Ep.103 N:OW.2025.MAR04 Passionate Living Cat & Rifat Cameo, Ayahuasca Author Annelise Schinzinger Ibnterview

When creating our show, our guests are usually in their home environments, connected to us via Zoom or Facetime. But this week our mountaintop ‘fortress of solitude’ was visited by not one but three live guests in our studio at the same time! First up was a brief but wonderful check in by the Passionate Living TV folks, Catherine Miller and Rifat Chowdhury visiting from Buffalo, NY. They were here in California for a film festival and recording of future stories for their award-winning series on passionate lifestyles. 
And author Annelise Schinzinger made it up the hill to chat with us about her new book documenting her pioneering experiences in South America with Ayahuasca, a psychoactive brew used by Amazonian tribes for spiritual and healing purposes. Annelise’s experiences go back to the 1970’s, way before Ayahuasca was known  in North America.  I was particularly fascinated by her understanding of “burracheira,” the field of consciousness created by those sharing an Ayahuasca experience. It is also worth noting that she was the Portugese translater for scientist Dennis McKenna in his field research while in Brazil. She takes us on a most fascinating and insightful journey into some of the deeper mysteries of life and death. Enjoy!
 

Ep.102 N:OW2025.FEB25 Interview w/ Brit Elders, Investigator of Billy Meier's Pleidian Contact , Warp Drive Update, What IF

We had a fun first hour of Dr. Future News, including an update on how we might actually build a warp drive for star travel, and the latest thinking of what would have happened on Earth should Chicxulub, the giant asteroid that extincted the dinosaurs, had never happened. Would we have evolved to dominate the planet as we have?
In the second hour, we have an extended interview with Brit Elders, author, investigative documentarian, and CEO of www.ShirleyMacLaine.com. She has recently completed “Contact from the Pleiades, 45th Anniversary Edition,” in which the original two photo-journal volumes from 1979 are combined into one book with a new forward by Shirley MacLaine, a prologue written by journalist Jamie Maussan, and a new introduction and preface by Brit Elders. We cover the whole story arc of how she first got involved with the case with her husband Lee Elders and Col Wendell Stevens,  to the evolution and popularization and proliferation of Pleidian contact experiences over the last half century. A very delightful, and heart-centered conversation, Brit takes us on a journey that opens us all to a better future. Enjoy!
Contact from the Pleiades, 45th Anniversary Edition,

Ep.100 N:OW2025.FEB11 Microdosing for Health, Authors Jim Fadiman and Jordan Gruber

This week we start by catching up Bobby and his Costa Rican adventures, then some Future News.  Most of the show, however, is dedicated to our inteview with Jordan Gruber, who just finished co-authoring  the book, “Microdosing for Health, Healing & Enhanced Performance” with James Fadiman, Ph.D. We delve as deeply into the topic as you can get in an 80 minute interview.
First we look at the beginnings of microdosing psychedelics and its evolution to current protocols.The potential benefits of microdosing psychedelics seem quite extensive, from studies in depression to enhancing our abilities to learn new skills, like musical instruments or languages.  We explore a little of the ‘why’, such as increased neuroplasticity of the brain, and what substances work with microdosing (LSD, Schrooms) and which ones don’t (i.e. Ketamine, MDMA).  Citizen science plays a big role in the unfolding of this topic, as serious research takes time and money, and neither are readily availabe, for various reasons (which we discuss).For fun we ran the book through a local AI and had it answer a couple of our questions.
This book is partly the culmination of Dr. James Fadiman’s life work in the field of psychedelics, and includes many reports and correspondences that he has received over the 60 plus years he has dedicated to the topic. There is much to consider here, and we hope we have given you enough to pursue this further, should you have the interest. Thanks, and enjoy!

Ep.85 N:OW.2024.OCT29 AppleM4, Lonely Quasars, AI SciFi, Interviews, RecoveringVegan, SpyForGod, Andrew & Connie

Apple's M4 AI , mysterious lonely Quasars, update on The Line, Larry and Mary take us on a journey into The Time Tunnel, Why AI's don't see optical illusions, Giselle on being a recovering vegan, Mercury as a spy for God, Andrew and Connie on the divine awakening of the human heart
Taylor opens the show with a download on the latest M4 Apple products and why you want an M4 processor - Apple Intelligence. You want Apple Intelligence, don’t you? Then get your M4 machine today and you will be merging with the machine ahead of the pack. Think local intelligence, not simply cloud intelligence..
The famous set of “The Time Tunnel” (1966)
Guest AI hosts, Larry and Mary, feature a ‘deep dive’ into the classic SciFi TV show, “The Time Tunnel”, leading to an enticing conversation on time travel. If you could change the past, would you?
Our science  stories this week reach into deep space with lonely quasars and their hungry supermassive black holes to an update on the Saudi city of the future, The Line, and why AI’s don’t get optical illusions, until now..  We also feature exerpts from three interviews we recently conducted, with Gissell Bisson on being a recovering vegan, and the importance of oils, Astrologer Michael Mercury on being a spy for God, and filmmakers Andrew Cameron Bailey and Connie Baxter Marlow on the global awakening of the human heart..finally! Enjoy.
 
lonely supermassive black hole-powered quasars in the early universe