Short Attn Span Theater: Moon, Cats

Closing: Some advice from Eckhart Tolle

• Is it doom scrolling, TikToking, too much screen time? Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

US to return to 'space' using a balloon

Billionaire Dick Branson to co-pilot first crewed space balloon flight

"Space" surely is thousands of miles up, at least.

The lights are out in Cuba (the whole country). The Turpan kids are being molested in foster care after being molested and tortured by their biological parents. Homelessness in California (or is it just L.A.) can be cured for just $100 billion (180,000 unhoused individuals). Los Angeles is broke (thanks, Mayor Karen), and what do we want?

• VIDEO: Dick Branson to co-pilot first crewed 'space balloon' flight float high into the sky and thinner atmosphere

US Navy's Secret Space Program

Cake and circuses, spectacles and space! What counts as "space"? Anything 20 miles up will do, but maybe science tries to say 50 miles more officially. Ask the person on the street, who'll probably answer thousands of miles. The moon and sun are in "space." And there a few thousand miles up, according to Eric Dubay, though science would have us believe they are a quarter million miles and 400 times that (100 million miles). Malarkey.

But to dare to question Science today is tantamount to the audacity to tell the Church that they're wrong. Remember Galileo? He was likely wrong but should have had the right to speculate and present his evidence rather than facing a Spanish Inquisition, Vatican investigation, or Catholic excommunication.

Space hotel to open soon?

Galactic Federations Councils & Secret Space

An astronomical new hotel courtesy of Orbital Assembly? Never mind flying to distant shores for an exciting trip. How about catapulting into space? While it might sound far-fetched, it could soon be a reality. A new space hotel, designed by space construction company Orbital Assembly Corporation, is currently being built and could soon be available for an out-of-this-world vacation. Discover what it’ll look like and when the first guests will be able to check-in: The countdown is on for the galaxy's first space hotel

We'll eventually be enforcing special no man's land laws in the international waters of space.

• VIDEO: Epic fails can sometimes be hilarious

Great Pyramid: Oldest Cover-Up in History

The Great Pyramid Mystery: The Oldest Cover-Up in History

(MindFKD w/ Patrick James) Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the most mysterious structures on the planet. This video explores the mind-bending precision of the massive stone blocks that defy explanation. Let's uncover the secrets behind how the structure was built and delve into the sacred geometry and archeoastronomy meticulously encoded within the pyramid's structure. Get ready to question everything humanity thought we knew about ancient history.

• 0:00 Mysterious Shaft recently discovered
• 2:19 Mainstream beliefs about the Great Pyramid
• 3:02 No Mummies ever found
• 3:48 No Hieroglyphs ever found
• 4:31 Insanely large stones making up the Great Pyramid
• 6:05 Mind-bending precision cuts in the stones
• 8:45 Built in just 20 years? (Yeah right!)
• 10:25 The 8-sides of the Great Pyramid
• 11:08 Geodesic center of Earth
• 11:27 Accuracy to "True North"
• 11:59 Advanced mathematics knowledge
• 13:18 Scale model of planet Earth
• 15:58 Significance of 432
• 17:06 Alignment to Orion Constellation
• 18:16 Joe Parr's Experiment
• 20:16 Implications?
• 21:29 Proof of Advanced Ancient Civilization
• 22:53 The Sphinx

The Sphinx's Secret: The Hidden Room

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• Patrick James (MindFKD), Dec. 22, 2023; Pat Macpherosn, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Infinite size of Multiverse infinitely bigger

Physicists think the infinite size of the multiverse could be infinitely bigger

When another universe begins: samsara

(ScienceAlert) Not only does God play dice, that great big casino of quantum physics could have far more rooms than we ever imagined -- an infinite number more, in fact.

Physicists from the University of California at Davis (UCD), the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne have redrawn the map of fundamental reality to demonstrate the way we relate objects in physics could be holding us back from seeing a bigger picture.

For about a century, our understanding of reality has been complicated by the theories and observations that fall under the banner of quantum mechanics.

Gone are the days when objects had absolute measures like velocity and position. To understand the fabric from which the Universe is made, we need mathematics that breaks down games of chance into likely measures.

This is far from an intuitive view of the Universe. In what has come to be known as the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum physics, it seems there are waves of possibility until there isn't.

Quantum computing and Schrödinger’s Cat – Michael Sandberg's data visualization

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Even now, it's not at all clear what ultimately decides the fate of Schrödinger's cat. [Is it dead, alive, or both?] That hasn't stopped physicists from considering the options.

American physicist Hugh Everett suggested in the 1950s that all possible measures constituted their own reality. What makes this one special is merely the fact you happen to be observing it.

• Related video: What if the Universe were just an illusion? (What If)

Universes are like bubbles; beings mostly stay put

Everett's "many worlds" model isn't quite a theory so much as a way of grounding the absolute weirdness of quantum mechanics in something tangible.

We start with an impression of the infinite multiverse of maybes, or what physicists might refer to as the sum of all energies and positions known as a global Hamiltonian, and then zoom in on what interests us, constraining the infinite within a finite and far more manageable Hamiltonian subsystem.

• More important newsflash: Benjamin Franklin's 1781 essay about farting explained (grunge.com)

Yet as a means of comprehending the infinite, could this "zooming in" be holding us back? Or as the researchers behind this latest exercise frame it, is it "too provincial an approach, born out of our familiarity with certain macroscopic objects?"

Schrodinger’s vet | Fuffernutter (mitrafarmand)

To put it another way, we might readily ask whether Schrödinger's cat is alive or dead inside its box but not consider whether the table beneath is warm or cold or if the box is starting to smell.

In an effort to determine whether our tendency to keep our focus on what's inside the box even matters, the researchers developed an algorithm to consider whether some quantum possibilities known as pointer states might be a little more stubbornly set than others, making some critical properties less likely to entangle.

If so, the box describing Schrödinger's cat is to some degree incomplete unless we're considering a long list of factors that may potentially stretch far across the Universe.

"You can have part of the Earth and the Andromeda galaxy in one subsystem, that's a perfectly legitimate subsystem," UCD physicist Arsalan Adil explained to Karmela Padavic-Callaghan at New Scientist.

Countless worlds in at least 31 categories

In theory, there is no limit to the way subsystems could be defined, adding long lists of states near and far that could fence off a reality in subtly different ways.

Starting with Everett's "many worlds" the team have come up with what they refer to as a "many more worlds" interpretation – taking an infinite set of possibilities and multiplying it with an infinite range of realities that we might not normally consider.

Much as with the original interpretation, this novel take is less a comment on how the Universe behaves but more about our attempts to study it one bite at a time.

The researchers emphasize they haven't attached a lot of conceptual significance to their algorithm but do wonder if it might have applications in developing better ways of probing quantum systems, such as those inside computers.

No doubt in some other reality, they already have their answer. This research is yet to be peer-reviewed and is available on arXiv. More:

• Physicists think the infinite size of the multiverse could be infinitely bigger (ScienceAlert)
• The best explanation for this world, which means this universe, was given by an American who went to the Andes to a doorway (portal) carved in stone, near Lake Titicaca. A shaman told him its secrets and taught him the utterances needed to enter. He did it and regretted it. What he found was the beginning of this world. There in a lab along the way, he saw "scientists" trying to control the size of our expanding world so that it did not overtake theirs. Ours started by accident. It's organic and a natural process, not uncommon. Once it gets going, it's inhabited by beings who circle the round of samsara without end. A buddha awakens, discovers the way out. Do we listen?

Multiverse?

O, Buddha, tell me the truth so I can do the math

(Richard Milner/Grunge) So we all know about the multiverse, right? One day a physicist somewhere thought, "Man, I wish I'd played in the NBA instead of sitting around doing math all day," and bam: instant childhood fantasy fulfillment meets theoretical physics

If Einstein asked, the B knew it

Then there's that Marvel movie, that other Marvel movie, and the DC one, and the one with like three Spidermen that was actually pretty solid and better than expected, especially Andrew Garfield.

And somewhere in there, drowning in the morass of fictional portrayals, evidence-less reality, the religious zeal of multiversal proponents, and grounded reservations of skeptics rests the truth of the multiverse: It's not a thing.

Okay, it could be a thing, but only in the way that "God" is a thing because its existence can't be disproven -- yet. But how to gather data on the multiverse? Behold the conundrum:

• 1) The universe, by definition, is that which contains everything that is and
• 2) to test for another universe we would have to test outside of all that is; therefore,
• 3) science = impossible.

Yet, some researchers point to the oldest light in the universe -- cosmic background radiation (CBR) -- as holding multiversal clues, per a collaborative paper at Cornell University. More: Is the multiverse actually scientifically possible?

• Aware Project: Los Angeles Psychedelic Society (Meetup)
• ScienceAlert, 4/24/24; Grunge via MSN.com, 4/24/24; Dhr. Seven, Seth Auberon, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Sutra: Life is illusory, all foam and bubbles

Behold, as I disappear and vanish! Is it magic or an illusion! Ouch!!! What the h? (TikTok)

 

This Dharma is to be verified.

What is "life"? It's not what is seen going on out there. It is what is seen going on and the one who wonders what it is out there, in here. Who or what is watching is more important than the stimuli seen.

Behold, a bubble, foam on a great river, a magic trick, empty, not at all what it seems -- misleading (appearing permanent when it's only change hurtling toward destruction, promising satisfying pleasure and fulfillment when all that arises is disappointment).

Foam on sacred river Ganges (pinterest.com)

It seems so real, so personal when it's all impersonal and devoid of self, bringing about a world of hurt and pain. Better to awaken from the dream than to keep spinning and spiraling in the continued wandering on that is samsara. What is awake? Bodhi (enlightenment). What is it be to be free? Nirvana.

SUTRA: "Discourse on Bubbles and Foam"

泡沫—Bhikkhu Anālayo (trans.), Saṁyuktāgama 201-300, "Discourse on Bubbles and Foam" (SA 265), suttacentral.net); edited and expanded by Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly

Thus have I heard. At one time the Blessed One was staying in Ayojjhā, on the banks of the river Ganges.

At that time the Buddha said: “Meditators, it is just as if a mass of foam were to drift on a great wave that has arisen on the river Ganges and a clear-sighted person were to carefully examine and analyze it.

“At the time of carefully examining and analyzing, one finds that there is nothing to it, nothing stable, nothing substantial, nothing solid. Why is that? It is because there is nothing solid or substantial to a mass of foam.

Life, formless, gains form that comes to naught.

“In the same way, on carefully examining, attending to, and analyzing form [this body, materiality, the four great elements] of the past, present, or future, internal or external, gross or subtle, sublime or repugnant, far or near, a meditator finds that there is nothing to it, nothing stable, nothing substantial, it has no solidity.

“It is like a disease, like a carbuncle, like a thorn, like a killer. It is impermanent, disappointing (dukkha), empty (sunnata), and not-self. Why is that? It is because there is nothing solid or substantial in bodily form.

Brownian motion inside cell, a bubble with tinier bubbles in it, like atoms full of kalapas

Carbuncles are by definition a painful impurity of the body, a dangerous blemish (fity.club)

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The formless taking form fascinates for a while.

“Meditators, it is just as when during a great rain there are bubbles on the surface of water, arising and ceasing one after another, and a clear-sighted person carefully examines, attends to, and analyzes them. At the time of carefully examining, attending to, and analyzing them, one finds that there is nothing in them, nothing stable, nothing substantial, they have no solidity. Why is that? It is because there is nothing solid or substantial in water bubbles.

“In the same way, a meditator carefully examines, attends to, and analyzes whatever feeling, past, future, or present, internal or external, gross or subtle, sublime or repugnant, far or near. When carefully examining, attending to, and analyzing it, the meditator finds that there is nothing in it, nothing stable, nothing substantial, it has no solidity; it is like a disease, like a carbuncle, like a thorn, like a killer, it is impermanent, disappointing, empty, and not self. Why is that? It is because there is nothing solid or substantial in feeling.

A mirage exists but is not what it seems.

“Meditators, it is just as when towards the end of spring or the beginning of summer, in the middle of the day when the sun is strong and there are no clouds and no rain, a shimmering mirage appears, and a clear-sighted person carefully examines, attends to, and analyzes it. At the time of carefully examining, attending to, and analyzing it, one finds that there is nothing in it, nothing stable, nothing substantial, it has no solidity. Why is that? It is because there is nothing solid or substantial in a mirage.

“In the same way, a meditator carefully examines, attends to, and analyzes whatever perception, past, future, or present, internal or external, gross or subtle, sublime or repugnant, far or near. When carefully examining, attending to, and analyzing it, the meditator finds that there is nothing in it, nothing stable, nothing substantial, it has no solidity; it is like a disease, like a carbuncle, like a thorn, like a killer, it is impermanent, disappointing, empty, and not self. Why is that? It is because there is nothing solid or substantial in perception.

Like an onion, there's no core in a plantain trunk

“Meditators, it is just as if a clear-sighted person in need of heartwood takes hold of a sharp axe and enters a mountain forest, where one sees a large plantain tree that is thick, straight, and tall. One cuts it down at the root, chops off the treetop, and gradually takes off sheath after sheath, all of which are without a solid core. And one carefully examines, attends to, and analyzes them. At the time of carefully examining, attending to, and analyzing them, one finds that there is nothing in them, nothing stable, nothing substantial, they have no solidity. Why is that? It is because there is nothing solid or substantial in a plantain tree.

Heartwood is the pith, the core, the essence.

“In the same way, a meditator carefully examines, attends to, and analyzes whatever formations, past, future, or present, internal or external, gross or subtle, sublime or repugnant, far or near. When carefully examining, attending to, and analyzing formations, the meditator finds that there is nothing in them, nothing stable, nothing substantial, they have no solidity; they are like a disease, like a carbuncle, like a thorn, like a killer, they are impermanent, disappointing, empty, and not self. Why is that? It is because there is nothing solid or substantial in formations.

Behold, nothing! It was all just an illusion.

“Meditators, it is just as if a master magician or the disciple of a master magician at a crossroads creates the magical illusion of an elephant troop, a horse troop, a chariot troop, and an infantry troop, and a clear-sighted person carefully examines, attends to, and analyzes it. At the time of carefully examining, attending to, and analyzing it, one finds that there is nothing in it, nothing stable, nothing substantial, it has no solidity. Why is that? It is because there is nothing solid or substantial in a magical illusion.

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The self = Five Aggregates clung to as "self"

“In the same way, a meditator carefully examines, attends to, and analyzes whatever consciousness, past, future, or present, internal or external, gross or subtle, sublime or repugnant, far or near. When carefully examining, attending to, and analyzing it, the meditator finds that there is nothing in it, nothing stable, nothing substantial, it has no solidity; it is like a disease, like a carbuncle, like a thorn, like a killer, it is impermanent, disappointing, empty, and not self. Why is that? It is because there is nothing solid or substantial in consciousness.”

Illusion begets misery. Awaken
to unending peace of wisdom.

At that time the Blessed One, to emphasize the significance of what he had just declared to be true, uttered these stanzas:

“Contemplate bodily form as a mass of foam,

Feelings as bubbles on water,

Perceptions as the glare in spring,

Formations as sheaths of a plantain,

And the nature of any consciousness like a magical illusion,

As the Kinsman of the Sun [the Scythian of the solar race] has explained.

“Carefully attending to it from all sides

With right mindfulness, examining it well,

It is found to be insubstantial and without solidity,

There is no self nor anything that belongs to a self

In this bodily aggregate, which is disappointing.

“The Great Wise One has analyzed and explained that,

Bereft of three things,

The body will be abandoned:

Vitality, heat, and consciousness of every kind,

Bereft of these, the remaining form falls apart

And is forever abandoned in a tomb,

A discarded log, without conscious perceptions.

“This body is always in this way

Illusory and deceptive, enticing foolish beings.

It is like a killer, a poison-tip thorn,

Being without solidity.

“For a meditator who energetically cultivates

Contemplation of this body, this aggregate of form,

Day and night constantly engaging it

With right view, with mindfulness well established,

Conditioned formations will cease

And one attains the deathless, the cool peace.”

Then the monastics, hearing what the Buddha had said, rejoiced and approved of what he had said.

• 泡沫—Bhikkhu Anālayo (trans.), Saṁyuktāgama 201-300, "Discourse on Bubbles and Foam" (SA 265), from the Connected or Linked Discourses (Samyutta Nikaya) 201-300, preserved in the Agamas, suttacentral.net)
• What are the Āgamas in Buddhism?

PRS: Buddhist Bubblegum: Esotericism (9/30)

PRS.org, Matt Marble (Eventbrite); Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions LIVE: Matt Marble on Arthur Russell’s Esoteric Art Join us for a special on-stage conversation between Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions' Jason P. Woodbury and Matt Marble, author of Buddhist Bubblegum: Esotericism in the Creative Process of Arthur Russell.

