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.  

 

• “El Niño is already here. But there’s still a ‘window of opportunity’”   https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/el-nino-australia-bushfire-preparedness/wjnv3gc02   “With the climate pattern shaping up to be one of the strongest on record, what could it mean for Australians?”    

 

• “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.   

• “Jacques Vallée Spent 70 Years Investigating UFOs. His Final Journal Says the Mystery Is Bigger Than Aliens.”   https://rmmclaren.substack.com/p/jacques-vallee-spent-70-years-investigating   

• “Fruit and honey fuelled the early evolution of the human brain”   https://theconversation.com/fruit-and-honey-fuelled-the-early-evolution-of-the-human-brain-289026   NOT animal meat protein!!!   

 

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:    

• “How AI Is Automating the Exclusion of Neurodivergent People”   https://eredford.substack.com/p/how-ai-is-automating-the-exclusion   

• “The Hidden Link Between AUTISM and Family Estrangement”   https://youtu.be/7tlewoQSUxo    

 

On society, governance, humanorights, etc:    

• “‘Mirage’: Voice architect Noel Pearson breaks silence at Garma on referendum defeat”   https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/mirage-voice-architect-noel-pearson-breaks-silence-on-referendum-defeat-at-garma/bqx5oiuzr   “It marks the first major public speech by Pearson since the referendum was defeated nearly three years ago.”    

• “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    

• “Big US-style trucks are killing more pedestrians in Australia – our research proves it”   https://theconversation.com/big-us-style-trucks-are-killing-more-pedestrians-in-australia-our-research-proves-it-289034    

 

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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Post No. 3,452 - On particular interests, consciousness, and spirituality

I just started a chat on my Substack with this:

“Recently I found the excellent Breaking the Silence project, and that tied in very well with the trend in the UAP/UFO/ET field in recent years (in my experience) to publicly acknowledge that much of this field is really about raising/broadening/deepening humanity's consciousness.

That is all good, but I am also stumbling back into the areas that drove me away from this field for quite a while: the physical evidence based, conspiracy-suspecting people who, as pointed out by the BTS people, are, out of the pain inflicted by abuse and unfounded/unreasonable/excessive scepticism (there is a healthy form & amount of scepticism) seeking validation in the wrong way/place.

This also reminds me of the spiritual bypassing and wilful disengagement of "spiritual"/higher consciousness people/groups/movements that drove me out of the “spiritual”/higher consciousness area.

Unlike the UAP/UFO/ET field, the latter seem to me to still need to learn about applied spirituality - you cannot be spiritual/of a higher consciousness/loving if you do nothing about the homeless in your neighbourhood, or poverty and other global problems, or being anti-bigotry, including of structural/systemic bigotry (in its myriad forms and manifestations). If you don't do anything about those, you are risking doing nothing but (possibly high [over] priced) escapism (while noting that some people genuinely need recovery time/withdrawal for healing/refining/developing their skills).

I had similar concerns about most politics in these decades of neoliberalism, but many voters now understand that they were scammed, and that neoliberal capitalism and other problems such as corporate and other forms of capture of political parties is ultimately harmful of everyone and everything. In places that have been savaged the most, such as the formerly democratic USA, awareness and resistance are improving and developing apace. Even here, where the first of the two main political parties is in the final stages of destroying itself (mostly over climate denialism, but also various forms of bigotry) and the second is bouncing around between the same sort of self destructive path and some belated attempts at making life better, awareness is improving - although attempts to change things for the better are lagging.

The thing is, these things are not separate: consciousness frames our worldview, and those both shape what we do/say/think or don't do/say/think.

Consciousness frames spirituality and religion ... which, in our current poor world state, are often viewed as entirely separate or at best with a minor overlap, which is a reflection of the extent that dogma and ideology have captured religions - many, if not most or all, of which started as societal revolutions. A question I have often used - and I know others do as well, so this is not something I came up with (it predates this current life of mine by a few millennia) - is: how is the person and the world better for having a particular religious/spiritual faith/worldview? Are there fewer homeless in your neighbourhood/poor people in the world, or better inclusion of minorities & better anti-bigotry measures to protect those minorities, or better politicians in your electorates, as a result of you having your religious/spiritual faith/worldview? (Or are you trying to hold on to social status/privilege, including patriarchal lies that infantilise and limit women or lock people into being tools of the power elites?) If not, I would suggest you have missed what should be the main point of your having a particular religious/spiritual faith/worldview: agape style (spiritual) love - something which improves with improved consciousness, something the world would benefit from more politicians and others with social-political-economic-social power/coercive influence having as well (so they can dismantle patriarchy and our various current destructive hierarchies).

If your religious/spiritual faith/worldview, whether it includes UAPs/UFOs/ETs or not, does that, then great - pat yourself on the back, and please continue.

If not, please reconsider ...”

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.
  

 

 

Gnwmythr 

teaching the "good" (balanced positive and spiritually mature) 
safe ways to counter the "bad" (out of balance, spiritually immature) 

 

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/