Saturday, 8 August 2026

Post No. 3,503 - Some (hopefully) interesting reading / viewing / listening - Saturday 8th August, 2026

I recently found the following interestingoand/orouseful, and am posting them here inocase anyoneoelse does asowelll.  

 

 

  • “The Occult View of Identity in The Neverending Story”   https://matauryn.substack.com/p/the-occult-view-of-identity-in-the   “Alchemy, Jungian Shadow Work, and Thelemic Philosophy   ...   To me, this is one reason so many occult traditions place such a strong emphasis on developing the practitioner alongside developing power. We are almost always our own greatest obstacle. Without self-awareness, humility, and a willingness to confront our own flaws, the pursuit of power can become the very thing that undoes us.”   
  • “ET Contactee SHARES Messages From the Lyrans & Her NDE!”   https://youtu.be/En28AUVs-hk   “Near-death experience and UFO Podcast guest is Ash Banta, near death experiencer, psychic channel and ET Contactee that reveals messages from the Lyrans and More!”   An interesting - unusual, compared to my experience, but still interesting - perspective.   
  • “Can You Belong To Two Religions at Once? | A Quaker Perspective”   https://youtu.be/K4GvD2llhC8   “In this video, I talk about 'hyphenated Quakers' - Quakers who identify with another faith tradition. I talk about why this can happen in Quakerism, what the history of it is, the advantages and disadvantages and, if I were to be a hyphenated Quaker - which one would I be and why?”   Wow - I could be a Quagan :) FWIW, I started attending Quaker meetings (a) out of respect for Quakerism, and (b) for a regular gathering of a spiritual type, as I have constraints on my physical mobility, and online Pagan events are a bit rare. I view myself as a Pagan visiting in to Quaker space at those times, and don't consider I could, for instance, talk about Quakerism (apart from some historical matters such as involvement in abolition - and that only from the public history aspects), and I certainly DON’T see Christ as my saviour or anything in particular. However, after watching this video, I’m going to think about all that a bit more.   

 

I’ve decided to throw a few smalll personaloobservations (and/or vents/rants) into these posts - the sort of passingocomment that doesn’towarrant a note onoSubstack, let alone a complete standalone post here. And my next such comment is:    

I have changed my breathing exercises: I no longer work up to the final visualisation from a basic starting point, I just go straight to the final visualisation - which saves time and energy, and helps preserrve motivation  

 

On neurodivergenceoand associatedomatters:    

 

On society, governance, humanorights, etc:    

  • “Patriarchy in action”   https://youtube.com/shorts/bsWz5eIz4hU   “Women are not the problem ... stop participating in the system”   AND ALSO   “The idea of the ‘company man’ was forged decades ago. Its problems still haunt leaders today”   https://theconversation.com/the-idea-of-the-company-man-was-forged-decades-ago-its-problems-still-haunt-leaders-today-288731   “...   This history helps explain why greater representation has not delivered equality.   ...   Rather than asking how we can get women to “lean in” to the typical corporate leader, the future of corporate leadership may well depend on leaving the company man behind.”   Yep: but that last sentence should read MUST, rather than may ...   AND ALSO   “Virginia Bell rejects suggestion Palestinian group’s counsel ‘hijacked’ commission, inquiry hears”   https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/aug/05/bell-rejects-suggestion-palestinian-groups-counsel-hijacked-commission-and-condemns-abusive-emails-ntwnfb   “Antisemitism royal commission also hears from former n_o-N_zi who discovered ‘brotherhood’ was a ‘load of lies’   ...   Life in multi-ethnic Australia helped decouple a former skinhead from neo-Nazi groups as he discovered the brotherhood was “a load of lies”.   ...   He suggested early intervention and openness to other cultures could have changed his course as a younger man.”   The witness’s (expert, on the basis of lived experience) comments are worth noting, and are similar to remarks from others who have reformed (becoming a parent is also a major influence)   AND ALSO   “Reflecting on the NolanoXavieroWells Tragedy: Why White [Racist Hierarchy] Hurts Everyone”   https://youtube.com/shorts/soDikyYToTc    
  • “One of science fiction’s greatest writers warned us about AI. Could his ideas help us avoid a dystopian future?”   https://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2026/aug/07/science-fiction-warned-us-about-an-ai-powered-dystopian-future-does-it-also-hold-the-remedy   “What might a modern day equivalent of Isaac Asimov’s laws of robotics look like? Guided by the author, I propose the three laws of AI”   The biggest problem would actually be defining harm - it has to include emotional wellbeing and thriving and mental health, and inclusivity (especially of asymmetric bifurcations that hard righters don’t like - variations of sexuality & gender, and neurodiversity, and nonapparent disabilities/differences, etc). But having made that point, I like the proposed three AI laws - they’re probably an excellent starting point for discussion    

 

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlightopossible flaws / issues youoshouldoconsider: 

  • there mayobe flawedologicaloarguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ freeoonline course “Clear and Present Thinking” 
  • I could be wrong - so keep your thinkingocaps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.

 

 

Gnwmythr 

teaching the "good" (balancedopositive and spirituallyomature) 
safer ways to counter the "bad" (
outoofobalance, spirituallyoimmature) 

 

If you appreciated this post, pleaseoshare it. I am now on SubStack, Patreon, 
and you can support me at PayPal (or PayPal Repeating Support Optionsor Ko-Fi 
Any and all support will be greatly
oappreciated, and willoaid me in continuing this work 

 

Remember: we generallyoneed to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgenderingois an act of activeotransphobia/transmisiaothat puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptoroto prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

#PsychicABetterWorld   and  

  

Note that I am cutting back on aspects of my posts - see here, and Gnwmythr is pronounced new-MYTH-ear  

Copyright © Kayleen White 2007-2026     NO AI   I do not consent to any machine learning aka Artificial Intelligence (AI), generative AI, large language model, machine learning, chatbot, or other automated analysis, generative process, or replication program to reproduce, mimic, remix, summarise, or otherwise  replicate any part of this post or other posts on this blog via any means. AI was NOT used to write this article. Typos may be inserrted deliberately to demonstrate this is not an AI product.     Otherwise, fair and reasonable use is accepted under Creative Commons 4.0 on an Attribution-ShareAlike basis https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/  


 

 

Thursday, 6 August 2026

Post No. 3,502 - From this week’s coming reading email: on patriarchy and white racist hierarchy

From this week’s coming reading email on patriarchy and white racist hierarchy:  

“Patriarchy in action”   https://youtube.com/shorts/bsWz5eIz4hU   “Women are not the problem ... stop participating in the system”   AND ALSO   “The idea of the ‘company man’ was forged decades ago. Its problems still haunt leaders today”   https://theconversation.com/the-idea-of-the-company-man-was-forged-decades-ago-its-problems-still-haunt-leaders-today-288731   “...   This history helps explain why greater representation has not delivered equality.   ...   Rather than asking how we can get women to “lean in” to the typical corporate leader, the future of corporate leadership may well depend on leaving the company man behind.”   Yep: but that last sentence should read MUST, rather than may ...   AND ALSO   “Virginia Bell rejects suggestion Palestinian group’s counsel ‘hijacked’ commission, inquiry hears”   https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/aug/05/bell-rejects-suggestion-palestinian-groups-counsel-hijacked-commission-and-condemns-abusive-emails-ntwnfb   “Antisemitism royal commission also hears from former n_o-N_zi who discovered ‘brotherhood’ was a ‘load of lies’   ...   Life in multi-ethnic Australia helped decouple a former skinhead from neo-Nazi groups as he discovered the brotherhood was “a load of lies”.   ...   He suggested early intervention and openness to other cultures could have changed his course as a younger man.”   The witness’s (expert, on the basis of lived experience) comments are worth noting, and are similar to remarks from others who have reformed (becoming a parent is also a major influence)   AND ALSO   “Reflecting on the NolanoXavieroWells Tragedy: Why White [Racist Hierarchy] Hurts Everyone”   https://youtube.com/shorts/soDikyYToTc    AND ALSO   “What three million online posts reveal about anti-First Nations hate in Australia”   https://theconversation.com/what-three-million-online-posts-reveal-about-anti-first-nations-hate-in-australia-289052   



Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlightopossible flaws / issues youoshouldoconsider: 

  • there mayobe flawedologicaloarguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ freeoonline course “Clear and Present Thinking” 
  • I could be wrong - so keep your thinkingocaps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.

 

 

Gnwmythr 

teaching the "good" (balancedopositive and spirituallyomature) 
safer ways to counter the "bad" (
outoofobalance, spirituallyoimmature) 

 

If you appreciated this post, pleaseoshare it. I am now on SubStack, Patreon, 
and you can support me at PayPal (or PayPal Repeating Support Optionsor Ko-Fi 
Any and all support will be greatly
oappreciated, and willoaid me in continuing this work 

 

Remember: we generallyoneed to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgenderingois an act of activeotransphobia/transmisiaothat puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptoroto prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

#PsychicABetterWorld   and  

 

Note that I am cutting back on aspects of my posts - see here, and Gnwmythr is pronounced new-MYTH-ear  

Copyright © Kayleen White 2007-2026     NO AI   I do not consent to any machine learning aka Artificial Intelligence (AI), generative AI, large language model, machine learning, chatbot, or other automated analysis, generative process, or replication program to reproduce, mimic, remix, summarise, or otherwise  replicate any part of this post or other posts on this blog via any means. AI was NOT used to write this article. Typos may be inserrted deliberately to demonstrate this is not an AI product.     Otherwise, fair and reasonable use is accepted under Creative Commons 4.0 on an Attribution-ShareAlike basis https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/