Kolchak, inspiration for the X-Files: early 70 paranormal investigative journalist detective

 Kolchak - a tv show from the early 70s - 

This is an excellent dramatization of paranormal spiritual powers interacting with the modern world as murder mysteries.... I can relate to this big time!!

  The Night Stalker first aired January 11, 1972, and garnered the highest ratings of any television movie at that time (33.2 rating—54 share).^[11] Matheson received a 1973 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best TV Feature or Miniseries Teleplay.^{[citation neede}

AI says:

"Kolchak"

most commonly refers to the 1974 TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker, about a reporter investigating supernatural crimes,

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolchak:_The_Night_Stalker

The series followed wire service reporter Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) who investigates mysterious crimes with unlikely causes, particularly those involving the supernatural or science fiction, including fantastic creatures. The series was preceded by the two television movies, The Night Stalker (1972) and The Night Strangler (1973). Although the series lasted only a single season, it developed cult status in syndication.^[1]

Chris Carter cited Kolchak as a "tremendous influence" in creating his franchise The X-Files.^[2]

Encephalization brain size and "meaning" culture in hominins: Homo Naledi burial practice John Hawks/Ian Tattersall

 

  There is substantive evidence that approximately 250–350,000 years ago, Homo naledi, a small-brained hominin, transported deceased conspecifics into difficult to access locations in the Rising Star Cave system in what would, in humans, be described as a mortuary behavior (Berger et al., 2025a)...currently available evidence tentatively
meets Pettit, 2022 criterion for funerary action. As it stands, the whole of the evidence supports the hypothesis that the H. naledi remains in the Dinaledi subsystem are one of the two earliest examples of a mortuary practice in a hominin, and potentially offer the earliest evidence of multiple interments, post-depositional reworking, and thus funerary actions by a hominin.... the hominin emotional, socio-cognitive niche is more significant than previously thought

Evidence of ochre use occurs in archaeological contexts across Africa and the Levant prior to 350,000 years ago,
a time when H. sapiens has not yet been identified there (Ronen et al., 1998; Watts et al., 2016;
Dapschauskas et al., 2022). The control of fire by hominins is demonstrated in Early and Middle
Pleistocene contexts where most researchers accept that H. erectus was present (Brain and Sillent,
1988; Alperson-Afil, 2008; Goren-Inbar et al., 2004; Hlubik et al., 2019; MacDonald et al., 2021).
Mortuary evidences are claimed in association with hominins that predate or are not H. sapiens
(Carbonell and Mosquera, 2006). These geographically and temporally varied instances could be
the result of taphonomic or dating issues (Püschel et al., 2021), but it is likely, given the increasing
diverse temporal and geographic discovery of these behaviors and material that such complex
behaviors associated with shared meaning were manifested by multiple populations/species of the
genus Homo in addition to Homo sapiens. But how important was brain size to the evolution of these
behaviors?
There is substantive evidence that approximately 250–350,000 years ago, Homo naledi, a small-
brained hominin, transported deceased conspecifics into difficult to access locations in the Rising Star
Cave system in what would, in humans, be described as a mortuary behavior (Berger et al., 2025a).
The use of deep areas of the Rising Star cave system for these behaviors implies considerable social
collaboration, coordination, and planning. In the context of the subterranean Dinaledi Subsystem,
these activities likely also required a light source, again implicating a depth of planning and coor-
dination. What stands out as a possible contradiction is that Homo naledi fossil crania are small.
With endocranial volumes ranging between 450 ml and 610 ml, this species overlaps in brain size
with australopithecines, having smaller brains on average than Homo erectus and much smaller than
modern humans or Neanderthals (See Figure 2 and section Reconsidering brain size).
The information from H. naledi cannot be considered in isolation; it joins the broad array of data
for meaning-making in Pleistocene hominins (Kissel and Fuentes, 2018; Kissel and Fuentes, 2021;
Malafouris, 2013, Colagè and d’Errico, 2025). These behaviors reflect social groups that maintained
solidarity, social coordination, and cooperation in a mode not evident in living great apes but charac-
teristic of contemporary humans. Here, we offer an analysis of the reported complex behavior in the
small- brained Homo naledi and suggest a suite of implications this has for our understanding of the
relationships between brain size, cognition, complex behavior, and the evolution of the genus Homo
across the Pleistocene

 https://elifesciences.org/articles/89125.pdf

 Hominin control of fire in South Africa long predates the Rising Star evidence, with controlled fire indicated in Member 3 at Swartkrans (only ~800 m from the Rising Star Cave), and in Early Stone Age context at
Wonderwerk Cave, by one million years ago (Brain and Sillent, 1988; Brain, 1993; Berna et al., 2012).
Both Paranthropus and early Homo were present in South Africa during that period and occurred in association with combustion evidence (Brain and Sillent, 1988; Brain, 1993). Additionally, cave use by hominins across multiple locations during the period of H. naledi and earlier (e.g. Wonderwerk in
South Africa and Bruniquel in France) also involved use of fire (Berna et al., 2012; Jaubert et al.,
2016). While we cannot yet be certain of the exact modes, intensity, duration, and quality of the fires potentially used by H. naledi in the Dinaledi subsystem, it is a strong assumption that they at least provided flickering and moderate intensity light sources.
Use of ochre and other pigments is another category of behavior linked to meaning-making
(Dapschauskas et al., 2022; Kissel and Fuentes, 2018). Material evidence of pigments carried or used by hominins has been found at several sites earlier than the Dinaledi Subsystem, including sites within Africa, as well as within southwest Asia and south Asia (Figure 1). Non-utilitarian objects that were transported by hominins into sites include some with physical or iconic resemblance to human figures, including objects from Berekhat Ram, Israel (Goren- Inbar, 1986), and Tan-Tan, Morocco
(Bednarik, 2003), both from the later Middle Pleistocene.
This pattern of evidence shows that H. naledi and other populations of the genus Homo overlap temporally in the expression of meaning-making behavior. 

 Frontiers in Psychology 01 frontiersin.org
Linguistic capacity was present in the Homo sapiens population 135 thousand years ago

 Recent genome-level studies on the divergence of early Homo sapiens, based
on single nucleotide polymorphisms, suggest that the initial population division
within H. sapiens from the original stem occurred approximately 135 thousand
years ago. Given that this and all subsequent divisions led to populations with full
linguistic capacity, it is reasonable to assume that the potential for language must
have been present at the latest by around 135 thousand years ago, before the first
division occurred. Had linguistic capacity developed later, we would expect to find
some modern human populations without language, or with some fundamentally
different mode of communication. Neither is the case. 

 the original divergence of the Khoisan lineage took place at about 135kya (± 20kya), with the
divergence times of other African language lineages lying subsequent to this time.

 widespread appearance of suggestive symbolically mediated behaviors,
such as the Blombos cave ochres with regular-pattern incisions
(Henshilwood et al., 2004; Henshilwood et al., 2009) and the geometric
patterns engraved on ostrich eggshells found at two nearby locations,
the Diepkloof (Texier et al., 2010; Texier et al., 2013) and Klipdrift
Shelters (Henshilwood et al., 2014). While complex behaviors such as
burial of the dead and occasional bodily decoration do appear to have
occurred sporadically among Neanderthals and other extinct hominins
(Frayer et al., 2006; García-Diez et al., 2013; Rodriguez-Vidal et al.,
2014; Peresani et al., 2014; Joordens et al., 2015; Radovčić et al., 2015;
Hoffmann et al., 2018; Majkić et al., 2018a, 2018b), it appears to have
been only within H. sapiens, and subsequent to about around 100kya,
that such behaviors eventually became systematized across the
population (Tattersall, 2012, 2017, 2018; Wadley, 2021). The indicators
concerned include such features as the use of pigments (Henshilwood
et al., 2011), the employment of pierced marine shells for ornaments
and body decorations (Henshilwood et al., 2004; Vanhaeren et al.,
2006; d’Errico et al., 2009a), the engraving of non-figurative motifs,
complex technologies (Powell et al., 2009; Grove, 2016) and ultimately
the earliest representational objects (Henshilwood et al., 2018).

