Obamas monkeys on Planet of Apes, Trump?

Mr. Barry and his husband Michael Obama may be many things but not monkeys or apes.

(The Young Turks) Trump posts horrifyingly racist meme

A passionate rebuttal to Trump: "Eugenics"?

Speed (Adderall) freak Trump still pooping his pants as previously reported

Ayahuasca: Amazon's potent healing brew

(Metta Beshay) The Ayahuasca we've been told about is a lie

Tribal ayahuasca medicine work

Indigenous Shipibo ladies, Amazon, 2011

The Shipibo-Conibo are an indigenous (Native American) people along the Ucayali River in the Amazon rainforest of Peru.

Formerly two groups, they eventually became one tribe through intermarriage and communal rituals and are currently known as the Shipibo-Conibo people [2, 3].

Lifestyle, tradition, and diet

Kené pattern on Shipibo-Conibo textile

The Shipibo-Conibo have lived in the Amazonian rainforest for millennia. Many of their traditions are still practiced, such as ayahuasca medicine work.

Medicine songs have inspired artistic tradition and decorative designs found in their clothing, pottery, tools, and textiles. Some of the urbanized people live around Pucallpa in the Ucayali region, an extensive indigenous zone. Most others live in scattered villages over a large area of jungle forest extending from Brazil to Ecuador. More

Ayahuasca (Yage, Capi) Brew:

• Chakruna leaves (Psychotria viridis) = DMT
• Banisteriopsis caapi (Vine of the Dead)
• Harmala alkaloid = Harmaline (MAOIs)

Arctic shaman in Amazon for wisdom

(BrightVibes) Why did a Scandinavian Arctic (Sami) shaman from Sápmi (previously called Lapland) go to the Amazon Rainforest to recover lost wisdom [from the Indigenous peoples of the Americas]?

Old American singer with young girlfriend

(2018) Who is Don McLean's new girlfriend? All about Paris Dylan (People)

Leave us alone! I just want our privacy. I mean we do, right Honey? - Sure, Daddy, if you say so

Everything there is to know about Paris Dylan, 30, and Don McLean, 80 - on having a wise girlfriend who is all va-va-vavoom (Yahoo)

I smile because you're my... - I laugh because...

(2021) It'll never last, Old Timer: American Pie singer Don McLean, 73, crazy about dating 24-year-old model Paris Dylan (news.com.au) “American Pie” singer Don McLean, 75, says he has one plan for his relationship with a stunning young model: “Ride this pony as long as we [he] can.”

(2022) "American Pie" singer Don McLean, 76, heads out with his model girlfriend Paris Dylan 28

One man WALKS across the world

The planned route for The Goliath Expedition

Karl Bushby (born March 30, 1969), 55, is a walking adventurer, former British paratrooper, and author, currently attempting to be the first and only person in the history of the world to completely WALK an unbroken path around the world [which seems to be a circular flat earth]. Bushby's trek is known as The Goliath Expedition.

[Has he become a Buddhist with all this walking meditation?]

Group kinhin in Zen practice

Walking meditation (Chinese 經行, Pinyin jīngxíng, Romaji kinhin or kyōgyō, Korean gyeonghyaeng, Vietnamese kinh hành) is a Buddhist meditative practice done while walking. It can be done as a standalone practice or as a break between long periods of static sitting meditation [1]. In different forms, the practice is common in various Buddhist traditions of both Theravada and in Mahayana Buddhism. The Zen term kinhin consists of the Chinese words 經, meaning "to go through (like the thread in a loom)," with "sutra" as a secondary meaning, and 行, meaning "walk." Taken literally, the phrase means "to walk straight back and forth." More

• Walking Meditation - A Guide to Mindful Walking | [Theravada] Buddhism in English

Early life of Bushby

Bushby was born in Hull, England. He attended a local comprehensive school and joined the British Army at the age of 16. Bushby served with the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment for 11 years.

(Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche) Walking meditation in Vajrayana

Goliath Expedition

The Goliath Expedition is Bushby's attempt to walk around the world "with unbroken footsteps," from Punta Arenas, Chile, to his home in Hull, England.

He began his journey on November 1, 1998, and originally expected to finish the trek of 36,000-mile (58,000 km) in eight years; however, due to numerous delays, it is still in progress as of September 8, 2025 [1], having made it through the impossible Darién Gap, the barrier between South and North America. More

Short Attn Span Theater: Underdogs

• Migrants moved from secretive UK/US military island after three years
• Diego Garcia asylum seekers feel unsafe on remote British island territory, where they are sexually victimized and worse
• Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

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

Getting to Borobudur Buddhist Pyramid

This Buddhist temple was buried for 400 years: Borobudur

(astravellee) Drone over Borobudur, Indonesia, the largest Buddhist temple in the World

(Liam Richards) BOROBUDUR TEMPLE. He went on an epic journey to film this, so sit back, relax, and enjoy the virtual adventure as we explore Borobudur Buddhist Temple like it's never been seen before.

Everything you need to know when visiting Borobudur Temple, Indonesia

Borobudur Temple aerial videography drone Dji InspireOne: Candi Borobudur Silahkan bagi yang ingin menggunakan video ini untuk kepentingan non-commercial bisa langsung digunakan dengan mencantumkan credit.

⬇️ Instagram (instagram.com/_liamrichard...), highly active, with posts of photos and details about trips on X (x.com/richards_l52449). If you rock with Liam and are feeling hella generous, buy him a coffee ⬇️ buymeacoffee.com/liam.richards. Thanks for the support. See y'all in the next adventure! ❤️

• Liam Richards, May 8, 2025; Studio Sunday, Sept. 25, 2015; Travels on Toast, Oct. 25, 2023; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

MrBeast in ancient Mayan temple, Mexico

• Mexican authorities decry ‘distorted information’ in MrBeast video filmed at ancient Mayan sites
• YouTuber MrBeast sparks controversy by filming at Mexico’s archaeological sites | CNN

I survived 100 hours in an ancient temple

15 remote Mayan sites that quietly preserve ancient power (Wonderlust via MSN)

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(MrBeast) May 10, 2025:  Filmed in Mexico in collaboration with the Mexican Tourism Board visitmexico.com. Thanks to the INAH (the National Institute of Anthropology and History) Zona Arqueológica de Calakmul, Balancanche, y Chichén Itzá, MEXICO. "Reproducción autorizada por el Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia." ["Reproduction authorized by the National Institute of Anthropology and History."]

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Special thanks to the Governor of Campeche Layda Sansores and the National Secretary of Tourism Josefina Rodriguez. Merch: mrbeast.store. Check out Viewstats: viewstats.com. Subscribe or Mr. Beast takes your dog. For any questions or inquiries regarding this video, please reach out to chucky@mrbeastbusiness.com. Music provided by extrememusic.com.

• MrBeast, May 10, 2025; Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Science solving mysteries of Amazon

World's largest pyramid in Guatemala?

El Mirador ("The Viewpoint or Lookout") is the biggest pyramid in the world, according to Mel Gibson who heard it from archeologist Richard Hansen. Yet, we are told Mexico's Cholula Pyramid is the world's largest -- larger than the famous ones on the Giza Plateau in Egypt, or the many in Sudan (formerly Nubia along the Nile River) known as the Nubian pyramids, or the 200 or more in China, or all the ones we're not told about in Alaska, Antarctica, Mars, the Moon, and all over the planet, like the new one recently discovered in Peru at Caral Supe. Of course, larger ones may exist in Bosnia or Indonesia (Gunung Padang), one being mirrored by the world's largest excavated Buddhist temple in the world, Borobudur in Java, which is likely smaller than the colossal Mes Aynak in formerly Buddhist Afghanistan with stupas but no pyramids yet, even though one pyramidal stupa was recently discovered in Central Asia. Interestingly, according to American Rick Fields in A Narrative History of Buddhism in America, the country next to Mexico called Guatemala is named after Gautama the Buddha. Buddhist missionaries reached the Americas before Columbus and Christianity, as demonstrated in American Edward P. Vining's 1895 classic An Inglorious Columbus, which makes the connection to Afghanistan and Afghan Buddhist missionaries along with Chinese pilgrim Hwui Shen. That the country should be so advanced -- like the stone temples all through the jungles of Buddhist Cambodia (Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, etc.) -- is not entirely without explanation.

• Scientists unearth 3,000 year old [Buddhist] pyramid hidden in Central Asia (The Brighter Side of News)

PSW 2472 Mayan Civilization in Northern Guatemala: Richard Hansen

• Joe Rogan, Mel Gibson; Richard Hansen; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval. Xochitl (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

ET contacts, mates w/Indigenous tribe

The space alien who lived among humans in the Amazon jungle: Bep Karoroti

I didn't have sex with that woman

(THE AMAZING) AMAZON RIVER BASIN, Brazil - Dec. 5, 2024: Now and then online media report captivating stories about extraterrestrial beings (such as Venusian ET Valiant Thor). Assuming the truth behind the existence of such beings, one has to wonder, Where are they now?

Let's look into an account that has become a local legend concerning the Native American Kayapo people (Kaiapo, Caiapo) who live in the jungles of Brazil in South America.

• Beb Cororoti (NamuWiki) Could it have been white Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin who ventured into space in 1962 or even genteel American astronaut Neil Armstrong?
• Bep Kororoti: The Celestial Visitor of the Amazon | by Musa Yalcin | Medium
• Bep Kororoti: The Anunnaki who lived in the Amazon and left his [DNA and] legacy behind

Likeness of Bep Karoroti in armored spacesuit

Imagine a group of Indigenous people who live a serene life until suddenly, one night, a ghostly sound comes from the misty, snowclad Suruka Toti Mountains. It must have been scary, right? Little did they know that the serenity of their lives was about to be shattered by a space (or time) traveler not of this Earth. What the Kayapo encountered would forever blur the line between legend and reality, leaving questions that still haunt the tribe to this day.

(Musa Yalchin | Medium) This legend is often cited by ancient astronaut theorists who seek traces of modern technology in ancient times. Bep Kororoti’s attire, resembling a [metallic] space suit, and his advanced tools [including a devastating light weapon rod they called a "cob"] are considered intriguing evidence by these theorists.

However, scientists [desperate to preserve the Western narrative of separation, isolation, and uniqueness of humans who have no peers in all the universe, and certainly none who interact with us] generally approach such claims with [armchair] skepticism, suggesting these stories might be symbolic narratives. More

• A.I. composed The Amazing, YouTube, 12/5/24; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

'Shopping' in Wild Forests: Foraging

Q Journal: Hilary Pearlson, Akashic Records Reader, Healing Guide, founder of The Dreamerie

Health // All Recipes // People (like Mia Waselevich)  — House of Citrine

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California wild food foraging in Los Angeles' Hahamongna with Pascal and Mia

Braiding Sweetgrass (Kimmerer)

(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.

The sacred art of foraging

Chef Mia Wasilevich: Foraging and Transitional Gastronomy — House of Citrine

Q Journal: Plant-Based Holistic Health Coach Emily Rose Shaw — House of Citrine

(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.

Buddhist Theravada Thai Forest Tradition

Ambrosia Alchemist, meditation in Sedona vortex — House of Citrine

The Kammaṭṭhāna ("field of cultivation") Forest Tradition of Thailand (Pali kammaṭṭhāna, meaning "place of meditative work"), commonly known in the West as the Thai Forest Tradition, is a lineage of Theravada Buddhist monasticism.

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.

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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.

• Watch the whole series: Something Beautiful for the World Title: Once Upon a Forest created by Campfire Stories

Synopsis

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:

Campfire Stories on YouTube: @campfire-stories. Visit website: campfire-stories.org. Support on Patreon: mattiasolsson.

Reflections of Life on YouTube: @reflectionsoflife. Visit website: reflectionsof.life. Support on Patreon: reflectionsoflife.

Happen Films on YouTube: @happenfilms. Visit website: happenfilms.com. Support on Patreon: happenfilms.

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:

• Bulgarian: Polina Stoyanova
• Dutch: Karla Greven
• Croatian: Davor Bobanac
• (English: Mattias Olsson)
• French: Amélie Macoin
• German: Tanja Pütz
• Indonesian: Ary Nuansa
• Italian: Grazia Gironella
• Polish: Anna Konieczna
• Portuguese: Sibylle Steinpass
• Slovakian: Zuzana Beračova
• Slovenian: Jasmina Kovačič
• Spanish: Patricia Aguirre
• (Swedish: Mattias Olsson)
• Compiled by Xochitl, Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly