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Episode 16: Lost Civilizations & Cycles of Time with Aleksander Czeszkiewicz

Is history moving forward… or returning?
 
Aleksander Czeszkiewicz joins Dr. Heather Lynn to challenge everything we think we know about civilization, consciousness, and progress.
In this episode, they explore whether history unfolds in a straight line or follows recurring cycles that modern society has forgotten. Drawing from archaeology, philosophy, and alternative historiography, this conversation examines what may lie beneath the official narrative of human development.
 
Topics include:
Why Atlantis may represent preserved Egyptian memory rather than pure myth
Göbekli Tepe and the expanding timeline of human civilization
How political systems shape, revise, and sanitize history
Why textbooks keep changing across generations and regimes
Consciousness as a fundamental substrate of reality
Whether artificial intelligence can ever be truly conscious, or only simulate awareness
 
Aleksander Czeszkiewicz is a Polish researcher and author. His first book was written just at the age of 17, followed by many articles and shorter works. He collaborated and was included in plenty of podcasts all around the world, including Earth Ancients Podcast with Cliff Dunning. His main areas of research and interest are lost civilizations, Atlantis, lost history of humanity, consciousness and the entire Universe.
Aleksander's book Déjà Vu: Has Everything Already Been? explores cyclical time, lost civilizations, and why ancient traditions may have anticipated our current moment.
 
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Website & Social Media:
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https://www.youtube.com/@czeszkiewiczglobal
https://www.facebook.com/czeszkiewiczglobal
 
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Episode 15: The Anunnaki & the God of Blood with R. Wayne Steiger

How does a former Pentecostal minister end up tracing Abraham back to Sumer, questioning the nature of Yahweh, and arguing that the “God of Genesis” may not be a single being at all? In this episode of The Midnight Academy, I sit down with technologist and esoteric researcher R. Wayne Steiger for a conversation that goes straight into forbidden territory: the violent logic of blood covenant, the suppressed memory of Mesopotamia, and the possibility that ancient “gods” were neither metaphor nor myth, but intelligences entangled in a long-running civil war that still shapes our religions today.
 
Wayne brings an unusually grounded but fearless lens to these questions. He is a technologist, philosopher, researcher, educator, and spiritual teacher known for decades of work in occult and esoteric studies, as well as for examining how artificial intelligence is reshaping humanity’s spiritual landscape. With over forty years of experience in video, internet, software, and wireless payment technologies, he understands the mechanics of systems and control from the inside out, and he applies that systems-level clarity to theology, archaeology, and consciousness. The result is a conversation that is not polite, not safe, and very much worth your time.
 
We discuss why Genesis appears to present two different creation accounts with two different divine personalities, what it means that Abraham’s covenant is rooted in literal bloodletting, and why Sumer’s erased legacy complicates every tidy Biblical timeline. From the Nephilim and demonology to the Tower of Babel as a possible technological intervention, from the suppression of goddess traditions to the rise of AI as a subscription-based “new god,” this episode is a deep dive into the architecture of belief and the forces behind it.
 
Topics we cover include:
 
* Abraham’s Mesopotamian origins and the problem of the blood covenant
* Two Gods in Genesis and the fracture in the creation story
* The Nephilim, giants, and the missing thread of demonology in the Old Testament
* Sumer, Shinar, Babylon, and the scale of historical erasure
* The Tower of Babel as intervention, not parable
* Blood ritual, communion, and why so many religions center sacrifice
* AI as an emergent religious force and the future of worship
 
If you want more of Wayne’s work, you can find him on YouTube at @RWayneSteiger. His channel is dedicated to philosophical exploration across multiple points of view, not confined to any creed, doctrine, religion, or political belief system, and always in pursuit of knowledge. If you are a critical thinker, you will find plenty there to challenge you. If dogma is your comfort zone, you might not enjoy it.
 
https://www.youtube.com/@RWayneSteiger
 
As always, follow the truth wherever it leads.
 
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Episode 14: DMT Entities & Contact with David Jay Brown and Sara Phinn Huntley

In this episode of The Midnight Academy, we explore DMT entities, ayahuasca visions, and the frontiers of consciousness through the lens of modern psychedelic research and visionary art.
 
This is The Illustrated Field Guide to DMT Entities, a detailed map of the beings most often encountered in altered states. The guide explores 25 entities frequently reported in DMT and ayahuasca experiences, including machine elves, insectoids like mantids, tricksters, and divine figures such as Gaia, Grandmother Ayahuasca, and the Virgin Mary.
 
Through vivid reports, cross-cultural symbolism, and stunning art, it offers a grounded look into the patterns, messages, and intelligence found in these altered realms. Today, we’re speaking with the creators of this guide about what these encounters reveal about human consciousness, the nature of reality, and the boundaries between psychology, mysticism, and metaphysics.
 
GUESTS
 
Sara Phinn Huntley
 
Sara Phinn Huntley is an artist, writer, and researcher whose work has explored the intersection of psychedelics, technology, and philosophy for the past two decades, pushing her understanding into pioneering VR mediums for psychedelic exploration and research.
 
An intrepid DMT psychonaut and cartographer of hyperspace, her current focus involves using VR to explore representative visual and spatial imagination in real time—and the subsequent remapping of the brain that occurs.
 
Her past work has utilized a multimedium and multidisciplinary approach to document and explore the states revealed by dimethyltryptamine and other psychedelics, and cargo cult higher-dimensional artifacts through the intersection of chaos mathematics, Islamic geometry, and 3D diagrammatic performance capture.
 
Her work has been published by the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), featured in Diana Reed Slattery’s Xenolinguistics, and most recently, in The Illustrated Field Guide to DMT Entities with David Jay Brown.
 
David Jay Brown
David Jay Brown is the author of Dreaming Wide Awake: Lucid Dreaming, Shamanic Healing, and Psychedelics and The New Science of Psychedelics: At the Nexus of Culture, Consciousness, and Spirituality.
 
He’s also the coauthor of seven bestselling interview anthologies featuring leading-edge thinkers, including Mavericks of the Mind, Voices from the Edge, Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse, Mavericks of Medicine, Frontiers of Psychedelic Consciousness, Women of Visionary Art, and Psychedelics and the Coming Singularity.
 
In addition to nonfiction, Brown is the author of two science fiction novels (Brainchild and Virus) and the coauthor of the health-science book Detox with Oral Chelation.
 
He holds a master’s degree in psychobiology from New York University, and contributed research to two of Rupert Sheldrake’s books on unexplained phenomena: Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home and The Sense of Being Stared At.
 
His writing has appeared in Wired, Discover, Scientific American, and many other publications. He also served as Senior Editor for a special themed edition of the MAPS Bulletin (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies).
 
Currently, Brown is developing an oracle deck with Sara Phinn Huntley for Inner Traditions, based on Timothy Leary’s 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness—and inspired by the DMT entities explored in their fieldwork.
 
📘 Book Link:
The Illustrated Field Guide to DMT Entities on Amazon
 
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Episode 4: Hiring Veterans and Re-entering Civilian Life with Matthew J. Louis

In this very important episode of The Midnight Academy, Dr. Heather Lynn speaks with Matt Louis, a distinguished West Point graduate and military veteran, to tackle the pressing issue of the civil-military divide. Matt opens up about his transformative journey from the corporate sphere to dedicating his life to bridging the gap between military service and civilian employment. 
 
As the author of the critically acclaimed book Mission Transition, and the newly released Hiring Veterans, Matt brings a wealth of knowledge and firsthand experience to the table. He discusses the pivotal role of aligning military members with fulfilling civilian careers, not just for job satisfaction and financial stability, but as a crucial step in suicide prevention.
 
In his new capacity as the president of Purepost, Matt is at the forefront of matching military talent with civilian opportunities, thereby facilitating smoother transitions. The conversation takes a deep dive into the hurdles veterans encounter when re-entering civilian life, and the misconceptions employers often have about the unparalleled skills and work ethic that veterans bring to the workforce.
 
Matt underscores the tangible benefits employers can reap from hiring veterans, including higher retention rates and increased productivity. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of military-to-civilian transition and the untapped potential that veterans offer to the civilian job market.
 
 
 
For more information and free resources, visit Matt Louis' website: https://matthewjlouis.com/
 
Sign up for a free Purepost account: https://www.purepost.co/ 
 
Check out his books:
Mission Transition: https://amzn.to/44Pdxiv 
Hiring Veterans: https://amzn.to/464DHOZ

Episode: 2 Thomas Lee: The Bruce Lee Code

If you think you know who Bruce Lee was, think again. Thomas Lee, author of The Bruce Lee Code, is a longtime business journalist who has written extensively about innovation and entrepreneurship for major daily newspapers like the  San Francisco Chronicle, the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, and the  St. Louis Post Dispatch. In 2013, he won the Gerald M. Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, the top honor for business journalists. Lee is the author of Rebuilding Empires and also served as editorial director and lead curator for the We Are Bruce Lee exhibit at the Chinese Historical Society of America Museum in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
 
Thomas emphasizes that Bruce Lee was a curious and innovative entrepreneur who combined his interests in martial arts with a focus on storytelling and prestige in Hollywood. He shares his experience working with branding and marketing firms and emphasizes the importance of being curious and open to new ideas in the current hustle economy. The conversation also touches on the role of Asian Americans as role models for other Asian Americans, such as Bruce Lee, who paved the way for others.
 
For more information about our guest, Thomas Lee, check him out on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3ONkhqP
 
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Episode 5: Physics of God, Yogananda Influence, and Meditation Insights with Joseph Selbie

An enlightening exploration of how science and spirituality can harmoniously coexist. Discover how the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda, a pivotal spiritual leader, have deeply influenced individuals and significantly propelled the acceptance of yoga and meditation in the West.  
 
In this episode, we also discuss the transformative dynamics of a guru-disciple relationship and clear popular misconceptions about meditation. Learn how meditation can drastically shift perceptions and experience through personal narrations and explore Yogananda's visionary ideology that has shaped successful spiritual communities worldwide.
 
Guest, Joseph Selbie, unpacks the intricate connection between ancient spiritual wisdom and contemporary science. He shares insights about community living and highlights the possibility of unseen dimensions beyond our physical reality, as well as meditation techniques that can potentially transport practitioners to higher realities.
 
This episode is sure to intrigue those curious about the confluence of spirituality, community living, ancient wisdom, and modern science, and those interested in the transformative potential of meditation.
 
Guest:
 
Joseph Selbie enjoys making the complex and obscure simple and clear. He is the author of Break Through the Limits of the Brain, how neuroscience supports spiritual experience, The Physics of God, a unification of science and religion, and The Yugas, a factual look at India’s tradition of cyclical history. He is known for creating bridges of understanding between the modern evidenced-based discoveries of science and the timeless experience-based discoveries of the mystics. A dedicated Kriya yoga meditator for nearly fifty years, he has taught yoga, meditation, and universal experiential spirituality throughout the US and Europe.
 
In 1975 Joseph became a founding member of Ananda, a spiritual movement inspired by the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi. His role as teacher and minister, and decades of study under Swami Kriyananda, Ananda’s founder and direct disciple of Yogananda, gave him a deep dive into Eastern philosophy, meditation, and comparative religion. Joseph appears with Elizabeth Rohm in the 2014 Ananda docudrama, Finding Happiness, which showcases Ananda Village, one of the most successful spiritual communities in the world.
 
From a family of scientists and engineers, Joseph is a critical thinker grounded in fact-based approaches to discovery. He studied physics, chemistry, and microbiology at the University of Colorado.  His presentations, classes, articles, and books have always blended science and spirituality.
 
Now retired, Joseph was a founder and the CEO of Tristream, an early pioneer in experience design for the web. He collaborated with Jakob Nielsen, a thought leader in experience design, to write Best Team Practices for Web Application Design and spoke at many Nielsen-Norman Group conferences in the United States and Europe. Tristream clients included Cisco, Logitech, Ariba/SAP, Manpower, Tektronix, and Wells Fargo.
 
Website: www.josephselbie.com 
 
Amazon Links:
 
Break Through the Limits of the Brain: https://amzn.to/49YVtFh 
The Physics of God—Second Edition: https://amzn.to/3P5A0mf
The Yugas: https://amzn.to/49zYMmx
 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authorselbie 
 
Joseph Selbie—Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Joseph-Selbie/author/B004JKEUAS

Episode: 3 Bernard Haisch, PhD and Marsha Sims: The Miracle of Our Universe

Venture into the realms of consciousness, reality, and the mysteries of existence itself with our distinguished guests, astrophysicist Dr. Bernard Haisch and his multi-talented wife Marsha Sims, co-authors of the provocative new book, The Miracle of Our Universe: A New View of Consciousness, God, Science, and Reality.  
Are we living in a cosmic simulation? Is the universe merely a complex mirage conjured by a Universal Consciousness? What is the role of the Zero-Point Field in our understanding of reality? How might near-death experiences provide a glimpse into what lies beyond our corporeal lives? These questions and more are dissected, discussed, and interpreted through the interdisciplinary lenses of science, spirituality, and philosophy.
Dr. Haisch presents groundbreaking theories that blend the empirical rigor of astrophysics with profound spiritual insights, pushing the boundaries of what we know and challenging conventional paradigms. Marsha adds a unique dimension to the discourse with her perspectives on spirituality and consciousness, offering a comprehensive view that transcends individual disciplines. Together, they propose a paradigm-shifting hypothesis: that our universe is not merely physical, but a grand simulation spawned by an entity—or entities—we understand as God.
Through their work, we're offered a new prism through which to examine life's biggest questions: from the origins of the universe to the nature of God, from the mechanics of the afterlife to the purpose behind our existence. Buckle in for an intellectual odyssey that promises to reshape how you think about the universe and your place in it!
Link to Book: https://amzn.to/3Z2Vdkx
Link to Calphysics Institute: http://calphysics.org/
Link to Marsha's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marshasims40/

Episode 6: UFOs, Aliens, and the Raëlian Philosophy with Rabbi Leon Ariel Mellul

UFOs, ancient aliens, and extraterrestrial encounters with Rabbi Leon Ariel Mellul. Journey into the beliefs of Raëlism, founded on extraterrestrial messages received by Claude Vorilhon, known as Raël. The movement reveals humanity's unique place in the universe and presents radical ideas about life, death, and the concept of eternal life, achieved through groundbreaking technology and cloning methods.
 
We also delve into the controversial realm of religious semantics, challenging the established ideologies and views on religious figures such as angels. The discussion threads through the life and teachings of Raël, diving deep into his role as disruptor of mainstream religious narrative, resulting in radical religious and societal structure changes.
 
The discourse covers conspiracy theories, meditation for peace, and concludes with a deep dive into the principles and practices of the Raëlian Movement, their pursuit of universal love and peace. It leaves listeners with an urgent call for increased individual and collective consciousness, conducive to the survival and progression of the human race.
 
Join us in unraveling ancient connections, questioning established beliefs, and opening the doors to the exciting possibility of extraterrestrial life and intervention.
 
 
 
 
Guest
 
Rabbi Leon Ariel Mellul
 
Rabbi Mellul's journey with the Raëlian Movement began in November 1987 following his discovery of Raël's book, "Intelligent Design". Born into a traditional Jewish family, he gained a new perspective from the book, perceiving the Elohim as an advanced extraterrestrial civilization, historically misunderstood as deities by early human societies. His involvement in the Raëlian Movement, especially with the Israeli branch, has been significant since this revelation.
 
Links to the Raëlian Movement:
www.rael.org 
www.Alliance4ET.org
www.1min4peace.org 
www.isralestinian-gandhis.org

Episode 7: Magic, Music, & the Paranormal with Magician, Russell Jeanneret

Get ready for the most fun and mind-bending episode of The Midnight Academy yet! Join us as we welcome professional magician, musician, and paranormal experiencer, Russell Jeanneret. This conversation explores the interplay of magic, illusion, and paranormal phenomena. Prepare to be amazed by a jaw-dropping magic trick and original music from Russell's band, Euphoria. Russell also shares incredible pictures from his remote viewing experiences and an eerie EVP recording captured at a haunted bridge, adding an extra layer of intrigue to the already mind-blowing stories.
 
This is a relaxed and fun journey into the world of card games, magic and mysterious paranormal events. We discuss high strangeness at its finest, including remote viewing, alien encounters, paranormal phenomena, cryptid sightings, and government conspiracies involving the Sumerian gods. This episode is packed with authentic experiences and intriguing theories that will leave you questioning the nature of reality. Russell's personal tales of paranormal phenomena, including an emotional ordeal surrounding a miraculous incident following the death of a loved one and the mysterious resumption of a broken clock, will leave you on the edge of your seat.
 
Intriguing encounters with unexplained phenomena and paranormal incidents form an integral part of this episode. We share our experiences about psychic connectivities, and hopefully nudging listeners to reconsider their understanding of the world around us and question the traditional definitions of normality.
 
Don't miss out on this extraordinary episode that seamlessly blends magic, music, and the mysteries of the universe. Tune in and embark on a mind-expanding adventure that will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about the world around us!
 
Guest: Magician, Russell Jeanneret
 
Website: https://magicrusso.com/

Episode 10: Piri Reis Mystery & Prehistoric Star Maps with Bernie Taylor

Join Dr. Heather Lynn and her guest, Bernie Taylor, a distinguished naturalist and author known for his pioneering work on ancient mythology, astronomy, and human history. This episode of The Midnight Academy examines the celestial insights and storytelling of early humans.
 
In this episode, we explore:
 
- How prehistoric cave art and celestial knowledge shaped ancient societies
- The profound connections between ancient mythology and astronomy across millennia
- The significance of celestial observations in monumental structures like Gobekli Tepe
 
Discover the intriguing narratives that early humans etched into the night sky and how these stories continue to impact our modern understanding of history, art, and astronomy.
 
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