PBS Documentaries and PBS Apr 3, 2026Watch more with PBS Passport: https://to.pbs.org/2DdzTCv Trace ancient knowledge and cutting-edge science to answer a 15,000 year old-question: who were America’s First People? The answer hides in Amazonian cave paintings, Mexican burial chambers, and on the waves off California’s coast. [Originally aired in 2018] Modern scholarship and ancient oral tradition work side-by-side to discover a shared native science and spirituality, maintained across thousands of miles, that creates the foundation for some of our planet’s greatest wonders. These stories point to the genesis of a vast social and cultural network that connects people across two continents – one that began earlier than ever imagined. Recent discoveries are driving archaeologists and indigenous leaders to a bold new perspective: that all Native Americans are part of a unique interconnected world. New evidence hints that the First Americans spent millennia developing their distinctive culture and beliefs as a single community in what is now Alaska, before spreading rapidly across North and South America. Together, they set Native America in motion, continents apart and untouched by influence from Europe, Asia and Africa. The result was incredible cities, sophisticated cultures, and unique ways of life that continue to reverberate in native beliefs and ways of life to this day. From Caves to Cosmos | Native America This program is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station: https://www.pbs.org/donate Enjoy full episodes of your favorite PBS shows anytime, anywhere with the free PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2QbtzhR#nativeamerican#indigenous#anthropology#NativeAmericaPBS Native America A four-part PBS series that challenges everything we thought we knew about the Americas before and since contact with Europe. It travels through 15,000-years to showcase massive cities, unique systems of science, art, and writing, and 100 million people connected by social networks and spiritual beliefs spanning two continents. The series reveals some of the most advanced cultures in human history and the Native American people who created it and whose legacy continues, unbroken, to this day.
New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Jun 8, 2026 James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish Barrister who has lectured on legal matters throughout the world. He is a poet, a visual artist, 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. His website is http://www.jamestunney.com. In this video from 2020, he points out that, although Swedish culture today is largely secular and materialist, there are ancient esoteric roots and many modern currents. The discussion particularly focuses on Emmanuel Swedenborg, August Strindberg, and Hilma af Klint. The Swedish royal family engaged in a variety of esoteric explorations. Parapsychology is also active in Sweden today. 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 December 18, 2020)
An introduction to the essentials of The Prosperos approach to Ontological practice written by Thane of Hawaii published in 1993. This book presents a new therapeutic and transformative philosophy called “Ontology”. It was originally written as a series of correspondence lessons for The Prosperos students. Please Note, this is an original stock source from the 1993 and as such pages are aged looking with some yellowing.
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June 1 marked the start of Pride Month in the United States, a celebration of LGBTQ+ rights and freedoms born from the 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York City. The decades since have seen great strides toward equality for LGBTQ+ people in countries across the world. Yet today, more than a half-century of progress is under threat — coinciding, not coincidentally, with the global autocratic upswing. The Journal of Democracy essays below examine why this vulnerable community is under fire, the different ways in which autocrats weaponize LGBTQ+ rights for their own ends, and whether democracy is strong enough to protect them. Free for a limited time.
The Global Resistance to LGBTIQ Rights Autocrats have found a new way to turn citizens against liberal democracy: convincing them that LGBTIQ rights, granted and protected in much of the West, pose a threat to their nation and its values. Phillip Ayoub and Kristina Stoeckl
Why Autocracies Fear LGBTQ+ Rights The battle over rights for sexual minorities has divided countries into opposing camps. But autocrats are lashing out with one aim: countering the liberal international order. Gino Pauselli and María-José Urzúa
Is Democracy Bad for LGBT+ Rights? LGBT+ rights are under threat across the globe. Populist leaders stirring fear and animosity for political gain understand how democratic institutions can be harnessed and manipulated to curtail these rights, not enshrine them. Kristopher Velasco, Siddhartha Baral, and Yun (Nancy) Tang
Gay Rights: Why Democracy Matters In a year that featured unprecedented strides for gay rights in some parts of the world, particularly in Western Europe and the Americas, other places experienced startling setbacks, especially in Russia and some countries in Africa. Omar G. Encarnación
Latin America’s Gay-Rights Revolution Even before Argentina’s landmark gay-marriage law was passed in July 2010, a gay-rights revolution was well underway across Latin America. But do gay rights by law equal acceptance of gays in practice?Omar G. Encarnación
As I said in a previous article, “The Future of US”, I have been interested in ways we can survive and thrive during these challenging times since 1993 when I was given a vision in a sweat lodge ceremony and saw the sinking of the ship of civilization and the launching of lifeboats to a more sustainable world.
From a new book by Luke Kemp, Goliath’s Curse: The History of Societal Collapse, I learned about the latest findings that can help us understand our lives, our world, and find hope for the future of humankind. Kemp is a senior research associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge.
Kemp says,
“With the threat of nuclear war ever present, the world getting hotter and hotter, and the rapid creation of dangerous algorithms, one can’t be blamed for asking: Will we make it?” Kemp goes on to say, “The problem is that most of us are uncomfortable in recognizing the most common element of civilization is rule through domination. A more apt label for these systems of violence is ‘Goliath.’ A Goliath is a collection of hierarchies in which some individuals dominate others to control energy and labor.”
In her groundbreaking book, The Chalice & the Blade: Our History, Our Future, internationally acclaimed scholar, futurist, and activist, Riane Eisler wrote,
“We are all familiar with legends about an earlier, more harmonious and peaceful age. The Bible tells of a garden where woman and man lived in harmony with each other and nature — before a male god decreed that woman henceforth be subservient to man.”
Eisler goes on to describe two competing systems that continue to influence our lives today.
“The first, which I call the dominator model, is what is popularly termed either patriarchy or matriarchy — the ranking of one half of humanity over the other. The second, in which social relations are primarily based on the principle of linking rather than ranking, may be described as the partnership model.” Eisler concludes by saying, “In this model — beginning with the most fundamental difference in our species, between male and female — diversity is not equated with either inferiority or superiority.”
Eisler developed these ideas most recently in her book Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shame Our Brains, Lives, and Future written with anthropologist Douglas P. Fry. They say,
“There is a new urgency to our wish for a more humane world. Every day we are bombarded by news of barbaric human rights abuses, terrorist attacks, proliferation of nuclear weapons, and a drift to strongman rule. New technologies, from artificial intelligence to biological engineering, could have catastrophic results if guided by cultural values of greed, megalomania, and disregard for human rights.”
MenAlive: Helping Men and the Women Who Love Them Since 1972
MenAlive began in 1969 when I held Jemal, my newborn son, in my arms and made a vow that I would be a different kind of father than my father was able to be for me and to do everything I could to create a world where men were fully healed and involved with their families and communities throughout their lives. I launched MenAlive as my window to the world to share what I was learning about love, life, survival, and transformation.
In June, I will be offering exciting new and expanded services at MenAlive. I’m looking for men and women who recognize the world is changing and who want to receive the best guidance and support available to help them to live fully, love deeply, and make a positive difference in the world. If this sounds like you, read on.
When our daughter, Angela, was born in 1972, it became clear that boys and men’s health and girls and women’s health were forever intertwined and we could not improve one without improving the other. My wife Carlin and I now have six grown children, seventeen grandchildren, and six great grandchildren. We are committed to helping to transform our lives for the good of all and for future generations.
I’m sure I don’t have to convince you that humans are living in ways that are out of balance with the laws of nature. We recognize this imbalance as our climate crisis, endless conflicts, and loss of ecological diversity. As “geologian” and historian Thomas Berry warned:
“We never knew enough. Nor were we sufficiently intimate with all our cousins in the great family of the earth. Nor could we listen to the various creatures of the earth, each telling its own story. The time has now come, however, when we will listen or we will die.”
Many people have given up on humanity and imagine that the world would be better off without us. Others hope that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will save us. I was given a different vision during a sweat lodge ceremony at a Men’s Leadership Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1993.
The vision allowed me to see the sinking ship of domination-civilization and the emergence of lifeboats to a new way of living. According to Václav Havel, Czech statesman, author, playwright, and dissident,
“Today, many things indicate that we are going through a transitional period when it seems that something is on the way out and something else is painfully being born. It is as if something were crumbling, decaying, and exhausting itself, while something else, still indistinct, were arising from the rubble.”
At MenAlive, I will be introducing my community to innovative programs that offer new ways of communicating such as, “Safe Conversations,” developed by Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt. You can learn about them here: https://quantumconnections.com/.
We also need new ways of healing men’s mental, emotional, and relational wounds such as those developed by Joe Conrad at Man Therapy: https://mantherapy.org/
Becoming David: Why Men Have a Crucial Role to Play in Overcoming Goliath
Clearly, we need everyone involved if we are going to change the world for good. This includes men, women, and children. I believe that men have a critical role to play. The comedian Elayne Booler captured this thought when she said,
“When women get depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It’s a whole different way of thinking.”
In his book Goliath’s Curse, Luke Kemp says,
“In the biblical tale, Goliath is slain by a single slingshot-toting future king by the name of David. Defeating Goliaths, in reality, is not done alone. Instead, it requires actions that leverage the people and communities around us.”
Kemp offers the following four guiding principles:
Don’t Be a Dick
“I propose a simple pledge not to be a dick. This is a pledge to not work for, invest in, or support any firm, institute, or individual that significantly contributes to global catastrophic risk.”
“More than that, it is a pledge not to become a Goliath yourself. All of us are capable of being corrupted by power. All of us crave status to some degree. Don’t let the darker angels of your nature win.”
2. Be a Democrat.
“Practice democracy. Democracy is not just a form of government; it is a culture and way of life. One that all of us need to recapture.”
3. Vote Against the Apocalypse.
“You are first and foremost a citizen not a consumer. If everyone in Australia (or the US, or the UK) began switching off their lights prudently and chose the lowest-carbon travel options, then it would barely make a dent in the national emissions.”
“If they changed their vote to those offering the strongest decarbonization plans, then suddenly emissions could be on track to be eliminated within decades.”
4. Don’t Be Dominated.
“Oppose domination in your relationships, whether they be personal, family, or workplace.”
“One of the first and most pernicious stories justifying subjugation was that of the savior leader. It is time to say ‘enough.’ It is time to realize the bright and terrifying truth: no gods, kings, heroes, or masters are going to save us. Slaying Goliath and avoiding evolutionary suicide is, like all great achievements, it is going to be a collective action. It is on us.”
The Tantura massacre occurred on May 22–23, 1948, when Israeli forces from the Alexandroni Brigade captured the Palestinian coastal village of Tantura. Following the village’s surrender, Israeli troops executed dozens to over 200 unarmed Palestinian men, burying them in mass graves believed to be beneath the current Tel Dor beach parking lot. [1, 2, 3]
The Event
Date: May 22–23, 1948 (during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War).
Location: Tantura, a Palestinian fishing village of roughly 1,500 residents, located about 35 kilometers south of Haifa.
Perpetrators: The 33rd Battalion of the Alexandroni Brigade (part of the Haganah).
Casualties: Estimates range from “dozens” to over 200 fatalities. [1, 2, 3]
Historical Context & Aftermath
The Attack: Tantura was specifically targeted under Plan Dalet, the Haganah’s master plan for military control of Palestine. The village fell to Israeli forces a week after the declaration of the State of Israel. [1, 2, 3]
The Massacre: Survivors reported—and later investigations corroborated—that after combat operations ceased, disarmed Palestinian fighters and young men were systematically separated, tied up, and shot in groups. [1, 2, 3]
Expulsion & Destruction: Surviving women, children, and the elderly were expelled to the nearby village of Furaydis. Tantura was subsequently demolished, and the Israeli kibbutz and beach resort of Nahsholim was later established on its lands. [1, 2, 3]
Modern Controversy and Investigations
Teddy Katz’s Research: In the late 1990s, Israeli graduate student Teddy Katz collected extensive oral testimonies from both Palestinian survivors and Alexandroni Brigade veterans for a master’s thesis. His findings prompted veterans to sue him for libel. Facing immense pressure, Katz signed a retraction, though he later stated he did so under duress and maintained that the testimonies were accurate. [1, 2, 3]
The 2022 Documentary: The massacre gained renewed international and Israeli attention following the 2022 release of the documentary Tantura by Israeli director Alon Schwarz. The film featured archival audio of Alexandroni Brigade veterans confessing to the killings and confirming the presence of mass graves. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Forensic Investigation: In 2023, independent researchers at Forensic Architecture published a visual and spatial investigation that analyzed aerial photography, historical records, and survivor testimonies to reconstruct the events and pinpoint the probable locations of the mass graves. [1, 2, 3]
Brendan Carr has enacted federal rules that require all moms on broadcast television to be homemakers.
Published: June 4, 2026 (TheOnion.com)
WASHINGTON—Saying it had been forced to take action against networks that refused to change their conduct, the Federal Communications Commission announced Monday it would investigate broadcasters of TV shows where the mom has a job. “It has come to our attention that the public airwaves have been used to transmit indecent images of female characters who have both children and jobs—and in some cases are even a family’s breadwinner,” said FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, claiming such programs were not in compliance with new guidelines that require fictional mothers to be breastfeeding off-screen for at least two-thirds of an episode’s duration. “It is a violation of broadcast codes for these women to be shown outside the home at all, unless it is at a grocery store or a church. Moving forward, every mother who appears on camera must be holding a child in every single frame or we will revoke the licenses of the offending stations.” Carr added that the FCC would also levy fines against any show portraying young girls attending school.
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