Musings of Gnwmythr

This blog ( sub-title "Reflections from the Sideline") passes on my over half a century's of lived experience of spiritual and psychic matters, gained as a largely unknown person in fields such as spirit rescue, clearing, energy work, crystals, activist Paganism/Witchcraft, past lives, healing, and teaching, for your consideration - feel free to ignore if you wish. I also share some of my problems [Content Warning!] and spiritual / psychic innovations. Opinions are mine UNO.

Saturday, 18 April 2026

Post No. 3,430 - Some (hopefully) interesting reading / viewing / listening

I recently found the following interesting and/or useful, and am posting them here in case anyone else does as well.

“The secret sensory life of plants: researchers are discovering how they see, hear, feel – and even remember” https://theconversation.com/the-secret-sensory-life-of-plants-researchers-are-discovering-how-they-see-hear-feel-and-even-remember-277076

“What Happened In 2021?” https://inquirywithkellychase.substack.com/p/what-happened-in-2021 “Tracing the Patterns Behind an Anomalous Year”

“The People Who Won't Be Surprised” https://mazetometanoia.substack.com/p/the-shock-that-wasnt “Psychology Today just asked whether confirmation of nonhuman intelligence would break us. I think they’re asking the wrong question”

“An Overview of Energy Healing Techniques” https://noetic.org/blog/an-overview-of-energy-healing-techniques/

“Some of you asked me to try to simplify the overall gist of the pieces I’ve been writing about Zorro Ranch, Epstein and New Mexico. I suck at Canva. Maybe someone else can make it look better. Anyway. Hope this helps.” from Alisa Writes, by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez https://substack.com/@alisavaldes/note/c-241856184

“Draining the Lifeblood of History: Trump’s Assault on the Evidence of Now” https://youtu.be/BzDC36Q53HI “Tr_mp declared total victory. H_gs_th called it historic and overwhelming — a capital V. Leavitt called it a historically swift triumph. Iran declared victory too. This is not spin. This is the record being written in real time, loudly, with full institutional force — because the story you establish first, with enough volume behind it, is the one future people have to fight through to reach the truth. Here is what that story is competing against. Iran’s regime is still in place. The enriched uranium is still under Iranian control. Thirteen Americans died. A human rights group documented 1,665 Iranian civilian casualties, including 248 children. There is a two-week ceasefire and two competing negotiating proposals. Every hard question unresolved. And while the victory declarations were still echoing, Trump’s Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel declared the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional — arguing in a 52-page memo that Congress cannot preserve presidential records “merely for the sake of posterity.” The American Historical Association and American Oversight are now suing to stop it. That is not a coincidence sitting next to the Iran story. That is the operation. Flood the present with the version you want. Thin the archive future people will use to check it. Historians are not a neutral tribunal waiting at the end of time. In this country they have been one of mythology’s most reliable delivery systems — the founders wrapped in sanctification, Reconstruction buried under a lie for a century, the same presidential canon reproducing itself decade after decade. The profession does not automatically correct power. It has spent most of its history flattering it. Jefferson warned Adams in 1815 that without the records of what actually happened, someone else would fill the gap. Someone always does.”

“What Hungary Means — And Doesn’t -- For American Resistance” by public resistance historian Tad Stoermer https://youtu.be/b79ax4532Y4 “Let’s not learn the wrong lesson from Hungary. What happened there was historic. Orbán lost after sixteen years. Turnout hit about 80 percent, a post-Communist record. Younger voters were central to breaking Fidesz’s hold. That matters. But the easy takeaway — "look, elections can topple authoritarians" — is too simple to be useful. Yes, elections can remove an authoritarian from office. No, elections by themselves do not dismantle the system that put him there, kept him there, and enriched everyone attached to him. Start with why Hungarians turned out like that. Not because democratic pieties suddenly moved them. Because Orbán’s system had been failing them in ways people could feel in their daily lives. Corruption. Stagnation. Hollowed-out public life. What little EU money there was routed through loyalist networks while ordinary people watched wages stall, services fray, and the future narrow. The people who grew up under Orbán were not voting on theory. They were voting on what his rule had done to their country. The turnout comparison with the United States is worth making, but only if we tell the truth about it. The last time Americans got anywhere close to this level nationally was the Gilded Age. In 1888, turnout was roughly 80 percent. But that was not some golden age of civic virtue. It was a party-system peak: machine politics, patronage, intense partisan loyalty, public or easily monitored voting, and in plenty of places direct coercion. Voting was often less an expression of free democratic choice than a function of who controlled your job, your neighbourhood, or your place in the local order. When that system changed, turnout collapsed. So no, the American lesson is not “just turn everybody out.” Turnout is not magic. It is produced by structures, incentives, and stakes.”

“Does Lakemba have 1,300 NDIS providers?” https://youtu.be/l2nEDwQonh4 “You may have seen some reporting that the multicultural suburb of Lakemba in Sydney has 1,300 NDIS providers — one for every 13 residents. This is being spruiked as a case of “migration fraud”, and been covered by news.com.au, Sky News and Karl Stefanovic's podcast, to name a few. However, there's one minor issue here: this viral figure is off by more than 8000%. Let's dive in.”

“Epstein Was Never Properly Investigated in New Mexico Despite Reports to FBI. Follow the Money Far Enough and It Leads to Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, DJT, and a Trillion-Dollar Nuclear Deal.” https://alisav.substack.com/p/epstein-was-never-properly-investigated “The Epstein-connected company that paid lawmakers in New Mexico to look the other way employed Ivanka Trump, bailed out Jared Kushner, and is now DJT's partner in a billion-dollar nuclear deal.”

My article(s) on SubStack:

“Some thoughts on why I am a different sort of experiencer” https://musingsofgnwmythr.substack.com/p/some-thoughts-on-why-i-am-a-different “A reluctant rumination”

“Rights and Spirit No. 002 (~1,810 words, ~ 11 minutes)” https://musingsofgnwmythr.substack.com/p/rights-and-spirit-no-002-1810-words “Some ponderings on power ... ”

Possible flaws

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:

there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;
I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.

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Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that 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 descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

#PsychicABetterWorld and may all that I do be of value and actively BPM used for and by the nonphysical BPM because #KindnessIsThePoint

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

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Wednesday, 15 April 2026

Post No. 3,429 - And another writing platform turns out to be ... flawed

After I left my day job (open to new [NON-engineering] offers now 😊 ), I left a professionals' social media platform when they refused to act against an act of misogyny. After a few years, I rejoined to try to promote my new business, but I am in a different part of that platform where misogynists and other bigots would be drowned out by the users of the platform ... but I am very aware that there are some rabid bigots hating away on parts of that platform - a small proportion, but given the incompetence of whoever made that decision that drove me away, and no doubt countless other decisions, that small proportion is, in effect, protected and covered up.

It's a micro version of what was done by the E_st__n class and their sock puppets.

And it happens, to varying extent elsewhere.

I left another social media platform when some racist commentary by a trans person was responded to with transphobia - both sides were wrong, and it was impossible to respond in any way, shape, or form. (Other social media platforms have been ... so-so.)

I went to Medium as a writing platform, but they changed their rules just after I arrived and it made trying to earn an impossibility unless you wrote in what I considered a commercial, inauthentic manner. Nevertheless, I did a fair bit of writing there before deciding to put my energy elsewhere (I was still in my former day job, and didn’t have enough energy for what they wanted).

Now I've gone to SubStack, and, although I haven’t done the spiritual interviews I wanted to do, I am reasonably happy with what I’m doing there.

It’s slow going - much as this blog didn’t really take off until around 2021, my 15^th year of blogging (with signs of growth from around 2015, my 9^th year of blogging). I don’t have that many years of life left, and I need to get a better income somewhere because of family issues so my efforts will have to go elsewhere.

But, in terms of the main theme of this post, I had a fair idea there were right wingers somewhere on SubStack - and that has now been confirmed, with one being a particularly appalling person.

And SubStack has refused to moderate any extremists content ... (see here).

So ... what do I do? Ghost is apparently better financially, but I am not making any money so that isn’t relevant, and SubStack is apparently simpler - but some reviews swap that order.

Or do I just return to focusing on this blog ...

Right now I am too exhausted to decide, but when I do make a decision, Dear Reader, I will let you know.

PS - the writing I do on SubStack is different to the writing I do here, so I will also continue the SubStack writing, but at a lower level of intensity.

After I made that decision, an author I have respected for some time has posted this: “Andrew T_ot_ is on Substack. You know what? I’m not leaving. I’ve spent the last four years searching for a home, and I’m not going to let one more misogynist push me off the only platform where I still have a voice. If you’re a man telling me to leave Substack, consider your own privilege. You can just go somewhere else. I can’t.”