This episode of The Age of Transitions is Christmas Eve special of sorts. Recorded live, Aaron continues the Ochelli Radio Network book giveaway trivia game. 

Topics include: Aaron in a cardboard box, Uncle’s New Year’s Revolution, projecting the future, trivia game for free book, the conspiracy theorist mind, conspiracy theory ideas believed by large portion of the population, learning process, problems with US school system, alternative facts, do your own research, Judeo Christian mind punishment of itself, job training, Transformers and Go Bots, cannabis dispensaries, Revolve: Man’s Scientific Rise to Godhood, shipping costs, USPS secrets, Minoans, Labyrinth myth, Dark Crystal Netflix series, train AI with massive data sets, artificial celebrities and influencers, virtual worlds, secret societies use of figureheads, video games transitioning to virtual reality, augmented reality, the next Google Glass, autonomous vehicles, metaverse

We are at a point in time where it makes total sense to walk away from your job. Not simply locally, but globally, this phenomenon has arisen. Where do we go from here?

topics include: Uncle’s New Year’s Revolution, the Great Resignation, Laying Flat movement China, going to work no longer provides any security, medical insurance scam, medical industry, anomie, indifference no longer an option, anti union training at work, working from home, living in virtual reality, left and right interpretations of events, crime rates rising, distracted by squirrel, cameras on public servants, unemployment benefits easily taken away, TikTok, mustard seed symbolism, intangible realm of ideas, consciousness, science, Prometheus

Have you ever spoken to someone on the street who sees words as numbers? Both Aaron and Chuck have, and in this show they talk about some of their memories meeting such real world characters. 

Topics include: Ochelli Radio Network new shows, Christopher Walken, Elvis sighting stories in 80s, talking to people on the street, words as numbers, Guitar Man, synchronicity, math, music, carrying video camera around town, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, MKULTRA, savant mind, creation myths and the instantiation of Time, Saturn, life and death, sound, Jordan Maxwell

Aaron talks to callers Jimmy and Kent about divisive media. 

Topics include: divide and conquer, political divide, strong opinions, media, cable news networks, Bill O’Reilly, anger, feeding two wolves, Joe Rogan, Dennis Miller, Sarah Palin Jr, Ron Paul, merge of fringe and mainstream right-wing politics, market dynamics, YouTubers same as politicians, TV characters, Green Day, Uncle’s New Year’s Revolution coming soon

We are waging war upon ourselves to no end. Now more than ever, but the du jour divisive topics can take a back seat to the old standby of Science vs Religion. If the two sides of this argument took a moment to reflect, they might see that their supposed rival is a bit like they are. 

topics include: vacation holiday time, reading, divide and conquer, science, religion, astronomy, space, black holes, supermassive black holes, suns, occult religion, light and darkness, meditation

We keep getting told how vulnerable we are to cyber attacks. This seems to be the build up to a coming shift in Cold War 2.0, which will put priority into this sphere only after actual cyber attacks happen. 

Topics include: books, independent media landscape, Cold War 2.0, China, artificial intelligence, data, converging technologies, DIU, Silicon Valley and MIC, tech industry, DoD, defense spending, NSCAI, slow speed of defense contracts, rapid pace of tech development, privacy, War on Terror, post 9/11 world, national security, Anduril, old special interests, cyber security, cyber terrorism, false flags, internet, media convergence, social media history, Boomerbook, conspiracy culture gone mainstream on social media, identity politics, Ai in stock market, virtualization of everyday life, metaverse, billionaires living out childhood fantasies

Facebook has rebranded in their pursuit of building the metaverse. While hilarious, this is also incredibly troubling as we can clearly see the reality of the virtual world being constructed all around us. 

