New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Jun 4, 2026 Andrew Holecek was trained for decades within the Tibetan Buddhist traditions of Dzogchen and Mahamudra, and having completed the traditional three-year retreat. He is the author of numerous influential books, including Dream Yoga, The Lucid Dreaming Workbook, Preparing to Die, Dreams of Light, and his newest work is Total Eclipse of the Mind: Unleashing the Power of Darkness for Creativity, Healing and Transformation. His website is https://www.andrewholecek.com/ Andrew explores Vajrayana Buddhism as a living transformational path for modern Westerners, drawing from decades of Tibetan Buddhist training, dream yoga, sleep yoga, and dark retreat practice. He discusses lucidity, the dreamlike nature of reality, the states of consciousness associated with waking, dreaming, dying, and deep sleep, and how these experiences can cultivate wisdom, compassion, and awakening. Holecek also examines emptiness, non-dual awareness, the bardos, lucid dreaming, and the integration of psychology, spirituality, and consciousness studies into everyday life. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:44 Andrew’s journey into Vajrayana Buddhism 00:06:42 Three-year retreat and meditative discipline 00:11:03 Consciousness, contraction, and openness 00:19:05 Dream yoga and spiritual practice in daily life 00:25:56 Lucid dreaming and the nature of reality 00:31:31 Sleep yoga and deep dreamless awareness 00:42:28 Dreamers, perception, and non-dual awareness 00:49:07 Bardos, death, and ritual phenomenology 01:02:10 Conclusion 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 May 18, 2026)
Vajrayana Buddhism for Westerners with Andrew Holecek
Book: “Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World”
Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World
Daniel Sherrell
From a millennial climate activist, an exploration of how young people live in the shadow of catastrophe
“Strikingly perceptive.” –Jenny Offill, author of Weather
“Beautifully rendered and bracingly honest.” –Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing
Warmth is a new kind of book about climate change: not what it is or how we solve it, but how it feels to imagine a future–and a family–under its weight. In a fiercely personal account written from inside the climate movement, Sherrell lays bare how the crisis is transforming our relationships to time, to hope, and to each other. At once a memoir, a love letter, and an electric work of criticism, Warmth goes to the heart of the defining question of our time: how do we go on in a world that may not?
(Goodreads.com)
What is Space-Time? | NOVA | PBS
NOVA PBS Official May 28, 2026 To keep the universe static, Albert Einstein invented something called the cosmological constant. He later abandoned it. Decades afterward, astronomers discovered the universe’s expansion is accelerating—reviving Einstein’s controversial idea.
How to Hold Your Remorse: Maira Kalman’s Illustrated Meditation on Wresting Defiant Joy in Living from an Imperfect Life
By Maria Popova (themarginalian.org)
Each time we have tried to elevate ourselves above the other animals by claiming singular possession of some faculty, we have been humbled otherwise: Language, it turns out, is not ours alone, nor is the use of tools, nor is music. Elephants grieve, octopuses remember and predict, crows hold grudges.
Perhaps one day this too will be snatched from us, but for now there seems to be one tumult of being pulsating in the human breast alone: the capacity to be sorry, to feel the soul-ache of remorse as the penitent past fangs the flesh of the present.
How to hold our remorse, how to make of it a catalyst for creation, is what the philosopher-artist Maira Kalman explores in her small and splendid book Still Life with Remorse — a collection of miniature essays, poems, and painted vignettes reckoning with remorse through Maira’s own family story, punctuated by glimpses of the lives of some of her muses: Leo Tolstoy, Clara Schumann, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, Henri Matisse.
Objects in Matisse’s Studio by Maira Kalman
Defining remorse as “deep regret implying shame, implying guilt, implying sorrow,” Maira observes that “in still lifes and interiors there must be a certain amount of remorse lurking among the bowls of fruit, vases or flowers and objects scattered about the room.”
Rising from the pages is the intimation that memory is the still life of living, that while remorse may haunt the mental images of our recollections, we can find in it an occasion for beauty, for creative vitality, for defiant joy.
Tolstoy Eating Breakfast by Maira Kalman
Opening with an allusion to that immortal line from Anna Karenina — “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” — she considers the half-life of sorrow across generations:
Happy families,
Unhappy families.
All the same, right?
Ach. ach. ach.To begin
You are born.
To a long line of ancestors
who are long gone
but still yell or whisper
in your ear
in the depths of night.
A game of telephone played
from one generation to the next.Garbled and confused.
Glimmers of light.
Misunderstandings.
Errors.And now, here you are.
With the ones you love.
Or the ones you don’t.The ones you cannot live without.
The ones you would like to smite.Those who have disappointed you
or betrayed you. Those who have
been kinder than you deserve. And
the kind ones who inevitably die.
And leave you feeling very much
alone. They are what you have.And if you think, at any given point,
that you know what is going on,
you are sorely mistaken.And yet.
With an eye to the complicated marriage of Sophia and Leo Tolstoy (so different from that of Anna and Fyodor Dostoyevsky) — the initial mutual infatuation, the thirteen children, the selflessness with which Sophia transcribed all of Leo’s writings, the mutual resentment of the end — she writes:
The verse to which Mahler wrote music becomes a quiet animating chorus for the book:
Spring is here.
The birds are singing.
Virginia Woolf’s Writing Table by Maira Kalman
From the personal stories — her grandparents killed in the Holocaust, her father delivering milk as his cover while working for a Palestine liberation underground, Kafka’s troubled relationship with his own father, Clara Schumann’s tenacity and her tender unclassifiable relationship with Brahms — emerges a universal lens on suffering, remorse, and redemption, shining a sidewise gleam on what makes life worth living despite the almost unbearable brunt of being alive.
My family.Your remorse.
My remorse.All the same, right?
Vast skies full of remorse.
Oceans of remorse.
But enough.There should be merriment.
And good cheer.
Good tidings. Well wishing.Tables laden with food.
Children playing.
Gathering of kinfolk.Like Clara would have wanted.
Seeing the best.
Forgiving the worst.If there is remorse,
let there be a limit to remorse.
A way to shake off the heavy weight.But how can we make this happen?
How to do this?Dark is life.
Spring is here.
The birds are singing.In the strangeness of life, LIVE.
Yellow Vase by Maira Kalman
Couple with “Antilamentation” — poet Dorianne Laux’s antidote to regret — then revisit Maira Kalman’s wonderful Women Holding Things and her illustrated love letter to Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein’s love.
Mahatma Gandhi on living and learning
Confucius on helping others
Depiction of Confucius by Wu Daozi, 8th century CE
“A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.”
~ Confucius
Confucius, born Kong Qiu, was a Chinese philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages. Much of the shared cultural heritage of the Sinosphere originates in the philosophy and teachings of Confucius. Wikipedia
Astrophotographer captures breathtaking view of 548 galaxies from a balcony
By Anthony Wood published yesterday (Space.com)
Over 60 hours of light data was used to create this stunning view of the gravitationally bound “Leo Triplet” galaxies.
Astrophotographer ing. Cornelis Van Zuilen has shared a staggeringly detailed image of the galaxies known as the “Leo Triplet”, after spending 60 hours capturing the light of the cosmic heavyweights from his balcony in the Netherlands.
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The Leo Triplet is made up of the spiral galaxies M65, M66 and NGC 3628, which are located about 30 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo. The group lies close to the bright star Chertan, which forms part of the hind leg of the great lion represented in the stellar formation, according to NASA.
“At the end of 2024, I bought my Askar 103APO telescope, giving me enough focal length to seriously focus on galaxies and begin my long-term project of photographing the entire Messier Catalogue,” Van Zuilen told Space.com in an email. “After finishing my first image of the Leo Triplet in 2025, I really wanted to see the gigantic tidal tail of NGC 3628 and decided to return with a much more ambitious goal.”
For 2026, Van Zuilen aimed to create a detailed composite shot of the galactic trio created from at least 60 hours of light data. “Beginning on April 6, I photographed the Leo Triplet over 18 clear nights, collecting 85 hours of data, of which exactly 60 hours and 3 minutes met my quality standards,” continued Van Zuilen.
Having met his target, Van Zuilen set to work combining and editing the data using the astronomy software PixInsight. The end result was a striking galactic portrait that revealed the intricate spiral structures of M65 and M66, along with the edge-on profile of NGC 3628, which is also colloquially known as the “Hamburger Galaxy” by dint of its distinctive dust lane.You may like
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Van Zuilen’s image also reveals a 300,000-light-year-long “tidal tail” of stars and galactic material stretching away from NGC 3628. This structure is thought to have formed during a gravitational interaction with a galactic neighbor, according to the National Science Foundation’s Noir Lab.
“Using a PixInsight galaxy identification script, no fewer than 548 catalogued galaxies were identified within the image, highlighting the incredible depth achieved through 60 hours of integration time from my balcony here in Heiloo, a village in the Netherlands,” concluded Van Zuilen. “I hope you like this final image as much as I do!”
You may also like: Expert advice for new stargazers: How to begin your amateur astronomy journey.
Interested in capturing your own images of the night sky? Then be sure to read our beginner’s guide to photographing the Milky Way, along with our picks of the best cameras and lenses for astrophotography.
Editor’s Note: If you would like to share your astrophotography with Space.com’s readers, then please send your photo(s), comments, and your name and location to spacephotos@space.com.
‘Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror’ – a love letter to the cult phenomenon
- by David-Elijah Nahmod
- Sunday, May 31, 2026 (ebar.com)
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Patricia Quinn, Tim Curry and Nell Campbell in ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’
It’s hard to believe that “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” has been playing in cinemas for 50 years with no end in sight. And the play that inspired the film, which opened in London in 1973, is currently one of the hottest tickets on Broadway.
“Rocky Horror” is indeed a phenomenon that has inspired millions of people to let their hair down, explore their sexual and gender identities, and just have a rocking good time.
“Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror” is a lovely new documentary that explores the complete story of this most unusual of occurrences. As the doc opens, “Rocky” creator Richard O’Brien is visiting his New Zealand hometown, where he visits a statue that has been erected in his honor and meets the woman who now lives in his childhood home.
“We call it the ‘Rocky Horror’ house,” she says, as she and O’Brien shake hands.
The film then flashes back to late 1960s London. Filmmaker Linus O’Brien, Richard’s son, has his father recall his early days in London’s musical theater scene. After failing to get a role in “Jesus Christ Superstar,” the elder O’Brien takes his love for horror and science fiction films and creates a very gay homage to those films, a musical which became “The Rocky Horror Show.”
The play opens in a small, sixty-seat theater for a three-week run and quickly sells out. It moves to a larger theater where it continues to be a smash. It then moves to Los Angeles, where movie stars come out to see it. Can a film version be far behind?
Well, how ‘bout that?
The majority of “Strange Journey” focuses on “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” as the film came to be called, and includes a lengthy segment on the film’s production. Besides creator O’Brien, interviewees include director Jim Sharman, and actors Tim Curry (Frank N Furter), Patricia Quinn (Magenta), Nell Campbell (Columbia), Susan Sarandon (Janet), Barry Bostwick (Brad), and Peter Hinwood (Rocky).
There are also extensive interviews with drag artist Trixie Mattel and actor Jack Black, who discuss how seeing the film inspired and affected them. “Rocky” cast members, among other things, sing the praises of the late Meat Loaf (Eddie) who nearly stole the show in his one-scene appearance.
Richard O’Brien in ‘Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror’
It’s hard to believe today, but when “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” first opened in 1975, it was a bomb. But then an executive at 20th Century Fox came up with the idea of playing it weekends at midnight, and the cult was born. It didn’t take long for people to start talking back to the screen and dressing up as their favorite characters.
Then came the shadow casts, fans who would act out the entire show in front of the screen as the film unspooled. These midnight screenings, which spread around the world, attracted straights, LGBT people, liberals and others, all caught up in the magic of this unusual phenomenon.
“Five days a week I’m a nurse,” says one young woman. “Two nights a week I’m a star.”
“Strange Journey” also pays homage to the late Sal Piro, former president of the Rocky Horror Picture Show Fan Club and the author of two books about the film. Piro was openly and unapologetically gay, and he didn’t care who knew it or what they thought of it. He was who he was, and let many “Rocky Horror” fans know that it was okay to embrace who they were. Piro, who lived and breathed “Rocky Horror,” is as responsible for the spreading of the cult as is Richard O’Brien himself.
The documentary also addresses Richard O’Brien’s gender identity. He says that he is 70% male and 30% female, another signpost to the fans that it’s okay to be who you are. This is an especially important message right now, given the attacks that the trans community is dealing with.
‘Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror’ is a terrific tribute by a loving son to his father’s work, a film that will continue to live on long after we’re all gone. It’s a work that’s as timely today as it was fifty years ago.
‘Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror’ is streaming at Apple, Amazon and Fandango June 2; a Blu Ray release is TBA.
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‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ continues to have monthly screenings (next: June 27) at the Balboa Theater, 3630 Balboa St., San Francisco https://www.balboamovies.com/
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Career Spider Not Sure She’s Ready For 3,000 Children At This Point
Published: January 10, 2013 (TheOnion.com)
COLUMBUS, OH—Thryssskmsss, a 2-year-old barn funnel weaver spider, confided to friends Wednesday that she isn’t sure she’s ready for 3,000 children at this point in her life. “There’s so much I want to do—explore the world’s dark cracks, visit the drainpipes, see what it’s like to eat a dragonfly—but I can’t do those things if I’ve got several hundred spiderlings clinging to every leg,” the spider said from the eaves of her Columbus home. “If I had 3,000 hungry mandibles to feed, I’d be in the web catching flies all day, and that’s just not where I’m at right now.” Thryssskmsss added that she expects one day she’ll be ready to settle down and find a nice male to mate with and then devour.