Post No. 3,500 - Some (hopefully) interesting reading / viewing / listening - Saturday, 1st August, 2026

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

 

• “Our Paranormal Afterlife : Finding Proof of Life After Death:   Living the Life Your Soul Intended”   https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/our-paranormal-afterlife-finding-proof-of-life-after-death/id1354455555?i=1000778172254   “This episode I'm talking to Ainslie MacLeod about his book The Instruction: Living the Life Your Soul Intended Ainslie specializes in exploring past lives to reveal your life’s purpose, and has been a featured guest on Oprah’s SuperSoul Conversations Series. He lives on a tranquil island in the Pacific Northwest. Everything you are—your personality, beliefs, aspirations, talents and fears—is the result of your soul’s many incarnations. To help you tap into this wealth of past-life experience and dramatically increase your potential for success in this lifetime, past-life psychic and author Ainslie MacLeod offers THE OLD SOUL'S GUIDEBOOK: Who You Are, Why You're Here, and How to Navigate Life on Earth. Building on his award-winning books THE INSTRUCTION and THE TRANSFORMATION, Ainslie delivers unique insights and exercises to help you: Understand why your destiny is so much more obvious than you think Identify past-life sources of present-life issues like low self-esteem, unexplained ailments, and irrational fears Escape the victimization trap through self-empowerment “Past lives explain everything,” shares Ainslie. “Without knowing where you’ve been, you can never truly know where you’re going. Understanding your soul’s journey is the key to living a happier and more fulfilling life.” Bio For over two decades, past-life psychic, spiritual teacher, and author Ainslie MacLeod has helped thousands of old souls discover their life purpose and overcome the fears and blocks keeping them from living it. But Ainslie wasn’t always psychic. A lifelong skeptic, everything changed the day he encountered his deceased uncle in a bookstore in Hawaii. That life-changing experience led him to connect with elevated spirit guides, who revealed his mission: to illuminate the life plan of others and guide them toward meaning and fulfillment.”     

• “BTS Livestream with Steve Neill and Guest Jeff Selver”   https://www.youtube.com/live/6eT96R1k2qs   This was interesting - I always like hearing others use terms like “Oversoul” and concepts such as parallels, but I have slightly different view on some of the time aspects discussed. This is well worth a listen and a think    

 

On neurodivergenceoand associatedomatters:    

• “Are The Days of The Autism Spectrum Numbered?”   https://youtu.be/9NvIFCKtQlU   “SciShow's recent video about a possible new way of categorising and even diagnosing autism caught a lot of autistic attention. Are they right? Are the days of the autism spectrum numbered? Or is there more to it?”   (Yes, there is - and see also https://kaywhitecoachingservices.blogspot.com/p/autism-seven-points.html )    

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 first such comment is:    

I have realised myoAuDHD made me being an accepted “traditional” / “normal” large scaleoleader impossible. I amogood at (and have done this) leading a small scale, and once - decades ago, before the most prolonged of the severeotrauma I have experienced - did so on a regionally significant scale, but I have struggled with life since. 

Now, I need help to, in particular, manage some of my AuDHDoweaknesses (counsellingohas got the traumaounder reasonable - not perfect - control ... enough for me to get by, if not thrive), and there is none to be found ... 

And there are many others who have been robbed of their potential - more so than me, in many cases - by our aggressively over-commercialised, hierarchical, cultified work patterns.     

 

On society, governance, humanorights, etc:    

• “Archaeologists Keep Finding Women Where Men Were Supposed To Be”   https://thenoosphere.substack.com/p/archaeologists-keep-finding-women   “Even when historical records already suggested they’d be there”   

• “I am once again asking y’all to please stop using the term “white supremacy.””   https://cherisemorris.substack.com/p/i-am-once-again-asking-yall-to-please   “I’m sure we’ve all heard that naming a thing is power.”   An EXCELLENT and VERY IMPORTANT spiritual perspective - and the author’s term “white racial hierarchy” is more accurate, although I may use “white racist hierarchy”, which feels like it has more impact   

• “Closing the Gap is failing, yet again. Is it time we do away with it altogether?”   https://theconversation.com/closing-the-gap-is-failing-yet-again-is-it-time-we-do-away-with-it-altogether-285354   Yes, in a word - particularly given the under-resourcingoof Aboriginaloorganisations and otheroracistoactions. Read the article for why   

• “Beyond M23: Addressing the Underlying Drivers of the DRC Conflict”   https://africacenter.org/spotlight/drc-congo-conflict-drivers-beyond-m23/   “Stabilising eastern DRC will not ultimately be achieved on the battlefield, but by rebuilding intra-Congolese and African processes to address issues of citizenship, security sector reform, and greater transparency of the mineral sector.”   

• “Australians value batteries and EVs, but renewables industry must earn trust of regions, summit told”   https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/30/australians-value-batteries-and-evs-but-renewables-industry-must-earn-trust-of-regions-summit-told   “Clean Energy Council calls for a national, legislated scheme to funnel benefits of hosting renewables projects back to local councils”      

 

My recent article(s) ono...:   

Nothing written anywhere else this week.  

 

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) 

 

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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  

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Post No. 3,414 - Interesting reading / viewing

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

 

• “Discovering Connections Between Trance-Channeling and Ufology Data”   https://noetic.org/blog/trance-channeling-and-ufology-data/   

• “Balance”   by Raven Dana (for the equinox)   https://youtu.be/OenevH97iPs   

• “Why I use a wheelchair when I can walk ...”   https://youtube.com/shorts/sdOaPB2H-7o   

• “the pressure to find purpose is a joke”   https://youtu.be/CdZNX0cTRK8   

• “Mindfulness Going Deeper”   https://youtu.be/nUy7kEUo1To   “Being Mindful is more than meditation, true mindfulness includes living in our body (not in our mind).  In this chat, we become aware of how Minding the Body helps us stay in balance as we listen and respond to what our bodies tell us”   

• “Do we really need eight hours sleep a night – and what happens if we don’t get it? | Life and style | The Guardian”   https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/mar/24/do-we-really-need-eight-hours-sleep-night   

• “Punishing Yourself #healing #relationship #selflove #selfimprovement #peace #love #difficulty - YouTube”   https://youtu.be/X9Yr9-_HfVU   

• “Bumblebees Can Do What?! Incredible Discoveries Nobody Expected - YouTube”   https://youtu.be/wPy-8gOUl-A   

 

 

• “Why Smart People Can’t Start Simple Tasks”   https://youtu.be/MpHv6hSpl90   “Autism, executive function, and task initiation: why smart autistic adults can’t start simple tasks even when they know exactly what to do.   If you’ve ever been completely ready to do something and still couldn't make yourself start, this episode is about why.   Ryan has an IQ of 140. He knows exactly what email he needs to send. He's known for four days. He still can’t begin.   This isn’t laziness. It isn’t a lack of discipline. It’s a specific neurological gap between knowing and starting and research shows it’s one of the most common and least understood features of the autistic profile.   In this episode of Clinical Breakdown, we break down:  Why intelligence and executive function are two completely different systems;  What autistic inertia actually is and the 2021 study that named it;  How working memory failures play out in a real workday;  Why cognitive flexibility collapse can cost an entire morning;  What the research actually shows works — and why willpower never did”   

• “Do you struggle with executive function? Take this quiz”   https://youtu.be/qSviaxQ48d8   “Do you have trouble making decisions, starting or finishing tasks... or even knowing what you need to do? It might feel overwhelming – and that could be related to your executive function. Follow along as we explain more about what's going on in your brain and then take the free quiz to find out how your brain handles executive function.   ...   Where your brain gets stuck;  #1 Working memory;  #2 Attention Regulation & Focus Control;  #3 Cognitive Flexibility;  #4 Inhibition and Impulse Control;  #5 Planning, Prioritising, and Organisation;  Why, Brain, Why?”   

• “Five Pains in my Autistic 4R$£”   https://youtu.be/ebK6Wy5Hhng   

 

• “Equality and the politics of care”   https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03/24/equality-and-the-politics-of-care/   

• “Why Abusive Authority Always Tries to Make People Afraid of Resistance - YouTube”   https://youtu.be/geoe6dDMqgs   “Every time authority needs the public to stop paying attention to what it's doing, it reaches for the same names. King. Gandhi. Mandela. Not to reckon with what they did or what they were up against. To weaponise them. To reduce three of the most consequential resisters in modern history to a single, serviceable instruction — be peaceful, don't provoke, know your place — and then aim that instruction at whoever is currently in the way.   It is one of the oldest operations in the authoritarian playbook, and it has nothing to do with nonviolence. The British Parliament ran the same move against the American patriots. Southern moderates ran it against abolitionists. The defenders of Jim Crow ran it against the civil rights movement — including against King himself, in real time, while he was alive and the FBI was building a file on him as a threat to national security. The operation does not require the names to be accurate. It requires them to be familiar enough that the comfortable will accept the lesson without examining it.   That is the mechanism. Abusive authority does not need to convince the majority that what it is doing is good. It only needs to make resistance look frightening. And nothing does that more efficiently than invoking moral giants, stripped of their actual radicalism, as a rebuke to the people currently resisting. You cannot argue with King. You cannot argue with Gandhi. So the argument is foreclosed before it begins, and the underlying abuse never has to answer for itself.   What gets erased in that operation is everything that made those men dangerous when they were alive. King was not surveilled by the FBI because he was a calming influence on American politics. Gandhi was not imprisoned repeatedly by the British Empire because he made colonial authority comfortable. Mandela did not spend twenty-seven years in prison because the apartheid government found his methods acceptable. Authority was afraid of all three of them — genuinely, operationally afraid — because their resistance was working. The governments now laundering their legacies through senators and press conferences are the direct institutional descendants of the governments that tried to destroy them.   That is what I want us to work to understand. Not just the rhetorical trick, but its history. Where it came from, how it has functioned across two centuries of American resistance, who it has protected, and what it has always been designed to hide. The sanitised martyr has always been more useful to power than the living resister.”   The other comment to be made here is that the opening claim (by a cited speaker, not the author) that ICE and police leave people unless they do illegal stuff is clearly so wrong it is absurd and quite possibly a lie.   

• “Collaboration" is bullshit”   by JA Westenberg   https://www.joanwestenberg.com/collaboration-is-bullshit/   Examines the “teamwork revolution” from WW2 onwards   

• “‘Denial machine’: climate misinformation is fuelling conflict in Australian communities, inquiry finds | Climate crisis | The Guardian”   https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/25/australia-climate-misinformation-social-media   

• “Workers who fall for ‘corporate bullshit’ may be worse at their jobs, study finds | Business | The Guardian”   https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/23/corporate-speak-study   

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.
  

 

If you appreciated this post, please share it. I am now on SubStack, Patreon, 
and you can support me at PayPal (or PayPal Repeating Support Options) or Ko-Fi 
Any and all support will be greatly appreciated, and will aid me in continuing this work 

 

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  

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. Typo’s 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/