(Gnostic Talk) I've stopped calling him "Jesus" (Yehoshua, YHWH, Tetragrammaton, Rabbi, Son of Zeus, Yazoo, Lord, Kristos, Emmanuelle, Christ, Father, Patriarch, Joshua, Yeshua, Y'shua): His true Gnostic name changes every Christian prayer ever uttered.
Dead Sea Scrolls reveal truth about many revisions and changes of our flawless "Bible"
(Ambrose Discovery) The Dead Sea Scrolls just decoded by AI...and the mess it reveals in who authored the "Bible" is far worse than anyone thought
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.
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.
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Why [Christian] Gnosticism beats mainstream Christianity: As a former Christian pastor who later transitioned to atheism, my spiritual journey has been, to put it mildly, a wild ride. I’ve experienced the highs of religious fervor, the soul-crushing lows of doubt, and the liberating freedom of disbelief. But even as an atheist, I’ve always felt a nagging sense of something missing. Like a phantom limb, the yearning for meaning and purpose persisted, even though I no longer believed in a traditional God. That’s when I decided to take a fresh look at Gnosticism, a long-lost cousin of early Christianity that had been [hidden away] in the theological attic [by the mainstream Church terrified of losing its power over its followers]. As I delved into the Gnostic texts, I felt like I’d finally found some of the missing pieces of the puzzle. (Derrick Day)
Happy Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent for most Christians. Wisdom Quarterly's Mexican Buddhist Crystal Q. is torn between celebrating abstinence, the FiveEight or Ten Precepts, Ten Commandments, and reverting to simplicity. Since ancient Indian times, ashes from the pyre have been used by wandering ascetics as a way of getting clean. (Ashes are absorbent, and when collected from a funerary pyre, they are a strong reminder of this body's mortality). Buddhist David Bowie perhaps quoted the Anglican prayer book best when he sang, "Ashes to ashes, funk to funky, we know Major Tom's a junkie" (David Bowie's "Ashes to Ashes").
So it's time for a field trip to church (Catholic mass) to see these smearing of cremation ashes across foreheads in Los Angeles. Ananda is eager to see what this is all about. CC took us to the giant Buddhist temple east of Los Angeles in the very Asian San Gabriel Valley, where we enjoyed the Aztec dancers dancing for the Chinese Mahayana Humanist Buddhist crowd. So this explosion/clash of Mexican and European church tradition ought to be a Roman spectacular.
Pasadena, California, has many Catholics, and "church" (mass) was packed. The one we attended is beautiful inside, much more beautiful than the usual Holy Roman Empire version. It has a picture of God unlike any other Euro Catholic church building we've ever seen, a massive mural. And next to the God are beautiful devas ("angels"), drawn in gold and very colorful. The many pews were full, and there is a Spanish language service going on in the school building across the street. This church building is on the corner of Fair Oaks and the 134 Freeway, with a big belfry and clock (campanile). Inside, it's like a mausoleum of imported stone. And the attendees are a mix of Hispanics, Italians, Europeans, and a sprinkling of Blacks and Asians. Everyone is very nice and seem repentant as they line up for their pyre ashes, almost certainly incense stick remnants and coal. Wine and gluten crackers are served, if one doesn't mind mixing saliva with everyone else, but it's wiped with a white towel between sips, which is certainly sterilizing through prayer and God's power or the priest's magic. The officiant and his altar boy assistants said some nice words, encouraged people to be good and observe the RamadanLenten (Latin Quadragesima, "Fortieth") self-purification practices for the next month and ten days, and to do acts of abstinence, restraint, charity, and kindness, all beautiful sentiments for those who live up to the best of their religion. It is very much like the Buddhist Rains Retreat (Pali Vassa).
Meat eating during the Holy Season?
We agree: Let animals live by not eating them.
Historically, abstinence from meat was a requirement on the days of the Lenten season, including Sunday, the "Lord's Day") [20]. In Eastern Christianity -- including Eastern Orthodox, Eastern Catholics, Eastern Lutherans, and Oriental Orthodox -- Great Lent is observed continuously without interruption for 40 days starting on Clean Monday and ending on Lazarus Saturday before Holy Week [21, 6] and the big finale of the real New Year's Day, Easter, the first day of spring (time of renewal, when the "son" rises after being as dead as the winter, as explained by Astrotheology). More
In India, cremation ashes are called phool ("flowers"). They are collected from the pyre in a rite-of-passage called asthi sanchayana then dispersed. This signifies redemption of the dead in waters (like those of the "holy" Ganges or Jordan River) considered to be sacred and a closure for the living (Hinduism, Note 28).
American Pope's first Lent
Kendrick Lamar's Lefty Gunplay, Grammy Award winning LA Latino
Dr. Dre made mad money signing Eminem, so Kendrick adopted Lefty Gunplay (F. Scott Holladay)
(HP) Christianity erased the truth, but the evidence remains: Viking "berserkers" were said to fight in a trance of unstoppable fury. Some historians believe this rage may have been triggered by psychoactive plants like henbane or hallucinogenic mushrooms. Seeds found in a Viking grave in Denmark suggest these substances were known and possibly used. Christians systematically destroyed much of the old pagan knowledge. This video explores the evidence behind one of Viking history’s strangest questions. More
Who's Saint Issa? Someone, like Russian Christian Nicolas Notovich, could argue that Jewish Jesus Christ (who as actually a Nazarene and possibly an Essene) is a Buddhist figure. Why? He appears in written Mahayana Vajrayana Buddhist records long before he appeared in Europe or the West. Yeshua (Yazoo, Joshua) appeared in records as Saint Issa (later appearing as Isa in Islamic texts). He seems to have been a tulku, drawn to Ladakh, India (then part of Tibet, or Tibetan Autonomous Region of China). Notovich tried to tell Christendom, the Christian world, but biblical scholars would not stand for it.
How to live a long life with "His Holiness" the 14th Dalai Lama
Many people in Lhasa, Tibet, Dharamsala, India, and the West call the 14th Dalai Lama "His Holiness" or HH Dalai Lama. It's an honorific title. He is treated like an enlightened being though he himself says he is not enlightened. Still, he stands (with the CIA) against China, and that has to count for something, like his friend former Pres. George W. Bush, whose father was director of the CIA. Americans love him, and the faithful say he is a reincarnation of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara. Does that make him the Maitreya (Messiah)?
The Buddhist Way to Give at Christmas | No stress, just pure joy
(Buddha's Wisdom)
Dec. 23, 2025: What if we could give at Christmas without stress, guilt, or keeping score?
🎁 CHRISTMAS DOESN'T HAVE TO FEEL HEAVY.
DISCOVER HOW BUDDHIST WISDOM CAN TRANSFORM GIVING.
For 2,600+ years, Buddhists have practiced dāna (letting go, giving, sharing, generosity, charity), the art of generous giving that liberates both giver and receiver.
This ancient wisdom offers a profound alternative to the anxiety, obligation, and reciprocity calculations that often shadow modern Christmas giving.
Through Buddhist teachings, human psychology, and everyday Christmas moments, this video shows how giving without attachment changes not only the holiday season…but the mind/heart behind it.
📿 DISCOVER:
The ancient practice of dāna and its three stages of joy (before, during, and after giving)
Why expecting gratitude turns giving into stress
Why the Buddha said the "gift of Dhamma [the Teaching, Doctrine, Dharma] surpasses all other gifts" and what this means for our Western pagan holiday we call Christmas (Christ's mass)
The three moods of giving: reluctant, calculated, and free (and which one we're actually practicing)
The hidden emotional contracts behind Christmas gifts
How to give, and receive, without pressure, debt, or obligation
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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Christmas magic meets Buddhist wisdom
01:19 The Christmas giving paradox
03:19 What is Dāna? The Buddhist art of generosity
06:13 The three moods of giving
11:01 How to practice dāna at Christmas
17:29 The ultimate Buddhist Christmas gift
19:30 The one gift experiment
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Robert Monroe of the monroeinstitute.org described invisible emotional energy and called it "loosh." This world of ours has been converted into a Loosh Farm by the Archons, and their symptoms brings us back in a cyclical fashion described by the Dharmic religions as samsara, the Wheel of Life and Death that binds us to suffering, constantly seeking pleasure now here then there, coming to death again and again. But rebirth is a process impelled by our craving, aversion, and ignorance (aka "greed, hatred, and delusion," lobha, dosa, and moha).
(PM) A long-awaited excavation by Italian archeologists has finally taken place beneath the floors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Palestine.
The church is believed to have been built in part upon the site of Jesus’s tomb, which the Gospel of John describes as having been “a garden.”
Their dig uncovered evidence of 2,000-year-old olive trees and grapevines, suggesting the site had indeed once been used for agriculture [if not gardening].
“At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.”- John 19:41
As a literary device, this description of the burial place of Jesus Christ is effective; it offers a contrast between the site of Jesus’s death at the crucifixion site of Calvary (also called Golgotha, both derived from the Latin for “place of the skull”) and a fertile garden, brimming with life.
It also provides a cyclical shape to the final chapter of the Christ [the Anointed One's] narrative, which begins with his arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane.
So, as storytelling, this single sentence from the Gospel of John (the most recently written of the four canonical gospels, most scholars agree) has a substantial power to its brevity.
But as a historical record of where, exactly, one of the most famous men [or overhyped propaganda figures beginning with a historical figure then blown all out of proportion with myths, comforting fables, and voluminous imperial Roman psyops] who ever lived was laid to rest, one would be forgiven for finding it sorely lacking in detail.
Yet, thanks to a new discovery reported in the Times of Israel, that sentence might be key to confirming where the real [Jewish, Nazarene, or Essene] man at the center of the Christian faith was placed after his famous [imperial Roman torture practice of] crucifixion. More
(Prof. Jiang Clips) Jesus Christ and his teachings were too dangerous for the official Church order
Jesus [the Nazarene] had a wife: The evidence!
A rabbi's wife but no children?
(Simcha's Sessions) Nov. 19, 2025: Was Jesus a lifelong celibate, or was he a typical 1st century rabbi with a wife?
The conventional image is that of an unmarried savior (messianic figure), but a close look at the Gospels and the customs of the time suggests the truth is far more provocative.
In this session, Simcha Jacobovici sets aside tradition to investigate the pure historical and textual evidence.
What was uncovered:
The Rabbi's Requirement: In 1st century Judaism, it would have been highly unusual [some would say impossible] for a man of Jesus's status (a rabbi) to be unmarried.
The Problem of Paul: The tradition of Jesus's celibacy likely originates with Paul (Saul), who was vehemently against marriage and sexuality, yet Paul himself never claims Jesus was unmarried.
The Intimate Anointing (rubbing with oil): The shocking scene in the Gospels where a woman washes, kisses, and dries Jesus's naked feet with her hair—an act considered [sexually erotic] "nakedness" (ervah) in Jewish law. This highly intimate act would only be permissible for a wife.
A holy couple in ancient Palestine?
Mary Magdalene and the Cross: Mary Magdalene's constant presence and emotional acts (e.g., anointing Jesus's body after his death) point toward the role of an intimate family member, specifically a wife.
The Gnostic Evidence: The excluded Gnostic Gospels, such as the Gospel of Philip, explicitly state Jesus and Mary Magdalene were constant companions and were known to kiss on the lips.
The historical, social, and textual evidence strongly suggests the man known as Jesus was indeed married.
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
🙏 Subscribe for more East-meets-West wisdom: Every week, we explore the meeting point of philosophy, history, and spirituality, from Buddhist cosmology to hidden wisdom in Western thought.
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:0
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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