The Reddit Close Encounter Wars: Community, Contact and Coercion

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• Channel / outlet: Whitley Strieber / Dreamland
• Host: James Faulk
• Guest: Conor Sisk, also known as Oak Draíocht
• Published: 2026-06-26
• Duration: 1:11:54
• Sourced: 2026-08-14
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[Visual, 0:01] Title card: "DREAMLAND THE EDGE OF THE WORLD VIDEO PRESENTATION" showing a silhouette of a person on a cliff edge under a crescent moon and nebula.
[Whitley Strieber, 0:05] This is Whitley Strieber and this is Dreamland. You've reached the edge of the world.
[Visual, 0:13] Host James Falk appears on screen, wearing a black cap, glasses, and headphones.
[James Faulk, 0:13] Welcome back to the legendary Dreamland podcast, Whitley Strieber's long-running exploration of all things alien, anomalous, or just plain weird. I'm James Falk, longtime PBS reporter and host of the Neon Galactic podcast on YouTube and anywhere you get your podcasts. I am also, fortuitously, the monthly guest host of this program. Thanks for joining us. Our guest today is a lifelong experiencer, an advocate for those who've had similar contact and an emerging leader in the experiencer community. He's been a warrior for truth, a champion for victims, and a seeker of wisdom. If you've spent any time on Reddit researching the UFO phenomenon, aliens, high strangeness, contact or conspiracy, you've likely come across the work of user OakDrake. His empathetic approach, deep experience, and willingness to help have inspired thousands and likely saved lives. We'll discuss his life, his own anomalous experiences, the power of community, the challenges of online security, and the rising scourge of online manipulation. It's an honor to welcome him into Dreamland, where the anomalous is normal and normal is merely camouflage for a universe still steeped in profound mystery. Let's parse the patterns and see what deeper truths emerge. Welcome, Connor.
[Visual, 1:30] Split screen showing guest Connor on the left in front of a bookshelf with string lights, and James Falk on the right.
[Conor Sisk, 1:33] Thank you very much for having me. It's a pleasure to be here.
[James Faulk, 1:36] It's a pleasure to have you. I've, uh, been a fan of your work for a long time. As, uh, I started as a lurker on the Reddits, Reddit threads, and your name loomed large, um, and so, I think you'd be applauded for the work that you do. And I noticed that as we start this conversation, two important things. Um, I see the Daimonic Reality, Patrick Harpur's book, over your, over your shoulder there, and Passport to Magonia, um, or Messengers of Deception, one of those two, not sure.
[Conor Sisk, 2:04] It's Passport to Magonia, yeah.
[James Faulk, 2:06] Okay, okay, there it is. Yeah, yeah. So, those are great books and a great place to start any conversation around these topics. Uh, but let's start with, uh, who you are and how you got involved in all of this. Uh, what's, what's the story of Connor's unfolding in the experiencer community?
[Conor Sisk, 2:22] Yes, okay, thank you very much. Yeah, so, interesting you said, uh, lifelong experiencer, which I technically am, but I didn't know I was. Um, and that's the case for a lot of people I work with, actually. Um, but, uh, yeah, like, so, I guess, like, my experiences are not as, maybe profound as, as many of the people I know and work with and so on and so forth, but they are very important, I guess, obviously, to me, but also why I do the work I do now, and I think they do give a clue in my, yeah, to what's happening, what's currently unfolding, to a degree. Um, but, yeah, um, I, I, you know, I had basically pretty significant, which I didn't realize was significant, contact experience as a child in the early '90s, probably roughly, uh, 1992 or 1993 or so. Um, and, uh, it's a long story, so I'll, I'll kind of streamline it, but I'm happy to ask, answer any questions. But, essentially, uh, I buried this, so I just thought I basically saw, a shadow at my door that didn't make sense, and I kind of buried the story. Like, I wouldn't really, dismiss it entirely because I wasn't asleep, I was awake, but, but that's how it was to me, largely, for most of my life. The reality of this experience was I was, you know, my parents were downstairs watching, uh, a movie, you know, they'd put us to bed, myself and my sister. And we at the time, uh, were wreaking havoc by, you know, waiting for, for them to start the movie and then we'd get up and cause a ruckus, and, and then eventually my dad would have to come up and put us to bed. And we'd make a game of that where we'd pretend to be asleep or hide under the bed or, or all that kind of stuff. So, he would eventually try to sneak up to try and catch us before we'd try to pretend to be asleep and all this kind of silliness, you know. Um, the bedroom of my door did not close properly, um, and, uh, so, how I would, it would just be slightly opened and when my father would approach, uh, you would see the shadow come through the door first, and then the door would open. So, sometimes we'd have a little bit of a second if we saw that to pretend to be asleep or whatever. Yeah.
[James Faulk, 4:16] Yeah.
[Conor Sisk, 4:17] Um, so, it was one of these, it was during this kind of phase, uh, we were actually not super hyper making a ruckus at this stage. My sister was actually just having a conversation with me. Um, again, I would have been, I would have been six or so, right? Um, and, uh, I was looking towards the door and I see this shadow, uh, you know, come through the crack and I'm expecting it to turn into a, you know, eventually get bigger and turn into a man-sized shadow. Instead, it, it approaches the door and stops. It does not get bigger. Uh, it is and it's, uh, standing there, and it's, like, you know, it has the traditional shape of a short, you know, gray alien, I guess, large head, skinny body. Um, the top of its head would have reached the top of the door handle, which I remember, so it was quite a short being. Um, so, um, and it stood there, and I'm looking at this, you know, waiting for it to make sense. And I had essentially a very, very profound, um, telepathic communication with this being in that moment. Uh, my consciousness was split into two, which is strange to say. Um, uh, so, how could I say this? You could almost say three. So, there was the me looking at this, trying to figure out what it is I'm seeing. Then there was two me in the conscious telepathic experience. There was the childhood me, then some sort of larger version of myself. Um, I can't, I don't understand that, right? And I've had a few other telepathic experiences with beings, and a similar process happened where I was, there was two versions of me engaging with the entity. Um, which, which, um, but, and I've heard that on the field as well. I don't know what to say about that, you know. Um, it seemed somewhat outside of time, right? So, but, how this being engaged with me was not with language, you know, it was a telepathic, uh, where you're given concepts, emotions, imagery, and so on and so forth. But it also was giving me information about my future, right? So, when it showed me my future, uh, similar to how near-death experiencers report life reviews. So, I was experiencing, uh, moments from my life, moments from my future via my future self's perspective, thoughts, feelings, emotions, and experiences. But very strangely, I was also experiencing those future moments, uh, via other people. So, I experienced other people's thoughts, feelings, emotions, and experiences as well. That's why I reference, um, life reviews, because in life reviews people experience being other people interacting with themselves. Well, I've had that experience, and that's quite strange. Um, so, uh, you know, it was, it was a combination of very personal stuff about my life, you know, essentially, you know, ups and downs and so on and so forth. And I was having, big, childhood me, the young me was having huge emotional reactions to the information I was having, um, and then the other version of me was, was, was more, uh, put together. Um, right, um. Um, so, but, um, the, the thing that's kind of relevant to this is, um, I was shown that there would be a mass activation, if you want to use that term. It wasn't English given to me. Or mass awakening, mass activation of experiencers, again, not in English, uh, sometime in the future. And I was to get involved in assisting in this situation and it was very important, right? And then they gave me an image, which is kind of a cliche image, you know, that looks like something from, you know, early 2000s kind of, uh, you know, stock imagery of networks and media, you know, mid-2000s maybe, where you see the, the, kind of a planet with all these lines and grids around it. And all these lights lighting up, these lights light, lighted up represented suddenly awakened, activated experiencers. And there was an emotional sense of confusion, thoughts, confusion, fear, isolation, and despair, and, and so on. Um, and then I saw all these lines leading from, basic, I saw this big node light up that was supposed to be basically me and what I would build. And then all these lines from all the different activated lights kind of leading to that, right? Um, and, and, the sense of this was part of a much larger process that is going to be ongoing one day. Now, I was not given a year, they didn't communicate anything like that. I was shown flashes of me, uh, on a computer typing up things. I was given the experience of being other people on support calls with me from their perspective, which was very strange. And I was shown various trials and tribulations I would go through in trying to, uh, deal with all this in the future. Um, and also some of the experiences I would have in the future as well. Um, uh, how, you know, there's a lot, I mean, I could go, I could get lost in that experience. I mean, one very personal thing that happened within that experience, you know, was, of course, I was shown a lot of the, the difficulties I'd have in life, you know, anxieties, depressions, and lack of self-worth and esteem and things like this, and other kind of, uh, you know, traumas, I guess, you know. And, um, you know, you experience, the emotions are dialed up. So, I was experiencing all that compressed and my childhood self was horrified that, that I was going to have to experience these things in the future, you know.
[James Faulk, 9:02] Yeah.
[Conor Sisk, 9:03] Um, and I wasn't so, I wasn't very much reacting, it's interesting, in the experience, the, there wasn't a big reaction to this. This was only one part of it, the future thing, the stuff I'd get involved with, right. I wasn't having a big reaction to that. I was having a big reaction to, to other aspects of my life being put on display. And then also, like, what I'm dealing with in the moment, you know, like there's a being at my door, what the hell.
[James Faulk, 9:26] Yeah.
[Conor Sisk, 9:27] Um, but, um, um, but I was shown, when I was shown some of the difficult stuff I would, I would go through, now this is kind of an important thing. The, the being gave me a response to this, and it gave me a response by painting an image for me in my, in my mind, right? And, and, and it, it showed, um, it's very strange, but it, so it showed, it painted almost like a Renaissance painting, you know, of, uh, like green grass park, uh, you know, trees, and people in it from, you know, you're looking at it down from the distance, kind of playing, and this represented fun, happiness, content, right, and joy, you know, and love, and all that, right. And then
[Visual, 10:00] Split screen showing two men on a video call: Speaker 1 (left) in front of a bookshelf, Speaker 2 (right) wearing a cap and headphones.
[Conor Sisk, 10:00] separated from this was this desolate piece of rock floating in the air, all rain and gloomy all there, and there's a baby on the rock in a nappy crying, and that's meant to represent me. I was... it's funny, the two versions of me, right? Um, childhood me was offended by this. I didn't like that this being was comparing me to a...
[James Faulk, 10:16] To a baby.
[Conor Sisk, 10:17] ...to a baby, right?
[James Faulk, 10:18] Right.
[Conor Sisk, 10:19] Adult version of me had a different reaction to this, it's... it actually reacted by going, "this is a cliché," right? I'll explain more in a moment, but I didn't know what a cliché was at six. So... so... so I was... there was... there was conscientiousness of this being cliché imagery. And the imagery basically was given: I'm on this rock as a baby crying my eyes out, and behind me are these beings holding floating doors. Right? And the beings looked kind of intimidating to be honest, they... they... they looked half... halfway between, you know, it's all, you know, alien type dynamic except glowing, you know, bluish. Right? But ethereal, right? And they kind of... the bottom half of them drifted off like a kind of like, you know, a cartoon ghost in a way.
[James Faulk, 11:00] Or genie, like Aladdin, back in the day.
[Conor Sisk, 11:03] Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but they had like, you know, it was not that kind of bulbous head, but it was... you know, it's very skinny body, long fingers, black eyes, and just very intimidating facial structure to them, you know. And this is... look, this is an image of being painted to me, so, you know, what things look like, I don't know. But, um... and they're holding these white, traditional, typical doors, you know, and there's roughly about five of them, and they're surrounding me. And you can kind of feel there's an emotional exchange as I'm communicating. And I'm like... childhood me was kind of understanding that, like, you know, like the door might be a portal to getting me to the happiness and the ground, you know, in the park. And I'm screaming essentially at the being, you know, because I'm feeling all the future pain I will feel through, like, to help me bring me... and I'm feeling frustration and intensity back from the being. They're pushing these doors towards me, one of them is even opening the door, and you can see through the crack of the door the green grass of the park, happiness, all that. And... but... none of them are grabbing me and pulling me through. And of course the cliché message is, "you know, we can surround you with doors, we can bring doors closer to you, we can even open doors for you, but you have to go through them yourself." And we are trying to do this for you throughout your timeline, and we really want to help you, but at times you're basically too busy crying to see the door that we're presenting to you. Too much in despair about your own circumstances to see, you know, we're trying to provide opportunities to help you, but you know, you're not seeing them, you know. So, you know, and of course that's a cliché as well, the "show you the door, but you have to walk through it" thing. And that was what my other self was kind of reacting to, but... but that was an incredibly... the emotions were dialed up very intensely on that, you know, you can imagine. Um, and then I also had like, you know, when I saw some flashes of future experiences and all that, and also was left with this sense of like, you know, "what is this being at my door?" I wanted them to potentially get off my bed and open the door and look it in the face, you know, and I was building kind of courage to do that. I had this sense of um, "I don't want to be left with this mystery, with this experience, and wonder for years what this is about. I want to know everything now" kind of thing. And I got a response from the being that was very much, "you will be wondering about this for years." And I didn't like that. So I was trying to work up the courage to go to the door, but you know, I had seen some of the future experiences I'd have, and my childhood self kind of also reacted to this in a sense of, "no, no, no, that, they're... they look boring. I want to get on spaceships and fly around and, you know, all that stuff and all that." And I got this kind of strong sense in return that, "you wouldn't, you know, you wouldn't," you know, very flat, you know, "you wouldn't be able to handle that, you know." And I got deeply offended by that, like I almost... kind of screamed telepathically back. Um, and it responded by giving me this... this basically ball of stress. Um, and I didn't understand that at the time. I thought the being was essentially, you know, saying I wasn't just good enough to be able to handle these experiences, but I very much know very different now what... what they were saying. Because this communication was... was... is happening about my entire life. And it all took place as a six-year-old with this being standing at my door, within the space of 12 seconds or so. You know, like it was there, and then I'm... that's all flying through my head, and it's not like, you know, for anyone who's not had, like, many experiences have had these, you know, you call it a download, they might call... so like, I... I switch it back and forth between calling it a download, like the being was there directly interfacing with me, you know. So, often download kind of feel like something's more remote and it just drops into your head or whatever.
[James Faulk, 14:30] But it's still...
[Conor Sisk, 14:32] But it's still the same, like I got a chunk of information thrown into me, you know. But there was multiple layers to this interaction, you know, which is very hard to... there's so much happens in a short... it's very hard to... I'm having a real-time discussion with the being, two of me are, and then I'm simultaneously not real... the other part of me is not acknowledging this telepathic interaction and just like trying to figure out what the shadow is. And then I'm also being shown my future, right, and experiencing various future experiences, all non-linearly in the same chunk of short chunk of time. Like it's very... you can see why communication with these beings can be... can be quite overwhelming, you know. But at the same time, I was not in... like, you know, overwhelmed with this big telepathic overload, it felt very natural. That's why it's... it's easy to sometimes dismiss it. It felt super natural, like I just slightly daydreamed a bit while looking at this being at the door, like that's what was so... why I was able to bury it.
[James Faulk, 15:26] We'll be back after this short break.
[Visual, 15:28] Screen cuts to black.
[Visual, 15:29] Whitley Strieber, an older man with glasses and a checkered shirt, begins speaking in a different room setting.
[Whitley Strieber, 15:29] The president has directed the Defense Department to release all of its documents involving UFOs and aliens. There are rumors that this might actually happen, and even that they might tell the truth. If you read the Whitley Strieber Substack or my most recent blog on unknowncountry.com, I explain exactly why. But if it does happen, does it also mean direct contact with aliens for more people? What happens if they come into your life? Your children's lives? It's not going to be abductions like it was in the past. It's going to be a very different experience, something much more like what happened to my family after the Communion experience. I wrote two books about it, Transformation and Breakthrough. They were beaten to death by the media and not much read, but they remain the only chronicle of such an experience that has ever been put into print. They're a blueprint for how to make contact work, and it can work, and that is certainly very important. Governments come and governments go, but the visitors are going to be in our lives from now on, forever. So how do we handle this? Is it good, bad? Are we in danger, or at the start of something wonderful? Find out how one family made contact work in Transformation 2026, the massive update to the original book, available now on amazon.com.
[Visual, 17:04] Graphic displaying the book cover of "Transformation 2026" by Whitley Strieber.
[Visual, 17:09] Cuts back to Whitley Strieber speaking.
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[Visual, 17:15] Cuts back to the split screen video podcast featuring Speaker 1 and Speaker 2.
[James Faulk, 17:15] Yeah, it seems like, I mean, they give you this communication, you have this experience, but then the... the overall communication is something that unfolds over your life as you begin to understand different pieces of it, um, through different maturation levels. Is that fair to say, kind of, or...?
[Conor Sisk, 17:29] So, essentially what... essentially what these beings have done with me is, is, is planned certain experiences across my timeline that were designed to, uh... a large chunk of them were designed to all make, uh, uh... basically the stuff I go through between 2021 and now, um, make sense, especially the early couple of years. So I had lifelong contact events, like, or on and off contact events through life that I didn't understand, and most of it, I didn't even know was contact. And... and that then, were all, strangely designed to then assist me in situations that occurred in 2021 onward. Um, and so, you know, why they did it that way, I can't say. Like, you know, why didn't they just come to me in 2021 and just tell me all these things then? Like, for some reason, like, you know, and there's situations I've gone through still, um, recently even, um, that were... that were in that childhood download. And... and I didn't understand them until I went through the situation and... and I understood that it was designed to help me, you know, know what was going on in that situation, um, which is very strange that the bulk of it was... was in childhood like that. But the rest of it, to finish what happened with the being, basically I was working up the courage to get off the bed and... and run to the door. And I had a sense from the being that it was almost like, "oh, well, let's see if you will, then." And when I picked that up, um, I had the thought of, "I don't... I'm not going to be the first one to make a move in a million years." Like, "this thing needs to come into my room, or, and then I'll see how I react, or... or... or not." And at... at that, the being, uh, moved from the door. Um, and when it moved from the door, I leaped up into action and ran to the door. I didn't see anything, but I didn't stop, I ran downstairs to where my parents were, kicked in the door and started screaming at them like, "please tell me you were just at my door," etc., etc. Um, when they finally answered that they weren't, I ran back up to check on my sister, and then I ran into every other room upstairs to try and find this being. And then I just kind of broke down into tears, and, you know, my dad came up and, "no, an alien was at my door, an alien was at my door." I wasn't really registering the... the download, just more that this thing at the door, you know. Um... and of course, my dad just said, like, "why would an alien travel a million light-years to ease... eavesdrop on a couple of Irish kids outside their door?" And, you know, and I didn't think of it, you know, but... but it... this was, you know, it just happens with many people, this is a very orchestrated experience, very calculated. Um, it was probably by design that I wouldn't, um... I didn't spend my life thinking I was one day going to run an experience support community, you know. I didn't spend my life thinking that that was a 100% contact experience. Uh, I largely dismissed it, but I couldn't 100% dismiss it either because I got very deeply fascinated with this topic, you know. I didn't just suddenly wake up and see that, I didn't, you know, there was no rational explanation I could find for it. I don't see things, I don't randomly...
[Visual, 20:00] Split-screen video showing Conor Sisk on the left and James Faulk on the right.
[Conor Sisk, 20:00] things and... Um, so it was strange. But also, I didn't want... there were times I did wonder about the download part of it, and I... but I found a block there, and I think it was because it was so deeply personal. And I also kind of interpreted the being as... I misinterpreted the being, um, as making a judgment of my life. But what I had actually experienced was me in a in a in a in a bad state of mind one day basically criticizing myself, you know. Which is a theme, like one thing that comes up in my work a lot is that, you know, many experiencers are very hard on themselves. They, you know, um, a lot of imposter syndrome, a lot of low self-esteem, uh, very cruel to themselves in their inner world. And many of these experiencers have beings in their life, and these beings are linked and, you know, telepathically aware of how cruel we're being to ourselves, you know, and they've made note of this. This comes up in work. Like they, they don't want this. They, they, they, they... you know. And so, you know, I was experiencing my future self's, you know, negative thoughts about myself and my life, you know, as a six-year-old, which was very critical to hear. We're not that brutal to our worst enemy. But when we're in a low place as humans, we are very deeply cruel to ourselves, and our inner worlds can be very unfair on ourselves. And it's And a lot of these entities have a front-row seat to that, which is quite interesting to think about. Um... But, yeah...
[James Faulk, 21:15] Fascinating that you're, so young, confronted with these realities about your your older self, and then you had to kind of hold onto that, um, as you got older.
[Conor Sisk, 21:23] Like, I really... I didn't. I didn't think the... I I really did deeply bury it, you know. I wasn't expecting any of this.
[Visual, 21:29] James Faulk takes a sip from a black mug.
[Conor Sisk, 21:30] But then what happened was the other experiences I had, you know, were dotted around later in life, and they came in dream states. So I thought they were just dreams, you know. And again, um, I was experiencing being with other people interacting with me, um, and and I was experiencing, you know, them observing me doing actually some, in some cases, this this work. Um, and I just thought it was dreams, like. And then I live... So, a chunk of this stuff then, basically, long story short, I then lived through in a very short amount of time in in 2021, um. So I got basically activated in in spring 2021. I went through a sequence of events that were that were part of what were shown to me, and the internal thoughts, you know, that were part of what were shown to me as a child, and then I sud... and I was likely I was being... it's very likely there was other things going on that I just dismissed, but it's very likely I was being visited and things like that in and around this case because I suddenly had a psychic boost and things like that too, which is common after visitations. Now, I've no memory of any visitations in that regard, you know. But, um, suddenly then, spring 2021, I I got activated, for lack of a better word. I was suddenly feeling energies around me. I knew I had this the download was unlocked, if you will, and I was kind of dealing with the shock of that. That was very intimidating, as well. I was on the edge of what was to be believed or not. And also, I was understanding now the sense of the the mission of what I was given was now at the forefront of everything. And it seemed like all the other experiences I was given were were to prove to me, uh, that this mission was real, you know, uh, in a, to a degree. There definitely, you know, there's other aspects of my contact where they do seem very interested in my my development as a person and and, uh, and growth and all that stuff. But, um, but the mission became a forefront. And it was completely preposterous, though. So, you know, all I had was this childhood download, essentially. I could suddenly feel energies and so on. I could feel energies from trees, as preposterous as that is, um, which shocked me. Um, and, uh, uh, from my girlfriend. My girlfriend's a very creative woman, um, and she just lives to be a creative, you know. And her energy fields just shifted when she was going to spend some time being creative. And I remember she walked into the room just after spending a couple hours, um, being creative, being artistically creative in various different ways. And, uh, she was beaming, you know. And I just felt the energy before she walked into the room, and I got a shock. And I turned around to her and said, 'Have you just been upstairs working on something?' like, you know. And she, at the time, because I was going through this kind of activation, she actually, initially, uh, gaslit me, uh, because she was just so spooked by this, like. You know, like, initially she said, 'No.' And I was like, 'But everything I was picking up was, yes, she was.' And I was like, 'Like, why are you, you know...' you know, because I was on the edge of, is this real or not, you know. I was desperate for that kind of confirmation. And then she, you know, I we had a little debate, and then she admitted, 'Yes, I was being creative.' And I said, 'Why did you not say that straight away?' She's like, 'Because I almost feel like my privacy was violated in a way,' you know. I mean, it's it's And it was... So she went through her own saga of suddenly having her partner...
[James Faulk, 24:14] That's and that is, um, beautiful but it's, it's so complicated what people are going through. Like, that, you know, what you just described is like, seems from an outside perspective like it might be a minor exchange between a pair of lovers or whatever, but actually, it's at the heart of like how we're going to be interacting with folks who may not be going through the same experiences, or, I mean, it's it's really quintessential, I think, to sort of the new human confronting the old and how we're going to socialize, uh, these potentialities. Does that make sense?
[Conor Sisk, 24:45] It does, yeah. Like so, mean, we went through a very interesting, complicated, and there was a there was a lot to learn for both of us, time with this, where she had to suddenly, her her boyfriend suddenly saying, talking about this. And she would have heard the childhood experience a little bit, but now, not only is he feeling that this was real, but he's feeling compelled to have this mission to eventually support experiencers in some way, um, and he's, you know, psychically activated and all that stuff, and like, 'Is this real or not? And is this the future of my life or not?' And then, you know, eventually, you know, I proved to her this is real, and that was a shock for her, too, um. I can get into that in a second. So the one key thing that's important is, um, just before I got activated actually, and this is just a good example because this is what happened, um, I was try... training to be an animator. I just finished a degree in animation, um, and I, uh, um, and when all this kicked in, but the summer before was COVID. It was, um, uh, I was working on my final year animation. I was behind schedule on it, and I was like, look, I was in my mid-30s, you know, working on an animation degree. At the time my thinking was, 'Hey, you know, this is my, you know, this is my final shot to make this. If I don't make this, I'm not going to pull this animation thing off,' you know. So I was very critical on myself that I was behind schedule, even though I did actually, looking in hindsight, do well, but at the time, I was super critical on myself, and I went to bed in a state of kind of crisis, you know. Like, I I like, my big thing was I wanted to have, you know, success in life, try to hopefully, you know, have that identity of becoming a an animator in Ireland and all that stuff, and all of this felt like it was on the line here. And I went to bed in absolute crisis, low self-esteem and so on and so forth. And I had a major contact experience in in in my sleep state, right? Um, and that this this this consciousness connected to me, feminine energy. It replaces... it instantly just basically grabs, uh, this sense of the despair, uh, low self-esteem, stress, anxiety, all that. Just pulls it out of me, replaces it with a sense of achievement, accomplishment, leadership, high self-esteem, and, um, and, you know, contentment with myself and so on. And I I had never experienced really these things, you know, so... but it was such a shock because I had been so stressed for so long and so low on myself for so long that you know, you're you're instantly given a new flavor of what the human experience is, a reminder that it isn't all just what I had been going through, and I was just so, whatever was going on, I was just so instantly grateful to have a taste of some other way of being, you know, um. But I'd also understood that this was what I was experiencing was not artificial, it was my future self's state of being. And and the being then says, 'Everything you're stressed and worried about right now, you won't care about at all at this time next year,' essentially, right? You know, and I and I logically responding to this with a sense of like bliss... not bliss, but like just gratefulness that, 'Wow, it's just great to be relieved of this,' you know, um. So I had a sense in the experience that this is some really kind of experience in this regard, um. But I just assumed this must mean I'm, you know, maybe a team leader in an animation studio in in some shape or form, you know, and I make it, you know, everything's great, you know. And the being was like, 'No,' and again it was not in English, but it was, 'No. No, uh, you will be working with essentially experiencers,' you know. He talk... you know, and I thought that was completely preposterous, and I actually debated with the entity. Um...
[James Faulk, 27:58] (chuckles)
[Conor Sisk, 28:00] This is, uh, ridiculous. This must be my own dream. My own consciousness must be infecting this. I know it's a communication, I couldn't deny that at this stage, but my own consciousness or my own dream, because I listened to a podcast the other day or something has now infected or contaminated this this interaction. And the being is again, 'No, you will be working with experiencers.' Um, again, not in English, but uh. And again, you know, I'm like, look, you know, like let's just say... I even like, I said, 'Even if that was true, it's still... I still can't believe it because I'm not the kind of guy that would do that. I am not a Type A personality who would just think, 'I'm someone that can help experiencers, I'm going to do this one day, I'm going to launch a community one day.' I have I, you know. I I, you know, I I, you know, I might, would have at the time had that, you know, which is what I'm trying to smash with my work, this idea that no one should be engaging with or trying to... no one has any business helping experiencers unless they're a PhD, you know, psychologist, John Mack level of stuff, you know.' I have no background in any of that. Who am I to be trying to get involved in this? All that stuff, you know. I didn't even see myself as an experiencer even within the moment of that. Um, and the being said, uh, 'You will learn what you are good at. You will be in someone else's space and learn what you're good at, and know what to do then, essentially. You'll you'll learn how to be good at what you do by being in the space someone else starts initially,' type thing. And, uh, and, uh, a year and a half, a year later, literally that was summer maybe 2020, yeah, a year later I was running an experiencer support community by summer 2021.
[James Faulk, 29:23] (laughs)
[Conor Sisk, 29:24] But how did that happen? Again, activated in 2021, um, and through a sequence of synchronistic events, uh, landed on a post by an experiencer who was trying to share a contact experience on on r/aliens. And, you know, 2021 r/aliens, as as has happened, got ripped to shreds, no no constructive conversation could happen whatsoever. The comments sections in a lot of these subreddits, you know, you know, the experiencer phenomenon is very strange, you know, and this person had a a near-death experience, mass psychic activation afterwards, dealing with spirits, and then NHI contact experiences as well, and then synchronicities that guided her into situ...
[Visual, 29:54] James Faulk takes a sip from a black mug.
[Visual, 30:00] Split-screen video call with Speaker 1 on the left and James Iandoli on the right.
[Conor Sisk, 30:00] situations as well. Things I understood were part of the phenomenon by that stage. Um, but, you know, the average person's just going to see that, and there's so much room for people just to shut down a whole discussion with a cynical, one-liner comment. And anyone reading, this is the key in terms of psychology, anyone reading—and there's lots of people on the edge of, like you've probably been there, on the edge of going, like, 'maybe this is real,' like, you know, 'maybe there's something happening with these people,' and they're reading, and their eyes are opening, and they're thinking, like, 'this actually could be a reality.' Then they get to the comments section and it's—because they might be thinking, 'I might even ask them a question.' But then they get to the comments section and it's armies of people just taking the—you know, completely horrific to the person, you know. Um, and what that does to the reader, as well, is like, 'Oh, I was a fool for even thinking this might be real for a second. I'm certainly not going to dive into the comments section and try to ask a genuine question, because I'm going to be amongst all these people who are just all unanimously, you know, mocking this,' you know. Um.
[James Faulk, 30:50] Sure, yeah.
[Conor Sisk, 30:51] So, that crowd, that—that does affect people, right? So, I had an awareness of this. So, anyway, this—this person, um, could share their experience, like they were getting ripped to shreds. I was being pushed to—to—to feel like I should like ask this person a question, or something. I understand why. There was something in—in what they shared. There was some line that made me think of my childhood experience, about—about like a network of experience activating one day. And—and uh, and that is what I was shown, a sense of a network, you know, uh, as a child. So, that made me, you know, and had some sense pushing me, like, 'this is you.' And I was like, you know, and of course, this is preposterous. I was fighting all of this at the same time. Like, 'this is ridiculous,' you know. Like, you know, 'that I would actually really believe beings communicated with me as a kid and they are getting me, all this is happening,' you know. So, you're at war with yourself internally throughout all this when you don't have any direct, further proof of this, right? And so, that continued for a bit. Um, but this—this person, um, basically said, 'I can't—I can't talk about my experiences in—here, I'm just—it's just terrible. I'm going to create my own private subreddit where, uh, I can share, uh, and people who want to actually have a genuine discussion with me can join, and just—just private message me, I'll let you in,' you know. And again, I got pushed, 'this is it. You need to—you need to do this, because this will, you know, sense—this will lead to what I would eventually do.' And uh, again, I resisted that. Like, you know, even creating, you know, I went to go create a Reddit account in order to DM this person, and uh, that day, like, I had an anxiety attack, you know. And my girlfriend was like, 'Why are you having an anxiety attack? Just create any toy Reddit account.' But one part of me was like, 'Yeah, this is preposterous. I'm just going to join a subreddit just to have a, just to ask this person a few questions.' But there was another part of me that was going, 'This is important, what you're about to do now, username you pick, all that stuff is going to represent a very important part of your life.' And so, I, you know, when I eventually settled on the, on the username OakonSoul, which is cheesy. But I did, you know, suddenly hear a lot of, I got this auditory vision essentially of, uh, a lot of people calling me Oak that know me very deeply, the American accents, um, in a big group conversation of some kind, as if they've known me. I didn't know any Americans at the time, either. And that was very cheesy. That was kind of a cheesy experience. I'm—I'm embarrassed to share that. But it—it did, it did happen, right? You know. Um, so, this is, you know, this is the thing that some of these things do. It is kind of like what they talk about: the hero's journey, the experiencer journey, that kind of unfold for people. But um, it's—it did, it's so strange, you know. It's easy to confidently, largely talk about it now, but it was, I had such imposter syndrome going through all this at the time, as you can imagine, you know. Um, created the OakonSoul account, DM'd this person, was invited to a small little subreddit where people, you know, didn't see themselves as experiencers and all that, but were just interested in this particular case. Um, very, very long story short, um, this was my potato mountain from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I just spent every moment of the day talking to these people. And suddenly, it just happened naturally in this flow state, that uh, community started forming around me, and I started hosting group chats, I started, and so on and so forth. But still, it was a case, you know, that we were all just people observing this experience. But wasn't, that person actually didn't, didn't remain very active.
[James Faulk, 33:07] Yeah.
[Conor Sisk, 33:08] Um, but we were all interested in consciousness and all that stuff, you know, and metaphysics, and so on and so forth. Um, but then, um, I was meeting some actual experiencers, though. Um, and I met this, um, uh, very gifted lady who, who—and I, throughout all this, I was feeling observation. And I was feeling, you know, it basically, things tuning in and watching me. And that felt very strange to even admit to myself, never mind here I am, you know, I—I—I didn't really talk about this side of my experiences, even amongst my community in the first few years of this, because it's so strange. But while all this was happening, I knew, I could feel like beings were watching everything I was going through. And it was like a tuning in, as if I would talk to someone else, as if I would reply to someone. There was like a frequency tuning in, or an ear ringing, and tones and all that, you know. I knew this was—good chunk of me, I just had this knowing this was these beings. But uh, the other part of me is like, 'This is preposterous. Imagine saying that: my ears are ringing and I think it's aliens. I sound like an idiot,' you know. Um, and no one was talking about any of this stuff in this forum at the time, but I started feeling prodded to start openly saying some of these things. And every—what happened, every time I would suddenly work up the courage to kind of mention some of this, a cascade effect of 'me too, me too, oh my god, thanks for sharing' would happen afterwards. And then we would get in a DM, you know, and things like this. And the long and the short of it is, this lady I met, uh, was like, 'Yeah, you know, Oak, you do have beings, uh, connecting to you. They want to give you more experiences, but you're afraid.' And—and it was true. I was. Like, I was still, you know, I—I—I, um, had a lifelong fascination with this topic. My mother's an experiencer. She definitely went through an activation in the '90s. And so, I'd seen all the material, you know, uh, uh, you know, um, and my—the only thing that matched my fascination with uh, aliens and my, my burning curiosity about it was my fear at night. Like, I'd have insomnia, and issues sleeping, and a fear of grey aliens and things like that. Again, no, and did not think I was being visited, and all that, I had no—but anyway, I had to really start processing that fear, and I started working on that, right? Um, and then this particular person had never seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind. And she was very fun. Like, this is a very gifted psychic person I suddenly found myself chatting to. And yet, so down to earth, incredibly easy to get along with, and just not at all like what you would think, when you've never engaged directly with experiencers, this perception of people with these gifts, you know.
[James Faulk, 36:06] Yeah.
[Conor Sisk, 36:07] And she was fun. So, I was having fun meeting these people. It was incredible. Very fun people, you know, um, and uh, and she said, 'All right, well, I'll make a pact with you. If I, uh, watch Close Encounters, you then, you know, you need to get over your fear and tell these beings that you're ready,' you know. And—and I was like, 'Yeah, all right, no worries.' And then sure enough, like a week later, she started telling me, 'Oh, I watched Close Encounters, I cried at the end, blah, blah, blah.' You know, this means Oak was like, 'Well, you know, you need to get over your fear.' And at this stage, I was just having so much fun, my vibration was so high, like, I—there was just no fear, and uh, I'd really done a lot of work internally on that stuff. And I just said, 'All right, I'll give it a go. Screw it.' And I went up, and I, you know, uh, you know, very active mind and all that stuff, I would have figured, I did believe things like CE-5 were real and all that, I figured you'd need to be some kind of monk to pull anything like that off, you know. Um, I have a busy mind, and I don't, didn't meditate at the time, you know. But uh, but I, look, I—I lay down on, on—this was, um, May 2021, I think. I lay down on, it was daylight, uh, um, and I lay down on bed, um, I think it was about half eight. And uh, I basically, uh, you know, gave permission. I, you know, activated my heart chakra, you know, which was already quite activated after having these people are incredible. Um, and just very, very clearly said, like, 'Okay, I, you know, I'm not afraid anymore. I, I, you know, I give permission for contact, and you know, you know, what you're trying, you know, your—you can talk to me now. It's okay,' you know. And I thought what was going to happen was a might turn into an actual then voice or communication, which was going to be—I was con—I was kind of stressed at the idea of dealing with that, you know. But um, but instead, you know, I actually fell asleep for a moment, which is very unusual for me. Uh, and then I woke up, and it was I think roughly 9:00, sometime, somewhere after 9:00 p.m. The stars were out, uh, and it was now night, stars were completely out, and I—I woke up, and I was like, 'nothing, nothing happened,' you know. I was feeling ridiculous, uh, and uh, look, again, it was such—such a buzz meeting these incredible people. Like, my reaction was to kind of go, 'Well look, at least I tried. I broke the—I broke through something I was resisting for weeks, you know, and I did it anyway. I'll try again tomorrow and all that.' But that look, 'I'll just take it a win that I tried it.' But I was silly for thinking anything would happen. And as that tunes into me then, and I go, 'Oh, okay, where were you,' I joked, like, 'where were you guys 40 minutes ago?' or whatever. And then I start thinking again, 'I'm an idiot for thinking any of this was real, and this is probably just some physiological thing.' And the second that thought went through my mind, big flash of light came in my bedroom window. I turned to left, and there's a triangle craft—and I was in Dublin City at the time, the capital city of Ireland—triangle craft floating down, curling down, like a very dramatic maneuver, coming down from the clouds, and then shine, with a signal light beaming right into my bedroom window to get my attention. I leaped off the bed and ran to the window, uh, and, to confirm what I was seeing, it flashed again. I started screaming at the top of my lungs, because I wanted my girlfriend to come and see this. Um, I'm screaming for her to witness, I know what I'm—this is the biggest moment of my life. Like, I'm—I'm directly confirming the reality of these beings. And...
[James Faulk, 39:07] Yeah, yeah.
[Conor Sisk, 39:08] I was in such shock at what I was looking at. And it was made very blunt, uh, uh, the way, you know, it was about—it was—it was about a mile in the distance or so, but this light that it was was aimed directly at my window to get—in response to what I was dealing with, right, my thoughts and consciousness and all that. And I could feel it then knew I could see it, confirmed it was real, and it dramatically then uh, curled back up again and cloaked. It all happened in a few seconds. And—and uh, it look—it was very dramatic, it was kind of intimidating, this thing kind of like cloaked in, curled down into flash lights into my bedroom window so that I would see it, come to the window, and then curl back out, in and out really quickly, you know. Um, like it was like, you know, quite a intense maneuver. And my life changed forever in that moment. I was—my—I went white. I came downstairs in a complete state of shock, and told my girlfriend what happened. And of course, that moment was shown to me in my childhood download 30 years earlier.
[James Faulk, 39:58] Ah, yeah.
[Visual, 40:00] Split-screen view of Connor Sisk on the left and James Faulk on the right.
[Conor Sisk, 40:00] Which I thought was silly as a kid. As a kid I was like, oh, it's just a craft in the distance flashing lights. Uh, you know, but that shocked, that confirmed that this was real. It confirmed non-human intelligence exists, is interacting with our species, is real. Uh, this consciousness connection is also real. And, and not only that, they're in my life, they're interested in what I'm doing, and my contact download is real. And this mass activation experience is coming, and I'm supposed to help with it in some way. That's real, too, you know. And I was in shock and I was also then aware that my reaction to this was being observed as well, and I was also trying to deal with that, trying to prove to these beings that I can handle this, you know? Um, uh, but I was in complete shock, right? It took me two weeks to recover from that shock. But I had a sense that I was supposed to share this on this private forum as a, you know, um, because again, I still didn't know how I was supposed to help experiencers, you know? Um, long story is by, I share, I shared, it took me... it was really hard sharing that experience, you know, uh, to type that up, because years on the internet knowing how people react to these things, knowing how it sounds, you know, uh, to actually type those words of yourself, even anonymously on a private forum, you know, you're still thinking what have I done? Throw my life away by actually saying I got, I called in a triangular craft with my mind, you know, on the internet. I'm typing this on the internet. My god. Uh, so it was a very hard experience going through the process of even typing that up. It took me a day, you know, and I was so exhausted when I went to bed. Uh, and I remember thinking, what have I done putting that online? I'm a fool, you know, all that. As I was climbing to bed thinking that, I look at the clock, it says 1:11 a.m. and I'm just like, okay, that's it. But fair enough, right? Um, but I, I woke up the next day and I had an outpouring. Not only did I have an outpouring of, of love and support and, and, and, uh, and congratulations for sharing all that stuff, people had contact experiences as a result of reading my posts. Uh, uh, and a lot of people were saying, oh my god, me too, I've, I've been desperate to try to share this. But reading your words has allowed me now to share. And they're now sharing in the comments. Parallel to this, I was getting bombarded with DMs of people like, look, I just want someone to talk to me and the way you shared that, like, I, I just need someone else to talk to about what I'm going through right now, and so on and so forth. And then a second download happened to me in that moment as I was reading the reaction to this. This is what I'm supposed to do. This is how I do it. Right. So you need... I need to create an online space free of cynical skepticism and allowing people to share their contact experiences openly. And I had all these worries about doing it then, and I start giving these worries to the beings, and they're like, don't worry about that, just do it, just do it, just do it, just do it, just do it, just do it, just do it. Um, and, uh, and that like... there'd be a ripple effect from this. And also by, by people being able to observe a lot of these contact experiences, not only will experiencers who suddenly get activated and wake up find a place where they can actually talk about this stuff, find a place where they can actually finally put it to words anonymously, uh, but and not have to worry about all the stuff they know someone's going to say, because they're thinking it themselves. They're thinking all the nasty comments anyone... anyone can say to an experiencer who's shared their stuff online. The experiencer already thought all that stuff a million times worse while they're typing it for the first time. It's so hard to initially do that. But if we create a space that allows them to do that, it can... such healing comes from that, right? And then, you know, finding that there are others like them too. It's huge, right? It's absolutely huge, right? And then, but also people on the edge of belief on this, who are wondering if this is real, really do want to get to have a place where they can observe these people sharing, and the patterns involved in that, without, and even ask questions and engage too, but again without this infection of cynical, negative comments designed to completely destroy this having been shared, you know? So that and it needs to be balanced, a middle path. There needs to be a place someone can go, who just had a contact experience, they just want to meet other people who've had one too, and just talk, without some overarching narrative pulling them into some sort of belief system one way or the other, you know, exopolitical kind of belief system here, or some sort of dark conspiratorial one here. They just want to share with other people who've had experiences, and then we leave it at that. So we're very strong on, uh, standard tone and all that. We don't want it to turn into a place where someone can come in and say, 'I am the ambassador of the Galactic Federation and I represent this particular species and here is a message, and this is the exact truth, and you should believe me, I have all the answers,' you know? Which can infect other online spaces. And so we're we're hard on that. Um, but we're also want to be hard on even though, look, this is part of the phenomenon, and I work with and support and have lots of empathy for many experiencers who deal with these experiences, but the future apocalyptic or disaster-based experiences we lock... we shut down on that too. Because if you're trying to... this, I had this understanding that this community needs to last. Experience communities don't last. They die a death very quickly, historically. Why? Because eventually some, you know, it doesn't... it changes from it being people sharing their experiences to someone with a specific message about a future disaster that everyone ends up believing to be what this is all about then. And then, you know, and everyone just collapses after that when that doesn't come true, you know. That's a... that's an infection that destroys many attempts at community. And so we have a blanket 'no' on any, you know, future disaster posts or apocalyptic disaster posts. Even though with complete empty understanding that people do get these experiences, but if we're having a public forum where people are trying to share their experiences and we did allow that, very quickly it would just turn into non-stop end times cult generating machines where people are just, you know, because people are obsessed with that as well, knowing kind of about the future and those kind of things too. And the trickster side of the phenomenon takes advantage of that. So it just wouldn't work, right? And so I had that understanding. I was also—and this is an important one because, um, I was also given, had this... and again, this was a really hyper-fast dialogue, um... like, you know, the nature of this phenomenon, as you know, and anyone listening would know, is not as easy as just space aliens from Star Trek or Star Wars or something like that. Like, it's very complex, right? The nature of this phenomenon is incredibly complex. And even when you cross the threshold and you're having experiences and you know it's real, you don't have all the answers, though. So you're still left with a major mystery and that can be very difficult too, on top of that. But also then trying to... I'm going to be potentially going to be in a position where I'm trying to explain what's going on to skeptics in my life or... and so on and so forth. And if I have that elevator pitch moment where they're like, 'Okay, what are these beings?' and I'm going to try to explain, like, all the different ideas that exist about what these beings can do. The second you do that, and you're moving just beyond traditional ideas of space aliens, which the person is already skeptical about, you lose them, right, you know? And then if an experiencer in that position, too, like, 'I'm in contact, what is it at all, and all that.' And then they go, like, they go down a ridiculous rabbit hole, and then realize, 'This is ridiculous. Why did I do that? Maybe my own experiences are all...' you know, that could be a problem, too. And essentially, what I got as an answer to that was the line: 'Non-human intelligence exists and is interacting with our species.' And that line alone is a way to boil down the importance of this topic. It doesn't answer everything, but it also covers a lot and nails down, you know, in a very quick elevator pitch, of what's going on. Now, I got that... also when I got that line, I did get a sense of some... of a sense of it being, you know, almost like a politician or someone who is trying to make the case of this to, like, other people who officially are going to try to make the case of this to, to humanity in some way. And they know, like, I need to give a... just nail this down to a couple of important sentences. And that was a line that they would, would try to nail it down to, right? So I had that idea, too, right? And then, but regardless, from 2021, I was instantly hammering that home. 'Non-human intelligence exists and is interacting with our species.' That, whatever else, that's... we need to know that. We need to... that's disclosure. Like, we need to at least understand that. That is significant.
[James Faulk, 47:21] That's disclosure to me. To me. If the government in the United States or anywhere would admit that, then the conversation shifts, and they can prove it. You know, asserting it in the age of Trump is only going to go so far. You would have to be able to substantiate it in some way. But if we got that far and we're starting to move in that direction, then I think all of the ancillary subjects could be more fully addressed. We're going to pause here for a moment, then be right back with our guest Oak Dreacht, a.k.a. Connor Sisk.
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[Conor Sisk, 49:18] Clearly that it... this interaction is not new, right? So we've... these interactions with non-human intelligence, with engaging with other species all along, they did not just start in the '40s, right? So, and as we can see, right? So, um... and it's significant, right? So, I was in... hammering home that line in my posts, and my Twitter posts. I, um, I, you know, I... when I eventually came out of the closet to some of my friends about a year into this, you know, I sent a big email to my friend group, who didn't know, didn't know what I was up to anymore. And explained what I'm involved in, and then hammered the line home: non-human intelligence exists and is interacting with our species, you know? Um, that this is the big revelation and this is the... what we're we're living through, a paradigm shift of becoming aware of this in our times, along with the consciousness thing, right? Um...
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[Conor Sisk, 50:00] Um, and my father, um, um, there was a, in the local village they were doing a time capsule. And, uh, you could, you know, write down a note that would be dug up in a hundred years. And of course, what did I—he asked me, "Do you want to write on it?" and of course what did I write? "Non-human intelligence exists, is interacting with our species, and I hope by the time this is being read that we, you know, we've caught up to this by now." You know, something like that, you know. Um, right, so I was, there's a reason I'm telling all this. So, I, so I harbored that line for years.
[James Faulk, 50:28] Yeah.
[Conor Sisk, 50:29] Then, in 2023, Karl Nell walks out onto the Sol conference, and sits down in front of the audience and says, "Non-human intelligence exists, is interacting with humanity, this interaction is not new," etc., etc., etc., you know, "and there are people in the government that know this."
[James Faulk, 50:43] Yeah.
[Conor Sisk, 50:44] "Unelected officials that know this." Right, so I was given that quote in 2021. Right, you know, I say species most of the time, he says humanity. But that, I think, I believe, obviously, was him that I was also picking up on that had practiced this line of presenting it, you know. Um, so that, that was quite validating for me, as well, for that, especially that download in, "This is what I'm meant to do with this community." And so, back to that, like, essentially, long and short of it is, after sharing that post, I started basically helping people share on that forum. I started running private groups, helping people share there. The person who was running the forum saw what I was doing, wasn't really using it anymore, actually handed it over to me. And, uh, you know, long story, you know, and I didn't actually, there was a time I was thinking, I don't want to be the head of any group or community, um, because of what comes with that.
[James Faulk, 51:31] Yeah.
[Conor Sisk, 51:32] And I was refusing the call, you know, this kind of hero's journey cliché. I thought, maybe I can get away with being the background guy just helping everybody with their awakening and experiences, and not being the leadership role, and the sense of trauma that would come with the leadership role. Um, and these beings, I got my second major experience, and I never got, so, the point is, after the triangle craft happened, I became one of these orb experiences, they started flying orbs and craft over my house every night, basically. So I'd be on a call with a bunch of experiencers, I'd walk outside after these calls, we'd be talking for four or five hours, it was amazing, and then they'd just fly these orbs, would do a big display for me right afterwards, so that was quite dramatic for me. Um, and that's continued, I still deal with this, right, so um, but, uh, you know, they're often quite high up, you know, and doing that whole "am I a satellite or am I not?" kind of thing sometimes, you know. Um, yeah.
[James Faulk, 52:21] Yeah, yeah.
[Conor Sisk, 52:23] Sometimes they make it pretty blunt, you know, but this particular experience was the most blunt I've had with any of these things. And, you know, more of this kind of stuff is going to come out now, so I'm going to kind of put this out there a little bit. Um, this would have been maybe a month or two later, after the, month and a half maybe, a few weeks, basically a month or so after the initial triangle craft and then all this started happening then. Um, you know, I could see the, the premonition, the precognitive that I was given as a child was about to come true, as I was starting to be offered now, you know, becoming a mod and then eventually becoming the leader of this group. And I was like, maybe if I say no, I don't have to take on the trauma of the, that will come with the leadership role, and I can just be the guy doing, helping all these people with their experiences in the background. Um, and I was very close to saying no, and I walked out, there was some furniture out in my back garden that I wanted to take in. Um, and so I just walked, as I was walking out with all this knowledge in my head, walked to the back garden, big flash of light happens right above me. This is daylight, dusk about, you know. And an orb comes out of this. And the orb is, is not up all the way in the sky doing the "am I a satellite?" thing. It is right there, it is about just over tree-top height, right over me. Um, I can see what it's made of. Uh, it looks, yoga-ball sized but probably larger. Um, it looked like a cell, right? So it was a sphere with another sphere inside it, and then on the outer sphere there was like a layer of change, changing multi-colors, kind of like plasma, basically, right? And what these, you know, with many experiences of this thing, I now recognize this, when they're high up, some of the dynamics they will do is they'll flare up at you, you know. Um, so they will decloak, go over you, and then flare up, and then flare back down and go, you know, and you can sometimes be left with, "is was that an Iridium flare, like light bouncing off a satellite?" This thing did this, to make sure I never worry about it again, this thing did this right there in front of me, over the, it flared up. That's why I saw how it functions. And outside of it, you know, the light didn't come from within, it was like the layer outside of it just flared up really bright at me, and flared back down as it's now flying over. I'm utterly shocked looking at this, and I'm then calculating, you know, again, I wanted my girlfriend to see this with me, you know. I really, you know, it's important, it's very common with experiencers. You know, when you're shown a new reality, you want your loved ones to share that with you, naturally, and know this is real. Um, and your species, like this is a big thing with experiencers, why the community is important, like when you suddenly go through a contact activation, suddenly go through a contact experience, you now know something about reality that is not understood by the people around you. You as a human feel obligated to, to bring the tribe up to speed with you, because it's existentially important that we know the nature of reality we're in. And then what happens is no one listens to them, and they're in a manic state, they're very busy, they're trying to explain, trying to explain, everyone's just shutting them down and all that stuff, and that's why at least getting, you know, when they find an experiencer community to, to have all these discussions with and share this updated reality with, you know, they can integrate their experiences and process a lot of this. And by the time then they go to make the case to the skeptics and friends and families in their life, they're going to be much more grounded by that stage. Because they got it out of their system, look there's other people that are in this reality too with me, they've seen it, they know this is real, I can process that with them. So that's why community works. So but anyway, right, I'm looking at this, I'm calculating, can I, can I get my girlfriend? I know she's upstairs, I would have to run to the bottom of the steps, to try and scream at her, and then run back to the, to the, my back garden to try and still clock this, because I still see it calculating how fast it's moving and all that. And maybe I can make it and just about still get a glimpse of it, and I think I could pull off, and I was getting anxious trying to think like this all so fast. It starts cloaking. It starts going semi-transparent then slowly, and it's going, and it's about, about to be heading over the, the neighbor's back garden. And I'm looking at this going, "oh," like, you know, and I'm worried it's going to react to my stress reaction in a way and I'm kind of, I start basically instinctively telepathically communicate to it, "Oh, no, no, don't worry, like I this is a good thing, like I'm really appreciative of the experience, I, you know, this, this lady's the love of my life, I want her to experience this with me too, that's all, I'm just trying to see if I can pull that off. Like it's not a bad thing that I'm going, you know, the anxious to try and process that." And it, while cloaking, so now it was, it was not fully, it was now like somewhat 50% opaque, you know, it was like mid-cloaking, you know, so it was phasing out of our realm reality whatever, it flared up again. Right. And what, in response to me, right? To say, "no, no, I get you, no worries" kind of thing. And but the, what was interesting about that is that the light that came from it was self-contained. It didn't illuminate anything. And it was also semi- now transparent as well, like the light itself that was coming from it was also out of phase and phasing towards this other whatever realm it phases into that we can't see, you know. And then it, yeah, and then it, it cloaked like, you know, um, and I was, I knew this was also basically, "take the leadership role, shut up." Take the role, like you need to be, you need to do what you, you need to do this. And um, yeah, I had all sorts of imposter syndrome, I didn't want it, I didn't want this, like I refused the call many times early, you know. Um, uh, but yeah, I, I called my girlfriend down, and I had a bit of a panic attack actually telling her what happened, because it's a m- like, it's such a, you know, what, like, non-human intelligence exists, is interacting with our species, is interacting with me, and telling me I need to run a Reddit community!
[James Faulk, 57:42] (Laughs)
[Conor Sisk, 57:44] Essentially. Didn't put it in those terms, but it's so preposterous. Like, it was so, uh, and then, you know, it's very serious about it, you know. And other, with my private work, as well. Like, you know, um, so that was overwhelming, you know, um, but I'm simultaneously trying not to be overwhelmed, because I know I'm being observed, my reactions are being observed, and I'm try- and I'm trying to explain to them, "no, I can handle this," all that stuff, too. So it was complex, and I dealt with a lot of that song and dance over the, the first, year or two of this. Um, but long and short of it is, uh, you know, I took the leadership role, ended up running, turned that forum into a, officially launched that forum as a, an experiencer support community. It was no longer just a community to talk about this person's experiences. Uh, selected a team of moderators who were all experiencers that I'd gotten to know, uh, and ran that, and then I ran a private community, uh, uh, and still run multiple private communities. Um, and then, uh, in November 2021, uh, launched the Experiencers subreddit publicly. And I knew it had to be public, um, I knew it had to be public forum on this stuff, you know. There was some debate on, "should we keep it private and all that?" No, it needs to be. People need to be able to just suddenly see it and go, "oh my god, me too, I can, I can share. Wow, I can actually share in these comments, as well," and so on and so forth. And then just the rest will do itself. Now the big thing I just need to say, I know I'm rambling, right?
[James Faulk, 58:56] Yeah.
[Conor Sisk, 58:57] What I became to learn very quickly, and this is the big important thing that I really want to share out there, I had a front-row seat to this instantly. Um, uh, what is happening now, like so, very quickly...
[James Faulk, 59:09] Yeah, what is happening?
[Conor Sisk, 59:11] Yeah. Very quickly, in my experiences, when I'm on support calls with people, activated in spring 2021, activated summer, 2021 awakening, I call this now. You know, 2021 was a massive spike. It's not just about 2021. People were activated in and around 2021. People are going to continue to be activated. It's coming in waves. And so what happened is someone would suddenly see something on the news, see something that gives them intellectual permission to suddenly take this topic seriously. They get compelled to dive into this, or it unlocks memories, or they eventually have some sort of contact experience, and they're in ontological shock post-contact experience. But they also generally, nine times out of ten, they realize they were experiencers as a kid and, uh, all along. So, you know, a huge amount of my calls were this. Mostly people suddenly activated that, that year and continue to be this decade, you know, uh, as a result of seeing something...
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[Conor Sisk, 1:00:00] you know, a documentary, piece of media, an article, um, congressional hearings, all that different stuff, news media and so on, now taking this seriously. And it triggers a long sequence of events, or you know, that that results in a contact experience for them, which results in a revelation that they've been connected to to, in many cases, beings all along. And it was, this was their time to suddenly now face this, in an era where these disclosures are happening simultaneously, mass activations are happening parallel to this, and it's linked. So, this was planned, like this is what I was shown in the 90s, so it's certainly, you know, you can get communication with the future. Like, I knew, I understood this phenomenon quite well and that, like, you know, I was very cynical about, be careful about future predictions, so it's quite strange. I, I genuinely am someone that was given stuff in the as a child and have a front row seat to it being true, these past, you know, five years. So, I understood that the, some of it was there to cushion the blow to all the activations that are coming, and and and it's not just me. Like, like, looking across the field, I see all these people who are doing work in, you know, podcasts, academic work, creating conferences, creating, you know, social media profiles, you know, writing articles, and so on and so forth, books, you name it, you know, that are having an impact on the field that help newly activated experiencers deal, or or know they're not alone, or process, you know. And you look at them, they're experiencers who were activated in the 2020s, you know, often 2021, but not all, you know, so... So, I understood this. So, I've been operating in this understanding early. I saw, obviously, that I had the front row seat to the 2021 awakenings because I went through it, and then the bunch of all these people I'm meeting were going through it. But also shown it in the 90s, and so I have a very high, you know, like, everything has the kind of, I... you know, I have a very high-level view, understanding.
[James Faulk, 1:01:43] Wide view, yeah.
[Conor Sisk, 1:01:45] Yeah, that that there is constant waves of activations coming, and it's kind of just get getting bigger and bigger and bigger. And so, you know, which is, I, it's privilege to kind of be aware of that, because, like you know, I work with a lot of people and experiencers who, you know, even experiencers who are activated only a few years ago, they're still, they can end up being kind of cynical about disclosure or all these kind of things that are going, because it doesn't sometimes always see like it's going somewhere. Now of course, the moment it feels a lot of momentum has ramped up again, but, uh... um... so, you know, um... but because I'm seeing the waves of constant experiencers being activated, and I know a lot of this is being triggered, like, I know this is all building. Like, it's not going to, the cat doesn't go back in the bag. Like, all these waves and waves of experiences are going to continue to be activated, and awakened, and and lots more. And they're going to, all these people are going to go do things and have impact on the field in some way. All this has a ripple effect on the collective consciousness, it's all ripples, and it's all happening parallel to the stuff that's happening in the US. So it's, and this was not random. That's the thing, it's not random, it's not an accident. Beings, some of our non-human intelligence, certainly knew it in the early 90s and showed me, and I'm sure there was some stuff before then, you know. So, the times we're living through now are not the same as any other, because sometimes people will go, like, 'oh, you know, everyone always thinks there's something activating, you know. Talk to people in the 80s, they would have thought that.' No, things are different now. All right, they really, genuinely, objectively are. Right, and we know this, it's like, you know, there's so much progress has happened in five years more than it's happened in five years in 50, easily, right, you know.
[James Faulk, 1:03:11] Yeah.
[Conor Sisk, 1:03:12] Um, but I knew this was happening in 2021. And, I mean, 2021 was wild for the time, it's, you know, in terms of UAP report and all that. But that's small fish now, like you know, like what's normalized now on news and media is incredible. Like, and we've almost got used to it, but this is unprecedented, you know. So, it's going to keep, it's not going to go away, this. It's going to keep rippling and building. And like, all the experiencers activated, certainly, uh they don't go back to being not an experiencer and and not believing this, you know. Um so, there's something is happening. Now, someone asked me, I believe it's building up to a disclosure of some kind, right, obviously. Um, but uh how that, when that comes and how that plays out, you know, I don't know, you know, I, you know, I tend to think of this as a long game, you know. I know there's a lot of talk about 2027, there was talk of 20, I was, again, I had a front row seat to that starting in 2021.
[James Faulk, 1:03:56] Yeah, look, I...
[Conor Sisk, 1:03:57] Yeah, look, I I would love, I mean, like you know, it would make my life easier, you know, if we told you so, uh um but I have a sense this is a long process, and looking at how this operates, is there's a lot of psychological preparation for this. Many of the experiencers are, me, you too, included, there's a sense of, uh the contact often comes as their psych- psychology can kind of pr- process it better, especially when they have a wide understanding, you know, quantum mechanics, uh the esoteric, and the consciousness stuff. Like, that helps. When you have that framework for reality, you're able to deal with this phenomenon and not be, you know, you'll, you'll get onto it, onto it's shock because it will confirm it, but you have a framework to to to process it. You know, if you've never, never, and and look, you know, I'm generalizing because of course there's exceptions to all this, but, uh you know, if you've never had any framework at all, and never heard about any of this at all, and then have that kind of like experience, and or then see it on front-page news or 24/7 it's the top story, you're going to be so, your consciousness is going to be so shattered from that. Your reality is just going to be ripped, right. So, even the the slow drip disclosure everyone's frustrated with, and the the way that what's going on with the experience phenomenon, it all is psychological preparation that is seemingly needed, you know, to make this as smooth as possible. Um, and that's, I consider that benevolent activity, you know, um um, you know, it's...
[James Faulk, 1:05:16] It's interesting that, uh one of the things that I often wonder about is, um some people say that we are, uh you know, subject to the manipulations or the improvements of a non-human intelligence species, and that's kind of what all of this is. Other people would posit that there is a fundamental ground condition that's changing in reality, by virtue of, you know, uh astrological archetypes maybe, or, you know, the return of Saturn and and and those sorts of things, that maybe making, enriching this uh reality with uh the spirit. Um, uh do you have a Do you have a Have you landed on that discussion? Do you think that this is all sort of a project of higher intelligences, or are we just existing in a universe that evolves through these kinds of stages?
[Conor Sisk, 1:06:01] Very good question. Um, I don't have a single answer to it. So, you know, it's clearly timeline observation is, is going on. Even from my own individual experiences, that's obvious. So, there's a So, there's a sense that, that, you know, some of the intelligence we're dealing with, and I don't think it's all one intelligence, in my opinion, know, um what's coming, right, and they, and they are adjusting things to make what, that smoother, okay, um. But there's an inevitability coming of some kind, that all of this is ramping up now, right. So, it does seem like there's maybe almost some sort of deadline in some shape or form, right. Now, what that is, of course, there's lots of ideas, like, you know, like psychic activations due to increased, like affecting our DNA, solar activity and so on, um, um, you know, uh ramping up our, this treatment of the planet that needs to, to end. Um, but I think, uh, all, I think technological singularity, I think plays a role as well, as these things like these astrological uh uh events as well. And I think that's the astrological lining up and all that stuff, there's something to that. There's something even to that to individual experiencers' journeys as well, and many people I know have made a good case for that, better case than I can make. Um, but I believe them, right, because it's just apparent. But, um...
[James Faulk, 1:07:15] Yeah.
[Conor Sisk, 1:07:16] So there's something going on on this grand scale of things, that for some reason or another, our species is being prepped to start becoming aware of this wider reality, um, and whatever thing system we are in is, is ending, you know, uh. Uh, and, you know, the interconnectivity of our species is definitely a factor. So like, some of the understand, you know, revelations are happening right now, and it's no longer something that can be kept closed only into elite circles. And I don't mean just elite as in government, I mean traditionally, you know, throughout human history, like, you know, certain knowledge was always kept for only a small few and the everyday folks uh had no access to that. That's changed now in this interconnectivity society. We have access to the world's information around us, and experiencer can suddenly do a contact event and go on the internet and, and, and, you know, be synchronistically guided to a whole load of information that will help them, uh, with what they're dealing with and connect a lot of dots. Like, that wasn't as easy to do. You couldn't do that even 30 years ago or 40 years ago, you know, you know, it would be a lot harder to have to do it just in the library, you know. So, if you think about that, that's a big factor, um, too. So, it's, so, to, to wake up a large population, you know, uh, that there's infrastructure there that helps in terms of collective consciousness in that regard. Um, so, it has to have a role. But then I think there's something about AI and the, or really, I don't mean just AI, I mean the technological singularity, and by that I mean, you know, uh, quantum computers and artificial intelligence, uh, and the combination of which, uh, and given reality is seemingly consciousness-based, uh, there's, there's significant ramifications there, and with how, you know, and maybe that's a watershed moment for a civilization, not traditional. Like Star Trek has a, you develop warp technology, that's your watershed moment, your watershed moment that now open contact can happen when you pass that. We would have assumed perhaps nukes were that for us, so you know, but maybe it's, it's the technological singularity that forces some, uh, revelation of open contact of some shape or form, you know. I, you know, I don't know, you know, but I have some sense that's part of it too. But it's not just that, it's not, I think it's multiple factors basically at once. And, we, our understanding ourselves, like, humans are, you know, so these beings are, you know, often communicating this idea of consciousness and so on. But parallel to the experiencer awakening that's going on now, and people outside of the experiencer phenomenon, might not even know the word experiencer is, are coming to similar conclusions regarding nature of reality, stuff, uh, idealism, panpsychism, and, uh, reality potentially being consciousness-based, and that, that seems to be the ultimate important revelation for us to understand and get out of this like materialist paradigm only, you know, um.
[James Faulk, 1:09:52] Exactly.
[Conor Sisk, 1:09:53] These beings seem to be waiting for that or wanting that too, and we're doing this as collectively as a species. So, you know, do feel like some of these...
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[Conor Sisk, 1:10:00] that some of them at least, you know, interact with our species like humanity is a single entity, a collective entity in some way, and that, and experiences maybe the interface to the collective whole, like, you know, a collective whole human consciousness system, you know. And, you know, it needs not to be too much of a shock for the whole system to collapse. It needs to be, have a, you know, preparedness for this. And we're getting there, you know, in many ways. So, all of this, various lines are all about to meet up in one point, it seems, along with, uh, this experiencer activations and this disclosure and so on.
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