🌟 What I'm Reading: 4-14-2024 🌟

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Apr 14, 2024

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What I'm Reading: 4-14-2024

The Anglofuturist

Is the Early 21st Century of 'Blade Runner' (1982) Better Than the One We Got?

Blade Runner (1982) is one of my all time favourite films. Basically inventing the Cyberpunk genre, it continues to present one of the most aesthetically unique depictions of a futuristic society in cinematic history. The story and themes of the film are of course fantastic, with it asking profound questions about artificial intelligence and what it mean…

a year ago · 19 likes · 10 comments · John Arcto

Pig Rush (1960) by Leonora Carrington Obnoxiousness is one of my core values. I was outside pulling grass out of the gravel in my driveway when I had this insight. When I say something faintly off-kilter or boundary-pushing… Let’s not call it boundary…

a year ago · 107 likes · 21 comments · Heather Havrilesky

Austin’s Substack

Why Motivation is Linked with Energy Flow...

Why can’t I just get motivated? Well this may be one of the greatest or most prevalent questions of our time. Why don’t I just do better in life? Etc. etc…. These are common variations of the issue that we all experience within life. If you don’t stop and think then you will think that these two things are unrelated. You could be just confused as a…

a year ago · 1 like · Austin Muhs

Becoming a Butterfly

Self Love, the key to everything

I could feel it. I mattered. Really mattered. Becoming a Butterfly is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. My eyes were closed while I listened to the soft sound of Alex’s voice…

a year ago · 12 likes · 14 comments · Terra Brooke

You want to believe in God but you can't

You want to believe in God but your intellect prevents it. First, allow me to relieve you of a burden: you cannot force yourself to believe. Faith is a gift, not a work of man. But know this: the insurmountable gulf which you imagine stands between your present doubt and deep faith does not exist…

a year ago · 211 likes · 55 comments · Johann Kurtz

Beyond the Visible

Rediscovering the Inner Landscape

This entry is part of a series on “The Hero’s Journey from Trauma to Freedom”: Prologue: The Intentional Invitation. 1. Overcoming Past Patterns. 2. Meeting the Catalyst. 3. Crossing into the Unknown. 4. Rediscovering the Inner Landscape… Growing up as an only child taught me early on how to be alone. Those quiet hours turned into a deep dive into my own…

a year ago · 3 likes · Alex de Carvalho

The Big Bang Tango

Are Video Games Therapy?

A story broke in Newsweek magazine April 10th claiming that a study in a high prestige medical journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA Psychiatry, revealed that teenagers who spend a lot of time playing video games and who use their computers heavily are more likely to have a psychotic episode…

a year ago · 1 like · Howard Bloom

THE ROMAN EMPIRE WAS BAD THE FIRST TIME AROUND

a year ago · 57 likes · 31 comments · Frances Leader

Born on the Fourth of July

The Magic of Sex

Sex is a mess in America. Gender confusion is ever more apparent. Dating has become problematic in myriad ways. The sexual divide increasingly becomes the political divide, young women becoming more liberal, young men becoming more conservative. Marriage is increasingly rare and more rarely lasting. Americans are not breeding at anything like replacemen…

a year ago · 32 likes · 42 comments · William Hunter Duncan

The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon

Thanks for reading The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Thank you Amy Rosebush 🌹 for giving me much inspiration and information to create some of the wonderful images used in this article! I’m having fun…

a year ago · 87 likes · 66 comments · Charlotte Pendragon

Chas Holloway's Thinkopolis

The Idea Stealers

Click to Play Audio The Idea Stealers by Chas Holloway A pirate culture that wants to take over the world…

a year ago · 1 like · Chas Holloway

Christine Massey's "germ" FOI Newsletter

Don't fall for the "avian influenza virus" hoax!

Greetings and Best Wishes, No one has valid scientific evidence to show that "avian influenza virus" H5N1 (or any other alleged “virus”) even exists. Here is a Notice of Conditional Acceptance for farmers (to be adapted for your own “country”), thanks to Calvin Perrins and Michael O'Bernicia…

a year ago · 129 likes · 149 comments · Christine Massey FOIs

A Convict's Perspective

Guns in Scare Quotes

“We need more restrictive laws to address gun crime” -Some of you “I wish a dirtbag criminal would break into my home” -also some of you I know you can't hear us all the way down here in the gutter but we're laughing so hard that my homies can barely breathe…

a year ago · 185 likes · 219 comments · Coleman

A Convict's Perspective

How I Got Branded "Con Solo" on Twitter

How do y'all like the little Harrison Ford's movies gif? Except that's not Harrison Ford, it's me. Everyone was using that Face swap app back then so I gave it a try. I posted this on Twitter laughing my ass off and some monster account put up a Poll asking her followers if I should keep my handle “Justacon” or change it to “Con Solo”. It got about 30k vo…

a year ago · 119 likes · 43 comments · Coleman

Chewsday Memes, Apr 9

Good time of day, humans! This is a small rat’s nest of memes I’ve snatched lately (mostly from Xitterverse) – some serious, some not so much. Contains animals, aliens, four horsemen and two alpacas. Enjoy…

a year ago · 54 likes · 9 comments · Rat

A Prime Time For 13 And 17

Dad Explains is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Cicadas In the deep, rhythmic cycles of the earth, where nature whispers ancient tales of birth and decay, the numbers 13 and 17 stand as enigmatic sentinels guarding the secrets of time and transformation…

a year ago · 18 likes · 5 comments · Andrew | Dad Explains

Dad Memes By Popular Demand: Sad Harmonica Solo

Let’s have some fun! I’m on the bandwagon and presenting an eclectic mix of memes. None of which I created. All of which I may have giggled at or thought useful. Dad themed only because I am a Dad. Enjoy. IF YOU LIKE ANY OF THESE, RESTACK (And steal them, of course. Like I said, these aren’t mine so… do the meme thing…

a year ago · 76 likes · 9 comments · Andrew | Dad Explains

Don't Wake The Dragon, I Don't Want To Be Angry

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. Ralph Waldo EmersonDad Explains is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I Stay Angry Anger isn't typically my cup of tea. I much prefer the warmth of happiness—odd, I know…

a year ago · 30 likes · 11 comments · Andrew | Dad Explains

Wonderful, My Son

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. Albert EinsteinDad Explains is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber…

a year ago · 38 likes · 20 comments · Andrew | Dad Explains

Disaffected Newsletter

Everything is weird now

New Normal has degraded our manners, our expectations, our work ethic, the availability of basic products, and much more. It has also made lots of things weird. Like this restaurant up the road from me. I live in the country about two miles outside Montpelier, Vermont. My route to get to the major highway takes me through classic New England hamlets of…

a year ago · 111 likes · 58 comments · Josh Slocum

In service of writers

Every few months, I get to spend some time in New York, and I use it to meet with as many writers as I can. I cajole them over beers to start a substack. I ask them over lunch how I can make their lives better. Sometimes, I just want to hang out with them because I like their work…

a year ago · 228 likes · 120 comments · Hamish McKenzie

Down the Wombat Hole

Finding Peace in Celestial Chaos

For this final instalment of our April Astrological Archetype series (I do have one final Eclipse Day surprise for you, fellow Diggers), we are going back to basics: what is the fundamental meaning of a Total Solar Eclipse, and where does its location in the visible sky guide us…

a year ago · 10 likes · 7 comments · Isaac Middle

Of Pisco and Peru: Iquitos

Auntie M’s brother, Juan, sits stone-faced next to me as we sip cheap beers and stare out the window at giggling children chasing the family dog in and out of the communal housing shacks. Martha, Juan’s wife, sits across from Auntie M as they play tarot at the table nestled behind us on the other side of the room…

a year ago · 12 likes · EpicGonzo

the essence of a thing

Astrology, Darwinian Truths, and Biochemistry in the Womb

Lying in bed, she turns to me and says “I don't take the astrology stuff seriously, it's just fun. Don’t judge me.”. I appreciated her overture, we had discussed astrology earlier and she could tell I, like most men, wasn’t exactly into it. I'm used to most women believing in it, so it’s not a big deal. But I felt like trying to meet her halfway…in my …

a year ago · 8 likes · 4 comments · BackTheBunny (dmitry)

Everyday Living

When People Wrong You

If you are like many people, you have experienced something that is common yet unsettling: people who have been good to you suddenly change and do something that disadvantages or harms you. It could be a spouse or a friend. It could be family or someone you consider a close associate. These people have been good to you, and y…

a year ago · 196 likes · 125 comments · Patrick Muindi

Existential Espresso

Do You Even Know What Confidence Looks Like?

I have a beef with you. Yes, yes, you. You reading this right now. Don’t act all surprised now. How can you say you are not a confident person? Do you even know what a confident person looks like? The way you are making yourself smaller than you are has been bothering me lately. So let’s talk about it…

a year ago · 16 likes · 1 comment · Recovering Overthinker

Existential Espresso

How Self-Hate Can Lead to Personal Growth

Shame, self-punishment, self-loathing, beating yourself up—they can all be catalysts for growth. “Okay, David. You’re taking it too far now with finding the good in every negative experience.” Trust me, this is not forced or fake optimism. Just the reality of human nature. And there are a lot of uncomfortable things we will have …

a year ago · 6 likes · 1 comment · Recovering Overthinker

Forbidden Science

I Was Wrong About the Covid Vaccines — and It Ended Up Likely Harming Me

[Reprinted, with some additional references added, from my X account circa September 2023.] I had 2 Moderna vaccinations and a booster and was hospitalized for acute pericarditis last year. I was afraid for my life. The medical community minimized vaccine myopericarditis in young men early on. This we now know was a serious mistake. Back in those days, C…

a year ago · 37 likes · 11 comments · Kevin Bass

Melancholia: the Beautiful Sadness

I have dealt with depression for several decades. Depression is a demon, a possession, a temporary killing of the soul. But there is a different kind of sadness that I experience from time to time that is strangely pleasant, it is Melancholia. Melancholia is vastly different from depression, it is old fashioned, literary. It is a beautiful sounding word…

a year ago · 4 likes · 2 comments · Frater Seamus

The Numbers Game

I have a numbers problem. I have become somewhat obsessive about the numbers I am producing as a content creator. This is not a unique problem as we all know. But it is a problem that I have been trying very hard to develop a healthy perspective on…

a year ago · 3 likes · 4 comments · Frater Seamus

The Freedom Scale

Break Free. Destroy Your Inner NPC.

Here in 2024, democracy is a power-word whose mere invocation can silence all debate… It is a KnownFact™ that it is the ultimate evolution in human governance.The Freedom Scale is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber…

a year ago · 70 likes · 99 comments · Christopher Cook

Gallows Humor Magazine

Pete Buttigieg in Disturbing Conventional Affair with Attractive Biological Female

SOUTH BEND, IN—In a development sending shockwaves through the Democratic Party establishment, a private investigative firm has documented Pete Buttigiege in more than a dozen romantic liaisons with 29-year-old waitress Tammy Barnsworth. Ms. Barnworth was not born male and she is not a minority, a dominatrix, morbidly obese, wheelchair bound, or a drug a…

a year ago · 98 likes · 24 comments · Gallows Humor Magazine

we sometimes overlook the dynamic system of interactions that make a human being— if a child struggles, it was the parent’s struggle if a student is lacking, it’s the teacher’s lack — sibling to sibling, friend to friend, lover to lover… if a worker is languishing…

a year ago · 116 likes · 40 comments · Franco Amati

Good Tuna by Jeremy

"There is nothing you’ve been shown that you did not need to see." Well, Life has been picking scabs showing all these sights to me. "If there's itching, then there's healing." Well, why's my healing hard to see? Am I learning? Growing wise? It doesn't feel that way to me. "Wise is not …

a year ago · 34 likes · 25 comments · Jeremy Johnson

Hacking Narcissism

How to pushback against someone who wants revenge

So far I’ve written and spoken about interpersonal narcissism and how to avoid replaying the same tangled mess with those who want ultimate control over you, and how to successfully respond to their attempts to overpower you. In writing about the strategies of disentanglement, I have steered away from describing the need for and actions toward retributi…

3 years ago · 28 likes · 12 comments · Nathalie Martinek PhD

Hacking Narcissism

Why do women bully other women in the workplace?

2 years ago · 8 likes · 38 comments · Nathalie Martinek PhD

Hal Johnson Books

A garland of quotations XXXV

All the Chinese bandits having chopped off all the foreign ears, we have time not only to consider the subject Atrocity, but the subject Bandits, and the subject Missionaries, and the subject Foreigners, and the subject Chinese. All politicians who are going to be elected have been elected; and all the artificial excitement in events which no one really…

2 years ago · 2 likes · Hal Johnson

Kaya's Self Liberation Portal

Dream Journeys with the Inner Child - Opening the Gateway to the Creative Spirit

Kaya's Self Liberation Portal is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. During a recent transformative time in my life, (my second dark night which I’ve been slowly popping out the other side of now), I made the choice to take my creative impulse seriously and began allowing …

a year ago · 12 likes · 3 comments · Kaya Marie

Kaya's Self Liberation Portal

The Habits You Created to Survive Will No Longer Serve You When it's Time to Thrive

Kaya's Self Liberation Portal is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The habits you created to survive are probably very deeply ingrained in your mind and body. I wouldn’t recommend just casting them off without replacing them with new resources…

a year ago · 8 likes · Kaya Marie

Kaya's Self Liberation Portal

Stop Trying to Vibrate Highly and Start Striving to Vibrate Authentically

Kaya's Self Liberation Portal is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. We often attempt to apply the antidote to negative emotional experience too soon. There is this whole trend around transforming negative core beliefs by imposing some kind of analytically structured proces…

a year ago · 6 likes · Kaya Marie

KW Norton Borders

THE ART OF DECEPTION - IRON FIST IN A VELVET GLOVE

THE IRON FIST IN A VELVET GLOVE These are particularly dark and dangerous times as most of us are aware. There are many forces out there which seek to dominate, to deceive and to further domesticate us for their own gain. Best to be aware of all of the ways in which they do this in order to engage in protective endeavors to keep us out of harms way…

a year ago · 20 likes · 2 comments · KW NORTON

KW Norton Borders

THE WORLD OF STAR SEEDS

As you all know you are the part of an immense transformation. The world - and all of us on it - have outgrown the old world - the one based on anger and fear and suspicion. We read the signs - and the signs show are that we are becoming transformed - as part of this metamorphosis and transformation - we can feel it all unfolding within ourselves…

a year ago · 25 likes · 15 comments · KW NORTON

The fact is, the frontier turns men into a peculiar type of free man. ~ Frederick Jackson Turner, The Closing of the American Frontier, 1893 There is a particular set of effects that a frontier has on the human soul. It gives us prospects, a place to go, and ways to grow that are not available without a frontier. These facts are in our very nature, in the…

a year ago · 11 likes · 7 comments · Jim Davidson

LawyerLisa’s Substack

Climate Lockdowns Germany 2024

You need to think outside the box regarding how climate Lockdowns or 15 minute cities might arrive, how they might look. Just like covid started as 2 weeks to flatten the curve, climate Lockdowns will be as insidious. This is the same play- To incrementally accustom us to totalitarian governance…

a year ago · 33 likes · 10 comments · LawyerLisa

Lies are Unbekoming

I'm always interested in those who blend disciplines. They are always closer to the truth. Those who work to repair the damage done by compartmentalization and hyper-specialization. Veronika's work does just that, as it synthesizes elements of spirituality, philosophy, psychology, mythology, and so much more…

a year ago · 34 likes · 11 comments · Unbekoming

The Library of Celaeno

Considerations on the Yamato

The Library of Celaeno is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Thank you for reading The Library of Celaeno. This post is public so feel free to share it. Reading The Brothers Krynn…

a year ago · 78 likes · 47 comments

The Library of Celaeno

Some Notes on Reading Old Texts

The Library of Celaeno is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Thank you for reading The Library of Celaeno. This post is public so feel free to share it. In the course of my recent research on the Septuagint a number of things occurred to me that I thought it might be usefu…

a year ago · 63 likes · 16 comments · Librarian of Celaeno

Logan's Substack

"It Shouldn't Have Been This Hard"

Coming right of the gate with a link this week! It Shouldn’t Have Been This Hard by Darrell Owens I often joke that the Youtube algorithm “radicalized” me by dumping me down the urbanism rabbit hole. The truth of the matter though, is that coming to understand urbanism gave me a different perspective that was essential in my de-radicalization from the fa…

a year ago · 11 likes · 2 comments · Logan Bryck

CDC Releases 780,000 COVID Vaccine Injury Reports

After years of pretending COVID-19 vaccines were safe, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released a second batch of 390,000 free-text entries from its V-safe database showing the shots are anything but. An earlier batch of 390,000 entries was released in February. (This is just 780,000 reports of the 7.8 million slated to be …

a year ago · 326 likes · 124 comments · Megan Redshaw

Intermittent Fasting Could Kill You? 🤡

The American Heart Association (AHA)—an organization with a long history of conflicts of interest—is back with some fabulous research absolutely nobody should take seriously. The organization, with an impressive list of conflicts of interest, is making headlines again after…

a year ago · 25 likes · 9 comments · Megan Redshaw

A Message From The Universe

What wants to flow?

To stand in the river and try to halt the torrent..? . What might allowing mean to you here? . With love, The Universe x Thank you for being here xx If you’d like to support this publication & get exclu…

a year ago · 38 likes · 8 comments · The Universe

Michael Mohr's Sincere American Writing

Hell’s Angels, Revisited (Hunter S. Thompson’s 1967 Classic, Part 2)

Michael Mohr's Sincere American Writing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. *Please subscribe to a wonderful Substack writer who deserves support: constanze price. She did a beautiful, reflective review of my YA novel, The Crew…

a year ago · 14 likes · 2 comments · Sincere American Writing

The Middle Finger Project

God, I'm Going to Explode

You know what’s the worst? When you catch yourself playing it safe, even though you have better ideas. You have better business ideas. Better, more exciting ideas. Better things to do with your time. You have better potential. Better ambitions. Better hopes for your future self…

a year ago · 50 likes · 18 comments · Ash Ambirge

Reading and Writing in the Apostolic Age

For both Jews and Gentiles, books were central to the function of religion, government and everyday life in first century Palestine. Jews honored books as the means by which God had ordained to write the Ten Commandments and to preserve the oral traditions of the patriarchs and prophets. Greeks and Romans maintained a thriving literary culture centered …

a year ago · 8 likes · 4 comments · Kaleb Hammond

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Photo Challenge - Passion Projects

Last week we did a more candid theme, which encouraged you to get out there and take some new photos, this week won’t be much different. However, if you have a lot of photos of your passion projects already, go ahead and submit, though I always encourage brand new photos you take specifically for this challenge…

a year ago · 35 likes · 13 comments · Patrik L

Normal Island News

Americans astonished to survive terrifying solar eclipse

The highest IQ nation on earth, the United States of America, experienced a terrifying situation today when the sun disappeared behind the moon for a few minutes, sparking fears it might never come back. Thanks to astonishing breakthroughs in science, Americans were able to predict the eclipse, but they had no idea what would happen next so they resorte…

a year ago · 401 likes · 88 comments · Laura K

Not that Rob Thomas

'The Roundup: Punishment' punches above its weight

It’s not often you hear an audience cheer for a production company logo. But a cheer rippled through the crowd at Madison’s Barrymore Theater on Tuesday night when the logo for Korean action star Don Lee’s production company appeared on screen. The name of the company? “Big Punch Pictures…

a year ago · 1 like · Rob Thomas

The Obsolete Man

The Uncertainty Principle

Not long ago, I decided to reread Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". The novel takes place over the course of one day and follows the thoughts and activities of a prisoner in a Soviet labor camp during Stalin’s rule. While the novel is fictional, it draws heavily from the actual prison experience that Solzhenitsyn endured…

a year ago · 43 likes · 12 comments · The Obsolete Man

On the Road of Bones

The Rules of Engagement

As I get older, I tend to reflect on the past more. I like to think about “Sliding Doors”. You know, that movie where Gwyneth Paltrow goes through the sliding door and also missed going through the sliding door, and her life was completely different, dependent on whether she went through it or not? I think about those times in life where an alternate decision could have had massive reverberations throughout my life and whether I’d be living in the Butterfly Effect with a different existence than now. Not that I want a different outcome than what I have now, but the science, theory, and philosophy behind it all interests me. Wouldn’t you want to look into alternate realities of your existence if you could? Let’s not even get into how dreams are theorized to be images from those alternate realities that your subconscious mind is tapping into when you sleep. And then sometimes, I just want answers to questions that lingered from the past. Curiosity and/or closure…

a year ago · 6 likes · 7 comments · The Bone Writer

On Repeat by Kevin Alexander

Travel Talk & Airline Dirt

This is the On Repeat Records newsletter. We don’t run ads here. On Repeat is made entirely possible through the support of our paid supporters. You can back independent ad-free music journalism for less than $1 a week. Good Morning! For our Friday, we’re doing something a little different. Today, I’m joining the …

a year ago · 22 likes · 9 comments · Kevin Alexander

Post Post Modern

Never Had A Reason

I have to be honest. I’ve had this idea for a song- this exact recording I’m posting- kicking around inside my head and my Garageband files for well over five years now. I have long thought that I would add a second verse to it some day, and just…well…MORE to this recording, but I woke up today with a strong cup of clarity…

a year ago · 37 likes · 41 comments · Jacqueline Rendell

Proton Magic & Co.

Proton Magic Chases Virus Thru Time Tunnel⌚

Today we will have some good clean fun with Dr. Marian Laderoute. In the thread below, when pushed by PM that her her 2015 HERV-k102 virus particles were “putative”, the next day she stated that they were,“isolated” in 2007. So this means, they were not isolated on Monday, they then traveled back in time to 2007 to get isolated so that on Tuesday Mari…

a year ago · 49 likes · 41 comments · Proton Magic

The Rabbit Hole

The Truth About Conspiracy Theories

The flaw in the mathematical proof that large conspiracies cannot last long is simply this: It's based on the FALSE assumption that if even one member of the conspiracy spills the beans, the result can only be that the conspiracy is exposed and thus flouted. The truth is that that's almost NEVER the case when the conspirators have sufficiently high soci…

2 years ago · 134 likes · 11 comments · Alan Lovejoy

Reina’s Substack

Spirit Eclipsing Answers

If U have been keeping up with my recent short stories, then U know, they kinda go in succession & the general theme starts here: Then more in depth here: So this is where I'm at, and as I've stated before; 1st the minute U follow your intuition, your ego wants to jump in with all the reasons it's not a good idea, 2nd I'm hardheaded as hell, and 3rd while…

a year ago · 16 likes · 6 comments · Blessed Warrior Reina

Roots & Wings with Frank Furedi

Woke Is Not The Problem – It Is The Symptom Of Something Far Worse

Not sure if you have heard of the term decivilization. The Oxford English Dictionary defines decivilization as ‘The process or condition of losing civilization’. The OED’s first citation of this term refers to an article in The North American Review in November 1878. Since that time the term has been rarely used. Why? Because for many …

a year ago · 63 likes · 1 comment · Frank Furedi

The Secret History and Unwritten Future of Psychedelics and Technology

Here’s an excerpt from a panel I was on a couple of weeks ago about technology and psychedelics, with Team Human friends Dr. Julie Holland, Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky) and Ken Jordan, editorial director of Lucid News, which this panel was meant to support and promote…

a year ago · 8 likes · Douglas Rushkoff

The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Chapter 23, Lights and Darks in Threes

179 Newberry, Three Fruits, 2005, oil on canvas, 12 x 9”. In this study, we examine the power of threes: three main lights and three main darks. This lesson solves the problem of equal lights and darks; they are a disaster because they create what my old teacher used to call "dead spots." Plus, they give a weird, slick, polished look to the painting. The best remedy is to clearly assign three ranges to your brightest lights and three ranges to your darks. This will help create the feeling of light in a painting and establish a hierarchy of lights and darks. This technique also helps speed up the painting process, create eye movement, and add subtlety…

a year ago · 13 likes · 4 comments · Michael Newberry

The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Chapter 24, Rhythm: A Beautiful Way to Organize Chaos

In this study, we examine using rhythm in painting to organize chaotic reality. Sometimes the artist is faced with a bunch of visual chaos, everything coming at them from different directions. This lesson is basically an exercise in pattern recognition…

a year ago · 13 likes · 6 comments · Michael Newberry

The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Episode 4, Aphrodite by Praxiteles, c. 350 BCE

a year ago · 9 likes · 6 comments · Michael Newberry

DAILY ALKHEMY: It Is The World We Live In That Has Been Sick and Out Of Order. Not us.

Honouring the integrity of our souls - in a world that teaches us to silence and trade it in order to “get ahead” - is an act of revolution. Following our own intuition, and the rhythms that support our own sense of internal equilibrium and peace, is radical…

a year ago · 25 likes · 7 comments · Solarah

DAILY ALKHEMY: "THROWBACK THURSDAY"

A conversation with Demi Pietchell from “The Starfire Codes” inspired this “Throwback Thursday” series. We were comparing the readings we had published around the same dates to find common threads, themes, and messages. We were pleasantly surprised to see that even over a year ago, our messages were in close alignment…

a year ago · 11 likes · 1 comment · Solarah

WEEKEND ALKHEMY: The Last Of The Greatest Trauma Loops To Die, Will Be The Ones That Supported Death By Disease And Degeneration | The Great "Die Off"

The past two weeks have been difficult. Really difficult. I have been following my own intuitive wisdom concerning my body, and working to begin the process of undoing the damage born of decades of abuse and ignorance, and the bills that have accumulated in the aftermath of those trauma cycles…

a year ago · 22 likes · Solarah

You Are Too Precious To Be A "Dumping Ground" For Other People's Wounds, Disappointments, And Unprocessed Emotions

Many of you have a healing ability and energy that others see and want, but that they are not worthy enough to have access to. This is not me saying that you’re better than them, but that they don’t know how to properly appreciate and value who you are and your magic. They just want access to your energy so they can consume you. As such, your true worth…

a year ago · 53 likes · 8 comments · Solarah

The Joy of Foraging for Wild Food

Hi, I’m Sue and I write about the beauty and ingenuity of Nature, and how we can deepen our connection for our optimum health and wellbeing. Discover more Nature-inspired content on Spiral Leaf, Twitter and my video Nature Channel. I felt inspired to write this post as I have been making a concerted effort at the start of this new Spring Season to spend more time learning about, foraging for and preparing wild food to eat and enjoy as part of my natural organic diet…

a year ago · 16 likes · 12 comments · Sue Cartwright

the Subtle Art of Mind-Control (Part I)

Let’s say you want to rule the world. What superpower would give you the best chance of getting there? The power of flight? You’d probably get shot down and shackled by scientists trying to dissect you to find the source of your power…

a year ago · 8 likes · 4 comments · SpoonFedStudy

The Subtle Art of Mind-Control (Part II)

What is the Lonely Brain Problem? To explain, let's focus in on the squishy thing between your eyes sitting inside that bony prison you like to call 'your head.' Your skull. Your noggin. Your cranium. Regardless of what you like to call it, it is really just a container for the brain. And simplistically, no matter how sophisticated your container gets, conceptually you are just a brain in a vat…

a year ago · 4 likes · SpoonFedStudy

The Subtle Art of Mind-Control: (Part III)

You are sitting on an island. The sun hasn't risen yet. Sand is up your ass crack's ass crack. A full beard is covering your face and your clothes are clinging to you like rags. You haven't seen a soul in ages. You peer into the dim horizon and you see a little bottle washing towards you. It's your first message of the day. You fish it out of the water and uncork it…

a year ago · 3 likes · SpoonFedStudy

Stoic Street Smarts

How to use Big Stick Energy to survive the Prisoner's Dilemma

"Big Stick Policy"—not to be confused with "Big d*ck energy" was Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy. He described it as "the exercise of intelligent forethought and decisive action sufficiently far in advance of any likely crisis." Big Stick Policy consisted of five parts…

a year ago · 41 likes · 6 comments · Ed Latimore

Always Dressed In Black

Twenty years ago today an American icon left this temporal realm. Throughout our brief history there have been individuals who, for whatever reason, managed to embody the American spirit. Names like Benjamin Franklin and Jesse James, George Patton and Ronald Reagan, Nicola Tesla and Ayn Rand… larger-than-life characters. It’s not always something into wh…

2 years ago · 16 likes · 2 comments · Stone Bryson

The Days of Collar

This is a ‘Page’ from my upcoming book, and it is unlike any previously-posted ‘Page.’ In fact, it’s unlike any thing I have posted here before. Highly metaphorical, I have maintained my usual (at least as far as the ‘Pages’ are concerned) terse, baroque style, but the content is… well…

a year ago · 28 likes · 10 comments · Stone Bryson

TDT: FISA Approved In Congr--- Wait, Now Iran is Attacking Israel

How did a collective group of intelligence agencies who allegedly could not foresee that a major ‘terrorist attack’ was on the horizon, somehow magically ascertain that a covert military offensive from a foreign power was coming… days before it occurred…

a year ago · 19 likes · 11 comments

One of the most shocking experiences of my life happened this past weekend. The shock was this: I heard a Steely Dan song for the first time—and it was fantastic. “Do It Again” was playing on a random Instagram reel I stumbled (mindlessly scrolled) on. The caption read, “If Nirvana Was Actually Good.” The jazzy opening groove of…

a year ago · 19 likes · 20 comments · John Mistretta

Community Comments - What Happened to Academia?

I’ve gotten an interesting response so far from Tuesday’s post about academia. Read it here if you haven’t already: In the article, I made two observations: A lot of people in academia are ideologically captur…

a year ago · 20 likes · 16 comments · Melissa Petrie

This Changes Everything

The 'war' against insects is a hoax!

When we start thinking about the nonexistence of “viruses,” it can become like the first domino in a standing row—knock down the domino labeled “viruses are real,” and it starts a cascade of dominoes falling, each one labeled “another assumption about reality that you never questioned before.” One of these that has its own set of ramifications—another s…

a year ago · 23 likes · 44 comments · Betsy

TRANSFORM with Marianne Williamson

Morning Meditation

a year ago · 98 likes · 10 comments · Marianne Williamson

Truthiverse by Brendan Murphy

Putting the Fun Back into Fundamentalism

Is It Time I Repented? Trigger Warning… Please don’t take this personally, first off. Secondly, I don’t regard anyone as an enemy, and nor am I on some crusade (pun intended) against any particular belief system or theology. I support everyone’s freedom to choose whatever beliefs they want to entertain—and at the same time, that doesn’t mean I necessarily…

a year ago · 9 likes · 7 comments · Brendan D. Murphy Official

PREVIOUS CHAPTER March 30th, 2019 Dear Charlie, Dave and I live on a farm in rural Oregon. Today, I spent the afternoon barefoot, toes pressing down firmly into the Willamette Valley’s rich, loamy soil. Our driveway is winding, the curves unhurried, the sky hooded with cherry blossoms and maple leaf buds, and the wind delivers a promising return beyond the…

a year ago · 55 likes · 53 comments · Kimberly Warner

ViroLIEgy Newsletter

A Friendly Chat About "Viral" Genomes

“In order to verify and determine the presence of a virus, and following the most fundamental rules of scientific reasoning, the virus needs to be isolated and displayed in its pure form in order to rule out that cellular genetic sequences are misinterpreted as components of a virus…

a year ago · 65 likes · 31 comments · Mike Stone

Vulkan’s Musings

The Mysterious Monoliths

Good day to everyone. It is Thursday 14th March. I’m recovering from a little man-flu (ladies you are so lucky you don’t suffer with it like us strong strong men LOL) and I’ve seen in the British news that a monolith has appeared in Hay-on-Wye in Wales over the previous weekend (9th-10th March…

a year ago · 25 likes · 20 comments · Vulkan

Welcome to Absurdistan

The Smug, Infantile Thievery of the Upper-Middle-Class

Prices have risen 20% since Biden took office because of egregious borrowing. That money has been stolen by the most privileged among us. Absurdistan believes we should be living in a Golden Age. But we are not. The lower 75% struggle through every month, paycheck to paycheck. The only reason unemployment is low is that people are working two or three jobs, none of which offer benefits…

a year ago · 239 likes · 69 comments · elizabeth nickson

What Am I Making

What Is Your Favorite Animal Tune?

From ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ to ‘Crocodile Rock’, the animal kingdom has been well represented in rock and roll since its formation. This week on WAIM Radio, we are taking a deep dive into the natural realm with sixty minutes of songs on the Earth’s beasts…

a year ago · 15 likes · 50 comments · Matty C

Witchcraft and Metaphysics with Jenna Newell Hiott

The Archetype and The Tarot: The Mediator and Nine of Pentacles

Through the Mediator and Nine of Pentacles, this week we’re being called to come into a deeper relationship with tension. How can we create abundance out of the opposing forces of our lives? Welcome everyone! For an overview of what I’m doing here, please check out…

a year ago · 25 likes · 9 comments · Jenna Newell Hiott

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