Richard Dolan on UFO disclosure, good versus bad ET, and the consciousness question.

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I have an interview coming up with UFO researcher, Richard Dolan. Here are some clips.
Alex Tsakiris: [00:00:06] We met with the guy at the DOD, but he’s a whistleblower. All the information he revealed, well none of it’s classified or top secret.  The kid who innocently took a selfie and inside the submarine, he’s in prison, and this is the biggest thing ever, even though it happened 15 years ago.
Richard Dolan: [00:00:26] I wouldn’t say that Elizondo necessarily classifies as a whistleblower. I don’t know. I mean, all these people are self-serving. So, the folks at TTSA, it’s not like, you know, they’re all angels and they have no other ulterior motives, what they do.
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Alex Tsakiris: [00:00:41] All of these guys who are in the military, that was their pledge. Are we at a different point where we’ve totally given up on the idea that we need to hold these people accountable? Is that just kind of out of the window?
Richard Dolan: [00:00:53] Oh man, good question. Well, we are in a post constitutional phase. I mean, look we’re in an upside-down world. I call this thing now a legal illegality, that’s really what it is. It’s like this legal framework to protect what fundamentally should be illegal in any democratic oriented society.
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Richard Dolan: Consciousness clearly is important in some fundamental way to the nature of our reality. And secondly, we have an enormous hole in our general understanding of reality itself. Like there are things we don’t get. So in that hole are things like UFOs. In that hole are things like synchronicities and spirituality and definitely psychic phenomena, PSI phenomenon, absolutely fit in there.
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Alex Tsakiris:: [00:02:01] When it’s all said and done, the UFO/ET thing is going to be understood as one of the biggest things in our history. I mean, it is after all at the center of just about every question we can ask, who are we? why are we here? And that makes it at the center of not just our history, but also the center of our science and maybe even the center of our spirituality.
So, if the UFO/ET thing is the big thing, then what are we to make of today’s guest? Because for the last 20 years, Oxford trained historian and Rhodes Scholar finalist, Richard Dolan, has been widely acknowledged as one of the most respected, authoritative, and influential researchers within his field. His many book, I have some of them up on the screen if you’re watching this, and his extensive research articles that I continue to profit from and lean on all of the time, have brought a new level of scholarship and in particular, respectability to a field that really needed it, especially needed it a few years back when Richard started this adventure.
He’s the author of a number of books, as I mentioned, including the seminal UFOs and the National Security State series. Also, another book we’re going to talk about,