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Paratopia Episode 170: Haunted & Stumped

Mothman has nothing on what Jeff Ritzmann reveals in the first half of the show. In the second half, Jer and Tiokasin discuss how it’s possible that coming from the heart might help us understand hauntings and related phenomena.

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MAKE NOTE: This week’s Paratopia will be late due to scheduling conflicts. It will likely not be posted until Saturday. We thank you for your patience.

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Paratopia Episode 169: David Schwab (Part 2 of 2)

Part 2 of the David Schwab interview about his life of high strangeness. If you thought Part 1 was amazing, you ain’t heard nothin’ yet. But first, The Jer has some new stories and insights to share with Paratopia. Many, in fact.

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Paratopia Episode 168: David Schwab (Part 1 of 2)

Experiencer David Schwab goes down the list of truly odd, extremely interesting occurances in his life. This interview is so extensive that it’s broken into 2 parts. There are a lot of well-articulated high strangeness experiences here to sink your mind into. If we put it all into one show your brain might snap. So get ready for part 1 of 2!

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Paratopia Episode 167: Bravery Defined

Lyn, aka “Piglet Shameful,” was an active member of the Paratopia message boards and has been a guest on the show as well. When last we heard from her she had called into the live show with an extraordinary encounter. Then she went silent. Where she went and why she’s back now is because of a startling discovery she made and is willing to share with us. As you will hear, she is bravery defined.

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All,
As you may have noticed, Paratopia.net was suspended for a short time last week. This was due to an overwhelming number of downloads and bandwidth usage. iPage, our dedicated servers for the weekly show and our extensive archives – while billing themselves as “unlimited bandwidth and storage space” – still have limits. Our draws on their servers lately, “have load disrupted thousands of other websites” in the process of keeping up with our demand for space and bandwidth.

They have given us an ultimatum: remove all archive shows except for the past 10, or your site will not be unlocked from suspension. That means you guys and gals who subscribe will not have access to the full back catalog past the last 10. Nothing for the time being that we can do about that (although I’ll be working at a solution), and no episodes past the last 10 will be available for single purchase.

We will keep a list on site of the full back episodes we’ve done. There won’t be any way to listen to them for the time being.

iPage has suggested their sister company to meet our needs. They’re FAR in access of cost than what the show brings in. It’s just not an option. Right now, access to the past 10 episodes is the best we can do. We are currently archiving all the back full shows, and then they will be taken off the server so we can get back up and running. We will search for an outlet to house them so subscribers can once again get the full archive access. We may discontinue single purchase episodes past the last 10, as it may not be feasible to do anything of a single purchase nature being that the archive is housed off site.

Please know I’m going to do whatever I can to get these episodes back up – but for now, the only ones we can have available are the current, and last 10 back from there. Simply put, we have outgrown the podcast medium.

We will not barrage you folks with pleas for money. We will not litter our website with endless banner ads. We will not have commercials every 5 minutes of the show. We absolutely refuse to raise subscription or single episode costs.

So for now, this is how it is. But I am working on some solution to get those old episodes available again. Maybe we do away with single episode purchases (past the last 10), and just make those past the 10 mark available for subscribers. I don’t know the solution right now.

I hope you all understand. It’s certainly not the way I want it, but right now it’s our only option or we have nothing. As soon as we figure anything out, you’ll know about it.

Jeff

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Paratopia Episode 166: Sea Change

Tiokasin Ghosthorse joins Paratopia. We mean JOINS Paratopia. The next learning curve for all of us begins here. “Let’s de-colonize the aliens” is a phrase Tiokasin used. This conversation is bookended with one of Jeff’s “alien” experiences and Jer’s exploration of the Hawaiian perspective on the “supernatural,” both of which speak to the need to not only look at this phenomena differently, but to change the nature of the one who looks.

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Paratopia Episode 165: The Fog

Steve, aka “MandoSteve” on the message board, joins us to talk about his bizarre encounter in the Appalachian Mountains that is a scene straight out of The Twilight Zone. We won’t spoil it for you with any more detail than that. This is a riveting story guaranteed to creep you out. Then Jeff shares his adventures in Buddhist meditation. It’s not creepy but it’s (almost) equally strange.

But first, we make the most half-assed announcement about a mysterious new direction for the show you could hope for!

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Paratopia Episode 164: Ladies & Gentlemen… Toilet Elf!

The man known as “Hermitage” on the Paratopia message board joins Jeff & Jer for another classic listener episode that raises some interesting new questions about how this strange intelligence interacts with experiencers who keep it on the periphery of their lives. We go down a written chronology of his family’s and his experiences Joe Gooch-style, beginning with Hermitage’s very first encounter as a child with… a toilet elf.

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Paratopia Episode 163: Zombie Meat By-Product

With no guest scheduled for this week, Jeff & Jer take a look to see who’s on Skype and ambush them. Turns out the lucky victims are Roejen & Lobo of Project Archivist, who kindly put their own show on hold to do Paratopia! Topics range from the zombie apocalypse to the Makers Movement to secret technology to hand guns to 2012 prophesy to… man, where doesn’t this one go? Well, mostly it doesn’t go into the paranormal and ufology. Mostly. But it is arguably our most entertaining episode.

View the Amsterdam Footage at http://youtu.be/wRquXPB6LBg

View the Austrailia Footage at http://youtu.be/8T2f4fEvKEM

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