Bohemian Grove is a private campground covering 2,700 acres (1,100 ha) in Monte Rio, Marin County, Northern California.
It is the site of many bizarre rituals related to the occult, capitalism, initiation of the rich, influential politicians, businessmen, and other movers and shakers behind the scenes who control the USA. There are other such gatherings, like the Bilderbergers who get more attention. But so far as anyone can tell, The Bohemian Grove is still operating covertly.
Founded in 1878, it is owned by a rich, private "gentlemen's club" called the Bohemian Club. Each year in mid-July, the Bohemian Grove hosts an annual gathering lasting more than two weeks, attended by invited members and guests from politics, business, and the arts [1, 2]. More
(Modern Intuitionist) Some of the most powerful and influential groups in American and European society seem to have at least one thing in common: participation in the occult.
We find evidence of ritual and symbols in many places. But why? What is the occult? Why are such symbols so widespread and how can we investigate what they mean? These are some of the questions we'll explore in this video.
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(Blaire White) Premiered March 25, 2025: I went down the Jeffrey Epstein rabbit hole so others don't have to... And what I found was an insane amount of intelligence and occult connections in Israel (Mossad), the US (CIA), and the UK (MI6). It's clear why we will never get the true client list. But we can try to piece the puzzle together on our own. I went down the Jeffrey Epstein rabbit hole so you don't have to.
NAMES ON THE LIST: Bill Clinton [who cheated on his wife with young Jewess and possible "honey trap" intel asset Monica Lewinski, 22], Israeli Jewish Zionist Ehud Barak, attorney Alan Dershowitz, magician David Copperfield, Prince Andrew Windsor, Sen. George Mitchell, Gov. Bill Richardson, Pres. Donald John Trump...
Honey trapping is the practice of using sexual or romantic relationships for interpersonal, political (including state espionage), or monetary purpose and blackmail. The honey pot or honey trap working by making contact with a targeted individual who has information or money or power. The trapper then seeks to entice the target into recorded sexual activity or a relationship by which to glean information or influence over the target. More: Honey trapping
Jeffrey Epstein case: Hosts Tara Palmeri, a leading journalist on the Epstein story, and Sally Lockwood are joined by Christopher Steele, former [British] MI6 spy and author of the infamous Steele dossier, to unravel the murky ties between Epstein, Trump, and Putin. From Epstein’s mysterious wealth [derived blackmail of elites in league with Israeli and US intel agencies] and intelligence connections to Ghislaine Maxwell’s strategic silence, this episode explores allegations of Russian kompromat and why Trump’s refusal to release the Epstein files is shaking his MAGA base, with 49% of Republicans unhappy, per a CBS poll. Is this scandal Trump’s undoing? Don’t miss this gripping discussion on justice, power, and elite cover-ups. Will Trump’s silence on the Epstein files cost him everything? More
What's better the vertical or Horizontal Forest? Hmm, seems pretty clear (cut)
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Bhumi Devi: Nature Spirit
World Nature Conservation Day is an annual event held on July 28th. This day stresses the need for preserving a healthy environment and natural resources to maintain a stable and healthy society. Saving plants and animals that face the threat of extinction is one of the primary goals of World Nature Conservation Day. Also, the celebrations emphasize keeping the various components of nature such as flora, fauna, energy resources, soil, water, and air intact. In addition, World Nature Conservation Day underlines the need for preserving the environment for future generations. We are therefore tasked with the need to leave a healthy planet for those coming after us to enjoy. More: nationaltoday.com/world-nature-conservation-day/
(PBS SoCal) Sept. 12, 2012: Everywhere we turn in California, there's something to eat -- if we know what to look for. Wild foragers and chefs Pascal Baudar and Mia Wasilevich of Transitional Gastronomy shop at the grocery store, but they also head out into the woods regularly, carrying backpacks and knives and compasses, finding edible plants scattered across public lands. They like it so much they've turned it into a business, with Pascal leading interested food nerds out into the woods to collect wild plants like mugwort, elderberries, lambs' quarter, cattails, purslane (verdolagas), wild radishes. and more, while Mia cooks up a feast using these wild ingredients.
KCET.org/socal/food/california... Eli Newell went out on one such veggie hunt with Pascal and learned about native versus invasive plants in Southern California's parks. (Which would you guess peaches are?) We ate flowers and asked Pascal why exactly he makes a habit of rubbing poison oak on his hands and face. Enjoy the video. And be cautiously hungry out there! Music: "Petit talibé" instrumental version, Löhstana David.
(Suzanne Joy Teune) Oct. 28, 2023: Hello! This month is the month of foraging. It is a full moon as I upload. I am calling it the "moon of colored trees." This is a very special moon, for this season does not last long. Foraging is something I began doing for art when I attended the Burren College of Art, Ireland. I have been doing it and incorporating items gathered into my art ever since. This video is to show that it's not just about gathering supplies from nature. It's far deeper than that. It's a sacred spiritual practice. This is why I am in awe and inspired by the Indigenous people of the Americas and their art. I don't know how to put this into words.
Music: "If You Wonder" by Nebulae. I reference the short film The Great Kind Mystery by artist Ella Morton (ellamorton.com). Thanks to the late Alice Ladas who died at age 102 for her pink tights.
It started around 1900 with Ajahn Mun Bhuridatto, who wanted to practice Buddhist wandering asceticism and its meditative practices like the Buddha, according to the standards of pre-sectarian Buddhism.
After studying with Ajahn Sao Kantasīlo and wandering through the northeast of Thailand (Isan), Ajahn Mun reportedly attained the stage of enlightenment known as non-returning and started teaching in Northeast Thailand.
He strove for a revival of Early Buddhism, insisting on a strict observance of the Buddhist Monastic Code known as the Vinaya and teaching the practice of meditative absorptions (jhāna) and the realization of nirvana (Pali nibbāna) in this very life.
(Anyone who attains even the first stage of enlightenment called stream entry glimpses or touches nirvana).
Initially, Ajahn Mun's teachings were met with fierce opposition, but in the 1930s his group was acknowledged as a formal faction of Thai Buddhism, and in the 1950s the relationship with the royal and religious establishment improved.
In the 1960s, Western students started to be attracted to this back-to-basics movement, and in the 1970s branch monasteries of the tradition began to be established in the West.
Underlying attitudes of the Thai Forest Tradition include an interest in the empirical and verifiable effectiveness of Buddhist practice, the individual's cultivation and development, and the use of skill in practice and living. More
Rewilding a Forest | Artist and Poet Maria "Vildhjärta" Westerberg
(Campfire Stories) Feb. 23, 2024: This film is part of a series called "Something Beautiful for the World,” which is a collaboration between Reflections of Life, Campfire Stories, and Happen Films.
Maria was a romantic, animal-loving, dreamy child who, growing up, had a hard time conforming to the demands associated with the trajectory towards a "normal" life. As a young adult she became depressed and was encouraged by her therapist to go for walks in the forest.
The myriads of funny-looking twigs and sticks she found along the way immediately put her on a path to recovery. Now, 25 years later, she's a celebrated "twig poet," whose art is shown in galleries throughout Sweden.
When a climate-related crisis strikes the forest where she lives and works, she's forced into a new type of creativity in order to save the place that once upon a time saved her.
Production
Filmed in: Värmland, Sweden. Featuring: Maria "Vildhjärta" Westerberg and Johannes Söderqvist (vildhjarta.net) and Martin Jentzen (jentzen.se). Produced, filmed, and edited by: Mattias Olsson for Campfire Stories (campfire-stories.org). Sound mix: Boris Laible (borislaible.com).
The films of the series "Something Beautiful for the World" explore how small acts of love and kindness have the potential to ripple out and change the world, touching hearts and minds in ways that we could never begin to imagine.
We'll be sharing a total of 12 short films, from across five continents -- releasing one per month for the whole year of 2024 -- four from each filmmaker.
More information about the three production companies:
A huge thanks to the following brilliant people, who gave so generously of their time to help with translations, enabling us to provide subtitles for this film, in the following languages:
This 360 degree view of "Enlightenment Grove" or Bodh Gaya, India, allows viewers to look around by grabbing the screen to see all the sights of this most sacred place near the Bodhi tree and the Mahabodhi Temple.
Mahabodhi means "Great Enlightenment," a monument next to the tree, where thousands of pilgrims come daily to meditate, prostrate themselves on slippery boards Tibetan-style, or contemplate the enormity of what the wandering ascetic Siddhartha Gautama from Scythia (Shakya Land to the west in Gandhara, modern Afghanistan and Pakistan) accomplished in finally realizing the Truth and letting go.
It went to Sri Lanka and L.A.
It is a kind of wonder of the world with temples from every Buddhist country represented in a relatively small area in the present-day state of Bihar, India. It is named Bihar from the Buddhist word Vihar, a Buddhist monastic temple complex, abbey, monastery, or nunnery, where in the past so many sprouted up to put into practice the Buddha's path to enlightenment and freedom that the name stuck, and Vihar became Bihar (same pronunciation), given the penchant of Hindi to be a lot like Sanskrit but dropping the "a" at the end of so many words. Yoga becomes yog, asana becomes asan, and vihara becomes Vihar (Wihara, Bihara, Bihar). It is an extraordinary place to visit for world travelers.
Is it a real place I can visit? Millions do
TEXT: Dhr. Seven and Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly
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