Comedian Jimmy Dore (jimmydorecomedy.com); Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly
Friday, November 26, 2021
A drink of Liquid Luck CREATES luck (video)
Joe Gallenberger, PhD (synccreation.com); Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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| Liquid Luck: The Good Fortune Handbook |
He wanted to give people a fun and simple way to access heart-based manifestation and see immediate results in the form of days filled with synchronicity, serendipity, and good fortune.
After Liquid Luck's release on CD, stories came flooding in describing instant success from people reporting:
- receiving money from unexpected sources,
- winning lotto and raffle tickets,
- selling houses in an hour,
- having businesses take off,
- easily solving intractable problems,
- receiving brilliant ideas for inventions, and
- many more wonderful stories of manifestation.
- [But I want "luck" in Las Vegas ($$$)! Here's how.]
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| I'll be the Lucky Lady with this T |
It does so interwoven with exploration of the vital components for powerful abundance creation.
Dr. Gallenberger delves into the practical aspects of how these principles work. He covers WHY
- happiness,
- gratitude,
- compassion,
- praise,
- love, and
- feeling abundant are essential
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| Cultivating psychokinesis with Dr. Joe, Pt. 1 |
He reveals how to transcend the limiting beliefs and emotions that usually keep us confined to old patterns.
His knowledge and the stories show us that we can indeed be miracle workers in our own lives. Liquid Luck is an essential handbook to repeatedly consult, offering a clear path toward our dreams lit with humor and heart. More
Creating LUCK in Inner Vegas: Dr. Gallenberger
Dr. Gallenberger (Coast to Coast, 11/25/21); Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Liquid Luck author and clinical psychologist Dr. Joseph Gallenberger (SyncCreation.com) studies luck and psychokinesis.
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| How to win at gambling, in Las Vegas, in life in general? Lady Luck (Clampett Studio) |
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| Inner Vegas (synccreation.com) |
Live on a Thanksgiving radio interview he discusses the power and benefits of gratitude (Buddhist kataññuta and katavedita).
It's a happy feeling and expression of appreciation, he says of gratitude. Such feelings of thankfulness can open our heart energy and increase awareness of the good fortune we are already experiencing but perhaps taking for granted.
This readies us for "our blessings to flow," he notes, adding that an "attitude of gratitude creates the space for grace."
Authentic gratitude is really joyful, which is different from our usual definition, viewing it as a sense of duty, he explains.
As author Melody Beattie says, "Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend."
A felt sense of gratitude can be cultivated, Dr. Gallenberger points out. One way to do it is to
- take a moment each day to express appreciation to someone who's been helpful to us,
- or thank someone for good service as we leave a tip,
- or express to ourselves or another gratitude for the little things in life like the sunrise or discovering a new recipe.
"A regular practice of gratitude can change the way our brain neurons fire into more positive automatic patterns," he reports, "and psychology studies have associated it with increased levels of energy, optimism, empathy, and happiness." More + AUDIO
QAnon conspiracy theories tearing Christian US
VICE News, 10/19/21; Seth Auberon, Sheldon S., Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
QAnon conspiracy theories are tearing through evangelical America
A "Demon in the White House"? (video)
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| Not me. This guy. This guy right here. He's the demon. He's possessed. Just look at him. |
Demon in the White House (official trailer)
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| It can't be me. I'm in Mara's Lago. |
Paranormal investigators believe there’s a demon in the White House, according to The Daily Beast.
This unclean spirit could still be tormenting America's presidents, their families, advisors, and fans [making them hungry for war, child molestation, lying, and world domination].
Sex abuse at cult-linked Christian college (video)
WARNING: This documentary contains graphic sexual details of molestation, Min. 27:30.
College of sexual abuse linked to U.S. cult
(The Fifth Estate, 11/11/21) The Community of Jesus is a Christian American cult. In School of secrets: The church, the cult and the consequences, The Fifth Estate investigates ties between an Anglican Christian organization in the USA that some have referred to as a "cult" and the now-closed Grenville Christian College in Ontario, Canada, where nearly 1,400 former students say they were subjected to terrible sexual, emotional, and physical abuse. Read more at newsinteractives.cbc.ca
Is the USA a Rogue State or an "Empire"?
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| American Abby Martin goes on RT to report from a program she calls Empire Files. |
In Andy Cohen's Cult: "EnlightenNext" (video)
The Atlantic, 10/14/16; Andrew Cohen; Sheldon S., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
EnlightenNext was an organization, founded by self-styled guru Mr. Andrew Cohen, that aimed to facilitate some kind of "spiritual awakening." Cohen’s most devoted students meditated for hours — at times, months — on end, were often celibate, and lived together. However, what started as an idealistic venture quickly turned into a complicated and sinister world.
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| It's way easier than you think to end up in a cult (Sarah Rense/Esquire.com) |
"Holy sh*t, we’re in a cult!"
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| The Rise and Fall of Andrew Cohen |
How should Buddhist monks behave? (video)
Monk Chat with Western Buddhist monk
Thursday, November 25, 2021
REVIEW: Beatles' "Get Back" starts at midnight
Unseen footage of The Beatles revealed in new doc directed by Peter Jackson
Review of Get Back, Episode 1
(Andrew Dixon) The Beatles' Get Back reviewed ahead of public airing
Peter Jackson's Road to Get Back (#084)
(Pop Goes the 60s, Nov. 19, 2021) Director Peter Jackson discusses his journey in completing the 4-year movie project. Interviews from 60 Minutes, Newshub, and Forces are included. Also included is this month's Rolling Stone interview with Michael Lindsay Hogg.
Friends Beyond Death 4 w/ nun Ayya V (video)
Friends Beyond Death 4: SA2-14 with Ayya Vimalanyani
Two sibling monastics slander Dabba
Samyukta Āgama (2) 14 "Bhikkhu Saṁyutta
Mettiya and Bhikkhuni Mettiyā slander Dabba"
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| Giant Buddha at Bamiyan, Afghanistan |
When the World-honored One put him in charge of provisions and lodgings, Dabba, having received the order, served as manager. One time, later, it was the turn of a monk called Mettiya to receive an invitation from a donor, according to the order among the monks.
According to the order among the monks, Dabba sent Mettiya to partake of the food at the donor’s house. When Mettiya went there, however, the food was extremely unpalatable. After this had happened three times, Mettiya felt extremely sorry for himself and consequently was greatly distressed.
He told his sister, the nun Mettiyā: “Whenever Dabba sends me to a meal, every time I get extremely unpalatable food! What misery!” And he said to the nun Mettiyā: “Sister, Dabba has afflicted me three times with bad food. Couldn’t you now use some ‘skillful means’ to avenge my anger?”
His sister the nun Mettiyā said: “But how could I help you?”
The monk Mettiya: “I have a plan. Go to the Buddha and say: ‘Dabba once sexually harassed me.’ And I will bear witness and say: ‘It is true! It is true!’”
The nun Mettiyā said: “But wouldn’t it be slander to accuse someone who has been pure in keeping the precepts?”
Thereupon Mettiya said: “Sister! If you don’t do this for me, then from now on I won’t speak to you again any more.”
The nun said: “If you insist, I will do as you say.”
The monk Mettiya: “Sister, let me go first. You follow later.” More
How to build a Dhamma practice, Part 4 with Ayya Vimalanyani
American Indian Airwaves: "National Day of Mourning" or "Thanksgiving"?
Xochitl, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; American Indian Airwaves (Podcast Free | TuneIn)
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| 50 years after the Occupation of Alcatraz, Native American activists honor their ancestors (Vogue) |
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| Who knew this land would be lost? |
American Indian Airwaves (AIA) is an Indigenous public affairs show, the longest running Native American radio program, created either by Indigenous, allies, or adversaries in the United States' broadcast communication histories.
It is broadcast weekly every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 pm on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angeles (where it can be heard in the online archives).
Day of Mourning/Thanksgiving episode aired today, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021 at 7:00 pm). Find AIA on Facebook.com/aiacr.
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| 'Ethnic cleansing' best describes what happened to Native Americans in Texas (statesman.com) |
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AIA is produced by Burntswamp Studio. It began broadcasting on March 1st, 1973, to give Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations a voice about the ongoing struggles against Settler Colonialism and US imperialism by European occupiers often referred to as the United States, Canada, Mexico, and other nations within the Americas.
AIA operates as an all-volunteer collective with no corporate sponsorship or underwriters.
End of Alex Jones? LGBT+? Greg Palast (video)
John Oliver (HBO); Host Cary Harrison (KPFK, 11/23/21), Greg Palast; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
Gay host Cary Harrison has a show on KPFK.org, Harrison's Reality Check. On the Nov. 23rd, 2021, 2:00 pm (archive.kpfk.org) episode, he deconstructed cancel culture fascism from the Left trying to impose political correctness over preferred gender terms. As an overtly gay and proud man, even he is sick of having to keep up a PC façade to please everyone who wants to be called "they" or some other iteration of s/he. But before that, he had the great investigative journalist Greg Palast (gregpalast.com) on to deconstruct Ex-Pres. Trump's crumbling movement, as led in part by growling dog Alex Jones Republican operative Roger Stone. All three are in trouble for fomenting, inciting, and planning the January 6 riots and attempted Washington, DC coup. Jones just lost a civil lawsuit over his reporting on the Sandy Hook mass school shooting, which will leave him bankrupt and bereft of the millions he earned on his PrisonPlanet.com conspiracy theory show, Info Wars.
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| I don't know Alex, Roger, or Viking Shaman... |
Real History: Truth about Thanksgiving (video)
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| Dharma Forest: Iroquois Native American Rituals of Thanksgiving, Buddhist Monastery |
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| Lies My Teacher Told Me (James W. Loewen) |
"The Indigenous People of America" (doc)
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| Truth is precious amid US lies |
Get a real account from the eye-opening truth from scholar Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz instead. If reading only one myth-busting book on "Indians" in this lifetime, make it An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (beacon.org).
Bad Joke Biden pardons White House turkeys
Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post, 2021; Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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Biden pardons his first turkeys — but who will pardon his bad jokes?
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| Look, Tom, I'm bloody George Washington. |
The Rose Garden ceremony was sandwiched between Biden’s colonoscopy [butt probe] that morning and a trip to Delaware where he will celebrate his 79th birthday Saturday.
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| Let's go, Brandon! Make me president ASAP. |
Peanut Butter and Jelly are huge domestic [white] birds born and bred for this moment, which is less a "pardon" than [an empty ritual, public relations stunt, and] a celebrity photo op for the National Turkey Federation.
The names were cooked up by schoolchildren in the turkeys’ home state of Indiana, who followed the grand tradition of picking goofy names for these regal avians, including past honorees Peas and Carrots, and Corn and Cob.
(Coast to Coast) Turkey Witchcraft? Wild turkeys perform a ritual with a dead cat to save fellow turkeys from mass slaughter in the run up to "Thanksgiving" aka "Dead Turkey Day" in the USA.
The president was in full Uncle Joe mode — [embarrassing], playful, relaxed, delivering bad jokes with good humor.
“As a University of Delaware man, I’m partial to Blue Hens,” said Biden. “But today, we’re going to talk turkey.” The audience chuckled politely, but Peanut Butter and Jelly responded with an enthusiastic gobble.
Corny? Of course. This annual ritual, generally received as a lighthearted break from presidential duties, is basically a chance for the Biden to make dad jokes.
It’s also a chance for presidential speechwriters to inflict — nay, strut — the worst puns they dare to unleash on the American public.
(An excerpt from Pres. B.S. Obama’s 2016 speech pardoning Tater and Tot: “I want to take a moment to recognize the brave turkeys that weren’t so lucky, who didn’t get to ride the gravy train to freedom, who met their fate with courage and sacrifice and proved that they weren’t chicken.”)When are we getting a Black man on money?
Traditionally, the turkey pardon is also a cultural snapshot of the administration, a single moment that launches a thousand memes.
Kamala becomes president (for a little while)
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| I knew that if I just hung in there and lied through my laughter I'd be president one day! |
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Biden’s annual physical at Walter Reed earlier in the day included a “routine colonoscopy” that required a temporary transfer of power while he was asleep.
And then…turkeys. “President Harris” trended on Twitter because social media thought it was, like, super clever.
Dating back decades, the ceremony has become so ingrained in White House history that it is rarely discussed for what it is: a free advertisement for the National Turkey Federation. It is a massive coup (or should we say coop?) to get an annual appearance with the president covered by every major media outlet in the country.
The White House dates the tradition to 1947, when the federation first presented a turkey to Pres. Harry S. Truman to encourage Americans not to pardon the birds but to roast them.
Some presidents actually ate the turkeys; others demurred. In 1963, John F. Kennedy (JFK) did not officially pardon the bird wearing a “Good Eating, Mr. President” sign around its neck but spared it with the words, “Let’s keep him going,” according to the White House Historical Association.
- Video: Biden says pardoned turkeys will get ‘boosted,’ not ‘basted’ (Associated Press)
George H.W. Bush was the first president to officially save a turkey bound for his Thanksgiving table, and subsequent presidents have leaned into the gag.
Now it’s essentially a celebrity turn for two turkeys — the star turkey and the backup turkey, just in case something unfortunate occurs on the trip to Washington.
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| Do turkeys feel fear? (dreamstime.com) |
Under the supervision of National Turkey Federation chairman Phil Seger, the candidate turkeys were trained to tolerate loud noise and big crowds and even stand on tables.
Only the two deemed most beautiful [i.e., whitest] and best behaved (and vaccinated, joked Biden) got the coveted nod for the White House ceremony, which includes a social media account, a stay at the Willard Hotel, and a news conference during which they parade their striking white plumage for the media.
Peanut Butter and Jelly, 17 weeks old, were the lucky birds this year. Like their less fortunate coopmates back in Indiana, they weigh about 40 pounds each. (About 5 hours roasting time, if you want to be morbid about it).
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| Many Americans dislike the man in the White House and chant, "Let's go, Brandon!" |
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The fate of the pardoned birds — beyond not being dinner — has itself become a source of much debate.
Domestic turkeys, sadly, are not destined for a long life regardless where they end up. Many birds have previously left the White House to live briefly at local farms and petting zoos.
A few in the 2000s were flown to Disneyland, where the “happiest turkeys on earth” rode in the theme park’s Thanksgiving parade.
In the past few years, the birds have retired to universities where they serve as ambassadors for the poultry industry. Peanut Butter and Jelly will return to Indiana where they will live out their lives at Purdue University’s College of Agriculture: Schoolchildren will meet and greet the presidential survivors who make history.
“The entire poultry industry is misunderstood,” said Greg Fraley [not referring to the more than 1,000,000 chickens slaughtered daily in the US], the Terry and Sandra Tucker Endowed Chair of Poultry Science at the university. “Lots of people have strong opinions but have never been around poultry.”
Fraley said the two celebrity birds will have “the happiest and healthiest lives here at Purdue [far from their habitat, Nature, and companions].”
That’s not good enough for Joaquin Phoenix, Billie Eilish, and other celebrities who signed a petition asking Biden to send the birds go to the Farm Sanctuary in New York state, an animal protection organization. The turkeys would enjoy dust baths and a happier social life, according to the petition, unlike turkeys at petting zoos and universities “where they are likely not cared for as individuals with unique personalities, emotions, needs, and preferences.”
In an act of presidential magnanimity, Biden officially pardoned both turkeys, who accepted the honor with what appeared to be calm indifference.
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| Order your FREE Vegan Starter Kit with cruelty-free recipes and tips (PETA) |
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“It reminds us to have fun and always be grateful,” he said.
Safe to say, the turkey pardon will be alive and well for the next three years. Which is more than we can say about Peanut Butter and Jelly, whose 15 minutes of fame is — dare we say — short lived. Have a good Hoosier life, little buddies. Source
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