In the first half, author and researcher James DiEugenio shared updates on the JFK assassination case and issues surrounding the release of related documents. He has found the slow release or declassification of files related to the JFK assassination to be very frustrating. All documents were supposed to be released by 2017, and while many of them have, there are still a number that haven't been or are highly redacted. First, Trump was supposed to release all the files, and he relented, and now Biden has done the same, DiEugenio reported, adding that these decisions increase distrust in the government by the public, making it seem as though they are concealing something sinister.
One of the puzzling things in the case, according to DiEugenio, is related to JFK's brain weight from autopsy data. The weight was higher than the average brain for someone his size, yet the bullet wound seemingly destroyed a significant part of his brain. He has theorized that a different brain may have been swapped in to hide evidence of damage to the skull by more than one bullet. DiEugenio also brought up the testimony of Sandy Spencer, who was a photo processor at the Pentagon, and said the later photos she saw of the JFK autopsy did not look like the official photographs and may have been cleaned up. He also touched on purported plots to kill JFK before the November 1963 assassination, including one in Chicago that mirrors what eventually happened in Dallas.
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Philosopher and metaphysician Wayne Saalman is an author who has studied the roots of humanity's religious and spiritual traditions and secret societies. In the latter half, he delved into the mysteries of consciousness, dreams, near-death experiences, and UAPs, and what the physicist, the mystic, and all truthseekers have in common. He talked about his friend and colleague, the late Robert Anton Wilson, who fearlessly challenged many people's assumptions with his books like "Cosmic Trigger." Wilson was the one who introduced him to the concept of syncretism, which is where you take the best of a religion or spiritual tradition or what resonates most with you, and adapt that into your life.
Saalman believes that near-death experiences (NDEs) constitute a new paradigm for humanity. "It does seem that there is another dimension which we enter and that the consciousness continues on in," he remarked, adding that the "life review" that many report in an NDE is a key element in which you experience how all your actions affected others and can be considered the "ultimate karmic moment." He also described some of his curious UFO encounters-- in one, he realized that the craft was aware of him, and in another incident, he saw two very human-looking UFO occupants. He mentioned Jim Marrs' classification of different types of aliens, one of which includes transcendental. "These might well be what we've called angels for all these millenniums, and they might well have been the ones who have inspired our religions in our spiritual tradition," Saalman noted.
News segment guests: Lauren Weinstein, Steve Kates