American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
American Alchemy with Jesse Michels

This CIA Scientist Led Alien Contact Ceremonies for Elites

May 1, 2026

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The CIA Scientist Who Channeled Alien Gods for America's Elite

In the winter of 1952, on New Year's Eve, nine of America's most powerful people gathered in a barn on the coast of Maine. A DuPont, an Astor, a Forbes, the inventor of the Bell helicopter, and a CIA-connected physician named Andrija Puharich sat together in the woods as an Indian psychic named Dr. Vinod fell into a trance and began speaking in a voice that claimed to be something called "the Nine" — a council of beings that might be extraterrestrial, might be the nine Egyptian gods, or might be something else entirely. This seance, held at Puharich's Round Table Foundation, would become the seed of a decades-long entanglement between elite intelligence operations, mind control research, and the UFO phenomenon.

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  • 1 (02:00) **Introducing Andrea Puharich and the Round Table Foundation** - Greg Mulati joins Jesse to discuss his documentary *Mind Traveler* about the enigmatic scientist Andrea Puharich, a figure at the intersection of CIA mind control, ESP research, and alien channeling.
  • 2 (09:24) **The Round Table Foundation: ESP, Psychedelics, and Intelligence Funding** - Puharich opens the Round Table Foundation in Maine, funded by a mix of blue-blooded elites (Astors, DuPonts) and government agencies (Army, Navy, CIA) to research ESP and telepathy.
  • 3 (21:15) **The First Channeling of "The Nine"** - In 1952, an Indian psychic named Dr. Vinod spontaneously falls into a trance at the Round Table Foundation and begins channeling a group of entities calling themselves "the Nine."
  • 4 (33:55) **The Seance, the Elites, and the JFK Assassination** - The original 1952 seance that channeled the Nine included a group of blue-blooded elites (DuPont, Astor, Forbes) and Arthur Young (inventor of the Bell helicopter), creating a web of connections that may link to the JFK assassination.
  • 5 (43:10) **Intelectron Corporation: Mind Control, Implants, and the JFK Connection** - Puharich moves to New York and starts Intelectron Corporation, a biomedical research front company funded by the Atomic Energy Commission, where he develops technology to send voices and thoughts directly into the human brain.
  • 6 (70:59) **Uri Geller: Guinea Pig or Genuine Psychic?** - Puharich meets Uri Geller in Israel in 1970 and brings him back to the US, where Geller begins channeling the Nine under hypnosis, raising questions about whether he was a genuine psychic or a mind control subject.
  • 7 (119:45) **The Space Kids: A Camp for Psychic Children** - In the mid-1970s, Puharich collected a group of teenagers who spontaneously developed psychic abilities after seeing Uri Geller on TV, forming a "camp" at his house in Ossining, New York.

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Show Notes

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0:00 - Introduction

3:06 - Puharich's Origin Story

9:47 - The Roundtable Foundation

13:37 - Sponsors (ZBiotics)

20:05 - Channeling the Nine

33:55 - The Nine and JFK

36:46 - Sponsors (Quo)

43:08 - Intellectron Corporation

51:07 - Delgado's Mind Control Bulls

57:19 - Sponsors (Superpower)

59:19 - Fabricated Alien Abductions

1:01:17 - The Tooth Implant

1:10:44 - Uri Geller as Guinea Pig

1:15:41 - The Israeli Connection

1:28:12 - Geller Meets Von Braun

1:37:24 - A Real UFO Sighting

1:47:38 - Roddenberry and Star Trek

1:51:29 - Itzhak Bentov

1:59:08 - The Space Kids

2:20:03 - Intelligence Missions Abroad

2:26:24 - Puharich's Mysterious Death

2:33:37 - Grinberg and Stargate's End

2:42:41 - Townsend Brown Connection

2:58:08 - Oliver Reiser and Tones

3:38:26 - Sponsors (AA Merch)

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