New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Apr 24, 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 in about 1995. It will remain public for only one week.  Edward Hoffman, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and has been an adjunct associate professor at Yeshiva University in New York City for more than 20 years. An award-winning author, his books include Paths to Happiness, The Wisdom of Maimonides, and The Kabbalah Reader and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lectures widely on psychology and Jewish spirituality throughout the United States and abroad. 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.

Tonight, Uranus will re-enter Gemini — and this time, it’s here to stay until 2033.  Uranus first dipped across the threshold last July, giving us an early taste of what was coming, before retrograding back into Taurus for one final chapter. That retrograde period was an invitation to complete what needed completing — to finish releasing what the Taurus years had asked us to let go of.It’s worth pausing to honor what Uranus in Taurus asked of us. From May 2018 through today, this planet of radical disruption moved through the sign of the body, the earth, and everything we thought was solid and secure. The pandemic, the housing upheaval, the rewiring of our relationship to money and livelihood — all of it carried Taurus’s fingerprints. On a personal level, you were likely asked to release your grip on external security and to rebuild your sense of worth and stability from the inside out. That was real work which prepared you for this. Now, a new seven-year era begins.Gemini is the sign of the mind, of language, of the connections between things. It rules how we think, how we communicate, how we learn, and how we relate. It governs our local environments, our daily exchanges, and the nervous system itself. And Uranus — the great awakener, the cosmic rule-breaker, the planet associated with genius and revolution — is now electrifying all of it.This means that over the next seven years, the way we communicate will be transformed beyond recognition. Artificial intelligence is a significant part of the Uranus in Gemini story. The tools we use to think, write, research, and connect are going to evolve so rapidly that adaptability will become the most vital skill you can cultivate. Expect breakthroughs in how information moves, how education is structured, and how language itself is generated and shared. But don’t let that feel like a threat: Gemini loves novelty, and Uranus rewards those who are willing to stay curious and innovate.On a deeply personal level, Uranus in Gemini is asking you to liberate your mind and open to new allies. Old mental patterns, inherited narratives, and limiting stories about who you are or what you’re capable of are all up for revision. Relationships — especially those built on intellectual compatibility, friendship, networks and shared ideas — are about to get more electric, more surprising, and more alive. The people you meet in the next seven years may arrive as sudden lightning bolts who rewire your thinking entirely. And the ideas you dare to speak aloud — the ones that feel too strange, too unconventional, too “you” — are precisely the ones the world now needs. Uranus in Gemini is the era of the brilliant misfit, the gifted communicator, the learner who refuses to be boxed in.Most of all, this transit carries a spirit of genuine excitement. Gemini is the sign of the butterfly — it moves between worlds, gathers pollen from everywhere, and refuses to settle. During Uranus in Gemini, learning and understanding becomes more quicksilver, more surprising, and more luminous.  Welcome to a whole new reality…

Until May 15, I’m offering Uranus in Gemini Personal Audio Readings a recorded audio astrology reading crafted specifically around this transit and the powerful Uranus trine Pluto aspect that will define this era. In your reading, we’ll explore how Uranus in Mercury’s quick-thinking sign of Gemini activates your horoscope — where the lightning strikes, which parts of your life are being upgraded, and how to work consciously with the radical potential moving through your chart right now.  We’ll focus on 2026 and 2027 and how this first phase of Uranus in Gemini will create opportunities and challenges for you to get up to speed with.Uranus is known as the Great Awakener for a reason and when it enters a new sign – and a new natal house – it illuminates our blind spots and calls for a re-calibration to a new reality. I share my evolutionary astrology expertise and insights with you in this reading and I think you’ll find yourself returning to it again and again as the transits unfold. Let’s explore what creative breakthroughs Uranus in Gemini has in store for you. Order your reading today!

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Michael Tilson Thomas Oct 25, 2024 Presented as part of PBS’ award-winning American Masters series, Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is documents MTT’s life and career—from his childhood in California to his ascension to the world stage and leadership roles with the New World Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony. The documentary sheds light on formative experiences in MTT’s musical life—the central influence of his father, his first time hearing the music of James Brown, his early clashes with classical music orthodoxy—all of which shaped his personality, artistry, and goals along his path to becoming one of America’s most important musical figures. The film features original interviews with MTT and classical music luminaries, including composer Steve Reich; Los Angeles Philharmonic CEO Chad Smith; pianist Ralph Grierson; Boston Symphony Orchestra CEO Mark Volpe; San Francisco Chronicle music critic Joshua Kosman; the BBC’s former head of music and arts Humphrey Burton; and Clive Gillinson, executive and artistic director of Carnegie Hall, as well as commentary from world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, with whom MTT collaborated in designing the New World Center, and Joshua Robison, MTT’s husband and partner. The documentary incorporates concert footage from his youth through the present, performing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony, and San Francisco Symphony, among other orchestras. The film also includes scenes from MTT’s day-to-day life at the New World Symphony, the postgraduate orchestral academy in Miami Beach that he co-founded in 1987 to prepare young musicians of diverse backgrounds for leadership roles in classical music. Most major American orchestras count New World Symphony alumni among their ranks, and several former Fellows were interviewed for the documentary. ___ Credits Directed by Susan Froemke and Kirk Simon • Edited by Deborah Dickson • Produced by Catherine Mulry Ludlow • Executive Producers Mina Farbook & Sarah Arison • Director of Photography Buddy Squires, Asc. • Associate Producer Michael Beuttler • Executive Producer for American Masters Michael Kantor

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by Gwyllm Llwydd

It is a conundrum. If this was France, we would be rioting country wide.

We aren’t though, we are basically Anglo-Saxon Protestant peasants obeying the Thegns/Lords of the manors as they ever did, subservient serfs even now. 251 years ago, was an anomaly, we have reverted to kind.

We talk a good talk, but the lights have gone out, and the temple is empty except for the skittering ghost of yesteryear mouthing homilies about freedom, democracy and the rest of the charades of the shadow theatre we were raised in.

I have no solutions, only love for the land and the remaining good people who now struggle and strive to make ends meet.

I still am here though, trying to care for those around me. This is my path, my yoga, my Ishq.

Rant Off,

G

“Each one of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.” Shunyru Suzuki (1904-1971) Japanese Zen Monk

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By Robert Lea published yesterday (Space.com)

“Most planetary systems appear as ‘peas in a pod.’ This is not the case in the TOI-201 system.”

Using NASA’s exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and Antarctic Search for Transiting ExoPlanets (ASTEP) on the Antarctic Plateau, astronomers have discovered a rare and uniquely weird planetary system.

The extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, that swirl around the star TOI-201 have orbits that are changing so rapidly that astronomers can see the changes in real time. The behavior of the system, located around 370 light-years from Earth, is something scientists have never seen before.

TOI-201 is 1.3 times the mass of the sun and also has a diameter of 1.3 times the size of our home star. The exoplanets that orbit the star include a rocky super-Earth with six times the mass of our planet that has a year lasting just 5.8 Earth-days. Its planetary siblings are a gas giant with half the mass of Jupiter, completing an orbit every 53 days, designated TOI-201b, and another gas giant that has 16 times the mass of Jupiter that completes an orbit every 2,883 days (about 7.9 years).You may like

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“Most planetary systems appear as ‘peas in a pod,’ meaning the planets have a similar range of parameters and share a similar orbital plane,” team member Amaury Triaud, from the University of Birmingham in the U.K., said in a statement. “This is not the case in the TOI-201 system, which contains three orbiting objects very distinct from one another, and which interact gravitationally.”

The team’s results were published on April 15 in the journal Science.

This planetary system is going through changes

Changes to planetary systems and shifting orbits aren’t unique to TOI-201, but these transformations usually occur on timescales of millions and even billions of years.

TOI-201 is different because of the highly flattened or elliptical and tilted orbit of the outer planet, which gravitationally pulls on the inner worlds. This causes shifts in the orientation of the inner planets’ orbits, and changes to the timing of their “transits,” the times in which a planet directly crosses the face of its parent star. The situation is so extreme that in around 200 years, the planets won’t line up in front of their star at all.

“In the solar system, almost all planets are coplanar, but here, this is not the case and each planet is different,” Tristan Guillot, an astronomer at the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, said. “This points to some active orbital reorganisation within the system, providing us a glimpse of what happens shortly after planet formation.”

Guillot is a lead researcher in the ASTEP project, an observatory at Antarctica’s Concordia Station, which sits atop a 2-mile (3.2 kilometer) deep glacier in one of the world’s most isolated environments and takes advantage of the long polar nights to observe other planetary systems.

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“The goal was to characterize the TOI-201 planetary system to understand not just what planets are there, but how they interact with each other dynamically,” research team leader Ismael Mireles, a PhD candidate at the University of New Mexico, said. “This helps scientists understand how planetary systems like our own solar system form and evolve over time.”

TESS spotted a rare transit by the outer planet as telescopes across the globe saw the gravity of this object tugging on TOI-201. Astronomers then noticed delays in the transit of TOI-201b.

“Usually, planets are like metronomes with each transit in front of the star happening exactly one orbital period after another. However, we were following TOI-201b, and suddenly the planet started transiting about half an hour late,” Triaud said. “This sudden jump was very surprising, and we reported our observations. Other astronomers around the globe noticed intriguing signals too, and by working together, the team could start to understand this system.

“This discovery was enabled by having a telescope in Antarctica. Whilst the logistics involved are difficult, its unique situation and its access to optimal astronomical conditions are key to studying exoplanetary systems with long orbital periods such as TOI-201.”

Robert Lea

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Robert Lea is a science journalist in the U.K. whose articles have been published in Physics World, New Scientist, Astronomy Magazine, All About Space, Newsweek and ZME Science. He also writes about science communication for Elsevier and the European Journal of Physics. Rob holds a bachelor of science degree in physics and astronomy from the U.K.’s Open University. Follow him on Twitter @sciencef1rst.

Four elements of a non-violent revolution

Marianne Williamson

Apr 24, 2026

Fotograzia

According to Heather Cox Richardson today, there’s a “newly created Economic Defense Unit (EDU) in the Defense Department. The EDU is directing government investment in private sector defense contractors and has cut deals for the government to start taking equity stakes in those businesses.”

So it’s no longer just the usual suspects of defense contractors — Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, RTX (formerly Raytheon), General Dynamics, Boeing — making money on this war. They will of course make fortunes replenishing the supply that we’re exhausting in Iran, repairing what’s been broken, etc.

But now the government itself — i.e. the cabal that’s currently running this country — will themselves have an equity stake in the madness. Don Jr. and Eric have also gotten in on the business opportunity, selling drone interceptors to Gulf countries being hit by Iran.

Trump is a businessman, as we all know, and there’s no bigger business opportunity than the U.S. war machine. His “dream military” after all has a yearly budget of $1.5T. In the old days all this would have been called war profiteering – which is illegal of course – but those days are over.

Registered to vote yet?

I remember years ago when people started saying the government should be run like a business. First of all, no it should not; it should be run like a healthy family. And secondly, what kind of business? A righteous one, or an immoral unfettered con? Makes a difference.

Of course, the government should be spending American taxpayer money in legal, ethical and appropriate ways. It’s probably a good thing at this point to remember that no major part of the U.S. Defense Department has ever passed an audit. But hey, let’s give them half a trillion dollars more, shall we? One of the more ridiculous claims of this administration is that it’s going after fraud, when in fact the President himself has been convicted of numerous counts of fraud and is pardoning fraudsters at an alarming rate. And secondly, this administration is a fraud. Most importantly, it has fraudulently claimed to serve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. From violating the separation of powers to impounding appropriated funds to attacking the press to withholding citizens’ due process to prosecuting illegal war and more — instead of protecting the Constitution, it is ripping it up.

The corruption in American politics has gone from a contained cancer, which it has been for years, to a full body diseased condition. Watching virtuous Congresspeople, Democrat as well as Republican, trying yet failing to withstand the current assault on every pillar of freedom our government is supposed to represent, has put millions of us in a state of shock. After the shock comes outrage. After the outrage comes something almost eerily calm. “Okay, it’s happening. Now what do we have to do?”

And that’s where things get tricky. Obviously we need to wrest as much control from this administration as possible with our votes in November, but it will take more than that to address the deeper elements of what’s gone wrong in this country. As we’re all aware, Trump didn’t come out of nowhere. He’s merely the tip of a spear and unless we deal with that, then just removing the tip wouldn’t matter all that much in the long run. Our Supreme Court and both houses of Congress are now split into two categories: the kneecapped, and the complicit. Either way, they cannot now be counted on to protect us.

As I’ve been saying for a while, it’s our turn now. We the People need to stand up and keep standing. We can take upon ourselves a four-pronged, integrative approach to the struggle at hand.

1. Understand the larger arc of history that’s taken us to this point. Just today, I saw this comment on my YouTube page:

I am currently reading her book The Healing of America. I realize that if I’d read it when it was first published in 1997, I would have dismissed it as alarmist. Now I know that I was living in lala land and unable to see the true direction that the country was headed. How unfortunate that so many others were like me then.

I replied to her that soon I will be hosting a book study on my book HEALING THE SOUL OF AMERICA. You might want to purchase it, or check it out of your local library, so can read it before we do the class. We’ll provide details after next week’s online Town Hall.

2. Prepare your internal self for the work at hand. As Gandhi taught in his lessons on political non-violence, “self-purification must precede political action.” What’s happening today is an attack not only on our institutions but also on our nervous systems, and cultivating our personal capacity to endure this moment is necessary if we’re to transform it. Whether you’re doing the daily meditations here on Substack, or doing any other spiritual, reflective, or meditative practice, the work to strengthen our attitudinal muscles is as important as any other form of political activity. Only a whole-person, holistic, integrative approach to this moment will be powerful enough for democracy to prevail. Among other things, spiritual practice will increase your intuitive ability to discern the part that you can best play in the unfolding process of our political repair. When Gandhi was asked to name the leader of the Indian Independence movement, he responded, “the small still voice within.”
3. Involve yourself now in the coming elections. The obvious political work is right in front of us, as every American can vote for a member of the House of Representatives this November, and a third of us can vote for a Senator. Remember this from Abraham Lincoln: “While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.”With enough work, we can win back both houses of Congress. We need to remember that the President and his minions are already at work trying to rig this election, and only a massive showing at the polls will be able to override their efforts. Above all, make sure you’re registered. Do it now!!
4. Stay informed. Information is power. After meditating each day, I scan Heather Cox Richardson and other sources as well in order to stay on top of the news. It’s important not to ignore what’s happening, but equally important not to allow ourselves to spiral down emotionally. If you’ve watched two or three ICE videos, you don’t need to watch ten more. We all know what’s happening, and each of us is only asked to do the part that we ourselves feel called to do to respond effectively to these times. None of us are alone in this. We are part of a matrix of healing, organized on an invisible plane by nature itself. Think of yourself as one cell in the immune system now rushing in to heal our body politic. None of us can afford to sit out our part in this, but it’s the entirety of the system that accomplishes the task.

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If on any day it all just seems too much, that’s okay too. Binge watch Downton Abbey or something. But then come back. Friends don’t let friends sit out this moment.

One more thing. Late in his life, my father had a weak heart. We were told by doctors that because he’d been so in shape earlier in his life, particularly as a soldier in WW2, his body had formed a kind of alternative set of capillaries then compensating for the system that was otherwise damaged. And that’s what we’re doing now. We’re forming an alternative field of possibilities that will compensate for those now being blocked. Whatever would be the opposite of a shadow government, we’re it.

Get on it.

Translation is a 5-step process of “straight thinking in the abstract” comparing and contrasting what seems to be truth with what you can syllogistically, axiomatically and mathematically (using word equations) prove is the truth. It is not an effort to change, alter or heal anything other than our consciousness.

The claims in a Translation should be outrageous and mind-blowing, but they are always (or should always be) based on self-evident syllogistic reasoning. Here is one Translation from this week. 

1)    Truth is that which is so.  That which is not truth is not so.  Therefore Truth is all that is.  Truth being all is therefore total, therefore whole, therefore complete, therefore all present and accounted for.  I think therefore I am. Since I am and since Truth is all that is, therefore the beingess of me is Truth.  Therefore the beingness of me is total, the beingness of me is whole, the beingness of me is complete, the beingness of me is all present and accounted for.  Since I, being, am Truth and since I am mind (self-evident), therefore Truth is Mind. (Two things equal to a third things are equal to each other.)

2)    Painful contractions are just a necessary part of giving birth.

Word-tracking:
birth:  to bring forth
contraction:  tightening, shrinking, to pull together, labor, pain, Genesis 3: Eve’s punishment for eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  Her punishment is that she will be ruled over by her husband
painful:  disharmonious
labor:  toil, exertion, hardship, pain
labor:  copulate (older definition)
pain:  payment
toil: to struggle

3)    Truth being all present and accounted for, what is there to bring forth?  Therefore all that can be brought for is that which is already present and accounted for. Since Truth is already all present and accounted for, what labor, struggle, toil is required?  Therefore Truth is effortlessly all present and accounted for.  Since Truth is all present and accounted for and since Truth is one, therefore united, therefore harmonious, therefore harmony is all present and accounted for.  Since Truth is one, there is no duality between husband and wife, therefore Truth is the polarity of male/femaleness.

4)    All that can be brought for is that which is already present and accounted for.
        Truth is effortlessly all present and accounted for. 
        Harmony is all present and accounted for. 
        Truth is the polarity of male/femaleness.

5)    Truth is the harmonious polarity of male/femaleness in all, present and accounted for.

For information about Translation or other Prosperos classes go to: https://www.theprosperos.org/teaching.

Weekly Invitational Translation Group invites your participation.  If you would like to submit a Translation on any subject, feel free to send your weekly Translation to  zonta1111@aol.com and we will anonymously post it on the Bathtub Bulletin on Friday.

Or, if you have taken Translation class, join us each Saturday for Translation Saturday Meeting at 11 a.m. Pacific time for current, up-to-the-minute Translations on the issues of the day.  Email zonta1111@aol.com for the Zoom link.

April 25:  11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST

Mike Zonta, H.W., M.

In a crisis — any crisis — The Prosperos offers Translation.  Translation Saturday Meetings is a weekly series of Translation presentations by veteran Translators, live and up to date on the issues of the day.

It is not a Translation workshop,  It is not a Translation class.  It is not a group Translation in the usual sense, though group participation is encouraged.

It is, however, restricted to those who have taken Translation class. So if you have never taken Translation class, check the calendar tab on The Prosperos website (TheProsperos.org) or get in touch with us and we will schedule a class.

Last week our sense testimony was:  Degradation of telomeres (end part of dna chromosome – genomic information) causes aging.  Everything is the appearance of change. And our conclusion was:   Truth is the universal constant presence of Oneness, ageless, eternal, ever-present.   

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Here’s the link:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81749347119

For more info and link to join please email Mike Zonta at:

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