New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Jul 22, 2026 Lorna Byrne is a spiritual teacher, international bestselling author, and philanthropist. Her books have been published in more than 50 countries. Lorna has been seeing angels since she was a baby. She sees angels, physically, with as much clarity as the rest of us see people. She is author of seven books, including A Message of Hope from the Angels, Stairways to Heaven, and Angels in My Hair: The True Story of a Modern-Day Irish Mystic. She is the founder of the Lorna Byrne Children’s Foundation. Her website is lornabyrne.com. In this video, rebooted from 2022, Lorna shares that before she could speak, she has been able to communicate with angels and spirits. Even though she is severely dyslexic, she has written bestselling books. All that she has learned was taught to her by angels. Among her countless precognitive experiences, include knowing, at the age of 10, who she would marry. Millions of angels are on earth. Although, she describes many angels as unemployed. She shares how we can employ them to receive their messages and help. She has had several near-death experiences (NDEs), including visiting heaven. She says we have NDEs to know that we don’t die. Lorna gives a special message from the angels to New Thinking Allowed. New Thinking Allowed CoHost, Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L, is a licensed occupational therapist, intuitive healer and coach, and spiritual guide based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Emmy is the founder of the Intuitive Connections and Holistic OT communities. She is the author of Intuitive Development: How to Trust Your Inner Knowing for Guidance With Relationships, Health, and Spirituality. She offers intuitive coaching to help individuals access their inner guidance for clarity, healing, and meaningful decision-making. Her website is https://emmyvadnais.com (Recorded on October 28, 2022)
Talking to Angels with Lorna Byrne
Free Will Astrology: Week of July 23, 2026
by Rob Brezsny | July 21, 2026
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Authentic love songs are rare. Much of contemporary music leans toward infatuation, sex, heartbreak and fury, while few artists seem interested in singing unabashedly about unique expressions of tenderness and enduring devotion. In the months ahead, Aries, your inner life will be gloriously out of step with that trend. Your heart is poised to wake up in sometimes surprising ways. Even if you’re not a trained vocalist, you may feel regular urges to express your passion and adoration in song. If I could give you a gift, it might be a curated playlist packed with the most radiant love songs of the last sixty years, so you’d have a soundtrack worthy of the lush emotions that I suspect will bloom in you.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Nobel Prize-winning Taurus physicist Richard Feynman kept a notebook titled “Things I Don’t Know About.” When he came across a question he couldn’t answer, he added it to the collection. I recommend a similar discipline for you now, Taurus, but with a twist. Keep a log of “Beautiful Mysteries I Don’t Really Need to Solve.” Rejoice that not every paradox and puzzle needs resolution. Savor the fun fact that some riddles enrich your life precisely because they remain open-ended. Hooray for not knowing! My theory is that some of your finest qualities will flourish in the presence of productive uncertainty.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the early days of radio broadcasting, engineers sometimes spoke of “tuning the receiver.” Even when a station was transmitting clearly, a listener might hear static until their radio dial was adjusted to exactly the right frequency. The message was present and clear; the challenge was homing in on it. There’s a similar phenomenon going on in your life, Gemini. Useful information, fun inspiration and interesting possibilities may be circulating in your vicinity. But you will need to adjust your attention so you can actually receive it. To bring the signals into focus, listen differently. Or pose alternate questions. Or pay attention to sources you don’t usually notice.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Neuroscientists have found that remembering the past and imagining the future rely on many of the same brain networks. That overlap helps explain why vivid visualization may influence our emotions and behavior. When we repeatedly simulate alarming scenarios about what could conceivably happen, our brains treat them much like memories. This makes us prone to spotting “threats” in places that may be relatively safe. The good news is that the coming months will be an excellent time to retrain this habit, Cancerian. More than ever, your imagination can be a precision instrument you use to recalibrate yourself away from fear and toward possibility. Fantasize about wonderful possibilities with the same intensity that in the past you have dwelled on scary speculations.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Oak trees produce far more acorns than could ever grow into trees. Squirrels bury thousands and forget many of them, preparing the way for the next generation of forest. The trees succeed through strategic overproduction. I invite you to adopt their method, Leo. In the coming weeks, overproduce. Make more than you can track. Release more than you can manage. You don’t need to be perfect, just abundant. PS: This expansive capacity is yours to explore with delight and confidence, I guarantee it.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the nineteenth century, Virgo naturalist Alexander von Humboldt helped launch the modern science of ecology. While exploring South America, he came to a revolutionary conclusion that’s obvious to us now: Nature isn’t a collection of separate objects but an intricate web of relationships. Mountains shape the weather. The plants and pollinators rely on each other. Underground mycelial networks perform many services for the trees. I propose that you channel your inner Humboldt, Virgo. Shift your focus away from isolated problems and instead observe the larger systems. Solutions may be elusive when you’re bound to a narrow view but strikingly clear when you perceive the wider pattern. If you’d like to take bold action, rely on the spacious perspective.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The coming months will be a favorable time to triple your devotion to the art of rowdy fun. I urge you to attend more revels and celebrations than usual, and always be ready to energize social functions with infusions of festive wit and gleeful conviviality. You will also have extra power to inject buoyant amusements into your intimate liaisons. Therefore, dear Libra, I designate you to be the Party Maestro of the Zodiac. I hope you will carry out your role with maximum exuberance, ingenuity and joy.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): What if I told you that your most personal and potent dream can come true—but only through months of persistence, disciplined sacrifice and stretches of bewildering but fascinating uncertainty? Would you reorder your priorities to chase it with every ounce of creativity you have? Or would you set it aside in favor of a safer and easier possibility? Between now and the end of October, I predict the moment will arrive to choose one path or the other.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): On some occasions, you just don’t have the power to act with impeccable integrity and do the totally right thing. Doing the partially right thing may, however, be a useful and compassionate option. I bet this will soon be helpful advice for you. Blunt truth: There are moments when the “perfect” ethical, emotional or practical choice simply isn’t available: The timing is off, resources are thin, or someone else’s limits block the ideal outcome. In those situations, waiting around for the flawless solution is a kind of paralysis that keeps you stuck in guilt or indecision. Instead, you can aim for the best available good.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In botany and gardening, there is a practice called “companion planting.” Certain plants thrive when grown near each other because they share nutrients, repel or distract pests, or improve soil and microclimate. Here’s an example: Indigenous peoples of the Americas planted the “Three Sisters” together: Corn gave beans a living trellis, beans added nitrogen to the soil, and squash shaded the ground to hold moisture and deter weeds. This principle may be useful for you to contemplate now, Capricorn. The people, tools and influences you place near one another will influence your productivity and well-being. By blending complementary energies, your efforts will flourish without strain.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Author Alain de Botton observed that “the person we marry is always far more remarkable, frightening and complex than we quite realized when we first declared our love.” Rather than feeling alarmed by this revelation, I invite you to find it thrilling as you apply it to your best allies. The fact that they contain mysteries you haven’t yet plumbed means the relationships aren’t likely to grow stale. There are undiscovered depths in those you may think you know completely. My advice: Approach even your most familiar intimacies as ongoing discoveries.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Do you ever fear or distrust your own desires? Are you suspicious of achieving “too much” success? Do you ever feel starved for hope, but belittle yourself for wanting it? Do you go emotionally blank in the face of possibilities that should thrill you? If so, the coming weeks could bring healing and a breakthrough. You will have a chance to perform a rare kind of exorcism—not of garish demons or foolish ghosts, but of the quiet defeatism and lack of faith that dull your brilliance. Seize this moment, dear Pisces! Purge the automatic doubts that the world has trained you to mistake for wisdom.
Homework: Name an unnecessary taboo and how you would violate it if it didn’t hurt anyone. tinyurl.com/s9s9s9s9
The Restoration of Democracy Commemoration in Greece, July 24
(Image from tovima.com)
The Restoration of Democracy Day is not an official public or national holiday in Greece. It is instead recognized as an official national observance.
The Restoration of Democracy Day in Greece commemorates the July 24, 1974 fall of the military junta and the return of civilian rule under Konstantinos Karamanlis, marking the birth of the Third Hellenic Republic.
The Military Dictatorship (1967–1974)
- A coup d’état on April 21, 1967, led by right-wing army colonels, overthrew the elected government.
- The regime stripped citizens of basic political and personal rights, jailed or exiled political opponents, and used strict censorship.
- Popular resistance peaked with the Athens Polytechnic Uprising in November 1973, which the junta suppressed with tanks, causing civilian deaths.
The Collapse of the Junta - The regime tried to orchestrate a coup in Cyprus in July 1974, prompting a Turkish military
invasion of the island. - The catastrophic handling of the crisis caused the military regime to collapse under
leadership of Dimitrios Ioannidis. - Military leaders surrendered power and called for a national unity government on July 23,
1974.
The Return to Democracy (Metapolitefsi) - Konstantinos Karamanlis flew back from exile in Paris and was sworn in as Prime Minister at dawn on July 24, 1974.
- The new leadership freed political prisoners, legalized banned political parties like the Communist Party, and set free elections for October 1974.
- A democratic constitution was adopted in 1975, and a historic referendum ended the Greek monarchy.
(Contributed by Zoë Robinson, H.W., M.)
Jesus’s Sabbath Get-Together
“As Judaism, except in Jerusalem, had, properly speaking, no clergy, the first comer stood up, gave the lessons of the day (parasha and haphtara), and added thereto a midrash, or entirely personal commentary, in which he expressed his own ideas.[5] This was the origin of the “homily,” the finished model of which we find in the small treatises of Philo. The audience had the right of making objections and putting questions to the reader; so that the meeting soon degenerated into a kind of free assembly. It had a president,[6] “elders,”[7] a hazzan, i.e., a recognized reader, or apparitor,[8] deputies,[9] who were secretaries or messengers, and conducted the correspondence between one synagogue and another, a shammash, or sacristan.[10] The synagogues were thus really little independent republics, having an extensive jurisdiction. Like all municipal corporations, up to an advanced period of the Roman empire, they issued honorary decrees,[11] voted resolutions, which had the force of law for the community, and ordained corporal punishments, of which the hazzan was the ordinary executor.[12]
“With the extreme activity of mind which has always characterized the Jews, such an institution, notwithstanding the arbitrary rigors it tolerated, could not fail to give rise to very animated discussions. Thanks to the synagogues, Judaism has been able to sustain intact eighteen centuries of persecution. They were like so many little separate worlds, in which the national spirit was preserved, and which offered a ready field for intestine struggles. A large amount of passion was expended there. The quarrels for precedence were of constant occurrence. To have a seat of honor in the first rank was the reward of great piety, or the most envied privilege of wealth.[1] On the other hand, the liberty, accorded to every one, of instituting himself reader and commentator of the sacred text, afforded marvelous facilities for the propagation of new ideas. This was one of the great instruments of power wielded by Jesus, and the most habitual means he employed to propound his doctrinal instruction.[2] He entered the synagogue, and stood up to read; the hazzan offered him the book, he unrolled it, and reading the parasha or the haphtara of the day, he drew from this reading a lesson in conformity with his own ideas.[3] As there were few Pharisees in Galilee, the discussion did not assume that degree of vivacity, and that tone of acrimony against him, which at Jerusalem would have arrested him at the outset. These good Galileans had never heard discourses so adapted to their cheerful imaginations.[4] They admired him, they encouraged him, they found that he spoke well, and that his reasons were convincing. He answered the most difficult objections with confidence; the charm of his speech and his person captivated the people, whose simple minds had not yet been cramped by the pedantry of the doctors.”
[Footnote 1: Matt. xxiii. 6; Epist. James ii. 3; Talmud of Bab., Sukka, 51 b.]
[Footnote 2: Matt. iv. 23, ix. 35; Mark i. 21, 39, vi. 2; Luke iv. 15, 16, 31, 44, xiii. 10; John xviii. 20.]
[Footnote 3: Luke iv. 16, and following. Comp. Mishnah, Joma, vii. 1.]
[Footnote 4: Matt. vii. 28, xiii. 54; Mark i. 22, vi. 1; Luke iv. 22, 32.]
[Footnote 5: Philo, quoted in Eusebius, Praep. Evang., viii. 7, and Quod Omnis Probus Liber, Sec. 12; Luke iv. 16; Acts xiii. 15, xv. 21; Mishnah, Megilla, iii. 4, and following.]
[Footnote 6: [Greek: Archisunagogos].]
[Footnote 7: [Greek: Presbyteroi].]
[Footnote 8: [Greek: Huperetes].]
[Footnote 9: [Greek: Apostoloi], or [Greek: angeloi].]
[Footnote 10: [Greek: Diakonos]. Mark v. 22, 35, and following; Luke iv. 20, vii. 3, viii. 41, 49, xiii. 14; Acts xiii. 15, xviii. 8, 17; Rev. ii. 1; Mishnah, Joma, vii. 1; Rosh Hasshana, iv. 9; Talm. of Jerus., Sanhedrim, i. 7; Epiph., Adv. Haer., xxx. 4, 11.]
[Footnote 11: Inscription of Berenice, in the Corpus Inscr. Graec., No. 5361; inscription of Kasyoun, in the Mission de Phenicie, book iv. [in the press.]]
[Footnote 12: Matt. v. 25, x. 17, xxiii. 34; Mark xiii. 9; Luke xx. 11, xxi. 12; Acts xxii. 19, xxvi. 11; 2 Cor. xi. 24; Mishnah, Maccoth, iii. 12; Talmud of Babylon, Megilla, 7 b; Epiph., Adv. Haer., xxx. 11.]
Link to The Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16581/pg16581-images.html
Government website names David Pakman and Amy Goodman
- Google AI Overview
The Official White House Website features a “Media Offenders” / media bias portal that catalogs independent commentators and journalists, including political podcaster David Pakman, criticizing their coverage. (Note: While Amy Goodman and her show Democracy Now! are frequently discussed in relation to independent media landscapes and retrospectives like the documentary Steal This Story, Please!, she is distinct from the specific digital creators highlighted on this registry). [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
White House Media Oversight Portal
- The List: Published on White House Media Bias Reporter, targeting prominent progressive digital influencers and commentators.
- The Purpose: The administration characterizes the database as accountability and a response to alleged media bias or misleading claims.
- The Reaction: Critics, free-press advocates, and named commentators have called the government-hosted list an escalation and an unacceptable pressure campaign against independent press. [1, 2, 3]
Senator Jeff Merkley’s Ten Rules of Trump’s Authoritarian Playbook
Authoritarianism isn’t down the street or around the corner — it is here right now. We are at the most perilous moment for our democracy since the Civil War.
We now have all three ingredients of a strongman state in the United States:
- a rubber-stamp Congress doing the President’s bidding
- a Supreme Court finding “invisible ink” in the Constitution to enhance the President’s powers; and
- a power-hungry president behaving like a king, breaking the law and violating the checks and balances of our Constitution.
People think of democracies dying at the hands of men with guns. But, in the modern era, they more often die at the hands of elected officials who erode the separation of powers to solidify a strongman state.
That will require robust citizen action and an unmistakable rejection of authoritarianism at the next election. Both are essential to restore and revitalize our democracy.
Our mission is clear: Let’s save our “We, The People” republic!
All my best,
Senator Jeffrey A. Merkley
Download “Ring the Alarm Bells: The Ten Rules of Trump’s Authoritarian Playbook”
The Ten Rules of Trump’s
Authoritarian Playbook
RULE ONE: Fire the Referees
RULE TWO: Pack the Government with Loyalists
RULE THREE: Demonize the Enemy Within
RULE FOUR: Disregard Due Process
RULE FIVE: Silence Free Speech
RULE SIX: Steal Congress’ Power of the Purse
RULE SEVEN: Abuse Government Authorities
RULE EIGHT: Weaponize the Justice System
RULE NINE: Use the Military to Suppress Dissent
RULE TEN: Rig the Next Election
Your Power as a Citizen
1: Join an organized, nonviolent protest or
demonstration.
2: Write and call your elected officials – and share
personal stories!
3: Join an organized, nonviolent general strike or
boycott.
4: Host a monthly friends meeting to discuss policy and
political issues.
5: Help someone running for office.
6: Run for office!
7: Join an affinity group that organizes around issues.
8: Train as an observer of ICE operations.
9: Help turn out the vote.
10: Show support for vulnerable communities.
Prosperos Sunday Meeting July 26
Thane – Transcendentalism
- Sunday, July 26, 2026
- 11:00 AM 12:00 PM
Sunday Meeting – The World of Thane
Transcendentalism Lession #1
Excerpt : “There is a Beatles song that’s very popular. The title of the song is ‘All You Need Is Love’. Now, this is dead wrong. It should be the other way around: All Love Needs is You. Love needs practitioners of love; love needs doers of love. Love is courage – that is, the daring to accept the foredoomed happiness that will come to anyone who learns how to love.”
Recorded June 7, 1970
Approximately 60:00 minutes
Zoom link to follow.
Ancient Magic Rituals with Irving Finkel
New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Jul 20, 2026 Irving Finkel, PhD, is Senior Assistant Keeper of ancient Mesopotamian script, languages, and cultures at the British Museum. He is the curator in charge of cuneiform inscriptions on tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotamia, of which the Middle East Department has the largest collection of any modern museum. He is author of several books, including, The First Ghosts: Most Ancient of Legacies, The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood, The Lewis Chessmen and What Happened to Them, and The Last Resort Library. The British Museum website is britishmuseum.org. In this video, rebooted from 2024, Irving Finkel shares the magical literature found in ancient Mesopotamia on tablets of clay with cuneiform writing in 2,500 B.C. that brings to life how the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians operated with primarily benevolent forces to nullify evil, drive out demons and ghosts, and navigate witches and wizards. New Thinking Allowed CoHost, Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L, is a licensed occupational therapist, intuitive healer and coach, and spiritual guide based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Emmy is the founder of the Intuitive Connections and Holistic OT communities. She is the author of Intuitive Development: How to Trust Your Inner Knowing for Guidance With Relationships, Health, and Spirituality. She offers intuitive coaching to help individuals access their inner guidance for clarity, healing, and meaningful decision-making. Her website is https://emmyvadnais.com (Recorded on March 8, 2024)
Paul Tillich on neurosis
“Neurosis is the way of avoiding nonbeing by avoiding being.”
~ Tillich
Paul Johannes Tillich was a German and American Christian existentialist philosopher, religious socialist, and Lutheran theologian who was one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century. Wikipedia
Born August 20, 1886, Starosiedle, Poland
Died October 22, 1965 (age 79 years), Chicago, IL
Erich Fromm on love
“Love isn’t something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn’t a feeling, it is a practice.”
~ Erich Fromm
Erich Seligmann Fromm (March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the United States.
Source: Wikipedia