Mike Clelland on Owls and Death

Mike Clelland is the owl guy. For fifteen years, people have been sending him their stories — owls and UFOs, owls and meditation, owls and mushrooms, owls and shamanic initiation. “That’s my research,” he says. “I get up and open my email inbox.”

And now he’s writing a book about owls and death.

We had Mike on the show over a year ago, and this is his long overdue return to Gods, Ghosts & UFOs.

Mike’s novel The Unseen

How mythic, archetypal symbolism wells up in the world

Death by Astonishment by Andrew Gallimore — how the brain builds worlds out of noisy sensory data

“All points in time and space are connected”

Thank God for filters

The five owl symbolic relationships: UFOs, meditation, psychedelics, shamanic initiation, death

The owl isn’t connected to UFOs, it is a totem of transformation

“I took a truckload of mushrooms and saw a 30-foot glowing owl in my bedroom.”

Mike’s story about his mom, Alzheimer’s, and a black-footed ferret