About this episode

This episode explores the intersection of gaslighting, consent engineering, and personal reflection within the context of ufology and perception management.

This episode began as an investigation into Sigmund Freud, Edward Bernays, propaganda, psychoanalysis, and the hidden machinery through which modern perception management came to be. But somewhere along the way, it became something much more personal. In Starlight Sickness, Kelly traces the strange lineage between Freud’s abandonment of the seduction theory, Bernays’s engineering of consent, and the ways power moves harm out of view by relocating it into the minds of the harmed. From the origins of modern public relations to the hall of mirrors inside ufology, this episode asks what happens when the tools we use to interpret reality also become the tools used to obscure it. How do we practice discernment without losing trust in our own perception? How do we make room for complexity without allowing complexity to become fog? And what does accountability look like when the story you were living inside begins to collapse? In light of recent allegations against her former best friend and creative partner Jay Christopher King, Kelly turns the same questions back on herself, beginning the process of untangling what happened, what she believed, what she may have gotten wrong, and what…

People in this episode

Host: Kelly Chase

Topics covered

• gaslighting
• consent engineering
• ufology
• propaganda
• psychoanalysis
• perception management

Keywords

• gaslighting
• trauma
• consent engineering
• ufology
• Sigmund Freud
• Edward Bernays
• propaganda
• psychoanalysis

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