The USA's Midwest is about to suffer massive heat wave as it celebrates its Independence Day with many sporting events, stifling humidity, record temperatures, and lots of high-pollution (particulate matter of 10 microns or less) fireworks displays, including Dictator Trump's Washington DC circus spectacular. Claims are that this will be the single biggest detonation of firecrackers and hand bombs in the history of the country (not counting its many "shock and awe" displays over the head of other countries the imperialist USA was dominating and illegally bombing and occupying and robbing blind).
Should consciousness follow the body (in lab) or the body follow consciousness (on mat)?
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Always be mindful of the here and now.
(Dr. Crazynovich) April 19, 2026: John Titor and the Second American Civil War. On November 2, 2000, a user calling himself "TimeTravel_0" appeared on the Time Travel Institute forums and made a claim that should have been dismissed as obvious fiction. He was a soldier from the year 2036, sent back on a military mission to retrieve an IBM 5100 computer that his era needed to debug legacy systems inherited from the late twentieth century. He had been routed through the year 2000 for what he called personal reasons. He was there, he said, to observe the world before it changed. Within weeks, he migrated to the Art Bell forums under a new name, John Titor, and began posting with a specificity that no casual hoaxer has ever sustained for long. He described his time machine in engineering detail.
It is deadly easy to laugh at "time travel." But what we are laughing at is not the real thing so much as all our assumptions about it. Is it real? We have reason to think so. Jewish science, for example, in the form of Alvy Einstein, Bibi Spinoza, and Dr. Brucey Goldberg. Alvy drew up no equations making it impossible, did he? Time might go in either direction, and there's the curious case of retrocausation, not to mention "spooky action at a distance," which Alvy doubted, now known as quantum entanglement.
What about God? - Yeah, what about it? When Alvy, who was quite possibly a JewBu, was asked about that it, he stated that his God was Spinoza's God.
However, Bruce Goldberg is the most interesting of the three named, for he says with absolute certainty that not only is time travel possible, we're already doing it. Who's "we"? We as in you and me. What? Here's easy proof. Close your eyes. Close them! Hold perfectly still. More still, samadhi-like stillness, quietude. Feel it?
Right NOW, right here, we're traveling into the future. It's true! Look at the calendar! Look at a watch! Oh, that doesn't count! No proof is good enough, and it never has been. Stubborn!
So we are "traveling" in time, you admit? Yes, look, the real question is, Can we go back (or sideways) in time? That immediately brings up the problem of space, not outer space, not even inner space. I'm talking about the space right here. To go "sideways" is my way of saying bilocation or colocation. For instance, when "now" arrived the first time, I was right here. Might I, on the second occasion, have been somewhere else?
Can I go back to that now and be somewhere else that time? If so, that would be time travel! Can I, or all of us, go back at all? Goldberg says yes, and if you pay him, he'll take you back, so you can shut yer yapper and stop asking all these doubt-filled questions full of investigative energy and childlike curiosity. After all, what will that mean?
NOTE: If time travel becomes possible, WHEN will we have it? WHEN will it be true? WHEN will I get to do it? - These questions were all answered in an instant when we gathered to protest at JPL's back parking lot near the head of Tovaangar's Gabrieleno Trail (JPL). We were all chanting, "What do we want!?" - "Time travel!" - "When do we want it!?" - "Whenever!" ("Whenever"? Shouldn't we have answered, "NOW!"? which is how protest chants usually go? Well, yes, but as many on the scene argued, it won't matter. Why? It won't matter because WHEN we have time travel (due to our ability to go back or forward to any time that's ever been or will be), we will have had time travel all along, and "all along" includes NOW, which is when we have it, if we EVER get it. Get it? See the problem? If not, refer to the increasingly inaccurate trilogy borne out of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in which the genius Douglas Adams discusses the problematic grammar (tense constuctions) of having it.
That is hard to say because it seems to mean various things -- and those things change our view and version of "reality." Sci-fi says going back and changing anything means changing it [and everything else due to the butterfly effect] for everyone.
What if it only changes for us? For example, I said "no." What if I went back in time and were to say "yes"? Just that change, what would it do? Would all the world and universe be different? Would it shatter our dimension? Would I be happy? Would the world regret it? It seems Brucey Baby is talking about not that but jumping timelines to a line (which is to say a time) where I did. And what happened?
I could go see. Would anybody else see? They would in that timeline, but I might like to come back to this timeline. Could I? Yes, Dr. Goldberg says, and he adds that that's what we're doing all the time anyway. (That may be the realization of reality we are not ready for).
So we already are time traveling! Jewish science. Is it a coincidence that those identifying as Ashkenazi Jews are the one who have made these speculations, advancements, and claims?
Maybe, but no one can say anything about it or risk being ostracized, listed, and categorized as an "antidentite." So grin and bear it and not just because our beloved Dr. B. Goldberg of LA is a dentist who may have inhaled some pharmaceutical fumes.
In Buddhist phenomenology, akasha is divided into "limited space" (ÄkÄsa-dhÄtu) and "endless [or boundless] space" (ajatÄkasÄ) [9]. The VaibhÄį¹£ika, an early school of Buddhist philosophy, holds the view that the existence of akasha is real [10].
ÄkÄsa is identified as the first arÅ«pa jhÄna("formless/immaterial absorption," dhyana in Buddhism), but that plane (among the four immaterial planes of the 31 Planes of Existence) and that absorption (by which one arrives at it) is usually translated as "infinite space" [11], with WQ preferring "boundless" space.
Two meanings of "space"
Sir, is 'space' fifth great element?
"Space" (Pali ÄkÄÅa, Sanskrit, akasha) holds two primary meanings in Abhidhamma and Abhidharma analysis [12].
There is spatiality, where ÄkÄÅa is defined as the absence that delimits forms. Like the empty space within a door frame, it is an emptiness (hollow) that is shaped and defined by the material boundary surrounding it.
And there is "vast space," where ÄkÄÅa is described as the absence of obstruction (boundlessness), categorized as one of the nityadharmas ("permanent phenomena") because it remains unchanged over time.
Ether (aether) is real
In this sense, it is likened to the discarded Western concept of aether—a real but scientifically rejected immaterial, bright, lminous "fluid" (possibly like the Bible's "waters above" the firmament) that supports the Four Great (material) Elements (Buddhism's mahÄbhÅ«ta).
These "elements" (dhatus) are actually four major qualities of matter or materiality understood as various particles (RUPA-kalapas), exhibiting a predominance of one quality over the others, which amounts to more than a dozen major expressions placed for simplicity into four big categories.
Now listen up. This is verified Buddhist science.
BUDDHIST "PARTICLE" PHYSICS: A rupa-kalapa or "form particle" is a "corporeal group," a "material unit" that designates a combination of several physical phenomena constituting a temporary, flowing, functional unity.
Therefore, for instance, inanimate or so-called "dead matter" forms the most primitive group, consisting only of eight physical phenomena. These are called the "pure eightfold unit" or "octad" (suddhatthaka-kalÄpa), comprised of: The Four Elements (solidity, fluidity, temperature, motion); color, smell, taste, nutriment (pathavÄ«, Äpo, tejo, vÄyo; vanna, gandha, rasa, ojÄ).
In The Path of Purification (Vis.M.) and elsewhere, it is also called ojatthamaka-kalÄpa, "the octad with nutriment as the eighth factor." The simplest form of living matter is the "ninefold vitality unit" or "life-ennead" (jÄ«vita-navaka-kalÄpa), formed by adding "vitality" (jiva) to the octad. Seven decads, or "units of ten" (dasaka-kalÄpa), are formed by adding to the ninefold unit one of the following corporeal phenomena: HEART(citta, hrdayam, the physical seat of mind) [the physical seat of consciousness, not formally declared by the Buddha but understood to be located near the physical heart at a tiny spot at the upper part of it where it exhibits greenish hue and mirror-like function, reflecting conscious experience, which may sound preposterous but is personally verifiable by meditative-scientists, as are all of the claims made in this physics section], sex, eye, ear, nose, tongue, or body.
See Vis.M. XVIII, 4; Compendium of Buddhist Philosophy (PTS), p. 164, 250; AtthasÄlini Tr., II, 413f. Source
Oh, to know the world as the Buddha knew it!
Ether's radiant quality (aether meaning "brightness") often serves as a metaphor for pure luminous (or original) mind or buddhahood, which is described as shining like the sun or space.
In Buddhist samatha meditation, ÄkÄÅa is significant in the context of the sphere of boundless/infinite space (ÄkÄÅÄnantyÄyatana), the first of the four immaterial absorptions (arupa-jhanas or dhyÄnas) [12].
Philosophically, ÄkÄÅa is considered one of the uncompounded phenomena (asaį¹skį¹tadharmas) in six Buddhist schools, including the defunct SarvÄstivÄda and MahÄsÄį¹ghika, and later the YogÄcÄra. However, three other schools, including the extant TheravÄda, reject this interpretation [12]. More
Chronos (Ancient Greek Ī§ĻĻĪ½ĪæĻ, Romanized Khronos, lit. "Time," Modern Greek ['xronos], also spelled Chronus like the Wise Woman The Crone but not the Titan Cronus), is a personification of time in Greek mythology discussed in pre-Socratic philosophy and later literature [1]. His consort is Goddess Ananke.*
Chronos is frequently confused with, or perhaps consciously identified with, the Titan Cronus in antiquity, due to the similarity in names [2]. The identification became more widespread during the Renaissance ("Rebirth"), giving rise to the iconography of Father Time wielding the harvesting scythe [3] like Death (Buddhist Mara).
Greco-Roman mosaics depicted Chronos as a man turning the zodiac wheel [4]. He is comparable to the deity Aion (kalpa,aeon) as a symbol of cyclical time [5]. More
*Goddess Ananke: In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Ananke (į¼Ī½Ī¬Ī³ĪŗĪ·, from the common noun "force, constraint, necessity," į¼Ī½Ī¬Ī³ĪŗĪ·), is a personification of inevitability or compulsion, and is customarily depicted holding a spindle. The births of Ananke and her incestuous brother and divine consort, Chronos (the personification of time), were thought to mark the division between the aeon of Chaos and the beginning of our cosmos. She is considered the most powerful dictator (director) of fate and circumstance. Mortals and gods (devas) alike respect her power and pay her homage. She is considered the Mother of the Fates, hence she is thought to be the only being to overrule their decisions [1] (according to some sources, excepting Zeus also). According to Daniel Schowalter and Steven Friesen, she and the Fates "are all sufficiently tied to early Greek mythology to make their Greek origins likely"[2]. More
The 1992 Los Angeles uprisings, a reaction to LA Police Department abuses and racist criminal behavior under color of law that had gone on with impunity for as long as anyone could remember. That was 34 years ago, as of 2026.
(Wiki) Los Angeles, California, experienced a series of riots and civil disturbances during April and May of 1992 [5]. "Civil unrest" began after a distant jury acquitted four abusive police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) charged with using excessive force in the wanton beating and arrest of Mr. Rodney King. The center of the trouble was in "South Central" Los Angeles (Watts) on April 29th, 1992. The shockingly racist police incident had been videotaped by Mr. George Holiday, who was a bystander witnessing the incident who had the presence of mind to begin filming, and was heavily reported on by news and media outlets. More
Mexico City protesters march for Gaza, urge end to diplomatic and economic ties with Israel
(Al Jazeera English) Aug. 17, 2025: Jewish Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is not on board with demonstrators and prefers to stay aligned with genocidal, Jewish Zionist Israel.
Student organizations and workers groups in Mexico have been holding a march in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, calling for an end to Israel's genocidal and systematic industrial-scale extermination in the name of a biblical war (remembering Amalek) and for the Mexican government to cut ties with abhorrent Israel.
Al Jazeera’s Julia Galiano reports from Mexico City.
#GazaWar #Israel #AlJazeeraEnglish. Al Jazeera is funded in whole or in part by the Qatari government.
Ryan Cristian, Jimmy Dore (TJDS); Al Jazeera English, Aug. 17, 2025; The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal (The Katie Halper Show); Investor Global TV; Sheldon S., Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Will microbes and mushrooms save the planet, clean the world, and make human and animal life sustainable like they have for millions of years even after we pump petroleum from the ground and make plastic out of it? Paul Stamets (fungi.com) knows that various species of fungi can remediate the soil by sequestering and cleaning up even atomic waste from Fukushima, to say nothing of oil spills and other corporate human waste products.
(Dave Holmes, Esquire, June 11) On Sunday afternoon, I drove to the Los Angeles [anti-] ICE protest down by [the intersection of] Temple and Alameda. It’s around 14 miles from my house and miraculously took only 35 minutes that day.
Maybe people were already down at the protest, or maybe they were at the L.A. Pride Parade, or maybe they were just at brunch, but even the chronic arterial blockage on the 101 [Freeway] at Silver Lake Boulevard was moving pretty nicely.
I pointed myself to the southeast side of where I knew the protests to be because I know a cheap parking lot down there. I situated myself right near the Geffen Wing of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), with the Barbara Kruger Untitled (Questions) mural on the exterior wall: Who is beyond the law? Who is bought and sold? Who is free to choose?
I went and chanted and was home safe and sound by 7:00 pm. And now the Marines are here.
As with the [Los Angeles] fires earlier this year, people from all corners and chapters of my life have been texting to check in ever since. Also like the fires, everything happening in Los Angeles right now is happening around the corner and a world away.
If you didn’t know, if you didn’t want to know, you could pretty easily keep not knowing. Los Angeles is crazy vast [4,000 square miles]. It feels more like a patchwork of [88] little cities than the great big city it is [and even bigger county].
That Sunset Fire was five miles away from where we live, from where we sat watching it on local news. We didn’t even smell it until long after it had been contained. Our go bags didn’t even move from the entryway to the car. We were protected by a freeway, by a distance that isn’t actually that far.
Jackbooted thugs will rule the world starting here
For Sunday, I had made a loose plan to meet up with a couple friends who were also heading downtown. They’d gone to City Hall, and up where they were, at that end of it, the LAPD were trying to move the crowd, to kettle [trap] them using flash-bangs and rubber bullets.
Dave Holmes, Esquire.com via MSN.com, June 10, 2025; The Simpsons via MostAmazings, June 7, 2025; Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
[Asperger's Syndrome] Elon Musk appeared to extend an olive branch to [Would-be King and likely Epstein Island-visiting child molester] Donald Trump in a social media post over the LA protests, fueling speculation that they could be soon "back together."
The tech billionaire's gay "bromance" [on his way to being a trillionaire] with Donna came to a fiery end last week in an ugly online spat between the pair on Thursday after several days where Musk had been criticizing the US government over the president's "big beautiful bill" [which actually an "abomination" according to Musk].
[Musk can't afford to lose all those U.S. government contracts that made him the richest man on the planet, just behind fellow AfricanMansa Musa and perhaps a few others who secretly hold their wealth in ways that prevent them from getting credit for it by curious bean counters, like multibillionaire heads of state and dictators, to say nothing of hedge fund managers and professional blackmailers like Epstein and Diddy].
Trump threatened to cut Musk’s government contracts and the tech billionaire claimed that US government hasn’t released all the records related to sex abuser trafficker Jeffrey Epstein because Trump is mentioned in them.
Can The Simpsons really predict the future? No. When has it ever? Yeah, well, except for those times, but that was pure coincidence, luck of the draw, and anyone could have seen those things coming. Why should this be any different? The King is well-fed; long live the King!
Kami, when I play Veep... - On Seinfeld? - No, on Veep, I was more a Trump than a Kam. - Oh.
Look at me, I'm a super patriot and uniter!
REACTION: It's hard to believe KD Harris is as bad as she undoubtedly is because she gave the speech of her life, the best she has ever sounded. There was nothing to point out about her delivery or the crafting of that speech. It kissed all the right [behinds] and was strong without being offensive. The strongest applause came when she managed to say something good and encouraging about Palestine and Israel's genocidal crimes in Gaza on Palestinians without offending PM Netanyahu and hard right-wingers in favor of war crimes, gay rape of Palestinian prisoners, and stealing land in the Middle East. This is a speech everyone could be happy with without having to agree with all points. JD Vance must be bummed that all his hopes and aspirations are evaporating by hitching his caboose to Trump's train. And Usha Vance has to be proud that such a good job was done portraying American Indians and Blacks and women. What will the Republicans and MAGAots due to counter the best chance we have for finally getting a female president?
This has been the greatest Democratic National Convention of our lives. It is well managed, snubbing jerks like Genocide Joe and California Gov. Gav Newsom, putting everyone under the big tent to work, getting Tulsi Gabbard on a no-fly list, drawing an alter ego out of AOC, and making 1968 look like a big mistake (allowing the media to show it to the world, whereas this DNC hides, obscures, and distracts from all of the rioting outside the castle. It's like The Masque of the Red Death. The insular world of the convention will not even acknowledge that there are many, many Democrats and DINOS (Democrats in name only) who are mad at the party for warmongering, giving in to the status quo, becoming the status quo, going middle-of-the-road, harboring so many unindicted war criminals and corrupt individuals, and generally not coming anywhere near living up to their words and promises.
In the "joy" and hoopla of finally being rid of senile septuagenarian Biden, and being happy for a younger, springier candidate, everyone seems to have forgotten or is actively in denial about how bad Kamala "Word Salad" Harris in speaking, inspiring, or getting anything done. So far in her campaign she has done a GREAT job in picking Tim Walz, in keeping quiet, in being elsewhere, in smiling, dressing nicely, saying nice things about demented Joe, and taking advice, but who is going to read her speech for her? The best speech writers may be brought in to write it, but someone has to read it at least as well as seasoned politicians have been reading theirs these past three days. What are the chances of that? The electorate will be watching. We're all on her side. She can't live up to the pressure. It's too much pressure. There is no drug she can be given, no earpiece with a voice she'll listen to to shut up, cut the salad, get back on track, and for Gosh sakes stop cackling. She is in a pickle and a bind and she is not the woman for this job. She's not a people person. She is a kind of Over the Hillary Clinton, schoolmarm prosecutor... We see doom.
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