Today is the 55^th anniversary since the publication of the May 13, 1957, Life magazine article, Seeking the Magic Mushroom, published by Gordon Wasson, which is what is largely considered to have launched the psychedelic revolution.

Today we’re going to toss out the last 55 years of academic history regarding the discovery of magic mushrooms, the beginnings of the field of ethnomycology, and this major event in launching the psychedelic revolution; and we’re going to start a new history – one based on truth and verifiable facts rather than legends and myths.

Council on Foreign Relations, R. Gordon Wasson - Chairman

Six years in the making, this episode exposes one of the largest coverups in modern academic history – something that may one day be as large as the Piltdown Hoax. We’re going to reveal how the psychedelic revolution was launched by the CFR, CIA and the elite, and how R. Gordon Wasson, the so called discoverer of magic mushrooms, and the founder of the field of ethnomycology, was himself a government asset, a friend of Edward Bernays – the father of propaganda, and is one of the key figures for launching one of the largest mind control operations in history – information never before revealed until today. And it doesn’t stop there. I’m going to provide information that shows how R. Gordon Wasson may have been one of the key players in the organization of the JFK assassination.

Gordon Wasson nominates George Keenan to the Century Club. Foreign Affairs (CFR) letter head.

The entire transcript of this show is posted for download on the page to this episode on the Gnostic Media website so that you can follow along. Also included in the transcript are 70 endnotes leading to the evidence presented herein.

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Released November 22, 2009.
What are the negative consequences of “positive thinking”? Is positive thinking a good thing, or does it have the potential to be used as a tool for mind control and manipulation? Is positive thinking responsible for the financial meltdown? Who really gets rich from the positive thinking movement? Does the human mind have the ability to directly manifest thoughts into reality? What is the difference between positive thinking and critical thinking?

Today’s guest is Dr. Barbara Erhenreich who is the author of more than a dozen books, including Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch. Today she’ll be on to discuss her latest book Bright-Sided, How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America.

Website: www.barbaraehrenreich.com

Order Bright-Sided:
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The incomparable Jan Irvin, host of the popular Gnostic Media Radio podcast visits Occult Science Radio With host Curtis “Illuminated One” Davis to discuss the Trivium, the Quadrivium and Magic Mushrooms. April 30, 2012.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/illuminated-one/2012/05/01/jan-irvin-the-trivium-visits-occult-science-radio

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/illuminated-one

http://www.theoccultnetwork.com

Gilad Atzmon was born in Israel in 1963 and had his musical training at the Rubin Academy of Music, Jerusalem (Composition and Jazz). As a multi-instrumentalist he plays Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Baritone Saxes, Clarinet and Flutes. His album Exile was the BBC jazz album of the year in 2003. He has been described by John Lewis on the Guardian as the “hardest-gigging man in British jazz”. His albums, of which he has recorded nine to date, often explore political themes and the music of the Middle East.
Until 1994 he was a producer-arranger for various Israeli Dance & Rock Projects, performing in Europe and the USA playing ethnic music as well as R&R and Jazz.
Coming to the UK in 1994, Atzmon recovered an interest in playing the music of the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe that had been in the back of his mind for years. In 2000 he founded the Orient House Ensemble in London and started re-defining his own roots in the light of his emerging political awareness. Since then the Orient House Ensemble has toured all over the world. The Ensemble includes Eddie Hick on Drums, Yaron Stavi on Bass and Frank Harrison on piano & electronics.
Also, being a prolific writer, Atzmon’s essays are widely published. His novels ‘Guide to the perplexed’ and ‘My One And Only Love’ have been translated into 24 languages. Gilad’s latest book, The Wandering Who? is a study of Jewish Identity political identity. It will be published in English in October 2011.
http://www.gilad.co.uk/

The Trivium is an ancient method of critical thinking that has three components; grammar, logic, and rhetoric. These three components make up the only three of the seven Liberal Arts. The other four concepts are covered in the Quadrivium (but we did not cover that in this episode).

Jan explains how the sophisticated class (the elites, the sophists, the powerful) has employed the Trivium to use mind control over the lower classes of society. Due to the fact that the educated class has access to better critical thinking skills they employ techniques to manipulate the minds of the less educated. Think of advertisements, campaign slogans, and government propaganda.

With a knowledge of the Trivium (which can be self-taught and is easily accessible) anyone can quickly learn techniques to identify logical fallacies and propaganda.

Link to the original interview:

http://twobeerswithsteve.libsyn.com/episode-115-the-trivium-education-with-jan-irvin

Gilad Atzmon was born in Israel in 1963 and had his musical training at the Rubin Academy of Music, Jerusalem (Composition and Jazz). As a multi-instrumentalist he plays Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Baritone Saxes, Clarinet and Flutes. His album Exile was the BBC jazz album of the year in 2003. He has been described by John Lewis on the Guardian as the “hardest-gigging man in British jazz”. His albums, of which he has recorded nine to date, often explore political themes and the music of the Middle East.
Until 1994 he was a producer-arranger for various Israeli Dance & Rock Projects, performing in Europe and the USA playing ethnic music as well as R&R and Jazz.
Coming to the UK in 1994, Atzmon recovered an interest in playing the music of the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe that had been in the back of his mind for years. In 2000 he founded the Orient House Ensemble in London and started re-defining his own roots in the light of his emerging political awareness. Since then the Orient House Ensemble has toured all over the world. The Ensemble includes Eddie Hick on Drums, Yaron Stavi on Bass and Frank Harrison on piano & electronics.
Also, being a prolific writer, Atzmon’s essays are widely published. His novels ‘Guide to the perplexed’ and ‘My One And Only Love’ have been translated into 24 languages. Gilad’s latest book, The Wandering Who? is a study of Jewish Identity political identity. It was published in English in October 2011.

Joseph Atwill spent his youth in Japan where he attended the only English-speaking school in the country, St. Mary’s Military Academy. The school was run by Jesuits so removed from the events of the modern world that they did not even consider shutting it down during World War II, and taught a curriculum that had not changed since the eighteenth century. Joseph Atwill describes that, “The majority of every one of my school days was spent studying Greek, Latin and the Bible, which for some reason I found fascinating.”

After studying computer science in college, Atwill began working with one of the most renowned programmers in the world, David Ferguson. David had been granted the first two patents ever issued in computer software. Over the next twenty years, between 1975 and 1995, David Ferguson and Joseph Atwill started a series of companies including Ferguson Tool Company and ASNA. “After selling my interests in our companies to investors in 1995, I returned to my earlier interest; the origins of Christianity,” Atwill says of this time period.

Atwill continues, “Though I had drifted away from the Catholic faith, my study of Christianity never stopped. Over the course of my life I had read perhaps six or seven hundred books relating to the historical Jesus and early Christianity, but none of them left me feeling like I really knew anything about how the religion began or its founder.” Atwill contends that the more he studied Christian origins the more he saw the question of how the religion began as an open one. Atwill held this position in spite of the fact that in the popular mind, and in the minds of most scholars, Christianity began as a movement of lower class followers of a radical Jewish teacher in the 1st century CE.

Says Atwill, “I did not share in this certainty.” What contributed most to his skepticism was that at the exact time the followers of Jesus were purportedly organizing themselves into a religion that urged its members to “turn the other cheek” and to “give to Caesar what is Caesar’s”, another Judean sect was waging a religious war against the Romans and seeking a Messiah who would lead them militarily. Atwill continues, “It seemed implausible to me that two diametrically opposite forms of messianic Judaism would have emerged from Judea at the same time. So the Dead Sea Scrolls became of such interest to me that I began what turned into a decade-long study of them.” Like others, Atwill was hoping to learn something of Christian origins in the 2,000 year old documents found at Qumran. To assist in his understanding of them, Atwill began studying the history of the era.

It was then that Joseph Atwill came across the key that led to his discoveries. “While reading Josephus’ War of the Jews, and his account of Titus’ destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE,” Atwill recounts, “I noticed some curious parallels. At first I could make no sense of the parallels between Titus’ campaign and Jesus’ ministry. So I tried to look at the Gospels with fresh eyes, as if I had never seen them before, giving up any preconceived notions about what they meant.” This perspective resulted in the discoveries Atwill presents in Caesar’s Messiah and his soon-to-be-published book, The Single Strand. A Roman imperial family, the Flavians, had created Christianity, and, even more incredibly, they had placed a literary satire within the Gospels and War of the Jews to inform posterity of this fact.

Understanding the symbolic framework for the Gospels opened up the hidden history of Western Civilization to Joseph Atwill. That framework enabled him to recognize the typology that underlies authors such as Marlowe and Shakespeare and see the incredible story their typology tells us, and is the basis for The Single Strand.

Joseph Atwill concludes, “I am an avid chess player and proud to state that I have more than 100 victories over Grandmasters and International Masters. I hold an ICC Masters rating of 2358.” It is this form of strategic thinking that enabled Atwill to uncover the strategy behind the Romans’ invention of the Gospels.

Books by Joseph Atwill include Caesar’s Messiah, Ulysses Press 2006, the best selling work of religious history in the US in 2007, and its German translation Das Messias Ratsel, Ulstein 2008, achieving #1 Best Seller status. Atwill’s upcoming book, The Single Strand is also slated to be published by Ulstein. The German Magazine Focus published a cover article of Atwill’s work: Issue #52
December 25, 2008.

Stefan Molyneux, MA, received his undergraduate degree in History at McGill University in Montréal Canada, and completed his Masters Degree in History at the University of Toronto. He then worked for 15 years as a software entrepreneur and executive, cofounding an Environmental Management software company, where he served as Chief Technology Officer until selling the company in 2000. He then worked in a variety of technical and marketing executive positions. In 2005, Mr. Molyneux began publishing a variety of libertarian articles, and started Freedomain Radio, which he has since grown into the largest and most popular philosophy show in the world, available at http://www.freedomainradio.com. Freedomain Radio shows have been downloaded over 35 million times over the past few years. On the show, as well as producing original material, Mr. Molyneux has interviewed a wide variety of experts in a large number of fields, ranging from psychology to economics to politics to philosophy. He has appeared on a number of television and radio shows, as well spoken at a wide variety of libertarian conferences. A number of his free books are available at http://www.freedomainradio.com/free.

Mr. Molyneux was the closing keynote speaker at the New Hampshire Liberty Forum in 2009, following Ron Paul and John Stossel the previous two years. He was also the keynote speaker at the Libertopia Festival in 2010, and was the master of ceremonies and opening and closing speaker at Libertopia 2011. He gave speeches at the 2010 and 2011 Porcupine Freedom Festival in New Hampshire, and was the closing speaker for the Freedom Summit 2010 in Phoenix Arizona. He spoke at Liberty Fest 2 in New York in September, along with Tom Woods and Adam Kokesh.

www.freedomainradio.com

David Astle’s The Babylonian Woe: http://archive.org/details/TheBabylonianWoe
Stephen Zarlenga’s website: www.monetary.org
Cecil Rhode’s Last Will And Testament – download

March 26, 2012:

I have the following bad news:
It was brought to my attention today by Prof. John Hoopes of the University of Kansas at Lawrence that Prof. Neil Whitehead has died on March 23rd.
http://www.news.wisc.edu/20484

Because of this, and in his memory, I have removed Whitehead’s interview from the archives and placed it for free download.

Published on: Nov 23, 2008
In this show we take a journey to the dark side – the dark side of shamanism – in our interview with Prof. Neil Whitehead, who was the victim of a Kanaima, or dark shaman attack in Guyana.

This show focuses on countering the New Age presentations of “shamanism” in western culture, and seeks to create balance, as well as educate about the dangers of dark shamanism – and the ignorance thereof.

Neil Whitehead is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He graduated from Oxford University in 1984 with a Ph.D. in Anthropology.

His books include:

Hans Staden’s True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil ed. By Neil Whitehead and Michael Harbsmeier, June 2008. Order: http://astore.amazon.com/gnosmedi-20/detail/0822342316

Terror and Violence – Anthropological Approaches (ed with Andrew Strathern and Pamela Stewart, Pluto Press), 2005. Order: http://astore.amazon.com/gnosmedi-20/detail/0745323987

In Darkness and Secrecy. The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia. (ed. with Robin Wright) Duke University Press, 2004. Order: http://astore.amazon.com/gnosmedi-20/detail/0822333457

Dark Shamans. Kanaima and the Poetics of Violent Death. Duke University Press, 2002. Order: http://astore.amazon.com/gnosmedi-20/detail/0822329883

James L. Kelley’s new book, Anatomyzing Divinity: Studies in Science, Esotericism and Political Theology (Walterville, OR: TrineDay, 2011), is an attempt to afford the reader rare insights into the history and meaning of Western esotericism. What is alchemy? Is it mere gold-making, as many university pundits are saying, or is alchemy something more, something very close to the pulse of Western civilization? These queries and many others besides are tackled in Kelley’s latest offering.

