Episode 157: The Unexplained

 Susan B. Martinez, Ph.D., earned her doctorate in anthropology at Columbia University, where she also served as a lecturer in ethnolinguistics. She is the book review editor at the Academy of Spiritual and Consciousness Studies and the author of The Psychic Life of Abraham Lincoln, The Hidden Prophet, Time of the Quickening, and The Lost History of the Little People. A contributor to Forbidden Science and Darklore, her work also appears in Atlantis Rising, FATE, and New Dawn magazines. 

Documenting the life of wandering spirits and their impact on vulnerable human targets, Susan Martinez offers a radical departure from the standard psychological explanations for a host of pathological behaviors–including multiple personality, autism, epilepsy, migraines, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, PTSD, self-destructive urges, and strange outbursts–and reveals that hallucinations are often true impressions of spirit input. Martinez explains how mental health comes down to the delicate balance between self-control and spirit-control. When trauma triggers an escape response, the soul takes flight, leaving the mind susceptible to possession by discarnate entities. However, the spirit world can also bestow gifts upon those whose psyches are open, such as in the case of mediums, shamans, people who communicate with angels, and many of the world’s creative geniuses.

On the second half, Myke returns to update us on the return of The Empire Hideous. Myke takes us back through time, when he worked for a magazine interviewing various rock bands. Myke gives us his take, on current news and the upcoming 2020 elections.