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Old instruction set – 08-02-2023

Old instruction set - 08-02-2023

Old instruction set - 08-02-2023

Episode Summary:

The speaker discusses the unique perspective that Patanjali's Yoga Sutras are not about traditional yoga, but instead, a manual for mind-to-machine interfaces used by aliens. These interfaces were critical, with misuse posing life-threatening risks. Over time, these machines disappeared, but the instruction manual persisted. The Yoga Sutras were written down as a sequence of instructions. Many misunderstand this manual, correlating it with enlightenment. The speaker practiced concentration techniques from the Sutras and emphasizes its difference from meditation, as concentration ensures correct interface use.

The text presents an alternative interpretation of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, suggesting they might be an instruction manual for space travel via mental processes and machine interfaces, rather than a guide to enlightenment. The author believes that most who pick up the Sutras abandon them, but those who persist can develop mental rigor and discipline. Drawing from their 50-year experience, they've achieved their goals and feel confident interfacing with these supposed space machines. They further explore the oral traditions of the Torah and highlight the ease of memorizing the Sutras compared to larger religious texts.

The commentary on Patanjali's Yoga Sutras has been misinterpreted over time, with many focusing on meditation and enlightenment. However, the book's true intent is to offer instructions on safely operating mind-machine interfaces, not achieving enlightenment. There are risks associated with these machines, which can be fatal if not used correctly. The LK 99 discovery could potentially change our world, offering devices controlled by thought. The Patanjali Sutras offer valuable guidance for this, especially with the possibility of existing machines in secret government locations. There's speculation on space aliens' intentions and the role of historical figures in this narrative.

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Old instruction set - 08-02-2023

Hello, humans. Hello, humans. Outward Bound heading back out to the coast. It's on its way to eleven.

What's going on there? Okay.

And anyway, so as I say, very excited about the LK 99. It's very interesting conceptually to me at this very deep level that that's emerging at the same time that my discovery, which is a maybe, okay, so I'm maintaining it's a discovery. We have yet to prove it, though, right? The LK 99 is in the process of being proven, and my discovery about Patanjali's Yoga Sutras not being about yoga as we understand it, right? No stretchy pants, any of that kind of shit.

It's interesting that these two are temporally coincident. I like temporally coincident things, right? It provides another layer of meaning to all of this sort of thing. Man, have they done some serious logging here. Anyway, so if I'm accurate, then Patanjali's Yoga Sutras are a recitation of line by line by line instructions from a manual on how to use these mind to machine interfaces that the space aliens had.

And then we had an instruction book. And then over time, everybody memorized the instructions because it's really fucking important because you can kill yourself and others if you don't and you're the operator of one of these machines.

Then over time, it became where the machinery wasn't here anymore. Presumably the space aliens took it all with them when they left. I have reasons to think I understand why they left as well, so I'll have a little talk about that later. But anyway, the mind to machine interface persisted as a set of instructions. Step A, step B, step C, and so on.

Patanjali's Yoga Sutra is 151 lines, individual lines, aphorisms. They say sutras, which is a single line of text intending to convey an idea without elucidation or an expansion of that idea. No commentary or anything, just the lines itself. Very much as though we had memorized 150 sets of instructions on how to use these machines and then wrote them down. And then later on, somebody says this must be related to getting enlightenment, right?

And so here's the thing. If we look at this realistically, the Yoga Sutras are very good. I've practiced the concentration exercises since I was 17 earlier, probably 15 when I had my first glimpse of one of these books. Anyway, so I practice it's divided into three sections. There's a general introduction of 50 sutras.

Then there's the concentration area of 50 sutras. Then there's the powers. That's 51 sutras. The powers, by the way, are what happen when you are able to control these mind machine interfaces. It's not like people understand the word today as being somehow like, superpower.

Okay? All right, so all superheroes come from Judaism, all right? That's the idea. The Ubermensch. So the Jews have this idea that the El the Elohim are so we get all the superhero comics, all of this.

It stems from the Jewish tradition, from judaism, which actually it goes all the way back to the Babylonian Talmud, which predates the Jewish Talmud. And we get the idea that the l are Superman and we're know the Schlubs, the Nebbish, and they have all these powers and stuff. Now, in the Yoga Sutras idea, people got the idea that if you did these concentration exercises and stuff, you could acquire personal power in your brain and your body that would allow you to do these superhero things, right? Because in the past and we're talking far distant past, I'm figuring about 13,000 years back, something like that. But in the past, you were able to connect yourself to one of these machines and you would get the cities, the powers.

And the powers are the ability to travel space, zip around, operate machinery, all different kinds of things. Because it was not just their spaceships that were connected to these mind to machine interfaces. This was like the generalized interface for their society. There are reasons to suspect that the Elohim were very bad at operating this equipment themselves. There's reason to suspect that they did not invent it, that they stole this technology and used it and used it with their slaves.

And there's reason to suspect that humans have an inherent native capacity that the Elohim do not, and that that's why we were valuable to them.

We have reasons to suspect a lot of these various different permutations of this thought. Right? Anyway, so superheroism derives from the ability of humans in the past, thousands of years ago, to get basically superhuman powers with their mind by jacking into these machines and controlling them a certain way. Now, as I say, I've had one of these books. I bought my first copy when I was 17.

I read one when I was 15 and started practicing the concentration exercises in the middle of the book, assuming at that point, like everybody else, that these cities, these powers were inherent based on your mental acumen in reading the book and then your persistence in pursuing the exercises laid out, because these exercises are incredibly practical. Okay? So Patanjali's Yoga Sutra is not an esoteric book that, know, contemplate upon your navel looking like the moon or something, right? None of that kind of shit, none of this bizarro new Age inappropriate linkage of things. It's a very practical manual.

Step by step by step. This is a workbook. Usually it's rejected by yoga teachers because they don't grasp it and they have reverence for it because everybody else does, but they don't have a fucking clue as to what it means and what it's for, except in the broad sense in the commentaries, what the commentaries may give to them. But the commentaries are bunches of people over thousands of years that said, oh, I think this must mean this. And if you do this, then you will get this kind of a power on your way to enlightenment.

But let me point something out here. Patanjali's Yoga Sutra is the most translated book on the planet. There are more translations of this book into more Hindu languages than there is for the Bible, okay? There are more translations of this book and variants in India alone than exist translations of the bible in other languages. So I think last I looked, there were 21 Hindu languages in which you could find the Christian bible that had been translated and there's 44 and climbing Hindu languages that have translations of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras.

But given that, given that it's the most translated book fucking ever, it's a failure. An abysmal failure. Absolutely abysmal failure, okay? Because that's assuming that you think the idea for this book is that people would get enlightenment, that they would follow this book and have a spontaneous enlightenment experience, talk to God, all of that kind of shit, and become something that they are not. In other words, transform themselves as per the instructions of the book by doing these mental exercises and see it doesn't happen.

By my reckoning, we may have had as many as maybe 10,000 people over the course of millennia, over the course of thousands and thousands of years, maybe over the course of like 13,000 years, we've had 10,000 people that have had some level of an enlightenment experience as a result of working through Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. And I count myself in that category because I'm a very astute student and a persistent student of the techniques that are involved in Patanjali's book, especially those in the section entitled Concentration. Okay? So it's not about meditation. This is explicitly about concentration.

That word cannot be translated. The title of that second section cannot be translated effectively as meditation has nothing to do with meditation. It has to do with concentration. And concentration is an entirely different thing intending to create an entirely different dynamic and result than does meditation. And the reason that you need the concentration is so that you don't fuck up.

So if we were to look at this book as being instructions on how to use these machines with the intention of like going flying with them and space travel and shit, then it is very important that you understand the details and practice the details diligently that are outlined and provided for you as instructions in section two. Because the idea is, as you find in section three, that you have a, quote, identity or identify with a point in far distant space. And then if you do certain things within your mind and allow a certain process to occur and actively work that process, then the machine interface will accept that as an instruction set that is very powerful and it will move you instantaneously to that spot in space that you had been concentrating on. But you can see that if your concentration is a little sloppy, it ain't going to end well, right? This is why you could crash easily.

Now, here's the thing. I know that this is the case, that I know that Patanjali's Yoga Sutras are not about yoga as we understand it. They're not about trying to get enlightened, they're not about altering your mind other than explicitly on how to keep yourself safe in dealing with the space aliens mind to machine interface. I know this because within the book itself are cautions. So when have you ever run across a meditation or a yoga book that says to you, best not go too fast, okay, and best not take too large of a jump, all right?

So it's telling you that you want to like, okay, so you want to go to that solar system and a planet in that solar system. You're better off just hitting the solar system and stopping and getting your bearings and then going for the planet than attempting to jump right to the planet for a number of reasons which are detailed within Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. If you read it as though it's an instruction manual and not a general guide to meditation and so on right now. So here's the thing, it has been hugely unsuccessful because basically we can say, all right, Gutama the Great Budha, he used Patanjali's Yoga Sutras and he did all this shit and he came up with the middle way after 20 plus years and he became enlightened. Okay, all right, well, that's fine.

So we got one. And then if you really look through it, if you look through all the Rinpoches, all of the people that were reasonably enlightened by the process that said that they'd reached a certain peak or a notable transformation point, as I say, I can actually number, I can enumerate and name maybe 31 such people. And this is over thousands of years. So this is a really stupid book if that's its goal, because it doesn't yield much. All right?

Plus we would have to say that most of the people that pick up the book abandon it even if they've got it on their shelves all their life. They don't really do anything with it because it doesn't make any sense to them, even with the commentaries. Yet it is eminently practical, yet it is straightforward. It's very much an instruction manual. Do this, then do this, then do this, okay?

Very much that. And yet you would think that an instruction manual would have some point to it, some point other than maybe in my case, 31. But I'm giving a let's be very wide in our net and let's say that every Nepalese and Hindu and Tibetan monastery that they all had at least one of their people become enlightened through using Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. If that were the case, then maybe we've had, as I say, maybe there's been 10,000 people on the planet out of how many billions, trillions of people in these last 13,000 years that have had an enlightenment experience as a result of using this book. Now, I've had experiences, but I don't know that I would call myself enlightened in that regard.

But I have had noticeable continually reinforced mental changes as a result of doing the concentration exercises. And demonstrably, I can claim that having done those exercises for 50 plus years has actively aided the progress of my life in our goofy ass civilization, right? So I've been able to achieve my goals partly because of the mental toughness, the mental rigor and discipline that I got from following Patanjali's Yoga Sutras misguidedly thinking they were about enlightenment. Now that I'm of the opinion that they're actually an instruction manual for one of these boats, I feel quite confident that even with all of the cautions that are detailed in Patanjali's book and the horrific potential for problems, for doing it wrongly. I would not hesitate to put myself in connection with one of those machines and use what I've learned from his instruction manual on how to operate these.

Okay, because for a lot of different reasons, but I have a serious amount of acumen with this book. I've had three copies, four copies. My primary copy was stolen when we moved. My office was raided. I'm assuming it was the feds.

I lost no money, no devices. None of that kind of shit was stolen. All that was stolen was paperwork, vast quantities of paperwork and old records and shit. So anyway, that aside, as I say, I would feel confident hooking myself up to one of these machines.

It'd be kind of cool wanting to see how it's actually going to affect me. And the instruction sets in. Patanjali's Sutras are quite explicit as to what happens, how you do this, et cetera. Now, here's the thing.

There are people that claim an oral tradition for the Torah, okay? That there was an oral Torah that was handed down through the ages and then eventually written down. Now, I dispute this for a number of reasons. One of the reasons is the self referential nature of the Torah itself, saying that the l commanded these people to be scribe and to set down these words. And we don't care who these people are, right?

There's no attribution of so and so is an author. There were general titles assigned to authorship in the Torah. But the book itself, in the actual writing of it, it says that the El, it actually says El Yon, I think he most high, the leader of the Elohim caused these people to become scribes in order that they may set this shit down. Okay? So we have that same kind of situation with stuff here, but there's minor differences in a couple of versions of the Torah.

But there's not a wide enough spread, in my opinion, nor a long enough history external to that in other social areas, other social groups for me to say, okay, there was a long history of an Oral Torah, and it was eventually written down. I don't see that I see that the Jewish scribes, the Essenes, actually, they weren't Jewish at that point, were told to write this shit down. They did write it down, and that was the end of it, right? And then we've had it since then. Patanjali's Yoga Sutras is 151 lines.

You can memorize this. It's not like trying to memorize the whole Torah, even in sections, right? The Patanjali's yoga sutras are real straightforward. It would be like memorizing a manual on how to tune a carburetor, right? The 150 instructions on how to tune a carburetor.

You guys probably don't know what that is, but nonetheless or instructions on how to bleed your brakes. You can memorize those, right? They're not that numerous. And so panhanjali's yoga sutras are of that order. And we do have deviation that can be separated out by the etymology of the word, by the evolution of the word through time and through social orders and social contacts.

So, for instance, a particular word means a type of a tree in Hindi, and then later on, the Mongols come on in and invade. And the nature of that word changes because that particular tree's wood is used by the Mongols in their process of making bows. And so we start getting an accumulation of words around this word for tree that alter its meaning, okay? So that's the kind of thing that has occurred over time with all these damn commentaries on his Yoga Sutras. And some people are making commentaries on commentaries, so they're not even really addressing the original material in any event, though.

So it's been tremendously unsuccessful in spite of being widely read. So we should just say, fuck, it doesn't work. Nobody gets enlightened except for these rare people, and it might be their personal biology that allows this. And I think that what's happened is that the book is not intended to provide you with general instructions on how to become enlightened. It is explicitly, as it says, intended to provide you instructions in keeping yourself safe and effectively operating these mind to machine interfaces.

And there is lots of cautions in there. So I do not know personally of any meditative technique that will cause any of the problems that are listed in the Yoga Sutras. I don't care how deep you get, you are not going to cause sudden death or any of these other things that are cautioned against in the Yoga Sutras by simply contemplation. Right? And here's the whole thing.

The concentration that is put in here is anything the instructions on concentration, how to sharpen your mind, how to focus it, how to keep it there, how to maintain the energy levels, all of these various different things are anti meditative, okay? So they're about concentrating fiercely, holding a thought fiercely, not any kind of a meditative thing intended to affect your body and general mental condition. So I think I'm right. The Patanjali's Yoga Sutras have nothing to do with meditation and enlightenment. As we understand it and in fact, our instructions.

So it came about that I came across this idea and been working on it for some time and then started talking about it. Because I have convinced myself at this stage that the etymology of the language within there goes way back, beyond everybody's understanding of when this book was first written. And that an oral tradition for the Yoga Sutras makes ever so much sense. And it would also account for the slight variation that we get in the Yoga Sutras over time, they do change. Certain people have changed them.

Some people have acknowledged that they changed them figuring this word was better in Sanskrit and that it didn't matter. All right. I think it actually does matter that you've got to get the Sanskrit correct because your life is at risk once you join to these machines. What happens to the machine happens to you and your body. You could kill yourself by not being able to effectively separate your mind from the process that is involved in this machinery.

You can kill yourself by misjudging, as it says, don't go too fast. Right. Take small jumps because you have to learn how to do this. And you could appear in the middle of a star, that kind of thing. Actually, that's not quite possible, but you could certainly smack into one.

So anyway, so it's interesting that both of these things are occurring at the same time. The LK 99 coming on the scene, which would potentially bring us devices that would go fly about and then we're going to have to have some way of controlling these fuckers, right? And so maybe we will discover soon that we've got some form of and actually you could probably use LK 99 as a transmission vehicle for thought waves now that I'm thinking about it. But I'll have to really examine that idea later. In any event, though, so our world's changed with the discovery of the LK 99.

And then my little tiny part, which is the detailing of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, which admittedly, don't do us a whole fucking lot of good unless we get one of these machines. But I'm also quite convinced that there's people in government holes in the ground that have these machines. So it's not like totally hopeless. Now I just need to connect with them, get them to understand they're looking at this shit all wrong, that we've had these machines in the past and that's one of the reasons the l did what they did. By the way, I don't know about the Davas and that's what I'm calling the larger group of the space aliens.

I don't know for sure about them, but the l appear to have been poor operators of this technology. It also does not originate with them. So they found it somewhere, adapted it, stole it, or whatever the fuck and brought it here and discovered that humans could really use this stuff now, here's the thing. There's enough evidence sort of pointing in that direction that I think maybe the l were intent on modifying humans to be better operators of this technology. And that that's what led to Adam and know Joshua who is Jesus, all of these kind of things, right?

Or Joseph. Who is Jesus? Personally, I think that the El were trying to create better operators, better slaves. Anyway, so a lot of debate about that, I'm certain, but nonetheless, we're going to get into Sci-Fi world here anyway, so I'm all excited. This is gonna be cool stuff.

Alright guys, I gotta go do stuff. I'll talk to later about some more of this. As I say, it's quite fascinating. I'm still working on my version of the Patanjali Sutras. I have to go back and do etymology constructs going way the fuck back.

So it's tedious, but it's very interesting and very rewarding in the effort. And as I say.

Hidden Space Aliens – 07-20-2023

Hidden Space Aliens - 07-20-2023

Hidden Space Aliens - 07-20-2023Hidden Space Aliens - 07-20-2023

Episode Summary:

The text delves into the intricacies of ancient literature, suggesting that materials like the Torah and other historical texts might contain hidden information related to space aliens. Much like the uncertainty surrounding the authorship of the Torah, similar patterns can be observed in texts like the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, hinting towards lost or vague attribution. By interpreting these ancient works differently, the author posits that they might offer insights into interfacing with alien technology, rather than solely religious or meditative instructions.

The text discusses detailed instructions resembling modern car manuals, drawing parallels to vast meditation literature in Sanskrit. This literature, contrary to popular belief, isn't vague or solely about meditation for enlightenment but could be describing a mind-to-machine interface, specifically interfacing with ancient flying machines called Vimanas. The Sanskrit descriptions of interacting with these machines are vivid, comparing the initial connection to a vortex or whirlpool. Successful operation requires intense focus, suggesting the dangers of a scattered mind while operating. There's an emphasis on gender differences in operating these Vimanas, asserting that men were generally more apt, though there were exceptions among women.

The text discusses potential adaptability issues of a machine to females. Various tribal practices, such as circumcision, may hinder one's ability to operate these devices. Ancient Sanskrit literature, often misinterpreted as meditative guides, actually offers detailed instructions on the devices' use. It emphasizes the importance of a correctly matured mind for effective connection to these machines. Early-life events, like circumcision, can impact this maturation, affecting one's capability to control the machinery. The vast literature offers insights and warnings about who should and shouldn't operate them.

The text discusses ancient manuals that provide cautionary guidance on using certain machines, emphasizing potential hazards for certain individuals. The term in Sanskrit used to identify these individuals remains undefined, alluding to possible genetic factors. The discussion extends to the relationship between the brain and mind, referencing Elon Musk's neural innovations. Delving into Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, the author suggests we misunderstand the term 'yoga', which signifies union with these machines, not solely a religious or spiritual connection. Over time, humanity has shifted focus from machine connection to divine connection, losing the original essence.

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Hidden Space Aliens - 07-20-2023

Hello, humans. Hello humans. It's the 20 July, it's about 830. Getting a late start, heading inland. Got a meeting with some folks and got to go do shopping.

Shopping. Anyway, so we've been busy. Got a lot of stuff done towards sussing out space alien material that's hidden in our ancient literature. So the premise is that what happened to the Torah, old Testament, has also happened to other material in human history. And so there are some commonalities or excuse me, there are some patterns that we can use to extract from how the Torah has been handled and translated that we can apply as search filters for other kinds of texts and other literature traditions.

So these include the there's no attribution, so nobody knows who wrote the Torah right. Or the Old Testament. Now, in the Old Testament, in the translations, there are translations as though specific scribes are named as authors, but it's all very vague. It's a later addition to the Bible in terms of translations. It's one of the apocrypha books where it's secondhand information, so I don't accept it.

Really. It says scribe so and so, but the so and so is actually a label and is not a person's name. Let's see.

So we like the Art of War, we say, is written by Sun Tzu. Right? But the word su means supreme, and so it's unlikely this guy was named supreme. It's an appellation applied to him as the supreme fellow who gave us this information. Right?

And so we see that with attribution very few levels of attribution for the Torah, nobody says, I wrote the whole thing. In fact, lots of people, I won't go into it. So there's no claim of having done this. Now, we find that is also part of the way in which the space aliens dealt with the humans. So in other literary traditions, with ancient literature, especially throughout all of the Indian subcontinent and over into Asia, we find that there are books that are written, but the authors are unknown, or what we have is several hundred years after the actual authoring of the book itself.

So in other words, in Sanskrit, Patanjali's Yoga Sutras are an instruction manual read one way, it appears to talk about meditation in these very vague terms that have been redefined over the centuries. Now. Patanjali's. Yoga Sutras. Patanjali.

That's a label. Okay. Patan is pathon. It's an area of northern India. So Patanjali is jolly from India, but jolly is a title, it's not a name, okay?

So it's like most respected or achieved. So it's a sign of achievement. So in that sense, you can say that someone had achieved a particular point in their life and they had reached it to where they had achieved this state of jolly, okay? Which was way in back in ancient Sanskrit. This, as I say, was a term of respect.

So it's like the respected one from Patan or Pathan area of India. So Patanjali is not like a guy's name. We take it that way. It's been put upon us that way for centuries. And we don't know who this fellow was.

Patanchali, we have authors that long after that person's death wrote stuff about him. But we have no way of knowing if any of the stuff that they wrote was in any way accurate right. Or could be applied. And so we have these areas where okay, so Patanjali's Yoga Sutras is a bunch of individual lines of instructions that if you read it as though it's talking about the Mind Machine interface, it is directly talking about that. You can interpret it in a religious sense if you wanted to, in which it becomes very vague and less than focused.

So I'm of the opinion that great religious leaders would not attempt to deceive nor to obscure information through being vague or using vague terms. They would be quite precise in what they want to communicate because like Bodhaharma and in Buddhism, they don't think they have anything really to teach. They're not there trying to sell you anything. They're not trying to put a naradigm on you. They want to be quite factual.

So we see this in modern day people like Buckminster Fuller where he labeled every damn paragraph and every paragraph was worked over until and this is in the book synergetics until it was absolutely precise with no other words necessary nor added. And that's what we see with, like, patanjali's, yoga sutras. Now, Patanjali, they say, could have lived in the fourth century BCE. Right? So that would have been about 3000 years ago in that range.

But the Yoga Sutras that are being cited are referenced by people that are predating Patanjali's collection and discussion of them. Now, Patanjali's thing was that he collected all the Yoga Sutras for commentary. Okay?

Just as the Talmud is commentary on the Torah by a bunch of different authors in 63 books and then a bunch of attributions to other people that did not actually write in the books. So that you got out of the 63 volumes, you may have several hundred individual minds that are commenting on elements in the Torah. We see that there's lots of people over the course of time in India that have commented on the Yoga Sutras that Patanjali had collected. Okay? Now, the collection of the Yoga Sutras goes back much further.

The origination of them goes back much further than Patanjali, the supposed individual. And there's hints of patanjali. Okay? And so there's other books that were written by Patanjali that don't relate to yoga at all and in fact come into the whole thing about the space alien mind to machine interface at an oblique way but are in fact key to what we're looking at here. And so we find that the attribution of Patanjali to the Yoga Sutras is just there because no one knew who did the things, who wrote the things.

And at some point, somebody collected them and started putting them into a book, and thereafter everybody started making comments on them, okay? To help you understand the religious meditative nature of it, right? Well, what if it was not ever intended to be religious? Then you wouldn't need these comments saying, oh, this word needs to be interpreted that way in order for this to affect your yoga. Okay?

But what if in fact, the yoga is the union with the mind machine interface, and all of the descriptions of the yoga sutras are how to keep yourself safe and how to effectively interface with this device. And then what will happen A, if you screw up or if you're successful, okay? If you read it that way. It's a straightforward tech manual. It says this is what you do.

It is an instruction manual for this exact kind of a purpose. If you read it as a religious text, as I say, it becomes a little vague. I mean, it discusses meditation, but not in the way that the great Zen masters discussed meditation when they were quite explicit about everything that would happen. And there was no ambiguity. It wasn't vague at all.

It was precise, concrete, practical. All right? And so we see that in the Sanskrit literature, there's tons of practical literature about meditation, right? Very specific, very pointed, precise what each aspects of your body does and so on.

These don't involve any vague word associations, okay? And so they're quite precise in the sense that they say if you arrange to do this with your eyes, crossing your eyes this particular way and holding this particular kind of a vision in terms of how you hold your eyes relative to what you're seeing, then the following things will occur in your brain and in your mind. Okay? And so these following things that they're describing go to how to interface with these machines. Now bear in mind that at the time that these instructions were put down, the space aliens were telling us how to use their equipment because they needed more slaves, right?

They came here in my opinion, they came here in a depleted fashion, that is, as though they had had a very long trip or had been harassed and had been worn down by some kind of an enemy on their way here.

In any event though, so they set these instructions down for humans and basically it's like, okay, here's how you drive our cars, okay? You sit yourself down, you do this, you do that, you put your foot on the brake before you push the start button, that kind of thing. Very precise, explicit, practical descriptions, okay? Some of these go, as I say, there's vast quantities of literature about meditation practices. Now these meditation practices, this literature describing the meditation practices in Sanskrit are not vague at all, okay?

They're not at all vague. They're not trying to do word reassignment. The way that we see in the commentaries on Patanjali Sutras or on other stuff. There's a lot of these books that are commentaries. Okay?

I think that there's actually buried in probably all literary traditions where there are pantheons of gods, okay? This does not occur where you don't have the pantheons. So we don't see this kind of thing with far north peoples. Apparently the space aliens weren't cold hardy and so they didn't go and hang out with the Britons in cold wet Britain, right? They didn't go to Norway.

We do see that there's pantheons of gods relative to the northern peoples, but there's some major differences in terms of how the gods interacted with the northern peoples such that we see that this mythology may for them be very much mythos and not actual reporting. The way that we see with the Jews, where the Jews said so and so archangel came and killed somebody and so and so Colonel Yahweh of the L told everybody they got to kill their kids, right? He wants the baby fat out of the kid's abdomens to smoke. And so they got to sacrifice their firstborn. And so we see these actual explicit descriptions of what the El were doing relative to the Essene population.

And the scribes that wrote this down in what at that time was basically Canaanite or proto Hebrew. And so in the Patanjali Sutras, which are part of a vast tradition of descriptions and writings that have been interpreted, in my opinion, wrongly, as being directly focused on meditation for enlightenment. And so if you're a meditator and you're way into this stuff, you see that you run into these ideas that are described as Samadhi, as Moksha. Basically they're talking about enlightenment and so on. But if you look into the words themselves, you find that a lot of these words are very accurately applied to dealing with a mind to machine interface.

So there's a lot of descriptions about the idea of Moiksha or Moksha, which is the idea of release. And so the meditators interpret this in a way that is not enlightenment. It is the release of your cares. You're striving the release of the tension of being alive relative to this idea of seeking enlightenment. Okay?

As I say, it's really vague and all of that, but if you actually get into the literature in which these words appear and keep going further and further back and so on, you find these words being used. Like where it says in some of these, it says if you achieve this mindset set with the machine interface, then this is how you get release from it. This is how you release yourself. And this is important because these mind to machine interfaces are and they're very deeply described in Sanskrit. I've found a whole treasure trove of material going into how these machines affect your mind and this kind of thing and what it is like as an experience to interact with these machines.

So now these things are described as like it's like swirly things that take over your mind, okay? So it's very appropriate. And there's even discussions in some sanskrit and Poly languages about the interaction at that level and how it is visually. When you first interconnect, you're presented with a vortex, and then visually you get an impression of a vortex, but then when you get into it, you fall into the swirling bit, and they call that the maelstrom, okay? It's also described as the whirlpool.

And the whirlpool exists at the center of the vortex. And once you connect to the mind machine interface, the point is to move your mind down to where it goes into the whirlpool.

That's where you can apply your mental energy to make things happen with the machine levitation or whatever. And then there's lots and lots and lots of discussion on what to think, how to think it such that these machines behave themselves. So you have to understand that the reason we think of that these instructions are for meditation is because so much of these instruction sets are going to the idea of internal mental control. But it's not internal mental control such that you have a happy life or that you become enlightened or something like this, right? Again, a very vague phrase.

What is enlightenment? How does it affect your body? How does it affect your mind? How would you know if you were enlightened? Okay, so if you get into the language, you see that they're not talking really about that.

And so that it all goes to the idea of affecting the power of the machine through this interface with the power of your mind. And so it can be seen, obviously, that if you have a scattered mind, you're going to have real problems controlling these machineries. And so if you're just cruising along, you finally get the Vimana, which is a stone device, massively, heavy, 30 or 40 or 50 or 100 tons, five story stone pyramid, kind of like building, and it flies, and you're the pilot there. Well, you connect with the machine, you go to the vortex. You decide, and I won't go into the details there, but you decide which half of the vortex you're going to assume.

Put on the Whirlpool, dive into the whirlpool from there's, reasons to choose one over the other, depending on what's going on. And then you get in there and you're in the whirlpool. And then, so your mind has melded with this interface, that's when it becomes really fucking dangerous. Because if you start thinking, know, a Simpsons episode, who the fuck knows what's going to happen? Because that device doesn't understand the Simpsons episode, but because of the nature of that part of your mind that does the work, interacting with the device, casual, kind of imaginings, fantasy, musings, all of these kind of things can get your ass into real trouble.

Now, these devices are dangerous, okay? So you could see that if you were just randomly thinking about shit and happened to think about a video game you've been playing while you were driving the vimana, well, that ain't going to do too well because you're not driving it with your hands. You're driving it with your mind through your body. So things get real complicated here, right?

It can be seen that in attention and a casual attention to your surroundings is not good. And so not everybody was going to be a good vimana driver. And there's literature out there that if you go into it, you see that women can't do this. Okay? Women are there are some exceptions.

There are some notable exceptions where they talk about specific women. And some of these things, some of this literature that actually were able to achieve good use of these interfaces, but it was relatively rare. And it has to do with the fact that the brain and the mind of men and women are not the same, okay? Just as our pelvis is not the same and that females have a pelvis that can pass the head of a baby, but men do not. There are physical, non addressable, mental thing, mind things, like physical things to your brain that also affect your mind, that prevent women from running these machines.

I don't know that if they could in terms of could you alter the machine to accept a female? I don't know. See, I haven't run across anything at this point that describes any of that. There's all kinds of literature that if you run through and retranslate it and get all of the goofy commentary shit out of the way and look at the exact language, it's very precise in what it says here. There are warnings that says don't let people from this particular tribe don't let men from this particular tribe use these devices because this tribe practices circumcision, okay?

And there's another tribe that did not practice circumcision but did practice this body alteration surgical kind of a thing at a very young age that also caused these people, the men in that tribe, to not be able to use these devices and that it was actually dangerous both to the people and to the device. Lots of information or lots of warnings about the danger to the device and lots of warnings about the danger to individual people who should not attempt to do this, and then also warnings about nobody should attempt to do this without adequate training. And that here's how you go about getting the training. Much of those books we've misinterpreted as manuals on meditative techniques, so there's a real kick in the pants. Also, at some point, it'll come on out, all of the details here, but you will be astounded at how much of this stuff was just, like, staring us in the face.

We just didn't see it, right? Man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest.

So we have all kinds of language about the mental conditions and things that occur when you join to the machine so that you are prepared. And a lot of this actually, when you read it, you see that there are similar experiences in dealing with the Whirlpool, dealing with the maelstrom, both of which are words that they actually use in ancient Sanskrit to describe the interaction of people with these devices.

If you just read it directly, if you take out any kind of commentary or any kind of translation that makes it go to meditation in a religious sense, then you see that it's actually techniques on how to harden. Your mind so that you can get up and control these devices and not spaz out and crash the bugger into the ground because you happen to be thinking about a woman or a meal or a sports thing when you should have been thinking about your driving. It's really tricky, guys. The warnings here are quite extensive. Also found a huge repository of commands, okay?

And there's a lot of fucking discussion, like big, dense volumes, okay? So Sanskrit is very rich language. It's very dense in meaning for very few characters. It has a literary tradition in modern Sanskrit, which is to say from the last Kali Yuga, from say, 108 D, 100 current era, maybe, let's just say year zero, right? So from this current era onward.

So for the last 2023 years, sanskrit has a tradition where they would have these very specific, precise Sanskrit statements, very word sparing, right? No extra words, very precise, and no extra hemming and hawing around in order to communicate the idea. It was just a very few specific words. And so Sanskrit at that level is written in this very sparing way for words. Then you get all the volume, people making all the commentaries trying to make sense of this shit, right?

That's why there's all this language written about, I mean, all these people writing books about the Bible and the Torah. There are 63 volumes in one set of Talmud books that go to aspects of the Torah that are commentary on the Torah. And there's another 75, I think, that are commentaries on the Babylonian Torah. Okay, there's differences. But in any event, it comes down to this basic idea, hey, your God's so imprecise in talking to you that you need vast quantities of other people's words to try and understand it's.

Like that sort of doesn't make sense, right? If your gods are of any acumen at all, if they know what the fuck they're doing, they will use very few words to communicate what they need. And you're not going to need lots and lots and lots and lots of people to make interpretations over the centuries to try and make sense of this shit. So why is God so obtuse as to provide you with something that doesn't make sense initially, right off the bat? Anyway, so side issue.

Anyway, so we found these books that go to discussions about the rules of the operation. I've also found a lot of books within that tradition and within spread out over centuries, very ancient books written over centuries, but written thousands of years before our current time. And these books have discussions at an academic level about the process of interacting with the machinery and why certain things work and why certain things don't, and how to train your mind to actually make the connection without getting swallowed up and lost in it. And it just goes on and on and on. It's all very practical stuff.

And it is as though we had a technical college somewhere that explored the machinery and stuff from a human viewpoint in order to make humans better at it. And they sussed out a lot of stuff that the space aliens didn't tell us directly when they introduced to us to the machinery, probably because they didn't think it was pertinent to us. And all they wanted to do was to say, sit here, put your hand there, put your foot on this before you push this button. Once you push this button, this happens. Yada yada yada yada.

Right? And so we see all of these kinds of discussions there within this body of discussions about the interaction of humans in these machinery, as I say, are all these cautions about people that should not be involved. So don't let a woman do it, and don't let a woman under any circumstances interact with this ancillary part of the field. It's all about these field units and so on. But it also talks about, you can't do this if you are a circumcised male, or rather, okay, so it may be impossible for you as a circumcised male if you were circumcised at a young enough age, because it will have affected that part of your mind, easily identified that it's got names and so on.

It will affect that part of your mind, the circumcision, because it affects your brain in terms of how it matures. And in fact, there are lines in there that are from cautions or instructions to the space aliens saying, hey, if you want to keep your slaves under control, circumcise them. They won't be able to use this machinery. They can't escape because you can't leave the gonge. You couldn't leave the magnetic bubble without knowing how to interact with the control unit.

They were saying, if you want to have maximum effect, you want to circumcise the child before they're 13. Maximum effect is circumcising shortly after birth, or if you want to do this other operations shortly after birth. This works as well. But on some people, some types of humans, it doesn't work as well as on others. And so we get this whole thing right.

And the circumcision aspect of it has to do with the hormonal control or the hormones that come on the male body over time through maturation into puberty and that these pubescent hormones cause the maturation of this part of your mind that allows you to connect to these machines. If you don't have this part of your mind mature at best, you'll have a tentative bad connection. But it will be bad for everybody because you won't have control, right? So it'd be like you're old enough to get in the car and turn on the thing and grab the steering wheel, but you can't reach the brakes. That sort of a deal, right?

So this is the kind of thing that they're saying you got to watch out for. And these discussions go to the idea that certain kinds of wounds that would happen to men in battle would make it such that you're not a good candidate to operate these machines. And there's a long list of them. And so there's this list of cautions found in this manual of the command and control instructions of these devices that give you hints as not hints. I mean, they explicitly say you don't want these kind of people using these things, right?

We find that they're very specific. We have to now figure out what their words for these kind of people meant. So we have a label, we have a name in Sanskrit, but we don't know if that means Samoan, we don't know if it means Aztec, we don't know if it means white guy. We just don't know what this word refers to. It's a label.

It's not a defined term that has a translation.

But there's lists of these peoples, various different tribes from the space aliens viewpoint that you don't want to involve yourself with in terms of these devices because of genetics or whatever the fuck. So this is all quite complex and we've only scratched the surface and we've only done it in this one language. I have a couple of people helping me, but I'm mainly doing it on my own and using some AI assistance on it. It's a real pain in the ass to use Chat GPT because the thing is woke and that causes you some real serious issues anyway, though. So as I say, quite fascinating, the interaction with this machinery.

This would really help the people that are working for Elon Musk on the chip in the brain. On the brain fried chips, right? Or chip fried brains. Because you understand that you don't have to have chips in the brain to interact with the human mind. And that it's actually relatively straightforward if one understands the biodynamics that relate the brain to the mind for humans, which is discussed in these volumes now.

So I haven't read these books, okay? Some of these books are two and 3000 pages long and they may be fragmentary. So just as we know, there's a big introduction to Patanjali's Yoga Sutras that if you read the book as a technical manual for interacting with these machines, then you see that there's a big introduction that's missing that we're looking at fragmentary material. We knew that the yoga material was fragmentary, but we didn't know how much is missing because we weren't looking at it as a realistic subject. We were taking it in a religious bent.

Now, it is my opinion, them, that we take these things in the religious bent through the Kaliyuga, because of the nature of the Kaliyuga and its effect on the human mind, because we're so far from the emanations, from the galactic center, that we're in a denser, more stupid state, right? And so all of the people that do get into yoga, they know what the word yoga means, okay? But they never think about it. And when they do think about it, they think about it in a religious bit. But the word yoga means union, okay?

And so adjoining a melding, a union, specifically a union. And it means union because we were unified. We were melded to those machines when you attached yourself. So whatever the fuck happens to that machine happens to your mind and vice versa. And so the machine can kill you just as you could kill the machine with your inappropriate mental musing, that sort of thing.

If you do it wrong, the machine will kill you or it will mess your mind up forever. And thus, all of the cautions in this, this is not for kids. It's not a toy, all right? But we took that word union, and everybody says, oh, union with the divine, union with God, union with your deeper self, or union with your soul, and so on. And it's bogus.

It was right in front of our face and we never even saw it. It's all about union with the machine. It's all about the maelstrom, the whirlpool. And it is named that way specifically. So the space aliens, in their instructions to us, call it the vortex.

Further down in there, in some of the instructions, they acknowledge there's a split and the vortexes can be seen from one direction or from another. As you enter in these machines, it is at that point that when humans take over, they liken it to the whirlpool. And you will see that word appearing occasionally. When humans have written about the experience of using these devices, they don't call it the Vortex or the Toroid. They call it the Whirlpool, because that's the experience, that's the effect.

When you plunge into it, it is literally a plunging it is as though you have a body and you're diving into a whirlpool, fantastically spinning whirlpool that will respond to you. And so if you're all freaked out, it's going to get freaked out. But if you're calm, if you've done these techniques, if you know how to control your mind, it's calm, it will obey you. That's really the secret in plain sight relative to this. So it's good that we got people doing yoga, but they're doing it stretching themselves, stretching their bodies, but not understanding.

The reason that we were instructed to do this was its effect on our minds. And the goal is to work the mind to have union with these devices. Okay? And of course, the devices were seen as divine. So across the centuries of decreasing emanations from galactic center, as humans become born more and more dense with each generation, as we're stupider for a long period of time with each generation, we lose the sense of that connection to the machinery and just eliminate that in our language.

And we just talk about being able to connect to the divine, the gods. Right? It's humans doing human shit. Misunderstanding. Anyway, guys, got to get stuff done.

Talk.


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The number one New York Times best seller that examines how people can champion new ideas in their careers and everyday life - and how leaders can fight groupthink, from the author of Think Again and co-author of Option B. With Give and Take, Adam Grant not only introduced a landmark new paradigm for success but also established himself as one of his generation’s most compelling and provocative thought leaders. In Originals he again addresses the challenge of improving the world, but now from the perspective of becoming original: choosing to champion novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battle conformity, and buck outdated traditions. How can we originate new ideas, policies, and practices without risking it all? Using surprising studies and stories spanning business, politics, sports, and entertainment, Grant explores how to recognize a good idea, speak up without getting silenced, build a coalition of allies, choose the right time to act, and manage fear and doubt; how parents and teachers can nurture originality in children; and how leaders can build cultures that welcome dissent. Learn from an entrepreneur who pitches his start-ups by highlighting the reasons not to invest, a woman at Apple who challenged Steve Jobs from three levels below, an analyst who overturned the rule of secrecy at the CIA, a billionaire financial wizard who fires employees for failing to criticize him, and a TV executive who didn’t even work in comedy but saved Seinfeld from the cutting-room floor. The payoff is a set of groundbreaking insights about rejecting conformity and improving the status quo.

In The $100 Startup, Chris Guillebeau tells you how to lead of life of adventure, meaning and purpose - and earn a good living. Still in his early 30s, Chris is on the verge of completing a tour of every country on earth - he's already visited more than 175 nations - and yet he’s never held a "real job" or earned a regular paycheck. Rather, he has a special genius for turning ideas into income, and he uses what he earns both to support his life of adventure and to give back. There are many others like Chris - those who've found ways to opt out of traditional employment and create the time and income to pursue what they find meaningful. Sometimes, achieving that perfect blend of passion and income doesn't depend on shelving what you currently do. You can start small with your venture, committing little time or money, and wait to take the real plunge when you're sure it's successful. In preparing to write this book, Chris identified 1,500 individuals who have built businesses earning $50,000 or more from a modest investment (in many cases, $100 or less), and from that group he’s chosen to focus on the 50 most intriguing case studies. In nearly all cases, people with no special skills discovered aspects of their personal passions that could be monetized, and were able to restructure their lives in ways that gave them greater freedom and fulfillment. Here, finally, distilled into one easy-to-use guide, are the most valuable lessons from those who’ve learned how to turn what they do into a gateway to self-fulfillment. It’s all about finding the intersection between your "expertise" - even if you don’t consider it such - and what other people will pay for. You don’t need an MBA, a business plan or even employees. All you need is a product or service that springs from what you love to do anyway, people willing to pay, and a way to get paid. Not content to talk in generalities, Chris tells you exactly how many dollars his group of unexpected entrepreneurs required to get their projects up and running; what these individuals did in the first weeks and months to generate significant cash; some of the key mistakes they made along the way, and the crucial insights that made the business stick. Among Chris’s key principles: if you’re good at one thing, you’re probably good at something else; never teach a man to fish - sell him the fish instead; and in the battle between planning and action, action wins. In ancient times, people who were dissatisfied with their lives dreamed of finding magic lamps, buried treasure, or streets paved with gold. Today, we know that it’s up to us to change our lives. And the best part is, if we change our own life, we can help others change theirs. This remarkable book will start you on your way.

Bold is a radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary wealth while also positively impacting the lives of billions. Exploring the exponential technologies that are disrupting today's Fortune 500 companies and enabling upstart entrepreneurs to go from "I've got an idea" to "I run a billion-dollar company" far faster than ever before, the authors provide exceptional insight into the power of 3-D printing, artificial intelligence, robotics, networks and sensors, and synthetic biology. Drawing on insights from billionaire entrepreneurs Larry Page, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and Jeff Bezos, the audiobook offers the best practices that allow anyone to leverage today's hyper connected crowd like never before. The authors teach how to design and use incentive competitions, launch million-dollar crowdfunding campaigns to tap into tens of billions of dollars of capital, and build communities - armies of exponentially enabled individuals willing and able to help today's entrepreneurs make their boldest dreams come true. Bold is both a manifesto and a manual. It is today's exponential entrepreneur's go-to resource on the use of emerging technologies, thinking at scale, and the awesome impact of crowd-powered tools.

The answer is simple: come up with 10 ideas a day. It doesn't matter if they are good or bad, the key is to exercise your "idea muscle", to keep it toned, and in great shape. People say ideas are cheap and execution is everything but that is NOT true. Execution is a consequence, a subset of good, brilliant idea. And good ideas require daily work. Ideas may be easy if we are only coming up with one or two but if you open this book to any of the pages and try to produce more than three, you will feel a burn, scratch your head, and you will be sweating, and working hard. There is a turning point when you reach idea number six for the day, you still have four to go, and your mind muscle is getting a workout. By the time you list those last ideas to make it to 10 you will see for yourself what "sweating the idea muscle" means. As you practice the daily idea generation you become an idea machine. When we become idea machines we are flooded with lots of bad ideas but also with some that are very good. This happens by the sheer force of the number, because we are coming up with 3,650 ideas per year (at 10 a day). When you are inspired by an extraordinary idea, all of your thoughts break their chains, you go beyond limitations and your capacity to act expands in every direction. Forces and abilities you did not know you had come to the surface, and you realize you are capable of doing great things. As you practice with the suggested prompts in this book your ideas will get better, you will be a source of great insight for others, people will find you magnetic, and they will want to hang out with you because you have so much to offer. When you practice every day your life will transform, in no more than 180 days, because it has no other evolutionary choice. Life changes for the better when we become the source of positive, insightful, and helpful ideas. Don't believe a word I say. Instead, challenge yourself.

A Guide to Resilience: How to Bounce Back from Life's Inevitable Problems Christian Moore is convinced that each of us has a power hidden within, something that can get us through any kind of adversity. That power is resilience. In The Resilience Breakthrough, Moore delivers a practical primer on how you can become more resilient in a world of instability and narrowing opportunity, whether you're facing financial troubles, health setbacks, challenges on the job, or any other problem. We can each have our own resilience breakthrough, Moore argues, and can each learn how to use adverse circumstances as potent fuel for overcoming life's hardships. As he shares engaging real-life stories and brutally honest analyses of his own experiences, Moore equips you with 27 resilience-building tools that you can start using today - in your personal life or in your organization.

What if someone told you that your behavior was controlled by a powerful, invisible force? Most of us would be skeptical of such a claim--but it's largely true. Our brains are constantly transmitting and receiving signals of which we are unaware. Studies show that these constant inputs drive the great majority of our decisions about what to do next--and we become conscious of the decisions only after we start acting on them. Many may find that disturbing. But the implications for leadership are profound. In this provocative yet practical book, renowned speaking coach and communication expert Nick Morgan highlights recent research that shows how humans are programmed to respond to the nonverbal cues of others--subtle gestures, sounds, and signals--that elicit emotion. He then provides a clear, useful framework of seven "power cues" that will be essential for any leader in business, the public sector, or almost any context. You'll learn crucial skills, from measuring nonverbal signs of confidence, to the art and practice of gestures and vocal tones, to figuring out what your gut is really telling you. This concise and engaging guide will help leaders and aspiring leaders of all stripes to connect powerfully, communicate more effectively, and command influence.

New York Times bestselling author and social media expert Gary Vaynerchuk shares hard-won advice on how to connect with customers and beat the competition. A mash-up of the best elements of Crush It! and The Thank You Economy with a fresh spin, Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook is a blueprint to social media marketing strategies that really works. When managers and marketers outline their social media strategies, they plan for the "right hook"—their next sale or campaign that's going to knock out the competition. Even companies committed to jabbing—patiently engaging with customers to build the relationships crucial to successful social media campaigns—want to land the punch that will take down their opponent or their customer's resistance in one blow. Right hooks convert traffic to sales and easily show results. Except when they don't. Thanks to massive change and proliferation in social media platforms, the winning combination of jabs and right hooks is different now. Vaynerchuk shows that while communication is still key, context matters more than ever. It's not just about developing high-quality content, but developing high-quality content perfectly adapted to specific social media platforms and mobile devices—content tailor-made for Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter and Tumblr.

From the best-selling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a book on how some things actually benefit from disorder. In The Black Swan Taleb outlined a problem, and in Antifragile he offers a definitive solution: how to gain from disorder and chaos while being protected from fragilities and adverse events. For what Taleb calls the "antifragile" is actually beyond the robust, because it benefits from shocks, uncertainty, and stressors, just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension. The antifragile needs disorder in order to survive and flourish. Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner. The antifragile is immune to prediction errors. Why is the city-state better than the nation-state, why is debt bad for you, and why is everything that is both modern and complicated bound to fail? The audiobook spans innovation by trial and error, health, biology, medicine, life decisions, politics, foreign policy, urban planning, war, personal finance, and economic systems. And throughout, in addition to the street wisdom of Fat Tony of Brooklyn, the voices and recipes of ancient wisdom, from Roman, Greek, Semitic, and medieval sources, are heard loud and clear. Extremely ambitious and multidisciplinary, Antifragile provides a blueprint for how to behave - and thrive - in a world we don't understand, and which is too uncertain for us to even try to understand and predict. Erudite and witty, Taleb’s message is revolutionary: What is not antifragile will surely perish.

The Cluetrain Manifesto began as a Web site in 1999 when the authors, who have worked variously at IBM, Sun Microsystems, the Linux Journal, and NPR, posted 95 theses about the new reality of the networked marketplace. Ten years after its original publication, their message remains more relevant than ever. For example, thesis no. 2: “Markets consist of human beings, not demographic sectors”; thesis no. 20: “Companies need to realize their markets are often laughing. At them.” The book enlarges on these themes through dozens of stories and observations about business in America and how the Internet will continue to change it all. With a new introduction and chapters by the authors, and commentary by Jake McKee, JP Rangaswami, and Dan Gillmor, this book is essential reading for anybody interested in the Internet and e-commerce, and is especially vital for businesses navigating the topography of the wired marketplace.

From the founders of the trailblazing software company 37signals, here is a different kind of business book one that explores a new reality. Today, anyone can be in business. Tools that used to be out of reach are now easily accessible. Technology that cost thousands is now just a few bucks or even free. Stuff that was impossible just a few years ago is now simple.That means anyone can start a business. And you can do it without working miserable 80-hour weeks or depleting your life savings. You can start it on the side while your day job provides all the cash flow you need. Forget about business plans, meetings, office space - you don't need them. With its straightforward language and easy-is-better approach, Rework is the perfect playbook for anyone who's ever dreamed of doing it on their own. Hardcore entrepreneurs, small-business owners, people stuck in day jobs who want to get out, and artists who don't want to starve anymore will all find valuable inspiration and guidance in these pages. It's time to rework work.

Tesla's main source of inspiration.
Roger Joseph Boscovich, a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuit priest, and polymath, published the first edition of his famous work, Philosophiae Naturalis Theoria Redacta Ad Unicam Legem Virium In Natura Existentium (Theory Of Natural Philosophy Derived To The Single Law Of Forces Which Exist In Nature), in Vienna, in 1758, containing his atomic theory and his theory of forces. A second edition was published in 1763 in Venice

Bill Clinton's Georgetown mentor's history of the Conspiracy since the Boer War in South Africa.
TRAGEDY AND HOPE shows the years 1895-1950 as a period of transition from the world dominated by Europe in the nineteenth century to the world of three blocs in the twentieth century. With clarity, perspective, and cumulative impact, Professor Quigley examines the nature of that transition through two world wars and a worldwide economic depression. As an interpretative historian, he tries to show each event in the full complexity of its historical context. The result is a unique work, notable in several ways. It gives a picture of the world in terms of the influence of different cultures and outlooks upon each other; it shows, more completely than in any similar work, the influence of science and technology on human life; and it explains, with unprecedented clarity, how the intricate financial and commercial patterns of the West prior to 1914 influenced the development of today’s world.

This is the July, 2016 ALTA (Asymmetric Linguistic Trends Analysis) Report. Also known as 'the Web Bot' report, this series is brought to you by halfpasthuman.com. This report covers your future world from July 2016 through to 2031. Forecasts are created using predictive linguistics (from the inventor) and cover your planet, your population, your economy and markets, and your Space Goat Farts where you will find all the 'unknown' and 'officially denied' woo-woo that will be shaping your environment over these next few decades.

Time is considered as an independent entity which cannot be reduced to the concept of matter, space or field. The point of discussion is the "time flow" conception of N A Kozyrev (1908-1983), an outstanding Russian astronomer and natural scientist. In addition to a review of the experimental studies of "the active properties of time", by both Kozyrev and modern scientists, the reader will find different interpretations of Kozyrev's views and some developments of his ideas in the fields of geophysics, astrophysics, general relativity and theoretical mechanics.

How UFO Time Engines work - Clif High

The webpage discusses the workings of UFO time engines according to N.A. Kozyrev's experiments. The LL1 engine is described as a hollow metal sphere with a pool of mercury metal inside. When activated by electrical energy, it creates a uni-polar magnetic field causing the mercury to spin at a high rate and induce "time stuff" to accumulate on its surface. The accrued time stuff is siphoned down magnetically to the radiating antennae on the bottom of the vessel, providing self-sustaining power and allowing for time travel. The environment inside UFOs is likely volatile and not suitable for humans.

The Body Electric tells the fascinating story of our bioelectric selves. Robert O. Becker, a pioneer in the filed of regeneration and its relationship to electrical currents in living things, challenges the established mechanistic understanding of the body. He found clues to the healing process in the long-discarded theory that electricity is vital to life. But as exciting as Becker's discoveries are, pointing to the day when human limbs, spinal cords, and organs may be regenerated after they have been damaged, equally fascinating is the story of Becker's struggle to do such original work. The Body Electric explores new pathways in our understanding of evolution, acupuncture, psychic phenomena, and healing.

Unique, controversial, and frequently cited, this survey offers highly detailed accounts concerning the development of ideas and theories about the nature of electricity and space (aether). Readily accessible to general readers as well as high school students, teachers, and undergraduates, it includes much information unavailable elsewhere. This single-volume edition comprises both The Classical Theories and The Modern Theories, which were originally published separately. The first volume covers the theories of classical physics from the age of the Greek philosophers to the late 19th century. The second volume chronicles discoveries that led to the advances of modern physics, focusing on special relativity, quantum theories, general relativity, matrix mechanics, and wave mechanics. Noted historian of science I. Bernard Cohen, who reviewed these books for Scientific American, observed, "I know of no other history of electricity which is as sound as Whittaker's. All those who have found stimulation from his works will read this informative and accurate history with interest and profit."

The third edition of the defining text for the graduate-level course in Electricity and Magnetism has finally arrived! It has been 37 years since the first edition and 24 since the second. The new edition addresses the changes in emphasis and applications that have occurred in the field, without any significant increase in length.

Objects are a ubiquitous presence and few of us stop and think what they mean in our lives. This is the job of philosophers and this is what Jean Baudrillard does in his book. This is required reading for followers of Baudrillard, and he is perhaps the most assessable to the General Reader. Baudrillard is most associated with Post Modernism, and this early book sets the stage for that journey to the post modern world.
We are all surrounded by objects, but how many times have we thought about what those objects represent. If we took the time to think about the symbolism, we could arrive at easy solutions. We have been so accustomed to advertising the automobile representing freedom is an easy conclusion. But what about furniture? What about chairs? What about the arrangement of furniture? Watches? Collecting objects? Baudrillard literally opens up a new world and creates the universe of objects.
It is not that the critique of a society or objects has not been done before, but Baudrillard’s approach is new. Baudrillard examines objects as signs with a smattering of Post-Marxist thought. In his analysis of objects as signs, he ushers in the Post-Modern age and world for which he would be known. Heady stuff to be sure, but is presented by Baudrillard in a readily accessible manner. He articulates his thesis in a straightforward manner, avoiding the hyper-technical terminology he used in his later writings.

Moving away from the Marxist/Freudian approaches that had concerned him earlier, Baudrillard developed in this book a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure.

The book begins with Sidis's discovery of the first law of physical laws: "Among the physical laws it is a general characteristic that there is reversibility in time; that is, should the whole universe trace back the various positions that bodies in it have passed through in a given interval of time, but in the reverse order to that in which these positions actually occurred, then the universe, in this imaginary case, would still obey the same laws." Recent discoveries of dark matter are predicted by him in this book, and he goes on to show that the "Big Bang" is wrong. Sidis (SIGH-dis) shows that it is far more likely the universe is eternal

In this book you will encounter rare information regarding your true identity - the conscious self in the body - and how you may break the hypnotic spell your senses and thinking have cast about you since childhood.

Do we see the world as it truly is? In The Case Against Reality, pioneering cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman says no? we see what we need in order to survive. Our visual perceptions are not a window onto reality, Hoffman shows us, but instead are interfaces constructed by natural selection. The objects we see around us are not unlike the file icons on our computer desktops: while shaped like a small folder on our screens, the files themselves are made of a series of ones and zeros - too complex for most of us to understand. In a similar way, Hoffman argues, evolution has shaped our perceptions into simplistic illusions to help us navigate the world around us. Yet now these illusions can be manipulated by advertising and design.
Drawing on thirty years of Hoffman's own influential research, as well as evolutionary biology, game theory, neuroscience, and philosophy, The Case Against Reality makes the mind-bending yet utterly convincing case that the world is nothing like what we see through our eyes.

At the height of the Cold War, JFK risked committing the greatest crime in human history: starting a nuclear war. Horrified by the specter of nuclear annihilation, Kennedy gradually turned away from his long-held Cold Warrior beliefs and toward a policy of lasting peace. But to the military and intelligence agencies in the United States, who were committed to winning the Cold War at any cost, Kennedy’s change of heart was a direct threat to their power and influence. Once these dark “Unspeakable” forces recognized that Kennedy’s interests were in direct opposition to their own, they tagged him as a dangerous traitor, plotted his assassination, and orchestrated the subsequent cover-up.

2020 saw a spike in deaths in America, smaller than you might imagine during a pandemic, some of which could be attributed to COVID and to initial treatment strategies that were not effective. But then, in 2021, the stats people expected went off the rails. The CEO of the OneAmerica insurance company publicly disclosed that during the third and fourth quarters of 2021, death in people of working age (18–64) was 40 percent higher than it was before the pandemic. Significantly, the majority of the deaths were not attributed to COVID. A 40 percent increase in deaths is literally earth-shaking. Even a 10 percent increase in excess deaths would have been a 1-in-200-year event. But this was 40 percent. And therein lies a story—a story that starts with obvious questions: - What has caused this historic spike in deaths among younger people? - What has caused the shift from old people, who are expected to die, to younger people, who are expected to keep living?

RFK Jr: 23.5% GREATER likelihood of dying - 09-06-2023

RFK Jr: 23.5% GREATER likelihood of dying - 09-06-2023

The Tavistock Institute, in Sussex, England, describes itself as a nonprofit charity that applies social science to contemporary issues and problems. But this book posits that it is the world’s center for mass brainwashing and social engineering activities. It grew from a somewhat crude beginning at Wellington House into a sophisticated organization that was to shape the destiny of the entire planet, and in the process, change the paradigm of modern society. In this eye-opening work, both the Tavistock network and the methods of brainwashing and psychological warfare are uncovered.

A seminal and controversial figure in the history of political thought and public relations, Edward Bernays (1891–1995), pioneered the scientific technique of shaping and manipulating public opinion, which he famously dubbed “engineering of consent.” During World War I, he was an integral part of the U.S. Committee on Public Information (CPI), a powerful propaganda apparatus that was mobilized to package, advertise and sell the war to the American people as one that would “Make the World Safe for Democracy.” The CPI would become the blueprint in which marketing strategies for future wars would be based upon.
Bernays applied the techniques he had learned in the CPI and, incorporating some of the ideas of Walter Lipmann, as well as his uncle, Sigmund Freud, became an outspoken proponent of propaganda as a tool for democratic and corporate manipulation of the population. His 1928 bombshell Propaganda lays out his eerily prescient vision for using propaganda to regiment the collective mind in a variety of areas, including government, politics, art, science and education. To read this book today is to frightfully comprehend what our contemporary institutions of government and business have become in regards to organized manipulation of the masses.

Undressing the Bible: in Hebrew, the Old Testament speaks for itself, explicitly and transparently. It tells of mysterious beings, special and powerful ones, that appeared on Earth.
Aliens?
Former earthlings?
Superior civilizations, that have always been present on our planet?
Creators, manipulators, geneticists. Aviators, warriors, despotic rulers. And scientists, possessing very advanced knowledge, special weapons and science-fiction-like technologies.
Once naked, the Bible is very different from how it has always been told to us: it does not contain any spiritual, omnipotent and omniscient God, no eternity. No apples and no creeping, tempting, serpents. No winged angels. Not even the Red Sea: the people of the Exodus just wade through a simple reed bed.
Writer and journalist Giorgio Cattaneo sits down with Italy's most renowned biblical translator for his first long interview about his life's work for the English audience. A decade long official Bible translator for the Church and lifelong researcher of ancient myths and tales, Mauro Bilglino is a unicum in his field of expertise and research. A fine connoisseur of dead languages, from ancient Greek to Hebrew and medieval Latin, he focused his attention and efforts on the accurate translating of the bible.
The encounter with Mauro Biglino and his work - the journalist writes - is profoundly healthy, stimulating and inevitably destabilizing: it forces us to reconsider the solidity of the awareness that nourishes many of our common beliefs. And it is a testament to the courage that is needed, today more than ever, to claim the full dignity of free research.

Most people have heard of Jesus Christ, considered the Messiah by Christians, and who lived 2000 years ago. But very few have ever heard of Sabbatai Zevi, who declared himself the Messiah in 1666. By proclaiming redemption was available through acts of sin, he amassed a following of over one million passionate believers, about half the world's Jewish population during the 17th century.Although many Rabbis at the time considered him a heretic, his fame extended far and wide. Sabbatai's adherents planned to abolish many ritualistic observances, because, according to the Talmud, holy obligations would no longer apply in the Messianic time. Fasting days became days of feasting and rejoicing. Sabbateans encouraged and practiced sexual promiscuity, adultery, incest and religious orgies.After Sabbati Zevi's death in 1676, his Kabbalist successor, Jacob Frank, expanded upon and continued his occult philosophy. Frankism, a religious movement of the 18th and 19th centuries, centered on his leadership, and his claim to be the reincarnation of the Messiah Sabbatai Zevi. He, like Zevi, would perform "strange acts" that violated traditional religious taboos, such as eating fats forbidden by Jewish dietary laws, ritual sacrifice, and promoting orgies and sexual immorality. He often slept with his followers, as well as his own daughter, while preaching a doctrine that the best way to imitate God was to cross every boundary, transgress every taboo, and mix the sacred with the profane. Hebrew University of Jerusalem Professor Gershom Scholem called Jacob Frank, "one of the most frightening phenomena in the whole of Jewish history".Jacob Frank would eventually enter into an alliance formed by Adam Weishaupt and Meyer Amshel Rothschild called the Order of the Illuminati. The objectives of this organization was to undermine the world's religions and power structures, in an effort to usher in a utopian era of global communism, which they would covertly rule by their hidden hand: the New World Order. Using secret societies, such as the Freemasons, their agenda has played itself out over the centuries, staying true to the script. The Illuminati handle opposition by a near total control of the world's media, academic opinion leaders, politicians and financiers. Still considered nothing more than theory to many, more and more people wake up each day to the possibility that this is not just a theory, but a terrifying Satanic conspiracy.

This is the first English translation of this revolutionary essay by Vladimir I. Vernadsky, the great Russian-Ukrainian biogeochemist. It was first published in 1930 in French in the Revue générale des sciences pures et appliquées. In it, Vernadsky makes a powerful and provocative argument for the need to develop what he calls “a new physics,” something he felt was clearly necessitated by the implications of the groundbreaking work of Louis Pasteur among few others, but also something that was required to free science from the long-lasting effects of the work of Isaac Newton, most notably.
For hundreds of years, science had developed in a direction which became increasingly detached from the breakthroughs made in the study of life and the natural sciences, detached even from human life itself, and committed reductionists and small-minded scientists were resolved to the fact that ultimately all would be reduced to “the old physics.” The scientific revolution of Einstein was a step in the right direction, but here Vernadsky insists that there is more progress to be made. He makes a bold call for a new physics, taking into account, and fundamentally based upon, the striking anomalies of life and human life.

Using an inspired combination of geometric logic and metaphors from familiar human experience, Bucky invites readers to join him on a trip through a four-dimensional Universe, where concepts as diverse as entropy, Einstein's relativity equations, and the meaning of existence become clear, understandable, and immediately involving. In his own words: "Dare to be naive... It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries." Here are three key examples or concepts from "Synergetics":

Tensegrity

Tensegrity, or tensional integrity, refers to structural systems that use a combination of tension and compression components. The simplest example of this is the "tensegrity triangle", where three struts are held in position not by touching one another but by tensioned wires. These systems are stable and flexible. Tensegrity structures are pervasive in natural systems, from the cellular level up to larger biological and even cosmological scales.

Vector Equilibrium (VE)

The Vector Equilibrium, often referred to by Fuller as the "VE", is a geometric form that he saw as the central form in his synergetic geometry. It’s essentially a cuboctahedron. Fuller noted that the VE is the only geometric form wherein all the vectors (lines from the center to the vertices) are of equal length and angular relationship. Because of this, it’s seen as a condition of absolute equilibrium, where the forces of push and pull are balanced.

Closest Packing of Spheres

Fuller was fascinated by how spheres could be packed together in the tightest possible configuration, a concept he often linked to how nature organizes systems. For example, when you stack oranges in a grocery store, they form a hexagonal pattern, and the spheres (oranges) are in closest-packed arrangement. Fuller related this principle to atomic structures and even cosmic organization.

To prepare Americans and freedom loving people everywhere for our current global wartime reality that few understand, here comes The Citizen's Guide to Fifth Generation Warfare (CG5GW) by Lieutenant General, U.S. Army (Retired) Michael T. Flynn and Sergeant, U.S. Army (Retired) Boone Cutler. General Flynn rose to the highest levels of the intelligence community and served as the National Security Advisor to the 45th POTUS. Sergeant Boone Cutler ran the ground game as a wartime Psychological Operations team sergeant in the United States Army. Together, these two combat veterans put their combined experience and expertise into an illuminating fifth-generation warfare information series called The Citizen's Guide to Fifth Generation Warfare. Introduction to 5GW is the first session of the multipart series. The series, complete with easy-to-understand diagrams, is written for all of humanity in every freedom loving country.

Vladimir I. Vernadsky (1863-1945) was a Russian and Ukrainian mineralogist and geochemist who is best known for his work on the biosphere and the noosphere concepts. His ideas have profoundly influenced various scientific fields, from geology to biology and even philosophy. Here's the summary of his one of his concepts:

Biosphere :

  • Vernadsky defined the biosphere as the thin layer of Earth where life exists, encompassing all living organisms and the parts of the Earth where they interact. This includes the depths of the oceans to the upper layers of the atmosphere.
  • He posited that life plays a critical role in transforming the Earth's environment. In this view, living organisms are not just passive inhabitants of the planet, but active agents of change. This idea contrasts with more traditional views that saw life as simply adapting to pre-existing environmental conditions.
  • One example of this transformative power is the oxygen-rich atmosphere, which was created by photosynthesizing organisms over billions of years.

It's worth noting that Vernadsky's ideas were formulated in a period when the world was experiencing rapid technological changes and were before the advent of concerns about global challenges like climate change. Today, his ideas can be seen in a new light, as we recognize the significant impact human activity has on the planet, from the changing climate to the alteration of biogeochemical cycles. Overall, Vernadsky's thesis about the biosphere and the noosphere offers a holistic perspective on the evolution of the Earth and humanity's role in that evolution. It emphasizes the profound interconnectedness between life, the environment, and human cognition and culture.

Vladimir I. Vernadsky (1863-1945) was a Russian and Ukrainian mineralogist and geochemist who is best known for his work on the biosphere and the noosphere concepts. His ideas have profoundly influenced various scientific fields, from geology to biology and even philosophy. Here's the summary of his one of his concepts:

Noosphere :

  • The concept of the noosphere can be seen as the next evolutionary stage following the biosphere. While the biosphere represents the realm of life, the noosphere represents the realm of human thought.
  • Vernadsky believed that, just as life transformed the Earth through the biosphere, human thought and collective intelligence would transform the planet in the era of the noosphere. This transformation would be characterized by the dominance of cultural evolution over biological evolution.
  • In this paradigm, human knowledge, technology, and cultural developments would become the primary drivers of change on the planet, influencing its future direction.
  • The term "noosphere" is derived from the Greek word “nous” meaning "mind" or "intellect" and "sphaira" meaning "sphere." So, the noosphere can be thought of as the "sphere of human thought."

It's worth noting that Vernadsky's ideas were formulated in a period when the world was experiencing rapid technological changes and were before the advent of concerns about global challenges like climate change. Today, his ideas can be seen in a new light, as we recognize the significant impact human activity has on the planet, from the changing climate to the alteration of biogeochemical cycles. Overall, Vernadsky's thesis about the biosphere and the noosphere offers a holistic perspective on the evolution of the Earth and humanity's role in that evolution. It emphasizes the profound interconnectedness between life, the environment, and human cognition and culture.

A close analysis of the architecture of the stupa―a Buddhist symbolic form that is found throughout South, Southeast, and East Asia. The author, who trained as an architect, examines both the physical and metaphysical levels of these buildings, which derive their meaning and significance from Buddhist and Brahmanist influences.

Building on his extensive research into the sacred symbols and creation myths of the Dogon of Africa and those of ancient Egypt, India, and Tibet, Laird Scranton investigates the myths, symbols, and traditions of prehistoric China, providing further evidence that the cosmology of all ancient cultures arose from a single now-lost source.

It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages―Teutonic, Romance, Greek―helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. It presents by common-sense methods the most helpful approach to the mastery of many languages; it condenses vocabulary to a minimum of essential words; it simplifies grammar in an entirely new way; and it teaches a languages as it is actually used in everyday life.
But this book is more than a guide to foreign languages; it goes deep into the roots of all knowledge as it explores the history of speech. It lights up the dim pathways of prehistory and unfolds the story of the slow growth of human expression from the most primitive signs and sounds to the elaborate variations of the highest cultures. Without language no knowledge would be possible; here we see how language is at once the source and the reservoir of all we know.

Taking only the most elementary knowledge for granted, Lancelot Hogben leads readers of this famous book through the whole course from simple arithmetic to calculus. His illuminating explanation is addressed to the person who wants to understand the place of mathematics in modern civilization but who has been intimidated by its supposed difficulty. Mathematics is the language of size, shape, and order―a language Hogben shows one can both master and enjoy.

A complete manual for the study and practice of Raja Yoga, the path of concentration and meditation. These timeless teachings is a treasure to be read and referred to again and again by seekers treading the spiritual path. The classic Sutras, at least 4,000 years old, cover the yogic teachings on ethics, meditation, and physical postures, and provide directions for dealing with situations in daily life. The Sutras are presented here in the purest form, with the original Sanskrit and with translation, transliteration, and commentary by Sri Swami Satchidananda, one of the most respected and revered contemporary Yoga masters. Sri Swamiji offers practical advice based on his own experience for mastering the mind and achieving physical, mental and emotional harmony.

William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world - and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about how America’s past will predict its future.

Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back 500 years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four eras - or "turnings" - that last about 20 years and that always arrive in the same order. In The Fourth Turning, the authors illustrate these cycles using a brilliant analysis of the post-World War II period.

First comes a High, a period of confident expansion as a new order takes root after the old has been swept away. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion against the now-established order. Then comes an Unraveling, an increasingly troubled era in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis - the Fourth Turning - when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. Together, the four turnings comprise history's seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth.

4th Turning

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All original edition. Nothing added, nothing removed. This book traces the history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten power in Eastern Europe, which in the Dark Ages became converted to Judaism. Khazaria was finally wiped out by the forces of Genghis Khan, but evidence indicates that the Khazars themselves migrated to Poland and formed the cradle of Western Jewry. To the general reader the Khazars, who flourished from the 7th to 11th century, may seem infinitely remote today. Yet they have a close and unexpected bearing on our world, which emerges as Koestler recounts the fascinating history of the ancient Khazar Empire.

At about the time that Charlemagne was Emperor in the West. The Khazars' sway extended from the Black Sea to the Caspian, from the Caucasus to the Volga, and they were instrumental in stopping the Muslim onslaught against Byzantium, the eastern jaw of the gigantic pincer movement that in the West swept across northern Africa and into Spain.Thereafter the Khazars found themselves in a precarious position between the two major world powers: the Eastern Roman Empire in Byzantium and the triumphant followers of Mohammed.As Koestler points out, the Khazars were the Third World of their day. They chose a surprising method of resisting both the Western pressure to become Christian and the Eastern to adopt Islam. Rejecting both, they converted to Judaism. Mr. Koestler speculates about the ultimate faith of the Khazars and their impact on the racial composition and social heritage of modern Jewry.

Few people noticed the secret codewords used by our astronauts to describe the moon. Until now, few knew about the strange moving lights they reported.
George H. Leonard, former NASA scientist, fought through the official veil of secrecy and studied thousands of NASA photographs, spoke candidly with dozens of NASA officials, and listened to hours and hours of astronauts' tapes.
Here, Leonard presents the stunning and inescapable evidence discovered during his in-depth investigation:

  • Immense mechanical rigs, some over a mile long, working the lunar surface.
  • Strange geometric ground markings and symbols.
  • Lunar constructions several times higher than anything built on Earth.
  • Vehicles, tracks, towers, pipes, conduits, and conveyor belts running in and across moon craters.
Somebody else is indeed on the Moon, and engaged in activities on a massive scale. Our space agencies, and many of the world's top scientists, have known for years that there is intelligent life on the moon.

The article delves into the history of the Khazars, a polity in the Northern Caucasus that existed from the mid-seventh century until about 970 CE. Contrary to popular belief, the term "Khazars" is misleading as it was a multiethnic entity, and it's uncertain which specific group adopted Judaism. The Khazars first emerged in the seventh century, defeating the Bulgars, which led to the Bulgars' dispersion to various regions. The Khazar Empire was established through the expulsion of the Bulgars and was multiethnic in nature. The language spoken by the Khazars is debated, with some suggesting Turkic origins and others pointing to Slavic. The Khazars had several cities and fortresses, with significant archaeological findings. The Khazars had interactions with various empires, including wars with the Arabs and alliances with Byzantine emperors. By the mid-10th century, the Khazar capital of Itil was destroyed by the Russians. The article concludes that much of what is known about the Khazars is based on limited sources.

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In The Science of the Dogon, Laird Scranton demonstrated that the cosmological structure described in the myths and drawings of the Dogon runs parallel to modern science--atomic theory, quantum theory, and string theory--their drawings often taking the same form as accurate scientific diagrams that relate to the formation of matter.

Sacred Symbols of the Dogon uses these parallels as the starting point for a new interpretation of the Egyptian hieroglyphic language. By substituting Dogon cosmological drawings for equivalent glyph-shapes in Egyptian words, a new way of reading and interpreting the Egyptian hieroglyphs emerges. Scranton shows how each hieroglyph constitutes an entire concept, and that their meanings are scientific in nature.

The Dogon people of Mali, West Africa, are famous for their unique art and advanced cosmology. The Dogon’s creation story describes how the one true god, Amma, created all the matter of the universe. Interestingly, the myths that depict his creative efforts bear a striking resemblance to the modern scientific definitions of matter, beginning with the atom and continuing all the way to the vibrating threads of string theory. Furthermore, many of the Dogon words, symbols, and rituals used to describe the structure of matter are quite similar to those found in the myths of ancient Egypt and in the daily rituals of Judaism. For example, the modern scientific depiction of the informed universe as a black hole is identical to Amma’s Egg of the Dogon and the Egyptian Benben Stone.

The Science of the Dogon offers a case-by-case comparison of Dogon descriptions and drawings to corresponding scientific definitions and diagrams from authors like Stephen Hawking and Brian Greene, then extends this analysis to the counterparts of these symbols in both the ancient Egyptian and Hebrew religions. What is ultimately revealed is the scientific basis for the language of the Egyptian hieroglyphs, which was deliberately encoded to prevent the knowledge of these concepts from falling into the hands of all but the highest members of the Egyptian priesthood.

Anthony C. Yu’s translation of The Journey to the West,initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, The Journey to the West tells the story of the fourteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Xuanzang, one of China’s most famous religious heroes, and his three supernatural disciples, in search of Buddhist scriptures. Throughout his journey, Xuanzang fights demons who wish to eat him, communes with spirits, and traverses a land riddled with a multitude of obstacles, both real and fantastical. An adventure rich with danger and excitement, this seminal work of the Chinese literary canonis by turns allegory, satire, and fantasy.

With over a hundred chapters written in both prose and poetry, The Journey to the West has always been a complicated and difficult text to render in English while preserving the lyricism of its language and the content of its plot. But Yu has successfully taken on the task, and in this new edition he has made his translations even more accurate and accessible. The explanatory notes are updated and augmented, and Yu has added new material to his introduction, based on his original research as well as on the newest literary criticism and scholarship on Chinese religious traditions. He has also modernized the transliterations included in each volume, using the now-standard Hanyu Pinyin romanization system. Perhaps most important, Yu has made changes to the translation itself in order to make it as precise as possible.

One of the great works of Chinese literature, The Journey to the West is not only invaluable to scholars of Eastern religion and literature, but, in Yu’s elegant rendering, also a delight for any reader.

