UFOs, Consciousness, and the Hidden Architects of Reality | Jesse Michels

Jesse Michels returns to the mind meld! Jesse Michels returns for a sprawling conversation on the strange overlap between UFOs, consciousness, and the hidden esoteric currents running beneath modern science. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership We explore the “occult roots” of the space age — from Jack Parsons and the mythic imagination behind rocket culture, to the darker shadow of WWII German occultism, secret history, and the idea that advanced technology may have always been entangled with ritual, symbolism, and altered states. Along the way we get into Puharich, the Space Kids, psychic research, synchronicity, and why the UFO landscape is equal parts genuine inquiry and engineered confusion. We also riff on the centrality of consciousness, esoteric orders and mysterious cosmic ascent rituals. If the phenomenon isn’t just hardware in the sky, but something that interacts with perception itself, what does that imply about reality, human evolution, and the deeper truths of reality. Topics include: UFOs & consciousness, esotericism and space exploration, Jack Parsons, Nazi occultism, Puharich and psychic experiments, ancient wisdom and advanced tech, cosmic ascent, disclosure, misinformation, synchronicity, and the afterlife mystery. Links for Jesse: Channel: https://open.spotify.com/show/1WqA0m5xTcp4n6qmCQfS2K?si=16a53cd322124ca5 NASA Occult Video: https://youtu.be/zjpvfDFc4fg?si=NzatnLw0mfUN1aZM Substack: https://substack.com/@americanalchemymagazine Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Hear hundreds of other mind melds: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 🌀 Website https://www.thirdeyedrops.com ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author, esoteric seeker and podcaster Ike Baker enters the mind meld! In this one, I’m joined by Ike Baker for a deep dive into consciousness, the esoteric path and why ancient metaphysical models may explain reality better than modern materialism alone. We explore hidden layers of reality, non-ordinary forms of consciousness, initiatory knowledge, and why the esoteric worldview offers a powerful framework for sense-making. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership We also touch on the phenomenon, subtle energy, and the idea that reality itself may be shaped by hidden intelligences operating beyond surface appearances. Ike Baker is a writer and practitioner of the Western esoteric tradition, and the author of Aetheric Magic and A Formless Fire. His work approaches esotericism as a lived, initiatory path, emphasizing consciousness as fundamental and reality as layered, intelligent, and deeply symbolic. Links for Ike Baker: Website: https://ikebaker.com/ Channel:  @arcanvm  About: https://ikebaker.com/about Aetheric Magick: https://a.co/d/hJrAFZx A Formless Fire: https://a.co/d/2VV07MU Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Hear our 300-plus other podcasts: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 🌀 Website https://www.thirdeyedrops.com ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James Fox enters the mind meld! The new version of James' film, Moment of Contact: https://geni.us/MOC_NewRevelations The Varginha UFO case, often called “Brazil’s Roswell” just keeps getting more novel. The newly updated version of James’ film Moment of Contact, includes incredible new information and testimony from eye witnesses that needs to be seen t be believed. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership James also weighs in on the alleged UFO legacy program, the current state (and limits) of disclosure, and the identity of phenomenon itself. Is this merely a technological mystery, or something that intersects with consciousness in a more fundamental way? This is an open, grounded, and exploratory dialogue. It's less about easy answers, more about asking deep questions at the edge of what we think we know. If you’re interested in UFOs not just as objects in the sky, but as a challenge to our understanding of reality itself, this one’s for you. Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Hear our 300-plus other podcasts: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 🌀 Website https://www.thirdeyedrops.com ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Danny Goler  @dangothoughts  returns to the mind meld! 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops In this one, we kick the tires of the simulation. What if simulation theory isn’t just a philosophical thought experiment—but something that can be experienced? In this one, Danny Goler returns. We explore the idea that altered states of consciousness may expand perception rather than distort it, increasing the sensory aperture through which reality is experienced. Through synchronicities and personal experimentation, Danny became convinced he was encountering repeatable patterns—something like a hidden code to reality—that only become visible when consciousness shifts. That line of inquiry eventually led him toward simulation theory, but not in the usual, meme-level sense. We dig into the nuance: what the simulation might actually be, whether altered states are revealing more of reality rather than less, and how consciousness itself may function as both an engine and an interface to deeper layers of reality. Whether you see this as hypothesis, metaphor, or thought experiment, it opens up some genuinely novel, unsettling and fascinating possibilities. Links for Danny: @dangothoughts https://open.substack.com/pub/dannygoler https://www.codeofreality.com/ https://www.instagram.com/dannygoler https://spotify.link/rqlIvK9ZCXb https://www.tiktok.com/@dannygoler Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Hear our 300-plus other podcasts: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 🌀 Website https://www.thirdeyedrops.com ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if UFOs, fairy lore, angels, demons, and entity encounters are not separate phenomena, but different masks worn by the same underlying intelligence? Author of Daimonic Reality and Mercurius, Patrick Harpur enters the mind meld to explore a radically different way of understanding the phenomenon. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Drawing on the esoteric, depth psychology, mythology, and the work of Carl Jung, Harpur argues that modern materialism flattened the paranormal by forcing it into a false choice: either literal and physical, or imaginary and unreal. In doing so, we lost touch with an older, truer framework. A mode of reality in which encounters are symbolic, intelligent, and transformative without being reducible to hallucination or materialism. Harpur refers to it as the daimonic realm, a middle world between mind and matter. A dimension where meaning takes form, myths are born, and the phenomenon adapts its appearance to the culture encountering it. We discuss why UFOs often behave more like myths than machines, how religious visions and entity encounters overlap across history, and why attempts to literalize the phenomenon may be missing its true nature, the alchemical initiation process of life itself and the mysterious figure known as Mercurius. Links for Patrick Harpur: About: https://www.harpur.org/ Books: https://tinyurl.com/4ezukcrz Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership For hundreds more podcasts: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 🌀 Website https://www.thirdeyedrops.com ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Erick Godsey returns to share a four-day vision quest, riff on altered states, meaning-making, Carl Jung and a personal encounter with a mysterious orb, UFO-like intelligence. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership In this one, we explore why humans across cultures have intentionally entered non-ordinary states of consciousness, and how practices like fasting, isolation, and ritual deprivation can open profound psychological and mythic terrain. Drawing on esotericism, Jung and mythopoetic psychology, we talk about meaning-making, initiation, and why modern life may be starving us of transformative experiences. Erick also recounts a striking moment when what appeared to be a star or orb seemed to actively engage with him — moving, observing, and inducing what felt like a reconfiguration within his psyche. Rather than fear, the experience carried a calm, reassuring quality, raising deep questions about perception, consciousness, and the nature of intelligence. We also zooming out to discuss disclosure and the UFO phenomenon in general, the film Age of Disclosure, and multiple interpretations of the phenomenon — psychological, symbolic, physical, and beyond. 👀 Catch Erick's podcasts, courses and musings here: https://www.erickgodsey.com/ 👈 https://www.instagram.com/erickgodsey/ 👈 Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership For hundreds more podcasts: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 🌀 Website https://www.thirdeyedrops.com ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Psi researcher and seeker, Adam M. Curry returns. In this one, consciousness, plasma, psi, remote viewing, the ether and the UFO phenomenon and more. Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Adam M. Curry is a psi researcher, entrepreneur, philosopher, seeker and polymath. He developed an interest in psi and big questions about consciousness from a young age, associating with legends in the field like Hal Puthoff and Russ Targ. Adam eventually took on a role at PEAR lab (The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research). He has continued exploring anomalous cognition, mind-matter interaction, the physics of psi, plasma science and the ufo phenomenon. Links for Adam Curry: X Account: https://x.com/adamslab Entangled: https://entangled.org/ Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Hear our 300-plus other podcasts: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 🌀 Website https://www.thirdeyedrops.com ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James Hodgkins enters the mind meld! In this one, we dive into one of the strangest and most controversial dimensions of the UFO world — The alleged use of psionic assets in NHI contact, intelligence gathering, and even crash-retrieval operations. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership James Hodgkins isn’t a an esoteric mystic living in isolation. He comes from a Silicon Valley and background. But the realm of the paranormal is nothing new for James. H’s been experiencing high strangeness and psychic phenomena since childhood. Over the years, James has formally and informally explored psi further. He has studied Remote viewing and engaged in what he describes as intentional contact with non-human intelligences. James was also the first psionic asset for Skywatcher and went on to help build their psionic team. In this conversation, we explore: -What it means to be a “psionic asset” -The origins of his psychic experiences and high-strangeness encounters -Remote viewing, contact attempts, and consciousness-based communication -Skywatcher -The philosophical, and ontological implications of psionics -What James believes these intelligences are -What ontological maps James believes describe reality and the phenomenon best If you’re fascinated by UFOs, contact phenomena, psi research, altered states, or the strange intersection of consciousness and technology, this is a mind-meld you won’t want to miss. Special thanks to Adam Curry for the plasma images. Follow James on X: https://x.com/jdhodgkins Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Hear our 300-plus other podcasts: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 🌀 Website https://www.thirdeyedrops.com ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this transmission, we explore what I believe to be one of the most important chapters in the most books ever written on the UFO topic. The final chapter of John Keel's classic, Operation Trojan Horse. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops What if the UFO phenomenon isn't technological,but ontological? What if these lights, entities and high-strangeness encounters are not just visitors from another star,but expressions of a deeper intelligence woven through the very structure of reality — an intelligence the ancients once called by many names: Spirits, daimons, angels, and gods. In the final chapter of Operation Trojan Horse, John Keel argues exactly that. But what is their goal? Are the here to invade or to initiate? Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Hear our 300-plus other podcasts: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 🌀 Website https://www.thirdeyedrops.com ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Seeker, entrepreneur and researcher, Sean Webb returns to the mind meld! In this one, we riff at the intersection of consciousness, UFOs awakening experiences, higher intelligences, and suppressed physics. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Sean shares how a life-altering awakening experience shattered his assumptions about the mind — and how consciousness may explain everything from UFO intelligence to idealism, psi, and even classified propulsion research. From Federico Faggin to Bernardo Kastrup, from black-budget programs to the deepest layers of selfhood, we muse on the idea that consciousness isn’t just involved in the phenomenon, it is the phenomenon. Topics Include: Sean’s awakening experience Sean's relationship with a higher intelligence Why consciousness may be fundamental Idealism and the structure of reality UFOs, NHIs, and the “other intelligence problem” Can AI become consciousness? How consciousness could interface with advanced propulsion Are black-budget labs already studying these links? Psi, and the physics of the mind Antigravidic technologies Psionic contact with other intelligences Whether you’re here for the metaphysics, the mysteries, or the mind-bending science, this one goes deep into the hidden architecture behind reality. Sean Webb's links: Website: https://mindhackinghappiness.com/ Happiness AI Algorithm: https://www.instagram.com/p/DA1kd5IS9li/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindhackinghappiness/ Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Hear our 300-plus other podcasts: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 🌀 Website https://www.thirdeyedrops.com ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices