LIVE: Mandy Kahn's Peace Class (9/30)

Peace isn't the opposite of war

From Mandy "No-Mind" Kahn: Friends, I hope everyone's summer was as replenishing as mine. Weekly Peace Class resumes tonight (Wednesday, Sept. 30, 6:00 pm, PT) on ZOOM. Share it with friends.

Participants may attend silently, even anonymously, because only my face is visible. Student interactions, though encouraged, are entirely optional. Anyone who is curious about class can quietly slip in to get a feel for it.

• Peace Class with Mandy Kahn (9/30)

Peace Class Wednesdays, 6:00 pm (prs.org)

There are many who do not attend class, but who participate in the community via weekly emails or reading many edited Peace Class talks at Wisdom Quarterly. Everyone is invited to join that way.

Here's what to expect in class. This Wednesday evening, enlivened and renewed, let's begin this vital work together.

• Peace Pilgrim: Get free book by this female pioneer for peace, who said: "Everything I get is given to me"

Inner peace for a peaceful world

With co-host peace activist David Selsky on sound and tech support

Peace Talk: There is only one way to build a peaceful world (Mandy Kahn)

Thanks, Mandy! I tried to tell 'em

ABOUT: Presented by the Philosophical Research Society (prs.org) in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Peace Class is now entering its seventh year. Each class meeting presents participants with a short talk that elucidates one aspect of the true nature of peace.

Each hour-long class includes a collective "peace meditation," teachings about pioneer peacebuilders like Peace Pilgrim, and the opportunity for participants to share personal peace-building discoveries with the group.

The World Peace Diet (Dr. Will Tuttle, PhD)

Peace Class is FREE and is open to all with no signup required. Each session is a stand-alone lesson, and participants can feel free to drop in for single meetings or attend the full series.

Weekly peace, monthly poetry

Poet Kahn on LA billboard

Brought to you by Mandy Kahn with the help of PRS and Wisdom Quarterly. There may be a live in-person class again in the future. Until then, drop by for monthly Deep Dive Poetry in PRS's Library of World Religions in Hollywood.

• Instagram: @mandykahn
• Deep Dive Poetry | Vivid Seats
• Nature dive (LA Review of Books)
• Peace is NOT opposite of war | WQ

Monthly Deep Dive Poetry at PRS Library

Live form the PRS Library of World Religions: Deep Dive Poetry (MK on IG, 9/17/26)

• Peace Class with Mandy Kahn
• Every Wednesday at 6:00 pm (Pacific Time)
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Real Jesus' 40 days of teaching erased

The Ethiopian Bible reveals why Jesus’ post-resurrection words were never taught [to Protestants who had them deleted along with 22 books of the Bible]—It’s shocking

The Ethiopian Bible reveals why Jesus’ POST-resurrection words were never taught

(The Mystery Archives) Aug. 23, 2026: UNITED STATES. For nearly 2,000 years, most Protestant, Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox Christians in the Wester were taught that the story of Jesus moved from resurrection to ascension with only a few brief details in between.

But the 88 books of the Ethiopian Bible in its Orthodox tradition preserve a very different picture.

Let's explore the Ethiopian Bible, its 81-book [or 88-book] canon, and ancient texts said to preserve teachings from the 40 days after the resurrection.

Truth hurts? The truth sets us free

(The Mystery Archives) Ethiopian Christian monks translate resurrection story

These writings describe hidden warnings, forgotten prophecies, spiritual warfare, the Book of Enoch, the Apocalypse of Peter, and a version of Christianity that developed outside imperial Roman control.

Were these teachings forgotten, erased, removed, or deliberately suppressed by the state? Why did Ethiopia preserve books that much of the Western world decided to hide and leave behind?

Watch until the end as we examine the mystery of the Ethiopian manuscripts, the lost 40 days of Jesus, and the dangerous message that may have been hidden in plain sight.

• How can I get my hands on a real Ethiopian Bible composed of 88 (not 66) books? There's a Faith Made version: thefaithmade.com/products/the-most-complete-ethiopian-bible

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Who was the 'Gnostic Jesus'?

(Predictive History) Civilization #24: Resurrecting the Gnostic Jesus | Prof. Jian Xueqin

(Prof. Jiang Xueqin) Civilization: The forbidden story of the Gnostic Jesus

Jesus in the Himalayas: 18 missing years

(Asangoham) Jesus in the Himalayas: The greatest story Never told

Jesus' missing years in the Himalayas

Jesus Lived in India

But how could Lord Jesus be in Buddhist India, Tibet, or Ladakh when he was busy trying to save Palestine? Well, you see, children, he wasn't born lord. Young Yeshua had to earn his stripes by ditching the Land of Judea, joining a merchant caravan, and traveling East to India/Tibet, arriving at a Jewish business outpost near Kashmir where others did business and young Jesus was exposed to the Wisdom of the East, meeting Buddhist lamas at Hemis Gompa, a lamasery he would study at for years, meeting Hindu masters and learning about the Vedas and other esoteric knowledge, mastering yoga, the siddhis (supernatural abilities), and realizing his mission was to teach in the Middle East not the Far East. He was already a renowned troublemaker in and around Kashmir, having strong views proclaiming the peace of the Monad (GOD, Brahman, the One True godhead of this universe) and realizing his own divinity as a human, a devaputra among humankind.

Journey Into Kashmir Tibet

Scholar Holger Kersten summarizes the findings of others like Russian Christian Nicolas Notovitch who found definitive documented evidence of where Jesus was for the 18 "lost years" excluded from the official Bible canon and Swami Abhedananda (author of  and Why a Hindu Accepts Christ and rejects Churchianity), corroborating Notovitch's claims. This new information aligns with what the Gnostics, Essenes, and Nazarenes taught about a wise teacher who returned from the East a vegan, preaching love and oneness, and the cult mysteries of initiation to realize the death of the ego and the kingdom of GOD here and now, contradicting official church teachings more interested in controlling Romans and other followers than liberating anyone or telling them that they, too, are divine.

(Finding Meaning Project) They all discovered the same thing? The Buddha (Early Buddhism), Lao Tzu (Taoism), Jesus Christ (Gnostic Christian), Rumi (Sufi), Ramana Mahashi (Hinduism)

• (MythVision TV) The original Jesus was hidden in Mark | Bart D. Ehrman

"Jesus" is not even his name

(Gnostic Library) The true name of Jesus (Nag Hammadi Library)

Gnosticism: Who are 'Archons,' Sophia?

(Gnostic Talk) Who are the Archons aiding and abetting the Demiurge (Yaldabaoth, Yahweh, Jehovah, YHWH) in ruling this trap or prison called the physical world? This simulation, saṃsāra, or matrix is the world they control.

7 other Gods the Bible really talks about — but the Church never does

• The Apocryphon of John
• The Gospel of Philip: "Ignorance [Buddhism's avijja] is the mother of all evil [bad karma born of greed, hatred, and fear], not malice, not weakness, ignorance." That is why Buddhism and Gnosticism are classified as "wisdom traditions."

The Aeon Sophia, what is her real name?

Did Jewish man (Paul) invent "Jesus"?

(Sacred Logic) "Paul" (born Saul of Tarsus) reveals that he invented a divine and anointed Jesus Christ in letters to Galatians, Thessalonians, Romans, Corinthians

• Pauline Christianity (Jewish mysticism or Roman imperial necessity on the Road to Damascus?)
• Who was Saul of Tarsus called Paul the Apostle?
• Trinitarianism if a Pauline invention
• Earlier form of Christianity: Marcionism?
• Spinoza discovered Abrahamic God was manmade

Ten documented historical facts that make "Jesus" story impossible

(Sacred Logic) The "Jesus Christ" was purposely invented by coping pagan gods (Mitras, Horus, Sol Invictus, Maitreya, Dionysus, Krishna... Astrotheology)

Who was Christianity's Saul of Tarsus?

Saul of Tarsus (Joseph Holzner)

In Paul of Tarsus, Joseph Holzner weaves together the New Testament Bible's often sketchy information about the life and mission of Saul of Tarsus, now called St. Paul by Pauline Christians, into a unified and inspiring hagiography.

With a novelist's ability to take readers into a scene and a historian's rigorous concern for accuracy, Holzner traces this Jewish Apostle's life from his early years as a disciple of the celebrated Rabbi Gamaliel through his overly zealous persecution of the Christian Assembly or "church" as a member of the competing Jewish school called the Pharisees, through his "miraculous" origin story conversion on the road to Damascus, his seemingly tireless efforts to spread the Gospel [of the newly minted Ceasar's Messiah, formerly Jesus the Nazarene not from any place called "Nazareth"], and his Christian martyr's death at the hands of his former bosses in imperial Rome.

Along the way, Holzner provides instructive background information about the religious and social situation of Saul's times and the circumstances of his New Testament letters (epistles). Here, then, is a complete and enlightening introduction to the Apostle to the Gentiles aka "the Converter of the Non-Jews" to this new much less Jewish Roman Empire-approved Universalist religion, the new opium of the masses]. More

Burn heretics for saying what we don't like!

John the Apostle with Marcion

Marcion preached that the benevolent God [the "One," the Monad] of the Gospel who sent Jesus (Yeshua) into this world as a "savior" was the true [omniscient, omnipotent] Supreme Being.

That unknowable, unfathomable, impersonal [Brahman-type GOD] is different and opposed to the malevolent Christian creator deity, the Demiurge [the "Craftsman" called Yaldabaoth], identified as Jehovah, Yahweh, YHWH in the Hebrew Bible [3, 4, 6].

He allegedly considered himself a follower of Saul of Tarsus or Paul the Apostle, whom he believed to have been the only true apostle of Jesus [3, 4], Ceasar's Messiah.

Thank you, Marcion, for creating the 1st Bible

Marcion's canon, the FIRST Christian Bible (biblical canon of which books to include) ever compiled. It consisted of 11 books: the Gospel of Marcion, which was a shorter version of the Gospel of Luke, and ten Pauline epistles [3, 4, 7].

Marcion's canon rejected the entire Old Testament, the crazed Jewish compilation (Sumerian appropriation) of a genocidal henotheistic "God" called Jehovah and his jealous and unhinged exploits, along with all other epistles and gospels of what would become the 27-book canon of the New Testament, which during his life had yet to be compiled [3, 4, 8, 9].

Let's find this heretic and crucify him.

"Marcion-ism" was denounced by its opponents as heresy and written against by the Church Fathers – notably by Tertullian in his five-book treatise Adversus Marcionem (Against Marcion) in about the Year 208 [3, 4].

Marcion's writings are lost [banned, buried, burned, destroyed], even though they were widely read and numerous manuscripts must have existed at one time [3, 4].

Even so, many scholars say it is possible to reconstruct and deduce a large part of ancient Marcionism through what later critics, especially Tertullian, said concerning him [3, 4, 10].

I'm your creator! Worship me...or else!

The movement was widespread, which forced rival sects to begin throwing up defenses. Marcionites founded churches across the Roman Empire. Their eventual decline is attributed to state intervention by later imperial edicts banning all groups deemed heretical from assembling [11].

Marcion of Sinope (Ancient Greek Μαρκίων [2, Note 1] Σινώπης (c. 85–c. 160 [3]) was a theologian [4] in early Christianity [4, 5].

Marcion preached that God had sent Jesus Christ, who was distinct from the vengeful God (Demiurge, the misbegotten son of Sophia Yaldabaoth, Jehovah, Yahweh, YHWH) who had created this physical world [4, 5, 6] or simulated reality. More

• What would you like your Bible to say? Pick one
• The first person to compose a Christian 
• The Social Setting of Pauline Christianity: Essays on Corinth (Gerd Theissen)

Ram Dass: How to keep Heart open in Hell

 

Remember: Be Here Now (Ram Dass)

(After Skool) It's all perfect by Ram Dass (formerly Prof. Richard Alpert, Ph.D., Harvard University)

RAM DASS ("God's Servant or Slave") was born Richard Alpert on April 6, 1931 and lived until December 22, 2019) [1]. He became a hippie and is also known as Baba ["Father"] Ram Dass. He was an American spiritual teacher, guru of modern yoga [2], academic psychologist, and writer of Be Here Now, his best-selling [3] 1971 book, which has been described by as "seminal" [4, 5, 6].

Ram Dass perfectly describes "ego death"

Ram Dass (Dr. Richard Alpert)

With the help of his scandalous but loving sex guru Neem Karoli Baba, he helped popularize Eastern spirituality and yoga in the West [7]. He authored or co-authored a dozen more books on spirituality over the next four decades, including Grist for the Mill (1977), How Can I Help? (1985), and Polishing the Mirror (2013).

• Is Ram Dass still here now?  An excerpt from Being Ram Dass (Tricycle)
• The Legacy of Be Here Now (RamDass.org)

Aren't you supposed to be a Jew?

Once when he was teaching with his long hair, beard, and linen garments, someone in the crowd asked him why he dressed like a guru from India when he was really a Jew from the U.S. Without missing a beat, his retort was, "I'm only Jewish on my parents' side." Ha ha ha, exactly!

We are born into a faith, and it's usually rammed down our throats before we have a chance to do anything but swallow. And most of us won't question it. But some of us vomit it up, leave or examine, sometimes even come back to it later.

Harvard professors Dr. Timothy Leary and Dr. Richard Alpert (cool squares rounding out)

Ram Dass, The Guru who studied LSD and wrote The Hippie Bible

 

However, it seems the job and duty of any human to question it, test it, attempt to validate it, argue against it, learn from it, grow from it, reject it all together, or make peace with it. There's a world of spirituality out there to explore. We usually need a floor, a ground, by which to test things. And almost all major religions have a mystic component or sect. That's a place to start.

Parents, what am I to do but follow my heart?

But question we must, and explore we will, and find? That remains to be seen. We are on a spiritual quest. And maybe the whole rest of the world can't be. But if Americans can't, what the F are you calling yourself an "American" for? Life, liberty, and the PURSUIT of happiness is all you were promised -- and you're not even going to pursue it? Truth means nothing? Just taking sides? Just being controlled by your government, schools, and parents, the "powers that be"? Pathetic. Human up, and get searching.

Hell: all the people Ram Dass hated

(My brother Comes) Love everyone and tell the Truth

Ram Dass' brothers and sisters with Baba

Ram Dass was personally and professionally associated with hippie Dr. Timothy Leary at Harvard University in the early 1960s. Then known as Richard Alpert, he conducted research with Leary on the therapeutic effects of psychedelic drugs.

In addition, Alpert assisted Harvard Divinity School graduate student Walter Pahnke in his 1962 "Good Friday Experiment" with theology students, the first controlled, double-blind study of drugs and the mystical experience [8, 9].

While legal at the time (and not yet criminalized), their research was controversial and led to Dr. Leary's and Dr. Alpert's firing from Harvard in 1963.

In 1967, Alpert traveled to India and became "Ram Dass," a disciple of Hindu Guru Neem Karoli Baba, who gave him the name Ram Dass, meaning "Servant of Ram," but usually rendered simply as "Servant of God" for Western audiences.

Hi, I'm Neem Karoli Baba (Sculpture in Ram Dass Library) sculpted to look like sweet Budai

 

In the following years, he co-founded the charitable organizations Seva Foundation and Hanuman Foundation. From the 1970s to the 1990s, he traveled extensively, giving talks and retreats and holding fundraisers for charitable causes.

Remember: Be Here Now (Ram Dass)

In 1997, he had a stroke, which left him with paralysis and expressive aphasia which would be better characterized as "fluent, anomic-like with hesitations and word finding difficulties at the conversational level with grossly intact auditory comprehension for high level, low-context information" [10, 11].

He eventually grew to interpret this event as an act of grace, learning to speak again and continuing to teach and write books. After becoming seriously ill during a trip to India in 2004, he gave up traveling and moved to Maui, Hawaii, where he hosted annual retreats with other spiritual teachers until his death in 2019. More

Jesus erased, 'Christians' follow Paul

Fantasy Jesus: Sacred Heart statue with cherubs, Catholic resin figurine (Etsy)

(Sacred Logic) Paul/Saul's letter reveals that he himself invented the God "Jesus Christ"

• Pauline Christianity: "Paulism"

Raised by Satanic cults, black magic

(GoldenAgeFiles) 20 stars raised by Satanic cults before their fame

End Times Iran war, our Eyes Wide Shut?

(The Observer Effect) The forbidden scene Kubrick filmed before he died | Eyes Wide Shut

(TJDS) Israel/CIA/Trump's War on Iran will be worse than Iraq and here's why

(Chase Hughes) BREAKING: The REALITY the Zionist media isn't telling us about Iran

Your your God's chosen one, Don. - No, I'm not.

(The Young Turks) Military telling U.S. troops this War on Iran is good because it's heralding Armageddon and second coming of Jesus, in violation of law that Christian Zionists do not mind. It's "God's divine plan." More

• (The Jimmy Dore Show) "No one wants to fight for Israel": Montana Sen. Tim Sheehy breaks hand and/or arm of Marine veteran speaking out against Israel's war on Iran (Turkey, Lebanon, Gaza, the Middle East, and any other country that gets in the way of land stealing and empire building).
• The Jimmy Dore Show (Rumble.com)
• Photos: Marine veteran Sgt. Brian McGinnis (Green Party senatorial candidate in NC) arm broken…
• Horror moment marine veteran's arm snaps in violent clash with GOP senator in war protest (Daily Express US)
• Trump doesn't care about environment waiting for Armageddon
• (Redacted News) BREAKING: “Boots on the ground”? Iran says bring it on, “We’re ready”
• Iran Missiles SMASH Tel Aviv, Israel, US F-15's downed, Israel begins Phase 2 | Redacted News
• American Veterans for Peace
• CODE PINK: Women for Peace

(Zelly) The deadly conspiracy of Eyes Wide Shut

The reality the Zionist media isn't telling us about Iran

I work for you, Prime Minister. Please, sit down.

(Chase Hughes) March 1, 2026: Iran didn’t slowly become what we see on the news. Rather, it was psychologically taken.

In this episode, Hughes breaks down the real mechanism behind Iran’s transformation: the difference between a people and the system that cages them, how revolutions don’t shift power but shift who gets to use violence, and why fear — not religion — became the enforcement tool.

From a modern, secular Iran in the 1960s and 1970s to a regime sustained by narrative control, surveillance, and compliance rituals, this is a case study in how educated civilizations get hijacked without realizing it.

(Dr. Mayriam Francois) The Iran deception: What they aren't telling us

Let’s dissect the psychological trap that started in 1979, why today’s protests are memory colliding with fear, and the three paths Iran is likely to take next.

This isn’t just about Iran but a preview of what happens anywhere belief becomes mandatory and truth becomes a liability.

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Marcion, creator of Christian biblical canon

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