Topics include: Facebook rebrand to Meta, metaverse, virtual worlds, technology companies, Mark Zuckerberg, Google, internal document leaks, big data, machine learning, surveillance capitalism, information as a product, narrow artificial intelligence, surveillance,  AGI, Singularity religion, Peter Thiel, Palantir, Communist totalitarian technology, facial recognition, intelligence agencies, cryptocurrency, Libertarian ideology, hypocrisy, government funding for tech, China, post 9/11 world, update to War on Terror, homegrown extremists, cyber threats, China’s massive wasteful public works projects, retail store of the future, augmented reality, experience design, smartphone integrated with store, virtual reality, stores like game arcades, Fourth Industrial Revolution, pandemic shopping boom, sustainability, environmentalist capitalism, confusion of our day

The metaverse is upon us. Born out of MMO gaming, e-commerce and social media, this latest iteration of virtual reality is sure to be the next big thing. 

Topics include: listeners comments, escaping rabbit holes, metaverse, virtual worlds, MMO games, online culture, evolution of technology and communications, convergence, social media, Facebook, Second Life occult symbolism, gaming, knowledge of coding not necessary when platforms have advance user interface, Generation Z not actually tech literate, Jimmy James, transhumanism, uploading consciousness to a machine, surreal problems with emerging technologies, machine learning, Abba band virtual concerts, symbolism of the seasons, working remotely, many online personas, living through IT, virtual travel, Ai will take over creation of new IT in future, human loss of control over creation, automation, possibility of machine empathy, reactionary forces that will happen in face of Ai advancement, technology perfects itself, Paris Hilton, inability to forget anything

Talking about crazy things sometimes gives off the impression that the speaker, is themself, crazy. 

Topics include: interconnected system, crazy talk, Revolve book, converging technology, guest spots on radio shows, networking with other media producers, ACR, consistent book sales, self publishing, investment of time, impacting public discourse, art, global supply chain issues, vehicle market, inflation, war, factions within deep state, politicians

Finishing up the Portuguese version of Revolve has Aaron reflecting on a few of his creative projects over the years. 

Topics include: Portuguese version of Revolve, writing, creative projects, ADDTV video, Aaron is Jeff Censored

Aaron talks a bit about Michael A. Aquino, and his book MindWar. A self-published book that has surprisingly not garnered much attention, MindWar reads very much like your standard fare conspiracy oriented paperback.

topics include: Left-hand Path occultism, Church of Satan, Temple of Set, Stephen Flowers, propaganda, PSYOP, psychological operations, US Army, titles of nobility, mystique, General Paul E Vallely, QAnon, Fox News, mind, logic, consciousness, subconscious mind, electromagnetic fields, technetronics, fringe topics, conspiracy culture, JFK assassination, Iraq wars, Jose Delgado, Persinger's God Helmet, spectrum of light, hypnosis, magic, mentalism, flaming sword symbolism, original form of Tai Chi deadly, Civil Affairs, ParaPolitics, false flag terrorism

The twentieth anniversary of 9/11 was a chance for a popularly redeemed George W. Bush to give a speech. He took the opportunity to remind us of a few things concerning terrorism. 

Topics include: Bookshop dot org affiliate links, alternative to Amazon, Amazon Factory Towns, new fulfillment center in Mexico, George W Bush speech at Shanksville 9/11 20th anniversary, patriotic fervor, terrorism, homegrown extremists, lone wolf, Patriot Act and other loss of civil liberties, War on Terror, Donald Trump useful idiot, propaganda, long term narratives, private medical records, world government, nationalist strain in current discourse, new Cold War narrative, NRA benefit from gun control laws, gun safety classes

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

Things have been feeling a lot like they did during the George W Bush years. Are we about to lose even more of our civil liberties?

Topics include: impending cyber terrorism, future lock down of internet, Afghanistan, War on Terror, 9/11 20th year anniversary, Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Ida, domestic terrorism, right wing extremism, 90s militia movements, loss of civil liberties, Biden signed off on 9/11 DOJ document release, FBI and CIA, conspiracy theories, no plane theories, Hoax Busters Call, in fighting, mainstreaming of conspiracy ideas, QAnon

The US withdrawal of Afghanistan marks the end of a 20 year military saga that was born alongside the War on Terror. Are we leaving the War on Terror along with Afghanistan, or are things merely shifting in a new direction? What will become of the military industrial complex, and how will our massive defense budget be spent in the years to come?

Topics include: DHS, defending the homeland, TSA, domestic terror programs, hackers, importance of data and information technology, SCO Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, China, Russia, Iran, ISIS, 9/11 Truth, National Security, postwar WW2 1947, aerospace industry morphed into MIC, history of USAF, modern warfare is shifting to digital information space, NSCAI, artificial intelligence machine learning, US beginning to seriously invest in converging technologies, China building infrastructure and technology, Silicon Valley moving further into defense and security, DoD contractors, cyber security, cyber terror attacks in near future, security clearances incentivized in new work programs, increased crackdown on misinformation alternative facts and free thought, propaganda, myriad of micro targeted influence operations, US DoD truly put on the defensive

Aaron talks about his eczema. This condition has been a major frustration in the past Summer months. Dealing with health issues like these can be incredibly difficult, but important to do. 

topics include: atopic dermatitis, adult onset eczema, dry skin, intense itch, best lotions to use, finding triggers, food allergies, diet, gluten free diet, losing sleep, anxiety, stress, mental and physical health

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

Friday the 13th is just another day, but it sure did throw a lot of ominous events at Aaron this time around. 

Topics include: tie dye t-shirts, thunder storms, Friday the 13th, Knights Templar, Jacques de Molay, Jason Vorhees movies, horror, synchronicities involving death and finality, endings and beginnings, politics attached to personal identity, limits of logic, diminishing powerful terms for use in generic slogans, science and technology, accidental discoveries of experimentation, causation, persona, computing power increasing

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

From symbolic to tangible, the intellect is able to turn the base metals into gold. However, the flame of Lucifer can easily burn the whole world down. 

Topics include: t-shirts, bonus podcasts, going to space, Ren and Stimpy, Earth viewed from space, light, fire, symbolism, Battlestar Galactica, science fiction, Dr Who, time travel, technology, social commentary, reducing concepts, Prometheus, civilization, alchemy, art of multiplication, speeding up evolutionary process, making the symbolic literal, esoteric, intellect, reordering material world, Jon Gold, 9/11 truth and justice, UFOs

Saving the planet by leaving it, and other nonsensical rationalizations of the super rich and dirt poor alike. If the Earth is an island on the vast, endless, ocean of space, then it truly is a fantasy island. 

Topics include: Cremation of Care reading on Tea’s Weird Week podcast, Age of Transitions t-shirts, 2020, Jeff Bezos space voyage, Blue Origin, AoT comic, claiming to save the world, thanking Amazon employees and customers, public relations, super wealthy love of space travel, rationalizations, academics apologizing for billionaires, pollution, Bezos drove a Honda Accord, survival bunkers, autonomous systems, Dark Night of the Soul, life in quarantine, guilt for having free time, special interest narratives, mainstreaming of fringe topics, flying carpets, Aladdin’s Lamp, divide and conquer, Jimmy calls in, woke youth

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 covers some interesting stories from the tech world. Is the American Empire currently diminishing itself after years of being spread too thin? 

Topics include: t-shirts, DARPA FENCE program, biomimetics, neuromorphic cameras, MIC, camera lenses based on human eye, US Air Force partnership with Drone Racing League, video game recruitment centers, First Person View FPV, virtual reality, emerging technology, STEM projects funded by MIC, Robin calls in, Girl Scouts and Raytheon, American Empire, Silicon Valley, apps used by criminals, major corporations developing technology, Ai, public and private as one system, farmers allowed to fix their own machinery, employment shortage, automation, Covid may not go away completely, major economic changes, AGI not good for established special interests, dominant minority

There are new t-shirts available, both The Age of Transitions and Ochelli Effect are on the website. Aaron also talks a bit about the McMillions documentary series. 

Topics include: tie dye, shirts, Ochelli Effect 2,000th episode, McDonald’s Monopoly game, scams, cheating, stolen game pieces, corruption

Autonomous vehicles are becoming quite the hot topic these days. How long might it be before we see them on the road?

Topics include: Boston Dynamics, Spot, package handling robots, Hyundai, robotics, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, Brookings Institution, Ford, fleet vehicles, rideshare companies, Uber, Google, Anthony Levandowski, Silicon Valley ethos, China, tech bros, legislation, California, population dynamics, urban areas

A look at the Tarot, specifically its four major suits of Coins, Cups, Swords and Wands. The etymology of these four words is explored a bit. 

Topics include: etymology dictionary, thrift stores, Inland Empire, Palm Springs, occult, four elements, playing cards, money, Freemasonry, sticks

The Ochelli Effect 2,000th episode is going to be live on June 29th, 2021. Be sure to listen to it, and show your support for the Ochelli Radio Network. 

Ochelli Effect 2000th episode, guest list, donations, keeping the network going, supporters, producing, doing live radio, behind the scenes, performance art, karaoke, livestream video 

Aaron and Chuck discuss part one of the HBO docu-series, Crime of the Century. It is a surprisingly hard hitting expose of the opioid crisis, and its industrial benefactors. 

Patreon, live show break, t-shirts, opioids, Oxycontin, Crime of the Century documentary, HBO, opium, history, Johnson & Johnson, addiction, heroine, War on Terror, medical industry, Sackler family, Appalachia, blame the victim, Evangelical Christianity, corruption, Rudy Giuliani, elitism, wealth, Purdue, Vice

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

You never know what will happen when you’re eating breakfast in Palm Springs. Plastic bags for lumber might almost be as big a problem as impending cyber attacks, but who can be sure?

Chapter 9 of Revolve: Man's Scientific Rise to Godhood is titled "A Worldwide Death and Rebirth Ritual". Upon the suggestion of a listener, Aaron explores the concepts presented in that chapter, here in this podcast episode. The basic premise is that the process of occult initiation can be multiplied to take place on a macrocosmic scale. Society at large can be initiated into New Life. 

topics include: Gnosticism, marriage contract, Chemical Marriage, Rosicrucianism, Royal Society, science, orthodox religion, evangelical reactionary thinking, consciousness, occult initiation, cults, secret societies, Left-Hand Path, Lucifer, hive mind, technology, alchemy, birth pangs quotes, Henry Kissinger, trans words, motion, time, vibration, mysticism, philosophy, compliance, dominant minority, commerce, intangible realm of mind, limited thinking

One of these days the Maryland state flag is going to be cancelled, but in the meantime listen to this podcast that explains why there is a bear on the California state flag. 

topics include: California state flag, bear, Callisto, mother bear, symbolism, fertility, alchemy, occult, astronomy, Orange County, Saint Germain, cults, fraternal orders, secret societies, philosophy, historical figures, CUT in Malibu

War on this, war on that, war on everything. We are tearing ourselves apart, and it seems that we like it that way. 

topics include: Spot® Boston Dynamics, police robots, MIC, military, wars, endless wars, killing, death, framing everything in terms of war, fighting ourselves, technology, Silicon Valley, China and America, Cold War 2 point oh, propaganda

Adam and Aaron recorded a new episode of Themes & Memes in February. It is posted here as an exclusive to the Patreon bonus podcast feed. 

Tenet, state of entertainment media, Covid, Great Reset, Club of Rome, global tensions, US and China, ethics, technology, artificial intelligence, Elon Musk, lockdowns, changing economic system, online services, QAnon, micro-targeted influence operations, Post Truth World, propaganda, data, algorithms, mistrust of all media, privacy, Capitol siege, Alex Jones, Donald Trump rally, alternate reality games, fringe political groups, War on Terror, domestic terrorism, revolution, fringe mixed with mainstream, puppet masters, denouncing conspiracy mindset while using its very methods to prove your own point, cognitive dissonance, learning from alternative sources

Remembering Alan Watt, and working on making sense of the world in these strange times. 

topics include: Alan Watt, ignored topics, show guests, challenging information, eugenics, valuable books, fertility issues, dominant minority, Club of Rome, information overload, machine learning, machine’s world, Big Data

Is the United States MIC threatened by Silicon Valley, or even a coming cut in federal funds? Bobby Vaughn calls into the show to talk a bit about a scandal involving international uranium logistics. 

topics include: military, technology, new threats, National Security, NSCAI, cyber security, hacking, China, United States, nuclear power, A Call To Actions, uranium

Aaron shares some of his thoughts and opinions on Cancel Culture. 

topics include: social justice, sexism, discrimination, harassment, assault, media, books, Dr Seuss, marketing, equal rights, authoritarianism, Harvey Weinstein, Hollywood, workplace, corporate world

A stream of consciousness episode of The Age of Transitions. 

topics include: seeking truth, conviction, reincarnation, Nietzsche, eternal recurrence, religion, philosophy, recording devices, history, prehistory, Atlantis, technology, cults, human thought process, conscious vs unconscious mind, propaganda, relativity of time, safety and security, easy answers, artifice, art, need to relax, precivilized human life, all or nothing, Michael Jordan, doing the impossible, meditation, self help

Artisan Loaf returns to give us an update on the new wealthiest man on Earth, Elon Musk. Being a living contradiction may be the best way to gain fame and fortune in the virtual world.

topics include: Tesla, Neuralink, Jack Ma, stock price, $TSLA, DogeCoin, Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, online life, internet, Twitter, a cult of personality, Trump, Joe Rogan, marketing, Clubhouse, Vladimir Putin, public image, China, international business

This podcast is the audio version of a special live-stream video presentation. Aaron played his video, The Age of Transitions, and gave commentary over it. 

The Age of Transitions video came out back in 2008. First on Google Video, and later to various places online. The main subject matter is transhumanism as it relates to eugenics. What does Aaron think of the video thirteen years later? Watch along and see.

So far, 2021 has been like one big experiment in augmented reality. From the depths of internet forums straight to the front pages, the story has consistently been that of internet weirdos shaking up the real world.

topics include: Game Stop, Reddit, Wall Street, stock market, shorts, Elon Musk, Bitcoin, Robinhood, alchemy, money, virtual worlds, message boards, Y2K, technological convergence, media, communications, Capitol debacle, temples, Citadel, Norbert Weiner, MIC, mind, intangibles, IT, Ai, creator and creation dynamic, Tron Legacy, mainstream and fringe conjunction, confusion, QAnon, Rudy Giuliani

Rocky Jones hosts the Pattern Stalker podcast. On it, he interviews his family in an attempt to better understand his own history. In this interview, Rocky explains how attachment theory is a major influence on what he is doing. 

topics include: patterns, family interviews, attachment theory, psychology, self improvement, awareness, relationships, epigenetics, nature vs nurture, brain, alcoholism, opioids, addiction, hallucinogenics, therapy, health

Aaron continues on the same thread as last week's show. The events of January 6th are neither the beginning, nor the end, of an ongoing political story. The War on Terror had experienced a lull for a few years, but is returning as the new face of terror is the PT Cruiser. 

topics include: Washington DC, Capitol Hill, riot, protest, angry mob, right wing, terrorism, Patriot Act, Joe Biden

The three hundredth episode of The Age of Transitions podcast occurs in the wake of what will surely come to be historic events. The Trump presidency goes out with a bang as an angry mob of his supporters storm the US Capitol in Washington DC. This is not the beginning, nor the end, of an ongoing story starring bad actors from the fringes. Anyone out there who may still be under the spell of MAGA, QAnon, or other related far-right movements need to understand the reality of what they are involved in. 

topics include: Trump rally, politics, extremism, psychology, Patriot Act, coopted movements, War on Terror, narratives, domestic terrorism, militia movement