C. J. Cornthwaite May 8, 2026 Footnote Famous – Interviews with the world’s best Bible scholars What does the Gospel of John actually claim about Jesus — and about everyone else? In this conversation, I sit down with Dr. Hugo Mendez (UNC Chapel Hill) to talk about his new book The Gospel of John: A New History (Oxford University Press), and the result is one of the most genuinely surprising readings of John I’ve encountered. Most readers know John as the gospel that “makes Jesus divine.” That’s half the story. The other half — the one Mendez argues we’ve been missing for centuries — is that John’s Jesus extends that same divinity to his followers. The logos becomes flesh, yes. But the logos also draws human beings into oneness with God, gives them the glory he had with the Father, and even tells them in John 10, “you are gods.” We get into:

• Why John is almost certainly the work of a single author (and where chapter 21 gives itself away as a later addition)
• How John knew and creatively reworked Mark, Matthew, and Luke — the Lazarus story is a wild example
• John’s Philonic logos theology and why it isn’t yet 4th-century Trinitarian thought
• The deification of believers — what scholars have missed about John 10 and John 17
• Mendez’s argument that humans in John may also be angelified (John 1:51 and the angels ascending and descending on the Son of Man)
• Why Mendez calls John the first apocryphal gospel — and how it pioneered the eyewitness-claim playbook later used by Thomas, Mary, and the Protevangelium of James
• The Beloved Disciple as a literary device, not John son of Zebedee
• How the Johannine epistles and even Revelation may belong to a wider tradition of works imitating the Gospel of John

The Gospel of John: A New History

Hugo Méndez

The biblical Gospel of John casts itself as a memoir of “the disciple whom Jesus loved”–a mysterious figure who allegedly watched Jesus die on the cross and stepped into his empty tomb. But in this groundbreaking study, Hugo Méndez argues that the text is something else a falsely authored gospel that inspired a rich tradition of disguised writing.

The author of John believed that Jesus was a divine being who came to earth to transform humans into divine beings. To encourage others to embrace this startling vision, that author composed a gospel filled with invented materials—one in which Jesus communicates the author’s views through cryptic words and symbolic gestures left for readers to decipher. Finally, to make this revisionary portrait of Jesus plausible, the author concealed his identity, attributing his Gospel to an invented, shadowy disciple of Jesus gifted with supernatural insight and able to retrieve lost memories of Jesus’s life. In these respects, the Gospel of John is similar to the so-called apocryphal gospels produced in the second century, including the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Judas.

The invention of this eyewitness was not a self-contained event, however. It was the genesis of a new and vibrant literary tradition. As the enigmatic disciple of the Gospel was folded into the same collective memory as Peter and Paul, he became a viable mask for other authors. In time, many such writers—among them, the authors of 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Revelation, the Apocryphon of John, and the Epistula Apostolorum—coopted this figure, repurposing him for new agendas and weaving countless afterlives for him. The Gospel of A New History traces this arc, showing how a single act of disguised authorship ignited new literary trajectories and dramatically shaped twenty centuries of Christian culture.

(Goodreads.com)

New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove May 9, 2026 Paul H. Smith, PhD, has served twice as president of the International Remote Viewing Association an organization of which he is a founder. A former Army intelligence officer, he served for seven years as part of the military’s top-secret remote viewing program. He is author of Reading the Enemy’s Mind and The Essential Guide to Remote Viewing. He currently serves as president and chief trainer for Remote Viewing Instructional Services. His website is https://rviewer.com/ This wide-ranging conversation, recorded in 2020, begins with an evaluation of the prospects for those considering professional careers in the field of remote viewing. The discussion moves toward a consideration of UAPs. Paul explains that he is most excited by the possibility that the empirical findings of remote viewing will contribute to our understanding of consciousness. New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded November 25, 2020)

New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove May 7, 2026 Lori Williams is author of Monitoring: A Guide for Remote Viewing and Professional Intuitive Teams and also Boundless: Your How-To Guide To Practical Remote Viewing. She is founder and president of Intuitive Specialists. She is very active as a trainer of remote viewers. Lori explains how individuals can communicate with their future selves by deliberately creating time loops using techniques from associative remote viewing. She outlines practical methods involving body-based signals, structured feedback, and short training cycles to enhance intuitive decision-making. Williams also discusses the importance of practice, emotional neutrality, and consistent feedback in developing reliable access to future-derived insight. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:06:36 Foundations of body signals 00:13:12 Creating time loops 00:19:48 Feedback and learning 00:26:24 Practical decision making 00:33:00 Associative remote viewing 00:39:36 Group experiments and results 00:46:12 Emotional factors and safety 00:52:48 Limits and philosophical context 00:59:24 Conclusion For the special discount to Lori’s courses, use the code: NewThinking30 New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on Friday April 17, 2026)

New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove May 8, 2026 This video is a special release from the original Thinking Allowed series that ran on public television from 1986 until 2002. It was recorded circa 1990. It will remain public for only one week.  Fred Alan Wolf is a physicist and author of Space-Time and Beyond, Taking the Quantum Leap, The Body Quantum, Star Wave, Parallel Universes, and The Eagle’s Quest. He describes his interactions with shamans among the North American Sioux Indians and in the jungles of Peru and in England. Shamans see the world as made up of vibrations, using resonance between individuals to effect healings. He confesses that he observed many things among the shamans that were unexplainable to him in terms of modern physics, noting that the shamans he worked with were loving healers who touched him in a deep and nurturing manner. Now you can watch all of the programs from the original Thinking Allowed Video Collection, hosted by Jeffrey Mishlove. Subscribe to the new Streaming Channel (https://thinkingallowed.vhx.tv/) and watch more than 350 programs now, with more, previously unreleased titles added weekly. Free month of the classic Thinking Allowed streaming channel for New Thinking Allowed subscribers only. Use code THINKFREELY.

Ismo Mikael Leikola, sometimes known professionally as ISMO, is a Finnish comedian, musician, author, screenwriter, and YouTuber. Leikola made his United States debut in 2014, when he won the “Funniest Person in the World” competition organized by the comedy club Laugh Factory. Wikipedia

Born1979 (age 47 years), Jyväskylä, Finland

Link to video: https://www.facebook.com/ISMOcomedy/videos/1829796481086589/?sfnsn=mo&mibextid=6AJuK9

Published: May 8, 2026 (TheOnion.com)

THE HEAVENS—In an effort to make the universe a more modern and efficient place, the Lord God, Creator of Heaven and Earth, confirmed Wednesday that He would be discontinuing the pebble. “Starting in the year of our Me 2026, I will be ceasing creation of the pebble so that I can turn My focus toward stones, rocks, and boulders,” said the all-knowing and all-powerful deity, who stressed that there were already 300 billion pebbles in circulation, the vast majority of which were no longer being used by humanity.

“It’s time to phase the pebble out. We all know they’re mostly just taking up space at this point. We might take My power for granted, but each time I say ‘Let there be a pebble,’ it actually takes up quite a bit of energy, much more than any of those pebbles are worth. And to anyone who’s worried they’re going to miss pebbles, don’t worry—you’re going to love sand.” God added that He would be setting up an FAQ on His website shortly for those seeking more information.

By Leonard David published yesterday (Space.com)

“It’s extremely difficult to capture impact flashes with a camera, which is one of the benefits of sending trained crew to observe the moon.”

The Artemis 2 astronauts remained vigilant while zipping around the far side of the moon last month, on the ready to record meteoroid impact flashes on the lunar landscape.

Their diligence was rewarded. The four crewmembers reported seeing several impact flashes — flickers of light created when a meteoroid hits the lunar surface and vaporizes.

“These observations were made with the unaided eye. It’s extremely difficult to capture impact flashes with a camera, which is one of the benefits of sending trained crew to observe the moon,” Kelsey Young, NASA Artemis 2 lunar science lead, told Space.com. “Early data indicates that the impact flashes were observed on the far side of the moon.”You may like

• ‘Audible screams of delight’ from NASA scientists over micrometeorite impacts on the moon witnessed by Artemis 2 astronauts
• The moon up close: How the Artemis 2 astronauts are photographing their historic lunar flyby
• Artemis 2 astronauts fly around the moon in record-breaking lunar loop by NASA

Citizen scientists help out

Artemis 2, the first crewed moon flight since Apollo 17 in 1972, launched from Florida’s Space Coast on April 1 and flew around the far side of the moon on April 6.

As the astronauts scrutinized the moon that day, so did citizen scientists here on Earth. They were also looking for impact hits, although they would likely not have spotted the same ones as the crew.

Those observations were gathered as part of the newly launched Impact Flash citizen science project under the auspices of the Geophysical Exploration of the Dynamics and Evolution of the Solar System (GEODES), a unit within the NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute.

The Impact Flash effort is geared to gather more data on the location and brightness of flashes throughout recent and upcoming Artemis moon missions.

