(Origins Explained) AI decoded ancient Sumerian texts and stone tablets (Latin being closer to Akkadian than English). Humans were NOT the first on Earth. There were "gods" (intelligent space beings) here before that. What is this Sumerian language writing system? The mythological story of "Adam and Eve" is older than the Christian and Jewish Bibles. Creation myth: the Enūma Elišh
How consciousness shapes the afterlife in Tibetan Buddhism
(Big Brain Wisdom) Dec. 4, 2025: Dive deeply into the profound teachings of the Bardo, the intermediate state, in this enlightening exploration of how thoughts shape reality after death.
How do thought become real after death? Let's uncover the intricate mechanisms that govern consciousness as it transitions from this life to the afterlife (the very next moment after death, the intermediary period before the next rebirth).
Discover how fear, desire, karma, and memory sculpt the post-death landscape, revealing the true power of awareness. Learn why mastery of the mind is essential for liberation and how the awakened navigate this ethereal realm.
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00:00:00 The threshold where thought becomes world
00:02:01 How the mind becomes the architect of entire realms
00:04:43 How thought solidifies into reality
00:07:38 The four forces shaping Bardo's reality
00:10:30 Why "souls" become trapped inside their own creations
00:13:13 The [dispassionate, unbiased] awareness that watches the dream
00:15:38 How the awakened move freely through the Bardo
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)
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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
Extraterrestrials have intervened many times.
Michael Cremo, the Forbidden Archeologist, has something to say to the contrary: Human life is FAR older on this earth (bhumi) than science yet admits. And "modern humans" are a misnomer because we are far older, according to ooparts and other pieces of inconvenient (and suppressed) evidence in the fossil and archeological record: We are not evolving but devolving and have been for hundreds of millions of years (in yugas and kalpas as declared by the Dharmic religions).
(MythVision Podcast) May 27, 2025: Uncover the hidden roots of the Garden of Eden narrative as we journey through ancient Near Eastern myths that shaped humanity's most influential story. In this episode, MythVision explores stunning parallels between Adam and Eve and earlier myths — Adapa’s lost immortality, Enkidu’s transformation from innocent harmony to wisdom, paradise gardens of Dilmun and the Cedar Forest, the rib-born Sumerian goddess Ninti, serpent-god Ningishzida, and ancient Canaanite myths. Discover how Genesis creatively appropriated and adapted these ancient motifs, challenging traditional views of biblical originality and history. #Adam #MythVision #Genesis[Adam is the Adama or Adamu, a generation of human beings, and the Garden of Aidenn is the Garden of Adam, of humankind.]
Meditation in Ireland: accelerated spiritual evolution
Black Irish beauty, hybrid ET?
Devi ET on stage in Thailand
Evidence of strange human hybrids revealed | Ancient Aliens
Cheddar Man, blue eyed, dark skinned original inhabitant of the British Isles + ET = Hybrid
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(HISTORY) May 21, 2025: Let's review the medical and scientific evidence for unusual hybrid (part human/part alien) species. This is an Ancient Aliens compilation from The HISTORY Channel. Watch full episodes and stay up to date on all of favorite shows on The HISTORY Channel website at history.com/schedule. #AncientAliens
Ancient Aliens, The HISTORY Channel, May 21, 2025; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
(Answers in Genesis) May 9, 2025: Where are the ancient ruins of North America (USA)? In Europe, they’re everywhere — castles, cathedrals, medieval cities. But in the USA, the historical attractions are all post-European arrivals. (They are all over Mexico, so let's call that part of pre-Hispanic North America "Mesoamerica" to make it seem far away and foreign).
In this video, Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson uncovers some surprising new discoveries about the ancient civilizations here in what is now the USA.
Dr. Jeanson’s book, They Had Names, is available at GetAnswers.org/new-discoveries-ancient-america
Today, Cahokia (earthworks, pyramids, mounds), Illinois, is considered the largest and most complex archeological site north of the great pre-Columbus cities in neighboring Mexico, just across the Gulf of America Mexico in places like the Yucatan Peninsula.
They Had Names: Tracing the History of the North American Indigenous People
Long before the Occupiers "Pilgrims" stormed landed at Cape Cod, what was happening in North America? Who was here? What civilizations rose and fell?
For years, the answers to these questions have been shrouded in mystery. At the time of European contact, a diverse world of Native America (indigenous, First Nations, "Indian") peoples thrived across this continent.
Who took the peaks off these pyramids?
What was their backstory? Who were the ancestors of the Sioux? Where did the Navajo come from? What about the Apache, the Comanche, the Cherokee?
They Had Names is the result of a multi-year deep dive into genetics, indigenous histories, archeology, and linguistics — an ambitious quest to uncover answers to these questions. More
ABOUT: Answers in Genesis is an apologetics (religion-defending) ministry dedicated to getting Christians to be defensive about their beliefs, faith, religion, and proclaim the good news of [Nordic] Jesus Christ effectively.
On its YouTube channel, find answers to pressing questions about key issues like creation, evolution, science, the age of the earth, and social issues. AIG desires to train believers to believe and develop a worldview based on the Bible and expose the bankruptcy of evolutionary ideas and their implications.
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Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson, Answers in Genesis, May 9, 2025; Xochitl, Sheldon S., Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Abraxas: The SECRET God more powerful than [Judeo-Christian] God and the Devil
(MorgueOfficial) Premiered March 29, 2025: Gnosticismis about secret (occulted, hidden) knowledge. There’s a secret god, more powerful than [the Christian] God and the Devil combined -- a god so blasphemous that for centuries merely whispering its name (Abraxas) could get one branded a heretic and hunted down.
Why isn't the powerful Creator God of the Vedas and Hinduism (Brahma) worshipped in India today?
Gnostic symbol: Abraxas?
But even though the Church tried to hide its existence, it has influenced everything from religion, secret societies, magick rituals, even modern psychology (like Carl Jung), and even Lady Gaga’s "Abracadabra." Let’s get started on the discovery of the hidden god called Abraxas.
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What proof is there for this claim? Everyone knows J was a killer, or was he? (jesusveg.com)
Why I know Jesus was vegetarian (vegan)
(James Tabor) In this interview with Derek Lambert, host of the Myth Vision Podcast, [Prof. Tabor] presents arguments, almost never explored (other than by Keith Akers and just a few others), that Jesus and his followers followed a vegetarian (vegan) diet and did not eat any living creature -- not even fish.
I realize there are a very few passages in the New Testament gospels -- three in total -- that imply otherwise, but they are late and do not stand any test of authenticity.
Q: What the difference between a vegetarian and a vegan? A: Neither word comes from the English word vegetable but rather from the Latin vegetus— "whole, sound, fresh, lively." A vegetarian eats no creatures but may eat creature products like dairy, whereas a vegan is purely plant-based, avoiding animal products and byproducts (many of which are hidden ingredients in common foods and products), often also avoiding leather and cruelty to animals of all kinds.
It is generally acknowledged that his cousin John the Baptizer -- as well as his [twin] brother James, who grew up in his household, never ate meat. But Jesus is made an exception by many.
In Eden, things were wonderful.
Jesus was in fact very much a "Back to Eden" figure who always emphasized, within the varieties of Judaism of his day, "from the beginning it has not been so."
Over the years I have noticed that people get very emotionally involved in dietary questions, every bit as much as the proverbial forbidden topics "religion and politics," as around the table discussions.
I hope folks [Christians] will objectively consider the undeniable evidence.
ABOUT: Dr. James Daniel Tabor, Ph.D. (jamestabor.com) is the founder and director of the Original Bible Project, a non-profit organization aiming to produce a new and reordered translation of the Bible in English. He is a retired professor of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he taught from 1989–2022 and where he was chair of the department from 2004–2014. He previously held positions at Ambassador College (1968–1970, while a student at Pepperdine University), the University of Notre Dame (1979–1985), and the College of William and Mary (1985–1989). More
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Deluded that we are a fair meritocracy with mistakes?
Guest Dr. Jordan Peterson, Hostess Anne McElvoy, Intelligence Squared (UK), May 24, 2018; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
It's not really space. But enjoy this artist's rendering as if it were (Shutterstock/Live Science)
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(Live Science) The Big Bang is commonly thought of as the start of it all: About 13.8 billion years ago, the observable universe went boom and expanded [popped] into being. [It did not expand into something, as there was nothing to expand into prior to that.]
But what were things like before the Big Bang?
Short answer: We don't know. Long answer: It could have been a lot of things, each mind-bending in its own way.
[What was the universe/multiverse like before the before? Only the Buddha knows, and some high-plane devas, and the people he told, and the rishis or "seers" of the Vedas and other knowledge books, given what they saw and were told by extraterrestrial visitors to the Indus Valley Civilization, Emperor Ashoka's Bharat/India. Science does not really want to know for knowing's sake but to argue and posit and prove with the evidence it finds convincing, never mind the actual Truth. Because what if the answer is too weird, like this all being a samsaric simulation, a trap, an endless cycle of karma and becoming in a loop, like Neitzche's nightmare scenario?]
The first thing to understand is what the Big Bang actually was.
"The Big Bang is a moment in time, not a point in space," said Sean Carroll, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech.edu) and author of The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning and the Universe Itself (Dutton, 2016).
[It is dumb for science to say there was a Big Bang and then define it as they do. It is like saying, "Religion and spirituality are stupid because they believe in miracles. We don't. So just give us this one miracle at the beginning, unexplained and inexplicable, and we promise not to resort to any more miracles after that. We'll explain everything else and define what is an isn't reality with reason and constructs hammered out by mere reasoning and then constantly update that picture with new ideas, theories, and assumptions, never getting anywhere but having fun and making lots of money along the way, unlike those stupid religionists and magicians talking their nonsense and mysticism.]
[There's a new beginning! It's called the Big Bounce, which isn't exactly new
The gods did it.
The Big Bang may not have been the beginning of the universe, according to a theory of cosmology that suggests the universe can “bounce” between phases of contraction and expansion. If that theory is true, then it could have profound implications about the nature of the cosmos, including two of its most mysterious components -- black holes and dark matter.
With this in mind, a recent study suggests that dark matter could be composed of black holes formed during a transition from the universe's last contraction to the current expansion phase, which occurred before the Big Bang.
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If this hypothesis holds, the gravitational waves generated during the black hole formation process might be detectable by future gravitational wave observatories, providing a way to confirm this dark matter generation scenario. (Ergo, we just figured out a way to make a lot more money, funding new kinds of super-expensive observatories. And while we're at it, we need a bigger electron collider.)
Observations of stellar movements in galaxies and the cosmic microwave background — an afterglow of the Big Bang — indicate that about 80% of all matter in the universe is dark matter, a substance that doesn't reflect, absorb, or emit light (even though it's all around us, not just off in deep space where we can't see it because it's so far away).
Oh, Buddha, give me some insight it all.
Despite its abundance, scientists have not yet identified what dark matter is made of. In the new study, researchers explored a scenario where dark matter consists of primordial black holes formed from density fluctuations that occurred during the universe's last contraction phase, not long before the period of expansion that we observe now.
Demiurge: Check it out, Chugs. Quiick, give me your lighter. I'm going to create something.
(Family Guy) God (Demiurge) created the universe
Thus, it's possible that the universe at the Big Bang was teeny-tiny or infinitely large, Carroll said, because there’s no way to look back in time at the stuff we can’t even see today.
[Dumb. All we do is look back. And there are ways of looking back, not to mention the beings who were there when it happened because the universe, this universe, is far older. And we live in a multiverse. And it is possible to know things by direct perception, but that requires purification of mind and development of the dibba cakkhu or "divine eye," the human capacity to exhibit marvelous powers of perception, even us, even now.]
All we really know is that it [It? What? The pre-universe, something was preexisting?] was very, very dense and that it very quickly got less dense.
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As a corollary, there really isn't anything outside the universe, because the universe is, by definition, everything.
[Unless we mean the multiverse, but they're separate, except for trans-dimensional travelers who have found a way to break through to other dimensions and universes, but they haven't told us how to do it, I mean they've told us, but they haven't gotten it published in a peer-reviewed journal of our liking and raked over the coals by friends of ours in the elite circles of The Academy who are gatekeepers to keep Truth and the riff-raff out, so until then there is just no way to be outside the All which is the Everything and the only Reality that we know of and can ever know.]
Question. Answer. I've got it!
So at the Big Bang, everything was denser and hotter than it is now, but there was no more an "outside" of it than there is today. As tempting as it is to take a godlike view and imagine you could stand in a void and look at the scrunched-up baby universe right before the Big Bang, that would be impossible, Carroll said.
The universe didn't expand into space; space [you know, that stuff that is nothing but holds everything, defined as the delimiting distance between things, yeah, that stuff] itself expanded.
"No matter where you are in the universe, if you trace yourself back 14 billion years, you come to this point where it was extremely hot, dense, and rapidly expanding," he said.
No one knows exactly what was happening in the universe until 1 second after the Big Bang, when the universe cooled off enough for protons and neutrons to collide and stick together.
Many scientists [that we approve of and never mind the others] do think that the universe went through a process of exponential expansion called inflation during that first second. This would have smoothed out the fabric of space-time and could explain why matter is so evenly distributed in the universe today.
Before the bang
Secret life before the BIG bang
It's possible that before the Big Bang, the universe was an infinite stretch of an ultrahot, dense material, persisting in a steady state until, for some reason, the Big Bang occurred.
This extra-dense universe [the previous universe before the current universe] may have been governed by quantum mechanics, the physics of the extremely small scale, Carroll said.
The Big Bang, then, would have represented the moment that classical physics took over as the major driver of the universe's evolution. [What is Quantum Mechanics?]
Try hedonism. I liked it.
For [horndog atheist] Stephen Hawking, this moment was all that mattered: Before the Big Bang, he said, events are unmeasurable, and thus undefined. Hawking called this the no-boundary proposal: Time and space, he said, are finite, but they don’t have any boundaries or starting or ending points, the same way that the planet Earth is finite but has no edge.
"Since events before the Big Bang have no observational consequences, one may as well cut them out of the theory and say that time began at the Big Bang," he said in an interview on the National Geographic show "StarTalk" in 2018.
Or perhaps there was something else before the Big Bang that's worth pondering. One idea is that the Big Bang isn't the beginning of time, but rather that it was a moment of symmetry.
In this idea, prior to the Big Bang, there was another universe, identical to this one but with entropy increasing toward the past instead of toward the future.
Increasing entropy, or increasing disorder in a system, is essentially the arrow of time, Carroll said, so in this mirror universe, time would run opposite to time in the modern universe and our universe would be in the past.
[Strangely, the mathematical functions and Einstein's equations do not have an arrow and therefore time can run in either direction without violating math rules or fundamental quantum mechanics, what with retro-causation even being shown to possibly exist.]
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Proponents of this theory also suggest that other properties of the universe would be flip-flopped in this mirror universe.
For example, physicist David Sloan wrote in the University of Oxford Science Blog, asymmetries in molecules and ions (called chiralities) would be in opposite orientations to what they are in our universe.
A related theory holds that the Big Bang wasn't the beginning of everything, but rather a moment in time when the universe switched from a period of contraction to a period of expansion.
[Ah, this would be in line with Buddhist and Vedic cosmology and the views of the other Dharmic religions, which speak of periods of expansion and contraction within a great aeon or maha yuga, a staggering period of time humans had no business imagining if it were not for space beings filling their minds with explanations of what goes on out there in boundless reaches of space known as the akasha deva loka or "world of light beings in the sky."]
This "Big Bounce" notion suggests that there could be infinite Big Bangs as the universe expands, contracts, and expands again.
[Ah, now we're getting somewhere, and the Indian books of the subcontinent have been reaching Western scientists by various means after all. This is exactly what the East posits, not a finite first point or cause, but only cycling that neither has a need for a beginning nor any end in sight. There is. And when is it? Now, the eternal now.]
The problem with these ideas, Carroll said, is that there's no explanation [that I know of] for why or how an expanding universe would contract and return to a low-entropy state. [But, of course, I haven't read the ancient texts, have I?]
Let's send this one up and see if it flies.
Carroll and his colleague Jennifer Chen have their own pre-Big Bang vision.
In 2004, the physicists suggested that perhaps the universe as we know it is the offspring of a parent universe from which a bit of space-time has ripped off.
It's like a radioactive nucleus decaying, Carroll said: When a nucleus decays, it spits out an alpha or beta particle. The parent universe could do the same thing, except instead of particles, it spits out baby universes, perhaps infinitely.
"It's just a quantum fluctuation that lets it happen," Carroll said. These baby universes are "literallyparallel universes," Carroll said, and don't interact with or influence one another.
If that all sounds rather trippy [then you have been smoking 5-MeO-DMT or regular DMT or], it is — because scientists don't yet have a way to peer back to even the instant of the Big Bang, much less what came before it.
Theoretical physicists also have work to do, Carroll said, like making more-precise predictions about how quantum forces like quantum gravity might work.
"We don't even know what we're looking for," Carroll said, "until we have a theory."
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