🌟 What I'm Reading: 12-17-2023 🌟

A Weekly Roundup Highlight Reel of What I Have Been Reading

Dec 17, 2023

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What I'm Reading: 12-17-2023

A Lily Bit

How to Demoralize a Nation

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2 years ago · 69 likes · 13 comments · Lily

A Lily Bit

How to Remember Pearl Harbor

2 years ago · 46 likes · 9 comments · Lily

A Lily Bit

How to Think Like the Elite

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2 years ago · 26 likes · 7 comments · Lily

Arthur Firstenberg

An Autumn's Tale

Imagine a world in which everyone was convinced to point a musical gun at their head, which shot a continuous stream of tiny bullets, so small that they caused no pain. But every bullet destroyed brain cells on its way through the skull. Imagine millions of gun towers strafing the surface of the earth 24/7 with similar bullets, entertaining the people w…

2 years ago · 42 likes · 17 comments · Arthur Firstenberg

The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon

Peering Into History’s Dark Past

It was 305 AD, and Saint Catherine of Alexandria made her grand entrance on stage in front of a large public audience. Next, a big wheel used for carriages was brought out on stage and shown to the crowd. Catherine was placed on the wheel and secured with ties as a Roman executioner picked up a cud…

2 years ago · 62 likes · 56 comments · Charlotte Pendragon

Christine Massey's "germ" FOI Newsletter

CDC FOIA reply re scientific evidence of 1st "virus" ever "isolated" - ask a librarian!

Greetings and Best Wishes, A few months ago Dr Mark Bailey emailed to ask if I had any FOI responses about the alleged “yellow fever virus”. I’d never heard of it but he explained that according to “virus” lore, “it” was the 1st “virus” ever “isolated…

2 years ago · 73 likes · 68 comments · Christine Massey FOIs

Clandestine’s Newsletter

Putin is Waiting for Trump to Return

Putin’s synopsis of the current state of the US is ASTONISHING! He states that the “ruling elite” are behaving like an “empire”, and he is ready to build relations when “fundamental changes” take place.Clandestine’s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber…

2 years ago · 155 likes · 5 comments · Clandestine

Coffee Times

Pain and suffering

2 years ago · 40 likes · 34 comments · Winston

Coherent Reality

The Purpose of a Vibrational Universe

Mainstream science teaches us to perceive the universe as a cold, infinite, and (primarily) void habitat where the second law of thermodynamics tends to rip everything apart. If we don't want to beli…

2 years ago · 12 likes · 5 comments · Jan Wellmann

Cosmographia

Avengers, Architecture!

The other day, I was reading yet another brilliantly funny Not That You Asked post from Tom Fish about his travels (this one on Gaudí’s architecture in Barcelona) and shared a line that particularly tickled me, on Substack No…

2 years ago · 86 likes · 42 comments · M. E. Rothwell

Daniel’s Substack

Yes, the Nazi's Were Leftists: Lying About This Has Led to Unaccountable Power and Hypocritical Tyranny Ever Since

In the ruins of shattered nations at the end of World War Two, a lie was forged in the embers. It would become the defining lie of our age, the One Ring to rule them all and in the darkness bind them. It was the lie that allowed western civilization to be destroyed. It was the lie that led to both the insane stupidities of woke culture and the malign bu…

2 years ago · 23 likes · 15 comments · Jupplandia

Dawn’s Writings

Tis the season to spread truth!

A recent article on the BBC website, entitled Mosquito-borne disease risk looms for UK - study, claims that, “Parts of the UK could become home to mosquitoes capable of spreading dengue fever, chikungunya and zika virus by the 2040s and 2050s, health officials warn…

2 years ago · 29 likes · 5 comments · Dawn Lester

Elliot’s Substack

Exiting The Matrix

If, as it seems that it maybe, that our reality matrix is designed to produce suffering as a narcotic for lower dimensional entities, then we must also consider that by walking the path that leads to the cessation of suffering, to inner knowledge and higher states of consciousness, we make ourselves unsuitable as a source for the production of suffering…

2 years ago · 10 likes · 8 comments · Elliot Murray

The Elysian

Substack shouldn’t decide what we read

For a long time, the internet felt like a hostile place, then I stumbled upon a garden. In the middle of the mire, Substack emerged as a beacon of writing and discourse. It was a garden of learning, where I could find and follow artists and intellectuals, where I could study human flourishing from some of the best minds pursuing it…

2 years ago · 1094 likes · 32 comments · Elle Griffin

The Freedom Scale

Be As Happy—and Grateful—As This Donkey

People complain about the traffic in Los Angeles, and rightly so. It is terrible. Isn’t LA traffic one of the layers in Dante’s depiction of Hell? I think it is. A punishment for vanity, perhaps? I remember all too often being stuck in one spot, not moving—the exit in sight. Ten minutes… Twenty minutes…

2 years ago · 18 likes · 28 comments · Christopher Cook

The Freedom Scale

It Is Happening in Cheran, Mexico.

In yesterday’s post, I noted that We are just at the beginning of a transformation in human society. Because it is just the beginning, many simply will not see it. Others will dismiss it as idealistic, impractical, or a diversion of effort into a quixotic cause…

2 years ago · 13 likes · 12 comments · Christopher Cook

The Freedom Scale

The Myth of the 'Consent of the Governed'

Students of liberty know that the theoretical construct of the ‘implicit social contract’ was one of the fundamental philosophical building bricks underlying not only the American system, but the whole of the modern Western project. Those who continue to carry the philosophical calculus out to its logical conclusions know that this kind of…

2 years ago · 18 likes · 2 comments · Christopher Cook

From Brain to Mind

Picasso’s Blue and Red Cerebral Networks

Even if you’ve never stepped foot into a museum, you’ve heard the name Pablo Picasso. After all, he was one of the most influential painters of the twentieth century. He lived from 1881 to 1973. That’s a long life and he created ridiculously good art from his early youth all the way through his final years on earth…

2 years ago · 10 likes · 3 comments · Marc Arginteanu

How to Survive An Existential Crisis

If Your Loneliness Could Speak, What Would It Say?

13 years ago in a little room in the corner of student housing overlooking a green garden, I felt a sharp ache in my chest. This ache wasn’t a heart attack or even a panic attack. It came from the knowledge I was new in a foreign land, I had no friends here, and it was a particularly cold October. But I wasn’t home sick. I spent a childhood alone with b…

2 years ago · 36 likes · 15 comments · Nikita Gill

I Am Here For It, Whatever It Is.

Plant Medicine, Poison, Spirit, and Operating From Love.

I learned a few things about mystery and spirit in the last couple of weeks.Thanks for reading I Am Here For It, Whatever It Is.! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. I took note of them, and now that I am writing I am having a much easier time integrating and absorbing all the information that has been coming into my brain…

2 years ago · 5 likes · 15 comments · What IS a name, really?

Innovative Technology

Massive Global Art Fraud

Innovative Technology is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Art forgery is a persistent and growing problem in the multi-billion dollar global art market, with fake artworks and fraudulent attributions deceiving collectors and museums worldwide. Experts estimate that 5-1…

2 years ago · 4 likes · Richard

Kingsley L. Dennis's All-in-One

American Gnosis: Neo-Gnosticism & Transcendence

Kingsley Dennis speaks with Arthur Versluis on his recent book 'American Gnosis: Political Religion & Transcendence' on such themes as neo-gnosticism, psychedelic gnosticism and prophetic insights. Includes discussion on such figures as Miguel Serrano, Charles Muses, John Lamb Lash, David Icke, and more... Dr. Arthur Versluis, Professor of Department of…

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2 years ago · 2 likes · Kingsley L. Dennis

KW Norton Borders

Challenging The Coup Détat Of the Planet?

2 years ago · 30 likes · 19 comments · KW NORTON

KW Norton Borders

OUR RESONANT, VIBRATIONAL, ELECTROMAGNETIC & SPIRITUAL SELVES

Something I have gravitated to for a very long time is that we as physical beings are - far more than we commonly recognize - certainly far more than our cultures lead us to believe - rather magical beings. I have a strong educational background in the physiological sciences, math, physics, language, genetics, embryology, and have picked up an understand…

2 years ago · 21 likes · 10 comments · KW NORTON

L5 News

Anthem for the Ama-gi

When I was young, on a course I did steer To change all the world with no sense of fear. To help solve problems that all people face, I invested my skills for the fate of the race. Working with friends and working alone, Learning new facts that had to be known…

2 years ago · 4 likes · 2 comments · Jim Davidson

L5 News

The Morpheus Proposal

When we first meet her, the character Trinity is in a room numbered 303. Throughout the film, "The Matrix" there is a delightful motif of numbers. A little later, we meet the character "Neo" who, we are told is "the one." Obviously, Neo is an anagram of "one." We meet him for the first time in his room, 101…

2 years ago · 8 likes · 6 comments · Jim Davidson

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Mack's Memo • Intuitive Public Radio

You're going to have flows

A lot of other people will have those flows, too. Will we think they can do differently than they’re doing?… …when they can’t? …when they don’t know enough yet, or haven’t found the skill yet, or haven’t overcome the deep-rooted traumatic freeze-or-contrived-performance state yet…

2 years ago · 4 likes · 1 comment · IPR with Mack Morris

Margaret Anna Alice Through the Looking Glass

Dissident Dialogues: Dr. Naomi Wolf

Dr. Naomi Wolf As the author of eight nonfiction bestsellers; cofounder/CEO of DailyClout.io (now on Substack!); and fearless warrior on the battle lines for truth, freedom, humanity, and justice along with her intrepid husband Brian O’Shea, Dr. Naomi Wolf…

2 years ago · 155 likes · 74 comments · Margaret Anna Alice and Dr Naomi Wolf

McKuen Musings

To all our dolphin friends

2 years ago · 5 likes · 3 comments · Michaela McKuen

Memento Mori Alchemy

The Birth of Light

This is part three. The sun has risen, and suddenly, a jolt runs through the body, and we remember something else: Who We Are Thanks for the reminder. We had lingered in darkness long enough. Perhaps a series of experiences led us out of the fog and back toward ourselves, with a few quasi-psychedelic truth bombs to light the way…

2 years ago · 22 likes · 9 comments · Tesstamona

Memento Mori Alchemy

Extracting Medicine from a Skeleton Soul

This is going to be pretty intense, just a heads up. For context: a few months back I recorded this video asking people on multiple social platforms if they had topic recommendations for me to cover on Substack, as I was just starting to apply myself here…

2 years ago · 27 likes · 40 comments · Tesstamona

Memento Mori Alchemy

Guru Nanak's Japji, Kundalini Immersions, and Winter Solstice..

An excerpt from Guru Nanak’s Japji: When the hands, the feet, the whole body becomes dirty, water washes it all away. When the clothes are stained with urine, soap and water removes the stain. But when our psyches are polluted with the dirt that comes from the pain we inflict on others…

2 years ago · 12 likes · 4 comments · Tesstamona

Memento Mori Alchemy

💎 We have begun to remember...

Welcome to Part Two. We are no longer in the savage ocean of Grief’s rock bottom. We are no longer in the dark motel room with a pistol in our hands, wondering what to do next. We are here. We’ve noticed Love. We haven’t quite understood what’s going on yet, and the pain is still great…

2 years ago · 23 likes · 14 comments · Tesstamona

Not That You Asked

Spain Diaries: Gaudí gawping

On the 7th of June 1926, a couple of weeks before his 74th birthday, Antoni Gaudí was quite violently interrupted in his journey to church for his daily prayer. He was hit by a tram. If you were there, witnessing the collision, I can fairly confidently say you wouldn’t grasp the significance of the event happening in front of you…

2 years ago · 24 likes · 14 comments · Tom Fish

Our inner supernova

12.11 - 12.17

Hello! Thank you for reading this and for supporting my work. For those who have ordered 2024 readings, I am making my way through the list and I appreciate your patience :) This last week was finals week at massage school and it went really well ~ now that I’m on break I’ll be able to step with a bit more haste on your readings <3…

2 years ago · 1 like · Meredith

Post Post Modern

Can't Look You In Your Ideology

These are strange days, indeed. And as each day passes, I realize more and more that I am a proud alumni of “The Old School”. The curriculum of said school imbued in me the idea that “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me…

2 years ago · 11 likes · 15 comments · Jacqueline Rendell

Post Post Modern

Celebrating my first 100 subscribers.

Yay me! I did it. And no…I’m not referring to the number of subs I’ve acquired since joining Substack at the end of October. I’m celebrating something much more meaningful. When I joined Substack, I did so out of a desire to make a contribution to the world outside of me; to offer what little I have to give in the hopes it could possibly make a differe…

2 years ago · 22 likes · 15 comments · Jacqueline Rendell

Post Post Modern

Sunday Sparkle #2

It’s that beautiful day again…Sunday. A day of deeper breathing, of crosswords and maybe two cups of coffee instead of just one. In fact, I love doing the NYT Sunday crossword puzzle so much that I have a little song I sometimes sing when I get my hands on one…

2 years ago · 11 likes · 6 comments · Jacqueline Rendell

Ribbonfarm Studio

A Camera, Not an Engine

This essay is part of the Mediocre Computing series Time magazine named Taylor Swift person of the year, and at least one CNN writer thinks (and I suspect many agree) it should have been Sam Altman. I personally think it should have been “AI” itself, the way “PC” was the machine of the year in 1982…

2 years ago · 95 likes · 9 comments · Venkatesh Rao

Rushkoff

Centering the Ineffable

I have been a fan of Carne Ross, disillusioned diplomat turned anarchist organizer, since I was introduced to his work during Occupy Wall Street. He’s the guy who gave secret evidence to a British inquiry into the Iraq war, then quit and founded a democracy and political movement advisory called Independent Diplomat. His book, The Leaderless Revolution…

2 years ago · 12 likes · 1 comment · Douglas Rushkoff

The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Emilbus: Longing for a Radiant Shared Existence

Yesterday I read a long and brilliant piece by The Starfire Codes by Demi Pietchell, The Many Shades of Longing: Examining 'Saudade' and Cultural Variations on a Universal Emotion. It is a dive into how several cultures view this special type of emotion. “Saudade is a beautiful word that distills the human experience of longing, nostalgia, and grief for the departed. Its melancholic resonance has no direct translation.” From reading it I reflected on one of the most important emotions I work with as an artist, a type of longing, that is slightly different than saudade…

2 years ago · 7 likes · 2 comments · Michael Newberry

The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

VISUAL ART IS A PSYOP

[This is a chapter from my book, Evolution Through Art.] PsyOp, psychological operations, is normally a military term about how to covertly manipulate the enemy’s emotions, perceptions, and thoughts, resulting in favorable reactions. A good PsyOp achieves its objectives without the target being aware of the manipulation. Visual art is the original PsyOp, but with a few differences: there is no enemy and the artist achieves this manipulation not as a goal but as a consequence of bringing the artwork into existence. It is the art that transfers the artist’s knowledge affecting the emotions, perceptions and thoughts in the viewer. It is for this reason that art has been called the technology of the soul, and done at its best it triggers an evolutionary state of experience…

2 years ago · 9 likes · 2 comments · Michael Newberry

Solarah Speaks

"PICK-A-HERB"

There is so much wisdom to be gleaned by way of conversing with some of our most ancient ancestors - plants. I hope you enjoy today’s “Pick-A-Herb” spread, and that it opens your heart further into receiving communication from the spirit of flowers. Asé…

2 years ago · 30 likes · 7 comments · Solarah

Startle Magazine w/ Ratio Bradbornius

Lava Lips and Acid Tongues

Greetings Frens! Ratio here… Let’s defrost our frozen hearts and rest before we start again. We pray to the heavenly father our words make a dent in the cabal like an acid attack on their power. To dissolve them into pools of yesterday when our memories were alive with tomorrow…

2 years ago · 82 likes · 58 comments · Ratio Bradbornius

Still in the Storm

In the Name of Science

Welcome to another Still in the Storm Substack post. Today, I want to share a new sort of poem that I wrote about how much we were called to give up “in the name of science” and just how ridiculous it was. Here goes… In the Name of Science They force-masked our children…

2 years ago · 33 likes · 15 comments

Witchcraft and Metaphysics with Jenna Newell Hiott

Weaving Elements: A Collaboration

Welcome to Witchcraft and Metaphysics, where we are building a beautiful community while exploring magic together! I’m so glad you’re here! 🤗 To find out more, check out the About page. My work depends entirely on subscribers, so please sign up. My heartfelt gratitude goes out to those already subscribed. I can’t wait to get to know every one of you…

2 years ago · 18 likes · 27 comments · Jenna Newell Hiott and Hunter Burgtorf

WOODRUFF

Solstice Secrets of the Christmas Tree

You’re reading WOODRUFF. I cover the convergence of pop culture, psychology, and astrology with a bit of the Tarot and dream work tossed into the fray. Join my entourage of 2,800+ subscribers—you’ve been missed…

2 years ago · 9 likes · 8 comments · Frederick Woodruff

Words and Pictures by Pamela Leavey

Daily Affirmations: To Be Prosperous and Abundant

I am abundant. Repeat with me. I am abundant. What a bold statement “I am abundant,” is. It affirms that abundance and prosperity are not limited to material objects. I hope this Daily Affirmation inspires you to look at the abundance in your own life and find gratitude for all that you have in your life…

2 years ago · 38 likes · 27 comments · Pamela Leavey

Work Futures

Layers of Time - Pandemic Time Distortion

2 years ago · 8 likes · Stowe Boyd

ZG Speaks!!!

The Atlantic Has a Sloppiness Problem: A Response to Jonathan Katz, part 2.

“Do you believe Everything you see? Children of the void, Come follow me.” - Nevermore, “Poison Godmachine”. [Preamble: On December 2nd, I posted a response to Jonathan Katz’s article for The Atlantic titled “Substack Has a Nazi Problem”. In it, I was plenty deferential and gave much of the benefit of the doubt, my focus being largely that it was a well-inte…

2 years ago · 33 likes · 21 comments · Ian Nolan

Jim Davidson

Thank you for including two by L5. I am very grateful. God bless you. Amen.

Wow! You read a lot! Good on you.

Shout outs for Lily, Margaret Anna Alice, Tesstamona, and Daniel. Good reads are good.

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Pamela Leavey

Dec 19, 2023

Demi, Big love and thank you for adding me to your Reading List! 💜🪬

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