THIRD EYE DROPS

What are UFOs—and why do so many encounters seem to involve consciousness, altered states, perception, and non-human intelligence? In this special episode, four of my favorite thinkers ever to appear on Third Eye Drops offer different, but complementary takes on the phenomenon, UFOs and consciousness. Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Dr, Donald Hoffman, cognitive scientist and idealist philosopher, explores the possibility that spacetime is only a perceptual headset—and that UAP may be operating from a deeper level of reality outside the interface. Dr. Bernardo Kastrup, philosopher and leading advocate of analytic idealism, considers whether UFOs and entities could emerge from autonomous regions of mind, neighboring domains of consciousness, or intelligences that do not fit neatly into physical space. Dr. Jeffrey J. Kripal, scholar of religion and the paranormal, examines the phenomenon as simultaneously physical, psychic, symbolic, and deeply entangled with human imagination, culture, and meaning. Dr. Andrew Gallimore, neurobiologist and researcher of entity encounters, proposes that non-human intelligences may access or manipulate the brain’s world-building machinery, constructing entire experiential realities and appearing through forms or “masks” the mind can perceive. Together, these four perspectives challenge the conventional extraterrestrial hypothesis and point toward something far stranger: a phenomenon that may sit at the intersection of mind, matter, perception, and reality itself. Full Episodes: Donald Hoffman: https://youtu.be/J--0hk89hmU Bernardo Kastrup: https://youtu.be/DnxHBvoq9h8 Jeff Kripal: https://youtu.be/u3-92xBvgQE Andrew Gallimore: https://youtu.be/P1ysKUsq28E Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Hear hundreds of other mind melds: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Levenda enters the mind meld! In this one, I’m joined by author, scholar and researcher Peter Levenda. We explore UFOs not as isolated anomalies, but as part of a much older mysterious, mythic and psychospiritual that structure shapes human belief. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership We riff on why humanity could be a cargo cult, government secrecy, the relationship between the UFO phenomenon and intelligence communities, and why governments may relate to the UFO phenomenon as not just a scientific mystery, but a narrative problem. From consciousness and psi research to initiation rituals, esoteric traditions, sensory deprivation, and out-of-body states, Levenda traces a through-line connecting ancient ideas of celestial ascent with modern space programs and disclosure culture. Links for Peter Levenda: Website: https://peterlevenda.com/ Books: https://peterlevenda.com/books X Page: https://x.com/Peter_Levenda Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Hear hundreds of other mind melds: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 🌀 Website https://www.thirdeyedrops.com ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author, esoteric seeker and podcaster Ike Baker enters the mind meld! In this one, I’m joined by Ike Baker for a deep dive into consciousness, the esoteric path and why ancient metaphysical models may explain reality better than modern materialism alone. We explore hidden layers of reality, non-ordinary forms of consciousness, initiatory knowledge, and why the esoteric worldview offers a powerful framework for sense-making. 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership We also touch on the phenomenon, subtle energy, and the idea that reality itself may be shaped by hidden intelligences operating beyond surface appearances. Ike Baker is a writer and practitioner of the Western esoteric tradition, and the author of Aetheric Magic and A Formless Fire. His work approaches esotericism as a lived, initiatory path, emphasizing consciousness as fundamental and reality as layered, intelligent, and deeply symbolic. Links for Ike Baker: Website: https://ikebaker.com/ Channel: @arcanvm About: https://ikebaker.com/about Aetheric Magick: https://a.co/d/hJrAFZx A Formless Fire: https://a.co/d/2VV07MU Links For Third Eye Drops 🌀 🥰 Support TED and join the community on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thirdeyedrops Get access to our Youtube Member's Library: https://www.youtube.com/@THIRDEYEDROPS/membership Hear our 300-plus other podcasts: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: thirdeyedrops.com/itunes 🎧 Spotify: https://shorturl.at/ahnB1 🌀 Website https://www.thirdeyedrops.com ✌️Follow Michael on Instagram https://instagram.com/third_eye_drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices