Portals and Stargates | Mike Ricksecker UNLOADS

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Our consciousness is within the fourth dimension of time and our fourth-dimensional consciousness is inside the third dimensional bodies, so that makes us multi-dimensional beings. Yeah, they didn't have big hieroglyphic system like the ancient Egyptians had, but they still had their petroglyphs and we find those all over the place in the cliff face where it's a perfect depiction of star people using the energy which is depicted by the snake, using the energy to enter the portal. It was 100 years ahead of his time, so I think that yeah, he had that really, really open mind and consciousness and was bringing down these different ideas from the universe that would just, yeah, others at the time could not relate to it. But you know, scans that are showing large chambers under the pyramids now, they don't want any part of that and they're ticked off because there didn't have to be any authority given because they're all satellites from space that are doing this.

Cristina: Mr. Mike Ricksecker, welcome back from abroad. How have you been?

Mike: Ah, thank you Christina. I've been doing really well. Yeah, I just got back from the UK, I guess about a month ago now, and it was an absolutely amazing time. And you know, the whole thing was actually, I don't know if you saw my posts on this, the whole thing was actually capped off by a UFO sighting. Like amazing trip, and last day we saw a UFO, so you couldn't ask for anything better than that.

Cristina: Oh my gosh, no, that is like the best way to end a trip, which we're going to get into. And you were on the show about a year ago, and since then you've definitely traveled the world, you've written a new book titled "Portals to the Stars," you've been pretty busy it seems like.

Mike: Yes, definitely keeping active. Yeah, the new book "Portals to the Stars," so that's the second in the Connecting the Universe series. So "Travels Through Time" was the first, now "Portals to the Stars," which gets more into portals, stargate secrets of ancient Egypt. I get into the Atlantis story and then yeah, these places that I've been going to. You know, we're going back to Egypt in November, so the Stargates of Ancient Egypt tour. We still have some openings if people want to jump on that. And then yeah, it's been a really, really busy beginning of the year, a lot of events and conferences, and then yeah, just had the big UK trip, so it's been an adventure for sure.

Cristina: Oh my gosh, and then just keeping up with it online, it just seems like so much fun seeing all of your pictures and your selfies is just so fun overall. And I know that you've been on the show so many times, but for the people hearing about you for the very first time, in about a sentence, tell us who you are and what you do.

Mike: Oh my gosh, in a sentence. My name is Mike and I write. There we go. But I travel and yeah, and I'm a filmmaker and I'm a publisher, and there are a lot of different things I do. So you know, some of your guests may have seen me on some of the different shows like Ancient Aliens and things like that. So yeah, there's a lot of different things I do, but primarily, primarily I am a writer and I do all the videography and all these other things as a part of that, as an extension of it.

Cristina: And as I had mentioned, you've been on the show a lot, we've covered a lot of your research before, so I feel like we're just kind of doing another chapter, it seems like, with this episode. So my first question is, what was the moment that you first realized that ancient civilizations, which you really focused on in your latest book, might have possessed knowledge about interdimensional travel that we've possibly lost?

Mike: Yeah, that's a great question because for a long time for me, they almost seem to be like two separate things. Like I always had, I'm an experiencer going back to when I was a child, so I always knew that there was, you know, something else to the world, whether that was paranormal, supernatural, you know, something to do with extraterrestrials or something. And then you always had a fascination with history, ancient civilizations. You know, grew up watching Indiana Jones, and then in the early 90s, John Anthony West and Robert Schoch came out with that "Mystery of the Sphinx" documentary, which Charlton Heston was the host for that, and just absolutely fascinated me about their redating of the Sphinx. It was like, wow, this is completely mind-blowing, and I watched that several times. And then it was like less than a year later, the film "Stargate" came out and was like, "Oh, this is, you know, kind of mind blown sort of thing."

And so, you know, it was something I was always interested in. It was really over the years as I was doing more of my paranormal research and some of the investigations I've been doing, started, you know, writing some of those types of books and getting into, okay, you know, what's the ancient history behind this phenomena? And you know, over the course of those years, really seeing that there are a lot of parallels between that and a lot of my other interest in ancient civilizations in Egypt, in other parts of the world. And it's like, okay, these are actually very, very interrelated. And what I'm seeing here with paranormal, supernatural activity, things that we might call interdimensional, are really very, very similar, if not the exact same thing that the ancient Egyptians, the ancient Sumerians, and other cultures were talking about.

The Egyptians were very detail-oriented; they really tried to document everything. And you know, sometimes I wish that other cultures did the same. We know that the Chinese and the Japanese were also very meticulous, but when we look at America and especially in the Southwest, it just seems a little less documented. But even so, there were a lot of oral stories and accounts about portals and stargates. So it's not just in Egypt and these incredible other countries, but we're seeing it here in the States as well.

Cristina: And you came across quite a few different stories when it comes to that. What did you find and where can we go to jump into a portal?

Mike: Yeah, really, pretty much all throughout the American Southwest. I mean, it is a hotbed of activity, it really is. And I think it goes back to, you know, what's lying underneath the ground with, you know, whether it's ancient meteorites or these sorts of things. All goes back to the core of the earth and the way that the energy is rising from there and interacting with different metals and minerals within the ground. They create different localized electromagnetic fields. So yeah, the indigenous tribes here in the Americas noticed these things just like they did all over the world. They just had a little bit of a different context, they had a little bit of a different culture, but it was very, very similar activity.

And so yeah, they didn't have, you know, the big hieroglyphic system like the ancient Egyptians had, but they still had their petroglyphs, and we find those all over the place. And you know, very distinctly, you know, we find the symbols for portals, we find the depictions of the star people. And then, you know, you go to like Petroglyph National Monument there right outside of Albuquerque, Boca Negra, which is a fantastic mesa that you can climb up. There's actually a stone circle at the top of it, and all the way up you're finding these depictions of the star people and the portals and these sorts of things. But there's one as you're actually driving out of that area, it's just really off on the side, it runs along the cliff face where it's a perfect depiction of star people using the energy, which is depicted by the snake, using the energy to enter the portal, which is amazing.

Now, you're right that there was a lot that came down through their oral traditions, and a lot of our, I guess, traditional archaeology, for lack of a better term, doesn't really give that so much credit because they, you know, try to say, "Well, you know, as things get passed down orally, things get misinterpreted or changed or whatever." And they always use the example of like the telephone game that we played in first grade where, you know, the teacher gives the student a story at the start of the line, by the time it gets to the end, it has totally changed. Well, of course it has, you know, we're five or six years old at the time, and you know, we're going to be goofy and play around and make it change. But the indigenous tribes, within their stories, were lessons for life, lessons for how the tribe needed to survive. So they were actually very, very careful with how they passed down those stories.

So you would have your elders telling the stories over and over and over again to the next generation. The next generation was telling it exactly the same as the elders did. So the oral traditions are actually extremely accurate, more accurate than people actually realize, which is disappointing that they are so quickly discredited.

Cristina: When I was doing research on the Native Americans and the medicine men, they had to go through extensive training in order to be proper storytellers, that their words and their sentences remained the same every single time they told the story. And then that had to be taught for generation to generation, like you had mentioned, Mike. And so, you know, it's always disheartening to hear when people just say, "Oh no, they don't know what they're talking about, stories change all the time," and then comparing it again to telephone with children. There's a big mental difference between children and adults when it comes to telling a story, right? But yet, yes, it wasn't written down, so that's the downfall to the whole thing.

Mike: Absolutely, yeah. But something else that is interesting and that we've seen across the world as well, aside from portals and stargate stories, is that in some of these ancient sites, there are these strange stone circles. What are these and what do they mean, and why are we seeing them everywhere?

Yeah, the stone circles, and we do find them all over the world, different shapes and sizes. Of course, you know, throughout the UK, that's probably the area of the world where the stone circles are most known for because they just kind of dot the landscape, whether it's Avebury or Rollright Stones in Ireland. They got Drombeg Stone Circle, Newgrange, of course Stonehenge, the most popular of all of them. But you know, we find like Nabta there in Egypt. We find stone circles throughout the American Southwest, like I just said, at the top of Boca Negra. Skinwalker Ranch has a stone circle on top of the mesas there. So yeah, you find these really all over the world, and they use these for a variety of different purposes.

And people argue about, you know, was it a calendar system, was it something else? And we do find these astronomical alignments with these different stone circles. But one thing I think that, I think most people can agree on, is that they knew that there was something special about this plot of land, about this area. There was some sort of energy there that they were going to use, whether that was for healing purposes or entering into altered states of consciousness or, you know, talking with the beings or opening portals and these sorts of things. And there's a lot of different stories that have been handed down associated with these things.

But yeah, these are absolutely energetic hotspots that when you go to these locations are measurable. And scientists have gone to these locations to measure them. There was a project in the late 70s, early 80s, was called the Dragon Project, and it was a group of scientists, and they called themselves the Dragon Project after Chinese geomancy, the dragon. And you know, just like any other serpent or snake in the ancient world being that symbol of the energies, and they would have their dragon lines out there in China. Well, the serpentine lines, the ley lines, these sorts of things throughout the UK, and the Dragon Project was going out there and measuring these things and yes, finding these strange, to them, would seemed like an anomalous energy from the ground that the stone circles were actually harnessing. They were able to measure these things, and you know, they found it fascinating. They didn't quite understand the methodology that the ancients used. They actually brought out like professional dowsers to, you know, with the rods to go across the land, and the scientists are admitting like, "I don't know how this works, but I'm seeing it with my own eyes, and they are actually capturing this energy here."

Cristina: In that case, what do you feel that most might miss when visiting stone circles?

Mike: Yeah, I think people will miss the energy. I think a lot of people will go there, you know, to take a look at Stonehenge, and of course you can't even walk up to Stonehenge these days unless there are like some special access things you do, like real early in the morning or later at night that the general public does not get into. But like Avebury, I mean, you can go there, walk right up to those stones, and I think a lot of people, you know, walk by like, "Oh yeah, those are some cool stones." But you know, take some time, sit there amongst the stones, like just meditate a little bit, tune into what's really going on there, and you will feel it. The energy is palpable.

One of my favorites is actually Drombeg Stone Circle. And when I was there a few years ago, my gosh, you know, some parents were letting their kids climb up all over the stones. It's like, "Oh, come on." But it's a smaller stone circle. You stand right in the middle and you just talk, you just talk, and it's really weird. It's like you're in this bubble, and I know it has to do with the resonance off the stones. But you know, this is thousands of years old. It's like trying to imagine, okay, back in its heyday when all the stones were there, because some of them are missing, they're weathered down now, this sort of thing. It's like, I'm getting this sort of resonance just by standing in the middle. I can feel the energy, I can, like I said, it's a weird phenomenon that you can hear with your ears. It's like you're in a bubble. It's like, imagine these guys and gals thousands of years ago chanting in the middle of this thing. This was just me talking, but them chanting back then, it's like, wow, that had to been something.

Well, and that's part of my work from "Travels Through Time" was, I think we can go back and see and experience these things, and we get into, go to these locations, get into that meditative state, and send that consciousness back to those eras that, you know, tune into that frequency of another point in time when these stone circles would have been in use, and then yeah, truly get to experience it. I think that's possible.

Cristina: So kind of like a consciousness time travel, is that what you're referring to?

Mike: Yep.

Cristina: Ah, what about astral projection? This is like a total side question, but can astral projection get you through time travel?

Mike: I think that's possible. I think they're closely related. I had a, when I was 14 years old, I had attempted this sort of thing, and really I was inspired by the film "Somewhere in Time." And we had moved from where we were at in Massachusetts to Ohio, and I was homesick, I was missing my friends. And so, inspired by that film where he essentially, you know, willed his consciousness from 1980 back to 1912, you know, I was lying in bed one night, I was like, "I'm going to go back in time a little over a year to go visit my friend."

So I'm lying in bed, I had no idea what I was doing, I was just trying to mimic what I saw in the film, and I actually put myself into a meditative state, and I started kind of feeling these up and down waves. It's like, "Okay, kind of undulating, this is interesting, I don't know what's going on." And then I started feeling like this electrostatic field, and that spooked me, and I snapped out of it. Again, 14, had no idea what I was doing. So, you know, years later, you know, I'm talking with, you know, colleagues and other people about this event, and they were like, "Oh yeah, you were about to go OBE, you're about to have an out-of-body experience and project." And the question is, would I have just simply projected into the room, or since I had set this intention, like, you know, like he had done in the film, in the book, because I had set this intention, would I have projected back in time? Possibly. The only way to find out is to try to go back and do it.

Cristina: But have you tried it since?

Mike: Well, yeah, the problem is, is I have so much going on that my brain is always racing, and it's really hard for me to kind of get into that meditative state. I do meditate, I try to meditate each morning, but it's not that deep type of meditation like I was in that night.

Cristina: Well, you had mentioned meditation during when you're visiting these stone circles and other locations that people have mentioned that are energetically charged. What do you think draws certain people to become experiencers at these sites while others feel nothing at all? Because sometimes experiencers don't go with any intention of like, "Okay, this is the moment I'm going to feel something," it just happens to them, while others feel nothing at all. What's your theory for that?

Mike: Well, the human body, each person resonates at a bit of a different frequency. The human standing resonance is anywhere between 9 to 16 hertz, and you know, I could be resonated at a 10, somebody else is resonating at a 14 or something like that. So, you know, each individual person is going to have different reactions going to these different sites. And you know, that kind of gets into, you know, some of my theories about even the experiences that people have. Like if two people could be standing next to each other, one person sees like a ghost or an apparition at the end of the hall, and the other person doesn't. It's like, why is that? And I think that has to do with not only the resonance of the individual people themselves, but what other beings might be there, or, you know, out of stone circle, the actual location itself, you kind of need to, you know, be in tune with. And I think people can work on that, you know, if they so choose, that, you know, they can get their bodies to be able to tune into these different locations. But yeah, for those that just kind of walk in and have a random experience, I think it's because there was some sort of synchronicity between their own personal resonance and the resonance of the location.

Christina: So then, how would you be able to raise your frequency from your own research?

Mike: I think it has more to do with, you know, setting that intention and trying to essentially will your being, your person, your consciousness to those different frequencies.

Cristina: Literally goals. I've been trying to like astral project and all these things since I was 16. I have never succeeded, and I'm like, "Dude, my intention is there, I'm hyped, I'm ready," but I'm over here still stuck in the meat suit, and I'm thinking, "Dang, not even close."

Mike: Like I said, I've tried since then, and it's like, that was the closest I ever came, and I was 14 at the time, and it's like, I'm 50 now. It's like, "My gosh," you know? So, but keep trying, you know? And I've read all kinds of books and things like this on, you know, what to do and how to do it. It's like, you know, one of these days it's going to happen, and I'm going to be happy. But you know, there are, I think what it does do when you do these, you know, sorts of exercises and things like this, is even if you don't actually project, you are opening yourself up to a lot of other things. I think that's where, you know, we start getting, you know, a lot of downloads and information from the universe coming in because now we've opened ourselves up to these things.

Cristina: I can see what you mean there. It's just like, it's being receptive, being open-minded versus being close-minded. It's kind of like the biggest takeaway that I'm getting from what you're saying. And yet, in these areas, these ancient sites, these energetic sites, not only are people feeling certain things either through synchronicity or through downloads, but they're also having very strange UFO sightings, paranormal sightings. What's the most compelling UFO connection that you've found or heard while researching these different ancient sites?

Mike: Yeah, a lot of people have all kinds of experiences there. I mean, I mentioned at the beginning of the show that we had an experience on the very last day, and we were actually headed to the Rollright Stones. We were actually basically on the corner turning down the road to where the Rollright Stones were at, so where the craft would have been would have been like directly over, probably over the Whispering Knights, which is really interesting because we ended up going to the Whispering Knights, lying down in the grass, and we even had more experiences doing that.

But yeah, probably the most interesting one, there are a lot of stories out there, and it's a controversial one, is an urban legend, but it's what they call the Stonehenge Hippies. And this would have been like late 60s, early 70s, and there was a group of young men and women that went and camped out at Stonehenge. They don't even let you over there now, but they were back then. They're camping out at Stonehenge, and a storm had rolled into the area, and this was very late at night, like early, early morning, like 2:00 a.m. And there were two witnesses to this: a police officer who was passing by at the time and a farmer that was out in one of his fields near the area. And as this storm was rolling in, that the kids were having a good time, all of a sudden a bolt of lightning hit one of the stones there at Stonehenge. The sky lit up blue, they heard screams, and then complete silence. So they went running up there, and everybody was gone. They had like completely disappeared.

So again, kind of an urban legend, but you know, it does make me wonder if something had happened with, if there wasn't a lightning strike there on Stonehenge, you know, would that have opened up some sort of portal that would have brought them to wherever? Another dimension, another point in time? You know, what happened? Because yeah, nothing of them was ever found.

Cristina: Dun dun dun. When we're looking at these places, sometimes people feel welcome, they're like, "Hey, come on over and have an experience," and then other times people feel a little warned, like, "Hey, do not walk over there, do not go that way," like your gut tells you that. What has to be one of the most emotionally overwhelming encounters that you've had at one of these sites, or someone that you know at one of these sites?

Mike: That's a good question because yeah, when you go to these different sites, people can get very emotional. I have seen people, you know, cry, you know, at these sites. People call some of the stones, you know, maybe like their best friends, you know, it gets, you know, very personal to them. So yeah, I mean, it's an assortment of different things that people have, different, a lot of different reactions at these sites.

And I think, you know, the more open you become, you are opening, you know, not just information and all that, but you're also creating a, you know, bond with the site and also with the planet. You know, you got to think, these stones are embedded into the earth, and they're creating that direct connection between the stone and the earth and now you too, because you're right there. So you know, you're actually establishing a direct relationship with the planet, which is something that we've gone away from in recent years.

But you know, over the last probably several hundred years, you know, people used to be, you know, outside all the time, and people were barefoot walking through, you know, the fields and the woods and all that. There was more of a direct relationship between us and the land, and most of us don't have that anymore. So going there and reestablishing that, I think what ends up happening is, you know, people start remembering, you know, there's something, you know, within our DNA that starts to click and remember, you know, this is who we used to be as a people.

There's something in us that says we need to go back to our roots, and that's really out in nature. It is not in the concrete jungle. It's kind of cyclical, you know, we'll have this back and forth, back and forth, where people will flock to the city, and then people will, you know, come back out. So you can kind of trace humanity that it'll go in a cycle like this. And yeah, I think once people have spent too much time in the city, they realize, "Okay, something's off here, something's not right." Yeah, the concrete jungle.

And there are, there have been times like I've been driving through, whether it's New York or flying over Chicago, and I'm just like looking at the scene and I'm like, "What did we do?" You know, it's just kind of insane. And that's not to take away from the ingenuity of humans. A lot of the architecture that we've built and things like this is really quite amazing. A lot of the engineering, you have some brilliant minds that have built these things. But also, there's yeah, this distinct separation from nature with it. And oh my gosh, what do we do?

So yeah, I think there's something embedded within humans that once they've spent too much time in that environment, you know, they, there's that innate instinct of, "Yeah, I need to get back to my roots," even if they never grew up out in the country there. I think there's something embedded within the DNA from our distant ancestors are like, "I need to get back there, I need to reconnect."

Cristina: It looks like people are trying to maintain that emotional equilibrium, but when we're exploring realms that really challenge everything that we think about reality, how do we maintain that equilibrium, Mike?

Mike: Yeah, that's a wonderful question because, you know, I still like my technology, right? I love going, I love going to these different locations around the world, but I still like to have my cell phone on me and take photos and stay connected with, you know, friends and family and loved ones and all that. So yeah, what's the balance there? You know, right now we're conducting this over some fantastic technology with computers and all of that, something that we, you know, couldn't really do, you know, 30 years ago. I mean, it sort of existed, but you know, it was really, really basic, it really was.

Yeah, I tried to set up teleconferencing back in when I was in the Air Force in the early to mid-90s. It's like, yeah, nowhere like it is today. You know, but it's fascinating to see how we've progressed in that way, and it has become very, very helpful. So yeah, trying to maintain, "Okay, I want to stay connected," I want to go out in the nature and be amongst the trees and all these other things. We need to do that. But yeah, trying to balance that with the technology at our disposal can be a challenge, and you have to be disciplined about it.

Like I go out and I take walks every day. I have the woods behind my house. I actually, the Cleveland, Ohio area has a lot of nice parks, the Metroparks system, where you can do a lot of walks and hikes and things like that. So yeah, you kind of have to be a little bit disciplined to go out and reconnect. You know, you don't have to completely shirk technology, but there is a balance there.

You know, what's interesting is people have, especially when I published "Travels Through Time," people have asked me about, "Well, it seems like time is speeding up." And I really think that's perspective. You know, part of it is our, you know, society speeding up, everybody having short attention spans now, we want it now. But also part of it is just kind of the nature of life. Like when I was 10 years old, a year was 10% of my life. I mean, that was one year was a huge chunk out of my life. But at 50, well, a year is only 2%, you know? So it's a much, much smaller piece of my life. So I think from that you get this perception of time speeding up.

But you know, time is, I mean, that is our tool, humans' tool to kind of keep track of our reality and just, you know, kind of basic recordkeeping, really. When to show up to work at the right moment and when to plant the crops and that sort of thing. But time itself doesn't actually really exist. It's part of the control set of our universe. So like they're trying to come up now with time zones on the moon, but the sun works very differently when you're on the moon. On other planets, time would work differently according to their recordkeeping because you're, you know, you're on a totally different planet, and if you're on a different system, you're going to have a different sun and all of that.

So the way that we perceive time here on Earth and our recordkeeping for it is very, very different than anywhere else in the universe, anywhere else off-planet. So it's what we use to keep track of things here on Earth, like, you know, the recordkeeping for Mars, you know, would be different in anywhere else, really. So, you know, we use that to keep track of stuff here, but it's going to, you know, operate differently everywhere than here.

So in that sense, this is what we're doing as far as recordkeeping and keep track of our reality. But when you expand out from our perception here on Earth to the greater universe and beyond, and you start looking at the way dimensions work, so according to our theoretical physics, they're up to 11 hyperspatial dimensions, and the fourth one is time, which is where our consciousness is. And we have access to all the other dimensions below that: first, second, and third. But then there are these other dimensions above ours that are actually outside of time. So like from the fifth dimension or sixth dimension or what have you are going to view time as like one whole object, like, you know, me holding my mug here.

So it's kind of based in principle on like Einstein's idea of the block universe and that sort of thing, that all time is right here, ever-present, and you're outside of it in one of these other dimensions. You would have access to all of that. So in that sense, yeah, time does not exist.

Cristina: Switching gears just a little bit, just a touch. If you could ask the builders of one ancient site, your favorite site, one question, what would it be?

Mike: Oh my gosh, that's a good one. I mean, probably, you know, Great Pyramid functionality of that, because, you know, I know it's something great. It was not just a tomb, you know, that it, you know, there's no bodies that were ever found there. And probably because I've done, you know, so much work and research on it, it's like, "Okay, once and for all, what the heck was this thing for?" Because, you know, you've got Chris Dunn's idea of the Giza power plant, which, you know, I'm kind of on board with, but, you know, I don't think it was, you know, powering machines and light bulbs and that sort of thing.

And, you know, you could see that, you know, it did have some sort of functionality. There's literally a smoking gun inside the Queen's Chamber where the backside of the corbelled niche is blackened and melted. You've got chemical reactions that certainly went on in the King's Chamber because it's Aswan rose granite, and it's black. And then you've got these different, weird, rectangular chemical stains at the top of the ceiling. It's like, "Okay, this was something. Something was going on here." So what was it?

Cristina: How has your understanding of consciousness changed since you began researching these ancient mysteries?

Mike: Yeah, well, just even like the simple idea of humans being multi-dimensional beings. And kind of coming back to when I was talking about dimensions a moment ago, you know, our, you know, we are, our consciousness is within the fourth dimension of time, and our fourth-dimensional consciousness is inside a third-dimensional body. That makes us multi-dimensional beings. And when the body passes, the consciousness is still around, it's still here. And there are apparently different choices, and we can go to the beyond, whatever that is. We can stay here. I've seen that with some of my own family where they stuck around for a while, until like my grandfather sticking around until my grandmother passed, that sort of thing.

So, you know, understanding more about how that aspect works, but also, if our consciousness is on the fourth dimension and has an ability to go elsewhere, that means it is a lot more accessible to, you know, like when we're talking about astral projecting and things like that, you know, whether it's projecting out of body, whether it's, you know, projecting to another point in time, these sorts of things. And then also having access to all the knowledge of the universe, because if time doesn't really exist and everything is ever-present, past, present, and future, that means all the knowledge of the universe is here for us to tap into, and we can use our consciousness to do that.

And people call it different things. Like Carl Jung called it the collective unconscious. Some people call it the Akashic Records. I call it eternal knowledge because it's knowledge that is all there, and it's a matter of being able to tap into that, download it, understand it as well. Like I could, you know, try to attempt to tap into some sort of knowledge about, you, I don't know, the mechanics of nuclear fusion and warp drive engines 300 years from now, but am I really going to understand how that sort of thing works? No. But somebody could with a better engineering mind than I.

So yeah, I think we can use our consciousness to do things like that. It's kind of like when we hear stories of scientists and inventors getting responses or getting ideas through their dreams. They weren't looking for it, but it was there, or the story of the eureka moment.

Yeah, whenever I go down that road, I always talk about Nikola Tesla and how far ahead of his time that he was. Yeah, you know, and he was one, when he was a younger man in Serbia, was astral projecting. So yeah, so he had direct ties or really tight ties with whatever this greater consciousness of the universe is, and he was downloading a lot of that information. The ideas about cell phones, far ahead of his time, people laughed him out of the room. He built the world's, really the world's first drone, and then he was talking about basically putting artificial intelligence inside of that. I mean, it was a little boat that worked on radio waves, but he's like, "No, I could like, you know, put into this machine some decision-making capabilities." And then he said, "I could even do that with myself. I could," he called it a telautomaton, he's like, "I could build a telautomaton of myself that looked like me, acted like me, would make decisions and responses based on me." This in the 1890s, and he's talking about robots and artificial intelligence. Got laughed out of the room. He was 100 years ahead of his time.

And so I think that, yeah, he had that really, really open mind and consciousness and was bringing down these different ideas from the universe that would just, yeah, others at the time could not relate to.

Cristina: Do you think this kind of research benefits UFO disclosure or makes no difference in your opinion?

Mike: I think it can benefit UFO research because I think being able to kind of tap into this knowledge and have a better understanding of the nature of the universe can help in that. But you're always going to have these different differing opinions and people arguing and bickering. And you know, there are some people that are just like very nuts and bolts, you know, "Show me, you know, show me the craft, show me the beings, that's it, that's all I want." And others are open to there being more of this consciousness side to thing, interdimensional aspects to this, portals and these sorts of things.

So I think it can benefit, but I think in some ways people are going to have to maybe agree to disagree, or some people are going to have to become more open-minded, or something's going to have to happen. Because even in this, you know, it's already a challenge for those in the ufology community to make their opinions known without, you know, the greater public kind of laughing and saying, "Oh, those nut jobs." And you know, we end up bickering amongst ourselves, which makes everything tougher. So I think it can.

Cristina: If time travel requires an existing machine as an anchor point, kind of like in Stargate, would you risk everything to journey to an alien world where one has operated for millennia?

Mike: I love this question because yes, I would, but I would leave a note. Yeah, that's because that's the thing, you know, people go missing all the time, and you know, with some of these, the ways that they happen, like some of these people that go missing out in the woods, or, you know, one person's like, "Yeah, you know, there's my buddy was right next to me, and all of a sudden, you know, disappeared." That sort of thing. Like, did they step into a portal, or, you know, what the heck happened to him?

So yeah, if I was presented with, "Okay, here's a stargate, or here's a, you know, portal that you can just jump into and go somewhere where there's another dimension or somewhere across the cosmos," it's like, "Yep, I sure would," but I'm going to leave a note behind so people know what I'm doing, so that if I never come back, they don't have to worry about what happened to Mike. It's like, "Oh yeah, he went through the portal and never came back."

Cristina: What would be in your bug-out bag if you were given the coordinates and the time a portal would open, so you had time to prep? What would you pack?

Mike: Wow, okay. Well, probably some provisions and food, you know, because don't know what the food's going to be like on the other side. Bring some water, a flashlight, notepad and a pencil, or an ink pen, you know, something where I can jot notes and kind of journal what my adventures are going to be. Saline solution for my contacts, you know, my glasses just in case I lose the contacts and need to be able to see. Smart. Maybe a hat and some sunscreen, just in case.

Cristina: Maybe, yes, there you go. Burning like a lobster is never a good move.

Mike: No, no. You end up on a planet that, you know, typical day is 130 degrees. Nope, death. Forget it. Where's the portal? Open it back up, let's go home. Although it does get pretty toasty in Egypt sometimes. I've been there when it's been 120, 125.

Cristina: Yeah, with all the times that you've visited Egypt, done all the research for it, do you think Egyptian authorities are deliberately hiding discoveries that would shatter our understanding of reality and of maybe even who built the pyramids?

Mike: Yeah, and it's really unfortunate, and they are. They're not happy about all these scans that have been coming out from the ScanPyramids project, and that's been some really, really interesting material to come forth from there. And yeah, I mean, they're not happy about it because they have a narrative that they are controlling. It's like, they have no problem with, "Oh yeah, you found a tomb with some more mummies, fine, go ahead." But you know, scans that are showing large chambers under the pyramids? No, they don't want any part of that. And they're ticked off because, yeah, there didn't have to be any authority given because they're all satellites from space that are doing this.

So yeah, if they had asked, "Hey, can we get on the ground and do some of the," which ground-penetrating radar can't get that deep, but the SAR technology, because it's detecting micro-vibrations from the voids under the earth, you know, from the surface, it can. And yeah, so they're upset there was no authority given. Well, you don't have to give authority from that. It's, you know, satellite from space.

So because, yeah, they have been controlling the narrative. You know, some of these scans here recently from the Egyptian labyrinth in Hawara, showing that there are structures that are further underground. Sir Flinders Petrie, back in 1888, found this huge, massive stone-paved area, like 300 meters by almost 250 meters—meters, not feet. And in 2008, they started doing some scans and discovered, "Yeah, there's a little bit more down there." Now they have this other technology coming down and discovering, "Oh, there are huge things that are down there." Well, you know, the Egyptian authorities have never let anybody search under there, so there's supposed to be an entrance into it from the pyramid that's right there, but again, no permission for anybody to be able to get down in there. So it's like, "Yeah, what are you hiding?"

Cristina: Why do you think that is? Why do you think they're trying to control the narrative?

Mike: There's a lot of different reasons for, you know, people to want to control that narrative, and I understand some of it. You know, you're talking, you know, some of these people, this has been their life's work. You know, they don't want to be told that, "You know, I just did this for the last 40 or 50 years, and now it's all wrong," and it's an egocentric viewpoint to take. You know, they've maybe they've written some books and all this sort of thing. To me, it's, you know, write another book.

And also understand that, you know, history doesn't stop here. You know, what we are discovering today is just a stepping stone for the next generation, just like our predecessors, what they had researched was a stepping stone for us to get to where we are today. You know, there's always a baton that we have to pass on. And so I think there's a lot of ego involved in not understanding that aspect, that, you know, you're linking two different generations with whatever knowledge that you've gained. You know, that knowledge from the past with your knowledge that you've gained, and pass it on to the next generation, who are they're probably going to discover some other things that might, you know, fly in the face of what you discovered. But they couldn't have gotten to there without you. So, you know, take solace in that, that you're a part of the cog. You are not the, you know, penultimate person that discovered everything, and now that's it, we're done with history. You know, that's not the way it works.

Cristina: Mike, thank you so much for being on the show, and thank you to all of my Patreon members that sent in questions for today's interview as well. Before we wrap it up, where can people find you online, Mike, and purchase your latest book?

Mike: Yeah, absolutely. Well, you can go to mikerickseeker.com. That has links to all of my books. You can, of course, find them on Amazon and Barnes & Noble and all that places, but yeah, the site has the links as well. You can go to my Events tab, Events and Tours tab. You can find the Egypt tour there as well as a bunch of other events that I have going on this year, places where I'll be doing presentations. I also have a "Travels Through Time" workshop coming up, and you know, we actually have a Scottish castle retreat on Halloween weekend this year too, so that's pretty cool.

Cristina: And his link will be in the description box below. Mike, thank you again.

Mike: Thank you again, Christina. It's always a pleasure talking with you.