Central Asian Buddha: Female warrior training

(National Geographic) Superskilled with Eva zu Beck: I trained like a Mongolian horseback warrior for five (5) days [to learn the skills Prince Siddhartha Gautama, who became the Buddha, learned on his white pony Kanthaka and during archery competitions of his day in Gandhara/Scythia/Saka/Shakya Land]

• Buddhism in Mongolia
• Buddhism in Central Asia
  
• Buddhism in Afghanistan
• Buddhas of Bamiyan
• Buddhism in Ukraine

The Earthing Movie: barefoot grounding

(The Earthing Movie) The Earthing Movie is a documentary that reveals the scientific phenomenon of how we can heal our bodies by doing the simplest thing that a person can do -- standing and walking (grounding electrons) barefoot on the raw earth. See earthingmovie.com.

Barefoot earthing

There are many health benefits and a few risks associated with going barefoot in modern cities. Shoes, while they offer protection, can limit the flexibility, strength, and mobility of the foot and can lead to higher incidences of flexible flat foot, bunions, hammer toe, and Morton's neuroma.

Walking and running barefoot results in a more natural gait, allowing for a more rocking motion of the foot, eliminating the hard heel strike and generating less collision force in the foot and lower leg [1][2].

There are many sports that are performed barefooted, most notably gymnastics, martial arts, and swimming, but also beach volleyball, barefoot running, barefoot hiking, and barefoot waterskiing.

Historical and religious aspects

Buddhist monks are obligated when on alms round to do at least part of it barefoot. While this is regarded as a mark of respect, it may have been implemented for its many health benefits.

• WIKI VIDEO: Theravada Buddhist monks in Mahagandhayon Monastery (Amarapura, Myanmar, Burma).
• Secret to Happiness: 48-hours as a Buddhist monk, barefoot on alms round

Walking meditation

Buddhist monks line up barefoot to accept their late morning meal offered by donors.

Zen Buddhist monks and practitioners engage in kinhin or "walking meditation" barefoot or in natural (cloth or straw) sandals for best results, touching the earth and grounding.

The ancient Greek Spartans required boys to go barefoot as part of their obligatory military training [3], and the athletes at the ancient Olympic Games typically participated barefoot and naked [4].

Although the ancient Greeks had a great variety of footwear, many—famously including Socrates [5]—preferred to go barefoot [3]. More

Vegan Jane Goodall, 91, dies, natural causes

• Future of Hope: Dr. Jane Goodall (3/30)
• Jane Goodall: The Book of Hope (video)
• Jane Goodall live in theatres 9-27-11 (video)

Animals trust/love kind vegan

VEGAN Dr. Jane Goodall, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, was a remarkable example of courage and conviction, working tirelessly throughout her life to raise awareness about threats to wildlife, promote conservation, and inspire a more harmonious, sustainable relationship between people, animals, and the natural world. She passed away in her sleep. in the latter part of her life, she expanded her focus as a vegan/vegetarian and became a global advocate for human rights, animal welfare, species and environmental protection, and many other crucial issues. Donate to her legacy

• Jane Goodall: Why I went plant-based (and why we should ALL eat less meat)
• Jane was a compassionate and healthy vegan (Instagram)
• Jane Goodall is a proud VEGAN — her plant-based diet revealed
• Goodall's cause of death at 91 revealed — natural causes
• Jane Goodall and other guests eat vegan lunch at New York Times climate forward event

I was once a girl in England, dreaming of living with and saving the animals.

Wildlife lover Jane falls in love and marries wildlife photographer Hugo van Lawick, Africa.

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Jane Hopecast podcast: Emma Lewisham

"I stopped by the end of 60-something like that," Jane said of eating meat. The legendary Dr. Goodall has lived a life full of compassion and advocating for animals, sharing her immense knowledge with generations of people eager to soak up her wisdom. Dr. Goodall's climate activism has been astoundingly inspiring for countless compassionate people seeking a better, safer, healthier world, and she has clearly lived a long life as an environmental leader and role model. More: Jane Goodall: Here's why I stopped eating meat in the 1960s

Jane's Vegan Cookbook

#EATMEATLESS: Good for Animals, Earth & All 

• Why did you become a vegan, Jane? - I read ANIMAL LIBERATION by Peter Singer
• Jane Goodall and her life in the wild (Science Friday)

What are you looking at? - I want to be like you!

Dame Jane Morris Goodall (April 3, 1934–Oct. 1, 2025), was an English zoologist, primatologist and anthropologist [3].

• Roots & Shoots USA - Youth Movement of the Jane Goodall Institute
• Remembering Jane (Jane Goodall Institute USA)

She was considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, having studied the social and family interactions of wild chimps for over 60 years. She was scheduled to speak in Pasadena today, Oct. 1, 2025, for the local chapter of her Roots & Shoots and later this week at UCLA's Royce Hall.

Vegan Jane Goodall

Dr. Jane Goodall explains Veganism (meatless, plant-based, ahimsa)

How she changed what we know about chimps

• Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees: National Geographic's 1965 documentary follows the experiences of British zoologist Jane Goodall, who spent five years studying chimps in Tanzania's Gombe Stream Preserve and discusses her belief that thorough understanding of chimpanzee behavior will lead humans toward a clearer understanding of themselves. (ThisOldVideo2: This is the 1988 edited version posted Feb. 6, 2021).
• Jane Goodall, primatologist and chimpanzee champion, dies at 91 (National Geographic)
• Goodall’s original tale of chimpanzees still astonishes today

Dr. Leakey's legacy

Leakey's Angels (pinterest.com)

Another of Dr. Louis Leakey's legacies stems from his role in fostering field research of primates in their natural habitats, which he saw as key to understanding human evolution. He personally focused on three female researchers:

• Jane Goodall,
• Dian Fossey,
• Birutė Galdikas.

He called them "The Trimates" [2][3]. Each went on to become an important scholar in the field of primatology. Leakey encouraged and supported many other doctoral (Ph.D.) candidates, most notably from Cambridge. As well, Leakey played a role in creating organizations for future research in Africa and for protecting wildlife. More

Death comes to us all. I wish I'd prepared more.

Goodall (born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall and formerly known as Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall) first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania, Africa, to observe its chimpanzees in 1960 [4].

As the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots program, Goodall has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues.

You're like a funny chimp, Mr. Jim-Kim.

She was on the board of the Rights for Nonhumans Project from 2022 until her death in 2025 [5][6]. In April 2002, she was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Goodall was an honorary member of the World Future Council. More

• Jane Goodall live at Royce Hall (tickets-center.com)
• SAVE TREES: Amigos de los Rios - Emerald Necklace
• KTLA 5, Oct. 1, 2025; National Geographic via ThisOldVideo2; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Jen B., Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Chinese, Korean, Japanese differences

New secrets of King Tut's tomb found

A British archaeologist believes he has uncovered a wealth of secrets in King Tut’s tomb — including a hidden chamber

Inside King Tut's secret chamber, Egypt

Move over, Harry Potter — there’s quite possibly a new “chamber of secrets” in town, and in legendary Egyptian boy-king [Pharaoh] Tutankhamun’s tomb.

British archeologist and Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves (news.nationalgeographic.com) has recently put forth a groundbreaking theory that the famous burial site — discovered by Howard Carter in 1922 — contains not one but two hidden chambers.

Even more interestingly, he thinks Queen Nefertiti, whose burial site remains a mystery, is inside one of them.

Reeves bases his theory on high-resolution scans of the tomb’s walls and history. Indeed, three thousand years ago, intruders discovered Pharaoh Horemheb’s sarcophagus after they barged through a false wall adorned with a painted scene — walls with similar decorations and architectural features to those in Tutankhamun’s tomb. More

• Tutankhamun Valley of the Kings, Nefertiti hidden burial rooms archaeology, Howard Carter, Nicholas Reeves

Longest river in USA? M-i-s-s-... wrong

We were all raised not paying too much attention to geography. Boring. Public school is not taught to awaken and inspire, but rather to bore and humble. Get to work. And don't ask too many questions. Keep your head down.

Not paying that much attention, still, the longest river was always obviously the great Mississippi. But that has never been. Hello, have you met the Mandela Effect? Due to changes in the timeline, consensus reality, or you're just whack, it has always been the M-i-s-s...ouri. The what? Who's even ever heard of this river, much less to make it the longest? It's not limited to Missouri, and it pours into the great Mississippi.

• 10 longest rivers in the US: from the Missouri to the Brazos (HowStuffWorks)
• List of longest rivers of the United States of America by main stem (Wikipedia)

Supposedly, Lewis and Clark started on it and continued to the Pacific Ocean on the Columbia, a river that goes west like Guns, Germs, and Steel says made this nation prosper.

• All life on Earth comes from one single ancestor. And it's so much older than we thought (MSN)

First look inside King Tut's tomb (BBC)

The excavation of Tutankhamun’s mummy | King Tut in Color

(National Geographic) After three years Howard Carter and his team finally get to excavate the lost tomb of child King Tutankhamun. Using colorization technology, NatGeo is able to see this discovery as Carter and his team would have.

ABOUT: King Tut In Color looks, a century after the world’s most sensational archaeological find, at the tomb of Tutankhamun. Now witness the dramatic scenes of its discovery and marvel at its extraordinary treasures, exactly as they were seen then, in color. It’s all thanks to the latest colorization techniques which use detailed historical research to bring the Egypt of discoverer Howard Carter back to life. ➡ NatGeo subscription #NationalGeographic #KingTutInColor

• Immersive: Discovering King Tut’s Tomb (vegas.com)

The first ever view inside Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt | BBC Global

I am the greatest god-human hybrid ruler!

(BBC Global) July 18, 2024: In 1922, expert photographer Harry Burton joined archaeologist Howard Carter's team as they uncovered the tomb of ancient Egyptian child King Tutankhamun. Ten years later and with over 5,000 objects from the site documented, Burton had amassed an incredible record of photographs from that world-famous discovery. One iconic photo from Burton's collection recreates the first view Carter had as he broke through the final door into the tomb itself. #BBC #Egypt #archeology

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Black History Month begins 'Genius: MLK/X'

National Geographic, Jan. 11, 2024; Crystal Q., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

What'cha lookin' at? - Man. you're going about this movement all wrong. - Is that right?

Genius: MLK/X | official trailer | National Geographic

(National Geographic) The newest installment of the Genius franchise, GENIUS: MLK/X, focuses on iconic civil rights era geniuses Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. The series premieres Feb. 1, 2024, on National Geographic at 9:00/8:00 central and streams the next day on Disney+ and Hulu. Enjoy a free trial of National Geographic here: ngmdomsubs.nationalgeographic... #NationalGeographic #MLK #OfficialTrailer

Great Wall of China from space: Kubla Khan

National Geographic Asia, 9/30/20; CC Liu, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Great Wall of China | HD Wallpapers Images and Photos (hdwallpaperim.com)

Secrets of the Great Wall | Ancient China from above | National Geographic

(National Geographic Asia) Sept. 30, 2020: Archeologist Allan Maca leads a team of intrepid experts on an epic adventure to solve mysteries, explore secrets, and reveal amazing wonders of Ancient China like never before.

Stupa burial mounds exist across Central Asia

Guided by images from space [20 to 50 miles above earth], cutting-edge technology on the ground, and the very latest excavations of Chinese archeologists, they will reveal palaces and tombs, incredible megastructures, and even entire long-lost cities. Along the way they will uncover new revelations about the Great Wall of China, explore the myths of Xanadu [made famous by the British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan," which Wisdom Quarterly's own poet in residence, Dhr. Seven, thinks refers to a Buddhist civilization and a description of a Buddhist stupa, pagoda, and temple complex, which Coleridge read about from the writings of a British Christian missionary and traveler who visited the very place Coleridge is dreaming of and trying to describe in verse], and unearth evidence of ancient civilizations — discovers that are rewriting the history books.

"Kubla Khan"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

A stately pleasure-dome decree:

Where Alph, the sacred river, ran

Through caverns measureless to man

     Down to a sunless sea.

So twice five miles of fertile ground

With walls and towers were girdled round;

And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills

Where blossom'd many an incense-bearing tree;

And here were forests ancient as the hills,

Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

Not blocks of ice but durable white stones

But oh that deep romantic chasm which slanted

Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!

A savage place! as holy and enchanted

As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted

By woman wailing for her demon-lover!

And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,

As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,

A mighty fountain momently was forced:

Amid whose swift half-intermitted Burst

Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,

Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail:

And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever

It flung up momently the sacred river.

Five miles meandering with a mazy motion

Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,

Then reached the caverns measureless to man,

And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:

And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far

Ancestral voices prophesying war!

Manmade cave, not of ice but stone

     The shadow of the dome of pleasure

     Floated midway on the waves;

     Where was heard the mingled measure

     From the fountain and the caves.

It was a miracle of rare device,

A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!

     A damsel with a dulcimer

     In a vision once I saw:

     It was an Abyssinian maid

     And on her dulcimer she play'd,

     Singing of Mount Abora.

     Could I revive within me

     Her symphony and song,

     To such a deep delight 'twould win me,

That with music loud and long,

I would build that dome in air,

That sunny dome! those caves of ice!

And all who heard should see them there,

And all should cry, Beware! Beware!

His flashing eyes, his floating hair!

Weave a circle round him thrice,

And close your eyes with holy dread:

For he on honey-dew hath fed,

And drank the milk of Paradise.

Five genders found in Indonesia (Nat Geo)

National Geographic, Oct. 21, 2008; CC Liu, Dhr. Seven, Ananda, (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Indonesia is the site of the world's largest excavated Buddhist temple complex: Borobudur

Five Genders? | National Geographic

(National Geographic) Through many options for gender expression, including recognizing five genders, this [indigenous] Indonesian community finds balance and peace and prays to share this with the world. It is not part of the original Buddhism that covered the island, nor the subsequent Hindu and Islamic influences that dominate today.

This funded white lab coat says I'm the authority.

WQ COMMENTARY: Does having five basic genders make sense? It does and has since ancient times. Even ancient India recognized that some people might be:

1. male,
2. female,
3. ambiguous or androgynous (both male and female)
4. male feeling like a female
5. female feeling like a male.

If the last two want to identify not as they were born but as they now feel, we might well designate those individuals "transgender" or transsexuals or crossdressers or expressive nonnormative individuals.

Group 3 used to be called hermaphrodites with attendant organs or vestigial components of both organs and/or chromosomal deviations from the standard binary categorization the medical field imposes on a population. Moreover, it would make sense that some humans are asexual (not sexual), eunuchs (neutered/spayed), or gay, bisexual, heterosexual, pansexual, or questioning and fluid, "heteroflexible."

So while this might seem confusing, it is actually not that complex. The growing complexity of LGBTQIA[LMNOP]+ is confusing and left undefined.

This discussion already took place in ancient Buddhist times, and the great commentator Ven. Buddhaghosa and others of his day opined that apart from males and females, they are pandakas ("perverts," deviants, gender-benders, crossdressers, humans with ambiguous genitalia and therefore "eunuchs," which could be karmic in origin -- usually spoken of as the result of past sexual misconduct -- or simply within a biological spectrum of what's normal for human earthlings, as opposed to the humanoids that live elsewhere throughout the galaxy and universe, within and outside of this world-system).

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• Five Genders? | National Geographic • Five Genders?

Time traveler Andy Basiago (Project Pegasus)

Ep. 99: Andrew Basiago & Project Pegasus

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Unfunny, cynical hosts Sean and Carrie

(Ain't It Scary? with Sean & Carrie) From 1962 to 1972, the U.S. government ran a top-secret program that teleported child spies through space and time (holographically and physically). At least, that's the claim of lawyer Andrew D. Basiago, former time traveler and holder of the hotly contested title of "Strangest 2016 Presidential Candidate." 

• Does the Vatican have a time machine? (Coast to Coast)

Join Sean and Carrie for a tour through Basiago's meeting with Pres. George Washington, his own failed presidential bid [which on some timeline does occur before 2028, just maybe not this one], his childhood teleportation experiments (being sent by his father, a member of the military), and his journeys to Mars with a teenaged Barack Obama (aka Barry Soetoro).

Andy Basiago (center left in big shoes) proof of time travel to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

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East Coast big, West Coast tiny (video)

Why 80% of Americans live east of this straight line

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Animal Realm Hell: Volcano Sharks (video)

Expedition Raw (NatGeo); Seth Auberon, Sheldon S., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Sharks discovered inside underwater volcano

I'm afraid of sharks and volcanoes. Sharkcano?!

Exclusive video: A real life "sharkcano"? Ocean engineer Brennan Phillips led a team to the remote Solomon Islands in search of hydrothermal activity. They found plenty of activity — including sharks in a submarine volcano. The main peak of the volcano, called Kavachi, was not erupting during their expedition. So they were able to drop instruments, including a deep-sea camera, into the crater. The footage revealed hammerheads and silky sharks living inside, seemingly unaffected by the hostile temperatures and acidity.

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