Post No. 3,495- Some (hopefully) interesting reading / viewing / listening - Saturday 25th July, 2026

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

• “An Incredible New Method of Remote Viewing Created by an Experiencer”   https://youtu.be/ZHBqA28FnTY   “On this episode of Dreamland, monthly guest host James Faulk interviews lifelong experiencer Birdie Jaworski https://www.norivets.com/ about her contact with non-human intelligences, her experience learning how to remote view, and her eventual decision to abandon old nomenclature and design her own RV system: TransDimensional Mapping. https://www.transdimensionalmapping.com/”   This different, demilitarised approach sounds EXCELLENT!   See also   “Remote Viewing Pioneer Returns after Intel Community forced her to disappear for 22 Years”   https://youtu.be/Ybvd9__vi64   “Birdie Jaworski (aka Prudence Calabrese) became interested in remote viewing in 1995 after the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Stanford Research Institute declassified the Stargate Program. She was trained in military grade remote viewing by Dr. Courtney Brown and soon became Vice President of the newly created Farsight Institute in 1996. After a year, she left to form her own remote viewing organization called TransDimensional Systems (TDS), where she was joined by John Vivanco, who became Vice President.   In 1998/99, she remote viewed the next terrorist attack on US and drew the twin towers with planes flying into it. Her successful prediction of the September 11, 2001, attack brought her mainstream media attention, where she was interviewed by news organizations from around the world.   Her successful prediction also brought her the unwelcome attention of the intelligence community, whereby she began experiencing serious harassment and threats. Fearing for her five young children, she abolished TDS and went underground in 2002. After 22 years of staying out of the public arena with her remote viewing sessions, which she privately continued, she reemerged in 2024 to form a new remote viewing organization called TransDimensional Mapping (TDM).   In her first Exopolitics Today interview with Dr. Michael Salla, Birdie discusses what happened to her and what she did during her 22 years of private remote viewing.”   

• “Traces of grass used in Indigenous rituals 25,000 years ago unearthed in Victorian cave - ABC News”   https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-07-22/gunaikurnai-plant-burnt-25000-years-cave-study/106936554    

 

On neurodivergenceoand associatedomatters:    

• “It’s Not That You’re Too Sensitive — It’s ADHD’s Nervous System”   https://youtu.be/9m6jVVaM0TU   “Dr. Bill Dodson, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist and one of the first physicians in the country to specialize exclusively in adults with ADHD. He has spent over 25 years working with patients who were dismissed, misdiagnosed, and told they just needed to try harder.   In this episode we cover:   → Why ADHD is a second nervous system — not a deficit,   → The interest-based nervous system and why willpower doesn't work as a motivator,   → The clinical link between ADHD and fibromyalgia — why your brain fog may be ADHD, not just fibro,   → Why women with ADHD went undiagnosed for decades,   → Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD) — the most painful and least talked-about dimension of ADHD,   → The devastating risks of leaving ADHD untreated — including a 13-year reduction in lifespan”   

• “The "89% Accurate" Autism Eye Test Has a BIG Problem”   https://youtu.be/1t7Ec5iUqNo   “... these numbers don't mean what they're claimed to - 89% is the school project's reported result, with no public methods allowing it to be checked. The 90% appears in related claims and social-media rounding error. The "100%" belongs to a completely separate study (referenced by the student behind RetinaMind) - and technically refers to an AUROC of 1.00, not 100% diagnostic accuracy.   This video is about the claims that travelled - and not a takedown of a teenager who did the work as a school project. I spent about a year as technical lead on systems for an NHS diabetic eye-screening programme - as a software engineer, not a clinician - so the differences between a screening flag and a diagnosis is rather my whole thing ...”   

