Vegan Jane Goodall, 91, dies, natural causes

• Future of Hope: Dr. Jane Goodall (3/30)
• Jane Goodall: The Book of Hope (video)
• Jane Goodall live in theatres 9-27-11 (video)

Animals trust/love kind vegan

VEGAN Dr. Jane Goodall, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, was a remarkable example of courage and conviction, working tirelessly throughout her life to raise awareness about threats to wildlife, promote conservation, and inspire a more harmonious, sustainable relationship between people, animals, and the natural world. She passed away in her sleep. in the latter part of her life, she expanded her focus as a vegan/vegetarian and became a global advocate for human rights, animal welfare, species and environmental protection, and many other crucial issues. Donate to her legacy

• Jane Goodall: Why I went plant-based (and why we should ALL eat less meat)
• Jane was a compassionate and healthy vegan (Instagram)
• Jane Goodall is a proud VEGAN — her plant-based diet revealed
• Goodall's cause of death at 91 revealed — natural causes
• Jane Goodall and other guests eat vegan lunch at New York Times climate forward event

I was once a girl in England, dreaming of living with and saving the animals.

Wildlife lover Jane falls in love and marries wildlife photographer Hugo van Lawick, Africa.

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Jane Hopecast podcast: Emma Lewisham

"I stopped by the end of 60-something like that," Jane said of eating meat. The legendary Dr. Goodall has lived a life full of compassion and advocating for animals, sharing her immense knowledge with generations of people eager to soak up her wisdom. Dr. Goodall's climate activism has been astoundingly inspiring for countless compassionate people seeking a better, safer, healthier world, and she has clearly lived a long life as an environmental leader and role model. More: Jane Goodall: Here's why I stopped eating meat in the 1960s

Jane's Vegan Cookbook

#EATMEATLESS: Good for Animals, Earth & All 

• Why did you become a vegan, Jane? - I read ANIMAL LIBERATION by Peter Singer
• Jane Goodall and her life in the wild (Science Friday)

What are you looking at? - I want to be like you!

Dame Jane Morris Goodall (April 3, 1934–Oct. 1, 2025), was an English zoologist, primatologist and anthropologist [3].

• Roots & Shoots USA - Youth Movement of the Jane Goodall Institute
• Remembering Jane (Jane Goodall Institute USA)

She was considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, having studied the social and family interactions of wild chimps for over 60 years. She was scheduled to speak in Pasadena today, Oct. 1, 2025, for the local chapter of her Roots & Shoots and later this week at UCLA's Royce Hall.

Vegan Jane Goodall

Dr. Jane Goodall explains Veganism (meatless, plant-based, ahimsa)

How she changed what we know about chimps

• Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees: National Geographic's 1965 documentary follows the experiences of British zoologist Jane Goodall, who spent five years studying chimps in Tanzania's Gombe Stream Preserve and discusses her belief that thorough understanding of chimpanzee behavior will lead humans toward a clearer understanding of themselves. (ThisOldVideo2: This is the 1988 edited version posted Feb. 6, 2021).
• Jane Goodall, primatologist and chimpanzee champion, dies at 91 (National Geographic)
• Goodall’s original tale of chimpanzees still astonishes today

Dr. Leakey's legacy

Leakey's Angels (pinterest.com)

Another of Dr. Louis Leakey's legacies stems from his role in fostering field research of primates in their natural habitats, which he saw as key to understanding human evolution. He personally focused on three female researchers:

• Jane Goodall,
• Dian Fossey,
• Birutė Galdikas.

He called them "The Trimates" [2][3]. Each went on to become an important scholar in the field of primatology. Leakey encouraged and supported many other doctoral (Ph.D.) candidates, most notably from Cambridge. As well, Leakey played a role in creating organizations for future research in Africa and for protecting wildlife. More

Death comes to us all. I wish I'd prepared more.

Goodall (born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall and formerly known as Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall) first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania, Africa, to observe its chimpanzees in 1960 [4].

As the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots program, Goodall has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues.

You're like a funny chimp, Mr. Jim-Kim.

She was on the board of the Rights for Nonhumans Project from 2022 until her death in 2025 [5][6]. In April 2002, she was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Goodall was an honorary member of the World Future Council. More

• Jane Goodall live at Royce Hall (tickets-center.com)
• SAVE TREES: Amigos de los Rios - Emerald Necklace
• KTLA 5, Oct. 1, 2025; National Geographic via ThisOldVideo2; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Jen B., Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Research: autistic brains are psychic

New research finds the autistic brain has psychic abilities

(Danny Jones Clips) Iya Whiteley: Autism is a spectrum disorder, but not talking may be masking other powers and abilities. Indigo and Crystal Children can communicate even if they do not "talk" (verbalize) much. They have differences but these are not necessarily deficits. Social awkwardness to us is something else to them. More

• Iya Whiteley, MClinPsy, PhD – IONS

Empaths have blocked throat chakras

Why empaths have a blocked throat chakra and how to clear it

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Can males be empaths? Highly sensitive souls

It’s not a coincidence. This message found you because it was meant to. [Really? How can that be disproven? Seems like a convenient hook to deploy on people ready to be taken in.] You’re not here by accident. The energy, the timing, and the signs have all aligned for this exact moment. This video aims to give an intuitive download and spiritual message crafted for those who are ready to awaken, release, or shift. Whether going through a transformation or simply needing a sign [and who isn't?], know that this is confirmation. If you’re seeing this, it’s because your soul is calling you toward something greater. Watch until the end — because the message is for YOU. 

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• Tina Wong, July 26, 2025; Amber Larson, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Antisemitic Jews who founded Zionism

Stand up teases an Israeli Zionist Jew in Sophia - What are Israeli Zionist Nationalists doing to kids?

LIVE: The self-hating Jews who founded Zionism + The First Jewish Antizionist Congress

Zionism During the Holocaust

(Katie Halper) Started streaming June 10, 2025: Halper interviews Tony Greenstein, co-founder of Britain's Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the author of Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponisation of Memory in the Service of State and Nation.

First Halper plays Part 2 of her interview with Dalia Sarig, Haim Bresheeth Zabner, and Ronnie Barkan, three of the organizers of the:

• FIRST JEWISH ANTIZIONIST CONGRESS kicks off Friday, June 13, 2025.
• The great Ilan Pappe, Katie Halper, Tony Greenstein, and others will be speaking: juedisch-antizionistisch....

Lies: But Iran is moments away from the bomb! - Israel is LESS safe for its Zionist atrocities.

KHS will (almost certainly) be streaming the Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress on the KHS YouTube channel, so keep an eye out for more information.

• 00:00:00 Katie Halper introduces the show
• 00:01:55 Introducing Haim Bresheeth, Ronnie Barkin, and Dalia Sarig
• 00:03:05 One state vs. two state solution
• 00:07:12 Lessons from the past movements and looking towards the future of Palestine
• 00:12:10 Thoughts on the current situation in Gaza
• 00:15:42 Israel’s “democratic” genocide has popular support
• 00:26:00 Halper explains the Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress and introduces Tony Greenstein
• 00:27:10 Tony Greenstein on Marek Edelman and the Bund (Jewish Socialist Party)
• 00:35:00 Early Zionist ideology embraced Anti-Semitism
• 00:50:08 TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES + REPEATED CLIP
• 01:10:09 Stream resumes (Thanks for exercising patience!)

Dalia Sarig is co-founder of the initiative “Not in our Name” (ifnotnowmovement.org) founded by Jews in Vienna and candidate on the GAZA list.

An IDF Like No Other

Haim Bresheeth Zabnner was professor of media and cultural studies at the University of East London and then a professorial research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). He is a filmmaker, photographer, film studies scholar, and historian. His films include A State of Danger, a documentary on the First Palestinian Intifada. His books include An Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defense Force Made a Nation. Prof. Haim is the son of two Holocaust survivors and was raised in Israel. He is a member of Holocaust Survivors and Descendents Against the Genocide and a founding member of Jewish Network for Palestine. On November 4, Prof. Haim was arrested over a speech he gave at a pro-Palestine demonstration outside the residence of Israeli Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely in North London.

‎شرش | Shoresh | שר”ש‎ (@shoresh_us)

Ronnie Barkan is an Israeli activist, a conscientious objector, and co-founder of Boycott from Within – a group of conscientious Israelis who support the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. He represented the Popular Struggle Coordination Committees at the European Parliament in Brussels, where he challenged EU institutional complicity in Israeli violations.

Tony Greenstein is the co-founder of Britain's Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the author of Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponisation of Memory in the Service of State and Nation.

• Find the full interview with Tony Greenstein at patreon.com...

