Your Superior Self
Find out what motivates thought leaders and how to apply those lessons to your life. Join host Trey Downes as he shares inspiring stories from thought leaders, authors, brilliant business minds and influencers.
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| 10/19/26 |  Prison Planet Theory: PhD Scientist on the Architect Who Runs the Matrix and the Fake Heavens That Trap Souls | Prison planet theory, reincarnation, the Matrix, the demiurge, soul retrieval, and the astral realms collide in this episode as Michael Lee, a PhD scientist (computational chemistry and machine learning) who does soul retrievals out of body, shares what he says he has learned about who runs this place. He says he heard "the architect" through electronic communication with spirits, and that this figure doesn't want us fully aware that we're here. He gives his "best theory," which he stresses is only a theory, that the architect is the demiurge of Gnostic literature and must recruit souls to keep the system running. He says the prison planet theory and the school theory can both be true, estimates he has lived 50 to 80 lifetimes on Earth, and says revenge and guilt keep us coming back.This isn't a guided meditation. This is a working scientist who says he has gone into the lower astral to help stuck spirits move on, got trapped there himself, and learned how narcissistic souls sell a fake heaven.IN THIS EPISODE (Michael's account and beliefs, not established fact)• The architect: why he says the guy who runs this place doesn't want us fully aware• His best theory that the architect is the demiurge and must recruit souls to run the system• Prison planet vs. school: why he says it can be both, and his "field trip" twist• 50 to 80 lifetimes and what he calls being an "earth clod"• Soul retrievals: helping stuck spirits move on out of body• Narcissistic souls, fake heavens, and how he says people get stuck in the astral• "Karmic loops": why he says revenge and guilt keep us coming back, and how to leave• Why he says the knowledge of how to leave was kept from us• Lucid dreaming, the astral body, and why he thinks they're the same bodyDISCLAIMER: Michael shares personal experiences, theories, and beliefs. This isn't medical, psychological, or scientific advice. | 1h 24m 37s | ||||||
| 10/12/26 | David Hunt: Lifelong Abductee Was Shown the Soul Trap at 15 — And Says Its “God” Is Ignorant | David Hunt: Lifelong Abductee Was Shown the Soul Trap at 15 — And Says It Ends in His LifetimeLifelong abductee David Hunt says he left his body at 15, was shown the soul trap (a reincarnation trap he says feeds on trapped souls), and was told it was "a done deal." He explains the out-of-body experience, the Gnostic "God of this world," and the one tool he says wakes you up.Soul trap, reincarnation trap, prison planet theory, out-of-body experience, lifelong abductee, alien abduction testimony, grays, Gnostic God of this world, demiurge, wheel of samsara, control system, matrix, entities, near-death experience, spiritual awakening, awareness, Your Superior Self.IN THIS EPISODE (Dave's account and beliefs, not established fact)• Why he says grays visited his bedroom from early childhood• The out-of-body experience at 15: free falling out of "the matrix"• What the voice told him about why this world exists and what feeds on trapped souls• His comparison to the Gnostic "imbalanced, ignorant God of this world"• Why he calls the "learn your lessons" reincarnation story gaslighting• What he says the control system uses to pull people back, and why he says it's losing power• The "one tool" he says you need: awareness• His experience with the contact program, beings claiming to be Pleiadians and Nordics, and why he says they never had power over him• His warning about "soft disclosure"CONTENT NOTE: This conversation includes strong claims about non-human entities, plus references to deception, distress, and self-harm. If you're struggling, call or text 988 (US) or call Samaritans at 116 123 (UK).SUBSCRIBE to Your Superior Self: https://www.youtube.com/@yoursuperiorselfDAVE'S CHANNEL: [ADD LINK]INSTAGRAM: [ADD] | WEBSITE: [ADD]WATCH NEXT: [LINK Rick: Out-of-Body Traveler / Reincarnation Trap]WATCH NEXT: [LINK Darnella Ford: Prison Planet Theory]CHAPTERS0:00 Intro: Dave's Story3:00 Grays in the Bedroom: Childhood Abductions10:00 What Did They Want? Entities and the Control System15:00 Leaving the Matrix at 15: The Out-of-Body Experience18:00 The Vortex and What It Showed Him21:30 The God of This World and What Feeds on Trapped Souls23:00 "It's a Done Deal"26:00 The Control System Is Losing Power29:15 The Soul Trap, Samsara, and Spiritual Gaslighting34:40 Trapped by What You Love38:00 Plato's Cave and the Death of the Ego42:10 The One Tool That Wakes You Up44:00 You Are Not Your Body or Your Mind47:30 The Contact Program: Pleiadians, Nordics, and Deception50:20 What They Can Access and What They Can't Touch54:00 Red Flags: Beings Who Shape-Shift58:00 "I Gave Them Permission"1:20:45 Soft Disclosure and the Cosmic Deception1:24:00 When Love and Unity Dissolve This Reality1:27:40 What Can't Be Threatened1:30:00 Closing: You Really Are More Than This Life#SoulTrap #OutOfBodyExperience #Abductee #ReincarnationTrap #Gnostic #YourSuperiorSelfDisclaimer: Guests share personal experiences and beliefs. This is not medical or psychological advice. | 1h 43m 55s | ||||||
| 10/5/26 | Former UK Detective: ETs Gave Him the Science We're Not Allowed to Have — And It Changes Who We Are | Out-of-Body Experience: Former UK Detective Kevin J. Briggs on Building a Conscious Craft, ET Contact, and the Science "We're Not Allowed to Have"Out-of-body experience, astral travel, ET contact, extraterrestrial science, human evolution, and consciousness collide in this episode as Kevin J. Briggs, a returning guest, author, and lifelong experiencer who says he has traveled out of body at will since age nine, describes leaving his body as a "pure conscious energy orb," building a "conscious craft" with thought alone, and flying to Andromeda. He also says his extraterrestrial guides, the Council of Eight, have given him science he believes we're "not allowed to have," including plasma as the first stage of matter and consciousness as a fifth force. He says negative entities, and people he can't name, don't want humanity to evolve.This isn't guided meditation or a physics lecture. By his own account, Kevin is a retired realtor with no science training who says the information is simply handed to him, and he's upfront that he can't verify it. Hear it in his words and decide for yourself.In this episode:How he says he travels out of body at will, and what it feels like: "the thoughts take you where you want to go"Three "conscious energy orbs" on a conscious craft, and what his guides said to himBuilding his own craft with thought and flying out of body to AndromedaWhy he says out-of-body travel is a natural human ability we've lost: "we all have those abilities"The dark presence he says entered his bedroom, and the negative entities he says don't want us to evolveThe science he says is "not allowed": plasma, the fifth interaction, and a void-of-consciousness equation he says appears in A Greater RealityThe message he says he delivered to Dr. Steven GreerEdgar Mitchell contacting him after death, in his accountWhat the Council of Eight told him about nuclear weapons, AI, and when they'd interveneThe protocol he drafted for receiving ET ambassadors, and the UN's response as he describes itConnect with Kevin:🌐 KevinJBriggs.com: https://www.kevinjbriggs.com📖 Spiritual Consciousness: A Personal Journey: https://us.amazon.com/Spiritual-Consciousness-Kevin-James-Briggs/dp/B0G1CRF65W🛸 Institute for Exoconsciousness (the Exo-Conscious community): https://www.exoconscioushumans.com📚 A Greater Reality, from the Consciousness & Contact Research Institute: https://www.agreaterreality.com | 1h 04m 16s | ||||||