Alexandrian Jews and Christians lived in the same neighborhoods and overlapped in beliefs: Dr. Lillian Larsen

  Alexandria was 10% Jewish....

Christianity should become the new Jewish community - a great tragedy

 Once Rome becomes Christian...used as a way to remove a competitive relationship....Christians ran with it...divinely ordained that Christians should, in fact, become the new Jewish community....a really tragic history up to the Holocaust.

the meaning of Christianity was debated into the 6th Century.... and did one faction become part of Islam...

 

Dr. Robert M. Price confirms my "divine matter" Pneuma via as nonwestern meditation secret of the Logos

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-G1bl3Hxfg

 

Dr. Dan Linford fascinating overview of Einsteinian physics!

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z06nz0I-HDM

 the Lorentz transformations are noncommutative though! this is the emphasis of Professor Alberto Martinez. thanks - I'm enjoying his summary and overview of Einstein's relativity - very fascinating and lucid!! Tim Maudlin promotes the de Broglie-Bohm model but Basil J. Hiley realized that the de Broglie-Bohm model is actually noncommutative.

https://linfordcosmos.com/2025/09/13/visiting-einsteins-princeton/ 

 Hi Dr. Dan Linford: Thanks for your new youtube talk. I was listening to the youtuber's previous yt talk with Robyn Walsh and so listened to you also. Have you read Prof. Alberto Martinez' work on Einstein relativity? He emphasizes that Lorentz transformations are noncommutative. My background is music theory but I took quantum physics from Herbert J. Bernstein - and then I realized that Fields Medal math professor Alain Connes connected the same areas as I did - as noncommutativity. Basil J. Hiley, the collaborator of Bohm, also emphasized noncommutativity and I corresponded with Hiley several times. It's quite fascinating how other scientists ignore the noncommutativity - even if they claim to understand the de Broglie-Bohm model. My emphasis is quantum biology so I can't disconnect cosmology from the acceleration of "biological annihilation" on Earth (just googlescholar that term for details). 
I did get an academic paper published recently - December 2024:
Cosmos and History (open access) Noncommutativity music as biophysics.
I corresponded with Tim Maudlin whom you mentioned and also Jean Bricmont sent me his NYU talk that he gave for Maudlin's group - I uploaded it to my channel.
https://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/1100
There should be a book coming out soon on continuing Basil J. Hiley's work but like I said - it's amazing how other physicists ignore noncommutativity. Penrose admitted on youtube that he's not good at noncommutative quantum algebra math.
thanks,
drew hempel, MA

Distant relative by marriage was Black indentured servant on second ship after the Mayflower: Pearce

 https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pierce-1305

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pierce-355 

  Abraham Pierce of Plymouth and Duxbury and Mr. John Peirce of London is a deed of 1629, recorded on page 7 of the [Records of the Colony of New Plymouth vol. 12]... dated 28 Sept. 1629, Abraham Peirce sells to Thomas Clark... [acre of land described in very similar ways to 1623 granted to "Mr. [John] Pierce's servants."] ... As it was common practice for a merchant adventurer in England to employ a young relative as servant or agent in the New World, it would seem highly probably that Abraham Pierce of Plymouth was indeed a close relative of Mr. John Peirce of London

Pearce (or Pierce) is likely to be found in the

Phipps Street Burying Ground, Charlestown's oldest cemetery, as it contains many 17th-century burials and is known for its preservation of original 1600s gravestones. While specific individuals named Pearce cannot be confirmed without more detailed records, this is the most probable location to find them among other early Charlestown families and individuals like the Sprague family who settled the area in 1629. 

• Location: Phipps Street Burying Ground, Charlestown

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/20/us/plymouth-historian-says-a-black-settled-at-pilgrims-colony.html

Robert Marten, director of programs at Plimouth Plantation, a recreation of the Pilgrim's settlement, said that the black settler, named Abraham Pearce, apparently owned land, voted and had equal standing with other members of the community.

Some historians have thought for years that there was a black Pilgrim, but Mr. Marten said it was only recently that researchers were able to substantiate the claim.

By combing through the colony's records, researchers believe that Pearce settled in Plymouth in 1623, three years after the first settlers arrived on the Mayflower. Listed as a 'Blackamoor'

The only reference to Pearce's race is a colony record dated 1643, listing the names of men available to serve in the Plymouth militia. The list said: ''Abraham Pearce, blackamoor.''

Other records indicate that he came to Plymouth as an indentured servant aboard the Anne, a ship that sailed from England in 1623. Researchers believe that Pearce was born in the West Indies and was brought to Jamestown, Va., as a slave in 1619.

When Plymouth was incorporated in 1633, Pearce was listed as a freeholder and a voting member of the community. He died in 1673.

Secret Insides of the new Myco-Toilet

 

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ubc-mushroom-toilet-9.6936552

The toilet turns human waste into compost using mycelia, the root network of mushrooms. The MycoToilet, inside the small cedar-sided building, has been dropped in among the trees at the university's Botanical Garden for a six-week test run. 

The toilet separates liquids from solids, with the solid waste going into a mycelium-lined compartment, where lab tests have shown 90 per cent of the odour-causing compounds are absorbed. 

 So they're using the conveyor belt system that "flushes" the number two into a separate chamber outside - behind the actual toilet container, thereby getting rid of the source of smell.... the mycelium then eats up the e. coli smell from behind.... genius...

lab tests have shown 90 per cent of the odour-causing compounds are absorbed. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

my new e-book now available on Bezos' website!

 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G45CWPMP?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.EBO4oFQmA98tgAkx9SIp9Q.FWLGdtWuCSHRlXstSmbDvPFbe7Zo85X0J6yuEIuOLz8&dib_tag=se&qid=1764198268&refinements=p_27%3AMoose+Dung&s=digital-text&sr=1-1&text=Moose+Dung

 A music secret that only Fields Medal math professor Alain Connes understands but is also the secret of mind-body integration of nonwestern meditation as Eddie Oshins of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center discovered

AI summary:

This document recounts the author's journey through music, philosophy, and personal transformation, exploring the intersections of art, science, and spirituality.

Early Musical Influences

• The author grew up in an upper-middle-class environment, influenced by a musical family and a grand piano. ​
• Early piano lessons began at age five, leading to a deep appreciation for music's emotional power.
• Experiences in various music genres, including classical, punk, and reggae, shaped the author's musical identity.
• Participation in bands and performances at notable venues like First Avenue and the 7th St. Entry marked significant milestones.

Academic Pursuits and Discoveries

• Attending a Swedish Covenant school and later Hampshire College, the author excelled in music theory and composition.
• A pivotal moment occurred during a Quantum Mechanics class, where the author connected music theory with quantum principles, particularly nonlocality. ​
• Influences from various philosophical texts, including the Tao Te Ching and works by Gregory Bateson, enriched the author's understanding of music and its deeper meanings.

Exploration of Spirituality and Healing

• The author’s journey into qigong and meditation revealed connections between music, energy, and healing. ​
• A transformative experience with qigong master Effie P. Chow highlighted the potential of music as a medium for spiritual healing.
• The author’s vegan lifestyle and physical health contributed to a heightened sensitivity to energy and music's effects.

Research and Theoretical Development

• The author engaged in extensive research, linking music theory to quantum physics and exploring concepts like noncommutativity.
• Collaboration with various scholars and practitioners led to the development of a unique perspective on music as a form of spiritual and healing energy.
• The author’s writings, including a monograph critiquing Western philosophy and exploring nonwestern spiritual healing, garnered attention from academic circles.

Publication and Recognition

• An article submitted to the journal Cosmos and History was accepted, leading to further exploration of the relationship between music and quantum physics.
• The author’s insights into noncommutativity were validated by established physicists, reinforcing the connection between music and the fundamental nature of reality. ​
• Ongoing interactions with researchers and practitioners in the field of music and spirituality have fostered a community of shared interests and explorations.

Conclusion and Future Directions

• The author continues to explore the intersections of music, science, and spirituality, seeking to bridge gaps between disciplines.
• Ongoing research and personal experiences inform a deeper understanding of music's role in healing and consciousness.
• The journey reflects a lifelong quest for knowledge, connection, and the transformative power of music.

 

 

 

 

Hello Nurse: Female objectification as child's animation

 https://medium.com/@charstarlene/an-open-letter-to-steven-spielberg-879340fc362d#.oyke3b4jl

 Love,
Charlene deGuzman

 https://animaniacs.fandom.com/wiki/Hello_Nurse

 

 

Joby Warrick book 2015: Black Flags book details Dick Cheney/Bush intent to invade Iraq (for oil).

 "The answers Cheney sought did not exist; yet, the more the CIA pushed back, the more insistent the Cheney team became."

p.  78

2015 book

 Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS is a 2015 nonfiction book by the American journalist Joby Warrick. The book traces the rise and spread of militant Islam behind the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. It won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction

 Wow his latest book is on the Jackal! When I was in Venezuela I stayed overnight at the house of a Senor Lopez who had been on the OPEC team kidnapped by the Jackal....Lopez had written a screenplay that he wanted me to get to Hollywood.

The Jackal: The Rise and Fall of Carlos, the World's First Super-Terrorist

by Joby Warrick

 Joby Warrick has a very smooth writing style - easy to read and enjoyable.

 

Rhazib Khan's latest model on ancient origins of modern humans as "archaic admixtures" from John Hawks

 

 

 https://www.razibkhan.com/p/the-longer-i-live-the-wronger-i-get

 

 

 interview with John Hawks

 https://www.johnhawks.net/p/informal-hominins-from-denisovan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Vapor Canopy" world - The latest global warming denial B.S. on the stoner conspiracy interwebs

Hi Prof. Emeritus Guy McPherson: I listen to the conspiracy stoner podcasts because that is what is dominant on the interwebs. The latest global warming claim is the buzzword of "vapor canopy world" and that the "poles will be ideal" and that just like in the past, animals will adapt to live in the "poles." blah blah. "an organic process".... and that "mediocore minds" disagree. And that "if the poles warm then the equator will cool."

Just letting you know what the latest is on global warming denial spin. hahahahaha.

thanks,

drew hempel

AI says:  A "vapor canopy" is a creationist theory proposing a thick layer of water vapor surrounded the pre-Flood Earth, creating a greenhouse effect and a universally mild climate.  ....The term "vapor canopy" can refer to two very different concepts related to global warming: a creationist theory about a pre-flood water layer, and the scientific phenomenon of the stratospheric water vapor feedback loop that amplifies warming.

https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1157&context=icc_proceedings

 a water vapor canopy which minimizes the greenhouse effect show that if the solar constant was less than 25% of today’s value the surface temperature would be livable.

Hi Mark: I did a third of my undergraduate degree in natural science, including a semester studying conservation biology in Costa Rica in 1992 with School for Field Studies. http://arctic-news.blogspot.com is a great analysis of what is happening in the "poles" - the arctic has 1200 gigatons of pressurized methane in the subsea of the world's largest ocean shelf. You won't hear about this on any of the "conspiracy" podcasts - because it's real science that is covered up by the corporate-state media. Conspiracy "studies" is now corporatized by cable-Netflix, etc. with commercialized podcasts, etc. You can goto Natalia Shakhova research group for details. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Natalia-Shakhova-2

Also Jim Massa is an oceanographer Ph.D. who worked with Natalia Shakhova's research group at University of Alaska Fairbanks - his youtube channel is https://www.youtube.com/c/ScienceTalkwithJimMassa

I already debunked Sitchin, etc. in my 2012 book but that's why my book is a free underground conspiracy expose book - NOT something promoted on corporate-state cable news, Netflix, etc. hahaha.

thanks,

drew

p.s. basically we are facing a great acceleration of warming that directly threatens the "bread baskets" of growing food at scale that has been going on for the past 10,000 years. A great book on this is William Ruddiman - a professor - I have his book. The methane out of the Arctic will soon double atmospheric temps within ten years because the taliks have already melted down to the subsea pressurized methane. The taliks have melted down to release 50 gigatons of methane as an "abrupt eruption." This was corroborated by an international research group. 

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2019672118

"preformed methane that may release more abruptly once pathways are available, such as from disintegrating methane hydrates and pools of thermogenic (natural) gas below the subsea permafrost. "

"methane to gas-charged shallow sediments. Second, the finding that methane is released from a large pool of preformed methane, as opposed to methane from slow decomposition of thawing subsea permafrost organic matter, suggests that these releases may be more eruptive in nature, which provides a larger potential for abrupt future releases. The extent to which the source of the methane in the specific seep field at stations 13 and 14 is representative for other documented seepage areas in the Laptev Sea or the ESAS in general, as well as how they are...."  

thanks,

drew hempel

 

Water vapor amplifies global warming - not making the equator "cooler" as Joel tried to claim. 

 

https://skepticalscience.com/Climate-change-Water-vapor-makes-for-a-wet-argument.html

What this argument misses is the fact that water vapor creates what scientists call a 'positive feedback loop' in the atmosphere — making any temperature changes larger than they would be otherwise.

How does this work? The amount of water vapor in the atmosphere exists in direct relation to the temperature. If you increase the temperature, more water evaporates and becomes vapor, and vice versa. So when something else causes a temperature increase (such as extra CO2 from fossil fuels), more water evaporates. Then, since water vapor is a greenhouse gas, this additional water vapor causes the temperature to go up even further—a positive feedback.

How much does water vapor amplify CO2 warming? Studies show that water vapor feedback roughly doubles the amount of warming caused by CO2. So if there is a 1°C change caused by CO2, the water vapor will cause the temperature to go up another 1°C. When other feedback loops are included, the total warming from a potential 1°C change caused by CO2 is, in reality, as much as 3°C.

the middle class drives the economy, not the elite wealth now skewed more than ever! New Oxfam report

 Eisenhower had a 91% marginal tax rate on the rich. Now the top .1% owns 24% of Wall street wealth. The "bottom half" pays a higher percentage of their wages in payroll tax than the rich because social security tax is regressive. Prices are a private tax while taxes are democratic. Wages have not gone up with productivity while taxes on the rich have gone down. New November 2025 Oxfam report: 

 "in 2024, 60% of billionaire wealth came from inheritance, cronyism, or monopoly power, with wealth increasing three times faster than in 2023. The 10 richest U.S. billionaires got $698 billion wealthier, and the arrival of the world’s first trillionaire grew more imminent. Between 1989 and 2022, a household at the 99th percentile (the cutoff for the top 1%) gained over $8.35 million, while the median U.S. household gained less than $83,000, and a household at the 20th percentile, less than $8,500. a household that would just qualify for the top 0.1% gained $39.5 million between 1989 and 2022, while in 2025,

the share of total assets owned by the top 0.1% hit its highest on record (12.6% of total assets)....

tax reforms passed in July 2025 as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) will reduce the tax bill of the highest-earning 0.1% by an estimated $311,000 in 2027, while the lowest-income households—those making less than $15,000 annually—are expected to face tax increases. The bottom half of the U.S. owns just 1.1% of the stock market. ), the U.S. has the highest rate of relative poverty, the second-highest rate of child poverty and infant mortality, and the second-lowest life expectancy. A modest wealth tax on multimillionaires and billionaires could raise an estimated $414 billion to invest in social programs and fighting poverty."

Quantum diffraction gradients as photonic crystals featured in biology again: Peacock feathers

 

 Nature Bats Last - Prof. Emeritus Guy McPherson vid

The book "In the Blink of the Eye" by Andrew Parker - emphasizes that the Cambrian Explosion of complex life is due to the eye developing from quantum diffraction gradients....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Skull and Bones 322 is Platonic Logos apocalypse math

 https://www.academia.edu/145124802/The_Platonic_Logos_secret_society_322_Skull_and_Bones_symbol_and_apocalyptic_Western_Science

 

Thom Hartmann neglects to mention that Corporate Legal Personhood was Skull&Bones judge Waite decision

 https://hartmannreport.com/p/citizens-united-is-a-lie/comments

 When Hartmann said Waite was a Yale graduate I quick got Millegan's Skull and Bones book off the shelf - sure enough class of 1837 Skull and Bones member Waite. 

 You can't make this stuff up!! I tried to post a comment but Hartmann makes you pay to post comments - kind of ironic....no mention of "skull" in the comments.

https://hartmannreport.com/p/citizens-united-is-a-lie 

No mention of "skull" on his article either.

Now let's search his book!

No results for "skull" in his book either. oops.

Thomas Hartmann is missing a big secret behind Corporate Legal personhood. Skull and Bones!!

In these two sentences (according to the conventional wisdom), Waite weakened the kind of democratic republic the original authors of the Constitution had envisioned, and set the stage for the future worldwide damage of our environmental, governmental, and cultural commons.

The plutocracy that had arisen with the East India Company in 1600, and been fought back by America’s Founders, had gained a tool that was to allow them, in the coming decades, to once again gain control of most of North America, and then the world.

Ironically, of the 307 Fourteenth Amendment cases brought before the Supreme Court in the years between his proclamation and 1910, only 19 dealt with African Americans: 288 were suits brought by corporations seeking the rights of natural persons.

 

 

Breast Implant Illness (BII): I didn't know that Pamela Anderson (and Jane Fonda) had breast implants (removed)....

 PIP "homebrew" breast silicone implants, 100,000 sold a year toxic!

 https://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/slideshow/2509224/celebrity-women-breast-implants-removed/24/

I didn't even know that Dolly Parton had artificially enlarged her chest. I guess I'm still knew to this whole synthetic sex stimulation show that we call U.S. society exported around Earth. I mean Baywatch is probably the most famous opening scene of any tv show - the beach bouncing slo-mo scene is FAKE!! So she leaves the show and gets the implants removed in 1999.

 The actress was cast as C.J. Parker on the hit beachy series in 1992 and left the steamy show in 1997.

  scary stuff

 I mean I like silicone but this really is tragic. It's kind of fascinating that women didn't like having "bags of silicone" in their bodies "slowly poisoning" them and noted health improvements once they got the "bags of silicone" removed. I once did data entry for health complaints from implants - but that was in the early 90s. I thought women would have learned the lesson or corporate-state regulations would have protected their safety. It seems the opposite has happened - now it's the norm?

  DrugWatch reports that there are still 1,261 lawsuits pending in the Allergan breast implant multi-district litigation (MDL) as of May 2025

  In July, Brenda Toole won a $5.4 million settlement based on the claim that breast implants increased her risk of developing cancer and autoimmune disease, 

 Within two years approximately 20,000 lawsuits were brought against implant manufacturers.

 Yeah that was the early 90s!

 The breast implant controversy showcases America's ambivalence about risk and regulation.”

wow! 

 When a 1994 class-action settlement set aside $4.25 billion to pay damages, a quarter of a million women—20 percent of implant recipients—claimed to be ill and therefore eligible for compensation. The largest manufacturer, Dow Corning, filed for bankruptcy protection in 1995.

 That's when I did the data entry!! fascinating. AI says:

The FDA did ban silicone gel-filled implants from 1992 to 2006, allowing them back on the market after extensive research found no link to systemic diseases.

 OK fascinating.

 

Category Theory relates meaning to frequency in language based on quantity but what of nonlocality?

 “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”

This is the famous sentence used by Chomsky to debunk statistics as the basis for meaning in LLM AI language structures. Category theory in math claims otherwise 

If our original words were “big” and “yellow,” we get something that, roughly speaking, assigns large numbers to probable phrases like “big yellow sun,” and smaller numbers to phrases like “big yellow ruby.” This simple operation from category theory gives you something that’s actually linguistically meaningful — a way of combining words to build up a more general concept, like the concept of things that are both big and yellow. 

So now we have a "both/and" category as the basis of meaning but what is the meaning of the category that is beyond all categories? That was the paradox that Russell encountered in Set theory!! 

Eddie Oshins solved this problem as "quantum psychology" in terms of noncommutativity. His work stayed at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and thus he is not recognized since he then passed on early.

Today Roger Penrose is the most prominent proponent of nonlocal "protoconsciousness" but Penrose wrongly defines it as a subset of relativity whereas the "active information" of the de Broglie-Bohm model correctly realizes nonlocality as a process before spacetime existing.

And so "frequency" is no longer defined as a spatial category of units that already exist as matter in spacetime - despite classical physics defining frequency in this manner, assuming a symmetric unit of spacetime from mathematical magnitude.

It's now a proven historical fact that mathematical magnitude as defined in Western science first arose from the wrong music theory that covered up noncommutativity! I even discussed this with Noam Chomsky who agreed with me that music is considered a likely or probable origin of language - the "musilanguage" model and Chomsky then stated he wished he had time to study noncommutativity.

 

The Shrink and Hermann Goering Nuremberg movie based on Jack El-Hai book Psychiatrist and Nazi

 There are currently 310 plus million people facing "acute food insecurity" (starvation) this year as reported by the United Nations. https://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2025/11/an-officially-projected-320-million.html

I sat through most of the Nuremberg film last night - it was 11:30 pm and when the 2nd shrink was brought in - and they got in an argument (the two shrinks) - then I left. I had spent a few hours listening to Jack El-Hai discuss his book on youtube - a book that was the basis for the film. I made a playlist out of his youtube talks and related Goering info. I have to wonder how much anti-semitism was subconsciously projected by the first shrink, Douglas Kelley, and even Jack El-Hai (from Minnesota that has a strong German culture). I realize that Jack El-Hai is also Jewish but he grew up in a strong German Minnesota culture. 

 Hermann Göring's parent were diplmats in German West Africa, now called Namibia

  James Vanderbilt, director of Nuremberg, written from a script he developed from your book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist—working on it for over a decade, and at one point sending a snail-mail copy of a script to your Minneapolis house!”...

  because he started Carleton College young, at 16, his latter teenage years were Minnesotan....El-Hai's Sephardic Jewish family fled Spain during the Inquisition, ending up in Italy, in Turkey, and finally landing on Crete, where they spent some generations, before fleeing to America.

 El-Hai provides us with psychiatrist Douglas Kelley’s own conclusion: “I am quite certain that there are people even in America who would willingly climb over the corpses of half of the American public if they could gain control of the other half.”

The 2nd shrink did indeed consider the Nazi Commanders to exhibit psychopathic traits while the first shrink Kelley thought the Nazi commanders had normal traits of aggressive successful businessmen planners. Göring lied and Kelley fell for it and Kelley later in life got caught up on booze (anger liver blockage) - and so Kelley mirrored his death using the same method as Göring.  As you can see from the recent youtube comment - people are still believing Goering's B.S.!!

@darbyohara

8 days ago

I don’t think he had much if anything to do with the Holocaust. The Air Force doesn’t have much of a hand in that. He was a also a good time Charlie, to lazy to actively participate in the huge effort of the Holocaust

 Total Solution not Final Solution is Goering's only real defense:

Now comes the decisive word which has been mistranslated: "for total solution," not "for a final solution."

". . . for a total solution of the Jewish question within the area of German influence in Europe. Should these come within the competence of other governmental departments, then such departments are to co-operate.

"I charge you further to submit to me as soon as possible a general plan showing the organizational and material measures for reaching the desired total solution of the Jewish question.... Complementing the task assigned to you on 1/24/1939....".....

MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: You opened the meeting:

"Gentlemen, today's meeting is of a decisive nature. I have received a letter written OD the Fuehrer's orders by the Stabsleiter of the Fuehrer's Deputy, Bormann, requesting that the Jewish question be now, once and for all, coordinated and solved one way or another."

Is that correct?

GOERING: Yes, that is correct.

AI gives the below answer.

Evidence presented at the Nuremberg trials proved that Hermann Göring was a key architect of the Holocaust and was fully aware of the concentration and extermination camps

. Despite his claims of ignorance during his defense, the prosecution used extensive documentation to demonstrate his culpability. 

Key evidence of Göring's knowledge and involvement includes:

• Creation of the Gestapo and early camps: As Minister President of Prussia in 1933, Göring established the Gestapo (Secret State Police) and the first concentration camps for political opponents, which he later handed over to Heinrich Himmler.
• The "Final Solution" order: On July 31, 1941, Göring signed a written order authorizing Reinhard Heydrich to organize and coordinate a "total solution" to the "Jewish Question" (the "Final Solution"). This document, EC-405, was presented as evidence at Nuremberg.
• Economic policy of "Aryanization": Göring was a leading advocate of "Aryanization," the policy of confiscating Jewish businesses and property, which was a fundamental part of the economic persecution of Jews leading to the Holocaust.
• Involvement in forced labor: The Nuremberg Tribunal found Göring guilty on all four counts of the indictment, including war crimes and crimes against humanity, based partly on his admissions and evidence of his complicity in the use of millions of slave laborers from the camps for the German war effort.
• Attendance at high-level conferences: Göring attended numerous secret, high-level conferences where the details of Nazi war plans and the systematic exploitation and extermination of occupied territories' populations were discussed. 

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During the Nuremberg trials, Göring adopted a strategy of denial, attempting to deflect responsibility and blame Himmler and Hitler for the atrocities. He denied hearing foreign broadcasts about the mass murders until shortly before the war's end and claimed he only had general knowledge of some executions, not the full extent of the extermination camps. 

The prosecution, led by Robert Jackson, relied heavily on captured Nazi documents to prove that top Nazi leaders, including Göring, were fully informed and instrumental in the planning and execution of the Holocaust. The evidence was overwhelming, and Göring was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to death by hanging. He committed suicide by ingesting a cyanide pill the night before his scheduled execution

Relaxed freedom focus as vocal resonance: The natural vibrato of opera singer Rachel Willis-Sorensen, a quietude of the larynx

"A relaxed focus.... "

 Who ever worries about ‘wobble’ if you listen her vibratos carefully, than you can hear that they are vary, depending on the actual frase, the register - the actual segment of a melody-line, its accents. I wouldn't worry at all because we can sometimes hear a wider slower vibrato, her voice still sounds healthy and natural

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA--rVHXAdg

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxCgzchiwVc

natural breathing....

 vibrating undulating fluid, closing the tops of the chords....

 https://www.thechurchnews.com/2015/1/2/23212578/lds-soprano-expecting-twins-debuts-at-met/ 

 The pregnancy means extra challenges have come along with the opportunity to sing a principal role at the Met, as the 30-year-old singer has fought to keep her energy up and nausea at bay. A New York Times reviewer who found “the creaminess of her tone … attractive … even if its texture occasionally wavered” likely wasn’t aware that the “rising soprano,” as he called her, had felt like throwing up during an aria.

 Legato, beautiful vibrato, soaring technically impeccable singing, and a true piano

Her voice is huge, her coloratura is flawless.

 Electrifying is the perfect word !! She's stunning

 After spending a year in Hamburg as a Mormon missionary at the age of 21, German is a second language for Willis-Sørensen, who also speaks her husband’s native language, Danish. 

https://rachelwillissorensen.com/press/soprano-rachel-willis-sorensen-dives-into-rusalka/ 

 “Willis-Sørensen sings marvelously with her beautifully shimmering, silvery, well-rounded soprano voice, whose slight vibrato enhances the emotions expressed.”

 Willis-Sørensen considers Strauss ideal for “a lyric soprano voice that maybe leans a little heavier,” as hers does. An artist whose textual communication in German is impressively detailed and idiomatic, Willis-Sørensen comments that “a lot of Strauss is also conversational, so my grasp of the German language makes it particularly enjoyable for me.” 

 “I'm almost six feet tall. I'm blonde. I'm kind of stacked,” she says. “I think they could hear Wagner before I opened by mouth.”

 She says she meditates a bit....

 imagine your thumbs getting heavy and warmer and this will pull blood into your thumbs...

 she repeats positive adjectives, four or five of them, before her performance...

with all those Straussian high notes sprinkled through her part, which her pleasant, even voice rose to without strain.

Her delicately-phrased monologue “Mein Elemer,” closing Act I with the opera’s only real set piece for its lead singer, provided a welcome pause in the schemes and misunderstandings for a glimpse of a girl thoughtfully contemplating her future.

 "the fulfillment of the potential of the human voice."

She had a voice lesson the day before she gave birth and because of the oxytocin hormones her voice sounded the best it ever has!! 

" the primal sound of the voice that is found in crying....they think my voice is so sad..."

 "the only ideas that I fully internalize are my own...I'm going to say with this music what I want to say... You have to learn to sing your own song....you have to figure out what you want to say with your music and then do your thing!"

 breathe and trust and believe in yourself... trust your gut, trust life, trust god....lean into the joy....

we tend to get lazy when we go down in pitch....  

 heart over technique. Technique's ONLY purpose is to allow you to express your heart....

 

 

Restoring the Lost Logos paper

 https://www.academia.edu/145086510/Restoring_the_Lost_Logos_of_Christianity_Alchemical_Pneuma_noncommutative_music_meditation

Restoring the Lost Logos of Christianity:
Alchemical Pneuma noncommutative music meditation
By
Drew W. Hempel, MA
EcoEcho, 2025
Professor Daniel B. Glover’s new book Jesus & Other Sons of God: Luke’s Christology and Mediterranean Myth notes that pneuma, or spirit (breath) is “a material substance with its own physical properties distinct from created mortal materiality.” He goes on to state “Hence, ancient physics and anthropology allowed for the disappearance or destruction of the body as well as ‘bodily’ assumption to heaven.” (p. 183)
This paradoxical definition of pneuma is explained by noncommutativity in today’s modern science, relying on virtual photons as negative frequency of precognitive time as nonlocal quantum “active information” protoconsciousness. I have gone into these training details in my previous Ancient Advanced Acoustic Alchemy paper book. Quantum biology, as defined by noncommutativity, is radically changed due to quantum coherence, self-amplifying into the macroscale. This is achieved by the logical inference of deep musical listening as the nonwestern Logos of Pythagorean philosophy. Christian mystics, like the levitating Saint Joseph de Copertino, tapped into this secret truth of reality through their life of nonstop prayer or “Jnana” meditation as it is called in Indian vedic yoga.
Professor Robyn Faith Walsh’s book The Origins of Early Christian Literature: Contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman Literary Culture, points out that Logos has different meanings depending on the context and usage, with the above Stoic definition of pneuma lining up with the Stoic definition of Logos. “Logos also stands as more of a technical philosophical concept or even autonomous agent....” (p. 165).
In my 2000 University of Minnesota master’s thesis, Epicenters of Justice, I titled the second half of the paper, “Restoring the Lost Logos.” My claim then is that “sound-current nondualism” (the title of the first half of the paper) is a universal truth called protoconsciousness in quantum physics – a precognitive logical truth that is accessed via this ancient physics of a spiritual physical substance. For example, Master Wang Liping, the Taoist alchemist of China, was witnessed by David Verdesi – to walk through a wall. Master Wang Liping did this demonstration to show that a true Taoist master had this ability. Qigong master Chunyi Lin said he was not a true Taoist master since he lacked this ability – as his response to student Patrick Dougherty. “He said that a true Taoist teacher needs to be able to vanish in the teaching, to not leavy any trace of him or herself in you...” (p. 137, A Whole-Hearted Embrace: Finding Love at the Center of It All by Patrick Dougherty).
Qigong master Robert Peng describes how his Shaolin teacher Master Yao, had the ability to transmute and transport matter. Qigong master Chunyi Lin once described to us how when the doctors opened a patient with internal bleeding there was found a sac that was holding in the blood – just as he had visualized for the healing.
There are many more examples demonstrating that indeed this esoteric Pythagorean Logos definition of pneuma as spiritual matter is quite real and is called the golden Yang Shen in Daoism. The book Taoist Yoga: alchemy and immortality explains, in detail, how to achieve the Yang Shen in meditation training. I have reviewed and commented on these training details on my blog http://elixrifield.blogspot.com
In quantum physics professor Basil J. Hiley’s final public talk, given on youtube livestream, March 2024, he mentioned how he realized Louis de Broglie had made the same discovery of how the “pilot wave” is part of spacetime being inherently curved. I made the same claim in my 2012 book Alchemy of Rainbow Heart Music, citing physics, also before I realized that this was explained by noncommutativity. Gerard ‘t Hooft and Martin van der Mark’s paper, Light is Heavy, launched a research project by Professor John G. Williamson (Quicycle) into the secret noncommutative essence of the photon. Meaning the negative frequency of nonlocal precognitive time creates this spiritual matter as pneuma.
As Platonic “materialistic idealism” philosophy controls the West, we then think that meditation is a waste of time. In fact, deep meditation creates a spacetime vortex that exorcises the lower frequency blockages into a time-reversed phase shift of a quantum “eternal black hole” called the soul in spiritual religion. This force is documented in “weak measurement” experiments as a “gravitationally propulsive” force that is also precognitive and organizes matter as “active information” that is negentropic. This process and force achieved in meditation is subtle yet dangerous and even bizarre yet relies on the truth of reality achieved via deep logical inference beyond deep dreamless sleep – called “vichara” in Vedia Indian meditation of “jnana yoga.”
In other words, most scientists are not even able to conceptualize the meaning of pneuma as a practiced psychophysiological transformation of matter via the “negative frequency” of precognitive protoconsciousness. Sir John Pendry has been designing experiments based on this secret “negative frequency” of photons utilizing an Archimedes Screw concept as a noncommutative topos to convert virtual photons into photon force. Alga does this nonlocal negentropic force energy naturally as the secret of quantum blue-green light photosynthesis, expressed in the spirals of spirulina, for example.
Qigong Master Chunyi Lin teaches “the simpliest is the most powerful” and to “use your consciousness [spirit or shen] to go into the Emptiness.” In Taoist alchemical meditation, this Emptiness is accessed through the lower elixir field, in the small intestines of second brain neurons, as I detail in my training manual. Peter Kingsley, the Ph.D. of Pythagorean philosophy, also documented this secret in Pythagorean training.
Science has now come full circle as we reverse-engineer Mother Nature of the cosmos after we have destroyed ecology as “biological annihilation” through abrupt global warming and the entropy of gravity increasing against our attempt at efficiency of matter as engineering.
Music truly is a universal human cultural practice based on the simplest as the most powerful – the 1-4-5 music intervals of natural logical inference as the Logos as Pneuma, also called the Dao or the Om of Light. Logical inference as “neti, neti” negative proof by contradiction of Western science deduction is the secret “negative judgment paradox” driving science as a human psychological transformation of Nature into the Matrix, as I detailed in my Actual Matrix Plan expose – my recent book “There Is No Spoon” on Andrija Puharich gives more details.
The question is, do we want to take the “red pill” or not? On a tantric level the Trinity requires Kala as time to become Kali as destruction of life on Earth via the descent of Shakti – a process detailed in the writings of Sri Aurobindo (who was embraced by the theosophist Matrix UN planners). As I cited – the new body of humanity was thus justified as being radioactive, much like the two-headed depleted uranium babies of Iraq. Now we are told by mainstream science to embrace nuclear power as a necessary evolutionary step to ecological health. My own dad was an attorney for our state’s nuclear utility, thereby creating a national precedence case for the federal (military) government overriding any attempt at local regulations stricter on routine radiation emissions (of tritium). As the activist website of John LaForge documents – Nukewatch – that “precedence” at Monticello Nuclear Power plant (a lawsuit that was “won” right when I was born) - now unleashed a deadly plume of tritium heading towards the Mississippi river. https://nukewatchinfo.org/about/
I had the honor of being arrested with LaForge after we climbed the Navy fence at Project ELF while I sang a bad rendition of “Give Peace a Chance” by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. That arrest prompted me to receive a warrant in the mail ten years later. I promptly paid my fine (now that Project ELF was shut down).
Mother Nature is rapidly taking revenge against Western, now global, civilization, yet there still are a few spiritual masters left on Earth as I have had the pleasure of experiencing a few of them. I even had the pleasure of doing this pneuma training to finish my master’s degree, so I experienced this truth directly. Or original human culture, the San Bushmen, call it the N/om as the female snake force of the Universe – the rainbow snake secret of the Garden of Eden that even Dr. Richard Carrier details is considered a cosmic realm where Jesus exists eternally. "The legendary location of Eden (God’s original ‘garden’) in the third heaven. This demonstrates that places to be buried (even crucified) in the skies and
heavens above were well present in ancient conception.” (p. 73, The Obsolete Paradigm of a Historical Jesus)
So as I have explained in my training manual – in noncommutativity this is reversed – like the cosmic tree of life that is the focus of Martin Pretchel’s book on the truth of Mayan cosmology – in yoga the branches of the tree are your legs in full lotus padmasana and the roots of the tree are the quantum ether of your third eye. In the Garden of Eden this is the Tree of Life and Tree of Knowledge as Sri Yukteswar explains in his book The Holy Science. 

Lawyer Douglas Del Tondo busts open the original Christian teachings as being Jewish (not Roman imperialism)

 There was not yet any papacy at Rome that could exert its influence as binding over
Polycarp, Papias, Irenaeus, Origen, Justin Martyr and many others in the West. These voices are simply students of the apostles, not disciples of the bishop (pope) of Rome.

Talk by Douglas Del Tondo 

his book - archived - documents that Irenaeus was against Paul (and his disciples) teachings!! 

Very fascinating!!!

 The notion of superiority of the bishop of Rome, justified on the successor-to-Peter principle, first was asserted in the late half of the second century. However, this attempt was “strongly criticized even by friends of Rome such as Irenaeus of Lyon.” (B. Schimmelpfennig, The Papacy (New York: Columbia Press, 1992) at 12-14, viz, 12-13.) The papacy was not recognized until the Fourth Century but only in Roman
territories.

..............

  Irenaeus too in 125 A.D. knew of the Hebrew Matthew which later became the Greek Matthew. As the Catholic Encyclopedia relates, “Irenæus...wrote about A.D. 125 [and] he speaks of Hebrew... Sayings of Christ, composed by St. Matthew, which there is reason to believe formed the basis of the canonical Gospel of that name.” 12 The Hebrew Matthew was also said to have been brought to India by the Apostle Bartholomew. Pantaenus, visiting India late in the second century, reported that “he found on his own arrival anticipated by some... to whom Bartholomew, one of the apostles, had preached, and had left them the Gospel of Matthew in Hebrew.” (Eusebius quoted by H.J. Schonfield. The History of Jewish Christianity (London: Duckworth, 1936) at 66.)13

Papias (ca. 100 A.D.), Bishop of Hieropolis, is the one witness who
unquestionably was an associate of Apostle John. In an ancient text,
Exposition of the Oracles of the Lord, which Eusebius frequently cites, we learn in section VIII: “With regard to the inspiration of the book
(Revelation), we deem it superfluous to add another word; for the
blessed Gregory Theologus and Cyril, and even men of still older date,
Papias, Irenaeus, Methodius, and Hippolytus [of Rome], bore entirely
satisfactory testimony to it.”

 "Exposition of the Oracles of the Lord" was a five-book work by Papias of Hierapolis, an early Christian writer and bishop from the second century. The title refers to an exposition or commentary on the teachings of Jesus, and the work preserved oral traditions from the apostles and their disciples

 Source of information: Papias based his work on his personal conversations with elders who had direct contact with the apostles, including the Apostle John.

From my study of Papias' "Exposition of Dominical Oracles"

"Stephen Carlson has argued that the overwhelming usage of λογία in both testaments and in the early Fathers was in reference to the Divine oracles in what Christians later called the 'Old Testament.' Thus, these oracles collected by Papias were more likely Messianic oracles fulfilled by Jesus. Carlson cites the nineteenth century J.B. Gregory who argued that Papias’s work was a commentary on Messianic promises and prophecies from the Old Testament. The meaning of Papias’s title has also been understood to convey, in addition to Carlson’s description above, a commentary on Matthew, or a commentary on a sayings source, or even on Revelation. These oracles would have been supplemented “with additional material from oral traditions." If Carlson is correct, Papias’s Exposition of Dominical Oracles would be joined in his Christological methodology later by the Epistle of Barnabas, as well as by Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho, Melito’s Peri Pascha, and Eusebius’ Preparation for the Gospel."

 

The 10 fragments of

Papias eyewitness to the apostle John the disciple who leaned on the Lords breast, the one Jesus loved and the elder at Ephesus.

From the exposition of the oracles of the Lord.

[The writings of Papias in common circulation are five in number, and these are called an Exposition of the Oracles of the Lord. Irenæus makes mention of these as the only works written by him, in the following words: “Now testimony is borne to these things in writing by Papias, an ancient man, who was a hearer of John, and a friend of Polycarp, in the fourth of his books; for five books were composed by him.” Thus wrote Irenæus. Papias wrote:

But I shall not be unwilling to put down, along with my interpretations, whatsoever instructions I received with care at any time from the elders, and stored up with care in my memory, assuring you at the same time of their truth. For I did not, like the multitude, take pleasure in those who spoke much, but in those who taught the truth; nor in those who related strange commandments, but in those who rehearsed the commandments given by the Lord to faith, and proceeding from truth itself. If, then, any one who had attended on the elders came, I asked minutely after their sayings — what Andrew or Peter said, or what was said by Philip, or by Thomas, or by James, or by John, or by Matthew, or by any other of the Lord's disciples: which things Aristion and the presbyter John, the disciples of the Lord, say. For I imagined that what was to be got from books was not so profitable to me as what came from the living and abiding voice.

II

[The early Christians] called those who practised a godly guilelessness, children, [as is stated by Papias in the first book of the Lord's Expositions, and by Clemens Alexandrinus in his Pædagogue.]

III

Judas walked about in this world a sad example of impiety; for his body having swollen to such an extent that he could not pass where a chariot could pass easily, he was crushed by the chariot, so that his bowels gushed out.

IV

As the elders who saw John the disciple of the Lord remembered that they had heard from him how the Lord taught in regard to those times, and said]: “The days will come in which vines shall grow, having each ten thousand branches, and in each branch ten thousand twigs, and in each true twig ten thousand shoots, and in every one of the shoots ten thousand clusters, and on every one of the clusters ten thousand grapes, and every grape when pressed will give five-and-twenty metretes of wine. And when any one of the saints shall lay hold of a cluster, another shall cry out, 'I am a better cluster, take me; bless the Lord through me.' In like manner, [He said] that a grain of wheat would produce ten thousand ears, and that every ear would have ten thousand grains, and every grain would yield ten pounds of clear, pure, fine flour; and that apples, and seeds, and grass would produce in similar proportions; and that all animals, feeding then only on the productions of the earth, would become peaceable and harmonious, and be in perfect subjection to man.” [Testimony is borne to these things in writing by Papias, an ancient man, who was a hearer of John and a friend of Polycarp, in the fourth of his books; for five books were composed by him. And he added, saying, “Now these things are credible to believers. And Judas the traitor,” says he, “not believing, and asking, 'How shall such growths be accomplished by the Lord.' the Lord said, 'They shall see who shall come to them.' These, then, are the times mentioned by the prophet Isaiah: 'And the wolf shall lie, down with the lamb,' etc. Isaiah 11:6 ff..”]

V

As the presbyters say, then those who are deemed worthy of an abode in heaven shall go there, others shall enjoy the delights of Paradise, and others shall possess the splendour of the city; for everywhere the Saviour will be seen, according as they shall be worthy who see Him. But that there is this distinction between the habitation of those who produce an hundred-fold, and that of those who produce sixty-fold, and that of those who produce thirty-fold; for the first will be taken up into the heavens, the second class will dwell in Paradise, and the last will inhabit the city; and that on this account the Lord said, “In my Father's house are many mansions:” John 14:2 for all things belong to God, who supplies all with a suitable dwelling-place, even as His word says, that a share is given to all by the Father, according as each one is or shall be worthy. And this is the couch Matthew 22:10 in which they shall recline who feast, being invited to the wedding. The presbyters, the disciples of the apostles, say that this is the gradation and arrangement of those who are saved, and that they advance through steps of this nature; and that, moreover, they ascend through the Spirit to the Son, and through the Son to the Father; and that in due time the Son will yield up His work to the Father, even as it is said by the apostle, “For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.” 1 Corinthians 15:25-26 For in the times of the kingdom the just man who is on the earth shall forget to die. “But when He says all things are put under Him, it is manifest that He is excepted which did put all things under Him. And when all things shall be subdued unto Him, then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him that put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.” 1 Corinthians 15:27-28

VI

[Papias, who is now mentioned by us, affirms that he received the sayings of the apostles from those who accompanied them, and he moreover asserts that he heard in person Aristion and the presbyter John. Accordingly he mentions them frequently by name, and in his writings gives their traditions. Our notice of these circumstances may not be without its use. It may also be worth while to add to the statements of Papias already given, other passages of his in which he relates some miraculous deeds, stating that he acquired the knowledge of them from tradition. The residence of the Apostle Philip with his daughters in Hierapolis has been mentioned above. We must now point out how Papias, who lived at the same time, relates that he had received a wonderful narrative from the daughters of Philip. For he relates that a dead man was raised to life in his day. He also mentions another miracle relating to Justus, surnamed Barsabas, how he swallowed a deadly poison, and received no harm, on account of the grace of the Lord. The same person, moreover, has set down other things as coming to him from unwritten tradition, among these some strange parables and instructions of the Saviour, and some other things of a more fabulous nature. Amongst these he says that there will be a millennium after the resurrection from the dead, when the personal reign of Christ will be established on this earth. He moreover hands down, in his own writing, other narratives given by the previously mentioned Aristion of the Lord's sayings, and the traditions of the presbyter John. For information on these points, we can merely refer our readers to the books themselves; but now, to the extracts already made, we shall add, as being a matter of primary importance, a tradition regarding Mark who wrote the Gospel, which he [Papias] has given in the following words]: And the presbyter said this. Mark having become the interpreter of Peter, wrote down accurately whatsoever he remembered. It was not, however, in exact order that he related the sayings or deeds of Christ. For he neither heard the Lord nor accompanied Him. But afterwards, as I said, he accompanied Peter, who accommodated his instructions to the necessities [of his hearers], but with no intention of giving a regular narrative of the Lord's sayings. Wherefore Mark made no mistake in thus writing some things as he remembered them. For of one thing he took special care, not to omit anything he had heard, and not to put anything fictitious into the statements. [This is what is related by Papias regarding Mark; but with regard to Matthew he has made the following statements]: Matthew put together the oracles [of the Lord] in the Hebrew language, and each one interpreted them as best he could. [The same person uses proofs from the First Epistle of John, and from the Epistle of Peter in like manner. And he also gives another story of a woman who was accused of many sins before the Lord, which is to be found in the Gospel according to the Hebrews.]

VII

Papias thus speaks, word for word: To some of them [angels] He gave dominion over the arrangement of the world, and He commissioned them to exercise their dominion well. And he says, immediately after this: but it happened that their arrangement came to nothing.

VIII

With regard to the inspiration of the book (Revelation), we deem it superfluous to add another word; for the blessed Gregory Theologus and Cyril, and even men of still older date, Papias, Irenæus, Methodius, and Hippolytus, bore entirely satisfactory testimony to it.

IX

Taking occasion from Papias of Hierapolis, the illustrious, a disciple of the apostle who leaned on the bosom of Christ, and Clemens, and Pantænus the elder of [the Church] of the Alexandrians, and the wise Ammonius, the ancient and first expositors, who agreed with each other, who understood the work of the six days as referring to Christ and the whole Church.

X

(1.) Mary the mother of the Lord; (2.) Mary the wife of Cleophas or Alphæus, who was the mother of James the bishop and apostle, and of Simon and Thaddeus, and of one Joseph; (3.) Mary Salome, wife of Zebedee, mother of John the evangelist and James; (4.) Mary Magdalene. These four are found in the Gospel. James and Judas and Joseph were sons of an aunt (2) of the Lord's. James also and John were sons of another aunt (3) of the Lord's. Mary (2), mother of James the Less and Joseph, wife of Alphæus was the sister of Mary the mother of the Lord, whom John names of Cleophas, either from her father or from the family of the clan, or for some other reason. Mary Salome (3) is called Salome either from her husband or her village. Some affirm that she is the same as Mary of Cleophas, because she had two husbands.

 

renaeus, Bishop of Lyons, provides the origin of the four Gospels and their authors. In his ‘Against Heresies’ (3.1.1), “There are four Gospels and only four, neither more nor less… Christ is at the center of them.

John actually speaks of his kingly and glorious sonship to the Father in his opening words: ‘In the beginning was the Word.’ 3:11”

Irenaeus and Eusebius point out (H.E. 5.8.4), stating that John, the disciple of the Lord, who rested on Jesus' breast (ho kai epi to stêthos autou anapesôn), produced his gospel while living in Ephesus (H.E. 5.8.4; Adv. Haer. 3.3.4). Irenaeus, Eusebius points out (H.E. 5.8.4), states "the disciple whom Jesus loved." Irenaeus was about 27 years old and a pupil of Polycarp. Polycarp learned from John himself when he was in his youth. We can place Irenaeus in the bathhouse and in Polycarp’s home learning from him. .

Bart Ehrman says, “Expressly (Adv. Haeres. 3, 3, et apud Euseb. Hist. Eccles. 4:14), he was instructed (perhaps converted, μαθητευθείς) by the apostles and conversed familiarly with many who had seen Christ; was by the apostles appointed (κατασταθείς) bishop of the Church at Smyrna; and always taught what he had learned from the apostles."

Irenaeus writes: “I can even describe the place where the blessed Polycarp used to sit and discourse—his going out, too, and his coming in—his general mode of life and personal appearance, together with the discourses which he delivered to the people; also how he would speak of his familiar intercourse with John, and with the rest of those who had seen the Lord, and how he would call their words to remembrance.” (Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus, Chapter 2) Bart Ehrman supports the connection to John the apostle....

 

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