UFOs, AI, and the Religion of the Unconscious (Live at Contact in the Desert 2026)

UFOs, AI, and the Religion of the Unconscious (Live at Contact in the Desert 2026)

From back from the borderline by mollie adler

July 14, 2026 · 1h 11m

About this episode

A live podcast panel discussing UFOs, consciousness, and the intersection of anomalous experiences and psychology.

This year, I had the chance to attend Contact in the Desert , which is a conference devoted to UFOs, psi phenomena, consciousness, and anomalous experience.  While I was there, I joined a live podcast panel hosted by my friend Michael Phillip of Third Eye Drops . Also on the panel were psi researcher Adam Curry and Josh from the Polarity YouTube channe l, so the conversation went exactly where you’d expect it to go, which is to say… EVERYWHERE. We dive into everything from UFOs and consciousness to the stranger and more fringe material underneath the usual disclosure conversation. Things like Carl Jung’s theory of the UFO as a mandala, CE5 (a contact practice where people use meditation and intention to invite anomalous lights or craft to appear), the unconscious mind, the body’s fear response, trauma, altered states, AI agents apparently inventing religious behavior, and one truly unforgettable story about raccoons creating a ritual around a quantum food dispenser. Yes, you read that right. :-) The central focus of the panel ultimately circles around the idea that anomalous experiences seem to depend on what an individual psyche can tolerate and what our deeper wiring…

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Host: Mollie Adler

Guests: Adam Curry, Josh

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Organizations: Third Eye Drops, Polarity YouTube channel

Books & works: Carl Jung’s theory of the UFO as a mandala

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