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William Collinson & Lee Strydom
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    Taoism, Chinese Medicine & Energy Healing with Richard Wickes (S6E10)

    08/09/2026 | 1h 42 mins.
    Richard Wickes joins Strange & Mysterious World to explore Taoism, Chinese medicine, energy healing and The Five Element Code. How does he connect an ancient framework of wood, fire, earth, metal and water with the body, consciousness and everyday life?

    Richard shares his interpretation of the five elements, the paradox of Wu Wei or “doing nothing” and his experiences studying with a Taoist teacher. The conversation moves through Qigong, energy transmission, acupuncture, Reiki, feng shui and Chinese astrology.

    During the interview, Richard demonstrates his approach to energy work with William and Lee, who describe their reactions as the session unfolds. He also recounts remote-viewing experiences and deeply personal encounters involving spirituality, meditation and grief.

    Join us for a conversation about perception, ancient philosophy and the mysteries of human experience.

    Strange & Mysterious World | Season 6, Episode 10

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    FIND RICHARD WICKES

    Official website:
    https://www.wickesway.com/

    About Richard and his work:
    https://www.wickesway.com/rich.html

    Public contact:
    Wickesway@gmail.com

    Book discussed:
    The Five Element Code: Read Your Body, Decode Your World

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    This interview presents personal experiences and the participants’ interpretations. The energy-work demonstration is not a controlled experiment or evidence of a medical cure. This content is not medical advice and should not replace qualified medical care.

    CHAPTERS

    00:00 Introducing Richard Wickes
    00:36 Taoism and the Five Element Code
    07:08 Richard’s interpretation of the five elements
    12:56 Nothingness and Wu Wei
    22:12 Qigong and energy transmission
    27:04 Richard’s experience of energetic perception
    32:16 Acupuncture, Reiki and cultivating sensitivity
    36:05 Energy as information
    42:19 Energy-work demonstration with Lee
    45:58 Energy-work demonstration with William
    56:23 Chinese medicine, feng shui and the five elements
    1:02:09 The hosts’ reactions and healing stories
    1:06:49 Spiritual encounters across traditions
    1:08:51 Richard’s Jesus experience and grief
    1:13:02 An unexpected experience in meditation
    1:20:32 How Richard approaches energy work
    1:26:34 Medicine and healing claims
    1:34:25 Intuition and remote viewing
    1:40:02 Chinese astrology and the five elements
    1:41:17 Where to find Richard

    #Taoism #FiveElements #EnergyHealing #RichardWickes #StrangeAndMysteriousWorld

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    She Removes Hooks From Sharks’ Mouths — Cristina Zenato, The Shark Whisperer (S6E9)

    01/09/2026 | 57 mins.
    What if sharks don't just recognize individual humans, but remember who helped them? After more than 30 years working underwater with wild sharks, Cristina Zenato reveals extraordinary encounters that challenge almost everything we've been taught about these animals. In this episode of Strange & Mysterious World, we explore the intelligence, personalities and surprising communication of sharks, including sharks that deliberately approach Cristina, allow her to remove fishing hooks from their bodies, and then behave completely differently toward her afterward. Cristina describes the remarkable story of Foggy Eye, a shark who allowed her to reach inside her mouth and remove a hook and from that day forward began coming to her and resting against her. We also explore: • Whether sharks recognize individual human beings • Why different sharks appear to have completely different personalities • Whether animals communicate with humans beyond spoken language • The experiment involving mentally communicating with sharks • Why fear may completely distort our perception of predators • Why great white sharks can be encountered outside cages — but why Cristina still wouldn't recommend it commercially • How Jaws changed our perception of sharks • Why dolphins and orcas may be far less innocent than popular culture suggests • What nearly five years of accumulated time underwater taught Cristina about human consciousness • Why she says sharks can “strip you raw” and reveal who you really are • What sharks have taught her about fear, prejudice and being human This conversation isn't really just about sharks. It's about intelligence, consciousness, communication — and whether humanity has drastically underestimated the minds of the animals sharing this planet with us. Watch to the end and tell us in the comments: Do you believe animals can recognize and communicate with individual human beings in ways science still doesn't fully understand? Subscribe to Strange & Mysterious World for more conversations exploring consciousness, mysteries, extraordinary experiences and the unexplained.
    Chapters: 00:00 The Shark That Changed After She Saved It
    02:54 She Dreamed of Having Sharks as Friends
    06:54 When She Realized Sharks Recognized Her
    08:52 Everything We Were Told About Sharks Was Wrong
    11:02 Can You Swim With Great Whites Without a Cage?
    13:55 Why Are Animals Drawn to Her? 16:50 The Disappearing Sharks
    17:52 Do Sharks Communicate With Humans?
    18:55 Sharks Know Exactly Who She Is
    22:44 Every Shark Has a Personality
    24:48 Can a Shark Bite Be an “Attack”?
    26:46 Jaws Changed Everything
    29:45 The Dark Side of Dolphins & Orcas
    31:12 The Shark That Let Her Reach Inside Its Mouth
    34:50 The Shark That Came Straight to Her for Help
    38:53 Five YEARS Underwater
    39:50 “Sharks Strip You Raw”
    44:15 What Animals May Be Teaching Us
    46:38 The My Octopus Teacher Connection
    48:43 Trying to Communicate With Sharks Mentally
    51:49 Why Mental Communication Didn't Work
    54:11 The Altered State She Finds Underwater
    55:39 What Sharks Taught Her About Being Human
    #Sharks #AnimalCommunication #SharkDiving #AnimalIntelligence #Consciousness
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    Dean Radin: Can Your Mind Change Reality? Psychic DNA, Retrocausality & The Science of Magic (S6E8)

    25/08/2026 | 1h 29 mins.
    What if consciousness doesn't just observe reality — but actually participates in creating it?

    In this extraordinary conversation, consciousness researcher Dr. Dean Radin takes us deep into the scientific evidence surrounding psychic phenomena, manifestation, synchronicity, telepathy, precognition and what ancient traditions called magic.

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    Dean reveals the bizarre experience in which he bent a metal spoon and felt it become like putty, explains experiments suggesting that future events may influence the present, explores whether psychic receptivity could have a genetic component, and discusses one of the strangest hypotheses of the episode: whether centuries of persecution during the Inquisition could have influenced those genetic patterns.

    We also explore terminal lucidity and survival after death, The Telepathy Tapes, meditation and psychic development, synchronicity, Yoga Nidra manifestation, consciousness as the foundation of reality, and Dean's work involving RNA technology that could one day contribute to understanding how human cognition, intuition and even psychic ability might be enhanced.

    This is where quantum physics, consciousness research, ancient mystical traditions and the science of magic collide.

    Watch to the end, then tell us in the comments: Have you ever experienced something that made you question whether coincidence is really coincidence?

    Subscribe to Strange & Mysterious World for weekly investigations into consciousness, paranormal phenomena, spirituality and the unexplained.

    Chapters:

    00:00 Can Your Mind Change Reality?
    06:19 Are Your Thoughts Affecting the World?
    07:56 The Spoon-Bending Experience That Frightened Radin
    14:03 The Mental State Behind “Magic”
    18:59 Are You Manifesting It… or Seeing the Future?
    23:42 Is Psychic Ability Hidden in Your DNA?
    26:53 The Mystery That Changed His Mind About Death
    29:56 What If Everything Is Consciousness?
    33:37 Did the Inquisition Alter Psychic Genetics?
    38:10 Can the Future Influence the Present?
    45:28 The Yoga Nidra Manifestation That Shouldn't Have Happened
    53:07 Two Minds Were Pulling Reality Together
    56:24 Why Meditation Makes Synchronicities Appear
    59:34 The Telepathy Tapes — What Controlled Tests Found
    1:05:25 Is There a Shortcut to Psychic Ability?
    1:08:40 Could Biotechnology Enhance Human Abilities?
    1:09:56 The Experimental Memory Treatment
    1:12:20 The Long-Term Goal: Enhancing Psychic Ability
    1:14:30 What Happens If This Falls Into the Wrong Hands?
    1:17:36 Sadhguru's Warning About Psychic Powers
    1:22:14 Why Science Is Finally Taking This Seriously
    1:27:49 If Everyone Became Telepathic Tomorrow…
    1:33:54 Final Thoughts

    #DeanRadin #PsychicPhenomena #Consciousness #ScienceOfMagic #Paranormal
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    Does Remote Viewing Really Work? A Real Blind Session With a Monitor (S6E7)

    18/08/2026 | 1h 24 mins.
    Can someone describe a place they have NEVER seen using nothing but a random number?

    In this blind remote viewing experiment, Ryan works through an unknown target live while William and Lee reveal their own sessions afterward. None of them know the destination. Then the target is finally shown, and some of the correspondences are extremely difficult to ignore.

    Ryan describes a museum-like interior, windows, unusual floors, height, enclosed spaces and descending stairs. William repeatedly receives water, elevation and structures. Lee records a man-made structure, domes and other impressions.

    Then comes the reveal: a mysterious museum constructed into a sacred mountain in Osh, Kyrgyzstan.

    Ryan Kralik, managing editor of Aperture, the publication of the International Remote Viewing Association, also discusses his training around members of the Stargate remote viewing community, controlled remote viewing (CRV), monitoring, intuition, operational targets and why experienced remote viewers still question what is happening.

    Whether you believe remote viewing is psychic perception, unexplained information transfer, coincidence, subconscious pattern recognition or something science hasn't adequately explained yet, watch the experiment from beginning to end and make up your own mind.

    Could you explain what happened here? Tell us your theory in the comments, and subscribe to Strange & Mysterious World for more experiments into consciousness, psychic phenomena and the unexplained.

    Ryan says he trained around people from the Stargate community and sometimes works operational targets such as missing-person cases, which gives you a legitimate SEO bridge into the broader Stargate/remote-viewing audience.

    Chapters:

    00:00 Can You See a Hidden Place With Your Mind?
    01:31 Training With the Stargate Remote Viewers
    03:56 The Meditation That Opens Ryan's “Third Eye”
    05:21 How a Blind Remote Viewing Session Works
    08:20 The Secret Coordinates Are Given
    17:11 “Lighthouse”… The Images Begin
    23:26 Ryan Starts Seeing a Tower
    27:21 The Monitor Moves Him Toward the Target
    34:29 Something Appears Inside the Structure
    36:38 A Woman Who “Was There… And Isn't”
    37:21 “She's Dead”
    38:09 Ryan Suddenly Sees a Love Triangle
    39:18 Inside the Hidden Location
    40:51 He Sees Water Outside
    43:42 “It's Like a Museum”
    44:38 England, Tudors and Shakespeare?
    45:17 The Descending Staircase Appears
    47:42 “It's a Freaking Tower”
    49:46 “You Basically Named the Target”
    55:21 The Mistake That Can Actually Contain Data
    56:09 The Louvre Remote Viewing Story
    57:33 William Reveals His Blind Session
    1:02:18 Lee Reveals His Session
    1:06:29 The Grand Reveal
    1:07:14 Ryan Said “Museum”
    1:08:19 The Staircase Match
    1:09:39 The Museum Inside the Mountain
    1:12:03 The River Match
    1:13:31 The Sacred Mountain's Strange History
    1:15:34 The Love Triangle Connection
    1:17:13 Did All Three Get Something Right?
    1:19:03 “We're Completely Wrong About Reality”
    1:20:43 Why “It's Just a Number” Matters
    1:22:41 Even Experts Still Can't Believe It
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    The Origin of Satan: What Early Christianity Changed | Elaine Pagels (S06E06)

    11/08/2026 | 1h 30 mins.
    What if Satan was never actually in the Garden of Eden? And what if early Christianity contained secret teachings that most Christians were never taught?

    Professor Elaine Pagels, one of the world's leading historians of early Christianity and author of *The Gnostic Gospels* and *The Origin of Satan*, joins Strange & Mysterious World to explore how the idea of Satan evolved, why the serpent in Genesis was later identified with the Devil, and what the Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Mary and other lost Christian writings reveal about the earliest followers of Jesus.

    We explore the historical Jesus, the Roman crucifixion, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Lucifer, the origins of the Devil, Mary Magdalene, Gnosticism, the creation of the New Testament canon, Christianity's mystical traditions and the provocative idea that Jesus may have given different teachings publicly and privately.

    Pagels also explains why her own personal tragedy led her to investigate the origins of Satan and why decades of historical research ultimately deepened, rather than destroyed, her spiritual search.

    Watch to the end for her remarkable perspective on what may lie at the heart of Jesus' message.

    Subscribe to Strange & Mysterious World for conversations exploring religion, consciousness, spirituality, ancient mysteries and the unexplained.

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Strange & Mysterious World is a weekly podcast exploring the biggest mysteries of our reality. Join hosts William Collinson and Lee Strydom as they investigate UFOs, ancient civilizations, consciousness, remote viewing, near-death experiences, spirituality, paranormal phenomena, hidden history, secret societies, and the science behind the unexplained. Through conversations with leading researchers, scientists, experiencers, and authors from around the world, each episode challenges conventional thinking and explores the questions that could change everything. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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