It occurs to us that this whole "summer" thing is a social construct. It is. What does "summer" mean. There are all those associations and connotations, but everyone knows it's when the sun's out, the clothes are mostly off, school is on break, and there's going to be a vacation, road trip, partying, and just plain old hanging around, maybe making some money.
It's a break from the routine. It's time away from the prison of the school system and the [bleep] warden who thinks s/he runs the place. Think of Project X or American Graffiti. Ah, summer, there's nothing like it. And this is Southern California, so all the more reason.
We say summer begins when school lets out. That was a week or two ago. Like gender assignment, who needs an objective measure? Well, many people do. And so we have the solstice, the astronomical measure that seems so scientific. But every American knows that summer begins on Memorial Day(May 25); that's the social reality overriding whatever others try to say is only objective and nothing else. It's both.
It runs through Labor Day (the unofficial end), a fake American holiday to remove Americans from the worldwide Labor Movement and May Day (May 1st), which idealistic socialists fight for, collectivists dream of, and New Age communists and college Marxists cheer for.
(PBS Terra) Nov. 21, 2024: Overview. In its prime, Cahokia was a prosperous mega-city with a population similar to London’s.
But this sprawling Native American metropolis from the Mississippian culture vanished long before European settler-colonial invaders arrived in North America. What happened?
This Indigenous city’s enigmatic rise and fall has inspired countless theories and has long captivated the imaginations of archeologists.
[The pyramids in the U.S. were beheaded (the peaks destroyed) by arriving Catholic priests and soldiers who did not want to face up to what amazing advanced technology the Indigenous non-humans had developed with their amazing architecture and alignments, so they were tortured, killed en masse in a slow genocide that continues to this day along with cultural erasure.]
Now, cutting-edge scientific research offers a glimmer of hope in unraveling the mystery of Cahokia's disappearance.
Hosted by Joe Hanson from Be Smart, Overview uses stunning 4K drone footage to reveal the natural and human-made marvels shaping our planet -- literally from a 10,000-foot view.
(Be My Travel Muse) Dec. 30, 2020: What is an Energy Vortex? Where are Energy Vortices located? Why are Energy Vortexes spiritual? If these are the questions, I've got some answers! Watch this vlog to find out where some of the energy vortices/vortexes are located around the world.
(Smithsonian Channel) April 6, 2020: A warden of England's Rollright Trust claims to be able to tap into the special energy of the Rollright Stones through the medieval technique known as "dowsing." Let's put this method for detecting energy anomalies to the test. From the series: "Mystic Britain: The Rollright Witch"
Let's test this claim empirically.
Simple science: Place levels on hands to see if rod movements are due to unconscious tilts of the hand, not "energy" itself moving the metal. It may indeed be human sensitivity then translated into micro muscle movements, as seems to account for pendulum swinging. All that may be happening is that the body is the transducer, and the rods or pendulum are the outward sign of what our intuitive/sensitive body is experiencing. This "scientific" is not meant to debunk the fact that dowsing works, just to establish that it is not the energy acting directly on the rods but rather a "feeling" is being expressed by unconscious movement, the movement of the hands being the mover of the rods. It would be good to know because it is not human sensitivity, then simply place the rods on a mannequin or robot for an object test. Certainly, there are psi meters used in parapsychological investigations of allegedly haunted sites that should move where dowsers claim ley or energy lines exist. Not everything need be woo-woo if an objective test can be established to test a site. Bringing in a potted plant connected to a kind of (galvanic skin response style) lie detector connected to a sound synthesizer would be a marvelous addition to dowsing, the way British Jimmy Page used in "Whole Lotta Love" live at Madison Square Garden at their greatest performance.
How to use the supernatural power of an energy vortex
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Nick Pearce analyzes Neolithic standing stones in Orkney
Remarkable new scientific research at Stonehenge has revealed an extraordinary new mystery.
Mineralogical tests on the massive six-tonne stone at the heart of the monument show that this central rock, known as the altar stone, was brought to Stonehenge from the far north of Scotland.
