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Showing posts with label wood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wood. Show all posts
Monday, October 19, 2026
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
What about the Walking Trees? (video)
(Majestic AquariumsTV) 11/23/15: Real specimen on Fitzroy Island
The biggest tree on Earth is bigger than imagined
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Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Remembering 9/11 with Dr. Judy Wood
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| "Dustification" begins with tremendous heat. |
How can we even dream of finding and facing the truth if we won't even look at the actual data? Dr. Judy Wood is a professional examining her expertise in the field to discover what she has: the "dustification" of the Twin Towers through unconventional and unfamiliar means but rather the use of some kind of new directed free-energy weapon.
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| Did a wide plane make this round hole? |
(Anyone interested in peace will want to know what really happened.
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| How dare you question the gov't! |
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| Don't question. Don't investigate. They might call you a "Truther." Just go along to get along. |
- Need more evidence? Of course. See Loose Change: Final Cut and other forbidden documentaries on BitChute.com
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| Read the book for extensive presentation of the evidence and actual data: Where Did the Towers Go? The Evidence of Directed -Free-Energy Technology on 9/11. |
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| Israel knew about Hamas' plan and let it happen as a pretext like the 9-11 event (The Hill/Rising) |
- Dr. Judy Wood (drjudywood.com); Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Trees: one country gaining forests (video)
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| Where's the best place to mediate? The forest. But be protected: practice metta first. |
Why does this forest look like a fingerprint?
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| They're just trees. What's the big deal? |
From the ground, it's not particularly notable. But from above, from a bird or drone's eye view (and particularly on Google Earth), the view is mind-boggling:
Hundreds of trees are arranged in perfect concentric arcs, all spiraling toward the center. Together, they look remarkably like a human fingerprint.
When the team first saw this forest in a Reddit post, it was fascinated.
- Why had the trees been arranged in this shape?
- Who planted them there?
- And why — when one zooms out on satellite view — was the entire country of Uruguay covered in similar-looking forests?
To answer that question, the team went straight to the source: interviewing locals, experts, and people whose lives have been shaped by a transformed landscape and economy.
Further reading
- Read the text of the original “forestry law”: impo.com.uy/bases/leyes/1...
- Read some of Alexandra’s work on afforestation and wildlife: sciencedirect.com/science...
- Eilís O’Neill has a great feature in the Nation on Uruguay’s forestry industry: thenation.com/article/arc...
- More stories about residents affected by the railway construction: yle.fi/a/3-11756418
- Subscribe to channel: goo.gl/0bsAjO
- Vox.com, May 9, 2024; Xochitl, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Mushroom Motherboard: fungus computing
Simon Whistler, Megaprojects, 3/4/24; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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| How ancient and important are mushrooms to this world? Ask Paul Stamets (fungi.com) |
(TED Talk by Paul Stamets) Six Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World [they built in the first place]
The Mushroom Motherboard: The crazy fungal computers that might change everything
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| Mycorrhizal relationship of mushrooms |
Got a beard? Good: beardblaze.com.
Simon Whistler's social media:
Twitter: simonwhistler
Saturday, February 17, 2024
Arcadia Lunar New Year Festival (2/25)
CC Liu, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
It's not too late to get to Asia (American style) for an authentic Lunar New Year Festival, the Chinese "Spring Festival," to ring in the Year of the Wood Dragon.
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| The whole world has a fetish. |
Los Angeles has more Asian dominant communities than Chinatown in DTLA. There's the entire San Gabriel Valley, with little cities like Arcadia (as in Joan of Arcadia) eager to show off their own version of the holiday:
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Rare ‘waterfall’ appears in the OC, SoCal
Iman Palm, KTLA 5 via MSN.com; CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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| Do woodland fairies (bhumi devas) delight in temporarily green groves and flowing waterfalls? |
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| You better believe we do. We love them! |
This rare “waterfall” in Southern California only appears after heavy rainfall. Iman Palm from KTLA 5 looks into the phenomenon.
The latest “atmospheric river” storm to move through Southern California brought heavy rain and mudslides but also something unique for residents, especially those in the OC (Orange County), next to Los Angeles.
The heavy rain unveiled the rare spectacle of Dana Point Falls, a “waterfall” that only graces the wealthy coastal community after significant rainfall. KTLA 5 via MSN.com
- Sherman Oaks home in the Valley flooded with 3 feet of water, and homeowners say it's LA's fault
- Southern California is finally starting to dry out. The next storm may come in 9 days (LA Times/Yahoo News)
- How much did this week’s storms help California’s water supply?
- Lake Tahoe's largest ski resort totals 50+ inches in first week of Feb.
- Sub lost under Antarctica, gone missing during Swedish research
- What does it mean when forecasters say La Niña is coming? | Watch
- LA hit with over 400 mudslides, braces for more flooding (yahoo.com)
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Science studies rebirth, Beatles get spiritual
The Beatles; Host dimwitted dotard George Noory, guests Mark Anthony and Joanne DiMaggio, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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| Ah, I remember now! How could I have ever forgotten those experiences and relationships?! |
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History of Reincarnation/The Beatles
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| "Psychic Lawyer" Mark Anthony |
He discusses the history of the belief in reincarnation (rebirth), which all religious traditions seem to have believed in at one time -- including early Christianity which mostly removed it from official texts.
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| Reliving Past Lives: Evidence |
Stories of past life regression (by hypnosis and other methods of recall, including spontaneous conscious remembering) are one source of evidence.
But evidence for rebirth is not limited to self-report. If it were, no one would take it seriously because our Western religious traditions have taught us that there is no such thing or else we would have all been reborn as avocados (or some similar nonsense).
Better than subjective reincarnation testimonies are pieces of verifiable pieces of physical evidence that can be investigated objectively. There are also near-death experiences, as well as psychic readings.
- For a comprehensive review of the science up to that time, see the work of Dr. Helen Wambach, Ph.D. in Reliving Past Lives with statistics and a large research sample. If nothing else, this noteworthy book will convince readers this topic can be studied scientifically and in ways no one had thought of before. While she does utilize hypnosis, she does NOT depend on faulty self-report evidence. Instead, she consolidates large data sets, looking for verifiable historical truths of which no individual would have been aware.
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| Psychologist Dr. Wambach, PhD |
Anthony speaks of an "electromagnetic soul" as a coherent quantum field that does not dissipate at physical death but transfers from one form to another.
- This is in line with Buddhist teachings though people may not think so. What is actually happening is that an impersonal, disappointing, and impermanent process is continuing but not any of the elements of it. While this is ultimately true, it is not the way it is experienced. We really do seem to go on. In fact, everything we were is falling away at every moment. Imagine the fall of dominoes. Where is "the fall"? It is dynamic becoming, not being, because it is always moving. But is "it" this domino, or that domino, or some future domino, or some past domino, or is "the fall" all the dominoes, or none of the dominoes? Thes questions make little sense when we see what's really going on. Ultimately speaking, there is no permanent self but there is rebirth, there is an empty (impersonal) process carrying on. Death does not stop it.
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| Who's Edgar Cayce? |
Anthony talks about how many religions from India embrace rebirth/reincarnation as a fundamental fact -- that can be verified by anyone and is seen by seers (rishis). The Dalai Lama (who follows a form of Buddhism called Vajrayana that is very much blended with Hinduism) has said reincarnation is not just a Hindu or Buddhist concept.
Rather, it is part of the history of our human origins.
Early Christianity threw out references to reincarnation made by Jesus and others, reforming the Bible to align with imperial Roman (Emperor Constantine and a similar Byzantine council that came later) needs to control the population.
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| Edgar Cayce's 12 Lessons in Personal Spirituality |
Currently, 51% of the world's population believes in reincarnation, including 33% of Americans, he cites.
In this interview, Anthony delves into various ways to recall past lives, which include PLR (Past Life Regression) therapy, NDE (near-death experiences), study, research, ego-death producing entheogenic/psychedelic drugs (DMT, Bufo, LSD or "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," MDMA, psilocybin, ketamine, etc.) waking techniques (similar to talking therapy), art, and notes that young children often spontaneously recall specific details of a previous life.
