Ancient Aliens: Stargates and Dimension Travel Uncovered (S7, E1) | full episode
Mandela Effect: Cpt. Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty" in this timeline
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Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Beam me up, Scotty: Stargates, dimensions
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Jewish denominations explained (video)
UsefulCharts, 8/4/23; Br Nathaneal; Sheldon S., CC Liu, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Judaism and Jewish denominations explained
(Brother Nathaneal) Why I left Judaism for Eastern Orthodox
See Sam Aronow's response to this video:
- Jewish Streams Re-Explained (a Response...)
- Classical Rabbis Family Tree: • Classical Rabbis Family Tree
- Christian Denominations Series: • Episode 1: Christian Origins & Early...
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- Charts and narration by Matt Baker
- Animation by Syawish Rehman
- Audio editing by Ali Shahwaiz
- Theme music: "Lord of the Land" by Kevin MacLeod and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution license 4.0. and available from incompetech.com
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Go to heaven NOW or hell later (audio)
Coast to Coast, Aug. 26, 2023; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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| Rebirth is the automatic default option. |
What were we thinking? We had a mission, had a plan, made a contract, agreed to learn something -- but we've lost our way and have forgotten our purpose. It's time to get answers, get back on track, and clarify those things that are too precious to leave to the afterlife to come (in the endless Round of Rebirths called samsara).
One needn't hold a Catholic, Christian, Islamic, or Jewish (Abrahamic) view. Be an atheist, a Taoist, an agnostic, a Hindu, a Sikh, a Flying Spaghetti Monster worshipper (Pastafarian), a Jain, even a Buddhist.
Whatever one's religion, world-view (paradigm), preferred science, or place on the opinion spectrum, there is a "heaven" (the world to come), and we can get clear about it and our position in the grand scheme of things:
Visiting heaven (while still alive)
These first two hours were bolstered in the second half of the program, when David Dave "The Mystic" Barnett talked about his personal journey from aero science to seer and all of his research into the extraterrestrials (visitors and hybrid human-alien ETs) hiding in plain sight ALL around us. He gave tips on how to spot them.
Buddhist "hell" can't be real, can it?
Rob Bell (huffingtonpost.com) edited by Wisdom Quarterly
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| This isn't a depiction of hells but samsara, the Round of Rebirth, in six realms with Death. |
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Question: Who is in the hells [purgatories]?
Christian evangelicals, particularly the American ones, are known for a rigid adherence to the literal truth of sacred scriptures.
But now one of them, Rob Bell, is questioning the existence of [Christian] hell as a place of eternal damnation. His views have stirred controversy.
However, in the Buddhist community, radical interpretations of the hells have been around for a long time. Eyebrows rise at some extreme views, but generally Western (rather than ethnically Asian) Buddhists tend to be evenhanded in their approach to controversial issues in Buddhism.
The historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama (Shakyamuni, the "Sage of the Scythians"), was born into an ancient pre-Hindu Vedic/Brahminical culture 2,600 years ago.
Based on the principle of perpetual rebirth (samsara), later Hindu interpretations of hell (claiming to only be a continuation of the Vedas) is a stopping point where eternal souls burn off evil deeds before proceeding to the next life [and the next life and the next life ad nauseum].
In this respect, the Buddha's insights about the many hell realms are similar to American evangelist Bell's, in that they are not regarded as permanent -- although lifespans can be on time scales that are vast and hard to comfortably imagine.
Hindus have come to believe that human consciousness transmigrates into an afterlife through an after-death experience.
- [EDITOR'S NOTE: It would be a great misinterpretation to think that Buddhism teaches any such thing. While the Buddha had a tremendous impact on Brahminical and later Hindu teachings, as well as revealing the meaning of many Vedic teachings lost through the millennia, non-Buddhist teachings have always clung to things the Buddha flatly and unequivocally rejected: a permanent self or soul (atman), the permanence of anything other than the Truth, or the belief that dependent things (composites) can bring lasting satisfaction and fulfillment. The Three Marks of Existence that the Buddha saw and taught a doctrine for others to become able to see are: All things are disappointing, impermanent, and impersonal (dukkha, anicca, anatta). The first two are relatively easy to discern, while the third is almost impossible to believe or hold until one awakens to the ultimate truth of things. It is the prerequisite for entering the first stage of awakening called stream-entry. One is then, with persistent practice of the Dharma, very close to full enlightenment.]
The Buddhist scholar Prof. Peter Harvey of Lancaster University contextualizes hell as one of the classical Buddhist six [heaven, human, animal, hungry ghost, demon, hellion] realms of existence in his book, An Introduction to Buddhism:
"The worst realm is the hell-realm, comprising a number of hellish rebirths.
- [Sadly, this is an over-simplification of what the historical Buddha taught, namely, 31 Planes of Existence, large general categories of countless specific worlds. Mahayana Buddhism, a reformed school that is now reconciled almost completely with Hinduism, took the teaching of 31 planes and dumbed things down to six basic categories.]
These hellish rebirths [purgatories where unskillful karma bears its bitter fruits and resultants] are described as involving experiences of being burned up, cut up, frozen, or eaten alive, and being revived to re-experience more torments.
- Niraya refers to the "downward path" of rebirth as an animal (tirrachana), ghost (peta), demon (asura, demigod), or hellion (naraka, which refers to the lowest and most miserable of all 31 Planes of Existence -- including a few other hells that are not specified in the list of 31 but mentioned in the texts, such as "interstitial hell" and the "hell of laughter"). These ironic hells are experienced in ways that are very specific to one's karma (past deeds and present choices/reactions ripening as fruit and mental resultants. The eight great hells are very general, and the very worst of them is called avici or "the waveless deep." Most Christian conceptions of "hell" as if it one just one place with no levels, but perhaps rings as in Dante's description, are of avici, a furnace of unimaginably brutal torments).
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| Six [of 31] general realms of rebirth. The Buddha points to Dharma wheel as the instructions to get off carousel. |
"While life in the hells is measured in millions of years, no rebirth is eternal, so a being from one of the hells will in time reach [another level, maybe even] the human level again."
Prof. Richard Hayes of the University of New Mexico recalls visiting a Thai Buddhist temple in Toronto with a group of students: "What surprised them most [were] the murals filled with very graphic pictures of people being tormented in various hell realms. The message was clear enough to all the lay people who went to that temple."
Prof. Hayes points out that Buddhist texts are filled with detailed descriptions of the hot and cold hells and all the pain and suffering that goes on there.
"Of course, hell realms, like every other realm in samsara (the illusory round of endless rebirths) are temporary [no more real or eternal than rebirth in any of the many heavens in Buddhist cosmology].
People stay [find themselves stuck] there for a while and then move on."
But not all Buddhist texts adhere to a literal interpretation of hell as a place where dead people go as a result of their misdeeds.
Prof. Hayes says his personal favorite is found in the scripture Kamalaśīla's Bhavanākrama.
"Each of the realms is treated as the counterpart of a segment of society:
- The heavenly realms are likened to the world of the very wealthy and privileged [in the human realm].
- [The average person's experience of the human realm.]
- The realm of the "jealous gods" (devas full of envy and animosity) [called asuras, who are often referred to as "demons" but not always in the strict Christian sense of the term] is likened to the segment of human society that aspires to be wealthy and powerful.
- The animal realm symbolizes those people [in the human realm] who must work very hard and who struggle to make their daily livelihood.
- The realm of hungry ghosts represents the poor and homeless.
- The hell realms stand for people in prison."
The Buddhist atheist
"I simply [am agnostic] don't know what happens after we die, and as far as I can tell nor does anyone else. I think the only way to make sense of descriptions of hell is to treat them as symbols.
"A continuous cycle of death and rebirth strikes me as an ideal metaphor for hell – and the various hell realms can be associated with different states of mind like anger, hatred, jealousy, or depression.
"It can also apply to physical pain, the devastation of a tsunami, or to a life cycle like Charlie Sheen's or John Galliano's – feted as heroes one minute, drowned in opprobrium the next."
He is probably closest to Carl Jung's theory that the peaceful, joyful, and wrathful deities of the Tantric Buddhist pantheon are archetypes representing aspects of the human condition.
A last word from psychotherapist and author Lara Owen (Growing Your Inner Light): She adheres to traditional Buddhist views but accepts that mortality is still a huge taboo:
"Ultimately it comes down to the universal existential crisis of being in a body that will one day die. Some people can only cope with that by denying all unknown quantities." More
- The idea/assumption that there is a "being in a body" that is eternal (will not die) when the body is mortal (will die) is WRONG VIEW. But why it is wrong is very subtle and hard to understand. That's not what people want. We want simple. The fact is, it's not simple -- if one cares about being accurate and in line with ultimate reality. The body will die. Things will continue in spite of that. That being (impersonal process of consciousness) is dying at every moment and sub-moment. What is there then, if not a higher-self/soul/ego/personality? There is Dependent Origination (an impersonal causal linkage of how ALL things, including this idea clung to as "self," arise). The Buddha, in teaching how to become enlightened/awakened, goes to great pains to explain the minute details of this, the Five Aggregates (form, feeling, perception, formations, and consciousness) that cling. It is not a self/soul clinging to these five heaps, five collections, but rather feeling feels, perception perceives, and so on. While "consciousness" seems to be the doer, the one who experiences the result, but that is not really what is going on. And it is possible to see what is going on. And unless that is seen, there will be no awakening, no end of all suffering.
- Think how much easier it is for every other religion to become popular, with easy explanations and intuitive answers that "make so much sense" because they are in line with our desire, with the way we want things to be. Minds prefer illusions. Truth seems too scary. If minds only knew the Truth is beautiful and liberating. The illusions are hiding great danger, a world of suffering to come that is too difficult to contemplate or believe until it's too late.
- How can anyone in his/her right mind say, "There is no self"? It's easy. Look up anatta (not-self) and, realizing that understanding this at least at a conceptual level is necessary for understanding what the historical Buddha actually taught and understanding this at a direct experiential level is necessary for reaching the first stage of enlightenment, it will become clear why so few humans and devas become enlightened. It is an extraordinary feat of mental purification and letting go. We would rather be intoxicated with views and delusions, assumptions, easy answers, religious certainties that do not ask of us any direct mystical experience of the Truth. For such people, engage in skillful karma (good deeds) and be happy for a long time to come with rebirth in fortunate destinations, avoiding the pitfalls of unskillful deeds and their consequences in miserable rebirths that last a long time.
Friday, June 9, 2023
Going to h*ll w/Avenged Sevenfold+Pussy Riot
A7X, Pussy Riot (AP); Saint Xero, 6/6/23; ACA, 1212/19; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
This band sucks! They're a bunch of jocks who somehow made it big pretending to be Goth G'n'R.
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| Avenged Sevenfold is coming to LA with Pussy Riot (June 9). We have to go.to see PR. |
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| Come to our L.A. shows. It's an art spectacle! |
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| A7X and Pussy Riot live in LA (June 9th, 2023) |
Life is But a Dream...in two minutes
A7X is very popular after the band's release of Life is But a Dream. Here it is in two minutes.
Exorcist reveals his haunting experiences
Famous Father Vinny Lampert warns Catholic kids about occult sh*t
(A Current Affair) A priest (Fr. Vincent Lampert) in the U.S. is one of the world's few Vatican-trained exorcists. He speaks about some of his most haunting experiences and why he believes exorcisms are on the rise today as religion declines. Full episodes: bit.ly/2qlfdmd. #ACA #TracyGrimshaw"Mattel" (official visualizer)
Thursday, April 9, 2020
Heaven and Hell: History of Afterlife (audio)
UNC Chapel Hill Prof. Bart D. Ehrman, with Host Mitch Jeserich (Letters & Politics, 4/9/20, KPFA); Host Terry Gross (Fresh Air, NPR); Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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| Get off me, Michael (Sakka) |
Bart Ehrman, a New York Times best-selling historian of early Christianity, takes on two of the most gripping questions of human existence: Where did the ideas of "heaven" and "hell" come from, and why do they endure?
What happens when we die? A recent Pew Research poll showed 72 percent of Americans believe in a literal heaven, 58 percent in a literal hell.
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| Lucifer cum Satan = Buddhist Vepacitti |
Most people who hold these beliefs are Christians who ASSUME they are age-old teachings of the Bible.
But eternal rewards and eternal punishments are found nowhere in the Old Testament (the pre-Roman Empire version of the Bible) and are not what Jesus or his disciples taught.
So where did the ideas come from? In clear and compelling terms, Prof. Bart Ehrman recounts the long history of the afterlife, ranging from the pre-Jewish Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh up to the writings of Augustine, focusing especially on the teachings of Jesus and his early followers.
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| Sacred Jewish lit based on older Sumerian texts |
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| We pick and choose what we like about Jesus |
Ehrman discusses ancient guided tours of heaven and hell, in which a living person observes the sublime blessings of heaven for those who are saved and the horrifying torments of hell for the damned.
Some of these accounts take the form of near-death experiences, the oldest on record, with intriguing similarities to those reported today.
One of Ehrman’s startling conclusions is that there never was a single Greek, Jewish, or Christian understanding of the afterlife. What there was were numerous competing views.
Moreover, these views did not come from nowhere; they were intimately connected with the social, cultural, and historical worlds out of which they emerged.
Only later, in the early Christian centuries, did they develop into the notions of eternal bliss or eternal damnation widely accepted today.
As a historian and professor of religious studies, Ehrman does not [and obviously cannot since he is no mystic with direct experience of the beyond like meditators gain] provide a definitive answer to the question of what happens after death.
In Heaven and Hell, he does the next best thing: By helping us reflect on where our ideas of the afterlife come from, he assures us that even if there may be something to hope for when we die, there is certainly nothing to fear. More + AUDIO
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Jesus was nailed to a tree in one story, a cross in another. This tree in Colombia is inspiring the faithful to greater faith and pilgrimages to see it like a visage of the Virgin Mary or Mother Miriam.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Mythology: Aztlan, Eden, Shambhala (video)
Flat Water Flat Earth; Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly
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| All cultures said the Earth was flat with a firmament, even Buddhist and ancient Indian-Vedic cosmology, except for the recent past promoted by NASA and its photoshopped maps and CGI. |
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| Our flattened oblate spheroid Earth |
The Earth is flat (contoured) and hollow and this is kept secret from us? Central to this conception is Buddhism's Mt. Sumeru (Meru, Sineru), drawn from much older Vedic sources. Even in Mexico today there is a place called Aztlan, like Eden (Aidenn) and Shambhala (Shangri-La) in Agartha (Inner Earth). Mythologies reveal what we are not allowed to know, what "official" consensus reality science and religion deny and deny until they admit it. Whatever the truth, we are being lied to. The Earth may not be flat, but it is certainly not the shape and dimensions NASA CGI tries to convince us. There is too much evidence to the contrary. What is being concealed and why?
Mt. Sumeru (Meru)
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| Buddhist temple complexes are built in the form of our world-system or cakkavala: Mt. Meru at the center of Earth, space worlds, underworlds as depicted in Tibetan mandalas. |
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| 1911 postcard: Mythical Angkor has just been found by science under the jungle in Cambodia (Damian Evans/BBC.co.uk, June 12, 2016), the world's largest pre-industrial city built according to Buddhist cosmological map (Georges Groslier/wiki). |
Mt. Sumeru (Meru)
G.P. Malalasekera (Dictionary of Pali Proper Names) edited by Wisdom Quarterly
Mt. Meru (a.k.a. Sineru) is a mountain [more likely magnetic lines of force extending high from the poles and inner ocean into space], forming the center of the world. It is submerged in the sea to a depth of 84,000 yojanas [1 yojana=5, 7, or 10 miles] and rises above the surface to the same height. It is surrounded by seven mountain ranges [which may be hollow and contain the seven caves the Atzlan myth mentions]:
On the top of Mt. Meru [a kind of Mt. Olympus in ancient Greek mythology] is The Space World of the Thirty-Three or Tāvatimsa (SNA.ii.485f), while at its foot is the Asurabhavana [the world the Asuras, Titan or "fallen devas," were cast down onto, usually considered our human world on Earth] of 10,000 leagues; in the middle are the four great islands or continents (mahā-dīpā) with their 2,000 smaller dīpā. More
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| Mt. Sumeru as magnetic lines |
Yugandhara
31 Planes of Existence - Isadhara
- Karavīka
- Sudassana
- Nemindhara
- Vinataka
- Assakanna
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| Inner Earth opens at the poles (WS) |
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| A Korean world map centered on legendary Mt. Meru (Mt. Sumeru) in Central Asia. The Eurocentric Mercator Map we all use inverts the world, so south is north (wiki). |
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Where is Aztlán?
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| Atzlan is inside the Earth, seven caves of Chicomoztoc (W) |
(Nahuatl Aztlān) is the legendary ancestral home of the Aztec peoples. Aztecah is the Nahuatl word for "people from Aztlan." Nahuatl is the native language of Mexico, whereas Spanish is the language of the Conquistadors.
The place Aztlan is mentioned in several ethnohistorical sources dating from the colonial period (post invasion, European "contact"), and each of them give different lists of the different tribes who participated in the migration from Aztlan to Mesoamerica (Central America and Mexico).
But the Mexica who went on to found Mexico-Tenochtitlan are mentioned in all of the accounts. Historians have speculated about the possible location of Aztlan... More
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Eating Dirt: a human hell realm
Buddhist perdition -- the many "hells" briefly described -- strain credulity. However, some of these "worlds" apparently exist on earth among animals (i.e., in the ocean depths being uncovered) and among various human populations. Extraordinary forms of novel suffering present themselves from time to time in news reports, one more bizarre than the next. In this example, starving human beings are forced to resort to dust as food in Haiti.
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