Neon Galactic with James Faulk

On this episode of Neon Galactic, I’m joined by author and psychonaut Adam Butler, to talk about his life, his experience with DMT, his book, and how turning inward has helped him reinvent his life.  Butler is the author of “Butler’s DMT Field Guide,” a volume that describes his experiences on the drug, how it has helped him, and offers various common recipes for acquiring it.  We talk about how D...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, I interview Dr. Garry Nolan from Stanford University about the Sol Foundation, his work with Skywatcher, the nature of consciousness and the complexities of scientific work in a capitalist society. Nolan is the Rachford and Carlota A. Harris Professor in the Department of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He has published over 350 research artic...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, we sit down with experiencer, researcher, author and seeker Daniel Rekshan to discuss his life, work, and perspective on the ongoing contact phenomenon and what it means for humanity. Rekshan is a hypnotist, artist, dream worker, and freelance shaman who has been working over the past several years to help experiencers contextualize their contact and interpret it...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, we interview Karin Austin of Archives of the Impossible and the John Mack Institute about her experience at Sol this year, and her work to help make experiencer metadata accessible to researchers. Karin Austin is an experiencer who participated in John Mack’s research into the alien encounter phenomenon during the late 1990s. She later evolved into a role as his p...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, we interview Dr. Gregory Shushan, author and researcher of near-death experiences throughout history in cultures all around the world. We discuss the phenomenology of NDEs, their role in the creation of religion, how they relate to other contact modalities, and their problematic status in academia. We also cover how the subject has shaped Shushan’s own thinking ab...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, we interview Michael Phillip, host of the popular Third Eye Drops podcast, about his show, his thinking, and how a recent out-of-body experience has impacted his life.  Third Eye Drops is a long-running and popular podcast that covers a broad range of subjects and phenomena that challenge the predominant materialistic worldview and feature the work of such importa...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, science educator David Stuss and I interview analyst and deep thinker Matthew Pines on UAPs, Jacob Barber, the politics of disclosure, the equities of ontological change, and how the evolving power structures of American society are now shifting in strange, powerful new ways. Matthew is currently the executive director of the BTC Policy, among other roles, and has...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, we interview Mona Sobhani, a flipped cognitive neuroscientist and author whose shifting worldview has opened her up to a life of transcendent experience and meaning. Her book,”Proof of Spiritual Phenomena: A Neuroscientist's Discovery of the Ineffable Mysteries of the Universe,” charts her exploration and journey out of the physical materialist paradigm that came...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, we get straight to the heart of what all the anomalous human experiences we’ve covered on this show are trying to tell us. This is a culmination. Author, thinker, healer Paul Levy joins us to discuss his recently re-issued book, The Quantum Revelation, and how it reveals that science over the past 120 years has failed to take seriously the transformative discoveri...

On this episode on Neon Galactic, I’m joined by two long-time ufologists, two major figures in the New Paradigm institute, Birdie Jaworski and Jim Garrison. We discuss this fraught moment in the UAP field – how the change in national leadership presents new and extremely complex challenges to people’s ability to engage in the topic, and their willingness to believe the narratives now being generat...

On this episode, I’m joined by former U.S. counterintelligence officer Luis Elizondo for the first half of a two-part interview. Elizondo has been a formative and important figure in the ongoing movement for UAP disclosure. In 2017, after resigning from the U.S. Department of Defense, he’s conducted an eventful and sometimes controversial campaign to help push UAPs and NHI into public awareness. ...

Everyone says the UFO/UAP/NHI topic is targeted with misinformation and sabotage, yet few produce proof. Few have tracked the assault. Our guest today has helped manage a subreddit and has seen these attacks first hand.  On this episode of Neon Galactic, Charles aka “MantisAwakening” from the r/Experiencers subreddit joins us to talk about his encounters with the anomalous, his co-founding of the...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, Dr. Chris Avis and I interview author and experiencer Matthew Roberts – near the 10th anniversary of the Gimbal encounter – about his various experiences, what he’s learned since, and the danger he sees in pursuing contact without appropriate self-development. Roberts is the author of “Initiated,” a memoir about his contact experiences and what he’s learned from t...

