Carved Straight from the Bedrock: The Great Chaitya Cave of India
(Ancient Architects) Oct. 7, 2025: There are a number of famous examples of enigmatic rock-cut architecture in the world. India is one place in particular that is famous for its manmade (deva-made) caves.
There are the famous Buddhist Ellora Caves that date back to 600-1000 AD, which includes the breathtaking and seemingly impossible Kailasa Temple, the Ajanta caves, which are even older, but there are also the lesser-known Karla Caves.
They are not all as elaborate as the others, but it is a site that should certainly be on everyone's radar. The Karla Caves are located near Lonavala, Maharashtra, a complex of amazing ancient Buddhist Indian temples carved directly from bedrock, dating back from the 2nd century BC to the 5th century AD.
Maharashtra has many larger examples of artificial (human-made) cave networks, but Cave 8 at Karla, known as The Grand Chaitya Cave, is the largest and most completely preserved chaitya hall of the period with beautiful, ornate architecture, featuring many examples of fine sculpture. Watch this video to find out more about this human wonder of the world.
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Buddhism's Karla Caves, India
Magnificent rock-cut hollow hall with stupa
The Karla Caves (also Karli Caves, Karle Caves, Karla Cells) are a complex of ancient Buddhist Indian rock-cut caves at Karli near Lonavala, Maharashtra State.
The site is 10.9 kms from Lonavala. Others in the area include Bhaja Caves, Patan Buddhist Cave, Bedse Caves, and Nasik Caves.
The shrines were developed over the period from the 2nd century BCE to the 5th century CE. The oldest of the cave shrines is believed to date back to 160 BCE, having arisen near a major ancient trade route, running eastward from the Arabian Sea into the Deccan.
The group at Karla is one of the older and smaller of the many rock-cut Buddhist sites in Maharashtra, India.
It is one of the best-known because of the famous "Grand Chaitya" (Cave 8), the largest and most completely preserved chaitya hall of the period, containing unusual quantities of fine sculpture on a large scale [1].
Cross section of Grand Hall with stupa (Karla)
Many traders, Western Satraps of Saka [aka Shakyian, Scythian] origin and Satavahana rulers made grants for construction and support of these caves.
Karla's location in Maharashtra places it in a region that marks the division between North India and South India [2].
Buddhists, having become identified with commerce and manufacturing through their early association with traders, tended to locate their monastic establishments in natural geographic formations close to major trade routes so as to provide lodging houses for travelling traders [3].
Today, the cave complex is a protected monument under the Archaeological Survey of India [4]. More
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Aug. 4, 2025: Edgar Cayce shocked the world when he revealed salt as humanity's hidden spiritual technology. In 1936, he saved a dying child using sacred salt rituals that doctors called impossible.
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The kitchen cabinet holds the key to spiritual awakening that mystery schools protected for millennia. Based on 14,000 documented psychic readings and A.R.E. archives.
Best-selling author Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of humankind. A substance so valuable it served as currency (Latin sal, which gives us our word "salary," our ration of life-sustaining sodium chloride used as wages), salt has influenced the establishment of trade routes and cities, provoked and financed wars, secured empires, and inspired revolutions. Populated by colorful characters and filled with an unending series of fascinating details, Salt is a supremely entertaining, multi-layered masterpiece. More
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May 17, 2025: Chinese robots [like China's superior electric cars on Earth not covered by the Western media] have discovered something new on the far side of the Moon.
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Will Smith cries after 50 Cent’s savage joke about his Diddy defense
Will Smith slaps like a gay pimp, huh, Diddy
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Hippies John Lennon (The Beatles) and companion Yoko Ono (hanger on) in bed in 1969 (EK)
"Rock Lobster" is more meaningful than anyone ever thought
(Music Mongoose) April 1, 2025: "Rock Lobster" was the B-52s' debut single. It launched Fred Schneider, Kate Pierson, Cindy Wilson, Ricky Wilson, and Keith Strickland to stardom.
Weird SNL made weird B-52s famous overnight. - Where is Lennon today, heaven?
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:46 - Weird = good
02:38 - Stupid genius
05:05 - Talk of the town
05:55 - Recorded version 1
06:57 - Recorded version 2
08:08 - Just a silly song?
On first listen, the quirky song seems to be totally bizarre with no clear meaning or structure. However, on deeper inspection, the musicianship behind the song is nothing short of genius. Plus, it holds a much deeper and meaningful message than anyone might realize. Let's take a look at the full story behind the creation of this song and uncover its true meaning. (Wait, John Lennon cheated on Yoko with permission? Hippies John Lennon’s former girlfriend on what she wants people to take from her documentary).
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Does it sound like Parliament Funkadelic just a bit with the fish sounds?
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Who? There's this British guy, a old hippie, who became famous for his bluesy caterwauling in front of Jimmy Page's magnificent guitar work. Robert Plant was the frontman for the biggest rock band in the world (ahead of pop stars like The Beatles, The Stones, The Black Flag, and LA's own Wasted Youth, plus a million other small bands few have ever heard of). The great thing about Plant was not just that he was a good singer and a rockstar, but rather that he may have written some intelligent lyrics for the band, words akin to the intelligent stuff Pink Floyd was putting out in London's Acid Scene in the Sixties.
Has been Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin fame plays live, even though most of the world has not seen him. They'd like to, of course, but that's assuming he's backed by Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and Jason Bonham. That reunion may take a while. However, Plant is singing live for an audience in May 2025.
We saw it on an IMAX screen, sitting in the front row heads cranked up to take in the whole screen, for it to be in our faces and extra loud. And that it was. It's good, really good. It's no The Song Remains the Same, which is a filmed concert at Madison Square Garden, New York, in the 1970s with the conceit of introducing them as legendary, bigger-than-life figures, particularly Page, who lived in a castle next to Loch Ness. This is a talking head documentary interspersed with historical footage and tight editing. The most amazing thing about it is that it does not pander to Johnny-come-lately fans. There is no mention of "Stairway to Heaven," their biggest hit ever. This is about the early, heavy days, coming out of nowhere by combining early blues from The States (muddy "Black" music), which a lot of young Brits were hearing for the first time with this new thing called "rock 'n roll."
What's so great about the greatest band ever? - The movie never makes it to 1973 and the Starship
Led Zeppelin band, promo portrait, 1971
Like Elvis and others appropriated the blood, sweat, and tears of post-slavery suffering crystalized into music, so Led Zeppelin paid homage to their heroes and cashed in like those heroes never did. It was blatant with Elvis and not so obvious where Led Zeppelin, most notably lead guitarist Jimmy Page, was coming up with the inspiration for so many catchy riffs (a demon named Zoso, the Devil, spirits of the dead still under contract, lifting ideas from the fertile London scene of his day, entheogenic drugs?), loud amplification, and blending the hardest music anyone had ever heard with plaintive love ballads of the hippie era (late 60s, early 70s). Sadly, there was no mention of the sexual abuse of young groupies, for which they are infamous, or recreational drug use. Some lawyer or PR firm was smart to keep a lid on those facets of their career. The movie ends abruptly with their second album before as they are reaching superstardom. Highly recommended! Fans will love it. Out now in wide release. INFO: becomingledzeppelinfilm.com
Led Zeppelin documentary (video); Seth Auberon, Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Trump’s plan to save Hollywood, Biden’s farewell and we say toodle-loo to TikTok
(Jimmy Kimmel Live)
Jan. 16, 2025: The air quality is still ungood in Los Angeles amidst the LA Fire, Pres. Genocide Joe Biden delivered his farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office, Fox & Friends took aim at him for sitting on a pillow (hemorrhoid donut), a bunch of celebrities have already started sending their well-wishes as G-Joe moves on...
Trump laid out his plan to save Hollywood with help from Jon "Midnight Cowboy" Voight, Mel "Mad Max" Gibson, Sylvester "Rocky" Stallone, we have been collecting essential items for victims of the fires in our back parking lot and we delivered what we have so far to the hard-hit community of Altadena, northeast Los Angeles. Jimmy talks to the vice chair of the town council Nic Arnzen.
To help their community head to altadenarotary.org. Friend Evan Fox with the Yeastie Boys Bagel Truck was also on hand making sandwiches there for everyone with World Central Kitchen. The FDA announced a ban on Red Dye #3, TikTok is set to be banned on Sunday (unless Trump doesn't feel like it or Elon or Mr. Wonderful buy it), and there’s an old friend on hand standing by to pick up the slack. #Kimmel
Trump throws tantrum before inauguration, LA Fire conspiracies, TikTok to be banned
(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Jan. 15, 2025: The winds in Los Angeles were not as strong as they were predicted to be last night, the Biden administration appears to have finally negotiated a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, which Trump immediately took credit for, Genocide Joe also delivered what the White House was calling his “farewell address,” Trump threw a tantrum about the flags being flown at half-staff during his inauguration because of Jimmy Carter passing away, he announced his plan to create a new government agency to collect tariffs he wants to impose called the External Revenue Service (ERS), Elon Musk is gearing up to head the new Department of Government Efficiency (doge-coin), he is also set to have an office in the White House complex, Pete Hegseth seems to have garnered all the support he will need to be secretary of defense, we finally found the dumbest person in the Senate, we touch base with Chef Evan Funke who is feeding first responders at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena next to Altadena with World Central Kitchen, crazy fire conspiracies are running wild on TikTok, Jimmy’s monologue gets interrupted by a TikToker who is worried about the potential ban, and this week’s award for Excellence in Reporting.
(The Tony Michaels Podcast) "The Project 2025 Song" was written, animated, and performed by Jason Kravits. Produced and mixed by Sean Dixon with Jason Kravits on guitar, Sean Dixon on drums and bass, Christopher Walz on banjo, and Brian O’Neill on second banjo.
Kravits: Eternal gratitude to these intrepid researchers who shared the burden of reading the entire Project 2025 doc so I wouldn't have to: Doug Bost, Hershel Graubard, Whitney Byrn, Dave T. Koenig, Lynn Filusch, Bill Forth, Tracy Sallows, Stephen Lay, Jennifer Mendenhall, Spencer Aste, Julie Pearl, Mary Tucker, Kristina Erikson, Jill Siroty, Jane Beard, Melinda Buckley, Joel H. Jones, Betsy Zajko, Elizabeth McFadden, Joe Musemici, Geneva Carr, Linda Rose Payne, Brendan Murray, and other fine friends who wish to remain anonymous. Special thanks as well to: Elizabeth Dement, Mary Tucker, Dan O’Shannon, Mort Milder, Joel Jones, Doug and Carolyn Bost, Amy Engelhart and Jeff Ward. And to all the folks who created the music and visuals for the original Schoolhouse Rock videos on ABC.
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