Life ain’t easy for a boy named Shushan

On April 22, William Wright posted “Shushan!” The title is a reference to a scene in Johnny English Reborn where a male flight attendant is wearing a name tag that says Susan. When Johnny’s sidekick questions this — “Sir, I don’t think he’s a Susan” — Johnny insists that it’s actually a Chinese name and should be pronounced Shushan. I posted my own syncs related to this on April 25 in “Susan, Aslan, and dot-connecting.”

Last night, May 3, I decided to check The Higherside Chats, a podcast I used to listen to fairly often but hadn’t checked in a long time. One of the recent episodes, posted April 11, is titled “Dr. Gregory Shushan | Near death experience in indigenous religion, afterlife journeys & resurrection.” So that’s a man named Shushan, as in the movie. The resurrection reference also syncs with the movie title Johnny English Reborn.

Dr. Shushan’s first name, Gregory, also caught my eye. The host is named Gregory, too. The Russian form of that name recently entered the sync-stream with “A vulture named Odessa Grigorievna, and Joseph Smith in a spider mask.”

Joseph Smith makes a brief cameo early on in the podcast. Discussing Gregory Shushan’s theory that near-death experiences have influenced afterlife beliefs in religions worldwide, Greg Carlwood says:

Yeah, I agree with you, and it seems kind of obvious because I think about someone like Joseph Smith and the whole Mormon religion. It’s usually some figure who has some mystical experience and then says they have some sacred knowledge of some kind to impart, some new tablets or something.

Joseph Smith never had a near-death experience, so that was an odd example to choose.