Consensus Unreality

The Sentient World System and rogue agents meet Latin American Twilight Zone in this episode on AI doomerism, The Invention of Morel, and more. What constitutes consciousness, and what happens if you relive a week over and over again forever? Plus: bonus Patreon conversation "lost" Disney film The Watcher in the Woods, Charles Manson and MKULTRA in Congress, and more!  Check out https://www.patreo...

Watch what you say in the forest, you don't know what you're feeding. In this conversation on Bogna Konior's book The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet, we talk about living in an age of strategic secrecy, ufological allegory, and hidden AI game theory mind control. Does this experiment in extreme nihilism reflect our current moment? Listen to find out.  Check out https://www.patreon.com/consensu...

Join our Patreon to access 2 exclusive episodes monthly, written content, our full 6 year episode archive, discord and our printed Journal of Shells magazine. Its the best and only way to support the show and it'll only cost you a few bucks. https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality Enter the Backrooms with CU... or take a field trip with Aaron Burr to Greenwich village??? A discussion of the n...

Join our Patreon to access 2 exclusive episodes monthly, written content, our full 6 year episode archive, discord and our printed Journal of Shells magazine. Its the best and only way to support the show and it'll only cost you a few bucks.  www.patreon.com/consensusunreality The Gateway closes... or is it forever open? The final installment in our loose series of discussions of the works of Robe...

Alien radio waves caught in the Consensus Unreality net…. translating… it’s a new episode on contactee and influential ufologist George Hunt Williamson, the Zodiac fanzine connection in Jarett Kobek’s How to Find Zodiac, Philip K Dick’s late career scrapped opus Radio Free Albemuth, and more!  Join our Patreon to access 2 exclusive episodes monthly, written content, our full 6 year episode archive...

Live from the empire which never ended... an episode about time, its (non)existence, the Exegesis of Philip K Dick and its relevance to our moment (which is the same moment as ever), Nick Land's time-war theories, the many worlds theory, CERN, and a brief eulogy for a recent loss in the weird podcast community. Hurry and listen! Join our Patreon to access 2 exclusive episodes monthly, written cont...

Join our Patreon for just $5 and access 2 exclusive episodes monthly, our full 6 year episode archive, written content, discord server and more. Plus: our Print Club Tier includes our Journal of Shells esoteric magazine subscription and other printed and recorded items in the mail. Its the best and only way to support the show. https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality The mind behind the music...

Join our Patreon for just $5 and access 2 exclusive episodes monthly, our full 6 year episode archive, written content, discord server and more. Plus: our Print Club Tier includes our Journal of Shells esoteric magazine subscription and other printed and recorded items in the mail. Its the best and only way to support the show. https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality In this interview we spok...

The first in our new "Phasing" series of short audio and video. Alongside our weekly full length episodes we'll provide our shorts revisiting subjects often mentioned on the show. First up: Gray Barker's important novelistic report on the Mothman happenings of 1967, The Silver Bridge,  and why it shows how much weirder that folklore is than we give it credit for today. Your Mothman plushie might b...

The moon is in the news again! In this episode, however, we talk two stories by Izumi Suzuki, one by Arkady Strugatski, and meditate on the unfurling world around us. Plus we briefly revisit The Book of the Law and some thoughts on Crowley and his legacy as his name makes yet another cycle of rounds in the occultural sphere. Terminal boredom, the difference between life and cybernetic construct, l...

In this episode we touch on recent sci fi reads: "The Electric Ant" by Philip K. Dick, "The Man Who Would Not" by James E. Gunn and "You May Dream" Izumi Suzuki. We explore some diverse themes including sentient AI, reality refraction, simulacra and first contact. We also chat on the poetry of Kenneth Grant, and speculate on many avenues of weirdness. A classic patreon ramble.  Join our patreon fo...

Join Consensus Unreality Patreon for just $5 a month and get access to biweekly exclusive episodes, our full 6 year episode archive, written content, discord and more. Plus we present our printed Journal of Shells magazine exclusively through our Print Club Tier. Its the best and only way to support the show. https://www.patreon.com/consensusunreality Watch what you say in the forest, you don't kn...

Join Consensus Unreality Patreon for just $5 a month and get access to biweekly exclusive episodes, our full 6 year episode archive, written content, discord and more. Plus we present our printed Journal of Shells magazine exclusively through our Print Club Tier. Its the best and only way to support the show. https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality In this interview with returning guest, arti...

