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You Asked a Question: Don Hill on the Legacy of Michael A. Persinger and Our Influence on the Paranormal

2 h 5 min · 9 de abr de 2026
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We are happy to share a conversation with journalist and artist Don Hill about his collaboration with Dr. Michael Persinger and the Koren (“God”) Helmet, which uses pulsed energies to stimulate the temporal lobes. Hill recounts a ghost experience in his Rocky Mountain home and later re-experiencing the same presence and fear in Persinger’s lab, raising whether such events can be created externally or reveal something that's already inherent. He discusses external factors that may shape paranormal and religious experiences, including geophysical features, piezoelectric effects in stressed granite, infrasound and standing waves, and “space weather” from solar storms possibly correlating with anxiety and common anomalous reports. He references Jung’s view that UFOs, poltergeists, and ghosts increase during cultural tension, and explores epigenetic memory. Hill argues some people may be exceptional “psychonauts”, but emphasizes scientific measurement, and urges collaboration between artists and scientists, using tools like sound and repetition, meditative states, and art to explain how perception can be shaped into reality. If you want to share a story or be a guest on our show, email us at: contact@podcastoftheparanormal.com [contact@podcastoftheparanormal.com] If you're loving the show, the best way to support us is to like, follow, and share our episodes on social media and subscribe on your favorite podcast directory or provider. Have thoughts on today’s episode? Drop a comment on your favorite platform. And don't forget to leave us a review and tell your friends. It’s the best way to help new listeners find us. All of our links are waiting for you at:  https://www.podcastoftheparanormal.com [https://www.podcastoftheparanormal.com] Visit Don Hill's Substack to follow everything he's up to: https://donhill.substack.com/ [https://donhill.substack.com/] A sample of Don's art: https://musicismedicine.bandcamp.com/album/deadline-where-is-michael-persinger [https://musicismedicine.bandcamp.com/album/deadline-where-is-michael-persinger] One more! The namesake of this episode's title: https://musicismedicine.bandcamp.com/track/you-asked-a-question [https://musicismedicine.bandcamp.com/track/you-asked-a-question]

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