence, life in other parts of the solar system, intelligent plasma, David Mitchell and necrophilia, sports and small talk, David Paulides and “Missing 411”, a missing person case local to Chris, Michael Marshall Smith’s book “The Servants”, Australian quarantine stations, a youthful encounter with a strange entity, ghost tours, an actual strange experience while on a tour, an Indigenous legend of a spirit that feasts on human fear, and much more! This is a fast-paced, fascinating conversation!- Recap by Vincent Treewell

Seriah is joined by Chris Ernst and Saxon/Super_Inframan. Topics include strange videos Seriah has posted, Saxon’s advice on identifying airplanes, an odd gesture by a weird stranger on the street, reconnecting/relocating people Serian used to correspond with by mail, Seriah’s ongoing autobiography, a high school essay by Chris on Aleister Crowley, being a nerd in the 21st Century vs the 1980’s, an incident of instant wish fulfilment/precognition by Seriah in high school, synchronicity, the nature of reality, coincidence vs precognition, Seriah and a wish for money with consequences, an experience between Chris and a tree frog, environmental responses to questions, “Authors of the Impossible” by Jeffrey Kripal, “Synchronicity: The Art of Coincidence, Choice, and Unlocking Your Mind by Dr. Kirby Surprise, Carl Jung’s universal unconscious, a building destroyed in bizarre synchronistic incident, Chris’s precognition of a childhood accident in a treehouse, a weird experience with a car radio, Stan Gooch, a possible explanation for the Oz effect, a “plaid man” encounter, psychic/dream encounters with plants, Tim Renner and Flannel Man, the Woodsmen of “Twin Peaks”, “Unsolved Mysteries” stories of plaid-wearing entities visiting the terminally ill, the Wildman archetype, plant communication and consciousness, Ayahuasca, a scientific study suggesting much broader sentience in the animal world, bees playing a ball game for fun, Rene Descartes, experiments on fish, colonialism/racism and materialism, how extraterrestrials might view humans, “The Evil Within” video game, binaural beats, hemi-synch tones and meditation, Saxon’s ketamine experiences, songs that induce a mind state, Tibetan singing bowls, lost sound technology at ancient sites, how buildings change as decay takes place over time, sound and ritual and spirituality, the difficulties with total silence, Hindu teaching of universal vibration, Vedic theology and quantum physics, an incident in Colorado with an apparently conscious UFO, high-tech military black projects, the CrowdStrike failure and the recovery from it, Ed Zitron and the rot economy, the Wall Street Journal and AI, solar flares, and much more! This is fascinating conversation that covers a lot of ground!- Recap by Vincent Treewell of The Weird Part Podcast

Seriah is joined by Chris Ernst and Timothy Renner to catch up on a number of things since Tim’s last appearance. Topics include controversy in the Bigfoot community over Tim’s previously more “flesh and blood” views, Drake vs Kendrick Lamar style feuds, Josh Cutchin, the possibilities of physical undiscovered primates, “woo” unexplainable Bigfoot incidents, “weird washing”, the wilderness poltergeist concept, Red Pill, Loren Coleman, Seriah’s bad experience with Ozempic and pneumonia, Martin Popoff synchronicities, strange night sounds, a possible UFO caught on dashcam, bizarre electronic sounds including the ones Tim recorded years ago, Octavian and a series of very weird events with Tim and Ian in Fishing Creek, an incident with Tim and John and Tyler Strand in Indiana involving a massive fireball and beams of light, the practice of making tea from wild plants, Bigfoot researcher Rick Fischer, Episode #459 of Strange Familiars, “The Watcher”, Seriah’s encounter with a possible monkey in a cornfield, Seriah’s previous UFO experience, Tim’s experiences with John and Tim’s listener Lucinda at Pine Ridge Reservation South Dakota and numerous Bigfoot stories, kiya.life non-profit organization, a mysterious bizarre hiker, a strange trip through the night, Chris’s analysis through Lakota lore, Tim’s strange dream, a fascinating message about Bigfoot, the streaming TV series “Counterpart”, an unusual encounter with three owls, different perceptions of the same person/entity, Native understandings of Bigfoot vs Western understandings, the U.S. government and honoring Tribal treaties, the rule of three, Tim’s spiritual journey, Tim’s upcoming book on hermits, and much more! This is a riveting episode, packed with information and mystery!Recap by Vincent TreewellOutro Music is Stone Breath with Leaves About Our Feet, We Reached for the Moon

Seriah is joined by Wren Collier and Octavian to discuss a recent scientific article reporting on a study by researchers giving psychic tests to magickal practitioners, its results, and their possible meaning. Topics include a psychic testing phone app, Gordon White and Rune Soup, natural psychic abilities vs magickal practice, Wren’s psychic research, Dean Radin, the change in magick between the 1800’s and early 1900’s, new age vs magick, Octavian’s experiences in Fishing Creek with Ian and Timothy Renner, transliminality, transliminal dis-ease, problems of doubt, co-creation, preparation practices in ritual magick, altered psychological states, B.J. Swain, Olympic [Greco-Roman] spirits, Elysian mysteries, a bizarre experience in a veteran’s cemetery, Steve Skinner, scent and spirits, unclean spirits, magickal practice and the paranormal, the three books of magick by Agrippa vs grimoires, chaos magick, the importance of astrology, Seriah’s experience with magick and an unexpected result, Octavian’s grandmother Julia Lupton and her astrological works, sublunar spirits, lunar mansions, Wren’s talismans, Arabic astrology, astrological charting, traditional astrology vs scientific materialist psychological astrology, Chris Warnock, “Station to Station” podcast, Octavian’s “Strange Dominions” podcast, Fae and nature spirits, a theory of Saturn and Bigfoot, a Biblical reference to hairy hominids, solar activity and psi, Robert Shock, the keys of Solomon and the moon, “Beyond Telepathy” by Andrija Pruharich, thunderstorms and magickal workings, electrical universe theory, black holes at the center of the Milky Way, Walt Thornhill, Immanuel Velikovsky, metaphor vs reality in astrology, the book “Gateways Through Light and Shadow”, neo-Platonism, drawing spirits into crystals, the “Seven Spheres” system of magick, physical manifestations vs the minds eye, analytical overlay, remote viewing, some of Octavian’s personal experiences, and much, much more! This is a unique deep dive into SO much!- Recap by Vincent TreewellOutro Music is Fluttr Effect Live on The Last Exit with Transmission.

Seriah is joined by Barbara Fisher and Amber, the Witch of Noccalula, to discuss the Satanic Panic in American history, pop culture, and current events. Topics include Dungeons and Dragons, a personal experience with censorship of a D&D afterschool club, the 2022 documentary “Satanic Panic”, the 1982 movie “Mazes and Monsters” starring Tom Hanks, the blaming of metal bands for youth suicide, the gross misinterpretation of Ozzie Osbourne’s song “Suicide Solution”, the book “Michelle Remembers” by Lawrence Pazder and Michelle Smith, hypnotic regression and false memories, generational attitudes, the Moral Majority, Anita Bryant, the Mormon involvement in the Satanic Panic, reality TV ghost hunting shows and demonology, Beatrice Sparks, “Go Ask Alice”, “Jay’s Journal”, Rick Emerson “Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries”, Runyon v. McCrary 1976 Supreme Court case desegregating private schools, the rise of Catholic/Protestant allied political conservatism, St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, philosophy vs biblical interpretations of the beginning of human life, the rise of the religious right, disguised racism, Q-Anon, the Confederate flag, the January 6, 2021 assault on the Capital, West Virginia vs the Confederacy, John Brown, Appalachian Scotch/Irish anti-slavery attitudes, ahistorical views of Satan, the Silent Generation, anti-Polish prejudice, Seriah’s personal experience in an interracial relationship, homophobia in 20th century America, Amber’s personal experience with a mixed race family, the time Seriah went to church, C.S. Lewis, Satan as a psychological trigger, Seriah’s alleged Satanic cult member pen pal, Barbara’s experiences running a metaphysical book store and engaging in interfaith dialogue meetings, Amber’s emotional abuse as a Catholic child, Barbara’s youthful experiences in different Christian denominations, the novel “The Chronoliths” by Robert Charles Wilson, the case of the “West Memphis Three”, the “Paradise Lost” documentary series, demonic possession vs mental illness, the existence of Satan, Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan, exorcism and its contradictions, “The Exorcist” movie, the Warrens and “The Conjuring” movies, demonic possession in ghost hunting reality TV, critical thinking and education, Seriah and younger people without basic life skills, Seriah and a heavy metal zine banned from a public school computer lab, scape-goating after Columbine, the Roman Emperor Constantine and making of the Roman Catholic Church as a state religion, the burning of the Library of Alexandria and the murder of Hypatia, origins of anti-Semitism, and much more! This is an intense but highly valuable discussion! Recap by Vincent Treewell of The Weird Part Podcast Outro Music is Hellbound from Vrangvendt