dailygrail--2020-08-22--Our Gods Ride Flying Saucers: A Personal Word on the Aetherius Society

The New York Times has taken the forefront of the so-called ‘ Disclosure ’ movement with their articles focused on the Pentagon ’ s secret UFO programs –both past and on-going– which started to slowly change the public conversation on this thorny topic since the late 2017 .
Back in December of that year , we learned that the US government ’ s interest on ‘ unidentified aerial phenomena ’ or UAP ( the acronym nowadays favored by ‘ serious ’ researchers ) had not disappeared with the cancelation of Project Blue Book , and in 2020 we have now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recovered artifacts of unknown origin ; which may or may not be a central component in a new ‘ arms race ’ between the United States , and competing superpowers like China or Russia .
But just to remind us that the UFO onion is comprised of many different layers , and not just the ones cherry picked for easy and palatable consumption by interested parties , The NYT posted this week a short video devoted to a remnant of the golden years of the Contactee movement : The Aetherius Society .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Unarius Society* and the Raelians , one of those groups which can be unmistakably labeled as a “ UFO religion ” –even though there are many other religious/spiritual movements ( perhaps all of them ! )
which may find their origin linked to what we now call UFOs ; like for example The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ( a.k.a .
the Mormons ) or even the Nation of Islam , since their current leader Louis Farrakhan is a self-proclaimed contactee , and according to scholar Dr. Stephen Finley , many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to UFO lore .
Notice how I choose to call the Aetherius Society a ‘ UFO religion ’ and not a ‘ UFO cult ’ , and that is because to me the difference between the two lies in the effect these belief systems have on their members .
Heaven ’ s Gate was a cult , because it estranged their members from the rest of society , and became internationally famous once they decided to follow their leader Marshall Applewhite to the ultimate renunciation of this world –by way of suicide .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ and ‘ yoga master ’ George King , who was one day washing the dishes when he heard the “ calling to become an ambassador for planet Earth ” ( and , curiously enough , died in the same year as Applewhite and his acolytes ) is not devoted to selfish disavowal of Earthly affairs –or poisonous apple sauce .
On the contrary , their primary goal is world peace and the uplifting of all humanity .
In the New York Times video the viewer can have a rare glimpse of their sacred @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to ‘ charge ’ spiritual batteries that are placed on special locations in order to raise the psychic vibrations of the planet –listening to The Saucer Life ’ s podcast episode devoted to King and his claims is highly recommended .
When I found this video it sparked in me a wave of nostalgia which transported me back to the Spring of 2017 .
It was at that time that I , along with some of my best friends and esteemed colleagues , traveled to Los Angeles , California , for our annual @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coined by the incomparable Tim Binnall ) was conceived as a gathering of like minded iconoclasts and fellow Forteans without the scheduling pressures of a regular paranormal conference .
My friend and mentor , Greg Bishop , acted as designated host and tour guide around his city , and on the penultimate day of our trip he took us to this quiet neighborhood where the Los Angeles center of the Aetherius Society is located .
At first we thought we would only be able to check out the building from outside because the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ visitors , but we decided to press our luck and rang the bell .
The dark , metallic Gothic-meets-Jetsons garage door was opened just enough to show a friendly face with a gentle smile ; it was Ernesto , the same young man featured in the NYT video .
He asked us what we wanted and Greg put his magic to work : he explained we were a group of students of UFOlogy and that we wanted to know more about the Aetherius society , and to seal the deal Greg used an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ I met George King.
” At the sound of the Master ’ s name , Ernesto ’ s eyes brightened and the doors were fully open : we were welcomed in and allowed to look around and also take photos , giving us full access to the center with the exception of a ceremony hall in which a ‘ charging ceremony ’ ( like the one depicted in the video ) was being celebrated .
He even offered us a delicious cup of Earl Grey and answered the few questions some of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ us were silently appreciating the collection of weird and beautiful artifacts adorning this most peculiar place of adoration .
The atmosphere inside this dwelling where Angelenos chant mantras and pray to their extraterrestrial guides was the opposite of oppressive : their courtyard –which Ernesto was sweeping before we interrupted him– was impeccably clean , and their lush garden a respite to the harsh Californian sun .
Most of the members of the Los Angeles center are senior citizens , a sign that the Aetherius society is not particularly interested in proselytizing to gain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ phone number or email address to send us more information , and Ernesto never asked for donations –in fact , I don ’ t think they even take donations !
They did have a small shop selling books and other little souvenirs , and as a token of appreciation my friend Steve Ray and I bought a blue polo shirt with the Aetherius emblem embroidered , which has now become my favorite piece of attire .
In an age in which many people treat their smartphone as their personal god , I often @ @ @ @ @ @ @ religions and spirituality in our society .
It ’ s not only the fact that as the world gets ever more littered by materialistic gadgetry , that many of us crave for a true connection with the numinous , but also by the affects our personal beliefs have in our lives and behavior .
“ By their fruits you shall know them , ” as I once read in some book… So , if praying to ETs and placing their hand on a box , believing they are charging it with positive energy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the best version of themselves , I personally have no problem with that .
On the contrary , I would ask to the people who may mock such behavior –be they hardcore skeptics or the ‘ true believers ’ who care only about “ moving Disclosure forward ” by getting rid of the ‘ silly ’ Contactee/Abductee legacy of past decades , or any other high-strangeness baggage slowing UFOlogy down– to take a good , hard look at your personal BS ( belief system ) and ask yourselves this : “ Is your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out the best in you… or the worst ?
NOTE : As stated above , the Los Angeles center for the Aetherius Society is not regularly open for visits .
Do NOT expect to be allowed entrance if you stop by .
And if you do , be respectful and courteous during your stay .
( * ) Nowadays they prefer to be called ‘ The Unarius Academy of Science ’ , because apparently anyone can claim to be a scientific academy nowadays… right ?

The New York Times has taken the forefront of the so-called ‘Disclosure’ movement with their articles focused on the Pentagon’s secret UFO programs –both past and on-going– which started to slowly change the public conversation on this thorny topic since the late 2017. Back in December of that year, we learned that the US government’s interest on ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’ or UAP (the acronym nowadays favored by ‘serious’ researchers) had not disappeared with the cancelation of Project Blue Book, and in 2020 we have now received shocking –albeit unsubstantiated— revelations of alleged recovered artifacts of unknown origin; which may or may not be a central component in a new ‘arms race’ between the United States, and competing superpowers like China or Russia.
But just to remind us that the UFO onion is comprised of many different layers, and not just the ones cherry picked for easy and palatable consumption by interested parties, The NYT posted this week a short video devoted to a remnant of the golden years of the Contactee movement: The Aetherius Society.
The Aetherius Society is, along with the Unarius Society* and the Raelians, one of those groups which can be unmistakably labeled as a “UFO religion” –even though there are many other religious/spiritual movements (perhaps all of them!) which may find their origin linked to what we now call UFOs; like for example The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (a.k.a. the Mormons) or even the Nation of Islam, since their current leader Louis Farrakhan is a self-proclaimed contactee, and according to scholar Dr. Stephen Finley, many elements in their belief system are linked to UFO lore.
Notice how I choose to call the Aetherius Society a ‘UFO religion’ and not a ‘UFO cult’, and that is because to me the difference between the two lies in the effect these belief systems have on their members. Heaven’s Gate was a cult, because it estranged their members from the rest of society, and became internationally famous once they decided to follow their leader Marshall Applewhite to the ultimate renunciation of this world –by way of suicide.
The religion founded by former taxi driver and ‘yoga master’ George King, who was one day washing the dishes when he heard the “calling to become an ambassador for planet Earth” (and, curiously enough, died in the same year as Applewhite and his acolytes) is not devoted to selfish disavowal of Earthly affairs –or poisonous apple sauce. On the contrary, their primary goal is world peace and the uplifting of all humanity. In the New York Times video the viewer can have a rare glimpse of their sacred ceremonies in which they pray and chant to ‘charge’ spiritual batteries that are placed on special locations in order to raise the psychic vibrations of the planet –listening to The Saucer Life’s podcast episode devoted to King and his claims is highly recommended.
When I found this video it sparked in me a wave of nostalgia which transported me back to the Spring of 2017. It was at that time that I, along with some of my best friends and esteemed colleagues, traveled to Los Angeles, California, for our annual ParaMania reunion. ParaMania (a name coined by the incomparable Tim Binnall) was conceived as a gathering of like minded iconoclasts and fellow Forteans without the scheduling pressures of a regular paranormal conference. My friend and mentor, Greg Bishop, acted as designated host and tour guide around his city, and on the penultimate day of our trip he took us to this quiet neighborhood where the Los Angeles center of the Aetherius Society is located.
At first we thought we would only be able to check out the building from outside because the L.A. center is NOT really open to visitors, but we decided to press our luck and rang the bell. The dark, metallic Gothic-meets-Jetsons garage door was opened just enough to show a friendly face with a gentle smile; it was Ernesto, the same young man featured in the NYT video. He asked us what we wanted and Greg put his magic to work: he explained we were a group of students of UFOlogy and that we wanted to know more about the Aetherius society, and to seal the deal Greg used an ace he had up his sleeve: “I met George King.”
A friendly welcome
At the sound of the Master’s name, Ernesto’s eyes brightened and the doors were fully open: we were welcomed in and allowed to look around and also take photos, giving us full access to the center with the exception of a ceremony hall in which a ‘charging ceremony’ (like the one depicted in the video) was being celebrated. He even offered us a delicious cup of Earl Grey and answered the few questions some of us had, while the rest of us were silently appreciating the collection of weird and beautiful artifacts adorning this most peculiar place of adoration.
Yours truly taking in the pleasant atmosphere inside The Aetherius Society (photo courtesy of Zach Pharr)
Kudos to whoever picked this appropriately-fitted garden light fixture
A “Peace Pole” placed in the courtyard. Much less ominous than the Georgia Guidestones, methinks…
Tim Binnall, resting by a fountain with the Aetherius emblem (perhaps pondering whether he should start his own UFO religion)
Adjacent door to the main hall in the building, where we were welcomed to rest after a full day of sightseeing L.A. and offered a cup of tea (photo courtesy of Zach Pharr)
Greg Bishop (forefront), Joshua Cutchin (right) and other ParaMania members, admiring this relic of the Contactee era.
I’m a sucker for classic Adamski saucers!
the late George King, in full regalia
The atmosphere inside this dwelling where Angelenos chant mantras and pray to their extraterrestrial guides was the opposite of oppressive: their courtyard –which Ernesto was sweeping before we interrupted him– was impeccably clean, and their lush garden a respite to the harsh Californian sun. Most of the members of the Los Angeles center are senior citizens, a sign that the Aetherius society is not particularly interested in proselytizing to gain new adherents. Nobody asked for our phone number or email address to send us more information, and Ernesto never asked for donations –in fact, I don’t think they even take donations! They did have a small shop selling books and other little souvenirs, and as a token of appreciation my friend Steve Ray and I bought a blue polo shirt with the Aetherius emblem embroidered, which has now become my favorite piece of attire.
In an age in which many people treat their smartphone as their personal god, I often think of the role still played by religions and spirituality in our society. It’s not only the fact that as the world gets ever more littered by materialistic gadgetry, that many of us crave for a true connection with the numinous, but also by the affects our personal beliefs have in our lives and behavior. “By their fruits you shall know them,” as I once read in some book…
So, if praying to ETs and placing their hand on a box, believing they are charging it with positive energy, is helping people like Ernesto be the best version of themselves, I personally have no problem with that. On the contrary, I would ask to the people who may mock such behavior –be they hardcore skeptics or the ‘true believers’ who care only about “moving Disclosure forward” by getting rid of the ‘silly’ Contactee/Abductee legacy of past decades, or any other high-strangeness baggage slowing UFOlogy down– to take a good, hard look at your personal BS (belief system) and ask yourselves this: “Is your given attitude toward UFOs helping to bring out the best in you… or the worst?
NOTE: As stated above, the Los Angeles center for the Aetherius Society is not regularly open for visits. Do NOT expect to be allowed entrance if you stop by. And if you do, be respectful and courteous during your stay.
(*) Nowadays they prefer to be called ‘The Unarius Academy of Science’, because apparently anyone can claim to be a scientific academy nowadays… right?


News Briefs 24-08-2020

• The future is fungal : why the ‘ megascience ’ of mycology is on the rise .
Featuring Rupert Sheldrake ’ s son Merlin , and his fantastic book Entangled Life ( a great read , I highly recommend ! )
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• Florida is releasing genetically modified mosquitoes to prevent diseases like Zika .
• Horse eyeballs and bone hammers : the surprising lives of the Neanderthals .
• Discovery of 15,000-year-old engraved stones points to earliest evidence of human art in the British Isles .
• Our gods ride flying saucers : a personal word on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Mantell UFO incident .
• A US Air Force F-16 pilot just battled AI in 5 simulated dogfights , and the machine emerged victorious every time .
Skynet will accept our surrender now .
• Texas QAnon supporter used a car to attack strangers she believed were ‘ pedophiles ’ .
• Beliefs have a social purpose .
Does this explain delusions ?
• NASA predicts possible asteroid impact the day before the U.S. elections .
Finally , a change for the better !
• Video of the Day : The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Quote of the Day : Can the alterations in human consciousness and behavior brought about by psilocybin mushrooms be thought of as part of the extended phenotype of the fungus ?
The extended behavior of Ophiocordyceps leaves an imprint in the world in the form of fossilized scars on the underside of leaves .
Can the extended behavior of psilocybin mushrooms be thought of as leaving an imprint in the world in the form of ceremonies , rituals , chants , and the other cultural and technological outgrowths of our altered states @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?

Post-Lynchian reality…
Thanks Rick.
Quote of the Day:
Can the alterations in human consciousness and behavior brought about by psilocybin mushrooms be thought of as part of the extended phenotype of the fungus? The extended behavior of Ophiocordyceps leaves an imprint in the world in the form of fossilized scars on the underside of leaves. Can the extended behavior of psilocybin mushrooms be thought of as leaving an imprint in the world in the form of ceremonies, rituals, chants, and the other cultural and technological outgrowths of our altered states? Do psilocybin fungi wear our minds…?
Merlin Sheldrake (Entangled Life)


dailygrail--2020-08-24--Angel de la Guarda: Army Vet J.R. Martinez Talks About His ‘3rd Man’ Experience

J.R. Martinez was fresh out of the Army boot camp when he was shipped to Iraq .
Six months later his armored vehicle rolled over a landmine , killing everyone inside except him .
He suffered severe burns over almost 40 % percent of his body ; yet Martinez managed to overcome both his physical and mental injuries , and in time he successfully managed to start a new life ̶ he became the winner of the popular Dancing with the Stars TV show , an actor in the soap opera All My Children , and when he ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ travels across the United States as a motivational speaker and an activist for Veterans ’ rights .
The son of an immigrant single mother , J.R. ’ s story of overcoming many hard obstacles began even before he was wounded in the Middle East and it ’ s incredibly inspiring by itself .
But the reason I chose to bring it to the attention of our readers , is because of something he mentioned while he was interviewed by Chris Ryan for his podcast Tangentially Speaking : At around an hour and eighteen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ asks Martinez if he thought the ordeals he went through were part of his ‘ destiny ’ , J.R. ’ s begins answering the question by talking about a sister of his that died when he was just three years old , with whom he felt a very strong kinship despite the fact he never actually met her ̶ the girl remained with his mom ’ s family in El Salvador .
When he visited his sister ’ s gravesite at the age of nine , J.R. says to Chris in the podcast @ @ @ @ @ @ @ started to cry inconsolably without knowing why .
“ Fast forward ten years later , ” Martinez explains , “ I ’ m nineteen years old in Iraq , in a Humvee ; I ’ m literally burning alive .
I ’ m trapped inside of a truck that is engulfed in flames ; I ’ m conscious .
And amidst of me screaming and yelling to the top of my lungs for someone to come pull me out , and amidst of me thinking of all the things that I wanted to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ goals , the plans ! )
suddenly there ’ s this quiet place that just presents itself… and my sister ̶ and the only way that I ’ d seen her [ was ] in one particular photo that my mother had ̶ appears to me and tells me that I ’ m going to be okay .
And it felt as if , not even a second later I was pulled out of the Humvee.
” Martinez finishes his fascinating account by telling how he was put into a medically-induced coma , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the Burn Center in San Antonio , Texas , with his mother at his bedside .
And when he told her about what happened inside the burning vehicle in Iraq , she broke down in tears and said to him “ she ’ s your guardian angel.
” For Latin American Catholics , the figure of the guardian angel is very important , and all young children are taught to recite a particular prayer just before they go to bed : Modern Psychology , however , has named this particular phenomenon the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has been reported by soldiers abandoned in the battlefield , climbers buried alive by an avalanche , lost mountaineers , or any type of people finding themselves stranded during a life-or-death situation .
It is then that these individuals report a sort of ‘ presence ’ that is not only comforting , but can sometimes guide them out of danger ; or least accompany them until they are rescued , as it was the case with J.R. Martinez .
Of course , psychologists would say this beatific presence is merely an illusion fabricated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the survival of the individual ; but given the circumstances surrounding Martinez ’ s incident ̶ why didn ’ t the young soldier ‘ hallucinate ’ his mother , instead of a relative with which he had no direct personal relationship ?
̶ and the fact he ’ s convinced that , since his experience in Iraq , there ’ s been several pivotal events in his life which have taken place around the date of his sister ’ s birthday , I prefer to side with JR ’ s mom in thinking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after him .

J.R. Martinez was fresh out of the Army boot camp when he was shipped to Iraq. Six months later his armored vehicle rolled over a landmine, killing everyone inside except him. He suffered severe burns over almost 40% percent of his body; yet Martinez managed to overcome both his physical and mental injuries, and in time he successfully managed to start a new life ̶ he became the winner of the popular Dancing with the Stars TV show, an actor in the soap opera All My Children, and when he’s not at home with his family he travels across the United States as a motivational speaker and an activist for Veterans’ rights.
The son of an immigrant single mother, J.R.’s story of overcoming many hard obstacles began even before he was wounded in the Middle East and it’s incredibly inspiring by itself. But the reason I chose to bring it to the attention of our readers, is because of something he mentioned while he was interviewed by Chris Ryan for his podcast Tangentially Speaking: At around an hour and eighteen minutes into the conversation, when Chris asks Martinez if he thought the ordeals he went through were part of his ‘destiny’, J.R.’s begins answering the question by talking about a sister of his that died when he was just three years old, with whom he felt a very strong kinship despite the fact he never actually met her ̶ the girl remained with his mom’s family in El Salvador. When he visited his sister’s gravesite at the age of nine, J.R. says to Chris in the podcast, he was overwhelmed with emotion and started to cry inconsolably without knowing why.
“Fast forward ten years later,” Martinez explains, “I’m nineteen years old in Iraq, in a Humvee; I’m literally burning alive. I’m trapped inside of a truck that is engulfed in flames; I’m conscious. And amidst of me screaming and yelling to the top of my lungs for someone to come pull me out, and amidst of me thinking of all the things that I wanted to do (the bucket list, the goals, the plans! ) suddenly there’s this quiet place that just presents itself… and my sister ̶ and the only way that I’d seen her [was] in one particular photo that my mother had ̶ appears to me and tells me that I’m going to be okay. And it felt as if, not even a second later I was pulled out of the Humvee.”
Martinez finishes his fascinating account by telling how he was put into a medically-induced coma, and three weeks later he woke up at the Burn Center in San Antonio, Texas, with his mother at his bedside. And when he told her about what happened inside the burning vehicle in Iraq, she broke down in tears and said to him “she’s your guardian angel.”
For Latin American Catholics, the figure of the guardian angel is very important, and all young children are taught to recite a particular prayer just before they go to bed:
“Ángel de la Guarda, dulce compañía, no me desampares, ni de noche ni de día hasta que me pongas en los brazos de Jesús, José y María.” (My guardian angel, o sweet companion, do not abandon me, neither by night nor day until you deliver me in the arms of Jesus, Joseph and Mary.)
Modern Psychology, however, has named this particular phenomenon the “3rd Man Factor,” which has been reported by soldiers abandoned in the battlefield, climbers buried alive by an avalanche, lost mountaineers, or any type of people finding themselves stranded during a life-or-death situation. It is then that these individuals report a sort of ‘presence’ that is not only comforting, but can sometimes guide them out of danger; or least accompany them until they are rescued, as it was the case with J.R. Martinez.
Of course, psychologists would say this beatific presence is merely an illusion fabricated by the brain in order to ensure the survival of the individual; but given the circumstances surrounding Martinez’s incident ̶ why didn’t the young soldier ‘hallucinate’ his mother, instead of a relative with which he had no direct personal relationship? ̶ and the fact he’s convinced that, since his experience in Iraq, there’s been several pivotal events in his life which have taken place around the date of his sister’s birthday, I prefer to side with JR’s mom in thinking he indeed has a guardian angel looking after him.


