Mind the Shift

154. Hathor's Messages of Hope – Yafi Yair

My conversation with psychologist, healer and consciousness guide Dr Yafi Yair is a wonderful exchange about the human predicament, spiritual growth and what is going on in the world right now, and why. A restructuring is happening before our eyes, says Yafi. It is the very shift that has been talked about since time immemorial. The episode also includes a spiritual feature that is a first for Mind the Shift: channeling. Yafi is a multidimensional channel and relays messages from a collective entity called Hathor. What comes through is both fascinating and hopeful. A fringe practice not long ago, channeled messages are today listened to by millions of people. Many are familiar with channeled entities like Abraham Hicks (through Esther Hicks) , Bashar (Darryl Anka), Kryon (Lee Carroll), and The Z’s (Lee Harris). What is going on? How can such a thing work? In recent years I have reached the conclusion that life is so multifaceted and wonderfully rich and complex that anything is possible. The reason many still balk at the idea that humans could actually get in contact with nonphysical beings and channel their messages is simply that this is impossible within the model of reality we have been fed with in the modern world. But the model of reality we have been fed with isn’t “Reality”, it is a theory. It works pretty well for making steele and Iphones, but in other areas, it is pretty useless. If one has paid any attention to new research into, and knowledge about, phenomena such as NDEs, precognition, telepathy, psychokinesis, mediumship, terminal lucidity, acquired savant syndrome, and UAP, channeling really doesn’t stand out as anything particularly incredulous. Either you dismiss everything that doesn’t fit the physicalist worldview, or you must keep the door ajar to the possibility that what is happening during channeling is what these people say is happening. On the other hand, if the message rings true, it doesn’t really matter whether that is what is going on or not. It’s like when you have a sudden epiphany, when you are “in the zone” and lose track of time, when you fall in love at first sight or when you experience mysterious synchronicities; you don’t really know what is happening, but you know it’s real, and it intuitively makes sense to you. The channeling session is actually not very long, and it takes place towards the end of the episode. Before that, Yafi and I talk about her journey, psychology, who – or what – Hathor is, and how channeling works. We also delve into the UAP phenomenon, humanity’s evolution, awakening, future human life, and many other things. Yafi’s website [https://www.yafichanneling.com/]Yafi on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/Yafi101] Yafi on Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/@yafichanneling]Yafi’s books [https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/35112374.Dr_Yafi_Yair]

153. Wonders Hidden Beneath the Pyramids? – Armando Mei

Independent researcher Armando Mei is part of a team that made waves in the spring of 2025. The results of their scanning beneath the pyramids of Giza – the Khafre pyramid in particular – were sensational. They seemed to reveal gigantic, coherent and seemingly artificial structures down to a depth of over one kilometer. Now, the group hopes to be able to physically explore the underground network at the Giza plateau. “We already know where the access points are”, says Armando. At one of those, there is a debris layer of about seven meters that needs to be removed before explorers can enter. Egypt’s archaeology heavyweight Dr Zahi Hawass has dismissed the findings by the Italians as impossible. “I heard him on the Joe Rogan podcast and realized from what he said that he doesn’t understand the core of the technology.” Armando Mei currently lives in Egypt. Apart from being a part of the Kharfre scanning project, he conducts his own multidisciplinary studies of the megalithic structures of Giza. He has measured and made calculations on the Khafre pyramid and found intriguing geometric relations. The number 137 appears to be preeminent. Today, many question the textbook narrative that the Giza pyramids were tombs for pharaohs. Armando’s hypothesis, aligning with Christopher Dunn’s, is that they were built for some kind of energy generation purposes. Judging from documentation like the Turin King List and analyses of the astronomical alignments with the structures on the ground, Armando assesses that the oldest Megalithic monuments on the Giza plateau are at least 38,000 years old. He isn’t sure if this lost civilization is in some way related to the Atlantis story, nor if it was wiped out by a cataclysm in the Younger Dryas period, a popular theory. But he does believe that one or more civilization-ending cataclysms have occurred at times in humanity’s deep history. He points out the enormous supervolcano Toba eruption 74,000 years ago. To understand our future we need to understand our past, Armando emphasizes. And to understand our past we need to not only have a multidisciplinary approach but in fact change our consciousness. That doesn’t mean archaeologists, geologists and historians have to meditate to let insights come to them. “No, they just need to open their eyes”, says Armando. “It’s time to read the past with a different view.” His next exploratory project is also about a possible lost civilization. It’s on a small island in the Pacific. Armando's Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/ArmandoMei67]Khafre SAR Research Project on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/KhafreResearchProjectSARTechnology]Armando's papers on Zenodo [https://tinyurl.com/54326tn5]Armando's papers on Academia [https://unina.academia.edu/ArmandoMei]

152. Gateways to Human Unity – Naina Eira Gupta

“Psychedelics trigger a unitive state, and meditation trains it.” So says Naina Eira Gupta, who researches the therapeutic potential of psychedelics and meditation. Psychedelics work because they disrupt the monkey mind, she asserts. They stop the constant chattering in your head, which is the mind’s MO to perpetuate the story of ‘you’. Everything we think we have is just that, a story. “Psychedelics are assisted mind training, I would call it. They provide mental immunity”, says Naina. Then, meditation trains you to keep that base perception, to see the story for what it is. “You realize you don’t have to be reactive to a particular thought or feeling, because it’s just a story.“ When the ego dissolves, you become so much more of an effective human being. “You can fall in love with the world. Everything becomes lighter. You don’t feel so much distance between what you perceive as ‘you’ and the rest of it.” What Naina hopes for is that more people have access to mind training, “because it’s deeply, deeply transformative”. Different psychedelic drugs work in different ways. Some can trigger negative experiences if taken irresponsibly. According to Naina, MDMA is one of the best for pro-sociality and connectedness, because it produces very little bad experiences. Psychedelic experiences can be so transformative that it can be difficult to know what to do with them. Some kind of scaffolding around their use is needed, says Naina. “Even so, many studies now show that psychedelics are beneficial therapeutically, even just in themselves, even if you don’t have a particular practice around them.” As a practicing Buddhist, Naina Gupta doesn’t hold a certain metaphysics. The middle way means that you accept that reality cannot be framed or pinned down. Something is, isn’t, is both and is neither, at the same time. “It’s just unbelievable potential.” The cause of our suffering is the subject-object duality. Naina has several meditation practices, and she has trained herself to dream lucidly. Is this – learning how to liberate oneself from duality with the help of psychedelics, meditation and other spiritual practices – conducive to achieving a more peaceful world? “If there is any hope, it lies in this.” “I wouldn't be talking to you today if this wasn't needed.” Naina's personal page at the University of Exeter [https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/42826-naina-gupta]Naina on Linkedin [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nainaeira/]

151. Astrology Is a Science of Consciousness – Dan Waites

Dan Waites displays an impressive depth and insightfulness in the videos on his You Tube channel World Astrology Report, but he actually didn’t start working as a mundane astrologer until 2020 (mundane refers to the use of astrology to understand world events and phases).Dan had studied the subject matter and been mesmerized before that, but when the pandemic happened, it was a watershed moment for him. He realized with stark clarity that several astrologers had predicted the event – not in detail, but that there would be a global event that would shake society.“Then I knew I had to take this seriously. I have to learn this, understand this and devote myself to it”, says Dan.So, how does astrology work, really? Does it even have to do with the stars?“Skeptics often say things like ‘there is no plausible explanation for how astrology works, and therefore it does not work, therefore it’s a figment of your imagination’”.“But astrology is essentially a science of consciousness. It's an interpretation of meaning. And we don’t know how consciousness works! It's a bit ludicrous to expect there’s going to be a simple answer to the question of how astrology works”, says Dan.There are some very interesting astrological cycles that reveal things about the times we are living in. The Jupiter-Saturn cycle, for instance. The two planetary giants meet every 20 years, and during a period of roughly 200 years, they meet in the same astrological element (earth, air, water, fire). ‘Earthiness’ characterized the 19th and 20th centuries, but ‘airiness’ will characterize the period we recently entered.The difference can be seen in the media, according to Waites. In the 200 years of earth, the media was centralized, and there was a sharing of assumptions, even if people didn’t agree politically. Now, in the air era, we have adopted a new communication technology, the internet, which is decentralized, leading to a fragmentation of assumptions and narratives.In one of his essays on Substack, Dan Waites claims that we are in ‘The Hermetic Age’. This has to do with the extremely long Pluto-Neptune cycle. From the late 14th century, these two outer planets (in astrology, Pluto hasn’t lost its planetary status) started to meet in Gemini, the sign of Hermes. They will continue to do so for another 1,800 years or so.As long as the conjunctions took place in the preceding earth sign of Taurus, society was feudal, based on landownership. Then came the printing press, the protestant Reformation and the Copernican revolution. The era of capitalism was ushered in, and power moved away from landowners to bankers.Right now, multiple cycles are suggesting that pivotal events and discoveries are under way in the fields of the UAP phenomenon and of humanity’s deep history. Which is exactly what we are seeing.“An awakening to the truth about ancient history began in the 19th century, such as the interest in Atlantis. It is coming back now”, says Dan.The turbulence on the world scene also has astrological fingerprints. Pluto is currently out of bounds (it exceeds the normal range of declination from the Sun's path) to the south. This coincides with it being in the sign of Aquarius. Both phenomena signify a revolutionary energy.“The last time this happened, we had the French and the American revolutions, and before that we had the protestant Reformation”, explains Dan.Pluto will express this energy until 2035.__________✅ ResourcesDan’s World Astrology ReportWebsite [https://www.worldastrologyreport.com/]Substack [https://worldastrologyreport.substack.com/]You Tube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0aTKbKUCDvl5Zj3zmCOHsA]

150. The Most Romantic Question in Science: 'Are We Alone?' – Avi Loeb

“Science isn't about showing off. It’s about attending to unusual data, unusual evidence”, says astrophysicist Avi Loeb.“We can only learn new things from anomalies, from what doesn't line up.”Paying attention to anomalies is precisely what he does as head of the Galileo Project at Harvard, whose purpose is to search for evidence of extraterrestrial technology.Loeb is frustrated. Almost all the research money that is allocated to the search for extraterrestrial life goes to projects for picking up radio signals and scanning for molecular fingerprints of microbes on exoplanets.“It’s like lonely people waiting for a phone call. Nobody might call you”, says Loeb.“And personally, I think microbes are boring. I am more interested in intelligent life. Yes, there are more microbes, but it is arguably easier to detect evidence of technology.”Loeb became famous in 2017 when he suggested that the first detected interstellar object traversing our solar system, named 1I/Oumuamua, might be artificial because of its strange behavior.His suggestion was not well received in the scientific community. He was academically attacked by many colleagues.Now, the third interstellar object ever detected, 3I/Atlas, is hurling past the planets in our home system at breakneck speed. This visitor also features very odd properties. It doesn’t look like a comet. It seems to be extremely large, it doesn’t have the classic cometary tail, its glow is preceding it, the composition of its coma is unique, and its trajectory is in line with the plane of the planets.“If you were to construct a spacecraft that were to visit this solar system, you would make it go in the plane of the planets”, Loeb says.Yet mainstream astronomers call it a comet, or more specifically a “black“ comet.“It’s like having only seen zebras and then suddenly see an elephant and go: ‘Look, a zebra without stripes, and with a trunk’.”Loeb has developed a scale for assessing whether a space object is natural or artificial, where 0 means decidedly natural and 10 means decidedly artificial. Loeb has given 3I/Atlas a 4, the same score he gave 1I/Oumuamua.It might drop on the scale – or climb – as more data is collected. By the end of October 2025 we probably know more, because that is when the object will be at its closest to the sun.Avi Loeb has always been an outlier in the scientific community, he says. He would “trade everything” he has of modern life to go back 95 years, to the time of quantum pioneers like Bohr and Heisenberg.“Because they were open-minded and willing to replace an old worldview with something completely new.”Science is more rigid today, he feels. Paradoxically, this may have to do with the fact that there are so many more scientists today. With a large enough population, ideas tend to regress to the mean.Avi Loeb isn’t afraid of airing ideas that would appear outrageous in conventional quarters. Have there been advanced civilizations on earth millions of years ago? Could our species have been genetically manipulated by interstellar visitors a long, long time ago? Loeb is open to both propositions.“We tend to think we are first. But it’s fully plausible that there was a technologically advanced civilization millions of years ago that was destroyed in a major catastrophe.” The Galileo Project [https://galileo.hsites.harvard.edu/]Personal page [https://astronomy.fas.harvard.edu/people/avi-loeb]at HarvardEssays on Medium [https://medium.com/@avi-loeb]The Book Interstellar [https://tinyurl.com/4suws4z3] (2024)The Book Extraterrestrial [https://tinyurl.com/5d7h9vpx] (2022)