El Mirador (which is Spanish for "The Lookout," "The Viewpoint," or "The Belvedere") is a large pre-Columbus Middle and Late Preclassic (1000 BC–250 AD) Maya settlement in Mesoamerica, located in the north of the modern department of El Petén, Guatemala.
It is part of the Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin of northern Guatemala [1]. El Mirador is considered to be the most important complex of ancient cities from the Preclassic period.
Cholula Pyramid, Pueblo, Mexico, size of a mountain, topped by an imperial Catholic church
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It features causeways and pyramids, among which the pyramid of La Danta stands out, one of the tallest and most voluminous in the world [likely the world's largest even bigger than Cholula in Mexico, Giza in Egypt, but maybe not as large as the Bosnian Pyramid or the mountain Gunung Padang in formerly Buddhist Indonesia or the world's largest excavated Buddhist temple, which is a pyramid called Borobudur].
The site is estimated to comprise some 800 cities, and the location of La Danta was the epicenter of trade, religious ceremonies, and the royal residence of rulers. Furthermore, the city was interconnected with others via 13 causeways, representing its power over the other Mayan cities in the region [2].
El Mirador has white roads measuring 40 meters wide and between 2 and 5 meters high, forming what researchers consider the world's first highway system or superhighway [3]. More
What is the difference between anger and hate? These are passionate times, and we might find many emotions flowing through us. Every emotion is a part of us, calling to be felt and seen.
When we choose to feel our emotions fully, when we choose to lean into our emotions with self-witnessing, self-kindness, self-gentleness, and self-love, while wrapping the deeper self, the inner self, the childlike self with our compassion, we complete the experience of that emotion and return to a zero point.
We can, at that zero point, consciously choose our actions. If we want, we can choose actions that build a peaceful world.
We can do this because we have held ourselves with kindness and support, and we have honored and experienced our emotions, and we have returned to our own center, healed and loved and empowered.
We build with our point of focus. We build with our beliefs. We build with our thoughts, with what we focus on. That's how we build the future.
We can experience the whole range of challenging emotions—anger, sadness, disappointment, frustration—and we can do it with profound self-love and self-kindness and self-gratitude. And when we do, we complete that experience and step into our power.
Building peace is about understanding that there is nothing more powerful than the individual because the individual builds the world by way of its point of focus. What is a powerful group but many powerful individuals all sharing focus at once?
We are more powerful than any collective force around us. The world is built by way of the individual: by us. Nothing is more powerful in our system than the focal-point of an individual. There is nothing more powerful than us. We get to choose whether we focus a more peaceful world into being.
What is the full range of emotions? We can go through challenging emotions, like anger and disappointment and frustration, and we can stay in our power by experiencing these emotions lovingly, embracing self while experiencing feelings.
We can get to a zero point, then choose consciously. The other option is to let these emotions carry us like trains that we are not consciously directing into something like hate.
Hate is not an emotion; it is an action. Hate builds a warring future. It builds powerfully, whether or not our hate was chosen consciously. It builds a violent future through us.
There is a profound difference between anger and hate. Anger is an emotion indicating that there is a part of the self calling to be felt, calling to be loved, calling to be witnessed. Therefore, anger -- like all emotions -- is holy. Anger, like all emotions, is natural. We can respond to its call for self-love by supplying it with self-love. Then that anger has done its job.
Anger is the baby of the self loudly crying out. Just like a baby cries when it needs to be fed, or have its diaper changed, or to be held, anger is the inner self calling for our own self-soothing, our own self-compassion, our own self-love.
When we feel anger, we are being asked to supply that unconditional love to the self at that moment. And when we do, we heal the self. We prove to the self that our love is there.
Just as a caring parent who responds to a crying baby proves it is there to care for that baby, we can respond to the crying baby of the self with love, and we can heal and soothe that self.
We can show the self we are loved-without-end. That is the opportunity of anger.
If we do not respond to that anger with self-love, it can become a train-car that carries us towards hate. Hatred builds future violence, and future war, when it enters the collective consciousness. If we want to build a world with more violence in it, hate is the tool to use.
But if we want to build a peaceful world and a compassionate world and a loving world, then listen to emotions. Listen to the self calling out for love, and supply that love. Be the loving parent to the holy self. Supply that love and soothe that self.
Every challenging emotion is simply an invitation for self-love. We can deliver that self-love. When we do, we complete the emotion's cycle, step into our empowerment, and then we can say, "Great, I've had that emotion, and I've responded with self-love. I've completed that cycle. Now, what do I want to build with my power?"
If we want to build a peaceful world, compassion-for-all-beings will get us there. Love-for-all-beings will get us there. A peaceful mind, an empty mind, an open mind, a silent mind will get us there. Love of nature will get us there.
Hate unites us (with other haters)
Remember, hate is an action, not an emotion, and it builds something. It builds future violence. Carrying hate is a choice. Harsh judgment of others is a choice.
If we engage hate, let's be aware of what we are building. If we engage in cruel judgments of others, let's know what we're building. If we know our tools and choose consciously what we want, that's what we are working to build consciously. (Otherwise, we're building something quite unconsciously).
We are here to exercise freewill. And we are observed by way of the universe with compassion and love and non-judgment. We are safe to choose, and we are free to choose. We can build a compassionate world by carrying compassion, and we can build a peaceful world by carrying peace. We can build a compassionate world by ogling the ocean, by looking at the soil, by witnessing a stand of trees. Just gazing at a forest with love builds a loving future.
If today is a hard day, sit under a tree and let that tree offer its support. Mother Nature is love-without-end. We are so loved in all our emotions. Emotions are natural.
It is natural that there is a part of us that is calling for love, and it is natural that there are parts of our neighbors that are calling for love. If we answer this moment with compassion-for-all-beings, we build a compassionate world.
A moment of division is the most potent and possible time for peacebuilding because it allows the largest opportunity for change.
If we are interested in building a peaceful future, consider planting compassion-for-all-beings into this moment of division. Consider carrying compassion-for-all-beings within, even as many around us carry something quite different.
The Buddha taught peace? - Yes!
The Buddha often gave his closest disciples (nuns and monks) a reflection: We will be love in a world of hate, we will be honest in a world of lies (dishonesty), we will be gathered and still in a world of scattering and distraction. He used nicer words, but this is the gist of it.
This historic moment is fertile soil for worldbuilding, for peacebuilding, for compassion-building, for loving change.
Even in challenging times, we can hold the self in love, and we can hold our neighbors in compassion. When we do that consciously, we choose our future consciously. And we do it with our full power.
Peace Class, which normally meets Wednesdays at 6:00 pm (Pacific) is now on summer break until September. To join us, click on Zoom link when we return. Until then, be in peace.
Alex Jones: Everything we didn't know about his sh*tty past
(Hysteria) Nov. 23, 2025: In our 29th episode of This F*cking Guy, Erin Ryan and Alyssa Mastromonaco dive deep into the past of moronic conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
From the conspiracy theory Bible (a novel) that inspired Infowars, to spreading 9/11 false flag propaganda that grew his following, to having vein-popping tantrums that would terrify most cardiologists, to owing the Sandy Hook families $1.4 billion U.S. dollars, this may be our most hysterical man-baby-guy yet.
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31:52 - Relationship with Trump, COVID, Stop the Steal, Jeffrey Epstein
39:31 - Sandy Hook conspiracy and defamation case
51:39 - Outro/matrix ratings
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A relief from the Ain Samiya goblet depicts cosmic order emerging from chaos (Regular Sigg)
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World’s oldest depiction of Creation discovered
(The Telegraph) The earliest depiction of the creation of the universe has been found on a 4,300-year-old silver goblet discovered in the West Bank, Palestine.
The vessel shows “before and after” scenes with a human-chimera figure confronted by a monstrous snake [nagain Buddhism], before the snake is subdued and the Sun takes its place in the sky, held aloft by two deities.
Will KAOS destroy Order again?
(Get Smart) Will KAOS ever overcome order and CONTROL again?
Archaeologists say the images are an allegory for Order triumphing over Chaos at the beginning of time. The Sun is shown moving across the heavens in a celestial “boat of light.” It is the oldest known depiction of the formation of the cosmos and predates the Babylonian creation myth Enuma Elish – which was recorded on stone tablets – by more than 1,000 years.
“The goblet does not tell of a violent struggle between gods [devas and asuras], but of a peaceful process of cosmic ordering,ˮ said Daniel Sarlo, co-author of the paper about the discovery for the Luwian Studies Foundation, a non-profit research group based in Switzerland.
“It shows how the Sun is born, banishes chaos, and renews the world.”
Order over Chaos
The artifact, which is 3.1 inches (7.9 cm) high, is known as the Ain Samiya goblet, and was found in the 1970s near Kafr Malik in the West Bank.
It dates from 2650 to 1950 BC and until now, experts thought it was linked to the Enuma Elish, which recounts the struggle between the younger gods and the monster of primordial chaos. More
There was a "Mann Act" (previously called the White-Slave Traffic Act, a U.S. federal law passed in the summer of 1910, Ch. 395, 36 Stat. 825, codified as amended at 18 U.S.C. §§ 2421–2424) named after [racist American] Congressman James Robert Mann of Illinois), and the white 54th Gov. of NY Eliot Spitzer was going to be prosecuted under it decades later for his prostitution scandal?
(TYT Sports) Sept. 29, 2025: A resurfaced Dave Chappelle standup comedy bit about legendary Black heavyweight champion Jack Johnson perfectly captures why MAGA’s crusade to rewrite and erase history is so dangerous. Johnson’s story exposed the fragility of white supremacy in the boxing ring and beyond — and the violent backlash that followed. As Rick Strom explains, Chappelle’s comedy reveals deeper truths about America’s refusal to confront racism, and why protecting Black history is essential. #TYTsports #Sports #RickStrom
Dave Chappelle and Muhammad Ali were right about Jack Johnson
(Lu Mazing) Aug. 22, 2025: Jack Johnson was more than a boxing champion, he was a revolutionary figure who challenged a racially divided world. Dave Chappelle highlights how Johnson defeated white champions and lived boldly without fear, openly defying the rules of his time and inspiring generations of Black people to embrace courage and self-worth.
Muhammad Ali reminds us of the sheer bravery of Johnson standing completely alone, facing threats and hostility when there were no civil rights organizations to support him. His resilience became a symbol for all Black people to fight for dignity and pursue their dreams.
Donald Trump posthumously pardoned Johnson, acknowledging the injustice he endured under the racist Mann Act, recognizing his extraordinary achievements and legacy as a trailblazer in sports and society. This video brings together perspectives from comedy, sports, and history to show how Jack Johnson changed the world and why his courage continues to inspire us all.
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(Lost in Context) For some 10,000 years the world was split into two isolated spheres, each unaware of the other's existence.
Then in 1492 the so-called "Old World" collided with the new, unleashing a cascade of devastation unlike anything humanity had ever witnessed. What followed was without parallel the darkest chapter in human history.
00:00 Intro
01:19 European arrival
02:21 Orellana's expedition
06:15 Portuguese take control
09:26 Manaus to Santarem
13:16 Destruction of the Amazonians
21:46 The holocaust of disease
25:55 The rubber boom
It didn't stop in the Amazon. It ruined pre-USA
This video tells the tragic story of the destruction of the people of the Amazon rainforest and, through its lens, the holocaust of the entire Western Hemisphere.
Sources (for the Amazon series)
John Hemming, Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon, 2008
Chris Feliciano Arnold, The Third Bank of the River, 2018
Charles C. Mann, 1491: The Americas Before Columbus, 2005
Charles C. Mann, 1493: How the Ecological Collision of Europe and the Americas Gave Rise to the Modern World, 2011
McNeill, J. R, Mosquito Empires; Ecology and War in the Greater Carribean, 2010
Grandin, Greg, Fordlandia, 2009
Lost in Context, Dec. 9, 2024; Pfc. Sandoval, Crystal Quintero, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Mexico is full of magnificent architecture built by Sky People like Nohoch Mul, Quintana Roo
Where is the world's largest pyramid? It is in Mexico, in CHOLULA, not in Egypt nor in the places with more pyramids than Egypt, namely, Sudan, the Americas, and China.
After 20 years of research, Graham Hancock does not reveal how the pyramids were built
(Business Hook) March 26, 2025: The Great Pyramid of Giza harbors unimaginable secrets. Graham Hancock (grahamhancock.com) has spent decades uncovering its real purpose. Was it just a burial site, or does it align with the forces of the universe? The pyramids mirror Orion's Belt, and the Sphinx may be older than 12,000 years old. Ancient wisdom, lost civilization, and bizarre accuracy, this mystery is profound. Let's crack the case about Egypt's greatest mystery.
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Don't worry who I am. Worry where I am. Mexico and nearby lands are full of pyramids.
Mexico's Great Pyramid of Refuge (Cholula) is shown here defiled by Catholic church.
Lake of Mercury sits under Chinese pyramid (Terracotta Army)
The Great Pyramid of Cholula
Pyramids in Indonesia? You bet!
According to the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia ["National Institute of Anthropology and History"] the Great Pyramid of Cholula is also known as Tlachihualtepetl (Nahuatl for "Constructed Mountain" or "Made-by-hand Mountain").
Nahuatl(pronounced \nah-wah\) is the national indigenous language of Mexico, not Spanish which is byproduct of conquest and European imperialism in the Americas. It is that same imperialism and hegemony (conquest and influence) that tried to hide this world-class discovery centuries ago when Catholic-Christian missionaries buried it and built a church on top of it.
Buddhist Borobudur Pyramid is topped by stupas and Buddha statues: hidden by Muslim invaders
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Behind the facade of white stones
Made-by-hand Mountain is a complex located in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico. It is the largest archeological site of a pyramid (temple) in the New World -- as well as the largest pyramid by volume known to exist in the world today [1, 2] (though there may be larger ones in Indonesia, Bosnia, Antarctica, and the Moon, not to mention the massive Buddhist pyramid in Java known as Borobudur).
The adobe brick pyramid stands 82 feet (25 meters) [3] above the surrounding plain, which is significantly shorter than the Great Pyramid of Giza's height of 481 feet (146.6 meters), but much wider, measuring 984 by 1,033 feet (300 by 315 meters) in its final form [3], compared to the Great Pyramid of Giza's base dimensions of 756 by 756 feet (230.3 by 230.3 meters) [4].
After and before renditions of the amazing pyramids of Egypt, all white with gold capstone.
Humans may have built the Egyptians but only with help from the space "gods" (devas).
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The pyramid is a temple that traditionally has been viewed as having been dedicated to the god Quetzalcoatl [5]. The architectural style of the building was linked closely to that of Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico, although influence from the Gulf Coast is evident as well, especially from El Tajín [6].
Location and etymology
The Cholula archeological zone is situated 4 miles (6.4 kilometers) west of the city of Puebla [7], in the City of Cholula. The pyramid is located in the San Andrés Cholula, Puebla municipality, and marks the area in the center of the city where this municipality begins.
The city is divided into two municipalities called San Andrés and San Pedro. This division originates in the Toltec-Chichimeca conquest of the city in the 12th century. These pushed the former dominant ethnicity of the Olmeca-Xicalanca to the south of the city [8].
These people kept the pyramid as their primary religious center, but the newly dominant Toltec-Chichimecas founded a new temple to Quetzalcoatl where the San Gabriel Monastery is now.
The Toltec-Chichimec people who settled in the area around the 12th century AD named Cholula as Tlachihualtepetl, meaning "artificial" or "handmade hill" [9]. The name cholula has its origin in the ancient Nahuatl word cholollan, which means "place of refuge" [7]. More
Graham Hancock; Business Hook, March 26, 2025:; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly, Jan. 5, 2025, Wiki edit
(Soul Continuum) MELBOURNE, Australia. Who is this genius with an Alan Watts' level of ability to explain transcendental and transpersonal, more Eastern than Western concepts like this? And is he being interviewed by a child? "Out of the mouths of babes" is the famous saying.
Commentary
Time is an illusion. This was said. What was meant? For one thing, time is relative to location. On other planes of existence (and there are at least 31major ones the Buddha talked about), time is different.
Things tend to last much longer there in those worlds. One can see that on the animal plane, life is even more brief than on the human plane. But the average lifespan on the human plane varies, contracting down to a few decades (Decadent Age or Kali Yuga), expanding to 80,000 years (Golden Age or Satya Yuga).
At this time in the repeating cycle (samsara), time is very short. When it was 80K years long, it was very short. So it is possible, not likely but possible, to notice the radical impermanence of all things.
That's the funny thing about time, both to be an illusion and something that contracts and expands. When is now?
We can speak of an "eternal now," not "eternal" in the sense of everlasting. It is eternal in the sense of being ever-present.
Time does not move, as the speaker shows, going from the past to the present to the future. That is how the mind is ordering it, making sense of it. (There's causality, with everything arising from sets of causes and conditions. And when science detects retrocausality, what are we to make of that? How can anything that happens now or in the future ever affect the past? It can. It does. It always has.
This may sound abstract even though scientists have evidence for it, so to make it more tangible and relatable, we ask: Could you imagine being a retrosexual? (What the heck's that? It's a person who only dates people s/he has dated before, in other words, somebody who from now on only redates). Hey, they exist! Some are trans. Anyway, apart from the retrocausality in quantum physics, there is social retrocausality we see all the time if we ever bothered to notice. Everyday practically something that happens today changes the meaning of something that happened in the past. In the past, things were like this. Now they're like this. What we do a lot today changes what it means when it was done in the past. In the past it meant something, but since the "past" really only exists in our heads, that's what changing. What we're thinking changes. Past, future, they're not even real in an ultimate sense. In a conventional sense, they're very real. Better pay attention. We have to consider them, but what are we considering other than changing illusions?
The order of events may be that way, but actually it is always "NOW." We abandon the now to ruminate about the past or to worry about the future, losing the safety and potential of the ever-present.
Semi-Buddhist Eckhart Tolle, who became famous as the author of The Power of Now and through his business partner Oprah, was often asked: "How many nows are there?"
His mind would loop in disbelief about this question because of its astonishingly wrong assumptions. There aren't many "nows." There's only this now. Now is all the time. This is all there has ever been.
We can imagine a future (but when can we imagine it?) We can daydream about a better past. (But when can we do that?) There's only one answer to when anything happens or can happen.
Where and when do we have power? Where and when can we ever make a choice? When do we suffer or find bliss?
We'll lay it out, space it out, after the fact, for sure, but as we live it, when is it?
What was American guru and former Harvard professor Ram Dass (Dr. Richard Alpert) talking about when he named his classic book, condensing his Indian love-guru (Neem Karoli Baba) and other gurus' message? He distilled all of their messages down to one and the same message: "Be here now."
Mahayana Buddhism, particularly Zen, being heavily influenced by Taoism, is all about being rather than doing (karma, action). But where to be? When should we be mindful, when should we be present?
What? Be. Where? Here. When? Natch. Naturally, that is now.
The peculiar origins of the first "brides" in Colonial America
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Most have probably heard of "mail-order brides." But that kind of thing has been happening in the USA since before mail, mail order, the dawn of the internet — even before there was a US Postal Service. No one tell Kevin Costner.
What if people knew this bizarre industry dates back hundreds of years? Yes, really, centuries. Mail-order brides were essential to the foundation of the United States of America.
Sale on white Slavic brides from the Baltics
It was all to do with who moved to North America in the first place. After an expedition spearheaded by the Virginia Company of London, English settlers founded "James Fort" — later known as Jamestown.
While it eventually became famous as the first permanent English settlement in the USA, Jamestown was originally renowned for another curious reason.
Finding their feet
I'm ready to do it for the family, Mom.
Life wasn't easy there. Starvation and disease wracked the population of Jamestown and left the settlers having to adapt by expanding their agricultural activities:
They diversified into tobacco crops, for instance, which made some folks wealthy. Despite this, not everyone was happy. Although there was the case of successful tobacco pioneer John Rolfe marrying the famed and beautiful Native American PrincessPocahontas, most white men were single.
Pocahontas' induction into white culture, conversion to Christianity, marriage to European
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The grave male-female imbalance
By 1619, almost all of the inhabitants of Jamestown were male and alone. Most settlers were unable to find wives.
Yet, while this inability to find love, companionship, and marriage was indeed a legitimate concern, there was an even larger issue at play:
Without females who could conceive children, Jamestown would not last beyond a single generation.
An unattractive pitch
Why was the gender imbalance in Jamestown so enormous? Many females were reluctant to leave behind their comfortable lives in Europe for a future of uncertainty in North America.
And when reports of famine, starvation, and disease reached England, any open-mindedness girls and women may have had was likely quashed. From then on, Jamestown continued to deteriorate. More
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