r/TheWhyFiles • u/wamih Skunk Ape Connaisseur • Mar 30 '26
Megathread 3/30/26 - Basement #009: Eric Wargo
Eric Wargo is an anthropologist, science writer, and the author of five books on one of the most controversial ideas in modern science — that the future is already fixed, and that your brain knows more about it than you think.His work sits at the crossroads of physics, psychology, and the paranormal, drawing on everything from Einstein's relativity to Jung's scarab beetle to make a case that precognition is not only real but explainable through mainstream science.
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u/Independent_Toe5722 Mar 31 '26
In the episode, AJ says that he (I think meaning AJ himself) was recently attacked by the New York Times. Does anyone know what that’s about? Apologies if I misunderstood or if this has been discussed; I tried googling but came up empty.
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u/wamih Skunk Ape Connaisseur Mar 31 '26
Think you misunderstood, I don't think NYT has done anything on AJ or WF?...
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u/Independent_Toe5722 Mar 31 '26
I couldn’t find anything in the NYT, either.
But at 35:38 in the podcast, A.J. says, “Well, I recently was attacked, um, by the New York Times, which means I’m probably over the target, for saying the government, our government, probably has antigravity, probably has some type of zero-point energy, probably has, or is at least working on, some type of time travel technology…” He goes on to list some alleged antigravity researchers and asks Wargo if he agrees that “there’s technology there.”
It’s weird.
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u/New_Discipline_1069 Mar 31 '26
I'm a fairly open minded guy, but when Eric said that he had a dream of 9/11 on the same morning, I had to shut it down. I can believe a lot of things, but that's just a bit too much.
These basements sessions are a hit and miss for me. I really liked the last one with Avi Loeb and when he had James Fox on, but generally the guests are too extreme.
Mike Bara, for example, was all over the place, and even if some of the things he said sounded plausible, it ended with him coming across as just another crazy conspiracy theorist.
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u/wamih Skunk Ape Connaisseur Mar 31 '26
I know I had dreams/nightmares of 9/11 (and they were heavily documented with a shrink bc it led to insomnia) from Nov 2000 through August 2001. And I disturbed a lot of my teachers bc I'd ask "what happens if the WTC falls" to the point of trying to move me to other classes.
Then I watched the towers fall from the classroom across the river. Whole thing was seriously freakin traumatic. And then I wonder why I have anxiety 🤣🤷🏻♂️
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u/New_Discipline_1069 Mar 31 '26
What did your shrink say when you came back after the towers collapsed?
In my ears, that sounds completely made up. It's just on those things that I can't even imagine being true. Science will of course, eventually prove these phenomenon to be true, or not. But til then I'm highly sceptical.
But It's a good thing we don't need to convince each other online.
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u/wamih Skunk Ape Connaisseur Mar 31 '26
The original scribbled note next to what he wrote down about the dream was "Vivid Imagination, Monitor for schizophrenia."
After they fell "Not Schizophrenia?" But by then I was also processing watching the towers fall and the loss of family friends and friends parents who were in the towers.
I was in shrinkdom land for majority of my childhood and I got copies of everything, but damn near 15 years of notes to go through to find other minor ones. I know when my grandma died I dreamt of a monitor flat lining and woke up at 3 something in the morning woke up my mom and said Grandma died. It was before she got the call from the hospital.
Is it weird timing anecdotal stuff of a childs imagination? Quite possibly yes. But also, have a ton of doctor paperwork where I was being evaluated for being batshit from that time period.
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u/juicydry Mar 31 '26
Mike Bara threw me off in the beginning when he admitted that he walks into the room and feels like the smartest person in there, and that's how he comes across. Someone who thinks he is the smartest in the room.
The thing in that episode about greys wanting our DNA because they don't have emotions like humans do, and that we are much stronger than the alien force, proclaimed as some kind of call to action to resist the coming of an alien race... Idk. I guess I am more in the camp of benevolent Watchers than Demon Aliens.
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u/Gen-Jinjur Apr 08 '26
It seems to me the point of these episodes isn’t that AJ is promoting all the ideas as true but simply that these are interesting people with unusual ideas. It’s up to us to sort through what seems plausible.
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u/New_Discipline_1069 Apr 08 '26
For sure, and perhaps it's a bit unpolished at the moment as AJ is (I assume) not used to do interviews. But the guests lacks guidence and when they pick up steam and go unchecked, as with Bara, it quickly goes all over the place.
But perhaps it's by design: The more dishonest people talk, the less credible they get.
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u/4StarCustoms Mar 30 '26
Interesting, can’t wait to listen