- The safest way to recall past lives is through meditation, beginning with calm to purify the mind (mastering the first four absorptions or jhanas and then developing insight through practice of Dependent Origination. Most might think this is a theory, but in fact it is a practice. By seeking the cause of present suffering in a systematic way, as the Ascetic Siddhartha did under the Bodhi tree, the mind eventually finds it in past lives. It is not a belief, not a theory, not a teaching heard by others but rather a personal experience of verifiable memories. The only problem that may arise is the question, How many past lives have there been? There have been so many that one may have trouble integrating them if one clings to the notion that one is all of them, that a permanent "soul" has gone through all of these impermanent experiences, bodies, realms, and lives. The fact is, it is an impersonal process. Clinging even to this life is not wise. Continued practice to see the true nature of all experience (i.e., the Three Universal Marks of Existence and the 31 Planes of Existence) is the wise way to proceed. Finding a Buddhist teacher familiar with these things, while difficult, is far better than seeking Western therapy to make sense of it all. Wisdom Quarterly recommends seeing Pa Auk Sayadaw and/or his accomplished students for reliable guidance.
In this last type, the famous case of James Leininger was brought up. The child had vivid memories of being a WWII pilot -- with extensive details about planes, battles, fellow pilots, all of which could be checked, including details about subjects no child would be familiar with. His parents looked into those details and confirmed the reality of what the child persistently spoke and obsessed about.
"Some people have very clear memories of prior lives," he comments, and "some have a sense of deja vu...phobias with no apparent cause."
More evidence for past lives includes prodigies with natural (innate) talents like young Mozart, who was composing songs at 4-years-old.
During the second hour of the show, Anthony gave readings for callers.
- Mark Anthony mentioned various talks and conferences he will be conducting at various venues, all visible on his website, including Edgar Cayce's A.R.E. and their giant upcoming reincarnation conference.
- DO IT YOURSELF, Doubter: Regression Hypnosis Certificate Training (edgarcayce.org)
- AUDIO: History of Reincarnation/Beatles | Coast to Coast
The Beatles made the West more spiritual
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| The Beatles and their groupie girlfriends return to their guru in India, Maha-rishi Mahesh Yogi |
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From 1964 to 1972, she was the president of a Beatles Fan Club. In Part II of the show, DiMaggio talks about her experiences at the Fan Club, the influence of the Beatles' music, and how the band may have planted a seed leading her and many others to pursue deeper beliefs.
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| Oh my f'n God, I love the Fab Four SO much!! |
"I had no idea when I had the Beatles club that so much was being actually said about their spiritual beliefs" [musically until I reflected on it later].
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| Who's the Fifth Beatle? Pete Best, their Jewish producer, their agent, Ravi Shankar, their guru? |
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| Is this what heaven will be like, guru? Full of dove footed virgins as I play lutes, harps, guitars? |
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| All you wanted were groupies, Paul! - No, John, like George, this has been spiritual for me, particularly after I died in that car crash and was replaced. - Oh, right. |
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| We were just going home to see our Hindu guru. |
George Harrison [who has no comparison] had a particular affinity for the country and felt he lived there in a past life, she claims.
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| This guy's our rishi (spiritual visionary) |
That's when "the depth of that profound spiritual evolution that they were going through was revealed," DiMaggio says.
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| Who's Sargeant Pepper, John? He's a soda pop. |
Their music also allowed her to enter a kind of altered state without drugs. "It just set me to a whole different level of understanding of how the universe operated," she mused.
Friday, February 2, 2024
Science: Trees used to be very Dr. Seuss (Lorax)
Ayurella Horn-Muller, CNN, 2/2/23; Kelly Ani, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Rare ancient tree discovery has scientists ‘gobsmacked’
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| Shush! He's doing something important. |
Five tree fossils buried alive by an earthquake 350 million years ago were found in a quarry in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, according to a study published today (Friday, 2/2/24) in the journal Current Biology.
The authors said these new and unusual fossil trees not only bear a surprising shape reminiscent of a Dr. Seuss illustration, they reveal clues about a period of life on Earth of which we know little.
“They are time capsules,” said Dr. Robert Gastaldo, an American paleontologist and sedimentologist who led the study, “literally little windows into deep-time landscapes and ecosystems.”
Coauthors Olivia King and Matthew Stimson unearthed the first of the ancient trees in 2017 while doing fieldwork in a rock quarry in New Brunswick.
One of the specimens they discovered is among a handful of cases in the entire plant fossil record — spanning more than 400 million years — in which a tree’s branches and crown leaves are still attached to its trunk.