• Katie Halper, June 10, 2025; Sheldon S., Shauna Schwartz, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Gay Jews drop out of San Diego Pride '25

Kehlani speaks the truth and offends local Jews, claiming to be "afraid" for their safety when they are opposed to being labeled Israeli Genocide supporters, Jewish supremacists, or sympathizers who back Jewish Dictator Bibi Netanyahu. More

Trump sends corps back in closet, Troy on Pride sponsor demands | Daily Show

Who is Kehlani?

Kehlani, 2018, musician with conscience

Kehlani expressed solidarity with Palestine during Israel's genocidal ethnic cleansing of Gaza and war on Palestinian non-Jews.

In Instagram posts, they [Kehlani] voiced disapproval for celebrities who have chosen to remain silent on the matter, implying that they prioritize their personal business endeavors over addressing a pressing humanitarian crisis [88, 89].

They were a principal signer of the October 2023 open letter, Artists Against Apartheid [90, 91]. In November 2023, Kehlani signed an open letter calling for a ceasefire and an end to the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip [92]. On May 27, 2024, Kehlani voiced their criticism on Instagram, this time directed specifically at fellow musicians for remaining silent about the Israel's war on Gaza and Palestine [93].

They further demonstrated their support for Gaza in the “Next 2 U” music video, which opens up with a poem by a Palestinian-American writer and has a Palestinian flag in the background of the entire video [70].

In April 2025, Kehlani's scheduled performance at Cornell University's annual Slope Day was canceled by university president Michael Kotlikoff over their support for Palestine. Kotlikoff claimed that Kehlani had "espoused antisemitic, anti-Israel sentiments in performances, videos, and on social media."

In response, they responded on Instagram saying, "I am not antisemitic, nor anti-Jew. I am anti-genocide, I am anti the actions of the Israeli government, I am anti an extermination of an entire people, I am anti the bombing of innocent children, men, women—that’s what I’m anti" [94].

In May 2025, another scheduled Kehlani concert in New York was canceled after pressure from New York City Mayor Eric Adams citing "security concerns" [but not admitting to any undue Jewish influence]. The free concert had been scheduled to take place on June 26 at SummerStage as part of Pride events taking place in the city... More

• CC Liu, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Anti-Zionist Jews against Israel's lies (UN)

• nkusa.org
• #Rights4Palestine
• Jewish Voice for Peace
• ifnotnowmovement.org
• ‎شرش | Shoresh | שר”ש‎ (@shoresh_us)
• IDF Jews: breakingthesilence.org.il
• American Veterans for Peace
• CODE PINK: Women for Peace

NKI is the voice of Religious Jews worldwide in their Torah-based opposition to the State of Israel

Paradox: Thinking without thoughts

How wonderful is real silence, inner-peace!

There is such a thing as thoughtless consciousness, bare awareness without commentary, without chatter, inner silence. It can happen. How it happens, what brings it about, that is hard to say. Begin with outer silence. Bring the mind to a single object for long enough, and it may happen. Feel the freedom. There is full knowing, better knowing than when words/thoughts are intervening. But it must be experienced to believe how wonderful the silence and stillness is. (Jhana or "meditative absorption" moves away from the noise toward the sweet silence and sanity of stillness).

The Paradox of Thoughtless Consciousness

(The Mountain) March 28, 2025: The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. #quantumconsciousness #paradox #selfawareness

• 00:00 Thoughtless thinker
• 00:33 Distance between reality - thought - speech
• 01:13 Time zone difference
• 01:53 Retrospective mind
• 02:31 Meta thinking and language filter
• 04:38 Raw awareness
• 5:27 Is there a state of no-thought?
• 7:16 Surrender of the seeker
• 9:02 How to arrive at no destination

TAGS: Quantum Consciousness, Observer Effect, Reality Fabrication, Perception Alchemy, Thought Manifestation, Mind Over Matter, Holographic Universe, Wavefunction Collapse, Reality Distortion, Dimensional Awareness, Mental Projection, Non-Dual Awareness, Conscious Creation, Observer Reality Loop, Awareness Constructs Matter, Perceptual Engineering, Cosmic Mind, Simulation Hypothesis, Lucid Manifestation, Ontological Design

Seth Speaks: video of Jane Roberts channeling

Loudmouths: Pussy Riot (TED Radio/A7x)

Pussy Riot's Nadya featured on Avenged Sevenfold's punk-metal hit "We Love  You":

L O U D M O U T H S

Devastated by attempted murder of her friend - opposition leader Alexei Navalny (Punktuation!)

