Paratopia welcomes Dan Hooper to the show. Dr. Hooper is an Associate Scientist in the Theoretical Astrophysics Group at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. Previously, he was the David Schramm Fellow at Fermilab, and a postdoc at the University of Oxford. He is the author of two books dealing with dark energy and super symmetry: Dark Cosmos and Nature's Blueprint. Tonight, Dr. Hooper makes physics as accessible and fascinating for us as he does for readers of his books--which is to say, QUITE.

Closing out this season of Our Undoing Radio until... you know... the next bonus episode--Dr. Tyler Kokjohn join us to talk about a book review he did for Christopher E. Mason's, The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds. You may find his review here:

https://syntheticgeneticshakespeares.wordpress.com/2022/07/02/the-next-500-years/

Jeff has an announcement to make about the short-term future of his involvement in Paratopia, which leads into a discussion of the toll studying the paranormal takes on one's life. Then we get into what it means to reconsider how we think, followed closely by laughs at the expense of people who do not.

Have you ever thought about what the miracle of life is--the living meaning of it and its relationship to the new? Well, now you don't have to! I've done it for you! Hooray for podcasting!

Our special guest for the entire show is Barbara Threecrow, author of Mending The Hoop and her latest, Return of The Sacred Feminine & Teachings of The Grandmothers. Grandmother Threecrow talks about her lifetime of highly strange experiences and then introduces us to the work of the Kogi people in the Sierra Nevadas. This is a fascinating look at a reclusive people whose culture was untouched by the Spanish invaders. Their culture and their land is in jeopardy now. Listen to their inspiring story and learn how you can help.

A long-form sketch illustrating the pitfalls of shopping for that new electric vehicle gives way to a talk about how the mind cannot save itself from itself and move us into the future.

Chris Leask is a mechanical engineer who has spent the better part of 2 decades working on a free energy device that was given to him by an alien in a dream. And given to another man during an abduction. And to a third man during his contact experience. Three men, strangers to each other, all given pieces to this free energy device. The only question now is, Does it work?

Can we get married after so-called enlightenment? What if only one partner is enlightened? How will we know if it's right?

Paratopia is fifty episodes young! Here to help ring in the next fifty are listeners you may recognize from the message board: Allen Garrow (aka 7String), Deirdre O'Lavery (aka Bunny Girl), Jody Heckman (aka Mudhog), and John Rouse (aka Rosco), all of whom generously share their own experiences of the abnormal.

It's time to clear up some fallacies up about the verdict being cast upon the audience of the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard trial as we illuminate what it means to live hashtag lives.