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| I knew Dr. Seuss was tapping into something |
Few tree fossils that date back to Earth’s earliest forests have ever been found, according to Dr. Gastaldo. Their discovery helps fill in some missing pieces of an incomplete fossil record.
“There are only five or six trees that we can document, at least in the Paleozoic, that were preserved with its crown intact,” said Prof. of Geology Gastaldo at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.
Most ancient tree specimens are relatively small, he noted, and often discovered in the form of a fossilized trunk with a stump or root system attached.
For his colleagues to find a preserved tree that could have been 15 feet tall in its maturity with an 18-foot diameter crown left the paleontologist “gobsmacked.”
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| Model rendering of the newly discovered Sanfordiacaulis tree includes simplified branching structure for easier visualization. (Courtesy Tim Stonesifer © Provided by CNN) |
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Ancient earthquake burial
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| Massive quake, as in Afghanistan, hit the area |
Dubbed “Sanfordiacaulis,” the newly identified species was named in honor of Laurie Sanford, the owner of the quarry where the trees were unearthed.
The forms taken by these previously unknown 350-million-year-old plants look somewhat like a modern-day fern or palm, according to the study, despite the fact that those tree species didn’t appear until 300 million years later.
But while the tops of ferns or palms as we know them boast few leaves, the most complete specimen of the newly discovered fossils has more than 250 leaves preserved around its trunk, with each partially preserved leaf extending around 5.7 feet (1.7 meters).
That fossil is encased in a sandstone boulder and roughly the size of a small car, according to Dr. Stimson, an assistant curator of geology and paleontology at the New Brunswick Museum.
The unique fossilization of the cluster of trees is likely due to a “catastrophic” earthquake-induced landslide that took place in an ancient rift lake, he said.
“These trees were alive when the earthquake happened. They were buried very quickly, very rapidly after that, at the bottom of the lake, and then the lake (went) back to normal,” Dr. Stimson said.
Finding complete fossil trees is rare and much less common than finding a complete dinosaur, according to paleobotanist Prof. of Geosciences Peter Wilf at Pennsylvania State University, who was not involved with the study.
Prof. Wilf noted via email that the “unusual” new fossil tree was a relic of a time period from which there are almost no tree fossils.
“The new fossils are a milestone in our understanding of how early forest structure evolved, eventually leading to the complex rainforest architectures that support most of Earth’s living biodiversity,” Prof. Wilf added.
‘Very Dr. Seuss’
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| AI does not read much Dr. Seuss but it tries. |
“You know in ‘The Lorax,’ the trees have these big pom-poms at the top and narrow trunks? These probably have a similar structure. You have this massive crown at the top, and then it does narrow and paper into this very small trunk,” King said. “It’s a very Dr. Seuss-looking tree. It’s a weird and wonderful idea of what this thing could look like.”
But the reign of the Sanfordiacaulis was short-lived, the researchers said. “We do not see this architecture of plant again,” Dr. Stimson told CNN.
He noted that it grew in the early Carboniferous, a time period at the end of the Paleozoic Era when plants and animals were diversifying as they started to make their way from water to land.
Much of evolution is experimental, with success often measured by a species’ versatility, or ability to adapt to many different places and conditions.
The peculiar set of tree fossils presents proof of a “failed experiment of science and evolution,” Dr. Stimson added. “We’re really starting to paint that picture as to what life was like 350 million years ago.”
Looking forward
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| Researchers excavated the first Sanfordiacaulis fossil tree about seven years ago, but four more specimens were found in close proximity to one another few years later. - Courtesy Matthew Stimson © Provided by CNN |
Fossils such as the Sanfordiacaulis are not just useful in helping humans understand how life changed in the past, they can help scientists figure out where life on our planet might be headed next.
The existence of this particular species suggests that trees of the period were starting to occupy different ecological niches beyond what was previously understood, according to the researchers behind its discovery.
Dr. Gastaldo sees this as an indication that plants — much like early invertebrates — were experimenting with how they adapted to the environment.
The earthquake that likely led to the trees’ fossilization also offers new geological evidence of what may have been occurring in Earth’s systems at the same moment in time.
“This is really the first evidence we have of [a tree] that would be between what grows on the ground and what would tower way above the ground,” Dr. Gastaldo said. “What else was there?”
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