Our Undoing Radio

Carl Jung was one of the founders of modern psychology. The way he talked about the human psyche made it seem like a place populated by godly archetypal beings, and yet he wanted desperately to appeal to serious scientists. So how did science treat his findings? Why, by ignoring them as the blather of a crank, of course! We'll get into that and much more in this continuing conversation between Tom...

An adorably nervous John Randall calls in about John Mack and the Zimbabwe UFO landing. Later, the Jeff & The Jer talk about drone hoaxes, falling out with people in ufology, and more! *** Because the Paratopia podcast just wasn't enough, Paratopia Live was born. Here Jeff Ritzmann, Jeremy Vaeni, and the official unofficial third host, Lee Townsend, talk about their high strangeness experience...

Jeff records sans Jeremy this week to answer some emails that have been mounting for a couple of months. Those listener questions force an almost melancholy reflection on his over 2 decades of looking into the UFO phenomenon and what might lay ahead. One question leads to Jeff reading the first chapter of his book, White Square, which has been an on-and-off again project for a long time now. With...

Say an authority figure in the humanities like Jeffrey J. Kripal gets it wrong about any of the people he uses as examples to back up his theory, does it doom his theory? Does it call him into question as a researcher or is it acceptable and expected that most every researcher will get it wrong sometimes? What is important about studying mystical phenomena in the first place given that it is to be...

Because the Paratopia podcast just wasn't enough, Paratopia Live was born. Here Jeff Ritzmann, Jeremy Vaeni, and the official unofficial third host, Lee Townsend, talk about their high strangeness experiences and take calls live!   Help keep Our Undoing Radio going. Donate whatever small amount you can today at: www.ko-fi.com.jayvay

Dr. Tyler Kokjohn, now-retired Professor of Microbiology at Midwestern University and Project Core researcher, joins Jeff & Jer to talk about the latest developments in sci tech that will once and for all tell us whether there are alien hybrids, starseed, and Indigo children among us. Also, he talks about his time at his first UFO conference over the weekend, the UFO Congress in Arizona.  But...

How do we arrive at authority sources for topics of Mystery where, frankly, the alleged authority figure could be lying or nuts? Speaking of nuts, can the paranormal or the spiritual drive an experiencer insane? Is host Jeremy Vaeni lying or nuts? If not, how did he pull through unscathed? How can we have real discernment in any of this? This is more of Tom Cheetham and Jeremy Vaeni in dialogue. A...

Because the Paratopia podcast just wasn't enough, Paratopia Live was born. Here Jeff Ritzmann, Jeremy Vaeni, and the official unofficial third host, Lee Townsend, talk about their high strangeness experiences and take calls live! Help keep Our Undoing Radio going. Donate whatever small amount you can today at: www.ko-fi.com.jayvay

Chris Carter, author of Science And The Near-Death Experience, joins The Jeff & The Jer to talk about near-death experiences, Persinger's so-called God Helmet, and the skeptics' very vocal reaction to his work. Also, he fields questions from listeners who wrote in on our message board, as well as Dr. Tyler Kokjohn who wrote us privately. In fact, they had a nice exchange on our message board,...

The conversation with Tom Cheetham continues, answering such questions as: Do Henry Corbin’s angels fit in here anywhere? What clarity is? Is there REALLY no path to Truth? Why do so-called "enlightened" people build monuments in time and call that timelessness?   Done here? Visit Tom on substack. Take his classes. Read his essays. He's approachable. Say, "Hi." https://tomcheetham.substack.com/

Our chat with Tom Cheetham starts to cook....   Are religious states reducible to psychedelic trips? Do people experience death of self on psychedelics? What is the difference between death of self and being torn apart and pieced back together as a shaman? Is Jeremy Vaeni in agreement with Henry Corbin about Truth with a capital T and beings living from Truth’s 1st-person point of view? Whew! All...

It's Halloween! Time to celebrate Jeff Ritzmann on his favorite holiday. How do we do that this year, you ask? By talking to two guests we never had on Paratopia whom Jeff would have loved engaging with: Mike Fiorito, author of For All We Know, a surprising and excellently-written novel about UFOs that runs in the direction of consciousness over materiality. And Allison Jornlin, co-creator of Amer...

