Native wisdom via A.I. 'Wes Kingfisher'?

Heal, feed, and warm family and friends from the land itself

The Native American Way — 101 field-tested remedies, skills, and recipes passed down by Grandmother Ada from the hills of eastern Oklahoma.

The backyard pharmacy, the wild pantry, fire, shelter, clean water, and the winter table — the old ways written down plain, before the last of them are gone (now only $17).

AI "Wes Kingfisher" is a pen name, and "his" eBook was created with AI assistance. It is written in the "voice" of a Native American elder for educational purposes only. It is not medical advice — so consult a competent physician before using any herbal remedy, especially if pregnant, nursing, or taking an allopathic pharmaceutical.

• (Wes Kingfisher) 25 banned Native camping tricks NASA scientists now say are pure genius

Wild plants can have deadly lookalikes, so never forage, eat, or use any plant without confirming its identity with a local expert or an authoritative field guide.

Foraging and wilderness skills carry inherent risks. This book is no substitute for learning directly from the remaining Native communities and elders who have stewarded these traditions for 10,000 years and longer.

• BOOK: Americans are paying top dollar for what grows free in our own yard! That bottle of pills started life as a tree down by the creek. The comfort our great-grandmothers made in the kitchen now comes with a barcode and a hefty markup. Nobody locked this knowledge away out of spite — but rather, the chain got broken, one elder at a time, one quiet library closing forever. Sound familiar? (weskingfisherbooks.com)
• WARNING: By completing a purchase, purchaser consents to immediate delivery of digital content and waives the 14-day withdrawal right.

• DISCLAIMER: Why would Wisdom Quarterly promote this book by an invented character?

It is because the writer-publisher ("Wes Kingfisher Books") is honest enough to say Wes Kingfisher a pen name and this eBook was written with A.I. assistance (at the bottom of the landing page in small print). And in the future, AI and eBooks may be the closest we ever get to any remaining "Native wisdom."

Real Native American wisdom from a guide

Christopher Nyerges is not Native American, but he teaches authentic tribal knowledge.

The latest publication

• Our advice? Seek out human sources. For hands on training, we recommend the real thing with author and nature guide (Wisdom Quarterly's own teacher) Christopher Nyerges (School of Self-Reliance, Los Angeles, California). He has over 21 plant and survival books in circulation. He is a prolific author, a hands-on trainer, local columnist, advisor, and offers classes on all sorts of modern and Native American survival skills.
• Christopher Nyerges in the page of Wisdom Quarterly

Must-Know Go-To Survival Plants of North America

How the Creator God looks: Book of Enoch

(TheBlackParchment) The Book of Enoch finally exposed the Creator God -- and what this God actually looks like

God: An Anatomy

An astonishing and revelatory history that represents God as he was originally envisioned by ancient worshippers—with a distinctly male body, and with superhuman powers, earthly passions, and a penchant for the fantastic and monstrous.

"[A] rollicking journey through every aspect of Yahweh’s body [the Demiurge, Gnostic Yaldabaoth], from top to bottom (yes, that too) and from inside out... Ms. Stavrakopoulou has almost too much fun.” — The Economist

• Dr. Fran: Bible, atheism, and God's wife Asherah
• Meet the real God of the Christian-Jewish Bible
• Does Buddhism have a "creator god"? Yes: Maha Brahma (but he, like all the other divinities and deities, brahmas and devas are not really "Gods" in the ultimate sense, just in a temporary Western Greco-Roman sense, long-lived but temporary light beings who imagine themselves eternal, all powerful, or all knowing when they are no such thing)

(Basically Primitive) Why did ancient humans start believing in God(s)?

Don't laugh at me! I'm your Lord and Master!!

I'm no ET. I'm Baal. Worship me!

The scholarship of theology and religion teaches us that the God of the Bible was without a body, only revealing himself in the Old Testament in words mysteriously uttered through his prophets, and in the New Testament in the body of Christ.

• The Ethiopian Bible: Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon

The portrayal of God as corporeal and masculine is seen as merely metaphorical, figurative, or poetic. But, in this revelatory study, Francesca Stavrakopoulou presents a vividly corporeal image of God: a human-shaped deity who walks and talks [in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve] and weeps and laughs, who eats, sleeps, feels, and breathes, and who is undeniably male.

