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I really don't understand why people decide to come into threads just to disparage teachings and belief systems. Having questions is one thing. To say it is all B.S. without adding any value is just disrespectful to everyone involved.

I agree, very brave to be so open and honest. A real gift to us all.

Looking forward to learning about your KS practices/experiences.

Gospel's to me are not the end all be all. I am a big fan of GOT for instance. As I said earlier, all you have to do is connect to Mary to understand what Faxin is quoting is true. Thank you for the conversation.

Yes there are. That doesn't mean he is part of it. Please do your research like Karen suggested before you disparage the guy because of what others are doing.

He is of a Mystical Christian lineage and is a very deep guy in his own right. He is just sharing some of his lineage teachings.. Not making stuff up. Also, try connecting to Mary Magdalene and see what you get

So, Dr. Hansen has been wrong for decades but let's all listen to him anyways...

This Dr. Hansen? Another Massively Failed Forecast By James Hansen Posted on July 29, 2018 by tonyheller Throughout his career, James Hansen has demonstrated an uncanny ability to be wrong nearly 100% of the time about both the future and the past. FEROCIOUS STORMS AND DROUGHT SEEN – The New York Times The 1950’s had the most persistent droughts on record, with the US in drought about 50% of the time, not 5% as Hansen claimed Since then, and particularly since Hansen’s 1988 forecast, the US has been getting and wetter and droughts have become infrequent. Climate at a Glance | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Out here in the west, we are having the wettest permanent drought on record, with the rain pouring down day after day – and lots more in the forecast. Intellicast – Weekly Precipitation in United States Hansen’s incompetence combined with his air of certainty and total lack of concern for the truth, makes him the perfect Democrat. Or this prediction by Dr. Hansen? Failed Climate Models NASA’s James Hansen started the global warming scare in earnest, during the very hot summer of 1988. Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate – The New York Times He made temperature forecasts for three emissions scenarios. Scenario A was increasing emission growth rates. Scenario B was decreasing emission growth rates. Scenario C was no emissions after the year 2000. Climate Change and American Policy: Key Documents, 1979-2015 – Google Books 1988_Hansen_ha02700w.pdf So how did Hansen do? Global warming theory is based on warming the troposphere, which should warm faster than the surface. The graph below shows the five year mean of lower troposphere temperatures measured by UAH satellite. Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs The next graph overlays the satellite lower troposphere temperatures in red, on Hansen’s 1988 forecasts – at the same scale and normalized to the early 1980’s. As you can see, troposphere temperatures have followed zero emissions Scenario C – meaning there is no evidence humans have influenced the climate. The other satellite data set is provided by climate alarmist Carl Mears at Remote Sensing Systems, and it also shows temperatures below the (yellow) range of climate models. Remote Sensing Systems Mears’ recent graphs have been altered upwards. Two years ago, the discrepancy between models and measured temperatures was even larger. Climate Analysis | Remote Sensing Systems The next image overlays the 2017 graph on the 2019 graph. You can see that Mears has moved everything up to the upper limit of his error blue bounds – but even so still shows that the climate models are failing. Four years ago I predicted that Mears, under extreme pressure from the climate mafia, would alter his data to match the fake surface temperature data sets. March 27, 2015 That is exactly what happened, but even after data tampering – the models are failing. Hansen’s 1988 testimony came during the last really hot, dry summer in the United States. He predicted increased heat and drought, and failed on both counts. The frequency of hot afternoons has plummeted in the US over the past century. Hansen focused on Midwest heat and drought in his 1988 testimony, but no place has cooled faster than the Midwest. The US is getting wetter, and Hansen’s 1988 testimony came during the last really dry year. Climate at a Glance | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Climate model forecasts have shown a 100% failure rate, yet mainstream climate science is based almost entirely around them. Failed Climate Models NASA’s James Hansen started the global warming scare in earnest, during the very hot summer of 1988. Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate – The New York Times He made temperature forecasts for three emissions scenarios. Scenario A was increasing emission growth rates. Scenario B was decreasing emission growth rates. Scenario C was no emissions after the year 2000. Climate Change and American Policy: Key Documents, 1979-2015 – Google Books 1988_Hansen_ha02700w.pdf So how did Hansen do? Global warming theory is based on warming the troposphere, which should warm faster than the surface. The graph below shows the five year mean of lower troposphere temperatures measured by UAH satellite. Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs The next graph overlays the satellite lower troposphere temperatures in red, on Hansen’s 1988 forecasts – at the same scale and normalized to the early 1980’s. As you can see, troposphere temperatures have followed zero emissions Scenario C – meaning there is no evidence humans have influenced the climate. The other satellite data set is provided by climate alarmist Carl Mears at Remote Sensing Systems, and it also shows temperatures below the (yellow) range of climate models. Remote Sensing Systems Mears’ recent graphs have been altered upwards. Two years ago, the discrepancy between models and measured temperatures was even larger. Climate Analysis | Remote Sensing Systems The next image overlays the 2017 graph on the 2019 graph. You can see that Mears has moved everything up to the upper limit of his error blue bounds – but even so still shows that the climate models are failing. Four years ago I predicted that Mears, under extreme pressure from the climate mafia, would alter his data to match the fake surface temperature data sets. March 27, 2015 That is exactly what happened, but even after data tampering – the models are failing. Hansen’s 1988 testimony came during the last really hot, dry summer in the United States. He predicted increased heat and drought, and failed on both counts. The frequency of hot afternoons has plummeted in the US over the past century. Hansen focused on Midwest heat and drought in his 1988 testimony, but no place has cooled faster than the Midwest. The US is getting wetter, and Hansen’s 1988 testimony came during the last really dry year. Climate at a Glance | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Climate model forecasts have shown a 100% failure rate, yet mainstream climate science is based almost entirely around them. I already covered this so i will keep it short. Another Dr. Hansen prophesy that was wrong. NASA Ice-Free Prophesy Update Posted on June 11, 2018 by tonyheller Ten years ago, NASA’s chief climate prophet James Hansen predicted the Arctic would be ice-free no later than this summer. The Argus-Press – Google News Archive Search

