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Apparently, the US government will release its "final" report on the UFO phenomenon in June. Above is a link to a segment from Tucker Show on Fox News, discussing these supposed revelations.
I think it´s obvious from the take where this is going (if anywhere). "Massive intelligence failure". Yepp, the whole thing is a psy op on the public to justify more money to the US military so the "failure" won´t happen again. Stay tuned for more advanced missiles and drones!
Which may or may not be a good thing, depending on who you support in the coming war over Taiwanese microchip facilities. Still, it *is* intriguing that the US is still so socially backward and scientifically illiterate that the military has to feign belief in aliens from outer space in order to get the population on board...
Maybe next year, NASA will publish a report denouncing the moon landing as a hoax, while the US Geographical Survey will claim that the Earth is flat? Of course, the liberal Dems (not featured on Tucker) will have to continue their BS about no. 45 being a Russian "asset"...
Just telling the ordinary citizen that he can´t play games on his Android if Taiwan is lost won´t cut it, I suppose.
The Spartacist League finally wakes up, condemning the COVID lockdowns (which they apparently supported initially). Obviously, I don´t support a crazed ultra-left sectlet, but the Sparts at least understand that it´s a *little* difficult to have "mass struggles", let alone a "socialist revolution", if...well, the government lays you off and locks down your working class ass in a non-rent controlled environment. Funny the rest of the "revolutionary" left doesn´t see this, lol. How you can have a political revolution under Jaruzelski is still, alas, less clear...
This is a short interview with Dharma Bodhi (Kol Martens), a spiritual teacher from the United States, currently based in Costa Rica. His group is called Trika Mahasiddha Yoga (TMY).
Dharma Bodhi says that he started practicing yoga, including kriya yoga, already as a kid at the age of seven. Later, he went into martial arts and "health sciences". At one point, he actually wanted to become a Catholic priest! In Australia, Bodhi was initiated *through the mail* by a Tantric guru living in India. During an 18 month retreat, he got "psychic transmission" (telepathic messages?) from the guru in absentia. The teachings in question were a previously hidden oral-practice tradition of Kashmir Shaivism, different from the written version that has been unearthed by Western scholars lately. The guru (whose name is never mentioned) was non-sectarian and told Bodhi to also study with Tibetans and Theravadins. Bodhi also practiced Hatha Yoga, Daoism and a Bönpo version of Dzogchen.
In the interview, Bodhi opposes the "postmodern" tendency in spiritual circles to reject gurus in favor of self-initiation. He believes that this is impossible. There are three kinds of kundalini in the system he learned from the Shaiva guru: sva-kundalini, kula-kundalini and loka-kundalini. Of these, only the first can be achieved through your own efforts. Over "stage 5" (there seems to be 12 stages of realization in TMY), you need "grace" and a guru. Bodhi also discusses the concept of a "light body", and says it exists in Kashmiri Shaivism, not just in Tibetan Vajrayana. According to legend, Abhinavagupta and 100 disciples attained the light body. It´s not entirely clear to me whether the light body discussed by Dharma Bodhi is the same as the "rainbow body" known from Tibetan sources.
Next follows a somewhat technical discussion on "body, speech and mind", three terms that mean something else in this particular system than in everyday speech. "Mind" means "essence". The "body" signifies emotions and thinking. The body has to be cultivated, otherwise the essence can´t manifest. This means that emotions shouldn´t be suppressed, as they are in traditional Advaita Vedanta or Theravada. At the highest level, this means the attainment of a "light body". Bodhi believes that our thinking directly produces our physical body "through the epigenome", whatever that means exactly. There is also a "time lag due to karma".
Interestingly, given the emphasis on emotions (there are 64 such in this system), Bodhi criticizes Indian Tantra and its Western import versions. There is a difference between base individual emotions, such as BAU sexuality, and spontaneously arising virtues. Within Hindu Tantra, these are often misidentified with one another. Tibetan Tantra is better at this point, due to "view teachings". Bodhi or Martens ends with emphasizing the need for physical training and fitness before starting out on a "real" spiritual path.
Interesting, and surprisingly advanced for a teaser trailer!
Could explain a thing or two. I always suspected that Nietzsche was an Anti-Christ crying for God. So now, we don´t have to take him seriously anymore. Same with Schopenhauer, I mean, come on, a "sophisticated" philosopher who throws old ladies down staircases, LOL. And then there´s Kant, an obsessive-compulsive neurotic wack job if I ever saw one. Let all the idols fall! I mean, it´s almost...Nietzschean somehow, don´t you think?
Dharma Bodhi is an American spiritual teacher living in Costa Rica. His group is called Trika Mahasiddha Yoga (TMY). It seems to combine ideas from several different traditions, but Vajrayana is definitely an important part of the mix. The goal of TMY practices is the attainment of a "light body" or "rainbow body".
The clip above is a three-hour long Q & A session with Bodhi. It covers a wide variety of more or less peculiar topics. Here is a sample...
Ayurveda has been "transcendentalized" and its modern form is too influenced by Buddhism. It´s too obsessed with veganism or vegetarianism. In reality, there is nothing wrong with hunting or meat-eating. Indeed, vegetables are frequently toxic! Nor is there anything bad about mushrooms. Daoist sages eat them all the time. More physical exercise is also necessary. Dalai Lama is a meat-eater. Bodhi knows this because a "Vedic ritual master" he befriended once saw Dalai Lama eating a huge steak during an official visit to Australia!
There is no "evolution" á la Aurobindo. This world or level of existence will always look like is does right now. Spiritual development is possible, but not the Messianic-millenarian progressive evolution of the New Age (Age of Aquarius), Aurobindo or Theosophy. The latter is just an interesting fairy tale and doesn´t leed to liberation.
Yogi Bhajan´s version of kundalini hatha yoga is crazy. Most of Bhajan´s devotees were former drug addicts from LA or Phoenix, which may have led Bhajan to over-emphasize a rather heavy handed form of "purification". Prana disease is a real thing, often makes you completely spaced out, cultish and kookish.
In order to know your "nadi" (life goal), you have to consult a competent Hindu astrologer. You can´t become "anything you want" (or think you want). Self-help teacher Tony Robbins is a jerk.
"Tantric meditation" is mostly prostitution at this point. Neo-Tantrists are only in it for the sex. Their practices can also trigger trance states and visions, but these are not the same thing as real enlightenment. Before you develop the first three chakras, you have to develop the Ajna Chakra (the sixth chakra) and train your physical body.
How do you transform lust? Yes, here comes some really weird Tantrika stuff. Apparently, you can do it while masturbating or orgasming with a partner, whoa!
Should you buy a cat to kill mice in your kitchen? (Yes.) Is it OK to sleep in the same bed as your pets? (No.)
SJWs are hell-realm beings screwing up their spiritual development.
Reicarnation. Where you are now, you were in a previous life! You were more or less the same person, hanging out with more or less the same crowd as now (your "spiritual haplogroup"). You had pretty much the same problems, too. That´s karma for you, buddy. TMY don´t work with previous lives, since it´s pointless anyway.
TMY´s teachings have already been stolen by unauthorized teachers, so Bodhi isn´t revealing everything in his public broadcasts. Especially not his take on kundalini.
Most shamans don´t know how to attain the "light body". The sole exception might be the East Coast Cherokee, but they are keeping very quiet about it. Bodhi knows that the Hawaiian shamans no longer know the secret, since he trained with them.
An entertaining article from Wikipedia, probably written by a libertarian or *very* rabid anti-Communist, arguing that Kuomintang (including Chiang) were "socialists" and therefore presumably a bunch of unreliable Reds. For instance, the Chinese Muslim general Ma Hushan "operated state-owned carpet factories" in southern Xinjiang. THE DAMN COMMIE GOOK. Everyone knows that state-owned carpet factories, especially when run by renegade warlords in highly disputed territories, are prime time ejemplos of CREEPING SOCIALISM. Quite unlike single-payer health care for US Republican Congressmen, or Federal Reserve dollars to CIA´s black budgets, then. Not to mention farm subsidies.
Det här är andra gången Oisín Cantwell dyker upp i "Veckans Strasser", den här bloggens utan konkurrens populäraste inslag. Två saker är märkliga med denna artikel. Ett: Att Aftonbladet över huvud taget publicerar den. Det gamla DDR-tricket med kontrollerad dissensus inför naiva svenska turister? Två: Citatet jag tänker anföra nu.
"Tänk om framtiden finner det dystert att det var dessa konspirationsteoretiker, vaccinskeptiker, nyandliga profeter och allt vad det nu är som stod för motståndet? Tänk om det en dag häpnas över hur snabbt och tyst majoriteter fogade sig i ett undantagstillstånd som infördes i den heliga coronabekämpningens namn? Tänk om historiker rent av kommer att skaka på huvudet åt hur få intellektuella, opinionsbildare, jurister och journalister det var som höjde sina röster och ifrågasatte? Efter någon timme var talarna färdiga med sina krav på avskaffad pandemilag, rop om ”medicinsk apartheid” och varningar för att eliten försöker omdana samhället."
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