• “10 Fibromyalgia Flare Triggers That Are Actually Autistic Burnout Signs”   https://youtu.be/GskcPbrLvUY   “There are 10 fibromyalgia flare triggers that are also the exact triggers for autistic meltdowns and burnout. ...   In this video, we cover 10 triggers most fibromyalgia patients recognise — but that medical providers rarely explain through the lens of the nervous system:   ✅ Sensory overload — why bright lights and noise are genuine pain signals   ✅ Change & unpredictability — the "demand for sameness" dismissed as anxiety   ✅ Clutter and visual noise — how your environment drains your energy reserves   ✅ Social demands & the Masking Tax — the neurological cost of performing neurotypicality   ✅ Temperature sensitivity — what autonomic dysregulation tells us about your nervous system   ✅ Transitions — why switching tasks burns more energy than it should   ✅ Cognitive overload — the root of fibromyalgia brain fog in high-achieving adults   ✅ Unexpected touch & allodynia — why a light hug can cause real pain   ✅ Emotional suppression & the delayed crash — why you fall apart at home after holding it together in public   ✅ The aftermath of high performance — what post-exertional malaise and autistic burnout share”   and see also   “Fibro, Autistic, or ADHD: Sorting Out the Labels”   https://youtu.be/vhLSO4WnWC0   “In today’s video, I’m responding to a powerful and vulnerable comment from a viewer who has lived with Fibromyalgia for 31 years and is now facing a “pot of confusion” regarding new labels like Autism, ADHD, and ME/CFS.   When you’ve spent decades navigating the medical system, being told "it’s all in your head" or given siloed diagnoses for migraines, IBS, and chronic fatigue, it’s natural to wonder: Does it even matter? Are these just more labels?   We dive into why these aren’t just words—they are windows into understanding your unique nervous system. We discuss the "gray area" of complexity medicine, the reality of masking and high IQ, and why many neurodivergent individuals only enter the healthcare system once a chronic invisible illness takes hold.   In this video, we cover:   The “Crux of the Matter”: Why these symptoms overlap.   Sorting through the “Pot of Labels”: Fibro, Autism, ADHD, and ME/CFS.   The “Grey Area”: Why linear medicine often fails complex patients.   Screening tools: The RADS-R, CAT-Q, and deep developmental history.   Validation for the “Invisible”: Why being seen by a doctor changes everything.”   

• “Did Autistic Traits Help Ancient Tribes?”   https://youtu.be/88xZotShpxY   Yes - very well explained    

 

On society, governance, humanorights, etc:    

• “Scientists Find ICEzis Full ofzLosers”   https://youtu.be/tCMVwP-J9Hc   This is based on the book “Making a CareerzinzDictatorship: The Secret Logic Behind RepressionzandzCoups”, by  Christian Gläßel and Adam Scharpf, pub. Oxford University Press, 2025,  Online ISBN: 9780197831229, Amazon https://www.amazon.com.au/Making-Career-Dictatorship-Secret-Repression-ebook/dp/B0GH11X16Q.   “Who loyally carries out the most brutalzviolence for azdictator? And who overthrows the very leader they swore to protect? Like no other work before it, Making a CareerzinzDictatorship dives deep into the authoritarianzsecurity apparatus to identify which officers participate in repressionzorzcoups--and above all, why. The book’s compelling theory uncovers career pressure as the secret driver behind the two most notorious phenomena of authoritarian power politics. Officers disadvantaged in their professional advancement either try to demonstrate their loyalty to the current regime by participating in repression, or to commend themselves to a successor regime by participating in a coup. The book offers a wealth of unprecedented evidence in support of its unified theory. Based on unique career data on thousands of Argentine army officers, in-depth case studies on Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Soviet Union, and Jawara’s Gambia, and a global analysis of authoritarian regimes since 1945, a striking pattern emerges: career pressure fuels extreme behaviour. By revealing for the first time the organizational structure, promotion systems, and career paths within the authoritarian security apparatus, the book shows how seemingly banal career concerns shape the bottom-up dynamics of regime survival and collapse. In times of rising authoritarianism, this book offers key insights into how states and societies fall victim to illiberal leaders and their willing enforcers.”   And see also, from LinkedIn, these on people who feel they have or are about to lose status punching down:   https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7484725477744500736/   and   https://www.linkedin.com/posts/markchenery_meetoo-blacklivesmatter-share-7469135710546096128-W1uZ/   AND ALSO   “How did "free market"zextremists and "Christian"zextremists merge?”   https://lucyham29.substack.com/p/how-did-free-market-extremists-and   “There is a network of networks largely focused in the US but spilling out into the world. Their roots are in a particular mix of global and US forces that emerged from the mid 20th century.”   

