🌟 What I'm Reading: 5-5-2024 🌟

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May 05, 2024

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What I'm Reading: 5-5-2024

Beyond the Visible

Lessons from Two Months on Substack and Our Upcoming Event

I hit "publish" on my first post back on February 23rd, and wow, what a ride it’s been! I am thankful for all the love and support you've shown, it has made all the difference for me. I’ve learned so much in these two months, and I’m excited to share where we’re headed next…

2 years ago · 10 likes · Alex de Carvalho

Beyond the Visible

Reawakening Wonder

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. 5. Meeting the Inner Child…

2 years ago · 5 likes · Alex de Carvalho

The Black Sheep

I Changed My Mind On Zionism—Thanks To Both The Irrational Left And Right

The truth isn’t found by running in the opposite direction of what you denounce. More often than not, you’ll just reach a converse but equally flawed position as your opponent. As nationwide campus protests against Zionism have gained attention for the…

2 years ago · 42 likes · 47 comments · Salomé Sibonex

The Black Sheep

What Brings You Meaning In Life Is Bad & You Should Feel Bad

“The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.” — Ram Dass It’s so simple it can appear anodyne, and yet it’s one of the hardest truths to grasp in the human experience: to advance in life, one must give up that which is holding them back. If you’re addicted to heroin, every instinct in your body will tell you to take ju…

2 years ago · 40 likes · 13 comments · Joseph (Jake) Klein

Bliss And Blisters

The Battery Shelf Life Scam

I’ve been buying batteries that say “5 year Shelf Life,” and sometimes, “10 year Shelf Life,” but for the last 3 years since I’ve been keeping track, not one of these more expensive but not remotely living up to their hype batteries has lasted more than a year. Okay, the 10 year one lasted 14 months. Not even close to 10 years…

2 years ago · 31 likes · 41 comments · Heather B

Bros Krynn’s Newsletter

Peter Pan's Most Heart-Felt Song Wendy's Lullaby - "Your Mother and Mine" By Dan

With May around the corner, we have mother’s day that is coming up, so what better to start the month (Or end April, but that’s besides the point.) with a song about mothers. In the 1953 animated movie “Peter Pan”, the primary theme is about growing up, and learning that as much as childhood is fun, and there might be a boy in many men that want to enjo…

2 years ago · 13 likes · 2 comments · The Brothers Krynn

The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon

Silent Metamorphosis

Thanks for reading The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Hey everyone, I hope you're all doing well! I wanted to let you know I'm taking a break from my regular newsletter this week. I have some important business meetings in Los Angeles that require my full attention. But don…

2 years ago · 41 likes · 10 comments · Charlotte Pendragon

Chris’s Substack

Eye Remember

Emptied from the waters, the womb. Nine Digits assigned to replace nine planets aligned. “Who told you, you were naked?” The I, not the Eye. I forgot Eye am pure energy disguised as matter. I forgot the entanglement with Divine. I forgot the reason Eye came to labor…

2 years ago · 18 likes · 7 comments · Chris Youngblood

Consequence Of Mind

The Chilling Saga of Downtown LA's Notorious Cecil Hotel

The Cecil Hotel, an imposing edifice towering over downtown Los Angeles, has etched a sinister legacy into the city's chronicles. The hotel which once symbolized a new level of decadence and elegance in New York City during the 1920s is now a chilling memorial to death and horror stories of haunted rooms and murderous suicides…

2 years ago · 19 likes · Consequence Of Mind

Conspi-Rat

Chewsday Memes, Apr 30

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. Enjoy…

2 years ago · 55 likes · 7 comments · Rat

A Convict's Perspective

Stress and the Citizens Grindset

“Coleman! Get back in line” the Indian River juvie-jail roller barked at me as I wandered out to talk to someone in the hallway. I ignored him, I had fresh squeezed juice to gossip. “Coleman!” “Keep my name out ya mouth!” I yelled back over my shoulder. This wasn't my first time doing a baby-bit and I learned long ago these guards couldn't put hands on me…

2 years ago · 138 likes · 54 comments · Coleman

Creative Alchemy

Where do ideas come from?

2 years ago · 11 likes · 2 comments · James McCrae

Creative on Purpose

An End to Suffering

Acceptance vs. Surrender To be clear, I'm not talking about acceptance as synonymous with passive resignation. Nor am I speaking of surrender as giving in to an event or opponent. I'm thinking of acceptance and surrender as they apply to the art of living well…

2 years ago · 5 likes · 2 comments · Scott Perry

Creative on Purpose

Have You Suffered Enough?

My meditation app shares a daily quote and yesterday’s was by Mandy Hale, author of The Single Woman. “Change is painful. But not as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” It’s a powerful quote, and I agree in principle. But I find this quote by family psychotherapist, Virginia Satir, rings truer in practice…

2 years ago · 3 likes · Scott Perry

Dad Explains

Dad Explains is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. 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…

2 years ago · 88 likes · 9 comments · Andrew | Dad Explains

Dad Explains

Fragility In Posture: Faux-Righteous Virtue Signaling

Dad Explains is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfi…

2 years ago · 29 likes · 10 comments · Andrew | Dad Explains

Dad Explains

Leave Your Ego At The Door

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. Friedrich NietzscheDad Explains is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Let Go Of My Ego The ego, like a shadow on a moonless night, can obscure even the brightest intentions within the sphere of human relationships, parti…

2 years ago · 44 likes · 6 comments · Andrew | Dad Explains

Dawn’s Writings

Cancer vaccines:

The BBC website has yet again proved to be a fertile ground for articles worth analysing and dissecting to expose the lies and dispel the fear. This time, the article I found is dated 26th April and entitled, British man tests first personalised melanoma vaccine…

2 years ago · 62 likes · 38 comments · Dawn Lester

Dharmabuilt

Anything I imagine Life is, It Staunchly Refuses to Be

PROLOGUE: Joseph Campbell taught on the essential lesson of Eternity – perhaps one of the very few who grasped It – the impossibility of truly knowing It – the impossibility of truly knowing G-O-D. So, given that, what the hell is one to do with this…

2 years ago · 3 likes · Barry Fleming

Ear Candy Update

Concrete Blonde - Joey

The U.S. military is apparently the heaviest drinking profession in America. No. Fucking. Shit. According to this research in the National Library of Medicine, PTSD is related to an elevated risk of alcoholism as well as behavioral and emotional dysregulation. You don’t say? After 24 years in the military and my own bouts with alcoholism, I didn’t see t…

2 years ago · 9 likes · 7 comments · Jason Thompson

Emeth

Don't Let Me In Your Lodge

Am I good luck, or bad luck? I don’t know, but I’m starting to get nervous! Should we start with the good, or the bad? Let’s start with the good! Robert Morris Lodge, in the megalopolis of Silver Creek, Washington hosts raffles for half a beef from time to time…

2 years ago · 9 likes · 3 comments · Cameron M. Bailey

Emeth

Seize The Opportunity

Yesterday I was given the opportunity to address High School Juniors, their parents, and teachers at an event organized by four Masonic Lodges here in Washington. I was warned to keep it short, lest we keep these young people out to midnight, as there were so many awards to be presented…

2 years ago · 9 likes · 4 comments · Cameron M. Bailey

Flow State

Ivan the Tolerable

Good morning. Today we’re listening to Ivan the Tolerable, the stage name of multi-instrumentalist and composer Oli Heffernan from Middlesbrough, UK. We discovered him via Janie Jones’ NTS show, a wel…

2 years ago · 11 likes · 1 comment · Flow State

Follow your gut

The way to make the impossible happen is to believe it’s possible

Hi there, I have a dream. Actually, I have many dreams. But one of them is to one day own a motorhome so that I can cruise Europe with my family. Maybe it will look something like this… Or this…

2 years ago · 60 likes · 53 comments · Elin Petronella

Frater Seamus

Old Art Never Dies

In 1987 I released an album of original music. It was an electronic/space-rock concept album, very ambitious for a 21 year old working in a home studio in his parents garage. I was convinced that I was Canada’s answer to Pink Floyd and Tangerine Dream. This album was going to be the beginning of a long and brilliant career. I had locked myself in that st…

