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[AutumnW]

Raskolnikov, I like your "whatever this is!" My husband and I used to comment that we should have, "Wow, that was weird," inscribed on our tombstones.

You imagine that after you pass over to the other side, you'll have a much clearer understanding of life, but it's more likely the weird, ineffable and incomprehensible is baked right into the universe, never to be held captive by our understanding.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Chip (here)
Brother, I’m just trying to be the dusty old Jedi in the corner who senses the disturbance, says very little, and leaves before the planet explodes.

Chip, please keep me posted — maybe I can hitch a ride

[sdv]

On Sunday, Mauro Biglino and Paul Wallis will be having a conversation about Erich von Daniken. Should be interesting ...

[John Hilton]

Glenn Beck: If This Trump Plan is True, It Changes Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cE3eI-_UNk

Interesting perspective, which agrees with what I know.

[Ravenlocke]

DER SPIEGEL

Translated from German
The rescue attempt for the whale off Poel is progressing slowly. In the meantime, a platform with a dredger has arrived in the vicinity. Experts see hardly any chance of survival for the animal.

https://x.com/derspiegel/status/2045486580954243365

DER SPIEGEL

22h
Translated from German
Progress for the severely ill humpback whale is slower than planned: He is only supposed to be transported toward the North Sea on Saturday. According to the helpers, he is very active.

https://x.com/derspiegel/status/2045208319384789227

DER SPIEGEL

Apr 17
Translated from German
Experts had doubts about whether the renewed rescue operation for the stranded whale off Poel might ultimately harm the animal more than help it. Those responsible counter: The animal must be freed from its prison.

https://x.com/derspiegel/status/2045107337120403868

[Ravenlocke]

Kristy Tallman
@

This is heartbreaking. Whale "Timmy" out of Germany has been struggling to live and he's not given up so far...

Here’s the straight timeline so you don’t get tripped up:

🐋March 23 → Whale first stranded near Timmendorfer Strand
💙March 27–28 → Freed… then re-stranded in Wismar Bay
🐋Late March → mid-April → Keeps stranding over and over
💙Past ~2+ weeks → Stuck in shallow water near Poel, barely moving
🐋April 16–17 → Rescue attempt with air cushions begins… whale still alive but critical

https://x.com/KristyTallman/status/2045409078269333917

[Hym]

EDIT: The post by jaybee here and the video are must viewing...

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1711337


This is for Sara.....her courage and her successes...AbJitBB...
And hopefully for others, esp.NSK...Sobrino...

U.S. Presidential Executive Order issued at the Oval Office at the White House this morning, April 18, 2026 opening up, AGAIN without the pressure from the addiction and trauma profiteers, the acceptance by the FDA for advanced clinical studies on the use of "psychedelics", specifically focussing on using the plant based extract of the Iboga plant, Ibogaine, in the treatment of PTSD and other addictive substances. The State of Texas last year, 2025, started their own trials of Ibogaine treatments, allocating the same amount of $50 million as the USG has now approved. This marks a major, national turn in not just funding treatments proven highly effective for decades in countries outside of the US, but it is a deliberate move to counter the centuries of abuse the drug industries have profited from. A good first step.

Standing with the president were the heads of HHS, the FDA, the avid life experience reporter/researcher Joe Rogan, and a group of veterans whose lives were saved from self harm by the power of health care monitored treatments that administered Ibogaine to them. Many were at the edge of committing suicide and were saved by the treatments, treatments that have for decades proven a 75% to 80% cure rate for just one session, and proving a 90% cure rate for two sessions. This is great news for a much wider group of people struggling with addictions and depression, including the numbers of young adults and adolescents who have suicide as the #2 cause of death.

This EO is the result of a decades long journey living with the many struggles to get curatives, and better treatments to prevent suicide, alleviate depression and put harmful addictive behaviors into personal context, opening the doors to profoundly deep healing.....This new beginning on a very public and official pathway is long, long overdue...

This action taken is appreciated, but quite unexpected because it has been blocked by the influence of pharmaceutical companies for decades. We cannot omit the intel agencies of the West who had not had yet used their cocaine and heroin trafficking industries, along with their killing machines to extract their billions in profit. Not to be forgotten was the Cee Eye Aye's early chemical creation of crack, (testified to by an LAPD detective, at an L.A. public hearing with then AG Elliot Abrahams), that it introduced into the minority communities as it's own subsidiary of Hatred of Humans Inc.. That was the deliberate and deadly introduction into the promotion of gang warfare that has devastated inner cities in the states and worldwide. But Hey, the spooks of the intel class, that's how they roll over the humanity they have always used for profit. Anyone still wondering why the original OG Freeway Rick Ross, not the prison guard turned rapper or the cracker, religion deprogrammer, survived his massive drug dealing operation prosecutions as a temporarily free man should investigate how he beat the rap by proving it was the usg-intel group that provided the product he sold....

