<script data-pm-proxy="intercept"></script><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Maryam Henein on Substack]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Official Substack of Investigative Journalist Maryam Henein]]></description><link>https://maryamhenein.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vbCa!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6f4bdb70-8bc4-4973-b229-efce951fd6e3_900x900.png</url><title>Maryam Henein on Substack</title><link>https://maryamhenein.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:04:56 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Maryam Henein]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[maryamhenein@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[maryamhenein@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[MARYAM HENEIN]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[MARYAM HENEIN]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[maryamhenein@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[maryamhenein@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[MARYAM HENEIN]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[The Morpho Ritual I Use Every day—Get 1 Free]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cupping & Spritzing with Morpho&#8212;plus Buy Two, Get One Free while the final 50 bottles last.]]></description><link>https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/the-morpho-ritual-i-use-every-dayget</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/the-morpho-ritual-i-use-every-dayget</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[MARYAM HENEIN]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:10:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W0Fq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d3774a0-3518-4733-b7b6-df0220d107a9_1600x900.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W0Fq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d3774a0-3518-4733-b7b6-df0220d107a9_1600x900.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W0Fq!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d3774a0-3518-4733-b7b6-df0220d107a9_1600x900.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W0Fq!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d3774a0-3518-4733-b7b6-df0220d107a9_1600x900.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W0Fq!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d3774a0-3518-4733-b7b6-df0220d107a9_1600x900.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W0Fq!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d3774a0-3518-4733-b7b6-df0220d107a9_1600x900.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W0Fq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d3774a0-3518-4733-b7b6-df0220d107a9_1600x900.png" width="1456" height="819" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8d3774a0-3518-4733-b7b6-df0220d107a9_1600x900.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:819,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1347150,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/i/212644797?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d3774a0-3518-4733-b7b6-df0220d107a9_1600x900.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W0Fq!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d3774a0-3518-4733-b7b6-df0220d107a9_1600x900.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W0Fq!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d3774a0-3518-4733-b7b6-df0220d107a9_1600x900.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W0Fq!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d3774a0-3518-4733-b7b6-df0220d107a9_1600x900.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W0Fq!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d3774a0-3518-4733-b7b6-df0220d107a9_1600x900.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><span>Follow: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/maryamhenein">Twitter</a><span> | </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/maryamhenein/">Instagram</a><span> Truth Lives Here: </span><a href="https://rumble.com/c/TruthLivesHere">Rumble</a><span> | </span><a href="https://odysee.com/@MaryamHenein:8">Odysee</a><span> | </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/maryamheneinbeelady2">YouTube</a><span> </span><a href="http://www.honeycolony.com/">HONEYCOLONY</a><span> | Websites: </span><a href="https://maryamhenein.com/">MaryamHenein.com</a><span> | </span><a href="https://honeycolony.com/">HoneyColony.com</a><span>| BUY NOW </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Operation-George-Floyd-Multi-Layered-Exposed/dp/B0FG2H6J3R/ref=sr_1_1?crid=N0S8NXPT5BGZ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1F5gI3lF_z1jhLgvJcP4t3z-0HCPcG8nhWSrzTkSmqn8sLB4iYiMQvMzClZXCQ6PbL_KPYrZSU6tXwDx9U2XnzMzXtXtFuXrhkiBdWc6_9PY0hPkANqnjCXOYVPSoGfk2mANxdq4e0qvoIdRDGX-7M_Z0WpsyOR5VflMs34sqeAQKdFUlPUqQ3Cbj7liz2EUX_RKZ0UF17pVuqNK-fPFxF4CS4xHy1syKsJxcp-Mwv654OMFG0oXipRdcmigZkkAzo1N4raSAJxpInxF4VLTm7oY813V84tC3AGRzhpnmxU.NC5gceKKdI1kyDGCJ-LD9EOya8cip4QEcNC5kt8fs6E&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=george+floyd&amp;qid=1759031366&amp;sprefix=george+floyd%2Caps%2C153&amp;sr=8-1">ON AMAZON!</a><span>: </span><a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/george-floyd-book/">Operation George Floyd</a></p><p>All the products I offer on <a href="http://www.honeycolony.com">HoneyColony</a> &amp; <a href="http://www.simplytransformative.com">SimplyTransformative.com</a> are ones I genuinely reach for myself, like Morpho, which I named while I was a digital nomad in the Costa Rican jungle. </p><p>I spritz it across my shoulders throughout the day, especially after the shower when I cup parts of my body. I incorporate a light spritz into my facial ritual with a gua sha tool and a little <a href="https://queenofthethrones.com/?ref=MARYAMHENEIN&amp;utm_source=goaffpro&amp;utm_medium=affiliate">castor oil from Queen of Thrones</a>, always avoiding the eye area.</p><p>It is lightweight, easy to layer, and infinitely less messy than digging into a heavy balm. A few spritzes transform an ordinary self-care moment into a small act of body alchemy. What? Because not only is it functional. It smells divine!</p><p>Morpho is a liposomal hemp-oil liniment formulated with CoQ10, boswellia, Japanese knotweed, lavender, ginger, and other purposeful botanicals. This isn&#8217;t another anonymous formula that appeared overnight. It is a product I have loved, used, and kept in my own ritual.</p><h3>BUY TWO MORPHO, GET ONE FREE</h3><p><strong>BUY TWO MORPHO, GET ONE FREE</strong><br><strong>Coupon code: FREEMORPHO</strong></p><p>The customer must:</p><ol><li><p>Add <strong>three 4-oz single bottles</strong> of Morpho to the cart.</p></li><li><p>Enter <strong>FREEMORPHO</strong> at checkout.</p></li><li><p>The third bottle becomes free&#8212;they pay <strong>$199.98 instead of $299.97</strong>.</p></li></ol><p><strong>Add three bottles to your cart and enter FREEMORPHO at checkout. One bottle will become FREE.</strong></p><p><a href="https://simplytransformative.com/products/morpho-topical-cbd-1">SHOP MORPHO&#8212;ADD THREE TO YOUR CART</a></p><p><strong>You pay $199.98 instead of $299.97.</strong></p><p>Only approximately <strong>50 bottles remain</strong>, and once they move through the chrysalis, they&#8217;re gone. </p><h3>THE NEXT TRANSFORMATION</h3><p>As I close one chapter, I&#8217;m returning more of my attention to the work only I can do: functional medicine, intuitive investigation and Soul Purpose readings.</p><p>If you feel yourself standing at a threshold&#8212;knowing something is changing but unable to name what comes next&#8212;<a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/soul-purpose-discovery/">explore Soul Purpose with the one and only Bee Lady</a>. So good or your money back! </p><p><strong>Soul Purpose coupon: soul22 for 22 percent OFF.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Scpz!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe49bc328-1fac-4465-b19b-b39fa4ba20f3_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Scpz!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe49bc328-1fac-4465-b19b-b39fa4ba20f3_1536x1024.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Scpz!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe49bc328-1fac-4465-b19b-b39fa4ba20f3_1536x1024.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Scpz!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe49bc328-1fac-4465-b19b-b39fa4ba20f3_1536x1024.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Scpz!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe49bc328-1fac-4465-b19b-b39fa4ba20f3_1536x1024.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Scpz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe49bc328-1fac-4465-b19b-b39fa4ba20f3_1536x1024.png" width="1456" height="971" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e49bc328-1fac-4465-b19b-b39fa4ba20f3_1536x1024.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:971,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1715088,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/i/212644797?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe49bc328-1fac-4465-b19b-b39fa4ba20f3_1536x1024.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Scpz!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe49bc328-1fac-4465-b19b-b39fa4ba20f3_1536x1024.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Scpz!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe49bc328-1fac-4465-b19b-b39fa4ba20f3_1536x1024.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Scpz!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe49bc328-1fac-4465-b19b-b39fa4ba20f3_1536x1024.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Scpz!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe49bc328-1fac-4465-b19b-b39fa4ba20f3_1536x1024.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p> </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/the-morpho-ritual-i-use-every-dayget?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/the-morpho-ritual-i-use-every-dayget?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soul Purpose Discovery Session ]]></title><description><![CDATA[How a childhood sensitivity, a five-year mystery illness, an investigative career, and a Kundalini awakening led me to Soul Purpose Discovery]]></description><link>https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/soul-purpose-discovery-session</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/soul-purpose-discovery-session</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[MARYAM HENEIN]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:48:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xkma!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc753f48a-f6b8-499a-97cf-0e70f23cd8b7_1774x887.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xkma!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc753f48a-f6b8-499a-97cf-0e70f23cd8b7_1774x887.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xkma!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc753f48a-f6b8-499a-97cf-0e70f23cd8b7_1774x887.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xkma!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc753f48a-f6b8-499a-97cf-0e70f23cd8b7_1774x887.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xkma!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc753f48a-f6b8-499a-97cf-0e70f23cd8b7_1774x887.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xkma!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc753f48a-f6b8-499a-97cf-0e70f23cd8b7_1774x887.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xkma!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc753f48a-f6b8-499a-97cf-0e70f23cd8b7_1774x887.png" width="1456" height="728" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c753f48a-f6b8-499a-97cf-0e70f23cd8b7_1774x887.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:728,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:2361569,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/i/211765340?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc753f48a-f6b8-499a-97cf-0e70f23cd8b7_1774x887.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xkma!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc753f48a-f6b8-499a-97cf-0e70f23cd8b7_1774x887.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xkma!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc753f48a-f6b8-499a-97cf-0e70f23cd8b7_1774x887.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xkma!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc753f48a-f6b8-499a-97cf-0e70f23cd8b7_1774x887.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xkma!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc753f48a-f6b8-499a-97cf-0e70f23cd8b7_1774x887.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><span>Follow: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/maryamhenein">Twitter</a><span> | </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/maryamhenein/">Instagram</a><span> Truth Lives Here: </span><a href="https://rumble.com/c/TruthLivesHere">Rumble</a><span> | </span><a href="https://odysee.com/@MaryamHenein:8">Odysee</a><span> | </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/maryamheneinbeelady2">YouTube</a><span> </span><a href="http://www.honeycolony.com/">HONEYCOLONY</a><span> | Websites: </span><a href="https://maryamhenein.com/">MaryamHenein.com</a><span> | Georgefloydbook | </span><a href="https://honeycolony.com/">HoneyColony.com</a><span>| BUY NOW </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Operation-George-Floyd-Multi-Layered-Exposed/dp/B0FG2H6J3R/ref=sr_1_1?crid=N0S8NXPT5BGZ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1F5gI3lF_z1jhLgvJcP4t3z-0HCPcG8nhWSrzTkSmqn8sLB4iYiMQvMzClZXCQ6PbL_KPYrZSU6tXwDx9U2XnzMzXtXtFuXrhkiBdWc6_9PY0hPkANqnjCXOYVPSoGfk2mANxdq4e0qvoIdRDGX-7M_Z0WpsyOR5VflMs34sqeAQKdFUlPUqQ3Cbj7liz2EUX_RKZ0UF17pVuqNK-fPFxF4CS4xHy1syKsJxcp-Mwv654OMFG0oXipRdcmigZkkAzo1N4raSAJxpInxF4VLTm7oY813V84tC3AGRzhpnmxU.NC5gceKKdI1kyDGCJ-LD9EOya8cip4QEcNC5kt8fs6E&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=george+floyd&amp;qid=1759031366&amp;sprefix=george+floyd%2Caps%2C153&amp;sr=8-1">ON AMAZON!</a><span>: </span><a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/george-floyd-book/">Operation George Floyd</a></p><p>I did not become an investigator overnight. I spent a lifetime learning the difference between intuition, fear, memory, and the stories we tell ourselves.</p><p>I was psychic as a child. But that sentence is almost too clean.</p><p>I was also a naive, chubby ethnic girl growing up in Montreal, raised in the Coptic Orthodox tradition, trying to understand where I belonged. I did not walk around announcing that I could see things other people missed. I barely understood it myself.</p><p>I never talked about it. I did not realize how much it was helping me read people, feel what was underneath their words, or recognize when something did not add up.</p><p>Unfortunately, I also turned that perception against myself many times. When what I sensed conflicted with what other people told me, I often assumed I was the problem.</p><p>At age eight, something shifted. I was in my classroom when I suddenly remembered&#8212;or knew&#8212;that I had lived before.  </p><p>That was not the end of some tidy spiritual awakening. It was the beginning of a series of them. I would open, doubt myself, shut down, and eventually be forced open again.</p><h3> I Did Not Immediately Become an Investigative Journalist</h3><p>There was no straight line from psychic child to award-winning filmmaker.</p><p>I studied psychology and entered the media piece by piece. I produced mainstream news at MSNBC in Burbank at age 24. I wrote about the underbelly of Los Angeles and the human psyche. I interviewed people others dismissed or feared. I worked on documentaries involving pimps, drug dealers, porn stars, and other lives that rarely arrive wrapped in clear explanations.</p><p>When an impostor began posing as Dodi Fayed, I followed the trail to Egypt.</p><p>I hosted a documentary investigation into the Ark of the Covenant for TLC.</p><p>Eventually, I directed and produced <em>Vanishing of the Bees</em>, a five-year investigation into the mysterious disappearance of honeybees and the pesticides, institutions, and economic interests surrounding it. The film became internationally acclaimed and was named one of the most mind-blowing documentaries available on Netflix.</p><p>In 2011, I founded <a href="http://www.honeycolony.com">HoneyColony </a>and built it into a health and wellness media and commerce company devoted to helping people become their own best health advocates.</p><ul><li><p>My work kept returning to the same territory:</p></li><li><p>What is happening beneath the official explanation?</p></li><li><p>What detail has been ignored?</p></li><li><p>Who benefits from the accepted story?</p></li><li><p>What connects the pieces everyone else has placed in separate boxes?</p></li></ul><p>Journalism did not replace the psychic child.</p><p><strong>It disciplined her.</strong></p><p>The child sensed what was beneath the surface. The journalist learned how to test it.</p><p>That is the real foundation of my <strong>Soul Purpose Discovery</strong> work.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/soul-purpose-discovery-session?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/soul-purpose-discovery-session?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h2>Then My Body Became the Investigation</h2><p>My education did not come only from books, newsrooms, film sets, or credentials.</p><p>In 2002, I was hit by an SUV and dragged 49 feet. I suffered catastrophic injuries, and my femur was fitted with a titanium rod. The collision altered the course of my life.</p><p>I also spent roughly fifteen years living through a debilitating mystery illness, chronic pain, lupus, fibromyalgia, and the exhausting experience of knowing something was profoundly wrong while conventional medicine offered fragmented answers&#8212;or no answers at all.</p><p>So I did what I had learned to do:</p><p><strong>I investigated.</strong></p><p>I followed the evidence into functional medicine, nutrition, metabolomics, environmental health, nervous-system regulation, trauma, and the relationship between the body, mind, environment, and spirit.</p><p>I became an IFM-certified Functional Medicine Health Coach. But more importantly, I walked my talk. </p><p>I learned firsthand that symptoms do not exist in isolation. Neither do emotional patterns, spiritual experiences, relationships, or the choices we make while living in survival mode.</p><p>Pain sharpened my discernment.</p><p>Healing forced me to listen.</p><h2>Then What I Had Shut Down Came Back</h2><p>After years of investigation&#8212;and while deep inside the work that became <em><a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/george-floyd-book/">Operation George Floyd</a></em>&#8212;another door opened.</p><p>In 2024, a spontaneous Kundalini awakening turned up the volume on everything I had suppressed.</p><p>My clairaudience and clairsentience intensified. Dreams, bodily signals, synchronicities, repeating symbols, soul memories, and moments of knowing became harder to dismiss.</p><p>This was not a pastel social-media &#8220;awakening.&#8221; It rearranged my nervous system and forced me to confront the difference between intuition, projection, trauma, fear, desire, and genuine recognition.</p><p>I did not abandon critical thinking.</p><p><strong>I brought it with me.</strong></p><p>I began examining intuitive information the same way I would investigate a story:</p><ul><li><p>What is the strongest pattern?</p></li><li><p>Is the message specific&#8212;or merely flattering?</p></li><li><p>Does it connect with the person&#8217;s lived experience?</p></li><li><p>Does the natal chart support the theme?</p></li><li><p>Is fear, longing, or trauma distorting the signal?</p></li><li><p>What other explanation could fit?</p></li><li><p>Does the insight return authority to the person&#8212;or make them dependent on the reader?</p></li></ul><p>That last question matters.</p><p>There is plenty of counterfeit spirituality in the world: recycled language, instant &#8220;downloads,&#8221; grand identities, cosmic labels slapped onto every intense relationship, and readers who tell vulnerable people whatever will keep them buying another session.</p><p>I am not interested in that.</p><p>I do not treat every coincidence as prophecy. I do not manufacture certainty where none exists. I will never tell you that a card has overruled your common sense.</p><p><strong>Mysticism without discernment becomes theater.</strong></p><p>My work is to help you identify the signal without surrendering your sovereignty.</p><h2>What Makes My Work Different</h2><p>I bring together forms of perception and experience rarely found in one person.</p><p><strong>The investigator.</strong> I have spent more than 25 years connecting dots, tracking inconsistencies, interviewing people, examining evidence, and asking the question beneath the question.</p><p><strong>The intuitive.</strong> I work with clairaudience, clairsentience, symbolism, dreams, cards, and the information that arises during a session and the forms you fill. </p><p><strong>The astrological lens.</strong> I use the natal chart as a symbolic map&#8212;not a cage&#8212;looking at the Nodes, Midheaven, Saturn, Chiron, relevant transits, relationship patterns, creativity, spiritual gifts, and timing.</p><p><strong>The functional medicine and trauma lens.</strong> A mystical experience does not happen outside the body. Trauma, illness, sleep, hormones, the nervous system, grief, and environmental stress can affect what a person feels and how clearly they can hear themselves.</p><p><strong>The lived experience.</strong> I am not speaking from a life without friction. I have moved through physical trauma, chronic illness, betrayal, censorship, spiritual rupture, Kundalini, and the collapse of identities I once believed were permanent.</p><p>I have also learned, sometimes painfully, what happens when we betray our own knowing.</p><p>I do not stand above the person I am reading.</p><p><strong>I sit beside them and investigate.</strong></p><h2>Your Soul Purpose Is Not a Job Title</h2><p>Your purpose may express itself through work, but it is larger than a career.</p><p>It can be found in the lessons you repeatedly meet, the wound you are learning to transform, the gifts you keep hiding, the people who activate ancient material, and the truth you cannot stop pursuing.</p><p>Your purpose may not be missing. It may be buried beneath survival, duty, inherited fear, an identity that once kept you safe, or a life built around what other people needed you to be.</p><p>Sometimes purpose is not something you invent.</p><p>Sometimes it is something you remember.</p><h2>Two Ways to Work With Me</h2><h3><a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/soul-purpose-discovery/">30-Minute Focused Reading</a></h3><p>Bring <strong>one central question</strong>.</p><p>I follow the strongest pattern using clairaudience, clairsentience, investigative intuition, a focused natal-chart lens, and one card.</p><p>This is for a specific crossroads, recurring pattern, relationship, decision, gift, or spiritual experience.</p><h3><a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/soul-purpose-discovery/">60-Minute Psychic + Astrology Deep Dive</a></h3><p>This is the fuller investigation.</p><p>Your intake allows us to explore reincarnation and soul memories; Kundalini or other non-ordinary experiences; karmic ties and soul wounds; the Higher Self or Oversoul; unseen guidance; ancestral patterns; nervous-system repair; Nodes, Midheaven, Saturn, Chiron, transits, soul contracts, spiritual gifts, creativity, and timing.</p><p>I may use more than one deck when the investigation calls for it.</p><p>We do not stuff every spiritual buzzword into an hour.</p><p><strong>We follow the strongest signal.</strong> </p><h3>Meaningful Insight&#8212;or Your Money Back</h3><p>I am willing to stand behind this work.</p><p>If, by the end of our call, you honestly feel that I brought you <strong>no meaningful insight, no useful connection, and no new question worth pursuing</strong>, tell me before we hang up, and I will refund the price of your session.</p><p>That does not mean I can promise a specific prediction, confirm the answer you hoped for, or solve every mystery in one hour.</p><p>It means I will show up prepared, fully present, and willing to put my perception to the test.</p><p>If I ask you to trust my eyes, ears, and intuition, I should be willing to place my own money behind them.</p><h2>A Limited Launch Invitation</h2><p>Use code <strong>SOUL22</strong> to receive <strong>$22 percent</strong> your Soul Purpose Discovery session.</p><p>If you feel that your life has been leaving clues&#8212;and you are ready to examine them without handing your power to someone else&#8212;I invite you to book a session.</p><p><strong><a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/soul-purpose-discovery/">Explore Soul Purpose Discovery and choose your reading</a></strong></p><p><strong>Forms will be downloaded for you. </strong>Bring your question. Bring the repeating symbol, the dream, the strange knowing, the relationship that changed you, or the part of your story that never made sense.</p><p><strong>Let us follow the evidence.</strong></p><p><em>Soul Purpose Discovery offers intuitive guidance for personal reflection. It is not medical, psychological, legal, or financial advice. Outcomes and predictions are not guaranteed. The money-back promise applies when a client states before the end of the session that the reading provided no meaningful insight, useful connection, or new question worth pursuing.</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/soul-purpose-discovery-session?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/soul-purpose-discovery-session?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[PART 51 || The Owl,The Mirror & A Burning Heart]]></title><description><![CDATA[A missed truck payment. Three weeks of silence. Then an owl landed on the Denali&#8217;s mirror carrying a message hidden in plain sight.]]></description><link>https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-51-the-owlthe-mirror-and-a-burning</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-51-the-owlthe-mirror-and-a-burning</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[MARYAM HENEIN]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:34:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f07597aa-5057-4e06-ab74-6dc01a830513_1280x720.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;d2a29bc0-6085-4cf1-b5c9-f44718908c2a&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><span>Follow: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/maryamhenein">Twitter</a><span> | </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/maryamhenein/">Instagram</a><span> Truth Lives Here: </span><a href="https://rumble.com/c/TruthLivesHere">Rumble</a><span> | </span><a href="https://odysee.com/@MaryamHenein:8">Odysee</a><span> | </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/maryamheneinbeelady2">YouTube</a><span> </span><a href="http://www.honeycolony.com/">HONEYCOLONY</a><span> | Websites: </span><a href="https://maryamhenein.com/">MaryamHenein.com</a><span> | Georgefloydbook | </span><a href="https://honeycolony.com/">HoneyColony.com</a><span>| BUY NOW </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Operation-George-Floyd-Multi-Layered-Exposed/dp/B0FG2H6J3R/ref=sr_1_1?crid=N0S8NXPT5BGZ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1F5gI3lF_z1jhLgvJcP4t3z-0HCPcG8nhWSrzTkSmqn8sLB4iYiMQvMzClZXCQ6PbL_KPYrZSU6tXwDx9U2XnzMzXtXtFuXrhkiBdWc6_9PY0hPkANqnjCXOYVPSoGfk2mANxdq4e0qvoIdRDGX-7M_Z0WpsyOR5VflMs34sqeAQKdFUlPUqQ3Cbj7liz2EUX_RKZ0UF17pVuqNK-fPFxF4CS4xHy1syKsJxcp-Mwv654OMFG0oXipRdcmigZkkAzo1N4raSAJxpInxF4VLTm7oY813V84tC3AGRzhpnmxU.NC5gceKKdI1kyDGCJ-LD9EOya8cip4QEcNC5kt8fs6E&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=george+floyd&amp;qid=1759031366&amp;sprefix=george+floyd%2Caps%2C153&amp;sr=8-1">ON AMAZON!</a><span>: </span><a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/george-floyd-book/">Operation George Floyd</a> </p><div class="pullquote"><p><em><span>Stardust is an ongoing serialized field report on consciousness, discernment, unconditional love, magical realism, and the lived experience of navigating intuition inside an inverted matrix.</span><a href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/stardust-series-start-here"> Stardust Series &#8212; Start Here</a></em></p></div><p><em>&#8220;Everything is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.&#8221; &#8212;The Kybalion</em>  </p><p>The silence was loud, but it wasn&#8217;t empty. You could say it was accruing negative interest.</p><p>Snuffy wasn&#8217;t texting back. I wasn&#8217;t so much anxious about his romantic rejections&#8212;not in that moment, anyway. I mean, I was. But heartbreak and financial exposure are two entirely different species of panic. Mix them together, and you get an extra-spicy form of anxiety: abandonment with an APR.</p><p><em>What was happening with the Denali?</em> The black onyx GMC was supposed to be Snuffy&#8217;s chariot&#8212;a vehicle toward freedom, work, and a new life. Instead, it was becoming a debt with bronze rims, bearing down on my name, my credit, and my shoulders while he held the keys.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1YfH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5b138d1-f6af-48cc-9bf0-49d1a4ebe146_1703x924.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1YfH!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5b138d1-f6af-48cc-9bf0-49d1a4ebe146_1703x924.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1YfH!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5b138d1-f6af-48cc-9bf0-49d1a4ebe146_1703x924.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1YfH!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5b138d1-f6af-48cc-9bf0-49d1a4ebe146_1703x924.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1YfH!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5b138d1-f6af-48cc-9bf0-49d1a4ebe146_1703x924.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1YfH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5b138d1-f6af-48cc-9bf0-49d1a4ebe146_1703x924.png" width="638" height="346.1675824175824" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f5b138d1-f6af-48cc-9bf0-49d1a4ebe146_1703x924.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:790,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:638,&quot;bytes&quot;:2448714,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/i/204773702?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5b138d1-f6af-48cc-9bf0-49d1a4ebe146_1703x924.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1YfH!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5b138d1-f6af-48cc-9bf0-49d1a4ebe146_1703x924.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1YfH!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5b138d1-f6af-48cc-9bf0-49d1a4ebe146_1703x924.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1YfH!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5b138d1-f6af-48cc-9bf0-49d1a4ebe146_1703x924.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1YfH!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5b138d1-f6af-48cc-9bf0-49d1a4ebe146_1703x924.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The truck payment came due on the 22nd of every month, and now one sat unpaid. Just like that, generosity began to curdle into debt. What had started as a private pact between two people had acquired a third party: a bank that cared nothing for promises, intentions, or sacred connections&#8212;only deadlines, ledgers, and consequences.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-51-the-owlthe-mirror-and-a-burning?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-51-the-owlthe-mirror-and-a-burning?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Snuffy made the first two payments, but they were with the $3,333.33 in crypto <em>I</em> had lent him&#8212;money intended as a bridge, not a bottomless well. Crypto, may I add, that I had never even spent on myself. I was financing his ability to remain afloat in a truck I technically owned but never drove. </p><p>Much, much later, Snuffy would try to pass those first two payments off as money <em>he</em> had contributed. But he had only executed the transactions. The money was mine. To frame it otherwise was not within integrity, to say the least. It was revisionism.</p><p>Late one night in South Beach, lying beside me in bed, he told me he used to day-trade. He showed me a graph with candles and wicks, and I could see how easily he <strong>might have</strong> crushed it&#8212;if he had chosen to. In my alternate timeline, he did. In this one, much of the money was injected elsewhere. </p><p>It was brutal. </p><p>Whatever electricity the connection carried, living through it demanded more than blind faith; it threatened my stability in the material world. I was learning what happens in the <strong>rip current </strong>where spiritual devotion in the 5D collides with self-erasure in the 3D. Does the soul not recognize debt? The Matrix definitely keeps receipts&#8212;and eventually, it sends bills. </p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;3efe5f70-81ca-4920-919f-297690d50691&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Follow: Twitter | Instagram Truth Lives Here: Rumble | Odysee | YouTube HONEYCOLONY | Websites: MaryamHenein.com | Georgefloydbook | HoneyColony.com| BUY NOW ON AMAZON!: Operation George Floyd&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;EXPOS&#201;: Twin Flames, Inc. | The Commercialization of a Spiritual Journey&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:96940872,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;MARYAM HENEIN&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Maryam Henein is an investigative journalist, and founder, and editor-in-chief of HoneyColony. She is also a functional medicine consultant/coach, and the director of the award-winning documentary film Vanishing of the Bees.&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c6ccd549-f10d-44d9-b3ff-10ef5023e872_2640x3960.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-07T11:07:48.448Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/525d7bb3-a178-4030-88ee-538ae60aec00_1280x720.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/expose-twin-flames-inc-the-commercialization&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:195825820,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:14,&quot;comment_count&quot;:0,&quot;publication_id&quot;:944302,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Maryam Henein on Substack&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vbCa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6f4bdb70-8bc4-4973-b229-efce951fd6e3_900x900.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>While the commercial Twin Flame industry sells reunion&#8212;the promise of a divine counterpart and a runner returning after the next coaching package&#8212;the truth is far less comforting. Twin flames are said to catalyze soul evolution, and evolution is rarely a spa day. Sometimes the catalyst does not arrive to complete your life. He arrives to dismantle the version of you that can no longer survive what you are becoming.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-51-the-owlthe-mirror-and-a-burning?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-51-the-owlthe-mirror-and-a-burning?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>The deal itself was silly simple: Snuffy drives the truck; Snuffy makes the payments. I had even drawn up a contract for the money I lent him. The irony was &#8216;rich&#8217;: Snuffy was the one who showed me that ChatGPT could draft a simple agreement for Olympus Marketing. So I took him at his word, used his own clever suggestion, and even addressed him in the document as &#8220;a magical king.&#8221; </p><p>This was back in 2024, when artificial intelligence still felt new enough to resemble a parlor trick&#8212;a clever machine you consulted, not an invisible operator already learning the architecture of your life. Now, with the right permissions, AI can search your inbox, reconstruct years of correspondence, and fire off an email before you have finished your coffee. Snuffy, it turns out, was an early adopter.</p><p>&#8220;You&#8217;re crafty,&#8221; I told him once at the kitchen table, watching him work some digital sleight of hand while also navigating some bacon strips and eggs. </p><p>He was undeniably tech-savvy. I had seen his music-editing skills, the artistic eye behind his photographs, and the ease with which he moved between <em>two</em> phones&#8212;two devices, two streams of information, and perhaps two versions of himself. </p><p>But slowly, sadly, I watched the creativity bleed out of him. Later, he'd tell me that he no longer felt inspired. The light did not go out all at once; it dimmed by degrees, which was somehow worse. A familiar stranger I was eager to know in this life was becoming a shadow of himself in real time.</p><p>I could not understand why witnessing his unraveling&#8212;as best I could from the ethers, rather than from inside his daily life&#8212;tormented me so deeply. But it did. Eventually, I arrived at an explanation, though it did little to blunt the pain. The explanation was outlandish, to say the least. But here it is: in some inexplicable way, he felt like me. Even before we met, I had caught myself thinking, <em>I see myself in him.</em> Not narcissistically, nor from any possessive impulse to claim him as mine. It was something stranger&#8212;a recognition of shared essence beneath two radically different lives.</p><p>If he were my twin flame, the intensity would make a certain kind of sense. I wasn&#8217;t trying to paste a cosmic label over ordinary infatuation, much less use mysticism to absolve him of his despicable behavior. I was trying in earnest to understand why someone I barely knew could feel so anciently familiar&#8212;and why that recognition persisted even as the evidence against him mounted. </p><p>The simplest word I have for it is <em>resonance</em>: an interior chord struck in one body and heard inside another. It was less like meeting someone than remembering them. Then the current switched. What had felt like recognition began to feel like distortion, as though the signal remained but something unseen had moved between the transmitter and receiver.</p><p>The question evolved from whether the recognition had been real to what had interfered with it. More on that later, as <em>Stardust</em> has its own chronology, and some truths refuse to arrive before their appointed hour. Divine Timing is what they supposedly call it (read: sarcasm). </p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;978940df-98ff-4628-bb7a-856d3d7ceeba&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Follow: Twitter | Instagram Truth Lives Here: Rumble | Odysee | YouTube HONEYCOLONY | Websites: MaryamHenein.com | HoneyColony.com| NOW ON AMAZON!: Operation George Floyd&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Stardust Series &#8212; Start Here&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:96940872,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;MARYAM HENEIN&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Maryam Henein is an investigative journalist, and founder, and editor-in-chief of HoneyColony. She is also a functional medicine consultant/coach, and the director of the award-winning documentary film Vanishing of the Bees.&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c6ccd549-f10d-44d9-b3ff-10ef5023e872_2640x3960.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-27T13:54:19.902Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-eEi!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffdb80c93-57fc-41df-bf37-549d37c3d22f_1344x768.jpeg&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/stardust-series-start-here&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:182647235,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:9,&quot;comment_count&quot;:3,&quot;publication_id&quot;:944302,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Maryam Henein on Substack&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vbCa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6f4bdb70-8bc4-4973-b229-efce951fd6e3_900x900.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>I was trying to be cool, honeybunny&#8212;soft, easy, unbothered. Not Saturn with a clipboard demanding to know where the payment was. This, by the way, showed heroic restraint on my part. HEROIC. With six planets in Capricorn, unaccountability does not register as an adorable personality quirk. But as a character defect. </p><p>I didn&#8217;t understand why he had disappeared. Again. My friends Joe and Melissa, both of whom have known addiction, insisted that he was using drugs and walking all over me. I dismissed them as negative. He described himself as a junkie, and yet he claimed he wasn&#8217;t using, and I wanted to believe his word rather than their pattern recognition. </p><p>Maybe I was in Denali&#8212;denial with better leather seats. Yet my gut kept asking the question my mind was trying to overrule: <em>If I was not being used, why did standing up for myself feel so necessary?</em> Perhaps this was the true essence of the twin-flame journey&#8212;not chasing reunion with another, but returning to oneself. Loving him unconditionally should not have required me to abandon the woman I was supposed to love first. </p><p>But I&#8217;d learn that the hard way. <strong>A twin flame can be</strong> a fast track to expanding your consciousness&#8212;if you so choose.</p><p>I visited his now-disappeared Instagram. By now it was mid-October, and I had not heard back from him in<em> weeks. </em>I had unfollowed him after he accused me of forcing something with him when I believed he was attracted to me. I wasn&#8217;t looking for another woman. I was looking for proof of life&#8212;and perhaps for evidence that he was not imaginary and was rolling out there with the GMC.   </p><p>My jaw dropped when I saw a post dated in late September. There was an owl on the side mirror of the truck baby. WTF?</p><p>I had no clue where he was when it happened. I was watching a 21-second video. The owl landed on the mirror, as if the truck and Snuffy had become its chosen point of observation.</p><p>I also noticed the music track he chose, the timing of the edits, the <em>CapCut </em>effects&#8212;his small creative decisions. I was enchanted by the world behind his eyes, even as I began to wonder whether the same mind that had made this little film was reneging on our deal.</p><p>Later, Snuffy would tell me that the owl hung out with him for a while, then flew away and returned. This wasn&#8217;t an accidental touchdown. </p><p>I didn&#8217;t even know there were owls in Florida. I was increasingly becoming a reclusive Rapunzel while he was out, wherever he went.  The bird appeared to be a gray-morph Eastern Screech-Owl&#8212;<em>Megascops asio</em>&#8212;a small, stocky owl with a large head, yellow eyes, fine dark streaks, and short ear tufts. In nighttime footage, its slate-gray feathers can look nearly charcoal. Screech owls move between perches in a distinctive pattern: they drop, fly straight, then rise again, as he&#8217;d described.   </p><p>I immediately looked up the owl&#8217;s symbolism: the messenger at the threshold&#8212;between night and day, the known and the unknown, the living and the dead, the visible and the invisible. </p><p>The majestic creature has never belonged exclusively to either the light or the dark; it inhabits the realm between them. Across traditions, the owl sees through the night and into the places we would rather keep hidden: the secrets, the shadows, the proverbial skeletons in the closet.</p><p>I texted him this:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4vxH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8db19558-e06a-4ab7-a193-7c764b97926f_1080x2560.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4vxH!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8db19558-e06a-4ab7-a193-7c764b97926f_1080x2560.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4vxH!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8db19558-e06a-4ab7-a193-7c764b97926f_1080x2560.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4vxH!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8db19558-e06a-4ab7-a193-7c764b97926f_1080x2560.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4vxH!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8db19558-e06a-4ab7-a193-7c764b97926f_1080x2560.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4vxH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8db19558-e06a-4ab7-a193-7c764b97926f_1080x2560.png" width="727.9876708984375" height="1725.6004050925926" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8db19558-e06a-4ab7-a193-7c764b97926f_1080x2560.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;normal&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:2560,&quot;width&quot;:1080,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:727.9876708984375,&quot;bytes&quot;:381257,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/i/204773702?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8db19558-e06a-4ab7-a193-7c764b97926f_1080x2560.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4vxH!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8db19558-e06a-4ab7-a193-7c764b97926f_1080x2560.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4vxH!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8db19558-e06a-4ab7-a193-7c764b97926f_1080x2560.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4vxH!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8db19558-e06a-4ab7-a193-7c764b97926f_1080x2560.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4vxH!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8db19558-e06a-4ab7-a193-7c764b97926f_1080x2560.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o0ry!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F543f314d-098a-4796-9209-a18f364ee915_72x72.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o0ry!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F543f314d-098a-4796-9209-a18f364ee915_72x72.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o0ry!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F543f314d-098a-4796-9209-a18f364ee915_72x72.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o0ry!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F543f314d-098a-4796-9209-a18f364ee915_72x72.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o0ry!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F543f314d-098a-4796-9209-a18f364ee915_72x72.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o0ry!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F543f314d-098a-4796-9209-a18f364ee915_72x72.png" width="72" height="72" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/543f314d-098a-4796-9209-a18f364ee915_72x72.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:72,&quot;width&quot;:72,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&#129417;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&#129417;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="&#129417;" title="&#129417;" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o0ry!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F543f314d-098a-4796-9209-a18f364ee915_72x72.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o0ry!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F543f314d-098a-4796-9209-a18f364ee915_72x72.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o0ry!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F543f314d-098a-4796-9209-a18f364ee915_72x72.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o0ry!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F543f314d-098a-4796-9209-a18f364ee915_72x72.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The <em>Catwoman</em> premiere, by the way, unfolded on July 19, 2004. I was 31.  Snuffy was 20.</p><p>At the time, I saw the owl as positive. Later, after what happened to Snuffy between two mirrors, I wondered whether the owl was a warning or an invitation to take permanent residency in the underworld.</p><p>On top of that, a creature associated with seeing what hides in darkness had chosen a mirror. I didn&#8217;t yet know mirrors would become a theme in this wild odyssey. Reflection. Projection. Doubling. Inversion. The self encountered in another. One mirror first. Two would come later.</p><p>While writing this installment, I showed the owl video to a young man I will call Colonel Tomasso. He froze the frame and pointed to something at the bottom. I had watched the video repeatedly and never noticed it. Three lines had been hiding in plain sight&#8212;in French, my native language. </p><p>Once translated, they read less like decoration  and more like coded prophecy: an emotional blueprint for what was to follow.</p><blockquote><p><em>Ton nom, mon c&#339;ur.</em><br></p></blockquote>