I tried to warn her to shut her lady mouth, and now I want her in Siberian gulag for being loud.

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Nadya Tolokonnikova's Pussy Riot

Sometimes, the only way to make an impact is to be loud. This hour, three female performers talk about the rewards — and uncomfortable consequences — that come from speaking out and making people feel discomfited. One who knows more about that than most is Pussy Riot's Nadya, the face of a collective feminist movement and music group in Vlad Putin's Russia. Loudmouths: TED Radio Hour, Aug. 30, 2024 (NPR)

1. AUDIO: Nadya Tolokonnikova: Pussy Riot's sexy resistance against Putin [sexism, fascism, and social injustice] — and the consequences
2. Lilly Singh: When 'a seat at the table' isn't enough and not what you expected it to be
3. Sarah Jones: 'Sell/Buy/Date' director on the controversy surrounding her film on the plight of U.S. sex workers and the backlash by those sex workers

Interviewed by TED Radio Hour Host MZ

Powerhouse TED Radio Hour Host Manous Zomorodi being quietly loud at NPR.

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I'm aging gracefully (losing minerals)

HOST: Manoush Zomorodi, who is Persian/Swiss, is the host of NPR's TED Radio Hour. She is a journalist, podcaster, and media entrepreneur, whose work reflects her passion for investigating how technology and business are transforming humanity. TED Radio Hour won the 2023 Ambie Award for Best Knowledge, Science, and Tech podcast. Her book Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Creative Self (2017, St. Martin's Press) and her TED Talk (with 6 million+ views) are guides to surviving information overload and the "Attention Economy." In 2018, Zomorodi founded Stable Genius Productions, where she produced and hosted, among other shows, ZigZag: TED's business podcast about being human. More

• Nadya Tolokonnikova: Pussy Riot - New Mexico Museum of Art (nmartmuseum.org)
• Pussy Riot’s Nadya forms crypto org to fund Ukrainian aid groups | Pitchfork
• Russia labels Pussy Riot members “foreign agents” (Patabook Entertainment)

You're making Russia a police state, you Cossacks and puppets for The Man! Anarchy for liberty!

Nadya is now in Los Angeles. Her Pussy Riot now plays hyper-sexualized, Satanic-themed, Die Antwoord-style (rip off) punk rock in clubs and was scheduled to open for Avenged Sevenfold

Our balaclavas (knitted caps) gave us anonymity and voices to speak up for social justice!

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It was a great booking but seemingly fell through

• This segment of the TED Radio Hour was produced by James Delahoussaye and edited by Sanaz Meshkinpour. Facebook @TEDRadioHour and email at TEDRadioHour@npr.org
• The TED Radio Hour with Host Manoush Zomorodi; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Dhr. Seven, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

SUTRA: When the trees talk (MN 45)

The great Isaline Blew Horner, an early British translator of Buddhist sutras, originally translated this discourse from the Pali canon. It is updated here into modern English in a vernacular that Americans might find easier to understand.

45. The Lesser Discourse on the (Ways of) Undertaking Dhamma

British translator I.B. Horner

Thus have I heard: At one time the Buddha was staying near the City of Sāvatthī in Jeta's Forest Grove in the billionaire's monastery.

There he addressed the wandering ascetics, saying: “Meditators!” “Revered one,” they answered. The Buddha taught:

“Meditators, these four are (ways of) undertaking this Teaching (the Dharma). What are the four? There is, meditators, the undertaking of

1. Dharma that is happiness in the present but results in suffering in the future
2. Dharma that is both suffering in the present and results in suffering in the future
3. Dharma that is suffering in the present but results in happiness in the future
4. Dharma that is both happiness in the present and results in happiness in the future.

Female wanderers are hot with their long hair

“What, meditators, is the first? There are some ascetics and priests (shramanas and brahmanas) who speak like this and hold these views: ‘There is nothing wrong with sense pleasures.’

“They indulge in sense pleasures; they gratify themselves with female wanderers (sadhvis) who tie their hair into pretty topknots; they speak like this:

Sadhvis are so very pretty!

“‘How can these worthy ascetics and priests, seeing some future danger in sense pleasures, speak of letting go of sense pleasures, lay down a full knowledge of sense pleasures?’

