“Lucifer, please. Enough.”

“I’ve never been happier,” Lucifer seethed, bursting out high laughs in between the tears forcing their escape from the crevices of his eyes.” - Angels Before Man, Rafael Nicolás.

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Understanding the Meta-Anatomy of Human Beings

There's this concept in holistic health called the meta-bodies. The meta-bodies are the layers that comprise of different energies that inform us in the 3D, inform each other to work in tandem and create synergistic patterns within those fields. Basically, what happens in one, will reflect in another to reflect the change or continuity in frequency. These bodies are as follows: physical body, mental body, astral body, etheric body, and causal body. Let's deep-dive into each one and how they inform each other and therefore our lived reality/expereince.

The Physical Body

The physical body serves as a conduit and mediator between the infinite cosmos and the complex quantum world. In other words, it is how the divine manifests into our lived reality and can inform the other bodies based off of those lived experiences. What we witness as "dis-eases" within ourselves is the manifestation of an interruption in the communication between the meta-bodies. An example of this from a holistic perspective is you could say someone is having GI tract issues such as bloating or indigestion; that person might be having a difficult time "digesting" their reality. They might often find that their throat and sacral chakra are blocked as well. This ultimately manifesting itself in physical form. People who have acne or eczema might feel uncomfortable being seen or to be in their body and skin.

The Mental Body

Where logic reigns, interpretation, analysis, and synthesis of information take place. Integration of information to use for our benefit happens here. Processing and recognizing what we're aware of. Are our actions aligning with our words? Are we focusing on what we want versus what we don't want? Are we viewing situations and circumstances as happening for us and not to us? All of these questions illuminate the contrast one could benefit or lose from. Are you using your awareness of your reality to uplift and expand yourself in healthy and productive ways or are you using it to stay small and repeat dysfunctional patterns? Nourishing your mental body with new insight and stimulation that act as additions to your well-being are vital and affect/inform the other bodies.

The Astral Body

The astral body is perceived as the subconscious mind, raw materials of feelings, and dreams. The narratives that color our perception of self and our world. The programming we tell ourselves and loop on. These blocks or emotional disturbances can help to manifest as physical symptoms. Someone subconsciously numbing with food or watching their favorite comfort show because it feels "safer" to feel a different sensation versus deal with it head-on and call to what's actually begging to be explored; not calling anyone but myself out right now but if you resonate with it, know you're not alone. Exploring the "underworld" or as Dr. Clarisse Pinkola Estes refers to it as "the river beneath the river", via journaling, meditating, creative self-expression, psychotherapy, etc. can illuminate what is hidden.

The Etheric Body

The etheric body is a less condensed frequency than our physical form, serving as a bridge between those higher vibrational and spiritual realms (astral and causal), to our physical. It's an intricate matrix of energy channels that facilitate flow and exchange of information through vibration. It is the link between the astral and causal bodies to inform our physical body. If you're highly sensitive like me, you can detect when someone (including yourself) has disconnected or connected to the frequency available to them as it comes across as clarity of coherence and resonates with energy. This can be what becomes disconnected when you lie or are dishonest. It translates intention into action. Modalities like reiki, qi gong, yoga, thoughts, emotions, spiritual practices work directly with the etheric body targeting energy channels to promote harmony, reduce blockages, and initiate the body's healing capacities. This is what helps us to know we're living in alignment with our true essence.

The Causal Body

The causal body represents the core of our spiritual being on the macrocosmic level. This body connects us to spiritual truths (God/The Divine/The Universe/Spirit/Highest Self), moral wisdom, and a sense of purpose that isn't constrained by time or matter/material. It is universal consciousness. The causal body guides us towards actions and decisions for our highest good.

The Interconnection Between the Bodies Examples

Physical Body ↔ Etheric Body

Etheric Body ↔ Mental Body

Mental Body ↔ Astral Body

Astral Body ↔ Causal Body

Causal Body ↔ Physical Body

If you resist your soul’s path (ignoring inner callings or staying stuck in patterns that don’t serve you), your physical body may manifest signs of discomfort, chronic fatigue, or even illness as a wake-up call to realign.

When you align with your soul’s purpose (causal body), your physical body often feels more vibrant and energized because you are living in alignment with your higher self.

These are great examples of how each body informs another and the symbiotic realtionship they have. It never flows only one way. The beautiful part about this is that if you feel disconnected from one body, you can always cultivate a reconnection and revivification. If you're lost, I recommend the best way to start is by listening to the causal body. Get quiet and listen.

If you feel called to seek help on your journey coming back to yourself, I could help curate the space needed to empower you to listen to that voice that's begging to be heard. It is an incredibly powerful and liberating place to be in and it's a constant learning process.

It has taken me so much practice and some rugged situations and circumstances to learn how to listen before it's "too-late", so to speak. I do believe that everything that has happened in my life has happened for me and not too me. There are many different seasons to this type of work and I know it can be difficult to learn how to navigate it by yourself. It feels like grasping straws in the dark. I know you can do difficult things though. It's led you here. And that in itself is exciting and further proof that you're on your journey. Keep listening.

Much love,

Megan

Source: Understanding the Meta-Anatomy of Human Beings

Andromeda Galaxy & meteor

A sin-eater is a person who consumes a ritual meal, typically bread and beer, to absorb the sins of a deceased individual, thereby absolving the soul of its burdens.

This practice is most closely associated with regions like Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and parts of England. Historical accounts suggest that sin-eating rituals date back to the 17th century, where it was common for poor individuals to be hired to take on the sins of the deceased during funerals. The ritual often involved passing food over the coffin to the sin-eater, who would then consume it as a symbolic act of absolution.

Similar practices have been found in various cultures, such as the Aztec goddess Tlazolteotl, who cleansed souls by "eating their filth." By the 19th century, the practice began to decline, with figures like Catherine Sinclair noting its reduced prevalence in places like Monmouthshire. The last recorded sin-eater, Richard Munslow in Shropshire, was atypically a wealthy farmer, suggesting that the practice could adapt in specific contexts.

The family tree of humanity is much more interconnected than we tend to think. “We’re culturally bound and psychologically conditioned to not think about ancestry in very broad terms,” Rutherford says. Genealogists can only focus on one branch of a family tree at a time, making it easy to forget how many forebears each of us has.

Imagine counting all your ancestors as you trace your family tree back in time. In the nth generation before the present, your family tree has 2n slots: two for parents, four for grandparents, eight for great-grandparents, and so on. The number of slots grows exponentially. By the 33rd generation—about 800 to 1,000 years ago—you have more than eight billion of them. That is more than the number of people alive today, and it is certainly a much larger figure than the world population a millennium ago.

This seeming paradox has a simple resolution: “Branches of your family tree don’t consistently diverge,” Rutherford says. Instead “they begin to loop back into each other.” As a result, many of your ancestors occupy multiple slots in your family tree. For example, “your great-great-great-great-great-grandmother might have also been your great-great-great-great-aunt,” he explains.

The consequence of humanity being “incredibly inbred” is that we are all related much more closely than our intuition suggests, Rutherford says. Take, for instance, the last person from whom everyone on the planet today is descended. In 2004 mathematical modeling and computer simulations by a group of statisticians led by Douglas Rohde, then at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, indicated that our most recent common ancestor probably lived no earlier than 1400 B.C. and possibly as recently as A.D. 55. In the time of Egypt’s Queen Nefertiti, someone from whom we are all descended was likely alive somewhere in the world.

Go back a bit further, and you reach a date when our family trees share not just one ancestor in common but every ancestor in common. At this date, called the genetic isopoint, the family trees of any two people on the earth now, no matter how distantly related they seem, trace back to the same set of individuals. “If you were alive at the genetic isopoint, then you are the ancestor of either everyone alive today or no one alive today,” Rutherford says. Humans left Africa and began dispersing throughout the world at least 120,000 years ago, but the genetic isopoint occurred much more recently—somewhere between 5300 and 2200 B.C., according to Rohde’s calculations.

At first glance, these dates may seem much too recent to account for long-isolated Indigenous communities in South America and elsewhere. But “genetic information spreads rapidly through generational time,” Rutherford explains. Beginning in 1492, “you begin to see the European genes flowing in every direction until our estimates are that there are no people in South America today who don’t have European ancestry.”

In fact, even more recent than the global genetic isopoint is the one for people with recent European ancestry. Researchers using genomic data place the latter date around A.D. 1000. So Christopher Lee’s royal lineage is unexceptional: because Charlemagne lived before the isopoint and has living descendants, everyone with European ancestry is directly descended from him. In a similar vein, nearly everyone with Jewish ancestry, whether Ashkenazic or Sephardic, has ancestors who were expelled from Spain beginning in 1492. “It’s a very nice example of a small world but looking to the past,” says Susanna Manrubia, a theoretical evolutionary biologist at the Spanish National Center for Biotechnology.

Not everyone of European ancestry carries genes passed down by Charlemagne, however. Nor does every Jew carry genes from their Sephardic ancestors expelled from Spain. People are more closely related genealogically than genetically for a simple mathematical reason: a given gene is passed down to a child by only one parent, not both. In a simple statistical model, Manrubia and her colleagues showed that the average number of generations separating two random present-day individuals from a common genealogical ancestor depends on the logarithm of the relevant population’s size. For large populations, this number is much smaller than the population size itself because the number of possible genealogical connections between individuals doubles with each preceding generation. By contrast, the average number of generations separating two random present-day individuals from a common genetic ancestor is linearly proportional to the population size because each gene can be traced through only one line of a person’s family tree. Although Manrubia’s model unrealistically assumed the population size did not change with time, the results still apply in the real world, she says.

Because of the random reshuffling of genes in each successive generation, some of your ancestors contribute disproportionately to your genome, while others contribute nothing at all. According to calculations by geneticist Graham Coop of the University of California, Davis, you carry genes from fewer than half of your forebears from 11 generations back. Still, all the genes present in today’s human population can be traced to the people alive at the genetic isopoint. “If you are interested in what your ancestors have contributed to the present time, you have to look at the population of all the people that coexist with you,” Manrubia says. “All of them carry the genes of your ancestors because we share the [same] ancestors.”

And because the genetic isopoint occurred so recently, Rutherford says, “in relation to race, it absolutely, categorically demolishes the idea of lineage purity.” No person has forebears from just one ethnic background or region of the world. And your genealogical connections to the entire globe mean that not too long ago your ancestors were involved in every event in world history.

Ok, there's something I don't understand about this. If the genetic isopoint is after the peopling of the Americas, then (if I'm understanding the definition correctly) that doesn't just mean every indigenous American has Old World ancestry, it also means every Old Worlder has indigenous American ancestry. That's really the surprising thing, since intuitively I'd expect the gene flow in the Columbian exchange to by primarily Old World -> New World.

So what did those gene flows out of the Americas look like? Were they primarily brought back by Europeans? I know that back-migrations across the Bering straight by (the ancestors of) Na-Dene people in relatively recent prehistory have been proposed (Dené–Yeniseian hypothesis), could it be that? Seems like those genes could have spread relatively fast via the Steppe.

Pre-Colombian trans-Bering trade was a thing (glass beads made from Venetian glass have been found in Alaska) and from other things I’ve read it’s theorized the earliest universal ancestor was around the area of Kamchatka and probably helps account for that

I think articles like this are valuable in the context of stuff like Israeli fascist propaganda about “uninterrupted bloodlines going back thousands of years”

hmmm thingies…

Three Ways to Grow a Black Hole / 5 June 2000

credit: NASA/ESA, K. Cordes, S. Brown 

Galaxy Shapes and Clusters

It's been known since the 1970s that galaxies within large clusters tend towards the elliptical or lenticular, while more dispersed galaxies tend towards spiral shapes.

Mergers has been thought to be one of the main drivers of galaxy evolution, with the central black hole size playing a key role, however within clusters, this doesn't seem to hold.

A team of Astronomers at ICRAR (International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research) published a paper that suggests a reason for this and used AI to assist.

The team believe that spiral galaxy arms are weak points that are easily pulled away, we see that in active mergers with arm's being flung in all directions as the merger occurs.

Within dense clusters, these arms and more importantly the gas and dust that often drives star formation, gets pulled out, draining the galaxy of the ability to re-populate, and creating lenticular and eventually elliptical galaxies.

The central black hole plays a similar role, heating up the gas and making star formation less likely.

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Listen if the study of ancient humans doesn’t make you at least a little bit emotional idk what to say.

I started crying today at the museum because they had reconstructed the shoes of Otzi the iceman.

Either he or someone he knew who cared about him made these shoes out of grass and bear skin and twine and he was wearing them when he died over five thousand years ago.

And a Czech researcher and his students did reconstructions of these shoes and wore them to the same place where he died to test them out and they were like yep! These shoes are really cozy and comfy and didn’t give us blisters while hiking!

Is that not just the coolest shit ever????

"Oh look love, how you've changed me."

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