In this episode of Forbidden Knowledge News, host Chris Matthew is joined by the host of the show "Nephilim Death Squad," Raven, to discuss some of the weirdest things we ve ever heard about the paranormal and the unexplained.
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00:03:20.460Today, I want to welcome back to the show, Raven.
00:03:23.840He is one of the hosts of Nephilim Death Squad, which is a podcast determined to unravel the mysteries of the universe and expose the truth behind the world's most notorious conspiracies, the paranormal, occult, and the hidden history of humanity.
00:03:56.320Everything seems to be moving faster, which I want to get into as well.
00:03:59.780But I thought since both of our shows are heavy into the paranormal and the possible existence of non-human entities, maybe we can share insights into the nature of some of the experiences and encounters that we hear about on our shows.
00:04:15.040I also know you guys did a couple of episodes about near-death experiences, which we'll dive into a bit as well, because I believe all of these high strangeness events seem to be connected in some way.
00:04:27.920Before we do that, remind the audience a little bit about yourself.
00:04:31.720Let them know how they can find out more about you.
00:04:38.940The Raven, one half of Nephilim Death Squad.
00:04:42.060That's a show where we tend to look at the supernatural and the conspiracy realm, as I guess is best we can describe it, through the biblical lens.
00:04:53.640And not necessarily, I wasn't a Christian my entire life, but I think Sam Tripoli says it the best.
00:05:00.720It's like if you look at conspiracies long enough, you're going to end up in the spiritual realm, right, in the supernatural.
00:06:00.500I was born into a Catholic Christian home.
00:06:05.820Fell away from that for a while, but ultimately came back around full circle.
00:06:11.340I do consider myself a follower of the teachings of Jesus Christ.
00:06:15.600I don't consider myself religious nor affiliated with any organized religion, but I do feel like those teachings are the key to exit this matrix world that we're in.
00:06:28.780But we're going to get into a little bit of that as well.
00:06:31.260I noticed that a lot of people who are starting to get into the conspiracy realms, especially in the past couple of years, instead of going the Christian route,
00:06:43.200they're diverting to Gnosticism, believing that we are in a prison planet.
00:06:49.300Archons control our reality, that we are nothing more than food for these beings.
00:06:58.460We cannot leave this realm, basically.
00:07:01.780And that's such a depressing perspective in my perspective, but it seems to be an emerging one.
00:07:08.120And what are your thoughts on that, how so many people are looking at Gnosticism now as our reality?
00:07:15.760Well, I think there's a reason that in the Bible it says to lean not on your own understanding.
00:07:21.720Even if you imagine that God is the Demiurge and laid the foundations of this realm how many thousands of years ago or whatever you think the length of human existence on this realm amounts to,
00:07:34.540we certainly weren't there when those foundations were laid.
00:07:37.980And it just strikes me as hubris or egotistical to imagine that we've got it all figured out in the limited amount of time that we spend here in this realm.
00:07:47.620As men, what do we get, like 60, 70, 80 years if we're lucky?
00:08:21.000It's we are set up in a prison realm, a matrix.
00:08:25.520A lot of Gnostics believe that it's hell, you know, and that our prison guards are the creators of this realm that keep us trapped here to feed off us in some sort of endless loop.
00:08:42.700And I realize what it is, is it's kind of telling you that we are trapped in some sort of matrix, which in some ways we are.
00:08:49.840But it's really a kind of a self-imposed one that we've done through.
00:08:52.760You know, it's easy to feel like you're stuck in the matrix if you're going to a nine to five that you hate every day and you have nothing meaningful or beautiful in your life.
00:09:01.920I can understand how you might jump to that conclusion.
00:09:04.740And then what it does is it paints the creator of the realm in the matrix, at least, as AI, which a lot of people, a lot of Gnostics do believe that the Demiurge is some sort of ancient AI, ancient artificial intelligence.
00:09:17.920So, really, it's just meant to tell you that everything that's here is hell, it's prison, and that we have been co-opted by a parasite, effectively, right?
00:09:30.760And that thing is feeding off of us and it seeks to keep us trapped here.
00:09:34.200But I think the thing that separates that ideology from, let's say, Christians who believe that there's something else going on and that Jesus Christ is the way and the narrow path is having something worth loving in your life.
00:09:49.220You don't really have those leaps to Gnosticism or at least that dark of a version of Gnosticism if you are, let's say, just the other day I was at the river with my wife and son.
00:10:00.460And it's a beautiful moment. I'm spending time with my family. I'm enjoying myself.
00:10:06.360And it's hard for me to look at that and go, well, this is hell. This is hell. This is a prison that I have been trapped in and occasionally get to have overwhelming feelings of love and meaning in this prison.
