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Gavin Mounsey of RecipesForReciprocity.com joins us today to discuss his new post, “Fertility and Reproductive Health Enhancing whole foods and naturally occurring compounds.” We talk about the different foods and compounds that can help both women and men enhance their fertility, how you can detox from the endocrine-disrupting chemicals that are flooding our environment, and how you can combat the Malthusian mindset of the would-be social engineers who are trying to inculcate a hatred of humanity among the population.
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Fertility and Reproductive Health Enhancing whole foods and naturally occurring compounds
Great show! Brought back a lot of memories.
As most know when it’s a good show I get giddy with brain activity. This time I make comparations to real life. It must be said. A spiritual life is one of abundance. Lets compare spirituality to reality. I’ll keep it simple but with people nothing is simple even the relationship with omnipotent, omnipresent God. Love.
Statism is organized religion. Nature, animal magnetism is statism of materiality. Chemical cause and effect, materialism . To me Spiritualism comes as a non relying state, not dependent on materialism. Your relationship with the creator is spiritual. Voluntary. This ancient philosophy has been reinstalled, reintroduced by a feisty woman, at the turn of the 20th century. who made claims , who demonstrated its use to heal the poor souls , voluntarily. It was so useful she was given a charter by the Massachusetts state as a teaching college. Healing Arts. The statists always what to controll such powerful things as thought. A society of like minded people. Spiritual Voluntarism.
When it became an organized religion it became difficult but persistence keep it going despite the efforts of statist religious fanatics. It’s meant to be used not to be abused. The most dangerous of religions.
Imagine that. Sound familiar? A simple guide away from statism is handy to have.
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/christian-science/#:~:text=Christian%20Scientists%20believe%20that%20while,God%20strips%20off%20their%20disguise.%E2%80%9D
That looks like a pretty good article on the sub stack. Mr Mounsey certainly seems to know his stuff.
I would argue that then psychological toxins are the big driver of the low fertility rates…. While i don’t doubt physical fertility is lower today I don’t think it’s (yet) at a point where it can rival the effects of people CHOOSING not to have kids or waiting too long
The numbers appear to show blacks and Hispanics having higher birth rates DISPITE having more abortions then whites. Their fertility is thus even higher in comparison.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/226292/us-fertility-rates-by-race-and-ethnicity/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1549818/abortion-among-women-of-reproductive-age-us-by-race/
While I can believe non US origin Hispanics may be less polluted can not believe US blacks (who have horrible rates of poor health) eating processed crap are less polluted then whites who have somewhat better health and more money on average.
I also don’t know that Asians are more polluted then whites, though they have a lower birth rate- if it’s toxins in Asian sea food id think the islanders would eat as much or more and they have very high rates.
I guess it could be an age thing and these groups will “normalize” as their average age gets higher and their women less fertile….?
Either way as far as I can see, women (esp middle class) waiting until their past their prime breeding years is probably a big driver in dropping the birth rate. The big drive on that is clearly psychological/cultural…. It can’t be economic since blacks and Hispanics are poorer.
Libido dominandi by Dr EM Jones is a great book on how we got here
Just a brief comment, I’ve read from multiple sources that sperm rates have been dropping 1%/year since the 1970’s, meaning male fertility has diminished by 50% over the last 50 years… that seems quite significant to me, and certainly, at a minimum, heading very much in the wrong direction.
Yes.
100% it’s a thing that’s happening..I also understand that Testosterone has been dropping in males.
I disagree with your statement “Lets compare spirituality to reality.” I find it actually materialistic. I also think that spirituality is something someone cultivates, and cannot be compared with reality. By reality you mean the material world? And by spirituality you mean the spiritual world?
b
Yes, I suppose you do. Laws require principles.
Words are like bags containing all kinds of meaning once the bags contents are poured out. I’m no elocutionist. Comparing apples to apples. Reality is spiritually exercising God’s Law. They are the same. The world is material. Did you read the gospelcoilition.org link. ?
I’m no theologian either, I’m making a comparison to politics. Politics as religion, religion as politic.
Statism= materialism, animal magnetism
Voluntarism=Spiritualism, force without matter.
Finding a pure ,non materialistic religion is like finding a voluntary decentralized political system. A centralized non materialistic state.
When used it becomes the cat in the box. State dependent no longer applies. You buy in or don’t. The , for lack of a better word, magic is with or without the politics of the state the cat always is there. It’s ( C.S.) principles can be used without the centralized political structure of the church, or the state. Voluntarily with or without the states , church’s permission. Leap of faith or complete reliance of divine laws, it’s permanent truths supercede the box it came in.
It’s like Voluntarism as opposed to statism . One leans to the devil , the other to love . Once bought in you can’t unsee the truth; and becomes easy to practice and rely on. The external pressures of erring individuals sometimes requires daily practice. We are bombarded constantly with erring people.
