Is the UFO phenomenon a hardware problem or a consciousness problem?
For 20 years, Nick Cook was the aviation editor for Jane’s Defence Weekly, breaking stories on secret weapons and black budget projects. But his investigation into the “Hunt for Zero Point” led him somewhere he never expected: a realization that our understanding of reality is incomplete.
In this episode, Nick reveals the startling theory he developed over a poetic journey where professional investigation and personal outliers collided to reveal a hidden layer of reality.
We move past the 20th-century mindset to explore:
• Why black world technology and human consciousness are converging
• How Nick’s Outlier theory might reveal a more accurate picture of reality that accounts for high strangeness
• The future of the Exo Institute
• How we can ‘midwife’ the next paradigm shift instead of waiting for it to arrive
• Nick’s experiences with high strangeness
The next era of discovery won’t just be about better sensors; it will be about a new way of being human.
Remember to be curious – the universe is bigger than we know!
Nick’s substack: https://substack.com/@nickcook
Episode notes: http://www.tobehumanshow.com
✉️ Get in touch at:
hello@tobehumanshow.com
– – – – – – – – – – – – – –
🛸 ✨ Support the Channel:
– Patreon (ad-free, exclusive episodes & more): https://patreon.com/tobehumanshow
– Grab a shirt, mug, hoodie, stickers etc: https://www.redbubble.com/people/toinfinity/shop
– – – – – – – – – – – – – –
👽 Follow the show:
Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/tobehumanshow.bsky.social
Twitter – https://x.com/ToBeHumanShow
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/tobehumanshow/
Threads – https://www.threads.net/@tobehumanshow
– – – – – – – – – – – – – –
Chapters
00:00:00 – UAP as a symptom
00:00:49 – Who is Nick Cook?
00:02:53 – From Arabic Studies to Jane’s Defence Weekly
00:06:00 – A worldview that opened everything
00:09:39 – How it started: The Hunt for Zero Point:
00:12:00 – The article that hooked Nick
00:15:40 – The Nazi Bell & anti-gravity research
00:18:00 – What the book was really saying
00:20:00 – Operation Paperclip & Hans Kammler
00:22:00 – Mapping the defense industrial base
00:24:30 – “We could save the planet with this!”
00:27:00 – ‘It’s a mindset problem’
00:29:00 – Shared Death Experience / Into the ‘woo’
00:33:00 – Dream logic of life
00:35:00 – Consciousness
00:39:00 – The Exo Institute
00:43:00 – Translating the strange
00:47:00 – Why now?
00:49:00 – Homo naledi: death, meaning & ‘being human’
00:55:00 – Exo Institute members
01:01:00 – ‘These aren’t special powers’
01:05:00 – ‘Nothing in reality is purely physical’
01:09:00 – The Adaptive Interface Model / Outliers
01:11:00 – Coherence, chaos & thresholds
01:13:00 – Are UAPs, NDEs etc responses to system pressure?
01:17:00 – ‘We lack the words to explain this’
01:19:00 – What human values mean to the system
01:21:00 -‘ We are data the universe uses to understand itself’
01:25:00 – Deeper realities
01:27:42 – What does it mean to be human?
– – – – – – – – – – – – – –
Music:
Thunderbird
Culver Drive
Hayden Calnin
– – – – – – – – – – – – – –
FAIR USE NOTICE
This video may contain copyrighted material, the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. What It Means To Be Human distributes this material for the purpose of news reporting, educational research, comment, and criticism, constituting Fair Use under 17 U.S.C § 107.
What it Means to Be Human is a Double Barrel Production
https://www.doublebarrel.ca/
