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Professor Dean Radin is one of the world’s leading authorities on psychic phenomena. He is the chief scientist at IONS, the Institute of Noetic Sciences.“I don’t like the word ‘paranormal’ when referring to these experiences”, Dean says.“Paranormal phenomena cover such a huge range of things that are strange, that it tends to collapse psychic experiences into things like search for Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster. But psychic phenomena, like synchronicities, are extremely common.”Are psychic phenomena akin to spiritual experiences?“I would say there is an overlap.”The overlap, he explains, is when people say they have felt a strange, very intimate sense of connection with other people or with things elsewhere.“The line between science and spirituality is arbitrary. There is a spectrum.”A synchronicity can be described as ‘smart luck’, as opposed to ‘dumb luck’.“In many ways the kind of research that I do attempts to evoke synchronicities in the laboratory. What some would call a coincidence we would call a synchronicity when we study for instance telepathy”, Dean says.As we record this episode, Dean Radin is conducting an experiment aimed to test the quantum observer effect.“To test it properly it takes an act of subjective awareness of what is going on. It is correlated to brain activity, but it is not physical. Maybe that’s what will break the chain and cause the measurement to actually occur.”“If the results are replicated in lots of different laboratories, it directly informs an outstanding and long standing problem in the interpretation of quantum mechanics.”The ‘Sigil’ experiment, as it is called, is due to be finished by the end of April.The placebo effect is basically the same phenomenon – mind affecting matter.“Can we see differences in the behavior of cells, be it plants or the human body, depending on what people are beaming mentally at them? The answer is yes.”“For everything from photons, to chemical processes, to cells, to small animals, to human physiology and maybe all the way up to the global level, we do see that consciousness seems to be involved at every single stage.”And yet there are so many skeptics, and so many psi researchers are being mocked.“In mainstream science, these things are taboo. I know many academics have these experiences themselves, but you can’t talk about it, at the risk of your career”, Dean says.“Materialism is an extremely powerful worldview. So powerful that it has given rise to the technologies we have today. But it leaves out something.”However, in the last 30 years, the philosophy of idealism has begun to penetrate within the sciences, according to Dean Radin. Idealism posits that consciousness is fundamental and that matter arises from it.“You see it in physics, in psychology, in neuroscience and in mathematics.”There is a materialist ‘police’ that is active on Wikipedia and in public debate. But it is a vociferous minority, Dean thinks.“They are only maintaining the taboo. But taboos don’t last forever. When you talk to academics privately after a couple of beers, everyone eventually reports they have experiences of this kind, and most are actually interested.”So, if idealism is penetrating science and things seem to be changing, what will be the final nail in the coffin for the taboo?Judging from the brief opening in consciousness studies that was seen in the 60s and 70s, Dean thinks the renewed research on psychedelics might be that nail. Another candidate is quantum biology. Scientists now suggest that the brain operates in quantum ways.“That was a very fringy idea 30 years ago.”
Dean’s personal websiteIONS website
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Julia Mossbridge is a scientist in the true sense of the word, a curious and open-minded investigator and seeker. She has balanced beautifully on the perceived border between traditional science and the esoteric realms.
She has created two institutes, whereof one bears the intriguing name The Institute for Love and Time (TILT). It is about creating technologies that support wellbeing related to feeling unconditional love.
How can love and time go together?
“Both are powerful and healing to humans”, Julia says.
On a deeper level, she explains, people experience that when the boundaries of time are removed, the conditions of connection are also removed, which opens the door to unconditional love.
The way Julia describes the experience of time is somewhat at odds with the “live in the now” mantra. We can extend the self in time, she says. And by doing that we break down boundaries.
“It gives you a lot more chances to do good for yourself and the world. It doesn’t have to be all at once. We have all this time.”
“Folks say you can’t do anything about the past, and the future is all about potentialities, so you can only do something about it in the now. The reason this is so enticing is that we’re built to experience free will. So that’s how we’re gonna make a lot of money on self-help books”, Julia laughs.
“I think it’s a racket. I think it makes people look for control rather than take responsibility.”
In reality, we are not in control. Everything we experience has already happened. That has even been measured (the thought of doing something sudden arises after we’ve done it).
“To even come close to being in control, we must extend the definition of ‘I’. To really be in control we must extend it indefinitely to include the whole universe and everything that has happened and everything that is going to happen.”
The Iroquios have a word for this extension: the long body.
Julia Mossbridge has done extensive research on precognition, the intuitive knowledge about a future event. She uses a metaphor: An event that triggers precognition is like a stick in the stream of consciousness. The stick creates a wake, which is the slowly fading memory of the event after it has happened. But on the front end it also creates an area where the “arrow of time” is reversed.
“There's backpressure. The stream of consciousness ‘prepares’ itself to go around the stick.”
Precognition most commonly appears in dreams.
“The conscious mind is like our story of what is happening, but the unconscious mind really has access to all the incoming data from the universe”, Julia says.
She agrees with psychology pioneer William James that the brain is like a filter.
“When your brain is damaged, you're not changing consciousness, you're changing the capacity to receive it.”
She is also in agreement with the theories of cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman, who describes physical reality as an interface, where living beings are “conscious agents”. If we were to look “under the hood” (which may be what enlightenment entails), we would see a completely different reality that doesn’t make sense in the physical world.
Mossbridge also delves into what AI does to us, and with us, and what we can do with AI.
“Human potential is going to explode with AI if we do it right. It can be a partner in our evolution. We are in this together.”
Julia’s bio:
Affiliate professor in the Dept. of Biophysics and Physics at University of San Diego
Senior consultant with Tangible IQ
Co-founder of TILT: The Institute for Love and Time
Founder of Mossbridge Institute
Author and co-author of multiple books and scientific articles related to time travel, artificial intelligence and unconditional love
PhD in Communication Sciences and Disorders (Northwestern University)
MA in Neuroscience (UC San Francisco)
BA in Neuroscience with highest honors (Oberlin College)
Julia on Linkedin
Julia on Medium
The Institute for Love and Time (TILT)
The Mossbridge Institute
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Why are we so afraid to die, I ask afterlife expert, researcher, coach and writer Craig Hogan.“It’s a misunderstanding. People think this life is all there is. But we don’t die. Transition happens seamlessly. There is no pain.”Craig Hogan and his associates try to teach people about this.If we knew we were immortal, we would arguably live our lives differently. We wouldn’t pursue things selfishly. We would realize we are on this journey together with the people around us.There are innumerable reports from people who have been in contact with deceased loved ones.Craig has himself had many experiences in which he has communicated with the other side.There are also many widely known accounts of contacts with the afterlife, such as the ones of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, Raymond Moody and J.B. Phillips.Anybody can get in touch with the deceased, says Craig Hogan. You don’t have to go through a medium. But you need to go into a meditative state and empty your mind. Ask a question or make a statement to the deceased person you want to contact.“You will get responses immediately, in one chunk, not in words. It’s telepathic”, says Craig.So what is the afterlife like?“We need consistency, so it’s very much like our earth life. People have bodies. There are houses and streets and different cultures and nationalities. People first use the language they are used to, but after a while they drop language, because they don't need it. It is like earth but without the problems. There is no old age and no ailments.”When we pass, we don’t actually go anywhere, Craig explains. It’s already here. It’s all about a change of focus. It's like changing the frequency on the ‘life radio’.For some there is a ‘second death’. These people don’t understand that they have passed at first. Or they don’t want to leave the earth plane for some reason – they may have unfinished business, or they don’t want to leave the sensual pleasures, or they are afraid they are going to go to hell.“So they stay earthbound for a while. They walk around, ride buses, and go to church. Some become poltergeists.”“Then there is another category of almost demonic influences. These are negative thought forms produced by people or groups of people who want to impede other people’s progress because of the anger and violence that exist on earth.”But eventually, all go to life after this and get to have a respite. There is no hell.“This earth plane is a school. The purpose is to teach us lessons. We are growing in love and compassion”, says Craig.Before we are born our souls and guides get together and plan the circumstances and the kinds of struggles we will have in life. Afterwards we can share our learning with others that are within our higher self.Reincarnation is misunderstood, according to Craig. We stay the individuals we are, but we are part of a higher self which has thousands of people in it.When a new life is planned, the planning group will take pieces from other lifes, so that the new person will learn lessons that were not previously learned. That is where past life regression comes from, Craig explains. Lives are intertwined. You tap into experiences of another life.“So, we don’t come back as some other person.”Humanity once knew about the afterlife but forgot. However, when we regain that knowledge, it will be on a higher level. We have understandings today that humankind has never had, Craig points out.“We are in the most mature state of understanding the life after this life. We are going far beyond the insights we used to have.”Within a few centuries, a new kind of earth will arise, he thinks.“There is no need to feel fear about the end of this life. There is no end.”
Craig's organization Seek Reality
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The ancient Maya taught that consciousness is primary, and that matter is the manifestation of a thought, if you will, that arose in the all-encompassing primordial consciousness.
This knowledge is at the core of the work of Carl Johan Calleman. He is originally a trained biologist and chemist, but he has dedicated most of his career to studying the wisdom of the Maya and has written eight books on the subject.
There is a hidden meaning behind the mythical plumed serpent, theme of the Kukulcan pyramid in Chichen Itzá, Carl Johan explains:
Consciousness has expressed itself gradually in the universe – it has come in nine waves.
The first wave was what modern science calls the Big Bang.
This worldview means that evolution undoubtedly takes place, but it is purposeful, not random.
“Established science has been fighting this idea of a living universe for a long time”, says Carl Johan.
Why do the structures of the universe on all levels hold together? Because there is an underlying purpose, and because the universe is holographic: an atom is subordinate to a molecule, which is subordinate to a cell, which is subordinate to a whole organism, which is subordinate to a planet, a solar system, a galaxy and so on.
“Otherwise everything would be just floating around in a soup of nothingness.”
Evolution is quantized, as Calleman sees it. It takes quantum leaps, namely in the form of the Mayans’ nine waves, which in turn have peaks and valleys.
This entails that technically advanced civilizations could not have existed before the sixth wave, which was activated in 3,115 BCE.
“Yes, this is what you should expect if you adhere to the idea of a quantized evolution. It should not happen gradually.”
With every new wave, a new state of consciousness becomes downloadable. The human mind changes.
The peaks and valleys correspond to creative and destructive periods in humanity. The rise and the collapse of empires, for instance.
The ninth wave is the final one. And it is already here. Forget the trope around 21 December 2012 – the ninth wave was activated in March of 2011. That year was indeed eventful.
All the earlier waves are still running. Not every human and not every other organism will be fully influenced by the most recent wave. Some remain in a lower vibration. Myriad animals and plants that came into creation with earlier waves are still here.
But the ninth wave makes it possible to reach peak consciousness.
“That’s where we’re meant to go. That’s the highest frequency.”
This ascension, as some call it, will be easier for the younger generations, Carl Johan Calleman thinks.
“They will be able to create peace and unity, a form of heaven on Earth. But the time period until that happens will be very difficult. Maybe we will see a global dictatorship.”
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Geophysicist Bob Schneiker stumbled upon the debate about the age of the Sphinx by chance. He got hooked, and the more he found out, the more convinced he became that Robert Schoch and other maverick researchers are wrong about the dating.“I was surprised to know that Schoch used erosion on the Sphinx as evidence of an older civilization than the dynastic Egyptians”, Bob says.The geology and the surface patterns have been interpreted wrongly, according to Schneiker. The geological history of the area reveals that the Sphinx cannot be older than about 5,500 years, he claims.Schneiker (and others) conclude that the Nile flows during the African humid period 12,000 to 5,500 BCE would have inundated the Sphinx and consequently destroyed its brittle limestone, had it been carved out during that period. (Not all studies conclude that the water table of the Nile actually got that high, however.)Another site Bob has looked into is Göbekli Tepe. He agrees that this construction has upended much of what archaeologists used to believe about our past. But he points out that it cannot be linked to the Younger Dryas and its purported cataclysm, because it is probably much older than that.This also goes for the channeled Scablands in the northwestern USA, another place that some alternative researchers tie to the Younger Dryas.Certain “smoking guns” indicate that something very dramatic happened on the planet during that period, like the ubiquitous “black mat” soil layer and the sudden disappearance of megafauna. One mainstream theory regarding the latter is overhunting by humans. Schneiker concurs with that theory.He is not as impressed as most other independent researchers by advanced megalithic sites like Giza, Baalbek, Ollantaytambo, Sacsayhuaman, Tiwanaku and Easter island.“Most of them are not that old”, he says.Scientists and researchers on all sides have blind spots. Bob is an honest truth seeker, just like the independent researchers he challenges. It’s likely that he sees things they haven’t acknowledged. Which is interesting, because they often point out that because of the fact that academia stonewalls its research, the only ones who can push the boundaries are the mavericks.“Yes, that happens, but how many mavericks do we not hear about because their ideas are so crazy?”__________✅ ResourcesBob's website• Alternative researchers that Bob challenges:Randall Carlson's Youtube channel Robert Schoch's website
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Climate catastrophism displays all the core features of a cultural entity, says Andy West, author of The Grip of Culture.Other cultural entities are religions, ideologies, sometimes cults and even strong philosophies. The underlying behavior is identical. You can measure it, and that is what Andy has done.“This comes from a deep behavioral legacy from our evolutionary past. We are very susceptible to groupthink.”Andy’s most groundbreaking finding is that there is a close connection between religiosity and climate catastrophism. The correlation is almost perfect. But it is perhaps not intuitive:When unconstrained questions are asked about climate change, a large majority of people in religious countries will answer that it is dangerous, whereas a large majority of people in secular countries will be less worried. When constrained questions are asked, i.e. questions about the need to take action in different ways, the situation is exactly the opposite.A culture is always based on stories. If it were based on facts and truths, it would not be a culture.“If you want to glue millions of people together, it’s not good to use rationality, it is actually better to bypass it and use emotion. If you base it on rational arguments, people will have different opinions or different angles on it.” The further distanced from truth, the better cultures work. Especially if authorities are on their side. If someone questions the culture, “it’s bonkers”. End of argument.“Climate catastrophism detached from science a long time ago”, Andy says.Al Gore’s climate film An Inconvenient Truth from 2006 was a turning point.“It was completely full of classic cultural memes. I started to research what was behind. I quickly realized it had left science already then.”Are there elitist agendas?“Yes, but they’re not the prime cause. The prime cause is the culture, and the agendas have effectively taken advantage of the culture.”Andy points out that cultures are not bad per se. They are inevitable, and they can be either detrimental or beneficial. Civilizations are based on cultures. Without cultures, no team spirit.Isn’t the climate disaster narrative a useful crisis for leaders who want to exert control?“It’s not wrong, but it’s not exactly right either. Leaders have taken advantage of it as it has grown.”Andy has found that the US is a special case. It isn’t possible to just test two cultures, religion and climate catastrophism, in America as in most other countries. What complicates things is the Democrat/Liberal and Republican/Conservative tribalism“So the US effectively has four cultures. It ends up being a worst case scenario. Everybody is behaving culturally.”Will this new culture, climate catastrophism, come to an end, and if so, when and how?“It’s in all our institutions and all our policies. It’s in the heads of millions of people. It’s not going to go away easily or quickly. I think it will evolve and change over time, like it has already.”Andy's bookAndy's X account Climate Etc blog
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The word prodigy comes to mind when you learn about the young Polish independent researcher and writer Aleksander Czeszkiewicz.Already as a child, he read heaps of books about our distant past and scrolled through ancient texts, and increasingly he also delved into spiritual traditions.“I was interested holistically in the universe, the earth, and history. At school everything was uninteresting to me. There was no place for imagination. At home I could speculate about the existence of Atlantis. I was free. At school, I was not free”, says Aleksander.At 17 he wrote the first book of his own, which he entitled Deja Vu – Has Everything Already Been? He had to wait until the age of 18 to publish it because of legal requirements. The year after, he translated it to English himself.The idea of constant progress, that we are at the peak of civilization, is fairly new. Centuries ago, the point of view was rather that we had fallen from an earlier golden age.“There was also the more neutral idea that human development is cyclical. This was prominent in ancient Greece and ancient India”, Aleksander explains.The Vedic cycles are called yugas.“With all the scientism, materialism and atheism, I think our time resembles the description of the Kali yuga, the dark age of materialism, in the ancient hindu tradition.”The Mahabharata pinpoints a date for the start of the latest Kali yuga: the 18 February 3102 BCE, which happens to coincide with the beginning of the civilizations whose legacy we are still in.But there are yogis who believe we may be in the intermediate Dvapara yuga.Before the archaeological discoveries in the 1800s, we knew nothing about ancient Egypt, Sumer or other early civilizations. The texts about them were considered fairy tales.“What if we are in a similar situation now, when we make so many more discoveries? Maybe we will find evidence for Atlantis?”Homo sapiens has been around for at least 200,000 years. It is not likely that we remained cavemen for 95 percent of that time and then suddenly decided to build civilizations, Aleksander thinks.“There are so many known historic texts from Greece, Egypt and the Arab world that tell us straight out that there were mighty kings and civilizations tens of thousands of years ago.”Most flood myths – and there are many all over the world – can be correlated to the geologically dramatic end of the last ice age.Will you be able to dig up even more conclusive evidence of lost civilizations than the many independent pioneers you are leaning on today?“I think what has been uncovered is the tip of the iceberg. To think we know it all is arrogant. I personally love diving into old texts. They show such a holistic picture of everything. But of course I also want to explore the physical remains.” Aleksander’s book is only the beginning of his research, he says.“My next project will be of a more metaphysical and philosophical nature. A spiritual exploration.”Aleksander thinks many of our current problems relate to the fact that we never yield, stop and let ourselves relax, feel in and listen inwards.“We should not only chase results. We need to be here now. The grinding mindset is toxic.”He foresees a huge paradigm shift as a result of an expanded human consciousness.In his view, society is tarnished by a kind of modern ”satanism”: Some want to exert control and keep others down.Aleksander is planning on publishing his second book later this year.Aleksander's book His website (int)His Youtube channel
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When Lant Pritchett worked as a development economist (many years at the World Bank), he noted the approach was very place centric. It was about how to develop Senegal, India, Nigeria etc. Mobility was not a big deal.“I realized gradually that the mobility of people across places could be at least as big a way for people to improve their well being as the efforts to improve places”, says Lant Pritchett.“The wage differentials, which are driven by productivity differentials, are so huge that the ability of people to move from low productivity to high productivity places is far and away the largest way to improve human well being.”Lant co-founded the advocacy and action group/think tank LaMP to promote labor mobility. The acronym stands for Labor Mobility Partnerships.The economic development models that were developed some decades ago got one thing completely wrong: productivity didn’t converge. Education, health and even capital per worker converged, but productivity didn’t.“Productivity isn't primarily about knowledge, it's about complex features that we now call institutional, political and social.”The a-ha insight is that the world has people in poor places, not poor people.“It’s simply hard to make a person productive in rural Ethiopia, and there's no magic bullet.”To many people, the term migration brings up images of people moving permanently and acquiring new roots. But if the world could achieve well-organized and orderly temporary labor mobility on a scale that is an order of magnitude larger than today, this could bring tremendous benefits, according to Pritchett.Calculations show that the gains would be at least 20 times the size of the ODA in the world.In the migration discourse the elephant in the room is the fact that the labor force is shrinking rapidly in the rich parts of the world, relative to the aged population.How to deal with this demographic transition if you only talk about permanent migration and refugees?“You can’t. The only way is to open a third question: who are we going to allow to live and work on our sovereign territory, without any expectation they are becoming citizens?”Is the temporary nature of this mobility meant to appease those who worry their national identity is being threatened? In a way, Lant says.“But appease is a stronger word than we need. It's not just a necessary appeasement objective, it’s a legitimate objective to want to preserve a sense of 'spanishness' or 'englishness', even if those are socially constructed and imagined identities.”What about the risk of brain drain in the countries that provide the labor force?“Brain drain gets attention because it rhymes”, Lant says smilingly.“There is not much analytical foundation for the claim. If we used the rhyme cortex vortex, brains moving round in a circular way, we would have a more accurate and interesting picture of what is going on.”Isn’t living where you want as basic a right as free speech or religious freedom? Are we primarily humans or are we primarily citizens?“Ah, there's the rub of it.”“I think the conversation on open borders versus closed borders is silly. Open borders is not politically how the world is going to be organized in the foreseeable future. And there is something unique, valuable and important about maintaining identities.”“But these identities can change over time, and they can be inclusive.”
Lant’s websiteLant’s scientific paper “The political acceptability of time-limited labor mobility: Five levers opening the Overton window” LaMP:Hein de Haas’ book “How Migration Really Works”
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Mary Reed was a staunchly agnostic healthcare executive in Washington DC when she began venturing uncontrollably into mystical realms in the company of divine masters.
”I went into the body and the being of Jesus on the cross at the moment of crucifixion. As an agnostic, that was wildly out of the blue. But in that experience, which went on for three and a half hours, I got all of this information about humanity and what is happening in our world”, Mary says.
Deeply confused by events like this, she moved to the Himalayas and spent seven years coming to terms with her unexpected abilities.
The first ”voice in her head” (not really a voice) appeared in 2000. Since 2020 Mary also channels lessons from a collective of divine beings called Consensus, which presented itself to her.
Today Mary considers herself a mystic wisdom guide. Despite certain transformative events, arriving at that place has been a gradual process.
”It just keeps coming.”
It takes many years to integrate a spiritually transformative experience, which every NDEer can attest to.
Mary is the author of the award-winning memoir Unwitting Mystic, and the sweeping newest release, Humanity’s Epic Awakening.
In the latter, Mary explains that the awakening we are about to experience (and are already beginning to experience) will entail the end of many deeply rooted human ideas, such as hell.
”What we are waking up to is already here. We are just not aware of it yet. But we will be soon.”
The most central part of her message, she says, is that nothing should be rejected. The old paradigm of good and bad inherently always puts us in conflict.
”We label certain things bad and want them to go away. It’s like wanting one part of us to go away. No bad you see in the world today just happened. It’s being recycled.”
Mary saw this extremely clearly when she had a vision of a block sitting in her stomach. It was the collectively rejected block of pain of all of humanity.
”This pain does not want to be rejected, it wants to be embraced”, Mary says.
”Awakening isn’t intended to be a polite experience, it’s intended to be an honest experience.”
Mary’s website
Mary’s book Humanity’s Epic Awakening
Mary’s book Unwitting Mystic
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This is part two of my conversation with Michael Le Flem about Atlantis. For basics about Michael and his book Visions of Atlantis, see show notes for part one (episode 114):
In this episode, we dive deeper into the details of what has been told and written about Atlantean science, technology and worldview, not least by the two unconventional sources Frederick Oliver and Edgar Cayce.
Experts have tried to debunk their methods – Cayces in particular – but it has proved to be impossible to explain how they know certain things.
We also talk about the often hollow arguments from skeptics.
Why do people find evidence for the lost civilization almost everywhere? Because Atlantis was said to have been an empire, not unlike the British empire.
Why hasn't any evidence of advanced technology been found? Because nothing advanced would survive the test of time – except stone structures, and those abound. The evidence is actually staring us in the face.
There are also fascinating similarities between languages on either side of the Atlantic.
Michael’s websiteMichael’s book Visions of Atlantis
The Edgar Cayce organization AER
Frederick Oliver’s book A Dweller on Two Planets
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”In the good old days, those of us with solid scientific training understood what we didn't know and we were excited about the knowledge frontiers", says professor Judith Curry.
”Now, ecologists, economists, social scientists and other people who don't really understand climate dynamics are busy reciting alarming talking points rather than showing any understanding of what's really going on.”
Curry is one of the world’s top climate scientists. However, she fell from grace with the mainstream scientific and political community after having dared to openly criticize the biased and manipulative research methods revealed in ”climategate” in 2009.
She was ostracized.
Some years later, she left her tenured position at Georgia Tech to become a full-time consultant in the private sector.
”I saw the writing on the wall”, she says.
She had made attempts to find another academic position, but she was told there was no point. Headhunters said: ”You're a great candidate, but no one’s going to hire you, because if you google Judith Curry, what you get are things like ’climate denier’ and ’serious disinformer’”.
”The whole field has become highly politicized. Everybody thinks they are a climate expert. It has become quasi religious”, she says.
Sadly, even the scientific journals have become politicized.
”If you have something skeptical to say about climate change, don't bother to submit it to Science or Nature.”
Going into the technical details of the climate debate, Curry assesses that the weakest part of the alarmist argument is that warming is dangerous.
”Extreme events have little or nothing to do with the slow, incremental warming that’s going on.”
The 1.5 and 2.0 degree targets are purely political, she says.
”The policy cart has been out there in front of the scientific horse since 1992.”
”When and if we meet the 2 degrees target will largely be determined by natural variability factors.”
Besides, she adds, the baseline for these targets is the 1800s, which was at the tail end of the little ice age.
”Why people think of the pre-industrial climate as some kind of nirvana, I don't know.”
This year, 2023, has seen some spectacular records that the mainstream immediately connects to human emissions. But the fascinating thing is that the suddenness of the temperature spike as well as the slowing of ice growth in the Antarctic are basically evidence that the incremental CO2 levels can’t be to blame for the 2023 events.
Interestingly, Judith Curry more or less coincides in this with one of the alarmists’ most revered scientists, James Hansen.
Many factors are likely at play, such as reduced cloudiness and less aerosols, volcanic activity and ocean current oscillations. Many point at a looming El Niño, but as a matter of fact, this warming phenomenon hadn’t really begun when the temperature spike started.
”The CO2 increase is lost in the noise here”, says Curry.
Are the oceans, and also the Antarctic ice sheet, perhaps being warmed from below?
”I pay more attention to this possibility than most people do. There is a lot of volcanic activity. To think that atmospheric CO2 is the driver of what’s happening with the west Antarctic ice sheet is rather a joke.”
Why aren’t more people looking into these things?
”Well, because people really like this narrow framework, that everything is CO2. Every career, money and policy depend on this.”
But she thinks we may have reached ”peak craziness”:
”I wouldn't be surprised if we twenty years from now have a different view of what exactly is going on.”
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Atlantis is the ultimate myth of humankind – and it has to be pointed out that ”myth” does not equate to ”made up”. Many truths have been conveyed in mythical form.
Troy was considered a mythological place created in Homer’s mind until Heinrich Schliemann actually dug up the ancient city in western Turkey in 1870.
Historian and independent researcher Michael Le Flem has dug deeper than most into the myth of Atlantis. It is a stretch to say he has managed to dig up the lost world, but the evidence and the indications in his impressive book Visions of Atlantis are both comprehensive and compelling.
Le Flem makes reference to basically every known source (including Plato, of course) and many not so known sources.
Two of them would be controversial to the mainstream. Frederick Oliver and Edgar Cayce, who lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, respectively, were able to psychically channel enormous amounts of information about Atlantis.
As strange as this sounds, Oliver and Cayce made technical, scientific and geological references they could not possibly have known about in their ordinary state of awareness.
Much of it has since been corroborated by hard evidence, for instance the extinction of megafauna, the cultivation of the Amazon and mastodons roaming on the continental shelves (which were plains 12,000 years ago).
”These things are beyond coincidence”, says Michael.
”The information given by Oliver and Cayce fills in missing pieces from pre-Platonic records.”
Some of what they conveyed about the Atlantean civilization is mind-boggling. They described craft that would be called UAPs today. They talked about devices eerily similar to modern-day smartphones.
Michael is rigorous in his research, but he is also driven by curiosity and open-mindedness, hallmarks of true science.
”Don’t be afraid of the Michael Shermers of this world. They are just annoyed that their little world is being upset”, he says, with reference to one of the leading materialist skeptics.
‼️ Please note that Michael and I plan a part two of this conversation. Due later in the fall. Stay tuned.
Michael’s website
Michael’s book Visions of Atlantis
The Edgar Cayce organization (AER)
Frederick Oliver’s book A Dweller on Two Planets
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For almost half a century, professor Bruce Greyson has researched the interface between life and death.He was a materialistically trained doctor when he first came across near death experiences. He was intrigued, began researching them and thought he would soon come up with a simple physical explanation. The more cases he studied, the farther away from that he came.The research material has increased since the 1960s because of our enhanced capability to resuscitate people with cardiac arrest.”On the other hand, we have accounts of NDEs from ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt that sound exactly like the ones we hear today”, says Bruce Greyson.It is estimated that one in every 20 people in the US and Europe (areas that have been surveyed) have had an NDE or NDE-like experience.Some common features are:• Thinking faster and clearer• An intense feeling of peace and wellbeing• Being in the presence of a loving, living light• Paranormal phenomena: leaving the body, ESP, etc• Reaching another type of existence• Meeting dead loved ones or deitiesA few NDE’ers have unpleasant experiences.”That is often people who have a strong need to be in control of their life. It can be terrifying to be out of control. When they surrender, it becomes a pleasant experience”, Greyson says.He thinks it is important to document corroborating evidence, such as NDE’ers’ account for things they have seen or heard in the hospital or outside it while being clinically dead, things they could not possibly have known about if they had not in some way left their physical body.One mindblowing case is a clinically dead man in a hospital in South Africa who experienced that he visited another realm and met the soul of a recently deceased hospital nurse – before any of the nurse’s loved ones knew she had died.The fact which most challenges the notion that the brain produces consciousness is that the brains of NDE’ers are flatlined. There doesn’t seem to be any activity going on.Standard explanations don’t hold, like lack of oxygen or influence by drugs:NDE’ers have better oxygen supply than those who haven’t had the experience, and drugs seem to inhibit the possibility of having an NDE rather than induce it.It is as if the brain has to ”get out of the way” in order to have these experiences.”People use the metaphor of looking up at the sky during the day. You don’t see any stars, but it’s not that the stars aren’t there, it’s just that they’re blocked by the sun. And that’s the way the brain filters out thoughts for us”, Greyson says.Bruce Greyson has mostly studied NDEs, but lately he has also done research on what he and a colleague have labeled terminal lucidity, when people with dementia or Alzheimer's suddenly become lucid a few hours or days before they pass away.Will the world one day accept that there is more to life and death than what is physically measurable?”I have spent my career lookin at scientific evidence, and that’s ultimately not what convinces people”, says Bruce Greyson.”What convinces people is personal experience, usually. So the more we can do to help people having these experiences, by meditation or other spiritual practices, the better.”
University of Virginia – Division of Perceptual StudiesProf Bruce Greyson’s websiteAfter (book)Irreducible Mind (book)IANDSNDERF
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What if AI is an expression of what could be described, with a Gnostic term, as archontic intelligence? Is it the latest innovation by a force that has been manipulating humanity for millennia?Per Shapiro used to work for Swedish public service as an investigative radio reporter.He grew increasingly frustrated with the constraints of the mainstream narratives.When his boss demanded that he redo a documentary about the pandemic that challenged the official view on vaccines and other restrictions, because it ”sounded like conspiracy theories”, Per decided to quit.He started his own independent channel.Per speaks passionately about some of the most toxic and manipulative terms in journalism (and elsewhere): conspiracy theories, false balance and guilt by association.Shortly after leaving mainstream media, Per felt compelled to write a book about the way he sees what is happening with society and humankind.The title would translate to The War Against Life.At the very beginning Per quotes captain Ahab from Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick:All my means are perfectly rational, it is my goal that is insane.This quote sums up much of our overarching societal structures, in Per’s view.”Intelligence is something other than wisdom. Intelligence is the ability to solve complex problems, to achieve complex goals. To be wise takes experiencing the world, experiencing yourself as a part of the world”, Per says.He makes an analogy with cancer cells.”You might say that a cancer cell is more intelligent than a healthy cell, because it achieves its goal more efficiently. But it lacks the experience that it is actually a cell in a body, on which it depends for its life.””This is a metaphor for how we live our lives on this planet.”Many say that capitalism is the root of our problems. No, says Per:”Capitalism is the symptom of a culture which is disconnected from the earth, from nature.”The Swiss mystic, scientist and psychedelics pioneer Albert Hofmann – cited in Per’s book – said that the Western psyche has been struck by a schizoid catastrophe – a mindset of being separate from nature, from life itself.Per’s book is first and foremost inspired by the Gnostic message and worldview. He has had several conversations with mythologist John Lamb Lash (also interviewed on this podcast), who has devoted his life to interpreting the Gnostic message.In Gnostic mythology, the wisdom goddess Sophia is Earth itself.”It’s important to know that this is not an abstract deity somewhere far away, this is a first hand experience of the only source of power you will ever have”, Per says.”When we have lost this connection to our true source of power, we can more easily be manipulated to believe in illusions of power from other sources.”One of the most difficult parts to understand in the Gnostic mythology is the archontic influence. Per agrees with John Lamb Lash that it can be described as a mind virus. It can hijack your thoughts and ideas.One sneaky archontic modus operandi is counter mimicry: to artificially simulate real experiences.”It piggybacks on our god-given faculty of imagination. But it turns it around so it becomes a simulation”, Per says.Transhumanism and AI come to mind.”We have come to view ourselves with an archontic perspective, as if we are machines that need upgrading.”Per shares a deep concern about AI with his brother, MIT physicist Max Tegmark. Max has talked about this in several podcasts and radio shows. Bizarrely enough, the MIT professor has been fiercely attacked from the mainstream, not only for his AI worries, but also for lauding the work of his own brother, ”a known conspiracy theorist”.
Per’s channel ”Folkets Radio”On YoutubePer’s book
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Anoop Kumar has started a health revolution. Through an enterprise that bears precisely that name, he and his associates want us to understand that healing is possible.
In Western culture, we have no idea what health is. Modern medicine is the true complementary medicine. What should be defined as conventional medicine are the methods of healing that have been around for millennia.
Anoop Kumar talks about four engines of health: nutrition, movement, connection and rest. And they work in our physical as well as our mental bodies.
”What does the placebo effect suggest? It suggests that the line between the mind and the body is not concrete”, he says.
Anoop got in touch with the Hindu spiritual school of advaita vedanta already as a child. It is similar to what is often referred to as non-duality. He had a hard time combining those insights with western materialism. But he realized that they are both valid.
After his medical training – he is an ER doctor – Anoop decided to dedicate himself to bridging the perceived gap between east and west, body and mind, spirituality and science.
He does not want to label his philosophy as idealism, advaita, non-dualism or anything else. He has developed an explanatory model he calls the three minds framework.
”Everything is consciousness, and consciousness is everything”, Anoop says.
”That doesn’t mean there's no bodies, no minds, no personalities. It doesn't mean that this is all just a dream and it doesn't matter. It doesn't mean that we can’t work with the body or that modern medicine is useless.”
”None of this is true. There are so many misconceptions associated with this.”
One oft-used metaphor to understand how consciousness is fundamental is that consciousness is the ocean, and we and everything else we perceive as separate are the waves, or even the ripples. Different expressions of the ocean, but all water.
”At deeper levels of reality, as we go deeper into that ocean, there is a radiant non-duality. The best word we have for that is consciousness.”
There is a real shift happening in health care right now, according to Anoop. And not just in health care. The bigger picture is that amazing things are happening, but at the same time, darker things also have to surface.
”It's almost like an abscess. We’re getting to that eruption phase.”
Anoop Kumar has published two books; Michelangelo’s Medicine and Is This a Dream?
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Already as a child, Alex Sanfiz had a sense that there was something off with this reality. He has continued ever since to question how human experiences are described.
Many thinkers talk about the concept of us living in a simulation, or a simulacrum.
In his challenging book, The Spiderweb, Alex elaborates his version.
It is a way of describing the human predicament you have never come across before.
The reason why humans are anxious is that we are trapped in something Alex calls the allowance grid.
”In a way everybody is suffering from anxiety. The order of this reality is in itself obsessive and compulsive”, says Alex.
”But those who have what is called obsessive compulsive disorder, OCD, have a magnified allowance grid. Their mobility is extremely restricted. They constantly run into these walls of uncertainty.
Basically, the whole of humanity is living in a loop.
”So collectively, we are obsessive and compulsive.”
Few can break out of it. because few know that the mind works just like a computer program.
”But with sufficient awareness, it is possible to separate yourself from the allowance grid and watch it from above instead of going down with the matrix.”
”Those who have been able to break out of the allowance grid are the ones we call enlightened.”
Ancient philosophers, sages and shamans in the Vedic, Egyptian, Gnostic, Nordic and other traditions knew that we live in a container of sorts, that this physical reality is not the real thing.
Alex’ model may seem a bit harsh if you search for a philosophy that provides you with a higher meaning to life in a comprehensible way. He does not pay that much attention to creation or the afterlife. He focuses on the trap we are in here and now.
Alex does not like the popular idea that this earthly life is a school, that we suffer to learn lessons.
