The Psychedelic Christ recovers a forgotten possibility: that early Christianity preserved an [entheogen assisted mystery school] initiatory technology of transformation — centered on the [drug] Son of Man, the light body, and a sacramental [consumption of a] catalyst that was later suppressed, symbolized, or lost.
Drawing on the [official, canonical Christian] Gospels, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Essene mysticism, Egyptian and Greek mystery [school] traditions, and modern neuroscience, William Henry explores the hypothesis that Jesus' teachings about being "born from above" and entering the Kingdom of God were not theological abstractions — but references to an experiential, embodied transformation.
There was a "Mann Act" (previously called the White-Slave Traffic Act, a U.S. federal law passed in the summer of 1910, Ch. 395, 36 Stat. 825, codified as amended at 18 U.S.C. §§ 2421–2424) named after [racist American] Congressman James Robert Mann of Illinois), and the white 54th Gov. of NY Eliot Spitzer was going to be prosecuted under it decades later for his prostitution scandal?
(TYT Sports) Sept. 29, 2025: A resurfaced Dave Chappelle standup comedy bit about legendary Black heavyweight champion Jack Johnson perfectly captures why MAGA’s crusade to rewrite and erase history is so dangerous. Johnson’s story exposed the fragility of white supremacy in the boxing ring and beyond — and the violent backlash that followed. As Rick Strom explains, Chappelle’s comedy reveals deeper truths about America’s refusal to confront racism, and why protecting Black history is essential. #TYTsports #Sports #RickStrom
Dave Chappelle and Muhammad Ali were right about Jack Johnson
(Lu Mazing) Aug. 22, 2025: Jack Johnson was more than a boxing champion, he was a revolutionary figure who challenged a racially divided world. Dave Chappelle highlights how Johnson defeated white champions and lived boldly without fear, openly defying the rules of his time and inspiring generations of Black people to embrace courage and self-worth.
Muhammad Ali reminds us of the sheer bravery of Johnson standing completely alone, facing threats and hostility when there were no civil rights organizations to support him. His resilience became a symbol for all Black people to fight for dignity and pursue their dreams.
Donald Trump posthumously pardoned Johnson, acknowledging the injustice he endured under the racist Mann Act, recognizing his extraordinary achievements and legacy as a trailblazer in sports and society. This video brings together perspectives from comedy, sports, and history to show how Jack Johnson changed the world and why his courage continues to inspire us all.
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New images show suspect in fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO
(ABC News) NEW YORK, United States - Dec. 4, 2024: ABC News has obtained images that show the suspect (deliberate assassin in a brazen targeted attack) in the fatal shooting execution of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
ABC News contributor and former NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce has what's next in the investigation.
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An energetic liar can confuse, mislead, and deceive people. Yet, in many cases, that same liar is unable to reverse the deception. Hoodwinked people embrace their misperceptions.
A Con Man Named Trump
Trump's not bald...except for the toupee on top.
(Ace1000ks1975) An American Western filmed in the 1950s just coincidentally speaks of a man named "Trump" coming to town to fleece everyone of their money by scaring them that if they don't the world is going to end?
Predictive programmingis what we see in the eerily specific predictions of The Simpsons.
What can protesters do to unmask this con man?
He's going to build a "wall" to protect everyone, if they just believe and give him the money. They can't arrest him, they can't make any charge stick, he has freedom of speech to cheat people.
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they’ve been fooled,” observed Mark Twain, or at least it was attributed to him and stuck (Quote Investigator).
Awful guy, a symptom of our lying dirty politics
And the moral to the story is, “Elect a clown, expect a circus.” The disruptor, the Swamp drainer, the jailer who locks 'em up, all lies. But it isn't enough he lied before, the "town" panics and rallies to elect him again, not that we the people really elect anybody.
Ex-Pres. DJ Trump is a lying liar who lies.
Candidates are vetted and selected. He knows it and wants to be a dictator so as to not be locked up. Kamala is little better, so follow the fear. Either way, another Yalie (like Skull 'n Bones' own G.W. Bush) will be sitting in the Oval Office re-reading Hillbilly Elegy by the time they're trying to implement Project 2025.
The scenario this American Western, some 1950s' TV show drama, lays out was also explored in The Twilight Zone when a neighborhood block turns on itself because of malicious gossip and rumors. Words can be very dangerous things, and our mouths are like loaded guns. Just ask Hitler, and if he's not available, Trump can probably answer. Not that he'll tell the truth. Why start now. Why would he ever, even in court? So maybe Gene Sharp's book From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation, which came up as the Occupy Movement was being systematically undermined, would be good for the nation to read.
You will respect my authority or...
This short, pithy, inspiring, and extraordinarily clear book is a guide to overthrowing dictatorships by nonviolent means. It lists 198 specific methods to consider: sit-ins, popular nonobedience, selective strikes, withdrawal of bank deposits, revenue refusal, walkouts, silence, hunger strikes... It is a remarkable work that made Sharp into the world's most effective and sought-after analyst of resistance to authoritarian regimes. Or we could riot in the streets after Nov. 5th, which is exactly what they're hoping, expecting, and prepared for. More
"White Trash" historian Nancy Isenberg on J.D. Vance, "Hillbilly Elegy," and class in America
(Democracy Now!) July 18, 2024: American historian and the author of White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, Nancy Isenberg, calls Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance a peddler of the "self-made man myth." Isenberg criticizes Hillbilly Elegy, the memoir that propelled him to fame, as a deceptive way of selling this myth and the conservative politics it comes with.
"Much of what his memoir says tells us nothing about real class conditions," Isenberg says, pointing to her own historical and sociological research on the rural poor in the United States.
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(Letterman) July 18, 2024: Here is a look back at Bob Newhart's appearance with Dave Letterman from 1990 ("Late Night," air date: 7/12/90). Deadpan comedic genius Bob Newhart, 94, passed away in his home city Los Angeles after a brief illness. #bobnewhart #comedian #letterman. One of his funniest moments late in his career came during his appearance on Saturday Night Live, where he reprised his role as a nebbish psychologist dealing with an interesting parade of neurotic people. Unlike the Bob Newhart Show, he finally has an answer, a simple answer, for all of them to be cured for their mental and emotional neuroses.
(HolyTVClips) The best TV series finale in history of American TV:
The joke is that Newhart had a first super successful series. He then starred in another series for years. When it ended, he woke up in the first as if the second one had been a dream. It was a big surprise to viewers of both.
(Wealth of Geeks) The fact that they are animated does not necessarily make them fit for children. Generally seen as indecent or highly suspect, some cartoons don’t live up to this reputation. But some do. Even if kids love them, do they understand them? Here are 17 of them. (Amaka Chukwuma via MSN.com)
Criminal thug mom in stripes in Michigan courthouse found guilty on all counts.
GUILTY: I didn't do it. I am not a killer. My son shot them. OK, maybe I was negligent, but I wrote a letter to Trump. He'll fix this. He'll get me out of trouble like he did everyone on Jan. 6th.
But what about the Bible? These Crumbleys are a Christian family, after all. As it is said, "The soul that sins, it shall die. [Buddhist translation: The being who misses the mark and performs unskillful karma will die again and again in samsara being reborn each time and carrying on in samsara, this round of countless rebirths.] The son [putra, offspring] shall not bear the iniquity [unwholesome karma] of the father [parent], neither shall the father [parent] bear the iniquity [sin] of the son [offspring]: the righteousness [merit, skillful karma, accumulated good deeds] of the righteous shall be on him [that person who performed them], and the wickedness [unskillful karma] of the wicked [performers of misdeeds of body, mouth, and mind] shall be on him [that person] (Ezekiel 18:20).
Mother of Oxford school shooter found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for his crimes
Lesson? We're ALL guilty of my crimes when I choose to shoot up my school and kill students.
You’re young, fun, and on the run from the law. One kid’s journey across the Deep South leads to a big confrontation with the man who inspired it all… Con Man Daddy.
BIG thanks to Jason Russel Waller as well as his brothers, Randy and Kel, for sharing this story with Snap!
Produced by Bo Walsh, original score by Renzo Gorrio, artwork by Teo Ducot.
The Art of the Con
The LA Weekly busted "Rama"
What if the real story is even better than the fake story they made up? A secret artist, an art world sensation, a family scandal.
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Produced by Andrew Stelzer with support from Anna Sussman.
Insidious by Shannon Cason LIVE
This story is about a bank manager who loves to gamble until he gets into trouble.
This story was told live by Shannon Cason at Snap LIVE in Los Angeles, California. Original music by Alex Mandel and Tim Frick.
Snap Classic – Season 15 – Episode 1.
Conspiracy, mainstream media, or madness | The Truth Illusion (2023) | full film
(Journeyman Pictures) An investigation into how the U.S. is now riven by radically differing views on what is real and what is not. The Truth Illusion looks at how those deepening divisions began and how they have eroded American faith in "authority" – spawning conspiracy theories and creating "alternative realities."
Ancient Geographic, 8/19/23; Pat Macpherson, Amber Larson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
I was hiking through Europe when I was killed. I hope it wasn't my skin color. I'm Euraasian.
It was an ancient murder that took 50 centuries to solve, as an arrow and headwound took Otzi down. Whodunnit? Was it Officer Og and his, pale-skin, anti-Anatolian patrolmen?
Are Eurasian-Turks "white"? Is Turkey Europe if we induct it into the EU? This becomes important when scientific research discovers that the 5,000-year-old Iceman "Otzi" is a dark Anatolian (Asia Minor, Eastern, Turkish) man, not a blond, blue-eyed, pale skin hiker like were led to imagine.
5,000-year-old European Otzi the Iceman's DNA reveals very dark skin
It's the oldest European mummy science has, a preserved Neolithic man (militarypress.com)
X-ray of Otzi's skull looks very "white." *Irony* Skulls were used to define classify whites as supreme. Hard to believe, but see the "scientific racism" of Georges Cuvier and his peers.
Otzi's mountain man rags
(Ancient Geographic) This new scientific evidence has rocked the world of archeology and has revealed a new and completely unexpected identity for Otzi the Iceman.
The surprising discovery was made that he was darker than any other European ever found. What does this new information mean for the history of Otzi the Iceman and his European identity?
Otzi the Iceman was initially portrayed as a long-haired [white] European mountain-man [with 62 tattoos], but the examination of his DNA has yielded novel insights, challenging the prevailing scientific [racist] understanding of his ancestral lineage.
The findings of a new study add to the genetic picture of the Iceman: His genome shares an unusually high proportion of genes with those of early Anatolian (Turkish) farmers when compared to other contemporary Europeans. Contrary to previous findings, his skin pigmentation was much, much darker than expected. The Iceman is Europe's oldest natural mummy, who lived around 5,300 years ago.
The mortal remains were discovered on the border between [future fascist and Nazi] Italy and Austria, at an elevation of 3,200 meters, by hikers in the Ötztal Alps. The hikers went off the marked trail and discovered half a human body sticking out of the melting snow.
Just as the Parks Department posts signs today, ancient American Indians used pictographs.
Top 15 most convincing sightings caught on tape
Stand still! I'm trying to get proof you exist. - But I don't want all humans to know we exist.
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AI generates composite image from descriptions
(Top15s) This Top 15 list searched the Web for the most convincing Bigfoot sightings caught on tape.
People have dedicated their lives to finding more than seeing a Sasquatch but bagging it and bringing it to the feet of science and finding a lab with the guts to publish the findings without trying to say it's a bear or unknown cryptid (like Dr. Melba Ketchum has done only to be discredited by all the people capitalizing on Bigfoot hysteria or making In Search Of-style TV shows, which would come to an end once it's certain).
I can sense them in the area, staring.
How can one prove the existence of a cryptidskunk ape if no evidence is good enough? Until more are shot to death and hauled in rather than buried when the hunter realizes they are a kind of human species (too close to us for comfort) rather than hairy apes, motivated by the wrong reasons, such as fame and riches. These motives have resulted in hoaxes in the past and, what's worse, the powers-that-be have forced successful hunters to redact their stories and evidence or else.
(Evidence that such "powers" are keeping this cryptid's existence a secret comes from the fact that many park rangers know they exist and will say so in private, have listed the creatures as protected species without explanation, and have the government chase and hunt them, with military labs keeping a close eye on their strange biology. Look into it. Take a deep dive.
If asked, Does Wisdom Quarterly believe? The answer is, Absolutely.Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, and Sikh cosmologies replete with these creatures (nature protectors/fiendish ogres, two distinct kinds with individual personalities, some peaceful, some vicious). Moreover, American Lloyd Pye laid to rest any doubts for Western, science-minded, where's-the-cold-hard-evidence types like us. Dr. Melba Ketchum's published evidence is convincing, forensic, scientific, and has DNA, hair, and saliva samples, as well as close up footage. BFRO, retired police detective David "Missing 411" Paulides, and other notables investigate more quietly and get in less trouble. But the science is clear: Sasquatch is here and has been since Europeans arrived to tell other Europeans about it. Natives knew all along).
This video compilation was made in collaboration with Sir Spooks. Check out his channel for more sighting videos. Written and co-narrated by Sir Spooks. Edited and co-narrated by Chills.
Wild men spirits are jinn.
Music: "Day of Chaos," "The Escalation," "Evening of Chaos," "Echoes of Time," "Static Motion" "Ice Demon," "Hush Full Mix (Edited)." Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
Uncovering the Enigma: Sasquatch sightings and our deep fear of the wild | Monstrum
Yeti is an upright "bear" hominid, a class of wild human with language, intelligence, powers.
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(Storied) Sept. 7, 2023: Is "Bigfoot" (Sasquatch, Yakkha, Rakshasa. Almas) a benevolent nature protecting beast or a bloodthirsty cannibal killer? Yes. It depends on whom one asks and when. Regardless, the Native American legend of Sasquatch dates back thousands of years and still captivates us to this day.
(Wiki) Many Indian tribes, Native Americans, the indigenous cultures of North America speak of mysterious hair-covered creatures living in forests [32].
Truth about their comings and goings it too much
According to anthropologist David Daegling, these Native legends existed long before contemporary reports by Euro-Americans of "Bigfoot."
Moreover, Buddhism and ancient Indian and proto-Indian tradition is well aware of forest protectors and cannibal wild men like the Yeti.
These stories differ in regional details and between families in the same community but are particularly prevalent in the Pacific Northwest [33].
The problem is the "high strangeness"
On the Tule River Indian Reservation, petroglyphs created by a tribe of Yokuts at a site called Painted Rock seem to depict a group of Bigfoot called "The Family" [34]. The local tribespeople call the largest of the glyphs "Hairy Man," and they are estimated to be between 500 and 1,000 years old [35].
Sixteenth century Spanish explorers and Mexican settlers told tales of the los Vigilantes Oscuros, or "the Dark Watchers," large creatures alleged to stalk camps at night [36].
In the region that is now Mississippi, a Jesuit priest was living with the Natchez in 1721 and reported stories of hairy creatures in the forest known to scream loudly and steal livestock [37]. More
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