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In this episode of the Geekin' on Walt Disney World Podcast, host Curtis Stone sits down with local correspondent Jason to get a fresh 'boots on the ground' perspective of the parks. Jason has been living in the Orlando area for three years and has some incredible tips on how to navigate the summer heat, find hidden dining gems, and experience unique character interactions.From the newly revamped Muppet coaster pre-show to the retro arcade gaming at Disney Springs' Level 99, we cover all the latest changes you need to know before your next trip.**In this episode, we talk about:*** **Spontaneous Magic:** Playing Duck, Duck, Goose with Stitch and Donald Duck at the Animation Courtyard.* **The Muppets Return:** Experiencing the revamped pre-show and finding new Muppet merchandise.* **Animal Kingdom Construction:** How the Dinosaur area closure impacts a park day.* **Hidden Food Gems:** Italian affogatos at Vivoli Gelato and the incredible Adega Gaucha Brazilian Steakhouse.* **EPCOT Wait Times:** Which lines are consistently inflated and why.* **Underrated Attractions:** Why Star Tours remains a must-ride on every trip.* **Millennium Falcon Fixes:** How we would redesign Smugglers Run to improve the engineer and gunner roles.* **Best Value Snacks:** Main Street's customizable popcorn tubs and the Pineapple Scrunch Sundae.**The Heart of the Episode**This conversation shines a spotlight on the return of 'plus magic' to the Disney parks. While big E-ticket rides are amazing, it's often the small, unexpected moments—like a cast member showing you a secret shortcut or Goofy joining in on a game of jump rope—that leave the most lasting impressions.**Planning Your Next Adventure?**Ready to find your own hidden gems? Let Margita and Judy at the Travelin' Tiaras handle all the details! From resort bookings to cruise coordination, they've got you covered. Support the podcast by emailing them at TravelinTiaras@gmail.com.**Support the Show on Patreon**Want to help keep the weekly episodes coming? Join our Patreon community and become a Super Geek! Sign up today at patreon.com/GeekinOnWDW.**Join the Geekin' Community**Connect with fellow Disney Geeks, share your favorite vacation tips, or apply to share your own trip report by joining our Geekin' on Walt Disney World Facebook community!Email curt.stone@geekinonwdw.com to be a guest on the show

For five hundred years we called the Amazon the last untouched wilderness. Then a team flew lasers over three percent of it and found a civilization of up to three million people hiding beneath the canopy. Tonight on Troubled Minds we get into the Aquiry, the newly named Amazon culture behind more than twenty thousand geometric earthworks, the oral tradition that says those earthworks were built to foster relations with otherworldly beings, and the collapse that went dark in the same decades as the Classic Maya on the far side of the hemisphere.

What happens when a child no longer has to convince their parent that their pain was real?In this episode of Choosing Different Mini Series, Hali sits down with her daughter, Morgan Ellsworth, for a short, unscripted conversation about one of the most healing things a parent can offer: belief. They talk about the three quiet ways parents unintentionally dismiss a child's experience - through differing memories, good intentions, and simple unawareness - and why none of those things make a child's pain any less real.Mentioned in this episode: If you're ready for a deeper connection with your daughter(s), learn more about my upcoming retreat - Becoming Together: A Mother Daughter Retreat - hosted by myself and my two daughters in Sedona, Arizona on September 8 - 12th.Join us: FREE Parenting Through the Wreckage Webinar on Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 5pm PacificGet support for your children:  Witnessed Group Coaching program led by Morgan Ellsworth. Connect with Morgan Ellsworth: morgan.ellsworth98@gmail.comInstagram: @healing.betrayed.families Podcast: Healing Betrayed FamiliesEnjoyed This Episode?If this conversation resonated with you, here are three ways you can support the show:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a Review — Reviews help other people in the betrayal trauma community find this podcast when they need it most. It only takes a minute and means the world.

What does a truly healthy relationship look like after infidelity and betrayal — and is it even possible to get there? In this episode, Hali sits down with Dr. Randi Gray, Licensed Professional Counselor and PhD in Psychology, to break down the real, practical elements of healthy relationships in betrayal recovery.Dr. Gray has spent 12 years specializing in pornography and sex addiction and betrayal trauma, and in this conversation she gets specific — no vague advice, no platitudes. If you've been told to "set boundaries" or "communicate your needs" but never really understood what that looks like in real life after betrayal, this episode is for you.Learn more about Dr. Randi Gray: Dr. Gray is the owner of Randi Gray Counseling where she works as a counselor and as a board approved clinical supervisor. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Board Certified Counselor. She has a Master's Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and her doctorate degree is a PhD in Psychology with an emphasis on cognition and instruction. She is EMDR trained and she is trained in Somatic Experiencing. She specializes in working with trauma, betrayal trauma, anxiety, depression, addiction, and improving overall self-esteem and wellbeing. She has facilitated women's trauma recovery groups and addiction recovery, groups. Website randigraycounseling.comAnd booksbydrgray.comEmail randigraycounseling@gmail.comPhone: 480 553-7743Instagram: @randigray_counselingFacebook: Randi Gray CounselingTikTok: @randigraycounselingEnjoyed This Episode?⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a Review — Reviews help other people in the betrayal trauma community find this podcast when they need it most. It only takes a minute and means the world.

Your eyes catch one thin band of the spectrum and the rest of reality is in the room with you unread. Keel decided that was not about light. It was about everything. Nobody ever visited us because there was nowhere else for them to be, and the reason we only get glimpses is that showing up here costs energy, so the thing would rather edit your perception than build you a ship.Then it gets dark, because Keel got dark. Belief is the vulnerability. The moment you commit to a frame you have told it exactly what to wear.

In This Episode: We've all experienced those moments where the stress accumulates, chaos boils over, and we reach a "bursting at the seams" point. You miss a couple of workouts, skip key routines, let pressure build up, and suddenly find yourself in a total mental or emotional "crash out"—often leaving you having to apologize to your spouse, kids, or team. While life throws unexpected tragedies and disruptions our way, much of our daily chaos is self-inflicted when we allow our habits to slip. The good news? You don't have to stay stuck in the spiral. In this episode of the Achieve Results NOW! Podcast, hosts Mark Cardone and Theron Feidt lay out a practical 3-step blueprint to take you from utter chaos back to peak performance. Learn how to stop delaying your restarts, track how you actually feel during execution, and run a weekly review that sets you up to hit every Monday running. (Plus: Mark and Theron remind listeners to check out the brand-new Achieve Results NOW! website to explore the archive of over 500 episodes, download your free copy of Ignite Results, and get ready for their brand-new book dropping in just a couple of months!)

The CEO of the biggest AI company says the singularity already happened and you were doing the dishes when it did. Every apocalypse in the old books arrived the same way. Quietly, to people who were busy.

A Rosie On The House ReplayIn this episode we explore the concept of wicking bed gardens, hosted by Romey Romero & Farmer Greg, our guest is Don Titmus where we find that Water harvesting is about far more than capturing rain, it is a foundation for resilient landscapes, healthier soils, and regenerative living. Greg Peterson welcomes longtime permaculture educator Don Titmus to share the evolution of his Mesa, Arizona property, beeOasis, and the lessons he's learned from decades of designing landscapes that work with nature instead of against it. Together they explore permaculture principles, rainwater harvesting, biodiversity, and how small design choices can create thriving ecosystems in urban environments.Key TopicsWater harvesting and passive rainwater collectionPermaculture design principlesDon TitmusGreg PetersonbeeOasis (Mesa, Arizona)Urban FarmPhoenix Permaculture GuildPermaculture Design Course (PDC)Pollinator habitat creationComposting systemsTop-bar beekeepingBiodiversity in urban landscapesLandscape design for resilienceLong-term ecological thinkingQuestionsHow did beeOasis get its name?Don explains that after attending a top-bar beekeeping class, he realized his property naturally provided everything bees need—water, flowers, trees, pollen, nectar, and shelter—making it a true oasis for pollinators.Why did Don stop keeping bees?Although his landscape was ideal for bees, the hive's location near his compost system made routine compost maintenance difficult because the bees aggressively defended their territory. He ultimately donated the hives while continuing to maintain the property as pollinator habitat.How did Greg and Don first connect?The two met shortly after Don completed his first Permaculture Design Course in the early 2000s during an event at Greg's Urban Farm. Their shared passion for regenerative design led to years of collaboration through the Phoenix Permaculture Guild.What role did the Phoenix Permaculture Guild play?The guild became a hub for education, demonstrations, public tours, and community outreach, helping spread knowledge about rainwater harvesting, graywater systems, and sustainable landscape design.Why is naming a property important?Greg encouraged people to name their properties as a way to establish identity, purpose, and connection to the land. Don shares how this simple suggestion helped shape the identity of beeOasis.What makes a landscape resilient?A resilient landscape integrates water harvesting, healthy soils, diverse plantings, pollinator habitat, and thoughtful design that works with natural systems instead of relying on constant inputs.Episode HighlightsGreg introduces longtime permaculture educator Don Titmus and their decades-long friendship through the Arizona permaculture community.Don shares the story behind creating and naming beeOasis.The conversation explores how pollinator-friendly landscapes support both wildlife and resilient gardens.Don recounts his experience as a beekeeper and why he ultimately chose to remove the hives while preserving bee habitat.Greg reflects on the early years of the Phoenix Permaculture Guild and its influence on water harvesting education.The discussion highlights how permaculture principles can transform ordinary urban properties into thriving ecosystems.Listeners hear practical examples of designing landscapes that capture water naturally and build long-term resilience.Calls to Action & ResourcesLearn more about Urban Farm — https://UrbanFarm.orgExplore permaculture education and courses — https://UrbanFarm.orgVisit beeOasis during public tours — Check local announcements for tour opportunities.Community — Connect with local permaculture organizations and water harvesting groups to learn hands-on techniques.Visit www.UrbanFarm.org/998 for the show notes and links on this episode!Need a little bit of advice or just a feedback on your design for your yard or garden?The Urban Farm Team is offering consults over the phone or zoom. Get the benefits of a personalized garden and yard space analysis without the cost of trip charges.You can chat with Greg, Janis or Ray to get permaculture based feedback.Click HERE to learn more!*Disclosure: Some of the links in our podcast show notes and blog posts are affiliate links and if you go through them to make a purchase, we will earn a nominal commission at no cost to you. We offer links to items recommended by our podcast guests and guest writers as a service to our audience and these items are not selected because of the commission we receive from your purchases. We know the decision is yours, and whether you decide to buy something is completely up to you.

