Turning Point USA riot at UC Berkeley

(KTVU Fox 2 San Francisco) Fight breaks out at Turning Point USA debate at UC Berkeley

(LiveNOW from Fox) UC Berkeley protesters "welcome" TPUSA debate that Charlie Kirk planned

(ABC7 News Bay Area) The Republic of Berserkly is having trouble.

Glenn Greenwald: TK's warning on Big Tech

• #SystemUpdate500 with Glenn Greenwald: Genius domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski's warning about Big Tech, centers of power, and more. TK has been dubbed the "Anti-Left Leftist"
• Glenn Greenwald (formerly of the now co-opted The Intercept), who became famous due to his relation to Edward Snowden and his revelations, as well as Chelsea/Bradley Manning (Free BM!) and the largely forgotten heroine Reality Winner

How to eat trash in LA/San Francisco

Why are you wandering in the woods, Ascetic?

There is a good life, that of a nomadic hippie -- free as the wind (no savings), enjoying free love, doing whatever one wishes whenever one wishes, feeling good, dropping chemical-assistance anytime (haunted by addiction). That may have been true in the 1960s and 1970s; it is less true now. There's a superficially similar but much better life, that of wandering ascetics like the Buddha, Mahavira, and others in the sramana movement. What is the difference? Underlying motive. Both may be spiritual seekers, but only one is likely to make any progress. Why? Vice and drugs make one possible, whereas the other relies on virtue and restraint.

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  Hungry Ghosts (Dr. Gabor Maté)

  The word śramaṇa is pronounced /shra-ma-na/ like the English word shaman, a wandering aiming for spiritual development through simplicity, voluntary poverty (relinquishing everything), and often penances or austerities in the misguided attempt to subdue "sin" and evil and develop virtue and self-restraint. Of the many schools and teachers at the time of the Buddha that rebelled against the devotional functions of temple priests (brahmanas), only three seem to have survived to today, Buddhism, Jainism, and wandering yogi sadhus.

Trash recipes

Assortment of dumpster diving finds (wiki)

If one is going to eat "trash," and we do not recommend it, put drugs and drug paraphernalia away, put down the phone, tell pimp or madame you will call them later, and dive into a dumpster, preferably in a group with someone holding a flashlight. Panhandling is a better option, as is eating things growing naturally from trees as well as wild edible plants from the park or other public places. There are always also charitable organizations offering food. But all those sources having failed (and people will usually give food even if they refuse to give change), pick clean greens. Avoid all meat and dairy. Give everything the sniff test. Keep any food found in cool place, which should be easy in SF because it's usually cold at night. Boil over burning dumpster fire or one of those hobo oil barrels. Do not boil a shoe or old boot as that provides no nutrition and is likely to have toxic industrial products, plastics, dyes, and dioxin. Ask a John or Jane to cook or to offer food. Stand by the exit of a restaurant and ask for leavings before customers trash them. Seek public social services. Get a side job at a restaurant that doesn't mind employees eating extras. Finally, pretend you're in lockup, jail, or prison and consider all the jailhouse delicacies crafty and creative inmates dream up. By the addition of crumbled potato chips (which are full of deadly acrylamides in the best of circumstances) seems to make anything palatable. Avoid sugar (particularly high fructose corn syrup) and glutens (wheat, barley, rye, oats, and buckwheat, all of which have very harmful plant lichens that destroy the gut lining and lead to deficiencies, according to Dr. Joel Wallach). 

A better way to be a nomad: wandering asceticism

The śramaṇas [a] are people who labor, toil, or exert themselves for some higher or religious [spiritual] purpose [1, 2], a "seeker, or ascetic, one who performs acts of austerity [tapas]" [3, 4, 5, 6].

Looking down on UC Berkeley and SF

The śramaṇa tradition includes primarily Jainism [7], Buddhism [8], and others such as the Ājīvika [9, 10].

The śramaṇa religions became popular in the circles of alms-gathering mendicants from greater Magadha (the adopted home of the Buddha) that led to the development of spiritual practices [11], as well as the popular concepts in all major Indian religions such as saṃsāra (the endless cycle of rebirth and suffering) and moksha (liberation from that cycle) [12, Note 1].

SF is very liberal and full of compassion

The Śramaṇic traditions have a diverse range of beliefs, ranging from accepting or denying the concept of an eternal soul, fatalism (that all things are preordained) to free will, idealization of extreme asceticism (penance) to that of family life, renunciation, strict ahimsa (non-violence), and vegetarianism to permissibility of violence and meat-eating [13, 14]. More

Rainbow: "Lost in Hollywood"

What about Hollywood/Los Angeles?

Los Angeles’s collapsing streets: a city in crisis as the homeless take over block by block

Los Angeles’s collapsing streets: a city in crisis as the homeless take over block by block

(Discovery Globe - Life Documentary) Aug. 2, 2025: HOA KỲ. In this urgent street documentary, let's explore the reality behind the headlines as Los Angeles homeless communities grow larger, block by block.

Glittering Hollywood: The Home of Dreams

Once known for ambition, sunshine, and opportunity, L.A. (aka Tinsel Town) is now recognized as a city in crisis, where LA's collapsing streets reflect deeper problems beneath the surface.

What was once temporary has become "structural" (systemic, a permanent problem)—an unfolding homeless crisis USA in one of America’s most iconic cities.

Captured throughout LA at night, this footage reveals a hidden world shaped by urban decay, growing encampments, and the visible homeless takeover of sidewalks, parks, and business zones.

With each passing week, more areas fall into block by block takeover, changing how the city looks, feels, and functions.

As poverty in LA surges and public service systems strain, the reality of LA's decline becomes harder to ignore. The rise of LA's tent cities in every direction—from Skid Row to Venice Beach—signals a long-brewing social collapse of California now erupting in plain sight.

These changes aren’t isolated; they form part of the broader seedy side of America, where prosperity and suffering share the same streets.

The crime in LA increases alongside the growing instability. As emergency services struggle to respond, parts of the city are left with little protection or support. In many places, urban decay LA defines the new normal, where infrastructure breaks down and basic needs go unmet.

Through real interviews and firsthand footage, we trace how the LA homeless population adapts, survives, and expands amid the chaos.

This street documentary does not seek blame—but rather seeks understanding. From the fall of LA's collapsing streets to the expanding takeover, the footage examines how long-standing economic gaps, housing shortages, and social fragmentation have fueled the homeless crisis now overtaking the West Coast’s largest metro area.

By highlighting the interconnected issues of poverty in LA (and California's second city, San Francisco), the social collapse of California, and the USA's decline, this documentary invites reflection on what the future holds—not only for LA, but for urban centers on the edge.

The images of LA at night tell a deeper story—one of resilience, desperation, and the urgent need for systemic response.

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📌 This video does not aim to attack or judge any person, group, or country. Instead, our goal is to foster meaningful reflection and learn from the complexities of real-world events. #homeless #homelesscrisis #homelessness #losangeles #california

• Discovery Globe - Live Documentary; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Our city is #1 best place to live in USA

Evening twilight over Berkeley, California (Alfred Georg Sonsalla/Getty Images)

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Beloved city has neighborhoods and Cal (UC)

What is the healthiest city in the U.S. to live in? Niche.com did its annual analysis, and a California destination came out on top.

Berkeley, California, was named the healthiest city in the USA by niche.com. The Northern California Alameda County city (just across the bay from overpriced San Francisco) enjoys an average of 256 sunny days each year and a mild Mediterranean climate, allowing residents to spend ample time outdoors.

