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Humanity may understand far less about consciousness and reality than
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we pretend that we do, whether sasquatches, flesh and blood, paranormal, interdimensional, spiritual,
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or something else entirely or all of it. The story
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persists year after year and generation after generation, and the
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deeper you go into the wilderness, frankly, the stranger the
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stories become. Human beings have spent thousands of years encountering
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something we still don't fully understand, something intelligent, something ancient,
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something connected to the wild places of the world plant
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in the minds of the There's a certain kind of
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silence you only find deep in the wilderness. Not the
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peaceful kind, not the nature documentary kind where birds chirp
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in the distance and a stream gently rolls through the trees.
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I'm talking about the kind of silence that just it
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just feels wrong, the kind of silence that presses against
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your chest, and the kind where where every instinct inside
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you suddenly starts screaming that you're not alone. If you've
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ever spent serious time in remote forests, mountains, swamps, or
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backcountry areas, you probably know exactly what I mean. And
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hunters know it, soldiers know it. Search and rescue guys
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know it. Old trappers and outdoorsmen talked about it long
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before podcasts or internet forums ever existed. Right, there are
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moments out there where the wood just stopped feeling empty
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and start feeling the forest starts feeling aware. You can
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laugh at it. You can laugh at that if you want.
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Period.
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A lot of people do, and that's fine until they
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experience it themselves. And today we're diving into one of
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the strangest and most controversial aspects of the entire sasquatch phenomenon.
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That's mind speak, telepathy, thought transfer, silent communication, whatever label
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you want to put on it. Because across North America
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and beyond, witnesses continue describing encounters that sound less like
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wildlife sightings and more like contact experiences. People claim they've
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received warnings, commands, and images, emotions, had entire conversations without
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a single word spoken. And before you roll your eyes,
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because I know some of you are, and shut this
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episode off, hear me out for a second.
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Okay, I'm not asking you.
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To blindly believe every story you hear on the internet
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as usual, of course, and honestly you should. I understand
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there's plenty of nonsense in the paranormal world, right, plenty
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of grifters, plenty of people desperate for attention. But what
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keeps pulling me back to this topic is the consistency.
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You have different people across different decades and backgrounds, and
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frankly in locations around the world, yet somehow the stories
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often sound the same, eerially similar. I talk about this
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all the time, right, the patterns, And eventually you have
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to ask yourself, why why do hunters from Alaska describe
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the same sensation as hikers in Appalachia. Why do native
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oral traditions contain elements that overlap with modern paranormal reports.
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Why do so many people describe thoughts that didn't feel
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like their own? And maybe the big guess question of all,
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what if the mystery of sasquatch isn't just biological? What
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if it's connected to consciousness itself? Today on broadcasting Seeds,
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we're heading into the deep woods and trust me, this
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one does. This one gets a little weird, okay, And
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we're gonna start with the feeling of being watched.
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Now.
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One of the strangest things about sasquatch encounters is that
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witnesses often say the experience begins long before they actually
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see anything. It starts with a feeling, an overwhelming sense
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of awareness, and hunters describe suddenly becoming uneasy in areas
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they've hunted for years. Seasoned outdoorsmen who are completely comfortable
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in remote terrain suddenly they just feel like prey.
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I've been there. I felt that.
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Birds stop chirping, the wood just goes absolutely silent. I've
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talked about this in other episodes as well, and bottom
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line is the atmosphere changes and then comes dread. The
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fear not normal fear, not I heard a bear nearby.
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Fear.
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Okay, people describe something deeper and more primal and ancient,
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just scary, the kind of dread that seems to hit
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instantly and without explanation. Now, from a scientific standpoint, there
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are possible explanations for this. Right, human beings evolved to
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detect predators. Your nervous system is constantly scanning for danger
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beneath conscious awareness. Tiny sounds or smells, movement patterns, even
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environmental changes can trigger subconscious alarm bells, right, and the
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systems before your logical brain can catch up. That's real,
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it's true. That's absolutely measurable. But many witnesses claim the
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fear feels almost projected, artificial, like it's being pushed onto them.
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Right.
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One man from Washington State described sitting in a tree
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stand during elk season when he suddenly felt he I
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guess what he called like a wall of terror, not
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anxiety and not nervousness, just actual terror.
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Right.
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He said it hit so hard and fast that he
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immediately climbed down from his treet stand and started walking
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back towards his truck, despite understanding why. And then he
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heard a thought, not a voice, per se in his ears,
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not with audible sound, a thought, and it says leave now.
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He stopped dead in his tracks because he thought. He said,
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the thought didn't feel like his own, his own internal
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monologue that we all have, and if you don't.
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That's a whole other wreaking episode.
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But that's an important detail that shows up repeatedly in
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all these reports. A lot of these reports. Witnesses often
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say it felt like it was inserted, right, as if
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the thought arrived fully formed from somewhere outside of themselves.
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Now.
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Could this simply be the brain externalizing intuition during stress.
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Of course, absolutely, But when you start stacking hundreds of
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reports together, the pattern becomes difficult to ignore completely. Seriously,
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moving to the mind speak encounters, this is where Bigfoot
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communities it splits in half, flesh and blood. Researchers hate.
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They hate this stuff right, hate it the woo they'll
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call it, and honestly, I underst and why. For decades,
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serious researchers have tried to convince the public that sasquatch
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might represent an unidentified primate species or or umbrella commined right.
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They want biological evidence, footprints and hair samples, DNA thermal imagery,
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all of which are out there. Okay, the second telepathy
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enters the conversation. Mainstream credibility goes straight out the window,
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and I understand. But the paranormal side of the community
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argues something important. You can't ignore witness testimony simply because
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it makes people uncomfortable or you don't like it, especially
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when the reports share recurring details. Many mind speak encounters
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follow the same progression. First comes the environ mental shift,
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then the silence, then the dread, and then there's this
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awareness of presence and finally communication. Sometimes the message is simple,
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do not come closer or leave this place, or we
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see you. Other times witnesses describe emotional downloads instead of words.
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One woman hiking near the Canadian border claimed she suddenly
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felt overwhelmed overwhelming grief while near a wooded ravine. She
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said the emotion was so intense it caused her to
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cry uncontrollably, despite having no idea why. Moments later, she
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reportedly saw a large, upright figure watching her from behind
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some fallen timber. Another witness from Oklahoma, I'm receiving sudden
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mental images of children hiding behind trees after hearing wood
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knocks near a creek bed. He believed whatever was there
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was warning him that a family group was nearby. Again,
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could this be imagined? Certainly, of course it could. But
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there's another layer here that absolutely fascinates me. And it's
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a lot of witnesses don't describe these experiences as cool, right.
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They described them as deeply disturbing, deeply disturbing, because the
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moment you feel like something else can access your brain
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and your thoughts, the entire hierarchy just flips and suddenly
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you're not the observer anymore.
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You are the observe.
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We move on then to the ancient forest intelligence theory. Okay,
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now this is where things they get really weird, not
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really weird, but they get weird because.
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Once you move beyond the.
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Undiscovered ape theory, the possibilities become much stranger, and many
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indigenous traditions throughout North America describe wild beings that blurre
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the line between physical creatures and spiritual entities. Right, Not
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cartoon monsters, not Hollywood Bigfoot, but something older, something connected
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to the land itself. Some tribes viewed these beings as
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dangerous straight up, others viewed them as protectors, and others
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warned against speaking about them entirely. This pattern does not
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stop in North America either. In the Himalayas, stories of
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the Yeti often include supernatural elements. European Fay traditions describe
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wilderness entities capable of influencing thoughts and emotions and perception.
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Moving somewhere to the Almas legend in Central Asia contained
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similar overlaps, and ancient Shamanic traditions worldwide often describe communication
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with non human intelligences through altered states of consciousness. Now
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let me be clear, I'm not saying all these things
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are literally the same entity, but I am saying the
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similarities are hard to ignore. The pattern as there, right,
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they rhyme because humanity keeps telling the same story over
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and over and over again. There are intel diligences in
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the wild places, and they don't communicate like we do.
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That idea straight up terrifies modern people because our entire
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civilization is built around the assumption that humans dominate the
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world intellectually and spiritually.
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But what if we don't.
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What if there are aspects of consciousness we barely understand.
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What if ancient cultures weren't completely ignorant after all, And
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what if the wilderness still contains things modern society has
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trained us, trained us not to perceive. That moves us
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into the consciousness of the paranormal and the rabbit hole,
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the rabbit hole that connects everything. UFO can counter near
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death experiences and mythical visions, alien abductions, faean encounters, shadow people,
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religious apparitions, sasquatch, mind speak, different labels, same recurring mechanics.
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Think about it, seriously, think about it. People repeatedly describe
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telepathic communication, altered states, missing time, overwhelming fear or awe
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right environmental silence, feeling, a presence, and distorted perception will
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bring up Jacques Filet I brought them up in the
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episode Yesterday. Spent decades arguing that paranormal phenomenon may not
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represent separate categories at all. Instead, they may represent interactions
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with something capable of shape shaping itself around human expectations
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and beliefs. And to most that's an absolutely chilling idea
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because it means the phenomenon itself might be adaptive. Ancient
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people interpreted it as spirits. Medieval people saw fee and demons, right,
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modern culture sees aliens, encryptids or elementals or whatever. There's
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all kinds of theories, right, But underneath the change changing masks,
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the core experience remains remarkably sim similar. Modern science still
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cannot fully explain consciousness. I don't care what anyone said.
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Nobody actually knows what consciousness is, not really, I mean,
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we cannot. We understand brain chemistry to an extent, let's
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be honest, we understand neurons, but the actual subjective experience
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of awareness, the thing that makes you feel like you
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You have to be honest, it's still a mystery. And
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once you realize that, suddenly the door cracks open just
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a little wider, and it opens to the fear of
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the unknown.
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Right.
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I think the reason mind speak bothers people so deeply
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is because it attacks something fundamental in all of us privacy.
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Your mind is the final fortress, and you can lock
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your doors, you can hide, you can defend yourself physically.
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But if another intelligence could directly interact with human consciousness,
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I mean that changes everything. And increasingly enough, many witnesses
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described the telepathic aspect as more disturbing than the actual
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sighting itself, right, Not the footprints, not the towering figure,
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not glowing eyes, none of it the communication, right, because
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once you believe something looked looked into your mind, you
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never quite feel alone again. Now personally, I think there
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are probably multiple layers to this phenomenon. Of course, some
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experiences may absolutely be psychological, and I've heard a lot
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of encounter stories. Man, I fear and isolation do incredible
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things to human perception as well. Been there done that.
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I've got t shirts and hats to prove it. Some
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stories are probably exaggerations or outright fabrications. There's a lot
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of people that just want the attention, right, But I
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also think humanity may understand far less about consciousness and
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reality than we pretend that we do. Modern civilization has
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become obsessed with material explanations for everything, and maybe that
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works most of the time, but every once in a
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while people experience something that doesn't fit neatly into the box,
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and sometimes that leaves them changed, something they struggle to
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explain for.
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The rest of their lives.
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A lot of people have weird situations, right, And whether sasquatches,
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flesh and blood, paranormal, interdimensional, spiritual, or something else entirely,
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or all of it right, the story persists year after
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year and generation after generation, and the deeper you go
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into the wilderness, frankly, the stranger the stories become. So
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let me ask you something. Have you ever had that
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feeling in the woods, that sudden awareness that you weren't alone,
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that strange moment where the forest literally itself seemed to
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shift around you. Maybe they're perfectly rational explanations for all
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of this, right, Or maybe human beings have spent thousands
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of years encountering something we still don't fully understand, I mean,
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something intelligent, something ancient, something connected to the wild places
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of the world, And maybe the reason that we struggle
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so hard to classify it is because it doesn't fit
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cleanly into either science or spirituality. Whatever the truth is,
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the mystery of Sasquatch continues to evolve far beyond footprints
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and blurry photographs, right because now the question isn't just
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what did people see?