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Beginning with the revelations that arose in a now famous 2017 New York Times article titled \u201cGlowing Auras and \u2018Black Money\u2019: The Pentagon\u2019s Mysterious U.F.O. Program\u201d, and further brought to light with the allegations made by former military insiders like Luis Elizondo and David Grusch, the general public is being slowly acclimated to a reality that those of us who are part of this community have long known to be the case: non-human intelligences and their technological marvels have been (and continue to be) in our very midst.

Still, for those of us who regularly dive deep into these murky (but often exhilarating) waters, we know that these revelations - as startling as they are to the average Joe and Jane on the street - are really just the beginning. And that\u2019s because, simply put, there are numerous elements of human experience that simply don\u2019t play well with the prevailing paradigm that rules in Western civilization - at least at present. These elements include out of body experiences, near death experiences, psi phenomena, synchronicity, contact with supposed deceased loved ones, and time slippages. And that\u2019s just for starters.

Not only do these elements that have historically been forced to the fringes of polite conversation stretch the mainstream\u2019s understanding of what\u2019s possible, they also call into question the very maps we\u2019ve so confidently crafted to make sense of what\u2019s real altogether. For instance, when it comes to the matter of dealing with sophisticated, apparently non-human intelligences (ie. aliens), not only do we have the matter of the DoD allegedly housing the recovered craft and even the cadavers of non-human life forms - life forms that are decidedly biological, just like us -\xa0 also on the table are the credible accounts of a host of other kind of non-conventional encounters.

Truth be told, there is a considerable body of data pointing to encounters with beings that are better described as ethereal, though - importantly - no less \u201creal\u201d. These beings are described by people from different walks of life in such consistent ways that they seem to claim just as much \u201creal\u201d and independent existence as we do. Other life forms that people encounter are perhaps better described as quasi-physical, and still others seem to navigate between these different domains like we might move between different rooms of a house.

Furthermore, human beings sometimes find themselves acting outside of their own bodies - and even outside of this 3D \u201cphysical\u201d construct altogether - interacting with alien beings of various sorts and sometimes even with their own supposedly deceased loved ones in the process. The beings encountered also seem capable of moving human consciousness in ways that sometimes include the physical body, and other times do not. In short, what\u2019s being highlighted here is the untenable nature of the physicalist paradigm altogether.

But all this being the case, how are we to proceed? If our modern maps have been exposed as - at best - approximations reflecting only one tiny corner of a much more expansive territory, how are we to make our way forward? And how can we reconcile the seemingly illusory boundaries between the living and the dead, sleep and waking states, and physical and ethereal realms? This all amounts to some pretty ambitious inquiry. But these are exactly the matters that we\u2019ll seek to engage with in this the 104th episode of the Point of Convergence podcast.