Alexis Brooks interviews on extended consciousness and UFOs, and goes where mainstream media can’t.

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Alex Tsakiris: Today we welcome Alexis Brooks to Skeptiko. Alexis is a well-known journalist into consciousness and UFO communities, as well as being a bestselling author and host of Higher Journeys Radio, a show you might have checked out if you’re at all familiar with these fields and you’ve come across her excellent work. It’s really a terrific show, some fantastic interviews with many bestselling authors, many folks that you’ve already listened to here on Skeptiko but Alexis brings so much to those interviews.
It’s just a great pleasure to meet her. Alexis, thank you so much for joining me on Skeptiko.
Alexis Brooks: Alex, what a pleasure and just said my namesake, I love it. You know, I’ll never forget your name. And listen, let me just say right off the bat, I have somewhat recently become familiar with Skeptiko, but I’ve got to tell you, a quick study and I’m loving it already. I think I said to you offline that we have several mutual colleagues in common, all of which sing your praises. So I am delighted to be here, honored.
Alex Tsakiris: Well, I think that’s super nice of you to say. I want to give people a little bit of the background of the origins of this interview because it really did just spring from listening to your show and saying “Wow, this is the kind of stuff covered in the way, in the in-depth way that really does try and get at the deeper questions on things, that I really want to engage in conversation with.”
I have this thing where I think that journalists like yourself, podcasters who are going through and reading these new books as they come out and then digesting them and assimilating that information and trying to make it fit with everything else that they’ve learned. You’re just a wealth of knowledge.
I just think of all of the interviews I can do; these are the kinds that I think can be most valuable because you do have such a unique perspective and that goes beyond just kind of singing your praises or patting you on the back. I think you sit in a really unique position and I’m excited to take advantage of that and bring that to the Skeptiko audience.
Alexis Brooks: Thank you. I do appreciate that, and I have to tell you, as I’m listening to all of these accolades which I don’t know that I can live up to, I will say this time and time again Alex, I am no more than my guests. I am the one who is blessed, as I think we both are, to have such a spectrum of knowledge. I say I’m the luckiest gal on the planet, that I get to engage with these clearly thought leaders that are leading the charge on what we call this new age, if you will.
So every show I do, and as I said, as soon as we finish up, I’m going to be getting on with someone who I greatly respect, Neil Kramer for the third time he’ll be on my show. I learn so much. I’m really the one that’s getting the gift, I have to tell you and because I do have a natural thirst, hunger if you will for these big questions, I always have, it feels right, it’s easy to engage, to talk about things that you enjoy, absolutely.
Alex Tsakiris: Well, that’s a great lead in for, just the real basic question. Who is Alexis Brooks?