Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Yom Kippur? Zionist rabbi: 'human sacrifice'

(Revolutionary Change) Americans must be SACRIFICED for Israel's survival

(New York Daily News) People who care about animals protest slaughter by guilt-ridden Jews

(Kim Iversen) Phony paid for pro-Israel content is hasbara, Bibi's Israel's eighth war front

Dick Nixon: The Jewish Lobby includes AIPAC

Brit murders Jews for Yom Kippur

What is Yom Kippur? The [blood soaked] Jewish High Holiday

(Chasing Reality OSTV) Los Angelenos stand up for murdered chickens

(The Young Turk) UK "Day of Atonement" by Syrian Brit Jihad Al Shami

(Sky News Australia) Pro-Palestine demonstration in Sydney

(Revolutionary Change) The Ugly Zionist Israelis of the World

Podcast: It's Yom Kippur: Let the Chicken Torture/Slaughter begin!

It's not black magic if our tribal God told us we have to do it or he'll kill us. He's genocidal.

(Angel Heart) Zu Zu Mamou ritual dances with chicken sacrifices

Jewish tradition links Yom Kippur to Moses as stated in the Torah. But some scholars try to say it emerged later, around the 5th–4th century BCE as a priestly innovation, with its scapegoat ritual symbolically transferring Jewish people's impurity to innocent animals that are slaughtered or sent into exile.

How to atone for the sins of a people

We've sin so very much. High Priest, kill a scapegoat.

Yom Kippur (Hebrew יוֹם כִּפּוּר‎, Yōm Kippūr, lit. "Day of Atonement" for sins) is the holiest Jewish day of the year in Judaism [3][4][5] [with Black Magic, blood-soaked Voodoo practices].

It occurs annually on the 10th of Tishrei [6] corresponding to a date in late September or early October. Rooted in the Torah's commandments, in antiquity it centered on the High Priest's Temple service and has since tried to evolve into a day of real atonement and repentance, reflection, confession, making amends, and seeking forgiveness from both God and others.

Forgive us our genocide and ethnic cleansing.

The day's main observances consist of full fasting and abstaining from physical comforts, attending extended prayer services (usually at synagogue) and reciting confessional prayers. Some modern Jewish denominations, such as Reconstructionist Judaism, focus less on sins and emphasize personal reflection, goal-setting, and intentions for the year ahead.

Along with Rosh Hashanah (the "head of the year"), it forms the High Holy Days, concluding the Ten Days of Repentance by sealing the judgment begun on Rosh Hashanah and highlighting teshuva (repentance), unity, and closeness to the tribal God.

Distinctive practices include five prayer services, the Kol Nidre and Avodah liturgies, and wearing white to symbolize purity.

In Israel, public life largely comes to a halt, while globally it is observed by both religious and secular Jews.

Beyond religious contexts, it carries cultural significance, with public figures honoring the day, and in 2016 it was officially recognized as a United Nations holiday. More: Yom Kippur

These Ten Days of Awe

Dance of the Ashkenazi, not Mizrahi or Sephardi

High Priest, sacrifice those animals for us!

Shalom. We are coming upon the “apex” of 10 Days of Awe, as we commemorate YOM KIPPUR this Wednesday evening Oct. 1, 2025, at 6:30 pm. We will be meeting at 16800 W. 9th Ave. Golden, 80401. This is a solemn Appointed Time, as we corporately confess our sins, break vows, and proclaim that Yeshua is our perfect and final atonement for us individually and as a community. ALL ARE WELCOME TO PARTICIPATE! We will read from the Scriptures, worship, and recite ancient prayers as we joyously celebrate the Lamb, blood sacrificed for us! Following the service, we will enter into the biblically mandated fast in obedience of the command to humble ourselves. More: Chag Sameach-Yom Kippur Kol Nidre — Or Chaim Congregation

Hamas = ISIS graffiti - Hasbara, pro-Israeli propaganda - Wiki

World protests US State of Israel's crimes

Tens of thousands rally across the world after Israel blocks Gaza aid flotilla | N18G | CNBC TV18
Thousands rally against Israel/USA in Kuala Lumpur | CNA
Israel blocks humanitarian flotilla to Gaza amid rising global outcry | Hindu Daily
Global Sumud flotilla, largest yet, sets sail bound for Gaza | Al Mayadeen English
Pfc. Sandoval, Shauna Schwartz (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Jane Goodall says goodbye: final words

(60 Minutes) Jane Goodall and Tom Mangelsen: 60 Minutes Archives

Jane Goodall's last interview (Sept. 2025)

(dreamlion) Oct. 2, 2025: Recorded on September 23, 2025 (eight days before her death on October 1, 2025) for the Wallstreet Journal's "Journal Podcast," and published online by the Wall Street Journal on September 26, 2025.

Sources

Israel takes Greta and flotilla hostage

(Kim Iversen) Israel claims Global Sumud Flotilla is 'HAMAS'

(Middle East Eye) Messages from Flotilla after Israel's interception

Trump and Bibi's fake 'peace deal' falls apart

Candace Owens rips Netanyahu for boasting about controlling US media

What is dispensationalism?

(Reuters) What happens to hostages trying to bring aid taken by Israel?

Abby Martin with flotilla participant Greg Stoker before kidnapping

It's the new Nakba (Catastrophe)

(The Grayzone) On the ground with Northern Gaza's Trail of Tears (thegrayzone.com)

SOLVED: Kirk killed by his security detail?

Assassin waits for his cue, gun in palm.

Here it is. Watch the brown shirt man apparently shoot Charlie Kirk with a modern high tech palm pistol then vault the barrier toward him [toward great danger if Kirk had actually been shot from behind the shooter as if running toward Kirk to make sure he does not survive]. Pay attention and see him run right to Charlie Kirk bleeding to death on the ground.

Charlie Kirk murder weapon revealed and how the brown shirt man (a professional assassin) killed him. CLICK HERE

Isolated video loop of brown shirt man firing palm pistol at Charlie Kirk. Any doubts about it now? CLICK HERE

Released before shooting

What is the name of Charlie Kirk’s CURRENT security team? Not even AI knows! The Shaffer Security Group, most probably a Zionist Jewish company, was with him from 2015-2022. Charlie Kirk was surrounded by 5-6 unnamed security people! CLICK HERE

A second video of the brown shirt man raising his right hand and shooting Charlie Kirk. CLICK HERE

How the brown shirt man may well have targeted Charlie Kirk for the fatal shot. CLICK HERE

Incredible photo appears to show the "print" of the palm pistol murder weapon and the tip of its barrel in the brown shirt man’s back pocket! CLICK HERE

How to distract? - Blame Game!

Why isn’t the FBI looking into the brown shirt man as an important "person of interest"? Answer: It is because he was part of Charlie Kirk’s "security" team. [This would mean that he is known to someone and not a stranger in the crowd who got away.] CLICK HERE

Explaining the difference in brown shirt man’s plaid shirt details in various images. It’s simple. CLICK HERE

One can see what is likely a palm pistol barrel space and shadow between brown shirt man’s middle fingers of his right hand. Something’s there! CLICK HERE

(rense.com)

Brown shirt man and another man both holding a palm pistol in their right hands. CLICK HERE

Another view of the brown shirt man apparently firing the fatal round. Track the UPWARD angle of the shot with the red line. It’s spot on. CLICK HERE

One can actually see the probable palm pistol bullet apparently fired by the brown shirt man in one enlarged frame from video. CLICK HERE

Seven consecutive frames show a hole (stain?) appear in Charlie Kirk’s t-shirt collar right below the neck wound, also demonstrating the upward angle of the shot fired from IN FRONT of Charlie Kirk. CLICK HERE

How Charlie Kirk’s t-shirt was blown OUTWARD by the incoming round that hit him in the neck and why it looks like an exit wound to many. CLICK HERE

Grok [Elon Musk’s AI tool]: A .32 frangible would be devastating. CLICK HERE

Charlie Kirk quietly CREMATED [like all devout Protestant Evangelical Christians insist on having done so they can be reconstituted during the Rapture and ascend to heaven, oh wait, no, the opposite] and put in church "columbarium" in Phoenix? Mass of missing data, probable felonies committed after death says AI: The timeline. CLICK HERE

Stunning video demonstration of a palm pistol being fired and hitting a "neck" size target from about 15-20 feet: You need to watch this. CLICK HERE

Short videos and stories highlighting Charlie Kirk’s awakening and WHY he was murdered. CLICK HERE

Band Emerson Drive’s "She’s My Kind of Crazy’ is the official music video with Erika (Kirk) as eye candy. CLICK HERE

"Behind the scenes" video with Erika (Kirk-to-be) interviewed by a man named…Tyler. CLICK HERE

Solved and compiled by Jeff Rense (rense.com); Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

What if everything is conscious?

What if absolutely everything is CONSCIOUS?

(Spiritual Quest) The mystery of consciousness! Let's explore the enigma of why matter, seemingly unconscious, experiences awareness. Discover the "hard problem of consciousness," insights from philosophers like David Chalmers and Thomas Nagel, and groundbreaking theories from neuroscientists such as Anil Seth and Giulio Tononi. #Consciousness #Philosophy #Neuroscience #Meditation #Mindfulness #AI #Panpsychism

00:00:00 - The fundamental mystery of consciousness
00:01:48 - What is consciousness? (and why it’s hard to define)
00:03:38 - The problem of detecting consciousness
00:05:30 - The illusion of conscious control
00:07:26 - The future of consciousness science

Is consciousness everything?

All-seeing Great Brahma has multiple faces.
Pantheism says "God" is everywhere in everything. What if that actually refers to Consciousness, which seems to be everywhere in everything?

Asangoham made a video on the Brahma Sutras talking about Hinduism that touches on this point, everything originating from Brahma (the "Supremo") who out of boredom created Maya (the illusory world around us), who immediately wanted to play (lila) a game, a divine drama, a diversion.

First, create the universe then get lost in it, forgetting yourself, then play hide-and-seek to find yourself. It's an old New Age belief. It seems to be what Alan Watts believes.

If Everything is conscious then we can know everything by tapping into Source and connecting, merging, uniting with it. It's like tuning into a frequency, as a radio does.

If you’re feeling brave, sit and look — and I mean really look — at a plant on your windowsill as it bends toward the light.

Why are they growing, Son? - Looking for Sun!

It seems simple, but stare at it long enough and you may find yourself doubting everything you thought you knew about your own mind. Sooner or later you’ll ask yourself, "Why, exactly, is that plant stretching toward the sun?"

Sure, you can look it up and find out there’s a thing called phototropism, which involves cells in a plant elongating to chase the sun. But that’s not really much of an answer. The question is, Why does the plant do that?

Is its movement just a mechanistic response with no feeling [or reflexive awareness] behind it? Or does the plant want that delicious, warm light? To many kids, it’s obvious: The plant wants the light!

Yet as adults, at least in the West, we’re supposed to be embarrassed by that kind of language. Modern science warns us against anthropomorphizing [treating nonhuman things as if they're human] — and not just when it comes to plants.

Until a few decades ago, scientists also insisted on viewing animals as mechanistic bundles of instinct (even though any pet owner would find that absurd).

They’ve gradually changed their minds about mammals, birds, and certain brainy species like octopuses, while continuing to believe that species with simpler nervous systems (or no nervous system at all) are not intelligent. They’re not even conscious. What if absolutely everything is conscious? (msn.com)

News/world: Enigmatic ancient architecture discovered cut into rocky landscape (ar-AA1qNq8y)
What if absolutely EVERYTHING is CONSCIOUS?
Spiritual Quest, Jan. 30, 2025; Beth Upton; Asangoham, YouTube via MSN.com, 9/19/24; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

The New Age of Sexism: porn AI robots

'The New Age of Sexism' explores how misogyny is replicated in AI and emerging tech

Emerging technologies are reinventing misogyny

Author Laura Bates has 4.5 out of 5 stars with 58 ratings. Misogyny is being hardwired into our future. Can we stop it? We like to believe we're moving closer to equality, riding the wave of technological progress into a brighter, [whiter] fairer future.

But beneath the glossy surface of innovation lies a chilling truth: new technologies are not just failing to solve age-old inequalities―they're deepening them.

In The New Age of Sexism, acclaimed author and activist Laura Bates exposes how misogyny [hatred of females, the counterpart to misanthropy] is being coded into the very fabric of our future.

From the biases embedded in artificial intelligence to the alarming rise of sex robots and the toxic dynamics of the metaverse, Bates takes readers on a shocking journey into a world where technology is weaponized against women.

Author and activist Laura Bates

This isn't a dystopian warning about what might happen. It's a harrowing account of what's happening now and the dangers we face if we don't act.

With clarity and urgency, Bates reveals how these advancements are dragging society backward, reinforcing harmful stereotypes, and jeopardizing decades of progress in the fight for gender equality.

Eye-opening and empowering, The New Age of Sexism is a rallying cry for awareness and action in a world where the battle for equality has entered a dangerous new frontier. More

Eaton Fire film: 'All the Walls Came Down'

Laemmle.com; AP.org; LARCRO.org; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Flotilla LIVE, Israel crimes, Iran, US in M.E.

Israel intercepts the Global Sumud Flotilla vessels, detains hundreds of activists

(The Newsmakers/TRT) Oct. 2, 2025: Militant Israeli ~~forces~~ state-sponsored pirates illegally intercepted and boarded several Global Sumud Flotilla vessels in international waters on Wednesday, which have been sailing to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza and deliver aid.

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, along with hundreds of other activists, were detained, kidnapped, and forcibly taken to Israel.

PM Netanyahu’s government had previously vowed to do "whatever it takes" to stop the humanitarian flotilla from reaching starving, war-torn Gaza.

The international community has condemned Israel for creating a manmade famine and abduction at sea, denouncing its actions as a breach of international maritime law.

To debate that and more TRT is joined by one of the flotilla’s activists aboard the boat Shireen. She shares her first-hand experience of the live situation at sea and the risks involved.

Guests: Political analyst and contributor to Haaretz Akiva Eldar, Palestinian writer and analyst Kamel Hawwash, and human rights campaigner Caoimhe Butterly. #GlobalSumudFlotilla #Israel #theNewsmakers

LIVE: Bibi's Israel prepares to board Greta’s Gaza Flotilla and abuse or kill everyone aboard

Follow livestream on Drop Site News | Substack

(Novara Media) Freedom Flotilla enters the Israeli kidnap/interception zone in international waters

Israel warns Gaza, closes road; US gov't down

This is what Trump’s 20-point plan, released on Monday, would really mean for Gaza. “The priority is going to be investment…making that money and the kickbacks,” Scahill warns, comparing it to Iraq after 2003, with Tony Blair is set to oversee redevelopment. “Colonial powers always used the local population to test out whatever new technologies, new theories, new medicines,” he says. More: Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Grim (Drop Site News)

(Katie Halper) Roger "Pink Floyd" Waters on call to liberate Gaza from Bibi

Why is Bibi Netanyahu meeting US influencers? | MEE Explains

(Double Down News) Israeli genocide: beheading Palestinian babies: Netanyahu's evil secrets

ABC News In-Depth; The Newsmakers, Oct. 2, 2025; Times Now World; Novara Media; Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Grim, Drop Site News; Katie Halper; MEE Explains; Double Down News; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Hispanic Heritage Month: Art Laboe radio

National Hispanic Heritage Month continues until the middle of October, as we approach Halloween, Samhain, and El Dia de Los Muertos (The Day of the Dead). Many Southland Latinos fondly remember Armenian AM DJ Art Laboe.

National Hispanic Heritage Month (Spanish Mes nacional de la herencia hispana) is annually observed from September 15 to October 15 in the United States for recognizing the contributions and influence of Hispanic culture to the nation's achievements, culture, and history [1][2].

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Buddhist teacher Beth Upton on vacation

Monthly update: a month offline. Please rejoice!

I was a British Buddhist nun in Burma

Hello, friends. Those who have been on retreat with me will know that love this part of the Vitakkasanthana Sutta (MN20):

“Just as a person walking quickly might consider, 'Why am I walking quickly? Why don’t I walk slowly?’ And that person would walk slowly. Then one might consider, 'Why am I walking slowly? What if I were to stand still?’ And one would stand still. Then one might consider, 'Why am I standing still? What if I were to sit down?’ And one would sit down. Then one might consider, 'Why am I sitting? Why don’t I lie down?’ And one would lie down.”

Buddhist meditation teacher Beth Upton 2025
This is me this summer. If August has been me slowing down, then September is me stopping. For the first time in a very long time, I do not have a single online commitment for the entire month. Please rejoice!

I will be using the time to meditate and nourish myself in the Dhamma, the Buddha's Teachings, and my sincere wish is that as I deepen my own practice, so do others.

Sangha Support Group (bethupton.com)

While I am offline, please make good use of our Sangha (Spiritual Community) support groups and our wonderful Team of Teaching Assistants to keep nourished and supported in Buddhist practice.

If anyone really misses me, then remember, I also have a YouTube channel. 😁

This week’s video is about a topic very dear to my heart: science and what I would like scientists to know about the Dhamma. So watch the video, spread the word, and let’s see if we can make some cross-cultural magic happen! WATCH:

Consciousness and science

Meditation and Daily Life – Guided by Beth Upton

In addition, Kerem will kindly be leading September’s Full Moon Gathering. This month it lands on Sunday, Sept. 7th, and will be on the juicy topic of the third Noble Truth: Nirvana (Nibbana).

And for those of you wanting to deepen a sense of global Sangha, Jon Krop of Sit Heads Meditation Club is valiantly organizing an international “meditate-a-thon” in support for humanitarian aid for the children of Gaza. He welcomes all to join the global sitting on Sept. 6th, 2025, or sponsor a meditator, or both. Register to join the sitting here. And sponsor a meditator here. It would be great to see a lot of support for this, so please do join in if you can.

Urgent Gaza relief [from Israel's famine, genocide, extermination] needed (pcrf.net)

We can all support each other and rest.

The plan is for me to be back online in October 2025 with the usual array of online groups and offerings to be announced in my October newsletter.

Lastly, thanks! Retreat time is only possible for me because of generous voluntary support. I will be sharing merits with all who have contributed to making this month happen. Support my work.

With much metta and gratitude,

Beth Upton

Beth Upton, bethupton.com, Sept. 1, 2025; Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Trump's total shutshow: Stephen Colbert

(TWWSS) Trump's Mike Johnson has a gay Grindr profile

Desi Lydic, Daily Show: Trump advocates ethnic cleansing
IHIP News: The homosexual secrets of Speaker of the House
IHIP News: Moses Mike Johnson betrays Trump on hot mic

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Letting go = spiritual awakening: Alan Watts

There, there. - But I want a self!

(Alan Watts Daily) Alan Watts (alanwatt.org, alanwatts.com) explains why most people never survive their spiritual awakening.

If identification with ego, soul, and self are based on ignorance (avijja, not knowing, not understanding, not penetrating that, ultimately speaking, there is no self wrapped up in these forms or these feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness or outside of these), then losing that seems to the logical mind as "death."

It may be ego death. But death is always wrapped up with rebirth. When there is no further rebirth to endure, no more samsara, that is not death. That is liberation (vimutti, moksha, freedom, emancipation). All phenomena is characterized by Three Marks of Existence.

I've always fancied myself more of a Taoist.

While the words of Alan Watts are very beautiful and his understanding (intellectual grasp of Eastern philosophy) very tidy, it is wrong. It is incomplete.

Alan Watts is not enlightened, nor to our knowledge did he ever claim to be. He is reciting a definition of "enlightenment" or "awakening" that is quite valid in Hinduism and therefore in Mahayana Buddhism. This is the whole idea that life is Brahman (GOD) at play (lila) in a great drama pretending to be that Atman (individual soul or self). Life is but a dream.

It is a dream but not in this way. We do not awaken -- in the sense that the Buddha or Awakened One meant -- to ourselves as GOD looking for another good time by dipping into Maya (Illusion) again in endless cycles of time (samsara).

This is not what the historical Buddha (Siddhartha "Shakyamuni" Gautama) taught at all. In fact, he went to great pains pointing out the faults in the Vedas (the ancient "Knowledge Books" of the Brahmin priestly caste).

Former CIA agent on perception vs. perspective

The Brahmins chewed up Buddhism, regurgitated it, and incorporated what they liked, dismissing the rest, ignoring or purposely avoiding the Buddha's criticism of their schemata and depiction of reality. What the Buddha taught, ultimately, was that ALL phenomena, all things, are beset by three characteristics. And Brahmanism (or the Old Vedic Religion that Hinduism points to as its roots) cannot accept any of these three, except by ignoring or changing their meaning. These the Buddha called the "Three Universal Characteristics of all Existence."

Three Marks of Existence

1. All things are impermanent -- not only the phenomena we see and regard as material, physical, and tangible but more importantly all that we regard as immaterial, personal, and effable, namely, the Five Aggregates clung to as self. (See the Heart Sutra, which countless sing without ever making the effort to comprehend).

2. All things are disappointing -- that is, they are incapable of ever fulfilling us, satisfying us, satiating our craving once and for all. They are unsatisfactory, painful, suffering.

3. All things are impersonal -- that is to say, there (ultimately speaking) is no soul, no self, no atman. What we find and cling to as this "self," this "soul," this "ego" or "personality" or "essence, our True Self," is in fact the Five Aggregates clung to as self (our bodies, feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness).

Theravada Buddhism -- in distinction to Mahayana, Hinduism, Brahmanism, Taoism, Confucianism, Shinto, Zen, and Vajrayana -- is a movement principally interested in what the historical Buddha actually taught. This is found in the Pali canon in the lingua franca the Buddha spoke in ancient Magadha.