In this episode Vayse welcomes AP Strange, a writer, researcher and blogger with a near encyclopaedic knowledge of all things weird and a wicked sense of humour to go with it. Hine and Buckley shake down AP's voluminous brain on a wide range of bizarre topics and greedily feast on the nuggets of information that fall out, including the answers to such questions as: What were the entities that revealed the future to AP as a child and why did he liken them to Mikey Mouse's gloves? Did AP take a ghost for a spin in his Mustang and what was revealed when he got a tarot reading from this suspected phantom? Why is a sense of humour essential to an open mind and what happens if you don't embrace that? How can we learn to receive messages from the cosmos and allow a little more Strange into our lives? How and why do people so often ignore their own experiences of High Strangeness and should more of us be open to accepting the King of Rock 'n' Roll's Flaming Sword...? (Recorded 18 February 2024)

Thanks to AP for generously giving us time from his busy Sunday morning and thanks as always to Keith for his valiant and tireless work on the ever increasing show notes, give the man a follow: @peakflow.bsky.social

AP Strange online

Website/blog
Twitter
Instagram
Holy Donut Revival Hour - YouTube channel
Holy Donut Revival Hour on Twitter
Holy Donut Revival Hour - Patreon

AP’s blog posts referenced in the episode

My Personal Experience with the Phenomenon, Which I've told on Podcasts Too Many Times
Emanations From the Clown Realm - Legend Tripping, Hilarious Magic, and Synchronicity
The Journey of the Fool
From Brooklyn to Neptune: The Bugs Bunny / UFO Connection!
Elvis by the Numbers or: The King and the Tower of Death
The Paradox of Credibility When Confronting the Incredible
The Spooky Side of Disclosure
Wight Magic and the Sandown Ghost Clown
Star-cross'd Lovers
Dispatches From Jerry's Impossible Hallway

Hine’s Intro

Ultraviolet (radiation) - Wikipedia
Carbonic Acid - Wikipedia
Dihydrogen monoxide parody - Wikipedia
Trellis (architecture) - Wikipedia
Gremlins 2: Secretary - "Coffee" - YouTube
Paranormality magazine
HighStrange magazine
SJ Brick on Twitter
HDRH 6.0: Secrets of the Real Black Lodge Revealed with Allen Greenfield - Part One
HDRH 6.5: Secrets of the Real Black Lodge Revealed with Allen Greenfield! Part Two
Some Other Sphere podcast
Strange Familiars podcast
Project Archivist podcast
Our Strange Skies podcast
Where Did The Road Go? podcast

AP’s personal experience with the phenomenon, which he’s told on podcasts too many times

Mickey Mouse - Wikipedia
McDonald’s - Wikipedia
My Personal Experience with the Phenomenon, Which I've told on Podcasts Too Many Times - AP Strange
Monster Munch - Wikipedia
Why cartoon characters wear gloves - YouTube
Precognition - Wikipedia
Out-of-body experience - Wikipedia
Time travel - Wikipedia
What Did Einstein Mean By Time is an Illusion?
Albert Einstein - Wikipedia
Quantum mechanics - Wikipedia
The birds and the bees - Wikipedia
Eternalism (philosophy of time) - Wikipedia
H.G. Wells - Wikipedia
The Time Machine - Wikipedia
The Time Machine (1960 film) - Wikipedia
The Time Machine Official Trailer #1 - Rod Taylor Movie (1960) HD - YouTube
Rod Taylor - Wikipedia
The Birds (film) - Wikipedia
The Birds (1963) Trailer - YouTube
Impact of Non-linear Time: A Life Perspective - All The Differences
Psychometry (paranormal) - Wikipedia
Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious by Eric Wargo - Goodreads
The Shamanic Journey - Shaman Links
Greco-Roman mysteries (mystery schools) - Wikipedia
The Secret Meanings of Your Cartoon Dreams: Interpreting the Symbols and Messages - Inside My Dream
Cartoon physics - Wikipedia
Top 10 Cartoon Logic That Make No Sense - YouTube
Surrealism - Wikipedia
Poltergeist - Wikipedia
Toy Story - Wikipedia
Toy Story (1995) Trailer #1 | Movieclips Classic Trailers - YouTube
Toy Story: Andy is coming up the stairs! - YouTube
Tommy Steele - I Puts the Lightie On (78rpm - 1958) - YouTube
What Is The Space-Time Continuum? - IFL Science
3D printing - Wikipedia
Robert Anton Wilson - Wikipedia
Creative Agnosticism by Robert Anton Wilson - Cognitive Liberty
Reality Tunnel - Wikipedia

Sam, The Sandown Ghost Clown

The Isle of Wight Entity Case: AFU Special Case Report Number One - Goodreads
151: Clowning Around with Stephanie Quick & AP Strange (Sam, the Sandown Clown) - Our Strange Skies podcast
Bufora Journal Vol 6, No 5, Jan/Feb 1978 - Bufora.org
Note: The article which contains the Sandown Clown report starts on page 9.
Sam The Sandown Ghost Clown - The Cryptonaut Podcast
Sam the Sandown Ghost Clown (England) - Cryptopia
The Sandown “Ghost Clown,” 1973 - YouTube
Warminster - Wikipedia
Wiltshire - Wikipedia
Emanations From the Clown Realm - Legend Tripping, Hilarious Magic, and Synchronicity - AP Strange blog post
Childhood hallucinations are surprisingly common – but why? - The Guardian
Brain scans show how LSD mimics mind of a baby - Reuters
Theta waves in children’s waking electroencephalogram resemble local aspects of sleep during wakefulness - NCBI
What do psychedelics, meditation, and babies have in common? - Jeff Valdivia on Medium

What is high strangeness?

High Strangeness And Understanding It - Global Bizarre
Psychosocial UFO hypothesis - Wikipedia
The Clown/MiB Connection by Fred Andersson - Medium
Hypnotic induction - Wikipedia
Derren Brown - Snapping Induction - YouTube
Jacques Vallée - Wikipedia
Men in black - Wikipedia
John Keel - Wikipedia
Is Consciousness Part of the Fabric of the Universe? - Scientific American
As above, so below - Wikipedia
Quantum entanglement - Wikipedia
Time travel - Wikipedia
Jacques Vallée, Ph.D. on the UFO Phenomenon being a Genuine Scientific Problem - YouTube - Presentation by JV. Includes an analysis of the correlation between degrees of strangeness and reported/unreported cases
Synchronicity - Wikipedia
Mick West - Wikipedia
Jaime Maussan - Wikipedia

Liminality, anti-structure, and reckless wizards

VYS0036 | Infinite Game - Vayse to Face with Joseph Matheny
Alternate reality game (ARG) - Wikipedia
Consensus reality - Wikipedia
The Trickster and the Paranormal by George P Hansen - Goodreads
Liminality - Wikipedia
Structure vs. Communitas/Antistructure: Victor Turner on the two modes of human society - Living Philosophy
Shamanism - Wikipedia
Hermetic Qabalah - Wikipedia
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - Wikipedia
The Meaning of Magic - Psychology Today
Israel Regardie - Wikipedia
The Middle Pillar: The Balance Between Mind and Magic by Israel Regardie - Goodreads

Shamans among us, and the disappearing tarot reader

Shamans as Healers, Counsellors, and Psychotherapists - Research Gate
Exploring Modern Shamanism: Practices, Challenges, and Benefits in Today’s World - Go Ask Uncle
Tarot - Wikipedia
Cataract - Wikipedia
Ford Mustang - Wikipedia
Psychic - Wikipedia
Crystal ball - Wikipedia
The Size Of Sports Balls Compared - Measuring Stuff
Cherry - Wikipedia
Rubber up - Word Sense
Hair bleaching - Wikipedia

Parallel universes, alternative lives, and the simulation hypothesis

In a Parallel Universe, Another You - New York Times
The Shamanic Journey - Shaman Links
Spirit guide - Wikipedia
Anthony Peake’s website
Is There Life After Death? The Extraordinary Science of What Happens When We Die by Anthony Peake - Goodreads
Cheating the Ferryman: The Revolutionary Science of Life After Death by Anthony Peake - Goodreads
Simulation hypothesis - Wikipedia
The Simulation Hypothesis by Rizwan Virk - Goodreads
Potato chip - Wikipedia
Clockwork universe - Wikipedia
Vedanta - Wikipedia
Hinduism - Wikipedia
Buddhism - Wikipedia
Dharmachakra - Wikipedia
Bhavacakra (Wheel of Life) - Wikipedia
Maya (religion) - Wikipedia
Quantum physics - New Scientist
Holodeck (Star Trek) - Wikipedia
The Matrix - Wikipedia
Allegory of the cave (Plato) - Wikipedia
Sutra - Wikipedia
Hindu saints - Wikipedia
Bit - Wikipedia
Binary code - Wikipedia
Quantum computing - Wikipedia
Christopher Walken - Wikipedia
VYS0034 | The Weird Review of the Year 2023 Pt.1
The Weird Review of the Year 2023 Pt.2
Video-game - Wikipedia
Wave function - Wikipedia
Quantum non-locality - Wikipedia
Selective rendering: Computing only what you see - Research Gate

Messages from the Cosmos

Western esotericism - Wikipedia
Mysticism - Wikipedia
Koan - Wikipedia
Ram Dass - Wikipedia
Be Here Now (book) - Wikipedia
Be Here Now by Ram Dass - Goodreads
Ram Dass Quote on Moving Forward and How Your Next Message Is Always Right Where You Are - Move Me Quotes
Active Meditation: How to Meditate While You Move - PsychCentral
Animism - Wikipedia
Cultivating a Practice of Sacred Nature Connection - Wild Rhythms
Playing card - Wikipedia
Fortune cookie - Wikipedia
Synchronicity - Wikipedia
George Washington - Wikipedia
The George Washington connection to the north Lancashire village of Warton - Great British Life
Scrabble - Wikipedia
Tarot - Wikipedia
The Fool (Tarot card) - Wikipedia
The Journey of the Fool - AP Strange
Lateral thinking - Wikipedia
Dream logic helps us understand the workings of the brain and mind - Psychology Today
Intuition - Wikipedia
Allen Greenfield on Twitter
Illuminism - Encyclopedia.com
Gnosis - Wikipedia
Talk Gnosis - Free Illuminism, Memphis Misraim, & Hidden Realms w/Dr. Allen Greenfield - YouTube
Empty Your Cup: Why Unlearning Is Vital for Success - Psychology Today
Stephanie Quick’s blog

Humour in occultism, forgetting weird experiences, and generating synchronicities

From Brooklyn to Neptune: The Bugs Bunny / UFO Connection! - AP Strange
Elvis by the Numbers or: The King and the Tower of Death - AP Strange
Flaming sword (mythology) - Wikipedia
Aleister Crowley - Wikipedia
Guardian angel: Thelema - Wikipedia
List of demons in the Ars Goetia - Wikipedia
Lesser ritual of the pentagram - Wikipedia
Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) - Wikipedia
Heavy Metal (magazine) - Wikipedia
Horror film - Wikipedia
Shared Hallucinations & Parallel Universes: Joint Adventures in Holographic Dreamscapes - Official Brendan Murphy
Poltergeist - Wikipedia
The Neuroscience of How We Intentionally Forget Experiences - Psychology Today
Dishwasher - Wikipedia
Fruitcake - Wikipedia
How To Induce Synchronicities - Ghost Dog is a Mystery Box (Steph Quick)
Coincidence - Wikipedia

AP’s spiritual beliefs

Ontology - Wikipedia
Discordianism - Wikipedia
Buddhism - Wikipedia
Taoism (Daoism) - Wikipedia
Vedas - Wikipedia
Hinduism - Wikipedia
Transcendental Meditation - Wikipedia
Witchcraft - Wikipedia
Hermetism and other religions: Christianity - Wikipedia
Western esotericism - Wikipedia
Mysticism - Wikipedia
The Communion of Saints - Simply Catholic
The Practice of Contemplative Prayer - Catholic Exchange
An Introduction to the Basic Beliefs of the Vodou (Voodoo) Religion
Dyson Sphere - Wikipedia

AP’s take on the whole disclosure thing

David Grusch UFO whistleblower claims - Wikipedia
Extraterrestrial UFO hypothesis - Wikipedia
Astrophysics - Wikipedia
Jellyfish UAP Megathread - Reddit
Jeremy Corbell - Wikipedia
The Paradox of Credibility When Confronting the Incredible - AP Strange
The Spooky Side of Disclosure - AP Strange
Perception management - Wikipedia
What are UAPs, and why do UFOs have a new name? - CBS News
Non-Human Intelligence (NHI) - Unidentified Phenomena
Diana Walsh Pasulka - Wikipedia
History of espionage - Wikipedia
Secret society - Wikipedia
UFO Sightings by Country 2024 - World Population Review
The new American religion of UFOs (includes conversation with Diana Pasulka) - Vox
Cybernetics - Wikipedia
Ronald Mcdonald - Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick - Wikipedia
Weird Studies Episode 20: The Trash Stratum - Part 1
Weird Studies Episode 21: The Trash Stratum - Part 2
Marginalia - Wikipedia
The X-Files – "The truth is out there" - ACMI
Maybe The Real Treasure Was the Friends We Made Along the Way - Know Your Meme

Return of the Sandown Ghost Clown

Wight Magic and the Sandown Ghost Clown - AP Strange
The Ghosts of Gettysburg: A Haunted History of a Battlefield - War History Online
Isle of Wight Festival 1970 - Wikipedia
Hawkwind - Wikipedia
Pink Floyd - Wikipedia
Black Widow (band) - Wikipedia
Black Widow - Come To The Sabbat (1972) - YouTube
In 1926, Houdini Spent 4 Days Shaming Congress for Being in Thrall to Fortune-Tellers - Atlas Obscura

Finding weirdness in the mundane

Star-cross'd Lovers - AP Strange
Dispatches From Jerry's Impossible Hallway - AP Strange
Frasier (tv sitcom) - Wikipedia
When Even the Simplest Word Looks Weird And Wrong You Have Wordnesia - Smithsonian Magazine
Semantic satiation - Wikipedia
Aphorism - Wikipedia
House of Frankenstein (film, 1944) - Wikipedia
House of Frankenstein (1944) Official Trailer #1 - YouTube
Igor (character) - Wikipedia
Bela Lugosi - Wikipedia
The Hunchback Of Notre-Dame (novel) - Wikipedia
Quasimodo - Wikipedia

AP’s recommendations

The Mixed-Up Masters of Early Animation - The New Yorker
Surrealism - Wikipedia
Un Chien Andalou - Wikipedia
TRIGGER WARNING - Un Chien Andalou - Full Movie - YouTube
Salvador Dalí - Wikipedia
Luis Buñuel - Wikipedia
Epic poetry - Wikipedia
Victorian literature - Wikipedia
Pulp magazine - Wikipedia
Marvel Cinematic Universe - Wikipedia
Iron Maiden (band) - Wikipedia

Buckley’s closing story

Hartlepool - Wikipedia
Hartlepool: Monkeys - Wikipedia
Monkey hanger - Wikipedia
The Man-Monkey of Shropshire Union Canal - Spooky Isles
The Pond Square Chicken, Highgate - Mysterious Britain
The Bizarre, True Story of Gef the Talking Mongoose - Atlas Obscura
Francis Bacon - Wikipedia
Salmonella - Wikipedia

Vayse Online

Vayse website
Vayse on Twitter
Vayse on Instagram
Music From Vayse: Volume 1 by Polypores - Bandcamp
Vayse on Ko-Fi
Vayse email: vayseinfo@gmail.com

Special Guest: AP Strange.

In this episode artist, illustrator, esoteric free-thinker and Hine's tattoo-artist of choice, Loren Fetterman, completely blows Hine and Buckley's minds in a mushroom cloud of psychedelics, synchro-mysticism and inner astrology. Loren gives Hine and Buckley a whirlwind tour of his unique, self-styled brand of magick, detailing how he brings back and integrates life-changing ideas from this trips, how he invented a mirror point calendar system and bone watch to track his own personal symmetry, how he uses insight meditation to understand the recurring fractal cycles and patterns which form his life and wider reality and how he summoned a Battle-Owl to defeat an attacking Sci-fi Centipede formed entirely from his baby photos... (recorded 13 December 2023)

Thanks to Loren for being so generous with his time and insights and thanks, as always to Keith for impressive work on the show notes - give Keith a follow on bluesky: @peakflow.bsky.social

Loren Fetterman online

Loren’s website
Loren on Instagram
Article Based in Loren's Disertation

Hine’s Intro

Goth subculture - Wikipedia
Blind Date (British game show) - Wikipedia
Graham Skidmore (’Our Graham’) - Wikipedia
Tattoo artist - Wikipedia
Synchromysticism - Wikipedia
Mixed martial arts - Wikipedia
Caged Fighters 2: Johnathan Proctor vs Loren Fetterman - YouTube
The Paradox of Confiding in (Near) Strangers - PsychologyToday.com
UFO conspiracy theories - Disclosure - Wikipedia
Ceremonial (Ritual) magic - Wikipedia
Meditation - Wikipedia
Shadow work - Insider.com
Psychedelic drug - Wikipedia
Todmorden - Wikipedia

Where is Loren from, and what was the point at which he realised that there was more to life, and reality, and consciousness, than is described in consensus reality?

Berlin - Wikipedia
Fall of the Berlin Wall - Wikipedia
Sky News report (1989): The Fall Of The Berlin Wall - YouTube
Virginia - Wikipedia
Game design - Wikipedia
Dungeons and Dragons - Wikipedia
Martial arts - Wikipedia
Psychedelic drug - Wikipedia
Ninja - Wikipedia
The Matrix (1999 film) - Wikipedia
The Matrix (1999) Official Trailer - YouTube
The Last Samurai (2003 film) - Wikipedia
The Last Samurai (2003) Official Trailer - YouTube
Psychedelic experience - Wikipedia
Entity encounters and the therapeutic effect of the psychedelic mystical experience - AKJournals.com
Kundalini - Wikipedia
Qigong (chi gung) - Wikipedia
Shaolin Monastery - Wikipedia
How to make a Qi (Chi) ball - YouTube
Jiddu Krishnamurti - Wikipedia
Charles Webster Leadbeater - Wikipedia
Theosophical Society - Wikipedia
The Luminous Life Of The"Anti-Guru": Jiddu Krishnamurti - YouTube
Truth is a Pathless Land by J. Krishnamurti - Goodreads
Meditation - Wikipedia
The Shamanic Journey - ShamanLinks.net
Animal Spirit Guides - PsychicLibrary.com
Astral projection - Wikipedia
Lucid Dreaming - Wikipedia
Kenshō - Wikipedia
Time - Stanford.edu
Cyclic view of time in the philosophy of history - Britannica.com
Religious Studies - Wikipedia
Rudolf Steiner - Wikipedia
Qi (Chi) - Wikipedia
Imagination - Wikipedia
Shaolin monk bends spears with neck - YouTube
Tai Chi - Wikipedia
Bad trip - Wikipedia
Pure Guava (1992 album)
Ween (band) - Wikipedia
Mind–body dualism - Wikipedia

What is the link between imagination, creativity, and reality, and can imagination and creativity be used to manipulate reality?

Western esotericism - Wikipedia
Eastern esotericism - Wikipedia
Materialism (philosophy) - Wikipedia
Theory of forms (Platonic idealism) - Wikipedia
Qi (Chi) - Wikipedia
Ayahuasca - Wikipedia
Ayahuasca entities - Soul-Herbs.com
Telepathy - Wikipedia
VYS0032 | O Buddha, Where Art Thou? - Vayse to Face with Roger Jayamanne
Tibetan Buddhism - Wikipedia
Is Life a Dream? - PsychologyToday.com
Dreams Are More Real Than Anyone Thought - PsychologyToday.com

How have Loren’s first-hand experiences influenced the way in which his personal practice has developed?

First principle - Wikipedia
Bob Ross - Wikipedia
How Magic Works: A guide in theory and practice - MagicalExperiments.com
Enlightenment (spiritual) - Wikipedia
Initiation: Religious and spiritual - Wikipedia
Astral plane - Wikipedia
Angel - Wikipedia
Invocation - Wikipedia
Evocation - Wikipedia
Mother Ayahuasca: Mysterious Meeting With Divine Mother - BeholdRetreats.com

How to develop a practice in Loren’s self-guided style

How to Keep a Dream Journal – Benefits, Apps and Examples - Find-a-Therapist.com
Archetype - Wikipedia
Synchronicity - Wikipedia
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg - Goodreads
Zen - Wikipedia

What are the patterns of life and time, and where do they come from?

Golden ratio - Wikipedia
Fractal - Wikipedia
Space-time May Have Fractal Properties on a Quantum Scale - Phys.org
Introduction to the fractality principle of consciousness and the sentyon postulate, National Library of Medicine
Cosmology - Wikipedia
Eternalism (philosophy of time) - Wikipedia
Exploring the Block Universe Theory: How Life Resembles a Movie - Medium.com
Free will - Wikipedia
Harmonic - Wikipedia
Interval (music) - Wikipedia
Musica universalis (Music of the spheres) - Wikipedia
Paul Weston’s website
Gregorian calendar - Wikipedia
Talking Magical Timing and Personal Synchronicity | Paul Weston - Rune Soup podcast

Loren’s devices: The Timepiece and the Calendar

Planetary Archetypes, PandoraAstrology.com
I Ching - Wikipedia
Bagua (trigrams) - Wikipedia
Terence McKenna - Wikipedia
The Invisible Landscape by Terence McKenna - Goodreads
Steampunk - Wikipedia
Live action role-playing game (LARP) - Wikipedia
Aura (paranormal) - Wikipedia
Garuda - Wikipedia
Muay Thai (Thai boxing) - Wikipedia
Newcastle upon Tyne - Wikipedia
What is cage fighting? - Speak-MMA.com
Waveform - Wikipedia
Goethe quote: “Music is liquid architecture…” - AZQuotes.com
Neidan (Chinese internal alchemy) - Wikipedia
Chakra - Wikipedia
Taoism (Daoism) - Wikipedia
Dark Night of the Soul: Contemporary understanding - Wikipedia
Tantra - Wikipedia
Astrology - Wikipedia
Perennial philosophy - Wikipedia

Time travel, timeloops, and Loren’s day-to-day relationship with time

Time travel - Wikipedia
Timeloops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious by Eric Wargo - Goodreads
Temporal paradox - Wikipedia
Śūnyatā (philosophical concept, “emptiness”) - Wikipedia
First Cause - Britannica.com
Pratītyasamutpāda (Buddhist doctrine, dependent origination)
Origami - Wikipedia
Multi-verse - Wikipedia

Loren’s initiatory mega-trip

Psilocybe cubensis - Wikipedia
Big Bang - Wikipedia
Photon - Wikipedia
Star system - Wikipedia
Tattoo - Wikipedia
Tesseract - Wikipedia
Non-dual awareness - MindOwl.org
Kundalini - Wikipedia
Carl Jung - Wikipedia
Active imagination - Wikipedia
Who is Philemon? - PhilemonFoundation.org
The Red Book (Jung) - Wikipedia
Arcturus - Wikipedia
The Starseed Signals: A Scientific-Occult Mystery (magazine article by RAW) - RAWilsonFans.de
Seven rays (concept): In Theosophy - Wikipedia
Pleiades in folklore and literature: Modern beliefs - Wikipedia
Out-of-body experience - Wikipedia
Subtle body - Wikipedia
Frank Fools Crow - Wikipedia
The Dismemberment Journey - ShamanLinks.net
Soul flight - Wikipedia
How to Know Higher Worlds By Rudolf Steiner - Goodreads
Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha by Daniel Ingram - Goodreads
Etheric body - Wikipedia
Waldorf education - Wikipedia
Sakshi (witness) - Wikipedia
Imaginative Cognition and Inspired Cognition (Steiner lecture) - RSArchive.org
W. B. Yeats - Wikipedia
A Vision - Wikipedia
A Vision by W.B. Yeats - Goodreads
Allen Ginsberg - Wikipedia
Howl (poem) - Wikipedia
Howl (poem): 1957 obscenity trial - Wikipedia
Georgie Hyde-Lees (wife of W. B. Yeats) - Wikipedia
The Phases of the Moon - YeatsVision.com
Daniel Ingram’s website

What is insight meditation, and how can someone start their own practice?

Clarification: Insight Meditation vs. Concentration, Reddit
Insight Meditation: Where The Attention Goes, InsightTimer.com
Śūnyatā (philosophical concept, “emptiness”) - Wikipedia
Anattā (“non-self” ) - Wikipedia
Concentration Meditation: Peaceful Resistance Against Invasive Tech - MindfulStoic.net
Mantra - Wikipedia
Body Scan Meditation - PositivePsychology.com
S.N. Goenka - Wikipedia
Goenka Meditation Retreats and Information - AnmolMehta.com
Samatha-vipassana (“insight meditation”) - Wikipedia
Mahasiddha - Wikipedia

Loren’s recommendations

Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha by Daniel Ingram - Goodreads
A Path with Heart by Jack Kornfield - Goodreads
How to Know Higher Worlds by Rudolf Steiner - Goodreads
Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism by Valentin Tomberg - Goodreads
The Life Divine by Sri Aurobindo - Goodreads
The Tindalos Asset by Caitlín R. Kiernan - Goodreads
The Fountain (2006 film) - Wikipedia
Beer Biceps podcast
The Power of Tantra - My Deep Dive with Rajarshi Nandy - Beer Biceps podcast

Buckley’s closing question

Rudolf Steiner - Wikipedia
Anthroposophical Society - Wikipedia
Goetheanum - Wikipedia
Rivendell - Wikipedia
Eurhythmy - Wikipedia
Foucault’s Pendulum (novel) - Wikipedia
Siddhartha (novel) - Wikipedia
Hermann Hesse - Wikipedia
Artificial intelligence - Wikipedia
Dark City (1998 film) - Wikipedia
Dark City (1998) Official Trailer - YouTube
Ad Astra (2019 film) - Wikipedia
Ad Astra Official Trailer - YouTube
The Lighthouse (2019 film) - Wikipedia
The Lighthouse Official Trailer - YouTube

Vayse online

Vayse website
Vayse on Twitter
Vayse on Instagram
Music From Vayse - Volume 1 by Polypores
Vayse on Ko-Fi
Vayse email: vayseinfo@gmail.com

Special Guest: Loren Fetterman.

Handing on a plate to Hine and Buckley the most potently inspired episode title in Vayse history is teacher, researcher, blogger and "the Julia Child of Sex Magic", Stephanie Quick. In an intense and varied conversation Stephanie takes Vayse through her near death experience, complete with a fall through the starlit sky, disembodied consciousnesses and sky-scraper sized entities, she talks about how to start off your own run of synchronicities and the conversation weaves itself around Carlos Castaneda, Gurdjieff, how to not lose yourself in your spiritual practice or join a cult... and, speaking of cults, enter the glowing orange 16-bit pineapple... Recorded 10 August 2023

Stephanie Quick Links

Steph’s blog, Ghost Dog is a Mystery Box

Steph on Bluesky

Steph on Instagram

Steph on Twitter

Steph on Facebook

Steph’s YouTube channel

Introduction Links

Lovecraftian horror - Wikipedia page

Julia Child - Wikipedia page

Sex magic - Wikipedia page

Cheese Board Collective - Wikipedia page

Chez Panisse, Wikipedia page

Alice Waters - Wikipedia page

An Introduction to Western Sexual Mysticism, New Dawn Magazine article

Refuge in Buddhism - Wikipedia page

Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) - Wikipedia page

Coven - Wikipedia page

Steph, the West Coast, and the ‘Spiritual Marketplace’ Links

Fresno, California - Wikipedia page

Bigfoot, Chupacabra, and…Fresno Nightcrawler? Walking pants bring Fresno freaky fame - Fresno Bee article

The Fresno Nightcrawlers - sceptical, humorous

North Fork, California - Wikipedia page

The Chukchansi People - Coarsegold Historical Society article

Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians - Wikipedia page

East Bay - Wikipedia page

Oakland, California - Wikipedia page

Berkeley, California - Wikipedia page

University of California, Santa Cruz - Wikipedia page

Napa, California - Wikipedia page

Tibetan Buddhism - Wikipedia page

Zen (Buddhism) - Wikipedia page

Understanding the Spiritual Marketplace - From Monopoly to Open Access - Patheos article

Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion by Wade Clark Roof

Lupus Psychosis and Brain Inflammation - Lupus Corner article

Aphasia - Wikipedia page

Yoga - Wikipedia page

Archangel Michael (channelled messages) - Sanada website

Pick‘n’mix: the 21st Century approach to religious affiliation, Walls Come Tumbling Down blog article

How did Steph find her way into weird stuff? Links

Strangely Enough by C.B. Colby - Goodreads page

C.B. Colby - Wikipedia page

Jersey Devil - Wikipedia page

Near death experience - Wikipedia page

Lidocaine - Wikipedia page

Bardo (liminal state between death and rebirth) - Wikipedia page

Keith's Excellent Detective Work (gods bless you, Keith) - Based on SQ’s mentions of her age now (61) and at later events, I reckon the exhibition she must have gone to was ‘Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet’, held at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, in 1991. There is an exhibition catalogue available. Not sure if it’s worth including, but there’s a link to it here on Abe Books

I couldn’t find anything else specific to that exhibition that wasn’t behind a pay-wall or on a subscription site, but here’s a short video trailer for that museum’s similar exhibitions:

San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Tibetan Buddhist exhibitions

Tanka - Wikipedia Page

Sand mandala - Wikipedia page

Tibetan Sand Mandala (construction and destruction)

Synchronicity - Wikipedia page

Steph’s Near Death Experience Links

Coma - Wikipedia page

Meningitis - Wikipedia page

Meningitis Research Foundation - Excellent charity

Near death, seeing dead people may be neither rare nor eerie - AP News article

PMH Atwater website

Psychopomp - Wikipedia page

Last rites - Wikipedia page

Anointing of the Sick in the Catholic Church (Extreme Unction) - Wikipedia page

Auto-immune disease - wikipedia page

Bronchoscopy - Wikipedia page

Robert Monroe - Wikipedia page

Mindfulness - Wikipedia page

Whitley Strieber - Wikipedia page

A Wild and Wonderful Dialogue between Whitley and UFO Master Greg Bishop...and Gru!

George Gurdjieff - Wikipedia page

Fourth Way (Gurdjieff) - Wikipedia page

Gurdjieff sensing exercises

Alien abduction - Wikipedia page

Biocentrism Posits That Death Is Merely Transport into Another Universe - Big Think article

Heaven - Wikipedia page

Jung, Flying Saucers, and the Anxieties of Our Time (UFOs as mandala symbols) - Psychology Today article

VYS0024: Between Being Real and Not Real - Vayse to Face with Nathan Paul Isaac

Is Consciousness a Fundamental Quality of the Universe? - Sci News article and video

Are we really made of 'star stuff' and what does that even mean? - Space article and video

Steph’s encounter with skyscraper-sized entities and its impact on her spiritual practice - Links

Rinpoche - Wikipedia page

Kensington, California - Wikipedia page

Ewam Choden Tibetan Buddhist Centre, Kensington website

24 years on retreat (Judith Skinner) - The New Fillmore article and ‘On Retreat’ documentary trailer

Tathāgata (Buddhism) - Wikipedia page

The X Files - Wikipedia page

The X-Files

Allen Greenfield on Twitter

Secrets of the Real Black Lodge Revealed! by Allen Greenfield and Olav Phillips

Black and White Lodges, Twin Peaks - Wikipedia page section

Empire State Building - Wikipedia page

Grey alien - Wikipedia page

Marian apparition - Wikipedia page

Emergency medical technician (EMT) - Wikipedia page

Plaid Moon Rising - The Flannel Man - Birdy Magazine article

Ontological security - Wikipedia page

Meditation for awareness - Headspace article

Shavasana (Yoga) - Wikipedia page

Sacred Space: How to Make an Altar in Your Home - Chopra article

Leslie Temple Thurston - website

Native American religions - Britannica.com

Sweat lodge - Wikipedia page

Astrology - Wikipedia page

Acupuncture - Wikipedia page

Acupressure - Wikiepdia page

Wuxing (Chinese Philosophy, Five Element System) - Wikipedia Page

New Thought - Wikipedia page

Synchronicity, the Sandown Clown, and Psychic Jizz - Links

Anthony Nine on Twitter

Synchronicity - Wikipedia page

AP Strange - website

AP Strange on Twitter

The Sandown Clown: Exploring Sam, the Isle of Wight’s surreal 1973 encounter, On the Wight article and videos

Our Strange Skies podcast, 151: Clowning Around with Stephanie Quick & AP Strange (Sam, the Sandown Clown)

How To Induce Synchronicities, Stephanie Quick blog post

Radio Misterioso - Greg Bishop bio

Quick and Ray – A Psychic Influencing Experiment - Radio Mysterioso post

(Lama) Kunga Rinpoche - Wikipedia page

Buddhist Symbols - Faith Inspires article

Synchronicity and symbols as the base level of magic and entity encounters - Links

VYS0026 | It's a Wand-erful Life - Vayse to Face with Douglas Batchelor Pt. 1

VYS0027 | Batchelor of Dark Arts - Vayse to Face with Douglas Batchelor Pt. 2

Birdwatching - Wikipedia page

Bird symbolism - World Birds article

Bird vocalisation - Wikipedia page

Paramecium - Wikipedia page

Robert Monroe - Wikipedia page

Dodechahedron - Wikipedia page

Chakra - Wikipedia page

Spreading the weird word, sweeping statements, and the teacher-trickster - Links

Julia Child - Wikipedia page

What Magic is This? website

VYS0024 | Between Being Real and Not Real - Vayse to Face with Nathan Paul Isaac

VYS0025 | Truth with a Capital "T" - Vayse to Face with Sequoyah Kennedy

VYS0010 | Amazing Stories - Vayse to Face with Dr Allen H Greenfield Pt.1

VYS0011 | Weird Tales - Vayse to Face with Dr Allen H Greenfield Pt.2

AP Strange - website

George Gurdjieff - Wikipedia page

Teacher as trickster on the learner’s journey - Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning article

Whitley Strieber - Wikipedia page

Communion (book) - Wikipedia page

Project Archivist podcast

Sex Magic with Allen Greenfield - SQ blog post and link to podcast audio

Carlos Castaneda, Amy Wallace, and Steph’s Rules for Sex Magic with Others - Links

Carlos Castaneda - Wikipedia page

Trickster: The Many Lives of Carlos Castaneda, podcast

Destructive cults - Wikipedia page section

Amy Wallace - Wikipedia page

Sorcerer's Apprentice: My Life with Carlos Castaneda by Amy Wallace - Goodreads page

Sorcerer's Apprentice : My Life with Carlos Castaneda by Amy Wallace

Irving Wallace - Wikipedia page

Rodeo Drive - Wikipedia page

Florinda Donner - Wikipedia page

John Lennon - Wikipedia page

George Lucas - Wikipedia page

Aleister Crowley - Wikipedia page

My Rules for Sex Magic with Others - Stephanie Quick blog post

Steph’s recommendations - Links

Women of the Paranormal Vol I by Alex Matsuo

The Spooky Stuff podcast with Alex Matsuo

The Spooky Stuff with Alex Matsuo on YouTube

Personal Pans podcast with Vanessa Walilko

Pan Paracon/Personal Pans on YouTube

Vanessa Walilko’s Jewellery and Wearable Art

Necronomicast podcast

Some Other Sphere podcast

Church of Mabus Radio on YouTube

John E.L. Tenney’s website

Eric Wargo’s website

*Vayse *

Vayse website

Vayse on Twitter

Vayse on Instagram

Music From Vayse - Volume 1 by Polypores

Vayse on Ko-Fi

Special Guest: Stephanie Quick.

In the second part of this two part interview with legendary Occultist and UFOlogist Dr Allen H Greenfield, Hine and Buckley go deep asking questions about: the Black Lodge, the Babalon Working, Hellier and the collapse of Western Civilisation. Allen also recounts unnerving tales of the UFOlogists who died too young and the dangers of research in the field... so, don't try this at home... Recorded 13 November 2022

As mentioned in the pre-amble to this episode, after the technical difficulties we experienced during the recording of this interview we have completely overhauled our recording software which we were able to do because of listeners buying the Vayse soundtrack by Polypores. 100% of the proceeds from the album are put back into the podcast. So, if you enjoy the music featured in the podcast, or if you just want to throw us some cash to keep the lights on, you can download "Music From Vayse - Volume 1" here on our bandcamp

Dr Allen H Greenfield's books
The Complete Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts
The Grail Within: The True Quest for the Holy Grail and the Western Sex Magick Tradition
Saucers and Saucerers
The Roots of Modern Magic: Glimpses of the Authentic Tradition from 1700 - 2000

Dr Allen H Greenfield links

Twitter - Stay on top of all things Allen Greenfield
Secret Cipher Calculator (Liber AL vel Legis) - Grab a copy of the book (above), try some Cipher calculations of your own and then get out into the field!
Hellier - I don't believe that anyone has found their way here without watching it, but if you haven't - do that now!

Other links

The Episode of his podcast, the Paranoia Podcast, in which Olav Philips suggests that Terry R Wriste could possibly be an Ascended Master

Local newspaper article looking back on the Todmorden UFO and the mysterious death of Zigmund Adamski

The Canadian case – “The Falcon Lake Incident”

The Brazilian Case - The Lead Masks Case

Twin Peaks - Hawk explains the Black Lodge to Cooper

Article about the death of Ron Bonds

Death of Jim Keith

Frank Edwards' Wikipedia entry

Flying Saucers - Serious Business by Franks Edwards

Article about how John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day

Penny Royal - essential podcast listening

The Re-birth of Pan by Jim Brandon - this book is referenced in both Hellier and Penny Royal BUT if you've watched Hellier and Penny Royal, you'll know that Jim Brandon is the nom de plume of William Grimstead - white supremacist, Holocaust denier, associate of David Duke and all-round piece of shit. Greg Newkirk puts it best himself.

Something in the Dirt - Excellent new film by Benson and Moorhead - if you enjoyed Hellier, there's a very good chance you'll enjoy this too.

Lullaby - Upcoming horror movie written by Allen's son, Alex Greenfield.

A Dark Song - Horror movie about the Abramelin ritual.

See Richard Gere as John Keel in The Mothman Prophecies

Special Guest: Allen H Greenfield.

Occultist or UFOlogist? Teacher or trickster? Keeper of secrets or straight-talking raconteur? Dr Allen H Greenfield is all of these things and infinitely (or a finite very, very large number) more. In this first part of a two-part interview Allen talks about how he first uncovered the potential of the secret cipher, sets the record straight on Gray Barker and Jim Moseley, talks about the plasticity of reality and tells the story of how a single small hoax has the potential to instigate legitimate phenomena on a large scale... recorded 13 November 2022

The sound quality on this episode isn't quite where we usually like it to be - this is just due to the technical challenges of talking to the other side of the world on a shoe-string budget. Apologies but stick with it - Allen is his usual brilliant self, and we go deep.

Dr Allen H Greenfield's books

The Complete Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts

The Grail Within: The True Quest for the Holy Grail and the Western Sex Magick Tradition
Saucers and Saucerers
The Roots of Modern Magic: Glimpses of the Authentic Tradition from 1700 - 2000

Dr Allen H Greenfield links

Twitter - Stay on top of all things Allen Greenfield
Secret Cipher Calculator (Liber AL vel Legis) - Grab a copy of the book (above), try some Cipher calculations of your own and then get out into the field!
Hellier - I don't believe that anyone has found their way here without watching it, but if you haven't - do that now!

Other links

The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell - don't try this at home...

*The Absolute Elsewhere with an introduction by Andrew Stephens * - The transcriptions of the lost interviews between Kerry Thornely and Allen Greenfield were released as a limited run of 33 copies. Good luck finding one of those.

Olav Phillips on Twitter - Allen's publisher and friend

Communion by Whitley Strieber

Paradise Lost: West Memphis Three The documentary about Damien Echols and the West Memphis Three and their wrongful conviction for murder during the satanic panic of the 1980s/1990s

The X Files

Haunted Objects Podcast - The Newkirks' new podcast

Mind-reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Abilities (Studies in Consciousness) by Russell Targ and Harold E. Puthoff

The Wanaque Reservoir Flap - there was a cool photograph taken and this weird artwork from an eye witness (which we assume is from the same flap but let us know if you know differently)

Parallel Worlds: The Science of Alternative Universes and Our Future in the Cosmos by Michio Kaku

Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal by CG Jung

Ulysses by James Joyce

I Ching – The Wilhelm/Baynes 3rd edition

Special Guest: Allen H Greenfield.

If there is one common experience in the life of both Hine and Buckley that could be said to have jump-started Vayse into existence, it was watching the TV series Hellier. If there is one person alive right now who could be said to have been directly responsible for both Hine and Buckley watching Hellier, that person is writer and journalist Will Salmon. In this episode Hine and Buckley talk to Will Salmon about Hellier, Penny Royal and whether these and other 'media viruses' can be responsible, consciously or unconsciously, for re-enchanting the lives of their audience - "I think we’re at the beginning of a global awakening man..." Recorded 5 October 2022.

Download the Soundtrack to Vayse Here - We don't sell advertising, we don't do sponsorship and we don't ask for donations but all proceeds from this album go towards our running costs.

You can find more from Will Salmon here :

Twitter - https://twitter.com/evilrobotbill
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/evilrobotbill/
Modern Aviation - Will Salmon's record label

Essential Texts

Warning: This episode assumes that you have watched all of Hellier and listened to all of Penny Royal - it is heavy on spoilers and light on explainers.

Hellier - "One star, no Goblins."
Penny Royal – “I don’t really like to believe in all that paranormal shit but then again, this whole fucking reality that we live in could be made up as hell, so why not explore every range of it that you can”

Other References

SFX - The World's Number One, Science-fiction, Fantasy and Horror Magazine
Total Film - Excellent British movie magazine
Quietus - Rock music and pop culture website
Lost - Classic mystery series
Euphomet – Hellier Was Just a Symptom
Weird Studies – Goblins, Goat-Gods and Gates: On 'Hellier'
Passport to Magonia by Jacques Vallee
Occult Experiments in the Home by Duncan Barford
The Mothman Prophecies by John Keel
The Matrix - Some obscure movie about sunglasses or something
Something in the Dirt - Upcoming movie made by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
The Endless - 2017 movie made by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
Resolution - 2012
Somewhere in the Skies #138
Bigfoot and Beyond #146
Valis by Philip K Dick
Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson
The Invisibles - Interesting article summarising the series
The Invisibles wank-a-thon
True Detective season 1
Twin Peaks
The Secret History of Twin Peaks
The X-Files
The Book of the Law
Unexplained - Excellent podcast by Richard MacLean Smith taking deep dives into classic and less well known paranormal encounters
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
The Leftovers
Bill and Ted - This is our second guest in a row to mention Bill and Ted of their own accord (100% of our guests) - is this a coincidence or a synchronicity...?

Special Guest: Will Salmon.