What if I'm missing my life purpose, failing?

(The Awakening to Reality) Edgar Cayce: What happens to souls who fail their earth mission?

Been reborn on planet Earth? Don't know if you're "failing" to fulfill the purpose you set out before coming here? Living with purpose, passion, and profits?

• EdgarCayce.org
• A day at A.R.E. (Cayce's Association for Research on Enlightenment) Relax, Rejuvenate, and Rediscover: Meditation, spa, cafe, yoga, bookstore, lectures, and more Day at A.R.E.

Who was this Edgar Cayce guy?

(Brian Garrett) Edgar Cayce 2012 biography (documentary)

The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

Pastor preaches purpose

Pastor Rick Warren has 4.8 out of 5 stars (with 17,746 reviews) for this New York Times #1 bestselling book by that claims to help readers understand and live out the "purpose" of their life.

See, according to the pastor, before we were born, God [Karma?] already planned our life. God longs for us to discover the life he uniquely created us to live -- here on Earth and forever in the hereafter of eternity [the anionic or timeless reality behind time].

Let The Purpose Driven Life show the way. As one of the bestselling nonfiction books in history, with more than 35 million copies sold, it is far more than just a book; it's the road map for a spiritual journey, a journey that will transform life.

Designed to be read in 42 days, each chapter provides a daily meditation and practical steps to help discover and live out a unique purpose, starting with exploring three of life's most pressing questions:

1. The Question of Existence: Why am I alive?
2. The Question of Significance: Does my life matter?
3. The Question of Purpose: What on earth am I here for?

The book also includes links to 3-minute video introductions and a 30- to 40-minute audio Protestant Christian Bible study message for each chapter plus questions for further study and additional resources. More

Prayer for Earth Altadena Mural (July 27)

Large scale mural art to raise awareness about wildlife

FREE art, vegan food, and community to save the planet and all Earth's inhabitants!

HELP: Ekaterina Sky's Altadena Mural (tilted on its side)

FULL PROJECT OVERVIEW

You're invited: Prayer for the Earth – A Community Mural in Altadena

Join us in creating a powerful mural that brings our community together for healing, remembrance, and reconnection with Nature, especially in the wake of the recent Eaton and Palisades Fires.

This is a four-day community art build, and you’re welcome to join for one day or all of them:

Alex Grey would like it.

• Thursday, July 24 (4:00–9:00 PM), wall building and assembly
• Friday, July 25 (starts at 3:00 PM), base painting begins and evening design mapping
• Saturday, July 26 (all day or about 11:00 am to 9:00 pm), taping and background painting
• Sunday, July 27 (3:00–9:00 PM), prayer writing, sealing with gold, and a community celebration (with vegan potluck).
• RSVP: partiful.com/e/MS6y8u2DAFrgzoX2v0Bz

DONATIONS:

• https://donorbox.org/impact-art

RSVP ON MEETUP:

• (Disclosure Project) HELP WANTED creating healing mural for Altadena Fire (with artist Ekaterina Sky), Sat, Jul 26, 2025, 11:00 AM | Meetup
• (PasaDharma) hELP WANTED to create healing mural for Altadena Fire (Artist Ekaterina Sky), Sat, Jul 26, 2025, 11:00 AM | Meetup
• (Nature Center) HELP WANTED to create healing mural after Altadena Fire w/ artist Ekaterina Sky, Sat, Jul 26, 2025, 11:00 AM | Meetup

LOCATION:

• 34.185159, -118.132053
• Behind former Oh Happy Day Vegan Café in Altadena and Rhythms of the Village (across street from Grocery Outlet)
• (Enter driveway on E Mendocino St., behind Jack in the Box)

Prayer: FULL PROJECT OVERVIEW

This project was initiated through the invitation of John Hopkins Oh Happy Day Café and Grocery. Together, we’re building something that honors grief, invites hope, and reminds us of our deep connection to one another and the Earth.

This is for you if you care about Altadena, the planet, or the power of collective healing.

No experience needed — just bring your presence. Whether you come to build, paint, write a prayer, or simply witness, you’re welcome.

Supported by:

• LA Climate Week @climatedesignersla
• Collidescope Foundation @laclimateweek
• Climate Designers LA @collidescopefoundation
• Plant Based Treaty @plantbasedtreatyla @plantbasedtreaty
• Soul Force Project @soulforceproject
• Support + Feed @supportandfeed
• Veggie Grill @veggiegrill
• (Plus @ganahllumberco @fairoaksburger @graphenstone)

Let’s make something beautiful together.

Ekaterina Sky - Impact Artist - Muralist (@ekaterina.sky.art) • Instagram

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Let’s gather. Let’s honor what’s been lost. Let’s paint something that carries our prayers into the future.

• RSVP: partiful.com/e/MS6y8u2DAFrgzoX2v0Bz

With love and care,

Ekaterina Sky (FULL PROJECT OVERVIEW)

Visual Artist & Facilitator of Prayer for the Earth

Altadena Fire Mural coordination (Zoom)

WHAT HAPPENED?

This project is multisensory, involving meditation, live music, environmental talks, intention setting, a virtual reality component, QR code to access, an essentially channeled "Prayer for the Earth," assistant artists. It is so much bigger and more visionary than we can easily express. The timeframe for the portable mural/installation's is the last two weeks of July, possibly debuting it with other activities on Sunday, July 27 with free vegan food for all from Samantha Lau and Plant-Based Treaty. Wisdom Quarterly will have to follow up with a one-on-one interview with Ekaterina.

Altadena (Eaton Fire) Mural ("Prayer for the Earth") Zoom Meeting

Altadena Mural 2025

Zoom with artist Ekaterina Sky. All interested participants and boosters are invited to attend online. What's the story? Help wanted creating Ekaterina Sky's mural. We need volunteer artists to bring this vision to life to heal Los Angeles and the world. There's a project manager, funding is all in place, and all we need now are volunteers and supporters on the construction days, which we plan to launch in the middle of July.

• What? Planning and coordination Zoom call
• When? Wed., July 2, 2025, 5:00–6:00 pm (PDT)
• Where? us06web.zoom.us/j/4827388921?pwd=VFNETGtuejlzMDZUQXU4VWVsZHArZz09
• PLEASE RSVP on Meetup: Art for healing Earth: Altadena Fire (Zoom planning meeting), Wed, Jul 2, 2025, 5:00 PM | Meetup

We are lovers of Alex Grey's art

We are partnering with Jane Goodall's Roots and Shoots, The Plant Based Treaty | Eat Plants, Plant Trees; PasadenaWeekly.com; Oh Happy Days Vegan Cafe; and others.

• RSVP: Message Ekaterina Sky (Meetup) or Seven to participate:
• (Disclosure Project) Attention artists, HELP WANTED creating mural in Altadena with Ekaterina Sky, Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 11:11 AM | Meetup
• (PasaDharma) Attention artists, HELP WANTED creating mural in Altadena with Ekaterina Sky, Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 11:11 AM | Meetup
• (Nature Center) Attention artists, HELP WANTED creating mural in Altadena with Ekaterina Sky, Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 11:11 AM | Meetup

What about the next Dalai Lama, sir?

14th Dalai Lama speaks about the 15th Dalai Lama's rebirth

(Religion for Breakfast) The battle to control the next Dalai Lama

(ReligionForBreakfast) June 19, 2025:  As the 14th Dalai Lama turns 90, a global power struggle looms. Who gets to choose his [rebirth] successor? This video explores the battle over reincarnation, politics, Chinese rule, and the future of Tibetan Vajrayana/Bon Buddhism.

• Check out earlier video explaining the Dalai Lama: The Dalai Lama Explained: The Last Lama? (now that YouTube has restricted Last Week Tonight with John Oliver's interview)

Who in the world are the Han Chinese?

What do modern genetics say about the ancient Han Chinese, the dominant group in modern China?

• Millet farming over rice farming among Han Chinese?

Compare news coverage. Spot media bias. Avoid algorithms. Try Ground News today and get 40% off subscription by going to ground.news/religionforbreakfast.

Real reason we come to Earth (Dr. Goldberg)

There are real monsters here, so why would anyone come?

The Giant of Kandahar, Afghanistan, during US occupation

Dr. Bruce Goldberg was on Coast to Coast last night talking about the amazing Mt. Shasta, California, home of Lemurians with the last known sightings of Saint Germain. Dr. Goldberg is able to facilitate future life progressions, past life regressions, time travel, timeline shifting, law of attraction activation and manifestation, and he's here in Los Angeles (but also works on Zoom). This is no fly by night soothsayer. Dr. Goldberg has been on Coast since the Art Bell days. He was also recently heard on the Jeff Mara Podcast:

The real reason we come to Earth and more with Dr. Bruce Goldberg

(JeffMara Podcast) Sept. 29, 2024: General Paranormal & Supernatural Podcast. Podcast Guest 1273 is Dr. Bruce Goldberg, who holds advanced degrees in dentistry and counseling psychology. He has an international hypnosis practice in Los Angeles, is an author of many books, and was inducted into the international Hypnosis Hall of Fame. He has conducted over 35,000 (past life) regressions and (future life) progressions on over 14,000 patients since 1974. This talk is about his "Superconscious Mind Tap Technique" and more.

Dr. Goldberg's YouTube channel @brucegoldberg. Dr. Goldberg's website: drbrucegoldberg.com. Join this channel to get access to perks: @jeffmarapodcast. CONTACT: email: jeff@jeffmarapodcast.com

Giant Amazonian cities (Graham Hancock)

Plenty of records exist. Terra preta is a living tradition in the Americas. See my books.

How ancient Amazon fed 20 million people (Graham Hancock)

Joe Rogan, are you surprised? The ancients had biochar tech

Amazonian terra preta or biochar "dark earth," "black earth," nutrient-rich composted dirt and natural fertilizer full of minerals (micronutrients) and colonies of microbes. It is manmade. It is thousands of years old. And one can take the "Amazon rainforest" with them from one place to another, as the jungle expanded to become the lungs of the planet (along with the plankton of the ocean and snowy forest of Siberia). What does research Graham Hancock know? He has written books on what was lost in the Americas most of us have never heard. Just as what the European conquerors found when they arrived in ancient Mexico City and could not believe their eyes (clean streets, canals, markets, cosmopolitan traders, pyramids, trash collection, boats, channels, foods of all kinds), a city bigger than anything in Europe.

Did ETs bring techn, or did plant spirits give it?
Extraterrestrials and trans-dimensionals both

Kaddafi wanted a Pan-Africa, so CIA killed him

The Badlands Guardian geoglyph: ETs

Ancient Aliens: Cosmic communication system carved into Earth (S14, E2) | full episode

Who is she, this Guardian?

(HISTORY) Aug. 14, 2024: Satellite images [on Google Earth] have revealed a giant Indigenous face that appears to be carved into the Earth in Alberta, Canada, which has now become known far and wide as "The Badlands Guardian."

See more in Season 14, Episode 2, "The Badlands Guardian." Watch all new episodes of Ancient Aliens, Fridays at 9/8c, and stay up to date on all favorite shows on The HISTORY Channel website at history.com/schedule.

It's like the big Buddha of Bamiyan with shoulders

• Discovery of arrowheads suggests human achievements occurred much earlier than believed (msn.com)

Mining deep-sea minerals (Last Week Tonight)

WARNING: Bad words used for attempted comedic effect to play on cable (HBO), funny but foul!

Deep-Sea Mining: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

(LastWeekTonight) June 13, 2024: John Oliver discusses deep-sea mining, whether or not it’s worth doing, and which undersea creature he most wants to kill and devour. Connect with Last Week Tonight online...on YouTube for more almost news as it almost happens, on Facebook like your mom would, on Twitter for news about jokes and jokes about news, or visit official site for all that other stuff at once: hbo.com/lastweektonight

Save trees, forest, garden, human life (C2C)

Can minerals get in through the skin by soaking in mineral hot springs? - Yes.

Farms are ruined by toxic synthetics

Pat Miletich (mineralking.life) is a US kickboxing champion who has trained law enforcement and military personnel for 25 years.

His interview on Coast to Coast (June 10, 2024) discusses how he found a way to heal his lifelong respiratory illness, which eventually led him to study soil.

He discovered that the same principles that strengthen soil and food crops work for every living organism on the planet.

• Mineral King
• Shop – Mineral King

Crystaline minerals and gemstones

Miletich emphasizes the importance of recognizing the impact of environmental toxins on human health and offered insights into how to remove these toxins to be able to nourish our cells and mitochondria with high-grade nutrients that improve our immune systems.

The nutrient-rich supplement he promotes is sourced from living peat bog with concentrated nutrients from over 1,500 different types of plants which have been decomposing for over 60,000 years.

• Minerals are micronutrients necessary for human life and health. Unlike vitamins (macronutrients) and calories, minerals are inorganic. They are neither animal nor vegetable, but these two depend on these essentials. There are about 72 trace minerals needed for good health.

Fulvic and humic acid minerals (shilajit)

To avoid chemicals and pesticides from store-bought produce, Miletich recommends we all grow our own food. He is working with the company Environotics, which offers microbial solutions for transforming and reclaiming the soil and compost in home gardens and agricultural fields.

The microbes, he explains, can remedy land and soil weakened by chemical exposure by converting "all those toxins into essential fatty acids, colloid nutrients, and beneficial nutrients for plants, humans, and animals."

• AUDIO: Mineral Medicine | Coast to Coast AM (June 10, 2024)
• Shelley Kaehr | Coast to Coast AM

May's flower full moon guided meditation

First, let's go on a wholistic word journey with Kami (VP Kamala Harris and Desi (The Daily Show)

Flower Full Moon in May 2024 guided meditation

(Hidden Aura Healing) Happy full moon. It's the fasting day (uposatha), a time to observe the Eight Precepts. Let's open our creativity with the Flower Full Moon. Allow the mind to paint a symbol that represents peace. The May full moon is about blooming into manifestation. Relax with the flower moon. Creativity is an important part of life. And we are always creating our own reality with our thoughts and views. This guided meditation helps tap into creativity. We are powerful co-creators whether we intend to be or not.

Listen to this guided meditation on the website ad free@ hiddenaurahealing.com/onl... #fullmooninmay2024 #Flowerfullmoon #fullmoonmeditaion #moonmeditation

International Day of Forests: Hooray for Trees

International Day of Forests images (bing.com)

International Day of Forests, March 21, 2024 (bing.com)

If we could thank Sujata, we would. We can't. But we can thank the trees and the descendant of one in particular. It lives in Sri Lanka, and we have seen it. It's descendent is back in India.

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Awakening under a tree

Buddhism began in the forest -- the woods, the jungle, the wild wilderness -- when the ascetic Siddhartha had had it with the company of yogis and set off to practice more extreme austerities alone in breathtaking groves.

Five fellow wandering ascetics followed him. He increased his penance, punished the body (for what turned out to be the mind's doings) and fell flat on his face while going to pee. It was no way to live. He ate less and less, shriveled up, and stopped taking air. Not breathing, air (and life-giving prana) entered through his ears. He fainted and fell to the forest floor exhausted.

• International Day of Forests 2024: New solutions for a better world (msn.com)

How did you do it? We thought you gave up!

Invisible woodland fairies (bhumi-devas), seeing him, said to each other that they would feed him their food through his pores. He overheard them and refused, thinking it would be a form of lying if others thought he was fasting but was secretly being fed manna (or whatever energy sources it is those devas ate). He abandoned his companions and tucked deeper into the woods to find a tree.

What is at the heart of a tree? Heartwood

Under a magnificent big sal tree, he determined to make a breakthrough. But it didn't work. Instead, a woman named Sujata came and offered him food. He accepted it from her hand, her maidservant looking on. They thought he was a dryad, the spirit of that tree manifesting in human form to receive their offering of gratitude. Sujata had wished on the tree to become pregnant, and it had worked. She and her servant had prepared the special offering as a thank you.

Massive Japanese Buddha built in Bodh Gaya

Bringing him home in a barrel, according to some versions of the story, they nursed him back to health to help him regain his strength. His fellow ascetics turned their back on him for these "sins" -- talking to females, receiving things from their hands, breaking his fast, reverting to a life of luxury and ease. Siddhartha was washed up among the forest tradition of spiritual seekers.

Restored to health, he returned to the woods and found another tree, a nearly 35-year-old pipal tree (Ficus religiosa), enormous with beautiful flowers soon to bear tiny figs.

Trees are easy to love and respond well = vibes.

It was spring, the month of May, his birthday approaching. We know this because that tree was born on the same day he was (Vesak, the full moon day in the month of Vesakha or May) and came to be the most revered tree in the world, the original Bodhi tree. It is the oldest documented tree in the world, even if California has noble bristlecone pines that are much older, according to scientific tests (the counting of rings) rather than human records.

This place is in what is now called Bodh Gaya in Bihar, India, at that time just a breathtaking grove near a river in the Kingdom of Magadha. The area came to be called the state of Bihar because there sprouted up so many viharas, Buddhist monastic complexes, for the many male and female wandering ascetics who came to join his sangha and find the same enlightenment. The specific location is now called "Enlightenment Grove" (Bodhi Gaya), a Buddhist pilgrimage destination of great importance, site of the Maha Bodhi Vihar or "Temple of the Great Awakening."

This is a descendent of the original Bodhi tree the Buddha sat under when he gained enlightened and first touched nirvana. The original parent tree was felled maliciously by marauding Muslims angry that people were venerating a tree.

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The Maha Bodhi Temple built next to the tree

He ordained followers of the Path, turning them from the home-bound life into wandering ascetics of the left-home life. They did not live anywhere but wandered through forests for meditation and towns for alms, walking far from their former homes to shake any sense of parochialism, leaving their family ties and petty involvements to dedicate themselves to realizing the ultimate truths. Buddhism began as a forest tradition in the refuge of the woods.

It didn't end there with so many events happening in this forest or that after long foot journeys through the woods. When, 45 years later, it was time to call it a life and be done with rebirth, the Buddha and his attendant monk, Ananda, set off for the woods, into the middle of nowhere (near modern-day Gorakhpur, India, near the border with Nepal). When Ananda understood that the end was near, he asked the Buddha to get out of there and go to a big kingdom instead of the boondocks of Kushinagar.

The Buddha responded that what was now a wilderness was in ancient times a great city and state. Moreover, it was at the crossroads, a no man's land, of various kingdoms. In this way, no one could claim his body. Instead, it was partitioned, and stupas (burial mounds) were built to house the relics (shariras) by various kings and even some devas from space.

When it came time for the Buddha to lay down the burden, he walked a long way into the wood (now Kushinagar) and looking for a suitable place, he saw twin sal trees and reclined between them to enter final nirvana. His last act was entering the absorptions (as if he were visiting those worlds corresponding to those meditative states to take his leave of them just as he was doing for the human plane).

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  The Awakened One, the Buddha Gautama

  DETAILS, DETAILS: Nirvana is achieved only while alive. Glimpsing it is called stream entry, the first stage of enlightenment. There are further stages, traditionally four but actually there are more. Stream enterers at most must endure up to seven more rebirths. But there are different kinds of stream enterers, as defined in the Path of Freedom (Vimutti Magga). That number of rebirths gradually declines with progress until it is one more rebirth. That is the second traditional stage, the once returner, which refers to more rebirth on the human plane. But one might, by not laying down the burden and achieving full enlightenment in that life, would be reborn again but now in the rarefied Pure Abodes and attain final liberation there. The next stage is the non-returner, who will never be reborn anywhere but the Pure Abodes and attain final liberation there. The final stage is full enlightenment, the arhat (arahant), achieved while living, even in this very life. At that point one is done with all rebirth and suffering. Although, due to the limits of language, this is called "full" enlightenment, it is not actually the highest form of enlightenment. There are two superior forms, which are extremely rare. In essence, all enlightenment entails full enlightenment, it's just a matter of when: within seven rebirths, within two rebirths, within one rebirth, here and now with no further rebirth at all. The two superior forms are supreme enlightenment (samma-sam-bodhi) with the power to teach and supreme enlightenment without that ability (pacceka-buddhahood). What does a Buddha know that an arhat does not? Everything essential for final liberation is present in all three kinds of "full" enlightenment. So one way we like to think of it is that there are three kinds of buddhas: Supreme Buddhas, Silent Buddhas, and Personal Buddhas, that is, Self-Awakened Teachers, Self-Awakened Non-Teachers, and Enlightened Disciples. We can become any one of these; however, Silent Buddhas are extremely rare and Supreme Buddhas are so extraordinarily rare that they arise occur in a world-system (cakkavala) a few or fewer times in an aeon (kalpa). If we had forever, and in a sense we do, we might choose to be just like the Buddha and know all that he knew. We do not have forever, in another (in an ultimate) sense, because we do not even have two consecutive moments to string together, such is the radical impermanence (anicca) of the universe. There is tremendous suffering (dukkha) in choosing the path of supreme awakening with or without the ability to teach the path for others to awaken -- which entails establishing the Dharma in the world again and establishing a fourfold noble sangha, of male and female monastics and lay disciples who have awakened to at least the first stage. That is what "noble" (aryan) means -- having experienced a "change of lineage" (gotrabhu), becoming one of the "noble ones." Many think this refers only to buddhas or only to arhats. It, in fact, includes all of those who by way of insight have awakened to the Truth and glimpsed nirvana. For having glimpsed it, one might re-experience that ultimate bliss of the deathless in life many times over, spontaneously, confirming that the path-and-fruits (magga-phala) have been realized. This is not something one would wait for death to know, because death always entails rebirth until one makes an end of all further rebirth and suffering by the path culminating in arhatship or "full" enlightenment.
• Scientists find structure older than humanity
• Ancient humans made expeditions to this 750,000-year-old workshop
• TEXT: Dhr. Seven; Pat Macpherson and Amber Larson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly