Is happiness possible in hard times?

Global Peaceful Cities Project, 6/14/20; Ananda (DBM), Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Is happiness possible in hard times? Find out. Take the healing and happiness challenge! Take the challenge before and after participating in the Global Peaceful Cities Project, scheduled for the week of June 19-26.

This project is an opportunity for EVERYONE to help heal hearts, ours and others', so that we have the presence-of-mind to participate in difficult conversations required for sustainable change.

All will have an opportunity to experience deep healing in life as well.

By entering an email on this site (peacefulcities.org), all will be sent a 20-minute meditation on June 19-26 that can be performed at home to help facilitate the deep healing for the nation and our lives.

The 2018 Schenectady Peace Project demonstrated a 25% reduction in violence in the area of focus compared to the rest of the city.

The 2019 Albany Peace Project demonstrated a 30% reduction of crime in the area of focus compared to the rest of the city.

Our research has also measured a 25% increase in happiness when people open their hearts to send peaceful intentions to cities during the eight-day Global Peaceful Cities Peace Project.

Surveys of well-being before and after the Juneteenth Peace Project will be sent out to measure changes in well-being. Participants in both the before and after surveys will be offered a 30% discount from the next Happiness Athlete Program (formerly known as our Intentional Coherence Athlete Program).

Learn how to use cutting edge, research-inspired intentional skills to heal and enhance life. Based on the experiences others have shared, we know all will be happy they did.

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Nepal Army's meditation weapon

Col. (Ret.) Jitendra Jung Karki and Dr. David R. Leffler (collective-evolution.com, asiasentinel.com, April Fools Day); Pfc. Sandoval, Dhr. Seven, Ellie Askew, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Meditation "best proactive approach to preventing terrorism" (Leffter, et. al., April 1, 2019)

Wow, I'm gonna apply to join Nepal's Army boarding school to be a super TM soldier!

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Nepal’s army schools are finishing their first stage of implementation of a meditative Invincible Defense Technology (IDT).

The ultimate goal of IDT is to prevent enemies from arising by reducing the collective societal stress that culminates in war, terrorism, and crime.

IDT involves the use of Transcedental Meditation (TM) techniques and advanced practices, ideally by the military, to reduce collective societal stress.

I am now a great warrior of peace.

Extensive peer-reviewed research has documented the efficacy of this approach (David Leffler, 1999). Militaries and police departments worldwide have successfully field-tested and are now using this approach. (See Review Nepal, Aug. 10, 2016 “IDT: A Powerful, Proven, Tool for Police and Military”).

The army school in Bhaktapur, Nepal was the first military school to implement TM. Now 300 of its teaching staff and 2,700 students have greatly benefited from practicing TM, according to TM teacher Ms. Pappy Regmi.

Regmi says, “TM has been practiced by the students of Sainik Awasiya Mahavidyalaya Sallaghari (SAMV), Bhaktapur for the past three years.

“After the [military boarding school] students mastered the simple, natural, and easy-to-learn TM procedure, we noticed many positive changes in them. They are less irritable, aggressive, and destructive in nature than before.

“Many students improved their academic performance. This non-religious, scientifically-validated technique is helping the students in their overall development.” More

Gov'ts love public wars for private profits

When peace is the purpose of the military then we win. Peace is not the purpose. War is.

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Dr. Leffler (istpp)

Former Home Minister Deepak Prakash Baskota was one of the first Nepalese leaders to advocate the military use of IDT.

In an article titled “How Nepal Can Have An ‘Invincible’ Military” published in Eurasia Review (2012) Home Minister Baskota wrote:

War is a Racket (Gen. Butler)

“Leaders in Nepal could make their mark if they adopt this most ideal defense system. The implementation of IDT would mark a turning point in the history of Nepal’s national defense, and the leaders in Nepal would also be leading the world into perpetual peace.”

• Col. (Ret.) Karki was liaison officer at SAMV Army Residential High School of Nepal. Dr. David Leffler, Ph.D. (istpp.org) is the executive director at the Center for Advanced Military Science (CAMS).

"Einstein on Race and Racism" anti-racist hero

KPFK; Ashley Wells, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; Einstein on Race and Racism

Einstein (left) rejected the offer to be the first president of Israel because he did not support Zionism and the formation of a Jewish state on Palestinian land like the CIA, England, the CIA-groomed Netanyahu brothers and other racist powers did. (Genius Nicolai Tesla on right).

Einstein on Race and Racism (amazon)

Nearly 50 years after his death, German Jewish scientist Albert Einstein (who was chased out of Germany and welcomed by Princeton, New Jersey) remains one of America's foremost cultural icons.

• In 1933, Einstein became a lifetime member of the Institute for Advanced Study, which had an office on the Princeton campus but was always independent of the university.

A thicket of materials, ranging from scholarly to popular, have been written, compiled, produced, and published about his life and his teachings.

Among the ocean of Einsteinia -- scientific monographs, biographies, anthologies, bibliographies, calendars, postcards, posters, and Hollywood films -- however, there is a peculiar void when it comes to the connection that the brilliant scientist had with the African American community.

Nowhere is there any mention of his close relationship with famous black American actor and bass singer Paul Robeson, despite Einstein's close friendship with him, or W.E.B. Du Bois, despite Einstein's support for him.

• Albert Einstein's little-known correspondence with W.E.B. Du Bois (brainpickings.org) Professor Einstein is not a mere mathematical mind. ...to undo the “historical amnesia” about the iconic...
  
• REVIEWS: Einstein on Race and Racism (goodreads.com) 32 ratings and 12 reviews. Elliot said: You don't have to be an Einstein to be anti-racist…
• Albert Einstein called racism "a disease of white people"...

This unique volume is the first to bring together a wealth of writings by the scientist on the topic of race. Although his activism in this area is less well known than his efforts on behalf of international peace and scientific cooperation, Einstein spoke out vigorously against racism both in the United States and around the world.

Authors Prof. Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor suggest that one explanation for this historical amnesia is that Einstein's biographers avoided "controversial" topics, such as his friendships with African Americans and his political activities.

Whut uhbout yoo, yeenius Tesla, did yoo oppose racizm? - I'ma notta involveda in politics.

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This includes his involvement as co-chair of an anti-lynching campaign, fearing that mention of these details may tarnish the feelgood impression his image lends topics of science, history, and America.

Combining Einstein's letters, speeches, and articles with engaging narrative and historical discussions that place his public statements in the context of his life and times, this important collection not only brings attention to Einstein's anti-racist public activities, but also provides insight into the complexities of anti-racist culture in America.

The volume also features a selection of candid interviews with African Americans who knew Einstein as children.

For a man whose words and reflections have influenced so many, it is long overdue that Einstein's thoughts on this vital topic are made easily accessible to the general public.

• AUDIO: The authors were interviewed on "Beautiful Struggle" (archive.kpfk.org) on Aug. 15, 2017 from 7:00-8:00 PM

Further reading

• Albert Einstein's Essay on Racial Bias in 1946  (On Being.org, July 12, 2016) ...the iconic physicist equated the ghettoization of Jews in Germany and segregation...
• 6 Ways Albert Einstein Fought for Civil Rights (Live Science)
• Einstein on Race and Racism by Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor (einsteinonrace.com) 
• Debunking Albert Einstein as a Civil Rights Activist (snopes.com) As the authors of Einstein on Race and Racism noted, Einstein's comments about segregation at Lincoln University reflected his own experiences in both his... 
• Project MUSE: Einstein on Race and Racism (muse.jhu.edu) 
• Albert Einstein, civil rights activist (Harvard Gazette) (news.harvard.edu/gazette, April 12, 2007) Einstein's response to the racism and segregation he found in... authors of Einstein on Race and Racism (Rutgers Univ. Press, 2006)

Raising Peaceful Kids (audio)

Deepa Fernandes* and Francine Rios (Take Two/KPCC FM/SCPR.org, Oct. 27, 2015) with author Kathy Walsh (joyohboybooks.com); CC Liu and Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly

Raising Peaceful Kids

More and more Americans are turning to meditation -- and a form known as mindfulness -- as a way to relieve stress and feel more connected. It's now offered in schools, workplaces, and even in the military.

• AUDIO: Kathy Walsh's books, like Raising Peaceful Kids, aim to teach kids mindfulness meditation (8:27)

Author Kathy Walsh is part of a growing field that believes mindfulness and mediation can start as early as they're toddlers. She has written many children's books and even a parenting guide to raising children in this way.

 

"I think mindfulness is really just a way of being. It's kind of setting an intention for how you're going to be in the world," she said. "Positive thinking, gratitude, and putting an energy of love out there." More

Deepa Fernandes

*[Indian] Deepa Fernandes, the Early Childhood Development Correspondent at KPCC.org, began her radio career at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney in 1995. From there she lived and traveled in Latin America, reporting for the ABC and BBC World Service. On arriving in NYC in the late 90s, Fernandes joined Pacifica Radio as the anchor of the national evening newscast and later as the host of the live, three-hour morning show on WBAI, 99.5 FM. She also founded and ran a national nonprofit, People’s Production House, that conducts journalism trainings in minority communities. See her Knight Talk on getting more diverse voices into the media.

Russian jets over Crimea, Ukraine (video)

Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; EnglishRussia.tv (?ER#55d46TpN8tI)

Russian jets fly over Crimea, Ukraine, then annex it into Russian empire (englishrussia.tv)

• Will this election unite Ukraine?

The March on Washington! (video)

Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; Sonali Kolhatkar (UprisingRadio.org)

WARNING: Extremely moving! MLK said, "I Have a Dream" (see full speech)
 

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. planned and participated in the historic 1963 "March on Washington" to promote peace (opposing the US/MIC's widespread secret bombing of Buddhist Cambodia, Laos, and the very public and wanton destruction of Buddhist Vietnam). Dr. King was a great promoter of Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk and fellow peace activist Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay). Racism in America and widespread economic disparity, which kept large swaths of the population in "slave" conditions, could be tolerated by the Powers That Be at the time. But the one thing they could not tolerate was a direct assault on the military-industrial complex (the corporate and governmental interests that very profitably promote war and destruction as a means of enriching themselves and maintaining social control). Dr. King saw this and could not be silent on the matter:

"The greatest purveyor of violence: My [US] government, and I cannot be silent." 

- MLK

• PLAY (Uprising! 8-28-13, 8:00 am) - KPFK download
• PLAY (Democracy Now!, 6:00 am) - KPFK download
• The Problem with MLK's Speech: I have a copyright
• Journeys Toward Peace (Robert S. Browne)
• Martin Luther King Jr. and Los Angeles Jews
• VIDEO: Another march on Washington, D.C.

 

COMMENTARY

Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly

Malcolm X quietly supported the growing peace movement opposing segregation, racism, and economic inequality. He, however, was willing to examine other options -- the Islamification of the black community, direct resistance, black nationalism, and taking what communities were being deprived of due to race. He is often cast as promoting the opposite of Dr. King's peace model based on Gandhi and Jesus Christ (who is said to have come not to bring peace but a sword, Matt. 10:34). The saying, "By any means necessary" is repeatedly quoted like a battle cry -- as if it meant violence were the only way. All means included nonviolent resistance, active dissent, civil disobedience, self-defense, peaceful demonstrations, rallies, marches, finding allies in other oppressed parts of the world and the country (among other groups), and more. He did not believe that the Powers That Be were simply going to hand over equal rights and opportunities out of kindness and generosity. So much was at stake that no option was off the table. So to think that Malcolm X was all angry and violent, whereas Dr. King was all love and peace is a great misreading of history. But this is the simplistic tale we are told.

Peaceful means

Peace Pagoda, Ladakh, Himalayas (creative_pixels)

Malcolm X makes it clear that he has bigger plans for ending racism and oppression than what Rev. King has been heard promoting. Whether promoting pure peace or "all means necessary," the American government assassinated them just the same. But who made a bigger public impression?
 
Whose name is remembered and lauded as a sustainable movement? If we fight violent-power with violent-power, the more violently-powerful win, and we continue to live oppressed by violence. 

 

If we resist with peace, after a time, peace wins out, and we now live blessed by peace. The choice is always ours -- and it is not an easy choice when being prodded by violent police and racist institutions.

"It is time now for you and me to stop running away from the wolf right into the hands of the fox looking for some kind of help."

- Malcolm X
 

MLK, Thay, Browne (digitalunion.osu.edu)

(MalcolmXfiles)  "Recently when I was blessed to make a religious pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca where I met many people from all over the world, plus spent many weeks in Africa trying to broaden my own scope and get more of an open mind to look at the problem as it actually is, one of the things that I realized -- and I realized this even before going over there -- was that our African brothers have gained their independence faster than you and I here in America have.
 
"They've also gained recognition and respect as human beings much faster than you and I. Just ten years ago on the African continent, our people were colonized.
 
"They were suffering all forms of colonization, oppression, exploitation, degradation, humiliation, discrimination, and every other kind of -ation. And in a short time, they have gained more independence, more recognition, more respect as human beings than you and I have.
  
"And you and I live in a country which is supposed to be the citadel of education, freedom, justice, democracy, and all of those other pretty-sounding words.
 
"So it was our intention to try and find out what it was our African brothers were doing to get results, so that you and I could study what they had done and perhaps gain from that study or benefit from their experiences."

(Pacifica Los Angeles//BhaktiFest.com)

(lalbharborlabor.org)

Do police and soldiers fight or defend the corrupt offices of power?

"Hurry up and Meditate: Starter Kit"

David Michie (bio for Snow Lion Press); DavidMichie.com

Hurry Up and Meditate: Starter Kit, Inner Peace, Better Health

"I believe that constant effort, tireless effort, pursuing clear goals with sincere effort is the only way" - the Dalai Lama.

A meditation practice can be likened to a river flowing through our lives. In the early stages, like a mountain spring, our practice is fleeting and undeveloped. There may be a fair few leaps and crashes before we settle into a more regular rhythm.

Little by little our practice continues to grow and mature until eventually it becomes like a vast river, attracting everything else to it, no longer a small trickle in our life, but the most compelling force of it.

The river may still encounter obstacles, but they are of little consequence. It will simply flow over or around them, having developed a smooth, calm, but unstoppable momentum.

It is a metaphor and an entirely appropriate one, judging from both my own personal experience as well as my observation of much more advanced meditators.

The question is, How do we get from the Andes to the mouth of the Amazon? How do we develop our own meditation into a calm and steady flow of unstoppable power?

"Through regular practice" is the simple, unspectacular answer. As much as we might wish for a short cut to the blissful state of a mind untroubled by anything it encounters, the reality is that such a mind arises only as a result of regular practice over time. More

Occupy: How to beat Police (video)

Lyssa Clayton, Eva Schonveld (Giraffe Talk); M.B. Rosenberg; Wisdom Quarterly

SYSTEM OF A DOWN shows the problem. Occupy Wall Street is the backdrop. Police State resistance is what we want to overcome. NVC is how.

How to be heard in the peaceful Occupy Movement
How can I communicate with [brutal police and occupiers who act like violent] children?

One of the biggest issues for me is how I communicate or fail to communicate.

With the best of intentions I have found myself saying things in ways which make things worse.

I sometimes find it nearly impossible not to slip down the slope of judging, blaming, criticizing [and subduing them with batons, mace, projectiles weapons, flash grenades, and automatic gunfire].

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How many of us end up saying things in a tone that has unpleasant "you’re bad" connotations?

• “You always ____”
  
• “Why can’t you just do/not do x, y, z?”

How many of us find we have forced [others] to do something we wanted but felt very unhappy about how we achieved it?

For many of us, much of how we relate to our children [and others] is [how we were related to as children and by others]. At its root it is based on coercion: the “you will get/not get something if you don’t cooperate.”

The sub-text in a lot of our everyday wrangles with [others] is, “I’m bigger and stronger than you, so you are going to have to do what I say” (because "might makes right").

[This is exactly what police and the Police State behind them believe! There is an easier way to win, just as martial arts are not based on strength and force but rather receiving, redirecting, and flowing.]

We teach our children [and police] values more deeply through how we interact with them than what we preach at them.

[Hey, fat f@#%n p!gs, F### Y*U, f@$ci$t$!!!]

Communicating like protesters instead of police
Rosenberg explains Nonviolent Communication.

So are there ways to change how we communicate at a deep level [to make it effective in actually getting what we want rather than provoking a negative reaction]?

Is there a tool, a technique? Is there help, support, a way to begin?

Faced daily with feelings of exasperation and powerlessness in my [tent], I was intrigued and excited to hear about the idea of Nonviolent or Compassionate Communication.

The word "violent" in this context refers to the way we can hurt or damage people through the use of words which do not respect another as worthy of our compassion and understanding, rather than necessarily [physically harming them].

Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
The process of NVC was developed by Dr. Rosenberg in response to growing up in Detroit in a culture colored with violence and riots. He found himself exploring two major questions.

1. What happens to disconnect us from our compassionate nature, leading us to behave in a violent and exploitative way?
2. What allows some people to remain connected to their compassionate nature under even the most trying circumstances?

How to get respect or what you want with Lisa

Consciousness and Connection (video)

Wisdom Quarterly

(Surfroseman)

Gregg Braden takes us on a short trip through consciousness. It is what connects our feelings and our mass reality. Braden was in Sedona, Arizona spreading the word. The shift is getting closer.

Gregg Braden has searched remote monasteries, high mountain villages, and forgotten texts to uncover their timeless secrets for over 22 years. Combining those discoveries with the best science of today, his original research crosses traditional boundaries in science, history, and religion offering fresh insights into ancient mysteries. He redefines the relationship between inner and outer worlds, sharing a life-affirming message of hope and possibility. According to hm there is a great epoch of peace, cooperation, and healing yet to come!

System of a Down: We demonstrate (video)

Wisdom Quarterly

System of a Down "Hypnotize" with clips from last year's Iranian protests and this year's peaceful demonstrations in Yemen, Tunisia, and Egypt.

A time of war is a time of protest and anti-government revolution in America. System of a Down (SOAD) is returns after five years for a series of concerts/consciousness-raising events.

More so than in the 1960s, the people are increasingly disgusted with leaders who misread history or fabricate evidence for war, as U.S. Representative and Gandhi Peace Prize winner Dennis Kucinich points out (below). Buddhism is on the side of peace, and that includes demonstrating against war, standing firm for justice, and protesting government abuses.

Whereas the American people love peace, our government cannot seem to get enough war. It is currently fighting on five fronts -- Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and secretly in space, not to mention its ongoing war on truth. Who is fighting? It is not so much volunteers. Now the corps are made up of individuals tricked by "stop loss" clauses in contracts that ensure they will be called back against their will for repeated tours until the PTSD fully sets in or suicide seems like the only way out.

The unofficial shadow government is fighting a war against citizens on the domestic front -- through homeland spying, the sinking of the economy (which it seems to have already converted to permanent "war economy" according to Pacifica's Lila Garrett), the Republican takeover of state budgets (which for example in Wisconsin are not in crisis until tax giveaways to corporations are figured in) and constitutional protections.

Punishing the Truth-Tellers? Patriots across the political spectrum are finally seeing our government for what it is and how it regularly operates through deception and public relations (PsyOps) campaigns. This is reviving the anti-war slogan, "Fight war, not wars."

• System of a Down to play the Los Angeles Forum
• Suicide claims more US military lives than Afghan war
• Military suicides are higher than we think (TIME)
• Halliburton gets Thailand contract
• Buddhist ideas for attaining world peace

Emotional Intelligence training

Bill Stierle (Corporate Culture Devlopment)
Learn to integrate emotional in-telligence and brain dominance for more effective communication. Bill Stierle is a leading teacher of nonviolent communication explor-ing the latest advances in brain re-search and emotional intelligence. Achieve an understanding of how to attain a balanced and fulfilled life. Through the exploration of the three human elements of Thinking, Behaving, and Believing, one can gain a completely new understanding of obstacles and how to navigate them with greater ease and effectiveness. More>>

Shift of the Ages (David Wilcock)

David Wilcock (divinecosmos.com) -- visionary author, filmmaker, lecturer, and musician -- the reincarnation of Edgar Cayce -- joins us to discuss his film project "Convergence, the Science of the Divine Cosmos" and his audio CD "The Science of Peace." Topics discussed:

• Convergence film project
• Science of DNA
• Channelers and evidence
• Matter and energy
• Magnetic fields
• Expanding earth
• Etheric energy
• Gravity
• Parallel reality
• Time
• Cycles
• Astrology
• Sidereal Time
• Synchronicity
• Chaos theory
• Fear climate
• Global warming
• 2012
• Harmonics
• Hans Jenni and cymatics
• Atlantis in Cuba and much, much more.

This is a continuation of Red Ice Creation's superb interview with Wilcock -- discussing his work with Richard Hoagland, the Enterprise Mission, and what is going on up on the Moon.

• Quantum Shift II: Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and the Meta-Message Listen FREE to two new radio shows featuring David, as well as thoughts on the near-simultaneous passage of Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. More>>
• The 2012 Enigma: Free full-length documentary film!
• Discussion/Forum
• The Science of Peace
• What is Ascension?
• The Science of Peace
• About David Wilcock