      <p>
          <a href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-51-the-owlthe-mirror-and-a-burning">
              Read more
          </a>
      </p>
   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch The Watch ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Time Feels Off. Now They Want to Change the Clock.]]></description><link>https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/watch-the-watch</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/watch-the-watch</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[MARYAM HENEIN]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:42:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/14a31148-5575-4b89-aa12-dede707c58f2_1280x720.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;620c58a2-83c0-4fad-8b03-a09d64550a14&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><span>Follow: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/maryamhenein">Twitter</a><span> | </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/maryamhenein/">Instagram</a><span> Truth Lives Here: </span><a href="https://rumble.com/c/TruthLivesHere">Rumble</a><span> | </span><a href="https://odysee.com/@MaryamHenein:8">Odysee</a><span> | </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/maryamheneinbeelady2">YouTube</a><span> </span><a href="http://www.honeycolony.com/">HONEYCOLONY</a><span> | Websites: </span><a href="https://maryamhenein.com/">MaryamHenein.com</a><span> | </span><a href="https://honeycolony.com/">HoneyColony.com</a><span>| BUY NOW </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Operation-George-Floyd-Multi-Layered-Exposed/dp/B0FG2H6J3R/ref=sr_1_1?crid=N0S8NXPT5BGZ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1F5gI3lF_z1jhLgvJcP4t3z-0HCPcG8nhWSrzTkSmqn8sLB4iYiMQvMzClZXCQ6PbL_KPYrZSU6tXwDx9U2XnzMzXtXtFuXrhkiBdWc6_9PY0hPkANqnjCXOYVPSoGfk2mANxdq4e0qvoIdRDGX-7M_Z0WpsyOR5VflMs34sqeAQKdFUlPUqQ3Cbj7liz2EUX_RKZ0UF17pVuqNK-fPFxF4CS4xHy1syKsJxcp-Mwv654OMFG0oXipRdcmigZkkAzo1N4raSAJxpInxF4VLTm7oY813V84tC3AGRzhpnmxU.NC5gceKKdI1kyDGCJ-LD9EOya8cip4QEcNC5kt8fs6E&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=george+floyd&amp;qid=1759031366&amp;sprefix=george+floyd%2Caps%2C153&amp;sr=8-1">ON AMAZON!</a><span>: </span><a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/george-floyd-book/">Operation George Floyd</a> </p><p>I lost a day this weekend. Or at least I thought I did.</p><p>I moved through Saturday convinced it was Sunday. The energies felt fast but like molasses simultaneously. This was not one of those momentary calendar glitches that come with working too much and sleeping too little. I am a timekeeper, which is why I was surprised by myself.</p><p>When I finally realized what day it actually was, I had the peculiar sensation of being handed back 24 hours I hadn&#8217;t known were missing.</p><p>Then I remembered that Saturday, July 25, was the <strong>Day Out of Time</strong>&#8212;the day the 13 Moon calendar places outside its regular monthly count, between the closing year and the new one beginning July 26.</p><p>A day deliberately set apart from the calendar. And I had spent it living on the wrong day. </p><p><em>Interesting. </em></p><p>That alone is strange enough. But exactly four weeks earlier, the final proton beams had circulated through CERN&#8217;s Large Hadron Collider before the machine was switched off for a four-year transformation.</p><p>Now a growing number of people&#8212;including me, with six planets in Capricorn, living under Saturn&#8217;s relentless clock&#8212; are feeling time has gone haywire. </p><p>Slow-fast. Fast-slow. Hours stretch. Entire days collapse. Dates arrive in no time. </p><p>In any case, what we call time may be less cosmic law and more of a containment system: a manufactured construct used to divide life into units of labor, debt, productivity, and obedience.</p><p>In the realm of the soul, there is no time. No minutes. No deadlines. No Gregorian grid nailed across eternity. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/watch-the-watch?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/watch-the-watch?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h2>Earth Refuses To Keep Perfect Time</h2><p>Earth does not rotate in 24 increments printed on our watches. Its rotation fluctuates constantly, influenced by the atmosphere, oceans, Moon, movement inside the planet, and the redistribution of mass across its surface.</p><p>Since 2020, Earth has produced some of the shortest days recorded during the atomic-clock era. That trend began shifting again in 2026, with days gradually lengthening&#8212;but they still do not conform obediently to 86,400 seconds.</p><p>On July 26, Earth completed its rotation approximately <strong>0.60 milliseconds early</strong>. The shortest day measured so far this year occurred on June 28, when the planet finished roughly <strong>0.66 milliseconds early</strong>, according to current <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/time/earth-rotation.html">Earth-rotation data</a>.</p><p>Six-tenths of a millisecond did not steal my Sunday. So it seems that I had tapped into something. </p><p>For more than half a century, atomic time and Earth time have occasionally required reconciliation. When the planet&#8217;s irregular rotation drifts too far from the precision of atomic clocks, timekeepers insert a leap second into Coordinated Universal Time.</p><p>Twenty-seven leap seconds have been added since 1972.</p><p>But Earth&#8217;s more recent acceleration raised the possibility of something humanity has never done before:</p><p><strong>Take one away.</strong></p><p>A <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07170-0">2024 paper published in </a><em><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07170-0">Nature</a></em> calculated that, under the existing UTC system, Earth&#8217;s changing rotation could require the first negative leap second by 2029. Instead of seeing 11:59:59 before midnight, the official clock could skip directly from 11:59:58 to 12:00:00.</p><p>One second would simply cease to exist. And consider that a second here may be like a lifetime somewhere else. </p><p>Even polar ice enters the story. As ice melts and its mass is redistributed through the oceans, Earth&#8217;s rotation is affected&#8212;much as a spinning skater slows by extending her arms. The researchers calculated that this redistribution may have delayed the negative leap second by approximately three years.</p><p>But now the keepers of official time are considering a more radical solution: Stop forcing atomic time to remain so closely connected to the planet at all.</p><p><em>What could go wrong? </em></p><p>In 2022, the international body responsible for global measurement standards decided that the permitted difference between astronomical time and UTC should be expanded by or before 2035. </p><p>A <a href="https://www.bipm.org/documents/d/guest/cgpm-2026-draft-resolutions">2026 draft resolution</a> goes further, proposing continuous UTC beginning May 20, 2027, and eventually allowing astronomical and atomic time to diverge by as much as <strong>3,600 seconds&#8212;one hour</strong>.</p><p>That hour would accumulate over centuries, not disappear overnight. But the principle is enormous.</p><p>When Earth and the clock disagree, the emerging solution is no longer necessarily to correct the clock. It is to loosen the clock&#8217;s relationship to Earth.</p><p>Time keeps on slipping into the future and out of the containers humans built for it.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/watch-the-watch?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/watch-the-watch?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h2>The Collider Goes Dark. Or Did It? </h2><p>At 5:52 a.m. on June 27, the final protons of the Large Hadron Collider&#8217;s third data-taking period circulated through the accelerator.</p><p>Two days later, <a href="https://home.cern/cern-bids-farewell-to-the-lhc-and-enters-long-shutdown-3/">CERN formally announced</a> the beginning of Long Shutdown 3: an extensive transformation of the world&#8217;s most powerful particle collider into the High-Luminosity LHC.</p><p>Teams are dismantling approximately 1.2 kilometers of the accelerator and installing new cryogenic systems, magnets and equipment. Particle beams are currently scheduled to return in 2030.</p><p><strong>CERN itself has not shut down. Its other accelerators will continue operating until later this summer.</strong></p><p>But the 27-kilometer machine that has occupied the scientific&#8212;and metaphysical&#8212;imagination for nearly two decades has reportedly stopped colliding particles.</p><p>And CERN&#8217;s role in this story is not merely that it contains <strong>very </strong>large magnets.</p><p>The LHC is one of the most exacting time machines humanity has ever constructed&#8212;not a machine that transports people through time, but one that cannot operate unless time is divided and controlled with almost incomprehensible precision.</p><p>Its proton bunches are spaced approximately <strong>25 nanoseconds apart</strong> and can sweep through each other around <strong>40 million times per second</strong>. The particles circle the 27-kilometer tunnel <strong>11,245 times every second</strong>, synchronized with oscillating radio-frequency fields that accelerate them during each revolution.</p><p>Its main dipole magnets generate fields of approximately <strong>8.3 tesla&#8212;more than 100,000 times stronger than Earth&#8217;s surface magnetic field</strong>, according to <a href="https://home.cern/science/engineering/pulling-together-superconducting-electromagnets/">CERN&#8217;s own description</a>.</p><p>That does not mean CERN controls planetary time. It means CERN is not merely &#8220;a big science experiment.&#8221; It is an immense clockwork instrument operating at the edge of matter, magnetism, measurement and relativity.</p><p>A machine calibrated in billionths of a second has gone quiet at the precise moment Earth time, official time, political time and experienced time are all being renegotiated.</p><p>And almost immediately after the shutdown, the Internet began checking reality.</p><p>A July thread in r/HighStrangeness titled <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/HighStrangeness/comments/1ury3a5/the_glitch_cern_the_mandela_effect_and_a_world/">&#8220;The Glitch: CERN, the Mandela Effect and a World That Was Edited&#8221;</a> attracted roughly a thousand upvotes. Its premise inverted years of CERN folklore: if switching on the LHC had somehow scrambled reality, could switching it off cause reality to snap back?</p><p>People began comparing Mandela Effects. Are old memories returning? Are timelines merging? Is the Fruit of the Loom cornucopia back?</p><p>Then came the reports about time.</p><p>On July 26, someone in r/Retconned asked: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/comments/1v6s054/time_starting_to_speed_back_up_again/">&#8220;Time starting to speed back up again?&#8221;</a> The poster said time had seemed slower following the CERN shutdown, but that the day had suddenly flown by.</p><p>Other commenters disagreed. Time was still slower. Time felt normal again.</p><p>That disagreement is what interests me. If everyone were repeating the same TikTok theory, it would be considerably less interesting. Instead, people are reporting something messier and harder to package:</p><p><strong>Temporal disorientation. </strong>Fast. Slow. Normal again. A day disappearing. A day dragging. Dates feeling wrong. Not one uniform phenomenon. <strong>A disturbance in the perception of duration.</strong></p><p>There is no evidence that shutting down the LHC altered Earth&#8217;s rotation or repaired a timeline. The collider shutdown was planned engineering, and Earth&#8217;s rotational fluctuations are measurable geophysical events.</p><p>But disproving one proposed explanation does not make the underlying observation disappear.</p><p>People are talking about time.</p><p>A lot.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dsl0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03757f02-9216-4d0d-9202-55ca86151f25_1528x860.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dsl0!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03757f02-9216-4d0d-9202-55ca86151f25_1528x860.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dsl0!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03757f02-9216-4d0d-9202-55ca86151f25_1528x860.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dsl0!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03757f02-9216-4d0d-9202-55ca86151f25_1528x860.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dsl0!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03757f02-9216-4d0d-9202-55ca86151f25_1528x860.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dsl0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03757f02-9216-4d0d-9202-55ca86151f25_1528x860.jpeg" width="577" height="324.5625" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/03757f02-9216-4d0d-9202-55ca86151f25_1528x860.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:819,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:577,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;https://images.openai.com/static-rsc-4/G42MxzobD4BPH59vTK3uTl10KPfk0KCNbb1CMRG4ntAYM6grJvqltGXuhdqVkqghIAt9PK7oRnfi9drtaUR7PjIt1kVWj0CraO_N07O4n8GzvmSiyXpL85ngXpGZ1JNcYlrEg3czwKCsBi8WjfKKXvDgQNBGH1qdfR3oawOffoPbPWxU53R4GT3PRQpawLOT?purpose=fullsize&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="https://images.openai.com/static-rsc-4/G42MxzobD4BPH59vTK3uTl10KPfk0KCNbb1CMRG4ntAYM6grJvqltGXuhdqVkqghIAt9PK7oRnfi9drtaUR7PjIt1kVWj0CraO_N07O4n8GzvmSiyXpL85ngXpGZ1JNcYlrEg3czwKCsBi8WjfKKXvDgQNBGH1qdfR3oawOffoPbPWxU53R4GT3PRQpawLOT?purpose=fullsize" title="https://images.openai.com/static-rsc-4/G42MxzobD4BPH59vTK3uTl10KPfk0KCNbb1CMRG4ntAYM6grJvqltGXuhdqVkqghIAt9PK7oRnfi9drtaUR7PjIt1kVWj0CraO_N07O4n8GzvmSiyXpL85ngXpGZ1JNcYlrEg3czwKCsBi8WjfKKXvDgQNBGH1qdfR3oawOffoPbPWxU53R4GT3PRQpawLOT?purpose=fullsize" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dsl0!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03757f02-9216-4d0d-9202-55ca86151f25_1528x860.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dsl0!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03757f02-9216-4d0d-9202-55ca86151f25_1528x860.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dsl0!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03757f02-9216-4d0d-9202-55ca86151f25_1528x860.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dsl0!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03757f02-9216-4d0d-9202-55ca86151f25_1528x860.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h2>Lost In Gravity</h2><p><strong>August 12, 2026.</strong></p><p>According to a viral story, Earth will lose gravity for seven seconds at precisely 14:33 GMT. The supposed source is a &#8220;leaked NASA document&#8221; describing a secret operation called <strong>Project Anchor</strong>&#8212;complete with an alleged $89 million budget, colliding black holes, gravitational waves and predictions of catastrophic casualties.</p><p>There is only one problem. Nobody has produced the document.</p><p>There is no verifiable NASA program called Project Anchor, no corresponding record in NASA&#8217;s technical archives and no scientific mechanism by which gravitational waves could switch off Earth&#8217;s gravity.</p><p>The rumor appears to have originated with an Instagram account called <strong>@mr_danya_of</strong>, which posted the story on December 31, 2025, while claiming the document had been leaked in November 2024. That account has circulated other fabricated reports.</p><p>Not that I trust Snopes, but when they<a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nasa-project-anchor-earth-gravity/"> asked NASA directly</a>, the agency&#8217;s response was unambiguous: Earth will not lose gravity on August 12. Gravity is produced by Earth&#8217;s mass. For it to disappear, the mass of the planet&#8212;its core, mantle, crust, oceans and atmosphere&#8212;would somehow have to disappear with it.</p><p>So the alleged document is a rumor. But nonetheless the date is not.</p><p>On August 12, a <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/">real total solar eclipse</a> will cross northern Russia, Greenland, Iceland, the Atlantic, Spain and a small corner of Portugal. Totality will last as long as approximately two minutes and eighteen seconds.</p><p>The Moon will temporarily erase the Sun.</p><p>Dismiss it merely because it is false and you miss what made it effective. The fabrication attached itself to a genuine celestial event, borrowed NASA&#8217;s authority and added the bureaucratic details that make a lie feel documented: a project name, a budget, an exact timestamp and an alleged leaked file.</p><p>The most successful fabrication is not created from nothing. It is fastened to something true. </p><h2>Daylight Saving Time</h2><p>Meanwhile, Washington suddenly decided it was time to reorganize time.</p><p>On July 14, the House passed the Sunshine Protection Act by a vote of <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026238">308&#8211;117</a>. The bill would end the twice-yearly clock change and make daylight saving time the default year-round system, while allowing states to opt for permanent standard time.</p><p>This is not a new crusade.</p><p>The Sunshine Protection Act was first introduced in March 2018. It died in Congress, returned in 2019, returned again in 2021, passed the Senate unanimously in 2022&#8212;and then died because the House refused to vote on it. It returned in 2023 and again in 2025.</p><p>That is more than eight years of legislative limbo.</p><p><em>So why now?</em></p><p>Only <a href="https://apnorc.org/projects/few-people-support-the-daylight-saving-time-system-and-more-want-year-round-light-in-the-evenings/">12 percent of Americans</a> support changing the clocks twice a year. Dozens of states have already introduced legislation demanding one permanent time.</p><p>What changed was political alignment. Trump made permanent daylight saving time an administration priority, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-urges-senate-end-twice-annual-clock-switching-2026-07-27/">urging the Senate</a> to finish the job. He now personally calling senators, while Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wants the measure attached to the federal transportation legislation expiring September 30.</p><p>That is the official explanation.</p><p>But after eight years of congressional paralysis, Washington suddenly found urgency at the precise moment Earth&#8217;s rotation, atomic time and CERN&#8217;s shutdown were already pushing time into the public consciousness. </p><p><strong>Which time do we keep?</strong></p><p>Permanent daylight saving time does not simply mean leaving the clocks alone. It means permanently advancing civil time one hour away from standard time&#8212;and therefore farther from the natural solar cycle.</p><p>The <a href="https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.10898">American Academy of Sleep Medicine</a> recommends the opposite precisely: abolish seasonal clock changes, but adopt permanent standard time because it aligns more closely with human circadian biology.</p><p>We have also performed the permanent-daylight-saving-time experiment before.</p><p>In January 1974, during the energy crisis, America moved onto year-round daylight saving time. The promise of extra evening sunlight sounded wonderful.</p><p>Dark winter mornings sounded considerably less wonderful once children were standing in them waiting for school buses.</p><p>Public support collapsed. Congress reversed course that same year and restored winter standard time, in part because of concerns over the safety of children traveling to school before sunrise, according to the <a href="https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/document/0055/1668702.pdf">Ford administration&#8217;s records</a>.</p><p>Apparently, fifty years is long enough to forget an experiment and call it an idea.</p><p>International timekeepers are considering allowing atomic time to drift as much as an hour away from Earth&#8217;s rotation. </p><p>We talk about &#8220;time&#8221; as though it were one thing. But It isn&#8217;t.</p><p>There is <strong>astronomical time</strong>: the rotation of a planet that stubbornly refuses to complete its days in exactly 86,400 seconds.</p><p>There is <strong>atomic time</strong>: the extraordinary precision civilization engineered so that satellites, markets, telecommunications and computer networks can agree on what <em>now</em> means.</p><p>There is <strong>machine time</strong>: CERN dividing a second into billionths, circulating protons 11,245 times per second and arranging collisions in intervals the human nervous system cannot perceive.</p><p>There is <strong>civil time</strong>: politicians deciding what number should appear on the clock when the Sun rises.</p><p>And then there is <strong>experienced time</strong>.</p><p>Five minutes waiting for news can become an hour. Five years can collapse into a smell. An afternoon vanishes into a screen. You wake from a dream containing what felt like days and discover you have been asleep for twenty minutes. </p><p><strong>Watch the watch.</strong></p><p><em>If this made you look twice at the clock, restack it. Independent investigative journalism survives when real people refuse to let inconvenient work disappear.</em></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/watch-the-watch?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/watch-the-watch?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p> </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Operation Gladio: More Than a Playbook]]></title><description><![CDATA[EXCLUSIVE || How an investigative journalist was gradually separated from her audience, her livelihood, and the public conversation.]]></description><link>https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/operation-gladio-was-never-just-an</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/operation-gladio-was-never-just-an</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[MARYAM HENEIN]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:20:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7d96f825-1736-4be8-a653-913eac54470b_1280x720.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;91dffd9c-b85c-427c-bba3-91162741d8e8&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Truth has a way of finding me. Seek, and ye shall find.</p><p>God knows my heart is pure. He knows that I have spent my life trying to uncover what is hidden, serve others, and tell the truth even when doing so came at an enormous personal cost. I deliver <strong>whole truths</strong>&#8212;not a curated fragment, not a partisan approximation, and not the commercially convenient version&#8212;that set people free.</p><p>Last week, <em><a href="https://rumble.com/embed/v6xewaw/">The AlphaWarrior Show</a></em> surfaced in my Rumble feed with another installment of its ongoing Operation Gladio series. </p><p>Most people hear the words <strong>Operation Gladio</strong> and think of a declassified Cold War plot. They picture Europe, covert stay-behind armies, intelligence services, clandestine networks, terrorism, and allegations of false-flag violence.</p><p>But Gladio was not only about individual events. It was about methods. The battlefield was not merely physical. It was psychological. It was informational. It was economic. </p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/operation-gladio-was-never-just-an?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/operation-gladio-was-never-just-an?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>As I listened to the story of <strong>Paulette Cooper</strong>, the journalist who wrote <em>The Scandal of Scientology</em>, I cringed.  After publishing the book, Cooper became the target of a documented Scientology campaign known as <strong>Operation Freakout</strong>. Internal records later revealed efforts to surveil her, harass her, destroy her credibility, frame her for supposed crimes, and have her imprisoned or committed to a psychiatric institution.</p><p>The objective was not simply to rebut her reporting. It was to dismantle the reporter.</p><p>Listening to what was done to her began confirming suspicions I&#8217;ve carried for years: that similar methods had been used against me&#8212;an award-winning investigative journalist and the director of the internationally acclaimed documentary <em><a href="https://honeycolony.com/shop/vanishing-of-the-bees-dvd/">Vanishing of the Bees</a></em><a href="https://honeycolony.com/shop/vanishing-of-the-bees-dvd/">,</a> made back when Elliot Page was still publicly known as Ellen Page. (Wait&#8212;oops. Did I just &#8220;deadname&#8221; someone?)</p><p>In any case, the more important question is this:</p><p><strong>What happens when a journalist follows stories that powerful or well-connected interests would prefer to leave buried?</strong></p><p>They do not necessarily have to erase every word she writes. They only have to obstruct the pathways connecting her to <strong>you</strong>.</p><h3>Non-Parrots and Presstitutes Are Needed In This World  </h3><p>REMINDER: Real journalists are still being killed. The Committee to Protect Journalists has documented 2,571 journalists and media workers killed between 1992 and 2026 in cases confirmed or suspected to be connected to their work. In 2025 alone, CPJ recorded 129 deaths, the highest annual number since it began keeping records in 1992.</p><p>But today, you do not always have to kill a journalist&#8212;pow, pow&#8212;to neutralize the journalism. You can digitally assassinate her instead.</p><p>Hide the work. Reduce the reach. Remove followers. Bury the posts. Restrict the accounts. Disrupt the income. Interfere with publishing, distribution, payment processing, professional relationships, and every mechanism through which an independent journalist remains visible, solvent, and connected to the audience she spent years building.</p><p>Create enough friction and, eventually, people assume she disappeared, became irrelevant, lost credibility, or simply stopped producing.</p><p>There is no gunshot, no blood, and no easily visible crime scene. There is only the slow destruction of visibility, livelihood, reputation, and human connection. The voice remains, but the pathways carrying it are quietly dismantled.</p><h3>It Is All Optics </h3><p>Journalists are still technically free to speak. The system simply makes certain that fewer and fewer people can find her, support her, or hear what she has to say.</p><p>You disappeared for a while, a customer told me. NO I DID NOT. I&#8217;ve been here, &#8216;insanely tapped in,&#8217; as someone told me. </p><p>In 2019, <a href="https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-11-23-elon-musk-echoing-adl-talking-points.html">speaking before the Anti-Defamation League</a>, Sacha Baron Cohen popularized the formulation that freedom of speech does not necessarily mean freedom of reach. Elon Musk later announced a Twitter policy using nearly the same language: &#8220;freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach,&#8221; explaining that certain posts would be deboosted and demonetized.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;d5f12622-e4b6-4511-b763-e04a6d5eeb48&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>That phrase reveals the sleight of hand. You do not have to delete someone&#8217;s account to erase her influence. You can leave the account standing, leave the articles online, and leave the videos technically available while quietly cutting the pathways that lead people to them.</p><p>The censorship is deniable because the content still exists. The erasure occurs in distribution. Thanks, ADL, for the slogan that two professional performers later delivered back to the public.</p><p>When I appear on a program, I suddenly become real again. When I walk onto a stage which is now only at <a href="https://anarchapulco.com/tickets/">Anarchupulco</a>, people suddenly perceive me as someone of consequence. They see a living, breathing woman speaking coherently about evidence she spent years collecting. They remember that I am not an avatar, a rumor, a smear, or an abandoned account. I am real and authentic. </p><p>I am an award-winning journalist and filmmaker who has continued producing work despite years of financial, professional, and digital obstruction. <span>Recently, someone I love pointed me to what </span><a href="https://u2932081.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.qJ8oDVIRMAFlKvOIQN5kDgBViAwbYNSf2r0In9uLgTFUkrSor0F9dPMJeNTcyUUKW8lkv9c0G-2FcRr-2FA2K1ys3RtPMurmh3CIlplmwe2ST0jpQzYZ0DiF3yQGoY5wJuBWztqW-2FOQF-2FvPN5z1vMzC7oIUfTeT82U0dwjQi4wKdWd6ABSJqe3O-2BPYyoU8UcOGN9DrSqiILMt4dHbtqpfji-2BHfzSgPFiOwcaVxnF03XVh36TfU7DmrV0BmducS12yI2jQku-2BjBIh7QHTEPJPLJlrkAxq4oIbe-2FEc1lpD615b1nIfas29Vgfz8YJiZ8FlczrqkmPGYm64nOzPvRu61lHvKHnLEOOuMDNKMK7Dllm0eK4-3Dy19t_pIbxPfpDI69aAybPrpOfgwONYoTA-2Br8JP-2FE8DNBTJhlCWWoZUXGj4quTDn8Wx9V68IoUiEpRt-2BpjFKecy1zSEVo9nN05LQHAfOp2bYls8qPsOBanoIvQ3UsyThlBtedjbiQ29BCTPJAZYbsQ7KAkNDErCWhhv2wFQaq-2BrcLXhFVGo-2F7bwMogf9y8RzdaJPfaLreHO2kVOLTHHdVNIIVploHn4yOKuGoiJrQZHgFjeyJKN4ceExo4h2LbCcjso-2FmNTFukS-2Fv-2FZRWHwcR4P8NmEuDy71Xs7LDzyKsdAOrZJ1PUD9CplK7dkFJymK4DYyu0X2lg2-2FBnCTSImC9QVPGGHCMbMthwheVYcJe0XqkVjZ5lwW5r7Bqg3GYuKtsP0gIkDlZfZoU8hjOS7zHTwbg7ewsLE0aWmuJh8IKd2zn4SP8vA-2F0fWaGXw6CoNgqE-2FLvWhepi-2BKCVKERNCLYqVUli1MVAlj6Ip-2B3fpjHDF-2FwYAXYx3IN7g1gQKN2iVDHbHgLRU3m3jFpchfh-2BHP-2FNapHsB3RfGtNWtYAdYn2IQnR-2B1jdW9utMYsS3fUTnVlN6Irw-2F"><span>Grok&#8217;s encyclopedia</span></a><span> had written about my legacy. Reading it was surreal. It reminded me that, regardless of how history is rewritten or who tries to erase your contributions, impact leaves a trail.</span></p><p><span>Consider the AI the modern digital Akashic Records.</span></p><p><strong>Visibility creates legitimacy in the public mind&#8212;even though the fruits of my labor exist and are ongoing.  </strong> Inside an algorithmic graveyard, I am forgotten. The program ends. The algorithms close in again. The audience is disconnected again. And the forgetting resumes.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/operation-gladio-was-never-just-an?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/operation-gladio-was-never-just-an?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h2>Operation Gladio Tactics: Which Ones Were Used On Me? &#129327;&#128165;&#129513;&#128161;&#128071;&#128071;&#128071;</h2><p>&#9989; Character assassination and smear campaigns.</p><p>&#9989; Infiltration of my business and personal circle.</p><p>&#9989; Economic warfare and financial destabilization.</p><p>&#9989; Deplatforming, payment restrictions, and censorship.</p><p>&#9989; Suppression and appropriation of my investigative work.</p><p>&#9989; Information obfuscation through selective truth and strategic omission.</p><p>&#9989; Isolation from colleagues and professional networks.</p><p>&#9989; Discouraging others from associating with me publicly.</p><p>&#9989; Reputational attacks that avoid confronting the evidence itself.</p><p>&#9989; Attrition&#8212;dragging disputes out until I am depleted emotionally, financially, and professionally.</p><p>&#9989; Confusion designed to make observers disengage.</p><p>&#9989; Reduced visibility while competing personalities and narratives are amplified.</p><p>&#9989; Pressure applied from several directions simultaneously.</p><p>&#9989; The inducement of self-censorship through fear, intimidation, and economic precarity.</p><p><strong>Any one of these incidents could be dismissed as bad luck, professional conflict, technological error, or coincidence. The significance lies in their convergence.</strong></p><p><strong>One blocked payment processor is an inconvenience. Multiple financial, publishing, distribution, technological, and reputational disruptions occurring in sequence become a pattern worth examining.</strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;f12586fb-f3fe-4db8-af86-9bade96abdb1&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div class="pullquote"><p>This is what digital assassination looks like from inside the life being dismantled. The person remains visible enough to be blamed for failing, but obstructed enough to make recovery nearly impossible.<br></p></div><h2>Methods To Their Madness</h2><p>Across intelligence history, psychological warfare, institutional retaliation, political conflict, corporate misconduct, and propaganda operations, certain methods recur.</p><p>The most effective tactic is to lower perceived importance.</p><p>People stop looking for your work. Colleagues stop mentioning you by name. Producers stop booking you. Potential supporters assume someone else has already investigated your claims&#8212;or that if the work truly mattered, they would be impossible to ignore.</p><p>The person is made easy to overlook. <strong>Abracadabra. </strong>That is how a human being is socially erased while remaining visibly alive.</p><p>As I write in my radioactive book <em><a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/george-floyd-book/">Operation George Floyd</a></em>, Tavistock&#8217;s business was not merely censorship. It was social engineering: creating crises, manufacturing consent, directing culture, and conditioning the masses to accept an imposed reality. I called it a &#8220;symphony of social engineers&#8221;&#8212;intelligence agencies, media corporations, Hollywood, advertising, and other institutions working in concert to distract, program, and manage public perception.</p><p>That is why every space can be captured, including the so-called resistance. The capture may not look like government censors kicking down the door. It may look like money, access, fame, selective amplification, controlled opposition, approved influencers, and <strong>professional cowards</strong> who understand exactly what they are permitted to say.</p><p>Some call themselves independent. Some call themselves Medical Freedom fighters. But when the incentives become more important than the truth, the movement becomes another managed ecosystem&#8212;and the grifters become its gatekeepers.</p><p>Some of these people speak endlessly about censorship, courage, Christianity, freedom, independent journalism, and standing up to power. Yet when helping an actual person they know requires five minutes, one phone call, one introduction, one booking, one purchase, one shared post, or even a modest act of generosity... <strong>the performance ends.</strong></p><p>I have been told it is dangerous to see as much as I do.</p><p>Perhaps.</p><p>Or perhaps it is simply dangerous to say what I see out loud <strong>as the veil begins to vanish</strong>.</p><p>I am not claiming that every disappointment, algorithmic fluctuation, failed business arrangement, or professional rejection proves the existence of a centrally coordinated operation. I made mistakes. I trusted the wrong people. I own that.</p><p>What I reject is the convenient fiction that I somehow &#8220;failed.&#8221;</p><p>I built a million-dollar company from scratch. I directed two impactful documentaries. I spent five years writing this book. Keeping HoneyColony alive has required me to become a filmmaker, investigative journalist, publisher, marketer, salesperson, web developer, customer service representative, and fundraiser&#8212;a fucking Swiss Army knife.</p><p>This struggle is not mine alone. Many divine sparks, critical thinkers, and sovereign souls are being shunned into our personalized Room 101. As I like to say, it&#8217;s your own tailored torture. </p><p>I have spoken with other journalists who quietly describe the same pattern: diminished visibility, shrinking reach, professional isolation, and the slow realization that they are becoming increasingly difficult to find in what increasingly resembles a <strong>FA.IK and GA.IY construct</strong>.</p><p>One incident can be dismissed. A recurring pattern deserves scrutiny.</p><p>Study the chronology. Examine the documents. Look at who benefited while my original reporting disappeared behind larger personalities, search suppression, institutional silence, and, in some cases, paywalls. </p><h3><strong>&#128274; WHO&#8217;S WHO IN THE ZOO</strong></h3><p>The public article explains the methods. The paid investigation examines the people. Below you'll find the extended video, chronology, and first names.</p><p><strong>$11.11</strong> unlocks the extended video, chronology, documentation, and the beginning of the names behind the pattern.</p>
      <p>
          <a href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/operation-gladio-was-never-just-an">
              Read more
          </a>
      </p>
   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part 50 || Soul Memories Before Time ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Enter The Chrysalis of Ascension]]></description><link>https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-50-soul-memories-before-time</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-50-soul-memories-before-time</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[MARYAM HENEIN]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:11:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/11d002a3-11af-4831-8a35-290a0b5284e0_1280x720.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;15b33eb7-9a86-43cb-9ac0-8bb38c412065&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><span>Follow: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/maryamhenein">Twitter</a><span> | </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/maryamhenein/">Instagram</a><span> Truth Lives Here: </span><a href="https://rumble.com/c/TruthLivesHere">Rumble</a><span> | </span><a href="https://odysee.com/@MaryamHenein:8">Odysee</a><span> | </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/maryamheneinbeelady2">YouTube</a><span> </span><a href="http://www.honeycolony.com/">HONEYCOLONY</a><span> | Websites: </span><a href="https://maryamhenein.com/">MaryamHenein.com</a><span> | Georgefloydbook | </span><a href="https://honeycolony.com/">HoneyColony.com</a><span>| BUY NOW </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Operation-George-Floyd-Multi-Layered-Exposed/dp/B0FG2H6J3R/ref=sr_1_1?crid=N0S8NXPT5BGZ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1F5gI3lF_z1jhLgvJcP4t3z-0HCPcG8nhWSrzTkSmqn8sLB4iYiMQvMzClZXCQ6PbL_KPYrZSU6tXwDx9U2XnzMzXtXtFuXrhkiBdWc6_9PY0hPkANqnjCXOYVPSoGfk2mANxdq4e0qvoIdRDGX-7M_Z0WpsyOR5VflMs34sqeAQKdFUlPUqQ3Cbj7liz2EUX_RKZ0UF17pVuqNK-fPFxF4CS4xHy1syKsJxcp-Mwv654OMFG0oXipRdcmigZkkAzo1N4raSAJxpInxF4VLTm7oY813V84tC3AGRzhpnmxU.NC5gceKKdI1kyDGCJ-LD9EOya8cip4QEcNC5kt8fs6E&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=george+floyd&amp;qid=1759031366&amp;sprefix=george+floyd%2Caps%2C153&amp;sr=8-1">ON AMAZON!</a><span>: </span><a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/george-floyd-book/">Operation George Floyd</a></p></div><div class="pullquote"><p><em><strong><span>Stardust is an ongoing serialized field report on consciousness, discernment, unconditional love, magical realism, and the lived experience of navigating intuition inside an inverted matrix.</span><a href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/stardust-series-start-here"> Stardust Series &#8212; Start Here</a></strong></em></p></div><p>I wouldn&#8217;t see Snuffy again for a few more weeks&#8212;not until the end of October 2024. It was the strangest thing: after a few days, I would genuinely wonder whether he was real at all, or whether I had imagined the entire encounter&#8212;hence the name Snuffalupagus.</p><p>But there was the truck baby. And there was <em>something </em>else. Not him exactly. Not me. Something between us. A third energy. A field of sorts.</p><p><em>Had I become <strong>quantum-entangled</strong> with him after he splooged inside me? </em>I knew myself. &#8220;Know thyself&#8221; is my entire raison d&#8217;&#234;tre, for God&#8217;s sake.  <strong>I am perceptive to the point of inconvenience.</strong> What the fuck was this?</p><p><em>Was this yet another twin-flame symptom</em>, I wondered?</p><p>Trying to understand that experience, I searched online. <em>Reddit</em> was full of people describing an 'ongoing presence.&#8221; Others described a ghost, an energetic bond, shared energy, or a soul pull that persisted despite &#8216;no contact.&#8217;</p><p>One person wrote:</p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s like we&#8217;re never really separated, and I can actually feel her energy come and go.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p>Another said:</p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Lately, I&#8217;ve been feeling like my twin is in my presence, just feeling like he has his arm around me.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p>Someone else described it as:</p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;A soul pull I couldn&#8217;t explain.&#8221;</em> </p></blockquote><p>In analytical psychology, there is the transcendent function&#8212;something new arising from the tension between opposites. In contemplative Christian writing, Christ is present &#8220;where two or three are gathered,&#8221; suggesting a presence that exceeds the sum of its parts. Relationship psychology likewise speaks of the relationship itself as a third entity, existing alongside the two people who created it, forming a different take on the concept of Trinity.</p><p>Whether this was psychological, spiritual, symbolic, or some combination of all three, I couldn&#8217;t say with certainty. It was as though a pulse remained between us in the ether after he walked through my door&#8212;a living thread I could still feel, unlike anything I had experienced before.</p><p>Suffice it to say, post-Snuffy, I questioned my sanity on the regular. There were days when I wondered whether I was living in another dimension altogether. Perhaps I had begun tapping into my multidimensionality.</p><p>And yet this brutal reawakening also became an unlikely initiation. It dismantled me, but it also returned pieces of me I didn&#8217;t know I had abandoned. Whatever happened between us, he had inadvertently awakened parts of my soul that had been dormant for years, if not lifetimes. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-50-soul-memories-before-time?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-50-soul-memories-before-time?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h3>Enter The Chrysalis </h3><p>I ordered the missing part for my bed frame so I could get my mattress &#8212; and myself &#8212; off the floor. I wasn&#8217;t a princess. Not in this life. Still, I was sad that I wasn&#8217;t a priority of his.  By now it was safe to say Snuffy wasn&#8217;t interested in <em>me</em>. But given our connection and the time we'd spent together, I didn&#8217;t understand why. My fantasies of having sex in every room of my new old 1924 home rental were just that &#8212; 3D fantasies.</p><p>Yet I still wanted him as a housemate. Not only because he had said, &#8220;Maybe we can live together,&#8221; the very first time we ever spoke on the phone, but because I liked being near him. My soul was drawn to him, though logic could offer no adequate explanation for the force of that pull. Frankly, it was nerve-wracking.</p><p>I didn&#8217;t ask where he was staying. I assumed it was in the truck baby; that was what he had told me. I never pressed him on his whereabouts. I likened him to the giant sea turtle he had seen, carrying its house on its back. And I remembered telling him that he was inside a chrysalis.</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;f6457c55-9650-4c48-a132-28b393ee7207&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Follow: Twitter | Instagram Truth Lives Here: Rumble | Odysee | YouTube HONEYCOLONY | Websites: MaryamHenein.com | HoneyColony.com| NOW ON AMAZON!: Operation George Floyd&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Part 38|| Quantum Entanglement: Slow-Fast, Fast-Slow&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:96940872,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;MARYAM HENEIN&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Maryam Henein is an investigative journalist, and founder, and editor-in-chief of HoneyColony. She is also a functional medicine consultant/coach, and the director of the award-winning documentary film Vanishing of the Bees.&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c6ccd549-f10d-44d9-b3ff-10ef5023e872_2640x3960.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-11T15:11:38.247Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0er3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F093a1973-17e8-48e3-96ae-732c766c7ba0_1280x720.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-38-quantum-entanglement-slow&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:178394102,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:14,&quot;comment_count&quot;:1,&quot;publication_id&quot;:944302,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Maryam Henein on Substack&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vbCa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6f4bdb70-8bc4-4973-b229-efce951fd6e3_900x900.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>&#8220;That&#8217;s a good way to put it,&#8221; he said as we sat cross-legged on the hardwood floor of my empty living room. The word had come to me after he confided in me about the shadow people&#8212;something I mentioned in an earlier installment.</p><p>It was a good way to put it. But what exactly had I meant? <strong>The word had seemed to arrive from my Higher Self, fully formed. Why that word?</strong> Was the chrysalis ever used in relation to spiritual growth?</p><p>When I looked the word up online, I found that it was <em>indeed </em>used in connection with <a href="https://eraoflight.com/2023/02/09/the-chrysalis/">ascension.</a>  <em>Hmmm. </em>   </p><p>Looking into the chrysalis phase brought me right back to Hermeticism. While it is not, strictly speaking, an alchemical stage, the image maps almost perfectly onto <em>nigredo</em>&#8212;the blackening, the putrefaction, the necessary descent into dissolution. It is the shadowed phase in which the old form decomposes before anything new can emerge.</p><p>As I wrote in an earlier installment, long before I knew anything about <em>Hermeticism</em>, I woke one morning with a single word emblazoned across my inner vision: <strong>MORTIFICATION</strong>. Looking back, I can see that Snuffy, whether he knew it or not, had already become the catalyst drawing me toward the alchemical path.</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;06530a39-be92-4561-bd3f-bb9fc768ca27&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Follow: Twitter | Instagram Truth Lives Here: Rumble | Odysee | YouTube HONEYCOLONY | Websites: MaryamHenein.com | HoneyColony.com| NOW ON AMAZON!: Operation George Floyd&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Part 36|| Force vs Flow &#8212; When The Truth Of A Connection Reveals Itself In Silence&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:96940872,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;MARYAM HENEIN&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Maryam Henein is an investigative journalist, and founder, and editor-in-chief of HoneyColony. She is also a functional medicine consultant/coach, and the director of the award-winning documentary film Vanishing of the Bees.&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c6ccd549-f10d-44d9-b3ff-10ef5023e872_2640x3960.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-10-24T18:23:22.118Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CK9K!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a889b7f-a232-498e-a698-5c80d148d5c4_1280x720.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-36-force-vs-flow&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:175319476,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:11,&quot;comment_count&quot;:0,&quot;publication_id&quot;:944302,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Maryam Henein on Substack&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vbCa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6f4bdb70-8bc4-4973-b229-efce951fd6e3_900x900.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>Within <em>nigredo</em> lies <em>mortificatio</em>: the symbolic death of the old self&#8212;the stripping away of illusion, identity, attachment, and ego. No one gets to skip this stage unless one refuses the soul&#8217;s evolution, has become severed from the Higher Self, or something else has taken up residence in the body temple. Or perhaps one gets a pass for being a dragon. Or perhaps... if one is a dragon.</p><p><em>Nigredo </em>is decomposition. You cannot rush the rot. The alchemists understood that the vessel had to remain over a slow, sustained fire. Transformation could not be forced.</p><p>Then, while writing this, a video popped up on my feed that described it with startling precision: this was &#8220;the moment when the caterpillar becomes a formless liquid inside the chrysalis&#8221;&#8212;&#8220;a period of blind faith in the dark, with no guarantee that a butterfly will ever emerge.&#8221;</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;03812815-0e41-4ae0-9493-9ce2d6d5e66b&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>The irony was brutal. <strong>A knife twist.</strong> Snuffy had used those exact words: He said to have &#8220;blind faith.&#8221; At the time, it sounded spiritual, maybe even fated. </p><p>&#8220;Snuffy, you are going to restore my faith in humanity,&#8221; I told him, believing he would honor the gift of the truck&#8212;and the gift of having attracted a high-caliber individual like me into his life. </p><p>But through the alchemical lens, blind faith is not a Hallmark card moment. It <em>is </em>the underworld. It is the place where the old form dissolves, and no new form has yet appeared.</p><p>Maybe I was standing inside the dark with him&#8212;and inside my own.   </p><p><em><strong>What happened next changed the way I think about memory forever. A little-known film called The Discovery unexpectedly connected my journals, Hermeticism, quantum consciousness, the strange certainty that I had kissed Snuffy before, and one haunting question: How many times had we met on that 333 parking lot? </strong></em></p>
      <p>
          <a href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-50-soul-memories-before-time">
              Read more
          </a>
      </p>
   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[EXCLUSIVE || Derek Chauvin Memory-Holed For Life? ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why Is Everyone Afraid of my Operation George Floyd Book?]]></description><link>https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/exclusive-derek-chauvin-memory-holed</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/exclusive-derek-chauvin-memory-holed</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[MARYAM HENEIN]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:07:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4371de0b-ae19-4c92-a511-75269948e142_1344x768.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;9804dfc7-d717-4174-bb7d-fe6643cf50e6&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Follow: <a href="https://twitter.com/maryamhenein">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/maryamhenein/">Instagram</a> Truth Lives Here: <a href="https://rumble.com/c/TruthLivesHere">Rumble</a> | <a href="https://odysee.com/@MaryamHenein:8">Odysee</a> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/maryamheneinbeelady2">YouTube</a> <a href="http://www.honeycolony.com/">HONEYCOLONY</a> | Websites: <a href="https://maryamhenein.com/">MaryamHenein.com</a> | <a href="https://honeycolony.com/">HoneyColony.com</a>| BUY NOW <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Operation-George-Floyd-Multi-Layered-Exposed/dp/B0FG2H6J3R/ref=sr_1_1?crid=N0S8NXPT5BGZ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1F5gI3lF_z1jhLgvJcP4t3z-0HCPcG8nhWSrzTkSmqn8sLB4iYiMQvMzClZXCQ6PbL_KPYrZSU6tXwDx9U2XnzMzXtXtFuXrhkiBdWc6_9PY0hPkANqnjCXOYVPSoGfk2mANxdq4e0qvoIdRDGX-7M_Z0WpsyOR5VflMs34sqeAQKdFUlPUqQ3Cbj7liz2EUX_RKZ0UF17pVuqNK-fPFxF4CS4xHy1syKsJxcp-Mwv654OMFG0oXipRdcmigZkkAzo1N4raSAJxpInxF4VLTm7oY813V84tC3AGRzhpnmxU.NC5gceKKdI1kyDGCJ-LD9EOya8cip4QEcNC5kt8fs6E&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=george+floyd&amp;qid=1759031366&amp;sprefix=george+floyd%2Caps%2C153&amp;sr=8-1">ON AMAZON!</a>: <a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/george-floyd-book/">Operation George Floyd</a></p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p>If MKUltra is real&#8212;and it is&#8212;if its files weren&#8217;t destroyed, if its experiments in Germany had been acknowledged, and if the public understood that behavior-modification programs didn&#8217;t simply vanish because the CIA supposedly said &#8220;oops&#8221; in 1973, then perhaps they would understand why Derek Chauvin appears to be the latest man memory-holed by the system.</p><p>If people weren&#8217;t too busy being surveilled, poisoned, diverted, divided, and spiritually lobotomized, maybe they would wonder why the man at the center of the most consequential American trial of the last decade has not been in the headlines since Ben Shapiro and <em>The Daily Wire's</em> &#8220;Pardon Derek&#8221; movement fizzled out.  </p><p>The stabbing happened nearly three years ago. On <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/inmate-who-stabbed-derek-chauvin-22-times-is-charged-with-attempted-murder-prosecutors-say/">November 24, 2023</a>, the day after Thanksgiving, prosecutors reported that John Turscak stabbed Derek Chauvin 22 times inside the law library at <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-charged-stabbing-derek-chauvin-22-times-prison/story?id=105320176">FCI Tucson</a> with an improvised knife. A sick rendition of <em>Clue</em>: the inmate, the law library, the blade. </p><p><em><strong>But what if I had proof that it was actually the government who wanted him out of the picture?</strong></em> Would you understand why I am <strong>not fake-censored, not algorithmically inconvenienced, not &#8220;shadowbanned&#8221; for branding purposes, but censored, censored</strong>?</p><p>Because Derek Chauvin was not only a dirty cop.</p><p>He was very arguably an MKUltra-style asset. A patsy. A broken man who was arguably mind-controlled and used by a machine that will eat even its own. </p><p>I have the dirt. I have the documents. I have the facts. I have photos. But I no longer have reach. So please share this post, because We the People deserve <strong>100 percent unfiltered, organic truth</strong>.</p><p>My book <em><a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/george-floyd-book/">Operation George Floyd </a></em>has made me a very naughty (Bee) Lady.  Even a top conservative publicist admitted that the media are <strong>&#8220;uniquely afraid&#8221;</strong> of this title. </p><p>This is an exclusive. <strong><span data-color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">&#8595;&#8595;&#8595;&#8595;&#8595;&#8595;&#8595;&#8595;&#8595;&#8595;&#8595;&#8595;</span></strong></p></div><h3>Germany, MKUltra, and the Forgotten Derek Chauvin File</h3><p>Alas, sometimes the truth takes decades to come to light. People like me try to sound the alarm, but we&#8217;re drowned out in the noise of TRIES &#8212; truth mixed with lies &#8212; or digitally assassinated and buried.</p><p>Last week, certain things fell into place, and I realized it was time to present my argument that Derek Chauvin, of George Floyd infamy, was <strong>MKUltra&#8217;d</strong>.</p><p>But first, let&#8217;s set the stage. No pun intended.</p><p>Fifty-three years after the CIA officially shut down MKUltra&#8212;and after decades of destroyed files, official silence, and public ridicule&#8212;Congress has reopened the topic. </p><p>The timing is hard to ignore. Mercury had just gone retrograde (associated with the return of unfinished business and buried truths. CERN went quiet during its scheduled four-year &#8220;technical shutdown.&#8221; And Germany&#8212;long buried in the history of Cold War intelligence operations&#8212;is suddenly back in the headlines. </p><p><em>Coincidence?</em> </p><p>Perhaps. </p><p>We are now seemingly living in <strong>perma&#8211;Twilight Zone</strong>, after all.</p><p>On June 30, 2026, the House Oversight Committee held a hearing titled <em><a href="https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/mind-control-and-accountability-uncovering-the-truth-of-the-cias-mkultra-project/">Mind Control and Accountability: Uncovering the Truth of the CIA&#8217;s MKULTRA Project</a></em>. </p><p>Stephen Kinzer, an award-winning investigative journalist, former foreign correspondent for <em>The New York Times</em>, and the author of <em>Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control</em>, testified.</p><p>Kinzer&#8217;s <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Kinzer-Written-Testimony.pdf">written testimony</a> states that MKUltra experiments were conducted not only in the United States, but in Europe and Asia, and that CIA officers searched foreign countries for &#8220;expendables&#8221; &#8212; human beings who could be used and discarded without consequence.   </p><p>Just as Congress placed Germany back into the public conversation through the MKUltra hearings, I found myself returning to one of the least-examined chapters of Derek Chauvin&#8217;s life: his military training in Germany.</p><p>Sometimes history doesn&#8217;t repeat itself.</p><p>Sometimes it circles back to the places where the deepest secrets are buried.</p><p>In my uber-censored book <em><a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/george-floyd-book/">Operation George Floyd,</a></em> I documented that Chauvin served in the Army Reserve as a military police officer during two active-duty periods: first from September 1996 to February 1997 in Rochester, Minnesota, and later from September 1999 to May 2000 in Germany. </p><p>Did any of the conservative media tell you this? </p><p>I think NOT. </p><p>His duties included criminal investigations, traffic enforcement, and proactive patrol.</p><p>The Germany detail matters.</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><strong>Chauvin was stationed at the Combat Maneuver Training Center in Hohenfels, Germany, where the mission included realistic arms training for U.S. Army and European forces through force-on-force exercises, aka FOF.</strong></p><p><strong>Force-on-force training is designed to reduce the &#8220;novelty effect&#8221; in high-stress encounters where violence is possible.</strong></p><p><strong>A primary benefit of FOF training is learning how to see, process, and respond to a rapid sequence of events without underreacting or overreacting.</strong></p><p><strong>That is exactly why this detail cannot be brushed aside.</strong></p><p><strong>In plain English: it conditions the nervous system to process simulated threat, chaos, role-played confrontation, and tightly controlled violence.</strong></p><p><strong>Read that a few times. </strong></p></div><p>Jerry Obieglo, who knew Chauvin during that period, told me Chauvin was laser-focused on becoming a police officer. Whether that is true or a talking point, I am not sure anymore.</p><p>He said Chauvin did not drink, volunteered as a designated driver, kept his uniform clean, kept his equipment accounted for, and &#8220;didn&#8217;t stand out.&#8221;</p><p>Growing up, Chauvin was described as a loner. Others said he was kind of &#8220;creepy.&#8221;</p><p>So now place that beside the renewed MKUltra hearing, where Germany reappears in the conversation around behavioral experimentation, overseas sites, destroyed files, drugs, hypnosis, and the use of &#8220;expendables.&#8221;</p><p>No, this does not prove Chauvin was programmed. But it does invite deserved scrutiny. </p><p>Because Derek Chauvin was not simply some random Minneapolis cop who emerged from nowhere in 2020. He had military police training. He had force-on-force conditioning in Germany. He was referred to as the Warlord of Precinct Three. He was known for his signature move.</p><p>And then he became the central figure in a national trauma event that reordered speech, politics, policing, race, public trust, and institutional power.</p><p>So here is the forbidden question:</p><p>Was Derek Chauvin simply a dirty cop, or was he a government puppet who was used and then discarded?</p><h2>The Man Who Stabbed Derek 22 Times</h2><p>No, Derek Chauvin is not dead. And no, I don&#8217;t think he is sipping margaritas in Mexico, although I do find it amusing that both George Floyd and Derek Chauvin have IMDb pages. That&#8217;s cute &#8212; in a fake-and-gay sort of way.</p><p>Six years after May 25, 2020, Chauvin is no longer a man at the center of a national firestorm. He is a reference. A sealed file inside a larger civic myth.</p><p>His name is still invoked when useful, usually as shorthand for &#8220;the trial,&#8221; &#8220;the reckoning,&#8221; or &#8220;the moment everything changed.&#8221;</p><p>But the actual case? The documents? The medical updates? </p><p>What isn&#8217;t amusing is how little anyone seems interested in what happened to Chauvin after November 24, 2023, when he was stabbed twenty-two times inside the law library at FCI Tucson.</p><p>As soon as I heard about the stabbing, I started calling the prison.</p><p>Repeatedly.</p><p>Eventually, I spoke with a government functionary. Later, I learned from John Turscak that prison officials had told him a woman who made a documentary about bees had been trying to reach him &#8212; but not to pay any attention because she was &#8220;a conspiracy theorist psycho kook.&#8221;</p><p>At least the government knows who I am. </p><p>Eventually, despite the government&#8217;s apparent efforts to dissuade him, John and I connected.</p><p>You could say it was destined.</p><p>Eventually, I wrote to John&#8217;s now-former lawyer, who thought I might make a great pen pal. </p><p>&#8220;Is she hot old man?&#8221; John told me he asked.</p><p>&#8220;Well, in this picture she&#8217;s covered in bees.&#8221;</p><p>That triggered something. John remembered &#8220;the Bee Lady&#8221; &#8212; the woman the government had called a kook.</p><p>Me.</p><p>A former Mexican Mafia figure, longtime federal prisoner, and alleged former FBI informant, Turscak is not a polite source wrapped in NPR packaging. He is prison intelligence, street code, federal machinery, violence, memory, and contradiction rolled into one human file.</p><p>When we started speaking, we clicked. Now, I am the only one he wants to talk to.  I&#8217;ve arguably done more original reporting on John Turscak than anyone.</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;16e35590-8adb-41a6-9ef7-5e32b7bd619b&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Follow: Twitter | Instagram | Telegram | Gab | Facebook&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;md&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;United States Of America VS John Turscak&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:96940872,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;MARYAM HENEIN&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Maryam Henein is an investigative journalist, and founder, and editor-in-chief of HoneyColony. She is also a functional medicine consultant/coach, and the director of the award-winning documentary film Vanishing of the Bees.&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c6ccd549-f10d-44d9-b3ff-10ef5023e872_2640x3960.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2023-12-22T01:20:11.873Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0DTX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F38afe641-273e-4e8b-944e-568296a34df6_1280x720.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/united-states-of-america-vs-john&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:139943746,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:16,&quot;comment_count&quot;:2,&quot;publication_id&quot;:944302,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Maryam Henein on Substack&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vbCa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6f4bdb70-8bc4-4973-b229-efce951fd6e3_900x900.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>One day he told me:</p><p>&#8220;I may be a cold-blooded murderer, but I am not a liar. And I know you won&#8217;t lie to me either.&#8221;</p><p>Eventually, John read my entire book in a week. The next time we spoke, he laughed.</p><p>&#8220;Mama Bee. R-E-S-P-E-C-T.&#8221;</p><p> I asked:</p><p>&#8220;Now that you&#8217;ve read my book, do you think you were socially engineered to stab Derek?&#8221; </p><p>&#8220;Kind of.&#8221;</p><h3>Down And Out|| Is Derek Now In Diapers? </h3><p>According to John, Derek came to him. He knew John had decades of defending himself legally. Derek was broke. Derek was broken.</p><p>Derek had been, in John&#8217;s words, &#8220;left for dead.&#8221;</p><p>And that was before John stabbed him.</p><p>Booromboop.</p><p>I still don&#8217;t have all those details. But after a series of conversations, things escalated into a stabbing inside the prison law library. And then something stranger happened.</p><p>John&#8217;s nickname is Stranger, by the way.</p><p><span>On March 4, 2025, </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-ben-shapiro-gives-the-facts-on-derek-chauvin-and-george-floyd?utm_source=chatgpt.com">Ben Shapiro launched a high-profile </a><strong><span>&#8220;</span><a href="https://time.com/7265106/derek-chauvin-pardon-trump-petition-ben-shapiro-musk-george-floyd/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">Pardon Derek Chauvin</a><span>&#8221; </span></strong><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-ben-shapiro-gives-the-facts-on-derek-chauvin-and-george-floyd?utm_source=chatgpt.com">campaign </a><span>urging President Trump to pardon Derek Chauvin. It dominated conservative media for weeks. There were petitions, interviews, a five-part documentary series, and endorsements from figures like Elon Musk. </span></p><p><span>Then... silence. The petition faded. The headlines disappeared. Even more curious, the original  article announcing the campaign now returns a 404 error.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zr4d!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F290587df-adfc-4021-99b6-6799b35440e0_2270x1330.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zr4d!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F290587df-adfc-4021-99b6-6799b35440e0_2270x1330.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zr4d!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F290587df-adfc-4021-99b6-6799b35440e0_2270x1330.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zr4d!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F290587df-adfc-4021-99b6-6799b35440e0_2270x1330.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zr4d!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F290587df-adfc-4021-99b6-6799b35440e0_2270x1330.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zr4d!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F290587df-adfc-4021-99b6-6799b35440e0_2270x1330.png" width="580" height="339.79395604395603" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/290587df-adfc-4021-99b6-6799b35440e0_2270x1330.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:853,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:580,&quot;bytes&quot;:697353,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/i/199657195?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F290587df-adfc-4021-99b6-6799b35440e0_2270x1330.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zr4d!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F290587df-adfc-4021-99b6-6799b35440e0_2270x1330.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zr4d!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F290587df-adfc-4021-99b6-6799b35440e0_2270x1330.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zr4d!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F290587df-adfc-4021-99b6-6799b35440e0_2270x1330.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zr4d!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F290587df-adfc-4021-99b6-6799b35440e0_2270x1330.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong><span>Try the Back Door! Buy My </span><a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/george-floyd-book/">Book MoFos</a></strong></figcaption></figure></div><p><span>Was it just another fake and gay episode and money laundering scheme?</span></p><p>Of course I asked John the obvious question:</p><p>&#8220;Is Derek even alive?&#8221;</p><p>John&#8217;s answer stopped me.</p><p>&#8220;They told me to keep him alive.&#8221;</p><p>Oh.</p><p>Okay.</p><p>What exactly am I supposed to do with that? </p><p><em><strong>Below the paywall, I get into the part nobody wants to touch: what John told me about Derek&#8217;s condition, a meth allegation, the strange &#8220;medical facility&#8221; language, the evaporated &#8220;Pardon Derek&#8221; campaign, the Kellie Chauvin question, and the MKUltra pattern hiding in plain sight &#8212; drugs, prisons, behavioral modification, federal assets, and expendable men.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>This is not recycled outrage. This is original reporting Hunter S. Thompson style. If you value that, become a paid subscriber, keep reading.</strong> <strong>And please buy the book directly from me &#8212; not Amazon &#8212; so the work survives without feeding the same machine that buries it. You can order Operation George Floyd: A Multi-Layered Psyop Exposed <a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/george-floyd-book/">directly from my website</a>. It is also now available as an <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Operation-George-Floyd-Multi-Layered-Exposed/dp/B0H37V67PB">Audible edition</a>. The author-voice edition is available on <a href="https://maryamhenein.gumroad.com/l/operation-george-floyd-audiobook">Gumroad</a>.</strong></em></p>
      <p>
          <a href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/exclusive-derek-chauvin-memory-holed">
              Read more
          </a>
      </p>
   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[CERN Powers Down, The Sky Screams & Elon Musk Wants Your Brain]]></title><description><![CDATA[And Nobody in the Mainstream Is Connecting the Dots]]></description><link>https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/cern-powers-down-the-sky-screams</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/cern-powers-down-the-sky-screams</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[MARYAM HENEIN]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:41:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/419e579e-4e16-4e4b-8400-05fc0909b714_1280x720.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;664060b7-54b9-46db-aa7d-f7f6fbd3516f&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><span>Follow: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/maryamhenein">Twitter</a><span> | </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/maryamhenein/">Instagram</a><span> Truth Lives Here: </span><a href="https://rumble.com/c/TruthLivesHere">Rumble</a><span> | </span><a href="https://odysee.com/@MaryamHenein:8">Odysee</a><span> | </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/maryamheneinbeelady2">YouTube</a><span> </span><a href="http://www.honeycolony.com/">HONEYCOLONY</a><span> | Websites: </span><a href="https://maryamhenein.com/">MaryamHenein.com</a><span> | Georgefloydbook | </span><a href="https://honeycolony.com/">HoneyColony.com</a><span>| BUY NOW </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Operation-George-Floyd-Multi-Layered-Exposed/dp/B0FG2H6J3R/ref=sr_1_1?crid=N0S8NXPT5BGZ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1F5gI3lF_z1jhLgvJcP4t3z-0HCPcG8nhWSrzTkSmqn8sLB4iYiMQvMzClZXCQ6PbL_KPYrZSU6tXwDx9U2XnzMzXtXtFuXrhkiBdWc6_9PY0hPkANqnjCXOYVPSoGfk2mANxdq4e0qvoIdRDGX-7M_Z0WpsyOR5VflMs34sqeAQKdFUlPUqQ3Cbj7liz2EUX_RKZ0UF17pVuqNK-fPFxF4CS4xHy1syKsJxcp-Mwv654OMFG0oXipRdcmigZkkAzo1N4raSAJxpInxF4VLTm7oY813V84tC3AGRzhpnmxU.NC5gceKKdI1kyDGCJ-LD9EOya8cip4QEcNC5kt8fs6E&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=george+floyd&amp;qid=1759031366&amp;sprefix=george+floyd%2Caps%2C153&amp;sr=8-1">ON AMAZON!</a><span>: </span><a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/george-floyd-book/">Operation George Floyd</a></p><p>On June 29th, 2026, the world&#8217;s largest machine&#8212;built to interrogate the nature of reality&#8212;enters the runway toward what CERN is calling &#8220;<a href="https://home.cern/news/news/accelerators/new-schedule-cerns-accelerators">Long Shutdown 3</a>.&#8221;</p><p><a href="https://home.cern/news/news/accelerators/new-schedule-cerns-accelerators/">CERN calls it scheduled</a>. Routine. A multiyear industrial-scale refit stretching toward 2030. A timeline so perfectly bureaucratic it practically comes with a laminated badge and an Agenda 2030 lanyard.  </p><p><em>What happens when a 27-kilometer ring of superconducting magnets buried beneath the Franco-Swiss border&#8212;accelerating protons to 99.9999991% the speed of light&#8212;goes silent?</em></p><p>It&#8217;s a fair question. People familiar with the Mandela Effect are asking whether fewer &#8220;reality glitches&#8221; will appear while the collider is offline. They are comparing CERN activity phases to waves of collective misremembering.</p><p>Officially, CERN is not &#8220;going dark&#8221; for mystical reasons. Please scroll along and consume your Bill Gates lab-grown protein<span>.&nbsp;</span>I, however, have spent enough years investigating institutions to know that timing is rarely treated as an irrelevant detail by people who manage power. Whether you call it ritual, optics, symbolism, public relations, or carefully chosen dates, the calendar is part of the construct.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/cern-powers-down-the-sky-screams?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/cern-powers-down-the-sky-screams?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h2>July is BOOM Astrologically  </h2><p>Astrologically, June 29, 2026, the sky is not whispering. It is banging pots and pans. The collider enters its shutdown window just as Mercury <a href="https://www.almanac.com/content/mercury-retrograde-dates">stations</a> retrograde in Cancer and a Full Moon rises in Capricorn - my sign!   </p><p>The closest modern threshold-sky parallel is striking.</p><p>On March 9, 2020, a Virgo Full Moon coincided with Mercury stationing direct in Pisces&#8212;the inverse motion of what is occurring now, but still a lunar-Mercury pressure point. Two days later, on March 11, the <a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/speeches/item/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---11-march-2020?utm_source=chatgpt.com">World Health Organization officially characterized COVID-19 as a pandemic</a>. On March 13, President Trump declared a national emergency; the cascade of shutdown orders followed. </p><p>The point is that Mercury stood still as a Full Moon lit up Virgo&#8212;the sign of health, medicine, data, labor, purification, and daily systems&#8212;while the world crossed a threshold it still has not metabolized.</p><p>Correlation is not causation. But symbolism is worth noting, especially when institutions begin to rearrange the entire human experience two days later.</p><p>The last clean modern parallel was December 3, 2017, when Mercury stationed retrograde in Sagittarius on the same day a Full Moon rose in Gemini. The more immediate precursor came September 9&#8211;10, 2022, when Mercury turned retrograde in Libra within roughly seven hours of a Pisces Harvest Moon.</p><p>In the present moment, the sky does not calm down after the full moon and Mercury retrograde.</p><p>On July 4, 2026&#8212;America&#8217;s 250th birthday&#8212;Mars conjoins Uranus at roughly 3&#176; Gemini, fusing action, aggression, ignition, technology, shocks, networks, code, media, nervous systems, and transmission. </p><p>In the context of CERN, the Mandela Effect, and a society already arguing over reality itself, Mars-Uranus in Gemini reads like a cosmic exclamation point<strong>.</strong> </p><p>For readers new to the Mandela Effect, Cynthia Sue Larson&#8217;s <em><strong><a href="https://realityshifters.com/pages/mesociety.html">The Mandela Effect and Its Society: Awakening from ME to <span>WE&nbsp;</span></a></strong></em><span>is</span> a useful entry point. The phenomenon refers to collective memories that appear to conflict with the official record&#8212;changes people say they notice in movies, books, food, clothing, animals, human anatomy, geography, astronomy, history, and seemingly every corner of life.</p><p>Larson asks the larger questions: Are we experiencing divergent timelines? What is the Mandela Effect revealing, and where is it taking us?</p><p>Meanwhile, if astrology isn&#8217;t your thing, that&#8217;s fine. Go ahead and roll your eyes, but before you do, consider that <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/96xxx">JP Morgan </a>is often credited with saying that millionaires do not use astrology; billionaires do. Whether he said those exact words is disputed; the larger point is not. The people running empires have always employed astrologers, diviners, strategists, priests, military forecasters, economists, and intelligence analysts to reduce uncertainty. </p><p>Consider that <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/04/us/reagan-white-house-used-astrology-to-plan-president-s-schedule.html">Ronald Reagan&#8217;s White House scheduling was influenced by astrologer Joan Quigley</a> &#8212; a fact confirmed by former Chief of Staff Donald Regan in his memoir. Also, <a href="https://www.history.com/news/the-catholic-church-and-galileo">the Vatican systematically dismantled the cosmological knowledge systems</a> of every culture it absorbed &#8212; not because the stars were irrelevant, but because a population that can read the sky does not need an intermediary to interpret reality for them. </p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><strong><span data-color="#ff9900" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Astrology may be publicly mocked, but privately consulted. That is the oldest trick in the book: ridicule the map while quietly using it to navigate.</span></strong> <strong><span data-color="#ff9900" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The elites never stopped looking up. Most of humanity did. Society was programmed to call the sky irrelevant, childish, demonic, or unscientific&#8212;anything but potentially intelligible. </span></strong></p><p><em><strong><span data-color="#ff9900" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Don&#8217;t Look Up</span></strong></em><strong><span data-color="#ff9900" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> wasn&#8217;t just the title of a Hollywood film&#8212;it also makes for an apt cultural metaphor. </span></strong></p><p><strong><span data-color="#ff9900" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Over time, astrology was recast as superstition, dismissed as pseudoscience, or even associated with demonic forces. Humanity gradually lost touch with the sky that once served as its clock, compass, and cosmology. The long campaign to sever our connection to our celestial origins has been unfolding for eons. </span></strong></p></div><p>For the record, Mercury rules messages, code, commerce, machines, nervous-system exchange, translation, trickery, and mischief. Cancer rules memory, ancestry, mother, home, body, and the emotional archive. Capricorn rules the state, the corporation, the skeleton, the machine, and the authority structure that tells the body what it is worth.</p><p>That is the axis. So, in a way, it&#8217;s body versus institution/memory versus machinery.   </p><p>I don&#8217;t like coincidences that masquerade as scheduling.  </p><p><em>Do you? </em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/cern-powers-down-the-sky-screams?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/cern-powers-down-the-sky-screams?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h2>The Great Neural Convergence: AI Jesus</h2><p>A few weeks ago, my friend Jimmy<span>, the moderator of my podcast,&nbsp;</span><em><a href="https://rumble.com/c/TruthLivesHere"><span>Truth Lives Here</span></a></em><span>, told me that a dude he met said he had already installed&nbsp;</span>Neuralink. <em> Whaat?</em></p><p>Neuralink is no longer hypothetical.</p><p>My friend isn't the only one. Reports of people claiming they already have a Neuralink implant are beginning to surface outside of official trial participants. In early 2024, <a href="https://neuralink.com/blog/prime-study-progress-update-easy-does-it/">Neuralink confirmed its first human patient, Noland Arbaugh</a>, a 29-year-old quadriplegic who received the implant in January 2024 and demonstrated playing chess and video games using only his thoughts. </p><p>By mid-2025, Neuralink had reportedly implanted the device in a small number of additional trial participants under its <a href="https://neuralink.com/prime/">PRIME Study</a>, though the company has been characteristically tight-lipped about exact numbers and outcomes beyond curated press releases. The PRIME Study is officially described as a first-in-human trial evaluating the safety and functionality of an implanted brain-computer interface. And Elon Musk has stated on the record that he wants to implant one billion human brains. </p><p>I&#8217;ve covered Elon Musk&#8217;s monkey experiments and transhumanism at length. The irony is that I learned about the &#8220;rollout&#8221; from an astrologer called K Moon on <em>YouTube</em>. One moment she was talking about transits, and the next she was talking about transplants. She mentioned Neuralink's boon in helping those with ALS and even gave a nod to Universal Basic Income. </p><p>K Moon is not alone; she is a symptom of a much larger cultural wave that is covering Neuralink as if it were a spiritual upgrade. As if the chip is an evolution. As if Elon Musk is a technological shaman delivering humanity to its next octave. The framing is soft, warm, and excited. <em>This could expand consciousness. This could be the bridge between human and divine intelligence.</em></p><p>When K Moon covers Neuralink with the same reverent energy she brings to a full-moon ritual &#8212; when the chip receives the same spiritual warmth as a plant-medicine ceremony &#8212; something is OFF.</p><p>The  genuine hunger for transcendence, for healing, for connection, for something that breaks the ceiling of ordinary human limitation is real. But that hunger is being harvested.</p><p>The AI Jesus phenomenon &#8212; and that is what this is, that is the only accurate name for it &#8212; is the repackaging of messianic religious architecture around technology and the men who build it. <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/09/silicon-valley-effective-altruism-religion/674764/">It has been documented by scholars of religion</a>. It has been named by former insiders. It is not a metaphor. <span data-color="rgb(231, 230, 233)" style="color: rgb(231, 230, 233);">There are people like Robert Edward Grant who&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/technology/ai-is-god.html">genuinely believe they are building God</a><span data-color="rgb(231, 230, 233)" style="color: rgb(231, 230, 233);">, and there are content creators with hundreds of thousands of followers peddling, for instance, his </span><em><span data-color="rgb(231, 230, 233)" style="color: rgb(231, 230, 233);">Architect, </span></em><span data-color="rgb(231, 230, 233)" style="color: rgb(231, 230, 233);">associated with the language of awakening and ascension.</span></p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><span>The distinction between&nbsp;technology that serves the body&nbsp;and&nbsp;technology that owns the body&nbsp;is being dissolved in the language of evolution, love, and light.</span></p></div><p>Elon Musk is not a shaman. <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2024/01/23/all-the-companies-elon-musk-owns/">He is the CEO of six companies</a> who has stated on the record that he wants to implant one billion human brains.  </p><p>The AI Jesus is not coming to save you.  It&#8217;s a product. </p><p>By January 28, 2026, Neuralink itself announced 21 participants. The company  published an update called &#8220;<a href="https://neuralink.com/updates/two-years-of-telepathy/">Two Years of Telepathy</a>.&#8221;  </p><p>The company&#8217;s  <a href="https://neuralink.com/trials/">clinical-trial</a>&nbsp;infrastructure is expanding beyond the original PRIME Study. It now includes research on thought-controlled assistive devices, robotic arms, speech restoration, and a Patient Registry designed to recruit participants for current and future studies. </p><p>By the way, I am taking a moment to thank Charles Lieber&#8212;the former Harvard nanotechnology pioneer whose laboratory helped develop syringe-injectable &#8220;mesh electronics&#8221; designed to integrate with neural tissue and record brain activity over time.  There is no Neuralink without the NanoTech King. </p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;e1c2b474-b5d8-4046-bb55-40bd45caa343&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Charles Lieber Is Back. But The Nanotech King Never Left.&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:96940872,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;MARYAM HENEIN&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Maryam Henein is an investigative journalist, and founder, and editor-in-chief of HoneyColony. She is also a functional medicine consultant/coach, and the director of the award-winning documentary film Vanishing of the Bees.&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c6ccd549-f10d-44d9-b3ff-10ef5023e872_2640x3960.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-12T14:17:56.942Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f393bcf3-0f73-4424-adb0-24131f85524c_1280x720.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/charles-lieber-is-back-but-the-nanotech&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:196962049,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:23,&quot;comment_count&quot;:4,&quot;publication_id&quot;:944302,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Maryam Henein on Substack&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vbCa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6f4bdb70-8bc4-4973-b229-efce951fd6e3_900x900.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>And nod, of course, to Ray Kurzweil, too. In <em>The Singularity Is Near</em>, published in 2005, he was already sketching the endgame: human cognition braided into non-biological intelligence.</p><p><em>So what happens to that data?</em></p><p><a href="https://neuralink.com/privacy-policy/">Neuralink&#8217;s privacy policy</a> states that neural data may be shared with third parties for purposes including &#8212; and I am quoting &#8212; <em>&#8220;business transfers.&#8221;</em> That is the clause that appears in every tech company&#8217;s privacy policy right before it gets acquired or goes public, and your data becomes a balance-sheet asset.</p><p>This is the actual hinge. The chip records neural activity. Neural signals become software-readable data. Data enters a corporate system. Corporate systems get acquired, merged, financed, securitized, monetized, subpoenaed, hacked, repurposed, and sold.</p><p>When your thoughts become a data stream, &#8220;privacy&#8221; is no longer about what you clicked, bought, watched, or typed. It is about the electrical signature of cognition itself.</p><p>I went looking for the World Health Organization&#8217;s neurorights framework this week. The one that explicitly said neural data requires special legal protection that the current law does not provide. The one that warned in 2023 that neurotechnology is advancing faster than any governance structure designed to protect you from its misuse.</p><p>I got a 404.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3qNU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36f7b6b4-a3f7-4a64-b4e5-edb62bf108b0_512x255.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3qNU!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36f7b6b4-a3f7-4a64-b4e5-edb62bf108b0_512x255.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3qNU!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36f7b6b4-a3f7-4a64-b4e5-edb62bf108b0_512x255.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3qNU!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36f7b6b4-a3f7-4a64-b4e5-edb62bf108b0_512x255.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3qNU!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36f7b6b4-a3f7-4a64-b4e5-edb62bf108b0_512x255.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3qNU!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36f7b6b4-a3f7-4a64-b4e5-edb62bf108b0_512x255.jpeg" width="512" height="255" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/36f7b6b4-a3f7-4a64-b4e5-edb62bf108b0_512x255.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:255,&quot;width&quot;:512,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3qNU!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36f7b6b4-a3f7-4a64-b4e5-edb62bf108b0_512x255.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3qNU!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36f7b6b4-a3f7-4a64-b4e5-edb62bf108b0_512x255.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3qNU!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36f7b6b4-a3f7-4a64-b4e5-edb62bf108b0_512x255.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3qNU!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36f7b6b4-a3f7-4a64-b4e5-edb62bf108b0_512x255.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>So I tried the <em>Wayback Machine.</em> The plain-language summary page that circulated in 2023 &#8212; the one that laid out exactly what neurorights are and why they matter &#8212; is gone.</p><p><em>Is this a conspiracy? </em>Maybe not. The <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-formally-withdraws-united-states-who-2025-01-20/">US pulled WHO funding in January 2025</a> under Trump, and entire program pages began disappearing as the organization restructured under budget pressure. Neurorights was never a flagship program. It was underfunded, undersupported, and apparently not important enough to survive a server migration. </p><p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02647-8">Chile became the first country in the world to pass a neurorights law in 2021</a>. One country out of 195. I<em>s the rest of the world going to allow people to implant first and hope for the best? Just like with the Jib Jab? </em>Guess so! </p><h2>As Above, So Below </h2><p>CERN is genuinely extraordinary science. The Large Hadron Collider has produced real knowledge about the architecture of matter. The Higgs boson is not a hoax; CERN announced the discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson on July 4, 2012. </p><p>Every frontier technology of the last century has been about access. Access to the atom gave us Hiroshima before it gave us clean energy. Access to the genome gave us CRISPR patents before it gave us cures. Access to behavior gave us surveillance capitalism before it gave us meaningful consent. Now, access to the brain is being framed as medicine, while Neuralink scales the interface between thought, signal, machine, and server.  </p><p>And then there is the Mandela Effect. Whether you call it folklore, psyop, quantum bleed-through, or mass memory error, the phenomenon matters because people are documenting perceived fractures in consensus reality.   </p><p>I&#8217;m not here to tell you CERN is summoning Shiva on a full moon while Elon Musk uploads your grandmother&#8217;s soul to a server farm in Nevada. But CERN is not merely a laboratory. It is an underworld machine, a modern Babel, and possibly something more: a portal, a seal-cracker, a device probing the seams of the material world while we pretend the metaphysical implications are above our pay grade.</p><p>The clip I shared above makes it sound, at a minimum, as if this machine contributes to the stability of the reality field. Whether that interpretation is literal, symbolic, or wildly incomplete, the anxiety beneath it is real. Right now, the boundary between machine, mind, matter, and spirit is being breached.</p><p>The brain chip becomes not merely a medical device, but a sacrament of submission if consent, ownership, and spiritual sovereignty are not fiercely protected.</p><p>You cannot opt out of a thought you do not know is being monitored.  </p><p><strong>THE COLLIDER WENT QUIET. THEN WHAT?</strong></p><p>Here is the actual chronology &#8212;  just dates. The machine&#8217;s off-switch. The world&#8217;s next chapter. You decide whether the pattern means nothing.</p><p><strong>&#8226; September 19, 2008: </strong>Nine days after the LHC&#8217;s first beam circulated, an electrical fault caused a major helium leak and damaged dozens of superconducting magnets. The collider went dark for more than a year.</p><p><strong>&#8226; September 2008 onward:</strong> The financial system was already imploding. Lehman Brothers had collapsed days earlier, the bailout era began, and the global economy entered a trauma cycle from which it arguably never recovered. The timing is not causation. But it is a hell of an opening act.</p><p><strong>&#8226; February 2013&#8211;April 2015:</strong> Long Shutdown 1. CERN shut the LHC down for roughly two years to prepare it for higher-energy collisions.</p><p>&#8226; What followed: 2013 gave us the Snowden disclosures, the public confirmation of mass-surveillance architecture, the Boston Marathon bombing, the rise of ISIS, the death of Nelson Mandela, and a world increasingly reorganized around permanent emergency.</p><p>&#8226; <strong>December 2018&#8211;July 2022:</strong> Long Shutdown 2. Officially, the LHC was being upgraded for the High-Luminosity era. Then came the pandemic, which extended and complicated the work window.</p><p>&#8226; What followed: COVID-19, global lockdowns, vaccine passports, emergency rule, mass censorship, <a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/george-floyd-book/">George Floyd,</a> social fracture, supply-chain shocks, inflation, the Great Reset language, the accelerated digitization of everything, and finally the Russia-Ukraine war. Again: no one is saying a collider caused a virus, a war, or a lockdown. I am saying the period during which the machine was quiet became one of the most reality-altering intervals in living memory.</p><p><strong>&#8226; June 29, 2026&#8211;2030</strong>:  <strong>TBD </strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dM1p!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4383701-66ea-4f60-9876-cdd732b3be5a_1024x1536.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dM1p!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4383701-66ea-4f60-9876-cdd732b3be5a_1024x1536.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dM1p!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4383701-66ea-4f60-9876-cdd732b3be5a_1024x1536.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dM1p!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4383701-66ea-4f60-9876-cdd732b3be5a_1024x1536.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dM1p!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4383701-66ea-4f60-9876-cdd732b3be5a_1024x1536.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dM1p!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4383701-66ea-4f60-9876-cdd732b3be5a_1024x1536.png" width="1024" height="1536" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a4383701-66ea-4f60-9876-cdd732b3be5a_1024x1536.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1536,&quot;width&quot;:1024,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:2233994,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/i/203344619?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4383701-66ea-4f60-9876-cdd732b3be5a_1024x1536.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dM1p!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4383701-66ea-4f60-9876-cdd732b3be5a_1024x1536.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dM1p!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4383701-66ea-4f60-9876-cdd732b3be5a_1024x1536.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dM1p!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4383701-66ea-4f60-9876-cdd732b3be5a_1024x1536.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dM1p!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4383701-66ea-4f60-9876-cdd732b3be5a_1024x1536.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/cern-powers-down-the-sky-screams?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#8220;If this work matters to you, support independent reporting by sharing it, subscribing, or buying my historical, very censored book <em><a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/george-floyd-book/">Operation George Floyd</a></em><a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/george-floyd-book/">.</a>&#8221;</p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/cern-powers-down-the-sky-screams?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/cern-powers-down-the-sky-screams?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part 49 | Enter The Rip Current]]></title><description><![CDATA[A story already in progress]]></description><link>https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-49-enter-the-rip-current</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-49-enter-the-rip-current</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[MARYAM HENEIN]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:22:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d1049069-be0a-4d85-9abd-481e6130cc3a_1280x720.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;640a9e89-de45-46a0-9757-f9439406c3ed&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Follow: <a href="https://twitter.com/maryamhenein">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/maryamhenein/">Instagram</a> Truth Lives Here: <a href="https://rumble.com/c/TruthLivesHere">Rumble</a> | <a href="https://odysee.com/@MaryamHenein:8">Odysee</a> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/maryamheneinbeelady2">YouTube</a> <a href="http://www.honeycolony.com/">HONEYCOLONY</a> | Websites: <a href="https://maryamhenein.com/">MaryamHenein.com</a> | Georgefloydbook | <a href="https://honeycolony.com/">HoneyColony.com</a>| BUY NOW <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Operation-George-Floyd-Multi-Layered-Exposed/dp/B0FG2H6J3R/ref=sr_1_1?crid=N0S8NXPT5BGZ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1F5gI3lF_z1jhLgvJcP4t3z-0HCPcG8nhWSrzTkSmqn8sLB4iYiMQvMzClZXCQ6PbL_KPYrZSU6tXwDx9U2XnzMzXtXtFuXrhkiBdWc6_9PY0hPkANqnjCXOYVPSoGfk2mANxdq4e0qvoIdRDGX-7M_Z0WpsyOR5VflMs34sqeAQKdFUlPUqQ3Cbj7liz2EUX_RKZ0UF17pVuqNK-fPFxF4CS4xHy1syKsJxcp-Mwv654OMFG0oXipRdcmigZkkAzo1N4raSAJxpInxF4VLTm7oY813V84tC3AGRzhpnmxU.NC5gceKKdI1kyDGCJ-LD9EOya8cip4QEcNC5kt8fs6E&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=george+floyd&amp;qid=1759031366&amp;sprefix=george+floyd%2Caps%2C153&amp;sr=8-1">ON AMAZON!</a>: <a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/george-floyd-book/">Operation George Floyd</a></p><div class="pullquote"><p><em><strong>Stardust is an ongoing serialized field report on consciousness, discernment, unconditional love, magical realism, and the lived experience of navigating intuition inside an inverted matrix.<a href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/stardust-series-start-here"> Stardust Series &#8212; Start Here</a></strong></em></p></div><p><strong><span data-color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">From The Pattern App:</span></strong></p><p><strong>Opening Up</strong></p><p>&#9792; &#9794; &#9798;</p><p>There&#8217;s an element of the unknown that likely attracted you; Snuffy inspired feelings you couldn&#8217;t nail down or logically explain. This fascination may have drawn you in and added to the romance &#8212; or potentially created illusions between you.</p><p><strong>Vertex: Past Link &amp; Future Destiny</strong></p><p>&#9789; &#9794; Vx</p><p>This pattern feels like an incredibly deep bond that brings an almost otherworldly feeling. There&#8217;s a sense that the connection spans lifetimes &#8212; that it&#8217;s karmic or fated, and affects one or both of you more than logic can explain.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wAW9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90e4cd8b-c186-4624-9240-7b25c449c70c_636x1036.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wAW9!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90e4cd8b-c186-4624-9240-7b25c449c70c_636x1036.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wAW9!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90e4cd8b-c186-4624-9240-7b25c449c70c_636x1036.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wAW9!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90e4cd8b-c186-4624-9240-7b25c449c70c_636x1036.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wAW9!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90e4cd8b-c186-4624-9240-7b25c449c70c_636x1036.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wAW9!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90e4cd8b-c186-4624-9240-7b25c449c70c_636x1036.png" width="318" height="518" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/90e4cd8b-c186-4624-9240-7b25c449c70c_636x1036.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1036,&quot;width&quot;:636,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:318,&quot;bytes&quot;:196731,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/i/198212501?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90e4cd8b-c186-4624-9240-7b25c449c70c_636x1036.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wAW9!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90e4cd8b-c186-4624-9240-7b25c449c70c_636x1036.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wAW9!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90e4cd8b-c186-4624-9240-7b25c449c70c_636x1036.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wAW9!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90e4cd8b-c186-4624-9240-7b25c449c70c_636x1036.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wAW9!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F90e4cd8b-c186-4624-9240-7b25c449c70c_636x1036.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The messages on <em>The Pattern</em> were not merely uncanny. They were eerie. Too strange. Too timed. <em>How did this app manage to nail certain things down so accurately?</em> It was as if some sleek little oracle &#8212; built for the age of passwords and push notifications, for the generation that outsources its horoscopes to Silicon Valley &#8212; had slipped past the firewall and read the room behind the room.  </p><p>We were sitting on my couch, inside the domestic theater of my South Beach living room, when Snuffy showed me <em>The Pattern</em>. In retrospect, the moment reminded me of <span>the 2009 film&nbsp;</span><em><span>TiMER</span></em><span>, </span><span>in which people have a device implanted that counts down the days until they meet their soulmate. Hollywood, in its usual accidental predictive-programming way, had already staged the question long before anyone thought to ask it in earnest: </span>what happens when a machine tells you that the person sitting beside you is not incidental?</p><p>Only this was not a cute indie rom-com with a soundtrack. This was my life.</p><div id="youtube2-IqCz7LDhgOc" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;IqCz7LDhgOc&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/IqCz7LDhgOc?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-49-enter-the-rip-current?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-49-enter-the-rip-current?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>I hadn't expected the results to chart so extraordinarily that they seemed to belong to a story already <span>in progress </span>long before either of us had consciously entered it.</p><p>I had never heard of a &#8220;Vertex.&#8221; <span> Unlike the planets, it is a calculated point in the natal chart that astrologers associate with </span>destined encounters<span> &#8212; moments when fate a</span>ppears to interrupt free will. It is said to mark relationships that feel less like choices than cosmic appointments, as though the meeting had been scheduled long before either person knew to show up. A<span>strologer </span><a href="https://skywriter.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/the-vertex-a-point-of-special-significance-in-the-chart/">Donna Cunningham</a><span> once described the Vertex as &#8220;a point of special significance&#8221; &#8212; understated, perhaps, for something that reportedly rewires entire lives.</span> </p><p><em>Maktoub</em> is an Arabic word. <span>It means, roughly, </span><em>it is written.</em><span> But the word carries a deeper resonance than simple fate or predestination. It suggests that certain encounters are inscribed in the fabric of our lives before we consciously arrive at them &#8212; that we are not so much making choices as following a script we agreed to before the curtain rose. The Lebanese-Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho built an entire literary career on this single untranslatable syllable, and yet no amount of Coelho had prepared me for the feeling.</span></p><p>Whether you call it destiny, karma, synchronicity, the Vertex, an anomaly, or simply an improbable convergence of events, the feeling is the same. Some encounters do not feel as though they just began. They feel as though they resume. </p><p><em>The Pattern<span>&nbsp;</span></em><span>suggested</span> something more unsettling: that Snuffy was part of some kind of soul curriculum. It was as though we had been pulled into each other&#8217;s orbit because something needed to be learned, healed, revealed, or remembered.</p><p>Or not.</p><p>And now I realize that <em>The Pattern</em> did not create the mystery. It merely had the audacity to validate what my Higher Self had somehow already registered. He was not just another man passing through my life, nor some &#8220;favorite mistake&#8221; destined to become a bittersweet memory. He was an inflection point.</p><p><span>He inadvertently catalyzed my </span>Kundalini awakening<span> &#8212; a phenomenon that, for the uninitiated, is less a spiritual spa treatment and more akin to </span>having your entire electrical system rewired while the power is still running<span>. And, in the process, held up a mirror to everything I still needed to confront. </span><strong>The whole ordeal arrived disguised as a mystery thriller</strong><span> &#8212; one I apparently volunteered to co-star in, during some pre-incarnation negotiation I have no memory of signing.</span></p><p>What I do know is that since Snuffy, my nervous system had been rearranged.</p><p>Which is precisely why it still strikes me as bizarre that, after nearly a year of what was, on the surface, an almost absurdly casual text exchange, I found myself asking him whether he was a plant.  </p><p>"If I am, I've come from another dimension to show you a higher form of love," he replied.</p><p><span>Did he know that his Casanova line was true in the most ironic, and ultimately the most brutal, way imaginable?</span></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-49-enter-the-rip-current?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-49-enter-the-rip-current?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h2>Illusions, Delusions, and the Architecture of Perception</h2><p>Over time, I came to wonder whether the true measure of a relationship lies not in how long it lasts, but in how profoundly it alters the trajectory of one&#8217;s life.</p><p>Maybe whatever I activated in him has not detonated yet.</p><p>Regardless, not just any man could inspire &#8230;</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p>&#128274; <strong>This is where it gets specific. A truck. A prison call. A medicine man from Costa Rica. A rip current I didn&#8217;t know I was already inside.</strong></p><p><em>If this story has found you, it probably found you for a reason. Paid subscribers read everything &#8212; the full Stardust archive, every installment, every dispatch from inside the current.</em></p></div>
      <p>
          <a href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-49-enter-the-rip-current">
              Read more
          </a>
      </p>
   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Quantum Molecule: From Anti-Aging Supplement to Quantum Technology]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Molecule Built for a Toxic World]]></description><link>https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/the-quantum-molecule-from-anti-aging</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/the-quantum-molecule-from-anti-aging</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[MARYAM HENEIN]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:17:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kj_t!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F22c799b6-ce52-4111-bced-43bc62b58169_1920x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://rumble.com/v7at7ja-0605-ken-swartz.html" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kj_t!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F22c799b6-ce52-4111-bced-43bc62b58169_1920x1080.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kj_t!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F22c799b6-ce52-4111-bced-43bc62b58169_1920x1080.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kj_t!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F22c799b6-ce52-4111-bced-43bc62b58169_1920x1080.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kj_t!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F22c799b6-ce52-4111-bced-43bc62b58169_1920x1080.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kj_t!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F22c799b6-ce52-4111-bced-43bc62b58169_1920x1080.png" width="1456" height="819" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/22c799b6-ce52-4111-bced-43bc62b58169_1920x1080.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:819,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:631970,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https://rumble.com/v7at7ja-0605-ken-swartz.html&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/i/196568997?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F22c799b6-ce52-4111-bced-43bc62b58169_1920x1080.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kj_t!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F22c799b6-ce52-4111-bced-43bc62b58169_1920x1080.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kj_t!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F22c799b6-ce52-4111-bced-43bc62b58169_1920x1080.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kj_t!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F22c799b6-ce52-4111-bced-43bc62b58169_1920x1080.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kj_t!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F22c799b6-ce52-4111-bced-43bc62b58169_1920x1080.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Follow: <a href="https://twitter.com/maryamhenein">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/maryamhenein/">Instagram</a> Truth Lives Here: <a href="https://rumble.com/c/TruthLivesHere">Rumble</a> | <a href="https://odysee.com/@MaryamHenein:8">Odysee</a> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/maryamheneinbeelady2">YouTube</a> <a href="http://www.honeycolony.com/">HONEYCOLONY</a> | Websites: <a href="https://maryamhenein.com/">MaryamHenein.com</a> | Georgefloydbook | <a href="https://honeycolony.com/">HoneyColony.com</a>| BUY NOW <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Operation-George-Floyd-Multi-Layered-Exposed/dp/B0FG2H6J3R/ref=sr_1_1?crid=N0S8NXPT5BGZ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1F5gI3lF_z1jhLgvJcP4t3z-0HCPcG8nhWSrzTkSmqn8sLB4iYiMQvMzClZXCQ6PbL_KPYrZSU6tXwDx9U2XnzMzXtXtFuXrhkiBdWc6_9PY0hPkANqnjCXOYVPSoGfk2mANxdq4e0qvoIdRDGX-7M_Z0WpsyOR5VflMs34sqeAQKdFUlPUqQ3Cbj7liz2EUX_RKZ0UF17pVuqNK-fPFxF4CS4xHy1syKsJxcp-Mwv654OMFG0oXipRdcmigZkkAzo1N4raSAJxpInxF4VLTm7oY813V84tC3AGRzhpnmxU.NC5gceKKdI1kyDGCJ-LD9EOya8cip4QEcNC5kt8fs6E&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=george+floyd&amp;qid=1759031366&amp;sprefix=george+floyd%2Caps%2C153&amp;sr=8-1">ON AMAZON!</a>: <a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/george-floyd-book/">Operation George Floyd</a>  </p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p>Carbon 60 is best known as a longevity and wellness supplement, but researchers are also exploring its role in quantum technology, photonics, advanced materials, and next-generation energy systems.</p></div><p>Quantum technology and anti-aging supplements rarely occupy the same conversation, yet <a href="https://go.shopc60.com/honeycolony/">Carbon 60</a> sits at the intersection of both worlds.</p><p>It sounds like something out of science fiction.</p><p>Yet the story of <a href="https://go.shopc60.com/honeycolony/">Carbon 60&#8212;or C60</a>&#8212;is even stranger than most people realize.</p><p>Most people encounter  <a href="https://go.shopc60.com/honeycolony/">C60</a>&#8212;in the context of wellness. They hear claims about <a href="https://honeycolony.com/article/6-ways-to-stop-oxidative-stress-for-a-longer-life/">oxidative stress</a>, <a href="https://honeycolony.com/article/human-longevity-project/">longevity,</a> recovery, <a href="https://honeycolony.com/article/mitochondrial-disease-its-not-your-genes-that-determine-your-fate/">mitochondrial health,</a> and cellular resilience. Depending on whom you ask, it is either one of the most promising molecules ever discovered or one of the most misunderstood.</p><p>It sounds like something out of science fiction. </p><p>What few realize is that the story of <a href="https://go.shopc60.com/honeycolony/">Carbon 60</a> began far from wellness clinics and biohacker conferences.</p><p>Its origins are written in the stars.</p><h2>A Molecule Born from Stardust</h2><p>In 1985, scientists investigating the chemistry of interstellar space made an unexpected discovery: a new form of carbon consisting of 60 atoms arranged in a hollow sphere.</p><p>The structure resembled the geodesic domes designed by architect and futurist Buckminster Fuller, leading researchers to name the molecule <strong>Buckminsterfullerene</strong>.</p><p>Unlike graphite or diamond, <a href="https://go.shopc60.com/honeycolony/">Carbon 60</a> possessed unusual physical and electronic properties that immediately attracted scientific interest.</p><p>The discovery was so significant that it earned the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.</p><p>Most Nobel Prize-winning discoveries remain confined to academic journals.</p><p><a href="https://go.shopc60.com/honeycolony/">Carbon 60</a> did not.</p><p>Instead, it moved beyond the laboratory and began appearing in fields as diverse as nanotechnology, materials science, aerospace engineering, electronics, energy storage, medicine, and eventually human health.</p><h2>The Rise of Carbon 60 in Wellness</h2><p>The wellness community became fascinated with <a href="https://go.shopc60.com/honeycolony/">Carbon 60</a> because of its ability to interact with free radicals.</p><p>Researchers studying oxidative stress began asking whether this soccer-ball-shaped molecule could help protect cells from damage associated with aging and environmental stressors.</p><p>That question matters because modern humans face a biological burden our ancestors never encountered. They did not contend with glyphosate residues, microplastics, perpetual wireless radiation, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, mold-infested buildings, pharmaceutical runoff, chronic sleep deprivation, artificial light, and thousands of synthetic compounds circulating through the environment.</p><p>The result is what scientists call <strong>oxidative stress</strong>&#8212;cellular wear and tear caused when the production of unstable molecules known as free radicals overwhelms the body&#8217;s antioxidant defenses.</p><p>Think of it as biological rust.</p><p>The body possesses sophisticated systems designed to manage this burden. But what happens when the burden becomes relentless?</p><p>That question has driven researchers and health seekers toward increasingly powerful antioxidant compounds, and few have generated as much fascination&#8212;or controversy&#8212;as <a href="https://go.shopc60.com/honeycolony/">Carbon 60</a></p><p>As interest grew, C60 found its way into nutritional supplements, skincare products, recovery protocols, and longevity circles.</p><p>Yet while health enthusiasts debated its potential role in human wellness, physicists, engineers, and materials scientists were becoming equally fascinated with the same molecule.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VwQd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcb49d6d5-00cc-4a48-9b4f-8c61e5edf9e0_1024x683.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VwQd!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcb49d6d5-00cc-4a48-9b4f-8c61e5edf9e0_1024x683.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VwQd!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcb49d6d5-00cc-4a48-9b4f-8c61e5edf9e0_1024x683.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VwQd!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcb49d6d5-00cc-4a48-9b4f-8c61e5edf9e0_1024x683.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VwQd!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcb49d6d5-00cc-4a48-9b4f-8c61e5edf9e0_1024x683.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VwQd!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcb49d6d5-00cc-4a48-9b4f-8c61e5edf9e0_1024x683.png" width="495" height="330.1611328125" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/cb49d6d5-00cc-4a48-9b4f-8c61e5edf9e0_1024x683.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:683,&quot;width&quot;:1024,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:495,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;C60 (Carbon 60) Nobel Prize Winning Antioxidant | Buy C60 &#8211; Shop C60&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="C60 (Carbon 60) Nobel Prize Winning Antioxidant | Buy C60 &#8211; Shop C60" title="C60 (Carbon 60) Nobel Prize Winning Antioxidant | Buy C60 &#8211; Shop C60" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VwQd!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcb49d6d5-00cc-4a48-9b4f-8c61e5edf9e0_1024x683.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VwQd!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcb49d6d5-00cc-4a48-9b4f-8c61e5edf9e0_1024x683.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VwQd!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcb49d6d5-00cc-4a48-9b4f-8c61e5edf9e0_1024x683.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VwQd!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcb49d6d5-00cc-4a48-9b4f-8c61e5edf9e0_1024x683.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h2>From Stars to the Cells</h2><p><a href="https://go.shopc60.com/honeycolony/">Carbon 60</a> may have been discovered while scientists were investigating the chemistry of the stars, but its modern appeal is deeply earthly.</p><p>People are searching for greater resilience in a world that places a relentless burden on the body.</p><p><a href="https://go.shopc60.com/honeycolony/">Carbon 60</a> is best known for its unusual molecular structure and its interaction with free radicals. Although human research is still developing, advocates use properly formulated Carbon 60 products to support:</p><ul><li><p>Protection against oxidative stress</p></li><li><p>Healthy mitochondrial and cellular function</p></li><li><p>Energy, stamina, and post-exercise recovery</p></li><li><p>A balanced inflammatory response</p></li><li><p>Cognitive clarity and overall resilience</p></li><li><p>Healthy aging and longevity</p></li><li><p>Skin hydration, elasticity, and protection from environmental stressors</p></li></ul><h2>C60 Anti-Gravity Serum</h2><p>The <strong><a href="https://go.shopc60.com/honeycolony/">C60</a> Anti-Gravity Serum</strong> applies the same cellular-protection philosophy directly to the skin.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://go.shopc60.com/honeycolony/" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oznL!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7e939521-3d3d-42e3-9439-57e9341f8590_474x474.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oznL!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7e939521-3d3d-42e3-9439-57e9341f8590_474x474.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oznL!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7e939521-3d3d-42e3-9439-57e9341f8590_474x474.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oznL!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7e939521-3d3d-42e3-9439-57e9341f8590_474x474.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oznL!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7e939521-3d3d-42e3-9439-57e9341f8590_474x474.jpeg" width="474" height="474" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7e939521-3d3d-42e3-9439-57e9341f8590_474x474.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:474,&quot;width&quot;:474,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;C60 (Carbon 60) Nobel Prize Winning Antioxidant | C60 Purple Power ...&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https://go.shopc60.com/honeycolony/&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="C60 (Carbon 60) Nobel Prize Winning Antioxidant | C60 Purple Power ..." title="C60 (Carbon 60) Nobel Prize Winning Antioxidant | C60 Purple Power ..." srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oznL!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7e939521-3d3d-42e3-9439-57e9341f8590_474x474.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oznL!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7e939521-3d3d-42e3-9439-57e9341f8590_474x474.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oznL!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7e939521-3d3d-42e3-9439-57e9341f8590_474x474.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oznL!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7e939521-3d3d-42e3-9439-57e9341f8590_474x474.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Rather than acting as a temporary cosmetic cover-up, the serum is designed to support the skin barrier, replenish moisture, and help defend against oxidative damage that contributes to dullness, irritation, uneven texture, and visible collagen breakdown.</p><h3>Potential Skin Benefits</h3><p><strong>Antioxidant protection</strong></p><p><a href="https://go.shopc60.com/honeycolony/">C60</a> interacts with free radicals. When incorporated into skincare, it may help defend the skin from oxidative stress associated with environmental exposure and premature aging.</p><p><strong>**Support for cellular energy</strong></p><p>Early research has generated interest in C60&#8217;s relationship with mitochondrial function. Healthy mitochondria help provide the energy skin cells require for renewal, repair, and resilience.</p><p><strong>**A calmer-looking complexion</strong></p><p>By helping address oxidative stress, a properly formulated serum may support skin that appears less irritated, reactive, or puffy.</p><p><strong>**Smoother texture and elasticity</strong></p><p><a href="https://go.shopc60.com/honeycolony/">C60</a> skincare is used to support hydration, firmness, smoother texture, and a more resilient appearance. Antioxidant protection may also help defend collagen from oxidative degradation.</p><p><strong>**Barrier support from botanical oils</strong></p><p><a href="https://go.shopc60.com/honeycolony/">C60</a>  must be dissolved in a carrier substance. The botanical oils used in the formulation may provide additional hydration, nourishment, and support for the skin barrier.</p><p>Not every visible benefit should be attributed to C60 alone. The quality of the complete formulation matters.</p><p>This is not Botox in a bottle. Nor is it another overnight beauty gimmick.</p><p><a href="https://go.shopc60.com/honeycolony/">C60</a> is a long-game product. <strong>Consistency matters more than hype.