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Friday, October 5, 2012

Conscious Life Expo (LA, Oct. 5-7)

Wisdom Quarterly; 2012.ConsciousLifeExpo.com


Conscious Life Expo Oct. 2012, Los Angeles Airport Hilton (consciouslifenews.com)

  
GT (Ancient Aliens), Wren (WQ)
The Conscious Life Expo comes to Los Angeles this weekend: October 2012 Expo. What will you be doing at the end of the world on December 21, 2012? Why not sail off the edge like a modern Columbus or Viking? 

Linda Moulton Howe (EarthFiles)
Join your tribe on a Cruise to the Mayan Yucatan to celebrate the birth of the Fifth World in this endless Mayan cycle of creation, destruction, and re-creation. Miss this expo? No worries. It comes through town again in February 2013 as the 11th Annual Conscious Life Expo, the largest event of its kind in the country.
  
Forbidden (MCremo.com)
Stay tuned as for updates throughout the year with a new monthly newsletter, each of which offers something FREE along with articles on interesting subjects. More

() February 2012 Conscious Life Expo presentation by Dr. Steven Greer, MD, of CSETI (Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelliegence)
  

Occupy Wall St: "American Autumn" (video)

Wisdom Quarterly; American Autumn: an OccuDoc from Dennis Trainor Jr.

  
RATM's Tom Morello as new Woody Guthrie
Pacifica Radio's Michael Slate Show delves into the new Occu Doc and the senselessness of our one party system with two wings, a moderate and a hard right. Choosing the lesser of two evils means we always end up with evil. If an incumbent is re-elected because the alternative is worse, it's no surprise s/he does nothing new the next time. Obama does not deserve to be re-elected, but Romney would be a disaster, a vulture capitalist in the hen house. Oh, what to do!? Listen as Slate breaks it down. The Occupy Movement is just one expression of a larger American discontent: PLAY NOW (download)

They Call It Myanmar: Lifting the Curtain (film)

Wisdom Quarterly; Photosynthesis Prod; ; VOA
  
The Saffron Revolution 2007-2012 (R.A.)
This is the story of the most Buddhist country in the world (with 89% of the population as adherents), Burma. 
  
The military coup that took place a half century ago led to the creation of an Orwellian nightmare -- a police state ruled by General Than Shwe and an elite junta of criminal military men, who changed the name of the country to "Myanmar" as they embezzled its wealth, enslaved its people, and aligned with corrupt totalitarian China over corrupt democratic India. 
  
FREE BURMA from police state oppression: Saffron Revolution (gawker.com)

Orwell, who was a colonial British subject born in Burma, wrote 1984 in 1948 with Burma and England in mind.

Told with stunning footage that was shot clandestinely over a two-year period by filmmaker Robert H. Lieberman, the film provides an astonishing and intimate look inside at what has become one of the most isolated countries on the planet. Lieberman lifts the curtain on the everyday life of the people in what was once the Golden Land now held hostage by a brutal and superstitious military regime for 48 years.

Aung San Suu Kyi freedom mural (AFP)
A revealing interview with Nobel Peace Prize winner Lady Aung San Suu Kyi conducted just after her most recent release from house arrest is interwoven with extensive interviews and interactions with Burmese people from all around this incredibly diverse Southeast Asian nation.
  
Burma is the home of the modern emphasis on insight meditation (vipassana) in Buddhist practice thanks to its extraordinary monastic system that has produced such luminaries and scholars as Mahasi Sayadaw and the accomplished Pa Auk Sayadaw.

() Burma is going through a transition, reform Associate Producer Harold Dinkins says makes this film more relevant than ever before because the film portrays many sociological aspects in the country from health and education issues to the problem of child labor. It is now screening in select theaters across America.
  
The film, culled from over 120 hours of striking images, is an impressionistic journey that leads viewers across the vastness of Burma. It traces the history of Burma from its beginnings in the ancient city of Pagan (Bagan), through colonial times, the rule of Daw Suu Kyi's father, Aung San, recent uprisings by Theravada Buddhist monks called the Saffron Revolution after the color of their robes, the devastating Cyclone Nargis that killed 150,000 people, up to the present day.

Buddhist monk faces off with police (dvb.no)
During Lieberman's time in Burma he shot video constantly, even though it was forbidden and a risky thing to do in a totalitarian state, which could have led to him being thrown irretrievably into Insein Prison. Now this rare footage forms an unexpected and deeply expressive portrait of a place the world now calls "Myanmar."

Actor Ellen Page explains who dictator Than Shwe  is to Burma

True Story of Mind Over Matter: PK Man

WilliamJames.com; Coast to Coast AM (Oct. 4, 2012); adapted by Wisdom Quarterly
(LINK)
  
PK (psychokinesis) is the ability to control things using only the mind. The PK Man: A True Story of Mind Over Matter (Hampton Roads, 2000) by Jeffrey Mishlove with a foreword by Dr. John Mack MD, Harvard professor of psychiatry, presents an unbelievable story.
However, in the spirit of William James, it deserves careful attention. It is a scientific exploration of a mystery -- perhaps the greatest parapsychological find in history. The book documents the extreme paranormal ability of one human being, Ted Owens, to contact UFOs and to influence large scale events -- weather, volcanoes, hurricanes, lightning, and power blackouts.
   
UFO "angels" and "gods" visit humankind
Owens felt that he was the first human being since Moses, a famous Old Testament biblical figure, to exhibit such power. There are many illustrations and newspaper clippings available that confirm, support, and add context to the remarkable claims made in The PK Man. 

But is parapsychology even a "legitimate" science? See Dr. Mishlove's unique doctoral diploma from UC Berkeley. Meanwhile, Mishlove has engaged in work on financial forecasting and the Thinking Allowed TV series on topics related to psychokinesis. See a recommended list of book titles in the fields of ufology and parapsychology.

Lesbianism vs. $65 million dowry?

Lesbian heiress Gigi Chao is on "loving terms" with father despite $65 million dowry offer
(fanpop.com)
   
Gigi has a flood of offers (Bobby Yip/Reuters)
HONG KONG (AP) - The daughter of a flamboyant Hong Kong tycoon -- who has offered $65 million to any man who can woo her away from her lesbian partner -- said she's not upset with her father.
  
But it's unlikely she will be accepting any of the marriage proposals flooding in.
  
I'm not a feminist, but... (inourwordsblog.com)
 
Tycoon Cecil Chao made world headlines this week when he offered the unusual marriage bounty after learning that his daughter, Gigi Chao, had eloped with her lesbian partner to France.
  
"I'm actually on very, very loving terms with my father. We speak on a daily basis. He just has a very interesting way of expressing his fatherly love," the 33-year-old told The Associated Press.
  
CNBC's Robert Frank has all the details on the story about Gigi Chao's father who is offering $65 million to any man able to marry her.
  
She said her father offered the reward because he was upset after learning she had "a church blessing in Paris" with her girlfriend of the past several years. 

"What this whole episode really highlights is that perhaps still, the Chinese -- or in fact the Hong Kong mentality -- can perhaps tolerate the 'don't ask, don't tell' view of sexuality," she said. "But as a social statement, it's still very much a sensitive issue."

Hong Kong decriminalized homosexuality in 1991 without yet legally recognizing same-sex marriage. More + Video

Comedy fodder
Ashley Wells and Seven, Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY)
This story will never die because it is being immortalized by Sacha Baron Cohen ("Borat," "Bruno," "Ali G"). He plans to make his next movie, which may be a comedy for a change, imagining how this dowry offer could turn out.
  
To give men a fighting chance, professional pickup artists are coming to the rescue: What can ordinary men learn from them? (And what can women learn from the lengths men have to go to to find their ideal dating/predation style?) Effeminate Southern California Public Radio (SCPR.org) personality Larry Mantle gets to the bottom of the matter: The Game: Penetrating the Society of Pickup Artists
  
Many men might be interested anyway, but when $65 million is hanging in the balance, there are some who would learn Chinese, move to Hong Kong, and hang around the worlds of HK high finance and Parisian fashion... all just to score. Good luck, players, but consider that Gigi might be happy now and ask yourself, Would you make her any happier?