Skull of Homo naledi that took 20,000 preparation hours to pull out of solid rock (Berger)
Lee Berger: New discoveries in human origins | Porto | GLEX ignition 2024
Berger finds bones using Google
(GLEX Summit) July 19, 2024: ALFÂNDEGA DO PORTO
"Exploration isn't just about going where no one has gone before. It's also about being the first to understand the past," says paleoanthropologist Lee Berger revealed details about the fascinating discovery in South Africa of remains belonging to a previously unknown species of pre-humans he named Homo naledi, dating back over two million years.
Numerous traces of this species were found in an underground cave system chamber in Dinaledi, the "Rising Star Cave," leading to the conclusion that it served as a ritual mortuary practices and burial site by non-human pre-humans — a ritual previously thought to be exclusively human. Subsequent evidence of stone tools, the first art, and even the use of fire were also discovered (charred bones as if cremation were being practiced), indicating a species the size of a chimpanzee with a chimp brain that predates the Neanderthals.
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"Modern humans" are much older
Dhamma Aboard Evolution
Michael "The Forbidden Archeologist" Cremo (mcremo.com) has gathered mountains of evidence of far older "modern" human remains -- skulls, bones, tools, and out of place artifacts. Whatever narrative hard scientists in the field of physical anthropology try to spin to account for their discoveries and the features on their fragmentary bones, they can spin these tails only by ignoring evidence that contradicts them at every turn. The solution? We did not evolve from these other species (Homo naledi, Homo habilis, etc.) but rather coexisted with them when many "species" of humans lived on the planet, at various stages of sophistication and progress, moving forward and falling back, civilized and primitive, communicating with one another and utterly ignorant of others (such as the tiny "Hobbits" or Homo floresiensis of Indonesia). And since the "beginning" (of this iteration, this generation of humans), we have been devolving (as indicated in the Agganna Sutta, a Buddhist Genesis of life on this plane).
Forbidden archeology
Forbidden Archeology
Where did we come from? What is the true history of humankind? Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson challenge the prevailing theory of Darwinian evolution with their groundbreaking work Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race.
Forbidden Archeology was first released in 1993 and quickly became an underground classic. Today it is a bestseller, with foreign editions in over 20 languages, presenting both accepted and anomalous scientific evidence defying traditional ideas concerning human evolution.
Join in a fascinating intellectual excavation of a vast store of hidden knowledge -- with "gatekeepers" protecting pet theories like cavemen evolving in Darwinian fashion until there was us -- and meet author Michael Cremo. mcremo.com
The Travel; Bright Side; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Archeological finds that turned history upside down
(Bright Side) Nov. 13, 2023: Scientists have long believed that the Native Taíno people were the first inhabitants of the Greater Antilles, but it turns out there were archaic people living here long before, and they were very advanced. Sometimes archeologists manage to discover whole cities. This is exactly what Greek archeologist Eleni Korka did.
The Rosetta Stone, a linguistic game-changer, unlocked the secrets of Egyptian hieroglyphs and opened up a treasure trove of knowledge. In Egypt, the discovery of the Valley of the Kings transformed our perception of ancient burial practices. These finds are like history's plot twists, keeping archaeologists and history buffs on the edge of their seats.
The Tumulus of Bougon is the oldest known tomb complex in the world [nowhere near the actual oldest, as there are tumuli in Central Asia that are 20,000 years old and possibly older ones in Ukraine and North Asia], dating back to 4700 BC, located in the Deux-Sèvres region of France.
In Buddhism, these burial mound structures are called stupas (kurgans, barrows, tels, reliquary tomb-mounds, also found around Stonehenge and in many parts of the world. The Buddha was following an ancient tradition when he established the practice of building these edifices to honor awakened beings and world monarchs)
The Bougon Tomb Museum offers visitors a chance to explore the Neolithic era and learn about prehistoric funerary buildings through reconstructed homes and a discovery path.
Those visiting the museum can participate in various activities, such as experimenting with historical artisan skills, throwing a Neolithic tea party, and solving riddles on a treasure quest.
People have constructed tombs of many designs, forms, and materials throughout history, representing a variety of civilizations and beliefs. They buried the dead in their homes with personal belongings in prehistoric times.
Later, this tradition continued to give rise to the idea of a tomb. Individuals started constructing graves outside their houses, filling them with everything they believed the departed would want or need for the afterlife.
One of the earliest known instances of megalithic building on the French Atlantic coast is the Tumulus [burial mound] of Bougon, often called the Necropolis of Bougon.
Located in a contemporary structure close to the ruins of a 6,000-year-old structure, the Bougon Tomb Museum transports its visitors back in time to the Neolithic era, when humans first settled and began building tombs.
Tourists may uncover prehistoric funerary buildings by visiting this French cultural site and learning about Neolithic culture and way of life. They may also view a unique legacy full of reconstructed Neolithic homes on the discovery path.
The circular or elongated monumental tombs at Bougoni's necropolis, which dates to 4700 BC, are constructed of six stones and soil. One of the first instances of funerary buildings in the world was constructed by Neolithic villagers. More
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Eds., Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit (samadhi); EWTN News, May 25, 2023
What is samadhi? It is a Sanskrit term prominent in Buddhism and the philosophy behind Yoga (the ancient Vedas of the Indus Valley Civilization and modern Hinduism with its Brahmins and wandering shramans). It is key to personal spiritual purification and is present in many if not all spiritual traditions, including old-style monastic Catholicism and Eastern Christian Orthodox practices.
There are various interpretations and etymologies for this Sanskrit term, either with the root sam ("to bring together") or sama (coherent, "the same, equalized, the convergence of two distinct things").
According to Dan Lusthaus, samadhi refers to either bringing to consciousness the samskaras (tendencies, mental formations, "buried latencies"), or meditative stillness/concentration on a meditation object [14]: sam, "to bring together" + adhi, "to place on, put, to impregnate, to give, to receive" -- the bringing together of cognitive conditions," "bringing the buried latencies into full view," so "the obscure and hidden become clear objects of cognition," "the womb through which insight is born" [14].
The sama, "the same, equalized, the convergence of two distinct things based on some commonality" + adhi, "higher, better, most skillfully achieved" -- "the skillful unification of mind [subject] and object," "the mental equanimity conducive to and derived from attention perfectly focused on its object."
One-pointedness
"[S]ometimes treated as synonymous with ekacitta, 'one-focused mind,' i.e., mind (citta) completely focused on and at one (eka) with its object" [14]. [In Theravada Buddhism this is the Pali languager term ekaggata, or "one-pointedness" of mind.
"Etymologies for sam-ā-dhā include: 'sam-ā-dhā’ = 'to collect' or 'to bring together,' thus suggesting the concentration or unification of the mind," generally mistranslated [in Buddhism] as "concentration" [15]. [A much better translation is proposed by British monk in the Thai Forest Tradition Ajahn Brahm, "stillness."]
Sam-ā-dhā: "to hold together, to concentrate upon" [16]. Sam, "completely," ā, "the return towards the subject," dha, "maintaining together" = "to assemble completely," "the tension borne between two poles of existence (object and thought) is reduced to zero" [17].
Sam, "together" or "integrated," ā, "towards," dhā, "to get, to hold" = to acquire integration [coherence, integrity] or wholeness, or truth (samāpatti);
sam, "together," ā, "toward," stem of dadhati, "puts, places" = a putting [all together, coherently structuring or returning to an original structure] or joining.
Particular Hindu/yoga interpretations include:
sam, "perfect" or "complete," dhi, "consciousness" = "all distinctions between the person [subject] who is the subjective meditator, the act of meditation [bare awareness], and the object of meditation merge into oneness" (Stephen Sturgess) [18].
Sam, "with," ādhi, "lord" = Union with the Lord (Stephen Sturgess) [16]. [In yoga it might be better to render it not "union with the lord or Brahma" but "Union with Brahman," the impersonal "ultimate reality" behind all illusion (maya).]
Beginner's mind
Sama, "equanimous," dhi, "buddhi or the intellect" = equanimous intellect, non-discriminating intellect (Sadhguru) [19].
Sama, "balance," ādi, "original" = "a state that is equal to the original state, which is the state that prevailed before we came into existence," "original balance" (Kamlesh D. Patel [20]. More
Miracle? Body of Benedictine Sisters’ Foundress Wilhelmina thought to be incorrupt (except for hands)
(EWTN) May 25, 2023. When the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of Apostles, exhumed the body of their foundress earlier this month, they discovered the unexpected.
Four years after her death and burial in a simple wooden coffin, Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster's body appeared remarkably well preserved. The news spread quickly on social media and now hundreds of pilgrims are flocking to the monastery in rural Missouri.
Executive Director of EWTN's ACI group Kelsey Wicks, who has been following the story from the beginning, joins to share more about who Sr. Wilhemina is. Wicks visited the monastery in rural Missouri soon after the body was exhumed. She tells us what the scene was like. Wicks discusses what has been the impact of this story on the community. This community may be well known to some viewers because of their recordings. Wicks explains more about that. She fills in on what other stories she is following.
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(WTVP) #1308 March 8, 2014. The remains of the most sophisticated prehistoric Native American civilization north of Mexico are preserved at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site.
Within the 2,200-acre tract, located a few miles west of Collinsville, Illinois, lie the archeological remnants of the central section of the ancient settlement that is today known as Cahokia.
Cahokia Mounds has been recognized as a U.S. National Historic Landmark, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in 1982, designated Cahokia Mounds a World Heritage Site for its importance to our understanding of the prehistory of North America.
Cahokia Mounds is managed by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.
On this special 2022 Dia de los Muertos episode, Val and Juli spend a day and night at Hollywood Forever in LA for their annual Lady of the Dead event. Website: ladayofthedead.com/event...
Annual Dia De Los Muertos event at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
(CBS Los Angeles) Oct. 29, 2022. Dia De Los Muertos is a tradition deeply rooted in Mexican culture that goes back centuries. It is a day for both the living and the dead to share time together once again. CBSLA's Lauren Pozen reports from Hollywood, California:
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Oh, the dead, the dead! What a pity!
MEXICO CITY, Mexico - 2022 Día de los Muertos, Oct. 31, 2022. This video tracks a tick off the bucket list, participation in Día de los Muertos or “Day of the Dead” festival in Mexico. Check ✅
The Day of the Dead is a holiday for remembering and celebrating those who have passed on from this world. It’s almost a week of festivities, holding different events across the country, showcasing the best of calacas (“skeletons”), ofrendas (“altar offerings”), calavera (deadly “skull candy”), colors, lights, marigold flowers, and much more! It’s a festival not to be missed while visiting Mexico.
This video was filmed on Oct. 29, 2022, during the main Mexico City parade around Zócalo (the historical town center). It is truly incredible to see all the participants marching down the streets of Mexico City, wearing colorful costumes and putting on an amazing show. 💀
The Monks of the Mines of ancient Afghanistan, Gandhara, Kapilavastu, Central Asia (NatGeo)
The Indo-Sakas are Scythians.
The monuments of these cultures coincide with Scythian-Saka-Siberian [Shakya Land or ancient Buddhist Kapilavastu] monuments. Scythian, Indo-Saka, and Siberian monuments have common features and sometimes common genetic roots [10].
Also associated with these spectacular burial mounds (Buddhist stupas or tepes) are the Pazyryk, an ancient people who lived in the Altai Mountains lying in Siberian Russia on the Ukok Plateau, near the borders with China, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia [11].
The Buddha of Gandhara/Afghanistan (Indo-Saka)
The archeological site on the Ukok Plateau associated with the Pazyryk culture is included in the Golden Mountains of Altai UNESCO World Heritage Site [12].
Scythian-Saka-Siberian classification includes monuments from the 8th to the 3rd century BC. This period is called the Early or Ancient Nomads epoch.
"Hunnic" monuments date from the 3rd century BC to the 6th century AD, and Turkic ones from the 6th century AD to the 13th century AD, leading up to the Mongolian epoch. More
What is a Buddhist stupa or pagoda? It is a burial mound covering a sacred reliquary marking out nobles (Aryan = "Enlightened" beings) or chakravartin rulers or other important figures. Originally, they had statues on top of those buried beneath the kurgan,tumulus, barrow, or cairn, a pile of stones forming the burial mound, as was tradition throughout Central Asia, up into Ukraine, North Asia, West Asia, and many Caucasian lands.
Melody Gutierrez (Los Angeles Times, 9/18/22); Crystal Q., Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Finally, I can be good for earth's environment, allowing ashes to ashes and dust to dust.
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California’s deceased will have a new burial option: Human composting
Melody Gutierrez
SACRAMENTO — California will finally begin allowing an alternative burial method known as human composting in 2027, under a bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday.
Assembly Bill 351 by Assemblymember Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens) will create a state regulatory process for natural organic reduction, a method in which human remains naturally decompose over a 30-to-45-day period after being placed in a steel vessel and buried in wood chips, alfalfa, and other biodegradable materials.
The nutrient-dense [non-toxic, formaldehyde-free] soil created by the process can then be returned to families or donated to conservation land.
Chief Exec Micah Truman (Jason Redmond/AFP)
Supporters say it’s an eco-friendly alternative to traditional end-of-life options.
Cremation, for example, is an energy-intense process that produces carbon dioxide emissions, while traditional burial uses chemicals to embalm bodies and a nonbiodegradable coffin to store them.
California will join Washington, Colorado, Oregon, and Vermont in allowing human composting.
“With climate change and sea-level rise as very real threats to our environment, this is an alternative method of final disposition that won’t contribute emissions into our atmosphere,” Assemblymember Garcia said in a statement.
It was Garcia’s third attempt to approve human composting in California after previous attempts failed in 2020 and 2021. Her office said for every person who is composted versus [embalmed and] buried or cremated, the environmental impact is immediate.
The companies that offer human composting say that for every person who chooses the option over burial or cremation, it will save the equivalent of 1 metric ton of carbon from entering the environment.
“This new law will provide California’s 39 million residents with a meaningful funeral option that offers significant savings in carbon emissions, water and land usage over conventional burial or cremation,” said Katrina Spade, chief executive of Recompose, a Seattle company that was the first funeral home to build a human composting facility in the country.
Opposed by Catholic organization
Hey, WE control this racket!!!
“Our end-of-life choices matter in the effort to heal this planet.”
The California Catholic Conference opposed the bill, saying the process “reduces the human body to simply a disposable commodity.”
“The practice of respectfully burying the bodies or the honoring the ashes of the deceased comports with the virtually universal norm of reverence and care towards the deceased,” said the group, which is the public policy voice of the Catholic Church in California.
Gov. Newsom signed the bill without comment.
Human composting is slightly less expensive than a casket funeral, but at around $5,000 to $7,000, it is more costly than cremation.
The soil created by the human composting process could be used on private land with permission and otherwise would be subject to the same restrictions as scattering cremated remains in the state.
“This is a question of consumer choice, and Californians should have access to a death care option that is natural, carbon neutral, and a sustainable alternative to cremation or burial,” said Tom Harries, co-founder of Earth Funeral, which offers the burial option.
“Earth Funeral looks forward to bringing soil transformation to California so that anyone can make this choice for themselves or to honor their loved ones.” More
ABOUT: Melody Gutierrez covers state government and politics in Sacramento for the LA Times.
Wuhan woman says coronavirus patients are being cremated alive
Chinese officials fear pandemic (ap.org).
(NTD) In a video circulating on the Internet, a Wuhan resident who was hospitalized says she witnessed critically ill, elderly coronavirus patients sealed alive in four body bags, placed in a special box, and cremated alive.
Factories and businesses in China resume work. Some scenes of massive gatherings of Chinese people without masks are raising concerns of the outbreak situation worsening.
China quarantines epidemic by force (ap.org).
Inside one prison in eastern China, guards are forced to sign forms promising not to spread so-called "rumors" about the situation inside the prison, amid the coronavirus outbreak. Over 1,000 Hubei police are reported to infected with the virus.
As the coronavirus continues to spread globally, four countries in the Middle East reported their first cases, while Italy’s increasing numbers of cases spread fear across Europe. Source
Coronavirus: China accused of "burning bodies in secret"
Footage has emerged from inside a Wuhan hospital where this coronavirus originated or was created/weaponized (@jenniferatntd). VIDEO restricted from playing in some geographic regions.
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World Health Organization (W.H.O.) officials, back from a visit to Beijing, expressed great concern that a dangerous new virus was spreading between people outside of China.
The number of illnesses continues to grow dramatically inside the Asian nation.
The new virus has now infected more people in China than were sickened during the 2002-2003 SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) outbreak. On Wednesday, the number of cases jumped to 5,974, surpassing the 5,327 people diagnosed with SARS.
The world has long known of coronavirus.
The death toll, which stood at 132 on Wednesday, is lower than the 348 people who died in China from SARS.
Doubts have been raised about that official death toll, however, with claims Chinese authorities have been cremating bodies [of living patients] in secret.
Chinese-language news outlet Initium interviewed people working at local cremation centers in Wuhan who say bodies are being sent directly from hospitals without being properly identified and added to the official record.Source + VIDEO
This kind note comes from Ms. Tharuka Lanka Geeganage: My feeling is that this documentary does not reach the point of introducing Theravada Buddhism. If a person new to Buddhism were to watch it, s/he would think it's a fancy and colorful religion in most cases. Yet the largest [Shakyian/Scythian] Buddhist burial mound, or stupa, in the world -- which houses a large collection of the historical Buddha's remains -- is situated in the ancient city of Anuradhapura. It is called "Ruwanvali Great Stupa," and it should be counted as the second wonder. I suggest that, if further details are needed on this, Buddhist monks from Sri Lanka, who are trained to have in-depth knowledge on Theravada Buddhism and the historical Buddha (Prince Siddhartha Gautama) be sought out and consulted to have this wonder included.
Red Ice Radio: Richard J. Dewhurst (The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America) interview
The Giants Who Ruled America (Dewhurst)
(UṪ, Jan. 27, 2014) Richard J. Dewhurst is the Emmy Award-winning writer of an HBO feature documentary, a graduate of NYU with degrees in journalism, film, and TV, who has written and edited for the History Channel, A&E, PBS, Fox TV and Fox Films, ABC News, TNT, Paramount Pictures, and The Miami Herald, who lives in Vermont. His book draws on 400 years of newspaper articles and photos, first-person accounts, state historical records, and illustrated field reports that reveal that North America was once ruled by an advanced race of giants and also that the Smithsonian Institution has been actively suppressing the physical evidence for nearly 150 years. Giant skeletons have been unearthed at Mound Builder sites across the United States and the American continent, only to disappear from the historical record. Giants have been discovered in California, Nevada, Florida, and the ruins of their massive cities (populations 100,000+) in Arizona, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Louisiana. The evidence is suppressed in a cover up. Today these ancient mounds have no official protection and are being bulldozed to make room for parking lots. American Indians prevent research of the mounds, although they admit they did not build them. Where are the giants' bones today? Dewhurst talks about an old, advanced nautical culture, [Chinese and Afghan visitation (Edward Vining, 1885), Buddhist and Hindu and Egyptian building in the Grand Canyon], and even Ancient European migration to what is now the USA. We have a distorted picture of what America was like despite evidence of a coordinated social structure that celebrated making earth a sacred landscape long before European invasion and colonialism.
A race of giants existed in North America, and the Smithsonianhas led a 150-year cover up.
The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America shows how thousands of giant skeletons have been found, many in the Mississippi Valley. There are ruins of the giants’ cities. It explores 400 years of discoveries of giants through:
U.S. newspaper articles
first-person accounts
state historical records
illustrated field reports.
Egyptian depiction of human sex with giant
It reveals the Stonehenge-era megalithic burial complex on Catalina Island with over 4,000 giant skeletons, including kings more than 9 feet tall.
It includes more than 100 rare photos and illustrations of the lost evidence.
Drawing on 400 years of data, author Richard J. Dewhurst reveals not only that North America was once ruled by an advanced race of giants but also that the Smithsonian has been actively suppressing the physical evidence for nearly 150 years.
Human specimens are real: MRI exam
Dewhurst shows how thousands of skeletons of giants have been unearthed at Mound Builder sites across the continent, only to disappear from the historical record. He examines other concealed discoveries, such as:
Giant mummieswere found in Spirit Cave, Nevada, wrapped in fine textiles and dating to 8000 BCE.
Hundreds of red-haired "bog mummies" were found in cenotes (“sinkholes”) on the west coast of Florida dating to 7500 BCE.
And there are ruins of cities of giants with populations in excess of 100,000 in Arizona, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Louisiana.
Suppression began shortly after the Civil War. It transformed into an outright cover-up in 1879 when Major John Wesley Powell was appointed director of the Smithsonian, launching a strict pro-evolution, pro-Manifest Destiny agenda.
Dewhurst also reveals the 1920s’ discovery on Catalina Island of a megalithic burial complex with 6,000 years of continuous burials and over 4,000 skeletons, including a succession of kings and queens, some more than 9 feet tall.
The evidence is hidden in the restricted-access evidence rooms at the Smithsonian. More
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