On this episode, I interview the brilliant Sinéad Whelehan – an empath, psychic, synesthete, energy healer, intuitive and experiencer from Canada – who describes some of her contact experiences and how they’ve transformed her life. Whelehan, an educator by trade, has recently worked with famed ufologist Grant Cameron and there gained valuable experience as researcher and interviewer. She’s also as...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, we sit down with writer, podcaster and producer Kelly Chase to discuss “Cosmosis: UFOs and a New Reality,” the documentary series she produced along with Jay Christopher King and others, as part of Ontocalypse Productions.  We also discuss the UFO community’s passionate pursuit of disclosure from the government, and how that dependence on governmental information...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, I’m joined by two prominent UFO researchers and activists to discuss the recent disclosures of whistleblower Jake Barber on NewsNation, as well as this broader moment in ufology when the world anticipates the new term of Donald Trump and what that means for the subject and the world. Daniel Elizondo, co-author of Loose Threads and a well-respected researcher, and...

Listening to a melody is much the same as hearing a narrative. The character of the notes, both singly and in tandem, produces an emotional response in the listener that give immediate meaning to the experience. It’s a kind of language, a magical tongue that delivers the percipient into an altered state. The book is scheduled for release on Feb. 1, 2025. It explores the intersection of music and t...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, I sit down with philosopher and author Michael Grosso to talk about this unfolding moment in history, and how it represents a near-death experience for our species. It’s not difficult to discern what’s becoming more and more obvious every day. I try desperately to stay positive and embrace the possible, but maintaining that kind of optimism is getting harder. What...

Brilliant people discuss the best way forward for the UAP topic, and for people, amid the endless noise. In such an important and confusing moment for the subject and the world more broadly, how do we make better progress and keep our wits? On this episode of Neon Galactic, we convene a third installment of The Rethink, an ongoing project to gather together leading voices in the UFO/UAP/NHI subjec...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, we interview Dr. Marques Redd, an artist whose work explores the power of African traditional mysticism and its currency in today’s complex social world. Redd was an academic who decided to forego the distant and at times antiseptic institutional approach and develop a much more intimate and visceral connection through art. We discuss African mysticism, how the va...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, we interview Professor Steve Brown from Ohio State University, an associate philosophy professor who over the past year has embraced topics surrounding UAP and NHI, and has an important message for the community— if you’re asking academia to engage with the subject, and do research, don’t vilify them when their research doesn’t confirm your biases. Brown attracted...

In this episode of Neon Galactic, we again interview famed remote viewer and ufologist Birdie Jaworski about two new RV sessions she conducted on the drone/orb/UAP flap now ongoing across the country. We dive deeper into the nature of the non-human intelligence she's encountered, and what it’s trying to accomplish. These new sessions offer clues as to its intent, its view of the planet and our pla...

Strange mysteries often require new approaches, and the drone saga is about as strange as it gets. In this episode of Neon Galactic, we interview famed remote viewer and ufologist Birdie Jaworski on a recent session she conducted that gave her some stark and unsettling insight into the ongoing drone/UAP flap now ongoing in New York, New Jersey, and all over the world. Using her RV method, known as...

Aired Friday 12/6/24 at 7p pacific on KEET-TV, Channel 13, a Northern California PBS affiliate. The broadcast version, which includes some unrelated content, will shortly be found on KEET’s YouTube channel, www. YouTube.com/@UCB0PweYtBgghdeJEio5yPZA Lede in: A LITTLE MORE THAN A WEEK AGO, I TRAVELED TO FORT MASON IN SAN FRANCISCO TO ATTEND THE SOL FOUNDATION’S SECOND SYMPOSIUM ON UNIDENTIFIED ANOM...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, we interview author and occultist Marco Visconti for the second time, diving deeper into his book, “The Aleister Crowley Manual,” and delineating how he believes the UFO phenomena connects with magick. Visconti has long worked in partnership with his good friend and associate Peter Levenda, who we’ve had on the show several times, and who in recent years has partn...