Join our Patreon to unlock all our exclusive episodes, written content and more.. For just $5 come aboard, support the show and help us unlock the mystery. https://www.patreon.com/c/consensusunreality Dave and Ben are stuck in a time loop... this episode presents the 500,000th precise replica of a conversation on Philip K. Dick's "A Little Something for Us Tempunauts," time weirdness and existenti...

Steven Intermill, curator and director of the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft, joins us for a wide ranging conversation on Ray Buckland, Michael Bertiaux, Nema, American occultism, occult book and object collecting, his work in noise project Telecult Powers, leg lamps, and more. Make sure to check out the astounding Buckland Museum next time you’re in Cleveland, or visit them online at  ⁠https://buc...

A brief summary of our latest Journal of Shells: cybernetics and automata, spirit and machine. There’s still time to join our Print Club on Patreon!    Plus, on Patreon: The space age’s corpse treated as a saint in Ballard’s Dead Astronaut; another diagnosis of the paranoid American in recent film Bugonia; syncs and thoughts galore.  Join our Patreon for this full episode, printed Journal of Shell...

In this continuation of our discussions on artificial unrealities, we visit William Gibson's cyberspace. We talk Neuromancer, its influence and prophecies, and the feedback loops fiction and reality create when they meet in the human mind.  Join our Patreon for just 5$ to access our full episode archive, weekly exclusive episodes, written content and more.. Plus- our Printed Journal of Shells.. Vo...

With some help from Philip K. Dick’s classic novel Ubik and cult favorite anime Serial Experiments Lain, we discuss the intellectual genealogy and current situation of our slipping reality. AI psychosis, corporate rulers, gods from the machines, and more.. Full 2 hour episode, full episode archive, ongoing exclusive episodes, printed magazine subscription and more at https://www.patreon.com/c/cons...

2025 in the rearview, 2026 a big tunnel painted on the side of a mountain. Here's our lengthy public/ Patreon split episode recapping highlights and weirdnesses from a mixed up, wacky year. Plasmoids, out of body experiences, and tons of great interviews. It's like a whole year in under two hours! Patreon discussion of our personal strange experiences, looking forward to '26, and much more.  Join...

ECCO is calling. Will you answer? SSE is at your door. Do you let it in? Hear our advice in this breezy discussion of our beloved mad scientist mystic John C. Lilly. The spiritual insights of a Vitamin K. psychonaut; eerie AI prophecies; coincidence and synchronicity; and more!  Here this full episode and over 150 hours of exclusive episodes on Patreon, plus join our Print Club to receive our prin...

SRI, PEAR, Duke, Monroe, and all that! An episode on remote viewing, ESP, psychics, and more. We even try it out ourselves, with an interesting result. This is your brief primer on the expanded mind. Plus: a lengthy Patreon addendum on Gnostic emo, further mindreading experiments, Bigfoot straight up punching you, and more! Join our Patreon for just 5$ a month and access over 150 hours of exclusiv...

The loosh harvest was good this time! A conversation on Robert Monroe's Far Journeys, including its role as a 20th century paranormal "theory of everything," its introduction of the concept of "loosh," its strange worldbuilding, and more. Plus: our own thoughts and experiences on Hemisync, the Gateway Experience, etc.  Join our Patreon for just 5$ a month to access regular exclusive episodes, full...

The Halloween 2k25 special! In this lengthy public/Patreon split episode, we talk Dave's recent trip to table-tipping and spirit photography boot camp at Lily Dale; obscure Czech films and seasonal pumpkin slashers; the nature and effects of paranormal experiences; poetry's spiritual dimension; Voynich; the thinning of the veil; and lots more!  Unlock all our exclusive episodes, written content an...

In this interview with John Kozik of the Salem Witch Board Museum, we follow the planchette of history across the board of time (sorry) to answer some questions about the history, lore, and power of talking boards. Will ouija have its tarot moment? Can a teacup channel the spirits? Why is a Stranger Things branded board the most haunted in Kozik's museum? Find out within!  https://www.salemwitchbo...

In this Patreon exclusive, we talk ghosts and ghouls, ether ships. A meditation on technology as haunt inducing mediums, Mark Probert’s ethereal channelings, Colin Wilson’s Leap in the Dark and vintage paranormal television, and more! A classic grab bag CU conversation.  Full episode, over 150 hours of exclusive episodes, written content, full archive and more at https://www.patreon.com/c/consensu...