Coast to Coast: aboard UFOs (video)

Coast to Coast, April 18, 2020; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Lycanthrope (pinterest.com)

(Tim Binnall) Residents of Ocozocoautla de Espinosa or "Coita" in Chiapas, Mexico are on edge over reports of a werewolf-like creature, a lycanthrope or "wolf person." The panic came to light on social media last week. Residents have been disturbed at night by unsettling sounds of what seems to be howling and gunshots and reported sightings. The beast is said to be 6'5" and capable of leaping 9 feet in the air, with an unpleasant odor, and is seemingly impervious to bullets. There are many similarities with reports of the "Springman" haunting Thrissur, India over the last few weeks, with both described as supernatural entities with fantastic abilities keeping residents up at night. One explanation put forward by a psychologist is that coronavirus concerns may manifest as a kind of mass hysteria about an invisible danger to the community.

Last night's show

Onboard UFO Encounters

UFO researcher Preston Dennett has a new book featuring 15 original cases of people who report being taken aboard UFOs. Dennett shares details of what it's like inside a craft and the different kinds of alien beings who occupy them, except for the Reptilian, which live underground and work hand in hand with the U.S. military. A variety of extraterrestrials include Grays, insectoid Praying Mantis entities, humanoid hybrids, and others.

Hybrid programs need kids.

Brooks Arthur has crossed paths with some of the most vital people of the pop and rock era. As an engineer and producer, Arthur's been involved in seminal moments in rock history and has produced albums for Dusty Springfield, Janis Ian, and comedy legend Robin Williams. Guest Host Richard Syrett discusses his history in the music business, like having a hand in The Shangri-Las, who had the hit "Remember" (shown above)." More

What is "Coast to Coast"?

Wolfman, Werewolf, Dogman: lycanthropes

Coast to Coast is the largest syndicated radio show in the U.S. The only thing is that it takes place all night and goes away by morning. It emanates out of Los Angeles, California and St. Louis, Missouri with over 800 affiliates. It's bound to be playing on a radio station near everyone in the country and online for everyone else. Los Angeles gets more than one broadcast with a good enough antenna, but it comes over the clear channel KFI 640 AM from 10:00 PM to 2:00 AM and replays until 5:00 AM. It is a horrible experience due to the mind deadening repetition of very poorly made commercials spots in what seems to be an effort to get listeners to sign up for the paid ($55/year), commercial-free, subscription-based version.

It's not the show going off the rails but Poland's version of the flying car.

I get drunk, but I get paid too much to drink here.

The real problem is that the usual host is a moronic shill for the military who does more to distract and cover up things, keeping away from off-limit topics and repeatedly inserting himself into conversations about substantive matters. Guests come on to tell their stories but they'll be put through the wringer of asinine questions, commentary, and interruptions by a half-asleep host who's usually not paying attention and fielding calls from planted callers like Thomas, Cornelius, and the Bible, Beans, and Bullets Man.

I'm ain't a drunk tramp.

It would be funny if it were not so stupid and diverting from very important paranormal revelations. Art Bell started the show, but it was taken away from him with this dummy, the "Nighthawk" (aka George Ralph Noory) installed in his place by the money-hungry syndicators Premiere Radio Networks.

The Atlantic's Timothy Lavin wrote: "Noory can be an uneven broadcaster. Sometimes he seems to not pay full attention to his guests, offers strangely obvious [often moronic and self-serving, virtue-signaling] commentary, or — and this has alienated some fans — ...listens [and silently hangs up on most] all of his callers [without a close or anyone seeming to notice that he turns down the volume on nearly everyone then misdirects what they were saying back to his own agenda]."

Smoking weed in front of Buddhist monks

Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Yogi Seven, Wisdom Quarterly

Sanskrit, ganja (medicinal Cannabis sativa)

BODHGAYA, India - "Smoking weed in front of Tibetan monks"? It's not as bad as it sounds. The headline might more correctly read, "Intoxicated Hindu mendicant dancing, ganja in hand, in front of Tibetan lamas at Buddhism's enlightenment grove."

  

The precincts of the Bodhi tree are sacred ground visited by hundreds of thousands of Buddhist pilgrims every year. (It is the most Buddhist town in the world, with authentic temples from every Buddhist land, from stately Japanese zendos (dojos) to a mysterious and fascinating Bhutanese dzong).

  

Sadhus: India's Mystic Holy Men (DH)

But the grove is controlled by Hindu holy men and Indian government officials, not Buddhists. The Maha Bodhi Society has a presence, but the sannyasis and sadhus (Hindu spiritual wanderers) run rampant.

  

Devotional exiled Tibetans travel down from Himalayan Dharamsala, Himalchal Pradesh in the north of the country. Some do 108,000 (yes, one-hundred and eight thousand) prostrations around the Maha Bodhi temple next to the tree, a genetic ancestor of the original enlightenment tree Siddhartha sat under.

Why would a wanderer behave like a madman (pagal) in front of pilgrim monks? Why would a spiritual wanderer go about smoking marijuana or hash? It is the custom of some Hindu ascetic holymen. The lamas could not be too put off since Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism has a long and storied history of spiritual madmen epitomized in the saintly-sinner figure Milarepa.

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The Dharma in the West

Hookah pipe Buddha ashtray (Raezyx/flickr)

Sure these things happen in the chaotic East. But would anyone dream of firing up a peace pipe in front of Vajrayana lamas? We can't imagine. However, stranger things have happened. Many Tibetan monks (great rinpoches, lamas, even alleged tulkus) are falling. It's not self-immolation of the attention-grabbing sort that's bringing them down. They often explain that they want to "taste" the allure of the West. What was it about America in the 1960s that was so intriguing to the most powerful generation in the world? In "My Dinner With Andre" Andre explained the little Tibetan monk who went off kilter gorging himself on Western excesses. There is the real life story of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, who may have been the source of Andre's account. There are American lamas like Geshe Michael Roach and Lama Surya Das around which swirl rumors and controversies of sexual impropriety.

• Controversial "Buddhist" teachers and groups

So what's a little ganja to those violating other precepts? Monastics are not using or abusing drugs. We are. And we think they would be okay with that. "Let's get Buddha'ed," we say as if that meant let's get high. Medical cannabis abuse is no mild vice -- and it is no way to any kind of enlightenment or transcendent wisdom. It's a circuitous route to here, so some call it an insidious trap. So which is it? It's not Buddhist. Smoke and you, too, can dance in front of Tibetan monks like an addict sadhu in the video above. But instead of owning up to it, one can use euphemisms and claim it's a spiritual endeavor, a Milarepa-like-madman "quest."
  

"Oh, Buddha, to be like you! (Moondoxy)

Were alcohol or intoxicants part of the path, the Buddha would have pointed to them as aids rather than obstacles. Or he would have remained silent on the matter. That he thought them such a serious obstacle that he listed alcohol as a path of doom in the Five Precepts is serious.

Could there be a difference between drugs? Do some serve only to blot out and obtund consciousness rather than to expand it? It is certainly our position at Wisdom Quarterly that some natural substances (DMT, alkaloids, iboga, Amazonian vines that make ayahuasca and natema, etc.) may have some benefits to the awakening of the pineal gland/third eye. But booze and high-THC (low-CBD) weed stocks and caustic synthetic chemicals? Wake up. Reality is better than this or we would advocate making the best of this illusion.

(LINK) The wyrd world far beyond dulled consciousness

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Every day is EARTHDAY

(VOA) For nearly 60 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder has combined an environmental awareness shaped by America's Far West with a Zen Buddhist perspective that celebrates and reveres the natural world.

With his laughing eyes, deeply furrowed skin and unruly white beard, Snyder looks every bit the wizened sage as he reads an excerpt from his translation of a poem by Han-Shan. This Chinese poet, whom Snyder affectionately calls a "mountain madman," lived more than 1,100 years ago in a cave, deep in the wilderness.

The path to Han-shan's place is laughable,

A path, but no sign of cart of horse,

Converging gorges -- hard to trace their twists

Jumbled cliffs -- unbelievably rugged.

A thousand grasses bend with dew,

a hill of pines hums in the wind.

And now I've lost the shortcut home

Body asking shadow, how do you keep up?

(CLICK to listen to Snyder read an excerpt from Han-Shan's "Cold Mountain")

Off the Beaten Path

Like Han-Shan, Snyder says he has gained personal and spiritual insights from his experiences in nature. He is intimately familiar with the wild landscapes of Japan, where he lived and studied Zen Buddhism as a young man. And he knows the winding trails of California's Sierra Nevada mountain range, his home for many years. "A trail is really a handy thing," says Snyder. More>>