Cosmic Summit
Three days where a PNAS co-author, a 501(c)(3) comet-research group, and the biggest names in alternative history share one stage — the annual gathering built around the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, staged as entertainment and sold by the seat.
- The organizer's own framing, given to a Rotary Club audience in 2024: 'a science entertainment speaker's conference concerned with alternative interpretations of earth and human history', featuring speakers 'convinced of unacknowledged ancient cosmic impacts and floods in the human past, lost technologies, and speculation based on hundreds of global traditions that speak of a civilization before the disaster.'
- Three editions have been held — June 2023, 2024 and 2025, all in Greensboro. The site's own tally for 2025: 43 speakers, 1,100+ seats filled in person, attendees from 42+ US states; the 2025 event listing claims over 500,000 followers across platforms.
- The 2025 headline roster was Randall Carlson, Dr. Robert Schoch, Ben van Kerkwyk, Dan Richards and Praveen Mohan — described in the event's own listing as carrying 'a combined 16 appearances on the Joe Rogan Experience', which is the credential the copy chooses to lead with.
- 2025's three announced 'big reveals': a second release of acoustic and radar scan data from beneath the Pyramids of Giza by the Italian 'Khafre Project' team, the US premiere of Michael Donnellan's documentary Atlantica ('Atlantis has been found'), and a public display of pre-dynastic Egyptian vases billed as 'arguably the most comprehensive showing of such artifacts since antiquity'.
- Access is priced and public: 2025 day passes were listed at $269 with a published 20% promo code, alongside virtual passes with full replay access — a conference that sells its own recordings as a second product.
- The next edition is 2027. The official site currently reads 'RETURNS · 2027' over a reservation list — no 2026 event — under the standing line 'Deep History · Cosmic Catastrophe · Frontier Science'.
The host's own account, and unusually specific: 30+ years on the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, co-author of the 2007 PNAS paper with 23 other scientists, co-founder in 2015 of the Comet Research Group with Dr. Ted Bunch and Dr. Allen West, founder in 2022 of Cosmic Tusk Productions — the for-profit entity that produces the Summit. He describes himself as a 'non-credentialed but scrappy advocate' and says his scientific work has been cited in over 1,000 academic publications.
The peer-reviewed paper the whole conference descends from: the first published physical-evidence case for a cosmic impact around 12,800 years ago. It is a real paper in a real journal, and it is also contested — which is precisely the tension the Summit stages rather than hides.
The non-profit half of the structure — a donation-funded research network stating that civilization-ending impacts recur far more often than believed and that Earth is 'statistically overdue'. The Summit is its public stage; the two are separately incorporated, one non-profit and one for-profit.
Named here because the host names it himself: he led the 2015–16 field investigation, the resulting paper became one of the journal's most-read, and it was later retracted. His own page calls the retraction 'a display of scientific cowardice'. Both facts belong on the record — the retraction and the framing of it.
The closest thing to an independent mainstream map of the hypothesis and the fight around it — cited so a reader can find the argument from outside the tent, not just from inside it.
The city tourism calendar entry: dates (June 20–23, 2025), venue, headliners, the three reveals, ticket prices and promo codes. Reads as organizer-supplied copy, but it is a dated third-party record of what was promised.
EVERY NAME LINKS TO ITS PAGE ON THE MAP — SEE WHO ELSE CITES IT. NAMING A SOURCE IS NOT ENDORSING IT.
- Why is there no 2026 edition? The site jumps from June 2025 to a 2027 return with a reservation list — a deliberate rhythm change, a production pause, or something else unstated.
- Where does the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis actually stand in the peer-reviewed literature now, nearly twenty years after the 2007 paper — and how much of the conference's programme depends on it holding?
- What were the stated grounds for the Tall el-Hammam retraction, and how do they read against the host's 'scientific cowardice' framing?
- Has the Khafre Project's Giza scan data — presented publicly in the US for the first time at the 2025 Summit — been published or independently assessed since?
- What is the commercial layer around the stage? The Atlas arrived here because a device maker gave a PureWave Cell to a creator at Cosmic Summit, who then disclosed it on air. Who else vends, sponsors, or gifts into that room, and is any of it disclosed by default?
- How do the two entities interact financially — a for-profit production company staging the hypothesis of a donation-funded 501(c)(3) whose co-directors also speak from the stage?
The Summit is charted because of its structure, not its subject matter. A co-author of a real PNAS paper, who calls himself non-credentialed, co-directs a 501(c)(3) research group and separately owns the for-profit company that stages its hypothesis as a three-day show — 'where the truth comes to party', in the site's own words. Peer-reviewed publication, explicit heresy, and entertainment packaging are all present at once, held by the same person. That combination is rare enough to map.
It also earns the Conferences kind its second entry and its clearest case: a gathering is not a place. What makes the Summit consequential is that 1,100 people from 40+ states are in one hotel for three days — the site claims the friendships, expeditions and research collaborations that follow started in the hotel bar. Conferences are where this map's threads physically meet.
The Atlas reached this entry sideways, which is worth saying plainly: it appears in the PureWave Cell entry's source disclosure — the interviewer says on air that he was given the device at Cosmic Summit and carries a discount code for it. A conference is also a distribution channel for the devices this map charts, and that channel is mostly undocumented.
Note what the marketing chooses as proof. Not citation counts, which the host has: 'a combined 16 appearances on the Joe Rogan Experience'. In this territory the podcast is the credential, and the copy says so out loud.
When is the next one, and what does it cost to be in the room?
Three editions held — June 2023, 2024, 2025, all at the Sheraton Greensboro / Koury Convention Center. The official site now says the Summit returns in 2027 (no 2026 edition), with a reservation list open. 2025 day passes were listed at $269 plus virtual replay passes; 43 speakers and 1,100+ in-person seats claimed for that year.
Report from the field →PureWave Cell
A locked array of neodymium magnets arranged on sacred-geometry principles, described as emitting a coherent low-frequency field — given free to beekeepers, sold to the public.
Science and Alchemy of Consciousness (France)
A real, currently-running annual multi-day conference and retreat — its 5th year in 2025 — bringing the Implosion Group's device makers, theorists, and practitioners together at one venue for lectures, device demonstrations, and communal meals.