Open Loops with Greg Bornstein: Conversations That Bend

THE PARANORMAL It's Halloween! This episode fits right in.. Open Loops, of course,  is a theme park for the intellect and imagination.  Just consider this our Fright Fest.  Stephanie Bingham (as seen on SyFy and The CW) joins Greg for a riveting discussion on everything from corporeal shark-teethed violent children to how hard it is for an exorcist to date men in Kentucky. She's a paranormal researcher and lecturer that sees creatures and humans that no one else can.  They talk to her outside of her head.  They talk to her inside of her head.  You can ask her anything about goblins, vampires, ghouls, the Mothman, Ginns, demons, shapeshifters.  10 times out of 10 she'll be able to rattle off the history. 9/10, she'll have spoken to them personally.  But don't worry. She has a very strict "no ghosts in the house" when guests are over policy.   You ready to meet the supernatural Miss Frizzle?  Hop on the Magic Ghoul Bus.  If you want more, please let us know if you enjoy this show! Go to ratethispodcast.com/openloops ----------------- Stephanie's Twitter  ------------------ Music: Space Ambience by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Let Greg know how you like the show. Write your review, soliloquy, Haiku or whatever twisted thoughts you want to share at https://ratethispodcast.com/openloops

MAGICK  Emily Davis has natural psychic abilities, she sees spirit guides, she has a performing background and most importantly, she cohosts the metaphysical comedy podcast, Perceptionists Anonymous!  If you go to Emily's website, https://www.damselnomore.com/, the first thing you discover is the blunt truth.  "You are magical as @#$%."  This definitely caught Greg's attention. In her first appearance Open Loops, she more than delivers. In the course of an hour, Emily manages to make Greg's head explode with her simple, colorful, and refreshingly witty breakdowns of magickal and occult concepts that even have him believing by the end of the episode he could develop his psychic abilities.  Where else can you learn how to hone your clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, clairscent, clairtangency, and/or clairgustance?  -Why is Emily considered a "bad girl" of the spiritual community?  -What is one simple way to know that you are, metaphysically, on the right path?  -Who are Greg's spirit guides? And why is one of them hairier than he is in real life?  This is one of Greg's favorite episodes. It's blunt. It's honest. And it's magical af as @#$%.  --- Emily's Links:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/masteryourmagic/ https://www.damselnomore.com/ https://www.instagram.com/likerofwords/ Podcast Links:  https://open.spotify.com/show/4cs6JIcnTkS3tWUWxnYYs4 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/perceptionists-anonymous/id1481128773?uo=4 https://www.instagram.com/perceptionistsanonymous/ --- If you like this show, www.ratethispodcast.com/openloops Let Greg know how you like the show. Write your review, soliloquy, Haiku or whatever twisted thoughts you want to share at https://ratethispodcast.com/openloops

HORROR Greg meets the author of The Vampire Series of Extreme Horror novella series, Todd Sullivan.  Todd denies that his brain is that sick-minded and twisted.  Greg doesn't believe it.  Can he get Todd to confess to all the weird things inside his head?  Will Todd's martial arts discipline win the battle to keep his answers cogent while Greg pokes around to explore the horrific depths of his creative mind?  Welcome to the imagination- a place where there are no judgments.  Except when it comes to book covers.  If you're looking for intellectual psycho*over*analysis of escapist fiction- well, you've come to the right place. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Todd's Links: Check out his first book in the series, Butchers here:  https://amzn.to/34u4abU with its sequel, The Gray Man of Smoke and Shadows: https://amzn.to/37DrxBS https://www.instagram.com/denevius/  https://www.facebook.com/Tsierus/ https://twitter.com/Denevius -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you don't want Greg's face to get torn off by an Lovecraftian entity from the Necronomicon, tell him what you like about the show! Please rate and review at ratethispodcast.com/openloops Let Greg know how you like the show. Write your review, soliloquy, Haiku or whatever twisted thoughts you want to share at https://ratethispodcast.com/openloops

