Thomas Sheridan thread

[Conaire]

I have not seen mention on the forum of this guy before and I think he deserves his own thread. Thomas Sheridan is an artist, author, musician, public speaker and independent researcher. His first book "Puzzling People-the Labyrinth of the Psychopath" takes an in-dept look at how the mind of the psychopath works and is a guide at how to identify and avoid such entities. Psychopathy is a major theme in his work, including his second book titled "Defeated Demons". His most recent book "The Anvil of the Psyche" deals with social manipulation through popular culture.

his website http://www.thomassheridanarts.com

With that I would like to introduce his Radio Show "The Velocity of Now", currently (July 2013) in its second week. I have linked the first episode here. In it he talks about the power of popular culture and creativity and art. He believes creativity challenges the Status-Quo, the psychopathic mind can not create, it can only plagiarize, and how art and the creative process is the "way out of this mess".

I find him very interesting, articulate, well thought out, down to earth and practical. He very much talks about the here and now, which I personally appreciate.

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[dianna]

Thomas Sheridan is very interesting, and very intelligent -- I just listened to his new radio show --- His books "Puzzling People" and "Anvil of the Psyche" were very interesting as well, I highly recommend them (especially "Puzzling People") --- What is most interesting for me is that he equates the "Psychopath" in society with the Archons of Nag Hamadi (among other myths) --- I will be tuning into his show every week for sure

[northstar]

Sheridan is an artist and musician who decided to expose psychopaths in society. Psychopaths and Sociopaths are in the spotlight these days as increasingly more people write about them. There is a growing body of clinical research and literature on psychopaths.

When Dr. Robert Hare introduced his psychopathy checklist years ago he came under heavy attack from the psychiatric community but he has been thoroughly vindicated. Nowadays Hare's psychopathy checklist is widely used to diagnose the condition, especially in prisons.

One of the interesting things for me in this discussion is the whole idea of evil and evildoing. Many religious and pious people and even many New Age folks utterly reject the idea of evil and darkness, saying things like "we are all one" etc.

And yet, this growing body of scientific research on psychopaths tells us categorically that monsters walk among us, clothed in human skin. And these people are capable of doing horrific harm to other human beings without a second thought. Of course, the harm they do extends far beyond personal harm to another human being. Psychopaths can be found in all societies, all races, all religions. And they are often found in demanding professional positions requiring steady nerves and steely calculation.

Many people nowadays are looking at the truly appalling state that human greed and violence has brought to the world and they are suggesting that many of the 1%, the leaders, the movers and shakers, the controllers are actually psychopaths. If you take some time and get to know the psychopath profile it makes a huge amount of sense.

If you are interested in psychopathy and you would like somewhere to start your reading, Wikipedia has an excellent entry to get your started. And once you are familiar with the fundamentals, any of Sheridan's books would be good as well as Robert Hare's books.

Specifically with regards to Sheridan, he has a lovely gift of the gab and of course his talks are delivered with that charming Irish lilt. You can't go wrong watching Sheridan's Youtube videos. He is entertaining and informative. I would like to add a caveat however. If the only source of information you ever encounter on psychopaths is Sheridan's videos, you will not be getting a broad or fully accurate assessment of the topic. Robert Hare's books are the gold standard on psychopaths.

I thought it would be interesting to add the top 10 jobs that tend to attract psychopaths, and the jobs where the least number of psychopaths can be found - it is fascinating!!



Top 10 jobs that attract most psychopaths

http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/top-10-jobs-that-attract-most-psychopaths/

1. Chief executive officer
2. Lawyer
3. Media (Television/Radio)
4. Salesperson
5. Surgeon
6. Journalist
7. Police officer
8. Clergy person
9. Chef
10. Civil servant

Top 10 jobs that attract the least number of psychopaths

1. Care aide
2. Nurse
3. Therapist
4. Craftsperson
5. Beautician or stylist
6. Charity worker
7. Teacher
8. Creative artist
9. Doctor
10. Accountant

[Conaire]

Thanks for adding the list Northstar, I read that before. Makes a lot of sense, doesn't it. The list of professions that attract the psychopath lack empathy and a certain amount of ruthlessness is needed to succeed in a number if those professions. Whereas the other list, of the professions that attract the least amount if psychopaths, the opposite is true. Empathy and sympathy are traits needed to be successful.

[northstar]

Thanks for adding the list Northstar, I read that before. Makes a lot of sense, doesn't it. The list of professions that attract the psychopath lack empathy and a certain amount of ruthlessness is needed to succeed in a number if those professions. Whereas the other list, of the professions that attract the least amount if psychopaths, the opposite is true. Empathy and sympathy are traits needed to be successful.

very true Conaire!

You might consider changing the title of the thread to Thomas Sheridan thread (on Psychopaths) Many people are interested in the topic of psychopaths but Sheridan's name is not widely known so that would give additional helpful information to people that the thread is about the topic of psychopaths as demonstrated by Sheridan's work.

[donk]

Thanks for sharing his radio show, I didnt know about it

Can't seem to find it now, but if I recall correctly, he had a great couple part "round table" type thing with John Lash awhile back...anyone familiar? I'll keep looking...

[northstar]

Thanks for sharing his radio show, I didnt know about it

Can't seem to find it now, but if I recall correctly, he had a great couple part "round table" type thing with John Lash awhile back...anyone familiar? I'll keep looking...


http://youtu.be/z-LIwwmMeoU
http://youtu.be/PmuBBh0x6M4

And this page on John Lash's Gaiaspora site contains links to part 1, part 2 and part 3 of the Lash - Sheridan interview, as well as a gold mine of otther John Lash goodies.

http://gaiaspora.org/john-lash-audio-interviews/

[TheVoyager]

Yeah, he got out an interesting information.
I believe he also started a forum psychopathfree.com that he later left and their members were not impressed at all by how he behaved.

More information for your consideration:
From Internet Troll to Psychopathy Expert: The Con-Artistry of Thomas Sheridan (http://www.sott.net/article/249840-From-Internet-Troll-to-Psychopathy-Expert-The-Con-Artistry-of-Thomas-Sheridan)
http://the-real-thomas-sheridan.blogspot.com.es/

[northstar]

sott.net is run by Laura Knight Jadczyk. a woman who scammed a huge amount of money out of her adoring followers before she quickly ran from the USA.

I really don't want to stir up anything here. I am neither "pro" nor "con" re: Sheridan but I have done quite a bit of research into the woman behind sott.net and she gives me the heebie-jeebies. Again, that's my take on it based on my own discernment and my own reading and research. For those who support her, go right ahead - its a free world.

The thing about Sheridan is that he does not suffer fools gladly and he is not afraid to go "head to head" with someone like Laura Knight Jadczyk. Sheridan is by far not the first person to be publicly smeared and hung out to dry by her and her followers and he won't be the last, I'm sure.

Here is an expose of Laura Knight Jadczyk by Jay Wiedner.
http://jayweidner.com/LauraKnightFraud.html

[Conaire]

Here is the second episode of "The Velocity of Now".

In the second hour Thomas Sheridan talks about the Jimmy Savile case and his suspected involvement with Peter Sutcliffe, the serial killer also known as the Yorkshire riper. I found it quite upsetting to listen to, so be warned. It is not an easy listen.

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[Conaire]

Thomas Sheridan on "The Negative Mental Health and Social Affects of Being Caught Up in Hype and Hysteria".

ENGAGING WITH HYPE AND SENSATONALISM

If our thoughts do, in fact, fabricate or alter parts of our brain structure, then we have to develop a more personally responsive model of how we deal with information being presented to us. The mainstream media has known that we can be altered according to hype and sensationalism for decades. This is why, at the end of news broadcasts, we get the 'feel good' story: to give the viewer a rush of dopamine to off-set the adrenalin and other stress hormones from watching the bad news. The TV news programme is also read by attractive 'eye candy', which hooks the viewer by shooting straight for the libido as soon as the credits and dramatic music fades out. The reason why the main TV newscasts are at regular times during the day is because we need regular adrenaline and dopamine medication. This is not done by accident. This is all planned and all designed to turn the viewer into a junkie in search of a constant fix.


When it comes to 24-hour news channels, the effect is somewhat different. A sense of dependency on information is cultivated in the viewer; that some really important event might 'break' at any moment and will be of vital importance to the audience. In this situation, a sense of hypervigilance is the key to maintain the audience. The flashing 'BREAKING' logos which continually appear on the screen keep the viewer 'tuned in'. This is only possible using hype and sensation, and this is a co-dependency we all have to break free from.



The 'OMG!' response is not a natural reaction for human beings. In the wild, this would have had us eaten within seconds. This hysteria is a result of modern humans not being able to regulate our emotions as well as we should. We are encouraged to fly from one extreme to the next. Hence, when processing this information given to us, we have to learn to deal with it with less hysteria and more critical examination. The following graph illustrates how this can be done. Keep your emotions between the dotted lines. You'll find it improves your own quality of life and you'll become less stressful when confronted with any challenging stimuli.

http://thomassheridanarts.com/articles.php?article_id=56

[donk]

Great post, that's a very important nugget about the 24 hour news cycle encouraging the self destructive emotional swings from one extreme to the other. It is important to find all sources of the encouragement of that behavior, as well as how to recognize it in ourselves and productive ways to share it with others. It would go a long way in conflict resolution, starting on the interpersonal level.

Lot of good stuff to think about. One thing for certain, like it or not, this phenomenon or whatever you wanna call it does
one thing real well: teaching lesson after lesson....all to often...too many to handle well

[Conaire]

Thomas Sheridan on: Humour Defends Against Psychopaths

Gallows Humour was a term used to describe jokes being made among prisoners who are about to be condemned to death. The condition speaks volumes about the nature of the human resolve, how we can laugh in the face of oblivion. Likewise, soldiers in the heat of battle, often crack jokes or take jibes upon one another, even on the cusp of their own potential demise. There is a reason for this: we are being reminded by our subconscious minds that reality is bigger than this moment. Laughter is the communion with the eternal part of us which transcends our mortal limitations. It is the ultimate expression of human spirituality. Tibetan monks are known for 'laughing at demons' to expel them. Satire is the ultimate form of channelling. It is honest, it is pure and comes directly from the source of our existence.

Let me make one thing perfectly clear: I do not trust people who do not like smutty or politically incorrect jokes and neither should anyone else. These people who are so easily 'offended' ARE DEAD TO THEIR OWN HUMANITY.

This is why having no sense of humour is a sign of being spiritually vacant. Invoking political correctness is borne out of a fascistic psychopathic drive to control others opinions, coupled with an inability on the behalf of the 'offended' to see their own absurdity for what it is. We are all absurd to some degree. From hysterical and manipulative wealthy white homosexuals trying to invoke the 'minority' card for victim status and pity, bat **** crazy cult members, bolshy feminists, stately home 'socialists', and PSYCHOPATHS, I've never met a politically correct type who was a decent human being at their core, and I've never met a Gay man who loved dirty jokes who wasn't a wonderful, trustworthy human being. Why do you think George Carlin, Bill Hicks and Steve Hughes are considered central figures within this movement? Their smutty humour included. Think about that one 'spiritual. mother****ers. It is all in the delivery, context and intent - like Reginal D Hunter the African-American comic states; "Was there hatred in your heart when you said it? No, then don't get neurotic about it."

Which brings me to the purpose of this article. Last Wednesday night myself, James Corbett and Jay Weidner were generously offered up to the radio listening world by Vinny Eastwood - a radio host who gets the power of humour and satire when taking on globalist 'scumbaggery'. The topic of the show was how to deal with psychopathic individuals, psychopathic cult leaders and their mindless proto-psychopathic followers, psychopathic co-workers and leadership structures.

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What was so refreshing was that all four of us agreed on the same approaches:

You can never cure a psychopath
You can only get away from them (No Contact Ever Again)
Psychopaths are devious, but lack wisdom
Seeking revenge is pointless - let them die by depleting them of energy
Non-compliance with psychopathic systems is better than trying to reform them
Let psychopaths go on smear campaigns until everyone else realise that it is the psychopath who is the only individual doing this
LAUGH AND MAKE SATIRE about psychopaths and psychopathic systems

http://thomassheridanofficialblog.blogspot.ie/

[AutumnW]

Voyager, I've communicated with Thomas Sheridan and found him to be polite, encouraging and not afraid to stand up to online bullies. I am familiar with the forum he frequented and fell out of favor with. The forum is moderated by hyper-vigilant, professional misery mongers who label or at least imply posters they don't like (for reasons known only to themselves) as psychopathic, toxic or etc.

The administrator on Psychopath Free forum's definition of a troll: "A troll isn't someone who necessarily disagrees with you. It's someone who comes on to the forum and has 'big ideas' of their own!" If a new poster puts forth a well considered opinion, they are, by definition a troll. Further to being a labelled a troll, they are summarily kicked off the site without warning. A thread is then created about that poster. I carefully assessed Psychopath free's forum as one of their members was given the kangaroo court treatment. The new poster had some interesting things to say, was helpful and seemed very good-hearted. If Thomas Sheridan received the type of treatment she did, I wouldn't trust their interpretation of the person or events.

[Flash]

Voyager, I've communicated with Thomas Sheridan and found him to be polite, encouraging and not afraid to stand up to online bullies. I am familiar with the forum he frequented and fell out of favor with. The forum is moderated by hyper-vigilant, professional misery mongers who label or at least imply posters they don't like (for reasons known only to themselves) as psychopathic, toxic or etc.

The administrator on Psychopath Free forum's definition of a troll: "A troll isn't someone who necessarily disagrees with you. It's someone who comes on to the forum and has 'big ideas' of their own!" If a new poster puts forth a well considered opinion, they are, by definition a troll. Further to being a labelled a troll, they are summarily kicked off the site without warning. A thread is then created about that poster. I carefully assessed Psychopath free's forum as one of their members was given the kangaroo court treatment. The new poster had some interesting things to say, was helpful and seemed very good-hearted. If Thomas Sheridan received the type of treatment she did, I wouldn't trust their interpretation of the person or events.

I had a "brief" experience with that forum. I was literally lashed on by one of the moderator/owner, very abusively, after I presented what I thought were intelligent points, based on my life experience and my readings. Not knowing that the lashing was coming from a mod/owner, thinking it was from a simple member, I answered point by point proving that the lashing was bullying and quite psychopathic, at least in my idea (I studied psychopathy for my own needs and for seminars I presented). The lashing posts were taken down right away, with no excuse or whatever else. No need to say that I would never open up about any experience/knowledge I had with such people. They have proven to me that Sheridan was right to get away and I do doubt whatever happened with members of that forum team, everything being subject to personal interpretation from manipulative people imo.

[AutumnW]

Flash,

I wrote this up a couple of months ago. I'm sure you concur!:thumb:

Psychopath Free forum reenacts trauma for certain posters and provides the masked moderators and administrator a chance to replay their own traumas from a position of control and domination. This is not to say they are psychopaths, however, forums of this nature can create a 'psychopathic space' that parallels psychopathic abuse in some remarkable ways. For example.....

Psychopaths employ cloaking mechanisms to hide who they really are.


Psychopaths encourage their victim to open up emotionally and deeply, soon after meeting. The victim is forming a bond—but to the disordered, she is just one more human to use and then discard.


Psychopaths are cavalier and cruel, sometimes by design and other times due to their entirely false and superficial nature. They will delete victims from their life, at the drop of a hat, without explanation, or closure.


Psychopaths are most at home online, surfing different dating sites or forums where their interpersonal past is unknown. Any negative information that does bleed through can easily be dismissed by the glib wordsmiths using clever smear campaigns.



Warning:

Frequenting a support group where all the administrators and mods are anonymous, (regardless of the practical reasons for maintaining anonymity) is like attending a masked ball. As their identities are veiled they can act with a certain amount of impunity.


Some support forums do a decent job in spite of this. The administrators remember they are dealing with fellow human beings who possess a full panoply of emotions and attitudes. If they have a problem with a poster the mods address it thoroughly using the private message feature. They don't cold shoulder, deny they are having a problem with the poster and then--when confronted-- expel them from the forum.


They don't refer to the expelled poster as toxic, nor would they accuse her of ulterior motives. They would never conclude after an attack of this nature that they made the forum safer by expelling her.


They do not dissect or post mortem the re-victim's posts, after the fact, in a virtual kangaroo court. Nobody should be subject to this, particularly someone on a support forum for victims of abuse.


People who have suffered any kind of trauma should think twice before seeking help online. The online realm can feel compellingly real-- where people can be sincere or insincere, have depth of spirit and emotion and concern or anything and everything in between.


The new forum member won't necessarily glean an understanding of the state of mind of the forum controllers unless she trips some emotional wire. And when mods, admins have hyper-vigilance issues, you might not know when or how you are tripping wires.


If you observe any of this kind of behavior and sycophantic fawning from a small tight circle of posters, towards the administrators or moderators, exercise caution. The forum may help you, but the potential is there for it to hurt you when you can least afford to be hurt.


Ideally, those who have been through a psychopathic encounter which turned out to be tragically superficial need help from real people, in a real space, who are accountable for their actions. Failing that, an online forum presided over by a qualified unmasked professional who can be held accountable for her online behavior should be a minimal requirement. A professional therapist, familiar with group dynamics and traumatic stress can point out the tendency to over interpret and categorize too broadly, as it occurs. In other words knee jerk fundamentalist thinking or, 'to a man with a hammer, every(one) looks like a nail,' isn't as much of an issue.

Thomas Sheridan is an excellent source of information. I highly recommend his books, his videos...and I am NOT him!

[AutumnW]

A little more about Laura Knight Jadyzyk--Colleen Johnston:

Authors note: I am an ex-cult member as well as one of the past lead channels for a cult in which I was involved for about eight years. I was not the leader but was in what was called ‘The Triad’ (which was the group leader, another lead channel, and myself) within a similar group and feel fully qualified to speak out about the Cassiopaeans an the channeling's of Laura Knight Jadczyk. I left the Council group in 1995 and have continuously researched similar groups. I can attest to the similarities and the betrayal by these group leaders, including the money scams the ‘Cassiopaeans’ and Laura Jadczyk perpetuates. It is similar to the group I was apart of because the ideologies are so similar. Even the catch phrase of ‘Knowledge Protects’ is similar to ‘Knowledge is Power’ that the guru I was involved with used. Because of my extensive knowledge into the trappings one gets into in such groups, I see very similar’ revelations’ from the Council verses the Cassiopaeans. If I receive a response from the Jadczyk or other irate cult members I will also post them here. It’s time to expose these group leaders for exactly what they are – unscrupulous frauds with potential life threatening psychosis. This particular group is far from being a love and light - airy fairy type of ideology - they pose a real threat to people who are searching for something to explain odd events. Colleen



A subscription to Casschat – a chat room discussion headed by Laura or another designated member that Laura trusts and reports back to Laura any discord. Red flag!
A person must put all their sacred beliefs aside. Red flag!
A person must have read all of the wave series and adventures series on Laura’s website. Red flag!
Suggested (although not a requirement) buying and reading all of Laura’s books. Close to pushing a Red Flag
A requirement of a being monitored by the Admission Committee a minimum of three month's participation in the public Cassiopaean Forum, Casschat.. Another Red Flag!!!



Rules of Engagement:

No insults and vulgar posts (which is reasonable)
Open Discussion of sharing the ‘free will’ Cassiopaean information (other discussion off topic or between individual people is discouraged and told to be done in private).
Discussion of topics related to the cosmos, sex, angels, demons, good verses evil, etc are posted (IF it follows her ‘Knowledge Protects’ policy and is based on the Cassiopaean Initiatory Teachings. Red Flag
No post on belief systems outside of the Cassiopaean guidelines. Really Big Red Flag!
Postings are monitored and deleted if objectionable. Red Flag
Disinformation Operatives (people who complain or abject to Cassiopaean materials) are warned then expelled from the school and banned from the list. Scare tactic.

http://www.maar.us/laura_knight_jadczyk.html

[AutumnW]

Thomas Sheridan's best work, and how I became familiar with him is from his 'Labyrinth of a Psychopath.' There are several videos in this series. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tro2U-cezqo

[dianna]

Thomas is discussing literature lately --- "East of Eden" (Steinbeck) and "Last Exit to Brooklyn" (Selby) two fascinating reads:

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"I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents. Some you can see, misshapen and horrible, with huge heads or tiny bodies. . . . And just as there are physical monsters, can there not be mental or psychic monsters born? The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?"


In John Steinbeck 1952 novel East of Eden we are presented with what must be the most perfect description of a female psychopath in modern literature. The description of Cathy Ames' pathology - even down to her high-testosterone physiology - leaves the reader in no doubt that Steinbeck, or someone he was closely associated with, must of crossed paths with a female psychopath who served as the real life inspiration for this literary 'monster'.

“the eyes of Cathy had no message, no communication…they were not human eyes”

Steinbeck depicts her as small-breasted, delicate and a sense of strange, if not dangerous allurement to both men and women. Her attractiveness fools most whom she encounters, although some characters in the novel detect her true nature from her emotionless eyes. Even at a young age her father is aware she is not a typical child. Approaching puberty, she becomes aware of the power of human sexuality over others. As the novel nears conclusion, Cathy develops crippling arthritis in her hands, and by middle age is described as “a sick ghost”

Parasitic and manipulative, Cathy is the embodiment of what we have come to recognise as possessing the traits of the female psychopath. She embraces wickedness and depravity wholeheartedly and indulges evil simply for its own sake; the psychopathic 'rush'.


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The Culture Gods and the Murder of the Soul


As is the case with nearly every true work of literary genius, the population of the time – and in particular the citizens of the homeland of the novelist – remain blissfully unaware, or even disdaining of the individual who may have produced one of their nation's greatest cultural masterpieces. This strange paradox generally comes about because the true artist holds up a mirror to not only the beauty and goodness, but also all the ugliness and failings of their native land and the inhabitants therein. Great works of art are morally neutral and neither seek to shock or charm their intended audience. Meaningful art that touches the soul of the viewer, the reader, or the movie watcher is never minimalist, nor designed to incite shock for shock's sake. It does not have to, because it is already meaningful by virtue of the fact that it directly plunges the observer into the denied abyss of their own guilt, shame and failures. Sometimes its effect can literally torment the soul of an entire nation. Not because it feels a duty to do this, but because the expression is a result of repressed darkness and hidden evils of the society. It has to be purged.

As Carl Jung stated: “The Shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the Shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognising the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge, and it therefore, as a rule, meets with considerable resistance.”

Staring at one's personal and/or collective Shadow is perhaps one of the most psychologically cleansing undertaking that we can indulge in – both personally and as a society. It is also one of the most difficult tasks for most human beings to even consider doing. We spend our entire lives being lovebombed by advertisers selling us products we don't need, and politicians making us promises they won't deliver. Humans have been conditioned to see themselves as an on-going work-in-progress on the road to their eventual perfection – all we have to do is buy the right stuff and say the right things along the way and we'll get there. Maybe.

Only in the darkness of one's soul, or visceral personal reflection can the flickering light of the unpolluted psyche be unleashed and thus made conscious. Taking this one step further, there is nothing wrong with artistic discourse, mass media and even religion forcing us to stare into the darkness of our own emotional and psychological labyrinth. The problem arises when the journey into the Shadow becomes purposeless and morbid for morbidity's sake. Then, there is no transcendence. There is no redemption. Art should only seek to shock the audience in order to allow the audience to explore and possibly wake up the dormant aspects of the psyche; not to make the artist famous and/or notorious.

A horror movie or novel only has value if it is cleansing the psychology through the unfolding and turbulent resolution of the narrative. Take the movie The Exorcist, for example. This is, at its very core, a touching story of unconditional love for the innocence of a child possessed by a demon – in which complete strangers are willing to die to save this child. On the other hand, movies such as the Saw series unleash nothing. They are shock art – they pose no questions. This is the only kind of negative soul-searching we are allowed. The lords of culture allow us into the nightmare, but they demand a ransom to allow us to wake up again. Movies such as The Exorcist came from a golden age of Hollywood during the 1970's where directors were actually making movies which were of value to the collective human experience. Then ET came along and we were trivialised back into the control system, the fantasy, the off-planet beings who might come back and save us from ourselves one day. Maybe.

Generally, we are conditioned to feel good about ourselves and defend our own culture, social status and ideals – even though none of these are a product of the society itself. These are just logos – symbols of no real moral or spiritual consequence. Just as when one dies for a flag, a piece of cloth, an insignia which only dictates the artificial identity upon the patriot. Does the flag care that you died for it? Does the oil company care that you are lying in a VA hospital with no arms and legs while they put an extra couple of dollars on the price of a barrel of crude? Of course not. It was only the delusion that you were being an 'American Hero' – fed to you by media and cultivated 'killing magic' movies such as Jarhead which deluded you into thinking such. We are conditioned to never be able to handle the truth. When the truth slips out, the messenger is called a traitor, a degenerate and a menace to decent society.

Such is the case with Hubert Selby Jr's remarkable 1964 novel Last Exit to Brooklyn, perhaps the greatest work of fiction by an American author and one of the most spiritually uplifting narratives set in a world saturated with whores, transvestites, bisexuals and a seemingly endless plethora of malcontents and ordinary losers. The story takes place in and around the dysfunctional and often meaningless existences of people under the shadow of the Brooklyn Navy Yard during the early 1950's. The book, upon its initial publication, was originally savaged by critics and moral guardians alike. Billy Graham, the superstar evangelist, literally declared war on the novel and its author. Hiding his true motives behind platitudes of 'indecency' and immorality'. What really terrified the reactionary bible thumping Christian cleric and others like him is that Hubert Selby Jr managed to put more spirituality into the pages of his incredibly dark and disturbing Last Exit to Brooklyn than any evangelical minister could possibly hope to put into a mega church sermon. Why? Because Last Exit to Brooklyn showed the reader that through darkness and misery can be the most meaningful shortcut to the soul.

Last Exit to Brooklyn is a prime example of what the control grid do not want us to think and feel deeply about – that more often than not, the only worthy redemption is in the misery and trauma of human earthly existence and, like it or not, we need to find this salvation by ourselves alone. No pastor can lead you there, and no psychiatrist has a clue where to even point in this direction beyond writing out another prescription. You have no choice but to carry your own cross on the final journey towards your own psyche's resurrection and salvation. Often, it involves great personal suffering; sometimes it can be a seemingly pointless death. But therein lies the ultimate secret that the lords of culture labour day and night to keep us from becoming conscious of: When Life is a Bitch, it is then You Start Living.

However, the lords of culture have always sought to make us believe that suffering and pain are only precursors to therapy and products: from anti-depressants to religion. We are never told that there is a difference between a vision and dream. A vision is reality, a dream is a delusion, and they have all kinds of entertainment dream factories to prevent us from attaining that meaningful vision which might actually wake us up.

Last Exit to Brooklyn also broke convention in much the same manner as James Joyce had previously done earlier in the last century by changing the nature of language, syntax and grammar to literally beat the reader into the lives of the characters. The New York Times trashed this unique approach when the book was first published – although in typical liberal style, they now sing its praises. Mainly because most Americans have not only not read Last Exit to Brooklyn, but many have no idea that it even exists. Ah, the cache of elitism... The other side of the cultural deception. Under no circumstances should you say that the Turner Prize is a joke, lest you betray your ignorant and uncultured self.

If they did read Last Exit to Brooklyn, most Americans – even in the 21st century – would be shocked at the image the book paints of the underbelly of American life which is so far removed from the white picket fences and Norman Rockwell-illustrated covers of the Saturday Evening Post. There is no happy ending to the novel – well, on the surface, that is. No hero gets saved except for one profound moment of some deep spiritual insight when the lying and thieving prostitute TraLaLa, after a night of being subjected to a drunken gang bang by dozens of US service men and various waterfront lowlifes, is saved by the teenage boy to whom she showed encouragement and subtle affection earlier on in the week. Her one act of decency to a teenage boy resulted in a whore being saved from being raped to death by the 'Heroes' in and around the Brooklyn Navy Yard. A Mary Magdalene of the Beat Generation. Except this whore was too realstic to be accepted.

We are constantly being culturally divided. We are told to pick sides and then maintain that self-delusion of being 'cultured', 'moral', 'edgy', 'respectable', 'raunchy' and 'restrained'. In all these cases, the label is a lie. We are all and none of these things in each and every one of us. We are all capable of degeneracy and salvation, and we often move through these states without even knowing it every day of out lives. At the end of the day, we then sit down to watch the 700 Club or the Playboy Channel, convinced that everyone else is either immoral or uptight. We never stop to think why we make these assumptions.

The answer is straight-forward enough: we have been given personal identity products which are as artificial as we are. Screaming 'Hallelujah!' at the TV evangelist, or masturbating to the silicone implants of this month's Playmate. It's all the same thing when the cul-de-sac of one's existence comes terrifyingly into view.

Once you pay the bill at the end of the month and stop thinking for yourself, then the control grid and their lords of culture will provide you with just enough choices to keep you feeling that you have a choice – except for the choice that allows you to actually think for yourself. That's not an option.

[grannyfranny100]

A You tube search "Labyrinth of the Psychopath" brings up Sheridan's initial series before the book was published. It is a good starting point on psychopaths in down to earth language. Sheridan really started the popularization of the topic. Until then, the topic was academically oriented to the ones in jail.

Now we are beginning to realize that such a mind set is quite evident in TPTB and many "false flag" events. Since the publication of the book, Sheridan has done numerous interviews, some better than others depending on the quality of the interviewer. So please view several to find good interviews.

Some people continue to believe psychopaths can be helped but you will be less likely to agree if you have one in your family. You will suffer immensely if you take that approach. Before you spend years with amateur psychology and religious doctrines trying to help, read what you can. Once you face the reality of what the family member is, please heed Sheridan's advice to stay away from them. It is the only way to stay sane. Otherwise it can take years to undo the damage they will do to you and other family members.

[dianna]

Thomas' latest radio show --- Hour 2 is especially interesting, talks about who is infiltrating truth groups and internet forums and sometimes even running them -- and the techniques that shut down normal people who are just trying to share information in an honest manner

Hour 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq2-2SgdBRA&feature=share&list=UUFfLoo34R6z0hz-9pZtBuHQ

Hour 2


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKaIvsKtYl8&feature=share&list=UUFfLoo34R6z0hz-9pZtBuHQ

[dianna]

Why do I love this guy? because he is fresh, and says what he thinks … oh, and I think sometimes he must be from Jersey … lol

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Graham Hancock Automatic Facebook Comment Generator


"The timing of the traffic lights is too long at the junction to the main road near my house. If the traffic management officials were forced to drink Ayahuasc seven times and the motorists were taking shrooms while driving we could solve that problem. The political imperative must now be to get as much of society wasted on drugs and meditation before they realise they are living in a taxation prison system run by psychopaths who want us paying loads of taxes or else dead. We are dealing with an inhuman situation were by babies are not given their first spliff when they come out of the womb. Drugs and restoring the Stoned Ape is the only hope...Take more drugs and do Russell Brand's meditation. Keep taking drugs, ignore Government policy...do not get angry...more and more drugs."

- Graham Hancock

(not really - but not far either from most of the Druggie rubbish he posts these days)



But seriously, I am literally shocked at how much Graham Hancock is pushing drugs as the solution to everything. His Facebook page is non-stop hyping-up DMT like it is the only thing that matters in this life, and for the human race moving forward. Politicians must be loving it. Brave New World here we come.

People who have met him have told me that Mr Hancock is a very nice man, and as fan of his early work, I am at a loss as to see how hooked on reviving this absurd 'stoned ape' nonsense he has become. Our ancestors were creative, dynamic and infused with adaptive genius, not stoners who got lucky. They tackled problems directly and with ingenuity. They did not chew on a few mushrooms and wait for the 'gods' to provide them with answers. It this was true - they would of been food for tigers and we - their ancestors - would not exist today.

So why are we now bombarded with this idea of get them stoned as much as possible, and transcendental meditating as young as possible and they won't be a problem to the ruling classes. You just know the synthetic DMT pill is only a few years away. You think it's hard to find a cognitive human being these days with a real fire in their hearts and that spark of creative life in them...just wait 20 years and watch the 'spiritual' zombies everywhere. It's be like the Eloi in the Time Machine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irSwMr9Zxs0


This is the future Graham Hancock and Russell Brand are offering. Catatonic, 'spiritual' completely docile halfwits without conversational skills, no spark of life or creativity. Naturally all of them on the GMO vegetarian diet. Eventually to become fertilizer themselves for the psychopaths. Can't say they didn't warn you...in'it.

and this is a real quote:


“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution”

― Aldous Huxley

[donk]

Great posts, bumping--you gotta check out Sheridan, breath of fresh air

[dianna]

Cults: Stage Two of the Control Grid

You are awake, aware or spiritual? If you follow a cult. You just found another trap.

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Did you Wake Up Only to become another kind of "Sheep" for an Alternative 'News' Site?

Thomas Sheridan on TnS Radio on Cults


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjAzmV64IfE

[grannyfranny100]

As George Carlin said and I paraphrase, our sovereign rights are being taken and we believe we still have freedom because we have a choice among 23 kinds of bagels.

Thanks to Thomas Sheridan's insights and Bill Ryan's commitment to diverse dialogue, we have some tools against cultist tendencies.

[donk]

This one captures why this guy is my favorite "thinker" of the day...it captures nearly every idea I find important, in a sensible down-to-earth way, so much so that I sent it to one of my best friends I've been trying to "come out of the alternative closet" with, but she is a hard core atheist and skeptic so has been gentle treading.

Anyways, as far as "disclosure" of truth (minus all the aliens), this is as good as it gets:

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[Oouthere]

I don't know how I missed this, but Sheridan is great!!! I've only listened to one of his talks on youtube (with numerous interruptions on my end), but this man mixes humor and reality very well. Here's a couple of his jokes...

I've become addicted to drinking Brake Fluid. Don't judge me! I can stop any time I want to.

I had a past life regression session! OMG it was amazing. I discovered I used to be a pipe fitter named Barry Piles who lived in Birkenhead. He started working for the council there at 19 and retired at 65 and died a year later. Even more amazing he had no hobbies, never married and the only time he left Birkenhead was a trip to Southport to buy a part for a broken toaster. Beat that all you previous Cleopatras and Mozarts!

I refused to register my septic tank with the government because they are not getting their hands on my ****.

Anyway, definitely worth a look if someone needs humor instilled into serious topics!

[AutumnW]

Bump...Psychopath free is getting a very bad name. Just heard from another individual recently that she has been warned away from the site. That's what happens when anything or anyone comes into close proximity to LKJ. PP forum formed ties, albeit probably temporary ones with Cass forums and Sheridan suffered as a consequence.

But thank goodness the word's out. People are staying away in droves. Cass forums are disturbing, suspicious verging on paranoia and moderated by some laugh out loud arrogant types.

[dianna]

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Part I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLdoR82RJH0

Part II

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnUEdOl8Cnk

[dianna]

Men of Europe, Put Down the Eckhart Tolle Book and Pick up Your Sword
Thomas Sheridan
http://thomassheridanofficialblog.blogspot.ie/2014/07/men-of-europe-put-down-eckhart-tolle.html

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Remember who you really are...

The New Age Tactical Spiritual Military Industrial Complex supports murder and genocide. What is happening in Gaza today will eventually take place in London, Dublin, New York, Lisbon, Barcelona, Oslo, Glasgow, Melbourne, Stockholm, Auckland and Cape Town and wherever you are reading this article. Notice is being served upon all humanity. Not just the people of the Gaza strip. The hunt is on and we are all the prey of NATO and the Globalists. The main tactic for keeping us easy targets in the West right now is the New Age Tactical Spiritual Military Industrial Complex.

Eckhart Tolle is your enemy. Seek to destroy what he represents. Straight on to Oprah from out of nowhere. He plays the 'I'm Gentle' persona. So fake and so very, very dangerous. Men are warriors - we are not meant to be like this. The neutered man-boy who will never be a man and who only grows up to be the daughter of himself.

He is a creation of the Tactical Spiritual Military Industrial Complex. "Lie down and let the world savage you." - that's all he says. The children in Gaza being burnt alive by phosphor bombs need to send more light towards the IDF helicopter gunships apparently. Russell Brand issuing platitudes such as "we need to shift our narrative" is the same mindless 'come and slaughter us all' bull****.

These gurus will never come out and say what needs to be really said.

There is only one quote relating to the Gaza situation which can be made:


"Israel/NATO, **** off and stop being an evil genocidal hit man for the Globalists."

Everything else is either a cop-out or hidden approval of the Psychopathic Control Grid.

All these New Age bull****ters, from the ones who talk to aliens and tell people to wait for an event (which never arrives) to the 'Free Energy is coming soon' pimps, all have to be ignored. It's all a psy-op - all of it.

Laurel Canyon and the Hippie Movement wasn't just about music.

Same rule applies to these New Age 'Rainbow Warriors' and Pentagon psy-ops such as Burning Man. Burning Man is Babylon, and a desecration of the Native Americans and their land. It is filth and excrement based on money and organised stupidity. This is but one example of the New Age Tactical Spiritual Military Industrial Complex at work to fool us all. There is no deep meaning, no emotional and psychological 'relief' or 'purging' at such events. It only ends up pushing the Shadow down deeper until it explodes as resentment and blame.


FORGET THE ALIENS/ANGELS/CHANNELLING BOLLOX AND LOOK TO NATURE

We are surrounded by the living Gods of our homelands. They live in the rivers, in the trees and within the spirits of the animals of the forest. They are all uniquely local to the culture and are hard-wired into your DNA from your ancestors and are just waiting to be found again. You can get there by communicating with your ancestors; via everything from entering and becoming 'found' in the natural landscape, to owning a sword, banging a drum, to making your own clothes from natural yarns as well as working with the natural materials our ancestors worked with. Read and listen to the legends and sagas; it unleashes dormant aspects of the psyche which will serve you better than having your Western mind subjected to Amazonian and Tibetan rituals.

We are not from those places. Our DNA has no connection to them.

This is why the Control Grid seeks to separate us from the real nature of our homelands and make the natural world our 'victim', forever in danger of being destroyed so we never discover our true identity.

The Earth cannot be destroyed by humans. We are not the enemy of nature. We are nature.

The Psychopaths in Charge are an outside virus making us think this way; with everything from Monotheism to New Age bull****. They do not want us working with wood, collecting seaweed and other wild foods, swimming in wild rivers and looking at the real stars above our heads in the night sky.

The Globalists also know the power of, and fear the awesome energy in the archetypes of our ancestors and hence, why they imported Monotheism into our homelands and then later invented the New Age to stop us rediscovering our true identity. They maintain control by making false races and false religions - which they created - and then have them fight and blame each other. Then they tell us the only way out of this quagmire is New Age Bull**** or the Agenda 21 techno-gulags.

The Psychopathic Control Grid especially hates it when Europeans start discovering their roots. It has now reached the stage where more people of European ancestry are looking towards imaginary aliens and space fairies in other galaxies than even considering incorporating the rich pre-Christian heritage and spirituality of their real, living Teuton, Viking, Gael, Anglo-Saxon, Goth, Celtic and Slavic ancestors into their own lives.

Likewise, they do not want African Americans feeling 'African' and they have done everything to slaughter and remove the Gypsies and the Native Americans. At the end of the day, all organic cultures the world over are equally worthy of respect and must be kept undistorted by the New Age Tactical Spiritual Military Industrial Complex and imported Middle Eastern Monotheism.

Your own native culture is your only realistic path to finding meaning in your own life.

Your DNA is wired into the landscape and arts/stories of your ancestors. Honour this, no matter from whence your ancestors came. Your roots go back to the people who built the incredible stone monuments and crafts they have left us. They were the creations of YOU and not some aliens who arrived in a spaceship.

The New Age, just like Monotheism, is about making us forget who we were meant to be. All of us humans.

Laugh at these clowns such as Eckhart Tolle and ignore them. Then get busy finding the answer - not in the Amazon or Tibet, but under your own feet.


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[dianna]

Walpurgis Night Interview on the Free Truth Show September 11, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR6tMfGi_AQ


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb1cZP_2CDg

[donk]

I missed this first time around, he posted it up on his facebook today, interesting (dire) post on psychic attacks:

http://thomassheridanofficialblog.blogspot.ie/2014/10/psychic-attacks-are-very-real-and-very.html


Psychic Attacks are Very Real and Very Dangerous

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It is almost impossible to explain to another person what it feels like to be the target of a psychic attack. Mainly due to the fact that one is rarely able to effectively articulate the experience in a satisfactory manner - both conceptually and cognitively – even to oneself, let alone to anyone else whom you may wish to confide in, as you attempt to describe to another person your traumatised and tormented state of being while one is undergoing the horrors of a psychic attack. How does one even begin to explain that you feel as if an invisible vampire is draining the very life force out of you? However, when one is under psychic attack, it is an experience to be endured unlike any other after the battle has ended, and it is very much a real battle in the most brutal sense of the word.

[norman]

I sometimes think we need a thread here just for conversations. Good conversations don't stick to librarian topic segregation and are hard to place in such a structure.

The Cosmic Salon is in my top 10 favourite conversational podcasts and Thomas Sheridan turned up as a guest recently.


The Cosmic Salon - A chat with Thomas Sheridan (https://podbay.fm/p/the-cosmic-salon/e/1694827364)
1 hour - Posted Sep 16, 2023


SHOW NOTES
Thomas Sheridan is a Film maker and published author and self-published since 2011. Titles Include Puzzling People, The Druid Code, and Walpurgis Night among others. From Dublin Ireland.

Thomas and I covered a lot of ground in this first hour. The Shadow Hand. Clown world. Perceptions of reality. Agendas. The weaponization of institutions. The children. Weather warfare. And so much more. We shall have a part two sometime in Oct so stay tuned and stay frosty.

[Brigantia]

Aha, I've found a Thomas Sheridan thread! :sun: Just the place for an email that he sent out recently that addresses the mess we're in today. Whilst there is not much of a push-back in England and to a lesser extent Scotland to the present state of the British Isles, Wales and Ireland are fighting back - here's what he says about Ireland...

"The West is doomed. Apart from this civilisation surviving as a kind of wandering gypsies custodial culture moving into the future (and this is no bad thing), for the first time in the history of Western Civilisation—from the time of the Trojan Wars to around the events following 9-11 and the coup by the America NeoCons upon the human race happened—this is the first time we can conclusively say it is over. For now anyway. Such a sentiment was not been felt during the time of the Huns, nor the Ottoman Empire, or the Moorish Caliphate. There was always a belief that the present situation—as hard as it is—was temporary. Even within my own country the notion of the British Empire would be gone one day was practically an instinctual idea our ancestors all held innately.

And so it was, with the advancement of Western Civilisation itself and then during the period following the Protestant Enlightenment; that each successive generation would enjoy more social and economic freedoms. Along with with improved standards of living and overall personal and social health. During the post World War Two period in the United States in particular (but not exclusively to there), it was a given that the children of parents would have a brighter and better future than what they had themselves been given by their own parents. A beautiful and simple idea of personal and social freedom which had its origins within the Slave Revolts of Ancient Rome.

Every person in the West had a right to exist and need be, fight for something more than being someone else’ property. In fact, the West has stood for nothing else and from this sense of self, concepts such as freedom of speech and personal expression bore fruit and thus Western Civilisation provided a role model for societies everywhere to aspire to. If individuals could not attain it within their own homelands, they could emigrate to the West and obtain it there. A simple and beautiful situation billions of humans have had their lives greatly enriched by.

Then in the decades following the 9-11 events in Lower Manhattan. Which led to the rise of the Bush-Clinton-Obama-Biden NeoCons giving them the excuse they needed to unleash their Technocratic New American Century, it all began to fall apart. In the United States something almost incomprehensible began to happen. Life Expectancy began to drop with each passing year. Americans were no longer living longer, but were dying younger and younger. All manner of reasons have been given for this. Ranging from poor diets to over-dependency on prescription medications. However, I think it is something more profound than that.

About a decade ago a cow belonging to a neighbour of mine had a calf which died a few days after the mother had given birth. The female cow just gave up the will to live and sat there in the field refusing to eat or move until the heartbroken farmer had to call the vet to have it put to death. Americans became that cow following the Gulf Wars and the Patriot Act and now the rest of the West has followed along. When people have nothing to live for they will start to die. The sheer bleakness of the future presented to young people today gives them no reason to carry on. The Transhumanist hacks and implants of the Tech Industry will never replace the magic of the first date with your crush, or the joy of seeing the smile on the faces of children. Have you noticed less and less children smile these days? Well not in the West that is...

