Dreamland

Simulation Hypothesis author Riz Virk is now saying that there is a 70-80 percent chance that we are living in a simulation. This week on Dreamland, we ask him WHY SUCH HIGH PROBABILITY? Riz explains his growing sense that this is a simulation, and also explores the implications of rapidly advancing artificial intelligence. Could déjà vu, synchronicities, and the Mandela Effect be evidence that reality has been altered or even restarted? We venture into lucid dreaming, near-death experiences, reincarnation, and the possibility that our lives are designed to teach us something profound. Then we turn to UFOs and nonhuman intelligence. Could the visitors themselves be avatars operating within a reality far stranger than we imagine? If life really is a game, who are the players—and what happens when it ends? Please also welcome Liberty Noakes, making her podcast debut as co-host, bringing her own fascinating questions to Riz. She will be joining Whitley as co-host from time to time and is exploring the idea of creating her own podcast. She is in the UK where she works as an artist and jewelry designer. She is also deeply interested in edge topics and widely read. (She has read all of Whitley’s books, for example, and Riz’s.) Listen now, and subscribers share your thoughts in the comments: Are we living in a simulation? Visit Riz on his website where you can order his books. Click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Dreamland, Whitley Strieber welcomes independent researcher and engineer Luis Quiros, whose remarkable investigation of The Key opens an entirely new window on one of the strangest encounters of Whitley’s life. Quiros, based in Costa Rica, has worked at the intersection of advanced physics, artificial intelligence, and geometric algebra, and used today’s AI systems to examine what the mysterious Master of the Key said more than twenty-five years ago.  How much of what the Master said could reasonably have been known in 1998? Luis examines striking statements about climate change, gravity, consciousness, artificial intelligence and the future power of intelligent machines—ideas that appear very different when viewed from the technological world of 2026. But the discussion goes far beyond prediction. Luis discovers extraordinary parallels between the circumstances of Whitley’s encounter and ancient esoteric teaching, suggesting that “the night is the teaching.” The conversation then turns to the Master’s mysterious identity, the meaning of humanity’s “fall” into time, and astonishing correspondences between The Key and the Gospel of Thomas. Was the Master simply an extraordinarily knowledgeable man—or something far stranger? This Dreamland goes deeper into The Key than ever before. To read Luis's analysis, click here. Support this unique and vitally important website by subscribing today! Click here to get started. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this interview, Dr. Joanna Kujawa discusses her new book, “Alien Goddess: UFOs, AI, and the Goddesses of Ascension,” deploying Jungian archetypes, ancient myth, Gnostic tradition, and initiatory ideas to frame the current choice between technological evolution and spiritual development. As she frames it, the choice facing humanity right now is this:  Do we eschew our spiritual traditions to instead evolve technologically, as transhumanists would apparently prefer. Kujawa argues that the technological option represents a synthetic, archontic kind of evil. She sees the UFO phenomenon as representing both sides in this battle for the human soul: hardware bait to drive us forward technologically, and celestial beings reminding us of our connections to the divine. Through the use of ancient myths like Inanna, Demeter/Persephone, and Pistis Sophia, Kujawa demonstrates how the archetypal spiritual journey of descent and ascent are as available now as they’ve ever been. To buy her book: https://a.co/d/06G2dQFs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As a child, a devastating head injury left John Seer in a coma and led to a powerful near-death experience. Years later, at just sixteen and serving in the Royal Navy, he witnessed a UFO tracked on radar and confronted by military aircraft. During the encounter, he received an astonishing message: “We are your children. Your children’s children. We are from the sea and the sky.” But that was only the beginning. Seer describes a mysterious encounter with an apparently Franciscan monk aboard a late-night train—a meeting that transformed his life and, he believes, opened him to an extraordinary stream of information about consciousness, time, the nature of reality and humanity’s future. Then the conversation takes a startling turn. Seer explains why he believes the mysterious number 137 is fundamental to reality and delivers an urgent warning about artificial intelligence, including crucial turning points he associates with 2027 and 2037. This is Dreamland at the edge of the unknown: UFOs, near-death experience, future humans, consciousness, AI—and the possibility that all of them are connected. Not an Unknowncountry subscriber? The perfect time to start is always RIGHT NOW. Click here to explore our inexpensive recurring and one-time-only plans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Dreamland, Whitley Strieber welcomes filmmaker Ron James, creator of Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations and its provocative sequel, Accidental Truth—Next: Beyond UFO Disclosure. Together, they move past the familiar arguments about unexplained objects and secret retrieval programs to confront the deeper questions: Who controls disclosure? What are they afraid to reveal? And could nonhuman intelligence itself be determining how much humanity is permitted to know? Ron describes what he calls the “devil’s deal”—the moment politicians, journalists and researchers accept classified information they cannot share and become part of the secrecy they once promised to expose. He and Whitley also explore alleged exotic materials, the disappearance of evidence, managed whistleblowers, artificial intelligence, consciousness and the possibility that our physical reality is only one level of a far larger system. Most importantly, they ask why experiencers—the people who have actually encountered the phenomenon—remain excluded from the official conversation. Real disclosure will not begin in Congress. It will begin when the experiences of ordinary people can no longer be dismissed.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode, monthly guest host James Faulk (host of the Neon Galactic podcast) interviews author Mike Fiorito on creativity, the alien, and inspiration, as well as the evident similarities between music, other sounds, and the deepest layers of reality. They explore the nature of artistic inspiration, drawing parallels to scientific epiphanies and the concept of the daemon. Often, it is reported by both artists and scientists that their best ideas seem to arrive, whole, from another realm or entity. What is that? Is it from within, a higher self, or from without? Fiorito also shares stories from his books, “The Inner Space of Outer Space,” and “UFOSymphonic,” including anomalous experiences involving music and sound, episodes that are often linked to grief or trauma. The conversation then examines how music and sound can act as a bridge to transcendent experiences, with references to synchronicity, vibration, and the role of musicians as modern shamans. The dialogue also emphasizes the co-creative aspect of phenomena and the importance of humility and open-minded inquiry in exploring these mysteries. To learn more, visit www.mikefiorito.com Not an Unknowncountry subscriber? The perfect time to start is always RIGHT NOW. Click here to explore our inexpensive recurring and one-time-only plans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if contact isn’t an isolated event—but a legacy carried through generations? In this Dreamland episode, Whitley Strieber speaks with Laurie, a close encounter witness whose experiences reach deep into her family’s past—and continue into the present in ways that challenge everything we think we know about contact. Her story begins long before she was born, with a lineage tied to ancient European traditions and a startling encounter in the 1940s, when a golden orb descended from the sky and examined her family before vanishing. From there, the experiences unfold across decades: the famous Kecksburg incident witnessed as a child, mysterious orbs outside her window, a massive hovering craft and missing time, and later, repeated visitations from small beings who appeared in her bedroom over a period of years. But this is more than a series of encounters. It is a life shaped by an unseen presence—one that seems to guide, observe, and at times, take control. Laurie’s account is remarkable not only for its intensity, but for its clarity. There is little fear here—only curiosity, resilience, and a growing sense that these events may be part of something far larger than a single life. Why do some families seem marked for contact across generations? What is the connection between ancient traditions, folklore, and modern encounters? And what happens when memory itself begins to return? Fasten your seatbelts. This is not just a story—it is a journey into the enduring mystery of human contact with the unknown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Dreamland, Whitley welcomes Ronnie Pontiac, writer, scholar of esoteric traditions, and longtime student of the hidden spiritual currents that have shaped human history. Ronnie’s new book, The Unobstructed Way, reopens the astonishing story of Stuart Edward White and Betty Grant White, whose early 20th-century communications with “the invisibles” offered a profound vision of consciousness, immortality, and the afterlife as realities present here and now. Ronnie takes us into the forgotten world of the Betty Books, the Ouija board incident of 1919, the development of Betty’s mediumship, and the idea that awakening is not a heroic struggle but a release from the obstructions created by fear, habit, and the mind itself. He also shares deeply personal stories of his years with Manly P. Hall and of his wife Tamara, whose love, wisdom, and continued presence after death have transformed his understanding of survival and spiritual contact. Together, Whitley and Ronnie explore the “vortex” of fear that traps human life, and the unobstructed consciousness that may be our true home. Get Ronnie and Tamra's book today. Click here. Click here to join Unknowncountry.com's great site and access our tremendous archive of shows! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Levenda returns to Dreamland for a powerful and unsettling journey into the hidden architecture of history, consciousness, occultism, and the UFO mystery. Where are the hidden threads that connect all this into one great spiderweb, and what is true and what is conspiracy theorist fantasy…if anything? How does Jeffrey Epstein connect to the UFO coverup and who, despite his lack of qualifications, was hired as a math teacher at the Dalton School by headmaster Donald Barr? Barr, the father of William Barr, attorney general under both George H.W. Bush and Donald Trump, also published a science fiction novel called Space Relations, a science fiction novel about a planet ruled by oligarchs who engage in child sex slavery, which anticipates Epstein’s real-life crimes. Using the analogy of colonial contact and cargo cults, Levenda explores the possibility that humanity itself may be the product of an ancient ontological shock—one that shaped religion, science, civilization, genetics, and our longing to leave the planet. He and Whitley also enter darker territory: Nazi occultism, Operation Paperclip, mind-control research, Jack Parsons, NASA’s military origins, synchronicity, conspiracy culture, and the urgent need to distinguish genuine hidden forces from destructive fantasy. This is Peter Levenda at his most wide-ranging and provocative: a conversation about contact, deception, disclosure, and the strange possibility that the invasion we fear may already be moving through consciousness itself. Get the updated, single volume edition of his essential reading epic of the hidden reality of the world elites, Sinister Forces, today! Click here to get it through Peter’s own website! And while you’re at it, click here to join Unknowncountry.com’s great site and access our tremendous archive of shows, including ALL 10 of our Peter Levenda shows dating back to 2005! To see the Levenda archive, click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this Dreamland special, Whitley interviews Leslie Kean about the press conference she and James Fox organized on the Capitol Steps on June 9. What did it mean, and what’s the next disclosure step…and what about those “plasmoid intelligences” that David Grush talked about? Don’t miss this hard-hitting special! Watch the full press conference on Reuters’ YouTube feed. Click here. Leslie Kean on the Capitol Press Conference — Free Video: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Dreamland, monthly guest host James Faulk interviews lifelong experiencer Birdie Jaworski about her contact with non-human intelligences, her experience learning how to remote view, and her eventual decision to abandon old nomenclature and design her own RV system: Transdimensional Mapping. Jaworski describes several contact events, starting in childhood and culminating in an eventual relationship with a grey alien she calls “the grey dude,” who ultimately left her with downloaded information that continues to arise, as needed, during the course of her daily life. Jaworski, also known as Prudence Calabrese, relates the difficulty in performing this type of work, and points to various instances in the past when people took her work too seriously for their own good. Finally, for subscribers, they explore the worldview her work has led her to embrace, and the process of UFO disclosure. As a confidante of Danny Sheehan, Jaworksi is affiliated with the New Paradigm Institute and has long been an advocate for government transparency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What happens when serious science confronts the impossible—and refuses to look away? Find out in this mindbending show! In this episode of Dreamland, Whitley Strieber is joined by returning guest Steve Aspen and his collaborator, molecular biologist Andreas Luck, co-authors of Investigating the Impossible. Together, they dive into some of the most controversial and compelling anomalies of our time. At the center of the discussion are the enigmatic tridactyl mummies of Nazca—beings that challenge our understanding of biology, evolution, and even reality itself. Are they hoaxes, unknown terrestrial life, or something far stranger—perhaps visitors from another timeline or parallel world? The conversation moves beyond speculation into rigorous analysis: DNA testing, MRI scans, and cellular biology are brought to bear on questions most scientists won’t touch. Along the way, the guests examine the infamous “Curry hair” case, the disputed Reddit biology document, and the deeper question of hybridization—what it is, and whether it may already be part of our world. But this is not a conversation of easy answers. Even here, there is disagreement—about evidence, interpretation, and what it all might mean. And that tension makes this one of the most honest and thought-provoking explorations of the phenomenon you will hear. If wisdom once “found no dwelling place among men,” as the Book of Enoch suggests, perhaps it is because we have not yet learned how to face what we are discovering. Listen closely. The implications may be closer than you think. Get Investigating the Impossible and prepare to get your mind blown! To order, click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode, guest host James Faulk from the Neon Galactic podcast interviews Ronny Leblanc from the Travel Channel’s hit show “Expedition Bigfoot,” about his lifetime of experiences, and how he believes cryptids, UFOs, and other anomalies are all manifestations of contact between consensual reality and an as yet unknown but adjacent part of the universe. We discuss aspects of Leblanc’s new book, “Interdimensional: Consciousness, Cryptids, and the Hidden Architecture of Reality,” which draws upon the work of John Keel, Jacques Vallee, and others, to assemble a coherent picture of consciousness and the strange. Leblanc describes his own journey of discovery, including several encounters with exotic beings and other phenomena, and describes his own sense that the universe has paved the road for him to pursue these subjects. We also examine how these encounters often spur deep spiritual transformations in the witnesses, and what this might mean. To buy “Interdimensional: Consciousness, Cryptids, and the Hidden Architecture of Reality;” https://a.co/d/0ev5F1oI To visit the Neon Galactic podcast on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@neongalactic Not an Unknowncountry subscriber? You're missing out! To sign up, click here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices