New Realities with Alan Steinfeld

New Realities with Alan Steinfeld

Beyond the Reality Box, UAP Encounters, Ontological Shock, and the Future of Human Narrative

This panel discussion features Whitley Strieber, Dr. Kimberly Engels, and Jeffrey Kripal exploring the profound "meanings and understandings" behind UAP encounters. The conversation shifts focus from government disclosure to the transformative, physical, and ontological impact on the individuals who experience these phenomena.

The Physical Baseline and the Burden of Testimony

Whitley Strieber emphasizes that the core challenge in understanding UAP encounters is the lack of a recognized "baseline." Despite the public tendency to treat these accounts as jokes or hallucinations, Strieber highlights the undeniable physical trauma and documented anomalies, such as the moving implant in his ear, which he describes as "proof positive" of a physical interaction. Following the publication of his book Communion, Strieber and his wife Anne received approximately 200,000 letters from individuals worldwide. This massive, private archive suggests a "communal work" of experience that intersects with our physical world at a "razor's edge," generating a narrative that humanity has yet to fully articulate.

Resisting "Narrative Flattening"

Dr. Kimberly Engels argues that society suffers from "epistemic injustice" by forcing experiencer testimony into "reality boxes." This "narrative flattening" occurs when we only listen to parts of a story that fit our pre-existing beliefs, such as the Extraterrestrial or Future Human hypotheses, while discarding "inconvenient" details like time distortions or contact with the dead. She proposes a "layered restorative phenomenology" that moves beyond "belief" and into "participation." This approach honors the profound moral and ethical transformations reported by experiencers, who often emerge with a "post-anthropocentric" worldview and a deep sense of interconnectedness with all life.

The Archives of the Impossible and the New Story

Jeffrey Kripal, curator of the "Archives of the Impossible" at Rice University, suggests that we are witnessing the breakdown of old cultural and scientific stories. He posits that UAPs, Near-Death Experiences (NDEs), and DMT-induced states may all exist on the same spectrum of "non-dual signals" that blur the boundaries between mind and matter. Kripal argues that the "impossible" is merely a function of our current models, not reality itself. He advocates for a "middle realm" of thought—one that avoids the reductionism of modern science and the moralizing of traditional religion—to allow for a "revelation of reality" where humanity is no longer the apex or center of the universe.

The panel concludes that humanity is at a "zero point" or a "reset," where our current understanding of consciousness and physicality is no longer sufficient. By embracing "ontological ambiguity" and the "middle realm," we can move past the shock of the impossible and begin to participate in a multi-dimensional reality that demands a more holistic, interconnected story of what it means to be human.

New Realities with Alan Steinfeld

Dr. Diane Hennacy (the inspiration for the Telepathy Tapes) on the Wisdom of Autism & Psychic Mind

This interview features neuropsychiatrist Dr. Diane Hennessy, who discusses a revolutionary perspective on autism as a state of heightened consciousness and telepathic potential. She explores the neurobiological "hardware" behind these gifts and proposes that autistic individuals may be leading an evolutionary leap for humanity.

The Neurobiology of Heightened Awareness

Dr. Hennessy explains that the "autistic" experience is rooted in the heightened activity of three principal brainstem nuclei: the Raphe nuclei (regulating sleep and dream states), the Locus Coeruleus (the fight-or-flight "button" that can expand time perception), and the Substantia Nigra (linking free will to physical movement). In autistic individuals, the neurotransmitters associated with these areas are significantly elevated, creating a permanent state that mirrors the expanded consciousness achieved by advanced meditators or "gurus." However, this internal "race car" intensity often clashes with a physical body that struggles to keep pace, leading to high anxiety and motor challenges.

Communication Barriers and the Role of AI

A major theme of the discussion is the "discrepancy" between the speed of an autistic mind and the slowness of physical communication. Dr. Hennessy describes current methods like spelling as "crawling when you could win a four-minute mile." She is exploring the use of Artificial Intelligence to assist in communication but warns that we must be careful not to let AI algorithms "make things up" or distort the original intent. The goal is to provide a "voice" to individuals who, like Stephen Hawking, possess immense intellectual gifts—such as synesthesia and perfect pitch—but lack the traditional hardware for self-expression.

The "Jane Goodall" Research Philosophy

Dr. Hennessy adopts a "lunar" or receptive research style, which she compares to Jane Goodall’s field observations. Rather than imposing "solar" analytical rules or forcing subjects to speak, she emphasizes "hanging out" and observing to enter their world. She posits that autistic individuals often function through "entrainment"—where their high-frequency brainwaves can actually upgrade the consciousness of those in their presence. This suggests that the best way to learn from them is not through interrogation, but through quiet, shared presence and "receiving transmissions" without words.