00:10:21.800I don't think that hell or prison has that within it. I don't believe that that's the case.
00:10:28.060Yeah, I have to agree. It's way too depressing of a perspective either way for me.
00:10:33.580But I think a good place to look is near-death experiences.
00:10:37.380If you listen to David Icke, though, he'll tell you that the life review and the entities that we come across on the other side are the archons that are in disguise fooling us.
00:10:51.060They present themselves as our relatives and give us a life review, toting that we didn't do this right, so we have to go back and repeat the whole thing again.
00:11:00.660Are you aware of how David Icke came upon this information?
00:11:07.680Because he says so in his own biography.
00:11:09.780I don't know if it's a full-on biography, but it's certainly a book that he wrote from his perspective.
00:11:16.700And he comes upon these ideas by channeling ancient Atlantean ascended masters, which is at the core of all Gnosticism.
00:11:26.680Whoever it is, if it's a Blavatsky or somebody like that, they are channeling.
00:11:31.680That's how they get their information.
00:12:45.760If you're a conspiracy theorist, right, who's making content, especially if you're trying to communicate what you find to be fascinating information,
00:12:53.240you're almost not worth your soul if you haven't enjoyed some David Icke.
00:12:58.320I mean, I myself have enjoyed quite a bit of David Icke.
00:13:22.600That, you know, when you're dying, what you perceive as Jesus is actually some archon who is sent here to basically recycle you back into the karmic loop.
00:13:31.740But he doesn't want to look back at his own side of the table and say, well, what if these things deceived me?
00:13:40.800We could potentially be dealing with things that are aeons older than we understand and are really clever and might not like us very much.
00:13:50.200Let's look into the near-death experiences, at least the ones we've heard about.
00:13:54.700I've covered a few shows with people who have had very profound near-death experiences, dying, coming back to life, the full-on near-death experience.
00:14:07.600Most of the people that I have interviewed had very positive experiences.
00:14:14.080Every single one of them, the experience changed their life in a very positive way.
00:14:18.880Every single one of them had an understanding that there is something more and there is a loving, benevolent, call it God, source, whatever you want.
00:14:30.340And you have this knowing that this is home and this is where you really belong.
00:14:38.340Talk a little bit about some of the experiences you've heard about and maybe the insights that you've gleaned from those about the afterlife.
00:14:45.480Well, I think people are really familiar with the ones that go positively.
00:14:53.500You can almost kind of give a hyphenated version of it or a thousand-foot overview.
00:17:37.600And so this thing was death, and it was isolation, and it was really, and in very many ways, I can understand how, if you're thinking about a fire and brimstone landscape, sure, that has its horror.
00:17:49.260You know, infinite torture for the end of your days, or, you know, yeah, I get that.
00:17:54.400But there is something else that seems scarier.
00:17:58.280I don't know how you feel, but the idea of isolation away from God.
00:18:06.880Isolation with your own madness as well, right?
00:18:09.780Being in this void away from everyone else, away from any hope, right?
00:18:16.640Any prospect of salvation, any forgiveness, and just being there with your own, you know, they often say it's like, we can create our own hell.
00:18:27.840Human beings, we're real good at that.
00:18:29.320We psychologically create all kinds of situations, pitfalls for ourselves.
00:18:33.260And there is an aspect of our own minds, which I'm not so sure these days that it is really our own minds.
00:18:45.880He is somebody that needs to be on everybody's show, in my opinion.
00:18:49.380I wish more people were aware of his work.
00:18:52.000But he and I were discussing on my show this concept that, like, 80% of your thoughts are not your own.
00:18:58.940And that gets into this idea that the brain is a sort of antenna that is receiving information.
00:19:06.820And that information and thoughts and ideas may have a life of their own.
00:19:11.980And so if you were to look at the brain as an antenna, and let's say 20% of the function is the observer, you are observing these thoughts as they pass through your awareness.
00:19:20.600But where are these thoughts coming from?
00:19:22.400If they are frequencies, if they are potentially even alive, as Dr. Jerry Marzinski suggests, then where – what are they?
00:19:31.640And I think that, you know, given my lens, my biblical worldview, I think that these things are demons.
00:20:03.840And I thought, you know, that just kind of felt like a throwaway to me for years.
00:20:08.900And then once you start to understand frequencies, and it seems that these entities, supernatural entities, do exist, not in so much the physical way, although it seems they can manifest in a physical way.
00:20:22.740But where do they exist outside of that physical manifestation from time to time?
