Showing posts with label Erik Curren. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Erik Curren. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Happy Leif Erikson Day (10/9)

The QAnon Shaman Jake "Take A" Chansley must be happy to be carrying on a history of rampaging and seizing land and property to set up a new order, but Trump forgot him.


Leif Erikson: The First European in North America
Hi, we're here to rape and pillage
(Viking) Thanks to a rhyme we were forced to learn and repeat in grade school, many Americans believe that Crypto-Jew (Converso) Cristobal Columbus first discovered America in 1492, after sailing the ocean blue. But what if it were an Irish monk or Viking Leif Erikson who sailed the seas serene that were aquamarine?

This Viking Cruises® video chronicles how, nearly 500 years before the debt-ridden Italian (Jewish Spanish) explorer sailed the Atlantic, a 25-year-old Norse navigator named Leif Erikson and a crew of 35 men set sail to explore the seas west of Greenland.
  • Scandinavia is a cold subregion of Northern Europe where the native Sámi peoples live in the Xmas lifestyle or reindeer, shamanism, and hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Viking = "pirate"
When Erikson arrived on the shores of what he called “Vinland,” he became the first known European to set foot in North America.
The Vikings knew about the Buddha: The "Helgo Buddha" Treasure
The great Guru Viking, a modern seeker with a podcast on audible.com and elsewhere.
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Helgo Buddha is a Viking treasure indicating world trade
Helgö is an island in Ekerö Municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden, situated on the lake Mälaren. The island's greatest width is about 0.9 mi (1.5 km), it is about 3.1 miles (5 km) long and covers 119 acres (48 hectares). Excavations are ongoing on Helgö.

The island is perhaps best known for a major archeological area. The old trading town on Helgö began to emerge around the year 200 AD, 500 years before Birka at Björkö.

The Helgö Buddha
The first archeological dig in 1954 uncovered the remains of the early settlement, including a workshop area which attracted international interest. The most notable finds included a small Buddha statuette from North India and a christening scoop from Egypt, both dating from the 6th century.

The Indian Buddha statuette, the Irish crozier [1], and the Egyptian Coptic scoop found on Helgö are presently on display in the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm... More
ABOUT: Narrated by Viking Cruises Senior Vice President Karine Hagen, this short film traces Erikson’s history and his voyage into immortality. The son of intrepid Viking explorer Erik "Erik the Red" Thorvaldson, (Erik's son =) Erikson led the historic journey from Greenland to North America through uncharted waters without a compass. Although the discovery was celebrated for centuries in Norse legend and stories, many doubted the accuracy of those accounts. Doubts about Erikson’s discovery were finally dispelled in 1960, when modern-day explorers Helge and Anne Ingstad identified a Norse settlement located at the northern tip of Newfoundland that dates back to the exact time of Erikson’s voyage. In the United States, the achievement of the Viking explorer with adventure and exploration in his blood is commemorated every year on October 9th [when Greenlander, Neo-Nazi, and Norwegian Americans rampage quietly in their bedrooms and online]. Viking Cruises cherishes its Viking heritage and connection to seafaring visionaries like Leif Erikson. Karine Hagen of Viking River Cruises is our host. Learn more at vikingrivercruises.com
  • SpongeBob SquarePants (cartoon clip); Karine Hagen, Viking Cruises (Viking, YouTube, 2014); Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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Friday, July 31, 2009

Buddhist News Rundown


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Thursday, July 23, 2009

American Buddhist Political Candidate



Bob Stuart (Waynesboro NewsVirginian.com, July 22, 2009)

A victory in the suddenly wide-open 20th District state House race could make Erik Curren a minority of one. None of the General Assembly’s current 140 members list "Buddhism" as their religion. However Curren, the Democratic nominee in the 20th, is a practicing Buddhist who also attends a Methodist church.

A prominent local Democrat, Augusta County Supervisor Tracy Pyles has raised Curren’s faith as a potential problem in November, even as Republicans scramble to field a candidate in the wake of Chris Saxman’s withdrawal from the race. Pyles said Tuesday that Curren is a strong candidate, but erred in failing to reveal his Buddhist faith. Pyles said he spelled out his concerns to Curren during an April meeting with the candidate.

“I told him it could be a killer issue. It could be a tough one,” Pyles said. “... [I]t is better to be out front and honest about things and trust people to make the right decisions.” Curren’s campaign Web site makes a brief reference to religion, but says nothing about Buddhism: “Erik attends Crozet United Methodist Church with his fiancée Lindsay Howerton and her two daughters, Anwyn, age 14, and Chloë, age 12.”

Curren said he did not expect Buddhism to emerge as a campaign issue. “The whole thing really surprises me,” Curren said. “My religious faith is really important to me...it’s been an impetus and an inspiration to support the community and show empathy for others.” Curren began practicing Buddhism after inquiring into the religion more than a decade ago. He later authored a book, “Buddha’s Not Smiling,” exploring corruption among Tibetan Buddhist leaders.

More than two-thirds of the state House is split up between five mainstream Christian denominations, according to personal biographies listed on the General Assembly Web site. Five lawmakers cite no religion, three are listed as Jewish and one other as Unitarian. Twelve senators cite no religion, one is listed as Jewish and the rest are all Catholics or Protestants. More>>

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