For real busy minds mantra meditation might be a good place to start. I believe TM is mantra based and has shown some real good results clinically with depression.

Argue the charts and data. Disparaging someone who disagrees with a point of view is wrong. He has offered to debate any of the climate scientist and they all decline. He has some really good debates on twitter with what you would consider real climate gurus. The 1930's had more fire acreage fire damage than the last two years. 2017 would be the 4th worse since 2004. Always interesting when they just use present data but here is a chart for you. https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article221788220.html The main issue has to do with forests service, not with climate change increasing fires or fire acreage. Also, wind doesn't cause fires. There is no evidence that increased CO2 increases wind just in California. I just want to throw that out there... This type of argument is the same thing about storms being stronger, they are not, more hurricanes, there are not. The climate changes, there is no doubt but if you were to listen to all the experts, Al Core the 99% of scientists.. The arctic would be melted a few years ago and New York should already be under water. This has been going on for over a 100 years and just like in the past it was all wrong. This right here is what is dangerous. A forest fire in your life time does not make it climate change. A hurricane in New York City does not make it climate change regardless of what Obama said. History has shown greater fires in the past. History has shown in the 1950's 5 hurricanes hitting New York and snow drifts 100 ft high in the city during winter. A few month ago CNN showed hail in the summer as proof of climate change. Said you were crazy with that evidence to deny climate change. People are being brainwashed...

Now, let's look at a little history of forest fires in California and the U.S average. US Forest Fires Continue Well Below Average Posted on August 6, 2018 by tonyheller So far this year, US forest fire burn acreage has been 42% of the 1926-2018 average, and is down more than 90% from the 1930 peak. Spreadsheet The summer of 1930 was extremely hot and dry, so no surprise they had a lot of forest fires. 04 Aug 1930, Page 1 – Moberly Monitor-Index at Newspapers.com psi-193008.gif (690×488)

Massive pasting of charts and climate articles that have been saying the arctic is melting since the 1920's is not shouting. I can't control the font. I rarely read anything voidisyinyang posts. He lost me at methane bombs. Oh, so now let's talk about California droughts and fires.. Another fun topic of misinformation. SCIENCE : Man Made California Droughts! Posted on February 28, 2018 by tonyheller Graphic: California’s droughts in the past 1,200 years – The Mercury News The New York Times used to know this. In Unexpected Places, Clues to Ancient and Future Climate; Warming? Tree Rings Say Not Yet – The New York Times Severe Ancient Droughts: A Warning to California – The New York Times But as technology improved, the New York Times got stupider. They announced the California permanent drought in 2016, right before California’s wettest year on record. California Braces for Unending Drought – The New York Times Thanks El Niño, But California’s Drought Is Probably Forever | WIRED

Now if you want to talk history, we can do that as well. I will start with the 1950's The Heatwave Of April-May 1952 Posted on May 2, 2019 by tonyheller From April 26 to May 5, 1952 there was a remarkable heatwave centered over the Northern Plains, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. North Dakota was over 90 degrees nine out of ten days, and reached 99 degrees on April 28. Winnipeg was almost 25 degrees hotter than Phoenix on April 28, 1952. 28 Apr 1952, Page 1 – Argus-Leader at Newspapers.com It is 55 F today in Sioux Falls by comparison.

