Showing posts with label of the impossible. Show all posts
Showing posts with label of the impossible. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Humans did NOT build Great Tartaria

Were the "Tartarians" giants compared to us?
  • Greater Tartaria, Tartary?
  • On January 6, 1858, The Raftsman Journal published an intriguing article called Antiquities in America, discussing many of the ruins and structures [found] around this continent that have not been discussed by official history... Source: onenewspage.com
There are real "giants" living in Dubai, Middle East?

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Dodger 'Yagi' (GOAT) Ohtani: World Series

  • (Search Party) How Shohei Ohtani happened
  • What does Shohei (翔平) mean? Shō (翔) means to "soar or glide," and hei (平) means to be "level, in the sense of being calm or peaceful." Hei is also a common ending for male names. His surname's initial character Oh (大) means "great or large" and tani (谷) means "valley." One who glides peacefully in a grand valley (like a stadium)? Source
  • He's the G.O.A.T. (the "greatest of all time), we say, which in Japanese is yagi  ("goat").
World Series Game 3 HIGHLIGHTS | Blue Jays versus Dodgers - Oct. 27, 2025
The Greatest of All Time: The Yagi
(SPORTSNET) Oct. 28, 2025: DODGER STADIUM, Los Angeles. In one of the most unbelievable games of professional baseball anyone will ever see, featuring every manner of drama, the Los Angeles Dodgers bested the Toronto Blue Jays by way of a Freddie Freeman walk-off homer after 18 grueling innings, taking a 2-1 World Series lead in the process.

The Fix Is In: Gambling?
The G.O.A.T. Shohei "Yagi" Ohtani was spectacular. But the game lasted seven hours, ending about midnight. Even diehard fans, many of them Proles outside the luxuries of the Inner Party, had to get home and get to work the next day, possibly nursing hangovers from a day at Distraction Ball.

The grind continues, and the Dodgers are down, maybe making this the closest World Series in a long while. What started off with rumors of a sweep, the Dodgers taking the series in four straight wins, diverted and has made them really work for it.

It is possibly all scripted to milk billions in bets with bookies and offshore gambling agents. The fix is in. So don't gamble based on statistics and math. That's how they get a bettor. The best laid plans of mice and men do not pan out or else everyone would bet by the numbers. It's bound to be a counterintuitive ending to make the house the most money. Here, seven hours are condensed into about seven exciting minutes of play without all the milling about and nail-biting.

Best baseball player is Buddhist?

Sorry Ladies and Gents, he's taken.
Wisdom Quarterly has yet to conclusively demonstrate that the Yagi (Japanese for "goat") is a Japanese Buddhist from Orange County, where he played for the Angels. But what is the circumstantial evidence? Let's see.

The all is empty, devoid of self.
Nearly everyone in Japan is Buddhist, at least by tradition as are a great number of Asian Orange County residents, with only San Francisco and Los Angeles serving as home for expat Buddhist communities from Japan (where many were brought more than a century ago to work in building the railroads then unceremoniously locked up in gulags to sit out WW II, where the humiliation of forced internment has not been forgotten. But Japan has more than Zen Buddhism.

Shinto priest bows, placates kami
The older tradition is Shinto or kami (spirit) worship/tending. And the newer tradition is Pure Land faith-based Buddhism usually called Nichiren Shōshū. There are of course colonial remnants of Christianity and modernist agnosticism and atheism, but deep down most every Japanese person adheres to ancient Buddhist tradition along with observance of other spiritual legacies. While it might be wise for Ohtani to keep it a mystery and rake in nearly a billion dollars in his stint with the Dodgers, we bet that just beneath the surface he bows, prays, meditates, focuses Zen-like, and welcomes the help of the unseen world of kamis and blessings wherever he can get them from the Old Country and his new home. After all, he did not succumb to a Hollywood manager-arranged public relationship for the press. He traveled back to Nippon (Japan) and found a traditional wife to accompany him on his rise to stardom and his life as a living legend. Can Babe Ruth or Fernando Venezuela compare?
If we were world-famous bonsai tree growers in Japan, we'd put it out that we were pro-business Ninja Samurai capitalists, so everyone would know we were proud Americans but very open to Japanese traditions like the lore of Bushi warriors. No cents in offending the locals with our brash Americans...and very few dollars.

It might be orchestrated to maximize gambling and drunkenness: Toronto bounces back in Game 4

The Fix Is Still In (B. Tuohy)
What will Halloween in Canada be like? The Dodgers will soon find out. Why? Whoever is writing this sports script would want to stretch out the suspense, sell more tickets, raise more money betting, and making the win more of a surprise with cries of "next year" in case of an upset. It's rudimentary in a corrupt capitalist system of American sport.

How dare anyone question the honesty, integrity, and above-board directness of the MLB and all its players, who would never do anything just for the money. Balderdash! Who could think such a thing or say it out loud?

Prehistoric Egyptian anomaly: impossible?


(Время Фактов) Oct. 22, 2025: Prehistoric Egyptian Drawing Shocks Archaeologists, Just Take a Look... No description has been added to this video. How this content was made: Auto dubbed.

Friday, September 26, 2025

Levitation by kung fu, dance, running, TM?


The TM corporation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -- the Beatles', Beach Boys', and other celebrities' own guru -- used to sell "levitation" during meditation, which turned out to be a kind of flipper hopping by flapping the knees, a ridiculous compromise in the way we can bend reality and language to match. Even this wouldn't be "levitation" as we understand it even with the great hang time.

(Heshers) Levitation through meditation [using same trick TV's Batman used to climb buildings]
(AS) This "yogic flying" TM style "levitation" is more embarrassing than Heshers' sill trick above.

It only took us two views to see how he's doing it, and we guarantee anyone with the right camera set up can do this tonight, with less stress on his plastic drawers from the pushing.

Buddhism's Path of Purification on levitation
95. Uplifting happiness can be powerful enough to levitate the body and make it spring up into the air. For this was what happened to the Elder Mahá Tissa, residing at Punnavallika.

He went to the shrine terrace on the evening of the full-moon day. Seeing the moonlight, he turned in the direction of the Great Shrine [at Anurádhapura], thinking:

“At this very hour the four assemblies [Note 29] are worshipping at the Great Shrine!” By means of objects formerly seen [there] he aroused uplifting happiness with the Enlightened One [the Buddha] as object, and he rose into the air like a painted ball bounced off a plastered floor and alighted on the terrace of the Great Shrine.
  • [Note 29: Four assemblies (parisá) Buddhist monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen.]
96. And this was what happened to the daughter of a clan in the village of Vattakálaka near the Girikandaka Monastery when she sprang up into the air owing to strong uplifting happiness with the Enlightened One as object.

As her parents were about to go to the monastery in the evening, it seems, in order to hear the Dhamma [144], they told her:

“My dear, you are expecting a child; you cannot go out at an unsuitable time. We shall hear the Dhamma [the Buddha's Teachings] and gain merit for you.” So they went out. And though she wanted to go, too, she could not very well object to what they said. She stepped out of the house onto a balcony and stood looking at the Ákásacetiya Shrine at Girikandaka lit by the moon.

She saw the offering of lamps at the shrine and the four communities [assemblies] as they circumambulated it to the right after making their offerings of flowers and perfumes. And she heard the sound of the massed recital by the Community of Monastics. Then she thought:

“How lucky they are to be able to go to the monastery and wander round such a shrine terrace and listen to such sweet preaching of Dhamma!”

Seeing the shrine as a mound of pearls and arousing uplifting happiness, she sprang up into the air, and before her parents arrived she came down from the air into the shrine terrace, where she paid homage and stood listening to the Dhamma.

97. When her parents arrived, they asked her: “What road did you come by, my dear?” She answered, “I came through the air, not by the road.”

And when they told her, “My dear, those whose cankers are destroyed [the enlightened] come through the air, but how did you come?”

She replied, “As I was standing looking at the shrine in the moonlight a strong sense of happiness arose in me with the Enlightened One as its object. Then I knew no more whether I was standing or sitting, but only that I was springing up into the air with the [mental] sign that I had grasped [apprehended], and I came to rest on this shrine terrace.”

So uplifting happiness can be powerful enough to levitate the body and make it spring up into the air.

98. But when pervading (rapturous) happiness arises, the whole body is completely pervaded [like soap powder suffused with water], like a filled bladder, like a rock cavern invaded by a huge inundation.

