Is this Cro Mag gentleman doing it right? - Uh, no.
The Prince (Italian Il Principe, Latin De Principatibus) is a 16th-century political treatise written by the Italian diplomat, philosopher, and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli in the form of a realistic instruction guide for new princes. Many commentators have viewed that one of the main themes of The Prince is that immoral acts are sometimes necessary to achieve political glory. More
New research finds the autistic brain has psychic abilities
(Danny Jones Clips) Iya Whiteley: Autism is a spectrum disorder, but not talking may be masking other powers and abilities. Indigo and Crystal Children can communicate even if they do not "talk" (verbalize) much. They have differences but these are not necessarily deficits. Social awkwardness to us is something else to them. More
(There probably are, or what would the National Leprechaun Museum in Dublin be for, and why would there be so many regional names for these folk around the country?
There are the fae, the wee folk, the Aes Sidhe(Aos Sí), and other supernatural beings all over Ireland, who migrated to the US on boats when the Irish arrived on American shores.
The Irish may have been the first Europeans here if there's any truth to the story of an Irish priest who made the journey and back. When Cristobal Columbus ran into the Caribbean and other Europeans like the Icelanders came, there were redheaded giants with six fingers (Nephilim) among other Native giants, ogres (Buddhist yakkhas), monsters, and all manner of strange, shapeshifting creatures.
'Portal' linking NYC and Irish City of Dublin draws bad behavior from Americans
Portals aren't real, except for transporting ogres.
(FOX 5 New York) May 2024: Is this a magic trick? No, it's an art installation. The "Portal" connects New York City, the largest city in the USA, and the capital (Dublin) of a strange faraway island known as Ireland, via a livestream connection going on 24/7 for six months has already drawn some less-than-savory behavior from visitors. Keep your clothes on, New Yorkers, and don't say anything hateful or hurtful. FOX 5 NY's Stephanie Bertini has the story.
FOX 5 NY, 5/13/24; Pat Macpherson and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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Happiness Poison — and the Antidote | Dr. Robert Waldinger
(Big Think) Harvard University has conducted an 85-year-long study on what makes humans happy.
Zen, is it Zen? It's Zen Buddhism, isn't it? - No.
[Was it money, tripping on acid, alcohol, fighting, heroin addiction, lots of sex, smoking weed, drinking lots of water, money, oh I bet it's money, shiploads of money, a job that pays a lot, cars, houses, oh I bet it's lots of real estate, tenants that pay a lot, political office, hot yoga, cold plunges, talk therapy, it's not talk therapy is it, ayahuasca retreats, getting into the Olympics, Math Olympics, winning chess tournaments, achievements of all kinds, overcoming adversity, martial arts, is it breathing, just being alive, having a disease then not having it, eating vegan, watching videos on YouTube, no TikTok, being addicted to a cellphone, meditating alone in a jungle under a fruit tree until the dawn of wisdom?]
Harvard professor's six-step guide to Zen
Psychiatrist [Zen Master Roshi] Robert Waldinger, MD, explains what Harvard found by asking, ► What is the one thing that, according to science, will make our lives richer and vastly more fulfilling? [Meditation, is it meditation?]
This 85-year continuing longitudinal study from Harvard says the answer is relationships.
Dr. Waldinger is the current director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest-running research on adult life.
Tracking over 2,000 lives since 1938, Waldinger and his team have dissected the fabric of well-being, finding that wealth and achievements fall short compared to the power of our connections with other people.
Over the eight decades since the study began, scientists have determined that loneliness and isolation can have negative effects on our mental, emotional, and even physical well-being.
Key findings of this study suggest that nurturing relationships may serve as our best source of fulfillment, emphasizing the need for "social fitness" alongside mental and physical health.
According to Doc Waldinger, it’s time to invest in the bonds that matter which, ultimately, is an investment in ourselves.
ABOUT: Dr. Robert Waldinger, MD, is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, a practicing psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and a Zen Buddhist teacher and practitioner. For the last two decades, Waldinger has been the director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development. This study, conducted over more than 85 years, has analyzed the entire lives of 724 families to determine the activities, behaviors, and dynamics that enhance a person’s life-long well-being. Dr. Waldinger has dedicated his career to examining these elements and discovering what brings true fulfillment to human existence.
He is the author of several books, including his most recent, The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness.
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Past Lives | official trailer HD | A24
(A24) Feb 22, 2023: From Director Celine Song, starring Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, and John Magaro is a movie viewers will not soon forget. PAST LIVES. It's been a ride for a relatively low budget film to attract some Oscar buzz. It's competing with heavyweight Hollywood studios eager to win so as to attract more sales and more profit. But it's tough to deny a love story, even an Asian one, which Hollywood is usually disinterested in. #PastLives. http://bit.ly/A24subscribe.
Author Christopher Nyerges (left) guides survival students through the woods.
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How Death Taught Us Some of Life's Most Important Lessons
Dolores Nyerges on the cover
How can we deal with death in an uplifting and positive way? This book covers some of the lessons about death from the life of author Christopher Nyerges and his deceased wife Dolores.
These are the collected stories of how the author and his wife dealt with death, together, after her parting. Included are lessons about how:
There are sections about dealing with “ghosts” and poltergeists and the strong possibility of an afterlife. The book is presented as a series of vignettes, all true-life stores and real-life examples.
It is not a “how-to” book, but one presented in such a way to assist anyone who is going through something similar on account of death.
This book also deals with the details of how Dolores died and how her body was kept for three days in the home [in the tradition of a wake or vigil].
Numerous reviewers have been emotionally moved by reading the accounts of how Dolores’ body was dealt with, how her body was preserved for three days at home before cremation, and how her friends honored her life. They have declared it a wonderful and touching book. More
According to the Buddha, in the beginning of life on Earth, there was a kind of mushroom. It served as delicious nutriment. That was a very long time ago, when earthlings were in a kind of Golden Age, having descended from the stars and having begun to devolve. It was on account of karma (deeds), which itself was due to latent tendencies, that the environment and their bodies became coarser, shorter lived, and less radiant. We were devas in the beginning, enjoying sensuality so much that our bodies began to reflect that decline. History, mythology, metaphor? The long story of things on the human plane are contained in the Agganna Sutra. The millions or billions of years, the epochs and eons, this story goes back is astonishing because a mushroom was there, just as Paul Stamets (Fungi Perfecti) reveals in his talks.
Dr. David Bermudes, Ph.D. (CSUN)
REVIEW: Last night CSUN Prof. Dr. David Bermudes, Ph.D. (Boston U) talked about his doctoral research with Boston U Prof. Lynn Margulis, giving a college lecture with so much technical biology jargon and classifications that one could get lost in the mounds of data. But colorful overhead images made one thing clear: There's a fungal "tree of life," and we humans are on it. We have a common ancestor with Opisthokonts. Mycology, "the study of mushrooms," is a deep field that DNA sequencing has opened up for studies of the origins of life on earth.
The Los Angeles Mycological Society (LAMS,lamushrooms.org) studies all things fungal, from mycelia (roots) to fruiting bodies (mushrooms) to bioremediation. Mushrooms will save the world.
LAMS is a non-profit group. Its purpose is to foster and expand understanding and appreciation of mycology ("the study of mushrooms and fungi"). LAMS creates and sponsors fun mushroom-related events and helps people learn about and identify mushrooms they find in the greater Los Angeles area. More information about LAMS events is available on the Calendar page.
LAMS hosts an annual Wild Mushroom Fair (at the Los Angeles Arboretum) and monthly meetings with speakers. This month:
Speaker: Dr. David Bermudes
Program: "What is a fungus? The Opisthokonta lineage and the last common ancestor of animals and fungi"
This question arises from discussions with other scientists, at different times and places, each taking a different view. The general question posed was, "Are chytrids true fungi?"
To explore this question, we look back at the lineage to which the fungi belong, which is the same as our human lineage.
There are old mushroom hunters, bold mushroom hunters, but no "old-bold mushroom hunters."
The Opisthokonts ("hind poles") refers to our flagella. Since this means we as animals share a common ancestor with fungi, we will assemble a mosaic image of what that common ancestor might have been like.
We will start by tracing the symbiotic origin of the eukaryotic organelles, mitochondria, and plastids as part of our discussion on the eukaryotes that includes protists, fungi, and all animals.
Topics touched upon include Theravāda Buddhism and Early Buddhist texts; the drawbacks of attaching to either; reconciling Theravāda and Mahāyāna traditions; practicing with Noble Beings; and more.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
0:22 - Bio of Bhikkhu Bodhi
1:20 - Learnings and insights from the Commentaries
8:25 - The Early Buddhist Text movement, and what it might lose in the absence of the Commentaries
11:42 - Bhikkhu Sujato’s checklist of differences between the EBT and Theravada, specifically the spirit of enquiry in EBT
15:27 - Bhikkhu Bodhi’s definition of the EBT
19:00 - Benefits and risks of EBT labeling, and risks of EBT “conceit”
20:38 - The “layering” of Mahayana, and Bhikkhu Bodhi’s view of these two schools of thought
26:00 - The two models of the Bodhisattva path - deferring enlightenment vs. achieving a state that transcends samsara
33:19 - How to reconcile the seeming differences between Orthodox Theravada and Orthodox Mahayana
40:54 - Translating the “Don’t Know” mind into Pāḷi
41:30 - Living and teaching in a Mahayana monastery
43:16 - Interactions with beings who have influenced Bhikkhu Bodhi the most, and the one quality that keeps monastics in robes
52:43 - An anecdote about Western scholar Nyanaponika Thera
53:00 - Advice to young monastics
56:21 - The Gradual Path vs. Instantaneous Awakening, and does Theravada support more than the first?
1:01:11 - The importance of meeting and studying with a noble one (ariya-puggala)
1:03:45 - Gratitude and thanks
1:04:20 - Outro
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I'm richer and get better drugs than you, Neil.
Tyson, an American [actor,] astrophysicist, author, and science communicator, shared one thing that keeps him up at night, leaving Rogan speechless.
On Tyson's TikTok, the famed astrophysicist, known for bringing science to the masses, shared a clip captioned, “We have more in common with mushrooms than you think.”
With his 4.8 million followers, it is no wonder that the clip quickly went viral. The comment section was on fire, with many making fun of the host [Joe Rogan].
One user wrote, “This is why I love Neil. He makes science understandable for everyone, even Joe Rogan.”
Another shared, “Joe Rogan had no idea what he was talking about during this whole interview, and it’s awesome.” More:
What if there were a way to get children to listen without yelling, bribing, or threatening?
I'll kill'ya, you little motherfather! - No, mommy
I'd like to be a more mindful parent, a more compassionate parent, a more effective parent -- and I'd like to stop yelling. What to do, what to do?
But do you know what it's like? It drive a person crazy! If only there were a way to connect, like author Andee Martineau promises.
Could there possibly be a way to get my kids to want to listen...without the yelling, ultimatums, or bribes? Here's a FREE book offer to find out: Free Parenting Book – Connect Method
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Dennis Manning (Quora.com); Ashley Wells, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Why do people cheat instead of just ending the relationship?
It’s because there is that little devil sitting on one shoulder saying, “I can get sex from two people as opposed to one. And all I got to do is keep quiet [lie by omission].”
The angel on the other shoulder is saying, “This isn’t right.”
So the person and the devil both turn to the angel and say, “Shut up. Sex with two people.”
The angel retorts, “What happens if your significant other finds out?”
Devil replies, “We’ll just make an excuse that my significant other has not met my needs. He or she will either step up his or her game and I get more sex or release me to my affair partner for more sex. Win/win for us.”
Angel says, “But what if….”
Person and devil throw angel to the ground and stomp him.
“I told you to shut the hell up! Sex with TWO people!!!” Source
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