New Thinking Jul 24, 2025 Edward R. Close, PhD, is author of Transcendental Physics. He is coauthor (with Vernon Neppe) of Reality Begins with Consciousness: A Paradigm Shift That Works. He is also author of a lengthy chapter titled “The Mathematical Unification of Time, Space, Matter, Energy, and Consciousness” in Is Consciousness Primary? edited by Gary Schwartz and Marjorie Woollacott. Here he describes how the concept of nonlocality has been used in theoretical physics. He notes that the term has also been borrowed by people in parapsychology and consciousness studies. Some physicists object to the use of the term to describe the phenomenology of consciousness. However, in many ways, the term is apt. He then relates the concept of nonlocality to the Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm (TDVP) model that he has developed with Dr. Vernon Neppe. 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 currently serves as Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on September 20, 2019)
Teilhard de Chardin: Scientist, Mystic, and Prophet with Peter Todd (1944 – 2020)
New Thinking Jul 23, 2025 Peter B. Todd, MAPS, a psychotherapist with a Jungian orientation, is author of The Individuation of God: Integrating Science and Religion. He experienced clinical death, during cardiac surgery, in 2005, and was subsequently revived. He was also a gold medalist at the 1982 Gay Games in San Francisco. Here he notes that, throughout his career, Teilhard, a Jesuit paleontologist and theologian, suffered from restrictions and persecution by church authorities. He developed a lofty vision of biological evolution and the divinization of the world. He saw Jesus Christ as a cosmic figure acting as an attractor, pulling all sentient beings toward an Omega point of maximum complexity and consciousness. The American Episcopal Church holds a feast day in his honor. 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 currently serves as Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science. (Recorded on October 25, 2019)
Manhattan On Alert Following Sunrise Unaccompanied By Languid Clarinet Music
Published: July 24, 2025 (TheOnion.com)
NEW YORK—Instinctively lowering themselves into a defensive crouch while awaiting the return of the eerily absent audio cue, Manhattan residents reportedly remained on alert Thursday after a sunrise unaccompanied by languid clarinet music. “Every day, as long as I can remember, I would roll out of bed to a soulful clarinet solo scoring the sun’s ascent over the Hudson, but today there’s only silence,” said longtime Hell’s Kitchen resident Robin Saunders, one of 1.6 million baffled Manhattanites who remained locked down at home as authorities investigated the music’s mysterious absence, only briefly peering out of their apartment windows in the hope of catching a single trill or sustained seventh note to mark the return to bluesy normalcy. “It didn’t matter whether I was waking up from a long bender in the West Village or getting ready for my workaday job in Midtown: Hearing those reeds blow out a long, sleepy note, watching the sunlight dapple off the Flatiron, and Woolworth buildings—that’s how you knew you were in New York. Now, though? It’s like I’m in some strange, alien world devoid of anything approaching syncopation.” At press time, the city had declared a state of emergency after Brooklyn residents reported being unable to hear the sultry saxophone solo that typically soundtracks their lonely evening walks under neon signs.
Former UN Aid Chief Calls Gaza Genocide ‘Worst Crime of the 21st Century’
Then-United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths speaks during a press conference on the situation in Gaza, at a U.N. office in Geneva, on November 15, 2023.
(Photo: Jean-Guy Python/AFP via Getty Images)
“I am absolutely convinced that what’s going on in Gaza is a genocide, because the thing speaks for itself,” said Martin Griffiths.
Jul 24, 2025 (CommonDreams.org)
Former United Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths on Tuesday accused Israel of committing the century’s worst genocide in an interview published amid increasingly deadly forced starvation in Gaza and a vow by an Israeli Cabinet minister to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from the strip to make way for Jewish resettlement.
“I am absolutely convinced that what’s going on in Gaza is a genocide, because the thing speaks for itself,” Griffiths, who served as the U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator from 2021 to 2024, said in an interview with Middle East Eye.
“My grandchildren will be learning in school about who did what in the worst crime of the 21st century,” he predicted.
Griffiths’ remarks came amid worsening mass starvation in Gaza fueled by Israel’s blockade of the besieged strip. Gaza officials said Thursday that at least 115 Palestinians, including more than 80 children, have died of malnutrition since October 2023. Overall, at least 59,106 Palestinians have been killed and more than 142,500 others have been wounded by Israeli forces during 656 days of assault and siege. Over 14,000 Gazans are also missing and presumed dead and buried beneath rubble.
“There can frankly be very little doubt that we are seeing starvation and hunger as an instrument of the war,” Griffiths asserted. “There is no prior experience in my five decades of humanitarian experience that can come close to comparison to the horror we are all seeing in Gaza.”
“The U.N. announcement, based on serious hospital data, that people are fainting in the street from hunger and malnutrition, tells us all we need to know,” he added. “It is a historic fact that children die first in these circumstances. Our humanity cannot believe our eyes.”
Numerous human rights groups and U.N. experts have accused Israel of weaponizing starvation. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant are wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza including forced starvation and murder.
In March 2024 the International Court of Justice—which is currently weighing a genocide case brought by South Africa—ordered Israel to allow desperately needed humanitarian aid into the embattled enclave and reiterated an earlier directive to prevent genocidal acts. Critics allege that Israel has ignored these orders.
Griffiths slammed the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, whose aid distribution points have been the site of numerous massacres in which more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed. Israeli officers and soldiers have said they received orders to shoot and shell desperate aid-seekers.
“This isn’t humanitarian,” Griffiths said. “It’s a lure for displacement.”
Israeli officials have openly declared their intent to conquer, indefinitely occupy, and ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians so that a plan proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump to turn the coastal enclave into “the Riviera of the Middle East” can be implemented.
On Thursday, Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu said that Israel’s far-right government “is racing ahead for Gaza to be wiped out.”
“All of Gaza will be Jewish,” Eliyahu vowed.
Griffiths also decried the “massive impunity” enjoyed by Israeli officials and their enablers, and warned of the dangerous precedent this sets.
“What happens in Gaza doesn’t stay in Gaza,” he said.
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Weekly Invitational Translation: Sometimes people have to con themselves in order to survive.
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.
The claims in a Translation may seem outrageous, 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 plenary, therefore plentiful. I think therefore I am. Since I am and since Truth is all that is, therefore I, being, am Truth. Since I, being, am Truth, therefore I, being, have all the attributes of Truth. Therefore I, being, am total, whole, complete, plenary, plentiful. Since I am mind (self-evident) and since I (being) am Truth, therefore Truth is Mind. (Two things being equal to a third thing are equal to each other.) Since Truth is Mind, therefore Mind has all the attributes of Truth. Therefore Mind is totel, whole, complete, plenary, plentiful
2) Sometimes people have to con themselves in order to survive.
Word-tracking:
con: confidence, secret, trick, lie, cheat, steal
people: mortals
survive: to remain in existence, to live beyond
live: to continue, to not stop
3) Truth being all is therefore without limits, therefore there is no stop to Truth. Therefore Truth lives forever. Truth being limitless cannot be mortal, therefore Truth is immortal. Truth being all that is, there is nothing other than Truth, therefore Truth is one. Since Truth is one, therefore Truth cannot steal from or con Itself, Truth confides in Itself.
4) Truth lives forever.
Truth is immortal.
Truth is one.
Truth confides in Itself.
5) Truth confides in Itself.
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.
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FDR on courage
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving U.S. president, and the only one to have served more than two terms. Wikipedia
New Moon In Leo – Labubu Craze
(Astrobutterfly.com)
You may or may not have heard – yet – about Labubu, but the internet has. The Labubu fever is real – and yes, even grown-ups are losing it.
What’s Labubu?
Labubu is a toy from Hong Kong that has gone viral on the internet. The ‘Labubu craze,’ much like other collectible trends, started in Asia – and, like the Pokémons – has made its way into a world-wide phenomenon.
In many ways, the Labubu phenomenon is a great example of the energy of the New Moon in Leo on July 24th opposite Pluto.
Why Labubu in the context of the New Moon in Leo?
Let’s start with the obvious: Labubu – a toy – channels the child-like Leo spirit.
But what makes Labubu different and more than just a ‘cute toy’ is its grin and mischievous energy. Labubu basically captures the essence of the child – the inner joy and radiance – but also the wildness, the unpredictability, and the playful defiance.
It’s basically a ‘safe villain’ – a psychological stand-in for our inner mischief and weirdness – but without the real-world consequences.
The toy’s exaggerated expressions (big eyes, weird grin, “gremlin” energy) mirror how we might feel on the inside but can’t express in adult life. Labubu is both shadow and light – and in the balance, we find emotional resonance.
As children, mischievousness comes almost as a package with our cuteness and radiance. We don’t judge it – but we’re also not so self-reflective about it.
As adults, we judge it so much, that we can no longer tap – authentically – into it. The mischievousness is gone – and so is the radiance.
Growing up, we gradually distance ourselves from our basic wiring – and this slowly disconnects us from our sense of self and authenticity.
The integration of the mischief energy however is key to our psychological development, much like the Achilles’ heel of our individuation process. We now call it shadow – the parts of ourselves we repress, and project onto others.
Labubu’s little grin perfectly captures the Leo–Pluto tension between the desire to be seen in our full radiance, and the fear of what might be revealed when we truly express ourselves.
At some unconscious or symbolic level, we recognize this tension, and we are drawn to it. Childhood regression? Maybe – but if this is what helps us ‘own’ and integrate parts of ourselves we’d otherwise disown – why not?
Psychodrama is a therapeutic method that allows us to act out our emotions – and it has shown great success with people who might not respond to other forms of more ‘intellectual’ type of therapy, because it bypasses the rational mind and goes straight into embodied expression.
The regular adult is overly self-aware and of course, very much identified with our adult roles, and from that place, it’s almost impossible to face the shadow.
Even people who’ve done a great deal of work still have elements of the shadow to integrate.
In fact, the more work we’ve done, the more ‘intelligent’ we are, the better we become at rationalizing and removing ourselves from encounters with the shadow.
New Moon in Leo – Message #1
It’s safer – and very often, beneficial – to explore our shadow through play.
Look for playful outlets, act out your quirks and impulses. In the process of connecting to your creative mischief, you might encounter a part of yourself you’d otherwise overlook.
New Moon In Leo – Authenticity Vs. Fitting In
The New Moon in Leo is opposite Pluto in Aquarius, triggering the Leo/Aquarius axis.
The Leo/Aquarius polarity is about finding the balance between being true to ourselves (Leo) and feeling meaningfully integrated in society (Aquarius).
Something like: “I stand for who I am – zero compromises” vs. “Have I sold myself for the sake of being accepted, to the point that I forgot who I am?”
How can we stay true to ourselves and also keep up with the times?
We often hear things like: “He sold his soul,” or “She’s changed since she joined that group. I can no longer recognize her.”
But what’s the line between a person who’s truly lost themselves in a compromising tradeoff, and a well-adjusted adult who is simply evolving with the cultural currents around them?
Oppositions (like this New Moon opposite Pluto) will feel like it’s a binary choice – either/or.
But it’s not.
We are a unique individual on our own – there’s no 2 people exactly the same – and also the product of our times.
The same genetic makeup can express very differently depending on the cultural background or historical period a person is born into.
Like it or not, a significant part of who we are reflects the society we grow up in – and that’s entirely natural. We’re not born in isolation. We are social beings, shaped by our environment, and we need others to survive.
So yes – fitting in, belonging to a group, is very important. Yet it shouldn’t come at the cost of forgetting who we are. As with most things in life, it’s all about finding a balance.
Are you more in the Leo, authenticity-first energy? Or the Aquarius, group-first energy?
Let’s take Labubu as an example:
- A strong Leo response could be: “Labubu? Not interested. The world has gone crazy.”
- A strong Aquarius response might be: “It’s trendy. It’s cool. I too want a Labubu!”
As with all the waves – from music, fashion, or lifestyle trends that change with the times, to the technological revolution – do you tend to resist and stick to what you know? Or do you jump on anything new, while sometimes forgetting what’s truly you and what you really like?
New Moon in Leo – Message #2
Where are you on the me-society spectrum?
New Moon in Leo – The Role You Want To Play In This New Reality
Now let’s look at the larger picture of the New Moon in Leo. The New Moon at 2° Leo is not only opposite Pluto in Aquarius, but also trine Neptune/Saturn in Aries and sextile Uranus in Gemini.
The geometry of this New Moon is amazing – it literally aspects all the slow-moving planets: triggering the newly formed Pluto/Neptune/Uranus minor triangle – an auspicious configuration that will unfold over the next few years.
This New Moon in Leo is the first meaningful personal transit to activate this larger setup. With the New Moon in Leo, we are tapping into world 2.0 – the next version of reality, already downloading into our collective field.
There’s a world of opportunity awaiting the brave. The question is: will we rise to what it takes to make the most of it?
Because before we can fully harness the future-building energy of the Uranus-Pluto trine or the inspiring potential of the Neptune-Uranus and Neptune-Pluto sextiles, we must first move through the intensity of the Pluto opposition.
The world is changing – radically, irreversibly – and the deeper question becomes: What role do we want to play in it?
At this New Moon in Leo, we’re tuning into larger forces at play – and we’re being called to step in with Leo courage and claim our role in this emerging reality.
This is a time to remember and reclaim what’s unique about you – your voice, your life story, your gifts, your creative quirks, your boldness – the qualities only you can bring (Leo).
… and then ask yourself: How much of the new world – with its explosive progress, cultural disruption, artificial intelligence, or whatever the trend may be – do I want to embrace?
We always have a choice – however Pluto warns: right now, staying in the comfort zone is not our best bet. Times are a-changing, and it’s in our best interest to evolve along with them.
The Sun and Moon (New Moon) – our core identity – opposing Pluto might feel like an ego death. But it can also be an ego breakthrough.
Growth begins when we dare to let go of outdated identities – and step into the role our evolution demands.
This New Moon is an invitation to start becoming who we’re really meant to be. Because this new world needs the real you, at full power.
New Moon in Leo – Message #3
What role do you want to play in this new reality?
Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, a 1-year-old child in Gaza City
July 22, 2025 (zeteo@substack.com)
Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, a 1-year-old child in Gaza City, faces life-threatening malnutrition as the humanitarian situation worsens due to ongoing Israeli attacks and blockade, on July 21, 2025. Photo by Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini/Anadolu via Getty Images
Poonja on what self you are
(Image from johndavidsatsang.international)
“The whole world is your own Self. So who is good and who is bad?”
~ Poonja
Hariwansh Lal Poonja (October 13, 1910 – September 6, 1997) was an Indian sage. Poonja was called “Poonjaji” or “Papaji” by devotees. He was a key figure in the Neo-Advaita movement. Wikipedia
American fascism
Kuttner on TAP
By Robert Kuttner
July 23, 2025 (Prospect.org)
| Is it alarmist to point out the parallels? A couple of weeks ago, there was a brief dustup when Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok started spewing out antisemitic riffs and praising Hitler. Musk apologized. In the ongoing discussions about how far down the path to fascism is the U.S. under Trump, Hitler is often invoked as a dark symbol. But it is important to remember the real Hitler and the real parallels. In the Hitler timeline, he was appointed Germany’s chancellor on January 30, 1933. That’s ten days later than U.S. Inauguration Day. The Reichstag fire of February 27 gave him a pretext to consolidate absolute power. The next day, he issued a decree suspending civil liberties and allowing the arrest of parliamentary opposition deputies. There followed the Enabling Act of March 23 allowing Hitler to govern by decree. And on July 14, all parties other than the Nazis were banned, completing the dictatorship. Trump is only slightly behind schedule. The Democrats haven’t been banned; they have just been rendered irrelevant in Washington by a cultish Republican Party spellbound by Donald Trump, and put under siege in the states. More chilling are the parallels when it comes to sheer cruelty. You wonder why Trump would take away medical care, break up immigrant families, ruin careers in the sciences, deport people to be tortured—until you realize that cruelty is the whole point. For my light summer reading, I’ve been engrossed in a biographical novel, The Magician, that improbably combines two of my favorite writers, Thomas Mann and Colm Tóibín. In this lightly fictionalized 2021 book, Tóibín recounts the story of Mann’s life, drawing on diaries, letters, papers, and previous biographies. In 1933, Mann, who had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929, was 57 and living comfortably in Munich when Hitler took power. Like a lot of Germans who didn’t believe this could happen, Mann didn’t see Hitler’s dictatorship coming. (“He did not think for a moment that the Nazis would ever take power. Some days, they were merely a nuisance, representing a coarseness that was entering every aspect of life.”) The following passage literally sent chills down my spine: “The Nazis,” he belatedly realized “were street fighters who had taken power without losing their sway over the streets. They managed to be both government and opposition. They thrived on the idea of enemies, including enemies within. They did not fear bad publicity—rather, they actually wanted the worst of their actions to become widely known, all the better to make everyone, even those loyal to them, afraid.” Has anyone ever written a better description of Trump? |
| The two great dictators also shared something else—being energized by resentments. Hitler of course resented the Jews, and the humiliation of the Treaty of Versailles; and he resented the nine months he spent in prison after his failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923. Trump seems to be driven by nothing else. As Heather Cox Richardson reported this morning, “Last night at 9:03 p.m., the White House account posted on X an image of Trump in front of American flags, eagles, and fireworks with the caption: ‘I was the hunted—NOW I’M THE HUNTER. President Donald J. Trump.’” And speaking of the Jews, Thomas Mann was married to a Jew, Katia Pringsheim. Her father, Alfred, was a distinguished professor of mathematics and heir to a wealthy banking family. Her grandmother, Hedwig Dohm, was a pioneering German feminist. In the late 19th century, when Mann was born, German Jews were as well assimilated into the elite professions and cultural life in Germany as they are in the United States today. The Pringsheim family were proud patrons of Wagner, no less. It took the span of one lifetime for Hitler to wipe all that out. For now, Trump finds it convenient to pose as a philo-semite. If he found it expedient to flip, that could turn around on a dime. This is not to say that we have reached full-on fascism, yet. For now, the government is building camps to house deportees, not other enemies of the state. A free press still functions, though it is steadily bring undermined by the conflicts of interest of its owners. There is an opposition in power at the local and state level, though Trump has just begun to use the might of the national government to supplant it. American democracy, far more deeply rooted than the fragile Weimar democracy that Hitler overthrew, still has some remaining guardrails. But they are being weakened almost daily. For us to survive Trump, the Supreme Court would have to decide that enough is enough; and Trump would have to fail in his increasingly crude efforts to pre-annul the 2026 midterm election. This may yet happen. Trump could drown in his own bile. But this descent into fascism is coming on faster and more flagrantly than almost anyone would have foreseen. ~ ROBERT KUTTNER Follow Robert Kuttner on Bluesky |