Our History Is the Futurefeatures a new afterword by Nick Estes about the rising Indigenous campaigns to protect the environment from extractive industries and to shape new ways of relating to one another and the world.
In this award-winning book, Estes traces traditions of Indigenous resistance leading to the present campaigns against fossil fuel pipelines, such as the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests, from the days of the Missouri River trading forts through the Indian Wars, the Pick-Sloan dams, the American Indian Movement, and the campaign for Indigenous rights at the United Nations.
In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the 21st century, attracting tens of thousands of Indigenous and non-Native allies from around the world.
Its slogan Mni Wiconi — “Water is life” — was about more than just a pipeline. Water Protectors knew this battle for Native sovereignty had already been fought many times before. They also knew that even with the encampment gone, their anti-colonial struggle must continue.
While a historian by trade, Estes draws on observations from the encampments and from growing up as a citizen of the Oceti Sakowin (the Nation of the Seven Council Fires) and his own family’s rich history of struggle.
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Duncan Trussell deleted himself from existence on 5-MeO-DMT: Tales from the Trip
Peter Griffin says, Don't do Toad. (Family Guy)
(Animated) WEST HOLLYWOOD, California - Duncan Trussell had his mind annihilated, dry-erased, extirpated, voided when he smoked too much 5-MeO-DMT (aka "The Void" or Sonoran toad venom).
ABOUT Tales from the Trip: Don’t have the time, the money, or the connections to take drugs with famous comedians? Tales from the Trip is here to help. Go on an animated psychedelic journey with funny people as they recount their scary, hilarious, and sometimes dangerous experiences with DMT, acid, shrooms, Salvia divinorum, Molly (MDMA, Ecstasy), and more.
There is no ego, so is Toad mental medicine?
It's always fun to answer this easy question about drugs, whether they are natural entheogens or industrial waste synthetic chemicals. The answer is easy. Look at people who have taken these drugs. Do they look and behave like enlightened individuals, rational, sensitive, and aware of their surroundings? Or are they space cadets with ticks, quirks, and loopy tales from beyond?
If, for example, LSD were the answer, hippies would be well-adjusted spiritual leaders, and "Jim" from TAXI would be his bright Harvard self with depth and clarity.
Let's front. These are our stage egos.
"Man, I hallucinated I was Fat Happy Budda, like all rotund and bald, and like giving out candy to kids from my sack. It was supremo. Totally recommend it." Is this the person to take advice from?
What the heck was that? Were we dreaming?
Another person, gardening in the Plant Pharmacy, cobbles together experiences and joins them with reflection and insight, realizes anything might advance one toward awakening, not because of the experience so much as the response to experiences.
Anything might ignite an expansion, an opening of the heart or mind. What happens happens because of the state of mind. Set and setting are vital, mental state and environment. Ready for a near-death experience? Toad is like an NDE. Ready to meet GOD (Brahman)? Imagine a meditation experience before we're ready for it, before we're settled, steady, calm, and tranquil.
Psychedelic Experience (Leary)
Advice? Proceed with caution. Have a shaman at the ready. This is not a game and nothing to play with. The stoned ape did not enjoy its rude awakening. Looking back, it was good that it happened, but to do it again, take precautions or do not call it "journey." It's just reckless recreational psychonauting punishable by death (or near-death). Follow with integration or expect to sound half-baked for years.
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Sex sells. Are the fans buying? Santa Clara to change its name to Swiftie Clara in honor of female pop star Taylor Swift, and attendees will be hypnotized, indoctrinated, and left with amnesia, which the media will explain away as a thing that happens naturally when one is excited about being at an event, you know. You know how you forget things you pay so much money to attend? You know. C'mon, everybody knows it's normal to just black out at a concert and forget what went on. C'mon. She didn't get to be the highest paid singer with the most hits by talent. Something else is hard at work carrying her to financial success.
Taylor Swift (the bestselling female singer ever) as a Limp Bizkit song
(Nick Lutsko) Taylor Swift is a "Nazi Barbie," Paglia famously commented. She's a corporation. She's a nut. So this song was made. Composed, performed, and edited by Nick Lutsko.
(Hefner) Hated Fred Durst does a good job on "Nookie" w/ Limp Bizkit
Taylor Swift fans report ‘amnesia' following Eras Tour show
Is MK Britney toxic to kids?
The mysterious phenomenon surrounding Taylor Swift's Eras[e] Tour show [mass worship music concert] and its alleged effects on her devoted fans [has people asking questions].
The powers-that-be have long understood the mesmerizing potential of music, using it as a tool to induce amnesia and alter memories.
I'm the new Britney!
The [pop and rock] concert experience becomes a gateway to manipulation, a hidden ritual that transcends mere entertainment.
Delve into the depths of this enigma, seeker, for the truth lies obscured beneath the surface. Are these reported cases of [induced] "amnesia" mere coincidence, or is there a more sinister [experimental] force at play?
Let's unravel the threads of perception and question the nature of reality itself. The Eras Tour show may hold the key to unlocking the hidden powers of mind control and memory manipulation.
I knew Taylor Swift was full of s**t! (Bart)
Stay aware, resist the siren call of the music, and seek the truth beyond the veils of amnesia. More + VIDEO
From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a bracingly original book.
It is a new approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in American society—and in ourselves.
“The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it—and then dismantle it.”
Author Ibram X. Kendi’s concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America.
But even more fundamentally it points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other.
In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like and how we can play an active role in building it.
In this book Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science, bringing it all together with an engaging personal narrative of his own awakening to antiracism.
How to Be an Antiracist is essential reading for anyone who wants to go beyond an awareness of racism to the next step: creating a truly just and equitable society.More
“This latest from the National Book Award-winning author is no guidebook to getting woke.... Rather, it is a combination of memoir and extension of...Kendi’s towering Stamped From the Beginning that leads readers through a taxonomy of racist thought to anti-racist action.... Never wavering...Kendi methodically examines racism through numerous lenses: power, biology, ethnicity, body, culture, and so forth.... If Kendi is justifiably hard on America, he’s just as hard on himself.... This unsparing honesty helps readers, both white and people of color, navigate this difficult intellectual territory. Not an easy read but an essential one.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Ibram Kendi is today's visionary in the enduring struggle for racial justice. In this personal and revelatory new work, he yet again holds up a transformative lens, challenging both mainstream and antiracist orthodoxy. He illuminates the foundations of racism in revolutionary new ways, and I am consistently challenged and inspired by his analysis. How to Be an Antiracist offers us a necessary and critical way forward.”
—Robin DiAngelo, NY Times bestselling author of White Fragility
Franken-mice are being altered to be able to sense light with their noses. Too hard to believe?
Anyone who has ever experienced synesthesia -- the curious experience of, for example, tasting sound or feeling flavor -- will know it's already possible with certain parts of the brain affecting other parts. Synesthetes are not all on acid (LSD). Although their pineal glands may be producing extra DMT. Many artists, musicians, and artistic/slightly autistic individuals experience it constantly, and it seems to help them.
Researchers known as octogenetics experts from Harvard University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory conducted the vivisection (experimentation on living beings). They installed light sensitive proteins in the genome of mice, altering their olfactory systems: Hear all about it in under 90 seconds on the Loh Down on Science.
This event, captured by student photographer Casey Gutteridge, gives a new meaning to cat and mouse games. Or does it? The behavior captured at the Santago Rare Leopard Project in Hertfordshire, England is even more bizarre than it appears. It is mind control by parasites. Gutteridge, who was photographing the leopard for a course project when the mouse appeared, said:
"I have no idea where the mouse came from. He just appeared in the enclosure after the keeper had dropped in the meat for the leopard. He didn't take any notice of the leopard, just went straight over to the meat and started feeding himself. But the leopard was pretty surprised. She bent down and sniffed the mouse and flinched a bit like she was scared. In the meantime the mouse just carried on eating like nothing had happened...but even a gentle shove does not deter the little creature from getting his fill... It was amazing. Even the keeper who had thrown the meat into the enclosure was shocked. He said he'd never seen anything like it before."
Project owner Jackie James added: "It was so funny to see. Sheena batted the mouse a couple of times to try to get it away from her food. But the determined little thing took no notice and just carried on."
Sheena was brought in to the Santago Rare Leopard Project from a UK zoo when she was just four months old. She is one of 14 big cats in the private collection started by Jackie's late husband Peter in 1989. The African Leopard can be found in the continent's forests, grasslands, savannas, and rainforests.
The mouse continued to eat the leopard's lunch and show the leopard who was the boss. But what is driving this behavior? It is neither bravery nor foolishness. It's actually much stranger than that: There exists a cat parasite whose life-cycle includes the brains of mice. The only way for it to complete its life-cycle in a cat's intestines is to alter fear in mice so that they will venture out and be eaten. Stranger still is that this brain parasite can affect humans.
Bizarre Human Brain Parasite Precisely Alters Fear After they get infected with the brain parasite Toxoplasma gondii, however, rats become attracted to cat urine, increasing the chance they'll be eaten...
Cat-Borne Brain Parasite Attracts Rats to Feline... (Fox News) Cat-borne brain parasite attracts rats to feline urine. Toxoplasmids, thought to alter human brain activity, now shown to alter rat thinking...
Brain Parasite (Cuterebra) in Cats: (PetMD) Feline ischemic encephalopathy (FIE) is caused by the presence of a parasite (Cuterebra larva) in the cat's brain.
Toxoplasmosis (Wikipedia) Louis Wain was a prominent cat artist who later developed schizophrenia... "Can the common brain parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, influence human culture?"
"Less food, more thought," long a sta-ple of Buddhist meditators, Himalayan yogis, and other religious seekers, fasting is gaining credibility due to modern research. The more weight lost, the more memory improved. A preliminary study suggests that restricting calories (or regular, vigorous exercise -- such as yoga -- for those who are already at a healthy weight) is proven to improve memory.
Do you or does anyone you know download sermons onto an iPod, or listen to sermons online, or receive text messages with bits of spiritual wisdom on them?
Have you ever bought any "One-Minute Bible" books, or books reflecting a quicker way of attaining some spirituality in your life?
ABC News would like to hear from you. We are looking for people who turn to new, often abbreviated means, as a way to keep religion in their fast-paced lives.
Please tell us how you stay connected to your faith in the digital era and include a daytime phone number and an evening phone number, and an ABC News producer might reach out to you to include you in our story.
HealthDay News -- It sounds like science fiction, by scientists say it might one day be possible to erase undesirable memories from the brain, selectively and safely. Using a complex genetic approach, U.S. and Chinese researchers believe they have done just that in mice, but the feat is far from being tested on humans. Study co-author Joe Z. Tsien, co-director of the Brain & Behavior Discovery Institute at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, says the "work reveals a molecular mechanism of how [memory deletion] can be done quickly and without doing damage to brain cells." The finding is published in the Oct. 23, 2008 issue of Neuron. More>>
"Impression Management" Patricia Wallace, a psychologist at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth, is an expert on information technology and psychology and said that the phenomenon can be explained, in part, by "impression management." "If you go to a pub and you're sitting by yourself, that says something. Rather than to be thought of as a loner or not desirable as company, you use your virtual connection to look like you're more desirable and involved and actively engaged with others," she said. More>> (See full story on Human "Communifaking")
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US scientists have found a safer method of turning mice skin cells into "induced pluripotent stem cells," in a potential breakthrough in the quest for regenerative therapy. The method reprograms skin cells into iPS cells that are similar to embryonic stem cells without using potentially harmful viruses that often cause tumors in laboratory animals (AFP/HO/File).
Woman pretending to make cell phone call to appear as she is not in an example of what psychology has dubbed "impression management"(electricpig.co.uk)
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