[The greatest disappointment when visiting Stonehenge is that there is a sign along the walkway from the car park to the stones that explains that the stones were adjusted for millennia. So it is not as if some group, human or extraterrestrial, knew what it was meant to be and do (as a calendar) and did it. It has been adjusted all along, perhaps never more than about 50 years ago when cranes and modern equipment were brought in to lift fallen stones and place them just so. What we have today is what was recently created from stones that had laid around in a fallen state for who knows how long. The use of cranes was not a secret when it was happening, but it sure seems to be one now. Most people have no idea of the modern interference.]
The altar stone is arguably the most ritually important stone in Stonehenge, because it is the rock that marks the intersection of the prehistoric temple’s two most important celestial alignments – the winter solstice sunrise to summer solstice sunset alignment, and the summer solstice sunrise to winter solstice sunset alignment.
It’s already known that some of the monument’s smaller stones were brought to the site from southwest Wales, around 120 miles away. But moving a rock from northern mainland Scotland or Orkney would have involved a journey of well over 500 miles.
The discovery has huge implications and is likely to transform archaeologists’ perceptions around key aspects of life in prehistoric Britain.
Up to now, most scholars have assumed that British Neolithic society was exclusively local or regional (based on tribal, clan or similar identities), but the newly discovered Stonehenge-Scotland link, when combined with the Welsh origin of some of the Stonehenge stones, suggests that there might also have been a pan-British aspect to how Neolithic Britons lived.
PHOTO: Aberystwyth University geologist Nick Pearce analyzes Neolithic standing stones in Orkney (Prof. Richard Bevins, Aberystwyth University)
Protest the environment with cornstarch.
The newly revealed Scottish link implies that 4,500 years ago, there was already at least some political and religious cooperation across Britain. That’s because the Neolithic people who transported the six-tonne rock from northern Scotland or Orkney to southern England must have known that Stonehenge existed, that it was being expanded, and precisely what shape and size of giant rock was required.
There are many henges, most of them in Ireland, all eclipsed by the modified in modern times Stonehenge, which was arranged with large machinery about 50 years ago, bringing into question research on its amazing symmetry or celestial alignment. Yet the famous Neolithic Irish sites get nearly no press, perhaps because of war and oppression brought on by neighboring Britain.
We're all Neo-Pagans and modern Druids, man, and Stonehenge is our Mecca (wiki).
Forget Old Stonehenge. Let's go to Newgrange, Ireland each solstice and equinox (Njp finn).
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Winter also hits the mountains of Los Angeles
The winter solstice, also called the hibernal solstice (or the best time to hibernate), is said to occur when either of Earth's poles reaches its maximum tilt away from the local sun.
This happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere (Northern and Southern). For each hemisphere, the winter solstice is the day with the shortest period of daylight and longest night of the year, when the sun is at its lowest daily maximum elevation in the sky [7].
Each polar region experiences continuous darkness or twilight around its winter solstice.
This solstice occurs during the hemisphere's winter.
In the Northern Hemisphere, this is the December solstice (usually Dec. 21 or 22) and in the Southern Hemisphere, this is the June solstice (usually June 20 or 21).
Although the winter solstice itself lasts only a moment, the term also refers to the day on which it occurs.
Stonehenge was rearranged to what we see
The term midwinter (which would seem to mean "middle of the winter") is also used synonymously with the winter solstice, although it carries other meanings as well.
Traditionally, in many temperate regions, the winter solstice is seen as the middle of winter, though today in some countries and calendars it is seen as the beginning of winter.
Other names are the "extreme of winter" (Dongzhi) or the "shortest day." More: winter solstice
What if Earth is flat like Eric Dubay PROVES and Buddhist, Chirstian, Hindu cosmologies state?
"Proves"?! When did Eric Dubay (ericdubay.com) "prove" the earth was flat? - He gave 200 proofs that are yet to be debunked. But he's persona non grata and the whole topic is verboten.
It's so bad that a government agency paid social media influencers on YouTube and elsewhere to make popular videos to "debunk" the rising flat earth movement. They can't deal with actual evidence presented by Dubay, so they go after strawmen and silly assumptions about what living on a flat disk would be like, never mind the evidence of their own senses and how water behaves and how engineers building railroad tracks and pilot flying planes treat the surface of this platform or plane. In fact, the debunkers do such a poor job that it remains a truism that the best way to become a flat earther is to try to debunk the actual evidence, the actual proof that we are not on a spinning ball of the dimensions claimed by popular science. (We might be on a much bigger ball with more continents; that's not impossible, but what's certain is that we are being lied to and deceived by NASA and ESA and other government entities. Why is anyone's guess. Let's stick to the proof. Why will no one deal with that?
The Forbidden Archeologist Michael Cremo: "Modern humans" (Homo sapiens sapiens) are super ancient to the tune of about 300 million years old, out-of-place archeological artifacts show
The 31 Planes of Existence (we are reborn in)
It goes beyond the shape of the planet to the distance of things like our moon, the cause of eclipses (which in Buddhist, Vedic, Hindu, and Jain cosmologies is due to another planetary body called Rahu), the age of things as well as the shape of space and our multiverse (that are plentiful and globular like bubbles in space), with cosmic time being measured in kalpas or aeons, a great aeon (mahakalpa) being, according to the Buddha, the length of time it would take for an unbroken piece of granite, one mile high and one mile long, to be ground down and eroded away if a bird came once a year and brushed its beak on it while holding a fine muslin cloth. Sooner would that block of perfect granite be worn away, and still a kalpa would not have elapsed. It's staggering. In that length of time many things can happen, as things evolve, devolve, become chaotic, repeat. This is the universe we live in, which is quite like the other universes or world systems (cakkavalas) within them.
What about “science”? Let's do science, proposing a thesis and advancing evidence
(Eric Dubay) Quoting Terra Firma by David Wardlaw Scott, “The system of the Universe, as taught by Modern Astronomers, being founded entirely on theory, for the truth of which they are unable to advance one single real proof, they have entrenched themselves in a conspiracy of silence, and decline to answer any objections which may be made to their hypotheses…
Spiritual Science (Eric Dubay)
“Copernicus himself, who revived the theory of the heathen philosopher Pythagoras, and his great exponent Sir Isaac Newton, confessed that their system of a revolving Earth was only a possibility, and could not be proved by facts.
“It is only their followers who have decorated it with the name of an ‘exact science,’ yea, according to them, ‘the most exact of all the sciences.’
“Yet one Astronomer Royal for England once said, speaking of the motion of the whole Solar system: ‘The matter is left in a most delightful state of uncertainty, and I shall be very glad if any one can help me out of it.’
“What a very sad position for an ‘exact science’ to be in is this!” More
But I don't want the earth to be flat! I don't want to fall off!
Then, in your mind, let it be the way someone else explained it to you. Whatever shape it is, we are not falling off. (What would be the source of gravity pulling us down off the plane into space below be?) Doesn't everybody want the Truth, the reality, the knowing-and-seeing of things as they actually are (objectively if possible or knowledge that all we'll ever get is subjective)? We prefer Truth with a capital t, wisdom, knowing, holding onto kindness and compassion. The combination is the way to awakening (bodhi).
Thank you, Eric Dubay, for standing up to the powers-that-be with a dissenting opinion and PROOF for it. That's the ultimate thing. The rest of the world can put their faith in NASA and the CIA and newspapers like the USSR's Pravda.
What the Buddha Taught
Would the Buddha bother with the shape of the world? It's not related to our enlightenment, so it's not crucial or worth spending too much time on. What is the origin of the sea? Is the universe (multiverse) finite or infinite? Is it the same person who is reborn or a different one? How will this karma (action) work itself out in terms of karmic-results? These are imponderable questions not conducive to enlightenment, so set them aside. Some questions conduce to awakening, some do not. Which ones do? What is dukkha, its cause, its end, the way to its end? Those are wise questions that do lead to awakening. Pursue those.
Inside a hollow stupa, with its domed roof and various meditation chambers
Interior view of rock-hewn Buddhist temple
Sometimes a mainstream media story catches the eye, something like Stonehenge and more incredible ancient Buddhist feats of engineering (msn.com). A few clicks later, one realizes it's bait. There's little weight to it. It's fancy clickbait Bill Gates needs to build his fortune, maybe make his own island now that Melinda is gone. What the title clicked on didn't say was "Buddhist" feats but it was a Buddhist temple that lured the eye. Then clicking through one can't help but notice that most of the wonders are Buddhist creations. Even the things Buddhists didn't build (by lots of chiseling or by some advanced technology provided by devas from space) they seem to have influenced.
