| Nov 2 |
Open Lines: Listeners Report Strange Experiences Gil opened the phones to first-time callers only. Significant volume of calls about time-related experiences: deja vu clusters, gaps in memory, objects appearing in wrong places. Gil noted he'd been receiving unusual mail volume on similar themes. "Something is in the air," he said. No guest. Ran long. |
| Oct 28 |
Guest: Dr. Elizabeth Crane, "The Architecture of Premonition" Clinical psychologist discussing documented cases of accurate premonition, with particular focus on collective premonitory experiences. Dr. Crane described several cases where unconnected individuals reported the same future event before it occurred. Gil pressed her on whether this implied something about the nature of time. She said she was "open to conclusions she hadn't yet reached." Excellent episode. Highly recommended. |
| Oct 21 |
Guest: Mitchell Voss, Mars anomalies update Voss returned with analysis of new Mars Global Surveyor images. Claimed to identify additional artificial structures in the Cydonia region. Gil was enthusiastic. Usual Voss caveats apply: compelling presentation, difficult to verify. Draw your own conclusions. |
| Oct 14 |
Gil Navarro, "The Quickening" revisited Gil returned to his thesis from the book of the same name: that time is accelerating, that events are happening faster, that we are approaching some kind of convergence point. He has been making this argument for several years. This episode he was more specific: he believes the convergence will occur around or shortly after the millennium. He did not say what the convergence would consist of. "I don't know what's on the other side of the door," he said. "I just know there's a door." This is required listening. Archives available, see links column. |
| Oct 7 |
Guest: Neil Brogan, Y2K, the real concerns Brogan argued that the real Y2K risk is not technical failure but psychological: the collapse of public confidence in institutions if anything significant goes wrong, however small. "We have built a world that depends on trust in systems," he said. "Y2K is the first time those systems have been asked to justify that trust." Gil agreed. Good discussion of the gap between official reassurance and private anxiety. |