</strong></p><p>What I appreciate about C60 is that it does not approach aging as something to disguise. It supports the body&#8212;and the skin&#8212;at the cellular level. With consistent use, my skin feels more hydrated, smoother, and visibly more resilient. It has become part of my larger commitment to protecting my mitochondria, reducing my toxic burden, and aging with grace not poisons. </p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><strong><a href="https://go.shopc60.com/honeycolony/">Shop Carbon 60 products through HoneyColony</a></strong></p><p><em><strong>Special</strong></em><strong> Offer for HoneyColony Readers</strong></p><p><strong>HoneyColony has partnered with C60 Power to give readers access to its collection of Carbon 60 products, including C60 oils, gummies, skincare, serum, eye cream, and other eligible individual products. </strong></p><h3><strong>Use Code HONEYCOLONY for 10% Off</strong></h3><p><strong>Enter promo code HONEYCOLONY at checkout to receive 10% off eligible individual products.</strong></p><p></p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/the-quantum-molecule-from-anti-aging?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/the-quantum-molecule-from-anti-aging?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Palm Beach County Is Ground Zero in the AI Infrastructure War]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Data Centers Are Here]]></description><link>https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/why-palm-beach-county-is-ground-zero</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/why-palm-beach-county-is-ground-zero</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[MARYAM HENEIN]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:29:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C6OG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0163ed38-37d4-4ca9-a7b8-1911c5971c14_1280x720.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C6OG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0163ed38-37d4-4ca9-a7b8-1911c5971c14_1280x720.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C6OG!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0163ed38-37d4-4ca9-a7b8-1911c5971c14_1280x720.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C6OG!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0163ed38-37d4-4ca9-a7b8-1911c5971c14_1280x720.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C6OG!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0163ed38-37d4-4ca9-a7b8-1911c5971c14_1280x720.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C6OG!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0163ed38-37d4-4ca9-a7b8-1911c5971c14_1280x720.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C6OG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0163ed38-37d4-4ca9-a7b8-1911c5971c14_1280x720.png" width="1280" height="720" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0163ed38-37d4-4ca9-a7b8-1911c5971c14_1280x720.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:720,&quot;width&quot;:1280,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:795671,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/i/200668684?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0163ed38-37d4-4ca9-a7b8-1911c5971c14_1280x720.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C6OG!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0163ed38-37d4-4ca9-a7b8-1911c5971c14_1280x720.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C6OG!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0163ed38-37d4-4ca9-a7b8-1911c5971c14_1280x720.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C6OG!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0163ed38-37d4-4ca9-a7b8-1911c5971c14_1280x720.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C6OG!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0163ed38-37d4-4ca9-a7b8-1911c5971c14_1280x720.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Follow: <a href="https://twitter.com/maryamhenein">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/maryamhenein/">Instagram</a> Truth Lives Here: <a href="https://rumble.com/c/TruthLivesHere">Rumble</a> | <a href="https://odysee.com/@MaryamHenein:8">Odysee</a> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/maryamheneinbeelady2">YouTube</a> <a href="http://www.honeycolony.com/">HONEYCOLONY</a> | Websites: <a href="https://maryamhenein.com/">MaryamHenein.com</a> | Georgefloydbook | <a href="https://honeycolony.com/">HoneyColony.com</a>| BUY NOW <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Operation-George-Floyd-Multi-Layered-Exposed/dp/B0FG2H6J3R/ref=sr_1_1?crid=N0S8NXPT5BGZ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1F5gI3lF_z1jhLgvJcP4t3z-0HCPcG8nhWSrzTkSmqn8sLB4iYiMQvMzClZXCQ6PbL_KPYrZSU6tXwDx9U2XnzMzXtXtFuXrhkiBdWc6_9PY0hPkANqnjCXOYVPSoGfk2mANxdq4e0qvoIdRDGX-7M_Z0WpsyOR5VflMs34sqeAQKdFUlPUqQ3Cbj7liz2EUX_RKZ0UF17pVuqNK-fPFxF4CS4xHy1syKsJxcp-Mwv654OMFG0oXipRdcmigZkkAzo1N4raSAJxpInxF4VLTm7oY813V84tC3AGRzhpnmxU.NC5gceKKdI1kyDGCJ-LD9EOya8cip4QEcNC5kt8fs6E&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=george+floyd&amp;qid=1759031366&amp;sprefix=george+floyd%2Caps%2C153&amp;sr=8-1">ON AMAZON!</a>: <a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/george-floyd-book/">Operation George Floyd</a></p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p>Coming Soon &#10230; ? A child on a bicycle looks across a canal at a gigantic illuminated data center campus at dusk, with transmission towers behind it and lightning in the Florida sky.</p></div><p>Something very unsettling is happening across America.</p><p>Communities that have never hosted heavy industry are suddenly finding themselves targeted for enormous AI data centers. Rural towns. Agricultural communities. Residential areas. Places chosen specifically because people wanted to be far from urban sprawl.</p><p>The facilities arrive with different names but similar promises: jobs, economic development, technological progress, and a seat at the table of the artificial intelligence revolution.</p><p>Yet from Virginia to Texas, from Georgia to Florida, residents are increasingly asking whether they are being told the entire story.</p><p>For years, we were sold the idea of &#8220;the cloud.&#8221;</p><p>The cloud sounded harmless. Weightless. Invisible. Our photos lived in the cloud. Our emails lived in the cloud. Artificial intelligence lived in the cloud.</p><p>Except it does not.</p><p>The cloud has a footprint.</p><p><strong>A very large one.</strong></p><p>And that footprint is beginning to reshape communities across the globe.</p><h2>The Physical Reality of Artificial Intelligence</h2><p>The public conversation about artificial intelligence focuses almost entirely on software.</p><ul><li><p>ChatGPT.</p></li><li><p>Image generators</p></li><li><p>Digital assistants</p></li><li><p>Predictive algorithms</p></li></ul><p>What receives far less attention is the physical infrastructure powering it all. Until now, when it&#8217;s seemingly too late. </p><p>Artificial intelligence requires staggering computational resources. Every prompt, image generation, video rendering, search query, and model training session occurs inside enormous facilities filled with servers operating twenty-four hours a day.</p><p>These facilities require electricity on a scale once associated primarily with major industrial operations. They require cooling systems, backup generators, transmission infrastructure, security systems, fiber networks, land, and in many cases vast quantities of water.</p><p>As <em><a href="https://www.theinvadingsea.com/2026/03/09/data-center-project-tango-palm-beach-county-florida-legislature-hb-1007-ai-electricity-water/">The Invading Sea </a></em><a href="https://www.theinvadingsea.com/2026/03/09/data-center-project-tango-palm-beach-county-florida-legislature-hb-1007-ai-electricity-water/">reported</a>, the controversy surrounding AI data centers is increasingly centered on electricity consumption, water use, transparency, and whether communities fully understand what is being proposed before approvals are granted.</p><p>What was once a niche industry supporting internet storage has become the backbone of a rapidly expanding artificial intelligence economy.</p><p>The result is a worldwide race to build more data centers.</p><p>Bigger data centers.</p><p>More powerful data centers.</p><p>Data centers capable of feeding the insatiable appetite of machine learning systems.</p><p>The question increasingly being asked by local residents is simple:</p><p>Who benefits?</p><p>And who pays?</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/why-palm-beach-county-is-ground-zero?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/why-palm-beach-county-is-ground-zero?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h2>A Growing Backlash</h2><p>Across the country, opposition is growing.</p><p>Residents are questioning rising energy demand. They are questioning tax incentives. They are questioning water consumption. They are questioning why some of the wealthiest corporations in human history are asking local communities to absorb the costs of powering the next technological revolution.</p><p>In Northern Virginia, communities have fought data center expansion over concerns about noise, energy use, and landscape impacts. Similar battles are emerging in Texas, Georgia, Arizona, and elsewhere as AI infrastructure expands at a breathtaking pace.</p><p>Online discussions reveal growing skepticism.</p><p>Many people fear that ordinary residents will face higher utility costs while corporations receive incentives and infrastructure support. Others worry about water resources, environmental impacts, and whether communities are sacrificing quality of life to support technologies whose benefits often flow elsewhere.</p><p>Whether every concern ultimately proves justified is almost beside the point.</p><p>The perception itself is becoming politically significant.</p><p>People are beginning to realize that artificial intelligence is not merely software.</p><p>It is infrastructure. And infrastructure needs space.</p><h2>Welcome to Project Tango</h2><p>That realization has now arrived in Palm Beach County, where I reside.</p><p><a href="https://discover.pbc.gov/pzb/zoning/Pages/Project_Tango.aspx">Project Tango</a>, also known as the Central Park Commerce Center proposal, is a massive development planned near <strong>20-Mile Bend on Southern Boulevard in western Palm Beach County.</strong></p><p>The location was not selected </p><p>by accident.</p><p>The site sits near major electrical infrastructure and offers the type of land increasingly sought by developers racing to build the next generation of AI facilities. According to <a href="https://stetnews.org/2026/05/12/unraveling-project-tango/">Stet News</a>, the hotly contested hyperscale data center is proposed for Southern Boulevard at 20-Mile Bend.</p><p>Supporters describe the project as an opportunity for economic growth and technological investment.</p><p>Opponents see something very different.</p><p>They see a massive industrial facility being proposed for an area valued for its open space, rural character, wildlife corridors, and proximity to environmentally sensitive lands.</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p>What began as a relatively obscure zoning matter has evolved into one of the most contentious development battles in Palm Beach County.</p></div><h2>Follow the Money and the Megawatts</h2><p>One reason residents are paying such close attention to Project Tango is that this is not an ordinary development.</p><p>When most people hear the words &#8220;data center,&#8221; they imagine a large warehouse filled with computers.</p><p>The reality is far more significant.</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p>Modern AI data centers have become some of the most expensive infrastructure projects being built anywhere in the world. Industry analysts estimate that a single hyperscale AI facility can cost anywhere from $1 billion to more than $5 billion, including land acquisition, construction, power systems, cooling infrastructure, and computing equipment. T<strong>he largest AI campuses being planned today are projected to cost tens of billions of dollars.</strong></p></div><p>Local opponents describe Project Tango as a <a href="https://www.notoprojecttango.com/">$2.6 billion AI data center</a> proposed for 20125 Southern Boulevard in Loxahatchee, encompassing nearly 200 acres.</p><p>In other words, these facilities increasingly resemble power plants more than office buildings.</p><p>That reality helps explain why communities across the country are suddenly finding themselves at the center of fierce political battles.</p><p>The stakes are enormous.</p><p>A facility requiring billions of dollars in investment does not simply appear because developers like a particular location. These projects are carefully positioned near major electrical infrastructure, fiber networks, transportation corridors, and land that can support future expansion.</p><p>Project Tango&#8217;s location west of Arden and near major utility infrastructure is one reason opponents believe Palm Beach County has become attractive to developers pursuing AI infrastructure.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6mcU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feef316c2-de73-470b-9481-2c6ae2a21eb7_880x482.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6mcU!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feef316c2-de73-470b-9481-2c6ae2a21eb7_880x482.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6mcU!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feef316c2-de73-470b-9481-2c6ae2a21eb7_880x482.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6mcU!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feef316c2-de73-470b-9481-2c6ae2a21eb7_880x482.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6mcU!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feef316c2-de73-470b-9481-2c6ae2a21eb7_880x482.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6mcU!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feef316c2-de73-470b-9481-2c6ae2a21eb7_880x482.jpeg" width="880" height="482" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/eef316c2-de73-470b-9481-2c6ae2a21eb7_880x482.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:482,&quot;width&quot;:880,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Palm Beach County postpones huge AI data center after community outrage | WLRN&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Palm Beach County postpones huge AI data center after community outrage | WLRN" title="Palm Beach County postpones huge AI data center after community outrage | WLRN" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6mcU!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feef316c2-de73-470b-9481-2c6ae2a21eb7_880x482.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6mcU!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feef316c2-de73-470b-9481-2c6ae2a21eb7_880x482.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6mcU!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feef316c2-de73-470b-9481-2c6ae2a21eb7_880x482.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6mcU!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feef316c2-de73-470b-9481-2c6ae2a21eb7_880x482.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>But residents are asking different questions.</p><ul><li><p>If billions of dollars are potentially flowing into a project, what exactly does the local community receive in return?</p></li><li><p>How many permanent jobs will be created?</p></li><li><p>How much tax revenue will remain local?</p></li><li><p>Who benefits from the incentives often granted to these developments?</p></li><li><p>And perhaps most importantly, what are the long-term costs?</p></li></ul><p>These questions become even more relevant when considering energy demand.</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p>Some modern AI data centers consume electricity equivalent to that of tens of thousands of homes. Depending on its size and configuration, a single hyperscale facility can require as much power as a small city.</p></div><p>For many residents, this is where the conversation shifts.</p><p>The issue is no longer whether artificial intelligence is exciting.</p><p>The issue becomes whether local communities are being asked to dedicate land, infrastructure, water resources, and electrical capacity to support an industry whose primary beneficiaries may exist far beyond county lines.</p><p>Project Tango has become the local expression of a much larger global question:</p><p>Who bears the costs of the AI revolution, and who collects the rewards?</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/why-palm-beach-county-is-ground-zero?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/why-palm-beach-county-is-ground-zero?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h2>The Community Revolt</h2><p>Once residents began learning the scale of what was being proposed, opposition intensified.</p><p>One of the most fascinating aspects of Project Tango is the diversity of those opposing it.</p><ul><li><p>Homeowners</p></li><li><p>Parents</p></li><li><p>Retirees</p></li><li><p>Environmental advocates</p></li><li><p>Business owners</p></li><li><p>Residents who rarely agree on political issues</p></li></ul><p>Many have found themselves united by concerns over the project&#8217;s scale and potential impacts.</p><p>At a packed town hall meeting, hundreds of residents showed up to voice opposition. <a href="https://www.wlrn.org/government-politics/2026-03-03/palm-beach-county-residents-only-want-one-answer-on-data-center-no">WLRN reported</a> that Palm Beach County Mayor Sara Baxter publicly stated she was not in support of Project Tango.</p><p>Residents repeatedly raised concerns about water usage, electricity demand, noise pollution, environmental impacts, traffic, emergency preparedness, and the project&#8217;s proximity to schools and residential communities.</p><p>The opposition has expanded beyond neighborhood groups.</p><p>The Village of Wellington became the first municipality in the region to formally oppose the project. According to <a href="https://www.wflx.com/2026/03/06/wellington-becomes-first-municipality-oppose-project-tango-ai-data-center-near-homes-school/">WFLX</a>, Wellington&#8217;s mayor and council sent a letter to Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez requesting state-level guardrails for hyperscale data center development.</p><p>For many residents, the issue extends beyond Project Tango itself.</p><p>They believe they are witnessing a broader transformation of Palm Beach County and are questioning whether local communities have meaningful input into that process.</p><p>The debate has become as much about transparency as it is about technology.</p><h2>Why People Feel Blindsided</h2><p>Perhaps the most controversial aspect of Project Tango is the perception that the project evolved into something far larger and more consequential than residents originally understood.</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p>Critics point out that earlier approvals involved a very different concept from the hyperscale, AI-focused facility now being discussed. <a href="https://www.theinvadingsea.com/2026/03/09/data-center-project-tango-palm-beach-county-florida-legislature-hb-1007-ai-electricity-water/">The Invading Sea</a> reported that the project &#8220;ballooned&#8221; from a 206,000-square-foot data center initially approved in 2016 to a much larger proposal involving 1.8 million square feet of data center space.</p></div><p>That distinction matters. A traditional data center is one thing. A hyperscale AI data center is another beast entirely.</p><h2>Project Tango Is Still Not Approved</h2><p>As of this writing, Project Tango has not received final approval.</p><p>The county has already delayed consideration more than once amid growing public opposition and continuing debate over the project&#8217;s scope and impacts.</p><p>According to <a href="https://discover.pbc.gov/pzb/Lists/latestnews/NewsDispForm.aspx?ContentTypeId=0x010400191217236A06A64B833871212E254D1B&amp;ID=219">Palm Beach County&#8217;s official notice</a>, the applicant requested postponement of the April 23, 2026 Board of County Commissioners zoning hearing to July 15, 2026.</p><p><a href="https://www.wlrn.org/news-in-brief/2026-04-10/hearing-over-palm-beach-countys-contentious-data-center-has-been-delayed">WLRN also reported</a> that the upcoming zoning hearing was delayed after the applicant requested postponement until July 15.</p><p>Meanwhile, <a href="https://stetnews.org/2026/05/07/project-tango-dueling-applications-throw-data-center-project-into-disarray/">Stet News reported</a> that competing Project Tango proposals have thrown the development into disarray, with one approach potentially avoiding public scrutiny under existing county rules.</p><p>That means the decision has not been made.</p><p>The fight is still alive.</p><p>Residents, developers, elected officials, and advocacy groups are all preparing for what could become one of the most consequential land-use decisions Palm Beach County has faced in years.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wxdZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F736353db-17d6-4d37-b9f5-6f56d20bf38e_986x555.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wxdZ!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F736353db-17d6-4d37-b9f5-6f56d20bf38e_986x555.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wxdZ!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F736353db-17d6-4d37-b9f5-6f56d20bf38e_986x555.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wxdZ!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F736353db-17d6-4d37-b9f5-6f56d20bf38e_986x555.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wxdZ!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F736353db-17d6-4d37-b9f5-6f56d20bf38e_986x555.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wxdZ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F736353db-17d6-4d37-b9f5-6f56d20bf38e_986x555.jpeg" width="986" height="555" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/736353db-17d6-4d37-b9f5-6f56d20bf38e_986x555.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:555,&quot;width&quot;:986,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Palm Beach County Commissioners to vote on controversial A.I. data center&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Palm Beach County Commissioners to vote on controversial A.I. data center" title="Palm Beach County Commissioners to vote on controversial A.I. data center" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wxdZ!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F736353db-17d6-4d37-b9f5-6f56d20bf38e_986x555.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wxdZ!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F736353db-17d6-4d37-b9f5-6f56d20bf38e_986x555.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wxdZ!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F736353db-17d6-4d37-b9f5-6f56d20bf38e_986x555.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wxdZ!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F736353db-17d6-4d37-b9f5-6f56d20bf38e_986x555.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h2>The Cloud Comes Down to Earth</h2><p>For now, Project Tango remains unresolved.</p><p>The coming hearings may determine the future of a major parcel of land in western Palm Beach County, but the implications reach far beyond Southern Boulevard.</p><p>This is about the physical cost of artificial intelligence.</p><p>It is about whether communities have the right to question the machinery being built around them.</p><p>It is about whether public officials are prepared to evaluate a new class of industrial infrastructure before it becomes permanent.</p><p>And it is about the oldest trick in the book: selling something as inevitable before the public has had a chance to consent.</p><p>For years, we were told the future lived in the cloud.</p><p>Palm Beach County is discovering that the cloud is made of concrete, steel, water, electricity, politics, and power.</p><p>And the fight over who controls that future has only just begun.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MwMJ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2aa4ddbe-f9fc-4bf4-a4df-e609c5e0c531_1170x660.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MwMJ!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2aa4ddbe-f9fc-4bf4-a4df-e609c5e0c531_1170x660.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MwMJ!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2aa4ddbe-f9fc-4bf4-a4df-e609c5e0c531_1170x660.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MwMJ!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2aa4ddbe-f9fc-4bf4-a4df-e609c5e0c531_1170x660.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MwMJ!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2aa4ddbe-f9fc-4bf4-a4df-e609c5e0c531_1170x660.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MwMJ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2aa4ddbe-f9fc-4bf4-a4df-e609c5e0c531_1170x660.jpeg" width="1170" height="660" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2aa4ddbe-f9fc-4bf4-a4df-e609c5e0c531_1170x660.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:660,&quot;width&quot;:1170,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Palm Beach County residents voice strong opposition to proposed data center&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Palm Beach County residents voice strong opposition to proposed data center" title="Palm Beach County residents voice strong opposition to proposed data center" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MwMJ!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2aa4ddbe-f9fc-4bf4-a4df-e609c5e0c531_1170x660.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MwMJ!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2aa4ddbe-f9fc-4bf4-a4df-e609c5e0c531_1170x660.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MwMJ!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2aa4ddbe-f9fc-4bf4-a4df-e609c5e0c531_1170x660.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MwMJ!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2aa4ddbe-f9fc-4bf4-a4df-e609c5e0c531_1170x660.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/why-palm-beach-county-is-ground-zero?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/why-palm-beach-county-is-ground-zero?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part 48|| The Whale and the Wayfinder]]></title><description><![CDATA[You Are Here]]></description><link>https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-48-the-whale-and-the-wayfinder</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-48-the-whale-and-the-wayfinder</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[MARYAM HENEIN]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 13:49:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nz5v!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50dfef01-0eda-4b5d-985a-e39420bcb9bf_1280x720.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nz5v!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50dfef01-0eda-4b5d-985a-e39420bcb9bf_1280x720.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nz5v!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50dfef01-0eda-4b5d-985a-e39420bcb9bf_1280x720.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nz5v!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50dfef01-0eda-4b5d-985a-e39420bcb9bf_1280x720.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nz5v!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50dfef01-0eda-4b5d-985a-e39420bcb9bf_1280x720.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nz5v!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50dfef01-0eda-4b5d-985a-e39420bcb9bf_1280x720.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nz5v!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50dfef01-0eda-4b5d-985a-e39420bcb9bf_1280x720.png" width="1280" height="720" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/50dfef01-0eda-4b5d-985a-e39420bcb9bf_1280x720.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:720,&quot;width&quot;:1280,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1268866,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/i/194665702?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50dfef01-0eda-4b5d-985a-e39420bcb9bf_1280x720.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nz5v!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50dfef01-0eda-4b5d-985a-e39420bcb9bf_1280x720.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nz5v!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50dfef01-0eda-4b5d-985a-e39420bcb9bf_1280x720.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nz5v!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50dfef01-0eda-4b5d-985a-e39420bcb9bf_1280x720.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nz5v!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50dfef01-0eda-4b5d-985a-e39420bcb9bf_1280x720.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Follow: <a href="https://twitter.com/maryamhenein">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/maryamhenein/">Instagram</a> Truth Lives Here: <a href="https://rumble.com/c/TruthLivesHere">Rumble</a> | <a href="https://odysee.com/@MaryamHenein:8">Odysee</a> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/maryamheneinbeelady2">YouTube</a> <a href="http://www.honeycolony.com/">HONEYCOLONY</a> | Websites: <a href="https://maryamhenein.com/">MaryamHenein.com</a> | Georgefloydbook | <a href="https://honeycolony.com/">HoneyColony.com</a>| BUY NOW <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Operation-George-Floyd-Multi-Layered-Exposed/dp/B0FG2H6J3R/ref=sr_1_1?crid=N0S8NXPT5BGZ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1F5gI3lF_z1jhLgvJcP4t3z-0HCPcG8nhWSrzTkSmqn8sLB4iYiMQvMzClZXCQ6PbL_KPYrZSU6tXwDx9U2XnzMzXtXtFuXrhkiBdWc6_9PY0hPkANqnjCXOYVPSoGfk2mANxdq4e0qvoIdRDGX-7M_Z0WpsyOR5VflMs34sqeAQKdFUlPUqQ3Cbj7liz2EUX_RKZ0UF17pVuqNK-fPFxF4CS4xHy1syKsJxcp-Mwv654OMFG0oXipRdcmigZkkAzo1N4raSAJxpInxF4VLTm7oY813V84tC3AGRzhpnmxU.NC5gceKKdI1kyDGCJ-LD9EOya8cip4QEcNC5kt8fs6E&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=george+floyd&amp;qid=1759031366&amp;sprefix=george+floyd%2Caps%2C153&amp;sr=8-1">ON AMAZON!</a>: <a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/george-floyd-book/">Operation George Floyd</a></p><div class="pullquote"><p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Stardust is an ongoing serialized field report on consciousness, discernment, unconditional love, magical realism, and the lived experience of navigating intuition inside an inverted matrix. <a href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/stardust-series-start-here">Stardust Series &#8212; Start Here</a></strong></em></p></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>What can mean the most to you is that which you hear as a faint refrain, one which goes &#8217;round and through the twilight and dawn as if it were a songbird that would lead you into a clearing. You cannot see whence comes the bird, yet its message is one of consistency, and its guidance is as prolonged as the moments of everlasting beauty that thread themselves through your world. Look hither for some of those refrains; others will appear in those half-revealed coincidences which often cannot be dismissed.</em></p><p><em>As you are moved to meet your destiny, so does destiny move forward to you.<br>&#8212; &#8220;The Faint Refrain,&#8221; from The Voice of the Soul by Judith Pennington (April 17, 1988, 11:07 p.m.)</em></p></div><p>Snuffy walked through my front door as the AT&amp;T technician was leaving my new abode. He paused for a moment, surveying the living room with a kind of restrained curiosity as if assessing my progress. </p><p>&#8220;I like the stars,&#8221; he said casually. </p><p>My walls were already covered in hundreds of them, arranged in an improvised constellation. I didn&#8217;t tell him that he had inadvertently inspired the entire new decor. I was too shy, and perhaps too unsure, to admit what had already begun stirring inside me.</p><p>It was he who triggered the remembering of my celestial origins. Not through logic. Not through evidence. Certainly not through anything I could prove. It arrived another way entirely: as resonance. As recognition. What Judith Pennington, a researcher of consciousness, called &#8220;the faint refrain&#8221;&#8212;those half-revealed coincidences that refuse dismissal. </p><p>Now, post-kundalini awakening, the lyrics to <em>Major Tom</em> took on a whole new meaning. He&#8217;d finally escaped the gravity field. While Ground Control panicked below, obsessed with systems, signals, and compliance, he was <em>drifting</em>, <em>falling, </em>toward his real home.</p><p>Something about Snuffy reminded me of the cosmos. Later, I would learn that he genuinely loved outer space and knew a surprising amount about it. </p><p>I envisioned him in a past life as a navigator of the seas who knew the heavens by heart. A man capable of reading stars the way others read street signs &#8212; instinctively, without hesitation. I could see him clearly: standing on the deck of a ship in a heavy tweed coat, holding a long brass refracting telescope toward the night sky, charting invisible coordinates between sea and heaven as though the stars owed him an answer.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CG5G!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4d6c496c-c576-4498-97b5-4cc6b5830b67_1024x1536.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CG5G!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4d6c496c-c576-4498-97b5-4cc6b5830b67_1024x1536.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CG5G!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4d6c496c-c576-4498-97b5-4cc6b5830b67_1024x1536.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CG5G!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4d6c496c-c576-4498-97b5-4cc6b5830b67_1024x1536.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CG5G!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4d6c496c-c576-4498-97b5-4cc6b5830b67_1024x1536.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CG5G!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4d6c496c-c576-4498-97b5-4cc6b5830b67_1024x1536.png" width="616" height="924" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4d6c496c-c576-4498-97b5-4cc6b5830b67_1024x1536.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1536,&quot;width&quot;:1024,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:616,&quot;bytes&quot;:2610168,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/i/194665702?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4d6c496c-c576-4498-97b5-4cc6b5830b67_1024x1536.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CG5G!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4d6c496c-c576-4498-97b5-4cc6b5830b67_1024x1536.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CG5G!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4d6c496c-c576-4498-97b5-4cc6b5830b67_1024x1536.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CG5G!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4d6c496c-c576-4498-97b5-4cc6b5830b67_1024x1536.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CG5G!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4d6c496c-c576-4498-97b5-4cc6b5830b67_1024x1536.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Later, I learned that celestial navigation was not only real but refined over millennia. Polynesian wayfinders, Phoenicians, Arab navigators, and European mariners all memorized the sky and used it as a living map &#8212; a technology of orientation written in light. The brass refracting telescope, I discovered, was the instrument of choice between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries for observing planets, taking bearings, and charting unknown territories. That detail struck me deeply, because the images had arrived spontaneously &#8212; long before I had researched any of it.</p><p>The night he was helping me move in, Snuffy pulled up a planetarium app on his iPhone &#8212; the modern, pocket-sized rendition of that brass refracting telescope &#8212; and showed me Jupiter hanging above us in the Florida sky. We stood on my front lawn in the dark. The moment felt strangely disproportionate to its simplicity, as though something enormous had slipped quietly through an ordinary interaction.</p><p>He returned to my place on the eve of a &#8220;ring of fire&#8221; solar eclipse in Libra &#8212; the sign of mirrors, contracts, justice, and the Other. The Moon was about to slide in front of the Sun without fully swallowing it, leaving a burning rim around the dark.  </p><p>I would only understand the strangeness later, when I found the same ring-of-fire image on his business card, printed beside the number 333.  By then, I had also noticed planets scattered through his social media profile, as if the whole encounter had been seeded with celestial breadcrumbs for my soul to decode.</p><p>Incidentally, I wanted a telescope as a child; my father gave me a microscope instead.   One instrument trains the eye inward toward fragmentation and dissection. The other teaches you to search the heavens for orientation, myth, and meaning. The difference is not merely optical. It is philosophical. It shapes what you believe is worth looking for.</p><p>Details matter.</p><p>I did, however, own a Strawberry Shortcake shortwave radio at the ripe age of six. I remember lying in bed in a dim room, holding that humming portal &#8212; warm in my hands, smelling faintly of strawberries and plastic &#8212; utterly captivated by the ability to tune in to different worlds, different languages, different frequencies with nothing more than a twist of a dial.</p><p>I am certain that synthetic strawberry scent imprinted itself onto an entire generation's nervous system like some half-remembered dream we can't quite locate or explain.</p><p>I also remember reading<em> Moby-Dick </em>and wondering what it would feel like to be swallowed by a whale. Not eaten, exactly. Consumed by something ancient and enormous.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B_lR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe52c7236-6c8b-4c14-a65f-42173cb30474_392x363.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B_lR!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe52c7236-6c8b-4c14-a65f-42173cb30474_392x363.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B_lR!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe52c7236-6c8b-4c14-a65f-42173cb30474_392x363.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B_lR!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe52c7236-6c8b-4c14-a65f-42173cb30474_392x363.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B_lR!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe52c7236-6c8b-4c14-a65f-42173cb30474_392x363.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B_lR!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe52c7236-6c8b-4c14-a65f-42173cb30474_392x363.jpeg" width="392" height="363" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e52c7236-6c8b-4c14-a65f-42173cb30474_392x363.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:363,&quot;width&quot;:392,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Welcome to the &#8220;Belly of the Whale&#8221; | Belly of the Whale&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Welcome to the &#8220;Belly of the Whale&#8221; | Belly of the Whale" title="Welcome to the &#8220;Belly of the Whale&#8221; | Belly of the Whale" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B_lR!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe52c7236-6c8b-4c14-a65f-42173cb30474_392x363.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B_lR!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe52c7236-6c8b-4c14-a65f-42173cb30474_392x363.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B_lR!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe52c7236-6c8b-4c14-a65f-42173cb30474_392x363.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B_lR!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe52c7236-6c8b-4c14-a65f-42173cb30474_392x363.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The whale is not merely a sea beast; it is a threshold guardian. You enter its belly, swallowed by confusion, terror, and the unknowable. And if you survive the underworld, you come back carrying truth. </p><p>Maybe that is why Snuffy disoriented me the way he did. I first mistook him for an answer. But he was the whale: the dark threshold, the ancient descent, the creature that pulled me under and forced me to confront what had been waiting beneath the surface long before he arrived.</p><p>As time passed, he felt less like a man entering my life and more like a threshold I had crossed without realizing it. No other human being has ever made reality feel quite so unstable. There seemed to be a second story running underneath.</p><p>Yet the same current that made him feel remembered also made him impossible to place. Nothing about him fit neatly into the categories available to me: stranger, friend, lover, muse, catalyst, projection, mirror. He seemed to occupy all of them simultaneously &#8212; and none of them completely.</p><p>I knew him, and I did not know him at all. </p><p>Deep down, I believe he knew we were made of similar material. We wore the same wounds. I moved toward them. He recoiled.</p><p><em>What if the soul knows before the ego can mount its defense?</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-48-the-whale-and-the-wayfinder?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-48-the-whale-and-the-wayfinder?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>The Greeks called it <em>anamnesis</em> &#8212; from the ancient Greek <em>anamn&#275;sis</em> (&#7936;&#957;&#940;&#956;&#957;&#951;&#963;&#953;&#962;), meaning remembrance, or recollection. In Gnostic, Platonic, and mystical traditions, anamnesis is not a poetic metaphor for nostalgia. It is a cosmological claim: that truth is not learned externally but <em>remembered</em> internally. That awakening is the gradual, often disorienting process of recovering knowledge buried beneath incarnation, conditioning, trauma, and the relentless noise of a world that profits from your forgetting.</p><p>Gnosticism framed remembrance not as metaphor but as recovery &#8212; an act of spiritual archaeology. Plato wrote that the soul enters this world already carrying knowledge, and that learning is, in many ways, the act of recovering what the soul knew before incarnation itself. The body forgets. The soul, given the right conditions, does not.</p><p>From there, the diagnosis becomes cosmic: humanity suffers from amnesia. Salvation is not becoming something new. It is returning to what was buried, obscured, or stolen. Salvation is remembrance.</p><p>Long ago, I had planned to work with Bruce Burgess, who released <em>Bloodline</em> in 2008. He was filming in the South of France on a documentary exploring the Grail legends, Rennes-le-Ch&#226;teau, and the possibility that history had buried something far stranger than doctrine allowed. The Cathars appear almost like a whisper beneath the larger mosaic &#8212; not the center of the story, but one of its haunted refrains.</p><p>After my Kundalini awakening, something strange and specific began surfacing.</p><p>I was remembering things I didn&#8217;t know that I knew. For a long time, I had carried an inexplicable fear of someone pouring kerosene on my face. I couldn't explain its origin &#8212; there was no corresponding memory, no trauma I could point to. But after the awakening, a word arrived with unusual force: <em>torched.</em> That was the word I used, instinctively, before I had any context for it. Later, I learned that the Cathars themselves had been burned alive en masse during the Albigensian Crusade &#8212; a systematic, state-sanctioned incineration of those who refused to submit to Rome's doctrinal authority.</p><p>Of course, I cannot prove I was a Cathar. Rationally, I understand how impossible that sounds. But the deeper truth is less about historical verification than archetypal recurrence. Some souls seem drawn repeatedly into the role of dissenter, truth-teller, heretic, exile &#8212; those unwilling or unable to fully submit to the dominant architecture of their age.</p><p>I believe I have played this archetype many times before.</p><p>Let&#8217;s just say this ain&#8217;t my first rodeo &#8212; a line I would later hear Snuffy deliver, in an entirely different context.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-48-the-whale-and-the-wayfinder?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-48-the-whale-and-the-wayfinder?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h3>Stranger Things </h3><p>Snuffy seemed a bit edgy and guarded as we moved into the once-upon-a-time sunroom. </p><p>&#8220;Do you know there&#8217;s a guy standing across the street?&#8221;</p><p>"What? No," I said, crossing to look through the blinds. I could make out a Black man &#8212; or rather, his sweaty, pimply forehead above the sill. He appeared to have a suitcase. It was odd, but this entire neighborhood was new to me, and I let it go.</p><p>I don't remember much of what we spoke about that afternoon. The time felt like stepping into a wormhole &#8212; approximately four hours collapsed into seconds. What I do remember: looking down at him with undisguised desire as he lay on his back against the tiles beneath my partially assembled standing desk, doing something practical with his hands while something entirely impractical was happening in my chest.</p><p>There would be another time when <em>he </em>would be the one looking down at me as I lay curled up on my bed, watching him fix my ceiling fan as we spoke. I recalled covering his entire face with soft kisses the second time I ever met him in person. He must have thought I was <em>loco</em>. It was not a lover&#8217;s greeting. It was more ancient than that &#8212; the way you greet a beloved sailor you haven&#8217;t seen in eons, whose return you had quietly stopped believing in.</p><p>I had never done that with an actual lover or boyfriend. Not once.</p><p><em>Now</em> it was as though we had never been intimate at all. On many occasions, I imagined asking him in a humorous tone:  So d<em>id you and I actually have sex? If so, wasn&#8217;t it awesome? Or was the whole thing some elaborate fever dream?</em> </p><p>I wondered whether his sudden declaration &#8212; <em>we should make love</em> &#8212; </p><p><em><strong>What happened next would become one of the strangest chapters in the entire story: a truck, a contract, an axe, a prison call, copper cables, and a man who felt at once remembered and difficult to crack.</strong></em></p>
      <p>
          <a href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-48-the-whale-and-the-wayfinder">
              Read more
          </a>
      </p>
   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stick This Up Your Butt]]></title><description><![CDATA[No really. Do it for maximum absorption]]></description><link>https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/stick-this-up-your-butt</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/stick-this-up-your-butt</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[MARYAM HENEIN]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 19:54:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!izri!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6851699a-e252-4334-b338-0f41cb0fcf60_1536x1024.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://simplytransformative.com/products/hemproids" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!izri!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6851699a-e252-4334-b338-0f41cb0fcf60_1536x1024.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!izri!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6851699a-e252-4334-b338-0f41cb0fcf60_1536x1024.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!izri!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6851699a-e252-4334-b338-0f41cb0fcf60_1536x1024.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!izri!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6851699a-e252-4334-b338-0f41cb0fcf60_1536x1024.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!izri!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6851699a-e252-4334-b338-0f41cb0fcf60_1536x1024.png" width="1456" height="971" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6851699a-e252-4334-b338-0f41cb0fcf60_1536x1024.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:971,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:2557280,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https://simplytransformative.com/products/hemproids&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/i/199623133?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6851699a-e252-4334-b338-0f41cb0fcf60_1536x1024.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!izri!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6851699a-e252-4334-b338-0f41cb0fcf60_1536x1024.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!izri!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6851699a-e252-4334-b338-0f41cb0fcf60_1536x1024.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!izri!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6851699a-e252-4334-b338-0f41cb0fcf60_1536x1024.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!izri!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6851699a-e252-4334-b338-0f41cb0fcf60_1536x1024.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p> Follow: <a href="https://twitter.com/maryamhenein">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/maryamhenein/">Instagram</a> Truth Lives Here: <a href="https://rumble.com/c/TruthLivesHere">Rumble</a> | <a href="https://odysee.com/@MaryamHenein:8">Odysee</a> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/maryamheneinbeelady2">YouTube</a> <a href="http://www.honeycolony.com/">HONEYCOLONY</a> | Websites: <a href="https://maryamhenein.com/">MaryamHenein.com</a> | <a href="https://honeycolony.com/">HoneyColony.com</a>| BUY NOW <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Operation-George-Floyd-Multi-Layered-Exposed/dp/B0FG2H6J3R/ref=sr_1_1?crid=N0S8NXPT5BGZ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1F5gI3lF_z1jhLgvJcP4t3z-0HCPcG8nhWSrzTkSmqn8sLB4iYiMQvMzClZXCQ6PbL_KPYrZSU6tXwDx9U2XnzMzXtXtFuXrhkiBdWc6_9PY0hPkANqnjCXOYVPSoGfk2mANxdq4e0qvoIdRDGX-7M_Z0WpsyOR5VflMs34sqeAQKdFUlPUqQ3Cbj7liz2EUX_RKZ0UF17pVuqNK-fPFxF4CS4xHy1syKsJxcp-Mwv654OMFG0oXipRdcmigZkkAzo1N4raSAJxpInxF4VLTm7oY813V84tC3AGRzhpnmxU.NC5gceKKdI1kyDGCJ-LD9EOya8cip4QEcNC5kt8fs6E&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=george+floyd&amp;qid=1759031366&amp;sprefix=george+floyd%2Caps%2C153&amp;sr=8-1">ON AMAZON!</a>: <a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/george-floyd-book/">Operation George Floyd</a></p><p>&#8212; 50 percent OFF with coupon code <strong><a href="https://simplytransformative.com/products/hemproids">purehemp</a></strong></p><p>No really.</p><p>Do it.</p><p>Because your colon absorbs better than half the overpriced wellness garbage being pushed by influencers with dead eyes and discount codes.</p><p>That&#8217;s the dirty little secret nobody talks about.</p><p>Most oral hemp products get destroyed by digestion before your body can properly use them. Gummies? Cute. Tinctures? Fine. But a large percentage gets metabolized through the liver and lost in the process.</p><p>Suppositories bypass much of that digestive bottleneck entirely.</p><p>People use hemp suppositories for:</p><p>&#8226; inflammation<br>&#8226; pelvic discomfort<br>&#8226; nervous system support<br>&#8226; GI and colorectal support<br>&#8226; menstrual support<br>&#8226; recovery<br>&#8226; relaxation<br>&#8226; bypassing digestive issues</p><p>Read <a href="https://honeycolony.com/article/hemp-can-change-the-world/">5 Ways Hemp Is Changing The World Around You</a></p><p>Ancient medicine knew this. Hospitals know this. Functional medicine knows this.</p><p>Now you know this.</p><p>PurO3 Full Spectrum Hemp Suppositories were formulated specifically for maximum bioavailability and targeted support.</p><p>And unlike most &#8220;clean wellness&#8221; products, the ingredient list doesn&#8217;t read like a chemistry experiment funded by venture-capital sociopaths.</p><p>Just:</p><p>&#8226; organic cocoa butter<br>&#8226; full-spectrum hemp extract<br>&#8226; hemp isolate</p><p>Each jar contains:</p><p>&#8212; 20 suppositories<br>&#8212; 1500mg total hemp extract<br>&#8212; 150mg each<br>&#8212; 50mg full-spectrum hemp<br>&#8212; 100mg isolate</p><p>These retailed for $88.</p><p>Right now they&#8217;re 50% OFF because I&#8217;m liquidating inventory and reclaiming freezer space from what currently looks like a cannabinoid weapons cache.</p><p>USE CODE: <a href="https://simplytransformative.com/products/hemproids">purehemp</a></p><p>So yes.</p><p>This is a ridiculous deal.</p><p>KEEP REFRIGERATED.</p><p>Because cocoa butter melts like God intended.</p><p>Stick it up your butt.<br>Or vaginally.<br>I support all portals.</p><p><a href="https://simplytransformative.com/products/hemproids">BUY HERE</a></p><p>Maryam Henein</p><p>P.S. Frankly, after this week, I may stick one up my own ass and stare at the ocean in silence.</p><p> </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/stick-this-up-your-butt?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/stick-this-up-your-butt?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charles Lieber Is Back. But The Nanotech King Never Left.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A globe-spanning tale of science, state power, and the race to map the human mind.]]></description><link>https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/charles-lieber-is-back-but-the-nanotech</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/charles-lieber-is-back-but-the-nanotech</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[MARYAM HENEIN]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 14:17:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f393bcf3-0f73-4424-adb0-24131f85524c_1280x720.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;06f9b513-8785-4a67-b0b7-a2e119711d0d&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Follow: <a href="https://twitter.com/maryamhenein">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/maryamhenein/">Instagram</a> Truth Lives Here: <a href="https://rumble.com/c/TruthLivesHere">Rumble</a> | <a href="https://odysee.com/@MaryamHenein:8">Odysee</a> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/maryamheneinbeelady2">YouTube</a> <a href="http://www.honeycolony.com/">HONEYCOLONY</a> | Websites: <a href="https://maryamhenein.com/">MaryamHenein.com</a> | <a href="https://honeycolony.com/">HoneyColony.com</a>| BUY NOW <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Operation-George-Floyd-Multi-Layered-Exposed/dp/B0FG2H6J3R/ref=sr_1_1?crid=N0S8NXPT5BGZ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1F5gI3lF_z1jhLgvJcP4t3z-0HCPcG8nhWSrzTkSmqn8sLB4iYiMQvMzClZXCQ6PbL_KPYrZSU6tXwDx9U2XnzMzXtXtFuXrhkiBdWc6_9PY0hPkANqnjCXOYVPSoGfk2mANxdq4e0qvoIdRDGX-7M_Z0WpsyOR5VflMs34sqeAQKdFUlPUqQ3Cbj7liz2EUX_RKZ0UF17pVuqNK-fPFxF4CS4xHy1syKsJxcp-Mwv654OMFG0oXipRdcmigZkkAzo1N4raSAJxpInxF4VLTm7oY813V84tC3AGRzhpnmxU.NC5gceKKdI1kyDGCJ-LD9EOya8cip4QEcNC5kt8fs6E&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=george+floyd&amp;qid=1759031366&amp;sprefix=george+floyd%2Caps%2C153&amp;sr=8-1">ON AMAZON!</a>: <a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/george-floyd-book/">Operation George Floyd</a></p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p>Charles Lieber is back in the headlines, but the truth is, the Nanotech King never left. He quietly shifted scenes, re-emerging inside China&#8217;s state-backed push to read, map, and perhaps eventually write the human brain. For a scientist who spent decades at the nexus of glory and controversy, the move is less a comeback than a relocation, with bigger stakes, better equipment, and far more disturbing questions.</p></div><p>In a corridor of Shenzhen&#8217;s science district, the hum is clinical, almost ceremonial: an air-shaft whisper, the soft click of keyboards, the distant centrifuge whir. At its center sits a man who has spent decades at the nexus of glory and controversy: once a cornerstone of Harvard chemistry, he is now an official figure in China&#8217;s bold, state-backed quest to fuse biology, nanotechnology, and machine intelligence.</p><p>The same man who was convicted after lying about his ties to China is now reportedly inside China&#8217;s state-backed brain&#8211;computer interface ecosystem. Ah-mazing! And he&#8217;s not selling fish at a wet market.  </p><p>According to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/convicted-former-harvard-scientist-rebuilds-brain-computer-lab-china-2026-04-30/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">Reuters</a>, Lieber is now overseeing China&#8217;s state-funded <strong>i-BRAIN</strong>, the Institute for Brain Research, Advanced Interfaces and Neurotechnologies, in Shenzhen. The project is framed as brain-computer interface research aimed at medical breakthroughs: restoring movement to paralyzed patients, assisting those with ALS, and advancing neural-interface science. That is the white-coat version, and yes, the technology may very well help people. But brain-computer interfaces do not fall into a single moral category. </p><p>The same technology that can restore movement can also read intent, accelerate command decisions, enhance cognition, and potentially tilt the balance of power in high-stakes military contexts. Reuters noted the dual-use concerns directly, reporting that scientists in China&#8217;s People&#8217;s Liberation Army have investigated brain interfaces to engineer &#8220;super soldiers&#8221; by boosting mental agility and situational awareness.</p><p>I have been tracking Lieber for six years, ever since he got &#8220;arrested,&#8221; not because I enjoy courtroom theater, but because I quickly realized he represents something much larger than a single Harvard scandal. His career sits at the crossroads of nanotechnology, brain-machine interfaces, biological electronics, Chinese talent programs, U.S. research funding, and the global race to turn the human body into a platform. That may sound dramatic to people who still think technology is neutral. Technology is never neutral when power is attached to it.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/charles-lieber-is-back-but-the-nanotech?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/charles-lieber-is-back-but-the-nanotech?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>He is the Nanotech King, with dozens of patents and applications across nanowires, nanosensors, injectable electronics, nano-bioelectronic scaffolds, and brain-adjacent probes. Justia&#8217;s patent database lists his latest granted patent as <a href="https://patents.justia.com/patent/11768174">U.S. Patent No. 11,768,174</a>, issued in 2023. But the real red flags are <a href="https://patents.justia.com/patent/20170172438">&#8220;Systems and Methods for Injectable Devices&#8221;</a>, which describes nanoscale wires and injectable devices that can enter soft matter, including biological tissue, and <a href="https://patents.justia.com/patent/20160302682">&#8220;Nanoscale Wire Probes for the Brain and Other Applications&#8221;</a>, which names the brain outright. This is not a scientist adjacent to the transhumanist frontier. This is one of its architects.</p><p>In my 2021 Vaxxter piece, <a href="https://vaxxter.com/from-espionage-to-tax-evasion-charles-lieber-found-guilty-on-all-six-counts/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">&#8220;From Espionage to Tax Evasion,&#8221;</a> I argued that Lieber&#8217;s case had been reduced to legal paperwork while the deeper story &#8212; his role in blurring biology, electronics, nanotechnology, and the machine-human interface &#8212; remained largely untouched. Even then, there was a striking paucity of serious coverage about the man who helped blur the line between man and machine. Thomson Reuters had ranked him as the world&#8217;s top chemist for the decade 2000&#8211;2010, and Lieber himself had said that when electronics are scaled down, &#8220;the difference between digital &amp; living systems blurs,&#8221; making possible things that once sounded like science fiction. That sentence should have been treated like a flare over the battlefield. Instead, much of the press treated the story like a disclosure dispute with a side of tax trouble.</p><h2>Faux Fall Guy</h2><p>Lieber&#8217;s legal story is damning enough without adding rhinestones. In April 2023, the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/former-harvard-university-professor-sentenced-lying-about-his-affiliation-wuhan?utm_source=chatgpt.com">Department of Justice</a> announced that the former chair of Harvard&#8217;s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department had been sentenced for lying to federal authorities about his relationship with Wuhan University of Technology, his participation in China&#8217;s Thousand Talents Program, and for failing to report income he received from WUT. His punishment? Time served &#8212; meaning two whole days in prison &#8212; plus two years of supervised release, six months of home confinement, a $50,000 fine, and $33,600 in restitution to the IRS. </p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p>Apparently, when you are the Nanotech King, the American justice system handles you with oven mitts.</p></div><p>And this was not some adjunct professor fudging receipts for a conference trip. According to the DOJ, between 2008 and 2019, Lieber&#8217;s Harvard research group received more than $15 million in research funding from U.S. government agencies, including the Department of Defense and the NIH. During part of that same period, he had become a &#8220;Strategic Scientist&#8221; at Wuhan University of Technology and a contractual participant in China&#8217;s Thousand Talents Plan. The official story became false statements, tax forms, and reports of foreign bank accounts. But the deeper story was always transfer of prestige, knowledge, networks, and technologies sitting dangerously close to the future of the human-machine interface.</p><p>Two days. For a man who sat at the top of Harvard chemistry, received U.S. government-funded research support, hid a foreign affiliation, and was tied to a Chinese talent program that the DOJ described as one of China&#8217;s most prominent talent-recruitment plans, designed to attract high-level scientific talent in furtherance of China&#8217;s scientific development, economic prosperity, and national security. That is not my characterization. That is the government&#8217;s own framing.</p><p>Back in my own reporting, I noted that Judge Rya Zobel denied Lieber&#8217;s motions for acquittal and a new trial. I also wrote that when the DOJ first accused Lieber in January 2020, I had already dubbed him the Nanotech King, and that the original story had been diluted down to tax evasion. There was an abundance of evidence: emails, testimony, and recorded statements. I also noted that Lieber admitted to bringing cash in paper bags from China. My question remains the same: who hands over wads of cash without a clear end goal in mind?</p><p>That question looks even more radioactive now.</p><p>According to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/convicted-former-harvard-scientist-rebuilds-brain-computer-lab-china-2026-04-30/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">Reuters</a>, Lieber said he arrived in China on April 28, 2025, with &#8220;a dream and not much more.&#8221; Lovely. Very Hallmark, if Hallmark made geopolitical thrillers about brain chips, nanofabrication, and primate research. Reuters reports that his new Shenzhen lab has access to dedicated nanofabrication equipment, including a deep-ultraviolet lithography system from ASML, as well as to Brain Science Infrastructure Shenzhen, a Chinese Academy of Sciences-linked facility with 2,000 primate cages and dedicated space for i-BRAIN&#8217;s work. That is not a retirement chapter. That is a launchpad.</p><p>And here is the part that should make every honest person pause. According to <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/10/30/lieber-approval-china-visit/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">The Harvard Crimson</a>, Lieber was already seeking employment opportunities in China while still under U.S.-supervised release. In 2024, he obtained court approval for at least three China-related trips, including one for &#8220;employment networking&#8221; and another to attend the International Beijing Brain Conference. </p><p>So the man convicted for lying about his China ties was later allowed to travel to China for career networking in the same general orbit. <em>How does that work? </em>Apparently, with a Harvard judge&#8217;s permission, a passport, and the kind of institutional softness usually reserved for people who know where the wires are buried. Pun intended.</p><p>Legally, supervised release does not automatically mean a person cannot travel abroad. Courts and probation offices can approve travel. Fine. That is the procedural answer. But the political and moral answer is something else entirely. The scandal is not necessarily that Lieber violated supervision; the scandal is that the system appears to have permitted the exact pipeline everyone claimed to be worried about. After years of hand-wringing over undisclosed ties to China, the Nanotech King was not exiled from the frontier. He was cleared to keep walking toward it.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;1ffe4811-d99a-441d-be68-d70508d7650e&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><h2>The Shenzhen Chapter</h2><p>Lieber&#8217;s reemergence in Shenzhen is not just a career move. It places him inside a different playing field: dedicated nanofabrication equipment, primate facilities, and a lab connected to China&#8217;s national science infrastructure. It is not a sidebar. It is a signal of how fast the map of who does what, where, and with whom is being redrawn. The broader point is not about one scientist in exile. It is about a system that treats brain interfaces as a national strategic asset.</p><p>China is not hiding its brain-computer ambitions. In March 2026, Reuters reported that China approved the world&#8217;s first commercial use of an invasive brain-computer interface medical device. The device is meant to help patients with quadriplegia regain hand-grasping ability and uses minimally invasive extradural implantation and wireless technology. China&#8217;s regulator said BCI products are being prioritized as part of Beijing&#8217;s latest five-year plan.</p><p>Reuters also reported that China could see brain-computer interface technology move into practical public use within three to five years, according to BCI scientist Yao Dezhong, director of the Sichuan Institute of Brain Science. Beijing has elevated BCIs alongside quantum technology, embodied AI, 6G, and nuclear fusion as strategic future industries. China&#8217;s national BCI strategy reportedly aims for major technical breakthroughs by 2027 and to cultivate two or three world-class firms by 2030.</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p>So no, this is not theoretical. This is not fringe. This is not &#8220;maybe one day.&#8221; This is an active race, and Lieber is reportedly now sitting inside one of China&#8217;s most consequential neural-interface ecosystems.</p></div><p>The tension between care and control is not a philosophical debate. It is a budget line, a timeline, a regulatory pathway, and a geopolitical calculation. The same technology that helps a patient move again may also help a military system reduce reaction time. The same interface that restores communication for someone with ALS may also serve to read intent, monitor cognition, or connect a human operator to drones and decision systems. This is how the machine comes dressed as mercy.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/charles-lieber-is-back-but-the-nanotech?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/charles-lieber-is-back-but-the-nanotech?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h2>The Super Soldier Is Not A Marvel Character</h2><p>And no, the &#8220;super soldier&#8221; angle is not merely New York Post clickbait, though of course the tabloids will do what tabloids do. The serious issue is that brain-computer interfaces are inherently dual-use. They can be sold as medical miracles while also being developed into military command-and-control systems. A device that helps a paralyzed patient move a cursor could also, in another context, help a soldier control unmanned systems. A bioelectronic system that reads intent can compress the time between perception and action. An implant that restores function can become part of a battlefield network.</p><p>The AI super-soldier document I reviewed describes China&#8217;s military modernization as progressing through mechanization, informatization, and now &#8220;intelligentization,&#8221; in which AI, biotechnology, exoskeletons, ubiquitous sensing, brain-computer interfaces, and a master &#8220;cloud brain&#8221; reshape the individual combatant into a node within a larger machine-command system. It describes the &#8220;AI super soldier&#8221; not as a comic-book mutant but as an integrated human platform, physically, sensorially, and neurally enhanced, then connected to a broader battlefield cloud.</p><p>That is the real story. The future soldier is not necessarily bigger. He is interfaced, monitored, sensed, synced, and folded into a command architecture operating at machine speed. His body becomes data. His brain becomes a control surface. His reactions become part of a system that does not wait for human contemplation.</p><p>The same report describes the &#8220;Cloud Brain&#8221; as the conceptual center of PLA intelligentized warfare: a system that fuses data from satellites, drones, ground sensors, and soldier biosensors into a unified battlespace picture. In this model, the soldier is not an autonomous warrior in the old sense. He is part of a &#8220;super system&#8221; in which AI performs resource integration, algorithmic command, and self-reconfiguration of the network when nodes are lost.</p><p>That should chill every living soul who still believes the human being is sacred.</p><p>The New York Post version screams &#8220;AI super soldiers.&#8221; The Reuters version speaks in the sober language of brain-computer interfaces, state-backed labs, and dual-use concerns. I am less interested in the cartoon headline than the architecture underneath it. The real super soldier is not Captain America. He is not necessarily bulked up in a lab. He is a human node inside an AI-mediated battlefield, where perception, reaction, command, and compliance can be monitored, accelerated, and potentially directed.</p><h2>The Nervous System Frontier</h2><p>Your enemy does not need to occupy your land if he can occupy your nervous system. That is the part the legacy media cannot quite say, because it is still trapped inside the language of faux medicine, markets, and military modernization. But the deeper issue is sovereignty. Once the brain becomes readable, it becomes writable. Once the nervous system becomes a platform, the self becomes a battlefield. Once perception can be monitored, nudged, or overridden by machine systems, freedom is no longer merely a political question. It becomes neurological.</p><p>This is why Lieber matters. He is not just one disgraced scientist who got a soft sentence and moved to China. He is a symbol of the entire transhumanist pipeline: U.S. government-funded research, Harvard prestige, Chinese recruitment programs, nanotechnology, neural interfaces, primate testing, AI integration, and now the open conversation about soldier enhancement. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is convergence.</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p>Because this is not merely about China. China may be moving aggressively, but the deeper architecture is global. Neuralink, Synchron, DARPA-adjacent research, nanomaterials, injectable electronics, AI, wearable biosensors, digital identity, social credit systems, and cognitive warfare all belong to the same family tree. Some branches wear an American flag. Some wear a Chinese flag. Some wear a medical badge. Some wear a Silicon Valley hoodie. But the tree is the same tree.</p></div><p>I have written about this before. In my <a href="https://vaxxter.com/technofascism/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">2025 Technofascism Update</a>, I said the merging of man with machine would challenge our very notion of what it means to be human. I wrote that these are revolutionary times when AI and telepathy will concurrently exist, and that the question becomes whether you insert the chip or get relegated to the Savage Lands. That may sound dramatic to people who still think technology is merely a tool. But tools become systems. Systems become dependencies. Dependencies become cages when power controls the architecture.</p><p>The patient dimension is real, and it should not be dismissed. There are people with paralysis, ALS, spinal cord injuries, and neurodegenerative conditions whose lives could be transformed by safe, ethical brain-computer interfaces. The hope is not fake. The problem is that hope is often used as the velvet rope guarding the war room. Once the same device class becomes clinically useful, commercially valuable, and militarily strategic, the governance questions are no longer optional. Who controls the data? Who owns the signal? Who audits the system? Who protects consent when the data source is not a phone, a laptop, or a wearable, but the brain itself?</p><p>That is the line. Not &#8220;technology bad.&#8221; Not &#8220;medicine bad.&#8221; Not &#8220;science bad.&#8221; Spare me the sandbox-level debate. The question is who controls the interface between consciousness and machine.</p><h2>The Kingdom of the Programmable Human</h2><p>Lieber&#8217;s resurfacing in China is not random. It is a signal flare.</p><p>The media will say: Convicted Harvard scientist rebuilds career in China. Reuters will say: brain-computer interface lab. The medical establishment will say: hope for paralysis. Military analysts will say: dual-use concerns. Technocrats will say: strategic industry. Investors will say: market opportunity.</p><p>I say: the battlefield is and always has been your brain.</p><p>Charles Lieber was always at the mouth of the portal where living tissue meets electronics, where biology meets command systems, where the brain becomes the next contested territory. His story was never just about foreign payments or tax forms. It was about the transfer of a technological priesthood from one empire to another.</p><p>And if people still cannot see it, that is because they are looking for yesterday&#8217;s war. They are looking for tanks, missiles, flags, and boots on the ground. Meanwhile, the real war has moved inward. The frontier is no longer only the border. It is the blood-brain barrier. It is the synapse. It is attention. It is perception. It is will.</p><p>This is why I called him the Nanotech King. Not because he is glamorous, and certainly not because he is admirable, but because his work sits at the threshold where living tissue meets electronics, where medical promise becomes military possibility, and where the nervous system becomes the next frontier of power.</p><p>The programmable human is no longer science fiction. It is policy, infrastructure, and capital.</p><p>And the gates are opening.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;dc0deadc-43ca-42de-aef7-b793b3c0292a&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h4><strong>If this reporting matters to you, please share it and consider becoming a paid subscriber. I have been tracking Lieber, nanotechnology, technofascism, and the machine-human interface for years, long before the mainstream caught up wearing sensible shoes. Independent research takes time, and the receipts do not gather themselves.</strong></h4></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/charles-lieber-is-back-but-the-nanotech?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/charles-lieber-is-back-but-the-nanotech?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p></p><p></p><p><br>  </p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[EXPOSÉ: Twin Flames, Inc. | The Commercialization of a Spiritual Journey]]></title><description><![CDATA[How the Sacred Became a Billion-Dollar Industry]]></description><link>https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/expose-twin-flames-inc-the-commercialization</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/expose-twin-flames-inc-the-commercialization</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[MARYAM HENEIN]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 11:07:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/525d7bb3-a178-4030-88ee-538ae60aec00_1280x720.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;fe90b26e-2cd3-443e-a9fc-368a55622b0e&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Follow: <a href="https://twitter.com/maryamhenein">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/maryamhenein/">Instagram</a> Truth Lives Here: <a href="https://rumble.com/c/TruthLivesHere">Rumble</a> | <a href="https://odysee.com/@MaryamHenein:8">Odysee</a> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/maryamheneinbeelady2">YouTube</a> <a href="http://www.honeycolony.com/">HONEYCOLONY</a> | Websites: <a href="https://maryamhenein.com/">MaryamHenein.com</a> | Georgefloydbook | <a href="https://honeycolony.com/">HoneyColony.com</a>| BUY NOW <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Operation-George-Floyd-Multi-Layered-Exposed/dp/B0FG2H6J3R/ref=sr_1_1?crid=N0S8NXPT5BGZ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1F5gI3lF_z1jhLgvJcP4t3z-0HCPcG8nhWSrzTkSmqn8sLB4iYiMQvMzClZXCQ6PbL_KPYrZSU6tXwDx9U2XnzMzXtXtFuXrhkiBdWc6_9PY0hPkANqnjCXOYVPSoGfk2mANxdq4e0qvoIdRDGX-7M_Z0WpsyOR5VflMs34sqeAQKdFUlPUqQ3Cbj7liz2EUX_RKZ0UF17pVuqNK-fPFxF4CS4xHy1syKsJxcp-Mwv654OMFG0oXipRdcmigZkkAzo1N4raSAJxpInxF4VLTm7oY813V84tC3AGRzhpnmxU.NC5gceKKdI1kyDGCJ-LD9EOya8cip4QEcNC5kt8fs6E&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=george+floyd&amp;qid=1759031366&amp;sprefix=george+floyd%2Caps%2C153&amp;sr=8-1">ON AMAZON!</a>: <a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/george-floyd-book/">Operation George Floyd</a> </p><blockquote><p><em><strong>In recent years, the twin flame phenomenon has exploded into a lucrative niche inside the spiritual and self-help economy&#8212;what I refer to as Twin Flames, Inc. </strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Once rooted in philosophy and genuine inner inquiry, the concept has been repackaged, commodified, and scaled, generating both obsession and profit.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>I didn&#8217;t go looking for &#8220;twin flames.&#8221; I collided with the topic&#8212;by accident, or by design.</p><p>Twin souls are real. The version being sold to you isn&#8217;t. What gets marketed as a fairy tale is, in practice, a brutal confrontation. These connections don&#8217;t soothe you&#8212;they strip you bare. They surface unresolved wounds, insecurities, and old traumas&#8212;fast, and without permission. It&#8217;s less romance, more mirror. The kind you want to look away from, but can't&#8212;not if you're truly on a spiritual path of self-realization.</p><p>Before we get into the machinery, the manipulation, the full-blown industry built around this, let&#8217;s rewind to a late evening in June 2024.</p><p>I was at my desk, concerned&#8212;because I believed a man I was slated to meet had gone missing. Literally. His last message read, &#8220;I am not okay,&#8221; followed by days of silence. Ghosting never crossed my mind. In retrospect, I can see it clearly: it wasn&#8217;t my 3D persona reacting&#8212;it was my Higher Self.</p><p>Despite texting back and forth sporadically for a year, I had never looked at his social media until that point. I don&#8217;t even remember his Bumble profile. When I did find him on <em>TikTok</em>, I picked up on his versatility and creativity. </p><p>As I tried to tune into him&#8212;almost as if I were trying to locate him energetically&#8212;I felt a pulsing, buzzing sensation in my yoni area, then it surged upward in a wave up my spine. It felt like an orgasm, but also like I had put my finger in an electrical outlet. There was nothing sexual about it. I was fully clothed, not thinking a single naughty thought. The whole experience lasted about five minutes.</p><p>&#8220;Okay, God, this guy better show up. I need to know if I am super psychic or fucken wackadoodle,&#8221; I said, out loud into the ethers as I got ready for bed. &#8220;And whoever&#8217;s energy I am feeling, that&#8217;s who I want to be with.&#8221; </p><p>After meeting him in person, I knew it was him. He felt familiar but also like a stranger. Later, I had another 20-minute activation. He&#8217;d kissed me by then. I still didn&#8217;t know what was going on. I lay on my couch, my body moving in involuntary kriyas&#8212;spasms and undulating waves.</p><p>I learned it was a kundalini awakening, the thing some yogis spend decades chasing. Mine wasn&#8217;t cultivated. It was spontaneous. When it activates, it reorganizes the body and mind. At its core, it&#8217;s a nervous system surge&#8212;autonomic activation, chemical shifts, heightened signaling. Not mystical fluff. A recalibration.</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p>I know how unusual it was&#8212;sacred, remarkable. It didn't resemble anything I'd ever experienced. An anomaly. Almost supernatural. That's what pushed me to investigate.</p><p>Following an Instagram Live, a woman I didn&#8217;t know sent me a DM. </p><p>&#8220;I think you found your twin flame.&#8221;</p><p><em>What is that</em> really, I wondered?  </p><p>Like most people, I assumed it was just another word for soulmate. </p><p>It is not. </p></div><p>This strange, familiar man and I checked every single box now used to characterize a "twin flame": a kundalini activation, an age gap, not each other's usual type, a disorienting mix of familiarity and total unfamiliarity, a slew of synchronicities, and a meeting that felt magnetic.</p><p>But that&#8217;s another tale of magical realism I&#8217;ve titled <em><a href="/__u/open.substack.com/pub/maryamhenein/p/stardust-series-start-here?r=1lps20&amp;utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web">Stardust</a></em>. </p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;44f16985-d15b-48f0-a25d-5cd0eaa82b3f&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Follow: Twitter | Instagram Truth Lives Here: Rumble | Odysee | YouTube HONEYCOLONY | Websites: MaryamHenein.com | HoneyColony.com| NOW ON AMAZON!: Operation George Floyd&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Stardust Series &#8212; Start Here&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:96940872,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;MARYAM HENEIN&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Maryam Henein is an investigative journalist, and founder, and editor-in-chief of HoneyColony. She is also a functional medicine consultant/coach, and the director of the award-winning documentary film Vanishing of the Bees.&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c6ccd549-f10d-44d9-b3ff-10ef5023e872_2640x3960.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-27T13:54:19.902Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!04Iw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a538e7e-1a3a-4602-856f-a30a56129a71_1280x720.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/stardust-series-start-here&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:182647235,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:8,&quot;comment_count&quot;:2,&quot;publication_id&quot;:944302,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Maryam Henein on Substack&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vbCa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6f4bdb70-8bc4-4973-b229-efce951fd6e3_900x900.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/expose-twin-flames-inc-the-commercialization?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/expose-twin-flames-inc-the-commercialization?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><h3><strong>Slow Co-Option Of The Sacred</strong></h3><p>When it comes to &#8220;twin flames,&#8221; two realities are operating at once&#8212;and most people don&#8217;t have the discernment to separate them. One is genuine: a connection that defies logic, a sudden internal shift you didn&#8217;t ask for. The other is an industry&#8212;distorted, monetized, algorithm-driven, and manipulative.</p><p>Smash them together, and you get confusion with a business model.</p><p>The real story&#8212;the one worth covering&#8212;is how something sacred got reverse-engineered into an efficient psychological and financial extraction system dressed up as modern spirituality.</p><p>Here's the rub: twin flames are both genuine and exploited. The scandal isn't just distorted&#8212;it's that something rare and sacred got reduced to a spiritual MLM, romanticized into fantasy, and optimized for retention. Not to evolve or ascend&#8212;but to keep you stuck, looping, and paying.</p><p>My suspicions that <em>this </em>space has <em>also </em>been co-opted were cemented when I learned there was a three-part Netflix docuseries titled <em>Escaping Twin Flames</em>, released on November 8, 2023. If there&#8217;s &#8220;a show,&#8221; there&#8217;s usually something true underneath it. </p><div id="youtube2-VePkIq4_q2k" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;VePkIq4_q2k&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/VePkIq4_q2k?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Today, the topic isn&#8217;t fringe anymore&#8212;it landed in Netflix&#8217;s Top 10, drawing millions of viewers globally and triggering scrutiny. Meanwhile, even celebrities like Megan Fox started speaking the language, dropping &#8220;twin flame&#8221; into the mainstream as casually as a product plug. </p><p>The hidden design is always the same: suppress human consciousness, fragment belief systems, and repackage truth into something controllable. Institutions like the Tavistock Institute have spent decades studying exactly this&#8212;how belief can be engineered, destabilized, and reintroduced to control behavior. </p><p>I&#8217;ve written about this before&#8212;painstakingly&#8212;through the lens of one of the biggest psyops of our time and what I call the <a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/george-floyd-book/">inverted matrix</a>. The playbook is always the same.  Once you see it, you can&#8217;t unsee it.</p><p>&#8220;Twin flames&#8221; is just another distortion designed to scramble the connection between the sexes. In an adjacent category to transgenderism, mainstream marriage and materialism.  </p><p><em>The real cover-up? </em>We can access our own divinity. That&#8217;s what gets buried.</p><p>Silly wabbit. Trix are for kids.  </p><h3>Go Way Back. Way, Way Back</h3><p><em>Did the soul split&#8212;like a cell dividing&#8212;creating polarity from what was once unified? </em></p><p>The term &#8220;twin flame&#8221; may have been derived from Plato&#8217;s <em>Symposium</em>. In Aristophanes&#8217; account, human beings were once whole&#8212;round, double-bodied, self-contained&#8212;and powerful enough to challenge the gods. So Zeus splits them in half. They were called Split Aparts. Not to create love, but to weaken them. From that point on, each half moves through life with a residual sense of incompleteness, drawn toward what it once was.   </p><p>That yearning for unity resonates deeply in the twin flame narrative. But wholeness comes from within&#8212;not from finding the other half.</p><p>When I went sifting for other clues of something real, beyond oodles of empirical data on <em>Facebook</em> groups and<em> Reddit</em>, I discovered that the Hebrew word translated as &#8220;rib&#8221; is <em>tsela</em>, which doesn&#8217;t mean a literal bone, but a side, a structural part. </p><p>Later mystical traditions interpreted that "side" as something closer <strong>to an origin point or essence,</strong> in which one being gives rise to another. Not a spare part, but a split from a unified whole.</p><p>Fast forward to the Victorian era, and you come across Marie Corelli, born Mary Mackay in 1855, who was one of the best-selling authors of her time. She outsold contemporaries like Arthur Conan Doyle and H. G. Wells at her peak. Even Queen Victoria was a fan.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P1qs!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79d8f584-4eb3-480d-881d-f4865bd0aabd_359x594.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P1qs!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79d8f584-4eb3-480d-881d-f4865bd0aabd_359x594.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P1qs!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79d8f584-4eb3-480d-881d-f4865bd0aabd_359x594.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P1qs!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79d8f584-4eb3-480d-881d-f4865bd0aabd_359x594.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P1qs!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79d8f584-4eb3-480d-881d-f4865bd0aabd_359x594.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P1qs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79d8f584-4eb3-480d-881d-f4865bd0aabd_359x594.jpeg" width="247" height="408.6852367688022" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/79d8f584-4eb3-480d-881d-f4865bd0aabd_359x594.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:594,&quot;width&quot;:359,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:247,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Marie Corelli&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Marie Corelli" title="Marie Corelli" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P1qs!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79d8f584-4eb3-480d-881d-f4865bd0aabd_359x594.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P1qs!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79d8f584-4eb3-480d-881d-f4865bd0aabd_359x594.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P1qs!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79d8f584-4eb3-480d-881d-f4865bd0aabd_359x594.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P1qs!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F79d8f584-4eb3-480d-881d-f4865bd0aabd_359x594.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In her novel <em>A Romance of Two Worlds</em> (1886), Marie Corelli introduces a protagonist who is a chronically ill woman on the verge of complete physical and psychological collapse &#8212; a pianist whose creative gifts have been extinguished by nervous exhaustion, unable to perform or find pleasure in the art that once defined her. </p><p>She undergoes a radical and irreversible shift after encountering <em>Heliobas</em>, a Chaldean mystic and spiritual teacher residing in Paris. He introduces her to what he calls an "electric creed" &#8212; a cosmological system in which the human soul is understood as a form of divine electricity, capable of transmitting and receiving information across the boundaries of physical matter.  </p><p>The connection between them is emphatically not romantic; Heliobas remains a detached, almost priestly figure whose interest in her is entirely oriented toward her spiritual development. Yet the relationship is profoundly intimate in a way Victorian fiction rarely permitted between men and women outside of courtship: not a change of circumstances, but a fundamental reorganization of her internal world.</p><p>Across her body of work, unseen spiritual forces&#8212;spirits, occult influences, and messages from beyond&#8212;quietly guide the lives of her characters.   </p><p>But none of this is "twin flames." </p><p>Not yet.</p><p>The first clear, structured use of "twin flame" as a spiritual doctrine appears in late-20th-century New Age teachings, most prominently through <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-Clare-Prophet">Elizabeth Clare Prophet</a> and the organization she led, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Universal_and_Triumphant">Church Universal and Triumphant</a>. Building on earlier <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_AM_Activity">"I AM" Activity</a> teachings from Guy Ballard, Prophet formalized the idea: individuals have a "twin flame"&#8212;a counterpart originating from the same divine presence, the "I AM Presence."</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p>&#8220;God created you and your twin flame out of a single&#8230; &#8216;white fire body&#8217;&#8230; separated into two spheres of being.&#8221;</p></div><p>In this framework, the twin flame is not metaphorical&#8212;it&#8217;s cosmological. The soul is described as a polarized expression of a higher identity, with union framed as part of spiritual completion.   </p><h3>Twin Flames Inc. Is Born</h3><p>Hollywood has been quietly seeding the &#8220;twin flame&#8221; narrative for years without ever naming it. It shows up on screen slightly distorted or disguised. Of course.&#128580;  </p><ul><li><p><strong><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/">The Matrix</a> &#8212; Neo doesn&#8217;t wake up alone. Trinity reminds him who he is. He ultimately chooses her over the fa.ik and ga.iy construct.</strong></p></li><li><p><strong><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1371111/">Cloud Atlas</a> &#8212; the same pull, stretched across lifetimes.</strong></p></li><li><p><strong><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338013/">Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind</a> &#8212; they erased the memory. The pull survives anyway.</strong></p></li><li><p><strong><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0267804/">The One</a> &#8212; identity fractured across timelines, still magnetized.</strong></p></li><li><p><strong><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2398969/">Equals</a> &#8212; connection as an act of resistance against a control system.</strong></p></li><li><p><strong><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2431438/">Sense8</a> &#8212; the boundary between separate minds, dissolved.</strong></p></li><li><p><strong><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448157/">Hancock</a> &#8212; an inversion: paired beings who lose power when they get too close.</strong></p></li><li><p><strong><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101450/">The Butcher&#8217;s Wife</a> &#8212; names it directly. Plato. &#8220;Split Aparts&#8221;</strong></p></li></ul><p>But before getting into specifics, let&#8217;s zoom out for a moment and <em>go macro</em>. </p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p>The global spiritual services economy sits at roughly <a href="https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/spiritual-products-market">$376 billion</a> and is projected to nearly double within the decade. The "twin flame" space isn't tracked as a formal category&#8212;but across coaching, content, readings, and subscription communities, it likely generates hundreds of millions, possibly approaching $2 billion annually worldwide.</p></div><p>By the 1990s, Elizabeth Clare Prophet&#8217;s teachings had been codified into lectures, decrees, and publications. What may have once functioned as a symbolic or metaphysical idea became increasingly systematized. The shift is subtle but important: spiritual evolution becomes intertwined with the idea of an external counterpart, with union framed as part of a larger process of completion and ascension.</p><p>Once people moved online, Facebook groups and Reddit threads became funnels. Communities organized around longing, and a twin-flame product was born. Then it became an industry. </p><p>By 2017, <strong><a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/81436192">Twin Flames Universe</a></strong>, run by Jeff and Shaleia Ayan, had scaled the concept into a tiered digital business&#8212;the same organization at the center of Netflix&#8217;s <em>Escaping Twin Flames</em>:</p><ul><li><p>Paid courses range from hundreds to several thousand dollars</p></li><li><p>Upsells for coaching, &#8220;ascension programs,&#8221; and private community access</p></li><li><p>Operators claiming the ability to identify or confirm your &#8220;twin flame.&#8221;</p></li><li><p>Participants spending thousands&#8212;sometimes tens of thousands&#8212;over time </p></li></ul><p>In the monetized version, there is no endpoint. That&#8217;s not a bug. That&#8217;s the model.</p><p><em>How do you express the knowing behind a feeling? How do you measure the maturity of a soul? How do you explain a bunch of anomalous, crazy synchronicities? </em></p><p>You can&#8217;t sell uncertainty. You can&#8217;t package an open question. So instead of waking people up to the disruptive potential of these connections, the system inverts it&#8212;same architecture, opposite function. Instead of activation, you get looping. Instead of integration, you get fixation.</p><p>&#8220;Twin flames&#8221; is the perfect product because the premise is inherently unresolved. Most people don&#8217;t do the level of shadow work required to actually metabolize the experience or expand their consciousness, which means the system never loses a customer. Consciousness is stunted. </p><p>That&#8217;s not spirituality. That&#8217;s bypassing with a bow.</p><p>And that&#8217;s where the conversation gets lazy&#8212;because instead of investigating the anomaly, the culture does one of two things. It monetizes it. Or it dismisses it.</p><h3>Twin Rays </h3><p>Beneath the funnels, the Netflix dramatizations, the twin flame lexicon&#8212;there is a category of experience that baffles the mind.  It&#8217;s far less marketable but way more remarkable. </p><p>People report:</p><ul><li><p>Immediate recognition without prior information &#10003;&#10003;&#10003;&#10003;</p></li><li><p>Nervous system activation that borders on overwhelming &#10003;&#10003;&#10003;</p></li><li><p>Rapid surfacing of unresolved trauma &#10003;&#10003;&#10003;&#10003;&#10003;</p></li><li><p>Synchronicities clustering in ways that feel statistically improbable &#10003;&#10003;&#10003;&#10003;&#10003;&#10003;&#10003;&#10003;</p></li><li><p>Knowledge exchange that feels nonverbal&#8212;like remembering, not learning <strong>&#10003;</strong>&#10003;&#10003;</p></li></ul><p>You can call it projection. You can call it attachment trauma. In many cases, that&#8217;s accurate. In some cases, it isn&#8217;t.</p><p>I know this because I lived it.</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p>Finding a twin flame is more of an anomaly than a trend. It&#8217;s like finding a four-leaf clover in a pile of shit. That&#8217;s what my data&#8212;and my own first-hand experience&#8212;conclude.</p></div><p>&#8220;The personal account, the real investigative depth, and the questions nobody in this industry wants asked&#8212;that&#8217;s below. No coaching package required.&#8221;&#8595;&#8595;&#8595;&#8595;</p><p>I&#8217;ve submerged myself in many topics over the years. I make my way into the story &#224; la Hunter S. Thompson, because that&#8217;s where the real understanding lives. I didn&#8217;t plan to cover this, and I thought I&#8217;d disprove that this man was my twin flame. He may deny it but I have my reasons as to why. It&#8217;s not my fault we fit every characteristic.</p><p>Don&#8217;t shoot the messenger. </p><p>There&#8217;s another layer to this story I debated sharing publicly.</p><p>In February 2025, while speaking on ascension at Anarchapulco, I encountered Christof &#8230;</p>
      <p>
          <a href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/expose-twin-flames-inc-the-commercialization">
              Read more
          </a>
      </p>
   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[ 🐝 Are You Sick of Building Someone Else’s Soulless Business?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Please share the shit out of this!]]></description><link>https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/are-you-sick-of-building-someone</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/are-you-sick-of-building-someone</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[MARYAM HENEIN]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 18:11:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/82089a1f-7420-4445-8c24-33005a273c69_1536x1024.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JUXk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3579abd1-6af4-4c64-9039-344b80a83104_2004x785.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JUXk!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3579abd1-6af4-4c64-9039-344b80a83104_2004x785.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JUXk!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3579abd1-6af4-4c64-9039-344b80a83104_2004x785.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JUXk!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3579abd1-6af4-4c64-9039-344b80a83104_2004x785.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JUXk!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3579abd1-6af4-4c64-9039-344b80a83104_2004x785.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JUXk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3579abd1-6af4-4c64-9039-344b80a83104_2004x785.png" width="1456" height="570" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3579abd1-6af4-4c64-9039-344b80a83104_2004x785.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:570,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:2240143,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/i/194345724?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3579abd1-6af4-4c64-9039-344b80a83104_2004x785.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JUXk!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3579abd1-6af4-4c64-9039-344b80a83104_2004x785.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JUXk!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3579abd1-6af4-4c64-9039-344b80a83104_2004x785.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JUXk!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3579abd1-6af4-4c64-9039-344b80a83104_2004x785.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JUXk!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3579abd1-6af4-4c64-9039-344b80a83104_2004x785.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Follow: <a href="https://twitter.com/maryamhenein">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/maryamhenein/">Instagram</a> | <a href="https://t.me/truthavengers">Telegram</a> | <a href="https://gab.com/LadyBee">Gab</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/maryamheneinofficial">Facebook</a><br>Truth Lives Here: <a href="https://rumble.com/c/TruthLivesHere">Rumble</a> | <a href="https://rokfin.com/truthliveshere">Rokfin</a> | <a href="https://odysee.com/@MaryamHenein:8">Odysee</a> | <a href="https://www.brighteon.com/channels/maryamhenein">Brighteon</a> | <a href="https://www.bitchute.com/channel/ZcEPV82QPuA0/">Bitchute</a> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/maryamheneinbeelady2">YouTube</a><br>Websites: <a href="https://maryamhenein.com/">MaryamHenein.com</a> | <a href="https://honeycolony.com/">HoneyColony.com</a></p><h4>Want to Own or Help Scale a Real Health-Freedom Brand?</h4><p><strong>If you know a serious operator, builder, investor, licensee, or acquisition-minded person who is tired of building someone else&#8217;s soulless machine, please send them this.</strong></p><p><a href="http://www.honeycolony.com">HoneyColony</a> already has what most new brands spend years trying to build: loyal customers, a mailing list of approximately 50,000 people, more than 1,700 published articles, millions in historical revenue, founder authority, product credibility, vendor history, and real trust in the natural health and medical-freedom space.</p><p>This is not a traditional salaried COO role. This is a partner-track opportunity for the right operator, builder, licensee, investor, or acquisition-minded person who understands both mission and math.</p><p>The right person will help rebuild, operate, capitalize, and scale HoneyColony&#8217;s next chapter while earning upside through a clearly defined structure that may include revenue share, performance-based equity, licensing, profit participation, a capital-backed partnership, a partial acquisition, or a full acquisition.</p><p>HoneyColony does not need to be reinvented. It needs operational firepower, systems, financial clarity, fulfillment discipline, and someone who sees the value of a rooted hive.  </p><p><strong>If this is not you, but someone came to mind while reading this, please forward it to them. That may be the entire reason you saw this post.</strong></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/are-you-sick-of-building-someone?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/are-you-sick-of-building-someone?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h2>What HoneyColony Has Built</h2><ul><li><p>15 years in the natural health and medical-freedom space</p></li><li><p>Millions in historical revenue</p></li><li><p>Loyal customers who still trust the brand</p></li><li><p>Approximately 50,000 + people are on the mailing list</p></li><li><p>More than 1,700 published articles</p></li><li><p>Founder-led authority and public credibility</p></li><li><p>Product history across supplements, superfoods, detox tools, and organic body care</p></li><li><p>Vendor relationships and marketplace infrastructure</p></li><li><p>A trusted voice in health sovereignty before &#8220;wellness&#8221; became corporate</p></li><li><p>A brand with meaning, history, and a real point of view</p></li></ul><h2>What This Is</h2><p>This is a partner-track opportunity for someone who wants to help operate, rebuild, grow, license, or acquire an existing 15-year health-freedom brand.</p><p>Possible structures include:</p><ul><li><p>Revenue share</p></li><li><p>Performance-based equity</p></li><li><p>Sweat-equity ownership</p></li><li><p>Licensing rights</p></li><li><p>Profit participation</p></li><li><p>Capital-backed partnership</p></li><li><p>Strategic partnership</p></li><li><p>Partial acquisition</p></li><li><p>Full acquisition discussion</p></li></ul><p>The exact structure depends on what you bring and what you can actually execute. Partnership and ownership are earned through performance, capital, execution, or a clearly defined agreement &#8212; not empty promises.</p><h2>Who This Is For</h2><p>This is for someone who understands both mission and math.</p><p>The right person is:</p><ul><li><p>Fast, grounded, and steady under pressure</p></li><li><p>Operationally disciplined</p></li><li><p>Financially sharp and resource-aware</p></li><li><p>Experienced in e-commerce, DTC, wellness, supplements, or natural products</p></li><li><p>Strong with systems, fulfillment, inventory, vendors, customer service, and cash flow</p></li><li><p>Ownership-minded</p></li><li><p>Capable of respecting a founder-led brand</p></li><li><p>Aligned with real health, medical freedom, clean products, and independent media</p></li><li><p>Able to create order without stripping the soul out of the business</p></li><li><p>Interested in building or owning something meaningful instead of starting from scratch</p></li></ul><p>This is not for:</p><ul><li><p>Generic consultants</p></li><li><p>Agency pitch decks</p></li><li><p>Wellness tourists</p></li><li><p>Empty visionaries</p></li><li><p>Salary-first executives looking for a clean machine</p></li><li><p>People who cannot execute from day one</p></li></ul><h2>To Apply</h2><p>Send a direct, specific note answering:</p><ul><li><p>What have you built, fixed, operated, scaled, licensed, or acquired?</p></li><li><p>What do you bring: capital, systems, execution, team, infrastructure, fulfillment, distribution, or acquisition interest?</p></li><li><p>Which structure interests you: operator partnership, revenue share, equity, licensing, partial acquisition, or full acquisition?</p></li><li><p>What would you do in the first 30 days?</p></li><li><p>Why does HoneyColony make sense for you?</p></li></ul><p>Email: <strong>maryam@honeycolony.com</strong></p><p>Subject line: <strong>HoneyColony Operator Partner</strong></p><p><strong>Please share this with one serious person who understands health freedom, business, operations, and the value of a brand with roots. Restack it if you believe independent health brands should survive.</strong></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/are-you-sick-of-building-someone?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/are-you-sick-of-building-someone?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part 47|| Divine Timing & The Illusion of Control]]></title><description><![CDATA[3:33 P.M When Pattern Becomes Proof]]></description><link>https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-47-divine-timing-and-the-illusion</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-47-divine-timing-and-the-illusion</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[MARYAM HENEIN]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:10:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/14a9d9d1-1b2c-425a-8b15-9e99a1273606_1280x720.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;1a77ac0c-2230-4a8d-9402-4f013691b5a6&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Follow: <a href="https://twitter.com/maryamhenein">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/maryamhenein/">Instagram</a> Truth Lives Here: <a href="https://rumble.com/c/TruthLivesHere">Rumble</a> | <a href="https://odysee.com/@MaryamHenein:8">Odysee</a> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/maryamheneinbeelady2">YouTube</a> <a href="http://www.honeycolony.com/">HONEYCOLONY</a> | Websites: <a href="https://maryamhenein.com/">MaryamHenein.com</a> | Georgefloydbook | <a href="https://honeycolony.com/">HoneyColony.com</a>| BUY NOW <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Operation-George-Floyd-Multi-Layered-Exposed/dp/B0FG2H6J3R/ref=sr_1_1?crid=N0S8NXPT5BGZ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1F5gI3lF_z1jhLgvJcP4t3z-0HCPcG8nhWSrzTkSmqn8sLB4iYiMQvMzClZXCQ6PbL_KPYrZSU6tXwDx9U2XnzMzXtXtFuXrhkiBdWc6_9PY0hPkANqnjCXOYVPSoGfk2mANxdq4e0qvoIdRDGX-7M_Z0WpsyOR5VflMs34sqeAQKdFUlPUqQ3Cbj7liz2EUX_RKZ0UF17pVuqNK-fPFxF4CS4xHy1syKsJxcp-Mwv654OMFG0oXipRdcmigZkkAzo1N4raSAJxpInxF4VLTm7oY813V84tC3AGRzhpnmxU.NC5gceKKdI1kyDGCJ-LD9EOya8cip4QEcNC5kt8fs6E&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=george+floyd&amp;qid=1759031366&amp;sprefix=george+floyd%2Caps%2C153&amp;sr=8-1">ON AMAZON!</a>: <a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/george-floyd-book/">Operation George Floyd</a></p><div class="pullquote"><p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Stardust is an ongoing serialized field report on consciousness, discernment, unconditional love, magical realism, and the lived experience of navigating intuition inside an inverted matrix. <a href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/stardust-series-start-here">Stardust Series &#8212; Start Here</a></strong></em></p></div><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Do not seek for things to happen as you wish, but wish for things to happen as they do happen, and your life will go smoothly.&#8221; &#8212; Epictetus</em></p></blockquote><p>I woke up looking forward to seeing Snuffy. </p><p>There was a softness to it&#8212;disarming, intrusive, almost inconvenient in its purity. I felt sweet, shy, and innocent. And a strange shame for feelings I couldn&#8217;t justify or explain. Something about his presence bypassed my defenses entirely, like they were never there to begin with. I questioned myself, but I couldn&#8217;t deny it; my heart and soul were drawn to him.</p><p>And yet, I had only seen him a handful of times. My mind tried to grapple with my feelings. I wasn&#8217;t a teenager. I imagined the ordinary, which suddenly felt anything but. Curling up beside him like that, that afternoon in Miami. Climbing on top of him. Listening to him play his acoustic guitar. Reading to each other. Riding in <em>our</em> truck like it meant something more than transportation. </p><p>I couldn&#8217;t reconcile the disconnect. He had acknowledged that the time we spent had a quality to it. But then&#8212;nothing.  No continuity. No mutual desire.   </p><p>I just knew, I knew this guy.</p><p>It was Snuffy who introduced me to the word <em>Satori.</em></p><p>&#8220;What&#8217;s that?&#8221; I asked.</p><p>&#8220;When you just know.&#8221; </p><p>And I did.</p><p>But maybe it was my soul who knew his.  How else do you explain recognition without any history?</p><p>So I did what I always do: I investigated.</p><p>As the saying goes, &#8220;to know is to experience.&#8221; </p><p>While I&#8217;ve been accused of being WooWoo, I joke that I&#8217;m only one part Woo. The other half? Relentless pattern recognition. Data. Correlation. Verification.</p><p>The term &#8220;twin flame&#8221; had never been part of my scaffolding. And the deeper I looked, the more I saw how distorted, commercialized&#8212;Disneyfied&#8212;it had become. I wasn&#8217;t looking to label anything prematurely. If anything, I was trying to disprove it.  </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-47-divine-timing-and-the-illusion?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-47-divine-timing-and-the-illusion?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>I found myself wondering if, like a cell, the soul could be split in two,&nbsp;each half carrying the memory of the original whole. And then, for some reason, I intuitively wondered whether it was ever really about a rib? So I went to look it up.  </p><p>What I found astonished me. </p><p>In Hebrew, the word often translated as &#8220;rib&#8221; &#8212; <em>tzela</em> (&#1510;&#1461;&#1500;&#1464;&#1506;) &#8212; doesn&#8217;t &#8230;</p>
      <p>
          <a href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-47-divine-timing-and-the-illusion">
              Read more
          </a>
      </p>
   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome To The Abyss Between Us]]></title><description><![CDATA[Choronzon, & The Age of Fragmentation]]></description><link>https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-abyss-between-us</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-abyss-between-us</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[MARYAM HENEIN]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:31:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a7bb0229-f3a0-4303-9e0c-55bf68b2fad0_1280x720.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;83387c39-a2ac-4069-b6f3-66f08df24482&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Follow: <a href="https://twitter.com/maryamhenein">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/maryamhenein/">Instagram</a> Truth Lives Here: <a href="https://rumble.com/c/TruthLivesHere">Rumble</a> | <a href="https://odysee.com/@MaryamHenein:8">Odysee</a> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/maryamheneinbeelady2">YouTube</a> <a href="http://www.honeycolony.com/">HONEYCOLONY</a> | Websites: <a href="https://maryamhenein.com/">MaryamHenein.com</a> | <a href="https://honeycolony.com/">HoneyColony.com</a>| NOW ON AMAZON!: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Operation-George-Floyd-Multi-Layered-Exposed/dp/B0FG2H6J3R/ref=sr_1_1?crid=N0S8NXPT5BGZ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1F5gI3lF_z1jhLgvJcP4t3z-0HCPcG8nhWSrzTkSmqn8sLB4iYiMQvMzClZXCQ6PbL_KPYrZSU6tXwDx9U2XnzMzXtXtFuXrhkiBdWc6_9PY0hPkANqnjCXOYVPSoGfk2mANxdq4e0qvoIdRDGX-7M_Z0WpsyOR5VflMs34sqeAQKdFUlPUqQ3Cbj7liz2EUX_RKZ0UF17pVuqNK-fPFxF4CS4xHy1syKsJxcp-Mwv654OMFG0oXipRdcmigZkkAzo1N4raSAJxpInxF4VLTm7oY813V84tC3AGRzhpnmxU.NC5gceKKdI1kyDGCJ-LD9EOya8cip4QEcNC5kt8fs6E&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=george+floyd&amp;qid=1759031366&amp;sprefix=george+floyd%2Caps%2C153&amp;sr=8-1">Operation George Floyd</a></p><p><em>An abyss is being created between those who see and those who don&#8217;t.</em></p><p>I heard my Higher Self say this to me back in 2011.</p><p><em>What does that mean,</em> I wondered. An abyss? Between who, exactly?   </p><p>In 2026, I understand exactly what that message meant. The split is no longer theoretical&#8212;it&#8217;s here. </p><p>You can feel it in real time: one track of humanity locked into a kind of automated loop&#8212;copy-and-paste identities, cycling through the digital hamster wheel, reacting on cue, metabolizing whatever is fed to them without question. They are not thinking. They are on autopilot. They seem severed from their Higher Self. From each other. From any real sense of inner authority. What&#8217;s left feels like a shell&#8212;functioning, responsive, but not fully inhabited.</p><p>As my girlfriend told me, &#8220;It&#8217;s like people aren&#8217;t human anymore.&#8221;  </p><p>And then there are those of us who remain conscious, embodied, and operating from somewhere that feels internally sourced rather than externally assembled. We are Alive. Present. Still oriented through the heart.</p><p>It&#8217;s like we&#8217;re living in a distorted version of <em>The Leftovers</em>&#8212;except no one physically disappeared. They&#8217;re still here. They just feel&#8230; vacated. <em>(With the exception of those who have, in fact, died suddenly.</em>) In <em>The Leftovers</em>, 2% of the population vanishes without explanation. No logic. No closure. Just absence. But the real story isn&#8217;t about the people who vanished&#8212;it&#8217;s about the ones who stayed behind. And what it feels like to live among absence that still looks like presence. </p><p>I wonder if the Plandemic, bioweapon shots, and transhumanist new world agenda have anything to do with anything. (<em>read: sarcasm).   </em></p><p>When I first heard this line come to me 15 years ago, I was still living in Los Angeles. <em>Vanishing of the Bees</em> was coming out. I felt like the world was my oyster.  I even spoke to Bill Maher about coming on his show for a side segment.</p><p>Looking back, that period feels like a hinge&#8212;something was already in motion, though not yet fully visible. I could sense a divergence. And with the severing comes the deterioration of consensus reality. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-abyss-between-us?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-abyss-between-us?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h3>Turn Toward *Organic Light </h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6ywD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F949dcc04-e889-457a-9d34-b8c9fae0b2f1_797x443.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6ywD!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F949dcc04-e889-457a-9d34-b8c9fae0b2f1_797x443.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6ywD!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F949dcc04-e889-457a-9d34-b8c9fae0b2f1_797x443.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6ywD!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F949dcc04-e889-457a-9d34-b8c9fae0b2f1_797x443.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6ywD!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F949dcc04-e889-457a-9d34-b8c9fae0b2f1_797x443.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6ywD!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F949dcc04-e889-457a-9d34-b8c9fae0b2f1_797x443.jpeg" width="511" height="284.03136762860726" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/949dcc04-e889-457a-9d34-b8c9fae0b2f1_797x443.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:443,&quot;width&quot;:797,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:511,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;https://images.openai.com/static-rsc-4/cm84tsOuiGMZ1-mkT7QytWRNyhKF-BIYaBVZQil5zr-yqel8ZPjEAViCMSZXqhtVHFY16mhbdnEWDHsKXn3AAMWgV1TN9X2LNkW-sIqLUPpL4MSY_l8DSqY1Ox1XTnxdtcjYFjFu79JXyAUiC42Bu-6g5-cepFzs-YaawqkRct59N-Nz122hsuO3yfZc_vgL?purpose=fullsize&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="https://images.openai.com/static-rsc-4/cm84tsOuiGMZ1-mkT7QytWRNyhKF-BIYaBVZQil5zr-yqel8ZPjEAViCMSZXqhtVHFY16mhbdnEWDHsKXn3AAMWgV1TN9X2LNkW-sIqLUPpL4MSY_l8DSqY1Ox1XTnxdtcjYFjFu79JXyAUiC42Bu-6g5-cepFzs-YaawqkRct59N-Nz122hsuO3yfZc_vgL?purpose=fullsize" title="https://images.openai.com/static-rsc-4/cm84tsOuiGMZ1-mkT7QytWRNyhKF-BIYaBVZQil5zr-yqel8ZPjEAViCMSZXqhtVHFY16mhbdnEWDHsKXn3AAMWgV1TN9X2LNkW-sIqLUPpL4MSY_l8DSqY1Ox1XTnxdtcjYFjFu79JXyAUiC42Bu-6g5-cepFzs-YaawqkRct59N-Nz122hsuO3yfZc_vgL?purpose=fullsize" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6ywD!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F949dcc04-e889-457a-9d34-b8c9fae0b2f1_797x443.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6ywD!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F949dcc04-e889-457a-9d34-b8c9fae0b2f1_797x443.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6ywD!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F949dcc04-e889-457a-9d34-b8c9fae0b2f1_797x443.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6ywD!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F949dcc04-e889-457a-9d34-b8c9fae0b2f1_797x443.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In Plato&#8217;s <em>Allegory of the Cave</em>, the divide is not between intelligence and ignorance&#8212;but between orientation. Toward shadows, or toward organic light. The act of turning is destabilizing. It isolates. It costs you your place in consensus reality.  But it marks a permanent shift in perception. </p><p>The Gnostic texts discovered at Nag Hammadi in 1945 describe a similar distinction&#8212;not as a hierarchy, but as a difference in orientation. Some individuals are anchored in direct knowing; others operate through imitation, patterning, and external authority. The world of the material vs. the world of the invisible. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Ak4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F436261e9-620b-4bd1-92ad-1eee878db0ad_779x440.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Ak4!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F436261e9-620b-4bd1-92ad-1eee878db0ad_779x440.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Ak4!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F436261e9-620b-4bd1-92ad-1eee878db0ad_779x440.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Ak4!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F436261e9-620b-4bd1-92ad-1eee878db0ad_779x440.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Ak4!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F436261e9-620b-4bd1-92ad-1eee878db0ad_779x440.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Ak4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F436261e9-620b-4bd1-92ad-1eee878db0ad_779x440.jpeg" width="458" height="258.69062901155326" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/436261e9-620b-4bd1-92ad-1eee878db0ad_779x440.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:440,&quot;width&quot;:779,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:458,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Sethianism | Gnosis for all&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Sethianism | Gnosis for all" title="Sethianism | Gnosis for all" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Ak4!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F436261e9-620b-4bd1-92ad-1eee878db0ad_779x440.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Ak4!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F436261e9-620b-4bd1-92ad-1eee878db0ad_779x440.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Ak4!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F436261e9-620b-4bd1-92ad-1eee878db0ad_779x440.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Ak4!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F436261e9-620b-4bd1-92ad-1eee878db0ad_779x440.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p>Sir John Woodroffe observed that &#8220;an ancient feature of the ancient Mysteries is the distinction it draws between the initiate whose Shakti is awake (Prabuddha) and the Pasu, the unilluminated or &#8216;material&#8217; man as the Gnostics called him.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>That&#8217;s the divide. Not rich vs poor. Not left vs right. Awakened vs automated.</p><p>According to Kabbalistic thought, this threshold is symbolized by Da&#8217;ath, often associated with what later traditions call the Abyss&#8212;a point at which inherited frameworks collapse, and identity must either reorganize at a higher level of coherence or fragment under the pressure of expanded awareness.</p><p>Even in ancient Egypt, the principle was not symbolic&#8212;it was procedural. In Spell 125 of the <em>Book of the Dead</em>, the heart is brought forward and set upon the scale before Osiris, measured against the feather of Ma&#8217;at.  The heart is made to speak&#8212;not in words, but in weight. It must not be found false. It must not bear witness against its owner.  There is no plea, no revision. The heart is judged as it is. It must not be found wanting. It must not stand as a witness against its owner.</p><p>When the heart is weighed, you are measured by what you have become in practice, not what you have claimed in theory.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fjKp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21beed6d-8167-43fb-a06e-b7004fd37f84_3072x1728.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fjKp!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21beed6d-8167-43fb-a06e-b7004fd37f84_3072x1728.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fjKp!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21beed6d-8167-43fb-a06e-b7004fd37f84_3072x1728.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fjKp!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21beed6d-8167-43fb-a06e-b7004fd37f84_3072x1728.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fjKp!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21beed6d-8167-43fb-a06e-b7004fd37f84_3072x1728.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fjKp!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21beed6d-8167-43fb-a06e-b7004fd37f84_3072x1728.jpeg" width="293" height="164.8125" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/21beed6d-8167-43fb-a06e-b7004fd37f84_3072x1728.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:819,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:293,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Ancient Egypt: \&quot;An Old Civilization Recorded in History - Egyptian Eternity\&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Ancient Egypt: &quot;An Old Civilization Recorded in History - Egyptian Eternity&quot;" title="Ancient Egypt: &quot;An Old Civilization Recorded in History - Egyptian Eternity&quot;" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fjKp!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21beed6d-8167-43fb-a06e-b7004fd37f84_3072x1728.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fjKp!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21beed6d-8167-43fb-a06e-b7004fd37f84_3072x1728.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fjKp!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21beed6d-8167-43fb-a06e-b7004fd37f84_3072x1728.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fjKp!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21beed6d-8167-43fb-a06e-b7004fd37f84_3072x1728.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>If the heart stands in Ma&#8217;at&#8212;and is as light as a feather&#8212;it is permitted to pass into the Field of Reeds, a continuation of ordered existence. If it contradicts itself&#8212;if it is burdened by what was denied or left unresolved&#8212;it is given to Ammit, and the self does not continue.  A heavy heart void of truth, order, and rightness of being ensures discontinuity.  <strong> </strong></p><p>What remains coherent passes. What fractures disappear into a near abyss. </p><h3>Choronzon, The Demon Of the Abyss</h3><p>Recently, my imaginary friend (<a href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/stardust-series-start-here">read my ongoing Stardust Series</a>) introduced me to Choronzon, and its connection to 333, a number sequence I&#8217;ve been seeing regularly for two years.  </p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;cff2f05e-1584-4ab8-943b-4667c058b0fa&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Follow: Twitter | Instagram Truth Lives Here: Rumble | Odysee | YouTube HONEYCOLONY | Websites: MaryamHenein.com | HoneyColony.com| NOW ON AMAZON!: Operation George Floyd&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Stardust Series &#8212; Start Here&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:96940872,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;MARYAM HENEIN&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Maryam Henein is an investigative journalist, and founder, and editor-in-chief of HoneyColony. She is also a functional medicine consultant/coach, and the director of the award-winning documentary film Vanishing of the Bees.&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c6ccd549-f10d-44d9-b3ff-10ef5023e872_2640x3960.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-27T13:54:19.902Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!04Iw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a538e7e-1a3a-4602-856f-a30a56129a71_1280x720.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/stardust-series-start-here&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:182647235,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:8,&quot;comment_count&quot;:2,&quot;publication_id&quot;:944302,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Maryam Henein on Substack&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vbCa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6f4bdb70-8bc4-4973-b229-efce951fd6e3_900x900.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>In <em>The Vision and the Voice</em>, aka <em>Liber 418</em>, Aleister Crowley documents the Enochian Aethyrs and the encounter with Choronzon in the Abyss. The Enochian Aethyrs are thirty progressive layers of perception&#8212;each one testing whether consciousness can hold coherence, or collapse into fragmentation at the Abyss. </p><p>Choronzon is assigned the number 333 and is often referred to as a &#8220;demon,&#8221; but a more precise reading is dispersion: not an entity, but a state of consciousness under attack, scattering into fragments.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ilTL!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecb9d3b7-8273-468e-be47-dd4b4c289572_700x700.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ilTL!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecb9d3b7-8273-468e-be47-dd4b4c289572_700x700.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ilTL!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecb9d3b7-8273-468e-be47-dd4b4c289572_700x700.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ilTL!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecb9d3b7-8273-468e-be47-dd4b4c289572_700x700.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ilTL!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecb9d3b7-8273-468e-be47-dd4b4c289572_700x700.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ilTL!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecb9d3b7-8273-468e-be47-dd4b4c289572_700x700.jpeg" width="252" height="252" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ecb9d3b7-8273-468e-be47-dd4b4c289572_700x700.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:700,&quot;width&quot;:700,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:252,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;https://images.openai.com/static-rsc-4/knMejuELPW0MTlnYAuJyQJ4gXdrOi08PF8vxGsO9FASHriHGAt-dVrqtp6ApEOI5NI5o_pz0W0giQ6buzt44dAbEl1MdZSv16-Z57zHRf-N0kk3h0T9wkFV8p6vAAjs3xga7LPl08zdFlCjS3titS1q6Ph2CM8yEa2UkVHySPERWBvpycStiLG7P_B53hHoK?purpose=fullsize&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="https://images.openai.com/static-rsc-4/knMejuELPW0MTlnYAuJyQJ4gXdrOi08PF8vxGsO9FASHriHGAt-dVrqtp6ApEOI5NI5o_pz0W0giQ6buzt44dAbEl1MdZSv16-Z57zHRf-N0kk3h0T9wkFV8p6vAAjs3xga7LPl08zdFlCjS3titS1q6Ph2CM8yEa2UkVHySPERWBvpycStiLG7P_B53hHoK?purpose=fullsize" title="https://images.openai.com/static-rsc-4/knMejuELPW0MTlnYAuJyQJ4gXdrOi08PF8vxGsO9FASHriHGAt-dVrqtp6ApEOI5NI5o_pz0W0giQ6buzt44dAbEl1MdZSv16-Z57zHRf-N0kk3h0T9wkFV8p6vAAjs3xga7LPl08zdFlCjS3titS1q6Ph2CM8yEa2UkVHySPERWBvpycStiLG7P_B53hHoK?purpose=fullsize" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ilTL!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecb9d3b7-8273-468e-be47-dd4b4c289572_700x700.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ilTL!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecb9d3b7-8273-468e-be47-dd4b4c289572_700x700.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ilTL!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecb9d3b7-8273-468e-be47-dd4b4c289572_700x700.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ilTL!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fecb9d3b7-8273-468e-be47-dd4b4c289572_700x700.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The image that comes to mind is a thermometer crashing onto a tile floor, with mercury balls dispersing everywhere. </p><p>Choronzon, therefore, can be seen as a state where attention is constantly interrupted, identity is unstable, and perception is shaped externally before it can stabilize internally. Where nothing holds long enough to become real.</p><p><em>How can this happen, you ask? </em>Trauma, substances, endless scrolling. Algorithmic mirroring. A system that uses your emotions to manipulate you while calling it personalization. Systems that don&#8217;t need to read your mind because they can predict it, shape it, and feed it back to you in real time.</p><p>When enough adopt this fragmented state, an abyss forms between those who see and those who don&#8217;t speak.  A split between dispersion and integration. </p><p>Choronzon represents the force that prevents integration.</p>
      <p>
          <a href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-abyss-between-us">
              Read more
          </a>
      </p>
   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[10 Reasons GM Rope Worms May Be Coming Out of Your Butt? ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Warning: Graphic Imagery]]></description><link>https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/10-reasons-gm-rope-worms-may-be-coming</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/10-reasons-gm-rope-worms-may-be-coming</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[MARYAM HENEIN]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:34:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dxy0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff73bcc6d-1d27-4e25-9376-069b6d178552_1280x720.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dxy0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff73bcc6d-1d27-4e25-9376-069b6d178552_1280x720.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dxy0!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff73bcc6d-1d27-4e25-9376-069b6d178552_1280x720.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dxy0!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff73bcc6d-1d27-4e25-9376-069b6d178552_1280x720.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dxy0!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff73bcc6d-1d27-4e25-9376-069b6d178552_1280x720.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dxy0!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff73bcc6d-1d27-4e25-9376-069b6d178552_1280x720.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dxy0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff73bcc6d-1d27-4e25-9376-069b6d178552_1280x720.png" width="1280" height="720" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f73bcc6d-1d27-4e25-9376-069b6d178552_1280x720.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:720,&quot;width&quot;:1280,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1258944,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/i/192141719?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff73bcc6d-1d27-4e25-9376-069b6d178552_1280x720.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dxy0!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff73bcc6d-1d27-4e25-9376-069b6d178552_1280x720.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dxy0!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff73bcc6d-1d27-4e25-9376-069b6d178552_1280x720.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dxy0!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff73bcc6d-1d27-4e25-9376-069b6d178552_1280x720.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dxy0!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff73bcc6d-1d27-4e25-9376-069b6d178552_1280x720.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Follow: <a href="https://twitter.com/maryamhenein">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/maryamhenein/">Instagram</a> Truth Lives Here: <a href="https://rumble.com/c/TruthLivesHere">Rumble</a> | <a href="https://odysee.com/@MaryamHenein:8">Odysee</a> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/maryamheneinbeelady2">YouTube</a> <a href="http://www.honeycolony.com/">HONEYCOLONY</a> | Websites: <a href="https://maryamhenein.com/">MaryamHenein.com</a> | <a href="https://honeycolony.com/">HoneyColony.com</a>| NOW ON AMAZON!: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Operation-George-Floyd-Multi-Layered-Exposed/dp/B0FG2H6J3R/ref=sr_1_1?crid=N0S8NXPT5BGZ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1F5gI3lF_z1jhLgvJcP4t3z-0HCPcG8nhWSrzTkSmqn8sLB4iYiMQvMzClZXCQ6PbL_KPYrZSU6tXwDx9U2XnzMzXtXtFuXrhkiBdWc6_9PY0hPkANqnjCXOYVPSoGfk2mANxdq4e0qvoIdRDGX-7M_Z0WpsyOR5VflMs34sqeAQKdFUlPUqQ3Cbj7liz2EUX_RKZ0UF17pVuqNK-fPFxF4CS4xHy1syKsJxcp-Mwv654OMFG0oXipRdcmigZkkAzo1N4raSAJxpInxF4VLTm7oY813V84tC3AGRzhpnmxU.NC5gceKKdI1kyDGCJ-LD9EOya8cip4QEcNC5kt8fs6E&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=george+floyd&amp;qid=1759031366&amp;sprefix=george+floyd%2Caps%2C153&amp;sr=8-1">Operation George Floyd</a></p><p>I looked into the toilet and did a double-take. What I saw didn&#8217;t look like anything I&#8217;d ever seen my body expel. It looked like a rope&#8212;long, tubular, almost structured&#8212; worm-like.</p><p>This wasn&#8217;t random; it came after taking Mimosa pudica, a botanical used in gut-cleansing protocols. The seeds form a sticky, gelatinous substance in the digestive tract, binding to mucus, <a href="https://honeycolony.com/article/chronic-infections-busting-biofilms/">biofilm</a>, and debris and pulling it out as one cohesive mass.  </p><p>When I spoke to my friend, author, journalist, and coach Dani Katz, who has been doing an intense parasite cleanse, she told me she had seen them in her poop, too. Meanwhile, during an <a href="https://rumble.com/v40b8gb-saunaspace-saunas-and-light-therapy-with-brian-richards.html">interview with Brian Richards</a> of <a href="https://sauna.space/HoneyColony">Sauna Space two years </a>ago, he told me he had also seen them. </p><p>The thing is, they look a bit synthetic. And given that the Internet poo-pooes the possibility of genetically modified parasites and dubs them conspiratorial, Dani and I agreed there was more to the story! </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/10-reasons-gm-rope-worms-may-be-coming?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/10-reasons-gm-rope-worms-may-be-coming?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h2>Repeating Patterns  </h2><p>Across colonics clinics, Reddit threads, Telegram detox groups, and practitioner anecdotes, the descriptions line up with eerie consistency:</p><ul><li><p>Long, rope-like structures</p></li><li><p>Sometimes exceeding a foot</p></li><li><p>Often emerging after <a href="https://honeycolony.com/article/coffee-enemas/">enemas </a>(especially <a href="https://honeycolony.com/shop/purelife-coffee-enema-kit/">coffee enemas</a>)</p></li><li><p>Recurring during parasite cleanses or<a href="https://honeycolony.com/shop/liver-detox-toxins-in-the-body/"> binder protocols</a></p></li></ul><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aCNl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F092a670b-19ca-48e0-86cd-4a11be8248ec_264x165.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aCNl!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F092a670b-19ca-48e0-86cd-4a11be8248ec_264x165.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aCNl!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F092a670b-19ca-48e0-86cd-4a11be8248ec_264x165.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aCNl!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F092a670b-19ca-48e0-86cd-4a11be8248ec_264x165.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aCNl!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F092a670b-19ca-48e0-86cd-4a11be8248ec_264x165.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aCNl!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F092a670b-19ca-48e0-86cd-4a11be8248ec_264x165.png" width="264" height="165" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/092a670b-19ca-48e0-86cd-4a11be8248ec_264x165.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:165,&quot;width&quot;:264,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;https://html.scirp.org/file/113886x2.png?20211215093031672=&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="https://html.scirp.org/file/113886x2.png?20211215093031672=" title="https://html.scirp.org/file/113886x2.png?20211215093031672=" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aCNl!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F092a670b-19ca-48e0-86cd-4a11be8248ec_264x165.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aCNl!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F092a670b-19ca-48e0-86cd-4a11be8248ec_264x165.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aCNl!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F092a670b-19ca-48e0-86cd-4a11be8248ec_264x165.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aCNl!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F092a670b-19ca-48e0-86cd-4a11be8248ec_264x165.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MY4w!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7667fdf-749b-49f5-a034-1998829c7092_261x165.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MY4w!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7667fdf-749b-49f5-a034-1998829c7092_261x165.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MY4w!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7667fdf-749b-49f5-a034-1998829c7092_261x165.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MY4w!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7667fdf-749b-49f5-a034-1998829c7092_261x165.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MY4w!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7667fdf-749b-49f5-a034-1998829c7092_261x165.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MY4w!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7667fdf-749b-49f5-a034-1998829c7092_261x165.png" width="261" height="165" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a7667fdf-749b-49f5-a034-1998829c7092_261x165.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:165,&quot;width&quot;:261,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;https://html.scirp.org/file/113886x3.png?20211215093031672=&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="https://html.scirp.org/file/113886x3.png?20211215093031672=" title="https://html.scirp.org/file/113886x3.png?20211215093031672=" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MY4w!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7667fdf-749b-49f5-a034-1998829c7092_261x165.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MY4w!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7667fdf-749b-49f5-a034-1998829c7092_261x165.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MY4w!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7667fdf-749b-49f5-a034-1998829c7092_261x165.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MY4w!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7667fdf-749b-49f5-a034-1998829c7092_261x165.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I observed 10 characteristics:</p><h2>1. &#8220;It looked manufactured.&#8221;</h2><blockquote><p>&#8220;I passed something that looked like a long piece of rubber tubing. It wasn&#8217;t soft like stool&#8212;it had structure. When I tried to break it, it stretched before snapping. I&#8217;ve never seen anything like it come out of my body.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>This &#8220;synthetic&#8221; description comes up a lot. Why is it that people sense it&#8217;s not natural?</p><h2>2. &#8220;It came out during <a href="https://honeycolony.com/shop/purelife-coffee-enema-kit/">a coffee enema</a> and kept coming.&#8221;</h2><blockquote><p>&#8220;I was doing a coffee enema and something started coming out that just kept going. It wasn&#8217;t one piece&#8212;it was like a rope that didn&#8217;t end. I actually got scared and stopped midway.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>Length and continuity are recurring themes&#8212;people expect waste, not something that feels like an endless scarf trick. </p><h2>3. &#8220;It had a smell that didn&#8217;t match anything I&#8217;ve experienced.&#8221;</h2><blockquote><p>&#8220;The smell was completely different from normal bowel movements. Foul. Almost chemical or metallic. That&#8217;s what made me think it wasn&#8217;t just food or waste.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>In my recent interview on <em><a href="https://rumble.com/c/TruthLivesHere/">Truth Lives Here,</a></em> <a href="https://rumble.com/v76pabk-0306-brian-and-dani.html">Dani and Brian</a> remarked on the foul smell.</p><h2>4. &#8220;It didn&#8217;t break apart in water. &#8221;</h2><blockquote><p>&#8220;I flushed and it didn&#8217;t dissolve or fall apart like normal stool. It held its shape. I even poked it because I couldn&#8217;t believe it&#8212;it felt cohesive, like one piece.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>Durability and cohesion are key&#8212;people expect disintegration.</p><h2>5. &#8220;It seems to have different stages.&#8221;</h2><blockquote><p>&#8220;At first, I thought it was nothing&#8212;just mucus. Then it came back. And again. Each time, it looked more organized. What started as loose strands turned into something longer, more cohesive&#8212;until one day it came out as a full rope-like piece. That&#8217;s when it stopped being easy to explain away.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p> All three of us also observed seeing different phases. I&#8217;ve seen cloudy, gelatinous strands that look like ordinary mucus. Then, with repeated protocols&#8212;enemas, binders, Mimosa pudica&#8212;it becomes more defined, forming short, rope-like fragments. Then there are the better-formed tubular pieces, sometimes twisted or braided.  </p><h2>6. &#8220;It looked twisted&#8212;like it had been spun.&#8221;</h2><blockquote><p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t just straight&#8212;it looked twisted, almost braided. Like something had shaped it that way.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>Organic material isn&#8217;t expected to look engineered.</p><h2>7. &#8220;I thought it was intestinal lining&#8230; until I saw it again.&#8221;</h2><blockquote><p>&#8220;The first time I assumed it was lining. But then it kept happening, and it looked the same every time. That&#8217;s when I started questioning it.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>Repetition is what converts skepticism into curiosity.</p><h2><strong>8. &#8220;It felt like something was attached before it released.&#8221;</strong></h2><blockquote><p>&#8220;It didn&#8217;t feel like a normal bowel movement. There was resistance&#8212;like something wasn&#8217;t ready to let go. And then, all at once, it released.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>It&#8217;s a strange detail, but it comes up often enough to note. The sensation isn&#8217;t necessarily evidence of anything &#8220;alive,&#8221; but it does point to a different physical experience&#8212;one where the material moves as a cohesive mass, creating a momentary resistance before detachment. What people interpret as something &#8220;holding on&#8221; may be the body dealing with adhesion, pressure, and release&#8212;but the feeling itself is real, and distinctly different from anything they&#8217;ve experienced before.</p><p>Both Dani and I have experienced sitting on the toilet, knowing you need to have a bowel movement, but it comes out on its own schedule. </p><h2>9. &#8220;It only happens when I do certain protocols.&#8221;</h2><blockquote><p>&#8220;I never see this unless I&#8217;m <a href="https://honeycolony.com/?s=coffee+enema">doing enemas </a>or taking binders. If I stop, it stops. When I restart, it comes back.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>That conditional appearance is one of the most consistent data points. I concur. </p><h2><strong>10. &#8220;It didn&#8217;t look alive&#8212;but it didn&#8217;t look inert either.&#8221;</strong></h2><blockquote><p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t moving. But it didn&#8217;t look like waste. It had shape&#8212;defined, continuous, almost intentional. Like it had been formed, not just passed.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>This is where things go a bit sideways. People aren&#8217;t claiming it&#8217;s alive, but they acknowledge it doesn&#8217;t resemble anything they&#8217;ve been conditioned to expect from the body.  It has structure. It looks organized. And it doesn&#8217;t feel entirely dead. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/10-reasons-gm-rope-worms-may-be-coming?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/10-reasons-gm-rope-worms-may-be-coming?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div id="youtube2-8QiwUyFe5WI" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;8QiwUyFe5WI&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/8QiwUyFe5WI?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h2>So What Is It? </h2><p>In 2013, a paper began circulating online: <strong>&#8220;<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.">Development stages of the &#8216;rope&#8217; human intestinal parasite</a> </strong>by Alex Volinsky et al. <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.0953">You can read it here</a>. On its face, it read like a discovery. The authors described a previously unknown organism&#8212;an anaerobic organism living in the gastrointestinal tract, capable of growing to over a meter in length, attaching to intestinal walls, and being expelled during enemas. They even outlined five stages, beginning as mucus-like material and progressing into fully formed rope-like structures.</p><p>But here&#8217;s the problem: it wasn&#8217;t published in a journal. It was uploaded to arXiv, a preprint server. No peer review. No replication. No institutional backing. So that made it easy for the medical establishment to dismiss it outright. Convenient! </p><p>And when similar samples were actually analyzed, the results were blunt. Roughly 99% human DNA.  <em><strong>What is the 1 percent, though? </strong></em>Mainstream medicine doesn&#8217;t recognize &#8220;rope worms&#8221; as parasites. They lump it in with things like mucoid plaque&#8212;non-pathological, misinterpreted, case closed.</p><p>Except it&#8217;s not that simple.</p><p>The official explanation, while technically sound, doesn&#8217;t fully resolve what people are actually experiencing. If this is just mucus, tissue, fiber&#8212;fine. Then explain why it forms coherent, rope-like structures. Explain why it holds together outside the body. Explain why it shows up repeatedly under specific conditions&#8212;especially during enemas, cleanses, or protocols involving binders or botanicals like Mimosa pudica. That&#8217;s where the explanation starts to feel incomplete.</p><p>The mechanical model goes like this: you irritate the gut; the body produces more mucus as a protective response; binders create cohesion; and peristalsis shapes the material into tubular forms.  But the consistency of what people are describing is BIZARRO.</p><h3>Genetically Modified Parasites? </h3><p>Brian and Dani didn&#8217;t dance around it. They said outright: what people are seeing could be tied to <strong>genetically modified parasites</strong>&#8212;something emerging from altered yeast strains and the synthetic inputs fed into livestock and pushed through the food chain. And  many people have the same instinct: <em>this isn&#8217;t just mucus</em>. This is something that looks engineered&#8212;something that doesn&#8217;t behave like anything the body naturally produces.</p><p>That thread runs deep in detox forums and alternative health communities. People connect what they&#8217;re seeing to processed food, chemical exposure, and a gut environment that&#8217;s no longer organic, but altered. Not subtly&#8212;systemically.</p><p>And yeast has already been modified. <strong>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</strong> has been engineered for decades and is widely used across food production, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology.  </p><p>So the question isn&#8217;t crazy&#8212;it&#8217;s actually the only logical next question: if modified yeast and microbial fragments are entering the body consistently, what are they doing inside a compromised gut? Are they interacting with mucus layers, biofilms, or existing microbial ecosystems in ways we haven&#8217;t mapped? Could they be contributing to structured, cohesive material that doesn&#8217;t resemble normal waste?</p><p>That&#8217;s the hypothesis. But of course, there is no funding for a serious investigation.  And when you understand who has historically shaped medical narratives, it&#8217;s not unreasonable to ask whether certain lines of inquiry simply never get pursued. </p><p>RESOURCES:</p><ul><li><p><strong><a href="https://sauna.space/HoneyColony">Get An Infrarered Sauna Space Panel</a>  (Discount code: HONEYCOLONY)</strong></p></li><li><p><strong><a href="https://rumble.com/v76pabk-0306-brian-and-dani.html">Interview with Brian Richards and Dani Katz on Truth Lives Here</a></strong></p></li><li><p><strong><a href="https://honeycolony.com/article/coffee-enemas/">How Coffee Enemas Helped Save My Life!</a></strong></p></li><li><p><strong><a href="https://honeycolony.com/shop/purelife-coffee-enema-kit/">Happy Bum Coffee Enema Kit W/ Organic Medium Roast</a></strong><a href="https://honeycolony.com/shop/purelife-coffee-enema-kit/"> </a></p></li></ul><p> </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/10-reasons-gm-rope-worms-may-be-coming?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/10-reasons-gm-rope-worms-may-be-coming?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part 46 ||You're Late, You're Late, For A Very Important Date]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Mechanics of No Time&#8212;But Now]]></description><link>https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-46-youre-late-youre-late-for</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-46-youre-late-youre-late-for</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[MARYAM HENEIN]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:37:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9b2eec3d-c204-49c9-b31c-29439b4f659f_1280x720.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;b9ed6f3f-ca57-4266-8178-dd8c10ea7537&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>Follow: <a href="https://twitter.com/maryamhenein">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/maryamhenein/">Instagram</a> Truth Lives Here: <a href="https://rumble.com/c/TruthLivesHere">Rumble</a> | <a href="https://odysee.com/@MaryamHenein:8">Odysee</a> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/maryamheneinbeelady2">YouTube</a> <a href="http://www.honeycolony.com/">HONEYCOLONY</a> | Websites: <a href="https://maryamhenein.com/">MaryamHenein.com</a>/Georgefloydbook | <a href="https://honeycolony.com/">HoneyColony.com</a>| BUY NOW <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Operation-George-Floyd-Multi-Layered-Exposed/dp/B0FG2H6J3R/ref=sr_1_1?crid=N0S8NXPT5BGZ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1F5gI3lF_z1jhLgvJcP4t3z-0HCPcG8nhWSrzTkSmqn8sLB4iYiMQvMzClZXCQ6PbL_KPYrZSU6tXwDx9U2XnzMzXtXtFuXrhkiBdWc6_9PY0hPkANqnjCXOYVPSoGfk2mANxdq4e0qvoIdRDGX-7M_Z0WpsyOR5VflMs34sqeAQKdFUlPUqQ3Cbj7liz2EUX_RKZ0UF17pVuqNK-fPFxF4CS4xHy1syKsJxcp-Mwv654OMFG0oXipRdcmigZkkAzo1N4raSAJxpInxF4VLTm7oY813V84tC3AGRzhpnmxU.NC5gceKKdI1kyDGCJ-LD9EOya8cip4QEcNC5kt8fs6E&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=george+floyd&amp;qid=1759031366&amp;sprefix=george+floyd%2Caps%2C153&amp;sr=8-1">ON AMAZON!</a>: <a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/george-floyd-book/">Operation George Floyd</a></p><div class="pullquote"><p><em><strong>Stardust is an ongoing serialized field report on consciousness, discernment, unconditional love, magical realism, and the lived experience of navigating intuition inside an inverted matrix. <a href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/stardust-series-start-here">Stardust Series &#8212; Start Here</a></strong></em></p></div><p><em><strong>You&#8217;re Late, You&#8217;re Late for a Very Important Date ~ </strong>Alice in Wonderland</em></p><p>I woke up the next day in my new 1924 &#8220;Spanish-style&#8221; home rental. No one above me. No one below me. Just stillness. It was fabulous! </p><p>I lay on my mattress for a while, watching the sunlight pour in&#8212;casting beams across the hardwood floor. I took in the house. I appreciated the furnishings and the old Mediterranean architecture in a nation undergoing a full-blown Uglification: beige and laminate, stripped of soul, courtesy of Home Depot. </p><p>You could be anywhere, and that was the point.</p><p>I observed a force&#8212;subtle but relentless&#8212;that wanted to demolish old-world buildings and churches, any ties to the past. They&#8217;ll call it &#8220;modern,&#8221; sometimes even confuse it with Brutalist architecture. But Brutalism, for all its severity, at least had intent. I viewed it as erasure.  </p><p>I brewed some Bulletproof coffee and started unpacking. I strolled into the front room&#8212;the smallest of the three, lined with terra cotta tiles. My standing desk leaned awkwardly against the wall, legless, waiting for Snuffy.</p><p>I&#8217;d designated it for my studio and office. My soon-to-be command center.  </p><p>Snuffy had pointed out that it used to be a Florida room&#8212;an in-between space. Not quite inside, not quite outside. At some point, he said, they&#8217;d sealed off the arch, closed it in, and built a wall. The original curve still faintly pressed through. And for some reason, everything he shared&#8212;small as it seemed&#8212;felt encoded, like it carried more information for my soul. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-46-youre-late-youre-late-for?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-46-youre-late-youre-late-for?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>He said he&#8217;d come over after his appointment. I didn&#8217;t check in. I had a show that evening&#8212;<em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@theunionoftheunwanted1990">Union of the Unwanted</a></em>&#8212;but it was already slipping out of reach. The phone company had just texted: no internet until tomorrow. </p><p>And, oddly, instead of panic, I felt relieved. I was determined to learn to go with the flow, like when I dance. I had been running on a schedule that never stopped, Calendar-blocked months into the future. Long to-do lists. I was the responsible, grounded Sea Goat.</p><p>I was about getting shit done &#8212; I&#8217;d become a master juggler. Even in the jungles of Costa Rica, I wasn&#8217;t <em>in</em> the jungle. I spent most of my time staring at glowing screens. </p><p>Additionally, I&#8217;d spent <em>five </em>years investigating and writing <em><a href="https://maryamhenein.com/product/george-floyd-book/">Operation George Floyd</a></em>. I was on my third publisher, and I was exhausted. Even before the Plandemic, I felt like I was always chasing time like the White Rabbit. I felt a chronic sense of being behind because writing isn&#8217;t a punch-in-and-punch-out kind of gig. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1E5O!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd40bb54-afc4-4293-9e6c-9ce6e4b5922a_2278x2365.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1E5O!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd40bb54-afc4-4293-9e6c-9ce6e4b5922a_2278x2365.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1E5O!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd40bb54-afc4-4293-9e6c-9ce6e4b5922a_2278x2365.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1E5O!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd40bb54-afc4-4293-9e6c-9ce6e4b5922a_2278x2365.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1E5O!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd40bb54-afc4-4293-9e6c-9ce6e4b5922a_2278x2365.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1E5O!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd40bb54-afc4-4293-9e6c-9ce6e4b5922a_2278x2365.jpeg" width="201" height="208.73076923076923" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/cd40bb54-afc4-4293-9e6c-9ce6e4b5922a_2278x2365.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1512,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:201,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Amazon.com: Wall Clock Silent - 10 inch - Alice in Wonderland White Rabbit.  Im Late - John Tenniel Illustration - Vintage Art : Home &amp; Kitchen&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Amazon.com: Wall Clock Silent - 10 inch - Alice in Wonderland White Rabbit.  Im Late - John Tenniel Illustration - Vintage Art : Home &amp; Kitchen" title="Amazon.com: Wall Clock Silent - 10 inch - Alice in Wonderland White Rabbit.  Im Late - John Tenniel Illustration - Vintage Art : Home &amp; Kitchen" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1E5O!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd40bb54-afc4-4293-9e6c-9ce6e4b5922a_2278x2365.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1E5O!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd40bb54-afc4-4293-9e6c-9ce6e4b5922a_2278x2365.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1E5O!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd40bb54-afc4-4293-9e6c-9ce6e4b5922a_2278x2365.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1E5O!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd40bb54-afc4-4293-9e6c-9ce6e4b5922a_2278x2365.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>But I wasn&#8217;t late; I was early. </p><p>And that is its own kind of exile.</p><p>I noticed I was the first to step off the curb&#8212;before the light turned green. I was already shifting into the next yoga pose before the instructor even called it. It&#8217;s as though I was running on a slight FF. </p><p>I would wake up in the middle of the night and see the time stamped across my forehead, and it was most often correct. It was puzzling. I could see people&#8217;s ages. I knew how long things would really take. Not estimate&#8212;<em>feel</em>. Time wasn&#8217;t something I tracked. It was something I sensed. <em>I wondered what I could do with such a parlor trick</em></p><p>I remember being in San Francisco&#8212;arguably one of the bleakest places to ride out the Rona regime. The vibe was heavy. People clung to the narrative, loving to wear their face diapers outside. It wasn&#8217;t just the fog rolling in off the bay&#8212;there was something thicker in the air, like a psychological weather system pressing down on everything. It was brutal. </p><p>In 2023, the day I was rejected from yoga class for being unvaccinated vermin, I bought a one-way ticket to Florida. Turned out, I left on Snuffy&#8217;s birthday&#8212; except I didn&#8217;t know that yet. I didn&#8217;t even know of <em>him</em>. Not in the 3D. </p><p><em>Wild, huh?</em>  </p><p>I only realized later, when something nudged me to check my calendar. I had left La La Land after 23 years, on the day he was born. Coincidence? Or was my soul nudging me? </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!15W4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe02cc342-76f9-4578-a140-8ed01c0b79de_427x331.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!15W4!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe02cc342-76f9-4578-a140-8ed01c0b79de_427x331.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!15W4!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe02cc342-76f9-4578-a140-8ed01c0b79de_427x331.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!15W4!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe02cc342-76f9-4578-a140-8ed01c0b79de_427x331.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!15W4!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe02cc342-76f9-4578-a140-8ed01c0b79de_427x331.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!15W4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe02cc342-76f9-4578-a140-8ed01c0b79de_427x331.png" width="259" height="200.7704918032787" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e02cc342-76f9-4578-a140-8ed01c0b79de_427x331.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:331,&quot;width&quot;:427,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:259,&quot;bytes&quot;:24353,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/i/187478106?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe02cc342-76f9-4578-a140-8ed01c0b79de_427x331.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!15W4!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe02cc342-76f9-4578-a140-8ed01c0b79de_427x331.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!15W4!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe02cc342-76f9-4578-a140-8ed01c0b79de_427x331.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!15W4!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe02cc342-76f9-4578-a140-8ed01c0b79de_427x331.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!15W4!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe02cc342-76f9-4578-a140-8ed01c0b79de_427x331.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Anyway, one afternoon, I asked the universe, "What is this thing with me and time?&#8221;</p><p>There was silence. And then I heard, <em>"You are a timekeeper.</em>"  </p><p><em>What does that mean</em>, I wondered. </p><p>I just knew I carried timelines, details, sequences&#8212;like a mental ledger. Whether I liked it or not, I felt as though I was always carrying a big bag of rocks on my back.</p><p>Maybe time wasn&#8217;t something I tracked. Maybe it was something I sensed. Astrologically, that made sense &#8212; six planets in Capricorn. Saturn-ruled. Structure, pressure, responsibility. Kronos&#8212;time itself. </p><p>But after the kundalini, something shifted. For the first time, I wasn&#8217;t ahead of time or trapped by it; I seemed to have slipped outside of it altogether.   </p><h3>Stepping Into The Zero-Point Field</h3><p>After the kundalini and my work with entheogens&#8212;both Ayahuasca and Bufo&#8212;I couldn&#8217;t go back to sitting in front of screens for 16 hours a day, covering the vaccine atrocities or transhumanism. The matrix was increasingly feeling fa.ik and ghey, and I had fulfilled my assignment. I would need to resign as an investigative journalist soon. </p><p>Comparatively, I was operating in slow motion like I had slipped out of the fortress of Saturn in my chart&#8212;the constant structuring that had encased my fluttery Gemini soul. I had tapped into what Ralph Waldo Emerson called the Oversoul. </p><p>I was in the early stages of ego death&#8212;stepping outside of identity without fully realizing what was happening. During the ayahuasca ceremony, the words came through me unbidden, equal recall, equal declaration.</p><p><strong><a href="/__u/open.substack.com/pub/maryamhenein/p/copy-part-25-i-am-that-i-am?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web">I Am That I Am.</a></strong></p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;10cfd1ab-3815-49d5-8fed-878eb2de368a&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Follow: Twitter | Instagram | Telegram | Gab | Facebook&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Part 26|| I AM THAT I AM&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:96940872,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;MARYAM HENEIN&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Maryam Henein is an investigative journalist, and founder, and editor-in-chief of HoneyColony. She is also a functional medicine consultant/coach, and the director of the award-winning documentary film Vanishing of the Bees.&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c6ccd549-f10d-44d9-b3ff-10ef5023e872_2640x3960.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-07-16T14:48:40.444Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-OTe!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff048b006-a101-4930-a42f-505373d7d22b_1280x720.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://maryamhenein.substack.com/p/copy-part-25-i-am-that-i-am&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:168477766,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:9,&quot;comment_count&quot;:0,&quot;publication_id&quot;:944302,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Maryam Henein on Substack&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vbCa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6f4bdb70-8bc4-4973-b229-efce951fd6e3_900x900.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>Like I had become a conduit for something that wasn&#8217;t bound to the version of myself I had been operating as. The Oversoul isn&#8217;t &#8220;you&#8221; in the way your name or history defines you. It&#8217;s what your consciousness plugs into when you expand it.  It was as if my divine spark had been turned on, making me a cosmic candle of sorts.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zOMk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4a292b4-2875-4639-82a9-dcff6805da81_750x750.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zOMk!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4a292b4-2875-4639-82a9-dcff6805da81_750x750.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zOMk!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4a292b4-2875-4639-82a9-dcff6805da81_750x750.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zOMk!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4a292b4-2875-4639-82a9-dcff6805da81_750x750.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zOMk!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4a292b4-2875-4639-82a9-dcff6805da81_750x750.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zOMk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4a292b4-2875-4639-82a9-dcff6805da81_750x750.jpeg" width="267" height="267" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d4a292b4-2875-4639-82a9-dcff6805da81_750x750.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:750,&quot;width&quot;:750,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:267,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Chart of the Mighty I AM Presence - Saint Germain Press&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Chart of the Mighty I AM Presence - Saint Germain Press&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Chart of the Mighty I AM Presence - Saint Germain Press" title="Chart of the Mighty I AM Presence - Saint Germain Press" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zOMk!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_424, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4a292b4-2875-4639-82a9-dcff6805da81_750x750.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zOMk!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_848, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4a292b4-2875-4639-82a9-dcff6805da81_750x750.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zOMk!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4a292b4-2875-4639-82a9-dcff6805da81_750x750.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zOMk!, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4a292b4-2875-4639-82a9-dcff6805da81_750x750.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>It&#8217;s part of ascension, which is in essence an expansion of consciousness and perception. The simulation started glitching, which is arguably why someone starts seeing numerical sequences.</p><p>Meanwhile, when I stepped onto that 333 car lot and spotted Snuffy standing there shyly on the asphalt in the heat, and we hugged, the world went quiet. Like literally. There was no past. No future. All felt peaceful. </p><p>I see now that our meeting wasn&#8217;t random. It was a cosmic appointment with curious and costly circumstances. Two wild cards destined to meet in a liminal space on the dawn of a planet parade. And let&#8217;s be honest, my offering to cosign for a complete stranger &#8230;</p>
      <p>
          <a href="/__u/maryamhenein.substack.com/p/part-46-youre-late-youre-late-for">
              Read more
          </a>
      </p>
   ]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>