Defence journalist Nick Cook interviewed in this podcast bridges two worlds and two mysteries dear to my heart - UFOs and the Survival of Death.
And the second of those topics has just won Nick £20,000 in millionaire Bob Bigelow's essay contest for the best evidence of life after death.
I first encountered Nick because of his best selling book Hunt for Zero Point about new energy physics which later led him to research UFOs which he believes have strong
links to consciousness.
But it was a couple of family happenings which sparked an interest in the paranormal and whether death is final.
He details these in his prizewinning essay here:
https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/Winning_Essays/2_Nick_Cook.pdf
The first odd event was a lamp levitating after the death of his grandmother, witnessed by his father and grandfather and the second a 'shared death experience' by his wife as her mother died - she experienced 'the other side' to be 'more real' than everyday reality.
In this interview and in his essay, he criticises scientists for shunning paranormal research.
He says: "Whatever happened to good old fashioned curiosity. Let's find out what really drives this world - it's infinitely more complex than the reality we are traditionally presented with."
He draws on the work of Professor Donald Hoffman who interprets the world like a computer screen with a very limited vision of reality through the icons which "give us all we can handle but no more"
He talks of 'rogue icons' which link us to UFOs, cryptids, angels, demons and miracles and also touches on UFO political developments, and personalities like Jacques Vallee, Eric Davis, Hal Puthoff and remote viewer Ingo Swann.
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