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Investigative reporter and Emmy award winning producer Linda Moulton Howe brings a rich and varied spectrum of inquiry, looking beneath the surface of the multitude of mysteries that have coincided with our reality for decades.
Though her work has focused on the exploration and exposure of the ET and UFO phenomenon, her travels down this path have taken her ever deeper into the proverbial rabbit hole of reality.
This time we tackled the subject of our universe as a computer simulation – AKA, the “simulation theory.” Are we living in a virtual reality? This was the theme of a talk she gave while at the 2017 Contact in the Desert event in Joshua Tree California, and one that we enthusiastically continued well into the following day while on-location at Contact!
Watch this episode on YouTube!
Here are some details about the most excellent talk that she presented at Contact.
“Some abductees have reported that ETs describe our universe as a 3-D hologram projected from another dimension by a Super Intelligence.
Quantum computer engineers and astrophysicists ask: ‘Are we living in a computer simulation universe?’
The Hayden Planetarium in New York in April 2016 hosted a debate on the question, ’Is the Universe A Simulation?’ James Gates, Ph.D., a theoretical physicist said, ‘If the simulation hypothesis is valid, then we open the door to eternal life and resurrection and things that formally have been discussed in the realm of religion.’
Michael Talbot wrote in his 1991 The Holographic Universe: ‘… there is evidence to suggest that our world and everything in it — from snowflakes to maple trees to falling stars and spinning electrons — are also only ghostly images, projections from a level of reality so beyond our own it is literally beyond both space and time.’”
Important links from this episode
2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Is the Universe a Simulation? – American Museum of Natural History
Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? – Scientific American
The Coming Technological Singularity – San Diego State University
What Traveling Through a Stargate is Like feat. Jerry and Kathy Wills – The Vinny Eastwood Show
The Day After Roswell – Philip J. Corso
A Physicist Thinks Our Universe Is Simulated (Part 1) – earthfiles.com
NASA Physicist Tom Campbell: “We Live in a Virtual Reality, PRESS START & Play the Game of Life – Red Pill Philosophy
New Quantum Theory Could Explain the Flow of Time – wired.com
Michael Talbot – Part 1 Complete- Synchronicity and the Holographic Universe – Thinking Allowed
Linda Moulton Howe is a graduate of Stanford University with a Masters Degree in Communication. She has devoted her documentary film, television and radio career to productions concerning science, medicine and the environment.
Ms. Howe has received local, national and international awards, including three regional Emmys and a national Emmy nomination. Those films have included Poison in the Wind and A Sun Kissed Poison which compared smog pollution in Los Angeles and Denver; Fire In The Water about hydrogen as an alternative energy source to fossil fuels; A Radioactive Water about uranium contamination of public drinking water in a Denver suburb; and A Strange Harvest which explored the worldwide animal mutilation mystery which has haunted the United States and other countries from the mid-20th century to date.
Linda has also received honors as a medical producer in Boston’s WCVB Station Excellence Peabody Award, received the Aviation & Space Writers Association Award for Writing Excellence in Television, Sigma Delta Chi Excellence In Journalism Award, a Chicago Film Festival Golden Plaque for A Radioactive Water, a national Emmy Award nomination for Poison in the Wind and A Sun Kissed Poison.
Linda was honored with the Colorado Florence Sabin Award for “outstanding contribution to public health” and received three regional Emmys for Writing Achievement, Directing and Sound Editing for her documentary investigations: Fire in the Water, A Radioactive Water and A Strange Harvest.
Linda also received Ohio State Awards for Fire in the Water and Borrowed Faces and actor Robert Redford, founder of the Sundance Film Festival and prominent environmentalist, presented Linda with a Citizens Participation Award from the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency for television documentaries about air pollution and energy alternatives to fossil fuels.
Linda has also received national and international honors including the Cine Golden Eagle presented to Borrowed Facesfor “excellence to represent the United States in international motion picture events abroad.”
Visit Linda’s website at: earthfiles.com
Selma Syrek
June 27, 2026 @ 12:52 pm
Hi Linda and Alexis. I hope you both are well. I am a contactee (Selma Syrek – Jewelry/Graphic designer) recently featured in an “Ancient Aliens” show: “The Abduction Files” 2025.
My show segment references, “The Classroom” – my experiential classes (with Nordic/Gray teachers) that are often shared with other contactees – focused on exploring the ancient Vedic concept of “Indra’s Jewel Net” as our Holographic Cosmos of Quantum Entanglement, which I equate with the ancestor version of the “Simulation Hypothesis”.
As students we were trained to maintain a ” mind over matter” approach via yoga practice (ultimately producing paranormal skills such as telepathy, psi perception, and remote viewing, etc.). It was during these classes that I became suspicious that I had entered a visually “pixelated” or codified matrix reality (Indra’s Net) as a “simulation” program.
My first class was initiated when (at five years old) I encountered a small gray entity jumping from my bed, running away from me (myself in pursuit) and now jumping midair to subsequently “transform” itself into a brilliant ball of bluish light – that “flew” and penetrated a wooden door…vanishing from my view but never from my memory!
What is the ultimate agenda of this Nordic/Gray alliance? Was this Indra’s Net Simulation program inserted into our inherent “Quantum Computer-like” universe to eventually influence and guide Humanity’s future and evolution?
I have further experiential graphic art I would like to share. I thank you both for your brave and inspiring research, especially on this extreme topic of the Simulation Hypothesis!
Thank you again,
Selma Syrek, Contactee
Alexis Brooks
July 10, 2026 @ 10:29 am
Hello Selma,
Thanks so much for reaching out.
Hard to believe that episode I did with Linda was almost 10 years ago, but I recall our conversation and actually just referenced the story she told about Jerry Wills on a recent panel I did.
You have a remarkable story. I’d love to know more. First, can you share a link to the Ancient Aliens episode you did? Also, feel free to reach out to me directly to chat more: alexis@higherjourneys.com.
I look forward to hearing from you!
– Alexis