A number of different videos have been posted of these orange lights over El Paso, so this is not a CGI effect. They are too high to be drones, and while it’s possible that they are sky lanterns, the lack of flicker would suggest not. One commenter says that they are flares dropped by his military unit, but the witness who took the video says that he saw them move across the sky at one point "in the blink of an eye." If the latter is true, then they are unknowns. Graded C, possible unknown.
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Weekender: When I was a small child in the late 1940s and early ‘50s, shoe stores came equipped with x-ray machines that allowed salespeople and parents to make certain that a shoe fit a child’s foot without crowding growing bones. I remember eagerly stepping up on the platform and peering through the lens for a fascinating view of the bones of my feet surrounded by shoe leather.

Now, of course, routine x-rays of children’s feet are an appalling idea. But unfortunately, total numbskullery often becomes evident only in retrospect.
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Dr. Maurice Nocoll was one of the greatest interpreters of the gospels from an esoteric viewpoint who ever lived. In his books the Mark and the New Man, he explains that real religion is about the life of a hidden man who is unborn in all of us. The ascent of consciousness to the level of this new man is what the real religious journey is about.

Here, Whitley Strieber reads the first chapter of the Mark, with some brief commentaries of his own about how the advancing dictatorship of materialism is closing the door within us that leads to the higher world of what Dr. Nicoll calls ‘psychological man.’
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1st Half (Free Dreamland)

The Shroud of Turin has been debunked as a medieval forgery. The blood marks on it have been called paint. But more sophisticated research has shown that the origins of the cloth and the image on it are much more enigmatic. In fact, the weave of it suggests an earlier origin even than the first century CE. As famed author and researcher Gregg Braden theorizes in this program, it could have been a precious family heirloom, handed down for generations before it was used on the man of the shroud.
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