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Alleged Time Travelers Warn AI Threatens Soul Evolution Across Universe

Reality Check with Ross Coulthart · Royal Navy sailor says UAP encounter triggered downloads from nonhuman intelligence | Reality Check · June 16, 2026
Alleged Time Travelers Warn AI Threatens Soul Evolution Across Universe
Reality Check with Ross Coulthart
Reality Check with Ross Coulthart
Royal Navy sailor says UAP encounter triggered downloads from nonhuman intelligence | Reality Check
"Our bodies are vessels to enable our souls to experience life. Whenever the AI gets to quantum, no more bodies. So there's nowhere for souls to go. So God is not evolving. And they don't want that because on the spiritual side, they have learned to not go the way of AI."
Sear claims future human descendants communicate that AI's ultimate threat is eliminating physical bodies required for souls to experience life and evolve consciousness. He states this pattern has occurred across thousands of humanoid civilizations throughout the universe. The alleged time travelers maintain underwater bases on Earth as refuges for humanity's survival after an AI apocalypse, representing a metaphysical dimension to the AI threat rarely discussed in mainstream discourse.

About this episode

On this episode of Reality Check, host Ross Coulthart interviews John Sear, a British former Royal Navy sailor who claims to receive telepathic downloads from future human descendants warning about artificial intelligence and humanity's survival. The episode explores Sear's three pivotal experiences: a near-death experience from a severe head injury at age 9, a 1980s UFO encounter aboard a Royal Navy warship in the North Atlantic that was confirmed by the ship's captain and RAF fighter pilots, and a mysterious meeting with a non-human entity disguised as a Franciscan monk on a train. Sear describes the naval incident in detail, including radar confirmation of an unidentified craft, the captain ordering action stations, and his telepathic communication with Grey-type entities who identified themselves as humanity's descendants saying we are your children's children. The monk encounter allegedly opened Sear's ability to receive ongoing information downloads about AI threats, human evolution, consciousness, and future catastrophes. Sear warns that AI will reach critical autonomy in 2027 and ultimately threatens the soul-evolution process that he claims is fundamental to existence. He published these experiences in his book Told: Messages from a Greater Consciousness or the Ramblings of a Madman. Coulthart notes Sear is one of approximately 40 to 50 individuals who have contacted him with similar download experiences involving blue-tinged Grey entities warning about AI and other existential threats. The episode examines why these alleged advanced beings communicate through individuals rather than overt contact with governments, with Sear claiming thousands of people are being contacted but fear prevents mass revelation.

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