(The Theory of Samsara) Premiered Nov. 27, 2025: 🧘♂️ Why do we all so easily fall into "spiritual delusion"?
Why do we chase psychedelic highs, promises of supernatural powers, or “special” experiences instead of understanding the ordinary, unchanging nature of consciousness [and related phenomena] itself?
This video dives more deeply into the mechanics of self-deception on the spiritual path —
How craving fuels suffering,
Why Western culture’s addictions make it worse,
Why meditators so often mistake mental fabrications for awakening.
Let's explore the Buddha’s actual teaching:
Craving is the root of suffering
Consciousness is ordinary, not something to be manufactured
Awakening can’t be given to us by a teacher
Psychedelic trips are NOT enlightenment
Pride, jealousy, and other delusions and fabricated identities destroy the Path
True realization begins with a stable, uncontrived mind.
Whether we practice Zen (jhana), Mahamudra ("great seal"), Vipassana(insight meditation), or Dzogchen (choiceless awareness), the message is the same:
Stop looking for the extraordinary.
Instead, recognize the nature of mind as it is:
SUCHNESS, ordinary mind — nothing to adopt, nothing to abandon.
If we want to avoid spiritual self-sabotage and cultivate a genuine path toward awakening, this is for us.
Check out ultimatemeaning.org for more information.
Guest Stewart Swerdlow (expansions.com) joined host Rich Berra on Coast to Coast on Friday, Oct. 18, 2024.
Gifted Russian-American intuitive and official back channel (backdoor political go-between) with permission to make these revelations, Swerdlow came on to discuss the future direction of the world as it is being guided by covert movers-and-shakers (in alphabet agencies) and natural forces and phenomena.
"The heating on the earth is not coming from [pollution-based] global warming; it's coming from magma heating up under the earth," Swerdlow claims.
He explains that extensive gamma and X-ray bombardment from supernovas is affecting the sun's electromagnetic field and its intensive release of energy, which in turn is causing increased volcanic activity and natural disasters on earth.
According to Swerdlow, recent Category 5 hurricanes in Florida and North Carolina were not natural occurrences. They were purposely engineered using electromagnetic devices aimed at targeting specific populations, just as was done in Hawaii.
"There are those who have…manipulated them [tropical depressions] into stronger storms," he explains.
Crypto-Jews sure do get around in Hollywood.
Swerdlow also reveals another emerging threat: muons — particles that can penetrate and interact with the human body, altering our DNA. He is concerned about this increased muon bombardment and its potential effects on public health and the environment. Muons also harm plants and animals and will soon take away our ability to grow things in the soil.
Swerdlow went on to discuss his unique role as an official (albeit not publicly recognized) "back channel" between the U.S. and Russian governments. Together with Laura Eisenhower, he was sent to Russia, where he enjoys dual citizenship, stemming from his royal lineage and family history in the USSR.
Swerdlow claims, "My [Jewish] great uncle Yakov Sverdlov was the first technical president of the Soviet Union."
He emphasizes the urgency of deescalating nuclear threats, stating that Russian officials assured him that "If any NATO or American missiles strike within Russian territory, they would consider that an act of war." (The consequences may be nuclear in nature).
Addressing the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, Swerdlow reveals that it will conclude by Christmas of this year (2024). He explains THE Ukraine: "People in the West do not understand history... Ukraine has always been considered the borderlands of Russia." (That is why it is called the Ukraine not simply Ukraine as we have all now been dutifully trained to refer to it).
1984 to come true: 3 superstates will rule
Fiction is a warning about the future?
He dropped a bombshell of official information in revealing that soon the world will be divided into three political "superstates," which will emerge (be publicly designated) by 2025.
While no one mentioned it, this is exactly what the dystopian Orwellian vision of the world was, as predicted in the story of Nineteen Eighty-Four. When Big Brother reigned supreme, irritated by "the Brotherhood" (French Le Resistance) allegedly led by Jewish gadfly that was Emmanuel Goldstein (who is not really any kind of actual opposition but merely an instrument of the state), there were three powers in the world: Oceania...
It's not a book, it's a roadmap.
1984: Orwell's story takes place in the future. The current year is uncertain. It is not the year 1984, but that's close enough because, now, like the Mandela Effect, the past and future are not what they used to be. Much of the world (2/3rds to be exact) is in perpetual war (because there are only three superstate rivals challenging each other with war divided between two sides because one superpower always aligns with the other, though which other alternates).
Freedom is slavery. War is peace.
Great Britain, called "Airstrip One," has become a province of the totalitarian superstate Oceania, which is led by Big Brother, a dictatorial leader supported by an intense cult of personality manufactured by the Party's Thought Police. The Party engages in omnipresent government surveillance and, through the Ministry of Truth, historical negationism (disappearing and erasing people) and constant propaganda to persecute individuality and independent thinking [6]. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a diligent mid-level worker at the Ministry of Truth who secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion. Smith keeps a forbidden diary. He begins a relationship with a colleague, Julia, and they learn about a shadowy resistance group called the Brotherhood. More
BIG BROTHER is watching you. And his name is Meta Facebook "The Apple" Googlestein.
Orwell wrote the fictional version to present the idea. The reality is to be that:
the U.S.A. will control the Americas
Russia will oversee Europe and parts of Africa
China will dominate East Asia.
In a misunderstanding by the host, this is not Swerdlow's fortunetelling "prediction" or psychic intuition. This is Swerdlow revealing political knowledge and insider information he has gained and confirmed from being in politics, where he has contacts involved in secret surveillance and policing agencies.
What's Nineteen Eighty-Four about, sex?
It's a love story about rebellion and sex, sticking it to The Man (Big Brother) in the future
Hey, Baby, want to join the Resistance? - I sure do. Are you a member of the Brotherhood?
Julia, let's do it outdoors in narture where there are no electronic devices to spy on us? - OK.
Act natural at work. Pretend you don't know me. No one must know of our illicit relationship.
I thought you loved me, Winston. - Julia, I do, more than life itself. I would never betray...ugh
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What's she looking at? - Mmm, he might do.
George Orwell, who was born in oppressed Buddhist Burma and served as a sort of reluctant colonial policeman (at the time a nascent police state and part of British East India), is a novel about a guy who doesn't like his midlevel job at the Ministry of Truth, where he spends all day deleting people from the record who have fallen into disfavor with the Party. The world is constantly at war, and everyone is constantly spied on by the (tele)screen they cannot seem to avoid. Then as his humdrum life is going about, rationing everything with scarcity as the norm because of the endless wars, a hot woman stares at him. He's struck with fear that she is a spy who has somehow managed to figure out that he's a disgruntled government employee and secret rebel. When they talk, he finds out that she, Julia, has figured him out, but she's not a spy for the state. She's a rebel and wants to make sweet love to him, Winston, to stick to The Man. The Man is Big Brother, the oppressive governmental system that enforces celibacy and allegiance to the Party above all else. Winston is delighted to have an ally and they sneak away from the cameras among the Proles. But the cameras did see them... (Readers should read this book, or listen to it on tape, to know the future and make sense of the present).
Results of the 2024 presidential election
Final president of USA before it becomes superstate "Oceania" or "The Amero Union": JDV
He therefore states that "it doesn't matter who wins the election...there's going to be a reshuffling of aspects around the world." Trump is going to be the last president even if he loses. Harris cannot win because, even if she were to get more votes and be inaugurated, the military will not listen to any of her orders. Swerdlow did not say exactly why, but in general it is because the plan is we are no longer going to have elections (or the pretense of elections) like we have been doing.
We want a younger "Black Hillary." That's what the Deep State offered. They let DJ 'win' again?
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Dang, didn't win (outright) but we get it anyway
Worry. Not to worry because no matter what happens or who is (s)elected and installed in the White House as the figurehead leader (because presidents don't really lead or decide important things), there will be massive civil unrest. Eventually there will be another civil war. This is not right away as a direct result of this political catastrophe (another Gore-Bush bloody mess), the results of which will not be known or announced for weeks after the election day (Nov. 5th, 2024).
The Left will rise up against Washington DC corruption if Second Hubby Doug's wife doesn't get the job. MAGA and the radical Right (right-wing gun nuts) will have another now more violent insurrection like January 6th if Melania's john is cheated out of another term.
He demands the right to rant and rave from the Oval Office with sycophants hovering around his smelly adult diapers and other vulgarities like kiss ups used to have to do for sociopathic LBJ (the Johnson who, according to Roger Stone, helped plan JFK's untimely demise).
Our fearless leader in college dressed as a trans.
It does not matter that Trump will be granted another term because, the G.O.D. (the Karmic Universe, the impersonal generator-operator-destroyer that is the playing out of karmic results) being what it is, Trump will not be president for long.
Just like our own intuition has been powerfully suggesting to us to the level of certainty (not a logical certainty, just an intuitive one), JD Vance will be president or ruler or presider or whatever word they use for "Big Brother" in Agenda 2025 who bans porn, establishes righteousness, and leads the new super-nation into a glorious future as the world power.
I was told by the people who control these things.
NOTE: During the show, interviewer Rich Berra makes the mistake of thinking that the guest is channeling this information as a psychic certainty. Swerdlow corrects him, claiming to be a "back door channel" to the Kremlin, working with the U.S. government, and having many insider friends telling him this information. It is neither channeled nor revealed by medium (in communication with spirits). Swerdlow is not intuiting this but reporting it as fact, which to us makes it less reliable. He further states that he was cleared to announce these things so is not whistleblowing. This is conventional information and may therefore be part of a disinformation campaign by the CIA and/or other secret agencies, using Stewie to release misleading info.
Norm Macdonald Weekend Update Jokes we haven't seen before
(Comedy Maniac) Norm Macdonald used to be the comedic brains behind Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" recurring news segment. His first person observer jokes were brilliant and brutal. Here are a handful we haven't seen or heard before. It's genius Norm Macdonald's most savage moments on Weekend Update from the earlier, better years of SNL.
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Protestant Christian church flies a gay rainbow flag together with Old Glory, USA (ap.org).
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This a true story? I thought it was a legend.
The commentaries record [an incident] which stemmed from the impression that the enlightened monk’s golden physical form made on the minds of others.
One of these, reported in the Commentary to the Dhammapada (Dhp-a to v.43, Buddhist Legends, 2:23–28) involved a straight young man named Soreyya, who was the son of the treasurer in the city of the same name.
One day the youth Soreyya was driving out of the city in a carriage, on route to a bathing spot together with an close friend and a merry band of companions.
Just as they were leaving the city, the enlightened chief disciple Venerable Mahā Kaccāna ("Great Golden") was standing at the city gate, putting on his outer robe before entering to walk on alms round.
When the married youth Soreyya beheld the golden-hued body of the elder [thera, "senior monk"], he thought to himself: “Oh, that this elder might become my wife! Or may the hue of my wife’s body become like the hue of his body!”
At the very moment this wanton thought passed through his mind, Soreyya was instantly transformed from a man into a woman.
Startled by this inexplicable change of sex, he jumped out of the carriage and fled before the others could notice what had occurred. Gradually he made his way to the city of Takkasilā [the capital of Gandhara, modern Taxila].
His companions searched for him in vain then reported his strange disappearance to his parents. When all attempts to trace him proved futile, his parents concluded that he had died, and they had the funeral rites performed.
Meanwhile the [transsexual] woman Soreyyā, on reaching Takkasilā, met the son of the city’s treasurer, who fell in love with her and took her as his wife.
In the first years of their marriage, she gave birth to two sons. Previously, while still a man, Soreyya had fathered two sons with his wife in his native city. So he was now the parent of four children, two as a father and two as a mother.
One day the formerly close friend of Mr. Soreyya came to Takkasilā on some personal business. Mrs. Soreyyā saw him in the street and called him into her house, revealing the secret of her mysterious metamorphosis from a man to a woman.
The friend compassionately proposed that Soreyyā should offer alms to Ven. Mahā Kaccāna, who was living close by, and then beg pardon from him for [the mental karma of] having given rise to such a lewd thought.
The friend then went to the enlightened elder and invited him to come to the lady’s house for alms on the following day. When Ven. Mahā Kaccāna arrived, the friend brought Lady Soreyyā into his presence, informed him of what had long ago happened, and asked him to pardon her for that transgression.
A walk on the other side then a walk back
As soon as the elder uttered the words “I pardon you,” Lady Soreyyā was transformed back into a man.
Shaken out of all worldly complacency by this double metamorphosis, Soreyya determined that he could never again lead the household life [the life of an ordinary uninstructed worldling wandering on through samsara, the unsatisfactory cycle of rebirth].
Bhikkhu Bodhi (BPS, Wheel #405/406)
So he ordained as a Buddhist monk (bhikkhu) under Mahā Kaccāna, and after a short time s/he attained full enlightenment (arahantship) together with the supernormal powers (siddhis).More
Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Soreyya...confessed his fault, and asked for forgiveness. When Maha Kaccana pardoned her, she once more became a man. He became a monk under Maha Kaccana and went with him to Sāvatthi. People who heard his/her story worried him with questions. So he retired to solitude and, developing insight, became fully enlightened. Before that, when people asked him which of his children he loved best, he would say: "The ones I gave birth to as a woman." After attaining full enlightenment he would say: "My affections [clinging, attachments] are set on no one" (DhA.i.324ff).
Discussion: How?
Shapeshifting is all well and good for sylphs (devas) to do, but as for humans?
In an interesting side note, it is said that for the rest of his life, whenever anyone met Ven. Soreyya, they asked him the same sort of question:
"You had children as their father, and you had children as their mother; which children did you love more?" The answer, it is said, was always the same: "The children I had as a mother, of course."
This may tell us more about biological gender differences than the whole rest of the story. How could a body change sex if it gets its sex due to past life karma? This was magical "transformation" (shape-shifting), as we find in Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dreamwhen the character Bottom is transmogrified becoming an ass.
What gives us sex, and how could it change? This is explained based on Buddhist biology as found in the Abhidharma. Transformation is a supernormal power, which Soreyya had likely developed in past lives, as suggested by the fact that when he became enlightened he suddenly possessed those powers. Most people on becoming enlightened do not suddenly gain them.
Legendary, charismatic magic man Carl Kasell shows off, NPR HQ, DC (Katie Burk).
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Superheroic powers are literally possible
MAGIC (iddhi): "power," "magical power: The magical powers constitute one of the six kinds of higher spiritual powers (abhiññā).
There are many kinds of magical powers to be distinguished:
the power of determination (adhitthān' iddhi), that is, the power of becoming manifold "division-bodies";
the power of transformation (vikubbana iddhi), adopting other forms, "shapeshifting";
the power of mental/spiritual creation (mano-maya iddhi), letting issue from this body another mentally-produced or "illusory" body [as of ectoplasm but as dense and real as this body];
the power of penetrating knowledge (ñāna-vipphara iddhi) to remain unharmed in danger;
the power of penetrating concentration (samādhi-vippharā iddhi) producing the same result.
The magical powers are treated in detail in The Path of Purification (Vis.M. XII; Pts.M., vibhana in the Appendix).They are not necessary for enlightenment and final liberation (bodhiand nirvana).
Insight
The power to see things and remain free
"Noble power" (ariyā-iddhi) is the power of controlling one's ideas in such a way that one can (by noting inherent qualities and excluding others) consider something that is not repulsive as repulsive or consider something that is repulsive as not repulsive, while remaining unperturbed and full of equanimity. This training of mind is frequently mentioned in the sutras (e.g., MN 152, A.V.144), but only once is the name of ariyā-iddhi applied to it (DN 28). More
See further Pts.M., iddhi-kathā, Path of Purification (XII)
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