[Field Notes] What Happened in 2021? Analyzing A Hidden Wave of Consciousness Shifts
Inquiry with Kelly ChaseShow Notes
Something shifted in 2021 — not just for Kelly, but for an unusual number of people all at once. In this Field Notes episode, she thinks aloud about a pattern she keeps running into: waves of consciousness-altering experiences that clustered around a single year, reported independently, with near-identical features and near-identical language. More than a few people, without any prompting, reached for the exact same phrase to describe what happened to them: a sleeper agent, activated.
She traces the pattern outward — from veteran UFO researcher Stan Gordon's description of 2021 as the year "they opened all the cages at the Cryptid Zoo," to Edgar Mitchell's overview effect, to the measurable weakening of Earth's electromagnetic field and the approaching solar maximum — and keeps arriving at the same question: what changed?
This episode doesn't offer a single answer, just a few working theories held together honestly and the growing sense that 2021 may have been a threshold rather than an anomaly.
If you're a member of the anomalous class of 2021, this one's for you.
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🗒️ About Field Notes
Field Notes are short-form episodes where Kelly thinks aloud—tracing patterns, chasing questions, and working through ideas that haven't yet reached their conclusion. The path of inquiry is messy and non-linear, and Field Notes is where that process lives out loud. For access to the full archive of written Field Notes, visit inquirywithkellychase.substack.com.
Topics explored: Anomalous class of 2021 | consciousness shifts | sleeper agent activation | collective awakening | overview effect | Edgar Mitchell | space psychology | Earth's electromagnetic field | solar cycles | geomagnetic weakening | pandemic isolation | shared reality collapse | threshold events | hundredth monkey effect | cryptid surges | window areas | Stan Gordon | Kecksburg | high strangeness | collective observation | quantum mechanics and perception | reality porosity | precognitive dreams | non-human intelligence contact | experiencer testimony | field notes
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Referenced In This Episode
Here are the episodes where Kelly talks about her anomalous experience in 2021:
Through The Looking Glass [Pt 1]: My Initiation Into The Anomalous
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TIMESTAMPS
01:43 Sleeper Agent Pattern
03:37 Is 2021 a Wave
05:09 Kecksburg Turning Point
06:34 Threshold Consciousness Theory
09:01 Overview Effect Clues
10:40 Earth Field and Solar Cycles
12:43 Pandemic Isolation Theory
15:53 What It Means Going Forward
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