Earth Ancients

How far back does humanity’s relationship with music reach? What can ancient musical instruments reveal about the people who created them?

On Earth Ancients, Cliff Dunning welcomes archaeologist, musician, and historian Graeme Lawson to explore Sound Tracks: An Archaeological Journey Through Our Musical Past. Through sixty remarkable musical objects and the stories of their discovery, Lawson traces how music and sound helped shape human civilization.

From a German harmonica recovered from a nineteenth-century American battlefield to a 1,300-year-old Peruvian flask designed to warble like a bird and a Stone Age flute preserved in a cave in southwestern France, these discoveries give voice to people whose music might otherwise have disappeared. We explore what music archaeology reveals about ancient cultures, prehistoric instruments, craftsmanship, and the enduring human desire to create sound. 

How did music preserve memories, express identity, and bring communities together? What can surviving artifacts tell us about musical traditions across continents and thousands of years?

Lawson holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and has held senior research fellowships at Cambridge and the Freie Universität Berlin. His pioneering research applies scientific methods to music’s prehistory, tracing connections across cultures and generations.

Join us for a journey into the origins of music, where archaeological discoveries reveal an essential part of our shared human story.

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Keith Thompson: Anomalous Phenomena—UFOs, Apports, and the Mystery of Consciousness

Can objects appear out of nowhere? Can dreams reveal hidden truths? What might encounters with ghosts, UFOs, and phantom companions tell us about consciousness and the nature of reality? On this episode of Destiny, Cliff Dunning welcomes author and independent journalist Keith Thompson to explore his book, Anomalous Phenomena. Drawing on archival accounts, eyewitness testimony, personal experiences, and field investigations, Thompson examines extraordinary reports that challenge familiar boundaries between mind and matter.

We explore apports—objects reported to materialize, vanish, or mysteriously relocate—and the Scole Experiment, known for its controversial claims of physical materializations and spirit communication. The conversation also considers ancestral dreams, telepathy, apparitions, spontaneous healing, and UFO encounters in which witnesses describe an apparent response to human thought or intention.

From phantom companions guiding explorers through danger to mysterious lights and encounters with the departed, these accounts raise compelling questions: How should we investigate experiences that resist conventional explanations? Could intention and meaning play a greater role in human experience than we understand?

Thompson is the author of The UFO Paradox and Angels and Aliens. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Join us for an exploration of unexplained phenomena, expanded consciousness, and the enduring mysteries of human experience.

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Could water be more responsive to the world around us than we imagine? Join Cliff Dunning on Earth Ancients as water researcher, artist, and author Veda Austin explores the striking patterns that emerge as water begins to freeze—and what she believes they reveal about water, memory, and consciousness.

Drawing on 14 years of exploration, Austin uses a distinctive freezing and photographic method to document water at the threshold between liquid and ice. She interprets the resulting imagery as responses to words, images, thoughts, and intentions, raising provocative questions about our relationship with this essential substance.

Can water retain impressions of its surroundings? How does Austin connect ice formations with human intention? And how can we distinguish meaningful responses from patterns we recognize and interpret?

Discover Austin’s perspective on water as “fluid intelligence” in a conversation that brings together art, observation, and an unconventional view of the natural world. Her interpretations invite curiosity and investigation; they are not established scientific findings.

Listen to Earth Ancients and explore the mystery of water through a different lens.

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Reveals how psi abilities are real and can transform our world

• Shares groundbreaking research on telepathy, precognition, and other anomalous abilities of consciousness

• Explores the philosophy of neutral monism and the interconnected nature of consciousness and physical reality

• Demonstrates how focused intention and consciousness can shape the future

Exploring the growing overlap between neuroscience and psi research, cognitive neuroscientist Richard Silberstein provides an overview of experimental evidence that challenges the materialist view of consciousness. He has found that psi abilities, like telepathy and precognition, are not only real but can transform our world.

Sharing his own groundbreaking research along with other scientific and medical findings, Silberstein reveals the brain-consciousness relationship and the effects of intention and human thought on the physical world. He explains the philosophy of neutral monism, which states that physical reality and consciousness emerge from a single, deeper reality. Silberstein demonstrates how paranormal abilities are not only integral features of human consciousness but also offer great potential for transformative breakthroughs in the fields of mental health, conflict resolution, environmental stewardship, and collective decision-making.

Looking in depth at the scientific evidence for precognition, Silberstein reveals how consciousness can influence future events. He discusses the power of focused intention and collective consciousness to foster empathy and cooperation as well as address a range of global issues.

RICHARD SILBERSTEIN, PhD, is a cognitive neuroscientist who has made significant contributions to our understanding of brain function across his four-decade career. The originator of Steady State Topography (SST), he is Professor Emeritus at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, where he founded the Swinburne Brain Sciences Institute. The author and coauthor of more than 110 scientific articles and books, he lives in Melbourne, Australia.

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What if the greatest secret of North American prehistory lies not in Egypt or Mesoamerica, but in the ancient hills of the Ozarks?For twenty years, researcher F. K. Sterling walked the hollows, sat on family porches, and listened to the land. What he discovered challenges everything we believe about the deep past: a sophisticated pre-catastrophe civilization that used the Ozark Plateau as its final refuge after the Younger Dryas comet impact 12,900 years ago.This is not myth.Anomalous giant skeletons reported in nineteenth-century newspapers. Heart-stones and counting holes carved into limestone. Oral traditions from Cherokee, Osage, and Quapaw elders describing pale, tall "Moon-Eyed People" who already lived inside the mountains when their ancestors arrived. Electromagnetic anomalies, singing ridges, and lights rising from springs.Connecting the submerged ruins off Florida and the Bahamas to the ceremonial centers of Crystal River and the geometric precision of the Hopewell and Cahokia earthworks, Sterling reveals a lost civilization that did not vanish - it withdrew underground, preserving its knowledge through twelve thousand years of darkness.The hills remember.The springs still sing.And according to the old families who still keep the watch, some of them never left.

F.K. Sterling is an author, independent researcher, and folklorist specializing in Ozark mysteries, ancient anomalies, unexplained phenomena, and alternative history. He doesn't just chronicle the strange-he lives it, hunts it, and weaves it into compelling narratives that challenge conventional understanding.

Background & Roots
Sterling grew up in the wilds of Ocala, Florida, where childhood pursuits like hunting, fishing, and "reading the land" ignited a deep fascination with ancient mysteries and the natural world's hidden stories. He later made his home in the Ozarks of Arkansas (Harrison area), a region rich in folklore, limestone caves, misty hollows, and longstanding legends of giants, wild men, star people, and otherworldly encounters. The Ozarks serve as both his laboratory and muse-a landscape where history, myth, and the unexplained intertwine daily.

Notable Books
Alien Harvest: The Ozark Connection (2026, Zombie Media) - Explores a century of strange encounters in the Ozarks, including unexplained lights, mysterious beings, crop circles, hybrid rumors, and the eerie "Bobbys" emerging from cornfields. Draws on firsthand accounts and local legends.
- Ancient Ozarks: Giants in the Caves, Star People in the Stone, and the Underground Worlds That Rewrote American Prehistory (2026) - Examines deep regional history, Paleo-Indian evidence, bluff dwellers, giant skeleton reports, and cave mysteries.
-In Search of Giants: A Worldwide Hunt for Living Legends- A global investigation into giant traditions, megalithic structures, Nephilim lore, and possible pre-Flood advanced beings.

Sterling's writing style is grounded yet evocative, respecting both scientific inquiry and the living myths of the people who inhabit these enigmatic places. He is known for asking the questions mainstream narratives overlook and delivering stories that feel unsettlingly close to home-especially for those familiar with the mist-covered hills and deep hollows of the Ozarks.
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