| 9/28/26 | Out-of-Body Traveler's Shocking Claim: The Reincarnation Trap Is Real! | Prison planet theory, out-of-body experience, astral projection, Gnosticism, the demiurge, archons, and reincarnation collide in this episode as Rick — host of Astral Club and a returning out-of-body traveler with decades of experience — takes on one of the most searched and most divisive theories in spirituality right now. Unlike most takes on this topic, he doesn't just cite ancient texts — he says he's watched the mechanism happen firsthand in the astral: souls passing over, moving through a life review that compromises their will, and getting pulled back into what he calls the reincarnation wheel. He explains why he believes 95% of people aren't ready to escape it, what the other 5% can do differently, and how knowledge — not fear — is what breaks the cycle.This isn't guided meditation content. This is a returning guest who claims to have astral-projected into the White House, explored a base beneath Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and interviewed beings on the other side — including Jesus, Lucifer, and an archangel — now confirming one of YouTube's most controversial spiritual theories from firsthand experience.In this episode:What he says he found astral-projecting into the White HouseThe underground craft at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and an underwater base in the Gulf of MexicoThe prison planet theory: the demiurge, the archons, and why he says it's realWhy he believes 95% of people aren't ready to leave the cycle — and what the other 5% do differentlyHow the life review works, and how it's used to pull souls back into reincarnationHis conversation with Jesus/Yeshua, and what he says was misunderstoodInterviewing Lucifer and an archangel — and which one actually frightened him moreThe Book of Enoch, the Watchers, and why it was removed from the BibleHow to recognize the trap and use knowledge to escape itConnect with Rick: 🎥 Astral Club on YouTube | 1h 16m 54s | ||||||
| 9/21/26 | 33-Year OBE Researcher's Shocking Claim: Unseen Spirits Are Influencing Our World! | Out-of-body experience, astral projection, parapolitics, spirits, consciousness, and the VELO technique collide in this episode as Nanci Trivellato — a co-founder of the International Academy of Consciousness with 30+ years of out-of-body research — takes on one of the most unsettling questions in spirituality right now: who, or what, is influencing what happens in our world. She explains what she calls "parapolitics" (her claim that deceased people who remain close to the physical dimension still influence the living), why she says this has always existed, and why she believes it doesn't mean the world is ending. She also lays out the evidence behind her research: a childhood out-of-body experience she says was later confirmed, and a year-long study of more than 1,000 people using her VELO energy technique.This isn't guided meditation content. This is a researcher who says she's been leaving her body since age five, spent decades studying it, and is willing to explain what she believes is happening behind world events.In this episode:Her first out-of-body experiences as a child, and the night she says she saw her uncle's surgery in a city she'd never visitedWhy she says most people have out-of-body experiences every night without knowing itHer childhood research across 13–14 countries, and what happens when kids are told it's "just imagination"The VELO technique: how she used it to overcome her fear, and what over 1,000 people reportedWhy she says you don't need psychedelics to reach these statesThe physical, energetic, and astral bodies explainedParapolitics: why she says spirits still influence world leaders and politicsHer response to apocalypse and prophecy fears: "I think it's much simpler than that"The benevolent beings she says counterbalance these forcesHow to stay coherent in a world full of AI deepfakes and information overloadConnect with Nanci:🌐 nancitrivellato.com🎓 Consciousness Development Program (International Academy of Consciousness): iacworld.org | 1h 05m 27s | ||||||
| 9/18/26 | 15-Year Paramedic's Shocking Response to the Reincarnation Trap Theory! | Reincarnation trap theory, near-death experience, psychic surgery, medical intuition, and consciousness collide in this episode as Sarah K. Grace — "The Street Medic Mystic" and a 15-year paramedic in California's busiest 911 systems — takes on one of the most searched spiritual topics on YouTube right now. She dismisses the popular "reincarnation trap" theory outright, explains why she believes we're living thousands of simultaneous lives right now rather than cycling through past ones, and lays out — after 15 years watching souls leave the body on live trauma calls and her own near-death experience — why she believes there is nothing to fear in death at all.This isn't guided meditation content. This is a working paramedic who says she watched the soul leave the body in real time, on the job, while running codes — and is now debunking one of the internet's most popular fear-based spiritual theories with the same directness she once used to run a trauma scene.In this episode:What psychic surgery actually is — "energy work on steroids"Her own near-death experience after an intentional overdose, and the voice that sent her backWhat she witnessed as souls left the body during 911 calls — and the being that comes to escort themWhy she rejects the "reincarnation trap" theory: "That's adorable"Why she believes we're living thousands of lives simultaneously, not sequentiallyGrowing up near Standing Rock and her family's adoption into the Lakota SiouxHer new community, Empath-X — redefining sensitivity as a superpower, not a weaknessConnect with Sarah:🌐 sarahkgrace.com📖 Journey Into Grace — available on Audible🎙️ Featured on Next Level Soul, Gaia TV, Hay House Radio, NPR, Coast to Coast AM, and New Living Expo | 56m 43s | ||||||
| 9/7/26 | prison planet theoryout-of-body experience+4 | Darnella Ford | Journey to WorthyFar Journeys | — | prison planet theoryout-of-body travel+5 | — | 1h 28m 05s | ||
| 8/24/26 | out-of-body experiencesArea 51+4 | Genie | Area 51Egyptian deities | — | out-of-body experienceArea 51+5 | — | 1h 23m 17s | ||
| 8/22/26 | out-of-body experiencesspiritual warfare+4 | Marilynn Hughes | — | — | out-of-bodydemons+4 | — | 1h 28m 42s | ||
| 8/21/26 | AIdigital identity+4 | Andre | thealchemist369.comYouTube+1 | — | AIdeath+7 | — | 48m 47s | ||
| 8/20/26 | psychedelicsspiritual awakening+4 | Dakota Wint | AghoriBhagavad Gita | IndiaAmazon+2 | DMTayahuasca+7 | — | 55m 34s | ||
| 7/27/26 | out-of-body experiencesafterlife+5 | Corey | — | — | out-of-body experiencesafterlife+7 | — | 1h 53m 33s | ||
| 7/20/26 | PTSD recoveryayahuasca+4 | Drew Bankey | — | IraqColorado | PTSDayahuasca+7 | — | 1h 25m 06s | ||
| 7/13/26 | near-death experiencelucidity+5 | Cailin Callahan | A Course in Miracles | — | near-death experienceCailin Callahan+5 | — | 1h 26m 54s | ||
| 6/29/26 | Jesus as extraterrestrialStar of Bethlehem as spacecraft+5 | Richard Lawrence | Aetherius Society | VenusChernobyl+2 | extraterrestrial intelligenceStar of Bethlehem+8 | — | 1h 06m 15s | ||
| 6/22/26 | out-of-body experiencesangel realm+4 | ShemOmandi | Awaken to Joytheos888.com | — | out-of-body experienceangel war+5 | — | 1h 12m 11s | ||
| 6/15/26 | psychic abilitiesconspiracy theories+4 | Dallisa Hocking | — | — | psychic mediumdowsing rods+6 | — | 55m 48s | ||
| 6/8/26 | Astral ProjectionOut-of-Body Experiences+4 | Ryan Cropper | Galactic Federation of Light | — | astral projectionOBE+5 | — | 1h 18m 03s | ||
| 6/1/26 | out-of-body experienceconsciousness+3 | Sasha | — | — | out-of-body experienceconsciousness+5 | — | 1h 08m 45s | ||
| 5/26/26 | consciousnessspiritual awakening+4 | Nicola Light | The Pleiadian Handbook for Human Ascension | English beach | consciousnessspiritual awakening+5 | — | 1h 16m 21s | ||
| 5/22/26 | UAP filesnon-human intelligence+5 | Bobby | CIA | Giza plateau | UAPCIA+6 | — | 54m 56s | ||
| 5/22/26 | manifestationpersonal growth+4 | Sarah Prout | Dear Universe 365 | — | manifestationpersonal development+5 | — | 1h 03m 29s | ||
| 5/18/26 | biochemistryspirituality+4 | Kelly Marie Kerr | EsseneGreek+2 | — | DMTChrist Oil+7 | — | 1h 10m 32s | ||
| 5/11/26 | mediumshipconsciousness+4 | Nick Lodato | Age of Disclosure | — | mediumshipconsciousness+6 | — | 1h 29m 20s | ||
| 5/4/26 | AIsubconscious+4 | Tommy McCarthy | Super Conscious | Harvard | AI control systemsubconscious programming+5 | — | 48m 15s | ||
| 4/27/26 | social impactcommunity building+4 | Thibault Manekin | PeacePlayersSeawall | BaltimoreSouth Africa+1 | BaltimorePeacePlayers+7 | — | 1h 12m 39s | ||
| 4/20/26 | alien abductionout-of-body experiences+4 | Casey Claar | — | VegasAtlantis+1 | alien abductionKundalini awakening+5 | — | 1h 44m 37s | ||
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