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Have you ever stopped to wonder how many of your beliefs are actually yours?
The things you believe about money, relationships, getting older, success, what you’re good at, what you’re NOT good at… all of it affects the choices you make and the things you don’t even try.
But where the hell did those beliefs come from in the first place?
This started with one simple question: “How can I believe that magick is real?”
It sent me down a VERY strange rabbit hole into belief, science, culture, Ingo Swann, hotel maids, milkshakes, The Lobster and ultimately a much bigger question:
Who decided what you’re allowed to believe is possible?
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Research Cited:
Hotel maids / room attendants — Crum & Langer (2007), “Mind-Set Matters: Exercise and the Placebo Effect.” 84 hotel room attendants; the intervention reframed their existing work as exercise, followed by changes in several measured health variables. PubMed
PubMed — Hotel Maids study
Milkshake — Crum et al. (2011), “Mind Over Milkshakes.” Same 380-calorie shake presented as either 620-calorie “indulgent” or 140-calorie “sensible”; ghrelin response differed with the framing. PubMed
PubMed — Milkshake study
Nicotine / cigarettes — Gu et al. (2015), “Belief about nicotine selectively modulates value and reward prediction error signals in smokers.” This is the cigarette study we want for the nicotine video.
PNAS paper — Nicotine belief study
Pain medication — Bingel et al. (2011), “The Effect of Treatment Expectation on Drug Efficacy.” Participants received the potent opioid remifentanil. Positive expectations roughly doubled its analgesic benefit in the experiment, while negative expectations abolished the measured analgesic benefit. PubMed
PubMed — Remifentanil study
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Shawn Ryan took a psychedelic. He saw Hell. He encountered what he believed were demonic entities.
Then the drug wore off.
But according to Shawn, the strange phenomena didn't stop.
So what the hell happened?
A bad trip? Something genuinely unexplained? Or is there another possibility hiding in the history of consciousness research that almost nobody is talking about?
This one gets very strange indeed.
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Gary Osborn has found buried deep within a like a 16 page binary code, delivered by some kind of “alien” or “future human” to an Air Force dude who was able to remember, write down and deliver to Gary for analysis.
There are so many fascinating things Gary has found in this code, and the following conversation gets into all of them including retrocausality, the obliquity of the Earth, the precessional cycles, the possible destruction of Atlantic and even where we are in terms of the Age of Aquarius.
But the doozy of all doozies is that Giza may have been constructed as a catastrophic warning system constructed in stone.
This is not a crazy idea. It is not an idea I have not heard of before. In fact I reference a book Thomas Joseph Brown gave me ages ago by Mark Vidler called the Star Mirror where he essential makes the same point. He believes the entire environment, in conjunction with the stars encodes an important message, which, just happens to point nowish…but what that message is, he cannot guess.
There are loads of maths, but the math is the evidence so be forewarned.
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I’m talking with Todd Elliott, author of The Cunning Farmer, about an idea that sounds simple until you really follow it through:
What if farming and magick were never separate things?
For most of human history, working the land also meant working with timing, prayer, offerings, spirits of place, ancestors, celestial forces, plants as intelligences, and the strange relationship between consciousness and matter.
Todd is a working farmer as well as a practitioner of magick, and his book asks us to consider something wonderfully provocative:
What if the old farmers weren’t merely being superstitious?
What if they understood agriculture as a participatory technology ... a way of negotiating with the visible and invisible forces that make life grow?
We’ll be talking land spirits, lunar planting, weather magick, astrological forces, plant intelligence, the dead, theurgy, and why the farmer may once have occupied a role much closer to priest, magician and mediator between worlds than simply “food producer.”
If you’re interested in magick as something operational rather than decorative, I think you’re going to love this one.
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This joyful conversation was recorded as part of The Living Inquiry Symposium, celebrating the launch of our new film series, How Do We Know What's Real? 🎬 Premieres August 1 — Get Your Passes Here https://offers.magicalegyptstore.com/know
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Ritual has been dismissed as superstition for centuries.
But across physics, consciousness research, and philosophical science, a different picture emerges:
Reality may not be built from the bottom up.
It may be shaped from a deeper level — one that responds to coherence.
In this video, we explore:
Why ritual is better understood as a structured process, not a belief system
How coherence changes outcomes
Why fragmented intention produces no result
And how ancient Egyptian practices align with ideas from David Bohm, Ingo Swann, and Rudolf Steiner
This isn’t about mysticism.
It’s about function.
By Vanese Mc Neill
Producer of the Magical Egypt documentary series exploring ancient Egyptian consciousness technologies.
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Vanese and Thomas Joseph Brown discuss the ideas in Thomas' latest substack
What if AI isn’t just a tool… but the beginning of an entirely new form of intelligence?
Tonight we dive into the eerie convergence between neuroscientist John C. Lilly and philosopher Rudolf Steiner — two men who warned, decades apart, that technology could become the vessel for something cold, calculating, and profoundly non-human.
From AI data centers draining entire regions… to the rise of humanoid robots… to the spiritual question of whether humanity is evolving — or surrendering its consciousness — this is a conversation about the future of the soul in the age of machines
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Ancient Egyptians believed the soul could die after death.
So mummification was not simply burial.
In Ancient Egypt, preserving the body was believed to help preserve the self through the afterlife.
The body was kept intact.
Names were repeated endlessly.
Statues acted as replacement bodies.
Rituals maintained connection between the dead and the living.
Because the Egyptians believed survival after death was not automatic.
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Most people think journaling is about getting thoughts out.
It’s not.
How you write changes what actually forms.
Typing is fast. Efficient. Surface-level.
Writing by hand does something else entirely—it stabilizes attention, pulls the body into the process, and starts shaping patterns before they show up in your life.
By Vanese Mc Neill
Creator of the Magical Egypt documentary series exploring ancient Egyptian consciousness technologies.
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What if offerings weren’t symbolic—but functional?
In this video, we look at ancient Egypt, Rudolf Steiner, and Itzhak Bentov to explore a different idea:
👉 that reality may require continuous input to remain stable
And that offerings weren’t about belief…
they were part of a system.
If this starts to click for you, Temples as Technology goes much deeper.
Series one is on demand now.
Series two is coming soon.
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