99. Now this fivefold happiness, when conceived and matured, perfects the twofold tranquility, that is, bodily and mental tranquility. When tranquility is conceived and matured, it perfects the twofold bliss, that is, bodily and mental bliss. When bliss is conceived and matured, it perfects the threefold concentration, that is,
  1. momentary concentration [khanika samādhi],
  2. access [neighborhood] concentration, and
  3. absorption concentration [full jhana].
Of these, what is intended by happiness in this context is pervading happiness, which is the root of absorption and comes by growth into association with absorption [145].

CHAPTER IV
The Earth Kasina
100. But as to the other word: pleasing (sukhana) is bliss (sukha). Or alternatively: it thoroughly... More: Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga)
  • Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Pat Macpherson (eds.), The Path of Purification edit

Sunday, March 23, 2025

Beneath the Pyramids: The Giza Scan

Beneath the Pyramids | The Giza Scan Controversy Examined and the Tomb of the Birds | Megalithomania
(MegalithomaniaUK) March 23, 2025: Let's examine the new scan data, looking at what is really underneath Khafre's Pyramid on the Giza Plateau and an exploration of Giza's secret cave and tunnel system underworld, which is linked to these new discoveries, with Andrew Collins and Hugh Newman. Collins' original article: megalithomania.co.uk/andr...

What Hall of Records is hidden under the Sphinx? - How did ETs build the great Giza pyramids?

City found beneath Pyramids of Giza

Structures recently found inside pyramid go way down, thousands of feet, impossible depths
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Pyramids of Giza near Cairo ("Mars"), Africa
Researchers claim they’ve discovered the legendary Halls of Amenti in a “vast city” beneath Egypt’s Pyramids of Giza — a wild theory that has perplexed archeological experts who dismiss the claims as “fake news,” to quote a moronic Trumpism.

Italian and Scottish scientists studying the pyramid of Khafre say the “groundbreaking study has redefined the boundaries of satellite data analysis and archeological exploration,” according to spokesperson Nicole Ciccolo.
  • PHOTO: A 3D model was created displaying the newly discovered structures inside the central part of the Pyramid of Khafre (Khafre Project)
Aptly named the Khafre Project, Corrado Malanga from Italy’s University of Pisa and Filippo Biondi of the University of Strathclyde in Scotland led the expedition to discover the Giza Plateau’s second-largest pyramid.

Tomographic images showing different feedback results could indicate internal artificial structures under the pyramid in most recent discovery made public (Khafre Project).

Scientists said they located five small room-like structures inside the pyramid using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology. One structure contained a sarcophagus mistakenly thought to be the Pharoah’s Tomb, the team said in a press release.

The group claims the five structures — previously unknown before the images — were found in the center of the pyramid.

The newly discovered structures are connected to pathways that lead below the surface and are believed to expose hidden rooms and wells underneath the 4,500-year-old world wonder.

Electromagnetic signals were turned into phononic data that unveiled larger infrastructure leading down thousands of feet underground.

The eight large, vertical structures — theorized to be wells or shafts — are thought to extend over 6,500 feet across and 2,000 feet below ground.

Researchers didn’t reveal the use of the larger structures that stretch below “ground zero” but plan for further analysis and possible excavation to verify the “artificial nature of the structures.”

The project used two satellites 420 miles up in space to send down radar signals that “photographed” the pyramids, according to the Daily Mail.

Data was compiled into images to create a rough copy of what is believed to be below the pyramids, including the eight wells.

The hollowed structure consists of spiral pathways leading down further underground.

Tomographic images showing different feedback results could indicate internal artificial structures under the pyramid (© Khafre Project).

The group used the data to make a rough 3D model estimating what is believed to be hidden from the world’s eye.

“When we magnify the images [in the future], we will reveal that beneath it lies what can only be described as a true underground city,” Malanga said, according to the outlet.

Skepticism and accusations that the study was a hoax arose when the project did not publish the information with any peer review from independent researchers.

Renowned archaeologist and Egypt’s former minister of antiquities, Dr. Zahi Hawass, promptly called the claims “completely wrong” and “fake news.”

“The claim of using radar inside the pyramid is false, and the techniques employed are neither scientifically approved nor validated,” he told The National.
Researchers created a 3D model for the giant “wells” that descend below the pyramid with a spiral pathway. The group used the data to make a rough 3D model estimating what is believed to be hidden from the world’s eye (Khafre Project).

One researcher at the University of Denver said the claims were “exaggerated” as the technology is not advanced enough to create such images.

Radar expert Lawrence Conyers said there is a likelihood the five smaller structures found just below the surface may be there because of the history of the area.

Conyers said the land was sacred to the ancient civilizations even before the pyramids were constructed, according to the Daily Mail.

The wild claims have contributed to a growing interest in the possibility of a discovery of ancient texts and other resources from Egyptian myths.

“A remarkably strong correlation between the layout and characteristics of these underground chambers and legendary Halls of Amenti as described in ancient myths,” Ciccolo said.

Radar expert Lawrence Conyers said there is a likelihood the five smaller structures found just below the surface may be there because of the history of the area. Khafre Project

The Halls of Amenti include the fabled Hall of Records, a hidden room believed to be underneath the pyramid complex or the Great Sphynx containing resources of information about the ancient people of the area.

“These new archaeological findings could redefine our understanding of the sacred topography of ancient Egypt, providing spatial coordinates for previously unknown and unexplored subterranean structures,” Ciccolo added
Something MASSIVE was JUST found beneath the Pyramids of Giza
(The InBetween) March 23, 2025: The InBetween OFFICIAL Podcast. What lies 648 meters (2,126 feet) beneath the Giza pyramids shatters everything we thought we knew about ancient Egyptian history. Eight massive spiral wells plunge more deeply than New York's Empire State Building is tall. Underground chambers could house entire skyscrapers. Evidence of advanced [space alien] technology existed 12,000 years ago, when Göbekli Tepe was supposedly built. The truth is stranger and more extraordinary than fiction.
  • MSN.com, March 23, 2025; The InBetween; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Monday, March 10, 2025

Liberal wakes up, Musk as president?


Taylor Tomlinson talks about Elon Musk sparking a Tesla backlash
(After Midnight) March 10, 2025: Taylor Tomlinson discusses Elon Musk’s DOGE government cuts sparking a Tesla backlash including a Cybertruck getting booed at a Mardi Gras parade, Teslas being vandalized, owners attempting to disguise their electric vehicles, and global sales taking a nosedive. #AfterMidnight #TaylorTomlinson #Comedy


Trump spins after Musk and Rubio blowup, Pentagon's War on Woke, and Jimmy vs. Daylight Saving Time
(Jimmy Kimmel Live) March 10, 2025: DJ Trump (Adderall) could finally do something to make almost everyone happy and eliminate Daylight Saving Time, five years ago this week Trump announced that COVID plandemic was here, measles has now been reported in at least 13 states, future-Pres. Elon Musk (ketamine) reportedly got into it with current Secretary of State Marco Rubio (cocaine) over not firing anyone yet, Trump eventually came to Rubio’s defense but the fallout was so bad that he had to do some spin, Secretary of Defense War Pete Hegseth (alcohol) has been hard at work de-woking the government, the stock market was down by almost 900 points today but Trump was busy whipping out his Presidential Sharpie for a special proclamation, Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller (assorted) spent time on FOX objecting to a joke from SNL this weekend, VP JD Vance is getting the meme treatment and FOX is eating it up, England's King Charles unveiled his Apple Music Playlist today, and Yehya reviews the new Robert Pattinson movie Mickey 17. #Kimmel

VP JD Vance (voiced by Mike MacRae) calls in to talk to Jimmy Dore (TJDS at jimmydore.com)
(JimmyKimmel.com) Trump tries to have chilling effect on free speech on the Columbia University campus with the case of Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder in the country legally and exercising his rights as a legal resident. But free speech is now illegal.

The Democrats will save us!

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Monday, February 17, 2025

Glitch in Matrix: Upside down plane crash


Clearly the "real" world is not real, not flawless and flowing but glitching and sharing features with tapes, loops, reels, video, audio, warped and resetting like a computer program, a simulation of a real thing or dimension. When it's caught on film for all to see, able to be reviewed, then who can doubt it? Sure, there's chance, coincidence, eerie confluence, but that does not explain all of these glitches.

  • CRJ 900 carrying 80 passengers crashed at Toronto's Lester B Pearson Airport. About 17 were injured, but there were no fatalities. The commercial plane somehow ended up on its back, missing a wing, which leads us to ask three things: Why? How? And where's Pete Buttigieg? Oh, wait, new Pres. Trump made someone else secretary of transportation, after which these transport anomalies started.
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  • All Time, YouTube.com, Nov. 28, 2023; Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Sunday, October 13, 2024

World's most mysterious: Mt. Kailash


The Most Mysterious Mountain in the World | Mount Kailash
(Harry Sahota) Premiered Oct. 13, 2024: This is the Mount Kailash mystery: To date, close to 7,000 different people have scaled Mt. Everest, the highest mountain in the world. K2, the second highest, is much tougher to summit, but people have done it. However, there is one mountain thousands of meters shorter and not even on the list of Top T00 highest peaks in the world that no one dares to attempt to climb, not even the most experienced mountaineers. That mountain is the possible non-mountain Mt. Kailash.

EXPLORE the 14,000-year-old Hindu Cit... How this content was made: Altered or synthetic content. Sound or visuals were significantly edited or digitally generated. Learn more:  #mountain #mystery #kailash

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

And now for something... post debate


People who are at another level | amazing skills and talents
(Retrocast) Sept. 22, 2024: People who practiced to progress are now at another level altogether with these amazing skills and talents.  Subscribe: @retrocast1

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Secret site in Peruvian Andes: Naupa Huaca


The "Temple of the Moon" is an Incan ceremonial temple on Huayna Picchu near Machu Picchu, in Peru. The site is made up of stone masonry and an open-face, shallow cave. In the center of the cave is a stepped sculpture cleanly carved out of rock (hard andesite). Beside the stepped sculpture are steps that lead more deeply into the cave. It is thought that the caves were possibly used to hold mummies. The Temple of the Moon dates back at least 1500 years [1]. [We suspect much older.]  It was rediscovered in 1936. It rests 1,280 feet (390m) below the summit on the north side of Huayna Picchu. More

Pre-flood ruins of advanced civilization high in the Andes mountains: Naupa Huaca
(Universe Inside) Sept. 22, 2024: Far from the bustling tourist Peruvian paths that lead up to famous Machu Picchu or Ollantaytambo, in the remote Andean highlands of Peru's Sacred Valley, rests a mystery site hidden away within a rock cave.

This site is called Naupa Iglesia, or more accurately, Naupa Huaca. This unexplained structure is believed to be a prehistoric site left by a civilization far more ancient and far more advanced than the Incan civilization which inhabited the region.

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Sunday, September 22, 2024

Massive block: natural, manmade, ETs?


I found colossal, impossible geometry with Desert Drifter
(thePOVchannel) Sept. 19, 2024: An incredible coincidence resulted in Desert Drifter and I standing atop a mysterious and gargantuan block (stone cut cube) in the middle of a forest. This cube has many secrets, but one stands out above everything else. The history of this block is truly puzzling. Had I not seen it with my own two eyes, I would not believe it to be real.

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Saturday, September 21, 2024

Impossible rock cut caves: Barabar, India

Finely crafted solid rock entrance to Lomas Rishi Cave, one of the carve outs at Barabar
Ven. Dharma from Penang stands in glassy, polished, granite Lomas Rishi Cave, Barabar
The photo above is looks inside, whereas this is the outside of whale-shaped granite boulder.

Unsolved Mysteries: The Impossible Whale-Shaped Cave of Ancient India at Barabar
(Boxoffice) | (Full Movies) Aug. 22, 2024: Welcome to the heart of ancient India to a forgotten chapter of its history that could very well alter the course of history. ARE WE REALLY THE FIRST ADVANCED CIVILIZATION ON EARTH? No. We are not alone. We were never alone. There are others. And in the past, they left their fingerprints carved in stone all over the world -- from Mexico and Mesoamerica to Peru and Bolivia, from Egypt and Lebanon to Turkey's Karahan Tepe and Gobekli Tepe, from the USA (Mound Builders of Cahokia) to the South Pacific and Easter Island -- but perhaps nowhere in more a spectacular a fashion than ancient India. About 2,300 years ago, in what is now India (which at that time were many smaller kingdoms and republics eventually united by the Buddhist Emperor Ashoka into "India"), five rock cut chambers were carved inside enormous granite rocks. #FullMovieENGLISH #FullMovie

COMMENTARY
While the caves remain a mystery and are in the style of other Buddhist rock cut architecture in India and Afghanistan, some inscriptions say they were a product of Mauryan rulers and were dedicated to the Ajivikas, a wandering ascetic group formed by Makkhali Gosala, a curious figure and close student of Mahavira, the founder of Jainism. Both are said to have developed samadhi and the siddhis (psychic powers, which the Buddha also developed but warned against using. Everyone in India who knows of these powers warns against their use). Makkhali Gosala must not have heard or in any case did not heed the warning. One day, becoming incensed at his erstwhile teacher, he lashed out with his psychic powers, attempting to incinerate him. But Mahavira, who was more powerful, immediately put up a psychic shield. Disciples who saw this unbelievable display were shocked. Jains later explained it as an anomaly that could only happen once in an aeon, which is not much of an explanation, but is only to say it was highly unusual and out of step with the ahimsa all of the seven main wandering ascetic schools advocated. Buddhism was one of these schools (Dharmas) as was Mahavira or the Nigantha Nattaputta's Teaching (Jainism), which are the only two shramana (wandering ascetic) traditions to survive in India, both having been coopted by later Hinduism which did not exist at that time. What did exist was Brahmanism, the old Vedic religion of the Brahmin priests. They were opposed to wandering ascetics but could not ignore their growing popularity. Their solution was to assimilate and neutralize them from the inside and in a nice way by telling their followers that there was really no difference in what was being taught by all these traditions -- indeed, by all disparate spiritual practices, which the British later dubbed "Indus'ism" to give a Western spin to the dizzying diversity of spiritual life in the subcontinent under British rule -- and Sri Shankara later codified the central beliefs and came up with a systematic religion (Hinduism), dating it back thousands of years to the purported time of the Vedas, making it the oldest religion in the world, much as Judaism makes itself ancient by attaching itself to much more ancient Sumerian, Mesopotamian, and Babylonian mythologies and narratives.
  • The Ajivikas ["Followers of the Way of Life" or the "Fatalists" who do not believe in freewill but teach that everything is preordained] are frequently mentioned in Buddhist texts and rarely if ever in praise. Rather, the Buddha distinguishes his Dharma (Doctrine, Teaching and Disciplinary Code) from theirs and all other wandering ascetic groups who have it partly right but are missing major pieces of the picture and so cannot lead anyone to actual enlightenment and liberation. They do, however, teach students to their versions of these two things, which the Buddha criticizes and warns against, which would not be a very nice thing to do in polite company except that he is warning his followers and them of erring. The Buddha is so convincing, always offering other to "come and see" for themselves, laying bare his Teaching without a secret doctrine for an elect, that many from other schools do come and see, angering those other teachers for making converts of their students. Of course, we never hear it from their side; we hear it from the side of Buddhist writers, so it is obviously slanted. An Ajivika might be a name for any wandering ascetic one disagreed with over some view or another, much as Christendom used the word "Heretic," for instance, during the Spanish Inquisition, Crusades, Councils, purges, pogroms, while setting up religious communities or going about ordinary clerical affairs to maintain the status quo.
Ajivika (Sanskrit आजीविक, Ājīvika) is one of the nāstika or "heterodox" schools of ancient Indian philosophy [5, 6, 7, 8]. Believed to have been founded in the 5th century BCE by Makkhali Gosāla, it was a Śramaṇa ("wandering ascetic") movement and a major rival of the old temple-based Vedic religion of the Brahmins, early Buddhism, and Jainism [5, 6, 9]. Ājīvikas were organized renunciates who formed discrete communities [5, 6, 10]. The precise identity of the Ājīvikas is not well known, and it is even unclear if they were a divergent sect of Buddhists or the Jains [11]. [Indeed, anyone might have left one wandering ascetic school to join another at any time, finding another teacher or Teaching to their liking, all more or less striving for the same goals -- moksha (liberation from rebirth) and wisdom, gnosis, spiritual knowledge and power -- by different means.] More
  • Jayan Films, narrated by Johannah James, Box Office Full Movies, Aug. 22, 2024; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Amber Larson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly