Man enters Realm of Elves in Hollow Hill

In Malaysia there is a hill (Bukit Broga, near Semenyih and Kuala Lumpur), likely the entrance to an underground world (cavern, portal, tunnel system) called Alamaza, a name reminiscent of Agartha and Aztlan, references to a Hollow Earth civilization or levels of "heavens" in Hindu and Buddhist lore. This is a literal "fairy (féerie) kingdom" or alternate dimension as spoken of existing in woodland forests the world over.

Broga Hill in 2022 - One of the most popular hiking spots in Malaysia 🇲🇾, home of the elves

Mysterious Orang Bunian of Indonesia | Mythlok

In Malaysian, Singaporean, Bruneian, and Indonesian folklore, bunian people or Orang bunian [akin to the other humans, the Asian Bigfoot/Yeti creatures known as Orang Pendek).

They are suspected "supernatural" unseen beings said to be invisible to most humans, except for those who are born with or develop "spiritual sight." (In Buddhism, this is called the cultivation of dibba cakkhu or the "third eye" between the brows, likely corresponding to a DMT-oozing pineal gland).

• If they live underground to remain unseen, these are the "hollow hills," cave systems, or burial mounds into which they retreat.

While the term Orang bunian is often translated as "elves," it literally means "hidden people" or "whistling people." (Bigfoot all over the world are known to whistle and mimic human sounds very well, as well as tossing stones and rustling in the foliage).

Orang bunian when seen are described as beautiful, dressed in ancient Southeast Asian style, and nearly identical to humans in appearance. [One might call the bhumi devas or "woodland fairies, sprite, the Fae or sidhe.]

Some mythological accounts describe the lack of a philtrum (the human "love charm" or lateral cleft above the lip below the nose).

Modern depictions of Orang bunian deviate from the traditional folklore by including elf-like features -- pointed ears, high fantasy-influenced attire, or modern Minangkabau long-coat clothing [1].

Folklore

Aos Sí or aes sidhe of Ireland: Tuatha de Danann in European lore, myth, and legend

Orang bunian are said to inhabit the deep forests or high mountains in Sumatra, Borneo and Malay Peninsula, far from human contact [2], as well as near human communities, and are even said to share the same houses as human families [3].

According to legend, their social structure is similar to that of humans in the ancient Malay Peninsula, with families, clans, and royalty. As with other mythical beings in Indonesian folklore, Orang bunian often have supernatural powers [4] and must be appeased with certain rituals [or offerings] and customs before humans are allowed to trespass areas they inhabit.

Orang bunian are generally regarded as benevolent, befriending and assisting humans, particularly magicians (dukun or bomoh) and shamans (pawang) [5].

(Calista Leah Liew) Climbing Broga Hill in the morning

They are said to be able to intermarry with humans and bear invisible children [6].

Wake up, Rip Van Winkle! It's very late.

According to some tales, men married Orang bunian females but later decided to leave the bunian community and return to the human families they had left behind. However, after returning to human society, they found that many years had passed and everyone they once knew had died.

These narratives have been compared to Urashima Taro and Rip Van Winkle [7] [which would suggest that devas are much longer lived than humans but that "time" exists at different rates simultaneously everywhere all at once, such that one might experience an "eternity" somewhere then return to the human plane where an eternity had not yet elapsed and vice versa]. More

• See also Ghosts in Malay culture

Buddhism on the causes of great earthquakes

Ven. Sujato Bhikkhu (trans.) Mahāparinibbāna Sutta (DN 16), suttacentral.net; edited and expanded by Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, and Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly

Mistranslated Buddha quote. (See Dhammapada)

In Buddhist texts, the Buddha gave eight causes of great (massive) earthquakes, the first so general that it could account for all of them: 

[The Buddha:] “Ānanda, there are these eight causes and reasons for a great earthquake. What are the eight? This great earth is grounded on water, the water is grounded on air, and the air stands in space. At a time when a great wind blows, it stirs the water, and the water stirs the earth.”

• So far as it goes, this is a naturalistic explanation: The “water element” has the quality of [cohesion and] softening, while the “air element” is traditionally understood as “movement” [or flow]. Thus, in modern terms this [could mean], “When underground forces disturb a region of instability...”

“This is the first cause and reason for a great earthquake.”

• (WQ) In Buddhism the four great "elements," dhatus or mahābhūta, are NOT really material "things," but rather qualities and characteristics of material things. (In Hinduism, they seem to be actual things). And those "material things" are called the rupa-kalapas (material particles or "atoms" in the original ancient Greek sense; in fact, it seems that the ancient Greeks got the idea of "atoms," or the smallest indivisible building blocks of materiality, from Buddhism and the Dharmic religions).
• See Bhikkhu Bodhi (trans.) MN 140: "The Discourse on the Analysis of the Elements" or Dhātu Vibhaṅga Sutta (suttacentral.net)
• The Four Great Elements refer to about 14 characteristics. (See the enlightened master Ven. Pa Auk Sayadaw's Four Elements Meditation to learn to discern them in this human body. It is so shockingly simple when described that it might throw one off. But if one persists in earnest practice, what was "simple" shows itself to be very difficult to master. That is, to attain absorption (jhana) using these characteristics as the object of focus until they become clear and wieldy is simple but not easy. With success, all doubt vanishes, and the profundity of the Buddha's liberating message becomes clear: These four elements are impersonal, impermanent, and disappointing; they are no basis for an eternal "self" or any kind of stable material world. That is why the self (atta or atman) and the world (material form) are always in flux.
• The Four Great Elements are sometimes spoken of with three more, making for seven elements: earth (patthavi), water (apa), fire (teja), air (vayu); space (akasha), mind (vinñāna); and the unique "unconditioned-element" (asankhata-dhatu) nirvana.

“Furthermore, there is a wandering ascetic or Brahmin (temple priest) with psychic powers who has achieved mastery of the mind, or a shining one (deva) who is mighty and powerful. They’ve developed a limited perception of earth and a limitless perception of water. They make the earth shake and rock and tremble. This is the second cause and reason for a great earthquake.

• The might of wandering ascetics was legendary in ancient India (e.g., MN 56:14.2). The meditation described here might be compared with the “dimensions of mastery” below (DN 16:3.25.1).

“Furthermore, when the being-intent-on-awakening [the Bodhisatta or Future-Buddha] passes away from the host of Joyful Devas [in the Tusita World], he is conceived of in his mother’s womb, mindful and aware. Then the earth shakes and rocks and trembles. This is the third cause and reason for a great earthquake....”

• At DN 14:1.17.7 and MN 123:7.6 it is, rather, the entire galaxy [world-system or cakkavala] that trembles, perhaps indicating that the enhanced miracle is a later development [inserted into the embellished texts]. More

A disturbance in the Force

The Buddha was onto something

For the big tsunami that hit Aceh, Indonesia (2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami), Banda Aceh in particular, Western psychic Stewart Swerdlow (expansions.com) very clearly gave the unnatural reason for it.

He told us directly at Bodhi Tree Bookstore Annex in West Los Angeles, if we're remembering correctly:

The powers-that-be, that is, the military-industrial complex scientists working for covert alphabet agencies like the CIA, NSA, and NSC were trying to operate the Montauk chair, and this was causing a great disturbance.

A Disturbance in the Force (2023) - IMDb

Disturbance to what? Disturbance to the earth, water, air, and space this world is founded on. "The Force" is Star Wars speak for "Source" or "The All" that connects us like split particles bound by some force that sends information faster than the speed of light.

Shake the elements and one shakes the planet, our bhumi or platform. One may even shake the entire world-system (cakkavala) we are in.

In Buddhist cosmology, this plane we are on is bound by concentric mountainous walls, separating worlds from worlds, four or seven (Vedic Hinduism says seven) alongside each other, each with their own sun and moon (small nearby satellites of equal size), orbiting above each world within the system.

No doubt, we humans (at least those of us working for covert agencies inside black budget laboratories) are disturbing multiple neighboring dimensions.

• For those unable to believe in such force or such an ancient cosmology (share by many ancient cultures, with an underworld beneath us and many worlds above us), consider the explanation of the Tunguska incident of 1908. It was not an early atomic blast by the Russians, and it was not a comet/meteor collision exploding in the atmosphere over the Siberian Forest of the East Siberian taiga, but rather the accidental use of Tesla technology hidden from us. This was the explanation provided by a summer of 2023 Coast to Coast guest who, if memory serves, also explaining the Shroud of Turin as the purposeful creation of Leonardo DaVinci for the Catholic Church (possibly to get them off the back of Galileo or other upstart the Church was persecuting), which was in need of a meticulously well crafted "holy relic" that he could produce for them.
• Mysterious flash illuminates Moroccan sky moments before earthquake. [Could it be HAARP activity disturbing the skies?] (msn.com)

It's natural, Honey. Just breathe it in.

When there were great quakes in China and Iran, people reported seeing strange HAARP phenomena in the sky; some even filmed it and put it on YouTube. Who knows how long it could stay posted before YouTube dutifully took it down due to some pretext of a violation when powerful parties request removal of anything for "national security."

Move along. Nuthin to see here, just condensation

"Buddha clouds" (iridescent petroleum-like colors) or isolated rainbow-colored mist from chemtrails, used in conjunction with HAARP technology, are characteristic of massive quakes to come.  Why? In general, HAARP heats up the air in space, disturbing the water and earth. Look up. What are they spraying?

Child abuse leads to drug abuse: cannabis

Eric Ralls (earth.com, 6/29/23; Crystal Q., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

I'm cool. I smoke weed. - What happened to you as a kid? None of your f'n business, jackass!

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Cannabis abuse trends much higher in people who experienced childhood trauma

Artificial strains: too much THC, too little CBD

Young people are at a heightened risk of problematic adolescent cannabis [marijuana] abuse when they experience childhood trauma.

This is particularly true for kids who experience trauma between the ages 1 through 12. Strikingly, these damaging experiences can range from witnessing parental drug misuse to enduring various forms of abuse.

Dr. Lindsey Hines, a psychologist at the University of Bath specializing in adolescent mental health, led this insightful research.

[And before him, Dr. Gabor Mate has been saying this for five decades, having worked with addicts and harm-reduction in Canada and now in the United States.]

• Addiction expert, speaker, and best-selling author Dr. Gabor Maté (drgabormate.com)

How the cannabis abuse/childhood trauma study was conducted

"What happened to me?"? What didn't happen?

The team tracked over 5,000 participants using the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. People also call this the "Children of the 90s" study.

The researchers considered a wide array of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) that could influence future cannabis use. The researchers examined factors such as physical, emotional, and sexual abuse.

I've had a tough, tough life (Elon Musk).

The study also focused on emotional neglect and parental substance use. Lastly, they studied instances of parental violence, mental health struggles, and even criminal convictions.

The researchers closely studied these childhood misfortunes and compared them with the frequency of cannabis use.

The participants fell between the ages of 13 to 24. The data was self-reported. The participants ranged from individuals who never used cannabis to those who regularly used it during their teen years.

(Johann Hari) TED: Everything you know about addiction is wrong

Definitive link between cannabis abuse and childhood trauma

The findings are concerning. Individuals who went through four or more ACEs were over twice as likely to frequently use cannabis in their teenage years.

Their counterparts experienced much fewer ACEs. Teenagers with a history of parents abusing intoxicants such as alcohol were most likely to end up as regular cannabis users, as were those whose parents struggled with mental health problems. More

Sex and Dating in Japan (video)

The Feed (SBS, Australia Public, 9/25/18); Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Sex in Japan: Dying for Company

Who needs a girlfriend? Get a virtual playmate.

There has been a massive decline in Japan's birthrate over the years recently. Why is the nation of Japan finding it so hard to date and find a sexual relationship? Are the internet, the sex industry, and technology to blame? Or maybe it's nuclear fallout from the U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Fukushima, which some blame on the CIA/NSC as payback and reprisals after threats warned the Japanese government to submit to U.S. imperial influence or else. Leuren Moret (just as Stewart Swerdlow at expansions.com claimed that powering the Montauk chair set off the Aceh, Indonesian tsunami) and others attribute the massive quake, tsunami, and meltdown not to incompetence but subterfuge. Whatever the case, Japan is radioactive and a victim of its technological and manufacturing success, overworked and socially disconnected.

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2004 Tsunami: 10 year anniversary (video)

Wisdom Quarterly; BBC.co.uk (bbc.com); Disasters Channel; The World (PRI); Euronews

Run or die...NOW! 2004 tsunami as wave crashes into southern Thailand (wiki).

Originating in Indonesia due to a major power draw on an advanced technology chair or gate experiment, it results in a massive 9.1 quake, the third largest ever recorded, gives rise to tremendous tsunami, Stewart Swerdlow (expansions.com) explains.

Southern island in Thailand, Koh Phi Phi, prior to being overwhelmed by tsunami.

Capturing an impossible shot: terror in a tree, clinging on for dear life, 2004 Tsunami.

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Quarter million people died

(Euronews, 12-25-14) A decade since the Indian Ocean tsunami: Today marks the tenth anniversary of the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami that resulted in the deaths of over 230,000 people.

 

Indian Ocean tsunami anniversary: Memorial events held

(BBC, Dec. 26, 2014)…Memorial services are being held in Indonesia and other nations for the victims of the [2004] Indian Ocean tsunami on the 10th anniversary of the disaster. In Indonesia's Aceh province -- the worst… 

How living through tsunami "changed our lives"

(BBC, Dec. 26, 2014)…travelling around Australia, but the tsunami will be much in her thoughts. "It's a shame I can't be with my parents on the 10th anniversary, particularly since if it wasn't for my dad recognizing the…

Indian media: Indian Ocean tsunami anniversary
(BBC, Dec. 26, 2014)…feel India was not prepared for a natural disaster of such scale in 2004, but agree that precautionary measures have now improved. "As it marks the 10th anniversary of the devastating tsunami…

Indian Ocean tsunami: Then and now 

(BBC, Dec. 25, 2014)… Ko Phi Phi, Thailand. How the wave spread: On December 26, 2004, after the quake struck, the resulting tsunami radiated across the Indian Ocean, from Indonesia to Sri Lanka and beyond.…

Survivors will never forget day tsunami hit

Producer Bradley Campbell (PRI's The World, Dec. 26, 2014)

What a tsunami can do in a moment (ebonifacio)

A lot of people around the world today are looking at a video circulating on Facebook comprised of before and after shots from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Ten years ago, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake sent massive waves plowing through a dozen countries, including hard-hit Indonesia as well as Thailand, India, and Sri Lanka. 

The water tossed around boats and houses -- anything in its path really -- as if they were toys. Nearly a quarter million people died. More than a million more were made homeless. It's one of the worst [un]natural disasters ever

 
But a lot has gotten better in the past 10 years. See video link below (Shasha.ps/Facebook).
 

One of the people who survived the tsunami was Dr. Vinya Ariyaratne, who lives in Sri Lanka. Immediately after the waves hit, he raced down to the shoreline to help. He says he'll never be able to forget that day.
 
"The houses were completely destroyed -- the ones that were closest to the beach," he says. "There were many bodies lying around. People were traumatized. They had gathered in temples, churches, and public places. We were also traumatized by what we saw."

But you could quickly tell that while the destruction was total, it was highly localized. Things were vastly different a short drive away. More + VIDEO

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Asian Tsunami Anniversary

• VIDEO I: People mark 5th Tsunami anniversary
• VIDEO II: Indonesia, epicenter of the devestation

Asia Remembers Deadly 2004 Tsunami
(VOA) The December 26, 2004 Tsunami destroyed entire coastal communities, decimated families, and crashed over tourist-filled beaches, sweeping away everyone... Related articles»

Monks, tourists, villagers mark Asian Tsunami
PHUKET, Thailand – Buddhist monks in orange robes chanted on a Thai beach, an Indonesian mother mourned her children at a mass grave, and a man scattered flowers in now-placid waters Saturday to commemorate the 230,000 killed five years ago when a tsunami ripped across Asia.

• VIDEO II: People mark Tsunami anniversary

Tsunami Anniversary in Sri Lanka
(Reuters) They were the iconic images of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami from Sri Lanka -- the twisted hulks of eight carriages and a locomotive swept aside and tossed around like matchboxes by the killer waves. The train was packed with passengers and others who had sought refuge in them when the first wave hit Sri Lanka's southern shore. When the larger and deadlier swell struck them on the tracks, villagers estimate that as many as 1500 died inside. More>>

The Deadliest Tsunami in History?
(Nat'l Geo News) The earthquake that generated the great Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 is estimated to have released the energy of 23,000 Hiroshima-type atomic bombs, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Tsunamis: Facts About Killer Waves

Powerful earthquake rattles Indonesia

A woman prays at a Buddhist temple to mark the Waisak (Vesak) festival in Denpasar on the resort island of Bali on May 20, 2008. Indonesian Buddhists celebrated Vesak on May 20 to commemorate the birth and enlightenment of the Buddha (Getty/AFP).

Niniek Karmini (AP, 9/10/08)

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A powerful earthquake rattled northeastern Indonesia on Thursday, briefly triggering a tsunami alert and sending panicked residents fleeing from homes and buildings, officials said.

The quake had a preliminary magnitude 6.6 and struck 55 miles beneath the Molucca Sea, the U.S. Geological Survey.

Indonesia's seismological agency put the magnitude at 7.6 and immediately issued a tsunami alert over the radio and television. It was revoked one hour later after the threat had passed.

People in the Maluku capital of Ternate, which was closest to the epicenter, fled from houses and hotels as the earth rumbled beneath them.

"I ran out of the hotel with other guests and we fled to high ground," Benyamin Otte said. "I could see people on the beach, checking to see if the were any signs of a tsunami, but everything looked normal."

Jimmy Rimba Rogi, the mayor of Manado, a city on nearby Sulawesi island, said the quake caused panic there as well, but there were no immediate signs of casualties or damage.

Indonesia is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.

In Japan, a magnitude 7.0 quake hit off the coast of the northern island of Hokkaido early Thursday, triggering a small tsunami that apparently caused no injuries or damage, Japan's Meteorological Agency said.

(travellerspoint.com)

The quake struck at a depth of about 12 miles, and a 4-inch tsunami rippled at the shore about 35 minutes later.

"There was some light shaking, but it was nothing major," police spokesman Yukio Yoshida said in Hokkaido.

In December 2004, a massive earthquake off Indonesia's Sumatra island triggered a tsunami that battered much of the Indian Ocean coastline and killed more than 230,000 people — 131,000 of them in Indonesia's Aceh province alone.

A tsunami off Java island last year killed nearly 5,000.

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