M.J. Rose

One of the world’s oldest documents, The Mahabharata, includes detailed accounts of technologically advanced flying craft and nuclear battles complete with radiation sickness and mushroom clouds. What do you make of it?

Flying Aircraft & Nuclear War and Other Strange Occurrences of The Past

Edited By James Hartman

The Indian Epics, especially the MAHABHARATA, pick up the thread of the tale of devastation and destruction. Atlantis, rather displeased at its humiliating defeat, deceived that they were no longer interested in subjugating the Rama Empire (An Indian Empire), and decided instead to annihilate the major cities using weapons of mass destruction. Sanskrit scholars could not comprehend what was being described in the Epics until the dropping of the first atomic bombs on Japan.

There are AUTHENTIC VERSES from the Indian Epics:

“Gurkha, flying a swift and powerful vimana (fast aircraft) hurled a single projectile (rocket) charged with the power of the Universe (nuclear device). An incandescent column of smoke and flame, as bright as ten thousand suns, rose with all its splendor. It was an unknown weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death, which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas. The corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable. Hair and nails fell out; Pottery broke without apparent cause, and the birds turned white. …After a few hours all foodstuffs were infected… …to escape from this fire the soldiers threw themselves in streams to wash themselves and their equipment.” — The Mahabharata

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We all want it. We all have trouble achieving it. What is the great mystery about relaxation and why does it elude us so? Leave it to the Buddhist scholars to clue us in on the secret…

Two Ways of Learning Relaxation

by Shinzen Young

There are two ways of learning relaxation, because there are two distinct levels at which a person can relax. I speak of top-to-bottom relaxation versus bottom-to-top relaxation. “Top” refers to the surface conscious mind, “bottom” the deep unconscious.

Top-to-bottom relaxation is what most people think of when they think of relaxation. It’s voluntary relaxation, like a progressive relaxation where you make an effort to relax. When a person sits to meditate I think it is good to do whatever possible to relax the overall body. I usually try to get an overall sense of the body relaxing. I call it a “settled-in” sense. For example, I notice that during sitting sometimes my shoulders will come up, so I’ll relax them as an act of conscious intention…

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You may already be familiar with the ancient ruins of Gobekli Tepe,  but you may not have heard of the nearby site of Nevali Cori, which has received little press. It dates from about 8000 BC and is now submerged under water. Nevali Cori was an established village that continues the pillar cult of Gobekli Tepe, only it places the pillars inside an indoor temple. The sculpted art that is associated with this site is hair-raising: women being carried away by raptors; the earliest depiction of a kundalini serpent going up the back of a man’s head (photo below); half-human, half-bird men with sinister-looking faces.

I love to imagine the lives of the people who worshiped at these sites – so ancient are these places that it is assumed the people who created them were still in the hunger-gatherer phase of civilization. But Analysis of the seeds discovered from the site shows that farming in the form of domesticated wheat was practised at Nevali Cori as early as 7,200 BC – This confounds established science. Clearly these humans were not only farming, but they were advanced stone masons and masters of temple building. Not only that, but their spiritual knowledge appears to have been vast and their artistic skills were highly developed.

If they were merely hunter-gatherers on the dark edge of civilization, how then were they able to feed and manage the countless teams of people it must have taken to create these structures? How were the stones moved? What previous and even older civilizations had these people emerged from and how advanced were those civilizations?

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