Wes Owsley was the SysAdmin in Russia for NASA/MIR and the first 3 crews of the ISS. His background is in Anthropology and IT, and he has been studying some subjects in the esoteric for almost 20 years. Wes returns to Paratopia to talk a bit more about NASA and a whole lot about Bulgarian Ufology and the exopolitical scene there. This is another fascinating and informative episode and of yeah: Its co-hosted by special guest Tim Binnall Or is it? Find out posthaste!

Dr. Scott Lilienfeld is a professor of psychology at Emory University and editor of Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice. He is also co-author of 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology and a contributing blogger at Psychology Today. In what is sure to be one of our most controversial episodes, Dr. Lilienfeld not only explores the myth that hypnosis is an appropriate memory retrieval tool for alien abduction research... HE DESTROYS IT.In the process, we examine the Emma Woods/David Jacobs debacle that seems every bit as surreal as the alien abduction stories in Jacobs' books. Is his behavior appropriate? Is this what happens when a man gets too absorbed in his own conclusions about the unknown? Hear Dr. Lilienfeld's initial impressions.If you know of anyone who is thinking about undergoing hypnosis, please direct them here. This should be required listening for anyone who wants to undergo it or practice it.

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 Natures Blueprint. Tonight, Dr. Hooper makes physics as accessible and fascinating for us as he does for readers of his bookswhich is to say QUITE.Will Dr. Hooper be open to our questions of consciousness and the paranormal? Will this be the physics show Jeff has been searching for all his life? And what is Jeff doing back after we played a tiny violin for his two-month sabbatical? Clicky the linky and wonder no more!

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 ones 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.

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 Tribe 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.

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 to another man during an abduction. And another man during his contact experience. 3 men, strangers to each other, all given pieces to this free energy device. The only question now is Does it work?And as amazing as all of that is, its only one of the topics covered on this journey of an episode.

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 OLavery (aka Bunny Girl), Jody Heckman (aka Mudhog), and John Rouse (aka Rosco) all of whom generously share their own experiences of the abnormal. This ones loose and fun and, oh yeah: Features the hotly-anticipated debut of Paratopia: A Theme Come True, as performed by the greatest makeshift band in history, Woo Fighters.All that and much more is but a click away!

Sun of gOd author Gregory Sams builds a logical case for the aliveness of all things especially the sun. Also, I drag Jeffs sick behind out of bed to do an after-chat. All that and Chinese correspondent Wang live from the mainland, on tonights Paratopia!

This holiday season, Paratopia welcomes Binnall of Americas Tim Binnall. Together, in an uncensored, informal chat, we roast exopolitics over an open fire for your listening pleasure. Aaaaaand some other stuff. Also for purposes of listening pleasure.

The World Exclusive broadcast of the Crop Circle Roundtable with filmmaker and researcher Richard Hall, and Crop Circle Researchers David Cayton, and Robert Hulse - that you'll only hear on Paratopia. Breaking news on Crop Circles, possible connections with MI5 and much more.