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Newsletter Nr. 1.405
Amsterdam, September 3, 2025


The Dreamlike Nature of Reality - The Dreaming Kosmos, Chapter 1 - Joseph Dillard

Like Orpheus descending into Hades, we are asleep and sleepwalking through an existence of dream-like drama, lost in the shadows of our physical, mental, social, and cultural scripts. In this underworld of waking life, we mistake the fleeting shadows of our perceptions, shaped by biases and delusions, for reality, much as Orpheus trusted his music to navigate the dark.

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Akasha - Where Memories are Infinite and Eternal - David Lane

The term Akasha itself is Sanskrit: “ether,” “sky,” “that which pervades.” For the rishis of old, it was the subtle substance through which vibrations carried thought and sound. When Helena Blavatsky and her Theosophist comrades got hold of the idea in the 19th century, they rebranded it into a Victorian séance-friendly universal memory field. Later came Edgar Cayce, the “sleeping prophet,” who, half-asleep and half-inspired, made the Records sound like a Netflix series only available through trance subscription.

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Three Competing Narratives of the Ukraine War: Disaster, Humiliation, or Western Collapse? - Frank Visser / Grok

The war in Ukraine is not only a battle of armies but also of narratives. For some, it has exposed the hubris of Putin's neo-imperial ambitions and cemented Western solidarity. For others, it is the latest theater in a long civilizational shift away from Western dominance. And for still others, it demonstrates the West's fragility, with Russia emerging as the true victor.

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https://www.integralworld.net/visser572.html