Admiral Byrd mission: last survivor speaks

(UNITY) Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. wrote a diary that was replaced by the CIA (or its predecessor organization OSS) then hidden away until, possibly, his son released the real, unredacted original version after his father's passing. It recounts what Byrd found -- a very advanced civilization living in Agartha (our Hollow Earth) as spoken of in Hindu and Buddhist texts. The momentous mission was Operation Highjump (about The Secret Land)

Lost Cannabis of the Silk Road: Stans

Field of dreams...greens (hemp)

(Strain Hunters) The Lost Cannabis of the Silk Road, Kyrgyzstan Expedition | Strain Hunters, Episode 1.

• What does Buddhism have to do with Central Asia?
• Buddhism in Kyrgyzstan
• The historical Buddha and this iteration of "Buddhism" (the timeless, rediscovered Dharma) was born in ancient Gandhara (the three seasonal capitals collectively referred to as "Kapilavastu" (Pali Kapilavatthu and Kapilapura) not Nepal, but modern Afghanistan -- Bamiyan, Kabul, Mes Aynak -- and Pakistan and Bihar, India, near Himalayan foothill regions of the Hindu Kush and Kashmir)
• Though born here, modern scholars imagine a Silk Road transmission of Buddhism
• The wandering ascetic (shramana) Siddhartha awakened in Bodh Gaya ("Enlightenment Grove"), Bihar (Vihar), but at that time there was no "India." That came into being when many disparate kingdoms and republics were untied under Buddhist Emperor Ashoka. Prior to the many mahajanapadas or "familial territories" (lit. "greater territorial clan footholds").
• Soon after awakening (mahabodhi or "great enlightenment"), the Buddha (the "Awakened One") returned to his hometown in Central Asia, Kapilavastu (quite likely Bamiyan, according to Indian historian Dr. Ranajit Pal) and gained many Scythian/Shakyian/Saka followers, many who took up a life of wandering asceticism and followed him back to Bihar (Vihar'), so named because there were at one time so many viharas (Buddhist temples, monasteries and nunneries, and chaityas) across the land.
• Technically speaking, "Buddhism" was born in Rajgir, India, where the great former-Brahmin Buddhist monk Maha Kassapa called together the First Buddhist Council to standardize and create a formal "religion" or "Eastern philosophy"
• The Kharosthi (Gandhari) language texts (Gandhāran Buddhist texts) are the world's oldest known Buddhist texts.

The only three connections of cannabis (ganja, marijuana, herb, flower, pot, weed) to Buddhism that we are aware of are indirect and not very connected to enlightenment, but some users of this plant treat them as if they are connected.

The first is possible but unlikely. Potheads are convinced -- either through wishful thinking, speculation, or some handed down mythology that got stretched to enhance cannabis' glorious reputation -- that when the wandering ascetic Siddhartha (the Bodhisatta or Future Buddha) was engaged in severe asceticism, he took less and less food until he was down to just one cannabis seed a day. This would have been a healthy choice because hemp is so incredibly nutritious, though not likely psychoactive.

• Hempseeds are extraordinary because they are one of a very few plant sources of balanced Omega 3, 6, and 9 fatty acids plus a great source of protein.
• To emphasize how dedicated struggling Siddhartha was to attaining Buddhahood, his austerities (tapas), penances, and asceticism are spoken of in the extreme to make a point. He ate a bowlful of grain (most often said to have been rice or sesame maybe mustard seed). Then regarding that as too indulgent, he took only a handful...until he took only a single grain a day. That didn't work to gain him calm, insight, or enlightenment, and he gave all of these practices up for the Middle Way that avoids extremes of hedonism and asceticism. He realized that jhana practice was the way to awakening/liberation, serving as the foundation of insight (vipassana, lit. "clear seeing").

Rules, rules, rules

Fat Happy addict Homer (olioart.com)

The second is a curious omission in the Monastic Disciplinary Code (Vinaya and Pāṭimokkha and Pratimokṣa), such as one freely available translation by American Theravada monk Ven. Thanissaro Bhikkhu (abbot of Metta Forest Monastery, San Diego), which states and explains (with a backstory) all the rules Buddhist monks and nuns vow to live by.

There are major rules, lesser rules (which might be described as "minor"), and many more miscellaneous rules of etiquette. Which is which is not completely obvious.

When Ananda was told by the Buddha that after his passing into final nirvana, the monastic order (sangha), could democratically vote to alter or abandon the "minor rules" but not the others. Ananda did not have the presence of mind to clarify by asking which were which, so the historically-based Theravada tradition chose to keep them all. But Buddhist Councils debate, argue, and attempt to define or redefine them, even on occasion voting to modify or better explain them. For instance, maybe in the past monastics walked or were driven, but today a rule might be relaxed to allow them to drive.

Among arguably "minor" rules is a rule that monastics can smoke [such as tobacco], but what exactly they would have been smoking in those days is not thoroughly specified. They can smoke something. So a monk or nun might smoke hemp leaf, THC-containing weed, or herbs and flowers and grass and think that no violation (of the rules they live by as laid down by the historical Buddha) is taking place.

(It may well be that cannabis was not very powerful back then so that it made little difference). Smoking weed would be taking a risk because one of the biggest rules incumbent on all Buddhists is the Fifth Precept to "abstain from intoxicants that occasion heedlessness," namely beer and liquor.

• The way the rules are classified is by way of seriousness and their consequences. As regards the most serious, there are FOUR "defeat offenses" (parajikas). This is a little odd because these four are the Five Precepts with one exception. The only one left out is the fifth, consuming intoxicants, getting high, taking a substance that occasions heedlessness (which mean breaking other rules through neglect, indifference, lack of mindfulness, or the ignorance that comes from being high a.k.a. tripping balls). Isn't it odd that getting intoxicated does not rise to a "defeat" offense but all the others do? Because of intoxication, one is likely to commit any of the other offenses, including the defeat offenses of sex, stealing, killing, or lying [about attainments] that immediately and irrevocably lead one to lose one's ordination as a monk or nun for this lifetime.

What is the drug?

The Path of Purification

The third is related but tangential. There is the existence of an entheogenic elixir (an amrita or Greek ambrosia) called soma (an Indo-Aryan combination of natural "drugs" such as divine cannabis, of some extraordinary strain, Asian blue lotus or Egyptian blue lotus, fermented mare's milk or kumis, and other variants, perhaps psychoactive mushrooms or other DMT-containing ingredients, plus additives to process, enhance, or preserve it).

• Texts describe the preparation of soma by means of extracting juice from a plant, the identity of which is now unknown and debated among scholars. The ancient Historical Vedic religion's soma and Zoroastrianism's haoma (Avestan, name of the drink and plant) are not exactly the same [7].
• There has been much speculation about the most likely original botanical.
• Some accounts, such as those from practitioners of yogic Ayurveda, Siddha medicine, and Somayajna, identify the plant as "Somalata" (Cynanchum acidum) [8].
• Some researchers have proposed candidates including:
• Amanita muscaria (Fly agaric shamanic mushroom),
• Psilocybin (magic mushrooms),
• Peganum harmala (the alkaloid harmaline), and
• Ephedra gerardiana.
• [Into this or as a later substitute, it is believed cannabis was steeped in mare's milk kumis, perhaps a "poor man's soma."]
• So legendary is soma in the West that The Doors of Perception author Aldous Huxley used it as a central ingredient in his novel Brave New World, suggesting that the word refers to a psychoactive, entheogenic, psychedelic substance similar to mescaline, derived from cacti like peyote and San Pedro. But these might only be substitutes for the real thing because the character Linda tries mescal (the psychedelic protoalkaloid mescaline) and peyotl (peyote) and longs to get back to the World State and real soma.
• The society described in Brave New World keeps its citizens peaceful by various methods, including the constant consumption of the soothing, happiness-producing drug "soma."
• Botanical identity of soma–haoma

Zoroastrians use a soma to this day, identified as the plant ephedra, whose effects mirror the descriptions found in the Rig Veda [a pre-Hindu Brahminical text of great importance to Hindus].

The old Vedic religion was the belief system of some of the Vedic Indo-Aryan tribes, the Aryas (Aryans) [14][15], who migrated into the Indus River Valley region of the Indian subcontinent [16].

• [To be clear, the word Aryan, "noble," came to designate "enlightened" in Buddhist usage rather than being any kind of reference to race, ethnicity, or "Iranian" usage from which it originally derived.]
• The Buddha was a self-proclaimed Aryan [his mother, Maha Maya Gautami, being Iranian (from Sistan-Baluchistan, according to Dr. Ranajit Pal in his most remarkable book Non-Jonesian Indology), a descendant of the "Solar Race" (The Story of the Lineage or translation of the Nidanakatha in Buddhist Birth Stories by T.W. Rhys Davids).

Sakka, King of the Devas

The Indo-Aryans were speakers of a branch of the Indo-European language family, which originated in the Sintashta culture and further developed into the Andronovo culture, which in turn developed out of the Kurgan culture of the Central Asian steppes [17].

The Vedic beliefs and practices of the pre-classical era were closely related to the hypothesized Proto-Indo-European religion [18, Note 1] and show relations with rituals from the Andronovo culture, from which the Indo-Aryan people descended [14].

Sakka in Christianity: St. Michael

According to Anthony, the Old Indic religion probably emerged among Indo-European immigrants in the contact zone between the Zeravshan River (present-day Uzbekistan) and (present-day) Iran [19].

It was "a syncretic mixture of old Central Asian and new Indo-European elements" [19], which borrowed "distinctive religious beliefs and practices" [11] from the Bactria–Margiana culture (BMAC) [11].

This syncretic influence is supported by at least 383 non-Indo-European words that were borrowed from this culture, including the god Indra [Sakka] and the ritual drink Soma [12]. According to Anthony:

"Many of the qualities of Indo-Iranian god of might and victory Verethraghna were transferred to the adopted god Indra [Sakka of the Sakas], who became the central deity of the developing Old Indic culture.

Indra was the subject of 250 hymns, a quarter of the Rig Veda. He was associated more than any other deity with Soma, a stimulant drug (perhaps derived from ephedra) probably borrowed from the BMAC religion. His rise to prominence was a peculiar trait of the Old Indic speakers [20]." More: Soma (drink)

• Strain Hunters; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Amber Larson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Trouble at Burning Man, 9 days, 2025

Massive dust storm rips through ‘Burning Man’ festival in Nevada

(NBC News) Aug. 24, 2025: Heavy winds in Nevada caused a massive dust storm that flipped tents and wiped out camps at the “Burning Man” festival in makeshift Black Rock City. NBC News’ Liz Kreutz has the latest. For more context and news coverage of the most important stories of our day, see: nbcnews.com. #burningman #duststorm #nevada

What's it like in real life?

How much does it really cost to attend?

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Before the Burn: Build Week @ Burning Man

There is a Burning Man that no one sees. It's called Build Week. Welcome to Pre-Burn 2025. Sad Boy Sean Rakidzich introduces the scene. Aug. 21, 2025: Welcome to Burning Man. Come have a look behind the scenes as we build the burn. #burningman2025 #burner #blackrockcity

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Nevada cops (SAT sexual assault team) come in to harsh the mellow

Oldest art on Earth twice as old as Europe's

Borneo (/bore-nee-yo/) is the third-largest island in the world, with an area of 288,869 square miles (748,168 km2) and a population of 23,053,723 (2020 national censuses) [1, 2, 3]. Situated at the geographic center of Maritime Southeast Asia, it is one of the Greater Sunda Islands, located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and east of Sumatra. The island is crossed by the equator, which divides it roughly in half. More

• Human drawings found inside two-billion-year-old African impact crater

CAVES: Borneo has significant cave systems. In Sarawak, the Clearwater Cave has one of the world's longest underground rivers while Deer Cave is home to over three million bats, with guano accumulated to over 330 feet (100 meters) deep [28]. The Gomantong Caves in Sabah have been dubbed the "Cockroach Caves" due to the presence of millions of cockroaches inside [29, 30]. The Gunung Mulu National Park in Sarawak and Sangkulirang-Mangkalihat Karst in East Kalimantan have karst areas that contain thousands of smaller caves [31].

History of Borneo: the original headhunters

ANCIENT HUMAN ART: Scientists reported the discovery of the oldest known figurative art painting, over 40,000 years old (perhaps as old as 52,000 years old), of an unknown (bull) animal, in the cave of Lubang Jeriji Saléh on the island of Borneo in Nov. 2018 [52, 53]. It has been proposed, based on house construction styles, linguistic, and genetic evidence, that Madagascar may have been first populated from southern Borneo. More

• In Cave in Borneo Jungle, Scientists Find Oldest Figurative Painting in the World (The New York Times | Ghostarchive)
• Palaeolithic cave art in Borneo (Astrophysics Data System)

Science?

Gold standard peer reviewed publication

Figurative cave paintings from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi date to at least 35,000 years ago (ka) and hand-stencil art from the same region has a minimum date of 40 ka1. Here we show that similar rock art was created during essentially the same time period on the adjacent island of Borneo. Uranium-series analysis of calcium carbonate deposits that overlie a large reddish-orange figurative painting of an animal at Lubang Jeriji Saléh-a limestone cave in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo-yielded a minimum date of 40 ka, which to our knowledge is currently the oldest date for figurative artwork from anywhere in the world. In addition, two reddish-orange-coloured hand stencils from the same site each yielded a minimum uranium-series date of... Source: Palaeolithic cave art in Borneo (PubMed)

The Oldest art on Earth: Discovered in a hidden Borneo cave

(documentalism) May 19, 2025: Deep in the rainforests of Indonesian Borneo, a scientist has uncovered ancient secrets hidden in unmapped limestone caves. Join Steve Backshall and an expedition team as it battles through jungle to film what is the oldest figurative cave art ever discovered — dated as being up to 50,000 years old.

This was one of the most memorable expeditions I have ever directed and filmed. It is an amazing privilege to have worked with such an amazing and competent team. In memory of the brilliant Pak Pindi Setiawan. Huge thanks to Steve Backshall, Pak Pindi Setiawan, Aldo Kane, the whole filming team and True To Nature, UKTV, FMI. Watch the full episode on the BBC: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002... Watch more wild expeditions: u.co.uk/shows/expedition-with... #Borneo #CaveArt #Expedition #AncientHistory #SteveBackshall

• Steve Backshall, documentalism, May 19, 2025; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Science solving mysteries of Amazon

UPDATE: Titanic tour sub ticket price drops

Christina Randall, 6/20; BBC News, A Current Affair, WSJ, 6/20/23; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

(WQ) Do people know what an implosion is? Most do not. It is an explosion. Why? When the pressure outside is greater and a crack forms, the pressurized space collapsing with tremendous force. So forceful is the collapse, the implosion, that it immediately causes an explosion. Try it. Take a fluorescent bulb or better an old TV tube. Set up a high-speed camera. Then make a crack in it with, say, a baseball bat. Now play the tape back in slow motion. See how the tube draws in then immediately, with explosive force, shoots out? That is an implosion, which triggers an explosion. So what happened at the bottom of the sea or below the water at some as yet unknown depth? The pressure outside the submersible capsule got too great. At the bottom, where the Titanic sits, the depth is 4,000 feet. And the pressure is 6,000 lbs. per square inch. That means that one inch of the sub is bearing the weight of two SUVs, and this is true for every inch of the sub. When it cracks -- and it was bound to crack because it was only built to withstand pressure to a depth of 1,300 feet, according to reports coming in. The sub had been used multiple time, each time pressurizing and decompressing it, which would apparently weaken the structure. It would, therefore, not take much to instantaneously cave in and immediately obliterate the contents as the sub descended. It was doomed. And the view from it is bad, very bad, with just one small hole at the tip for everyone to look out of, no seats, and nothing to do but get claustrophobia and cold, in the dark and praying to get through it. Now they've been reborn. Will anyone else be taking the tour?

UPDATE: Five missing after Titanic sub "Titan" disappears in Atlantic Ocean | OceanGate

(Christina Randall) June 20, 2023. As a search and rescue mission continues for a private submersible that went missing while on an expedition to explore the wreckage of the Titanic, more is emerging about its five passengers. Among the confirmed passengers are British businessman Hamish Harding; Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his teenage son, Suleman; and French explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet. Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate, the company that operates the vessel, is also inside it, the BBC reports. OceanGate billed this trip as an opportunity to "become one of the few to see the Titanic with your own eyes." The company said the fee for securing a seat on the vessel was $250,000.00 (a quarter million U.S. dollars), according to its website. The trip was billed as more than mere tourism, however. OceanGate notes that each of its dives has a scientific purpose. More from CBS News: cbsnews.com/news/who-is-o...

Missing Titanic sub has 40 hours of oxygen left says US Coast Guard

(BBC News) June 20, 2023. A tourist experimental submersible (not actual submarine) that went missing on a visit to the wreck of the Titanic with five people on board has just 40 hours of air left, the U.S. Coastguard says.

The search to locate the small, deep-diving vessel is ongoing after it lost contact while diving near the wreckage of the Titanic.

The research vessel Polar Prince lost contact with the crew of the Titan sub an hour and 45 minutes into its dive.

Tour firm OceanGate said it was exploring all options [including discounted prices for future voyages to the bottom of the sea?] to get the crew back safely.

Government agencies have joined the rescue operation. #Titanic #Titan #BBCNews

COMMENTARY

Tectonic plates deep underwater

Gallows humor is the worst humor, but sometimes it's the only thing for a tragic situation -- a helpless tragedy as people are dying, and the whole world is helpless to save them. That's capitalism, that's freedom, that's adventure. Climbing Mt. Everest (or the possibly taller K2) involves risks, real risks. That's the thrill, that's the accomplishment Should free agents like OceanGate be stopped because daredevils died? An airline was taken down and the bodies of the deceased never recovered; therefore, we must all stop flying commercially. It's too dangerous! We need regulations, a nanny state, restriction. Let's join forces to end travel by sea, submarine, and airplane. We need to walk and take trains. Wait, no, trains are too dangerous. Just look at Ohio and India. It's foot traffic and bikes, but all bikes must have training wheels attached, and everyone must from now on wear safety helmets. Can ya imagine? So the only question left is, Might they find Osama bin Laden's fake corpse down there? How about that diamond? And how much of a discount are we talking about? It was $250,000.00 a ticket before. Half-price now?

Ultimate Expedition: Travel to Peru (video)

Ultimate Expedition (Dudesons 2018); Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

 
We’ve All Got A Screw Loose

Ultimate Expedition (S1 • E1), YouTube Red Originals (free episode), partner rating TV14

Nine strangers travel to Huaraz, Peru, to face the biggest challenge of their lives, the 20,000-foot Mt. Tocllaraju. But first they must acclimate to high elevation or the expedition will be over before it can even begin. For those outside of the United States, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, and South Korea, click here for more details on availability in those countries.

Mount Tocllaraju's highest peak as viewed from Refugio Ishinca (en.wikipedia.org)

Possibly the greatest mystery place in the world, certainly in Peru: Gate of the Gods

Hollow Earth Expedition: Tesla (video)

Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; Disclosure Nation, April 6, 2017

Dr. Brooks Agnew of Pasadena is a supporter of the theory that our planet, like many others, is hollow. This inner plane was known in Ancient India as Agartha, the Inner-Earth. Dr. Agnew wrote a book about it, The Ark of Millions of Years, and planned an expedition on a Russian ship. But American powers-that-be found out and would not stand for it. They placed restrictions on the expedition until it had to be pushed back and possibly forever derailed. There is another publication on the topic, the book Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surface by U.S. author David Standish.

All about the Inner-Earth
Crystalinks.com edited and expanded by Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly

Agartha (also Agartta, Agharti, or Agarttha) is a legendary place that is said to reside at the Earth's core. It is related to the Hollow Earth theory and is a popular subject in esotericism.

Agartha is one of the most common names cited for the society of underground dwellers. Buddhist Shambala (also known as Shangri-La) is sometimes said to be its capital city.
 
The mythical paradise of Shambala is known under many different names: It has been called the Forbidden Land, the Land of White Waters, the Land of Radiant Spirits [NOTE: devas or deities in Buddhism literally means "shining ones"], the Land of Living Fire, the Land of the Living Gods, and the Land of Wonders.

Hindus have known it as Aryavartha (literally, "The Land or Realm of The Aryans," which means "The Land of the Noble or Worthy Ones") -- the land from which the Vedas [sacred texts of the Indus Valley Civilization, which has entrances in the Himalayas and around the ancient cities of the IVC].

The Chinese know it as Hsi Tien, "The Western Paradise" of Hsi Wang Mu, the Royal Mother of the West.

Russian Old Believers, a 19th-century Christian sect, knew it as Belovodye, and the Kirghiz people knew it as Janaidar. But throughout Asia it is best known by its Sanskrit name, Shambhala, meaning "the place of peace, of tranquillity."

While once a popular concept, in the last century little serious attention has been paid (with the possibly apocryphal exception of Adolf Hitler's interest when he and Nazi officials visited Buddhist Tibet and other places of ancient legend in search of artifacts, sacred texts, and remaining technology).

The theory is not yet supported by popular science, but that is not to say that compartments of our government are ignorant of its existence as entered from its Antarctic portal. [Dr. Brooks Agnew and others planned an Arctic expedition, and U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd entered via plane and was welcomed by advanced inhabitants during Operation Highjump.]

Map of Agartha (Atvatabar) from a fictionalized account by Wm. R. Bradshaw, 1892 (wiki)

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The idea of subterranean worlds may have been inspired by ancient religious beliefs in Hades, Sheol, and hell. Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski's 1920 book Beasts, Men, and Gods also discusses Agartha.

Chakravatin, 1st cent. BCE (Guimet)

The myth of "Agartha" is also known as "Shambhala," as it is known in India, the underworld realm populated by initiates and lead by "the Masters," who are the spiritual leaders of humanity.

• [This is possibly the source of Buddhist and more ancient Vedic-Brahminical chakravartins, "world monarchs." The Buddhist King Asoka, who became emperor of India with successive conquests, is called a world monarch, perhaps as an honorific title because it is unlikely that he actually was one. This lore was exploited by Hitler's Minister of Propaganda, Josef Goebbels, to promote a Germanic "Aryan" race and the idea of the Furher becoming the "ruler of the world" under Nazi domination. What gives a chakravartin power is a space ship or flying saucer described as a thousand-spoked "wheel" (chakra) flying overhead into battle where people surrender at the site of the invader's superior force so that no force has to be used. So important is this symbol that it is found at the center of the modern Indian flag. In Buddhism it is replaced by an eight-spoked Wheel of the Dharma, and presumably replaced by the ancient swastika for the Nazis, who modified it and used it as a corporate logo allegedly designed by Hitler using black, white, and red elements. It makes more sense that the swastika is a stand in for vril power, for which Aldebaran-Oracle Maria Orsich's Vril Society used a V-symbol.]

Agartha is the great Asian University of the Initiates of the Greater Mysteries. Their Mahatma ("Great Soul"), who is also known as "The Lord of The World," plays the part of the supreme spiritual leader of humanity [monarch of this earthly realm].

According to Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre (1842-1909) of France, the secret world of "Agartha" and all of its wisdom and wealth "will be accessible for all mankind, when Christianity lives up to the commandments which were once drafted by Moses and Jesus, meaning "When the Anarchy which exists in our world is replaced by the Synarchy."
 

Saint-Yves gives a "lively" description of Agartha in this book as if it were a place which really exists, situated in the Himalayas in Tibet.
 

Saint-Yves' version of the history of "Agartha" is based upon "revealed" information, meaning received by Saint-Yves himself through "attunement." Saint-Yves d'Alveydre created the Archaeometre.
 

Shambhala concept figures prominently in Vajrayana Buddhism and Tibetan Kalachakra teachings and was revived in the West by Madame Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society. As with many concepts in Vajrayana Buddhism, the idea of Shambhala is said to have an outer, inner, and secret meanings.

The outer meaning understands Shambhala to exist as a physical place, although only individuals with the appropriate karma can reach it and experience it as such.

• [Admiral Byrd had such karma, according to his account of why he was welcomed by the inhabitants, and he was asked to spread the message of its existence, but his words fell on military ears that had no interest in spreading the truth to others outside of the military and government.]

There are various ideas about where this society is located, but it is often placed in Central Asia.

• [This is where the Buddha was born and where legend holds that his karma -- as well as that of his son, Rahula, and his cousin and monastic attendant, Ananda -- was sufficient to become a "world monarch" had they not renounced the throne and pursued enlightenment and liberation instead].

One of the entrances to Agartha, Tibet's Potala Palace in the capital Lhasa, now in China.

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The little pope, 14th Dalai Lama (TIME)

Some say it is north of Tibet, while others maintain that there is a direct entrance down into Agartha at the Buddhist Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet, Vajrayana Buddhism's former "Vatican," as it were, with the Dalai Lama as "pope," prior to Chinese invasion, pillaging, and desecration.

• [The Himalayan foothills extend west to another range now referred to as the Hindu Kush, which is actually part of the Himalayan range. The Buddha, according to Dr. Ranajit Pal, was born and raised in what today is Bamiyan, Afghanistan and two other royal seasonal residences (possibly Mes Aynak and Kabul/Kabil/Kapilavastu, according to Dhr. Seven and the editors of Wisdom Quarterly).]

The inner and secret meanings refer to more subtle understandings of what Shambhala represents, which are generally passed on by oral tradition. Theosophist Alice Bailey transformed it into a kind of extradimensional or spiritual reality. The Roerichs see its existence as both spiritual and physical.
 
The Hollow Earth or hollow planet theory is also supported by superconscious knowledge based channeled sources of universal nature like Seth channeled by Jane Roberts, Ramtha by J.Z. Knight, and Datre by Aona. More

China does everything better (even Bigfoot)

October is "Monster Month" on Wisdom Quarterly

China's Yiren, "Wild Man," in Buddhist lore a Yakkha, "ogre," like the Himalayan Yeti

There's an expression about "giving the devil his due." China may be the devil in this case -- atrocities in Tibet and other ethnic provinces and getting ready to consume the consumer world -- and it deserves its due. It does everything better nowadays. It crushes the US economy (by our unpayable debt), rules exports, builds staggering supercomputers, dams, bullet trains, space programs, railroads in the Himalayas, and even accepts WalMart's penny pinching prices.

• China boasts world's fastest supercomputer, beating US

Now it undertakes a fame-making, legend-busting breakthrough -- proving that Bigfoot exists once and for all. Except in China Bigfoot is known as the Wild Man. [We maintain these creatures found around the world are yakkhas, ogres in Buddhist cosmology, a kind of intelligent ape, gorilla, simian somewhere between a human and a bonobo.] Recent discoveries of a new kind of monkey in Burma and a langur in Indonesia may be news to science, but it isn't news to the locals.

Inhabitants of mountains and forests know abominable Bigfoot creatures exist as guardians of the natural environment and possess intuition or a sixth sense that has allowed them to evade confirmed detection. Not that any proof short of many corpses and endless DNA samples, acceptance by "experts" and officials, will really convince anyone at this point. We don't really want to believe. And when we're forced to, we'll say we knew all along.

China to search for elusive "Bigfoot"

(Fox News) North America has its Sasquatch "Bigfoot," [Nepal has its Yeti, "Abominable Snowman"], and China has its [Yiren] "Wild Man."

A group of Chinese scientists are on the hunt for the Yeren, the Chinese equivalent of our Bigfoot. Scientists and international researchers refer to the Yeren as "Wild Man" and are on a renewed quest to find him.

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Thirty years ago, China's Academy of Science sent three teams of researchers looking for the mysterious creature. Those teams turned up surprising results: hair, excrement, footprints, and a possible "Wild Man" sleeping nest. Alas, those findings weren't conclusive, so they areat it again.

This time around the members of the Hubei Wild Man Research Association are hoping to collect donations to help catch the legendary creature. They need $1.5 million to kick off the project.

This research is not without its merits. Over the years people have reported400 sightings of a reddish hair ape-like man that looks a lot like an Orangutan but stands nearly 7ft tall. Nicholas Redfern, one of the world's leading cryptozoologists, thinks this newest expedition in China is worthwhile because of the fossil record.

"A lot of monster stories can be traced back to myth and folk lore. What people don't know is that in this instance we actually have the fossil record of a large ape-like creature that lived in that area over 300,000 years ago," Redfern told FoxNews.com.

In fact, primatologists have jaw bones, teeth and other bones from a creature found in that area known as Gigantopithecus that would've measured nearly 9ft tall (but probably hunched like an ape). More>>