Showing posts with label Jewish mysticism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jewish mysticism. Show all posts

Thursday, July 30, 2026

Jesus in the Himalayas: 18 missing years


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)
"Jesus" is not even his name

Tuesday, July 28, 2026

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.

  • 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."

Sunday, July 19, 2026

Did Jewish man (Paul) invent "Jesus"?

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

Monday, June 1, 2026

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 (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).
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)
 
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

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

Thursday, March 5, 2026

End Times Iran war, our Eyes Wide Shut?

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

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
(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.


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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Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Aron Kiss climbs Buddhist Himalayas


(Aron Kiss) Discovering a hidden hermitage of Buddhist monks at a peaceful meditation center in the Himalayas of Tibet (which the Chinese authorities insist is part of China).

Sunday, November 9, 2025

The Christ vs. The Buddha: similarities

Sid (the Buddha), Kris (Krishna), Mo, Josh (Jesus), Aquaman, Lao Tzu, Joe (Joseph Smith)

JESUS vs. the BUDDHA: Love vs. Non-Attachment
The Buddha and the Christ: friends
(Buddha's Wisdom) 🔍JESUS vs. BUDDHA: LOVE vs. DETACHMENT: TWO PATHS, ONE TRUTH. What happens when Jesus’s fearless [yogic] love [called agape in Greek] meets the Buddha’s wisdom of [boundless love called metta and] letting go*?
  • *“Attachment says, ‘Be mine,’ whereas love says, ‘Be well.’”
This video explores how two of history’s greatest spiritual teachers [the Buddha preceding Christ by at least 500 years], born five centuries and continents apart, answered the same human question: *How do we love without suffering*?
  • *Suffering: dukkha, disappointment, pain, unsatisfactoriness, misery, ill, woe, not getting what we want and getting what we don't want.
From Galilee to the Ganges, discover how their paths converge in a timeless lesson for the modern heart.

📿 DISCOVER:
  • The radical love of Jesus that defied tribal and political boundaries
  • The Buddha’s teaching on non-attachment and the end of desperate grasping and clinging
  • The hidden parallels between early Christian and Buddhist thought
  • The mystery of whether the Christ and the Buddha’s teachings ever crossed paths [in ancient India, Tibet, and Central Asia]
  • How to practice “love with open hands” in relationships today
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  • 00:00 The grip in our chest
  • 01:14 The love paradox
  • 02:44 The dangerous love of Jesus
  • 07:24 The freedom love of Siddhartha the Buddha
  • 11:19 When two truths collide
  • 15:35 Love without the leash
  • 21:21 The third path
  • 24:50 Love fearlessly, LET GO freely
📚 SOURCES AND FURTHER READING:
  • The Metta Sutta (Sutta Nipata 1.8) – Teachings on Loving-Kindness
  • Sallatha Sutta (SN 36.6) – The Parable of the Second Arrow
  • The Gospel of Luke 10.25-37 – The Parable of the Good Samaritan
  • The Gospel of Matthew 5.44 – “Love thy enemies”
  • Comparative studies on Greco-Buddhist exchanges along the Silk Road
  • Historical scholarship on early Christian monasticism and Buddhist influence
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  • * Love fearlessly. Love freely. Stay curious. Stay wise.
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  • Buddha's Wisdom, Nov. 8, 2025; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Jew-Buddhists, Essenes, orig. Christians


Were the Essenes the original Christians? Dr. Richard Carrier
(MythVision Podcast) This video was edited by Mark Casale (vimeo.com/showcase/4922525). The Essenes (Modern Hebrew אִסִּיִים‎, Isiyim, Greek Ἐσσηνοί, Ἐσσαῖοι, or Ὀσσαῖοι, Essenoi, Essaioi, Ossaioi) were a mystic Jewish sect during the Second Temple period that flourished from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE. #MythVision #RichardCarrier #Essenes

The ancient JewBu Therapeutae
Were they the original Jewish-Buddhist (JuBu) syncretists?

The Therapeutae: The Ancient Mystics that Inspired Christian Monasticism (Buddhists?)
Coptic cenobitic monasticism: St Pakhom (wiki)
(ESOTERICA) Philo of Alexandria held that the Essenes were the exemplar of the Active Philosophical Life among ancient Jews. And with the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls we now know much more about that ancient sect.  However, Philo held there was a mystical group superior to even them in their piety and rigor. The Egyptian Therapeutae were held up as paragons of the Contemplative Life, even giving mystical teachings while dreaming.  What do we know about the Therapeutae? Let's explore how these ancient Jewish mystics not only led lives of exceptional purity and mystical contemplation but also inspired the rise of Monasticism in early Christianity. Also....they might have been Buddhists.

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The Jewish historian Josephus [possibly a Pharisee] records that Essenes existed in large numbers, and thousands lived throughout Roman Judaea, but they were fewer in number than the Pharisees and the Sadducees, the other two major sects at the time.

The Essenes lived in various cities but congregated in communal life dedicated to voluntary poverty, daily [baptismal] immersion, and asceticism (with their priestly class practicing celibacy). Most scholars claim they seceded from the Zadokite priests.

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  • Derek Lambert, MythVision, Oct. 15, 2021; Esoterica, Jan. 19, 2024; Sheldon S., CC Liu, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Friday, April 4, 2025

Essene treasure, Jewish temple, scroll

The Dead Sea Scrolls: Genesis Apocryphon, treasures of the ancient Essenes (wiki)

The lost treasure of the Israelites: The Temple, the Essenes, and the Copper Scroll
(ESOTERICA) April 4, 2025: Among the Dead Sea Scrolls, a mysterious scroll chiseled into copper details the location of more than 60 treasures of gold, silver, ritual vessels, and more.

Discovered in 1952 and opened in 1955, the Copper Scroll has fired the imaginations of scholars and treasure-hunters alike. But the language of the text is difficult: Strange Greek letters appear, and ancient abbreviations have made the text difficult to decode.

What are the treasures of the Copper Scroll? Where do they come from, the mysterious Essenes or the Jerusalem Temple? Are the treasures still to be found in the hills and deserts around Jericho? Let's explore the 3Q15, the Copper Scroll

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New to studying esotericism? Check out reading guide: docs.google.com/document/d/1c... Rare occult books: esotericaoccultbooks.com. Recommended readings: The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English. Puech: The Copper Scroll Revisited. Lefkovits: The Copper Scroll 3QI5: A Reevaluation.
  • Shauna Schwartz, Sheldon S., Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly