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Vanessa Marsot and Annie Vitality launch their new book, Dreams of a Dragonfly, and sign copies of this vegan fantasy story on Saturday, July 12th, poolside in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California. Enjoy mindfulness meditation, Native American land acknowledgement, yoga, vegan food, swimming and splashing, socializing, fun and games, a literary launch, and a summer night under the full moon.
Chef Rawsheed is preparing a special vegan meal, including fresh juice, appetizers, salad, raw and cooked pizzas and desserts (menu subject to change).
🎟️ TICKETS include:
Chef Rawsheed’s enchanted vegan meal (magical dinner) 🦜
Sign: "Do not be deceived. You are headed for Hell! [for wearing skimpy swimwear, heathens]"
What is there to eat on this green planet?
No ticket purchase is necessary to attend! However, for magical dinner, individual tickets are only $20. Please note in your RSVP "No Ticket" if planning to opt out of dinner. That way we have an accurate count for supplies.
Time to play in the pool under the Cali sun
FOOD ABUNDANCE: Guests are welcome to bring fruit and vegan snacks and drinks to share.
Guests are encouraged to bring a swimsuit, towel, lawn chairs, and outdoor or pool games.
Prepare to dance, sing karaoke, swim and play.
Dreams of a Dragonfly
O, Buddha, do dragonflies dream and, if they do, what about?
SYNOPSIS: What happens when a girl dreams of becoming a fairy so hard that she gets her wish and enters the magical world of animals and learns some of their secrets?
Join her on this fantastical adventure and you, too, could learn their secrets and how to advocate for them. More
The Uposatha day is a Buddhist day of observance, in existence since the Buddha's time (600 BCE) and still being kept today by sincere practitioners of Buddhism [1, 2]. The Buddha taught that the Uposatha day is for "the cleansing of the defiled mind (heart)," resulting in inner calm and joy [3]. On this day, both lay and ordained members of the Sangha (spiritual community) intensify their practice, deepen their knowledge of the practice, and express communal commitment through millennia-old acts of lay-monastic reciprocity. On these days, Buddhist lay followers make a conscious effort to keep the Eight Precepts or, as the tradition suggests, the Ten Precepts (or keeping perfectly the everyday Five Precepts). It is a day for putting into intensive practice the Buddha's teachings and meditation. More
CAUTION! JULY 10th FULL MOON will make WISHES come TRUE…but there's a catch! (Eye of Wisdom) The full moon on July 10th is not just a light in the sky, it’s a manifestation magnifier. This moon pulls our desires to the surface, reflects them back at us…and amplifies them into reality.
But there's a catch...
⚠️ This full moon is karmic, magnetic, and emotionally revealing. Our energy, our thoughts, our frequency, all of it is being reflected back at us in high definition.
✨ In this video:
Why this Full Moon unlocks manifestation energy (with a twist)
What thoughts and intentions we MUST get clear on now
This is our early warning: July 10 isn’t “just another moon.”
It’s a spiritual amplifier. Whatever we’re broadcasting, this moon is listening.
📃 Relevant sources 📖
Tolle, Eckhardt (1997) — The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment. Namaste Publishing.
What is the FAT founder of world's third largest religion (when the 1 billion uncounted Buddhists in communist, and therefore officially atheist, Buddhists are counted) in the world going to teach us about being fit? The fact is the popular depiction of "Fat Happy Buddha" is not the historical Buddha Shakyamuni (born Prince Siddhartha Gautama) but rather a monk (now elevated to bodhisattva) named Budai (also Putai, Hotei), a Chinese monk with a big sack of candy for children, a luck-bringing jolly fellow very reminiscent of the West's Santa Claus.
Fat on a slippery wet diving board
ABOUT: Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, is professor of medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the founder and director of its renowned Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Clinic. His clinic was featured in 1993 in the public television series Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers. Jon Kabat-Zinn is the author of 15 books, in print in over 45 languages. These include Full Catastrophe Living; Wherever You Go, There You Are; Coming to Our Senses; and Mindfulness for Beginners.
