Dr. Michael Salla spent years in war zones – East Timor, Kosovo, Sri Lanka – teaching conflict resolution at American University.
Then one press conference in 2001 cost him his academic career. Twenty-five years later he’s still here, still citing his sources, and he’s telling me things about Eisenhower, Antarctica and a soldier named JP that I can’t shake.
Some of it I couldn’t debunk. Here’s more in a new edition of Basement Tapes from The Why Files.
Danny Goler built a career on physical risk: parkour, stunts, national television. Then he pointed a cheap laser through DMT-altered vision and found something he wasn’t looking for.
Symbols. Structure. A language he now calls the code of reality.
Thousands of strangers around the world have since aimed the same beam and reported identical shapes, without ever comparing notes.
AJ pushes past the viral story into the parts most conversations skip: what Goler actually felt, what changed inside him, and where the science ends and the mystery begins.
Goler walks through a vision that reshaped his understanding of divinity and free will, along with the encounter that convinced him something real is on the other side.
This conversation goes further than most guests are willing to go. Here’s more in a new Basement Tapes edition from The Why Files.
Joseph Matheny invented something in 1989 that nobody had a name for yet. He called it a story. The internet called it the first alternate reality game. The Navy called him to ask how he did it. He turned them down.
Tonight he’s in the basement explaining how he built an early AI, game-mastered Robert Anton Wilson at Esalen, and why QAnon looks so familiar to him.
Some things are better understood when you know how the trick works. Here’s a new Basement Tape from The Why Files.
