My psychotic breakdown: Cage the Elephant

Cage the Elephant, Neon Pill album (2024)

(CBS Morning) Cage the Elephant's Kentucky boy Matt Shultz opens up about his psychosis, ADHD medication gone wrong (thanks, $Big Pharma$), and healing through rock music and guns:

Between 2020–2024, Shultz had a paranoid "mental health crisis" for the making of Neon Pill (2024).

He experienced a severe adverse reaction to prescribed ADHD medication, which led to paranoid delusions and a break from reality. His condition culminated in a high-profile arrest in January 2023 in NY, where he was found with two loaded firearms.

Double crossed by pharmaceuticals

Cage the Elephant singer on arrest: “It saved my life”

Cage the Elephant was once double crossed by a "Neon Pill"

Shultz later avoided jail time through a plea deal and underwent extensive treatment, which he has credited with saving his life [12]. This turbulent period deeply influenced Cage the Elephant's sixth studio album, Neon Pill.

Have the pills done too much?

Big Pharma sold me the drugs: Em Beihold "Numb Little Bug"

The album features lyrics reflecting Shultz's psychological descent and recovery, blending confessional songwriting with the band's evolving, genre-fluid sound. Songs like "Neon Pill" and "Rainbow" trace his personal trauma, including a temporary divorce from his wife Kentucky-based actress, dancer, and musician Eva Ross [13].

We're not into psychedelics...or are we?

Cage the Elephant "Come a Little Closer" (official psychedelic video)

In interviews, Shultz has spoken candidly about the dangers of blurring performance personas with personal identity and has since adopted a more grounded public presence.

Cage the Elephant: Hey, Man, at least you're on the radio "Social Cues"

I remarried the woman I divorced.

The band's return to touring in 2024 was met with critical acclaim, and Shultz has described the experience as a profound reset, offering new perspective on fame and artistic identity [12].

On Oct. 10, 2024, CBS Mornings aired a segment featuring Shultz and his brother Brad. In it Matt opened up about his psychosis [14]. More

"Beaches in Tennessee"

Cage the Elephant "Beaches in Tennessee" (visualizer)

• PHOTOS: Singer Matt Shultz of Cage the Elephant (Alamy)
• CBS Morning; Cage the Elephant; Em Beihold; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Humans never needed dentists until...

(Erased Century)

• The Weston A. Price Foundation

Jimmy Dore Show: Israel, medicine, vax

Making the Cut: How to Heal

• After YouTube, the show goes to Rumble around 5:00 pm

(Middle East Eye)

Making the Cut: How to Heal Modern Medicine

Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, M.D.

Author Dr. Aaron Kheriaty has 4.6 out of 5 stars (with 28 reviews). There is a cure for medicine’s ills, but it’s going to hurt. Effective treatment, as every doctor knows, begins with accurate diagnosis.

Making the Cut is about what’s going on in the house of medicine. Medicine got sick.

• One in three people now distrust the healthcare system.
• Following the pandemic, two-thirds of Americans doubt medical scientists will act in the best interest of the public.
• We are grappling with an epidemic of chronic illness—heart disease, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, stroke, and chronic lung and kidney disease—affecting six in ten Americans, which medicine seems powerless to fix.

The overall life expectancy of Americans has declined for the first time since the Great Depression. Not only are trust levels tanking,

• the number of doctors is dropping dramatically.
• Physicians are quitting in droves.
• One in five doctors will leave medicine in the next two years.
• One in three will reduce their hours.

A doctor, we assume, wounds in order to heal. “You’re going to feel a sharp pain!” she says, before making the cut. Today, though, all too often the doctor wounds without healing. Why?

In Making the Cut, Dr. Kheriaty, one of the country's leading public intellectuals and preeminent bioethicists, reveals what medicine gave him—and what it sometimes took from him.

This book is about how he grew from an overconfident pre-med to an ambivalent medical student to a capable physician who had fallen in love with medicine—even if his lover has turned into a prostitute of late.

