The word opulent is etymologically related to opus through a shared Proto-Indo-European root that connects the concepts of “work” and “abundance”.
Shared Root: Both words derive from the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) root *op-, which means “to work, produce in abundance”.
Latin Evolution:
Opus (Latin): Means “a work, labor, exertion”.
Opulentus (Latin): The adjective from which “opulent” is derived, meaning “wealthy, rich; splendid, noble”. It is rooted in ops (“wealth, power, resources”), which is a sibling word to opus.
The Connection: The connection between them suggests that, in a classical sense, opulence is the result of accumulated work, labor, or productive ability.
Dissimilation:Opulent developed from a suffixed form, likely op-en-ent-, which changed to opulent- to avoid repeating the ‘n’ sound, a linguistic process called dissimilation.
Word Family: Through the same opus root, opulent is related to other terms like opera, operate, cooperate, and magnus opus. Sesquiotica +6
Marie Watts was born in 1896, and passed on in 1983. She had an illumination at the age of seven. As a very little girl, Marie often stood in the yard at night with her hands reaching for the sky. She felt that God was the universe, and if she could only touch a star, she could find God.
She was raised in a Methodist Church, but eventually moved onto Christian Science. Marie studied all the major religions of the world, and especially the many translations of the bible. She also read the writings of Lillian De Waters, and Joel Goldsmith for a while. Believing her thirst for God could be quenched through music, she embarked on a career as a concert pianist and, at one point, decided to teach piano for an extensive period of time.
In 1957, in a small town in Nevada, “Just Be Yourself” and the textbook to this approach, “Your Self Revealed”, were written, and the Ultimate Absolute was born. The name of her teaching is “The Ultimate”, and its major thesis is that God is All. Many writings, tapes and lecture/class tours followed until well into the 1970’s.
Madman Films May 1, 2024 Now showing Australian cinemas. Find cinemas and session times here: http://mad.mn/wilding Based on Isabella Tree’s best-selling book by the same title, #Wilding tells the incredible story of a young couple that bets on nature for the future of their failing, four-hundred-year-old estate. They set to work with their groundbreaking vision, battling entrenched tradition and major forces along the way, daring to place the fate of their farm in the hands of nature. Ripping down the fences, they set the land back to the wild and entrust its recovery to a motley mix of animals both tame and wild. It is the beginning of a grand experiment that will become one of the most significant rewilding experiments in Europe and beyond.
Apr 3, 2020 James Brown – Cold Sweat (Live Zaire ’74)
“Cold Sweat”
Come on, bring it! Lay it on me! I don’t care, alright, about your past, dig it I just want, hey! My love to last, come on I don’t care, hit me band, about your faults, huh! I just want to satisfy your thoughts, hey!
Come on! When you kiss me, hold my hand Make me understand, hey! One more time I break out, huh! In a cold sweat, yiii!
Get down, uh! Get on down, get on down! Come on! I don’t care, alright, about your wants I just want to tell you, baby, about the do’s and don’ts Huh! I don’t care about the way you treat me, darlin’
Uh! Ahhh, when you kiss me, yeah, and ya miss me Hold my hand, it makes me understand I break out… in a cold sweat, hey!
Get down, come on! Get it, get it, get it! Baby baby baby, come on! Do it, do it, do it, uh! Go right home, come on! Get it, get it! Come on…
The past is a bucket of ashes.
1
The woman named Tomorrow
sits with a hairpin in her teeth
and takes her time
and does her hair the way she wants it
and fastens at last the last braid and coil
and puts the hairpin where it belongs
and turns and drawls: Well, what of it?
My grandmother, Yesterday, is gone.
What of it? Let the dead be dead.
2
The doors were cedar
and the panels strips of gold
and the girls were golden girls
and the panels read and the girls chanted:
We are the greatest city,
the greatest nation:
nothing like us ever was.
The doors are twisted on broken hinges.
Sheets of rain swish through on the wind
where the golden girls ran and the panels read:
We are the greatest city,
the greatest nation,
nothing like us ever was.
3
It has happened before.
Strong men put up a city and got
a nation together,
And paid singers to sing and women
to warble: We are the greatest city,
the greatest nation,
nothing like us ever was.
And while the singers sang
and the strong men listened
and paid the singers well
and felt good about it all,
there were rats and lizards who listened
… and the only listeners left now
… are … the rats … and the lizards.
And there are black crows
crying, "Caw, caw,"
bringing mud and sticks
building a nest
over the words carved
on the doors where the panels were cedar
and the strips on the panels were gold
and the golden girls came singing:
We are the greatest city,
the greatest nation:
nothing like us ever was.
The only singers now are crows crying, "Caw, caw,"
And the sheets of rain whine in the wind and doorways.
And the only listeners now are … the rats … and the lizards.
4
The feet of the rats
scribble on the door sills;
the hieroglyphs of the rat footprints
chatter the pedigrees of the rats
and babble of the blood
and gabble of the breed
of the grandfathers and the great-grandfathers
of the rats.
And the wind shifts
and the dust on a door sill shifts
and even the writing of the rat footprints
tells us nothing, nothing at all
about the greatest city, the greatest nation
where the strong men listened
and the women warbled: Nothing like us ever was.
This poem is in the public domain.
Carl Sandburg was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes in his lifetime—the first in 1919 for his poetry collection Corn Huskers, the second in 1940 for his biography Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, and the third in 1951 for Complete Poems.
One in five American adults (19%) believes they’re psychic, and Gen Z leads all generations, with 30% identifying as psychic and reporting about two intuitive moments per month, double what baby boomers experience.
The most common “psychic” experiences involve simply knowing something is “off” (33%), sensing dishonesty (28%), or feeling it’s time to walk away from a situation (26%).
35% of respondents admit they can’t reliably tell the difference between a real gut feeling and anxiety, and nearly half blame social media and tech for dulling their instincts.
Americans are a practical bunch, at least on paper. But scratch the surface and roughly 49 million adults, about one in five, quietly believe they have psychic abilities. That’s the headline finding from fresh survey data released this month, and it lands at an odd moment in history: a country flooded with data, algorithms, and artificial intelligence is also a country where millions of people trust a hunch over a headline.
The figures come from a Talker Research poll of 2,000 American adults, which set out to map how everyday people use intuition in their decision-making. Across the full sample, 19% said they consider themselves psychic. Another 71% said they rely on intuition at least sometimes. Only 11% dismissed the concept entirely. Over the past year alone, the average respondent reported 18 moments they’d chalk up to some kind of psychic flash.
The numbers suggest that belief in a sixth sense hasn’t faded alongside the rise of science and smartphones. If anything, it’s holding steady, and in some corners of the population, it’s growing.
Who Believes They’re Psychic in America
Gen Z leads the pack by a wide margin. Thirty percent of Gen Z respondents consider themselves psychic, and they report roughly two intuitive moments per month, double what baby boomers say they experience. Millennials and Gen X fall somewhere in between, though each generation has its own specialty.
Gen X respondents were the most likely to say they can predict how situations will play out, with 21% claiming that particular skill. Millennials scored highest on what the survey dubbed “dream-tuition,” also at 21%, referring to hunches that arrive during sleep. Gen Z reported the most “lucky” moments triggered by a feeling, at 15%.
When money enters the picture, the generation gap closes fast. Gen Z and baby boomers tied for financial intuition, with 14% of each group saying their gut steers their wallet well. On the dating front, Gen Z and millennials were neck and neck at 14%, both reporting a sixth sense about romantic prospects.
25% of respondents reported a gut feeling that something was about to happen. (Photo by Wyron A on Unsplash)
What Psychic Americans Say Their Intuition Tells Them
Respondents described the situations where their inner voice speaks loudest. The most common answer, cited by 33%, was simply knowing when something is “off” without being able to explain why. Sensing dishonesty came in second at 28%, followed by the feeling that it was time to walk away from a person, job, or situation, at 26%.
Specific experiences over the past year painted a familiar picture. A quarter of respondents said they’d had a bad feeling about something that turned out to be accurate, and the same share reported a gut feeling that something was about to happen. Twenty-four percent thought of a friend moments before that friend texted. Nineteen percent said they knew what someone was going to say before the words came out.
Still, 35% of all respondents admitted they aren’t sure they can tell the difference between a real gut feeling and plain old anxiety. That admission matters, because mistaking one for the other can lead people to act on fear dressed up as wisdom.
The Forces Pulling Americans Toward, and Away From, Their Gut
Adam Dickinson, a former FBI intelligence analyst who now advises clients on balancing logic and intuition, offered a way to tell the two signals apart. “Intuition is a second intelligence channel: it arrives quickly, feels light and steady and quietly points you toward what fits,” he said. Anxiety, in his framing, works differently. It’s urgent, repetitive, and trying to simulate every possible bad outcome at once.
Respondents had clear views about which modern forces help their intuition and which ones dull it. Therapy and mental health care topped the supportive list at 44%, followed by easier access to expert advice at 40%. Dickinson said he sees therapy’s rise as a kind of training program for reading one’s own inner signals.
On the other side of the ledger, social media led the list of distractions, with 46% saying it has made them less tuned in. Remote work drew 40%, and a heavier dependence on technology overall was cited by 47%. Forty-three percent pointed to the rise of artificial intelligence as a reason their trust in their own judgment has slipped. News consumption split the room almost evenly: 36% said current events had sharpened their intuition, and another 36% said the news cycle has left them less sure of themselves.
Whether 19% of Americans truly have a sixth sense or are simply skilled at picking up on signals most people miss is a question this survey can’t answer. What the numbers do show is that intuition, real or imagined, remains a force millions trust when making decisions about money, love, work, and safety. In an age built on data, a surprising number of Americans are still listening to something they can’t quite explain.
Survey Methodology
The findings come from an online poll of 2,000 American adults with internet access, conducted by Talker Research between March 5 and March 8, 2026. The sample was drawn from the general population, with results broken down by generation for cross-age comparisons. Talker Research participates in the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) Transparency Initiative, which means its full methodology is publicly available. The data comes from a commissioned survey rather than a peer-reviewed academic study, so the results reflect self-reported beliefs and experiences rather than clinically measured abilities. No independent verification of respondents’ psychic claims was attempted, and the survey captures attitudes at a single point in time rather than tracking changes over a longer period.
Consciousness creates all material reality. Biological processes do not create consciousness. This conceptual breakthrough turns traditional scientific thinking upside down. In An End to Upside Down Thinking, Mark Gober traces his journey – he explores compelling scientific evidence from a diverse set of disciplines, ranging from psychic phenomena, to near-death experiences, to quantum physics. With cutting-edge thinkers like two-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Dr. Ervin Laszlo, Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences Dr. Dean Radin, and New York Times bestselling author Larry Dossey, MD supporting this thesis, this book will rock the scientific community and mainstream generalists interested in understanding the true nature of reality. Today’s disarray around the globe can be linked, at its core, to a fundamental misunderstanding of our reality. This book aims to shift our collective outlook, reshaping our view of human potential and how we treat one another. The book’s implications encourage much-needed revisions in science, technology, and medicine. General readers will find comfort in the implied worldview, which will impact their happiness and everyday decisions related to business, health and politics. Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time meets Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now.
Dr. Edward Hoffman, a world-renowned thinker and writer in humanistic psychology, reveals how the Kabbalah exerted a profound influence on the establishment and growth of Western psychological thought through such towering thinkers as Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and Abraham Maslow. With a new introduction and updated bibliography, The Way of Splendor: The 25th Anniversary begins with an historical presentation of Kabalistic metaphysics and cosmology, then discusses the psychological dimensions of Kabbalah on such topics as dreams, meditation, sexuality, community, health and emotions.
Robert Anton Wilson’s The New Inquisition seeks to rescue science from fundamentalist materialism, and the rest of us from the broader implications of this approach. It is at once a philosophical treatise and an act of cognitive defiance. His message is more important right now than it was when he wrote it. Our digital fundamentalists see human beings as an engineering problem to be solved. Behaviors and thoughts that do not conform to our algorithmically generated profiles are to be eliminated, and humans shepherded into the reality tunnels that obey the laws of rationality alone.
This book presents the Extra-Consciousness Hypothesis: a unified model that connects UFO encounters, near-death experiences, Fae folklore, religious visions, cattle mutilations, and the Skinwalker Ranch hitchhiker effect into a single coherent framework grounded in plasma physics, neuroscience, and consciousness studies. It draws on the work of Jacques Vallée, Jeffrey Kripal, Patrick Harpur, Bernardo Kastrup, Roger Penrose, and dozens of other researchers to propose that the Phenomenon is not arriving from another planet. It is arriving from another mode of reality that has been with us all along.
Jupiter’s vastness is measured not only in mass, but in relation – its moons in orbit, its storms in dialogue. The fleeting white outbreak and the ancient Great Red Spot coexist within the same dynamic system. Across scale and time, the universe appears less as chaos, and more as intelligible process. (Featured Image from New Thinking Allowed)
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