Mind the Shift

Researchers who dare to go outside the box and investigate phenomena that the mainstream dismisses because they are inexplicable are labeled ”pseudoscientists”. Those who question elements of the accepted scientific view are labeled ”conspiracy theorists”. ”And journalists who dare to contact one of those researchers and do an interview are contaminated with the same labels”, says Danish journalist and communicator Jesper Madsen. ”No wonder many journalists hesitate to write or broadcast anything that is not in line with official science”, he concludes. When he was young, Madsen wanted to become an engineer. But during military service he changed course and decided he wanted to work in the humanities. Eventually he became a journalist. Since childhood Jesper had had a fascination for mysteries and the mystical aspects of life. A seven-week sojourn in San Francisco in 1996 turned out to be crucial. He met people with fascinating insights into the esoteric realm. He made his first contact with IONS, the Institute of Noetic Sciences, with which Jesper is now affiliated (the first Danish community group). He saw the need for a paradigm shift. But when he returned to Denmark with tons of notes, he found it difficult to know what to do with it. The mindset in Danish media was not very open to this kind of knowledge. Soon thereafter, Jesper Madsen found himself in a meeting about alternative medicine. He realized that this was connected to what he had learned. So, during the last 20 years, he has specialized in complementary and alternative medicine. It is well documented that many of the alternative medical treatments work, but if the standard double-blind trial is not employed, the results are ignored. ”To rely on only one investigative method is a matter of belief. They say that alternative medicine is based on belief, but this is also a belief. If you don't recognize the thinking behind the method you want to study, you won't understand why it works”, says Jesper and gives the salient example of homeopathy, which is vehemently rejected by the mainstream. The placebo effect is well documented by standard science. In some cases it is very strong. It is mostly described as some kind of undesirable noise in studies, but what it actually shows is that our ability to heal ourselves (and make ourselves sick) is much larger than we have been led to believe. All along, Jesper Madsen has had a profound interest in ”frontier science”, as he puts it. ”Now I feel somehow I want to go back to the basic, big questions”, he says. His latest endeavor is an engagement with the Galileo Commission, an offshoot from The Scientific and Medical Network, which aims to encourage investigations beyond the materialist worldview. Jesper is involved in the creation of a network of open minded journalists. ”I put my faith in English speaking countries like the US and the UK, because here in Denmark today I don't think more than two or three journalists, aside from myself, are open to this.” Links: Galileo Commission Scientific and Medical Network Stanislav Grof ”ESP Wars East and West” Edwin C. May Institute of Noetic Sciences

Independent researchers are putting together a puzzle that is beginning to reveal a vastly different history than the one we are told in school. Especially concerning how far back in time civilization actually goes. One of those independent researchers is Brien Foerster. His fascination with the history of human civilization and culture began when he grew up in western Canada. He later moved to Hawaii and eventually to Peru, where he now lives. His quest for the origins of civilization has taken him to a hundred countries, and he organizes tours to megalithic sites in the former Inca lands, Egypt, Turkey and other places. ”I have followed my passion”, he says. Brien has written 37 books about megalithic sites and hidden history, and he is an avid youtuber. He is convinced, like many other maverick researchers, that the advanced megalithic structures around the world were not built by the cultures mainstream scientists say did it, but by much earlier and technologically much more advanced civilizations that perished. In official history, it was the dynastic Egyptians who built the great pyramids and the Inca who built the most impressive walls and other structures in Peru and Bolivia where gigantic blocks of hard stone were put in place with exquisite precision. But even the mainstream acknowledges that neither the Inca nor the dynastic Egyptians knew how to use steel, and much less diamond reinforced drills or saw blades. They only utilized bronze tools, and you cannot cut granite with bronze. ”The evidence is staring you in the face”, Brien Foerster says. There is also growing evidence that a series of cataclysms occurred roughly 12,000 to 13,000 years ago which – in the view of Foerster and others – wiped out the civilizations of the megalithic builders. One compelling circumstance is that at least 200 cultures around the world are talking about the destruction of their world by a flood of some kind. Brien Foerster’s foremost contribution to the understanding of our origins is probably his research on the mysterious elongated skulls in Paracas, Peru. The mainstream researchers say they are merely the result of head binding and other forms of cranial deformation. But that doesn't make sense when you study the oldest of them, which seem natural: their cranial volume is 25 percent larger than in a normal homo sapiens skull, a suture line is lacking, the eye sockets are larger and the foramen magnum, the hole connecting the skull with the neck, is placed two centimeters further back, presumably to balance the larger skulls. Several of the skulls have been DNA analyzed, and it turns out they are related to other elongated skulls that have been found in the area of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea This challenges the standard story of how America was populated. ”The enigma is that they suddenly appear, and then they disappear.” Brien Foerster has probably investigated this enigma more profoundly than anybody else. Will he ever find the answer to who the people with the elongated skulls were? ”I haven't given up on it yet.” Foerster is facing increasing limitations around his research in Peru and Bolivia, but Egypt is slowly opening up more. In ten years time, a lot more eyes will be looking at the signs of a hidden ancient human history, Brien thinks. Here is Brien Foerster’s website. Below are four Youtube channels dedicated to alternative history that Brien endorses: Uncharted X Bright Insight Jahannah James History with Kayleigh

The online revolution has worked wonders to connect people, but we need to meet in the physical to really exchange energy and love and to find our inner power. That was one of the insights Brady Gunn brought with him when he began standing in a park in Australia every Sunday between 10 and 11 am to simply silently manifest his truth and freedom. ”We’re all one, we're all drops in the same ocean”, Brady says. The lockdown policies was the catalyst, but the peaceful standing manifestation grew to something wider. It is about celebrating ”freedom, diversity and fairness for all”, as it says on the subsequently created website for the fast growing movement, which got the name A Stand in the Park. For three months Brady stood there alone. Then people started joining. After a few months, the movement migrated to the UK with the help of Brady’s friend Sophia (Fifi) Rose. There it took off quickly. The movement today encompasses more than 1,000 parks in 30 countries, whereof more than 700 in the UK alone. ”The mandatory covid passports has been a wake up call for many”, says Sophia. Many of the ”park standers” have taken their jabs but feel the authorities are going too far now. The police have largely left the movement alone, despite its formal violation of lockdown rules. It is difficult to mass arrest old ladies with pets and all kinds of other ordinary people who are not doing anything, just standing there. However, Brady is strictly forbidden to promote the movement publicly. Other covid policy protesters have been treated a lot worse by the police. ”They have done some irreparable damage. I don't think the Australian people will easily forgive them”, says Brady. When it comes to what the measures that have been taken against the pandemic will eventually entail, including the jabs, Brady seems to have a gloomier outlook than Sophia. ”Things are a lot worse than in your worst nightmare”, he says and adds that he is skeptical towards what he sees as blind optimism. Sophia has more sympathy for positive thinking, at least to the extent that it means shedding fear. Because fear is what is fuelling the top-down control of people. Neither of the founders of A Stand in the Park are impressed with how the mainstream media is covering either their movement or any other current protest activities. And there are many. On November 20th hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated against lockdowns and mandates in dozens of countries. ”If they actually reported on it, people would be so empowered”, says Sophia. They both think there is a spiritual battle going on ”This is why they want to stop us from coming together”, says Sophia. ”Our society is founded on fear; fear of the other, fear of what could happen, it's relentless. Ultimately, what's driving us is fear of death, which is an absolutely crazy avoidance.” Is this a crucial time in history? Yes, says Brady: ”This is a massive spiritual war. It is an awakening.” This linktree will guide you to A Stand in the Park’s website and social media handles as well as some other interviews with Brady and Fifi.

What if every guest inspired the host to write a song? This is exactly what happens on Jack Stafford’s podcast Podsongs. He kicked it off only last year and has already created a unique little universe of over 100 episodes and songs now. Lately, this universe has evolved into a collaborative project with guest musicians coming on. Jack had been a musician for many years when the pandemic forced him to look for other outlets for his music. He talks to all kinds of inspirational people, but he has a mission: to bring spirituality to the centre stage and mysticism back into the mainstream. Jack grew up in the UK but moved to Amsterdam, where he lived a toyboy lifestyle working as a copywriter, musician and fashion designer. However, this led to burnout, so Jack sold all his possessions and set off on a bicycle tour as a nomadic troubadour. He travelled through 45 countries, playing hundreds of house concerts in return for a place to sleep. He recorded many of his crazy adventures in his songs, and through those—plus countless self-help books and podcasts, as well as yoga, Ayurveda and Vipassana meditation—he grew and grew to become a unique modern-day troubadour. His spiritual awakening happened in India. It wasn’t a flash experience, it came gradually. The person who showed him how to find a deeper reality was an American. ”You think you'll meet some Indian guru. But this man had been doing pranayamas and mantras since he was three years old. And he opened the door to George King and the Aetherius society. So there I am in India, learning about an Englishman via an American...” The Aetherius society has since been at the centre of Jack Stafford’s spiritual quest. It is a small movement founded by George King in the 50s. The teachings are fascinating but may appear mysterious to many people. Jack explains bits and pieces of it. ”If you're open to it, it's Buddhism and Christianity and UFOs and science, all wrapped into one bundle of joy”, he says with a smile. ”We are here to be of service. We are here to learn. We are in a classroom.” Many spiritual people unwisely skip the material aspects of this earthly existence, Jack thinks. ”Many spiritual people just want to be in the bosom of their garden with fairies or meditate. They don’t think it is a spiritual way to get a science degree or start a business. But you can't learn metaphysics unless you master physics.” ”You can levitate if you do 15 years of yoga with mantra and pranayama. These are siddies you get. There is science behind that.” However, once you have attained such siddies, you should deny them, he explains. ”When you master something, you don't use it. Because we are here to be of service.” The teachings of George King and the Aetherius society centers not only around yoga but also extraterrestrial life. ”This is where it can get a little crazy. This is why I got into this gradually.” There is physicality on every level of consciousness and light, according to Jack Stafford. When we die, we go to another realm, which is exactly here, but at a different frequency. ”If you go to another planet with our frequency, it can look like only dust, but in a higher realm, the same planet has cities, temples and spaceships. This is a key concept as to how UFOs and reincarnation are linked.” According to Jack and the Aetherius teachings, some of the ETs visiting Earth may actually be us at a later, or higher, stage–the ”future us” showing up here and now, so to speak. Podsongs Mysticast (Jack’s other podcast) The Aetherius society

One of the many planned questions I never ask in my pretty intense conversation with film director Ninja Thyberg is this: To state that gender and sexuality are just social constructs is to me like throwing all intuitive capability in the trash. Don’t you sometimes feel we don’t let ourselves be human in this politicized society? My guess is that Ninja would partly agree but also not quite understand what I mean. The hot spots of our conversation have to do with our somewhat different views on the significance of biology (and/or nonphysical aspects) vs social structures. But differences in points of view make for an interesting human encounter, right? Ninja Thyberg is an intelligent, brave and curious person who very early in life began pondering sexuality and gender roles. She wanted to explore the drivers behind pornography, for instance. After a series of acclaimed short movies, her first full length movie, ”Pleasure”, premieres in theaters across Europe this fall. It is about a 19-year-old Swedish girl who goes to Los Angeles to try to become the next big star in the porn industry. The film is partly brutally realistic. Although it does not show explicit sex (and the only full frontals are of men) it still contains several crude scenes. ”Pleasure” has many layers, and despite the rawness of the industry that is arguably what many viewers would expect, it also shows the friendship, drive and humor that exists among the female stars, and also an everydayness and kindness. Ninja says she almost regrets that she portrayed the porn industry in such a multifaceted way. Because almost everybody seems to like the film! ”And that's not only a good thing”, she says. ”I wanted to be nuanced, and maybe the film is too nuanced, so nobody is really provoked. Right now I'm just afraid it's going to be forgotten, like ’yeah, great film, very nuanced’, and that's that”, Ninja says. I hardly think her worry is warranted. Thyberg was always drawn to the topic of pornography because it is taboo and nobody wants to talk about it. ”I have been provoked by the hypocrisy in our culture, where people watch so much porn and no one admits it. It takes place in kind of a parallel universe. It's like something that itches and the doctor says don't scratch, that makes me want to scratch it even more.” From there we venture into a more general gender discussion. ”Sexuality is built from the cultural context and that is constantly changing”, Ninja says. ”I know from my own experience that it is possible to change your sexuality. It is what your brain is used to.” I ask about some differences in sexuality that seem to be there, according to studies, like the ability to switch it off and on and how much it is visually oriented. Ninja modifies her view a bit and says we might be born with some differences on a group level. ”Fifteen years ago I thought everything was a social construct and that there were no biological differences. Now I realize it is a combination.” But she also says: ”Of course men are more visually oriented, because they are triggered visually by the male gaze everywhere.” Delving a bit deeper into this aspect, Ninja says that men who want sex but don’t get it are more vulnerable than women who want sex but don’t get it, and she has an interesting reasoning behind that. ”There are some privileges in being a woman in this culture that are seldom talked about in feminism”, she says. ”Things that male losers in the system don't have. If the feminist movement doesn’t recognize this, the counter reactions from these men are just going to increase.”

Gabriela Guzmán Sanabria had an urge to leave her native Mexico all through her adolescence. At the age of 19 she went to Europe, and eventually she ended up in the Netherlands. Many Mexican friends ask her how on earth she would prefer a rainy, gloomy Holland to a sunny, vibrant Mexico. ”I always had nightmares there. I didn't feel safe. I thought I was put in a place I didn't want to be. Every day was a struggle, I felt limited, like I was being strangled by society. In Holland I finally felt I could be the person I wanted to be. Nobody cared whether I was married or what I worked with”, Gabriela says. She was physically very active, trained in running and lived a healthy life in general, despite studying graphic design at an art academy where drugs and late nights were legion. Having finished her studies she got a job at a big transnational company. After some time something happened that she hadn’t anticipated in her wildest imagination: She was burnt out. ”Everybody was surprised, including myself: How could I be burnt out? I was so healthy. I wasn't depressed, but I was very negative about the future and about everything that was happening.” Burnout and depression look alike, but they're not, Gabriela explains. In a depression you also have self-destructive feelings and thoughts. In a burnout you are not happy but you don't have those thoughts. You are exhausted, even if you sleep for days or weeks. You cannot think clearly. ”It’s like a mental fog. You don't remember things.” ”Some people say: ’Put on your shoes and take a run, you’ll feel better.’ No! If you can go for a run you don't have a burnout.” Certain kinds of personalities score higher on the risk assessment scale. ”You score higher when you are more demanding of yourself, when you cannot see the thin line between what's good for you and what's good for others. This is often why students and other young people burn out.” There is a gender difference: Given similar circumstances, women are more prone to have a burnout, while men are more prone to become depressed. ”Women generally have a stronger social network and talk about it. Men tend more to keep the problems to themselves. When they don’t talk about it, they get depressed.” Reading Joe Dispenza’s book You are the Placebo was a game changer for Gabriela Guzmán Sanabria. Now she was able to find the ”original” Gabriela. ”I had forgotten about her. I had been so busy with the outer world, with being productive.” She found and began practicing different meditation techniques – Dispenza’s, Wim Hof’s and others. After three months her short-term memory was back to normal. ”It was like magic”, says Gabriela. Today she can help others see early signs of a burnout. She discusses the topic with a variety of guests on her podcast Escape from the Burnout Society. One childhood experience that Gabriela thinks has had an important impact on her life’s course was an episode that she didn’t even remember until recently, when she dove deep into meditation and later also did a regression session: a near-death experience. This event explains why during her childhood she couldn't get along with other children but wanted to be with grown-ups, she thinks. ”When I saw children maltreating animals or bullying each other I panicked – not because they did it to me, but because they did it at all.” When Gabriela was seventeen, her mother died. And it didn't take long until her mother sent a greeting from the other side… Gabriela Guzmán Sanabria feels positive about our future wellbeing, after all. She senses there is a shift in perception. ”People are asking questions. They are reflecting more”, she says. Find Gabriela’s website here. Find Gabriela’s podcast here.

(Apologies for the somewhat poor sound quality on Anders’ side of the mic.) When Lars Muhl was eight years old, he said to his mother, in earnest: ”Mother, this world is very primitive”. Two years later, his little sister died from cancer. This forced a shift in Lars’ consciousness. ”My life changed overnight. I became very sensitive. It was like a veil was drawn aside. I could see through people. I sensed that people say one thing and mean another. I didn't understand why. It was scary to me”, Lars says. He stopped going to school. Nobody knew what to do with a boy like that back in the fifties. He was drawn to religion and spiritual knowledge. But he didn't do any spiritual practice. He found music. When he got older he became an appreciated and successful musician. ”But I always felt I was a guest in this world. I never felt I belonged here.” In the nineties Lars Muhl fell terribly ill. For three years he basically stayed in bed. A series of synchronistic events led him to come in contact with a person who was to become Lars’ primary life teacher, a healer he calls The Seer. This man managed to heal Lars – over the telephone. Eventually Lars became The Seer’s apprentice in Spain and in the land of the Cathars up in the Pyrenees. He learned the value of spiritual practice and healing. Today Lars himself is a healer, a mystic and a writer. According to The Seer, Lars in a previous life was one of the writers of the Dead Sea scrolls. Those scrolls plus ancient texts found in Nag Hammadi in Egypt some 75 years ago show the true content of Jesus’ message. Lars Muhl has dedicated much of his work to retelling what Jesus and Mary Magdalene – or more correctly Yeshua and Mariam the Magdalene – really taught. Basically, it is about realizing that all of us have the ability to find the kingdom of heaven within us in this lifetime. This knowledge has been vehemently suppressed by the church. Why? ”Because it takes away the worldly power of priests and kings and politicians. Because spiritual science, as I would call it instead of religion, is above everything”, says Lars. Western science seems intransigent when it comes to the tenets about matter as primary and consciousness as a side effect of brain activity. ”In many ways we still live in primitive times. Ordinary scientists that want to be original have to dare to cross boundaries. They have to go into the spiritual realm. Because there are no real answers in the world of questions. In order to get answers you must go to the world of answers.” Lars Muhl has written 22 books in Danish. Some of them have been translated into English and other languages. Find Lars’ website here Find Lars’ books in English here

Roger Pielke Jr labels himself an ”undisciplined” professor, which is apt since he engages in an impressively wide range of research areas. He is most known for his work on climate, and specifically extreme weather events. For this he initially got much acclaim, and his research has been cited in the IPCC assessment reports. But the last fifteen years or so this work has also given him many adversaries. Why? Because he tells what the science shows. And in this particular area it doesn’t show what the alarmist camp wants to hear. Most kinds of extreme weather events show no detectable trend, contrary to what is claimed in media headlines on a daily basis. Roger Pielke has had to get used to being called ”climate skeptic” or even ”climate denier”, also from members of congress. ”The idea is that if you can tar someone with being a climate skeptic, they can be ignored or dismissed without having to look at their work”, Roger  says. A professor in Environmental studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Pielke has testified before Congress several times. After a hearing in 2013 some members made clear they didn’t like the message. One congressman from Arizona spread the suspicion that Roger Pielke was ”perhaps” taking money from Exxon in exchange for his testimony. Pielke was suddenly inundated with critical messages and emails. Until this day, every week he hears on social media or elsewhere that he was investigated by congress and ”perhaps” took money. The event pushed him to begin doing research on sports in order to attain some safety space from the climate hot spot. But he returns to the hot spot now and then–like when the IPCC’s latest assessment report came out in August. He realizes that he is one of few who can summarize in a simple manner what science actually says on weather extremes. ”For various reasons the IPCC report is largely ignored on those points. So what I tweet about it can be eye-opening.” And why are these results ignored? ”Extreme weather has been taken up as a poster child of the climate debate, and I don't see that changing any time soon”, says Roger. In large part the turning point was around Al Gore’s climate movie ”An Inconvenient Truth” in 2006. ”The environmental community decided that climate change a hundred years from now is too far off for people to understand, so we must bring it home to them in the short term. The way to do that is to associate extreme weather with climate change, so people will feel viscerally and personally what it means, regardless of what the science says”, Pielke explains. He has much less patience with scientists and experts who become activists and exaggerate than with politicians who do it. ”We will never get exaggeration out of politics.” And the data? Here is the short version of what the IPCC says about weather extremes: Heat waves, extreme precipitation events (in certain regions), fire weather (not fires per se), ecological and agricultural drought (human induced drought) show upward trends. Storms, tropical cyclones, flooding, tornadoes, meteorological and hydrological drought (i.e. the headline phenomena), show no detectable upward trends. (From around 28 minutes until 30 minutes into the Youtube episode you’ll find illuminating graphs) Roger’s personal website Roger’s books include The Honest Broker, The Climate Fix, Disasters and Climate Change and The Edge Clip from Congress hearing in 2013 about weather extremes

This solo episode (part two of two) is about humankind’s most pivotal revolution in the coming decades and centuries, hands down. It is about meaning, future, consciousness, society and science. Its message is arguably more important than anything I have ever conveyed. If that doesn’t tell the listener much, which is understandable, I can say that this conclusion also goes for most other writers out there. In this part I both look back into history and gaze forward into the future: Why are we stuck in this science–spirituality dichotomy, and what dramatic changes await our species? In part one (ep 70) I discussed some of the contemporary findings that begin to bridge the gap between science and spirituality. Read episodes 70 and 71 as essays on Medium here.

This solo episode (part one of two) is about humankind’s most pivotal revolution in the coming decades and centuries, hands down. It is about meaning, future, consciousness, society and science. Its message is arguably more important than anything I have ever conveyed. If that doesn’t tell the listener much, which is understandable, I can say that this conclusion also goes for most other writers out there. Many feel an emptiness and a lack of purpose before the future. This sense of meaninglessness is basically derived from the dreamlike illusion of separation and death we have been living in for thousands of years. We have tried to mitigate our fear of death and our feeling of loneliness through the idea that more physical assets or larger social or cultural capital can enhance the quality of life. We have a feeling of ”… what now?” Artificial intelligence? Advanced biotechnology? Out in space? What is the purpose of all that we are doing? My answer, and the answer from ever more others, is that the next big leap in our evolution will have to be inward — possibly the most important leap so far. Read the episode as an essay on Medium here.