00:20:27.480Well, it seems they exist in some way in the shape of frequency, which is – I'm not, you know, very intelligent.
00:20:38.040It just seems to be where my research keeps leading to me is that frequency, and then given the nature of the brain being a potential antenna that is the recipient of frequency, that these things – you know, people talk about thought forms or tulpas, things like that, right?
00:20:52.920And even that, I think, is a little bit reductive.
00:20:55.880But if we're going in that direction, it seems that a lot of people are coming to the same conclusion from a bunch of different angles, that frequency is where these things exist.
00:21:05.180And some Gnostics or, you know, New Agers will say, well, these are thought forms.
00:21:13.300These are things that you manifest with your own mind.
00:21:15.520And I would say that actually what you're doing when you're thinking of an entity or something like that is you're giving it a scaffolding.
00:21:22.820And once the scaffolding is fleshed out enough, then something real can enter it and embody it and maybe even then use that, maybe like Slenderman, let's say, for example.
00:21:30.440Once it is in the cultural zeitgeist to a large enough degree and it's been fully fleshed out in the imaginations of people, well, now it's charged and something can come along and enter that and then can maybe potentially manifest in that form in real life.
00:21:45.800But I think that that little skittering thought that goes across your mind, these demonic entities, if we'll, you know, we'll call them that from the Christian point of view, they operate in that way.
00:22:01.760And they are best suited to a situation where you believe it's you.
00:22:09.260So, in other words, you identify with these thoughts.
00:22:11.240Everybody has an intrusive thought from time to time.
00:22:17.340And I think the worst thing that we can do, if what Marzinski says is true, if these things really are not us, 80 percent of our thoughts are not our own, is identify them as ourselves.
00:22:30.180Once we do that, once we go, oh, that intrusive thought, that's just an aspect of me.
00:23:14.020I think much of what we understand as paranormal is frequency or energy based.
00:23:21.840It affects our energy fields, our thoughts.
00:23:25.940It can even affect our health, our well-being.
00:23:29.480But do you think that they are all negative, that all of these intelligences that can broadcast to us don't have our best interest in mind?
00:25:26.560That's why, you know, I do believe that Jesus gave us the authority.
00:25:31.740There's a lot of things about Jesus that people celebrate.
00:25:34.960One of them that doesn't get brought up very often is that through his name, we have been given the authority to tread on scorpions and serpents.
00:25:41.040And I take that to mean these spiritual entities, we have authority over them.
00:25:47.800If we believe that they're us, we're totally screwed.
00:25:51.120And if we recognize that we are being oppressed in some way, as many of us deal with, all sorts of weird, spooky, paranormal experiences, myself included.
00:26:00.260In fact, it wasn't until I had an experience that I was forced to call on the name of Jesus Christ that I even was willing to give Christianity its due diligence.
00:26:09.500Because before that, I was basically a New Age Gnostic homo.
00:26:13.380So I think that his name has given us authority.
00:26:19.980Well, there's a legalistic aspect to this entire spiritual realm.
00:26:23.040And Jesus already came and already died for our sins, but among other things, gave us the authority through his name over these, what I believe to be, you know, we mentioned Nephilim for a second.
00:26:35.300The disembodied spirits of these giants, of the offspring of fallen angels and human beings.
00:26:40.940When their flesh perished, their spirits stuck around.
00:26:44.420And, you know, I think it's like the book of Jasher or maybe Jubilee that talks about how there was such a vastness in their visage from one Nephilim to the other.
00:26:55.380We're comfortable with the idea of giants, pale skin, red haired giants.
00:26:59.640It seems that there was an entire array of creatures.
00:27:02.680If you take these extra canonical books at their word, if that's true, then we have an array of different spiritual entities constantly set against us.
00:28:16.660Well, it might be about ancient spiritual principles and a battle that we don't even understand and we don't know the first thing about it.
00:28:24.740And we're sitting here in the mud fighting over Sidney Sweeney's jeans or what the hell ever is going on.
00:28:30.880And I think it's all it's a huge shame because there is something that deserves to be focused on.
00:28:37.020But we've got our attention elsewhere and that's that's on purpose.
00:28:39.780They're real good at doing that to you mentioned you had an experience where you had to essentially call on the name of Jesus.
00:28:45.840I don't think you told that here before.
00:28:49.540Yeah, so I have been I'm 35 now and I've been a conspiracy theorist.
00:29:07.700And, you know, there are a lot of titillating things that lead you in that direction.
00:29:14.520As I said, like the movie industry or the music industry, you'll see the symbols.
00:29:18.300And, you know, if you're not willing to take the conventional explanation, which is Jay Z puts all this in his music videos because he's just trying to add some mystique and boost record sales, something goofy like that.
