Latest / The Joe Rogan Recap / Julia Mossbridge (2026) - Consciousness, Precognition and the Culture of Discovery
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- 0:00Welcome to the Joe Rogan Recap and before we get going, please
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- 0:09So I want you to imagine, just for a second, sitting down at a
- 0:12brand new job. OK.
- 0:14You're 20 years old, right? You've just been hired on the
- 0:17spot for this very basic data entry role at a major aerospace
- 0:21defense contractor. You sit at your desk, you type
- 0:24your first sentence, and then you just blink.
- 0:27Just a normal blink. Yeah, but suddenly the sun is
- 0:30setting outside. Oh wow.
- 0:31You are physically shaking, tears are literally streaming
- 0:34down your face and you're handing a typed resignation
- 0:37letter to a boss who looks at you and says that's a shame, I
- 0:40thought you'd have a great future here and you have
- 0:42absolutely 0 memory of the last 8 hours.
- 0:45I mean, it sounds exactly like the opening scene of some sci-fi
- 0:48thriller, but that is a real, documented experience, right?
- 0:51And it's really just one piece of a much larger, frankly
- 0:55unsettling puzzle. Exactly So today's mission for
- 0:59this deep dive is unpacking a seriously mind bending
- 1:02conversation from the Joe Rogan Experience featuring Doctor
- 1:05Julia Mossbridge. We are going on a journey today
- 1:09that bridges cognitive neuroscience, quantum physics,
- 1:13precognition, and, as that opening story suggests, alleged
- 1:17covert government testing. Yeah, and we really need to
- 1:21establish the foundation right out of the gate here, because
- 1:23when we start talking about things like precognition and
- 1:25missing time, people naturally get pretty defensive.
- 1:28Oh totally, they shut down. Right.
- 1:29But Doctor Mossbridge isn't some fringe theorist broadcasting
- 1:33from a basement. You know she is a highly trained
- 1:35cognitive neuroscientist and a computer scientist IT.
- 1:38Has serious credentials. Absolutely.
- 1:39She earned her PhD from Northwestern, did postdoc work
- 1:42there, has a masters from UC San Francisco.
- 1:44These are top tier, rigorous institutions, but she actually
- 1:49walked away from the traditional academic establishment because
- 1:51she found it actively suppresses research into what she calls
- 1:56exceptional human performance. OK, let's unpack this.
- 2:00Because to understand how the human brain might literally be
- 2:03able to look into the future, we first need to understand why the
- 2:07scientific community point blank refuses to look at the data
- 2:11proving it in the sources. There's this fascinating
- 2:15comparison made between academia and a rigid cult.
- 2:19Like it points out how on the political extremes, you know,
- 2:23the left or the right, people get cancelled if they deviate
- 2:26from the accepted doctrine. Right.
- 2:27The sources make that parallel very clear.
- 2:30Just to impartially report on that idea, it's saying academia
- 2:33operates the exact same way. Exactly.
- 2:35It's described as this ego driven gatekeeping system.
- 2:38If you even bring up psychic phenomena, you lose your
- 2:40funding, you lose your lab. And your career is basically
- 2:43over. Yeah.
- 2:44But Doctor Mossbridge couldn't ignore it because she actually
- 2:47started experiencing it as a child.
- 2:48Precisely Her first, like, distinctly precognitive
- 2:52experience happened when she was just seven years old.
- 2:55She had this vivid, highly specific dream that her friend
- 2:59Elaine was going to lose her brand new watch on the
- 3:02playground. And then it happened the very
- 3:04next day. That exact sequence of events
- 3:06played out perfectly. That's wild.
- 3:09Now, her father was a theoretical physicist, right?
- 3:13And his reaction to his daughter predicting the future is
- 3:15incredibly telling. He just completely dismissed it
- 3:18as a statistical coincidence. Which is such a classic hard
- 3:20science reflex. Yeah.
- 3:22Like if the data doesn't fit the current mathematical model of
- 3:24the universe, you just throw the data out.
- 3:27It really is. Moss Bridge likens it to that
- 3:30old spherical cow joke in physics.
- 3:32Oh, I love that one. Yeah.
- 3:34Like if you ask a physicist to calculate the volume of the cow,
- 3:37they'll say, OK, first let's assume the cow is a sphere,
- 3:40right? They mentally cut off the legs,
- 3:42the head, the tail. They entirely divorce themselves
- 3:45from reality just to make the math clean and controllable.
- 3:48Because reality is messy. Exactly.
- 3:50Hard science has this deep desire to simplify a messy
- 3:54universe. If a phenomenon like predicting
- 3:57a lost watch or, say, seeing ball lightning float through
- 4:01your living room, doesn't fit the established equations, the
- 4:04scientific establishment just pretends it didn't happen.
- 4:06But if you're a rigorously trained scientist like she is,
- 4:10how do you actually prove precognition in a controlled lab
- 4:14setting? I mean, you can't just publish A
- 4:16peer reviewed paper based on a 7 year old's dream journal.
- 4:19No, of course not. There has to be an objective,
- 4:22measurable mechanism. And there is You measure the
- 4:24body's autonomic nervous system. OK, this brings us to the data
- 4:28she compiled on what's called presentiment.
- 4:30Moss Bridge actually analyzed 26 separate peer reviewed studies
- 4:35conducted over 4 decades by various labs.
- 4:38Wow, 26, Yeah. And these studies show that the
- 4:41human body reacts physiologically before a random
- 4:43event actually occurs. Wait.
- 4:45Walk. Me through how that actually
- 4:46works in the lab. How do they know the body is
- 4:48reacting to the future? So the standard setup is quite
- 4:52elegant. A subject sits in front of a
- 4:54computer screen and they're hooked up to a galvanic skin
- 4:58response monitor. Which basically measures sweat.
- 5:00Essentially, yes. It measures micro fluctuations
- 5:03and how much you sweat, which is a classic indicator of autonomic
- 5:06arousal. So the computer is programmed
- 5:09with a random number generator to flash either a calming image
- 5:13like a landscape, or a highly shocking image like a car crash
- 5:17or a snake. OK, so it's totally random.
- 5:19Completely random, but what the data consistently shows is that
- 5:22the subject skin conductance spikes seconds before the
- 5:26computer even randomly selects and displays the shocking image.
- 5:30Insane. I know the body literally braces
- 5:33for impact before the event mathematically exists.
- 5:36And the data revealed this wild gender divide in these
- 5:39anticipation spikes, too. Like before a random correct or
- 5:44winning guess in these trials, men's skin conductance spikes
- 5:48wildly. It's like their nervous systems
- 5:50are popping champagne before the wind even happens.
- 5:52That's a. Great way to put it.
- 5:54But for women, their physiological responses remain
- 5:56relatively flat, regardless of whether they're about to get it
- 5:59right or wrong. Which is such a fascinating
- 6:01biological quirk. Why do you think that divergence
- 6:03even exists? Well, if we look at like
- 6:06evolutionary and cultural drives, there's this deep
- 6:09biological imperative for men to win or, you know, survive tribal
- 6:13warfare. If anticipating an ambush or a
- 6:16successful hunt kept your ancestors alive, your nervous
- 6:20system is going to be hyper tuned to that specific future
- 6:24consequence. The reward system is deeply tied
- 6:27to the anticipation of success. That is exactly the hypothesis.
- 6:31It's an evolutionary survival mechanism woven right into our
- 6:34precognitive hardware. But OK, that brings up a glaring
- 6:39contradiction for me. What's that?
- 6:40If we all have this latent, you know, precognitive telepathic
- 6:45hardware pre installed in our biology, why are you and I
- 6:49reading each other's minds right now?
- 6:51Well, the answer actually lies in the very tool we are using to
- 6:54communicate right now. Language.
- 6:56Really. Yeah.
- 6:57Joe Rogan actually theorized during their conversation that
- 7:00telepathy atrophied because we invented spoken language.
- 7:03But Mossbridge corrects him with a crucial distinction.
- 7:06OK, it has an atrophied. It is actively being suppressed
- 7:09by the language symptom of your brain, specifically a region
- 7:13called the left frontal orbital area.
- 7:15Wait, let me make sure I'm getting this.
- 7:16So if my brain is a filter, it's basically acting like a pair of
- 7:19noise cancelling headphones. It's actively shutting out the
- 7:22subtle telepathic signals or precognitive echoes just so I
- 7:26can focus on making breakfast or speaking a coherent sentence.
- 7:30That is a brilliant analogy. It's known as the filter theory
- 7:33of consciousness. So consciousness and information
- 7:36might be everywhere, like a massive overlapping radio
- 7:40signal, right? If you heard every frequency at
- 7:42once, you'd be paralyzed. You wouldn't be able to
- 7:44function, so your left frontal orbital area acts as a limiter,
- 7:49filtering out the overwhelming noise of the universe so you can
- 7:52function locally. Which perfectly explains our
- 7:55inner monologue. For most of us, it's this
- 7:57constant blaring stream of words and logic.
- 8:00It's playing 24/7 and it completely grounds out the faint
- 8:03frequency of telepathy. Exactly.
- 8:05But how did they actually prove that this specific part of the
- 8:08brain is the jammer? Mossbridge points to the
- 8:10incredible work of a neurologist named Morris Freeman.
- 8:14He studied stroke patients who had suffered physical damage
- 8:17specifically to that left frontal orbital area.
- 8:20The brain's logic and language filter.
- 8:22Right. And because their biological
- 8:23jammer was broken, the underlying signal actually came
- 8:26through. And what could they do?
- 8:28They were able to move a cursor on a computer screen that was
- 8:31hooked up to a random number generator using nothing but
- 8:35their intention, you. Mean they didn't touch a mouse.
- 8:37They didn't touch a mouse, they just willed the cursor to move
- 8:41and it statistically deviated from randomness.
- 8:44Wow. And to prove this wasn't just
- 8:46some weird anomaly with stroke patients, Freeman used a
- 8:48technology called transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS.
- 8:53Oh, that's where they use a powerful magnetic coil held
- 8:56outside the skull to temporarily turn off specific regions of the
- 8:59brain. Right, exactly.
- 9:01They used TMS to temporarily suppress that exact same left
- 9:06brain language area in healthy neurotypical people.
- 9:09And the result. Those healthy people could
- 9:12suddenly move the cursor with their minds too.
- 9:14The ability was always there, was just being talked over by
- 9:17their own brains. I have to push back here though.
- 9:20Moving a cursor a few pixels on a screen is one thing, but the
- 9:23sources talk about non speaking autistic children doing things
- 9:27that sound like outright parlor tricks.
- 9:29I know it sounds unbelievable. Because these kids aren't
- 9:31engaging that left brain language center to speak out
- 9:34loud. Their telepathic frequencies are
- 9:37supposedly like wide open. But how do we know they aren't
- 9:41just reading micro expressions or getting subtle cues from the
- 9:44researchers? That is the exact right question
- 9:47to ask, and it's why the experimental design is so
- 9:49incredibly important here. They set up highly rigorous
- 9:53remote viewing trials. OK, how remote?
- 9:55The person sending the target image wasn't even in the room.
- 9:58They were multiple rooms away, behind a closed door, looking at
- 10:02a screen. There was zero line of sight,
- 10:05zero chance for micro expressions.
- 10:07So completely isolated. Yes, and in one instance under
- 10:10these strict conditions a non speaking student used his letter
- 10:14board to perfectly describe the hidden target video as quote art
- 10:18of a beautiful sky at. The target video playing
- 10:20multiple rooms away was a time lapse of the Northern Lights
- 10:23glowing over the tops of trees. Statistically, pulling that
- 10:27exact poetic description out of thin air with no visual cues is
- 10:31just impossible. It defies classical statistics
- 10:34entirely, and what's more, these kids appear to be tapped into
- 10:38the same network. Mossbridge calls them telepathy
- 10:42trains. Telepathy trains.
- 10:44Yeah, kids who had literally never met and we're in
- 10:47completely different locations were passing along psychic
- 10:50messages like. Playing a game of telephone.
- 10:52Exactly. For example, one kid types out
- 10:55on his board that he wants to go on a double date with the next
- 10:58test subjects girlfriend. OK, 20 minutes later, that next
- 11:02kid who was miles away during the first session walks into the
- 11:06testing room and immediately brings up the double date on his
- 11:09own board. It's like they're changing the
- 11:11Wi-Fi channel on a router and they all have the password to
- 11:14the same hidden frequency. And the sources mentioned it
- 11:17gets even more granular than a double date, right?
- 11:19It really does. During one session, a student
- 11:22was failing to kick up the hidden video target, so he
- 11:25tacked out a suggestion. What did he suggest?
- 11:27He said to get on the right timeline to receive the psychic
- 11:29video, the sender in the other room should mentally picture
- 11:33slamming a beach ball on the ground.
- 11:35Just a totally arbitrary visualization, yeah.
- 11:38Completely arbitrary, but when the next student walked into the
- 11:41testing room, having heard absolutely none of this, he
- 11:44immediately suggested through his board that trying the beach
- 11:48ball slam would be a good idea to sync up their minds.
- 11:50And that gives me chills. And it wasn't just happening in
- 11:53waking Lamb hours either. One of these non speaking
- 11:55students psychically visited Mosss bridge in her dream.
- 11:59Yes, he headed her a highly specific rotating orb covered in
- 12:03some spots in the very next day on his letter board before she
- 12:07said a single word about her dream.
- 12:09He tells her. I still can't get over this.
- 12:11I sent you a pre revolutionary orb with four stars on it slowly
- 12:15rotating. He literally logged into her
- 12:16subconscious. He did.
- 12:18Here's where it gets really interesting though.
- 12:20If non speaking kids in our subconscious minds could tap
- 12:23into future information or remote locations.
- 12:25There has to be a physical mechanical rule in the universe
- 12:28allowing information to move backward through time.
- 12:31There does. What is the actual physics
- 12:33behind? This Well, in quantum physics,
- 12:34the bridge between mind and matter appears to be photons,
- 12:38particles of light. Photons are what physicists call
- 12:41busonic particles. Let's unpack that jargon for a
- 12:43second, right? Bosonic basically means they
- 12:45don't take up exclusive space, right?
- 12:47Correct. Unlike solid billiard balls that
- 12:50bounce off each other, bosonic particles are more like ghosts.
- 12:54You can stack a million of them in the exact same spot at the
- 12:56exact same time. That's a really great analogy.
- 12:59They operate outside the rules of classical matter and this
- 13:03leads to the famous double slit experiment where a single photon
- 13:07is fired at a barrier with two slits.
- 13:10Right, the classic experiment. Yeah, and instead of going
- 13:12through one or the other, it goes through both simultaneously
- 13:14and interferes with itself. It proves that a photon can be
- 13:18non local in space. But Mossbridge realized a
- 13:22massive implication here. If a photon can be nonlocal in
- 13:25space, it can logically be nonlocal in time.
- 13:29Whoa. So how did she test that?
- 13:31How do you actually prove a particle of light is
- 13:34communicating with its future self?
- 13:35She designed this groundbreaking retro causality experiment.
- 13:39Imagine a laser firing single photons at a sensor.
- 13:42OK, I'm picturing it. Before the photon hits the
- 13:45sensor and forms a pattern, a computer randomly generates a
- 13:49number that will dictate how long the experiment will keep
- 13:52running in the future. So the length of the experiment
- 13:54is decided later. Yes, and what Mossbridge found
- 13:58was that the photons emitted right now change their
- 14:01behavioral pattern on the sensor based on the duration the
- 14:04computer was going to randomly select later.
- 14:06You're kidding. No, the photons in the present
- 14:09were getting a reverberation, an echo from the future state of
- 14:13the machine. But wait, if the photon knows
- 14:15exactly what the random number generator is going to do 30
- 14:19seconds from now, does that mean I'm just following a script?
- 14:22Yeah. Like is the future completely
- 14:23locked in? That is the ultimate
- 14:25philosophical tension here. We have to carefully
- 14:28differentiate between the future influencing the present versus
- 14:31changing an already set timeline.
- 14:33OK, how so? Retro causality suggests time
- 14:36isn't a one way conveyor belt, it's more of a Figure 8 loop.
- 14:40The future loops back and continuously exerts a
- 14:42gravitational pull or like an influence on the past.
- 14:45So it pulls but doesn't force. Right, the probabilities are
- 14:48interacting, but it doesn't necessarily mean consciousness
- 14:51lacks agency. OK, but if the human brain is
- 14:54utilizing these photons and this retro causal loop, it
- 14:58fundamentally A bends how we are currently trying to build
- 15:01technology. Entirely, Mossbridge argues our
- 15:03current approach to quantum computing is fundamentally
- 15:06flawed. Tech giants are spending
- 15:08billions trying to trap single isolated subatomic particles in
- 15:12super cooled environments near absolute 0.
- 15:15Just to force them to behave like rigid classical computers.
- 15:18Exactly, but nature doesn't put things in freezing boxes.
- 15:22Simple leaf undergoing photosynthesis is essentially
- 15:25performing quantum computing at room temperature.
- 15:27Really a leaf? Yes, it does this by using the
- 15:31group properties of bosonic particles and tapping into these
- 15:34non local phenomena. And if leaf can do it, the human
- 15:37brain, which is infinitely more complex, is absolutely a room
- 15:41temperature quantum computer. Without a doubt.
- 15:43Now let's use some logical deduction here.
- 15:46If the human brain is capable of retro causality, remote viewing,
- 15:50and room temperature quantum processing, there is zero chance
- 15:54the intelligence and defense communities didn't notice.
- 15:58Powerful institutions are going to want to study or weaponize
- 16:02that. Which explains A deeply
- 16:04disturbing chapter in Mossbridge's own childhood.
- 16:07As a listener, hearing this part of the sources was visceral.
- 16:11It is incredibly heavy and it grounds all this high level
- 16:15physics in a very dark reality. In the 1980s, when Mossbridge
- 16:19was in middle school in Illinois, she was placed in a
- 16:22gifted program called SOAS. OAR.
- 16:25Right. She later uncovered that the
- 16:27acronym originally stood for Students on Active Research.
- 16:30That's terrifying. She has these vivid, disturbing
- 16:33memories of being pulled out of her 7th grade classes and taken
- 16:36to a small room with covered windows to see so-called
- 16:39counselors. What actually happened in that
- 16:40room? They would give her and other
- 16:42children chalky pink drinks. Immediately after consuming
- 16:45them, she would experience total blackout.
- 16:47Just complete missing time. Complete missing time.
- 16:51She would eventually be sent back to class with absolutely no
- 16:53memory of what experiments or testing occurred in that room.
- 16:57And the surveillance didn't stop in middle school, which brings
- 17:00us back to that terrifying opening scenario we talked
- 17:03about. Right, the Lockheed Martin
- 17:05incident. Yeah, when she was 20 years old,
- 17:07she applied for a simple word processing job as a temp at
- 17:11Lockheed Martin. She's hired on the spot, sits
- 17:14down at a computer, and then the blackout hits. 8 hours just
- 17:18gone. Gone.
- 17:19She wakes up shaking, typing a resignation letter, and the boss
- 17:22makes that eerie comment about her great future.
- 17:26It screams MK Ultra. But why her?
- 17:30Out of millions of kids? Why was she targeted for active
- 17:33research? Well, the historical context she
- 17:35uncovered makes it even more chilling.
- 17:37Mossbridge's grandfather was a uranium miner in Denver.
- 17:40Her mother grew up with radioactive dust physically
- 17:43tracked into their home. Mossbridge later found federal
- 17:46documents showing that the fence agencies were explicitly
- 17:49tracking intergenerational radiation exposure in specific
- 17:52families. You're saying they were looking
- 17:53for mutations? They were essentially running a
- 17:55massive covert longitudinal study to see if this specific
- 18:00type of radiation exposure mutated human consciousness,
- 18:04perhaps enhancing the exact precognitive or remote viewing
- 18:07abilities we've been discussing. It's a profound violation.
- 18:10The intelligence community or their aerospace contractors were
- 18:14allegedly conducting memory wiping experiments on public
- 18:17school children without any parental consent, just mining
- 18:20the civilian population for psychic assets.
- 18:23It's a lot to take in. So what does this all mean?
- 18:25I mean, how does a person even begin to process that level of
- 18:29institutional betrayal? You use the very physics we just
- 18:32discussed to heal yourself. Mossbridge realized that if time
- 18:36is non linear, trauma doesn't have to be either.
- 18:38That is the core of her book. Have a nice disclosure right
- 18:41now. Everyone in the UFO and
- 18:43paranormal communities is waiting for the government to
- 18:46drop classified files. Right, the big reveal.
- 18:48But Mossbridge argues that true disclosure is internal.
- 18:52It's exploring your own inner space, trusting your own strange
- 18:55experiences, and refusing to let a shadowy authority figure
- 18:59dictate your reality. But she didn't just write a
- 19:02theory right, She built a practical tool.
- 19:05She did. She started a nonprofit called
- 19:07Applied Love Labs and created an application called Time Machine,
- 19:11and the application of this is profound.
- 19:13How does it work? The app allows users to record
- 19:16and send audio messages to their future selves and, crucially, to
- 19:20receive and listen to messages from their past selves.
- 19:23They are working with veterans, incarcerated individuals at the
- 19:26Cook County Jail and severe trauma survivors.
- 19:29Let's just think about the psychological weight of that for
- 19:31a second. It creates this temporal bubble
- 19:34of unconditional love. You aren't just getting over the
- 19:36past. No, you're interacting with it.
- 19:38If retro causality is real, you are literally mathematically
- 19:42sending an emotional signal back along your own timeline.
- 19:45You are the older wiser voice reaching back into the past,
- 19:49sitting in that small room with the covered windows next to your
- 19:52younger self saying I am here and you are going to survive
- 19:56this. It is emotional retro paisality,
- 19:59just as the photons in her lab received a reverberation from
- 20:02their future state. Humans can send grace and hope
- 20:05back and forth across their own lives to alter their emotional
- 20:08present. That's.
- 20:09Beautiful. It is, and if we synthesize all
- 20:12of this, the takeaways are completely paradigm shifting.
- 20:15Our minds are far more expansive than the rigid strictures of
- 20:18spoken language allow us to realize.
- 20:21The future isn't a blank, impenetrable wall.
- 20:24It is constantly whispering to the present at a quantum level.
- 20:28And most importantly, we possess the inherent power to use that
- 20:32temporal connection not for espionage or warfare, but to
- 20:35heal ourselves. So to you listening right now,
- 20:39next time you get a random inexplicable gut feeling to
- 20:41avoid a certain street, or you have a hyper specific dream that
- 20:45seems to bleed into reality, don't just brush it off as a
- 20:47statistical anomaly. Don't cut the legs off the
- 20:50spherical. Cow.
- 20:50Exactly. It might literally be a
- 20:52transmission from your own future.
- 20:54And I'll leave you with this final concept to Mull over.
- 20:57If time time truly is a Figure 8 loop, and our physical bodies
- 21:01are constantly bracing for the future consequences of choices
- 21:04we haven't even made yet, what does that actually mean for the
- 21:07concept of free will? That's the big question.
- 21:09Are we actually making real time decisions or are we just walking
- 21:12a path, feeling the echoes of a future that has already
- 21:15happened? Are you driving the timeline or
- 21:18just reacting to the loop? Something to think about.
- 21:21Until next time.