When I looked up the lyrics, all I could find was a small bit about how, in her heart, a fire was lit. That it burns her whole body, a poor body that is wasting away. I couldn't help but think how interesting it is to be drawn to songs not knowing the lyrics but it aligns so much with my life.  

My incarnation cross in Human Design is the Right Angle Cross of the Sleeping Phoenix. I'm designed to metaphorically burn and die, then be reborn. Only to continue the cycle of death and rebirth over and over again.

It's the same cross as Mother Teresa but, also the same as Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy. Thankfully, my design is closer to Mother Teresa's. 

It's also the design pattern that the entire planet will be ruled under beginning in 2027. A design of the individual, all the systems built over the last 400+ years under the current design, one of coming together, will slowly crumble away. 

But, I guess I only ever linked to it from other posts. 

I consider this book to be another "must read". The more we understand history, the more we can make sense of the present and predict the future. 

Acid Dreams is about the history of LSD. It covers not only the man that discovered it, famously known people in the LSD scene like Timothy Leary, the rise of the 60's counterculture, but most importantly (to me) MKULTRA. Once laughed off as a conspiracy theory, the papers describing the very real and very horrifying illegal LSD operation run by the CIA on innocent Americans were released in 1977. And, what they describe will blow your mind more than an LSD trip. 

It always feels like these ladies sang their damn hearts out. And, this ballad is just so beautifully done. The organ music, her wailing, love it so much. 

Where do I even start with Hardcore History? This podcast always blows my mind. The level of depth of research that Dan and his team do is mind boggling. 

I've realized over the years that I LOVE history. And, I especially love being able to learn about times in history in great depth.

Being very visual, I can easily get sucked into 3D recreations of towns, cities, and monuments throughout history. They transport me to that time. And, I am lost in wonder about how the inhabitants lives were, what they dreamt of, what they loved, and how they lived day to day. Hardcore History, for me, is an audio version of that. 

I still remember where I was and what I was doing when I listened to his 5 part series on Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire called Wrath of the Khans. It was that impactful (I was building an electronic cabinet at the machine shop I worked at).

​If you listen to anything, I insist it's the Wrath of the Khans. It is a stroke of luck that Europe still exists and was not overtaken by a massive hoard of Steppe warriors that you could smell before you could see.