Fear not, monads, for you shalt all be united with Source in the Land of Infinity and Bliss!
Sunday, January 25, 2026
Two and a half sacraments?
The Christian sacrament situation was even more complex than I expected. I had some kind of vague notion that while Catholics and Orthodox had exactly the same seven sacraments, Protestants only had two (or perhaps three). Except for the Salvation Army, which have none.
But naaah. It´s much more complicated. Perhaps I shouldn´t be surprised.
Twilight
The UK government has very reluctantly published an internal report from its intelligence agencies warning that the climate crisis is a national security threat. Mass migrations, food shortages and resource wars are some of the consequences.
They needed the MI5 and MI6 to conclude *this*? Oookay...
Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chief warns
The Davos situation
Isn´t the World Economic Forum and the Davos set supposed to be some kind of all-powerful global conspiracy. So about that...
Funny how everything just comes tumbling down in an instant, and nobody can do shit about it. It´s almost as if the WEF was a paper tiger all along!
The art of the deal
Inevitably, there are people who claim that Trump´s bizarre gyrations over Greenland comes from his book "The Art of the Deal" from 1987. Which may or may not be true - I haven´t read the book, although I occasionally wanted to give it a shot. I mean, people have been claiming for ten years now that everything in Trump´s politics is explained by that little volume. And that its a work of sheer and stable genius, to boot!
So could anyone please tell Number One that world politics don´t work like property deal shakedowns in the 1980´s Big Apple?
Thanks for your attention to this matter!
Embrace the penguin
Trump and some branch of his admin recently posted a very strange meme. It shows Trump together with a penguin holding an American flag. They are seen walking towards a mountain range at which the Greenland flag has been hoisted. Most people who seen the meme react at that particular detail. After all, penguins live in Antarctica. Greenland is in the Arctic.
But...
The more I think about the meme, the more I´m convinced that this is a hex. A self-hex, to be precise. Trump is essentially cursing himself?! The picture of the penguin originally comes from a strange docu by Werner Herzog. Yes, *that* Werner Herzog. The guy with all the pessimistic and apocalyptic films and documentaries. Often with a certain Klaus Kinski as lead actor. The penguin is implied to be nihilistic or insane. Rather than heading for the sea together with his flock, he walks towards the mountains...and a certain death. On the Mountains of Madness?
So the meme could be (subconsciously) read in the following manner: Trump is acting like the crazy penguin (or like Kinski?), leading all of America to its doom, chasing the mirage of a Greenland military conquest.
It´s actually quite eerie. And no, I don´t really believe in magick. Which makes it eerier still.
Saturday, January 24, 2026
Debunking Saint Germain
The Why Files take on the ever-evolving legends about the Count of Saint Germain, a mysterious French character who officially died in 1784. I admit that some of the content in this video was new even to me! Apparently, there is a "tradition" in Lousiana that Saint Germain was a vampire and lived in the state for a number of years. Another tall tale claims that he was taken prisoner by German soldiers during the First World War and predicted Hitler´s rise and fall. As late as the 1970´s, some stage magician in France claimed to *be* Saint Germain.
All the standard legends about the Count are of course also incuded in the video, such as the claim that he persuaded the Founding Fathers to sign the Declaration of Independence, or that Voltaire un-ironically called him "the man who never dies". The Why Files also briefly mention Guy Ballard and the Mighty I AM Activity, the American New Religious Movement which treats Saint Germain almost as a god.
There is no doubt that the Count of Saint Germain was a real person, although nothing for certain is known about his origins. The "count" was probably an Italian adventurer and con man who claimed to be an alchemist. At some point, he had overstayed his welcome at the French royal court and had to make a run for it to Schleswig-Holstein, where he is also buried. As a good Scandinavian, I couldn´t help noticing that the Why Files refer to the Count´s final residence as "Germany". Not wrong, but at the time Schleswig-Holstein was in union with Denmark!
For whatever reason, this colorful character was turned into a semi-divine being by 19th century Theosophists ("Master Rakoczi") and 20th century Theosophy-inspired groups ("Ascended Master Saint Germain"). But that´s another show, as they say.
Vinter
Har inte läst denna roman, men recensionen är intressant. Några citat nedan! Observera att handlingen verkar utspela sig i ett Sverige som gradvis blir allt *kallare*, inte varmare. Romanen är uppenbarligen baserad på tanken att Golfströmmen (eller var det AMOC) kommer att kollapsa. Notera också recensentens kritik av "klimatromaner" som bara handlar om medelklassens ångest, och så vidare.
>>>Det senaste decenniets svenska försök att skriva klimatromaner bekräftar i princip Ghoshs tes. Merparten har fastnat i ett självupptaget intresse för den privilegierade medelklassens klimatångest och rubbade livspussel, och det är nästan bara de romaner som tagit ut svängarna mot fantastiken som lyckats sätta något på spel och säga något nytt.
>>>Magnus Dahlströms senaste roman ”Vinter” hör helt klart till denna senare kategori. I tre berättelser om tre generationer av en utsatt och olycksdrabbad släkt skildras hur ett litet samhälle i norra Sverige drabbas av allt längre vintrar. Temperaturen kryper med åren ned till minus 30, 40, ja nästan 50 grader. Till slut ligger snön kvar året runt.
The cursed heart
Some more "campfire stories" from the Why Files. This time about phone calls from the dead, the black-eyed kids, and cursed hearts. As in: heart transplants supposedly also transplants the personality of the donor. If the donor killed himself...well...
I haven´t asked mi amigo ChatGPT to debunk these stories (yet), but I suppose that *could* be fun. Meanwhile, be careful over there around the campfire!
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