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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 of the broad brush topics I planned to cover in the coming weeks and months. I didn\u2019t know exactly what direction the podcast would take, but I had a strong sense that it would attempt to weave together topics that are often taken as distinct and disconnected: topics such as alien beings and the UFO Phenomenon, psi phenomena such as psychokinesis, telepathy and clairvoyance, and the mystery of life and death, revealed with growing clarity through phenomena such as out of body experiences, and even more so, near death experiences.

I also understood that central to our inquiry would be the underlying role that consciousness seems to play in connecting each of these subjects \u2013 which are often collectively referred to as \u201cthe contact modalities\u201d, almost like spokes in a wheel. Over time it has become increasingly clear that, as I recently heard it put, it\u2019s not so much that we possess consciousness, as that we, on the most fundamental of levels, are consciousness.

Somehow, despite the temporary sense of separation we often experience in this particular earthly iteration, we are actually part of capital \u201cC\u201d consciousness, which, as quantum physicist Erwin Schrodinger put it: \u201cConsciousness is a singular of which the plural is unknown. There is only one thing and that which seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different aspects of this one thing, produced by a deception, the Indian maya, as in a gallery of mirrors.\u201d

While the UFO Phenomenon, which has been our most central topic of inquiry, might at first seem like it doesn\u2019t belong in such a conversation, I think it\u2019s clear, based on the various cases of contact with non-human intelligence that we\u2019ve covered over the last year, that nothing could be further from the truth.

Indeed, the connection between UFOs and aliens, with psi phenomena and out of body and near death experiences, is not even secondary and subtle, but often quite immediate and direct. In fact, we\u2019ve come across cases where deceased relatives show up in the very same encounters where people meet and interact with apparently alien beings. We also know that the altered state of consciousness that experiencers of the UFO Phenomenon frequently describe involves striking overlap with elements of out of body and near death experiences.

Now, speaking of those various experiences of contact with apparently non-human, alien entities, it has been informative to see how different people have described different kinds of experiences in cases we\u2019ve covered over the last year. While there are too many striking similarities to count, there have also been some striking differences, perhaps suggesting, as I\u2019ve postulated for some time now, that we\u2019re dealing with different elements within one totality we conveniently, colloquially title \u201cthe UFO Phenomenon\u201d.

Now that we\u2019ve reached the one year mark of this podcast, while also reaching the end of this calendar year, now seems like an apt time for a retrospective of sorts, looking back to compare and contrast the various elements of these otherworldly, anomalous experiences.

Over the last 365 days or so, we\u2019ve covered nine specific cases of contact with alien intelligence. And now we\u2019ll seek to take an overarching view of those cases, considering in what ways they\u2019re similar, as well as distinct, and in what ways they did or didn\u2019t somehow touch on the other \u201ccontract modalities\u201d we discussed earlier, in this the 53rd episode of the Point of Convergence podcast.