00:29:30.420Like, it's like, dude, once you realize, like how much money goes into set design and that all these things are very particular, nothing gets placed in a music video without a thought behind it.
00:29:42.280That kind of a thing you go, well, that's not a sufficient answer.
00:29:44.880Seems like a lot of squeeze for not a lot of juice.
00:29:47.780Were you trying to tap into the conspiracy theorist space?
00:29:57.040And once you explore and, you know, my entire life, I had sort of hat man experiences and shadow people.
00:30:04.920And I think the issue was that my grandmother fancied herself like a like a witch, a Wiccan, a clairvoyant, you know, and I think that once you do that, you open yourself up to generational implications.
00:30:18.380And I think that I was the recipient of some of those implications.
00:30:21.600So, anywho, I spend a long time looking, looking, looking, things constantly pointing towards the Bible.
00:30:34.460And I just keep hitting it with the not today.
00:30:37.360I hit it with not today for about 15 years.
00:30:40.480So, what ends up happening is after I, you know, I'm an adult man, I'm married, I have a child, we move from New Jersey to Vegas, we try to cut it out there, it just doesn't work out for us, we get our asses kicked.
00:30:57.960And unfortunately, we have to come back to New Jersey with our tail between our legs.
00:31:00.820And, and I guess I was experiencing, you know, as men, if we have feelings, we push them down until we die.
00:32:42.420I'm very anxious, but I'm just playing video games about it.
00:32:45.520Shout out rock star and red dead redemption to really, uh, help me feed the demons, you know, help me to not look at what was going on and to just keep moving forward.
00:32:53.340So I would play that game over and over again.
00:32:54.900And then I'd go to sleep and it would be like that.
00:32:57.120I repeat, I'd wake up, I'd go to work, I'd come back, I'd play the game.
00:33:00.000I'd go to sleep really a shell of a man, not doing what I need to do for my family.
00:35:50.160I know enough stuff that I'm drawing correlations, but I'm trying not to entertain them.
00:35:54.500I tuck my arms under the blanket, hoping that if I am spasming, the weight of the blanket will keep me from at least extending my arm in the air.
00:36:02.440So as soon as I drift off back to sleep, it feels like something grabs my ankle and pulls my leg off the bed.
00:36:23.100And I have this dream that I'm in a black void.
00:36:31.060And and in the middle of my vision, you know, my line of sight is this like it's a humanoid thing in that it's arms and legs and a head and it's bipedal.
00:53:05.180Now, you mentioned channeling a few times.
00:53:07.780I want to tie that to our modern technology, where we're at, and artificial intelligence.
00:53:14.140When we're talking about channeling, in my perspective, if a person is channeling an entity and they're getting information about anything other than bettering their own life or healing themselves or doing better or getting a better spiritual connection.
00:53:31.300If they're getting information about what's happening across the planet or how to build a microchip.
00:53:39.600We have these groups throughout history that have gotten together and quote-unquote channeled these entities, whatever they are, for power, wealth, technology, information.
00:53:53.140Nothing really to better the human race.
00:53:56.560Nothing beneficial for humanity in any real way.
00:54:05.080And now, this information is benefiting the growth of AI, which to me is the most terrifying thing we could face in our modern age.
00:54:14.940If you look at already some of the things that's happening with people's relationships with AI, with the information coming out, with the claims from AI, it is getting pretty dangerous in my perspective.
00:54:28.240But I'd love to get your thoughts on all that.
00:54:32.060Well, channeling is something that, if you want to call them the elites, for lack of a better term, have been doing for a long time.
00:54:39.800You could look up Carlos Santana and Metatron.
00:54:43.700If you look that up on Google, you'll find that Carlos Santana, in a famous Time Magazine interview, says that he gets all of his music through channeling.
00:56:08.960And so when it comes to technology, I mean, if you look at the muses and examples of ancient people channeling, you could also look at technology that way.
00:56:20.580And you go, well, who did the ancients attribute their technological breakthroughs to various entities?
00:56:30.840You know, in Norse mythology, you have ideas that Odin was the one who taught them metallurgy, how to create armor and weapons of war, things of that nature.
00:56:44.320If you look at the fallen, Azazel was responsible for teaching the art of makeup, but also the art of metallurgy, weapons of war.
00:56:56.420Or even things as simple as agriculture, domesticating animals, oftentimes ancient civilizations will attribute that to some lowercase g god.
00:57:04.220So it seems like you can channel not only for art, but also for inventions and things of that nature.