Mr. Kelley was born in Allen, Oklahoma. He is currently conducting research on the history of Western esotericism at the University of Oklahoma’s History of Science Collections. His previous publications include: “A Realism of Glory: Lectures on Christology in the Works of Protopresbyter John Romanides” (Rollinsford, N.H.: Orthodox Research Institute, 2009); and “Anthropos: New Studies” (forthcoming).

Larken has been here thrice previous: last June, and the last two weeks and he’s back again as we complete our 3 part conversation on freedom and the appeal to authority fallacy, and ultimately, Freedom.

What does it mean to have a leader, or government? Does government protect our freedoms, or are they the very cause of our enslavement? And what does it mean to vote? Does voting give us freedoms that we otherwise might not have?

What if the idea of government was nothing but a religious myth, created by criminals and followed by billions of mindless zombie zealots the world over – just as any other dogma? What would happen if one day, just all of a sudden, everyone stopped believing in government?

Today we’ll be discussing what it means to believe in government. Is government real, or a figment of your collective, religious imagination? Does not voting mean that we’d be sitting around like a bunch of lazy couch potatoes doing nothing? Or, if we use critical thinking, is it really our first course of action to disempower the criminals whom we call politicians? Is voting the only way to effect change? Or is it in reality one of the least effective ways to effect change and gain freedom? And what does it mean to live in a democratic (or “mob-ruled”) society, anyway?

Today we question some of our most firmly held governmental religious myths as we continue this investigation on the myth of government, exposing government as the fallacy of “ad verecundiam”.

Larken Rose is a self-described “enemy of the state” and “tax heretic.” The author of several books–two of which were written during his one-year stay as a political prisoner in the U.S. prison system–Mr. Rose is an outspoken advocate of self-ownership and a voluntary society. For more information, see
http://www.larkenrose.com/

Larken has been here twice before: last June, and last week and he’s back again as we delve deeper into this most important, and yet most misunderstood topic: Freedom.

What does it mean to have a leader, or government? Does government protect our freedoms, or are they the very cause of our enslavement? And what does it mean to vote? Does voting give us freedoms that we otherwise might not have?

What if the idea of government was nothing but a religious myth, created by criminals and followed by billions of mindless zombie zealots the world over – just as any other dogma? What would happen if one day, just all of a sudden, everyone stopped believing in government?

Today we’ll be discussing what it means to believe in government. Is government real, or a figment of your collective, religious imagination? Does not voting mean that we’d be sitting around like a bunch of lazy couch potatoes doing nothing? Or, if we use critical thinking, is it really our first course of action to dis-empower the criminals whom we call politicians? Is voting the only way to effect change? Or is it in reality one of the least effective ways to effect change and gain freedom? And what does it mean to live in a democratic (or “mob-ruled”) society, anyway?

Today we question some of our most firmly held governmental religious myths as we continue this investigation on the myth of government, exposing government as the fallacy of “ad verecundiam”.

It is time to grow up. The time is now to stop having mommy and daddy government tell us what we want, and what we can or can’t do, say, eat, or what drugs we can take. Today we begin acting as adults, making our own decisions – rejecting the fallacy of appeal to authority, or ad verecundiam.

Larken Rose is a self-described “enemy of the state” and “tax heretic.” The author of several books–two of which were written during his one-year stay as a political prisoner in the U.S. prison system–Mr. Rose is an outspoken advocate of self-ownership and a voluntary society. For more information, see
http://www.larkenrose.com/

This episode is an interview with Larken Rose, pt 2 titled “Government – The Fallacy of Ad Verecundiam, pt. 1” and is being released on Monday, February 6, 2012. My interview with Larken was recorded on Saturday, February 4, 2012.

Larken has been here once before: last June, and he’s back again as we delve deeper into this most important, and yet most misunderstood topic.

What does it mean to have a leader, or government? Does government protect our freedoms, or are they the very cause of our enslavement? And what does it mean to vote? Does voting give us freedoms that we otherwise might not have?

What if the idea of government was nothing but a religious myth, created by criminals and followed by billions of mindless zombie zealots the world over – just as any other dogma? What would happen if one day, just all of a sudden, everyone stopped believing in government?

Today we’ll be discussing what it means to believe in government. Is government real, or a figment of your collective, religious imagination? Does not voting mean that we’d be sitting around like a bunch of lazy couch potatoes doing nothing? Or, if we use critical thinking, is it really our first course of action to disempower the criminals whom we call politicians? Is voting the only way to effect change? Or is it in reality one of the least effective ways to effect change and gain freedom? And what does it mean to live in a democratic (or “mob-ruled”) society, anyway?

Today we question some of our most firmly held governmental religious myths as we continue this investigation on the myth of government, exposing government as the fallacy of “ad verecundiam”.

It is time to grow up. The time is now to stop having mommy and daddy government tell us what we want, and what we can or can’t do, say, eat, or what drugs we can take. Today we begin acting as adults, making our own decisions – rejecting the fallacy of appeal to authority, or ad verecundiam.

Larken Rose is a self-described “enemy of the state” and “tax heretic.”
The author of several books–two of which were written during his one-year stay as a political prisoner in the U.S. prison system–Mr. Rose is an outspoken advocate of self-ownership and a voluntary society. For more information, see http://www.larkenrose.com/

Notes, References, and Links for further study:

1. Tragedy and Hope dot com
2. Invitation to the Tragedy and Hope online community
3. Log in page for the Tragedy and Hope online community
4. Peace Revolution primary site (2009-2012)
5. Peace Revolution backup stream(2006-2012)
   1. Includes the 9/11 Synchronicity Podcast (predecessor to Peace Revolution)
   2. These 2 podcasts amount to 250+ hours of commercial-free educational content, which formulate a comprehensive and conscious curriculum.
6. Change your default settings from Google to Start Page!
   1. Start Page Search Firefox Add-On
7. The Ultimate History Lesson dot com
8. The Ultimate History Lesson Official Playlist (on YouTube)
9. The Ultimate History Lesson (Torrents)
   1. (Video) The Ultimate History Lesson (5+ hours / 1080p HD mp4)
   2. (Audio) The Ultimate History Lesson + Commentary (16+ hours / mp3)
      1. If you’re interested in downloading the torrent versions, please send an email to: Editors@TragedyandHope.com with the word “torrent” in the subject line.
10. What is a Torrent?(on Wikipedia)
    1. uTorrent (software to create and download torrent files)
11. TRANSCRIPT for Episode 048: The Philosophy of Life
12. Russell Means(on Wikipedia)
    1. www.RepublicofLakotah.org
    2. “American Economic Collapse Imminent” interview with Alex Jones (on YouTube)
    3. “Welcome to the Reservation” produced by Alex Jones & the Infowars Team
13. “TSA Greatest Liars on Earth” an editorial comment by Alex Jones & the Infowars Team
14. “What means the number, 451?” from Fahrenheit 451, a 1966 film based on the book of the same name, by Ray Bradbury in 1953.
15. Banning Fahrenheit 451: Why You Should Read It (on YouTube)
16. “Beyond SOPA: The Past, Present and Future of Internet Censorship” by James Corbett
    1. ACTA: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Act (on YouTube)
17. Vaccinations for Depopulation: Bill Gates and Sanjay Gupta (on YouTube)
18. Dr. Richard Stallman interviewed by Alex Jonescourtesy of Infowars.com
    1. Dr. Richard Stallman (on Wikipedia)
    2. www.Stallman.org
19. Examples of how artists use the internet to spread their message:
    1. Free Talk Live with Ian Freeman, courtesy of Cody Hall
20. The Tiny Dot: Larken Rose interviewed on Corbett Report Radio #55
21. “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand (on Wikipedia)
22. “This is John Galt Speaking” (on YouTube)
    1. Note: Galt is speaking to the plunderers, not the producers; to the irrational, not the rational. He is chastizing those who value illusions, and appealing to others who use reason.
    2. Note: Rand is less than comprehensively accurate in her description, as she succumbs to the fallacy of authority; which is indeed, a slippery slope. That being read, there is a great deal of useful information to be comprehended, removing contradictions as they are encountered; through which we are all empowered.
23. “If You were King” by Larken Rose (on YouTube)
24. “The Most Dangerous Superstition” @ www.LarkenRose.com

Notes, References, and Links for further study:

1. Tragedy and Hope dot com (commercial-free educational media)
2. Invitation to the Tragedy and Hope online community
3. Log in page for the Tragedy and Hope online community
4. Peace Revolution primary site (2009-2012)
5. Peace Revolution backup stream(2006-2012)
   1. Includes the 9/11 Synchronicity Podcast (predecessor to Peace Revolution)
   2. You can USE THE BACKUP STREAM when podOmatic indicates this podcast is “over-bandwidth”.
6. Francisco D’Anconia’s money speech from Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”
7. Alex Jones “The NDAA is a Hoax, You Can’t Legalize Tyranny”
   1. www.Infowars.com / www.PrisonPlanet.tv
8. “They Thought They Were Free” by Milton Mayer, read by Dave Emory
   1. See also: the She Who Remembers Archives@ Gnostic Media
      1. http://www.gnosticmedia.com/store/ (bottom of page)
9. “The Spirit of 43” Pay Your Income Tax/ 1943 Disney Propaganda (on YouTube)
   1. The single-most effective means to convince hard-working Americans to fund their own wage slavery.
10. “The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Volume One)” by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
    1. The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn’s attempt to compile a literary-historical record of the vast system of prisons and labor camps that came into being shortly after the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in 1917 and that underwent an enormous expansion during the rule of Stalin from 1924 to 1953. Various sections of the three volumes describe the arrest, interrogation, conviction, transportation, and imprisonment of the Gulag’s victims by Soviet authorities over four decades. The work mingles historical exposition and Solzhenitsyn’s own autobiographical accounts with the voluminous personal testimony of other inmates that he collected and committed to memory during his imprisonment. Upon publication of the first volume of The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn was immediately attacked in the Soviet press. Despite the intense interest in his fate that was shown in the West, he was arrested and charged with treason on February 12, 1974, and was exiled from the Soviet Union the following day.
11. “Proof (that) Obama will NOT Veto the NDAA 1031 Bill that can Indefinitely Detain U.S. Citizens” (on YouTube)

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“Memories of a Political Prisoner”, an interview with Professor Chengiah Ragaven, graduate of Oxford, Cambridge, and Sussex; AFTER he was a political prisoner, who was exiled from South Africa, during Apartheid. (2011)

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Notes, References, and Links for further study:

