Ectoplasm
Referenced in 5 episodes
Definition
A substance or spiritual energy reputed to produce spiritual manifestations, often associated with physical phenomena during mediumistic séances.
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Jason Reza Jorjani on Holographic Reality: How Psychotronic Tech Programs Minds
Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioOct 29, 2026
Philosopher Jason Reza Jorjani discusses his book Intellectronics, a study of Andrija Puharich, the physician and parapsychologist he calls a 'Promethean whistleblower' and techno-shaman. Jorjani describes how Puharich built electromagnetic devices that sent sound directly to the brain, worked with psychic children, helped found the Stargate program, and reconstructed Nikola Tesla's scalar wave technology. Jorjani claims Puharich concluded the Soviets used Tesla towers to trigger the 1977 New York blackout and its riots, and that intelligence agencies burned his home for trying to reveal it.
Apports and Other Anomalous Phenomena with Keith Thompson
New Thinking AllowedOct 26, 2026
Author Keith Thompson joins Jeffrey Mishlove to discuss his book Anomalous Phenomena, which argues that mind and matter are not separate but points on a dynamic spectrum that interact in surprising ways. Starting with the Scole Experiment, where objects such as an 1891 penny and a 1944 newspaper allegedly materialized during seances, Thompson links apports to near-death experiences, stigmata, Navajo Bigfoot cases, and shape-shifting UFOs. He shares his own near-death experience and his mother's deathbed visitation as personal evidence that our scientific maps, not reality, contain the anomalies.
The Scole Experiment with Robin Foy (1943 - 2022) (4K Reboot)
New Thinking AllowedOct 14, 2026
Robin Foy, founder of the Scole Experimental Group, describes five years of seances in the cellar of his Norfolk home in which two trance mediums allegedly produced spirit lights, materializations, voices, and images on unopened film. He claims the spirit team was joined by extraterrestrials, including a small blue being and a miniature UFO, and even by Thomas Edison, who supposedly supplied a blueprint for a transdimensional communication device. Foy says the experiment ended in 1998 after time travelers from roughly a century in the future accidentally interfered through the spirit portal.
Cultivating Physical Mediumship with Robin Foy (1943 - 2022) (4K Reboot)
New Thinking AllowedAug 13, 2026
Robin Foy, founder of the Noah's Ark Society and the famous Scole Experiment, recounts five decades of pursuing physical mediumship, from his first seance circle in Leicester in 1973 to sittings with direct voice medium Leslie Flint. He describes startling claimed phenomena, including a pet hamster and dog allegedly teleported by spirits and a spirit team that taught his group to produce phenomena using 'creative energy' instead of ectoplasm. He also explains how spirit messages, including clues about goats with bells and golden eagles, led him to a property near a sacred mountain in Antequera, Spain, for a new Spiritual Science center.
The Stratford Poltergeist
Astonishing LegendsJun 14, 2025
The episode explores the haunting phenomenon that struck Stratford, Connecticut in 1850, centering around the Phelps family's terrifying experiences. Objects moved mysteriously, cryptic messages appeared, and violence escalated, drawing attention from skeptics and spiritualists alike. The episode questions whether this haunting was a hoax, the result of psychic energy, or something truly supernatural.
