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image 🎃 **The Origins of Halloween** Halloween’s roots reach back over **2,000 years** to the **ancient Celtic peoples** of **Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man, Cornwall, and Brittany** — all part of the broader Celtic cultural world of northwestern Europe. --- 🌾 **1. The Celtic Festivals: Samhain and Calan Gaeaf** Among the **Gaelic Celts** (in Ireland and Scotland), the festival marking the end of the harvest and the beginning of winter was called **Samhain** (pronounced *sow-in*). * It marked the turning of the year — the halfway point between autumn and winter. * People believed the boundary between the **living and the spirit worlds** grew thin on this night, allowing ghosts and supernatural beings to cross over. * To protect themselves, communities **lit great bonfires**, **wore disguises**, and made **offerings** to ward off harmful spirits. In **Wales**, a closely related festival called **Calan Gaeaf** (*“the first day of winter”*) was celebrated at the same time. * The night before, **Nos Galan Gaeaf**, was filled with similar customs — bonfires, storytelling, and caution about wandering spirits. * Welsh folklore spoke of **Y Ladi Wen (the White Lady)** and **Hwch Ddu Gwta (the tailless black sow)** who might appear and chase stragglers near the fire. * These beliefs reflected the same Celtic idea of a **“liminal time”** — when the natural and supernatural worlds overlapped. --- ✝️ **2. The Christian Adaptation: All Hallows’ Eve** In the 8th century, the Christian Church established **All Saints’ Day** (also called **All Hallows’ Day**) on **November 1**, to honor saints and martyrs. The night before became known as **All Hallows’ Eve** — which, over time, was shortened to **Halloween**. Rather than erase the old Celtic customs, the Church’s new festival often **blended with them**, keeping the fires, costumes, and themes of death and the afterlife — but giving them Christian meanings. --- 🍬 **3. The Evolution into Modern Halloween** image As the centuries passed, folk traditions evolved: * **Trick-or-treating** developed from medieval customs like **“souling”** or **“guising,”** where people went door to door offering prayers or songs for the dead in exchange for food. * **Pumpkin carving** traces back to **Irish and Scottish** “turnip lanterns” made to ward off evil spirits (especially the ghostly “Jack o’ Lantern”). * **Irish, Scottish, and Welsh immigrants** carried these autumnal and spiritual customs to **North America** in the 19th century, where they merged into the modern, festive, and family-friendly **Halloween** celebration we know today. --- 🕯️ Halloween is a living echo of ancient **Celtic harvest and spirit festivals** — **Samhain in Ireland and Scotland**, **Calan Gaeaf in Wales** — transformed through **Christian All Hallows’ Eve** and reshaped again by **American popular culture**. It’s a celebration where the **old world and the new**, the **living and the dead**, and the **spiritual and the playful** all meet for one enchanted night each year. #halloween #origin #evolution #celts #nostr #bitcoin #bitcoinknots🪢 #freepalestine 🇵🇸
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image #semite #palestine #israel #nostr #bitcoin #freepalestine 🇵🇸 semantic decolonization: insist that “antisemitism” must apply to all Semitic peoples, including Palestinians, And that violence against Palestinians—a Semitic people—should therefore count as antisemitic. This reasserts linguistic justice and exposes the “hegemony of word use.”
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timeline of early human evolution and possible influence of psilocybin mushrooms image ## 🧬 1. Early Hominins (≈ 2.5–1 million years ago) **Species:** *Homo habilis*, *Homo erectus* **Brain size:** ~600–900 cm³ (steady growth from earlier apes) **Lifestyle:** Foragers and scavengers, following animal herds across African grasslands. ### 🍄 Possible Mushroom Exposure: * Psilocybin mushrooms (especially *Psilocybe cubensis*) grow naturally in **cattle dung** — which would have been common in these environments. * Hominins were likely **omnivorous opportunists**, sampling a wide range of plants and fungi. * Accidental ingestion could have produced novel sensory and cognitive experiences. 🧩 *This is McKenna’s key moment* — he speculates that recurring low-dose exposure enhanced **visual acuity and social cohesion**, while higher doses sparked **symbolic thought**. --- ## 🧠 2. The Rise of *Homo erectus* and *Homo heidelbergensis* (≈ 1 million–300,000 years ago) **Brain size:** ~900–1200 cm³ **Advances:** Mastery of fire, coordinated hunting, tool improvement, possible proto-language. ### 🍄 Relevance: If psychedelics had an influence, they may have **reinforced** group rituals or bonding behaviors around shared altered states. There’s no direct evidence, but **communal trance experiences** are known in later human cultures — perhaps an echo of this stage. --- ## 🎨 3. The Cognitive Revolution — *Homo sapiens* (≈ 300,000–40,000 years ago) **Brain size:** ~1300–1500 cm³ **Advances:** Symbolic art, abstract language, burial rituals, mythology. ### 🪶 Archaeological Evidence: * Earliest cave art (Blombos Cave, ~100,000 years ago) shows **geometric abstraction** — possibly reflecting altered states. * Around 50,000 years ago, there’s an explosion of **figurative art** and **shamanic-like depictions** (e.g., therianthropes at Chauvet Cave). * These coincide with the period of **modern human consciousness**, where psychedelics could have been used intentionally in ritual contexts. --- ## 🛕 4. Organized Entheogenic Traditions (≈ 10,000 years ago → present) After the advent of agriculture and settled life, **psychedelic use became ritualized**: * **Soma** in ancient Vedic India (possibly an entheogenic brew). * **Eleusinian Mysteries** in Greece (ergot-based potion *kykeon*). * **Mesoamerican mushroom cults** (e.g., Aztec *teonanácatl*, “flesh of the gods”). At this stage, religion and psychedelics clearly intersect — but humanity was already fully evolved. --- ## 🧭 Timeline Summary | Period | Species | Brain (cm³) | Psychedelic Relevance | Evidence Strength | | --------- | ------------------------------ | ----------- | ------------------------------------- | ---------------------------- | | 2.5–1 Mya | *H. habilis / erectus* | 600–900 | First possible exposure via foraging | 🟡 Speculative | | 1 M–300k | *H. erectus / heidelbergensis* | 900–1200 | Social bonding, proto-ritual behavior | 🟡 Speculative | | 300k–40k | *H. sapiens* | 1300–1500 | Symbolic thought, art, language | 🟢 Moderate (circumstantial) | | 10k–0 | *Modern humans* | ~1400 | Ritualized religious use (global) | 🟢 Strong (archaeological) | --- So in short: ➡️ **Early hominins likely encountered psychedelics.** ➡️ **We can’t prove they caused brain expansion**, but it’s biologically plausible they influenced cognition or spirituality later. ➡️ **Clear entheogenic religion appears only after civilization**, long after our brains had already evolved. #psycadelics #entheogens #evolution #nostr #bitcoin #freepalestine 🇵🇸
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Queen and I by Sue Townsend | Full Audiobook When a Republican party wins the General Election, they strip the royal family of everything and send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands. Exchanging caviar for boiled eggs, servants for a social worker named Trish, the Queen and her family learn what it means to be poor among the great unwashed. Is their breeding sufficient to allow them to rise above their changed circumstance or deep down are they really just like everyone else? #comedy #audiobook #nostr #bitcoin #freepalestine 🇵🇸
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image A world devoid of humanism is spastic — code convulsing without purpose, algorithms twitching in perfect rhythm, souls out of sync. Progress with no pulse. #humanism #accelerationism #dark #enlightenment #nostr #bitcoin #freepalestine 🇵🇸
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image Total Information Awareness (TIA) Evolution image | **Year** | **Event / Development** | **Key People / Institutions** | **Notes & Significance** | **Conceptual Continuity** | | -------- | ----------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | **2002** | **DARPA launches Total Information Awareness (TIA)** | John Poindexter, DARPA | Attempt to integrate global data sources to detect threats preemptively. | **Government Prototype** – Centralized data awareness and predictive surveillance. | | **2003** | **Congress defunds TIA; Palantir founded** | Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Joe Lonsdale | TIA canceled for privacy reasons; Palantir begins pursuing similar mission privately. | **Transition Phase** – Concept moves from public to private sphere. | | **2004** | **Palantir receives CIA In-Q-Tel funding** | CIA, In-Q-Tel, Palantir | Intelligence community invests in Palantir to test its data-fusion software. | **Operational Continuity** – Private model tested inside intelligence agencies. | | **2009** | **Palantir becomes key U.S. intelligence contractor** | DoD, NSA, FBI | Palantir’s “Gotham” platform widely adopted for counterterrorism and intelligence work. | **Functional Continuity** – TIA goals realized through commercial software. | | **2013** | **Snowden leaks expose NSA surveillance** | Edward Snowden, NSA | Public learns of global data-collection programs; Palantir viewed as a private analog. | **Ideological Continuity** – Confirms enduring belief in data totality for security. | | **2020** | **Palantir IPO** | Peter Thiel, Alex Karp | Palantir becomes publicly traded; expands to global data governance clients. | **Institutionalization** – Data-driven surveillance embedded in global markets. | #tia #history #palantir #theil #paypal #nostr #bitcoin #freepalestine 🇵🇸
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