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Some Mexican Dude Talking About UFOs

By red pill junkieon

Many MANY things happened during the 3rd installment of the Paradigm Symposium, which ended a week ago. One of those things is that I gave my very first video interview for UFO Hub, an online platform dedicated to discuss UFOs, paranormal & metaphysical subjects.

The guy who runs the site, Adnan Ademovic, approached me while we were at the event and asked me to talk with me, so he could learn a bit more of where I stand on the subject of UFOs. Since chatting with like-minded people is one of the main reasons why I travel 1800 miles to Minneapolis, I was more than happy to do so.

I guess I did make a good 1st impression, because after I wore his ear off with all my ramblings about anything from UFOs & synchronicities, to the subject of human consciousness, he asked me to do a little video recording for his Youtube channel later that night.

We did everything in one take, as you may easily deduct; and even though I’m upset over the fact that my tongue got twisted a couple of times, in the end I even surprised myself on how I managed to say something intelligible about my favorite Fortean topic. I even decided to add a final thought about my recent position on Consciousness, and how it might just turn out to be the key that will help us unlock all these seemingly unrelated mysteries, which are unfortunately still addressed independently by researchers –with dismayingly little success…

I also realize that what I said isn’t really that ‘new’, since it was proposed by luminaries like Vallee & Keel decades ago. But perhaps the time is now ripe to finally admit that the phenomenon refuses to fit into our neat little pet theories. As a matter of fact, shamelessly challenging our comforting notions of what Reality is, might just be the greatest gift UFOs could dispense to mankind.

On the UFO Hub channel you can also find more interviews of a few of the Paradigm speakers, including Nick Redfern & Chase Kloetzke, 2 people I know consider good friends, thanks to the Paradigm Symposium.

red pill junkie
Agnostic gnostic, walking conundrum & metaphysical oxymoron (with emphasis in the 'moron' part), the mysterious RPJ leaves a double life: By day he serves as Grand Master of the International Sacred Order of Lucha Libre, but at night he pursues his life-long study of everything considered mysterious and/or 'paranormal' --a term he personally detests... When he's not exploring the web looking for his daily fix of Forteana, he can be found blogging, doodling, fooling around and offering his services as news administrator and writer at The Daily Grail. He also regularly participates in other websites and podcasts like Radio Misterioso and Where Did the Road Go? He impatiently awaits for the return of the mothership in Mexico City. absurdbydesign.com
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12 Comments

  1. Mexican dude talking
    Good to see you on camera. You should consider doing a fuller/longer video presentation–you’re articulate and well-informed on this topic.

    1. Thanks 🙂
      Even though I felt confident with Adnan, and that knew he wouldn’t play any fast ones on the interviewees by editing out their recordings so they would end up saying something different to what their did –A common practice with the Discovery channel producers, I’m told– I did feel a little nervous a couple of times.

      Maybe next time I should wear the red luchador mask to feel more confident :3

      1. I just did my first radio
        I just did my first radio interview and was nervous as hell – not sure why exactly. It was perplexing. If you have any generous friends taking the blood pressure medication “Bystolic” that can be of help – Bystolic is also used for “performance anxiety.”

          1. LOL! Bystolic does not
            LOL! Bystolic does not interfere perceptibly with the thinking very much though. I quit drinking alcohol in 1988, but I do remember how that first drink made me slightly sharp and witty – problem was I could never stop at one drink.
            The problem for some of us is that adrenaline secretion can be a “runaway” effect that severs any relationship to actual threat – once the “fight/flight” effect takes hold it can just keep compounding itself for no good reason other than that it has started itself up. My wife has been on Bystolic for a few years no. She has to occasionally speak in front of lots of people, and it used to drive her nuts. Now that she is on Bystolic to control her blood pressure quite a bit of the panic in public speaking situations has abated.

            http://femailhealthnews.blogspot.com/2008/02/banish-stress-with-bystolic-all.html

            I am not singling out your video, red Pill – you may have been nervous, but it didn’t really show much.

            I wonder if the mass media cultural icon phemomena with all of the implied intrusions into the private lives of the public figures has infected our consciousness about doing thing before an audience. We see how quick the media watchers are to jump into the heads of public figures that we figure they will pounce on us too – even if the venue is relatively obscure. With the virality that the internet is capable of now any little hiccup you make – if it is odd enough could be plastered all over Youtube, Vine, etc. That has to be in back of everyone’s mind when they go before a crowd now if only subliminally.

          2. The whole world is a stage now

            I wonder if the mass media cultural icon phemomena with all of the implied intrusions into the private lives of the public figures has infected our consciousness about doing thing things before an audience.

            That’s an interesting idea. Nobody is able to be at their best 24/7, and I can plainly see how trying to meet everyone’s expectations of you, if you happen to have a certain level of notoriety, would start making you anxious and paranoid.

            I’ve always been rather uncomfortable among crowds, though. It’s not only due to psychological issues, but even physiological ones as well. If I’m in a bar or somewhere that’s very noisy, it’s hard for me to pick up the voice of someone talking to me, so I end up leaning over and tilting my head to the side, as if I was slightly deaf. Night clubs? Forget it!

            Paradigm is different because all the attendees are on the ‘same wavelength’ so to speak 😉

          3. To me the ideal interview
            To me the ideal interview situation contains several people at least. I have noticed that there is security in numbers with interviews. One of the fears for me anyway is that either I or the interviewer won’t be able to keep the ball bouncing so to speak. With several people that is less of a concern. Also, several people at once can better “cue” each other and think of things to talk about in a branching fashion.

          4. Numbers
            Well, aside from my buds the Grimericans, I’ve only been interviewed by Greg Bishop on Radio Misterioso, and Gene & Chris on The Paracast. I found it was easier with Greg because we were just ‘jamming’, you know? He writes a few questions just in case nothing else comes out during the conversation; but since we went all over the place, he never looked them 😉

            (BTW I’m gonna return to Radio Misterioso next Sunday)

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