Author: Janet Lessin

How the Same War Narrative Is Being Rehearsed Again VENEZUELA AND THE RETURN OF THE SCRIPT How the Same War Narrative Is Being Rehearsed Again By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA)With Contributing Author Janet Kira Lessin History does not usually repeat itself in identical form. What it repeats are patterns: rhetorical structures, emotional triggers, …

VIETNAM THROUGH TWO LENSES: POWER, CHILDHOOD, AND THE WAR THAT CAPTURED A GENERATION What It Looked Like from the Lecture Hall—and from the Dining Room Table By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA)With Contributing Author Janet Kira Lessin Wars do not erupt spontaneously. They are prepared for—psychologically, politically, and mythologically—long before the first bombs fall. …

SAPIENS RISING: FROM SUMER TO COSMIC CITIZENSHIP An Introduction to the Series By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA)with contributing author Janet Kira Lessin SAPIENS RISING: FROM SUMER TO COSMIC CITIZENSHIP (9-Article Series) For more than a century, scholars have known that the roots of human civilization lie deeper than Greece or Rome. Long before …

Break the ANUNNAKI GODSPELL: Tim Leary’s & Neil Freer’s Legacies* by Enkiupdated on December 18, 2025Leave a Commenton Break the ANUNNAKI GODSPELL: Tim Leary’s & Neil Freer’s Legacies* From Anunnaki, Evolution of the Gods * by Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. & Janet Kira Lessin BREAK THE GODSPELL & ACCESS SPIRITUALITY NEIL FREERNeil Freer (1943–2016), was a generalist, futant, futurist, …

by Enki, updated on December 16, 2025. Leave a Comment on HOWARD ZINN & THE PEOPLE’S STRUGGLE FOR THE U.S.: Cooperative Consciousness Vs. Domination-Dictated Dedicated HISTORY FROM BELOW, NOT FROM THE THRONE Howard Zinn wrote history from the ground up, not from the palaces, pulpits, or presidential podiums. His work stood in open defiance of domination-centered history—the kind that …

Grandmother’s Ghost Stares at Me from the Foot of My Bed Ghosts of Avalon documents lived encounters with the unseen rooted in a specific place: a nineteenth-century house in Avalon, Pennsylvania, and the generations who passed through it. These stories are presented as experiential narratives, not instructions for belief. Readers are invited to observe, reflect, …