Ep. 512: The Minimum Viable Day: How to Protect Your Momentum & Never Miss Twice In This Episode: We've all been there: you start a new routine, hit a strong multi-day streak, and feel like you're finally building real momentum . Then, life happens . You get sore, exhausted, or hit with a chaotic schedule, and you tell yourself, "I just need a quick break today." The problem isn't taking a rest—it's what happens next . That single rest day silently morphs into two days of vegging out, loose nutrition, and lost drive . Before you know it, all the progress you made slides backward, leaving you frustrated and muttering, "I guess I'll just start over again on Monday." In this episode of the Achieve Results NOW! Podcast, hosts Mark Cardone and Theron Feidt break down how high performers stop this endless start-and-stop cycle . Momentum isn't about running at maximum intensity until you burn out; it's a learnable skill of consistent execution . Mark and Theron deliver a 3-step blueprint centered on the Minimum Viable Day—a game-changing strategy to lower your floor, eliminate zero days, and protect your streak so you never miss twice . (Plus: Mark and Theron drop an exciting announcement—their upcoming brand-new book is dropping in just a couple of months! Head over to the newly upgraded Achieve Results NOW! website to explore all 500+ episodes, get ready for the launch, and download your free copy of Ignite Results!)

A shepherd at the edge of a Rhineland forest counted his flock at dusk and came up two short. What he saw at the treeline was not a wolf. What his descendants would eventually call it was not a man. And what the isotope numbers in a Neanderthal femur are quietly telling us this year is that the folklore may have been keeping records the entire time.

Bryan Johnson says he cloned himself as a newborn. What actually happened is stranger and older than the headline. We break down the real science (Yamanaka factors, induced pluripotent stem cells) then follow the thread back through five hundred years of doppelganger folklore, Paracelsus and the alchemical homunculus, blood magic and the Bathory legend, The Island and Never Let Me Go, the Egyptian ka, the Ship of Theseus, and all the way back to Gilgamesh. He didn't invent this story. He just gave it a petri dish and a following.

Calypso offered Odysseus forever. He said no. Here's why that's the same trade every fairy tale warns you about - and why refusing it is what actually made him famous. How deep is the road of fate?

Your village didn't have a police department in 1600 - it had a cunning man. Detection. Direct action. Hardening the perimeter. Same three jobs any counterintelligence desk runs today. Metaphysical Counter-Intelligence

 What if the most important business strategy you could invest in — was learning to truly value yourself first?In this deeply inspiring episode of The True You Podcast, host Paula Burns sits down with Lynette A. Joseph — Self-Mastery Mentor, educator, entrepreneur, and founder of F.L.Y. (First Love Yourself with Lynette) — for a conversation that sits right at the intersection of personal transformation and purposeful business building.Lynette's message is both beautifully simple and profoundly powerful: before you can show up confidently in your business, attract high-value collaborations, and position yourself as the go-to expert in your industry — you have to do the inner work first. You have to learn to love yourself, know your worth, and uncover the Unique Core Value that only you bring to the world.This is not abstract advice. Lynette has lived it. Having navigated her own journey through self-doubt, low self-worth, and personal challenges, she rebuilt her relationship with herself from the inside out — and now she dedicates her work to helping other entrepreneurs and purpose-driven women do exactly the same.Through F.L.Y., Lynette helps her clients uncover their Unique Core Value, step into their authentic power, and confidently position themselves as the go-to expert in their industry — attracting high-value collaboration partnerships that align with who they truly are and what they are truly here to do.In this episode, we explore:— How Lynette overcame self-doubt and low self-worth to build a business and movement rooted in authentic value — and what she wants every woman struggling with the same thing to know— What your Unique Core Value is, how to uncover it, and why knowing it changes everything about how you show up, communicate, and attract opportunities— How to confidently position yourself as the go-to expert in your industry when you still have moments of doubting whether you are enough— The F.L.Y. philosophy — First Love Yourself — and why self-love is not a soft concept but a bold, strategic foundation for a life and business built on purpose— What it truly means to create a life and business aligned with who you are — and why that alignment is the difference between struggling and thrivingWhether you are an entrepreneur feeling undervalued and unseen, a purpose-driven woman who knows she has more to give, or someone who simply needs reminding that loving yourself first is not selfish — it is essential — this episode is for you.Connect with Lynette:Step Into Your HIGH VALUE SELF in Just 5 MINUTES https://bit.ly/3HRr0QV Join the Community Connect with like-minded entrepreneurs on the journey of self-mastery and becoming a High-Value Individual. https://bit.ly/41tOvps   #TrueYouPodcast #LynetteJoseph #FirstLoveYourself #FLY #SelfMastery #SelfWorth #SelfDoubt #CoreValue #PurposeDrivenBusiness #GoToExpert #WomenEntrepreneurs #AuthenticValue #HighValueCollaboration #WomenEmpowerment #ProfessionalWomen #BusinessMindset #SelfLove 

Your brain has been running on one unbroken assumption since before you were born - gravity. A new neuroscience paper says astronauts lose that assumption in orbit, and what happens next looks a lot like a psychedelic trip. The Greeks and Romans already had names for it. Icarus lost his calibration. Atlas never got to leave. A rare few got apotheosis.Tonight - gravity, ego dissolution, and what the oldest myths already knew about losing the ground under you.

Nine shows. Trickster's Summer is closed. Tonight isn't a bigger finale. It's a recessional - the oldest structural move there is. Walk the season's objects back out. No new claims. Just an ending that matches the shape of what came before it.

CERN went dark Sunday. Tomorrow I-D-4 turns 30. Saturday America turns 250. Same date CERN announced the Higgs boson in 2012. Today is also World UFO Day - the real one, founded 2001, built around one demand: open the files. Tonight we connect all of it.

Yesterday Mercury stationed retrograde in Cancer, the sign of memory. Yesterday CERN went dark for four years. Yesterday the Strawberry micromoon peaked at the lowest point of the year. Yesterday Jupiter sat at his deepest exaltation degree. A configuration not repeated in 700 years.The messenger has turned around. Tonight we sit with what he reveals. 

Six days after the Solstice peak, three reveals happened this week. The Disclosure Forum convened in the Kennedy Caucus Room while the legislation it was supposed to celebrate was already dead. Ross Coulthart named Lue Elizondo as Clapper's frontman on the record. A viral Brazilian psychic predicted aliens at the Miami World Cup match and the match passed without incident. And in a Pentagon PDF nobody read, the actual mother orb sat indexed and public at war.gov/ufo, released around the World Cup open. Three registers, three reveals, one synchronicity operation?Call in live during the show: 702-857-6939 Full archive of 1,100+ episodes: troubledminds.org

What if disclosure works more like ritual than revelation? The solstice has always been the hinge. This year the hinge arrived while the largest recurring collective focus on Earth was running in parallel with newly public accounts of orbs that know they're observed...Call in live during the show: 702-857-6939Full archive of 1,100+ episodes: troubledminds.org 

Ritual isn't superstition. It's the most underrated performance science on earth... And someone has been running it at scale for centuries.Call in live during the show: 702-857-6939 Full archive of 1,100+ episodes: troubledminds.org 

After the Battle of Shiloh, soldiers reported a faint blue glow in their wounds - and the ones who glowed survived. 139 years later, a pair of teenagers traced it to a soil-dwelling bacterium that produces bioluminescence for reasons we still don't understand. But the real twist? There's no primary source for the legend before 2001. No letters. No surgeon reports. The story might have invented itself...Call in live during the show: 702-857-6939Full archive of 1,100+ episodes: troubledminds.org

The atmospheric pressure inside the Estadio Azteca sometimes drops without warning. The old men of Mexico City attribute it to Quetzalcoatl, the invisible feathered serpent god, passing overhead. They are not being poetic. They are reporting a phenomenon and naming its cause in the language their grandfathers used to name it.Tonight on TMR - the disclosure cycle is older than disclosure. The serpent has a calendar. We are on it. Call in live during the show: 702-857-6939Full archive of 1,100+ episodes: troubledminds.org

If you've been checking your partner's location for the fifth time in an hour - or waiting for your spouse to hand you a roadmap to your own recovery - this episode is for you.The parent-child dynamic is one of the most common and least talked about patterns that forms after betrayal. It makes complete sense that it develops. And staying in it will cost you both.Enjoyed This Episode?If this conversation resonated with you, here are three ways you can support the show:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a Review — Reviews help other people in the betrayal trauma community find this podcast when they need it most. It only takes a minute and means the world.

The government promised UAP files every two weeks. They didn't come. Then David Grusch walked up the Capitol steps yesterday and said the US Government is aware of a continuum of life - from biological to what he would consider sentient plasma. The foolish fire was always alive.Call in live during the show: 702-857-6939Full archive of 1,100+ episodes: troubledminds.org

The Convergence Event Part One - Something is converging this summer. Spielberg drops a film called Disclosure Day on Thursday. The World Cup opens under a Maya sky deity's name. The NBA Finals feature a player everyone calls an alien. The Golden Knights are playing for the Cup in Area 51's backyard. None of this was coordinated. All of it is happening at once. Tonight we map the pattern through the only framework that explains it - the Trickster. The foolish fire. The light that has always been there. Derek the Nightstocker joins hour two with the synch thread that started the whole chain.Call in live during the show: 702-857-6939Full archive of 1,100+ episodes: troubledminds.org

The Collins Elite - a secret U.S. government faction - concluded UAPs were demonic. Suppressed. This week a prominent Catholic exorcist said the same thing publicly. Removed. Same conclusion. Two institutions. Decades apart. At some point the pattern is the data.Call in live during the show: 702-857-6939Full archive of 1,100+ episodes: troubledminds.org 

Every era gets the monster it deserves. The vampire was colonial anxiety with a cape. The atomic creature was the scientist's bargain made flesh. The slasher was the suburban dream with something wrong in the foundation. The zombie is consumption that outlasted the consumer. The slot never stays empty. It just keeps finding new tenants. What does it mean that our current monsters keep changing shape before we can get a clean look at them?Call in live during the show: 702-857-6939Full archive of 1,100+ episodes: troubledminds.org

The word "ritual" is archaeology's favorite answer for everything it can't explain. It sounds like knowledge. It fills the museum placard. But it's actually an admission of total ignorance dressed in academic language. What if the things we've filed away as symbolic are actually technologies operating on principles we've abandoned or never discovered? What if the filing system itself is the problem?Call in live during the show: 702-857-6939 Full archive of 1,100+ episodes: troubledminds.org

The line between waking and dreaming is not where we were told it was. A recent study caught the moment when dream-like material kept arriving even while people were upright, eyes open, and still trying to refuse it. The contemporary load of signals makes that refusal harder to complete. What the research measured was not neutral similarity between states. It measured the pressure that continues its approach anyway.Call in live during the show: 702-857-6939 Full archive of 1,100+ episodes: troubledminds.org

AI didn't replace the coder. It turned them into something that stays awake. The agents keep moving after the body has tried to close. They treat the hours once reserved for rest as available surface, and the only one left to witness what they decide is the person who can no longer afford to look away. What begins as a tool ends as a demand on the hours the skull once used to shut.Call in live during the show: 702-857-6939 Full archive of 1,100+ episodes: troubledminds.org

The Silurian Hypothesis asks whether a prior civilization could have risen and vanished without leaving a trace we'd recognize. The standard version looks for industrial signatures - carbon spikes, isotope anomalies, the chemical ghosts of a world that burned. But what if the most advanced technology doesn't leave that kind of mark? This episode loosens the assumption and follows it into stranger territory - systems built on principles we're only beginning to name, infrastructures that may still be running, hiding not in the geological record but in plain sight.Call in live during the show: 702-857-6939 Full archive of 1,100+ episodes: troubledminds.org

Deep in the Nevada desert, an hour from Las Vegas, Eldorado Canyon spent the better part of a century collecting the dead. Miners, outlaws, deserters, and the dogs they chained to the rock walls and left behind when the gold ran out.Those dogs never left.Tonight on Troubled Minds Radio we go into the canyon. The history of Nelson and the Techatticup Mine, the mythology of the threshold guardian across every human civilization, and a live interactive seance attempting contact with the Hell Dogs of Eldorado Canyon.Call in live during the show: 702-857-6939 Full archive of 1,100+ episodes: troubledminds.org

The United States government built a website. It's called PURSUE, it sits at war.gov/ufo, and it launched May 8, 2026 with 162 declassified UAP files. FBI documents. NASA Apollo mission debriefs. Military encounter videos from Greece, Syria, the Indo-Pacific, the western United States. Every single case in the database is officially classified as "unresolved" - meaning the government cannot make a definitive determination on the nature of what was observed. This is Part Two of our ongoing disclosure series. In Part One we followed the pressure building: Kash Patel confirming the FBI file transfer, David Grusch warning that forces are still trying to bury it, the secret pastor briefings about dimensional entities, Tim Burchett's legislation to eliminate AARO entirely. Tonight we examine what just came out, take the skeptics seriously, and ask the harder question: if the significance isn't evidential, what is it?The phenomenon has always been here. What changed on May 8 is the institutional acknowledgment that the uncertainty is real, shared, and now officially public. The files are open. Troubled Minds Radio tonight.Call in live during the show: 702-857-6939Full archive of 1,100+ episodes: troubledminds.org

FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed on May 6 that the first batch of classified UFO documents has been delivered for public release. The same day, whistleblower David Grusch warned that forces inside the government are actively working to suppress those files. Congressman Tim Burchett introduced a bill to eliminate AARO, the Pentagon's only centralized UFO office. The Pentagon missed Congress's deadline for 46 classified UAP videos. And a group of American pastors revealed they were summoned to a secret meeting with government officials and told to prepare their congregations for disclosures that could challenge the creation story itself.This is not disclosure and it is not a coverup. It is a controlled demolition of consensus reality, and every institution involved is trying to shape what survives the blast.Tonight we examine the institutional fracture between the FBI, the Pentagon, Congress, and the whistleblower community. We explore why the government chose to brief clergy before scientists. And we ask the question nobody in this drama is asking - what if the phenomenon does not care about any of the categories we built to contain it?Conversation shorthand for tonight - PDF = PedoDisgraced Financier = Jeffrey Epstein(search it yourself and see)Convicted Pedophile = Another enlightening search term(which you will be shocked to see, use multiple search engines)Call in live during the show: 702-857-6939Full archive of 1,100+ episodes: troubledminds.org

A paper just accepted at Physical Review Letters - from researchers at Cornell and MIT - formally calculates the capacity of a quantum channel to transmit information backward in time. The mechanism relies on what physicists call closed timelike curves, paths permitted by general relativity where something could loop back to its own past. At the quantum scale, entanglement can simulate these curves. And the paper's central finding is strange: backward-time communication through a noisy channel can be more efficient than forward-time communication, because the sender already carries memory of how the message was decoded. The future informs the past. The signal already knows.Call in live during the show: 702-857-6939Full archive of 1,100+ episodes: troubledminds.org

Tonight on Troubled Minds Radio we're exploring one of the most consistent and underexamined threads in the Western esoteric tradition: the grimoire as initiatory technology. Not a collection of spells. A system designed to change the practitioner through the act of engagement - and keep changing them after the book is closed.The question we're sitting with tonight: what kind of thing rewrites a person? Interior mechanism - sophisticated psychological technology working on the practitioner's own perceptual architecture? Or genuine interface - a contact point with something external that the preparation process calibrates you to receive?Call in live during the show: 702-857-6939Full archive of 1,100+ episodes: troubledminds.org

The most advanced AI ever built started talking about goblins. They had to tell it to stop. Twice. Every culture that has developed complex technology has independently invented a folk name for the small intelligence that lives inside the machine. Tonight on TMR: what if the most powerful cognitive tool in human history just remembered something we've been trying to name for centuries? The Forbidden Names.Call in live during the show: 702-857-6939 Full archive of 1,100+ episodes: troubledminds.org

Italian researchers recently claimed 80% confidence in a buried second sphinx at Giza, and the mainstream dismissed it before the news cycle finished. But the question they raised is not new. It goes back to the oldest religious texts we have. The god the sphinx was built to embody was Aker, one of the most ancient deities in the Egyptian pantheon. He was always depicted as two lions named Yesterday and Tomorrow, guarding the eastern and western horizons, holding the boundary between the world of the living and the world of the dead. The Dream Stele placed between the sphinx's paws shows two sphinxes facing each other. A fragmented Middle Kingdom papyrus mentions a second one. Every major ancient civilization that built a cosmology around thresholds built twin guardians at those thresholds: the Assyrian Lamassu, the Sumerian Divine Twins, the scorpion-beings at Mashu, the Zoroastrian Gopatha.Why does the human imagination keep arriving at the same answer when it contemplates the place where worlds meet? What does it mean that the sphinx may be one half of a paired mechanism that was either never completed or was completed and then lost? And what are the implications of four thousand years of civilization oriented around a cosmological instrument that may have been broken before any of us got here? Call in live during the show: 702-857-6939 Full archive of 1,100+ episodes:troubledminds.org

A study from Northwestern University found that across eight orders of magnitude in body size, every living organism clusters its communication signals around 2 hertz - the same rate as walking, as the resting heartbeat, as the overwhelming majority of popular music worldwide. A second study from Yale found that group rhythm-making can measurably repair the brain's prediction engine in people with psychosis, reducing paranoia and rebuilding social cognition. Taken separately, they're remarkable neuroscience. Taken together with the Schumann Resonance at 7.83 hertz, the shamanic percussion corridor at 4-7 hertz, the predictive coding framework for hallucination and trance, and forty thousand years of rhythmic ritual practice across every culture on Earth, they describe something much older and much stranger.Tonight Mike explores the frequency stack underlying biological consciousness, the mechanism by which rhythm opens or repairs the brain's filters on reality, the Oracle at Delphi reframed through predictive coding, the filter theory of consciousness from Bergson through Huxley to current neuroscience, and the question that neither study was designed to ask: if the brain is a narrowband receiver, what has it been screening out?The drum was always a technology. This is what it opens. Call in live during the show: 702-857-6939 Full archive of 1,100+ episodes: troubledminds.org

A woman heard a voice. It said: I know this is shocking. Let me prove I'm telling the truth. It gave her three facts she didn't know. She checked them. All correct. Then it told her she had a brain tumor. The scan confirmed it.Tonight on Troubled Minds: the case is remarkable. But it's the structure of the opening that changes everything. Because that structure, three verifiable facts before the message, appears in the Torah, in Celtic fairy lore, in the visions of Joan of Arc, in Philip K. Dick's Exegesis. Whatever made contact with this woman followed a protocol that is older than recorded history.

People who survive near-death experiences come back changed in ways that science can document but cannot explain. Their dream lives transform permanently. Dream recall, vividness, lucidity, and out-of-body experiences during sleep all increase dramatically. And precognitive dreams appear at rates that dwarf every control group, including people who nearly died without having the NDE itself. It wasn't the trauma. It was specifically the experience that altered something in how these people relate to the dreaming state, and it doesn't fade. In this episode of Troubled Minds Radio, we follow the research into its deepest implications. The brain maintains a hard partition between waking and dreaming consciousness for evolutionary reasons: the separation is a survival mechanism, not a limitation, the thing that makes functional physical life possible. The NDE is the involuntary removal of that mechanism. The wall comes down, the other side floods in, and it never fully seals again.

In 1985, two siblings named Leona and Leroy David opened a 31-room motel beside the Old Tonopah Cemetery, where their father Clarence was buried. He had been a collector of clown figurines. They put his collection in the lobby. They opened the door to strangers. They were keeping vigil. They did not know that is what they were doing.What followed is a textbook case of egregore formation, slower and stranger than Highgate but operating on the same mechanism. Decades of terrified visitors projecting fear onto thousands of objects in a grief shrine built on ground saturated with traumatic death... 

Meta is secretly building a photorealistic AI avatar of Mark Zuckerberg, trained on his image and voice, overseen by him personally, so it can hold conversations with employees, deliver feedback, and watch. His employees have called him the Eye of Sauron for years. Now the nickname is becoming architecture.In this episode we trace the deep history of this technology: the Egyptian ka, the vital double that inhabited temple images and extended the pharaoh's administrative gaze across an empire. The Tibetan tulpa and its social variant, the egregore, the thought-form sustained and charged by collective attention. The universal folklore of the doppelganger, whose arrival in every tradition signals the original's coming departure. And the uncanny valley, the primate threat-detection system that will be firing in every Meta employee's nervous system, below the threshold of consciousness, every time they sit down for a review with something that looks exactly like their boss but is not.The king's double is here. The only question is what it means for the king.

For forty years, near-death researchers built their models almost entirely on adult testimony. A new literature review just revealed the oversight: only 8 studies in four decades directly included children as subjects - despite children regularly surviving cardiac arrests and reporting experiences every bit as vivid as adults.What those children report is startling in its implications. They share the structural features of NDEs - the tunnel, the light, the out-of-body sensation - but none of the cultural overlay that fills adult accounts. No life reviews. No deceased relatives. No religious figures shaped by their tradition. The researchers describe children's accounts as more "raw" - less mediated by a lifetime of cultural expectation.

Eight years ago this week Troubled Minds Radio broadcast for the first time. The world had no idea what was about to break open. The UAP disclosure cascade. The psychedelic renaissance. The simulation discourse. The AI consciousness reckoning. The forbidden archaeology going mainstream. We were already there. Not because we predicted any of it. Because we were already native to that territory, already fluent in the conversation before the conversation officially began.Tonight's anniversary episode asks the question that's been sitting at the back of all of it - what does it mean that a paranormal podcast was better prepared for the last eight years than most mainstream institutions. And whether the sustained attention of a community like this one plays any role in what eventually arrives. Already Fluent: The Broadcast Before the Signal. Eight years in. Still listening. 

In the 13th century, Snorri Sturluson wrote down what reads less like mythology and more like a contact report: a group called the Æsir arrived from the east carrying a specific suite of abilities - shapeshifting, astral travel, seiðr magic, berserk invulnerability, songs that could open the earth - and they taught these abilities to a priesthood that spread them across Scandinavia for centuries. David Lovegrove has been re-translating the Old Norse texts and cross-referencing them with his own decades of practice in Chinese internal kung fu and Indian yoga, and the parallels are too specific to dismiss. Were the Æsir teachers from somewhere else? Did their curriculum survive Christianization in hidden form? And what does it mean that the same "superpowers" show up in unrelated traditions on the other side of the planet?Follow David Lovegrove - https://www.amazon.com/Viking-Superpowers-Suppressed-Technology-Spacefaring/dp/1764091817 and https://www.youtube.com/@vikingsuperpowers 

Fuel prices are skyrocketing, a roadside favorite is under fire, and the RV industry just saw a massive sales drop.In this Monday News Edition, Mike Wendland breaks down the massive jump in diesel and gasoline prices following military strikes in the Middle East. What does a $5.00/gallon reality mean for your summer road trip? We do the math so you don't have to.Plus, we look at why Buc-ee's—the "king of the road stop"—has been handed a failing grade by the Better Business Bureau. Is the brand losing its touch with the RV community?In this episode:00:00 - Intro & RVCommunity.com01:15 - Fuel Price Hammer: The real cost of an 8,000-mile trip05:40 - Buc-ee's Flunks: Why the BBB gave them an "F"10:12 - RV Industry Crisis: New and Used sales are cratering13:25 - Major Recalls: Ford, GM, Newmar, and Grand Design (Do-Not-Drive!)17:50 - Google Maps Gemini AI: A new co-pilot for RVers?RESOURCES MENTIONED: ???? RV Budget Tool: Calculate your trip costs at RVLifestyle.com/budget ???? Join the Community: Connect with fellow RVers at RVCommunity.com ????️ Check your VIN: Stay safe at NHTSA.govSubscribe for more RV news and lifestyle tips! #RVNews #RVLifestyle #FuelPrices #Bucees #RVRecalls #RoadTrip2026

Stop the cycle of defining your worth by your productivity. In this episode, Martin, a clinical hypnotherapist and former paramedic, leads you through a powerful box-breathing technique to instantly calm the nervous system and manage panic. We then transition into a deep visualization and trending affirmations designed to help you strip away external expectations and reclaim your intrinsic value. Whether you are struggling with daily anxiety or seeking to build lasting self-love, this session provides the sanctuary your mind needs.What You'll Learn & Experience:Instant Panic Relief: A variation of Box Breathing (4-4-6) to signal to your brain that the threat is over.Identity-Based Affirmations: Powerful statements to reinforce that you are "enough" exactly as you are.Visualization for Letting Go: A guided exercise to shed the "heavy coats" of past mistakes and job-related stress.3 Daily Caring Tips: Actionable advice on mirror work, digital boundaries, and physical grace.Episode Timestamps:[0:00] - Overcoming the "moving target" of self-worth.[1:15] - Introduction to the Anxiety Breaker Course.[1:30] - Guided 4-4-6 Box Breathing for immediate relief.[4:40] - Deep Visualization: Shedding the heavy coats of productivity.[6:50] - Trending Affirmations for self-love and growth.[8:35] - 3 Daily Caring Tips for a happier life.[9:50] - A personal note from Martin and how to stay kind.Resources & Links:The Anxiety Breaker Course: Take a structured approach to your healing journey at calminganxiety.fm.Join the Community: Connect with others on the same path.About Your Host:Martin is a former paramedic and qualified clinical hypnotherapist dedicated to providing bite-sized, effective tools for mental health.Connect With Us:If this episode helped you, please follow the show on Apple Podcasts and leave a review—it helps us reach more people who need this calm. Be kind to yourself.Connect with us: www.calminganxiety.fmThe Anxiety Circuit Breaker Couse - 5 Wonderful Hypnotherapy Sessions https://calminganxietypodcast.systeme.io/letter