We’ve been wanting to talk to Courtney Buterbaugh since we first heard her on Robin Lassiter’s show Earth: A Love Story. Courntey is a lifelong experiencer and writer of The Unidentified Felt Object. In this episode, she tells us about her near-death experience as a baby, being bedridden for three years as an adult, and a scene in Disclosure Day that unlocked a lifetime’s worth of memory of contact experiences.
She helps us explore why the phenomenon might land in the body before it ever reaches the mind, how memories can arrive as physical sensation, the purpose of screen memories, and the idea that far more of us are experiencers than we’d ever guess. If contact leaves a trace of physical feeling, can we use it to remember?
Shownotes
* “Experiencers are the disclosure”
* Nuts-and-bolts problem
* Why you can’t control an experiencer story
* Gods, ghosts, and UFOs — all of it, all at once
* Experiencers need a seat at the table
* The near-death experience
* Bedridden for 3 years
* The first conscious onboard craft experience
* A mark on her arm
* Promise of healing
* Memories from bodily sensation
* The paper cardinal in Disclosure Day
* Screen memories
* “Way more people are experiencers than think they are”
* “I’m the lab”
* 25 years of practicing discernment through meditation
* Somatic therapy
* Phenomenology, a definition
* Why feeling too much reads as “unobjective”
And in the epilogue…
* The UFO is a womb
* Memory is useful, not accurate
* Where did all the shamans go? (Don’t do drugs alone.)
Want to come on the show and share a story? Or do you have recommendations or requests for future guests?
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Logically, phenomenally,Jordan, Mal, & Courtney
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