Marble is an artist, author, audio producer, and director of the American Museum of Paramusicology, best known for his podcasts, including Secret Sound, an exploration of the metaphysical history of American music, and the interview show "The Hidden Present."

With Buddhist Bubblegum, author Matt Marble outlines the specific religious impulses that informed Russell’s groundbreaking work.

Diving deeply into Russell’s Buddhism and other esoteric interests, including goma and hiwatari fire rituals, samatha [tranquility] and vipassana [insight] meditation, shugyo and sadhana martial arts, mandala [sacred geometry] visualization, mantra [mind instrument] recitation, numerology, and astrology, Marble illuminates Russell’s desire to “spiritually infiltrate popular culture” through music.

Gotta get some Bitcoin! Here's how

Pat Macpherson, Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly

Bitcoin is not physical, like the trick "bit" shown here. It's only digital and a bubble.

If Bitcoin is man in black, woman in white is the new investor trying to get rich quick.

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Cash me outside, bitch, and pay me in Bit!

Get rich schemes are getting harder to come by since Internet search engines allow us to research more sides of the story than just the one that makes scammers money.

But have you seen what Bitcoin (BTC), the hot digital cryptocurrency, has been doing lately? It's volatile and has no future in its present form. But along the way from here to there, one can ride the wave of volatility and cash out ahead of the game. Set a reasonable automatic sell point.
 

I can pay you in bit. Are you on tour soon?

It's a risky game. Be prepared to lose it all. Unlike most things, Bitcoin is not a good thing to hold for the long term. Why? Banks and governments are not going to allow themselves to be undermined by an independent alternative currency. They will subvert it, much as they are currently doing by inflating this bubble.

If Bitcoin is so valuable, why are current owners trying to seduce so many new investors into the market? That's how you make money from a bubble. It's like having a poker game among friends. How are you going to get rich? Invite a bunch of nonfriends to join the "friendly" game and milk them for all their money. In this example, you are the nonfriend about to be milked yet you think you're joining a friendly game to get rich off them.

I so wanna get rich quick, I lose it all.

Ever wonder why it is suddenly so volatile? It's because it's about to be listed in normal stock markets so investors can buy futures. Bitcoin is constantly being remade, reformatted, robbed from electronic vaults (which should be impossible but apparently isn't that hard), and precariously depends on the objective Internet, subjective net access, the bitcoin network, and the WWW. One solar flare or pulse bomb, and it all goes bye bye. An investor will still have it in cyberspace but will have no way to cash it in. Ask Danielle Bregoli.

More suckers needed to join our game

It was once possible to buy one Bitcoin for 8 cents. That was a few years ago. One guy bought $600.00's worth. He forgot about them in his hard drive then threw the hard drive away -- and with it, $122,000,000.00 at current prices, depending at what time of day one sells, of course, because the price is changing hourly by thousands of dollars per coin.

How does one get rich in an investment market? "Buy low, sell high." (The trick is there's no way to know ahead of time what "low" means and when the "high" is hit; that's all guesswork). When are people going to be buying? Right now, which is high. When will they be selling? When it's low, after the bubble bursts.

 

How likely is anyone entering the market right now to get rich with Bitcoin? Not likely at all, zero percent. It violates the fundamental rule.

But then why do ads and agents keep promoting Bitcoin? That's so you can salivate, get in higher praying it'll go higher, then you'll be cleaned out when you try to divest after the plunge. They come in and clean up, you go lick your wounds and wish you hadn't mortgaged the house.

Let dana be your path to gold.

Buy gold or silver, as their value never goes to zero. Bitcoin will be supplanted by another cryptocurrency banks and governments control and regulate and treat just like the fiat currency we live under now. What's that other truism about markets? "A fool and his money are soon parted."

See, this is how they get you: by changing the subject right away. Q: "Should I buy bitcoin?" A: "Digital currencies are the future." No one's arguing whether or not digital and cryptocurrencies are sound. The question is whether the bitcoin brand is sound. There will be, there already are, alternative currencies. Like Napster, bitcoin will not be allowed to succeed or come out on top. Bitcoin is not a sacrificial lamb so much as it is a Judas goat that leads others to slaughter.

Stop making sense! I want to buy BTC anyway

Gold, being real, is the opposite of bitcoin. There is no such tangible thing as a Bitcoin.

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