1. Invitation to the Tragedy and Hope online community
2. Log in page for the Tragedy and Hope online community
3. Peace Revolution primary site (2009-2012)
4. Peace Revolution backup stream(2006-2012)
   1. Includes the 9/11 Synchronicity Podcast (predecessor to Peace Revolution)
   2. Use the backup stream if the podOmatic bandwidth has been exceeded.
5. Tombstone (on Youtube)
6. “Bianca you animal, shut up!” (end of lecture) by John Taylor Gatto
7. The Utimate History Lesson dot com
8. “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit” by Henry Ward Beecher 1877 (on Google Books)
9. “Who is John Galt” entire speech from Atlas Shrugged
10. Mark Passio, What On Earth Is Happening, podcast # 89
11. Mark Passio, What On Earth is Happening, podcast # 84 with Larken Rose
12. Larken Rose dot com
13. The Most Dangerous Superstition by Larken Rose
14. “The Philosophic Corruption of Reality” outline presented on The Meria Heller Show
15. “Liberty or Death” speech written by Patrick Henry, 1775
16. St. John’s Church, Richmond, Virginia (National Landmark)
17. Solipsism: Solipsism ( /ˈsɒlɨpsɪzəm/) is the philosophical idea that only one’s own mind, alone, is sure to exist. The term comes from Latin solus (alone) and ipse (self). Solipsism as an epistemological position holds that knowledge of anything outside one’s own mind is unsure. The external world and other minds cannot be known, and might not exist outside the mind. As a metaphysical position, solipsism goes further to the conclusion that the world and other minds do not exist. Although the number of individuals sincerely espousing solipsism has been small, it is not uncommon for one philosopher to accuse another’s arguments of entailing solipsism as an unwanted consequence, in a kind of reductio ad absurdum. In the history of philosophy, solipsism has also served as a skeptical hypothesis.
18. Reason: Reason is a term that refers to the capacity human beings have to make sense of things, to establish and verify facts, and to change or justify practices, institutions, and beliefs.[1] It is closely associated with such characteristically human activities as philosophy, science, language, mathematics, and art, and is normally considered to be a definitive characteristic of human nature.[2] The concept of reason is sometimes referred to as rationality and sometimes as discursive reason, in opposition to “intuitive reason“.[3]
    1. Reason or “reasoning” is associated with thinking, cognition, and intellect. Reason, like habit or intuition, is one of the ways by which thinking comes from one idea to a related idea. For example, it is the means by which rational beings understand themselves to think about cause and effect, truth and falsehood, and what is good or bad.
    2. In contrast to reason as an abstract noun, a reason is a consideration which explains or justifies some event, phenomenon or behaviour.[4] The ways in which human beings reason through argument are the subject of inquiries in the field of logic.
    3. Reason is closely identified with the ability to self-consciously change beliefs, attitudes, traditions, and institutions, and therefore with the capacity for freedom and self-determination.[5]
19. Fallacies: In logic and rhetoric, a fallacy is usually an improper argumentation in reasoning resulting in a misconception or presumption. By accident or design, fallacies may exploit emotional triggers in the listener or interlocutor (appeal to emotion), or take advantage of social relationships between people (e.g. argument from authority). Fallacious arguments are often structured using rhetorical patterns that obscure any logical argument.
    1. Fallacies can be used to win arguments regardless of the merits. Among such devices, discussed in more detail below, are: “ignoring the question” to divert argument to unrelated issues using a red herring, making the argument personal (argumentum ad hominem) and discrediting the opposition’s character, “begging the question” (petito principi), the use of the non-sequitor, false cause and effect (post hoc ergo propter hoc), bandwagoning (everyone says so), the “false dilemma” or “either-or fallacy” in which the situation is oversimplified, “card-stacking” or selective use of facts, and “false analogy”. Another favorite device is the “false generalization”, an abstraction of the argument that shifts discussion to platitudes where the facts of the matter are lost. There are many, many more tricks to divert attention from careful exploration of a subject.[1]
    2. Fallacies can generally be classified as informal (premises fail to support the proposed conclusion, but the argument is structured properly) or formal (logical structure is flawed).
20. List of Fallacies and Intellectual Self-Defense (on Scribd)
21. Gene Odening interview #4 on the Gnostic Media Podcast
22. Trivium Interviews with Gene Odening: www.TriviumEducation.com

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Other productions by members of the T&H network:

The Ultimate History Lesson: A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto (2012) a journey into the dark heart of public schooling, revealing how America became incoherent, one student at a time.

Navigating Netflix (2011) our video series wherein we conduct a critical analysis of films you might have missed; Navigating Netflix is available for free on YouTube.

“Memories of a Political Prisoner”, an interview with Professor Chengiah Ragaven, graduate of Oxford, Cambridge, and Sussex; AFTER he was a political prisoner, who was exiled from South Africa, during Apartheid. (2011)

What You’ve Been Missing! (2011) is our video series focusing in on the history of corruption in our public education system.

Top Documentary Films dot com: Hijacking Humanity by Paul Verge (2006)

Top Documentary Films dot com: Exposing the Noble Lie (2010)

Top Documentary Films dot com: The Pharmacratic Inquisition by Jan Irvin (2007)

Videos that go along with this episode are listed on the website and include:
CAFR School, School Districts and the Lottery (RIM of the World Unified School District Expose), CAFR School: Commingled funds video, as well as Larken Rose’s Tiny Dot, and Agenda 21 videos.

Presidential candidate Clint Richardson is the protégé to Walter Burien at CAFR1.com and has been here twice before – last January to discuss his video The Corporation Nation, part 1, and also in October to discuss his documentary Lethal Injection The Story of Vaccination. Today he’s with us to discuss his most recent film, a film that I personally requested as it focuses on the crimes right here in my own mountain community.

You can find out more about Clint at www.thecorporationnation.com, and at www.clint4p.com, as well as at his blog at http://realitybloger.wordpress.com/

CAFR SCHOOL: RIM of the World Unified School District Expose – shorter version

CAFR School: The California Lottery (video #2)

Agenda 21 – best presentation ever – must watch!!!

CAFR School: What is a Commingled Fund?

Larkin Rose – The Tiny Dot

My interview with Larken Rose: http://www.gnosticmedia.com/larken-rose-interview-dialectic-and-the-demise-of-government-115/