Member Sesh #23 – Haunted House (26-Sep-2026)
Normies, Ghosts, Great Floods, Fairies, Runes, Remote viewing.
Member Sesh #23
Haunted House
Feat. Ptrippah, Sarahhha, Soozie, Uncle Ab.
Recorded 26-Sep-2026
Published 7-Oct-2026
Daniel Empiricus Review
Episode Overview
This is one of the more out-there episodes of the Member Sesh series.
First of all, most of us were on camera, which makes for a different vibe than audio-only.
Second, we went three hours (in three separate one-hour recordings, merged for the mp3 upload).
The conversation begins in straight-forward fashion, with discussions of how (or why) one might relate to normal people with normal beliefs.
Then, around one hour in, focus moves to more esoteric / supernatural / woo-woo topics:
Demons, great floods, nephilim, ghosts, runes, fairies, remote viewing, these kinds of things.
Towards the end, conversation circles back to more real-world concerns, such as the importance of parenting, and childhood experiences.
Featuring:
ptrippah from Boston
Sarahhha from Florida
Soozie from Ohio
Uncle Ab from Toronto
Audio
[Please note that JLB’s audio goes wonky for about half an hour in the middle, due to technical issues, it gets better again]
Links
Primary Source Research Methodology – here.
The History of ‘History’ – here.
The Beauty and Power of Logic – here.
Credits
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Big thanks to…
Edwin | AP | Jason aka Tomfoolery
…for their generous tips in 2025 / 2026.
We don’t get funding from Blackrock or Vanguard…
or from alphabet agencies or commercial entities or anything like this.
Your support makes this possible. Thank you.
MS #23. Recorded 26-Sep-2026, published 7-Oct-2026. Members only. 128kbps stereo (via OBs mainly, some from Craig).
I listened to most of this on a walk this morning and have quite a few thoughts on some of the topics brought up. Apologies for the following wall of text, hopefully there’s some points of interest in there!
I don’t personally believe in ghosts, but I do believe in other non-materialist/spiritual concepts. My experiences with remote viewing are what led me to this part of the internet. Recently, I’ve found truth in some Tibetan buddhist practices. There’s a lot of dogma, but if you cut through the bullshit, they do have some valid ideas.
Basically, I do believe that there is certainly more than pure materialism, but I don’t really understand how or why this is the case. I have no idea if there’s anything at all like actual “entities” or other “realms” out there.
I only believe what I can perceive from my own direct personal experience. At the moment, that is that remote viewing and some similar concepts are real.
I’ve read a lot of books by some relatively modern authors like Rene Guenon who make some very valid critiques of materialism, and also make some valid points about spiritual practices that align with my personal experience. The problem with all these sorts of authors is that the sources they cite are all “ancient history/civilisations”.
So there’s a bit of a strange balancing act I have to deal with when reading these authors. A lot of the claims they make are true, but their reasoning and sources for it are generally based upon bullshit historical sources.
Also, Sarah briefly mentioned CS Lewis’s space trilogy. I’m actually currently reading through that right now. In the 3rd book, there’s a scene where one of the protagonists has to write the press release/news story for an event that hasn’t taken place yet. The organisation he works for then artificially engineers that event, to align with the pre-written news story. My point is, it seems like CS Lewis definitely had some knowledge about the truth of how this world operates and knew about how some major news events are not exactly as they seem.
On the old buildings topic that ptrippah brought up, I agree with what JLB has said on the matter before. How do we know what exactly old buildings look like?
I have two personal experiences that support this line of questioning. First, when I was on holiday in China, I went to visit an “ancient Chinese garden”, and I literally saw with my own eyes the workers/staff replacing old bricks with new bricks on some of the buildings.
So when we visit some of these “ancient” sites, it’s highly likely what we’re actually seeing are modern bricks and structures that we only believe are old. We have absolutely no idea if what we are seeing is the original untouched structure.
Second, I recently went on a walk in the moors and came across an abandoned farm house. There was a plaque that had been placed there with some information about the building. Before actually reading the text, I personally thought it looked a few hundred years old at least, but according to the date on the stone itself, it’s not even 100 years old. It had the date “1964” on it.
Now I don’t know if that date is accurate, but the point is my guess was way off. Ultimately, the question remains: How do we know what old buildings look like?
Final point is about the clearly fake footage of some major news events. What if the footage is fake, but the event is real?
This is one of the best member calls I’ve listened to for a while, and these sorts of discussions are why I joined the site. Would love to see more of these sorts of topics please!
good chat.
i am of the opinion that some residual spirits stay here…for a period of time, in some form.
i recall some people when i was young saying it was because they had unfinished business here.
in the one experience i had… the home i grew up in was not completed by the original builder before he passed. a sea captain.
but that’s a story for another day.
I don’t say I believe ghosts are real. I say I know ghosts are real. First off, I was never religious. My family every so slightly was but me and my Mom stopped going to church with my grandparents when I was like 5 or so because I didn’t like it.
I’m 47 btw. I was a non believer for a long time but didn’t think much about it, then when YouTube came out within a few years an atheist community poped up on there and I was drawn in to the intellectual debate. Watching all the arguments and I ended up calling myself an atheist at that point. I wasn’t hard core but I was pretty certain about it. Looking back it’s kinda cringy.
Anyway the atheist vs theist debate eventually settled and shifted to the sjw vs people who aren’t stupid debate and it seemed as if the atheist had won and I moved on.
Until one day about 10 years ago I’m at a Thanks giving dinner (could have been an Easter idk) at my Mom’s and we have guests and everyone is talking. I hear my Mom tell someone about a ghost cat that used to walk on her bed at night. She said she knew it wasn’t our cat because she could see our cat in the hallway.
I was shocked because I had experience it too but always brushed it off. We had a cat for about 20 years starting when I was about 9. I would never let him sleep in my room and always slept with the door closed. I had the same experience of the feeling of a cat jumping on my bed and walking up to my head almost every night but being an atheist I brushed it off as mind tricks never told anyone.
We even moved once and the ghost cat came with us. It was apparently attached to my cat.
When my cat eventually passed away they were both gone.
Because I never told her or anyone else about my experiences there is no way she could have know. To me that is proof that it must have been real. Not her lying but also not a mind trick of mine.
So yes I don’t just believe in ghosts I know ghosts are real. Also I’m no longer an atheist. Ghosts being real doesn’t automatically mean God is real but it sure opens up the possibility of other things being real so I accept that God, the Devil, demons and angels are all real.
And John, this is some crazy stuff and I’m glad you covered it. I am blessed that my experience was by and large a positive one. Others apparently aren’t so lucky. So for the non believers that need to experience something in order to believe… I wouldn’t go looking for it.