In the third installment of this unique longform dialogue, Tom Cheetham takes us on a deep dive into the imaginal with Henry Corbin, Jeffrey Kripal, gnostism, angels, and … Is Jeremy Vaeni Moses?    Once that's answered, we circle back to Tom’s iboga experiences in South America as touched upon last episode.    Connect with Tom at his As Variously As Possible substack: https://tomcheetham.substack...

Because the Paratopia podcast just wasn't enough, Paratopia Live was born. Here Jeff Ritzmann, Jeremy Vaeni, and the official unofficial third host, Lee Townsend, talk about their high strangeness experiences and take calls live!   Help keep Our Undoing Radio going. Donate whatever small amount you can today at: www.ko-fi.com.jayvay

Marco, a relatively new listener, has answered the call for listener-based episodes. Here he narrates in great detail his bouts of missing time. This is a rare case of someone having missing time with absolutely no inkling of why. Unrelated to this, the town he recently moved to has a history of experiencing a booming sound phenomenon called “Seneca Guns.” We will learn as much as can be known abo...

When you grow up with strictly materialist parent, then end up spending most of your adult life in science, how do you break free to be a kid again? That’s the rough through-line of this conversation with Tom Cheetham that winds through numerous topics from channeling Henry Corbin, to guns and dominion, to the plant medicine iboga.    Connect with Tom at his As Variously As Possible substack: http...

Highlights of this week's ye olde live show include The Jer having some strange happenings going on in the night at his new digs in Hawaii and a fundamentalist Christian caller trying to thump the Bible... oh.... let's say fairly unsuccessfully.  keep this crap churning in the toilet. Donate your money now: www.ko-fi.com/jayvay

Dr. Kirby Surprise, author of Synchronicity: The Art of Coincidence, Choice, and Unlocking Your Mind joins us to talk about what synchronicity is, what it is not, and how you can normalize it in your life. But it doesn't end there. Jeff and Jer bring Dr. Surprise down the rabbit hole of alien abductions and spirituality to see if his work is applicable to Paratopian findings. And you know what? Th...

Tom Cheetham  is the author of five books on the imagination in religion, psychology and the arts, and one book of poetry. He is largely recognized as the go-to scholar on the life and work of famed French philosopher and scholar of Islamic philosophy, Henry Corbin. He is a Fellow of the Temenos Academy in London, teaches online, and lectures regularly in Europe and the Americas. And now, he is he...

In true Project Core fashion, psychic experiencer Joe Gooch gives us a chronological checklist of the high strangeness experiences in his life. Together with Jeff & Jer, he fleshes them out in what is easily the most fun the hosts have had in a long time on Paratopia! (originally aired: 02.02.2012) Please check out Joe’s hilarious one-man sketch comedy at: https://www.youtube.com/@MrJoeGooch

The Jer moves to Hawaii. He has some nifty visionary experiences. Plus, the then-latest in UFO news, something about MUFON, and, of course, taking calls from listeners. This live show's all over the map! Wanna support him/me in Hawaii? Head on over to here: www.ko-fi.com/jayvay

Thomas Fusco, author of Behind The Cosmic Veil: A New Vision of Reality, walks us through supergeometry and his grand unifying theory of everything. But first... a funny thing happened on the way to our forums: they got shut down preemptively by The Jeff. How did it come to this? The answer is part assault on free speech/part ufological cover-up from within ufology, and you will hear all about it....

The Jeff reveals more details about his shrouded friend from another dimension--live! Plus some other stuff. Now pay me: www.ko-fi.com/jayvay

Colin Reid, who did a fascinating two-part listener episode back when we tried that experiment, returns to Paratopia, this time to be interviewed by the Jeff & Jer. This is one of those mind-opening discussions that taps into just how weird and wild the paranormal and occult are... and yet they both follow the same simple patterns we find in spiritual awakening, and both use rather mundane ima...

In this, the final episode of Our Undoing Radio Season 10, we learn what the title asks: Whether or not the universe is self-aware. Host Jeremy Vaeni had the big "I Am" awakening of seeing and being all things in the universe coming alive at the same time. Of all the types of consciousness he experienced in that timeless moment, one thing he did not experience was a self-conscious universe. Why? ...