Could there be a God, a real God?

(BTC) Atheist explains most convincing argument for God | Alex O'Connor

The Jewish God El

Here is a portrait—arrived at through the author's close examination of and research into the Bible—of a god in ancient myths and rituals who was a product of a particular society, at a particular time, made in the image of the people who lived then, shaped by their own circumstances and experience of the world.

From head to toe—and every part of the body in between [including the penis]—this is a god of stunning surprise and complexity, one we have never encountered before. More: God: An Anatomy (by Francesca Stavrakopoulou)

• The Anatomy of the Body of God (Frater Achad)

Why Taoism Founder Lao Tzu left China

(Daily Tao Wisdom) The real reason Lao Tzu left China never to return

Dalai Lama wins Grammy for spoken word

(WION) Tibetans in exile celebrate after spiritual leader gets Grammy nomination for spoken word reading of his book Meditations

• Grammy | The Recording Academy | News, Performances
• 2026 Grammys: Watch all the performances, acceptance speeches, and highlights | GRAMMY.com
• Dalai Lama wins first Grammy, says recognition of shared universal responsibility (photo)

The Grammy winning performance:

(Dalai Lama Inner World) Inner World by the Dalai Lama (full album playback)

Wisdom of Happiness: Dalai Lama

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, 90, is the first spiritual leader to WIN a Grammy for spoken word performance. Hollywood has honored the CIA asset and spiritual leader (former temporal leader or "pope-king" of Tibet, now China). The Dalai Lama released a spoken word Meditations album with musical accompaniment.

• Dalai Lama: Inner World (2 CD spoken word)
• Dalai Lama's Book of Daily Meditation
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Dalai Lama

Who/what is the "Dalai Lama"? John Oliver gets to the bottom of things better than anyone.

Dalai Lama - Inner World [2 CD set] - Amazon.com Music

Bad Bunny speaks before Super Bowl

Bad Bunny, Billie Eilish, Trevor Noah, more make Grammy demonstrations

Trump needs a new Pedo Island

(Access Hollywood) Trump blasts Trevor Noah after child molester joke

(Brian Tyler Cohen) Noah on sellout Nicki Minaj; Bad Bunny on Trump/ICE

Bad Bunny quotes the Buddha at 2026 Grammys to spite ICE and Trump. - Sound is magical.

'Must-Know Go-To Survival Plants' (book)

Must-Know Go-To Survival Plants of North America

American plant expert Christopher Nyerges

Local guide and prolific author Christopher Nyerges, founder of the School of Self-Reliance, and his wife Helen Nyerges have 4.0 out of 5 stars (with 1 review) with their guidebook Must-Know Go-To Survival Plants of North America.

This easy-to-read book includes a line drawing for each plant and photos that make identification easy. There is also a numerical graph that gives each plant a “score,” depending on how useful the plants are for

• food,
• medicine,
• water,
• fire,
• shelter, and
• other uses.

There is also a guide on how to use and store plants, showing whether a plant can be eaten raw or cooked, and whether it is best when stored dried, frozen, or pickled, or all three.

The authors include plants readers are likely to find anywhere across North America. They also include plants they use most of the time because these plants are widespread, common, easy to recognize, and good tasting.

Also available on Amazon

The book contains 29 entries, though it covers many more than 29 individual plants. For example, in the tree section, there is a discussion of elderberries, oaks, and willows. What they say about these three genera of trees is applicable to every species worldwide of elders, oaks, and willows.

There are 20 species of Sambucus (elder) worldwide, about 600 species of Quercus (oak trees) worldwide, and about 400 species of Salix (willows) worldwide. What is written about Rubus (blackberry) applies to all species, and comments about cattail apply to all 15 species worldwide.

The book talks about individual species used as food -- such as chickweed, lamb’s quarter, and purslane. Several in the section on herbaceous plants contain many individual species, such as grasses, with about 10,550 species worldwide, and onions of which there are about 500 species worldwide, and seaweeds.

Seaweeds are marine algae, divided into the three major categories: green, red, and brown for a combined total of about 10,000 species worldwide.

The book is a refreshing addition to any botanical collection whether one studies as a novice or expert.

• BOOK: Must-Know Go-To Survival Plants of North America (School of Self-Reliance)
• Christopher and Helen Nyerges, SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com; Amazon.com; Dhr. Seven, Xochitl (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

New Year's resolution: Read this book?

