✨Psychedelic Experiences: What Insights Can They Give Us? - Rupert Sheldrake
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✨ JustPeace Ukraine 🏴 Stop the bombing! Russian Federation troops out! Solidarity with the Ukrainian resistance! 🇫🇷 Arrêtez les bombardements ! Les troupes de la Fédération de Russie dehors ! Solidarité avec la résistance ukrainienne ! 🇺🇦
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Rupert Sheldrake looks and speaks as if he could be Malcolm Muggeridge’s younger brother. So when he speaks so calmly and clearly about crapulents1 — drugs about which the mainstream media would speak in a prurient but high-moral tone — we are strangely reassured →
¶ ¶ Rupert Sheldrake☼☼☼—Psychedelic Experiences: What Insights Can They Give Us? Rupert Sheldrake Lecture at University of York2
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And according to Fr John Behr (or his editor), reading early Christian writers can also be mind-blowing →
☼¶ Tony Golsby-Smith: Gospel Conversations¶ ☼☼—John Behr on the 'mind blowing' theology of the Church Fathers A taster for our upcoming Gospel Conversations conference with Fr John Behr. This conversation may be heavy going for those with little interest in Christian divinity; and even those who do may appreciate this glossary of Some names:
Πολύκαρπος, Polycarp - AD 155 (aged 85–86)
Gallic Pogrom (Pogrom of Lyons) AD 177
Εἰρηναῖος, Irenaeus - c. 202 AD (aged c. 77)
Ωριγένης Αδαμάντιος, Origen - c. 253 (aged 69)
Βασίλειος Καισαρείας, Basil the Great - 1 or 2 January 379 (48)
Γρηγόριος ὁ Ναζιανζηνός, Gregory Nazianzus - 25 January 390 (aged c. 61)
Γρηγόριος Νύσσης, Gregory Nyssen - c. 394 (59)
Μάξιμος ὁ Ὁμολογητής, Maximus Confessor - 13 August 662 (c. 82)
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Besides reading the report ECHR finds Russia responsible for downing MH17 in ++Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union++, those looking for something directly relevant to Ukraine could read → ¶ ¶ Timothy Garton Ash☼☼☼—Econ 101 for Lagarde Seizing CBR [Central Bank of Russia] assets will have zero impact on markets, bond prices or G7 reserve currency status
The economic case for seizing CBR assets
Cheers dears!
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++Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union++
☼☼Reports from the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group and kindred bodies☼☼
Political prisoner Andriy Kolomiyets still trapped in Russia after serving all of a 10-year sentence in revenge for Maidan 09.07.2025 «Over six months after Andriy Kolomiyets served a politically motivated 10-year sentence to the last day, the Ukrainian remains unable to get out of Russia. He has, at least, left the deportation centre where he had been held since January 2025, but is now trapped at the border between North Ossetia in Russia and Georgia, with it unclear when, or if, he will be able to cross into Georgia and return to Ukraine.»
ECHR finds Russia responsible for downing MH17; summary executions; torture & other mass-scale crimes in Ukraine 10.07.2025 «In an unprecedented judgement, the European Court of Human Rights has unanimously found Russia guilty of a huge number of grave violations “on a massive scale across Ukraine”. Agents of the Russian state were found responsible for the downing on 17 July 2014 of Malaysian airliner MH17 and killing of all 298 passengers and crew; the summary executions of civilians and prisoners of war; gang rapes; the deportation of children; indiscriminate military attacks and much more. \ The ECHR Grand Chamber judgement announced on 9 July 2025 could not have been more damning and, furthermore, effectively covers the entire period of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine from 11 May 2014.
☼¶ European Court of Human Rights¶ ☼☼—Grand Chamber judgment in an inter-State case —
In the case of Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia the Court held Russia accountable for widespread and flagrant abuses of human rights arising from the conflict in Ukraine since 2014, in breach of the European Convention.
The case concerned the conflict that began in eastern Ukraine in 2014 following the arrival in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of pro-Russian armed groups, and escalated after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine beginning on 24 February 2022. It also concerned the shooting down of flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in summer 2014, killing all those on board, many of whom were Dutch nationals.
The Court found that Russia was responsible for repeated human-rights violations over a period of more than eight years. This included indiscriminate military attacks; summary executions; torture, notably rape as a weapon of war; unlawful and arbitrary detentions; intimidation and persecution of journalists and religious groups; looting and destruction of private property; and the organised removal of children to Russia and their adoption there.
The Court also found that Russia was responsible for violating the right to life by shooting down flight MH17 and had added to the profound suffering of the crash victims’ next of kin by being uncooperative and obstructive in the context of international efforts to uncover the truth.
Press release (in Dutch)
Press release (in Russian)
Press release (in Ukrainian)
Russia sentences Sevastopol man to 17 years amid massive increase in surreal ‘treason trials' 11.07.2025
Planted ‘extremist’ literature and prohibitive fine used to crush independent Muslim community in Russian-occupied Crimea 14.07.2025 Russian FSB given chilling new weapon of repression against Ukrainian political prisoners
Russian FSB concocts 'terrorism' charges two months after abducting 24-year-old Crimean Tatar woman 16.07.2025
Khatidzhe Buyukhchan — the 24-year-old Crimean Tatar was abducted while travelling by coach from her home in Stary Krym to Simferopol in occupied Crimea.
++Greensleeves++
☼Green News &c’☼
¶ ¶ millinerd - Matthew Milliner¶ ☼☼—The Wilderness Can't Save You being an introduction to the July Material Mysticism column at Comment
++Paroikologistic++
☼Political Economy, Macro-economics☼
¶ ¶ Joseph Heath: In Due Course☼☼☼—My two cents on Abundance
¶ ¶ Noahpinion - Noah Smith☼☼☼—Free-market economics is working surprisingly well Which economic approach works depends a lot on where you start from. «The boring truth is that the ideal economy is a mixed one; it’s built on the foundation of markets, but also contains a significant amount of redistribution, public goods provision, and industrial policy. The exact optimal balance depends on the country, and on the times; even if you happen to get it exactly right for a while, the optimal mix will change over time as countries develop, as technology changes, as trading patterns shift, and so on.»
Why tariffs haven't raised inflation much (yet) Three possible explanations. [bit]
Developing countries: A follow-up Checking in on some countries I wrote about a few years back.
Trump is enabling Chinese power An incompetent, selfish, inwardly focused administration is making America less of an obstacle to China's rise. «This doesn’t mean that China is going to rule the world. Ruling the world is a very hard thing to do, and there are many obstacles other than American power — China’s own internal power struggles and the limitations of its authoritarian system, opposition from its neighbors, long-term economic and demographic challenges, and the personal flaws of Xi Jinping. But with Trump making America more and more of a geopolitical nonentity, chaos agent, and wild card, the path to hegemony looks a lot smoother for China than it did nine months ago.»
¶ ¶ Timothy Garton Ash☼☼☼—Econ 101 for Lagarde Seizing CBR assets will have zero impact on markets, bond prices or G7 reserve currency status
The economic case for seizing CBR assets
¶ ¶ Yascha Mounk☼☼☼—Steven Teles on Abundance Yascha Mounk and Steven Teles explore how to inspire voters to be YIMBYs.
+From the Archive+
¶ ¶ Eliot Wilson: The Ideas Lab☼☼☼—The best editorial of the 20th century—«Eugene Patterson was Vice-President and Executive Editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a daily newspaper created three years before from the merger of The Atlanta Constitution and The Atlanta Journal. He became editor for both titles in 1956 then took over the combined title in 1960. Every day, he wrote a signed editorial, and the leader he wrote on Monday 16 September 1963, the day after the bombing [of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama], was a devastating indictment not just of the men who planted the bomb, “the sick criminals who handled the dynamite”, but of white Southern society as a whole.
Read the editorial here.»
¶ ¶ Exogenous, Inc. - “Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore”- Trivium University☼☼☼Introduction - DNA: Three Spheres Newsletter
++Wayfarers’ Watch++
☼☼Divinity, religion, spirituality, theology — the Way of the pilgrim☼☼
☼¶ Church Life Journal - McGrath Institute nd.edu¶ ☼☼—Exchanging Hearts: A Medievalist Looks at Transplant Surgery Barbara Newman on the heart of the matter. Read more »
Bernardo Mei, Ghismunda, c. 1655; Source: Wikimedia Commons, PD-Old-100.
Teleology: What Is It Good For? John O'Callaghan on purpose. Read more »
¶ ¶ David Bentley Hart: Leaves in the Wind☼☼☼—Two Announcements On Phil Christman's new book and on an award for ME
¶ ¶ Fr Thomas Plant☼☼☼—Cinderella's New Mothers A Sermon on Mercy and Envy
Into the Dragon's Maw St Margaret and the Descent into Hell
¶ ¶ Larry Chapp: Gaudium et Spes 22☼☼☼—https://gaudiumetspes22.com/blog/two-big-announcements
https://gaudiumetspes22.com/blog/dr-nathanael-blake-discusses-with-larry-chapp-his-new-book-victims-of-the-revolution-how-sexual-liberation-hurts-us-all
https://gaudiumetspes22.com/blog/kale-zelden-and-larry-chapp-discuss-traditionis-custodes-in-response-to-the-reporting-from-diane-montagna
https://gaudiumetspes22.com/blog/the-deceptions-of-fr-james-martin-and-the-churchs-dangerous-double-standard-my-latest-in-catholic-world-report
☼¶ Public Orthodoxy - Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham¶ ☼☼—American Democracy, Orthodoxy, and the Law A Warning from Pre-Revolutionary Russia - by Very Rev. Dr. Robert Arida
¶ ¶ Sancti Stulti - Stephen Weller☼☼☼—Descalzo Lessons for a Digital World What barefoot walking can teach us about the appropriate use of technology.
☼¶ Tony Golsby-Smith: Gospel Conversations¶ ☼☼—John Behr on the 'mind blowing' theology of the Church Fathers A taster for our upcoming Gospel Conversations conference with Fr John Behr. Some names:
Πολύκαρπος, Polycarp - AD 155 (aged 85–86)
Gallic Pogrom (Pogrom of Lyons) AD 177
Εἰρηναῖος, Irenaeus - c. 202 AD (aged c. 77)
Ωριγένης Αδαμάντιος, Origen - c. 253 (aged 69)
Βασίλειος Καισαρείας, Basil the Great - 1 or 2 January 379 (48)
Γρηγόριος ὁ Ναζιανζηνός, Gregory Nazianzus - 25 January 390 (aged c. 61)
Γρηγόριος Νύσσης, Gregory Nyssen - c. 394 (59)
Μάξιμος ὁ Ὁμολογητής, Maximus Confessor - 13 August 662 (c. 82)
¶ ¶ What We Need Now☼☼☼—A Christian Consideration of Critical Theory An interview with Carl R. Trueman by Carl E. Olson
+Church Times+
☼¶ Crux <info@cruxnow.com>¶ ☼☼—Pope Leo calls for a ‘revolution of love’ during Mass in Castel Gandolfo Pope Leo XIV says the world needs a “revolution of love” and looked at the Parable of the Good Samaritan while celebrating Mass at the Parish of St. Thomas of Villanova in Castel Gandolfo, a lakeside town outside of Rome.
☼¶ Crux <info@cruxnow.com>¶ ☼☼—Christian leaders condemn violence by Israeli settlers on West Bank town On Monday, Christian leaders visited Taybeh, a town in the West Bank with a Christian majority where the 5th century Church of St. George was attacked by Israeli settlers.
++And furthermore++
¶Genspect, Inspecting Gender, Stella O'Malley &c’ → footnote3
¶ ¶ Alexander Vindman - Why It Matters☼ 🇺🇦☼—Healing Ukraine: A New Vision for War Trauma Recovery An Honorable and Timely Cause Worth Supporting
¶ ¶ A Phuulish Fellow☼☼☼—The Malign and Indifferent Goeteia of Faerie: Tolkien and AI
¶ ¶ Chris Arnade: Walking the World☼☼☼—Thoughts from buses across America
¶ ¶ Clare Ashcraft - The Mestiza☼☼☼—In Defense of Confessional Writing If it's poorly written, call it poorly written. If it's "too personal/emotional," I think you've forgotten what art is. «When asked whether there’s anything that shouldn’t be joked about, Jimmy Carr said, “The question is, is it funny?” and if it’s not, he added, it just means I need to spend more time crafting it. I feel the same about writing. It’s permissible to write about all of it as long as it’s interesting and anything can be interesting if written about skillfully enough.»
¶ ¶ Colin Gorrie <colingorrie@substack.com>☼☼☼—How the alphabet began And some Dead Language Society lore
¶ ¶ Derek Thompsonx☼☼☼—The Sunday Morning Post: Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug Plus: How to save 100 million lives with 1/400th of our income
What Caused the 'Baby Boom’? What Would It Take to Have Another? Governments worldwide are trying to increase fertility with cash. But the most famous birthrate "boom" had a lot to do with science and technology, as well.
¶ ¶ Eliot Wilson: The Ideas Lab☼☼☼—Chequers: grace-and-favour retreat or bunker? The house in Buckinghamshire has been the Prime Minister's country retreat for just over a century, sometimes the scene of high drama or low farce
¶ ¶ Jean M. Twenge: Generation Tech☼☼☼—Is Gen Z really more conservative? No -- instead, they are more likely to support radical change
¶ ¶ Jon Haidt &al’: After Babel☼☼☼—Let Kids Be Loud In Defense of Outdoor Play Katherine Johnson Martinko
¶ ¶ Mary Harrington: Reactionary Feminist☼☼☼—Summer Reading: Bonding by Mariel Franklin A bleak, bone-dry satire for the aspirant global monoculture
New essay: The King And The Swarm The digital revolution is really a putsch
¶ ¶ Persuasion - Yascha Mounk & al.☼☼☼—What I Learned From My New AI Friend If robots can replace human connection, you need better friends.
Yes, College Students Can’t Read Good A Dartmouth student reflects on his generation’s lack of literary ambition. Elan Kluger
¶ ¶ Paul Tyson: Gender Critical Philosophical Theology¶ ☼☼—Who created and runs the Culture War? And is it possible to be traditionally Left, but not be Woke?
¶ ¶ Sarah Constantin: Rough Diamonds☼☼☼—Making Sense of Consciousness Part 3: The Pulvinar Nucleus a neuroscience shaggy dog story
¶ ¶ Scriptorium Philosophia - Hilarius Bookbinder☼☼☼—Why don’t people trust experts? Understanding vs. knowledge. «Option 3: expertise isn’t about having the truth; it is about understanding.»
¶ ¶ The Abbey of Misrule - Paul Kingsnorth☼☼☼—News & Views And a callout to AI-resistant artists
¶ ¶ W.D. James: Philosopher's Holler☼☼☼—Combat The Myth of Philosophy, Part 4 of 7
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+In the Offing+
From Thursday 17 July 2025, 6:00pm AEST - Victoria
How to Steal a Country: Russian Edition — Invasion of Ukraine
An exhibition by Vertical Geopolitics Lab
35–53 Emma Street, Collingwood
The exhibition will run from 17–27 July 2025.
Opening times:
Friday 18 July, 11-4
Friday 24 July, 11-4
Saturday 26 July, 11-4
Thursday 17 July - On-line
Commencement of 8-Week Online Summer Ukrainian Language Class, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Professor Serhii Tereshchenko teaches a Ukrainian language course for foreign learners designed to combine language learning with exploring the rich history of Kyiv Rus’.
Fee: 30 dollars US
Sunday 20 July - Victoria
Premiere of “The Way Home” at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.
“The Way Home,” a short film by Melbourne filmmaker and member of Victoria’s Ukrainian community Stefan Bugryn, tells of the journey home from Siberia of Maksym, a farmer arrested and exiled during the forced collectivisation of the 1930s.
“The Way Home” will be followed by the feature documentary “The Longer You Bleed” about the lives of Ukrainians displaced to Berlin by the war.
Place: Cinema Nova, 380 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria.
Time: 8.30 p.m. AEST.
Tuesday 22 July - Queensland & On-line
“Do We have a Putin or a Russia Problem?” An Australian Institute of International Affairs event.
Place: Hemmant's List Centre, Level 6/32 Turbot Street, Brisbane, and online.
Time: 6.00 p.m. – 7.00 p.m. AEST.
Speakers: Visiting Fellows at the ANU Centre for European Studies, Dr Matthew Sussex (Griffith University) and Mr Peter Tesch (former ambassador to the Russian Federation).
Details and registration via this link.
Friday 15 August 2025 & Saturday 16 August 2025 - New South Wales
Conference on the continuing relevance of the early Christian tradition.
At Alphacrucis campus, a short walk from Parramatta train station.
Friday 15 August 2025 - Saturday 16 August 2025 (UTC+10). Please arrive at 9am for registration and a 9:30am start.
Day 1 (Research Symposium) - John Behr will give a keynote lecture titled ‘From Death to Life: Lessons from Early Christianity.’ This will be followed by specialist papers from scholars from a range of Christian traditions, all engaging with early Christian thought and its contemporary relevance.
Day 2 (Public talks and discussion) - John Behr will address a wider, non-specialist audience and will engage in extensive Q&A and discussion. He will give three talks on three of the greatest thinkers of the ancient church.
+Pi Jaws &c.+
Mending Clothes Artistically
Leah Libresco Sargeant
For Grace Russo, a mother in Westminster, Maryland, mending clothes is both a quotidian chore of stewardship and an invitation to contemplation. Inside her home, she patches clothes with exuberant needlework, which overspills the original damage and overruns the garment. Outside, she applies her training as a master gardener to decide which acts of human creation honor the natural world and which must be ripped out by the roots.
Russo became interested in mending when she was in graduate school, where she had little space in her budget for new clothes when hers got too thin or damaged. The clothes that most needed mending were the ones she had worn most.
Russo mends her husband’s cotton button-downs with little rivulets of colorful thread.
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"The Good Samaritan" by Vincent Van Gogh (1890). Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
☼¶ Outreach (lesbigatesque Catholic resource from New York)¶ ☼☼—Your salvation might depend upon the one you consider to be “other”
+Laughter, the best Medicine+
Exploración de las fuentes del río Orinoco, Remedios Varo (1959)
+Resources+
The Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine is a reputable source for inquiries about Ukraine.
Rationale for Just Peace Ukraine —
The Russo-Ukrainian War is illegal
Russia’s War to Eliminate Ukraine is immoral
Russia’s War on Ukraine is inexpedient
In brief —
RF forces must leave Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and any other occupied territories.
RF must assist prisoners and the deported, whether children or adults, to return home.
The Kremlin must use its fossil-fuel and other loot to recompense for damages its forces have caused.
If you are thinking today about how to help Ukrainians, here are some possibilities: Come Back Alive, a Ukrainian NGO that supports soldiers on the battlefield and veterans; United 24, the Ukrainian state platform for donations, with many excellent projects); RAZOM, an American NGO, tax-deductible for US citizens, which cooperates with Ukrainian NGOS to support civilians; and BlueCheck Ukraine, which aims for efficient cooperation with Ukrainian groups and is also tax-deductible. [Thanks TDS]
¿TL;DR?
Scores of Substack and samvydav sites and similar sources sifted and selected by the strenuous staff at JustPeace Ukraine.
¶ ¶ Queensland & the Sheffield Shield☼☼☼
—Named for Henry North Holroyd, Earl of Sheffield, Viscount Pevensey (21 April 1909, aged 77)
“O God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed, the courage to change what can be changed, and the wisdom to know the one from the other.” — Winnifred Crane Wygal (8 July 1972, aged 87), using work of her teacher Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr (1 June 1971, aged 78)
+Publication Details+
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Do we hear you say “What is a Ukrainian Greek-Catholic priest?” If you are even slightly interested in this question and have scant acquaintance and knowledge of Eastern Catholic churches in general or of the Ukrainian Catholic church in particular, then we urge you to read our publisher’s The Christian church in Ukraine: a potted history.
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For example, in response to a question about crapulents and established religion, Dr Rupert says casually
There's an underground movement, some of you may have encountered, called Cathedrals on Cannabis, which is about people who visit the great cathedrals in an altered state of consciousness. And of course, Cathedrals on Cannabis has led to smaller movements, cathedrals on mushrooms, cathedrals on acid, and so on.
Our publisher also asked us to include this caution from Dr Rupert →
And I should also add a disclaimer. I'm not advocating that everyone takes psychedelics. For some people, they're dangerous. I have a nephew who's... a psychiatric nurse based in Wells near Glastonbury. And every year he's one of the people who has to pick up the pieces after the Glastonbury Festival because there are always some people who've taken psychedelics that have pushed them into a psychotic episode. So this is a real danger. They're powerful and it's because they're so powerful that they can have destructive and harmful effects on some people some of the time.
¶ ¶ Beyond Gender - Stella O’Malley☼☼☼—The Doctor Who Dared to Ask: When Science Became Heresy - Stephen Levine Beyond Gender Episode #21
Eldur Smári Kristinsson: Speaking Truth Under Fire
¶ ¶ Genspect: Inspecting Gender, Stella O'Malley☼☼☼—From Respect to Understanding One Clinician’s Journey of Learning in the Era of Gender Identitarianism — Part 1 By Dwight Panozzo, PhD, LCSW
Froggy Girl is Out Today! A new children's book celebrates reality through imagination
☼¶ Greens in Exile (England & Wales)¶ ☼☼—The Hounding of Shahrar Ali - Greens in Exile
¶ ¶ Jennifer Bilek: Jennifer’s Newsletter☼☼—The Architects of "AI Rights" are a Threat to Humanity
¶ ¶ Julie Bindel: writing and podcasts☼☼☼—The Men that say NO to Porn Yes, there are some - a growing number. These men are not anti-sex, nor are they moralistic or judgemental. Rather, they recognise the harm of habitual porn use on women and girls - and on themselves
☼¶ LGB (Alliance Australia, Distance &al’)¶ ☼—Pedro Pascal CONFIRMS That 'Trans' Is A Medicalized Gnostic Cult Of Woo Woo
The Cult Of The 'Trans Child' Is Doomed
Scottish Women Shall Fight
Some Democrats Still Think Americans Will Accept Transgender Sports
Frankenstein’s Children When Medicine Plays God Jason