Hindu India: The Vagina Festival (video)

India, August 2025: The V4G!NA Festival and its CONTROVERSIAL rituals! 🍓 🇮🇳 Cata e Davi

The Vagina Festival, Kamakhya Temple

The Kamakhya Temple at Nilachal hills in Guwahati, Assam, Northeastern India, is one of the oldest and most revered centers of Tantric practice [3] dedicated to the Goddess Kamakhya. This Hindu temple is the center of the Kulachara Tantra Marga and the site of the Ambubachi Mela, an annual festival that celebrates the menstruation of the goddess [4]. More

• Trans folks (pandakas) are everywhere aggressively panhandling, demanding money (baksheesh). It's extortion and they will repeatedly curse the person who dares to deny them and may even get violent. It's almost as bad as India's "Eunuch Festival," but eunuch is the wrong word for the inebriated revelries (Bacchanalia/Saturnalia) that is rumored to go on in LGBTQI+, India according to the Indian press.

Vagina myths and how to fight them

(Cata e Davi) Tantrism? Menstruation? The worship of the female genitals, the vagina (yoni), and its positive energy? Entrance to the Womb: Yoni, sometimes called pindika, is an abstract or aniconic representation of the Hindu goddess Shakti. It is usually shown with linga – its masculine counterpart. Together, they symbolize the merging of microcosmos and macrocosmos, the divine eternal process of...

Quick, alert Florence Schechter and get the UK's Vagina Museum to get on this for a photo exhibit. In the meantime, Latinos Cat and Dave are going in and coming back with this report.

The Goddess of Desire (Kama)

American Tori Amos films music video for her song "God" about God in Indian Temple of the Rats

Goddess of Desire Kamakhya

Kāmākhyā, a mother goddess [1], is a Shakta Tantric deity. Considered the embodiment of Kama (sensual desire), she is regarded as the Hindu "goddess of desire" [2]. Her abode is Kamakhya Temple located in the Kamarupa region of Assam, India [3][4]. Originally a Kirata goddess, residing on the Nilachal Hills across the banks of the Brahmaputra River, west of Guwahati in the 10th-11th century temple rebuilt in 1565 CE [5], she is worshiped in a non-iconic and un-anthropomorphic form of a perpetually wet stone shaped as a yoni (womb or vagina) fed by a perennial stream [6]. More

Home-free American herder-gatherer guy

Aaron Fletcher, Kirsten Dirksen, 10/22; Pat Macpherson, Ash Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The life of a modern American "herder-gatherer" is not easy but it is fun and creative.

Home-free American shepherd shares shepherd-gatherer diet and survival tips with Kirsten Dirksen

(Kristen Dirksen) Oct. 16, 2022. For more than a decade, Aaron Fletcher (123homefree.org) has lived as a nomadic shepherd in the U.S., mostly out of a micro-camper pulled by sheep.

A sadhu (spiritual wandering ascetic) in India

He supports himself as an itinerant farmhand through work-trading and bartering sheep’s milk for food and supplies.

He also skill-shares in exchange for food, “including wool felting, wool spinning, cheesemaking, survival, bushcraft, etc.”

He considers himself a herder-gatherer, and his diet consists of a lot of milk and cheese (courtesy of his friendly sheep), as well as foraged foods (wild greens, seeds, and even ingredients to make his own toothpaste) and some traded flesh, potatoes, and citrus (especially after learning he was deficient in Vitamin C and dying of excess protein consumption).

I should meditate or smoke ganga or DMT or sumtin

He’s lived in apartments and conventional homes, and he was about to purchase a home before deciding to go nomadic a dozen years ago. He now lives all year, even during the snowy Oregon winter, in his tiny sheep cart that is fitted out with a bed, folding table, solar freezer, wood-burning stove, dehydrator, and solar cooker.

He defines himself as “homefree” or “the opposite of being homeless...it’s also the opposite of being housed [a householder bound to property, taxes, and expenses], it’s like the third side of a coin. There have always been the haves and the have-nots (possessions), but homefree means being a have-not-want.”

He sees his sheep-pulled covered wagon as the ideal-sized home: more equipped than living off pack boxes and less cluttered than a traditional house.

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(Brian Mahoney, Oct. 2022) The value of this video is that without it I wouldn’t ever even imagine that someone was doing this. I feel like I’ve been really caught up and maybe feeling a little trapped in the system. It’s so refreshing to see this guy demonstrating that life isn’t limited to the lanes that are painted by other people.

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Karma: Rebirth as an animal (video)

Your Daily Laugh; Chart expanded and explained by accesstoinsight.org; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

The 31 Planes of Existence

What karma (actions) does it take to be reborn as an animal, which is a very unfortunate rebirth, part of the "downfall" (apaya), from which there is no easy return to a fortunate rebirth. While it is near the human plane of existence and the realm of ghosts, animals are a very broad category.

The karma to be reborn a human being -- a rare and fortunate opportunity -- is due to having kept the Five Precepts, the basic morality of abstaining from killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, deceiving, and intoxication.

Violating these basics gives rise to the possibility of falling into the animal world or any of the four lower planes.

Animal womb (tiracchana yoni loka)

I'm a lucky house cat, but I want to run free!

The animal plane (composed of countless species) includes all of the non-human forms of life that are visible to us under ordinary circumstances: mammals, fish, birds, insects, worms, and so on.

As we wander through samsara, rebirth on this plane (or any of the lower realms among the 31 Planes of Existence) is brought about by the Ten Unwholesome Courses of Action (MN 41). They are called "courses" because they lead to rebirth in unwelcome, unwished for, unwanted destinations.

Lack of virtue, holding wrong views, particularly pernicious ones like not believing that actions bear results, and actions based on ignorance (delusion) will lead to this plane of existence and worse. If one has been generous to monastics, however, one may be reborn as an "ornamented" animal (i.e., a bird with bright plumage, horse with attractive markings, etc. AN 10.177).

Behaving like an animal (MN 57), such as eating flesh or hunting, can also result in being reborn that kind of animal. It is far better to be a vegetarian/vegan. Chart

Cloned meat already in food supply: FDA

Editing by Christian Wiessner; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Gloria, the first calf born to a cloned cow, Vitoria (L), is seen on a government farm outside Brasilia in this 10-4-04 file photo (Jamil Bittar/Files/Reuters).

In ancient India, three Dharmas ("spiritual traditions") -- Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism -- sensibly advocated a compassionate diet. They were concerned with nirvana and liberating all beings from suffering. However, it's an individual choice. Now that choice may be becoming easier. Meat eaters beware. Protests over meat imports in Korea seem to have been well founded. Genetically modified cloned meat and dairy products used to be banned, but their offspring were not. While vegans may be safe from FrankenMeat cloning and tainted milk in the US food supply, the FDA is reporting something else to turn US consumers' stomachs.

Clones' offspring may already by in food supply: FDA

Christopher Doering

WASHINGTON (Reuters, 9-2-08) -- Food and milk from the offspring of cloned animals may already have entered the U.S. food supply, the Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday, but it would be impossible to know because there is no difference between cloned and conventional products.

• [International reports in January 2008 exposed the finding that the US seems to have already approved the sale of meat and milk from cloned and genetically modified livestock (ABC News Australia/AFP at abc.net.au).]

The FDA said in January that meat and milk from cloned cattle, swine, and goats, and their offspring were as safe to eat as products obtained from traditional animals. Before then, farmers and ranchers had followed a voluntary moratorium that prevented the sale of clones and their offspring.

"It is theoretically possible" offspring from clones are in the food supply, said Siobhan DeLancey, an FDA spokeswoman.

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Proponents, including the Biotechnology Industry Organization, say cloned animals are safe and a way to create animals that produce more milk and better meat and are more disease-resistant. There are currently an estimated 600 cloned animals in the United States.

The small cloning industry and the FDA have maintained cloned animals and their offspring are as safe as their regular counterparts. Cloning animals involves taking the nuclei of cells from adults and fusing them into egg cells that are implanted into a surrogate mother.

FDA and the U.S. Agriculture Department have said it is impossible to differentiate between cloned animals, their offspring, and conventionally-bred animals, making it difficult to know if offspring are in the food supply.

"But they would be a very limited number because of the very few number of clones that are out there and relatively few of those clones are at an age where they would be parenting," said Bruce Knight, USDA's undersecretary for marketing and regulatory programs.

Even as the FDA unveiled its final rule, the USDA asked in January for the cloning industry to prolong the ban on selling products from cloned animals during a "transition" period expected to last at least several months. That ban did not extend to meat and milk from the clone's offspring.

Critics still contend not enough is known about the technology to ensure it is safe, and they also say the FDA needs to address concerns over animal cruelty and ethical issues.

"It worries me that this technology is out of control in so many ways," said Charles Margulis, a spokesman with the Center for Environmental Health. The possibility of offspring being in the food supply "is just another element of that," he said.

Despite the backing from FDA, major food companies including Tyson Foods Inc., the largest U.S. meat company, and Smithfield Foods Inc. have said they would avoid using cloned animals because of safety concerns.

The list grew on Tuesday after the Center for Food Safety and Friends of the Earth said 20 food producers and retailers vowed not to use ingredients from cloned animals in their products.

The list, provided by the two groups, included Kraft Foods Inc., General Mills Inc., Campbell Soup Co., Nestle SA, California Pizza Kitchen Inc. and Supervalu Inc.

In a letter to the Center for Food Safety, Susan Davison, director of corporate affairs with Kraft, said product safety was "not the only factor" the company considers.

"We must also carefully consider additional factors such as consumer benefits and acceptance... and research in the U.S. indicates that consumers are currently not receptive to ingredients from cloned animals," she said.