News Briefs 25-08-2020

It ’ s conspiracies all the way down… • The deep , twisted roots of QAnon : from 1940s sci-fi to 19th century anti-Masonic agitprop .
• How UFO culture took over America .
• The man who tried to contact aliens from his grandma ’ s living room .
• Evidence of U.S. Navy involvement in UFO program may have been destroyed .
• Interstellar visitor ‘ Oumuamua could still be alien technology , new study hints .
• NASA facility will beam messages to space through ( frikkin ’ ) lasers .
• Mining bosses lose their bonuses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Imagine if a company blew up Stonehenge , and instead of the bosses getting the sack or being charged with a crime , they just lost their bonuses… • Massive stone mustatils in Saudi Arabia may be some of the oldest monuments in the world .
• How to use philosophy to overcome fear of your own death .
• Bias in the machine : why facial recognition has led to false arrests .
• Image ( s ) of the Day : Designer uses AI and Photoshop to bring ancient Roman emperors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Day : There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year-old ’ s life : The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged .
One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes , leading to an emotionally stunted , socially crippled adulthood , unable to deal with the real world .
The other , of course , involves orcs .

It’s conspiracies all the way down…
Thanks Rick.
Quote of the Day:
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year-old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
John Rogers


News Briefs 27-08-2020

2020 has so far been like opening one of those Harry Potter ’ s ‘ every flavor beans ’ boxes –and they all taste like vomit… • Is the Multiverse theory physics , philosophy , or something else entirely ?
• Population panic lets rich people off the hook for the climate crisis they are fuelling .
• Scientists take another look at the Ice Age to measure just how freakingly cold it really was .
• Survey of mustatils shows them to be some of the oldest stone structures in the world .
Imagine if NASA ’ s rovers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are some Stone Age myths we totally made up .
• After almost half a century , Democrats endorse nuclear energy on their platform .
• This company claims it can use nuclear waste to make batteries that last 28,000 years without charging .
• Mysterious safe with note attached shows up in Orleans county field –for the love of God DON ’ T OPEN IT .
IT ’ S NOT THE YEAR , MAN !
!
• Altered Carbon canceled by Netflix after two seasons .
Dammit , this is like the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ !
!
• When quantum physics met psychiatry : Jung and Pauli bounced ideas off each other .
• Accounts of those who met with famous XIXth century medium Leonora Piper .
• Do ghosts haunt Churchill Downs in Kentucky ?
Take a step inside the track ’ s spooky history .
• Red Pill of the Day : The US Air Force wants new ideas to make it easier for female pilots to pee in flight .
Here ’ s one : HIRE MORE FEMALE ENGINEERS .
Quote of the Day : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can make you commit atrocities .

2020 has so far been like opening one of those Harry Potter’s ‘every flavor beans’ boxes –and they all taste like vomit…
Quote of the Day:
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire


News Briefs 26-08-2020

• First human fire-starter was 1.6 million years ago , scientist says .
• Why do we miss the rituals put on hold by the COVID-19 pandemic ?
( For a comprehensive look at this subject , be sure to check out The Power of Ritual . )
• How COVID-19 is preparing humanity for first contact .
• Mystery seeds arrive at Australian addresses from Asia , prompting fears of biosecurity risk .
• Trump has failed the QAnon test : Past Republican leaders knew better than to allow the pathogens of extreme conspiracy theories to infect the political @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : 360° video tour of the Great Pyramid of Giza .
Quote of the Day : The broad masses of a nation always…more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie , since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods .
It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths , and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously .
Even though the facts which prove this to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their minds , they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation .
Adolf Hitler

A reminder…
Thanks @FlamelAuthor, @djp1974 and @AnomalistNews.
Quote of the Day:
The broad masses of a nation always…more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.
It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation.
Adolf Hitler


News Briefs 29-08-2020

“ We must discover the power of love , the power , the redemptive power of love.
” • How @ @ @ @ @ ?
Quote of the Day : “ And when we discover that , we will @ @ @ @ @ this old world a new world .
”

“We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love.”
How cold was the Ice Age?
Mainstream psychedelics.
The benefits of micro-dosing.
Unraveling the god molecule.
Save the walking fish.
Unwrapping mummies with 3-D scans.
Tracing the reality of dreams.
Early hibernation.
Digital molecules.
The benefits of conservation.
Quote of the Day:
“And when we discover that, we will be able to make of this old world a new world.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.


dailygrail--2020-08-29--Broadcasts from an Orphan Planet: “John Was Trying to Contact Aliens” (Review)

One of the most frustrating things about UFO literature is that they can only show you a tiny sliver of a story .
You read about a particular case or encounter which might have happened years or decades ago , and after I close the pages and put the book back in the bookcase I inevitably wonder —and what happened next ?
Take for instance this photo included in Jacques Vallee ’ s Messengers of Deception ( Available by Daily Grail Publishing ) showing a most puzzling scene : on the left , a perfectly normal-looking elderly couple quietly reading @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a young man with long hair and beard , sitting in front of an impressive array of monitors and instruments that reach the ceiling of the wooden-paneled living room .
What the hell is going on here between this hippie and what seems to be the most laid-back old folks in the world ( Keith Richards notwithstanding ) ?
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M o D has only this to say about the picture : Near Bellaire , Michigan , John Shepherd has established this UFO-detecting station in his grandparents ’ home .
The contrast between @ @ @ @ @ @ @ checks his eight television monitors from the console of his center .
His equipment includes radar , sonar , scanners , and homing devices which attempt to attract the “ Aliens ” he believes are studying the Earth .
Netflix ’ s new documentary “ John Was Trying to Contact the Aliens ” fills in the gaps of this fascinating story of that young hippy —now turned an old man like his grandparents in the photo— and his life obsession with trying to reach out through the void , to connect with whomever @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a frosty spot of rural America .
The short film ( directed , filmed and edited by Matthew Killip ) takes a sympathetic look at the life and journey of John Shepherd , an evident child prodigy who is possibly within the autism spectrum ( in all the old photos and footage shown of him , first as a boy and later as a young man with long hair and bushy beard , he never smiles ) who taught himself how to build highly-sophisticated equipment , with the sole purpose of transmitting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of attract any interplanetary interlopers that might be passing by , with his fine selection of electronic music and afro-pop tunes .
It would have been very easy for Killip to exploit or make fun of John ’ s one-man attempt to establish communication with extraterrestrials , decades before Russian scientist Alexander Zaitsev coined the term METI ( Messaging to Extraterrestrial Intelligence ) ; the film in fact shows extracts from old TV shows when producers would stop by and interview John for their weird or colorful news segments .
After all , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with the stereotype of the lone inventor , tinkering away in some basement or garage with some ‘ Great Scott !
’ level idea , which might even come to revolutionize the world if it finds the right market niche .
Even to this day , when every human life in this world has been altered by the products of visionaries like Steve Jobs , or Google ’ s Larry Page and Sergey Brin , we hear the news that Elon Musk has just implanted a chip on a pig and part of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ while others ponder on how our lives could change even further if this Neuralink thing takes hold .
But how do you monetize broadcasting Bob Marley beyond Moon ’ s orbit , the way John Shepherd did for 30-40 years with his high-tension resonator and microwave arrays , until he ran out of funds for his ‘ Project SRAT ’ ( Special Telemetry Research And Tracking ) ?
Perhaps this is the reason he never became a household name like Thomas Edison , who knew very well that before investing time and money @ @ @ @ @ @ @ case , a phone to call the dead ) you first need to patent for the right-now .
Yet this Netflix docu is not an exploitative fim and does away with kooky flying saucer footage , save a few de-rigueur scenes from some old Unarius society ’ s promo material —which I personally felt out of place , given how the Unarians claim contact with ETs through ‘ esoteric ’ means ( e.g .
channeling ) whereas John always pursued his personal contact through strictly technical methods— and instead chooses to focus on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the harsh family situation John faced during the early years of his life ( absent father and ‘ alienated ’ mother , which caused his grandparents to take him in and adopt him ) coupled with the fact of being a bright boy growing up in rural Michigan where no one shared his passions ( both scientific and intimate , as a gay man ) begins to clear the picture on why this person chose this ‘ lonely mountain road ’ —to use his own analogy— to try and attain an understanding of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to reach .
In the end , this ‘ searching for connection ’ is ultimately a story of love : The unconditional , indulging love of John ’ s grandparents , and the love he fortunately found later in life with his partner —John never did talk to the aliens , yet Contact was established after all .
Because some men don ’ t try to find a meaning in this life by landing a nice job , going to church every Sunday or being a Broncos fan ; some men literally build @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , discarded computers and Army electronic surplus .
And that not only takes a lot of juice… but also a lot of love .
“ John Was Trying to Contact Aliens ” is a beautiful , highly recommended film in which I only find two main flaws : It is too short ( only lasts 16 minutes ) and it leaves unanswered the biggest question of all —just how did he manage to PAY for his electric bills ?
NOTE : If you ’ re more interested in learning more about John Shepherd @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this interview made by our friend John E. L. Tenney .

One of the most frustrating things about UFO literature is that they can only show you a tiny sliver of a story. You read about a particular case or encounter which might have happened years or decades ago, and after I close the pages and put the book back in the bookcase I inevitably wonder —and what happened next?
Take for instance this photo included in Jacques Vallee’s Messengers of Deception (Available by Daily Grail Publishing) showing a most puzzling scene: on the left, a perfectly normal-looking elderly couple quietly reading and knitting, and on the right a young man with long hair and beard, sitting in front of an impressive array of monitors and instruments that reach the ceiling of the wooden-paneled living room. What the hell is going on here between this hippie and what seems to be the most laid-back old folks in the world (Keith Richards notwithstanding)??
M o D has only this to say about the picture:
Near Bellaire, Michigan, John Shepherd has established this UFO-detecting station in his grandparents’ home. The contrast between the two lifestyles is striking as John checks his eight television monitors from the console of his center. His equipment includes radar, sonar, scanners, and homing devices which attempt to attract the “Aliens” he believes are studying the Earth.
Netflix’s new documentary “John Was Trying to Contact the Aliens” fills in the gaps of this fascinating story of that young hippy —now turned an old man like his grandparents in the photo— and his life obsession with trying to reach out through the void, to connect with whomever or whatever might be out there, in a frosty spot of rural America.
[Spoilers Ahead]
The short film (directed, filmed and edited by Matthew Killip) takes a sympathetic look at the life and journey of John Shepherd, an evident child prodigy who is possibly within the autism spectrum (in all the old photos and footage shown of him, first as a boy and later as a young man with long hair and bushy beard, he never smiles) who taught himself how to build highly-sophisticated equipment, with the sole purpose of transmitting signals to outer space in the hopes of attract any interplanetary interlopers that might be passing by, with his fine selection of electronic music and afro-pop tunes.
It would have been very easy for Killip to exploit or make fun of John’s one-man attempt to establish communication with extraterrestrials, decades before Russian scientist Alexander Zaitsev coined the term METI (Messaging to Extraterrestrial Intelligence); the film in fact shows extracts from old TV shows when producers would stop by and interview John for their weird or colorful news segments. After all, Americans have always had a strange fascination with the stereotype of the lone inventor, tinkering away in some basement or garage with some ‘Great Scott!’ level idea, which might even come to revolutionize the world if it finds the right market niche.
Even to this day, when every human life in this world has been altered by the products of visionaries like Steve Jobs, or Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin, we hear the news that Elon Musk has just implanted a chip on a pig and part of us shudder with the ominous implications, while others ponder on how our lives could change even further if this Neuralink thing takes hold. But how do you monetize broadcasting Bob Marley beyond Moon’s orbit, the way John Shepherd did for 30-40 years with his high-tension resonator and microwave arrays, until he ran out of funds for his ‘Project SRAT’ (Special Telemetry Research And Tracking)? Perhaps this is the reason he never became a household name like Thomas Edison, who knew very well that before investing time and money in the out-there stuff (in his case, a phone to call the dead) you first need to patent for the right-now.
Yet this Netflix docu is not an exploitative fim and does away with kooky flying saucer footage, save a few de-rigueur scenes from some old Unarius society’s promo material —which I personally felt out of place, given how the Unarians claim contact with ETs through ‘esoteric’ means (e.g. channeling) whereas John always pursued his personal contact through strictly technical methods— and instead chooses to focus on the human side of the story: the harsh family situation John faced during the early years of his life (absent father and ‘alienated’ mother, which caused his grandparents to take him in and adopt him) coupled with the fact of being a bright boy growing up in rural Michigan where no one shared his passions (both scientific and intimate, as a gay man) begins to clear the picture on why this person chose this ‘lonely mountain road’ —to use his own analogy— to try and attain an understanding of the Cosmos that very few ever bother to reach.
In the end, this ‘searching for connection’ is ultimately a story of love: The unconditional, indulging love of John’s grandparents, and the love he fortunately found later in life with his partner —John never did talk to the aliens, yet Contact was established after all. Because some men don’t try to find a meaning in this life by landing a nice job, going to church every Sunday or being a Broncos fan; some men literally build their own meaning using miles of cables, discarded computers and Army electronic surplus. And that not only takes a lot of juice… but also a lot of love.
“John Was Trying to Contact Aliens” is a beautiful, highly recommended film in which I only find two main flaws: It is too short (only lasts 16 minutes) and it leaves unanswered the biggest question of all —just how did he manage to PAY for his electric bills?
NOTE: If you’re more interested in learning more about John Shepherd, you should give a listen to this interview made by our friend John E. L. Tenney.


News Briefs 31-08-2020

• Broadcasts from an orphan planet : “ John was trying to contact aliens “ .
• Massive study of @ @ @ @ @ are continuations of reality .
• Giant new 50-metre deep ‘ crater ’ opens up @ @ @ @ @ How pseudoscientists get away with it .
• Tasmanian tiger pelt found in New Zealand @ @ @ @ @ extinct thylacine .
• Video of the Day : A reminder that pigs ( and @ @ @ @ @ and elephants ) are intelligent .
Quote of the Day : Technological progress has merely @ @ @ @ @ means for going backwards .

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News Briefs 01-09-2020

• A bizarre spacecraft ‘ flyby anomaly ’ has been baffling scientists for 30 years .
• Did aliens contact us in 1977 ?
• So what if SETI finds something – then what ?
• Airline pilots landing at LAX report ‘ a guy in a jetpack ‘ flying alongside them .
Iron Man , is that you ?
• Deluded , with reason : Extraordinary beliefs don ’ t arise in a vacuum – they take root in minds confronted by unusual and traumatic experiences .
• Which ancient city is considered the oldest in the world ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ s surface could be remnants of ancient life forms .
• There ’ s a theory beyond relativity that would allow you to fly through a wormhole .
• Russia declassifies video from 1961 of largest hydrogen bomb ever detonated .
Quote of the Day : There have been times , lately , when I dearly wished that I could change the past .
Well , I can ’ t , but I can change the present , so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past @ @ @

When prophecy flails…
Quote of the Day:
There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.
Terry Pratchett


News Briefs 02-09-2020

• Stonehenge enhanced sounds like voices or music for people inside the monument .
The earliest rock music venue then @ @ @ @ @ from extinction in New Guinea .
• A strange form of life could flourish deep @ @ @ @ @ say .
• This equation calculates the chances we live in a computer simulation ( @ @ @ @ @ might ever escape ) .
• Are we running out of monster metaphors for the @ @ @ @ @ ?
• By losing genes , life often evolved more complexity .
• Brain-to-brain interfaces @ @ @ @ @ But do we really want access to one another ’ s unmediated thoughts ?
• @ @ @ @ @ escape pods .
• The mysterious Cold War case of unidentified aircraft descending on Loring @ @ @ @ @ Italian Flat Earthers ’ journey to the ‘ edge of the world ’ goes wildly @ @ @ @ @ Day : Bow down before the one you serve .
You ’ re going to @ @ @ @ @


News Briefs 03-09-2020

Who ’ s your own personalized season of Black Mirror going so far ?
• Amazon is spying on its workers in closed Facebook groups , internal reports show .
• ‘ It never went away ’ : What the 1918 flu can tell us about when life might return to ‘ normal ’ .
• Welcome to my nightmare : researchers to investigate the strange world of Covid dreams .
• ‘ A Hail Mary ’ : Psychedelic therapy draws former soldiers to jungle retreats to use ayahuasca as a mental health treatment .
• New ‘ A.I .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ will you be able to understand it ?
• Studying the creativity and intelligence of the octopus .
• Breakthrough narrows intelligent life search in the Milky Way .
• Want to talk to aliens ?
Try changing the technological channel beyond radio .
• George Knapp ’ s Mystery Wire interviews Senator Marco Rubio about the new UAP task force .
• …But is it a ‘ new ’ task force ?
The Pentagon responds to some of the questions raised by their most recent announcements .
• Back to the Future @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s ‘ prophetic vision ’ .
• Memento Mommy : Bronze age Britons made keepsakes from parts of dead relatives , archaeologists say .
• Bodybuilding supplement promotes healthy aging and extends your lifespan —at least , among mice .
• Quantum physics may upend our macroscopic reality in the universe .
• The sun may have a long-lost twin .
• Red Pill of the Day : Elon says the first Mars colonists should be ‘ prepared to die.
’ Any wonder why the third richest person in the world has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Greg and Siggy Syzygy .
Quote of the Day : By believing passionately in something that still does not exist , we create it .
The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired .

How’s your own personalized season of Black Mirror going so far?
Thanks to Greg and Siggy Syzygy.
Quote of the Day:
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Franz Kafka


News Briefs 04-09-2020

“ Truth alone will endure , all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.
” • @ @ @ @ @ of the human mind .
• The most powerful storm on record .
• The @ @ @ @ @ ?
Quote of the Day : “ A man is but the product of his @ @ @ @ @ , he becomes.
” Mahatma Gandhi

“Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.”
Quote of the Day:
“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
Mahatma Gandhi


News Briefs 07-09-2020

• In the land of Kush : A dazzling civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5,000 years ago – why was it forgotten ?
• Severe cyclones may have played a role in the collapse of Maya civilisation .
• The Nebra Sky Disk could be younger than first thought .
• The strange theory of coronavirus from space .
Scientific paper available here .
• ’ Super bacteria ’ survives for three years outside space station .
• Thought experiment shows how we might be at the mercy of quantum jerks from another universe .
• William Blake saw angels @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even on the darkest day .
We need to foster his state of mind .
• Enter the conspiracy : we ’ re all playing the open-ended augmented reality game Wilderness of Mirrors .
• Everything is listening – we already live in a surveillance state , we just don ’ t know it .
• Video of the Day : The Daily Show ‘ s guide to QAnon .
Quote of the Day : I rest not from my great task !
To open the Eternal Worlds , to open the immortal @ @ @ @


News Briefs 08-09-2020

• Bill Nye : we should call it ‘ space settlement ’ , not ‘ space colonization ’ .
• The US Air Force just tested ‘ robot dogs ‘ for use in base security .
• How the British Empire became one of the biggest drug pushers in history .
• Viking sword placed on warrior ’ s left side likely prepared him for ‘ mirror afterlife ’ .
• Meteorite crater discovered while drilling for gold in Western Australia estimated to be 100-million years old .
• Mining giant hired lawyers days before blowing up ancient rock shelters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bones have been found under the site of a future Mexican airport .
• Plants could help authorities detect dead human bodies in woodland .
• Why do I keep seeing the same numbers on my clocks ?
• The neurons that appeared from nowhere .
• Image ( s ) of the Day : New high-res images of the Sun show how creepy sunspots look in close-up .
Quote of the Day : You simply can not invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don ’ @ @ @ @ @


News Briefs 09-09-2020

• Settling on Mars could be dangerous and ridiculously expensive .
Elon Musk wants to do it anyway .
• Related : This 1949 science fiction novel by legendary rocket designer Wernher von Braun names the leader of Martian civilisation as ‘ Elon ’ .
• Astronomers find no signs of alien tech after scanning over 10 million stars .
• Seven reasons why aliens never show up .
• Dozens more mystery drone incursions over US nuclear power plants revealed .
• Hundreds of Americans planted the ‘ Chinese mystery seeds ‘ that have been turning up randomly in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Cryptid currency : how the Loch Ness monster became a force in Scotland ’ s economy .
• The pros and cons of filming paranormal encounters .
• 2,200-year old Chinese text may be oldest surviving anatomical atlas .
• Egyptian authorities have discovered 13 completely sealed 2,500-year old coffins .
Don ’ t need anymore curses right now , please leave unopened k thx bye .
• From the seabed , figures of an ancient cult .
• An army of microscopic robots is ready to patrol your body .
• A @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you scared yet , human ?
Quote of the Day : We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself , but nature exposed to our method of questioning .


dailygrail--2020-09-10--Let the Spice Flow: The Official Trailer for Dune has Dropped!

If there ’ s any movie that Grailers are gon na enjoy , it ’ s likely going to be Dune , with its mix of science fiction , psychedelics and mysticism .
That ’ s why we ’ ve been excited since it was revealed over three years ago that director Dennis Villeneuve ( Arrival , Bladerunner 2049 ) would helm a remake of Frank Herbert ’ s sci-fi classic .
And now , the countdown is well and truly on , with the official trailer for Villeneuve ’ s Dune dropping , in advance of a release date @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) of December 18 : Fans of the book will find plenty to satisfy them , as it looks like Villeneuve is sticking fairly closely to the source material – and perhaps there ’ s even a nod of the head in the trailer to Alejandro Jodorowsky ’ s never-made version of Dune , with the use of Pink Floyd ’ s “ Eclipse ” as the background music ( as RPJ has previously mentioned , Jodorowsky planned to use Pink Floyd to soundtrack his 10-hour-long version of the story ) .
We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the mind-bending properties of spice , given Dune was apparently inspired by magic mushrooms…

If there’s any movie that Grailers are gonna enjoy, it’s likely going to be Dune, with its mix of science fiction, psychedelics and mysticism. That’s why we’ve been excited since it was revealed over three years ago that director Denis Villeneuve (Arrival, Bladerunner 2049) would helm a remake of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic.
And now, the countdown is well and truly on, with the official trailer for Villeneuve’s Dune dropping, in advance of a release date (perhaps tentative, given COVID concerns) of December 18:
Fans of the book will find plenty to satisfy them, as it looks like Villeneuve is sticking fairly closely to the source material – and perhaps there’s even a nod of the head in the trailer to Alejandro Jodorowsky’s never-made version of Dune, with the use of Pink Floyd’s “Eclipse” as the background music (as RPJ has previously mentioned, Jodorowsky planned to use Pink Floyd to soundtrack his 10-hour-long version of the story).
We look forward to seeing how Villeneuve handles the mind-bending properties of spice, given Dune was apparently inspired by magic mushrooms…


News Briefs 09-10-2020

• Antarctica ’ s colossal Thwaites Glacier is melting fast — and scientists may have discovered why .
• On hot days , the asphalt on the streets can release as much pollution as cars .
• The Prophecies of Q : American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase .
• The universe might be too thin , according to cosmologists .
Great , so now we ’ re body-shaming the whole freaking universe ?
?
• We just found out the Moon is rusty .
• Not just radio messages : NASA expands the search for extraterrestrial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ base where China lands their secret spacecraft .
• The Air Force just tested robodogs to use in base security .
• Take an exclusive look at files from the upcoming The X-Files : The Official Archives .
• On the existence of priapic ( read : ‘ well endowed ’ ) bat gods .
• Psychedelic trips really are like religious experiences in many ways .
• Machine elves and a journey into the DMT spirit world .
• Hidden hillfort revealed in Scotland on summit of Arthur ’ s Seat .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ instrument was not made by H. Sapiens .
• So you suddenly find yourself running from a T-Rex , what do you do ?
• Red Pill of the Day : Under Queensland ’ s new COVID-19 restrictions , dancing at weddings is forbidden —but sex parties are totally fine .
CRIKEY .
Thanks to Greg and Denis Villeneuve .
Quote of the Day : The mystery of life isn ’ t a problem to solve , but a reality to experience .


News Briefs 10-09-2020


News Briefs 12-09-2020

“ I view things as they are , without regard to place or person… ” • The only conscious being @ @ @ @ @ become human ?
Quote of the Day : “ My country is the world , @ @ @ @ @ do good .
”

“I view things as they are, without regard to place or person…”
Quote of the Day:
“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
Thomas Paine


News Briefs 14-09-2020

The golden age is upon us… • Scientists appear to have found evidence for life on Venus .
• Some astronomers have proposed that Planet Nine , a massive but yet-unobserved object thought to orbit 20 billion miles from the sun , may actually be a black hole the size of a Ping-Pong ball .
• How conspiracy theories are shaping the 2020 US election – and shaking the foundation of American democracy .
• Major QAnon website shuts down after New Jersey man identified as operator .
• Archaeologists with drones have discovered pre-Columbian earthworks in Kansas .
• @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not seen in 50 million years , epic new climate record shows • Space mice return to Earth , mighty as ever .
Reportedly asked if Slartibartfast was still available .
• The Exorcism of Emily Rose reinvented the possession performance .
• Black Panther prophecy : the ‘ weird signs ’ that led Chadwick Boseman to Wakanda .
• Image of the Day : Milky Way over St Michael ’ s Mount .
Quote of the Day : This matters not just because of what these voters believe but also because of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ facts that should anchor a sense of shared reality are meaningless to them ; the news developments that might ordinarily inform their vote fall on deaf ears… They aren ’ t just infected with conspiracy ; they appear to be inoculated against reality .

The golden age is upon us…
Thanks Donald.
Quote of the Day:
This matters not just because of what these voters believe but also because of what they don’t. The facts that should anchor a sense of shared reality are meaningless to them; the news developments that might ordinarily inform their vote fall on deaf ears… They aren’t just infected with conspiracy; they appear to be inoculated against reality.
Charlotte Alter


dailygrail--2020-09-14--Scientists Appear to Have Found Evidence for Life on Venus

Have scientists found strong evidence of life on the planet Venus ?
News under embargo until official publication on September 14 that has slipped out early suggests that is indeed the case .
The surface of Venus is a hellish landscape that no carbon-based lifeforms are likely to be able to survive – temperatures can reach almost 900 F/500 C – but there is a ‘ habitable zone ’ 48-60 kilometres up in the planet ’ s cloudy atmosphere that is similar to Earthly conditions , at least in terms of temperature and pressure .
And in recent years , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on Earth has brought a new understanding that life might exist in places that we previously thought wasn ’ t possible , such as acidic environments .
A number of astrobiologists , such as Dr David Grinspoon , have previously suggested there might be life in Venus ’ s clouds , pointing out there is a strange chemical signature in the planet ’ s atmosphere that can ’ t be explained : an unknown something is absorbing UV radiation ( Carl Sagan and Harold Morowitz published a paper in Nature on this topic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now this new research has apparently added more strong evidence – if not proof , quite yet – of some sort of life in Venus ’ s clouds .
What did they find ?
Phosphine – a gas that is thought to only be able to be produced in the depths of very large planets like Jupiter , artificially in the lab by humans , or otherwise by certain kinds of microbes that live in oxygen-free environments .
MIT scientists first proposed less than a year ago that searching for the gas might @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for life on Venus , “ after spending several years running many species of phosphorous — phosphine ’ s essential building block — through an exhaustive , theoretical analysis of chemical pathways , under increasingly extreme scenarios , to see whether phosphorous could turn into phosphine in any abiotic way.
” Those scientists have since teamed up with researchers from the University of Manchester and Cardiff University , to study the clouds of Venus using the Atacama ( ALMA ) telescope array located in Chile , and the James Clerk Maxwell telescope located @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their research will be officially published September 14 in the journal Nature Astronomy .
Unofficially , at this point ahead of the lifting of the embargo : after six months of processing the data from the observations , those results appear to be that they are convinced phosphine is present in Venus ’ s clouds .
The paper will no doubt be hotly debated , with many skeptics likely to look for ways to challenge the research findings ( bad observations ?
alternative explanations for phosphine generation ? )
as the usual process @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the very least , the research will perhaps lead to a mission to Venus , where probes might sample the cloudy atmosphere and provide definitive proof as to whether life exists on other planets .

Have scientists found strong evidence of life on the planet Venus? News under embargo until official publication on September 14 that has slipped out early suggests that is indeed the case.
The surface of Venus is a hellish landscape that no carbon-based lifeforms are likely to be able to survive – temperatures can reach almost 900 F/500 C – but there is a ‘habitable zone’ 48-60 kilometres up in the planet’s cloudy atmosphere that is similar to Earthly conditions, at least in terms of temperature and pressure. And in recent years, the discovery of extremophiles in numerous environments on Earth has brought a new understanding that life might exist in places that we previously thought wasn’t possible, such as acidic environments.
A number of astrobiologists, such as Dr David Grinspoon, have previously suggested there might be life in Venus’s clouds, pointing out there is a strange chemical signature in the planet’s atmosphere that can’t be explained: an unknown something is absorbing UV radiation (Carl Sagan and Harold Morowitz published a paper in Nature on this topic way back in 1967).
And now this new research has apparently added more strong evidence – if not proof, quite yet – of some sort of life in Venus’s clouds.
What did they find? Phosphine – a gas that is thought to only be able to be produced in the depths of very large planets like Jupiter, artificially in the lab by humans, or otherwise by certain kinds of microbes that live in oxygen-free environments.
MIT scientists first proposed less than a year ago that searching for the gas might be a good way to find evidence for life on Venus, “after spending several years running many species of phosphorous — phosphine’s essential building block — through an exhaustive, theoretical analysis of chemical pathways, under increasingly extreme scenarios, to see whether phosphorous could turn into phosphine in any abiotic way.”
Those scientists have since teamed up with researchers from the University of Manchester and Cardiff University, to study the clouds of Venus using the Atacama (ALMA) telescope array located in Chile, and the James Clerk Maxwell telescope located in Hawaii, and the results of their research will be officially published September 14 in the journal Nature Astronomy.
Unofficially, at this point ahead of the lifting of the embargo: after six months of processing the data from the observations, those results appear to be that they are convinced phosphine is present in Venus’s clouds.
The paper will no doubt be hotly debated, with many skeptics likely to look for ways to challenge the research findings (bad observations? alternative explanations for phosphine generation?) as the usual process of scientific discovery unfolds. But at the very least, the research will perhaps lead to a mission to Venus, where probes might sample the cloudy atmosphere and provide definitive proof as to whether life exists on other planets.