SPIRITUALITY  In the previous episode, you met Eesha Patel, the creator of Origin Activation (ie. the real-life OA).  She channeled Origin Activation, a healing modality that ranges from reiki-style clearing of core wounds via your chakras to connecting to your Source energy telepathically via guidance from space aliens in all 13 dimensions.  You know. Depends on what the job requires.  In this episode, you get to go deeper.  You will meet Dylan Byrne, an Origin Activation Facilitator, as you get to open to your brain to unlimited possibilities:  - Empathy for Epstein? - G-d Pill for Greg?  - UFOs 'R Us?  You have all you need inside of you to heal the world.  If late-night marijuana conversations were intelligent and spiritually sound, that's the ride you're about to embark on.  Smoke up.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You can find Dylan Byrne at https://www.facebook.com/dylanbyrne333/ where you can Book a Time to work with him.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you're enjoying Greg's Journey of Awakening, please go to Subscribe, Rate, and Review at ratethispodcast.com/openloops Let Greg know how you like the show. Write your review, soliloquy, Haiku or whatever twisted thoughts you want to share at https://ratethispodcast.com/openloops

SPIRITUALITY  Today's guest can shift around energy grids globally with her consciousness, but also can shift around yours just by looking at you.  Eesha Patel is an international channeller, intuitive healer and entrepreneur. Eesha is the founder of Origin Activation Method, a powerful multidimensional energy healing modality currently being taught to world-class coaches, speakers and entrepreneurs who are here to share the message of awakening in a big way. She definitely expanded Greg's brain-space in this episode.  Greg freaked the eff out. But like, in a good way.  Eesha covers:  - Why the Awakening is happening right now and not in 2012  - Her early haunted houses origins before she studied engineering (and the rarely told story of "The Haunted Rope and the Priest")  -Donald Trump, the UFO Agenda, Narcissists, and HUGE reality check for Greg, but like in a good way.  Dispatches from the Galactic Command? Starseeds unite. You'll love yourself some Eesha Patel.  ------- Eesha's Links:  Eesha's Website- https://eeshapatel.com/ Facebook Page: Eesha Patel - Your Multidimensional Awakening Expert  Monthly Membership and Training: New Earth Rising -------- If you want Greg to continue awakening and/or feel like he's due for a deeply intimate loving relationship but should be broken up with mercilessly for the good of humankind, please Subscribe, Rate and Leave a Review for Open Loops at ratethispodcast.com/openloops Let Greg know how you like the show. Write your review, soliloquy, Haiku or whatever twisted thoughts you want to share at https://ratethispodcast.com/openloops

RELIGION Exorcisms, possessions, witches, Satan, Sodom and Gomorrah. David Daniel Gonzalez returns!  David's is a radio host, producer and researcher who explores diverse topics such as alternative history, ancient mysteries and the Bible. He's an author of several books in the Raiders of the Unknown series, including Demonology of Ancient Israel: The truth about demons, possession and exorcism, Heirs of the Kingdom: Jewish-Christianity's Relationship to Second Temple Judaism, and The Messiah Son of Ephraim: & The Gabriel Revelation Tablet.  In the 90s, Fox could've produced a television show called, "When Bible Stories Go BAD!" and that's what this episode is all about.  Because defecating to worship demons?  Yes, it happened.  If you're a fan of The Conjuring or The Exorcism, this episode is all about those films!  ...and in David's opinion, just how utterly ridiculous it all is... -------------------------------- David's links:  The Mystic-Skeptic Radio Show/Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/84561  Website: https://mysticandskeptic.wordpress.com/ -------------------------------- If you enjoy this show, please go to ratethispodcast.com/openloops so we can keep bringing you more!  Let Greg know how you like the show. Write your review, soliloquy, Haiku or whatever twisted thoughts you want to share at https://ratethispodcast.com/openloops

Why Trump needs to come on Open Loops, the snake oil of the acting and podcasting business and Greg makes a huge mistake but hopefully doesn't get sued.  -------- If you enjoy this podcast, please leave a review at ratethispodcast.com/openloops  Let Greg know how you like the show. Write your review, soliloquy, Haiku or whatever twisted thoughts you want to share at https://ratethispodcast.com/openloops

