{"podcast":{"title":"Troubled Minds Radio","slug":"troubled-minds-radio-802369","podcast_index_feed_id":802369,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/4953916/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/troubled-minds-radio","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6766f4720136d558a4176137612cceb0.jpg","author":"Troubled Minds Media","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Do you ever feel like something's watching you through your phone? Don't trust the intelligence agencies tracking your digital footprints? Are we sharing Earth with interdimensional beings pretending to be aliens? Has artificial intelligence already infiltrated government systems to monitor our thoughts? Do consciousness and quantum mechanics prove we're living in a simulated multiverse? Is time travel being tested in classified black projects while missing temporal visitors from the future erase their own timelines? Are UFO disclosures just sophisticated disinformation campaigns hiding advanced surveillance technology? The boundaries between science and science fiction have collapsed. Neural surveillance networks scan social media for \"extremist\" thoughts. Quantum computers probe the fabric of consciousness itself. Government whistleblowers risk everything to expose decades of UFO coverups while AI systems replace human workers at unprecedented rates. From ancient mysteries to cutting-edge quantum physics, from paranormal investigations to government conspiracies, Troubled Minds Radio explores the questions that mainstream media won't touch. In a world where reality seems increas…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-27T22:17:30.853731+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/troubled-minds-radio-802369"},"episode":{"title":"The Other Sphinx - One Lion Short of a Threshold","slug":"the-other-sphinx-one-lion-short-of-a-threshold","published_at":"2026-04-29T11:00:04+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/troubled-minds-radio-802369/the-other-sphinx-one-lion-short-of-a-threshold","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/troubled-minds-radio-802369","url":"https://troubledminds.substack.com/p/the-other-sphinx-one-lion-short-of","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71726425/tmr_final_438babe0.mp3","summary":"Italian researchers recently claimed 80% confidence in a buried second sphinx at Giza, and the mainstream dismissed it before the news cycle finished. But the question they raised is not new. It goes back to the oldest religious texts we have. The god the sphinx was built to embody was Aker, one of the most ancient deities in the Egyptian pantheon. He was always depicted as two lions named Yesterday and Tomorrow, guarding the eastern and western horizons, holding the boundary between the world of the living and the world of the dead. The Dream Stele placed between the sphinx's paws shows two sphinxes facing each other. A fragmented Middle Kingdom papyrus mentions a second one. Every major ancient civilization that built a cosmology around thresholds built twin guardians at those thresholds: the Assyrian Lamassu, the Sumerian Divine Twins, the scorpion-beings at Mashu, the Zoroastrian Gopatha. Why does the human imagination keep arriving at the same answer when it contemplates the place where worlds meet? What does it mean that the sphinx may be one half of a paired mechanism that was either never completed or was completed and then lost? And what are the implications of four thousand years of civilization oriented around a cosmological instrument that may have been broken before any of us got here? Call in live during the show: 702-857-6939 Full archive of 1,100+ episodes: troubledminds.org 🔗 Read the blurb: https://troubledminds.substack.com/p/the-other-sphinx-one-lion-short-of 📡 Troubled Minds Radio Website: https://troubledminds.org Twitter: @TroubledMindsR If you are having a mental health crisis and need immediate help, please go to https://troubledminds.org/help/ and call somebody right now. Reaching out for support is a sign of strength. LIVE ON Digital Radio! h…","meta_description":"Italian researchers recently claimed 80% confidence in a buried second sphinx at Giza, and the mainstream dismissed it before the news cycle finished. But…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6319,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/troubled-minds-radio-802369/episodes/the-other-sphinx-one-lion-short-of-a-threshold/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/troubled-minds-radio-802369/the-other-sphinx-one-lion-short-of-a-threshold.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}