Subtle Art of Not Giving a F: 40 truths (video)

Mark Manson, March 9, 2024; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

WARNING: Use of harsh and gratuitous language in doling out harsh truths, graphic, sexual, vulgar!

40 harsh truths I know at 40 but wish I knew at 20

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

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First, who is Mark Manson? He is the author of the very popular, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck.

Today is my 40th birthday. Here are all the things that I know at 40 that I wish I knew at 20.

ABOUT: I am Mark Manson, three-time Number 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck. Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope. I share other types of content to make you a less awful human in these places: markmanson.net / markmanson / iammarkmanson / markmansonnet / markmanson / iammarkmanson. Thanks for watching. Now go not give a F.

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Butterfly Effect, Chaos Theory, Predictions

Fexl, Jan. 21, 2024; Sheldon S., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The most terrifying theory scientists don’t want to talk about

(Fexl) To play the Chaos Game (geogebra.org/m/yr2XXPms), I set the number of points at 3, clicked start, and set the speed to "fast." The key takeaway of Chaos Theory is this: even when one's equations are perfectly deterministic, one cannot know the initial conditions of arbitrary sensitivities. What is “chaos”? It is when the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.

Ice Age? Arctic blast hits 23 states (video)

ABC Corporate News, 1/16/24; Just Have a Think; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Is a mini ice age coming?

(Just Have a Think) Dec. 1, 2019: The big freeze that hit the United States in October of 2019 was the coldest for 10 years with sub-zero temperatures as far south as the Grand Canyon, Arizona, and some northern regions enduring temperatures of -45F. These record weather events are becoming a regular feature of our changing seasons. And when they arrive, they seem to be sticking around for longer. New research from Rice University this month (12/19) has revealed a surprising link between these extreme cold events and global warming.

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200 million Americans on alert as Arctic blast moves through U.S.

(ABC News) Jan. 16, 2024: [Is a mini-Ice Age coming to ruin all of the global warming alarmism, or is this just a blip in the climate data? We are told last year (2023) was the warmest on record, but the meteorologist responsible for weather.com doesn't see it, doesn't believe it, and doesn't know what his colleagues of many decades are talking about.]

From Louisiana to the Northeast, 23 states are on alert as a winter storm unleashed brutal temperatures, snow and ice throughout the area. #weather #winter #winterstorm

Scientist explains Sedona vortex energy (video)

Ben Lonetree (Coast to Coast, 8/13/23); Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Modern Buddhist stupa in Sedona, Arizona

Last night on Coast with Host Connie Willis, scientific researcher Ben Lonetree (sedonanomalies.com) spilled the beans: Sedona's vortices are real and measurable. They pulse, come and go, are dampened by rain, affected by external conditions (who's standing around, what space entities are traveling through portals, what time it is in terms of the dimensional timeline at Bradshaw Ranch* that sees dinosaurs popping in and out, perhaps Silurians or their pet Reptilians behind a veil or props for creatures that still roam in the bowels of our hollow earth).

• Ben Lonetree's Magnetic Anomaly Research in Sedona, Arizona | Coast to Coast AM

The Sedona Effect

Vortex outlined on the ground by Natives

Coast to Coast AM.com, Aug. 13, 2023: Researcher and electrical engineer Ben Lonetree discusses decades of scientific studies on naturally occurring phenomena electromagnetic (vortex) energies and how they interact with human biophysical mechanisms.

He talks about the science of Sedona, Arizona, and his theory of the Sedona Effect and Sedona Vortex brainwave EEG synchronization. After hearing the small pink town of Sedona described decades ago as the place where "the Earth speaks," Lonetree was initially skeptical.

Is Lonetree jumping to his death or levitating over a vortex energy field during a pulse?

There's a Buddha Beach in Sedona, too!

But he noticed that his scientific instruments always registered elevated energy levels there. Armed with an array of very sophisticated equipment, Lonetree set out to investigate Sedona's Schumann resonance (the degree to which the area's electromagnetic frequencies or EMFs matched those of the human brain).

What he discovered, Lonetree claims, was remarkable. The naturally occurring magnetic energy coming from the ground at Sedona is "spinning like a tornado" in a vortex pattern.

How then, he wondered, did this phenomenon affect human consciousness? Lonetreee's subjects would react in strange ways to Sedona's magnetic environment, bursting into tears or getting giddy with laughter.

His instruments confirmed that each surge in vortex energy in the ground caused a corresponding surge in subjects' brainwave activity. By drawing human emotions out in this way, the vortex allows us to examine our feelings in ways that make them coherent and manageable, Lonetree suggests.

He also notes that it's significant that the Native Americans (the "Without-Water" or Sinagua) in Sedona have traditionally understood the area as sacred due to the unusual properties of the energy one experiences there. More + AUDIO

Beyond Skinwalker Ranch: Bradshaw Ranch, Sedona (History Channel)

Beyond Skinwalker Ranch: Suspicious Military Activity at Bradshaw Ranch (S1)

(HISTORY) July 12, 2023: Why are drones restricted in certain areas of Bradshaw Ranch? Could the U.S. government (Department of War, Pentagon, CIA, NSA, NSC, FBI, black budget programs) be hiding something? See more in this clip from Season 1, Episode 5, "Bradshaw Ranch Pt. 2." New episodes of Beyond Skinwalker Ranch, Tuesdays at 10/9c. Stay up to date on favorite The HISTORY Channel shows at history.com/schedule. #BeyondSkinwalkerRanch

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*Time anomalies through a dimensional portal so vital the government took possession of land and closed it to the public: Bradshaw Ranch

Merging Dimensions (Tom Dongo, Linda Bradshaw)

Merging Dimensions: The Opening Portals of Sedona (new edition, 2020) On a secluded ranch near Sedona, Arizona, strange events mysteriously began in 1992.

What does it portend for us all? [Why has the government moved in and turned it into a new Area 51?] This new edition contains over 100 actual photographs of incredible events, otherworldly [extraterrestrial] beings, strange flying craft [UFOs, UAPs, vimanas], and unexplained light anomalies. More

Law of Attraction in Buddhism: Tantra (video)

Tinna Tinh, Jan. 27, 2021; Kelly Ani, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Wisdom Quarterly

Law of Attraction - Buddhism - Tantra

(Zen Music Chant) Here are tools that improve our lives and karma. How long it takes? It's already making me money [selling hope]. ​ Hello, my beautiful friends. This is our new album (tinnatinh.bandcaml be the download button...but the button is very small. (You can easily miss it). It is located in the lower right corner. I have to write this down in case you cannot find it. :) I hope my little work will bring more love and lights to our lives. Have a great day. Sending much love to everyone. [Shambhala? Zambala or Vaiśravaṇa teaches a way to focus and give attention until things desired or given attention to manifest. Prosperity and Abundance, here I come!]

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The Buddha's BLUE eyes not blue, says science

Fiona MacDonald (ScienceAlert.com, 1/18); Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

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The fascinating way blue eyes get their color

I have blue eyes, so I'm better than all y'all.

The human body is incredible. Our eyes aren't blue (or green) because of pigment in cells.

As Paul Van Slembrouck writes for Medium, their color is actually structural -- and it involves some pretty interesting physics.

 

The colored part of our eye is called the iris, and it's made up of two layers, the epithelium at the back and the stroma at the front.

 

The epithelium is only two cells thick and contains black-brown pigments. The dark specks that some people have in their eye is, in fact, the epithelium peeking through.

 

The stroma, in contrast, is made up of colorless collagen fibers. Sometimes the stroma contains a dark pigment called melanin, and sometimes it contains excess collagen deposits.
 

The Buddha DID have blue eyes

Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly; Dr. Ranajit Pal, Ph.D. (ranajitpal.com)

Origin of Blue Eyes: Ancient "Devas" and Their Royal Descendants (humansarefree.com)

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First representations

How could a dark Dravidian Indian have blue eyes? Anything is possible. But the historical Buddha -- the Scythian Sage/Prince Siddhartha Gautama or Shakya-muni -- was neither dark (he was golden skinned and fair), nor Dravidian (but Indo-Aryan/Indo-Iranian), nor Indian (but Central Asian from the region of modern Afghanistan in the south extending to Ukraine in the north, the real "Middle Country" (possibly a reference to mythical Agartha) between East and West. Many Central Asians have blue, green, and hazel eyes. See the "Story of the Lineage" (translation by Rhys Davids). His first anthropomorphic representation (rather than as a symbol of enlightenment or the path such as the bodhi tree or Dharma wheel) was from near his hometown, likely Bamiyan (one of his three seasonal capitals/hometowns along with Mes Aynak and Kabul/Kapilavastu), as made famous in Gandharan/Bactrian (Greco-Buddhist) art.

CONT'D: No one has blue eyes

But it looks blue! - But it's not! The "blue" is a structural illusion (cocoparisienne/Pixabay)

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Hazel eyes have the best of all worlds.

And, fascinatingly, it's these two factors that control our eye color.

 

Brown eyes, for example, contain a high concentration of melanin in their stroma, which absorbs most of the light entering the eye regardless of collagen deposits, giving them their dark color.

 

Green eyes don't have much melanin in them, but they also have no collagen deposits.

 

Eyes scatter light and pierce the onlooker.

This means that while some of the light entering them is absorbed by the pigment, the particles in the stroma also scatter light as a result of something called the Tyndall effect, which creates a blue hue.

(This is similar to Rayleigh scattering, which makes the sky look blue).

 

Combined with the brown melanin, this results in the eyes appearing green.

 

Blue eyes are potentially the most fascinating, as their color is entirely structural.
 

Brown eyes? If only I could buy blue contacts!

People with blue eyes have a completely colorless stroma with no pigment at all, and it also contains no excess collagen deposits.

 

This means that all the light that enters it is scattered back into the atmosphere and as a result of the Tyndall effect, creates a blue hue [or an illusion of it].

 

Interestingly, this means that blue eyes don't actually have a set color; it all depends on the amount of light available when we look at them.

 

What about black eyes, red eyes, cataracts?

Structural coloration also gives color to butterflies, dead cows, and berries. It's pretty mind-blowing stuff.

 

Van Slembrouck writes for Medium:

"Imagine that you could shrink yourself to a microscopic size and then climb through the mesh of fibres in the stroma. That's where structural colouration is coming from…

…and in the mesh are also strands of smooth muscle tissue that contract to dilate (expand) the pupil, pulling the inner edge of the iris toward the outer edge. When this happens, the stroma fibres slacken and may become wiggly as tension is released. This makes me wonder, does that slightly alter the colour of your eye as well?"

Check out Van Slembrouck's great story to find out how hazel and grey eyes get their color, and also to check out his beautiful diagrams that explain structural coloring. (Source: Medium via Science Alert)

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Alan Watts: Karma, Time, Meditation (audio)

Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly; Western Zen teacher Alan Watts "Way Beyond the West" via Mitch Jeserich (KPFA.org, Pacifica Free Speech Radio, Berkeley, California)

Science maps the brain, while Buddhism maps consciousness (thinkprogress.org)

 

"Mind" (citta) is heart

Karma does not mean "cause and effect." That is an unfortunate translation, a misleading oversimplification based on wanting to show that Buddhism is "scientific."

Buddhism is more than scientific. We will not experience most science we are taught, but we can personally experience all the important things Buddhism teaches.

Science class says "cause and effect," and a budding Buddhist says, "Hey, that's like what Siddhartha said!" That's very superficial and separates past from present as if they were separate. They are quite connected and unbroken, like a snake's head and tail.

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What is the right view on this matter? Karma means "action," based on kri, "doing." What happens is our doing. What is happening to us, we are doing. It isn't happening to us. Our actions are.

• (What comes to fruit in the future and present, like it did in the past, is intentional-action). 

But this is a deep insight fraught with risk as we try to bring it into conventional language: "You mean, I did it? I'm to blame? Yada, yada, yada." Alan Watts explains it beautifully. Karma is action.

• (The tangible karmic-fruit, the phala, and the mental-resultants, the vipaka, are distinguished from the action, the karma, by the Buddha. But this is for the sake of understanding a process; in reality, they are inseparable).

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Karma: Law of Cause and Effect (video)

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Venerable Robina Courtin gives the essence of the Buddha's teaching of karma (actions with the ability to yield results when, like seeds, they come to fruition). This teaching is great for beginners to get a taste of the meaning of karma in simple terms as well as for long time students to remember the essence of this complex subject.

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2012 "Supermoon" tonight (video)

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Skywatchers take note: The biggest full moon of the year is due to arrive tonight, Cinco de Mayo, the American heavy-drinking quasi-holiday, which is already prone to a great deal of "lunacy" as the Five Precepts are wantonly violated to the karmic harm of many revelers.

The Moon will officially become full Saturday (May 5, 2012) at 8:35 pm PST (11:35 pm EDT). And because this month's full moon coincides with the Moon's perigee -- its closest approach to Earth -- it will also be the year's biggest.

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The Moon will swing in 221,802 miles (356,955 kms) from our planet, offering skywatchers a spectacular view of an extra big, extra bright celestial object, nicknamed a "super-moon."

Its perigee coincides with the full Moon this month [or "moonth," each four week period of 28 days, giving us 28x13=364+1 (reflection day) totaling a real Earth year before the disorienting modern calendar was foisted upon the world]. 

Moreover, this perigee will be the nearest to Earth of any this year, as the distance of the Moon's close approach varies by about 3 percent, according to meteorologist Joe Rao, SPACE.com's skywatching columnist. This happens because the Moon's orbit is not perfectly circular. 

This month's full Moon is due to be about 16 percent (send in your photos) brighter than average. 

In contrast, later this year on Nov. 28th, the full Moon will coincide with apogee, the Moon's farthest approach, offering a particularly small and dim full Moon. Though the unusual appearance of this month's full Moon may be surprising to some, there's no reason for alarm, scientists assure.

The slight distance difference isn't enough to cause any earthquakes or extreme tidal effects, experts say. However, the normal tides around the world will be particularly high and low. At perigee, the Moon will exert about 42 percent more tidal force than it will during its next apogee two weeks later, Rao explained. The last supermoon occurred in March 2011.

How to get a good view

To view this weekend's supermoon to best effect, look for it just after it rises or before it sets, when it is close to the horizon. There, you can catch a view of the Moon behind buildings or trees, an effect which produces an optical illusion, making it seem even larger than it really is.

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"Karma," a supernatural thriller (movie)

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BOLLYWOOD, India - "Karma" is an off-beat, supernatural thriller set in the United States telling a story woven around Hindu mythology.

Padma (Jade Tailor) is an Indian American kid whose dad is killed in front of the temple by the temple priest when he questions the holy man about misusing temple donations for drug peddling.

Trailer (in Hindi)

Padma's mother (Bhanu Yanamandra) takes Padma away to settle in the remote city of Shamrock. While in her 20s, Padma loses her mother too.

Her friend Raj (Sher Ali) expresses his love for her, but she doesn't reciprocate. He nevertheless remains a friend she can turn to in her hour of need.

Dev and Sumati visit Padma, because Sumati was a very close friend of Padma's mother.

But how did they know that Padma's mother passed away? Padma lives in isolation, and no one relayed the news. That is only the first question that surprises Padma.

Dev simply says he just "knows" certain things before they happen. Padma is strangely drawn towards Dev. And as Dev and Padma get closer, Padma learns more and more... Why did Dev really come? Does he really have supernatural powers? Can Raj win over Padma?

O, karma is a convoluted thing!

Medical Study: Yoga helps with Asthma

(HealthDayNews) -- Study finds practice can ease symptoms, raise awareness of breathing patterns. Settling into a warrior or tree pose a few times a week seems to improve symptoms and quality of life for people with asthma.

In fact, participants in a recent trial studying the effects of Hatha yoga also reported that they had been able to cut back on some of their asthma medication, said Amy Bidwell, senior author of a study presented this week at the American College of Sports Medicine's annual meeting, in Seattle.

"It's dramatic but not surprising," said Dr. Jonathan Field, director of the allergy and asthma clinic at New York University School of Medicine/Bellevue Medical Center in New York City. "There have been some smaller studies that have stated this before, but I don't think they've ever used a standardized scale of this sort." More>>

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