News Briefs 15-04-2020

• An MIT lab is building devices to hack your dreams .
• Engines of life : how nanotechnology will revolutionise medical science .
• ‘ Oumuamua is not an alien spaceship , but might be a shard of a broken planet , new study reveals .
• Homo galacticus : how space will shape the humans of the future .
• Prehistoric Lego : Aerial images show that ancient creators of Stonehenge used holes and studs to slot slabs into each other .
( Which anyone who has visited the site knew already ) • The long and complicated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a circle .
• How we learned to love Neanderthals…and a lot of other hominids , too .
• Therminator : Rise of the Machines – Drones take Italians ’ temperature and issue fines .
• Video of the Day : Stunning footage of Mont-Saint Michel in France becoming an island due to super high tides in 2015 .
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 .

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News Briefs 14-04-2020

How to make sense of the world in 2020… • This is the Pentagon ’ s ‘ Real Men in @ @ @ @ @ DeLonge ’ s UFO videos .
• New search methods are ramping up the hunt @ @ @ @ @ We ’ re on the brink of cyberpunk .
• Hi-tech test shatters claim ancient @ @ @ @ @ Christianity .
• 50,000-year old string found at cave in France casts further doubt on @ @ @ @ @ cognitively inferior to modern humans .
• A new fossil discovery indicates a second primate @ @ @ @ @ from Africa to South America millions of years ago on a raft of vegetation .
@ @ @ @ @ creature that looks like silly string , hunting in a ‘ galaxy-like spiral ’ .
@ @ @ @ @ invisible particles seems to be missing from the Milky Way .
Quote of the Day @ @ @ @ @ a day , give yourself a present .
Don ’ t plan it , don @ @ @ @ @ , just let it happen .


dailygrail--2020-04-14--Little Mexican Town Terrorized by… a Werewolf?!

On a recent podcast discussion with my friends Seriah Azkath and Joshua Cutchin recorded last Friday night , we inevitably started talking about the current situation we ’ re living in : how surreal it feels on a daily basis , how scary it might actually get before it ’ s over , and how unprepared we were for it , given our unrealistic expectations of societal collapse informed by Hollywood disaster movies –even ‘ Contagion ’ writer Scott Burns admits he ’ s perplexed by the “ ignorant , misguided and full of dangerous information ” response from the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the conversation I might have gone hyperbolic with my thoughts , because for some reason I wouldn ’ t be able to explain I ended up mentioning werewolves .
Both of my friends bursted out with laughter for taking this COVID-19 thing a little too far : there ’ s one thing about comparing the pandemic with the Zombie Apocalypse , but a Werewolf Apocalypse ?
?
I mean , really… And yet , that ’ s exactly what the citizens of a little town in the Southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ colloquially as ‘ Coita ’ ) are claiming , if we are to believe in the information provided by the Twitter account of @ saulzenteno on April 11th : According to Zenteno , the citizens of Coita ( total population , less than 40,000 inhabitants ) have not been able to get any sleep recently , due to the sound of ‘ howling ’ they hear at night along with shots fired into the air .
The fear among the public seems to have grown so large the local parishioner asked the people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ candle outside their homes for spiritual protection .
Some of the locals who have claimed seeing the creature say it ’ s over two meters tall and endowed with great agility .
A Facebook page ( “ Coita Milenario ” ) posted the account that a man living in the El Caracol neighborhood saw the purported lycanthrope going over a fence of around 9 feet high with a single jump .
Other witnesses allegedly fired upon the being but , as it would be the case with these sorts of stories , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on it .
The reports also mention a “ putrid smell ” emanating from the supposed lycan .
Among the townsfolk there are those who are convinced this entity was originally a man living in a nearby village ( Ocuilapa ) who was a ‘ nahual ’ –a ‘ brujo ’ or shaman capable of transforming his body into that of a wolf or a coyote ; those who adhere to this folkloric interpretation , also believe the ‘ nahual ’ lost his ability to return into his discarded human skin , because @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it .
José María Rincón , a content creator associated with the Facebook page Coita Milenario , who has uploaded some videos about the werewolf story –including one recorded in a location near mount Meyapac close to the El Caracol neighborhood , where the neighbors pointed Rincón to some large prints they had found the night before when they went in search of the beast– is a part-time astrologer , and as such he sides with a more ‘ metaphysical ’ interpretation of the phenomenon plaguing his community : he thinks the reason @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be centered around the Villa de Allende area –a supposedly protected forest reserve which has suffered its function for natural conservation , due to the invasion of illegal trespassers over the years– is because mankind is destroying Nature .
He therefore views the so-called werewolf as a forest elemental .
A more plausible explanation is that we are facing a rather peculiar case of collective hysteria incensed by the current pandemic situation .
Such is the professional opinion of Gestalt psychotherapist Dulce Bonifaz , who was interviewed by the news website Alerta Chiapas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Coita are in such a high state of tension , she said , that they are noticing noises in the night which would have been overlooked under normal circumstances .
She also considers it is easier for the human psyche to fear a visible threat –say , a supernatural monster– than an invisible one such as the COVID-19 coronavirus .
Which is all well and good , but how to explain the tracks found by Rincón at the Meyepac mount , or the alleged testimony of a patrolman identified as “ Alfonso N.N.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Friday night ?
…Assuming any of that is true , obviously .
So far there doesn ’ t seem to be any valuable material evidence , aside from the alleged footprints –which frankly don ’ t look too convincing– and wouldn ’ t be so hard to fake .
Ditto for the howlings at night , which could be just pranksters looking to have a much-needed distraction amid the dread of the ongoing pandemic .
The news , which by now has attained national attention , is certainly fertile ground for all sorts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even if this is just a case of “ the boy who cried ( were ) wolf , ” it ’ s interesting to perceive certain elements in this story which are replicated in other paranormal cases .
The claim that the being is capable of leaping to considerable heights is ressemblant of the old Springheeled Jack accounts ; ditto with the putrid smell , which is also very common in Bigfoot sightings , or even the imperviousness to bullets , similar to some of the high strangeness cases investigated by Stan Gordon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ interesting little detail in this saga , is also the most tragic one : 2 children were found drowned inside an open well at the local ecological park last Sunday .
Quite possibly a coincidence , yet I doubt that neither José María Rincón nor the potential pranksters gaslighting the Coita neighbors are familiar with the Missing 411 material gathered by David Paulides , in which bodies of water are almost always associated with the finding of bodies of the people who get regularly lost in American national parks .
And of course @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forgive me if I fail to point out the rich fae lore also associated with bodies of water .
Personally I ’ m not sure if I agree with Rincón ’ s esoteric view of the werewolf as a ‘ Nature elemental.
’ But neither I believe that Bonifaz ’ s psychiatric explanation manages to explain the totality of what ’ s going on in Coita .
Certainly there must be hoaxers involved by now , due to the notoriety the story has received ; but I ’ m the type of Fortean @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tension gets liberated during times of extreme social anxiety .
Could an innocent urban myth of a werewolf manifest true paranormal activity under the right circumstances ?
Real or fake , there ’ s no doubt this little Doomsday scenario of ours has turned a whole lot more interesting , and I for one welcome our new therianthropic overlords .

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On a recent podcast discussion with my friends Seriah Azkath and Joshua Cutchin recorded last Friday night, we inevitably started talking about the current situation we’re living in: how surreal it feels on a daily basis, how scary it might actually get before it’s over, and how unprepared we were for it, given our unrealistic expectations of societal collapse informed by Hollywood disaster movies –even ‘Contagion’ writer Scott Burns admits he’s perplexed by the “ignorant, misguided and full of dangerous information” response from the American federal government.
At one point of the conversation I might have gone hyperbolic with my thoughts, because for some reason I wouldn’t be able to explain I ended up mentioning werewolves. Both of my friends bursted out with laughter for taking this COVID-19 thing a little too far: there’s one thing about comparing the pandemic with the Zombie Apocalypse, but a Werewolf Apocalypse?? I mean, really…
And yet, that’s exactly what the citizens of a little town in the Southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas called Ocozocuautla de Espinoza (also known colloquially as ‘Coita’) are claiming, if we are to believe in the information provided by the Twitter account of @saulzenteno on April 11th:
Yo no sé si sabían pero en México hay un pueblo ENTERO que lleva dos noches sin dormir porque hay un hombre lobo. Coita, Chiapas.
El #COVID19 nos traerá mal pero el hombre lobo en Coita es otro nivel.
Por supuesto que abro hilo.#MéxicoMágico #Real #NoFake #cuarentena — Hale Bopp in Outer Space (@saulzenteno) April 11, 2020
According to Zenteno, the citizens of Coita (total population, less than 40,000 inhabitants) have not been able to get any sleep recently, due to the sound of ‘howling’ they hear at night along with shots fired into the air. The fear among the public seems to have grown so large the local parishioner asked the people to calm down and to light a candle outside their homes for spiritual protection.
Some of the locals who have claimed seeing the creature say it’s over two meters tall and endowed with great agility. A Facebook page (“Coita Milenario”) posted the account that a man living in the El Caracol neighborhood saw the purported lycanthrope going over a fence of around 9 feet high with a single jump. Other witnesses allegedly fired upon the being but, as it would be the case with these sorts of stories, the bullets didn’t have any effect on it. The reports also mention a “putrid smell” emanating from the supposed lycan.
Y bueno, no ha faltado quien se ha aprovechado un poco. Incluso han salido videos del supuesto lobo y aullidos. Dejo el video acá para el análisis y dictaminen de Jaime Mausan. pic.twitter.com/TY27zT3exD — Hale Bopp in Outer Space (@saulzenteno) April 11, 2020
Among the townsfolk there are those who are convinced this entity was originally a man living in a nearby village (Ocuilapa) who was a ‘nahual’ –a ‘brujo’ or shaman capable of transforming his body into that of a wolf or a coyote; those who adhere to this folkloric interpretation, also believe the ‘nahual’ lost his ability to return into his discarded human skin, because someone cursed it by pouring salt over it.
José María Rincón, a content creator associated with the Facebook page Coita Milenario, who has uploaded some videos about the werewolf story –including one recorded in a location near mount Meyapac close to the El Caracol neighborhood, where the neighbors pointed Rincón to some large prints they had found the night before when they went in search of the beast– is a part-time astrologer, and as such he sides with a more ‘metaphysical’ interpretation of the phenomenon plaguing his community: he thinks the reason the creature’s activity seems to be centered around the Villa de Allende area –a supposedly protected forest reserve which has suffered its function for natural conservation, due to the invasion of illegal trespassers over the years– is because mankind is destroying Nature. He therefore views the so-called werewolf as a forest elemental.
Alleged footprints of the creature
A more plausible explanation is that we are facing a rather peculiar case of collective hysteria incensed by the current pandemic situation. Such is the professional opinion of Gestalt psychotherapist Dulce Bonifaz, who was interviewed by the news website Alerta Chiapas. It is because the people of Coita are in such a high state of tension, she said, that they are noticing noises in the night which would have been overlooked under normal circumstances. She also considers it is easier for the human psyche to fear a visible threat –say, a supernatural monster– than an invisible one such as the COVID-19 coronavirus. Which is all well and good, but how to explain the tracks found by Rincón at the Meyepac mount, or the alleged testimony of a patrolman identified as “Alfonso N.N.” who apparently observed the creature on Friday night?
Alleged prints of the creature, found on a corrugated steel roof
…Assuming any of that is true, obviously. So far there doesn’t seem to be any valuable material evidence, aside from the alleged footprints –which frankly don’t look too convincing– and wouldn’t be so hard to fake. Ditto for the howlings at night, which could be just pranksters looking to have a much-needed distraction amid the dread of the ongoing pandemic. The news, which by now has attained national attention, is certainly fertile ground for all sorts of funny memes.
“There’s no way things could get any worse” “April 2020: Coita”
And yet, even if this is just a case of “the boy who cried (were)wolf,” it’s interesting to perceive certain elements in this story which are replicated in other paranormal cases. The claim that the being is capable of leaping to considerable heights is ressemblant of the old Springheeled Jack accounts; ditto with the putrid smell, which is also very common in Bigfoot sightings, or even the imperviousness to bullets, similar to some of the high strangeness cases investigated by Stan Gordon in Pennsylvania.
But perhaps the most interesting little detail in this saga, is also the most tragic one: 2 children were found drowned inside an open well at the local ecological park last Sunday. Quite possibly a coincidence, yet I doubt that neither José María Rincón nor the potential pranksters gaslighting the Coita neighbors are familiar with the Missing 411 material gathered by David Paulides, in which bodies of water are almost always associated with the finding of bodies of the people who get regularly lost in American national parks. And of course, my pal Joshua Cutchin would never forgive me if I fail to point out the rich fae lore also associated with bodies of water.
Personally I’m not sure if I agree with Rincón’s esoteric view of the werewolf as a ‘Nature elemental.’ But neither I believe that Bonifaz’s psychiatric explanation manages to explain the totality of what’s going on in Coita. Certainly there must be hoaxers involved by now, due to the notoriety the story has received; but I’m the type of Fortean who is interested in the way psychic tension gets liberated during times of extreme social anxiety. Could an innocent urban myth of a werewolf manifest true paranormal activity under the right circumstances?
Real or fake, there’s no doubt this little Doomsday scenario of ours has turned a whole lot more interesting, and I for one welcome our new therianthropic overlords.


News Briefs 13-04-2020

• A chunk of Yellowstone the size of Chicago has been pulsing .
Because , 2020 , amirite ?
• Crops were cultivated in regions of the Amazon ‘ 10,000 years ago ‘ .
• As recently as 12,000 years ago , ancient humans shared the Earth with a monster unlike anything we know today : the sabre-tooth tiger .
It was even bigger and more terrifying than we first thought .
• Is the AWARE II study into near-death experiences powered to validate an out-of-body experience ?
• Donald Trump signs order encouraging U.S. to mine the Moon for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a parallel universe going backwards in time .
• What UFOs can tell us about life on Earth .
Thanks to @ MichaelMHughes and @ DelicateBliss .
Quote of the Day : To laugh often and much ; to win the respect of the intelligent people and the affection of children ; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends ; to appreciate beauty ; to find the beauty in others ; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child , a garden @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; to know that one life has breathed easier because you lived here .
This is to have succeeded .

Never go full Bosch…
Thanks to @MichaelMHughes and @DelicateBliss.
Quote of the Day:
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of the intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the beauty in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you lived here. This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


News Briefs 10-04-2020

“ We don ’ t have to save the world .
The world is big enough to look after itself….
@ @ @ @ @ ready for its close-up , Mr. DeMille .
• This is your brain on Neanderthal @ @ @ @ @ : “ What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world @ @ @ @ @ capable of sustaining us in it .
”

“We don’t have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after itself….”
Quote of the Day:
“What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it.”
Douglas Adams


News Briefs 09-04-2020

There ’ s NO going back to normal .
I hope you ’ re aware of that by now .
• Low antibody levels in tested patients in China raise questions of COVID-19 reinfection risk .
• Video : Why thinking 5G towers are emitting “ death rays ” is a pretty dumb conspiracy .
• Why Coronavirus conspiracy theories flourish .
And why it matters .
• Tiny nuclear reactors could help us get to Mars .
• Steve Carell is the Space Force commander we deserve .
• Where Did the Road Go : Listen to Seriah and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ On the Trail of UFOs with its creator , Seth Breedlove .
• Review : Steven Greer ’ s Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind .
• Radio Misterioso interviews Michael Masters to talk about neoteny , time travel and UFOs .
• Beyond Moore ’ s law : After 50 years of effort , researchers made silicon emit light .
• Google ’ s autocomplete for speech can cover for glitches in video calls .
Autocomplete is the 5th horsemen of the Apocalypse .
• 500-year-old manuscript contains one of the earliest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ k. ” • Railway workers discover 14th century cave with medieval shrine or hermitage .
I want to think inside the cave they found an old man wearing Templar robes… • The perks of being a weirdo .
• Wan na know the true age of shark whales ?
Drop a nuke .
• Red Pill of the Day : Miss England hangs up her beauty pageant crown to return to work as a doctor amid the COVID-19 crisis .
Now THAT is beautiful .
Thanks to The Anomalist .
Quote of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when you ’ re alone , you are in bad company .

There’s NO going back to normal. I hope you’re aware of that by now.
Thanks to The Anomalist.
Quote of the Day:
If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.
Jean-Paul Sartre


News Briefs 08-04-2020

• Monuments depicting Olmec ‘ Descent of the grandfather ’ myth and the rise of Mayan writing found in Guatemala .
• Was Alexander the Great entombed in Venice in disguise as St Mark ?
• A comet may have destroyed this Palaeolithic village 12,800 years ago .
• It came from outside our solar system , and now it ’ s breaking up .
• NASA funds giant radio telescope concept on far side of the moon .
• Strange noises in the sky heard in Argentina , Slovakia , the US , and Brazil .
• Does time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a century-old approach to math .
• The secret life of plants : how they memorise , communicate , problem solve and socialise .
• The far-right helped create the world ’ s most powerful facial recognition technology .
• Hydroxychloroquine : how an unproven drug became Trump ’ s coronavirus ‘ miracle cure ’ .
• 5G conspiracy theorists are using fears about the coronavirus to make money .
Quote of the Day : I guess I just process death differently than some folks .
Realizing you ’ re not going to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most difficult part about it .
But that feeling settles , and then you are glad you had that person in your life .

Everything is cool.
Quote of the Day:
I guess I just process death differently than some folks. Realizing you’re not going to see that person again is always the most difficult part about it. But that feeling settles, and then you are glad you had that person in your life.
John Prine


News Briefs 07-04-2020

• The world ’ s first cyborgs : Humanity ’ s next evolutionary phase is here .
• How a new AI translated brain activity to speech with 97 percent accuracy .
• We have the power to destroy ourselves without the wisdom to ensure that we don ’ t .
• We are wayfinders : Navigation and spatial awareness sustained humans for tens of thousands of years .
Have we lost the trail in modern times ?
• Fossil angels : reinventing the arte of magick as the magic of art .
• Faeries at the bottom of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nature .
• Complex societies gave birth to big gods , not the other way around .
• Ira ‘ the Unicorn ’ Einhorn , ’ 70s paranormal researcher and convicted murderer , has died in prison at age 79 .
• The Woods Hole lab where mysteries of the deep are solved .
• Image of the Day : Jupiter haze , all in my brain .
Quote of the Day : One day , you will perish .
You will lie with the rest of your kind in the dirt…your dreams @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Your bones will turn to sand .
And upon that sand , a new god will walk .
One that will never die .
Because this world doesn ’ t belong to you , or the people who came before .
It belongs to someone who is yet to come .

