Post No. 3,329 - Pagan reflections on, and interesting reading/viewing from, the past week

 Matters for reflection :    

From my Patreon: 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/lived-experience-143101289   

Significant posts this week from this blog:   

“Post No. 3,323 - A rant: the problem of incompetence at being human (~1,010 words; ~ 7 minutes)”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2025/11/post-no-3323-rant-problem-of.html      

 

This first edition of a news letter from some I greatly respect (and who is an elder of one of the mob I belong to) expresses thoughts I had half-formed, and does so much better than I ever could. If you're on Substack, I recommend considering subscribing to this (I have):   

• “An Invitation to be Five Minutes Late”   https://stangrant1.substack.com/p/an-invitation-to-be-five-minutes   “I decided that the world moves too fast and I am tired of keeping up. From now on, it is OK – indeed it is the secret of life - to be five minutes late to the world!   This newsletter is for the five minutes late. It is for those who don’t chase relevance but want to be useful. That’s another epiphany of age, I will not be relevant ever again and I don’t want to be. I had that and it wasn’t all that fulfilling to be honest. But I do want to be useful.”       

This gives me hope for my lived experience business, but the difference is significant ... and not ideal:   

• “Why Therapists Should Pay Attention to the Brené Brown Rebrand”   https://chrishoff.substack.com/p/why-therapists-should-pay-attention   “Something’s shifting in the therapeutic landscape, and it’s happening right in front of us.   ...   The world’s hunger for meaning hasn’t gone away, it’s just shifted location. People still crave depth, but they’re looking for it in their workplaces, in leadership circles, in the creative industries. They’re not looking for a diagnosis; they’re looking for direction.”      

 

A science creator has made a video about "how awful" making YouTube content is now (e.g., prepare content on the basis that you are a secondary screen - dumb it down, lots of repetition, describe what is on the screen, etc);      

 

 Some llinks that might be of interest or value:

• This video recording on 7^th November will be publicly available until 21^st November (the link will persist, with other public videos, but this recording will not be there):   “Fact Meets Fiction: The Science Behind the Story”   https://noetic.org/experience/connections-live/      

• an African voice on African experiences with UFOs;        

• “Get What You Want with Magick! REAL WITCHCRAFT Advice .. .”   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fsHl6c8eU4   advice on how to do spells more effectively      

• the coercive practices of "high control groups" (aka cults); 

• research into tree responses to love - and global coherence generally; 

• woody meadows;  

• thisoweek’s “afterlife report” by the  Zammits:   https://www.victorzammit.com/November14th2025/   

• also from YouTube:
  

• the cleverness of “commando rolling” sheep;      
  
  
• sugar is not as simply connected to diabetes as many people think;      
  
  
• from YouTube and elsewhere ononeurodivergence (noting asymmetrical bifurcation but also synaptic  (under)pruning and neuroplasticity with regard to autism): 
• a call for better diagnosis of autism;      autistic masking (in men: there may be another coming regarding women, I suspect - no mention of nonbinary etc);      the problem of hate towards low support needs autists;      confusing burnout for being bored;      brain scan evidence showing why ADHDers are more restless;      thoughts on a new approach to assessment;      
  

 

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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).

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