(Robert Sepehr) In the Bible, the forbidden fruit is a name given to the fruit growing in the Garden of Eden, which God commands humankind not to eat. Historians have speculated that it may have been a pomegranate, fig, grape, apple, or [entheogenic] mushroom. This presentation addresses the esoteric interpretation, and its occult significance passed down by various mystery schools and secret societies.
[A "mystery school," according to Dr. Ammon Hillman, is essentially a drug cult teaching the "mysteries" of ecstatic union with the substance or with a divinity through practices and the substance. The dedication of adepts is around a goddess or deity, in which initiates are introduced to reality through plant helpers and divine beings.
Taoism, founded by a divinity named Lao Tzu, is perhaps the oldest of China's three main religions, rounded out by Buddhism and Confucianism.
Celibacy is an excellent way of conservation of energy for spiritual purposes. But Taoism and Tibetan yoga might also suggest tantric sex with semen retention to cultivate the forbidden "fruit" of internalenergy.
It is a powerful practice with the power to awaken our divinity if undertaken properly and with guidance. It is a significant component of esoteric Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhist practice by its yogis and yoginis.]
[Female deities like Vajrayogini, sexually suggestive and streaming with blood, overturn traditional separation between intercourse and menstruation [19].
In some forms of Buddhism, tantric sex is strongly associated with the practice of semen retention, as sexual fluids are considered an energetic substance that must be reserved for higher purposes.
Many Buddhist tantric texts direct the focus away from sexual emission towards retention and intentionally prolonged bliss. More]
The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath by Yogi Ramacharaka (1903)
(Master Key Society) This book explores the principles and techniques of yogic breathing, highlighting its benefits for physical health, mental clarity, and spiritual development.
SUMMARY: The book The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath was written by Yogi Ramacharaka, first published in 1904. It is a study of the "science of breath" (pranayama) and the ways in which it affects body and mind.
At the core of the book is the idea that breath (prana, pneuma, holy spirit, animating principle) is the key to physical and mental well-being and that by learning to control and regulate our breath, we can improve our health and achieve a higher level of consciousness.
The book explores a range of techniques for controlling and regulating the breath, including pranayama, the practice of controlling the breath through specific breathing exercises.
Throughout the book, author Yogi Ramacharaka discusses the science behind the various techniques for controlling the breath and offers practical advice for incorporating these techniques into daily life.
He also explores the role of breath in spiritual development and offers guidance for using the power of the breath to connect with a higher power.
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Book Shelf
00:45 - I. Salaam
06:32 - II. “Breath Is Life”
13:10 - III. The Exoteric Theory of Breath
24:53 - IV. The Esoteric Theory of Breath
34:27 - V. The Nervous System
41:41 - VI. Nostril Breathing vs. Mouth Breathing
50:48 - VII. The Four Methods of Respiration
01:03:28 - VIII. How to Acquire the Yogi Complete Breath
01:10:02 - IX. Physiological Effect of the Complete Breath
01:19:48 - X. A Few Bits of Yogi Lore
01:27:11 - XI. The Seven Yogi Developing Exercises
01:38:02 - XII. Seven Minor Yogi Exercises
01:44:11 - XIII. Vibration and Yogi Rhythmic Breathing
01:53:46 - XIV. Phenomena of Yogi Psychic Breathing
02:08:33 - XV. More Phenomena of Yogi Psychic Breathing
02:27:45 - XVI. Yogi Spiritual Breathing
Credits: Text by Yogi Ramacharaka. Audio narration by Adam Hanin.
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What if there were an Eightfold Path of Science? There is now, thanks to Dr. Radin. Can yoga and meditation unleash our inherent supernormal mental powers, such as telepathy, clairvoyance, invisibility, and precognition?
Is it really possible to
perceive another person's thoughts and intentions?
influence objects with our minds?
envision future events?
And is it possible that some of the superpowers described in ancient legends, science fiction, and comic books are actually REAL, and patiently waiting for us behind the scenes?
Are we now poised for an evolutionary trigger to pull the switch and release our full potentials?
Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) Dean Radin is the best-selling author of The Conscious Universe. He presents persuasive new experimental evidence for the existence of such phenomena.
He takes us on a thrilling scientific journey and challenges outdated assumptions that these abilities are mere superstition.
Focusing on Patanjali's mysterious Yoga Sutras -- 2,000-year-old meditation practices believed to release our extraordinary powers -- Dr. Radin offers powerful evidence confirming that sometimes fact is much stranger, spookier, and more wonderful than the wildest fiction. More
There is practice of trance (deep concentration) to become an adept capable of real magic, as Dr. Dean Radin, Ph.D.explains in his book Real Magic, and there is the mental masturbation of endless talking, theorizing, and conjecturing, positing strategies and conceptual frameworks for how it might work when the wheel has already been invented, the actions already taken and verified, the path known and walked by amateurs and adepts. But still the thinkers need to get their head around how magic could work, so we have videos like this for those. In Buddhism, "magic" is known as abhinna ("higher knowledge") and iddhis (siddhis). One would be wise to first get one's virtue in order, by a supernormal attainment of insight, before dabbling in the dangerous playground that is PSI and psychic feats.
Dr. Radin has spent the last 40 years conducting controlled experiments that demonstrate that thoughts are things, that we can sense others' intentions and emotions from a distance, that intuition is more powerful than we thought, and that we can tap into the power of intention (think The Secret, only on a more realistic and scientific level).
These dormant powers can help us to lead more interesting and fulfilling lives.
Beginning with a brief history of magic over the centuries (what was called magic 2,000 years ago is turning out to be scientific fact today), a review of the scientific evidence for magic, a series of simple but effective magical techniques (the key is mental focus, something elite athletes [and meditators] know a lot about), Dr. Radin then offers a vision of a scientifically-informed magic and explains why magic will play a key role in frontiers of science.
Dean Radin; Formscapes, 10/23/23; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Eye color has fascinated people throughout herstory. Myths and legends grew up around the rarer colors gracing the "windows to the soul."
Superstitions embedded in folklore -- such as the link between eye color and certain [psychic] abilities and personality traits -- survive into modern times [like envious green eyes on temperamental redheads], even though we now think that genetics determines eye color.
[The Buddha (formerly the Scythian Prince Siddhartha Gautama) had the "32 Marks of a Great Man," including the mark of a Dharma wheels on the soles of his feet, long digits, a lion-like torso, sensitive taste buds, evenly spaced white teeth, a very long tongue, long arms that reach his knees, very blue eyes (like ocean sapphire), and a sheath over his sexual organs (S.A. Mattice, 2021). The 29th mark is abhi-nīla-netto, "very blue eyes, like sapphire, eyes deep blue" (R.B. Epstein, 2012). Prince Siddhartha, who became the Buddha (the "Awakened One") at the age of 35, also had the 80 secondary characteristics.]
Approximately 16 genes determine eye color, and genes are influenced by incomplete dominance and epistasis.
"Epistasis" means that a gene is affected by the expression of one or more additional (modifier) genes. In brief, eye color depends on many different genes and their effects on one another.
Redheads, though rare, are plentiful in media.
But I have BLUE eyes! - No, you don't: The appearance of blue, green, and hazel eyes results from the Tyndall scattering of light in the stroma, a phenomenon similar to Rayleigh scattering, which accounts for the false blue color of the sky [5]. Neither blue nor green pigments are present in the human iris or vitreous humour. It's an illusion. More
Eyes of any color contain the same number of melanocytes. Variations in the amount, distribution, and type of melanin pigments within melanocytes account for different colors. More
"[Sir] Jagadish Chandra Bose's wireless inventions antedated those of Marconi." Overhearing this provocative remark, I walked closer to a sidewalk group of professors engaged in scientific discussion. If my motive in joining them was racial [nationalistic] pride, I regret it. I cannot deny my keen interest in evidence that India can play a leading part in physics, and not metaphysics alone.
"What do you mean, sir?"
Plants and metals feel, Bose's instruments show.
The professor obligingly explained. "Bose was the first one to invent a wireless coherer and an instrument for indicating the refraction of electric waves. But the Indian scientist did not exploit his inventions commercially. He soon turned his attention from the inorganic to the organic world. His revolutionary discoveries as a plant physiologist are outpacing even his radical achievements as a physicist."
I politely thanked my mentor. He added, "The great scientist is one of my brother professors at Presidency College."
I paid a visit the next day to the sage at his home, which was close to mine on Gurpar Road. I had long admired him from a respectful distance. The grave and retiring botanist greeted me graciously. He was a handsome, robust man in his fifties, with thick hair, broad forehead, and the abstracted eyes of a dreamer. The precision in his tones revealed the lifelong scientific habit.
"I have recently returned from an expedition to scientific societies of the West. Their members exhibited intense interest in delicate instruments of my invention which demonstrate the indivisible unity of all life [Footnote 1]. The Bose crescograph has the enormity of ten million magnifications. The microscope enlarges only a few thousand times; yet it brought vital impetus to biological science. The crescograph opens incalculable vistas."
"You have done much, sir, to hasten the embrace of East and West in the impersonal arms of science."
"I was educated at Cambridge. How admirable is the Western method of submitting all theory to scrupulous experimental verification! That empirical procedure has gone hand in hand with the gift for introspection which is my Eastern heritage. Together they have enabled me to sunder the silences of natural realms long uncommunicative. The telltale charts of my crescograph [2] are evidence for the most skeptical that plants have a sensitive nervous system and a varied emotional life. Love, hate, joy, fear, pleasure, pain, excitability, stupor, and countless appropriate responses to stimuli are as universal in plants as in animals."
"The unique throb of life in all creation could seem only poetic imagery before your advent, Professor! A saint I once knew would never pluck flowers. 'Shall I rob the rosebush of its pride in beauty? Shall I cruelly affront its dignity by my rude divestment?' His sympathetic words are verified literally through your discoveries!"
"The poet is intimate with truth, while the scientist approaches awkwardly. Come someday to my laboratory and see the unequivocable testimony of the crescograph."
Gratefully I accepted the invitation and took my departure. I heard later that the botanist had left Presidency College and was planning a research center in Calcutta.
Botanist Jagadish Chandra Bose
When the Bose Institute (boseinst.ernet.in) was opened, I attended the dedicatory services. Enthusiastic hundreds strolled over the premises. I was charmed with the artistry and spiritual symbolism of the new home of science. Its front gate, I noted, was a centuried relic from a distant shrine. Behind the lotus [3] fountain, a sculptured female figure with a torch conveyed the Indian respect for woman as the immortal light-bearer. The garden held a small temple consecrated to the Noumenon beyond phenomena. Thought of the divine incorporeity was suggested by absence of any altar-image.
Bose's speech on this great occasion might have issued from the lips of one of the inspired ancient rishis.
"I dedicate today this [Bose] Institute as not merely a laboratory but a temple." His reverent solemnity stole like an unseen cloak over the crowded auditorium. "In the pursuit of my investigations I was unconsciously led into the border region of physics and physiology. To my amazement, I found boundary lines vanishing, and points of contact emerging, between the realms of the living and the non-living. Inorganic matter was perceived as anything but inert; it was athrill under the action of multitudinous forces.
"A universal reaction seemed to bring metal, plant, and animal under a common law. They all exhibited essentially the same phenomena of fatigue and depression, with possibilities of recovery and of exaltation, as well as the permanent irresponsiveness associated with death.
"Filled with awe at this stupendous generalization, it was with great hope that I announced my results before the Royal Society — results demonstrated by [reproducible] experiments.
"But the physiologists present advised me to confine myself to physical investigations, in which my success had been assured, rather than encroach on their preserves." More
1. "All science is transcendental or else passes away. Botany is now acquiring the right theory -- the avatars of Brahma will presently be the textbooks of natural history." - Emerson from the Latin root crescere, to increase. For his crescograph and other inventions, Bose was knighted in 1917.
2. The lotus flower is an ancient divine symbol in India; its unfolding petals suggest the expansion of the soul; the growth of its pure beauty from the mud of its origin holds a benign spiritual promise.
3. "At present, only the sheerest accident brings India into the purview of the American college student. Eight universities (Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, Pennsylvania, Chicago, and California) have chairs of Indology or Sanskrit, but India is virtually unrepresented in departments of history, philosophy, fine arts, political science, sociology, or any of the other departments of intellectual experience in which, as we have seen, India has made great contributions....We believe, consequently, that no department of study, particularly in the humanities, in any major university can be fully equipped without a properly trained specialist in the Indic phases of its discipline. We believe, too, that every college which aims to prepare its graduates for intelligent work in the world which is to be theirs to live in, must have on its staff a scholar competent in the civilization of India." - Extracts from an article by Professor W. Norman Brown of the University of Pennsylvania which appeared in the May 1939 issue of the Bulletin of the American Council of Learned Societies, 907 15th St., Washington, D. C., 25ø copy. This issue (#28) contains over 100 pages of a "Basic Bibliography for Indic Studies."
The child prodigy William James Sidis' father, Boris Sidis, together with the famous psychologist/philosopher William James, developed the idea that people only use 10% of their brains, a small fraction of their full mental potential.
William Sidis had a high IQ and chose to live a private and independent life (almost like a Buddhist ascetic), which some saw as a waste of his potential. This video aims to show that he continued to be a lifelong learner and thinker.
The Animate and the Inanimate is one book he wrote under his own name (as he authored others with pseudonyms). It tackles interesting ideas in physics and the reversibility of the second law of thermodynamics.
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This is an allegorical, legendary tale of how young [Scythian/Shakyian] Prince Siddhartha renounced the luxurious life of the palace to go on a quest to make an end of ALL suffering.
First he had to discover what "suffering" (dukkha) is, second its cause (ignorance, aversion, and greed, fear), third its solution (the path), and finally practice the path to full realization. The story of the Buddha has been embellished and mythologized all in the service of its message.
Oh, Ziggy, will you never learn!?
It is not a historical documentary the way we would record it today, but instead an mystic and heroic of how we can all journey to discover that what the Buddha found is relevant to ALL who suffer and are motivated to make an end of all suffering.
The suffering is not happening by accident or chance. It is being caused. It will continue so long as it remains unseen and unaddressed. But just seeing the problem is not enough. One must take up the path-of-practice that leads to serenity and insight and culminates in enlightenment (bodhi) and nirvana (liberation).
Native American botanist Dr. Kimmerer says science can study beauty (Vern/onbeing.org).
The Intelligence in All Kinds of Life
“Why is the world so beautiful?” This is a question Native American botanist Prof. Robin Wall Kimmerer pursues as a plant researcher and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
She writes, “Science polishes the gift of seeing; indigenous traditions work with gifts of listening and language.”
An expert in moss -- a bryologist -- she describes mosses as the “coral reefs of the forest.”
Her work opens a sense of wonder and humility for the intelligence in all kinds of life we are used to naming and imagining as “it” when “inanimate” would do better to describe all nonhuman living beings.
Prof. Kimmerer says that as our knowledge about plant life unfolds, human vocabulary and imagination must adapt.
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