News Briefs 15-09-2020

• As reported here on the Grail yesterday : scientists have officially announced that they have found a gas linked @ @ @ @ @ of Venus .
• Venus : will private firms win the race to the fiery @ @ @ @ @ the entire universe might be a neural network .
• Math shows how famed Indus @ @ @ @ @ toppled by climate change .
• Believing in monsters : David Livingstone Smith on the @ @ @ @ @ zoom in ’ on dark matter , revealing the invisible skeleton of the universe .
@ @ @ @ @ ’ s Cat probably isn ’ t in the hands of gravity .
• The @ @ @ @ @ you excavating existing ideas , or do your thoughts come into being as you speak @ @ @ @ @ century ship found in the dark waters of the Baltic Sea .
Quote of the @ @ @ @ @ of humans , it has been said , the universe has suddenly become conscious of @ @ @ @ @ , is the greatest mystery of all .

Jump…
Quote of the Day:
With the arrival of humans, it has been said, the universe has suddenly become conscious of itself. This, truly, is the greatest mystery of all.
V.S. Ramachandran


News Briefs 17-09-2020

If you ’ re reading this , you ’ re still here .
• In tomorrow ’ s history books , ‘ recycled plastic ’ will be one of the things our descendants will judge us for .
• On hot days , the asphalt on cities ’ streets can release as much pollution as the cars that travel through them .
• Erin Brokovich says the United States is in a water crisis worse than people realize .
• Is there a way to stop Kelly Brogan anti-COVID insanity ?
• Clouds of bats flying over Phoenix captured on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ discover the oldest sperm in the fossil record .
• Medium not rare : Did early humans cook their food in thermal springs ?
• Nearly two thirds of young adults in the United States are unaware of what happened in the Holocaust .
• Is this a ghost running through the Gettysburg road ?
• Is the Internet conscious ?
And if it were , how would we know ?
• Susan Blackmore : How to be a mystical materialist ?
• TTSA fanboys are stoked that Japan is toeing the UAP @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the phenomenon of the mind leaving the body .
• Do we send a second chance at life through reincarnation ?
• Red Pill of the Day : The Planet of the Ape Selfies .
Quote of the Day : Be here now


News Briefs 16-09-2020

• The COVID-19 pandemic is changing our dreams .
• Animals ’ magnetic ‘ sixth ’ sense may come from bacteria , new paper suggests .
• Mysterious drone incursions have occurred over U.S. anti-ballistic missile battery in Guam .
• NUFORC data shows increase in reported UFO sightings began well before pandemic shutdowns .
• Satellite images show deterioration of Antarctica glaciers that could lead to rising sea levels .
• Meanwhile , at the opposite end of the planet , a huge chunk of Greenland ’ s ice cap has broken off .
• On the trail of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ western Poland .
• Video of the Day : A handful of executives control the ‘ attention economy ’ .
Time for attentive resistance .
Quote of the Day : Bad actors can now manipulate large swaths of people to do anything you want .
And we compound the problem .
We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection , because we get rewarded in these short-term signals — hearts , likes , thumbs up — and we conflate that with value and we conflate it with truth .
And instead @ @ @ @ @ @ @ brittle popularity that ’ s short-term and leaves you even more , admit it , vacant and empty before you did it… …Think about that , compounded by 2 billion people .
Chamath Palihapitiya ( former vice-president of user growth at Facebook )

Deep thoughts…
Thanks Rick.
Quote of the Day:
Bad actors can now manipulate large swaths of people to do anything you want. And we compound the problem. We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection, because we get rewarded in these short-term signals — hearts, likes, thumbs up — and we conflate that with value and we conflate it with truth. And instead, what it is is fake, brittle popularity that’s short-term and leaves you even more, admit it, vacant and empty before you did it…
…Think about that, compounded by 2 billion people.
Chamath Palihapitiya (former vice-president of user growth at Facebook)


News Briefs 18-09-2020

“ I ’ d rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
” • The Ig Nobels are here .
@ @ @ @ @ !
• The future is here… and it ’ s cyborg .
• This is @ @ @ @ @ • Why we all need sleep .
Quote of the Day : “ I ’ @ @ @ @ @ interpretive answers .
… The answer is never the answer .
What ’ s really @ @ @ @ @ If you seek the mystery instead of the answer , you ’ ll always be @ @ @

“I’d rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.”
Quote of the Day:
“I’m for mystery, not interpretive answers. … The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you’ll always be seeking.”
Ken Kesey


News Briefs 21-09-2020

• World ’ s largest DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons reveals they weren ’ t all Scandinavian .
• These 120,000-year-old footprints offer early evidence for humans in Arabia .
• What plants were smoked in pre-colonial North America ?
Ancient pipes hold clues .
• How psychedelic science is changing life and death .
• Russia lays claim to Venus in wake of discovery of possible evidence of life on the planet .
• In a complete fluke of timing , a European spacecraft is about to fly past Venus – and could look for signs of life .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ on Earth , if there was life on Venus ?
• How the stars gave birth to the human cosmos .
• The Pentagon created a plan to defend the U.S. against a zombie apocalypse – and you can read it online .
• ‘ The difference is QAnon ‘ : how a conspiratorial hate campaign upended California politics .
• New ‘ solar cycle ’ has begun , NASA says .
• Video of the day : What the stars of Orion will look like in the far future – 450,000 years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Quote of the Day : Fight for the things that you care about , but do it in a way that will lead others to join you .


News Briefs 22-09-2020

• Why isn ’ t Close Encounters of the Third Kind considered Spielberg ’ s ultimate masterpiece ?
Because it @ @ @ @ @ Infrared eyes on Enceladus : hints of fresh ice in northern hemisphere .
• Nearly @ @ @ @ @ consider becoming cyborgs .
• One of the favourites to be Trump ’ s supreme @ @ @ @ @ a Christian sect that served as an inspiration for The Handmaid ’ s Tale .
@ @ @ @ @ that QAnon took off with women over the summer .
• The new , nicer @ @ @ @ @ s most maligned ruler , notorious for fiddling while Rome burned .
• Video of @ @ @ @ @ mazes , repelling adversaries – the slow motion smarts of slime moulds .
Quote of @ @ @ @ @ m not crazy about reality , but it ’ s still the only place to @ @ @ @ @


News Briefs 23-09-2020

• Vikings in America : Did indigenous Americans and Vikings trade in the year 1000 ?
• Cult leader who @ @ @ @ @ Jesus arrested in Russia .
• The men behind QAnon : experts and researchers say @ @ @ @ @ ’ is hiding in plain sight .
• When plants go to war .
• @ @ @ @ @ brain ?
There ’ s a new system for that , and it ’ s @ @ @ @ @ uncover the molecular origins of an LSD trip .
• Earth is about to capture @ @ @ @ @ ’ s something odd about this one .
• Scientists analyse sunquakes : can ripples @ @ @ @ @ solar flares ?
• Image of the Day : Pouring the Milky Way into Stonehenge @ @ @ @ @ : In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act .


News Briefs 24-09-2020

My response to all the mainstream media starting to warn about QAnon , two years after we pointed out the danger… • The QAnon conspiracy theory has the best attributes of a multiplatform game – except that it can cause harm in the real world .
• The terrifying story of how QAnon infiltrated mom ’ s groups on Facebook and Instagram .
• The QAnon orphans : people who have lost loved ones to conspiracy theories .
• China has built nearly 400 ‘ re-education ’ internment camps for detaining Uighurs and other Muslim minorities .
• Mysterious circles @ @ @ @ @ @ @ theory from 70 years ago .
• A study that links solar activity to earthquakes is sending shockwaves through the science world .
• ‘ Grand claims ’ of life on Venus lack evidence , skeptics say .
• The International Space Station just had to manoeuvre to avoid a ‘ piece of unknown space debris ‘ .
• Physicists argue that black holes from the Big Bang might be the hidden ‘ dark matter ’ .
• Rising temperatures are pushing Antarctica past the point of no return , scientists warn .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the bees .
• Related : Paul Stamets on how mushrooms can save the world .
• Brain imaging study suggests Parkinson ’ s might actually be two diseases in one .
Quote of the Day : Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody .
It ’ s a good life , enjoy it .

My response to all the mainstream media starting to warn about QAnon, two years after we pointed out the danger…
Quote of the Day:
Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It’s a good life, enjoy it.
Jim Henson


News Briefs 25-09-2020

“ Spirituality leaps where science can not yet follow… ” Quote of the Day : “ …Because science must always @ @ @ @ @ much of reality and human experience is immeasurable .
”


News Briefs 28-09-2020

• How the ‘ Many Worlds ’ theory of Hugh Everett split the universe .
• A physicist has come @ @ @ @ @ ‘ paradox-free ’ time travel plausible .
• US WWII bomber emerges from glacier in @ @ @ @ @ change – 76 years after it crashed .
Does this mean Captain America is back @ @ @ @ @ ?
• The aurora borealis didn ’ t cause the Titanic ’ s crash , @ @ @ @ @ – but it may have affected rescue efforts .
• The world ’ s space @ @ @ @ @ to deflect an asteroid .
• Blasting the air in front of hypersonic vehicles with @ @ @ @ @ .
• Also : Researchers show conscious processes in birds ’ brains for the first @ @ @ @ @ evidence of organisms that eat viruses as a food source .
• How British grannies @ @ @ @ @ memes on Facebook .
Thanks to @ oh_pollo and @ djp1974 .
Quote of the @ @ @ @ @ not corrupt absolutely , absolute power attracts the corruptible .


News Briefs 29-09-2020

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• How much life is required to create the phosphine signal @ @ @ @ @ reveals if Russian spacemen are instructed on how to greet extraterrestrials .
• The map @ @ @ @ @ in 1972 could lead extraterrestrials to Earth .
Now it needs an update .
• @ @ @ @ @ Kirby worried that our attempts to contact aliens might attract a ‘ tiger ’ .
@ @ @ @ @ behaviours of the Neolithic Iberian populations discovered .
• Dream-shaping tech from MIT channels suggestions @ @ @ @ @ There might be even more underground reservoirs of liquid water on Mars .
Quote of @ @ @ @ @ the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense .
@ @ @ @ @ always one step beyond logic .

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Quote of the Day:
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
Frank Herbert (Dune)


News Briefs 30-09-2020

The debate moderator we all need… • Did the early Christians use psychedelics ?
• Scientists reveal more about the @ @ @ @ @ ancient Maya .
• The mystery of the ‘ Baghdad batteries ’ .
• How @ @ @ @ @ a secret pirate alliance on the Irish coast .
• Area 51 has a huge @ @ @ @ @ to a drone swarm future .
• MIT researchers say their fusion reactor is “ @ @ @ @ @ .
• Birds learned a new song during the pandemic .
• Did pterosaurs have @ @ @ @ @ flight in new study .
• Astronauts finally find location of the elusive leak on @ @ @ @ @ • The chilling experiment which created the first vaccine .
• Radical discovery suggests the @ @ @ @ @ of orbital alignment .
Thanks to Kali , Gerald , Ryan and Debra for your @ @ @ @ @ Day : No matter how outrageous a lie may be , it will be accepted @ @ @ @ @ often enough .

The debate moderator we all need…
Thanks to Kali, Gerald, Ryan and Debra for your support!
Quote of the Day:
No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.
Isaac Asimov


News Briefs 01-10-2020

• “ Everyone dies ” : Elon Musk says he won ’ t get vaccinated against COVID and calls Bill Gates a ‘ knucklehead ’ .
Remember when we all thought this moron was a real-life Tony Stark ?
• U.S. Intelligence sources discussed poisoning Julian Assange , a court has been told .
• ‘ Cult or activist group ’ members are detained at Point Molate , in San Francisco .
• New study of Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA reveals a surprising link to modern men .
• This megalithic tomb was crafted by a mysterious civilization that settled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
• First fossil feather ever found belonged to this dinosaur .
• This new reactor may finally deliver sustained nuclear fusion .
• US military eyes nuclear thermal rocket for missions in Earth-moon space .
• As expected , here ’ s a theory that could explain the presence of phosphine on Venus ’ s atmosphere that does not require Venusian life .
• Yours truly had the chance to tangentially speak with Chris Ryan about aliens and stuff .
• Red Pill of the Day : Dentists report spike in cracked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after last night ’ s debate , many woke up like this !
Thanks to Adam , Serfiel , and all the wonderful speakers who participated in the Strange Realities 2020 online conference .
Quote of the Day : Never wrestle with pigs .
You both get dirty and the pig likes it .

Weird Al sums it up nicely.
Thanks to Adam, Serfiel, and all the wonderful speakers who participated in the Strange Realities 2020 online conference.
Quote of the Day:
Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
George Bernard Shaw


News Briefs 03-10-2020

“ Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.
” • The first black hole ever imaged .
• @ @ @ @ @ in the universe .
Quote of the Day : “ The trouble is I don @ @ @ @ @ .
”


News Briefs 05-10-2020

We are all Chidi at the moment… • The far side of the moon is an ideal place to listen for alien civilisations .
• A paper published in a real journal says there ’ s a black hole at the centre of the Earth .
• In our universe , time seems to go from past to future , not in reverse .
But what if time doesn ’ t have a direction ?
• Failed brain surgery and possible human sacrifice revealed in Stone Age burial .
• Why did Renaissance Europeans see mer-people everywhere ?
• We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ translating their songs .
Or perhaps Ellen is available ?
• Melting Antarctic snow has revealed 800-year-old mummified penguins .
Horror script-writers , your job is already half done .
• Sensational discovery of a 250,000-year-old milk tooth found inside the Denisova cave in Siberia .
• Gut bacteria ’ s role in anxiety and depression : it ’ s not just in your head .
• Related : You are legion , for you are many – parasites and microbes that control the mind .
• How the pandemic and politics gave @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Quote of the Day : Immensely powerful though we are today , it ’ s equally clear that we ’ re going to be even more powerful tomorrow .
And what ’ s more there will be greater compulsion upon us to use our power as the number of human beings on Earth increases still further .
Clearly we could devastate the world… As far as we know , the Earth is the only place in the universe where there is life .
Its continued survival now rests in our hands .

We are all Chidi at the moment…
Quote of the Day:
Immensely powerful though we are today, it’s equally clear that we’re going to be even more powerful tomorrow. And what’s more there will be greater compulsion upon us to use our power as the number of human beings on Earth increases still further. Clearly we could devastate the world… As far as we know, the Earth is the only place in the universe where there is life. Its continued survival now rests in our hands.
David Attenborough (‘The Living Planet’, 1984)


News Briefs 06-10-2020

• Mars is closer to Earth this week than it will be for 15 years .
In case you were thinking now might be a good time to get off this rock… • Some planets may be better for life than Earth .
• Drone with a shotgun is yet further proof that humanity is doomed .
• In the name of the Father , Son , and Q : why it ’ s important to see QAnon as a ‘ hyper-real ’ religion .
• Related : Believing in fiction – the rise of hyper-real religion .
• There @ @ @ @ @ @ @ universe – and no-one knows where it came from .
• Study finds that the Amazon is near the tipping point of switching from rainforest to savannah .
• The importance of the ancient tree of life .
• The Wire inspired a fake turtle egg that spies on poachers .
• The facts about herd immunity and COVID-19 .
• This strange plant virus could treat many cancers .
• Video of the Day : Sarcophagus sealed closed for 2500 years is opened for the first time .
Are we sure this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this ?
Quote of the Day : It ’ s time to stop living apart from nature , and living as a part of nature .


News Briefs 07-10-2020

• Early humans were using fire 300,000 years ago to forge superior stone tools .
• New study suggests Stonehenge was built to amplify sound .
• How psilocybin can save the environment .
• Sir Roger Penrose one of three to win the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics for black hole breakthroughs .
• Related : That time Sir Roger Penrose chatted with Joe Rogan about quantum consciousness .
• Facebook to ban QAnon-themed groups , pages and accounts in massive crackdown .
• QAnon ’ s creator made the ultimate conspiracy theory .
Or maybe – and hear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so stupid and thirsty for political biases to be confirmed , that they would believe in absolutely anything .
• COVID-19 conspiracy theory about infrared thermometers is just the latest in a long line of myths about the pineal gland .
• Image of the Day : The most detailed image yet of the Carina Nebula .
Quote of the Day : Technology and platforms provide a vector for extremist movements like QAnon ; however at its root it is a human issue , and the current socio-political environment around the globe is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of QAnon .

RIP EVH…
Quote of the Day:
Technology and platforms provide a vector for extremist movements like QAnon; however at its root it is a human issue, and the current socio-political environment around the globe is fertile for the continued existence and growth of QAnon.
Marc-André Argentino


News Briefs 08-10-2020

And suddenly I ’ m feeling like listening to some U2… • Nobel laureate Sir Roger Penrose : There were other universes before the Big Bang .
• Nobel prize in Chemistry goes to the foremothers of our future Brave New World : The co-discoverers of CRISPR .
• Our Moon may be littered with debris from Venus .
• The Guardian reviews James Fox ’ s new UFO documentary , The Phenomenon .
• Tom DeLonge and TTSA are taking a break from Disclosure to bring us a movie about monsters in California .
• How do cognitive processes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
• QAnon supporters aren ’ t quite who you think they are .
• Fans begin to worry the long-awaited Evangelion finale is going to be six hours long .
• In other news , black foxes are invading Toronto .
• Whalendetta : Wounded orcas attacking boats off Spanish coast could be doing so out of vengeance .
• Newly documented aboriginal rock art in Australia is ‘ unlike anything seen before ’ .
• Two amateur metal detector enthusiasts have just uncovered the remains of an ancient pagan warlord .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ is over : The witches ’ market in Peru , which is hidden within a train station .
• Accused killer convinced her online date to join murderous coven of witches .
• Red Pill of the Day : In case you still hadn ’ t problems sleeping in 2020 , somebody found a spider web in Missouri big enough to catch a human being .
Thanks to Eddie and the fly .
Quote of the Day : Man is not what he thinks he is , he is what he hides .

And suddenly I’m feeling like listening to some U2…
Thanks to Eddie and the fly.
Quote of the Day:
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
André Malraux


News Briefs 09-10-2020

“ Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers .
” • Hitting the proverbial wall ?
Try listening to @ @ @ @ @ Day : “ Insanity is relative .
It depends on who has who locked in @ @ @ @

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News Briefs 12-10-2020

• The Archbishop of New Orleans orders a church altar to be burned after a pastor was caught in a ‘ demonic ’ sexual act .
( Or as grown-ups like to call it , a consensual three-way . )
• Witches are trying to figure out whose spell gave Trump COVID-19 .
• Teens are watching their parents go down the QAnon rabbit hole .
• Conspiracy time : even a stopped clock can always be wrong .
• Newborn Neanderthals had a robust and broad thoracic cage just like adults .
• Thirty-eight great statues of Atlas , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ancient Greek Temple of Olympic Zeus .
Archaeologists have a novel plan for the remains .
• Astronomers are using black hole echoes to help map the universe .
• Our brain is better at remembering where to find brownies than cherry tomatoes .
Sounds fair enough to me !
• How Trump has damaged science – and why it could take decades to recover .
• Electric shocks to the tongue can quiet the ringing ears of tinnitus .
• Video of the Day : Did hallucinogens play a role in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Day :


dailygrail--2020-10-12--Conspiracy Time: Even a Stopped Clock Can Always Be Wrong

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Followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory certainly don’t find it difficult to connect non-existent dots and see patterns that accord remarkably with their innermost political desires. From President Trump using the number 17 as a nod and a wink that he is everything they think he is (Q is the 17th letter of the alphabet), to servicemen having ‘TQ’ on their clothing allegedly to denote their support for Trump and Q, there’s no end to the apophenia.
One of the latest delusions has been the importance of the 10th of October as a date of significance – perhaps the moment when Trump would finally arrest and execute all of his Democrat opposition – due to a post from ‘Q’ last month with an image of a Mickey Mouse watch showing the time 10:10 (from which QAnons inferred they were suggesting 10/10 would be a significant date).
And just to prove that this sort of crazy conspiracy thinking sucks us all down the rabbit hole, Raw Story yesterday posted an article with a counter-conspiracy, asking if press secretary Kayleigh McEnany was dog-whistling to the QAnon faithful because recent video interviews with her have featured a clock in the background showing the time 10:10.
With 10th October now having passed, and still no Democrats hanging from hastily erected gallows in Washington D.C., QAnons are now dealing with yet another failed prophecy – not by coming to their senses of course, but by looking for other possible meanings.
But what about the clocks? The answer is in all likelihood a very mundane one, sure to disappoint both QAnons and ‘counter-QAnon’ conspiracies such as suggested by Raw Story: clocks are often set to 10:10 at the factory and in promotional photos, for aesthetic reasons (hands are separated, symmetrical, not in the way of the maker’s logo which is normally in the bottom half of the clock face – and also, apparently, because the hands reflect the shape of a smile).
So if someone like ‘Q’ finds a random photo online to post, it’s likely going to show 10:10. If someone like Kayleigh McEnany sets up a little ‘video interview set’ with furnishings at home, and puts a newly bought clock in there without adding batteries, it’s likely going to show 10:10.
Or maybe the Storm is just going to happen on 10th of October 2021…


News Briefs 13-10-2020

• Black hole seen eating star , causing ‘ disruption event ’ visible in telescopes around the world .
• Former Senate majority leader Harry Reid confirms the Federal Government covered up UFOs for years .
• The New York Times and the unreported UAP encounters .
• Majestic 12 : when a wave of ’ secret UFO documents ’ surfaced in the 1990s .
• Earth ’ s next mini-moon might be space junk from the 1960s .
• President Trump says he will check on UFOs .
• New clues to chemical origins of metabolism at dawn of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t been this hot in at least 2,900 years .
• What ’ s behind the rise of QAnon in the UK ?
Quote of the Day : I ’ ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies : Anything that is in the world when you ’ re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works .
Anything that ’ s invented between when you ’ re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in it .
Anything invented after you ’ re thirty-five is against the natural order of things .

Kevin!
Quote of the Day:
I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Douglas Adams


News Briefs 14-10-2020

• Do we live in a simulation ?
Chances are about 50-50 .
• Scientists call for serious study of @ @ @ @ @ .
• Related : Prison planets – could the Kessler Syndrome explain why we haven @ @ @ @ @ ?
• Biology ’ s next great horizon is to understand cells , tissues and @ @ @ @ @ .
• Scientists found a new way to control the brain with light , no @ @ @ @ @ US and seven other countries sign Artemis Accords to cooperate on moon missions .
• @ @ @ @ @ puzzling plan to have SpaceX deliver cargo anywhere in the world in an hour .
@ @ @ @ @ a death spiral .
How much longer will it exist ?
• Stone cold masterpieces @ @ @ @ @ Olmecs .
• Video of the Day : Step into synaesthesia ’ s visual soundscape @ @ @ @ @ of John Coltrane .
Quote of the Day : Bad officials are elected by good @ @ @ @ @ .


dailygrail--2020-10-15--The Immortality Key: Graham Hancock and Brian Muraresku talk to Joe Rogan about Ancient Drug Use

The Immortality Key : The Secret History of the Religion with No Name is a new book from author/researcher Brian Muraresku that is gaining plenty of attention ( available from Amazon US and Amazon UK ) .
With a Foreword by Graham Hancock , and Brian ’ s recent appearance with Graham on Joe Rogan ’ s podcast ( see video below ) , the book has shot up the charts and is bringing public attention to the idea that the ancients used entheogens to connect with the gods and the afterlife .
The two-and-a-half-hour Joe Rogan interview is fascinating @ @ @ @ @ @ @ – as a trained Classicist who has since moved into the legal profession – spending 12 years hunting down evidence for his theory from various international archaeological sites and museums .
Along the way there is discussion of the 1970s research into this topic done by Albert Hofmann , Gordon Wasson and Carl Ruck ( The Road to Eleusis ) , as well as the controversial theories of John Marco Allegro ( The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross ) , along with plenty of other tangential subjects : Note too that Muraresku is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at Graham Hancock ’ s website , where you can read “ Graveyard Beer “ , a featured essay digging into one of the topics in the book .
Here ’ s the publisher ’ s blurb for The Immortality Key : A groundbreaking dive into the role psychedelics have played in the origins of Western civilization , and the real-life quest for the Holy Grail that could shake the Church to its foundations .
The most influential religious historian of the 20th century , Huston Smith , once referred to it as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Did the Ancient Greeks use drugs to find God ?
And did the earliest Christians inherit the same , secret tradition ?
A profound knowledge of visionary plants , herbs and fungi passed from one generation to the next , ever since the Stone Age ?
There is zero archaeological evidence for the original Eucharist – the sacred wine said to guarantee life after death for those who drink the blood of Jesus .
The Holy Grail and its miraculous contents have never been found .
In the absence of any hard @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Supper remains an article of faith for today ’ s 2.5 billion Christians .
In an unprecedented search for real answers , The Immortality Key examines the archaic roots of the ritual that is performed every Sunday for nearly one third of the planet .
Religion and science converge to paint a radical picture of Christianity ’ s founding event .
And after centuries of debate , to solve history ’ s greatest puzzle once and for all .
Before the birth of Jesus , the Ancient Greeks found salvation in their own @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as part of the so-called Ancient Mysteries – elaborate rites that led initiates to the brink of death .
The best and brightest from Athens and Rome flocked to the spiritual capital of Eleusis , where a holy beer unleashed heavenly visions for two thousand years .
Others drank the holy wine of Dionysus to become one with the god .
In the 1970s , renegade scholars claimed this beer and wine – the original sacraments of Western civilization – were spiked with mind-altering drugs .
In recent years , vindication for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the laboratory .
The constantly advancing fields of archaeobotany and archaeochemistry have hinted at the enduring use of hallucinogenic drinks in antiquity .
And with a single dose of psilocybin , the psychopharmacologists at Johns Hopkins and NYU are now turning self-proclaimed atheists into instant believers .
But the smoking gun remains elusive .
If these sacraments survived for thousands of years in our remote prehistory , from the Stone Age to the Ancient Greeks , did they also survive into the age of Jesus ?
Was the Eucharist of the earliest Christians @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
With an unquenchable thirst for evidence , Muraresku takes the reader on his twelve-year global hunt for proof .
He tours the ruins of Greece with its government archaeologists .
He gains access to the hidden collections of the Louvre Museum to show the continuity from pagan to Christian wine .
He unravels the Ancient Greek of the New Testament with the world ’ s most controversial priest .
He spelunks into the catacombs under the streets of Rome to decipher the lost symbols of Christianity ’ s oldest monuments .
He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to unearth manuscripts never before translated into English .
And with leads from the archaeological chemists at the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , he unveils the first scientific data for the ritual use of psychedelic drugs in classical antiquity .
The Immortality Key reconstructs the suppressed history of women consecrating a forbidden , drugged Eucharist that was later banned by the Church Fathers .
Women who were then targeted as witches during the Inquisition , when Europe ’ s sacred pharmacology largely disappeared .
If the scientists of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Christianity is in crisis .
Unless it returns to its roots .

The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name is a new book from author/researcher Brian Muraresku that is gaining plenty of attention (available from Amazon US and Amazon UK). With a Foreword by Graham Hancock, and Brian’s recent appearance with Graham on Joe Rogan’s podcast (see video below), the book has shot up the charts and is bringing public attention to the idea that the ancients used entheogens to connect with the gods and the afterlife.
The two-and-a-half-hour Joe Rogan interview is fascinating, as Muraresku describes his personal journey – as a trained Classicist who has since moved into the legal profession – spending 12 years hunting down evidence for his theory from various international archaeological sites and museums. Along the way there is discussion of the 1970s research into this topic done by Albert Hofmann, Gordon Wasson and Carl Ruck (The Road to Eleusis), as well as the controversial theories of John Marco Allegro (The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross), along with plenty of other tangential subjects:
Note too that Muraresku is the Author of the Month for October at Graham Hancock’s website, where you can read “Graveyard Beer“, a featured essay digging into one of the topics in the book.
Here’s the publisher’s blurb for The Immortality Key:


News Briefs 15-10-2020

I don ’ t know who needs to hear this , but civility is NOT weakness .
• Roger Penrose ’ s moment of inspiration ( revelation ? )
which upended our understanding of black holes .
• Head of Roscosmos thinks American astronauts could really use some good ole Russian vodka on their way back to the Moon .
• Another sighting of a man flying a jetpack near LAX , this time spotted by a China Airlines crew flying at around 6000 feet .
• A group of non-scientists might have discovered an ‘ Atlantis ’ beneath the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not be in very good terms with Mr. Big ( elow ) because he still doesn ’ t believe in UFOs .
• Did Trump threaten ETs with America ’ s newest weapons in his last interview on Fox News ?
• British Ministry of Defence buries the one ( possible ) good UFO photo they have for another 50 years .
Still think Disclosure is ‘ just around the corner ’ ?
• The Saucer Life takes a look at the book Above Black , by Dan Sherman , and his claims @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for an alien-human relationships program run by the NSA .
• This is my brain on salvia divinorum .
• Upton Chamber : The mysterious artificial cave that has long puzzled New Englanders .
• New species of burrowing dinosaur discovered in China .
• Red Pill of the Day : Forged letter warning about wolves on the loose was part of a Canadian Forces propaganda campaign that went awry .
Thanks to Greg and Rick .
Quote of the Day : If you want others to be happy , practice compassion .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ practice compassion .

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but civility is NOT weakness.
Thanks to Greg and Rick.
Quote of the Day:
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama


News Briefs 17-10-2020

” We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will.
” • Which came @ @ @ @ @ egg ?
• This is your brain on Salvia .
• The AI just got @ @ @ @ @ Day : “ The Life Force experimenting with forms .
You for one .
Me @ @ @ @ @ has shouted itself alive .
We are one of the shouts .
”

”We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will.”
Quote of the Day:
“The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.”
Ray Bradbury


News Briefs 19-10-2020

• Nazca cat !
Huge feline found etched into desert hillside at the famous Peruvian geoglyph site .
• Pufferfish @ @ @ @ @ ‘ crop circles ’ near Australia .
• The Immortality Key : Graham Hancock and @ @ @ @ @ Rogan about ancient drug use .
• Related book from Daily Grail Publishing : Paul @ @ @ @ @ Trip : A Prehistory of Psychedelia .
• An archaeological emergency : artefacts are emerging @ @ @ @ @ • NASA ’ s about to try grabbing a chunk of asteroid to bring back @ @ @ @ @ can watch .
• How much do our genes restrict free will ?
• When @ @ @ @ @ ?
What fossils and DNA tell us about the evolution of modern intelligence .
• @ @ @ @ @ life may have been more animal-like than we ever realised .
Quote of the Day @ @ @ @ @ and ideas that were good once are not always good .