Showing posts with label shift. Show all posts
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Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Breath key to change: prana, meditation


Once you breathe like this, reality shifts
(Solace Owl) What if I were to say that the key to shifting "reality" [timeline, position in the universe, psychophysical health] lies in something as simple as breathing?

As crazy as it may sound, we’re inhaling the essence of the universe with our every inhalation (prana). It’s the most fundamental act of life, something we do unconsciously every moment of every day, yet 99% of people don’t know the truth about breathing.

This simple action has the power to transform our entire existence, but only if we know the secret behind it.

Let’s discover the long-kept secret of ancient breath masters, something so powerful that it had to be kept hidden for centuries.

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Saturday, October 12, 2024

Science or spirituality: frequencies?


The first ever scientist to explain how to shift into higher frequencies?
(Video Advice) July 23, 2024: Discover the potential of higher frequencies with Robert Edward Grant, who might be the first scientist to explain this groundbreaking concept. In this enlightening video, distinguished polymath and innovator Grant unveils the scientific methods to elevate our personal frequency and thereby transform our reality.

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Sahara Desert going green (big rains)


Sahara turns green: Should we celebrate or worry? | Vantage with Palki Sharma
(Firstpost) Sept. 26, 2024: NASA’s [low orbit 20 to 50 miles up] satellite images show the Sahara Desert turning green due to an unusual shift in [intentional modification of] the weather. This is the largest hot desert in the world, but it is going green amid climate change after North Africa received a year's worth of rainfall in a few days. Why is this happening? Is a green Sahara a cause for celebration or concern? #vantageonfirstpost #palkisharma #firstpost

Monday, April 29, 2024

CIA: Adam and Eve, end of the world


CIA's classified book about pole shift, mass extinctions, the true Adam & Eve story
(The Why Files) Jan. 12, 2023: In 1966 a well-known engineer released a book with information that could impact everyone on earth. But before anyone could read it, it was classified by the CIA. We only learned of its existence a few years ago because of a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request. The CIA only released 57 pages of the original 284-page manuscript. And those pages have been, in the CIA's own words, "sanitized" (redacted). Why does the CIA think this book is so dangerous that it has been hiding it from the public for 60 years? Most of it is still hidden. It's because the man who wrote it describes the end of the world. #CIA #Conspiracy #EndOfTheWorld

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Sunday, January 28, 2024

Edgar Cayce's predictions: war, shift, Atlantis

Hecklefish Moriarty, Why Files, 12/30/21; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Atlantis, world war, pole shift | The predictions of Edgar Cayce
(The Why Files) American Edgar Cayce (dubbed "the sleeping prophet" now reborn as David Wilcock) gave over 14,000 channeled psychic readings. He made a number of predictions about future events — many of which have come true. And some of them are terrifying. Some people are worried. Let's find out why.

Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?
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Monday, August 28, 2023

Universe twice as old as thought? (video)

British astrophysicist Dr. Becky Smethurst, University of Oxford, Christ Church (Dr. Becky on YouTube, July 27, 2023; Sheldon S., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Has JWST shown that the universe is TWICE as old as we thought?!
With all the CGI, color enhancements, photographic manipulations, projections, and theoretical mathematical calculations, this slice of heaven/space could be any age (James Webb Telescope)


It's really big: JWST prepped on earth
(Dr. Becky) The great Dr. B. has attitude, doubting that new evidence and explanations for the current data suggest the universe is older than we thought.
A new research study has come out claiming that to explain the massive galaxies found at huge distances in James Webb Space Telescope images, the universe is older than we think, at 26.7 billion years (rather than 13.8 billion years old).
  • JWST: Note two tiny white ants in foreground.
    00:00 - Introduction: #JWST's massive galaxy problem
  • 01:48 - Our current best model of the Universe: Ξ»-CDM
  • 03:16 - The problems with Ξ»-CDM and the "Crisis in Cosmology"
  • 04:28 - Getting distance from redshift
  • 05:13 - A new model of the Universe: a HYBRID of "tired light" and expansion of the Universe
  • 06:25 - The history of "tired light" and why it was eventually dismissed (Tolman Surface Brightness Test)
  • 08:18 - What Gupta (2023) have found
  • 09:30 - The change to the calibration of redshift and distance (and the new age of the Universe)
  • 10:02 - What other problems does this new model help solve?
  • 11:07 - The observational evidence that this new model ignores...
  • 12:39 - How else do we explain JWST's massive galaxy problem? Universal IMF issues
  • 14:35 - Outro: the legacy of JWST
  • 15:23 - Brilliant
  • 16:46 - Bloopers Video filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV
This video dives into that study, looking at what model they used to get at that claim (a combination of the expansion of the universe and "tired light" ideas of redshift), how this impacts our best model of the universe and the so-called "Crisis is Cosmology," and why Dr. B. is not yet convinced.

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#astronomy #cosmology My previous YouTube video on how JWST’s massive galaxies are no longer “impossible” • JWST's "too massive" galaxy problem s... Gupta et al. (2023; is the universe 26.7 billion years old?) academic.oup.com/mnras/advance... LabbΓ© et al. (2023; over-massive galaxies spotted in JWST data) arxiv.org/pdf/2207.12446.pdf Arrabal Haro et al. (2023; z~16 candidate galaxy turns out to be z=4.9) arxiv.org/pdf/2303.15431.pdf Zwicky (1929; "tired light" hypothesis raised for first time) pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073...

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Sunday, July 9, 2023

Meet the real "God" of the Bible (video)

MythVision Podcast streamed live on June 13, 2022; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
That's God? That's the [blank] who's been terrorizing us since the Sumerians and Hebrews?!

Meet the REAL God of the Bible
(MythVision Podcast) The scholarship of theology and religion teaches us that the God of the Bible was without a body, only revealing itself in the Old Testament in words mysteriously uttered through some prophets, and in the New Testament in the body of [the] Christ [Kristos, "the Annointed One"].

There are MANY gods in human experience.
The portrayal of God as corporeal and masculine is seen as merely metaphorical, figurative, poetic.

But in this revelatory study, Dr. Francesca Stavrakopoulou, PhD, presents a vividly corporeal image of God: a human-shaped deity who walks and talks and weeps and laughs, who eats, sleeps, feels, and breathes, and who is undeniably male [patriarchal].

Here is a portrait — arrived at through the biblical scholar's close examination of and research into the Bible — of a god in ancient myths and rituals who was a product of a particular society, at a particular time, made in the image of the people who lived then, shaped by their own circumstances and experience of the world.

From head to toe — and every part of the body in between — this is a god of stunning surprise and complexity, one we have never encountered before.

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Friday, February 24, 2023

Scientists announce Grand Canyon discovery

Stienlemane (Future Unity, 2/22/23); Pat Macpherson, Seven, Xochitl (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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Scientists at Grand Canyon just announced a TERRIFYING new discovery!
Forbidden History Revealed
(Future Unity) Welcome to Future Unity, where we explore the fascinating world of science, technology, and the universe. From the inner workings of the human body to the outer reaches of space, we delve into the latest and most interesting discoveries that are shaping our world.

Whether one is a science buff or just looking for some mind-blowing facts, Future Unity has it covered. Join in as we uncover the mysteries of the world around us and new frontiers in the fields of science and technology. Get ready for a journey that's both educational and entertaining.

American explorers Kincaid and Jordan found strange artifacts now hidden by Smithsonian.
Written documentation (1909) exists
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Monday, February 12, 2018

Parallel realities: shift into alternate universes

Bentinho Massaro (streamed live on Jan. 26, 2015; Seth Auberon (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly
"Consciousness [is] the eternal and infinite nature of your being" thinks Ben Massaro.
"The belief in lack is the cause of all suffering" says Bentinho Massaro (facebook).

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Hi, I'm Bentinho.
In this meeting Bentinho Massaro provides an in-depth explanation of what "parallel realities" are and how this means that time is an illusion that can be influenced.

He also gets into the practical application of increasing our frequencies by learning to master our states of being and choosing our reality instead of being victims of it.

Let's empower ourselves into bliss, raise our vibrational attitudes, and start caring about our purpose, passion, and lives in general.

Friday, June 27, 2014

Comedian Russell Brand on "Mind Shift" (video)

Xochitl, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly; Daniel Pinchbeck ("Mind Shift," Gaiam TV)


Brand with the Dalai Lama
(GaiamTV) Daniel Pinchbeck interviews comedian and actor Russell Brand ("Messiah Complex"), who alludes to ex-wife Katy Perry when he gently jokes about our Reptilian Overlords, whom he laughs about as being just another frequency like us. Also in this episode, feminist and activist Eve Ensler ("V-Day," "Vagina Monologues") brings progressive momentum to the show promoting kindness and egalitarianism.