The Sedona Ascension Retreat 2026

The interview highlights the upcoming 11th Anniversary Sedona Ascension Retreat (March 20-22, 2026). This event aims to create a "conducive environment" for entrainment, featuring Dr. Hennessy alongside other experts like Dalia Bergorn (mindsight) and Darryl Anka (Bashar). The retreat is designed to help participants activate their own "sixth sense" by being in the presence of gifted savants and learning to tune into higher frequencies of information.

Dr. Diane Hennessy’s work shifts the narrative of autism from one of "disability" to one of "advanced capability." By understanding the neurobiological basis for their heightened states, she argues that humanity can learn to "tune" its own consciousness, ultimately replacing outdated scientific paradigms with a more integrated, high-frequency understanding of the human mind.

New Realities with Alan Steinfeld

Expert on #NDE and Life After Life Raymond Moody - Recreating the ancient Greek Oracles of the Dead

Raymond A. Moody Jr.is an American philosopher, psychiatrist, physician and author, most widely known for his books about afterlife. He coined the term near-death experiences or NDE in 1975 with his best-selling book "Life After Life". His research explores personal accounts of subjective phenomena encountered in near-death experiences, particularly those of people who have apparently died but been resuscitated. He has widely published his views on what he terms near-death-experience psychology.

Alan Steinfeld's new book is called Making Contact: The New Realities of Extraterrestial Existence: For a copy, go

https://www.amazon.com/Making-Contact-Preparing-Realities-Extraterrestrial/dp/1250773946

The book contains original writings by: Linda Moulton Howe, Whitley Strieber Professor John E. Mack, Darryl Anka, Nick Pope, Grant Cameron, Drs. J.J. and Desiree Hurtak, Caroline Cory, Mary Rodwell, Henrietta Weekes. Alan Steinfeld, contributes and curates the collection with 30 years of experience with the subject. The Foreword by George Noory of Coast to Coast AM kicks off the volume with his veteran overview of the need to wake up to the “new realities of extraterrestrial existence.

#AlanSteinfeld has been involved with Disclosure since his experiences as a young child. From that time, he realized that the only way for humanity to accept the fact that we are not alone – is to shift our worldview about what we think is possible. In this way, he feels we must transcend the old limitations of our mind and tap into what is beyond mainstream psychology, beyond our education, our religions, and our political ideologies. He feels that Disclosure is “an inside job.” It is only when we wake up to who we really are as galactic beings that the cosmos will come to greet us in our magnificence. #NewRealities

From this platform, he has interviewed every top researcher in the UFO field; forming close alliances to such people as John Mack, Budd Hopkins, Richard Dolan, and Linda Moulton Howe. He has also been one the main emcees at Contact in the Desert.

New Realities with Alan Steinfeld

Making Contact with UFO Experiencers

New Realities with Alan Steinfeld

MAKING CONTACT: Seven Experiencers Share UFO Contact Stories, Symbolic Art, and the Buga Sphere Mystery

Host Alan Steinfeld and co-host Scott Catamas gather seven experiencers, including musician Shelley Reef, channel Debs Shakti, forensic artist Cynthia Marsh, guitarist John Martin, and farmer Indy Riggs, to compare notes on shared vibrations, symbolic art, UFO contact, and the mysterious Buga sphere.

Framing Disclosure In Three Parts

Alan Steinfeld opens the show by playing a clip from a recent YouTube video on UFO disclosure, then tells viewers the footage misses two-thirds of the story. He breaks the subject into three parts: the government's defense, meaning whistleblowers and the officials fighting them; the phenomenon itself, meaning who is showing up and why; and the experiencers, whom he calls the essential part because they are in direct contact. Co-host Scott Catamas, introducing himself as Love Coach Scott Catamas, welcomes more than fifty viewers in the Zoom room and asks them to share in the chat their own moments of expanded consciousness, from near-death experiences to contact with non-human intelligence. Catamas recalls interviewing Timothy Leary shortly before his death and recounts Leary's theory that human consciousness must accelerate to catch up with the power of atomic energy. Both hosts frame the phenomenon as an upgrade rather than an invasion, aimed at awakening humanity rather than building weapons.

Shelley Reef's Joshua Tree Breakthrough

Alan Steinfeld introduces musician, harp player, and sound healer Shelley Reef, noting that experiencers rarely get to speak at congressional hearings or major conferences. Reef describes the turning point in her decades of contact: a night in the Joshua Tree Desert when six friends, split across four locations, all watched a giant light blossom toward them and later woke up on the ground with the shared sensation of having been scanned. She calls most of her encounters, even the frightening ones, ultimately positive, and locates the point of contact in the pineal gland, the same place she reaches through hypnosis and telepathy. Reef recounts comparing notes with Chris Bledsoe Jr. over lunch and discovering they both feel an identical chest vibration and hear the same wah-wah sound before contact, a sound she later found replicated in crystal alchemy singing bowls, monochords, and harps. She closes by urging daily meditation, arguing that real disclosure happens first in the individual heart, not in a government announcement.

Debs Shakti On Star Teachers And Fear

Before Alan Steinfeld introduces quantum hypnosis therapist and channel Debs Shakti, guest Dezaraea briefly shares a recent download of an Andromedan, Pleiadean, Avian hybrid energy and describes spending a morning connecting with what she calls the chakras of the Earth. Shakti then describes her earliest memory, at about three months old, of a tall, glass-like extraterrestrial being lifting her from her crib to stop her from suffocating, an experience her father denies but one a hypnotherapist later confirmed under regression. She says she has channeled these beings, whom she calls the star teachers, almost daily for seventy years, and that not one encounter has ever felt negative. Shakti explains that fearful abduction accounts, including the terror she helped filmmaker John Yost process for the documentary Alien Abduction Answers, usually trace back to what she calls Hollywood programming and cultural indoctrination rather than anything the beings themselves do. She links contact to a piezoelectric effect in the pineal gland and describes accessing a timeless quantum field she compares to streaming from a cosmic cloud.

Cynthia Marsh's Symbols And Sacred Geometry

Alan Steinfeld introduces forensic artist and experiencer Cynthia Marsh, who shares a slideshow of her work. Marsh recalls a 1974 encounter at age fourteen, when she and a friend walked down a forbidden dirt road near a water-treatment plant in Westchester County's Hudson Valley and found a seamless, humming disc hovering roughly twenty feet overhead; her friend fled in terror while Marsh stood transfixed without fear. Decades later, reunited, the friend recalled seeing a distant light first, suggesting the object moved with extraordinary speed. Marsh describes vivid recurring dreams of projected images and, beginning in 2012, waves of unfamiliar symbols flooding her mind. When the COVID shutdown ended her law-enforcement forensic work in 2020, she felt compelled to finally document them, filling pages with charcoal symbols until the dreams returned with layered geometries. She shows the resulting artwork's progression from quick black-paper sketches to detailed paintings inspired by orb encounters in Hawaii, describing each piece as a kind of transmission she channels more than designs.

Indy Riggs: Grief, Dreams, And A Farm Encounter

Alan Steinfeld introduces Indy Riggs, whose story blends grief with contact. After his father's death in 2019, Riggs began having vivid dreams in which his father told him, 'There is no death,' a message underscored when he dug a cobalt-blue marble, his father's favorite color, out of his garden soil moments after remembering a childhood memory about an identical marble. He describes a later dream of a ship tearing open the sky before a white craft intervened, accompanied by a pulsing vibration and a wom-wom sound he says matches what Shelley Reef described earlier. Riggs then recounts a real encounter on his farm, the same day his beloved Irish Wolfhound, Barbas, died, when a large pulsing white light near Arcturus emitted red glows and then crackling blue static sparks, split into two orbs, and vanished and reappeared over a ridge. Riggs credits his dog, frozen and watching nearby, with snapping him out of tunnel vision and fear, and frames the whole episode as evidence that humanity is moving toward coherence between the physical and spiritual self.

Music, The Buga Sphere, And A Hopeful Close

Classically trained guitarist John Martin describes playing music nightly on his deck to send love into the universe, recalling a purple plasma craft with a rotating pink ring that appeared soon after he began, followed by metallic cross- and crescent-shaped craft and recurring heart-shaped clouds he says the beings create deliberately. Reverend Jeffrey then raises the Buga sphere, an anomalous, gravity-defying object recovered in Colombia that researchers describe as sentient and telepathic, though its age is disputed within the conversation. Tim Spelly introduces UAPedia, a new open-source, fact-checked reference site he is building with colleagues, and previews a January 25th online academic conference on the phenomenon. The group then watches a trailer for an upcoming Steven Spielberg film and debates whether its channeling imagery will reinforce fear or, as most hope, echo Close Encounters and E.T. in shifting public perception toward love. Alan Steinfeld closes with a clip from Danny Sheehan's New Paradigm Institute, and Scott Catamas thanks every presenter before inviting listeners to join the Global Peace Tribe's weekly broadcasts.

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