Tonight’s program looks at the extraordinary month of April 2024, with its total eclipse conjunct Chiron. I offer a “journalism 101” presentation and Tantra Studio on self-centered sexuality.
You know, I know NOTHING about astrology, but it's fascinating... And this is really interesting, listening to your explanation and thoughts about this coming peak or whatever it is... And it does seem that while all the people I listen to that ARE into astrology seem to be kind of seeing a similar thing coming in April... Kind of exciting! I think it'll be good. I have a kind of yearning to get OUT of all this digital relationships pseudo-connection... ? I don't know if that's really what it is... but I am old enough to remember how we were BEFORE computers and cell phones in the home and hand... I miss those days. Wholeness, healing, authenticity... YES. Thank you, Eric.
Eric, coincidentally comical that this article was right under the ticker tape photo of the NYT Mets Victory paper you used for Journalism teaching of verifying sources and information.
"3 AMERICANS GET NOBEL IN MEDICINE
Share Prize for Discoveries Concerning Reproductive Mechanism of Viruses
By John M. Lee
Stockholm, Oct. 16
Three American scientists were jointly awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine today for their discoveries concerning viruses and viral diseases..."
Hi Eric, after many years I recently rediscovered you thanks to a YouTube prompt. You were an early inspiration for me as I was deepening my knowledge of astrology. As I have lived in Brussels we also corresponded about your experiences there, although this was well over a decade ago so you’re not likely to remember!
I would be interested in having a conversation with you on my YouTube channel if you would have the time and inclination.
I really appreciate your approach to astrology as a healing art, which I share as a consulting astrologer, and I would like to exchange some ideas with you about the eclipse season and in particular how we can navigate emotionally and spiritually through the current (mostly self-inflicted!) turmoil we are experiencing in the collective West. I will copy this message and send it to one of your emails as I’m not sure how best to reach you. Warmest regards, Susan Hopkinson 🙏🏻
I'm inquiring! The vast bulk of what i and most people i know either directly or via online are dealing with in daily life is not inflicted by myself or themselves, but rather by the material world. But in certain contexts, "self-inflicted" may make sense.
I don't remember the context, but what I mean by that is that the power came from the ground up. People did most of this to one another, voluntarily. By "self" I mean the base level of society, the people, the population itself. Most of what went down would have happened if so many people had not rolled over, let it be done, taken up the cause, become mini cops, allowed the division into their families by forcing tests and jabs for Thanksgiving, starting mask possess, etc.
No government or program can do that. Additionally, many, many people know they have made a massive error in judgment yielding to the pressure from others when there was no specific reason to do so, other than the pressure, which was mostly social. That is what I'm getting at.
I suspect the comment was a response to my comment, indirectly related to and affirming what you were speaking about. I sent my original comment to your office email - what a maze your business structure is! How many websites do you have?! 😅
The pressure was social, but it didn't fall from the skies. The social structure which was behind it is the result of years of deliberate construction via the "education" (training) system and the media, people being trained to follow orders, trained in particular to believe "public health experts" since they've told and made to believe that they know and can understand practically nothing about their own bodily processes. This has been the case since the imposition of allopathic medicine. And i use "imposition" deliberately, since the Flexner Report was the 9/11 of public health.
And there';s the wider social mechanism of obedience and imposition of the prerogatives of the state and the elite. This is a control network which has been tightened gradually but inexorably over the years, something i have closely watched since 1970. Speaking of 9/11, it played a key role in the tightening.
Again, my point is that this is the result of an historical process, and didn't come out of nowhere.
Great program, again. Good work in the first segment once again hammering home the point about digital disembodiment, being removed from our bodies by the technologies we've become habituated to using almost as often as we breath, with most people unable to operate without them. We do need more introspection, for sure.
Excellent history in the two segments on journalism. Never realized it before, but yeah, "jour" = "day," writing about the day. Good layout of the essentials of good journalism, on-spot calling out Woodward/Bernstein as narrators of an op rather than journalists when it came to Watergate. At the time i was just so glad someone after all was going after the invincible Nixon, though by his resignation i came to realize this was a ruling elite op.
Oh, the Mets. What a subject of derision 1962-8. BTW, they started out in the Polo Grounds, where the Giants played for many years before moving to San Fransisco after the '57 season. My upper Manhattan neighborhood was still Giants land when we moved there in early '59. The Mets didn't move to Shea till '64, which opened just a couple of weeks before the opening of the 1964-5 New York World Fair in nearby Flushing Meadows Park, the two shared a stop on the #7 Flushing Train.
I was not a happy camper in October '69, i was soon to graduate college and move away from New York after years of increasingly wanting to, totally fed up with living there, and hated any team associated with the town, loved it in '66 when both New York baseball teams finished in last place. :-) And here they were, winning it all, only months after their Shea Stadium "housemates" the Jets won the Super Bowl. Retch, vomit, curse,...:-) The NY Times pieces actually did a good job capturing the moment.
I read Tom Wolfe's piece on flak catchers back then. GOOD one. Though he was loose with the truth re the Electric Kool Aid Acid Test.
And yeah, the draft lottery. From 5/11/70 to some time in late August of that year, i was in limbo, having gone on 5/11 to a pre-induction physical which i had to go to because my lottery number was low enough to get a notice to get the physical, after which i was labeled 1A, till i found out in August that my number was too high for the actual induction notices, as the military's need for cannon fodder was shrinking due to the rapid pullout of US troops out of Vietnam.
Self-sexuality. Does sound more direct and less highfalutin than "masturbation." It's been my only sexual practice now for over 32 years. After my previous experiences, i'd say it would be hard to get me to even pursue partner sex, which is millions of times more difficult, and certainly not a million times more rewarding (even if it can be fun), fraught with risks, especially emotional and legal ones,... Why do people who have become comfortable with SS even want to, barring a desire to reproduce and raise a family? Or cement some sort of a bond?
Edit to add: Fascinating segment about the gradual but steady imposition of the transsexual agenda by corporate interests. Thanks, Eric.
You know, I know NOTHING about astrology, but it's fascinating... And this is really interesting, listening to your explanation and thoughts about this coming peak or whatever it is... And it does seem that while all the people I listen to that ARE into astrology seem to be kind of seeing a similar thing coming in April... Kind of exciting! I think it'll be good. I have a kind of yearning to get OUT of all this digital relationships pseudo-connection... ? I don't know if that's really what it is... but I am old enough to remember how we were BEFORE computers and cell phones in the home and hand... I miss those days. Wholeness, healing, authenticity... YES. Thank you, Eric.
Eric, coincidentally comical that this article was right under the ticker tape photo of the NYT Mets Victory paper you used for Journalism teaching of verifying sources and information.
"3 AMERICANS GET NOBEL IN MEDICINE
Share Prize for Discoveries Concerning Reproductive Mechanism of Viruses
By John M. Lee
Stockholm, Oct. 16
Three American scientists were jointly awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine today for their discoveries concerning viruses and viral diseases..."
I'll pull up that story, full text
Great. If it's not too much more effort, the "Boy and Girl Die in Antiwar Pact" article next to it looks illuminating.
email me at efc@chironreturn.org and I'll send my login. Times Machine is great fun.
Hi Eric, after many years I recently rediscovered you thanks to a YouTube prompt. You were an early inspiration for me as I was deepening my knowledge of astrology. As I have lived in Brussels we also corresponded about your experiences there, although this was well over a decade ago so you’re not likely to remember!
I would be interested in having a conversation with you on my YouTube channel if you would have the time and inclination.
I really appreciate your approach to astrology as a healing art, which I share as a consulting astrologer, and I would like to exchange some ideas with you about the eclipse season and in particular how we can navigate emotionally and spiritually through the current (mostly self-inflicted!) turmoil we are experiencing in the collective West. I will copy this message and send it to one of your emails as I’m not sure how best to reach you. Warmest regards, Susan Hopkinson 🙏🏻
"...mostly self-inflicted turmoil..."? Huh?
No offense, you seem very nice! But I have to ask...
Self-inflicted? I agree, this hasn't been my impression, not from reading this Substack. And it's not just the "West," it's global.
jeff what is the context of 'self inflicted'?
After reading this thread, my impression of what was meant by “self inflicted”,
is referring to our own perceptions, decisions and actions are the total sum of our own.
I'm inquiring! The vast bulk of what i and most people i know either directly or via online are dealing with in daily life is not inflicted by myself or themselves, but rather by the material world. But in certain contexts, "self-inflicted" may make sense.
I don't remember the context, but what I mean by that is that the power came from the ground up. People did most of this to one another, voluntarily. By "self" I mean the base level of society, the people, the population itself. Most of what went down would have happened if so many people had not rolled over, let it be done, taken up the cause, become mini cops, allowed the division into their families by forcing tests and jabs for Thanksgiving, starting mask possess, etc.
No government or program can do that. Additionally, many, many people know they have made a massive error in judgment yielding to the pressure from others when there was no specific reason to do so, other than the pressure, which was mostly social. That is what I'm getting at.
I suspect the comment was a response to my comment, indirectly related to and affirming what you were speaking about. I sent my original comment to your office email - what a maze your business structure is! How many websites do you have?! 😅
Not as many as I have guitars, but a few. Anyway I am easy to find.
Yes. Because i didn't see it as self-inflicted or limited to the "collective West." Still interested in your take.
The pressure was social, but it didn't fall from the skies. The social structure which was behind it is the result of years of deliberate construction via the "education" (training) system and the media, people being trained to follow orders, trained in particular to believe "public health experts" since they've told and made to believe that they know and can understand practically nothing about their own bodily processes. This has been the case since the imposition of allopathic medicine. And i use "imposition" deliberately, since the Flexner Report was the 9/11 of public health.
And there';s the wider social mechanism of obedience and imposition of the prerogatives of the state and the elite. This is a control network which has been tightened gradually but inexorably over the years, something i have closely watched since 1970. Speaking of 9/11, it played a key role in the tightening.
Again, my point is that this is the result of an historical process, and didn't come out of nowhere.
Did a record company make Bob Dylan famous?
Great program, again. Good work in the first segment once again hammering home the point about digital disembodiment, being removed from our bodies by the technologies we've become habituated to using almost as often as we breath, with most people unable to operate without them. We do need more introspection, for sure.
Excellent history in the two segments on journalism. Never realized it before, but yeah, "jour" = "day," writing about the day. Good layout of the essentials of good journalism, on-spot calling out Woodward/Bernstein as narrators of an op rather than journalists when it came to Watergate. At the time i was just so glad someone after all was going after the invincible Nixon, though by his resignation i came to realize this was a ruling elite op.
Oh, the Mets. What a subject of derision 1962-8. BTW, they started out in the Polo Grounds, where the Giants played for many years before moving to San Fransisco after the '57 season. My upper Manhattan neighborhood was still Giants land when we moved there in early '59. The Mets didn't move to Shea till '64, which opened just a couple of weeks before the opening of the 1964-5 New York World Fair in nearby Flushing Meadows Park, the two shared a stop on the #7 Flushing Train.
I was not a happy camper in October '69, i was soon to graduate college and move away from New York after years of increasingly wanting to, totally fed up with living there, and hated any team associated with the town, loved it in '66 when both New York baseball teams finished in last place. :-) And here they were, winning it all, only months after their Shea Stadium "housemates" the Jets won the Super Bowl. Retch, vomit, curse,...:-) The NY Times pieces actually did a good job capturing the moment.
I read Tom Wolfe's piece on flak catchers back then. GOOD one. Though he was loose with the truth re the Electric Kool Aid Acid Test.
And yeah, the draft lottery. From 5/11/70 to some time in late August of that year, i was in limbo, having gone on 5/11 to a pre-induction physical which i had to go to because my lottery number was low enough to get a notice to get the physical, after which i was labeled 1A, till i found out in August that my number was too high for the actual induction notices, as the military's need for cannon fodder was shrinking due to the rapid pullout of US troops out of Vietnam.
Self-sexuality. Does sound more direct and less highfalutin than "masturbation." It's been my only sexual practice now for over 32 years. After my previous experiences, i'd say it would be hard to get me to even pursue partner sex, which is millions of times more difficult, and certainly not a million times more rewarding (even if it can be fun), fraught with risks, especially emotional and legal ones,... Why do people who have become comfortable with SS even want to, barring a desire to reproduce and raise a family? Or cement some sort of a bond?
Edit to add: Fascinating segment about the gradual but steady imposition of the transsexual agenda by corporate interests. Thanks, Eric.