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Jesse Michels

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Know Thyself
E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

I think you could re-merge those things if you have this empirical observable phenomena where you're like, these are happening at nuclear sites,

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

And they comport with things happening in the Bible.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

Like, oh my God, that's crazy.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

So I love her work on that.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

And she's really an heir to Jacques VallΓ©e who writes about this whole thing as like, he actually was writing originally around like kind of, um,

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

new psychological thought was kind of this burgeoning field where you had people like Zimbardo and you had these behavioral psychologists, guys like B.F.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

Skinner and intermittent reinforcement.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

And so you get this idea of like,

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

If you give, you know, a rat like an irregular drip of a thing, they're more likely to become like rabidly chasing the drip than they are if it's like this irregular thing.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

And that's how Jacques VallΓ©e discusses the phenomena.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

You're like, you're always chasing this thing that you never quite grasp.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

And it's almost like this control system, which is using these intermittent reinforcement techniques and synchronicities, which we now know synchronicities do create dopamine, which leads you through life in this specific way that maybe you were supposed to lead or whatever.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

And so, again, it brings this whole new cut on the UFO story, which I do think becomes...

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

a little more personable and actionable than like, you know, crafts that, you know, have anti-gravity or whatever.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

Yeah.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

Yeah, that's a great question.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

I mean, the outer limits thing is interesting.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

And sometimes I wonder, I mean, if this is all shadow play, if you take the Don Hoffman thing at face value, which I'm not saying that's necessarily true, but say it is.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

And so you have some sort of higher platonic reality and like a lower reality.

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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels

in that kind of worldview, you'd have like guardians, which are, you're seeing this sort of, you know, the shadows on the wall.