Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama (C) greets devotees at the closing ceremony of a teaching session at Kalachakra Ground in Bodhgaya on December 31, 2018. PHOTO CREDIT: AFP/Getty Images

Beijing’s Buddhist diplomacy depends on controlling the Tibetan leader’s next reincarnation.

“China’s brutal crackdown on its Muslims has attracted a global outcry and shows no signs of slowing in 2019. This extends to other faiths: Chinese Christians, Taoists, and Buddhists are also facing a new wave of repression. But while China is backtracking its accommodation of religious citizens within its borders, it’s doing the opposite outside them.

“With an energetic, multibillion-dollar, transnational campaign, China wants to harness Buddhism for soft power across Asia. It calls Buddhism an “ancient Chinese religion” and has spent $3 billion to revive the birthplace of the Buddha, the Nepalese town of Lumbini. It has been holding World Buddhist Forums since 2006 with monks from all over the world. It is pouring in money to revive the Gandhara trail of Buddhist sites in Pakistan, linking heritage revival to its Belt and Road Initiative. It’s building a Buddhist center in Myanmar’s capital and funding the study and translation of Buddhist texts. (In contrast to this expansive global vision, it also announced this month a five-year plan to “Sinicize” Buddhism for practitioners inside its borders.)”

Read the entire article by Krithika Varagur posted online January 22, 2019 at foreignpolicy.com.

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“The soul that really loves God and Christ, though it may do ten thousand righteousnesses, esteems itself as having wrought nothing, by reason of its insatiable aspiration after God. Though it should exhaust the body with fastings, watchings, its attitude towards the virtues is as if it had not yet even begun to labor for them. Though divers gifts of the Spirit, or revelations and heavenly mysteries should be vouchsafed to it, it feels in itself to have acquired nothing at all, by reason of its unlimited and insatiable love to the Lord. … It continues to be insatiable for the mysteries of grace, and for the accomplishment of every virtue. It is smitten with passionate love of the heavenly Spirit, …desiring to be perfectly admitted to the mystical, ineffable fellowship with Him.” ~St. Macarius the Egyptian

Spiritual Humility

“Many people do good deeds. Some do it for God, some not. Some do it primarily for recognition. They will donate only to charities who publicly announce the donations. They are not being charitable, they are buying acclaim.

“St. Macarius says this is the wrong approach. No matter how many good deeds we do, spiritual or physical, we should not brag about it, but give the credit to God who inspires that devotion. In doing that, we show proper humility. Sadly, today, humility is not a popular virtue on Earth, but it still matters a great deal in Heaven. Spiritual humility is an important spiritual attribute.”

Read the entire article online at spiritsun.net.

Original article posted by HAROLD BOULETTE on NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Dr. Rollier’s main heliotherapy clinic at Leysin, Switzerland

Dr. Auguste Rollier opened the first European “Sun Clinic” in 1903 at Leysin, Switzerland. He also wrote a very influential book: Heliotherapy. And during his time, Dr. Rollier was considered the most famous heliotherapist in the world. At his peak, he operated 36 clinics.

Dr. Rollier espoused that the sun was an unsurpassed broad-spectrum medicine. He healed his patients using a wholesome diet combined with the power of the sun. By 1933, there were over 165 different diseases successfully treated with heliotherapy including tuberculosis, wounds, rickets, and much more.

Dr. Rollier’s death in 1954 marked the end of sun therapy — not because it was ineffective but because it had been replaced by Big Pharma’s “miracle drugs.”

Visit the Facebook page for Dr. Rollier.

Read the 2007 article to the Los Angeles Times “The rise and fall of sunlight therapy” by Elena Conis.

by Robert Petrovich

Dr. Michael Clarage talks about his work with the SAFIRE project at the Electric Universe during the United Kingdom International Conference & Symposium 7th – 11th July 2018, Somerset, UK. Speaking from a more philosophical perspective – what an empiricist might ponder outside the lab – he offers some intriguing if not startling observations about the universe from the perspective of the conventional astronomy (the “dead” universe) and the biological perspective (the “living” universe).

Watch the talk by Dr. Michael Clarage on YouTube (22:11)

Dr. Michael Clarage received his PhD in physics from Brandeis University in 1992, studying the biological and statistical behavior of proteins. Prior to that, he spent several years studying binary pulsars at the Arecibo radio telescope. He has given traveling lectures in the areas of fractional calculus, fractals, and chaotic systems as well as presented public talks on such topics as relativity and dimensions, transformation in supernova and metamorphosis in biology. Dr. Clarage is currently a scientist with the SAFIRE Project.

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“The substantial existence of the soul does not depend upon serving as Form to anything: it is an Essence which does not come into being by finding a seat in body; it exists before it becomes also the soul of some particular, for example, of a living being, whose body would be the author of its soul.

“What then is the soul’s Being? If it is neither body nor a state or experience of body, but is act and creation: if it holds much and gives much, and is an existence outside of body; of what order and character must it be? Clearly it is what we describe as Veritable Essence. The other order, the entire corporeal kind, is process: it appears and it parishes, in reality it never possesses Being, but is merely protected, in so far as it has the capacity, by participating in what authentically is.” ~Plotinus

Body and Soul

“It is clear that when Plotinus speaks of the body, he is talking only about the physical body. It is also clear that he is lumping spirit and soul together and simply calling the whole thing “soul”. This simplified approach may miss some details, but is essentially correct.

“In Cosolargy, we say that humans have three “bodies”. The physical body of matter is one. The psychic body of thought and energy is the second. The spirit and divine soul make up the third.

Chicken or Egg

“Plotinus argues (successfully, I think) that the body cannot be the author or creator of the soul. The soul cannot be an offshoot of the body since an offshoot of something cannot be greater than the initial thing. Spirit and soul, being greater than the physical body, cannot therefore be created by the body.”

Read the entire article online at spiritsun.net.

Original article posted by HAROLD BOULETTE on OCTOBER 6, 2018

The new molecule.
PHOTO CREDIT: Illustration by Nils Rosemann

Date: November 30, 2018

Source: Lund University

For the first time, researchers have succeeded in creating an iron molecule that can function both as a photocatalyst to produce fuel and in solar cells to produce electricity. The results indicate that the iron molecule could replace the more expensive and rarer metals used today.

Read the entire article posted online November 30, 2018 at sciencedaily.com.

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“If thou shalt intend that which is present, following the rule of right and reason carefully, solidly, meekly, and shalt not intermix any other businesses, but shalt study this only to preserve thy spirit unpolluted, and pure, and shall cleave unto him without either hope or fear of anything, in all things that thou shalt either do or speak countering thyself with heroical truth, thou shalt live happily; and from this, there is no man that can hinder thee.” ~Marcus Aurelius

Intend Unpolluted Truth

“Imagination is a wonderful thing. But it is also something that is often misused. We misuse it when we hide form reality by filling it with fantasies. Not just by reading books or watching movies, but by letting our view of the world around us be hid under a veil of imagination.

“Zen masters say we must empty our cup before it can be filled again. This means that we must remove those fantasies, false beliefs, and opinions about the world and the universe that allows our imagination to hide reality from us. We don’t need to empty out the truth, just the lies.”

Read the entire article online at spiritsun.net.

Original article posted by HAROLD BOULETTE on JULY 30, 2018

In this series, the Thunderbolts Project has reported on the increasing frequency with which astrophysical literature acknowledges a fact which was long verboten in the space-sciences: the existence of electric currents that flow through the so-called vacuum of space. At the vastest cosmic scales, many astrophysicists recognize the “fundamentally electromagnetic structure” of the stupendous jets, hundreds of thousands of lightyears long, emanating from active galactic nuclei. At a much smaller scale, in our solar system, electric current systems are known to link the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn with their respective moons. And on our own planet, in recent years with improved technology has come ever finer evidence of tremendous electric currents that are connected to previously unknown phenomena.

Nevertheless, notions of charge neutrality and disconnected bodies in empty space continue to dominate the space sciences. In this episode, guest speaker Richard Moore explores the role of electric currents, called Birkeland currents, throughout the electric solar system.

Watch the entire talk posted online April 30, 2018 at YouTube.com (9:42)

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“Knowledge and understanding are life’s faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasure.

“He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred my neither understand you or know your true worth.

“God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind.” ~Kahlil Gibran

Crown of Knowledge

“True knowledge is indeed the crown. The crown of achievement greater than any man-made trophy. A crown of light brighter than the brightest intellectual who still relies on theory and opinion, while the one with Divine Knowledge simply knows.”

Read the entire article online at spiritsun.net.

Original article posted by HAROLD BOULETTE on JULY 9, 2018

Date: January 30, 2018
Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Summary: Space physicists have just released unprecedented detail on a bizarre phenomenon that powers the northern lights, solar flares and coronal mass ejections (the biggest explosions in our solar system).

Jan Egedal, professor of physics at UW-Madison who lead an exploration of magnetic reconnection, stands beside a chamber used for experiments in that exotic phenomenon. Magnetic reconnection seems to be involved in some of the most violent explosions in the universe; the recent study was the clearest view of the magnetic reconnection ever measured in space. The results “blew my mind,” he says. Credit: David Tenenbaum/UW-Madison

“The data on so-called ‘magnetic reconnection’ came from a quartet of new spacecraft that measure radiation and magnetic fields in high Earth orbit.

“‘We’re looking at the best picture yet of magnetic reconnection in space,’ says Jan Egedal, a professor of physics and senior author of a study in Physical Review Letters. Magnetic reconnection is difficult to describe, but it can be loosely defined as the merger of magnetic fields that releases an astonishing amount of energy.

“Magnetic reconnection remains mysterious, especially since it ‘breaks the standard law’ governing charged particles, or plasma, Egedal says.”

Read the entire article online at sciencedaily.com.

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