Red Turban Rebellion was an uprising influenced by White Lotus members that, between 1351 and 1368, targeted the ruling Mongol-led Yuan dynasty, eventually leading to the overthrow of Mongol rule in China.
"Decline of agriculture, plague & cold weather hit China, spurring the armed rebellion. In Hebei, 9 out of 10 were killed by the Black Death when Toghon Temür was enthroned in 1333. 2 out of 3 people in China had died of the plague by 1351."
"The meaning of life is…" - answers generated by the GPT-2 machine learning model:
the meaning of life is a good, not an afterlife. Thus, accepting death has to mean accepting life. Surprisingly, this revelation is simple, humble, and radical. It leaves all of my other beliefs at the door and replaces them with our own theism. I have to mention here that every other answer I've seen to life after death ties to the idea that God exists to explain or justify our choices, needs or desires. My personal life goal is to leave God's name in my will, and my personal death warrant to be followed.
the meaning of life is now available to anyone who is ready to listen," she said. She has in the past argued that the committee process can distort Parliament, and a select committee of parliamentarians does not properly represent the whole Canadian population.
the meaning of life is to exist as an event in an era before time." If space is infinite then in what context is an event described as "a former existence" a matter of preference? If, for purposes of inquiry, the mathematics of multiple universes is discovered to be purely analytic then does that make the infinite nature of the universe a matter of preference or is there any way that we could determine what the role of time might be in the theoretical situation?
In this paper, we believe that these difficulties can be handled with the assumption that time is not an important part of the possible universes. We will begin with a formalization of how the potential of a non-empirical way to identify a single universe in many parallel universes is improved on by a principled theory of universes
the meaning of life is to protect innocent lives and that love and love alone will enable us to stop the evil in the world. The education in Christianity is also led by Jesus who, rather than teaching that all people are good, shows that just as some are evil, so too some are good and, therefore, as a loving God, has prescribed the perfect and depraved paths of existence as a prelude to everlasting damnation. The effect on children is that they learn that none are without fault, and they are taught that they are inherently capable of doing wicked things because God has given them the ability. The concept of sin does not exist in
Chinese banker who embezzled US$108 million handed suspended death sentence
SCMP: "Ex-Chairman of Hengfeng Bank, Jiang Xiyun was convicted for moving 754 million yuan ($108 million) worth of Hangfeng shares to his personal account between 2008 & 2013. He also took bribes of more than 60m yuan together with another bank executive. Jiang had ordered others to destroy records for over 600 million yuan of transactions. Hengfeng Bank received about $14 billion bailout package. A reprieved death sentence may be commuted to a life sentence if the person shows good behavior within the allotted period." (alt: bloomberg)
#Comment: When is the last time one of the (many) super corrupt and criminal bankers in western countries had to go to jail or face justice? Probably zero times in the past 40 years?
Chinese scientist He Jiankui involved in gene-edited babies jailed for 3 years
SCMP: "Chinese scientist He Jiankui, who created the world’s first “gene-edited” babies, has been sentenced to three years in prison and fined 3 million yuan (US$430,000). He, along with two others named Zhang Renli and Qin Jinzhou, was convicted by a Shenzhen court on Monday on charges related to the “illegally carrying out human embryo gene-editing intended for reproduction”, which led to the births of three genetically edited babies, according to state news agency Xinhua."
#Comment: What message does jailing a single scientists ("bad sheep") send, in a time when Synthetic Life ("Internet of Life" as one Chinese initiative is called) is entering the hot period?
This video presents "Eight Pieces of Silk Brocade - Ba Duan Jine" (八段錦), the ancient Chinese Qigong exercise. Practiced daily, it can slow down the aging process & improve health.
This video presents the "Muscle-Tendon Change Classic - Yijin Jing" (易筋經), the ancient Chinese Qigong exercise.
This video presents the "Six Healing Sounds - Liu Zi Jue" (六字訣), the ancient Chinese Qigong exercise, involving coordination of movement & breathing patterns with specific sounds.
This video presents the "Five Animals Frolics - Wu Qin Xi" (五禽戲), the ancient Chinese Qigong exercise, including Tiger, Crane, Leopard, Snake, and Dragon.
Engineered Perception Architecture for Healthcare - "Adaptive Interactive Room" Research by Mihai Nadin & Asma Naz (2019)
“I don’t think Facebook Libra has a chance in its current form, because central banks will not accept the basket of currencies underpinning it. The project, in this form, has thus failed.” - Ueli Maurer, Switzerland’s finance minister & President
Memory Function and Cell Phone Microwave Exposure in Youngsters - by James C. Lin, University of Illinois at Chicago (2018, IEEE Microwave Magazine) (Unpaywalled)
"Reported results may lead to the conclusion that RF/microwave radiation emitted from GSM cell phones does not produce acute effects on an adolescent’s cognitive or memory function. But available data suggest that significant decreases in figural memory were found to be consistently associated with cumulative exposure of the brain of adolescents to 1,000–4,000 mJ/kg per day over one year. Therefore, a cautious approach to risk management, especially in relation to children and adolescents, is warranted."
RadioBio and Other Recent U.S. Bioelectromagnetics Research Programs - by James C. Lin, University of Illinois at Chicago (2018)
Abstract: The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) issued a request for proposal (RFP) in spring 2017 by announcing its new research initiative: "RadioBio: What Role Does Electromagnetic Signaling Have in Biological Systems?"
The microwave auditory effect, also known as the Frey effect, consists of the human perception of audible clicks, or even speech, induced by pulsed or modulated radio frequencies. The communications are generated directly inside the human head without the need of any receiving electronic device. The effect was first reported by persons working in the vicinity of radar transponders during World War II. In 1961, the American neuroscientist Allan H. Frey studied this phenomenon and was the first to publish information its nature.
Research Origin: Human auditory system response to Modulated electromagnetic energy - Allan.H.Frey (1961) (unpaywalled)
In his experiments, the subjects were discovered to be able to hear appropriately pulsed microwave radiation, from a distance of a few inches to hundreds of feet from the transmitter. In Frey's tests, a repetition rate of 50 Hz was used, with pulse width between 10–70 microseconds. According to Frey, the induced sounds were described as "a buzz, clicking, hiss, or knocking, depending on several transmitter parameters, i.e., pulse width and pulse-repetition rate.
Research Evolution: From the book "Military Neuroscience and the Coming Age of Neurowarfare" - by Armin Krishnan (2017):
"In 1975, an article by neuropsychologist Don Justesen discussing radiation effects on human perceptions referred to an experiment by Joseph C. Sharp and Mark Grove at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research during which Sharp and Grove reportedly were able to recognize nine out of ten words transmitted by "voice modulated microwaves". Since the radiation levels approached the (then current) 10 mW/cm² limit of safe exposure, critics have observed that under such conditions brain damage from thermal effects of high power microwave radiation would occur, and there was 'no conclusive evidence for MAE at lower energy densities'".
Research Application: Microwave Weapons Are Prime Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers - NYtimes (2018)
"Doctors and scientists say microwave strikes may have caused sonic delusions and very real brain damage among embassy staff and family members."
Research Foundation: Microwave Auditory Effects And Applications - Book by James C. Lin, PhD (1978) (PDF)
"The purpose of the book is to bring a body of research literature, scattered in a large number of journals and reports, into some compact form for the convenience of students and researchers. It will deal with selected experimental and theoretical topics in an interdisciplinary field which is 'undergoing explosive growth." - James C.Lin (1978)
Research Today: Mostly classified. The following from an independent researcher: Microwave Auditory Effect And Its Aplication - Research Project by Makoto Koike (2019)
Project Goal: "Microwave auditory effect refers to the phenomenon that pulse-modulated microwave induces auditory perception. The head acts as an acoustic transducer to convert the microwave into a theremoelastic wave, thereby invoking bone conduction. I am exploring the application of the microwave auditory effect onto a novel telecommunication system as well as a conspiracy theory that the novel telecommunication induces psychosis with symptoms of hallucination and delusion."
Review of microwave auditory effect: rediscovery of radiofrequency hearing phenomenon. - by Makoto Koike (2016, JP only) (PDF)
The Myth concerning Not Hearing Microwave - Presentation by Makoto Koike (2019, The 99th CSJ Annual Meeting, The Chemical Society of Japan)
These patents by the U.S. Air Force, suggest that wireless, receiver-less communication (based on the Microwave Auditory Effect) could be used in military communication today:
#BCI #NeuroScience #RadioBio #Biology #Cryptocracy #Book #Military
"Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy." - Paracelsus (1493 - 1541)
Li Ching-Yuen (simplified Chinese: 李清云; traditional Chinese: 李清雲) (1677 or 1736 – 6 May 1933) was a Chinese herbalist, martial artist and tactical advisor, known for his supposed extreme longevity. He claimed to have been born in 1736, while disputed records suggest 1677, implying an age at death of 197 or 256 years. Li Ching-Yuen spent most of his life in the mountains and was skilled in Qigong. He worked as an herbalist, selling lingzhi, goji berry, wild ginseng, he shou wu and gotu kola along with other Chinese herbs, and lived off a diet of these herbs and rice wine. He died from natural causes on 6 May 1933 in Kai Xian, Sichuan, China and was survived by his 24th wife, a woman of 60 years. Li supposedly produced over 200 descendants during his life span, surviving 23 wives.
After his death, General Yang Sen wrote a report about him, A Factual Account of the 250 Year-Old Good-Luck Man (一个250岁长寿老人的真实记载), in which he described Li's appearance: "He has good eyesight and a brisk stride; Li stands seven feet tall, has very long fingernails, and a ruddy complexion." General Yang became his disciple, practicing his teaching until the end of his life. In 1927 he invited him to his residence in Wanxian, Sichuan. The Tai Chi Chuan Master T. T. Liang (Liang Tung Tsai) learned from General Yang the practice of the "Eight Brocade Qigong". His student Stuart Alve Olson wrote in 2002 the book "Qigong Teachings of a Taoist Immortal: The Eight Essential Exercises of Master Li Ching-Yun", taking General Yang's report as reference. Some praticants of Jiulong Baguazhang, also known as Nine Dragon Eight Diagram Palm, claims that it was conceived by Li Ching-Yuen.
Whereas Li Ching-Yuen himself claimed to have been born in 1736, Wu Chung-chieh, a professor of the Chengdu University, asserted that Li was born in 1677; according to a 1930 New York Times article, Wu discovered Imperial Chinese government records from 1827 congratulating Li on his 150th birthday, and further documents later congratulating him on his 200th birthday in 1877. However, gerontological researchers have viewed the age claim with extreme skepticism; the frequency of invalid age claims increases with the claimed age, rising from 65% of claims to ages 110–111 being invalid, to 98% of claims to being 115, with a 100% rate for claims of 120+ years.
One of Li's disciples, the Taijiquan Master Da Liu, told of his master's story: when 130 years old Master Li encountered in the mountains an older hermit, over 500 years old, who taught him Baguazhang and a set of Qigong with breathing instructions, movements training coordinated with specific sounds, and dietary recommendations. Da Liu reports that his master said that his longevity "is due to the fact that he performed the exercises every day – regularly, correctly, and with sincerity – for 120 years."
The Taoist Master Liu Pai Lin (劉百齡), who lived in São Paulo, Brazil from 1975 until 2000, had in his classroom another photograph of Master Li Ching Yuen unknown to the West. In this photo his face is clearly visible, as are his long and curled fingernails. Master Liu had met him personally in China, and considered him as one of his Masters. He used to say that Master Li answered to him that the fundamental taoist practice is to learn to keep the “Emptiness” (Wuji). Master Liu’s son, Master Liu Chih Ming, teaches the 12 Silks Qigong in CEMETRAC, as transmitted by Master Li.
The article "Tortoise-Pigeon-Dog", from the 15 May 1933 issue of Time reports on his history, and includes Li's answer to the secret of a long life:
Following from "The Legend of Li Qingyun Meets Scientific Life Span Experiments":
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"Education with inert ideas is not only useless: it is, above all things, harmful." - A.N.Whitehead on what he called "inert ideas" - ideas that are disconnected scraps of information, with no application to real life or culture.
"For Whitehead, education should be the exact opposite of the multidisciplinary, value-free school model – it should be transdisciplinary, and laden with values and general principles that provide students with a bedrock of wisdom and help them to make connections between areas of knowledge that are usually regarded as separate." (wikipedia)
"Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts: it is a way of illuminating the facts. It works by eliciting the general principles which apply to the facts, as they exist, and then by an intellectual survey of alternative possibilities which are consistent with those principles. It enables men to construct an intellectual vision of a new world." - A.N.Whitehead
The following quotes on "knowledge" are fascinating:
“The really profound changes in human life all have their ultimate origin in knowledge pursued for its own sake” - A.N.Whitehead
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them" - A.N.Whitehead
The Yijing, Whitehead, and Time Philosophy - by Yih-hsien Yu (PDF)
Whitehead and the Book of Changes - by Shih-chuan Chen, disciple of Thomé H. Fang
Time as Emotion VS Time as Moralization: Whitehead and the Yijing - by Linyu gu (PDF)
Process and Reality - by Alfred North Whitehead (PDF)
Organic Realism and Process philosophy (wikipedia)
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Qigong - Energy Medicine for the New Millennium - by Tom Rogers (2004) (PDF)
Tom Rogers is the President of the Qigong Institute, who's goal is "to promote the scientific understanding of the basis of Qigong". They maintain an extensive collection of Qigong related scientific research papers in the "Qigong and Energy Medicine Database" and have a dedicated page on the "Harvard Medical School Qigong research". More related science papers can be found on Semanticscholar, including some making miraculous claims.
Richard Wilhelm (1873 - 1930) was a German sinologist, theologian, and missionary. He lived in China for 25 years. He is best remembered for his translations of philosophical works from Chinese into German, including the I Ching and The Secret of the Golden Flower (PDF)
Plant Stomata - a pore, found in the epidermis of leaves, stems, and other organs, that facilitates gas exchange.
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