Podcasts about Ouroboros

Ding-dangit, it happened again! Kobold Press's Tome of Beasts 2 got turned upside down and a bunch of dragons fell out! Not to worry, Zack and Griffin are on the case!

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The One Stars, Episode One: Over the Moon [Originally released on: July 2, 2020] Negative Nancy is over the Moon. This episode includes reviews of: An Uber Driver. A Moon Vacation. A Ukulele. The Moon Landing Museum.  CAST: Autumn Hardwood (aka Emma Elizabeth) as Negative Nancy. Blythe Renay as Chatbot. Garan Fitzgerald as the Announcer. Vin Ernst performs Review of an Uber Driver. Bruce Hennigar performs Review of a Moon Vacation and Review of the Moon Landing Museum. Caroline Mincks performs Review of a Ukulele. Megan Konrad as Grandma's Review. CREW: Writing, Sound Design, and Musical Arrangement by Jeremy Ellett. A Review of a Ukulele was written by Tal Minear. The One Stars was created by Jeremy Ellett. MUSIC: Hybrid by Ouroboros. Shimmer by Audioscribe. Power Up by Razihel. Good Times by Prod Riddiman. Jester by Prod Riddiman. Exhausted by Prod Riddiman. Fly by Prod Riddiman. Isolated by Prod Riddiman. NO A.I. WAS USED IN THE PRODUCTION OF THIS PODCAST Episode ⁠Transcript⁠ STITCHES PATREON: ⁠Patreon.com/GoodPointe⁠ FOR BUSINESS INQUIRIES CONTACT:info@goodpointepodcasts.com A Good Pointe Original. Find and support our sponsors at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠fableandfolly.com/partners⁠⁠⁠. Want to potentially appear on a future episode?  Leave Us a Voicemail At: 512-640-9495 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Shy joins us again with a presentation on another kind of legendary giant: dragons. We look at ancient depictions of dragons and giant serpents across the world from Sumer to China. We talk about the significance of the Ouroboros, about ancient artifacts depicting dragons and serpents, about the many ancient gods who were depicted as serpents, or had serpent or dragon-like aspects.Support us through Patreon and get special episodes, early access, and bumper tunes! You can also donate directly through PayPal. Thank you all so much for the support!https://www.brothersoftheserpent.com/support

In which Herbert and Ray have some EXPLOSIVE revelations on and off the battlefield. John discovers whatever they are involved in may just be bigger and farther reaching then they ever could have imagined and Radios are a good thing. Will Ray survive his shenanigans? What exactly did John Umbreleavre discover in Sidney Harper's cabin? Find out on this episode of THE EDGE OF MADNESS!!!   This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.   The idea's and thoughts spoken in this podcast are not shared by those that created it or acted in it and are only intended for the sake of comedy.   - Broadcast Advisory - Ladies and gentlemen Please Be Advised, this broadcast contains mature and potentially distressing material. Listener discretion is strongly advised (or else). The following content may include: Illicit Language not safe for the children at home Depictions of not being in control of one's faculties..... much like me after one too many scotches, er I mean....... Depictions of loss of self and screaming We encourage those who may find such themes unsettling to proceed with caution. This program is intended for a mature and discerning audience. Follow us on Instagram @edgeofmadnesspod Spotify @edgeofmadnesspod Apple Podcasts @edgeofmadnesspod Twitch @lastnameOak Youtube @lastnameOak Reddit r/edgeofmadnesspod Tik Tok @lastnameoak Buttons and Buds Podcast   Edge of Madness Pod © 2024 by Brendan Borowski is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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Matt Shy joins us again with a presentation on another kind of legendary giant: dragons. We look at ancient depictions of dragons and giant serpents across the world from Sumer to China. We talk about the significance of the Ouroboros, about ancient artifacts depicting dragons and serpents, about the many ancient gods who were depicted as serpents, or had serpent or dragon-like aspects.   Support us through Patreon and get special episodes, early access, and bumper tunes! You can also donate directly through Paypal. Thank you all so much for the support! https://www.brothersoftheserpent.com/support   Chapters 00:00 Welcome to the Brothers of the Serpent Podcast 06:02 New Year Reflections and Podcast Plans 12:06 Ancient Chinese Dragon Depictions 18:05 The Ouroboros and Its Significance 24:04 The Candle Dragon and Protruding Eyes 29:00 Concluding Thoughts on Historical Artifacts 34:11 Cosmic Serpents and Their Symbolism 37:02 Indra and the Slaying of Vritra 39:33 Agency of Nature: Serpents and Spirits 42:05 Cognitive Dissonance and Perception 44:29 Shesha: The Cosmic Serpent 46:40 Tiamat: The Dragon of Chaos 49:10 Feathered Serpents in Mesoamerica 58:19 Quetzalcoatl and the Temple of the Feathered Serpent 01:00:22 The Serpent as a Symbol of Wisdom 01:03:07 Psychedelics and Altered States of Consciousness 01:06:56 Mythical Creatures and Their Symbolism 01:09:49 Historical Accounts of Serpents and Dragons 01:12:41 Pterosaurs and Native American Legends 01:15:34 The Evolution of Dragon Myths 01:18:31 The Serpent in Religious Texts 01:21:52 Epic Tales of Heroism and Dragons 01:32:08 The Value of Knowledge 01:32:59 Mythical Creatures in Gaming and Literature 01:34:03 The World Serpent and Its Symbolism 01:36:05 Arthurian Legends and Their Origins 01:36:57 Saints and Dragons: A Historical Perspective 01:37:56 The Legend of Loch Ness 01:39:11 St. George and the Dragon 01:39:56 Japanese Dragons and Their Significance 01:41:58 The Concept of Dragons in Civilization 01:44:08 The Role of Dragons in Different Cultures 01:47:01 Slavic Dragons and Their Mythology 01:49:11 The Connection Between Dragons and Kingship 01:51:01 Dragons as Ancient Demons 01:53:02 The Serpent as a Symbol of Knowledge

In the inaugural episode of a new series, Jim talks with David Krakauer about his intellectual formation and worldview. They discuss what woke up as David this morning, his commitments to chance and pattern seeking, his epiphany about the idea of the idea at age 12 or 13, his perverse attraction to the arcane and difficult, evolution as integral to intelligence, the risk-averse character of scholars and the sociology of science, the Santa Fe Institute's attempt to maintain revolutionary science, the Ouroboros concept challenging foundationalism in epistemology, the standard model of physics as foundational versus the view that you can establish foundations anywhere, string theory as a slowly dying pseudoscience, whether beauty is a useful guide in science, emergence and broken symmetries, Phil Anderson's "More is Different" paper, the Wigner reversal and the shift from law to initial conditions, rejecting both weak and strong emergence, effective theories and causally justified concepts, downward causality, micrograining versus coarse graining, the distinction between abiotic and biotic systems, games and puzzles as model systems for complexity, combinatorial solution spaces, heuristics as dimensional reducers and potentially the golden road to AGI, Isaiah Berlin's influence on David's worldview, negative versus positive liberties, value pluralism and historicity, the Fermi paradox and the possibility of alien life, the rational versus the irrational in human life, and much more. Episode Transcript JRS EP 192 - David Krakauer on Science, Complexity and AI JRS EP10 - David Krakauer: Complexity Science "A Minimum Viable Metaphysics," by Jim Rutt "More Is Different," by P.W. Anderson The Emergence of Everything, by Harold Morowitz David Krakauer's research explores the evolution of intelligence and stupidity on Earth. This includes studying the evolution of genetic, neural, linguistic, social, and cultural mechanisms supporting memory and information processing, and exploring their shared properties. President of the Santa Fe Institute since 2015, he served previously as the founding director of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, the co-director of the Center for Complexity and Collective Computation, and professor of mathematical genetics, all at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

The Story Science Forgot: Why Psychotherapy Needs Narrative More Than Ever by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 15, 2025 | 0 comments Joseph Campbell is arguably one of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century. If you have watched a Marvel movie or read a modern fantasy novel or sat in a screenwriter's workshop you have encountered his fingerprints. George Lucas explicitly credited Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces as the structural backbone of Star Wars. Every major Hollywood studio has copies of his work floating around their development offices. Even filmmakers who actively deconstruct his monomyth model still have to be in conversation with Campbell to do so. You cannot escape him if you are telling stories in the Western tradition. But here is the thing about Joseph Campbell that we need to hold in our minds when we think about what psychology has become. He was a showman. He was a legitimate scholar but also someone who understood that the truth sometimes needs a little theatrical assistance. The Showman and the Bear Bones One of Campbell's favorite presentation techniques involved showing an image of ancient bear bones that were perhaps two million years old and discovered in a cave. The bones had been arranged in a particular way with pieces shoved back into the bear's mouth. Campbell would present this with his characteristic gravitas and explain that the ancients understood that nature must eat of itself. They knew that to take life is to participate in a cyclical loop of giving and receiving. The bear consuming itself was a ritual recognition that we are all food for something else. It is a beautiful interpretation. It is probably even partially true. We know through depth psychology and early anthropology that prehistoric humans were almost certainly trying to make meaning of existential realities. Ritual practices around death and consumption are well documented across cultures. Campbell was not fabricating this from nothing. But also come on Campbell. These are two million year old bones shoved in a hole. Maybe the jaw just collapsed that way. Maybe soil shifted. Maybe an animal disturbed them centuries after burial. He did not know. He could not know. And yet he presented it with the confidence of revealed truth. Here is why this matters. Campbell's influence is incalculable despite his methodological looseness. He told a story that resonated so deeply with something in the human psyche that it became the invisible architecture of our entire entertainment industry. He was not objectively right about those bear bones but he was pointing at something real about how humans make meaning. The story he told about that meaning making was more powerful than any peer reviewed paper could have been. We need to remember this when we think about psychotherapy and what it has become. The Dream I Had and the World I Found When I first entered the field of psychotherapy I had a fantasy. I thought I was going to be Joseph Campbell. I was going to find my way to someplace like Berkeley and immerse myself in the grand conversation between psychology and mythology and anthropology and philosophy. I imagined something like the Esalen Institute in the 1970s where Fritz Perls developed Gestalt therapy and where researchers and mystics and clinicians sat together in hot springs and argued about the nature of consciousness. Those places barely exist anymore. What I found instead was a competitive model built on H-indexes and impact factors. I found academic departments that had been siloed into increasingly narrow specializations. Each department defended its territorial boundaries against incursion from neighboring disciplines. The institute model where a psychologist might spend an afternoon talking to an anthropologist about ritual has been systematically dismantled. What we have instead are specialists who do not read outside their sub specialty and researchers whose entire careers depend on defending one narrow hypothesis. We have an incentive structure that actively punishes the kind of cross pollination that leads to genuine discovery. The Hollow Room: How the Biomedical Model Fails This is not just an academic inconvenience. It is a catastrophe for the human sciences and for the actual treatment of patients. There is a reason Freud stuck around. It is not because psychoanalysis was rigorously validated through randomized controlled trials. It is because as the science writer John Horgan observed old paradigms die only when better paradigms replace them. Freud lives on because science has not produced a theory of and therapy for the mind potent enough to render psychoanalysis obsolete once and for all. The biomedical model promised us a better story. It told us that humans are biological machines and that suffering is just a mechanical malfunction. It promised that if we could just find the right neurotransmitter or the right gene we could fix the machine. But look at what that looks like in practice. It looks like the 15 minute medication management appointment. A person comes in with their life falling apart. They are grieving a divorce or wrestling with the trauma of their childhood or facing a crisis of meaning. And the doctor looks at a checklist. They ask about sleep. They ask about appetite. They ask about energy levels. They treat the symptoms like check engine lights on a dashboard. They prescribe a pill to dim the lights and they send the person away. It looks like manualized Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. This is the gold standard of evidence based treatment. But in the vacuum of a manual it becomes absurd. A patient might be crying about the loss of a child and a therapist who is strictly adhering to the protocol has to redirect them to the agenda for Module 3 which is identifying cognitive distortions. The model has no room for the tragedy of the situation. It only has room for the erroneous thought that the patient is having about the tragedy. The result is that by most measures we are not actually helping people more effectively than we were fifty years ago. To understand the depth of this failure, we must look at the “smoking gun” of the psychiatric establishment: the STAR*D study. For nearly two decades, this massive, taxpayer-funded study was held up as the irrefutable proof that the “medication merry-go-round” worked. It cost $35 million and was cited thousands of times to justify the idea that if a patient didn't get better on one antidepressant, you simply switched them to another, and then another. The study claimed a “cumulative remission rate” of 67%. It told us that two-thirds of people would be cured if they just complied with the protocol. This was a lie built on methodological quicksand. A forensic re-analysis of the data (Pigott et al., 2023) revealed that the researchers had inflated their success rates through a series of stunning methodological sleights of hand. The original design called for the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD) to be the primary outcome measure. But when that scale wasn't showing the numbers they wanted, investigators switched to a secondary, unblinded, self-report questionnaire (the QIDS-SR) which painted a rosier picture. Furthermore, the re-analysis exposed that hundreds of patients who dropped out due to side effects were excluded from the failure count, effectively scrubbing the negative data. Even worse, over 900 patients who didn't even meet the minimum severity for depression were included to boost the numbers. When the data was re-analyzed using the study's original criteria and including all participants, the cumulative remission rate plummeted from 67% to 35%. But the most damning statistic is the sustained recovery rate. Of the 4,041 patients who entered the trial, only a tiny fraction achieved remission and actually stayed well. When accounting for dropouts and relapses over the one-year follow-up period, a mere 108 patients achieved remission and stayed well without relapsing. That is a sustained recovery rate of 2.7%. If a heart surgery or cancer treatment had a failure rate of 97.3%, it would be abandoned. Yet, this study was championed by investigators with deep financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry, and the results were codified into clinical guidelines that still rule the profession today. This is the indictment: we have built an entire system of care on a statistical fabrication, prioritizing the protection of the model over the healing of the human. I have big problems with Freud. I have big problems with classical psychoanalysis. I am more of a Jungian. But here is what the depth psychologists understood that the biomedical model forgot. Humans are not just biological machines. We are meaning making creatures who navigate the world through story. When you take away our stories you do not make us more rational. You make us lost. The Flock of Dodos This separation of science from narrative has hurt the researchers too. In his book The Ghost Lab journalist Matt Hongoltz-Hetling uses the flock of dodos metaphor to describe this phenomenon. He argues that specialized creatures that are perfectly adapted to narrow environments become extinct when conditions change. Academic science has become a flock of dodos. A neuroscientist studies one particular brain region. A psychologist studies one particular therapeutic intervention. An anthropologist studies one particular culture. Nobody is allowed to step back and ask what all of this means together. When you silo information into separate academic disciplines instead of organizing it into a holistic understanding you kill the narratives that are already there. You cannot see the story until you step back far enough to recognize the pattern. Heidegger and the AI Bubble One of the primary functions of a subjective narrative in an objective field like psychotherapy is that it lets us start with things we consider self evident. These are things that do not need evidence because they are the ground upon which evidence stands. Things like humanity is important. Things like we contain multiplicities and conflicting parts. Things like consciousness is a mystery. The biomedical model has no way to accommodate these self evident truths because they are not measurable. You cannot run a randomized controlled trial on human dignity. Martin Heidegger understood this trajectory. He warned that science and technology were becoming self justifying systems that asked only whether something could be done and never whether it should be done. We are watching this play out right now with Large Language Models and Artificial Intelligence. The tech industry is boiling seawater and consuming enormous amounts of our remaining resources to build ever larger systems. As Ed Zitron has documented the current AI boom is likely a bubble that will crash and burn. It may leave us with a Google monopoly on Gemini that will not actually help anybody. Should we be doing this? Should we be fundamentally restructuring our economy around technology whose benefits are speculative at best? The Heideggerian answer is that we are not even capable of asking these questions properly because we have lost the narrative framework within which “should” makes sense. When everything is reduced to capability and efficiency the concept of values disappears. The Perennial and the Possible Can we just recognize that having a livable planet is probably a self evidencing goal? Can we recognize that having a psychotherapy willing to engage with perennial philosophy might be more valuable than another meta analysis demonstrating small effect sizes for manualized interventions? This is what I mean by reintroducing narrative. I do not mean replacing evidence with myth. I mean recognizing that the facts do not speak for themselves. Data requires interpretation. Interpretation requires a framework. And frameworks are stories about what matters. The story science forgot is the story of science itself. It is the story of how inquiry emerged from human communities trying to understand their world. We can recover this story. We can rebuild the connections that the academic silos have severed. The path is there. It always has been. We just need to be brave enough to walk it. The Exodus of the Sick If academic science has become a flock of dodos clinical practice has become something arguably worse. It has become a reenactment of the Milgram experiment where the system plays the role of the authority figure and the patient plays the victim. We often remember Stanley Milgram's famous 1961 study as a lesson about the capacity for evil but its deeper lesson was about the capacity for distance. When the subject had to physically touch the victim compliance with the order to harm them dropped to 30 percent. The White Coat only retained its authority when it created a buffer between the human actions and their consequences.   Modern psychotherapy has built a massive administrative White Coat that separates the healer from the healed. This is not just a metaphor. It is a structural reality that is actively driving patients out of the profession and into the arms of pseudoscience. The Bureaucracy as Trauma For a patient in crisis the Evidence Based system often functions as a machine of exclusion. A study on healthcare administrative burdens reveals that the psychological cost of navigating billing and insurance denials and intake forms acts as a friction that hits the most vulnerable the hardest. We ask trauma survivors to retell their stories to three different intake coordinators before they ever see a therapist. This process is itself retraumatizing. When they finally reach a provider they are often met with the biomedical gaze which is a checklist driven assessment that reduces their complex narrative of suffering to a code for billing. As the Australian Psychological Society has noted the chemical imbalance theory and the medicalization of distress have failed to reduce stigma and have instead left patients feeling defective and unheard. The result is a profound Low Trust environment. Theodore Porter in his book Trust in Numbers argues that we only rely on strict mechanical numbers when we do not trust people. We use the DSM and manualized protocols because insurers do not trust clinicians to judge and clinicians do not trust themselves to deviate. The Great Split: Why Research and Practice Are Divorcing This creates a fundamental schism that explains why the profession feels like it is cracking in half. On one side you have the academic researchers who are incentivized by grant funding and publication metrics. To get these rewards they must isolate variables and create reproducible manualized protocols. This means they must strip away the very thing that makes therapy work which is the messy and unrepeatable human relationship. On the other side you have the clinicians who are incentivized by patient outcomes. They are in the room with the messiness. They see that the manualized protocol fails the complex trauma patient so they improvise. They integrate. They use intuition. The academic looks at the clinician and sees a cowboy who ignores the data. The clinician looks at the academic and sees a bureaucrat who has never treated a suicidal patient. This is why the research is no longer informing the practice. We have created two different languages. The researcher speaks in p-values and population averages while the clinician speaks in case studies and individual breakthroughs. Why Pseudoscience Wins the Trust War This low trust environment creates a vacuum that wellness influencers are all too happy to fill. We often mock the public for turning to unverified supplements and TikTok diagnosticians and quantum mysticism. But we have to ask what these influencers are providing that we are not. They are providing narrative. They are providing connection. They are providing a. parasocial yes but still, High Trust experience. A recent analysis suggests that wellness fads thrive not because people are stupid but because the influencers offer a feeling of personal validation that the medical system denies. Even AI chatbots are now being described by users as more humane than doctors because the AI listens to the whole story without looking at a watch or a checklist. When a patient is told by a doctor that their pain is idiopathic or psychosomatic because it does not show up on a lab test and then an influencer tells them I see you and I believe you and here is a story about why this is happening the patient will choose the influencer every time. The trust gap drives them away from care that might actually help and toward solutions that feel good but do nothing. The Clinician's Moral Injury This leaves the ethical psychotherapist in a state of moral injury. We are forced to participate in a system that we know is alienating the very people we are trying to help. We are trained to value the therapeutic alliance or the bond of trust above all else yet we work in a system designed to sever it with paperwork and time limits and standardized protocols. We have to put down the White Coat of administrative distance. We have to stop hiding behind the Evidence Based label when that label is being used to deny the reality of the person in front of us. Proposals for a Unified Future If we want to stop this exodus and heal the split we need specific structural changes. We cannot just hope for better insurance reimbursement. We need to change what we consider valid science. First we must re-legitimize the systematic case study. For a century the detailed narrative of a single patient was the gold standard of learning. We replaced it with the aggregate data of the randomized controlled trial. We need to bring it back. We need journals that publish rigorous detailed accounts of what actually happens in the room when a patient gets better. Second we need to build open source repositories for clinical observation. Currently the wisdom of the field is locked behind for profit paywalls or lost in the private notes of isolated therapists. We need a Wikipedia of Clinical Practice where thousands of clinicians can document what they are seeing in real time. If ten thousand therapists report that somatic processing helps complex trauma that is a data set that rivals any RCT. Third we need to teach philosophy and narrative in graduate school again. We are training technicians when we should be training healers. A therapist who knows how to read a spreadsheet but does not know how to understand a story is useless to a human being in crisis. If we do not offer a therapy that is human and narrative and deeply relational we will continue to lose our patients to those who do even if what they are offering is a lie. The Mirror and the Map: Why Math is a Story We often treat mathematics as if it were the bedrock of reality itself. We act as though a p-value is a piece of the universe, like a rock or a proton. But we must remember that math is not the thing itself. It is a representation of the thing. It is a map, not the territory. It is a mirror, not the face. Theodore Porter's work in Trust in Numbers reminds us that we reach for these mirrors when we do not trust our own eyes. But the mirror is useless without someone to look into it and interpret the reflection. Data by itself is pointless. It is a pile of bricks without an architect. It requires interpretation to become meaning, and interpretation is fundamentally a narrative act. When we try our best to make a purely objective study, we are still telling a story. We are saying, “These numbers represent this phenomenon.” Then another researcher comes along, looks at the same numbers, and tells a different story: “No, they represent that.” This conflict isn't a failure of science; it is science. The Storytellers of Science The greatest breakthroughs in history did not come from people who just crunched numbers. They came from people who could see the story the numbers were trying to tell. These stories are really damn interesting, often stranger and more beautiful than fiction. Consider August Kekulé. He didn't discover the structure of the benzene molecule by staring at a spreadsheet. He discovered it by dreaming of a snake eating its own tail—the Ouroboros. His subjective, narrative brain provided the image that unlocked the objective chemical reality. The data was there, but it needed a myth to make it intelligible. Look at Quantum Physics. The raw math of quantum mechanics is cold and abstract. But when physicists like Erwin Schrödinger or Werner Heisenberg looked at that data, they saw a story about uncertainty, about cats that are both alive and dead, about a universe that only decides what it is when it is observed. They didn't just calculate; they interpreted. They told a story about reality that was so radical it changed how we understand existence. Even in psychology, the data of the “talking cure” was messy and anecdotal until Freud and Jung gave us the language of the Unconscious and the Archetype. Were they objectively “right” in every detail? No. But they gave us a framework—a story—that allowed us to navigate the chaos of the human mind. They provided the map that allowed us to enter the territory. The Final Integration We have spent the last fifty years trying to strip this storytelling capacity out of our profession in a misguided attempt to be taken seriously by the “hard” sciences. In doing so, we have thrown away our most powerful tool. The brain is a story-processing machine. To treat it with checklists and spreadsheets is to deny its fundamental nature. We need to be brave enough to pick up the mirror again. We need to be brave enough to look at the data—whether it's the 2.7% recovery rate of STAR*D or the trembling pupil of a trauma patient—and ask, “What is the story here?” The path forward isn't about choosing between science and narrative. It is about realizing that science is a narrative. It is the grandest, most complex, most rigorous story we have ever tried to tell. And it is time we started telling it properly again.   More @ https://gettherapybirmingham.com/

Stuck in the same business cycle year after year? Hospitality veteran Donley Ferguson reveals why your annual forecasts keep falling short—and how to break the pattern. After 30+ years watching businesses repeat the same cycles, Donley created the Vortisys Framework. It's not about working harder. It's about elevating with each cycle instead of staying trapped in the loop. In this episode, you'll discover: Why recognizing your pattern is the first step to breaking it The ancient Ouroboros symbol—and how flipping it changes everything How to forecast growth without falling into the same trap Why asking "why" daily strengthens your purpose and your business The critical mistake businesses make when bringing in new leadership If you're tired of hitting the same revenue ceiling or watching your team repeat last year's playbook, this conversation will shift your perspective. Connect with Donley Ferguson on LinkedIn to learn more about the Vortisys Framework and breaking free from cycles that no longer serve you. Grab your Free E-book Work Yourself Happy (Amazon Best Seller) by Dr. Terri Levine here : https://book.terrilevine.com/work-yourself-happy Join us here to deeply connect with our community:  www.heartrepreneurs.com  Subscribe to this podcast on your favorite podcast platform… Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/live-well-earn-well-for-coaches-consultants/id1585895518  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5OjsOxN7MqwKio4Ae6vSMQ 

The lights were FLICKERING the rent was due! So Shameless did all they could think of and called their two it girls of the century, Monica is back in action and soon to be spring from prison is our Mikhalio Alexsander Milkovich. We have so much fun covering this high of an episode in season 7! The Luck We Had - Instagram, Twitter & Tik Tok @luckwehadpod Lena - Instagram @cojackk Twitter @dersholmvik Evan- Instagram @unevantful TikTok @evanBlmao Twitter @evanBlmao Amanda - Instagram @abnormalamanda18 Twitter @abnormalamanda Tik Tok @abnormalamanda_18 Gmail - luckwehadpod@gmail.com Website - theluckwehad.carrd.co/# Cover Art by Zoe Instagram @burden.on.society

In episode 251 of Heavy Metal Philosophy, Jon Barbas is counting down his five favorite extreme progressive metal albums of 2025. This is an extreme metal show, and thus my progressive picks are also extreme... and beautiful. Let me know what you think!Get Heavy Metal Philosophy Merch!https://jonbarbas-shop.fourthwall.com/Bands;Impureza - https://impureza.bandcamp.com/album/alc-zaresDawn of Ouroboros - https://dawnofouroboros.bandcamp.com/album/bioluminescenceAn Abstract Illusion - https://anabstractillusion.bandcamp.com/album/the-sleeping-cityRivers of Nihil - https://riversofnihil.bandcamp.com/album/rivers-of-nihilIgorrr - https://igorrr.bandcamp.com/album/amenHeavy Metal Philosophy Contact;https://heavymetalphilosophy.com/YouTube: https://youtube.com/@heavymetalphilosophyhttps://www.spreaker.com/show/heavy-metal-philosophyJonBarbas@heavymetalphilosophy.comhttps://mobile.twitter.com/heaviestdoyenhttps://www.facebook.com/HeaviestDoyenhttps://www.instagram.com/heavy_metal_philosophy/https://www.threads.net/@heavy_metal_philosophyhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonbarbas.bsky.social #metal #progressivemetal #AOTY

In this episode of the Crazy Wisdom Podcast, host Stewart Alsop sits down with Mike Bakon to explore the fascinating intersection of hardware hacking, blockchain technology, and decentralized systems. Their conversation spans from Mike's childhood fascination with taking apart electronics in 1980s Poland to his current work with ESP32 microcontrollers, LoRa mesh networks, and Cardano blockchain development. They discuss the technical differences between UTXO and account-based blockchains, the challenges of true decentralization versus hybrid systems, and how AI tools are changing the development landscape. Mike shares his vision for incentivizing mesh networks through blockchain technology and explains why he believes mass adoption of decentralized systems will come through abstraction rather than technical education. The discussion also touches on the potential for creating new internet infrastructure using ad hoc mesh networks and the importance of maintaining truly decentralized, permissionless systems in an increasingly surveilled world. You can find Mike in Twitter as @anothervariable.Check out this GPT we trained on the conversationTimestamps00:00 Introduction to Hardware and Early Experiences02:59 The Evolution of AI in Hardware Development05:56 Decentralization and Blockchain Technology09:02 Understanding UTXO vs Account-Based Blockchains11:59 Smart Contracts and Their Functionality14:58 The Importance of Decentralization in Blockchain17:59 The Process of Data Verification in Blockchain20:48 The Future of Blockchain and Its Applications34:38 Decentralization and Trustless Systems37:42 Mainstream Adoption of Blockchain39:58 The Role of Currency in Blockchain43:27 Interoperability vs Bridging in Blockchain47:27 Exploring Mesh Networks and LoRa Technology01:00:25 The Future of AI and DecentralizationKey Insights1. Hardware curiosity drives innovation from childhood - Mike's journey into hardware began as a child in 1980s Poland, where he would disassemble toys like battery-powered cars to understand how they worked. This natural curiosity about taking things apart and understanding their inner workings laid the foundation for his later expertise in microcontrollers like the ESP32 and his deep understanding of both hardware and software integration.2. AI as a research companion, not a replacement for coding - Mike uses AI and LLMs primarily as research tools and coding companions rather than letting them write entire applications. He finds them invaluable for getting quick answers to coding problems, analyzing Git repositories, and avoiding the need to search through Stack Overflow, but maintains anxiety when AI writes whole functions, preferring to understand and write his own code.3. Blockchain decentralization requires trustless consensus verification - The fundamental difference between blockchain databases and traditional databases lies in the consensus process that data must go through before being recorded. Unlike centralized systems where one entity controls data validation, blockchains require hundreds of nodes to verify each block through trustless consensus mechanisms, ensuring data integrity without relying on any single authority.4. UTXO vs account-based blockchains have fundamentally different architectures - Cardano uses an extended UTXO model (like Bitcoin but with smart contracts) where transactions consume existing UTXOs and create new ones, keeping the ledger lean. Ethereum uses account-based ledgers that store persistent state, leading to much larger data requirements over time and making it increasingly difficult for individuals to sync and maintain full nodes independently.5. True interoperability differs fundamentally from bridging - Real blockchain interoperability means being able to send assets directly between different blockchains (like sending ADA to a Bitcoin wallet) without intermediaries. This is possible between UTXO-based chains like Cardano and Bitcoin. Bridges, in contrast, require centralized entities to listen for transactions on one chain and trigger corresponding actions on another, introducing centralization risks.6. Mesh networks need economic incentives for sustainable infrastructure - While technologies like LoRa and Meshtastic enable impressive decentralized communication networks, the challenge lies in incentivizing people to maintain the hardware infrastructure. Mike sees potential in combining blockchain-based rewards (like earning ADA for running mesh network nodes) with existing decentralized communication protocols to create self-sustaining networks.7. Mass adoption comes through abstraction, not education - Rather than trying to educate everyone about blockchain technology, mass adoption will happen when developers can build applications on decentralized infrastructure that users interact with seamlessly, without needing to understand the underlying blockchain mechanics. Users should be able to benefit from decentralization through well-designed interfaces that abstract away the complexity of wallets, addresses, and consensus mechanisms.

In which our band of madmen plus half the population of Morrison Colorado finally lay siege to the mysterious compound only known as HOME. Will Norah finally be reunited with her sister? Will John finally get some answers as to what is happening in Colorado and why they seem to be at the dead center of it? And will Cooper ever land a good roll again? Find out on this episode of THE EDGE OF MADNESS!!!   This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.   The idea's and thoughts spoken in this podcast are not shared by those that created it or acted in it and are only intended for the sake of comedy.   - Broadcast Advisory - Ladies and gentlemen Please Be Advised, this broadcast contains mature and potentially distressing material. Listener discretion is strongly advised (or else). The following content may include: Illicit Language not safe for the children at home Depictions of graphic manliness (womanliness?)…er I mean violence We encourage those who may find such themes unsettling to proceed with caution. This program is intended for a mature and discerning audience. Follow us on Instagram @edgeofmadnesspod Spotify @edgeofmadnesspod Apple Podcasts @edgeofmadnesspod Twitch @lastnameOak Youtube @lastnameOak Reddit r/edgeofmadnesspod   Edge of Madness Pod © 2024 by Brendan Borowski is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Digging does not always mean discovery in the sense of the unknown. Sometimes it is about noticing someone operating with clarity inside a language you already understand. I first heard Paul Thomas via a mix he recorded earlier this year for the Chimaera radio show. It was immediately clear that this was someone fluent in experimental and ambient forms, comfortable with negative space, pacing, and restraint. The hook was instant. Not long after, we crossed paths in Spain through shared nights on the dancefloor and on both sides of a DJ booth. His set at this year's Perpendicular Festival inside La Cabaña was one of the standouts, marked by a calm command of atmosphere and momentum that allowed the room to settle into its own rhythm. Under the Horizontal alias, Paul Thomas operates as a multidisciplinary artist with a deep interest in the crooked edges of electronic music. As a core member of the Ouroboros crew, he has become part of the more inward-facing currents of the scene. Horizontal represents a fresh pulse, bringing a lightness of touch to music that often leans too heavily on concept. His contribution to "Delayed with" closes our 2025 series. It unfolds with patience, but not passivity. Small shifts accumulate. The mood is tense yet restorative. Unpredictability plays a central role here, not as a gimmick, but as a contract of trust between listener and DJ. This is not background music. Details flicker at the edges, atmospheres thicken, and time stretches in subtle ways that reward full attention. After spending countless hours this year immersed in experimental and ambient listening across many contexts, it felt right to close out 2025 in the same way. Horizontal offers a final chapter that does not conclude so much as open a door, pointing toward other rooms, other journeys, still waiting. https://soundcloud.com/paul-thomas https://www.instagram.com/paulthomas_horizontal/ Write up by @gilleswasserman Follow us on social media: https://soundcloud.com/itsdelayed https://linktr.ee/delayed https://www.delayed.nyc https://www.facebook.com/itsdelayed https://www.instagram.com/_____delayed https://www.youtube.com/@_____delayed Contact us: info@delayed.nyc

On this week's episode of our show, Captain Ingle and I set a course for the world of Star Trek animation! First, we take a look at the premiere episode of the original animated series; second, a trio of Betazoid ambassadors wreaks havoc on the crew of the USS Cerritos; and third, the story of the Protostar comes full circle as our heroes attempt to fix the timeline they inadvertently ruined. Join us as we go boldly!

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In a moment where festivals blur into a constant scroll of names and posters, Ouroboros has always felt anchored to something more elemental. Tucked into the Cantal wilderness, it operates like a temporary ecosystem, built on trust between artists, crews, and the land itself. Toé sits at the center of that orbit. As a DJ, producer, and co-architect of the festival's identity, her presence carries a quiet authority. The same sensibility runs through Soma Animae, her personal platform that reads like a field journal, and through Chimaera, the Eyes Wide Open radio show she curates for LYL. Spend a little time with her work and the through-line becomes clear. Nature is not an aesthetic reference point here. It is the operating system. That context matters when listening back to her set from this year's Ouroboros, now part of our Delayed with series. Peak hour on paper, but the usual signals are intentionally bypassed. Instead of release-driven drama, Toé builds a flexible structure where tension is constantly adjusted, stretched, and rebalanced. Acid pressure appears and dissolves, depth gives way to propulsion, grooves are allowed to settle before being nudged elsewhere. Ouroboros' connection to its surroundings has always shaped how sound functions there, and Toé navigates that dynamic instinctively. The forest is not a backdrop but a participant, absorbing and reflecting the pulse coming from the sound system. For those two hours, the exchange holds steady, neither side dominating. What you hear in this set is that equilibrium, electronic music meeting the physical world without either one blinking first. “We circle around and around and around. As if dancing with the fire's breath. An ever-turning wheel, Like a flame spiraling itself into endless spaces.” Thanks to the producers : Ground Tactic, Marco Shuttle, Black Merlin, Function, Neel, Antigone, Rrose, VC-118A, Echologist, Varuna, Boston 168, Peter Van Hoesen, Silent Servant, Maurizio Cascella, Negative Return, Cio d'Or, Oskitronik, Michal Wolski, Muzmin, Donato Dozzi, Daniel Kane, Varuna, Luke Slater, Shifted, Forest Drive West, Stojche and Andy Martin. - Toé https://soundcloud.com/toe_music https://www.instagram.com/melu_toe https://soundcloud.com/ouroboros-festival https://www.instagram.com/ouroboros.ssss write up by @gilleswasserman Follow us on social media: https://soundcloud.com/itsdelayed https://linktr.ee/delayed https://www.delayed.nyc https://www.facebook.com/itsdelayed https://www.instagram.com/_____delayed https://www.youtube.com/@_____delayed Contact us: info@delayed.nyc

PRO S02E20: „Ouroboros, Part 2“ – das Finale macht ernst. Asencia ist besiegt… und genau dann tauchen die Loom auf, weil Raumzeit-Risse offenbar das galaktische Äquivalent zu „Hier gibt's Snacks!“ sind. Chakotay muss die Protostar manuell durch einen Wurmloch-Schwarm steuern, Janeway lässt die Voyager-A einen Weg freischneiden – und als die Navigation ausfällt, übernimmt Cetacean Ops. Ja. Ein Wal. Und es funktioniert. Dann schließt sich der Kreis: Zeitloop zu, Tars Lamora wieder im Bild, Abschiede, Erinnerungen, Holo-Janeway, Wesley Crusher – und plötzlich sind wir mitten im Jahr 2385: Utopia Planitia, Mars, Starfleet im Rückzug. Aber die Prodigies bekommen genau jetzt ihren Auftrag: rausfliegen, helfen, Hoffnung sein. #StarTrekProdigy #OuroborosPart2 #DiscoveryPanel #StarTrekPodcast #Janeway #Chakotay #VoyagerA #WesleyCrusher #Protostar #USSProdigy

Türchen 15 im Discovery-Panel-Adventskalender – und wir sitzen immer noch am selben Tisch, vor demselben Spiel, mit derselben „Wir spielen das gleich, ehrlich!“-Energie. Stattdessen gibt es erst einmal das Getränk des Tages: „kalorienarm, ohne Süßstoffe, mit einem Hauch von Granatapfel und schwarzer Johannisbeere“. Klingt nach Sternenflotten-Wellness – schmeckt aber eher wie Badewasser nach einem sehr langen Schaumbad. Während wir uns durch San Pellegrino und Hubba-Bubba-Nachgeschmack kämpfen, rettet uns ein Paket aus dem Raum Düsseldorf: liebevoll mit Gaffer versehen, innen drin ein Klassiker vom Rhein – Killepitsch mit exakt 42 %. Flüssige Jacke, Hitchhiker-Zahl, Adventsmodulator. Oder wie wir sagen: Das beste Jäckchen ist ein ConJäckchen. Wir reden über: – Getränke, die besser riechen als sie schmecken – die feine Linie zwischen „Italian Sparkling Water“ und „Subraum-Badewasser“ – ein Paket aus dem Raum Düsseldorf und seine 42-prozentige Lösung – Schattenredaktion, Grinch-YouTube-Rabbitholes und Adventsprokrastination – und nebenbei natürlich über das, was da vor uns auf dem Tisch steht und immer noch nicht gespielt wird Außerdem schielen wir schon rüber zu „Ouroboros, Part 1“ aus Star Trek: Prodigy, ohne zu spoilern – aber mit ziemlich viel Vorfreude. Ihr werdet es gehört haben werden. Also: Kopfhörer auf, Getränk des Tages bereitstellen (bitte besser auswählen als wir) und mit uns das 15. Türchen öffnen.

Ouroboros, Part 1 – Die Folge, in der Star Trek Prodigy die Zeitlinie einmal komplett durchknetet. Asencia öffnet Wurmlöcher über Solum, Janeway baut die Protostar geschichtlich korrekt nach, Gwyn kämpft um die Zukunft ihres Volkes, und Wesley erklärt, warum die Zeit eigentlich ein Highway mit schlecht ausgeschilderten Abfahrten ist. Wir reden über: – das selbsterschaffende Wurmloch (Bootstrap-Paradox), – Quantum Variance und Rift Energy als perfekte kosmische Resonanz, – Vau N'Akat-Politik zwischen Hoffnung und Hybris, – Murfs Fake-Fall des Jahres, – und die Loom, die viel zu früh zur Party erscheinen. Dazu: unsere Trek-Taxonomie (Roddenberry-Romantik, Technobabble-Tiefe, Canon-Chaos) und warum Ouroboros der philosophischste Zweiteiler der Staffel ist. #StarTrek #StarTrekProdigy #DiscoveryPanel #Ouroboros #Protostar #Janeway #Gwyn #Asencia

Welcome to our latest dig with K&J are back with another three hours of global funk, soul, and rhythm that spans four decades and about as many continents. This week's selections run from Karriem Riggins' jazz-inflected collaboration with GENA and Liv.e on "Circlesz" to the sunbaked Braziliana of Vania Bastos and Chico De Abreu, with detours through Tokyo city pop courtesy of Kaoru Akimoto's "Wagamama na high heels" and some proper Nigerian funk from Mannix Okonkwo. Whether it's the yachty sophistication of Hamish Stuart's "Midnight Rush" or the raw energy of Goat's "Ouroboros," every track here earned its spot through one criterion: prone to induce ear-worm infestations. Press play on this bcast for the full experience: from which pressing of Ramsey Lewis you need to hunt down to the scene that birthed Jimmy Salcedo's Colombian psychedelia. Forty tracks that prove the best funk has no borders, and a universal visa!

In which our intrepid trio brings the fight to HOME, riles up their newfound comrades and gets ready for war. All this and more on this episode of THE EDGE OF MADNESS!!!!!!!!   - Broadcast Advisory - Ladies and gentlemen Please Be Advised, this broadcast contains mature and potentially distressing material. Listener discretion is strongly advised (or else). The following content may include: Illicit Language not safe for the children at home We encourage those who may find such themes unsettling to proceed with caution. This program is intended for a mature and discerning audience.   For questions or concerns please email us at contactalteredmedia@gmail.com   Follow us on Instagram @edgeofmadnesspod Spotify @edgeofmadnesspod Apple Podcasts @edgeofmadnesspod Twitch @edgeofmadnesspod Youtube @lastnameOak Reddit r/edgeofmadnesspod   Edge of Madness Pod © 2024 by Brendan Borowski is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

There was a meme circling the internet at some point saying, “People who show you new music are important.” Connecting with Axymt, a Lyon-based DJ and music aficionado, feels exactly like that. It is like meeting someone who speaks your dialect of obsession, where recommending a track is almost a form of autobiography. His work with atmós sphaîra, Monochrome, and the Ouroboros crew carries the rare consistency of someone who pulls from many corners yet curates with a firm sense of direction. You can sense the collector's instinct in the way he folds tribal percussion into dub-leaning atmospheres and in the way groove becomes a kind of compass, guiding the set without ever feeling decorative. For this edition of Delayed with, he eases into a slow-moving techno ritual that feels deceptively simple on the surface. The BPMs sit low enough to let the body loosen and the mind wander, yet the pulse keeps sliding forward with a subtle undertow. This is the zone we jokingly call seaweed techno, flexible and buoyant, shaped by tiny currents rather than grand gestures. Axymt sidesteps the temptation of drama and focuses on micro-movements inside the percussion, letting small mutations carry the narrative. The mix can open a room gently or guide you through a late-night drift. Whether you catch it in passing or sink fully into its grain, the reward is the same: a gentle nudge that the right groove finds you, not the other way around. https://soundcloud.com/axymt https://www.instagram.com/axymt_/ https://soundcloud.com/atmos_sphaira https://soundcloud.com/monochromeasso Write up by @gilleswasserman Follow us on social media: https://soundcloud.com/itsdelayed https://linktr.ee/delayed https://www.delayed.nyc https://www.facebook.com/itsdelayed https://www.instagram.com/_____delayed https://www.youtube.com/@_____delayed Contact us: info@delayed.nyc

Adam celebrates his 36th birthday for the third time, with a rotating cast of friends. SOUNDTRACK:Crime Mob "Ain't No Joke" Circle of Ouroboros "Malaainnen..." Thee Headcoats "All my Feelings Denied" Guru Guru "Der-LSD Marsch" The Dream Syndicate "Boston"

In 1656, Croatian stonemason Jure Grando was buried alive after defying powerful monks, only to rise from his grave and terrorize his village for sixteen years—knocking on doors that meant death would soon follow, violating his widow night after night, and when villagers finally opened his coffin in 1672, they found him grinning with tears streaming down his face, immune to wooden stakes, screaming as they sawed through his neck in what became Europe's first documented case of vampirism.Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPEIN THIS EPISODE: Before Dracula ever set foot in Transylvania, the village of Kringa, Croatia, was haunted by Jure Grando—the first recorded vampire in European history. For sixteen years, his undead reign brought terror to the living and torment to his widow. But when the villagers finally rose against him, they unearthed a horror beyond imagination. (Jure Grando: The First Vampire) *** For nearly a millennium, a monstrous black dog with eyes like burning coals has stalked the foggy coastlines and ancient churches of East Anglia, leaving death and terror in its silent wake. From its first recorded appearance in 1127 where it led a spectral hunting party through Peterborough, to its most infamous attack in 1577 when it allegedly killed four churchgoers, the creature known as Black Shuck has become far more than just another ghost story. Through centuries of sightings and evolving folklore, this massive demon hound has transformed from a Viking guardian spirit into one of Britain's most enduring legends - one that some locals insist still prowls the shadows of Norfolk and Suffolk to this day. (Black Shuck: East Anglia's Demon Hound) *** In 1857 London, the Bacon family's home became the center of supernatural chaos when mysterious sounds and flying objects drew crowds of over a thousand spectators to their modest Bermondsey residence. But when thirteen-year-old Caroline confessed to creating the ghostly disturbances using strands of hair to topple objects, her deception was revealed as an act of rebellion against her father and new stepmother. This tale of a fake haunting offers a poignant glimpse into Victorian family dynamics and the desperate measures one girl took to assert her independence. (The Bermondsey Poltergeist) *** In October 1975, what began as a late-night drive for two young men in rural Maine turned into an encounter that would haunt them forever. David Stephens had no memory of being taken aboard a massive UFO by mushroom-headed beings until months later, when hypnosis sessions revealed the terrifying truth about the hours he lost that night – an experience so profound that it would drive his friend Glen to flee the state and change both their lives forever. (Night of the Mushroom Men) *** Could the Moon's perfect positioning—exactly 400 times smaller than the Sun and precisely placed for total eclipses—be more than cosmic coincidence? Authors Christopher Knight and Alan Butler propose a mind-bending theory: that future humans (or their advanced robots) traveled back in time 4.6 billion years to construct the Moon, creating the exact conditions needed for life on Earth to emerge. Their provocative hypothesis suggests we might be caught in an infinite loop, with humanity traveling to the past to ensure its own creation, much like the ancient symbol of Ouroboros—a snake eternally consuming its own tail. (Did Time Travelers Build The Moon?)CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Lead-In00:01:30.774 = Show Intro00:05:48.071 = Jure Grando: The First Vampire00:16:50.110 = ***The Bermondsey Poltergeist00:29:33.917 = Black Shuck: East Anglia's Demon Hound00:45:53.712 = ***Night of the Mushroom Men00:52:53.165 = Did Time Travelers Build The Moon?01:03:18.763 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakSOURCES and RESOURCES:“Jure Grando: The First Vampire” sources: Husain Sumra, Medium: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ykfdupbh; Wu Mingren, Ancient Origins: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8n3k68; Secret Dalmatia: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y69r8e4k; Total Croatia News: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckt77m2“Black Shuck: East Anglia's Demon Hound” sources: William De Long, All That's Interesting:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/cyts9syd; Max Darbyshire, The Shoe Box: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mryw3kr9“The Bermondsey Poltergeist” source: Karen Ellis-Rees, London Overlooked: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3bzvsu52“Did Time Travelers Build The Moon” sources: Marcus Lowth, UFO Insight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p9686wm, Donald B. DeYoung, Institute for Creation Research: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p98w7et“Night of the Mushroom Men” source: TheNightSkyii.org: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ymnmpadc=====(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)= = = = ="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46= = = = =WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.=====Originally aired: November 18, 2024EPISODE PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/JureGrandoABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold case murders, conspiracy theories, and more. On Thursdays, this scary stories podcast features horror fiction along with the occasional creepypasta. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “Best 20 Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a cross between “Coast to Coast” with Art Bell, “The Twilight Zone” with Rod Serling, “Unsolved Mysteries” with Robert Stack, and “In Search Of” with Leonard Nimoy.DISCLAIMER: Ads heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by Weird Darkness or myself. *** Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised.#WeirdDarkness #JureGrando #FirstVampire #RealVampireStories #CroatianVampire #VampireFolklore #HistoricalVampires #BeforeDracula #TrueParanormalStories #DarkHistory

¿Tu Watchtower te ha dejado alguna vez un servicio crítico caído? Es hora de automatizar la seguridad de tus contenedores Docker, ¡pero con control total y una Interfaz Gráfica (Web UI)! Tugtainer es la alternativa que estabas buscando para decirle adiós a las vulnerabilidades y a los "desastres del sábado". Si gestionas tu propio stack en Linux, esta herramienta self-hosted te va a cambiar la vida. Escucha y descubre cómo tener contenedores siempre al día, pero con seguridad.Hay dos cosas que obsesionan a cualquier administrador de sistemas que utiliza Docker en entornos self-hosted: las copias de seguridad de las bases de datos y la actualización constante de las imágenes para evitar vulnerabilidades. Aunque la actualización automática es fundamental como acción preventiva, si se hace de forma completamente desatendida, puede causar más de un trastorno.Durante años, he usado Watchtower para la mayoría de mis servicios. Sin embargo, esta herramienta, aunque se integra perfectamente con Docker y las etiquetas, tiene dos grandes problemas: carece de una interfaz gráfica para ver qué está ocurriendo y lleva tiempo sin recibir actualizaciones.El Dilema del Control:Los servicios críticos, como las páginas web que administro (con stacks de WordPress, MariaDB y Nginx), no pueden permitirse caídas. Por eso, dejé la política de actualizaciones diarias y la cambié por una revisión semanal (los sábados). Hoy, vamos a resolver este dilema: ¿Cómo conseguimos la automatización de la seguridad sin sacrificar la estabilidad?Llega Tugtainer: El Control Gráfico que NecesitabasEn este episodio, te presento una herramienta nueva y prometedora (¡con solo un mes de vida!) que se posiciona como una alternativa a Watchtower y Ouroboros. Se trata de Tugtainer, la solución que añade una Web UI completa a la gestión de actualizaciones de Docker.Lo que Aprenderás en el Episodio:Por qué mi stack web (con dependencias service_healthy) sigue dándome problemas al actualizar, y la lección aprendida.Las advertencias cruciales del desarrollador de Tugtainer: por qué no se recomienda para entornos de producción (¡al menos por ahora!).Análisis a fondo de las siete características de Tugtainer que te dan control total:Configuración por Contenedor: Decidir si un servicio CRÍTICO (como Traefik) solo se verifica o si se auto-actualiza.Programación Crontab: Control total sobre cuándo se lanzan las comprobaciones.Autenticación y Notificaciones: Seguridad y visibilidad al instante.Limpieza de imágenes: Adiós a las imágenes obsoletas que ocupan espacio.Mi propia implementación de Tugtainer con Docker Compose, Traefik y Dockge (¡una herramienta que deberías conocer!).Si utilizas Linux, Docker y buscas maximizar tu productividad y seguridad en tu VPS o Raspberry Pi, este episodio es una guía esencial para pasar de la automatización ciega a la automatización inteligente.¡Dale al play y descubre si Tugtainer se queda o no en mi propio stack de atareao!Soy Lorenzo Carbonell, "atareao". En este podcast me centro en el software libre y Linux. Mi estilo es práctico y te traigo soluciones, métodos y tutoriales para mejorar la productividad, gestionar datos y optimizar sistemas Linux. Si te interesa Docker, Neovim, Rust, Syncthing o configurar servicios en plataformas como Raspberry Pi o VPS, ¡suscríbete!Más información y enlaces en las notas del episodio

In this episode, Julia explores the hidden power of sacred symbols as living teachers — energetic gateways that activate remembrance, illuminate the path of ascension, and connect you to the deepest layers of your own consciousness.Through subtle transmissions and esoteric insight, you'll begin to sense how these glyphs and patterns are not just carved in stone but alive in the field, guiding you into your own initiatory remembering.

This video explores the fascinating figure of Paimon, one of the most prominent kings of the Goetia, tracing his journey from early modern demonological catalogues to his reinvention in contemporary occultism and popular culture. We will examine how his image shifts across grimoires, from Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum to the Ars Goetia, and how his regal yet ambiguous traits became symbols of hidden wisdom, exotic authority, and intellectual mastery. The talk also considers Aleister Crowley's psychological reinterpretation, the adaptations within Left-Hand Path traditions, and the transformation of Paimon into a mentor-like figure in modern demonolatry. Finally, we look at his unexpected entry into mainstream media through Ari Aster's Hereditary and his reimagining in gaming and internet culture. Paimon's enduring appeal lies not in stability but in continual reinvention, making him a key case study in the dynamics of Western esotericism.CONNECT & SUPPORT

Nvidia is investing $100B in OpenAI, and there are a billion angles to that fact, so get ready to dive into it. Why were there giant sim farms popping up around NYC? The new AI to help you with Candy Crush, I guess. And new buzzword alert: say hello to “workslop.” Nvidia is partnering up with OpenAI to offer compute and cash (The Verge) Altman, Huang and the last-minute negotiations that sealed the $100 billion OpenAI-Nvidia deal (CNBC) Secret Service Thwarts Plot to Take Out Cell Service Near UN (Bloomberg) Play Games Sidekick is Gemini Live for Android games (9to5Google) AI Generated "Workslop" Is Destroying Productivity (Harvard Business Review) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In which our little congregation situation comes to a head, our unlikely heroes plan the attack on HOME and an old friend visits Coopers Cabin. Will they make it out of the church without Police assistance, Will Ray uttely fuck up their entire plight and just who is it that comes to the cabin? Find out on this episode of THE EDGE OF MADNESS!!!!!!!!   - Broadcast Advisory - Ladies and gentlemen Please Be Advised, this broadcast contains mature and potentially distressing material. Listener discretion is strongly advised (or else). The following content may include: Illicit Language not safe for the children at home Descriptions of Hallucinations, without the assistance of substances Violence, Torture and Loud Vehicle Noises We encourage those who may find such themes unsettling to proceed with caution. This program is intended for a mature and discerning audience.   For questions or concerns please email us at contactalteredmedia@gmail.com   Follow us on Instagram @edgeofmadnesspod Spotify @edgeofmadnesspod Apple Podcasts @edgeofmadnesspod Twitch @edgeofmadnesspod Youtube @lastnameOak Reddit r/edgeofmadnesspod   Edge of Madness Pod © 2024 by Brendan Borowski is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

A washed-up forty-something drowning in 90s nostalgia and Jennifer Love Hewitt posters makes a desperate deal with a demon to return to his glory days, but learns too late that supernatural contracts require very careful wording.Join the DARKNESS SYNDICATE for the ad-free version: https://weirddarkness.com/syndicateTake the WEIRD DARKNESS LISTENER SURVEY and help mold the future of the podcast: https://weirddarkness.com/surveyIN THIS EPISODE: It's #ThrillerThursday and I'm sharing two stories with you this week. First up, what could possibly be creepy about an old set of eyeglasses? We'll find out in the story “Ochelari”. Then, a great story from ‘Weirdling Woods' author Jon Allen entitled, “Jennifer Love Hewitt Made Me Do It.”CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00.00.000 = Show Open00:01:07.167 = Ochelari00:12:48.092 = Jennifer Love Hewitt Made Me Do It01:19:59.043 = Show CloseSOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…“Ochelari” by Ouroboros: https://www.creepypasta.com/ochelari/“Jennifer Love Hewitt Made Me Do It” by Jon Allen: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.allen.357622=====(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)= = = = ="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46= = = = =WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.=====Originally aired: January 2021EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/JenniferLoveHewittABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold case murders, conspiracy theories, and more. On Thursdays, this scary stories podcast features horror fiction along with the occasional creepypasta. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “Best 20 Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a cross between “Coast to Coast” with Art Bell, “The Twilight Zone” with Rod Serling, “Unsolved Mysteries” with Robert Stack, and “In Search Of” with Leonard Nimoy.DISCLAIMER: Ads heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by Weird Darkness or myself. *** Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised.#NostalgiaHorror #DealWithTheDevil #90sNostalgia #HorrorStory #CreepyPasta

In this episode, David and Gene journey into the heart of one of Gnosticism's most profound and transformative myths - the second descent of the Trimorphic Protennoia. This stage represents the "pregnancy" phase in the evolution of consciousness, following the implantation of the seed idea of Unity, during the first descent.What follows is a psychic apocalypse, an inner "Dark Night of the Soul" where the very foundations of the ego-built world begin to crumble. The established parts of the mind, the Archons, are gripped by a terrifying premonition of their own dissolution. The text vividly portrays this as the birth pangs of a New Aeon, where the death of the old self gives way to the birth of the True Self, an identity conscious of its divine origins.The Protennoia, having planted the seed as Father, now reveals herself as the Mother - the womb in which this new consciousness gestates. She is the androgynous and self-contained, as symbolized by the Ouroboros. She is the Voice that emerges from the silent Thought. As a prophetess and teacher, she foretells the end of the age of ignorance ruled by the Demiurge.Hearing her "exalted Speech," the terrified Archons confront their creator, the "false god" who has claimed to be the sole deity. In this dramatic confrontation, the man behind the curtain is exposed, and the entire authority structure of the ego collapses. The Archons, realizing their "tree of life" is actually a "tree of death," are forced to question their very existence and all the choices they have made while under the spell of separation.From this chaos, a new hope dawns. Acting as a "Mother of Mercy," the Protennoia speaks directly to the "Sons of the Thought" - those parts of the mind ready to receive her hidden mysteries. She invites them into the "Aeon of Barbelo," a new and eternal state of being.This is a spiritual initiation, a promise of being glorified, enthroned, and baptized in a perfect, exalted Light. The episode unpacks this mystical initiation, explaining that it is not an external ceremony but an internal transformation, an organic process that unfolds from within. This journey leads consciousness back to its source, culminating in the Protennoia taking her seat on a branch of the true Tree of Life, having weathered the apocalypse to establish a new, unshakable center within the self.Deep Dive:The Trimorphic Protennoia - Three Forms of First ThoughtChapters:01:15 Introduction01:56 Review06:25 The Second Descent09:40 Voice From Thought14:00 The Changeless Aeon17:03 Shaking the Foundations of Chaos20:51 False God Revealed23:11 The End is Near26:25 Aeon of Barbelo29:42 Invitation to Initiation33:13 Voice of the Holy Spirit36:05 ConclusionsResources:Trimorphic Protennoia - John D. TurnerThree Forms of First Thought - Willis BarnstoneGnosis.org - The Gnosis Archive6The Nag Hammadi ScripturesShekinah (Wikipedia)Creative Evolution by Henri BergsonThe Red Book: A Reader's Edition by Carl JungJesus and the Lost Goddess by Freke and Gandy

In Episode 33 of The Narrative, Burning Bright and Zak "RedPill78" Paine dissect the establishment's media scramble as narratives around Trump, Clinton, and the FBI continue to unravel. They break down recent stories, including Clinton's unexamined thumb drives, executive privilege claims, and shifting Russiagate timelines, showing how the media is attempting to reframe the narrative under pressure. The hosts also spotlight growing public awareness around state-sponsored deception and the psychological impact of these revelations. From “burn bags” and tech PR pieces to the regime's desperation to paint Trump as dangerous, Burning Bright and Zak expose how the information war is evolving, and how legacy systems are breaking down in real time.

Surprise! In today's bonus episode, Alex Sujong Laughlin and Patrick Redford join Rachelle for some delectable morsels of gossip and not one but TWO big announcements! Try Hard premieres July 28th! Subscribe here or wherever you get your podcasts. Look out for Only If You Get Caught this fall! Get your tickets for the Normal Gossip Live tour here!Subscribe to our newsletter for writing from Rachelle, Se'era, Jae, Alex, and Kelsey, plus blog recommendations and secrets!You can support Normal Gossip directly by buying merch or becoming a Friend or a Friend-of-Friend at supportnormalgossip.com.Our merch shop is run by Dan McQuade. You can also find all kinds of info about us and how to submit gossip on our Komi page: https://normalgossip.komi.io/Episode transcript here.Follow the show on Instagram @normalgossip, and if you have gossip, email us at normalgossip@defector.com or leave us a voicemail at 26-79-GOSSIP.Normal Gossip is hosted by Rachelle Hampton (@heyydnae) and produced by Se'era Spragley Ricks (@seera_sharae) and Jae Towle Vieira (@jaetowlevieira). Alex Sujong Laughlin (@alexlaughs) is our Supervising Producer. Justin Ellis is Defector's projects editor. Show art by Tara Jacoby.Normal Gossip is a proud member of Radiotopia. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Sacred Timeline is no longer sacred. In the Season 2 premiere of Loki, “Ouroboros,” we watch the God of Mischief violently time-slip across a TVA unraveling at the seams. Eric breaks down the emotional core of Loki's journey, Tom Hiddleston's powerful delivery, and the cinematic VFX that elevate this premiere to something special. Plus: our first impressions of OB, a standout addition to the cast, and a question that still lingers—what do regular TVA citizens actually do? If this is your first time watching, or your fifth time through the loop, you're not alone. This is Marvel Maniac, and the multiverse just got messier.

Today's episode is “Ouroboros” and we'll be discussing some episodes in science fiction with time loops. Think Groundhog DayStar TrekTNG: Cause and Effect S5 E18Voyager: Coda S3 E15Discovery: Magic to make the sanest man go mad S1 E7X-FilesMonday S6 E14Doctor WhoHeaven Sent S9 E11StargateWindow of Opportunity S4 E6MarvelWhat If... Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands? S1 E4FringeWhite Tulip S2 E18

What if the very thing you think is helping you heal is actually keeping you stuck?In this episode, we're diving deep into why the "root cause" paradigm has gone too far - and how it's creating the very stress response you're trying to heal from.I'm sharing the difference between two energies: the Ouroboros (chasing your tail, consuming your own healing energy) and Magnetism (aligning with your body's natural intelligence).You'll discover: • Why hunting for THE root cause keeps you in fight-or-flight • How to shift from chasing solutions to creating conditions for healing • The interference problem that's drowning out your body's signals • Why co-regulation with people and environment matters so much • The difference between correction and integration models • How the built environment disrupts your body's natural magnetismThis isn't about adding more protocols to your life. It's about trusting your body's wisdom over the noise around you.If you're tired of being the Ouroboros and ready to reclaim your body's natural blueprint for health, this episode is for you. Mineral Foundations Course HERE Learn more about how you can I can work together HERE Join my newsletter HERE If you are interested in becoming a client and have questions, reach out by emailing me: connect@lydiajoy.me Find me on Instagram : @ Lydiajoy.me OR @ holisticmineralbalancing

When it's time for the ultimate episode of Prodigy, Wesley is shitting bricks and the Loom is attacking Solum. But after the cadets make it through the wormhole and close the time loop, they're called back into action to defy Admiral Jellicoe one more time. What's the contingency plan for a whale on the fritz? Is there an unspoken requirement of being a Starfleet captain? Who‘s the best Academy roommate? It's the episode with a missing checklist.Support the production of Greatest TrekGet a thing at podshop.biz!Sign up for our mailing list!Greatest Trek is produced by Wynde PriddySocial media is managed by Rob Adler and Bill TilleyMusic by Adam RaguseaFriends of DeSoto for: Labor | Democracy | JusticeDiscuss the show using the hashtag #GreatestTrek and find us on social media:YouTube | Facebook | X | Instagram | TikTok | Mastodon | Bluesky | ThreadsAnd check out these online communities run by FODs: Reddit | USS Hood Discord | Facebook group | Wikia | FriendsOfDeSoto.social

When the cadets split up to counter Asencia's attack, the mathletes figure out how to make a pretty new wormhole while Dal gets the clock tower rigged for a lightning strike. But after Gwyn faces Asencia to reclaim her heirloom, the Loom shows up to block to the hole back to Tars Lamora. Can a single word can set a boundary? Which ancient symbol is both misunderstood and inspiring? What's the whole point of Prodigy season2? It's the episode that uncovers a commercial fishing allegory.Support the production of Greatest TrekGet a thing at podshop.biz!Sign up for our mailing list!Greatest Trek is produced by Wynde PriddySocial media is managed by Rob Adler and Bill TilleyMusic by Adam RaguseaFriends of DeSoto for: Labor | Democracy | JusticeDiscuss the show using the hashtag #GreatestTrek and find us on social media:YouTube | Facebook | X | Instagram | TikTok | Mastodon | Bluesky | ThreadsAnd check out these online communities run by FODs: Reddit | USS Hood Discord | Facebook group | Wikia | FriendsOfDeSoto.social

Ashe in America and Abbey Blue Eyes return for Episode 104 of Culture of Change with a fiery takedown of the World Economic Forum's upcoming “Summer Davos” conference in China. From smart fabrics to AI surveillance and the corporatist cult of “New Champions,” the hosts break down how the globalist agenda masquerades as innovation while inching toward full-spectrum control. They explore the spiritual emptiness at the core of this technocratic loop, referencing ancient symbolism like the Ouroboros and drawing parallels to prophecy and end-times narratives. The episode weaves together philosophical, political, and spiritual themes, juxtaposing Trump's sovereign vision for national rebirth against the WEF's centralized, data-driven dystopia. Along the way, they discuss the propaganda in modern entertainment, the erosion of values through normalized media messaging, and the critical importance of personal sovereignty and non-compliance. With clips from Trump's Middle East speech and a powerful close from Shipwreck on quiet rebellion, this episode is a rally cry for those waking up to the psychological and spiritual battle playing out on a global stage.

Episode 376 – Thomas Erak of The Fall of Troy joins the show for a long-overdue chat, six years in the making! We dive into his insanely musical upbringing, his new solo record "(AU)" where he played every instrument as Thomas Erak & The Ouroboros, and how things have evolved for him as a songwriter, musician and person over the years. The Fall of Troy are on the road now celebrating Doppelganger's 20th anniversary—don't miss it! 'Follow @leadsingersyndrome @tommy_dip & @thefalloftroy Shampoo sucks! It dries out and strips your hair of essential oils. I quit Shampoo and I now use products from Modern Mammals instead! You should too. Get 10% off at modernmammals.com/pages/lss when you use code LSS! How are those New Years Resolutions coming? FACTOR can help! With delicious and nutritious meals sent directly to your door and ready in just 2 mins, you'll be reaching your goals in no time. Get an amazing deal right now Visit FACTOR MEALS dot com slash lss50 and use code lss50 to get 50% off. NEED SOME GREAT NEW MUSIC!? Open Your Ears has you once again with the new split release from House & Home and Suntitle ! If you're a fan of 2000's Emo and 90's Punk Rock, you're going to love this. Head over to OYErecs.com for more info! It's out now wherever you stream your music! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today Dmitri talks with Cherie Hu, music industry analyst and founder of Water and Music. We start by discussing the Ouroboros project which maps the complicated and intertwined stakes in the music industry held by various entities, including private equity firms, media conglomerates, and tech companies like Tencent. We also talk about shifting power dynamics between the majors and the independents, the impact of AI – particularly generative AI, and trends in rights management and live music.    Shoutouts Water and Music Ouroboros Map Water and Music Soundcloud Reverb Sold By Etsy to Fender Parent and Firm Led By SoundCloud Alum A24 Makes Its Move Into the Music Scene 'You Are Somehow a Villain If You Use It' JPMorgan CEO Says Something Everyone Can Agree On: "Kill Meetings" and Corporate Jargon   The Music Tectonics podcast goes beneath the surface of the music industry to explore how technology is changing the way business gets done. Visit musictectonics.com to find shownotes and a transcript for this episode, and find us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. Let us know what you think!    Get Dmitri's Rock Paper Scanner newsletter.  

In this episode we look at the 18th saying of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas. “The disciples said to Jesus, ‘Tell us how our end will be.' Jesus said, ‘Have you discovered the beginning, that you look for the end? For where the beginning is, there will the end be. Blessed is he who will take his place in the beginning; he will know the end and will not experience death.'" View Marshall's books here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Marshall-Davis/author/B001K8Y0RU

Lindy Lee's Ouroboros is the most expensive single artwork commission in Australian history. A $14 million, three-tonne, 10-metre wide freestanding shell of mirror-polished stainless steel with 48,000 individually cut plasma-cut perforations: Lindy calls the Ouroboros “her”. Mia Hull talks to artist Lindy Lee, NGA Director Nick Mitzevich, foundry director Eve Willems, haulage “megatrucker” Jon Kelly and legendary pilot driver Nick.

BestPodcastintheMetaverse.com Canary Cry News Talk #805 - 01.08.2024 - Recorded Live to 1s and 0s THRONE IN THE FIRE | Trumpocracy, 5GW on American Psyche, Flippy Ouroboros, Ice Magma Deconstructing Corporate Mainstream Media News from a Biblical Worldview Declaring Jesus as Lord amidst the Fifth Generation War! AOD4: https://x.com/FaceLikeTheSun/status/1839045851488071927 TJT Youtube (backup) Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheJoyspiracyTheory The Show Operates on the Value 4 Value Model: http://CanaryCry.Support Join the Supply Drop: https://CanaryCrySupplyDrop.com Submit Articles: https://CanaryCry.Report Submit Art: https://CanaryCry.Art Join the T-Shirt Council: https://CanaryCryTShirtCouncil.com Podcasting 2.0: https://PodcastIndex.org Resource: Index of MSM Ownership (Harvard.edu) Resource: Aliens Demons Doc (feat. Dr. Heiser, Unseen Realm) Resource: False Christ: Will the Antichrist Claim to be the Jewish Messiah Tree of Links: https://CanaryCry.Party   Join the Canary Cry Roundtable   This Episode was Produced By:   Executive Producers Sir Marti K Knight of the Wrong Timeline*** Sir LX Protocol Barron of the Berrean Protocol*** Felicia D***   Producers of TREASURE (CanaryCry.Support) Stephen J, Elle O   Producers of TALENT JonathanF   Producers of TIME Timestampers: Jade Bouncerson, Morgan E Clippy Team: Courtney S, JOLMS, Kristen Reminders: Clankoniphius Links: JAM   SHOW NOTES/TIMESTAMPS T - 6:35 from rumble HELLO WORLD EFNO RUN DOWN EXECS   FIRE 31:09 V / 24:34 P → California wildfires live updates: At least 2 dead; thousands evacuated as strong winds fuel at least 3 blazes in L.A. area (NBC)   Clip: Mark Hamill details ‘last-minute' evacuation from Malibu home affected by wildfire: ‘Horrific' (NY Post)   TRUMP/BIBLICAL 43:57 V / 37:22 P Trump Bible gets new ‘Inauguration Day Edition' just in time for Jan. 6 (Salt Lake Tribune) → Trump Bible gets special editions, and you're invited to pay to pray (Baptist News Global) Danish king changes coat of arms amid row with Trump over Greenland (Guardian) → Could Trump Really Rename the Gulf of Mexico? (Time)   ZUCKERBERG 1:12:05 V / 1:05:30 P Zuckerberg's MAGA turn insulates Meta for a while. But the business has bigger problems (CNN) Fact Checker Emergency Meeting (BI)   WW3/ELON/CHINA 1:30:36 V / 1:24:01 P Steve Bannon Issues New Elon Musk Warning: 'Masters in Beijing' (Newsweek) → Post: Elon shows his pro-Israel politics, by being Anti-Soros (X)   PRODUCERS/TALENT   FLIPPY UPDATE  Chinese robot vacuum cleaner company reveals model with an AI-powered arm (CNBC) → Roborock's Roomba competitor gets a robot arm (Tech Crunch) → CES 2025: The Coolest Things We've Seen So Far (Yahoo/PC Mag)   ANTARCTICA Antarctica's melting ice may awaken hidden volcanoes, study warns (Indy UK(   PRODUCERS/TALENT 1:52:07 V / 1:45:32 P TIME/END 2:38:24 V / 2:31:49 P

Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/43hyh3sjInfo on the next LIVE SCREAM event: https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScreamIN THIS EPISODE: Before Dracula ever set foot in Transylvania, the village of Kringa, Croatia, was haunted by Jure Grando—the first recorded vampire in European history. For sixteen years, his undead reign brought terror to the living and torment to his widow. But when the villagers finally rose against him, they unearthed a horror beyond imagination. (Jure Grando: The First Vampire) *** For nearly a millennium, a monstrous black dog with eyes like burning coals has stalked the foggy coastlines and ancient churches of East Anglia, leaving death and terror in its silent wake. From its first recorded appearance in 1127 where it led a spectral hunting party through Peterborough, to its most infamous attack in 1577 when it allegedly killed four churchgoers, the creature known as Black Shuck has become far more than just another ghost story. Through centuries of sightings and evolving folklore, this massive demon hound has transformed from a Viking guardian spirit into one of Britain's most enduring legends - one that some locals insist still prowls the shadows of Norfolk and Suffolk to this day. (Black Shuck: East Anglia's Demon Hound) *** In 1857 London, the Bacon family's home became the center of supernatural chaos when mysterious sounds and flying objects drew crowds of over a thousand spectators to their modest Bermondsey residence. But when thirteen-year-old Caroline confessed to creating the ghostly disturbances using strands of hair to topple objects, her deception was revealed as an act of rebellion against her father and new stepmother. This tale of a fake haunting offers a poignant glimpse into Victorian family dynamics and the desperate measures one girl took to assert her independence. (The Bermondsey Poltergeist) *** In October 1975, what began as a late-night drive for two young men in rural Maine turned into an encounter that would haunt them forever. David Stephens had no memory of being taken aboard a massive UFO by mushroom-headed beings until months later, when hypnosis sessions revealed the terrifying truth about the hours he lost that night – an experience so profound that it would drive his friend Glen to flee the state and change both their lives forever. (Night of the Mushroom Men) *** Could the Moon's perfect positioning—exactly 400 times smaller than the Sun and precisely placed for total eclipses—be more than cosmic coincidence? Authors Christopher Knight and Alan Butler propose a mind-bending theory: that future humans (or their advanced robots) traveled back in time 4.6 billion years to construct the Moon, creating the exact conditions needed for life on Earth to emerge. Their provocative hypothesis suggests we might be caught in an infinite loop, with humanity traveling to the past to ensure its own creation, much like the ancient symbol of Ouroboros—a snake eternally consuming its own tail. (Did Time Travelers Build The Moon?)CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Disclaimer and Cold Open00:01:49.028 = Show Intro00:06:35.732 = Jure Grando: The First Vampire00:18:11.898 = The Bermondsey Poltergeist00:30:52.752 = Black Shuck: East Anglia's Demon Hound00:47:10.730 = Night of the Mushroom Men00:54:07.290 = Did Time Travelers Build The Moon?01:04:33.487 = Show CloseSOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…“Jure Grando: The First Vampire” sources: Husain Sumra, Medium: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ykfdupbh; Wu Mingren, Ancient Origins: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8n3k68; Secret Dalmatia: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/y69r8e4k; Total Croatia News: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckt77m2“Black Shuck: East Anglia's Demon Hound” sources: William De Long, All That's Interesting:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/cyts9syd; Max Darbyshire, The Shoe Box: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mryw3kr9“The Bermondsey Poltergeist” source: Karen Ellis-Rees, London Overlooked: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3bzvsu52“Did Time Travelers Build The Moon” sources: Marcus Lowth, UFO Insight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p9686wm, Donald B. DeYoung, Institute for Creation Research: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p98w7et“Night of the Mushroom Men” source: TheNightSkyii.org: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ymnmpadcWeird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library. = = = = =(Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)= = = = ="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46= = = = =WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2024, Weird Darkness.= = = = =Originally aired: November 18, 2024CUSTOM LANDING PAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/JureGrando