Transcending The Rabbit Hole Podcast

Halloween Beyond the Scares

Field Notes on spooky stories, the labels we inherit, and remembering the people we love.

Brandy, Annelise, and Parker close the season with witch hats, favorite horror movies, and a Halloween conversation that moves from spooky entertainment into more personal territory. Alongside stories of curses and haunted objects, they ask what our labels reveal, how we use our words, and why remembering the dead can be an act of love.

In This Episode
The hosts’ favorite Halloween movies open a conversation about why different stories frighten or comfort us.
The discussion of witches asks how labels shape our judgments, and whether a new identity can become another box.
Curses and haunted objects lead the hosts into questions about belief, intention, and personal boundaries.
The conversation closes with Coco, family stories, and the importance of remembering loved ones.

Chapters
00:09 — A Halloween bonus and season farewell
02:02 — Favorite spooky movies
13:02 — Witches and the labels we inherit
29:52 — Curses, words, and intentions
44:25 — Haunted objects and secondhand finds
1:06:09 — Halloween and the thin veil
1:09:57 — Coco and remembering loved ones
1:15:35 — Closing the season

Mentioned in This Episode
Watch the full episode on YouTube — The version used for the chapter times above.
Rabbit Hole on Spotify — Intro and outro music by Annelise Bess.

Music Credits

Intro/Outro Music by Annelise Bess

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When Faith Becomes More Than a Belief System

Field Notes on inherited beliefs, direct spiritual experience, and the questions that remain when familiar answers no longer fit.

What happens when the beliefs we inherited no longer explain what we are experiencing?

In This Episode
Questioning inherited doctrine can open a deeper conversation about faith and belonging.
Belief and direct spiritual experience are different starting points for exploring the sacred.
Moving beyond a religious system raises another question: are we opening ourselves to discovery, or simply adopting a new set of certainties?

Chapters
01:36 — What Transcending Church explores
05:35 — Genesis, consciousness, and integration
10:24 — Moving beyond the system into the sacred
13:26 — The alchemy of forgiveness

Mentioned in This Episode
Transcending Church by Brandy Anderson — Following Christ Out of the System and Into the Sacred.

Music Credits

Intro/Outro Music by Annelise Bess

Rabbit Hole on Spotify

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After the Extraordinary: Marston Fries on Integration and Inner Authority

Marston Fries shares her account of awakening and ET contact, then gets specific about pacing, embodiment, and the work of living what she experienced.

What happens after an experience changes your understanding of reality? Marston Fries joins Brandy, Annelise, and Parker to explore that question from the inside. Her story moves through bereavement, leaving a career in investment management, and experiences she describes as psychic awakening, DNA or kundalini activation, and extraterrestrial contact. The conversation gives those experiences room while continually returning to the harder question: how do you carry them into an ordinary human life?

In This Episode
Marston connects her departure from investment management with grief and experiences she interprets as spiritual awakening.
She distinguishes the intensity of an experience from the slower work of integrating it into daily life.
Pacing, somatic therapy, rest, and attention to bodily sensations are practices she says have helped her.
The discussion frames sovereignty as personal responsibility, discernment, and the ability to hold boundaries without forcing others to agree.

Chapters
01:53 — Marston’s story: career, grief, and awakening
06:21 — The experience she calls DNA activation and ET contact
17:02 — Pacing and the work of integration
49:23 — Sharing an unfinished story

Mentioned in This Episode
The Bridging Catalyst — Marston Fries — Marston’s official website, mentioned near the episode close.
Trust Fall — Marston Fries — Marston’s book on her experiences and spiritual exploration.

Music Credits

Intro/Outro Music by Annelise Bess

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What Do We Mean When We Say God?

Brandy, Annelise, and Parker explore divine presence, prayer, and whether the way we live matters more than getting every belief right.

Before asking whether God exists, Brandy, Annelise, and Parker pause over another question: what are we calling God? A distant ruler, a loving presence, consciousness, source, the ground of being? Each answer changes the conversation before the debate has even begun. This episode follows that shift from inherited images toward the hosts’ evolving, deeply personal understanding of the divine.

In This Episode
The hosts begin by defining God, recognizing that disagreement may concern different images of the divine.
Annelise describes the emotional work of moving beyond a personified God while recovering a sense of intimacy.
The prayer discussion includes both personal meaning and the difficulty of suffering that does not resolve as hoped.
Brandy asks whether compassion, humility, and integrity matter more than intellectual agreement with a theology.
The closing discussion treats uncertainty and the limits of language as part of spiritual inquiry.

Chapters
00:20 — Defining God before debating existence
15:03 — Can God be personal without being a person?
29:15 — Does God answer prayer?
60:19 — Does correct belief matter more than how we live?

Mentioned in This Episode
The Fish Who Found the Sea — Alan Watts — Annelise’s closing book recommendation; illustrated by Khoa Le.

Music Credits

Intro/Outro Music by Annelise Bess

Rabbit Hole on Spotify

Recommended Books

The Fish Who Found the Sea by Alan Watts: amzn.to/4xqVnBQ

The Universe Inside You by Sarah Ordonez: amzn.to/3USc6AA

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High Strangeness with Ronald Meyer & Mark Reeder

Ronald Meyer and Mark Reeder explore Bradshaw Ranch, Bigfoot reports, and the role of shared attention in extraordinary experiences.

What happens when a filmmaker follows an unexplained encounter—and a skeptical collaborator starts having experiences of his own? Ronald Meyer and Mark Reeder join the conversation to explore Bigfoot reports, Bradshaw Ranch, and their evolving ideas about consciousness. Their stories move between field investigation and personal meaning, asking what an encounter can change even when its cause remains unsettled.

In This Episode
Meyer’s filmmaking led him from witness interviews to investigating possible links between Bigfoot and UAP reports.
The guests use an ancient-presence hypothesis to interpret encounters; they do not establish the cause of the reported phenomena.
Meyer discusses equipment artifacts and false positives alongside his interpretation of Bradshaw Ranch footage.
Reeder describes the personal effect of a CE6 gathering as renewed awe and attention to everyday life.

Chapters
01:53 — How filmmaking led Ron to Bigfoot reports
22:29 — Investigating Bradshaw Ranch
41:12 — The origins of the CE6 protocol
55:52 — Collective consciousness: contact or creation?

Mentioned in This Episode
Full episode on YouTube — Watch the full conversation.

Ron Meyer & Mark Reeder Books

Aliens 2035

The High Strangeness of Bigfoot

The High Strangeness of Bradshaw Ranch

Jesus Had a Near-Death Experience

Tricksters and Angels: A Novel

The Adam Enigma: A Novel

Movies Produced by Ronald Meyer

The Bigfoot Alien Connection Revealed - (28) The Bigfoot Alien Connection Revealed - Full Movie - YouTube -- over 7 million views across multiple streaming platforms

Paranormal Highway - on Amazon prime ((28) Paranormal Highway Trailer - YouTube    

Amazon.com: Paranormal Highway : Alan Megargle, Ronald C. Meyer, Thom Powell, Eira Wulfnothsson, Ronald C. Meyer, Ronald C. Meyer, Alan Megargle: Prime Video

Alien Contact in the Rockies- a film by  Alan Megargle and, Ronald Meyer, Alien Contact In The Rockies | Creatures Traveling Through Portals Caught On Camera!

The Mysteries of Bradshaw Ranch-  The Mysteries of Bradshaw Ranch: Aliens, Portals, and the Paranormal

The Afterlife-  The Afterlife: Our Departed Loved Ones Are Close | Prime Video

Near Death Experiences and Mysticism- Near Death Experiences and Mysticism

The Mysteries of Bigfoot- The Mysteries of Bigfoot

An Alien, a Channeler, a Mystic, in Conversation- An Alien, a Channeler, a Mystic, in Conversation

Medical Doctor has Near Death Experience- Medical Doctor has Near Death Experience.. Encounters UFOs and Bigfoot

Music Credits

Intro/Outro Music by Annelise Bess

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