Discuss today's episode with others on our Whop! https://whop.com/jessemichels/ In this episode of American Alchemy, Jesse Michels hosts Diana Walsh Pasulka, author of American Cosmic, and Colonel Karl Nell, former UAP task force representative, for a fascinating discussion on the intersection of UFOs, religion, and science. They explore connection…

Discuss today's episode with others! https://tinyurl.com/whopepisodeforum In this episode, Jesse Michels and co-host Jack (aka Missileman on Twitter) sit down with Bob McGwire to explore UFO phenomena, government secrets, and the intersection of advanced physics and consciousness. This deep-dive discussion uncovers the mysteries behind UAPs and the…

JOIN OUR NEW WHOP (Group Calls With Jesse and more) ➤ https://whop.com/jessemichels/ Eric W. Davis discusses UAPs, focusing on the risks faced by whistleblowers like David Grusch and the Department of Defense's targeting of UAP investigators. Davis highlights the complex information-sharing dynamics among agencies, recounts historical government ac…

In today's episode of American Alchemy, Jesse Michels sits down with Ryan Graves, a former F-18 pilot, to discusses Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). Graves shares his eyewitness accounts of UAP, notably a close encounter with a cube inside a sphere. The conversation explores the routine nature of UAP sightings among military pilots, radar detec…

Thank you to Founders Fund, Michael Solana and Hereticon for today's episode! Subscribe to Pirate Wires at https://www.piratewires.com In today's episode of American Alchemy, Jesse Michels sits down with Tom O'Neill, author of Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties. They uncover chilling connections between Manson, CI…

In today's episode of American Alchemy, Jesse Michels sits down with author Eric Wargo to unravel the mysteries of time loops, precognition, and how our future selves might be influencing our present reality, weaving together insights from quantum mechanics, consciousness, and the very fabric of existence. Eric Wargo's Book "Time Loops": https://ti…

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Join Jesse Michels in an exclusive sit-down with Michael Shellenberger, recorded right after the UAP congressional hearings on November 13, 2024. Shellenberger delves into the hearings' revelations and his newly released Immaculate Constellation report. Support American Alchemy by Becoming a YouTube Member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuG2KzrI…

Go to https://buyraycon.com/JESSEMICHELS for 30% off sitewide! Brought to you by Raycon On today's episode of American Alchemy, we welcome Eric Wargo, a science writer and author known for exploring the mysteries of time, precognition, and the human mind. Eric's works, including Time Loops and Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self, delve into th…

On today's episode of American Alchemy we are joined by author Matt LaCroix. Enjoy! Support American Alchemy by Becoming a YouTube Member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuG2KzrIMe3qoNcuDVpwnXw/join Matt LaCroix is an author and researcher specializing in ancient civilizations, particularly Egypt, exploring lost knowledge, mythology, and the myst…

Graham Hancock returns for his second appearance on American Alchemy. Enjoy! Graham's response to Flint Dibble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEe72Nj-AW0 Become a Member of American Alchemy: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuG2KzrIMe3qoNcuDVpwnXw/join SPOTIFY ➤ https://tinyurl.com/jessemichelsspotify DISCORD ➤ https://discord.gg/jessemichels INS…

In today's episode, we explore the complex history of UFO disclosure, focusing on historical efforts led by figures like Robert Oppenheimer and their possible involvement in secret anti-gravity research programs. We also dive into the Galileo Project's search for scientific evidence and the challenges of obtaining credible data amidst growing gover…

Lue Elizondo is a former U.S. intelligence officer and former director of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), known for his efforts to investigate and bring attention to the existence of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). SPONSOR (DeleteMe): 🔒Remove your personal information from the web at https://joindeletem…

James C. Fox is an American documentary filmmaker, and perhaps the most important UFO documentarian of all time: from classics like Out of the Blue (2003) to I know what I saw (2014) to the maybe seminal UFO documentary in history, The Phenomenon (2020), James has fearlessly documented UFO crashes and encounters with otheworldly beings around the w…

Our incredible guest today is Nick Cook. In the 1990s, Cook was the aviation editor of Jane's Defence Weekly, the UK based international defense journal. He was also an aerospace consultant and contributor to the journal from 2002 to 2008. He's won awards from the Royal Aeronautical Society in the Defense, Business, Technology, and Propulsion categ…

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Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code AMERICANALCHEMY at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: http://incogni.com/americanalchemy As the country with the fastest growing GDP in the world, China has been a mounting concern for western officials and citizens alike for decades now. But have you ever wondered to what extent the U…

Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Enter coupon code AMERICANALCHEMY for an extra 3 months free at https://surfshark.deals/americanalchemy Phil Stutz graduated from City College in New York and received his MD from New York University. He worked as a prison psychiatrist on Rikers Island and then in private practice in New York before moving his pr…

Diana Pasulka is a religious studies professor at UNC Wilmington who has written three books: Heaven Can Wait, American Cosmic and Encounters (links below). The first was about Catholic purgatory and when Pasulka began documenting historical accounts of “divine” or “angelic” visitations in the Catholic tradition she started to notice commonalities …

Dave Grusch is a 14 year Intel officer who blew the whistle on UFO reverse engineering programs. Please watch our comprehensive documentary with him on our channel! These are all of the key takeaways from that video. Watch full length documentary here: https://youtu.be/kRO5jOa06Qw?si=D6dl6LtZF8u8oWpY And incredible YesTheory documentary: https://yo…

Get 20% off Four Sigmatic's Think Starter: https://bit.ly/3stt9Lg - Use code ALIEN for your discount Michael Masters is a biological anthropologist at Montana Tech University. He’s written 3 books: Unidentified Flying Objects, The Extratempestrial Model, and Revelation: The Future Human Past. His arguments that aliens are just humans from the futur…

David Grusch is a former 14-year high ranking intelligence officer who left government in early '23 to blow the whistle on UFO’s. In 2019, he was tasked by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and Pentagon to investigate UFO’s as part of the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon Task Force (or UAPTF). In that context, he slowly started to uncove…

Graham Hancock is an unrelenting journalist uncovering the origins of humanity’s forgotten past. His new docuseries on Netflix is called Ancient Apocalypse and it documents the abundance of evidence that humanity is much older than the prevailing belief among mainstream archeologists. Most people believe civilization was started a mere 6,000 years …

I spoke to @RedPandaKoala and former AATIP (Gov't UFO program) director Lue Elizondo about the bizarre connection between Nukes and UFOs. Why do these mysterious flying objects consistently show up around around American nuke stockpiles and enrichment sites? We get into the work of journalist Robert Hastings who has documented 100+ cases and we als…

Blake Lemoine is the recently fired Senior Software Engineer at Google who went public this summer with his concerns around Google’s natural language system LAMDA. Blake thinks LAMDA is both sentient and shouldn’t be under the sole supervision of a private corporation. This provoked a deep, philosophical conversation about the nature of intelligenc…

Martin Shkreli is America’s most hated pharma bro. In 2015 he bought daraprim which treats HIV and AIDS induced toxoplasmosis and raised the price dramatically. When questioned, he trolled reporters and the public, while actually accommodating a large majority of requests that needed the drug more cheaply. In doing this, he exposed behavior engaged…

Jacque Vallee is the legendary French UFO researcher who formed the basis for Steven Spielberg's eccentric scientist in Close Encounters of The Third Kind. He has worked with every prominent player in UFOology since the 60's including Dr. J. Alan Hynek who served as the Chief Science Advisor to project Blue Book, the Airforce's UFO investigation pr…

Skinwalker Ranch is a paranormal hotspot located at the base of the Uintah basin in Utah. Brandon Fugal who is a real estate mogul and patron for frontier science owns the property and studies the various spectacular phenomena that seem to occur. Among these are UFO’s, orbs, cattle multiplications and electromagnetic anomalies. I was lucky enough t…

Alex Jones started the controversial media outlet infowars over two decades ago. He’s gotten a lot wrong, but also gotten a few things very right. And is a fascinating figure worth talking to. In this video we avoided the controversies and decided to focus on the positive aspects of Alex: his background, his resistance against the corporatocracy an…

Garret "G Mac" McNamara is one of the best big wave surfers of all time. He surfed one of the best waves ever at Jaws in 2003, put Nazare Portgual on the map as a surf spot and broke the world record for biggest wave ever surfed in 2013. All of this became the subject of an excellent HBO docuseries called 100 foot wave. An incredible surfer, he's a…

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In this week's American Alchemy, we interview Tom O'Neill, author of the new bestselling book Chaos: Charles Manson, The CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties. O'Neill and I went to Spahn Ranch, the famous old western movie set in Chatsworth California where the Mansons lived plotted a lot of their murders. We go through his book and its crazy …

Did mushrooms come from outer space to spawn humanity and guide its evolution? From stoned ape theory to ancient mystery rituals, this week’s American Alchemist Tero Isokauppila (Founder/CEO of Foursigmatic) makes a pretty compelling case 🍄 👽🛸 *** AMERICAN ALCHEMY is an original series hosted by Jesse Michels that explores the frontier of science a…

From 2013 - 2022, Eric Weinstein was a Managing Director at Thiel Capital. He is the creator of geometric unity, a unified theory in physics, and the intellectual dark web, a loose coalition of intellectuals dedicated to free thought. Hal Puthoff is former CIA, NSA and AATIP (the government’s official UFO investigation program). In the 70’s, he ove…

Professor Loeb received a Ph.D. in plasma physics at age 24 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1986) and was subsequently a long-term member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1988-1993), where he started to work in theoretical astrophysics. In 1993 he moved to Harvard University where he was tenured three years later. In 2021,…

Meet Deep Prasad. Deep is a 26 year old self taught prodigy working on quantum computing and with a deep interest in UFO’s. In this video we discuss how he combines those interests by attempting to solve the schrodinger many body equation at scale with quantum computing; we also discuss quantum biology, quantum sensing and what, if anything, the al…

Robert Greene and Ryan Holiday: How to Find your Calling A modern Machiavelli, Robert Greene is the bestselling author of the 48 Laws of Power, The Laws of Human Nature and now, The Daily Laws. Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of Trust Me I’m Lying, The Obstacle is the Way, Ego is the Enemy and now Courage is Calling. Robert and Ryan have a l…

Wim Hof, AKA The Iceman, is a Dutch motivational speaker and extreme athlete noted for his ability to withstand freezing temperatures. He has set Guinness World Records for swimming under ice and prolonged full-body contact with ice, and previously held the record for a barefoot half marathon on ice and snow. He’s hiked Mount Everest barefoot in sh…

This weeks American Alchemist is Josh Wolfe. Josh co-founded Lux Capital to support scientists and entrepreneurs who pursue counter-conventional solutions to the most vexing puzzles of our time in order to lead us into a brighter future. The more ambitious the project, the better—like, say, creating matter from light. Josh is a Director at Shapeway…

Dr. Garry Nolan is the Rachford and Carlota A. Harris Professor in the Department of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He has published over 300 research articles and is the holder of 40 US patents, and has been honored as one of the top 25 inventors at Stanford University. Dr. Nolan was the founder of Rigel Inc. (NASDAQ: RIGL), …

Shanna H. Swan, Ph.D., is one of the world’s leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologists and a professor of environmental medicine and public health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. An award-winning scientist, her work examines the impact of environmental exposures, including chemicals such as phthalates a…

Steve Horvath is a German–American aging researcher, geneticist, and biostatistician. He is a professor at the University of California Los Angeles known for developing the Horvath aging clock, which is a highly accurate molecular biomarker of aging. Having a clock that’s able to predict age is incredibly important for longevity research and begets…

Delian Asparouhov and Will Bruey are the cofounders of Varda space. With backgrounds in building the dragon capsule at SpaceX and at Founders Fund, the team wants to build stepwise better materials in microgravity environments (fiber optics, pharmaceuticals etc). On this episode, we talk about their revolutionary approach, the macro trends that all…

Parapsychology is a fringey field of physics that involves the study of mind over matter effects. Many elite universities had parapsychology departments in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. At American Alchemy, we think the field is worthy of further inquiry. On this episode, we explore two of parapsychology’s most mind blowing instantiations. The first is …

This week’s American Alchemist is Rob Rhinehart: Rob is the founder of Soylent, partner at Mars Bio, and author of the blog mostly harmless. He’s incredibly intelligent and incredibly eccentric. He lives on a secluded Malibu with goats and horses and eats homemade ice cream all day. He also dabbles in poetry. John Fiorentino, his neighbor, is the f…

This week’s American Alchemist is Ross Douthat: Ross is an American political analyst, blogger, author and New York Times columnist. He was a senior editor of The Atlantic. He has written on a variety of conservative topics, including the state of elite education and Christianity in America and "sustainable decadence" in contemporary society. On th…

This week’s American Alchemist is Brian Muraresku: Brian is the New York Times bestselling author of the book, The Immortality Key. It documents the Ancient Greek mystery rituals that many said held civilization together and that the fathers of western civilization (Plato, Aristotle etc.) all underwent. Many of these great thinkers claimed the ritu…