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"HUNGRY FOR SKINWALKER RANCH": presented by Probing Ancient Aliens!

A bit of an aimless episode (literally) as a helicopter can’t seem to maintain control while driving through portal-infused airspace. There are NO ROCKETS - REPEAT: NOOOOO ROCKETS launched in this episode! BUT, the hunky ginger Caleb does drop his balls out of the sky in said whirlybird while crane malfunctions abound as the Fugle’s crew tries to prep the Mesa for drillin’!


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Hungry for Skinwalker Ranch - S4E4: The Watchers

"HUNGRY FOR SKINWALKER RANCH": presented by Probing Ancient Aliens!

This episode asks us to read between the lines…but joke’s on them! We can’t even read! Only write! Regardless, this ep gives us more drilling, more drones, more diggin’, and more bones - everything a Skinwalker Rancher could ask for! Except…more Dragon. There’s too much Dragon in this episode and he’s very cringey to watch and they should stop allowing him to talk. He does get his cloaca scanned by a vet though!

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Hungry For Skinwalker Ranch - S4E8: Between the Lines

Last week we were jamming stuff in the ground around The Mesa, and this week - what else? - we're shootin' rockets and fireworks into the sky above The Mesa. It's a delicate, precise dance with Travis Taylor as he relies on his tried and true method of blowin' shit up and measuring the weird stuff that happens! This episode though, they just might have found proof that there is a portal at Skinwalker Ranch...

Hungry For Skinwalker Ranch - S4E9: Something's Up

Inspired by “actual” events, this electro-funk instrumental is written, arranged and performed by Obi Aké.

Miami Mall

Joey was dealing with a medical emergency with one of his dogs all weekend (she's on the mend, thankfully) so sorry for the lack of Hungry For Skinwalker Ranch! Please enjoy this peek into our Patreon from last New Year's Eve!

**ORIGINAL PATREON DESCRIPTION**
Happy New Year everyone! We hope 2023 was prolapstralicious and 2024 will be even better and wetter! Steve and I played a fun "Would You Rather?" game from a book that may or may not have been written by AI or auto-translated - enjoy and see you in the new year!

PATREON PEEK: UFO-themed "Would You Rather?" Game!

We're back! And Travis and the ranch crew have more...RAWKETS to shooooooooooot!!!! This time - they're shootin' 'em fuckin' SAHD-WAAAAAAZE!!! Also, there is a top 5 all time coolest pieces of evidence contender at the end of this episode - enjoy!

Hungry for Skinwalker Ranch - S4E12: In And Out

Travis Taylor and th'boys throw everything they've used this season at The Blob in The Triangle all at once! Rockets (of course), Laser Cannons, Laser Blazing Bear chanting, and 250 drones! 

Hungry For Skinwalker Ranch - S4E13: Everything in the Air All at Once

David B. Metcalfe, Windbridge Institute Scholar in Virtual Residence, is a researcher, writer, and multimedia specialist focusing on areas where creativity, culture, and consciousness collide. 
In 2011 he established the Liminal Analytics: Applied Research Collaborative to focus on building multidisciplinary lines of communication through applied scholarship, digital media, and social network development. 
David’s work has appeared in Oxford University Press and other peer reviewed anthologies. He was a research assistant for the University of Chicago under Dr. Hussein Ali Agama focusing on archival research, and he is currently the Editor-in-Chief for the Windbridge Research Center’s Threshold: Journal of Interdisciplinary Consciousness Studies.

I originally had asked both Dr. Diana Pasulka and David to join me for this episode, but due to scheduling conflicts, Diana had to decline. (I am eager to talk with Diana at another time, however!) 

In this episode, David talks a bit about his background and his interest in the broader topic of ‘anomalous phenomena,’ and how this led him to meet Dr. Diana Pasulka and become involved in planning the course “Beyond the Stars” with her. This groundbreaking course explores the history of UFO/UAP phenomena, specific case studies, the main research traditions, and also how religion and esotericism are linked to this phenomena. The course also delves into the related areas of consciousness studies and theories of synchronicity/coincidence. 

David also shares his reflections/takeaways regarding the course and the participants, the gradual shift in attitudes surrounding this type of phenomena, and what he thinks is ‘the bigger picture’ regarding anomalous experiences. 

We also go on a few related tangents regarding memory, false memory syndrome, owls, and how popular culture absorbs and transmits ideas about high strangeness. Everything is connected. 

Full episode available at my Patreon page: www.patreon.com/RejectedReligion 

RR Pod E34 Free Content David Metcalfe: 'Beyond the Stars' Course, UAP Phenomena, Culture & Belief

*This is the Free Content version of my interview with Mike Fiorito. To access the entire episode, please consider becoming a Tier 3 'Garden of Arcane Delights' member, or you can purchase this episode for a one-time fee. 

My guest this month is Mike Fiorito. An Adjunct Professor of English at City Tech (CUNY), Mike is a freelance journalist and author of several books: For All We Know, Mescalito Riding His White Horse, Falling from Trees, The Hated Ones, Sleeping with Fishes, Call Me Guido, Freud’s Haberdashery Habits, and Hallucinating Huxley. 

Mescalito Riding His White Horse received the 2024 Independent Press Distinguished Favorite Award in Spirituality. 

Falling from Trees received the 2022 Independent Press Distinguished Favorite Award in Short Stories. 

For All We Know, his UFO themed science-fiction novel, published in May 2024.

Mike’s new book, UFO Symphonic-Journeys into Sound, was published February 1st, 2025. 

UFO Symphonic: Journeys into Sound explores the profound connection between music and the mysteries of existence. The book delves into music as a form of complex communication and a potential bridge to other realms. Through personal accounts and stories from experiencers, Fiorito examines the symbolic language of sound, dreams, and high strangeness. It invites readers on an extraordinary journey into the unknown, raising thought-provoking questions about the role of music in connecting past, present, and future.

In this discussion, Mike and I talk about his latest book, and Mike shares several anecdotes from different people that Mike interviewed. Some highlights from this conversation include:

-          the concept of “The Harmony of the Spheres” that emphasizes the interconnectedness of the cosmos and the spiritual journey of the soul; the main idea of which is that the cosmos is ordered by mathematical principles, and that planets and stars move in harmony with these principles, producing a kind of eternal music;

-         How the stories Mike shared bring up a lot of ideas related to the notion of ‘tapping into’ a larger system (that we might call consciousness, or cosmos; additionally, it seems to be suggesting a type of mind-universe alignment;

-         Joshua Cutchin’s story about creating a new narrative that combines folklore and UFO phenomena; and the connection between paranormal phenomena and death (which lines up beautifully with a book we read for our prior Patreon book club meeting -- Dr. Jeff Kripal and Whitley Strieber’s book, The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained. In the Dedication, Whitley Strieber notes that his wife Anne said, after carefully reading and organizing the numerous letters that they received, that the UFO experiences all had something to do with death, too.);

-         Sebastiano De Filippi’s section, who also discusses similar ideas to Joshua’s about music in his work as a conductor;

-         Concepts such as entanglement and tulpas; and much more!

For more, please visit: www.rejectedreligion.com or www.patreon.com/RejectedReligion

Music and Editing: Daniel P. Shea
End Production: Stephanie Shea

Rejected Religion Patreon Tier 3 Free Content Mike Fiorito UFO Symphonic: Journeys into Sound

The History Channel's Ancient Aliens is a divisive show, to say the least, but science (and sci-fi) obsessed nerds, Steve & Joey, are exploring each episode of everyone’s favorite show about Ancient Astronaut Theory with equal parts love and skepticism...as well as the quirky researchers and experts that evangelize it. What has mainstream science debunked about Ancient Aliens in the years since it premiered? And what mysterious aspects of humanity’s origins are still best explained by theorists like Georgios Tsoukalos, Erich von Daniken, and the rest of this passionate crew of explorers?

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