Scott & Forrest from Astonishing Legends

For lucky number 13, we’re talking about a study from Johns Hopkins where a bunch of religious leaders from across the faith spectrum all tripped on shrooms. We’re also following up on the Buga sphere because HOW COULD WE NOT.

Finally, fantastically, a conversation with Scott and Forrest from Astonishing Legends about the passions and philosophies that drive us all to investigate high strangeness. It’s a good one!

And a quick note — what you’ll hear in the episode is less than half of what we recorded. If you want to hear the whole, unedited conversation, well… you know what to do.

Highlights:

• 33 religious leaders from mainstream faiths (Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists) tripped on shrooms (took moderately high doses of psilocybin in controlled settings

• Is psilocybin a “magnifier of suggestible experience,” or a doorway to objective revelation?

• Buga sphere bafflers: Mexican researchers claim that

  • it now weighs five times more than when found, and that

  • the sphere generate its own magnetic field and manipulates gravity, and that

  • people have gotten sick from touching it, and that

  • it killed all the vegetation where it landed

  • (?!)

• AI was used to "translate" mysterious etchings on the sphere, producing generic new-age gobbledygook about "consciousness transformation"

• WSJ claims all UFO sightings are military psyops. This is how constant lies erode public trust in traditional institutions.

• Scott and Forrest (Astonishing Legends) share how their work has shifted their perspectives over the span of 300+ episodes

• Scott’s breakthrough moment: an unexplained EVP at the haunted Sallie House

• How paranormal investigation addresses humanity's biggest questions

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Here, take this talking stick

1. Does it surprise you that religious leaders didn't abandon their faiths after tripping on mushrooms? Why or why not? (Such a great essay question you’re welcome by the way.)

2. If it’s true that the Buga sphere quintupled in weight (well, first of all do you think it’s true?), what's your theory? If it's fake, uh, what’s the point?

3. How do YOU decide who to trust? What are your sources? Name some names!

4. Have you ever had a serious paradigm shattering experience like Scott’s at the Sallie House?

5. Is paranormal investigation a form of spiritual practice?

6. Can shared wonder unite our fractured culture?

7. How?

We, with you, remain truth-seekers in an age of broken information.