A monumental complex built by the Maya of Mesoamerica (Tabasco, Mexico) an estimated 3,000 years ago was modeled on a map of the cosmos (universe), new fieldwork has revealed.
A detailed survey of the Aguada Fénix site reveals that not only was the monument significantly larger than initial surveys suggested – laid out in the shape of a cross with axes measuring 5.6 and 4.7 miles (9 and 7.5 kilometers) – but it was also designed as a cosmogram, a kind of Buddhist mandala, an architecture symbolizing the cosmos (Buddhist cosmology, Earthly realms).
What will I wear when I visit? (Crystal Q)
What's even more remarkable about the structure is that the site contains none of the trappings of social inequality, such as elite residences or sculptures of rulers.
This strongly implies that egalitarian cultures were capable of monumental building works without the application of coercive force through a stratified social hierarchy ruled by a king or queen.
Before now, the Maya site of Seibal was thought to be the oldest ceremonial center, dating back to around 950 BCE
Related: 'Bad Omen': Ancient pyramid in Mexico collapses
Aguada Fénix greenstone object likely depicts a crocodile (Inomata et al., Sci. Adv., 2025).
The Maya cosmos mapped out on Earth?
The discovery of Aguada Fénix by way of LiDAR surveys, in the Mexican state of Tabasco near the Gulf of Mexico, was fascinating for a number of reasons.
The first was its size; it was the largest Maya site ever found, even going by the more modest initial estimate of 1.4 kilometers along its longest axis. And it wasn't hidden in the forest, as so many lost Mesoamerican (Mexican), Central American, and South American structures are.
Clearly the "real" world is not real, not flawless and flowing but glitching and sharing features with tapes, loops, reels, video, audio, warped and resetting like a computer program, a simulation of a real thing or dimension. When it's caught on film for all to see, able to be reviewed, then who can doubt it? Sure, there's chance, coincidence, eerie confluence, but that does not explain all of these glitches.
CRJ 900 carrying 80 passengers crashed at Toronto's Lester B Pearson Airport. About 17 were injured, but there were no fatalities. The commercial plane somehow ended up on its back, missing a wing, which leads us to ask three things: Why? How? And where's Pete Buttigieg? Oh, wait, new Pres. Trump made someone else secretary of transportation, after which these transport anomalies started.
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(IVLIAN MCMXCVI) The famous Western philosopher Alan Watts is a legend of the 20th century. An illustrious mind that influenced the conjunction of Eastern and Western ways of life, Watts brings his profound message to a generation of hippies through his legacies, actions taken during his life and his wise thoughts recorded by Pacifica Free Speech Radio (KPFA and KPFK) and KQED TV.
This short biography is about the existence of a happy man, a father and a teacher. His life may be an example for us, for those that want to achieve serenity and true calm. Whether we live up to the idealism of what he discusses, we are at least given insight into how other parts of the world view the world and why the West was won over by the East and its ideas.
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"We exist somewhere OUTSIDE of the Simulation" - Gregg Braden
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Does our concept of time and space actually make sense? Do we actually know what the end and beginning look like or even are? Where did humans come from, and why are we on this planet?
ETs and humanoid robots
We wish we could have all the answers to all the universes, as if somehow unlocking the "how" would change our "why."
As we understand more, humans can control our purpose on earth [along with all of the ET races also co-inhabiting this planet]. New research from the Hubble Space Telescope has found something strange is happening in the universe.
"Don't panic" (HHGTTG)
NASA is working on figuring out what exactly is happening and why. However, this could not only challenge our previous assumptions and understanding of the universe, but it could also introduce a "brand new physics." Keep reading to learn what it means.
[The "new physics" is already known and studied on military bases and on black budget project sites like Groom Lake, but all of that is top secret and higher, with there being many levels above top secret like majestic.
Success in the ordinary sphere of physics in a university or place like Alamo or Bell Labs leads to a visit and offer of greater opportunity working secretly for the government and/or its alphabet agencies, such as DARPA, the CIA, NSA, NSC, Montauk Labs, and the US military and their D.U.M.B.s] More
Physicists think the infinite size of the multiverse could be infinitely bigger
When another universe begins: samsara
(ScienceAlert) Not only does God play dice, that great big casino of quantum physics could have far more rooms than we ever imagined -- an infinite number more, in fact.
Physicists from the University of California at Davis (UCD), the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne have redrawn the map of fundamental reality to demonstrate the way we relate objects in physics could be holding us back from seeing a bigger picture.
For about a century, our understanding of reality has been complicated by the theories and observations that fall under the banner of quantum mechanics.
Gone are the days when objects had absolute measures like velocity and position. To understand the fabric from which the Universe is made, we need mathematics that breaks down games of chance into likely measures.
This is far from an intuitive view of the Universe. In what has come to be known as the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum physics, it seems there are waves of possibility until there isn't.
Even now, it's not at all clear what ultimately decides the fate of Schrödinger's cat. [Is it dead, alive, or both?] That hasn't stopped physicists from considering the options.
American physicist Hugh Everett suggested in the 1950s that all possible measures constituted their own reality. What makes this one special is merely the fact you happen to be observing it.
Related video: What if the Universe were just an illusion? (What If)
Universes are like bubbles; beings mostly stay put
Everett's "many worlds" model isn't quite a theory so much as a way of grounding the absolute weirdness of quantum mechanics in something tangible.
We start with an impression of the infinite multiverse of maybes, or what physicists might refer to as the sum of all energies and positions known as a global Hamiltonian, and then zoom in on what interests us, constraining the infinite within a finite and far more manageable Hamiltonian subsystem.
Yet as a means of comprehending the infinite, could this "zooming in" be holding us back? Or as the researchers behind this latest exercise frame it, is it "too provincial an approach, born out of our familiarity with certain macroscopic objects?"
To put it another way, we might readily ask whether Schrödinger's cat is alive or dead inside its box but not consider whether the table beneath is warm or cold or if the box is starting to smell.
In an effort to determine whether our tendency to keep our focus on what's inside the box even matters, the researchers developed an algorithm to consider whether some quantum possibilities known as pointer states might be a little more stubbornly set than others, making some critical properties less likely to entangle.
If so, the box describing Schrödinger's cat is to some degree incomplete unless we're considering a long list of factors that may potentially stretch far across the Universe.
"You can have part of the Earth and the Andromeda galaxy in one subsystem, that's a perfectly legitimate subsystem," UCD physicist Arsalan Adil explained to Karmela Padavic-Callaghan at New Scientist.
Countless worlds in at least 31 categories
In theory, there is no limit to the way subsystems could be defined, adding long lists of states near and far that could fence off a reality in subtly different ways.
Starting with Everett's "many worlds" the team have come up with what they refer to as a "many more worlds" interpretation – taking an infinite set of possibilities and multiplying it with an infinite range of realities that we might not normally consider.
Much as with the original interpretation, this novel take is less a comment on how the Universe behaves but more about our attempts to study it one bite at a time.
The researchers emphasize they haven't attached a lot of conceptual significance to their algorithm but do wonder if it might have applications in developing better ways of probing quantum systems, such as those inside computers.
No doubt in some other reality, they already have their answer. This research is yet to be peer-reviewed and is available on arXiv. More:
The best explanation for this world, which means this universe, was given by an American who went to the Andes to a doorway (portal) carved in stone, near Lake Titicaca. A shaman told him its secrets and taught him the utterances needed to enter. He did it and regretted it. What he found was the beginning of this world. There in a lab along the way, he saw "scientists" trying to control the size of our expanding world so that it did not overtake theirs. Ours started by accident. It's organic and a natural process, not uncommon. Once it gets going, it's inhabited by beings who circle the round of samsara without end. A buddha awakens, discovers the way out. Do we listen?
Multiverse?
O, Buddha, tell me the truth so I can do the math
(Richard Milner/Grunge) So we all know about the multiverse, right? One day a physicist somewhere thought, "Man, I wish I'd played in the NBA instead of sitting around doing math all day," and bam: instant childhood fantasy fulfillment meets theoretical physics
If Einstein asked, the B knew it
Then there's that Marvel movie, that other Marvel movie, and the DC one, and the one with like three Spidermen that was actually pretty solid and better than expected, especially Andrew Garfield.
And somewhere in there, drowning in the morass of fictional portrayals, evidence-less reality, the religious zeal of multiversal proponents, and grounded reservations of skeptics rests the truth of the multiverse: It's not a thing.
Okay, it could be a thing, but only in the way that "God" is a thing because its existence can't be disproven -- yet. But how to gather data on the multiverse? Behold the conundrum:
1) The universe, by definition, is that which contains everything that is and
2) to test for another universe we would have to test outside of all that is; therefore,
(Let's Talk Religion) March 23, 202: This episode explores the fascinating world of Dune and the religious themes that can be found in the books and movies.
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Family Guy; BeeyondIdeas, 11/2/23; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Hubble did it first even if it didn't do it better. Now Webb is wowing public. Crab Nebula above
"This universe existed before the Big Bang" ft. Roger Penrose
(BeeyondIdeas) Let's unravel the mysteries surrounding (our) Big Bang. Was it truly the beginning of everything?
31 Planes/Zones of Existence
[No, obviously not. In Buddhist cosmology, the universe (multiverse) is aeons (kalpas) old, ordinary aeons and great aeons, of incalculable lengths as the universe arises, expands, disintegrates, goes into a state of chaos, and arises again, cyclically, repeatedly, endlessly.
It is unclear what constitutes a universe, the everything, because there are world systems (cakkavalas), and each world system is similar to the countless others, like bubbles in space. If each constitutes a universe, a self-contained system of planets and stars and a diverse population of creatures, then we live in a multiverse with such universes extending out in 10,000 directions.
There are 31 Planes of Existence, divided into three spheres, our Sensual Sphere, the more subtle Fine Material Sphere above us, and the Immaterial Sphere, which is formless, above that. These 31 Planes are general categories with countless individual worlds and inhabitants. Space is big, very big, and multidimensional, so it's even bigger than we can imagine.
So from a Buddhist cosmological point of view, if a "Big Bang" is the initial point of an expanding universe, this is just a phase after a lengthy period of contraction. After expanding, it dissipates into chaos for a lengthy period. But after a time, it again establishes order and regularity, and this is a new beginning, a Golden Age or Satya Yuga, an Age of Truth. We are currently in a Kali Yuga, but it is hard to say because within these massive cycles there are subcycles, mini periods of revolution, of dark and bright, cycles within cycles.
And it just goes on this way without end and, therefore, without a discernible beginning, which is not to say there was not one, only that it cannot now be found. And we cannot reason our way there. It is one of the Four Imponderables.
One would sooner become deranged, a "mad scientist," before settling on a satisfactory answer. And, in any case, it would not actually be satisfactory, like The God Idea as the cause of all things, with Maha Brahma (the "Great Supremo") as the cause of all things, which the Buddha declared a wrong view.
A creator god is as good as any explanation only because it stops all further searching. It is said that science is ridiculous in positing a Big Bang as a first cause because in doing so it is saying, "Everything is rational, mechanical, explicable, and understandable IF you just give us this one bit of irrational, supernatural, inexplicable, and nonsense Big Bang magic as the cause and origin of everything.]
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Veritasium, Oct 21, 2023; CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Math CAN be easy and intuitive but isn't: WHY?
How one sentence in the oldest math text hinted at hidden universes
(Veritasium) Just when someone decides that math is dumb nonsense there comes this flight of fancy hinting at something real. It must be real or what insights did the young genius Bolyai have?
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A huge thanks to Prof. Geraint Lewis and Dr. Ashmeet Singh for helping us understand the applications of Non-Euclidean geometry in astronomy/cosmology.
Lastly, a big thanks to Dr. Henry Segerman and Dr. Rémi Coulon for helping us visualize what it’s like to be inside hyperbolic space and helping us understand hyperbolic geometry.
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My religion lied to me: NDE showed no religion and no hell with Nanci L. Danison
(Next Level Soul) Premiered Oct. 11, 2022. Welcome to the Next Level Soul Podcast with Alex Ferrari where the big questions about life get asked: Who am I? Why am I here? Is that all there is? What is my soul’s mission? The attempt is to answer these and other questions by bringing raw and inspiring conversations with fascinating and thought-provoking guests.
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ABOUT: Dr. Nanci L. Danison is a retired attorney and current spiritual author who has written five books so far on the experiences she had and the information she received in the afterlife. She holds a BS degree with a double major in biology (anatomy and physiology) and chemistry, a BA degree in psychology, and a doctorate in jurisprudence.
She had three NDE-OOB experiences during which she left her body in hospitals during surgery or when very close to death. She had what she calls two “pop in” NDEs, where [she] popped into the afterlife for a particular purpose while still alive. During one [she] had a life review.
During the other she received a huge download of information about everything that has ever been written in Earth’s history.
Lastly, she was privileged to share her mother’s out-of- body adventure and death via an empathic or shared NDE. For a number of years, Danison was the group leader of Central Ohio International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS), a chapter she founded. She spoke at an IANDS conference and various IANDS chapter meetings over the years.
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