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Her life changed forever in 1992 when she encountered a mysterious boy named Elijah during a transcendent experience. Non-human beings revealed him as her son, setting her on a profound journey of introspection, spiritual awakening, and the search for truth.This episode features sample excerpts from the album, Abuction, including: “Control” (Track 7) — reflecting emotional tension tied to interpretation, uncertainty, and unexplained experiences “Spiritual Growth” (Track 11) — incorporating spoken elements from Whitley Strieber and marking a turning point in perspective Also included are samples of meditation-based compositions noted for their sustained tonal quality and distinct atmospheric presence.Maria Cuccia is also the author of His Name Is Elijah, a memoir detailing a lifetime of anomalous experiences, including an encounter involving a child identified as Elijah. The ETs told Maria, Elijah is her son.Learn more: https://mariacuccia.com/

In 1997, Maria Cuccia entered a meditative state and began receiving music that would become the album Abduction. Created through a process she describes as listening rather than composing, these recordings explore themes of perception, contact, and internal awareness.This episode features sample excerpts from the album, including: “Control” (Track 7) — reflecting emotional tension tied to interpretation, uncertainty, and unexplained experiences “Spiritual Growth” (Track 11) — incorporating spoken elements from Whitley Strieber and marking a turning point in perspective Also included are samples of meditation-based compositions noted for their sustained tonal quality and distinct atmospheric presence.Recorded nearly three decades ago, Abduction predates the current surge in discussion around UAP, consciousness, and contact phenomena. This episode revisits that work within today’s evolving conversation.Maria Cuccia is also the author of His Name Is Elijah, a memoir detailing a lifetime of anomalous experiences, including an encounter involving a child identified as Elijah. The ETs told Maria, Elijah is her son.Learn more: https://mariacuccia.com/

I want to share an article I'm working on in this episode. Let's consider the idea of a phase shift, a change in alignment with reality. If these shifts can happen briefly… what happens when someone doesn’t come back?Some questions don’t begin with answers. They begin with patterns. Experiences that repeat. Moments, shared by my interview guests and in my own life, where reality doesn’t behave the way it should. Where time, space, and even visibility fall out of alignment. People describe seeing others who cannot see them. Stepping into environments that feel fully real, yet operate by different rules.Long before these accounts were openly discussed, one scientist was already asking a different kind of question. Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum. Reported missing in 1994. He proposed that reality is not fixed, but formed through interaction between the mind and an underlying field, what he called the Syntergic Field.In his model, the brain does not generate reality. It interfaces with it. And what we experience depends on how that interface is tuned. So the question isn’t whether reality changes. It’s this: What happens when that tuning shifts?What if some disappearances aren’t random, but the result of a shift in how reality is experienced? Across multiple firsthand accounts, people describe brief moments of misalignment, phase shifts, where they move out of sync with the shared world around them. Most return. But if these shifts can happen at all… What happens when someone doesn’t come back?Missing Scientists - Headlines in the News Reddit LinkDaily MailSedona Vortex Guide Interview Link

Travis Dean didn't just find a piece of land. If you believe — and after hearing him, it's hard not to — the land found him. The snake didn't strike. The Jeep held him in that wash until the call came through. The Golden-Eye People called to him in dreams. And somehow, a data scientist who models disasters for a living ended up becoming exactly what this desert needed: an Earthkeeper.We talk about some of the interesting things Travis has experienced after buying the property. "You saw something on screen — a golden light disc — and before you could finish saying "what is that," it was gone.Travis Dean is a cancer survivor, engineer, and data scientist specializing in disaster communications recovery. Coming out of chemotherapy in 2018, he began seeing the world, and its data, differently. Years of modeling hurricanes, pandemics, and large-scale crises while watching warnings go ignored pushed him toward something more tangible than analysis.That conviction led Travis to 160 acres of remote Arizona desert and the founding of the Jackson Earth Restoration & Research Center, a 501(c)(3) named for his dog and rooted in a simple belief: science and stewardship belong together. The Center advances climate adaptation through biocrust cultivation, pollinator monitoring, and disaster modeling, while creating living memorials through ceremonial plantings, dedicated groves, and community-driven acts of legacy.In the Lakota tradition, Mitakuye Oyasin — "all my relations" — is both a prayer and a worldview. It holds that every being, every animal, every rock, every river is part of one sacred, interconnected family. Travis may not have known that phrase when he nearly stepped on that rattlesnake at sunrise. But he backed away with respect. And the land noticed.The Jackson Earth Restoration & Research Center is growing — literally. The next community planting event is November 2026, and Travis is looking for people who feel it too. People who are compassionate, committed, and done waiting for someone else to act.Connect with Travis and the Project: 🌐 jacksonerp.org 📺 YouTube 🦋 BlueSky ☕ Buy Travis a Coffee @jacksonearthrp on Instagram Tree Dedication Form And keep an eye out for the Golden-Eye Children — the portrait tells you everything words can't.

Featured UFO Image Date: July 16, 2016 Location: 1162 Renner Road, Lenexa, KansasThis image was captured as the witness pulled into her workplace parking lot in Lenexa, KS, an ordinary moment that turned extraordinary.Mike McCord is a Kansas-based investigator with MUFON and an experiencer whose life has been shaped by repeated encounters with high strangeness. Over the course of his life, Mike has documented at least nine UFO/UAP sightings, alongside a wide range of anomalous and deeply personal paranormal experiences that extend far beyond simple observation.In our conversation, we explore several of those encounters and briefly touch on his memoir, which chronicles his recovery from a life-altering accident. At the time, his prognosis for full recovery was grim. Against the odds, he not only healed—but later climbed a mountain in Colorado. In a photograph taken by his son at the summit, a UFO can be seen hovering in the background.More recently, Mike has visited two separate locations with groups of experiencers who intentionally “call in” UFO activity. While it took time to acclimate to what others were seeing, once his attention was directed to a specific region of the sky, the phenomenon became visible to him as well.His private case catalog (names withheld) spans a broad spectrum of reports, including UFO sightings, non-human encounters and interactions, orbs, and cryptid phenomena.Additional images shared by Mike will be posted on the blog.Mike's website and Book:Miracles One Step at a Time, Memoir of a Former Quadriplegichttps://miraclesonestepatatime.com/ Image provided by Mike McCord. MUFON website link. Find a chapter near you.

"When he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun." — William Shakespeare, Romeo and JulietA Conversation with Dr. Adam Rizvi - What happens when a physician who witnesses death daily discovers it holds no power over love?Dr. Adam Rizvi is a critical care physician and neurointensivist whose decades on the frontlines of America's ICUs have given him an intimate understanding of mortality —and its transcendence. In his luminous book Love Does Not Know Death, he offers a radically compassionate guide to meeting our greatest fear without flinching, drawing on both his clinical experience and deep contemplative practice rooted in A Course in Miracles.Based in California, Dr. Rizvi leads hospital teams, teaches workshops on awakening and end-of-life care, and co-hosts the spirituality podcast Letters to the Sky. His work invites us into a grounded, loving community devoted to transforming grief into peace and remembering love's enduring presence.From the Book: One of the most extraordinary accounts in Love Does Not Know Death is a Shared Death Experience Dr. Rizvi had at a patient's bedside: Despite the chest tube being placed and multiple liters of blood being transfused, it became clear to me that this young man would be unlikely to survive. Then, almost imperceptibly at first, in the stillness at the foot of his bed, I could feel the young man standing next to me, looking at his body. I sensed him to my right and slightly above, floating. I turned briefly and saw a faint outline but could not see distinct features. I could hear him, though. He asked, "Is that me?" In my mind, I responded, "That's your body. But it's not you." — Chapter 7, page 122On Practicing from a Different Place: Writing on Substack, Dr. Rizvi reflects: "I still order CT scans and adjust ventilator settings. I still have difficult conversations about prognosis and place DNR orders. But I've learned to do all of it from a different place—not from fear of death, but from trust in something that death cannot touch."Learn More: 📖 Love Does Not Know Death — lovedoesnotknowdeath.com ✍️ Dr. Rizvi's Substack — adamrizvi.substack.com/p/when-death-becomes-the-teacher

*One of the most listened to interviews.John Huckert shares his experiences with Wright. We talk about encounters with shadow people, non-corporeal human forms and phantom hugs. One of their dogs seemed to validate what psychic Peter James suggested about a body being buried on the property. In addition to that, some highly unusual behavior might indicate the presence of a portal.Over 12,000 photographs featuring Wright’s messages have been collected. The Polaroid Ghost."On Friday, February 5, 1993, the Fox TV reality show Sightings explored what could be a groundbreaking discovery in parapsychology: compelling evidence that ghosts exist and can communicate with us."Featured in season 1 of the Netflix series Surviving Death. Trailer Link. One exchange with Wright strikes a deep chord:Q: “When might you show yourself to us?”A: “When you are ready.”Q: “When will we be ready? What is stopping us?”A: “Your fear.”FYI: Both the polaroid camera and film used have been discontinued. The ghost written lettered images are no more - but the paranormal activity, present before "Wright" made an entrance, has not stopped.oooOn a personal note, I experienced something intriguing when the book about Wright arrived on September 8, 2021. At 2:30 a.m., Jack, our dog, wanted to go out. Suddenly, he went into full attack mode, barking wildly.Andy rushed to the scene and caught sight of something—a shadowy figure. He described it as a dark, cloud-like blob, roughly human in height but without a defined form. It glided across the room and seemed to exit through the front door, though he lost track of it in the dark.Jack has always been attuned to such phenomena. He once alerted me to a UFO hovering near the bedroom ceiling and has consistently sensed non-corporeal interlopers. Combined with the nightlight presence and other guardian spirits, it’s clear we are never alone.https://www.ghostpolaroids.com/links.htmlhttps://www.ghostpolaroids.com/Amazon sponsored link: Ghostwriter: The Polaroid Ghost & Other True Tales of the Paranormal by Joe Augustyn (Author, Photographer), John Matkowsky (Photographer), John Huckert (Photographer)John's newest work: https://drkrm.com/ - ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURSA Journal on the Making of the Motion Picture 2010: The Year We Make Contactand personal reflections of Hollywood by John Huckert

Maria Cuccia is the author of His Name Is Elijah, a memoir that explores a lifetime of extraordinary experiences that challenge conventional understanding of reality. Central to her story is a life-altering encounter in the early 1990s involving a child identified by non-human beings, as her son, Elijah, an experience marked by telepathic communication, and a message that would shape the course of her life. Writer, researcher, and longtime experiencer, Cuccia has shared her story on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and The Other Side with Dr. Will Miller. Cuccia’s public appearance on The Other Side in the late 1990s became a pivotal moment, giving voice to experiences often dismissed or silenced by fear, stigma, or misdiagnosis.Maria’s experience is grounded by meticulous journaling, preserved dates, and medical documentation confirming her pregnancies, details recorded long before she ever spoke publicly. At work on a second book, Maria will relate her ongoing musical and meditative connection with Elijah. I've included a sample from one of her performance meditations, Maris. Website: https://mariacuccia.com/Image credit: Book cover for His Name is Elijah. Representation of the child Maria saw.