Set Fire to the Construct with Anthony Miller and Sinéad Whelehan

About this episode

The episode explores the implications of UFOs and UAPs in a philosophical context, contrasting materialistic views with spiritual perspectives.

Despite being an eccentric enough person to have a podcast about magic, I find the topic of UFOs and UAPs difficult to talk about. Unlike animism, folk magic, and faeries, the UAP subject is no longer a fringe pursuit. It's making headlines in legacy media outlets and being earnestly discussed by the figureheads at both ends of the US political spectrum. Unlike most of what we cover on this show, UAP phenomena is now a suitable topic of conversation for even the normies in my life. Now, with very few qualifiers, I can dive into a philosophical conversation with almost anyone, about the vast spectrum of implications we're facing if we are to finally find ourselves the recipients of some kind of "official" disclosure. I think my hesitation to bring up these subjects casually has something to do with the ways in which, despite dovetailing with so many of my own spiritual and philosophical interests, the general consensus is that this phenomena can not only be explained within a fundamental materialist worldview, but that it, in some way, supercedes the spiritual, rendering it obsolete. When we look at the mainstream coverage of the UAP topic, what we see is a very materialistic spin…

People in this episode

Host: Chad Andro

Guests: Anthony Miller, Sinéad Whelehan

Topics covered

• UFOs
• UAPs
• philosophy
• spirituality
• materialism

Keywords

• UFOs
• UAPs
• philosophy
• spirituality
• materialism
• disclosure
• advanced alien race

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