”I don’t think that’s it. If you teach the mind that with suffering comes reward, guess what you’re going to do tomorrow? You’re going to suffer. It’s like dopamine.”
Are so-called mentally ill people really insane, or is it that insanity has been normalized?
”Mental illness is always determined by what is the standard in society. It’s an economical term. Its purpose is to never normalize people who are thinking differently”, says Alex.
”Krishnamurti said: it is no sign of a healthy mind to adapt to a society that is profoundly sick.”
Alex mentions the insanity of the fact that healthy people can stand in line to be treated with genetic therapy.
Is it possible to ”crack the code” through psychedelics?
”They can create a shortcut to what is really going on by altering the mind, but I don't recommend it. You have to be extremely careful. If you break the lock too hard, it is damaged for good.”
If you try to reach a higher consciousness, to reach God if you will, not only God is listening, Alex points out.
”Carl Jung said: beware of unearned wisdom.”
Alex takes experiences of past lives and near death very seriously, but he is not sure they reveal exactly that.
”Consciousness is expressing itself in different ways, and separation is always illusory. So if you go back to the original consciousness, to source, you can access many other expressions of life, not just yours.”
The brain is a CPU with very limited capacity, according to Alex. Information is filtered.
”The things you put your attention on, you will have more of. It weaves. If you try to get something the computer is not designed to gather, you'll break it.”
People in power are mostly at the low levels of consciousness in this reality, in Alex’ view.
”To me, there are no people as basic as them. They cannot have any influence on those who have reached a higher level of consciousness.”
The catch-22 is that high-frequency humans don’t want to be in power. They don’t want to rule others.
Alex’ website
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John Lamb Lash is arguably the heaviest authority on the Gnostics, at least the Nag Hammadi Library.The Gnostics were vehemently opposed to the Abrahamic religions. Is that relevant in today’s secular world? Well, yes, because the secular world has inherited more features from traditional religions than we think.The Gnostic message is one of liberation from the shackles of both religious and secular ideas that enslave us under artificial rules and renege our divinity and natural connection with Mother Earth.There is a mainstream also in spirituality. Some things John Lash says are controversial, and some of the Gnostic content, as John interprets it, is outlandish, even by the standards of this channel. But whatever you think of it, it is a fascinating and thought-provoking message.John Lamb Lash has written a number of books, but the pivotal piece of work on the Gnostic worldview is Not in His Image.”My work is an arrow, and Not in His Image is the head of that arrow”, John says.”The Gnostics were the first noetic, cognitive psychologists. They still get a bad rap, except from those who have read my book.”The first quarter of the book is about the basic problem in humanity.”What I found is that the basic core problem that underlies all other problems in our world is an ideology of master race supremacy. It is a subject that goes very deep, into the wounding of civilization and into our very sense of humanity. The battle between good and evil is right here, it is in the human heart, and in our minds.”The idea of an off-planet male god, redemption and a savior – the Gnostics saw all of that as insanity, according to John Lash.”I want to liberate people from this, to the best of my ability.”In today’s world the tzaddik, the unnatural and detrimental ultra-righteousness, is represented by technocracy, like the transhumanism movement, says John.”They think they are going to tell you not only how you can live, but how you must live. The goal of this insane ideology that came into our world is to destroy our inherent sense of what it is to be human.”The latter three quarters of Not in His Image is about the solution.The Gnostic myth about how humanity came to be is different from other creation myths. The core of it is that the goddess Sophia – an aeon, not the ultimate source – dreamed up and manifested our planet, including its plant and animal kingdom and anthropos.Thus, Sophia not only created the earth but is the planet. And we are, basically, her.”To Sophia it's like a dream. To her the earth is like your body is to you in a dream. You are a character in her dream”, John says.But we forgot our origins. Only a few indigenous peoples have always remembered.At one point, a ”mind virus” managed to enter human minds. It originated from inorganic entities that Sophia had also manifested, but by accident: the archons. It was then salvationist religion was introduced.This is the one aspect of the Gnostic worldview that is most difficult to interpret and describe.At first the ”virus” operated through religion, but it has mutated.”Science was taken out of the realm of the senses and spun into a mind game, which goes nowhere”, John saysBefore this ”infection” broke through, the indigenous cultures of the world, meaning most humans, knew we were in the presence of a divine force, the earth mother.And so did the Gnostics. They dared to say openly that the newly introduced off-planet male god was a pretender god. Hence, they were brutally persecuted and massacred by Christians in the early centuries of the Common era.The good news in our day and age is that the archontic influence is dying out, according to John Lamb Lash.”The correction of the insane behavior of humanity is happening today.”
Not in His Image (book)Nemeta (JLL’s Sophianic school)Sophianic Myth (Youtube) Sophianic Myth (website)
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Neuroscientist Mona Sobhani made a profound and brave inner journey. It amounts to a transformation, an awakening.
She used to be a hardcore physicalist. Around 2018, in the midst of a life crisis, she began questioning the tenets of conventional western science. They didn’t hold when it came to explaining many nonphysical human experiences. So, she dove into the literature, did dozens of interviews and wrote a book about everything she learned and experienced on the way.
”I eventually became much more open minded”, she says.
”But I had an ego struggle. It’s hard to let go of this box of beliefs. You just ignore things that don’t match the beliefs. That’s how the human mind is built. My mind was constantly being blown, with each interview I did.”
Mona’s ”Old me” would have dismissed someone’s story about a spiritual experience as imagination or misinterpretation. Her ”New me” will listen with curiosity and compassion.
Everybody experiences the world in a unique way. It comes down to the first-person sentient experience, which is the hard problem of consciousness in science.
”In neuroscience, we don’t have any way of measuring how it is to be you or me. You just have to take people at their word”, Mona says.
”Consciousness is the beginning, the middle and the end. What else is there? You can’t really tell somebody that they didn’t experience something, even though we do that all the time.”
She soon realized that you have to ignore a lot of evidence to make the physicalist paradigm work.
”And that’s not a very good model.”
Mona Sobhani thinks there might be a paradigm shift underway in neuroscience. New papers present theories that say consciousness could be an energy field and that there is an interaction between the field and the brain.
Some physicists today say things that intuitives have said for a long time and that are found in ancient texts.
Mona’s book, Proof of Spiritual Phenomena, is packed with references to scientists, philosophers, studies and books. It covers every conceivable spiritual field. She has herself acquired personal experience from many of them, like intuitive readings, meditation, breathwork, psychedelics, astrology and tarot.
Psychedelics can broaden your consciousness vastly, she says.
”The boundaries between you and the rest of the world get blurred.”
”It’s such a big problem that neuroscience only focuses on the everyday waking state.”
It is difficult to find incentives for truly novel research in our current system, according to Mona. There is much bias and inertia. Scientists who apply for a grant must follow old research closely.
”You can only move just a little bit further. You must not shock the reviewers. True innovation is not rewarded.”
The media is tainted with a similar bias. And when scientists communicate, it is often ”a disaster”, Mona says.
”They often say ’there is no evidence for that’, but that is misleading. What it really means is that it hasn’t been investigated. But the readers never know that.”
Mona’s website
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The human species has been around for some 300,000 years. A typical mammal lasts for a million years. We are not typical.
”You might think we are in the middle of history. But given the grand sweep, we are the ancients, we are at the very beginning of time. We live in the distant past compared to everything that will ever happen”, says William MacAskill, associate professor in philosophy at Oxford university.
MacAskill is the initiator of the Effective Altruism movement, which is about optimizing the good you can do for this world.
In his latest book, What We Owe the Future, he discusses how we should think and act to plan for an extremely long human future.
The book is basically optimistic. MacAskill thinks we have immense opportunities to improve the world significantly. But it dwells on the potential risks and threats that we must deal with.
MacAskill highlights four categories of risks: Extinction (everyone dying), collapse (so much destroyed that civilization doesn’t recover), lock-in (a long future but governed by bad values) and stagnation (which may lead to one of the former).
As for the risk of extinction, he concludes that newer risks that are less under control tend to be the largest, such as pandemics caused by man-made pathogens and catastrophes set off by artificial intelligence. Known risks like nuclear war and direct hits by asteroids have a potential to wipe out humankind, but since we are more aware of them we have some understanding of how to mitigate them or at least prepare for them.
Climate change tops the global agenda today, but although it is a problem we need to address, it is not an existential threat.
Artificial intelligence could lead to intense concentration of power and control. But AI could also have huge benefits. It can speed up science, and it can automate away all monotonous work and give us more time with family and friends and for creativity.
”The scale of the upside is as big as our imagination can take us.”
Humans have invented dangerous technology before and not used it to its full detrimental capacity.
”It is a striking thing about the world how much destruction could be reaped if people wanted to. That is actually a source of concern, because AI systems might not have those human safeguards.”
One prerequisite to achieve a better future is to actively change our values. There has been tremendous moral progress over the last couple of centuries, but we need to expand our sphere of moral concern, according to MacAskill.
”We care about family and friends and perhaps the nation, but I think we should care as much about everyone, and much more than we do about non-human animals. A hundred billion land animals are killed every year for food, and the vast majority of them are kept in horrific suffering.”
William MacAskill thinks some aspects of the course of history are inevitable, such as population growth and technological advancement, but when it comes to moral changes he is not sure.
”We shouldn’t be complacent. Moral collapse can happen again.”
William thinks we are at a crucial juncture in time.
”The stakes are much higher than before, the level of prosperity or doom that we could face.”
William and I have a discussion about the possibility that alien civilizations are monitoring us or have visited Earth. William is not convinced that the recent Pentagon disclosures actually prove alien presence, but he is open to it, and he has some thoughts on what a close encounter would entail.
We also talk briefly about the possibility of a lost human civilization and the cause of the extinction of the megafauna during the Younger Dryas. We have some differing views on that.
My final question is a biggie: Could humankind's next big leap be an inward leap, a raise in consciousness?
”It is a possibility. Maybe the best thing is not to spread out and become ever bigger but instead have a life of spirituality.”
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Everybody wants to forget about the pandemic, this bizarre period of aberrations. But the assessment of what played out and whether the many harsh policy decisions were called for has only begun.One of the saddest aberrations was infringements on freedom of speech. Few have experienced that more than Jay Bhattacharya, professor of health policy at Stanford. As one of the initiators of the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD), he was actively silenced by the government, which, it turns out, orchestrated a censorship campaign by way of the social media companies.The GBD promoted focused protection instead of sweeping lockdowns: Shield the elderly and let the young go to school. The signatories opined, on evidential grounds, that lockdowns were more harmful than the disease. They based their proposition on the fact that there is an extremely steep age gradient in the risk of dying from covid.There were early signs that this view was held by thousands of doctors. But the ruling class was not amused. People like Francis Collins, head of the NIH, wanted to take down the declaration, and its initiators were ostracized and censored.”My life is fundamentally transformed”, says Jay Bhattacharya.”I used to be a quiet scientist, but during the pandemic, I have had to take a very public role. That has been in some ways gratifying, but at the same time it has been traumatic. Many friendships have been broken.”At one point, he says, one hundred of his colleagues circulated a silent petition to try to get the president of Stanford university to silence him.”I have had lots of practice in how to forgive other people.”Since the summer of 2022, a lawsuit has been underway in which the Biden administration is accused of breaching the First Amendment, which protects freedom of speech. Jay Bhattacharya is one of the plaintiffs.”The evidence of this is remarkable. Government officials have coerced social media companies to censor ideas and certain people”, Jay says.”There is a censorship network in the government and a dozen agencies. You could call it a ministry of truth”, Jay says, referring to a term in George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.”This is the most important First Amendment case since at least the Pentagon papers (NYT v. USA; 1971). It’s been shocking to see the American government behave in this way.”According to Jay, the censorship may actually have led to more deaths than almost any other single policy, because harmful errors were not corrected in time.Jay thinks the lawsuit will go all the way up to the Supreme Court.– I don’t see how the government can win this.In this episode we also talk about• What the GBD did and did not propose.• How the declaration has been vindicated.• The Swedish pandemic model (”the best in the world”).• How leaders in almost the whole world were hypnotized by the draconian Chinese measures.• The continuous excess deaths (primarily caused by extended lockdown harm, according to Jay).• That more power to WHO is a ”terrible idea”.
The Great Barrington Declaration: https://gbdeclaration.org/The lawsuit: https://nclalegal.org/state-of-missouri-et-al-v-joseph-r-biden-jr-et-al/Jay at Stanford: https://profiles.stanford.edu/jay-bhattacharya
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