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Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Time Travel and Buddhist physics (video)

Should consciousness follow the body (in lab) or the body follow consciousness (on mat)?
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Always be mindful of the here and now.
Dr. Crazynovich(Dr. Crazynovich) April 19, 2026: John Titor and the Second American Civil War. On November 2, 2000, a user calling himself "TimeTravel_0" appeared on the Time Travel Institute forums and made a claim that should have been dismissed as obvious fiction. He was a soldier from the year 2036, sent back on a military mission to retrieve an IBM 5100 computer that his era needed to debug legacy systems inherited from the late twentieth century. He had been routed through the year 2000 for what he called personal reasons. He was there, he said, to observe the world before it changed. Within weeks, he migrated to the Art Bell forums under a new name, John Titor, and began posting with a specificity that no casual hoaxer has ever sustained for long. He described his time machine in engineering detail.
COMMENTARY: Mindfulness of Time Travel
Dhr. Seven, Sheldon S., Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly, Ananda, June 10, 2026

Man, Spinoza was as genius as Tesla!
It is deadly easy to laugh at "time travel." But what we are laughing at is not the real thing so much as all our assumptions about it. Is it real? We have reason to think so. Jewish science, for example, in the form of Alvy Einstein, Bibi Spinoza, and Dr. Brucey Goldberg. Alvy drew up no equations making it impossible, did he? Time might go in either direction, and there's the curious case of retrocausation, not to mention "spooky action at a distance," which Alvy doubted, now known as quantum entanglement.

What about God? - Yeah, what about it? When Alvy, who was quite possibly a JewBu, was asked about that it, he stated that his God was Spinoza's God.
But who cares about science? If we cared, we might make more of fellow scientists raising an alarm in Pasadena about our planet/plane.

Pederastic Jewish fantasy as Da Costa 'instructs'
little Bibi Spinoza on his lap (Sam Hirszenberg)
However, Bruce Goldberg is the most interesting of the three named, for he says with absolute certainty that not only is time travel possible, we're already doing it. Who's "we"? We as in you and me. What? Here's easy proof. Close your eyes. Close them! Hold perfectly still. More still, samadhi-like stillness, quietude. Feel it?

Right NOW, right here, we're traveling into the future. It's true! Look at the calendar! Look at a watch! Oh, that doesn't count! No proof is good enough, and it never has been. Stubborn!

Which way does time travel? In a spiral?
So we are "traveling" in time, you admit? Yes, look, the real question is, Can we go back (or sideways) in time? That immediately brings up the problem of space, not outer space, not even inner space. I'm talking about the space right here. To go "sideways" is my way of saying bilocation or colocation. For instance, when "now" arrived the first time, I was right here. Might I, on the second occasion, have been somewhere else?

Can I go back to that now and be somewhere else that time? If so, that would be time travel! Can I, or all of us, go back at all? Goldberg says yes, and if you pay him, he'll take you back, so you can shut yer yapper and stop asking all these doubt-filled questions full of investigative energy and childlike curiosity. After all, what will that mean?
  • Ven. Thay, what time is it?
    NOTE: If time travel becomes possible, WHEN will we have it? WHEN will it be true? WHEN will I get to do it? - These questions were all answered in an instant when we gathered to protest at JPL's back parking lot near the head of Tovaangar's Gabrieleno Trail (JPL). We were all chanting, "What do we want!?" - "Time travel!" - "When do we want it!?" - "Whenever!" ("Whenever"? Shouldn't we have answered, "NOW!"? which is how protest chants usually go? Well, yes, but as many on the scene argued, it won't matter. Why? It won't matter because WHEN we have time travel (due to our ability to go back or forward to any time that's ever been or will be), we will have had time travel all along, and "all along" includes NOW, which is when we have it, if we EVER get it. Get it? See the problem? If not, refer to the increasingly inaccurate trilogy borne out of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in which the genius Douglas Adams discusses the problematic grammar (tense constuctions) of having it.
  • [Eckhart Tolle, when is "NOW"? And, by the way, how many "nows" are there?]
Step into the Eternal Now
That is hard to say because it seems to mean various things -- and those things change our view and version of "reality." Sci-fi says going back and changing anything means changing it [and everything else due to the butterfly effect] for everyone.

What if it only changes for us? For example, I said "no." What if I went back in time and were to say "yes"? Just that change, what would it do? Would all the world and universe be different? Would it shatter our dimension? Would I be happy? Would the world regret it? It seems Brucey Baby is talking about not that but jumping timelines to a line (which is to say a time) where I did. And what happened?

I could go see. Would anybody else see? They would in that timeline, but I might like to come back to this timeline. Could I? Yes, Dr. Goldberg says, and he adds that that's what we're doing all the time anyway. (That may be the realization of reality we are not ready for).
Maybe we should just Be Here Now
So we already are time traveling! Jewish science. Is it a coincidence that those identifying as Ashkenazi Jews are the one who have made these speculations, advancements, and claims?

Maybe, but no one can say anything about it or risk being ostracized, listed, and categorized as an "antidentite." So grin and bear it and not just because our beloved Dr. B. Goldberg of LA is a dentist who may have inhaled some pharmaceutical fumes.
Real 'physics' must be tested
Q: Buddhist physics proves? A: Awakening now! - Weightless in space and stuck forever?

Wait then, what is "space"?

What is the absence of zero? (Enso)
In Buddhist phenomenology, akasha is divided into "limited space" (ākāsa-dhātu) and "endless [or boundless] space" (ajatākasā) [9]. The Vaibhāṣika, an early school of Buddhist philosophy, holds the view that the existence of akasha is real [10].

Ākāsa is identified as the first arūpa jhāna ("formless/immaterial absorption," dhyana in Buddhism), but that plane (among the four immaterial planes of the 31 Planes of Existence) and that absorption (by which one arrives at it) is usually translated as "infinite space" [11], with WQ preferring "boundless" space.

Two meanings of "space"
Sir, is 'space' fifth great element?
"Space" (Pali Ākāśa, Sanskrit, akasha) holds two primary meanings in Abhidhamma and Abhidharma analysis [12].

There is spatiality, where Ākāśa is defined as the absence that delimits forms. Like the empty space within a door frame, it is an emptiness (hollow) that is shaped and defined by the material boundary surrounding it.

And there is "vast space," where Ākāśa is described as the absence of obstruction (boundlessness), categorized as one of the nityadharmas ("permanent phenomena") because it remains unchanged over time.

Ether (aether) is real
In this sense, it is likened to the discarded Western concept of aether—a real but scientifically rejected immaterial, bright, lminous "fluid" (possibly like the Bible's "waters above" the firmament) that supports the Four Great (material) Elements (Buddhism's mahābhūta).
  • These "elements" (dhatus) are actually four major qualities of matter or materiality understood as various particles (RUPA-kalapas), exhibiting a predominance of one quality over the others, which amounts to more than a dozen major expressions placed for simplicity into four big categories.
  • Now listen up. This is verified Buddhist science.
    BUDDHIST     "PARTICLE" PHYSICS: A rupa-kalapa or "form particle" is a "corporeal group," a "material unit" that designates a combination of several physical phenomena constituting a temporary, flowing, functional unity.
  • Therefore, for instance, inanimate or so-called "dead matter" forms the most primitive group, consisting only of eight physical phenomena. These are called the "pure eightfold unit" or "octad" (suddhatthaka-kalāpa), comprised of: The Four Elements (solidity, fluidity, temperature, motion); color, smell, taste, nutriment (pathavī, āpo, tejo, vāyo; vanna, gandha, rasa, ojā). 
  • In The Path of Purification (Vis.M.) and elsewhere, it is also called ojatthamaka-kalāpa, "the octad with nutriment as the eighth factor." The simplest form of living matter is the "ninefold vitality unit" or "life-ennead" (jīvita-navaka-kalāpa), formed by adding "vitality" (jiva) to the octad. Seven decads, or "units of ten" (dasaka-kalāpa), are formed by adding to the ninefold unit one of the following corporeal phenomena: HEART (citta, hrdayam, the physical seat of mind) [the physical seat of consciousness, not formally declared by the Buddha but understood to be located near the physical heart at a tiny spot at the upper part of it where it exhibits greenish hue and mirror-like function, reflecting conscious experience, which may sound preposterous but is personally verifiable by meditative-scientists, as are all of the claims made in this physics section], sex, eye, ear, nose, tongue, or body.
  • See Vis.M. XVIII, 4; Compendium of Buddhist Philosophy (PTS), p. 164, 250; Atthasālini Tr., II, 413f. Source
Oh, to know the world as the Buddha knew it!
Ether's radiant quality (aether meaning "brightness") often serves as a metaphor for pure luminous (or original) mind or buddhahood, which is described as shining like the sun or space.

In Buddhist samatha meditation, ākāśa is significant in the context of the sphere of boundless/infinite space (ākāśānantyāyatana), the first of the four immaterial absorptions (arupa-jhanas or dhyānas) [12].

Philosophically, ākāśa is considered one of the uncompounded phenomena (asaṃskṛtadharmas) in six Buddhist schools, including the defunct Sarvāstivāda and Mahāsāṃghika, and later the Yogācāra. However, three other schools, including the extant Theravāda, reject this interpretation [12]. More
Time in Greek mythology
Chronos and New Year Cupid
Chronos (Ancient Greek Χρόνος, Romanized Khronos, lit. "Time," Modern Greek ['xronos], also spelled Chronus like the Wise Woman The Crone but not the Titan Cronus), is a personification of time in Greek mythology discussed in pre-Socratic philosophy and later literature [1]. His consort is Goddess Ananke.*
 
Chronos is frequently confused with, or perhaps consciously identified with, the Titan Cronus in antiquity, due to the similarity in names [2]. The identification became more widespread during the Renaissance ("Rebirth"), giving rise to the iconography of Father Time wielding the harvesting scythe [3] like Death (Buddhist Mara).

Greco-Roman mosaics depicted Chronos as a man turning the zodiac wheel [4]. He is comparable to the deity Aion (kalpa, aeon) as a symbol of cyclical time [5]. More
  • Ananke and her daughters the Fates
    *Goddess Ananke: In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Ananke (Ἀνάγκη, from the common noun "force, constraint, necessity," ἀνάγκη), is a personification of inevitability or compulsion, and is customarily depicted holding a spindle. The births of Ananke and her incestuous brother and divine consort, Chronos (the personification of time), were thought to mark the division between the aeon of Chaos and the beginning of our cosmos. She is considered the most powerful dictator (director) of fate and circumstance. Mortals and gods (devas) alike respect her power and pay her homage. She is considered the Mother of the Fates, hence she is thought to be the only being to overrule their decisions [1] (according to some sources, excepting Zeus also). According to Daniel Schowalter and Steven Friesen, she and the Fates "are all sufficiently tied to early Greek mythology to make their Greek origins likely"[2]. More
Alan Watts: Atomic Theory (Tao/God)
(Official Alan Watts Org) Atomos ("uncuttable"), smallest material unit
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Monday, February 17, 2025

Not My President Day protests, USA

The electric Cybertruck is the national vehicle. DOGE is the new Dept. of Re-Education.
"Elect a clown, expect a circus" continued: It's No Kings Day. Trump "Not My President" protests were held in LA and various U.S. cities, reports FOX 11 Los Angeles. Across the country, peaceful demonstrations were held to protest against Presidents DJ Trump and Elon Musk and their executive orders. No kings on Presidents' Day was the call in Washington, DC (WUSA9).

Beauty Kay Trump likes the ricn Beast: Why?

Anti-Trump demonstrators in Maryland, USA
Hundreds gathered outside the State House Monday (Feb. 17) to protest Pres. DJ Trump and the government-cutting moves being pushed by billionaire lonE Musk, as part of a coordinated national effort on President’s Day 2025.

The protest was organized through 50501, a decentralized movement that sprang from the social media site Reddit, after Trump’s election, featured speeches from Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Rep. Sarah Elfreth (D-3rd), as well as a slate of local politicians and leaders. “People need to speak out and push back,” Van Hollen said after speaking to the crowd. “I think this is an important part of our democracy, and these are great patriots out here today.” More: Maryland Matters

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

Brightest cosmic objects and the Buddha

Dhr. Seven, CC Liu, Sheldon S., Seth Auberon (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit, MSN.com
Our discussion began when scientists announced finding 'brightest object in universe' (MSN)
Brightest known object in the universe was hiding in plain sight for decades (CNN)

Countless worlds in 31 categories or planes
The Buddha, when talking about luminary beings on various planes of existence (devas or "shining ones" and brahmas "supreme beings"), pointed out their remarkable brightness. The strange thing is that it sounds almost as if the objects in the sky (space or akasha) are the beings themselves in various celestial worlds farther and farther away from the base or ground of the earth. This aligns with the ancient practice of many if not all cultures to equate beings (angels, demigods, godlings, Gods, deities, and divinities) with planets and stars, e.g., Gaia/Bhumi, Surya/Sol, Soma/Chandra/Luna, and the local planetary or "celestial bodies").
Even Dr. Steven Greer is adamant that our Earth is a literal living goddess, not a figurative one.

And the Buddha in the Jataka or "Rebirth Tales" speaks of people, himself included, as being reborn as the Sun and Moon. Buddhist cosmology ranks beings and 31 general Planes of Existence, who achieve their rebirth in those exalted worlds by the strength and profundity of their mastery of jhana (meditative absorption, which provides temporary purification). Rebirth is not random or by chance but based on karma. The karma of absorption is miraculous. Moreover, the order of the cosmos, each world-system, includes stations -- such as each world having a "Sakka" and a "Maha Brahma," with people reborn into those positions for a span of time. Sakka, the King of the Devas, is not Sakka; there are many sakkas (Indras, archangels). He is not king of all devas; there are many more devas above him.

Know and see for yourself without authorities.
The same is true of the many kinds of brahmas, or divinities. Maha Brahma or "Great Brahma" is not the only brahma and not at all the greatest brahma, with their being other maha brahmas in other world systems, just as there are other buddhas in other worlds but at most only one in each at any given time. The details or regularities of the universe (multiverse) are explained as the niyamas in Buddhism. What is ultimately unclear is, Are the beings born supreme on a planetary body lending their name to that body, or are they that body? Is Sol, the Sun (Surya in India), a person manifesting as the sun, or does he rule on the sun, like calling this country Joey and its rival Vlad, or imagining that all of our personal names for the local planets are those beings, rather than just powerful personalities on those inanimate worlds.

Reading Eastern and Western texts, one has to assume that the answer is both. Gaia is a being, and this very living planet full of living beings is the impersonal "Mother Nature" personified for animistic religions and astronomers.

Now science has stumbled on something so mindbogglingly bright in the universe that it can hardly fathom it and wants to leave us all in awe, just as the Buddha seemed to experience some awe at the brightness of the brahmas and supernal devas of which/whom he personally knew.
Mapping Buddhist cosmology's grand view of universe/multiverse and its world-systems

Dhamma Aboard Evolution
One resolution to these questions that comforts the Western mind is that the Buddha must have been speaking figuratively. A Buddhist monk with a Ph.D. explains the Buddhist "Genesis story" in a very science-friendly way: Dhamma Aboard Evolution: A Canonical Study of Agganna Sutta in Relation to Science.

The sutra tells the long story of the arising of humanoid life on earth, arriving from space (the heavens or akasha), alighting on this planet, liking it, and becoming increasingly dense and coarsened as they enjoy sensuality here. But what if they are NOT literal personal beings coming down from space and setting foot on a rocky outpost in the sky but rather LIGHT itself congealing here, giving rise to all the life we now see in our world?
  • "Abhassara [shining ones] are taken to be PHOTONS, taking ‘âbhassara’ in a literal etymological sense of ‘hither-come-shining-arrow’" (Ven. Dr. Sugunasiri, Ph.D., Dhamma Aboard Evolution).*
Mystics know what scientists don't
It's a nice possibility that explains the hard-to-believe. But the hard-to-believe is often literally true. It's a matter of how expansive our understanding is, rather than attempting to kowtow to the ever-shifting God "Science."

For instance, we have reason to believe that the 31 Planes of Existence are literally true (unlike Bhikkhu Bodhi's suggestion that maybe they are merely psychological states) and that this can be confirmed by meditation if one develops the eight jhanas and looks for them. We have known people to do it.


Oh, great Buddha, how can we ever know?
It's a nice compromise to see not gods but natural phenomena as being the subject of the sutra made comprehensible for the Buddha's audience, two Brahmins asking how it all began. But if the Buddha is only speaking figuratively, which he might be, he is certainly going into a great deal of detail about these beings, what happened to them, and why.


They came from a world where they fed on joy and flew through the sky. They came here, ate mushrooms (a delightful, savory, fungal mat or biofilm that grew freely), became sexually dimorphic, had sex, enjoyed it, and then began to engage in worse and worse karma, resulting in a change of the environment for the worse: devolution not evolution. But things are cyclical, so evolution returns later in the span of a great aeon (maha kalpa, part of India's staggering conception of geological and cosmic spans of time based on the Vedas, "Knowledge Books," and other seers such as Jainism's founder Mahavira).

Now science tells a new story, lumping unbelievable thing on top of further unbelievable thing. There are black holes. Unbelievable. This is what black holes are. Unbelievable. There are also supermassive black holes. Unbelievable. We don't see them because it's all invisible, but an accretion disk forms at the event horizon, where light and shadow blend and get pulled in by gravity too strong to resist, falling into oblivion and maybe popping out the other end where a white hole gives rise to other universes. And in the process, light is given off by things heating up... Unbelievable. But you have no choice! Believe. Obey. Bow to scientific speculations, and mock mysticism in the process.
  • Eternal oblivion: "cessation of consciousness after death" does not happen because samsaric rebirth (patisandhi) asserts itself and relinks so that there is reappearance, again-becoming, renewed existence again and again...without end until awakening (bodhi).
Science: mythmaking mixed with math
If only we could merge subjective experience of Buddhist meditation with objective science.
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Priest dressed all in white speaking gibberish
The brightest object in the Universe is a Black Hole that eats a Star a day (msn.com) because He's hungry and the Stars are in his way as he's trying to grow and spin everything around Himself to swallow other competing Black Holes in other parts of Infinite Hyperspace throughout the Multiverse until Doomsday and the End of Time, when even Death shall die and return to the Nothingness from which the Great Big Bang produced itself because it was lonely and needed to know itself through an infinite number of photons it shot out into the inky blackness of space, and that's how we came into being, in God's drama (lila), His play-pretend that we are separate rather than One, and as Priest Einstein tells us, we shall again be One when we wake up from the dream of separation. We can prove it. Here's the proof: E=MC2. If you don't know what that means, tough S. Should have studied Sanskrit and memorized the slokas or merged with Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva or gone to Cambridge Church and the Oxford Temple of Knowledge so that esoteric dons in robes could reveal it encoded in numbers. Thou shalt worship at the feet of Data and learn to love it. And bow to anyone who can spin a tale not contradicted by newer numbers coming from our telescopes and computer models.

Science: brightest thing in the universe
Christian Wolf (phys.org via MSN.com, 2/20/24); Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
This is the brightest thing in the universe, says science. The red dot is a neighboring star. Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey DR10/Nature Astronomy, CC BY-SA. © Provided by phys.org.


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It's the compressed matter around the hole?
Let's ask science, the know-it-alls of objective truth. Q: What is the brightest thing in the universe? A: Quasar J0529-4351, which is a glowing disc of matter around a supermassive black hole, and it is 500 trillion times brighter than the sun.
  • [How much is a "trillion"? It is 1,000 billion. How much is a "billion"? It is 1,000 million. And how much is a "million"? It is 1,000 x 1,000. So how many millions is 500 trillion?]
Here's the evidence. Check our math if you want.
Scientists have now reported evidence of the true conditions in Hell [which is apparently located in the heavens], perhaps because no one has ever returned to tell the tale.

Hell [in Buddhist cosmology, there are many hells, the worst of which is this one, "The Waveless" or Avici] has been imagined as a supremely uncomfortable place, hot and hostile to bodily forms of human life.

You mean you think a black hole makes light?
Thanks to a huge astronomical survey of the entire sky [all of visible space or the akasha loka], we have now found what may be the most hellish place in the universe.

A new paper in Nature Astronomy describes a black hole surrounded by the largest and brightest disk of captive matter ever discovered. The object, called J0529-4351, is therefore also the brightest object found so far in the universe. More
*Who were the Ābhassara space beings who gave rise to human earthlings?
Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit, Section on Spatial cosmology (31 Planes of Existence)
Trying to explain cosmology (MC Owens, SF)
Ābhāsvara worlds (second absorption): The mental state of the devas ("shining ones") of the Ābhāsvara (आभास्वर) worlds corresponds to the second jhana (Sanskrit dhyāna) and is characterized by delight (piti) as well as joy (sukha); the Ābhāsvara devas are said to shout aloud in their joy, crying aho sukham! ("Oh joy!").

These devas have bodies that emit flashing rays of light like lightning. They are said to have similar bodies (to each other) but diverse perceptions. [Humans are said to have different bodies and different perceptions.]

Three Spheres of 31 Planes of Existence
The Ābhāsvara worlds form the upper limit to the destruction of the universe by fire at the end of a mahā kalpa ("great aeon," see Temporal cosmology below), that is, the column of fire [temperature] does not rise high enough to reach them.

After the destruction of the world [world-system, galaxy, cosmos, universe], at the beginning of the vivarta-kalpa, the worlds are first populated by beings reborn from the Ābhāsvara worlds.
Ābhāsvara or Ābhassara in Pali (आभस्सर, Vietnamese Trời Quang Âm, Chinese 光音天, Tibetan འོད་གསལ་, 'od gsal, Thai อาภัสสรา or อาภาสวรา) is the plane of existence of devas "possessing splendor."

The lifespan of the Ābhāsvara devas is eight mahā kalpas (or two mahā kalpas). Eight mahā kalpas is the interval between destructions of the universe by water, which includes the Ābhāsvara worlds. The height of this world is 81,920 yojanas [roughly 573,440 miles] above the Earth. More
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