Neon Galactic with James Faulk

On this episode of Neon Galactic, I’m joined by comedian, author, podcaster and mystic Jeremy Vaeni, whose several books use humor and insight to frame the bizarre and often mystifying experiences that have punctuated his life.

Vaeni was featured prominently in “How To Think Impossibly,” the most recent book by Rice University Professor Jeffrey Kripal, who names Vaeni as one of his teachers in the art of embracing and understanding ...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, we sit down with retired Lt. Col. John Blitch, a warrior-scholar and experiencer who has come forward in recent months to attest to his extraordinary encounters and pursue disclosure.

Blitch is a former commander of a Pershing II nuclear missile battery, a special forces commander, and an expert in robotics, human cognition, and computer science, having worked with the Defense Advanced Research ...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, we interview Nathan from the Liminal Phrames and Call All Beings podcasts about his introduction into this topic, the nature of reality, and the search for deep metaphysical truths in the universe.

Nathan has developed a reputation as one of the most thoughtful and probing personalities in the UFO/NHI subject.

As in every conversation I’ve had with Nathan, the depth and sensitivity revealed i...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, we interview author, philosopher, psychologist and integral theorist Zak Stein about human consciousness, the state of the world, and how the two interrelate.

Stein is a widely sought-after and award-winning speaker on the future of education and contemporary issues in human development. 

He is a co-founder of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion, and his work has appeared in a number...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, I sit down with experiencer and researcher Julian Thorne to talk about his efforts to chart the archetypal influences at play in the stars and planets, and how those primal forces seem to shape the initiatory experiences of individual men and women. 

Through his own transformative alien abduction, Thorne was alerted to the mysterious nature of the human soul and our experience here on this plane...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, I interview author and podcaster Simon Bown about his new book, “Verified Near Death Experiences: Proof of an Afterlife,” and his broader work covering both NDEs, the after-life, and the UFO phenomenon. 

Simon Bown is the host of two podcasts, a clinical hypnotherapist, and an author specializing in topics related to consciousness, reincarnation, and the afterlife.

He has produced over 800 po...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, we interview author and businessman Tom Matte on how a long and terrible slide into cocaine addiction and psychosis ultimately left him with a talent for seeing and encountering the transcendent.

Matte’s book, “Jesus Goes to Hollywood,” is a rollicking ride through excess and insanity, the collapse of family, and the power of love.

The story is wild and entertaining, yet also somehow pregnant...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, we interview author Kristina Amelong about her new book, “What My Brother Knew,” a memoir covering the death of her young brother and his precognitive vision of that event.

The book, scheduled for public release in May, reveals how Jay Amelong, then a 13-year-old in Madison, WI, somehow caught a glimpse of his own death and warned his family repeatedly in advance.

He was hit by a car and killed b...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, we’re joined by author and anthropologist-futurist Eric Wargo to discuss his fascinating and provocative new book, “Becoming Timefaring: Time Travel and the Human Future.”

Wargo has made a name for himself through his theories surrounding the nature of time and human consciousness. He’s published several books in that subject area that examine how causation may work both forward and backward in ...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, I'm joined by retired philosophy Professor Michael Zimmerman from the University of Colorado at Boulder to interview Whitley Strieber about his new book, "The Fourth Mind."

We explore alien physiology, as revealed in the book and in an apparently leaked description posted anonymously on Reddit, and discuss how those two sources corroborate one another.

We discuss Whitley's theory that human b...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, I’m joined by author and psychonaut Adam Butler, to talk about his life, his experience with DMT, his book, and how turning inward has helped him reinvent his life. 

Butler is the author of “Butler’s DMT Field Guide,” a volume that describes his experiences on the drug, how it has helped him, and offers various common recipes for acquiring it. 

We talk about how DMT and other hallucinogens ca...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, I interview Dr. Garry Nolan from Stanford University about the Sol Foundation, his work with Skywatcher, the nature of consciousness and the complexities of scientific work in a capitalist society.

Nolan is the Rachford and Carlota A. Harris Professor in the Department of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He has published over 350 research articles and is the holder of 50 US p...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, we sit down with experiencer, researcher, author and seeker Daniel Rekshan to discuss his life, work, and perspective on the ongoing contact phenomenon and what it means for humanity.

Rekshan is a hypnotist, artist, dream worker, and freelance shaman who has been working over the past several years to help experiencers contextualize their contact and interpret it within the framework of their o...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, we interview Karin Austin of Archives of the Impossible and the John Mack Institute about her experience at Sol this year, and her work to help make experiencer metadata accessible to researchers.

Karin Austin is an experiencer who participated in John Mack’s research into the alien encounter phenomenon during the late 1990s. She later evolved into a role as his personal assistant.

After Joh...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, we interview Dr. Gregory Shushan, author and researcher of near-death experiences throughout history in cultures all around the world.

We discuss the phenomenology of NDEs, their role in the creation of religion, how they relate to other contact modalities, and their problematic status in academia.

We also cover how the subject has shaped Shushan’s own thinking about the afterlife, and how v...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, we interview Michael Phillip, host of the popular Third Eye Drops podcast, about his show, his thinking, and how a recent out-of-body experience has impacted his life. 

Third Eye Drops is a long-running and popular podcast that covers a broad range of subjects and phenomena that challenge the predominant materialistic worldview and feature the work of such important thinkers as Car Jung, Iamblic...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, science educator David Stuss and I interview analyst and deep thinker Matthew Pines on UAPs, Jacob Barber, the politics of disclosure, the equities of ontological change, and how the evolving power structures of American society are now shifting in strange, powerful new ways.

Matthew is currently the executive director of the BTC Policy, among other roles, and has become an important voice in th...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, we interview Mona Sobhani, a flipped cognitive neuroscientist and author whose shifting worldview has opened her up to a life of transcendent experience and meaning.

Her book,”Proof of Spiritual Phenomena: A Neuroscientist's Discovery of the Ineffable Mysteries of the Universe,” charts her exploration and journey out of the physical materialist paradigm that came with her work and education.

...

On this episode of Neon Galactic, we get straight to the heart of what all the anomalous human experiences we’ve covered on this show are trying to tell us. This is a culmination.

Author, thinker, healer Paul Levy joins us to discuss his recently re-issued book, The Quantum Revelation, and how it reveals that science over the past 120 years has failed to take seriously the transformative discoveries made during the quantum revol...