Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "The Other America"

[MLK] Center for Nonviolent Social Change; Crystal Q., CC Liu, Sheldon S., Wisdom Quarterly

MLK: "The Other America"

(The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change) This is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1967 speech at Stanford University, California. Here he expounds on his nonviolent philosophy and methodology.

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(Charlie Stoops) I’m a white man, and in school I’m taught that Dr. King was the man who had a dream for racial equality. He was, and I respected him for that. However, I was never taught that he was a socialist [who] acknowledged the underreported housing crisis, rising wealth inequality, and white backlash towards “radical” ideas. He wasn’t just a preacher, a leader of a movement, he was a man far ahead of his time who argued for a fundamental change of societal values. And that makes me respect him even more.

(Andre Thompson) The law can't change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless. So many great quotes he left us, the greatest orator ever. More

Year's biggest supermoon tonight, April 7-8

Bruce McClure (earthsky.org/tonight); Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Moon over Garden of the Gods (devas), Colorado Springs (Joe Randall/Facebook/EarthSky)

Full moons at apogee (farthest from Earth, left) and perigee (closest to Earth, right) in 2011. Composite image by C. B. Devgun in India for EarthSky. Using the eye alone, it’ll be difficult to notice any size difference for the full moon of April 7-8, 2020. But moon-watchers might notice that this is a very bright full moon, and Earth’s oceans will feel an extra pull.

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What's a "supermoon"? (EarthSky)

In North America we often call the April full moon the Awakening Moon, Pink Moon, Grass Moon, or Egg Moon. In 2020, this April full moon also presents the closest (and thereby largest) supermoon of the year.

This full moon more closely coincides with lunar perigee – the moon’s closest point to Earth in its monthly orbit – than does any other full moon in the year 2020.

Will we notice that the moon is larger than usual? Probably not...unless one is a very experienced and discerning observer.

Moon (Trish Minogue Collins/EarthSky)

The angular diameter of a supermoon appears about 7% larger than that of an average-size full moon, and about 14% bigger than the angular diameter of a micro-moon or mini-moon (the year’s most distant and therefore smallest full moon), perhaps not enough to be noticeable to most of us using the eye alone.

On the other hand, will we notice that the full moon of April 7-8 is particularly bright? Yes! Well, maybe...if we’re observant moon-watchers. Why? That’s because supermoons can be up to 15% brighter than an average-size full moon, 30% brighter than a micro-moon.

The moon comes closest to the Earth for the entire year when it reaches perigee on April 7, 2020, at 18:08 UTC. Of this year’s 13 lunar perigees, this is one of only two that comes closer than 221,830 miles (357,000 km). More

• Phases of the moon: 2001 to 2100
• Moon at perigee and apogee: 2001 to 21000
• Lunar perigee and apogee calculator
• Top 4 keys to understanding moon phases

"The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story"

Andrés Reséndez (amazon.com, 4/18/17), Dhr. Seven, Xochitl, Crystal Q., Wisdom Quarterly

The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

“Long-awaited and important...No other book before has so thoroughly related the broad history of Indian slavery in the Americas.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“A necessary work...[The Other Slavery] will likely surprise you.”—NPR

“One of the most profound contributions to North American history.”—Los Angeles Times

Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent.

Yet, as this myth-shattering book illuminates, it was practiced for centuries as an open secret.

There was no abolitionist movement to protect the tens of thousands of Native Americans who were kidnapped and enslaved by the conquistadors.

Author Andrés Reséndez builds the incisive case that it was mass slavery — more than epidemics — that decimated Indian populations across North America.

A Strange Land (Andres Resendez)

Through riveting new evidence, including testimonies of courageous Catholic priests, rapacious merchants, and American Indian captives, The Other Slavery reveals a key missing piece of American history.

For over two centuries Americans have fought over, tried to abolish, and attempted to come to grips with the enslavement of African Americans [and Native blacks].

It is time for the West to confront an entirely separate, equally devastating enslavement we have long actively failed to look at. More

• “Beautifully written...A tour de force.”
• —Chronicle of Higher Education
• National Book Award finalist
• Winner of the Bancroft Prize

Shape of our universe: Human PLANE (video)

Adidia G, 4-30-17; Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

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Shocking! Edge of Flat Earth found!

Worlds Beyond the Poles

This video -- with a clip from Admiral Byrd's discovery of an enormous landmass beyond the South Pole -- is inspired by F. Amadeo Gianinni's book Worlds Beyond The Poles.

It provides shocking revelations of the earth beyond the Antarctica. It explains where "the edge" of our flat earth is and leaves no doubt whatsoever.

(Amazon) Enclosed within the pages of Worlds Beyond the Poles: Physical Continuity of the Universe is the first and only real description of our universe composed of land, water, air, and vegetation, where human, animal, and other forms of life abound.

This is a work of nonfiction rather than a technical analysis. It is an easy-to-understand recital of fact that transcends the most elaborate fictions ever conceived.

The human plane is a plane -- a continuous series of worlds beyond the "poles."

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It presents the first understanding of the demonstrable, factual, and endless universe, which contains human life throughout its vast length and width, regardless of all abstract "theory" to the contrary.

It is the view of the author that our earth is "flat" (a plane) [as described in Buddhist cosmology where our world or the manussa loka is the "human plane" with many worlds rather than a single planet] and stationary as the Bible also depicts it to be. It includes original illustrations. More

• VIDEO: See how Flat Earth affects us directly

The Human World (manussa loka)

Buddhist cosmology (Wikipedia edit by Wisdom Quarterly)

Birth in this plane results from the karma (action) of giving and moral discipline of middling quality, having maintained for some time the Five Precepts at a minimum.

This is the realm of moral choice where destiny can be guided. The Khana Sutra mentions that this plane (loka) is a unique balance of pleasure and pain. It facilitates the development of ethics and virtue (sila) and wisdom to liberate oneself from the endless cycle or rebirths.

For this reason rebirth as a human being is considered rare and precious, as explained in the Chiggala Sutra. In the Cula Kamma Vibhanga Sutra ("The Shorter Analysis of Karma"), the Buddha taught that:

Killing others leads to shortened life if one is reborn in the human plane rather than the four lower Planes of Deprivation. By abandoning the acts of harming and killing, one may be reborn in a better world, the human or in one of many celestial planes. If, however, one is reborn again in the human plane, one will be endowed with longevity.

 

Injuring living beings can lead to rebirth in the Planes of Deprivation. Alternatively, if one comes back to the human plane, one will be very sickly. Harmlessness or non-injury leads to rebirth in fortunate destinations. Alternatively, if one comes back to the human plane, one will enjoy good health. The same goes for the following:

• Beautiful or ugly human rebirth depends on whether one has an irritable character in this and/or previous human lives.
• Influential or ordinary human rebirth depends on whether one is envious of the gain and honor received by others in this and/or previous human lives.
• Rich or poor human rebirth depends on whether one is generous to others (able to let go), such as providing the requisites of people exerting themselves spiritually, in this present and/or previous human lives.

See also the Janussonin Sutra.

Flipside: A Tourist's Guide to the Afterlife

CC Liu, Seven, Wisdom Quarterly; Rich Martini (FlipsideTheFilm.com); Rinpoche Zasep

(barnesandnoble.com)

This is the companion video to a talk at Mystic Journey Bookstore in Venice, California. Hypnotherapist Scott De Tamble briefly explains what "between life therapy" is, as taught to him by Michael Newton. He offers to do a between life session with someone in the audience, who became upset while listening to an account of an American Indian past life memory that included a massacre. De Tamble offered to help her get to the root of her emotional memory. 

The woman had read Flipside: A Tourist's Guide on How to Navigate the Afterlife but had never before met the author. After the session she said she had other visual memories regarding this past life. The session was conducted in front of a public audience on July 14, 2012. Sound quality suffers because no filming session was planned, and the bookstore was open throughout.

But the evidence for rebirth is not limited to hypnosis. There is a growing body of scientific evidence, in spite of it being a filtered and forbidden topic of study. Wisdom Quarterly frequently speaks of the amazing work of Dr. Ian Stevenson. The evidence in Buddhist texts goes even further.

(Univ. of Virginia) Scientific evidence with Dr. Ian Stevenson, M.D.

PLEASE COME AGAIN: The Reincarnation of Zasep Tulku Rinpoche

 

Wheel of Rebirth (Hanciong/flickr.com)

(ITM WORLD VIDEOS) Tibetan Buddhism on Rebirth: What happens when we die? Let's ask someone who has traveled the Bardo (Tibetan, the "between") and returned to talk about it.

Rinpoche Zasep is a Vajrayana Buddhist lama born in Tibet in 1948. He currently lives in British Columbia. At an early age he was recognized as a tulku, an incarnation (the 13th) of Lama Konchog Tenzin of Zuru Monastery. In 1959, during the genocidal Chinese invasion, he escaped from Tibet and continued his education for 16 years in India under the tutelage of many greatest teachers.

A half million Earths in our Galaxy alone

Text: Eric Pfeiffer (The Slideshow); Wisdom Quarterly

Imagine the galaxy, its countless stars and innumerable planets. On an insignificant speck atop an insignificant speck in some forgotten corner rest in the knowledge that "You are here," according to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Yesterday's announced discovery of Earth-like planet Kepler-22b [confirmed] brought with it renewed speculation over the [high probability] of life on other worlds [even with all the black holes].

While the news was exciting, there's growing evidence that it's only a drop in the bucket when it comes to finding habitable worlds in our cosmic neighborhood.

As we begin to traverse distant space (or it is finally disclosed that humans have been there for countless millenia) it is vital that we begin to understand the importance of each individual always knowing where her/his towel is.

Space.com has provided a HANDY GUIDE to some of the 700 planets discovered by the Kepler telescope outside of our solar system. The findings include "Super-Earth" planets such as Kepler-22b and even possible "Water Worlds," like the planet GJ 1214b, which may be covered in vast oceans of water.

And outside this "habitable zone" are other interesting finds, including several "Rogue Planets" that orbit the Milky Way galaxy independently after they were ejected from their solar system.

The discovery of Kepler-22b reminded me of a great Isaac Asimov book I read in the late 80's called Extraterrestrial Civilizations. Even though Asimov wrote the book before the Hubble telescope was put into use, his theories are still considered cutting-edge to this day. More

Alien planets, Kepler telescope infographic (space.com)

Search for Other Earths

The Kepler mission and its scope. NASA is preparing to launch the Kepler space telescope to help answer a question that has boggled the minds of astronomers for centuries: Is Earth the only habitable planet in the galaxy? (AFP/Graphic).

Spectators watch the launch of NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft, Kepler Friday, 3/6/09, from Cocoa Beach, Fla. Kepler, named after the German 17th century astrophysicist, set off on its unprecedented mission at 10:49 p.m., thundering into a clear sky embellished by a waxing moon (AP/Florida Today, Malcolm Denemark).

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA's planet-hunting telescope, Kepler, rocketed into space Friday night on a historic voyage to track down other Earths in a faraway patch of the Milky Way galaxy. It's the first mission capable of answering the age-old question: Are other worlds like ours out there?

• SLIDESHOW: Kepler Spacecraft
• VIDEO: Are We Alone in the Universe? (ABC News)
• VIDEO: Is anybody out there ? (Reuters)

Kepler, named after the German 17th century astrophysicist, set off on its unprecedented mission at 10:49 p.m., thundering into a clear sky embellished by a waxing moon.

"It was just magnificent. It looked like a star was being formed in the sky..." More>>