2 years ago · 7 likes · 6 comments · Frater Seamus

The Freedom Corner with PeterSweden

HUGE NEWS: Florida BANS fake lab-grown meat

Massive news coming out of Florida as more and more people are REJECTING the World Economic Forum agenda. The state of Florida just BANNED the sale of lab-grown meat in order to pushback against the Klaus Schwab agenda. "Florida is taking action to stop the World Economic Forum's goal of forcing the world to eat lab-grown meat and insec…

2 years ago · 322 likes · 4 comments · Peter Imanuelsen

The Freedom Scale

'No Longer Christian, but Still Afraid of Judgement'

This week’s selection for #FreedomMusicFriday—“Material Boy” by Sir Sly—is both a touching cri de coeur and a trenchant diagnosis of our modern malaise. It also happens to be a pretty good song, with an updated 80s vibe that a lot of we GenXers will really appreciate…

2 years ago · 33 likes · 20 comments · Christopher Cook

From Brain to Mind

Feeling uninspired? Maybe all your brain needs is a splash of red

Exposure to the color red increases functional connectivity throughout the Default Mode Network (DMN). The DMN is a wide network of far-flung neuronal nodes in the neocortex, wired together by white matter (axonal) cables. The main nodes of the DMN are centered in the medial prefrontal cortex (a part of the brain that is involved with decision making an…

2 years ago · 13 likes · 5 comments · Marc Arginteanu

Goatfury Writes

Everybody Knows

There are lots of things out there that nobody knows the answer to, even though we now have the ability to find the answers to so many things so easily. This got me thinking: are there things everybody knows? I’m not talking about things “everybody knows”, like whenever people have sex in a…

2 years ago · 21 likes · 18 comments · Andrew Smith

Goatfury Writes

Why Is This Octopus Drunk?

From time to time, I’ll come across something that makes me really curious. This feeling has been with me for my entire life—I’m curious by nature, and while some parents might have discouraged this nature, I think my folks did a great job of encouraging exploration and fostering…

2 years ago · 22 likes · 20 comments · Andrew Smith

Hacking Narcissism

It’s the end of the world as we know it

I began this piece flying over Uluru en route to Asia last year and finishing it on the same flight again today. The biggest news story coming out of Australia at the time was about the Indigenous referendum. The big news stories in the US at the time involved abortion bans and Donald Trump indictment. There was, of course, the Russia-Ukraine war, fires…

2 years ago · 42 likes · 21 comments · Nathalie Martinek PhD

Historically Correct

Some Real Rural Side Hustles

I recently went down a “side hustle rabbit hole” after my brother told me he had made 15k flipping shoes after a year and a half. Most of everything was city or “home” oriented. Sure, I could start flipping shoes but that really isn’t something exactly rural to do as a side gig. I know of at least 3 that people d…

2 years ago · 1 like · Koltin Scott

Intellectual Dissatisfaction

Friday Funnies

These memes are intended to make light of an increasingly tense political atmosphere. This publication receives submissions from the community, and the memes held within do not reflect the opinions of the publication…

2 years ago · 38 likes · 2 comments · Jeremy Mercier

The Irrational Sage

Joy: The hardest shadow work of all

Joy: 3 little bouncy letters that can carry a heavy weight Ever notice how when you have an idea or get excited about something and then you post about it, or tell someone, every negative Nancy comes out of the woodwork giving you all the reasons you can’t or shouldn’t? It sucks, right…

2 years ago · 13 likes · 4 comments · Angela Morris

Jenn’s Substack

Scribbles and nonsense

I find my world so crowded with the speech of others lately that I can barely form my own thoughts. This is actually good news, as it is my youngest (with Down syndrome) who is turning into a big talker lately. A sketch of my feet and my little one’s from when she was a baby…sometimes we wear crazy socks for world Down syndrome day. Sketched from a p…

2 years ago · 21 likes · 19 comments · Jenn

Joyce’s Place

A younger model

Jean had been having knee problems ever since she fell during a ride. The horse had bolted and thrown her off. “Idiots with their fireworks,” she had thought as she tried to get up. A friend had come to pick her up, and a groom from the stables had gone after the horse. She had been all right, Jean’s knee was not…

2 years ago · 41 likes · 23 comments · Joyce

Joyce’s Place

The Elven dance

When night draws near the harebells chime to start the Elven dance. On music sweet they swirl and turn and move as if in a trance. The Elf Lords leap into the air and lift the maidens high The night is filled with songs of joy, under a star-lit sky. Ere break of day the harebells chime to end the Elven ball. Wit…

2 years ago · 79 likes · 57 comments · Joyce

L5 News

Space Scout

Several important understandings are fundamental to making our species free. I believe mankind's most important objectives include freeing the slaves, stopping the wars, and ending the state. Knowledge is one vital element in our work. Please understand that you live in a Solar System. You do not live only on a planet. If Earth were not part of a Solar S…

2 years ago · 10 likes · 3 comments · Jim Davidson

The Last Bastions

Fuck it, bear posting is based!

So no doubt you’ve seen the latest NPC script drop already - man or bear. For any real human, this is a question of rational risk assessment - which is more dangerous? And since the bear will likely just leave, the answer is man (if the choice were instead female or bear…

2 years ago · 2 likes · 1 comment · Shinichi Haku

Libre Solutions Network

We Don’t Love RSS Enough

🚨 Nerd Alert! This is a post from my personal blog, which is where I try to share the technical details of my discoveries while trying to map out how we can use tech for good, and to resist tyranny…

2 years ago · 20 likes · 15 comments · Gabriel

Love Lives Here by Michell C. Clark

For when they say you're "too much"

They might say you’re “too much” because something about the way that you show up makes them feel uncomfortable. They operate differently—nothing more, and nothing less. What they really should be saying is “we’re incompatible.” They might say you’re “too much” because they can observe you, but they can’t see you. They observe your way of being through t…

2 years ago · 51 likes · 4 comments · Michell C. Clark

Margaret Anna Alice Through the Looking Glass

Memes by Themes #11: Resistance

Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you – Ye are many – they are few. —The Masque of Anarchy, Percy Bysshe Shelley This subversive Memes by Themes goes out to all the…

2 years ago · 202 likes · 8 comments · Margaret Anna Alice

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NEVERMORE MEDIA

I'm calling it: The Anti-Virus Side has Won the Debate

Dear Nevermorons, Well, folks, look like the crazies were right. Experts now agree: viruses are faker than pro wrestling. On April 17th, your friendly neighbourhood granny killers, led by All-Star King Kook Tobin Owl, posted an article entitled Is this the Last Nail in Virology’s Coffin…

2 years ago · 22 likes · 60 comments · NEVERMORE MEDIA

On the Road of Bones

The Affirmation of TayTay

That's it… I'm changing my Substack into a positive affirmation space. You haven't read crack pot, cult slogans of affirmation until you see what I have in store. “If you write it, they will come.” (it may just take a shit load of time) - (Note to self, remove private thought parentheses, like this one too). A Note I just saw, from a dude, had over 200 likes and all it was, was a positive affirmation that’s been repeated before. Like… how? Let me turn my brain off and shovel affirming care to the masses…

2 years ago · 6 likes · 1 comment · The Bone Writer

Paul’s Substack

Body Language

Eyes speak more languages than tongues, hearts speak even more, and hands? well, hands speak with each caress, multiplying compass points while wandering directionless. And the eyes and the heart seem useless since only a body can tell if the touch is a whisper of welcome or just a sigh of farewell…

2 years ago · 79 likes · 49 comments · Paul Wittenberger

Paul’s Substack

Cairn

Each word is a stone piled one upon another to build a bridge for you to reach my world all you have to do is readThanks for reading Paul’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work…

2 years ago · 72 likes · 37 comments · Paul Wittenberger

Paul’s Substack

FAIR QUESTION

It is only a cry from birth to death, a cry as brief as a moment’s breath, a song that rises in a single note only to sink before it can float. How many of these does he create, the one who makes but never mends, and why continue, it’s fair to ask, when he knows from the start how it all ends…

2 years ago · 81 likes · 86 comments · Paul Wittenberger

Paul’s Substack

I Watch the Evening Falling Down

I watch the evening falling down as daylight disappears and darkness sounds like cotton wads stuffed into my ears The dogs are quiet the orange cat rests I’m sure the mice are out to play the owl in the barn is tending its nest while carefully eyeing its latest prey And I think of how we once made love on this porch in the middle of t…

2 years ago · 110 likes · 76 comments · Paul Wittenberger

Philosophy of Language

Carl Jung's Counterintuitive Solution for Addiction

For my new subscribers, I am reposting an older post on Carl Jung’s paradoxical solution to addiction…

2 years ago · 27 likes · 9 comments · Eugene Terekhin

Post Post Modern

Now for something a little sweeter.

This post is entirely spontaneous as it has just been inspired by a comment posted on my most recent offering by Malcolm J McKinney . I think it’s so lovely that he listened to my art and then took the time to give me some feedback and suggestions. It’s really cool of him. And I like what he has to say…

2 years ago · 27 likes · 10 comments · Jacqueline Rendell

Reina’s Substack

Win or Lose

I long to travel, to hit the open road & just go. I yearn for this so much that it's a constant tugging at my Soul. I stand still tho, legs firmly planted in the goo & muck of fear, that if I leave I will somehow lose the ones that I hold dear. My children full grown now can't be packed up & dragged along- I believe that would be called hostage taking…

2 years ago · 35 likes · 35 comments · Blessed Warrior Reina

Rushkoff

Breaking from the Pace of the Net

Excerpted from a new monologue on Team Human. Here the whole thing here. I can’t do this anymore. Rushkoff is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Oh, I’m happy to write and podcast and teach and talk. That’s me, and that’s all good…

2 years ago · 26 likes · 1 comment · Douglas Rushkoff

The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Art Companion: Chapter 29, Integrating Theme and Technique

Note: This morning I ordered the third print proof, hopefully next week I will know if it is good to go. Unpacking Counterpose, a Painting on the Theme of Conflict In this study, we explore how to integrate a theme of contrast in emotional expression, body language, light, and a special focus on complementary (opposite) colors…

2 years ago · 13 likes · 9 comments · Michael Newberry

The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Chapter 3, Next Stop: Europe

10 Newberry, Self-Portrait, 1977, acrylic on canvas, 17.5x13.5”, The Hague, Holland. In May of 1977, I was cleaning out my mid-Wilshire Los Angeles apartment, making sure I'd get the cleaning fee, when a package from my aunt Gladys arrived. I had never met her and was surprised to see inside the accompanying card a check for $1000, along with a note wishing me a wonderful summer trip. She also included a coffee table art book of Japanese mythologies and mentioned that her deceased husband, uncle John would have liked for me to have it. The Japanese connection was a dark and painful element in my family's history…

2 years ago · 24 likes · 14 comments · Michael Newberry

Solarah Speaks

DAILY ALKHEMY: Let The Markets Fall And Our True Sense Of Worth Be Born | New Earth Financial System Is Rooting

Today we dance in the fires, and surrender to the flames which we must allow to die, for new life to bloom in its place. In Scorpio season, we dive in deep into the watery depths of our souls, where we are able to venture into the basement and see what we’re holding onto that is keeping us from rising…

2 years ago · 18 likes · 1 comment · Solarah

Solarah Speaks

DAILY ALKHEMY: Masks And Programs Are Disintegrating | The TRUE Truth Cannot Be Hidden Once We Stop Deceiving Ourselves

Allow every story, circumstance, and being that doesn’t support you in the full expression and embodiment of your value and flawsomeness, to make their exit out of your reality. Everyone is “showing their asses” left, right, and center right now…and it’s a beautiful thing. When masks are removed, we know exactly who and what we’re dealing with to make more informed choices as we move forward…

2 years ago · 17 likes · 1 comment · Solarah

Solarah Speaks

DAILY ALKHEMY: Meeting The Skeletons We Forgot Or Ignored In The Basement

We are presently receiving and integrating intense calibration codes in our emotional and physical bodies. How we use our minds and thought processes will determine what we integrate these codes for. The power of the light activations we’ve been receiving - courtesy of the solar flare and planetary activities - is showing us the roots and results of patterns and cycles that have been residing in our realities unchecked, unnoticed, and undisturbed…

2 years ago · 12 likes · 2 comments · Solarah

Solarah Speaks

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…

2 years ago · 4 likes · 1 comment · Solarah

Solarah Speaks

Not All Are Here To Go Where You’re Going…And That’s Ok | The Journey Of Every Soul Is Unique

Beings who lack true power and conviction, will always seek to weaken and disempower others by trying to control their narratives. This is what the purpose of “influence” is in false matrix agendas. Beings who lack conviction in their own stances, need others to adhere to what they think and feel in order to feel validated….because they don’t know how to…

2 years ago · 21 likes · 4 comments · Solarah

Solarah Speaks

Rainbow Body Alignment Decree To Reset Electro-Magnetic Settings Into What Promotes True Harmony

Every transit through Taurus affords us the opportunity to re-learn who we are as electro-magnetic beings, and establish a new energy cycle based on that wisdom. This year, this energy is on steroids. With three major planets now moving through the sign, and the Sun progressing through Taurus for the first time since the North Node left it last year, the ability to tap into the power and wisdom of our light bodies is flowing in rapidly…

2 years ago · 22 likes · 8 comments · Solarah

Solarah Speaks

WORD FOR YOUR WEEK With Solarah

It’s a week to re-connect with your flawsomeness - to see the beauty in every aspect of yourself, and be in awe. It’s time for you to connect higher with how “God” sees you…how you are a reflection of pure Source light and darkness. True beauty wants to return to our Earth, and we are the conduits through which this is coming forth and being realised. As…

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2 years ago · 9 likes · 1 comment · Solarah

Spiral Leaf

The Healing Nature of Gratitude

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. As we know, spending time in Nature provides the perfect opportunity for us to wind down, relax and clear the mind. When we take in the natural healing frequencies of Mother Earth, it gives us a boost as we appreciate Nature’s gifts of natural beauty, fresh air, outside space and natural sunlight…

2 years ago · 12 likes · 15 comments · Sue Cartwright

The Stone Age

A Lover's Ballad

Not all poetry has to be dire or serious - sometimes, it can just tell a story. Oft referred to as ‘ballads,’ these compositions usually tell a micro-tale that is just meant to be… enjoyed. Sometimes… it really is just about the story. This is one of those compositions…

2 years ago · 38 likes · 17 comments · Stone Bryson

The Stone Age

TDT: 'Anti-Semitism' Bill Threatens First Amendment

Under the First Amendment, every government entity - and philosophy - is subject to criticism, every action is subject to peaceful protest, every individual is subject to verbal-challenge (so being liable and slander laws are respected). It does not matter how many points the star on your flag has; every single one of these are Natural rights, bestowed …

2 years ago · 2 likes · Stone Bryson

Thinking Man

Announcing an Orwell Project?

I’ve read a lot of George Orwell’s writing. All of his books, most of his essays. I was thinking of writing a book about Orwell, articulating my ‘hypothesis’ (mind-blowing to me at the time) that Nineteen Eighty-Four was a work of political satire, not political prophecy. I had a killer title ready and everything…

2 years ago · 34 likes · 30 comments · Melissa Petrie

Thinking Man

Community Comments - Revisiting Graham Hancock

Words can’t describe the shock of seeing how many people the article I wrote on Graham Hancock was able to reach. The comments and discussion that the post sparked are some of the best we’ve received on Thinking Man to date. I want to sincerely thank each and every one of the people wh…

2 years ago · 15 likes · 4 comments · John Mistretta

Thinking Man

Exiled from Eden

My whole life, I’ve been on this never-ending search for meaning. Why are we here? Why is life so unfair? Why are we doomed to suffer, to get attached to things that eventually disappear, to try and hope, only to decay and die? Why is it such a struggle to get by? To resist the temptation to idle and despair? Why are the things that make us feel the most complete the hardest things to do…

2 years ago · 5 likes · Melissa Petrie

Thinking Man

Graham Hancock Could Be Right

If you’ve heard of Graham Hancock, there’s a good chance you discovered him from his series Ancient Apocalypse. The show premiered on Netflix in November 2022, briefly taking the world by storm, and becoming one of the most watched shows on the streaming service…

2 years ago · 63 likes · 58 comments · John Mistretta

Thinking Man

What if We Had to Start Over?

Yesterday, John Mistretta put out a great post about Graham Hancock. Read it if you haven’t yet. It’s a great summary of Hancock’s ideas. John knows more about this stuff than me. I’m more of a big picture kind of gal (a kind way of saying “pa…

2 years ago · 23 likes · 18 comments · Melissa Petrie

This Changes Everything

Wait, what??? Can a 'no-virus' meme be 'viral' if there is actually no 'virus'?

I have written confidently about the lack of evidence for the existence of “viruses” as “disease-causing agents,” and about the concept of contagion as a description of the spread of “disease” being a false paradigm. I remain certain about these concepts being false (while always open to being shown that I am wrong). As far as anyone knows for sure, vir…

2 years ago · 19 likes · 15 comments · Betsy

Through A Glass Darkly

How the CIA and US Special Forces Manufactured a Migrant Crisis and Orwellian Police State in Vietnam Before Going to the Americas

“Anyone who doubts that this nation building and police activity has not become real and very effective right here in the United States need only visit the area around Fort Bragg to find one of these early paramilitary CIA-oriented specialist, General Tolson, sending his American soldiers out into the countryside with nation-building programs for the ci…

2 years ago · 77 likes · 6 comments · Cynthia Chung

The Unfurling Rose

I Write So I Can Know Myself Again

Ever since I could hold a pen, I would write. I remember writing short stories, drawing pictures and illustrations of the images that crossed my awareness as I envisioned the plot, and prancing around the house with a folder of poetry that I had written and stuffed inside…

2 years ago · 2 likes · Stephanie Peers

The Villager

An exclusive early excerpt from a work-in-progress

I’ve decided to open up my paywalled archives for the next week (i.e. until Friday May 10th) in case any new subscribers here would like to read any of my older Substack stuff - for example this piece on lanes or this piece on dilapidated buildings or this piece on…

2 years ago · 59 likes · 1 comment · Tom Cox

ViroLIEgy Newsletter

Who Are the Quacks?

Quack: 1) A practitioner who suggests the use of substances or devices for the prevention or treatment of disease that are known to be ineffective. 2) A person who pretends to be able to diagnose or heal people, but is unqualified and incompetent. https://www.rxlist.com/quack/definition.htm…

2 years ago · 44 likes · Mike Stone

Welcome to Absurdistan

The 2024 protests are not 2020's - This Time China Will Not Steal Our Future

The following is meant as an overview. I will attempt to drill down on each aspect in the coming weeks. What is happening on the campuses is meant to destabilize the country to make stealing the next election possible. By now it has to be clear to everyone with a brain that we are in the midst of a slow-moving, astroturfed, demonic Marxist revolution. The only country with the planning, money and organization to create mass protests on more than 100 American college campuses, is China. It’s not Soros, it’s not Iran; or rather they are the junior partners. But 2024 is not 2020. In 2020, we didn’t know what was arrayed against us, how normals had been identified as enemy to be poisoned and ruined, that our elites had been purchased by China. According to Peter Schweizer in the must-read…

2 years ago · 105 likes · 48 comments · elizabeth nickson

Witchcraft and Metaphysics with Jenna Newell Hiott

The Archetype and The Tarot: The Slave and Page of Wands

Through the Slave and Page of Wands, this week we’re being called to confront our feelings about powerlessness. Can we let our passions guide us to a place of surrender? Welcome everyone! For an overview of what I’m doing here, please check out this post all about it…

2 years ago · 22 likes · 15 comments · Jenna Newell Hiott

Words and Pictures by Pamela Leavey

Poem of the Day: The Intersection of Crossing Lines

Greetings Readers, Today’s Poem of the Day was inspired by photos I took at Lowell’s Boat Shop in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Lowell’s Boat Shop has been a decades long favorite haunt in area where I live, since I was a teenager in fact. This image and the living history in embodied in the actual boat shop building inspired the poem below…

2 years ago · 65 likes · 27 comments · Pamela Leavey

Barry Fleming

May 5, 2024

Thank you so much for the mention Demi - really appreciated. Without you, I'd get almost ZERO reach. And my synchronistic meme inventory would be woefully lacking!

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Melissa Mistretta

I've discovered so many amazing Substacks from these lists.

Thanks for doing this, Demi

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