“These flashes are vital to scientists who study the moon,” notes the Impact Flash website. “By tracking when and where they happen, scientists can learn how often impacts of different sizes occur, what kinds of craters they create, and how the shock waves travel through the moon’s interior.”

When combined with data from NASA’s moon-circuiting Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), future lunar surface instruments, and crew observations, the citizen science observations “can provide valuable constraints on the origin and characteristics of impactors, as well as craters that form from the impacts,” Young said.

Observation window

The Artemis 2 astronauts’ impact-flash observation window extended out onto the lunar near side in darkness, Benjamin Fernando, of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, told Space.com.What to read next

• Relive Artemis 2’s epic moon flyby with these amazing photos
• When the moon hits your eye from your Orion ship up high, that’s a ‘mare’ for Artemis 2
• What do scientists hope to learn from NASA’s historic Artemis 2 moon flyby?

In a paper posted earlier this year on the preprint server EarthArXiv, Fernando and colleagues reported that coordinated impact flash observations seen both from Earth and from lunar flyby/orbit will allow more detailed information to be gathered about the timing, location and dynamics of flashes than is possible from either method alone.

Joint observation campaigns enable researchers to better constrain the impact flux on the moon and also the associated impact hazard on the lunar surface, Fernando and his colleagues concluded.

Moon base implications

Updated knowledge about the meteoroid impact flux also plays into planning for Artemis Base Camp, the outpost NASA plans to build near the moon’s south pole.

“To design for longevity, one must account for the myriad environmental hazards that a long-duration outpost will face — among them radiation, extreme thermal cycling, regolith dynamics, seismic shaking, dust, and, of particular importance to this work, impacts,” notes a 2025 study led by Daniel Yahalomi, now a Torres Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT.

The lunar south pole offers a natural reduction in impact risk relative to equatorial sites, according to the study, “supporting its selection for sustained human presence.”

Furthermore, currently available shielding technology “is sufficient to suppress micrometeoroid hazards by nearly five orders of magnitude, reducing the effective risk to a manageable level for current habitat designs,” Yahalomi and his research colleagues concluded.

Big science haul

Hunting for impact flashes was one of many science tasks for the astronauts during their historic April 6 flyby. The Artemis 2 Lunar Science Team remains busy analyzing the mission’s science haul — gathered with the aid of 31 cameras aboard the Orion capsule “Integrity” — and archiving it all on NASA’s Planetary Data System.

“Within six months, all imagery of the Earth and moon taken by crew and vehicle cameras, audio recordings of the crew’s science observations, and accompanying transcripts will be publicly available for the broader science community to analyze,” Wasserman said.

The Eagle’s Quest is an exploration of shamanism and its interaction with quantum physics. It examines natural healing, shape shifting, fire walking, near-death and out-of-body experiences, lucid dreaming, and time traveling.

---

In On the Future of Species, Woolfson describes how we are at the cusp of a technological revolution, driven by the convergence of artificial intelligence and synthetic biology. Currently at the scribbling phase — writing the genomes of viruses, bacteria, and yeast — we will eventually author the genomes of extinct and never-before-realized species. Life will become computable, detached from its past and no longer bound by Darwinian evolution.

---

In The Warren Legacy, Chris McKinnell, grandson of Ed and Lorraine Warren and Director of the Warren Legacy Foundation for Paranormal Research, takes readers far beyond the familiar world of haunted houses and famous cases into a far more profound journey. Drawing on more than four decades of investigation, personal experience, spiritual study, and cross-cultural exploration, he asks what the paranormal truly reveals about who we are, what survives death, and whether consciousness is more fundamental than matter itself.

Beneath the dark clarity of Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park in New Zealand, twin glacial rivers trace the slow physics of ice and gravity, while above, the luminous band of the Milky Way arcs across the sky, its dense core revealing the galactic architecture from which our stellar neighborhood emerges. The presence of the Southern Cross anchors the celestial sphere, offering a navigational geometry that has guided observers for centuries and now frames a rare convergence of auroral light and galactic structure. (Featured Image from New Thinking Allowed)
 

(Image from Independent.org)

“Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.”

~ C.S.Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis was a British scholar, writer, and prominent Christian apologist. A professor of Medieval and Renaissance English literature at Oxford and Cambridge, Lewis was a key figure in literary studies. He wrote prolifically in both fiction and nonfiction, and his works are known for their Christian allegory, moral lessons, and rich symbolism.  Wikipedia.org

Born November 29, 1898, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Died November 22, 1963 (age 64 years), Oxford, United Kingdom