How to breathe and live underwater (video)

The answer, in brief, is join this tribe and do what they do. Become a master diver by epigenetics -- kickstarting our natural human capacity that mostly goes unprompted and dormant.

7 days with the tribe that BREATHES underwater (Bajau Sea Nomads)  

(Joe HaTTab) The BAJAU (Sama-Bajau): Sea Nomads of Southeast Asia. 🌊 Meet the Bajau — the “Sea Gypsies” who have lived in and on the ocean for centuries. With a population of about 100,000 people across Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, they are legendary free divers (70 meter + depths with no oxygen tanks). Let's visit their stilt villages in Tawi-Tawi, Philippines, and North Sulawesi, Indonesia, to uncover their survival secrets — and find out why their ancient way of life is vanishing.

(March 2025) We didn't know white people existed (ABC Australia)

Mermaids were once real?

Young men, beware of selkies, beautiful but vicious

Mermaid princess Suvannamaccha (Thai สุพรรณมัจฉา, RTGS Suphannamatcha or Suphan Matcha, Khmer សុវណ្ណមច្ឆា, ALA-LC Suvaṇṇmacchā, Pali सुवण्णमच्छा, suvaṇṇamacchā, literally "golden fish") is a daughter of Ravana (Thotsakan), appearing in the Thai and other Southeast Asian versions of the Ramanaya [1].

Suvannamaccha tries to spoil Hanuman's plans to build a bridge to (Sri) Lanka but falls in love with him instead [2].

• The figure of Suvannamaccha is popular in Thai folklore and is represented on small cloth streamers or framed pictures that are hung as luck-bringing charms in shops and houses throughout predominantly Theravada Buddhist Thailand.

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A mermaid charm in Thailand

[The Hindu monkey-headed god] Hanuman, while building a causeway [that has really been found to exist], discovered that he was hampered by mermaids underwater.

• Hanging wall mount: Suvannamaccha luck bringing charm (amulet) in a riverside shop in Nonthaburi, Thailand.

When the divine Mother Goddess Sita is kidnapped, her husband [ET] Lord Rama enlists Hanuman's help in rescuing her. Hanuman learns that Goddess Sita is being held captive on the island of (Sri) Lanka.

Hanuman informs Lord Rama, her husband, who orders him to build a causeway to Lanka from Proto-India Jambudvipa so that Rama's army can attack.

Chris Columbus reported seeing mermaids.

Hanuman collects his band of Vanaras and they begin placing huge boulders in the sea [between the tip of the subcontinent and the teardrop shaped island to the south] to make a foundation for the causeway.

After a few days, they notice something is wrong and call Hanuman to report that matter to him. They tell him that each day they throw rocks into the sea and the next day they are gone. Hanuman asks for volunteers to join him while he instructs the others to continue throwing rocks into the sea.

When several volunteers step forward, Hanuman leads them into the waves. They find a large number of mermaids living underwater. As they watch, a new rock is tossed in. The mermaids underwater take the rocks and carry them away.

Golden Fish, you're real! Every Thai knew it!

Hanuman looks around for their leader. He spots a lovely mermaid supervising the others. He swims towards her, but she skillfully evades him. Time and again he begins an attack, but it comes to nothing. Hanuman soon finds he is falling in love with the aquatic creature.

He changes his tactics and begins to silently woo her. She responds to him, and soon they are together at the bottom of the sea.

• When Maha Moggallana, the Buddhist monk the Buddha declared "foremost in psychic powers," looked into the sea, he saw a delightful world of mermaids (sea nymphs) dancing and existing by what sounds like advanced technological means:
• "In the middle of the ocean/ There are mansions aeon-lasting,/ Sapphire-shining, fiery-gleaming/ With a clear translucent luster,/ Where iridescent sea-nymphs dance/ In complex, intricate rhythms" (MN 50.25, trans. by Ven. Nanamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi).
• "Mansions stand for an eon in the middle of the sea,/ The hue of beryl-stones, brilliant, glowing, radiant;/ There dance full many nymphs in divers hues" (Isaline Blew Horner, born 1896, trans. of MN 50).
• "There are mansions that last an eon standing in the middle of a lake./ Sapphire-colored, brilliant, they sparkle and shine./ Dancing there are nymphs shining in all different colors." (Bhante Sujato, trans. of MN 50). More: Are mermaids manatees?
• PHOTOS: We are MERMAIDS!

Later, Hanuman asks the mermaid why she is stealing the rocks. She tells him that she is Suvannamaccha, a daughter of Ravana (the "demon" who had abducted Sita).

When Ravana saw Hanuman's Vanaras building a causeway, he instructed Suvannamaccha to stop it. Hanuman tells the mermaid why he is building the causeway.

He tells her of the abduction of Sita, the battle between Rama and her father Ravana, and why they started to build a bridge to reach Lanka. More

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• Joe HaTTab, March 23, 2025; Mermaid (Sea Devi) Kelly Ani, Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

50,000-year-old American pyramids: Cuba

Just as ancient Egyptians built massive pyramids along the Nile, ancient Americans built Cahokia

• VIDEO: The mystery of the 50,000-year-old Sunken City of Cuba (msn.com)

Latin American wonders hidden in the jungle

Look at a map of the USA. The Gulf of Mexico is shown differently in each. Cuba is massive, as big as Florida, but is often minimized. All maps are politicized, which is odd since we now have low-flying satellites 20 miles up that can photograph and give us a real picture. But all "space photos" are manipulated CGI (computer generated images). They are warped, shrunken, expanded, enhanced, etcetera. There are 50,000-year-old pyramids underwater between the continental U.S. and the island nation. The mainland has Cahokia with its pyramid "mounds" in St. Louis, Missouri. A hop over the Gulf, Mexico has extraordinary pyramids in the Yucatan Peninsula and Veracruz.

• Cuban pyramids: Cuban underwater formation
• Archaeologists found the lost remnants of a Maya civilization hiding in the jungle
• What is a Mesoamerican pyramid?
• List of Mexican Mesoamerican pyramids
• Know More via msn.com, "The mystery of the 50,000 year old Sunken City of Cuba," Oct. 9, 2024; Crystal Quintero, Dhr. Seven, Xochitl (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Mexico, though called Mesoamerica, is in North America and is full of ancient pyramids

313 million-y.o. footprints in Grand Canyon

Ancient Buddhist missionaries as well as Egyptians left their mark in the Grand Canyon.

US Grand Canyon (©Visions of America/Joseph Sohm/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

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The massive Hudson Canyon under Atlantic

At 277 miles long, up to 18 miles wide, and over a mile deep at points, the Grand Canyon is one of the largest canyons in the world -- much smaller than Mexico's Copper Canyon.

• Very be careful: 20-year-old man falls 400 feet to his death from rim of Grand Canyon
• Man dies after attempting illegal BASE jump at the Grand Canyon: NPS - ABC News (go.com)
• Amateur archaeologist deciphers 20,000-year-old cave writing (MSN)

I could've been raped, killed in the Grand Canyon!

How deep is the Grand Canyon?

It's even smaller than the submarine Hudson Canyon: The Grand Canyon of the Atlantic (loe.org) which reaches 2.5 miles deep below sea level, 100 miles off the coast, and is 400 miles long, eroding out as New York's Hudson River's drowned riverbed.

Millions of people flock to the Grand Canyon every year to see its stunning beauty in person. And some people have even made historic discoveries while exploring the vast national park.

• Enormous crater three times bigger than the Grand Canyon discovered in the United States (sort of)

Grand discovery (Thomas Blanck/Shutterstock)

A unique set of fossil footprints dating back 313 million years has been unearthed in Grand Canyon National Park.

This park, renowned for its diverse collection of fossil tracks, now boasts the discovery of the oldest vertebrate track -- another testament to the park's geological and paleontological significance. More: 313-million-year-old fossil footprints discovered in Grand Canyon

How old is the Grand Canyon?

Steve Quayle (gensix.com)

It was probably cut quite quickly, geologically speaking, torn open by a mud flood, rather than slowly being etched away by the Colorado River. Archeology, like anthropology, almost certainly grows by punctuated equilibrium with massive deluges and long periods of little growth. So that ancient Egyptians could have arrived and built monuments, developed a system of caves, and a world of underground caverns where the "ant people" to reside in and invite the Indigenous peoples of the region to shelter in during cataclysms. The Sky People arranged it.

• Sky people? New Harvard study claims aliens could be living right here on Earth
• Silurian hypothesis? Arizona man finds hundreds of tracks on property that predate the dinosaurs
• Dinosaur rock: Aerosmith retiring from touring due to Steven Tyler, 76, vocal crisis
• 11 of the most baffling archaeological finds of all time
• At least 30 Egyptian tombs have reappeared—and archaeologists are astounded
• Mysterious cave art in South America is way older than we thought
• A 51,200-year-old prehistoric painting of a narrative scene was discovered in Indonesia, making it the oldest known example of figurative cave art in the world
• "Dead zone" the size of New Jersey emerges in Gulf of Mexico
• Humans reached Argentina by 20,000 years ago — and they may have survived by eating giant armadillos, study suggests
• Meet 'small diver': One of the tiniest penguins ever discovered | Live Science
• Scientists explain why there are ‘spiders’ on Mars
• NASA made a world-shaking discovery: compelling evidence of past life on Mars
• Mysterious antimatter detection on ISS sparks radical new theories
• A father-son duo hiking Mount Carmel in Israel discovered an 1,800-y.o. ring depicting the Roman Goddess Minerva
• Centuries-old artifacts discovered beneath a lake in Texas
• The 15-mile wide asteroid that slammed into Earth
• MSN.com; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Life in space, in water, on Jupiter's Europa

V101 SPACE, 11/3//23; Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Life thrives in ocean trenches

We are officially "allowed" to think there is life out there in space. Here is the permission, allowed by the gatekeepers of the academy. The truth of the matter is that there's life everywhere in space. We're in space, on this planet, just floating out there over here, neither here nor there, wherever it is we are. It's not as if NASA tells us anything true. The official story is constantly changing. That's all we get. So this is no disclosure, just prep for the next headline. Consume with care.

• The deepest sea on Earth, Japan's Mariana Trench
• Earth has one World Ocean, many seas: List of seas

Scientists think there could be LIFE on Europa and it’s even weirder than we thought!

"Weird" is in the eye of the beholder, Weirdo. Don't judge a living being by its cover. It feels.

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Hi, Camera, would you like to be friends?

(V101 SPACE) Jupiter's moon, frozen Europa, has captivated the imaginations of scientists for decades. Why?

Below that thick layer of ice, a vast ocean has been discovered with potentially the correct ingredients for life as we know it.

Mermaids visited your planet. Where'd they go?

It is one of the most promising places in the solar system where life may have formed independently of Earth.

But how could life survive on such an extreme moon? And if it does exist there, what might it look like? Imagine the weird organisms as strange as deep-sea creatures here dining around hydrothermal vents like we have.

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Aztec pyramids found in Wisconsin, USA

Aztec pyramids found in the United States of America? They're in a lake in Wisconsin.

America Unearthed: Underwater Aztec Pyramids Found in Wisconsin (S2, E8)

(HISTORY) Join Lawrence Fishburne as he uncovers the truth behind the strangest mysteries of all time in History’s Greatest Mysteries: Solved. Scott Wolter receives a tip that there are pyramids at the bottom of a lake in Lake Mills, Wisconsin. As he investigates, he learns local legend suggests they were built by Aztecs, in Season 2, Episode 8, "The Underwater Pyramids."

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Snorkeling for Mushrooms (video)

Dhr. Seven, Crystal Quintero, Xochitl, Pat Macpherson, Ananda (DMI), Wisdom Quarterly; FoLAR; Christopher Nyerges; Mia Wasilevich, Pascal Baudar, Eli Newell (KCET); Darlene Southworth

When it rains the northern watershed gathers it in the foothills to feed the LA River.

There are entheogens, edibles, and even underwater mushrooms like Psatyrella aquatica.

(Time River Productions) Why is Hahamongna Watershed, Pasadena, California so special?

Our mycology expert (Arboretum)

HAHAMONGNA, California - In Pasadena, in the foothills of the Angeles National Forest, northern Los Angeles County, above the Rose Bowl, we gathered.

We trekked through stinging nettle as Christopher Nyerges warned us, over fields of chickweed and lambsquarters in search of the elusive "snark."

We came to the bridge by the distant City of JPL (Jet Propulsion Lab, a world unto itself in collaboration with nearby Caltech University and NASA) along the Gabrielino Trail behind the world-famous facility.

Clusters of mushrooms fluorescing

It was after a sudden spring rain that turned the whole area green and flowery.

Water rushed down the Flintridge Wash of the Upper Arroyo into Devil's Gate Dam to the delight of ducks paddling like  pargeons in a pool.
 

California Foraging: Los Angeles

 
Real "Street Food": Urban Foraging in the City of Los Angeles
(Great Big Story, July 11, 2017) Christopher Nyerges (The School of Self-Reliance) has always loved plants and the outdoors. When he was a kid, he would forage and store plants in his parents’ refrigerator. Now Nyerges is teaching others to do the same. But this isn’t some nature hike foraging. Nyerges uses his encyclopedic botanical knowledge and a keen eye for urban-dwelling edible wild plants to teach other residents of Los Angeles where to find them. At his School of Self-Reliance, he shows city folks how to scour alleyways, parking lots, city parks, and the sides of highways to find unexpected wild treats. From mushrooms to mustard flowers, radish pods to mallow fruits, Nyerges can help anyone forage the best veg street food ever.

 

California Foraging: Hahamongna

(KCETOnline) Mia, Eli, and Pascal show how fun it is to forage wild plants and live off the land.
 

Everywhere we turn in wild California, there's something to eat -- if one knows what to look for. Foragers Mia Wasilevich and Pascal Baudar of Transitional Gastronomy shop at the grocery store, but they also head into the woods regularly, carrying daypacks, little knives, and compasses, finding edible plants scattered across public lands.

Old ones, bold ones but no old-bold shroomers

They like it so much they've turned it into a business, with Pascal leading interested food nerds out into the woods to collect cat tails, purslane, wild radishes, and more, with which Mia cooks up a feast using these wild ingredients (SoCal Food). Eli Newell came along for one such VEGGIE HUNT with Pascal and learned about native versus invasive plants in Southern California's woodland parks. Which do you suppose peaches are?). We ate flowers and asked Pascal just why, exactly, he makes a habit of rubbing poison oak on his face.

California Foraging: The Gabrielino Trail

PART II: Beware the common poison oak, which didn't bother the Natives.
 

Underwater Mushrooms?

Oregon Mycologist Darlene Southworth reveals her new discovery: Psathyrella aquatica

Learn: Wild Mushroom Fair, L.A.

A few days before we wandered through our hunt, finding ourselves under the big wooden bridge next to the dam. Looking below us we could see tree oysters in clusters.

We scrambled down in search of mycological samples blooming high in the trees, too high to reach.

Soon the water came and we needed to dive for them, not fancy scuba diving in the pollution, but messy snorkeling in the muck. Who tosses this plastic junk and automotive residue into the river way?

Boating the LA River by canoe (folar.org)

There they were, tree oysters! This was not the first time we had spotted them in these woods. They love willows. Nor was this the first time we fished for them. Monica and I came out in the mist of a swollen creek by the magic tree.

Not only did we collect the fruiting bodies from the tree, there was a big "fishy mushroom" floating in the water, pink as salmon, slick as rainbow trout.

Oysters grow on trees not on the ground!

We grabbed a branch and reeled it in in disbelief. It was such a large sample that, soaked, it had broken from the tree and plunged into the temporarily swollen creek, where the water can rise 12 feet or more in a day.

• Make sure it's a TREE oyster (Pleurotus ostreatus) first

What's so special it? Tim Brick (Arroyo Seco Foundation) explains

Founation preserving Los Angeles Foothill communities (arroyoseco.org)

 

The Great 2018 LA River CleanUp
April 21, 2018
Middle River
Los Feliz Blvd at Bond Park Register
Fletcher Drive/Bowtie Parcel Register
Marsh Park Register
The Frog Spot Register
April 28, 2018
Lower River
Compton Creek at Del Amo Metro Station
Register
Willow Street Estuary Register
Golden Shore Marine Reserve Register

The Great LA River CleanUp (La Gran Limpieza) three weekends in April (folar.org)

Robot enters Fukushima, finds problem (video)

Time; AP.org, July 23, 2017; Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

I was offered the job. This is what I showed them. They used a swimming bot* instead.

(Time, July 19, 2017) An underwater robot entered a badly damaged reactor at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant Wednesday, capturing images of the harsh impact of its meltdown, including key structures that were torn and knocked out of place.

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Robot finds likely melted fuel heap inside Fukushima reactor

1: photo from the robot showing debris (AP)

TOKYO, Japan - Images captured by an underwater robot showed massive deposits believed to be melted nuclear fuel covering the floor of a damaged reactor at Japan's [highly contaminated and] crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.

2: lava-like formations underwater (AP)

The robot found large amounts of solidified lava-like rocks and lumps in layers as thick as 3 feet (1 meter) on the bottom inside of a main structure called the pedestal that sits underneath the core inside the primary containment vessel of Fukushima's Unit 3 reactor, said the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO).

*This is the remote-controlled swimming robot used in the Fukushima operation (Time).

• PHOTO 1. Massive deposits believed to be melted nuclear fuel covering the floor of a damaged reactor at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Okuma town, northeastern Japan (International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning/AP).
• 2. Heaps of solidified lava-like rocks believed to be nuclear fuel that had melted in the 2011 accident during a probe inside of the Unit 3 reactor at Japan's tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant.

I'd go, but I'm Catholic! (BlessU2/The Sun)

On Friday (July 21, 2017), the robot spotted suspected debris of melted fuel for the first time since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami caused multiple meltdowns and destroyed the plant. The three-day probe of Unit 3 ended Saturday.

Locating and analyzing the fuel debris and damage in each of the plant's three wrecked reactors is crucial for decommissioning the plant. The search for melted fuel in the two other reactors has so far been unsuccessful because of damage and extremely high radiation levels.

There-there, C3PO. He's scared of Fukushima.

During this week's probe, cameras mounted on the robot showed extensive damage caused by the core meltdown, with fuel debris mixed with broken reactor parts, suggesting the difficult challenges ahead in the decades-long decommissioning of the destroyed plant.

TEPCO spokesman Takahiro Kimoto said it would take time to analyze the debris in the images to figure out debris removal methods. More

Quest for Lost Civilization (Graham Hancock)

Graham Hancock; Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

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Angkor has Angkor Wat at its center.

What are the connection between Buddhist Angkor Temple in the jungles of Cambodia, the pyramids in the deserts of Egypt, and monuments of ancient Mexico in Mesoamerica and Easter Island in Micronesia?

What is the underwater mystery in Japan? The last time it above water was 10,000 years ago. Our ancestors were highly intelligent people with help from the extraterrestrial humanoid "gods." Thousands of years ago they precisely predicted the solar eclipse over Mexico in 1991.

In this three-part exploration, researcher and author Graham Hancock traverses the world to explain his controversial theory that an ancient civilization of highly intelligent people sailed across the planet as early as 10,500 BCE. They spread advanced astronomical knowledge and built ancient stone observatories.

Skeptics may scoff, but Hancock earnestly points out similarities in giant stone structures in the Egyptian desert [like those in the jungles of Mexico], Cambodian jungles, and on Easter Island.

He points to evidence of an ancient group of seafarers. These ideas may appear utterly bizarre at first, but Hancock presents them in a compelling and understated manner. He also makes good use of computer graphics and aerial photography to illustrate the startling similarities in ancient structures found from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific.