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Episode 33: “The Book of the Dead”Nigel and Liz explore the pyramids looking for Al, and learning about the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Our hosts try to turn the book into a scary movie, while Miss Jenny tells us she's actually read it! It might surprise you how close some of it is to Scripture! Featuring the audiobook “The Dreamer, the Schemer, & the Robe,” by Jenny L. Cote0:55 – Our hosts give Announcer Lad permission to do his job – but do we really need him?3:01 – Could today's chapter be a horror movie?4:48 – Chapter 32 – “The Book of the Dead”16:33 – In Jenny's Corner, Miss Jenny gives us the details on this mysterious Book of the Dead18:20 – Our hosts discuss the differences – AND the similarities between the Bible and the Book of the Dead – similarities????And as always – we'd love to hear from you! Email Jenny: Jenny@epicorderoftheseven.comBy the way - the audiobook, “The Dreamer, the Schemer,& the Robe: written by Jenny L. Cote, and narrated by Denny Brownlee, is available on Audible.com. To order your copy - Click here: adbl.co/3BPQ1Zy

I'm reading and talking about Ted Gioia's "Immersive Humanities Course," 52 weeks of World Classics.This week's reading was the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Somehow I did not get Ted's recommended translation by Susan Hollis. Instead, I had the gigantic and very, very beautiful reproduction of the complete Papyrus of Ani. This edition had a huge influence on my week "in" Egypt.The Book of the Dead isn't really one book; at the time of its writing (around 1300 BC) it was common to have a papyrus scroll of spells and directions placed in the coffin with the deceased. In this case, the priest Ani had died and this is his scroll. There have been many such scrolls, and pieces of scrolls, found in various tombs across Egypt. Each section of the scroll contains a text that has, for modern purposes, been called a chapter. Many scrolls have many “chapters” in common, but so far no scroll has all of them. On top of that, the chapters can be in any order. The chapters (are they prayers? Spells? Opinions seem split.) are, for the most part, pretty obscure. We spend some time reading excerpts, just to get a sense of them. There really isn't a description of how a person might become “spiritualized” or “pure.” Everything is instruction for the dead in the afterlife.Here are a few more thoughts about this reading. It might seem a little random, but this reading felt a little random, too:Until the Rosetta Stone was found in 1820, the text was completely unknown. The guess was that it was a book of wisdom similar to our Bible. That's actually completely wrong—none of it is oriented toward the living. The text is all about the god Osiris, who was murdered, mourned and buried. Later myths tell of Osiris' resurrection. The vignettes are personalized, in this case for the priest Ani (and his wife Tutu).Burials apparently re-enacted the death of Osiris in ritual form, delivering the deceased to the point of the weighing of the heart. There are prayers to open the deceased's mouth, ears, and eyes in the afterlife, because all of these would be necessary to live there. There is debate whether the myth created the ritual, or did the burial ritual arise first, with the myth developing around it later to explain the actions? It's interesting to me that we can't know based on what the Egyptians left behind.Judgment in the afterlife is the literal weighing of the deceased's heart against a feather! (I would definitely not pass.) The feather is called a ma'at, and is “Truth” or “Rightful Order.” If you are found to have a light heart, you can pass to the good afterlife, the Field of Reeds.The heart is the single most important part of a person, living or dead. It's the engine of the body and the seat of both emotions and intelligence. In the afterlife it was very important not to lose your heart, even though it was now outside of your body thanks to the mummification process.The Egyptians saw death as the confrontation with nonexistence and irrationality. The goal of weight your heart was to travel as an akh, in the sun and in order. The Book of the Dead is a guide to thwart the chaos of the universe, and even the gods had to contend with that disorder.Words, images and reality were a unity in Egyptian thought. The images in the scrolls function as text, and all of it is real. In drawing or writing things, they take on reality. In fact, this was why defacing the name of a king would be regarded as a capital crime; it was no better than assaulting or murdering the king himself.Many gods are represented by animal faces or body parts. Interestingly, this wasn't meant to...

In the first half, author and researcher Liz Larson discussed the profound impact of eye movement on neurological health and personal transformation. She shared her "Cognitive Movement" modality, which is designed to help individuals reshape their nervous systems through controlled eye movements, accessing memories and emotional patterns for greater personal growth."It's like a backdoor hack," Larson described. She elaborated on how eye movements correlate with mental states, outlining that the eyes not only take in information but also dictate how the brain processes experiences. For instance, looking up can foster inspiration, while gazing down encourages mindfulness of the body.Larson described sneaky strategies for incorporating these techniques into daily life, allowing individuals to execute eye movements discreetly in social situations. "Many people will use that to calm feelings of anxiousness... that will signal the nervous system to down-regulate," she said. According to her, eye movements can energize the brain in preparation for stressful tasks, such as a job interview.Larson cautioned that as individuals age, reduced eye movement can lead to a narrower perspective and hinder cognitive function, making it essential to keep the eyes engaged. Furthermore, Larson explored the intersection of eye movement and paranormal experiences. She claimed that enhancing one's eye movement capabilities could unlock latent visual and psychic abilities, stating, "Many people report being able to see things that are in their vicinity that most of us can't see."She described a remarkable experience at one of her workshops, where the collective energy of participants reportedly led to the appearance of "a portal... this bright blue light looked like static electricity." Larson noted, "It was just this pure, radiating, lovely, conscious energy in the room."------------------In the second half, Gregory Shushan, PhD, discussed near-death experiences (NDEs) and cross-cultural beliefs about the afterlife. He has found notable similarities in how different societies perceive life after death. "The most fascinating aspect is... specifically the way [afterlife] beliefs correspond to near-death experiences," he claimed.Shushan has studied both the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and he's concluded these texts describe NDEs. "If you strip away the cultural descriptions, we're left with something that looks very much like a near-death experience," he elaborated. He explained that NDEs typically follow certain patterns. While Western narratives often depict experiences of traveling toward a bright light, other cultures tell stories of walking wild paths leading to the afterlife, a motif prevalent in Polynesian religions.The discussion also delved into shamanic practices, where one enters NDE-like states in order to gain insights or powers. Shushan noted that spiritual healers navigated these realms for transformative experiences. "They could control that and then come back to life, whereas a [real] near-death experience... it's pretty iffy if the person's going to come back or not," he explained.He also addressed contemporary scientific skepticism regarding the afterlife, asserting that ancient cultures often held a more profound understanding of life after death. "In contemporary Western culture, there is a real resistance to anything that has to do with death," he remarked. Shushan proposed that our modern, secular view is potentially limited, reflecting, "If there is an afterlife, it's nothing supernatural or paranormal. I think it's just natural."

In the first half, author and researcher Liz Larson discussed the profound impact of eye movement on neurological health and personal transformation. She shared her "Cognitive Movement" modality, which is designed to help individuals reshape their nervous systems through controlled eye movements, accessing memories and emotional patterns for greater personal growth."It's like a backdoor hack," Larson described. She elaborated on how eye movements correlate with mental states, outlining that the eyes not only take in information but also dictate how the brain processes experiences. For instance, looking up can foster inspiration, while gazing down encourages mindfulness of the body.Larson described sneaky strategies for incorporating these techniques into daily life, allowing individuals to execute eye movements discreetly in social situations. "Many people will use that to calm feelings of anxiousness... that will signal the nervous system to down-regulate," she said. According to her, eye movements can energize the brain in preparation for stressful tasks, such as a job interview.Larson cautioned that as individuals age, reduced eye movement can lead to a narrower perspective and hinder cognitive function, making it essential to keep the eyes engaged. Furthermore, Larson explored the intersection of eye movement and paranormal experiences. She claimed that enhancing one's eye movement capabilities could unlock latent visual and psychic abilities, stating, "Many people report being able to see things that are in their vicinity that most of us can't see."She described a remarkable experience at one of her workshops, where the collective energy of participants reportedly led to the appearance of "a portal... this bright blue light looked like static electricity." Larson noted, "It was just this pure, radiating, lovely, conscious energy in the room."------------------In the second half, Gregory Shushan, PhD, discussed near-death experiences (NDEs) and cross-cultural beliefs about the afterlife. He has found notable similarities in how different societies perceive life after death. "The most fascinating aspect is... specifically the way [afterlife] beliefs correspond to near-death experiences," he claimed.Shushan has studied both the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and he's concluded these texts describe NDEs. "If you strip away the cultural descriptions, we're left with something that looks very much like a near-death experience," he elaborated. He explained that NDEs typically follow certain patterns. While Western narratives often depict experiences of traveling toward a bright light, other cultures tell stories of walking wild paths leading to the afterlife, a motif prevalent in Polynesian religions.The discussion also delved into shamanic practices, where one enters NDE-like states in order to gain insights or powers. Shushan noted that spiritual healers navigated these realms for transformative experiences. "They could control that and then come back to life, whereas a [real] near-death experience... it's pretty iffy if the person's going to come back or not," he explained.He also addressed contemporary scientific skepticism regarding the afterlife, asserting that ancient cultures often held a more profound understanding of life after death. "In contemporary Western culture, there is a real resistance to anything that has to do with death," he remarked. Shushan proposed that our modern, secular view is potentially limited, reflecting, "If there is an afterlife, it's nothing supernatural or paranormal. I think it's just natural."

In the first half, author and researcher Liz Larson discussed the profound impact of eye movement on neurological health and personal transformation. She shared her "Cognitive Movement" modality, which is designed to help individuals reshape their nervous systems through controlled eye movements, accessing memories and emotional patterns for greater personal growth."It's like a backdoor hack," Larson described. She elaborated on how eye movements correlate with mental states, outlining that the eyes not only take in information but also dictate how the brain processes experiences. For instance, looking up can foster inspiration, while gazing down encourages mindfulness of the body.Larson described sneaky strategies for incorporating these techniques into daily life, allowing individuals to execute eye movements discreetly in social situations. "Many people will use that to calm feelings of anxiousness... that will signal the nervous system to down-regulate," she said. According to her, eye movements can energize the brain in preparation for stressful tasks, such as a job interview.Larson cautioned that as individuals age, reduced eye movement can lead to a narrower perspective and hinder cognitive function, making it essential to keep the eyes engaged. Furthermore, Larson explored the intersection of eye movement and paranormal experiences. She claimed that enhancing one's eye movement capabilities could unlock latent visual and psychic abilities, stating, "Many people report being able to see things that are in their vicinity that most of us can't see."She described a remarkable experience at one of her workshops, where the collective energy of participants reportedly led to the appearance of "a portal... this bright blue light looked like static electricity." Larson noted, "It was just this pure, radiating, lovely, conscious energy in the room."------------------In the second half, Gregory Shushan, PhD, discussed near-death experiences (NDEs) and cross-cultural beliefs about the afterlife. He has found notable similarities in how different societies perceive life after death. "The most fascinating aspect is... specifically the way [afterlife] beliefs correspond to near-death experiences," he claimed.Shushan has studied both the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and he's concluded these texts describe NDEs. "If you strip away the cultural descriptions, we're left with something that looks very much like a near-death experience," he elaborated. He explained that NDEs typically follow certain patterns. While Western narratives often depict experiences of traveling toward a bright light, other cultures tell stories of walking wild paths leading to the afterlife, a motif prevalent in Polynesian religions.The discussion also delved into shamanic practices, where one enters NDE-like states in order to gain insights or powers. Shushan noted that spiritual healers navigated these realms for transformative experiences. "They could control that and then come back to life, whereas a [real] near-death experience... it's pretty iffy if the person's going to come back or not," he explained.He also addressed contemporary scientific skepticism regarding the afterlife, asserting that ancient cultures often held a more profound understanding of life after death. "In contemporary Western culture, there is a real resistance to anything that has to do with death," he remarked. Shushan proposed that our modern, secular view is potentially limited, reflecting, "If there is an afterlife, it's nothing supernatural or paranormal. I think it's just natural."

In the first half, author and researcher Liz Larson discussed the profound impact of eye movement on neurological health and personal transformation. She shared her "Cognitive Movement" modality, which is designed to help individuals reshape their nervous systems through controlled eye movements, accessing memories and emotional patterns for greater personal growth."It's like a backdoor hack," Larson described. She elaborated on how eye movements correlate with mental states, outlining that the eyes not only take in information but also dictate how the brain processes experiences. For instance, looking up can foster inspiration, while gazing down encourages mindfulness of the body.Larson described sneaky strategies for incorporating these techniques into daily life, allowing individuals to execute eye movements discreetly in social situations. "Many people will use that to calm feelings of anxiousness... that will signal the nervous system to down-regulate," she said. According to her, eye movements can energize the brain in preparation for stressful tasks, such as a job interview.Larson cautioned that as individuals age, reduced eye movement can lead to a narrower perspective and hinder cognitive function, making it essential to keep the eyes engaged. Furthermore, Larson explored the intersection of eye movement and paranormal experiences. She claimed that enhancing one's eye movement capabilities could unlock latent visual and psychic abilities, stating, "Many people report being able to see things that are in their vicinity that most of us can't see."She described a remarkable experience at one of her workshops, where the collective energy of participants reportedly led to the appearance of "a portal... this bright blue light looked like static electricity." Larson noted, "It was just this pure, radiating, lovely, conscious energy in the room."------------------In the second half, Gregory Shushan, PhD, discussed near-death experiences (NDEs) and cross-cultural beliefs about the afterlife. He has found notable similarities in how different societies perceive life after death. "The most fascinating aspect is... specifically the way [afterlife] beliefs correspond to near-death experiences," he claimed.Shushan has studied both the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and he's concluded these texts describe NDEs. "If you strip away the cultural descriptions, we're left with something that looks very much like a near-death experience," he elaborated. He explained that NDEs typically follow certain patterns. While Western narratives often depict experiences of traveling toward a bright light, other cultures tell stories of walking wild paths leading to the afterlife, a motif prevalent in Polynesian religions.The discussion also delved into shamanic practices, where one enters NDE-like states in order to gain insights or powers. Shushan noted that spiritual healers navigated these realms for transformative experiences. "They could control that and then come back to life, whereas a [real] near-death experience... it's pretty iffy if the person's going to come back or not," he explained.He also addressed contemporary scientific skepticism regarding the afterlife, asserting that ancient cultures often held a more profound understanding of life after death. "In contemporary Western culture, there is a real resistance to anything that has to do with death," he remarked. Shushan proposed that our modern, secular view is potentially limited, reflecting, "If there is an afterlife, it's nothing supernatural or paranormal. I think it's just natural."

Professor Kozlowski takes on a triple threat of Bronze-Age(ish) underworld stories, namely: The Egyptian Book of the Dead, Inana's Descent to the Underworld (Sumerian), and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. Along the way, we'll try to make some sense and find patterns among these dense, difficult, and disparate texts, and set the foundation for the later Greek and Roman (and Christian) understandings of the Underworld to come.

The Great Myth of the Sun GodsBy Alvin Boyd KhunIt may be that many of you have come to this lecture with the expectation of hearing about the superstitious beliefs of some ancient fire-worshippers or sun-worshippers. You may wonder why we should presume to waste an evening dilating upon the childish fancies of early peoples who could conceive of no more exalted form of deity in the universe than the physical body of our sun. Can there possibly be anything important in the study of such forms of crude fetishism?Let me disabuse your minds of any such prepossession at once. We have not invited you to hear of infantile nonsense of early child-humanity. On the contrary, it is our opinion that there is not a theme within the entire range of religious interest of such sublimity and authentic grandeur as this subject of the Sun-gods. We have come to the persuasion that this is the most important lecture that we have given or shall ever give. In it there is to be found the central thesis of all religion. We have asked you to hear an exposition of the cardinal principle of all true religion. Instead of dealing with an erratic notion of primitive barbarism, we have to present to you this evening the long-lost supreme datum of all high religion. And it is our design to show that religion in the world has drifted so far away from its original base that it no longer recognizes the very first and fundamental conception about which it was in the beginning constructed. The myth of the Sun-gods is the very heart's core of religion at its best.It is commonly supposed that religious honors were paid to the sun as a deity by a few isolated peoples or sects, such as the Parsees and the ancient Ghebers of Persia, and some African tribes. In correction of this view we are prepared to support the declaration that the worship of the Sun-god was quite universal in the ancient world. It ranged from China and India to Yucatan and Peru. The Emperor and the Mikado, as well as the Incas, and the Pharaohs were Sun-god figures. And is the belief only an empty myth? So far from being such, it is at once the highest embodiment of religious conception in the spiritual history of the race.Since the word "myth" occurs in the title, it is necessary to define it so that we may the better glimpse the nature of the subject. To the modern mind the word carries with it a derogatory implication. To reduce any construction to the status of a myth is to put it out of court and render it valueless. We regard a myth as a fiction and a falsity. To show that a theory or a belief is only a myth, is to relegate it to the world of non-reality, and dismiss it from further consideration as a thing of value.Not so with the ancients. With them (the ancients) a myth was a valuable instrumentality of knowledge. It was an intellectual, even a spiritual, tool, by the aid of which truth and wisdom could at one and the same time both be concealed from the unworthy and expressed for the worthy. The ancients rightly regarded spiritual truth and experience as being incapable of expression or impartation by means of words simply. A myth or an allegory could be made the better means of conveying subtly and with a certain added force, the truth veiled under a set form of dramatic presentation. The myth would enhance spiritual truth as a drama reinforces moral situations. It was all the more powerful in its message precisely because it was known not to be outwardly a true story. No one was caught by the literal falsity of the construction. Attention could therefore be given wholly to the hidden import, which was not obscured by the outward occurrence. The myth was known to be a fiction; therefore it deceived nobody--until the third century. But at the same time it was most ingeniously designed to instruct in the deepest of spiritual truths. It was a literary device to embalm lofty wisdom in the amber of a tradition that could be easily remembered, in the guise of a human story. It was truth incarnated in a dramatic occurrence, which was known to be untrue. Outwardly fictitious, but inwardly the substance of a mighty truth, was the myth. And as such it was the universal dress in which ancient knowledge was clothed.To indicate the universality of the Sun-god myth it is only necessary to enumerate some thirty of the chief figures known as Sun-gods amongst the nations about the Eastern Mediterranean, before the advent of Jesus. There were in Egypt, Osiris, Horus, Serapis, Hermes or Taht (Thoth), Khunsu, Atum (Aten, Adon, the Adonis or Phrygia), Iusa, Iu-sa, Iu-em-hetep; in Syria, Atis, Sabazius, Zagreus, Kybele (femine); in Assyria Tammuz; in Babylonia, Marduk and Sargon; in Persia, Mithra, Ahura-Mazda and the Zoroasters; in Greece, Orpheus, Bacchus (Dionysus), Achilles, Hercules, Theseus, Perseus, Jason, Prometheus; in India, Vyasa, Krishna, Buddha; in Tibet the Boddhisattvas; besides many others elsewhere.Likewise in the ancient Mystery dramas the central character was ever the Sun-god the role being enacted by the candidate for initiation in person. He went through the several initiations as himself the type and representative of the solar divinity in the field of human experience.Moreover, the Patriarchs, Prophets, Priests and Kings of Biblical lore are no less Sun-god figures. For in their several characteristics they are seen to be typical of the Christos.From the study of a mass of the ancient material the sincere and disingenuous student becomes ere long convinced of the fact that the Jesus figure of the Gospels, whether he lived historically or not (and there is much question of it even among theologians), is just another in the long list of the solar gods. They were figured by ancient poetic genius as embodiments of divine solar glory living among men, if they were not purely the mythical constructions of the allegorists.These Sun-god characters, of none of whom can it be said positively that they were living personages, were, it must be clearly noted, purely typical figures in the national epics of the several nations. They were symbols, one might say. But of what were they symbolical? That is the point of central importance. They were representative characters, summing and epitomizing in themselves the spiritual history of the human individual in his march across the field of evolving life on earth. They were the types and models of the divine potentiality pictured as coming to realization in their careers. They were the mirror held up to men, in which could be seen the possibilities locked up in man's own nature. They were type-figures, delineating the divine life that was an ever-possible realization for any devoted man. They were the symbols of an ever-coming deity, a deity that came not once historically in Judea, but that came to ever-fuller expression and liberation in the inner heart of every son of man. The solar deities were the gods that ever came, that were described as coming not once upon a time, but continuously and regularly. Their radiant divinity might be consummated by any earnest person at any time or achieved piecemeal.They were typed as ever-coming or coming regularly because they were symboled by the sun in its annual course around the zodiac of twelve signs, and the regular periodicity of this natural symbol typified the ever-continuing character of their spiritual sunlight. The ancients, in a way and to a degree almost incomprehensible to the unstudied modern, had made of the sun's annual course round the heavens a faithful reproduction of the spiritual history of the divine spirit in man. The god in us was emblemed by the sun in its course, and the sun's varied experiences, as fabulously construed, were a reflection of our own incarnational history. The sun in its movements through the signs was made the mirror of our life in spirit. To follow the yearly round of the zodiac was to epitomize graphically the whole history of human experience. Thus the inner meaning of our mortal life was endlessly repeated in the daily, weekly, monthly and yearly cycle of the sun's passage, the seven or twelve divisions of which marked the seven- or twelvefold segmentation of our spiritual history or our initiations. (They were figured at first as seven, later as twelve, when the solar gods came upon the cosmic scene.)The careers of these solar gods, then, were a type of what is occurring to every man who is dowered with the spark of divine soul within his breast. Each one of us has had or will have his festival of conception in June, his birth into the world of fleshly life in the autumn, his spiritual awakening at Christmas, and his glorious resurrection from the dead body of this life at Easter.The Christians say the Christos came once in a single character in history, Jesus of Judea, saying nothing about his coming to Everyman at all times. They present to the world the Only-Begotten Son of the Father, confusing in one historical figure two distinct characters of ancient philosophy, the Logos and the Christos, and making both historical in a human being born of woman. Suffice it to say that neither character was historical in the ancient systems. The Logos and the Christos were cosmic forces, and the erring Christians confounded these "personages" of ancient philosophy with the mundane career of the man Jesus, who was not other than one of the mythical Sun-god heroes, or national type-figures. What a travesty of truth the Christian representation has become! What a caricature the Gospels have made of the divine spiritual principle in man's life!The ancients had no "only-begotten" son because the term used in their systems, miserably mistranslated "only-begotten," was something with quite a different connotation. It was in Greek "monogenes," and in Latin "unigenitus," and was far from meaning "only-begotten." It meant that which was begotten of one parent, the father, alone, not the offspring of the union of father and mother. By the term the ancients meant to designate him who was the projection into matter of the spirit forces of life, not the final product of the union of spirit and matter, or the male and female elements. Had the early Christian Fathers known of the inner meaning of the symbolism of the Egyptian Ptah, as Khepr-Ra, who was typed by the male beetle that incubated in the ground and without union with the female transformed and regenerated himself after twenty-eight days (exactly a moon cycle) in the form of the young scarab, symbol of the new-born sun in the moon, they would have been intelligent enough to have avoided the great schisms that divided the Church into Roman and Greek Catholic bodies over the abstrusities of this very origin of the persons of the Trinity. But Egypt was farther away from Rome of the third century than it is from us, who can now read the inscriptions that were sealed from them.All this ancient scriptural data accentuates the fact that not the historical Jesus, but the spiritual Christ, or the god within the individual heart (as expounded in the lecture on Platonic Philosophy in the Bible) is the subject of the sacred writings of old, and the kernel of the whole religious ideology. Angelus Silesius has expressed this in a stanza which should be a perpetual reminder of the futility of clinging to the historical interpretation of Gospel literature.Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, But not within thyself, thy soul will be forlorn; The cross on Golgotha thou lookest to in vain, Unless within thyself it be set up again. And the Christian hymn, "O Jesus, thou art standing, outside the fast-closed door," gives expression to the kindred idea that while we look across the map to localize the Christos in Judea, we keep the spiritual mentor of our own lives standing without, seeking an entrance into our lives in vain.By the aid of archaic sacred books we have been enabled to trace authentically the origin of the name Jesus. And it is of great importance to present this material, because it throws a flood of clear light upon the ancient conceptions of the Messiah and the coming Son, or Sun-god. In this light the name will be seen to be a type-designation and not the personal name of an historical being.It is derived from the two letters (or numbers) which in the beginning of typology symbolized the two first elements, spirit and matter, into which the primal One Life bifurcated. They are the I (or 1) symboling the male or spirit, and the O (letter) or 0 (cipher) symboling the female or material universe. Together they represented the biune male-female deity. We have, then, the letters IO, or the number 10. As the vowels were freely interchanged, in ancient languages, the name was written either IO, IA, IE , or IU, and all these forms are found. Next the I transformed into consonantal value and became a J (as it is yet in Latin), so that we find the names JO, JA, JE and JU, from each of which many names have arisen. When the creation had combined the male and female and the two had given birth to the Son, or Logoic universe, the name was given the form of three letters, and we then find such forms as IAO, JAH, IEO, JEU, ZUE. When the universe became founded on the four cardinal points or the square of four dimensions, the name was spelled variously as IEOU, JOVE, ZEUS, JEVE, DIOS, T/HEOS, HUHI, IHUH and others. In its character as a sevenfold or seven-lettered name, it took the form of JEHOVAH, SABAOTH, DEBORAH, DELILAH, SEP/HIROT/H, MICHAEL, SOLOMON, and others of seven letters. The I permuted with l (el) or 1 (one), so that IE became LE or, inverted EL, the great Hebrew character of deity. The EL and the IAH (JAH), became the most frequent determinatives of divinity, as a host of names will testify. There are Bethel, Emanuel, Michael, Israel, Gabriel, Samuel, Abdiel, Uriel, Muriel Azazel, and many others, in which the EL is prefixed. The JAH is seen in such names as EliJAH, AbiJAH, while the IAH comes in a host of such names as Nehemiah, Jeremiah, Obediah, Hezekiah, Isaiah, Messiah, Alleluiah and more.But whence comes the "s" in Jesus's name? This is of great importance. It is derived from an Egyptian suffix written either SA, SE, SI, SU, or SAF, SEF, SIF or SUF (SAPH, SEPH, SIPH or SUPH) and meaning "the son," "heir," "prince" or successor to the father. (The F is an Egyptian ending for the masculine singular.) When the original symbol of divinity, IO or IE, JO or JE, was combined with the Egyptian suffix for the succeeding heir, SU or SA, the resultant was the name IUSA, IUSE, IUSU, or IOSE; or IESU, JESU, IUSEF, IOSEF, JOSEF. One of the many forms was JESU and another was JOSEF. The final F became sibilant at times and gave us the eventual form of JESUS. The name then meant the "divine son," and combined in the Egyptian IU the idea of the coming one. Hence JESUS was the Messiah, the coming son of the divine life. There was in Egypt for ten thousand years B.C. the character of this functionary under the name of IUSA. Later he was the Iu-em-hetep, which means "the divine son who comes with peace (hetep). But most interestingly, this last word also means seven. Hence Jesus is he who comes as the seventh principle to complete the six elementary powers of natural evolution with the gift of divine intelligence, which supplants the elementary chaos with the rulership of love and intelligence and thus brings peace into a warring situation. Hence finally, Jesus is the seventh cosmic principle, announced in all religious lore as he who comes to bring peace and good will to men. And as such he was announced in the Christian Gospels. But there was more than one Jesus or IUSA or IU before the coming of the alleged historical Jesus.Startling as are the implications of this bit of etymology, a far more amazing denouement of Bible study is the revelation that not only were there over thirty Sun-god figures in the cults of the various nations of old, but there are immediately in the Bible itself, in the Old Testament, some twenty more Sun-god characters under the very name of Jesus! Are we speaking arrant nonsense or sober truth when we make a claim which seems at first sight so unsupportable? Twenty Jesus characters in the Old Testament! Let us see. We have noted the many variant forms of the Jesus name. There are still others in the Old Testament, never suspected as being related to the name of the Christian Redeemer. There are Isaac, Esau, Jesse, Jacob, Jeshu, Joachim, Joshua, Jonah and others. All these are variant forms of the one name, which has still other forms among the Hebrews in secular life, Yusuf, Yehoshua, Yeshu, etc. Joshua, Hosea and Jesse are from this name indisputably. A few might be the subject of controversy.Furthermore, beside these that bear the original divine name, there are other Sun-god figures in the Old Testament under a wide variety of names. They are Samson (whose name means "solar"), David, Solomon, Saul (equals soul, or sol, the sun--Latin.), Abraham, Moses, Gideon, Jephtha and the like. Their actions identify them as solar representatives.Now let us see what the conception of our divinity as a Sun-god in reality meant to the sages of old, and what it should mean to us. It meant that the divinity within us, our divine soul or Self, was itself the Sun-god, or solar deity. And what does this signify in concrete terms for us? Just this; that the god within us is constituted of the imperishable essence of solar light and energy! In short, we ourselves, in our higher nature, are solar gods in potentiality! Our highest nature is an incorruptible body composed of the glorious essence of the sun's energy! The gods in the Bible were always symboled by the light or fire of the sun. We are now enlightened to see it as a description of our nature as veritable truth and fact. We are Sun-gods. Our immortal spirits within us are composed of the radiant substance of solar energy.At the very time we were first assembling the material for this lecture, there came an announcement in the daily press of a discovery by a modern physicist, Dr. George W. Crile, of the Cleveland Laboratories, which practically fixed the seal of truth upon every word we have uttered or shall utter in this lecture. It was most startlingly corroborative of our exegesis. He announced that he had discovered at the heart of every living organism a tiny nucleus of energy, all aglow, with temperatures ranging from 3000 to 6000 degrees of heat, which he called "radiogens" or "hot points." These, he said, were precisely akin to the radiant energy of solar matter. He affirmed, in short, that a tiny particle of the sun's power and radiance was lodged within the heart of every organic unit! The light and energy that has life. What would be Crile's surprise, however, if he were to be shown a sentence taken from Hargrave Jennings' old book on the Rosicrucians, written over sixty years ago: "Every man has a little spark (sun) in his own bosom?" For this was one item in the teaching of the Medieval Fire-Philosophers, and the reason they were styled such. They knew what Crile has discovered, as likewise did the ancient Bible-writers. They based their Sun-god religions upon it. Our souls are composed of the imperishable essence of solar light! We are immortal because we are Sun-gods.But many will impatiently rise to expostulate with us, and ask why, if this was the universal fundamentum of the old religions, the Bible itself does not categorically carry this message and state this central fact. Wait a moment! Who that knows this primary datum has searched the Bible to see if it has nothing to say on the point? We, too, believed the Bible was remiss in expressing this conception, until we searched with a more watchful eye. And now let us hear what the Bible says as to our solar constitution, and determine for ourselves whether it is silent on the groundwork of religion or not. Let us hear first the Psalms. "Our God is a living fire," say they; and "Our God is a consuming fire." "The Lord God is a sun," avers the same book. "I am come to send fire on earth," says Jesus, meaning he came to scatter the separated sparks of solar essence amongst mankind, a spark to each soul. In Revelation the angels scatter the fire and the incense of their seven censers over the earth, among the inhabitants. Then says John the Baptist: "I indeed baptize you with water, but he that cometh after me will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire!" Jesus says: "I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven." (Satan was the descending Lucifer, or Light-bringer, before he was lifted up and divinized.) The fire that falls on Jeremiah's altar and many another in the Bible narrative types the deity coming to dwell with mortals. Says Jesus: "When I am in the world I am the light of the world." Again he said: "Ye are the light of the world," and "Let your light so shine that others may . . . glory your father which is in heaven." The Lord, say the Psalms, "made his angels messengers and his ministers a flame of fire." The New Testament Jesus, following the well-known Egyptian diagram of the Ankh, the solar disk with the spread wings, is described as "the sun of righteousness, risen with healing in his wings." John has Jesus saying that the condemnation of the world lay in that it rejected the light when it was sent into the world. Says Job: "Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. The light shall be dark in his tabernacle and his candle shall be put out with him." Isaiah writes: "Behold all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks; walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks that ye have kindled." We are adjured to "Rise, shine, for thy light is come." "The Lord is my light," reiterates the Psalms. And again: "In thy light shall we see light." "Light is sown for the righteous." "We wait for light," cry the souls in the darkness of incarnation, far from their original fount of light. John declares that the Christos "was the true light" which was to come Messianically for the redemption of our lower nature. And again he declares that with the Christos "light is come into the world." No cry echoes with more resounding intensity down to this age than Paul's exhortation to our souls buried in lethal darkness: "Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine upon thee!" And in Revelation there are those mighty pronouncements: in the spiritual resurrection "there shall be no more need of the sun to shine by day nor the moon by night, for the glory of the Lord did lighten it." And there is no more heartening assurance anywhere in the Bible than Jesus's statement: "Ye have light in yourselves."And these are only a gleaning from the great score of similar passages with which the Bible teems. And still folks will say they find no warrant for the Sun-god idea in the Bible!In Rome the sacred fire in the temple of Vesta was guarded by seven Vestal Virgins, chosen for purity and for psychic vision. If they permitted the fire to die out (symbolic of the light of deity dying out in the heart) the penalty upon them was death. If they violated their sexual purity, they were buried alive in the city. And from the great old Egyptian Book of the Dead we take just one passage among scores: "Lo, I come from the Lake of Flame, from the Lake of Fire, and from the field of flame, and I live." And again, from an old Book of Adam and Eve we quote a great passage in which the Lord says: "I made thee of the light, and I wished to bring out children of the light from thee." If only we had been taught by our religious teachers that our spiritual natures are woven and fabricated of solar light, we should have had a clearer apprehension of our potentialities for divine education.Supplementing all this material from the Bible and ancient scriptures, there is at hand for our supreme enlightenment one grand pronouncement from Greek Platonic philosophy which we conceive to be that lost ultimate link between science and religion. It is the truth before whose altar both science and religion can kneel at last and find themselves paying tribute to the same god,--the god of solar radiance. It is a sentence from the learned Proclus, last of the Great Platonists: "The light of the sun is the pure energy of intellect." Are we big enough to catch the mighty significance of that statement? Is it not the essence of what the modern physicist means when he talks of "mind-stuff?" The fiery radiance of the sun is already the motivating genius of intellect! Matter is itself intelligent and intelligence! Here is the basic link between all naturalism and all spirituality. Matter enshrouds and contains the soul of mind and spirit. The light of the sun is the deific flash of intellect! And the very core of our conscious being is a spark of that infinite indestructible energy of solar light. There is the "seminal soul of light" or the seed of fiery divinity (Prometheus's "fire" stolen from the gods) in each of us. It makes us a god.Armed with this unquenchable fire which is intellect, we are sent on earth to inhabit a body which is described as a watery and miry swamp. The body is nearly eighty per cent. water! It is the duty of the fiery spark to enlighten the whole dark realm of mortal life, to transmute by its alchemical power the baser dross of animal propensity into the finer motivation of love and brotherhood. This life is a purgation--Purgatory--because it is a process of burning and tempering crude animal elements into the pure gold of spiritual light. In Egyptian scriptures the twelve sons of Ra (the twelve sons of Jacob, and the twelve tribes of Israel) were called the "twelve saviors of the treasure of light." An Egyptian text reads: "This is the sun within us, the seminal source of light. Do not dim its luster or cause it to suffer eclipse." And another runs: "Give ye glory as to the sun; he is the chief, the only one coming from the body, the head of those who belong to the race of the sun."With this force of fire we must uplift the lower man and transmute his nature into the spiritual glow of love and intelligence. With it we must turn the water of the lower nature into the wine of spiritual force. Around it we must aggregate the refined material which we shall build into that temple of the soul, that body of the resurrection, the great garment of solar light, in which we shall rise out of the tomb of the physical corpus and ascend with the angels. This is the radiant Augoeides of the Greeks, the Sahu of the Egyptians, in which the soul wings its flight aloft like the phoenix, after rending the veil of the temple of the body. It is our garment of immortality, the seamless robe of glory, in prospect of which we groan and travail, says St. Paul, as we earnestly desire to be clothed upon with the garment of incorruption. As flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of heaven, we must fashion for our tenancy there this body of solar glory, in whose self-generated light we may live eternally, having overcome the realms of darkness, or spiritualized the body. Jesus prays the Father to grant unto him that glory that he had with him before the world was, and his prayer is fulfilled in the formation of the spirit body out of the elements of the sun.Who is this King of Glory?--says the Psalmist. And we are exhorted to lift up the aeonial gates, the age-lasting doors, to let the King of Glory enter into our realm. The King of Glory is the Sun-soul within us, raised in his final perfection in the fulness of Christly stature to the state of magnificent effulgence. The King of Glory is the immortal Sun-god, the deity in our hearts; and when at last he blazes forth in the heyday of his glory, and comes in majesty into our lives, then we behold his glory, as of the alone-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. And when he appears to those still sitting in the shadow of darkness, they report that "they have seen a great light, and to those that sat in the valley of darkness did the light shine." And this light, seen ever and anon by some illuminated son of man, as he gropes in the murks of incarnation, is truly "that light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world."And when that light shineth clearer and brighter unto the perfect day, then, indeed, we know of a surety that we ourselves are nucleated of that same glorious essence of combined intellect and spirit. Then we know that we ourselves are the Sun-gods, and that the ancient allegory is not a "myth," but the very essence of our own Selfhood.The Great Myth of the Sun GodsBy Alvin Boyd Khunhttp://mountainman.com.au/ab_kuhn.html This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dwtruthwarrior.substack.com/subscribe

On today's Bible Answer Man broadcast (10/24/24), Hank addresses the false notion that all religions lead to heaven.Hank also answers the following questions:In Matthew 22, what did Jesus mean when he said, “Many are called but few are chosen”? James - Greenville, SC (2:53)What happens to those who have never heard the gospel? Bill - Sumter, SC (5:50)I am struggling with spiritual growth. What advice do you have for me? Amanda - St. Louis, MO (15:10)How would you answer Bill Maher's contention that the Bible was copied from the Egyptian Book of the Dead? Tommy - Nashville, TN (20:47)How do you argue for the existence of God by appealing to an objective moral standard? Tommy - Nashville, TN (20:47)  

In this week's Paranormal Activity, Yvette ventures into the mystical world of Ancient Egypt as she explores the secrets of the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the civilization's deep-rooted beliefs in the afterlife.Discover how the ancient Egyptians viewed death not as an end, but as a gateway to an eternal journey filled with trials, gods, and the pursuit of immortality.Yvette unpacks the spiritual significance of their burial rituals, the powerful spells meant to guide souls through the underworld, and the rich tapestry of Egyptology that still fascinates paranormal enthusiasts today.Join us for a journey beyond the pyramids, into the realms of the dead, and the ghostly echoes that still resonate through history.A Create Podcast Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/paranormal-activity-with-yvette-fielding. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Normandi joins the show to explore her classic translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. We dive into her metaphysical childhood meeting with the goddess Isis, her connection with the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia's love for "the Phoenix", the synchronicities that led Normandi to translate the ancient hieroglyphs, the power of sound and sacred breath, and the many secrets revealed in this mysterious text! Normandi Ellis is a Spiritualist minister, astrologer, and clairvoyant medium. She is the author of fourteen books, including Awakening Osiris: The Spiritual Keys to the Egyptian Book of the Dead. --------- Note: The views and opinions expressed by guests on the Spirit World Center Podcast do not necessarily represent those of the Spirit World Center or its staff. --------- GUEST LINKS Website https://normandiellis.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ellis.normandi/ https://www.facebook.com/NormandiEllis1/ Patreon: https://patreon.com/WordsofPower --------- SPIRIT WORLD CENTER LINKS Website: https://www.spiritworldcenter.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spirit_world_center/ X: https://twitter.com/swc_updates Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thespiritworldcenter YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thespiritworldcenter TikTok: @Spirit.World.Center

Some pretty amazing parallels, though darkened, with Scripture. Thank you for listening! God bless!

This ancient funerary text contains a collection of spells, prayers and incantations designed to guide the departed through the perils of the underworld. Written to ensure eternal life, these scrolls were often left in the sarcophagus of the deceased and now offer fascinating insight into Egyptian culture.This beautifully illustrated edition contains images from the exquisite...

Qualunque donna o uomo egiziano vissuto all'ombra della civiltà faraonica aspirava a diventarlo. Essere dichiarati Maa Kheru (Giusto/Vero di Voce) al termine del periglioso viaggio oltremondano che i morti, si credeva, dovessero affrontare era, infatti, approdare ad un destino di eterna prosperità e beatitudine. Ma come la mettevano gli antichi egiziani con quelli che per loro erano ritenuti peccati? Come si salvavano dalla dannazione che parimenti alla beatitudine poteva toccar loro in sorte a seguito del giudizio postumo e del celebre momento della pesatura del cuore (psicostasia)? La risposta non è ovvia, perché, oltre a vivere delle vite rette, valeva "barare" (anche da morti)! Bibliografia: E. BRESCIANI, Letteratura e Poesia dell'Antico Egitto. Cultura e società attraverso i testi, 4 ed., Torino, Einaudi, 2007, 129-133; T. G. Allen, The Book of the Dead or Going Forth by Day. Ideas of the Ancient Egyptians Concerning the Hereafter as Expressed in Their Own Terms, in SAOC, vol. 37, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1974; R. O. Faulkner, The Egyptian Book of the Dead, The Book of Going forth by Day. The First Authentic Presentation of the Complete Papyrus of Ani, a cura di Eva von Dassow, San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1994; J. H. Taylor, (a cura di), Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead: Journey through the Afterlife, Londra, British Museum Press, 2010. Musiche: 'Whispers of the Desert Wind' Music by Aleksey Chistilin from Pixabay; 'Meditative Background Mystical Yoga Nature Fantasy Music' Music by Dubush Miaw from Pixabay; 'Horror Background Atmosphere with Creepy Clown Laughter' Music by UNIVERSFIELD from Pixabay Suoni: http: //bigsoundbank.com by Joseph Sardin; http://freesound.org CONTATTI: e-mail: info@kheru.it Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100086674804348 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kherupodcast/?igshid=MmIzYWVlNDQ5Yg%3D%3D Music by UNIVERSFIELD from Pixabay

We weren't expecting multi-episode character arcs when we launched this show, but here we are. Rose wraps up the Egyptian Book of the Dead - and one of its most prominent early interpreters, E.A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) by looking at how late 19th and early 20th-century occultists pilfered Egyptology for ideas. Also, Budge has a dream that helps him pass an exam at Cambridge.Additional research for this episode by Matt Brough. Want to read the transcript or see the reading list for this episode? It's available here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In ancient Egypt, if you were rich enough, you'd be buried with a handy manual for surviving the afterlife within easy reach of your coffin — like having a novel on your nightstand. Find out what awaits you in the Duat where Osiris reigns, guarded by gatekeeper spirits with names like "Eavesdropper," "Hot Legs", and "One Who Eats the Putrefaction of His Posterior" in our summary of The Egyptian Book of the Dead Transcript and reading list are available, as always, at our website, www.booksofalltime.co.uk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cub Kuker Supernatural Podcast EP417 Today, we will delve into a channeled question and answer session focusing on the nature of reality and the multiple dimensions we inhabit theoretically. Our exploration will encompass the veil separating the natural from the supernatural realms. We'll delve into the fascinating realm of crystalline beings, exploring their essence and significance.  Additionally, we will unravel the concept of non-local consciousness, delving into its implications and potential for expanding our understanding of existence. Lastly, we will touch on the profound idea of waking the dream, exploring how this concept relates to our perception of reality and our journey of spiritual awakening. The following sacred scriptures are for referencing these topics: 1. Bhagavad Gita: "Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be." - Bhagavad Gita 2.12 2. Book of Revelation: "After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, 'Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.'" - Revelation 4:1 3. Tao Te Ching: "The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth." - Tao Te Ching, Chapter 1 4. Upanishads: "Awake, arise, and learn by approaching the exalted ones, for that path is sharp as a razor's edge, impassable, and hard to go by, say the wise." - Katha Upanishad 1.3.14 5. Egyptian Book of the Dead: "O you gates, lift high your heads! O everlasting doors, let the King of Glory enter." - Egyptian Book of the Dead, Spell 17 This video represents my personal opinion but what do you think? Leave me a comment… _________________________________________

This mini episode is about The Book of the Dead, a collection of funerary texts from ancient Egypt. To better understand the collection as well as the culture and mythology behind these works, I looked a little bit at the page showing the judgment of Hunefer, a high-ranking scribe and priest. This is an encore presentation of my previous episode on this work. I am posting daily mini episodes to cover all 64 artworks which will be up for listeners to vote on in my annual Arts Madness Tournament starting the week of March 1. This is also one of the required works for high school students around the US taking AP Art History. Check out my other podcasts Art Smart | Rainbow Puppy Science Lab Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast. If you are interested in advertising on this or any other Airwave Media show, email: advertising@airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The term “brainwashing” was first used in the 1950s by American journalist Edward Hunter, reporting on the treatment of American soldiers in Chinese prison camps during the Korean War. Brainwashing techniques have been documented as far back as the Egyptian Book of the Dead and used by abusive spouses and parents, self-proclaimed psychics, cult leaders, secret societies, revolutionaries, and dictators to bring others under their thumbs and manipulate them seemingly willingly. These techniques don't involve fantastic weapons or exotic powers, but they do involve an understanding of the human psyche and a desire to exploit it. By understanding these techniques better, you can learn how to protect yourself and others from them. Possible candidates include: People who have lost their jobs and fear for their future. Recently divorced people, particularly in a bitter divorce where children feel vulnerable. Those suffering from lingering illness, especially one they don't understand. People who have lost a loved one, particularly if they were very close to that person and had few other friends. Young people away from home for the first time. These are particular favorites of religious cult leaders. People who are regarded as socially awkward by their mainstream peers. They frequently tend to be loners but seek like minded people who might be few and far between. One particular predatory tactic is to find out enough information about the person and his or her belief system to explain the tragedy the person has experienced in a manner consistent with that belief system. This can later be expanded to explain history in general through that belief system, while subtly modifying it to the brainwasher's interpretation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brainwashing is used to describe an abrupt, induced attitudinal change. Methods used to induce this change include isolation, monopolization, debilitation and exhaustion, drugs, torture, enforcement of routine, and hypnosis.   It can also include news coverage, government manipulation, scare tactics, product marketing, advertising campaigns, social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and of course Twitter. Another heavily used source of Brainwashing is Social Media influencers and of course, peer pressure. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1: Understand that those who attempt to brainwash others tend to prey upon the weak and vulnerable. Not everyone is a target for mind control, but certain people are more susceptible to forms of it at different times. A skillful manipulator knows what to look for and targets people who are going through a difficult period in their life or a change that may or may not be of their own making.  2: Be aware of people who try to isolate you or someone you know from outside influences. As people who are experiencing a personal tragedy or other major life change are inclined to feel lonely, a skillful brain-washer works to amplify those feelings of loneliness. This isolation can take several forms. For young people in a cult, it may be preventing them from contacting their friends and family members. For a significant other in an abusive relationship, it may mean never letting the victim out of the abuser's sight or permitting contact with family and friends. For prisoners in an enemy prison camp, it may involve isolating prisoners from one another while subjecting them to subtle or overt forms of torture. 3: Watch for attacks on the victim's self-esteem. Brainwashing only works when the brainwasher is in a superior position to the victim. This means that the victim has to be broken down, so the brainwasher can rebuild the victim in his or her image. This can be done through mental, emotional, or ultimately physical means for long enough to physical and emotionally wear down the target. Mental tortures may begin with lying to the victim and then progress to embarrassing or intimidating the victim. This form of torture can be done with words or gestures ranging from an expression of disapproval to invading the victim's personal space. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emotional tortures are not kind, of course, but may begin with verbal insults, then progress to badgering, spitting, or more dehumanizing things such as stripping the victim to be photographed or just looked at. The goal of these activities is to break down your natural instinct to fight back so that you become placid. Physical tortures may include starvation, freezing, sleep deprivation, beatings, mutilations, and others, none are acceptable in society. Physical torture is commonly used by abusive parents and spouses, as well as in prison and “re-education” camps. The Legal Argument Although brainwashing can produce profound alterations in character, values, and disposition, it cannot easily be accommodated by such current criminal defenses as mental incapacity, automatism, or coercion. A justification for making brainwashing an excusing condition can be found in each of three major approaches to excusing criminal liability: (1) that punishment should be withheld where it is incapable of having a deterrent effect, (2) that a moral license to punish should not extend to cases where the defendant's actions could not be regarded as voluntary, and (3) that excusing conditions are those that preclude an inference from the act to the actor's character. Although several criticisms might be advanced against the proposed defense, psychological evidence exists to establish beyond doubt the brainwashing phenomenon and its causal link with illegal acts. There are valid moral arguments that brainwashing should afford an excuse to all crimes. They are based on the idea that a person acting when brainwashed is not properly regarded as the same person who reverts to normal behavior after deprogramming. A total of 52 footnotes are provided.  

You Are Being Brainwashed and You Don't Even Know It!!! The term “brainwashing” was first used in the 1950s by American journalist Edward Hunter, reporting on the treatment of American soldiers in Chinese prison camps during the Korean War. Brainwashing techniques have been documented as far back as the Egyptian Book of the Dead and used by abusive spouses and parents, self-proclaimed psychics, cult leaders, secret societies, revolutionaries, and dictators to bring others under their thumbs and manipulate them seemingly willingly. These techniques don't involve fantastic weapons or exotic powers, but they do involve an understanding of the human psyche and a desire to exploit it. By understanding these techniques better, you can learn how to protect yourself and others from them. Possible candidates include: People who have lost their jobs and fear for their future. Recently divorced people, particularly in a bitter divorce where children feel vulnerable. Those suffering from lingering illness, especially one they don't understand. People who have lost a loved one, particularly if they were very close to that person and had few other friends. Young people away from home for the first time. These are particular favorites of religious cult leaders. People who are regarded as socially awkward by their mainstream peers. They frequently tend to be loners but seek like minded people who might be few and far between. One particular predatory tactic is to find out enough information about the person and his or her belief system to explain the tragedy the person has experienced in a manner consistent with that belief system. This can later be expanded to explain history in general through that belief system, while subtly modifying it to the brainwasher's interpretation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brainwashing is used to describe an abrupt, induced attitudinal change. Methods used to induce this change include isolation, monopolization, debilitation and exhaustion, drugs, torture, enforcement of routine, and hypnosis.   It can also include news coverage, government manipulation, scare tactics, product marketing, advertising campaigns, social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and of course Twitter. Another heavily used source of Brainwashing is Social Media influencers and of course, peer pressure. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1: Understand that those who attempt to brainwash others tend to prey upon the weak and vulnerable. Not everyone is a target for mind control, but certain people are more susceptible to forms of it at different times. A skillful manipulator knows what to look for and targets people who are going through a difficult period in their life or a change that may or may not be of their own making.  2: Be aware of people who try to isolate you or someone you know from outside influences. As people who are experiencing a personal tragedy or other major life change are inclined to feel lonely, a skillful brain-washer works to amplify those feelings of loneliness. This isolation can take several forms. For young people in a cult, it may be preventing them from contacting their friends and family members. For a significant other in an abusive relationship, it may mean never letting the victim out of the abuser's sight or permitting contact with family and friends. For prisoners in an enemy prison camp, it may involve isolating prisoners from one another while subjecting them to subtle or overt forms of torture. 3: Watch for attacks on the victim's self-esteem. Brainwashing only works when the brainwasher is in a superior position to the victim. This means that the victim has to be broken down, so the brainwasher can rebuild the victim in his or her image. This can be done through mental, emotional, or ultimately physical means for long enough to physical and emotionally wear down the target. Mental tortures may begin with lying to the victim and then progress to embarrassing or intimidating the victim. This form of torture can be done with words or gestures ranging from an expression of disapproval to invading the victim's personal space. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emotional tortures are not kind, of course, but may begin with verbal insults, then progress to badgering, spitting, or more dehumanizing things such as stripping the victim to be photographed or just looked at. The goal of these activities is to break down your natural instinct to fight back so that you become placid. Physical tortures may include starvation, freezing, sleep deprivation, beatings, mutilations, and others, none are acceptable in society. Physical torture is commonly used by abusive parents and spouses, as well as in prison and “re-education” camps. The Legal Argument Although brainwashing can produce profound alterations in character, values, and disposition, it cannot easily be accommodated by such current criminal defenses as mental incapacity, automatism, or coercion. A justification for making brainwashing an excusing condition can be found in each of three major approaches to excusing criminal liability: (1) that punishment should be withheld where it is incapable of having a deterrent effect, (2) that a moral license to punish should not extend to cases where the defendant's actions could not be regarded as voluntary, and (3) that excusing conditions are those that preclude an inference from the act to the actor's character. Although several criticisms might be advanced against the proposed defense, psychological evidence exists to establish beyond doubt the brainwashing phenomenon and its causal link with illegal acts. There are valid moral arguments that brainwashing should afford an excuse to all crimes. They are based on the idea that a person acting when brainwashed is not properly regarded as the same person who reverts to normal behavior after deprogramming. A total of 52 footnotes are provided.  

Ngayong gabi, madami daming kwentong kababalaghan si K sa mga experience nya sa Japan.  Salamat ulit kay K sa mga kwento, madami dami rin yun hehe.Kung nasa Japan ka rin at may kakaiba kang experiencse na gusto mo ikwento, pwede mo yan email sa paranormalsph@gmail.comgaya nung mga nasabi ko sa extro, eto yung mga links na sinabi ko: The History of the Roman Catholic ChurchLord's Prayer is Spell #125 in the Egyptian Book of the DeadThe Influence of Paganism on Christianityhttps://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300080773/christianity-and-paganism-in-the-fourth-to-eighth-centuries/#:~:text=The%20slaughter%20of%20animals%20for,one%20official%20religion%20of%20Rome.The Pagan origins of ChristianityChristianity is PaganSalamat rin kay Sam na bumisita, kung di nyo pa narinig ang mga episode nya :Sam My Sleeping Third Eye Part 1 - https://youtu.be/WQImHhpmGfQMy Sleeping Third Eye Part 2 - https://youtu.be/Jvmi2ewRfuISam's Past Lives - https://youtu.be/qI4TXImgXOsYou can also catch Sam on his own PodcastSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1DN59qysQoiMnqk8WPBEjH?si=fe3cf60d736e40cdYouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzLbIuY5zVJUU1G81vP1DDgCharmed OnesCharmed Ones Part 1 - https://youtu.be/UtY1CocxnUECharmed Ones Part 2 - https://youtu.be/TOwZsavIyKcEto naman yung link ng Salagubang na Yokai:https://yokai.com/shinchuu/https://smallnewsdarumapedia.blogspot.com/2016/05/heian-shinchu-silkworm-moth-monster.htmlKung ito ang unang episode na napakinggan mo sa podcast, baka gusto mo simulan sa pinaka-una! :D Episode 1 - https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Rqvr9n8ji5XaTpyG7YnQ0?si=6d489e06bb4545d4Kung gusto mo naman tuloy ang usapan via chat, pwede ka mag join sa Discord Server ng podcast kung saan may iba't ibang topic na napapagusapan dun. Click mo lang yung invite link sa baba:https://discord.gg/YWF4BpS4gQ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Do you want to support the podcast? You can help keep us going by giving us a cup of joe! ko-fi.com/paranormalpodcast You can also support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/paranormalpodcast We have different tiers for supporters, from the general support to early access, to joining us on the calls way in advance. No pressure, just additional help for us :) The Para Normal Podcast. Engineered and Produced by f90 Productions Rate and Review our show on Spotify, Pocket Casts, and Apple PodcastsEnjoy. 

Normandi Ellis, PhD, is a Spiritualist minister, astrologer, and certified clairvoyant medium. She is author of 14 books, including Awakening Osiris: The Spiritual Keys to the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Imagining the World into Existence: An Ancient Egyptian Manual of Consciousness, and The Ancient Traditions of Angels: The Power and Influence of Sacred Messengers. … Continue reading "Global Angelic Spirituality with Normandi Ellis"

There is no death in the Osirian religion, only decay and change, and periodic renewal; only evolution and transformation in the domain of matter and the transubstantiation into spirit. In the so-called death of Osiris it is rebirth, not death, exactly the same as in the changes of external nature. At the close of the...

This mini episode is about The Book of the Dead, a collection of funerary texts from ancient Egypt. To better understand the collection as well as the culture and mythology behind these works, I looked a little bit at the page showing the judgment of Hunefer, a high-ranking scribe and priest. I gave a quick shoutout to Abigail Green from CourseStorm.com who was kind enough to include me in her blog post listing The Best Art Podcasts for Arts Organizations, Educators and Creatives. Check out her list if you are looking for other art education related podcasts: https://www.coursestorm.com/blog/best-art-podcasts/ Check out my other podcast Art Smart | Rainbow Putty Science Lab Who ARTed is an Airwave Media Podcast. If you are interested in advertising on this or any other Airwave Media show, email: advertising@airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Episode 99 Crosscurrents in Electronic Tape Music in the United States Playlist Louis and Bebe Barron, “Bells of Atlantis” (1952), soundtrack for a film by Ian Hugo based on the writings of his wife Anaïs Nin, who also appeared in the film. The Barrons were credited with “Electronic Music.” The Barrons scored three of Ian Hugo's short experimental films and this is the earliest, marking an early start for tape music in the United States. Bebe told me some years ago about a work called “Heavenly Menagerie” that they produced in 1950. I have written before that I think this work was most likely the first electronic music made for magnetic tape in the United States, although I have never been able to find a recording of the work. Bells of Atlantis will stand as an example of what they could produce in their Greenwich Village studio at the time. They were also engaged helping John Cage produce “Williams Mix” at the time, being recordists of outdoor sounds around New York that Cage would use during the process of editing the composition, which is described below. The Forbidden Planet soundtrack, their most famous work, was created in 1956. 8:59 John Cage, “Williams Mix” (1952) from The 25-Year Retrospective Concert Of The Music Of John Cage (1959 Avakian). Composed in 1952, the tape was played at this Town Hall concert a few years later. Premiered in Urbana, Ill., March 22, 1953. From the Cage database of compositions: “This is a work for eight tracks of 1/4” magnetic tape. The score is a pattern for the cutting and splicing of sounds recorded on tape. Its rhythmic structure is 5-6-16-3-11-5. Sounds fall into 6 categories: A (city sounds), B (country sounds), C (electronic sounds), D (manually produced sounds), E (wind produced sounds), and F ("small" sounds, requiring amplification). Pitch, timbre, and loudness are notated as well. Approximately 600 recordings are necessary to make a version of this piece. The compositional means were I Ching chance operations. Cage made a realization of the work in 1952/53 (starting in May 1952) with the assistance of Earle Brown, Louis and Bebe Barron, David Tudor, Ben Johnston, and others, but it also possible to create other versions.” This was a kind of landmark work for John as he explored the possibilities of working with the tape medium. It is the only work from this period, created in the United States, for which there is an original recording of a Cage realization. He also composed “Imaginary Landscape No. 5” in 1952 for 42-disc recordings as a collage of fragments from long-playing records recorded on tape (he preferred to use jazz records as the source), put together with the assistance of David Tudor. Though some modern interpretations exist, there is no recording from the 1950s of a Cage/Tudor realization so I am unable to represent what it would have been like at that time. 5:42 Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky, “Moonflight” (1952) from Tape Music An Historic Concert (1968 Desto). This record documents tape pieces played at perhaps the earliest concert of American tape music at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 28, 1952. Realized at the composer's Tape Music Center at Columbia University, the precursor of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. 2:54 Otto Luening, “Fantasy in Space” (1952) from Tape Music An Historic Concert (1968 Desto). Realized at the composer's Tape Music Center at Columbia University, the precursor of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. 2:51 Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky, “Incantation” (1953) from Tape Music An Historic Concert (1968 Desto). This record documents tape pieces played at perhaps the earliest concert of American tape music at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 28, 1952. Realized at the composer's Tape Music Center at Columbia University, the precursor of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. 2:34 Henry Jacobs, “Sonata for Loudspeakers” (1953-54) from Sounds of New Music (1958 Folkways). “Experiments with synthetic rhythm” produced by Henry Jacobs who worked at radio station KPFA-FM in Berkeley. Jacobs narrates the track to explain his use of tape loops and recorded sound. 9:29 Jim Fassett, track “B2” (Untitled) from Strange To Your Ears - The Fabulous World of Sound With Jim Fassett (1955 Columbia Masterworks). “The fabulous world of sound,” narrated with tape effects, by Jim Fassett. Fassett, a CBS Radio musical director, was fascinated with the possibilities of tape composition. With this recording, done during the formative years of tape music in the middle 1950s, he took a somewhat less daring approach than his experimental counterparts, but a bold step nonetheless for a national radio audience. He hosted a weekend program called Strange to Your Ears to showcase these experiments and this album collected some of his best bits. 8:15 Harry F. Olsen, “The Well-Tempered Clavier: Fugue No. 2” (Bach) and “Nola” (Arndt) and “Home, Sweet Home” from The Sounds and Music of the RCA Electronic Music Synthesizer (1955 RCA). These “experimental” tracks were intended to demonstrate the range of sound that could be created with RCA Music Synthesizer. This was the Mark I model, equipped with a disc lathe instead of a tape recorder. When it was upgraded and called the Mark II in the late 1950s, it became the showpiece of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Here we listen to three tunes created by Harry F. Olsen, one of the inventors, in the style of a harpsichord, a piano, and “an engineer's conception of the music.” 5:26 Milton Babbitt, “Composition For Synthesizer” (1960-61) (1968 Columbia). Babbitt was one of the only composers at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center who composed and produced works based solely on using the RCA Music Synthesizer. Most others took advantage of other tape processing techniques found in the studio and not controlled by the RCA Mark II. It took him quite a long time to work out all of the details using the synthesizer and his meticulous rules for composing serially. On the other hand, the programmability of the instrument made it much more possible to control all the parameters of the sound being created electronically rather than by human musicians. This work is a prime example of this kind of work. 10:41 Tod Dockstader, “Drone” (1962) from Drone; Two Fragments From Apocalypse; Water Music (1966 Owl Records). Self-produced album by independent American composer Dockstader. This came along at an interesting period for American elecgtronic music, sandwiched between the institutional studio work being done at various universities and the era of the independent musician working with a synthesizer. Dockstader used his own studio and his own devices to make this imaginative music. This was one of a series of four albums featuring Dockstader's music that were released on Owl in the 1966-67 timeframe. They have all been reissued in one form or another. Here is what Dockstader himself wrote about this piece: “Drone, like many of my other works, began life as a single sound; in this case, the sound of racing cars. But, unlike the others, the germinal sound is no longer in the piece. It's been replaced by another a guitar. I found in composing the work that the cars didn't go anywhere, except, seemingly, in circles. The sound of them that had interested me originally was a high to low glissando the Doppler effect. In making equivalents of this sound, I found guitar glissandos could be bent into figures the cars couldn't. . . . After the guitar had established itself as the base line of the piece, I began matching its sound with a muted sawtooth oscillator (again, concrete and electronic music: the guitar being a mechanical source of sound, the oscillator an electronic source). This instrument had a timbre similar to the guitar, with the addition of soft attack, sustained tones, and frequencies beyond the range of the guitar. . . . The effect of the guitar and the oscillator, working together, was to produce a kind of drone, with variations something like the procedure of classical Japanese music, but with more violence. Alternating violence with loneliness, hectic motion with static stillness, was the aim of the original piece; and this is still in Drone, but in the process, the means changed so much that, of all my pieces, it is the only one I can't remember all the sounds of, so it continues to surprise me when I play it.” (From the original liner notes by Dockstader). 13:24 Wendy Carlos, “Dialogs for Piano and Two Loudspeakers” (1963) from Electronic Music (1965 Turnabout). This is an early recording of Wendy, pre-Switched-on Bach, from her days as a composer and technician. In this work, Carlos tackles the task of combining synthesized sounds with those of acoustic instruments, in this case the piano. It's funny that after you listen to this you could swear that there were instruments other than the piano used, so deft was her blending of electronic sounds with even just a single instrument. 4:00 Gordon Mumma, “Music from the Venezia Space Theater” (1963-64) (1966 Advance). Mono recording from the original release on Advance. Composed at the Cooperative Studio for Electronic Music in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This was the studio created by Mumma and fellow composer Robert Ashley to produce their electronic tape works for Milton Cohen's Space Theater on Ann Arbor, which this piece tries to reproduce. The original was a quad magnetic tape. It was premiered at the 27th Venezia Bianale, Venice, Italy on September 11, 1964 and comprised the ONCE group with dancers. 11:58 Jean Eichelberger Ivey, “Pinball” (1965) from Electronic Music (1967 Folkways). Realized at the Electronic Music Studio of Brandeis University. This work was produced in the Brandeis University Electronic Music Studio and was her first work of electroacoustic music. In 1964 she began a Doctor of Musical Arts program in composition, including studies in electronic music, at the University of Toronto and completed the degree in 1972. Ivey founded the Peabody Electronic Music Studio in 1967 and taught composition and electronic music at the Peabody Conservatory of Music until her retirement in 1997. Ivey was a respected composer who also sought more recognition for women in the field. In 1968, she was the only woman composer represented at the Eastman-Rochester American Music Festival. Her work in electronic music and other music was characteristic of her general attitude about modern composing, “I consider all the musical resources of the past and present as being at the composer's disposal, but always in the service of the effective communication of humanistic ideas and intuitive emotion.” 6:12 Pauline Oliveros, “Bye Bye Butterfly” (1965) from New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media (1977 1750 Arch Records). This was composed at the San Francisco Tape Music Center where so many west coast composers first found their footing: Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Jon Gibson, Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Morton Subotnick, Ramon Sender all did work there around this time. Oliveros was experimenting with the use of tape delay in a number of works, of which “Bye Bye Butterfly” is a great example. 8:05 Gordon Mumma, “The Dresden Interleaf 13 February 1945” (1965) from Dresden / Venezia / Megaton (1979 Lovely Music). Composed at the Cooperative Studio for Electronic Music (Ann Arbor, Michigan). Remixed at The Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College (Oakland, California). This tape piece was premiered at the sixth annual ONCE Festival in Ann Arbor where Mumma configured an array of sixteen “mini speakers” to surround the audience and project the 4-channel mix. The middle section of the piece contains the “harrowing roar of live, alcohol-burning model airplane engines.” (Mumma) This anti-war piece was presented in the 20th anniversary of the Allied fire-bombing of Dresden near the end of World War II. 12:14 Kenneth Gaburo, “Lemon Drops (Tape Alone)” (1965) from Electronic Music from the University of Illinois (1967 Heliodor). From Gaburo: “Lemon Drops” is one of a group of five tape compositions made during 1964-5 referencing the work of Harry Partch. All are concerned with aspects of timbre (e.g., mixing concrete and electronically generated sound); with nuance (e.g., extending the expressive range of concrete sound through machine manipulation, and reducing machine rigidity through flexible compositional techniques); and with counterpoint (e.g., stereo as a contrapuntal system).”(see). 2:52 Steve Reich, “Melodica” (1966) from Music From Mills (1986 Mills College). This is one of Reich's lesser-known phased loop compositions from the 1960s. It is “composed of one tape loop gradually going out of phase with itself, first in two voices and then in four.” This was Reich's last work for tape before he transitioned to writing instrumental music. 10:43 Pril Smiley, “Eclipse” (1967) from Electronic Music, Vol. IV (1969 Turnabout). The selections are works by the winners of the First International Electronic Music Competition - Dartmouth College, April 5, 1968. The competition was judged by composers Milton Babbitt, Vladimir Ussachevsky, and George Balch Wilson. The winner was awarded a $500 prize. Pril Smiley was 1st finalist and realized “Eclipse” at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Smiley had this to say about the work: “Eclipse” was originally composed for four separate tracks, the composer having worked with a specifically-structured antiphonal distribution of compositional material to be heard from four corners of a room or other appropriate space. Some sections of “Eclipse” are semi-improvisatory; by and large, the piece was worked out via many sketches and preliminary experiments on tape: all elements such as rhythm, timbre, loudness, and duration of each note were very precisely determined and controlled. In many ways, the structure of “Eclipse” is related to the composer's use of timbre. There are basically two kinds of sounds in the piece: the low, sustained gong-like sounds (always either increasing or decreasing in loudness) and the short more percussive sounds, which can be thought of as metallic, glassy, or wooden in character. These different kinds of timbres are usually used in contrast to one another, sometimes being set end to end so that one kind of sound interrupts another, and sometimes being dovetailed so that one timbre appears to emerge out of or from beneath another. Eighty-five percent of the sounds are electronic in origin; the non-electronic sounds are mainly pre-recorded percussion sounds–but subsequently electronically modified so that they are not always recognizable.” (From the original liner notes by Smiley.) 7:56 Olly W. Wilson, “Cetus” (1967) from Electronic Music, Vol. IV (1969 Turnabout). The selections are works by the winners of the First International Electronic Music Competition - Dartmouth College, April 5, 1968. The competition was judged by composers Milton Babbitt, Vladimir Ussachevsky, and George Balch Wilson. The winner was awarded a $500 prize. Olly W. Wilson was the competition Winner with “Cetus.” It was realized in the studio for Experimental Music of the University of Illinois. Olly Wilson wrote about the work: “the compositional process characteristic of the “classical tape studio” (the mutation of a few basic electronic signals by means of filters, signal modifiers, and recording processes) was employed in the realization of this work and was enhanced by means of certain instruments which permit improvisation by synthesized sound. Cetus contains passages which were improvised by the composer as well as sections realized by classical tape studio procedures. The master of this work was prepared on a two channel tape. Under the ideal circumstances it should be performed with multiple speakers surrounding the auditor.” (Olly Wilson. The Avant Garde Project at UBUWEB, AGP129 – US Electronic Music VIII | Dartmouth College Competition (1968-70). 9:18 Alice Shields, “The Transformation of Ani” (1970) from Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center Tenth Anniversary Celebration (1971 CRI). Composed at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Alice Shields explained, “The text of “The Transformation of Ani” is taken from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, as translated into English by E. A. Budge. Most sounds in the piece were made from my own voice, speaking and singing the words of the text. Each letter of the English translation was assigned a pitch, and each hieroglyph of the Egyptian was given a particular sound or short phrase, of mostly indefinite pitch. Each series, the one derived from the English translation, and the one derived from the original hieroglyphs, was then improvised upon to create material I thought appropriate to the way in which I wanted to develop the meaning of the text, which I divided into three sections.” (see). 8:59 Opening background music: John Cage, Fontana Mix (1958) (1966 Turnabout). This tape work was composed in 1958 and I believe this is the only recorded version by Cage himself as well as the only Cage version presented as a work not in accompaniment of another work. An earlier recording, from the Time label in 1962, feature the tape piece combined with another Cage work, “Aria.” This version for 2 tapes was prepared b Cage in February 1959 at the Studio di Fonologia in Milan, with technical assistance from Mario Zuccheri. From the Cage Database website. “This is a composition indeterminate of its performance, and was derived from notation CC from Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra. The score consists of 10 sheets of paper and 12 transparencies. The sheets of paper contain drawings of 6 differentiated (as to thickness and texture) curved lines. 10 of these transparencies have randomly distributed points (the number of points on the transparencies being 7, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 22, 26, 29, and 30). Another transparency has a grid, measuring 2 x 10 inches, and the last one contains a straight line (10 3/4 inch). By superimposing these transparencies, the player creates a structure from which a performance score can be made: one of the transparencies with dots is placed over one of the sheets with curved lines. Over this one places the grid. A point enclosed in the grid is connected with a point outside, using the straight line transparency. Horizontal and vertical measurements of intersections of the straight line with the grid and the curved line create a time-bracket along with actions to be made.” Opening and closing sequences voiced by Anne Benkovitz. Additional opening, closing, and other incidental music by Thom Holmes. See my companion blog that I write for the Bob Moog Foundation. For additional notes, please see my blog, Noise and Notations.

