Ralph
@ralphtegtmeier.bsky.social
In SEO country, people tend to know me as the fantomaster.
In the esoteric field, it’s Frater U.D. – making magic work for you!
In the esoteric field, it’s Frater U.D. – making magic work for you!
What if Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper conceals a forbidden Gnostic narrative, where Mary Magdalene emerges as the true bearer of divine wisdom, Judas as an enlightened ally, and Peter as the real betrayer of spiritual truth?
Revealing the Hidden Gnostic Narrative in Leonardo’s Last Supper
For centuries, Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper has been revered as a masterful depiction of biblical betrayal, capturing the moment Jesus reveals Judas as his traitor among the disciples. But what...
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November 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
What if Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper conceals a forbidden Gnostic narrative, where Mary Magdalene emerges as the true bearer of divine wisdom, Judas as an enlightened ally, and Peter as the real betrayer of spiritual truth?
“For a Swarm of Bees,” believed to have been written in the ninth century, is one of the earliest examples of a “swarm charm.” These magic spells were used by beekeepers across Europe to control and direct their precious honeybees and prevent them from flying off when they swarmed.
The Magic Spells That Herded Medieval Bees
For European beekeepers, “swarm charms” were once a tool of the trade.
www.atlasobscura.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
“For a Swarm of Bees,” believed to have been written in the ninth century, is one of the earliest examples of a “swarm charm.” These magic spells were used by beekeepers across Europe to control and direct their precious honeybees and prevent them from flying off when they swarmed.
The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein was, famously, not a fan of William Shakespeare. He wrote in 1946 that “Shakespeare's similes are, in the ordinary sense, bad.” Wittgenstein sees in Shakespeare a fellow explorer of skepticism willing to travel down dark alleys that he himself sought to avoid.
Shakespeare vs Wittgenstein: the fight for meaning | William Day
iai.tv
November 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein was, famously, not a fan of William Shakespeare. He wrote in 1946 that “Shakespeare's similes are, in the ordinary sense, bad.” Wittgenstein sees in Shakespeare a fellow explorer of skepticism willing to travel down dark alleys that he himself sought to avoid.
Triage, anyone?
New AI tool could cut wasted efforts to transplant organs by 60%
New AI tool could cut wasted efforts to transplant organs by 60%
Machine learning model predicts whether donor is likely to die within the timeframe that liver remains viable
Doctors have developed an AI tool that could reduce wasted efforts to transplant organs by 60%.
Thousands of patients worldwide are waiting for a potentially life-saving donor, and more candidates are stuck on waiting lists than there are available organs. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Triage, anyone?
The Trump administration is directing immigration officers to consider some chronic health conditions like diabetes in deciding whether to issue visas to immigrants.
Immigrants with obesity, diabetes and other health problems may be denied visas
New guidance from the Trump administration directs visa officers to consider common health ailments, including obesity and diabetes, when would-be immigrants seek to enter the U.S.
www.npr.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The Trump administration is directing immigration officers to consider some chronic health conditions like diabetes in deciding whether to issue visas to immigrants.
Who was Asherah - Wife of Yahweh?
YouTube video by ESOTERICA
youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:08 AM
In a decade-long covert operation, the U.S. spy agency dropped modified poppy seeds in an attempt to degrade the potency of Afghanistan’s billion-dollar opium crop.
Inside the CIA’s secret mission to sabotage Afghanistan’s opium
In a decade-long operation, the CIA modified poppy seeds and dropped them by the billions from aircraft over Afghanistan in an attempt to weaken the potency of the country’s opium crop.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
In a decade-long covert operation, the U.S. spy agency dropped modified poppy seeds in an attempt to degrade the potency of Afghanistan’s billion-dollar opium crop.
“No one in this world, so far as I know -- and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me -- has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
H.L. Mencken
H.L. Mencken
November 12, 2025 at 5:29 AM
“No one in this world, so far as I know -- and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me -- has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
H.L. Mencken
H.L. Mencken
Protein Out of Thin Air: ESA’s pilot project HOBI-WAN launched
www.esa.int
November 11, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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America first......
November 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
America first......
Arguably the world’s largest spider web
An extraordinary colonial spider community in Sulfur Cave (Albania/Greece) sustained by chemoautotrophy
We report the discovery and detailed analysis of an extraordinary colonial spider assemblage in Sulfur Cave, a chemoautotrophic sulfidic ecosystem located on the Albania-Greece border. The colony, com...
subtbiol.pensoft.net
November 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Arguably the world’s largest spider web
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We are social animals, not truth-seeking ones
Our brains evolved to survive, not to find truth | Samuel McKee
We like to believe that reason is our pathway to truth. Yet from Popper’s demand for falsifiability to Darwin’s doubt about the mind’s origins, a more unsettling picture is emerging. In an age that pr...
iai.tv
November 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
We are social animals, not truth-seeking ones
A pervasive mythology encountered in yoga communities and spiritual seekers is the idea that Sanskrit is a divine, magical language that is, in many instances, untranslatable. Taking this idea of a divine language to the extreme amounts to an obscurantist over-mystification of the Sanskrit language.
Demystifying Sanskrit
Between Sacred Speech and Interpretive Precision
open.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
A pervasive mythology encountered in yoga communities and spiritual seekers is the idea that Sanskrit is a divine, magical language that is, in many instances, untranslatable. Taking this idea of a divine language to the extreme amounts to an obscurantist over-mystification of the Sanskrit language.
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In Memoriam:
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
In Memoriam:
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War