Real History with Melissa Podcast (.xml Format)

--{"Nick Heys -- Inverted World"}-- Nick Heys of Heys Reviews - Nick's trip to Vietnam, and his delayed return home. Nick and Melissa discuss Christopher Priest's Inverted World. What was the world like? What one word best describes the story? Priest's novel The Prestige, and Christopher Nolan's movie. Time, memory. The next book we cover is Vernor Vinge's Rainbow's End. Nick and Melissa decide that Arthur C. Clarke's four-novel Space Odyssey series, starting with 2001: A Space Odyssey will follow Rainbow's End.

--{"Sarah Tacoma: German New Medicine, Herbs, and Homeopathy"}-- Who is Sarah Tacoma? How did she get interested in herbalism? What led to her studies and practice of German New Medicine? What obstacles does she face in practicing herbalism? Homeopathy, healing modalities, and more.

--{"Dr. James Giordano - Brain Games: The Battle for the Mind"}-- A conversation with Dr. James Giordano - an opportunity to learn a little about neuroscience and neurotechnology (neuroS/T), and neuroweapons. MISO/PSYOPS, cognitive warfare, Havana Syndrome, DARPA's Narrative Networks - Let's break down the word Technology. More to come: future discussion(s) on cognitive enhancements, dual-use, neuroethics, free will, transhumanism, post-humanism.

--{"Neil Foster: Burn, Freeze, Die! Depopulate, already!"}-- An elderly dementia patient was killed without consent in Canada - Israel and US against Iran; possibility of conscription - Vulnerabilities to the food supply - Is there a connection between data center expansion and cloud seeding for rain? - Transgender driver's licenses. You're not in Kansas anymore. - Air conditioners contribute to climate change and so do wood burning stoves.

--{"Dom and Chris Waterson: Sheep Farm"}-- Chris and Dom from Sheep Farm! What got Chris and Dom started seeking truth and answers? UFOs, JFK, an alternative way of viewing events. - Chris saw a UFO as a child. How did this affect him? - What is Todmorden in West Yorkshire known for? - What is Chris's favorite horror movie, and Dom's favorite movie? - 1967, proposed measures to reduce fertility from a William Shockley speech. - The Beatles, Jane Asher, bloodlines; conversations with Mike Williams, and Matt Sergiou - Who was William Sargant and how is he connected to Ewen Cameron, Sydney Gottlieb, the CIA, and MKUltra. - Dom's term 'cultural Manchurian candidates.' - Chaos, Tom O'Neill writes about Charles Manson, the Beach Boys, Sharon Tate, the CIA, and some very interesting connections. - Dom is about to release a book he has written entitled Traitors: The Plandemic Politicians.

--{"Chris Fogarty: The Perfect Holocaust, Ireland 1845-1850"}-- How did Chris Fogarty begin to investigate what we have called the Irish Potato Famine or the Great Hunger? What was the involvement of the British military in removing food from Ireland? Who was William Cobbett and what did he say and write about Ireland? Who was William Wilde? How was the FBI involved in the arrest of Chris Fogarty and his wife Mary? What is happening to the Palestinians? How did Chris and Mary get to know Norm Finkelstein? AIPAC and the money received by elected officials. The problem with Zionism.

--{"Nick Heys: A Scanner Darkly"}-- How does the film A Scanner Darkly measure up to the novel? Why was Melissa reluctant to read the novel? - Drug crisis in America and across the world. - Phillip K. Dick's mental illness, a posthumous possible diagnosis. - What does VALIS stand for? - Next: Nick and Melissa will read Inverted World by Christopher Priest. - Should the next novel by Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age or Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge?

--{"Neil Foster: Meatspace and Rentable Meatwads"}-- Kim Leadbeater, the UK's assisted dying bill - UPS: Cold chain logistics - What is RentAHuman.ai and what is a Meatwad? - Ecocide Scotland - "Gender Affirming Care" - Excess deaths caused by cold homes.

--{"Robert Smith-Hald: Heavy Metal"}-- Parents: Language warning for children. - Who is Robert Smith-Hald? Growing up in the Camphill Movement. - How did American Robert meet his Scottish wife, and how did they end up living in Norway? - Making art, music, beer. - What are signs of heavy metal toxicity? The Andy Cutler Protocol for chelation from heavy metal toxicity. How did detoxing from heavy metal poisoning affect Robert's musical abilities?

--{"Don, Blue, and aka Devin"}-- How did Blue and Don meet? What interests drew them together? How many animals do they have? Is Devin ever without her sword? Stories about individuality, homestead life, how food affects us, taking care of animals, and all the different ways people can live. Challenges, lessons, joy.

--{"That Hideous Strength: Real Life is Meeting"}-- Greg Gorsuch shares some thoughts about the chapter title "Real Life is Meeting" - What is the Other that enters into relationships? - Masculine and feminine within relationships.

--{"Neil Foster"}-- UPS and the union - SAFE Food Act of 2025 - Soylent Green, humans as fertilizer - J.B. and Jennifer Pritzker - Epstein and intelligence agencies - Venezuela and drugs, Maduro, the Axis of Socialism, Donroe Doctrine, etc. - Universal Basic Income - U.S. retirement at 67 - Forever wars - Movie, Land of the Blind - Politicians and their predilections - Generation Alpha - Are young people choosing religion? - Steve James in the UK, transgender ideology.

--{"The Bloody Conclusion of That Hideous Strength"}-- Does Mark escape the N.I.C.E.? Is he reunited with Jane? What does Merlin do to help the Director? What happens to Miss Hardcastle, Wither, Frost, and Lord Feverstone?

--{"LateAmble Ramble"}-- When are Nick and Melissa finishing up C.S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength? Modernism, post-modernism and the Academy. Who were the Inklings and what was C.S. Lewis' affiliation with them? George Orwell's review of this book. Spirituality and religion. What did Alan Watt say about the individual and religion?

--{"How 'bout those Jays?"}-- What does this time of year mean to you? Living inside your head and connecting with people - Sports? - Music that inspires and elevates - Bishop Williamson and modernism - Alan Watt on spirit and Christmas.

--{"Christine: After School Special"}-- Christine's large, Catholic family - a mix of security and feeling like an oddball. Studying art in school, becoming an artist, a teacher, then a wife, and a mother. Hugh Hefner, Playboy, cultural warfare, Alfred Kinsey - What affect did objectification of women and pornography in mainstream culture have on Christine's psyche, sense of worth as a woman, and her art? Howard Stern, Dana Plato's death - The story of Christine's first pregnancy and reconnecting to God.

--{"Nick Heys -- That Hideous Strength - Part 3"}-- Nick and Melissa are matching again! Where did those beautiful scarves come from? - Judy! - What themes come up in C.S. Lewis' The Abolition of Man and how do they compliment those in That Hideous Strength? Thanks to all who are listening, reading along, and giving us good ideas.

--{"Nick Heys -- That Hideous Strength - Part 2"}-- What choices do Mark and Jane make? What is C.S. Lewis saying about marriage and male and female attributes? Is the N.I.C.E. a not so nice institution?

--{"Nick Heys -- That Hideous Strength - Part 1"}-- What are some male/female/marriage ideas we see in That Hideous Strength? - How does C.S. Lewis reveal and foreshadow with his use of names? - Politics and academia: C.S. Lewis shows how the Delphi technique and the dialectic are used. What is telegraphing?

--{"AI Clones and Carbon Labels"}-- Why did Alan Hamel create an AI clone of his late wife Suzanne Somers? - Was the Red Father a forefather of ChatGPT? - What is an AI Friend? - Should firms have to put carbon labels on all products? - Universal Basic Income - Whole Body Donation in Florida - Why are stillbirths in the US higher? - Assisted suicide in Illinois.

--{"This is not a dress rehearsal"}-- Local sustainability updates - NEW!! Keir Starmer as the devil AI generated images - Nick and Melissa are reading C.S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength. - Talking today with Adam who lives in Germany. - Digital IDs, scanning at the grocery store; blockchain technology. - Questions to Alan Watt such as "Where can we move that is not part of the system?" - Countries like Scotland devastated by drug abuse. American cities like Seattle, Portland and San Francisco, drugs and homelessness - Seattle is Dying - Requiem for Detroit - The Scheme; intergenerational despair in Scotland. - Alan Watt, predictive programming - Artificial Intelligence, mind-reading technology.

--{"Perelandra: The Acid Trip"}-- Who is Greg Gorsuch and what is perichoresis? - Nick and Melissa revisit "the acid trip" in Perelandra. Was C.S. Lewis a pantheist? Does God want individuals? The Christian Trinity - Carl Jung, Alan Watt, Soren Kierkegaard.

--{"AI Aye aye"}-- Is Keir Starmer literally the devil? Why are we left with so little that is 'real' and authentic online? Have you ever had a conversation with an online chat bot?

--{"STEM"}-- What did the postcard announce? What is STEM? In this Real History, a 'short', Melissa discusses a recent outing to the local university.

--{"Neil Foster: UK's digital ID"}-- Orwellian schemes with Neil Foster talking about UK's Digital ID and the petition against it, Canada's Bill C-8, the cyberterrorism bill that is rather Orwellian. Why did Scottish police arrest a silent, elderly woman? AI actress, facial recognition cameras, and cash and what you can buy with it.

--{"Nick Heys: Perelandra"}-- Question: What is Nick Heys' new project? Answer: continuityofcontrol.com - Heys Reviews covering Between Two Ages - Go to cuttingthroughthematrix.com and find CTTM book club coverage of Carroll Quigley's Tragedy and Hope - We cover C.S. Lewis' third novel in the Space Trilogy: Perelandra - What are the Christian themes in Perelandra? Who is the Green Lady? Why was Ransom sent to Perelandra? - Trans-sensuous versus non-sensuous - Why are we told to be positive? 'Always look at the bright side.' - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and concepts of spiritual evolution - What did Alan Watt say about possession and psychopathy? - Nick and Melissa will have a shorter conversation about a few more topics in this book: duality, gender, and that weird 'trip'. - The third novel in the series - That Hideous Strength.

--{"Authorized Hate and the Love of Simple Pleasures"}-- BBQ with Jim, a CTTM book club member, and meeting up with a cousin - A correction on Sigrida's email story. We do not know the manager in the picture! He may not be a Freemason and he might be perfectly lovely! :) - A little more about Yehudi Menuhin and Gerard Menuhin - A phone call from Joe, a listener and lover of BBQ - What are some things his wife noticed in a Nick Fuentes interview with Patrick Bet-David? What connections are worth mentioning? Prager U? and the Leadership Institute? - Are we looking at authorized hate? Is this the time when we're being sanctioned to criticize Israel and the Jews? - A little letter about life in Texas just after the American Civil War.

--{"Sigrida's email: The Gstaad Adventure"}-- What did Sigrida learn on a recent adventure? What is the Menuhin Music Festival? Sigrida sent an email from Switzerland filled with tales of surprises and good luck. Connecting the dots in a wealthy playground.

--{ "9/11, Charlie Kirk, Neil Foster and the Police State"}-- Bill Cooper and 9/11 - Alan Watt on 9/11 - What is the question to ask about the Charlie Kirk narrative? - Who was arrested at the rally against Palestine Action ban in London? - Illiterate German police - Trump using the National Guard to police - Scotland's population.

--{ "Thank you"}-- Why was Melissa at the antique mall yesterday? What is Ajeana's story? Why are so many people afraid of dying? When did Melissa get the inspiration to begin "Real History"?

--{ "Neil Foster: City Hall, Carbon Passports"}-- Have Neil and Melissa made any progress educating their town's elected officials about Agenda 21? - Did pirate's have an equitable system of caring for their own? - Britain and carbon passports. Will the UK require built-in 'alcolocks' and black boxes in new cars? - Insurance and other scams of modern life.

--{ "C.S. Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet with Nick Heys"}-- Covering C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy with Nick Heys of Heys Review - A new addition to Nick's family - Who were some of the important women in C.S. Lewis's life? - Are the Christian themes in Out of the Silent Planet subtle? - Who are Ransom, Devine, and Weston? - What are Hnau? Who are the Hnau on Malecandra? - What are some of the adventures that Ransom had on Malecandra? Were the Hrossa friendly? Did the Sorn mean to inflict harm on Ransom?

--{ "Bee here in case you're reading along"}-- Bees! Scout bees and bouncer bees and bees in the wall - Listeners in distress - CTTM book club syllabus for Alan Watt's Waiting for the Miracle - Nick Heys of Heys Reviews and the Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis - Neil Foster, Agenda 21, Sustainable Development Goals.

--{ "Katy will not converge!"}-- Who is Sarah? Looking forward to sharing a conversation with you about her PhD dissertation. - What is Canada's Policy Horizons? Who is Kristel Van Der Elst - Professor Travis Smith talking about the dangers of Policy Horizons biodigital convergence initiatives. - What is Advanced Research Projects Agency Health (ARPA-H) and when did it launch? Who are Christian Dameff and Jeff Tully? What is DEF CON? - Humans are hackable. - Nootropics - Who is Katy Keene, what was the Penny Gazette and what was Katy's Korner? - Poetry and refuge. - Will the biodigital convergence happen for humans with a brain chip or some other technology?

--{ "Self-Checkout Avoidance Psychosis"}-- Talking with Neil Foster about his 'broody' hen, county sales taxes, and car trouble. We also discuss the studies carried out to understand why people don't want to use self-checkout lanes at stores. Where are Neil and Melissa in their efforts to educate their local elected officials about 'sustainable' projects? What are Dover, Kohl and Partners up to in Lake Wales, Florida? What is Sustainable Development Goal number 11? Irish firms pocketing big bucks for asylum seeker accommodations. What were some of the difficulties Neil encountered as he attempted to legally reside in the U.S.?

--{ "Just a little update"}-- A few updates about Real History, Aman Jabbi, Neil Foster, Nick Heys, the new Substack channel and CTTM bookclub.

--{ "We're in the Army Now"}-- Rescheduling Aman Jabbi to the first week in July. Why have executives from tech companies joined the US Army Reserves? - Who is Shyam Sankar? Why does Palmer Luckey call himself a radical Zionist? - Why is jumping on bandwagons and finger pointing at supposed enemies problematic? What do we gain by a deeper understanding of history? - What did Alan Watt tell us about who was behind the early Zionist movement and the creation of Israel? - Looking at yourself and taking responsibility.

--{ "Sigrida's Prayer for Truth and Wisdom"}-- Where is Lithuania? What was Sigrida's life like in Lithuania? How did Sigrida end up working half the year on farms in Switzerland? What is eco-tourism? - Cooperation and tension within the family. World travels with mother. - Stuck in Japan during Covid. - Getting the family farm back in the family. - Sauerkraut - Why did Sigrida become desperate for truth and how did she discover Alan Watt's work?

--{ "Organ Harvest and Hanging Corpses"}-- Why would someone want to see a plasticized corpse hanging on a wire and call it science or art? - Organ donation and harvesting. Selling organs to pay off debts. - Dimming the sun to stop global warming? - Psychopaths always blame the victim. - Palantir and Trump's Golden Dome - Agenda 21/Agenda 2030 in your town.

--{ "Snow Crash with Nick Heys"}-- Discussing Neal Stephenson's novel, Snow Crash, with Nick Heys of Heys Reviews - What are some of Stephenson's jobs as a futurist? - What is Augmented Reality? - The Metaverse, Google Glass, wearable tech. - Pokémon Go - Google Earth - What is Stephenson's educational background? - How are language and history explored in Snow Crash? - Who is Samuel Noah Kramer? - Sex!!! - What are some of the red flags that we noticed? - What did Margaret Mead have to do with the sexual revolution of the 1960s? - What were the Macy Conferences? - Characters in the novel, Hiro Protagonist and Y.T. - Wired magazine - Yasha Levine's Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet - Stuart Brand, Kevin Kelly, Nicholas Negroponte - Lucasfilm's 1986 Habitat, an online role-playing game - Avatar, post-Vedic word meaning 'to descend' - Peter Thiel - Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Truthstream Media, videos about the Eliza Effect; Joseph Weizenbaum - Noam Chomsky, language, deep structure, surface structure - What is the purpose of the black cube? - A Peter Kay comedy bit on spit. - How does Stephenson bring in Sumer, creation myths, and the Tower of Babel? - What do QR codes look like? - Black Mirror episode, Plaything - What's next for Nick?

--{ "Sierra: Blood, Spooky Particles, and Quantum Connections"}-- Zoom/Skype - Sierra from Impact Reconciliation - What are Sierra's updates on the blood bank? What is her new book and book club about? - Anemia and the best source of iron. - What can we observe in nature about creation-connections-sex and bonding? - Spooky particle/quantum entanglement. - What is the flash of life when a sperm meets an egg? - Interconnections in nature. - Bonding between mother and child. - The power of love.

--{ "Digital Enslavement is Here"}-- My conversation with Aman Jabbi is postponed until June 19. For now, please watch Aman's presentation: Digital ID or Digital Prison (and Five Pillars to Enslave Humanity) - Is this IoT, AI panopticon already here?

--{ "Snow Crash, convicts, and consciousness"}-- Upcoming, Nick of Heys Reviews and Melissa will be discussing Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Why has Silicon Valley embraced this novelist? What are some of Neal Stephenson's thoughts about language versus code? Who was Julian Jaynes? What is the Bicameral Mind? - Next week's Real History will be a conversation with Aman Jabbi and the Five Pillars to Enslave Humanity.

--{ "Special: JJ Couey of Gigaohm Biological Talks with Paula Aitken, Mom of Child #4"}-- JJ Couey talks with Paula Aitken, Mom of Child #4, referred to in Callous Disregard: Autism and Vaccines--The Truth Behind a Tragedy, Andrew Wakefield's book. Was the anti-vax movement 'fake' from its very inception?