Getting drunk with Eckhart Tolle

(Eckhart Tolle) What alcohol (liquid ignorance) is really doing to us

Eckhart Tolle shares his awakening experience and the shift in consciousness

Science: DNA is mind-blowing (Billy Carson)

Billy Carson, Motivation Manifested; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

What our DNA actually does is mind blowing!

Woke Doesn't Mean Broke

(Motivation Manifested) Premiered Oct. 19, 2022. The speaker is Billy Carson (4biddenknowledge.com).

• 00:00 - The mind-blowing potential within one gram of DNA
• 02:10 - DNA holds the entire universe within us
• 03:11 - The Anunnaki theory (was 98% of our DNA unplugged?)
• 04:00 - Ancient people could access their brains' magnetite crystals
• 05:30 - The significance of telomere caps (the Fountain of Youth)
• 07:40 - Epigenetic memories run 14 generations deep within DNA
• 08:30 - DNA, quantum entanglement, and the Law of Attraction
• 10:55 - The Adinkra Codes (the etheric search engine from which we receive downloads)
• 14:00 - How raising our frequency through love quantum entangles us with the universe and activates [Thoth's Universal Brahman idea] the Christ Consciousness

Boring mainstream science stories dumb us down and keep us dumb.

SPEAKER: Billy Carson is the founder and CEO of 4BiddenKnowledge, Inc. and the two-time best-selling author of The Compendium of the Emerald Tablets and Woke Doesn't Mean Broke. Carson is also the founder and CEO of 4BiddenKnowledge TV, a new streaming television network.

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The "Pain Body" explained by Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle (youtube.com); Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

If pain body were the serpentine kundalini energy coiled at the base moving in the chakras

Is the energy I'm feeling okay?

(Eckhart Tolle, Aug 11, 2022) Semi-Buddhist Eckhart Tolle discusses the nature of emotions as energy, how our thoughts and emotions [interdependently] interact, and how the pain-body fluctuates between dormancy and “feeding time” activity.

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Bates: How to not need glasses (video)

Bates Method; Nathan Oxenfeld (integraleyesight.com); Ananda, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Certified Bates Method Teacher Nathan Oxenfeld guides us through a simple daily vision improvement routine. All of the practices shown in this video are meant to be performed without wearing any glasses or contacts.

Give Up Your Glasses for Good (Oxenfeld)

Most of the practices mentioned have their own instructional videos: Search for "Bates Method 101" on YouTube, or visit integraleyesight.com/batesmethod101.

Click here to get a copy of Nathan Oxenfeld's book Give Up Your Glasses for Good: Holistic Eye Care for the 21st Century, which contains step-by-step instructions for all the practices in this video and more.

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Conscious Life Expo 2014; Life in Space

Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; ConsciousLifeExpo.com

Los Angeles 2014: February 7-9, LAX Airport Hilton. Be a speaker or come hear:

George Noory, Dr. Deborah King, Dr. Mario Martinez, Actah, William Henry, Dannion Brinkley, Emy Shanti, Paramahansa Jagadish, Dr. Dain Heer, Celeste Yamall, and many more

The amazing Linda Moulton Howe (EarthFiles.com) revealing the mysteries of the universe to us for hours after her talk (WQ/Conscious Life Expo, LAX Hilton, 2012)

 

8.8 Billion “Goldilocks” Planets in Milky Way

(EarthFiles.com, Nov. 11, 2013)

Of the estimated 200 billion stars in just our Milky Way Galaxy alone, scientists report that 40 billion are similar to our yellow sun. One-fifth of yellow suns have earth-size planets in the “Goldilocks” zone of temperatures to sustain life as we know it. More

 

“Just in our Milky Way galaxy alone, that's 8.8 billion throws of the biological dice.”

- Geoff Marcy, University of California, Berkeley

• 2 Million-Year-Old Skulls to Rewrite Human Evolution 
• (Nov. 23, 2013) Snowden Leak: NSA Has Infected 50,000 Computer Networks with Malicious Software
• NSA Misled FISA Court

Karma O Karma! (action)

Ashin Narada (Sitagu Int'l Buddhist Academy), Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly

Karma Man to the rescue by cartoonist-comedian Dan Piraro (bizarro.com)

 

“All beings have karma as their own, as their companion, as their inheritance.”

Karma is the law of causation in a moral (sila, virtuous, ethical) sphere. Rebirth is its corollary.  

 

Karma and rebirth are fundamental and interrelated teachings in Buddhism.

These two doctrines existed, mostly kept from the public, in India prior to the Buddha. But it was the Buddha who formulated and explained them in the manner we have today. Seers (rishis) clearly knew of them from their own meditative attainments, but what they made of, what they deduced and concluded

What is the cause of the inequality that exists among people?  How do we account for the unevenness in this ill-balanced world?

"Karma Man" (i.imgur.com)

WHY, WHY, WHY ME? Why is one born into luxury, endowed with excellent mental, moral, and physical qualities, and another raised in poverty and abject misery? Why should one be born a millionaire, another a pauper? Why is one a prodigy, another an dimwit? Why is one born with virtuous characteristics and another with criminal tendencies? Why are some artists, mathematicians, linguists, and musicians from the cradle while others toil congenitally blind, deformed, or inept? Why are some blessed and others cursed from birth?

 

The ripening of karma is, of course, not the only reason why things happen. But it is constantly there sustaining and modifying conditions. We may be helped or harmed by others, pulled from misery or thrown into it unfairly. ("Fairness" plays in both directions, though we rarely complain aloud about our unearned gains and advantages, and we bask in the pity and sympathy others may bestow on us in our presumed helplessness and how "unfairly" we are being treated by the world as if everyone were born equal in merit and opportunity).

Either there is a definite cause for this inequality or there is not.  If there is not, the inequality is accidental.

Good sense precludes us from attributing this inequality to blind chance or chaotic accident.  Rather one senses that in this world nothing happens to anyone who does not for some unknown or unclear reason or other deserve it.

 

But "deserve" is a troublesome word, connoting that the universe or society or others are trying to "teach" us something, when it is simply the impersonal working out of actions attracting their consequences and/or us meeting ourselves again and again. We may be trying to teach ourselves something, but the impersonal world without is simply going along as it wishes. To impute a purpose or plan out there is dangerous and misleading. To see one in here may be helpful and may accord with pre-birth agreements or plans to undergo types of experience in one or more lives.

Our lives are shaped by our intentions/volitions rooted in benefit (nongreed, nonhatred, nondelusion) or harm (greed, hatred, delusion). When our hearts/minds are purified of these harmful elements, joy follows us like a dependable shadow.

 

Usually the actual reason or reasons why things happen cannot be comprehended by ordinary intellects. The definite invisible cause or causes-and-conditions of the visible effect may not be confined to the present life. What is happening to "us" is not happening because of who we are but rather who we have been, often very-very long ago. A cause may be traced to a proximate or remote past birth. With the aid of past life regression, hypnosis, telesthesia, and retro-cognitive knowledge, it may be possible for a highly developed seer to perceive events that are ordinarily imperceptible to the physical eye. Buddhists speak of such a possibility.

The majority of people ordinarily attribute inequality to a single cause such as the will of an all-powerful creator being, gods (devas) at play, or Fate. In place of the whim of an almighty being (an uncaused cause), or the caprice of the universe, the Buddha explained the impersonal law of karma as the cause of many significant events.

How do modern scientists account for the inequality among people? Confining themselves to sensory data, they attribute inequality to heredity (genetic dispositions) and environment (social and chemico-physical causes). In 1926 the distinguished biologist Julian Huxley wrote:

“Some genes control colour, others height or weight, others fertility or length of life, others vigour and the reverse, others shape or proportions. Possibly all, certainly the vast majority, of hereditary characteristics are gene-controlled[?]. For mental characters, especially the more complex and subtle ones, the proof is more difficult, but there is every evidence that they are inheritable, and no evidence that their inheritance is due to a different mechanism from that for bodily characters. That which is inherited in our personality and bodily peculiarities depends somehow upon the interaction of this assorted battery of genes with which we are equipped at fertilization” (The Stream of Life).

What questions can science even tackle?

How or why we are thus equipped is not discussed, as science has little to say beyond simple empiricism. To say that it is mere “chance” is the same as saying that there is no reason for it at all.

One may be read to admit that the phenomena revealed by science are partly instrumental as mechanisms more than actual "causes." Could mechanisms be solely responsible for the subtle distinctions that exist among individuals? Why should identical twins physically alike by virtue of inherited genes -- enjoying the same privileges and disadvantages of upbringing -- be temperamentally, morally, and intellectually different?

Heredity alone cannot account for the vast differences we observe. Strictly speaking, it would account more plausibly for a few of the similarities than for most of the differences.

The minute chemico-physical germ (fertilized ovum) inherited from parents, thought to be about 30 millionth of an inch across, explains only a portion of a person, that is, the physical foundation.  With regard to the more complex aspects, one can search and search the environment and still not find a satisfactory explanation. Karma -- when understood correctly rather than assumed to mean immediate mechanical cause-and-effect as postulated by Newtonian physicists -- provides just such a satisfactory, and at least personally verifiable, explanation.

Remains of the fire (Fire Sermon Explained)

Wisdom Quarterly; AP; Ñanamoli Thera (Three Cardinal Discourses of the Buddha, BPS)

Remains of the day, the resilient burn area will soon bounce back (kfiam640.com).

   

Fire spirit (coasttocoastam.com)

The Springs fire is burned out, exhausted, and over. The massive blaze came very early in the season, boding disaster for the year. It seems that for this fire, the aerial bombardment of spraying deadly heavy metals on unsuspecting civilians has paid off for weather modification. The chemtrails seem to have been bringing on-and-off torrential rain throughout the day, taking advantage of a moist cold front. Cold air is usually dry, but there was enough moisture in the skies over Southern California to co-create rain. Is Nature ruined? No, the local environment likes and needs wildfires. It is the only way some plants' seeds are made viable. It puts nutrients back in the ground and clears years of debris off the forest floor. Many local plants are adapted to deal with fire, for instance with bark that burns while protecting heartwood.

Soon blooms will prove the fire was worth it, where fire is a component of the ecosystem.

 

Fire ghost (privet.ru)

CAMARILLO, California  (AP) Rain showers moved across Southern California on today (May 6, 2013), dousing remnants of a wildfire that blackened thousands of acres in [Southern California] coastal mountains and bringing much-needed moisture to a region left parched by a dry winter. [LA is currently experiencing a severe drought with little more than five inches for the year, nine inches shy of average.] The 44-square-mile burn area in the western Santa Monica Mountains... More

The Fire Sermon Explained

Ñanamoli Thera (Three Cardinal Discourses of the Buddha) edited by Wisdom Quarterly

(bps.lk)

THE SENSES: eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind are called the six "Bases for Contact [the meeting of awareness and sensation] in oneself," and are also known as the six "Doors" of perception. 

Their corresponding objects are called "external bases" [of contact]. This is because the emphasis here is on the subjective faculty of seeing, hearing, and so on. It is not the associated flesh seen in someone (the eye itself, the ear, etc.), which, in so far as it is visible, is not "seeing." It is a "form" that can be seen to be the "external" object of the seeing.

Here "eye" [or more accurately the sensitive material in the eye] should be taken simply as the coordinating base in an otherwise uncoordinated visual field consisting of shades and colors, which makes things cognizable by eye-consciousness. This consciousness is often misconceived as "I" or self (atta, atman).

The six Internal Bases are compared to an empty village; the six External Bases to village-raiding robbers. [With estrangement it is recognized that one does not possess or own these bases, but clinging to such a notion gives rise to a solid sense that a self exists.]

NOTE: While this minutiae and exegesis may seem pointless, it is vital in the understanding of the Heart Sutra where "form is emptiness and emptiness is form" and long lists of sense bases, sense (sensible) objects, and the contact between them feature largely as the springboard for realization, for the perfection of liberating-wisdom.

 

FORMS: the six External Bases are forms, sounds, tastes, fragrances, tangibles, and mind-objects. These are the objective-fields. The six Internal Bases take them as objects. The word rupa ("matieriality") is used for objects. The eye, for example, sees colors and shade, as the basis for the visual perception.

 

The Buddha's silhouette (Jkoukoul/flickr.com)

CONTACT: The word phassa means the coming together of the sense base, sense object, and awareness. The verb is phusati (to touch, to arrive at, to realize). Touchable objects are photthabba ("tangible" objects of the fifth base, body-sensitivity). But here it is generalized to mean contact in the sense of presence of object to subject, or presence of cognized to consciousness, in all forms of consciousness, defined as follows: "Eye-consciousness arises dependent on eye and on forms; the coincidence of the three is contact (presence)."

"The same holds true for ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind. Failing it, no consciousness (awareness, knowledge) of any sort whatever can arise at all." This fundamental idea is sometimes placed at the head of lists of things defining Determinations.

 

BODY: The word kaya refers both to the physical body and to any grouping (e.g., Dharmakaya). In the ancient Buddhist language of Pali it is also used in: (a) for the physical frame, namely "this body with its consciousness" in a general sense; it also forms the subject of body-contemplation as set forth in the Four Foundations of Mindfulness Sutra, the aim of which is to analyze this "conglomeration" into its constituent parts; or it is used in a stricter sense, as here, (b) that "door" of the subjective body-sensitivity (tactile sense), that which is capable of sensing forms in the tactile field consisting of such qualities as the hard, the hot-or-cold, and the distended-and-movable.

 

MIND: The word mano has the root meaning "to measure, compare, coordinate." Here it is intended as that special "door" in which the five kinds of sense-consciousness arising in the other five doors combine themselves with their objective fields into a unity, together with certain uniquely-mental objects comprehensible through the mind-door -- such as boundless space, the sphere of the void, boundless consciousness, (and names, fictions, etc). Whatever is cognized in this door is cognized as an idea. And in the presence of (in contact with) ignorance (of the Four Noble Truths) it is misconceived as "I," "myself," or "mine."

 

It is the fusing of the stuff of experience into a coherent pattern; it also has the function of giving temporal succession (apparent identity over time) and flow to that pattern by its presenting all ideas for cognition as "preceded."

 

In the "Higher Teaching" (Abhi-dharma), but not in the sutras, "the (material) form which is the support for the mind" is mentioned (implying perhaps the whole "body with its consciousness"), but is not further specified.

 

This would place mind on a somewhat similar base as eye-seeing, as meant here in relation to the objective sensitive-flesh (likely located in the literal heart rather than the brain, but not clearly declared by the Buddha). Later notions coupled it with the heart (hṛdaya). Now fashion identifies it with the brain, but such assumptions are not easy to justify unilaterally. And if they depend on a prior, and philosophically-questionable, assumption of body-mind substance separation, they find no footing in the Buddha's teaching where substances are not assumed.

 

MIND-CONSCIOUSNESS: If each of the six pairs (internal and external) of bases -- five consisting of eye, ear, nose, tongue, and body, being coordinated by mind -- are open to personal inspection, and if consciousness is regarded as arising dependent on each of these six pairs and not in any other way (since no other description rejecting all six is possible without contradiction), then this notion of mind-consciousness presents no special difficulty.

 

IDEA: the multivalent term dharma (Pali, dhamma) is gerundive from the verb dharati ("to carry, to remember, to bear"). It literally means "a carryable, a rememberable."

 

In the context of the six pairs of bases, it means the rememberables that form the mind's special object, as distinct from the forms seen only with the eye, the sounds heard with the ear, the fragrances smelled with the nose, the flavors tasted with the tongue, the tangibles touched with the body. 

"Ideas" are what are apprehended through the mind-door. These six sense bases cover all we know. But while the first (forms) are not coordinated between themselves and have no direct access to each other, in the mind-door the five find a common denominator and are given a coordinating perspective, together with the mind's own special objects.

So the idea as a "rememberable" is the aspect of the known apprehended by the mind, whether coordinating the five kinds of sense-consciousness or apprehending the ideas peculiar to it or apprehending its own special objects. 

 

This must include all the many other meanings of the word dharma. Nirvana, insofar as it is knowable -- and describable to others who have not yet experienced it directly -- is an object of the mind (heart) and is thus in this special sense of the word an "idea." And just as with other internal bases and their respective external objects, "All ideas are not-self."

Healing Quest: Permaculture

Light Bridge Media examines permaculture, a system of sustainable gardening developed in Australia. Some permaculturists hold that healing the planet is critical to healing ourselves. This belief has attracted tens of thousands of practitioners around the world. Here it is into practice in Hawaii.