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
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*
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, …
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“MYTHS” ARE DESCRIPTIONS OF WHAT PEOPLE SAW AND HEARD ~ PART II
“MYTHS” ARE DESCRIPTIONS OF WHAT PEOPLE SAW AND HEARD Myths Are Our Ancestors’ Words for Technologies They Witnessed but Could Not Name By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D.Anthropology, UCLAM.A., Counseling Psychology, University for Humanistic Studies INTRODUCTION: MYTHS AS OBSERVATIONAL RECORDS OF TECHNOLOGY AND COSMOLOGY Ancient peoples described what they saw and heard using the conceptual vocabulary …
HOWARD ZINN & THE PEOPLE’S STRUGGLE FOR THE U.S.: Cooperative Consciousness Vs. Dominaton-Dictated Dedication
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 …
GHOSTS OF AVALON
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, …
THE FIRST THANKSGIVING (1621):
THE FIRST THANKSGIVING: PARTNERSHIP, SURVIVAL & THE COST OF CONTACT by Dr. Sasha Alex Lessin (anthropologist, UCLA) and Janet Kira Lessin (Work in progress — images and research still being added as the series unfolds.) INTRODUCTION In 1621, after a brutal first year on the edge of the world, the surviving Pilgrims of the Mayflower …
WHITENING OF AMERICA: A BROKEN PROMISE
WHITENING OF AMERICA: A BROKEN PROMISE By Janet Kira LessinWith Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D., Contributing Author I. THE PROMISE THAT BUILT A NATION America did not emerge as a finished identity. It emerged as a proposition — an invitation extended across oceans and generations. Those who arrived here were not promised wealth or comfort. They …
MERRY CHRISTMAS, JESUS
The Dyadic Witness Holding Difference Without Domination in a Fractured World By Janet Kira Lessin & Dr. Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D.December 12, 2025 On the morning of December 12, 2025, I woke thinking about Christmas — the familiar language of peace on earth and joy to the world — and felt immediately struck by how …
When the Violence Comes Home ~ Parricide, grief, and the questions society avoids
When the Violence Comes Home Parricide, grief, and the questions society avoids Some crimes horrify because they are violent, and crimes that horrify because they rupture something foundational. The alleged killing of Rob and Michele Reiner by their adult son belongs to the latter category. It is not only a story about death, or even …