HeyJaredClose Encounter Club
Real people. True stories. Unexplained encounters — and experts to help us make sense of it all.Hosted by Justin Gearheart, Close Encounter Club investigates UFO sightings, anomalous encounters, consciousness, and the big questions that emerge when firsthand experiences…
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I Asked an Artist to Contact the Muse (opens the original)
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Do artists create ideas, or do ideas come through them? In this episode of Close Encounter Club, we test the idea of “the muse” with artist Nikki Loy. Nikki created two paintings under two completely different creative conditions. One painting came from a strict random prompt with no meditation, no ritual, and no attempt to connect to anything beyond herself. The other painting came from a more intuitive, surrendered state where she tried to connect to the muse. Then we asked our audience to vot
The Phoenix Lights Flew Directly Over His Family (opens the original)
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Nearly 30 years after witnessing the Phoenix Lights, software engineer Dustin Wilkins found an image that stopped him in his tracks. On March 13, 1997, Dustin and five members of his family watched five strange lights approach their cul-de-sac in Tempe, Arizona. The lights began in a mostly horizontal line before shifting into a distinctive V formation. Three were clustered near the front, while two trailing lights were spaced noticeably farther behind. They moved slowly across the sky, passed d
He Took DMT. Then a Novel Started Writing Itself (ft. Mike & Sheena Bidwell) (opens the original)
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After losing their baby in 2019, Mike and Sheena Bidwell found themselves in a place where nothing seemed to help. Eventually, a therapist friend suggested psilocybin mushrooms as a last resort for grief. That first experience opened a door. Years later, that path led Mike to DMT. But what happened after the DMT experience is where this story becomes almost impossible to explain. Mike says he began receiving visions of a story. Samurai. Vampires. Characters. A hidden structure behind reality. En
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