parable of the prodigal son

216 - Diumenge de l'Angel postponed

Surprise storms, a deep dive into Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha and its themes of self-discovery and enlightenment, parallels with the Prodigal Son, plus thoughts on open-source software, privacy, and questioning official narratives.

Roger Price

18 Apr 2026 • 12 min read

Everything was ready - until the storm arrived

🇪🇸 We had fabulous weather for most of the week - all except Sunday and Monday. The weather early in the week was so poor that it caused the postponement of the planned Angel Sunday festival for which Palma is famous. It was cancelled two days before - just after three days of incessant chemtrails being spread in the otherwise clear blue sky. Officially chemtrails do not exist and there is no connection anyway - make up your own mind on that.

Everything was planned - now it is postponed till 10 May in Sa Riera Park

Book of the week

I recently read an excellent book and I recommend it highly. Siddhartha is a 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse, one of the most influential works of 20th-century spiritual fiction. The book follows a young Brahmin named Siddhartha on his quest for enlightenment and self-discovery in ancient India during the time of Gautama Buddha. The book is now in the public domain and freely available through Project Gutenberg in multiple translations

Siddhartha leaves his privileged life as a Brahmin to seek spiritual fulfillment. His journey takes him through several distinct phases:

Asceticism: He joins the Samanas and practices extreme self-denial
Worldly life: He abandons asceticism, becomes a wealthy merchant, and experiences love with the courtesan Kamala
River wisdom: Ultimately, he finds enlightenment not through teachers or doctrines, but through listening to the river and embracing the unity of all experience

The book explores timeless themes including:

The limits of formal teaching and the necessity of direct experience (aka gnosis)
The interconnectedness of all things and the acceptance of life's contradictions
The cyclical nature of time and existence
Individual spiritual seeking versus organised religion

Click below for the best commentary and review of the book that I have found. The review includes both a summary and a 30-minute audio explainer.

Click for the best review and commentary on this book

If you enjoyed this, you will likely enjoy two other books that I have read and recommended:

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho — A shepherd's quest for treasure becomes a journey of self-discovery; one of the most popular spiritual novels of recent decades
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry — A deceptively simple tale with profound philosophical depth about love, loss, and what matters

Yet another resonance - do click below and listen to what Jason says:

The prodigal son is a parable about a son who chooses to leave the safety and provision of his father to experience the outside world, making mistakes, losing everything and facing hardship.

Despite this, the prodigal son humbles himself and returns to the father, who welcomes him with open arms, forgiveness and celebration rather than punishment. This story symbolizes the human condition of free will, learning through experience, humility and the eventual recognition of the father's wisdom.

The prodigal son contrasts with the other son who never left and never truly learned or loved, representing the choice between obedience without experience and growth through trials.
~ Jason's insight - start at 50:10

Let me know your thoughts if you have read any of these. What do you recommend?

🛠️ Project Updates

This week I am giving you some insights into the ongoing onslaught from The Empire on open source platforms and software. Keeping these platforms open and freely available is essential to avoid total control and censorship of your data, computers and phones. What are you doing?

Android Open Source Project (AOSP) under threat

Google has long been threatening to require developers to register with government ID on their platforms to allow software development and distribution. As always you will hear the mantra that this is "for your security and protection" and "to protect the children". You are witnessing the Hegelian Dialectic in play here - they cause and facilitate the problems, only to give their intended and unsatisfactory solutions when people are demoralised and forced into submission.

Click to understand how you can act to really protect yourself and others

The truth is that these controls are useless and will be bypassed anyone who is a real criminal while they represent unreasonable control and exclusion on everyone else. This is just another part of the Corporate Capture by the Empire - read on for more.

Micro$oft is equally evil

Listen as Henry from Techlore delivers a critical analysis of Micro$oft's sudden suspension of three major open-source security projects—WireGuard, VeraCrypt, and Windscribe - from the Windoze Hardware Developer Program.

The core issue: Micro$oft (aka Micro$lop) implemented a mandatory re-verification process requiring government ID uploads, then silently closed the verification window, suspending accounts without notification. They now refuse to respond to any queries or rectify anything.

Micro$soft is dishonest and unethical - time to abandon them

While it's not a Micro$slop product, they do own GitHub. This is the platform for hosting open source software. There are now multiple groups looking at making and hosting alternatives and the open and distributed nature of git makes this entirely feasible.

There are no coincidences

Despite the claim to be unrelated I think the recent turmoil in and around open source Office suites is likely linked and orchestrated. It is quite likely being funded and pushed indirectly by Micro$lop and maybe Google too - the same way that they secretly funded all sorts of lobby groups to push through Age Verification laws in multiple US states. This summary from DB Tech is the clearest that I have found - and he links to all source materials, including those from the EU on EuroOffice.

The best summary of this skirmish - click to listen

Be in no doubt. You want to be wary of and likely avoid all cloud-based offerings from Big Tech. They will inevitably require and enforce government ID registration; they will ban and deplatform you whenever they feel like it for any reason they care to imagine. You will be deemed to have accepted all terms and conditions through one of those innumerable pop-ups that you clicked after you signed up. You will be censored and lose access to your data with no recourse.

For me, LibreOffice is and remains one of the best alternative office suites for uncensored work on your own computer. It was a good decision to freeze LibreOffice OnLine (LOOL) all those years ago. A quality desktop product should continue to be their focus and I support them to do so.

Some Bitcoin hope

I wanted to close on a positive note on how we are making progress and pushing back. Fedimint and Cashu are two examples and there is increasingly emerging a super ecosystem of open source components to incorporate and build upon.

Click for the 6-monthly check-in with Justin, lead developer on Fedimint

Fedimint provides excellent liquidity and payment possibilities for its users and it integrates well with other open source components. One of the open source technologies that they are integrating with is Spark.

Spark is a Bitcoin Layer 2 (L2) protocol designed to make Bitcoin practical for everyday payments and financial applications. It enables instant, near-zero-cost transfers of Bitcoin and Bitcoin-native assets (including stablecoins) while remaining fully connected to Bitcoin's infrastructure.

Spark is already being adopted by quite a few commercial products that are scaling to tens of thousands of users. Read their Manifesto here. Don't miss the boat!

Principles of Economics Lecture 5 - Property

Saifedean Ammous argues that private property is the fundamental prerequisite for all economic calculation, capital accumulation, and civilization itself. Without secure property rights, no economic planning beyond immediate consumption is possible. The lecture traces how property rights emerge, why they matter and how their erosion destroys economic rationality.

Click for summary, transcript and to listen to the lecture

🔗 Links for your edification

The following are links from my Liferea RSS feeds - learn, enjoy and share.

Accountability is required for War Crimes

The United States, Israel and Iran are signatories to the Geneva Conventions. Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention explicitly prohibits the collective punishment of a civilian population.

Additional Protocol I (whose core principles are binding under customary international law - meaning even countries that didn’t ratify it, like the US and Isarel, are still bound by it) prohibits attacks on infrastructure indispensable to civilian survival. That means:

Power plants? War crime.
Bridges? War crime.
Water treatment facilities? War crime.
Hospitals? War crime.
Schools? War crime.

You cannot be human and agree with or support what is being done

The same system that tries to crush you is the system that depends on your compliance. And when you stop complying — when you stop believing the lies, the whole house of cards comes tumbling down.

LinkedIn is more evil that you ever imagined

Happily I deleted my LinkedIn account years ago. I did so when I exited the matrix. That allowed me to dodge this latest violation of privacy - you are likely not so lucky. What Micro$soft (the owner) and LinkedIn have done is blatantly criminal in practically every jurisdiction and they should be held to account.

Click to understand how blatantly LinkedIn has violated your rights and privacy

Meanwhile consider to what extent you want to continue to participate. Refer back to our earlier discussion here. Deleting your account is straightforward and liberating. Try it - you have 14 days to change your mind!

Memes of the week

They say, "a picture tells 1,000 words" - so it would seem. WDYT?

🤔 Closing Thoughts

Considering all the fearmongering at the moment, you might want to step back and consider what many researchers have uncovered, following years of extensive research. Click through and look at the evidence before you dismiss it.

Consider the official narrative of World War II and the atomic bomb. Objective research shows that major historical events are "scripted" by financial powers rather than being spontaneous.

The atomic bomb's primary purpose is argued to be the initiation of a permanent Cold War based on nuclear deterrence, surveillance, and geopolitical manipulation, as outlined in works like Orwell's 1984. Recall too The Report from Iron Mountain.
The Pacific theater of WWII appears to be a fabricated narrative, with events like the fall of Singapore and Japan's oil dependency suggesting a pre-determined outcome facilitated by Western powers. Much more in John's talk below.
Japan's post-WWII recovery and transformation into an ally are attributed to financial manipulation and a controlled narrative, mirroring the tactics of the Bolshevik revolution.
The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki seem to be related to destroying evidence of foreign interference and a demonstration of conventional, rather than nuclear, weaponry - rather reminiscent of Dresden.

Click through - read and listen there are timestamps to all the discussion

The most dangerous weapon is identified as the "story" itself, with fear-based narratives across media serving as the primary tool of control, a concept termed "epistemological warfare".

Others have reached the same conclusion

Hiroshima Revisited by Michael Palmer critically examines the official narrative surrounding the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, challenging the claim that these events were nuclear detonations. By analysing physical evidence, eyewitness accounts, and scientific data, the book argues that the destruction in these cities was caused by conventional incendiary methods and chemical agents rather than atomic bombs.

Click through - the evidence is overwhelming

Lastly, John Hamer's talk systematically dismantles the foundation of the nuclear narrative, emphasizing inconsistencies in fallout, survivor testimonies and medical findings.

Once last one - it cannot be clearer than this

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No one can be told what The Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.
- Morpheus to Neo in The Matrix

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