The First Mystics

The Aboriginal Australians possess the oldest extant culture in the world, dating back at least 40,000 years, and possibly extending 100,000 years into the past or more. Theirs is the oldest unbroken lineage of mystics. In their tradition the Dreamtime is a realm beyond space and time where the past, present, and future coexist simultaneously in a seamless wholeness. Through practice they are able to locate subterranean water, navigate through inhospitable wastelands to find food and shelter, heal the sick, and travel out of the body. Their highest deity is the Rainbow Serpent, a mother goddess who may be related to the Kundalini subtle energy currents in the spine, depicted as a serpent in the Hindu traditions.

Leonard Nimoy hosts a program about the history and mysticism of the first Australians. Runs 45 minutes.

Ray McGovern on the Ukraine Crisis

Beyond Fear of Death

Adi Da explains how all fear is fear of death, and how fear of death is the central feature, indeed the only feature, of the ego. Runs 25 minutes.

After The Tribulation

A two hour documentary on the rapture, how the idea of a pre-tribulation rapture came about, and why it is false.

Project Orion

Project Orion was an inter-planetary space craft capable of carrying thousands of tons and hundreds of people to Mars and the outer satellites in human survivable time scales (a trip to the nearest star, 4 light years away, would take 130 years). It used the force from thousands of hydrogen bombs to propel itself, achieving a level of efficiency impossible for chemical rockets.



Project Orion had to be a military project
because it involved cheap, low-yield, directional hydrogen bombs. Being a
military project it had to be developed from a tool for space
exploration to the ultimate planet killing weapon. Being a weapon it frightened a lot of people who didn't want to see something that destructive exist. And so it was cancelled.


It would take 1000 H-bombs to get to orbit, producing enough fallout to
kill 1 person somewhere on the Earth every time it was launched from
the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It is also the only off the shelf
technology available to get us to Mars or intercept asteroids in weeks
instead of years.

Life at a Japanese Zen Monastery

This is what the West is missing. You can't live like that, you have to pay "property tax" which means you rent the land you live on from the government. The existence of "property tax" binds you to the wage slave economy. You cannot escape and become self-sufficient. You cannot have true monasticism and simple living with the economic system of the West.

"Peter Barakan interviews Muho Noelke, the German abbot of Antaiji, a Zen monastery that is located deep in the mountains, close to the Japanese sea. The community commits itself to the practice of zazen and the study of the Buddha's teaching, while cultivating the fields around the temple, cutting grass and trees and doing construction work to keep self-sufficient. Muho explains about zazen, community life and the relation between teacher and student."

A Big Steaming Pile

It's the most absurd thing ever,
picking up after your dog. It's sick. I'm going to go walking down
the street with a bag of shit waving back and forth, back and forth,
stinking and bouncing against my thigh. It's disgusting. I want five
minutes alone with whoever came up with that law. Why not just leave
it in the street, where it will biodegrade in a couple days. That
plastic bag, that's covered in shit, that can't be used for anything
else, will last a million years. That bullshit law has just turned a
week long problem into a problem that will far beyond the point where
all our bones have turned to dust.

I can understand not
letting the dog go on someone's lawn. This one prick, her dog pissed
on my lawn while she was talking to me. She should thank God I wasn't
armed at that moment or it would have been the last mistake she ever
made. I don't want to mow my lawn and find a turd, I can understand
that, but the street? What's the harm leaving it in the
street?

Birds can shit wherever they want, and with those damn
geese it's WORSE than human turds. They are a biological hazard and
totally destroy whatever environment they invade. Squirrels can shit
wherever they want, deer, bears, every animal can shit wherever it
wants, but not dogs. What the fuck? What makes dog shit,
specifically, so hazardous while geese shit is perfectly sanitary and
nobody need pick it up? Whoever invented this law, I want to chop off
his balls and choke him to death with them.

"Wastewater treatment system is
NOT designed to filter dog waste!"
But it filters bird waste
no problem? What's the difference? It filters EVERY kind of animal
waste EXCEPT dogs? That's bullshit right there.

"Our
natural ecosystem can handle 2 dogs per square mile."
Then
where the fuck did dogs come from? I'm pretty sure there was a time
when there were more than 2 wild dogs alive in the same square mile
eating and mating, otherwise there wouldn't be any dogs around
today.

"According to the EPA dog poop is as toxic to the
environment as chemical and oil spills."
Bullshit. Don't be
fucking stupid. A chemical spill in India killed thousands of people
overnight. Never once has thousands of people died from a fucking dog
turd.

WHY THE FUCK IS GEESE SHIT PERFECTLY SAFE BUT DOG SHIT
IS THE WORST TOXIC HAZARD EVER?

What more, people BUY shit - they call
it "Menwar" to make it sound fancy - to spread on their
lawns to make it grow, but that's not DOG shit, that's special French
shit that's so expensive it has to be clean and beautiful! All those
chemical fertilizers and pesticides, no problem at all. That's
certainly not going into the water supply. But a turd! A fucking
turd! That's the worst thing evar!

Give me a fucking break.