(Galaxy Vault) Marine scientists using AI (artificial intelligence) finally decode whale "language" -- and what they've been saying is a surprise. Whale vocalizations? These earthling giants of the ocean have a real language with many dialects and great sophistication? We can now communicate with them? Project CETI (CEtation Translation Initiative), following the model of the SETI program, leads the way.
According to current scientific theories, whales (which are mammals not "fish") evolved from land-living mammals.
They must regularly surface to breathe air, although they can remain underwater for long periods of time. Some species, such as the sperm whale, can stay underwater for up to 90 minutes [2]. They have blowholes (modified nostrils) located on top of their heads, through which fresh air is taken in and expelled.
They are warm-blooded and have a thick layer of fat, called blubber, under their skin. With streamlined fusiform bodies and two limbs that are modified into flippers, whales can travel at speeds of up to 20 knots, though they are not as flexible or agile as seals. Whales produce a great variety of vocalizations, notably the extended songs of the humpback whale.
Although whales are widespread, most species prefer the colder waters of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres and migrate to the equator to give birth. Species such as humpbacks and blue whales are capable of travelling thousands of miles without feeding.
Males typically mate with multiple females every year, but females only mate every two to three years. Calves are typically born in the spring and summer; females bear all the responsibility for raising them. Mothers in some species fast and nurse their young for one to two years. More
Galaxy Vault; Crystal Q., CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit
Ancient Aliens: The Forbidden Zones of the World (S10, E10) | full episode
(HISTORY)
May 21, 2025: Due to [mostly American and CIA-funded] warfare, instability, and inaccessibility, there are specific regions of the world that are off-limits to exploration.
See more in Season 10, Episode 10, "The Forbidden Zones."
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Fairies (mystic devas, "shining ones") are ETs or extradimensionals of Celtic and Irish lore.
Irish "Divine Tribe of Danu" with Reptilian Naga
What is the mystic technology strange heavenly, hellish, extraterrestrial, and extradimensional deva ("shining one") beings seem to have left behind or gotten giants to erect? They are strange kurgans, tumuli, barrows, what in Buddhism are stupas, pagodas, cetiyas, and chortans (stone structures built atop anomalous energy vortices or lines). The US is full of them in the Northeast, where America's Stonehenge sits in Salem, New Hampshire.
The deva or "shining one" Lord Shiva said he
came from a rocky planet and brought some of it.
Ancient Aliens: Galactic visitors leave mystic technology | full episode
(HISTORY) Sept. 18, 2024: Did ancient Druids travel to New England and New York's Hudson Valley centuries ago, bringing with them the beliefs and technologies of their alien mentors, the "Shining Ones" [devas involved in the Buddhist Scythian/Shakyian tradition of tumuliand kurgan-pagodas, cetiyas, and chortans, Irish Aos sidhe, fay, Tuatha de Danann] of Irish mythology? See more in Season 14, Episode 7, "The Druid Connection." #ancientaliens
One of the most striking features of Buddhism, which began in Central Asia and proto-India, are the architectural features known as stupas -- which bear a striking similarity to the much older tradition the Buddha was following from Central and North Asia: tumuli, kurgans, barrows, burial mounds. Where they are place, what is put in them, and what they were used for is mysterious.
Long ago, our UCLA Professor of Buddhism Dr. Robert E. Buswell, Jr. told the class an amazing story. He had been a Zen monk in Korea (at Songgwang-sa, Cholla Namdo), living an austere life, and a Theravada Thai Buddhist monk in Thailand then disrobed and went on to become a doctoral student and professor. He detailed the long hours of meditation sesshins, how little they ate, how they slept on straw mats in the hall, which were then rolled up for a day of sitting zazen. It was the real thing, not our silly notions of Zen as wandering about navel gazing and pondering koans. One day he was surprised that to break the monotony of this season of intensive practice, when half of the monks went on extra duty cooking, warming, cleaning, and providing support, and the other half did nothing but meditate. Perhaps not understanding Korean as fluidly as he would go on to do, the monks were laughing -- if memory serves, and memory of old college lectures is not the most reliable source of information -- as they attempted to stick a straw from the broom in his scalp. Why? There was nowhere for it to go. He tried many times. They all smiled or laughed.
Zen austerities during sesshin included these things that left us rapt in class, particularly one aspiring Angeleno wanting nothing more than to move to India and become an extreme ascetic to gain the path and win enlightenment right away:
They would wake up at 3:00 or 4:00 in morning
Go to a water pump, dip two fingers in salt to brush their teeth
Go sit on reed mats and stiff cushions for the morning sit
Eat a meal of boiled rice, daikon radish they grew, a slice of ginger, and if they were lucky a sprinkle of sesame seed
Then go to meditate more, for 18 hours a day
If someone started to nod off, the Zen master might bring out swords for meditators to lean their chins on (and no one would ever fall asleep)
It was cold outside, and the zendo was warmed from the wooden floor by some creative technology from the kitchen or furnace room circulating heat under the boards.
Sesshin is, of course, an intensive, so it wasn't always like this. During the rest of the year they might chop wood, carry water, grow vegetables (mainly daikon), go on alms, rake leaves, and be mindful all day long.
(Prof. Buswell's great insight was that the Zen monastic experience is not a bunch of iconoclastic Beat poets sitting around, drinking tea, puffing pipes, writing haiku, pondering koans, and playing the flute under cherry blossom trees. They were all very learned in the texts and other studies and were in this monastery to practice beyond words. As Americans we think Zen is the easiest of all the Buddhisms because it's just "whatever," anything we want it to be. But that is not how it is in serious Asia, where this tradition is the way of "meditation" (which is what jhana, dhyana, Chan, and Zen, or Seon in Korean, mean). So with all this meditating, it's no wonder one would be more sensitive to subtle energies and architectural emanations:
When they went on their walking tour, they were headed for a stupa (솔도파, soldopha, a stone burial mound housing the Buddha's and other enlightened individuals' sacred relics or sharira). When they arrived, he reported that meditation went much better, more plunging into "Zen," which literally means jhana or "meditative absorption." His meditation was disturbed when the monks gathered around him, handed him the straw, and now it went into a pore in his scalp. The pore opened large enough to stand the straw on end. He was surprised as there had been no way to do it, to stand it, previously. The class asked, "Why, what changed, what does it mean?"
Discussing this story just now, it occurs that the "pore opening" was an assumption. The straw may have stood on end all by itself without sitting into an enlarged pore. It was just necessary, hearing the story, to imagine that it went into a little hole that opened like a third eye. But imagine an electrified field buzzing with static cling raising the straw. That makes more sense for such a strange tale. Who knows? Someone, ask Prof. Buswell: buswell@humnet.ucla.edu
"Casual Conversation with a Zen Master" (Sept. 20-21, 2024, 7:00 pm) will feature a talk by Ven. Pomnyun, a Zen Buddhist monk, peace activist, humanitarian assistance expert, and environmentalist: international.ucla.edu
He didn't seem to know other than it was just a tiny paranormal proof that meditation near these ancient Buddhist stone structures is different. Being near sharira (remains, ashes, colorful silica, glassy beads, gems from the sacred pyre) is different, and that's why they are honored. Maybe stupas (circumambulation mounds) are built on ley lines, over vortices, near portals? Maybe building them creates a portal or energy anomaly?
Sure, it could have been psychosomatic, but that seems unlikely since he didn't know what the straw was meant to do or represent in the first place. Imagine, as a hypothetical example, that it is impossible for you to get into full lotus. You just can't, never have been to from too much sitting in chairs and not doing yoga. Then you go to a stupa and suddenly slip into the posture without much effort. What changed? You weren't trying to get into it. It just came naturally. These are trivial things, but they're concrete.
UCLA with Prof. Buswell's office on upper left
Those Korean Zen Buddhist monks knew meditation would be different around the kurgan/stupa. Surely anyone who hangs around these ancient structures will eventually experience something odd. We dash in during the day, laughing and horsing around with friends, body hair rise and tingle, we giggle, run out, take a picture, and wonder why and how they were built. And we think we know the first thing about them? It's like going to Lake Titicaca to the portal rock with a doorframe carved in it for no apparent reason. Slapping the rock, taking a picture, and going away we think we know anything about what that place can do and why it was built.
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Ancient Aliens: The star visitors who shared the secrets of civilization (S14, E4) | full episode
Japan's Shinto priest handle kami
(HISTORY) Did humanoid space aliens (akasha-devas, asuras, brahmas) from the tiny star Sirius B visit earthling humans in the distant past, imparting the knowledge of civilization to peoples thousands of miles apart? The evidence suggests that this is exactly what happened, as they are describing the same types of beings with variations of their name sounding more like a matter of pronunciation.
See more in Season 14, Episode 4, "The Star Gods of Sirius." Watch all new episodes of Ancient Aliens, Fridays at 9/8c, and stay up to date on all favorite shows on The HISTORY Channel website at history.com/schedule. #AncientAliens
HISTORY, Aug. 28, 2024; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
(HISTORY) Aug. 27, 2024: Within esoteric Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism, one may hold the key to accessing alien realms (lokas, planes, dimensions, worlds) through deep meditation for the development of the "rainbow light body."
Once one is in this "enlightened" state, interdimensional and interstellar travel can take place.
This is a clip about Shambhala from Season 16 of Ancient Aliens, "The Lost Kingdom."
The real meaning of "enlightenment" (bodhi) is awakening (budh), which means escape and liberation. From what?
It is freedom from the round of endless rebirths (samsara) through countless worlds over incalculable aeons. These worlds are categorized into 31 general "planes." Actually, others are mentioned (such as the "interstitial hells" between bubble universes or world-systems, which are lit up when a Supremely Awakened One arises), so 31 should not be thought of as fixed.
There are countless world-systems (galaxies, universes?) in the 10,000 directions of space.
Some only come into existence during the dispensation of a supremely enlightened teacher (a samma-sam-buddha), who brings into being the suddhavatior "Pure Abodes" between this world and final liberation.
Tibetan letter "A" ("ahh") inside a thigle
Stories of these special realms open only to partially enlightened beings seem to have been taken by some Mahayana Buddhists to refer to the "Pure Land" of a Cosmic Buddha named Amitabha. Worship of such beings as these other buddhas, like Maitreya, have left the historical Buddha Siddhartha "Shakyamuni" Gautama on the shelf and in the background. Attention and reverence are turned to other figures, who sound remarkably like Brahmanical/Vedic/Hindu deities recast into Buddhist cosmology. Buddhist terms are used to co-opt the popularity of the Buddha's Teachings (Dharma) to divert attention and prominence to the old Brahmins' sacred Vedas. It's very Mahayana yet not so much in line with what the historical Buddha was trying to accomplish in bringing light to the world.
Scientists are cheating, reading mystic texts from the East, catching up to Buddhist cosmology
.
What is the rainbow body?
The rainbow body manifested
In Dzogchen, "rainbow body" (Tibetan འཇའ་ལུས་, Wylie'ja' lus, Jalü, or Jalus) is a level of realization. This may or may not be accompanied by the "rainbow body phenomenon."
The rainbow body phenomenon is pre-Buddhist in origin [1] and is a topic that has been treated fairly seriously in Tibet for centuries past and into the modern era [likely originating in yogic practices, Brahmanism, and Vedic Hinduism].
Devin, can you give the shortest possible answer?
Other esoteric Vajrayana Buddhist teachings also mention rainbow body phenomena, which occur during or after the dying process.
The rainbow body phenomenon is a third-person perspective of someone else attaining complete knowledge (Tibetan རིག་པ, Wylie rigpa).
Rebirth by karma into planes
"Knowledge" is the absence of delusion regarding the display of the basis. Rigpa has three wisdoms:
kadag,
lhun grub,
thugs rje.
Kadag deals with trekchö [3]. The lhun grub aspect has to do with esoteric practices, such as (but not limited to) tögal, that self-liberate the human body into a Sambhoga-kāya ("rainbow body phenomenon") [3, 4]. More
Let's divide the universe (multiverse) into six realms: demon, animal, human, angelic
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Ancient Aliens; Gaia (video); Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
(HISTORY) Sept. 5, 2024: Follow along as Host Giorgio Tsoukalos travels around the world to get to the bottom of historians' most pressing questions in this short compilation from Ancient Aliens.
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The tall statues and 9-foot giants of Sardinia
The UnXplained: 9-foot skeletons found in Sardinia, Italy
(HISTORY) Is it possible that the bones and skulls of actual literal giants (from the "giants' grave") have been hidden from the public on purpose by the Smithsonian Institution (a consortium of museums with influence throughout the world)? Who knew Sardinia had a magic and otherworldly well in no way built by ancient Sardinians without advanced technology, mathematics, and help from otherworldly visitors, likely the giants mating with human women as recounted in their ancient lore? See more in this scene from Season 4, Episode 22, "Mysterious Monoliths."
There are also structures similar to the block-type giants' tombs on the nearby Island of Malta, in the United Kingdom [2], and in Menorca (naveta) [3]. More
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Ancient Aliens: Cosmic communication system carved into Earth (S14, E2) | full episode
Who is she, this Guardian?
(HISTORY)
Aug. 14, 2024: Satellite images [on Google Earth] have revealed a giant Indigenous face that appears to be carved into the Earth in Alberta, Canada, which has now become known far and wide as "The Badlands Guardian."
See more in Season 14, Episode 2, "The Badlands Guardian."
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Ancient Aliens: The Mysteries of Nikola Tesla (S8, E6) | full episode
(HISTORY) He is one of the most prolific inventors of the 20th century -- the Croatian man who actually electrified the world. He is much more significant than Thomas Edison, who tried to keep up with Tesla's genius. See more in Season 8, Episode 6, "The Tesla Experiment."
What did the US government agents (FBI/CIA/NSA) find so important among his effects after he passed away that they confiscated them, developed them in secret, and used them for military purposes rather than what he and the ETs who channeled the information to him intended? The dream was free energy, and we seem further away from that than ever. Capitalism to the rescue again. Not. David Wilcox (the rebirth of Edgar Cayce) knows it, and we know the source of his information and insights because he said so publicly. He disclosed the existence of life on other planets and their communication with him.
Ancient Aliens: Tesla's secret Time Travel connection
(HISTORY) Sept. 28, 2023: Did Tesla predict the future of technology [or travel to it]? This genius was in communication with off-planet intelligences, helpful extraterrestrials rooted in human history. He invented anti-gravity ships (flying saucers, electrified vimanas). See more in this compilation from Ancient Aliens.
Researcher and author David Paulides; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly, June 19, 2023
"Ghouls" (yakkhas) aren't real, are they? That's just Buddhist Indian mythology, like Christian "dragons" and Islamic genies (djinn), or Native American ogres. It can't be real...can it? Maybe it's space aliens snatching these missing persons or others from other dimensions traveling through portals and back. Why won't Paulides say what he thinks it is?
Missing 411: Mt. Shasta disappearances
(Ret. Det.) David Paulides
(The Lore Lodge) Missing 411 premiered Oct. 14, 2022. Mt. Shasta in Northern California, USA, has become the center of a number of mysteries and a hot spot for paranormal encounters.
Missing hikers, hollow hills, a robotic grandma, strange disappearances, and an underground "city" of otherworldly beings, perhaps Lemurians...welcome to The Lore Lodge.
0:00 - Intro
0:16 - Mt. Shasta Folklore and History
9:57 - Mt. Shasta Robo-Granny
15:39 - Carl Landers Disappearance
26:23 - Outro
Retired police detective David Paulides and his team have collected facts about missing persons all around the country, including particular hotspots like Mt. Shasta and Yosemite, that cannot be explained by conventional means -- serial killers, Sasquatch or alien abductions, demons, dimensional anomalies, and so on. They are baffling mysteries, and he is a frequent guest on Coast to Coast paranormal talk radio to discuss his latest findings.
Joe Scott, 4/24/23, 1/16/20; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
(Joe Scott) In 2006, a mysterious man appeared on the streets of Kiev, Ukraine, claiming to have come from the Year 1958.
The story gets crazier from there. The Sergei Ponomarenko story has become a bit of an internet phenomenon as one of the most compelling time traveler stories ever documented.
It's a great story. But is it any more than that?
Special thanks to AJ over at The Why Files for sharing his research from his video, find it here: The Time Traveler who Vanished
The man who disappeared for 27 years | Random Thursday
(Joe Scott) Dissociative fugues states are when a person suffers an involuntary erasure of identity, literally living under a different personality for months or even years before waking up with no memory of the time that has passed. One of the most perplexing cases of this is the mystery of Benjamin Kyle (BK Doe), a man who was found beaten and naked behind a dumpster in 2004 and had no memory of his life or identity.
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(Galaxy Vault) Marine scientists using AI (artificial intelligence) finally decode whale "language" -- and what they've been saying is a surprise. Whale vocalizations? These earthling giants of the ocean have a real language with many dialects and great sophistication? We can now communicate with them? Project CETI (CEtation Translation Initiative), following the model of the SETI program, leads the way.
