Mayumi (partiful.com), Dhr. Seven, Yifan Li (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Hosted by Mayumi with Eric and Lighthawk: Join us for a nourishing evening of harmony, beauty, and vibrational regeneration.
We will commune with the spirit of the Blue Lotus flower through a tea ceremony, then be guided on an elemental dragon journey through sound co-created by Mayumi, Eric Matthew, and Lighthawk.
Blue Lotus (Nymphaea caerulea) is a sacred plant ally that grows on the shores of lakes and rivers, originally from northern and central Africa, along the Nile River. Historically, this water lily was used in ancient Egyptian shamanistic rituals and healings.
The flower acts as a natural aphrodisiac and has soothing, mystical properties. Many believe Blue Lotus has been in use through the ages to become more lucid and awake within dreams.
From Mayumi's transcendent vocals and dragon priestess facilitation to Eric Matthew's deep attunement to sound frequency, flowing with his vast array of instruments to Lighthawk's unique, creative expression, and diverse sonic gifts, this is sure to be a memorable experience.
Lighthawk will also be serving a meal of kitchari for us to enjoy and ground in together after the sound bath.
We are gathering under the radiance of the Virgo Full Moon, so our personal and collective intentions will be amplified during this potent time of purification, healing, and empowerment.
Come receive deep, cellular vibrational regeneration and return to the ancient wisdom living within us all.
☥ This is an intentionally intimate container with the capacity for 13 people, so please RSVP.
LOCATION
The gathering is in Eric's beautiful home sanctuary in the hills of Studio City.
FLOW 𓆃
5:00-5:30 pm: Arrival + grounding into the space
5:30-7:30 pm: Blue Lotus Tea Ceremony + Sound Bath
7:30-8:00 pm: Eating kitchari + community connection + grounding integration
BRING
Yoga mat or blanket to lay down on and anything that would make you feel comfortable, cozy, and relaxed for the sound bath
Sacred object(s) you would like to charge on the altar (optional)
A healthy snack to share as we nourish and connect afterwards (optional)
Your open heart and full presence
💖 We look forward to sharing this sacred space. ♾️
Venmo $44 to@mayumi_minato to secure a space. If you are experiencing financial difficulty, we are open to offering sliding scale options. Message one of our facilitators to discuss possibilities. INFO:partiful.com/e/vrMYMTJ3N4QThNpKVAyj
TREY the Explainer, 7/16/19; Pat Macpherson, Sheldon S., Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Who is Lilith? Adam’s first wife?
If the Patriarchs had their way...Barbie
Here is a video discussing the complex ancient history surrounding a biblical character named "Lilith." Let's answer the questions: Who was Lilith? Why is she forgotten? What did she mean to the Bible’s original authors? Get out your Dead Sea Scrolls for this detailed textual analysis of the biblical character. Please fact check what is said, as no expert, at the end of the day, is right all of the time, and Trey is not a bona fide "expert." He's just a guy who reads a lot, so check his sources. Look out for a Part II.
(Behind the Music) Documentary of 1997 Liltih Fair, women who rock
CITATIONS: Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible by Karel van der Toorn and Pieter Willem van der Horst
De-Demonising the Old Testament: An Investigation of Azazel, Lilith, Deber, Qeteb and Reshef in the Hebrew Bible by Judit M. Blair
The Early History of God by Mark S. Smith
The Exodus by Richard Elliot Friedman
Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard Elliot Friedman
Yahweh and the gods and goddesses of Canaan by John Day
Content licensed from TVF International. Inquiries contact: realstories@littledotstudios.com.
Blue Lily Flower Power
This is a mind-opening and mind-expanding series that shows footage of human experiences never before seen on television.
The blue water lily, now a rare flower, was once prized above all flowers in Ancient Egypt. It has amazing psychoactive powers, many of which are unknown. In four carefully monitored experiments, volunteers take powerful entheogenic, hallucinogenic, or narcotic substances, and viewers see the actual effects in real time.
These substances are all legal and come from plants with a rich cultural history, plants that have been used historically in rituals around the world, but about which little is known today.
A wildfire burning out of control in the mountainous Cajon Pass is heading toward the community of Wrightwood Tuesday afternoon, U.S. Forest officials said.
By early Tuesday morning, the Blue Cut Fire had burned 30,000 acres in San Bernardino County and forced school closures and evacuation orders affecting more than 34,000 homes, prompting evacuation orders for more than 80,000 people, including Wrightwood.
This is a developing story. Refresh for the latest information.
Update 4:50 pm 2 C-130 planes added to firefighting efforts
Two military firefighting planes are joining the attack on the Blue Cut Fire. Two C-130 planes equipped with tanks capable of dropping 3,000 gallons of water or fire retardant are being sent to the Inland Empire from the Air National Guard Base at Channel Islands, said spokesman Capt. Will Martin.
“The C-130s just add some punch to Cal Fire's efforts as they get spread pretty thin with so many fires,” he added.
Cal Fire made the request for the additional planes Wednesday morning, and they could be on the fire lines by the evening.
The Air National Guard usually uses the C-130s for military transportation and shipping cargo, but they can also be fitted out with the special tanks when need for firefighting, Martin said.
Update 1:45 p.m. Low humidity, high temperatures drive Blue Cut Fire
The critical elements to the Blue Cut Fire, according to the National Weather... More
Hope Huma doesn't catch me ogling the ladies, but I have her beard in my pocket anyway.
(TSN3) The Best Of George Carlin Exposing the American Government. Carlin was an American stand-up comedian, satirist, social critic who won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums.
I'm
sorry, but I just cannot vote for you in good conscience as my morals,
integrity, and principled core beliefs will not allow me to.
Obey. Take the Red or Blue pill, Rep. or Dem.
You, Hillary, have
shamefully sold out working families, the poor, the sick, and the
hungry in this country
in favor of corporate interests on three separate occasions.*
You've been
influenced on two occasions by lobbyists within the financial services
and corporate trade industries to vote for legislation which favored
them rather than the working families of this country.
Hillary Clinton who is more Republican than Trump. Anyone but Hillary!
Say what, Paul Geiger? Curse you!
Furthermore,
you've also been influenced by lobbyists within the pharmaceutical
industry into no longer supporting a Universal Healthcare system, which
you had been a staunch advocate for throughout your entire political
career. Now many people are setting up Go Fund Me pages to afford treatment
just so they live in the absence of affordable healthcare.
We knew you'd make the right decision.
Anyone who has even an ounce of common
sense, logic, and critical thinking skills knows that these special
interest groups do not donate millions of dollars to you out of the
kindness of their hearts.
They do it fully expecting a big return on
their investment. Shame on you, Hillary. Shame on you.
The history of California's Native American "Juana Maria" (inspiration for Island of the Blue Dolphin), produced by an unnamed fourth grader with commentary, ancient Chumash recordings, and scenes from the Santa Barbara Mission and Natural History Museum.
L.A./Channel Islands: 65 miles out to sea
The most famous Native American (Tongva) islander in Southern California lived on one of the Channel Islands just beyond Los Angeles. The fiction writer Scott O'Dell called this "Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island" Karana.
She was later christened Juana Maria by Anglo Christian missionaries in the Santa Barbara Mission. When first abducted, she escaped back to the island by jumping ship to get her brother, who was later eaten by wild dogs, as the rest of the native Ghalas-at people (called Nicoleños) were moved from San Nicolas Island to mainland California. She survived on the island alone with dogs for 18 years, likely seeing others who passed. In 1853 Capt. Nidever and his crew "rescued" her and took her to Santa Barbara. Her story is told in Island of the Blue Dolphins ("With island dig halted, Lone Woman still a stinging mystery," Los Angeles Times, 3-5-15).
(Lainee Tuemer) Karana's story in a nutshell from Scott O'Dell's book Island of the Blue Dolphins
Better-than-Nothing The Strange Tale of the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island
Off the coast of Los Angeles are eight large Channel Islands, such as Catalina (wiki).
"Karana" (Braun Library, Autry Nat'l Center, LA)
It was 1853 on San Nicolas Island, the most remote of California's eight Channel Islands.
Sixty-five miles southwest of Point Mugu, in Ventura County, one visitor reported:
The island's "shifting sand dunes, its 90-foot fog shrouded peak, its deep cut canyons, its bleak cliffs, and the crashing seas breaking over its rocky shores" made it "just about one of the most desolate places on earth."
This isolated isle had once been home to a thriving group of native people known [to invaders who renamed the island Saint Nicolas Island] as the Nicolenos.
Five of the eight Channel Islands are part of Channel Islands National Park. The waters surrounding them make up California's Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. They were first inhabited by the Los Angeles area Tongva and Ventura ChumashNative Americans 13,000 years ago, who were then killed by European colonialists. The US military now uses the islands as weapons test sites, training grounds, and strategic defense much in the way they have overtaken and ruined the massive Hawaiian island chain, the majority of which is closed to civilians.
Hawaii encompasses most of the volcanic Hawaiian archipelago, hundreds of islands spread over 1,700 miles.
Now it was supposedly uninhabited, though sailors sailing by occasionally reported seeing a human figure waving her arms, running towards them on the foggy shore.
In 1853, Captain George Nidever set out on his third trip in search of this legendary apparition. The year before, his crew had discovered footprints in the sand.
This time, they found what they were looking for near three whalebone huts in a clearing among the sand dunes. Crewman Carl Dittman recalled the moment of discovery:
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"She was seated cross legged on the ground and was engaged in separating the blubber from a piece of seal skin which was lying across one knee and held by one hand. In the other hand she grasped a rude knife, a piece of iron hoop thrust into a rough piece of wood for a handle....
"Outside there was a high pile of ashes and bones showing that she had lived in this place for some time. Baskets of grass and vessels of the same material made in the shape of a flagon and lined with asphaltum, used to hold water, were scattered about.
San Nicolas: rocky, desolate, full of seals, surrounded by dolphins and sharks
"On a sinew rope stretched between two poles several feet above the ground were hanging pieces of seal blubber, while near her was the head of a seal from which the brains already putrid were running.
The discovery of the lone woman put an end to a speculative mystery that had brewed in coastal California for 18 years. But as was often the case for native people in the "new world," her "discovery" would soon lead to her death.
The Nicoleno tribe lived and flourished on San Nicolas Island for around 8,000 years. In fact, the huge number of town sites scattered across the three-by-nine mile isle have led some archeologists to speculate that it may have been a vacation spot for other Native American groups from the mainland.
The Nicolenos were seafaring people, using canoes [ti'at] to trade with neighboring tribes like the Tongva (Gabrielinos of Los Angeles) and the Chumash....
What happened to Karana?
Forget Karana, Juana Maria monument
Although no one could understand the language Karana spoke, she talked and sang incessantly and was an adept singer.
Crewmen were impressed with her resourcefulness: she kept every scrap of food she could, saving bones so that she could suck them to the marrow.
She helped the visitors find fresh water and firewood and showed Nidever how to make a water proof jug using heated stones and asphaltum.
When it was time to leave, she boarded the ship willingly, her clothes and one filled large basket the only remnants of her former life.
She was taken to Mission Santa Barbara and placed in the care of Nidever's wife. She was a regional curiosity, and folks came from far and wide to see her sing and dance. Capt. Nidever was offered a chance to display her as a circus sideshow, which he declined.
After many years alone, she seemed thrilled to be with people once again. She was fascinated by the new sights and sounds around her.
When she saw a man on a horse for the first time, she thought they were one creature. She was so amazed when the rider dismounted that she had to go over and touch them both.
All of her kinfolk were dead by this time, and none of the other Native Americans or multi-lingual European priests at the mission were able to understand her. But her kindness was evident to everyone.
She was continually given gifts by visitors which she would accept effusively and then give to the Nidever children.
Only a few weeks after she was left at the Catholic mission, Karana died. Though her death was blamed on an overindulgence of rich food, a simple illness (dysentery) that she had no immunity to was probably the real cause.
In a final insult, after her death, the woman was baptized in the Catholic faith and Christened "Juana Maria." She was buried at the Santa Barbara mission in an unmarked grave as was the custom then. More
Stop Capitalism. End the Climate Crisis. Pledge to #FloodWallStreet. Join the flood on September 22 starting at 9:00 am. The economy of the 1% is destroying the planet, flooding our homes...
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(OWS) In September, world leaders are coming to New York City for a UN summit on the climate crisis. On Sunday the 21st, there will be a massive march.
On the 22nd, the day before their summit, as politicians have meetings
with the corporate oligarchs who profit from the disasters they themselves are
creating, we are going to take action! We will Flood Wall Street. Be there. Climate Change is here, and the only solution is a movement. NYC Planning info: beyondthemarch.org/action-support/. RSVP page for #floodwallstreet: facebook.com/events/832215646797522/.
(JazzFest) The 2014 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival runs from April 25-May 4, 2014.
Bigger than Coachella (Indio), bigger than the California Music Fest (Ventura)? At least bigger than Stagecoach (Indio). More traditional than Bonnaroo (Nashville) or Wanderlust (Lake Tahoe)? A lot tamer than Burning Man (Nevada desert), the yoga hippie fests the readers of LA Yoga Magazine attend (Joshua Tree, California), the traveling West Coast Festival, and the twin Made in America concerts by Jay Z and Beyonce.
The original "Jazz Fest" started in 1970 and continues to this day: "Jazz Fest" is a showcase if the most important names in music locally and nationally. Celebrating four and a half decades of musical and cultural memories, the musical fest stands alone in presenting high caliber artists in varied genres like rock, traditional and contemporary jazz, blues, Cajun gospel, blues, R&B, country, zydeco, and much more.
Arcade Fire, Phish, Vampire Weekend, Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin), Sixto Rodriguez, Santana, Eric Clapton, Christina Aguilera, Robin Thicke, The String Cheese Incident, Aaron Neville, Branford Marsalis, John Hiatt, John Fogerty, Foster the People, Better Than Ezra, Chaka Khan, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, Alabama Shakes, Al Jarreau, Soul Rebels, Public Enemy, and more. nojazzfest.com - facebook.com/jazzfest - twitter.com/jazzfest
Jesus the Christ and Siddhartha the Buddha from the awesome Japanese manga聖☆おにいさん。or "Saintly Young Men" (Gerald Ford)
Christian Buddhist John Suler, Zen Stories to Tell Your Neighbors One of Master Gasan's monks visited the university in Tokyo. When he returned he asked the master if he had ever read the Christian Bible.
"No," Gasan replied, "please read some of it to me." The monk opened the Bible to the "Sermon on the Mount" in the Gospel of St. Matthew.
After reading Christ's words about thelilies in the field, he paused. Master Gasan was silent for a long time.
"Yes," he finally said, "Whoever uttered these words is an enlightened being [one attained to the level of stream enterer or higher]. What you have read to me is the essence of everything I have been trying to teach you here!" (In another version of this old Zen tale, a Christian reads the Bible passage to Gasan.)
Reactions to the Story
"This story held no interest for me. I don't believe in the existence of God and therefore believe that the Bible is a bunch of bologna!"
"Maybe the point is that we don't need Bibles OR Zen teachers to find enlightenment. We already have it within ourselves."
"It's so sad that wars are fought over differences in 'religion,' when in reality all the world's religions are saying the same essential things. If nations really took religion to heart, so many lives would be saved."
"'Lilies of the field' is a rather zen story, encouraging naturalness acceptance of being."
"Universalism is an extremely faulty world view. All the worlds religions do not teach the same thing. Religion is not about being good to your fellow man, or doing nice things to other people. So many of these comments seem to think that because most religions teach that, in general, you should'nt kill people, and you should'nt steal, and that you should feed the poor, etc., that its all the same thing. That misses the point entirely, and trivializes a vast amount of the most deeply held beliefs of the world's populace...."
"It is interesting that when presented with the Bible, the Master was open to listening. I don't find the same to be true when the situation is reversed, . It feels very comfortable to me to be Buddhist and still feel at peace with others who do not share my views."
"If what is true for you is true, and what is true for me is true, than really nothing is true. If there are no absolutes in the universe higher than our own opinions or experiences, than we live on an ever shifting sand. True truth is true whether we know it, or believe it. It is absolute, unchanging, and independent of our reactions to it. God is God and we are not him. I believe this story is an attempt to dilute the hard division line that the Bible deliberately draws. Our culture trys to offer solutions that do not offend anyone. I wonder how Master Gasan would react to Christ's words "no one may come to the Father but by me." Or "the kingdom of heaven advances violently, and violent men lay hold of it"?
"This comment is not about the story but about the other comments: Taken collectively, they illustrate Martin Luther's observation, 'A book is like a mirror -- if an ape looks in, no saint will look out!'" More
Concentration After winning several archery contests, a young and boastful champion challenged the old Zen master who was renowned for his skills as an archer.
The young man demonstrated remarkable technical proficiency when he hit a distant bull's eye on his first try then split that arrow with a second shot.
"There," he said to the old monk, "see if you can match that!" Undisturbed, the master did not draw his bow, but rather motioned for the young archer to follow him up the mountain.
Curious about the old fellow's intentions, the champion followed him high up the mountain until they reached a deep chasm spanned by a single shaky log. Calmly stepping out onto this perilous and unsteady bridge, the old master picked a far off tree as a target, drew his bow, and fired a clean and direct hit.
"Now it is your turn," he said as he gracefully stepped off the log and back onto firm ground.
Staring with terror into the bottomless and beckoning abyss, the young man could not force himself to step out onto the log nor in any way focus on trying to hit a target.
"You have much skill with your bow," the master finally said, sensing his young challenger's predicament, "but you have little skill with the mind that lets loose the shot." Reactions
Interview with Rebecca Keegan, author of The Futurist, The Life and Times of James Cameron
Rebecca Keegan spent seven years covering breaking news stories like 9/11, Osama bin Laden, and sex abuse within the Catholic Church for TIME Magazine before she built professional credibility with intimate profiles of entertainment A-listers Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Downey, Will Smith, and Penélope Cruz and covered premiere events like the Oscars, Sundance, and Comic-Con. Today, she is a staff film writer for the LA Times and continues to keep abreast of popular trends.
She originally met James Cameron while visiting the "Avatar" set for an assignment. In the introduction of his comprehensive biography she states, “I knew Cameron to be an innovator, but this was clearly his magnum opus as a future-minded filmmaker. As I watched the director work, I became curious about a man who seemed interested only in doing things that were hard, and in doing them perfectly, and I determined to follow his intriguing film’s progress more closely.” More
"The Simpsons" presents classic scary alien meme, which is a small part of the real story.
Couple lifted in car by beam of blue light now talk
NEW MEXICO (May 27, 2011) A beam technology that can pick up plants, animals, and humans -- even pick up a moving car containing people -- has been described for decades. One experience of such a beam was by Jim Sparks. He says he was conscious most of the time when a vibration in his bedroom at night would raise him in the air, through the ceiling and roof, up above his house and into a craft. There he was forced to interact with non-human entities and computer-like machines with screens that taught him alien equivalents to Jim's American English alphabet and numbers. That high strangeness began for Jim Sparks in 1986 and lasted for at least six years while he worked in North Carolina real estate development.
Far west across the country in Colorado a week before Thanksgiving 1980, a husband and wife (I'll call them Irene and Gary Thompson to protect their request for anonymity) also ran into one of those lifting beams while driving on a freeway north of Boulder. At the time, the man was a commercial artist and his wife raised their daughter. Mr. Thompson had previously worked as a United States Air Force launch control officer at missile sites. With his artist's mind, he told Boulder hypnotherapist Richard Sigismund and me that a “cerulean blue light” surrounded their car. Then by the time the couple reached their Longmont home, they realized the clock was one hour later than it should have been for their drive home.
In addition to this first public interview, I am unfolding their entire three years of 1981 to 1984 hypnosis sessions as a several-part Real X-File that begins in Part 1. More
Footage from Turkey UFO clearly shows alien occupants
Dr. Roger Leir, author of Aliens and the Scalpel, has been said to be one of the world's most important leaders in physical evidence research involving the field of Ufology. He and his surgical team have performed nine surgeries on alleged alien abductees. This resulted in the removal of ten separate and distinct objects suspected of being alien implants. These objects have been scientifically investigated by some of the most prestigious laboratories in the world. Their findings have been baffling and some comparisons have been made to meteorite samples. Dr. Leir anticipates performing more surgeries in the future and will investigate the physiological and biological aspects of the abduction phenomenon. He has also formed a non-profit organization for this purpose called "A&S Research Inc." More
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Blue Lotus (Nymphaea caerulea) is a sacred plant ally that grows on the shores of lakes and rivers, originally from northern and central Africa, along the Nile River. Historically, this water lily was used in ancient Egyptian shamanistic rituals and healings.