UFOS  Ah, yes. Robert Emerson has been hypnotizing people to get in touch with their past lives for over forty years.  And he casually was abducted by aliens.  This episode is an intergalactic head trip that ranges from regular sightings of Flying Saucers in Middleton, Massachusetts to embodying the spirit of deceased Nubian Princesses. All within the span of five minutes.  And did this guest tell Greg if he's bad-intentioned and fails to come from heart-consciousness with his podcast he just might get a whoopin'? You should listen to this because just by the fact that you are listening, Robert will get you in touch with your spirit guides.   He might smack Greg, too.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If there are more topics you want Greg to explore, or you'd like to share your UFO story, please email Greg at greg@open-loops.com.  You can support this podcast by leaving a rating and review at ratethispodcast.com/openloops  Let Greg know how you like the show. Write your review, soliloquy, Haiku or whatever twisted thoughts you want to share at https://ratethispodcast.com/openloops

SHOW BUSINESS  Addie Doyle met your host Greg when they were both in college at NYU Tisch School of Drama doing the Summer 2010 Commonwealth Shakespeare Apprenticeship in Boston.  She was Cleopatra. He was the comic relief. Figures.    She's now an LA-based actress and filmmaker whose work has been featured at the Oscar-Qualifying LA International Short Film Festival, New York International Short Film Festival, and Chelsea Film Festival. Her short film, The Ceremony, was a Semi-Finalist at the 2020 Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival.  Last fall 2019, Addie invited Greg to play a recording studio manager in a short film that's a love letter to their hometown, Boston.  Greg took the role immediately. And pretended to smoke herbal cigarettes for weeks in preparation (now he's addicted to herbs).    And to paraphrase the Bard himself, what did Addie learn through all of this?  "A short film doth made in Boston can sometimes be  'Sbloody hell."  "''Tis worth the struggle."  Addie joins Greg to talk about her new short film "Punch Me In," among other trade secrets about making it in Hollywood, including:     -The difference between type-casting and essence, and how figuring that out as an actor changed her life    -Why absolute humiliation can lead you to creative enlightenment   -Addie alchemizes NIXVM into great art?   Greg was in her movie. His scenes: to screen or not to screen?   That is the question.   Find out in this episode if he makes the cut.   Addie's Links:    Personal Website- theaddiedoyle.com   Instagram- @theaddiedoyle   More here: https://linktr.ee/theaddiedoyle  Let Greg know how you like the show. Write your review, soliloquy, Haiku or whatever twisted thoughts you want to share at https://ratethispodcast.com/openloops

GHOSTS  Finding out the woman you love regularly communicates with her blood relatives on the other side.  Dealbreaker?  Not for this guy.  He hosts a podcast about it instead!  Greg welcomes Ben Axe, host of Paranormal Axetivities, a podcast on the All Everything Entertainment network.  Ben explores all things paranormal and he joins Greg to talk about what he's experienced that makes him just the right person for the job.  Find out:  How lifelong commitment to a psychic medium you love GUARANTEES you're going to experience spirits  Ben and his wife Dena's real-life haunted tale,  "The Ribbon In The Woods," which would make Stephen King shriek  Social etiquette for dealing with living and non-living house guests  Oh, and how about this for an Open Loops Exclusive:  You'll actually get to hear CAPTURED FOOTAGE OF A GHOST from Ben's Spirit Box this episode that he's NEVER BEFORE BEEN RELEASED to the public.  CAPITAL LETTERS! CAPITAL LETTERS! AND MORE CAPITAL LETTERS!  Scared, yet?  --------------------------------- Ben's Links: Paranormal Axetivities- Available at https://www.buzzsprout.com/920299, all major podcasting platforms (Apple, Spotify) and http://alleverythingentertainment.com/podcasts/entertainment-pods/paranormal-axetivities/ Let Greg know how you like the show. Write your review, soliloquy, Haiku or whatever twisted thoughts you want to share at https://ratethispodcast.com/openloops