Buddhist love at first sight: Why? 😍💘

Have we met before? | Seven signs of a past-life connection

(Buddha's Wisdom) 🔍 WHY DO SOME STRANGERS INSTANTLY FEEL LIKE FAMILY? What are the signs we have known someone in a past life? And what does Buddhism actually teach about these karmic connections?

Sonic Youth "Becuz" [Because of You]

This video examines seven experiences often linked to past-life (what non-Buddhist traditions call "reincarnation") relationships, from instant trust and unexplained recognition to recurring conflict and shared spiritual growth.

Ashe "Moral of the Story" (official audio)

Through ancient Buddhist texts, traditional stories, disputed past-life cases, meditation teachings, and modern memory research, let's explore Buddhist rebirth without assuming that the oversimplification that a "permanent soul" (atta or atman) is traveling from one life to another. That is what is happening, conventionally speaking but, ultimately, it is a pernicious wrong view.

Catherine O'Hara "Sally's Song" (from The Nightmare Before Christmas)

• What are the OBSTACLES to progress in serenity, meditation, insight, and enlightenment? The Five Hindrances: affection (lust, attachment, passion, clinging), aversion, restlessness, fatigue, doubt.

Diana Ross theme from Mahogany ("Do You Know Where You're Going To")

DISCOVER

1. Seven signs that may make someone feel strangely familiar
2. Why the strange old couple greeted the Buddha as if he were their long-lost son
3. The reported recognition of the 14th Dalai Lama and the case of Swarnlata Mishra
4. Why the Buddha said "a being who has not [already] been your mother is not easy to find"
5. The Jātaka Birth Story about the couple who raised the Buddha for 1,500 births
6. Why guided past-life regression is not the Buddhist method of recalling previous lives
7. The Buddha’s overlooked second explanation for why two people feel drawn together

Lana Del Rey "Video Games"

• NOTE: The Sāketa couple (Nakula-mata and Nakula-pita)'s first meeting and the rival wives come from commentarial literature written centuries after the Buddha, drawing on older oral tradition. This video presents them as the tradition tells them, not as verified history.

Clairo "Sofia"

TIMESTAMPS

• 00:00 The man who called the Buddha “son”
• 02:09 When a stranger feels like family
• 06:36 The ones who came back
• 12:57 Can meditation show you?
• 17:38 The second explanation

Elton John "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" (lyrics)

📚 SOURCES AND FURTHER READING (affiliate links)

Primary texts:

• Bhikkhu Bodhi (trans.), The Connected Discourses of the Buddha (Saṃyutta Nikāya)
• Bhikkhu Bodhi (trans.), The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha (Aṅguttara Nikāya)
• Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi (trans.), The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (Majjhima Nikāya)
• E. B. Cowell (ed.), The Jātaka, or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births
• E. W. Burlingame (trans.), Buddhist Legends (Dhammapada Commentary)
• Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli (trans.), The Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga)

Modern cases and research:

• Ian Stevenson, Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation
• Morey Bernstein, The Search for Bridey Murphy
• Scoboria et al. (2017), "A mega-analysis of memory reports from eight peer-reviewed false memory implantation studies," Memory
• John F. Kihlstrom, “Hypnosis, Delayed Recall, and the Principles of Memory”

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• SOKO :: "First Love Never Die" (official video)
• An Unusual Prince/Once Upon a Dream (from "Sleeping Beauty")
• Buddha's Wisdom, Sept. 26, 2026; Ashley Wells and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

'Monstrous Bitch: Terrifying Women' ♀️

Monstrous Bitch: A History of Terrifying Women

What's a "bitch" anyway?

Columbia University Prof. Eleanor Johnson takes a provocative look at how a sexually voracious demoness from ancient myth became the defining archetype of Western misogyny.

“A fiery and fun feminist reclamation of womankind’s monstrous alter egos”—Publishers Weekly.

For as long as human societies have been telling stories, the patriarchy has felt threatened by females.

Ludacris "Move Bitch" (uncensored version) | Lady Gaga with her driver James Corden

Monstrous Bitch: A History

Prof. Johnson provides an engaging cultural history of a figure she calls the “monstrous bitch,”

• the notorious female who has haunted the patriarchal imagination for centuries,
• feared for her sexual promiscuity, her exercise of reproductive agency and control, and
• her outspoken way of contesting patriarchal power.

In a narrative brimming with insight, Prof. Johnson traces the origins of female monstrosity to the

• Demoness Lamashtu of ancient Mesopotamia, showing how this infanticidal, hypersexual, loudmouthed monster appears in different guises throughout history [his story, not her story].
• In classical Greece, she reemerges as the Sorceress Medea, the child-devouring monster Lamia, and the vengeful Furies.

Hey, Bitch! "Go Hard"

Kreayshawn "Go Hard (La.La.La)" ft. Li'l Debbie (official video)

Kiss of the Enchantress (Keat's Lamia, a serpent, reptilian)

• In the medieval and early modern periods, she is an oversexed, baby-slaying, spellcasting witch.
• In the Romantic and Victorian eras, she's a vampiress.
• In the modern age of psychoanalysis, she's a mental patient.

Horror Films Rise of Feminism

After this longue durée history, Prof. Johnson shows how monstrous bitchery has been challenged and reinterpreted in contemporary cinematic popular culture, becoming an expression of heroine-ism and resistance in films like Ginger Snaps, Jennifer's Body, and The Witch.

Johnson demonstrates how deeply embedded the roots of misogyny have become as well as why it is more critical today than ever that we expose and address them.

Participatory Theology

An irreverent look at a pervasive trope that runs through four thousand years of Western culture, Monstrous Bitch reveals that while representations of the powerful woman have evolved over time, the fear and demonization of her remains the same. More

• AUDIO FEATURE: Book recontextualizes horror classics through a feminist lens | LAist.com (AirTalk, Oct. 2026)

Going full bitch mode (demoness?)

21-year-old goes demon mode during wild DUI arrest (Min. 10:30)

Women must be silenced by the patriarchy.

ABOUT: Columbia University Professor of English and Comparative Studies Eleanor Johnson specializes in late medieval literature and culture. Her first book, Practicing Literary Theory in the Late Middle Ages: Ethics and the Mixed Form in Chaucer, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve, was published in 2013 (Chicago). Her second book, Staging Contemplation: Participatory Theology in Middle English Prose, Verse, and Drama, was published in 2018 (Chicago). Her Third book, Waste and the Wasters, about ecosystemic thought in medieval England, came out in 2023 (Chicago). Her fourth book, Scream with Me, on horror films in the 1970s, was published in 2025 (Atria Books). Her latest is Monstrous Bitch: A History of Terrifying Women (2026). She is also the Poetry Section editor at Public Books (publicbooks.org). More

Misogyny: personification of the Seven Deadly Sins (Wellcome/Wiki)

• What is Contemplation?: An interview with Eleanor Johnson (Journal of Contemplative Studies)
• If ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ made you scream, read this | Columbia News
• Mysterious stone in U.S. backyard turns out to be an archeological treasure
• Lamia as a canine reptilian do in Topsell's History of Four Footed Beasts
• Woman pulls gun from butt, tries to shoot arresting deputy: 40 years in prison for one terrifying drugged decision
• BUTT GUN COMMENTARY: 40 years in prison after one terrifying decision to shoot arresting deputy

Kreayshawn: a bitch in Hollywood

(VICE TV) The day Will Ferrell called me an "asshole" | PARTY LEGENDS (when you get to LA)

(Ali Talks Music) Kreayshawn back to song that broke her: "Gucci Gucci"

Nardwuar vs. Kreayshawn

Author Eleanor Johnson on Instagram

Rebirth can't be real! We'd remember!

Maybe reincarnation was real. But, then, why don't we remember all our past lives?!

(The Journey to Awakening) If rebirth is real, why don't we remember our past lives?

Rebirth is real

Narrating Karma and Rebirth (Naomi Appleton)

Punabhava (lit. "again becoming," "rebecoming," "renewed existence") is a sutra term for "rebirth," which in later literature mostly is referred to as patisandhi (defined below).

The attainment of full enlightenment (arahatta), implying the end of all suffering and any further rebirths, is often expressed in the words: Natthi 'dāni punabbhavo, "this is the last birth. Now there is no further renewed becoming" (M. 26; D. 15; Therag. 87, 339; Sn. 502).

The term is often linked with abhinibbatti (re- "arising" or "appearance"). It is said, āyatim punabbhavābhinibbatti: "But how, O Brother, does it come to renewed existence and arising in the future?"

"Because beings, obstructed by ignorance and fettered by craving, find ever fresh delight now here, now there, for this reason there is renewed existence and arising in the future" (MN 43). (See also S.XII. 38).

Abhinibbatti also stands sometimes alone in signifying "rebirth" (e.g., in A. VI, 61; X, 65). Compare how in the second noble truth, the adjective ponobhavika means "leading to renewed existence." (See A. III, 76; Sn. 163, 273, 514, 733; S. VII, 12; X, 3). Source

The relinking consciousness

Karma, Rebirth, and Samsara (BPS.lk)

In detailing the reality of rebirth, the Buddha used the term patisandhi (lit. "relinking" or "reunion") consciousness, which is one of the 14 "functions [in the impersonal process] of consciousness" (viññāna-kicca).

Patisandhi is a karma-resultant type of consciousness that arises at the moment of conception, that is, with the forming of new life in the mother's womb.

Immediately afterwards, this consciousness (citta, "mind moment") sinks into the subconscious stream of existence (bhavanga-sota), where it is conditioned. Thereby, corresponding states of subconsciousness arise. Therefore, it is really this rebirth-consciousness that determines the latent character of a person.

Technically and in an ultimate sense, "neither has this [rebirth-] consciousness transmigrated [traveled] from the previous existence to this present existence, nor did it arise without such conditions as karma, karma-formations (sankhara), propensity, object, and so on.

That this consciousness has not come from the previous existence to this present existence -- has not traveled from one life to another -- yet that it has come into existence by means of causes and conditions included in the previous rebirth such as karma and so on may be illustrated by various similes.

An echo, the light of a lamp, the impression of a seal, [a wave on the ocean, electrons in electrical current], and the image produced by a mirror, all of which are reflections, correspond to causes and conditions without being identical to them.

One does not travel to become the other, though it certainly appears that way. Conventionally speaking, of course, we may even say this is what happens as a shorthand, but closer inspection reveals that that is an illusion, a misunderstanding, or an oversimplification of the process actually taking place.

Just as the resounding of an echo is conditioned by an initial sound and so on, nowhere does a transmigration of sound take place. It is just so with this consciousness.

Furthermore, it is said: "In this continuous process, no sameness and no otherness can be found." For if there were full identity (between the different stages), then milk could never turn into curd, whereas if there were complete otherness, then curd could never come from milk....

If in a continuity of existence [a passing from one life to another] any karmic result takes place, then this karmic result neither belongs to any other being, nor does it come from any other [karma], because absolute sameness and otherness are excluded here (The Path of Purification, VisM, XVII 164ff).

In the Questions of King Menander (Mil.), it is said:

"Now, Venerable Nāgasena, the one who is reborn, is that the same as the one who has died or is that another?"

"Neither the same nor another" (na ca so na ca añño).

"Please give me an example, Ven. Nagasena."

"O, king, how do you see it: are you now, as a grown-up person, the same who you had been as a little young and tender babe?"

"No, venerable sir. Another person was the little young and tender babe, but quite a different person am I now as a grown-up man."...

Edgar Cayce returned as David Wilcock

"Is perhaps in the first watch of the night one [flame of a] lamp burning, another one in the middle watch, and yet another one in the last watch?"

"No, venerable sir. The flame [continuous light] during the whole night depends on one and the same lamp.''

"O, king, it is just so with the chain of phenomena linked together. One phenomenon arises, another vanishes, yet all are linked together [in unbroken continuity], one after the other, without interruption. In this way one reaches the final state of consciousness neither as the same person nor as another person.''

Divisions

According to the nature of their rebirth consciousness, beings are divided into the following three groups:

• 1. ahetu-patisandhika: a "being reborn without root-conditions," is a being whose consciousness at the moment of rebirth was not accompanied by any of the three noble root-conditions (greedlessness, hatelessness, undeludedness. (See mūla, "roots").

That is, selflessness, kindness, intelligence were not present. Such beings are found in the Four Lower Worlds (apāya, the downfall, subhuman planes of existence), in which case the function of rebirth is exercised by the class of consciousness listed in Table I as No. 56.

But if, lacking those good root conditions, such beings are fortunate enough to be reborn as humans in this Sensuous Sphere, they will be crippled, blind, deaf, mentally deficient, and so on. (Rebirth-consciousness = Tab. I, No. 41).

• 2. dvihetu (duhetu)-patisandhika: a "being reborn with only two [noble] root-conditions," namely, greedlessness and hatelessness. (Rebirth-consciousness = Tab. I, Nos. 44, 45, 48, or 49).
• 3. tihetu-patisandhika: a "being reborn with three [noble] root-conditions." Such a being can only be found among human beings (rebirth-consciousness = Tab. I, Nos. 42, 43, 46, or 47) and higher heavenly beings [in worlds superior to the human plane (manussa loka) within any of the three spheres, Sensual, Fine Material, or Immaterial].

On these three types of rebirth, see Atthasālini Tr. 11, 354-379. (Appendix: patisandhika). In the sutras, the terms for "rebirth" are chiefly punabbhava ("renewed existence") and abhinibbatti ("[re]arising," "reappearance") or both combined as punabbhavābhinibbatti. Source

NOTE: In the dictionary's Appendix, we find an additional observation: Patisandhi is chiefly a commentarial term, but it occurs several times in one of the later books of the Sutta Pitaka, the Patisambhidā Magga (Pts.M. I, 11f, 52, 59f.; II, 72f.) The usual term found in the discourses (suttas) of the Pali canon for "rebirth" is punabbhava (defined above).

LITERATURE

• The Path of Purification (Vis.M. XVII, 133f, 164f, 189f, 289f; Vis.M. XIX, 22f)
• Karma and Rebirth by Ven. Nyanatiloka Thera (BPS.lk, Wheel 9).
• The Case for Rebirth by Francis Story (Wheel Nos. 12/13).
• Survival and Karma in Buddhist Perspective by K. N. Jayatilleke (Wheel Nos. 141/143)
• Rebirth Explained by V. F. Gunaratna (Wheel Nos. 167/169)
• Buddhist Dictionary: Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines (by Ven. Nyanatiloka Thera)
• The Journey to Awakening (video); Ven. Nyanatiloka, Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines (palikanon.com) edited by Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly

OnlyFans, TV horrors: 'If it bleeds, it leads'

(Dr Insanity) Police realize psychopathic daughters' car is filled with dead bodies

As America's most beloved holiday Halloween fast approaches (and adults prepare for all kinds of kink) and children dream of sugar and more sugar, years of television programming (mind control) inclines the mind to the morbid, gory, and unspeakable. This is the only time of year to even attempt to speak of such things. Horror in the movies is one thing; in real life, it's quite another. It isn't Halloween's fault. Nor can we blame Obon, Samhain, the Day of the Dead, or other cultural commemorations of the departed and all this ghostly, ghastly, and frightful.

Horrors on OnlyFans

(Farrell McGuire) Money, sex, and fanatics, what could go wrong?

Horrors accidentally broadcast on TV news

Irish Catholicism co-opted Samhain.

(Farrell McGuire) April 3, 2026: The local news is a part of our day that most may not give much thought to. It's a mundane form of mainstream media only meant to inform and nothing more. Yet several incidents have occurred over the years in which case "normal" newscasts have gone wrong for horrible reasons. Today, let's explore a few of these dark cases.

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Why America 'forgives' Israel's Epstein

(uncivilized) Why the Epstein Files have not started a revolution: defused, covered up...

Republican gay child molester Hastert dies

Dick and Bush and gay serial child rapist Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert (2003)

In prison for paying to cover up his love of boys

(CBS Chicago) Oct. 5, 2026: Former Illinois congressman and longtime U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, who went to prison for cover up hush money payments to cover up his rape of boy in a child sex abuse scandal, died of natural causes this weekend at age 84.

Republican serial gay child molester U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert dies

Child molester Coach Dennis Hastert (top right) with his state champion wrestling team, 1976

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Disgraced Republican homosexual, Christian sodomite, wrestling coach, child molester, and gay Boy Scout leader Congressman Dennis Hastert, 84, has died after being caught and convicted in a child sex abuse scandal. Hastert who delighted in molesting schoolboys he coached to wrestle has he put them in compromising positions. He was successfully prosecuted for financial crimes in the cover up of his primary crimes.

Gnostic Jesus (not religion): I am that I am

(Lucid Wisdom) Gnostic Jesus never came to start any religion. He came to awaken consciousness

• Gnosticism
• Jesus in India: Life of Saint Issa
• GOD: the Monad (Gnostic)
• Gospel of Mary (Magdelene)
• Gospel of Judas
• Awakening in Buddhism

Gnosis (direct experience) is key

(Gnostic Library) What is gnosis? Direct experience, not knowledge, beliefs

• The entire history of "Gnostic Jesus" every Gnostic must know

• Freedom from Religion Foundation
• Freedom of religion
• DavidIcke.com (Who's David Icke?)
• Mystery school initiation : Greco-Roman mysteries
• Who are the "initiates"? The mystai
• Hermeticism of Hermes Trismegistus
• Buddha-Nature: we all have the ability to awaken

"Christians" follow Paul, not Jesus

(Spinoza Forever) Spinoza proved "Saint" Paul (actually the Jew Saul of

Tarsus) INVENTED Christianity: Jesus would reject every church today

(bonnetthoughts) Where the heck did "Christianity" really come from?

• Pauline Christianity: what all churches today follow, the very opposite of what the real historical Jesus (Yeshua) taught

UFO tech coming to Huntington (10/30)

New Age three sisters Joanne, Nancy, and Patty Karl (integratron.com)

Cosmic spa: California landmark for therapy, mysticism, paranormal (Courthouse News Service)

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I built this to heal, time travel, reverse gravity.

Although sound baths are more grounded in science from Earth, the Karl sisters nonetheless lean into The Integratron’s unique extraterrestrial history, with builder George Van Tassel and his Venusian ET contact beliefs featuring prominently on the official website. The sisters continue to operate the landmark today. Visiting for a meditation and sound bath on a recent afternoon was a diverse crowd. There were crystal-collecting yogis, as well as curious retirees vacationing at nearby Joshua Tree National Park. More

The Huntington acquires archive for the Integratron and the [Venusian] UFO Movement

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Integratron interior, ground floor

"The Integratron" is a 38-foot-tall (12 m) cupola structure with a diameter of 55 feet (17 m) designed by UFOlogist and space alien contactee George Van Tassel.

The Integratron, Van Tassel claimed, is capable of human rejuvenation, anti-gravity, and time travel.

The Integratron is a structure built in Southern California (in Landers, near spiritual hotspot Joshua Tree), following instructions that Van Tassel consistently claimed were provided directly to him by extraterrestrial visitors from the planet Venus.

• JOSHUA TREE is the site of a national park, the Goenka Vipassana Meditation Center, the venerable Dhamma Dena Buddhist Meditation Center, the old Institute of Mentalphysics, and an artificial water feature (lake retreat) that was once the site of the annual Bhakti Fest (bhaktifest.com)

The future, like the past, is pale, very pale. Come make contact, Earth brothers and sisters.

Giant Rock: freestanding cracked boulder in the Mojave Desert near Landers, California, and the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms.

• The Huntington acquires archive for the Integratron and the [Venusian] UFO Movement | The Huntington

Cosmic spa: Visiting California desert landmark for mystic therapy (Courthouse News Service)

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This technology could generate strange Vril.

The Integratron machine technology was started in 1957, the structure erected in 1959. It was financed predominantly by donations, including funds from superrich recluse Howard Hughes [1, 2].

• How a historian, a podcaster, and a pool contractor got the Integratron's UFO history to the Huntington Library and Garden (LAist)

The Integratron (historical marker)

After Van Tassel's passing in 1978, the building had a series of owners (and was left in various states of disrepair) before sisters Joanne, Nancy, and Patty Karl bought it in the early 2000s.

• Cosmic spa: Visiting the California desert landmark where therapy, mysticism, and the paranormal all meet
• VIDEO: Nazi UFOs: Vril energy and Maria Orsic

Quartz crystal cluster from Brésil

The three sisters promote the Integratron as an "acoustically perfect structure" and offer "sound baths" they describe as "meditation-like sessions accompanied by tones from 22 quartz crystal bowls, creating binaural beats for relaxation and rejuvenation" [1].

The building is now a part of the National Historic Register and continues to be stewarded by the Karl sisters and their adult children. More

• Meditate inside UFO technology (integratron.com)