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THE ELIXIR OF LIFE
Another mind bending conference in Indian Wells, run by the folks at Contact In the Desert. Amidst the people who have self published their accounts of their experiences with beings from elsewhere, there were scientists talking about how consciousness appears to function, as well as lectures about the research being done around DMT.
I attended one talk from Paul Hynek, a scientist from Pepperdine whose dad invented the term “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”
Full disclosure: I met his father when I was in grade school in Northbrook, Illinois, my science teacher, a nun named Sister Joel, suggested him as my science mentor for my state science fair project (which won the state science fair and earned me a scholarship in science to the University of Illinois. Unfortunately I was 14 at the time, and didn’t have much desire to pursue the field.)
Paul Hynek appears in my book CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE FLIPSIDE KIND, as does his father… how could that be? Well, I do guided meditations with people and during the meditation, they invite whomever they’d like to speak with, and in Paul’s case, it was his father.
I asked (through Paul) if his father remembered me. “Persnickety” Paul said, using an archaic term for “asks too many questions.”
Then, later, I invited his father to speak on our podcast HACKING THE AFTERLIFE…