    Wednesday, August 14, 2013

    Koan 73: Sozan Fulfills Sacred Family Honor

    Wisdom Quarterly  via Roshi Jeff Albrizze, (PasaDharma.org), from The Book of Equanimity, Case 73: "Sozan Fulfills Sacred Family Honor"; translated from “Sozan’s Requited Filial Piety”
    Did you hear the one about Sozan? (Ara Sensei/michaelsaso.org)
     
    PREFACE TO THE ASSEMBLY
    Depend on grasses, or become attached to trees, and become a ghost.
    Hang onto indignity, or hold a grudge, and be cursed by a devil's spell.
    When you call in such [departed] people, burn [simulated] paper money [as a funerary offering] and offer a [token] horse.
    When you dismiss them, purify the water and write down a charm.
    How can the home be made peaceful [free of poltergeists]?

    MAIN CASE
    Attention!
    A monk asked Sozan, "When mourning clothes aren't worn,* what then?"
    Sozan replied, "Today I have fulfilled my sacred family honor."
    "After fulfilling sacred family honor," the monk asked, "then what?"
    Sozan said, "Sozan loves to get stumbling drunk."
    • *In Japanese: "Mourning clothes" are worn when a parent died. Here it is symbolically used to designate the clothing worn during Zen practice (Buddhism.org).
    APPRECIATORY VERSE
    The house of unbroken honor admits no neighbors.
    Many years of sweeping the gates, not letting in dust.
    Turning from full brightness, the Moon hangs low, a crescent.
    As winter solstice passes, yin rises to the east-northeast.
    Fulfill sacred family honor anew, and meet with the spring.
    Drunken steps, crazy songs: So what if my cap falls off?
    Tousled hair, weaving walk, who cares?
    Tranquil, replete: a person who is stumbling drunk.

    No time for koans: Disaster coming
    Science Channel: "NASA UFO Files on the Unexplained" (JR Reporting)
     
    (JA) The impending solar pole shift and Earth disasters
    Sozan then said: “You have Zen, the best wine in China, and already have finished three cups, and still you are saying that they did not even wet your lips” (The Gateless Gate). Notice how Seizei refers to himself in the third person. Sozan calls attention to this ploy, repeating Seizei’s use of his proper name. When Seizei acknowledges his teacher’s repetition, Sozan directly addresses Seizei as “you”: “You have Zen...” Sozan thereby implies that Seizei should stop pretending that Seizei is not present and that someone named Seizei, not him, is making these demands. In other words, Seizei has identified himself with the ego and then denied having done so. Wisdom and satisfaction require that we be scrupulously honest with ourselves and become aware of the true self who is capable of monitoring the various machinations of the ego. Notice, too, that Seizei is lying.... Seizei has drunk from the three-fold cup of selfhood, education, and friendship, yet he has appreciated none of these things. This absence of self-awareness, this lack of integrity, causes him to act selfishly and to suffer. In addition to impartial self-knowledge and self-truthfulness, compassion re-emerges as a dimension of integrity.
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    Friday, January 21, 2011

    Astrology: 13th Sign Revealed (news video)

    Ashley Wells & Seven Dharmachari (Wisdom Quarterly)

    (MSNBC) Rachel Maddow on magnetic pole shift, tribulation, and a thirteenth star sign

    I used to sit at work doing math. I know, it's odd. I was actually doing long division with my paystub. I needed to see how much I was making a day. I wanted to quit. And I was trying to figure out how much it was costing me to stay versus how much I was being compensated.

    I was on salary but making the same amount even when there were more workdays in a month. I couldn't figure it out. I couldn't figure out how it would cost me to take a day off. Then I stumbled on an amazing hidden truth I had never before heard of and never hear about until now: There are 13 "months" in a year!

    Try it. It helps to have a job, and having a sinecure is much better for doodling and contemplating money, life, sex, food, chocolate, coffee, and astrology. It brought me closer to the Dharma. If like me you've contemplated getting a "cup and cross spoons" tattoo, this should keep you awake at night.

    How long is an hour? Sixty minutes. How long is a day? Twenty-four hours. How long is a week? Seven days. How long is a month? Four weeks (28 days). How long is a year? It's 365 days, 52 weeks, or 12 months -- errrr! We all agree, we all know this, but the math doesn't add up! That is, not until a buried 13th month is recovered. Look:

    12 (months) x 28 (days) = 336
    13 (months) x 28 (days) = 364

    None of this is an accident. There used to be 13 months, with an uncounted day of reflection at the end. There still are when we return to lunar phases to see the orderliness in seasonal life on Earth. The Mayans (Maya) knew it with multiple calendars and a synchronary. Buddhists do, too. Greeks, Romans, Chinese, everyone knew. Something happened a while back to alter the social order, make it about words and numbers (linear formulas) rather than images (eidetic) and stories (narratives).

    It's even embedded in our words -- month comes from moon, because every month has one full moon, new moon, and two half moons. It should be a "moonth." So people will say it's lunacy to talk this way. Get with the program. We're all solar Christians with the Son (Sun). The Serpent was cut out of the picture, a naga in the Garden of Eden, who gets called the big bad devil for encouraging wisdom. And I'm like Eve Libertine to be questioning anything.

    There are answers to everything. And when I'm enlightened, if I ever get enlightened, I'll know.

    New Zodiac Sign Dates: Ophiuchus The 13th Sign?
    HuffingtonPost.com
    Your zodiac sign may not actually be your zodiac sign... Astronomer Parke Kunkle says that due to changes in the Earth's alignment, the dates of many zodiac signs have changed, according to NBC. In addition, there may be a 13th Zodiac sign: Ophiuchus.

    Kunkle says that as the Earth and Sun slowly move [precession in astronomy], the signs gradually change, as expected.

    The change didn't happen over night either. The 12 signs were designated to different periods of the year almost 3,000 years ago, when astrology began, and since then the Earth's position in relation to the Sun has changed.

    While the sign many people were born under may now be different, it shouldn't affect horoscope readings, according to NBC. Zodiac signs have changed:

    New Dates
    1. Capricorn: Jan. 20 - Feb. 16
    2. Aquarius: Feb. 16 - March 11
    3. Pisces: March 11- April 18
    4. Aries: April 18 - May 13
    5. Taurus: May 13 - June 21
    6. Gemini: June 21 - July 20
    7. Cancer: July 20 - Aug. 10
    8. Leo: Aug. 10 - Sept. 16
    9. Virgo: Sept. 16 - Oct. 30
    10. Libra: Oct. 30 - Nov. 23
    11. Scorpio: Nov. 23 - Nov. 29
    12. Ophiuchus: Nov. 29 - Dec. 17
    13. Sagittarius: Dec. 17 - Jan. 20

    Astrology?!
    Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY)
    Do we believe in newspaper column astrology? Of course not! Pseudo-scientific charts, star graphs, and gypsies -- it's a scam. But do we believe the stars have anything to do with the future, the best (in Indian terms, most "auspicious") days to undertake things?

    Yes, apparently extraterrestrial visitors set the moon, which is a satellite not a planetary body, in place. The seasons were thereby arranged, and the Mayan people were given astronomy, astrology, and ways of record keeping on a cosmic scale. It couldn't have all been for them, since neither they nor their civilization would live to see the predictions. But the much longer lived visitors would have been preoccupied with these matters.

    What does this have to do with Buddhism? Not only is Buddhist history steeped in astrology (with the predictions at the time of the Buddha's birth by Vedic brahmins working as court chaplains), many modern Buddhists love good horoscopes and forecasting based on Vedic, Chinese, Tibetan, Thai, and Khmer charts.

    The Buddha did not promote it, but that hasn't stopped people who are obsessed with trying to gain some sense of control in this topsy turvy world. Why have the powers that be altered calendars, ruined charts, and mercilessly decried prophecy and psychic ability? There's something to it, just not in the form we have it nowadays. People believe in the principle; unfortunately, they indiscriminately believe any columnist who posts what the day/week/month/year will bring for the dime store star signs (and biorhythm scrolls).

    Does no one ever wonder why? Why, why, why?

    Does anyone remember Quetzalcoatl (the Mesoamerican ET, "feathered-serpent" in the Nahuatl language)? Daniel Pinchbeck explained the return of the winged serpent (extraterrestrial royal naga), who it seems just got back into the popular conscious (zeitgeist) with news of this 13th sign. Hello, 2012! Nagas (shape shifting, reptilian, serpent, demigod, human-hybrids in Buddhist mythology) are expert genetic manipulators from space who live underground, literally.

    Thursday, October 29, 2009

    The Acceleration of Consciousness

    (GoldRing) June 2007 to December 2012 is the completion cycle of the Mayan calendar. The compression of time-space energy fields increases the intensity of conscious awareness like an ocean wave moving onshore. From an individual's perspective everything is speeding up because we are vibratory beings. In actuality the space wherein one's vibration manifests is disappearing as time compresses into the omni-centric singularities. Space and Time are inseparable and integral energies that allow forms to become physical, actual, and interpreted by particularized consciousness. The metamorphosis, transition, or "ascension" can be understood with an analogy to the event horizon of a black hole. One is entering the zero point and preparing to move through the vortex of the singularity. The result is that past and future are compressed into the fullness of the eternal now.

    Tuesday, October 13, 2009

    Acceleration of Consciousness (video)


    (GoldRing) June 2007 to December 2012 is the completion cycle of the Mayan Calendar. The compression of time space energy fields increases the intensity of conscious awareness like an ocean wave moving on shore.

    From your perspective everything is speeding up because you are a vibratory being. In actuality, the space wherein your vibration manifests is disappearing as time compresses into omni-centric singularities. Space and Time are inseparable and integral energies that allow forms to become physical, actual, and interpreted by particularized consciousness.

    The metamorphosis, transition, or ascension can be analogized as an event horizon of a black hole wherein you are entering the zero point and preparing to move through the vortex of the singularity. The past and the future are compressed into the fullness of the Eternal Now.

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    Tuesday, June 30, 2009

    Meditation Gaining Medical Acceptance

    Text: Marilyn Elias (USA Today, 6/30/09)
    Vipassana: insight or mindfulness meditation: an ancient Theravada Buddhist practice

    Challenges are landing fast and furious on Capitol Hill. So Representative Tim Ryan (Democrat, Ohio) feels he has to arrive at the top of his game every day. And Ryan says he has found a way to do that: He meditates for at least 45 minutes before leaving home.

    Ryan, 35, sits on a floor cushion, closes his eyes, focuses on his breath, and tries to detach from any thoughts — just observing them [without mental comment] like clouds moving across the sky — a practice he learned at a retreat.

    "I find it makes me a better listener, and my concentration is sharper. I get less distracted when I'm reading," he says. "It's like you see through the clutter of life and can penetrate to what's really going on."

    Once thought of as an esoteric, mystical pursuit, meditation is going mainstream. A government survey in 2007 found that about 1 out of 11 Americans, more than 20 million, meditated in the past year. And a growing number of medical centers are teaching meditation to patients for relief of pain and stress.

    More than 240 programs in clinics and hospitals teach the same type of meditation that Ryan learned, says Jon Kabat-Zinn, who developed mindfulness-based stress reduction 30 years ago at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. Other types, such as transcendental meditation, use a mantra or repeated phrase.

    "A colossal shift in acceptance"
    Some kind of meditative practice is found in all of the world's religions, says Shauna Shapiro of Santa Clara (California) University, co-author with Linda Carlson of the new book The Art and Science of Mindfulness. Most include focusing attention and letting thoughts and emotions go by without judgment or becoming involved.

    Kabat-Zinn credits "a colossal shift in acceptance" to accelerating research on the benefits of meditation. Studies suggest the practice can ease pain, improve concentration and immune function, lower blood pressure, curb anxiety and insomnia, and possibly even help prevent depression. Newer research tools, such as high-tech brain scans, show how meditation might have diverse effects. More>>

    Thursday, May 28, 2009

    Edgar Cayce: David Wilcock interview (radio)

    Part I (Part II; Part III; Part IV; Part V; Part VI, Part VII; Part VIII; Part IX; Part X; Part XI)

    David Wilcock (Edgar Cayce) is a professional intuitive consultant who, since reading Richard C. Hoagland's The Monuments of Mars in 1993, has intensively researched ufology, ancient civilizations, consciousness science, and new paradigms for understanding of matter and energy. He is the author of a critically acclaimed trilogy of scientific research works, known as the Convergence series, which gives definitive support to the idea that a change in matter, energy, and consciousness is now occurring on the Earth and throughout the solar system.

    Wilcock has appeared on broadcast television, lectured throughout the United States and Japan, published a variety of magazine articles and appeared on numerous radio talk shows. He is the co-author of the book The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce, now available in bookstores nationwide, and a summary of his latest scientific work appears therein, where a breakthrough case for mass, spontaneous DNA evolution on Earth is unveiled. David is also an accomplished musician and composer within a variety of styles, including jazz-fusion, meditative, and world music.

    David returned, sharing his perceptions about 2012 and parallel realities. The 2012 time frame could bring a "golden age" for humanity, with a dimensional shift that leads us into ascended states, and if there is a calamity such as a pole shift around this time, people will warp into a parallel reality and not be affected by it, he outlined.

    Wilcock offered details of his conversations with "Daniel," a man who said he took part in the Montauk Project -- a series of experiments in which portals were materialized and people traveled through them. Space and time were completely inverted in the experiments so it appeared as though the subjects were traveling through time rather than space, Wilcock explained.

    Wilcock also shared some of his psychic intuitions such as the United States government eventually collapsing and being replaced by nation states. Civilian outrage over the truth about 9-11 will be one of the things that leads to this, he said. Currently he is working on a film project, Convergence which he hopes will be ready for release by the end of 2008.