THE FILM is a journey of hope in the midst of crisis. In the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, thousands of people are unlawfully invading protected lands, devastating centuries-old forests for resources and fast profits.
Now as the health of the entire Amazon [jungle rainforest] teeters at the edge, will Brazil and the world take notice?
Indigenous forest guardian Marçal Guajajara and Indigenous leader Puyr Tembé stand at the frontlines of this fight, risking their lives to protect their ancestral lands from relentless invasions and deforestation.
On the other side -- Valdir, an illegal logger, is trapped in a desperate struggle to make ends meet and sees no other way than continuing to cut down the forest [that supports everyone].
This is the powerful narrative at the heart of We Are Guardians — a story of hope and resilience amidst an unfolding crisis.
Through a tapestry of voices, this award-winning documentary provides a raw and intimate look at the lives of those closest to the Amazon and peels back the layers of this critical situation to reveal a story that ultimately affects all of us.
Directed by Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene, and Rob Grobman, and produced by Academy Award winner Fisher Stevens with Leonardo DiCaprio serving as executive producer, the film is an exploration of the human spirit and our collective responsibility to protect the fragile balance of our world.
Ultimately, it illuminates a path forward, where hope and unity can guide us toward a brighter future for the Amazon and our planet. More
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Hamilton Morris made his own “pharmahuasca” and spoke in tongues: Tales from the Trip
(Animated) Oh, Hamilton Morris (Hamilton's Pharmacopeia), will you never learn? We are reminded of that hippie from Reality Sandwich and the blond gal from Neuro Soup. Hamilton Morris takes pharmahuasca and screams in tongues. Then someone animates it to bring it to life for sober viewers who envy his journey. Potential travelers, beware. Wyrd is no place to wander.
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You used to be such a nice, clean-cut boy, Hamilton! Now you're Lennon
The toad venom pamphlet that changed psychedelia forever | Hamilton's Pharmacopeia (VICE TV) Haunted by his past mistakes, Hamilton embarks on a journey to correct an error in his reporting while identifying the origin of an international "toad venom" smoking phenomenon. In Season 3 of Hamilton's Pharmacopeia, the Ham Man continues his odyssey into the historical, chemical, and societal impacts of some of the world's most mind-blowing drugs. He learns more about LSD (acid), bufotenine (bufo or 5-MeO-DMT), DMT (the spirit molecule), and more. Why? It's because he wants to free his mind so his butt will follow.
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Amazon’s quantum breakthrough that everyone missed
(Sabine Hossenfelder) While Microsoft’s Majoranaquantum computingchip might have grabbed all the headlines earlier this year, Amazon appears to have quietly made some big progress in the quantum computing race. Their new Ocelot chip uses cat qubits to support a scalable architecture that reduces errors by up to 90%. What does that mean? Let’s take a look.
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First, Americans should know that there are today three Californias: upper (Alta California, USA), lower (Baja California, Mexico), and BC Sur (Southern tip, Mexico).
All three were part of Mexico for the longest time, but the British, Spanish, German, and other European settler colonialists now calling themselves the "Americans" decided to annex Alta California for their new settler colonial project.
We wouldn't be the only island, as Madagascar is to Africa, and we still have other islands.
This came amid their ongoing genocide of the indigenous folk living there, the Native or American Indians, following centuries of Spanish colonialism, which was aided and abetted by the Vatican (the Catholic Church and its maniacal "Doctrine of Discovery") and the Spanish throne. Could it be that it was once an island?
Yes. Here's why. If one travels up the Gulf of California in Mexico to San Felipe, one can easily imagine continuing all the way up to the Salton Sea(near Los Angeles), USA. That lowland desert is full of the remains of higher sea levels of the ancient past.
Connect green parts, with Gulf lower right
But where would it end? Would Alta California, USA, really be a part of a Mexican island or, as today, just a peninsula? The answer, as shown above, is Lake Corcoran (flowing out to the Pacific through the Carquinez Strait) and its ancient remnant Tulare Lake, which existed up until 1930.
Now it's a well-watered deserted and the nation's breadbasket, fondly called California's Central Valley.
Cartographers knew California was a lake and depicted as such in many maps. That was the legend, the lore, and the reality for European explorers and travelers. Even today we have a phantom lake (Lake Manly) in one of the lowest and hottest places on earth -- Death Valley, Alta California.
The "Island of California" (Spanish Isla de California)
There was a long-held global (mis)conception, dating from the 16th century, that the California region was not part of mainland North America (of which Mexico is a part)
Rather, it was known to be a large island separated from the continent by a strait now known to be the Gulf of California (part of the Pacific Ocean and not part of the Gulf of Mexico on the Atlantic side).
One of the most famous cartographic "errors" in history, it was propagated on many maps during the 17th and 18th centuries, despite contradictory evidence from various explorers [1].
The legend was initially infused with the idea that California was a terrestrial paradise, like the Garden of Eden or Atlantis.
This mapping error -- which may not have been an error at all -- was not a one-off event. From the mid-1500s to the late 1700s [2] great controversy surrounded the geography of California.
For instance, a Spanish map from 1548 depicts California as a peninsula [3], while a 1622 Dutch map depicts California as an island.
A 1626 Portuguese map depicts the land as a peninsula, while a 1630 British map depicts it as an island [4].
A French map from 1682 only shows the tip of the Baja Peninsula.
There are slightly over 1,000 maps in Stanford's Glen McLaughlin Collection of California as an island, the largest collection of such maps in the world [5].
History
Why would anyone think this island was an island?
The first known mention of the legend of the "Island of California" was in the 1510 romance novel Las sergas de Esplandián by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo—the sequel to Montalvo's more famous tales of Amadís de Gaula, father of Esplandian. He describes the island in this passage:
"Know, that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise; and it is peopled by black women, without any man among them, for they live in the manner of Amazons [6]."
It is thought that, because of the widespread popularity of Las sergas de Esplandián at the time of European exploration of California, that it is reasonable that the book inspired the naming of California [7].
Jon Stewart urges Dems to fight like Republicans and exploit loopholes | The Daily Show
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Nov. 18, 2024: Jon Stewart covers the latest post-election news from Trump and Biden world, then unpacks Republicans' strategy of aggressively exploiting loopholes, in contrast to the timid Democrats' style of following rules and norms. #DailyShow #Trump #JonStewart
(Emrick Garam | Business Coaching for Entrepreneurs) April 6, 2011: tinyurl.com/bv92vyw Been there? Heard of this landmark? This healers' bookstore is a must see in Los Angeles. This famous bookstore is closing! Try to talk about it, to save this jewel of a store, holding events with famous teachers, authors, and speakers. Namaste. Music: "Again" by Secrets in Stereo.
As part of our continuing series "Adventures in Church," we this morning enjoyed a peaceful Sunday service with the Quakers, one of the best forms of Christianity we have ever come to know (which also has a few others worth mentioning: Gnostic, Unitarian Universalist, and Seventh Day Adventist). This morning at the Friends' Meeting in Pasadena, one Friend stood up to remember Bodhi Tree Bookstore Co-Founder Phil Thompson.
(Ronnie Pontiac) PHIL THOMPSON of the Bodhi Tree Bookstore, West Los Angeles, shuffled off the mortal coil yesterday [Halloween 2024]. Many people owe him gratitude. Phil had a high paying job designing weapons of mass destruction for the U.S., but instead he decided to quit it and open a spiritual bookstore. What a magical place the store was! Read about its amazing history below.*
(Wisdom Quarterly) It's hard to overstate the importance of LA's own New Age mecca, Bodhi Tree Books, second in importance only to its namesake, the original treein ancient Proto-India even before the area came to be known as Buddhist Bihar.
There would be no Wisdom Quarterly (which began in print form) without it because so much that was learned and is now shared in these pages was gleaned from one corner of the store that sold Buddhist Publication Society books. (Hundreds of those Bodhi Leaves and Wheel titles are now available FREE from BPS.lk in Kandy, Sri Lanka).
All the other books about other religions in the emporium are out of print or available on storekiller Bezos' venture (amazon.com). We prefer to support independent bookstores like Alexandria II and Vroman's so long as they last. Thompson is survived by his fellow founder and family.
WARNING: It's hard to film a movie, even in West Hollywood, so close to where the movie industry became a worldwide business. This good idea devolves into a violent and sophomoric attempt, funny only for its location and what it may have been trying to say originally. Blood, gore, bad acting.
FILM: Foxfur: Bodhi Tree Bookstore
(Damon Packard) 12/16/11. Set in December of 2012, following the arrival of Foxfur and Khris at the Bodhi Tree Bookstore and following Khris' encounter with the Pleiadian beam ship above the Bodhi Tree. Foxfur disappears and Dewshine appears. Bob Lazar is wandering the aisles, wondering why no one came to his book signing.
Are all Plejarens blond beauties?
Semjase is a real Pleiadean or Plejaren ET, a beautiful Nordic alien, who contacted Billy Meier. He is the founder of a UFO religion called the "Free Community of Interests for the Border and Spiritual Sciences and Ufological Studies" and a contactee whose stacks of UFO photos are claimed to show alien UFO spacecraft (vimanas). Meier claims he is in regular contact with ET beings, which he calls the Plejaren [2]. He further presented metal samples, sound recordings, and film footage as evidence. How is it possible? It is said that Meier claims to be the seventh reincarnation after six prophets common to Christianity, Judaism, and Islam: Enoch, Elijah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Immanuel (aka Jesus), and Muhammad [3]. More
David Icke is discovered working the cash register at the bookstore under new cholo (Mexican gang member) management after his vanishing in early 2012. The bookstore was located under the Hollywood sign, just a few miles from the studios, next to the glass pyramid that is the Beverly Center. Scenes from the upcoming mini feature FOXFUR.
Scenes featuring Paris Wagner, Khris Kaneff, Rigg Kennedy, Erica Rhodes, Bob Ellis, Jared Cyr, Ervin J Ross, Kristine Caluya, Joseph Olibrice, Christopher Turner, Rick Klu, Linda Mintz, Stanley Griego, Abraham Rubio, Craig Henderson, Vincenzo De Ghoulie, Bogart Linares, Carlos Minoz, Tony Mendera, and Stephen Walter as the property manager. Written and directed by Damon Packard. A Stephen Carter Production.
*Illuminate Heart and Mind: Bodhi Tree Books
Ronnie Pontiac, via Threads, Nov. 1, 2024, and medium.com, March 8, 2020
How do you know if you're hip?
Like a Tibetan wind horse, for decades the flag of the Bodhi Tree Bookstore rode the breeze above Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood.
At first the freak flag flew to attract only the most underground. Then it became the flag over the capitol of the New Age. Who could count the number...that have known the complementary Bodhi Tree bookmark, with its tree logo, and the slogan: "Books to Illuminate the Heart and Mind"?
At first, run by hippies for hippies, with only a few portraits of spiritual masters on the walls, it seemed like a mirage conspired by a couple of dropouts. Then punk rockers arrived, because at the Bodhi Tree they could find books by William Burroughs, Patti Smith, and Bukowski.
As the New Age grew from a mild trickle to a mighty river, for enthusiasts the Bodhi Tree became not only the top destination in Southern California, but for many, in the United States...
[Co-Founders] Stan Madson and Phil Thompson were a couple of literal rocket scientists, aerospace engineers to be exact. They weren’t the only young people who wanted to do something more positive with their lives at the end of the 1960s.
However, they are among the few who actually did it. They created the Bodhi Tree Bookstore. In an interview with Ray Hemachandra in 2006, Stan talked about the origins of the Bodhi Tree Bookstore. It all began when he attended an event headlined by Timothy Leary:
“Tim Leary was there in a white gown, and he opened by having The Grateful Dead play music. I had never heard of The Grateful Dead. Leary said the idea was to tune in, turn on, and drop out.” But Stan was working in aerospace, he couldn’t take the plunge.
Next came Zen meditation. Then a serendipitous meeting while on a walk in Calabasas led to “a session of private talks with Krishnamurti on an estate in Malibu. So about 30 of us were sitting around talking with Krishnamurti.”
Transcendental meditation followed. “Out of all of this, and sitting around and talking amongst ourselves, we decided that there was something intrinsically wrong with doing aerospace and supporting the practice of thermonuclear war.” Years later, looking back on his life, he expressed his happiness that he had found [Buddhist] “right livelihood.”
Phil and Elsa Thompson and Stan and Fran Madson partnered with Dan and Marj Morris to open the Bodhi Tree Book and Tea Shop. The songs on the radio at the time almost tell its story. The Beatles had broken up. We can be sure “The Long and Winding Road” was playing on the transistor radio when they were hammering together the shelves and painting the walls in the modest Bodhi Tree 1.0.
The Beatles travel to India to meet their guru.
“Let it Be” had been on the radio for a few months already, along with Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” Sly and the Family Stone had a hit with “Everybody is a Star,” a song title to bring a smile to any Platonist, Paracelsian, or Thelemite.
On July 10, 1970, the Bodhi Tree opened. Bodhi Tree’s first Christmas, George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord” was Number 1. But Janis Joplin had just died that October. Jimi Hendrix had died only a few weeks before Janis. Jim Morrison would die the following summer.
Soon the clean mellow sound of California folk pop, the introspection of James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, and Carole King, ruled the airwaves. People turned inward in search of answers to suddenly pressing questions about the meaning of life, the laws of good health, and the history of human spirituality.
By 1976 the Bodhi Tree’s business had doubled then redoubled and so on so rapidly that they bought the building they had been leasing. The labor of love they themselves didn’t expect to last very long had become a success.
Dan and Marj decided to move on, perhaps because the Bodhi Tree was turning into a demanding business. On the last day of November in 1972, Phil and Elsa along with Stan and Fran formed a corporation called Bodhi Tree Bookstore Incorporated. They dropped the tea shop but always offered free tea for customers to drink and a wide selection of exotic and rare blends, both packaged and bulk, the latter to be scooped out of big glass jars and poured into ever present plastic bags.
In 1978, the small bookcase of used books grew into a stucco cottage next door that became Bodhi Tree Used Book Branch. It had a few shelves on the porch outside the old wooden door offering free books at any hour.
When shoppers entered, they breathed in the aromatic delights of the bulk herb room. Shelves of big mason jars filled with dried lavender, rose petals, licorice root, eyebright, star anise, chamomile, eucalyptus leaves, teas, and of course catnip. More:
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What if he has guns? New techniques not as good
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