\New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Aug 19, 2026 New Thinking Allowed Audio Podcast Ralph Blumenthal, a staff reporter for The New York Times from 1964 to 2009, is the author of The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack. Here he reviews the history of alien abductions, starting with the 1961 case of Betty and Barney Hill. Many related phenomena are addressed, including implants, physical evidence, and cattle mutilations. Of particular interest are the claims of those who maintain they can initiate contact themselves with aliens. He also reviews recent U.S. Navy sightings of UFOs. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “Parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on April 23, 2021)
Alien Encounters with Ralph Blumenthal
Arthur Rimbaud on hell
Rimbaud at 17 by Étienne Carjat[1]
“I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.”
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes and for his influence on modern literature and arts, prefiguring surrealism. Wikipedia
Born October 20, 1854, Charleville
Died November 10, 1891 (age 37 years), Marseille, France
Putin’s Escalating War on Dissent
The war in Ukraine is barreling toward its fifth year, and the Kremlin is clamping down even harder on dissent. This month alone, Vladimir Putin signed a new package of laws that amount to “civic death” for exiled critics; Russia’s Supreme Court upheld the banning of the country’s only antiwar party, Yabloko, from next month’s elections; and the party’s deputy chair was sentenced to more than eleven years in prison. Moscow couldn’t be clearer: As victory grows more elusive and the war more punishing, criticism will not be tolerated.
To learn more about what’s driving Putin’s war and the Kremlin’s escalating assault on dissent, read the following Journal of Democracy essays, free for a limited time.
| How Putin Erases Dissidents and Critics Vladimir Putin has signed a new “civic death” law targeting the Kremlin’s critics everywhere. The goal is to intimidate Russian citizens from speaking out against Putin’s crimes. By Liudmila Listrovaya |
| The Putin Myth Vladimir Putin’s reputation as a skillful leader was buoyed by years of economic good fortune. But when his regime faltered, his rule quickly descended into the fearful, repressive, and paranoid state we see today. By Kathryn Stoner |
| Armies and Autocrats: Why Putin’s Military Failed When Vladimir Putin launched a massive invasion of Ukraine, he expected an easy victory. Instead, the world has witnessed an object lesson in how a corrupt Russian regime crippled its own military power. By Zoltan Barany |
| The War in Ukraine: Putin’s Inevitable InvasionWhy did Russia invade Ukraine? And why are Russian forces fighting so poorly? The internal logic of its personalist dictatorship is to blame.By Ivan Gomza |
| What Putin Fears Most Forget his excuses. Russia’s autocrat doesn’t worry about NATO. What terrifies him is the prospect of a flourishing Ukrainian democracy. By Robert Person and Michael McFaul |
| Why Russia’s Democracy Never Began People obsess over where Russia’s democracy went wrong. The truth is it did not fail: Russia’s democratic transition never got off the starting blocks. By Maria Snegovaya |
| Ukraine and Russia: War and Political Regimes Will Russia’s war tip the Kremlin even further toward tyranny while fortifying Ukraine’s democracy? That will depend on Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky as much as on the course of the war itself. By Timothy J. Colton |
| Putin’s Other Failed War The Russian leader declared war on his country’s independent journalists. But Russian media outsmarted him by taking their operations overseas. They are now reaching more people than ever before. By Roman Badanin |
| The Journal of Democracy is published quarterly in January, April, July, and October. Subscribe now for full access to our archives. |
Lucid Dreaming class August 22
Please plan to join the next Lucid Dreaming Class. The Zoom Webinar will be this Saturday 8/22. We’ll be covering great information on sleep and dreaming that you’ll be interested to hear and will help in our dream journey. This will be an exciting class so please plan on being there and share with your friends who may also be interested in their dreams and personal growth. I look forward to having you in class and hope you can make it, Aloha !!!
Register at https://tinyurl.com/4z9e7et6
We’re all swimming in our subconscious mind when we dream.
With Lucid Dreaming, we bring the conscious mind to be aware
that we’re dreaming (while we’re in the subconscious mind) and
amazing things can happen.
Come to class and learn the process of becoming a Lucid Dreamer.
Lucid Dreaming will help to Release the Power of your Dreams
- Accelerate your Personal Growth
- Understand the route to your conscious evolution
- Solve Problems
- Realize those “not so secret” messages in your unconscious mind.
- Gain ideas to help in waking life
- Turn up your creativity
- Learn to interpret your dreams
- Practice methods to remember dreams
- Review of the Latest scientific information on sleep, dreaming and health
What you’ll receive with the Class
- 5 hour class delivered via an online zoom webinar.
- Class Notes and resource Links
- Workshop
- Invitation to the weekly Dream Group
- Dream interpretation session with HughJohn
Please register now and I’ll be looking forward to having you in class. Please call me for any questions 310-899-9453. Thanks and Aloha !!!
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Translation Saturday Meeting August 29
(Image courtesy of Steve Hines and AI)
August 29: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST
Mike Zonta, H.W., M.
In a crisis — any crisis — The Prosperos offers Translation. Translation Saturday Meetings is a weekly series of Translations, live and up to date on the issues of the day, personal or national.
It is not a Translation workshop, It is not a Translation class. It is a group Translation. And it is restricted to those who have taken Translation class. So if you have never taken Translation class, check the calendar tab on The Prosperos website (TheProsperos.org) or get in touch with us and we will schedule a class.
Last week our sense testimony was: Changing our beliefs can result in suffering or in awakening. And our conclusion was: The omnipresent harmoniousness of Truth is all that can be known.
Then we asked ChatGPT to Translate the same sense testimony.
We are skipping our meeting on August 22 so everyone can attend HughJohn’s Lucid Dreaming class. Here’s the link to that class: Register at https://tinyurl.com/4z9e7et6
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Here’s the link to the Translation group: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81749347119
For more info and link to join please email Mike Zonta at:
Weekly Translation: Lung capacity reduced maybe due to tumor.
By Mike Zonta, BB editor
Translation is a 5-step process of “straight thinking in the abstract” comparing and contrasting what seems to be truth with what you can syllogistically, axiomatically and mathematically (using word equations) prove is the truth. It is not an effort to change, alter or heal anything other than our consciousness.
The claims in a Translation should be outrageous and mind-blowing, but they are always (or should always be) based on self-evident syllogistic reasoning. Here is one Translation from this week.
1) Truth is that which is so. That which is not truth is not so. Therefore truth is all that is. Truth being all is therefore otherless, therefore one, therefore united, therefore whole, therefore complete, therefore perfect. I think therefore I am. Since I am and since Truth is all that is, I cannot be other than all that is, therefore the beingness of me is Truth. Since I am mind (self-evident) and since I am Truth (or the beingness of me is Truth), therefore Truth is Mind/Consciousness. (Two things being equal to a third thing are equal to each other.)
2) Lung capacity reduced maybe due to tumor.
Word-tracking:
lung: light, rapid
breath: odour (odor), breed, to keep warm by breathing on, life, spirit, anima/animus comes from to breathe, prana, life force, Atman, expire vs. inspire.
Catch your breath.
Breath easy.
Take my breath away.
tumor: growth, cancer, mass
mass: accumulation of matter
matter: mother
3) Truth being all that is is therefore all that lives. Therefore Truth is life. Truth being life is therefore living, is therefore breath, is therefore spirit. Therefore Truth is Spirit. Since Truth is Spirit and since there is no lack of Truth in an infinite Universe, therefore there is no lack of spirit in an infinite universe. Therefore Truth is infinitely spirited. Truth being infinitely spirited and Truth being all there is, there is nothing other than all which could block or get in the way of Truth. Therefore Truth is the unobstructed/unobstructable spirit of infinite Mind/Truth being. Truth being all life and truth being infinite (without limit, therefore infinite), there is no beginning or ending to life, therefore Life has no parents, therefore Life has no mother.
4) Truth is life.
Truth is Spirit.
Truth is infinitely spirited.
Truth is the unobstructed/unobstructable spirit of infinite Mind/Truth being.
Life has no parents,
Life has no mother.
5) Breathe easy: the pathway is clear for the unobstructed expression of Spirit.
And now I’ll ask ChatGPT:
Me: Please Translate the following sense testimony: Lung capacity is reduced maybe due to a tumor.
ChatGPT: Certainly. I’ll follow the form we’ve developed, including your expanded Step 1 and the word-tracking half-step.
1. Statement of Being
Truth is that which is so. That which is not Truth is not so. Therefore Truth is all that is. Truth being all is therefore only. Truth being only is therefore one. Truth being one is therefore in agreement, at peace, harmonious, atoned.
I think, therefore I am. Since I am and since Truth is all that is, I cannot be outside or other than all that is; therefore my beingness is the same beingness as Truth, or my being is Truth being. Since I am consciousness (self-evident), and since my being is the being of Truth, therefore the being of Truth is consciousness/Mind.
2. Sense Testimony
“Lung capacity is reduced maybe due to a tumor.”
The testimony reports an apparent physical condition and then proposes a possible cause.
There are actually two claims here:
- Lung capacity is reduced.
- A tumor may be responsible.
The word “maybe” is significant. The second claim is explicitly uncertain—it is a hypothesis rather than established fact.
2½. Word-Tracking
Lung
From Latin pulmo, “lung.”
The lungs are organs associated with breathing, respiration, and the exchange of air.
Metaphorically, breath has long been associated with life and animation.
Capacity
From Latin capacitas, from capax, “able to contain.”
Capacity means:
- ability to contain
- ability to receive
- maximum amount
- potential
This is interesting metaphysically because capacity describes a measure or limitation of function; it does not describe the nature of Being itself.
Reduced
From Latin reducere, “to lead back, bring back.”
Reduced means:
- made smaller
- diminished
- lessened
Again, it describes degree, not identity.
Maybe
An expression of uncertainty:
- perhaps
- possibly
- it may be
The testimony itself therefore acknowledges that its proposed explanation is not known.
Tumor
From Latin tumor, “swelling,” from tumēre, “to swell.”
The original word describes a swelling or enlargement; it does not itself mean cancer.
That distinction is useful: the word tumor describes an appearance or physical condition, while the testimony assigns it a possible causal role.
3. Argument
Truth is all that is.
My physical body is an expression within experience, but my body is not the totality of my Being.
Lung capacity may appear to be reduced, but a measurement of physical capacity cannot establish a limitation of consciousness or Being.
The word “maybe” acknowledges that the proposed cause has not been established.
Therefore I need not translate an uncertainty into a certainty.
A possible physical cause is not an absolute statement about Reality.
Since my being is Truth being, and since Truth is consciousness/Mind, my Being cannot be reduced to a physical measurement or to an assumed diagnosis.
Whatever the physical circumstance may be, Truth remains whole, harmonious, and unlimited.
Therefore the appearance of reduced capacity does not establish reduced Being.
4. Summing Up Results
Physical capacity does not define Being.
An uncertain cause is not an established fact.
Reduction of physical function does not reduce consciousness.
Truth is not limited by physical measurement.
Truth is infinite Intelligence.
5. Establishing the Absolute
For this testimony, I particularly like:
My Being is not limited by the capacity of my body.
Or, if you want it more explicitly in terms of Truth:
Truth is unlimited, regardless of the capacity of my body.
I think the first is stronger as a personal fifth step because it directly addresses the hidden identification in the testimony: reduced physical capacity = reduced me.
And there is an important distinction here that I think makes this Translation stronger than simply saying “I am healthy”: Translation doesn’t require us to deny a physical fact in order to establish Truth. A person’s lung capacity can genuinely be reduced while their Being remains unlimited.
Also, because this particular testimony mentions a possible tumor, I would be especially careful not to let the metaphysical Translation become a substitute for medical investigation. The word-tracking of maybe actually gives us a useful protection against that: possibility is not certainty.
Me: Thank you very much.
ChatGPT: You’re very welcome. I really enjoy doing these with you—the word-tracking step in particular keeps opening up surprisingly rich paths into the testimony.
Me:
For information about Translation or other Prosperos classes go to: https://www.theprosperos.org/teaching.
Or, if you have taken Translation class, join us each Saturday for Translation Saturday Meeting at 11 a.m. Pacific time for current, up-to-the-minute Translations on the issues of the day. Email zonta1111@aol.com for the Zoom link.
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Book: “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany”
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
William L. Shirer
Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 years contained some of the most catastrophic events Western civilization has ever known.
No other powerful empire ever bequeathed such mountains of evidence about its birth and destruction as the Third Reich. When the bitter war was over, and before the Nazis could destroy their files, the Allied demand for unconditional surrender produced an almost hour-by-hour record of the nightmare empire built by Adolph Hitler. This record included the testimony of Nazi leaders and of concentration camp inmates, the diaries of officials, transcripts of secret conferences, army orders, private letters—all the vast paperwork behind Hitler’s drive to conquer the world.
The famed foreign correspondent and historian William L. Shirer, who had watched and reported on the Nazis since 1925, spent five and a half years sifting through this massive documentation. The result is a monumental study that has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of one of the most frightening chapters in the history of mankind.
This worldwide bestseller has been acclaimed as the definitive book on Nazi Germany; it is a classic work.
The accounts of how the United States got involved and how Hitler used Mussolini and Japan are astonishing, and the coverage of the war-from Germany’s early successes to her eventual defeat-is must reading.
About the author
William L. Shirer
William Lawrence Shirer was an American journalist and historian. He became known for his broadcasts on CBS from the German capital of Berlin through the first year of World War II.
Shirer first became famous through his account of those years in his Berlin Diary (published in 1941), but his greatest achievement was his 1960 book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, originally published by Simon & Schuster. This book of well over 1000 pages is still in print, and is a detailed examination of the Third Reich filled with historical information from German archives captured at the end of the war, along with impressions Shirer gained during his days as a correspondent in Berlin. Later, in 1969, his work The Collapse of the Third Republic drew on his experience spent living and working in France from 1925 to 1933. This work is filled with historical information about the Battle of France from the secret orders and reports of the French High Command and of the commanding generals of the field. Shirer also used the memoirs, journals, and diaries of the prominent British, Italian, Spanish, and French figures in government, Parliament, the Army, and diplomacy.
(Goodreads.com)
An Open-Ended Conversation with Tom Campbell
New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Aug 20, 2026 New Thinking Allowed Audio Podcast Tom Campbell, a physicist, is author of the three-volume set, My Big TOE, describing a meta-theory that offers an account of the paranormal, as well as other scientific mysteries. He is also the founder of the Center for Unification of Science and Consciousness. His websites are https://www.my-big-toe.com/ and https://cusac.org Tom explains why he now calls his model the reality rather than a reality after 20 years of finding no factual violation of it. He describes consciousness as fundamental — an information system that computes our physical universe as a virtual reality entropy-reduction trainer where we evolve through choices between love and fear. Campbell discusses entropy, synchronicity, alien encounters, dreams, and why living gracefully with uncertainty matters more than asking if an experience was real. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:04:02 Early paranormal experiences with Bob Monroe 00:17:29 Entropy and consciousness evolution 00:30:53 Virtual reality and the data stream 00:42:11 Love versus fear as ethical choices 00:54:59 Science beyond materialism and mathematics 01:07:56 Synchronicity and non-human intelligence 01:20:00 Fear tests and interactions with beings 01:35:07 Meaning of experiences and growth 01:53:18 Conclusion New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “Parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on Thursday, July 2, 2026)
Derek Landy on the lies we tell ourselves
Landy in Edinburgh, August 2011
“The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it’s a decent girl?”
“Wouldn’t I know which one I was?”
“Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”
~ Derek Landy
Derek Landy is an Irish author and screenwriter, known for the Skulduggery Pleasant and Demon Road book series. Since 2018, he has also written numerous comic book series at Marvel Comics. Wikipedia
Born October 23, 1974 (age 51 years), Lusk, Ireland
Hobbits, Neanderthals, and Dragon Man | Particles of Thought
NOVA PBS Official Aug 13, 2026 Particles of Thought What if Homo sapiens weren’t the only humans? Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi joins Hakeem to explore a lost world where Homo sapiens once shared the planet with at least seven other human species. They dig into Neanderthal culture, the mysterious Denisovans, and the ancient DNA discoveries rewriting the story of who we are. Then Ella turns the lens on herself, sharing her personal journey from creationist to becoming a leading expert on human evolution, and the long, difficult journey that challenged everything she thought she knew. It’s a conversation about human origins in every sense of the phrase.