• “Is Conservatism a Personality Disorder? The Psychology of the Empathy Deficit”   https://youtu.be/hwjjVa3sBDA   “Thom Hartmann sits down with Christopher Armitage — journalist, criminal justice researcher, and former law enforcement officer—to discuss his provocative piece, “Conservatism: America’s Personality Disorder” (see also https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/conservatism-americas-personality). Armitage shares his firsthand observations from working within the prison system, where he noted a striking overlap between the psychological traits of hardened inmates and the rhetoric of modern conservative media.   His book: “Conservatism: America's Personality Disorder” - https://amzn.to/4yyFj2M   (covers matters such as teachingzempathy inzschools etc   Pub. independently, 2025, ISBN   9798290573236;   https://www.amazon.com.au/Conservatism-Americas-Personality-Christopher-Armitage-ebook/dp/B0FGDXSH4M )   The conversation explores the biological basis of empathy, the role of mirror neurons, and why figures like Elon Musk view empathy as a “bug” in Western civilisation. Thom and Christopher also discuss the “spoils system” of political disinformation, the impact of childhood trauma on leaders like Donald Trump, and whether cognitive empathy can actually be taught in schools to bridge the growing political divide in America.”    

• “Infographic: Neoliberalism”   https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07/19/infographic-neoliberalism/#gsc.tab=0   

• “A Resistance History PSA: Sorting Out Communism, Socialists, and Democracy - YouTube”   https://youtu.be/sEBP7ebUIkw   

• “Warrior princesses of ancient Egypt? Skeletons show women used the weapons buried with them”   https://theconversation.com/warrior-princesses-of-ancient-egypt-skeletons-show-women-used-the-weapons-buried-with-them-287577   

• These are quite goood, I thought:   “7 questions to ask in a job interview to really expose an organisation’s culture”   https://www.ethicaljobs.com.au/blog/7-questions-to-ask-in-a-job-interview-to-really-expose-an-organisations-culture   

• “Paris Hilton’s Documentary & the Closing of the Provo Canyon School for “Troubled Teens” — Great News!”   https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tPKKrlXkqRc   Excellent criticism of militaristic abuses of children      

 

My recent article(s) onoSubStack:   

• “What DisclosurezDay Disclosed to MezAbout Me (~2,900 words; ~18 minutes)”   https://musingsofgnwmythr.substack.com/p/what-disclosure-day-disclosed-to   “WDDDtMAM, or ... revelationszin a minor key? ... ”    

 

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 

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safer ways to counter the "bad" (outoofobalance, spirituallyoimmature) 

 

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Post No. 3,205 - Multiple purposes in rituals

Photo by v2osk on Unsplash  

 

Note: this was originally intended for SubStack. 

Now, one of the first points considered when planning a ritual is often:   

what is the ritual's purpose? 

That seems obvious, but it assumes a ritual will only have one purpose. There are indeed some matters which should properly be in separate rituals - for instance, trying to combine causing rain in Area A and reduced rain in Area D is likely to be ... problematic (there may be a risk of confusion on the part of the humans performing the ritual), but there are often aspects of situations which can usefully be combined - such as: 

1. different aspects of a goal, 
   or 
2. issues that are complementary or holistic. 

1. Different Aspects of a Situation 

Beginning with the first of these, one categorisation I find often useful is to consider the "good" and "bad" aspects of a situation. 

To illustrate that with an example from mundane life, human resources surveys may show that staff have mixed feelings about a workplace - they may, say, love the hours, but hate the pay (or vice versa) . 