• The strangest thing about attending UC Berkeley is that no one here calls it "Berkeley." Everyone refers to it as "Cal" (or Cal Berkeley) because "Berkeley" (so often misspelled as Berkley) refers to the city, which is also sometimes called the "Republic of Berserkley" and F everywhere else because this is the best place to go to college, the greatest public university in the world since Nalanda and Timbuktu closed, rivaling the great private universities of the nation. (Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal likely exists because Berkeley exists and, strange and counterintuitive as it may seem to outsiders, half-baked L.A. is more spiritual than Berkeley or S.F. probably because it needs to be, with so many people desperately searching for meaning in the throat chakra of the planet (thanks in large part to Hollywood film, music, radio, and TV industries). That surprised us, thinking we were going to the Shangri-La of the state where everyone would be spiritual, where the Sixties would still be alive, where San Francisco was just a BART ride away to visit Golden Gate Park and join a love in, be in, or free concert, slipping over to Haight Ashbury, but it's always so cold, and Berkeley mostly empties out for the summer when the tourists come and classes are not in session. There is KPFA.org (the founding Pacifica station even older than KPFK.org in LA, where Alan Watts got his start and where he lives on, respectively). There are so many protests on campus and in Berkeley that there is a nationwide media blackout about it. One rarely hears about all that is going on there, and every week something IS going on there. It's a nearly daily occurrence the mainstream media keeps quiet, ignores, and suppresses so that the radicalism doesn't spread as quickly to other campuses across the nation. It is the most progressive of the big schools.
• Vintage 1980’s Berkeley “Berzerkley” SF artist artwork - Etsy
• College Confidential Forums - Admissions Discussions

• In this famous scene (and song) Ben, "The Graduate" (played by a young Dustin Hoffman), is driving his red convertible to Berkeley, which is funny because he's headed the wrong direction, but that never stopped Hollywood (who needed to show him with the top down, which wouldn't look as good on the lower level that runs toward Berkeley. He's from Los Angeles and going to UC Berkeley in Berkeley to see about a girl, Elaine, which is odd because she's the daughter of Mrs. Robinson, the older married woman he's been having an affair with all summer. Had it not been for a roommate at Cal, I would never have known to see such an important film all about the wonders of legendary California.

Each year, Niche.com reveals the healthiest places in the nation, based on "a comprehensive assessment of the general health levels among residents in an area." The company considers key indicators of personal health, including smoking and excessive alcohol consumption, rates of obesity, and people's access and proximity to health care facilities, including gyms, doctors, and mental health practitioners.

And this year, Niche.com named Berkeley, California, the healthiest city in the U.S. The Alameda County city is less than half an hour from San Francisco [depending on traffic on the Bay Bridge, it would only take 15 minutes to go between the two] and boasts 256 sunny days per year [but is nearly always cooler than one would think, just like San Francisco is chilly and foggy] and a mild Mediterranean climate.

Residents don't have to travel far to enjoy time in nature and stay active. Why? — Berkeley has over 50 parks with sports facilities, trails, and playgrounds. [There's a secret swimming lake behind the campus, up the mountain on Grizzly Trail.] Additionally, places like Muir Woods National Monument, Yosemite National Park, and Pinnacles National Park offer even more options for outdoor recreation.

In fact, the city was named the No. 1 Healthiest Place to Live in America and the No. 1 Healthiest City, really driving home the point that this is indeed a healthy place.

Berkeley also snagged an A+ rating for its schools, A+ for nightlife, and an A+ for outdoor activities, which surely helps to keep its population in tip-top shape.

The only categories it falls short in are housing, where it scored a C-, crime and safety, which also nabbed it a C-, and the cost of living, where it scored a low D+. And these grades are well reflected in the local reviews. More

• MSN.com, June 7, 2025; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Deftones: alt-nu metal US tour 2025

Peace and Freedom = nirvana (insightla.org)

A person gets so sick of politics and politicians, business bullsitters and oligarchs, war profiteers and phony anti-war figures that what can one do but follow the words of Berkeley student Mario Savio? He gets to the point, and anyone who cares about freedom and what America's ideals are said to be might agree. Hey, why not? It's March Forth Day.

Mario Savio "An End to History" at UC Berkeley, 1964

Deftones "7 Words" (live)

(pppaaatttrrriiikkk1) What's the alternative to metal? Nu metal (aka alt metal), at least it was back in the summer of 2003 when Deftones were live at Big Day Out or Big Day In in Sydney, Australia, down under where the fans go around the fur for their adrenaline. Fast forward to today, when the Deftones are in Los Angeles for a big show at the Forum, aka the Kia.

A call for civil disobedience when freedom is threatened

March Forth Day

March Forth Day (nationaltoday.com)

MARCH FORTH is an annual unofficial American holiday celebrated on March 4th to encourage everyone to work towards achieving their dreams. It aims to provide an opportunity for people to take calculated risks towards achieving their goals and developing themselves. It is a special day to take a stand against procrastination or the faux reasons that tend to creep into our heads and discourage us from even trying. The name was made up as a homophone of the day "March Fourth." It is also the shortened version of the full name — "March Forth and Do Something Day." More

• Mario Savio in Berkeley; Deftones; NationalToday.com; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Before animals: the evolution of life

Choanoflagellate colony stained to highlight DNA and other features (Nicole King lab)

Mono Lake’s extreme environment, characterized by high salinity and toxic substances such as arsenic and cyanide, may have driven the evolution of this distinctive species.

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California discovery may explain evolutionary arising of animals

Microscopic choanoflagellate B. monosierra

(The Brighter Side of News) Mono Lake, nestled in Northern California’s Eastern Sierra Nevada, is a haven for unique life forms [as it fills with water washing down from Yosemite National Park's alpine lakes, most of which evaporates faster than it can be replenished].

Its iconic tufa formations and thriving populations of brine shrimp (aka fly larvae) and alkali flies showcase an ecosystem adapted to the lake's hypersaline, alkaline waters.

• PHOTO: Globular colonies of the choanoflagellate Barroeca monosierra seen under a microscope. As indicated by the 50-micron scale bar in the upper left, these colonies are at the limit of what’s visible to the naked eye (Alain Garcia De Las Bayonas, Nicole King lab, © The Brighter Side of News).

Dhamma Aboard Evolution: Agganna Sutta

Now, researchers from the University of California at Berkeley have identified a microscopic organism in this extreme environment that could illuminate the early evolution of life.

The discovery is a single-celled organism called a choanoflagellate, a group that holds special significance in the study of evolution. Although not animals themselves, choanoflagellates are the closest known living relatives of animals.

Their biology offers vital clues about the transition from single-celled to multicellular life. What sets this particular species apart is its microbiome.

Unlike other choanoflagellates, which typically consume bacteria, this species forms a stable, physical association with its bacterial partners. This makes it the simplest known organism to host a microbiome, providing researchers with an unprecedented opportunity to study how early interactions between single-celled organisms and bacteria influenced the evolution of complex life, including animals.

This could explain life.

“Very little is known about choanoflagellates, and there are interesting biological phenomena that we can only gain insight into if we understand their ecology,” says Nicole King, a professor of molecular and cell biology at UC Berkeley and an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. More

• Ancient tribal protectors of Mono Lake: Kucadikadi ("shrimp eaters" or "fly people"), Northern Paiute of California

The Chicken or the Egg?

I don't think, therefore I'm not, Rene

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? It's very simple in reality. Only in theory it's impossible to answer because it's a philosophical paradox or causality dilemma. The conundrum is a kind of logical fallacy of getting caught up in categories, terminology, and semantics, losing sight of the fact that we as onlookers are the ones creating the arbitrary labels, determining the limits of categories, and making the subjective judgments to include somethings and exclude others.

• The dilemma stems from the observation that all chickens hatch from eggs and all chicken eggs are laid by chickens, a situation where it is not clear which of two events should be considered the cause and which should be considered the effect, to express a scenario of infinite regress, or to express the difficulty of sequencing actions where each seems to depend on others being done first.

Wittgenstein would be dismayed. The answer, of course, is the proto-chicken, a creature which is a "chicken" because it lays chicken eggs but is not a chicken because it itself was not born of such an egg. Yet, if it looks like a chicken and clucks like a chicken, it is chicken enough because it does the most important thing, which is to give birth to chickens rather than it itself being born the way "chickens" are thereafter. (The exact same evolutionary question might be asked of Homo sapiens or modern humans. Which came first, the human or the womb? If all humans are born of wombs and all human wombs are produced [only] by humans, we're in the same dilemma. (Neither is completely true, but we begin with this assumption to our detriment).

