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Obama's State Of The Union: The Hollow Man Speaks-1/25 American Thinker, By Rob Miller -- Ah, the Hollow Man... I listen to these things so you don't have to, and I've got a pretty strong stomach - but last night's festivities were truly something else. A transcript is available here for those of you into self-mortification, but I'll go over the basics. First off, the speech was obviously very well rehearsed down to the last vocal inflection and raised eyebrow..in fact. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if there were theatrical directions emanating from TOTUS tonight. Simply amazing..yet as he spoke, the contradictions between what was coming out of his mouth and what we've seen coming out of this White House are so radically different they underlined one of the qualities I dislike most about this president -the way he arrogantly thinks everyone's stupid except him, and thinks that the usual rule that nothing ever goes away on the internet doesn't apply where he's concerned. The president started off and ended by invoking what he referred to as 'this generation of heroes' returning from victory in Iraq, and indeed he used the military frequently as an example of how he wants the Republicans in Congress to behave . It was disgusting to hear, considering how Senator Obama and many of his fellow Democrats cheering him on tonight did everything they could to sabotage our troops in the field and their mission during wartime. Yet he had the unmitigated gall to use military teamwork as an example of what he wants to see in Washington! Our military is legally bound to follow President Obama's orders no matter how nonsensical. Congress is not, especially when their common sense revolts and it was both deeply insulting as well as very revealing of the president to use the comparison, making the expected rhetoric that came later about working together a mockery. As if President Obama made any pretense of that when he and the Democrats controlled Congress! The president of course mentioned bin-Laden, and regular members of Joshua's Army may recall what I had to say President Obama's chief boast perhaps being a huge error. And his statement about how the Taliban's momentum has been broken was simply a blatant falsehood -- which is exactly why we're desperately negotiating with them and just released one of their leaders with American blood on his hands from Club Gitmo as a 'confidence gesture'. The president's chief theme, under the slogan 'an economy built to last' is actually pretty simple: eat the rich and punish the corporations to pay for more government spending. He called for a punishment levy on "big banks" and "big oil companies" and is apparently going to sic Eric Holder on the financial sector to "find out who was responsible for the mortgage collapse." I guarantee you that well connected Democrats like Franklin Raines and Jaimie Gorelick who ran Fannie Mae into the ground and walked away with multi-million dollar bonuses are not going to have to worry on that account. You see, it wasn't the banks that made the rules that governed the secondary mortgage market..it was Washington, and government entities Fannie and Freddie set the pace by reducing underwriting standards and down payment requirements while demanding that lenders make more loans to the unqualified based on racial bean counting. And the Democrat majority in Congress defended them from any oversight or reigning in while they did it. The president went on to mention his great achievement of 'saving' the auto industry. Will anyone remind him that he did it by gifting GM to his union political allies, crapping on private equity holders and giving the company special tax breaks at the taxpayer's expense to make them look artificially profitable? Or that he allowed GM to do stock dumping that was against SEC rules? Or about the outright lies he told the American people about GM and Chrysler being profitable and returning the money used to bail them out, when in reality they were a huge loss? We also had to listen to the president's blathering about trade. Rather than lower our corporate income tax sufficiently to encourage more companies to do business here, his solution is to put another punishment levy on companies that outsource, which will have the effect of even more companies relocating all but bare bones operations elsewhere. When Canada's corporate rate is less than half of ours, why not ? It was also unintentionally comical to hear the president make a vague call for tearing down regulations that stifle entrepreneurship in one part of his speech while mentioning at least three or four brand new regulatory bureaucracies he wants to create and calling for cap n' trade and climate change legislation in another. The president went on to discuss education, and of course his solution is to spend more taxpayer dollars to hire more teachers to pay more union dues to fund the Democrats. For such a pro-education guy, you'd never think he'd be the one to stop poor kids from getting into a decent school right there in DC. Not to mention the trillion dollar time bomb for America's economy this president enacted by executive order concerning a new student loans entitlement that will eventually create a bubble similar to housing and is guaranteed to raise the cost of college education. Yes, he really does intend to bankrupt the country. Or he's simply clueless, take your pick. ... Obama’s America: A tired old mare-1/25 Wash. Times Editorial, State of the Union rhetoric can’t hide presidential weakness -- In his State of the Union speech, President Obama tried to make the case that he has been one of the most successful chief executives in American history when it comes to foreign affairs. “Anyone who tells you that America is in decline or that our influence has waned,” he said, “doesn’t know what they’re talking about.” But it takes more than being briefed on the Osama bin Laden takedown to make a great leader. The vast gulf between Mr. Obama’s promises and his results argues against him. The Obama foreign-policy team came to town with visions of creating a new and more perfect world. It envisaged a break with the policies of the George W. Bush administration, a resurrection of U.S. prestige and a new age of global cooperation and peace. Mr. Obama hoped his pledges to close the terrorist detainee facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; extend full constitutional protection to foreign terrorists; and end the Bush-era enhanced-interrogation techniques - which he called torture - would signal this clean break and immediately establish his credibility. Amid this almost hysterical sense of optimism, he was handed a Nobel Peace Prize. Unearned awards aside, the president failed to fulfill the first two of his promises, and his stand against torture only served to justify and affirm the charges leveled by America’s critics, which have continued. The “grand designs” of the first year of Mr. Obama’s presidency were practically dead on arrival. The Mideast peace process, which was not only to settle the Israeli-Palestinian issue but also tie in Iran and other problem countries, has ground to a halt because of shifting signals and lack of trust from all sides. The notion of a comprehensive regional peace agreement between India, Pakistan and Afghanistan has been downgraded to secret talks with the Taliban seeking an expeditious and face-saving U.S. exit. Mr. Obama’s “Global Zero” nuclear strategy has become a cover for U.S. unilateral disarmament, and his vaunted “Muslim outreach” effort has been a zero indeed. With his grand designs frustrated, Mr. Obama entered the “lead from behind” phase of his presidency, in which he sought to claim credit for circumstances that were occurring whether he was involved or not. This well fit his dithering, slow-rolling approach to foreign affairs, especially when fast-moving events took the White House by surprise. The Arab Spring, which the administration failed to predict and then attempted to take credit for, was an opportunity to reshape the map of the Middle East to promote stability and human rights. But lacking a strategy or concrete goals, Mr. Obama settled on making vague statements about “dignity” and allowing Islamic radicals to seize the initiative. Now there is not even an illusion of U.S. leadership. Mr. Obama claimed that “the renewal of American leadership can be felt across the globe.” But this is simply not true. ... Memories of Jekyll Island-1/23 World Mysteries, by Doug Yurchey -- It was 1970. I was a young man playing on the Edinboro State College tennis team. Before the 70s Recession, there was a ‘boom’ period where scholarships were lavishly given. Not only was I granted a tennis scholarship to a medium-sized college, I was also able to partake in the team’s many field trips. ... The Aftermath of the K Bomb Posted-1/26 Catholic Exchange, By Elisabeth Deffner -- “The man who put sex education into our schools that reflected his sexual beliefs; the man… who helped gut the laws that protected women and children; the man who helped get us to a point where little girls are sending naked pictures of themselves across the internet; this is the man who started the sexual revolution: a sexual psychopath.” Dr. Judith Reisman pulls no punches in “Out of the Darkness,” a documentary that exposes the evil of pornography. Here, she is speaking of Alfred Kinsey, the man who dropped “the K bomb” on America, as Reisman says elsewhere in the film. An Indiana University professor of zoology, Kinsey published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male in 1948—and, according to Reisman, nothing has been the same since. His work led directly to the inception of Playboy, she explains, and from there, the pornography industry has exploded. The hub of “Out of the Darkness” is former porn star Shelley Lubben, founder of the Pink Cross Foundation, which offers emotional, financial, and transitional support to people working in “the adult industry.” After first prostituting herself at age 16, Lubben made her first porn film at age 24. “Every single day was traumatic,” Lubben says emphatically. Lubben’s story makes specific the information provided by others featured in the documentary. In addition to Reisman, author of Kinsey, Crimes and Consequences and visiting professor of law at Liberty University School of Law, “Out of the Darkness” features Mark Houck, co-founder of The King’s Men, and psychologist Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons. While Lubben’s experiences bring home the anguish that the porn industry inflicts on those mired in its depths, the expert commentary is far from dry and academic. “I feel like an Army medic on a battlefield, picking up wounded bodies,” Fitzgibbons says of his work. “Young people don’t know how to have friendships. They can’t see the good and beauty in others because they can’t see it in themselves. “Women become sexual meat to be consumed. People are using people as sexual objects, and no one’s talking about it.” While Fitzgibbons focuses on what he has observed in his practice—“an epidemic of narcissism living in an age of entitlement,” he says at one point, has led us to a place where it is difficult for far too many people to see the innate dignity of their fellow human beings—Reisman brings in a historical perspective, pointing out that in one of the charts in Kinsey’s book, he “documents” children as young as five months old experiencing orgasm. “It’s an around-the-clock experiment on a little boy,” she exclaims. “Who does that—and calls it science?” Houck, who admits that when pornography first came into his life, he didn’t recognize it as a problem, points out that on any given day in the United States, 40 million adults are looking up pornography on the internet. “The United States is responsible for 89 percent of the porn Web presence out there,” he adds. And because children are exposed to so many sexual images on the televisions in their own homes—about 15,000 in a year—“kids think porn is no big deal.” But it is a very big deal, as anyone with ears to hear Lubben’s heartbreaking tale will quickly understand. ... Carving a Nietzsche-1/25 National Post, by Robert Fulford -- Friedrich Nietzsche is one of those philosophers you just can’t kill. He’s been in his grave since 1900, having been silenced by insanity many years before. In 1898, The New York Times ran an article headed, “Interesting Revolutionary Theories from a Writer Now in the Madhouse.” He’s read, as he was then, only by a small minority, many of whom it would be flattering to call eccentric. Nevertheless, he runs through our social bloodstream. Francis Fukuyama’s remark has the sound of truth: Whether we like it or not, “We continue to live within the intellectual shadow cast by Nietzsche.” Our political leaders are Nietzschean heroes, fuelled by the will to power. In popular fiction and journalism we eternally reinvent the drama of Nietzschean characters who scorn tradition and prove their bravery by setting their own course, as he urged. Defiant originality is sanctified everywhere from art galleries to the business pages. Steve Jobs was perhaps the world’s most renowned Nietzschean character type. ...
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Almost set in stone: Steven Spielberg to sign on to direct new Ten Commandments movie-1/27 Daily Mail, by Mike Larkin -- Tackling a classic: Steven Spielberg is set to sign on to direct a new retelling of the Moses story It is regarded as one of the greatest movies in Hollywood history. But it looks like even Charlton Heston's The Ten Commandments is not beyond the current trend of Hollywood remakes, with Steven Spielberg close to agreeing with Warner Bros to direct. According to Deadline.com however, the ET film-maker is hoping to give his version of the story of Jewish prophet Moses a far different spin to the 1956 version. An insider told the website he is hoping to make his sword and sandals epic 'like a Braveheart-ish version of the Moses story.' Interestingly, Moses will be portrayed as a tough warrior in the new film, whereas Heston played him as a humble man with great inner strength. ...
• Unrest in Tibetan Villages in Ganze Prefecture (Sichuan): Several injured, 5 shot dead-1/24 The Secret Document That Transformed China-1/22 NPR, by David Kestenbaum and jacob Goldstein -- In 1978, the farmers in a small Chinese village called Xiaogang gathered in a mud hut to sign a secret contract. They thought it might get them executed. Instead, it wound up transforming China's economy in ways that are still reverberating today. The contract was so risky — and such a big deal — because it was created at the height of communism in China. Everyone worked on the village's collective farm; there was no personal property. ... Quantum Uncertainty: Are You Certain, Mr. Heisenberg?-1/23 ScienceDaily — Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle is arguably one of the most famous foundations of quantum physics. It says that not all properties of a quantum particle can be measured with unlimited accuracy. Until now, this has often been justified by the notion that every measurement necessarily has to disturb the quantum particle, which distorts the results of any further measurements. This, however, turns out to be an oversimplification, new research suggests. -- In neutron experiments carried out by professor Yuji Hasegawa and his team at Vienna University of Technology, different sources of quantum uncertainty can now be distinguished, validating theoretical results by collaborators from Japan. The influence of the measurement on the quantum system is not always the reason for uncertainty. Heisenberg's arguments for the uncertainty principle have to be revisited -- the uncertainty principle itself however remains valid. The results have now been published in the journal Nature Physics. ... Reincarnation Research-1/26 Coast to Coast Recap, Walter Semkiw MD discussed his work on reincarnation, and past lives, featured on the new IISIS.net website. IISIS is a nonprofit dedicated to reincarnation research and in particular, to disseminating the work of Dr. Ian Stevenson, who spent 40 years traveling around the world, documenting children who had spontaneous memories of previous lives. One of Stevenson's case studies involved a girl named Uttara Huddar from central India, whose past life personality was a woman named Sharada who at times would take over Uttara's consciousness and speak in Bengali, while Uttara only spoke Marathi. The phenomenon of people speaking in a language entirely unknown to them is called xenoglossy, and was present in a number of Stevenson's cases, Semkiw detailed. One of Stevenson's intriguing findings was that if someone had a stab or bullet wound in a previous incarnation, they might have a birthmark or scar in that same spot. Semkiw described the fascinating case of a skeptical police Captain named Robert Snow who underwent a past life regression on a dare, and uncovered startling memories of being a portrait painter in the 19th century. By coincidence, he ran across one of the paintings he specifically recalled of a hunchback woman, at an art gallery in New Orleans, and found out the name of the artist was Carroll Beckwith. Further details on the case here. Semkiw has spent nearly a decade working with a spiritual entity channeled by Kevin Ryerson named Atun-Re, who claims to be an ancient Egyptian priest. Atun-Re has confirmed various reincarnational matches to him, including David Rittenhouse as Carl Sagan, Charles Thomson as Ralph Nader, Rev. William Walter as Neale Donald Walsch, and Laurel & Hardy as the Bacher brothers. Semkiw contends that in many cases of reincarnation, the two parties share a strong resemblance in their facial features. According to Atun-Re, "the soul projects an energy template or hologram into the developing body and...the physical body shapes around it," he explained. |
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Odd accounts and strange tales orbit around Shasta-1/26 LA Times, Mt. Shasta, the Cascade peak that mesmerized John Muir, has long attracted mystics, metaphysicians and spiritualists. Now a researcher is seeking 'stories and information' for a book on Bigfoot and UFO sightings. ... At Reverse Spins: David Lloyd Drinks from the Crystal Cup on Mt. Shasta 2012 Maya / ET documentary backed by major Hollywood players... and Vatican?-1/26 Silver Screen Saucers, By Robbie Graham -- Silver Screen Saucers Los Angeles-based producer Raul Julia-Levy has told The Hollywood Reporter that his upcoming 3D documentary, Revelations of the Mayans 2012 and Beyond, will reveal “the most important archaeological finding in the history of mankind” and prove beyond doubt that the Maya had contact with extraterrestrials. ...
H. S. Olcott's Old Diary Leaves (First Volume) — "The True Story of the Theosophical Society"-1/25
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In the Foreword of the first volume of Old Diary Leaves (1895), H. S. Olcott’s six-volume memoir about the Theosophical Society, he observed about Co-Founder Helena Petrovna Blavatsky: “. . . if there ever existed a person in history who was a greater conglomeration of good and bad, light and shadow, wisdom and indiscretion, spiritual insight and lack of common sense, I cannot recall the name, the circumstances or the epoch.” Something undeniable was "her evident devotion to the Masters whom she depicted as almost supernatural personages, and her zeal for the spiritual uplifting of humanity by the power of the Eastern Wisdom."
Despite any human foibles of HPB, Olcott was convinced of the intercourse “between her mind and the minds of other living persons . . . Or, sometimes, the subordination of her will and whole personality to the will of another entity.” In his analysis of "psychical phenomena of or connected with Mme. Blavatsky," he included "spiritual insight, or intuition, or inspiration."
Olcott described an enlightening occurrence pertaining to his own mentality. This incident involved an anagram (the name of a 'Master') noticed in the acrostic made by the initials of a six-paragraph circular he had written.
Radical Theory Explains the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life, Challenges Conventional Wisdom-1/27 ScienceDaily, Earth is alive, asserts a revolutionary scientific theory of life emerging from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. The trans-disciplinary theory demonstrates that purportedly inanimate, non-living objects -- for example, planets, water, proteins, and DNA -- are animate, that is, alive. With its broad explanatory power, applicable to all areas of science and medicine, this novel paradigm aims to catalyze a veritable renaissance. -- Erik Andrulis, PhD, assistant professor of molecular biology and microbiology, advanced his controversial framework in his manuscript "Theory of the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life," published in the peer-reviewed journal, Life. His theory explains not only the evolutionary emergence of life on earth and in the universe but also the structure and function of existing cells and biospheres. In addition to resolving long-standing paradoxes and puzzles in chemistry and biology, Dr. Andrulis' theory unifies quantum and celestial mechanics. His unorthodox solution to this quintessential problem in physics differs from mainstream approaches, like string theory, as it is simple, non-mathematical, and experimentally and experientially verifiable. As such, the new portrait of quantum gravity is radical. The basic idea of Dr. Andrulis' framework is that all physical reality can be modeled by a single geometric entity with life-like characteristics: the gyre. The so-called "gyromodel" depicts objects -- particles, atoms, chemicals, molecules, and cells -- as quantized packets of energy and matter that cycle between excited and ground states around a singularity, the gyromodel's center. A singularity is itself modeled as a gyre, wholly compatible with the thermodynamic and fractal nature of life. An example of this nested, self-similar organization is the Russian Matryoshka doll. By fitting the gyromodel to facts accumulated over scientific history, Dr. Andrulis confirms the proposed existence of eight laws of nature. One of these, the natural law of unity, decrees that the living cell and any part of the visible universe are irreducible. This law formally establishes that there is one physical reality. ... Lasers shine light on galactic magnetic fields-1/27 Cosmos Magazine, by James Lloyd -- The mystery of how galaxies, including our Milky Way, have become magnetised has been solved by experiments using high-power lasers.
By reproducing the conditions found in developing galaxies, physicists have shown that shock waves can generate tiny 'seed' magnetic fields, which might eventually grow into the large-scale magnetic fields we observe today. The research is described in this Nature today.
“Observations indicate that magnetic fields are ubiquitous in galaxy clusters, galaxies, and even in voids,” said Gianluca Gregori, lead author of the study from the University of Oxford in England.
“To explain this large-scale magnetisation, magnetic fields must have existed for a long time. But where have these magnetic seeds come from? Our experiment indicates that the generation of seeds by shocks is a plausible explanation, as initially suggested in numerical simulations.” ... Archaeologists uncover mystery of over-zealous priest, fairies and a buried pagan cross Search is on for legendary Wicklow cross which vanished 60 years ago-1/25 Irish Central, By Kerry O'Shea -- A Wicklow community is on the search for a legendary pagan cross that vanished from their St. Patrick’s Church parish 60 years ago. The Independent reports that there are disparaging rumors as to why the granite cross may have vanished. Some say that local residents believed the cross was attracting fairies. Others believe it was buried by then priest Fr Matthew Blake, mainly because of its graphic carvings which displayed women and their “exaggerated genitalia.” The vanished cross was nearly forgotten about until it appeared in an old photo of the Church on the town’s Facebook page. Now, a team of local volunteers, led by their local war memorial committee, is on the search for the legendary cross. ...
Atlantis Rising New PDF Issue-1/22 Ancient Astronomers Were No Fools-1/27 • January 2012 Forecast-1/10 by Richard Nolle
Stories of Bronze Age Scandinavian invaders killing men and enslaving women-1/24 Mysterious 'Winged' Structure from Ancient Rome Discovered-1/24
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Prince of Our Dreams-12/24 Retired colonel has dealt with near-death experiences since Vietnam War-1/26 Herald Sun, by Keith Upchurch – Diane Corcoran didn’t know what a Vietnam War soldier was trying to tell her in 1969 about his near-death experience on the battlefield. The term was unknown then, but Corcoran could see that what he had gone through was life-changing. “I recognized that it was profound, extremely emotional for him,” she said. “And he was so worried that I wouldn’t believe him. But I said: ‘No, no. I believe you.’” Since that day more than 40 years ago, Corcoran has made it her mission to learn more about those who report near-death experiences, especially war veterans. Corcoran is president of the Durham-based International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS), which aims to educate people about the phenomenon and support those who have gone through it. She’s a retired Army colonel and nurse, serving from the Vietnam War through Desert Storm, and holds a doctorate in management. Gradually, Corcoran came to believe that many soldiers were having near-death experiences as bombs exploded and gunfire nearly took their lives. But many were uncomfortable sharing what happened, and felt they had no one to talk to. But Corcoran knew they needed an outlet – someone to share their life-transforming experience with, who wouldn’t be dismissive or think they were crazy. That person was her. She began by urging fellow medical professionals in the battlefield to take soldiers’ accounts seriously and to try to understand more about the near-death experience. “I drove them crazy,” she said. “I was probably 15 years ahead of the curve. They weren’t sure if I was crazy or what was the matter with me. But I was really convinced how important it was for health care professionals to know.” Corcoran spent years teaching about near-death experiences at major nursing conferences “and was sort of the go-to person in the military services,” she said. “Now, 40 years later, I still feel it’s important for all health-care providers to know about the near-death experience.” Veterans in particular, she said, often feel frustrated and alone, because medical professionals often don’t listen to their near-death accounts and take them seriously. “There are so many near-death experiencers out there who don’t know we exist, and think they’re crazy, and feel very isolated,” Corcoran said. “We want to get the word out to people and help them know about our organization.” Corcoran believes that the number of veterans with near-death stories will mount now that the war in Iraq has ended. “It’s been very clear to me since the Iraq War started that we’re seeing a lot more head injuries, more amputees, and that there’s going to be a lot more of these people who’ve had near-death experiences,” she said. “They have a unique problem, because they’ve got physical trauma, psychological trauma, and then they’ve got their experience which is exceptional.” If they try to tell a VA hospital doctor about it, she said, the doctor often lumps it in with a post-traumatic syndrome disorder diagnosis “and just dismisses it.” “If they could own their own experience and had somebody who really knew about it and understood it and give them information, these young men and women could do a lot to heal themselves,” she said. “But instead, they’re just further compromised.” Corcoran wants the military to address the issue, and has developed a training program to help them do so. In Durham, she said, two groups meet monthly about their near-death experiences, but another group for veterans is needed. “They are so frightened of losing their military benefits that they’re very hesitant to talk to anybody who really isn’t part of the military – certainly not the health-care professionals. They’re not going to tell them. So they’re kind of trapped in this situation, and it severely affects their spouses and family.” Corcoran also works with a group called Purple Heart Homes that includes two war veterans – one who had head trauma and the other a double amputee. They’re raising money to help veterans with housing issues by building homes and remodeling others. One of those veterans turned out to be a near-death experiencer, she said. “He had classic after-effects,” Corcoran said. “But he was blown up and doesn’t remember having an experience.” She said that’s often the case – many soldiers wounded by a bomb who don’t remember it, but are profoundly changed inside. “So they’ve got all this strange stuff going on, and they don’t know what it’s about,” she said. “When they return from war, they’re not the same. Their values often change, and without someone to help them explain it, they’re at a high risk for divorce and are very different people. And we have nobody addressing this for these poor veterans.” ... Near-death experience gave woman lasting peace-1/24 Year of the Dragon Monday starts the Year of the Dragon-1/21 Wikipedia Eastern Dragons Manifest as Auspicious Figures-1/23 Epoch Times, Jan. 23 marks this year’s Chinese New Year. After a Rabbit year, the upcoming year stands under the sign of the Dragon. Unlike Western dragons, in the Chinese tradition, dragons have a good reputation. In Chinese culture, a dragon has been described as a divine creature with a giant body in the shape of a silkworm, scales like a carp, a head like a camel, horns like a deer, eyes like a ghost, claws like an eagle, palms like a tiger, and ears like an ox. Despite their complicated features, dragons have been popularly depicted in more or less the same way in temples, palaces, books, paintings, and sculptures throughout history. The ancient Chinese revered the dragon so much that it became the only celestial creature in the Chinese zodiac. Although the dragon was often associated with mythical realms, according to Chinese historical records, dragons had appeared on earth from time to time. The oldest record of a dragon arguably dates back to Fu Xi, the creator of Chinese civilization, who was believed to be half-human and half-dragon. ... THE DRAGON-1/21 Theosophy Trust, Morya on the Dragon: Our way of teaching is usually attacked from two sides. The adherents of the old cannot forgive Us for Our interest in contemporary Western science. Those who follow only Western ways cannot forgive Our reverence for the Ancient Wisdom of the East. The language of symbols has been forgotten by the West. When the West hears about a heavenly dragon it smiles. But when we speak about the Serpent Solaris, or the solar plexus, then the smile fades. When the Serpent Solaris manifests itself as the serpent of the solar plexus, a fiction becomes a physiological fact. When the serpent of the solar plexus awakens, all four realms of heaven become accessible. The symbolism of the Ancient Wisdom is based on the correspondences between Macrocosm and microcosm. Therefore, look for the human being, with all his possibilities, in even the most abstract images. In the West can be encountered many conventional expressions, but this does not prevent one from knowing their true meaning. For this one has only to expel narrowness of thinking. Often We hear complaints that the Teaching is impracticable. Usually those people complain who make no real attempt to apply the Teaching. Can a medicine that is still sealed give relief? In any case, not many can claim a deep knowledge of the Teaching. Either their understanding is limited by their antiquated way of thinking, or they read it in bits and pieces without connecting them. One should first apply the Teaching before judging it. Light-mindedness is a world-wide failing! Agni Yoga, 399. Nyingma Monlam Chenmo 2012-1/26 The Twenty-Third Annual Nyingma Monlam Chenmo, 24 January 2012 through 2 February 2012 is well underway at the Maha Bodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya. ...
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