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. 2,923 - Documentary on religion and carnism

I have recently watched the documentary “Christspiracy”, which is a powerful and disturbing presentation about the perversion of religion to justify carnism - reported as now also being continued by corporations (for profit?) and governments. 

It should noted that jobs and the economy are also likely to be major aspects of this - both for governments, and also fear of loss of income is likely to be a key part of the motivation of any corporate employees who may be acting against this film (with some understandability, especially in the ultra-neoliberal USA, where money is essential for the life, health care, housing, etc of workers’ families). None of that justifies breaking the law, or harming or threatening harm to others, but it does emphasise the need for governments and corporations to start shifting the way they do business - apart from the animal ethics issue, there is the survival of the human species, let alone having a functioning economy, if the climate crisis continues out of control.

The documentary is available free online at   https://christspiracy.com/  Some reviews can be found at:   https://plantbasednews.org/culture/film/what-is-christspiracy/ ,   https://www.greenmatters.com/big-impact/what-is-christspiracy-about ,   https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/christspiracy ,   “Christspiracy | Official Theatrical Teaser”   https://youtu.be/LoyUzSloUEg ,   and   “Is There a Spiritual Way To Kill An Animal? Christspiracy Documentary Q&A”   https://www.youtube.com/live/m_YM41kni7g .  

I did some Internet checking on a few points from the film: 

• I couldn’t find confirmation of the statement that the original meaning of the word “dominion” was more akin to our understanding of “stewardship” (I checked   https://www.etymonline.com/word/dominion#etymonline_v_13927 ,   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dominion ,   https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/dominion ,   and   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dominion#English );
  

• although I knew that Tibetans admitted eating meat that was from animals that died as a result of an accident (e.g., falling over a cliff), and that there were butchers in Lhasa (who were reviled but obviously made a living - perhaps from non-Buddhists?), but I was stunned to discover that the Dalai Lama eats meat on a ridiculous pretext (I checked   https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/15268/why-cant-the-dalai-lama-be-a-vegetarian ,   https://vegetarian-vacations.com/is-the-dalai-lama-a-vegetarian/ ,   and   https://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/12/dear-dalai-lama-is-it-permissible-for-buddhists-to-eat-meat/ ), which adds to concerns I have about Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, and the Dalai Lama; 

• the comment about the word “holocaust” as a term for a form of animal “sacrifice” checks out - see https://www.etymonline.com/word/holocaust#etymonline_v_12103 ; 

• slavery did originate with - at the same time as - agriculture - see   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_slavery&oldid=1254912592#Prehistoric_and_ancient_slavery . (see also https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2023/06/patriarchy.html)  
  

A few other comments are: 

• the comment about the “training” of young males into carnism is important; 
  

• the change of heart about killing animals for a soldier after he had personally experienced being hunted is significant;
  

• some of the people being interviewed clearly do not know their people - or are afflicted by wishful thinking; 

• the religious excuses being used are utter rubbish - and the justification of eating animals who die accidentally is also, in my opinion, disputable (the energy is still problematic, as their passing could be treated with reverence); 

• the comment about the term “human beings” being aspirational given the link of the word “human” to the word humane is very telling;
  

• the attempts to intimidate the filmmakers should be treated as criminal (trespass, breaking & entering, intimidation, etc), and the dissent should not be treated as t_r_rr_sm, although other laws (e.g., trespass, breaking & entering) will apply.

However, I consider the comments about the red heifer and last years appalling and well prepared in advance atrocity to be far too simplistic, and, in my opinion, wrong.

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).

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