#780 – Wayne Purdin – Contact, Visions, Prophecy and the Golden Age

Key topics

• Wayne says his first UFO sighting happened on June 5, 1967, during a regional blackout, and he describes a large craft with several bright lights as a Pleiadian ship.
• He says that during that sighting he prayed for guidance and received a telepathic message: “you will find a teacher.”
• Wayne recounts a second sighting in September 1967 of a silent cigar-shaped craft near Waterford, Connecticut.
• He says the next morning he heard multiple corroborating cigar-shaped UFO reports on talk radio, including one report of a craft splitting in half and another involving a person in a shiny spacesuit.
• He explains his background with APRO and NICAP, saying he investigated newspaper sightings and interviewed witnesses with a large tape recorder.
• The conversation shifts into meditation and spiritual development, including Wayne’s move away from UFO investigation and into Transcendental Meditation and later teaching.
• Wayne discusses a meditative near-death experience where he encountered the goddess Durga, described a dweller or personal demon blocking access, and said the obstacle was overcome through devotion and love.
• He draws a clear distinction between spiritual contact and extraterrestrial contact, arguing that devotion and consciousness determine what kind of beings someone attracts.
• Wayne says he believes his 1967 message about meeting a teacher was fulfilled decades later when he met Ananda Devi Ma, whom he identifies as a co-author and spiritual guide.
• The bulk of the episode focuses on his prophecy work, especially his book Twenty Thirty Five Golden Ageand his timeline centered on September 9 to 11, 2029.
• He explains three different methods he used to derive the date, including a calculation from his own visions, a Daniel prophecy reference, and patterns in the Jewish calendar.
• Wayne argues that the coming period could involve mass evacuation, tribulation, or mitigation depending on collective karma and prayer.
• Graham and Darren repeatedly challenge and clarify whether the prophecy is fixed, symbolic, or something that can still be changed by consciousness and preparation.