Edgar Cayce was once America's "Sleeping Prophet," a healer who channeled many healers, guides, and a mysterious consortium of helpful beings trying to give a message to humanity and those who came seeking cures and answers as to why they were sick. The cures were provided in many case studies preserved by the A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment) in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The reason for strange illnesses that didn't seem to have a cause was often found to be past karma from past lives. Cayce was a Protestant Christian. He didn't believe in past lives, as that did not seem biblical nor in line with the belief system of the official church. He, however, studied the Bible and saw that it did teach that there were past lives and it certainly taught that karma (sowing what we reap) was real and an official position of the church today. His psychic abilities were present from childhood, but his greatest power came when he stepped out of the way in a trance like state (mistaken for sleeping) when he channeled information for those seeking it for themselves or others. He worked on much more than health and wellness. He predicted wars, discoveries, stock market trends, and even engineering through remote viewing, once going through a bridge to find defects in its construction. Cayce, who live a century ago, is alive and well today, reborn as David Wilcock (divinecosmos.com). You or anyone can talk to him and ask him questions about that life or this, as he is glad to answer. We almost traveled to Egypt with him to see the pyramids. He is now very busy with his ongoing research and his show on Gaia.com TV. (How can we know Cayce was reborn as Wilcock? Author Wynn Free proved it in his book on the subject, The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?: Interdimensional Communication and Global Transformation).
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Bardo Thodol
(ReligionForBreakfast) What is the "Tibetan Book of the Dead"? The Tibetan Book of the Dead, or the Bardo Thodol, is arguably the most popular Vajrayana Buddhist text in Europe and the United States. Freud's protege Carl Jung loved it. So did Beatle John Lennon. But why? What is this text all about?
Sources
Lopez, Donald S. Jr. The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Biography. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011.
Coleman, Graham, and Thupten Jinpa, eds. The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation. Translated by Gyurme Dorje. New York: Penguin Random House, 2005.
Confirmed: CEO of weather modification company (Rainmaker) reveals cloud seeding operations were conducted in Texas two days before deadly flood. Oops
Perhaps this is not [to the level of] "Weather Warfare" [the U.S. secretly practices], but it's cloud-seeding nonetheless.
The CEO of a weather modification technology company has confirmed cloud seeding operations took place in Texas just two days before the deadly central Texas flood occurred.
NBC News reported that CEO Augustus Doricko of Rainmaker, a weather modification company, said planes had released silver iodide into the atmosphere in Texas two days prior to the fatal Texas Hill Country (Guadalupe River) floods that have claimed over 100 lives.
Now, what are we to believe? Doricko claims the cloud-seeding operations did not cause the flooding in Texas.
According to Doricko, Rainmaker flew a brief 20-minute cloud-seeding mission in southcentral Texas last Tuesday but suspended all operations that same day due to abnormally high moisture content in the air.
The two clouds seeded during the Tuesday flight would have dissipated after a few hours and would have had no effect [whatsoever] on the floods several days later, he added.
Cloud-seeding involves using chemicals, often particles of silver iodide [or other particulate matter as is used in chemtrail aerosol campaigns that feature barium, aluminum, red blood cells, and secret ingredients to amplify EMF and microwave signals from H.A.A.R.P.], to trigger the formation of ice crystals or droplets from water that’s already present in a cloud but not being efficiently turned into rain.
Though the technique has been studied for decades [refined by American war criminals during the US War on Vietnam to flood the jungle and root out Viet Cong soldiers with 50 or so inches of rain to inundate specified areas during war], it remains difficult to predict the additional rainfall that cloud-seeding operations can generate, with estimates ranging widely from 0% to 20%.
What’s clear is that the technique [so far admitted to] would not have been able to generate the record-breaking rainfall seen in Texas. So much rain fell that the Guadalupe River at Kerrville, one of the epicenters of the floods, rose some 26 feet (8 meters) in less than an hour overnight on Friday [while campers slept while celebrating the 4th of July weekend or attending Christian girls summer camp].
