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  Episode 111: Heavens On Earth   Dr. Michael Shermer is the Publisher of Skepticmagazine, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University where he teaches Skepticism 101. He is the author of Why People Believe Weird Things, Why Darwin Matters, The Science of Good and Evil, and The Moral Arc. His new book is Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality & Utopia. Michael regularly contributes opinion editorials, essays, and reviews to: the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Science, Nature, and other publications. He appeared on such shows as The Colbert Report, 20/20, Dateline, Charlie Rose, Oprah, and Larry King Live (but, proudly, never Jerry Springer!). He has been interviewed in countless documentaries aired on PBS, A&E, Discovery, The History Channel, The Science Channel, and The Learning Channel. Dr. Shermer was the co-host and co-producer of the 13-hour Family Channel television series, Exploring the Unknown. His two TED talks, seen by millions, were voted in the top 100. Dr. Shermer received his B.A. in psychology from Pepperdine University, M.A. in experimental psychology from California State University, Fullerton, and his Ph.D. in the history of science from Claremont Graduate University. He has been a college professor since 1979, also teaching at Occidental College, Glendale College, and Claremont Graduate University, where he taught a transdisciplinary course for Ph.D. students on Evolution, Economics, and the Brain. https://michaelshermer.com/ https://www.michaeldecon.com  

Episode 110: Verisimilitude     JOSHUA FREE is the prolific writer of many books, anthology editions and personal reprints via the Mardukite Truth Seeker Press. He is also the founder of the Mardukite Research Organization (2008) and the Systemological Society (2011). First made public from the underground scene as a teenage ‘Merlyn Stone’ in the 1990’s with the “Sorcerer’s Handbook” (now celebrating its 20th Anniversary in a commemorative edition), the more recent work by Joshua Free has gone on to include not only practical occultism, magic and mysticism, but also the Sumerian Anunnaki, secrets of Babylon (“Mardukites”), Mesopotamian history, Pheryllt Druidism, Celtic-Druid Elven-Faerie spirituality, the Dragon Legacy, Ancient Aliens Theory, the Next Generation (NexGen) Evolution and more! https://mardukite.com/     ❌ Second Guest❌   Robert Bruce is a published metaphysicist and a true spiritual pioneer of our times. Author of five ground-breaking books, with three in Second editions, his life is spent exploring the dynamics of all things paranormal and spiritual, and testing the boundaries of The Greater Spiritual Reality. This exploration particularly involves the human energy body and its Chakras, which form the foundations of both physical and spiritual existence. Robert lectures internationally and currently resides in sunny Australia. You can find him on the web at AstralDynamics.com

JOSHUA FREE began participating in his planetary mission by receiving ‘unofficial’ personal apprenticeships from individual mentors who were, themselves, members (active or preexisting) of the Illuminati, Rosicrucians, Freemasons, Catholic Mystics, Christian Gnostics, Buddhist Monks, Freezoners (Scientology), the Dragon Court / Dragon Society, Theosophical Society, Aurum Solis, the GD (Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn), the O.T.O. (Ordo Templi Orientis) and/or the A.A. (Argentium Astrum) among others. At the age of 12, JOSHUA FREE was officially initiated into the Pheryllt Druid tradition (based on the work of Douglas Monroe) and then began leading his own Druid-styled organization at 13. The following year he was installed to the ‘third degree’ of Celtic Wicca. In the mid-1990′s, he was even heralded the youngest initiate to join the “Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids” (OBOD), a large international organization based in England that New Age (Druidic) authors frequently cite.   While in high school during the late-1990′s, JOSHUA FREE maintained leadership (under the name “Merlyn Stone“) of a small esoteric mystical-magical experimental research group, the “Elven Fellowship Circle of Magick” (EFCOM), which met both in private and publicly in Washington Park (Denver, Colorado) from 1998 through 2000. Considered a prodigious youth among growing Rocky Mountain New Age Scene, he wrote many underground manifestos on various ‘New Age’ topics using the pseudonym “Merlyn Stone” while...

  Episode 109: The Cosmic Universe   Michael welcomed Lawrence krauss to the program. Lawrence Maxwell Krauss is an American-Canadian theoretical physicist and cosmologist who is Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, and director of its Origins Project. Lawrence’s major research areas and activities are encompassed within theoretical particle astrophysics and cosmology, including studies of the early universe, neutrino astrophysics, dark matter, dark energy, quantum field theory and gravity, black holes, stellar evolution, nucleosynthesis and eschatology. Krauss is the author of over 300 scientific publications, as well as numerous popular articles on physics and astronomy. He is the author of 10 popular books, including the international bestseller The Physics of Star Trek(1995) and most recently A Universe from Nothing (2012), which immediately became New York Times Bestseller and has now been translated into 24 different languages. It argues that not only can our universe naturally arise from nothing, without supernatural effects, but that it probably did. His newest book, The Greatest Story Ever Told .. So Far.   After introductions Michael and Lawrence discuss a variety of topics such as: How and why we are here? How the universe can be created out of nothing. How he grades Donald Trump as our President. Bill O’Reilly’s embarrassing statements on national television. Michael Ask’s Lawrence...

Episode 108: UFO’s Religion & Politics Benjamin E. Zeller is a researcher and teacher of religion in America. He focuses on religious currents that are new or alternative, including new religions, the religious engagement with science, and the quasi-religious relationship people have with food. His interests are united by an interest in expanding the conversation about religion by including less commonly studied groups, phenomena, and topics, and looking at more common topics (e.g. religion & science; American religious history) from new angles. Zeller is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religion at Lake Forest College, a private liberal arts college in the Chicago suburbs. He previously served as Director of the College Honors Program, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, and Coordinator of the Religion and Philosophy Major at Brevard College, and visiting Fulbright Fellow at Åbo Akademi (Turku, Finland). Heaven’s Gate is best known as the UFO group that ended with the mass suicides in San Diego in 1997 at the time of the Hale-Bopp comet. It made the news after the movement’s 39 active members committed mass suicide, and there was a bit of a media frenzy. The group is now defunct, though ex-members maintain their website and there are still a few believers out there. http://www.nrms.net/