I’d buy that for a dollar!
Quote of the Day:
One day, you will perish. You will lie with the rest of your kind in the dirt…your dreams forgotten, the horrors you faced. Your bones will turn to sand. And upon that sand, a new god will walk. One that will never die. Because this world doesn’t belong to you, or the people who came before. It belongs to someone who is yet to come.
Dolores, in ‘Westworld’


News Briefs 06-04-2020

• British 5G towers are being set on fire because of coronavirus conspiracy theories .
• Indian woman arrested for @ @ @ @ @ cure COVID-19 .
• Coronavirus : This is not the apocalypse you were looking for @ @ @ @ @ : Computer scientists and biologists have teamed up to make a new class of living @ @ @ @ @ between digital and biological .
• Here ’ s how you can study one of @ @ @ @ @ footprint castings online .
• Science , ‘ atheism ’ and ridicule : Professor Michael @ @ @ @ @ of the decline of magic in early modern British science .
• On the latest @ @ @ @ @ .
Jung with Gary Lachman .
Quote of the Day : Falsehood flies , and @ @ @ @ @ , so that when men come to be undeceived , it is too late .


dailygrail--2020-04-04--The Pilgrim Book One: Graphic Novel By Mark Ryan and Mike Grell (Kickstarter)

This is definitely up the alley of Daily Grail readers : actor/author Mark Ryan ( Transformers , Black Sails ) and comic book artist Mike Grell ( Green Arrow , Green Lantern ) have teamed up to resurrect their never-completed project The Pilgrim : a graphic novel in which real historical events , top secret government psy-ops and the world of the Occult are alchemically combined to create a story so fantastic , it might actually come closer to reality than what we get to read in history books .
THE RETURN OF THE PILGRIM It can materialize anywhere and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leaving no trace .
It knows no boundaries or limits .
It feels neither guilt nor pain .
It has no memory , no mercy and no fingerprints .
It ’ s the perfect clandestine operator , deniable , discreet and without a mind of its own .
Until one day it remembers… A decade ago I wrote a semi-fictional story about secretly buried WW2 occult warfare efforts , renegade Iranian oligarchs hell-bent on revenge , highly classified reality-warping science , the return of hate-filled Nazi entities , cunning sociopathic Syrian warlords , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , deadly weaponized viruses sowing the seeds of fear and panic , a sinister psychological intelligence apparatus manipulatively reaching into an individual ’ s psyche , bloody and war-torn Afghan landscapes , emotionally tormented military personnel suffering from PTSD running from their own nightmares and an ancient and vengeful threat to all we held as secure , stable and inviolable .
Who knew one day it would come to pass…

This is definitely up the alley of Daily Grail readers: actor/author Mark Ryan (Transformers, Black Sails) and comic book artist Mike Grell (Green Arrow, Green Lantern) have teamed up to resurrect their never-completed project The Pilgrim: a graphic novel in which real historical events, top secret government psy-ops and the world of the Occult are alchemically combined to create a story so fantastic, it might actually come closer to reality than what we get to read in history books.
From Mark Ryan:
THE RETURN OF THE PILGRIM
Imagine an entity created of pure mental energy.
It can materialize anywhere and perform functions of espionage or assassination, leaving no trace.
It knows no boundaries or limits.
It feels neither guilt nor pain. It has no memory, no mercy and no fingerprints.
It’s the perfect clandestine operator, deniable, discreet and without a mind of its own.
Until one day it remembers…
A decade ago I wrote a semi-fictional story about secretly buried WW2 occult warfare efforts, renegade Iranian oligarchs hell-bent on revenge, highly classified reality-warping science, the return of hate-filled Nazi entities, cunning sociopathic Syrian warlords, clandestine remote political triggering and influencing techniques, deadly weaponized viruses sowing the seeds of fear and panic, a sinister psychological intelligence apparatus manipulatively reaching into an individual’s psyche, bloody and war-torn Afghan landscapes, emotionally tormented military personnel suffering from PTSD running from their own nightmares and an ancient and vengeful threat to all we held as secure, stable and inviolable.
Who knew one day it would come to pass…


News Briefs 16-04-2020

Now is our chance to build a better world , while the structures of the old one are crumbling before our eyes .
• If a COVID-19 vaccine is not found quickly , we may have to endure this social distancing thing for a very , VERY long time .
• Charles Yu : The Pre-pandemic reality was the real fiction .
• The CEO of Bill and Melinda Gates ’ foundation worries about coronavirus conspiracy theories – but says “ we have nothing to hide.
” ( “ Of course they would say that !
” will cry the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Attorney General Bill Barr refuses to release 9/11 documents to families of the victims .
• Is there no limit to optimism when it comes to Climate Change ?
• Physicist Stephen Wolfram thinks he ’ s on a theory of everything , and wants help simulating the universe .
• What drones can learn from pterosaurs .
• Some shirts hide you from cameras , but will anyone wear them ?
• The oldest piece of string ever found was made by Neanderthals 50,000 years ago .
Looks like the old yarn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ breaking .
• Archeological find reveals the city of London is 3000 years older than previously found .
• When comets break up , the fragments can be devastating if they hit the Earth , effecting the ebb and flow of life itself .
• Radio Misterioso interviews Shannon Taggart to discuss her new book Séance .
• Artificial Intelligence is evolving all by itself *cue the Galactica BSG intro* .
• Red Pill of the Day : Utah mother raises $ 56k for non-profit by selling face masks which are um , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Yesterday I was clever , so I wanted to change the world .
Today I am wise , so I am changing myself .

Now is our chance to build a better world, while the structures of the old one are crumbling before our eyes.
Thanks to Greg.
Quote of the Day:
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rumi


News Briefs 14-03-2020

I washed my hands thoroughly before preparing today ’ s news briefs – so feel free to click on any interesting links !
• Finally , some good news : research suggests that , like influenza , warm weather should slow coronavirus spread .
Well , good news for the northern hemisphere at least… • New York attorney general orders Alex Jones to stop selling phony coronavirus treatments .
Because actual human decency isn ’ t enough for Jones .
• This is the real estate magnate who bought Skinwalker Ranch , alleged paranormal hotspot .
• Secrecy deepens about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
• Elon Musk ’ s Starlink internet satellite constellations are having a pernicious effect on astronomy .
• Scientists just proved these two brain networks are key to consciousness .
• Living off of light : the bizarre story of Breatharianism .
• The problem with the way scientists study reason .
• Excavation of 3400-year-old ball court in Mexico rewrites the origin of an ancient , brutal game .
• Huge $ 161 million investment means meat without the animal is here .
• Image ( s ) of the Day @ @ @ @ @ @ @ life in outer space .
Quote of the Day : I must not fear .
Fear is the mind-killer .
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration .
I will face my fear .
I will permit it to pass over me and through me .
And when it has gone past there will be nothing .
Only I will remain .
The Litany of Fear , from Frank Herbert ’ s ‘ Dune ’

I washed my hands thoroughly before preparing today’s news briefs – so feel free to click on any interesting links!
Quote of the Day:
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
The Litany of Fear, from Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’


News Briefs 12-03-2020

Look on the bright side… • Why large gatherings are being cancelled everywhere right now : we need to flatten the curve .
• Secret U.S. intelligence report : America is unprepared for a global pandemic .
• In better news : UK man becomes second person cured of HIV .
• Want to do good science ?
Admit you ’ re not objective .
• From UFO to spy plane : an answer to some UFO encounters ?
• Elon Musk wants to build a new starship every 72 hours so that he can colonise Mars .
• A @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by legendary rocket scientist Wernher von Braun names the leader of Martian civilisation as… ” Elon ” .
• Astronauts are growing new organs on the International Space Station .
( Not as ‘ Fantastic Four ’ as the headline makes it sound… ) • Astronomers have observed a distant planet where it rains iron .
• Something strange is going on with the North Star .
• The behaviour of a single-celled organism may have unravelled the biggest mystery of the universe .
Quote of the Day : The Hitchhiker ’ s @ @ @ @


News Briefs 11-03-2020

Try not to crap yourself… • An ancient black hole as heavy as a billion suns is pointed right at @ @ @ @ @ kids , duck and cover .
• The search for aliens is about to get @ @ @ @ @ All alone in interstellar space , Voyager 2 is about to lose contact with home @ @ @ @ @ a Denisovan revealed and explained .
• Two men charged with vandalizing national monument that @ @ @ @ @ concentrations of prehistoric rock art in eastern Nevada .
• Scientists linked artificial and biological @ @ @ @ @ and amazingly , it worked .
• What is the fifth force of nature ?
@ @ @ @ @ of the Day : I ’ m tired of this back-slappin ’ “ isn ’ @ @ @ @ @ .
We ’ re a virus with shoes .


dailygrail--2020-03-10--Entangled Life: A mind-bending journey into the hidden world of fungi

That Sheldrake clan are a talented bunch .
We ’ ve covered news from ‘ maverick biologist ’ Rupert Sheldrake here on the Grail for the last couple of decades .
Then in 2013 we introduced you to the music of one of Rupert ’ s sons , Cosmo Sheldrake .
( since then Cosmo ’ s praises have been sung by the likes of Sean Ono Lennon , and his music featured in an Apple ad ) .
And now , we ’ re going to point out that another of Rupert ’ s sons , Merlin Sheldrake , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a book coming out soon that is already earning rave reviews : Entangled Life : How Fungi Make Our Worlds , Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures ( available from Amazon US and Amazon UK ) .
No less a mycological expert than Paul Stamets describes Entangled Life as “ a magical journey deep into the roots of Nature — the mycelial universe that exists under every footstep we take in life…a must read for citizen scientists hoping to make a positive difference on this sacred planet we share.
” Here ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ When we think of fungi , we probably think of mushrooms .
But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies , analogous to apples on a tree .
Most fungi live out of sight , yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that support and sustain nearly all living systems .
The more we learn about fungi , the less makes sense without them .
Sheldrake ’ s vivid exploration ranges from yeast to psychedelics , to the fungi that sprawl for miles underground and are the largest organisms on the planet , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ complex networks known as the ‘ Wood Wide Web ’ , to those that infiltrate and manipulate insect bodies with devastating precision .
Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question .
They can change our minds , heal our bodies , and even help us remediate environmental disaster .
By examining fungi on their own terms , Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms – and our relationships with them – are changing our understanding of how life works .
Sounds like a fascinating book , and I ’ m @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about it as its publication date approaches .
If you want to skip all the reviews and think pieces that will likely come out , and go straight to the source , pre-order a copy now from Amazon US and Amazon UK .

That Sheldrake clan are a talented bunch. We’ve covered news from ‘maverick biologist’ Rupert Sheldrake here on the Grail for the last couple of decades. Then in 2013 we introduced you to the music of one of Rupert’s sons, Cosmo Sheldrake. (since then Cosmo’s praises have been sung by the likes of Sean Ono Lennon, and his music featured in an Apple ad).
And now, we’re going to point out that another of Rupert’s sons, Merlin Sheldrake, is a Cambridge University-educated biologist who has a book coming out soon that is already earning rave reviews: Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (available from Amazon US and Amazon UK) .
No less a mycological expert than Paul Stamets describes Entangled Life as “a magical journey deep into the roots of Nature — the mycelial universe that exists under every footstep we take in life…a must read for citizen scientists hoping to make a positive difference on this sacred planet we share.”
Here’s the blurb for the book:
When we think of fungi, we probably think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that support and sustain nearly all living systems. The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them. Sheldrake’s vivid exploration ranges from yeast to psychedelics, to the fungi that sprawl for miles underground and are the largest organisms on the planet, to those that link plants together in complex networks known as the ‘Wood Wide Web’, to those that infiltrate and manipulate insect bodies with devastating precision. Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. By examining fungi on their own terms, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms – and our relationships with them – are changing our understanding of how life works.
Sounds like a fascinating book, and I’m sure we’ll be hearing more about it as its publication date approaches. If you want to skip all the reviews and think pieces that will likely come out, and go straight to the source, pre-order a copy now from Amazon US and Amazon UK.


News Briefs 10-03-2020

• Researchers find evidence of a cosmic impact that caused the destruction of one of the world ’ s earliest human settlements .
Yet more evidence for a global comet catastrophe 13,000 years ago , causing the Younger Dryas .
• Can we bring back mammoths from extinction ?
Probably not – here ’ s why .
• Relax : Betelgeuse isn ’ t exploding .
Its mysterious dimming has turned out to be a giant dust sneeze .
• The Neverending Story was a documentary ?
Physicists Are studying mysterious ‘ bubbles of nothing ’ that eat spacetime .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ legend like King Arthur .
• The U.S. Navy is developing robot submarines controlled by artificial intelligence that could be given the ‘ power to kill ’ without any human input .
• Hypocognition is a censorship tool that mutes what we can feel .
• How quickly is the universe expanding ?
• Custom-made bones are being 3D-printed in a lab and then implanted in people .
• Image ( s ) of the Day : Seven rare historical images of the Sphinx .
• Bonus Image of the Day : Samurai @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Day : The oligarchs are happy to talk about race .
They are happy to talk about sexual identity and gender .
They are happy to talk about patriotism .
They are happy to talk about religion .
They are happy to talk about immigration .
They are happy to talk about abortion .
They are happy to talk about gun control .
They are happy to talk about cultural degeneracy or cultural freedom .
They are not happy to talk about class .
Race , gender , religion , abortion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and patriotism are issues used to divide the public , to turn neighbor against neighbor , to fuel virulent hatreds and antagonisms .

Fear is the mind killer…
Quote of the Day:
The oligarchs are happy to talk about race. They are happy to talk about sexual identity and gender. They are happy to talk about patriotism. They are happy to talk about religion. They are happy to talk about immigration. They are happy to talk about abortion. They are happy to talk about gun control. They are happy to talk about cultural degeneracy or cultural freedom.
They are not happy to talk about class.
Race, gender, religion, abortion, immigration, gun control, culture and patriotism are issues used to divide the public, to turn neighbor against neighbor, to fuel virulent hatreds and antagonisms.
Chris Hedges


News Briefs 09-03-2020

Thanks to Joan , David D. , and David M. , for your support of the Grail !
• Gaia @ @ @ @ @ cyborgs .
• This is the letter the Navy sent a Congressman who was demanding @ @ @ @ @ Why Phillip Pullman is obsessed with panpsychism .
• Superman et al were invented amid @ @ @ @ @ does the superhero craze say about our own times ?
• What is the historical @ @ @ @ @ good for ?
• The lure of ‘ cool ’ brain research is stifling psychotherapy @ @ @ @ @ boss is tracking your happiness .
• The evolution of the afterlife .
• Glowing @ @ @ @ @ hidden by US officials , author claims • Cryptozoology in Australia : The case of @ @ @ @ @ of the Day : Make no little plans ; they have no magic to stir @ @ @ @ @

Thanks to Joan, David D., and David M., for your support of the Grail!
Quote of the Day:
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood.
Daniel Burnham


News Briefs 06-03-2020

“ I view things as they are , without regard to place or person… ” • That time the Mediterranean @ @ @ @ @ We can rebuild them .
Better , stronger , faster than before… Quote of the @ @ @ @ @ is the world , and my religion is to 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


dailygrail--2020-03-05--Scott Derrickson to Direct Bermuda Triangle Movie, with Chris Evans in the Leading Role

Yesterday Variety announced that Scott Derrickson has signed on with Skydance Media to take over their long-stalled project Bermuda , an action-adventure film based on the infamous Bermuda triangle , a region in the Caribbean sea where countless aircraft and sea vessels have allegedly disappeared without a trace .
The American company has been working on this project since 2013 , and subsequently the script has gone through many hands and adaptations , but now Derrickson will be in charge of both rewriting the script with his writing partner C. Robert Cargill , directing the movie and also exec producing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have the leading role .
Given Derrickson ’ s trajectory — he was the director of Doctor Strange , The Exorcism of Emily Rose and the 2008 remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still— I feel this movie ( if it does manage to get the green light ) has a lot of potential to revive interest in the old Bermuda triangle mystery , and give it an entertaining treatment which may or may not involve time warps and interdimensional wormholes .
I remember how pleased I was when I watched Doctor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was obvious Derrickson was getting a lot of cues from the works of Terence McKenna and other psychonaut authors ( the scene when the late Stan Lee is shown holding a copy of Aldous Huxley ’ s The Doors of Perception was particularly hilarious ) so I wouldn ’ t be the least surprised if the story gets to incorporate a lot of really ‘ out there ’ elements –maybe even a slight mention of the recent UFO sightings by Navy pilots , perhaps ?
And it also seems the movie will not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ synchromysticism ’ as well .
Consider the fact that Chris Evans became a superstar thanks to his role as Captain America — “ the first Avenger ” — and the legend of the Bermuda triangle got started due to Flight 19 , a squadron of five Avenger torpedo bombers who got lost during an exercise on December 5 , 1945 .

Yesterday Variety announced that Scott Derrickson has signed on with Skydance Media to take over their long-stalled project Bermuda, an action-adventure film based on the infamous Bermuda triangle, a region in the Caribbean sea where countless aircraft and sea vessels have allegedly disappeared without a trace. The American company has been working on this project since 2013, and subsequently the script has gone through many hands and adaptations, but now Derrickson will be in charge of both rewriting the script with his writing partner C. Robert Cargill, directing the movie and also exec producing it. Chris Evans is said to have the leading role.
Given Derrickson’s trajectory — he was the director of Doctor Strange, The Exorcism of Emily Rose and the 2008 remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still— I feel this movie (if it does manage to get the green light) has a lot of potential to revive interest in the old Bermuda triangle mystery, and give it an entertaining treatment which may or may not involve time warps and interdimensional wormholes. I remember how pleased I was when I watched Doctor Strange at the movie theater because it was obvious Derrickson was getting a lot of cues from the works of Terence McKenna and other psychonaut authors (the scene when the late Stan Lee is shown holding a copy of Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception was particularly hilarious) so I wouldn’t be the least surprised if the story gets to incorporate a lot of really ‘out there’ elements –maybe even a slight mention of the recent UFO sightings by Navy pilots, perhaps?
And it also seems the movie will not be without a few bits of ‘synchromysticism’ as well. Consider the fact that Chris Evans became a superstar thanks to his role as Captain America —“the first Avenger”— and the legend of the Bermuda triangle got started due to Flight 19, a squadron of five Avenger torpedo bombers who got lost during an exercise on December 5, 1945.


