The Dharma, sutras, and commentarial interpretations of interest to American Buddhists of all traditions with news that not only informs but transforms. Emphasis on meditation, enlightenment, karma, social evolution, and nonharming.
(To contact us, leave a comment marked "private").
C.A., JeffMara Podcast, Cannibal Corpse "Stripped...", Tori Amos "Spark"; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
She time traveled and affected her past during her near-death experience
(JeffMara Podcast) Oct. 24, 2022. Near-death experience podcast Guest 620 is C.A. Kanooble, who during her NDE experience traveled in time 13 years to her past and saved herself. How are such things possible? Was there angelic/devic help?
LYRICS: "Spark" (Tori Amos): She's addicted to nicotine patches/ She's afraid of the light in the dark/ 6:58 are you sure where my spark is?/ Here, here, here/ She's convinced she could hold back a glacier/ (Between cotton balls and xylophones)/ But she couldn't keep baby alive/ (I'm getting old)/ Doubting if there's a woman in there somewhere/ Here, here, here// [Chorus] You say you don't want it, again and again/ But you don't, don't really mean it/ You say you don't want it, the circus we're in/ But you don't, don't really mean it// If the divine master plan is perfection/ (Swing low)/ Maybe next I'll give Jewish a try/ (Swing low, sweet chariot)/ Trusting my soul to the Ice Cream Assassin/ Here, here, here/ [Chorus]/ How many fates turn around in the overtime? Ballerinas have fins that you'll never find/ You thought that you were the bomb, yes, well so did I
Cannibal Corpse's "Stripped Raped Strangled is popular, not an outlier
Number 1 has to be little Linda Blair as Ouija Board player Regan in The Exorcist
The demon Pazuzu (voice)
The scary station KPCC (Southern California Public Radio at scpr.org) FM wanted to spook half-baked Los Angeles this Halloween. So it played a compilation show of Terry Gross' Fresh Airinterviews with Anthony "Hannibal the Cannibal" Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs) and the far scarier woman who did the voice of the demon Pazuzu in The ExorcistMercedes McCambridge. She is very scary with chilling control of her vocals.
The Untold Truth of The Exorcist
(Looper) The Exorcist is one of the most famous horror films of all time, and it often tops lists of the scariest.
Our gay priests are tops. We're #1
But the production of this classic Hollywood film was pretty frightening itself.
The deaths and near-deaths of people associated with the film even led director William Friedkin to have a Catholic priest on set bless the film. While it might seem odd that a priest was hanging around the set, the Catholic Church actually approved of the film, seeing as how the heroes were a pair of priests.
Get ready for some head spinning as we take a look at the untold truth of The Exorcist. #Exorcist#Truth Full article: looper.com/22817/untold-truth...
Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld; Family Guy; Sheldon S., CC Liu, Crystal Quintero, Wisdom Quarterly
American Halloween is now a sexy holiday for adults, but kids still love sugary dopamine hits.
Shorten your life. Add sugar to die sooner.
Our house isn't very religious. It's more secular and spiritual. Do whatever for spirituality because culture has already taken care of the rest. That's how it is in the Valley.
Jerry Seinfeld had to understand that as he made his show about New York life down the way in Studio City, California, on a soundstage where he took up two spaces for his fancy car.
With friends from UCLA, we went to see a taping. What a dud to be sweetened in post-production with our muted laughs turned up to 11 and our silences cut out of the show altogether. I wasn't a fan of the show then. It only became funny later, and now it's very funny for the way it pokes fun at all our foibles and daily nothingness:
Other than the pilot, the Seinfeld series was filmed at CBS Studio Center, in Studio City, Los Angeles, California. The first three seasons were filmed on Soundstage 19; it then moved to the larger Stage 9 for the remainder of its production.
Develop diseases of all kinds with sugar candy.
It's hard to imagine Seinfeld doing good stand up. He seems to have been a sounding wall for that Curb Your Enthusiasm guy (Larry David) to bounce ideas off of. But he knows his Halloween. It's candy for everyone, as trick or treaters trickle in all evening.
Kramer moves to Los Angeles to do Hollywood
He made a comedy album version and juiced it up with a laugh track?
Roy of Hollywood Tuckman, Something's Happening, Pacifica L.A. (KPFK.org), Wisdom Quarterly
"Not What Should Be, Not What Might Be, But What Is" by Alan Watts
(Look Within)
Alan Watts fits right in with YouTube Myth & Religion Part 1 | Motivational Speeches. For more inspirational lectures and motivational speeches on YouTube, let's begin with Myth & Religion Part 1: "Not What Should Be, Not What Might Be, But What Is."
Every Sunday morning at 8:00, Roy Tuckman presents a segment of Something's Happening (his midnight show, weeknights on Pacifica Los Angeles at kpfk.org). This half hour of Alan Watts provides a short Sunday service of sorts for a Buddhist and Eastern twist, following a long Black Christian service with gospel singing and celebrating.
Let's open our eye, our third eye, and look within with Alan Watts (playlist). Who's Alan Watts? Born on Jan. 6, 1915, he passed on Nov. 16, 1973. He was a British writer and lecturer on Buddhism who interpreted and popularized Eastern philosophy, particularly Zen and Hinduism and Taoism, for a Western audience. See more at en.wikipedia.org
(Emma Barnett MeetsBloomberg Quicktake, Oct. 20, 2022) Emma Barnett meets the 14th Dalai Lama (dalailama.com) to discuss the impact of global warming on the future of humanity, the need for greater compassion (karuṇā) in today’s society, and his memories of the late dead British royal [and possible reptilian walk-in] Queen Elizabeth II who recently passed away to great fanfare.
CIA's proxy war with China and the Dalai Lama
This interview was recorded on Oct. 7, 2022. In a series of one-on-one interviews, award-winning journalist Emma Barnett meets leaders in their fields who are advancing and reshaping the global debate.
World Science Festival, premiered 9/8/22; Pat Macpherson, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Psychedelics: Chemicals, Consciousness, and Creativity
(World Science Festival) Could psychedelics ("mind manifesting" substances) make us more creative? Shift our mind, connect us to others, and help us access a younger, more malleable version of ourselves?
Activist Rick Doblin, neuroscientist Dr. Gül Dölen, and musician Reggie Watts join Brian Greene for a mind-bending and multidisciplinary conversation about the promises and pitfalls of these "magic" molecules (like DMT the "Spirit Molecule") and their impact on creativity, connection, and consciousness.
This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.
Participants:
Rick Doblin, Gül Dölen, Reggie Watts. Moderator:
Brian Greene. Thumbnail image courtesy of William Horton Photography.
10:55 - The Adinkra Codes (the etheric search engine from which we receive downloads)
14:00 - How raising our frequency through love quantum entangles us with the universe and activates [Thoth's Universal Brahman idea] the Christ Consciousness
Boring mainstream science stories dumb us down and keep us dumb.
Do we share parallel universes? | Weird or What? | ft. William Shatner
(Documentary Central) Weird or What examines the possibility of parallel worlds. First, it talks to a woman who claims to have encountered shadow people and considers whether such beings come from another dimension or are really just illusions in our minds. It then looks at teleportation and talks to a man (attorney, chrononaut, future president, and teleporter Andrew D. Basiago, from time traveling Project Pegasus), who claims to have traveled from New Jersey to New Mexico in the blink of an eye. Hypnotherapist Bruce Goldberg gives his analysis. Finally, it looks at the theory that ancient archeological crystal skulls found in Mexico are doorways to other worlds.
👉 Subscribe to Documentaries. This documentary is under non-exclusive license from Cineflix Rights. All rights reserved.
#ParallelWorlds #WeirdOrWhat #WilliamShatner
(JeffMara Podcast) Oct. 21, 2022. Podcast Guest 618 is Hans Wilhelm, discussing karma (our store of deeds of body, speech, and mind) and its effects and why it is necessary to resolve it in this Earth School to stop incarnating.
ABOUT: Hans Wilhelm is a German mystic, author, and illustrator of over 200 books for all ages – including some together with Byron Katie (a kind of female Eckhart Tolle), author of The Work.
His books have sold over 40 million copies and are translated into 30 languages. He has recently created over 130 short YouTube videos in which he visually explains the spiritual laws of the universe.
In these videos viewers can watch him drawing the dynamics of these laws and see how all the dots connect. This unique visual presentation has made his videos successful, so much so that they have been watched by over 17 million viewers.
The life of a modern American "herder-gatherer" is not easy but it is fun and creative.
Home-free American shepherd shares shepherd-gatherer diet and survival tips with Kirsten Dirksen
(Kristen Dirksen) Oct. 16, 2022. For more than a decade, Aaron Fletcher (123homefree.org) has lived as a nomadic shepherd in the U.S., mostly out of a micro-camper pulled by sheep.
A sadhu (spiritual wandering ascetic) in India
He supports himself as an itinerant farmhand through work-trading and bartering sheep’s milk for food and supplies.
He also skill-shares in exchange for food, “including wool felting, wool spinning, cheesemaking, survival, bushcraft, etc.”
He considers himself a herder-gatherer, and his diet consists of a lot of milk and cheese (courtesy of his friendly sheep), as well as foraged foods (wild greens, seeds, and even ingredients to make his own toothpaste) and some traded flesh, potatoes, and citrus (especially after learning he was deficient in Vitamin C and dying of excess protein consumption).
I should meditate or smoke ganga or DMT or sumtin
He’s lived in apartments and conventional homes, and he was about to purchase a home before deciding to go nomadic a dozen years ago. He now lives all year, even during the snowy Oregon winter, in his tiny sheep cart that is fitted out with a bed, folding table, solar freezer, wood-burning stove, dehydrator, and solar cooker.
He defines himself as “homefree” or “the opposite of being homeless...it’s also the opposite of being housed [a householder bound to property, taxes, and expenses], it’s like the third side of a coin. There have always been the haves and the have-nots (possessions), but homefree means being a have-not-want.”
He sees his sheep-pulled covered wagon as the ideal-sized home: more equipped than living off pack boxes and less cluttered than a traditional house.
(Brian Mahoney, Oct. 2022)
The value of this video is that without it I wouldn’t ever even imagine that someone was doing this. I feel like I’ve been really caught up and maybe feeling a little trapped in the system. It’s so refreshing to see this guy demonstrating that life isn’t limited to the lanes that are painted by other people.
Enjoy a wild, edible plants outing to learn to forage, process, and eat wild foods of the fall season in Los Angeles (Native Tongva/Kizh Land).
This outing's main focus is the processing of acorns, the staple of this area for millennia, cooking acorn meal to make acorn cakes and mush with local elderberry jam.
Stir-fried cactus and rose hip tea, locally harvested pine nuts, chia seeds, and other edibles will also be present, and perhaps stinging nettle greens soup (no stingers) and other available wild foods of the season.
The fire to cook this meal will be made without matches (and perhaps, time permitting, all can try their skill at hand and bow drill).
Be prepared to do some work to make this meal happen.
We will be rewarded with a wonderful wild food meal as well as experience the opportunity to reconnect to the old ways.
What is sex without drugs and rock 'n roll? If only the Nazis had Rammstein to play them the hits. They did not. They did have doctors who invented METH (Pervitin) and experimented with many other chemicals, which caused much of Hitler's madness as it turns out. It pushed many Nazi soldiers to a kind of war unseen before, the Blitzkrieg, a kind of berserker tactic. What must these substances have done to the sex lives of Nazis and prison guards like Ilse Koch (featured below)?
The depraved sex life Hitler tried to keep hidden | Hitler's Secret Sex Life
(Timeline - World History Documentaries) Feb. 12, 2022. Adolf Hitler had a depraved sex life that he tried to hide from the German public of Catholics, Lutherans, and others. He was said to constantly masturbate, to be a voyeur, and to have sadomasochistic (BDSM) sex with women.
It's like Netflix for history...History Hit, the world's best history documentary service. Get 50% off using the code 'TIMELINE' bit.ly/3a7ambu
Find more on Facebook and Instagram. This channel is part of the History Hit Network. Any queries, please contact owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com.
Mrs. Ilse Koch: Nazi guard and sexual deviant
(World History) Buchenwald & Sachsenhausen - Holocaust. Oct. 16, 2022. Mrs. Ilse Koch was born Margarete Ilse Köhler on Sept. 22, 1906, in Dresden.
Eva, Ilse and Mr. Koch want us to come over for an orgy.
In 1932, one year before Adolf Hitler and his Nazi (National Socialist) Party came into power, Koch had joined the Nazi Party. In 1936, she got married to the commandant of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, Karl Otto Koch.
Ilse Koch worked at Sachsenhausen as a guard and secretary.
In August 1937, Karl Otto was assigned to build a new concentration camp in Buchenwald. While he was known for his personal greed in the camps that he worked in, she was feared for her brutality.
At Buchenwald, she became known as "the witch."
She was obsessed with tattoos and used to ride her horse around the Buchenwald looking for tattooed prisoners. When she found one, she sent them to their death. But before they were killed and burned, she would cut out the part of the skin where the tattoo was located. She used to call these pieces of skin her “trophies,” as serial killers are in the habit of collecting.
She would go on to collect lampshades, book covers, as well as gloves and handbags – all made of human skin.
She shared her obsession with tattoos with Dr. Erich Wagner, allegedly her secret lover, who wanted to find the connection between tattoos and criminal tendencies.
Despite having three of her own children, she hated pregnant women and she used to beat them with a whip along the entire length of which pieces of a razor were inserted.
Koch allegedly also found pleasure in beating child inmates. She would laugh loudly when seeing them going to the gas chambers [to be deloused].
She was also a sexual deviant. She not only organized numerous orgies with SS men and their wives but also allegedly forced Jewish male prisoners to rape female prisoners in front of her.
She is said to have enjoyed walking around the camp half naked or in skimpy clothes, provoking prisoners to make eye contact with her. When they did, they were taken by the guards and shot in the head.
It was also reported that she had ordered prisoners to serve her while she was nude and enjoyed sexually humiliating the sex-starved prisoners.
In 1941, Buchenwald caught the attention of the Higher SS and Police Leader for Weimar Josias Waldeck, who in this position had supervisory authority over Buchenwald Concentration Camp.
Ilse Koch was accused of the embezzlement of over 700,000 Reichsmarks, and Karl Otto Koch was charged with both embezzlement and the unauthorized murder of three prisoners.
When it was revealed that the Kochs had used the massive Nazi apparatus to gain an enormous amount of wealth, their downfall became inevitable as all the possessions stolen from murdered Jews was regarded as the property of Hitler's Reich.
Taylor "Nazi Barbie" Swift with US Neo-Nazi fan at party
While she was acquitted for lack of evidence, Karl Otto Koch was executed by firing squad on April 5, 1945.
The Buchenwald Camp, the location of Koch’s alleged atrocities, was liberated later in April of 1945.
Ilse Koch was then tried at the Buchenwald trial, which began on April 11, 1947, in the internment camp of Dachau, where the former Dachau Concentration Camp had been located until late April 1945.
Out of 31 defendants, Ilse Koch was the only woman.
She was sentenced to life imprisonment, and her son Uwe, conceived while in custody, was born in October 1947.
Ask her out, Mein Fuhrer. - Oh, I couldn't.
Uwe’s father was another German prisoner.
Her sentence was initially commuted to four years, but after a general outcry, she was immediately indicted by a German court for instigation to murder in 135 cases.
The hearing of the second rrial opened on Nov. 27, 1950, and lasted seven weeks, during which 250 witnesses were heard, including 50 for the defense.
Look at this tip, My Lady.
Koch collapsed and had to be carried from court in late December 1950 and again in January 1951. At least four witnesses for the prosecution testified that they had seen Koch choose tattooed prisoners, who were then killed, or had seen or been involved in the process of making human-skin lampshades from tattooed skin.
When on Jan. 15, 1951, the court pronounced its verdict in a 111-page-long decision sentencing Ilse Koch to life imprisonment, she was not present in court.
She made several petitions for a pardon, all of which were rejected by the Bavarian Ministry of Justice.
Ilse Koch was 60 years old when she hanged herself with a bedsheet after which she was buried in an unmarked grave.
There were no tears shed for Ilse Koch.
(Encyclopedia Britannica) Holocaust: Hebrew Shoʾah, Yiddish and Hebrew Ḥurban (“Destruction”), the systematic state-sponsored killing of European Jews and many others by Nazi Germany and collaborators during World War II. The Germans called this “the final solution to the Jewish question.”
The word holocaust is derived from the Greek holokauston, a translation of the Hebrew word ʿolah, meaning a burnt sacrifice offered whole to the Jewish God. This word was chosen because in the ultimate manifestation of the Nazi killing program — insect extermination in pestilent concentration camps — the bodies of those who died of contagious diseases were consumed whole in crematoria and open fires.
DISCLAIMER: All opinions and comments below are from members of the public and do not reflect the views of World History channel.
We do not accept promoting violence or hatred against individuals or groups based on attributes such as: race, nationality, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation. World History has right to review the comments and censor delete them if they are deemed inappropriate.
All materials on this site are submitted by editors and readers. All images, unless otherwise noted, were taken from the Internet and are assumed to be in the public domain.
In the event that there is still a problem, issue, or error with copyrighted material, the break of the copyright is unintentional and noncommercial, and the material will be removed immediately upon presented proof.
Contact us by submitting a comment marked "private."
Do not follow this journal if you are under vinaya or parental restrictions. Secure protection by Sucuri.
Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at creativecommons.org/about/licenses.
