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Episodes
LP 086 - Aliens, Ambiguity & "False Flags"
12 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Liminal Phrames, Darren/Exo and Nathan assess the notion of a "false flag" surrounding a coming alien threat. What underl...
PoC 131 - Intervention & Intercession
05 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Point of Convergence, we delve into William Bramley’s The Gods of Eden, which argues that recurring patterns of conflict and beli...
LP 085 - The Ontology of Encounters
29 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Liminal Phrames, Darren/Exo and Nathan dig into the ontological status of "beings" in contact reports. Persistent agents,...
PoC 130 - Horizons of the Hyperplane
15 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of PoC, we do a deep dive into the emerging common ground where esoterica and leading-edge science meet. What if this is less about a ...
LP 084 - Of Prophecy & Prognostication
08 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Liminal Phrames, Darren/Exo and Nathan explore a key intersection between the UFO phenomenon and religious history: prophecy—spec...
PoC 129 - Strangeness in Pt. Pleasant
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Point of Convergence, we delve into John Keel's The Mothman Prophecies. UFOs; Mothman; Men in Black. John Keel investigated eve...
LP 083 - The Seeds of Consciousness
15 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Liminal Phrames, Darren/Exo and Nathan explore the relationship between alien and human genetics. What if reality renders different...
PoC 128 - The Engineers of Humanity
08 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Point of Convergence, we do a deep dive into the genetic and historical evidence, alongside ancient cultural lore, suggesting an in...
LP 082 - Parsing the Impossible
25 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Liminal Phrames, Darren/Exo and Nathan apply various hypotheses to the perplexing nature of the UFO Phenomenon data, showing how th...
PoC 127 - Traversing Veils of Density
18 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Deep in the UFO lore is the notion not only of telepathic contact, but of the channeling of intelligences in and beyond spacetime. Pursuant to that as...
PoC 126 - Weaving a Fabric of Reality
11 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of PoC, we consider what it means when rigorous, unsentimental science pushes far enough into the unknown that it collides with someth...
PoC 125 - Scouting a Meandering Path
28 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Point of Convergence, we celebrate 5 Years of PoC with a retrospective journey laying out the strange, profound, and ever more cons...
124 - The Nature of Synchronicity
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Point of Convergence, we explore the uncanny phenomenon of synchronicity—what it is, how to engage with it, and what kind of real...
123 - The Kosmic Holomovement
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of PoC, we re-trace the steps that led to the realization—in both physics and neuroscience—that reality functions like a hologram....
122 - Indigenous NHI Encounters
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Point of Convergence we're back for another engagement with Ardy Sixkiller Clarke's catalog of the contact experiences of indigenou...
121 - The Architecture of Aeons
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Point of Convergence, we explore what it means to "escape the Matrix." Join me as I break down the perspective I've g...
120 - In, Through & Beyond Time
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of PoC, Darren tackles a key aspect of the high strangeness that is part and parcel of the Phenomenon: the anomalous experience of tim...
119 - Penetrating Psychic Veils
31 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Psionics, non-human intelligences, and vast—largely untapped—human potential have become increasingly and inextricably linked. Ingo Swann stood at...
118 - Charting the Gnostic Path
10 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Point of Convergence, Darren/Exo asks: why does this gnostic notion of our waking experience not being ultimately real prove so end...
117 - From Abduction to Agency
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Point of Convergence, we explore the reality-expanding implications of one woman's contact experiences, including her successfu...
116 - A Hall of Mirrors Re-visited
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Point of Convergence, we explore how anomalous experiences—UFO/NHI encounters, synchronicities, altered states, psi phenomena, et...
115 - Refractions of the Deep Self
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since the dawn of what has come to be colloquially referred to as the modern UFO Phenomenon, two very divergent aspects have emerged to create a situa...
114 - Seeping from the Periphery
26 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
UFOs & NHI operate at the fringe of human awareness. A key question is: why? Is this an indicator of an anti-human agenda? Or, might the very ques...
113 - Into the Subsuming Realm
16 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout the history of ufology, researchers have been attempting to make sense of both the technology and the nature of the intelligences behind th...
112 - Humanity at a Crossroads
02 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout the course of this podcast we’ve been weaving together topics often discussed in isolation; topics including UFOs, psychic phenomena, and...
111 - Contours of the Construct
12 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Whenever we reach certain watershed moments within ufology, a whole new contingent of interested parties tend to enter the fray, after some new public...
110 - Messaging the Anomalous
22 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For those who have been involved in ufology for decades, the last few weeks have been particularly noteworthy. And that’s because what we’ve been ...
109 - Indigenous Contact Events
17 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In recent times, considerable focus has been on the march towards some form of official UAP disclosure. Throughout that period, momentum has been aris...
108 - A Collapsing of Constructs
13 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Darren/Exo explores how the matter of the UFO Phenomenon and converging fields of research collapse various constructs of the world, ...
107 - Of Expansion & Ascension
22 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As we speak, both within ufology and within the segments of the political and public spheres that are beginning to wrestle with this enigmatic topic, ...
106 - The Alien & the Oversoul
01 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Even as our modern mainstream society begins to grapple with the notion that non-human intelligences of a sophisticated nature are in our midst, pilot...
105 - Technologies of Contact
11 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While modern ufology has been a component of our cultural zeitgeist for decades and decades now, during much of that time it has generally been seen a...
104 - Consciousness Continuum
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Beginning with the revelations that arose in a now famous 2017 New York Times article titled “Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s ...
103 - Communal Confrontation
16 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When we take the time to look back at the history of the UFO phenomenon in popular culture, perhaps no book has had an impact greater than Whitley Str...
102 - Mind, Matter & Meaning
12 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Seeing the matter of UAP, or, as they have more traditionally been named: UFOs, unidentified flying objects, move through the halls of Congress, appar...
101 - Return of the Sky People
28 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to the intelligences behind the UFO Phenomenon, a certain group of repeating players tend to draw most of the attention. These commonly ...
100 - Odysseys into the Beyond
31 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In our modern, technologically sophisticated world, it is something of a wonder that a medium such as the podcast continues to thrive. When podcasts f...
099 - Artifacts of Regeneration
17 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the recent move towards a more mainstream consideration of the enigma colloquially known as the UFO Phenomenon, we are seeing increasing discussion...
098 - Nearing the Event Horizon
18 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Those familiar with ufological lore, and especially how it ties into our deep religious history, will tell you that UFOs have been around for as long ...
097 - Sojourners of Spirit & Sky
04 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last several episodes of this podcast we’ve been exploring the overlap between religious history, Shamanism and the UFO Phenomenon. In toda...
096 - Ancient & Modern Contact
14 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While the notion of extraterrestrial life has long captivated the public imagination, certain expectations regarding how such life might interact with...
095 - Transition & Transcendence
31 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last 12 months or so, those associated with ufology have seen their excitement level around the matter of official disclosure reach a fevered...
094 - A Spectrum of Encounters
10 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As our civilization continues to skate at the very edge of a new era of widespread public disclosure around the so-called UFO Phenomenon, there still ...
093 - Of Initiatives & Ultimatums
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anyone alive in the modern era is entitled to look at the startling conflux of transformational variables currently arising in our midst, and conclude...
092 - Original & Engineered Mind
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over the course of the 80 or so years that make up what is colloquially known as the modern UFO Phenomenon, various hypotheses have been generated to ...
091 - A Reality of Dreamscapes
15 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over the course of 90+ episodes of Point of Convergence, save for one episode with James Iandoli, on the topic of CE-5, or HICE: human initiated conta...
090 - Of Accords & Abductions
24 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For a long period of modern history the matter of the so-called UFO Phenomenon remained a topic cast to the fringes of discourse. While there has alwa...
089 - Tending the Garden Planet
10 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Without question, 2023 has been a banner year in the decades-long endeavor to bring disclosure about the reality of the so-called UFO Phenomenon to pu...
088 - Interventions & Endgames
13 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The modern so-called UFO Phenomenon stretches back to the mid-20th century. That means we have 75+ years of lore to draw from when reflecting on the s...
087 - Anomalous Introductions
30 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout much of the 20th century there existed a narrative that ran in parallel, but also somewhat in shadow and away from plain sight, to the marc...
086 - The Temporal Engineers
25 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout the history of humankind we’ve been pushing the boundaries of exploration, determined to map and – often eventually, populate – every...
085 - The Dawning of Disclosure
11 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The year 2017 saw what appeared at the time to be a sea change in ufology when a key piece published in the New York Times made clear that the U.S. mi...
084 - Clandestine Campaigns
14 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ever since the dawn of the modern UFO Phenomenon, a wide variety of terms have been used to describe people’s reactions to it. People have been fasc...
083 - Of Abduction & Initiation
30 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Within the vast historical literature associated with the UFO Phenomenon there are references to numerous kinds of craft sighted and numerous kinds of...
082 - Vestiges of the Sky Gods
02 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The enigma known as the UFO Phenomenon is compelling for numerous reasons. One of those reasons is that this phenomenon has been attested to by witnes...
081 - A Matrix of Myth & Magic
19 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When people are first introduced to the enigmatic topic known as the UFO Phenomenon, the working assumption is that this is a matter of determining wh...
080 - Dimensions of Disclosure
19 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Generally speaking, with this podcast, each episode takes a different topic pertaining to the UFO Phenomenon and general paranormality and does a deep...
079 - UFOs, Treaties & Hybrids
05 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Within the enigma known as the UFO Phenomenon, a few particularly troubling aspects have long existed as part of the experiencer literature. One speci...
078 - The Quintessential Other
08 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
While the modern UFO era may have begun with the emergence of saucer sightings in the early to mid 20th century, that picture eventually grew to inclu...
077 - The State & Fate of Earth
25 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While the push towards government disclosure around its knowledge of UFOs – and even its knowledge of the attempted reverse engineering of apparentl...
076 - Unidentified Aerial Prompts
27 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The so-called UFO Phenomenon is a tricky affair because, no matter when and from where you enter the discussion, you’ve inevitably going to face hav...
075 - Interdimensional Highways
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many of the people who regularly tune into this podcast know that the UFO Phenomenon, general paranormality, and other so-called contact modalities su...
074 - An ExoHuman Assessment
30 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For those of us intimately familiar with the nuances of the so-called UFO Phenomenon, the question of if there is a “there” there or not is long s...
073 - The Intermentational Others
16 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As many of you may know, I recently had the opportunity to make a presentation at a very unique and powerful conference event held in the heart of Man...
072 - Transformational Contact
02 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If there’s one thing that becomes abundantly clear to those who endeavor to study the so-called UFO Phenomenon closely, it’s that it defies easy c...
071 - The Partition Hypothesis
18 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ever since human beings have had some sense of the immensity of the Cosmos, when we look up to the starry array above their heads in the dark of night...
070 - The Disorienting Labyrinth
04 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For those who’ve spent decades searching for answers to the elusive yet seemingly ever-present enigma colloquially known as the UFO Phenomenon, the ...
069 - The Inquiring Mind (Q&A) 4
03 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the course of the history of this podcast, I have taken several opportunities to publish a special edition of the podcast, where I answer audienc...
068 - Intermentation & Contagion
19 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For those who look at the UFO Phenomenon as a primarily “nuts and bolts” enterprise, elements of this enigma that veer into the domains of the spi...
067 - Human Initiated Contact
05 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When we think back to the dawn of the modern UFO era in the 1940s, and the subsequent reports of sightings and interactions ever since - whether they ...
066 - Portals Into the Construct
22 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the long history of strange events occurring in the lives of human beings, the drive for understanding has been, not surprisingly, shaped by the mo...
065 - The Roswell UFO Enigma
08 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the long history of the modern UFO Phenomenon, a key and iconic moment stands out as of particular import. I speak of a rumored crash of a sophisti...
064 - The Sequestered Society
24 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When strange and sophisticated aerial vehicles were first spotted buzzing in and around our skies in a series of flaps during the period of the 1940s,...
063 - A Diversity of Otherness
10 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
2017 was the year that saw a sudden uptick of mainstream interest in the notion of UFOs following revelations arising from a groundbreaking article in...
062 - The Inquiring Mind (Q&A) 3
27 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the course of the history of this podcast, we’ve covered events and experiences that are so bizarre, seemingly irrational and even absurd, that...
061 - The Curious Case of Dr. X
13 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years numerous accounts involving the UFO Phenomenon have been made public that contain a broad assortment of bizarre, paradigm-stretching, ...
060 - Astral Travel & Contact
27 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to the so-called UFO Phenomenon, the levels of complexity go much deeper than the general public and the political and media mainstream ...
059 - Of Highly Strange Heresies
13 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last several episodes we’ve been discussing some of the more bizarre, even absurd, elements of the UFO Phenomenon. For anyone who’s taken...
058 - Unreasonable Encounters
30 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Last time on this podcast we discussed Jacque Vallée’s ground-breaking and genre-stretching book Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Sauce...
057 - From Realms Far Beyond
23 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Near the middle part of the 20th century, American society became obsessed with a newfangled fascination. This pastime that took the public’s imagin...
056 - A Conspiracy of Silence
16 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the two previous episodes of the podcast we covered the key elements of the case of Terry Lovelace, a man who’s had a lifetime of experiences wit...
055 - In Search of Missing Time
09 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In last week’s episode we kicked off a discussion of a certain kind of alien interaction: the kind – well attested to in UFO Phenomenon literature...
054 - Into the Den of Destiny
02 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last several months we’ve been discussing how the totality of the data behind the UFO Phenomenon may include different patterns that, perha...
053 - A Contact Retrospective
26 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It was at this time last year that the inaugural edition of the Point of Convergence podcast was launched. In that very first edition I discussed some...
052- The Inquiring Mind (Q&A) 2
18 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we approach the one year anniversary of the Point of Convergence podcast – now only days away – it’s useful to stop and reflect on the sheer ...
051 - The Others in Our Midst
12 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In last week’s episode I postulated that part of the reason why it’s so difficult to make sense of the actions of the intelligence behind the UFO ...