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How are our modern ways of thinking and being different from those of ancient peoples? When did logic and rational thinking become ‘common sense', instead of just one of the many ways we may contemplate life's important questions? And how is our consciousness and presence in the world altered as we become evermore enmeshed in advanced technologies? Ingrid speaks to philosopher-gardener Jeremy Naydler. Jeremy has written several books on the experience of the sacred in ancient cultures. In his newer work he focuses on the fraught relationship between humans and technology as it has developed from ancient times until today, and explores how the acceleration of modern technologies forces us to examine how we cultivate the human in an era of machines.  Jeremy Naydler, Ph.D., is a philosopher who specializes in the religious life of ancient cultures. He is a Fellow of the Temenos Academy and author of Temple of the Cosmos, Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts, The Future of the Ancient World, and Goethe on Science. He lives in Oxford, England. LINKS TO THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT: Jeremy's books on the sacred in ancient traditions (e.g. The Future of the Ancient World, The and Temple of the Cosmos): https://www.innertraditions.com/author/jeremy-naydler Jeremy's books on technology in relation to the human (In the Shadow of the Machine and The Struggle for a Human Future): https://www.templelodge.com/viewauthor.php?auth_id=109 Egyptian Book of the Dead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_the_Dead Heidegger on “The question concerning technology”: https://monoskop.org/images/4/44/Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf The Philokalia: https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/Philokalia.pdf All episodes and more at ⁠forestofthought.com⁠ Support us on Patreon: ⁠patreon.com/forestofthought⁠ Share and subscribe. Find all available platforms here: ⁠https://anchor.fm/forestofthought⁠ Our theme music is by Christian Holtsteen at ⁠stoneproduction.no⁠. 

Why the Egyptian Book of the Dead is translated as “the book of walking in the light of day.”

This is the Book of Gates episodes (175 & 176) compiled into one big story. See episodes 175 and 176 for further details. Date: c.1305 BCE (first recorded appearance).  Source: KV57, the tomb of Horemheb, and others.  Music intro, interludes, and outro: Luke Chaos. Original compositions by Gorillaz, from the album "Demon Days."  The Book of Gates Translations: J. C. Darnell and C. Manassa Darnell, The Ancient Egyptian Netherworld Books (2018). E. Hornung, Das Buch von den Pforten des Jenseits, I (1979). E. Hornung, Das Buch von den Pforten des Jenseits, II (1984). E. Hornung, The Egyptian Book of Gates, trans. T. Abt (2014). J. Zandee, ‘The Book of Gates', in Liber Amicorum: Studies in Honor of Professor Dr. C.J. Bleeker (1969), 282--324.

In this episode of Cemetery Tales Podcast we are going to talk about the Egyptian Book of the Dead. It is a collection of funerary texts that were used in ancient Egypt to guide the deceased through the afterlife. It includes spells, hymns, and prayers that were intended to protect the deceased from harm and to help them pass through the underworld. If you are ready to dive in, then listen and let's get ready to discuss the book. Thank you for listening. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cemetery/support

Ancient Egyptian Magic takes readers step by step through the Egyptian philosophy and practice of magic. The author, Eleanor L. Harris, is a long-time practitioner of Egyptian magic, and she explains the "hows" and "whys" of magical tools, amulets, rituals, ceremony, and spells. Advanced practitioners will find especially useful instruction on actual Egyptian magical script as found in the ancient papyri, such as The Leyden Papyrus, The Papyrus Ani (the Egyptian Book of the Dead), and other important works.You will learn how to: Invoke Egyptian gods and spirits for divination and magic,  scry with fire, oil, and water, evoke messengers and spirits of the dead, have dream visions Sound the secret names of the deities, shape-shift into god forms, cast spells for love, protection, and healing and create ritual clothing and magical tools There is a glossary of deities and terms, along with a list of resources for more information on specialty items to outfit the detail-oriented magician.

The Egyptian Book of the Dead is a collection of spells which enable the soul of the deceased to navigate the afterlife. The famous title was given the work by western scholars; the actual title would translate as The Book of Coming Forth by Day or Spells for Going Forth by Day. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/whencyclopedia

O que acontece depois que nosso corpo se desliga para sempre? Ouça nesse episódio uma viagem histórica pelo mundo da vida após a morte e a relação do humano com o fim. ----- Quer ouvir antes de todo mundo? Quer ouvir a versão estendida dos episódios? Quer ter acesso a transcrição e mais conteúdo exclusivo? Seja assinante premium. Saiba mais em: escribacafe.com/assinepremium ----- Créditos Pesquisa, roteiro, narração e edição: Christian Gurtner ------- Bibliografia ANCIENTPAGES.COM. Death And Afterlife In Sumerian Beliefs - Ancient Pages. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 1 dez. 2022. CHOKSI, M. Ancient Mesopotamian Beliefs in the Afterlife. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 1 dez. 2022. Greek mythology | Gods, Stories, & History | Britannica. , 2022. (Nota técnica). JULIA MARGARET LU. Greek Mythology and Life After Death. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 9 dez. 2022. Khan Academy. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 4 dez. 2022. MARK, J. J. The After-Life In Ancient Greece. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 7 dez. 2022. MARK, J. J. Norse Ghosts & the Afterlife. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 7 dez. 2022. NEWMAN, T. Near-death experiences: Fact or fantasy? Disponível em: . Acesso em: 12 dez. 2022. papyrus | British Museum. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 4 dez. 2022. SENECA, L. A. Sobre a brevidade da vida. Tradução: Lúcia Rebello; Tradução: Ellen Vranas; Tradução: Gabriel Macedo. Porto Alegre: L&PM Pocket, 2006. TED-ED. The Egyptian Book of the Dead: A guidebook for the underworld - Tejal GalaYouTube, 31 out. 2016. Acesso em: 1 dez. 2022 The papyrus of Ani; a reproduction in facsimile : Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 4 dez. 2022. The Taboo of Death. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 2 dez. 2022. WHITEHEAD, L. TopSCHOLAR® A Journey Into the Land of No Return: Death Attitudes and Perceptions of Death and Afterlife in Ancient Near Eastern Literature. [s.l: s.n.]. Disponível em: . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/escribacafe/message

In this essay John Gee draws a connection between the Egyptian “Book of the Temple” and the book of Exodus, both in structure and topic, describing the temple from the inside out. Gee concludes that both probably go back to a common source older than either of them. The post Conference Talks: Edfu and Exodus first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

Today we welcome the two awesome Western North Carolina women behind Of Wand and Earth MARSHALL'S MAGICAL MERCANTILE! Madison County's one and only metaphysical shop for magical and mystical folk from near and far. Welcome Pascha Haninah and Lisa Wagoner!

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“Humans are born, they live, then they die, this is the order that the gods have decreed. But until the end comes, enjoy your life, spend it in happiness, not despair. Savor your food, make each of your days a delight, bathe and anoint yourself, wear bright clothes that are sparkling clean, let music and dancing fill your house, love the child who holds you by the hand, and give your wife pleasure in your embrace. That is the best way for a man to live.” Welcome back to another episode of Made You Think! In this episode, Nat, Neil, and Adil begin their Great Books Project starting with the oldest book on their list, Epic of Gilgamesh. This piece has been regarded as one of the oldest written stories to exist. It follows the story of Gilgamesh, who is two-thirds god and one-third man, as he searches for the secret of immortality following the death of a loved one. We cover a wide range of topics including: How written stories have been passed down through centuries Parallels between Gilgamesh and other religious texts An assortment of theories such as the flood myth and the Black Sea hypothesis Should you interpret ancient texts literally? Why not all science is necessarily good science And much more. Please enjoy, and make sure to follow Nat, Neil, and Adil on Twitter and share your thoughts on the episode.   Links from the Episode: Mentioned in the show: The Ancients (7:02) The Library of Alexandria (7:59) Sumerian Kings list (10:17) Images of the tablets (23:11) Flood myth (35:35) Black Sea Hypothesis (34:51) Letting children choose their diets (41:32) Masa Chips (42:11) Definition of Europe in early- to mid-antiquity (52:43) Nat's essay - Church of Science (55:04) Remote Viewing (57:22) Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab (59:16) Princeton ESP lab must have foreseen its end (59:24) Sleep paralysis (1:00:40) Books Mentioned: Theogeny (1:13) Works and Days (1:17) (Nat's Book Notes) The Iliad (1:19) (Nat's Book Notes) Tao Te Ching (1:29) The Egyptian Book of the Dead (6:41) The Three-Body Problem (8:09) (Nat's Book Notes) The Hero with a Thousand Faces (12:22) (Nat's Book Notes) The Power of Myth (12:23) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) The Denial of Death (14:24) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) Socrates (21:52) (Nat's Book Notes) Magna Carta (26:02) The Prince (26:08) First Bite (39:32) People Mentioned: Confucius (1:33) Plato (21:50) Aquinas (26:15) Dante (26:16)   Show Topics: 0:05 We start the Great Book Series off with with The Epic of Gilgamesh. From order of oldest to most recent, we will be reading this list of books and creating new episodes every 3 weeks until the list is complete. Follow along, and read the books with us as we go! 5:34 This book is estimated to date back to as far as 2100 BC. With how old the writing is, it's fascinating to think about how much of the story has changed along the way from the original text. The way a culture recorded its information determines how we think about it today. In the time and location of Gilgamesh, everything was rich in clay so they used clay tablets to record everything.  8:58 With stories that are orally passed down, it's similar to a game of telephone where details get changed along the way. This leads to different areas of the world telling the same story in very different ways. 11:49 There are several themes to the story, and many of these themes and stories are told throughout history. They're not new by any means. One of the main themes talked about in this part of the episode is immortality. 14:50 At the opening of the story, Gilgamesh is portrayed as almost villain-like. As the story goes on, he ends up redeeming himself on the journey to find immortality. In this book, even the superhuman are very humanized, and they still fall into impulses and desires that all of humanity faces. 17:48 For the stories that stand the test of time, why did they last among the potentially thousands of stories that didn't make it? Gilgamesh starts out as someone so vain with no fear of death. After experiencing a great loss, he seeks to obtain immortality, and tries to reconcile his fear of death. It's only what you build that will outlast you. This lesson is ironic considering that this is one of the oldest books to exist and was physically written onto tablets. 21:36 How much of this story got lost? While much of the story was able to be pieced together from the Babylonian tablets, not all of the tablets have survived, and some are damaged beyond repair. 23:54 Flood story: There have been numerous flood stories from around the world. There are some parallels of Gilgamesh to the story of Noah's Ark. While some details are general, some details are extremely similar.  As Gilgamesh goes to seek immortality, he encounters a character who resembles the Biblical Noah. 30:35 With many ancient cities being located on large bodies of water, a large flood would affect them much more than we realize. Part of Rome's advantage was being hilly so that they were able to endure catastrophic events much better in comparison to other cities near water. When stories were written thousands of years ago, we often forget to account for how their geograpical location plays out. 33:32 Flood myth, Black Sea hypothesis, and the aquatic ape hypothesis. The story of Gilgamesh and other stories in history, and understanding how the context of local geography adds to it. 37:45 If you are in tune with how your body is feeling and what it needs, would you naturally know what food and other nutrients your body needs to grow and heal? Often times the noise and busyness make it more difficult to be in tune with our mind and body.  45:24 When they found the story of Gilgamesh on the 12 tablets, it was the first time they found stories very similar in nature to the Hebrew Bible. Other parallels between Gilgamesh and religious text: a 7-year drought, and the story of Adam and Eve.  50:44 The literal interpretation of the stories in the Bible is a relatively new phenomenon. How much of it was cross-cultural influence for other religions that read their Bible completely literal? 55:02 Science can be both good and bad. Not everyone is scientifically literate, and not every study is reliable. Anything you want to prove, you can most likely find a study to prove your point, whether that scientific experiment is fully credible or not.  59:43 Sleep paralysis, dream state, and shared dreams. There are common, unusual experiences that humans have shared while sleeping, with one of those being able to see or sense a shadow being. 1:01:11 Thanks for listening! Next up on our Great Books List, we will be reading the book of Genesis, followed by Exodus. You can keep track of our list here and reach out to us if you have any suggestions.  If you enjoyed this episode, let us know by leaving a review on iTunes and tell a friend. As always, let us know if you have any book recommendations! You can say hi to us on Twitter @TheRealNeilS, @adilmajid, @nateliason and share your thoughts on this episode. You can now support Made You Think using the Value-for-Value feature of Podcasting 2.0. This means you can directly tip the co-hosts in BTC with minimal transaction fees. 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Jeffrey Mishlove dialogs with himself about the history of maps related to the afterlife. He reflects upon the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Swedenborg's Heaven and Hell, the writings of Allan Kardec, and the book ostensibly channeled from Frederic Myers through the automatic writing of Geraldine Cummins, The Road … Continue reading "InPresence #0241: Mapping the Afterlife"

The world is full of interesting ancient books. The Indian Vedas, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, even ancient clay tablets from Sumeria.   In the Bible though, we read that God's Word is alive, not dead.   Hebrews 4:12 says, “For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.”   Notice that word, ‘active.'   That's a very interesting way to describe a book. It sits on a shelf, or stares back at us from our phones. The writer of Hebrews says that the Word of God is for all people in all times and all places. And while we might not like the idea that it can see into our hearts and minds, it is part of God's plan for our benefit. It brings freedom and peace.   Do you need either of those today? Freedom, and peace? Then try reading the Living Word!   Let's pray.   Lord, you made us and you know literally everything about us. Nothing is hidden from you, just as your Word tells us. Thank you for loving us, and for that ultimate intimate relationship you have provided. We love you. In Jesus' name. Amen.

In this episode, we discuss the 11th Degree - “Elu of the Twelve” as we continue our exploration of "Morals & Dogma: The Annotated Edition". Transcripts, Chapter Markers and Show Notes for all episodes are available from our website - WayOfTheHermit.com.It is highly recommended that you read the chapter in order to fully follow our discussion. "Morals and Dogma" is available from these sites:Albert Pike's Morals and Dogma: Annotated Edition (to purchase)Morals and Dogma (free but unannotated online PDF)Albert Pike's Morals and Dogma (Audible audiobook for purchase)Diagrams:Tree of Sin (WayOfTheHermit)OverviewIntroduction (01:13)Mythological Setting (01:42)Morals & Dogma (03:27)Sympathy for Suffering Humanity (04:39)The Subjugation of Avarice, Ambition and Sensuality (06:14)Disparity of the Social Classes (08:17)Masonry, A Champion of the People (09:33)Life is a School (11:41)Death is the Great Teacher (15:46)What Remains to be Done in Masonry (18:42)Masonry has Yet Much to Accomplish (21:51)Conclusions (25:08)The Golem (26:41)Vicere Aut Mori (29:00)Links:Scottish Rite Ritual Monitor & Guide (Amazon)A Bridge to Light (Amazon)Discourses On Human Nature, Human Life, And The Nature Of Religion (Amazon)Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley (PoetryFoundation.org)Perfect Blue Buildings - Lyrics (CountingCrows.com)Egyptian Book of the Dead - 42 Negative Confessions (HouseOfTruth.education)The Path of Freemasonry with Mark Stavish (RightWhereYouAreSittingNow podcast)Grand Lodge of PennsylvaniaThe Path of Freemasonry: The Craft as a Spiritual Practice (Amazon)Golem (Wikipedia)The Hebrew Alphabet - Aleph (MysticalBreath.com)Spiritually Dead (Bible.Knowing-Jesus.com)

In this week's contentious episode, the two dig into Amnesiac. Austin makes the case that this album is actually better than Kid A, while Nick calls "Packt" Radiohead's least impressive opening track. The majority of time is spent analyzing "Pyramid Song," which leads to a discussion of everything from "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" to Doctor Who. Plus, they manage to discuss The Lord of the Rings and the Holy Roman Empire. Songs Discussed: 6:00 - "Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box" 13:33 - "Pyramid Song" 28:04 - "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors" 36:10 - "You and Whose Army" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXvrGsxU_II (Early live version of "Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t92wfA9o2Tw ("Packt Like Sardines" from 2012) https://citizeninsane.eu/media/edsdiary/edsdiary4.html (Ed's diary from December 9th, 1999) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdZSOoOF5Ms (What Time Signature is Radiohead's 'Pyramid Song' in?) https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Doctor%27s_TARDIS (Doctor Who's Tardis) https://www.britannica.com/topic/Book-of-the-Dead-ancient-Egyptian-text (Egyptian Book of the Dead) https://hymnary.org/text/i_looked_over_jordan_and_what_did_i_see ("Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" lyrics) https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%202&version=NKJV (Elijah Ascends to Heaven) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhartha_(novel) ("Siddhartha: An Indian Poem" by Hermann Hesse) https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7660198-my-guide-and-i-crossed-over-and-began-to-mount (Ending of Dante's Inferno ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon%27s_obol (Charon's obol) https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6656-kid-a/ (Brent DiCrescenzo's review of Kid A by Radiohead) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDQ7raytW0M ("Pulk/Pull (True Love Waits Version)") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhvXST1Rc3g (Taylor Swift vs. Nine Inch Nails - Shake It Off (The Perfect Drug)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yArRnznVJwY (Carly Rae Jepsen vs. Nine Inch Nails "Call Me A Hole") https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Egg-Box-Dragon/dp/1444938401 (The Adventures of Egg Box Dragon) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire (Holy Roman Empire) https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Army_of_the_Dead (Army of the Dead from Lord of the Rings)

Jenn and Frank dive deep into the Egyptian Book of the Dead! Hello Horror Fanatics! Welcome to Oh...The Horror! A weekly podcast for all things horror, supernatural, scary and downright creepy. We hope you give us a listen and add us to your regular rotation of podcasts. You can learn more about our podcast, connect to your favorite podcast platform and social media presence by visiting our website. https://ohthehorrorpodcast.com/ (https://ohthehorrorpodcast.com) Please email any show ideas, comments and suggestions to oth@seriouslydecent.com Proud to be listed in the Top 80 Horror Podcasts on Feedspot. You can check out the entire list below: https://blog.feedspot.com/horror_podcasts/ (https://blog.feedspot.com/horror_podcasts/)

This week's episode looks at “Tomorrow Never Knows”, the making of Revolver by the Beatles, and the influence of Timothy Leary on the burgeoning psychedelic movement. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a fifteen-minute bonus episode available, on "Keep on Running" by the Spencer Davis Group. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Errata A few things -- I say "Fairfield" at one point when I mean "Fairchild". While Timothy Leary was imprisoned in 1970 he wasn't actually placed in the cell next to Charles Manson until 1973. Sources differ on when Geoff Emerick started at EMI, and he *may* not have worked on "Sun Arise", though I've seen enough reliable sources saying he did that I think it's likely. And I've been told that Maureen Cleave denied having an affair with Lennon -- though note that I said it was "strongly rumoured" rather than something definite. Resources As usual, a mix of all the songs excerpted in this episode is available at Mixcloud.com. I have read literally dozens of books on the Beatles, and used bits of information from many of them. All my Beatles episodes refer to: The Complete Beatles Chronicle by Mark Lewisohn, All The Songs: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Release by Jean-Michel Guesdon, And The Band Begins To Play: The Definitive Guide To The Songs of The Beatles by Steve Lambley, The Beatles By Ear by Kevin Moore, Revolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald, and The Beatles Anthology. For this episode, I also referred to Last Interview by David Sheff, a longform interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono from shortly before Lennon's death; Many Years From Now by Barry Miles, an authorised biography of Paul McCartney; and Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles by Geoff Emerick and Howard Massey. For information on Timothy Leary I used a variety of sources including The Most Dangerous Man in America by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis; Timothy Leary: Outside Looking In by Robert Forte; The Starseed Signals by Robert Anton Wilson; and especially The Harvard Psychedelic Club by Don Lattin. I also referred to both The Tibetan Book of the Dead and to The Psychedelic Experience. Leary's much-abridged audiobook version of The Psychedelic Experience can be purchased from Folkways Records. Sadly the first mono mix of "Tomorrow Never Knows" has been out of print since it was first issued. The only way to get the second mono mix is on this ludicrously-expensive out-of-print box set, but the stereo mix is easily available on Revolver. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Before I start this episode, I'd like to note that it deals with a number of subjects some listeners might find upsetting, most notably psychedelic drug use, mental illness, and suicide. I think I've dealt with those subjects fairly respectfully, but you still may want to check the transcript if you have worries about these subjects. Also, we're now entering a period of music history with the start of the psychedelic era where many of the songs we're looking at are influenced by non-mainstream religious traditions, mysticism, and also increasingly by political ideas which may seem strange with nearly sixty years' hindsight. I'd just like to emphasise that when I talk about these ideas, I'm trying as best I can to present the thinking of the people I'm talking about, in an accurate and unbiased way, rather than talking about my own beliefs. We're going to head into some strange places in some of these episodes, and my intention is neither to mock the people I'm talking about nor to endorse their ideas, but to present those ideas to you the listener so you can understand the music, the history, and the mindset of the people involved, Is that clear? Then lets' turn on, tune in, and drop out back to 1955... [Opening excerpt from The Psychedelic Experience] There is a phenomenon in many mystical traditions, which goes by many names, including the dark night of the soul and the abyss. It's an experience that happens to mystics of many types, in which they go through unimaginable pain near the beginning of their journey towards greater spiritual knowledge. That pain usually involves a mixture of internal and external events -- some terrible tragedy happens to them, giving them a new awareness of the world's pain, at the same time they're going through an intellectual crisis about their understanding of the world, and it can last several years. It's very similar to the more common experience of the mid-life crisis, except that rather than buying a sports car and leaving their spouse, mystics going through this are more likely to found a new religion. At least, those who survive the crushing despair intact. Those who come out of the experience the other end often find themselves on a totally new path, almost like they're a different person. In 1955, when Dr. Timothy Leary's dark night of the soul started, he was a respected academic psychologist, a serious scientist who had already made several substantial contributions to his field, and was considered a rising star. By 1970, he would be a confirmed mystic, sentenced to twenty years in prison, in a cell next to Charles Manson, and claiming to different people that he was the reincarnation of Gurdjieff, Aleister Crowley, and Jesus Christ. In the fifties, Leary and his wife had an open relationship, in which they were both allowed to sleep with other people, but weren't allowed to form emotional attachments to them. Unfortunately, Leary *had* formed an emotional attachment to another woman, and had started spending so much time with her that his wife was convinced he was going to leave her. On top of that, Leary was an alcoholic, and was prone to get into drunken rows with his wife. He woke up on the morning of his thirty-fifth birthday, hung over after one of those rows, to find that she had died by suicide while he slept, leaving a note saying that she knew he was going to leave her and that her life would be meaningless without him. This was only months after Leary had realised that the field he was working in, to which he had devoted his academic career, was seriously broken. Along with a colleague, Frank Barron, he published a paper on the results of clinical psychotherapy, "Changes in psychoneurotic patients with and without psychotherapy" which analysed the mental health of a group of people who had been through psychotherapy, and found that a third of them improved, a third stayed the same, and a third got worse. The problem was that there was a control group, of people with the same conditions who were put on a waiting list and told to wait the length of time that the therapy patients were being treated. A third of them improved, a third stayed the same, and a third got worse. In other words, psychotherapy as it was currently practised had no measurable effect at all on patients' health. This devastated Leary, as you might imagine. But more through inertia than anything else, he continued working in the field, and in 1957 he published what was regarded as a masterwork -- his book Interpersonal Diagnosis of Personality: A Functional Theory and Methodology for Personality Evaluation. Leary's book was a challenge to the then-dominant idea in psychology, behaviourism, which claimed that it made no sense to talk about anyone's internal thoughts or feelings -- all that mattered was what could be measured, stimuli and responses, and that in a very real sense the unmeasurable thoughts people had didn't exist at all. Behaviourism looked at every human being as a mechanical black box, like a series of levers. Leary, by contrast, analysed human interactions as games, in which people took on usual roles, but were able, if they realised this, to change the role or even the game itself. It was very similar to the work that Eric Berne was doing at the same time, and which would later be popularised in Berne's book Games People Play. Berne's work was so popular that it led to the late-sixties hit record "Games People Play" by Joe South: [Excerpt: Joe South: "Games People Play"] But in 1957, between Leary and Berne, Leary was considered the more important thinker among his peers -- though some thought of him as more of a showman, enthralled by his own ideas about how he was going to change psychology, than a scientist, and some thought that he was unfairly taking credit for the work of lesser-known but better researchers. But by 1958, the effects of the traumas Leary had gone through a couple of years earlier were at their worst. He was starting to become seriously ill -- from the descriptions, probably from something stress-related and psychosomatic -- and he took his kids off to Europe, where he was going to write the great American novel. But he rapidly ran through his money, and hadn't got very far with the novel. He was broke, and ill, and depressed, and desperate, but then in 1959 his old colleague Frank Barron, who was on holiday in the area, showed up, and the two had a conversation that changed Leary's life forever in multiple ways. The first of the conversational topics would have the more profound effect, though that wouldn't be apparent at first. Barron talked to Leary about his previous holiday, when he'd visited Mexico and taken psilocybin mushrooms. These had been used by Mexicans for centuries, but the first publication about them in English had only been in 1955 -- the same year when Leary had had other things on his mind -- and they were hardly known at all outside Mexico. Barron talked about the experience as being the most profound, revelatory, experience of his life. Leary thought his friend sounded like a madman, but he humoured him for the moment. But Barron also mentioned that another colleague was on holiday in the same area. David McClelland, head of the Harvard Center for Personality Research, had mentioned to Barron that he had just read Diagnosis of Personality and thought it a work of genius. McClelland hired Leary to work for him at Harvard, and that was where Leary met Ram Dass. [Excerpt from "The Psychedelic Experience"] Ram Dass was not the name that Dass was going by at the time -- he was going by his birth name, and only changed his name a few years later, after the events we're talking about -- but as always, on this podcast we don't use people's deadnames, though his is particularly easy to find as it's still the name on the cover of his most famous book, which we'll be talking about shortly. Dass was another psychologist at the Centre for Personality Research, and he would be Leary's closest collaborator for the next several years. The two men would become so close that at several points Leary would go travelling and leave his children in Dass' care for extended periods of time. The two were determined to revolutionise academic psychology. The start of that revolution didn't come until summer 1960. While Leary was on holiday in Cuernavaca in Mexico, a linguist and anthropologist he knew, Lothar Knauth, mentioned that one of the old women in the area collected those magic mushrooms that Barron had been talking about. Leary decided that that might be a fun thing to do on his holiday, and took a few psilocybin mushrooms. The effect was extraordinary. Leary called this, which had been intended only as a bit of fun, "the deepest religious experience of my life". [Excerpt from "The Psychedelic Experience"] He returned to Harvard after his summer holiday and started what became the Harvard Psilocybin Project. Leary and various other experimenters took controlled doses of psilocybin and wrote down their experiences, and Leary believed this would end up revolutionising psychology, giving them insights unattainable by other methods. The experimenters included lecturers, grad students, and people like authors Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson, and Alan Watts, who popularised Zen Buddhism in the West. Dass didn't join the project until early 1961 -- he'd actually been on the holiday with Leary, but had arrived a few days after the mushroom experiment, and nobody had been able to get hold of the old woman who knew where to find the mushrooms, so he'd just had to deal with Leary telling him about how great it was rather than try it himself. He then spent a semester as a visiting scholar at Berkeley, so he didn't get to try his first trip until February 1961. Dass, on his first trip, first had a revelation about the nature of his own true soul, then decided at three in the morning that he needed to go and see his parents, who lived nearby, and tell them the good news. But there was several feet of snow, and so he decided he must save his parents from the snow, and shovel the path to their house. At three in the morning. Then he saw them looking out the window at him, he waved, and then started dancing around the shovel. He later said “Until that moment I was always trying to be the good boy, looking at myself through other people's eyes. What did the mothers, fathers, teachers, colleagues want me to be? That night, for the first time, I felt good inside. It was OK to be me.” The Harvard Psilocybin Project soon became the Harvard Psychedelic Project. The term "psychedelic", meaning "soul revealing", was coined by the British psychiatrist Humphrey Osmond, who had been experimenting with hallucinogens for years, and had guided Aldous Huxley on the mescaline trip described in The Doors of Perception. Osmond and Huxley had agreed that the term "psychotomimetic", in use at the time, which meant "mimicking psychosis", wasn't right -- it was too negative. They started writing letters to each other, suggesting alternative terms. Huxley came up with "phanerothyme", the Greek for "soul revealing", and wrote a little couplet to Osmond: To make this trivial world sublime Take half a gramme of phanerothyme. Osmond countered with the Latin equivalent: To fathom hell or soar angelic Just take a pinch of psychedelic Osmond also inspired Leary's most important experimental work of the early sixties. Osmond had got to know Bill W., the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, and had introduced W. to LSD. W. had become sober after experiencing a profound spiritual awakening and a vision of white light while being treated for his alcoholism using the so-called "belladonna cure" -- a mixture of various hallucinogenic and toxic substances that was meant to cure alcoholism. When W. tried LSD, he found it replicated his previous spiritual experience and became very evangelistic about its use by alcoholics, thinking it could give them the same kind of awakening he'd had. Leary became convinced that if LSD could work on alcoholics, it could also be used to help reshape the personalities of habitual criminals and lead them away from reoffending. His idea for how to treat people was based, in part, on the ideas of transactional analysis. There is always a hierarchical relationship between a therapist and their patient, and that hierarchical relationship itself, in Leary's opinion, forced people into particular game roles and made it impossible for them to relate as equals, and thus impossible for the therapist to truly help the patient. So his idea was that there needed to be a shared bonding experience between patient and doctor. So in his prison experiments, he and the other people involved, including Ralph Metzner, one of his grad students, would take psilocybin *with* the patients. In short-term follow-ups the patients who went through this treatment process were less depressed, felt better, and were only half as likely to reoffend as normal prisoners. But critics pointed out that the prisoners had been getting a lot of individual attention and support, and there was no control group getting that support without the psychedelics. [Excerpt: The Psychedelic Experience] As the experiments progressed, though, things were becoming tense within Harvard. There was concern that some of the students who were being given psilocybin were psychologically vulnerable and were being put at real risk. There was also worry about the way that Leary and Dass were emphasising experience over analysis, which was felt to be against the whole of academia. Increasingly it looked like there was a clique forming as well, with those who had taken part in their experiments on the inside and looking down on those outside, and it looked to many people like this was turning into an actual cult. This was simply not what the Harvard psychology department was meant to be doing. And one Harvard student was out to shut them down for good, and his name was Andrew Weil. Weil is now best known as one of the leading lights in alternative health, and has made appearances on Oprah and Larry King Live, but for many years his research interest was in mind-altering chemicals -- his undergraduate thesis was on the use of nutmeg to induce different states of consciousness. At this point Weil was an undergraduate, and he and his friend Ronnie Winston had both tried to get involved in the Harvard Psilocybin Project, but had been turned down -- while they were enthusiastic about it, they were also undergraduates, and Leary and Dass had agreed with the university that they wouldn't be using undergraduates in their project, and that only graduate students, faculty, and outsiders would be involved. So Weil and Winston had started their own series of experiments, using mescaline after they'd been unable to get any psilocybin -- they'd contacted Aldous Huxley, the author of The Doors of Perception and an influence on Leary and Dass' experiments, and asked him where they could get mescaline, and he'd pointed them in the right direction. But then Winston and Dass had become friends, and Dass had given Winston some psilocybin -- not as part of his experiments, so Dass didn't think he was crossing a line, but just socially. Weil saw this as a betrayal by Winston, who stopped hanging round with him once he became close to Dass, and also as a rejection of him by Dass and Leary. If they'd give Winston psilocybin, why wouldn't they give it to him? Weil was a writer for the Harvard Crimson, Harvard's newspaper, and he wrote a series of exposes on Leary and Dass for the Crimson. He went to his former friend Winston's father and told him "Your son is getting drugs from a faculty member. If your son will admit to that charge, we'll cut out your son's name. We won't use it in the article."  Winston did admit to the charge, under pressure from his father, and was brought to tell the Dean, saying to the Dean “Yes, sir, I did, and it was the most educational experience I've had at Harvard.” Weil wrote about this for the Crimson, and the story was picked up by the national media. Weil eventually wrote about Leary and Dass for Look magazine, where he wrote “There were stories of students and others using hallucinogens for seductions, both heterosexual and homosexual.” And this seems actually to have been a big part of Weil's motivation. While Dass and Winston always said that their relationship was purely platonic, Dass was bisexual, and Weil seems to have assumed his friend had been led astray by an evil seducer. This was at a time when homophobia and biphobia were even more prevalent in society than they are now, and part of the reason Leary and Dass fell out in the late sixties is that Leary started to see Dass' sexuality as evil and perverted and something they should be trying to use LSD to cure. The experiments became a national scandal, and one of the reasons that LSD was criminalised a few years later. Dass was sacked for giving drugs to undergraduates; Leary had gone off to Mexico to get away from the stress, leaving his kids with Dass. He would be sacked for going off without permission and leaving his classes untaught. As Leary and Dass were out of Harvard, they had to look for other sources of funding. Luckily, Dass turned William Mellon Hitchcock, the heir to the Mellon oil fortune, on to acid, and he and his brother Tommy and sister Peggy gave them the run of a sixty-four room mansion, named Millbrook. When they started there, they were still trying to be academics, but over the five years they were at Millbrook it became steadily less about research and more of a hippie commune, with regular visitors and long-term residents including Alan Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and the jazz musician Maynard Ferguson, who would later get a small amount of fame with jazz-rock records like his version of "MacArthur Park": [Excerpt: Maynard Ferguson, "MacArthur Park"] It was at Millbrook that Leary, Dass, and Metzner would write the book that became The Psychedelic Experience. This book was inspired by the Bardo Thödol, a book allegedly written by Padmasambhava, the man who introduced Buddhism to Tibet in the eighth century, though no copies of it are known to have existed before the fourteenth century, when it was supposedly discovered by Karma Lingpa. Its title translates as Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State, but it was translated into English under the name The Tibetan Book of the Dead, as Walter Evans-Wentz, who compiled and edited the first English translation was, like many Westerners who studied Buddhism in the early part of the twentieth century, doing so because he was an occultist and a member of the Theosophical Society, which believes the secret occult masters of the world live in Tibet, but which also considered the Egyptian Book of the Dead -- a book which bears little relationship to the Bardo Thödol, and which was written thousands of years earlier on a different continent -- to be a major religious document. So it was through that lens that Evans-Wentz was viewing the Bardo Thödol, and he renamed the book to emphasise what he perceived as its similarities. Part of the Bardo Thödol is a description of what happens to someone between death and rebirth -- the process by which the dead person becomes aware of true reality, and then either transcends it or is dragged back into it by their lesser impulses -- and a series of meditations that can be used to help with that transcendence. In the version published as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, this is accompanied by commentary from Evans-Wentz, who while he was interested in Buddhism didn't actually know that much about Tibetan Buddhism, and was looking at the text through a Theosophical lens, and mostly interpreting it using Hindu concepts. Later editions of Evans-Wentz's version added further commentary by Carl Jung, which looked at Evans-Wentz's version of the book through Jung's own lens, seeing it as a book about psychological states, not about anything more supernatural (although Jung's version of psychology was always a supernaturalist one, of course). His Westernised, psychologised, version of the book's message became part of the third edition. Metzner later said "At the suggestion of Aldous Huxley and Gerald Heard we began using the Bardo Thödol ( Tibetan Book of the Dead) as a guide to psychedelic sessions. The Tibetan Buddhists talked about the three phases of experience on the “intermediate planes” ( bardos) between death and rebirth. We translated this to refer to the death and the rebirth of the ego, or ordinary personality. Stripped of the elaborate Tibetan symbolism and transposed into Western concepts, the text provided a remarkable parallel to our findings." Leary, Dass, and Metzner rewrote the book into a form that could be used to guide a reader through a psychedelic trip, through the death of their ego and its rebirth. Later, Leary would record an abridged audiobook version, and it's this that we've been hearing excerpts of during this podcast so far: [Excerpt: The Psychedelic Experience "Turn off your mind, relax, float downstream" about 04:15] When we left the Beatles, they were at the absolute height of their fame, though in retrospect the cracks had already begun to show.  Their second film had been released, and the soundtrack had contained some of their best work, but the title track, "Help!", had been a worrying insight into John Lennon's current mental state. Immediately after making the film and album, of course, they went back out touring, first a European tour, then an American one, which probably counts as the first true stadium tour. There had been other stadium shows before the Beatles 1965 tour -- we talked way back in the first episodes of the series about how Sister Rosetta Tharpe had a *wedding* that was a stadium gig. But of course there are stadiums and stadiums, and the Beatles' 1965 tour had them playing the kind of venues that no other musician, and certainly no other rock band, had ever played. Most famously, of course, there was the opening concert of the tour at Shea Stadium, where they played to an audience of fifty-five thousand people -- the largest audience a rock band had ever played for, and one which would remain a record for many years. Most of those people, of course, couldn't actually hear much of anything -- the band weren't playing through a public address system designed for music, just playing through the loudspeakers that were designed for commentating on baseball games. But even if they had been playing through the kind of modern sound systems used today, it's unlikely that the audience would have heard much due to the overwhelming noise coming from the crowd. Similarly, there were no live video feeds of the show or any of the other things that nowadays make it at least possible for the audience to have some idea what is going on on stage. The difference between this and anything that anyone had experienced before was so great that the group became overwhelmed. There's video footage of the show -- a heavily-edited version, with quite a few overdubs and rerecordings of some tracks was broadcast on TV, and it's also been shown in cinemas more recently as part of promotion for an underwhelming documentary about the Beatles' tours -- and you can see Lennon in particular becoming actually hysterical during the performance of "I'm Down", where he's playing the organ with his elbows. Sadly the audio nature of this podcast doesn't allow me to show Lennon's facial expression, but you can hear something of the exuberance in the performance. This is from what is labelled as a copy of the raw audio of the show -- the version broadcast on TV had a fair bit of additional sweetening work done on it: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I'm Down (Live at Shea Stadium)"] After their American tour they had almost six weeks off work to write new material before going back into the studio to record their second album of the year, and one which would be a major turning point for the group. The first day of the recording sessions for this new album, Rubber Soul, started with two songs of Lennon's. The first of these was "Run For Your Life", a song Lennon never later had much good to say about, and which is widely regarded as the worst song on the album. That song was written off a line from Elvis Presley's version of "Baby Let's Play House", and while Lennon never stated this, it's likely that it was brought to mind by the Beatles having met with Elvis during their US tour. But the second song was more interesting. Starting with "Help!", Lennon had been trying to write more interesting lyrics. This had been inspired by two conversations with British journalists -- Kenneth Allsop had told Lennon that while he liked Lennon's poetry, the lyrics to his songs were banal in comparison and he found them unlistenable as a result, while Maureen Cleave, a journalist who was a close friend with Lennon, had told him that she hadn't noticed a single word in any of his lyrics with more than two syllables, so he made more of an effort with "Help!", putting in words like "independence" and "insecure". As he said in one of his last interviews, "I was insecure then, and things like that happened more than once. I never considered it before. So after that I put a few words with three syllables in, but she didn't think much of them when I played it for her, anyway.” Cleave may have been an inspiration for "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)". There are very strong rumours that Lennon had an affair with Cleave in the mid-sixties, and if that's true it would definitely fit into a pattern. Lennon had many, many, affairs during his first marriage, both brief one-night stands and deeper emotional attachments, and those emotional attachments were generally with women who were slightly older, intellectual, somewhat exotic looking by the standards of 1960s Britain, and in the arts. Lennon later claimed to have had an affair with Eleanor Bron, the Beatles' co-star in Help!, though she always denied this, and it's fairly widely established that he did have an affair with Alma Cogan, a singer who he'd mocked during her peak of popularity in the fifties, but who would later become one of his closest friends: [Excerpt: Alma Cogan, "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?"] And "Norwegian Wood", the second song recorded for Rubber Soul, started out as a confession to one of these affairs, a way of Lennon admitting it to his wife without really admitting it. The figure in the song is a slightly aloof, distant woman, and the title refers to the taste among Bohemian British people at the time for minimalist decor made of Scandinavian pine -- something that would have been a very obvious class signifier at the time. [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)"] Lennon and McCartney had different stories about who wrote what in the song, and Lennon's own story seems to have changed at various times. What seems to have happened is that Lennon wrote the first couple of verses while on holiday with George Martin, and finished it off later with McCartney's help. McCartney seems to have come up with the middle eight melody -- which is in Dorian mode rather than the Mixolydian mode of the verses -- and to have come up with the twist ending, where the woman refuses to sleep with the protagonist and laughs at him, he goes to sleep in the bath rather than her bed, wakes up alone, and sets fire to the house in revenge. This in some ways makes "Norwegian Wood" the thematic centrepiece of the album that was to result, combining several of the themes its two songwriters came back to throughout the album and the single recorded alongside it. Like Lennon's "Run For Your Life" it has a misogynistic edge to it, and deals with taking revenge against a woman, but like his song "Girl", it deals with a distant, unattainable, woman, who the singer sees as above him but who has a slightly cruel edge -- the kind of girl who puts you down when friends are there,  you feel a fool, is very similar to the woman who tells you to sit down but has no chairs in her minimalist flat. A big teaser who takes you half the way there is likely to laugh at you as you crawl off to sleep in the bath while she goes off to bed alone. Meanwhile, McCartney's two most popular contributions to the album, "Michelle" and "Drive My Car", also feature unattainable women, but are essentially comedy songs -- "Michelle" is a pastiche French song which McCartney used to play as a teenager while pretending to be foreign to impress girls, dug up and finished for the album, while "Drive My Car" is a comedy song with a twist in the punchline, just like "Norwegian Wood", though "Norwegian Wood"s twist is darker. But "Norwegian Wood" is even more famous for its music than for its lyric. The basis of the song is Lennon imitating Dylan's style -- something that Dylan saw, and countered with "Fourth Time Around", a song which people have interpreted multiple ways, but one of those interpretations has always been that it's a fairly vicious parody of "Norwegian Wood": [Excerpt: Bob Dylan, "Fourth Time Around"] Certainly Lennon thought that at first, saying a few years later "I was very paranoid about that. I remember he played it to me when he was in London. He said, what do you think? I said, I don't like it. I didn't like it. I was very paranoid. I just didn't like what I felt I was feeling – I thought it was an out and out skit, you know, but it wasn't. It was great. I mean he wasn't playing any tricks on me. I was just going through the bit." But the aspect of "Norwegian Wood" that has had more comment over the years has been the sitar part, played by George Harrison: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Norwegian Wood"] This has often been called the first sitar to be used on a rock record, and that may be the case, but it's difficult to say for sure. Indian music was very much in the air among British groups in September 1965, when the Beatles recorded the track. That spring, two records had almost simultaneously introduced Indian-influenced music into the pop charts. The first had been the Yardbirds' "Heart Full of Soul", released in June and recorded in April. In fact, the Yardbirds had actually used a sitar on their first attempt at recording the song, which if it had been released would have been an earlier example than the Beatles: [Excerpt: The Yardbirds, "Heart Full of Soul (first version)"] But in the finished recording they had replaced that with Jeff Beck playing a guitar in a way that made it sound vaguely like a sitar, rather than using a real one: [Excerpt: The Yardbirds, "Heart Full of Soul (single)"] Meanwhile, after the Yardbirds had recorded that but before they'd released it, and apparently without any discussion between the two groups, the Kinks had done something similar on their "See My Friends", which came out a few weeks after the Yardbirds record: [Excerpt: The Kinks, "See My Friends"] (Incidentally, that track is sometimes titled "See My Friend" rather than "See My Friends", but that's apparently down to a misprint on initial pressings rather than that being the intended title). As part of this general flowering of interest in Indian music, George Harrison had become fascinated with the sound of the sitar while recording scenes in Help! which featured some Indian musicians. He'd then, as we discussed in the episode on "Eight Miles High" been introduced by David Crosby on the Beatles' summer US tour to the music of Ravi Shankar. "Norwegian Wood" likely reminded Harrison of Shankar's work for a couple of reasons. The first is that the melody is very modal -- as I said before, the verses are in Mixolydian mode, while the middle eights are in Dorian -- and as we saw in the "Eight Miles High" episode Indian music is very modal. The second is that for the most part, the verse is all on one chord -- a D chord as Lennon originally played it, though in the final take it's capoed on the second fret so it sounds in E. The only time the chord changes at all is on the words "once had" in the phrase “she once had me” where for one beat each Lennon plays a C9 and a G (sounding as a D9 and A). Both these chords, in the fingering Lennon is using, feel to a guitarist more like "playing a D chord and lifting some fingers up or putting some down" rather than playing new chords, and this is a fairly common way of thinking about stuff particularly when talking about folk and folk-rock music -- you'll tend to get people talking about the "Needles and Pins" riff as being "an A chord where you twiddle your finger about on the D string" rather than changing between A, Asus2, and Asus4. So while there are chord changes, they're minimal and of a kind that can be thought of as "not really" chord changes, and so that may well have reminded Harrison of the drone that's so fundamental to Indian classical music. Either way, he brought in his sitar, and they used it on the track, both the version they cut on the first day of recording and the remake a week later which became the album track: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)"] At the same time as the group were recording Rubber Soul, they were also working on two tracks that would become their next single -- released as a double A-side because the group couldn't agree which of the two to promote. Both of these songs were actual Lennon/McCartney collaborations, something that was increasingly rare at this point. One, "We Can Work it Out" was initiated by McCartney, and like many of his songs of this period was inspired by tensions in his relationship with his girlfriend Jane Asher -- two of his other songs for Rubber Soul were "I'm Looking Through You" and "You Won't See Me".  The other, "Day Tripper",  was initiated by Lennon, and had other inspirations: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Day Tripper"] John Lennon and George Harrison's first acid trip had been in spring of 1965, around the time they were recording Help! The fullest version of how they came to try it I've read was in an interview George Harrison gave to Creem magazine in 1987, which I'll quote a bit of: "I had a dentist who invited me and John and our ex-wives to dinner, and he had this acid he'd got off the guy who ran Playboy in London. And the Playboy guy had gotten it off, you know, the people who had it in America. What's his name, Tim Leary. And this guy had never had it himself, didn't know anything about it, but he thought it was an aphrodisiac and he had this girlfriend with huge breasts. He invited us down there with our blonde wives and I think he thought he was gonna have a scene. And he put it in our coffee without telling us—he didn't take any himself. We didn't know we had it, and we'd made an arrangement earlier—after we had dinner we were gonna go to this nightclub to see some friends of ours who were playing in a band. And I was saying, "OK, let's go, we've got to go," and this guy kept saying, "No, don't go, finish your coffee. Then, 20 minutes later or something, I'm saying, "C'mon John, we'd better go now. We're gonna miss the show." And he says we shouldn't go 'cause we've had LSD." They did leave anyway, and they had an experience they later remembered as being both profound and terrifying -- nobody involved had any idea what the effects of LSD actually were, and they didn't realise it was any different from cannabis or amphetamines. Harrison later described feelings of universal love, but also utter terror -- believing himself to be in hell, and that world war III was starting. As he said later "We'd heard of it, but we never knew what it was about and it was put in our coffee maliciously. So it really wasn't us turning each other or the world or anything—we were the victims of silly people." But both men decided it was an experience they needed to have again, and one they wanted to share with their friends. Their next acid trip was the one that we talked about in the episode on "Eight Miles High", with Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, and Peter Fonda. That time Neil Aspinall and Ringo took part as well, but at this point Paul was still unsure about taking it -- he would later say that he was being told by everyone that it changed your worldview so radically you'd never be the same again, and he was understandably cautious about this. Certainly it had a profound effect on Lennon and Harrison -- Starr has never really talked in detail about his own experiences. Harrison would later talk about how prior to taking acid he had been an atheist, but his experiences on the drug gave him an unshakeable conviction in the existence of God -- something he would spend the rest of his life exploring. Lennon didn't change his opinions that drastically, but he did become very evangelistic about the effects of LSD. And "Day Tripper" started out as a dig at what he later described as weekend hippies, who took acid but didn't change the rest of their lives -- which shows a certain level of ego in a man who had at that point only taken acid twice himself -- though in collaboration with McCartney it turned into another of the rather angry songs about unavailable women they were writing at this point. The line "she's a big teaser, she took me half the way there" apparently started as "she's a prick teaser": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Day Tripper"] In the middle of the recording of Rubber Soul, the group took a break to receive their MBEs from the Queen. Officially the group were awarded these because they had contributed so much to British exports. In actual fact, they received them because the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, had a government with a majority of only four MPs and was thinking about calling an election to boost his majority. He represented a Liverpool constituency, and wanted to associate his Government and the Labour Party with the most popular entertainers in the UK. "Day Tripper" and "We Can Work it Out" got their TV premiere on a show recorded for Granada TV,  The Music of Lennon and McCartney, and fans of British TV trivia will be pleased to note that the harmonium Lennon plays while the group mimed "We Can Work it Out" in that show is the same one that was played in Coronation Street by Ena Sharples -- the character we heard last episode being Davy Jones' grandmother. As well as the Beatles themselves, that show included other Brian Epstein artists like Cilla Black and Billy J Kramer singing songs that Lennon and McCartney had given to them, plus Peter Sellers, the Beatles' comedy idol, performing "A Hard Day's Night" in the style of Laurence Olivier as Richard III: [Excerpt: Peter Sellers, "A Hard Day's Night"] Another performance on the show was by Peter and Gordon, performing a hit that Paul had given to them, one of his earliest songs: [Excerpt: Peter and Gordon, "A World Without Love"] Peter Asher, of Peter and Gordon, was the brother of Paul McCartney's girlfriend, the actor Jane Asher. And while the other three Beatles were living married lives in mansions in suburbia, McCartney at this point was living with the Asher family in London, and being introduced by them to a far more Bohemian, artistic, hip crowd of people than he had ever before experienced. They were introducing him to types of art and culture of which he had previously been ignorant, and while McCartney was the only Beatle so far who hadn't taken LSD, this kind of mind expansion was far more appealing to him. He was being introduced to art film, to electronic composers like Stockhausen, and to ideas about philosophy and art that he had never considered. Peter Asher was a friend of John Dunbar, who at the time was Marianne Faithfull's husband, though Faithfull had left him and taken up with Mick Jagger, and of Barry Miles, a writer, and in September 1965 the three men had formed a company, Miles, Asher and Dunbar Limited, or MAD for short, which had opened up a bookshop and art gallery, the Indica Gallery, which was one of the first places in London to sell alternative or hippie books and paraphernalia, and which also hosted art events by people like members of the Fluxus art movement. McCartney was a frequent customer, as you might imagine, and he also encouraged the other Beatles to go along, and the Indica Gallery would play an immense role in the group's history, which we'll look at in a future episode. But the first impact it had on the group was when John and Paul went to the shop in late 1965, just after the recording and release of Rubber Soul and the "Day Tripper"/"We Can Work It Out" single, and John bought a copy of The Psychedelic Experience by Leary, Dass, and Metzner. He read the book on a plane journey while going on holiday -- reportedly while taking his third acid trip -- and was inspired. When he returned, he wrote a song which became the first track to be recorded for the group's next album, Revolver: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Tomorrow Never Knows"] The lyrics were inspired by the parts of The Psychedelic Experience which were in turn inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Now, it's important to put it this way because most people who talk about this record have apparently never read the book which inspired it. I've read many, many, books on the Beatles which claim that The Psychedelic Experience simply *is* the Tibetan Book of the Dead, slightly paraphrased. In fact, while the authors use the Tibetan Book of the Dead as a structure on which to base their book, much of the book is detailed descriptions of Leary, Dass, and Metzner's hypotheses about what is actually happening during a psychedelic trip, and their notes on the book -- in particular they provide commentaries to the commentaries, giving their view of what Carl Jung meant when he talked about it, and of Evans-Wentz's opinions, and especially of a commentary by Anagarika Govinda, a Westerner who had taken up Tibetan Buddhism seriously and become a monk and one of its most well-known exponents in the West. By the time it's been filtered through so many different viewpoints and perspectives, each rewriting and reinterpreting it to suit their own preconceived ideas, they could have started with a book on the habitat of the Canada goose and ended with much the same result. Much of this is the kind of mixture between religious syncretism and pseudoscience that will be very familiar to anyone who has encountered New Age culture in any way, statements like "The Vedic sages knew the secret; the Eleusinian Initiates knew it; the Tantrics knew it. In all their esoteric writings they whisper the message: It is possible to cut beyond ego-consciousness, to tune in on neurological processes which flash by at the speed of light, and to become aware of the enormous treasury of ancient racial knowledge welded into the nucleus of every cell in your body". This kind of viewpoint is one that has been around in one form or another since the nineteenth century religious revivals in America that led to Mormonism, Christian Science, and the New Thought. It's found today in books and documentaries like The Secret and the writings of people like Deepak Chopra, and the idea is always the same one -- people thousands of years ago had a lost wisdom that has only now been rediscovered through the miracle of modern science. This always involves a complete misrepresentation of both the lost wisdom and of the modern science. In particular, Leary, Dass, and Metzner's book freely mixes between phrases that sound vaguely scientific, like "There are no longer things and persons but only the direct flow of particles", things that are elements of Tibetan Buddhism, and references to ego games and "game-existence" which come from Leary's particular ideas of psychology as game interactions. All of this is intermingled, and so the claims that some have made that Lennon based the lyrics on the Tibetan Book of the Dead itself are very wrong. Rather the song, which he initially called "The Void", is very much based on Timothy Leary. The song itself was very influenced by Indian music. The melody line consists of only four notes -- E, G, C, and B flat, over a space of an octave: [Demonstrates] This sparse use of notes is very similar to the pentatonic scales in a lot of folk music, but that B-flat makes it the Mixolydian mode, rather than the E minor pentatonic scale our ears at first make it feel like. The B-flat also implies a harmony change -- Lennon originally sang the whole song over one chord, a C, which has the notes C, E, and G in it, but a B-flat note implies instead a chord of C7 -- this is another one of those occasions where you just put one finger down to change the chord while playing, and I suspect that's what Lennon did: [Demonstrates] Lennon's song was inspired by Indian music, but what he wanted was to replicate the psychedelic experience, and this is where McCartney came in. McCartney was, as I said earlier, listening to a lot of electronic composers as part of his general drive to broaden his mind, and in particular he had been listening to quite a bit of Karlheinz Stockhausen. Stockhausen was a composer who had studied with Olivier Messiaen in the 1940s, and had then become attached to the Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète along with Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, Edgard Varese and others, notably Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry. These composers were interested in a specific style of music called musique concrète, a style that had been pioneered by Schaeffer. Musique concrète is music that is created from, or at least using, prerecorded sounds that have been electronically altered, rather than with live instruments. Often this would involve found sound -- music made not by instruments at all, but by combining recorded sounds of objects, like with the first major work of musique concrète, Pierre Schaeffer's Cinq études de bruits: [Excerpt: Pierre Schaeffer, "Etude aux Chemins de faire" (from Cinq études de bruits)] Early on, musique concrète composers worked in much the same way that people use turntables to create dance music today -- they would have multiple record players, playing shellac discs, and a mixing desk, and they would drop the needle on the record players to various points, play the records backwards, and so forth. One technique that Schaeffer had come up with was to create records with a closed groove, so that when the record finished, the groove would go back to the start -- the record would just keep playing the same thing over and over and over. Later, when magnetic tape had come into use, Schaeffer had discovered you could get the same effect much more easily by making an actual loop of tape, and had started making loops of tape whose beginnings were stuck to their ending -- again creating something that could keep going over and over. Stockhausen had taken up the practice of using tape loops, most notably in a piece that McCartney was a big admirer of, Gesang der Jeunglinge: [Excerpt: Karlheinz Stockhausen, "Gesang der Jeunglinge"] McCartney suggested using tape loops on Lennon's new song, and everyone was in agreement. And this is the point where George Martin really starts coming into his own as a producer for the group. Martin had always been a good producer, but his being a good producer had up to this point mostly consisted of doing little bits of tidying up and being rather hands-off. He'd scored the strings on "Yesterday", played piano parts, and made suggestions like speeding up "Please Please Me" or putting the hook of "Can't Buy Me Love" at the beginning. Important contributions, contributions that turned good songs into great records, but nothing that Tony Hatch or Norrie Paramor or whoever couldn't have done. Indeed, his biggest contribution had largely been *not* being a Hatch or Paramor, and not imposing his own songs on the group, letting their own artistic voices flourish. But at this point Martin's unique skillset came into play. Martin had specialised in comedy records before his work with the Beatles, and he had worked with Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan of the Goons, making records that required a far odder range of sounds than the normal pop record: [Excerpt: The Goons, "Unchained Melody"] The Goons' radio show had used a lot of sound effects created by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a department of the BBC that specialised in creating musique concrète, and Martin had also had some interactions with the Radiophonic Workshop. In particular, he had worked with Maddalena Fagandini of the Workshop on an experimental single combining looped sounds and live instruments, under the pseudonym "Ray Cathode": [Excerpt: Ray Cathode, "Time Beat"] He had also worked on a record that is if anything even more relevant to "Tomorrow Never Knows". Unfortunately, that record is by someone who has been convicted of very serious sex offences. In this case, Rolf Harris, the man in question, was so well-known in Britain before his arrest, so beloved, and so much a part of many people's childhoods, that it may actually be traumatic for people to hear his voice knowing about his crimes. So while I know that showing the slightest consideration for my listeners' feelings will lead to a barrage of comments from angry old men calling me a "woke snowflake" for daring to not want to retraumatise vulnerable listeners, I'll give a little warning before I play the first of two segments of his recordings in a minute. When I do, if you skip forward approximately ninety seconds, you'll miss that section out. Harris was an Australian all-round entertainer, known in Britain for his novelty records, like the unfortunately racist "Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport" -- which the Beatles later recorded with him in a non-racist version for a BBC session. But he had also, in 1960, recorded and released in Australia a song he'd written based on his understanding of Aboriginal Australian religious beliefs, and backed by Aboriginal musicians on didgeridoo. And we're going to hear that clip now: [Excerpt. Rolf Harris, "Sun Arise" original] EMI, his British label, had not wanted to release that as it was, so he'd got together with George Martin and they'd put together a new version, for British release. That had included a new middle-eight, giving the song a tiny bit of harmonic movement, and Martin had replaced the didgeridoos with eight cellos, playing a drone: [Excerpt: Rolf Harris, "Sun Arise", 1962 version ] OK, we'll just wait a few seconds for anyone who skipped that to catch up... Now, there are some interesting things about that track. That is a track based on a non-Western religious belief, based around a single drone -- the version that Martin produced had a chord change for the middle eight, but the verses were still on the drone -- using the recording studio to make the singer's voice sound different, with a deep, pulsating, drum sound, and using a melody with only a handful of notes, which doesn't start on the tonic but descends to it. Sound familiar? Oh, and a young assistant engineer had worked with George Martin on that session in 1962, in what several sources say was their first session together, and all sources say was one of their first. That young assistant engineer was Geoff Emerick, who had now been promoted to the main engineer role, and was working his first Beatles session in that role on “Tomorrow Never Knows”. Emerick was young and eager to experiment, and he would become a major part of the Beatles' team for the next few years, acting as engineer on all their recordings in 1966 and 67, and returning in 1969 for their last album. To start with, the group recorded a loop of guitar and drums, heavily treated: [Excerpt: "Tomorrow Never Knows", loop] That loop was slowed down to half its speed, and played throughout: [Excerpt: "Tomorrow Never Knows", loop] Onto that the group overdubbed a second set of live drums and Lennon's vocal. Lennon wanted his voice to sound like the Dalai Lama singing from a mountaintop, or like thousands of Tibetan monks. Obviously the group weren't going to fly to Tibet and persuade monks to sing for them, so they wanted some unusual vocal effect. This was quite normal for Lennon, actually. One of the odd things about Lennon is that while he's often regarded as one of the greatest rock vocalists of all time, he always hated his own voice and wanted to change it in the studio. After the Beatles' first album there's barely a dry Lennon solo vocal anywhere on any record he ever made. Either he would be harmonising with someone else, or he'd double-track his vocal, or he'd have it drenched in reverb, or some other effect -- anything to stop it sounding quite so much like him. And Geoff Emerick had the perfect idea. There's a type of speaker called a Leslie speaker, which was originally used to give Hammond organs their swirling sound, but which can be used with other instruments as well. It has two rotating speakers inside it, a bass one and a treble one, and it's the rotation that gives the swirling sound. Ken Townsend, the electrical engineer working on the record, hooked up the speaker from Abbey Road's Hammond organ to Lennon's mic, and Lennon was ecstatic with the sound: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Tomorrow Never Knows", take one] At least, he was ecstatic with the sound of his vocal, though he did wonder if it might be more interesting to get the same swirling effect by tying himself to a rope and being swung round the microphone The rest of the track wasn't quite working, though, and they decided to have a second attempt. But Lennon had been impressed enough by Emerick that he decided to have a chat with him about music -- his way of showing that Emerick had been accepted. He asked if Emerick had heard the new Tiny Tim record -- which shows how much attention Lennon was actually paying to music at this point. This was two years before Tim's breakthrough with "Tiptoe Through the Tulips", and his first single (unless you count a release from 1963 that was only released as a 78, in the sixties equivalent of a hipster cassette-only release), a version of "April Showers" backed with "Little Girl" -- the old folk song also known as "In the Pines" or "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?": [Excerpt: Tiny Tim, "Little Girl"] Unfortunately for Emerick, he hadn't heard the record, and rather than just say so he tried bluffing, saying "Yes, they're great". Lennon laughed at his attempt to sound like he knew what he was talking about, before explaining that Tiny Tim was a solo artist, though he did say "Nobody's really sure if it's actually a guy or some drag queen". For the second attempt, they decided to cut the whole backing track live rather than play to a loop. Lennon had had trouble staying in sync with the loop, but they had liked the thunderous sound that had been got from slowing the tape down. As Paul talked with Ringo about his drum part, suggesting a new pattern for him to play, Emerick went down into the studio from the control room and made some adjustments. He first deadened the sound of the bass drum by sticking a sweater in it -- it was actually a promotional sweater with eight arms, made when the film Help! had been provisionally titled Eight Arms to Hold You, which Mal Evans had been using as packing material. He then moved the mics much, much closer to the drums that EMI studio rules allowed -- mics can be damaged by loud noises, and EMI had very strict rules about distance, not allowing them within two feet of the drum kit. Emerick decided to risk his job by moving the mics mere inches from the drums, reasoning that he would probably have Lennon's support if he did this. He then put the drum signal through an overloaded Fairfield limiter, giving it a punchier sound than anything that had been recorded in a British studio up to that point: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Tomorrow Never Knows", isolated drums] That wasn't the only thing they did to make the record sound different though.  As well as Emerick's idea for the Leslie speaker, Ken Townsend had his own idea of how to make Lennon's voice sound different. Lennon had often complained about the difficulty of double-tracking his voice, and so Townsend had had an idea -- if you took a normal recording, fed it to another tape machine a few milliseconds out of sync with the first, and then fed it back into the first, you could create a double-tracked effect without having to actually double-track the vocal. Townsend suggested this, and it was used for the first time on the first half of "Tomorrow Never Knows", before the Leslie speaker takes over. The technique is now known as "artificial double-tracking" or ADT, but the session actually gave rise to another term, commonly used for a similar but slightly different tape-manipulation effect that had already been used by Les Paul among others. Lennon asked how they'd got the effect and George Martin started to explain, but then realised Lennon wasn't really interested in the technical details, and said "we take the original image and we split it through a double-bifurcated sploshing flange". From that point on, Lennon referred to ADT as "flanging", and the term spread, though being applied to the other technique. (Just as a quick aside, some people have claimed other origins for the term "flanging", and they may be right, but I think this is the correct story). Over the backing track they added tambourine and organ overdubs -- with the organ changing to a B flat chord when the vocal hits the B-flat note, even though the rest of the band stays on C -- and then a series of tape loops, mostly recorded by McCartney. There's a recording that circulates which has each of these loops isolated, played first forwards and then backwards at the speed they were recorded, and then going through at the speed they were used on the record, so let's go through these. There's what people call the "seagull" sound, which is apparently McCartney laughing, very distorted: [Excerpt: Tomorrow Never Knows loop] Then there's an orchestral chord: [Excerpt: Tomorrow Never Knows loop] A mellotron on its flute setting: [Excerpt: Tomorrow Never Knows loop] And on its string setting: [Excerpt: Tomorrow Never Knows loop] And a much longer loop of sitar music supplied by George: [Excerpt: Tomorrow Never Knows loop] Each of these loops were played on a different tape machine in a different part of Abbey Road -- they commandeered the entire studio complex, and got engineers to sit with the tapes looped round pencils and wine-glasses, while the Beatles supervised Emerick and Martin in mixing the loops into a single track. They then added a loop of a tamboura drone played by George, and the result was one of the strangest records ever released by a major pop group: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Tomorrow Never Knows"] While Paul did add some backwards guitar -- some sources say that this is a cut-up version of his solo from George's song "Taxman", but it's actually a different recording, though very much in the same style -- they decided that they were going to have a tape-loop solo rather than a guitar solo: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Tomorrow Never Knows"] And finally, at the end, there's some tack piano playing from McCartney, inspired by the kind of joke piano parts that used to turn up on the Goon Show. This was just McCartney messing about in the studio, but it was caught on tape, and they asked for it to be included at the end of the track. It's only faintly audible on the standard mixes of the track, but there was actually an alternative mono mix which was only released on British pressings of the album pressed on the first day of its release, before George Martin changed his mind about which mix should have been used, and that has a much longer excerpt of the piano on it. I have to say that I personally like that mix more, and the extra piano at the end does a wonderful job of undercutting what could otherwise be an overly-serious track, in much the same way as the laughter at the end of "Within You, Without You", which they recorded the next year. The same goes for the title -- the track was originally called "The Void", and the tape boxes were labelled "Mark One", but Lennon decided to name the track after one of Starr's malapropisms, the same way they had with "A Hard Day's Night", to avoid the track being too pompous. [Excerpt: Beatles interview] A track like that, of course, had to end the album. Now all they needed to do was to record another thirteen tracks to go before it. But that -- and what they did afterwards, is a story for another time. [Excerpt, "Tomorrow Never Knows (alternate mono mix)" piano tag into theme music]

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In this week's episode, Katie and I discuss a wide range of topics. We talk about her experience being in a cult, her travels, the paranormal, aliens, ancient civilizations, bigfoot, and more! I hope you enjoy it.  Check out Katie's work at:  www.ladytealscurios.com   https://www.instagram.com/ladytealscurios   https://www.facebook.com/ladytealscurios   https://www.tiktok.com/@lady_teals_curios   Please shoot us a comment, rating, and follow us on social media! Check out our website at www.thejuanonjuanpodcast.com IG: @thejuanonjuanpodcast TIKTOK: @thejuanonjuanpodcast YT: "The Juan on Juan Podcast" Stake your Cardano with us at FIGHT POOL at fightpool.io! Thank you for tuning in! Full transcript: 00:00:13Welcome back to the show. I'm your host. As always one. And today we have Katie with us from, is it lady? It's 00:00:52Lady Teal's, curious curious. So like your grandmother's curio cabinet where they're. So, before we dive into, I'm going to be talking about a little bit of everything today. And before we get into it, can you tell people where they can find your work? Social media, you're probably have a podcast all that stuff and I'll post it in the show notes as well. Definitely. My website is Lady tools, curious.com and my podcast. You can buy and pretty much anywhere. Any pot. You're so that's lady Teal's. Curious and social media is all the same to you. Lady feels. It's really simple house. On all social medias is, what got to keep it simple. Sometimes you overcomplicate. A lot of things. Like, I for the longest time, I had the longest email address for work and yeah, 00:01:52Did you leave the alphabet for them? Like oh it is is it is an end. Is it a no, you don't like all these letters sound the same. So I just like I literally my email address is likely like eight letters and total and they're like, that's it. And sometimes it's like too simple for them to, like, wait a minute. That can't be it. So make sure to follow us and me on social media as well. And I want to ask you, what got you into this sort of of things. I do, you collect, like, antique items, and then you travel a lot. I want to talk to you about that. What got you into all this other stuff? Curiosities, probably my family and got me into that. I would say, 90% of my family, Aunts Uncles, grandparents, my mom and my dad, and they all are some form of antique dealers or collectors. And I grew up very young going around and picking like, the American Picker. 00:02:52But as far as like, the really weird stuff that kind of came around when I was 27, so I, I grew up and what I consider I called some people might not consider it, I called, but very a very, very fundamentalist religion. And after I left that cult / religion, down this whole new world open to me, like, all of these beliefs fees ideas. These practices rituals cultures that are that I just was never exposed to before. And so that's where the Curiosity part came in. I just became very curious about like, everything and everyone and it just kind of made me want to explore all these things. I don't know if you're able to talk about it, but I'm just so you can't just say you were part of a cult. 00:03:48So you're comfortable going to be comfortable talking about it? Cuz I've always been intrigued by that subject before I always say like it's a fundamentalist religion and some people do you consider it a cold but I was a Jehovah's Witness. So you may or may not know some Jehovah's Witnesses and they are. They're very friendly and you would never think from the outside that it's a cold. But there is a something called The Bite model that many Cults follow or that many people use to figure out whether an organization is a cult and a pretty much take off every point in the bite model. So, yeah, there's there's a saying, they say that if you meet the four criteria of 00:04:45Being a schizophrenic then you're more most likely a schizophrenic. Right? And these people take all the boxes, but it can't be any worse than Scientology. I don't think. I think that one really to me Takes the Cake or the colt and I find it amazing that we are able to 00:05:04Control, I always go back to the same example, Hitler the way he was able to persuade people to talk in and do certain things. Right, just ^ of language and language is a powerful thing regardless of what people of what people want to say about. That's why I call it spelling cuz you're casting spells. And I'm I Believe In The Law of Attraction, where have you say certain things? They will manifest and I've been getting into the, the I've been looking into like the other aspect of the Shadow and I want to ask you a few things today in regards to these what, you know, how they say, Freudian slips or glitches in The Matrix type of thing where they manifest and and we can get into that later. But yeah, I find it very interesting that you can literally and we're seeing it today, especially where you can just propaganda Medica cultures and where they use propaganda to talk to sew on a on a deeper level, but very interesting. What was the 00:06:04First thing that you learned, when you came out of this, this, this world than the veil was lifted from your eyes. I was the first thing that cuz what are you, are you allowed to do? How restrictive are they very restricted. You got beat up. You say something or what? I mean, it really depends. So I grew up in Georgia. And Georgia is new part of the Bible Belt. Do Jehovah's Witnesses, in Georgia, might be a little more stricter than Jehovah's Witnesses, in California for examples there. Like, I was allowed to go to public school. Some witnesses are not required, that you are home-schooled. They don't really like you associating with people outside of their religion and they don't encourage higher education. So I started to go to college and then dropped out because everybody thought I was a heathen for going to college. 00:07:03Pursue a career. So what what do you supposed to do? Believe that Armageddon is right around the corner and they've believed that for like a century now. Hold that. Armageddon is just like a year or two around the corner and they constantly adjust their teachings, you know, so that cuz it used to be in the 70s. Armageddon was going to happen in the seventies and then it didn't happen. And then in the 2000 it was definitely going to happen and it didn't. So they was constantly living in fear that I was going to die. Armageddon or my friends were going to die Armageddon. And I always though like from a very young age. I always questioned it and like luckily for me. I was able to go to public school and I had amazing teachers who taught me excellent critical thinking skills survey. They definitely 00:08:03Kind of encouraged me to look at other options and they were their voices were always in the back of my head. Like this might not be the best answer to live my life by Neil when he wakes up for the first time. And he finally sees with actually at Grove Pentecostal Christian, which is not it and they're pretty strict. When I get like the old do you know, there's a different and that's the thing that they can't even agree on what they believe. So many denominations of Christianity and Catholicism and all these different religions and at the end of the day, I hold the firm belief that they're all interpreting. It's a narrative fallacy. So they're all interpreting the the same guy or entity or whatever. It is. Just a different name Brahmin, you know Buddha Krishna all these guys all over the globe as part of the same dude. He just had influences and maybe he wasn't a lie and I I like the Anunnaki Theory. Where there was. 00:09:03The guy I love it so much, but being. 00:09:08When I talk to somebody about these different, you know, I don't like to say conspiracy theories. They're just alternative thoughts type of thing because when you start diving into the round with a lie, when you tell somebody, when you having a conversation with somebody, I can't have a regular conversation anymore with anybody when we start telling him about where do where do we come from? As like, well, you know, we were planning on this Earth and we were slave race created by these. These seven beings known as the Anunnaki never brother. There were two brothers were having a cosmic were like, what the fuck are you saying? I know you don't like that idea. I can give you the other one of the gnostics and how they thought that the demiurge created by you start going all these rabbit hole. 00:09:52And it just people don't know what to do and it's that indoctrination for you. It was being in the religion for all those years. Same for me. When I start, I brought up is crazy. I brought up two people. 00:10:10And question the things in the Old Testament, and I'll be like, why, why did he, why did he do that? Who is this God in the Old Testament? Somebody told me they're like, no, just don't read the Old Testament. 00:10:23What do you mean? It's too tired of the Bible? We ignore all of that. So you're nitpicking what you want according to what the narrative you want it to be. You're just going to tell me or ignore that but pick this and it's like listen. There's a reason why the bug man was in the cathars. Stop. The Old Testament was a work of a demon, cuz it was a different guy. I'm good. Now. So many consistencies even in, in life, and in, in religions and I subscribe to the idea that there is a higher power. There is a programmer, whoever he is. If we are in some sort of of simulation and I like to think that we are, cuz everything has been so fucked up as of lately. That it's hard to believe that this is the real world. And this is what we have. And a lot of these earlier philosopher, stop the same thing that we were being run like a Cartesian flower. 00:11:23That's why he said that Rene Descartes said I think therefore I am that's the only thing he was sure about because he didn't know about everything else is like a episode of Rick and Morty. It's it's it's 00:11:37I wanted to talk about Bigfoot. You told me have a Bigfoot story and then we can we can start off with what's your favorite place that you've been too? Cuz I'm I'm an outdoorsy kind of guy. When I want to be when it's not 90000 degrees here in Florida. I'll go out and I'll fish and I like to, I like to hunt as well. What's your favorite place that you've been to that? I know you went to and then you told me, you'll send me to you when we were talking a few couple months ago. So I actually haven't been to Yosemite. I was probably in Yellowstone when I talk to you. It was super volcanoes, aren't there. Well, yeah, it's like all volcanic activity. So it's very intriguing and really beautiful. But my favorite place is probably an Arizona probably tied between Bisbee and Sedona. 00:12:31Bisbee. And Sedonas, I like a park out there or are both cities. So busy is in Southern Arizona, almost to the border of Mexico. And it is supposedly a very haunted town, at used to be a mining town, but it's a very like artsy and eclectic town and I haven't been out west. I've been wanting my friend, my friend owns some property on. Skinwalker Ranch. Shout out to Ryan Burns and he's been, I remember he was like the other the other day were talking is like a bro. There's going to be this UFO conference. You should come over. I might want to do that next week. I might do you think I could just get up and go? See how I just leave my wife and my kids is get up and go. So,, I'm going to be by myself at that UFO conference. Are you going to be the only guy I know there. But he owns property over at Skinwalker Ranch and 00:13:29I, 00:13:31There's so many things that I think about one of the things that freaks me out. So I do this other show with my Canadian brother, Tom strange ones, and we get into the Paranormal and I know you want to do it. We can talk about that and we covered. We've been covering a lot of different things here in Florida and we covered the Devil's Tree. I don't know if you've heard about that. I have heard of it so we covered that and it's not too far away from me and I've been trying to maybe when we cover a place, go to it and take pictures or do whatever. And recently, I went to the Coral Castle in Homestead, which is near me and I wanted to go to the Devil's Tree, until I really learned what happened there. And I was just like, 00:14:17I don't know if I can, I can go there, right? Cuz it's just I believe that things can attach to you and Ryan is talk to me about when you go out to Skinwalker Ranch, how you have? No cleanse yourself afterwards and just hope that nothing attaches itself to and I'm like 00:14:38Do I want to do? I really want to expose myself to that? I mean, you know, I don't think I do so. 00:14:47Again, these places do you feel? So that was the thing I wanted to bring up was? 00:14:53Carl Jung has has you know the Shadow and how people projecting things and manly P hall talks about, you know, Helena blavatsky, how they talk about the governor's the archons, and all these different spirits and and the astral realm. When we we have all these aspects and manly P hall talks about how when a man similar to call Young 00:15:19Projects, a certain feeling, or anything into The Ether, it manifests as an elemental, right? You have all these things. Do you feel that big for perhaps is some sort of manifestation of some some stock or or it's like a like a like a Freudian slip, Wears Like a glitch in The Matrix type of thing cuz I have come from, I want them to be real. I why did you? I haven't seen him personally, but I don't want to be a hundred percent real. I don't know if I believe that he's a intention driven being, but I, the more that I've studied about him, the more that I am leaning towards the idea that he might be an interdimensional being of some sort because of the way that he appears and order they appear and disappear suddenly. And so, 00:16:19I've never seen one either but I have seen tracks and I have seen hieroglyphics and other Native American artwork. That shows similar shapes to Bigfoot and they were all in the same area. So it was and I actually I have heard like the Bigfoot noise and it's so otherworldly. It does that sound like anything from this Earth the skinwalkers when they call people in and they they they disguise themselves water, babies or eggs to own distress. How fucking creepy is that? I forgot where I was in the middle of the Everglades one day. 00:17:07fishing, and we heard it was 00:17:11It was like really quiet. It was super quiet and I don't know where we hear this noise. I thought it might have been a bear, right? But I didn't know that there was bears in the Everglades. Apparently, there's better because as soon as I hear something, I whip my phone, I'll go is there monkeys in Florida? There's fucking monkeys in Florida. If you should have snow and the real pandemic, we need to be worried about and check this out. This is, this is true Chevy in Florida. Be careful. Because there is rhesus macaques that some rich prick. One day brought onto a private island. He forgot to know that they swim the monkey swam off the island. He brought six more and those monkeys swam off the island and now they are there invasive to Florida there overpopulating. Right now. We have a monkey prom in Central Florida and that's not there. That's not the right monkeys. Whatever their monkey. 00:18:11They have, it's a strain of herpes. That is 90%. Deadly to humans. If they scratch you bite you, whatever it is. So you have these monkeys in these national parks National Forest in Florida that are going up to people attacking them, scratching them doing whatever the person gets herpes and dies. That's what I can you. That's one hell of a way to go. They get meningitis and the rest is history. Right? And there's no there's no cure for that. So I'm fucking terrified of the Monkees here in Florida. I don't care about anything else and there's some weird shit here in Florida. I'm a tell you that and when I was out in the middle of Everglades, I we heard this noise was me and my buddy Joe, we heard this noise. It sounded like a bear and I looked it up and there is blackbear. 00:18:57And the Everglades apparently, but we just thought it was really creepy. Cuz if we were the only ones out there and that particular day, it was an early in the morning and was just on the on top of the bone. Just hear the this Roar almost. And I'm like to hear that, bro. I heard that wasn't. 00:19:17I don't know. So, I like to subscribe to the idea that Bigfoot is. 00:19:26A descendant of the unknown of the not. The Anunnaki, be the 00:19:32The Elohim and the Nephilim. And, you know, when they say that in the Book of Enoch, and in the Book of Genesis, when they talk about the, the Watchers, right? You had the Watchers, you had the Elohim. You had the Nephilim. They're all three distinct different entities. When you when they would insert themselves into the daughters of men. Sorry to get explicit, you know, explicit but after they were done, you know, doing what they were doing in, this is how you get demigods and different hybrids of half. God, half human rights, such as Hercules and all these different different mythical Legends and stories. They started to insert themselves into animals. And this is how I believe we get these chimeric creatures such as the Minotaur, harpies mermaids. All these different half beast half 00:20:23Man, whatever it is and I feel that Bigfoot did come from that. And when I talk to the doctor Joseph Lumpkin, which is a, he has a doctor in church, history and has written numerous books about the origins of evil. And one of the laws of thermodynamics is that energy cannot be destroyed. It can only be transformed and when it whichever version of the story, you want to subscribe to. If it's after Jesus with the great flood or Noah's Ark, when he destroyed all the world. Right? Where do you think all those Spirits one? Those are the demons that we have in today's world. All the evil that he was. He was cleansing the world, right? What were you think all that evil went? That's how we get demons, the origins of evil. So I feel that maybe when heat when the flood was going up. One of these reptilians are these, these entities was hanging onto the side of the boat. They didn't see him. And when the flood recited, Boom Beach. 00:21:23and the rest is, I like to think I like that, cuz 00:21:29Bigfoot's fucking bad-ass. I mean, that's why I have right there. That poster, interdimensional Bigfoot vishwaroopa with the multi-armed form of, you know, Krishna with one of his avatars interdimensional. Right that that's that's the one thing because as humans, we only see point 0 0 to 5 of the light spectrum and who's to say we don't see infrared light. We don't see any of that shit. So who's to say that there's not a world right now going on as we speak in front of us that we can't see. And today, I actually was listening to Terence McKenna and he said some shit that that like blew my mind and I like the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. And I literally have to pause it because I was like, this is this is crazy. But he's talking about pretty much how we're indoctrinated to think that this world is just the one. There is no other 00:22:29There is no other Realms. There is no other and he said his 11th Dimensions boat. Do we truly really know? Why is it that when you separate different atoms and particles they can still interact with each other and, you know, quantum entanglement that's fucking while to me the observer effect. That's why I feel we're in a simulation because of the observer effect. A lot of people at the double slit experiment. A lot of people don't know that by you just looking at something, you affect it. What is it? When you look away Adams act differently versus when you are looking at them and nobody give you can, if you can solve that you want to Nobel Peace Prize, so 00:23:08that reminds me of the randonautica app on one of the First episodes that I did, and 00:23:20I'm very careful with those sorts of things because I don't practice anything in the occult or anything in the esoteric realm of things. I don't, I don't I practice, maybe meditation, right. If that's not at everybody does not but 00:23:37We have to understand and all the people need to remember that. 00:23:42Intent behind something is very powerful. So if my intentions are to wish bad upon somebody or whatever it is, you can happen, right? It can, it can, you know, I believe that there is another round that we can't see. And there are ways to interact with it, if that's through until gender or through these different rituals. Look at these guys. What's the other religion? Where he where only he could read was it? So it was a Jehovah's Witness. It was the other one the Mormons where they get it was only him that could read the stones and it was like a 00:24:23Director eerily similar and the other guy that was with the anaki and in the in the Angelic language and how you're going to. I believe, when people say that they're talking to Angels. I feel that there. 00:24:45They're in there interacting with something. I don't know if it's an angel or not. Cuz you know, dick Damon can be either a demon or an angel. It's it's a loaded word. Right? And one of my favorite things to look into is these Gnostic texts the the Dead Sea Scrolls, or the NACA Maddie Library. Cuz it paints a different story. And this is why, how when they told you how you can't, you can't go to school, right? You can't seek a higher education. Will there's a reason behind that, because 00:25:23If you're able to to see that, it's actually bulshit. 00:25:28You're taking the power away from them. And the whole thing with the gnostics was they took the power away from the church, right? They essentially believe that. If you are able to achieve Divinity through yourself, through gnosis to Sacred knowledge, that is revealed to you eventually be able to ascend in through, you know, to the upper eons. That's what the church. That's a broker experience it and it's all a business, right? So they can't make money off of you and they and they have that much more control over you. 00:25:55Hey, more power to them. It will win it challenges. Those you. That's why you got. That's why they say that, that the Dark Ages were brought on by Christianity, because people believed religion to do a literal to a literal fucking sense to a literal thing. Right? And I got, I don't want to make this until around 4, so, 00:26:16But you said you you again but these are the wormholes that you dive down and it's like they go forever. I don't know what to believe sometimes. Especially with. Yeah, I struggle with that as well. There's there's honestly, I really don't. I just I've been you said that the arm again is right around the corner and you know, I've been here the same thing since I was as early as I can remember. God is coming. Jesus coming to rescue his people. Since I was like six seven-years-old, I'm 27 out of 28 and I still not here, right? So 00:26:54You said that you've seen Bigfoot tracks? Yes. So if you're into the Skinwalker Ranch, you may have heard of the Bradshaw Ranch in Sedona, Arizona. There's this Ranch called the Bradshaw Ranch and the bradshaws were one of the first families that kind of introduced tourism into Sedona. And they also had it was used as a movie set, but they had so many paranormal experiences are people who sold the skinwalker. 00:27:33Now they're they're unrelated to Skinwalker. It's just they had they had very many similar incidents are or they just had like a lot of activity around the ranch. So it's probably like a location that could parallel Skinwalker Ranch, West Coast as well. Yeah. And Sedona, Arizona. 00:28:05So where the ranch is located is just probably a 15-minute walk from the donkey ruins, which is where the pictographs of these ancient creatures. That look very similar to Bigfoot are and I talked to a few older gentleman who were locals and they said, they used to attend parties at the Bradshaw Ranch. And this one fellow, he promised up and down. He wasn't on any drugs or anything. He said he was at one of their party and he looked over, and he saw somebody walk through a portal through the wall. And then, there were reports of aliens. There were reports of haunted things. They saw the family that live there. So multiple Bigfoot entities, they even want. One of them was a female. 00:29:04And campers who camped out there because like the surrounding area is dispersed camping. So we camped there for probably about three months on and off, like, oh, I'm amazing amazing and it's great for UFO. Watch it. So yeah, so I was doing a little bit of camping and I was walking around the area. Exploring the ranch had one of the locals, take me through the ranch for one of the podcast episodes and he showed me a truck and I went to go back the next day to take a picture of it because he asked me not to like record him or anything like that. He just wanted, you know, you wanted to show me where everything was. I saw the track with my own eyes. I walked back to go to take a picture of it, the next day. It hadn't rained or anything and it was totally gone. So I don't, I don't know if somebody like, 00:30:04Hit it or what. But I, yeah, I definitely they have cast. So actually here in Georgia. There's a Bigfoot Museum and they have cast of tracks and it looked identical to the cast that I saw in the Bigfoot Museum here. So, it was interesting seeing something like that, totally across the country in a totally different state and the craziness about the, The Perils of Ava. Again, there's different. 00:30:44I love ancient civilizations and the pyramids. Right? People fail to understand that pyramids are all over the world and my favorite is in South America where you have complex as a pyramids. 00:31:01Miles away from water sources and they're just in the middle of nowhere and say, how did those people survive? And I like, to think that they were like, some sort of network. You do, you know about the tartaria. 00:31:17I know, I don't think so. I've never looked into tartaria or the the mud flood. 00:31:23I don't believe. So. I would suggest that you look until I get, I think it's right up your alley. It's what are Terrier was, is pretty much a, an ancient. So the priest 1600 Maps, show this, this of the area of China Mongolia that area. There was tartaria. It was this big Empire. Supposedly. Okay, and have you ever heard of the 18? The one of the one of the best-known ones, the Chicago Fair of 1891, I think or 9418 the, the early, the Early, nineteen hundreds of late eighteen hundreds. Have you ever looked into? Those know? There's been some interesting incidents, but I haven't done, you know, like a proper Deep dive down. It. 00:32:15So the whole thing behind that it, you know, when you see these out of place building, I think there's a few and George, actually these, these almost like the architecture supposed to be of something from Italy or you know, these these these magnificent Gothic like buildings that look out of place in certain areas where the the the conspiracy is that. We actually stumbled upon these buildings right in. And again, it goes a lot deeper. I'm just trying to do though. The top of the 00:32:58I forgot the guy's name, but there's this historian, the scientist that talks about how 00:33:05Cuz skallagrim chronology is the guy who invented time a b a d b c out the end of the time system. 00:33:13And they talk about how that's was controlled by what I call the The Reptilian overlords, right? Cuz it sounds badass if they're reptiles or not. I don't know the archons the governor's, whoever it is that you want to,, but Deeds of the forces that are at work to not get the truth out. I had a video of mine on strange ones that went that I had over 10,000 views. I didn't say anything. That was controversial. Well, obviously cuz I got pulled down. It went against the community guidelines for no apparent reason. I didn't curse in it. I didn't say anything bad. I was just talking about the state of things and they pulled it down. Those are those are The Reptilian ask people that are in charge, right? In the shadows if you will. 00:34:00And these people in the years 900-800-3046. Were in charge of there were supposed to be changing Maps. 00:34:14And they would have i800 i900 i700, whatever it was, and it signified in the year of Our Lord 700. While these guys, instead of changing it to start changing the, the, the Eye to a j or some like that. They put a one. So essentially the 1980s was actually the year 900. So that's a thousand years that they added onto history. And again, this is a this is a book series of like six bucks and they're super in-depth. The point is that time is a human construct such as Alan. Watts says, there is no future. There is no past. It's only the Eternal. Now now we get into the whole tartarian thing because these buildings, there are no pictures of us building them. 00:35:02There was over six hundred and Ninety Acres of the beautiful architecture. You can look it up the World's Fair of 1893 in Chicago and fucking Chicago out of all the places and that wasn't the only one. They were all over the world and that this world fair was for 6 months. And you had Nikola Tesla. Was there Thomas Edison JPMorgan all the biggest reptilian desk people JPMorgan, by the way, one of the guys that was 100% of reptile. There's no pictures of them building these buildings, only pictures of them renovating them, and after the 6 months. 00:35:4298% of everything was torn down. Now. If you look at the pictures of these places, there are certain things at the top of of the building that they refer to as antiquitech. And I don't know if you're friendly with Nikola Tesla's work and what he was trying to achieve. He was trying to get energy free energy from The Ether, right? And that's that was the whole reason behind his Tower. I believe is in Colorado, which was funded by JPMorgan and abruptly was his funding was cut off by JPMorgan after saw. And then we always a tributary thing to Thomas Edison, but he was Nikola Tesla actually work for Thomas Edison and whatever else about the rest is history, but the point is that, 00:36:31What I mentioned earlier when you take power away from these people and they're not able to industrialize it or commercialize and make money from it. That's when you become a problem. Someone when they saw one, Nikola Tesla was doing what she studied. She studied the Egyptian pyramids, right? He had, he understood them very well. 00:36:51He modeled his Tower after the pyramids, right? When you have the, the two shafts that go in and the her. Has talked about the chamber underneath the pyramid, with the water, in the sarcophagus in it, and all this stuff was the same thing. The reason that there's water underneath the pyramids is cuz again, it was some sort of energy that they were able to, to make with it. I don't know, but when he saw that he was like, wait a minute. He's going to be making energy for yourself by yourself. You're going to be able to live off the grid and just take energy from the from the, from the air and we can't have that in a week. That's why I said the guy who invented the car that runs off. Water got killed. Are you get? You get Clint and you know because you go against The Narrative of what's happening and if they can't commercialize it, if they can't control you, how you're a heretic, you know, you can't you can't think that's thoughtcrime 1984, right? Where they? Where you can't even think of certain things that you will literally snitch. 00:37:51John your neighbor for thinking something, right? Big brothers, always watching, which have it in California right now, when the whole thing started of the, the the, the p word, you know, what the c word. I don't want to say it. But when all that started, there were, there were paying the government was paying, at a snitch on your neighbors, right? Ho, hey, they're open, or they're having people eat at the restaurant. Now we can have that going to have to but just call it in and we'll give you a little reward. Even the governor came out and said, Hey, listen snitches, don't get stitches here. They get rewarded. We're living in 1984, George Orwell's 1984. And we need to make that shit nonfiction. 00:38:33Yeah, it's unbelievable. So yeah. Look into tartaria because I think you would enjoy it a lot. It's it goes very deep and you can relate to a lot of different things. I like when I like when conspiracy theories connect and this is one of the ones that you can be like wait a minute. So is that why there is okay. And then it just goes down this rabbit hole. And when you have enough time, like myself, I'm constantly listening to podcast. That's why I start a podcast right to be able to talk about different things and 00:39:11What's your thoughts on? You said that night? Sky was good for UFO. Watching. What? What do you think UFOs are? Do you think again there some glitch in the matrix, by the way, do you think the Earth is round or do you think it's flat? 00:39:29I personally, because the way I first thing is, is with an open mind, but a little bit of healthy skepticism and a little bit of science because when I finally did finish, my major was in science, so I do believe, I do believe the 00:40:00Earth is round and I have my own. What do you want to call? Astronomy experiences that help validate that. So, I'm in for the record. I don't believe the World is Flat. But if you want to gain exposure, wherever and whatever platform, post some flatters, cuz the instant hate that you got crazy. I'm like, wait. Am I was like, I don't even know what you believe all this crazy shit just cuz I talk about it doesn't mean I believe in it. It just like you said, I'd like to, I'm the kind of person, I like to listen to All possibilities and different views, which a lot of people are. So cut off to that when you talk to them about the occult or about, you know, demons and spirits and all this shit. They some people just clam up. They don't know how to want to talk about that. But why? 00:41:00It's obviously something again, depending on what intention that, use it for but beats me. So you believe that the world is round. We got that out of the way. What do you think UFOs are as far as the found one? I think they're multiple things because 00:41:25I don't know. I like I have the theory of the interdimensional beings and I also believe that there's like you mentioned earlier. There's a possibility that there's life around us that we can't see, because we don't have the ability to see it and so it's sometimes I think they might be 00:41:47like beings that are already here that we are just catching glimpses of or you know, we just don't have the capability to see that and then I 00:42:02sometimes wonder if they are Time Travelers and their us and the future and we're seeing bits of that, but I think 00:42:14For me and her dimensional. Those theories is kind of what I like to think everything is linked to you because when I research like Bigfoot, when I research aliens when I research hauntings, there's so many similar stories, but then all of those, like, any Cryptid, there's 00:42:37So many similarities. So it's either they're coming from different areas that we just don't understand yet or we can't we don't have the capability to see them. 00:42:51I think they're all connected somehow, and we just don't understand that yet. I believe they are going to have you ever. And that's why I blows my mind that all these these billionaires right now. They're, they're playing this, this pissing game of who can go into space the longest in the highest, right? Yeah. Bilan musk, which I have mixed mixed emotions and feelings towards cuz I want to love him, but he's a dick, right? And and I feel that he manipulates. 00:43:26I guess when you're at that level, the way I can put it is. 00:43:30When, you know, you're playing a game and, you know, you're part of a game, just going to do whatever you want. Right? That's why money to these people is in anything. It's just threw out of Casino. They're playing this, this game, right? So in The Matrix, when he's eating a steak and he tells me. That's not there. You know, it's not real cuz I would rather have this. I wanted to think it's real right side rather. I forgot who said it but it was like, I'd rather have a paraphrasing, you know, I'd rather have some fake steak tonight cuz it takes the whole point is that when, you know, you're part of a game when Truman didn't know that his life was a reality show, right? And the people up top the archons, these forces trying to keep you from every time you would try to go and get to close that Veil. They would stop them right and when he finally got to the edge, he was able to do. What is it? Good at? Good morning. Good afternoon. Good night. If I don't see you, whatever, you know, you know what it is, like a whole thing. 00:44:30That's what I feel. How life is especially when you open up your mind to two other, like how you you learn so many things after the fact being in the dark for so long, but some people aren't, I don't think that they're able to to get there. They're not attuned to certain frequencies. For example, I took a break for a while, in the show. My dad had a heart attack at the beginning of 2021 and January and he died 4 times, right? And me being the person that I am, he got a full recovery and everything, but I took a break is out of take over the family business and everything else. 00:45:12The first thing I asked him when I saw him was so how was it? 00:45:19He said, how was what he knew what I was. He knew what I was asking him. He said, how was, what is my dad's not the spiritual? There's not a fucking spiritual bone in his body, right? How was it? What did you see? What did you experience? And he said absolutely nothing. 00:45:40So fuck, you got four times, you fly line four times that we're going for 45 minutes. And you can see shyt, you ain't see your family. You ain't see your ancestors. You didn't see anyting. You say, I don't remember it and I didn't see anything. 00:45:56And I thought to myself, I was like just got to be more to life than just this, right? They talked about how were light beings having a human experience, whatever the saying, however, that goes. 00:46:13And maybe he wasn't a tune to a certain frequency about he wasn't able to. 00:46:21See, whatever it is. You know, you have the Tibetan Book of the Dead with the same. When you're leaving this body, you see your ancestors and they tell you where to go, right? You have the the Egyptian Book of the Dead with all these different rituals, right? I read this book, The astral plane, its inhabitants and the scenery and it gets into a lot of different things were when they see that you mourn, someone's death. You're actually doing them a disservice because you're not helping there that life begins after death. Like the real Journey Begins. After death, See we don't know if it really does or not cuz we're not fucking dead. At least. I don't think we are, right. 00:47:06And you're doing the people, you're doing the person at the service by morning to death cuz that energy is just dragging their Spirit down type of thing, right? 00:47:14And so that's it. That's a really weird way to look at things because it's not what we're used to write. We're so used to when somebody dies being sad for them. And a lot of these people that I forgot to bring up with the ancient Egyptians, their whole thing was preparing for the afterlife when your Christian your whole thing is what be a good person, you know, follow the ten commandments, don't fucking kill. People don't look at your neighbor's wife and you know, don't fucking listen to your like good good things that you should already be doing in society and people against such as Carl Jung says, this is the shadow where people don't want understand, that's what the mainstream religion is. People don't want to look within and it gets dark because it's like you have to overcome the evil, to really see the real nature of reality and not in the shadow, will show you the nature of reality and I don't know what that has to do with how 00:48:13These people Embrace. And by these people, I'm talking about the elites, how they Embrace evil, right? Like, Helena blavatsky, and all these guys and 00:48:21The fucking asshole, Aleister Crowley talk to, you know, do what thou Wilt, which he stole from a gnostic by the way. And tan, just shout out to Aunt on these people who pervert. Journey, you know what I mean? Like this journey of of being able to 00:48:40Whatever it is the higher Enlightenment. And they put things in it, like, oh well kids should be able to have sex whenever they want. Like, we don't want you fucked it up or you were doing so good until you brought that shit in. But it's got to do with the Freemasons were, you know, they Embrace evil to a certain extent to where they achieve Divinity and I don't know it has something to do with the Shadow or not, but it's just an observation that I've been seeing, you know, looking at these different topics, and I'm just getting my toes. What type of thing. 00:49:16I definitely enjoy experimenting with different belief systems and thoughts and that's kind of something that and the upcoming season that I'm going to focus on a little bit more, is just experimenting with different things. Like, I never, when I was in the religion, I never used to believe in ghosts and never had any experiences or anything like that. And when I was traveling around the first paranormal, investigation, that I ever did, I thought it was a bust and I actually ended up being like some solid EVPs later. I don't think I can do all that because I'm just scared of what I got. I'm a bitch, you know, I'm scared of what, what might come and I've been wanting to do mushrooms again for a little bit now. 00:50:11And for my first trip ever, I didn't really have the best. Should I groom my own mushrooms? Right? And it was it was the but it was weird because it was like this experience and I had taken care of them and had like this weird connection with the mushrooms. And when I finally did, it was probably one of the most horrific experiences I've ever had all the first time I did it. And I haven't done it since and I and I went to, I saw Joe Rogan live in Orlando two or three weekends ago, and he was talking about mushrooms and I looked over at my parents and I'm like, I want to do them again. I want to do it again, but I'm scared because you go into this Dimension. And what I wanted to ask you was 00:51:03the reason I brought UFOs up was, 00:51:06because, 00:51:08I don't know if you've I mean, are you were done DMT? Have you ever done any psychedelics right now? It's not that. I don't want to, I would do I have epilepsy. So I have to be like very careful about what I take and I eat like even something as simple as weed. I have to be careful about it or so. It's likely it's all controlled with medication and everything. But I just have to, you know, know my limits. Are you have seizures? That's not the one that you fall asleep. That's narcolepsy. Are you fucking just fall asleep, right now? Falling asleep. Epilepsy is seizure activity and and mine's been controlled for several years now, but I do you want to going back to your question? I do. You want to try like GMT or so if I didn't even like Ayahuasca, I'm totally down to try it, but I absolutely want to be guided and supervise than men.

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