Showing posts with label professor. Show all posts
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Friday, November 8, 2024

Naomi Klein: What are we going to do?


Help us. We're Jews.
The day after the Trump election, the New York Times wrote: “America stands on the precipice of an authoritarian style of governance never before seen in its 248-year-old history.”

For many, [this kind of fearmongering after] the results of November 5th confirmed the view that we are in dark times. So the big question is:

What are we going to do? We can wallow in self-pity and depression, or we can find kindred spirits and organize and form alliances to not just resist the repression to come but promote progressive causes.

The Shock Doctrine: Rise of Disaster Capitalism
As feminist writer Rebecca Solnit [who is inexplicably unable to pronounce the word "women" (\wih-myn\) yet no one corrects her] says:

“Not acting is a luxury those in immediate danger do not have, and despair is something they cannot afford. But despair is all around us, telling us the problems are insoluble, that we are not strong enough, our efforts are in vain, and no one really cares.”

Hope, Solnit says, counteracts cynicism and pessimism.

(The Jimmy Dore Show) There is proof that Trump was targeted for assassination by the Deep State, proxies, or a patsy named "Iran"?

SPEAKER: Naomi Klein Naomi Klein is a professor in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia, the founding co-director of UBC’s Centre for Climate Justice, and an Honorary Professor of Media and Climate at Rutgers University. She is a columnist for The Guardian. Her articles appear in leading publications around the world. The New York Times says, “She is that nearly extinct breed of activist: one who never stops questioning orthodoxies and interrogating her own beliefs.” She is the award-winning author of such bestsellers as This Changes Everything, No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, No Is Not Enough, and On Fire. Her latest book is Doppelganger (which she explains in this inspiring talk).

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

The Iliad and Odyssey (author interview)

Guest Prof. Emily Wilson, Host Mitch Jeserich, Letters & Politics, 2/27/24, 10:0 am, KPFA.org; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Special: The Odyssey and The Iliad, why these epic verses still matter today
GUEST: Author and translator Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance and Early Modern Scholarship, a MacArthur Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow.

In addition to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, she has also translated and published Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca.

The Epic Verses Pack $320 contains: The Iliad (new translation by Emily Wilson) and The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam: A New Translation [not to be confused with the Rubber Yacht of Jaimie Cohen] from the Persian by Juan Cole.

The Iliad (new translation) is an epic Greek poem that recounts the ten-year Trojan War and explores themes of pride, honor, and the human condition.

Prof. Wilson’s Iliad gives readers a complete Homer for our generation and the first ever English translation by a woman.

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam: A New Translation from the Persian is a manuscript of Persian verses attributed to Omar Khayyam, a 12th-century Persian mathematician and philosopher.

The famous book contains pithy observations on complex subjects such as love, death, and the existence of God and an afterlife.

Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Jewish professor: "Israel's illegal war" (video)

Novara Media, 12/5/23; Sheldon S., Shauna Schwartz, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

EXCLUSIVE: Prof. Norman Finkelstein on Israel’s "illegal war"
(Novara Media) Dec. 5, 2023: Novara Live has NEW episodes every weekday at 6:00 pm UK. To listen, we speed up the playback speed to 1.5 to make it easy to listen to, as the good professor seems to drone in a way reminiscent of the great Prof. Noam Chomsky.

(Jimmy Dore) Killing civilians will cost Israel this war, says U.S. war secretary
  • 00:00 Introduction
  • 00:56 Latest Gaza bombardment
  • 03:53 A war of extermination?
  • 11:55 Can Israel achieve its aims?
  • 22:58 The nature of Hamas
  • 40:31 "Human shields"?
  • 51:49 Is a ceasefire possible?

Sunday, December 3, 2023

Genocide Joe Biden at Xmas, US pro class

Will Jailbird Trump make Xmas great again or be in arranging his affairs and on his way to jail?

“Biden is a war criminal!” Pro-Palestinian demonstrators demand ceasefire, end of illegal occupation
(Status Coup News) Dec. 3, 2023: On Dec. 1st, protesters flooded the streets in NYC, demanding a ceasefire and a Free Palestine. Following Israel ending the "pause," they have immediately begun bombing Gaza's civilian population, most of them women and children, and American peace activists have had enough.

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Protesters chant: "We charge you with genocide!" at Biden's holiday celebration.


Jimmy Dore gets deep: "Virtue hoarders," explains author Catherine Liu in this full interview, accusing the American managerial class.
This book is a denunciation of the American credentialed elite class that serves capitalism while insisting on its own "progressive heroism."

Professional Managerial Class (PMC) elite workers labor in a sphere of performative identity and virtue signaling, publicizing an ability to do ordinary things in fundamentally superior ways.

Author Catherine Liu shows how the PMC stands in the way of social justice and economic redistribution by promoting meritocracy, philanthropy, and other self-serving operations to abet an individualist path to a better world.

Virtue Hoarders is an unapologetically polemical call to reject making a virtue out of taste and consumption habits.

"Forerunners: Ideas First" is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

Friday, November 24, 2023

Latest archeological discoveries (Nov. 2023)

Dr. Miano, World of Antiquity, YouTube; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Latest Archaeological Discoveries (Nov 2023)
(World of Antiquity) Streamed live Nov.25, 2023. Dr. M (Miano) discusses the newest archeological and historical findings.

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Archeology turned upside down (video)

Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Archaeological finds that turned history upside down
(BRIGHT SIDE) Nov. 13, 2023: Scientists have long believed that the Native American Taíno people were the first inhabitants of the Greater Antilles, but it turns out there were archaic people living here long before, and they were really advanced. Sometimes archaeologists manage to discover whole cities. This is exactly what Eleni Korka, an archaeologist from Greece did. The Rosetta Stone, a linguistic game-changer, unlocked the secrets of Egyptian hieroglyphs and opened up a treasure trove of knowledge. In Egypt, the discovery of the Valley of the Kings transformed our perception of ancient burial practices. These finds are like history's plot twists, keeping archaeologists and history buffs on the edge of their seats! 🏛️🔍📜 #brightside


[Thou shalt obey the Gatekeepers nor dare question us] The dangers of pseudo-archaeology
(History with Kayleigh) Premiered Nov. 19, 2023: RICHAT STRUCTURE. Kayleigh explains the difference between [mainstream consensus] archaeology and pseudo-archaeology and what the dangers of pseudo-archaeology are to our history. Pseudo-archaeology is known by other names as well, such as alternative archaeology, fake archaeology, fringe archaeology, cult archaeology, fantastic archaeology, and even spooky archaeology.

Thanks to Professor John Hoopes, Associate Professor Bill Farley, archaeologist Jens Notroff, historian David Miano, and Stefan Milo for their contributions to this video. She is grateful to all for letting the public know personal opinions on pseudo-archaeology and how it affects [real, authentic, obedient] work. [Please let me in the club; I won't rock the boat.]

Thursday, November 2, 2023

"I'm only Jewish on my parents' side" (RD)

Don Lattin (Lucid News, 1/4/23); Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
I used to be Dr. Dick Alpert at Harvard U then I took LSD with Dr. Timothy Leary.

What did the Buddha discover?
This essay is part of the Lucid News “God on Psychedelics” Project, reported and written by veteran religion journalist Don Lattin. To read the complete series, visit the home page.

Judaism and Christianity each [in addition to their boring temple and church sermon-services on Saturdays and Sundays] have centuries-old mystical paths [for directly experiencing the divine].

But since the 1960s, and in the current psychedelic revival, countless North American psychonauts ["mind-explorers"] have turned to Buddhism, Hinduism, or shamanism to understand their sudden awareness of divine reality.

He's right. This sacred text's full of mystic trips!
In the next few installments of “God on Psychedelics,” we’ll hear from two scholars — Rabbi Art Green and the Reverend John Mabry, both of whom have thought deeply and written extensively about Jewish and Christian mysticism.

How do they view a spiritual revival fueled by psychedelic drugs [entheogens] and sacred plant medicines?

"Jesus" was a mushroom cult
Will these revelatory glimpses of transcendence, unitive awareness, and divine love inspire seekers to take another look at the mystical traditions hidden within their ancestral [Abrahamic] faiths?

But before turning to the rabbi and the reverend, let’s first consider a more familiar name in the pantheon of psychedelic spiritualists.

That would be Dr. Richard Alpert, Ph.D., a Jewish psychology professor fired from his post at Harvard University in 1963 for giving psychedelic drugs to undergraduates.

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The Psychedelic Experience; A Manual
In 1964, Dr. Alpert co-authored an influential psychedelic guidebook with Harvard colleagues Dr. Timothy Leary and Dr. Ralph Metzner that was based on the Vajrayana Buddhist Tibetan Book of the Dead.

In the late 1960s, Dr. Alpert went on a celebrated pilgrimage to India, became the disciple of a Hindu guru [Neem Karoli Baba], and took the name "Ram Dass" ["slave of Ram/God"].

Dr. Alpert was a master of one-liners, including the quip [which he seems to have borrowed without credit from Buddhist writer Stephen Levine]:

“I’m only Jewish on my parents’ side.”

Dr. Leary and Dr. Alpert were encouraged to interpret their psychedelic experience through Eastern mysticism by two earlier psychedelic pioneers, the British writer Aldous Huxley and his friend and mentor Gerald Heard, an Anglo-Irish philosopher and mystic.

Shiva and the Buddha are very different.
Huxley and Heard were deeply influenced by two modern Indian spiritual movements — Vedanta and Theosophy [the "Buddhist lite" creation of Russian Madame Blavatsky and American Colonel Henry Olcott], along with the spiritualist writings of Dr. William James, the so-called “father of American psychology.”

DMT [the Spirit Molecule] researcher Rick Strassman argues that many of today’s psychedelic scientists and other psychonauts are biased toward a “unitive-mystical” model that is more in line with Eastern mystical traditions like Buddhism or Hinduism. More

Friday, October 13, 2023

Jewish professor criticizes Israel (video)

I. Rony, Sheldon S., Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; Guest Prof. Norman Finkelstein, Hosts Jimmy Dore and Craig Jardula (The Jimmy Dore Show, jimmydore.com), Post-10/7/23

He must hate himself because how could he criticize the 11th most powerful military in the world, backed by Number 1? This is no time to find fault with Dictator Netanyahu, who was daily being protested in Israel by Israelis (though now all of that has magically gone away with him simply saying the magic word, "MY country is at war." Professor Normal Finkelstein, come to your senses. Get behind the War Machine.


By allowing Hamas to sneak in, while our Army was protecting our right-wing project in the West Bank, helping us steal more land for "settlements" because we're settler colonialists on a project of ethnic cleansing verging on genocide. Or is that slow genocide verging on daily atrocities and Israeli crimes against humanity? And now they've struck back, completely unexpectedly. We have to teach them a lesson. We must have revenge. We will not stand for an invasion of these animals terrorists, so we have to have an incursion onto our land, which is their refugee camp which has been under siege for 16 years after 75 years of violent occupation.


We need to make retaliatory strikes, with precision bombs given to us by our friends in the US (keep sending money, Yankees). We're dual-citizens so we go between countries. Really, it's like having Little America in the Middle East, a kind of Bantustan for an apartheid system, but don't you dare call it that, or we'll cancel you. What are all these idiots at Harvard thinking, signing a letter condemning the State of Israel, not a state but never mind that. We'll have a constitution eventually and democracy for everybody here, but we're not ready yet.
I'll Burn that Bridge When I Get to It
Norman X. Finkelstein, amazon.com Jan. 22, 2023
I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!
Norman Finkelstein first made his name while still in graduate school when he exposed an acclaimed national bestseller as a hoax.

He went on in subsequent decades to subject Israel’s apologists as well as Holocaust hucksters to withering scrutiny.

In his newest book, I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It! Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic FreedomFinkelstein focuses his keen forensic eye on the canonical texts of "identity politics."

After methodically parsing them, Finkelstein concludes that they’re lacking in intellectual substance.

Instead, the real purpose of identity politics is to derail a class-based movement bent on radical change.

In a long, scathing chapter, Finkelstein analyzes the cult surrounding Barack Obama, which he reveals as the ultimate product of identity politics.

The first Black president [after the nine before him who were in office before the Declaration of Independence made us the US] rose to power by having, in Obama’s own cynical words, “pulled off a neat trick” by standing for nothing except his skin color.

If “woke” liberals embraced him, it was because, beneath his hip veneer, Obama was a sure bet to prop up the corrupt status quo.

Along the way, Finkelstein recalls his own life in radical politics and his close encounters with cancel culture, which left him unemployed and unemployable.

He situates his personal story within broader debates on academic freedom and poignantly concludes that, although occasionally bitter, he harbors no regrets about the choices he made.

“If I can’t laugh, I don’t want your revolution,” Dr. Finkelstein declares. Laced with his signature wit, readers of this book will get to laugh along with him. More

Thursday, August 3, 2023

Saturday, July 15, 2023

Harvard's falsification of data


Academia is BROKEN: Harvard's fake data scandal explained
(Pete Judo) June 29, 2023. This week a top professor at Harvard University was exposed for data cooking FRAUD.

The evidence is damning, and it is hard to see how Prof. Francesca Gino can argue her way out of it. This looks bad for Dr. Gino, but also it looks bad for the behavioral sciences in general. She isn't the only example of data fraud in the industry either. To cover more of this type of content, comment below.

Articles/Blog Posts
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Friday, July 7, 2023

The origin of Satan with Elaine Pagels


The Origin of Satan: Professor Elaine Pagels
(MythVision Podcast) Premiered May 19, 2021. Derek Lamber finally gets his chance to delve into the mind of Professor Elaine Pagels (elaine-pagels.com).

Krampus is not the Devil
From the religious historian whose The Gnostic Gospels won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award comes a dramatic interpretation of Satan and his role on the Christian tradition [much more than the Jewish].

With magisterial learning and the elan of a born storyteller, Pagels turns Satan’s story into an audacious exploration of Christianity’s shadow side, in which the gospel of love gives way to irrational hatreds that continue to haunt Christians and non-Christians alike.

Help support MythVision's trip to interview Dr. Pagels in person: gofund.me/b43e3f43 
  • Be afraid, very afraid.
    0:00 - Introduction
  • 4:20 - Elaine Pagels, why are you fascinated with this topic?
  • 10:30 - Did Mortan Smith forge The Secret Gospel of Mark?
  • 12:20 - Origin of Satan
  • 16:42 - Christ killers: the enemies of God (demons, Satan, humans) Mysticism
  • 28:00 - The Jews killed Jesus: children of the Devil?
  • 32:26 - Fallen angels, giants, the line of Cain
  • 36:00 - Spirit of Satan, expelling Jesus followers from synagogues
  • 40:38 - The Gnostics: The Gospel of Thomas Kabbalah
  • 49:25 - Is there Gnostic/Gnosis teachings in the New Testament?
  • 52:00 - Failed end: cognitive dissonance
  • 54:15 - Secret teachings: The mystery of the kingdom
  • 58:35 - Everyone you don’t agree with is working for Satan
  • 1:04:00 - Christians call her "Elaine Pagan"
  • 1:05:55 - Which Christianity came first?
  • 1:07:11 - Outro

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Thursday, June 15, 2023

Prof. Cornel West for Pres? (Green Party)


Here’s why Cornel West switched to Green Party in presidential campaign
(The Jimmy Dore Show) June 15, 2023. #TheJimmyDoreShow American progressive activist and academic Cornel West grabbed headlines recently when he announced he would be running for president under the People’s Party banner.

Now West has had a change of heart -- after talking to Chris Hedges -- and will instead be running for the nomination of the Green Party. And, as if on cue, he is already being roundly excoriated by Democrats as a secret "right-winger" who will throw the election to Don Trump.

Jimmy Dore and Americans’ comedian Kurt Metzger speak with journalist and author Chris Hedges, who helped persuade Prof. West to make the switch, about what a Cornel West presidential campaign could accomplish.

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

J. Peterson: How society brainwashes women

Jordan Peterson, DreamChaser, 1/4/23; Seth Auberon, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
We say Muslims are brainwashed to cover up. They say we're brainwashed to wear bikinis.

Jordan Peterson: How society brainwashes women
(DreamChaser) Here's how U.S. society lies to women, according to author Professor Jordan Peterson, and here are the consequences of it. This clip was taken from: youtube.com...

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Friday, December 2, 2022

Medicinal Plants Workshop w/ Dr. Adams

Dhr. Seven, Xochitl, Ananda (DBM), Parker Davis (hardycalifornians.com), Wisdom Quarterly

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SPECIAL EVENT: On Saturday, Dec. 3, Hardy Californians (a new local-plant nursery, stemming from the Arroyo Seco Nursery in Hahamongna headed by Parker Davis), is hosting a special workshop with Dr. James Adams.

He is the co-author -- along with Native American Medicine Woman Cecilia Garcia -- of Healing with Medicinal Plants of the West.

Dr. Adams will share details of how the Chumash Indians of Malibu and Ventura used native plants for medicine, and he will teach some traditional methods to combat pain. Dr. James will be traveling down from San Francisco to lead this medicinal plant workshop. 
  • To sign up, contact Parker Davis: (626) 674-4504
  • Email: parker@hardycalifornians.com.
  • Or sign up for the event at the Hardy Californians Nursery:
  • 238 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre (next to Pasadena)
  • Cost: $70, starts at 1:00 pm with time Q&A and demo
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What happened?
Dr. Adams spent 25 years teaching at USC.
Home gardeners, botany students, environmental activists, and would-be shamans gathered at Hardy Californians Nursery -- the result of Parker Davis and Porsche -- in the foothills of Sierra Madre to learn the real cause of pain in the body, even anxiety, headaches, and trauma. It's chemokines in the skin.

Yes, no matter what we've been taught -- about aspirin, acetaminophen, NSAIDS, opioids, and other standard painkilling treatments. They're not true. Do not ingest something for pain. Treat the skin. It was demonstrated over and over. It even helps arthritic pain, but the best way to deal with that is dieting, losing weight, and walking. Walk every day. We crossed the street and met our plant allies for the day, California sagebrush (not a true sage), white sage (Salvia apiana), and Cleveland sage, a plant very close to purple sage and black sage.

Healing with Medicinal Plants of the West
After learning a great deal about plants, the cause of pain from the world's leading expert, USC's Dr. James Adams, Ph.D., and how to approach our natural environment, which is full of wonders in the state with more unique flora and fauna than all the other states put together, we got to know the plants then proceeded to make a simple tincture that takes six weeks to be ready to use: Stuff a mason jar full of fresh California sage, a diced avocado seed, one white sage leaf, and fill with isopropyl alcohol (70%). Let sit in the dark for six weeks. Then drain and place the liquid in a dark spray bottle, preferably glass. It's ready to use on any bodily pain.

To treat chronic pain, take two handfuls of Cleveland sage (or purple or black), place in a glass container with filtered water (or sea water). Let sit in the sun until the water changes color, becoming purple in sea water and discolored in tap water. Use filtered water rather than tap, as it is cleaner. After it becomes a sun tea, break it up with the hands and pour on the sufferer's feet. Allow to soak for 20 to 30 minutes a day for seven days. There goes the chronic pain.

If needed wait a week and repeat for seven days. The same soak may be used repeatedly -- for one and only one person -- up to seven times. Do not use someone else's soak, as it has become bound to that person. At the welcoming for the event, Dr. Adams' assistants and trainees Michelle Wong and Enrique Villasenor explained many things and offered us a three medicinal foods -- dark chocolate (85%), which is good for the heart, nopal (prickly pear cactus pads with needles removed) made into a health smoothie (1.5 cups of cut fresh nopal pads, 1 green apple, 1 orange with skin removed, and two cups of water, mixed in a blender), which is good for blood sugar levels and provides a lot of fiber.

The third item was a gelatinous cube of acorn flour (available at most Korean and Chinese markets), which was made by boiling a cup of acorn flour brought to a roil and kept on the fire for 7 minutes, sweetened slightly with raw agave or coconut crystals (a kind of unprocessed brown sugar). It is a complete protein with tremendous health benefits, particularly for vegetarians. Go vegetarian. It's the best thing to do for the body, the environment, the animals, and the climate.


Afghanistan is home to weed.
During the Q&A the ditzy blond woman, who kept falling over the friendly Cocker spaniel wanting everyone to pet it, asked about CANNABIS, and the Black woman with the pain in her lower regions shouted that maybe THC/CBD could be added to the liniment we were about to concoct. Dr. Adams became livid.

We've all been lied to about "marijuana." We've been told it's a Spanish word from Mexicans in North America (Mexico itself being in Mesoamerica, not South America) that means "Mary Jane." It's a lie, a purposeful piece of propaganda by the US government.

A fluent speaker of Chinese married to a Chinese woman for 42 years, Dr. Adams shows that marijuana is a Chinese term for cannabis:  is "hemp," there's a middle part for "leaf" (ri or li?), and hua or huáng, which means "flower." The Chinese had been using cannabis for 12,000 years (as had India) or had historical records extending back that far for its medicinal and industrial use.
  • Similarly, jasmine flower in Chinese is Mo Li Hua
Largest hemp field in Europe
In fact, Dr. Adams further recounted, California did not have real cannabis until the Beatles brought it back from India, having been exposed to the "real thing" by the musician Ravi Shankar. Up until then what California had was hemp, or very low THC/moderate CBD flower.

Where is cannabis from? Formerly Buddhist Afghanistan mostly, but the entire range between India and China, such as Kashmir and those Himalayan and Hindu Kush (technically an extension of the Himalayas mentioned in Buddhist accounts of the Buddha's hometown, Kapilavastu), its valleys and foothills (as is mentioned in Oliver Stone's movie Savages).