Like Duck, and his ,as described by EJ Doyle’s pet peve, cutting -in; I digress. Love is in the living, not the killing. All thoughts are welcome . Feel free to explain and expand on this. Waking up is the goal.
Actually I guess I did cut in this time. I was aiming for the comment button not the reply and I was not even drunk….nit sure how that happened Weird.
Sorry.
Duck,
How nice.you quack me up.
In all that’s been said I failed to say G did some outstanding work on this and will benefit many people. Our favorite editor-en-chief recognizes the potential inherit good to be found here. Sans the spirit remplace` par psychology. It may be spiritually statist in its overarching materialism but it will benefit the health of many searching for that something missing in their life’s. If you don’t know what you’re looking for then everything you find will be of some use. Don’t be sorry be unerring. Good luck Duck.
Thanks G and good eye Mr. Cor`Bett , you are a bloodhound for a good story, a natural reporter a great storyteller and generous Editor-en-chief.
[I could say Great Squirrel-en-Chief ;look at all the nuts you collected, but I won’t.]
@GBW
Thanks for the kind words buddy.
I`ll take another look at your comments about statism when I have more time and ponder what you have shared before responding.
Cheers.
G
No worries. It was an ancillary to the systems James and yourself were discussing. Imagine just how many systems we could choose to employ to navigate this illusionary reality.
This particular system has been very effective at unraveling the mystery of the universe for me. It was a marvelous discovery in thinking, not to be excluded or overlooked as it so often is. Nor is it to be taken for granted. No virtue signaling works well in this society.
I’ll talk to you soon about the seed , breeding project from last year. Lots of news to share . Spring has sprung.
I hope women everywhere can get pregnant. More the better.
Hi Everyone!
I would like to start by saying this I’m father of a 7yo and he’s the best thing has ever happened in my life and I thank God for having him.
I still don’t get why it should be so horrible if people DECIDE for whatever reason that they don’t want to have kids or to have less of them in general.
Population was 1/3 of the actual one in the 50′ and humanity didn’t get extinct…
Yes, shops will close, towns will be empty, but it is not possible that after a while there will be more “space”/resources for the remaining population and this will push them to procreate more in the future and rebalance the situation?
Sorry if I don’t articulate better (no much time now but I really wanted to ask this question for long) but you get the point!
Thanks in advance for your answers.
Have an excellent day!
“….I still don’t get why it should be so horrible if people DECIDE for whatever reason that they don’t want to have kids …..”
Because they are deciding based on social programming by elites that want them dead and gone.
Also at its heart the desire to focus upon oneself is a sign of (and leads to more) unhappiness (I personally expect to se a massive rise in suicide soon)
It’s also not just the population decline as much as HOW it’s dealt with….As the population shrinks either counties will drop the welfare state or import masses of 3rd worlders and THEN drop the welfare state.
You COULD just automate and have a smaller economy but that’s not going to happen
I agree with Duck’s comments that most people are *not* choosing based on their own internal inclinations, and rather instead are responding directly to the rampant negative social programming that actively denigrates procreation.
@Julianne Jaz
“people are *not* choosing based on their own internal inclinations, and rather instead are responding directly to the rampant negative social programming that actively denigrates procreation.”
Agreed, that seems to be the prevailing source of the thinking… though I have also come across a few people that do not think poorly of humans or think having a baby is something they should feel bad about, and they chose not to because they prioritized nose to the grind stone on materialistic pursuits and climbing various social, financial and other hierarchical ladders above all else.
Which, now that I think of it, could be added to my list of psychological toxins, because rarely do those money, materialism, “power” and acclaim seeking people find lasting happiness, rather they just burn through their precious days on Earth feeding their moments into the corporate machine and arriving in a sad, empty and lonely McMansion, and usually attempting to fill a void in their heart they cannot name with various forms of substance abuse.
Though, yes, most seem to be unconsciously herded and moving in ways that are orchestrated by eugenicists (and these people are often convinced that these eugenicist views they have internalized are their own, when they are not).
Thanks for the comments.
Thank you for another excellent interview. Endocrine disrupting chemicals and unsaturated fatty acids act as pseudo-estrogens, thereby causing imbalances in hormones. For anyone interested in improving fertility, please check out the writings of Dr. Raymond Peat. For starters, here is a link to his book on women’s hormones:
https://wiki.chadnet.org/from-pms-to-menopause.pdf.
The late Ray Peat has a web site, but there are two other sites that have organized his writings and/or interviews:
https://www.selftestable.com/ray-peat-stuff/sites
https://wiki.chadnet.org/ray-peat
@jo-ann
Thanks for the comment and links.
I`ll take a gander through that material when I can.
Progesterone is the secret sauce. 🙂
An interesting note in Dr. Raymond Peat’s book “From PMS to Menopause”:
“According to German documents [investigated by Jean Jofen of Baruch College, reported at the Fifth World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem], the Nazis put estrogen in the food at concentration camps, to make the prisoners helpless and unable to organize resistance.”
Let that settle in your mind a while…
Jo Ann
Pretty sure that’s made up BS like most holocaust stories…. Why would you spend money putting estrogen into prisoners when you don’t need to?
The soviets held large numbers of former combat troops and worked them to death post ww2 and did not need to do anything so fancy. The British used to tell stories about Bromide in the tea to cut libido during ww2 as well and I have never seen anything to suggest that was true either.
I heard the same story about prisoners and flouride and (while I know fluoride is bad) think that the stories of putting it in prison water supplies (by soviets or nazis depending on the teller) is also BS.
You could be correct. Or perhaps it was just another human experiment. We cannot know unless we have evidence to verify such testimonies.
Using Brave AI, these results are reported, though I feel these are also subject to the same doubt:
“Jean Jofen on Estrogen Use in Holocaust
“Dr. J. Jofen, an American psychologist from the City University of New York, reported findings from studying Holocaust documents that revealed the use of hormones by the Nazis to sterilize Jews. These hormones, which were later found in one form of estrogenic birth control pills, were administered to concentration camp inmates through soup, causing a temporary loss of virility among both men and women. Dr. Jofen discovered that children born to women who were subjected to the hormone had lower average intelligence compared to those born to inmates who were not exposed to the hormone.
“The Nazis attempted to avoid creating explicit evidence of their crimes and made efforts to destroy the documentary and material evidence before their defeat. However, much of the evidence was preserved and collected by Allied investigators during and after the war, providing conclusive proof of the Holocaust.”
Yes …a 2018 TELEPHONE study or their Periods SEVENTY YEARS before that includes interviews with then kids rather then the subject themselves.
Sounds Legit 😉 lololol
I mean….. I am sure everyone can give a full report on their grandmas periods in the 40’s.
I am pretty sure that ANOREXIA will ALSO causes loss of periods, damage fertility….. during a time of mass starvation it’s not a big surprise that they stopped. Though weirdly I hear other holocaust stories about the number of babies born IN the camps….which is possibly why so many holocaust survivors are still around, lololol.
Sorry when Nazi Germany was short of ammo and fuel and food and everything else I DONT see them wiyh resources to spare stopping Jewish women (who according to the holocaust story were marked for extermination) from getting pregnant.
Thought the whole extermination thing is kinda weird when you ask yourself why there were CHILDRENS barracks in the camp.
“……. We conducted telephone interviews ………..
……
from 2018 to 2021 with Holocaust survivors internationally in 4 languages. ….”
“…..We collected 93 testimonies from female Holocaust survivors (average age 92.5)
>>>>> or offspring who could provide complete reproductive histories for survivors…”
The interviews focused on reproductive histories, including amenorrhea beginning in 1942–45, subsequent attempts to conceive, numbers of pregnancies, miscarriages and stillbirths.
Ninety-eight percent of women interviewed were unable to conceive or carry to term their desired number of childre….”
This study methodology is trash.
“……. The Nazis attempted to avoid creating explicit evidence of their crimes and made efforts to destroy the documentary and material evidence before their defeat. However, much of the evidence was preserved and collected by Allied investigators during and after the war, providing conclusive proof of the Holocaust.…….”
This is NOT thr case . There is literally MASSES of paper work.
Being Germans the nazis literally RECORDED when the did war crimes….. they shot large numbers of Jews during the invasion of Russia and kept records of their crimes. What they NEVER did was keep records of gassing (or estrogen therapy) because they are made up stories.
I mean I don’t believe that nazis made wanking machines to kill Jews or that they had a cage with a bear and eagle to feed a Jew to daily….not that they had an electrocution floor that had auto knives to chop the dead Jews up, not that there were steam chambers to boil them to death like lobsters.
Lolol…. I was reading the holocaust literature long enough to see history change.
Yes, anorexia will cause menstrual cycles to stop. This even happened to me when I was over exercising. I wasn’t even below a normal weight. Stress can also cause menstrual cycle disruption. If someone is in a concentration camp, I would presume this would be stressful at the very least.
I do think the Nazi scientists did document the human experiments, right? And these scientists were exported to the US and experimentation continued on US citizens, like feeding children radioactive cereal. I think that stuff can be documented.
Other research:
Women’s experiences of infertility after the Holocaust
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953622005561
Excerpts from the Abstract:
“Amenorrhea among Jewish women arriving at concentration camps was too uniform and sudden to be effected only by trauma and/or malnutrition. Survivors’ narratives and historical evidence suggest the role of exogenous hormones, administered without women’s knowledge to induce amenorrhea as well as subsequent primary and secondary infertility.”
A book by EM Jones “The holocaust narrative” literally gives the way the story’s change and spread an analysis.
https://www.fidelitypress.org/the-holocaust-narrative
“….. The Holocaust Narrative brings me back to my roots in literary criticism, where I determine the stories’ origins and purpose. I am examining literary artifacts, among them Anne Frank’s diary, William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice, and Jerzy Kosinski’s Painted Bird, and examining how the narrative changed over time….”
The First mention of Jews getting gassed in showers will Suprise everyone….history is full of stories like this that change and morph into new things. That’s why I love it
Like I said, you could be correct. Just reporting what I found – I have no skin in the game, so to speak. It has been said that there is a whole industry related to the holocaust.
There was a book “The Holocaust Industry” by Norman Finklestein who was a college professor who lost his tenure for speaking against Israel.
@jo-ann
Thanks for the interesting and disturbing historical threads regarding the concentration camps.
Here in Canada’s concentration camps (which were weaponized in an aggressive way from about 1876 to 1997) they did not try to be stealthy about their forced sterilization of females. They were targeted once they reached puberty and invasively mutilated by the “school principal” (deranged priests) or complicit doctors that received a stipend for each person sterilized from the government.
The horrors carried out in Canadian residential schools eventually became the focus of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Among these crimes uncovered was everything from torture, rape, murder, medical experiments and electrocution, to forced sterilization (which was prevalent).
In that time frame, over one hundred and fifty thousand children were kidnapped by RCMP agents and imprisoned in various torture chambers with euphemistic names.
The roots of the aggressive sterilization movement In Canada began in 1928, with the introduction of the Sexual Sterilization Act, which first passed in Alberta. This legislation allowed for, and actively promoted, the sterilization of those deemed “undesirable”.
While the Métis and Indigenous communities made up around 3 per cent of Alberta’s population at the time, they made up 25 per cent of the number of individuals ordered to be forcibly sterilized under the act.
In 1933, a similar act was passed in British Columbia, and tied to the residential school system.
The residential school system brought forth a multitude of horrors for the Indigenous population of Canada, as the government attempted to assimilate Indigenous people into Catholic registry.
The Sexual Sterilization Act of BC allowed a school Principal to permit the sterilization of any native person under his charge. As their legal guardian, the Principal could thus have any native child sterilized. Frequently, these sterilizations often occurred to whole groups of native children when they reached puberty, in institutions like the Provincial training School in Red Deer, Alberta, and the Ponoka Mental Hospital.
https://www.humanrightspulse.com/mastercontentblog/the-forced-sterilisation-of-indigenous-women-in-canada-a-long-history-of-state-violence
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(..continued from above)
As noted above, the child inmates of the residential schools, the Indigenous youth, were victims of rape, torture, medical experiments and also murder. A prevalent reality for many residential school inmates was also forced or coerced sterilization.
Alberta’s Sexual Sterilization Act was under legislation for nearly 50 years, repealed only in 1972 with the newly elected government of Peter Lougheed in place.
Before the act was repealed, an astounding 2800 sterilization procedures were performed in the province of Alberta. Many individuals who were sterilized under the act were not told they were undergoing a sterilization procedure, and remained unaware of their sterilization until many years later.
These surgeries were often passed off as other surgeries and given without consent.
The government offered stipends to doctors willing to perform the surgery.
One survivor mentioned in the report, a Cowichan from Vancouver Island who was sterilized in 1952, recounts hearing that a sum of $300 would be given out to doctors for each Indigenous woman sterilized, noting that “if you were seen to be a troublemaker, you got the operation.”
She was forcefully sterilized as punishment for refusing to marry a Christian Indigenous man, instead choosing to marry a community chief.
Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, a government agency formerly known as Indian Affairs, told her that a doctor sterilized her following the birth of her only child.
“After I delivered my baby, Dr. Goodbrand put me under again, and when I woke up he had done the operation on me.”
“I tried to avoid him after that but the Indian Affairs people told me he was the only doctor I was allowed to see,” said the unnamed survivor.
Another witness from Pegoraro’s report said that a doctor by the name of Dr. Darby told her that INAC was paying Darby to sterilize Indigenous women, particularly if they were not church-goers.
“Hundreds of our women were sterilized by Dr. Darby, just for not going to church,” the anonymous woman said.
While the Sexual Sterilization Act was abolished, Indigenous women were still subjected to coerced sterilizations until only a few years ago. As recently as 2023, two women have come forth claiming to have each been sterilized without their consent. Who knows how many others have been targeted and have not come forward yet.
https://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/the-coerced-sterilization-of-indigenous-women-in-canada
For additional info and testimony regarding the forced sterilizations and violent state funded eugenics operations in Canada and the United States:
“Second-rate victims: the forced sterilization of Indigenous peoples in the USA and Canada”
https://gladue.usask.ca/sites/gladue1.usask.ca/files/gladue/resource553-2d1a0429.pdf
G
I looked at these numbers
“….Alberta’s Sexual Sterilization Act was under legislation for nearly 50 years, repealed only in 1972 with the newly elected government of Peter Lougheed in place.
Before the act was repealed, an astounding 2800 sterilization procedures were performed in the province of Alberta. Many individuals who were sterilized under the act were not told they were undergoing a sterilization procedure, and remained unaware of their sterilization until many years later….”
And that makes an average of 56 Per Year…. If the numbers of 25% of the total sterilizations holds roughly true you’re not talking about enough people to suggest a planned removal of these people.
It’s not anywhere near as bad as a concentration camp system where more people then that might die in a week from disease.
That’s NOT to suggest it’s all good, lol, but it’s much more in line with a few Perv doctors doing their thing locally then an organized plan to remove all Indians….. kinda like with the lobotomy doctors and their ice picks. A few bad people getting scalpel happy is not a genocide, no matter how evil it may be.
An organized plan would have hit way more then 60 people per year (and reckoning only a quarter of those to be Indians) and there would probably BE almost no new generation around now had such a genocidal plan been in operation.
I would be interested if you have any government docs suggesting that there was a bounty- because I think more doctors would have gone bad if the “bounty “ money was good enough
Again, that’s not to say it’s all great but in scale it sounds pretty small potatoes
@Duck
I never described it as “an organized plan to remove all Indians”
I described it as violent state sponsored eugenics and forced sterilization (which is what it was).
Call it something else than a concentration camp if you like. The way you describe the facilities is really quibbling over trivial details.
It was tax payer funded torture, mutilation and murder of children as well as forced/coerced sterilization of women.
I find it quite telling that you would describe that sort of treatment of human beings (of any amount) as “small potatoes”.
It’s “small potatoes” in the sense that a serial killer running around killing midgets is Awful…. But it’s not as bad as a government plan to exterminate midgets.
The lobotomy craze was also awful…. But on the big scale it was mostly just a few out of control doctors not a plan to lobotomize masses of people.
Like wise as awful as the Undian school no doubt were, it’s a bit much to make out that they were murdering masses of kids and dumping them in mass graves Enzatgruppen style….Catholic institutions child abuse (which was indeed an issue) is itself bad but it’s not like there was an institutional plan to do it any more then there is a massive plan for modern state care of kids and to have roughly similar levels of horrors.
Like I said your numbers show a disportaionate number of Indians got sterilized but they were still ONLY A QUARTER of the number of people getting those sterilizations so it’s clearly not an “Indian” issue since numerically more NON Indians got the same crappy treatment…
So,yes, bad as it was it is still a few bad people NOT a government plan to get rid of Indians as the links you posted suggested.
Do you happen to have any GOVERNMENT documents supporting this take of 300 dollar bounties per Indian sterilization?????
Because I trust a victim doing a “he said she said” as much as I trust tales of Estrogens in German concentration camps…..the real stuff is bad enough without embellishments
I think there was an episode by JC about the forced sterilization programs in the US and also Planned Parenthood who’s cover story was that they were offering medical services to vulnerable communities. I don’t know if they ever sterilized people without their knowledge though.
I think the focus has shifted to target a broad range of women now, not just “minorities”
There is a tendency in western medicine to offer un-necessary hysterectomies and many women have had them not recognizing the damaging effects it can cause by removing the uterus that is also a support structure for internal organs. Additionally without the uterus sometimes the ovaries fail leading to premature menopause. And supplemental hormones do not always alleviate symptoms. Symptoms of hormone drops can include osteoporosis, significant depression, heart disease and dementia.
Hysterectomy should really be a last resort for conditions like cancer, not as a fix all for any gynecological condition.
Offer to work in the church nursery. I have heard and read that hanging around women who have babies, and are nursing and pregnant helps you conceive. Like women who live together start having their periods sync. I was always around other women in the church and we were all getting pregnant at the drop of a hat.
Shelley and Kristy and Connie had six each, Diana and I had seven and Nina had 11. None of us were trying to get pregnant ever. But we were always hanging around each other as we homeschooled also.
Our diets were unremarkable. But we did enjoy and get a big kick out of our children. They are all adults now. I think the youngest is 34. None of us had any children that were addicts, alcoholics or in jail. So that is something.
Good show guys.
Gavin when you started to talk about vitamins it immediately triggered
a recollection of an interview I watched just a few days ago on the subject.
I am currently in the process of doing a deep dive into the subject.
Since I watched the ‘vitamin interview’ I started to take notice of foods
that have had vitamins added to them. Milk is a very common case in point.
I have just started my attempts at contacting some milk producers and also
government departments here in Canada to find out more information
about the whole process of adding vitamins to food products.
Of note, Canada just mandated in 2022 that milk producers double the amount
of Vitamin D3 that must be added to milk!
Sounds a bit ominous doesn’t it?
Here’s a link to the ‘vitamin interview’ I referenced above.
@Fawlty Towers
Thanks! 🙂
Interesting, thanks for the link.
I try to get my vitamin D from sunlight or sunlight charged homegrown mushrooms so thankfully I do not have to worry about what kind of suspicious “vitamin D” the government may be dosing things with (because they love us of course).
I`ll have a look when I can (working full time outside now so time on computer is short).
I appreciate the comment.
Hello MR. G
I have seen several comments from you posted on this site. Nice to have a face and a voice to connect to the words.
I have a couple of questions.
How old were you when you wrote this?
https://gavinmounsey.medium.com/the-metamorphosis-of-man-ce089f7d181a
In this article you talked about group meditation in D.C lowering violent crime in the immediate area. Has there been any follow up on this angle?
Hankey
NOT answering for G here (he may have better data available) but I am not finding very good studies of this effect outside of groups that practice it.
I see most of the work circles around itself and don’t find good sources but here is a link to look for yourself
http://istpp.org/news/2017_03-new-research-group-meditation-reduced-murder-rates.html
https://guardianlv.com/2014/04/research-shows-group-meditation-can-reduce-crime-rates/
That said prayer has been shown to have an effect IN SOME cases (methodology was not great) so I can certainly imagine that such practices have SOME effect…..certainly the West used to practice mass prayer for certain goals in the old days.
personally I am always creeped out thinking about the Lucis (Lucifer) trust and their triangles mediations….these kinda of meditations probably have a very tight knit group behind them all- certainly the New Age thought is very common in the mainstream culture today. I also don’t doubt that the Prison Phoenix program had some positive effects (even if it was run by a perv) on some peoples lives….. that said meditation CAN be Dangerous for some people (“ Untold:The retreat” podcast on some cases. Link below to NPR article)
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/03/31/1241784635/meditation-vipassana-dangerous-mental-health
And I would certainly not do SOME meditation forms since I don’t want to become demonically possessed (no I am not joking)
I hope G can supply more useful info for you
@hanky
Great question(s), not sure but it was over a decade ago for sure.
Regarding follow up on the coherent endogenous EMF field critical mass phase shift (aka “hundreth monkey effect”) phenomenon I touched on in that post you linked, I have not done any focused research on the subject since.
I have continued to witness how multiple individuals aligned in a positive energy state (emanated due to coherent thought forms and a stable heart-brain connection) can influence others in their presence dramatically (that does not have to involve any specific ideology or particular meditation, just a clear, aligned intent and genuine state of gratitude, love and/or stillness). Aside from anecdotal experiences I remember there was a Heartmath institute doing some research on that front ( https://www.heartmath.org/gci/research/global-coherence ).
If I have time in the months ahead, i`ll try to hunt down some more recent research and experiments on that topic.
Thanks for the comment.
Hanky,
This piece of physical thoughts on paper may interest you in your old age transformation from Texican to philosopher.
https://www.bernardokastrup.com/2014/06/ways-materialists-beg-question.html?m=1
It’s a read but not a sweat of work. I can say like cream it will help rise you to the top, like most Okies who sit atop Texico , got there by readin’ books not eating ’em .
Dear General,
I read it, glanced at the video, and even looked at all of the comments. Alas, I was not favorably impressed with Bernardo’s pedantic post. Yet, I do find value in the classical logical fallacies, as a tool for making sense of controversial debates (even within myself).
Bear in mind, the logical fallacies never conclusively prove or disprove anything, other than the level of bias or insincerity of those who rely on them as solid, even primary arguments.
For instance, if you call me a fool, that would usually be an ad hominem violation to a debate based in logic. However, I may still possibly actually be a fool. The same for saying that I belonged to such and such a disreputable club of criminal millionaires. Although it may be true, it doesn’t make the ad hominem attack a valid argument in a debate about math, science, or criminal acts of governments.
The same can be said of the false dichotomy, aka either/or arguments. If we are told that Pepsi is the cure for the debated problem, it is not proven true or false by comparing it to only Pepsi.
This is related to the ubiquitous straw man arguments. It is a straw man to say that American’s are richer than most Zambians, in an argument about the merits of speaking English. (Most here would know, but a straw man is an easily knocked over argument that is NOT a main argument of the opposition. Often, it is never even stated at all as an argument from the opposition).
All of the formal logical fallacies share this trait. They are not valid proofs of a position in a debate, but they do point to the emptiness of the position of one who employs them, as such. (This is due to either stupidity, ignorance, or insincerity. Is this limited choice a fallacy)?
Anyway, thanks for the friendly reply and the link. I like knowing what is going on out there. By the way, I have lived in Texas for 50 years, but everybody thinks that I am still a Yankee.
My current philosophical musings center around illusions and ego. When are they valid; how and when are they toxic?
My core religious tenet is that ‘Truth is Better Than Lies.’ I can’t conclusively prove it nor disprove it. It is irrational, in that sense. That is why it is my center of faith, my religious belief, if you will.
Hanky,
As for any Texican, the ever obliging Okie dumb bell is available for a lifting if it should strengthen any part of our southern neighbors demeanor or mental health.. 50 years of dust accumulation will flavor any fruit that it may bare. I now know your tank is about full of phylisophical gas and I will contemplate other natives points of interest, be they animal, vegetable or mineral.
Homey, what’s going on in your part of Texico?
Slow day, watching the thermometer diving below 0°c here today.
That sounds mighty friendly. If you want to contact me, my email and phone number are on my website, under contact.
I spend more time playing music and trying to survive physiologically than I do philosophizing. But I will delve into talk about the ineffable, when triggered, which is easy to do.
https://hankblackart.com/index.php?page=home
PS My thermometer read 43° F when I looked at it around 9 this morning. But it was rainy, damp, and windy. The local weekly farmers market vendors were suffering. They are very ‘Green’, but some turned blue from the cold. But I reckon that was just temporary.
Hi, I’m the mother of six children despite having a fertility impacting condition called Polycystic ovary syndrome . How did I do it? First I lost weight on a low carb diet based on meat and eggs and dairy as well as regular exercise AND then I took an herb called Vitex . Then to maintain my hormone balance I used natural progesterone cream made from wild yams . Good luck !
@Pkadams
Thanks so much for sharing your experiences, I am grateful you were able to create a healthy family despite those challenges.
I touched on some foods that help with PCOS specifically in my article here : https://open.substack.com/pub/gavinmounsey/p/fertility-and-reproductive-health?r=q2yay&selection=b69a5347-779c-43d1-9168-7d84f4289bc8&utm_campaign=post-share-selection&utm_medium=web
Apparently seaweed is also helpful for Polycystic ovary syndrome specifically.
I`ll look into adding Vitex Agnus-Castus (Chasteberry) to the list as well 🙂
thanks again.
Thanks for having me on James! It was great to be able to chat about the Malthusian programming with a likeminded individual.
Also I want to express a big thank you to Video Editor Extraordinaire Broc West for all the impressive visuals. Very well done! 🙂
Still don’t understand the conscious choice to create more humans in a world composed primarily of pain & suffering, especially when there’s no way to ask their consent first.
Perhaps it’s not a fully conscious choice; perhaps the reproductive system has managed to get more hands on the wheel than the individual?
Oh well… here’s hoping your kids turn into Corbetts and not Colberts.
@AnimalsArentFood
As someone that acknowledges the existence of the Creator or all things (God) and the eternal essence created by and gifted to us by God (that some call a Soul or Spirit) I disagree with your statement about consent.
The Creator of all things and the souls that choose to come here are very aware of what is going on down here. In fact, from the perspective of an eternal spiritual essence seeking to gain understanding, new experiences, and challenges that offer opportunities for growth, one might describe life on Earth in these times as a choice assignment.
Not for the faint of heart, but with potential rewards (coming in the form of stimulus that allows one the opportunity to summon deep courage, resolve and resolute determination in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds) being matched only by the degree of pain and arduous events required to take part in the human experience at this time.
Consent aside, lets say we are just really smart monkeys, there is no such thing as a soul, its all luck of the draw and this one life is it.
Lets say hypothetically you are given absolute control over every last person on the planet with regards to if they can reproduce or not. What would you do?
Prevent them from doing so, “for the good of preventing potential suffering of the unborn children” ?
It takes an open heart and a person that cares about his/her fellow beings to perceive the widespread pain and suffering on Earth now (as you do), so firstly, thank you for caring. However, it takes both an open heart, caring about one’s fellow beings and faith as well as courage to bring a child into this world despite what we can see around us in the world today.
It is like planting an heirloom seed in the garden, embracing the knowing that the seed can become something beautiful, having faith it will unfold and bring beauty and medicine into this world, despite the dark clouds on the horizon.
It is the mental and heart state that propels one to choose such an act of faith, courage and hope that becomes the nurturing sanctuary which makes it possible for a tiny heirloom seed to become a fountain of life, medicine and beauty and allows a soul arriving on Earth as a child to become a “Corbett” as opposed to a “Colbert”.
“….Still don’t understand the conscious choice to create more humans in a world composed primarily of pain….”
Hey more room for other people’s kids.
The curse of over thinking really does limit the IQ that humans can exist at- tmwhen you get too smart you think that you can understand the mystery but the fact is we don’t understand everything but life is a gift.
On the more positive side of things, I wanted to drop a few resources, studies and articles here that speak to how humans have the capability to be a keystone species and a force for increasing beauty and biodiversity over multiple generations (as I described in this clip of the discussion above: https://open.substack.com/pub/corbettreport/p/enhancing-fertility-naturally-solutionswatch?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&t=1426.3&d=154.9 ).
Here in Canada researchers have now discovered a 7000 thousand year old food forest on the northern west coast (yes that is right, seven thousand). These food production systems were designed, installed and tended reverently for centuries to millennia until their creators and stewards were forced to flee.
Indigenous people were cultivating these food forests (that actually enriched soil depth, biodiversity and provided a diverse array or crops) before wheat farming began in Egypt.
These food forests still persist and produce abundant food today.
That is a form of horticulture and social technology we should all be striving to learn from and apply locally.
https://www.science.org/content/article/indigenous-tribes-engineered-british-columbia-s-modern-hazelnut-forests-more-7000-years#:~:text=Hazelnut%20pollen%20found%20in%20layers,tended%20and%20cultivated%20them%20here.
(more links to others examples of ancient food forest configurations from around the globe we can learn from, apply locally and build upon to increase the beauty and fertility of the Earth while also raising a family below)
More examples below so you can see what I am talking about:
– https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ancient-indigenous-forest-gardens-still-yield-bounty-150-years-later-study
– https://www.science.org/content/article/pacific-northwest-s-forest-gardens-were-deliberately-planted-indigenous-people
– https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2025047118
– https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.2806
– https://academic.oup.com/aob/article/132/4/835/7277223
– https://web.archive.org/web/20120408154238/http://www.daviesand.com/Papers/Tree_Crops/Indian_Agroforestry/index.html
– https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-permaculture-food-forests?
– https://web.archive.org/web/20180816141812/https://returntonow.net/2018/08/01/the-amazon-is-a-man-made-food-forest-researchers-discover/
– https://www.sdvforest.com/agroforestry/the-fascinating-story-of-human-made-forests?fbclid=IwAR3OVHhCywwzOiCSBMWyk6_Bdy_q-GRRN2N7-525iqdnYmc_BqtKeyu6Wz4
– https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol26/iss2/art6/
– https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26395916.2022.2160823
– https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.1601282
– https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305440322000693
– https://www.sdvforest.com/agroforestry/the-fascinating-story-of-human-made-forests
“ However, it takes both an open heart, caring about one’s fellow beings and faith as well as courage to bring a child into this world despite what we can see around us in the world today.”
Thanks G. For bravely offering such valuable information and for standing your ground in the face of so much out there that goes against the same. This is beautifully put and a great solutions watch episode. (Love solutions watch!)
I have scanned the comments and it’s all very interesting. The timber of response runs a broad gamut. The generosity in providing this information is evident.
As a mother of five, ranging in age from 16-2, and at the same a wife and mother in a low income family, and as the sixth child of another low income family….. and as an older mum (already in my forties when number 5 was born nearly three years ago), and as a woman who has suffered four miscarriages also, and who as yet does not feel utterly closed to the idea of another baby…. Well that’s a long sentence so I’ll stop. In these contexts – I have observed that the overpopulation narrative is one of the most “successful” facets of the “agenda”. All and sundry seem to subscribe, by one or other of the avenues discussed between you two gentlemen.
My own stance, very simply, is that to work against the created and intelligent beauty of life itself and to negate the validity of any gorgeous little soul is not only beyond arrogant, but shows a complete lack of sensitivity to the most wonderful aspects of life itself.
On a personal level, I have experienced every layer of opprobrium throughout my life for not being anti human. From having people ask my mother, in front of myself, “six children?! Wow. You obviously didn’t grasp birth control!” (Which even then I took to mean I was a less valid human than my older siblings), to having family members express something close to horror or concern at each birth announcement (one relative refused the opportunity to even hold my most recent baby when visiting us a few months after her birth, and didn’t really acknowledge this child), to having people imply miscarriage was basically my fault for allowing myself to become pregnant (my most recent I did not disclose to anyone beyond my husband and one rare close ally), well – it is evident that raising a family, especially a good handful of children, takes a warrior spirit and a huge amount of strength, grace, joy and determined love. I naively never quite realised just how widespread the notion of babies and humans generally being a blight has become ingrained into much general consciousness. A large cohort seem to believe that our large family would be slightly more ok were we rich, and thus more able to “pay for things”. To have a family when poor is akin to selfish idiocy, apparently.
I work hard caring for these every day, my husband toils outside the home, and we provide for and deeply enjoy our children, trying to raise them to think and feel differently, in compassionate human awareness and joy. I am rich.
abi,
You are exceedingly rich. Character and purpose are wonderful things that money can’t comprehend.
If only that what you wrote could be taught in the classroom . It was very briefly when I was a child. James talks about spontaneous organization. That is what we as kids did in the hallways between classes. Family and community was the subject and we complained bitterly about what was being rammed down our throats in the classroom. Purpose guided our actions and character was developed in the hallways, community, the neighborhood, where every adult acted like a parent.
Hope everyone enjoys your reported experiences as much as I did.
Here’s a recent article talking about fire-retardant in children’s PJs and polyester clothing causing reduced fertility via hormone imbalancing.
Toxic Threads: Allegations that Federal Law Pushes Infertility Chemicals Into Children’s Pajamas
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/toxic-threads-allegations-that-federal-law-pushes-infertility/