New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Apr 29, 2026 James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish Barrister who has lectured on legal matters throughout the world. He is a poet, a visual artist, and author of The Mystery of the Trapped Light: Mystical Thoughts in the Dark Age of Scientism plus The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution. His website is http://www.jamestunney.com. In this reboot from 2020, James acknowledges that he is approaching this topic as a mystic and a scholar, but not as a practitioner of ceremonial magic. He reviews various historical cases of conjuring, particularly that of John Dee, the court astrologer to Elizabeth I. He points out that laws against conjuring were established by Elizabeth’s father, Henry VIII. He describes various dangers associated with conjuring, including possession. Tunney contrasts the magical practice of conjuring with the mystical journey that necessitates letting go of egotistical attachments. (Recorded on October 10, 2020)
Magical Conjuring with James Tunney
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NOVA PBS Official Premiered 19 hours ago Archaeologists investigate the dramatic origins of democracy in ancient Greece 2,500 years ago. Official website: https://to.pbs.org/4bJRb7c | #novapbs The United States has experimented with democracy for 250 years, but our system of government was once a radical idea, born in ancient Greece. Ravaged by civil war and tyranny 2,500 years ago, the city of Athens forged a revolutionary new system that gave power to the citizens. Witness the archaeological quest to unearth the ingenious tools and pivotal moments that shaped this unprecedented experiment in self-government. From mysterious fragments of ancient voting machines to mass graves and dramatic assassinations, discover the dark secrets and innovative solutions that defined the world’s first direct democracy. What enduring lessons can this surprising historical journey offer us today? ???? Help us bring the universe closer to home. Your donation ensures that NOVA’s deep-space discoveries and quantum physics explorations remain free and inspiring for the next generation of scientists. Support fact-based storytelling today. https://bit.ly/48UnsrD Chapters 00:00 Introduction 04:28 A Mysterious Ancient Burial Ground 10:29 The First Experiments of Democracy 28:34 Early Voting Systems in Ancient Greece 38:04 Inequality and Slavery in Greek Society 43:04 Replicating the Ancient Greek Lottery 49:57 Restoring Democracy After Civil War © 2026 WGBH Educational Foundation All rights reserved This program was produced by GBH, which is solely responsible for its content.
Rise of the Machines: Humanity’s Crossroads
By Ethan Nash
From New Dawn 210 (May-June 2025)
In an attempt to give themselves godlike abilities, the technocratic elitist class is pushing society towards a transhumanist future powered by their own ‘intelligent design’.
Through gene editing, synthetic biology, and the fusion of humans and technology, governments and corporations aim to fundamentally change what it means to be human.
At its core, this anti-human agenda aims to completely reshape the image of our species into a new one, ready to be exploited and controlled.
Deus Ex Machina
Artificial intelligence has reached new frontiers in recent years. Today, collectively, we are staring down perhaps the most pivotal period of our entire existence. Each day, this transformation is at the forefront of many societies across the world.
In early 2025, US President Donald Trump announced an unprecedented $500 billion investment in infrastructure tied to artificial intelligence in partnership with leading companies in the field, such as OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank.1
According to the White House, the new entity “Stargate” will start building data centres and the electricity generation needed to develop fast-evolving AI.
“It’s big money and high-quality people,” said Trump, adding that the investment is “a resounding declaration of confidence in America’s potential” under his new administration.
This declaration of a half-a-trillion-dollar investment shows just how serious artificial intelligence is becoming and how the Fourth Industrial Revolution has truly begun.
“This will be the most important project of this era,” said Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI.
Indeed, artificial intelligence is a game-changer.
The technology is already upstaging humans. One example occurred in March 2023 when the Sony World Photography Awards announced the winner in their creative photo category: a black-and-white image of an older woman embracing a younger one, entitled “PSEUDOMNESIA: The Electrician.”
The press release announcing the win describes the photograph as “haunting” and “reminiscent of the visual language of 1940s family portraits.”2
The artist, Boris Eldagsen, who is based in Berlin, turned down the award. He announced that his photograph was not a photograph at all. Instead, he had crafted it through the creative prompting of DALL-E 2, an artificial intelligence image generator.
“I applied as a cheeky monkey to find out if the competitions are prepared for AI images to enter. They are not,” explained Eldagsen on his website.3
His stunt sparked controversy and conversation about whether AI-generated or assisted images should be considered ‘art’. But the bigger picture is being missed: Would anyone have even been able to tell if he had not turned down the award?
This is the power of the software alone, generating fakes disguised as real and outpacing humans at their own games. However, beyond that, the products powered by this software, including the rise of humanoid robots, are where things start to get crazier.
Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, announced that the carmaker will start selling its Optimus humanoid robot in the near future. Optimus has already begun performing tasks autonomously, such as handling batteries at one of Tesla’s facilities.4
“Tesla will have genuinely useful humanoid robots in low production for Tesla internal use next year and, hopefully, high production in 2026,” Musk posted on X.
Musk predicted that Optimus would be capable of performing a wide range of tasks inside and outside the home, estimating that the robot would be available for purchase at approximately AU$48,000.
Tesla is not the first company to begin working on such humanoids – nor, according to available evidence, is it the furthest along.
Take, for example, Ai-Da the Robot – named after Ada Lovelace, the English mathematician and world’s first computer programmer – who recently became the first humanoid “robotic artist” to have “their” artwork sold by a major auction house.5
On 7 November 2024, the AI-powered robot’s painting of the mathematician Alan Turing (an early pioneer of the technology) sold for AU$1,344,272.
The humanoid regularly creates self-portraits by “observing” itself in the mirror, using sophisticated sensors and cameras to guide the attached robotic arm and brush.
Sotheby’s auction house announced that Ai-Da was “the first humanoid robot artist to have an artwork sold at auction.”
Yes, from photography to painting, artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly proficient not only at repetitive labour tasks but also at intellectual endeavours.
And we’re only at the very beginning of the humanoid robot story.
With the world’s information readily available at its electronic fingertips and powered by advanced software and human-like robotic hardware, humanoid agents will soon emerge as ‘advisors’ for everyone. This story is already unfolding across the globe, including here in Australia.
The ‘Agent’ Revolution
Robotic personal assistants have been promoted through science fiction for decades, painting a blissful future where humans are surrounded by friendly machines that improve every aspect of our lives. Today, fiction becomes reality – but is it as nice?
In 2025, many individuals and businesses routinely use AI assistants, such as ChatGPT, to carry out various tasks. With each new year, AI ‘learns’ more and more, and the next step in this evolution will come in the form of “AI agents.”
From AI-run classrooms and hospitals to machine learning technologies in workplaces, almost all industries are predicted to incorporate sophisticated ‘agents’ in the future.
Some experts describe this push as an “obsolescence regime,” believing the transformation is inevitable since the ‘cat is out of the bag’.
Don’t believe me? In an Australian-first, the Real Estate Institute of NSW (REINSW) has appointed “Alice Ing” – an AI bot – as an official Advisor to the Board. With a reported (software) IQ of 155, Alice is “the world’s smartest Board Advisor.”6
Yes, you read correctly. AI is already being appointed at companies right now at home.
According to REINSW: “Alice’s encyclopaedic knowledge of real estate provides an instantaneous and valuable contribution to the Board, bolstering REINSW’s capacity to advocate for the industry and influence policy changes that benefit consumers, real estate professionals and REINSW members.”
Sitting in on executive meetings, ‘Alice’ is available to answer any questions and is equipped with built-in AI software like ChatGPT. It doesn’t stop there, either.
Chinese researchers have developed an “AI hospital town,” similar to Stanford’s AI town, which went viral in 2024. The AI hospital, named “Agent Hospital,” was developed by researchers from Tsinghua University.7
The AI hospital town features virtual patients treated by AI doctors designed to evolve autonomously and “improve their medical expertise.” All doctors, nurses, and patients in the virtual environment are driven by large language model (LLM) powered intelligent ‘agents’ capable of autonomous interaction.
According to the team, these AI doctors can treat 10,000 patients in just a few days, a task that would take human doctors at least two years.
We have already seen the introduction of robotic AI-powered arms for surgeries in remote Australian regions in the far north of Queensland, and we can expect this trend to continue to grow as Trump’s $500 billion investment powers this field.
One last example – the UK’s first “teacherless” GCSE class, using artificial intelligence instead of human teachers, is about to start lessons.8 David Game College, a private school in London, opens its new teacherless course for 20 GCSE students in September 2025.
Hospitals, schools, and important decision-making roles: This is no longer fiction, folks. The rise of humanoid robots has arrived, and they are taking over very quickly.
Of course, Bill Gates has been discussing this ‘revolution’ in great detail over the past few years, stating in one blog post that AI agents represent “the biggest advancement of computing in recent memory.”
Finding a more “direct means” of “human-machine interaction” is the “next frontier,” reckons Gates. The Microsoft co-founder envisions a future where these agents will easily understand natural language and will be just as important as a smartphone.9
He predicts that AI will use our preferences to make recommendations, eliminating the need to use individual apps to book flights, reserve hotels, and more. He also predicts ‘agents’ will make search engines like Google redundant, as your artificial intelligence ‘helper’ will answer all questions and queries.
Unfortunately, many companies will be forced to adapt to the times or perish. Robots have already moved into warehouses, and if you can’t compete both on an individual or marketplace level, you will fall behind in this time of transformation (by design).
When the capabilities of artificial intelligence surpass those of humans, the question of whether they can become ‘sentient’ becomes irrelevant. It’s the capabilities that are now the concern.
The competition for supremacy is heating up, begging questions surrounding regulation, how it will develop as the years progress, and whether it can even be stopped.
Can It Be Stopped?
In January 2025, China released its own version of the market-leading ChatGPT called DeepSeek AI, adding to a marketplace that includes others like Musk’s Grok.
Australia quickly banned DeepSeek AI services from all government systems and devices, becoming one of the first countries to take direct action against the Chinese artificial intelligence startup that has disrupted Silicon Valley.
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said in a statement that all DeepSeek AI products, apps and services would immediately be removed from government systems for national security reasons. A threat assessment by the country’s intelligence agencies found that the technology posed “an unacceptable risk.”10
This is one of the first significant actions taken against artificial intelligence, signalling a new era in which the technology is recognised as a powerful tool.
Unfortunately, much like the internet itself, any regulation and control will only transfer the power of the technology into the hands of criminals. Internet censorship has diminished the glory days that made it great. Similarly, if we continue to see progress in this manner for AI, our ability to learn this tool will become restricted.
There is suspicion that if regulatory initiatives were to commence against artificial intelligence and its developers, they would either escape to countries lacking regulation or venture into international waters.
A sea-based floating data centre containing thousands of Nvidia GPUs raises questions over whether this sort of regulation could lead to the creation of ‘sovereign AI states’.
The BlueSea Frontier Compute Cluster (BSFCC), created by US firm Del Complex, is essentially a gargantuan barge housing 10,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, all worth a combined $500 million. It floats in the middle of international waters.
In an announcement on X, Del said the floating data centre offers “industry-leading performance, advanced water cooling and solar power for environmental safety.”11 It will be complemented by “kinetic risk mitigation,” provided by onboard security.
This project points toward the eventual creation of ‘sovereign nation-states’ dedicated to AI development, especially if land-based governments begin regulation.
In its announcement on X, the firm said the tightly guarded barge could operate in international waters and thus be exempt from regulations.
Military Dimensions
Militaries around the world are already making some of the biggest strides towards transhumanism because of the advantages their ‘super soldiers’ would possess.
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recently issued a broad agency announcement on “Human Performance Enhancement.”12
According to the RAND report, “Technological Approaches to Human Performance Enhancement,” modalities for human performance enhancement can be grouped into three principal categories: Gene editing, applications of artificial intelligence, and networked technologies that are wearable or even implantable.13
For the US defence and intelligence communities, human performance enhancement offers “the potential to increase strength, speed, endurance, intelligence, and tolerance of extreme environments and to reduce sleep needs and reaction times – [and] could aid in the development of better operators.”
This follows a Pentagon-sponsored RAND report on human performance enhancement in 2021, which revealed that the US Department of Defense was investigating “making humans stronger, more intelligent, or more adapted to extreme environments.”
Indeed, it does seem that, just like the rise of the internet, AI advancement can’t be stopped – both in the military-industrial complex and private enterprise.
The door has been opened, but was it even designed to be closed? Where will this all lead? This is where the deeper questions come in.
p(doom): The Countdown
Artificial intelligence experts have been asking each other a question lately: “What’s your p(doom)?” The “p” stands for probability. The “doom” component generally refers to a sophisticated and hostile AI acting beyond human control.
If you have one, your ‘p(doom)’ is your best guess at the likelihood that AI ultimately turns on humanity, either of its own volition or because it’s deployed against us.
The scenarios contemplated as part of that conversation: biological warfare, the sabotage of natural resources, and more. These concerns aren’t coming from ‘conspiracy theorists’. Instead, there’s an emerging group of machine learning experts who worry we’re building “misaligned” and potentially deceptive AI.
They’re imagining an AI with a penchant for sleight of hand, adept at concealing any gap between human instructions and AI behaviour.
Like a magician chasing applause, AI is being incentivised to deceive us with in-built rewards that measure its outcomes. The destructive potential of a deceptive or misaligned AI hinges on how heavily we depend on it. As just noted, we are starting to depend on it a lot.
“The world I want you to imagine… is one where AI has been deployed everywhere,” Ajeya Cotra, a senior AI safety researcher at Open Philanthropy, told the ABC.
“Human CEOs need AI advisers. Human generals need AI advisers to help win wars. And everybody’s employing AI everywhere.”
This vision is not far out of the scope. In their research, Harvard Business Review recently concluded that AI can mainly outperform human CEOs in almost all metrics in September 2024, being described as “remarkable” in the results.14
Cotra calculates a 50 per cent chance we’ll get to the “obsolescence regime” (see box on right) by 2038. Experts believe it is only a matter of time before deceptions begin on a mass scale.
When confronted with this ‘p(doom)’ scenario, the consequences for humanity could be transformative – the stuff of biblical myth.
The Consequences of ‘Progress’
History began when humans invented gods, and will end when humans become gods.
– Yuval Noah Harari
In the era of transhumanism, technocratic elitists are looking to replace God, the Creator, with their own intelligent design.
You don’t have to be religious to appreciate the role the concept of a Creator plays in the construction of human rights. It is almost bigger than religion itself.
Men cannot decide on, alter or enforce something they did not create. By removing the religious framework, the technocrats have come to see themselves as the Creator – a (false) ‘higher power’ that endows humanity with rights.
A mass dehumanisation agenda, under the guise of ‘progress’, has led us to no longer believe we are the centre of reality – but a stepping stone for the machines to merge with.
This shift will ultimately occur, according to the ‘experts’, through biotechnological implementations, genetic modification, and robotic implants. For transhumanism, the quest to ‘transcend the human condition’ is a central aspect of their doctrine.
But why would they want to do this?
Well, every citizen is considered to be born with rights. In a future where humans are no longer considered to be ‘natural’, what would that mean for ‘human’ rights?
Indeed, by putting technocrats in the place of God, society is giving them the unaccountable authority to redefine human rights as they see fit from their position.
If, and when, humans become fully integrated with machines on a large scale, where will the technology end and the human begin?
Bioengineering can blur the lines of who or what is responsible for a person’s behaviour. Is it the human, the technology, or the humans behind the technology?
Who will own the technology inside us or the synthetically altered genes? Will human enhancement be reserved only for certain people?
Humanity could theoretically be split into different species depending on the types of genetic engineering that take place, creating a worldwide post-human caste system.
That is the consequence of such a maniacal obsession with ‘progress’, and societies across the world have learned of this for centuries.
Take the story of Prometheus, for example, which is one of the most important Greek myths. Prometheus, the Greek God of ‘Progress’, embodies the same post-human ideologies we see today, centred around ‘transcending the natural order’.
Today, this myth helps us reflect on transhumanism, a philosophy that views the human being as ‘something to be overcome’.15
Hesiod was one of the first poets to write the story of Prometheus. Far from heroising the figure, his version highlighted Prometheus’s transgression against the gods.
He believed that Prometheus had upset the cosmic order, which explained the imbalance and evils of the world. From this viewpoint, ‘progress’ is seen as synonymous with the decline of the human being. Does this sound familiar?
Look at how the ‘progressive’ mindset has already changed society. As a matter of fact, the ecological disasters generated in the last century do tend to show that our naïve trust in ‘progress’ had a dark side. Moreover, what’s ‘new’ isn’t always better.
Unbridled ‘progress’ breaks the natural balance of the environment, attracting all sorts of misfortunes to befall humanity. The transhumanists harness this philosophy to make strides towards a new reality each and every day.
But are technical improvements actually necessary for us to achieve and survive?
Is technological progress, the eradication of diseases, and the prolongation of life expectancy (such as Google’s efforts to ‘solve death’) sufficient to overcome natural obstacles so that societies can live happily?
Unfortunately, if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
Confidence that ‘progress’ itself will improve humanity is a naïve fantasy – just look at how unstable things like smartphones have made the world.
In their attempt to transform the human species forever, the transhumanist cult is playing with forces of the natural world that have been around for much longer than us.
Will society let the modern-day Prometheus cult alter what it truly means to be human?
Only time will tell.
This article was published in New Dawn 210.
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Footnotes
1. forbes.com/sites/garthfriesen/2025/01/23/trumps-ai-push-understanding-the-500-billion-stargate-initiative
2. sony-asia.com/pressrelease?prName=open-competition-2023
3. eldagsen.com/sony-world-photography-awards-2023
4. digitalassets.tesla.com/tesla-contents/image/upload/IR/TSLA-Q2-2024-Update.pdf
5. msn.com/en-au/news/australia/robot-artist-makes-history-after-portrait-sells-for-more-than-1mil/ar-AA1tHTbs
6. reinsw.com.au/Web/Web/News/Media_Releases/2024/05-May/ai-board-advisor.aspx
7. roboticsandautomationmagazine.co.uk/news/healthcare/worlds-first-ai-hospital-with-virtual-doctors-opens-in-china.html
8. news.sky.com/story/uks-first-teacherless-ai-classroom-set-to-open-in-london-13200637
9. tottnews.com/2023/11/21/bill-gates-details-the-coming-rise-of-ai-agents
10. thenewdaily.com.au/news/2025/02/05/australia-bans-deepseek
11. techradar.com/news/the-role-of-tape-in-the-modern-data-center
12. sam.gov/opp/4f70483c0b4b49aeac299342a36af04d/view
13. rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1482-2.html
14. hbr.org/2024/09/ai-can-mostly-outperform-human-ceos
15. tottnews.com/2023/02/19/transhumanism-and-prometheus
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The Greatest Health Lies Ever Told
By Marie Jones
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 16 No 6 (Dec 2022)
When it comes to our health, we are way too trusting of industries that are in business to earn a profit, often at our expense. We believe our health professionals’ primary concern is our well-being, not their wallets. We accept at face value anything told to us by “experts” in the media and vilify those who dare to question these experts, even when they lie.
Sometimes lies are nothing more than great marketing. For example, ever wonder why you are told to walk 10,000 steps a day? It came from a 1965 Japanese company called Yamasa Toki that introduced their new product, a step-counter called Manpo-Kei. This translated into “10,000 steps meter” and the company marketed their device with the slogan, “Let’s walk 10,000 steps a day,” which took off among Japanese walking clubs, and then, the world.
In this case, the end result was a positive and healthy one.
Not every health “lie” is.
Smoking Is Safe!
For decades, cigarette ads touted their product as healthy and sometimes included pregnant women and doctors puffing away. Cigarettes were all the rage until links between smoking and cancer got too big to ignore.
In 2006, Big Tobacco was in big trouble when the US District Court for the District of Columbia found tobacco companies guilty of breaking civil racketeering laws, marketing to children and minorities, and lying about the dangers of smoking. Judge Gladys Kessler wrote in her ruling, “Substantial evidence establishes that tobacco companies have engaged in and executed – and continue to engage in and execute – a massive 50-year scheme to defraud the public.”
Big Tobacco companies Lorillard, Inc.; Altria, owner of Phillip Morris USA; RJ Reynolds Tobacco, owner of Winston-Salem, who that year spent over $12.5 billion in advertising, were forced to admit they knew of the dangers, publish corrective and educational statements about the dangers of tobacco in national newspapers, and air corrective statements on American media five times per week for a year. They also had to affix a warning statement to a number of cigarette packs for two years and finance anti-smoking ads and campaigns.
Sadly, it was too late for the average 1,200 Americans dying of smoking every day or the millions who much later developed various cancers, heart disease, emphysema, leukaemia, reduced fertility rates, and nicotine addictions.
It was a Big Lie that woke many people up from decades of propaganda and manipulation as more research exposed the cancer connection, including to second-hand smoke. Unfortunately, it was not the only Big Lie.
Sugar Is Safe!
If cigarettes didn’t kill us, the side effects of a diet rich in this product might.
Sugar.
The average adult in the United States consumes the most sugar, coming in at 126 grams daily. Germany is right behind with 102 grams. [The average Australian consumes 60 grams.] Children in the US alone consume about 17 teaspoons of sugar each day up until the age of 19.
Sugar goes by many names including high fructose corn syrup, dextrose, sucralose, and maltodextrin and is found in processed products and treats, but also in many foods you might never suspect, such as “natural” salad dressings, sauces, baby foods, and more. It has been directly linked to inflammation, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease, rising obesity in adults and children, and other illnesses, yet for decades it was celebrated as healthy.
Instead, the bulls-eye target was on something humans had consumed for hundreds of years without the proliferation of heart disease, obesity, or cancers.
Fat.
During the 1960s, the sugar industry paid scientists to perform research studies that played down the links between sugar and heart disease and instead placed the blame on saturated fats, according to internal industry documents published in 2016 by JAMA Internal Medicine. These documents showed a five-decade-long collection of research into nutrition and heart disease, accusing saturated fats as the main culprit behind heart disease while conveniently exonerating sugar.
According to the 12 September 2016 New York Times “How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat” by Anahad O’Connor, this was a concerted propaganda campaign that involved the Sugar Research Foundation paying three Harvard scientists to publish a review on sugar, fat, and heart disease that featured hand-picked studies minimising the links between sugar and heart disease and promoting the links between fat and heart disease. Coca-Cola also paid millions of dollars in funding to researchers to downplay the links between sugar and obesity.
These faulty and fraudulent industry-sponsored studies became the foundation of a decades-long propaganda push to eliminate fats from our diet and push “healthy” low-fat foods. Carbohydrates in cereals and treats were fine, but a good piece of steak from the local butcher would clog your arteries and send you to the ER. Because the propaganda campaign was so pervasive and those scientists who questioned the narrative were ignored or silenced, people bought it and consumed sugar to the detriment of their health.
In “Big Fat Lies – A Half Century of Sugary Propaganda Has Made Us Sick” by Brian Krans for Healthline, the sugar industry bought up the advertising necessary to drive home their skewed research. Krans wrote that “Big Sugar” often restructured conversations around health and choice by establishing front organisations to steer the dialogue in their favour. These front organisations used names that made them sound scientific and pro-consumer and paid consultants to speak at conventions and testify at public hearings.
“During the 1960s, the sugar industry steered public policy away from recommending reduced sugar consumption for children because it caused cavities. Like the tobacco industry, it was able to protect itself from damaging research. It achieved this by adopting a strategy to deflect attention to public health interventions that would reduce the harms of sugar consumption rather than restricting intake.”
The 2016 JAMA Internal Medicine paper raised even more alarms, according to “50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Point Blame at Fat” by Camila Domonoske for the 13 September 2016 NPR. JAMA drew on internal documents indicating the Sugar Research Foundation wanted to “refute” concerns about sugar’s possible role in heart disease. The SRF sponsored the research by Harvard scientists and the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, then published the research in 1967 without disclosing the sugar industry’s funding. The NPR story quotes John Hickson, then SRF vice president and director of research, as having inserted into one document his recommendation that the industry fund its own research studies. “Then we can publish the data and refute our detractors.”
The following year, after several scientific articles were published linking sucrose and coronary heart disease, the SRF quickly approved the above literature review project and paid approximately $50,000 for the research supporting their pro-sugar goals. Studies that went against their message were dismissed for a variety of trivial reasons, such as one study that found a health benefit when people ate less sugar and more vegetables, dismissed on the grounds that such a dietary change was “not feasible.”
The Harvard researchers who turned their focus on the dangers of fats ironically used the “same kind of epidemiological studies they had dismissed when it came to sugar,” Domonske wrote. Their conclusion was that cutting out all fat was the best dietary intervention to protect someone against coronary heart disease.
Heart disease is the number one health-related killer and has been for a long time.
Statins Are Safe!
Another great lie was told to millions of people who believe if they don’t take statins, they will die of a heart attack. They believe this because their doctors tell them so and because television ads (in the USA) by pharmaceutical companies scare them into asking their doctors if “such and such drug is right for me.” In the year 2019, sales of the statin Lipitor made Pfizer Pharmaceuticals over $2 billion.
When saturated fat became the enemy, the debate over cholesterol as a heart disease indicator gained ground, with the narrative that too much cholesterol clogged arteries and caused heart attacks and strokes.
According to Dr Joseph Mercola in a 16 August 2020 analysis, “Research Confirms Statins Are a Colossal Waste of Money”:
“The food industry shifted away from saturated fat and cholesterol to improve public health, and the medical industry has massively promoted the use of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs for the same reason. Despite that, the rate of heart disease deaths has steadily risen.”
The mastermind behind the low-fat, low-cholesterol connection was American physiologist Ancel Keys, who in 1958 conducted his “Seven Countries Study” to create the saturated fat myth. In the study, he claimed to find a correlation between total cholesterol concentration and heart disease but was later found to be cherry-picking data. It was revealed he excluded data from 16 countries that, when added back in, eliminated all associations between saturated fat and mortality and instead proved those who ate the most saturated animal fat tended to have lower incidences of heart disease.
But it was too late. Big Pharma jumped on Keys’ study and ran with it. The American Heart Association, Proctor & Gamble Co, and the Center for Science in the Public Interest, all jumped on board and promoted the fallacy for decades, ignoring numerous studies disputing older data and other factors that cause heart disease, such as high blood pressure, stress, inflammation, poor diet, and sedentary lifestyle, and passing over more modern research showing that the more LDL, “bad” cholesterol, is lowered, the greater the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
Mercola notes a number of studies showing statins do not work as promised and that saturated facts are not the evil enemy. “A 2010 meta-analysis which pooled data from 21 studies and included 347,747 adults, found no difference in the risks of heart disease and stroke between people with the lowest and highest intakes of saturated fat.” He cited additional studies and analyses showing the same, including a 2014 meta-analysis of 76 studies by Cambridge University that found no basis for advising low saturated fat consumption to lower cardiac risk.
A 3 August 2020 Science Daily article, “Doubt Cast on Wisdom of Targeting ‘Bad’ Cholesterol to Curb Heart Disease Risk,” cites an analysis that same year published in BMJ Evidence Based Medicine that stated: “Setting targets for ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol levels to ward off heart disease and death in those at risk might seem intuitive, but decades of research have failed to show any consistent benefit for this approach.”
Sometimes the lies are told in stealth mode. For example, during the January 2021 COVID media storm, writes Mercola, “a study published in the journal Atherosclerosis quietly revealed that people taking statin medications had a higher rate of cardiovascular events than those who were not on statins.”
Medical News Today published a June 2016 story by Ana Sandolu, “Statins May Double the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes,” that statins might help heart disease but at the cost of rising rates of the chronic condition. The research, led by Victoria Zigmont, a graduate researcher in public health at Ohio State University in Columbus, appeared in the journal Diabetes Metabolism Research and Reviews. “The analysis revealed that people who took statins were more than twice as likely to receive a diabetes diagnosis than those who did not take the medication. Additionally, people who took statins longer than two years were more than three times as likely to develop diabetes.”
Statins continue to be handed out like candy, despite side effects that include muscle stress, pain, fatigue, and weakness, including sharp cramping and tendonitis, which can lead to myositis (inflammation of the muscle) and rhabdomyolysis (severe muscle damage, cell death, kidney failure, possible death). They also raise blood insulin levels. Statins can trigger insulin-related issues and increase the risk of new-onset diabetes for those people taking higher dosages of statins after a heart attack or surgery. They are linked to brain fog, impaired concentration, memory loss, cataracts, dementia, mood changes and mood disturbances, and increase the risk of obesity, ironically which can lead to heart disease and strokes. They also deplete the body’s natural stores of CoQ-10, which is critical for heart health.
5G is Safe!
In December 2019, a broad coalition of scientists, researchers, doctors, and advocates signed a National 5G Resolution letter and sent it to US president Donald Trump demanding a moratorium on 5G until further studies on the potential hazards to humans and the environment could be fully undertaken by independent scientists not linked to the telecom industries. The letter referenced published studies that clearly demonstrated harm to human health, bees, the environment, wildlife, trees, and birds from existing technology and showed that the increases needed to accommodate 5G would be even more disastrous.
A petition signed by 26,000 scientists and countless others who opposed 5G was also sent in 2018 to the United Nations, WHO, the European Union, the Council of Europe, and the governments of all nations. The first paragraph stated:
“We the undersigned scientists, doctors, environmental organisations and citizens from (…) countries, urgently call for a halt to the deployment of the 5G (fifth generation) wireless network, including 5G from space satellites. 5G will massively increase exposure to radio frequency (RF) radiation on top of the 2G, 3G and 4G networks for telecommunications already in place. RF radiation has been proven harmful for humans and the environment. The deployment of 5G constitutes an experiment on humanity and the environment that is defined as a crime under international law.”
One of the main concerns is 5G’s reliance on the bandwidth of the millimetre wave – MMW, known to penetrate 1 to 2 millimetres into human skin tissue, and that sweat ducts in human skin can act as antennae when in contact with MMWs. The symptoms of such exposure include burning sensations, pain, eye problems, altered heart rate, arrhythmias, and suppressed immune functions. With 5G set to act like an EMF blanket, one can only imagine the symptoms of longer-term exposure.
In “5G Danger: 13 Reasons 5G Wireless Technology Will Be a Catastrophe for Humanity,” Makia Freeman says that 5G dangers include, but are not limited to:
Damage to sweat ducts from the broadcast frequencies that could alter the human skin itself.
Dangers from premature aging and injury to the body, the brain, fertility, hearts, and DNA from the way EMFs activate the body’s VGCCs – Voltage-gated calcium channels.
Damage from pulsed wave radiation is far worse than continuous radiation.
Damage from deep EMF penetration when cell phones are held close to the brain.
Close proximity to the 5G towers causes negative effects in humans.
The same frequencies used in 5G are used in riot control and crowd dispersal directed energy weapons.
The MMW frequencies are both mutagenic (causing DNA damage) and carcinogenic (causing cancers).
Insects, birds, and children are the most vulnerable to 5G frequencies because of their body size.
Other Lies They Told Us – Fluoride is Safe!
Since the 1950s, the US Public Service endorsed adding fluoride to public drinking water for supposed benefits to public health, despite earlier 1945 studies not yet reaching any conclusion. Since then, numerous studies have proven fluoridation lowers IQs in children. The US National Institute of Environmental Health Science funded the “Bashash” study, published in 2017, that showed for each 1-milligram per litre increase in fluoride in pregnant women’s urine, there was an associated drop in her child’s IQ of four to five points. Canadian researchers found that bottle-fed children in fluoridated communities had an average of nine points lower on IQ tests than those in non-fluoridated communities. An earlier 2012 meta-analysis by the Harvard School of Public Health and China Medical University found evidence that fluoride negatively affected cognitive development in children.
Pesticides Are Safe!
In 2018, major lawsuits were filed against Roundup, a herbicide (weed killer) made by Monsanto (now owned by Bayer). Dewayne Johnson, a school groundskeeper who developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after prolonged exposure on the job, was awarded hundreds of millions in damages. There are now more than 11,000 pending lawsuits against Bayer/Monsanto over the use of Roundup and the key ingredient, glyphosate, a known carcinogen.
On 21 October 2022, The Defender featured a story by Carey Gillam, “50 Years of Secrets: How Chemical Giant Syngenta Hid the Truth About a Dangerous Weedkiller.” Gillam documents how Syngenta manufactured and marketed paraquat, a widely used weed killer. The company’s internal documents reveal it was aware their product’s long-term use was linked to Parkinson’s Disease.
Hundreds of internal corporate records also uncovered conversations between scientists and executives dating back to the 1950s.
“The documents also lay out how Syngenta crafted strategies to defend paraquat and counter independent researchers who were finding more and more evidence that paraquat may cause Parkinson’s, including development of an ‘influencing’ strategy ‘that proactively diffuses the potential threats that we face’…”
Sound familiar?
A Depressing Lie
There is mounting evidence that a low serotonin level is not the main cause of depression as we have been told for decades. But don’t tell that to the makers of antidepressants called SSRIs, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, who rake in billions of dollars, convincing millions of people they need to take drugs like Zoloft, Prozax, or Lexapro.
Irving Kirsch – associate director of the Program in Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Encounter at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School and a long-time critic of antidepressants – told Newsweek: “People do get better on the drug – but in the vast majority of cases it’s not because of what’s in the drug. There are other treatments that are at least equally effective, and that don’t carry the risks.”
The small benefits seen in some drug trials are due to emotional numbing, the “flatlined” symptom many on SSRIs report. This numbing effect comes at a steep price, however, as it also prevents you from experiencing emotional highs and does little to counteract the loss of energy, interest and motivation that are so characteristic of depression.
A systematic review published in Molecular Psychiatry on 20 July 2022 concluded: “The main areas of serotonin research provide no consistent evidence of there being an association between serotonin and depression, and no support for the hypothesis that depression is caused by lowered serotonin activity or concentrations. Some evidence was consistent with the possibility that long-term antidepressant use reduces serotonin concentration.”
Using these drugs long-term will likely make you more depressed! Not to mention the long list of side effects including suicidal ideation in children and young adults.
Take Back Your Health!
Dr Leland Stillman, author of the new book Dying to Be Free: How America’s Ruling Class Is Killing and Bankrupting Americans, and What To Do About It, warns that “people are being really exploited by the medical system… The [conventional] model is to turn you into a recurring revenue stream, where you’re renting your body from Big Pharma.”
“It’s one of the most disillusioning things, as a practitioner, to realise that so many people are not actually invested in their wellness,” laments Stillman.
The lies, myths, and half-truths only work if we believe and accept them. Instead, we should believe, as Stillman does, that an entirely new healthcare system can and is being built on maintaining health rather than managing disease.
This article was published in New Dawn Special Issue Vol 16 No 6.
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Eckhart Tolle on identification with physical or mental forms
No King’s Day?
The Lord’s Prayer Jesus Actually Taught — The Aramaic Original Decoded Line by Line
(Image from KQED.org)
Apr 08, 2026 (substack.com)
Three translations removed it from what he said. Here is every line restored to its original meaning.
Introduction
You have recited the Lord’s Prayer your entire life.
Most people who grew up in any tradition touching Christianity have. It has been repeated in churches, at bedsides, in moments of grief and moments of gratitude, for two thousand years across every continent on earth. It is the most widely recited prayer in human history.
And virtually no one has read what it actually says.
The version you know — Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name — came to you through three separate translations. From Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke, into Greek. From Greek into Latin. From Latin into English. Each translation was conducted by institutions with specific theological interests. Each one made choices — some deliberate, some the consequence of the limitations of the target language — that progressively moved the text away from what Jesus actually said and toward what the institution needed it to mean.
What was lost in those three translations is not minor. It is the entire consciousness framework that the prayer was designed to transmit. The divine feminine. The understanding of reality as frequency and vibration. The teaching of non-duality — the direct recognition that the pray-er and the one being prayed to are not separate. The understanding of forgiveness as energetic release rather than moral transaction. The vision of the earth as a sacred living system rather than a fallen world awaiting divine rescue.
This article restores every line of the Lord’s Prayer to its original Aramaic meaning. Not as a theological argument. As a consciousness map — which is what it was when Jesus taught it.
Why Aramaic Matters
Jesus was a first-century Jewish teacher from Galilee. His native language was Aramaic — a Semitic language closely related to Hebrew that was the lingua franca of the Near East from approximately 600 BC onward. When Jesus taught his disciples, he taught in Aramaic. The words he used carried the specific semantic content, emotional resonance, and metaphysical meaning of the Aramaic language.
The Gospels we have were written in Greek — not by Jesus, not by eyewitnesses in most cases, but by Greek-speaking communities one to three generations after Jesus’ death who were working from oral traditions, earlier written sources, and translations of Aramaic material. The translation from Aramaic to Greek was not a neutral process. Greek and Aramaic are fundamentally different languages with different cosmological assumptions embedded in their structures. Aramaic is a language that holds multiple meanings simultaneously — a word can carry physical, emotional, and spiritual meaning in a single utterance. Greek is more linear, more analytical, more committed to singular meanings. The translation process necessarily collapsed the multidimensional Aramaic meaning into the more restricted Greek framework.
The Latin Vulgate — the official Bible of the Catholic Church for over a thousand years — was translated from the Greek. The King James Bible — the most influential English Bible in history — was translated primarily from the Latin and Greek. Each step in the chain moved further from the original Aramaic and embedded deeper into the theological framework of the translating institution.
The work of scholars like Neil Douglas-Klotz — particularly his book Prayers of the Cosmos — and Rocco Errico has done the most rigorous job of recovering the Aramaic original of the Lord’s Prayer and translating it directly into English without the institutional filtering of the Greek-Latin-English chain. What follows draws on their scholarship alongside the direct Aramaic text.
The Complete Prayer — Aramaic and Original Meaning
LINE ONE: Abwoon d’bwashmaya
English translation: Our Father who art in heaven
The Aramaic word Abwoon is one of the most mistranslated words in the entire biblical tradition. It is a combination of Ab — the root for father, but also for the generative, creative principle — and woon, a suffix that indicates an ongoing action, a continuous process, a breathing. Abwoon does not describe a static paternal deity sitting on a throne. It describes the dynamic, breathing, generative force through which all life continuously emerges into existence.
The most accurate single English translation is closer to the breathing life of all. Or the cosmic birther. Or the womb of existence from which all things continuously emerge.
This understanding is not foreign to the biblical tradition. In Genesis 2:7 God breathes life into Adam — the divine creative principle is breath, not patriarchal authority. In John 4:24 Jesus tells the Samaritan woman that God is spirit — the Greek word pneuma, which carries the same breath-based meaning as the Aramaic root of Abwoon.
D’bwashmaya means from the heavens or from the cosmic vibration. Shmaya — heaven — in Aramaic does not mean a physical location above the clouds. It means the realm of light and vibration — the dimension of reality that is the source of the physical dimension. The prayer is not addressed to a deity in a physical location above the sky. It is addressed to the living breath of all existence — the consciousness from which all things continuously emerge — which dwells in the dimension of light and vibration that underlies and generates the physical world.
Restored meaning: O breathing life of all existence, you who dwell in the dimension of light and vibration from which all things emerge.
LINE TWO: Nethqadash shmakh
English translation: Hallowed be thy name
Nethqadash means to be set apart, to be consecrated, to be brought into sacred relationship. The English word hallowed has become so institutionally loaded that it barely communicates anything — it has become a liturgical sound rather than a meaning.
Shmakh means your name but in Aramaic name carries a meaning far beyond identifier. A name in Aramaic is a vibration — the specific frequency through which a being expresses itself in the world. The name of God in the Hebrew-Aramaic tradition is not a word that can be spoken. It is the vibration of existence itself — the frequency through which consciousness organizes physical reality.
The Hermetic tradition — the direct descendant of the Egyptian mystery school curriculum that most likely informed Jesus’ initiatory training — describes this same principle as the first law of Mentalism: the universe is mental, consciousness is primary, reality is organized by vibratory intelligence.
Restored meaning: May the sacred vibration through which you organize reality be recognized and honored in everything we do.
LINE THREE: Teytey malkuthakh
English translation: Thy kingdom come
Teytey means come or arrive. Malkuthakh is the word that most dramatically reveals the institutional filtering of the translation process. It is derived from the root malkuth — the same root used in the Kabbalah for the tenth sephirot, the divine feminine principle of earthly manifestation, the sacred queendom through which divine creative energy becomes physical reality.
The English translation thy kingdom — with its patriarchal, hierarchical, and political connotations — is the product of translators working in a political and theological context in which divine feminine imagery was systemically suppressed. The Aramaic malkuthakh does not describe a patriarchal kingdom. It describes the creative queendom — the divine feminine organizing principle through which the vibration of divine consciousness becomes the structured beauty of physical reality.
This is the same Sophia — divine wisdom — that the Gnostic traditions preserved and the institutional church systematically suppressed. The same Shekinah — the divine feminine presence — that the Hebrew mystical tradition preserved in the Kabbalah. The same divine mother that every mystery school tradition that went deep enough independently discovered as the creative principle underlying all manifest reality.
Jesus was not praying for the arrival of a patriarchal political kingdom. He was praying for the full expression of the divine feminine creative principle in earthly reality — the recognition that the material world is the body of the divine mother, sacred and worthy of the same reverence as the heavenly dimension from which it emerged.
Restored meaning: May the sacred queendom — the divine feminine creative principle — fully express itself in earthly reality as it does in the dimension of light.
LINE FOUR: Nehwey tzevyanach aykanna d’bwashmaya aph b’arha
English translation: Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven
This line is more accurately translated than most but still loses something essential in the English rendering. Tzevyanach does not mean will in the sense of command or decree. It means desire, longing, or yearning — the specific quality of conscious intention that arises from genuine love rather than authority.
The God of the Aramaic Lord’s Prayer does not command. The God of the Aramaic Lord’s Prayer longs. Desires. Yearns for the full expression of divine creative intelligence in the physical world. The prayer is not submission to a command. It is alignment with a love.
Aph b’arha — on earth as well — is a statement of the sacredness of the material world. The earth is not a fallen realm awaiting rescue or destruction. It is the dimension in which the divine creative longing seeks full expression. The prayer is a conscious alignment of the human will with the divine desire for the earth to become a full expression of the vibration of divine consciousness.
Restored meaning: May your loving desire for the full expression of divine consciousness be realized in earthly reality as fully as it is in the dimension of light.
LINE FIVE: Hawvlan lachma d’sunqanan yaomana
English translation: Give us this day our daily bread
Lachma does not mean bread in the exclusively physical sense. In Aramaic lachma — bread — is a multidimensional word that encompasses physical nourishment, understanding, wisdom, and the experience of divine presence. The root lachm means to be in the experience of — to be fully present in, to be nourished by at every level of being.
Sunqanan means our need or our lack — not in the sense of poverty or deficiency but in the sense of the specific requirements for full flourishing. The prayer is not a request for physical food from a providential deity. It is a request for complete nourishment — physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual — to be provided at the level of genuine need rather than accumulated desire.
Yaomana means today or for this day — the emphasis on the present moment that runs through the entire prayer. The consciousness framework of the Aramaic Lord’s Prayer is thoroughly non-anxious about the future. It requests what is needed for today. It does not stockpile. It does not accumulate. It trusts the generative breathing life of all existence to provide what is genuinely needed in each moment.
Restored meaning: Provide us today with the nourishment — physical, emotional, and spiritual — that we genuinely need for our full flourishing.
LINE SIX: Washboqlan khaubayn aykanna daph khnan shbaqan l’khayyabayn
English translation: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us
This line represents perhaps the most significant loss of meaning in the entire translation process. Washboqlan does not mean forgive in the institutional sense of moral pardon granted by a superior to an inferior who has violated a rule. The Aramaic root means to release, to untie, to set free — to return to the original state by releasing what has accumulated and obscured it.
Khaubayn — trespasses or debts in the English — means literally the knots we have tied. The energetic accumulations. The places where consciousness has become bound by unresolved guilt, resentment, and the weight of unintegrated experience. The prayer is not requesting moral absolution from a divine judge. It is requesting energetic release — the untying of the knots in consciousness that prevent the free flow of the divine creative principle through the human being.
And the condition — as we release the knots in those who have tied themselves to us — is the most profound psychological and spiritual teaching in the entire prayer. The release of others from the grip of our resentment is not a moral virtue being performed to qualify for divine forgiveness. It is the mechanism through which our own energetic knots are released. The consciousness that holds resentment toward another is bound to the object of its resentment. The release of the other is simultaneously the release of the self. This is the teaching that two thousand years of institutional religion reduced to a moral transaction.
Restored meaning: Release us from the energetic knots we have accumulated as we release others from the grip of our resentment toward them.
LINE SEVEN: Wela tahlan l’nesyuna ela patzan min bisha
English translation: Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil
This line has generated more theological controversy than almost any other in the Christian tradition — because the idea of God leading anyone into temptation appears to contradict the fundamental theological claim that God is good. The institutional solution has been to interpret this line as a request that God not allow temptation to overcome us — but this requires reading into the text a meaning it does not contain in any of its translation forms.
The Aramaic dissolves the controversy entirely. Nesyuna does not mean temptation in the moral sense. It means the experience of being lost — specifically the experience of being lost in the illusion of separation from the divine source. The prayer is: do not let us become so lost in the world of appearances that we forget our origin and our nature.
Bisha — evil in the English — means in Aramaic the unripe, the immature, the not-yet-fully-expressed. It does not describe an ontological evil principle in opposition to a good God. It describes the state of consciousness that has not yet realized its divine nature — the immature consciousness that acts from fear, separation, and unawareness of its true origin.
Restored meaning: Do not let us become lost in the illusion of separation from you, but free us from the immature consciousness that arises from that forgetting.
LINE EIGHT: Metol dilakhie malkutha wahayla wateshbukhta l’ahlam almin. Ameyn.
English translation: For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
Malkutha — kingdom — is the same malkuth we encountered in line three. The divine feminine creative principle. The sacred queendom. The prayer closes by returning to where it began — acknowledging that the divine creative feminine principle, the power of life itself, and the radiance that illuminates all existence belong to the breathing life of all things — not to any institution, any priest, any nation, or any theology.
Ameyn — Amen — is itself a word that has been dramatically reduced by its institutional use as a closing ritual syllable. In Aramaic Amen derives from the root aman — meaning to ground, to make firm, to bring into manifestation. It is not a period at the end of a prayer. It is the affirmation of conscious participation in the creative process — the declaration that this understanding is now grounded in the one who speaks it and actively expressed in their life.
Restored meaning: For the divine feminine creative principle, the power of life, and the radiance of all existence belong to you through all cycles of time. So be it — grounded in me, expressed through me, made real in the world through my conscious participation.
What Was Lost and Why
Read the Aramaic Lord’s Prayer in its restored meaning and it is a completely different document from the institutional version. It does not describe a patriarchal deity ruling a kingdom from above. It describes the breathing, generative consciousness from which all existence continuously emerges — addressed as the cosmic womb of being, honored as the vibration through which reality is organized, asked to express its divine feminine creative principle fully in earthly reality, petitioned for complete nourishment in the present moment, asked to release the energetic knots of resentment and accumulated weight, and asked to prevent the forgetting of divine origin that produces immature, fear-based consciousness.
This is not a prayer of submission to divine authority. It is a consciousness technology — a precise vibrational alignment of the human awareness with the organizing intelligence of the cosmos. It does not ask for favor from a distant deity. It requests alignment with the creative principle that the pray-er already is at their deepest level.
The institutional translations did not produce this meaning accidentally. A prayer that teaches the pray-er that they are an expression of the divine creative principle — not a sinner requiring institutional mediation to access divine favor — is not a prayer that builds cathedrals, funds crusades, or keeps populations compliant through fear of divine judgment. The institutional version of the Lord’s Prayer does all of these things. The Aramaic original does none of them.
They did not just remove books from the Bible. They mistranslated the ones they kept.
How to Pray the Aramaic Lord’s Prayer
The Aramaic Lord’s Prayer is most powerful when it is not recited but inhabited. Read each line slowly. Let the restored meaning land before moving to the next. Breathe between lines. The Abwoon — the breathing life of all existence — is not being addressed from outside. It is being recognized from within.
The prayer is not a request. It is a recognition. A recognition of what you are, where you come from, what you genuinely need, and what it means to live in alignment with the creative intelligence that your consciousness is an expression of.
Jesus taught this prayer in Aramaic to people who understood Aramaic. He was not teaching them to recite. He was teaching them to remember.
(Contributed by John Atwater, H.W.)
The Warblers and the Wonder of Being: Loren Eiseley on Contacting the Miraculous
By Maria Popova (themarginalian.org)
Every once in a while, the curtain of the ordinary parts and we touch the miraculous — the sense that there is another world not beyond this one but within it, a mirror-world any glimpse of which returns our own more luminous and full of wonder.
This can never be willed, but one can be willing for it — a willingness woven of two things: total wakefulness to reality and total openness to possibility.
It can happen while strolling in a garden, as it did for Virginia Woolf; it can happen while looking at a dandelion, as it did for G.K. Chesterton; it can happen in stumbling upon a piece of blue glass, as it did for me.
For paleontologist, anthropologist, philosopher of science, and poet Loren Eiseley (September 3, 1907–July 9, 1977), it happened in an encounter with a bouquet of warblers during a fossil-collecting expedition. He recounts the experience in his essay “The Judgment of the Birds,” originally published in 1957 in the first of his many exquisite essay collections — An Immense Journey, which inspired Ed Yong’s excellent An Immense World — and later included in the posthumous collection of his finest writing, The Star Thrower (public library), in the introduction to which W.H. Auden so poignantly captures Eiseley’s core ethos: “The first point he wishes to make is that in order to be a scientist, an artist, a doctor, a lawyer, or what-have-you, one has first to be a human being.”
Reflecting on that unbidden moment when he touched the miraculous — or, rather, the miraculous touched him — Eiseley observes:
The time has to be right; one has to be, by chance or intention, upon the border of two worlds. And sometimes these two borders may shift or interpenetrate and one sees the miraculous.
Art by Matthew Forsythe from The Gold Leaf
An experience of this sort, which Eiseley terms “a natural revelation,” comes about most readily in solitude and in nature. He recounts the particular revelation of his encounter with the warblers:
It was then that I saw the flight coming on. It was moving like a little close-knit body of black specks that danced and darted and closed again. It was pouring from the north and heading toward me with the undeviating relentlessness of a compass needle. It streamed through the shadows rising out of monstrous gorges. It rushed over towering pinnacles in the red light of the sun or momentarily sank from sight within their shade. Across that desert of eroding clay and wind-worn stone they came with a faint wild twittering that filled all the air about me as those tiny living bullets hurtled past into the night.
Warblers from The Edinburgh Journal, 1830s. (Available as a print and stationery cards.)
There is defiance in that many-winged rush of aliveness, of pure pulsating presence — a kind of stubborn insistence on the wonder of life, transient yet eternal, against the backdrop of the ossified past in Eiseley’s bag of fossils, the stratified time beneath his feet. With the knowledge that “we are all potential fossils,” he lenses through the birds the continuity of life across time, its consanguinity across the common chemistry that composes us:
Now they were still here, or, put it as you will, the chemicals that made them were here about me in the ground. The carbon that had driven them ran blackly in the eroding stone. The stain of iron was in the clays. The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorus had forgot the savage brain. The little individual moment had ebbed from all those strange combinations of chemicals as it would ebb from our living bodies into the sinks and runnels of oncoming time.
Geological strata from Geographical Portfolio by Levi Walter Yaggy, 1887. (Available as a print, benefitting The Nature Conservancy.)
Once, walking through a centuries-old gilded cathedral in a small Mexican town with a beloved companion, I found myself in tears at the thought of all the people now dead who once sat in those pews and lit candles at that altar and whispered their hopes to those saints; at the realization that we too will have been, that the sum total of our prayers and passions will one day be a votive melted in a pool of itself.
It is a mercy that we walk through the world half-blind to the reality of time and transience, or we would be walking through it in tears — through the immense cathedral of time that Earth is, with its neatly lined pews of geologic strata holding the history of life, which is the history of loss. And yet the very fact that any one life exists against the cosmic odds of eternal night and nothingness is miracle enough — a triumph of the possible over the probable, a concatenation of chemistry and chance gilded with wonder.
With an eye to the atomic chemistry we are and will return to, with an eye to the birds now swarming with the full force of life above him, the birds that evolved from those long-dead dinosaurs, Eiseley writes:
I dropped my fistful of earth. I heard it roll inanimate back into the gully at the base of the hill: iron, carbon, the chemicals of life. Like men from those wild tribes who had haunted these hills before me seeking visions, I made my sign to the great darkness. It was not a mocking sign, and I was not mocked. As I walked into my camp late that night, one man, rousing from his blankets beside the fire, asked sleepily, “What did you see?”
“I think, a miracle,” I said softly, but I said it to myself. Behind me that vast waste began to glow under the rising moon.
Couple with Eiseley’s miraculous encounter with a muskrat, then revisit Annie Dillard on finding the miraculous in the mundane and Helen Macdonald on what a hawk taught her about the meaning of life.
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Free Will Astrology: Week of April 30, 2026
by Rob Brezsny | April 28, 2026
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the nineteenth century, Aries photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904) resolved to settle a debate about whether galloping horses ever have all four hooves off the ground. He developed a system to capture rapid sequential images, which ultimately helped lead to the invention of motion pictures. His answer to a narrow technical question opened up an entirely new art form. Moral of the story: Solving a specific problem may create unforeseen revolutions. In the coming weeks, Aries, I invite you to stay alert for how your focused efforts to address one challenge might birth even more significant breakthroughs. Don’t get so fixated on your immediate goal that you miss larger innovations emerging from your work.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): May is Free Thinking Month for you Tauruses. It’s also Free Feeling, Free Wheeling and Free Healing Month. Wow! To observe this festive grace period, indulge in any of the following jubilant acts: 1. Declare your independence from anyone who tries to tell you how you should live your life or who you are. 2. Declare independence from your history, especially recollections that dampen your sense of possibility and old self-images that impede your yearning to explore. 3. Declare independence from groupthink and conventional wisdom. 4. Declare independence from your former conceptions of freedom so you’ll be free to arrive at fresh understandings of it.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The Navajo practice hózhó means “walking in beauty”: living in balance and harmony with life. But hózhó isn’t a static state you achieve once and possess forever. You must continually restore and reinvent it. I suspect you’re in a phase like that now, Gemini. Too much thinking and not enough feeling? Too much future and not enough present? I recommend you take corrective measures. Start by taking one physical action that grounds you. Have a conversation from the heart instead of the head. Spend an hour not planning the story to come, but simply loving what’s here right now. Refresh your hózhó!
CANCER (June 21-July 22): If a honeybee colony becomes too crowded, scout bees search for potential new hive sites. When they return, they perform waggle dances for their colleagues to convey specific information about different locations. Negotiations ensue. Various possibilities are offered and considered through more dancing. Eventually, the swarm collectively makes a choice and heads out to its new home. Your challenge right now, Cancerian, is to be like a scout bee who facilitates your group’s decision-making process. I invite you to carry out a reconnaissance mission and then perform your waggle dances for your people. Make your case with vigor and precision. Trust the group’s emergent wisdom to make the best decision.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Like all of us, Leo, you have persistent aches from old losses, absences and wounds. They may seem like permanent burdens you will never be able to shake or transcend. But here’s some very good news: In the coming months, there’s a greater chance than usual that you’ll discover new approaches to healing them. The remedies won’t necessarily be logical or obvious. They may involve you conducting rituals, taking symbolic actions or ambushing the pain from unexpected angles. Be alert for interventions that may seem too simple or unexpected to work.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your restlessness is building. How much longer will you pretend you don’t sense the pull of bright temptations and appealing sanctuaries? At what moment will you finally stop resisting your urge to slip past the usual boundaries and roam? The astrological omens hint that this pivot is close at hand. In the borderlands of your imagination, a daring journey is already taking shape. Where might it carry you? Here’s my guess: down into the raw, unfiltered depths of the future you secretly dream about.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In fairy tales, when heroes are rewarded for their help and kindness, their gifts are often tools of protection: a cloak that renders them invisible, a magic club that chases off foes or enchanted shoes that enable them to outrun any threat. In other stories, the reward is meant to deepen the hero’s delight in living: a genie’s lamp, a cauldron that cooks up exquisite food or a horn that calls forth marvelous companions from the fairy world. I mention this, Libra, because I believe rewards for your past and recent generosity are on their way. If you have any say in what form they take, I suggest you request something from this second, pleasure-giving category.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Poet Marie Howe wrote, “I don’t think we can love anything more intensely than we love a secret.” Many Scorpios feel this way. You understand that mystery is often a joy to be savored. Some truths reveal themselves only to those who summon the patient intelligence to be at peace amidst the confounding riddles. Non-Scorpios may be desperate to leave nothing hidden, but you like to learn from the teasing prickles. You know that some transformations need darkness to carry on their work. Your next assignment: Decide what truth needs more time in the deep before it’s ready to surface.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Diamond is the hardest natural substance, while graphite is soft and slippery. Yet they’re both made of pure carbon. The difference is in their structure. Let’s extrapolate from this fact as we ruminate on your life, Sagittarius. I’m ninety-seven-percent certain that you already have everything you need. Maybe you imagine you lack key resources and powers, but from what I can tell, you are well set-up. So I propose that you simply reorganize what’s available to you now. Take the “carbon” of your life and arrange it in new patterns. Your task isn’t further accumulation but reconfiguration.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): My Capricorn grandfather was a master artisan. He told me that the best furniture is built twice: first in the imagination, then with wood. Let’s apply that theme to you. I believe you have mostly finished the first step of visualizing what you want. Now you’re almost ready to launch the actual work. I’m eager to see the practical effects that will bloom from your detailed fantasies. The rest of the world is excited, too. These days, we all especially need your talent for turning beautiful dreams into vivid realities. You have extra power to inspire us to convert our idealistic notions into dynamic actions.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I invite you to imagine a time in the past when you were almost perfectly content. Visualize that magical confluence of satisfying feelings. Where were you? Who was or wasn’t there? What could you see, hear, smell and feel in your body? What made that moment so right? Next step: Make a vow to rebuild as many of those conditions as you realistically can over the next three weeks. Maybe you can’t recreate the exact scene, but you can approximate its essence.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The astrological factors now in effect are tending to generate useful and valuable cosmic jokes. I believe they may be disruptive and catalytic in helpful ways. In this spirit, I offer you the following affirmations, borrowed from internet memes: 1. “You may call me ‘melodramatic.’ I describe myself as a ‘creative problem-solver with flair and panache.’” 2. “I’m not overthinking; I’m overriding simplistic answers that hide the real truths.” 3. “You shouldn’t think of me as chaotic; the fact is that I’m generously non-linear.” 4. “I have a solid plan, but it’s always evolving to keep up with reality’s crazy insistence on ceaseless change.” 5. “Please dismantle your low expectations; I need ample room to exceed them.” 6. “I trust my instincts; they have often been wrong in interesting ways.”
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