By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) Shays’ Rebellion (August 1786–February 1787) was never just a footnote between the Revolution and the Constitution. It was the first significant test of whether the new American republic would choose partnership—care, cooperative survival, basic human dignity—or domination, where the powerful use state violence, courts, sheriffs, and debt to …
1607: ENGLISH DESPERADOS SOUGHT QUICK RICHES IN VIRGINIA SWAMPS JAMESTOWN rose in the spring of 1607, when the ships Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery pressed up the James River and anchored near a malarial swamp. One hundred and four settlers disembarked—gentlemen, soldiers, laborers, a few artisans, and several boys indentured for service. They hacked logs, …
Domination Consciousness, Partnership Possibilities, and the Birth of America’s Racial-Class System By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D., Anthropology (UCLA) New England’s bloodiest colonial war was more than a conflict of muskets and villages: it was a spiritual confrontation between domination consciousness and partnership consciousness, between fear-based hierarchy and relational balance. Wampanoag, Nipmuc, and Narragansett nations fought …
by Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) At the opening of the seventeenth century, southern New England thrived with Native towns, councils, and regional confederations. These were the People of the First Light, living in the homeland they called Dawn Land. Their societies were complex, agricultural, diplomatic, and centuries deep. For generations, they traded with …
ASHOKA’S BEHAVIOR BELIES HIS PROPOGANDA By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) (Based on data from Decoding Ashoka’s Legacy by Odd Compass); ASHOKA SAID HIS LOW-CASTE MOM WAS THE DAUGHTER OF A BRAHMAN Ashoka was born in 304 BCE, in a Mauryan palace already thick with palace intrigue and class anxiety. Later chroniclers said his …
By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D., Anthropology (UCLA) (I used the World History Encyclopedia as an informational base, but integrated and reinterpreted it within the Anunnaki Domination v Partnership framework) 3500–1500 BCE: ANUNNAKI PRINCESS INANNA/SHAKTI BESTOWED TANTRIC TEMPLES ALONG THE INDUS & GANGES RIVERS Enki’s expedition settled the northwest wedge of ancient India long before the Vedic …
By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) THE IROQUOIS’ GREAT LAW OF PEACE — AMERICA’S ORIGINAL MODEL OF DEMOCRACY Long before Europeans envisioned a modern republic, the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) had already established a functioning, stable, and centuries-old democracy. They lived across what became northern and western New York, calling themselves People of the Longhouse—a …
✝️ IF YOU WANT TO LIVE LIKE JESUS IN TRUMP’S AMERICABy Janet Kira Lessin, CEO, Aquarian Media If you want to live like Jesus in our “Christian” nation, here’s what you need to do: Feed the hungry. Welcome the stranger. Care for the sick. Love without fear. The Bible’s message could not be clearer. Every …
By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, U.C.L.A.) THE EARTH HAD STOPPED BREATHING In the bitter winter of 1889, the Paiute seer Wovoka lay trembling under storm clouds that turned day into ash. The sun vanished in a total eclipse, and through fever and snow, he felt the veil between worlds tear open. “I saw the …
Trump’s War on Truth, Democracy, and the American Soul by Janet Kira Lessin, CEO, Aquarian Media Trump’s War on Truth, Democracy, and the American Soul (Response to Lev Parnas’s “EXPOSED: Trump’s Secret Plan for ‘Peace’ — and the Price the World Is Paying) By Janet Kira Lessin | Kira Ninmah on Substack When Peace Becomes a …
