arkeonews | “Our findings change the perception, still seen in schoolbooks across
the world, that settled life resulted from farming and animal
husbandry,” he said at a September presentation of the site. “This shows
that it begins when humans were still hunter-gatherers and that
agriculture is not a cause, but the effect, of settled life.”
The region of these settlements is named “Taş Tepeler,” literally
meaning Stone Hills. Covering an area of 200 kilometers from one end to
the other, Taş Tepeler is an Anatolian and Upper Mesopotamian territory
that hosted the earliest settled communities.
As far as we know,
Taş Tepeler is the first example of sedentism and social union on earth.
Sacred and secular spaces were built simultaneously at Karahantepe,
where humans dwelled year-round for about 1,500 years, and no remnants
of farmed vegetation have been found.
Göbekli Tepe, which was
previously thought to be the only place where nomadic people came to
worship, is now considered a part of simultaneous settlements. Recent
work has also revealed domestic structures at Göbekli Tepe. “In this
region, we encounter monumental structures for the first time in the
oldest villages of the world,” Karul says.
Scientists have long assumed that the domestication of plants and
animals approximately 10,000 years ago pushed people to adopt a
sedentary lifestyle and that the increase in food production enabled
them to establish complex communities and build the groundwork for
civilization. However, emerging evidence that Stone Age people erected
permanent buildings for spiritual, rather than technically necessary,
activities are challenging the conventional wisdom that they lacked a
large-scale civilization with the division of labor and common
ceremonial themes.
The Neolithic era, which coincided with the end
of the Ice Age, symbolizes humanity’s tremendous transition from
foraging to farming.
“It will take time for the scientific
community to digest and accept this game-changing research,” says Mehmet
Özdoğan, the professor emeritus of archaeology at Istanbul University.
“We must now rethink what we knew—that civilization emerged from a
horizontal society that began raising wheat because people were
hungry—and assess this period with its multi-faceted society. The
foundations for today’s civilization, from family law to inheritance to
the state and bureaucracy, were all struck in the Neolithic period,”
Özdoğan says.
In Taş Tepeler, which is thought to be the beginning
of the process where the shelter turned into a dwelling and real
villages emerged 12 thousand years ago, there are finds on humanity’s
first use of pottery and the ability to carry out basic trade
initiatives. The monumental structures in the region are believed to be
communal spaces where people come together.
Karahantepe rises
within Şanlıurfa’s interesting limestone authentic land structure. These
limestone rocks are the main material of the finds.
sagepub | Scientists have initially rejected many theories
that later achieved widespread consensus. In some instances, the
rejection lasted for half a century or more, until enough new evidence
arrived to convert all but the most obstinate opponents, who often
carried their opposition to the grave.1
The canonical example in the earth sciences is continental drift. First
proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912, continental drift did not achieve
consensus until the mid-1960s.2
The theory of meteorite impact cratering on the Moon and the Earth
provides another example. We can date its origin to a classic 1893 paper
by the great American geologist G. K. Gilbert3
and the beginning of its broad acceptance to 1964 and the first
returned photographs of lunar craters from the Ranger missions to the
Moon. Both rejections stemmed mainly from the allegiance of geologists
to the principle of uniformitarianism, which eschewed catastrophic
events such as moving continents and colliding meteorites. Anthropogenic
global warming offers a third example. First proposed by Svante
Arrhenius in 1896, within a few years it had become almost universally
rejected, based on a single, misinterpreted experiment.4
Its acceptance began with the first results of computerized climate
modeling in the mid-1960s. The pioneer of climate modeling, Syukuro
Manabe, won the 2021 Nobel prize in physics for his early work. Today we
can only wonder what the effect would have been had scientists in the
first half of the twentieth century retained AGW as a working
hypothesis.
One would hope and expect that in
the internet age, with its online journals, instant communication, and
vastly improved scientific methods and instrumentation, premature
rejection would be a thing of the past. The reaction to the Younger
Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH), introduced in 2007, shows that this
assumption is incorrect.5 Within months of its appearance, two authors6 called the hypothesis a “Frankenstein Monster” and in 2011, the same two plus others7
compared it to UFOs and other examples of “pathological science” and
wrote its “requiem.” Yet after a comprehensive review of the literature
in 2021, Sweatman8
concluded: “Probably, with the YD impact event essentially confirmed,
the YD impact hypothesis should now be called a ‘theory’.” The question
this article seeks to answer is how scientists can so thoroughly reject a
hypothesis, even write its requiem, only to have it emerge in little
more than a decade strengthened and deserving of possible promotion to
the status of theory.
It should have been clear to readers, including
peer reviewers, that Pinter and Ishman had offered hyperbolic language
but no actual evidence against the YDIH; that Surovell et al.37 had failed to sample the YDB and/or made fatal errors in procedure; and that the samples reported by Scott et al.40 and used by Pinter et al.7 and Daulton et al.49
had not come from the YDB and therefore did not bear directly on the
impact hypothesis. Instead of critically examining and rejecting these
false claims, many geologists and impact specialists embraced them,
thereby allowing an alleged absence of evidence to trump abundant,
peer-reviewed evidence, even photographic evidence. Then a kind of
“groupthink” seems to have set in, rendering the YDIH beneath further
consideration.
The broader lesson from impact
cratering, continental drift, anthropogenic global warming, and now the
YDIH is that it is better to encourage further research than to
prematurely condemn a novel, data-based hypothesis to the dust bin of
science. Unfortunately, once a hypothesis has been prematurely rejected,
even truly “extraordinary evidence” may not be enough to restore it to
scientific respectability.
realitysandwich |DMT (N, N-dimethyltryptamine) is an incredibly powerful, short-lasting tryptamine psychedelic
found naturally in animals, fungi, and a wide variety of plants. DMT
experiences are characterized by fantastic visions and breakthrough
events, including most interestingly, contact with a range of entities.
Among these DMT entities, “machine elves”, or “clockwork elves”, are
some of the most well-recognized in the DMT realm, even
cross-culturally. In this article, we will take a deep dive into machine
elves, and also explore some of the other DMT entities that are
commonly reported in DMT trips.
Overview of DMT Entities
Contact with entities is reported in the majority of DMT trip reports
in the West, but also in a multitude of non-Western cultures. This
ranges from the ancient shamanic traditions of Native Americans to
indigenous Australian and African tribes.
In the West,the psychiatrist Rick Strassman was the first
to conduct human research with DMT at the University of New Mexico
throughout the early 1990s. In the five year study, nearly 400 doses of
DMT were given to 60 volunteers. In his book DMT The Spirit Molecule, where he documents these experiences, Strassman writes,
“I was neither intellectually
nor emotionally prepared for the frequency with which contact with
beings occurred in our studies, nor the often utterly bizarre nature of
these experiences.”
Indeed, of the thousand pages of notes taken throughout the course of
Strassman’s research, 50% of them involve interactions with DMT
entities. Similarly, Philip Mayer collected and analyzed 340 DMT trip
reports in 2005. Mayer found that 66% of them (226) referenced
independently-existing entities that interact in an intelligent and
intentional manner.
According to Strassman, the research subjects described contact with
“entities”, “beings”, “aliens”, “guides”, and “helpers”. Contact with
“life-forms” such as clowns, reptiles, mantises, bees, spiders, cacti,
and stick figures was commonplace among the volunteers as well.
Interestingly, the DMT entities appear sentient and autonomous in their
behavior, as if denizens of a free-standing, independent reality.
What are Machine Elves and Clockwork Elves?
Machine elves is a term coined by the ethnobotanist,
philosopher, and writer Terence Mckenna to describe some of the entities
that are encountered in a DMT trip. They’ve come to be known by many
names, including “clockwork elves”, “DMT elves”, “fractal elves”, and
“tykes” (a word for small child).
In his book Archaic Revival, Mckenna refers to them as
“self-transforming machine elves.” In any case, they are inhabitants of
the DMT dimension that often try to teach something to whoever is
visiting. McKenna frequently resorts to a series of metaphors to
describe his experiences with machine elves (and the DMT experience in
general), underscoring the difficulty of reducing such ineffable
experiences to the lower dimensionality of language.
As detailed in his book True Hallucinations, Mckenna traveled with his brother and some friends to La Chorrera in the Columbian Amazon in search of Oo-koo-he,
a DMT-containing plant preparation used by the indigenous people to
access the spirit realms. Mckenna found their descriptions of entity
contact resembled his own experiences with the machine elves,
“What was eye-catching about
the description of this visionary plant preparation was that the Witoto
tribe of the Upper Amazon, who alone knew the secret of making it, used
it to talk to “little men” and to gain knowledge from them.“
Machine elves are frequently portrayed in trip reports as benevolent,
playful, prankish, and sometimes ornery. Generally, they’re reported to
greet the visitors with a child-like curiosity and innocence, often
continuously changing form and singing immensely complicated objects
into existence. They commonly urge the DMT realm visitors to try to
focus on what they are showing them, or even want the subject to imitate
what they are doing.
trueself | One of the most common things that people see on DMT is what Terrence
McKenna described as "machine elves." In the 1970s, McKenna and his
brother traveled to the Amazon to try ayahuasca, and experimented with
the drugs for a series of 11 days. They came away having seen " a
universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional,
and extremely alien," according to McKenna, who described these alien
intelligences as "self-transforming machine elves."
According to McKenna, the elves are capable of "singing structures
into existence. "What they're doing is making objects with their voices,
singing structures into existence," he wrote. "They offer things to
you, saying 'Look at this! Look at this!' and as your attention goes
towards these objects you realize that what you're being shown is
impossible. It's not simply intricate, beautiful and hard to
manufacture, it's impossible to make these things. The nearest analogy
would be the Fabergé eggs, but these things are like the toys that are
scattered around the nursery inside a U.F.O., celestial toys, and the
toys themselves appear to be somehow alive and can sing other objects
into existence, so what's happening is this proliferation of elf gifts,
which are moving around singing, and they are saying 'Do what we are
doing' and they are very insistent, and they say 'Do it! Do it! Do it!'
and you feel like a bubble inside your body beginning to move up toward
your mouth, and when it comes out it isn't sound, it's vision. You
discover that you can pump 'stuff' out of your mouth by singing, and
they're urging you to do this."
There are many different theories as to what these "machine elves"
might actually be. McKenna theorized that the elves were humans from the
future, returning to give us some kind of wisdom or insight.
Other conspiracy theorists have gone down darker paths, with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones theorizing
that the elves are aliens who have taken control of world leaders to do
their malicious biddings. Jones believes the elves are the true source
of the Illuminati, whispering their dark messages into the ears of world
leaders.
Another theory says that machine elves are the same creatures that
appear in folklore across the ages — elves, fairies, imps, and other
magical creatures. Some Celtic people believed that these creatures were
spirits of the dead, returned to communicate with the living.
Anthropologist Walter Evans-Wentz chronicled this folklore extensively,
and in his 1911 book The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries, he
proposed that these creatures exist "as a supernormal state of
consciousness into which men and women may enter temporarily in dreams,
trances, or in various ecstatic conditions."
The "machine elves" also bear similarities to other supernatural creatures. The aforementioned Journal of Psychopharmacology
study found that ""[DMT]-occasioned entity encounter experiences have
many similarities to non-drug entity encounter experiences such as those
described in religious, alien abduction, and near-death contexts."
Some people are far more skeptical, such as James Kent, who proposes
that we see humanoid creatures in DMT visions because "we humans must
have innate evolutionary wetware that forces our senses to latch onto
any piece of anthropomorphic data that pops into otherwise randomly
uniform data."
So what are the machine elves? Are they random
hallucinations, malicious Illuminati members, or visitors from the past
or future here to give us the solutions to all of our problems? It's up
to you to decide.
realitysandwich |
The cause of our concern: while the original criticism against Hancock and Sheldrake was later retracted -- literally crossed out on the blog page -- after the speakers rebutted it, the initial decision to remove the videos still held. Statements from TED staff implied that the presentations were "pseudoscience," but
no specific allegations were made. Both Rupert Sheldrake and Graham
Hancock offered to debate a member of the anonymous science board, or
any other representative, about actual criticisms, but got no response.
To an outsider, TED's actions are baffling.
In your personal statements you
say that TED is not censoring the videos, since they are available on a
back page of your site, and technically that may be true. But by
relegating them to obscure blogs that are not indexed as part of the
regular pool of TEDx talks, the unequivocal message is that these talks
are not fit to be seen among the thousands of other presentations that
TED offers through YouTube. Somehow they were mistakes that slipped
through and need to be quarantined from the "good" TED talks, to keep
them from contamination. Given TED's influence, this treatment is
unfairly damaging to the reputations of the speakers singled out.
The subsequent cancellation of TEDxWestHollywood's license,
apparently due to the involvement of three of its speakers, who were
named in a letter from TED staff, seems to be a continuation of the same
baffling behavior. Again, the only reason given was a vague reference
to "pseudoscience." But why these speakers? What had they done to
justify reprimand -- especially since TEDxWestHollywood had been in
development for a year and was only two weeks from taking place?
The five people identified as problematic by TED work in different
fields. Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist. Graham Hancock is a journalist
who has written about archeological ruins. Larry Dossey is a doctor.
Russell Targ is a physicist. Marylin Schlitz is a social anthropologist
and consciousness researcher. The one subject they all have in common is
a shared interest in the non-locality of consciousness, the possibility
that consciousness extends beyond the brain. Each speaker has devoted
many years to the rigorous study of consciousness through the lens of
their respective disciplines, and they have come up with provocative
results.
Through its actions, TED appears to be drawing a line around this area
of investigation and marking it as forbidden territory. Is this true? In
the absence of any detailed reasoning in TED's public statements, it's
hard to avoid this conclusion. It would seem that, despite your
statement that "TED is 100% committed to open enquiry, including
challenges to orthodox thinking," that enquiry appears to not include
any exploration of consciousness as a non-local phenomenon, no matter
how it may be approached.
grahamhancock | What is Western civilization all about? What are its greatest achievements and highest aspirations?
It’s my guess that most people’s replies to these questions would
touch—before all the other splendid achievements of science, literature,
technology, and the economy—on the nurture and growth of freedom.
Individual freedom.
Including, but not limited to freedom from the unruly power of
monarchs, freedom from the unwarranted intrusions of the state and its
agents into our personal lives, freedom from the tyranny of the Church
and its Inquisition, freedom from hunger and want, freedom from slavery
and servitude, freedom of conscience, freedom of religion, freedom of
thought and speech, freedom of assembly, freedom to elect our own
leaders, freedom to be homosexual—and so on and so forth.
The list of freedoms we enjoy today that were not enjoyed by our
ancestors is indeed a long and impressive one. It is therefore
exceedingly strange that Western civilization in the twenty- first
century enjoys no real freedom of consciousness.
There can be no more intimate and elemental part of the individual
than his or her own consciousness. At the deepest level, our
consciousness is what we are—to the extent that if we are not sovereign
over our own consciousness then we cannot in any meaningful sense be
sovereign over anything else either. So it has to be highly significant
that, far from encouraging freedom of consciousness, our societies in
fact violently deny our right to sovereignty in this intensely personal
area, and have effectively outlawed all states of consciousness other
than those on a very narrowly defined and officially approved list. The
“War on Drugs” has thus unexpectedly succeeded in engineering a stark
reversal of the true direction of Western history by empowering faceless
bureaucratic authorities to send armed agents to break into our homes,
arrest us, throw us into prison, and deprive us of our income and
reputation simply because we wish to explore the sometimes radical,
though always temporary, alterations in our own consciousness that drugs
facilitate.
Other than being against arbitrary rules that the state has imposed
on us, personal drug use by adults is not a “crime” in any true moral or
ethical sense and usually takes place in the privacy of our own homes,
where it cannot possibly do any harm to others. For some it is a simple
lifestyle choice. For others, particularly where the hallucinogens such
as LSD, psilocybin, and DMT are concerned, it is a means to make contact
with alternate realms and parallel dimensions, and perhaps even with
the divine. For some, drugs are an aid to creativity and focussed mental
effort. For others they are a means to tune out for a while from
everyday cares and worries. But in all cases it seems probable that the
drive to alter consciousness, from which all drug use stems, has deep
genetic roots.
Other adult lifestyle choices with deep genetic roots also used to be violently persecuted by our societies.
A notable example is homosexuality, once punishable by death or long
periods of imprisonment, which is now entirely legal between consenting
adults—and fully recognized as being none of the state’s business—in all
Western cultures. (Although approximately thirteen US states have
“anti-sodomy” laws outlawing homosexuality, these statutes have rarely
been enforced in recent years, and in 2003 the US Supreme Court
invalidated those laws.) The legalization of homosexuality lifted a huge
burden of human misery, secretiveness, paranoia, and genuine fear from
our societies, and at the same time not a single one of the homophobic
lobby’s fire-and-brimstone predictions about the end of Western
civilization came true.
Likewise, it was not so long ago that natural seers, mediums, and
healers who felt the calling to become “witches” were burned at the
stake for “crimes” that we now look back on as harmless eccentricities
at worst.
Perhaps it will be the same with drugs? Perhaps in a century or two,
if we have not destroyed human civilization by then, our descendants
will look back with disgust on the barbaric laws of our time that
punished a minority so harshly (with imprisonment, financial ruin, and
worse) for responsibly, quietly, and in the privacy of their own homes
seeking alterations in their own consciousness through the use of drugs.
Perhaps we will even end up looking back on the persecution of drug
users with the same sense of shame and horror that we now view the
persecution of gays and lesbians, the burning of “witches,” and the
imposition of slavery on others.
Meanwhile it’s no accident that the “War on Drugs” has been
accompanied by an unprecedented expansion of governmental power into the
previously inviolable inner sanctum of individual consciousness. On the
contrary, it seems to me that the state’s urge to power has all along
been the real reason for this “war”—not an honest desire on the part of
the authorities to rescue society and the individual from the harms
caused by drugs, but the thin of a wedge intended to legitimize
increasing bureaucratic control and intervention in almost every other
area of our lives as well.
This is the way freedom is hijacked—not all at once, out in the open,
but stealthily, little by little, behind closed doors, and with our own
agreement. How will we be able to resist when so many of us have
already willingly handed over the keys to our own consciousness to the
state and accepted without protest that it is OK to be told what we may
and may not do, what we may and may not explore, even what we may and
may not experience, with this most precious, sapient, unique, and
individual part of ourselves?
If we are willing to accept that then we can be persuaded to accept anything.
slate | Netflix’s new hit Ancient Apocalypse
is an odd duck: a docuseries filmed in many gorgeous and historic
locations (Turkey, Mexico, Indonesia, … uh, Ohio) that advances a
provocative thesis aimed furiously at a single academic discipline. The argument is essentially this:The
authorities who study human prehistory are ignoring—or covering up—the
true foundations of the world as we know it today. And the consequences
could be catastrophic.
Graham
Hancock, the journalist who hosts the series, returns again and again
to his anger at this state of affairs and his status as an outsider to
“mainstream archaeology,” his assessment of how terrible “mainstream
archaeology” is about accepting new theories, and his insistence that
there’s all this evidence out there but “mainstream archaeologists” just
won’t look for it. His bitter disposition, I’m sure, accounts for some of the interest in this show. Hancock, a fascinating figure with an interesting past
as a left-leaning foreign correspondent, has for decades been
elaborating variations on this thinking: Humans, as he says in the
docuseries, have “amnesia” about our past. An “advanced” society that
existed around 12,000 years ago was extinguished when the climate
changed drastically in a period scientists call the Younger Dryas.
Before dying out completely, this civilization sent out emissaries to
the corners of the world, spreading knowledge, including building
techniques that can be found in use at many ancient sites, and sparking
the creation of mythologies that are oddly similar the world over. It’s
important for us to think about this history, Hancock adds, because we
also face impending cataclysm. It is a warning.
Scientists,
Hancock says, don’t want to believe any of this because they don’t like
to think about mythology or astronomy, both of which he often uses to
prove his points. Coming to terms with this paradigm shift would also
rock the foundations of their discipline. Hancock, scientists say,
doesn’t understand how eagerly they’d leap at this evidence if it really
existed, in an empirical and reproducible form. (As archaeologist Carl
Feagans writes in a review of Ancient Apocalypse, “Every single archaeologist I know would be elated to discover any previously unknown civilization of the Ice Age. Or any age for that matter.”)
One of the oddest aspects of Ancient Apocalypse
is how largely absent these nasty mainstream archaeologists are from
its run time. Joe Rogan, who has had Hancock on his podcast multiple
times, makes a few appearances, lauding Hancock’s free-thinking ways.
The other talking heads are either pro-Hancock or edited to look that
way. Michael Shermer, of Skeptic magazine, who debated Hancock on Rogan’s
show in 2017, merits a 20-second appearance in which he manages to get
across one single argument against Hancock’s theory: “If this
civilization existed, where are their trash heaps, where are their
homes, where are their stone tools or metal tools, where is the
writing?” That’s it—then back to Hancock, the “just asking questions,”
the rancor.
John Hoopes,
an archaeologist at the University of Kansas, is one of the mainstream
archaeologist naysayers of the kind Hancock targets without naming.
Hoopes has often written about the history of alternative and
pseudoarchaeology, and about Hancock himself; his Twitter feed has been full, over the past week, with conversation between academic archaeologists about the specific claims in Ancient Apocalypse.
I
called him to ask what people who aren’t up to speed with Hancock’s
work should know if they watch this show. Our conversation has been
edited and condensed for clarity.
Rebecca
Onion: What can you say about the difference between the way academic
archaeology approaches evidence and how Graham Hancock does?
John Hoopes:
Graham Hancock is not and does not want to be seen as a scientist or a
historian. He is coming from a metaphysical place. He’s inspired by
Western esoterica. For him, the significance of a lot of this
information is sort of intuitive and is confirmed to him through his
personal revelatory experiences.
There’s a TEDx presentation he did back in 2013,
called “The War on Consciousness,” in which he explained that he had
been smoking cannabis daily for 25 years and finally stopped using it
because he had an ayahuasca experience and found that it was a more
meaningful and revelatory experience than his daily use of cannabis. [This TEDx talk sparked controversy within the TED organization after it went up on YouTube, described here.] So, if it seems like, in watching the show, his perspective has been influenced by drugs, it’s because it has.
strikefoundation | Plasmoids are doughnut or toroidal shaped clusters of net Protons or
net Electrons that once captured and placed into a Toroidal orbit are
capable of absorbing, storing, and releasing enormous amounts of energy
present within their self-generated and structured electro magnetic
containment field. Plasmoids, in effect, function as an atomic battery
that can be-self charging due to the ability to convert matter to
available clean energy. Plasmoids by their unique geometry cause a
consequential electromagnetic containment field to generate a Zero point
naturally and casually, without much effort, have the ability to
convert the nuclear Mass of Protium (Atoms) into energy.
The
Plasmoid Unification Model (PUM) posits that Plasmoids are epoch-making
and that the knowledge of them has been hidden in plain sight for
centuries. This PUM 'slide rule' reveals the algorithmic relationships
life's elements critical to mankind's existence and development, its
parts with Protium which has a melting point of -259.2C and is the most
abundant element in our solar system. Protium determines the 25,920
Great Year frequency of our Solar System. The resonant frequencies of
all other elements can then be calculated when the 25,920 years is
reduced from years to days, hours, and seconds.
The PUM is
evidence that the Universe is an intelligent design. The design is in
perfect octave tangenic resonance with itself. Therefore all of creation
from Galaxies to Planets to Elements all resonate in unison with a
collective chord "As Above So Below”. This is interconnected with an
Energy “web”, the 24 components of laws which we are all based and
governed on the same 16 sector Torus Plasmoid precepts shown. The
concepts and ruling principles of the PUM can and have been applied to
make Energy to Matter and Matter to Energy conversient. When applied to
the modern hydrocarbon powered internal combustion engine, PUM
technology removes exhaust toxic waste products and increases the engine
power output by transforming waste energy back into fuel. Plasmoids
employed in conjunction with Plasmoid Toroidal Implosive Turbine provide
a new novel Matter to Energy and Energy to Matter propulsion device for
water, land, air, and space travel.
Guardian |For
a story that was first told 2,300 years ago, the myth of Atlantis has
demonstrated a remarkable persistence over the millennia. Originally
outlined by Plato, the tale of the rise of a great, ancient civilisation
followed by its cataclysmic destruction has since generated myriad
interpretations.
Many versions have been intriguing and entertaining – but none have been as controversial as its most recent outing in the Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse.
Presented
by the author Graham Hancock, the programme argues that a once
sophisticated culture was destroyed by floods triggered by a giant comet
which crashed on Earth, a disaster that inspired the legend of
Atlantis, it is claimed.
According
to Hancock, survivors of the calamity spread round the world – which
was then populated by simple hunter-gatherers – bringing them science,
technology, agriculture and monumental architecture. We owe everything
to these near godlike individuals, it is claimed.
For good measure, Hancock – who has been promoting these ideas
in his books for decades – argues that archaeologists have deliberately
covered up this catastrophic vision of civilisation’s spread and
accuses mainstream academia of its “extremely defensive, arrogant and
patronising” attitudes.
These stark claims have
helped the series reach the top of viewing lists on both sides of the
Atlantic, to the chagrin of archaeologists who, for their part, have
denounced Ancient Apocalypse on the grounds that it provides
little evidence to support its grandiose claims and for promoting
conspiracy theories dressed up as science.
Nor is Hancock the first to suggest the
destruction of a once great civilisation led to the flowering of culture
elsewhere. In 1882, the maverick US congressman and popular writer
Ignatius Donnelly published Atlantis: The Antediluvian World
which argued that a highly complex, sophisticated culture had been wiped
out by a flood 10,000 years ago and claimed that its survivors had
spread round the world teaching the rest of humanity the secrets of
farming and architecture. Sounds familiar.
Then
there were the Nazis. Many swore by the idea that a white Nordic
superior race – people of “the purest blood” – had come from Atlantis.
As a result, Himmler set up an SS unit, the Ahnenerbe – or
Bureau of Ancestral Heritage – in 1935 to find out where people from
Atlantis had ended up after the deluge had destroyed their homeland.
And
that, in part, explains why the myth of an ancient, lost civilisation
is so useful. It is a basic tale of a rise and fall that can be
corralled and exploited for all sorts of causes. Plato meant his tale to
be an allegory. Atlantis was destroyed by the gods who had grown angry
with the hubris displayed by its inhabitants and so destroyed it. Don’t
get too big for your boots, in other words.
theconversation | Netflix’s enormously popular
new show, Ancient Apocalypse, is an all out attack on archaeologists.
As an archaeologist committed to public engagement who strongly believes
in the relevance of studying ancient people, I feel a full-throated defence is necessary.
Author Graham Hancock is back, defending his well-trodden theory
about an advanced global ice age civilisation, which he connects in
Ancient Apocalypse to the legend of Atlantis. His argument, as laid out
in this show and in several books, is that this advanced civilisation was destroyed in a cataclysmic flood.
The survivors of this advanced civilisation, according to Hancock,
introduced agriculture, architecture, astronomy, arts, maths and the
knowledge of “civilisation” to “simple” hunter gatherers. The reason
little evidence exists, he says, is because it is under the sea or was
destroyed by the cataclysm.
“Perhaps,” Hancock posits in the first episode, “the extremely
defensive, arrogant, and patronising attitude of mainstream academia is
stopping us from considering that possibility”.
In the opening dialogue of Ancient Apocalypse, Hancock rejects being
identified as an archaeologist or scientist. Instead, he calls himself a
journalist who is “investigating human prehistory”. A canny choice, as
the label “journalist” helps Hancock rebut being characterised as a
“pseudo archaeologist” or “pseudo scientist”, which, as he puts it
himself in episode four, would be like calling a dolphin a “pseudo
fish”.
From my perspective as an archaeologist, the show is surprisingly (or
perhaps unsurprisingly) lacking in evidence to support Hancock’s theory
of an advanced, global ice age civilisation. The only site Hancock
visits that actually dates to near the end of the ice age is Göbekli Tepe in modern Turkey.
stilumcuriae |Medical
Doctors for Covid Ethics International (MD4CE International) is
grateful to His Excellency, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, for speaking
to us and sharing his thoughts on the current global crisis, which began
with the fraudulent concocted Covid-19 pandemic emergency, supported by
and maintained by an evil military grade psychological operation,
complete with the unashamed use of fear and shame propaganda, which was
unleashed in a coordinated manner on the unsuspecting people of the
entire world by their own governments in early 2020, with predictably
cataclysmic results.
MD4CE
International is an international group of medical doctors, scientists,
lawyers, journalists, economists, historians, politicians,
philosophers, data analysts, bankers, military/intelligence experts and
others from all over the world, working determinedly together to expose
the terrible truth of what has happened during the past three years to
the people of the world, their families, their communities, their
countries, and to hold those responsible for the great crimes committed
properly to account.
Dear and distinguished friends,
Allow
me first of all to thank Doctor Stephen Frost for the invitation he has
extended to me to speak to you. Along with Doctor Frost I also thank
all of you: your commitment to fighting the psychopandemic propaganda is
commendable. I am well aware of the difficulties you have had to face
in order to remain consistent with your principles, and I hope that the
damage you have suffered can be adequately repaired by those who have
discriminated against you, depriving you of work and salary and
labelling you as dangerous no-vaxxers.
I
am pleased to be able to speak and share with you my thoughts about the
current global crisis. A crisis that we can consider to have begun with
the pandemic emergency, but that we know has been planned for decades
with very specific purposes by well-known personalities. Stopping at the
pandemic alone would in fact be a serious mistake, because it would not
allow us to consider the events in their full coherence and
inter-connectedness, thus preventing us from understanding them and
above all from identifying the criminal intentions behind them. You too –
each with your own expertise in the medical, scientific, legal or other
fields – will agree with me that limiting yourselves to your own
discipline, which in some cases is extremely specific, does not fully
explain the rationale for certain choices that have been made by
governments, international bodies, and pharmaceutical agencies. For
example, finding “graphene-like” material in the blood of people who
have been inoculated with experimental serums makes no sense for a
virologist, but it does made sense for an expert in nanomaterials and
nanotechnology who understands what graphene can be used for. It also
makes sense for an expert in medical patents, who immediately identifies
the content of the invention and relates it to other similar patents.
It also makes sense for an expert in war technologies who knows about
studies on the enhanced man (a document of the British Ministry of
Defense calls him “augmented man” in transhumanistic terms) and is
therefore able to recognize in graphene nanostructures the technology
that enables the augmentation of the war performance of military
personnel. And a telemedicine expert will be able to recognize in those
nanostructures the indispensable device that sends biomedical parameters
to the patient control server and also receives certain signals from
it.
Once
again: the assessment of events from a medical point of view should
take into account the legal implications of certain choices, such as the
imposition of masks or, even worse, mass “vaccination,” made in
violation of the fundamental rights of citizens. And I am sure that in
the field of health governance the manipulations of the classification
codes of diseases and therapies will also emerge, which have been
designed to make the harmful effects of measures taken against Covid-19
untraceable, from placing people on respirators in intensive care to
watchful waiting protocols, to say nothing of the scandalous violations
of regulations by the European Commission which – as you know – has no
delegation from the European Parliament in the field of Health, and that
is not a public institution but rather a private business consortium.
Just
in the past few days, at the G-20 Bali summit, Klaus Schwab instructed
heads of government – almost all coming from the Young Global Leaders
for Tomorrow program of the World Economic Forum – about the future
steps to be taken in view of establishing a world government. The
president of a very powerful private organization with enormous economic
means exercises undue power over world governments, obtaining their
obedience from political leaders who have no popular mandate to subject
their nations to the delusions of power of the elite: this fact is of
unprecedented gravity. Klaus Schwab said: “In the fourth industrial
revolution the winners will take it all, so if you are a World Economic
Forum first mover, you are the winners” (here).
These very serious statements have two implications: the first is that
“the winners will take it all” and will be “winners” – it is not clear
in what capacity and with whose permission. The second is that those who
do not adapt to this “fourth industrial revolution” will find
themselves ousted and will lose – they will lose everything, including
their freedom. In short, Klaus Schwab is threatening the heads of
government of the twenty most industrialized nations in the world to
carry out the programmatic points of the Great Reset in their nations.
This goes far beyond the pandemic: it is a global coup d’état, against
which it is essential that people rise up and that the still healthy
organs of states start an international juridical process. The threat is
imminent and serious, since the World Economic Forum is capable of
carrying out its subversive project and those who govern nations have
all become either enslaved or blackmailed by this international mafia.
In
light of these statements – and those of others no less delusional than
Yuval Noah Harari, Schwab’s adviser – we understand how the pandemic
farce served as a trial balloon for imposing controls, coercive
measures, curtailing individual freedoms, and increasing unemployment
and poverty. The next steps will have to be carried out by means of
economic and energy crises, which are instrumental to the establishment
of a synarchic government in the hands of the globalist elite.
kunstler | It’s hard to overstate how damaging
Twitter’s dark years of insidiously massaging public opinion have been
to this country. Open debate could have clarified the fog of deliberate
disinformation surrounding everything Covid-19. It would have been much
harder for public health officialdom to gaslight America over the origin
of the disease, and probably impossible to conceal the nefarious
operations behind the Emergency Use Authorization, the suppression of
effective early treatments, and the direct ties to drug companies’
profits. The result of that has been the broad deployment of dangerous
and deadly pseudo-vaccines that have killed millions and disabled many
more. The absence of honest debate has turned doctors into murderers and
accomplices to genocide.
The scope of this bureaucratic crime
is really outside the experience of most Americans, who never imagined
that their elected and appointed leaders would act against them with
such rank dishonesty, cruelty, and bad faith. But there it is. And if
Twitter continues to open up, the more likely that the responsible
parties will be held accountable.
Likewise, the now-pervasive
Kafka-esque program of political persecution carried out against
citizens by government officials, including the many seditious schemes
of RussiaGate; the ongoing, escalating mischief around elections; and
the use of the FBI and DOJ as a combined secret police and kangaroo
court apparatus.
You can add to all that turpitude, the
wild irresponsibility of “Joe Biden’s” open border policy, our idiotic
provocation of Russia in Ukraine, the surrender of America’s national
sovereignty to the globalist Great Re-set cabal and its tools in the
World Health Organization, and the domestic campaign by Woke Jacobins to
sexually disorder the lives of American children.
I think Elon Musk is right: the
Mainstream News Media will now face a venue where its habitual lying is
called out forcefully. You can already see The WashPo and CNN
attempt to make small shifts in their coverage of events, which double
as efforts to cover-up their past lying in the hopes that the public
won’t notice that it happened.
Nothing else so far has confronted the
Left’s crusade to overturn American life so stoutly as Elon Musk’s
reform of Twitter. It seems to be working. The Wokesters are acting like
a gang on-the-run. Pretty soon they’ll be ratting out each other to
save their skins. Reality is a harsh mistress when you’ve spent years
insulting and mistreating her.
amidwesterndoctor | One mission of this Substack has been to bring the concept of zeta
potential to the awareness of the general public as I believe it is
critical for understanding many different diseases including COVID-19
and both spike protein and non-spike protein vaccine injuries. A
detailed summary of the concept can be found here:
In
the first part of this series, I discussed how diseases frequently
emerge that before long affect many people, and how in many cases
conventional medicine cannot acknowledge what happened. Instead, these
diseases will often be labeled as “syndromes…
When
a substance is mixed in water, it has three options, not mix with it
(typically either floating to the top or settling to the bottom),
dissolve like salt, or form a colloidal suspension. Stable colloidal
suspensions are typically finely dispersed microparticles and as that
stability is lost, the particles clump together in larger and larger
agglomerations which eventually will separate out from the surrounding
water.
The colloidal stability of biological solutions
however is mostly overlooked in modern physiology (other systems like
Chinese medicine through blood stasis hold a greater focus to it). When
the colloidal stability of a living organism is sufficiently impaired,
severe diseases, such as those created by blood cells clumping together
and impairing circulatory function can occur (similarly early
researchers showed malaria causes death by creating severe blood clumping in the largest blood vessels, something Pierre Kory has also observed occurs in critically ill patients via IVC ultrasound immediately preceding their deaths).
A
key factor that determines if colloidal solutions clump together or
remain dispersed is the balance of electrical charges present (positive
charges agglomerate, negative charges disperse). Zeta potential provides
a way to model this immensely complex balance and explains why tiny
amounts of positive ions with high charge densities (e.g. aluminum) are
capable of agglomerating colloidal suspensions (e.g. sewage or blood),
and why microstrokes often follow injections of these substances
(similarly, poor zeta potential increases the viscosity of the blood,
and when it is improved, a variety of cardiovascular or circulatory
disorders also improved).
When COVID-19 started, I realize that
many of the unusual symptoms reported by colleagues were identical to
what I would have associated with an agent severely impairing the zeta
potential of the body as so many different fluid circulations appeared
to be impaired or showing signs of agglomeration (e.g. the frequent
blood clots). After some research, I concluded the spike protein had the
most likely electrical composition to account for these facts, at which
point I became extremely apprehensive over vaccine designs which mass
produced spike protein within the body (much of what is now known about
the spike protein’s toxicity was not known then).
In Fleming’s
previously mentioned presentation which discussed the prion domain
within the vaccine spike protein, he also provided one of the best
examples I have seen of how a small amount of a zeta potential reducing
agent can rapidly cause blood cells to clump together. This was done by
showing the immediate effects of each of the spike protein vaccines on
healthy blood.
Blood incubated with spike protein showed erythrocyte agglutination, despite the very low concentration of the spike protein.
An increase in platelet hyperactivation, membrane spreading,
platelet-derived microparticle formation were noted due to spike protein
exposure.
Further as detailed here, this clumping is also consistently seen on the blood smears of vaccinated individuals:
This rapid clumping process is most likely what causes sudden
death immediately following vaccination in susceptible individuals, such
as this recent example where this ardent advocate of vaccination died 7 minutes after receiving the new booster in the pharmacy.
As
we circle back to Died Suddenly and the abridged version presented
here, consider the scenes where the blood of these deceased individuals
is shown (I am putting this video in again here so you don’t need to
scroll up).
NPR | Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee still remembers the first cell he cultured:
It was an immune cell from a mouse, and he had grown it in a petri dish.
As he examined it through a microscope, the cell moved, and Mukherjee
was fascinated.
"I could sense the pulse of life
moving through it," he says. "You suddenly realize that you're looking
at the basic, fundamental unit of life and that this blob that you're
seeing under the microscope — this glimmering, refulgent blob of a cell —
is the basic unit that connects us and plants and bacteria and archaea
and all these other genera and taxa across the entire animal and plant
kingdoms."
As an oncologist, cell biologist and hematologist,
Mukherjee treats cancer patients and conducts research in cellular
engineering. In his new book, The Song of the Cell, he writes
about the emerging field of cell therapy and about how cellular science
could one day lead to breakthroughs in the treatment of cancer, HIV, Type 1 diabetes and sickle cell anemia.
Mukherjee
has a particular interest in T cells — a type of white blood cell and
part of the immune system activated to fight disease. He's been treating
patients in India who have certain types of cancer with genetically
engineered T-cell variants, and the results have been striking: "One day
the cancer's there. The next day the cancer is virtually gone, eaten up
by these T cells," he says.
Genetically engineered T cells, known as CAR [chimeric antigen receptor ] T cells,have
become a staple in the treatment of certain kinds of leukemias,
lymphomas and blood cancers. But, Mukherjee says, the cells have not yet
proven effective in combatting the solid tumors, like those associated
with lung and prostate cancer. His hope is that further research might
change that.
"It's hard for me to convey the excitement that's
sweeping through the whole field of cell biology ... the kind of
headiness, giddiness, the madness, the psychic power that grips you once
you get into the field," Mukherjee says.
Interview highlights
On using CAR-T cell therapy to treat Emily, a child with leukemia
[The treatment is]
we extract the T cells from the from a patient's body. And then we use a
gene therapy to basically weaponize them, to activate them and
weaponize them against the cancer. We grow the T-cells in flasks in a
very, very sterile chamber. And then ultimately when the cells have
grown and activated, we re-infuse them into the patient's body. So it's
sort of gene therapy plus cell therapy — given back to a patient.
In
Emily's case, she was about 7, I think, when she was first treated. She
had a complete response. She also had a very terrifying course. When
the T cells get activated, they release an incredibly inflammatory
cascade, sort of like, as I say in the book, it's sort of like soldiers
on a rampage. And you can get so much of a rampage of T cells killing
cancer that body goes berserk, it can't handle this kind of attack. Now,
Emily, fortunately, was treated with a medicine to dampen down that
attack so that she ultimately survived. She was the first child treated
with this therapy to survive and serves an icon for this kind of
therapy. ... She still is alive today and applying to colleges, I hear.
venturebeat | I’ve been enjoying the peek into our metaverse future that Amazon Prime Video is delivering each week with airings of The Peripheral streaming show.
As I noted when the series debuted, it’s an example of how the world is science fiction is becoming more science and less fiction.
And the recent sixth episode of the show feature the addition of
Alexandra Billings, a trans actress who plays the inspector Ainsley
Lowbeer in the show.
The show is Prime Video’s top show, and, to paraphrase the first line from Herman Narula’s book Virtual Society,
I believe that one day it will be watched by a person without a body.
That’s because The Peripheral depicts what it’s like to move between
different worlds and to inhabit the bodies of others.
And for a trans actress like Billings, this brings to mind the notion
that your physical body may not matter in a future where digital and
physical seamlessly interact. Billings has been a trailblazer for LGBTQ+
representation, and she recently made history when she starred on
Broadway as Madam Morrible in Wicked, the first time a trans actress has
portrayed a traditionally cis female role.
I talked to her about the significance of the role in The Peripheral,
where she plays a trans person in the future. The show is based on a
novel by William Gibson, who coined the term cyberspace, and it was produced by Westworld
creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan. It’s a complicated story that
moves around in time and explores whether the digital world is real or
not. And the show is different from the book, as it uses Gibson’s story
as a jumping off point for ideas about our future. And that gives
Billings some interesting leeway to play Lowbeer as a trans person in
the show.
Lowbeer is a character who polices the border between a physical
reality and the virtual world. And she is like a messenger from the
future for us. And she can teach us how to think about topics like
transhumanism. Lowbeer’s character is pretty unique, and I think anyone thinking about the metaverse should consider watching The Peripheral.
In case it's not abundantly clear to you why I go hard in the paint against errbody and they cousin cutting the line and displacing negroes from a righteous and legitimate - though STILL legally ignored claim - on that long-overdue 40 acres and a mule.
NYPost | San Francisco’s transgender guaranteed income program application provides over 130 gender, sexuality and pronoun options, and encouraging enrollees to “check all that apply.”
The “Guaranteed Income for Transgender People (G.I.F.T.)” program will provide 55 “economically marginalized transgender people,” who have a monthly income of less than $600 with $1,200 per month for a year-and-a-half. Although, enrollees can make a maximum of $4,000 a month and still be enrolled in the program, according to the program’s website.
Pronoun options on the application include “Zie/zim/zis,” “Fae/faer/faers” and “Tey/ter/ters.”
Under the gender identity category, applicants can choose from options like “Aggressive (AG),” which is an “identity label claimed by some African-American and Latin@ masculine of center lesbians,” according to the University of Florida LGBTQ+ Affairs office.
“Genderf—” is another option in the gender identity category, which is “the idea of playing with ‘gender cues’ to purposely confuse stereotypical gender expressions, usually through clothing.” according to the University of Connecticut Rainbow Center. Another option is “Two-spirit,” which is an “identity label used within many American Indian and Canadian First Nations indigenous groups to describe an individual that possesses both ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ spirits.” according to the University of Florida.
Other gender identity options included “Feminine-of-center,” “Demigirl,” “Boi,” “Tomboy,” “Khanith/Xanith” and “Ninauposkitzipxpe.” Applicants could also choose between sexual orientations like
“BDSM/Kink,” which is defined as a “sexual activity involving such
practices as the use of physical restraints, the granting and
relinquishing of control, and the infliction of pain,” according to the
Merriam-Webster Dictionary, as well as options like “pansexual” and
“skoliosexual.”
dailymail | Childcare experts are expressing alarm over transgender
TikToker Dylan Mulvaney’s popularity bump after her White House debut,
saying social media is driving a spike in teens seeking sex-change
procedures.
Clinicians say Mulvaney’s sit-down time with President Joe Biden
has raised the social media sensation’s profile, extending her reach
and likely influencing teenage fans who may themselves be questioning
their own gender identity.
Mulvaney’s TikTok
following grew to 8.4 million after her White House appearance, and
while she is entitled to share her experiences online, experts told
DailyMail.com that online influencers like her in part drive an alarming
uptick in teen transitioning.
dailymail | 'A lot of the initial deals were tailored to my queerness and to my transness,' she told The Creators newsletter last month.
'For
some of these major corporations, I was actually their first trans
creator. It's exciting to make money to support myself since I lost my
job, and to have my transition surgeries be covered too.'
Her agency, CAA, did not answer DailyMail.com's interview request.
Mulvaney's
ascent has not been without hiccups. Her appearance on Ulta Beauty last
month led to controversy and calls to boycott the cosmetics firm.
Critics called her 'misogynistic' for 'appropriating' womanhood.
Likewise,
a post about Tampax feminine hygiene products left some viewers shocked
and confused. Two replied: 'Is this a joke?' She is frequently bashed
for referring to the vagina as a 'Barbie pouch'.
She
has gained a massive following on TikTok as she documents her
transition to a transgender female — originally identifying as
'nonbinary' but telling followers in March that she was a girl.
Mulvaney
interviewed Biden last month as part of a panel of six progressive
activists for NowThis News. In the interview, the Democrat vowed to
protect 'gender-affirming care,' saying states should not limit access
to transgender treatments.
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