Kale Zelden
@kalezelden
Teacher & Percipient of The Underneath | Connecting modern seekers with buried & forsaken wisdom. Tweets/threads about patterns & observations. Old Book Lover.
1/ Joseph Conrad, the great Inside/Outside Liminal Seer of empires, economic and religious, a 🧵 on liberal hegemony:
Bishop Erik Varden on a generational transition in the Catholic Church: tinyurl.com/mwfhj2bc
Sixty years ago today, Bob Dylan performed his famous and controversial electric set at the Newport Folk Festival. Dylan opened with a blistering version of “Maggie’s Farm,” featuring Michael Bloomfield on guitar.
The constant vigilance and virtue required to resist the influence of the Palantíri we carry around so nonchalantly is daunting: with its capacity to influence baked into its design and purposes. Purposefully reading challenging physical books certainly helps break the spell!
If you disassemble a million stolen cars and reassemble new ones in various combinations from your vast warehouse of parts you are stlll selling stolen cars. That's AI.
EXCLUSIVE: ‘This Should NOT Be Included’ — Read Intel Officials’ Objections To ‘Extremely Sketchy’ Steele Dossier thefederalist.com/2025/07/24/exc…
Can someone with moderator status please delete my Wikipedia page on the basis of lack of standing or whatever it is? Like most of the site it's been taken over by a deranged lunatic who believe that lying is a means to an end. I'd really rather not have a page at all.
Today we're exploring how to get the symbolic mindset back:
As Dante noted all those years ago, sometimes the shepherds are really the wolves.

No one seems all that serious about the realities of selection and promotion in the church. The fast track remains being "unbothered" by sexual appetites of the homosexual variety.
Colloquially known as "the Green Book," it’s a great resource for students!
What’s the best obscure book(s) you’ve ever read that more people should know about?
After the news out of Detroit, and several private conversations regarding other dioceses, we are never getting out of this apostatic rut. The bad guys are fully in control. It’s baked in. There is no human hope. The tares have grown with the wheat. And they are winning.
Hulk Hogan was the literal standard bearer for the America of my childhood, a time and place where you could be unironically told to say your prayers and take your vitamins so you'd grow up strong enough to whoop the ass of any Communist or Ayatollah who needed it. God rest him.
I don't understand why the universe works the way it does or why it feels so much like a simulation sometimes
This week's episode of Interesting Times is a conversation about the UFO phenomenon (whatever it may be) with Diana Walsh Pasulka: youtube.com/watch?v=D7n4nc…
It’s not a rumor. Echeverria was in fact sacked from his position at Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit.