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LF194 John Michael Greer - The Truth About Brexit

John Michael Greer discusses the origins and potential outcome of the European Union's ongoing meltdown.
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The recent Brexit referendum in the UK was never meant to happen. The result of a miscalculated attempt by former British Prime Minister David Cameron to neutralize the right wing UK Independence Party, Brexit has plunged the nation into a constitutional crisis. While 48% of the electorate voted for the UK to remain within the European Union, 52% voted to leave. As a result, the country is now deeply divided, and the rancour of a bitterly fought campaign has merely intensified since the outcome became clear. The total lack of planning for a vote to quit the EU is also starkly evident in the chaotic in-fighting and back-stabbing that has marred the political aftermath. So just how did this unintended mayhem come about?
At the core of the crisis but unacknowledged by the political class, mainstream media, and society at large are serious systemic problems affecting the economy, the environment, and the very foundations of our industrial society. These problems existed before Brexit, and they exist now. They would have remained exactly the same whether we voted 'leave' or 'remain'. The problems are global and they are not going away. They are, in fact, getting worse. If you need any evidence for this, one need only observe the utter farce masquerading as the current US Presidential election or, closer to home, the ominous rise of the far right in most, if not all, European Union countries. Until these harsh realities are fully faced, the pundits, pollsters, and politicians will continue to get it wrong. The kaleidoscope has been shaken, the pieces are in flux, and the sky is black with birds coming home to roost. When they do, they will reorder this world.
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LF97 Marcus Allen - Mysteries of the Moon Missions

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The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the program was responsible for the landing of the first humans on Earth's Moon in 1969. First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of '''landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth' by the end of the 1960s. Kennedy's goal was apparently accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module on the Moon on July 20, 1969. Five subsequent Apollo missions reportedly landed astronauts on the Moon, the last in December 1972.
However, beginning just a couple of years after the final Moon landing, doubts began to emerge about certain details of these missions and even as to whether any of them had taken place at all. Skeptics expressed many concerns about the feasibility of the missions: photographs taken on and around the Moon appeared to display many anomalies; questions were raised about the technology of mission control, the spacecraft itself, and the space suits, and whether any of it was actually up to the task; there were concerns about radiation, not just on the Moon itself but within the Van Allen belt which circles the Earth, a deadly radioactive zone some say would be impossible to traverse. And, of course, there is the question as to why man has never since returned to the Moon. Surely with today's vastly superior technology, this would be much easier to achieve.
Despite being refuted in some detail by NASA and a host of other agencies and individuals over the years, the idea that the manned Moon missions were staged just will not go away. Critics argue that skeptics are simply distrustful of government in general and that the Moon landings serve as sort of poster boy for them. But there are compelling reasons as to why a government would want to pull a stunt like this, and with the debate as heated as ever, it would appear that just one thing will silence the doubters for good.
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LF431 Claire Rae Randall - Is the Universe a Thought?

Claire Rae Randall and Greg Moffitt in conversation.
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An increasingly common theme in popular science is the idea that our thoughts create reality, or that they at least interact with the physical world in some way. This trend has also been mirrored in some sections of popular culture. In fact, pop culture characterisations of mysterious mental powers long pre-date the current scientific interest in how mind might affect matter. Taken together with the theory that mind – not matter – is fundamental and that physical reality itself actually exists within some vast non-material cosmic consciousness, the entire Universe and everything in it begins to look like one infinite and unimaginably complex thought process.
Cutting edge science increasingly lends credence to this and similar ideas which apply at each level of reality, from personal to planetary to galactic and beyond. What's more the process appears creative, and imbued with meaning and purpose, even if mainstream scientific materialism continues to refute any such possibility. But if you discovered that you are a cell in the organising intelligence which underlies everything, what would change?
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LF430 Gregory Shushan - Near-Death Experience and the Origins of the World’s Afterlife Beliefs

Gregory Shushan discusses his book Near-Death Experience in Ancient Civilizations: The Origins of the World’s Afterlife Beliefs
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Taking readers on a thought-provoking journey into our ancestors’ beliefs about death, dying, and the afterlife, Shushan reveals the powerful influence of near-death experiences (NDEs) on religious beliefs and ritual practices throughout human history. Focusing on five ancient world regions in Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, and Mesoamerica, the author expertly explores each civilization’s afterlife beliefs. He explains how each of these civilizations developed independently of one another, yet there is a series of similarities among afterlife beliefs too consistent and specific to be mere coincidence. This leads to the profound implication that afterlife beliefs are not entirely invented by cultures: they also stem from universal truths derived from NDEs.
Drawing on anthropology, psychology, and philosophy, the author explores how each civilization interpreted NDEs and how afterlife beliefs develop over time. He also explores the metaphysical implications of his discoveries, including what an actual afterlife would look like. Revealing that NDEs have occurred throughout human history, Shushan shows how they continue to influence our understanding of what lies beyond death to this day.
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LF432 R.E. Kretz – The Age of Aquarius: Where Are We Going?

Richard Kretz and Greg Moffitt discuss the so-called Age of Aquarius and the potential for planetary change.
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For millennia, humans have gazed at the stars, seeking meaning in their patterns. Today, a growing chorus senses a shift, an electric hum of change in the air, hard to name but impossible to ignore. For many, most of the tectonic changes now underway on Earth are profoundly negative: political, social, economic, and environmental crises coupled with growing conflict, and trends in technology and artificial intelligence, all of which threaten the very existence of the human race.
Weaving together astrology, astronomy, and mythology, Kretz proposes that although the future looks highly uncertain, a metamorphosis is currently underway, disrupting old patterns, awakening new awareness, and restructuring for what is to come. As in the past, earthly upheavals seem to be mirrored by events elsewhere in the solar system and wider cosmic rhythms. The total solar eclipse of March 2034 may be important, but it’s our choices that will shape what comes next.
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LF429 Anthony Peake – Philip K. Dick: The Man Who Remembered the Future

Anthony Peake discusses the life and work of Philip K. Dick. Anthony’s biography of PKD is here .
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Philip K. Dick was one of the most imaginative and original science fiction writers of his era, and since his death in 1982, his novels have continued to be discovered by each new generation of sci fi fans. His stories have been adapted for the screen many times including Total Recall, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly, The Man in the High Castle and, most famously, Blade Runner.
PKD – as he became known – was a periodic drug user with a colourful and sometimes chaotic personal life, a life which increasingly resembled those of some of the characters he himself created. Recurring themes in his work include the nature of reality, of time, of perception and of identity, alternate realities, artificial intelligence, dystopian futures, authoritarian governments, drug use, and altered states of consciousness.
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LF428 Steve Taylor – Time to Accept That Time is an Illusion

Steve Taylor discusses his book Time Expansion Experiences: The Psychology of Time Perception and the Illusion of Linear Time
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Although we often encounter the phrase ‘time is just an illusion’, everything about our subjective inner experience seems to suggest otherwise. The outer world too seems to conform to the same patterns, the flow of events and the apparently inescapable path from past to present and future. From the repetitive activities of our everyday lives to the vast cycles of life and death, of nature and the cosmos, all seems tethered to the tyranny of time. But what if time itself is merely a human construct, a way of trying to make sense of what is apparently happening?
What if all that exists is in fact an eternal ‘Now’ from which everything that is, ever has been, and ever will be, arises? Millennia of indigenous cosmologies, spiritual traditions, and now cutting edge science strongly suggest that mind, not matter, is fundamental. Time, and even space, would therefore lose their place as defining dimensions of reality, replaced by an infinite mindfield in which all possibilities are present and from which the events of our limited five-sense, three-dimensional perception appear and disappear. But if the past still exists and the future is already here, what does this mean for the present?
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LF427 Christian Morris – Low Life and High Strangeness

Christian Morris and Greg Moffitt discuss some of the tumultuous events of 2024.
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In their own peculiar way, the national elections in the USA, UK, and Ireland and events surrounding them were microcosms of tectonic shifts underway around the globe. As former British Prime Minster Tony Blair famously said in the wake of 9/11, “The kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux.” While the UK and Ireland have elected governments of incompetence, the incoming Trump administration is set to usher in a seismic shift in direction for the US, and by extension, the world.
Meanwhile, happenings in other realms get weirder by the day, the recent UFO/UAP phenomena and raging forest fires being interpreted by some observers as nothing less than manifestations of the trauma haunting the collective human psyche. In an era beset by uncertainty and trepidation, high strangeness is the New Normal.
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LF426 Neil McDonald – In Search of Ancient Wisdom: Occult Secrets of the Cosmos

Neil McDonald discusses his latest book In Search of Ancient Wisdom
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Across the ages, myths and legends tell of secret knowledge hidden from the mass of humanity and guarded by shadowy organizations and mystery cults dedicated to its preservation and use for their own nefarious purposes. Although the origins of this knowledge – sometimes referred to as The Perrenial Wisdom – are lost to the mists of time, at certain pivotal points in history evidence for its existence emerges, even if its true nature remains obscured. The legends of Atlantis, King Solomon, The Knights Templar, The Holy Grail, and Rennes-le-Château all point toward secret paths to immense wealth and power.
In the modern era, the elite echelons of the Nazi SS also tried to turn non-material forces to their advantage until their apparent defeat. But was it simply the German people who lost the war while the Nazi occult network went underground? In this wide-ranging discussion we probe the anatomy of The Perennial Wisdom and Western Mystery Tradition, revealing powers innate to humanity but accessible only by the most dedicated and determined.
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LF425 Mark Stavish – Occult Wisdom Must Survive The Apocalypse

In a talk inspired by the 1959 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel A Canticle for Leibowitz, Mark Stavish discusses the preservation of knowledge – in particular occult and esoteric knowledge – as the world plunges into an ever more uncertain and unstable future.
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From an over-reliance on technology, to a lack of preparedness, and widespread general apathy, the potential threats to the entire library of human knowledge are growing in size and number. Spellbound by the myth of progress – the belief that progress is linear and ever upward – we are blind to the harsh lessons of history: the dark ages, wars, and catastrophes – man-made or natural – which mark the downfall of peoples, nations, and entire civilizations, and the heritage of their time. Although ancient knowledge has a way of surviving aeons of trial and tribulation, in this era of perhaps unprecedented danger, we would do well to consider what is in peril and what can be saved for our own sake and for the sake of those who come after us.
A Canticle for Leibowitz is a social science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller Jr., first published in 1959. Set in a Catholic monastery in the desert of the southwestern United States after a devastating nuclear war, the book spans thousands of years as civilization rebuilds itself. The monks of the Albertian Order of Leibowitz preserve the surviving remnants of man’s scientific knowledge until the world is again ready for it.
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