Nobody is shouting. Again, just look at the science and you will see. The Winter has been wet not dry, cold not warm. The Arctic is not melting it is growing. The predictions by the experts have been wrong... again. Afternoon temperatures since October 1st have been the coldest in the last century. Nighttime temperatures were also well below average, for the second year in a row.

As you wish... It is a little long but very, very good.

That has nothing to do with the Expert Scientist saying that the U.S. would have a warmer winter and drought conditions because of higher CO2 levels. The exact opposite happened. El Nino is a natural weather phenomenon, not something caused by man made global warming. Again, we have had record cold winters which is the opposite of what the experts predicted. Also, there is no melting of the Arctic. The thickness of the ice is the same, 2 meters thick and the Arctic is expanding! Arctic Sea Ice Continues To Grow Posted on April 4, 2019 by tonyheller The volume of Arctic sea ice is very close to the median over the past 12 years, and continues to grow. There has been no trend in Arctic sea ice extent or volume over the past twelve years. Spreadsheet The Northwest Passage is blocked with the thickest ice in years. DMI Modelled ice thickness Last year, Arctic ambulance chasers were focused on the “ice hole in the Barents Sea.” But there is lots of ice in the Barents Sea, so they have moved their clown show to the Bering Sea. Science News asks “what happens when the Bering Sea becomes ice-free?” The Bering Sea loses its ice every spring. Perhaps they can use the last few hundred thousand years for reference? There was no ice (or water) in the Bering Sea when the first humans moved to America 25,000 years ago – during the last ice age. How did the first americans get here Alaska was largely ice-free during the last ice age, for the same reason Bering Sea ice is low this year. During ice ages, the jet stream brings mild air to Alaska, and cold air to Canada and much of the US. Ice Age Maps, Ice Age Maps, London The last thing I would ever expect climate researchers to do, is engage in actual scientific research. It just doesn’t seem to happen. The Arctic melting was so last year... this year it is the Bearing Sea....

Is silence and energy two separate things? Void/form, Shiva/Shakti, Yin/Yang.. Just stages of realization.. I would agree that when one first starts they realize how little control they have over their thoughts, how trapped they are or as you said, how busy the mind is.

In Kashmir Shaivism the Heart is the Mind. You could also say the heart is when one has moved beyond the local mind or has realized they are one and the same. People get confused when it comes to thoughts and it is easy to understand why. When we first start meditation what is the first thing we experience? Silence.. We then as is so often the case believe that silence is the goal. It is what we experience in mediation, it is blissful, expansive and amazing. Yet it isn't the goal. Thoughts are not bad, a Buddha would talk, teach and write. Each of those things require one to think. It is the Clarity of ones thoughts that matter. Buddhism is really good at explaining the 3 aspects of the Primordial State. Void, Energy and Clarity. So back to your questions, our thoughts and our attachments shows us where we are and what we need to work on. As one progresses from silence, to the movement of thoughts, to residing in the movement of thoughts you gain more tools to work on ones attachments to realize deeper levels of clarity, or self.

Here is a description on Rigpa from the book Dzogchen Practice of Contemplation. It is a little long and is from the section describing Shine without Object. Learning in this way to remain in relaxed presence, at a certain moment you find yourself in a state in which even though more or less thoughts continue to arise they do not disturb your presence and they vanish by themselves. That is, they self- liberate, because this state is not conditioned by the habitual continuity of judgement. Particularly evident in this state is pure presence, called rigpa, non-dual awareness. Discernible within it, are three distinct fundamental elements ( ne-gyu- rig): 1) nepa, the calm state, like a still sheet of water; 2) gyuwa, the movement of thoughts, like a wave; 3) rigpa, the recognition of the presence of this wave. These three elements, however, are all present simultaneously in the same condition. Only by being in the state of Shine can you ascertain this concretely. In this state there is nothing to seek and nothing to relinquish. Typically, beginners think that the calm state of Shine is something to pursue, and that, conversely, the arising of thoughts is an obstacle that can disturb the calm state, which must thus be avoided. However, once you finally find yourself in the state of union of ne-gyurig and continue in this presence then you understand that this is the authentic state of Shine. In this way you discover that quietude, nepa, and the arising of thoughts, gyuwa, are both present. https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/43943-rigpa/

It all depends on ones system of practices. With regard to silence, what is silent to one person can be a busy mind to another. Back to silence in practice. When you look at Dzogchen they start people with Shine with Object. The goal here is to achieve silence. The next stage is to do Shine Without Object. The goal here is to feel the movement of thoughts, be they silent or not. Over time one works to be able to feel the movement of thoughts as energy in all aspects of daily life. This is when one has moved beyond meditation. The next stage is to reside in that movement of thoughts, to realize the clarity of thoughts, Rigpa. Or as Apech mentions above use the thoughts flows

The Methane Bomb... and why you shouldn't be scared... Declining North Pole Summer Temperatures Posted on April 30, 2019 by tonyheller Summer temperatures near the North Pole have been declining for 60 years, and have been consistently below normal since the year 2000. Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut There are less than 70 days per year when temperatures near the pole can be above the freezing mark – blue line below – and temperatures have been running consistently below normal during the short melt season. Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut Climate alarmists say the Arctic is warming, because winter temperatures have been increasing for the past twenty years. Winter temperatures in recent years have been averaging about -25C, compared to about -30C in the past. This warming has been due to deep dips in the jet stream, which bring the Polar Vortex south, and have been causing record cold in the US, Canada and Russia in recent. years. Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut This past winter was much colder in the Arctic than the previous few were, though still above the 1958-2002 mean. Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut Ice has been getting thicker in the Arctic and currently averages about two meters thick. The Northwest Passage has been blocked with very thick ice for the past two years, and is now impassable. DMI Modelled ice thickness Sixty years ago, Arctic ice was also about two meters thick, and experts were predicting an ice-free Arctic within a generation. The Changing Face of the Arctic; The Changing Face of the Arctic – The New York Times Meanwhile, climate alarmists continue to bombard propaganda about an ice-free Arctic – which obviously is not going to happen. There has been no trend in Arctic sea ice extent for the past 13 years. Masie Sea Ice Extent Our top experts predicted the Arctic would be ice-free by 2008, and almost every year since. Expert: Arctic polar cap may disappear this summer_English_Xinhua North Pole May Be Ice-Free for First Time This Summer BBC NEWS | UK | Swimmer aims to kayak to N Pole Star-News – Google News Archive Search Arctic Sea Ice Gone in Summer Within Five Years? BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013’ Gore: Polar ice cap may disappear by summer 2014 Wayback Machine The Argus-Press – Google News Archive Search Why Arctic sea ice will vanish in 2013 | Sierra Club Canada Ice-free Arctic in two years heralds methane catastrophe – scientist | Environment | The Guardian The End of the Arctic? Ocean Could be Ice Free by 2015 – The Daily Beast A farewell to ice | Review | Chemistry World And ten years ago, President Obama’s science adviser predicted ice-free winters. With declining summer temperatures, there is zero chance of the Arctic becoming ice-free any time in the foreseeable future.

Coldest October-April On Record In Over A Century Posted on May 2, 2019 by tonyheller [This post has been corrected. There was a calculation error in the original version. I wrote some new code this morning to allow date ranges across annual boundaries. The problem was that the code uses 0-11 as month numbers, and the NOAA data uses 1-12, so there was a month shift which affected the last year (2019) differently than the other years.] Since the beginning of the water year (October-September) most of the US has been cold. WaterTDeptUS.png (688×531) Afternoon temperatures since October 1st have been the coldest in the last century. Nighttime temperatures were also well below average, for the second year in a row. Spreadsheet Data It was most likely the wettest October-April on record, but I won’t have statistics for that for a couple of weeks. WaterPNormUS.png (688×531) This destroys the argument that record rainfall is associated with warm air. And NOAA had the forecast exactly backwards, predicting warmth and drought. Winter Outlook favors warmer temperatures for much of U.S. | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

US Drought At Historic Low Posted on May 7, 2019 by tonyheller None of the US is currently experiencing severe drought. CO2 is at 410 PPM. pdi20190504-pg.gif (650×534) Compare with May, 1934 – when half of the US was experiencing severe or extreme drought. CO2 was 310 PPM. psi-193405.gif (690×488) The drought was worldwide. 22 Jun 1934, Page 3 – Hartford Courant at Newspapers.com But since 1988, scientists have been 99% certain droughts are caused by CO2 levels above 350 PPM. 24 Jun 1988, Page 4 – The Courier-Journal at Newspapers.com And since then, the US has been having the wettest years on record. Climate at a Glance | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Experts also say that global warming and the ozone hole killed us decades ago. Eugene Register-Guard – Google News Archive Search

I’ve been gone for a month and are we still talking about methane bombs? I just want to add I do believe in Big Foot but not the Loch Ness monster. 99% of scientists would agree with me based on computer models. Climate change may bring about the extinction of this unique species. A methane bomb would kill them for sure. We all need to support carbon taxes to save the planet and Big Foot but not the Loch Ness monster because that’s fake.

Thoughts are not bad, it is the clarity of them that matters. Silence is not the goal.