Consensus Unreality
Episodes
Solid State Intelligence, John C. Lilly Revisited, ECCO, 3I/Atlas PATREON PREVIEW
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
ECCO is calling. Will you answer? SSE is at your door. Do you let it in? Hear our advice in this breezy discussion of our beloved mad scientist mystic...
ESP, Remote Viewing, Parapsychology + Patreon: Savior Battles, Gnosticism, Punched by Bigfoot
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
SRI, PEAR, Duke, Monroe, and all that! An episode on remote viewing, ESP, psychics, and more. We even try it out ourselves, with an interesting result...
Out of Body Experiences, Hemi-sync, and the Loosh Harvest
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The loosh harvest was good this time! A conversation on Robert Monroe's Far Journeys, including its role as a 20th century paranormal "theory of every...
Halloween Table Tipping, Orb Photography, Horror Films, Synchronicity Tail Spins and More..
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Halloween 2k25 special! In this lengthy public/Patreon split episode, we talk Dave's recent trip to table-tipping and spirit photography boot camp...
Ouija History and Witchboard Curses with John Kozik + Patreon Afterword
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview with John Kozik of the Salem Witch Board Museum, we follow the planchette of history across the board of time (sorry) to answer some...
Technological Mediums, Channeled Etherships, Haunted VHS Tapes PATREON PREVIEW
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this Patreon exclusive, we talk ghosts and ghouls, ether ships. A meditation on technology as haunt inducing mediums, Mark Probert’s ethereal cha...
Unfolding Alternate Realities, Ong's Hat, Synchronicity and more with Joseph Matheny
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A deep and roving interview with the great artist and writer Joseph Matheny. We talk: the origins of his legendary Ong’s Hat project in the very ear...
Weird Fiction, Divination and the Magic of Place: Algernon Blackwood; Pan; Geomancy
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this double feature episode — half public, half Patreon-only— we celebrate the equinox with a discussion of Algernon Blackwood's "The Willows" ...
The Crossroads of Fairy Lore, Photographing Djinn and Tracing the Dark Song with Darragh Mason
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview with Spirit Box podcast host Darragh Mason, we travel deep into crossroads to discuss his important recent book Song of the Dark Man...
Fourth Wall Phantoms and the Truth About Aliens with Joshua Cutchin
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about you, the listener. Our third interview with the prolific and brilliant Joshua Cutchin focuses on his newest book, Fourth Wall Ph...
The Loch and the Grail with Mike Bruno Patreon Episode Preview
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An exploration of dragons, serpents, and myth,  Nessie, the depths, reptilian evil, wormy good, and the quest for the grail. After 3 years, we’re ...
Andrija Puharich, The Law of One: Ra Material and More with Greg Mallozzi of The Cosmic Clock
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview with Gregory Mallozzi, we re-enter the Law of One and Don Elkins rabbit hole. Greg's new podcast series on Elkins fuels the conversa...
Early American Mysticism, Cryptozoology and the Alien Abduction Mythos with Timothy Grieve-Carlson
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview with historian of religions Timothy Grieve-Carlson, we discuss the history of cryptozoology, Pennsylvania's deep history of the weir...
Synchronicity and Esoteric Fabrications with Kristen Phillips of The Liminal Credential
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kristen Phillips, artist, writer, fabricator, and Philosophical Research Society events manager joins us for a deep dive on PRS, synchronicity,...
The Craft and Magic of Strange Machines with Will Mullany of Molasses Industries
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tesla's ghost is in the public domain! Will Mullany of Molasses Industries joins CU to chat about unconventional DIY electronics, ghosts in machines, ...
Hermetic Initiation, Haunted Houses, Revelatory Lights and Float Tank Confessions with Erick Van Ficken of Coteries
31 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For this weeks episode Dave interviews the mind behind the music and performance project Coteries, Erick Van Ficken. Ficken has a long history of para...
20 Esoteric Films; Free Energy Suppression; Occult California, Ouija Decoding
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ben and Dave trade ten esoteric film picks each, with a focus on how the medium can convey occult or spiritual knowledge. From demons to formless ligh...
Unmasking the gods: What is Consensus Unreality?
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are celebrating 5 years of Consensus Unreality this summer, and we thought it might be good to frame the show once again for people who haven't bee...
Distorted Prophecy; A Channeling Saga Part II; Law of One, Ra Material
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I am Ra. Closing the book on Don and Carla for now: we discuss the Law of One, situating it within a continuum of channeled literature, noting its inf...
Tanner F. Boyle Uncovering the UFO Reality, Channeling Groups, Deep Research and Psywar
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation with Tanner F. Boyle of Getting Spooked, we cover a wide variety of ufological subjects, from older channeling groups to the more...
Humble Messengers; A Channeling Saga: Part 1
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we open up conversation about the work of researchers and experimental channelers Don Elkins and Carla Rueckert. Best known for their ...
Elemental Borderlands; Simulated Apparitions; Real-izing the UFO
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hashing out the UFO potato a bit more on this episode: recent readings by Mark Fisher and Eric Wargo; the odd specificities of the abduction phenomeno...
Cosmic Life Pulsations; Plasmoid UFOs; Reichian Incantations
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The plasma streaming will continue... Further thoughts on Robert Temple's A New Science of Heaven, Trevor James Constable's Cosmic Pulse of Life, the...
PATREON PREVIEW: Ether Ships; Giant Rock UFO Conventions; Plasmoidal Dreaming; Drones
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Here is an extended preview of our last 3 patreon episodes. We discussed the legendary Gray Barker at George Van Tassel's famed UFO Conventions in the...
Recluse on The Minotaur: A Kubrick Odyssey; UAP Phantasms, Drone Deceptions and More..
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview with return guest Steven Snider AKA Recluse of the essential The Farm podcast, we dive deep into the shifting realm of film, crime, ...
Holographic Universe; EMF Consciousness; UFO Ghost Ships; Radiating a Noosphere
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is consciousness a hologram? Is existence a series of images of itself? Is the flying saucer boom of the mid-20th century just the afterlife of Th...
AP Strange on Loch Ness, Aleister Crowley, Houdini and More..
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview with occult and paranormal researcher AP Strange, we discuss the odd map of lore that connects Aleister Crowley to the Loch N...
Pulp Magic IV: The Great Beast Himself; Aleister Crowley, Exotic Rites and Diabolic Charges
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the final installment of our Pulp Magic series, we dive into the tunnel of mirrors that is the life, work, and legacy of Aleister Crowley. From...
Patreon 77 Preview: Tartarus, Demonic Possession, Synchronistic Unveiling, Devil Rides
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Atop the shell of a demoniac turtle, we ride into a sharp discussion on shell'd tortoise syncs, satanic horror classic The Devil Rides Out, smashing t...
UNLOCKED Pulp Magic I: Exotic Meta-Fictions; East Meets West, Kenneth Grant; Eugenia Macer-Story and More..
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join our Patreon for just 5$ a month and get access to our regular exclusive episodes, full archive, written content, discord server and more.. www.pa...
Tarot and Cartomancy with Laetitia Barbier
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview with cartomancer and tarot scholar Laetitia Barbier, we tour the realm of images and symbols known as the tarot. From Laetitia's ...
PREVIEW Patreon 72: Pulp Magic I: Exotic Meta-Fictions; East Meets West
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The first in a new series of episodes on the dizzying feedback loop of east-meets-west in the occult tradition. We open in an unlikely place: Sax Rohm...
Marianne Dages on Dream Magic and the Book as Talisman in Fort Denial
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview with writer and artist Marianne Dages, we discuss her most recent artist's book Tales of Fort Denial, the influence of dreams on ar...
Evana Roman on Haunted Objects, Mediumship and Spirit Communication
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this Patreondiumship + Patreon Preepisode on Enchated Travel, Garden Mythos and Current Readings exclusive pre-episode, we discuss Dave's recent tr...
Dean Bertram on The Shaver Mystery, UFOs and the Occult
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview with filmmaker, Talking Weird podcast host, and flying saucer scholar Dean Bertram, we take a long overdue deep dive into the Shaver...
Willow Trueman on Channeling Strangeness, Synchronicity, Hypnosis and Much More..
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this long conversation with Willow Trueman of the Nonsense Bazaar podcast, we discuss the shifting nature of a paranormally- tinged life. Th...
PREVIEW Patreon 65: Uncertain Places, Strange Occurrences, Slips in the Veil
31 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A brief missive from the upturned tortoise shell wherein a soup of syncs bubbles over. Audiobook vortices, the on-high writer writing the writer, and ...
UNLOCKED: Saucers of Despair III: The Saturnal Current, Dark Gods, Astrotheology (10/13/2022)
23 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
UNLOCKED This was originally a patreon exclusive episode released on 10/13/2022 as part of our Saucers of Despair Series. We continue to release regul...
Orgonomy, Cloudbusting and Wilhelm Reich with Sarah Chait
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview with artist and recent Orgonon resident Sarah Chait,  we discuss the life, work, and legacy of the great Wilhelm Reich, from  his ...
Astral Inhabitants, Fairy Faith, Mahatma Letters, Contact with Non-Human Intelligence
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Testing connections along the fairy and astral-Theosophical to UFO pipeline... Yep,  still fully operational. NJ’s own W. Y. Evans-Wentz and his fa...
Unseen Resonances: John Keel, Jadoo, Lyre-led Synchs, Exquisite Corpse 2 and More..
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Unseen resonances, John Keel's early work, nefarious tendencies in the UFO subculture, and more in this conversation. Susan Lepselter's poetic-...
Psychoidal Ufologicks: Outer Gateways; Operation Trojan Horse: UFO as Apport
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a classic wide-ranging CU discussion, we cover Kenneth Grant's  bizarre ufological synthesis in his book "Outer Gateways", new MK Jessup  weirdne...
Apophenic Realism with Carmelo Pampillonio: Fringe Culture and Artistic Practice
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this in depth conversation with artist and researcher Carmelo Pampillonio we talked conspiracy culture and the allure and line of synchronistic and...
Andy Sharp on The English Heretic; Astral Geographic; Ritual Histories and More..
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we interview writer, musician, psycho-geographer, and English Heretic Andy Sharp. We discuss his two books, the immediate classic Th...
Non-human Intelligences: Allegory and the UFO Reality
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A long, thoughtful saunter through some new and some familiar terrains.  We dive headfirst into D. W. Pasulka's new book Encounters, with its of-th...
Shannon Taggart on Séance, Spiritualism, Spectral Photography and More...
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview with photographer and Spiritualism archivist Shannon Taggart, we discuss her incredible book, SÉANCE and the long, buried history o...
PATREON 55 PREVIEW: Season of the Witch
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the witching hour! In this long-form Patreon exclusive, and a companion to our previous episode on the vampire, we discuss some of the many for...
PATREON 54 PREVIEW: Vampiric Realism: Into Dracula’s Vortex
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bwah! In this episode we chat about the folklore, fiction, and cultural power of the figure of the vampire. Hammer horror, the Romantic era shift to a...
Christopher Forgues (C.F.) on Comics, Noise, Airwaves and Ritual
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview with comics artist and musician Christopher Forgues (C.F., Kites, Universal Cell Unlock, Daily Life etc.), we talk the cross-media c...
Brad Abrahams on Documentary Filmmaking, Fringe Culture, Love and Saucers, Parapsychology and More
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're back in the interview game! A great conversation with documentary filmmaker Brad Abrahams, known for Love and Saucers, Do You See What I See,  ...
Dan Dutton: Cherries All the Way Across; Magic and Artistic Practice
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Here is our recent long-form interview with Dan Dutton. Originally presented on patreon.com/consensusunreality where consistent episodes are regularly...
Joshua Cutchin On Ecology of Souls: A New Mythology of Death and the Paranormal
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview with Fortean author (and returning guest!) Joshua Cutchin, we discuss his new two volume book on the connection between death and th...
Allen Greenfield On The Secret Cipher of the UFONauts, Occult UFO Entaglement and Much More..
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The ufonaut cipherer is here! In this lively interview with legendary ufologist and occultist Allen Greenfield, we discuss: that strange grey area bet...
Nicole Cushing On Synchronicity, the Vortex of Narrative, Mothwoman and More
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview with Nicole Cushing, Â Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Sick Gray Laugh, Mr. Suicide, and the forthcoming Mothwoman, we talk h...
Cosmic Hoaxing, UFO Disclosure and Channeling Aliens
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we dive into the present day popular imaginary of the UFO— tic tacs, Tom Delonge, military-industrial madness and the Disclosure Mo...
Alchemy, Ecstasy and Alien Abductions; The Andreasson Affair and More..
02 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this return to the comfort of the alien abduction phenomenon, we trace the alchemical, mystical, and conspiratorial webwork of the legendary Andrea...
Mysticism, Limit Experiences, Georges Bataille and More with Emmalea Russo
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview with writer Emmalea Russo, we talk Georges Bataille, limit experiences, mysticism and inspiration, the Acephale Society, and end up ...
Artificial Intelligence and Simulations with Alex Kiefer
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview with philosopher, artist, and machine learning/ AI theorist Alex Kiefer, we dig deep into the current state of artificial intelligen...
GOHAR X GRAIL with Yasmina Hashemi and M. E. Scott
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode we were joined by Yasmina Hashemi and M. Elizabeth Scott to discuss their ongoing project GOHAR X GRAIL. In their words GOHAR X GRAIL ...
Roerich and the Stone of Destiny
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this Origininally Patreon exclusive episode, now unlocked for our free-cast, we chat all things Nicholas Roerich, a  fascinating figure in 20th ce...
Dan Dutton on Real Magic, the Neverending Dream and Much More..
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview with the singular artist Dan Dutton, we explore the realms of lucid dreams and magic, discuss Dutton's life with the entity known as...
Paul Weston on Secret Lives and High Strangeness
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview with esoteric researcher and writer Paul Weston, we discuss the magical and occult dimension of aliens and UFOs through the Strieber...
Aidan Wachter on Hypersigils and Everything Else
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In our first interview of season two, we’re joined by Aidan Wachter, author most recently of Weaving Fate: Hypersigils, Changing the Past, & Tel...
Faerie Rings and Ramblings with Mike Bruno
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joined again by musician and seer Mike Bruno, we engage the world of the  Good People in this episode. You know, the Gentry? The Other Crowd?  Eleme...
Time Loops and the Long Self with Eric Wargo
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Precognition theorist Eric Wargo joins us in this mind-expanding interview about time, dreams, the unconscious, the long self, and much more. Are we f...
PREVIEW Patreon 6: Search In This Area- Location and Ritual
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this patreon exclusive episode, we introduce a new experiment in an attempt to examine the paranormal aspects of location. We discuss the practice ...
Clairvoyancy with Evana Roman
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview with clairvoyant, poet, and musician Evana Roman we learn about the practice and philosophy of psychism and mediumship, including di...
Unseen Threads with Stephanie Quick
24 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this wide-ranging interview with paranormal researcher and experiencer Stephanie Quick, we cover the life and influence of sexual mystic Ida Cr...
PREVIEW Patreon Episode 2: Pan-demonium
14 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To hear this and other exclusive episodes and have access to exclusive content and merchandise visit and sign up at https://www.patreon.com/consensus...
PREVIEW Patreon Episode: 1 (Land Beyond Part 2)
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this Patron-exclusive episode, the second part of our polar mythology and hollow earth series, we dive deep into the world of real and alleged Nazi...
Pagan Hollywood
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk Hollywood, Decadence, and film magic with In Search of Pagan Hollywood mastermind Charles Lieurance. This was a great discussi...
Hypnosis with Ellen Phan
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we spoke with hypnotherapist and musician Ellen Phan. We were treated to an excellent open discussion on the development of her trade ...
Synchronicity Strangeness with Joshua Cutchin
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we are joined by guest Joshua Cutchin, the author of several excellent books on UFOs, alien abductions, and their relationship to fair...
Conjuring Moments with M. E. Scott
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we were fortunate enough to interview the talented and insightful poet and practitioner of Magick and Tarot~ M. Elizabeth Scott. We di...