Thus the two aspects of like and dislike exist together, in the one place or situation. 

If you wish to improve that situation, your choices (of mundane world action) are: 

• improve the hours even more 
• improve the pay (I am writing this from an Australian context, where minimum pay rates are much better than some other nations) 
• or attend to both 

The first and third options would apply if the strength of liking for hours worked was weaker than the dislike for pay. 

To illustrate this in the context of ritual, let's consider addressing a world situation - which, in many cases, will be a mixture of "good" and "bad" aspects. 

Now, before I go into what those could be, I should explain I dislike using "good" and "bad": I prefer judgments (and that is what "good" and "bad" are) based on the concept of "balanced positive" (which I "define" here, and am examining - slowly - at an online shrine here) and "spiritually mature" (which I "define" here - and something can be old/well established and just be old, not mature, just as a person/organisation/idea can be young or new and mature), which I combine into "Balanced Positive, (spiritually) Mature", or BPM. Whatever is not BPM, or is it's opposite/opposing, I describe as nonBPM. 

So ... in that world situation: 

• BPM issues could include: 
  

• the desire of those involved to do better, even if that is not being manifested; 
• any evidentiary support for doing better (expert reports, etc); and 
• supportive resources (such as any organisations with relevant BPM aims, or possibly government budgets for the BPM aims). 

• nonBPM issues could include: 

• public ignorance and biases; 
• inadequacies in any of the BPM assets listed - e.g., insufficient listening to people when preparing reports, etc; or 
• situational factors such as natural disasters, war, etc. 

The aims, in a ritual, would be to minimise the nonBPM issues, and increase and/or improve the BPM issues. 

For the purposes of an arbitrary example, a situation might involve, say: 

• some people wanting to do better, but being unsure or afraid of taking action; 
• public ignorance and biases; and 
• a recent natural disaster. 

The ways of addressing this may be - for this invented example only: 

1. an education campaign on ethics and correcting misconceptions; 
2. additional resources for recovery after the natural disaster. 

In terms of a ritual to address this situation, the broad options would be: 

• a ritual for either action 1 or action 2; or 
• a ritual to address actions 1 and 2. 

For that second ritual approach, further options could be: 

• allocate separate people to focus on each goal, and do one after the other in the ritual; or 
• combine both actions in the ritual for everyone. 

With the combined ritual, I may ... invoke more than one Deity (one for each function), have a chant that includes both aims, or create a dual sigil - such as  (and this is a quick, not seriously proposed example) a book (for education) on a wheelbarrow (for physical aid). 

There are some constraints on this: 

• the aspects being dealt with in the same ritual should not be antagonistic - for instance, you could not have a ritual which attempts to combine, say, increasing education and also supporting populist superstitions, or getting more government assistance but also reducing taxation (although such combinations MIGHT work if you are all extremely capable and experienced with this style of working); 
• there is an upper limit on how many items can be combined, and that is limited by the skills of us involved in the physical world: 
  - ignore anyone who claims there is a hard and fast number limit - that reflects their experiences and capabilities, particularly limits on their capabilities, whereas yours might be different (stronger, or weaker, for that matter); 
  - our capacity and capabilities, as with so many things, improves as we do more - especially with deliberate, intentional, directed practice. 

As another example of combining aspects in a situation, consider a ritual to address workplace stress. The aims of the ritual could, perhaps, be: 

• personal aspects: 
  - strengthen ability to cope with stress, perhaps working with a personal guiding spirit; 
  - attract additional healing options, which may involve using a sigil to create new opportunities; 
• workplace: 
  - change the workplace culture, which may be complex enough to need its own series of rituals, or may just need something to improve communication. 

In each of these theoretical examples, multiple actions have been proposed. In real life, whether one, several or none of these would be used must be assessed (ask more experienced people for help when needed - including asking them to undertake a divination on specific technical aspects of the ritual/work), with due consideration to personal skills & abilities, whether your reserves are too depleted for this, the impacts of taking action/not acting on those you care about (for instance, changing job may - IF possible - be easiest on family members, or family goals may suggest "sticking it out" for a while and trying to make it better), what sort of assistance you can get in the real world and from others who know how to work with ritual - and, if a situation involves anything unethical, illegal, or harmful, get competent legal and other relevant physical world advice/assistance, and act to maintain the safety of yourself and your loved ones. 

2. Complementary Aspects of a Situation 

As an example of complementary aspects, in a ritual, many Wiccans will invoke both the Goddess and the God. 

That ritual could be relying on: 

• the action of the Goddess primarily; 
• the action of the God primarily; 
• the combined effect of both working together reasonably equally; 
• a varying combination of all of the above. 

A more advanced working would also recognise non-binary Deity or duality in what could, perhaps, be considered more of a Taijitu sense, where one polarity contains the seed of the other within (which has always seemed to me to be one continually flowing into or becomes the other). 

There is also the possibility of combining complementary aspects or including catalysts. The first of these may, for example, combine a set of influences promoting growth in a garden bed with another set of influences guiding birds etc to a separate plant bed established for animals to feed there, rather than on the plants being grown for food. The second may involve working with a Deity for enlightenment of some people who are discriminating, after which one can work towards (progressive) resolution of the abusive behaviours and situation(s). 

Finally, there is also the aspect of fine tuning or careful direction/control of a ritual - which is a bit like operating a hair drier: it has to have a suitable electricity supply, but then the output (air flow and temperature) can be adjusted. 

In a ritual situation, consider doing some work to end a drought: rain is needed, the rate and amount of rainfall must be right - too much and either nothing will happen, too much and damaging floods (which will wash dry soil away) may occur, or the rain may lead to a lot of short term growth which either leads to the water being used by the additional plants and not helping the (say) trees which were the intended beneficiaries, or there may be dangerous conditions such as growth that could create a bushfire risk later. In terms of the ritual, that means thinking about and including a control mechanism such as adjusting rainfall in response to plant growth and/or other issues. 

This is, perhaps, more likely to be an issue in rituals aimed at changing personal characteristics. As an example, if you are seeking to increase your confidence, you do not want to become arrogant ... or if you are seeking to relax more effectively, you don't want to do so to the extent that you find activity difficult. 

Whatever the situation: think about "how much", "what else can help" (possibly with control of the extent/type of work / results being achieved ... on that, personally, I find friends are a great feedback loop if I use any psychological ritual too much), and also think about "where is this coming from?" 

It is easiest to illustrate that last point using rain, again, as an example: if rain to end a drought in one area causes a shortage of rain elsewhere, it is defeating the purpose. It is important to understand the mechanics of what you are seeking as much as you can. So, with the rain example, it may be best to work on a SLIGHT (to avoid creating a cyclone) increase in ocean evaporation upwind of the drought affected area (and possibly a weather system to carry the wet air to where the rain is needed without causing any harm along the way), rather than thinking of redirecting clouds from elsewhere, for instance. 

In any psychological ritual, think about what you may be shifting from elsewhere: for instance, if you boost your confidence by stealing energy from self care, you are, again, defeating the purpose of the ritual. 

As a final side note, I have been invited to be what is termed a Storm Crow on two occasions - which is not part of my path, so I will neither name the other path nor give any details. However, on the first occasion, the woman who invited me said I had done well, but had not done enough; she later performed that role herself ... and the area being worked on suffered a flood. 

Also, on affecting physical weather conditions, this episode is about a “doctoral candidate in atmospheric science at the University of California ... [who] ... is conducting an experiment on psychokinetic influence of atmospheric turbulence”. 

3. Outside of the ritual 

Attempting to do anything in a more flexible, better thought out, more comprehensively prepared way is not only beneficial to that activity: it may have flow on benefits elsewhere - such as more flexible thinking, better observational skills, and the ability to do better research - both magickal AND physical. 

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  

Copyright © Kayleen White 2007-2025     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/