While presenting a damning diagnosis of contemporary medicine, Making the Cut also applies the wounding scalpel in order to heal it. More

• Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and more mock Donald Trump for 'appearing' to fall asleep in meeting

(Access Hollywood) Dec. 3, 2025: Late-night hosts are not holding back after Trump appeared to fall asleep during his latest cabinet meeting. On Tuesday, Dec. 2, the senile president assembled members of his administration for a televised meeting in which he seemingly closed his eyes at times, prompting speculation if he was dozing off. Hours after the gathering, comedians, including Kimmel, Colbert, and Fallon, mocked the moments during their respective shows. “Tell us again how sleepy Joe is, will you?” Kimmel joked during Tuesday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” episode. #JimmyKimmel #StephenColbert #Trump

• 0:00 - Introduction to Trump's meeting
• 0:45 - Jimmy Kimmel reacts to video
• 2:10 - Colbert also comments on viral video
• 3:00 - Fallon jokes about Trump's Truth Social posts
• 4:15 - Karoline Leavitt lies responds to criticism

Deported to China; South Park (comedy)

(Spotlight by Laugh Society) Jimmy O. Yang on Asian chefs 😂 | Best jokes!

(Armchair Analysis) South Park; (Laugh After Dark) David Jin: My parents deported me to China

Henry Cho best of Asian American jokes | Henry Cho Comedy (stand up comedian)

(Sammy Obeid) Oklahoma has billionaires? Standup comedy

(Big Think) Asian comedienne faces herself and others' expectations

Synthetic cannabis; deadly new opioid

(KTLA 5) Southern California youth Bryce Jocquet, 22, from Stevenson Ranch, overdosed on drug

Worse than fentanyl, carfentanil (Wildnil), tranq

Careful, kids. There's a new danger on the block. Nitazenes are a chemically defined class of substances derived from the parent compound nitazene. They were developed in the second half of the 1950s by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Ciba AG as pain-relieving agents.

Big Pharma to blame for making obscene profits?

They are important as centrally active, selective μ-opioid receptor agonists. The high potency of fentanyl (in humans) is matched by only a few nitazenes and surpassed by etonitazene and isotonitazene.

Due to unacceptable side effects, nitazenes were never included in the pharmacopoeia of human or veterinary medicine.

Deadly fake weed Delta-8

Worse living through chemistry: The problematic rise of Delta-8

(Reuters) Thailand to recriminalize cannabis, shocks billion-dollar industry

Since 2019, highly potent nitazenes have proliferated as ″new synthetic opioids″ in the North American and European narcotics markets and as such have become a formative component of the opioid epidemic in the United States. Overdoses of nitazene opioids have led to several hundred documented fatalities [1].

• (Ponto Azul) The first country in Asia (Buddhist Thailand) to legalize cannabis (marijuana, weed, pot)
• 100 incredible moments caught on camera #16 | Best of the Month | VIU
• KTLA 5; Reuters; Crystal Q., CC Liu, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Kimmel, Meyers, Colbert: Trump is dumb

Trump posts AI "Med Bed" conspiracy video, threatens to send U.S. troops to Portland: A Closer Look

(Late Night with Seth Meyers) Sept. 29, 2025: Seth Meyers takes a closer look at the president posting an AI video of himself and threatening to send unneeded, unwanted National Guard paramilitary troops to yet another American city [in contravention of the posse comitatus act. Late Night with Seth Meyers. Stream now on Peacock: bit.ly/3erP2gX

• King Trump says foreign leaders "freak out" when they see his golden Oval Office inside his White Palace (formerly White House)

Jimmy Kimmel Live! is back in Brooklyn

Trump’s crucial release of Amelia Earhart files, JD Vance’s bullsh*t, live from NY

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Sept. 29, 2025: The show is back [on all ABC stations, including Sinclair and Nexstar] in Kimmel’s hometown Brooklyn, NY, for a week of shows from the Howard Gilman Opera House at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, sidekick Guillermo makes his entrance decked out in NY gear, pardoned criminal Mayor Eric Adams dropped out of the current mayoral race, the Mets went and did the Metstiest thing possible last night, Rory Mcllroy’s round of golf turned into a scene from Unhappy Gilmore, Trump has been hard at work coming up with all manner of nonsense to distract the nation from his name all over the Epstein Files and the client list, Don did a whole post about Amelia Earhart, VP JD Vance is making the rounds defending his boss and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, and the show plays a round of “Who’s Not Tony?,” and Flavor Flav gets the party started! #Kimmel

Stephen Colbert keeps trying

(The Late Show with Stephen Colber) Trump and his War on Oregon

Thom Hartmann: Weed reverses aging?

If Black don't crack and Asian don't raisin, could THC in cannabis be part of the reason?

Smoke THC, who TCH? (Thom in 2004)

Thom Hartmann or TCH (Thomas Carl Hartmann, born May 7, 1951) is now pro-THC? The American is a progressive radio personality, author, businessman, and nominal liberal [pro-Bernie, pro-Hillary, pro-Democrat] political commentator [1, 2]. Hartmann has been hosting a nationally syndicated radio show, "The Thom Hartmann Program," since 2003 and between 2010 and 2017 hosted a nightly television show, The Big Picture. More

• AUDIO: Brain boost from THC in weed? When you think of cannabis, improving brain health might not be the first thing that comes to mind. In fact, you’ve probably heard the old trope that cannabis fries your memory... (The Mercury News)

• THC in cannabis reverses the ageing of the brain (greendorphin.com)
• Thom Hartmann Show, May 26, 2025; A Brain Boost from THC? (The Mercury News, May 26, 2025); Dr. Teh (via greendorphin.com), 2019; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Jeffrey Epstein/Ghislane Maxwell victim Virgin' Giuffre fails to die, released from hospital

Sex trafficked child Virginia Roberts Giuffre as a valiant accuser and nonvictim

Giuffre, bruised after car crash, claiming to have only days to live (Virginia Giuffre/Instagram)

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Jeffrey Epstein (and Ghislane Maxwell) victim Virginia Giuffre released from hospital — nearly a week after announcing she ‘had four days to live’

Prince Andrew, V. Giuffre, Ghislane Maxwell

Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre (nee Roberts) was discharged from a hospital today — nearly a week after saying she had just four days to live after a crash with a school bus.

Lies? Hysteria?

[Giuffre claims that her death was inevitable, and she had only four days to live due to renal failure from injured kidneys in a car crash with a bus: Epstein sex victim Virgin' Giuffre to die.]

The 41-year-old mom was released following a six-day stint at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth, the West Australian reported.

She was escorted from the hospital out of view of a waiting media pack [of paparazzi jackals or, this being Australia, dingoes]. Details on her current condition were not immediately made available.

It comes after Giuffre [formerly Virginia Roberts] — who famously claimed to have been induced to have sex with Britain’s creepy, stuttering Prince Andrew — posted a photo of herself bruised and battered in a hospital bed, alleging she had been given just “four days to live” after her March 24th wreck. Source

• Parents of kids on bus in Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Giuffre’s ‘near fatal’ crash break silence and attack her ‘lies’ | The Sun
• How boys as young as 10 are turned into 'dancing sex slaves' and raped by Afghans in ‘open secret’ of cultural custom (Pederasty: Bacha bazi)
• Prince Andrew 'not surprised' his accuser Virginia Giuffre shared shocking '4 days to live' post after crash, pals say

This is all a misunderstanding. It's not my hand

VIRGINIA RIDDLE: Prince Andrew is "not surprised" his accuser Virginia Giuffre shared shocking "4 days to live" post after crash, pals say. Mrs. Giuffre sued Prince Andrew in 2021, claiming she was trafficked and forced to have sex with him (as the Duke) on three occasions when she was a teen. Joe Morgan and Annabel Bate report (thesun.co.uk).

• Emily Crane, NY Post, 4/7/25; Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

"Vigilante" Luigi Mangione?

The Failure, Fear, and Frenzy around Luigi

(Josh Johnson) Dec. 17, 2024: Just announced, the first half of JJ's 2025 tour. Check out joshjohnsoncomedy.com/tour for dates and to sign up for the waitlist to be notified when performances are in a nearby city.

Hi Friends, This week I wanted to share my thoughts on everything that is going on with Luigi Mangione and UnitedHealthcare assassination. Most people already know the story, but what I think few understand is the wider context of people’s anger at health insurance companies and the lifting up of someone they see as a vigilante.

(Sam Obeid) Stand up comedian reacts to Luigi Terror charge

Under Obamacare more people are insured than ever before. It getting passed meant companies could not deny one based on preexisting conditions or family history. Even with the coverage the actual likelihood of one paying into one's health insurance and actually being insured when we need it is unreasonably low.

Doctors, labs, and hospitals are out of network depending on who you have and whether we have Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, United Healthcare, Elevance, CVS Health, Kaiser Foundation, Humana, Centene Group, Cigna, or other health care services corporations are not immune to the possibility of having to pay more out of pocket than one can afford and being saddled with bills one has to fight with the insurance provider over.

All of us have to figure out a way forward. Some believe that it will be through legislation that curbed insurance companies' ability to deny and delay claims until the problem, or the person, goes away. Luigi Mangione has been hailed or condemned on Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook by what feels like everyone in the United States.

If viewers love these stories, Josh Johnson has a podcast that comes out every week: bit.ly/3NQmpio Hit me on them internets: Instagram - joshjohnsoncomedy TikTok - joshjohnsoncomedy Facebook - joshjcomedy. Video recorded at Soundstage in Baltimore, MD.

• Bill Burr; Jimmy Dore (jimmydore.com); Josh Johnson; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Science no longer believes in death

• I've studied more than 5,000 near-death experiences, my-research has convinced me without a doubt that there's life after death

Nurse dies and sees how we go on living

(The Other Side NDE) ⭐ Nurse Penny Wittbrodt encountered death, or what we think of as "death" judging from this side. From the other side, the afterlife, it looks very different. The mystics were right. Seers through the ages have really been seeing something we will all eventually see when it is too late to make use of the knowledge. If only we had come to believe and understand while living, the next phase (lives after lives without end) could have been comforting rather than our worst nightmare of annihilation and obliteration, which many scientific types look forward to because it would mean nothing was ever going to come of ill-done and well-done deeds in this and countless previous lives. When Wittbrodt had a near-death experience (NDE), it taught her about life. That was the most amazing thing. We do not die in any final sense. We may lose loved one, this body, this situation, and all that we hold dear, but there is continuation, reappearance elsewhere (blissful or dreadful or not completely unlike here). She saw her death from her own and then a disembodied perspective, which gave purpose to all the moments she had had here on Earth, the good, the bad, the ugly, and precious few lofty moments. The story of crossing over is mind-bending, glimpsing our potential to reappear in a heaven (one of many) or in any of 31 Planes of Existence in countless worlds. Stories come in from around the globe 🌍 ➡️ tinyurl.com/helptheothersidende 🙏 See more of Penny Wittbrodt and her NDE here ▶️ witthealthcoaching.com. #nde #neardeathexperiences

The "soul" (self) is not immortal. It dies from moment to moment in life whether we notice or not. The process continues after "death." So we are neither immortal nor do we end by death.

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Science finally uncovers what really happens

What happens after we die? While many scientists believe that death is the end, quantum physics suggests that it might not be as simple as we think.

In fact, it could be an illusion.

• How consciousness and life persist after death
• Beyond Death: The Best Evidence for the Survival of Human Consciousness (S. H. Rawlette)
• VIDEO: 25 things that will happen when we die

This new scientific idea challenges everything we know about life and "death." By looking at concepts like the interconnectedness of all things and the nature of consciousness, here’s to a whole new perspective on life after death.

Biocentrism challenges our understanding of death and life

I tried to do my part for predictive programming, showing that there was no Death (T-Swift)

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Everything doesn't go black?

Dr. Robert Lanza, a leading expert in biotechnology, plays a major role in this idea.

He’s the chief scientific officer at the Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine, where he studies stem cells and how they can be used to treat diseases.

Before this, Dr. Lanza focused on researching embryonic stem cells and cloning, working with both animals and humans. [Illegal human cloning?] He is also an adjunct professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina.

I'll reappear in another place in another body?

According to biocentrism, death might not be what we think it is. Instead of seeing death as the end of life, this theory suggests it could be an illusion, something created by the way we perceive the world.

Beyond Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Conscious
-ness, and the Illusion of Death (Dr. Robert Lanza)

The idea is that time and space, as we understand them, are not fixed. Our awareness of these concepts might shape what we experience as life and death.

• Beyond the final-breath: How consciousness persists during death

Can we change the subject? This is upsetting.

The theory doesn’t deny that our physical bodies die, but it suggests that our experience of death might not be the final event we think it is.

By studying stem cells and regenerative medicine, Dr. Lanza is working to explore how life can be extended or even renewed [as happens anyway according to the science-friendly Eastern traditions, in a recycling modality known as samsara].

Why lately has science been promoting suicide euthanasia, abortion, infertility, LGBTQIA+?

His research into cloning and stem cells shows that the boundaries of life might not be as clear-cut as we once believed.

If we can manipulate biological processes, it suggests that life—at least the biological part of it—could be much more flexible than we realize. More: 

• According to quantum physics, death might be an illusion
• What is an NDE or near-death experience?
• Nancy Maffia, Viral Chatter via MSN.com, 11/17/24; Pat Macpherson, CC Liu, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Extreme vaccine injury, OC, California

California woman, 23, suffers severe reaction after hospital allegedly forces vaccines for treatment

(FOX 11 Los Angeles) Sept. 19, 2024: Three alleged vaccinations that neither the patient Alexis Lorenze nor her family wanted were "required" of the patient before the UCI medical center hospital would continue to treat a rare blood disorder left a 23-year-old woman turning purple with severe inflammation and pain.

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Follow up: California woman accuses hospital of requiring her to take 3 unwanted vaccines

(FOX 11 Los Angeles) Sept. 24, 2024: Alexis Lorenze, the 23-year-old woman who previously went viral for showing her adverse reaction to toxins (excipient and intended ingredients) forced on her after she accused the hospital of requiring vaccines, shared new photos of her life-threatening reaction. More: foxla.com/news/california...

COMMENTARY

This pre-pandemic doc warned us

See Vaxxed and Plandemic for more information on vaccine injury. Jimmy Dore (jimmydore.com) is also a vaccine injured person who awoke to what the vaccination industry and Big Pharma were doing as well as the doctors who got in big trouble for speaking out, for example Dr. Judy Mikovits, MD.

For profit doctors do best to go along to get along even as patients die prematurely or are irrevocably injured. Meanwhile. through hastily passed legislation, pharmaceutical companies are made immune to prosecution for any consequences from use of their vaccine preparations.

This is the great advantage of securing "emergency use authorizations," which is not possible if there is any other viable treatment. There are other viable treatments, such as the very safe and famous human drug ivermectin, but it cannot be acknowledged by doctors because that will ruin the pharmaceutical companies' immunity because EUA cannot legally be granted. Research it.

LSD is mushroom, moldy bread brain (PBS)

Doctors and hippies were onto something.

Isn't it amazing what mushrooms can do? Sure, there are magic mushrooms, but Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) is even more powerful in shamanic applications.

Then there are the Sixties, provided courtesy of LSD and cannabis. Who knew that the ergot on rye grain is a fungus? Fungi is mushroom, which is the fruiting body of the organism rooted in mycelia (the invisible matting underground that sends up mushrooms and makes the forest a natural "internet," playfully referred to as the Wood Wide Web.

Ergot fungus on rye and other grains such as barley is what was isolated to make LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide. The Spirit Molecule DMT plays into this, who knows, but it must because it is so widespread in nature and in the middle of our brains at the point called the third eye (pineal gland), which seems to be the transducer and modulator between worlds, the illusory one and the one behind it.

If we're in a matrix, how does anyone know except that they have had a taste of the real thing, the more real Dreamland or Spirit World from fevered dreams and spiritual visions? Who can say? But we are not seeing the world that is really here, only a tiny slice of the band of visible light and intriguing shadow.

How to avoid possession by Mara

When people take an entheogen, a psychedelic, their pupils dilate, that is, open up. It is as if they are now taking in more light and trying to capture it all with eyes wide open. It's a wider sliver of the band, into what we could call invisible light.

Why can we call it that? If ordinary consciousness and physical eyes see these wavelengths, this much of the range, what must dilated pupils and activated occipital lobes be able to take in? LSD is expanding the range, which is why Freak Street (Nepal) fashions and shamanic regalia are so colorful.

Shamanic healing with entheogenic plants

Is mold a mushroom? It is a fungus, and in common parlance we use "mushroom" to refer to all fungi. Lichen is a strange symbiotic combination of algae (chlorophyll) and (cyano-) bacteria and although assumed to be fungal growth on the sunny side of rocks is actually something else altogether. Yeast is a fungus, so it's not so strange that LSD (from grain used in the making of bread) would be, too.

• PBS (video); TEXT: Pat Macpherson and Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly