Gnostic: Demiurge's prison of 'reality'

(Secret Files)

• Gnosticism seems to be the Western version of the Vedic/Hindu concept of God (the One or the Supreme) at "divine play" (lila), coming under the illusion (maya) of separation. But all is one. Who is this Demiurge, this false God that created this simulation/illusory reality (duality) around us and the cycle of endless rebirth (samsara)?

Good Friday: God of Bible is the Devil?

God of the Bible is actually the DEVIL

(MorgueOfficial) In the Bible, "God" demanded blood sacrifices, the death (murder) of innocent men, women, and children, and repeatedly unleashed plagues and floods to destroy humanity. Why would a "loving God" constantly demand sacrifice and worship? What if that weren’t God but actually the Devil? Who were the Cathars?

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When can we expect Female Messiah?

Female Messiah? What Church tried to erase

(MorgueOfficial) Started streaming March 10, 2025 (during Women's History Month) Dawn of the New Earth (The Neogenian Dawn). Ancient texts speak of a mysterious, powerful figure — a female Messiah — whose wisdom was hidden, suppressed, and nearly lost. Was she the true Christ (Kristos, "Annointed One," drugged with entheogens or venoms in the mystery school, according to Dr. Ammon Hillman)?

Secret Gospel of Mary Magdalene: Truth the Church didn’t want us to know

The Gospel of Mary, attributed to Mary Magdalene, offers a unique perspective on salvation through self-knowledge and inner exploration. Contrary to traditional Christian teachings, this ancient text challenges the concept of sin, framing it as an illusion tied to the physical body. It reveals a vision of spiritual authority where wisdom is accessible beyond institutional limits. Rooted in Gnosticism, this work highlights the diverse landscape of early Christianity, advocating for a personal connection with the divine.

Is there a Buddhist Messiah? Is it Maitreya?

I'd better flatter women so that they'll know they're loved (statustown.com)

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Prajna Paramita of Java

Who will it be, who will rescue the humans and gods (devas) from the blights of greed, hatred, and delusion? The world sleeps under the pall of delusion, and it is high time we awaken. But we can't rouse ourselves. Someone arrives to help. This special being was predicted long ago and named "Friend" or maitri. This Maitreya or Metteyya may be the origin of the Western world's "Messiah"). Might it be a woman? Ancient tradition seems to have been altered to exclude women in a worldwide sexist push that erased much of their contributions, leaving half the population as a sidenote. Indeed, there have been powerful women.

Prajna Paramita Devi, Tibet

In Buddhist lore there is the great Prajna Paramita, a goddess personification of the "Perfection of Wisdom" and the Goddess of Compassion Kuan Yin, a Mother Mary figure for the worldwide Mahayana tradition, which accounts for 90 per cent of Buddhists today. In the past, in Early Buddhism, there was great recognition of the female enlightened ones:

Khema, Uppalavanna, the Buddha's foster mother Queen Pajapati Gotami, Bhaddha Kaccana (Princess Yasodhara, Bimba Devi, Rahulamata, mother of the Buddha's son, Rahula Bhadda or "Lucky Fetter"), and many others still found recorded in the Therigatha, the "Psalms of the Enlightened Sisters."

Madonna and child: Pajapati and Siddhattha

But the question really comes down a savior figure, a reviver of the Dharma, a future buddha like Maitreya. Can it be a woman?

Vajra-yogini from a thangka - wrathful deities

Now the Teachings have been construed to say no in Theravada and Vajrayana traditions, but Mahayana holds out that there are many powerful female deities, the Taras, the dakinis, protectors (lokapala) and wrathful guardian spirits, and though no "Cosmic Buddha" like Amitabha or Vairocana are ever depicted as female, the caveat is always that a being determining to become a supremely awakened (samma-sam) buddha will transform into a male before achieving that ambition.

So many females and males take bodhisattva vows with the stated goal of delaying their own liberation (nirvana) to save all other sentient beings, as messiahs are won't to do. It may be a useful mindset if not an achievable goal.

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If I'm reborn as a woman, I want to be sexy hot.

But as the Dalai Lama once joked, "Any woman can become a buddha...so long as she becomes a man first." Why he thought this was funny, that we may never know. (Endemic sexism and androcentrism in an all-boys monastic club in the imperial Potala Palace?)

Asherah Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven

Nevertheless, none of us are really male or female but have the potential to express the best qualities of both. In the derivative Catholic/Christian faith, there may still be hope or recovering the Mother Goddess (Queen of Heaven Asherah, God’s Forgotten Wife, or Miriam, the Son-God's mother, a restored and reappointed Eve or Mary Magdalene. We can all see how openminded the God of those Abrahamic traditions is, so amenable to being talked into things like the divine rapport emphasized in Judaism, but we won't be holding our breath).

• Mariology: the study of Virgin Mary

Is the Blessed Virgin Mary Chinese Guanyin?

Marco Lazzarotti, Aug. 2023

Virgin/Guanyin in Chinese dress (researchgate.net)

In this book the author describes "Ancestors’ Ceremonies" as practiced in the Taiwanese Catholic Church. The author’s point is to demonstrate how the Chinese symbolic universe made a deep translation of the "new" symbolic system represented by Catholic doctrine. At the same time the effort of the Catholic Church in order to adapt the Gospels’ message to the local situation built up a particular phenomenon that the author defined as cultural dialogue. It is this dialogic relationship the process that the author defines as Culture.

...[The] most usual and popular representation of this Goddess is a beautiful and gracious woman, who holds a child in her arms [Maya and Siddhartha rather than Mary and Jesus] and wears a rosary [mala] around her neck. This iconography has been reused in order to paint the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary at a point where it is hard sometimes to distinguish between the two figures (Figures 3a and 3b).

My point is not that Catholic people consider the Blessed Virgin Mary as the Christian reference of Guanyin [Kwan Yin, the Mahayana Buddhist "Goddess of Compassion"], but I want to stress that, when honoring the "new" supernatural figure, Taiwanese Catholics still maintain the forms they learned through their involvement in popular religious practices from an early age, which are linked to the cultural system they inhabit. God Jesus and the Ancestors: An Ethnography of the Ancestors’ Rites in the Taiwanese Catholic Church

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Gnostic: God, Yahweh, Demiurge's 3D jail

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Get out of here, Wisdom Seekers! This garden is a place for dummies who obey! Get lost!

Yahweh (YHWH, Jehovah) and the Three-Dimensional Prison: The DARK Gnostic Connection

(Esoteric Guardian) What if the reality we know is nothing more than a carefully constructed illusion, a three-dimensional (3D) prison designed by unseen, powerful forces?

This video goes deep into ancient Gnostic teachings, revealing how the divine and the dark might be intertwined in a cosmic plot that has remained hidden for centuries.

Timestamps

• 00:00 - Introduction
• 01:22 - The Gnostic Worldview
• 03:20 - Yahweh as the Demiurge
• 05:31 - The Three-Dimensional Prison
• 07:40 - Escaping from the Demiurge's dominion
• 10:07 - Dark conspiracy theories
• 16:41 - Escaping the Demiurge's dominion in the modern world
• 18:58 - Conclusion 

I've been eagerly awaiting your arrival.

Are seekers ready to challenge everything we thought we understood about the universe and explore a truth that could shatter this past perception of reality?

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America's favorite drink (liquid energy)

List of eight alternatives to caffeine for interesting drinks (detoxyourworld.com)

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What plant alkaloids are there?

America, of course, is a continent, not a country. While the US empire may sway and undermine the rest of the world, it does not represent the Americas.

The Amazon jungle is an amazing (and some say created, i.e., terraformed) factory of amazing alkaloids. The world's favorite stimulants come from South American jungles and highlands: chocolate (cacao with theobromides), coffee (caffeine), coca (cocaine).

The favorite drink on this continent is not Coca Cola (which originally contained addictive and destructive white cane sugar and habit-forming coca leaves chewed in the Peruvian Andes for energy).

Now chemical corn-glucose and formaldehyde with methyl-alcohol (which is what aspartame breaks down into) laden soda may be consumed corroding plastic and aluminum containers, yet it is not the favored drink.

Traditional yerba mate serving container

Coffee may have conquered the world with detrimental health consequences that are repeatedly obscured by "new scientific findings" to suggest rancid, roasted seeds could possibly be a good idea to consume even in small quantities.

The continental favorite is Guayaki, known everywhere as Yerba Mate (Ilex paraguariensis) a subtropical species of Holly.

According to ABC, Yerba Mate is now being marketed in the US as an energy-boosting diet tea. It contains various minerals, including phosphorous, iron, calcium, and vitamins C, B1, and B2. But it also contains caffeine (and, in limited amounts, theophylline and theobromine), which are all stimulants.

Bottled Yerba Mate

Some manufacturers of Yerba Mate say their brands contain a caffeinelike substance that makes one less jittery called "mateine." But it seems that chemically, it is identical to caffeine. The bottom line: It provides a hit of energy, but that hit is due to caffeine.

WARNING: Research has found chronic consumption of this tea over years may increase the risk of head and neck cancers [although Argentinians, Brazilians, and others disagree]. Source

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Amazing Material Science (video)

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Helping Haiti: Why?

"If living beings knew the fruit and final reward of generosity and the distribution of gifts, as I know them, then they would not eat their food without giving to others and sharing with others, even if it were their last morsel and mouthful. If they should meet a person who is worthy of receiving a gift, selfishness would not abide in their hearts."

-- The Buddha (Avadana Jataka)

Haiti, which is next to the richest nation in the world, is one of the poorest (arguably the poorest). Their juxtaposition and proximity is not coincidental. Haiti is kept in slave-like conditions. That's what we as a nation do around the world. The profit goes does not go only to us. A tiny fraction goes to a few well-educated and installed Haitian businessmen/politicians, a power elite. Their self-interest as they sell their people out is stoked by Americans, goaded by American firms, and enforced by the CIA and other economic gatekeepers. (That's how wealth and might are wielded by empires).

HOW TO HELP HAITI

For us to be rich, the vast majority of the world's people are kept dirt poor. Haiti is particularly bad in that it has a history of being left desolate -- from time to time, as covered by Wisdom Quarterly, subsisting by eating mud as food.

But why give? The Buddha is reputed to have said that a beggar or person need is potentially one's best friend. Why? That person provides the opportunity for the making of a great deal of merit (puñña). Merit, or profitable karma, is remarkably valuable in Samsara and exceedingly rare.

There are not many worlds given over to making merit. In some, such as Haiti and Hades, the suffering is such that people do not get the chance. In others, such as the US and Japan, the luxury is such that it does not frequently occur to beings to make merit for the future. The Buddha praised giving (dana), second only to meditation, as a wellspring of good karma.

The Motivation for Giving
The sutras record various motives for exercising generosity. The Numerical Discourses (AN.iv,236) lists the following eight motives:

1. One gives with annoyance, or as a way of offending the recipient, or with the idea of insulting the person.
2. Fear motivates a person to make an offering.
3. One gives in return for a favor done to oneself in the past.
4. One also may give with the hope of getting a similar favor for oneself in the future.
5. One gives because giving is considered good.
6. "I cook; they do not cook. It is improper for me who cooks not to give to those who do not cook." Some give urged by such altruistic motives.
7. Some give alms to gain a good reputation.
8. Still others give alms to adorn and beautify the mind.

Favoritism (chanda), ill-will (dosa), and delusion (moha) are also listed as motives for giving. Sometimes alms are given for the sake of maintaining a long-standing family tradition. Desire to be reborn in heaven after death is another strong motive. Giving pleases some, and they give with the idea of winning a happy frame of mind (A.iv, 236).

• with the expectation of getting
• to gain a good reputation
• to adorn the mind

One is inferior and will not produce excellent results. The other is middling. The third, giving with the thought of helping others (as one helps oneself) is an excellent motive! The misguided notion that only pure altruism is of value is incorrect and harmful, since it leads people not to give. Give because it feels good, and give again. Better than giving is encouraging others to give as one gives. Even with inferior motives, the result is good.

Merit grows for one who gives; no enmity builds up for one restrained; one skilled abandons unskillful deeds; with greed, anger, and delusion exhausted, one attains release, a final of suffering (Verses of Uplift, Udana 8.5).

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Meditation: Getting to Jhana

THE JHANIC EXPERIENCE (The four material jhanas)
Ron Wijewantha, Ph.D. (edited for Wisdom Quarterly)

ABSORPTION: The word jhana (Sanskrit, dhyana) implies, essentially, the process of unifying the mind and transmuting the lower states of consciousness into higher, transcendental states that lead to the summit of progress in meditative training. That summit is enlightenment.

Most followers of the Theravada tradition hold the jhanas in awe, for they believe that attaining them is not within the capability of lay persons. Fortunately during the last few decades, there has been a resurgence of insight practice (vipassana) by lay meditators, some of whom are reported to have been quite successful in their endeavors.

However, they are yet diffident in even attempting to extend their meditation practices to the field of the jhana. This may perhaps be due to the scarcity of monastics and lay teachers adept at achieving even the first four (of eight) jhanas.

The Jhanic Journey
The purpose of this essay is to give an explanation, substantiated by textual information, of how one should be able to attain the first four jhanas by proper application and striving. But there is one proviso. It is that the person who wishes to proceed along this path should be conscientious and dedicated to the task in hand and not discouraged by the pace of progress.

The journey could be short or long, depending on individual temperament, mentality, and dedication. Nevertheless, success in the end is within a person's reach. It must also be kept in mind that there can initially be no "instant jhana." One can attain jhana only by exercising unlimited patience and proper application, and by having the constant guidance of an experienced and accomplished teacher.

Finally, a meditator should also have previously had some experience in vipassana meditation so as to be familiar with the five hindrances that prevent a meditator from concentrating and remaining collected without straying from the object of meditation or scattering the mind to diverse thoughts. The Five Hindrances are:

1. Sensual desire (kamacchanda)
2. Ill-will (vyapada)
3. Sloth and torpor (thina-middha)
4. Restlessness and scruples (uddhacca-kukkucca)
5. Doubt or perplexity (vicikiccha)

It is appropriate to briefly discuss the hindrances that need to be eliminated before discussing the mental factors that characterize jhana.

Meditators will have experienced the Five Hindrances to varying degrees in their daily meditation on in-and-out breathing (anapana-sati). With practice they will then have learned to temporarily rid themselves of these hindrances to concentration and insight. But a deeper understanding is necessary. Because without coming to terms with these hindrances, meditation leading to jhana is impossible. Bhikkhu Bodhi discusses these hindrances in the following manner:

Two methods
"The elimination of the hindrances prior to attaining jhana is brought about by means of two methods, one specifically directed to each hindrance separately, the other applicable to all at once. The former is to be employed when a particular hindrance obtrudes itself with persistent force, the latter on other occasions when no one hindrance seems especially conspicuous.

"The specific method involves the reversing of the causal situation out of which the hindrance develops. Since each defiling factor is a conditioned phenomenon coming into existence through distinct causes, the key to its elimination lies in applying the appropriate antidote to its causal base:

Sensual desire arises on account of unskillful attention to the attractive features of things, to alluring objects and physical bodies. It is attenuated by considering the impermanence of the objects of attachment, and by reflecting on the repulsive nature underlying the attractive appearance of the bodies that arouse desire.

Ill-will or anger also springs up from unskillful attention, in this case to the unpleasant aspects of persons and things; it is reversed by developing loving-kindness towards disagreeable people and patience in the face of unfavorable circumstances.

Sloth and torpor become prominent by submitting to moods of sloth and drowsiness; they are dispelled by the arousal of energy.

Restlessness and worry and regret arise from attending to disturbing thoughts and are eliminated by directing the mind to an object conducive to inner peace.

Doubt or perplexity, grounded upon un-clarity with regard to fundamental points of doctrine, is dispelled by clear thinking and precise analysis of the issues shrouded in obscurity.

To further comprehend the hindrances, there are similes in the discourses illustrating the manner in which they obstruct mental clarity, summarized as follows:

Imagine a pond of clear water with a rare gem lying at the bottom. A number of bright dyes are added to the surface, which swirl into psychedelic patterns. The colors are entrancing, beautiful and intricate, and the depths cannot be discerned.

• Sensual desires can be compared to these colors.
• Anger, ill will, and aversion can be compared to boiling water. Water that is boiling, as in a geyser, is very turbulent, and we cannot see through to the bottom.
• Sloth and torpor are like the pond getting covered by a dense layer of algae. One cannot possibly penetrate to the bottom.
• Restlessness, worry, and regret are like a windswept pond. The surface is agitated and the bottom is impenetrable.
• Doubt is like turbid water that has become all muddy obsucring the bottom.

The First (material) Jhana
There are in the first jhana five mental factors namely:

1. Applied attention (vitakka)
2. Sustained attention (vicara)
3. Rapture (piti, euphoria, happiness in the mind)
4. Joy (sukha, bliss, happiness in the body)
5. One-pointedness (ekaggata)

These factors can bring about a complete (temporary) suspension of fivefold sense activity. Entry (or absorption) into the first jhana is then possible. These factors simultaneously expel from the mind the Five Hindrances (pancha nivarana) to jhana. Absorption is a purified, undistracted, powerfully wholesome state of mind.

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• Science of meditation
• Jhanic experience

UC Berkeley police help nab kidnapper

The author of Origins of Schizophrenia Revealed, Phillip Craig Garrido, is accused of kidnapping 11 y.o. Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991 and raping, falsely imprisoning, and fathering her two children. Lisa Campbell (center) and UCB officer Ally Jacobs at news conference today taking credit for his arrest (AP/SF Chronicle, Paul Chinn).

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BERKELEY, California — Two quick-thinking police employees at the University of California Berkeley campus described today how they set in motion Jaycee Lee Dugard's release after nearly two decades of captivity when they encountered her alleged captor on campus. Phillip Garrido, a white male who was distributing bizarre religious material with two girls, seemed incoherent and mentally unstable, Lisa Campbell said. The girls wore drab-colored dresses, were unusually subdued, had unnaturally pale complexions, and appeared robotic and rehearsed when they spoke... More>>