The Oera Linda Book is a 19th-century translation by Dr. Ottema and WIlliam R. Sandbach of an old manuscript written in the Old Frisian language that records historical, mythological, and religious themes of remote antiquity, compiled between 2194 BC and AD 803.

  • The Oera Linda book challenges traditional views of pre-Christian societies.
  • Christianization is likened to a "great reset" that erased previous civilizations.
  • The Fryan language provides insights into the beliefs and values of the Fryan people.
  • The cyclical nature of time is emphasized, suggesting patterns in history.
  • The importance of identity and understanding one's roots is highlighted.
  • The Oera Linda book offers wisdom and insights into several European languages.

The Oera Linda book offers a fresh perspective on our history, challenging the notion that pre-Christian societies were uncivilized. It suggests that the Christianization of societies was a form of "great reset," erasing and demonizing what existed before. The Oera Linda writings hint at an advanced civilization with its own laws, writing, and societal structures. Jan Ott's translation from the Fryan language provides insights into the beliefs and values of the Fryan people. The text also touches upon the guilt many feel today, even if they aren't religious, about issues like climate change and historical slavery. It criticizes the way science is sometimes treated like a religion, with scientists acting as its preachers. The cyclical nature of time is emphasized, suggesting that understanding history requires recognizing patterns and cycles. Christianity is portrayed as one of the most significant resets in history, with sects fighting and erasing each other's scriptures. The importance of identity is highlighted, with a focus on the Fryans, a tribe that faced challenges from another tribe from Finland. This other tribe had a different moral compass, leading to conflicts and eventual assimilation. The text suggests that the true history of the Fryans and their values might have been distorted by subsequent Christian narratives. The Oera Linda book is seen as a source of wisdom, shedding light on the origins of several European languages and offering insights into values like freedom, truth, and justice.

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The Talmud is one of the most important holy books of the Hebrew religion and of the world. No English translation of the book existed until the author presented this work. To this day, very little of the actual text seems available in English -- although we find many interpretive commentaries on what it is supposed to mean. The Talmud has a reputation for being long and difficult to digest, but Polano has taken what he believes to be the best material and put it into extremely readable form. As far as holy books of the world are concerned, it is on par with The Koran, The Bhagavad-Gita and, of course, The Bible, in importance. This clearly written edition will allow many to experience The Talmud who may have otherwise not had the chance.

This five-volume set is the only complete English rendering of The Zohar, the fundamental rabbinic work on Jewish mysticism that has fascinated readers for more than seven centuries. In addition to being the primary reference text for kabbalistic studies, this magnificent work is arranged in the form of a commentary on the Bible, bringing to the surface the deeper meanings behind the commandments and biblical narrative. As The Zohar itself proclaims: Woe unto those who see in the Law nothing but simple narratives and ordinary words .... Every word of the Law contains an elevated sense and a sublime mystery .... The narratives of the Law are but the raiment Thin which it is swathed.

Twenty-one years ago, at a friend's request, a Massachusetts professor sketched out a blueprint for nonviolent resistance to repressive regimes. It would go on to be translated, photocopied, and handed from one activist to another, traveling from country to country across the globe: from Iran to Venezuela―where both countries consider Gene Sharp to be an enemy of the state―to Serbia; Afghanistan; Vietnam; the former Soviet Union; China; Nepal; and, more recently and notably, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and Syria, where it has served as a guiding light of the Arab Spring.

This short, pithy, inspiring, and extraordinarily clear guide to overthrowing a dictatorship by nonviolent means lists 198 specific methods to consider, depending on the circumstances: sit-ins, popular nonobedience, selective strikes, withdrawal of bank deposits, revenue refusal, walkouts, silence, and hunger strikes. From Dictatorship to Democracy is the remarkable work that has made the little-known Sharp into the world's most effective and sought-after analyst of resistance to authoritarian regimes.

Bill Cooper, former United States Naval Intelligence Briefing Team member, reveals information that remains hidden from the public eye. This information has been kept in topsecret government files since the 1940s. His audiences hear the truth unfold as he writes about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the war on drugs, the secret government, and UFOs. Bill is a lucid, rational, and powerful speaker whose intent is to inform and to empower his audience. Standing room only is normal. His presentation and information transcend partisan affiliations as he clearly addresses issues in a way that has a striking impact on listeners of all backgrounds and interests. He has spoken to many groups throughout the United States and has appeared regularly on many radio talk shows and on television. In 1988 Bill decided to "talk" due to events then taking place worldwide, events that he had seen plans for back in the early 1970s. Bill correctly predicted the lowering of the Iron Curtain, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the invasion of Panama. All Bill's predictions were on record well before the events occurred. Bill is not a psychic. His information comes from top secret documents that he read while with the Intelligence Briefing Team and from over seventeen years of research.

The argument that the 16th Amendment (which concerns the federal income tax) was not properly ratified and thus is invalid has been a topic of debate among some tax protesters and scholars. One of the individuals associated with this theory is Bill Benson, who asserted that the 16th Amendment was fraudulently ratified. Here's a brief overview of the argument: 1. Research and Documentation: Bill Benson, along with another individual named M.J. "Red" Beckman, wrote a two-volume work called "The Law That Never Was" in the 1980s. This work was a product of Benson's extensive travels to various state archives to examine the original ratification documents related to the 16th Amendment. 2. Claims of Irregularities: In his work, Benson presented evidence that claimed many of the states either did not ratify the 16th Amendment properly or made mistakes in their resolutions. Some of these alleged irregularities included misspellings, incorrect wording, and other deviations from the proposed amendment. 3. Philander Knox's Role: In 1913, Philander Knox, who was the U.S. Secretary of State at the time, declared that the 16th Amendment had been ratified by the necessary three-fourths of the states. Benson's contention is that Knox was aware of the various discrepancies and irregularities in the ratification process but chose to fraudulently declare the amendment ratified anyway. 4. Legal Challenges and Court Rulings: Over the years, some tax protesters have used Benson's findings to challenge the legality of the income tax. However, these challenges have been consistently rejected by the courts. In fact, several courts have addressed Benson's research and arguments directly and found them to be without legal merit. The courts have repeatedly upheld the validity of the 16th Amendment. 5. Counterarguments: Critics of Benson's theory argue that even if there were minor discrepancies in the wording or format of the ratification documents, they do not invalidate the overarching intent of the states to ratify the amendment. Additionally, they assert that there's no substantive evidence that Knox acted fraudulently. It's worth noting that despite the popularity of this theory among certain groups, the legal consensus in the U.S. is that the 16th Amendment was validly ratified and is a legitimate part of the U.S. Constitution. Those who refuse to pay income taxes based on this theory have faced legal penalties.

The article delves into the evolution of the concept of the ether in physics. Historically, the ether was postulated to explain the propagation of light, with figures like Newton and Huygens suggesting its existence. By the late 19th century, Maxwell's electromagnetic theory linked light's propagation to the ether, a theory experimentally validated by Hertz in 1888. Lorentz expanded on this, focusing on wave transmission in moving media. The article contrasts the English approach, which sought tangible models, with the phenomenological view, which aimed for a descriptive approach without specific hypotheses. The piece also touches on various mechanical theories and models proposed over the years, emphasizing the challenges in defining the ether's properties and its evolving nature in scientific discourse.

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Mind Tools – 05-16-2023

Mind Tools - 05-16-2023

Mind Tools - 05-16-2023

Summary:

The text discusses meditation and its definition. It emphasizes that meditation is a tool used to understand oneself and overcome personal limitations. The concept of Samkia, a Hindu science, is mentioned, which states that meditation helps separate one's essence from external attributes and reveals it to oneself. Different forms of meditation are described, with a focus on viposana and zazen. The technique of "chewing your food" is explained, which symbolizes allowing thoughts to arise without attachment or reaction. The text highlights the importance of redirecting the mind's reactions, particularly in relation to self-criticism and comparing oneself to others. It suggests that modern media intensifies these thoughts and encourages individuals to regain control over their minds.

The text discusses a meditation technique called Vipassana, which involves observing and acknowledging one's thoughts and emotions without getting attached to their content. The author suggests that by recognizing and accepting criticism or any other thoughts that arise, one can disengage from their intended impact on the mind. The focus is on viewing these thoughts as forms of awareness rather than getting involved in their content. The text highlights the difference between Vipassana and Zen meditation, where in Zen, thoughts are flicked away, while in Vipassana, one is encouraged to chew on the thoughts and explore their origins and effects on emotions. The process aims to provide self-curing, aid in emotional understanding, and help individuals remain aware and in control of their own reactions. The text also mentions the practical benefits of meditation in terms of calming the mind, self-control, and resisting external influences. It emphasizes non-attachment to thoughts and encourages examining their roots and consequences. The author suggests that Vipassana is particularly favored by women and can be practiced in everyday activities. Overall, the text presents meditation as a tool for self-exploration and personal growth.

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Hello humans. Hello humans. It's May 16, nine something, maybe it's 920, something like that. In the morning, out taking a break from cleaning in the greenhouse.

Things are getting done, it's progressing. That just means I find other chores when this is done. Anyway, this is about mind tools.

So we have people that will say, well, I go and I meditate 5 hours a day, or they don't really say that. The one guy I'm thinking about says, well, he works on himself 5 hours a day and he's like maybe he's in his fifty s. And so he's talking about doing his stretches and keeping his body up and all of that. But he does do meditation. You'll also see people that say that they do meditation every day and so on.

Now the issue is the definition, okay? So what is meditation? And I'm not going to go into all of the different categories and all of that kind of crap. Meditation is not the range of thought that extends from musing over to enlightenment, right? Meditation is a tool that is used at the very end of that process, so it's not contemplation.

There are some techniques, some heuristics that have been developed over the years by people that have done this, that have systematized and codified it. And you can find these there's names for various schools and so on, but it all comes back to the Hindu science of Sam kia.

And that itself comes down to there is the consciousness and then there is everything that is manifest, okay? And at a very core level, all meditation develops from that thought that there is consciousness and then stuff that is not consciousness that is manifest. And so in our very complex world, we need tools to deal with the world and with ourselves. And the idea here in Samkia is that if you look at those things that are manifest and think about them in a particular way, and do this in a particular way, you will come to understand yourself. Okay?

And that's the whole point of meditation, is to achieve yourself and overcome yourself. And we're not talking ego or any of that, right? It's your essence. It's beyond ego, beyond all of the aspects, attributes and attributes and affectations of the personality, the total essence. And so the idea is that you can separate your essence and you can reveal it to yourself.

And that that's part of the process of universe is revealing to yourself your essence. And universe wants this to occur. So it provides to you daily bazillions of opportunities for you to explore this under whatever form you want. And there's all different kinds of forms, right? So there's people that are at a level of spirituality where they reveal stuff to themselves in their dreams about themselves, not about the external world, but about themselves.

And so they get some level of enlightenment by the dreaming and it's a process for them and some of them are codified and some of them not. The various different kinds of approaches to this meditation is this narrow part of the category at the very end near enlightenment. And it itself is subdivided into all these various different kinds of meditation. They all share the same route of examining yourself relative to that that is manifest, that may be apprehended, which may be overcome, and thus universe reveals yourself to yourself. And at a practical level, here's how that shit works, okay?

There's all different kinds of schools of meditation. The ones I'm most familiar with, the ones I'm most practiced in, are called viposana and zazen. Vipazana is also known as the householders meditation, and it is the subject of today's discussion, although it shares, as do all meditation forms, necessarily key core techniques with them, okay? So Vipazana originates in the Southeast Asia. It's from what's known as the small raft school of Buddhism, booty.

The Hindu word booty means enlightenment, right? It means wisdom, intelligence. So the viposana is the householder's meditation. And from the scene, from the outside, you don't know that the guy is meditating or the woman. They're sitting there sweeping their floor, they're washing the dishes, doing clothes, all of them.

The supposedly mundane chores of the householder. And see, this is why this is particularly a pertinent form of meditation for today's life. And I think it's very pertinent, especially for young women, because they've been tortured, in my opinion, by the mental conditioning and programming that has been put on them by society. But here's the technique, okay? In viposana as well as Zen, the idea is there's a saying that is common to both of them, all right?

And it's chew your food. And in Zen, they say, make sure to swallow when you chew your food, okay? Now, chewing your food is an allusion to the concept that stuff's going to arise in your mind. And while the goal of meditation is this void state where thought does not bring attachment, and eventually thought falls away and you reveal yourself to yourself, you have to go through that process of the thoughts arising, and they arise continuously as they are arising. Now, as you're listening to me, as they were arising before you started listening to this, and as they will arise after you cease listening to this.

But hopefully there will be a difference when you cease listening to this and you go on. Because here's the concept for both Zen and vipazana, and that is that a thought arises and you that's it. The thought arises, okay? And so you chew your food if you're a householder, and the idea is that the thought arises. Maybe it's about a criticism.

So this is especially pertinent for young women who are the focus of criticism about themselves at a continuous level, that while it also affects young males, it's slightly different in its intensity and impact, okay? But the thought arises. You need not own that thought. You need not involve yourself in that thought. You need not react to that thought, but you will, all right?

And that's the key, is that you will. Your mind will, especially in these early days of this process, will react to these thoughts. It will interact. And that's what you want, because what you want to do is to become transformative of your mind. You want to control your mind, but you don't want to control it with brutality or any of that.

You want to redirect it. So you will find, everyone finds this, that there is a criticism that arises in their own mind about themselves, maybe. And usually it's not like body criticism, but frequently that's the case with young people. Frequently that's the case with young women. Well, they see someone else, and then the thought arises, oh, geez, her butt looks better, or her hips are slimmer, or something like that.

So it's a comparison issue, right? So you're comparing yourself with an external reality. You think you're comparing yourself with that other woman over there. And this comparison is actually evil in a sense, wicked in a sense. Not evil, but it's wicked because of the you can't resist it because it is inbuilt to you as part of the sexual dynamics of our species.

And so your mind naturally wants to compare you. That because you want to compete for the best male, et cetera, et cetera, right, to make the best children, et cetera, right? And so this is an inbuilt part of humanity, but that's inbuilt into the animalistic, into the body part of humanity, and it need not occupy your mind and drive you crazy with the mind control that our modern media has placed on those kind of thoughts, elevating them to the point where they consume you 24 hours a day. Because you're constantly comparing yourself not only with the women in your circle, right, but also because that circle is now global. Look how many women you're comparing yourself with.

Billions. Whereas if you were a tribal person, there's 150 people in a tribe, and so it adjusts. And so everybody has a relative value relative to everybody else within that 150 people.

It's not quite so stressful, right? And so the thought arises, oh, her hips are better looking, or whatever it is, right, whatever is. And then that's when you have to stop and you say, Ah, it happened, it happened. A criticism came into my mind. This is what I was waiting for, right?

And then here's what you do. You acknowledge that criticism. It's there. I can see it now instantly. That takes the sting out of that criticism, right?

Because you're not dealing with the intended impact of that on your psyche. You are dealing with it as the message, not the content. So you're dealing with it as the form, not the content. And so you say to yourself, Ah, that part of my mind. That is an observer has observed something and it is now bringing that observation forward.

Now, our modern society has twisted that and taken that observation and put it into the critical part of your mind. But as soon as you recognize that it is merely a part of your mind that has observed something and is bringing that observation to your awareness, that's as far as you need go with it. Now, this is where it gets tricky and it gets into all kinds of complications. But fundamentally, that is it, right? You get this awareness that you get the criticism.

And then the idea is that you want to capture that criticism or that thought that whatever it is that has grabbed your attention you want to capture that as something that has grabbed your attention and recognize that it is an awareness factor that has arisen and that you're not involved in the content. You're now involved in the form. That is, the form is an awareness flag that has been thrown an awareness notification. Right? Now, you don't care at this stage in the meditation process what the content of that awareness notification is.

You can involve yourself if you want, and that's where it says chew your food. So the Viposana meditation is different from Zen. Here's where it departs, okay?

In Zen, as a thought arises, you flick it away. You acknowledge that there's a thought, criticism, whatever it is, pain in your back, the ankles are killing you, it's too hot, your ghee is scratching you in the back, you're sweating. Whatever that thought is, whatever that awareness is, you have a mental process where you flick it away with your finger and you just sit and wait for the next one to arise sooner or later. Just like in the Dune book, where it was constantly this internal monologue with the main character working through his own psychological issues, and it was always aimed towards the end result is that as the reality expresses itself, it shows me, me, and only I remain after that process, right? The awareness points out me, to me.

Who is being aware? Who is it that is aware of this? Right? What is it that is aware of this? And then you can get into the details that's the chewing of the food.

So in the Viposana thing, so you get the criticism that other woman's hips are better looking, or whatever it is, like I say, right, whatever it is that awareness that triggers in you. And then you can chew on that and you can say, AHA, I'm now aware of this. And then you can say, how did that affect me? So again, you don't go into it, you don't attach to it. You don't care about the content.

That's not the point at all. The point is that you've discovered this game with Universe, this tool with Universe, where universe is bringing stuff to your attention, and you can harmonize with that and you can say to universe, AHA, thank you, I understand now. Now, how do I feel about this? And why do I feel about this that way? This is the whole point of the meditative process, right?

This is a self curing process. It AIDS you, it cures your mind. It allows you to thwart mind control constantly, because you're always constantly aware of your own reaction. Now, bear in mind all of these reactions most frequently denied in males and embraced in females in this process. This is why women love viposana.

Meditation is that it is all emotion, right? You deal with those emotions in a way that you cannot get at any other fashion, in my opinion. Okay? Now maybe I'm wrong, but you just can't get to these emotions any other way than through these meditative processes. And viposana is really good this way because you chew on it.

You're allowed to chew on it. You're not encouraged to attach to the flavor. You're not encouraged to do anything but chew it until it's finally dissolved and then swallow and say, good, I'm done with that. Now, I understand in this moment how those awareness factors affected my emotions and how those emotions, had I been trapped in them, would have led me to not like that person because her hips were better or whatever the fuck it is, right? So you see, that the process itself of recognizing the emotion, feeling the emotion, feeling where it leads, seeing where universe wanted it pointed, but not looking at the content, not looking at the finger, but looking at where the finger points, okay?

So the critical finger that is this warping, this malformation of your observing mind. Now, if you do this for a long time, you can get enlightenment. There's many householders that are fantastically enlightened all through Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, all the hellen gone through there, right? And you just don't hear about them, because householder, meditation, you don't go out and form groups, monasteries and that kind of stuff. Usually it's a personal kind of a thing, and it's very effective, and it keeps you sane during all these processes.

Like I say, it AIDS you in knowing when people are trying to fuck with you because you know your own emotions. You're not a victim of your emotion.

You're not subsumed by the wave of your emotions. You're swimming in it, and you're aware you're swimming and you're aware of the emotions and where they're taking you. And so no one can misdirect you under those circumstances. And so it has this very practical benefit at that level, but it also has a practical benefit of helping you long term calm your mind, control yourself, and beat back the constant mind control that comes from our current social order. And all you do is chew on that thought, right?

But you don't get involved in the attachment to the thought. You don't get involved in the attachment to the criticism of your own hips. You just note that. Oh, look, Universe wanted me to note that that woman that I think that woman's hips look better than mine is the thought that is being presented to me. Now, why did that arise?

And then you track that thought back and see where its roots are, see what its origin is. And so this is what's known as procriti, the emergent. This is in Sam Kia, they call it the emergent or the manifest in Zen, right? And it's the same thing in Viposana meditation. Now, in Viposana, the focus is this is why it's more favored by women, but also because you can do it while you're sweeping and all of that kind of stuff, right?

You don't have to have any kind of formality to torture yourself. You could be tortured anyway by your own thoughts. You might as well just do it as you're getting something done. So it's a very practical kind of meditation. And you'll see women that in Southeast Asia that you know, are householder meditation followers because of the way that they shop, they're doing everything perfectly the way that they would without it.

But there's just this emotional element that provides this level of calm detachment because you're not attached to the content or the consequences of the thought. You're intrigued by the thought, and you're intrigued by where the thought points, and then you go down and investigate that, and so it becomes a very practical, very happy kind of a thing. Oh, look, I get to work on this today. Oh, look what Universe brought up to me this morning. And oh, I'll chew on this all morning long, right?

And so you chew on your reality. In Zen, the idea is you want to munch, munch, munch and swallow and get rid of it and go on to the next right? In Vipazana, it's a little bit more relaxed in the sense that there's a little bit more of an encouragement to really chew on it and get all of the stuff that you can out of it before swallowing. And again, the idea is in nonattachment, okay? You don't care about what the thought is.

And yes, you will have an emotion. You'll get these critical thoughts that you're not good enough or whatever the hell, right? And maybe some of them will come in with a school teacher's voice or a parent's voice or a grandparents voice, some authority figures voice, that you will hear these thoughts that will make you feel bad, and this process can cure that, because you will examine that and you will say to yourself, ah, hey, there's that voice again. Now, whose voice is that? And you'll chew on that for a while.

Or there's that thought. Now, why does that thought make me feel this way? And you'll chew on that for a while, and then you get back to the root of it. All of a sudden, your eyes will open up and you'll say, Ah, that's why. And then you'll forget about it and go on.

And that's Viposana. That's Sam Kia. That's Zen, right? In Zen, you simply sit down and dedicate yourself to this process. You're not up sweeping the floors and stuff, but to be fair, almost every Zen practitioner I know is constantly meditating, even without the formality of the dojo in the setting.

It's just something that you do. And so now I'm going to put this down. I'm going to try and get these in little bursts and not go rattle on for several hours, basically limiting them to a single cup of coffee, and then get back to my own work, my own householder chores, and my own meditations. You can get a lot of stuff done and you work on yourself at the same time. So anyway, this was just a mind tool for you.

There's a lot of these there's a lot of techniques that you can use in meditation. Maybe I'll see if I can do a whole series of these kind of things. Anyway, guys, don't forget to swallow.


The number-one best-selling pioneer of "fratire" and a leading evolutionary psychologist team up to create the dating book for guys. Whether they conducted their research in life or in the lab, experts Tucker Max and Dr. Geoffrey Miller have spent the last 20-plus years learning what women really want from their men, why they want it, and how men can deliver those qualities. The short answer: Become the best version of yourself possible, then show it off. It sounds simple, but it's not. If it were, Tinder would just be the stuff you use to start a fire. Becoming your best self requires honesty, self-awareness, hard work, and a little help. Through their website and podcasts, Max and Miller have already helped over one million guys take their first steps toward Miss Right. They have collected all of their findings in Mate, an evidence-driven, seriously funny playbook that will teach you to become a more sexually attractive and romantically successful man, the right way: No "seduction techniques" No moralizing No bullshit Just honest, straightforward talk about the most ethical, effective way to pursue the win-win relationships you want with the women who are best for you. Much of what they've discovered will surprise you, some of it will not, but all of it is important and often misunderstood. So listen up, and stop being stupid!

Words of affirmation, quality time, gifts, acts of service, physical touching - learning these love languages will get your marriage off to a great start or enhance a long-standing one! Chapman explains the purpose of each "language" and shows you how to identify the one that's meaningful to your spouse now. Updated to reflect the complexities of relationships in today's world, this new edition of The 5 Love Languages reveals intrinsic truths and provides action steps in each chapter that will help you on your way to a healthier relationship. Also includes an updated personal profile. With a divorce rate that hovers around 50 percent, don't let yourself become a statistic. In Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married, Gary Chapman teaches you and your future spouse how to work together as an intimate team! He shares with engaged couples practical tips he wishes he knew before he got married. Discussion centers around love, romance, conflict resolution, forgiveness, and sexual fulfillment. Included are insightful questions, suggestions, and exercises.

A one-page tool to reinvent yourself and your career. The global best seller Business Model Generation introduced a unique visual way to summarize and creatively brainstorm any business or product idea on a single sheet of paper. Business Model You uses the same powerful one-page tool to teach listeners how to draw "personal business models," which reveal new ways their skills can be adapted to the changing needs of the marketplace to reveal new, more satisfying, career and life possibilities. Produced by the same team that created Business Model Generation, this audiobook is based on the Business Model Canvas methodology, which has quickly emerged as the world's leading business model description and innovation technique. This book shows listeners how to: - Understand business model thinking and diagram their current personal business model - Understand the value of their skills in the marketplace and define their purpose - Articulate a vision for change - Create a new personal business model harmonized with that vision - And most important, test and implement the new model When you implement the one-page tool from Business Model You, you create a game-changing business model for your life and career.

The bible for bringing cutting-edge products to larger markets—now revised and updated with new insights into the realities of high-tech marketing In Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey A. Moore shows that in the Technology Adoption Life Cycle—which begins with innovators and moves to early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards—there is a vast chasm between the early adopters and the early majority. While early adopters are willing to sacrifice for the advantage of being first, the early majority waits until they know that the technology actually offers improvements in productivity. The challenge for innovators and marketers is to narrow this chasm and ultimately accelerate adoption across every segment. This third edition brings Moore's classic work up to date with dozens of new examples of successes and failures, new strategies for marketing in the digital world, and Moore's most current insights and findings. He also includes two new appendices, the first connecting the ideas in Crossing the Chasm to work subsequently published in his Inside the Tornado, and the second presenting his recent groundbreaking work for technology adoption models for high-tech consumer markets.

Endless terror. Refugee waves. An unfixable global economy. Surprising election results. New billion-dollar fortunes. Miracle medical advances. What if they were all connected? What if you could understand why? The Seventh Sense is the story of what all of today's successful figures see and feel: the forces that are invisible to most of us but explain everything from explosive technological change to uneasy political ripples. The secret to power now is understanding our new age of networks. Not merely the Internet, but also webs of trade, finance, and even DNA. Based on his years of advising generals, CEOs, and politicians, Ramo takes us into the opaque heart of our world's rapidly connected systems and teaches us what the losers are not yet seeing -- and what the victors of this age already know.

This lushly illustrated history of popular entertainment takes a long-zoom approach, contending that the pursuit of novelty and wonder is a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change. Steven Johnson argues that, throughout history, the cutting edge of innovation lies wherever people are working the hardest to keep themselves and others amused. Johnson’s storytelling is just as delightful as the inventions he describes, full of surprising stops along the journey from simple concepts to complex modern systems. He introduces us to the colorful innovators of leisure: the explorers, proprietors, showmen, and artists who changed the trajectory of history with their luxurious wares, exotic meals, taverns, gambling tables, and magic shows. In Wonderland, Johnson compellingly argues that observers of technological and social trends should be looking for clues in novel amusements. You’ll find the future wherever people are having the most fun.

Nothing “goes viral.” If you think a popular movie, song, or app came out of nowhere to become a word-of-mouth success in today’s crowded media environment, you’re missing the real story. Each blockbuster has a secret history—of power, influence, dark broadcasters, and passionate cults that turn some new products into cultural phenomena. Even the most brilliant ideas wither in obscurity if they fail to connect with the right network, and the consumers that matter most aren't the early adopters, but rather their friends, followers, and imitators -- the audience of your audience. In his groundbreaking investigation, Atlantic senior editor Derek Thompson uncovers the hidden psychology of why we like what we like and reveals the economics of cultural markets that invisibly shape our lives. Shattering the sentimental myths of hit-making that dominate pop culture and business, Thompson shows quality is insufficient for success, nobody has "good taste," and some of the most popular products in history were one bad break away from utter failure. It may be a new world, but there are some enduring truths to what audiences and consumers want. People love a familiar surprise: a product that is bold, yet sneakily recognizable. Every business, every artist, every person looking to promote themselves and their work wants to know what makes some works so successful while others disappear. Hit Makers is a magical mystery tour through the last century of pop culture blockbusters and the most valuable currency of the twenty-first century—people’s attention. From the dawn of impressionist art to the future of Facebook, from small Etsy designers to the origin of Star Wars, Derek Thompson leaves no pet rock unturned to tell the fascinating story of how culture happens and why things become popular. In Hit Makers, Derek Thompson investigates: · The secret link between ESPN's sticky programming and the The Weeknd's catchy choruses · Why Facebook is today’s most important newspaper · How advertising critics predicted Donald Trump · The 5th grader who accidentally launched "Rock Around the Clock," the biggest hit in rock and roll history · How Barack Obama and his speechwriters think of themselves as songwriters · How Disney conquered the world—but the future of hits belongs to savvy amateurs and individuals · The French collector who accidentally created the Impressionist canon · Quantitative evidence that the biggest music hits aren’t always the best · Why almost all Hollywood blockbusters are sequels, reboots, and adaptations · Why one year--1991--is responsible for the way pop music sounds today · Why another year --1932--created the business model of film · How data scientists proved that “going viral” is a myth · How 19th century immigration patterns explain the most heard song in the Western Hemisphere

Ours is often called an information economy, but at a moment when access to information is virtually unlimited, our attention has become the ultimate commodity. In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of efforts to harvest our attention. This condition is not simply the byproduct of recent technological innovations but the result of more than a century's growth and expansion in the industries that feed on human attention. Wu’s narrative begins in the nineteenth century, when Benjamin Day discovered he could get rich selling newspapers for a penny. Since then, every new medium—from radio to television to Internet companies such as Google and Facebook—has attained commercial viability and immense riches by turning itself into an advertising platform. Since the early days, the basic business model of “attention merchants” has never changed: free diversion in exchange for a moment of your time, sold in turn to the highest-bidding advertiser. Full of lively, unexpected storytelling and piercing insight, The Attention Merchants lays bare the true nature of a ubiquitous reality we can no longer afford to accept at face value.

Some people think that in today’s hyper-competitive world, it’s the tough, take-no-prisoners type who comes out on top. But in reality, argues New York Times bestselling author Dave Kerpen, it’s actually those with the best people skills who win the day. Those who build the right relationships. Those who truly understand and connect with their colleagues, their customers, their partners. Those who can teach, lead, and inspire. In a world where we are constantly connected, and social media has become the primary way we communicate, the key to getting ahead is being the person others like, respect, and trust. Because no matter who you are or what profession you're in, success is contingent less on what you can do for yourself, but on what other people are willing to do for you. Here, through 53 bite-sized, easy-to-execute, and often counterintuitive tips, you’ll learn to master the 11 People Skills that will get you more of what you want at work, at home, and in life. For example, you’ll learn: · The single most important question you can ever ask to win attention in a meeting · The one simple key to networking that nobody talks about · How to remain top of mind for thousands of people, everyday · Why it usually pays to be the one to give the bad news · How to blow off the right people · And why, when in doubt, buy him a Bonsai A book best described as “How to Win Friends and Influence People for today’s world,” The Art of People shows how to charm and win over anyone to be more successful at work and outside of it.

Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation. Co-created by 470 "Business Model Canvas" practitioners from 45 countries, the book features a beautiful, highly visual, 4-color design that takes powerful strategic ideas and tools, and makes them easy to implement in your organization. It explains the most common Business Model patterns, based on concepts from leading business thinkers, and helps you reinterpret them for your own context. You will learn how to systematically understand, design, and implement a game-changing business model--or analyze and renovate an old one. Along the way, you'll understand at a much deeper level your customers, distribution channels, partners, revenue streams, costs, and your core value proposition. Business Model Generation features practical innovation techniques used today by leading consultants and companies worldwide, including 3M, Ericsson, Capgemini, Deloitte, and others. Designed for doers, it is for those ready to abandon outmoded thinking and embrace new models of value creation: for executives, consultants, entrepreneurs, and leaders of all organizations. If you're ready to change the rules, you belong to "the business model generation!"

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we’re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself. Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. Tomorrow’s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today’s marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique. Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places.

Why should I do business with you… and not your competitor? Whether you are a retailer, manufacturer, distributor, or service provider – if you cannot answer this question, you are surely losing customers, clients and market share. This eye-opening book reveals how identifying your competitive advantages (and trumpeting them to the marketplace) is the most surefire way to close deals, retain clients, and stay miles ahead of the competition. The five fatal flaws of most companies: • They don’t have a competitive advantage but think they do • They have a competitive advantage but don’t know what it is—so they lower prices instead • They know what their competitive advantage is but neglect to tell clients about it • They mistake “strengths” for competitive advantages • They don’t concentrate on competitive advantages when making strategic and operational decisions The good news is that you can overcome these costly mistakes – by identifying your competitive advantages and creating new ones. Consultant, public speaker, and competitive advantage expert Jaynie Smith will show you how scores of small and large companies substantially increased their sales by focusing on their competitive advantages. When advising a CEO frustrated by his salespeople’s inability to close deals, Smith discovered that his company stayed on schedule 95 percent of the time – an achievement no one else in his industry could claim. By touting this and other competitive advantages to customers, closing rates increased by 30 percent—and so did company revenues. Jack Welch has said, “If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.” This straight-to-the-point book is filled with insightful stories and specific steps on how to pinpoint your competitive advantages, develop new ones, and get the message out about them.

The number one New York Times best seller that examines how people can champion new ideas in their careers and everyday life - and how leaders can fight groupthink, from the author of Think Again and co-author of Option B. With Give and Take, Adam Grant not only introduced a landmark new paradigm for success but also established himself as one of his generation’s most compelling and provocative thought leaders. In Originals he again addresses the challenge of improving the world, but now from the perspective of becoming original: choosing to champion novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battle conformity, and buck outdated traditions. How can we originate new ideas, policies, and practices without risking it all? Using surprising studies and stories spanning business, politics, sports, and entertainment, Grant explores how to recognize a good idea, speak up without getting silenced, build a coalition of allies, choose the right time to act, and manage fear and doubt; how parents and teachers can nurture originality in children; and how leaders can build cultures that welcome dissent. Learn from an entrepreneur who pitches his start-ups by highlighting the reasons not to invest, a woman at Apple who challenged Steve Jobs from three levels below, an analyst who overturned the rule of secrecy at the CIA, a billionaire financial wizard who fires employees for failing to criticize him, and a TV executive who didn’t even work in comedy but saved Seinfeld from the cutting-room floor. The payoff is a set of groundbreaking insights about rejecting conformity and improving the status quo.

In The $100 Startup, Chris Guillebeau tells you how to lead of life of adventure, meaning and purpose - and earn a good living. Still in his early 30s, Chris is on the verge of completing a tour of every country on earth - he's already visited more than 175 nations - and yet he’s never held a "real job" or earned a regular paycheck. Rather, he has a special genius for turning ideas into income, and he uses what he earns both to support his life of adventure and to give back. There are many others like Chris - those who've found ways to opt out of traditional employment and create the time and income to pursue what they find meaningful. Sometimes, achieving that perfect blend of passion and income doesn't depend on shelving what you currently do. You can start small with your venture, committing little time or money, and wait to take the real plunge when you're sure it's successful. In preparing to write this book, Chris identified 1,500 individuals who have built businesses earning $50,000 or more from a modest investment (in many cases, $100 or less), and from that group he’s chosen to focus on the 50 most intriguing case studies. In nearly all cases, people with no special skills discovered aspects of their personal passions that could be monetized, and were able to restructure their lives in ways that gave them greater freedom and fulfillment. Here, finally, distilled into one easy-to-use guide, are the most valuable lessons from those who’ve learned how to turn what they do into a gateway to self-fulfillment. It’s all about finding the intersection between your "expertise" - even if you don’t consider it such - and what other people will pay for. You don’t need an MBA, a business plan or even employees. All you need is a product or service that springs from what you love to do anyway, people willing to pay, and a way to get paid. Not content to talk in generalities, Chris tells you exactly how many dollars his group of unexpected entrepreneurs required to get their projects up and running; what these individuals did in the first weeks and months to generate significant cash; some of the key mistakes they made along the way, and the crucial insights that made the business stick. Among Chris’s key principles: if you’re good at one thing, you’re probably good at something else; never teach a man to fish - sell him the fish instead; and in the battle between planning and action, action wins. In ancient times, people who were dissatisfied with their lives dreamed of finding magic lamps, buried treasure, or streets paved with gold. Today, we know that it’s up to us to change our lives. And the best part is, if we change our own life, we can help others change theirs. This remarkable book will start you on your way.

Bold is a radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary wealth while also positively impacting the lives of billions. Exploring the exponential technologies that are disrupting today's Fortune 500 companies and enabling upstart entrepreneurs to go from "I've got an idea" to "I run a billion-dollar company" far faster than ever before, the authors provide exceptional insight into the power of 3-D printing, artificial intelligence, robotics, networks and sensors, and synthetic biology. Drawing on insights from billionaire entrepreneurs Larry Page, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and Jeff Bezos, the audiobook offers the best practices that allow anyone to leverage today's hyper connected crowd like never before. The authors teach how to design and use incentive competitions, launch million-dollar crowdfunding campaigns to tap into tens of billions of dollars of capital, and build communities - armies of exponentially enabled individuals willing and able to help today's entrepreneurs make their boldest dreams come true. Bold is both a manifesto and a manual. It is today's exponential entrepreneur's go-to resource on the use of emerging technologies, thinking at scale, and the awesome impact of crowd-powered tools.

The answer is simple: come up with 10 ideas a day. It doesn't matter if they are good or bad, the key is to exercise your "idea muscle", to keep it toned, and in great shape. People say ideas are cheap and execution is everything but that is NOT true. Execution is a consequence, a subset of good, brilliant idea. And good ideas require daily work. Ideas may be easy if we are only coming up with one or two but if you open this book to any of the pages and try to produce more than three, you will feel a burn, scratch your head, and you will be sweating, and working hard. There is a turning point when you reach idea number six for the day, you still have four to go, and your mind muscle is getting a workout. By the time you list those last ideas to make it to 10 you will see for yourself what "sweating the idea muscle" means. As you practice the daily idea generation you become an idea machine. When we become idea machines we are flooded with lots of bad ideas but also with some that are very good. This happens by the sheer force of the number, because we are coming up with 3,650 ideas per year (at 10 a day). When you are inspired by an extraordinary idea, all of your thoughts break their chains, you go beyond limitations and your capacity to act expands in every direction. Forces and abilities you did not know you had come to the surface, and you realize you are capable of doing great things. As you practice with the suggested prompts in this book your ideas will get better, you will be a source of great insight for others, people will find you magnetic, and they will want to hang out with you because you have so much to offer. When you practice every day your life will transform, in no more than 180 days, because it has no other evolutionary choice. Life changes for the better when we become the source of positive, insightful, and helpful ideas. Don't believe a word I say. Instead, challenge yourself.

A Guide to Resilience: How to Bounce Back from Life's Inevitable Problems Christian Moore is convinced that each of us has a power hidden within, something that can get us through any kind of adversity. That power is resilience. In The Resilience Breakthrough, Moore delivers a practical primer on how you can become more resilient in a world of instability and narrowing opportunity, whether you're facing financial troubles, health setbacks, challenges on the job, or any other problem. We can each have our own resilience breakthrough, Moore argues, and can each learn how to use adverse circumstances as potent fuel for overcoming life's hardships. As he shares engaging real-life stories and brutally honest analyses of his own experiences, Moore equips you with 27 resilience-building tools that you can start using today - in your personal life or in your organization.

What if someone told you that your behavior was controlled by a powerful, invisible force? Most of us would be skeptical of such a claim--but it's largely true. Our brains are constantly transmitting and receiving signals of which we are unaware. Studies show that these constant inputs drive the great majority of our decisions about what to do next--and we become conscious of the decisions only after we start acting on them. Many may find that disturbing. But the implications for leadership are profound. In this provocative yet practical book, renowned speaking coach and communication expert Nick Morgan highlights recent research that shows how humans are programmed to respond to the nonverbal cues of others--subtle gestures, sounds, and signals--that elicit emotion. He then provides a clear, useful framework of seven "power cues" that will be essential for any leader in business, the public sector, or almost any context. You'll learn crucial skills, from measuring nonverbal signs of confidence, to the art and practice of gestures and vocal tones, to figuring out what your gut is really telling you. This concise and engaging guide will help leaders and aspiring leaders of all stripes to connect powerfully, communicate more effectively, and command influence.

New York Times bestselling author and social media expert Gary Vaynerchuk shares hard-won advice on how to connect with customers and beat the competition. A mash-up of the best elements of Crush It! and The Thank You Economy with a fresh spin, Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook is a blueprint to social media marketing strategies that really works. When managers and marketers outline their social media strategies, they plan for the "right hook"—their next sale or campaign that's going to knock out the competition. Even companies committed to jabbing—patiently engaging with customers to build the relationships crucial to successful social media campaigns—want to land the punch that will take down their opponent or their customer's resistance in one blow. Right hooks convert traffic to sales and easily show results. Except when they don't. Thanks to massive change and proliferation in social media platforms, the winning combination of jabs and right hooks is different now. Vaynerchuk shows that while communication is still key, context matters more than ever. It's not just about developing high-quality content, but developing high-quality content perfectly adapted to specific social media platforms and mobile devices—content tailor-made for Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter and Tumblr.

From the best-selling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a book on how some things actually benefit from disorder. In The Black Swan Taleb outlined a problem, and in Antifragile he offers a definitive solution: how to gain from disorder and chaos while being protected from fragilities and adverse events. For what Taleb calls the "antifragile" is actually beyond the robust, because it benefits from shocks, uncertainty, and stressors, just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension. The antifragile needs disorder in order to survive and flourish. Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner. The antifragile is immune to prediction errors. Why is the city-state better than the nation-state, why is debt bad for you, and why is everything that is both modern and complicated bound to fail? The audiobook spans innovation by trial and error, health, biology, medicine, life decisions, politics, foreign policy, urban planning, war, personal finance, and economic systems. And throughout, in addition to the street wisdom of Fat Tony of Brooklyn, the voices and recipes of ancient wisdom, from Roman, Greek, Semitic, and medieval sources, are heard loud and clear. Extremely ambitious and multidisciplinary, Antifragile provides a blueprint for how to behave - and thrive - in a world we don't understand, and which is too uncertain for us to even try to understand and predict. Erudite and witty, Taleb’s message is revolutionary: What is not antifragile will surely perish.

The Cluetrain Manifesto began as a Web site in 1999 when the authors, who have worked variously at IBM, Sun Microsystems, the Linux Journal, and NPR, posted 95 theses about the new reality of the networked marketplace. Ten years after its original publication, their message remains more relevant than ever. For example, thesis no. 2: “Markets consist of human beings, not demographic sectors”; thesis no. 20: “Companies need to realize their markets are often laughing. At them.” The book enlarges on these themes through dozens of stories and observations about business in America and how the Internet will continue to change it all. With a new introduction and chapters by the authors, and commentary by Jake McKee, JP Rangaswami, and Dan Gillmor, this book is essential reading for anybody interested in the Internet and e-commerce, and is especially vital for businesses navigating the topography of the wired marketplace.

From the founders of the trailblazing software company 37signals, here is a different kind of business book one that explores a new reality. Today, anyone can be in business. Tools that used to be out of reach are now easily accessible. Technology that cost thousands is now just a few bucks or even free. Stuff that was impossible just a few years ago is now simple.That means anyone can start a business. And you can do it without working miserable 80-hour weeks or depleting your life savings. You can start it on the side while your day job provides all the cash flow you need. Forget about business plans, meetings, office space - you don't need them. With its straightforward language and easy-is-better approach, Rework is the perfect playbook for anyone who's ever dreamed of doing it on their own. Hardcore entrepreneurs, small-business owners, people stuck in day jobs who want to get out, and artists who don't want to starve anymore will all find valuable inspiration and guidance in these pages. It's time to rework work.

Tesla's main source of inspiration.
Roger Joseph Boscovich, a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuit priest, and polymath, published the first edition of his famous work, Philosophiae Naturalis Theoria Redacta Ad Unicam Legem Virium In Natura Existentium (Theory Of Natural Philosophy Derived To The Single Law Of Forces Which Exist In Nature), in Vienna, in 1758, containing his atomic theory and his theory of forces. A second edition was published in 1763 in Venice

Bill Clinton's Georgetown mentor's history of the Conspiracy since the Boer War in South Africa.
TRAGEDY AND HOPE shows the years 1895-1950 as a period of transition from the world dominated by Europe in the nineteenth century to the world of three blocs in the twentieth century. With clarity, perspective, and cumulative impact, Professor Quigley examines the nature of that transition through two world wars and a worldwide economic depression. As an interpretative historian, he tries to show each event in the full complexity of its historical context. The result is a unique work, notable in several ways. It gives a picture of the world in terms of the influence of different cultures and outlooks upon each other; it shows, more completely than in any similar work, the influence of science and technology on human life; and it explains, with unprecedented clarity, how the intricate financial and commercial patterns of the West prior to 1914 influenced the development of today’s world.

This is the July, 2016 ALTA (Asymmetric Linguistic Trends Analysis) Report. Also known as 'the Web Bot' report, this series is brought to you by halfpasthuman.com. This report covers your future world from July 2016 through to 2031. Forecasts are created using predictive linguistics (from the inventor) and cover your planet, your population, your economy and markets, and your Space Goat Farts where you will find all the 'unknown' and 'officially denied' woo-woo that will be shaping your environment over these next few decades.

Time is considered as an independent entity which cannot be reduced to the concept of matter, space or field. The point of discussion is the "time flow" conception of N A Kozyrev (1908-1983), an outstanding Russian astronomer and natural scientist. In addition to a review of the experimental studies of "the active properties of time", by both Kozyrev and modern scientists, the reader will find different interpretations of Kozyrev's views and some developments of his ideas in the fields of geophysics, astrophysics, general relativity and theoretical mechanics.

How UFO Time Engines work - Clif High

The webpage discusses the workings of UFO time engines according to N.A. Kozyrev's experiments. The LL1 engine is described as a hollow metal sphere with a pool of mercury metal inside. When activated by electrical energy, it creates a uni-polar magnetic field causing the mercury to spin at a high rate and induce "time stuff" to accumulate on its surface. The accrued time stuff is siphoned down magnetically to the radiating antennae on the bottom of the vessel, providing self-sustaining power and allowing for time travel. The environment inside UFOs is likely volatile and not suitable for humans.

The Body Electric tells the fascinating story of our bioelectric selves. Robert O. Becker, a pioneer in the filed of regeneration and its relationship to electrical currents in living things, challenges the established mechanistic understanding of the body. He found clues to the healing process in the long-discarded theory that electricity is vital to life. But as exciting as Becker's discoveries are, pointing to the day when human limbs, spinal cords, and organs may be regenerated after they have been damaged, equally fascinating is the story of Becker's struggle to do such original work. The Body Electric explores new pathways in our understanding of evolution, acupuncture, psychic phenomena, and healing.

Unique, controversial, and frequently cited, this survey offers highly detailed accounts concerning the development of ideas and theories about the nature of electricity and space (aether). Readily accessible to general readers as well as high school students, teachers, and undergraduates, it includes much information unavailable elsewhere. This single-volume edition comprises both The Classical Theories and The Modern Theories, which were originally published separately. The first volume covers the theories of classical physics from the age of the Greek philosophers to the late 19th century. The second volume chronicles discoveries that led to the advances of modern physics, focusing on special relativity, quantum theories, general relativity, matrix mechanics, and wave mechanics. Noted historian of science I. Bernard Cohen, who reviewed these books for Scientific American, observed, "I know of no other history of electricity which is as sound as Whittaker's. All those who have found stimulation from his works will read this informative and accurate history with interest and profit."

The third edition of the defining text for the graduate-level course in Electricity and Magnetism has finally arrived! It has been 37 years since the first edition and 24 since the second. The new edition addresses the changes in emphasis and applications that have occurred in the field, without any significant increase in length.

Objects are a ubiquitous presence and few of us stop and think what they mean in our lives. This is the job of philosophers and this is what Jean Baudrillard does in his book. This is required reading for followers of Baudrillard, and he is perhaps the most assessable to the General Reader. Baudrillard is most associated with Post Modernism, and this early book sets the stage for that journey to the post modern world.
We are all surrounded by objects, but how many times have we thought about what those objects represent. If we took the time to think about the symbolism, we could arrive at easy solutions. We have been so accustomed to advertising the automobile representing freedom is an easy conclusion. But what about furniture? What about chairs? What about the arrangement of furniture? Watches? Collecting objects? Baudrillard literally opens up a new world and creates the universe of objects.
It is not that the critique of a society or objects has not been done before, but Baudrillard’s approach is new. Baudrillard examines objects as signs with a smattering of Post-Marxist thought. In his analysis of objects as signs, he ushers in the Post-Modern age and world for which he would be known. Heady stuff to be sure, but is presented by Baudrillard in a readily accessible manner. He articulates his thesis in a straightforward manner, avoiding the hyper-technical terminology he used in his later writings.

Moving away from the Marxist/Freudian approaches that had concerned him earlier, Baudrillard developed in this book a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure.

The book begins with Sidis's discovery of the first law of physical laws: "Among the physical laws it is a general characteristic that there is reversibility in time; that is, should the whole universe trace back the various positions that bodies in it have passed through in a given interval of time, but in the reverse order to that in which these positions actually occurred, then the universe, in this imaginary case, would still obey the same laws." Recent discoveries of dark matter are predicted by him in this book, and he goes on to show that the "Big Bang" is wrong. Sidis (SIGH-dis) shows that it is far more likely the universe is eternal

In this book you will encounter rare information regarding your true identity - the conscious self in the body - and how you may break the hypnotic spell your senses and thinking have cast about you since childhood.

Do we see the world as it truly is? In The Case Against Reality, pioneering cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman says no? we see what we need in order to survive. Our visual perceptions are not a window onto reality, Hoffman shows us, but instead are interfaces constructed by natural selection. The objects we see around us are not unlike the file icons on our computer desktops: while shaped like a small folder on our screens, the files themselves are made of a series of ones and zeros - too complex for most of us to understand. In a similar way, Hoffman argues, evolution has shaped our perceptions into simplistic illusions to help us navigate the world around us. Yet now these illusions can be manipulated by advertising and design.
Drawing on thirty years of Hoffman's own influential research, as well as evolutionary biology, game theory, neuroscience, and philosophy, The Case Against Reality makes the mind-bending yet utterly convincing case that the world is nothing like what we see through our eyes.

At the height of the Cold War, JFK risked committing the greatest crime in human history: starting a nuclear war. Horrified by the specter of nuclear annihilation, Kennedy gradually turned away from his long-held Cold Warrior beliefs and toward a policy of lasting peace. But to the military and intelligence agencies in the United States, who were committed to winning the Cold War at any cost, Kennedy’s change of heart was a direct threat to their power and influence. Once these dark “Unspeakable” forces recognized that Kennedy’s interests were in direct opposition to their own, they tagged him as a dangerous traitor, plotted his assassination, and orchestrated the subsequent cover-up.

2020 saw a spike in deaths in America, smaller than you might imagine during a pandemic, some of which could be attributed to COVID and to initial treatment strategies that were not effective. But then, in 2021, the stats people expected went off the rails. The CEO of the OneAmerica insurance company publicly disclosed that during the third and fourth quarters of 2021, death in people of working age (18–64) was 40 percent higher than it was before the pandemic. Significantly, the majority of the deaths were not attributed to COVID. A 40 percent increase in deaths is literally earth-shaking. Even a 10 percent increase in excess deaths would have been a 1-in-200-year event. But this was 40 percent. And therein lies a story—a story that starts with obvious questions: - What has caused this historic spike in deaths among younger people? - What has caused the shift from old people, who are expected to die, to younger people, who are expected to keep living?

RFK Jr: 23.5% GREATER likelihood of dying - 09-06-2023

RFK Jr: 23.5% GREATER likelihood of dying - 09-06-2023

The Tavistock Institute, in Sussex, England, describes itself as a nonprofit charity that applies social science to contemporary issues and problems. But this book posits that it is the world’s center for mass brainwashing and social engineering activities. It grew from a somewhat crude beginning at Wellington House into a sophisticated organization that was to shape the destiny of the entire planet, and in the process, change the paradigm of modern society. In this eye-opening work, both the Tavistock network and the methods of brainwashing and psychological warfare are uncovered.

A seminal and controversial figure in the history of political thought and public relations, Edward Bernays (1891–1995), pioneered the scientific technique of shaping and manipulating public opinion, which he famously dubbed “engineering of consent.” During World War I, he was an integral part of the U.S. Committee on Public Information (CPI), a powerful propaganda apparatus that was mobilized to package, advertise and sell the war to the American people as one that would “Make the World Safe for Democracy.” The CPI would become the blueprint in which marketing strategies for future wars would be based upon.
Bernays applied the techniques he had learned in the CPI and, incorporating some of the ideas of Walter Lipmann, as well as his uncle, Sigmund Freud, became an outspoken proponent of propaganda as a tool for democratic and corporate manipulation of the population. His 1928 bombshell Propaganda lays out his eerily prescient vision for using propaganda to regiment the collective mind in a variety of areas, including government, politics, art, science and education. To read this book today is to frightfully comprehend what our contemporary institutions of government and business have become in regards to organized manipulation of the masses.

Undressing the Bible: in Hebrew, the Old Testament speaks for itself, explicitly and transparently. It tells of mysterious beings, special and powerful ones, that appeared on Earth.
Aliens?
Former earthlings?
Superior civilizations, that have always been present on our planet?
Creators, manipulators, geneticists. Aviators, warriors, despotic rulers. And scientists, possessing very advanced knowledge, special weapons and science-fiction-like technologies.
Once naked, the Bible is very different from how it has always been told to us: it does not contain any spiritual, omnipotent and omniscient God, no eternity. No apples and no creeping, tempting, serpents. No winged angels. Not even the Red Sea: the people of the Exodus just wade through a simple reed bed.
Writer and journalist Giorgio Cattaneo sits down with Italy's most renowned biblical translator for his first long interview about his life's work for the English audience. A decade long official Bible translator for the Church and lifelong researcher of ancient myths and tales, Mauro Bilglino is a unicum in his field of expertise and research. A fine connoisseur of dead languages, from ancient Greek to Hebrew and medieval Latin, he focused his attention and efforts on the accurate translating of the bible.
The encounter with Mauro Biglino and his work - the journalist writes - is profoundly healthy, stimulating and inevitably destabilizing: it forces us to reconsider the solidity of the awareness that nourishes many of our common beliefs. And it is a testament to the courage that is needed, today more than ever, to claim the full dignity of free research.

Most people have heard of Jesus Christ, considered the Messiah by Christians, and who lived 2000 years ago. But very few have ever heard of Sabbatai Zevi, who declared himself the Messiah in 1666. By proclaiming redemption was available through acts of sin, he amassed a following of over one million passionate believers, about half the world's Jewish population during the 17th century.Although many Rabbis at the time considered him a heretic, his fame extended far and wide. Sabbatai's adherents planned to abolish many ritualistic observances, because, according to the Talmud, holy obligations would no longer apply in the Messianic time. Fasting days became days of feasting and rejoicing. Sabbateans encouraged and practiced sexual promiscuity, adultery, incest and religious orgies.After Sabbati Zevi's death in 1676, his Kabbalist successor, Jacob Frank, expanded upon and continued his occult philosophy. Frankism, a religious movement of the 18th and 19th centuries, centered on his leadership, and his claim to be the reincarnation of the Messiah Sabbatai Zevi. He, like Zevi, would perform "strange acts" that violated traditional religious taboos, such as eating fats forbidden by Jewish dietary laws, ritual sacrifice, and promoting orgies and sexual immorality. He often slept with his followers, as well as his own daughter, while preaching a doctrine that the best way to imitate God was to cross every boundary, transgress every taboo, and mix the sacred with the profane. Hebrew University of Jerusalem Professor Gershom Scholem called Jacob Frank, "one of the most frightening phenomena in the whole of Jewish history".Jacob Frank would eventually enter into an alliance formed by Adam Weishaupt and Meyer Amshel Rothschild called the Order of the Illuminati. The objectives of this organization was to undermine the world's religions and power structures, in an effort to usher in a utopian era of global communism, which they would covertly rule by their hidden hand: the New World Order. Using secret societies, such as the Freemasons, their agenda has played itself out over the centuries, staying true to the script. The Illuminati handle opposition by a near total control of the world's media, academic opinion leaders, politicians and financiers. Still considered nothing more than theory to many, more and more people wake up each day to the possibility that this is not just a theory, but a terrifying Satanic conspiracy.

This is the first English translation of this revolutionary essay by Vladimir I. Vernadsky, the great Russian-Ukrainian biogeochemist. It was first published in 1930 in French in the Revue générale des sciences pures et appliquées. In it, Vernadsky makes a powerful and provocative argument for the need to develop what he calls “a new physics,” something he felt was clearly necessitated by the implications of the groundbreaking work of Louis Pasteur among few others, but also something that was required to free science from the long-lasting effects of the work of Isaac Newton, most notably.
For hundreds of years, science had developed in a direction which became increasingly detached from the breakthroughs made in the study of life and the natural sciences, detached even from human life itself, and committed reductionists and small-minded scientists were resolved to the fact that ultimately all would be reduced to “the old physics.” The scientific revolution of Einstein was a step in the right direction, but here Vernadsky insists that there is more progress to be made. He makes a bold call for a new physics, taking into account, and fundamentally based upon, the striking anomalies of life and human life.

Using an inspired combination of geometric logic and metaphors from familiar human experience, Bucky invites readers to join him on a trip through a four-dimensional Universe, where concepts as diverse as entropy, Einstein's relativity equations, and the meaning of existence become clear, understandable, and immediately involving. In his own words: "Dare to be naive... It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries." Here are three key examples or concepts from "Synergetics":

Tensegrity

Tensegrity, or tensional integrity, refers to structural systems that use a combination of tension and compression components. The simplest example of this is the "tensegrity triangle", where three struts are held in position not by touching one another but by tensioned wires. These systems are stable and flexible. Tensegrity structures are pervasive in natural systems, from the cellular level up to larger biological and even cosmological scales.

Vector Equilibrium (VE)

The Vector Equilibrium, often referred to by Fuller as the "VE", is a geometric form that he saw as the central form in his synergetic geometry. It’s essentially a cuboctahedron. Fuller noted that the VE is the only geometric form wherein all the vectors (lines from the center to the vertices) are of equal length and angular relationship. Because of this, it’s seen as a condition of absolute equilibrium, where the forces of push and pull are balanced.

Closest Packing of Spheres

Fuller was fascinated by how spheres could be packed together in the tightest possible configuration, a concept he often linked to how nature organizes systems. For example, when you stack oranges in a grocery store, they form a hexagonal pattern, and the spheres (oranges) are in closest-packed arrangement. Fuller related this principle to atomic structures and even cosmic organization.

To prepare Americans and freedom loving people everywhere for our current global wartime reality that few understand, here comes The Citizen's Guide to Fifth Generation Warfare (CG5GW) by Lieutenant General, U.S. Army (Retired) Michael T. Flynn and Sergeant, U.S. Army (Retired) Boone Cutler. General Flynn rose to the highest levels of the intelligence community and served as the National Security Advisor to the 45th POTUS. Sergeant Boone Cutler ran the ground game as a wartime Psychological Operations team sergeant in the United States Army. Together, these two combat veterans put their combined experience and expertise into an illuminating fifth-generation warfare information series called The Citizen's Guide to Fifth Generation Warfare. Introduction to 5GW is the first session of the multipart series. The series, complete with easy-to-understand diagrams, is written for all of humanity in every freedom loving country.

Vladimir I. Vernadsky (1863-1945) was a Russian and Ukrainian mineralogist and geochemist who is best known for his work on the biosphere and the noosphere concepts. His ideas have profoundly influenced various scientific fields, from geology to biology and even philosophy. Here's the summary of his one of his concepts:

Biosphere :

  • Vernadsky defined the biosphere as the thin layer of Earth where life exists, encompassing all living organisms and the parts of the Earth where they interact. This includes the depths of the oceans to the upper layers of the atmosphere.
  • He posited that life plays a critical role in transforming the Earth's environment. In this view, living organisms are not just passive inhabitants of the planet, but active agents of change. This idea contrasts with more traditional views that saw life as simply adapting to pre-existing environmental conditions.
  • One example of this transformative power is the oxygen-rich atmosphere, which was created by photosynthesizing organisms over billions of years.

It's worth noting that Vernadsky's ideas were formulated in a period when the world was experiencing rapid technological changes and were before the advent of concerns about global challenges like climate change. Today, his ideas can be seen in a new light, as we recognize the significant impact human activity has on the planet, from the changing climate to the alteration of biogeochemical cycles. Overall, Vernadsky's thesis about the biosphere and the noosphere offers a holistic perspective on the evolution of the Earth and humanity's role in that evolution. It emphasizes the profound interconnectedness between life, the environment, and human cognition and culture.

Vladimir I. Vernadsky (1863-1945) was a Russian and Ukrainian mineralogist and geochemist who is best known for his work on the biosphere and the noosphere concepts. His ideas have profoundly influenced various scientific fields, from geology to biology and even philosophy. Here's the summary of his one of his concepts:

Noosphere :

  • The concept of the noosphere can be seen as the next evolutionary stage following the biosphere. While the biosphere represents the realm of life, the noosphere represents the realm of human thought.
  • Vernadsky believed that, just as life transformed the Earth through the biosphere, human thought and collective intelligence would transform the planet in the era of the noosphere. This transformation would be characterized by the dominance of cultural evolution over biological evolution.
  • In this paradigm, human knowledge, technology, and cultural developments would become the primary drivers of change on the planet, influencing its future direction.
  • The term "noosphere" is derived from the Greek word “nous” meaning "mind" or "intellect" and "sphaira" meaning "sphere." So, the noosphere can be thought of as the "sphere of human thought."

It's worth noting that Vernadsky's ideas were formulated in a period when the world was experiencing rapid technological changes and were before the advent of concerns about global challenges like climate change. Today, his ideas can be seen in a new light, as we recognize the significant impact human activity has on the planet, from the changing climate to the alteration of biogeochemical cycles. Overall, Vernadsky's thesis about the biosphere and the noosphere offers a holistic perspective on the evolution of the Earth and humanity's role in that evolution. It emphasizes the profound interconnectedness between life, the environment, and human cognition and culture.

A close analysis of the architecture of the stupa―a Buddhist symbolic form that is found throughout South, Southeast, and East Asia. The author, who trained as an architect, examines both the physical and metaphysical levels of these buildings, which derive their meaning and significance from Buddhist and Brahmanist influences.

Building on his extensive research into the sacred symbols and creation myths of the Dogon of Africa and those of ancient Egypt, India, and Tibet, Laird Scranton investigates the myths, symbols, and traditions of prehistoric China, providing further evidence that the cosmology of all ancient cultures arose from a single now-lost source.

It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages―Teutonic, Romance, Greek―helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. It presents by common-sense methods the most helpful approach to the mastery of many languages; it condenses vocabulary to a minimum of essential words; it simplifies grammar in an entirely new way; and it teaches a languages as it is actually used in everyday life.
But this book is more than a guide to foreign languages; it goes deep into the roots of all knowledge as it explores the history of speech. It lights up the dim pathways of prehistory and unfolds the story of the slow growth of human expression from the most primitive signs and sounds to the elaborate variations of the highest cultures. Without language no knowledge would be possible; here we see how language is at once the source and the reservoir of all we know.

Taking only the most elementary knowledge for granted, Lancelot Hogben leads readers of this famous book through the whole course from simple arithmetic to calculus. His illuminating explanation is addressed to the person who wants to understand the place of mathematics in modern civilization but who has been intimidated by its supposed difficulty. Mathematics is the language of size, shape, and order―a language Hogben shows one can both master and enjoy.

A complete manual for the study and practice of Raja Yoga, the path of concentration and meditation. These timeless teachings is a treasure to be read and referred to again and again by seekers treading the spiritual path. The classic Sutras, at least 4,000 years old, cover the yogic teachings on ethics, meditation, and physical postures, and provide directions for dealing with situations in daily life. The Sutras are presented here in the purest form, with the original Sanskrit and with translation, transliteration, and commentary by Sri Swami Satchidananda, one of the most respected and revered contemporary Yoga masters. Sri Swamiji offers practical advice based on his own experience for mastering the mind and achieving physical, mental and emotional harmony.

William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world - and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about how America’s past will predict its future.

Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back 500 years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four eras - or "turnings" - that last about 20 years and that always arrive in the same order. In The Fourth Turning, the authors illustrate these cycles using a brilliant analysis of the post-World War II period.

First comes a High, a period of confident expansion as a new order takes root after the old has been swept away. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion against the now-established order. Then comes an Unraveling, an increasingly troubled era in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis - the Fourth Turning - when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. Together, the four turnings comprise history's seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth.

4th Turning

Excess Deaths & Why RFK Jr. Can Win The Democratic Presidential Race - Ed Dowd | Part 1 of 2 - 06-21-2023

All original edition. Nothing added, nothing removed. This book traces the history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten power in Eastern Europe, which in the Dark Ages became converted to Judaism. Khazaria was finally wiped out by the forces of Genghis Khan, but evidence indicates that the Khazars themselves migrated to Poland and formed the cradle of Western Jewry. To the general reader the Khazars, who flourished from the 7th to 11th century, may seem infinitely remote today. Yet they have a close and unexpected bearing on our world, which emerges as Koestler recounts the fascinating history of the ancient Khazar Empire.

At about the time that Charlemagne was Emperor in the West. The Khazars' sway extended from the Black Sea to the Caspian, from the Caucasus to the Volga, and they were instrumental in stopping the Muslim onslaught against Byzantium, the eastern jaw of the gigantic pincer movement that in the West swept across northern Africa and into Spain.Thereafter the Khazars found themselves in a precarious position between the two major world powers: the Eastern Roman Empire in Byzantium and the triumphant followers of Mohammed.As Koestler points out, the Khazars were the Third World of their day. They chose a surprising method of resisting both the Western pressure to become Christian and the Eastern to adopt Islam. Rejecting both, they converted to Judaism. Mr. Koestler speculates about the ultimate faith of the Khazars and their impact on the racial composition and social heritage of modern Jewry.

Few people noticed the secret codewords used by our astronauts to describe the moon. Until now, few knew about the strange moving lights they reported.
George H. Leonard, former NASA scientist, fought through the official veil of secrecy and studied thousands of NASA photographs, spoke candidly with dozens of NASA officials, and listened to hours and hours of astronauts' tapes.
Here, Leonard presents the stunning and inescapable evidence discovered during his in-depth investigation:

  • Immense mechanical rigs, some over a mile long, working the lunar surface.
  • Strange geometric ground markings and symbols.
  • Lunar constructions several times higher than anything built on Earth.
  • Vehicles, tracks, towers, pipes, conduits, and conveyor belts running in and across moon craters.
Somebody else is indeed on the Moon, and engaged in activities on a massive scale. Our space agencies, and many of the world's top scientists, have known for years that there is intelligent life on the moon.

The article delves into the history of the Khazars, a polity in the Northern Caucasus that existed from the mid-seventh century until about 970 CE. Contrary to popular belief, the term "Khazars" is misleading as it was a multiethnic entity, and it's uncertain which specific group adopted Judaism. The Khazars first emerged in the seventh century, defeating the Bulgars, which led to the Bulgars' dispersion to various regions. The Khazar Empire was established through the expulsion of the Bulgars and was multiethnic in nature. The language spoken by the Khazars is debated, with some suggesting Turkic origins and others pointing to Slavic. The Khazars had several cities and fortresses, with significant archaeological findings. The Khazars had interactions with various empires, including wars with the Arabs and alliances with Byzantine emperors. By the mid-10th century, the Khazar capital of Itil was destroyed by the Russians. The article concludes that much of what is known about the Khazars is based on limited sources.

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In The Science of the Dogon, Laird Scranton demonstrated that the cosmological structure described in the myths and drawings of the Dogon runs parallel to modern science--atomic theory, quantum theory, and string theory--their drawings often taking the same form as accurate scientific diagrams that relate to the formation of matter.

Sacred Symbols of the Dogon uses these parallels as the starting point for a new interpretation of the Egyptian hieroglyphic language. By substituting Dogon cosmological drawings for equivalent glyph-shapes in Egyptian words, a new way of reading and interpreting the Egyptian hieroglyphs emerges. Scranton shows how each hieroglyph constitutes an entire concept, and that their meanings are scientific in nature.

The Dogon people of Mali, West Africa, are famous for their unique art and advanced cosmology. The Dogon’s creation story describes how the one true god, Amma, created all the matter of the universe. Interestingly, the myths that depict his creative efforts bear a striking resemblance to the modern scientific definitions of matter, beginning with the atom and continuing all the way to the vibrating threads of string theory. Furthermore, many of the Dogon words, symbols, and rituals used to describe the structure of matter are quite similar to those found in the myths of ancient Egypt and in the daily rituals of Judaism. For example, the modern scientific depiction of the informed universe as a black hole is identical to Amma’s Egg of the Dogon and the Egyptian Benben Stone.

The Science of the Dogon offers a case-by-case comparison of Dogon descriptions and drawings to corresponding scientific definitions and diagrams from authors like Stephen Hawking and Brian Greene, then extends this analysis to the counterparts of these symbols in both the ancient Egyptian and Hebrew religions. What is ultimately revealed is the scientific basis for the language of the Egyptian hieroglyphs, which was deliberately encoded to prevent the knowledge of these concepts from falling into the hands of all but the highest members of the Egyptian priesthood.

Anthony C. Yu’s translation of The Journey to the West,initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, The Journey to the West tells the story of the fourteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Xuanzang, one of China’s most famous religious heroes, and his three supernatural disciples, in search of Buddhist scriptures. Throughout his journey, Xuanzang fights demons who wish to eat him, communes with spirits, and traverses a land riddled with a multitude of obstacles, both real and fantastical. An adventure rich with danger and excitement, this seminal work of the Chinese literary canonis by turns allegory, satire, and fantasy.

With over a hundred chapters written in both prose and poetry, The Journey to the West has always been a complicated and difficult text to render in English while preserving the lyricism of its language and the content of its plot. But Yu has successfully taken on the task, and in this new edition he has made his translations even more accurate and accessible. The explanatory notes are updated and augmented, and Yu has added new material to his introduction, based on his original research as well as on the newest literary criticism and scholarship on Chinese religious traditions. He has also modernized the transliterations included in each volume, using the now-standard Hanyu Pinyin romanization system. Perhaps most important, Yu has made changes to the translation itself in order to make it as precise as possible.

One of the great works of Chinese literature, The Journey to the West is not only invaluable to scholars of Eastern religion and literature, but, in Yu’s elegant rendering, also a delight for any reader.

The Oera Linda Book is a 19th-century translation by Dr. Ottema and WIlliam R. Sandbach of an old manuscript written in the Old Frisian language that records historical, mythological, and religious themes of remote antiquity, compiled between 2194 BC and AD 803.

  • The Oera Linda book challenges traditional views of pre-Christian societies.
  • Christianization is likened to a "great reset" that erased previous civilizations.
  • The Fryan language provides insights into the beliefs and values of the Fryan people.
  • The cyclical nature of time is emphasized, suggesting patterns in history.
  • The importance of identity and understanding one's roots is highlighted.
  • The Oera Linda book offers wisdom and insights into several European languages.

The Oera Linda book offers a fresh perspective on our history, challenging the notion that pre-Christian societies were uncivilized. It suggests that the Christianization of societies was a form of "great reset," erasing and demonizing what existed before. The Oera Linda writings hint at an advanced civilization with its own laws, writing, and societal structures. Jan Ott's translation from the Fryan language provides insights into the beliefs and values of the Fryan people. The text also touches upon the guilt many feel today, even if they aren't religious, about issues like climate change and historical slavery. It criticizes the way science is sometimes treated like a religion, with scientists acting as its preachers. The cyclical nature of time is emphasized, suggesting that understanding history requires recognizing patterns and cycles. Christianity is portrayed as one of the most significant resets in history, with sects fighting and erasing each other's scriptures. The importance of identity is highlighted, with a focus on the Fryans, a tribe that faced challenges from another tribe from Finland. This other tribe had a different moral compass, leading to conflicts and eventual assimilation. The text suggests that the true history of the Fryans and their values might have been distorted by subsequent Christian narratives. The Oera Linda book is seen as a source of wisdom, shedding light on the origins of several European languages and offering insights into values like freedom, truth, and justice.

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The Talmud is one of the most important holy books of the Hebrew religion and of the world. No English translation of the book existed until the author presented this work. To this day, very little of the actual text seems available in English -- although we find many interpretive commentaries on what it is supposed to mean. The Talmud has a reputation for being long and difficult to digest, but Polano has taken what he believes to be the best material and put it into extremely readable form. As far as holy books of the world are concerned, it is on par with The Koran, The Bhagavad-Gita and, of course, The Bible, in importance. This clearly written edition will allow many to experience The Talmud who may have otherwise not had the chance.

This five-volume set is the only complete English rendering of The Zohar, the fundamental rabbinic work on Jewish mysticism that has fascinated readers for more than seven centuries. In addition to being the primary reference text for kabbalistic studies, this magnificent work is arranged in the form of a commentary on the Bible, bringing to the surface the deeper meanings behind the commandments and biblical narrative. As The Zohar itself proclaims: Woe unto those who see in the Law nothing but simple narratives and ordinary words .... Every word of the Law contains an elevated sense and a sublime mystery .... The narratives of the Law are but the raiment Thin which it is swathed.

Twenty-one years ago, at a friend's request, a Massachusetts professor sketched out a blueprint for nonviolent resistance to repressive regimes. It would go on to be translated, photocopied, and handed from one activist to another, traveling from country to country across the globe: from Iran to Venezuela―where both countries consider Gene Sharp to be an enemy of the state―to Serbia; Afghanistan; Vietnam; the former Soviet Union; China; Nepal; and, more recently and notably, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and Syria, where it has served as a guiding light of the Arab Spring.

This short, pithy, inspiring, and extraordinarily clear guide to overthrowing a dictatorship by nonviolent means lists 198 specific methods to consider, depending on the circumstances: sit-ins, popular nonobedience, selective strikes, withdrawal of bank deposits, revenue refusal, walkouts, silence, and hunger strikes. From Dictatorship to Democracy is the remarkable work that has made the little-known Sharp into the world's most effective and sought-after analyst of resistance to authoritarian regimes.

Bill Cooper, former United States Naval Intelligence Briefing Team member, reveals information that remains hidden from the public eye. This information has been kept in topsecret government files since the 1940s. His audiences hear the truth unfold as he writes about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the war on drugs, the secret government, and UFOs. Bill is a lucid, rational, and powerful speaker whose intent is to inform and to empower his audience. Standing room only is normal. His presentation and information transcend partisan affiliations as he clearly addresses issues in a way that has a striking impact on listeners of all backgrounds and interests. He has spoken to many groups throughout the United States and has appeared regularly on many radio talk shows and on television. In 1988 Bill decided to "talk" due to events then taking place worldwide, events that he had seen plans for back in the early 1970s. Bill correctly predicted the lowering of the Iron Curtain, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the invasion of Panama. All Bill's predictions were on record well before the events occurred. Bill is not a psychic. His information comes from top secret documents that he read while with the Intelligence Briefing Team and from over seventeen years of research.

The argument that the 16th Amendment (which concerns the federal income tax) was not properly ratified and thus is invalid has been a topic of debate among some tax protesters and scholars. One of the individuals associated with this theory is Bill Benson, who asserted that the 16th Amendment was fraudulently ratified. Here's a brief overview of the argument: 1. Research and Documentation: Bill Benson, along with another individual named M.J. "Red" Beckman, wrote a two-volume work called "The Law That Never Was" in the 1980s. This work was a product of Benson's extensive travels to various state archives to examine the original ratification documents related to the 16th Amendment. 2. Claims of Irregularities: In his work, Benson presented evidence that claimed many of the states either did not ratify the 16th Amendment properly or made mistakes in their resolutions. Some of these alleged irregularities included misspellings, incorrect wording, and other deviations from the proposed amendment. 3. Philander Knox's Role: In 1913, Philander Knox, who was the U.S. Secretary of State at the time, declared that the 16th Amendment had been ratified by the necessary three-fourths of the states. Benson's contention is that Knox was aware of the various discrepancies and irregularities in the ratification process but chose to fraudulently declare the amendment ratified anyway. 4. Legal Challenges and Court Rulings: Over the years, some tax protesters have used Benson's findings to challenge the legality of the income tax. However, these challenges have been consistently rejected by the courts. In fact, several courts have addressed Benson's research and arguments directly and found them to be without legal merit. The courts have repeatedly upheld the validity of the 16th Amendment. 5. Counterarguments: Critics of Benson's theory argue that even if there were minor discrepancies in the wording or format of the ratification documents, they do not invalidate the overarching intent of the states to ratify the amendment. Additionally, they assert that there's no substantive evidence that Knox acted fraudulently. It's worth noting that despite the popularity of this theory among certain groups, the legal consensus in the U.S. is that the 16th Amendment was validly ratified and is a legitimate part of the U.S. Constitution. Those who refuse to pay income taxes based on this theory have faced legal penalties.

The article delves into the evolution of the concept of the ether in physics. Historically, the ether was postulated to explain the propagation of light, with figures like Newton and Huygens suggesting its existence. By the late 19th century, Maxwell's electromagnetic theory linked light's propagation to the ether, a theory experimentally validated by Hertz in 1888. Lorentz expanded on this, focusing on wave transmission in moving media. The article contrasts the English approach, which sought tangible models, with the phenomenological view, which aimed for a descriptive approach without specific hypotheses. The piece also touches on various mechanical theories and models proposed over the years, emphasizing the challenges in defining the ether's properties and its evolving nature in scientific discourse.

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