Showing posts with label Brazilian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brazilian. Show all posts

Thursday, May 7, 2026

Greta sex scandal? Israel attacks flotilla

Brazilian activist Thiago Avila with Greta on a trip (Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)
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(Biased right-wing Sky News Australia) "Disaster for the goblin": Greta Thunberg's flotilla rocked by sex scandals, detained [and tortured] by Israeli terrorist forces.
 
PR Rule No. 1, falsely accuse them before they accurately accuse you of the same thing so as to muddy the water and make it all a "both sides do it" argument?

Monday, April 28, 2025

Staring at the beach in Brazil: Mara's lust


Really? 😲 Sunny Beaches walking tour: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Copacabana 🔥
Tan boy Samadhi Statue, 1870
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Corporations hacked our minds (Dr. Lustig)
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Be captivated by the enchanting beauty of Rio de Janeiro in this must-see video, a breathtaking glimpse into the lives of 2,000 stunning women from a vibrant city. Iconic beaches and bustling streets, soak in the allure and charm of Rio and explore its unique culture, sizzling nightlife, and the undeniable magnetism of its people. This visual feast that will leave viewers yearning for an adventure to Rio.

Are lust and loving-kindness emotions?

Mara's at the beach, not on the battlefield

Christian holds sign at beach (Keith McManus)
Christians may imagine their Devil at war, killing, harming, maiming, and sending humans to the hells. But it isn't that way in Buddhism. Mara (the Destroyer) is sexy, a gentleman (shapeshifter), Mara Devaputra, more of a deluded Lucifer figure, imagining himself the Ruler of the Sensual Sphere.

In Buddhist cosmology, the universe is divided into three spheres or lokas (worlds), sections of the 31 Planes of Existence. The highest is the Immaterial Sphere (arupa loka), all mind, no form. The middle is the Fine Material Sphere (rupa loka). And the lowest is the Sensual Sphere (kama loka). Where would you, dear reader, imagine the Human World (manussa loka) is located?

Mara at beach would look more like Amatue
We are, of course, smack dab in the middle of the lowest section, the Sensual Sphere, characterized by sense craving manifesting mostly as lust (accompanied by aversion/hate and rooted in delusion).

Mara is not interested in harming anyone. His goal is seduction and keeping everyone within his sphere, reborn in worlds below his plane at the top of the Sense Sphere heavens (superior physical worlds in space). It displeases him greatly if anyone escapes to be reborn in the superior heavens of the Fine Material Sphere.

Get the heck outta here, you wandering ascetic! - Behold, Mara, the Earth says I may stay.
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It is probably unimaginable to him that there are even worlds beyond that, more subtle and sublime than the highest and most rarefied of the Fine Material planes.

While most of depicted as a "demon" (chief of the yakkhas or ogres), Mara has three very alluring daughters, Craving, Ennui, and Lust (aka Tanha, Arati, and Raga).

Three daughters
The Buddha-to-be was not swayed by deceptive lures.
In some accounts of the wander ascetic Siddhartha's enlightenment, it is said that the "demon" Māra did not send his three daughters to tempt. Instead, they came willingly after Māra's setback in his endeavor to eliminate the Bodhisatta's quest for enlightenment and liberation [16].

Mara's three daughters are identified as Taṇhā ("Craving" or "Thirst"), Arati ("Discontentment," a kind of "Aversion"), and Rāga ("Attachment" or "Passion") [15, 17].

For example, in the Samyutta Nikaya's section on Mara (the Māra Saṃyutta), Mara's three daughters are undressing in front of the Bodhisatta, but they fail to entice him.

They had come to him glittering with beauty
– Taṇhā, Arati, and Rāga –
But the Teacher swept them away then and there
As the wind, a fallen cotton tuft [18].

The three daughters of Māra were inspired by Aratis ("Avarice"), a type of feminine goblin associated with sensual craving [19]. More
  • Sunny Beaches, April 16, 2025; Mara image (jendhamuni.com); Dr. Doug Smith (Doug's Dharma, April 28, 2025); Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Monday, March 3, 2025

Mardi Gras pre-Lent party: Fat Tuesday

Not Rosary beads! That's tomorrow. Today we want cheap shiny plastic beads. Throw 'em!
Rio Carnival LIVE | Spectacular Samba shows, Rio De Janeiro Carnival 2025 Parade | Brasil | N18G

Mardi Gras, Carnival, Ash Wednesday, Lent
Show you what for beads? - No, I want to give you a Rosary. Show me where you'd wear it.
Ash Wednesday tika makes one better: Be good.
Mardi Gras (lit. "Fat Tuesday" or Pancake Day) is a Christian holiday, celebrated mainly by the Catholic variety. It is a popular cultural phenomenon that dates back thousands of years to pagan European spring fertility rites.
Better beads on Mardi Gras for a better world
Also known as Carnival like the cruise line, Carnaval in Brazil, and Karneval in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, it’s celebrated in many countries around the world — mainly those with large Roman Catholic populations — on the day before the religious fasting season of Lent begins.