“Saying, ‘Happiness is in the young, soft, and downy arms of this female wanderer,’ they indulge in sense pleasures.

“They, having indulged in sense pleasures, at the breaking up of the body after dying, arise in a sorrowful state, an unfortunate rebirth, an abyss, even in hell (niraya).

Sadhvi Saraswati-ji

“Here they experience painful feelings that are sharp and excruciating. They say, ‘These worthy ascetics and priests, seeing future danger in sense pleasures, speak of letting go of sense pleasures and lay down a full knowledge of sense pleasures.’

“‘But we, because of sense pleasures, now experience painful feelings that are sharp and excruciating, their cause being sense pleasures.’

“Meditators, it is as if in the last month of the hot season, a creeper's seedpod burst and a seed of the vine known as a creeper, meditators, were to fall at the root of a sāl tree.

“Then, meditators, the spirit (devatā, dryad) residing in that sāl tree, being afraid and agitated, might start trembling.

“Then, meditators, the friends and acquaintances, the kith and kin, of that spirit who resides in that sāl tree -- spirits of parks, groves, trees, those residing in medicinal herbs, grasses, and woods -- gathering together and assembling might give comfort to that sal tree in this way:

A worker in the wood might remove a vine seed.

“‘Do not be afraid, revered one! Do not be afraid, revered one! For a peacock might swallow this creeper's seed, or a deer might chew it, or a forest fire might burn it up, or workers in the wood might remove it, or white ants might eat it, or it might never sprout.’

“But, meditators, if neither a peacock should swallow this creeper vine's seed, nor a deer eat it, nor a forest fire burn it up, nor workers in the wood remove it, nor white ants eat it, it might sprout.

The monsoon rains may come to water the land.

“Rained on by the monsoon clouds, it might grow quickly, and a young, soft, and downy creeper, clinging to it might take hold of that old sāl tree.

“Then, meditators, it might occur to the spirit residing in that sāl tree: ‘Why then did these worthy friends and acquaintances, my kith and kin -- spirits of parks, groves, trees, those residing in medicinal herbs, grasses, and woods, seeing future danger in this creeper's seed -- gathering together and assembling, utter these comforting words:

You like that, huh, Red, my soft embrace?

“‘Do not be afraid, revered one! Do not be afraid, revered one! For a peacock might swallow this creeper vine's seed, or a deer might eat it, or a forest fire might burn it up, or workers in the wood might remove it, or white ants might eat it, or it might not sprout’? Pleasant is the touch of this young, soft, downy, and clinging creeper.’

The vine gets carried away and takes over.

“It might cover that sāl tree. And doing so, it might form a canopy above it. It might produce dense overgrowth. Producing dense overgrowth, it might strangle every branch of that great sāl tree.

“Then, meditators, it might occur to the dryad (devatā) residing in that sāl tree: ‘It was because of seeing this future danger in the creeper's seed that those worthy friends and acquaintances, my kith and kin -- spirits of parks, groves, trees, those residing in medicinal herbs, grasses, and woods, seeing future danger in this creeper's seed -- gathering together and assembling, utter these comforting words:

I'll cling to him and he'll be all mine.

“‘Do not be afraid, revered one! Do not be afraid, revered one! For a peacock might swallow this creeper's seed, or a deer might eat it, or a forest fire might burn it up, or workers in the wood might remove it, or white ants might eat it, or it might not sprout.’ For I, because of this creeper's seed, am experiencing painful, sharp, excruciating feelings.’

“Even so, meditators, there are some worthy ascetics and priests who speak this way and hold these views:

There's nothing wrong with sense pleasures.

“‘There is nothing wrong with sense pleasures.’ They, indulging in sense pleasures, at the breaking up of the body after dying, reappear in a sorrowful state, an unfortunate rebirth, an abyss, even in a hell (niraya).

“Here they experience painful feelings that are sharp and excruciating. They say, ‘These worthy ascetics and priests, seeing danger in sense pleasures, speak of letting go of sense pleasures and display a full knowledge of sense pleasures.’

“‘But we, because of sense pleasures, experience painful feelings that are sharp and excruciating, their cause being sense pleasures.’

“This, meditators, is called the undertaking of Dharma that is happiness in the present that results in suffering in the future.” More

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• I.B. Horner (trans.), MN 45 (suttacentral.net); Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly