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.

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Saturday, 11 April 2026

Post No. 3,425 - 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.

“In Conversation with Tim Kaney” https://youtu.be/dJ510oG_CxQ “Tim is not a newcomer to BTS and we did a film about his experience. In this conversation we catch up on Tim's story and how this experience has evolved for him into something meaning and important.” The discussions on interactions with animals and those who have just died were particularly interesting for me.

“When the Stars wink at you, wink back” https://breakingthesilenceproject.com/2026/04/06/when-the-stars-wink-at-you-wink-back/ Excellent thoughts on disclosure - including that the current violence in the world will prevent it I used this as the starting point for “Post No. 3,424 - The disclosure distraction” https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2026/04/post-no-3424-disclosure-distraction.html , which also included a SubStack article from “The Sentinel” which raised questions about well known people, organisations, and acts in the disclosure world that was reposted by the BTS team the next day

“First Scientific Confirmation of Consciousness in a Tiny Fish” https://youtu.be/Drbl5udwk9I The commentary about these fish testing the properties of the mirror was particularly interesting

“The Subtle Test People Use to See If They Can Walk All Over You” https://youtu.be/MeKGfhfyb4o

“This is What Benevolent Sexism Really Looks Like” https://youtu.be/mSWj8IM05H0 “They are smart, articulate, and highly educated. They are also the Manosphere's ultimate defense. Louise Perry, Dr. Sarah Hill, and Erica Komisar are selling a very specific message to modern women: You are unhappy because you are too free. In this deep dive, I am exposing how these three "female experts" provide the intellectual framework for the Manosphere. We’re breaking down how they repackage submission as "safety," biological essentialism as “wellness”, and professional guilt as “motherly love”. We are deconstructing Benevolent Sexism—the dangerous psychological trap that treats women as precious creatures who need protection, rather than equal human beings who need respect.” I (and others) refer to this as toxic femininity. The discussions by the presenter in this are eloquent, informative, and very useful

“The Manosphere: Reboot” https://clementinef.substack.com/p/the-manosphere-reboot “Inspired by Soraya Chemaly’s recent piece on men’s cultivated ignorance (and the fact women have been writing about the violence of ‘the manosphere’ for years without receiving the same cultural attention given to male-helmed documentaries), I’m sharing a complete chapter (fittingly titled ‘The Manosphere’) from my 2018 book, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship.”

“Human Are Still Evolving and In Some Really Bizarre Ways - YouTube” https://youtu.be/5J6ZEUKmSl0

“A Historian Spent 30 Years Interviewing Nazis. He Identified 12 Warning Signs of Fascism. All 12 Are Present in Tr_mp's America Right Now.” https://mitchthelawyer.substack.com/p/a-historian-spent-30-years-interviewing “The evidence is not opinion. It is public record. And it demands your attention before November.” This is US-based and focused, but the points identified by Laurence Rees in “The N_z_ Mind: Twelve Warnings from History” (pub. Penguin, 2025, ISBN 9781405974745; Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Amazon) are worth considering everywhere

“Can Paper Stop Tyrants?” by public resistance historian Tad Stoermer https://youtu.be/Qzu5riIu4QM People have to act on conventions/constitutions/etc

“The Terrifying Real Reason For Jeffrey Epstein's Remote Zorro Ranch Emerges When You Examine the Ranch Next Door” https://substack.com/home/post/p-193590181 “Part 2 of a series of articles looking at the relationship between Epstein and the San Cristobal Ranch, owned by former OSS member Henry Singleton” written by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez https://alisav.substack.com/ This collates and presents evidence that this was part of Israel’s attempts to obtain nuclear weapons

“Why has the US had to beg for peace with Iran?” https://youtu.be/Jwi4VCmr-7Q (text only version at https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04/10/why-has-the-us-had-to-beg-for-peace-with-iran/) “The United States did not start peace negotiations with Iran because diplomacy prevailed. It did so because it had no choice. It is running out of weapons. In the course of a few weeks, the US military has used somewhere between eight and ten years’ worth of Tomahawk missile production. The United States can manufacture approximately one hundred Tomahawk missiles per year. It has fired many hundreds, and possibly a thousand, in this conflict alone. Those stocks cannot be replenished quickly. They cannot be replenished at all in the near term. And without them, and other critical weapon supplies, the USA has no credible capacity to restart a war with Iran. This is not a temporary logistics problem. It is a structural failure, and neoliberalism created that. The US military, like the US economy, has been run on just-in-time principles: minimal stockholding, maximum efficiency, profits prioritised over resilience. In addition, more than half of every US missile is manufactured outside the United States, across global supply chains that are now disrupted by the very conflict those missiles were used to fight. Aluminium, a critical component, is, for example, in short supply precisely because the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has constrained the materials needed to make the weapons that were supposed to open it. The damage goes beyond missiles. Maybe three complex radar systems have been destroyed in the Middle East, each taking up to seven years to replace. The B-52 bombers flying missions from the UK are operating well beyond their operational lifespan. So are the refuelling tankers that support them. As a result, the Financial Times is reporting that Tr_mp himself appealed for peace via Pakistan, a reality that Pete H_gs_th and the White House press operation will never publicly acknowledge. Meanwhile, Iran’s military model, based on low-cost, simple, rapidly replicable weapons, has proved devastatingly effective against the world’s most expensive and over-engineered military power. Low-tech warfare has beaten the neoliberal military. Now, as a result, time favours Iran. It can replenish its arsenal quickly. The USA cannot. The conclusion is stark: US military hegemony has been structurally weakened, and not just temporarily set back. It will take years, and possibly a decade, to rebuild. And in that window, the United States cannot threaten, coerce, or intervene with the credibility it once had. The world has changed. This video explains exactly how and why neoliberalism is the ideology that brought the world’s biggest military power to its knees.”

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

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Tuesday, 13 January 2026

Post No. 3,368 - Some interesting reading/viewing

I found these interesting and/or useful, so I am posting them in case anyone else also does:

“How Do Witches Pray?” by Kelly-Ann Maddox https://youtu.be/Z9HfYr-Cvi8

“After 20 Years, This Scientist Proved Birds Can Talk and Use Grammar” https://youtu.be/jmys2abx4co
“Why Autism Goes Undetected in Intelligent Adults” https://youtu.be/4UCzFe8BH3I and, from LinkedIn (my apologies), “Why Articulate Neurodivergent Adults Are Less Likely to Be Believed” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-articulate-neurodivergent-adults-less-likely-hamstead-ms-z5m0e

And also:

“The BBC Chose Transphobia over Science” by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick) https://youtu.be/pWm3dK8tPto

“Renee Good was murdered and that needs to be acknowledged” by Richard J Murphy https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/01/09/renee-good-was-murdered-and-that-needs-to-be-acknowledged/ and “What Was Jonathan Ross Thinking When He Killed Renee Good? [Psychiatrist's Shocking Insight]” by Dr Russell Razzaque https://youtu.be/3tR3jPRYEsQ “In this video, I take a close look at Jonathan Ross's mind at the moment he killed Renee Good. A psychiatrist explains what may have been going through his mind during this tragic event. The media missed some important details, but this video gives you a deeper understanding of Jonathan Ross's thoughts at the time of the crime.”

“Octavia Butler on N_z_ Germany and Resistance Today” by Tad Stoermer, Resistance Historian https://youtu.be/Le-DiO4CwXg “When Octavia Butler was writing “Parable of the Talents” — a novel set in 2032 about a far-right regime intent on making America great again — she needed to understand how fascism takes hold in a democratic society. So she went back to N_oz_ Germany. But she didn’t study the N_oz_s. She studied the Germans. As she wrote in 2000: “I was less interested in the fighting of World War II than in the prewar story of how Germany changed as it suffered social and economic problems, as H_tol_r and others bludgeoned and seduced, as the Germans responded to the bludgeoning and the seduction and to their own history, and as H_tol_r used that history to manipulate them.” What she found was that resistance failed in Germany not because Germans were uniquely evil, but because they were trapped inside stories about themselves that made H_tol_r’s rise seem legitimate — even inevitable. The lies they already believed about their identity and their history made it almost impossible to see what was happening until it was too late. “I wanted to understand the lies that people have to tell themselves when they either quietly or joyfully watch their neighbours maimed, spirited away, killed.” Butler called her Parable books “cautionary tales”. When a student asked her what the answer was, she said: “There’s no single answer that will solve all of our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers — at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.” And on studying history: “The past is filled with repeating cycles of strength and weakness, wisdom and stupidity, empire and ashes. To study history is to study humanity. And to try to foretell the future without studying history is like trying to learn to read without bothering to learn the alphabet.” We are trying today to read fascism, authoritarianism, defiance, and resistance. So we need to learn the alphabet.” Read her full essay: “A Few Rules For Predicting The Future by Octavia E. Butler” https://commongood.cc/reader/a-few-rules-for-predicting-the-future-by-octavia-e-butler/

“Where Are the Slave Ships? Exposing the Dangerous Lies of Pseudohistory” by Tad Stoermer, Resistance Historian https://youtu.be/BjVUSbwA-i8 “The question “Where are the ships?” is making rounds, and it’s not as innocent as it sounds. It’s a calculated tactic used by denialists like Dane Calloway to distort the history of the transatlantic slave trade, erase its victims, and sow chaos for clicks. In this video, we take the pseudohistory head-on: (1) Highlighting the overwhelming evidence, from SlaveVoyages.org to archaeological finds like the Clotilda; (2) Explaining why no one should fall for the dangerous grift of “just asking questions”; (3) Showing why honest history, grounded in rigorous research and evidence, is a shield against misinformation in this post-truth era. We owe it to the tens of millions of enslaved people and their descendants to protect and preserve the truth. Let’s stop the noise and focus on what matters.”

“The Difference Between a Loyal Opposition and Resistance | A Dispatch from the High Castle” by Tad Stoermer, Resistance Historian https://youtu.be/eTZW-kSCV0s “What’s the difference between a loyal opposition and resistance? And why does it matter right now? A loyal opposition accepts the legitimacy of the system it works within. More than that - it reinforces it. Every time it plays by the rules, it signals that the rules are legitimate. Every time it treats its opponents as normal political adversaries, it confirms that normal politics is still happening. Every time it channels your energy into approved outlets - vote, donate, call your representative, wait for the next election - it tells you and everyone watching that those outlets still work. That’s not a criticism. That’s what loyal oppositions do. They’re how normal politics functions. They provide accountability, they offer alternatives, they keep the system honest. When the system is basically sound, a loyal opposition is exactly what you want. But resistance is something different. Resistance is what happens when the rules stop working - when legal channels fail, when institutions get captured, when the system itself becomes the source of abuse. Resistance doesn’t reinforce the structure. It operates against it. In this video, I refer to the resistance dynamics at play in American history - from the New England patriots who spent a decade petitioning before Lexington, to the antislavery movement that worked within legal channels for seventy years before building the Underground Railroad. The Democratic Party is a loyal opposition. That’s not cynicism - that's what the institution is designed to be. If you think the system is still basically sound and just needs better people running it, that might be enough for you. But if you’re looking to them for resistance, you might be waiting a long time. And worse - you're going to be learning the wrong lessons about what resistance actually requires. Confusing a loyal opposition with resistance isn’t just a mistake. It's fatal to any meaningful opposition.” and “Democrats say they can’t do anything because Republicans control Congress. Is that true?” by Tad Stoermer, Resistance Historian https://youtu.be/1PwmiG7ABl0

“Who's Afraid of Thomas Paine? Almost everyone, it turns out” by Tad Stoermer, Resistance Historian https://youtu.be/zfwsSZG1mw0 “Common Sense turned 250 this month. Everyone’s claiming him — John Roberts in his year-end judiciary report, Jamie Raskin pushing for a memorial on the Mall, Heritage Foundation posting about his “libertarian” vision. None of them are giving you the real Paine. No one in power ever has. Ten years ago I found a letter in an archive that changed how I came to understand how this worked. John Page, head of Virginia’s Committee of Safety and Jefferson’s best friend, described getting handed Common Sense on a Williamsburg street in January 1776. He took it (probably to the Raleigh Tavern) and edited it for Virginia readers. Cut the opening sections where Paine attacks inherited authority itself — where monarchy is sin, heredity is absurd, and legitimacy flows from reason and character rather than birth or accumulation. Kept the parts that made Britain look dangerous and expensive. Why cut that? Because Paine’s logic didn’t stop at kings. If inherited advantage doesn’t confer the right to rule, the questions keep going. Virginia's enslaver patriots had built an entire ideological architecture to make bondage fit inside a philosophy of liberty. Paine’s reasoning threatened to unravel it. So Page made sure ordinary Virginians got the argument for secession without the reasoning that might make them ask what else it applied to. They’ve been filtering him ever since. Used him when useful — Washington had The American Crisis read to troops before Trenton. Discarded him when not — he died a pariah in 1809, six people at his funeral. Roberts quotes Paine while building legal architecture for executive immunity. Raskin wants a statue, which turns Paine into a destination, a closed question. Both are doing what Page did: picking which parts serve their purposes. Franklin reportedly said, “Where liberty is, there is my country.” Paine answered: “Where liberty is not, there is mine.” That’s not a quotation for a plaque. It’s a test.”