Three Current News Articles Offer Evidence of People Choosing to Relinquish Thinking While On a Path Conforming with Actions Contributing to the Polarity So Evident in the World Today that Is Manifested By Human Mentalities Lacking Metaphysical, Spiritual and Cosmological Expansion of Consciousness.

The three featured news reports are shown along with a sampling of mainstream news headlines.

Topics of recent blog articles incorporate perspectives about 'good' or 'evil' polarities reflecting orientations to 'God' and 'The Devil' in relation to life and the afterlife. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) Some blog articles consider the effects upon human conscious creativity of these polarities with one article mentioning that filmmaker George Lucas presented his own conception of a 'Dark Side' of 'The Force' in his original "Star Wars" trilogy. The 'entertainment trance' of countless people programmed to be consumers of commercial media instead of engaging in self-development for expansion of consciousness is among the negative conditions perpetrating collective life experiences in the contemporary world, where institutionalized military indoctrination of governing officials has rendered obsolete the common sense international diplomacy of the past.

Previous blog articles featuring noteworthy mainstream media news articles include "Two Featured 'Good News' Articles about 'Spiritual Exemplars' and 'Hearing God's Voice'", "A Wounded Journalist's Battlefield Experience of 'Voice Hearing'", "New York Post — 'Former top intel chiefs silent after Musk Twitter disclosures'" and "Dissociative Identity Disorder Phenomena: Two Current Perspectives".

Featured Article #1 from dailymail.com

"'Witch' is killed after she tried to sacrifice toddler in house known for worshipping Satan"

Witch wanted to kill 18-month-old in offering to cartel saint Santa Muerte
READ MORE: Shrine to Santa Muerte appears near US-Mexico border

by Maryann Martinez, Texas Bureau Chief For Dailymail.Com

A Mexican woman believed to be a witch with cartel ties, was killed after she tried to snatch an 18-month-old out his parents' arms with the stated intent of killing the child as sacrifice to the patron saint of cartels.

Before Maria Guadalupe R.M., 33, tried to kidnap the child, she had made it known to her nephew, also the father of the child, that she believed a dead family member had been reincarnated as his son, reported local newspaper Norte Digital.

Sunday, she broke into her relatives' Ciudad Juarez home as her nephew slept with his wife and son and tried to take the child by force.

Pictured: Maria Guadalupe R.M., 33, a woman who was beaten to death by a father who was trying to stop the alleged witch from kidnapping his son in Juarez, just across the border from El Paso, Texas

The nephew, identified as Carlos Gabriel C.R., 23, fought back with a baseball bat and killed her.

Two unidentified men, who are still on the run, were also in the home to aid in his son's kidnapping, but they were scared off by neighbors who alerted the cops about what was going on.

Maria Guadalupe had previously asked her nephew to give his son to her and stated she intended to offer the child as a sacrifice to Santa Muerte, the patron saint of the Mexican cartels.

Guadalupe was known to be a witch and practice satanic worship in her home in Juarez, Mexico-- just across the border from El Paso, Texas, according to Mexican media.

She also had ties to the notorious street gang Los Mexicles, the armed goons for the Sinaloa drug cartel, formerly run by drug kingpin El Chapo Guzman, who is imprisoned in the US, Mexican authorities confirm.

They add Maria Guadalupe sold drugs and took part of rituals and sacrifices Santa Muerte on the gangs behalf.

Cartel members in both Mexico and in the US are known to worship statues of cloaked skeleton woman holding a globe and sickle in her hands.

In the Fort Worth stash house, apples, flowers, a bottle of tequila and cigarettes had been left as offerings to Santa Muerte

This statue of the Holy Death was seized by the DEA in 2011 from two women transporting over 700 grams of methamphetamine between Arizona and Minnesota, was painted gold to represent economic power, success, and prosperity

The criminal organizations believe their saint, which has been denounced by the Catholic Church, will offer them protection from their violent rivals and keep them safe as they smuggle drugs and humans across the border.

Increasing in the US, stash houses where people and drugs are warehouses as they are transported into the country, cops are finding alters to Santa Muerte, like a recent discovery Fort Worth, Texas.

In Juarez, a roadside shrine to Santa Muerte— Spanish for holy death—mysteriously popped up near the border in March—on a road where 21 bodies have been dumped this year alone.

It's uncleared if the boy who was nearly kidnapped was hurt, however, his father turned himself authorities this week.

He was released after 48 hours without charges, as authorities found he acted in self-defense.

Caption: The Juarez, Mexico home where the attempted kidnapping of the 18-month-old child took place Sunday

Caption: The alleged witch died in her nephew's home after he beat her with a baseball bat

His 'witch' aunt was also a suspect in another death, after a skeleton was found in her home in May.

The remains of a 22-year-old man were found on her property near a cement slab with a image of Santa Muerte on top of it was found.

Caption: At the witch's home, a local TV news crew found what look like the skeletal remains of a dog

Note: The article also features a video link with the caption "Holy Death" guards road where 21 bodies were found within past year"

Featured Article #2 from The Washington Post (Opinion article)

"I’m Jewish, and I’ve covered wars. I know war crimes when I see them."

By Peter Maass April 9, 2024

Caption: Palestinians view the damage at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on April 1. (Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters)

Peter Maass is the author of Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War. He covered the Bosnia war for The Post and the invasion of Iraq for the New York Times Magazine.

How does it feel to be a war-crimes reporter whose family bankrolled a nation that’s committing war crimes?

I can tell you.

I covered the genocide in Bosnia for The Post, wrote a book about it, and reported from Iraq and Afghanistan, among other conflict-ridden countries. Also, my ancestors were key funders of Jewish immigration to British-controlled Palestine. The Warburgs and Schiffs donated millions of dollars to that cause, and during the war between Jews and Arabs that started in 1948, they helped raise vast sums for the new state of Israel. When Golda Meir made an emergency fundraising visit to the United States, one of the philanthropists she met with was an uncle of mine who led the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

As Israeli forces grind through Gaza in what the International Court of Justice defines as a "plausible" case of genocide, my family's history of philanthropy runs into my familiarity with war crimes. When Israel bombs and shoots civilians, blocks food aid, attacks hospitals, and cuts off water supplies, I remember the same outrages in Bosnia. When people in a Gaza flour line were attacked, I thought of the Sarajevans killed waiting in line for bread and the perpetrators who in each case insisted the victims were slaughtered by their own side.

Atrocities tend to rhyme.

When I reported from besieged Sarajevo, I stayed in a hotel that was smack on the front line, with Serbian snipers routinely firing at civilians walking under my window. While exiting or entering the Holiday Inn, sometimes I was the one getting shot at. On a spring day in 1993, I heard the familiar crack and whistle of a sniper's bullet, followed by an awful scream. I went to my window and saw a wounded civilian trying to crawl to safety. Writing in The Post more than three decades ago, I described the man's desperate shouts as "a mad howl of a person pushed over the edge. It came from the lungs, from the heart, from the mind."

A Bosnian man cradles his child as they run past one of the worst spots for snipers in Sarajevo on April 11, 1993. (Michael Stravato/AP)

I was thinking of Haris Bahtanovic — I tracked him to a nearby hospital the next day — as I watched an agonizing video from Gaza not long ago. The video shows a grandmother, Hala Khreis, trying to leave a neighborhood that Israeli forces are surrounding. Walking tentatively, she holds the hand of her grandson, who is 5 years old and carries a white flag. Suddenly, a shot rings out and she crumples to the ground dead. Sniper rifles have high-powered scopes — the shooters can see who they are shooting. The attacks on Khreis in 2024 and Bahtanovic in 1993 occurred in daytime and were not accidental.

Millions of Jews in America feel connected to Israel's creation. Maybe our ancestors gave or raised money, maybe they went and fought, maybe they donated to Zionist organizations. What's a Jew to do now? Everyone makes their own choices, but my experience of war crimes taught me that being Jewish means standing against any nation that commits war crimes.

Any.

I noted in my Bosnia book how being a Jew and seeing an actual genocide made me understand, more than before, the precariousness of minorities and the necessity of speaking out as atrocities emerge. That imperative strengthens if your government abets the crimes or your tribe commits them.

Israel and its supporters contend that what's happening in Gaza is a legal and righteous response to the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas fighters. It's evident that war crimes were committed by Hamas: Israelis were shot in their homes at kibbutzim, and concertgoers at the Nova music festival were massacred. We've seen the pictures and videos, and though some allegations have turned out to be false, the evidence of brutal crimes is solid. Hamas is still holding more than 100 hostages.

That does not give Israel a pass to respond as it pleases. An eye for an eye — or a hundred eyes for one eye — is not a thing in international law. A key tenet of the laws of warfare is that an attack that endangers civilians must be militarily necessary and any civilian casualties that occur must be proportional to the military gain. What that means, in plainer language, is that you cannot slaughter a lot of civilians for a minor battlefield gain, and you certainly cannot target civilians, as appears to have happened in the killing of Hala Khreis and many other Palestinians. So far, more than 30,000 people have been reported killed in Gaza, most of them civilians, including more than 13,000 children.

Members of the Abu Draz family hold the bodies of relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in Rafah on April 4. (Fatima Shbair/AP)

The victims of genocide — which Jews were in the Holocaust — are not gifted with the right to perpetrate one. Of course, a war-crimes court should be the arbiter of whether Israel's actions in Gaza qualify as genocide, but sufficient evidence for indictments appears to exist because the legal definition of genocide is "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group." The key words are "in part." Holocaust levels of killing are not required to reach the legal standard.

This puts all Americans, not just American Jews, on the spot. The U.S. government is Israel's principal supporter, by virtue of the bombs and other weapons that continue to be provided to the extremist government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. We are all implicated.

The idea of Jews protecting the rights of Palestinians is not as new as you might think. Before the Holocaust, my ancestors were part of the "non-Zionist" movement that supported Jewish immigration to Palestine but opposed the creation of a Jewish state. The non-Zionist position was based on the concern that a Jewish state would result in violence and reinforce accusations that Jews were not loyal to America.

For example, in the May 21, 1917, edition of the New York Times, a headline reads: "Mr. Schiff Not for Zionism: He Would Establish Jewish Population, Not a Nation, in Palestine." The story is about my great-great-grandfather Jacob Schiff, the Gilded Age financier who bankrolled efforts to help persecuted Jews flee Europe. The idealistic non-Zionist goal was for the Jews who were settling in Palestine to make a deal with the Arabs already living there that would not give either side complete government control. Two decades later, in 1936, my great-grandfather Felix Warburg, who had married Schiff's daughter, accurately warned that establishing a Jewish state would lead to "bloody heads and misfortune."

Jacob Schiff at the 1915 hearings of the federal Commission on Industrial Relations in New York City. (Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)

Jewish settlement continued in Palestine, of course, and the Holocaust accelerated momentum for creating a national homeland there — for which my ancestors dutifully opened their wallets. But there is a largely forgotten history of what then happened in a dissenting corner of America's Jewish community. As Geoffrey Levin writes in his relevant new book, Our Palestine Question, since the founding of Israel "there have been American Jews deeply unsettled by Israeli policies toward both the Palestinian refugees and Arabs living under Israeli rule," who are fiercely dedicated to the issue.

These dissenting Jews were unsettled by, among other things, the exodus of more than 700,000 Arabs when Israel was established; it's what Arabs refer to as the Nakba, or "catastrophe." Israel refused to let these Arabs return to their homes and, over the decades, constructed a repressive apparatus of military occupation in the West Bank and Gaza. Though Levin's book was published just before the latest convulsion, he astutely noted that "some American Jews today see their support for Palestinian rights as a meaningful expression of their Jewish identity."

A group of Arab refugees walks along a road from Jerusalem to Lebanon on Nov. 9, 1948. (Jim Pringle/AP)

My Jewish identity was always a bit vague because my ancestors were German Jews who assimilated at the speed of cultural sound; when I was growing up, we even had a Christmas tree. (They donated and spent their money at the same pace; the fortune was mostly gone by the time I came of age.) I began to feel more Jewish while covering the genocide of Bosnia's Muslims. What Levin points to — the defense of Palestinians increasingly being an act of Jewish identity, particularly for younger Jews — feels right for me, too.

It was near Sen. Charles E. Schumer's home in Brooklyn that I recently saw how this long-ignored movement has found new propulsion. I live a 10-minute walk from the Democratic majority leader's apartment building, which the New York Police Department barricades whenever a protest approaches. Though Schumer now calls for early elections that might unseat Netanyahu, he supports military aid to Israel and is the highest-ranking elected Jewish official in the United States. Protesters are shunted a few hundred yards away to Prospect Park, and about 100 of them happened to be there when I walked by last month.

Some waved professionally printed, multicolored placards that said "Hands Off Rafah — Stop the Genocide," and "Ceasefire Now — Let Gaza Live." But there was also a woman wearing a kaffiyeh around her waist, who held a piece of cardboard with a handwritten message: "Jewish Nurse Against Occupation." She was protesting not just the killing of civilians but the decades-long military occupation of Palestinian territory, which is the underlying problem.

These protesters are part of a movement that includes Jewish demonstrators who wear T-shirts that say "Not In Our Name." Their potent voices undermine the argument that all protests against Israeli violence are antisemitic. They help legitimize global opposition to what's being done in Gaza, and they defend not only Palestinian lives but Jewish lives, too, because they contradict the misbegotten idea that Jews as a whole are to blame for what Israel is doing.

I did not take the activist route after graduating from college. I chose journalism, then wars chose me. Through the years, I realized that exposing war crimes — wherever they occur — is central to my identity as an American, a journalist and a Jew.

Featured Article #3 from variety.com

"'Late Night With the Devil' Team Shares a Behind-the-Scenes Look at Making a Haunted '70s Set on a Low Budget"

by William Earl (April 19, 2024)

Indie horror hit “Late Night With the Devil” follows the real-time Halloween episode of a fictional ’70s talk show, which quickly descends into madness. The film's writers and directors, Australian brothers Cameron and Colin Cairne, were inspired by the sense of excitement and danger from the after-hours talk shows of their youth.

"Those late-night shows were very exciting for us as young boys," Cameron Cairne says. "Staying up late to watch TV was something of a taboo, but we would, and we would see things that children probably shouldn't see. So we were trying to capture that vibe, as well as the danger of live TV, the unscripted nature of it."

Using a limited budget, the duo, along with their creative team, was able to create their own period-appropriate U.S. talk show in Melbourne. Production designer Otello Stolfo immediately studied the late-night shows they hoped to emulate, down to the smallest details.

"We started looking at shows like Johnny Carson, Dick Cavett and anything else that was around at that time," he says. "We started looking at how their sets work and everything else. I knew how I’d done these interview sets before, so I had an idea. We looked at their backgrounds and the finishes and the colors and things and went from there. I said, 'Let's go predominantly browns and oranges.'"

Ultimately, even after drafting accurate designs, Stolfo had to recalibrate based on the size of the project.

"Money and time budgeted us," he says. "When they told me how much, I said, 'OK, let's see what we can do.' It was interesting, because when I did my first layout and sent it out for initial hosting, it came in way over what I had, so we had to rethink the process. We came into some clever things by resourcing ways to go and coming up with new ideas and new ways of doing it. So that was the good side of it."

Besides the sets, the Cairnes knew the camerawork must reflect a specific era in television, so they hired Matthew Temple as their director of photography. Temple was an industry veteran with a background shooting in studios with pedestal cameras in the late '80s.

"He unearthed his old scrapbooks from the '80s when he was a trainee camera operator," Colin Cairne says. "It was what all the old school guys from the '60s and '70s had taught him about how to shoot television. That became the Bible for his camera crew. It was wonderful to see them embrace a new style of shooting — they had to unlearn how to be cinematic to make an authentic television show. Even the lighting: It was a matter of going to all these old warehouses and dusting off all the old lights, things they hadn't used in 30 years, and rigging those up. It was like that across all departments."

This authenticity was critical both in front of and behind the camera, as the brothers knew that, even as the audience suspended disbelief for gory Satanic happenings, any real-life item that looked out of place would immediately zap the viewer out of the experience.

"I remember just the microphones . . . we would have these conversations about the period-appropriate microphones," Cameron Cairne says. "They had to be long and skinny. I remember one day the props department pulled these very plastic-looking neon blue microphones and it's like, 'No, I just don't think people are going to buy that.' We need to be dedicated to this idea of authenticity across all departments."

Despite the tactile elements on the set, the team still needed plenty of onscreen magic to make the story come to life. Adam White, one of the film's producers who also oversaw visual effects, says that with a $150,000 VFX budget, the team did nearly 300 visual effects, leaving only about $500 per effect. That limited budget inspired some serious creativity from the crew.

"I come from low-budget filmmaking," White says. "You just make it happen. It's just how it works. We would discover things along the way, even though we were trying to plan it, and sometimes you can have the best intentions of thinking you know exactly how it's going to happen. But until you start building it, and with the limitations of our budget, it meant we had to find basic solutions."

Ultimately, Colin Cairne is thrilled the industrious crew made a film that is resonating with audiences, bringing them the same joy the team felt working on it.

"It's validation that’s a bit surreal," he says. "We made the film nearly two years ago, at the tail end of COVID. It was still a pretty dark time. We were in lockdown for 100 days on end, several times. So coming out of that and being able to make a film that has been a labor of love for years has been very special. We feel we've made something decent."

Keep scrolling to see set development and detail drawings, as well as on-set photos, from "Late Night With the Devil."

This is the current Plot summary at Wikipedia for the movie, which is representative of thousands that have been made that depict fictitious events without any positive aspects in relation to someone allowing them to be vicariously experienced. If someone is interested in reading a nonfiction documentary account of 'paranormal initiation,' the documented nonfiction case study TESTAMENT may be read in a noncommercial online edition.

The film's prologue is framed as a documentary investigating an unexplained event that occurred on the night of Halloween 1977, during the live broadcast of a sixth season episode of the successful variety late-night talk show "Night Owls with Jack Delroy," which competes for ratings with "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson."

Through his celebrity connections, "Night Owls" host Jack Delroy, who is based in New York City, makes regular visits to "The Grove," an elite California camp for wealthy and powerful men. After his wife Madeleine dies of cancer, "Night Owls" halts its production. Jack ultimately returns and, in order to boost the show's low ratings, does a special occult-themed episode on Halloween. Special guests for the episode include self-proclaimed psychic and medium Christou, skeptic and former magician Carmichael Haig, parapsychologist author June Ross-Mitchell, and June's latest subject, a 14-year-old Lilly D'Abo who is purportedly possessed by a demonic spirit.

During the broadcast, Christou experiences a premonition about someone named "Minnie," which Jack reveals was his private nickname for Madeleine. Christou becomes sick, projectile vomits a black liquid, and is rushed to the hospital. In the next segment, June introduces Lilly, the sole survivor of a mass suicide by a Satanic church and its leader Szandor D'Abo that worshipped Abraxas. Jack convinces her to conjure the demon inside her, whom Lilly dubs "Mr. Wriggles." During a commercial break, the crew informs Jack that Christou has died from hemorrhaging in the ambulance.

During June's conjuring, Lilly becomes possessed and levitates in her chair. The demon notes having previously met Jack "under the tall trees," revealing that Jack and June are romantically involved and suggesting that Jack wanted his wife "out of the way." Lilly's possession then subsides and the show continues.

Carmichael challenges June by subjecting Jack's sidekick Gus McConnell to a hypnotism demonstration, which causes everyone in the studio to see worms pouring out of him. When the production team rewinds the footage, it proves that the demonstration was merely a joint hallucination experienced by everyone in the studio; however, the supernatural phenomena that occurred during June's conjuring is unaltered in the recorded playback. Jack is horrified when he notices Madeleine's ghost standing behind him in the footage, but Carmichael accuses him of orchestrating the events. Lilly becomes possessed again; her head splits open and begins to glow like lava. She brutally kills Gus, June, and Carmichael, and Jack is suddenly transported to a nightmarish version of the show.

He relives moments in the show's past before it is revealed that he indeed had a connection to the demon possessing Lilly; he indeed encountered it during a ceremony at The Grove, where he made a pact with the Devil by sacrificing the soul of his wife in exchange for fame and the TV success of "Night Owls." Thus, he was indirectly responsible for Madeleine's cancer. Madeleine's ghost begs Jack to put her out of her misery, as the cancer is causing pain. Using the ritual Athame dagger from Lilly's former Satanic cult, he then stabs her to death; and the scene suddenly shifts to the now-empty studio. A horrified Jack realizes he has stabbed Lilly on live television. He stands over the bodies of his dead guests as police sirens approach in the distance.

Lack of metaphysical insights may result with someone experiencing conditions of mind equated with anxiety, depression, stress and lack of concentration that may result with 'bipolar disorder' — a diagnosis accepted by a variety of people I've personally known throughout the years. Regarding all-too-common psychological disorders and states of altered consciousness, it is typical to equate the use of drugs and alcohol as contributory to someone experiencing delusions and rare for anyone to consider the insanity of life experiences programmed to continuously engage in entertainment without metaphysical self-development. On a personal basis, throughout my life and perhaps guided by an interest in better understanding the meaning of existence, I refrained from alcohol, smoking and stimulatory/recreational drugs. It was in the summer 29 years ago when my conscious understanding about the nature of life accelerated and I decided to leave behind my career as a movie studio publicity writer. The last narrative movie that I watched in a theatre was "Michael" with John Travolta playing the Archangel. The movie was released on Christmas in 1996 just prior to the publication of my case study book TESTAMENT. I also stopped viewing TV programming and have been advising others to "Trash your television" ever since then as well.

Personally considering entertainment pastimes useless, this blogger's exploration and attention to published transcripts documenting perspectives representing the ascended realm of human existence has resulted with blog articles offering profound insights to war, society and the question of 'what is relevant' in such articles as "Channeled Perspectives Relating to Woke LGBTQ+ Issues" and "'Channeling' Phenomena Evidence for Scientists, Journalists and Anyone Uninformed or Misinformed (Including 16 Example Videos)". Although tragic, it is simple to deduce the reasons that because of their social consciousness programming there are people who aren't able to accept the authenticity of these cases without ever making a serious effort to learn about them and develop a knowledgeable perspective.

Occasional Updates are shown below, beginning with a July 9 MSN News headline that is an example of contemporary people who identify their alignment with 'The Devil.' The second image shares an X.com post.