Podcast Archive » The Experience – 2016

In this, the second conversation with an experiencer named "Shawn," we get into his visitor encounters that seem to be about love on the one hand, yet provoke great fear on the other. Perhaps, through this discussion, we will discover why. continued

Though not explicitly stated, this week’s guest has a lifetime of high strangeness experiences that appear to unfold in answer to questions and interests he has about life, the universe, and everything. But can what he is shown be trusted as actualities? Or are we being shown through multitudes of experiences that run contrary (or ...continued

This week we hear from "James" who is not only a corroborating witness to the Tehran, Iran UFO Incident of 1976, but also of the amorphous colored shapes Jeff Ritzmann photographed in his hallway. How is this possible? Why, because he’s an experiencer, of course! These are the two anomalies photographed by Jeff that will be ...continued

In Western culture, shamans and psychics are still considered taboo. But if people are born with gifts in those areas and they don’t have a cultural context or a guide to teach them, what happens to them? Does the psychic potential nag at them unconsciously until it manifests externally to wake them up? is this ...continued

The Experience will return on November 16. In this solo episode, Jeremy Vaeni introduces us to not only a hidden history of Hawaii but the history of how and why it was hidden in the first place, as told to him recently by 2 Hawaiian elders. Then, he transitions into an explanation of how the latest ...continued

We got a taste of her encounters during the childhood roundtable discussion. Now, Darlene, better known as "Cosmic Librarian" at UnknownCountry.com, is here to go deeper into some of her highly strange experiences, their possible meanings, and what they point to in terms of the nature of Visitor phenomena. To connect with Darlene and share your ...continued

In the third and final interview with "Brian," we pick it up where last we left off: with his father, who worked in the aerospace industry, telling him he worked with aliens and alien technology. If Brian is telling the truth and his father was telling the truth… might it still be a lie? It ...continued

When last we heard from "Lindsey," she had found that anti-depressants stopped her OBEs and sleep paralysis. Or had they? Because now it seems as though something is pushing through her to be here. Or someone. continued

Continuing from last week, we continue to explore Brian’s incredibly strange childhood. Then, he tells us a secret his father shared with him about the history of aviation and its advancements. A secret that he had the clearance to know and otherwise would have taken to his grave. continued

Nap time. Classroom full of kids on carpets sleeping away. Except you wake up and… they’re not there. The teacher is not there. The school is empty. This happens over and over. Alone. Until you aren’t. Suddenly, you’re comforting a friend who finds himself alone with you. And then another… and then another. One day ...continued

Experiencer/researcher Jeff Ritzmann returns to update us on all that has (and has not) happened since he installed cameras all over his property. Cameras monitored by people like us! Then he goes deeply into the question of the possible source of high strangeness phenomena. To learn more about and partake in Project Oculus, please visit: www.paratopiaoculus.com To ...continued

What happens when you flip off an approaching UFO? Hint: they don’t call it cursing for nothing. It sounds rather silly and yet the centerpiece of this week’s interview is a fascinating glimpse at just how highly strange high strangeness can get. It’s not the only jaw-dropping encounter discussed here but it may be one ...continued

This week, host Jeremy Vaeni reads and responds to email updates from two former guests. Then, he reveals a means to transcending Western brain-mind into the heart that he’s been working out with Tiokasin Ghosthorse. It is so simple to do, it’s no wonder it was missed all this time–and the results could be world-changing! continued

Jeremy Vaeni is off this week. Whitley Strieber fills in reading from the Communion Letters and commenting on three amazing and revealing stories of close encounter. They are from among the 115 letters that were collected by Anne Strieber from over a quarter of a million that Whitley and Anne received after they published Communion. They ...continued

Join us this week for a one-of-a-kind roundtable discussion about experiences of high strangeness in childhood and beyond. Sometimes commonality lives in the differences. What does that mean? We will find out together. continued

WARNING: This episode gets a little bit sexually graphic. Listener discretion is advised. In the 4th and final installment of the Wakeup Points series, "Bob From NJ" turns the tables on Jeremy and starts interviewing the host about some of his spiritual experiences. People have them, of course, but the question asked here is: Do ...continued

Did something change recently to cause abductions to end for experiencers en masse? Were we left to spread our wings and fly, so to speak? And are we still being tested occasionally? If so, for what? These questions are only the beginning. continued

"Bob From NJ" returns to give us more of his lifelong experiences as we delve into wakeup points from a completely different angle: high strangeness and sexuality. continued

This week we examine a lifelong experiencer’s encounters with the highly strange, honing in on the question of wakeup points. Was there a dangling carrot early on? Was there a specific incident where he became self-conscious that there was a pattern of oddness in his life? And what came after? This is part one of ...continued

Executive Director for the New Energy Movement and experiencer, Susan Kornacki, joins us to talk about her time behind the scenes with John Mack and his group, PEER. She also brings us back, back, way back to the moment before she was born and then shuttles us forward for a peek into the rare-but-there darker ...continued

The Experience is on hiatus for the 4th of July weekend. Enjoy your holiday! continued

We’ve heard a lot about host Jeremy Vaeni’s trickster-like experiences involving moving into a new home with his new love, Carol. This week, we hear from her for the first time. And then… Jeremy makes an open offer for scientific study of the energy that moves his body when he rests his ...continued

Before Binnall of America’s Tim Binnall was a successful paranormal talk show host, he was an enthusiastic observer, though never an experiencer of any kind himself. This week, we view the trajectory of ufology and experiencers in it through his eyes and discuss some of the deeper issues surrounding the question, ...continued

That feeling of knowing something so deeply that you can’t communicate it, Of having an understanding greater than what you’ve consciously experienced in this world and of what you must do with that understanding. Ever had that feeling? This week’s guest lives with it and he’s here to share with us as much as is ...continued

This week’s guest covers a slew of different types of experiences but the two concepts that stand out from repetition are an all-absorbing blackness after death and ghosts just wanting to be recognized before they move on. But are things as they seem? Or are we projecting? As always, there are few answers and an ...continued

Frankenstein Monster Cavemen. GMO Human Beings. Species eradication at the flip of a switch. In a slight departure from regular programming, Dr. Tyler Kokjohn returns to illuminate some of the darker science looming on the horizon. If some of it sounds like it fits in nicely with abduction testimony… it just might. continued

Is there an intelligence here masquerading as our emotional expectations that needs us to perceive it to be here? Does it build the architecture of itself in this world through a feedback loop with experiencers? Jeff Ritzmann isn’t certain, but it sure seems to work this way in his life. He’s here to explain it. ...continued

Most of host Jeremy Vaeni’s more profound experiences have an element of fear to them as they unfold, which he later contextualizes in a non-fearful manner. Lately, however, the reverse has been happening–it’s only in pondering them after the fact that they become frightening–including a bizarre event that defies categorization. He lays it all out ...continued

This week we conclude our 4-part descent into chaos with Ian, who discovers in the words of a nature spirit the secret to the way out of chaos. continued

This is part three of our four-part series with "Ian." In this episode, he takes us into the question of what is subjective, internal reality and what is objectively out there in the world. In the life of an experiencer, it often becomes a fascinating blur. continued

Have you ever met someone who was a genius on the brink of madness? In this riveting detour, Ian returns to tell of his time with a man who showed him that "aliens" might be more closely linked to the occult than outer space. But the more he learned about his friend the more Ian ...continued

Menacing shadow people give way to kindly blonde humanoids… or are they kindly? And what was that explosion? Who is that dying Gray? This week’s guest "Ian" has lived quite the highly strange life. As jam-packed as this episode is, his story cannot be contained in one show. Listen to this and curse the sky ...continued

Jeremy’s back with the Experience on a regular basis again, after completing a move to a new home. This week, he reveals some hard-to-deny evidence of a trickster force in action that actually outs itself as just that! This one would be too hard to believe… if it didn’t involve second and third ...continued

Whitley Strieber has proclaimed 2016 the year we must awaken. And he’s right. And that means all of us. But there can be no spiritual awakening if we neglect the psychological. To that end, last week’s guest "Andy" returns with a confession to make. A very big one that we all need to ponder. continued

Andy is a lifelong experiencer of some deeply terrifying phenomena that sounds like it is ripped from the diary of occultists and psychic investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. So why did he relate it to alien abductions for so long? And where is he now with it? Find out in this chilling episode that takes ...continued

Jeremy pauses in the middle of moving house to give us a gem of a show! We talk a lot about Trickster Theory on this show and how high strangeness phenomena amps up during anti-structural moments in one’s life. But is this true or just a theory? Host Jeremy Vaeni is in the middle of moving ...continued

What is it to be a shaman? Can you be one if you didn’t grow up in a culture that understands shamanism? How different are the experiences of a shaman from an experiencer of visitor phenomena? This week, we find out. continued

American ufology takes it as gospel that gray aliens are here abducting people onto their ships. If this is true, then why isn’t it happening in Poland? Why don’t they see grays? Why don’t experiencers feel as though they are being abducted? And why do the alleged objects in the sky change in shape with ...continued

Last week we met "Jim" and talked about his Visitor and paranormal experiences from an analytical point of view. This week he returns to narrate his time spent studying under a martial arts master from a spiritual point of view. Once again, and as always, we are confronted with the fact that we don’t know ...continued

We often think of experiencers as a bridge between our reality and another. But what if we’re really a bridge–or perhaps a super highway–for our world and several others? This week’s episode focuses on the experiencer who compartmentalizes various paranormal phenomena in his life because they don’t seem to intersect. Is he not the intersection? ...continued

In this sequel to last week’s episode, microbiologist Tyler Kokjohn returns to parse out what is known and perhaps scientifically knowable in the realms of high strangeness. We cover topics that have come up on the show and some that have not. Then, host Jeremy Vaeni puts his own spiritual experiences on the scientific chopping ...continued

Get ready for a tough interview the likes of which you will hear nowhere else…. Dr. Tyler Kokjohn is a microbiologist and a professor at Midwestern University. He is also an esteemed member of the Project Core team along with host, Jeremy Vaeni. In this, the first of two, you will hear a scientist asked and ...continued

People with different religions and different cultural backgrounds have very different experiences of the close encounter phenomenon. This week we talk Visitors and Buddhism with a Buddhist experiencer. We also get a sense of what the experience is like and how such topics are treated overseas where the "gray alien" isn’t as prevalent. This uniquely ...continued