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Since the advent of the modern UFO era in the wake of World War II, controversy, cover-ups, and wild speculation have surrounded the huge numbers of sightings, encounters and other bizarre happenings associated with the phenomenon. The recent expansion of the term 'unidentified flying object' to include 'unidentified aerial phenomena' and the almost all-encompassing ' unidentified anomalous phenomena' has occurred in tandem with high-level political and scientific revelations about previously secret information and covert programs.

To some, therefore, disclosure is happening now, right before our very eyes. Alternative theories within Ufology asking whether these phenomena could be interdimensional entities, non-material manifestations previously identified as angels or ghosts, or even past or future events somehow breaking into the present are finally eclipsing the simplistic conception of biological ETs traveling through space in physical craft, for which there is no real evidence. However, perhaps the most crucial questions remain on the margins: What is the connection between human consciousness and these phenomena? Do we play a role in their creation and do they play a role in our evolution? Are they messengers from a wider reality sent to help the human race survive?

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Exactly thirteen years since his first appearance, Anthony Peake returns to Legalise Freedom to discuss his latest book 'Near Death Experiences: The Science, Psychology and Anthropology Behind the Phenomenon'. Refusing to pander to the false dichotomy between militant materialists and woo-woo peddlers, Peake simultaneously seeks scientific explanations for extraordinary human experiences whilst acknowledging that the materialist-reductionist worldview will never have all the answers. His work ploughs a path which has become increasingly important as acceptance of myriad other dimensions beyond our limited everyday reality gradually awakens in the collective consciousness. In a broad discussion ranging from near-death and other out of body experiences (OBEs), to coma, dreams, precognition, and psychedelic trips, we ask whether life and death are really what we think they are.

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Mark Olly discusses his book Revealing the Green Man.

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To many, The Green Man is little more than a chubby face peering through a veil of leaves. Sometimes cute, sometimes vaguely sinister, he is nonetheless widely regarded as merely a meaningless symbol from an age long lost. In reality, however, he could rather be said to be the esoteric embodiment of the very essence of life itself, an ancient archetype once known the world over.

On a journey through myths and legends, magic and folklore, we explore the mystery of The Green Man. From the time of the Celts and Druids, the rise of the Roman Empire, the Anglo-Saxon annals, and the descent into the Dark Ages and beyond, we meet with Robin Hood, Herne the Hunter, King Arthur, and many other colourful characters along the way. It is a tale pregnant with arcane symbolism, cultish rites, the perennial wisdom of 'as above - so below', and the final revelation of the Earth's eternal cycle of destruction and rebirth.

Thousands of years ago, man went to war with nature, and thus to war with himself. Lost to the land as once was, he became Master of the World, for a while. Blinded by arrogance, hobbled by hubris, and emboldened by his technological toys, he brought the biosphere to the brink of oblivion, to exalt himself at the Earth's expense. This is our story, and we are not as clever as we might like to believe. In a timely re-learning of The Green Man's lessons, in the twilight of the industrial age, we are being invited, perchance for the final time, to change our ways, or perish.

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