The Mexica (pronounced /meh-hee-kuh/ or /meh-chee-kuh/) tribe of the Valley of Mexico gave "Mexico" (a country the official name of which is the "United Mexican States" or Estados Unidos Mexicanos) its modern name, not as a place that ever spoke Spanish but rather the indigenous languageNahuatl (/naw-wah/), "Mexican" of the Nahua people and Chichimeca (/chee-chee-mee-kuh/) people. Let's ask early indigenous chronicler Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl.
Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967–circa April 5, 1994) was an American punk, emo, alternative rock musician and a member of the infamous 27 Club. He was the lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and a founding member of the grunge band Nirvana, a name he chose when he found out that in Buddhism the definition of nirvana is "the end of suffering." Through his angsty songwriting and anti-establishment persona, he widened the thematic conventions of mainstream rock music. He was heralded as a spokesman of Generation X and is widely recognized as one of the most influential rock musicians. More
(Asmongold TV) Kurt Cobain didn't kill himself. (They found proof). [And a hired private investigator came to the conclusion that it was his drug addict wife Courtney Love.]
Syd Barrett after acid (LSD) at age 27
The Pink Floyd Sound with Syd (on right)
Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (Jan. 6, 1946–July 7, 2006) was an English singer, guitarist, and songwriter who co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd in 1965. Until his permanent departure in 1968, he was Pink Floyd's frontman and primary songwriter, known for his whimsical style of psychedelia and stream-of-consciousness writing [1, 6]. He was already absent and undependable by 1967. As a guitarist, he was influential for his free-form playing and for employing effects such as dissonance, distortion, echo, and feedback. More: Syd Barrett
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It was a full house of participants gathered on a damp and drizzly evening. Next local poetry event is May 15th, 4:00-6:00 pm at the SPARC Centre Gallery. Also in attendance were the current Poets Laureate Sehba Sarwar and Lester Graves Lennon, who announced the upcoming "Poetry & Cookies" on Saturday, May 17, 2025, 4:00-6:00 pm (with a surprise open mic portion, so sign up). A beautiful land acknowledgement to the Native Tongva (Kizh, Gabrieleno) tribe of Los Angeles and region including the Channel Islands was delivered by the head of the library to launch the evening. Handouts were given and introductions were made. Then we got to writing, prompted by the workshop leader, former library Poet Laureate Dr. Lipkin. Grief was expressed about the Eaton Fire four months after the LA Fire devastated the city.
These three submissions, written on site, stood out. A page of writing prompts was handed out with leading phrases meant to trigger the creative process and the start of a poem (prompt shown in green).
THE NIGHT WAS DARK BUT THERE WAS ONE LIGHT.
The tunnel, the train, ah, the 6:40, yes, right on time. And here by its light, the reason for my stumbling, railroad ties -- and this long slick guide, steely, cold in pointing only this way or that. You see, I can't go back. I was fated forward roam, here alone, at night, right on track, in search of some way out. Then came the breeze, a breath, fresh air cool on my face -- with something left to face, over there, one more thing, right there. The night was dark but there was one light.
The two hours raced as we each wrote four pieces -- a fairytale, elegy, persona poem, and a prompted piece. Poets love to "paint" outside the lines, so every work of creativity was its own, each somewhat elegiac for what was lost to the fire. Only a small percentage of the participants were men; one cried as did another woman, who read and read every chance she could get, apparently dying for validation.
Fairy tales have been around for centuries because they capture something essential about the human experience.
In this workshop, we will use fairy tales and their tropes as inspiration to write about our own lives.
Thinking about the forest, the animals, the seasons, and the symbolic characters we find in fairy tales,
we will explore the persona poem and elegy, among other exercises to spark the imagination,
to celebrate and commemorate Altadena, and to process grief.
The workshop is FREE and open to the public -- all ages and backgrounds welcome.
Please bring a notebook and pen if possible; otherwise, the Altadena Library may provide writing utensils.
Anniversary of the LA Fire
The Jan. 7th fire was the worst in its history
Tuesday, May 6, 2025, marks nearly four months since the Eaton Fire devastated the Altadena community. We extend a special invitation to Altadena, Pasadena, and Sierra Madre residents and to those impacted by the Palisades Fire. Please join us to write and process experiences, releasing grief, and showing Los Angeles community resilience.
ABOUT: The presenter
of this workshop is former Altadena Library Poet Laureate (2016-2018) Dr. Elline Lipkin, PhD, a poet, nonfiction writer, and academic (Prof. Elline Lipkin, UChicago, Graham School) who until the Eaton Fire had been an Altadena resident for 13 years. She holds an MFA and PhD in literature and creative writing and has been a research scholar with UCLA'sCenter for the Study of Women. She is the author of two books. Her third, Girl in a Forest (on triohousepress.org), is forthcoming in October 2025. She served her community for two years as Altadena Poet Laureate and editor of the Altadena Poetry Review.
Those who produce a poem worthy of attention at this workshop are encouraged to submit it to Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal for consideration. Editors will consider submissions, and publication may be the result. Yesterday (May the 4th Be With You Day) this website had 53,000 views, and today (Cinco de Mayo) 56,000 and counting (running from 5:00 pm to 5:00 pm). Moreover, the past six months have seen 2.94 million views. So publication may draw considerable attention to your efforts.
Read works of poetry, short fiction, memoir, slam, spoken word, rap, whatever in a circle of area poets at South Pasadena Arts Council SPARC Centre Gallery located at 1000 Fremont Ave., South Pasadena, third Thursdays, from 4:00-6:00 pm. FREE
WEEKLY: Meditate with Amy Rutledge (Tuesdays via Zoom)
Meditate with Amy Rutledge, virtually, on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 6:30–7:00 pm viaZoom. All-ages are welcome. Join Amy and others for a guided half-hour meditation via Zoom in recognition of Mental Health Month. Be kind to yourself and chill in a group for 30 minutes.
ABOUT: Amy Rutledge came to the study of meditation as a path toward personal healing after struggles with the effects of Lyme disease as well as depression and anxiety. She found that it helped her in unexpected ways when many other approaches failed. More: meditatewithamy.com
Rare color footage of Berlin After WW II | UNCENSORED
(World at War) On May 6, 1945, Major Kirke B. Lawton was granted permission for a special ceremony: At Allied headquarters in Reims, the Wehrmacht signs the unconditional surrender on all fronts. The Second World War in Europe ends two days later. In London, people were celebrating in the streets – just as in the Netherlands and Czechoslovakia. In Augsburg, a team of the “Special Film Project 186” films the defeated, among them Hitler’s second man, Hermann Göring. At the beginning of July, the American camera teams are also allowed to shoot in Berlin. They succeed in taking unique color pictures of the destroyed capital and its inhabitants. While George Stevens does not get permission to film the Potsdam Conference, Major Lawton is at least allowed to be present at the first meeting of the new US Pres. Harry Truman with Kremlin [Russian] ruler Josef Stalin.
What scientists just found in the Grand Canyon shocks everyone
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Nov. 21, 2024: The Smithsonian's Kincaid explored and found a great deal of "forbidden archeology," as Michael Cremo refers to it, about the true history of this land, a past rooted in Egyptian, Buddhist, and Hindu arrivals and the creation of a civilization we are not allowed to know about. The Hopi and other tribes, with help from Tibetan Buddhist missionaries and historians, may be aware of it, but we are not. Steve Quayle and other explorers dare to publish but are largely ignored by the mainstream for their "fringe" views. Never mind that the whole story was documented in writing at the time but the Arizona Gazette. That physical evidence still exists, and nearly all of the Grand Canyon is forbidden and off-limits. People have found caverns and cave tunnel systems through the region, and many prominent features bear Egyptian names. They seem to be degraded pyramids and manmade structures, visible from the rim. But we are fed a false narrative of natural erosion over a billion years or so.
Christian brothers want to motivate with this video that aims to leave viewers blessed, inspired, and encouraged as well as strengthening prayer life and daily walk with or without God. As you listen to this amazing video may JC light up your life. Why is our government concealing the truth of ancient history on this land?
(AP via C2C) UFOs (now UAPs) are once again the talk of Congress. On Wednesday (Nov. 14, 2024), the U.S. House of Representatives is holding yet another hearing on the UFO phenomenon with the specific goal of pulling back the curtain of government secrecy surrounding the topic
Organized by the Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee, the gathering is tantalizingly titled "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth." To that end, the two-hour hearing features testimony from witnesses who share knowledge and insights on UFO events and programs that, they contend, are being hidden from the public by the powers that be.
Retired Navy Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet recounts a 2015 incident during which, while overseeing a strike group exercise, he received a secure email "from the operations officer of Fleet Forces Command."
Labeled "urgent," the communique cautioned that "we are having multiple near-midair collisions" with unidentified objects and "if we do not resolve it soon, we will have to shut down the exercise."
Eerily, Gallaudet said, the email vanished from his inbox the following day with the topic never being broached by the operations officer nor their superior. He indicated that "this incident disturbed me" throughout the rest of his time in service, which ultimately led him to becoming an advocate for greater government transparency about the topic of UAPs.
Among other witnesses at the hearing was former Pentagon Intelligence Officer Luis Elizondo, who decried what he described as "grave misdeeds against loyal civil servants, military personnel, and the public" brought about by "excessive secrecy" aimed at concealing "the fact that we are not alone in the cosmos."
Meanwhile, journalist Michael Shellenberger told the subcommittee about an alleged government program known as "Immaculate Constellation," which his sources revealed to him, though its existence has been denied by the Pentagon.
Finally, former NASA Associate Administrator for Space Policy and Partnerships Michael Gold argued for further study of the phenomenon by the space agency.
As one might imagine, members of the subcommittee had an array of questions for the witnesses concerning their respective testimonies. Some representatives understandably expressed consternation that the subject remains shrouded in secrecy as the phenomenon could represent a serious national security threat.
As opposed to previous Congressional UFO hearings, the gathering was similar to last summer's Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs event in that it did not shy away from the possibility that UAPs may represent some kind of non-human intelligence.
When asked if this might be the case, Gallaudet and Elizondo argued that there is "strong evidence" for it, while Gold mused that we "don't know, but we must find out."
Among the more remarkable moments during the lengthy hearing, which constitutes a must-watch for any serious student of the UFO phenomenon, was Representative Anna Paulina Luna asking if UAPs could be "living craft" in light of how they seemingly maneuver in ways that would kill an occupant piloting the vehicle.
In response, Elizondo observed that such a scenario cannot be ruled out, given the nature of biological diversity.
Meanwhile, in perhaps the most eyebrow-raising exchange, Representative Lauren Boebert brought up "rumors" of a "secretive project within the Department of Defense" involving the creation of human-ET hybrids.
Alas, none of the witnesses could speak to the veracity of the claim that [hybrids are being created, which] has been bandied about in UFO circles for decades.
While the hearing was not the blockbuster disclosure event that UFO enthusiasts have sought for decades, the gathering could be viewed as another incremental step towards that ultimate goal with all of the witnesses expressing their unwavering belief that the government is "hiding the truth" from the American people.
For their part, the representatives commendably treated the subject with the kind of seriousness that many have long argued the phenomenon deserves.
What happens next is anyone's guess, though, given the nature of the subject and the attention that Wednesday's hearing received, it is a safe bet that the gathering is not the last time that Congress investigates the UFO mystery in hopes of finally finding definitive answers.
How can we even dream of finding and facing the truth if we won't even look at the actual data? Dr. Judy Wood is a professional examining her expertise in the field to discover what she has: the "dustification" of the Twin Towers through unconventional and unfamiliar means but rather the use of some kind of new directed free-energy weapon.
Did a wide plane make this round hole?
(It has been 23 years since 9/11. Isn't it time to look at the data for once instead of a media storm of deception and controlled narrative that blames enemies as a pretext for endless war?
(Anyone interested in peace will want to know what really happened.
How dare you question the gov't!
(It's better to know instead of repeating comforting lies and nonsense, instead of falling into line as if this were 1984, engaging in 2 Minutes Hate every year to despise a religion or country or cabal. Who would embrace a patently impossible and debunked cover story when it is possible to get at the actual, demonstrable facts and truth of the matter? Who cares about truth?)
Don't question. Don't investigate. They might call you a "Truther." Just go along to get along.
Read the book for extensive presentation of the evidence and actual data: Where Did the Towers Go? The Evidence of Directed -Free-Energy Technology on 9/11.
Israel knew about Hamas' plan and let it happen as a pretext like the 9-11 event (The Hill/Rising)
A sweeping history unfolds the story of Buddhism’s spread to the West. A modern classic unparalleled in scope, How the Swans Came to the Lake opens with the story of Asian Buddhism, including the life of the historical Buddha and the spread of the Dharma from proto-India to Southeast Asia, China, Korea, Japan, Tibet, and elsewhere.
Coming to the modern era, American author Rick Fields tracks how Western colonialism in Asia served as the catalyst for the first large-scale interactions between Buddhists and Westerners.
Fields discusses the development of Buddhism in the West through key moments such as:
The original cover 40 years ago
Transcendentalist fascination with Eastern religions;
immigration of Chinese and Japanese people to the United States;
the writings of D. T. Suzuki, Alan Watts, and poets in the Beat movement;
the publication of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki;
the arrival of Tibetan lamas in America and Europe; and
the influence of Western feminist and social justice movements on Buddhist practice.
This 40th anniversary edition features both new and enhanced photographs as well as a new introduction by Fields’s nephew, Buddhist Studies scholar Benjamin Bogin, who reflects on the impact of this book since its initial publication and addresses the significant changes in Western Buddhist practice in recent decades. More (shambhala.com)
The beginning of stories is not the real first point
The curious mistaken assumption about "creation" as understood in the West and in the Abrahamic faiths is that it is treated as absolute when it is no such thing. Any creation is The Creation, when it is just a story, a myth meant to explain current things. These narratives do not reveal existential questions. For example, say the God "created" Adam and Eve. They were not the first. They are just the current generation, the latest Adama (a group, not an individual). Eve was not the first woman in that story; Lilith was, but she's erased and divorced and sent away. What happened to the God's wife, Asherah? She was widely venerated as the Queen of Heaven in the past, but then all her temples were wiped out and her votive totem pole statues were smashed. They are found all the time, so widespread was devotion to her. That God, the God of the Bible, had a wife? He/It sure did.
Even if one could show that the Elohim, the gods, created humankind in their image, as is written, it was not the first creation of those means, merely this earthly vehicle, this generation of body (or bodies, koshas), not a "first creation" at all. It may be those gods think they did create something out of nothing, or bodies out of dust, and that may be. They are/were very advanced extraterrestrials/extradimensionals. But the us we imagine existing now existed before. There was karma in the past, and those old deeds have more to do with what happens to us now, what we experience seemingly by chance or fate.
Ven. Dr. Suwanda H. J. Sugunasiri, Ph.D.
The Buddha told a creation myth, not of a "first creation" but of humanoid life on earth. That "Genesis" is called the Agganna Sutta, the Discourse on Beginnings. The tale is wrapped in the power of karma because the Buddha, rather than being Buddhist, was a Karmavadin, a "Teacher of the Efficacy of Karma" or action. (One monk even reads into this tale an allegory about energy, photonic light, and its impact on matter here; see Dhamma Aboard Evolution, putting Buddhism right in line with science. Buddhism should not be put in line with mere materialistic science because it is metaphysical. That is, it goes beyond materialism to explain things).
The Agganna Sutta perhaps does not actually qualify as a creation myth because it does not say, "There was nothing and then there was this." Rather, no first point is asserted, discerned, or claimed. The Buddha may have seen one, but he did not state that. What he did state was that this plane was in such a way, and beings alighted on it. They came as they were, having (pre)existed elsewhere, and they began to devolve here. Surely there is evolution in Buddhism, but it is cyclical, bound up with devolution.
Having eaten, it's time to start making art.
So as for the "second moment" of creation, after they arrived, this happened. Then this happened. And on account of this, things became like that. Things were dependently originated. The cause, ultimately, was karma (deeds). Things devolved. Later, they will evolve again. And after that, they will devolve. This goes on and on. It is as if there were a garden called Earth, a great and beautiful place. Who made it? Did anyone make it? Others might have, or it might have just been.
Being can terraform platforms and places, bring life and set it a'rolling. Things might even originate on their own when circumstances permit -- such as when stardust, full of amino acids, crashes on suitable ground for organic things to arise. Or space traveling beings may have set up countless worlds.
Whatever the case, those organic "beings" who come to be are not beginning out of nothing. They have been, and they will be again, cyclically. Thiis is samsara, the endless round of rebirth. It is not the same being being reborn, but it is not quite right to say it is another as that does violence to the language. Ultimately, they are not the same. But conventionally, one having given rise to the other, they may be said to be the same string, the same line, the reappearing of the former version.
Then, having arrived, having devolved, beings became humanoid earthlings, and in the second moment, they did stuff -- art, civilization, farming, survival...karma, giving us what we have now. What we do matters. It will give future earthlings what they will have.
Proto-India: Indus Valley Civilization (IVC)
Reality is strange, much different than what it seems. We are seeing a tiny fraction and attempting to form whole theories. It is like looking through a pinhole into a mostly dark room and spinning an entire narrative from that fragment of data. It is like looking through a glass darkly.
It would be far better to first purify the mind/heart, see things with the third eye (pineal gland), and understand things in context. And most of that context extends long before this slice of life and goes on long after. In this way, undertaking "science" with a cleansed instrument of understanding, we will not be misled by our six senses or jump to conclusions or favor certain answers. And when we see things as they really are, we can be set free. The delusion entraps one, whereas the Truth sets one free.
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