UFOs, Consciousness, and the Afterlife: Nick Cook

Ingo Swann’s niece, Elly Flippen, suggested I connect with Nick Cook—bestselling author of The Hunt for Zero Point, a deep dive into secret anti-gravity research that ultimately left him with more questions than answers. Ingo himself was a fan of the book. I started following Nick’s work, and what unfolded after Zero Point turned out to be even more compelling.

Nick went on to collaborate with remote viewing pioneer Ingo Swann and later helped publish Swann’s unfinished manuscripts. But a pivotal moment came when he witnessed his wife have a profound shared death experience. That event shifted his focus toward the mysteries of consciousness and what may lie beyond physical life.

He documented the experience in an essay for the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies’ Afterlife Contest, where it received an Honorable Mention.

Nick is now writing a book-in-progress on Substack called The Light Beyond the Mountains—a fascinating journey into the curious, the unseen, and the unexplained. He is one of the rare investigators to bridge the worlds of classified aerospace research and the farthest edges of human consciousness.

Website: https://www.nickcook.works/

Substack - The Light Beyond The Mountains [in progress]

To recap briefly, TLBTM begins with my 1992 encounter with a plasma-like object in the classified skies above Area 51 in Nevada - a mystery that’s reignited when the New York Times comes out with its seminal story in 2017 about the existence of a secret unit within the Pentagon - after years of official denial - dedicated to the study of UFOs.

What follows is a multi-layered, multi-decadal excavation that allows me to unearth a different facet of the mystery - all of them connected in some way - until the question that’s central to the initial narrative shifts from ‘What did I see?’ to ‘What does it mean?’

Continued: https://nickcook.substack.com/