Socrates, a prominent figure in ancient Greek philosophy, was known for his unique questioning style and moral inquiries. He was a major inspiration for his student Plato, who is often credited with founding Western philosophy. Socrates didn’t write any texts himself, but his ideas are known through Plato’s dialogues. Socrates’ teachings, known as the “Socratic method”, involved asking probing questions to help students arrive at their own understanding.
New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Apr 2, 2026 Charles Upton’s first books of poetry were published in 1968 and 1969 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Light Books in San Francisco. He was then considered the youngest member of the “beat generation” as he was still in high school. He has subsequently written many books associated with the traditionalist school of spirituality including What Poets Used to Know, The Science of the Greater Jihad, Folk Metaphysics, Alien Disclosure Deception: The Metaphysics of Social Engineering, Day and Night on the Sufi Path, Dugin Against Dugin: A Traditionalist Critique of the Fourth Political Theory, The System of the Antichrist, and Vectors of the Counter-Initiation. His most recent book of poetry is The Wars of Love and Other Poems. His website is https://charles-upton.com/ Note: There is a GoFundMe page for Charles Upton who is dealing with colon cancer. See https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-charl… Charles reflects on war not only as a historical and political reality, but as an inner spiritual crisis in which the human soul is tested by suffering, choice, and the apparent absence of peace. Drawing from Sufi metaphysics, revealed religion, and his own poetry, he explores how darkness, apocalypse, and conflict can become occasions for remembrance of God, radical purification, and fidelity to the human form. Upton offers a deeply contemplative meditation on obedience, truth, love, and what it means to stay human in a time of war. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:04:35 The inner war 00:08:48 The purpose of war 00:18:40 The greater jihad 00:29:30 Apocalypse and judgment 00:37:45 Defending the human form 00:46:41 Stay human 00:48:02 Revelation and purification 00:53:48 The wars of love 01:02:29 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 Thursday, March 12, 2026)
“When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.”
~ Shams-i Tabrizi
Shams Tabrīzī was a Persian dervish and poet, best known for his companionship with Rumi. He is referenced with great reverence and grief in Rumi’s poetic collection, in particular Divan-i Shams-i Tabrīzī. Wikipedia
Artemis 2 mission specialist Christina Koch noted an issue starting up part of the Orion capsule’s toilet — which NASA calls the Universal Waste Management System — that deals with urine collection.You may like
“The toilet fan is reported to be jammed,” NASA spokesperson Gary Jordan said during live mission commentary. “Now the ground teams are coming up with instructions on how to get into the fan and clear that area to revive the toilet for the mission.”
Norm Knight, NASA’s director of flight operations, told reporters here at the Kennedy Space Center that the malfunction was due to a controller issue on the toilet. But NASA confirmed astronauts could still use the space commode to poop, just not urinate, though engineers were working to restore it to full service.
“In the meantime they’re getting their contingency — their backup waste management capabilities specifically for urine,” Jordan said. “The fecal collection of the toilet, that specific capability, can still be used with the waste management system aboard Orion.”
Artemis 2 mission specialist Christina Koch (right) works with a test version of the Orion space toilet. (Image credit: NASA)
A few hours after Koch reported the toilet issue to Mission Control, flight controllers walked her through a series of steps to try and fix it.
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“Houston, Integrity, good checkout,” Koch said after trying the fix.
Then, some relieving news.
“Happy to report that toilet is go for use,” Mission Control’s Capcom Amy Dill radioed Koch. “We do recommend letting the system get to operating speed before donating fluid, and then letting it run a little bit after donation.”What to read next
“We are cheers all around, and we will do that,” Koch replied.
It does sound like at least one crewmember used a contingency bag before the fix. Koch reported that one CCU, or Collapsible Contingency Urinal, was full and needed to be emptied overboard. Dill radioed up instructions on the best time for that dump, and all was well.
That may be a relief for the Artemis 2 astronauts, in more ways than one. NASA’s Apollo astronauts did not have the luxury of a toilet when they flew to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s. They peed and pooped in plastic bags, then stowed the solid waste and vented urine overboard into space.
The toilet aboard Orion is a smaller, more compact version of the bathrooms on the International Space Station. It’s built into the floor of the Orion capsule and allows Artemis 2 astronauts some privacy while taking care of business. While the Orion spacecraft is larger than NASA’s Apollo capsules, it’s still cramped — the interior has been compared to that of two SUVs.
“The one place that we can go on our mission where we can feel like we’re alone for a moment,” Artemis 2 mission specialist Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency said of the toilet in a video overview.
Vlog 18: The lunar loo – or going to the bathroom during a mission to the Moon – YouTube
The toilet is technically known as the “hygiene bay” and has about as much room as the bathroom on a passenger jet, according to Lockheed Martin, which built the Orion spacecraft for NASA. It’s part of Orion’s systems to support an astronaut crew — NASA’s uncrewed Artemis 1 test flight in 2022 didn’t carry one — but there are backup systems aboard, like those Apollo-era bags, if they’re needed.
The Artemis 2 astronauts use foot restraints to help stay in place while using the toilet, which uses airflow to draw solid waste away from the body and into a collection device. For urine, each astronaut has his or her own personal funnel to use, with a fan that draws the urine into a tank.
“That’s absolutely an important component on this ship,” Blaine Brown, Lockheed Martin’s director of Orion spacecraft mechanical systems, told Space.com in an interview. “You can call it a luxury. Some call it a necessity.”
NASA’s Artemis 2 mission is a historic test flight to send astronauts on a 10-day trip around the moon. It’s the first crewed flight of the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System rocket that launched them on their way.
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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, there is nothing else, nothing other, therefore Truth is one. Truth being one is indivisible, therefore whole, therefore hale, therefore hearty, therefore healthy. I think therefore I am. Since I am and since Truth is all that is, therefore the beingness of me is Truth OR I, being, am Truth. Since there is no beingness without consciousness of it, therefore Truth is Consciousness.
2) I think the rash on my feet relates to the rage I feel at my dermatologist who always finds something “suspicious” because of my “history” of melanoma.
Word-tracking: melanoma: dark tumor suspicious: spectacle, to perceive with the eyes, to see, to look askance, to look from below askance: obliquely, not directly suspect: mistrust history: inquiry into the past dermatology: skin, hide, covering rage: raving mad, crazy, insane rash: rase, erase, scratch out, lively, eruption, explosion erupt: rupture, break
3) Truth being whole cannot also be broken, ruptured, therefore Truth is not rash. Truth being consciousness and Truth being whole, therefore Truth is sane. Truth being sane cannot also be insane, therefore Truth is not raging mad. Truth being one and Truth being mind, therefore Truth is one mind. Since Truth is one mind, there is no covering up or hiding in Truth, therefore Truth is totally transparent to all. Truth being all that is does not include all that was or all that will be, therefore Truth has no past or future, only the eternal Now. Truth being whole, complete, perfect, there is nothing suspicious in Truth, therefore Truth is beyond suspicion. Truth being all is therefore without limit, therefore infinite. Truth being infinite, there is no growth, dark or otherwise, to infinity, therefore the boundlessness of Truth is benign.
4) Truth is not rash. Truth is sane. Truth is not raging mad. Truth is one mind. Truth is totally transparent to all. Truth has no past or future, only the eternal Now. Truth is beyond suspicion. Truth is infinite. The boundlessness of Truth is benign.
5) The boundless sanity of Truth is transparent to all.
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.
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: Parents require obedience. And our conclusion was: Truth is its own authority.
After Nations explores ‘a generalised state of crisis’ that afflicts the nation-state worldwide. In an effort to understand this crisis, Rana Dasgupta charts the development of the global nation state project from the Enlightenment to the present, its ongoing value unquestioned—to our detriment.
In its modern, fully-fledged form, the nation-state system is a very recent innovation, and one that departs from the normal history of the world – which is a story of empires. What we are seeing is the rapid disintegration of a system on which we had come to depend too completely.
After Nations offers a startling account of this exhilarating and terrible system. Its thesis will be disturbing to many, but we must quickly come to terms with it if we are to address the very grave challenges that now face us as a at their core, the political, economic, military and even environmental problems we face today are not the fault of inadequate policies or poor leadership. They are the consequence, rather, of our outdated political infrastructure – the nation-state system – which is not capable, even in theory, of protecting populations from twenty-first-century conditions. Five crises (“God”, “Money”, “Law”, “War” and “Nature”) will combine inexorably to diminish the ability of this system to deliver minimally acceptable outcomes.
The author’s aim, through a portrait of this time of crisis, is radically to re-imagine what the nation-state system can and should provide. His interrogation of what we might now ask of our neighbourhoods and cities, will here be writ After Nations asks what we want for our global future.
Rana Dasgupta is a British-Indian writer. He grew up in Cambridge, England and studied at Balliol College, Oxford, the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud in Aix-en-Provence, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He lives in Delhi, India.
His first novel, Tokyo Cancelled (2005), was an examination of the forces and experiences of globalization. Billed as a modern-day Canterbury Tales, thirteen passengers stuck overnight in an airport tell thirteen stories from different cities in the world, stories that resemble contemporary fairytales, mythic and surreal. The tales add up to a broad exploration of 21st century forms of life, which includes billionaires, film stars, migrant labourers, illegal immigrants and sailors. [1] Tokyo Cancelled was shortlisted for the 2005 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.
Dasgupta’s second novel, Solo (2009) is an epic tale of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries told from the perspective of a one hundred-year old Bulgarian man. Having achieved little in his twentieth-century life, he settles into a long and prophetic daydream of the twenty-first century, where all the ideological experiments of the old century are over, and a collection of startling characters – demons and angels – live a life beyond utopia.
New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Apr 1, 2026 James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish barrister and author of The Mystery of the Trapped Light: Mystical Thoughts in the Dark Age of Scientism plus The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution; also TechBondAge: Slavery of the Human Spirit, Human Entrance to Transhumanism: Machine Merger and the End of Humanity, and AI-Govnerveance: Care and Possession in Dustopia. His most recent book is Trotsky vs Jesus: Battle of the AI-Millennium. His website is https://www.jamestunney.com/about-the… He focuses on the distinctions between physical light and many forms of spiritual light, including magical light, Egyptian light, and divine light. He reflects on the multiple meanings of the notion of light entrapped within matter or flesh. He argues that scientism, to the extent that it denies the realities of the spirit, is a dark cultural force. He also points out the high value that spiritual traditions place upon darkness. 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 September 21, 2020)
New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Mar 31, 2026 Colette Baron-Reid is an internationally bestselling author published in 27 languages. She is an Oracle expert, spiritual intuitive, personal transformation thought leader, business strategist, artist, and educator. She helps people become the artist of their own reality. She is author of eight books, including The Map: Finding the Magic and Meaning in the Story of Your Life, You’re in the Right Place, and The Art of Manifesting: A Meditative Drawing Practice to Rewire Your Brain and Create Your Reality. She has created 19 oracle cards, includingWisdom of the Oracle Divination Cards, The Spirit Animal Oracle, and Guides of the Hidden Realms Oracle. Her website is colettebaronreid.com. Colette describes how she created and popularized modern Oracle Cards that are themed variations from the traditional Tarot. She describes her Oracle Cards as tools of intentional synchronicity that can provide a mirror, direct guidance, and gnosis to the person making an inquiry. She suggests that the world is a living oracle, and you can uncover the truth of who you are, need to become, and what you want to create. 00:00 Introduction 03:11 Beginnings of Oracle Cards 11:20 Evolution of Tarot and Oracle Cards 24:31 Esoteric teachings and tools to communicate 26:47 Intuition and the future with Oracle Cards 35:06 Direct guidance and personal connection to higher power 36:36 Imagery, symbols, and language of the cards 40:18 Oracle cards for manifestation 45:19 Tools of synchronicity 46:19 Conclusion New Thinking Allowed CoHost, Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L, is a licensed occupational therapist, intuitive healer and coach, and spiritual guide based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Emmy is the founder of the Intuitive Connections and Holistic OT communities. She is the author of Intuitive Development: How to Trust Your Inner Knowing for Guidance With Relationships, Health, and Spirituality. Her website is https://emmyvadnais.com (Recorded on February 12, 2026)
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