The Globalists of course take the blame for this situation. From the NeoCons robbing the US Treasury following 9-11, they are now—via the World Economic Forum—robbing the entire planet. This is their chance to restore feudalism beyond their wildest dreams. The only reason why Bill Gates and his ex-wife want you dead is because the less of us there are, the security of their own personal accumulative wealth remains intact. They played their genocidal philanthropath games in Africa, and then Covid gave them the opportunity to attack the rest of us. Who will ever forget when Gates turned to smirk in unison with his insidious courtesan of death Melinda after announcing that the next pandemic will ‘really make them take notice!’ Are these creatures even human?

However, the greatest crime and tragedy surrounding all this is that Western societies have been coached to give up their personal freedoms and freedom of speech. All the while the new ‘dreamers’, ‘doctors and engineers’ from overseas are imported—regardless of carbon miles or covid-vax status—not to avail of the majestic triumph of Western Civilisation, but to destroy it and then make it a facsimile of the ****holes and caliphates they left behind. Look at parts of Yorkshire, Malmo and the outer suburbs of Paris if you do not believe me. National politicians in the West are told by the Davos crowd that these are the people who will keep their political parties in power when the old racists and white bigots are exterminated by vaccines, or die from having lost the will to live. Tammany Hall is now a global concern.

At least the farmer cared and showed enough compassion for the cow dying in that field. You’ll be lucky if you get an email telling you they are giving your house to a family of ‘doctors and engineers’ newly arrived on some raft before you are given a liquidised cremation and then flushed into the sewerage system. The only reason this all happened is you were—as a friend of mine recently stated—more worried about some low level civil servant psychopath calling you a ‘racist’.

YET THERE IS HOPE - THERE IS WILL - THERE IS SPIRIT

If there is one thing we must grasp from this—is that—like the Spanish and Portuguese under the savage brutality of the Moorish Caliphate, the Bulgars and Serbs under the Ottomans, or my own people under the British Empire, is that we know this situation is temporary, and from the ashes of the Projects for the New American Centuries and Great Resets, the West will return. We are special. We are people whose ancestors lived in the cold north, conquered the American west, thrived in the Australian outback and survived every war, famine and disaster thrown at them. We carry within us the blood of people who took their wives and children into the most hostile and inhospitable landscapes and there triumphed. Regardless of the challenges and surrening they endured along the way.

This creates a spiritual legacy that has more staying power than some military aged man put up in free accommodation—by your apolitical classes—so he can riot over the poor internet connections or lack of Nutella. Compare the legacy of what we Westerners endured to that, and all it takes is for a small number of us to draw the line the fertile soils of Europe and North America and say ‘no more’.

While the brainwashed and terrified complacent majority—eager to please mass media psychotics and demented politically-motivated academics—know that the new arrivals will still come for them in time too. This day will arrive sooner than anyone will have expected and the ‘diversity folk’ will be doing us—the wandering survivors and custodians of Western Civilisation—a favour. Natural Law always settles every account at the end of trading. We’ll be ready for it when it happens. We’ll have kept the smiles on the faces of our own children. We will not lie down in the field to die. We will make that field bountiful again. Our ancestors carried the songs of Pan, Odin, Athena, Lugh and Vales in their hearts. The least we can do is keep their songs alive. The West maybe doomed for now. But it not destroyed. Like our ancestors knew the dead oak would come alive again with the arrival of Spring

Be strong. Hold what you have and just wait. Io Europa!"

[Delight]

This is a very interesting conversation.


Cancel This Podcast with Thomas Sheridan - May 4th, 2024

Thomas Sheridan is an Author, filmmaker, Alternative Folklorist, and Satirist who has spent a life from Wall Street to the Jungles of South Asia attempting to discover the emerging—often elusive—mythology of modern humans within the present technology-saturated era. Heavily inspired by the work of Carl Jung, Bruno Bettelheim, and Joseph Campbell, Thomas Sheridan has developed ‘Monomythic’ tool kits—which draw upon all the mythologies of the world.

He is interviewed by comedian and storyteller, Aidan Killian on the world we love today, starting with the Tuatha de Danann & Fomorians all the way up the crisis we face today as a humanity.

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[Brigantia]

A heads-up for anyone in Ireland; Thomas will be at a book signing by James P. Bruce in Dublin next month on Nov 22nd, he says "I'll be going to this if anyone wants to join and maybe for a few beers afterwards" - here are the details:

Book Launch: "TELEVISION DOESN'T LIKE REBELS"
The Life of Brian Cleeve

Nearly two decades ago I started to research the life of Brian Cleeve. This would have been around Easter 2005, two years after Brian died.

Anyone below pension age reading this might not know who Brian Cleeve was. Back in the 1960s he was a big star on Irish television, not as famous as Gay Byrne perhaps, but a well-known name in his own right.

As a kid growing up in an inner city housing estate I would have recognised Brian Cleeve’s face and voice, but that was about it. We lived in different worlds and I never dreamed I would ever meet the man - or that he would change the course of my life

My research into Brian Cleeve’s life fed into a biography I self-published in 2007. Now I have revised that book in a new edition called Television Doesn’t Like Rebels. The title comes from Brian’s response when he was asked why he disappeared from Irish TV screens. But it was not just television. He could have said something similar about other aspects of his life, like his childhood in an English boarding school, or his time in Africa as a British army officer, or the life-altering crossroads he arrived at in 1977.

Brian Cleeve was always a rebel. A thoughtful and well-spoken rebel, but a rebel nonetheless.

I will be launching Television Doesn’t Like Rebels in Dublin, Ireland, and I would love you to be there. Indeed if any of your family members or colleagues would be interested they are very welcome to come along too.

The details are as follows:

Date: Friday November 22nd 2024

Start time: 5:30pm

End time: 7:00pm

Location: Shanganagh Park House, Shankill, Co. Dublin

The venue is within walking distance of the local DART station. If you drive, there is plenty of parking nearby. Shankill itself is just off the M50 (junction 16) and the N11/M11 (Loughlinstown roundabout).

The launch event is free. There will be soft drinks, nibbles, one or two speeches (and maybe a surprise). However space is limited so I’d like some idea of numbers beforehand.

If you think you will be able to make it I’d appreciate a heads-up by Friday November 8th 2024. You can let me know through Substack or contact me via my website: jpbruce.ie.

I hope to see you there."

[norman]

Thomas Sheridan & Folkways Podcast
Inner Harp Productions - Jan 4, 2026


Thomas Sheridan & Ashleagh from Folkways Podcast sit down for the first time for Part 1 of an exclusive podcast together in Thomas's hometown in Sligo. They discuss a wide range of topics from Irish Folk Tales, Round Towers, Megaliths, Folk Magic, Faeries, Ring Forts, Stone Circles, Tolkien and Thomas's exciting new projects in production.


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