As I've had more time to reflect on Kim Martin and her art, I was inspired to use one of her great paintings - the one that was associated with the "Stand with your Tribe" efforts - to capture the journey of life she helped inspire. Her latest art is magnificent but this one will always be special.

What happens to every system of human control when, for the first time in recorded human history, it is scientifically and mathematically proven that Hermes was right all along? The sages of the ages have ALL made it their life mission to understand the Creation of Matter. Stay Tuned, my friends. This is going to be Apocalyptic.

What happens to every system of human control when, for the first time in recorded human history, it is scientifically and mathematically proven that Hermes was right all along? The sages of the ages have ALL made it their life mission to understand the Creation of Matter. Stay Tuned, my friends. This is going to be Apocalyptic.

There's a moment when accountability has to have the buck stop! Today is my moment.. invertedalchemy.com/2026/06/…

The Chinon Parchment, discovered in the Vatican Secret Archives and publicized in 2007, purports to show that Pope Clement V privately absolved the Knights Templar of heresy following their trials - a finding that would significantly rehabilitate...

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Elon Musk just measured your existence by how many times your atoms have been inside a dying star. Musk: “How many times have your atoms been at the center of a star? I think it’s like on average three or four times.” Every atom in your body has already survived the core of a star. Multiple times. Crushed under pressures that would flatten planets. Superheated to millions of degrees. Blown apart in explosions so violent they forged new elements. Then gravity pulled those scattered pieces back together. New stars formed. And the cycle repeated. For 13.8 billion years, your atoms have been fuel for the most violent process in the universe. And they are not done. Musk: “In terms of existence as measured by the number of times your atoms will be at the center of a star, we seem to be roughly halfway.” Halfway. Your atoms have been through the furnace three or four times. They will go through three or four more. But right now, in this impossibly thin sliver between cycles, those atoms are doing something they have never done before. They are conscious. For billions of years before you, they burned through stellar cores with no awareness. No memory. No sense of what they were or where they had been. After you, they will return to that state. Unconscious matter drifting through space until the next star claims them. This is the only moment in their entire journey where they can look back at the stars that made them and understand. Musk: “If you want to look at the big picture… that’s the really big picture.” The big picture is not that we are small. Everyone already knows that. The big picture is that we are temporary witnesses to a process that does not need witnesses. Stars do not need observers to burn. Atoms do not need anyone to understand where they have been. The universe ran for billions of years with no one in it. It will run for billions more after the last conscious thing disappears. But right now, matter is examining itself. That has never happened before in 13.8 billion years. You are not a person who happens to contain ancient atoms. You are ancient atoms that briefly figured out how to think. The universe did not design consciousness. It designed stars. Consciousness was the accident. And the accident is half over.

I find it kinda interesting UNC Chapel Hill (same place involved in Covid) is one of the big centers working on alpha gal syndrome (red meat allergy) coming from lone star ticks. Might be nothing, just noting it as a hmm