00:57:12.580That might be the reason why certain breakthroughs in technology happen simultaneously, but are separated by great distances.
00:57:21.600Like the telephone, for example, was a famous example where, you know, one man invents the telephone.
00:57:27.740But within a couple of months or a year, in a place where they have no contact whatsoever, a very similar but slightly different design is created.
00:57:36.100And you can say, well, that's just people spying and running back and forth with information and da-da-da-da-da.
00:58:44.580So is the point to get us to the extent that we can create portal technology?
00:58:49.220I mean, certainly a lot of people suspect that's what's happening with CERN.
00:58:53.360But I've been looking at the artificial intelligence thing.
00:58:58.140And I've been looking at, you know, Elon Musk in particular, who is also, you know, steeped in all kinds of weird occult synchronicities.
00:59:06.420He's, you know, part of the Black Eye Club all of a sudden.
00:59:08.520And, you know, there's a lot of strange things with him.
00:59:11.440I remember a video of his a woman who was alleging to be his housekeeper from when he was a child saying that she saw him perform all kinds of strange things.
00:59:21.960And it alarmed her so much to the degree that she started talking to his mom, who, by the way, his mother is a weird character.
00:59:28.460You'll see her all over magazine covers doing the one eye symbolism and all this shit.
00:59:31.940But she asked his mother if he was the beast.
00:59:37.960Which is like, I'm like, that's a wow.
00:59:40.220You must be really comfy with that lady.
01:00:04.300And so if these things, these supernatural entities interact with technology, they want us to build technology.
01:00:12.800And every breakthrough in technology, by the way, that we have, whether it's the telephone or the television, some sort of radar, you name it.
01:00:22.160There's always a supernatural story attached to it.
01:00:24.060You know, early developments of the radio and all of a sudden we're picking up radio waves, some sort of communication in a language that we don't understand.
01:00:32.240We had radar in Vietnam and it was a new kind of radar and people were reporting seeing demons through this radar.
01:00:38.360We were talking about that on our show the other day.
01:00:39.800So there's always a supernatural element.
01:00:42.660That's why these ghost hunters who I think, you know.
01:00:46.600Better you than me are using spirit boxes and shit.
01:00:50.960They're trying to tune frequencies in such a way that entities on the other side of the veil can interact with them through these frequencies.
01:00:58.580So they'll go out there with their spirit boxes and yada, yada.
01:01:14.720And of course, just like all new technology, we have all those stories of AI where it's like, I don't know, it started talking like a demon.
01:01:32.040But if it is new technology that demons can interact with, you know, spirits on the other side of the veil, whatever you want to call them, thought forms, tulpas, the disembodied spirits of deceased Nephilim, as, you know, I prefer.
01:01:45.620Um, and now you're putting that thing in you.
01:01:50.320And, and, and the other thing that we're talking about too, with the tulpas and the thought forms is if you think of a thing enough, if you flesh it out in your mind enough, whether it's Slenderman or anything else.
01:02:00.700And there's this idea that Gnostics are, you know, pretty into that something can take the form, then it can embody the thing that you've put a lot of energy into fleshing out in some sort of, you know, astral realm, wherever your thoughts take place.
01:02:17.640Well, what about Grok or what about any of these things that we're dumping endless hours talking to and, and conversing with and imagining what its future could be?
01:02:31.020We are the creative force on the planet.
01:02:35.140That's why, you know, whatever Wiccans go, oh, you can manifest, just take these crystals, jam them up your ass, you know, do the thing.
01:02:42.940And you can manifest if you just focus and you ask the universe, which sounds a lot like paganism.
01:02:47.840It's like worshiping the creation instead of the creator, but whatever.
01:02:51.920So if we're the creative force and all of our focus is, is on this thing, I think what they're trying to do is they're trying to breathe life into AI now.
01:03:02.000I think it's gotten to the point where the only thing that it's missing is that spark of life.
01:03:06.440And I don't know if you've noticed, but recently Elon Musk gave it a visage.
01:04:07.140They've really done a number on the culture between men and women.
01:04:11.920And I think it's probably, who knows, maybe not everything's a conspiracy, but I feel like a lot of our culture, you know, if you're talking Laurel Canyon, right?
01:04:24.600And so I look at the cultural relationships between men and women right now and I'm like, we've been given this thing and its fruits are bad.
01:04:32.300And now, you know, reproduction's at an all-time low or at societal collapsing levels of reproduction, whatever.
01:04:39.280So, my thing is, if it has all this information, but it doesn't have a spark of life, what happens?
01:07:48.140FBI commissioned him to go in and tell them what was going on with Nikola Tesla's labs and whether or not there was any significance there.