News Briefs 05-03-2020

If Fear is the mind-killer , then Ego is the soul-killer .
• A new way to test for life on Mars –I don ’ t suppose it would involve asking the planet to pee on it… • Why would the government lie about aliens ?
Article written by Sarah Scoles , who wrote about the Electric Universe theory ( and me ) in 2016 .
• And here ’ s another article from her : How UFO sightings became an American obsession –notice a trend here ?
• Mystery objects simultaneously emerge from hangars again at secretive Tonopah airport @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to offer three public talks , including one by American Cosmic author Diana Pasulka about UFOs .
• A Nazi-satanist cult is fuelling far-right groups – overlooked by the UK authorities .
• 3-d printed muscles could be coming to a hospital near you –if you have the right premium , that is… • Jurassic Park here we come : Ancient dinosaur remains contain something that looks and acts like DNA .
• In brain waves , scientists see neutrons juggle possible futures .
• Is Time broken ?
Physicists filmed a quantum @ @ @ @ @ @ @ blurry .
• The ouroboros , from antiquity to A.I .
• Red Pill of the Day : Man controls robot using his butthole –The Arsepocalypse is upon us !
Quote of the Day : I must not fear .
Fear is the mind-killer .
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration .
I will face my fear .
I will permit it to pass over me and through me .
And when it has gone past , I will turn the inner eye to see its path .
Where the fear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Only I will remain .

If Fear is the mind-killer, then Ego is the soul-killer.
Thanks to Greg
Quote of the Day:
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Frank Herbert, Dune


News Briefs 04-03-2020

• Researcher develops a machine that will allow psychonauts to explore the DMT realm for long periods of time .
@ @ @ @ @ talk to people about taking psychedelics .
• Why your brain is not a computer @ @ @ @ @ neuroscience could have been leading us astray for decades .
• How UFO sightings became @ @ @ @ @ The truth about Area 51 UFO sightings , according to a local expert .
• @ @ @ @ @ laser pulses from life around other planets .
• Will AI save us from Coronavirus @ @ @ @ @ can ’ t do .
• Waterworld : 1.5 billion-year-old Earth had water everywhere , @ @ @ @ @ Quote of the Day : A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial @ @ @ @ @ its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force @ @ @


News Briefs 16-03-2020

The world is shutting down , but we ’ ll keep pumping out the news briefs while we can to @ @ @ @ @ entertained .
Stay safe out there Grailers !
• Europe and Russia have postponed their @ @ @ @ @ .
• We need to start thinking about the ethical implications of mind reading and @ @ @ @ @ they are coming .
• That time the CIA attempted to see Mars through the @ @ @ @ @ viewing .
• China is spinning an unfounded story that the US Army started the @ @ @ @ @ man who saw the pandemic coming .
• Tripping on nothing : the amazing psychedelic @ @ @ @ @ : Dead Sea Scrolls at the Museum of the Bible are all forgeries .
• @ @ @ @ @ millions of trees really save the planet ?
• New analysis of Large Hadron Collider @ @ @ @ @ happening .
A little more than ‘ something ’ recently !
Quote of the Day @ @ @ @ @ find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others .

The world is shutting down, but we’ll keep pumping out the news briefs while we can to keep all you isolated people entertained. Stay safe out there Grailers!
Quote of the Day:
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi


News Briefs 17-03-2020

Are we the entertainment ?
• Hunter-gatherers in what ’ s now Russia constructed one of the largest Ice Age @ @ @ @ @ 25,000 years ago .
• New species of extinct ’ South American yeti ’ discovered @ @ @ @ @ discover pulsating remains of a star in an eclipsing double star system .
• 139 @ @ @ @ @ discovered in our solar system .
• What is the geometry of our universe ?
@ @ @ @ @ a go despite coronavirus ( for now ) .
• Spanish police are using drones @ @ @ @ @ quarantine .
• The UK only realised “ in the last few days ” that @ @ @ @ @ likely result in hundreds of thousands of deaths “ .
Oopsies .
• To turbocharge @ @ @ @ @ protein found in fruit flies ?
Quote of the Day : When I was a @ @ @ @ @ scary things in the news , my mother would say to me , “ Look @ @ @ @ @ will always find people who are helping .
”

Are we the entertainment?
Quote of the Day:
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
Mister Rogers


News Briefs 18-03-2020

Who could have seen this coming ?
• Is our destruction of nature responsible for Covid-19 ?
• DeepMind ’ @ @ @ @ @ after Coronavirus .
• Space Force just received its first new offensive weapon .
• @ @ @ @ @ .
• The supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy is becoming more @ @ @ @ @ universe exist if we ’ re not observing it ?
• The Bauche Map : @ @ @ @ @ Antarctica without ice .
Quote of the Day : I find hope in the darkest @ @ @ @ @ in the brightest .
I do not judge the universe .

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News Briefs 19-03-2020

…And the meek shall inherit the Earth .
And by ‘ meek ’ I mean INTROVERTS .
• How about spending your lockdown mode by downloading 1,700 free 3D cultural heritage models ?
• Copper naturally destroys viruses and bacteria , so why isn ’ t it everywhere ?
• Reasons for optimism ?
How humanity is turning the tide on COVID-19 .
• Volunteers produce life-saving 3d valves for US $ 1 —and now they ’ re getting sued .
• What is the geometry of the Universe ?
• NASA needs your help to build a Moon-digging robot @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a century hunting for answers about the Biblical Armageddon .
Finding them is complicated .
• One of Darwin ’ s theories was finally proved by Cambridge researcher .
• Fossil ‘ wonderchicken ’ could be the earliest known fowl .
• Packing the Tundra with animals could slow Arctic melt .
• Red Pill of the Day : The quarantine in Italy has cleared Venice ’ s channels and brought back the dolphins .
Maybe WE are the real virus… Thanks to Greg .
And also many thanks to Kat , wherever @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : Nature does not hurry , yet everything is accomplished .

…And the meek shall inherit the Earth. And by ‘meek’ I mean INTROVERTS.
Thanks to Greg. And also many thanks to Kat, wherever you are.
Quote of the Day:
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu


dailygrail--2020-03-20--Witness of Another World’s Deleted Scenes

Last year film director Alan Stivelman released the English version of his documentary Witness of Another World ( Testigo de Otro Mundo ) , which follows the journey of Juan Pérez , a man who experienced a close encounter of the third kind at the tender age of twelve , leaving a disturbing psychological –and psychic— aftermath which caused him to choose a life of reclusion in the Argentinian pampa .
The film ( freely available on Amazon Prime ) was generally received with great amounts of praise and accolades due to his human-centered approach –you can read our own @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because , unlike your typical UFO documentary , it eschews the predominant ETH interpretation of the UFO mystery , in favor of a “ shamanistic ” view of a phenomenon which has in all likelihood been among us since the dawn of time .
And those cultures which in our Western arrogance we keep judging as “ inferior ” to our own , seem at the end of the day to have a healthier and more pragmatic way of interacting with this phenomenon than us , “ modern men ; ” especially since @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reality of UFOs despite the onslaught of revelations which began in December of 2017 , when the public learn US Navy pilots have been encountering unknown aerial objects on a regular basis .
This month Alan decided to share two outtakes from Witness of Another World on his Humano Films Youtube channel .
The first one is a clip with Plutarco , the Guaraní elder who helped Juan integrate his amazing experiences by understanding them through the lens of their tribal legacy .
Here Plutarco expands on some of the themes explored in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the modern world have become distracted and out of touch with Nature , and that attitude can have dire consequences which we should do well in correcting —current events give this warning a rather urgent tone… The second one is a lively discussion between Juan and Carlos –another witness to the close encounter cases which transpired in Argentina in 1978 , who was also featured in Alan ’ s movie .
This clip is the first time these two men have ever met face to face : I had the great privilege of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of this clip –my friend and mentor Greg Bishop also provided invaluable assistance in helping me improve the text .
What I love about this video in particular , is that it is a raw and unscripted encounter between two “ witnesses of the impossible , ” who are enthusiastically sharing their impressions of what they experienced as best they can –and how those events which took place more than 4 decades ago ended up affecting the rest of their lives– resulting in a spontaneous and messy dialogue which is at times difficult @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if what they ’ re describing is either the UFO they observed , or the occupants which were also involved in their particular encounters , and they also jump from one thing to the other without finishing their sentences .
As Jacques Vallee said when he presented WoAW last year at the Contact in the Desert conference , this is the phenomenon ; which also includes how human beings try to cope with experiences which challenge the most basic principles of our nature –including language .
Similarities between these two men ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ including their belief that because of their UFO close encounters they have the ability to heal very quickly from common injuries –more evidence that it would be a mistake to only center in the ‘ negative ’ UFO reports if we wish to understand the phenomenon in its totality , as proposed by Dr. Christopher Green in the paper he prepared for the AAWSAP contract granted to Robert Bigelow .
I for one am very grateful to Alan for deciding to share this valuable material publicly , and I ’ m also looking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you listened to the interview Greg and I did with him last October , then you already know it will involve subterranean realms and ( hopefully ) a collaboration with Graham Hancock !
Excited yet ?

Last year film director Alan Stivelman released the English version of his documentary Witness of Another World (Testigo de Otro Mundo), which follows the journey of Juan Pérez, a man who experienced a close encounter of the third kind at the tender age of twelve, leaving a disturbing psychological –and psychic— aftermath which caused him to choose a life of reclusion in the Argentinian pampa.
The film (freely available on Amazon Prime) was generally received with great amounts of praise and accolades due to his human-centered approach –you can read our own review of the film here— and also because, unlike your typical UFO documentary, it eschews the predominant ETH interpretation of the UFO mystery, in favor of a “shamanistic” view of a phenomenon which has in all likelihood been among us since the dawn of time. And those cultures which in our Western arrogance we keep judging as “inferior” to our own, seem at the end of the day to have a healthier and more pragmatic way of interacting with this phenomenon than us, “modern men;” especially since our society still refuses to acknowledge the reality of UFOs despite the onslaught of revelations which began in December of 2017, when the public learn US Navy pilots have been encountering unknown aerial objects on a regular basis.
This month Alan decided to share two outtakes from Witness of Another World on his Humano Films Youtube channel. The first one is a clip with Plutarco, the Guaraní elder who helped Juan integrate his amazing experiences by understanding them through the lens of their tribal legacy. Here Plutarco expands on some of the themes explored in WoAW: Mainly, that we in the modern world have become distracted and out of touch with Nature, and that attitude can have dire consequences which we should do well in correcting —current events give this warning a rather urgent tone…
The second one is a lively discussion between Juan and Carlos –another witness to the close encounter cases which transpired in Argentina in 1978, who was also featured in Alan’s movie. This clip is the first time these two men have ever met face to face:
I had the great privilege of helping Alan with the translation and subtitling of this clip –my friend and mentor Greg Bishop also provided invaluable assistance in helping me improve the text. What I love about this video in particular, is that it is a raw and unscripted encounter between two “witnesses of the impossible,” who are enthusiastically sharing their impressions of what they experienced as best they can –and how those events which took place more than 4 decades ago ended up affecting the rest of their lives– resulting in a spontaneous and messy dialogue which is at times difficult to follow. The viewer is uncertain if what they’re describing is either the UFO they observed, or the occupants which were also involved in their particular encounters, and they also jump from one thing to the other without finishing their sentences. As Jacques Vallee said when he presented WoAW last year at the Contact in the Desert conference, this is the phenomenon; which also includes how human beings try to cope with experiences which challenge the most basic principles of our nature –including language.
Similarities between these two men’s life experiences are also worth noting, including their belief that because of their UFO close encounters they have the ability to heal very quickly from common injuries –more evidence that it would be a mistake to only center in the ‘negative’ UFO reports if we wish to understand the phenomenon in its totality, as proposed by Dr. Christopher Green in the paper he prepared for the AAWSAP contract granted to Robert Bigelow.
I for one am very grateful to Alan for deciding to share this valuable material publicly, and I’m also looking forward to his future projects –and if you listened to the interview Greg and I did with him last October, then you already know it will involve subterranean realms and (hopefully) a collaboration with Graham Hancock! Excited yet?


News Briefs 21-03-2020

• No , the coronavirus didn ’ t come from space .
• Stuck at home ?
Use these webcams to hunt for UFOs , Bigfoot , ghosts and monsters .
• Meditation may have shaved 8 years of aging off Buddhist monk ’ s brain .
• Related : Mind masters – Tibetan yogis have upgraded their brains through meditation .
• Some people can detect Earth ’ s magnetic field , which sounds like a pretty sweet party trick .
• Six crazy attempts to geoengineer the weather .
• The CIA has ‘ lost ’ another UFO @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the planet happens every single day , and we never see it .
• An Evangelical Christian missionary group from Florida is planning to use a newly purchased aircraft to contact and convert isolated Amazon Indigenous groups .
Coronavirus included in the package as a bonus ?
• Scientists are leading Notre Dame ’ s restoration – and probing mysteries laid bare by its devastating fire .
• Video of the Day : Israeli man walks his dog via drone .
Quote of the Day : Child , wake up Child , @ @ @ @ @ @


News Briefs 23-03-2020

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• Worship of this Egyptian goddess spread from Egypt to England .
• There ’ s a conspiracy theory that the CIA invented the term ‘ conspiracy theory ’ .
• The magical revival and right wing paganism .
• Darkness , not cold , likely responsible for dinosaur-killing extinction .
• It looks like that interstellar comet came all the way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ • Baby brains and consciousness : a code we can ’ t seem to crack .
• Psychobiotics : using bacteria to boost your brain .
• NASA : bad news , something came up , got ta rain-check that moon trip : ( ( • A new map of the Milky Way .
• There are striking similarities in the way bacteria and humans settle into colonies .
• Paying the price of science denialism… again .
• After the Coronavirus the world will never be the same .
But maybe , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Day : There is this school of journalism around conspiracy theories that is really snarky and is basically like , what I call the “ Look at This Crazy Asshole ” school of writing about conspiracy theories .
I always say that we can actually replace that with a more culturally confident reading of conspiracy theories where we actually understand what they do for some people .

A note to our supporters on Patreon: if in these strange and troubled times you need to stop supporting us, we fully understand and thank you sincerely for everything you’ve done for us!
Quote of the Day:
There is this school of journalism around conspiracy theories that is really snarky and is basically like, what I call the “Look at This Crazy Asshole” school of writing about conspiracy theories. I always say that we can actually replace that with a more culturally confident reading of conspiracy theories where we actually understand what they do for some people.
Anna Merlan


News Briefs 24-03-2020

• Zahi Hawass says solar alignment proves there is an astronomical and religious reason for sculpting the Sphinx .
• @ @ @ @ @ in Australian fossils .
• Coronavirus could be a ‘ chimera ’ of two different @ @ @ @ @ .
• Is daydreaming good for us ?
• Image of the Day : Asteroid @ @ @ @ @ Quote of the Day : Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile @


News Briefs 25-03-2020

A whole lot of space in today ’ s news briefs… • Life on the planet Mercury ?
It ’ @ @ @ @ @ • The search for E.T .
goes on hold , for now .
• Just @ @ @ @ @ break time-reversal symmetry , physicists find .
The word ‘ just ’ is doing a @ @ @ @ @ that headline… • The true impact of SpaceX ’ s Starlink Constellation on astronomy is @ @ @ @ @ Astronomers think they ’ ve found the edge of the Milky Way galaxy .
• @ @ @ @ @ Andes has found mice living atop a 22,000 foot volcano — making them the world @ @ @ @ @ • The brain reshapes our malleable senses to fit the world .
• How ghosts @ @ @ @ @ ’ 10th album .
Quote of the Day : Everyone can be great , because @ @ @ @


News Briefs 26-03-2020

This ?
This is just rehearsal , friends .
The rest of the century will be even more interesting –in the Chinese sense of the word… • 5 lessons from the Coronavirus that will help us tackle Climate change .
• Yuval Noah Harari : The world after the Coronavirus .
Civilization *is* going to change forever , but we ’ re at a crossroads between empowered citizenship or a digital police state .
• South Korea is the most successful nation fighting the Coronavirus .
But can their strategies be replicated elsewhere ?
• Native Americans put digital spin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
• A number of people have died from attempting to self-medicate with chloroquine , the “ miracle cure ” Trump recently promoted on Twitter .
• News from Earth are pretty bleak , so it ’ s time to lose yourself in the alien beauty of Mars ’ Valles Marineris .
• Here ’ s what the Pentagon is not answering about the Air Force and recent UFO encounters .
• The latest episode of The Unseen with Mike Clelland is with Ann Eller , who worked closely with the legendary Dr. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their Soviet past and restoring their original alphabet .
• Vale Albert Uderzo , co-creator of Asterix and Obelix , who made 2 generations of comic book readers learn about ancient Rome , Gaul , Druids and menhir delivery services .
• The controversy over Alexander the Great ’ s tomb .
• Unbelievable discovery of a 5000-year-old sword is made by an Archeology student at a Venetian monastery .
And yes , once again it was a girl .
• Will String theory finally be put to experimental testing ?
• Red @ @ @ @ @ @ @ priest decided to give solace to his parishioners by streaming Mass .
God ’ s little angels , however , had a different plan instead… Thanks to Asterix and Obelix for making me wish to become an artist .
Now let ’ s get those Romans , by Toutatis !
!
Quote of the Day : If you want others to be happy , practice compassion .
If you want to be happy , practice compassion .

This? This is just rehearsal, friends. The rest of the century will be even more interesting –in the Chinese sense of the word…
Thanks to Asterix and Obelix for making me wish to become an artist. Now let’s get those Romans, by Toutatis!!
Quote of the Day:
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama


dailygrail--2020-04-16--Pizzagate is Back Out of the Shadows

Pizzagate is Back Out of the Shadows

Just when you thought it was safe to go back on to YouTube…Pizzagate is back .
After popping up in the lead-up to the 2016 US elections , the conspiracy trainwreck which ties together Hillary Clinton , pizza parlours and paedophilia ( among other things ) seemed to have eventually receded back into the murky internet depths it first originated from – although those observing it closely would point out that , in reality , it simply morphed into the even more idiotic QAnon qonspiracy .
But as we enter another presidential election year , the vestigial conspiracy organ of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the beast to reassert itself , in the form of a 77-minute-long ‘ documentary ’ , Out of Shadows .
For those that still think Pizzagate and QAnon are fringe groups , it ’ s worth noting that as of this writing – less than a week after the documentary ’ s release on YouTube – it has over 7 million views , and more than 250,000 likes .
I ’ ve embedded it below for anyone that wants to check it out – or if you want to avoid giving them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ ll find a quick rundown from me .
0-3:30 mins : Cue suspenseful music , and voiceover : “ Why do you believe what you believe ?
” Cut straight out of the template for every red-pillin ’ woke-a-thon video on the YouTubes .
Then it lets the viewer in on the big secret : the media has a hidden agenda , and is controlling us .
It ’ s likely though that most viewers won ’ t feel the burn of the irony in what the voiceover is saying : Yes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to think about this content you are consuming in this here video .
3:30-12:00 mins : We are introduced to the documentary ’ s presenter , Hollywood stuntman Mike Smith .
I ’ m not sure what credentials eight-and-a-half minutes of stuntman life story buys when discussing a global conspiracy , but the film-makers seem to think it ’ s a lot .
At the end of this segment we find out how Mike got woke : after a stunt accident , his pelvic floor therapist ( ! )
introduced him to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ praying away Mike ’ s troubles with dark spirits…not a bad two-fer-one ) .
12:00-21:30 : Mike fills us in on his discovery that military and intelligence agencies have been using media companies to influence us for the better part of the last century .
He cites the work of ‘ CIA whistleblower ’ Kevin Shipp .
This section uses the now-infamous “ This is extremely dangerous to our democracy ” montage of Sinclair broadcast news outlets all repeating the same line to prove its point .
I ’ d imagine most viewers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ segment would be completely unaware that this was actually a pro-Trump campaign by Sinclair ( most Pizzagaters are Republican , or at least anti-Clinton and anti-Democrat ) .
21:30-24:30 : We ’ re introduced to another woke stuntman , Brad Martin .
Thankfully , just a few minutes for this stuntman ’ s bio…but again , not sure what credentials this actually offers on analyzing a conspiracy theory .
Worth noting though , that Brad romantically talks about how once all these secrets come out , it will be “ the greatest story @ @ @ @ @ @ @ well-known QAnon phrase .
24:30-32:30 : The documentary reveals to viewers the mind-blowing history of Operation Paperclip and Operation MK-ULTRA .
I ’ m sure readers of the Grail are well acquainted with both of these , but y ’ all aren ’ t the intended audience – this is for all the noobs out there , letting them in on actual historical ‘ secrets ’ to buy their trust and draw them into the net of the Pizzagate scam .
And while the film-makers play these historical themes fairly straight , there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ – for example , the footage labeled as “ MK-ULTRA Clinical LSD Experiments ” is actually the well-known mid-1950s LSD experiment conducted by Los Angeles psychiatrist Sidney Cohen .
Here we are treated also to Brad Martin ’ s deep insights from his time working on the film Zoolander , which he now realises was propaganda : 32:30-40:00 – More on the dangers of believing messages pushed on us by media sources , including another complete self-unaware quote from Mike : 38:00-44:00 : Satanism !
The occult !
A heavy reliance in this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Michael Aquino .
44:00-52:00 : Back to LSD and MK-ULTRA , with a segue into movie and pop stars all being in on the grand conspiracy .
And finally , after three quarters of an hour of set-up work reeling in the viewer , we reach Pizzagate time : the reveal of “ an elite paedophile ring ” .
52:00-55:00 : We ’ re introduced to the research of journalist Liz Crokin .
Viewers are assured of her credentials , through a history of working for well-known media outlets , and a stint @ @ @ @ @ @ @ House during her last college year .
Not so much on her recent history of claiming that celebrities are getting coronavirus from a tainted ‘ adrenochrome ’ supply ( in QAnon lore , adrenochrome is a “ drug extracted from the pituitary gland of tortured children ” ( Crokin ’ s own words ) . )
55:00-1:13:00 : Pizzagate primer for those fortunate enough to have never been exposed to it before .
Paedophilia .
Clinton .
Epstein .
( Again , curious that Epstein ’ s flights are mentioned , but Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ does… ) .
Although perhaps more accurately , for those not exposed to Pizzagate before , this part is actually the ‘ indoctrination ’ into Pizzagate belief – via selected out-of-context facts and quotes , insinuation , and assumption – after setting the viewer up with non-Pizzagate content for most of the documentary .
1:13:00-End : The wrap-up .
Mike asks “ Liz Crokin put herself so far out in front , that she was mocked , she was laughed at , she was called crazy .
Well let me ask you a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Well actually Mike , if you look at Liz ’ s stuff online , and not how she ’ s portrayed in this documentary , yes she seems bat-shit crazy .
I will say though , that the wrap-up speech from Brad Martin illustrates one of the more painful parts of Pizzagate and QAnon for me – that many followers of these conspiracies seem to be really good people , whose sensitivity to the troubles of the world has pushed them to accept a dumb-as-horseshit conspiracy theory that offers them hope that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is going to overcome all the evil out there – but in the process , they ’ re simply being weaponised .
Whether it ’ s by pranksters , or an influence operation , I ’ m still not sure .
But I hope they pay attention to some of their own quotes about being more critical about what we should believe , because I wouldn ’ t be surprised if Pizzagate is used as a propaganda tool again in the upcoming election .

Just when you thought it was safe to go back on to YouTube…Pizzagate is back. After popping up in the lead-up to the 2016 US elections, the conspiracy trainwreck which ties together Hillary Clinton, pizza parlours and paedophilia (among other things) seemed to have eventually receded back into the murky internet depths it first originated from – although those observing it closely would point out that, in reality, it simply morphed into the even more idiotic QAnon qonspiracy.
But as we enter another presidential election year, the vestigial conspiracy organ of QAnon has burst forth from the belly of the beast to reassert itself, in the form of a 77-minute-long ‘documentary’, Out of Shadows.
For those that still think Pizzagate and QAnon are fringe groups, it’s worth noting that as of this writing – less than a week after the documentary’s release on YouTube – it has over 7 million views, and more than 250,000 likes. I’ve embedded it below for anyone that wants to check it out – or if you want to avoid giving them more views, keep scrolling and you’ll find a quick rundown from me.
0-3:30 mins: Cue suspenseful music, and voiceover: “Why do you believe what you believe?” Cut straight out of the template for every red-pillin’ woke-a-thon video on the YouTubes.
Then it lets the viewer in on the big secret: the media has a hidden agenda, and is controlling us. It’s likely though that most viewers won’t feel the burn of the irony in what the voiceover is saying:
Have you ever stopped for just a second though, and questioned the content? The only thing we consume more than content is air, but we actually think about the quality of the air we breathe. Maybe it’s time to take a closer look at our content…this media that we’re consuming at such a rapid rate, we need to slow down and think about what we’re consuming.
Yes indeed, dear viewers, please stop to think about this content you are consuming in this here video.
3:30-12:00 mins: We are introduced to the documentary’s presenter, Hollywood stuntman Mike Smith. I’m not sure what credentials eight-and-a-half minutes of stuntman life story buys when discussing a global conspiracy, but the film-makers seem to think it’s a lot.
At the end of this segment we find out how Mike got woke: after a stunt accident, his pelvic floor therapist(!) introduced him to the great Hollywood paedophilia conspiracy (while also praying away Mike’s troubles with dark spirits…not a bad two-fer-one).
12:00-21:30: Mike fills us in on his discovery that military and intelligence agencies have been using media companies to influence us for the better part of the last century. He cites the work of ‘CIA whistleblower’ Kevin Shipp.
This section uses the now-infamous “This is extremely dangerous to our democracy” montage of Sinclair broadcast news outlets all repeating the same line to prove its point. I’d imagine most viewers of the documentary shocked by this little segment would be completely unaware that this was actually a pro-Trump campaign by Sinclair (most Pizzagaters are Republican, or at least anti-Clinton and anti-Democrat).
21:30-24:30: We’re introduced to another woke stuntman, Brad Martin. Thankfully, just a few minutes for this stuntman’s bio…but again, not sure what credentials this actually offers on analyzing a conspiracy theory. Worth noting though, that Brad romantically talks about how once all these secrets come out, it will be “the greatest story ever told” – this is a well-known QAnon phrase.
24:30-32:30: The documentary reveals to viewers the mind-blowing history of Operation Paperclip and Operation MK-ULTRA. I’m sure readers of the Grail are well acquainted with both of these, but y’all aren’t the intended audience – this is for all the noobs out there, letting them in on actual historical ‘secrets’ to buy their trust and draw them into the net of the Pizzagate scam.
And while the film-makers play these historical themes fairly straight, there’s still plenty of licence taken – for example, the footage labeled as “MK-ULTRA Clinical LSD Experiments” is actually the well-known mid-1950s LSD experiment conducted by Los Angeles psychiatrist Sidney Cohen.
Here we are treated also to Brad Martin’s deep insights from his time working on the film Zoolander, which he now realises was propaganda:
When they’re showing you that they’re controlling Derek Zoolander’s mind through mind control, you realise they’re trying to desensitize you, and to make you think that what you’re watching is fiction, because it’s in a comedy.
32:30-40:00 – More on the dangers of believing messages pushed on us by media sources, including another complete self-unaware quote from Mike:
We as a population like to hear people confirm our confirmation biases. We like to hear people tell us that we’re right. We don’t like to be wrong. And we believe that the people on the media, and the people that we’re listening to, have our best interests in mind. The problem is, what if they don’t? So if you stop and think about it, they can place any agenda on the population that they choose.
38:00-44:00: Satanism! The occult! A heavy reliance in this section on recounting the strange history of Michael Aquino.
44:00-52:00: Back to LSD and MK-ULTRA, with a segue into movie and pop stars all being in on the grand conspiracy. And finally, after three quarters of an hour of set-up work reeling in the viewer, we reach Pizzagate time: the reveal of “an elite paedophile ring”.
52:00-55:00: We’re introduced to the research of journalist Liz Crokin. Viewers are assured of her credentials, through a history of working for well-known media outlets, and a stint as an intern reporter at the White House during her last college year. Not so much on her recent history of claiming that celebrities are getting coronavirus from a tainted ‘adrenochrome’ supply (in QAnon lore, adrenochrome is a “drug extracted from the pituitary gland of tortured children” (Crokin’s own words).)
55:00-1:13:00: Pizzagate primer for those fortunate enough to have never been exposed to it before. Paedophilia. Clinton. Epstein. (Again, curious that Epstein’s flights are mentioned, but Trump doesn’t get mentioned while Clinton does…).
Although perhaps more accurately, for those not exposed to Pizzagate before, this part is actually the ‘indoctrination’ into Pizzagate belief – via selected out-of-context facts and quotes, insinuation, and assumption – after setting the viewer up with non-Pizzagate content for most of the documentary.
1:13:00-End: The wrap-up. Mike asks “Liz Crokin put herself so far out in front, that she was mocked, she was laughed at, she was called crazy. Well let me ask you a question…does she seem so crazy now?” Well actually Mike, if you look at Liz’s stuff online, and not how she’s portrayed in this documentary, yes she seems bat-shit crazy.
I will say though, that the wrap-up speech from Brad Martin illustrates one of the more painful parts of Pizzagate and QAnon for me – that many followers of these conspiracies seem to be really good people, whose sensitivity to the troubles of the world has pushed them to accept a dumb-as-horseshit conspiracy theory that offers them hope that there is a force for good that is going to overcome all the evil out there – but in the process, they’re simply being weaponised. Whether it’s by pranksters, or an influence operation, I’m still not sure.
But I hope they pay attention to some of their own quotes about being more critical about what we should believe, because I wouldn’t be surprised if Pizzagate is used as a propaganda tool again in the upcoming election.


News Briefs 17-04-2020

“ The way you can go isn ’ t the real way… ” • Does a water tank hold the @ @ @ @ @ • Who Bob Lazar was and wasn ’ t .
• Is Oumuamua the remnant @ @ @ @ @ • A century later , Einstein proven right again .
Quote of the Day : @ @ @ @ @ origin , but different in name , whose identity is mystery .
Mystery of all @ @ @ @ @ the hidden .
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“The way you can go isn’t the real way…”
Quote of the Day:
“Two things, one origin, but different in name, whose identity is mystery. Mystery of all mysteries! The door to the hidden.”
Laozi


News Briefs 20-04-2020

Mr Darwin , we have a nominee for this year ’ s award… • Unholy anorexia : Medieval mystics starved @ @ @ @ @ soul .
• Meet the Redditors using astral projection to escape quarantine .
• Those @ @ @ @ @ have been SpaceX satellites .
• Former French government official says UFOs come from parallel @ @ @ @ @ hitchhiker ’ phenomenon followed entrepreneur Robert Bigelow home , and played a role in his @ @ @ @ @ • Uh oh , Pizzagate is back out of the shadows .
• Uncovering Operation @ @ @ @ @ ’ s most daring disinformation campaign .
• ‘ Conspirituality ‘ – the overlap between @ @ @ @ @ beliefs .
• Coronavirus : is there any evidence for lab release theory ?
Quote @ @ @ @ @ say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit .
It ’ s @ @ @ @ @ sure .

Mr Darwin, we have a nominee for this year’s award…
Thanks Rick.
Quote of the Day:
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Ellen Ripley, in ‘Aliens’


News Briefs 21-04-2020

• Neolithic DNA reveals surprising truth of the Yamnaya culture in Europe .
• The case against thinking outside the box .
• NASA reveals ambitious multi-spacecraft plan to bring a piece of Mars back to Earth .
• Also : 21/Borisov is not your average comet .
• Scientists discover a ’ new Earth ’ after digging through data that AI missed .
• The Pentagon was interested in psychic child ’ s abilities says Delonge .
• Science today stands at a crossroads : will its progress be driven by human minds , or by machines that we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Alien ’ actor who says he has constantly been visited by aliens .
• An interactive look at the future of neuroplasticity – how reshaping neural circuits could treat brain disorders and improve our ability to learn .
• Can we craft a theory in which space and time aren ’ t assumed to exist ?
• Iran ’ s fake coronavirus detector is the same as the fake ‘ bomb detectors ’ previously used to scam Middle Eastern governments out of millions of dollars .
Quote of the Day : We become @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else , whether it is a business , an economic theory , a political party , the White House , Newsworld or CNN .

Taking isolation measures to the extreme…
Quote of the Day:
We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN.
B. W. Powe


News Briefs 22-04-2020

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• New research suggests there might not be a Planet Nine after all .
• Exoplanet that vanished may actually have been a giant dust cloud .
Or possibly Alderaan… • Astronomers may have captured the first-ever image of a planet around our solar system ’ s nearest neighbouring star .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Stephen Wolfram has a radical plan to build the universe from dots and lines .
• Initiation to secrecy : unravelling the truth behind mystery schools .
• Three skeletons believed to be victims of medieval ritual killing unearthed in South Moravian castle .
• Gothic psychology , the ecological unconscious , and the re-enchantment of nature .
• Wellness influencers are spreading QAnon conspiracies about the coronavirus , with some even literally stealing a plot point verbatim from the 2011 movie Contagion .
• This genius new type of solar energy cell @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This grad student used a neural network to write his papers .
• Dogs and horses mimic each other ’ s expressions when playing together , suggesting to researchers there is a ‘ universal language of play ’ .
• The origin of language in the brain is 20 million years older than we originally thought .
Quote of the Day : A person is smart .
People are dumb , panicky dangerous animals , and you know it .

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Quote of the Day:
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals, and you know it.
Agent K, in ‘Men in Black’


dailygrail--2020-04-23--Poltergeist Phenomena and the History of Science

Poltergeist .
The word embedded itself in Western culture in the early 1980s with the hit film of the same name , co-written and produced by Steven Spielberg during his golden era .
It became synonymous with the thought of a little blonde girl being trapped in a TV , and with building houses over Native American burial grounds .
But the concept of the poltergeist has a much longer history , and is spread across the world .
Originally a German word basically meaning ‘ noisy ghost ’ , poltergeists and the alleged physical phenomena that accompany them have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , some of the pioneers of the modern scientific establishment – for example , founding members of the Royal Society – were involved in investigating and theorising about the poltergeist .
Andreas Sommer , historian of science and magic at the University of Cambridge – who runs the excellent Forbidden Histories website that we ’ ve linked to many times here on the Grail – delves into a little bit of this history in a recent video on his YouTube channel ( the first instalment in a series , embedded below ) .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ and ridicule of the phenomena predominantly came from religious authorities , not scientists : In contrast to modern popular assumptions , the Enlightenment war on belief in things that go bump in the night was not spearheaded by science and medicine , but by religious and political writers .
Historians of Enlightenment science and medicine such as Roy Porter , Lorraine Daston , Katharine Park and Michael Hunter have argued that the deadliest weapons in the fight against belief in supernatural phenomena during the Enlightenment were not empirical tests , but ridicule and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ following up on the sources Andreas mentions in the video , see the related page at Forbidden Histories .
And be sure to subscribe to the Forbidden Histories YouTube channel for more fascinating content like this .

Poltergeist. The word embedded itself in Western culture in the early 1980s with the hit film of the same name, co-written and produced by Steven Spielberg during his golden era. It became synonymous with the thought of a little blonde girl being trapped in a TV, and with building houses over Native American burial grounds.
But the concept of the poltergeist has a much longer history, and is spread across the world. Originally a German word basically meaning ‘noisy ghost’, poltergeists and the alleged physical phenomena that accompany them have been studied for centuries.
And interestingly, some of the pioneers of the modern scientific establishment – for example, founding members of the Royal Society – were involved in investigating and theorising about the poltergeist.
Andreas Sommer, historian of science and magic at the University of Cambridge – who runs the excellent Forbidden Histories website that we’ve linked to many times here on the Grail – delves into a little bit of this history in a recent video on his YouTube channel (the first instalment in a series, embedded below).
One surprising fact he mentions: attacks and ridicule of the phenomena predominantly came from religious authorities, not scientists:
In contrast to modern popular assumptions, the Enlightenment war on belief in things that go bump in the night was not spearheaded by science and medicine, but by religious and political writers. Historians of Enlightenment science and medicine such as Roy Porter, Lorraine Daston, Katharine Park and Michael Hunter have argued that the deadliest weapons in the fight against belief in supernatural phenomena during the Enlightenment were not empirical tests, but ridicule and sweeping pathologisations.
For anyone interested in following up on the sources Andreas mentions in the video, see the related page at Forbidden Histories. And be sure to subscribe to the Forbidden Histories YouTube channel for more fascinating content like this.


News Briefs 23-04-2020

• The little green man that refused to die .
• The problem with Steve Wolfram ’ s new ‘ fundamental theory of physics ’ .
• New study pushes the date for tectonic plates ’ origin to 3.2 billion years .
• Mushrooms can be used for many things , including building canoes .
• Massive , prehistoric shark ’ s weird evolution is what led to its demise .
• Danish scientists modify yeast to create psilocybin .
A necessary step for the mass production of the drug .
• Two “ living vampire ” stories by Braddon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is giving people unusual dreams .
Here ’ s one scientific explanation for it .
• …Or maybe THIS has more to do with it : V & A chair had ‘ Bruegel-like delirium ’ after getting COVID-19 .
• You ’ re not going back to normal office for a long , long time .
• Red Pill of the Day : Man who called Ohio ’ s lockdown order ‘ bull $ # !
t ’ has succumbed to Coronavirus .
Quote of the Day : People who lean on logic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ starving the best part of the mind .


News Briefs 24-04-2020

“ Spirituality leaps where science can not yet follow… ” • The battle of the bugs .
• The privatization @ @ @ @ @ Quote of the Day : “ …Because science must always test and measure , and @ @ @ @ @ experience is immeasurable .
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