There were many players who pressured the FDA, some 36 years ago, to stop proving that even this one substance was and is an amazing True Medicine. Not patentable. Very effective. Like all natural curatives this is the bane of media pushed, academic stamped and polluted, "legit" drug industries. Let's see the public fights as a response to the threat to big pharma and congressional whores, and how they form....

Going after the former addict RFK Jr....for sure. Going after all of those former addicts and the great lives they now live? They'll try. Going after all of the Navy Seals and other combat vets of all branches of the service, even those who suffered sexual assault created PTSD at the hands of fellow service members, 1 in 4 amongst female vets and 1 in 5 amongst male vets, all who received some personal and self-empowering resolution ( if not justice, tho we know that real justice is the most personal and valuable life ) with the use of Ibogaine? No. They can't go there. Think about it, they will, but they will not succeed.

The use of Iboga is quickly effective. Not pleasant for sure, as it is another in the genus of alkaloid substances that produce a clearing effect in many bodily functions, notably so the digestive tract...so throwing up is common and expected. Experienced care facilities do take care to prepare those undergoing treatment to prepare the body beforehand in expectation of the natural purging that occurs. However, the most common experience I have taken note of is the remembrance of many instances when others were treated bad by the same person now undergoing the treatment.

Why did it take so long? The truth is that the drug companies had not yet made their billions of dollars of profit from the sale of their opiates and then used their political payoffs, their bribery, of politicians to prevent the FDA's approval of clinical trials in 1993 to stay viable, just as they used their control of the media to keep successful experiences of addicts and victims from finding relief without substance abuse from going public.

As you will see reading the other posts in this thread, some of us have known of the unique and powerful successes for those who have treated a wide variety of addictions to opiates, SSRI's - so called anti-depression drugs, drugs that list in their public ads a possible side effect of committing suicide!!. Included in successful use of this so-called "psychedelic" "drug" are addictions to alcohol.

Researchers and Clinicians will likely find relief from many other harmful disorders, including eating disorders when they do their clinical studies in earnest and in full public view and review. The two doctors appearing with the group behind the president did reveal, as real scientists most often secretly share, that there are possibly many other afflictions that
could be positively affected by study in the areas of natural curatives....A fact that has existed far before profits were ever used as motivation in treating illnesses.

For those of us who have personally taken on the loving actions of helping others out we take this as very good news.
During our volunteer work in 2016, 17,18 for The Longest Walk 5, created for fighting substance abuse (and ostensibly domestic violence and sexual abuse) on the Reservation, here in the states....some became aware of the "legal" use of Ibogaine as a treatment for those in the mix who were at least 1/4 Indigenous Blood. For some of us we were sharing our knowledge from decades earlier.

The road of people, family friends, co-workers, fellow humans, not a stranger amongst us, to break free from the control of the dark influence of the profit-driven medical industries and all of their affiliates in every society is a long road...a very Long Walk, but it is a one we are all on, together whether we choose it or not. Those who run the industries of suffering remind us all of our common, even common sense, path from surviving their influences and imbedded institutions to living full and exciting lives. We eventually embrace those things they conditioned us to believe were difficult and painful, all conditions when faced and embraced give us back our very personal power.

(By the way, during a successful treatment, NO OTHER substance of "relief", like pot or alcohol, can be used. That will immediately stop the healing.)
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[Jaak]

Posted by Ravenlocke (here)
Kristy Tallman
@

This is heartbreaking. Whale "Timmy" out of Germany has been struggling to live and he's not given up so far...

Here’s the straight timeline so you don’t get tripped up:

🐋March 23 → Whale first stranded near Timmendorfer Strand
💙March 27–28 → Freed… then re-stranded in Wismar Bay
🐋Late March → mid-April → Keeps stranding over and over
💙Past ~2+ weeks → Stuck in shallow water near Poel, barely moving
🐋April 16–17 → Rescue attempt with air cushions begins… whale still alive but critical

https://x.com/KristyTallman/status/2045409078269333917

It probably wants to die because its environment is so polluted by all kinds of military radars etc that track and seek for submarines and other things and all that deafening noise is driving the whale nuts.
Or maybe it really is some health issue but i would not be surprised if that was the cause of the whales behaviour.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Ravenlocke (here)
Whale "Timmy" out of Germany has been struggling to live and he's not given up so far...

Please keep us updated if you can.

(As best I've been able to find out, he's still alive and the rescuers are still optimistic and working hard. But they're publishing very little updated information, simply because they're so busy.)

[SilentFeathers]

Posted by John Hilton (here)
Glenn Beck: If This Trump Plan is True, It Changes Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cE3eI-_UNk

Interesting perspective, which agrees with what I know.

This is very similar to the perspective I have, but, every time I try to talk about some of these angles of views I most often get criticized, ridiculed, or downright bashed.

The perspective Beck speaks about in this video, be it right or wrong, does not sit well with many on this forum....

[edina]

Posted by SilentFeathers (here)

Posted by John Hilton (here)
Glenn Beck: If This Trump Plan is True, It Changes Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cE3eI-_UNk

Interesting perspective, which agrees with what I know.

This is very similar to the perspective I have, but, every time I try to talk about some of these angles of views I most often get criticized, ridiculed, or downright bashed.

The perspective Beck speaks about in this video, be it right or wrong, does not sit well with many on this forum....

I saw something similar posted in another place, yesterday. A summary of Glenn Beck's points

Outlines the 6 steps of what he believes is President Trump’s vision in place for America at this time..!
1. Energy Dominance
2. Ending the post World War ll burden of “Peace through Strength” meaning “We Pay for Everything”
3. Control this Hemisphere
4. Store Our Military
5. Declawing China without getting into a war, tech control, reshoring our factories, control rare earth minerals
6. Dismantling the Globalist Machine

Often when people talk about Trump playing whatever fill-in-the-blank-level D chess, I think of how China's strategy game of choice is GO. It requires a different form of spacial strategic thinking across a wide range of domains, or arenas. If you watch the actions of the current strategy, you can recognize the GO style of thinking.

I even recently heard one pundit actually say, "We have China, surrounded". That's GO, not Chess. I don't think the pundit actually comprehended what he said.

Prior to these recent actions, US and by extension, America, was being subtly surrounded by China, and the same could be said of what some call the Globalists. And if you look behind the curtain of geopolitical theater, there is an uncanny similarity between the Communist way of thinking and how the Globalists are maneuvering.

I sometimes wonder how the strategic thinking of perhaps off-world, or interdimensional, beings would present itself. Time, as we understand it, probably doesn't come into play. The long-game, as humans may think of it, may be simply a readily understood short-term pattern, to such beings.

How would humans counterbalance thinking that they may not even recognize and would be utterly outside the box on how the average human mind works?

Chaos and strategic distraction is how one can strategically get inside another person's OODA Loop. Getting inside a person's OODA Loop throws them off-balance, which gives a huge strategic advantage to the person whose dancing all over other people's OODA loops.

Also, people seem to forget that there are massive teams of highly intelligent strategic thinkers that sit behind and inform the Trump strategy. Decades of scenario planning on strategies that most people haven't even imagined yet, must less given deep thought.

I've queued up to read the recent National Security Strategy, the National Defense Strategy, and The Strategy of Denial, by Elbridge (Bridge) Colby, which from preliminary previewing reminds me of 'GO' strategic thinking. Evidently, Bridge Colby has deeply influenced the direction of the National Security Strategy. And Glenn Beck's observations list above align with all three.

[Blastolabs]

Posted by SilentFeathers (here)

Posted by John Hilton (here)
Glenn Beck: If This Trump Plan is True, It Changes Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cE3eI-_UNk

Interesting perspective, which agrees with what I know.

This is very similar to the perspective I have, but, every time I try to talk about some of these angles of views I most often get criticized, ridiculed, or downright bashed.

The perspective Beck speaks about in this video, be it right or wrong, does not sit well with many on this forum....

We are not talking about normal person, we are talking about the guy who used to say "You're Fired" on reality TV.
We just lost a war, our fake money is completely dependent upon the perception that the USA is invincible.
We just lost a war, its over

[rgray222]

Posted by John Hilton (here)
Glenn Beck: If This Trump Plan is True, It Changes Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cE3eI-_UNk

Interesting perspective, which agrees with what I know.