Fox Your Carp, Jeff Bezos

F*ck Your Crap - Break Free and Take Control: The Brutally Honest Guide to Stop Overthinking, Start Living, and Finally Take Control by John Forgetson has 4.8 out of 5 stars (with 273 reviews), and it's getting a push by the algorithm.

Too much thinking? Who, me?

The brutally honest wake-up call that overthinkers can’t stop talking about

The year’s almost here. Still overthinking? Still waiting to change? Maybe it’s time to gift yourself the truth...and actually stick to it this time.

Stop overthinking. Start living. Finally take control of your mind, time, and life. You’ve read enough boring self-help to last a lifetime -- the repetitive and brain damaging kind that sounds good but changes nothing.

By now, we don’t need more motivation, we need a mirror...and a serious slap in the face.

Colorful 2026 New Year celebration with vibrant fireworks (dreamstime.com/365501362)

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If I could learn meditation, I could do it all.

So if anyone is tired of overthinking while worrying about what everyone thinks and drowning in endless to-do lists that never end, this book might hit like a truth bomb.

Fck Your Crap isn’t another "feel good" pep talk. It’s a brutally honest wake-up call for people who are done pretending everything’s fine.

It’s not about chasing happiness; it’s about taking control of our life, our focus, and our energy. Inside, find a practical blueprint to stop overthinking, silence self-doubt, and build unstoppable momentum.

What’s inside

• How to stop overthinking and anxiety by rewiring the way the brain reacts to fear and pressure.
• How to stop worrying and start living using real tools that actually work, not useless affirmations.
• How to declutter the mind and rebuild daily habits around clarity and purpose.
• Why "positive thinking" is a scam and what to do instead.
• How to build a mindset so strong that we stop letting everything affect us.
• How to finally break free from the Anxious Generation....

Every chapter hits hard, talks straight, and gives the tools to stop overthinking, stop spiraling, and start living.

Forget the gurus. Forget the hacks. This book is for people who want change that lasts.

Who(m) this book is for

Ever said:

• "I can’t stop overthinking."
• "I feel stuck, lost, and mentally drained."
• "I’m tired of fake positivity and surface-level advice."
• "I'm scared..."?

Then this is a MANUAL to read. It’s for anyone ready to throw the excuses away, face the truth, and build a life that finally makes sense.

Whether navigating anxiety, career burnout, or just trying to get life together, this book will become the slap in the face we didn’t know we needed...until now as we read it.

Why it works

Because it’s REAL. Author John Forgetson doesn’t sugarcoat, spiritualize, or oversell. He cuts through the noise and teaches how to stop self-sabotaging, one brutally honest truth at a time.

With over 200 five-star reviews across platforms, Fck Your Crap has already changed how readers think, work, and live. It’s part tough love, part therapy, and entirely life-changing.

Ready to take back control? If we’re done overthinking our potential, this book will help us stop being our own worst enemy.

• Stop worrying.
• Stop waiting.
• Stop believing everything you think.
• Try something new.
• Try something different.
• Try something better.
• Forget motivation.
• Read this instead.
• Let’s face ourselves...and fix our crap.

F*ck Your Crap - Break Free

Buy Fck Your Crap NOW and finally take control of life. [What’s the worst that could happen? John Forgetson gets rich?] DON'T OVERTHINK IT.

P.S. Important note to readers: Due to Amazon’s advertising guidelines, the eBook edition appears as "Fix" Your Crap. The paperback and hardcover versions remain uncensored as Fck Your Crap. Same content, same no-BS truth. That Goodness for censorship, huh? Thanks, Jeff Bezos.

National Nachos Day (cooking recipes)

(The Vegan Roadie) Lois Ellen Frank on Indigenous cooking

Chips, Beyond Burger, dairy-free shreds, spices

Nowadays, one can find a sheet-pan dinner recipe for pretty much any flavor that one craves. But before all of these existed, there were nachos.

The original sheet-pan meal can be found on virtually every bar and diner menu across the country. While nachos are now a popular Tex-Mex dish, they're a distinctly Mexican creation. Texas?

• (Yeung Man Cooking) Ultimate Vegan Nachos Recipe

(TYT Sports) Bass Pro Tackle Shop, Odessa, TX

Invented in 1940, nachos were born when Ignacio Anaya, nicknamed "Nacho" (which is short for the Spanish name Ignacio, from the Latin Ignatius), threw together a quick snack of

• corn (chips)
• dairy (cheese)
• chili (jalapeños)
• veggies (tomato, black olives, cilantro, guacamole)
• protein (pinto beans, Beyond Burger crumbles)

to sate the hunger of some guests visiting the restaurant he worked at in Piedras Negras ("Black Rocks"), Mexico.

The dish was an instant smash and quickly took hold in other restaurants before Texas-based businessman Frank Liberto created ballpark nachos in 1976, making them even more popular and readily available in the United States.

Nachos are typically eaten as a side or an appetizer, but with some careful doubling-up of ingredients and a few additions, they can become a hearty lunch or dinner.

The beauty of nachos is that while they have a few classic elements and ingredients, they can also serve as a vehicle for creativity and new flavors -- made fully vegan with full flavor.

So if anyone has ever had the urge to mix up a dish of nachos, here are some tips needed to make this dish even more special. More

• It's also National Men Make Dinner Day - What is it? How to celebrate

99 - Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky with Lois Ellen Frank (Keep On Cookin' Pod)

(The Vegan Roadie) March 11, 2024: Keep On Cookin' Podcast with Dustin Harder. Let's go plant-forward.

Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky

This enriching cookbook celebrates eight important plants Native Americans introduced to the rest of the world: corn, beans, squash, chile, tomato, potato, vanilla, and chocolate/cacao—with more than 100 recipes.

When these eight Native American plants crossed the ocean after 1492, the world’s cuisines were changed forever. In Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky, James Beard Award-winning author and Chef Lois Ellen Frank introduces the splendor and importance of this Native culinary history and pairs it with delicious, modern, plant-based recipes using Native American ingredients.

Native plant based cookbook recipes

Along with Native American culinary advisor Walter Whitewater, Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky shares more than 100 nutritious, plant‑based recipes organized by each of the foundational ingredients in Native American cuisine as well as a necessary discussion of food sovereignty and sustainability.

A delicious, enlightening celebration of Indigenous foods and Southwestern flavors, Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky shares recipes for dishes such as Blue Corn Hotcakes with Prickly Pear Syrup, Three Sisters Stew, and Green Chile Enchilada Lasagna, as well as essential basics like Corn Masa, Red and Green Chile Sauces, and Cacao Spice Rub.

The “Magic 8” ingredients share the page—and plate—to create recipes that will transform our world.

BOOK: amzn.to/49HTAgA. Lois Ellen Frank: bio.site/redmesacuisine. IG: lois_ellen_frank. Dustin Harder: dustinharder.com IG: @thedustinharder David Rossetti: davidrossetti.com. IG: @drossetti

Did Trump molest Virginia at Mar a Lago?

Nobody's Girl: A Memoir

(DemocracyNow.org) Molested Viriginia Roberts (Giuffre) was 16 when working for Donald Trump at the Mar a Lago spa when Ghislane Maxwell recruited her for Jeffrey Epstein, who prostituted (child sex trafficked) her out to powerful and prominent men for blackmail purposes. Did Donald take advantage of her, fondle her, or grab her by the...? He claims to have been upset at his best friend/child molester Jeffrey for taking her from him, so upset that he claims he allegedly ended his 15-year friendship with him.

Trash: Ghislane Maxwell

Rich Maxwells spy for Israel

(Recent photos that have surfaced suggest he never broke with the child sex trafficking team of Epstein & Maxwell, who had provided him so many good times and had evidence they could use against him or sell to the highest state bidder, namely Israel and the government of Bibi Netanyahu). She was soon taken around the world, having survived incestuous molestation by her father, Sky William Roberts (shown above with young Virginia).

• "I shook Epstein's hand and asked him what my daughter [Virginia] would be doing" - Viriginia Roberts' father describes dropping her off at paedophile's mansion, meeting despicable Ghislane, and blasts... (vnexplorer.net)
• Virginia Roberts Giuffre's dad says, 'Somebody got to her' as there's 'no way' she took her own life (Daily Star)

They got to her. They murdered my daughter. - Sky William Roberts

(Morning Joe/MSNBC) Co-author Amy Wallace knows names in Epstein files

I'm the Madame, Jeff the Pimp, the girls our $$$

Now she was being used and abused as a "honey trap" to lure men to perform illegal acts on film, which Mossad assets/agents Epstein and Maxwell used to hold over the heads of these rich and powerful men (lawyers, royals, prime ministers, etc.) This is why the CIA became so interested and assisted in the cover up, as the KGB and other intelligence agencies may have. It is possible the Mossad orchestrated the whole set up or just joined in because Zionist Epstein shared information to blackmail individuals to promote the state of Israel in its genocide.

Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice by Giuffre, Virginia Roberts Giuffre

No Epstein suicide, release of Ghislaine?

(CNN) Supreme Court meets today to discuss Ghislaine Maxwell case [and maybe release her, reduce her sentence, dismiss charges, or at least put her in a nicer Club Fed detention center rather than a nasty American prison like a common criminal].

IHIP News EXCLUSIVE: Epstein whistleblower drops BOMB on Ghislaine, Trump, and DOJ cover up!

Here's Epstein, alive and well on his island, 2025

(I've Had It) Sept. 28, 2025: Today IHIP News is joined by the journalist who broke the Jeffrey Epstein case, Julie K. Brown. Check out her book with this link: harpercollins.com/product...

• Trump gives "full backing" to Bibi's Israel to finish its genocide in Gaza, West Bank, Palestine

Perversion of Justice

I've Had It! We will expose Trump-Epstein!

The New York Times bestseller [is] “A gripping journalistic procedural… Spotlight meets Erin Brockovich.”

—Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times

“Julie K. Brown's important book offers not just a definitive account of the Epstein case, but a compelling window into her own experiences as a dogged reporter at a regional newspaper, facing off against powerful interests set against her reporting.”

—Ronan Farrow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Catch and Kill

Dauntless journalist Julie K. Brown recounts her uncompromising and risky investigation of Jeffrey Epstein's underage sex trafficking operation, and the explosive reporting for the Miami Herald that finally brought him to justice while exposing the powerful people and broken system that protected him.

For many years, billionaire [Donny Trump and] Jeffrey Epstein's

Perversion of Justice: Epstein

penchant for underage teenage girls was an open secret in the high society of Palm Beach, Florida and Upper East Side, Manhattan.

Charged in 2008 with soliciting prostitution from minors, Epstein was treated with unheard of leniency, dictating the terms of his non-prosecution.

The mainstream media virtually ignored the failures of the criminal justice system, and Epstein's friends and business partners brushed the allegations aside. But when in 2017 the U.S Attorney who approved Epstein's plea deal, Alexander Acosta, was chosen by Pres. Trump as Labor Secretary, reporter Julie K. Brown was compelled to ask questions.

Despite her editor's skepticism that she could add a new dimension to a known story, Brown determined that her goal would be to track down the victims themselves.

Poring over thousands of redacted court documents, traveling across the country, and chasing down information in difficulty and sometimes dangerous circumstances, Brown tracked down dozens of Epstein's victims, now young women struggling to reclaim their lives after the trauma and shame they had endured.

Brown's resulting three-part series in the Miami Herald was one of the most explosive news stories of the decade, revealing how Epstein ran a global sex trafficking pyramid scheme with impunity for years, targeting vulnerable teens, often from fractured homes, and then turning them into underage sex recruiters.

You'll be back with me on my island soon, Ghislaine. Maybe we can fake your suicide, too.

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Prince Andrew, child, and Ghislaine Maxwell

The outrage led to Epstein's arrest, the disappearance and eventual arrest of his [blackmail partner, fellow covert asset, and girl-fiend] closest accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, and the resignation of Acosta.

The [alleged] financier's mysterious "suicide" in a New York City jail cell prompted wild speculation about the secrets he took to the grave-and whether his death was intentional or the result of foul play.

Trump backstabbed by Marjorie Taylor Greene in betrayal on Epstein, Israel

Tracking Epstein’s evolution from a college dropout to one of the most successful financiers [bank fixers, supposed hedge fund managers] in the country—whose associates included Donald Trump, Prince Andrew, and Bill Clinton—Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story builds on Brown's original award-winning series, showing the power of truth, the value of local reportage and the tenacity of one woman in the face of the deep-seated corruption of powerful men. More

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• CNN; IHIP News; Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly