Showing posts with label evolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evolution. Show all posts

Thursday, April 30, 2026

Machiavelli's understanding of sexual desire


The Polyamorous Professors Geoffrey Miller
and Diana Fleischman on Rebel Wisdom
(Wisdom Unleashed) After studying 500 prostitutes, modern evolutionary psychologist Dr. Geoffrey Miller] discovered this truth about women -- confirming what Niccolò "The Prince" Machiavelli had tried to teach centuries earlier in his book The Prince:

The Prince and what prostitutes can teach us about evolutionary biology
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The Prince (Italian Il Principe, Latin De Principatibus) is a 16th-century political treatise written by Machiavelli, an Italian diplomat, philosopher, and political theorist.

He wrote it in the form of a realistic instruction guide for new princes. Many commentators have viewed that one of the main themes of The Prince is that immoral acts are sometimes necessary to achieve political glory [1, 2].

Melania Trump is/was a whore escort
(Keith Edwards) Leaked audio confirms Melania was an escort [who "dated" and may have had a baby with pimp, Israeli spy, and professional child molester Jeffrey Trump before marrying Donny Trump]

From Machiavelli's correspondence, a version was apparently being written in 1513, using the Latin title De Principatibus ("Of Principalities") [3].

However, the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after the death of Machiavelli. This was carried out with the permission of the Medici Pope Clement VII.

But "long before then, in fact since the first appearance of The Prince in manuscript, controversy had swirled about his writings" [4].


Although The Prince was written as if it were a traditional work in the mirrors for princes style, it was generally agreed as being especially innovative.

This is partly because it was written in the vernacular Italian rather than formal Latin. More

American Evolutionary Psychologist Miller's sex research
Dr. Miller's 2003 book The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature proposes that human mate choices, courtship behavior, behavior genetics, psychometrics, and life cycle patterns support the survival value of traits related to sexual selection, such as art, morality, language, and creativity.

According to Dr. Miller, the adaptive design features of these traits suggest that they evolved through mutual mate choice by both sexes to advertise [in]heritable fitness [13].
  • WHO IS DR. MILLER? Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Dr. Miller graduated from Columbia University in 1987 [5], where he earned a BA in biology and psychology. He received his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Stanford University in 1993, with Roger N. Shepard as his principal adviser [1].
Behavior

Dr. Miller's clinical interests are the application of fitness indicator theory to understand the symptoms, demographics, and behavior genetics of schizophrenia and mood disorders.

His other interests include the origins of human preferences, aesthetics, utility functions, human strategic behavior, game theory, experiment-based economics, the ovulatory effects on female mate preferences, and the intellectual legacies of Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Thorstein Veblen.
 
In 2007, Dr. Miller (with Joshua Tybur and Brent Jordan) published an article in Evolution and Human Behavior, concluding, based on a sample size of 18 strippers at a club in Albuquerque, New Mexico, over a two-month period, that lap dancers make more money during ovulation [14, 15].

Spent: Sex, Evolution [and Shopping]
For this paper, Dr. Miller won the 2008 Ig Nobel Award in Economics [16].
 
In his 2009 book Spent: Sex, Evolution and the Secrets of Consumerism, Dr. Miller attempts to apply Darwinism to consumerism, arguing that marketing has exploited our inherited instincts to display social status for reproductive advantage [17].

He makes the claim that marketing persuades people—particularly the young—that the most effective way to display social status is through consumption choices over than conveying traits such as intelligence and personality through direct communication [18]. More
  • Wisdom Unleashed; Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Saturday, April 25, 2026

Gnostic: Demiurge's prison of 'reality'

  • Gnosticism seems to be the Western version of the Vedic/Hindu concept of God (the One or the Supreme) at "divine play" (lila), coming under the illusion (maya) of separation. But all is one. Who is this Demiurge, this false God that created this simulation/illusory reality (duality) around us and the cycle of endless rebirth (samsara)?

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

God made Man (used Monkey to do it)?


 
Scientists studying a 4.4-million-year-old fossil named Ardi may have uncovered the evolutionary step ["missing link"] that turned ancient [nonhuman] climbers into early [human-hybrid] walkers
Here’s what there is to learn when reading this Popular Mechanics' story:
  • Ardi is the oldest known partial skeleton of a hominin and shows foot features that are transitioning from vertical climbing to bipedal walking.
  • While Ardi has the primitive grasping big toe of the more apelike human ancestors that came before her, other parts of her feet are more evolved.
  • It is Ardi’s talus, a bone in the ankle, that lies somewhere between the morphology of the same bone in apes and humans.
As humans, it’s important to remember that some of our oldest primate ancestors were apelike creatures.

Besides our much larger brains and visibly obvious differences, such as facial [structure and] features, one thing we evolved to be much more adept at than chimps and gorillas (which we, according to Darwinism, diverged from millions of years ago) is walking on two feet.

But just when did human predecessors first descend from the trees and walk upright?

A 4.4-million-year-old female skeleton named Ardi may answer that question. Predating even the iconic Lucy (Australopithecus) by a million years, she belongs to the species Ardipithecus ramidus and is revealing more about our human origins and how we became bipedal.

Unearthed in the Ethiopian desert back in 1994, Ardi is the oldest known partial hominin skeleton, though her species has been known since 1925 under the name Australopithecus ramidus.

Biological anthropologist Thomas Prang of Washington University in St. Louis and his research team discovered that Ardi was able to walk upright but still retained a grasping foot and other apelike features.

“Our observations of the human and ape fossil record are inconsistent with recently proposed models of human origins, which envision the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees as a generalized arboreal ape,” he said in a study recently published in Communications Biology.

“Instead, our results strongly imply that humans evolved from an African ape-like ancestor.”
  • Related video: 300,000-year-old fossils: The true origin of Homo sapiens (History with Kayleigh Official) My name is Kaylee, and I guess it's safe to... (13:41)
Homo sapiens [not plural homos ("mankind") but Latin for "Thinking man"] belong[s] to the Homo-Pan clade, a group that evolved from a common ancestor and includes [violent, aggressive, militant] chimpanzees, [peaceful sex-centered hippie] bonobos, and both extant and extinct hominin species [Sasquatch, Bigfoot, Almasty, Yakkhas, Yeti, Orang Pendek, etc.]

This is part of a larger clade that gorillas also belong to. It has been argued that Ar. ramidus was more humanlike than apelike and had already evolved out of climbing trees vertically and dropping to all fours and walking on its knuckles in order to get around on land.

What Dr. Prang found was that Ardi is a mashup of primitive and modern features. She has a big toe designed for grasping branches, but other features of her feet, cranial base, and pelvis suggest that her species was adapting to bipedalism.

There is one bone that especially stands out: Ardi’s talus, a bone in the ankle which is also the second largest bone in the back of the foot. It transfers body weight between the lower leg and foot and helps African apes climb.

The talus enables dorsiflexion, or the backwards flexing of the foot, and inversion, the sideways turning of the foot. Both put the animal’s center of mass in a position closer to support, so apes are at much less risk of suffering lethal backward falls.

In ape species that primarily climb trees and primarily use dorsiflexion for vertical climbing, the forefoot is shorter than those of bipeds and quadrupeds, so Dr. Prang’s team turned its focus to the front of Ardi’s foot and also figured out her approximate body mass using the widths of the talar trochlea, or the upper joint surface of the talus.

There have been previous arguments that the morphology of the talar trochlea may not be the greatest indicator of how apes and early humans moved. Gorillas, chimps, bonobos, and gibbons have short forefeet for their body masses, while orangutans and larger monkeys have the longest forefeet.

The human forefoot is longer than those of chimps and gorillas and shorter than those monkeys, but there is still some overlap with bonobos. More

Friday, October 24, 2025

Magic? Woman can see without eyes


Woman who can see without her eyes leaves Danny Jones speechless | Dalia Burgoin
(Danny Jones Clips) Oct. 17, 2025: Can humans really “see” while blindfolded? This episode shows Dalia Burgoin—a psionic woman who demonstrates mindsight vision under test-like conditions.

Special abilities or autism?

👁️‍🗨️ We take a walk-through what mindsight claims to be, how this session is set up, and what to watch for if curious and skeptical. See Dalia attempt tasks without visual input, while the ground rules are explained, potential cues, and the exact steps used to reduce bias.

There's no hype—just a clear look at the method and the results.

What's covered?
  • What “psionic” and “mindsight” mean in plain English
  • Why blindfold testing matters (and common pitfalls)
  • What counts as a real “hit” vs. lucky guess
  • How attention, memory, and pattern recognition might influence outcomes
  • Where claims like this fit within broader ESP and perception research
Whether a believer, skeptic, or just curious, let’s have a fair, transparent walkthrough designed for everyday viewers—no advanced science degree required.

By the end, know how to evaluate demonstrations like this and what questions to ask next.

🧪 Enjoy balanced, easy-to-follow breakdowns of unusual human abilities?

COMMENTARY
 
Living Enlightenment (Fraud)
Young students of fraudulent Indian sex cult guru Nithyananda also demonstrated this ability and reported to us that they really did learn this ability. They did not seem to regard it as "magic" but rather as a normal human capacity that can be learned. The physically blind need not be blind, just as a man may make sounds and learn (by the brain restructuring itself with consistent practice) echolocation. Those children showed us this ability at Wisdom Quarterly and displayed it in front of hundreds of faithful Hindu onlookers at the now defunct Nithyananda Ashram on the outskirts of Los Angeles County East.

Subscribe (@dannyjonesclips) for more deep dives into perception, performance, and the edge of human potential. 📢 #Parapsychology #Mindsight #DaliaBurgoin

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Burning Man, Day 2, better weather

(Scotty Finds Adventure) I said yes to everything at Burning Man

Burning Man 2025 Daily Vlog: Surviving the Playa, One Day at a Time

(Escaping Normal Life) Aug. 26, 2025: Step into the heart of Burning Man 2025 with my daily vlog series, where I document what it’s really like to survive on the playa [Black Rock City's ancient beachfront]—dust, art, chaos, and all.

From battling whiteout sandstorms and extreme heat to exploring mind-blowing art installations and wild camps, this vlog gives a raw, unfiltered look at life in Black Rock City.

Whether one is a first-timer preparing for a journey or just curious about the Burning Man experience, see how I handle the challenges of dust storms, food, de-hydration, sand camping, and staying safe while also diving into the magic of this mystical [sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll] event.

Intentional spiritual evolution?
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Monday, August 4, 2025

Rebirth doesn't equal evolution (Cayce)

Wait a minute. Samsara sucks. Stop this ride because I want off this merry-go-round!

The endless round of rebirth
There's an interesting wrong view from the time of the Buddha. At that time, there were six sectarian teachers ("six heretical teachers") each teaching their own 
doctrine.

Two of these, Makkhali Gosala and Purana Kassapa, are very interesting because they taught a particularly pernicious wrong view (miccha ditthi) that deeds (karma) have no results, no effect on anything. We're just helpless pawns of Fate or Destiny, Kismet or Chance, Luck or some arbitrary God-being, but not to worry since rebirth (samsara) will run out by itself. There's nothing to do other than just live and suffer or try to have a good time as best one can.

Just keep going, Ralph. You'll be there soon?
The Buddha declared this wrong view (called the inefficacy of karma) as being very bad, very harmful, and very dangerous. Why? It can lead to inaction or a sense of helplessness, as if we are all just "victims" of the universe, suffering needlessly without recourse to any permanent relief.

In fact, we are suffering for a reason -- because of ignorance (wrong views/delusion/confusion), craving (lust/grasping/clinging), and aversion (hate/fear/frustration). These are the Three Poisons of the Mind/Heart. And something can be done about suffering because something can be done about them.

There is a way to liberation from samsara!
Samsara
will NOT roll out like a ball of yarn that runs out; it will keep going and going like a hamster wheel, which never comes to an end so long as a hamster keeps treading it.

Things that happen to us due to causes, not without them. There are always causes. We may not like them or accept them, but things are not happening without them. Therefore, we can do something about it. It would be rare that nothing could be done.

We must do something about our circumstances or never expect disappointment (dukkha) to stop. There was a third teacher, Mahavira (Nigantha Nataputta), the founder of Jainism, who understood many things and had a great deal of respect for karma; it's just that he had an imperfect understanding of it, which led to wrong views and conclusions. Worse perhaps than these six heresies is the popular Vedic/Hindu view that all rebirths are progress towards heaven or liberation (moksha).

Three Poisons at hub of wheel of samsara
The Buddha, often accused in modern times of being a "Hindu," rejected this completely, just as Edgar Cayce rejects it in this video. Not all rebirths improve us and send us on our way in an upward direction. Most are useless, often very harmful, a "downfall" (
niraya) of needless suffering not conducive to growth.

It is much better to suffer a little here (as by restraining ourselves or delaying gratification) rather than always trying to gratify our ego and having to pay the high price for it later -- due to our ignorance (delusion), greed (craving), and aversion (hatred, anger, fear).

It is remarkable that the council or collective being channeled by Cayce understood this so well, even if they keep speaking of a "soul" as if that were a fixed and permanent reality when it is not. But it sure will seem that way to anyone who develops the third eye (dibba cakkhu) to see beings being reborn according to their actions, because psychic powers like telepathy or the "divine eye" do not impart enlightenment or liberating wisdom without the path-of-practice and purification the Buddha spent 45 years teaching to the world.

With those practices (the 37 Requisites of Enlightenment), one can see what gives rise to rebirth, the illusion that the gandhabba (the continuity of the impersonal consciousness process) is a "soul," that all things are impermanent, disappointing, and impersonal, which will naturally cause one to let go of clinging and thereby be freed of all further suffering.

Meg, stop. You're causing the wheel to go round.
As that is far from the path most beings are pursuing, there is no reason to think anyone is headed for enlightenment and nirvana anytime soon. However, in the meantime, one can be reborn in a better world, in a safer world, a heaven, far from the subhuman planes of rebirth, which are full of suffering that is far worse than we meet with here in this middling human world that has as much suffering as pleasure, as much opportunity for wisdom as oppression.

Edgar Cayce reveals: Which spiritual realm am I in based on my level of spiritual evolution?
Cycling through major 31 planes
(Soul In Reflection) Aug. 3, 2025: Edgar Cayce, America's greatest psychic, documented exactly which spiritual realm our soul will inhabit based on our current consciousness level through over 14,000 psychic readings.

This shocking revelation from the Akashic Records shows how souls [the consciousness stream assumed to be the same person life after life, which in fact is not ultimately the same being yet it is not another] get trapped in lower dimensions for centuries and the specific practices that can elevate our spiritual frequency instantly.

Christ consciousness?
Discover the consciousness mirror technique that reveals our exact spiritual evolution level in under five minutes.

Learn why some Atlantean souls incarnated now to help humanity's massive evolutionary leap. Cayce's documented cases prove that REAL forgiveness is the master key unlocking higher spiritual realms.

Find out which of the seven spiritual planes you're destined for and how to accelerate your soul's evolution in this lifetime.

We've all been trying to tell you these things.
Based on authentic readings from the Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E. at edgarcayce.org) archives in Virginia Beach. Our spiritual evolution determines our eternal destiny.

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Thursday, July 31, 2025

Five past lives of Jesus (Edgar Cayce)

  1. Amilius (spirit in Atlantis)
  2. Enoch (Old Testament prophet)
  3. Melchizedek, priest-king
  4. Joseph, son of Jacob, in ancient Egypt
  5. Joshua, spiritual warrior in Israel after Moses

Middle Eastern Jesus as young Nordic
Did Jesus (Saint Issa, Yeshua, Jehoshua) travel to India, Persia, and Tibet to continue his spiritual education outside of Bethlehem and the Nazarenes (vegan/vegetarians) and Essenes? Did he in fact, as Cayce reported during trance channeled readings, have past lives (rebirths) to develop the qualities he would need to become a Christ figure ("Messiah," Maitreya figure) in his most recent human life like some kind of Buddhist bodhisattva?

Thursday, July 10, 2025

First 40 days after death; Bardo Thodol



Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?
Edgar Cayce was once America's "Sleeping Prophet," a healer who channeled many healers, guides, and a mysterious consortium of helpful beings trying to give a message to humanity and those who came seeking cures and answers as to why they were sick. The cures were provided in many case studies preserved by the A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment) in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The reason for strange illnesses that didn't seem to have a cause was often found to be past karma from past lives. Cayce was a Protestant Christian. He didn't believe in past lives, as that did not seem biblical nor in line with the belief system of the official church. He, however, studied the Bible and saw that it did teach that there were past lives and it certainly taught that karma (sowing what we reap) was real and an official position of the church today. His psychic abilities were present from childhood, but his greatest power came when he stepped out of the way in a trance like state (mistaken for sleeping) when he channeled information for those seeking it for themselves or others. He worked on much more than health and wellness. He predicted wars, discoveries, stock market trends, and even engineering through remote viewing, once going through a bridge to find defects in its construction. Cayce, who live a century ago, is alive and well today, reborn as David Wilcock (divinecosmos.com). You or anyone can talk to him and ask him questions about that life or this, as he is glad to answer. We almost traveled to Egypt with him to see the pyramids. He is now very busy with his ongoing research and his show on Gaia.com TV. (How can we know Cayce was reborn as Wilcock? Author Wynn Free proved it in his book on the subject, The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?: Interdimensional Communication and Global Transformation).

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Bardo Thodol
(ReligionForBreakfast) What is the "Tibetan Book of the Dead"? The Tibetan Book of the Dead, or the Bardo Thodol, is arguably the most popular Vajrayana Buddhist text in Europe and the United States. Freud's protege Carl Jung loved it. So did Beatle John Lennon. But why? What is this text all about?

Sources
  • Lopez, Donald S. Jr. The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Biography. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011.
  • Coleman, Graham, and Thupten Jinpa, eds. The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation. Translated by Gyurme Dorje. New York: Penguin Random House, 2005.
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Monday, July 7, 2025

Science: Origin of Mexico and Olmecs

Black ET "civilization bringers" (Graham Hancock)

Scientists discover the real origin of the Olmecs, who were previously supposed to be Blacks arriving from Africa and setting up a civilization on the American continent.

Were the Olmecs Africans?


Mother culture: Olmecs preceded other big civilizations. Nahuatl not Spanish is native language.
In Sept. 1930, NY Times published story of Mexican Sphinx, pyramids, Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Jaw-dropping MEXICAN ancestry and DNA results revealed

Can faces be explained without Africa?
(Mysterious Origins) Before the arrival of the genocidal Spanish in 1519, Mexico and Central America (including Panama, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Belize, and Guatemala) was home to some of the most advanced civilizations in the world, including the Maya, Aztec, Zapotec, and Mixtec peoples.

These civilizations built clean, massive, and complex cities that amazed the Spanish, developed sophisticated writing and calendrical systems, and engaged in extensive trade networks.


We first came from Aztlan overseas/inner earth
However, the Spanish conquest, led by the infamous Conquistador Hernán Cortés, resulted in a dramatic transformation of the region for the worse.

The collision of these two civilizations — indigenous Mesoamerican (southern North American) societies and European imperial ambition — resulted in the creation of modern Latino identity, a blending of indigenous and Spanish/European bloodlines.

What about the ruling ET monsters?
Colonization brought not only a new language, religion, and customs but also a reshaping of political and social structures, often at the expense of indigenous autonomy.

The conquest nearly wiped out these Native groups, but indigenous cultures proved remarkably resilient, influencing everything from language and cuisine to spirituality and artistic traditions.

SOURCES
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