Mind the Shift

11/01/2026

A homage to one of the pioneers in the combined spheres of alternative archaeology and the UFO phenomenon. A controversial man, no doubt, but if nobody dared to step out of the comfort zone of approved information, we’d never get anywhere.
Thank you for blazing the trail! RIP, Erich von Däniken (1935–2026).
Here’s my interview with Erich on Mind the Shift back in 2022 (when he was 87!):
https://youtu.be/QUzkV2dhVwk?si=upJ-i5VRsivP0TvR

10/01/2026

153. Wonders Hidden Beneath the Pyramids? – Armando Mei
Armando Mei and two research colleagues caused a great stir in the independent archaeology sphere last spring with a sensational claim: Underneath the Giza pyramids there are huge, coherent and artificial-looking structures. The discovery was made with cutting-edge scanning techniques.
Egypt’s authorities are not convinced the findings are reliable, but Mei and his team are now trying to get permission to physically explore the underground shafts and tunnels.
If their scanning results hold water, we are in for an historic disclosure of a lost ancient civilization.
“It’s time to read the past with new eyes”, says Armando.
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Independent researcher Armando Mei is part of a team that made waves in the spring of 2025.The results of their scanning beneath the pyramids of Giza – the K...

31/10/2025

152. Gateways to Human Unity – Naina Eira Gupta
In her youth, researcher Naina Eira Gupta had profound inner experiences from psychedelics. Twenty years later, she maps them. She explores the therapeutic potential of psychedelics and meditation.
These mind-altering drugs work because they stop the constant chattering in your head, which is the mind’s MO to perpetuate the story of ‘you’.
"Psychedelics provide mental immunity", Naina says.
Not only that: They could, in tandem with spiritual practices, contribute to achieving a more peaceful world.
“If there is any hope, it lies in this.”
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“Psychedelics trigger a unitive state, and meditation trains it.”So says Naina Eira Gupta, who researches the therapeutic potential of psychedelics and medit...

25/10/2025

Clip: Professor Avi Loeb offers some refreshingly openminded speculations, such as: What if UAPs are artifacts of an ancient advanced civilization on earth? Loeb comes across as a bridge between the mainstream and the alternative sphere.

"We tend to think we are the first advanced civilization on earth, but that may not be true", says Astrophysicist Avi Loeb on . This is a refre...

15/10/2025

151. Astrology Is a Science of Consciousness – Dan Waites
The current turbulence on the world scene has astrological fingerprints. Certain cycles signify a revolutionary energy.
“The last time this happened, we had the French and the American revolutions”, explains mundane astrologer Dan Waites.
How can this work?
“Skeptics often say things like ‘there is no plausible explanation for how astrology works, and therefore it does not work. But astrology is essentially a science of consciousness, an interpretation of meaning. And we don’t know how consciousness works!”, says Dan.
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Dan Waites displays an impressive depth and insightfulness in the videos on his You Tube channel World Astrology Report, but he actually didn’t start working...

09/10/2025

Four hundred years ago, a mainstream science popularizer like Neil DeGrasse Tyson would have opposed Galileo and sided with the Vatican, says astrophysicist Avi Loeb in this clip.

Astrophysicist Avi Loeb sticks his neck out by openly speculate that some anomalous space objects could be technological and of extraterrestrial origin. For ...

29/09/2025

150. The Most Romantic Question in Science: 'Are We Alone?' – Avi Loeb
Astrophysicist Avi Loeb is an outlier. He has been attacked by colleagues for airing the possibility that strangely behaving interstellar objects could be artificial.
Right now, the third-ever detected interstellar visitor, 3I/Atlas, is hurling through our solar system at breakneck speed. It doesn’t look like a comet. It’s extremely large, it has no classic cometary tail, its glow is preceding it, the chemical composition is unique, and its trajectory is in line with the plane of the planets.
“If you were to construct a spacecraft that were to visit this solar system, you would make it go in the plane of the planets”, says Loeb.
Yet mainstream astronomers call it a comet, or more specifically a “black“ comet.
“It’s like having only seen zebras and then suddenly see an elephant and go: ‘Look, a zebra without stripes, and with a trunk’.”
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“Science isn't about showing off. It’s about attending to unusual data, unusual evidence”, says astrophysicist Avi Loeb.“We can only learn new things from an...

25/09/2025

Is 3I/Atlas a comet or a probe? Stay tuned for next episode with Avi Loeb. The Harvard professor is gaining traction among both the mainstream and the UAP community, which is quite an achievement.

12/09/2025

Tuesday's hearing in the US Congress with UAP witnesses and whistleblowers was historic in many respects. Lawmakers are increasingly frustrated with being blocked from information about secret programs. Fingers crossed they'll finally succeed in passing a long awaited full UAP Disclosure Act.

The most pivotal moment of the UAP hearing on 9 September was when representative Eric Burlison showed a video he had received from an anonymous military sou...

07/09/2025

I asked Chat GPT to translate a story, and guess what happened. This was a weird experience that raised a number of questions, some deep.

When Chat GPT rewrote my short story. An uncanny experience of a Mandela effect on steroids

04/09/2025

149. The Last Days of UAP Cover-Up – Gary Heseltine
A top-level global UAP meeting is planned for this fall, reveals independent UAP investigator Gary Heseltine. It will be "the most important conference in the world".
Gary believes the Pentagon is "hanging on by their finger nails" to keep this subject down, but there will be a breakthrough within the next four to five months.
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It was a pleasure to have Gary Heseltine back on the program, a former detective turned independent UAP investigator. In 2023, after years of research, he re...

01/09/2025

(Bcz of a tech glitch, I switched the YT link for the actual video in this post)
A UAP hearing in the US congress that could be a landmark is expected on 9 September. Researchers find strange, transient objects in old space photos. A rare interstellar visitor is behaving strangely, baffling scientists.
The UAP field develops at racing speed. By the time this video reaches you, it is probably at least partly obsolete. But this is also why this day and age is so immensely fascinating.
Many UAP geeks have been disillusioned by the many delays in the disclosure process that took off with a pivotal New York Times article almost eight years ago. But this is far from over. If the process isn't one big hoax, I have a feeling it is just beginning.