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Om mani padme hum (ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ,)
Recent Related Scientific Research : Frequencies of the Buddhist Meditative Chant – Om Mani Padme Hum • Effect of hypothermia on cognitive capabilities in snail (Achatina fulica) and their recovery post exposure to the Buddhist meditative chant “Om Mani Padme Hum”
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Today in "the fall of western civilization": 🤡 News from the global elite crime syndicate death cult
- 🤡 THE POPE, THE PAEDO & THE ‘PIMP’ Beaming Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell blessed by the Pope – showing their all-powerful connections (The Sun)
- 🤡 Jeffrey Epstein had ‘trophy’ Prince Andrew photo in Florida sex lair (NYPost)
- 🤡 Put Epstein's other 'co-conspirators' on trial with Ghislaine Maxwell, say victims (Telegraph)
- 🤡 ‘Everybody’s Absolutely Horrified’: High Society Is Bracing Itself for Ghislaine Maxwell’s Trial (Rollingstone)
- 🤡 Jes Staley exchanged 1,200 emails with Epstein that included unexplained phrases (FT)
- 🤡 Bill Clinton ‘joined Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell on 2 secret trips & flew on pedo’s Lolita Express jet (The Sun)
- Broader Context:
- 🤡 Jeffrey Epstein flight logs
- 🤡 Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA (NYTimes)
- 🤡 One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein (Upcoming Book, by Whitney Webb)
- 🤡 Epstein Investigations - by Whitney Webb (mintpressnews)
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"Der Gedanke verlangt Tapferkeit, um erfahren zu werden." - Ernst Bloch
("The thought takes bravery to be experienced.") -
The Root of Devil, Lucifer and Satan
- "Devil": The word has its origin in the Greek "Daimon" which means "Knowledge, intelligence".
- "Lucifer": It comes from the Latin "Lucem ferre" which means "Bearer of light, clarity".
- "Satan": It comes from the Hebrew "jun" "ha-shatán" which means "questioner, opponent".
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"When men stop believing in God they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything." - G. K. Chesterton
Image from "Why does intellectuality weaken faith and sometimes foster it?" (Nature) -
Monad (from Greek monas “unit”), an elementary individual substance that reflects the order of the world and from which material properties are derived.
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"The devil gets more help from fanatics than fools." — Sam Chadwick
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Alcoholics_Anonymous (AA) is a fascinating case-study in resilient bottom-up org design
- Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an international fellowship requiring no membership dues or fees dedicated to helping alcoholics peer to peer in sobriety through its spiritually inclined Twelve Steps program.
- AA says it is "not organized in the formal or political sense", and Bill Wilson, borrowing the phrase from anarchist theorist Peter Kropotkin, called it a "benign anarchy".
- The Steps also suggest the healing aid of an unspecified God—"as we understood Him"—but are nonetheless accommodating to agnostic, atheist, and non-theist members.
- In Ireland, Shane Butler said that AA "looks like it couldn't survive as there's no leadership or top-level telling local cumanns what to do, but it has worked and proved itself extremely robust". Butler explained that "AA's 'inverted pyramid' style of governance has helped it to avoid many of the pitfalls that political and religious institutions have encountered since it was established here in 1946.
- The Traditions hold that helping others recover from alcoholism is AA's primary purpose. That it should have no opinions on anything else to avoid public controversy. That members and groups should not use AA to gain wealth, prestige, or property. That dogma and hierarchies are to be avoided. That AA groups are autonomous and self-supporting—declining outside contributions—but are barred from lending the AA name to other entities. And, without threat of retribution or means of enforcement, that members should remain anonymous in public media.
- A member who accepts a service position or an organizing role is a "trusted servant" with terms rotating and limited, typically lasting three months to two years and determined by group vote and the nature of the position. Each group is a self-governing entity with AA World Services acting only in an advisory capacity.
- AA groups are self-supporting, relying on voluntary donations from members to cover expenses.[27] The AA General Service Office (GSO) limits contributions to US$3,000 a year.[31] Above the group level, AA may hire outside professionals for services that require specialized expertise or full-time responsibilities.
- AA's program is an inheritor of Counter-Enlightenment philosophy. AA shares the view that acceptance of one's inherent limitations is critical to finding one's proper place among other humans and God. Such ideas are described as "Counter-Enlightenment" because they are contrary to the Enlightenment's ideal that humans have the capacity to make their lives and societies a heaven on Earth using their own power and reason.
- This commitment is facilitated by a change in the member's worldview. To help members stay sober AA must, they argue, provide an all-encompassing worldview while creating and sustaining an atmosphere of transcendence in the organization. To be all-encompassing AA's ideology emphasizes tolerance rather than a narrow religious worldview that could make the organization unpalatable to potential members and thereby limit its effectiveness.
- US courts have not extended the status of privileged communication, such as that enjoyed by clergy and lawyers, to AA related communications between members.
More on AA's history: https://silkworth.info/ - Frank Buchman Oxford Group Documentary
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Pope Francis bows out of climate summit (Axios) - "Pope Francis is no longer planning to attend the UN climate summit that begins in three weeks in Glasgow, Scotland, the Vatican announced Friday." 🤡 Pope Francis launches mass consultation on Church reform (BBC) 🤡
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Charon carries souls across the river Styx - by Alexander Dmitrievich Litovchenko (1835-1890)
In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon (pronounced /ˈkɛərən/; Greek Χάρων) was the ferryman of Hades who carried souls of the newly deceased across the river that divided the world of the living the world of the dead. A coin to pay Charon for passage, usually an obolus or danake, was sometimes placed in or on the mouth of a dead person. Some authors say that those who could not pay the fee, or those whose bodies were left unburied, had to wander the shores for one hundred years. In the catabasis mytheme, heroes — such as Heracles, Orpheus, Aeneas, Dionysus and Psyche — journey to the underworld and return, still alive, conveyed by the boat of Charon.
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Today in "the fall of western civilization": Clown Shortages
Clown shortage reported in Northern Ireland amid COVID-19 lockdown (nypost) 🤡 Pope mandates vaccination: 3 members of the Swiss Guard resign (disclose) 🤡 Some 3,000 paedophiles in French Catholic Church since 1950: probe (france24) 🤡 Files of the Nuremberg Trials published online (disclose) 🤡 Pandora Papers: Secret wealth and dealings of world leaders exposed (BBC) 🤡 Credit Suisse offices raided over Greensill funds (FT)