I haven't listened to Beck in quite some time; there's no particular reason, I just haven't been interested until now. I did listen to this podcast, and I have to admit, I agree with almost everything Beck had to say. For those who dislike or even hate Trump, I would suggest that if you only listen to the first two or three minutes, you are wasting your time. To truly understand what he's discussing, it's important to listen to the entire 20-minute episode.

Posted by SilentFeathers (here)

Posted by John Hilton (here)
Glenn Beck: If This Trump Plan is True, It Changes Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cE3eI-_UNk

Interesting perspective, which agrees with what I know.

This is very similar to the perspective I have, but every time I try to talk about some of these angles of view, I most often get criticized, ridiculed, or downright bashed.

The perspective Beck speaks about in this video, be it right or wrong, does not sit well with many on this forum....

I share the same feelings. I believe many people become very emotional about Trump, which makes most (not all) discussions difficult, if not impossible. The level of emotional intensity can be overwhelming. I also think some individuals may not realize how emotional they are themselves, but rather perceive others as being emotional.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by rgray222 (here)
I share the same feelings. I believe many people become very emotional about Trump, which makes most (not all) discussions difficult, if not impossible. The level of emotional intensity can be overwhelming. I also think some individuals may not realize how emotional they are themselves, but rather perceive others as being emotional.

I agree. I find myself wishing that a suitable way to discuss solutions/improvements existed (probably not this thread <grin>). This has been a challenge for this and many forums for "eternity".

[sdv]

Posted by rgray222 (here)

Posted by John Hilton (here)
Glenn Beck: If This Trump Plan is True, It Changes Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cE3eI-_UNk

Interesting perspective, which agrees with what I know.

I haven't listened to Beck in quite some time; there's no particular reason, I just haven't been interested until now. I did listen to this podcast, and I have to admit, I agree with almost everything Beck had to say. For those who dislike or even hate Trump, I would suggest that if you only listen to the first two or three minutes, you are wasting your time. To truly understand what he's discussing, it's important to listen to the entire 20-minute episode.

Posted by SilentFeathers (here)

Posted by John Hilton (here)
Glenn Beck: If This Trump Plan is True, It Changes Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cE3eI-_UNk

Interesting perspective, which agrees with what I know.

This is very similar to the perspective I have, but every time I try to talk about some of these angles of view, I most often get criticized, ridiculed, or downright bashed.

The perspective Beck speaks about in this video, be it right or wrong, does not sit well with many on this forum....

I share the same feelings. I believe many people become very emotional about Trump, which makes most (not all) discussions difficult, if not impossible. The level of emotional intensity can be overwhelming. I also think some individuals may not realize how emotional they are themselves, but rather perceive others as being emotional.

This came to mind for me ...

Accusations that women are "too emotional" are persistent gender stereotypes used to undermine their credibility, competence, and authority, particularly in professional settings. Often used to dismiss women's arguments, this label is frequently a form of bias that paints them as less rational, hindering their leadership potential and professional advancement.

Key aspects of this issue include:
Credibility Damage: Research shows that when women are labeled "emotional" or told to "calm down," their arguments are viewed as less legitimate, according to a study in Psychology of Women Quarterly.
Workplace Inequality: A study found that three-quarters of women were labeled "emotional" in performance reviews, suggesting significant gender-based language bias, as reported in People Management.
Double Standards: While women are often accused of being too emotional, research indicates that men are, in fact, more prone to acting in rage based on emotions.
Dismissal Tactic: Accusing a woman of being emotional is a common tactic in gaslighting to invalidate her concerns and evade responsibility.
Reframing Emotion: Experts suggest that emotional awareness is a sign of intelligence rather than weakness, and that emotional intelligence is an essential skill for effective leadership.

The stereotype of the "too emotional" woman has been used to marginalize women since the 19th century and is not supported by scientific evidence as a valid reason to doubt their ability to make rational decisions.

Added
Emotion is not to be feared, nor should an argument be dismissed because it is emotional or labelled as emotional. See above ... If you are not emotional about children being delberately killed or hospitals bombed, etc. then why? It is a myth that emotional is anti-intellectual.

[Chip]

People keep saying Trump discussions get “too emotional,” but that complaint usually shows up the moment somebody says something they do not want to hear.

Let’s be honest. Conservatives were plenty emotional about Biden too. Mockery, outrage, obsession, daily hysteria. So this idea that one side is calmly rational while the other side is uniquely emotional is just false.

The Stoics did not teach the absence of emotion. They taught mastery over it. Big difference. And Jung would have called this projection: people accusing others of the very thing they cannot manage in themselves.

What is strange now is the reversal. Many conservatives are doing exactly what they spent years condemning liberals for doing. Same reflexes. Same tribal defense. Same habit of explaining away every embarrassment, attacking every critic, and treating disagreement like betrayal.

It is starting to look like MAGA became the very thing it mocked. The new liberals in red hats.

So no, I do not think the problem here is that some of us are “too emotional.” I think the real problem is that some people do not have the inner strength to tolerate a serious opposing view without calling it emotion, extremism, or heresy.

That is not wisdom. That is fragility dressed up as reason.

[Ewan]

Posted by Chip (here)
People keep saying Trump discussions get “too emotional,” but that complaint usually shows up the moment somebody says something they do not want to hear.

Let’s be honest. Conservatives were plenty emotional about Biden too. Mockery, outrage, obsession, daily hysteria. So this idea that one side is calmly rational while the other side is uniquely emotional is just false.

The Stoics did not teach the absence of emotion. They taught mastery over it. Big difference. And Jung would have called this projection: people accusing others of the very thing they cannot manage in themselves.

What is strange now is the reversal. Many conservatives are doing exactly what they spent years condemning liberals for doing. Same reflexes. Same tribal defense. Same habit of explaining away every embarrassment, attacking every critic, and treating disagreement like betrayal.

It is starting to look like MAGA became the very thing it mocked. The new liberals in red hats.

So no, I do not think the problem here is that some of us are “too emotional.” I think the real problem is that some people do not have the inner strength to tolerate a serious opposing view without calling it emotion, extremism, or heresy.

That is not wisdom. That is fragility dressed up as reason.

Just quoting you to make sure people see this most excellent post.

[SilentFeathers]

Posted by Chip (here)
I think the real problem is that some people do not have the inner strength to tolerate a serious opposing view without calling it emotion, extremism, or heresy.

That's exactly what just happened.

A post about Glen Beck proposing a different perspective or serious opposing view to consider, different from the main narrative that Orange Man Bad, immediately gets turned around and twisted in to accusations that women are to emotional, people not being emotional about children being killed and blown up in hospitals, and MAGA or conservatives becoming liberals in red hats.....

And Jung would have called this projection: people accusing others of the very thing they cannot manage in themselves.

Yes, projection goes both ways, but, it appears to me that one side has mastered projection better than the other.

[Chip]

Posted by SilentFeathers (here)

Posted by Chip (here)
I think the real problem is that some people do not have the inner strength to tolerate a serious opposing view without calling it emotion, extremism, or heresy.

That's exactly what just happened.

A post about Glen Beck proposing a different perspective or serious opposing view to consider, different from the main narrative that Orange Man Bad, immediately gets turned around and twisted in to accusations that women are to emotional, people not being emotional about children being killed and blown up in hospitals, and MAGA or conservatives becoming liberals in red hats.....

And Jung would have called this projection: people accusing others of the very thing they cannot manage in themselves.

Yes, projection goes both ways, but, it appears to me that one side has mastered projection better than the other.

Thank you. Yours is almost a perfect example of what I meant.

I made one narrow point, and it was immediately buried under moral inflation, deflection, and projection. That is not a rebuttal. That is an emotional reaction pretending to be a higher one.

[SilentFeathers]

Posted by Chip (here)

Posted by SilentFeathers (here)

Posted by Chip (here)
I think the real problem is that some people do not have the inner strength to tolerate a serious opposing view without calling it emotion, extremism, or heresy.

That's exactly what just happened.

A post about Glen Beck proposing a different perspective or serious opposing view to consider, different from the main narrative that Orange Man Bad, immediately gets turned around and twisted in to accusations that women are to emotional, people not being emotional about children being killed and blown up in hospitals, and MAGA or conservatives becoming liberals in red hats.....

And Jung would have called this projection: people accusing others of the very thing they cannot manage in themselves.

Yes, projection goes both ways, but, it appears to me that one side has mastered projection better than the other.

Thank you. Yours is almost a perfect example of what I meant.

I made one narrow point, and it was immediately buried under moral inflation, deflection, and projection. That is not a rebuttal. That is an emotional reaction pretending to be a higher one.

The sad news is it's only getting worse, it's all merging or morphing in to the same thing. Probably by the end of this year it'll all be just one big pot of mumbled up soup....