Brazil (Rio), Italy (Venice), and North America (New Orleans) play host to some of the holiday’s most famous public festivities, drawing tens of thousands of tourists and revelers every year.

  • Take ashes seriously like a sadhu
    Holy ash (bhasma, vibhuti) ash is the sign that adorns the forehead of Hindus (and Catholics at the start of Lent). Used by Shaivites and the others used to mean God appearing as a supreme flame, now reduced to a cross or X. Naturally, this holy symbol was appropriated by the religion of "universalism" (catholic in its original meaning) for world conquest, which went around the planet taking all manner of symbols and customs, depositing them in Rome, putting them on display in the Vatican as a sign of worldwide conquest, and then celebrating them and imposing them on others like patriarchal and strictly hierarchal religion. India is also the source of the Holy Rosary (rudraksha), the 108 or 54 wooden bead mala used by meditators doing japa (repetition of a God's name, or mantra recitation, or a prayer to steady the mind). templesinindiainfo.com
When is Mardi Gras?

Cremation pyre ashes to ashes, dust to dust
Mardi Gras is traditionally celebrated on “Fat Tuesday,” the Tuesday before holy Ash Wednesday (the day Catholics get tilakas (forehead ashes) like good Hindus, and the start of Lent, when we fast and get tempted by Satan like Saint Issa (Jesus) did that time in the desert. So if we fast and behave well, the Devil will come to tempt us like he did in the Judean desert.

Lent is for penance-tapas to purify oneself
In many areas, however, Mardi Gras has evolved into a week-long festival of excess and debauchery. Mardi Gras 2025 will fall on Tuesday.

That's March 4th this year, which is Gina Marie's birthday, when she marches fourth along with everyone else because she didn't march first, second, third, or so on.


What is Mardi Gras?

Father, I have sinned. - Come confess to me.
Mardi Gras is a tradition that dates back thousands of years to pagan celebrations of spring and fertility, including the raucous Roman festivals of Saturnalia and Lupercalia.

When missionary Christianity arrived in Rome, religious leaders decided to appropriate and co-op these popular local pagan traditions into their new imperial faith, an easier task than trying to abolish them altogether.
  • If the authorities tried that, they would have to deal with religious revolts, Bacchanalian backlashes, violent uprisings, and widespread scofflaw celebrations alongside destruction of churches as seen in Norwegian black metal vandalism. It would be like trying to put an end to American tailgate parties and post-game riots and football hooliganism in the U.S.
I'll be good for Lent (La Penitente)
As a result, the excess and debauchery of the Mardi Gras season became a prelude to Lent, the 40 days of fasting and penance (atonement for sin) between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday.

Along with Christianity, Mardi Gras spread from Rome to other European countries, including France, Germany, Spain, and England. More
  • Associated Press (video), March 3, 2025; History.com edited by recovering Catholics who became Buddhists at Wisdom Quarterly

Thursday, July 18, 2024

Like, Follow, Trafficked: IG's Fake Sex Guru



Like, Follow, Trafficked: Insta’s Fake Guru (BBC World Service Docs)
(BBC World Service) July 14, 2024: Investigations and #BBCNewsBrasil uncover the truth behind the rise of wellness influencer and spiritual life coach Kat Torres and the international search for her sex trafficked followers.

Former Brazilian model, wellness influencer, and spiritual life coach Kat Torres was an inspiration and a lifeline to women all over the world. More than a million people on Instagram followed her extraordinary career trajectory from extreme poverty in Brazil to a European modelling career and a life of luxury in the US.   
 
But behind the perfectly curated posts is a story of witchcraft, exploitation and human trafficking - a dark and secretive sorority that led to missing women and sent their families and the FBI on a desperate search to find them.
 
After months of investigations, a team from #BBCEye and bbcbrasil uncover a wellness empire built on half-truths and lies. This film tells the story of her enslaved followers and the heavy price they paid.

And for the first time -- in a surreal confrontation behind the walls of a Brazilian prison -- we hear from the self-proclaimed “guru” who exerted absolute control.
  • 00:00 Who is Kat Torres?
  • 02:59 Kat’s modelling career
  • 04:53 Leonardo DiCaprio rumors
  • 06:48 Kat’s Instagram career takes off
  • 10:23 Kat’s inspirations
  • 13:50 Glamorous New York life
  • 15:22 Alleged oligarch boyfriend
  • 16:51 Ayahuasca ceremony
  • 18:00 The 'spiritual voice'
  • 22:17 Gathering followers in Texas
  • 25:10 Witchcraft practices
  • 30:12 The 'spiritual bath'
  • 35:32 Disturbing social media posts
  • 36:40 Girls go missing
  • 40:15 Secret recording of police call
  • 43:34 Exclusive interview with Kat in prison
🎞️ To watch more investigative journalism from our award-winning BBC Eye team check out this documentary playlist: • All BBC World Service Documentaries. 🎥 Watch this film in Portuguese on the bbcbrasil channel here:  • Kat Torres: a guru do Instagram conde... #KatTorres #BBCNewsBrasil #BBCWorldService #BBCEye. Click here to subscribe to BBC: 👉🏽 bbc.in/3VyyriM

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Israel: "War for Territory" Sepultura (video)

Sepultura, 10/26/09; Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S., Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

Who's waving the Union Jack, Eddie?
This story of British "divide and conquer" is so old, it was probably taken from the Roman Empire, which morphed into Britain (United Kingdom) or what we call England, which morphed into what we can call the genocidal marauders who created this country (Columbia, aka Amerigo Vespucci's "America," which is not really where the name comes from, but that's the cover story. It seems naga rajas wanted to keep some place names). Did Rome morph out of ancient Greece? Did the Greeks come out of India and its previous Indus Valley Civilization, or did no one dominate the world before all the nation states were contesting the "Middle Earth" (Mediterranean)? Who's next, China? Will the Persians come around again as the Iranians? Will the sleep bear that is Russia awaken and reunite? No, the Bible says it'll be the Jews in Armageddon fighting some Middle Eastern Antichrist figure sitting the White House charming everyone. Could have sworn it was a Bush, but it's destined to be a... Who knows? The Bible was forged (changed), according to biblical scholar Prof. Bart D. Ehrman, so all the prophecies we hear in the mainstream media are self-serving, twisted to mean something else or changed more fundamentally from the start. Maybe the Maya (the word for "Illusion" in the Dharmic religions) and rule the world. It's just been so eye-opening to learn what a hypocritical and murderous country and culture we've been living in, the United States of War (which began with Manifest Destiny, taking New York then ramming all the way to California, to NOT stop there and immediately invade the Philippines as a territorial conquest. Settler colonialists on a genocidal campaign at home, American imperialists abroad.

"Territory" Metal Veins live at Rock in Rio (feat. Les Tambours du Bronx)

Sepultura: "Territory" (official video)
(Roadrunner Records) Sepultura's video for "Territory" from the album Chaos A.D. available on Roadrunner Records or as download on iTunes: smarturl.it/chaosad.

LYRICS
Just do what Jared tells you, understand? - Yup
Unknown man
Speaks to the world
Sucking your trust
A trap in every world

War for territory
War for territory

Choice [mind] control
Behind propaganda
Poor information [psyops]
To manage your anger

War for territory
War for territory

Dictator's speech
Blasting off your life
Rule to kill the urge
Dumb @sshole's speech

Years of fighting
Teaching my son
To believe in that man
Racist human being

Racist ground will live
Shame and REGRET
Of the pride
You've once possessed

War for territory
War for territory

Monday, September 26, 2022

Bolsonaro's Brazil to vote (Last Week Tonight)


Pres. Bolsonaro: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
(LastWeekTonight) Sept. 25, 2022. John Oliver discusses right wing populist leader Jair Bolsonaro, how he’s run Brazil as president, how far he might go to maintain power after the upcoming election (next week) and, of course, num-chuks. Connect with Last Week Tonight online...via the official site for everything at once: hbo.com/lastweektonight.

Sunday, November 3, 2019

Guardians of the Forest: Amazon (video)

Thomson Reuters Foundation, May 13, 2019; Xochitl, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly


Frontline with the Guardians of the Forest
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Monday, June 25, 2018

Failed mission to find God, found this instead

Anjali Kumar, Esq. (TED, 2/22/18); Crystal Quintero, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

My failed mission to find God -- and what I found instead
Catholic school educated American Jain Anjali Kumar went looking for God and ended up finding something else entirely. In an uplifting talk about our shared humanity, she takes us on a spiritual pilgrimage to meet wise women in New York, a shaman in Peru, the famed Brazilian healer and full trance medium John of God (João de Deus), and others, sharing an important lesson: What binds us together is far stronger than what separates us. Our differences are surmountable because what we all want are health, lasting happiness to sustain us, and love.
TED Talks feature the best talks and performances from the TED (Technology, Entertainment, and Design) Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on topics in science, business, global issues, the arts, and more. Twitter.com/TEDTalks, Facebook.com/TED, youtube.com/TED

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

WeHo Carnaval: L.A. Halloween (FREE)

Visitwesthollywood.com; Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly


This year’s Carnaval takes place on Tuesday, October 31, 2017 from 6:00 PM to 10:30 PM.

Where is it? How do I get there?
The Carnaval [like WeHo's New Year's Eve] is an annual public event that takes place on Santa Monica Blvd. between North Doheny Dr. and La Cienega Blvd.
 
Parking can be a nightmare (pun intended), so we’ve gathered some quick links that may help you get to the party safely:
Admission
The admission is FREE. No tickets are required, but there are some guidelines you may want to be aware of. With big crowds and risqué [read naked, raunchy, sexy, outrageous] costumes, WeHo’s biggest party of the year is a bit rowdy for innocent eyes. We recommend you leave kids and pets at home.
  • NOTE: No backpacks, camera bags, or totes allowed. For everyone’s safety, please carry items in clear plastic bags. (Or, just carry an ID and credit card with you).
Halloween Parties

There are parties throughout West Hollywood that occur alongside the Halloween Carnaval. Search for other Halloween parties in West Hollywood. (We want everyone to have a great time, but you can’t purchase or consume alcohol on the street). Have fun and be safe, pretty please.

Live Entertainment
There will be a couple of stages with artists performing throughout the evening. The lineups this year have been kept hush-hush, but you can be certain they will be fantastic! More

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Redheads, pyramids, Brazil’s mysterious past

Leonard Farra (blog.world-mysteries.com); Pat Macpherson (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly
Map of Brazil

Brazil, the largest country in South America, borders all South American countries, other than Chile and Ecuador, and it’s the largest Portuguese-speaking country in the world.
  • [Portugal, which is next to Spain on Europe's Iberian Peninsula, is just across the Atlantic Ocean, not far according to some maps.]
It has a huge tropical forest in its Amazon Basin, which is home to a diverse wildlife population.
 
When Europeans arrived in Central America and Peru, they encountered advanced civilizations.

But in Brazil they only saw native people living close to nature. In recent years, however, researchers have found that this huge country had a fascinating past.
 
The Amazon jungle is very dense but, in cleared areas, on the border with northern Bolivia, there are traces of a lost civilization.
 
Amazon_forest

Only part of it has so far been uncovered, but its population has been estimated at 60,000. In this region there were structures formed by a network of trenches, about 36 feet wide and several feet deep, lined by low banks.
 
Some were surrounded by low mounds that contained ceramics and stone tools. More than 200 geometric structures have so far been discovered and some date back 1,700 years. The geometric shapes are in the form of huge circles and squares.
 
In the upper Xingu region of southern Brazil, a community of thousands of people previously lived in large villages in a well organized grid-like pattern linked by a network of roads.
 
The villages were enclosed in huge ditches, and there were bridges and moats in wetland areas. According to Professor Homet:
 
"...there is a whole chain of burial urns which reaches from the Mediterranean via Brazil and Argentina, these ceramic coffins are often decorated with human faces and are therefore called portrait burial urns" (1).
 
Prof. Homet concludes that:
 
"When one considers the chain of places where they are found and which connects the continents we are obliged to [conclude] that this custom could only have been spread by a single civilization" (1).
 
On the coastal island of Santa Caterina, in the Brazilian province of the same name, there are rock drawings consisting of double ring concentric circles, wavy lines, and diamond shapes all of which appeared in Stone Age art on the other side of the Atlantic.
 
brazilian_stonehenge
Brazilian archaeologists have found a well-defined ancient stone structure on a hill top in the Amazon. This amazing discovery is located in the state of Amapá in the northern reaches of the Brazilian Amazon. Could primitive Indians living in the jungles of the Amazon have constructed it? Source
 
There were stone circles in many parts of the world with the highest concentration in the British Isles. Some have been found in North America, Peru, and on Easter Island. Many early sites were aligned to the solstices, where religious rituals appear to have been enacted.
 
stonehenge (1)
Stonehenge is Europe's most famous megalithic structure, Avesbury, England
 
For example, Stonehenge, England’s 5,000-year-old circle, is aligned to the summer and winter solstices. On a hilltop in the Brazilian state of Amapa, there’s a stone circle made up of 127 rough stones, which is aligned to the winter solstice. It is believed to be at least 2,000 years old.
 
Dolmens are huge blocks of rock usually supported by three or more upright stones. They have also been found in many parts of the world including in New England in North America.
 
dolmen for young girls to visit
In the Brazilian state of Rio Grande de Sul, there are dolmens like those of early Europe.
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Trilith of Río Grande do Sul of Southern Brazil.
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Man under massive dolmens near Rio Grande de Sul, Brazil
Prof. Homet says that the ones that he saw in Brazil are comparable to the thousands in Algeria (2).


The red headed white Indians
brazilian indians

Various travelers through Brazil’s jungle areas have reported sightings of red haired white Indians.
 
Harold T. Wilkins, who is renowned for his research on South America, reported that in 1929 the American traveler Lawrence Griswold was captured by Shuar Indians. They took him up the Rio Juara.
 
The hunting party arrived at the ruins of an ancient city, which [he was told] were built by tall, "red-haired" people who were changed into his tribe "because of their wicked behavior before the Flood" (3).
 
There are also traces of red-haired whites in Peru. Others of this description were also living in other parts of the world. Tall, white red-heads formed part of the pre-Spanish Guanches population in the Canary Islands who claimed to be survivors of the Flood.
 
Various early legends say that people of this description were involved in a violent conflict in the antediluvian (pre-deluge) era. This is also suggested in a famous, misinterpreted, allegorical Ancient Egyptian legend (4).
 
The Guarani Indians in Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay claim that their ancestors came from a distant country and that they crossed an ocean before they arrived in their present lands.
 
There were hundreds of allegorical flood legends around the world, including among Native Americans. A typical one, which is popular among the Native Brazilians, tells of a great flood in which only two brothers and their wives survived.
 
There is evidence to suggest that the Great Flood happened 5,000 years ago, when there was climate change and substantial flooding in different parts of the world.
 
In that era several civilizations arose "fully developed," and indications are that this was the rebirth of civilization after the destruction of the previous age.
 
Along Brazil’s southern coast, mainly in the state of Catarina, archaeologists have discovered as many as 1,000 square pyramids built from sea shells. The earliest ones date back to the critical era around 5,000 years ago.
 
In some of these pyramid mounds, there were human burials and amazing grave goods including shell breast plates depicting various animals and birds. Nobody knows who these people were or where they came from.
 
The Sumerian scribes said that the Annunaki caused the Flood because of the bad behavior of humans.
 
Many early world legends were based on the story of the Annunaki leaders. Adapted to local culture, this trend has continued in many parts of the world right through to present times (5) including among the Guarani of Brazil.
 
Did the Guarani adopt it from an earlier people? And could it be that this widespread legend, these stone circles, dolmens, and the red-haired white race on both sides of the Atlantic are evidence of early contact between the Old and New Worlds as many alternative scholars believe?
 
References
  1. Marcel.F. Homet : Sons of the Sun (p.162)
  2. Do (p.12)
  3. Harold.T.Wilkins, Mysteries of South America (p.44)
  4. Leonard Farra, The Pleiades Legacy (The Old World) (p.92)
  5. Leonard Farra, The Pleiades Legacy (The Old World); The Pleiades legacy (The New World)
About the author
Leonard Farra is the author of the books The Pleiades Legacy and The Pleiades Legacy (The Stone Age) – The Return of the Gods and The Pleiades Legacy (The New World). All OF his books can be purchased online at blurb.com. His e-books can be viewed on Apple' iPad, iPhone, and iPad touch. Farra has researched the Ancient Astronaut theory for 35 years and written four books on the subject.