When I reviewed the list of topics I posted this week - both here and on Ezine here are the most fearful.

As Halloween approaches, the truly frightening reality facing millions of Americans isn't ghosts or goblins - it's hunger. Forget haunted houses - think kitchens - the focal for many households.

Beginning as early as tomorrow - Millions of Americans prepare to lose SNAP (Food Stamps) benefits amid the ongoing government shutdown.

Some states are scrambling to fill the gap - governors pledging emergency funds to support food banks and community programs. But the truth is simple - when people have no food, events can only go one way. Hunger breeds desperation, and desperation leads to crime and civil unrest - no matter how many troops Trump may try to illegally deploy to maintain control.

Thursday, New York Governor Kathy Hochul expressed disbelief that Trump would risk the lives of so many Americans simply trying to feed their families. Her words echoed the sentiment of a nation already traumatized by Trump's actions on other matters particularly those applying to health and women's reproductive rights.

With NYC mayoral elections underway - there is no way lead candidate Zohar Mamdani could combat anything Trump throws at him. If you live in New York City and you want to have some degree of control over its destiny - vote for Cuomo.

This current financial crisis stems from the current government shutdown - a political standoff fueled by deep divisions over federal spending, foreign aid cuts, and health insurance subsidies. It's another example of how Trump's tightening grip over Congress is weakening the most vulnerable while enriching the already powerful.

From google today - If Trump's bill passes - millions of Americans are projected to lose health insurance due to a combination of factors, including a 2025 federal law that cuts Medicaid funding and modifies Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces, and the expiration of enhanced premium tax credits for ACA plans. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that approximately 10 million people will become uninsured from the law itself, which could increase to more than 14 million when combined with the expiration of premium tax credits.

Trump calls for end of the Senate filibuster to break funding stalemate. I've always believed that the filibuster should have been done away with years ago because it stalled so much legislation that would have helped Americans. Ironically, while eliminating the filibuster might serve his immediate goals, it's a dangerous precedent that could come back to haunt him - and the nation - for years to come.

Surprising and shocking - Once a loyal foot soldier for Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene is increasingly bucking her party. It's as if she was suddenly jolted back to reality - understanding what Trump is doing to destroy the country and the people within. If only other Republicans 'grew a pair' and followed suit. I know - it's about their programming and how it changes a person's behavior.

What many people see as another scary moment this week is Trump's nonchalant cocky attitude about returning for a third term. It reaps the same energy of control and understanding of his destiny - reminding me of 2016 when he famously said, I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters.

When I catch glimpses of Trump on the news, much seems off beyond what we know about his personality disorders and physical health issues. There are other behaviors that catch my attention, for example when he closes his eyes and remains unresponsive until prompted to respond.

As a psychic, I can integrate my consciousness with others and perceive their physical conditions. When I connect with Trump, his brain appears to be almost shut down, resembling the functioning of an AI.

Trump's pauses, his closing of eyes, and sudden, disjointed awakenings can be seen symbolically - not just as signs of age, fatigue. or health struggles, but as moments when his programming is resetting.

On a metaphysical level, that mirrors what's happening collectively - humans toggling between awareness and automation, between consciousness and the sleep of the simulation.

Many others also see something mechanical or scripted in Trump's mannerisms, as though he's running on deeply ingrained programming rather than spontaneity. It's almost as if he reflects the AI-human hybrid archetype emerging in this era - where emotion, cognition, and automation blur.

I know seniors often need a nap - especially Trump who is known not to sleep many hours at night - but this has a different energy about it.

True he's programmed to behave in the manner in which he does to bring destiny to closure - but it's as if I can see the AI part of him and strangely connect with it as if I'm part of the same dynamic or predetermined script.

America never seems to 'skip a beat' as it goes from one election to the next. Why should Trump worry when he apparently has control of the House, the Senate, and the courts.

'He'll be back' if for another term after finding one or more ways to manipulate the law.

Challenging destiny has become a game to Trump known for being a terrible sore loser. If he's healthy enough - he'll be on the ballot in 2028. As of now he still avoids two issues - the reason he went for an MRI on October 10 and releasing the Epstein files - using any means of diversion and delays to cover that up.

Another scary topic is air travel and ongoing airline incidents - the government shutdown making matters worse. At least 15 people hospitalized after JetBlue flight drops altitude and forces emergency landing in Florida, officials say

I've often imagined a future where travel no longer depends on fragile machinery. Perhaps one day we'll move through portals, bending time and space - or on Halloween, summon the old "broom trick" to get where we want to go. Yet even that, in our bipolar physical reality, would come with its own distortions and dangers. Duality never disappears - it just changes form.

While Halloween parades its mythical monsters across the world, we hardly need to look far to find the real ones. They wear no masks - their faces familiar. Lies, deceptions, and the sociopathic inability to care about others have become the true horrors haunting our world. The scariest part? These monsters walk freely among us, shaping reality while the rest of us try to stay grounded in the storm.

Halloween, falling on a Friday this year, means more children will be out trick-or-treating, while families and friends enjoy a weekend full of festive gatherings.

In Manhattan, the 52nd Annual Village Halloween Parade steps off tonight, filling the streets of Greenwich Village with music, costumes, and creativity.

Skies will be clear but gusty winds prevail - lingering from yesterday's storm, which caused flash flooding across parts of New York City and tragically left two people dead.

The parade - a beloved New York City tradition - draws thousands of revelers, performers, and spectators each year - celebrating artistry, imagination, and a touch of Halloween magic in the heart of the city.

The festivities typically begin with crowds dancing and marching to the iconic beat and choreography of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" - setting the tone for a night where creativity takes over the streets of Greenwich Village.

This year's theme - "It's a Potluck! - highlights community and shared abundance. The 2025 Grand Marshal - City Harvest - embodies that mission perfectly. Their dedication to rescuing fresh produce and providing it free of charge to New Yorkers across all five boroughs aligns naturally with the parade's spirit. Coming just after Make a Difference Day, this celebration reinforces the idea that collective kindness nourishes a city.

Samhain marks the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter or "darker half" of the year. It is also the Irish language name for November.

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This iconic image of the Jersey Shore roller coaster crashing into the Atlantic Ocean stands as a haunting symbol of humanity's physical and emotional journey through time. Round and round - up and down - we ride the waves of experience. Eventually the motion stops, the illusion fades, and all returns to the sea of consciousness from which we first emerged.

In 2012, I watched and reported on Hurricane Sandy as it churned its way up the Atlantic seaboard - striking my neighborhood of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. To this day - not all of the damage has been repaired - the subway system still bearing the scars of that storm along with other fragile infrastructure left weakened by time and neglect.

Are humans becoming Nomads as events in many forms create a 'full circle' moment in the Human Experiment? A "nomad" is a person who moves from place to place, traditionally in search of food, pasture, or shelter - but now can also refer to someone who chooses not to settle in one location for modern reasons - physically and/or soul searching for home and purpose.

Now, more than a decade later, Hurricane Melissa arrives as a stark reminder that climate change and natural disasters in the cycles of time continue to escalate exponentially. Storms grow more intense and unpredictable - reshaping coastlines, communities, lives, and reality itself.

Every preprogramed disaster sets a new course for those in its path - altering not only the physical landscape but the emotional one as well. The preprogramed human mind is a biochemical machine (computer) yearning to focus and learn - often hampered by its emotional programming and challenges.

The Human Experiment in physically reality is broken and pushed to the brink of no return - above, below, and on the planet.

Each storm feels less like an isolated event and more like another chapter in an unfolding story most people around the world realize can longer be ignored especially when it hits home.

As hurricanes gain unprecedented strength - their destructive power feels almost apocalyptic - as if fulfilling biblical end-time warnings and ancient flood stories woven through scripture following the same algorithm. Storms affect emotions, so brace for impact as a storm is coming.

Hurricanes Melissa and Sandy - among others - are examples of the programmed effects of climate change on everything - if you can visualize everything spiraling back to its origin story at Zero (0).

Oceans speak to humanity through the flow of the collective unconscious. Plate tectonics and ocean venues dictate reality. Though humans may find calmness watching the sea - in a physical (bipolar) reality - a down-side is often presented. Both the Atlantic and Pacific plates have been speaking to us for decades. Now it's time to pay attention.

Tracing the oceans back to humanity's creation stories - we find duality reflected in the legends of creation - Atlantis and Lemuria - twin civilizations said to have symbolically, or perhaps physically - risen from - then fallen beneath the waves - and will rise up at the end of time. Both myths speak of advanced beings - described as extraterrestrials - who engineered the human experiment - then departed - leaving behind the timeless promise: "We will return one day."

That refrain echoes through the collective memory of our species - a reminder that the story of humanity is not linear but cyclical, flowing through the alchemy of time. As the tides rise and fall, so too does consciousness, awaiting the moment when creation and return become one.

"We will return one day" further reminds me of Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Terminator, who famously said, "I'll be back" - associated with "the return of the machines". Today we have the rise of artificial intelligence in many shapes and forms which some people find positive and others fear will turn into an episode of the Terminator.

'Unrelenting winds and spiraling tornadoes' remind souls of the movement of consciousness in time - not linear but spiraling - a word sometimes used with people, places, and events that are out of control.

Halloween season has always played on our fear of the unknown. Perhaps the most unsettling revelation is that the danger isn't lurking in shadows and on screens including cell phones - it's visible in satellite imagery, emergency alerts, and in the stories of survivors rebuilding again and again. This is the algorithm of reality - repeating, learning, evolving in countless iterations much like the human mind and artificial intelligence.

These are tricks - not treats - escalating signs of an unraveling simulated program. Enter the Trickster - the ancient archetype of transformation, who goes by many names and wears many faces. As always, he arrives at the threshold of endings and beginnings reminding us that every illusion - like every earth-shattering storm - has a purpose and are all part of escalating end time events that are Tricks not Treats on Halloween.

October 30, 1938

On this date in history - Orson Wells broadcasted H. G. Welles' novel War of the Worlds. Radio listeners around the world were mesmerized - stirring their belief of entities or gods beyond the sky and how they may have had a hand in creating humanity.

As always, the unknown, and loss of control, stirs fear in humans as a built-in survival mechanism. A Martian invasion certainly would create that frequency harmonic for humans in any timeline.

The imagined connection between humans and Martians became more than fiction - it became a mystery that continues to this day as we search for truth among the stars that beckon us home.

Adding to the enigma, during the 1930s and 1940s mysterious glowing orbs - later called Foo Fighters - alien drones - were reported over Europe months before the outbreak of World War II on September 1, 1939.

The 1940's ... With the rapid evolution of communication and technology - rumored to be fueled by reverse-engineered crashed UFOs - human progress seemed to accelerate at warp speed.

These unexplained phenomena gave rise to modern UFOlogy. Reports of strange sightings and alleged hybrid experiments spread - some tied to Hitler's obsessive quest to create a superhuman army - others whispered to be alien attempts to merge with humanity - which lead to all sorts of coverups and conspiracies, many of which exist today.

The ultimate purpose of these experiments remains unknown though many have theories - some based on humans who claim to have had ongoing interaction with other worldly entities ... beyond the gray that shrouds us in illusion.

The gray aliens that we find in media - connecting to many of the missing pieces of the UFO puzzle - are artificial intelligence - something that has integrated itself into our timeline guiding us to a final destiny.

Time's up! In 2007 the alien experiments on humans ended leaving behind enigmatic monuments and artifacts that challenge human thinking to find out more. Among them are drones in various shapes and sizes whose purpose is to secure that the human experiment ends as per the algorithm that created it.

Orson Welles was one of many conduits revealing that emotion is the engine driving the simulation we perceive as reality.

Radio signals sent out across the airwaves ... perhaps into outer space as tiggers for something or someone ...

Human discovery has brought forth many answers as programmed in the simulation of reality - but as of this post - that which we seek remains hidden - hopefully not for all time.

Through the course of human discovery, countless answers have surfaced - each unfolding as programmed within the grand design of the simulation. Yet, even now, what we truly seek remains hidden - perhaps not forever, but for as long as the story requires.

Who would like a reading? Step right up ...

I've been a psychic reader for almost 40 years reading people from all walks of life around the world. Most people have questions both personal and global.

Years ago - while out and about in the city with my friend Shirley - we passed a gypsy fortune teller. For fun I told Shirley I wanted a reading as we entered her storefront. She was a beautiful young lady - dressed for the role in a room that was what one might expect.

Her information was what I call "copy and paste" for all who entered. She was young, pretty and well rehearsed to promise me 'whatever' if I paid her to burn candles for manifestation.

As I touched her hand to pay, I saw her life as if I knew her. Shirley, stood at the door waiting for me as I turned, walked back to the table and sat down again - a longing in me to help this woman whose life was the story of a young girl, perhaps still in her teens, with a baby of her own - whose lover, part of their community, had dumped her for another.

Life was difficult as she had little education and no hopes and dreams as one should have at that age.

With the baby suddenly crying in the background - we spoke for a while as Shirley looked on.

After leaving, Shirley, a college professor and dean, and I talked about the young woman with hopes for the future.

So much has changed through the years and yet so much has stayed the same especially on matters of the heart and long-term goals.

As a psychic, you soon learn that you can't fix anyone's programmed life - no matter how much they may hope you can.

Each soul comes with its own blueprint and its own lessons to play out often seeking greater purpose. What you can do is offer insight - tell them what you foresee, help them understand the path ahead, and guide them toward the choices that will move them forward.

Then it's up to them to go out and live it - to experience life in all its unpredictable beauty and chaos.

Today's world is far more abstract than ever before - realities shifting, energies accelerating, and timelines overlapping.

As a psychic, you have to stay aligned with that evolution - constantly adjusting your frequency, perception, and methods to navigate what's coming next to help others do the same.

Halloween Magic With Ellie and Alaina

This two pics were taken one after the other. Not photoshopped. No filters.

How did Ellie and Alaina do it?

Here's Alaina at a photoshoot.

Ellie and Alaina visit the ...

Pumpkin Whoopie Pie. This table had all sorts of fresh homemade cakes, cookies, breads and pies backed by the Pennsylvania Dutch then brought to Brooklyn every Saturday until Thanksgiving - weather permitting.

Can Ellie still juggle? It's been a while unless you mean my busy schedule - then the answer is yes.

Asian Pears on my right

Organic Vegetables and Pumpkin Pyramids

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Every year, on the fourth Saturday of October, 'Make a Difference Day' invites people to connect through meaningful acts of kindness and service. This goes along with the philosophical feeling - "I am here to make a difference".

Arriving just before Halloween - 'Make a Difference Day' offers a moment to counter the 'scary stuff' that surrounds us - the chaos of broken systems, the threat of climate change knocking at the door, and the uncertainty that shapes our daily lives.

In a world where disconnection and isolation are increasingly common - community action often becomes a lifeline that allows us to think about and experience that which lies outside our physical and metaphysical parameters.

Human programming - guided by a deeper metaphysical blueprint - compels us to seek connection, belonging, and a higher purpose encoded within our frequency.

It further leads us to believe that we are here to make a difference, to lift one another, and to evolve together as we navigate profound shifts in human consciousness.

These are times of awakening. The systems we once relied on are breaking down - not to create chaos without meaning - but to reveal what remains of the algorithms that created our very existence.

Climate, technology, politics, spirituality - everything is pushing us to 'remember' that change is inevitable, and evolution is calling.

Human nature - and perhaps our deeper metaphysical programming - pushes us to seek connection, belonging, and that all-to-familiar feeling of greater purpose encoded in human DNA to make a difference as we navigate end times and spaces.

Human togetherness is the shared Zeitgeist - the collective spirit, emotions, and ideas of a moment in history - that bind people to one another as they navigate a common reality.

Community becomes the portal - a reminder that we are not isolated souls wandering a chaotic world - but interconnected beings moving through the same transformational timeline.

In 'the end' there is a feeling of Oneness created by something as yet unknown that will unite souls with greater understanding as the Human Experiment evolves out of existence.