This week I sat down with one of the most genuinely fascinating guests I’ve had on the show. He’s a systems engineer with more than 20 patents, a medical device designer who has commercialized 26 devices across totally unrelated fields, and the guy who built an IV fluid factory in 18 months without any prior pharmaceutical experience. He also happens to be a near-death experience survivor who spent two decades quietly trying to make sense of what happened to him.
I had no idea this conversation was going to go where it went. Pour something good and settle in.
The Jog That Ended in Sudden Death
Alex told me that on the morning of his near-death experience, he went for a routine run. He always finished with a full sprint, and a bystander watched him appear to leap into the air and faceplant on the pavement. What actually happened was that his brain shut off mid-sprint and his legs gave out, so the forward momentum sent him airborne before he hit the concrete.
He arrived at AdventHealth in downtown Orlando classified as dead on arrival. The hospital used a cold ice protocol on him, which I had never heard of before. They drop your internal body temperature to a couple of degrees above freezing, not all the way to zero because of ice crystal formation, and according to the nurse on staff, he was one of the first patients in Florida to be treated that way.
He was in a pure vegetative coma. His brother is a physician on staff at that same hospital, and the neurologist’s only recommendation was to discontinue life support. His family bought the funeral plot next to his parents and made all the arrangements. Then one morning he opened his eyes, extubated himself, and walked out of the rest of his life into a completely different one.
Twenty-Six Patents and the Crazy Man of the Conference Room
Here is the part that floored me. Alex has somewhere around 26 patents, and he says every one of them came after the near-death experience. He doesn’t remember a tunnel of light. He doesn’t remember anything from those three days. But he wakes up in the morning with fully formed inventions in his head, and he charges at them with a sense of urgency he cannot explain.
He jokes that he is the certifiably crazy man of the company, and he is allowed to be because the ideas keep working. He moved from respiration and ventilation to oxygen to disinfection, and then jumped into pharmaceutical manufacturing with no background, and then into writing fantasy. To him it is logical. To everyone else it is insanity. As he put it to me, crazy successful makes up for crazy crazy.
The IV Factory Built Just in Time
The clearest example of this pattern is the IV fluid factory. After selling 3B Medical, the company where he commercialized most of his devices, Alex got an idea that he had to build an IV fluid factory. He had no nexus to pharmaceutical operations. He had never done anything like it. And yet he could see the building, the production line, the whole thing in his head.
Everyone told him a pharma facility takes four to five years to build. He did it in 18 months, pouring the concrete slab and assembling the line and putting the roof on essentially at the same time, in a manic state of urgency he could not justify.
He got his certificate of occupancy in March of 2024. One month later, Hurricane Helene took out the Baxter Healthcare facility in North Cove, North Carolina, which produced about 60% of the IV fluid used in the United States. The dates are in the public record. He was rushing for a reason, and he genuinely does not know where that knowing came from.
Consciousness, Cartoon Strips, and a Different Way to Think About Death
This is where things got really interesting for me. Alex spent 20 years reading everything he could on consciousness and near-death experiences, and he came back with a framework that genuinely changed how I think about all of this.
He pointed me to a book called Flatland, written in the late 1800s. It is a tiny book, maybe a quarter inch thick, that takes a two-dimensional world and imagines what happens when a three-dimensional being visits it. When a cube passes through a flat plane, the inhabitants of that plane see a point, then a growing rectangle, then a shrinking rectangle, then nothing. The cube defies their physics and disappears. It looks like magic. It is just dimensionality.
Then he gave me the analogy that really stuck. Imagine a Peanuts comic strip. To Charlie Brown, his future is the next panel over and he has no idea what is in it. To you, the reader, looking down at the page, his past, present, and future are all visible at once. That is not magic. That is just being one dimension up.
If a higher-dimensional being exists in our reality, it would appear to be outside of time, outside of space, and all-knowing. Those are the attributes we already assign to a Christian God. Alex’s argument is that the spiritual realm and the dimensional realm are the same thing, just described in two different languages.
Orbs, Lights in the Sky, and a Tinfoil Hat Theory
We got into the NHI conversation because there is no avoiding it once you go down this road. Alex separates the phenomena into two categories. The lights in the sky and the metallic craft are, in his view, mostly us. He reads patents for a living, and he says you can find patents for nearly every concept in Star Trek assigned to Lockheed, Northrop, and Raytheon. Warp drive, anti-gravity, all of it.
The orbs, on the other hand, he thinks are real and interdimensional. They are the supernatural element, the angelic side if you want to use that language. He pointed to the congressional testimony from Anna Paulina Luna and the way she leaned on the Book of Enoch, and he made a pretty compelling case that the lights are a psyop and the orbs are the actual phenomenon.
I actually saw orbs here in Philadelphia not too long ago. They were all over the sky, and the White House came out and said something vague about tests. They never really explained it.
The Three Wise Men, Fatima, and a 14th Century UFO Painting
This is where the conversation got really fun. Alex pointed out a 14th century painting that has what looks like a flying saucer above the cross at the crucifixion. He also asked the question I had never thought to ask. The three wise men followed a star. A star does not move across the sky. But an orb does. What if they were following an orb?
He brought up Chris Bledsoe, the UFO experiencer who keeps getting invited to the White House. Bledsoe’s book describes a lady of light he encountered. The description is, according to Alex, essentially identical to the children’s description of Mary at Fatima in 1917. At Fatima the phenomenon was witnessed by 10,000 people, made the New York papers, and included a sun that danced in the sky, which is also a feature of modern UFO accounts.
Whether you frame it through faith or through phenomenology, the descriptions line up. That is the kind of pattern that makes you stop and think.
The Catholic Mass as a Time-Collapse Event
I grew up Catholic, and Alex hit me with something I had never heard before. The actual patristic teaching, going back to the early church fathers, is that at the moment of consecration in the Mass, time collapses and the priest is physically present at the Last Supper. It is not symbolic. It is not figurative. The claim is that every Mass said throughout the world is the same event as the Passion, happening in real time, two thousand years ago and right now simultaneously.
Alex’s argument is that this is non-locality of quantum applied to faith, and almost nobody, including most priests, actually understands what they are claiming. As he put it, you would think most believers would fall on their face if they actually got it.
Pyramids as 19 Hertz Resonance Chambers
The science fiction premise of his novel is built on real physics. Last year, ground-penetrating radar revealed that the Giza pyramid is essentially a capstone sitting on top of two kilometers of unknown structure beneath it. From an acoustical point of view, that is a resonance chamber.
Granite has a natural resonance of 19 hertz. There is a 5,000 year old structure in Malta called the Hypogeum where you can whisper in one room and the sound is amplified through a three-story building, and nobody in 2026 can replicate it. Alex’s premise is that the ancient pyramids around the world, in Egypt, Peru, Alaska, and China, were acoustical transducers, designed to propagate a 19 hertz signal across the planet.
Why 19 hertz? Because it sits at the top of the infrasound range, which is the same frequency band that seismic activity travels through the earth’s crust. Recording equipment in California can pick up earthquakes in China through that band. The waveform is long enough to cross a continent.
The Novel, the Bulldog, and the Hidden Gold Key
All of that is the scaffolding beneath his debut novel The Weight of a Dog. The novel started with a real moment in his life. His bulldog was at his feet wanting to play. His three-year-old granddaughter Luna had climbed onto his lap. He was trying to move her off so he could keep working, and he looked down at his dog and back at his granddaughter and realized he had missed most of his life by working through it. He closed the laptop and got on the floor with them.
The novel is a grief story, a generational trauma story, and a story about presence, all sitting on top of a science fiction premise involving CERN, a frequency war, interdimensional beings, and a dog who turns out to be more than a dog. Alex was clear that it is a slow read because the human drama is the real story, but he engineered the science fiction underneath it the same way he engineers a medical device. It has to actually work.
Here is the part I loved. There is a hidden gold key on his website. If you spot it in the novel and click it on the map at weightofadog.com, you get a dense write-up called The Science and Mythology of Baloo, with all the frequency, resonance, quantum consciousness, and non-locality of consciousness research that informed the story. He hid it because the story does not require it, but he wanted it there for the kind of reader who would go looking. I am that kind of reader.
Where to Find Alex
You can find the novel at weightofadog.com or buy it on Amazon. His portfolio site is alexlucio.me if you want to see the full sweep of his inventions and career.
This was easily one of my favorite conversations of the year. We covered near-death experiences, consciousness, interdimensionality, ancient acoustic engineering, Catholic theology, and a bulldog named Baloo. Listen to the full episode on your podcast platform of choice and watch the video on YouTube @drinkoclock.
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