"Based on the meteorological evidence, the Texas floods were caused by a powerful natural weather system, with thunderstorms fed by very moist air from the warm Gulf of Mexico," said Andrew Charlton-Perez, professor of meteorology at the University of Reading in the UK.
In a post on X (Twitter), Doricko shared: "The last seeding mission prior to the July 4th event was during the early afternoon of July 2nd, when a brief cloud seeding mission was flown over the eastern portions of south-central Texas, and two clouds were seeded."
Further: "The clouds that were seeded on July 2nd dissipated over 24 hours prior to the developing storm complex that would produce the flooding rainfall."
Hey, Obama, war criminal Bibi nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize
Israel cannot dictate the future of the Middle East | David Hearst | MEE Opinion
(Middle East Eye) June 25, 2025: David Hearst, editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye, says Israel’s blitz on Iran has collapsed into a strategic defeat. In 12 days, none of Israel’s war aims were achieved.
Dictator Trump claimed Iran’s nuclear program had been "obliterated," but US intelligence quickly contradicted him.
Peace? "Ceasefire"?
Iran’s core infrastructure survived, and key nuclear materials were moved before the strikes. Iran may have already built deeper facilities elsewhere.
Israel also failed to destroy Iran’s missile arsenal. After D. Trump declared a "ceasefire," Iran launched new waves of air attacks, hitting Beersheba and other strategic sites across Israel. The damage was greater than anything local rebels Hamas or Hezbollah had inflicted.
Hearst says Iran did not need to win outright. It only needed to keep fighting. Its missile strikes pinned Israeli civilians in shelters, drained missile defenses, and exposed Israel’s limits.
The quick victory CIA-strongman Bibi Netanyahu sought never came. Iran’s ability to stand firm has shifted the balance of power.
He argues this was NEVER about ending any nuclear weapons program.
It was a clash between two worldviews -- one that insists Israel (a proxy for US and EU imperialism) must dominate the region and one that resists occupation.
Hearst concludes that Dictator Netanyahu’s long project to destroy Iran may have gone too far. Israel has exposed its population to a new kind of war and gained little in return. The result is not dominance but danger.
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He is on the board of advisors for the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics and is the Chair of Wisdom University's Sacred Art Department.
He and his wife Allyson Grey are the co-founders of The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (CoSM), a non-profit organization in Wappingers Falls, New York [2]. More
Vajrayāna (Sanskrit वज्रयान, lit. "vajra vehicle"), is also known as Mantrayāna ("mantra vehicle"), Guhyamantrayāna ("secret mantra vehicle"), Tantrayāna ("tantra vehicle"), Tantric Buddhism, and Esoteric Buddhism.
It is a Mahāyāna ("great vehicle") Buddhist tradition that emphasizes esoteric practices and rituals aimed at rapid spiritual awakening [or some deluded facsimile, replacing what the historical Buddha considered liberation for what previous Vedic, Hindu, esoteric teachers called moksha].
Vajrayana artist Alex Grey, 2013
Emerging between the 5th and 7th centuries CE in medieval India [1], Vajrayāna incorporates a range of techniques, including the use of
mantras (sacred sounds),
dhāraṇīs (mnemonic codes),
mudrās (symbolic hand gestures),
mandalas (spiritual diagrams), and
the visualization of deities and [cosmic] buddhas.
These practices are designed to transform ordinary experiences into paths toward enlightenment, often by engaging with aspects of desire and aversion in a ritualized context.
A distinctive feature of Vajrayāna is its emphasis on esoteric transmission, where teachings are passed directly from teacher (guru "master" or vajrācārya"teacher of vajra") to student (chela) through initiation ceremonies [2].
Tradition asserts that these teachings have been passed down through an unbroken lineage going back to the historical Buddha (circa 5th century BCE)... More
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