The excellent thing about this discovery by UC Berkeley, my own alma mater, is that it gets at the reality and avoids the logical trap, causality dilemma, or infinite regress logicians would be caught in. There is a transitional creature that is neither yet fully animal nor solely pre-animal because it has a stable microbiome it has partnered with. Similarly, humans born of a womb and giving birth via a womb must have been preceded by a humanoid creature who did not do both.

Where did animals like us come from? That is the question at hand. If this is how "animals" behave and get defined (born of womb and birthing others via a womb), we will trap ourselves in assumptions and the rules of logic. Once we broaden the category to include the proto-animal, or in this case the choanoflagellate with a microbiome, we can begin to see how things might have gone through an intermediary phase not allowed for, assumed, or understood by our strict logic. So hooray for the transitional creature that yet remains alive to be studied that we might understand these animal bodies we identify with as and cling to as "self."

• PHOTO: A colony of choanoflagellates stained to show its features. Cyan indicates DNA — the doughnut-shaped DNA of the choanoflagellate cells and a cloud of bacterial DNA inside the colony — while flagella are white and microscopic hairs (villi) on each cell are red (Kayley Hake, Nicole King lab © The Brighter Side of News).
• PHOTO (TOP): Microscopic life moves. "With the Volvox, this specialization transforms into a full division labor that you can actually see reflected in the cells... – @adelicateculturecell on Tumblr
• The Brighter Side of News via MSN, 1/23/25; Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly COMMENTARY

There might be something to ASTROLOGY

How Astrology Can Guide Your Leadership Path with Vish Chatterji (Create Magic at Work)

Do Buddhists believe in astrology?

Do Buddhists believe? As we've said many times, Buddhists can and do anything they want and believe as suits them. Should they? That's a different story. If they find it useful. Certainly, there is a wrong way of grasping things, as with snakes to extract valuable venom for antidotes. But grasped in a safe way, with care and skill, it may be possible to do much with things in the world.

Before launching into an astrological session, one might want to ask an alleged astrologer, psychic, or soothsayer what future they are reading. This will confuse them. Then give them the simple binary choice of "the future that will be" or "the future that might be."

Having asked this of many, it is a wonder how little they thought about it. Is everything (in their view) fate, and one is just reading the map of what will and must happen, or is it freewill, and nothing need happen, but the probability is it might?

• If everything is fate, there's no need to know. If everything is freewill, what's the point because what can be known? Smart ones will say it's a bit of both. Some things have to happen, whereas others can be avoided with some direction from them. Vish Chatterji has a good spin in that he claims that the Vedas teach that there's always something that can be done. (Teaching that everything that happens here on earth is the back and forth of karma, he thinks some things have to happen to us but that, with help, they can be managed better to make them more pleasant).

My story

Of course mainstream newspaper "horoscopes" (astrological forecasts) are a bit of a joke. (Papers only print for 12 signs even though there are 13, leaving out Ophiuchus. And there are 8 billion people, so there are only a dozen kinds of day they'll all be having?) They are too general, meant to appeal to readers to increase newspaper sales. It shouldn't even be called astrology.

The question is not, Is all astrology fake? The question is, Is any astrology real? And as for that, one would have to conclude that the answer is...

I became a believer not because I had my chart read but because I didn't.

I was visiting the local Buddhist temple in LA, where I liked to visit to the library and peruse the many titles on the Dharma. One day a monk said to me, "Sorry, not today." I was confused. What could he mean?

How could he stand in the way of me trying to learn and have all my questions answered through reading? I sat by the kitchen, looking over at the library door, which was closed. When the monk went away, I was going to go have a look. I was surprised to see someone coming out in a hurry. When I got up to go in, someone else arrived and rushed in. I took a seat.

Before long that person left, and another came. I'd never seen the library get so much traffic. What could they be reading. This kept happening until finally I asked a monk what was going on. He mentioned that a famous astrologer from the old country was seeing wealthy patrons of the temple. They were all eager to have their charts and futures read. I was baffled. These were wealthy doctors, businessmen, and engineers. Why would they go in for horoscope when they could just read on the floor of their budgies' cages or head over to the Venice Boardwalk to get their palms read by a soothsayer?

To the Moon or Rahu

Eventually, a man I had never seen came out. He was dressed in a modern way but clearly from the old country, an old man and fat. He asked for my help, being in need of a printer. A printer, photocopies? There's a Kinko's down the street. No, he corrected me, I need a machine that prints. Where are they? The temple printer must have been down again, out of toner.

What does the future hold Lady Unluck?

He asked where he could buy one. A printer? Yes. Just buy some toner and put it in that machine. No, he needed a high-quality laser printer ASAP and was willing to pay big money for it. He asked if I wouldn't mind fetching him one or taking him. I agreed. He was willing to throw $500 dollars or more at the purchase. He wanted it just for today, as he was printing out people's charts.

That's who was coming and going and what they were doing in the library. I told him they didn't take returns on printers. No matter, he assured me. It would more than pay for itself in one day. He was so happy to get it and have it to finish his appointments that he offered me a free reading.

I said no way. I wasn't interested in silliness. It's not very Buddhist, wherein the Buddha defined karma as the action we take now, the choice, the steering of our own ship, acting as lamps unto ourselves. He was shocked. His clients paid big money to see him, often flying to the old country to hope for an open appointment. He claimed he was always busy. All he needed was my birth date and time.

I don't know the time. He said it didn't really matter. I said, Aha, of course it doesn't matter because it's nonsense!

Then he said the first thing that convinced me. He said the reason it didn't matter was because we would soon find out if that was the correct time; if it were not, he would be able to tell me the correct time. I asked how. He explained that when he had the correct date and time, it would all line up. What would all line up? The big events in my life.

He offered the reading again. I declined, explaining to him that while I was not superstitious, I was concerned about being subconsciously programmed by his charismatic confidence. It's not that I think that what you will say will come true or has to, it's that I fear it will come true because you said it, because at some level I believed you or feared it and thereby made a self-fulfilling prophecy out of it.

He understood. I was shocked that he did. He offered to tell me when I would get married, how many children I would have, what city I would live in. I laughed and said, you see, you got it all wrong. I don't want any of those things. I try to watch carefully that none of those things come to pass. Maybe astrology is for people who want those mundane (worldly) things.

I would rather renounce it all and become a wearer of a saffron robe. He said he could tell me when that would happen, how it would go, when I would succeed (become enlightened?) and other details. I said, you might tell me I won't succeed in this life and then I won't, not because I wouldn't but because you said I wouldn't. I can't take that chance.

He understood again. In fact, he understood so well that he said the ultimate thing, the thing I was never expecting, the smackdown that shut me the heck up and left me in awe and speechless, paralyzed, a believer:

He said, I understand. So let's go in there (to the library) and do your chart -- but only up until today.

What do you mean? I mean, he explained, I will go backwards and tell you every significant thing that has already happened.

You can do that?!?! Sure I can. I'm going to lay out your whole life, what your potentials were when you were born, what you chose, when you chose it...

You can't know that!

I don't know anything, he said; your chart will show it, and I'll tell you what it means. He added, I didn't make it happen. It can't be called a "self-fulfilling prophecy" IF we limit our talking to what has already happened and why.

My eyes widened, and he invited me to take advantage of the opportunity yet again, as he would be gone soon, back in the old country, where he assured me he was very famous and always busy, guiding many.

I later asked the monks about him, and they all confirmed that he was indeed very famous and that all his clients (who were Buddhists and patrons of the temple) spoke very highly of him and his business and life advice. That double shut me up.

How to dress a Scythian prince

• This weekend at the Kathina (the sacred robe offering) ceremony, I was reminded of all this as a very pious Buddhist man saw me looking at some Buddhist paintings hung on the wall. He thought he explain. I said I knew what all of them were except one. Why was the baby Buddha (the infant Prince Siddhartha) levitating at his birth. (That wasn't his birth but him at age 7, when he spontaneously entered meditative absorption (jhana, dhyana, samadhi, zen, chan, seon) under a tree during the Scythian (Saka, Shakya) planting festival. His father, King or Chief Suddhodana, saw him and bowed. Surely, according to popular Mahayana and Theravada accounts, what happened was (the Still Shadow Miracle) that he was left in the shade of that tree by his nurses, who wanted to see the festivities up close, and as he meditated, the shade did not move off of him even as the sun traveled in the sky to another angle.
• The man, not realizing we were talking about different events, with me thinking this is the birth at age 1 (because in Asia one is born already being 10 lunar months old or "1") and him thinking it is obviously being the first absorption at age 7. Not realizing we saw two different things, he tried to explain the miracle and got into astrology. I told he the above story, and he finished it then begged me for the man's name. I said, I thought everyone knew this man, so you should tell me his name so I can go to him now, and we laughed. Siddhartha levitated at age 7?

Of course, we're Americans. We were weaned on doubt and sacrilege, questioning and overturning things. We don't want old tried and true belief systems to pan out. We want to think everybody was dumb and that now with science we'll be smart. There's a reason why people hold on to the past and traditions. They work. They may not work well or completely, but they work.

Vedic Astrologer on Coast to Coast, Oct. 29

Vish Chatterji is a celebrated Vedic astrologer, yogi, and business coach. He makes the ancient wisdom of India accessible and actionable for modern seekers, helping them find balance and success through true self-understanding. He'll discuss practical insights and tips on how to improve your relationships, based on your planetary personality type, zodiac sign, and rising sign. AUDIO (10/29/24)

Chatterji is an astrologer, yogi, and business coach who makes the ancient wisdom of the Ayurvedic system of India accessible and actionable for modern seekers.

In this audio he delves into Vedic astrology and his coaching practice, which incorporates Ayurvedic principles, categorizing people into three archetypes:

1. Vata (airy creative type),
2. Pitta (fiery type), and
3. Kapha (earthy type).

Chatterji suggests that the Vedic astrological system aligns with what we actually see in the sky and can therefore be more accurate than Western astrology.

He also touches on the mythological significance of Rahu and Ketu (the shadowy causes of eclipses), lunar nodes in Vedic astrology.

They're not planets but points where solar or lunar eclipses occur, representing shadows in space, he explains, linking their symbolism to the human experience of temptation and enlightenment through a captivating ancient mythology about gods (devas, "shining ones") and demons (asuras, titans, anti-devas).

Highlighting how astrology serves as a tool for self-discovery, he says, "The more misaligned we are to our divine plan... the more we have unhappiness."

He stresses the importance of understanding our soul's purpose to regain balance, noting that with Vedic astrology, "There's always a remedy... there's always hope."

His new book, Astrology Decoded, aims to simplify Vedic astrology for everyday readers, offering insights into planetary personalities (with each celestial body having a definite character, Mars being angry, Saturn being organized, Venus being gentle, etc.) and practical remedies.

Astrology, he adds, "is beyond religion" and connects us to a universal consciousness.

He lives in Long Beach, Los Angeles, and gives readings. Callers called in with their exact birth date and time for accurate astrological readings; even a few minutes can account for significant differences (but he'll soon know if that time written on records was recorded accurately). More + AUDIO

• Website: astrology-decoded.com
• New book: Astrology Decoded: The Secret Science of India's Sages
• headandheartinsights.com
• Book: The Business Casual Yogi: Take Charge of Your Body, Mind, Career
• Ancient Astrology | Coast to Coast AM
• Vish Chatterji with Host G-Man Noory, Coast to Coast, 10/29/24; Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon, Jen B. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The white cannibals of America (video)

White cannibals of US: Sarah Winnemucca tells of a red-haired tribe in Nevada, 1858-1860

What would giants eat? (gen6giants)

(Unworthy History) Aug. 3, 2024: In this video we read from Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Their Claims by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, published in 1883. It tells of the Pyramid Lake War that broke out in 1860 between the Paiutes and the white settlers near Genoa, Nevada. It also tells the Paiute legend of the red-haired cannibalistic people exterminated by the Paiutes several hundred years before the book was written.

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• There were Spaniards who came to what is now the USA in post-Columbian times. One such Conquistador or scout was the captain of a ship who produced written documentation (ship's log) of sighting an interacting with these red-haired giants. In on curious incident, a massive young girl was spotted and tracked with the intention of abducting her and kidnapping her back to Europe. Armed men followed her from shore to her house, where they had a run in with her father, who was much bigger. They abandoned the plan, ran back to the ship, and observed the parents angry on the shore as they departed. These written documents must still exist for review.

Wonderhussy investigates Lovelock Cave

(Wonderhussy Adventures) Oct. 25, 2023: Welcome to Wonderhussy Adventure #756. Date of adventure: Oct. 11, 2023. If you get arrested at Burning Man, they'll bring you to jail in Lovelock. It's better to explore this remote cave in northern Nevada without cops. Here, back in 1911, a couple of bat guano (fertilizer) miners discovered the mummified body of a 6'6" red headed man. The local Paiutes were not red headed, nor were they that tall. So who was this mummy, and where did he come from? Could he have been a descendant of Viking [or Irish or Nordic or Extraterrestrial] explorers?

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Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims

Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Their Claims

Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (4.3 out of 5 stars with 25 ratings). This 1883 book by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins is an autobiographical account of the Paiute people during their first 40 years of interaction with European-American invaders/settlers. The author was the daughter of the Paiute Chief Winnemucca and was raised in the area that is now western Nevada.

Born about 1841 into a tribe that -- at that time -- had only limited contact with settlers, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins would go on to spend the majority of her adult life apart from the Paiutes.

Mrs. Hopkins came to the East from the Pacific coast with the courageous purpose of telling in detail to the mass of our people, "extenuating nothing and setting down naught in malice," the story of her people's trials.

(SteveQuayle.com)

Finding that in extemporaneous speech she could only speak at one time of a few points, she determined to write out the most important part of what she wished to say.

In fighting with her literary deficiencies, she loses some of the fervid eloquence which her extraordinary colloquial command of the English language enables her to utter, but I am confident that no one would desire that her own original words should be altered.

It is the first outbreak of the American Indian in human literature. Sarah Winnemucca (1844–1891) was a prominent female Paiute activist and educator; she helped gain release of her people from the Yakima Reservation following the Bannock War of 1878, lectured widely in the East in 1883 on injustices against Native Americans in the West, established a private school for Indian students in Nevada, and was an influential figure in development of United States' 19th-century Indian policies.

Giant red-haired cannibals of Lovelock, Nevada

The mysterious red-headed mummy giant of Lovelock Cave

(Let Us Try That) March 20, 2024: The Northern Paiute people have an oral tradition that tells of a barbarous tribe of [tall, redheaded] people. These barbarians were cannibals who would kill and eat the Northern Paiute people and even eat their own dead. At war for three years, the Paiutes eventually killed many of the cannibals. The rest fled to a deep cave. The mouth of the cave was stuffed full of brush and set ablaze, killing the last of those people. There have been archeological expeditions at this site, and there have been a lot of claims made about what was found there. Today, we're trying to get to the truth and find out what really happened at Lovelock Cave.

Sources used in this video:

• Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims 1882 digital.library.upenn.edu/wom...
• The Salt Lake Tribune June 07, 1908 Cheats and Hoaxes Recalled By National Gallery Forgeries chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...
• LOVELOCK CAVE BY LLEWELLYN L. LOUD and M. R. HARRINGTON -- 1929 archive.org/stream/LovelockCa...
• Nevada Historical Society Quarterly - Fall 1975 John Reid's Redheaded "Giants of Central Nevada: Fact or Fiction? SHEILAGH BROOKS, CAROLYN STARK AND RICHARD H. BROOKS https://www.onlinenevada.org/sites/de...
• Nevada Historical Society Quarterly - Winter 1984 John T. Reid's Case for the Redheaded Giants by Dorothy P. Dansie epubs.nsla.nv.gov/statepubs/e...
• L.L. Loud and the Beginning of Nevada Archaeology -- 2011 onv-dev.duffion.com/articl...
• Graham Hancock Re: The Red Haired Giants of Lovelock Cave -- 2013 https://grahamhancock.com/phorum/read...
• The Red Haired Giants of Lovelock Cave -- 2013 by Brian Dunning skeptoid.com/episodes/4390

• Pat Macpherson, Xochitl, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly