(The Earthing Movie) The Earthing Movie is a documentary that reveals the scientific phenomenon of how we can heal our bodies by doing the simplest thing that a person can do -- standing and walking (grounding electrons) barefoot on the raw earth. See earthingmovie.com.
Barefoot earthing
There are many health benefits and a few risks associated with going barefoot in modern cities. Shoes, while they offer protection, can limit the flexibility, strength, and mobility of the foot and can lead to higher incidences of flexible flat foot, bunions, hammer toe, and Morton's neuroma.
Walking and running barefoot results in a more natural gait, allowing for a more rocking motion of the foot, eliminating the hard heel strike and generating less collision force in the foot and lower leg [1][2].
There are many sports that are performed barefooted, most notably gymnastics, martial arts, and swimming, but also beach volleyball, barefoot running, barefoot hiking, and barefoot waterskiing.
Historical and religious aspects
Buddhist monks are obligated when on alms round to do at least part of it barefoot. While this is regarded as a mark of respect, it may have been implemented for its many health benefits.
WIKI VIDEO: Theravada Buddhist monks in Mahagandhayon Monastery (Amarapura, Myanmar, Burma).
Buddhist monks line up barefoot to accept their late morning meal offered by donors.
Zen Buddhist monks and practitioners engage in kinhin or "walking meditation" barefoot or in natural (cloth or straw) sandals for best results, touching the earth and grounding.
The ancient Greek Spartans required boys to go barefoot as part of their obligatory military training [3], and the athletes at the ancient Olympic Games typically participated barefoot and naked [4].
Although the ancient Greeks had a great variety of footwear, many—famously including Socrates [5]—preferred to go barefoot [3]. More
Shingon (真言宗, Shingon-shū, "True Word/Mantra School") is one of the major schools of Buddhism in Japan and one of the few surviving Vajrayana lineages in East Asian Buddhism. It is a form of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism and is sometimes called Tōmitsu (東密 literally, "Esoteric [Buddhism] of Tō-ji") [1].
The word shingon is the Japanese reading of the Chinese word 真言 (zhēnyán) [2], which is the translation of the Sanskrit word mantra, which means something like "thought instrument" (Japanese "true words" or om'yomi).
The Zhēnyán lineage was founded in China (circa 7th–8th centuries) by Indian vajrācāryas ("esoteric teachers") like Śubhakarasiṃha, Vajrabodhi, and Amoghavajra.
These esoteric teachings would later flourish in Japan under the auspices of a Buddhist monk named Kūkai (空海, 774–835), who traveled to Tang China and received these esoteric transmissions from a Chinese master named Huiguo (746–805).
Kūkai established his tradition at Mount Kōya (in Wakayama Prefecture), which remains the central pilgrimage center of Shingon Buddhism. More
Check out these otherworldly (inner earth) discoveries and more in this Ancient Aliens compilation:
1. Forbidden Caves 0:00
2. Underground Aliens 5:45
3. Forbidden Caves 2 12:05
4. Underground Aliens 2
Our Earth is hollow? - Shush, it's a secret!
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(FOX 5 New York) This Friday night, all seven of the other [publicly disclosed] planets in our solar system will be visible in the night sky. This rare celestial event, often called a planetary alignment or "planet parade," a syzygy in astronomy, will offer a stunning view of:
Jupiter,
Saturn,
Mars,
Venus,
Mercury,
Uranus [Your anus? You run us?]
Neptune.
Is astrology real?
The eye in the sky sees all?
There has to be something to it, right? Rich people pay -- and have for millennia paid -- all that money to soothsayers and zodiac readers, prognosticators and cold readers. Poor do no such thing, getting a discount by calling in their questions on 1-900 lines, like good old Miss Cleo. All of that is hogwash, but is the royal astrologer, Nancy Reagan's occultist influencers running the country, Ayurvedic practices derived from the ancient Vedas?
Ronnie runs the Republicans, and I run Ronnie.
Even Buddhist monks get in on the sign readings, even though the Monastic Disciplinary Code (Vinaya) would seem to bar that. First, just because the newspaper astrological forecast is bunk for a popular audience, that doesn't mean there isn't a real thing. Second, just because the reasons given why it works (the minute influence of celestial bodies on us the moment we're born, but not the moment before when we were in the faraday cage of our mother's womb) is farfetched doesn't mean it doesn't work for some reason or another. Third, David Wilcock (aka Edgar Cayce) believes in it.
The flawed Western zodiac missing #13?
Fourth, for thousands of years, from the geniuses of ancient Egypt to the stone builders of the Americas, astronomy and astrology do something to the fancy apes walking obliviously on the surface of this plane, this cakkhavala. Fifth, just because an inordinate number of girls and gays live and die by astrological predictions and star sign personality types (not just in the West but in ancient India, China, and Africa) doesn't mean thousands of years of study and assessment has found nothing.
Sixth, if an astrologer can go forward in time to say what's going to happen, okay, maybe that's projection, expectancy, confirmation bias, wish fulfillment, unconscious influence, but if one can go back in time to declare what has happened to you and when, that's a lot harder to explain; the chart knows something.
We'll stick with Buddhist cosmology over NASA
Seventh, the Buddha far from debunking astrology and the occult arts, inadvertently acknowledged it by setting down rules against monastics engaging in the practice for profit. What was he prohibiting, unrealities and popular delusions? We believe, maybe not like fanatic numb numbs with phone apps declaring secret psychological knowledge of personality types based on birthdays, but we believe.
What must the god-like extraterrestrials flying around on vmanas think of our dirty Earth?
Fake CGI of "Earth" with faker "Moon" (NASA)
‘Super Earth’ (Kepler-442b) could be more habitable than our own planet, Junky Earth, scientists discover. White men in white lab coats say there is a better planet over there in that part of the galaxy, way better than this smoking dumpster fire of a polluted plane. (Yes, it's more likely a plane than a planet evidence-wise; never mind the rhetoric).
I'll move us or kill us all trying: spaceX
Elon Musk must be right. (The government that backs him can't let him be wrong. SpaceX must succeed and Neuralink, too. They didn't let him take the title "richest man in the world" for nothing).
Musk said he'd build rockets and eventually get us off this trash heap and onto a New Earth. (Maybe this is what Oprah-boosted Eckhart Tolle actually meant?)
It's time we could spread our wings and got on with the colonizing of this solar system, galaxy, and universe (as if that hasn't already happened. It has. That's why we're here. We are not from this Earth, just more sort of naturalized arrivals).
Two supermoons to rise over the border town of San Diego in Southern California (CBS 8 San Diego). There will not be two supermoons in the same month again until 2037. Binoculars and backyard telescopes can enhance the experience. Keeping the uposatha or "Buddhist Sabbath," weekly lunar observance day and its Eight Precepts is the best way to go.
Arvin Ash, 12/22; Secrets of U, 4/22; Sheldon S., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Black holes are even weirder than thought
(Arvin Ash) SUMMARY: Karl Schwarzschild crafted the first exact solution to Einstein's equations of general relativity. He found that as gravity increased around an object, there must be a point where even light could not escape.
Genius Einstein had regard for Buddhism?
He theorized black holes.
Stars are in a balance between gravity trying to collapse it inward, and energy of fusion in its core which pushes outward. But when large stars run out of fuel, gravity causes it to collapse.
If the star is massive enough, this results in a supernova. A black hole remains in the center of the debris, if the collapsed core has a mass of 2 to 3 times the mass of our sun.
In a black hole, general relativity says all its mass is collapsed into an infinitesimally small volume, called a singularity. A singularity has all its mass in zero volume of space, thus it has infinite density.
But infinities usually mean errors in math, so singularities may not be real.
The singularity is enclosed by a boundary, the event horizon, within which the curvature of spacetime is so strong that light cannot escape. #blackhole#eventhorizon
CHAPTERS
0:00 Karl Schwarzschild theorizes black holes
1:58 Inspiration for this video
3:16 How black holes form
5:28 What is the event horizon? 7:25
How time flows near and inside a black hole
9:57 How can black holes be so bright if no light escapes?
11:34 How do we detect black holes if we can't see them?
12:29 Can life form on a planet orbiting a black hole?
The radius of this sphere is called the Schwarzschild radius. Since no light can escape from the event horizon, anything inside, including the singularity, can’t be directly seen. Anything that crosses into this horizon is swallowed forever [or no time at all, or for two Tuesdays, or we have no objective idea].
For this reason, black holes are considered the of edge of space, a one-way exit from our universe.
The size of a black hole is defined by its event horizon and is very small. If the sun were a black hole, it would be a sphere 6 km or 4 miles wide, and earth would be the size of a ping pong ball.
As you get closer to the event horizon, the flow of time slows, compared to flow of time from a point far away from it.
From the perspective of an observer far from the black hole, time stops completely at the event horizon. General relativity still works inside it but not at the singularity.
According to relativity, time and space trade places inside the black hole. Relativity predicts that time gets destroyed at the singularity. So a black hole is like the "reverse of creation."
Whatever is inside the event horizon is causally disconnected from us. It remains forever in the future. Whatever is inside hasn't happened yet from our perspective.
Since no light can escape, we can only “see” black holes indirectly because of the way their gravity affects stars and pulls matter into orbit.
As gas flows around some black holes, it heats up, paradoxically making them some of the brightest things in the universe.
But most black holes don’t have accretion discs, so they are not easily seen. Other methods have to be used to find them.
The supermassive black hole near the center of our Milky way galaxy called Saggitarious A* was found because of the tight orbits of stars we COULD see orbiting it.
Black holes are [now thought] rather common. Scientists estimate that a new black hole is formed in our universe every second [because this is a multiverse after all].
There are an estimated 100 million black holes [or zero] floating around in the Milky Way. So for every 1,000 stars we can see in the sky, there is a black hole among them that we can’t see.
The gravitational gradient around a black hole is so steep that it allows for MILLIONS of potential orbiting planets around them, whereas a regular stars can only support a fraction of that.
The maximum theoretical number of Earth-like planets that could exist around our Sun in the habitable zone is six. Replace our Sun with a black hole a million times its mass but about the same size and 550 Earth-size planets could orbit in the same region without bumping into each other.
A black hole’s gravity is so dominant, it negates how planets disrupt each other, and that allows for far more stable orbits to exist.
It is possible that a planet around a black hole could support life.
Black holes last much longer than our sun, 10^84 years vs 10^10 years. They are going to be around for a long time, after the all the stars have died out, and the universe goes dark [again in this cyclical process as explained in Buddhist cosmology].
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Einstein Questions, Buddha Answers
This thought-provoking book (Einstein Questions, Buddha Answers) uses Einstein’s interest in wanting to find the absolute ruling point in nature and his quest for the theory of everything as the basis to connect with the Buddha’s wisdom regarding the existence of the ultimate, which he called "Nirvana." The author's prime duty is to help understand that this ultimate, absolute, unconditioned element has everything to do with each of us, intimately and significantly.
This is reflected in the contents of the book: finding our true "self" [in an impersonal universe], the state of a normal mind, the final frontier, and so on.
It also reveals the nature of the ultimate truth by connecting it with neutral terms such as "here and now," "truth and reality," and "the innocent perception."
No one, no idea, no concept, no theory, no solution can be called "perfect"; things can only be as perfect as they can be in relation to time and space.
Even the absolute truth is within the realm of constant movement [impermanence]. So even a fully enlightened person is not perfect; the perfection of an arhat (a fully enlightened/liberated person) is strictly in the relative sense.
We merely learn how to live in harmony with change if we know the ultimate truth.
Stunning PLUTO images show something unusual going on there
(The Secrets of the Universe) Pluto is an icy world that was once considered the ninth planet of the solar system. It's so far away that ground-based telescopes can hardly reveal any surface images of the dwarf planet.
Hence, Pluto remained a mystery for several decades after its discovery.
[NOTE: Never mind the terrible CGI that conceals real images.]
In 2006, NASA launched the New Horizons probe to study Pluto, which was still considered the ninth planet.
New Horizons reached Pluto after more than nine years and became the first spacecraft to fly by the far-flung world.
It [allegedly] sent back stunning images of the dwarf planet that revealed striking details of its surface.
Although New Horizons has now crossed the mark of 50 AU ("astronomical units") from Earth, data from the space probe is still being analyzed after six years of the Pluto flyby. And now research has shown that Pluto is not as calm as it seems. It is covered with ice volcanoes and the icy body might harbor liquid-water ocean underneath its surface.
In the fifth episode of the Sunday Discoveries Series, let's learn about the discovery of ice volcanoes on Pluto in detail.
(Real Science) Summer 2021. Patreon, Twitter, Instagram.
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Who is phony "useful mouthpiece" Alex Jones with his CIA and FBI limited hangouts?
Alex Jones must pay $965 million for Sandy Hook "lies"
(Bloomberg) Alex Jones must pay nearly 1 billion US dollars ($965 million) in new damages to families and an FBI agent whose feelings were hurt by the Infowars founder’s lie that the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was a hoax [which it almost certainly was, a staged attack with crisis actors and an active training for such an event conveniently going on nearby], a Connecticut jury found today (10/12/22). You can tell any story you want, but you better not tell the truth. That will not be tolerated by the powers that be. It's a takedown for the loudmouth showman and supplements salesman.
Mainstream darling John Oliver takes down Alex Jones on HBO's Last Week Tonight. It's very funny, but is it fair? Sure, Jones sold overhyped supplements, but he was also used to leak partial truths and whistleblowers' reports
LIVE VERDICT WATCH: Parkland School Shooter sentencing trial
(WFLA News Channel 8) #HeyJB Live on WFLA Now. A jury is nearing the end of the first day of deliberations in the Nikolas Cruz sentencing trial. Mr. Cruz pleaded guilty to fatally shooting 14 students and 3 adults at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida in 2018. WFLA Now's JB Biunno and 8 On Your Side Investigator Mahsa Saeidi, a former prosecutor, are live with trial coverage. bit.ly/3yCmhLk
"The Earthing Movie: The Remarkable Science of Grounding" is directed by Sundance Award-winning filmmakers Josh and Rebecca Tickell (The Big Fix, FUEL). This is a feature-length documentary based on their viral short film entitled Down To Earth, which reveals the scientific phenomenon of how we can heal our bodies by doing the simplest thing that a person can do -- standing barefoot on the earth.
What is this mysterious earth with its moon?
The winner of the Audience Award for best documentary at the Dances with Films Festival, the film shares the Tickell family's journey with the healing power of grounding, or "earthing," and the people they met and learned from along the way.
Features grounding pioneer Clint Ober, Dr. Deepak Chopra M.D., actor/activist Amy Smart, author/activist Mariel Hemingway, cardiologist Dr. Stephen Sinatra, renowned healer Dr. Joseph Mercola, engineer and physicist Gaetan Chevalier, Ph.D., and many others.
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