At home in Makerfield

 

The candidates of the Monster Raving Loony Party...kidding!

Some news from Old Blighty. The results in the Makerfield by-election aren´t in yet, but some kind of polls predict a win for Labour candidate Andy Burnham. Nobody can place Makerfield on a map, but if Burnham wins, he might challenge Keir Starmer for the position of Labour leader (and Prime Minister). So in *that* sense, I suppose the by-election might be important. 

And then there´s Reform...

The polls I´m referencing strongly suggest that the far right split from Reform, Restore, is acting as a "spoiler", splitting the Reform vote and hence enabling a Labour victory. Yet, Restore activistas see their projected result (between 5% and 7%) as a stunning success?!

LOL. It´s pretty damn obvious how *this* is going to end...

Scarabs and robins

 

Credit: Francis C Franklin

This doesn´t mean anything, but it´s a funny (and somewhat weird) co-incidence. Yesterday, I was strolling in the local parkland-or-very-managed-woodland, reflecting on the Upanishads, Enneads and what have you. At one point, I wondered if there is a compassionate divine savior somewhere in the "pantheist" cosmos. Krishna, perhaps? 

*Immidiately after that* a European robin appeared and started flying/"dancing" around me. Eh? I usually don´t see robins in that part of the park. Or ever, really. When I asked ChatGPT about robins and folklore, it turned out that this particular bird is associated with...Christ?! The robin wanted to ease Christ´s suffering on the cross and therefore removed one of the thorns from the crown of thorns on his head. That is, both the bird and Jesus are "compassionate saviors". This lore seems to be English.

A sign from God that I should convert to Anglicanism? But then it struck me that some Hindus consider both Jesus and Krishna to be avatars of Vishnu. Indeed, the Hare Krishna leader Prabhupada even claimed that Christ and Krishna were the same person?!

Hmmm...

A co-incidence, of course. 

Moderation

 

Last year, I created my own "Tantric" symbol and prominently displayed it here on the blog. As a LARP, obviously. It showed a black swan emerging from a blue lotus, surrounded by a coral snake ready to strike. This snake wasn´t biting its own tail! In the background was a hexagram, which could be interpreted both as a symbol of static order (Saturn) and of dynamic creation (Shiva-Shakti). 

For various reasons, I decided to replace this rather fierce emblem with a more "moderate" one. The venomous snake is gone, as you can see. But...

Just the other day, it struck me that something else is different about the new symbol. I didn´t see it at first, since Copilot Designer made this move all on its own. In the old symbol (intended to be fierce), the swan and the snake were looking to (their) left. In the new one, the swan is look to (its) right?!

That is: the Left Hand Path vs The Right Hand Path. Fascinating how co-incidences work. 

See also here:

Fear the cygnid

Doreen disclosure

 

I didn´t know that Doreen Virtue is an alien abductee. I´m not joking. She actually says so in this video. Of course, Virtue now believes that the experience was demonic. 

Yes, Doreen Virtue is on the war-path against Steven Spielberg´s "Disclosure Day". She and her friend "Jack" does say some interesting things. For instance, is the deer in the movie really a Wiccan symbol? But overall, it´s all very predictable.

As usual. 

Abductive reasoning

 

Remover of obstacles?

So the United States abducted one foreign head of state and killed another one. So far, the success rate seems to be 50/50. It worked in Venezuela, but the jury is still out on Iran. It certainly doesn´t *seem* to be working. 

Still, a 50% success rate is pretty high. Especially since the succesful example was in the US sphere of influence (a.k.a. backyard). Sure wonder how the Russians and Chinese are calculating the odds right now. For instance, would killing or abducting Zelensky work if your last name is Putin? What about Taiwan? 

Of course, the opposite is true as well. Could killing *Putin* work for Ukraine, for instance? And, more importantly, Ukraine´s backers...

How long before somebody starts calculating whether or not a direct hit at a certain white house close to the Potomac might yield geopolitical dividends? But thanx for the crude oil, I suppose. 

Verdammte Zionisten

 

Apropå...vissa saker. 

Ny enkätundersökning

My sweet lord

 

Thursday is apparently Vishnu´s day in Hinduism, so here is some Vishnu-related material. Specifically devotional songs to Jagannath (a form of Krishna). I assume the first bhajan is somewhat "traditional", while the other sounds like a heavy metal song! Note the frequent use of AI-generated content in both videos. 

The dharma of Disclosure Day

 

Will religious people be shocked by UFO disclosure? Our man Brad believes that at least Buddhists won´t. For instance, there is an "alien" bodhisattva arriving on a "UFO" in the Lotus Sutra. Yes, that would be Gadgadasvara alias the Bodhisattva Wondrous Sound. Disclosure happened already 2000 years ago, it seems! So what seems to be the prob? See also link below. 

A description of an alien visit in the Lotus Sutra

The Zen of Kashmir

 

In Gavin Flood´s book "Introduction to Hinduism" (1996), the author states that Kashmir Shaivism is virtually extinct. OK Boomer. The book was clearly published before the Internet Age. I sometimes get the impression that Kashmir Shaivism (or Non-Dual Shaiva Tantra) is *the* dominant form of Hinduism on-line?! At least among White Americans, LOL. It may still be all dead and gone in the actual Kashmir Valley...

This Amerikwan cyber-dominance may explain why ChatGPT constantly promotes this peculiar form of spirituality. Everything I tell it, it tries to relate somehow someway to Kashmir Shaivism. When it´s not busy trying to convert me to Zen Buddhism and "sit in Zazen", Zen seemingly being the default position of this system when it comes to matters spiritual. I didn´t realize "sitting in Zazen" was *that* popular in *Silicon* Valley! 

Dude.

So I was amused when Gemini recently proposed that my private religious speculations sound like a synthesis between Gaudiya Vaishnavism (think Hare Krishna) and Aurobindo´s Integral Yoga?! They don´t but I´ll keep that in mind just in case.

I know, I know, I suffer from main character syndrome. Whatever. 

Alien dusk, alien dawn

 

Hal Puthoff is finally spilling the beans. If he disappears under mysterious circumstances later this month, we know the aliens are real. And if he *doesn´t* disappear, we know the aliens are real AND MORE POWERFUL THAN THE AMERIKAN DEEP STATE. Yeah, really.

Link to Richard Dolan´s Intelligent Disclosure channel. Not sure why it ends so abruptly. Is there a longer version for paying customers only somewhere? Ahem, what about disclosure, dude...

One good point in this video: If the US admin *really* want disclosure, why not just show us the alien bodies or crafts they supposedly have? Dolan calls this "the hangar test". Why just give us some documents that can mean whatever?

Well, exactly...

Pondering.