Underground churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia [reminiscent of a famous rock-hewn Afghan Buddhiststupa or sacred reliquary]
Tikal, Guatemala [from an advanced jungle empire, reminiscent of the massive Buddhist cities in Cambodia like Angkor and Seim Reap, said to have been named after Gautama Buddha, as detailed in the amazing How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America by American Rick Fields (shambhala.com), the mala being a reference to meditation beads]
Volcanoes in the distance, Buddhas in bells
Borobudur, Java, Indonesia [a pyramidal Buddhist temple, the largest excavated Buddhist temple in the world (with larger one yet to be excavated in Afghanistan or ancient Gandhara, where the Buddha was born and raised) once hidden under mud and layers of volcanic ash and jungle vegetation until 1835, because the local Muslims could not figure out how it was built and could not match it so they buried it in mud and forgot about it until a British surveyor realized no hill should be standing where it was; he dug and found Borobudur, yet we still do not know much about its construction or original purpose, with historians left to compare the thousands of carved bas reliefs depicting Buddhist and Hindu scenes for clues, coming to the conclusion that it must have taken 75 years to build with andesite (grey volcanic rocks) taken from adjacent quarries which were cut, transported, and laid without mortar.
Leshan Giant Buddha, China [built into the side of a mountain alongside a massive river with steps and means to enter like the Statue of Liberty]
What tools, lasers, and skill could build this?
Ellora Buddhist Caves, India [a sacred site home to Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain temples carved from volcanic basalt stone, the archeological site is comprised of decorated caves like the grand Kailasa Temple which, at 104 feet (32m) high, the largest rock-cut monument in the world, built into the sloping basalt hill and featuring a three-story town with an octagonal stupa dome of mindboggling architectural detail: beams, bases, capitals, brackets, pilasters and carved bas reliefs in Aurangabad, India]
Shibam, Yemen [the first skyscraper multistory buildings -- resulting in Manhattan or Chicago-style skyline in the desert -- in the modern world, reminiscent of Tibetan Buddhism's Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet/China, a pueblo building built up with mud bricks into a massive mansion, cubicle by cubicle]
Mexico also has world's largest pyramid: Cholula
Teotihuacan, Mexico City, Mexico [a civilization that came into contact with Buddhism through Afghan and Chinese Buddhist missionaries as detailed in the American Edward P. Vining's Inglorious Columbus: Evidence that Hwui Shan and a party of Buddhist monks from Afghanistan Discovered America in the Fifth Century, A.D., revolutionizing Mexican and Mesoamerican culture, which included California, New Mexico, and the West Coast of what is now the U.S. and Mexico, which in ancient times was called Fu Sang], resting northeast of Mexico City, the archeological site of Teotihuacan, with some of the largest pyramid-like structures outside of Egypt that once formed a 22 mile-wide (35km) metropolis with a grid-like structure that aligned with key geographic, geodetic, and celestial points, including the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon
Al-Khazneh, Petra, Jordan [carved right into the side of a soft sandstone cliff, "The Treasury" is a rock-hewn stone monument as impressive as the characteristically Buddhist rock-hewn structures of Asia, which are carved into much more durable stone, particularly in Western China and Afghanistan]
Colosseum, Rome, Italy
It rises up out of the jungle, a carved fortress
Sigiriya, Buddhist Sri Lanka ["Lion Rock," an ancient fortress carved into a 656-feet (200m) vertical rock face near Dambulla, Ceylon, during the island's long history, when it served as a royal palace and Buddhist monastery, made up of a citadel, upper palace, lake (reservoir), gardens, fresco mirror wall, and carved lion-shaped gateway, with remarkable engineering at play at the base with canals, lakes, and water pumps providing year round water, demonstrating skill in urban planning and advanced technology for the time]
Aqueduct of Segovia, Spain
The Great Wall of Tartaria to keep China out
Great Wall of China, China [while this Buddhist country, officially atheist communists, now has over 1 billion uncounted Buddhists, making Buddhism the world's third largest religion, the Great Wall was built long before the Han Chinese claimed it, by some civilization with far superior skills, some suggesting the work of mythical Tartaria (Tartary) before the reset, with evidence for this being that it was built to keep the Chinese out not in, given that the parapets for deploying ammunition (arrows, molten metal, spears, hot water, and other dangerous projectiles) are pointed toward China, as protection for neighboring Tartaria, restored to include parapets on both sides to hide this fact]
Terracotta Army, Xi’an, China [one of the most exciting archaeological discoveries in history, Xi’an’s Terracotta Army is awe-inspiring and huge, comprised of around 8,000 pottery soldiers and archers, 130 chariots, and 520 horses, unearthed in three pits in an area spanning 215,278 square feet (20,000sqm), believed to be symbolic spirit guards to protect the body of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, who died in 210 BC and whose tomb lies around a mile (1.6km) away, estimated to have taken 700,000 workers 40 years to build by hand with basic tools]
La Danta, El Mirador, Guatemala [in a land named after Gautama Buddha, as documented in How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America (see above), El Mirador, like Egypt, has a similar (yet somehow more impressive) story because it is located in the Americas inside the Mirador-Rio Azul National Park, a pre-classic Mayan city completed at some point between 600 BC to AD 100, with its largest pyramid at La Danta]
Buddhist Sanchi, India
Sanchi Buddhist Stupa, India [(shown above) is one of the oldest stone structures in India, first built around 300 BC to house relics of the Buddha, once standing 54 feet (16m) high, reconstructed around 185 BC to double its original size with stone slabs re-used to create a flattened dome, atop which stand three structures symbolizing the Dharma (the Wheel of Universal Truth), currently standing at 71 feet (21.6m) high and among the carved gateways, staircases, and top-level platform there are intricate carvings and bas reliefs]
Parthenon, Athens, Greece [which as part of the ancient Greco (Hellenistic) culture was in contact with Buddhism through Bactria, a Greco-Buddhist culture in modern-day Central Asia, with Buddhist monastics traveling to ancient Greece, giving us the ancient Buddhist classic the Milinda Panha or "Questions of the Greek King Menander I" (100-200 BC), and influencing the original Buddhist architectural art and the first human depictions of the Buddha (a practice that ran contrary to the historical Buddha's instructions, where Indian Buddhists were meant not to depict him, but no such rule restrained his extended family in ancient Gandhara/Afghanistan and the Bactrian kingdom, which by syncretism gave us gorgeous Greco-Buddhist or Gandharan art.]
Van Fortress, Turkey [Turkiye being Anatolia, part of the Near East, now most famous for Gobekli Tepe and similar but older nearby archeological sites now uncovered]
Chand Baori, Rajasthan, India [made famous in The Fall (2006 film) awe-inspiring for both in its appearance and construction, built by Islamic mathematicians and engineers in the 10th century to supply water to the Abhaneri village in eastern Rajasthan, with 3,500 steps descending some 64 feet (19.5m) into the earth and is one of the world’s largest and deepest step wells in the world, with symmetrical geometry that is incredible – especially when one considers it was built with simple tools, an ancient site that also features an enclosed rectangular courtyard with windows, a three-storied pavilion, pillar-supported galleries, and sculpture-clad balconies]
Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England, UK [which may seem impressive until one finds out it was assembled 50 years ago with modern equipment, though some might say restored from fallen stones, which can attribute their precise alignment to constant recalibration over the centuries, very suspect]
Pyramids of Giza, Egypt [which, while not as big as the Pyramid of Cholula in Mexico, is the most famous, or close to it; it seems the pyramid with the capstone always gets called the Great Pyramid while a picture of another nearby pyramid is shown]
The Great Bath is one example of IVC
Great Bath, Pakistan [Mohenjo-daro, Indus Valley Civilization (8000 BC-2000 BC) was a time of great design and remarkable engineering, and this is showcased in modern-day Pakistan’s Great Bath (though Pakistan is only a 50-year-old country, formerly a part of NW India, home of the ancient university of Taxila (Takkashila), where the Buddha and Ananda attended in a previous life, with famous stupas and bas relief carvings (archeological sites), plus this rectangular-shaped bath, likely used for special occasions and ceremonies with two wide staircases leading down to it, measuring 38 feet (11.8m) long, 22 feet (7m) wide and up to eight feet (2.43m) deep, built with baked bricks and natural tar material to keep it watertight, with an adjacent well providing water and an established drainage outlet, along with adjoining rooms likely used for changing]
North Asia although it has few trees and is often inundated in snow still manages to have stupas
Buddhas and devas have been on planet so long that, according to Hendon Harris (chinesediscoveramerica.com) this monolith is super-ancient crumbling stupa found in USA.
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