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People (operatives?) who hate Chase Hughes want to shut him up
Chase Hughes' 2007/2008 website allegedly sold a supplement he called "Redshift with Neuridium." He claimed it was used by "all branches of the United States Armed Forces" and that it had "international recognition," neither of which seems to be the case.
I'm a handsome success. Buy from me.
Why is Chase Hughes popular? Chase has appeared on popular podcasts and shows, including Joe Rogan's podcast, the podcast Diary of a CEO (as seen in the clip above), and the Dr. Phil Show.
There are a lot of people leaving positive reviews for his books on Amazon.com and his YouTube videos.
But the truth is, haters say, that Chase Hughes has been lying about his credentials and experiences for most of his adult life. His "success" and popularity are based on a few factors.
(Liven) PRIVATE RESULTS: Your ADHD patterns suggest your brain may be locked in an avoidance cycle — treating important tasks as low-level threats and redirecting your energy toward anything that offers immediate relief. This is often fueled by years of accumulated pressure between high capability and low output. Over time, this can take a significant toll — chronic procrastination, task paralysis, and a widening gap between your intentions and your actions. This cycle is extremely difficult to break through willpower alone, as your neurology is prioritizing short-term safety over long-term execution.
(The Awakening to Reality) Edgar Cayce: What happens to souls who fail their earth mission?
Been reborn on planet Earth? Don't know if you're "failing" to fulfill the purpose you set out before coming here? Living with purpose, passion, and profits?
A day at A.R.E. (Cayce's Association for Research on Enlightenment) Relax, Rejuvenate, and Rediscover: Meditation, spa, cafe, yoga, bookstore, lectures, and more Day at A.R.E.
The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
Pastor preaches purpose
Pastor Rick Warren has 4.8 out of 5 stars (with 17,746 reviews) for this New York Times #1 bestselling book by that claims to help readers understand and live out the "purpose" of their life.
See, according to the pastor, before we were born, God [Karma?] already planned our life. God longs for us to discover the life he uniquely created us to live -- here on Earth and forever in the hereafter of eternity [the anionic or timeless reality behind time].
Let The Purpose Driven Life show the way. As one of the bestselling nonfiction books in history, with more than 35 million copies sold, it is far more than just a book; it's the road map for a spiritual journey, a journey that will transform life.
Designed to be read in 42 days, each chapter provides a daily meditation and practical steps to help discover and live out a unique purpose, starting with exploring three of life's most pressing questions:
The Question of Existence: Why am I alive?
The Question of Significance: Does my life matter?
The Question of Purpose: What on earth am I here for?
The book also includes links to 3-minute video introductions and a 30- to 40-minute audio Protestant Christian Bible study message for each chapter plus questions for further study and additional resources. More
Maybe it's just by chance that an American growing up in Amerikkka would gravitate towards punk rock's aggressive musick, rebellion, DIY ethic, and freedom-oriented rock aesthetic AND also toward the Teachings of the "Awakened One" (the Buddha). After all, if we were to translate the term "Budh-ism" into English, "Awakenism" would be a great start.
The Dharmic traditions all lean towards liberation (moksha, vimutti = "freedom") and, as such, they did not really begin as "religions." They're treated as religions now, to be sure. The British colonizers imposed that way of thinking on the various dharmas or "doctrines" of India, the paths to freedom taught by famous awakening teachers. It's good to say "awakening" here instead of "awakened" because Buddhism does not recognize that everyone who is called "enlightened" actually is. What the Buddha meant by the term is very specific. In Buddhism, arahant (Sanskrit arhat) is reserved for seven kinds of livings beings (the "noble ones" or Aryans):
stream enterer (three kinds of sotapannas):
one-seeder (ekabijin)
one who will be reborn at most seven times (sattakkhattuparama)
one reborn among noble families three or four times (kolankola).
once returner (sakkadagami)
non-returner (anagami)
fully awakened (arahant). One could say there are three kinds of arhats as well since in addition to being a "fully" awakened noble disciple, one might be a "non-teaching supremely enlightened person" (pacceka-buddha) or in extraordinarily rare instances, a "supremely enlightened teacher" (samma-sam-buddha).
These descriptions are part of Early Buddhism, preserved in the Pali canon of Theravada Buddhism, specifically explained in The Path to Freedom (Vimutti-magga), condensed to just four kinds by lumping the three varieties of stream enterers into just one grouping in The Path of Purification (Visuddhi-magga). It seems that in these modern times, only Wisdom Quarterly cares about the distinction. Goodness knows that by borrowing from Brahmanism and Hinduism, later Mahayana movement writers have invented new categories like countless bodhisattvas, mahasattvas, and "Cosmic Buddhas" like Amitabbha, Vairocana, Ksitigarbha, and others to worship in place of taking guidance (sarana) from the historical Buddha Shakya-muni ("Sage of the Indo-Scythians/Sakas"), Siddhattha Gotama, Siddhartha Gautama.
But before actual stream entry (entering the "stream" or sota that inevitably leads to complete freedom = nirvana), there are practices and beliefs the Dharmic traditions have in common, like reaching samadhi ("stillness," "mental coherence" resulting in "superconsciousness," sublime states and transcendental realizations). In fact, many Indian traditions consider samadhi to be the ultimate goal, knowing nothing higher. The Buddha did certainly point higher, adding insight practices (vipassana) to the already known states of meditative absorptions (the dhyanas or in Pali jhanas).
Minor Threat: "I was early to finish. I was late to start. I might be an adult.
But I'm a minor at heart." Fugazi: I wait, I wait, I wait in the Waiting Room
Why does Integral (Ashtanga) Yoga teach an eightfold system, as made popular by the sage Patanjali? It is precisely because of the historical Buddha's super popularity throughout the subcontinent at that time that Patanjali thought he should formulate the Vedic, Brahminical, Hindu (a term that would not be invented for centuries) path to samadhi in the same form as the Buddha's Ennobling (lit. Enlightening) Eightfold Path. "Noble" (Arya) means "enlightened."
One has to slosh around through a lot of Western misinterpretations, explanations, practices, Eastern teachers, and etymologies to rectify one's understanding and remove the confusion that has settled on Eastern philosophy and Dharmic traditions to see it clearly. There have been many well-intentioned translators and teachers over the decades that have inadvertently muddied the water and introduced some wrong notions. It's inevitable. If one practices and practices, those misunderstanding get straightened out.
PUNK has always been about individualism, questioning, rebellion, a willingness to set off on one's own path of investigation, practice, and self-realization. No one can do it for us, and "faith" (particularly of the blind sort) is just not in the cards.
PUNK is fun and, at least in the past, was very funny. It was not profit-driven. The goal from the beginning was freedom, personal and social, to liberate oneself and others. Maybe no one agreed on what a revolution would look like, but the enemy was pretty clear: sexist/racist cops working for the economic elite to maintain the status quo, gatekeepers, authority figures, bosses, dictators, know-it-alls, the forces of oppression bearing down on our pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.
The founding ideals of our country never promised happiness, but those ideals did very clearly say we had a right to PURSUE happiness as we saw fit. In practice, it was nothing like that, just an Animal Farm/1984-style set of tricks, being told what to believe, how to behave, what to like, what to follow, and so on. Enough of that. The hippies were right, but they were no longer getting anywhere, so the pendulum had to swing the other way. Workers had to arise. Conservatives had to knock it off. Liberals had to wake up. Somebody had to flip off the patriarchy and its father figures.
The CIA, FBI, and PTB (powers that be) were not going to let this movement succeed any more than they had any of the previous ones. They can't stop these things, but they can guide them to implode. Movements are like that. What about individuals? What about intellectuals, poets, artists, and independent thinkers? The government has a game called whack-a-mole for that. They stop this rebellion or that, but another one will take its place. It's like Jello once said in "I Am the Owl." Black Flag had something to say beyond self-defeating aggression when they sang, "Rise Above." But the hippies had something to say, too. "What the world needs now is peace, love, and understanding" and, if not, then how about anarchy, hate, and profanities. How does that strike you, Society?
If England/Britain ruined us as a colony-cum-country, it had a little something to do with the rebellion:
There's a small Cat in a tall Hat, and that's that.
Discover Alan Watts' profound insight into the Western illusion of meaning and the freedom found in Eastern surrendering to life’s mystery. In this powerful lecture from his 1959 TV seriesEastern Wisdom and Modern Life, Watts explains why our desperate "search" for purpose can often lead us AWAY from true peace.
Embrace the present, let go of control, and understand why [the sense of] nonsense might just be the key to enlightenment.
In 1958, Watts toured parts of Europe with his father, meeting the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung and the German psychotherapist Karlfried Graf Dürckheim [29]. Upon returning to California and the Bay Area in the United States, Watts recorded two seasons of a TV series (1959–1960) for KQED public television in San Francisco, Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life [30]. More
What do our Space Brothers and Sisters, the Arcturians, think is the ultimate "meaning" of life? And have they spoken to Alan Watts about that? They are (presumably) older and wiser, and we are but a young race of hybrids on this planet/world. Maybe we should listen to our elders to some extent. We certainly should listen and view gaia.comto open our minds and figure what life is really like. There's a giant cosmos out there, and we know but a fraction. And we know less than that because NASA ("Never A Straight Answer") and similar agencies do almost nothing but lie to us, mislead, deceive, and conceal the truth.
Eudaimonia (/u-die-moan-ee-uh/, Ancient Greek εὐδαιμονία]) is a Greek word that literally translates to the state or condition of good spirit, commonly translated as "happiness" or "welfare." In the works of Aristotle, eudaimonia was the term for the highest human good in older Greek tradition. It is the aim of practical philosophy-prudence, including ethics and political philosophy, to consider and experience what this state really is and how it can be achieved. It is therefore a central concept in Aristotelian ethics and subsequent Hellenistic philosophy, along with the terms aretē (most often translated as "virtue" or "excellence") and phronesis ("practical or ethical wisdom") [1]. Discussion of the links between ēthikēaretē ("virtue of character") and eudaimonia (happiness) is one of the central concerns of ancient ethics and a subject of disagreement. As a result, there are many varieties of eudaimonism. More
(Studio Croma Animation) BOLOGNA. An old man is sitting on the edge of a bed in a bare room with stoned walls, his face furrowed with deep wrinkles and his unkempt beard, gnarled hands still full of life, curved shoulders: he is alone and thoughtful. A small and ramshackle window with bars is the only outlet to the outside.
In front of him he has a mysterious suitcase. Opening it the man finds himself in his hands the photographs and the personal effects of a whole life. Thus begins the sequence of memories and visions, synapses of the mind that come to life and invade the room of the elderly bringing him back in time, first adult then boy, finally child.
Better than other La Valigias. PRIZES:
-BornShort Film Festival 2014: Best Animation Award
Corto Dorico 2014: Best short film
-BazzaCinema 2015: Best Screenplay
-Lo Spiraglio FF 2015: Best Film
-Premio Morandini Corti d'Autore: Winner
Nastri d'argento - Corti 2015: Fifth finalist
David di Donatello 2015: Fifth finalist
Kalat Nissa Film Festival 2015: Best Animation Film
ShorTS Int. Maremetraggio 2015: Best Italian Production
Cast Film Festival 2015: Special Award
Best movies
Pázmány Film Festival 2015: Best Italian Film
Arno Stream Fest: Best short movie
Genova Film Festival 2015: Critics Award
Toko Film Festival 2015: Best Screenplay
Metricamente Corto 2015: Best Screenplay
Corto di Sera 2015: Special prize. F.N.C. Gold frame
Ke Corto Film Festival 2015: Best animated short film
Parma Intl. Music FF 2015: Best Renaissance 2.0 soundtrack
DIRECTOR
Pier Paolo Paganelli
SUBJECT AND SCRIPT
Laura Castaldini, Pier Paolo Paganelli
WITH
Roberto Herlitzka
Rodolfo Bianchi
Alex Polidori
Riccardo Suarez
PRODUCED BY
Ivan Olgiati, Stefania Marconi, Daniele Paganelli
ASSOCIATED PRODUCER
Gloria Giorgianni per Anele
PHOTOGRAPHY DIRECTOR
Gianmarco Rossetti
EDITING
Davide Rossetti
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Guglielmo Trautvetter
ANIMATION
Giacomo Giuriato
SOUNDTRACK
Matteo Malferrari
PUPPET MACKER
Matteo Burani
POST PRODUCTION
Jacopo Gaustini, Luca Lazzarin
DIGITAL VIDEO EFFECTS
Sara Passuti
SOUND
Giovanni Frezza
PROMOTION
Stefania Marconi, Chiara Galloni
DISTRIBUTION
Paolo Pellicano.
Studio Croma Animation, "The Suitcase," Jan. 24, 2021; Ven. Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche; UnJaded Jade; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
There are many kinds of attachment (upadana). The pursuit and clinging to sensual pleasures is very strong (although the strongest is probably attachment to views). It can be as strong as thirst (tanha). It serves a function, not for us who suffer it so much as the species or genes that perpetuate themselves into the future. (See The Selfish Gene on the scientific view of the impersonal nature of biology).
Love (the affection for clinging) is a drive, sex (the affection for pleasure) is a drive, and they are very powerful. What hope is there to overcome or undo them should they start to spread all out of control like fire and ruin our lives, bringing waves of torment and suffering? Things are all well and good when they are working out, but when they are not?
When things sour, then what? These are not conscious processes we have very much insight on. We live on autopilot, and they "happen" to us. Maybe that's okay for most people. But for those who would be free and make an end of all suffering in this very life?
Lab Leak ‘SMOKING GUN’? New documents PROVE US and Chinese scientists proposed to engineer Covid-19 like corona virus in Wuhan
(The Hill) Premiered Jan. 23, 2024: "Gain of function"? You bet. U.S. Right to Know reporter Emily Kopp breaks down leaked documents she got her hands on detailing a proposal made by U.S. scientists to engineer a virus at China's Wuhan Institute of Virology. DARPA was involved at one point, so we can see they explore such experiments to make new and deadlier weapons all of the time.
(Hustle B*tch) Aug. 21, 2023: Let's examine the unbelievable levels of cover up and corruption regarding the massacre in Maui. Warning: This is bad. It’s unpleasant but good for us to see so that we are brought out of the dark.
I'm not Joe. I'm his body-double Struan Rodgers.
From Pres. Joe Biden insulting the people of Maui to the insane things taking place behind the scenes, there's much information to share that won't be found on the mainstream media.
Where are the missing children's parents? Why haven't we been hearing from them asking about their kids?
"Josh Green has all the numbers but nothing regarding the numbers or information on the MISSING CHILDREN Obviously families have reported who is missing. That means authorities know the numbers, the names, and the ages of the dead. There's a reason they are not telling you what they know.”
Just weeks before the fire, Green unveiled an emergency proclamation on housing, getting rid of the land use commission red tape. This means the government can (insert) build how they’d like to meaning 15 minute smart cities.
The questions surrounding the fire in Maui are endless. For what we’re being told is a "natural wildfire," there is nothing natural about it. We are in the beginning stages of the biggest collective awakening in the history of humankind.
Impossible
First published on amazon.com Aug. 10, 2023.
A book chronicling the events in Maui, Hawaii, was published on Amazon.com on August 10th, BEFORE the "events" had even concluded: Fire and Fury: The Story of the 2023 Maui Fire and Its Implications for Climate Change by Dr. Miles Stones [who must have stones (cajónes) the length of miles to put out something like this, if in fact it's a real name].
How did a climate change book get published about the Maui fires while they were still burning?
[This is strange: There are actually two books by two different doctor-authors on the same subject, sharing the title Fire and Fury. This one is allegedly by Dr. Kathryn Forbes, Ph.D. (9798857815021), showing an Amazon.com publication date of Aug. 17, 2023. What's great is that it's already "out of print" five days later, Aug. 22, 2023.]
There were no emergency sirens. Police blocked the open access road, ordering people NOT to evacuate. No MSM (mainstream media) coverage. Complete mismanagement by state and federal agencies, offering surviving families $700 per household.
[Temperatures rose to melt metal? That's the claim. But wildfires do not get that hot, not by a longshot. Just as in 9/11, which was caused by a directed energy weapon according to expert scientist Dr. Judy Wood, who says the towers were not "burned" to the ground but "dustified." Similarly in the 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise, Butte County, California, things got so hot that everything was incinerated, leaving only charred remains, dust, ashes, and burn scars. According to David Wilcox (divinecosmos.com), Paradise was targeted because of its large population of undesirables with strange less-than-fully-human characteristics. Since the video where he made these claims and offered the evidence for it was taken down, we'll leave it at that. Truth is stranger than fiction, and it will only baffle people what our government is up to behind the shadows.]
And the only time they have ever shut the water off was that day, as the fire was being successfully fought. No water, the fire raged out of control: While they were trying to extinguish the fires, and they would have, the water was turned off.
Okay, so where was the help? Where was the local and federal fire departments, and where was the military? There is one of the largest U.S. military bases right next door:
“Schofield Barracks is the largest military base in Hawaii and is operated by the [U.S.] Army. Originally designed to serve as a mobile defense for Pearl Harbor and all of Oahu, today it's home to over 36,000 troops and is a testing facility for chemical-biological weapon defense.”
Wait. You’re telling HB that there are 36,000 American troops near Maui who specialize in protecting the U.S. against chemical and biological weapon attacks, but they were not called in or able to protect the residents of Maui from a natural fire?
And that’s only one of the many Hawaiian military bases. The whole island chain (of more than 1,000 pieces of land surrounded by the Pacific Ocean) is under U.S. military control, and the U.S. military owns most of the land in the annexed and occupied state.
There are actually 14 known bases in total [in addition to any secret facilities not disclosed in the official tally]. In fact, there is also the largest Marine base on the island of Oahu, and we’re supposed to believe they couldn't put out a fire but can protect us against foreign enemies?
In fact, not long after the Lahaina fire on Maui, a big fire broke out on another island, and the military deployed and put the fire out within 13 hours.
One person solving the Wi-fi communication issue is Elon Musk, who in previous videos has been seen donating Starlink Wi-fi so that Hawaiians are able to access uninterrupted internet service.
Police corruption and collusion in fire
Jimmy Dore exposes the cover up below
This leads us to the new Maui Police Chief John Pelletier -- who was the police chief overseeing the massive Las Vegas shooting [false flag operation].
This is the same guy who "led the response" to the deadly Las Vegas [mass murder] in 2017. [There were multiple shooters, as video cellphone video showed, but that was never investigated too deeply. We were told to believe it was one shooter from a sealed hotel room overlooking the event who somehow didn't leave behind a pile of spent casing for all the rounds he apparently discharged.]
As the new police chief, this pivotal role places him responsible for ensuring the safety of both 165,000 Maui residents and 3,000,000 (three million) tourists who visit the island.
Hawaii News Now stated he was hired to "improve transparency and accountability" within the police force. He ordered his police officers to reroute all of the citizens back into danger zones, refusing to let them escape to safety. Many had to jump in the ocean instead.
Pres. Biden finally headed to Maui almost two weeks after the fires devastated the island. Apparently, he needed to vacation at the beach first — before then heading to another vacation to recover from the first vacation. Not only has Pres. Biden failed to visit Maui, he twice vacationed and has barely spoken about the biggest tragedy to hit in a century.
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The government doesn't lie. The CIA doesn't lie. The CIA doesn't get popular figures in the media to lie. Do they? Here's the official story from state TV (the major networks who "go along to get along" with the CIA and its operatives posted inside every media outlet of any significance. Why? "The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media." Former CIA Director William Colby. It's all part of Project Mockingbird.
Was the devastating Maui fire, which burned down the original capital of Lahaina Town, arson?Were directed energy weapons used as in the Camp Fire, which destroyed (incinerated not merely "burned down") Paradise, California? No, why would anyone believe that. Climate change and drought explain everything. So what if arsonists were setting invasive grass on fire?
Russell Brand cautions against conspiratorial claims. Question the narrative
So what if the UNBELIEVABLE happened? State officials DENIED water to fight Maui wildfires! Moreover, Maui police chief (who overlooked the multiple-gunmen mass shooting on the "ninth island" called Las Vegas, Nevada) ordered Maui cops to block cars from FLEEING fire, as an eyewitness alleges. UNBELIEVABLE! Now we find the Maui official who chose to not sound the alarm quits abruptly or did he get axed quietly for his failure? No, there's nothing to see here, and no one should ever question the Las Vegas shooting in spite of all the holes in the official narrative (explanatory story).
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Sharon Salzberg from the "Wisdom of Awareness" Retreat with Sogyal Rinpoche and Tsoknyi Rinpoche, June 2011 (Garrison Institute, New York). She talks about the importance of a loving attitude (metta) in our modern society.
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