Tibetan mantra chant: peace reset (live)

(Mantraon) This Tibetan mantra chant changes our state -- deep healing, inner peace, nervous system reset (LIVE)

Lord Krishna versus the Buddha

(Buddha's Wisdom) Did the Buddha reject what Lord Krishna taught? The Bhagavad Gita ("God's Song") vs. the  Buddhist Path.

The dark Lord Krishna

Hinduism, which is not the same as the Old Vedic Religion we call Brahmanism, has three facets of God, which most take to be three different Gods: Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Sustainer, and Shiva the Destroyer. Krishna is not any of these, but like the Buddha, Jesus, and other good teachers, Krishna is regarded as an avatar or incarnation of Vishnu. Krishna ("The Dark One") is regarded as the "All-Attractive One," a blue and beautiful humanoid being who literally came to Earth and taught Arjuna and others, the most comely embodiment of Vishnu. Lord Krishna (which maybe should be spelled "Chrishna" or "Khrist" because of his similarity to Jesus in form and function within Hinduism)

Radha-Krishna, Kalighat

Krishna sure loved the milkmaids or gopis. One time he stole their clothes while they were bathing in the river. Some say his activities on earth make him seem more like an embodiment of the god Kama (Cupid, Eros, Lust) than Vishnu. His consort is Radha, and they are often combined into a unisex or united binary being: Radha Krishna, combining our innate masculine and feminine characteristics as humans, which the devas more freely express.

Radha-Krishna by M.V. Dhurandhar, 1915

ETs on ancient Buddhist temple wall art?

(Praveen Mohan)

Ever WONDER? (Alan Watts)

(T&H Inspiration) Audio: British Californian Alan Watts (also alanwatts.com) explains wonder

All things are impersonal, ill, and impermanent

(True Meaning) Alan Watts: Just LET GO often misunderstood as loss through as "internal renunciation" (nekkhamma) when it actually means GAINING FREEDOM from freeing ourselves, that is, from letting go of bonds (fetters) or shackles, things we're stuck to or that are stuck to us, attachments, and all we cling to with craving and greed and lustful affection -- particularly views and the Five Aggregates clung to as self that is not-self (anattā).

• Alan Watts on Pacifica L.A. (KPFK 90.7 FM)
• Alan Watts Sunday, January 18, 2026, 8:00 am
• Pacifica Archives through KPFK.org
• Alan Watts via T&H Inspiration and Motivation, True Meaning; explanation by Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

There might be something to ASTROLOGY

How Astrology Can Guide Your Leadership Path with Vish Chatterji (Create Magic at Work)

Do Buddhists believe in astrology?

Do Buddhists believe? As we've said many times, Buddhists can and do anything they want and believe as suits them. Should they? That's a different story. If they find it useful. Certainly, there is a wrong way of grasping things, as with snakes to extract valuable venom for antidotes. But grasped in a safe way, with care and skill, it may be possible to do much with things in the world.

Before launching into an astrological session, one might want to ask an alleged astrologer, psychic, or soothsayer what future they are reading. This will confuse them. Then give them the simple binary choice of "the future that will be" or "the future that might be."

Having asked this of many, it is a wonder how little they thought about it. Is everything (in their view) fate, and one is just reading the map of what will and must happen, or is it freewill, and nothing need happen, but the probability is it might?

• If everything is fate, there's no need to know. If everything is freewill, what's the point because what can be known? Smart ones will say it's a bit of both. Some things have to happen, whereas others can be avoided with some direction from them. Vish Chatterji has a good spin in that he claims that the Vedas teach that there's always something that can be done. (Teaching that everything that happens here on earth is the back and forth of karma, he thinks some things have to happen to us but that, with help, they can be managed better to make them more pleasant).

My story

Of course mainstream newspaper "horoscopes" (astrological forecasts) are a bit of a joke. (Papers only print for 12 signs even though there are 13, leaving out Ophiuchus. And there are 8 billion people, so there are only a dozen kinds of day they'll all be having?) They are too general, meant to appeal to readers to increase newspaper sales. It shouldn't even be called astrology.

The question is not, Is all astrology fake? The question is, Is any astrology real? And as for that, one would have to conclude that the answer is...

I became a believer not because I had my chart read but because I didn't.

I was visiting the local Buddhist temple in LA, where I liked to visit to the library and peruse the many titles on the Dharma. One day a monk said to me, "Sorry, not today." I was confused. What could he mean?

How could he stand in the way of me trying to learn and have all my questions answered through reading? I sat by the kitchen, looking over at the library door, which was closed. When the monk went away, I was going to go have a look. I was surprised to see someone coming out in a hurry. When I got up to go in, someone else arrived and rushed in. I took a seat.

Before long that person left, and another came. I'd never seen the library get so much traffic. What could they be reading. This kept happening until finally I asked a monk what was going on. He mentioned that a famous astrologer from the old country was seeing wealthy patrons of the temple. They were all eager to have their charts and futures read. I was baffled. These were wealthy doctors, businessmen, and engineers. Why would they go in for horoscope when they could just read on the floor of their budgies' cages or head over to the Venice Boardwalk to get their palms read by a soothsayer?

To the Moon or Rahu

Eventually, a man I had never seen came out. He was dressed in a modern way but clearly from the old country, an old man and fat. He asked for my help, being in need of a printer. A printer, photocopies? There's a Kinko's down the street. No, he corrected me, I need a machine that prints. Where are they? The temple printer must have been down again, out of toner.

What does the future hold Lady Unluck?

He asked where he could buy one. A printer? Yes. Just buy some toner and put it in that machine. No, he needed a high-quality laser printer ASAP and was willing to pay big money for it. He asked if I wouldn't mind fetching him one or taking him. I agreed. He was willing to throw $500 dollars or more at the purchase. He wanted it just for today, as he was printing out people's charts.

That's who was coming and going and what they were doing in the library. I told him they didn't take returns on printers. No matter, he assured me. It would more than pay for itself in one day. He was so happy to get it and have it to finish his appointments that he offered me a free reading.

I said no way. I wasn't interested in silliness. It's not very Buddhist, wherein the Buddha defined karma as the action we take now, the choice, the steering of our own ship, acting as lamps unto ourselves. He was shocked. His clients paid big money to see him, often flying to the old country to hope for an open appointment. He claimed he was always busy. All he needed was my birth date and time.

I don't know the time. He said it didn't really matter. I said, Aha, of course it doesn't matter because it's nonsense!

Then he said the first thing that convinced me. He said the reason it didn't matter was because we would soon find out if that was the correct time; if it were not, he would be able to tell me the correct time. I asked how. He explained that when he had the correct date and time, it would all line up. What would all line up? The big events in my life.

He offered the reading again. I declined, explaining to him that while I was not superstitious, I was concerned about being subconsciously programmed by his charismatic confidence. It's not that I think that what you will say will come true or has to, it's that I fear it will come true because you said it, because at some level I believed you or feared it and thereby made a self-fulfilling prophecy out of it.

He understood. I was shocked that he did. He offered to tell me when I would get married, how many children I would have, what city I would live in. I laughed and said, you see, you got it all wrong. I don't want any of those things. I try to watch carefully that none of those things come to pass. Maybe astrology is for people who want those mundane (worldly) things.

I would rather renounce it all and become a wearer of a saffron robe. He said he could tell me when that would happen, how it would go, when I would succeed (become enlightened?) and other details. I said, you might tell me I won't succeed in this life and then I won't, not because I wouldn't but because you said I wouldn't. I can't take that chance.

He understood again. In fact, he understood so well that he said the ultimate thing, the thing I was never expecting, the smackdown that shut me the heck up and left me in awe and speechless, paralyzed, a believer:

He said, I understand. So let's go in there (to the library) and do your chart -- but only up until today.

What do you mean? I mean, he explained, I will go backwards and tell you every significant thing that has already happened.

You can do that?!?! Sure I can. I'm going to lay out your whole life, what your potentials were when you were born, what you chose, when you chose it...

You can't know that!

I don't know anything, he said; your chart will show it, and I'll tell you what it means. He added, I didn't make it happen. It can't be called a "self-fulfilling prophecy" IF we limit our talking to what has already happened and why.

My eyes widened, and he invited me to take advantage of the opportunity yet again, as he would be gone soon, back in the old country, where he assured me he was very famous and always busy, guiding many.

I later asked the monks about him, and they all confirmed that he was indeed very famous and that all his clients (who were Buddhists and patrons of the temple) spoke very highly of him and his business and life advice. That double shut me up.

How to dress a Scythian prince

• This weekend at the Kathina (the sacred robe offering) ceremony, I was reminded of all this as a very pious Buddhist man saw me looking at some Buddhist paintings hung on the wall. He thought he explain. I said I knew what all of them were except one. Why was the baby Buddha (the infant Prince Siddhartha) levitating at his birth. (That wasn't his birth but him at age 7, when he spontaneously entered meditative absorption (jhana, dhyana, samadhi, zen, chan, seon) under a tree during the Scythian (Saka, Shakya) planting festival. His father, King or Chief Suddhodana, saw him and bowed. Surely, according to popular Mahayana and Theravada accounts, what happened was (the Still Shadow Miracle) that he was left in the shade of that tree by his nurses, who wanted to see the festivities up close, and as he meditated, the shade did not move off of him even as the sun traveled in the sky to another angle.
• The man, not realizing we were talking about different events, with me thinking this is the birth at age 1 (because in Asia one is born already being 10 lunar months old or "1") and him thinking it is obviously being the first absorption at age 7. Not realizing we saw two different things, he tried to explain the miracle and got into astrology. I told he the above story, and he finished it then begged me for the man's name. I said, I thought everyone knew this man, so you should tell me his name so I can go to him now, and we laughed. Siddhartha levitated at age 7?

Of course, we're Americans. We were weaned on doubt and sacrilege, questioning and overturning things. We don't want old tried and true belief systems to pan out. We want to think everybody was dumb and that now with science we'll be smart. There's a reason why people hold on to the past and traditions. They work. They may not work well or completely, but they work.

Vedic Astrologer on Coast to Coast, Oct. 29

Vish Chatterji is a celebrated Vedic astrologer, yogi, and business coach. He makes the ancient wisdom of India accessible and actionable for modern seekers, helping them find balance and success through true self-understanding. He'll discuss practical insights and tips on how to improve your relationships, based on your planetary personality type, zodiac sign, and rising sign. AUDIO (10/29/24)

Chatterji is an astrologer, yogi, and business coach who makes the ancient wisdom of the Ayurvedic system of India accessible and actionable for modern seekers.

In this audio he delves into Vedic astrology and his coaching practice, which incorporates Ayurvedic principles, categorizing people into three archetypes:

1. Vata (airy creative type),
2. Pitta (fiery type), and
3. Kapha (earthy type).

Chatterji suggests that the Vedic astrological system aligns with what we actually see in the sky and can therefore be more accurate than Western astrology.

He also touches on the mythological significance of Rahu and Ketu (the shadowy causes of eclipses), lunar nodes in Vedic astrology.

They're not planets but points where solar or lunar eclipses occur, representing shadows in space, he explains, linking their symbolism to the human experience of temptation and enlightenment through a captivating ancient mythology about gods (devas, "shining ones") and demons (asuras, titans, anti-devas).

Highlighting how astrology serves as a tool for self-discovery, he says, "The more misaligned we are to our divine plan... the more we have unhappiness."

He stresses the importance of understanding our soul's purpose to regain balance, noting that with Vedic astrology, "There's always a remedy... there's always hope."

His new book, Astrology Decoded, aims to simplify Vedic astrology for everyday readers, offering insights into planetary personalities (with each celestial body having a definite character, Mars being angry, Saturn being organized, Venus being gentle, etc.) and practical remedies.

Astrology, he adds, "is beyond religion" and connects us to a universal consciousness.

He lives in Long Beach, Los Angeles, and gives readings. Callers called in with their exact birth date and time for accurate astrological readings; even a few minutes can account for significant differences (but he'll soon know if that time written on records was recorded accurately). More + AUDIO

• Website: astrology-decoded.com
• New book: Astrology Decoded: The Secret Science of India's Sages
• headandheartinsights.com
• Book: The Business Casual Yogi: Take Charge of Your Body, Mind, Career
• Ancient Astrology | Coast to Coast AM
• Vish Chatterji with Host G-Man Noory, Coast to Coast, 10/29/24; Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon, Jen B. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Annular Solar Eclipse Easter Island (live)

LIVE: Annular Solar Eclipse, Oct. 2, 2024

Titan Rahu causes eclipses.

(timeanddate) Started streaming ~10:20 am (Pacific). Let's watch timanddate.com’s LIVE show of the annular solar eclipse on Oct. 2, 2024 — weather permitting, visible from super remote Easter Island and parts of southern Chile and Argentina.

Surrounding countries, including Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay, will get a partial solar eclipse.

Hop on timeanddate.com to see the livestream and follow live blog with real-time progress reports and background information. Timeanddate.com has real-time animations, maps, times, and much more for this spectacular eclipse.

Jain or Shiva Temple, Tamil Nadu, India

Jain holy site or unseen cave temple of Shiva? Sathrumalleswaram, India

(PraveenMohan) Sept. 26, 2024: There is an ancient cave temple in a remote village called Dalavanur, India. The name of this megalithic site is Sathrumalleswaram and was built in 6th or 7th century AD. Inside there is a giant lingam, which is usually a symbol of [the extraterrestrial being] Shiva. But how could ancient builders have created such a marvel?

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Nan Madol: ancient artificial island (video)

The Mystery of Nan Madol: An Ancient Human-Made Island Built with Unexplained Technology 

(Dark5 Ancient Mysteries) July 14, 2023. This is the mysterious megalithic city of Nan Madol. Located off the coast of Pohnpei Island in the Western Pacific Ocean, the dark, colossal basalt pillars of its ancient artificial islands rise from an emerald sea.

(Dark5 Ancient Mysteries) 5 out of place objects archeologists can't explain

Its remnants, an intricate labyrinth of enormous stones and waterways, capture stories of an ancient civilization lost in the tides of time. This architectural marvel poses a confounding puzzle: How were these stone blocks, some weighing up to 50 tons, transported here off the coast amidst the crashing waves and coral reefs?

Considered to be inhabited by spirits according to local folklore, Nan Madol is rife with legends of sorcerers and flying dragons. This mysterious city, once the ceremonial and political hub of the Saudeleur Dynasty, now sits deserted, with few clues as to the fate of its inhabitants. Who built this island marvel, and what secrets do its ruins tell?

If the earth is a globe, then why...? (video)

Eric Dubay Flat Earth Videos (rumble.com); Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

(Eric Dubay’s Flat Earth) July 2022. Eric Dubay: Surveyors, engineers, pilots, and sailors expose the flat earth. Here's how. And how can Ushuaia, Argentina, get 17 hours of daylight on a flat earth? This, too, is explained. #FlatEarth #Firmament

"The Reality of Truth" (full movie)

Mike "Zappy" Zapolin; Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The decay of our morals: 18 disturbing trends in our society we glorify but shouldn't

(FREE MOVIES) This documentary explores the relationship between spirituality, Eastern philosophy, religion, and plant medicine. It features top leaders including:

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  Is the plant world alive and communicating?

  Dr. Deepak Chopra, MD
• Ram Dass (Dr. Richard Alpert)
• Dr. Bruce Lipton
• Kundalini Yoga teacher Gurmukh
• Marianne Williamson
• Dr. Drew Pinski
• Tim Booth
• Guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
• plus many more.
• Hosted by Mike "Zappy" Zapolin.

(psychedelicsangha.org)

The film explores how to access the true reality through plant medicine and meditation. It includes first of their kind interviews with top spiritual gurus, celebrities, and people of all faith traditions, about this intriguing connection and their personal experiences with spirituality and transcendence.

Throughout history, human beings have searched for gateways to spirituality that have included meditation, prayer, mindfulness, and plant medicine.

Sacred Mushroom and the Cross

The Abrahamic religions (Islam, Judaism, and Christianity), Dharmic religions/Vedic traditions (Brahmanism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism), and shamanistic rituals all incorporate techniques focused on transcending physical reality.

These ancient techniques have been uncovered and are now available to society, enabling our ability to tap into our true reality and awakening. Jesus was a mushroom, as British Vatican scholar John M. Allegro realized. What does this mean for plant substances as the real sacrament, not literal "bread."

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• Mushroom medicine? Ask Paul Stamets (Host Defense)
• Wish.com: a cure for hayfever: infrared light
• VIDEO: Perpetual motion is impossible but possible

Buddha wasn't "Buddhist." What was he?

Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly

On the left is not the Buddha but Mahavira. The Buddha is on the right. That's how alike they are.

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Jain wandering ascetic nun, 20th century

The historical Buddha, the former Prince Siddhartha Gautama, the Sage of the Scythians, was not only called the "Buddha" at the time. He had many epithets and monikers, the Tathagata, Mahavira, Bhagwan, Bhante, Sramana, and so on ("Wayfarer," "Thus Come One," "Well Gone One," "Great Hero," "Venerable," "Wandering Ascetic," etc.).

He was all of these and more, but The Buddha or "The Awakened One" stuck, and the name of the Dharma (Doctrine) he taught came to be called "Awakenism" (Buddh-ism).

In his day, however, he was referred to as a Karmavadin, a "teacher of the efficacy of intentional actions," a person who taught action/karma. (He was certainly NOT a "Hindu," as Hinduism or "Indus-ism," had not yet been invented or coined by British Orientalists working in British India (part of East India Company or Brittania/British Empire or the Realm).

There were previous buddhas.

There was not even an "India" yet. What there was was a Great Bharat, Brahmanism, the ancient Vedas, all of which modern Hinduism claims as its own. The Buddha, however, and therefore Buddhism's various schools, remember previous samma-sam-buddhas, or Supremely Enlightened Teachers, extending back aeons or kalpas, which is a term that varies in meaning from ordinary lifespan of a person to incalculable periods of geologic time. So the Buddha-Dharma or Teaching of these extraordinary beings on earth and in other galaxies did not begin with the historical Buddha Shakyamuni, the muni or sage/mendicant of the Indo-Sakas/Shakyas or Scythians of the northwest frontier region of old Gandhara in Central Asia, next to what would later become India under the unifying influence of the Buddhist Emperor Ashoka, who converted to Buddhism and gave up war and killing and conquest by force, instead choosing to be a kind of legendary chakravartin world-monarch, the "world" being the known world of the Rose Apple Land (Jambudvipa) or this planet in the sea of space, this (sub)continent, this extent of land surrounded by sea as far as ancient cartographers yet knew.

In an ultimate sense, Buddhism teaches that there is no "soul" (self, atman, essence), but in a conventional sense, of course there is one, and the Buddha taught the nature of it in exacting detail. That is how he came to know its ultimate nature as impersonal, empty, impermanent, and unsatisfactory. Those without understanding will become very confused and misguided. Distinguish ultimate from conventional truth at all times (Jainism).

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Jain shape of the universe

He made such a big deal about the importance of what we allow ourselves think, say, and do -- our deeds of mind, speech, and body -- that he was called a Teacher of Karma. Karma was not taken for granted and many of us seem to think today. Some seers (rishis) knew that beings died and were reborn in accordance with their deeds, but this was not clearly understood or taught by other teachers.

Mahavira (the Nigantha Nataputta or Vardhamana) was the founder of Jainism (Jina Dharma) -- the only other surviving wandering ascetic (sramana) tradition from proto-India, the other five popular ones having gone extinct.

The Buddha explained the unfathomable working out of karma (deeds and their results), making generalizations and rules of thumb about what is, in fact, an imponderable subject. What is important is that all that we do comes back to us. It is not lost unless and until we make the ground of ripening infertile by our awakening.

This has led to many Points of Controversy, such as...

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Celebration (Pasadena)

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – Rasmi (rasmiapp.com), NeighborhoodUU.org; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Black-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (South Pasadena News)

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Artistic Director Dr. Zanaida Robles

The Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Celebration, held in honor of the composer’s 147th birthday, will feature two special performances showcasing the Black-English composer’s sacred [Vedic] choral music and his masterpiece Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast.

• The Sacred Choral Music of Coleridge-Taylor and Robles Tickets, Fri, Aug. 12, 2022, at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite

Curated and conducted by Artistic Director Dr. Zanaida Robles, “Sacred Choral Music of Coleridge-Taylor and Robles” will take place Friday, August 12 at 7:00 pm.

“Music Sunday! Church Service featuring Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast” will take place Sunday, August 14 at 10:00 am. Both events will be held at Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church in Pasadena.

The program features a cross section of sacred works, including two settings of Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis by Coleridge-Taylor and Robles, and Robles’ Ecstatic Expectancy with percussionist Dave Tull, which blends classical choral music with rock improvisation.

“Music Sunday! Church Service featuring Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast” includes music by Native American composers set alongside Coleridge-Taylor’s multi-cultural fusion of Native American legend, classic American poetry, and English late-Romantic music.

The text for Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast comes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1885 poem, "The Song of Hiawatha." While there is much to criticize about his blatant appropriation and flagrant alteration of several aspects of Native American culture... More

• It's the most liberal Christian church in the city: Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church (neighborhooduu.org)

Flat earth debate on Coast to Coast radio

Rob Skiba (C2C); Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Magnet ring, center pole, Mt. Meru

In an amazing break from standard practice, which is to not discuss topics regular host George Noory has been told to say away from, Richard Syrett dared to discuss the unspeakable: NASA and government-funded deception regarding our world, space programs, and our place in the universe by journeying into this massively taboo topic.

Of course, sadly, it was not a real debate or a talk with Eric Dubay, who is perhaps the best person to debate the science on this topic.

Views of the world from various cultures

It was really a discussion about what the Bible says and what whoever wrote the Bible believed was the shape of this world, this sky, its firmament, and the limits of the seas girded by a massive ice wall we call Antarctica, which is a ring, and an artic which is a point at the center of the circle of the portion of the earth we're told about.

Buddhist mandalas depict disc and four quarters

It was amazing that what Skiba described was pre-existing water on earth and in the sky and a being or beings who "inscribed" a circle in a square as if someone chiseled a mandala into the frozen ocean and the water melted. The ancient Vedic, Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain conceptions of the shape of the world we live in match in general and differ in a few details.

Moreover, all cultures from Native Americans to the Norse had the same sort of view on the matter, as if shamans and rishis were seeing the same general thing and describing it in their own language according to things their cultures would readily understand.

Climb a building, look for hundreds of miles.

The subject of the flat earth is a "taboo" topic that’s trending high on Google and YouTube, but why?

[Could it be because deceptions by NASA and .gov organizations have so many holes in it, and the verifiable science on the side of the earth being a flat plane not a ball planet is mounting? Observations contradicting the story we are all taught and forced to learn and documented for centuries.]

Christian, moviemaker, flat earth researcher Rob Skiba joins Coast to Coast AM Guest-Host Richard Syrett (Twitter) to discuss why this subject is quite viable for surprisingly verifiable reasons with biblical passages -- in addition to many other nonChristian religious sources with similar cosmologies and cosmographies -- that state that the earth is indeed a plane. More + AUDIO

• testingtheglobe.com
• robskiba.com
• Testing the Globe: A Zetetic Investigation
• Babylon Rising: And The First Shall Be Last
• Archon Invasion: The Rise, Fall and Return of the Nephilim

UK: Making fun of Flat Earthers (video)

The Guardian (guardian.com, Feb. 5, 2019); CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Though not a new phenomenon, flat Earth theory has enjoyed a huge resurgence recently. A YouGov poll indicated that a third of Americans aged 18 to 24 were unsure of the shape of our plane(t), in spite of a barrage of lies and "scientific proofs" from Pythagoras (who did not teach that the world was a globe but that many pieces of evidence could be equally well explained with various shapes and proofs, something he taught only to special students at his academy but never to the general public) to NASA. Why has this happened now, and what does it tell us about the level of trust in society today?

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