Author, Sam Aydlette returns to the show to talk about his new book, “American Values.” Take a road trip deep into the undercurrent of the American psyche, and see what may emerge from the shadows. 

Topics include: Sam Aydlette author, writing, brevity, blurring lines between metaphor and reality, Stratosphere casino and hotel, Las Vegas, Big League Chew, Curt Schilling, coming to terms about dangers in world, perception vs reality of Iraq war, admitting when you are wrong, road trip narrative, synchronicity, media talking points, intelligence community, connecting with readers

Particle Ion was Aaron’s collaborator on the TransAlchemy blog/website. It has been over a decade since then, but some of the topics discussed on TA are only just now becoming big news stories. 

Topics include: TransAlchemy, making videos, Singularity Summit 2009, Ai art, Midjourney, intellectual property, ChatGPT, LLMs, writer’s strike, actors, deep fakes, Ai generated movies, music, impossible to trust imagery now, internet, metaverse, VR headsets, virtual reality, transhumanism, social media, Twitter, Elon Musk, AGI vs narrow Ai, machine learning, intelligence, consciousness, scientific method, software, AI writing code, hacking, intangibles, occult side of tech, existential threat

Vanessa Walilko is the host of the Personal Pans podcast, and guest on this episode of The Age of Transitions. No one ever said that arcane matters had to be dark and scary, so come join us by listening to our brief conversation. 

Topics include: Personal Pans podcast, Pans Paracon, nerd communities, Book It, fundamentalist religion, belief systems, occult info online, metaphysical and physical realities, intelligent design, mathematics and measurements, thoughts, consciousness, missionary work rejected by South American indigenous community, ancient mysteries, paranormal, media literacy

Author Daniel Pinchbeck is the guest on this episode of The Age of Transition. Discussion centers around his recent article about Covid 19 vaccines. 

Topics include: books, From Vacillation to Vaccination, vaccines, healthcare, making informed decisions, intense political divide, warranted mistrust of authority, Schizotypal Personality Disorder, biotech, capitalism, Delta Variant, MIC

Joseph L Flatley returns to the show to talk about his new book, “New Age Grifter: The True Story of Gabriel of Urantia and His Cosmic Family”. The book is the culmination of years of investigation into this zany new age UFO cult. 

Topics include: Gabriel of Urantia, Feral House, twentieth century is past, high control groups, alternative religious groups, culture of American decline, Failed State Update, Danny Casolaro, parapolitics, the Octopus, mailing list, Indio CA, conspiracy theory ideas, desert paranormal interest, GCCA, Arizona, ego, online gurus, channeling, cosmo pop music, falling for false stories, Dionysus, vintage appeal

Tea Krulos returns to the show to talk about his podcast, Tea’s Weird Week. He also lets us know that an American Madness documentary is now in production. 

topics include: Phantom Patriot, starting a podcast, strange people, eclectic subject matter, UFO Daze, Wisconsin, blur between reality and fantasy, luxury doomsday bunkers, American Madness documentary in production, Mark Borchardt, trying to use Twitter responsibly, Nuro autonomous vehicles permitted in CA, call from Jimmy, Jetpack Man, living in a digital world

Sam Aydlette is the author of the book “Dancing With My Fate”. Being “a handbook about life and death”, some of Sam’s advice on these matters is shared on this podcast episode. 

Topics include: writing a book, philosophy, love of wisdom, rejecting purely objective interpretation of the world, truth seeking, irony, Trickster God, desire, social constructs, identity, alternative media, political campaigns, dominant minority, James Jesus Angleton, Paris Hilton, difficulty of lives of elite family members, hardship, realization that we are all the same, serving in military, overburdened with responsibilities in modern world, life and death

Aaron Dykes of Truthstream Media is the guest on this episode of The Age of Transitions podcast. Truthstream is working on a forthcoming video series on central banking. Learn a bit a about it here, and stick around for some thoughts on esoteric matters. 

topics include: independent media, historical research, esoterica, symbolism, anthropology, apophenia, electromagnetic frequencies, alchemical code, central banking, crown, agriculture, rituals, corn dollies

Tea Krulos is the author of the new book, American Madness. It is partially a biography of Richard McCaslin, better known as the Phantom Patriot. The man most famous for his raid of the Bohemian Grove is certainly a unique case study concerning American conspiracy culture, but his brand of madness is becoming more and more common. 

topics include: Tea Krulos interview, real life super heroes, Pahrump Nevada, truth groups, breaking into Bohemian Grove, swords and guns, prison time, comic artwork, videos, truth groups, loner, internet culture, attention seeking

The Covid19 Crisis has kicked into full panic mode. What do we do in the face of this? JG Michael calls in to talk a little bit about this, and more. 

topics include: Corona Virus, public settings, hysteria, hoarding home goods, consumerism, medical system, stratified social system, social distancing, wealthy removed from everyone else, Douglas Rushkoff, Wall Street, one percenters, bunkers, apocalyptic events