When people ask for your opinions about UFOs, are the little green men from The X-Files the first things that pop in your head?
Michael Jawer, author of the upcoming book What UFOs Really Are, believes we should be less focused on aliens flying in the sky and directing our attention on our inner selves and downward to living things anchored on the ground like plants, trees and fungi.
Join Paul and Michael on a wide-ranging conversation that could make you look at reality in a brand-new way this week on Spirit Gym.
Learn more about Michael’s work on his website and Linkedin.
Timestamps
2:20 Michael’s next book, What UFOs Really Are, coming out in December.
3:39 “My myth begins with emotion.”
13:51 Abnormalities like UFOs/UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena) are where enigmas often meet stigmas.
17:17 UAPs are forms of sentience, but not here to take over our planet.
26:59 Is lucid dreaming connected to remote viewing?
39:06 “The dimension that I'm most interested in is what's under the surface, or what we don’t see within our own unconsciousness.”
45:45 Is the unconscious poorly understood, incorrectly named or both?
58:00 Does an electron or atom feel like anything?
1:08:37 Michael is directing his attention inward and downward, rather than toward the skies.
1:13:50 C.H. Waddington’s concept of creodes.
1:21:27 UFOs and UAPs shake up our perceptions and invite us to consider viewing reality in different ways.
1:28:16 Paul’s question, What is on the sun?, is answered.
1:36:16 The ancient origins of AI.
1:46:06 “Humanity is in peril because we have archaic emotions, medieval institutions and god-like technology.”
1:48:56 John Lennon’s UFO sighting.
Resources
Michael’s recent appearance on New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove on YouTube
The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion: How Feelings Link the Brain, the Body and the Sixth Sense by Michael Jawer and Dr. Marc Micozzi
Your Emotional Type: Key to the Therapies That Will Work For You by Michael Jawer and Dr. Marc Micozzi
Sensitive Soul: The Unseen Role of Emotion in Extraordinary States by Michael Jawer
Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence by Paco Calvo and Natalie Lawrence
Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life by Dacher Keltner
The 2017 New York Times article about the Pentagon’s UFO program
A British military defense unit report on acquiring UFO tech from the Jerusalem Post
The Hidden Life of Trees and The Inner Life of Animals by Peter Wohlleben
The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson
Disclosure Day (movie)
Arrival (movie)
The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
After by Dr. Bruce Greyson
Rupert Sheldrake’s paper, Is the Sun Conscious?
Rupert Sheldrake’s banned TED talk on YouTube
The Trickster and the Paranormal by George Hansen
The Mystic Spiral: Journey of the Soul by Jill Purce
Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies by Carl Jung
Compendium of the Emerald Tablets by Billy Carson
The work of Ingo Swann, Barbara Hand Clow, Dr. Michael Levin, Steven Greer, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Jenny Randles and Jacques Vallée
Your Body is Your Subconscious Mind by Candace Pert
The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird
The Secret Life of Nature: Living in Harmony With The Hidden World of Nature Spirits From Fairies to Quarks by Peter Tompkins
The Unknown Spirit by Jean-Emile Charon
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