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Dr. Catherine Hartmann is Assistant Professor of Asian Religions in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at University of Wyoming. She received her B.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia in 2011, M.A. in the History of Religions from the University of Chicago in 2013, and a Ph.D. from the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University in 2020. Dr. Hartmann's engagement with Religious Studies arises out of a longstanding interest in religion as a force that shapes our experience of the world, and in the practices religions develop to transform that experience. Her work focuses on the history of Tibetan pilgrimage to holy mountains and the goal of transforming perception while on pilgrimage. She is also interested in Buddhist ethics, vision and visuality, theories of place, and autobiographical writing. Her most recent book, Making the Invisible Real: Practices of Seeing in Tibetan Pilgrimage (Oxford UP, 2025), asks the following question: How can a person learn to see a mountain as a divine mandala, especially when, to the ordinary eye, the mountain looks like a pile of rocks and snow? This is the challenge that the Tibetan pilgrimage tradition poses to pilgrims, who are told to overcome their ordinary perception to see the hidden reality of the holy mountain. Drawing on multiple genres of Tibetan literature from the 13th to 20th centuries--including foundational narratives of holy places, polemical debates about the value of pilgrimage, written guides to holy sites, advice texts, and personal diaries--this book investigates how the pilgrimage tradition tries to transform pilgrims' perception so that they might experience the wondrous sacred landscape as real and materially present. Catherine Anne Hartmann argues that the pilgrimage tradition does not simply assume that pilgrims experience this sacred landscape as real, but instead leads pilgrims to adopt deliberate practices of seeing: ways of looking at and interacting with the world that shape their experience of the holy mountain. Making the Invisible Real explores two ways of seeing: the pilgrim's ordinary perception of the world, and the fantastic vision believed to lie beyond this ordinary perception. As pilgrims move through the holy place, they move back and forth between these two ways of seeing, weaving the ordinary perceived world and extraordinary imagined world together into a single experience. Hartmann shows us how seemingly fantastical religious worldviews are not simply believed or taken for granted, but actively constructed and reconstructed for new generations of practitioners. Previous interview with Dr. Hartmann on the New Books Network: Teaching Buddhist Studies Online A Discussion with Kate Hartmann. Milarepa, the One Who Harkened, by Nicholas Roerich. Dr. Hartmann's website with contact information: https://www.drkatehartmann.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

Dr. Catherine Hartmann is Assistant Professor of Asian Religions in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at University of Wyoming. She received her B.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia in 2011, M.A. in the History of Religions from the University of Chicago in 2013, and a Ph.D. from the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University in 2020. Dr. Hartmann's engagement with Religious Studies arises out of a longstanding interest in religion as a force that shapes our experience of the world, and in the practices religions develop to transform that experience. Her work focuses on the history of Tibetan pilgrimage to holy mountains and the goal of transforming perception while on pilgrimage. She is also interested in Buddhist ethics, vision and visuality, theories of place, and autobiographical writing. Her most recent book, Making the Invisible Real: Practices of Seeing in Tibetan Pilgrimage (Oxford UP, 2025), asks the following question: How can a person learn to see a mountain as a divine mandala, especially when, to the ordinary eye, the mountain looks like a pile of rocks and snow? This is the challenge that the Tibetan pilgrimage tradition poses to pilgrims, who are told to overcome their ordinary perception to see the hidden reality of the holy mountain. Drawing on multiple genres of Tibetan literature from the 13th to 20th centuries--including foundational narratives of holy places, polemical debates about the value of pilgrimage, written guides to holy sites, advice texts, and personal diaries--this book investigates how the pilgrimage tradition tries to transform pilgrims' perception so that they might experience the wondrous sacred landscape as real and materially present. Catherine Anne Hartmann argues that the pilgrimage tradition does not simply assume that pilgrims experience this sacred landscape as real, but instead leads pilgrims to adopt deliberate practices of seeing: ways of looking at and interacting with the world that shape their experience of the holy mountain. Making the Invisible Real explores two ways of seeing: the pilgrim's ordinary perception of the world, and the fantastic vision believed to lie beyond this ordinary perception. As pilgrims move through the holy place, they move back and forth between these two ways of seeing, weaving the ordinary perceived world and extraordinary imagined world together into a single experience. Hartmann shows us how seemingly fantastical religious worldviews are not simply believed or taken for granted, but actively constructed and reconstructed for new generations of practitioners. Previous interview with Dr. Hartmann on the New Books Network: Teaching Buddhist Studies Online A Discussion with Kate Hartmann. Milarepa, the One Who Harkened, by Nicholas Roerich. Dr. Hartmann's website with contact information: https://www.drkatehartmann.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Dr. Catherine Hartmann is Assistant Professor of Asian Religions in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at University of Wyoming. She received her B.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia in 2011, M.A. in the History of Religions from the University of Chicago in 2013, and a Ph.D. from the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University in 2020. Dr. Hartmann's engagement with Religious Studies arises out of a longstanding interest in religion as a force that shapes our experience of the world, and in the practices religions develop to transform that experience. Her work focuses on the history of Tibetan pilgrimage to holy mountains and the goal of transforming perception while on pilgrimage. She is also interested in Buddhist ethics, vision and visuality, theories of place, and autobiographical writing. Her most recent book, Making the Invisible Real: Practices of Seeing in Tibetan Pilgrimage (Oxford UP, 2025), asks the following question: How can a person learn to see a mountain as a divine mandala, especially when, to the ordinary eye, the mountain looks like a pile of rocks and snow? This is the challenge that the Tibetan pilgrimage tradition poses to pilgrims, who are told to overcome their ordinary perception to see the hidden reality of the holy mountain. Drawing on multiple genres of Tibetan literature from the 13th to 20th centuries--including foundational narratives of holy places, polemical debates about the value of pilgrimage, written guides to holy sites, advice texts, and personal diaries--this book investigates how the pilgrimage tradition tries to transform pilgrims' perception so that they might experience the wondrous sacred landscape as real and materially present. Catherine Anne Hartmann argues that the pilgrimage tradition does not simply assume that pilgrims experience this sacred landscape as real, but instead leads pilgrims to adopt deliberate practices of seeing: ways of looking at and interacting with the world that shape their experience of the holy mountain. Making the Invisible Real explores two ways of seeing: the pilgrim's ordinary perception of the world, and the fantastic vision believed to lie beyond this ordinary perception. As pilgrims move through the holy place, they move back and forth between these two ways of seeing, weaving the ordinary perceived world and extraordinary imagined world together into a single experience. Hartmann shows us how seemingly fantastical religious worldviews are not simply believed or taken for granted, but actively constructed and reconstructed for new generations of practitioners. Previous interview with Dr. Hartmann on the New Books Network: Teaching Buddhist Studies Online A Discussion with Kate Hartmann. Milarepa, the One Who Harkened, by Nicholas Roerich. Dr. Hartmann's website with contact information: https://www.drkatehartmann.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/buddhist-studies

Dr. Catherine Hartmann is Assistant Professor of Asian Religions in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at University of Wyoming. She received her B.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia in 2011, M.A. in the History of Religions from the University of Chicago in 2013, and a Ph.D. from the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University in 2020. Dr. Hartmann's engagement with Religious Studies arises out of a longstanding interest in religion as a force that shapes our experience of the world, and in the practices religions develop to transform that experience. Her work focuses on the history of Tibetan pilgrimage to holy mountains and the goal of transforming perception while on pilgrimage. She is also interested in Buddhist ethics, vision and visuality, theories of place, and autobiographical writing. Her most recent book, Making the Invisible Real: Practices of Seeing in Tibetan Pilgrimage (Oxford UP, 2025), asks the following question: How can a person learn to see a mountain as a divine mandala, especially when, to the ordinary eye, the mountain looks like a pile of rocks and snow? This is the challenge that the Tibetan pilgrimage tradition poses to pilgrims, who are told to overcome their ordinary perception to see the hidden reality of the holy mountain. Drawing on multiple genres of Tibetan literature from the 13th to 20th centuries--including foundational narratives of holy places, polemical debates about the value of pilgrimage, written guides to holy sites, advice texts, and personal diaries--this book investigates how the pilgrimage tradition tries to transform pilgrims' perception so that they might experience the wondrous sacred landscape as real and materially present. Catherine Anne Hartmann argues that the pilgrimage tradition does not simply assume that pilgrims experience this sacred landscape as real, but instead leads pilgrims to adopt deliberate practices of seeing: ways of looking at and interacting with the world that shape their experience of the holy mountain. Making the Invisible Real explores two ways of seeing: the pilgrim's ordinary perception of the world, and the fantastic vision believed to lie beyond this ordinary perception. As pilgrims move through the holy place, they move back and forth between these two ways of seeing, weaving the ordinary perceived world and extraordinary imagined world together into a single experience. Hartmann shows us how seemingly fantastical religious worldviews are not simply believed or taken for granted, but actively constructed and reconstructed for new generations of practitioners. Previous interview with Dr. Hartmann on the New Books Network: Teaching Buddhist Studies Online A Discussion with Kate Hartmann. Milarepa, the One Who Harkened, by Nicholas Roerich. Dr. Hartmann's website with contact information: https://www.drkatehartmann.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/south-asian-studies

Dr. Catherine Hartmann is Assistant Professor of Asian Religions in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at University of Wyoming. She received her B.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia in 2011, M.A. in the History of Religions from the University of Chicago in 2013, and a Ph.D. from the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University in 2020. Dr. Hartmann's engagement with Religious Studies arises out of a longstanding interest in religion as a force that shapes our experience of the world, and in the practices religions develop to transform that experience. Her work focuses on the history of Tibetan pilgrimage to holy mountains and the goal of transforming perception while on pilgrimage. She is also interested in Buddhist ethics, vision and visuality, theories of place, and autobiographical writing. Her most recent book, Making the Invisible Real: Practices of Seeing in Tibetan Pilgrimage (Oxford UP, 2025), asks the following question: How can a person learn to see a mountain as a divine mandala, especially when, to the ordinary eye, the mountain looks like a pile of rocks and snow? This is the challenge that the Tibetan pilgrimage tradition poses to pilgrims, who are told to overcome their ordinary perception to see the hidden reality of the holy mountain. Drawing on multiple genres of Tibetan literature from the 13th to 20th centuries--including foundational narratives of holy places, polemical debates about the value of pilgrimage, written guides to holy sites, advice texts, and personal diaries--this book investigates how the pilgrimage tradition tries to transform pilgrims' perception so that they might experience the wondrous sacred landscape as real and materially present. Catherine Anne Hartmann argues that the pilgrimage tradition does not simply assume that pilgrims experience this sacred landscape as real, but instead leads pilgrims to adopt deliberate practices of seeing: ways of looking at and interacting with the world that shape their experience of the holy mountain. Making the Invisible Real explores two ways of seeing: the pilgrim's ordinary perception of the world, and the fantastic vision believed to lie beyond this ordinary perception. As pilgrims move through the holy place, they move back and forth between these two ways of seeing, weaving the ordinary perceived world and extraordinary imagined world together into a single experience. Hartmann shows us how seemingly fantastical religious worldviews are not simply believed or taken for granted, but actively constructed and reconstructed for new generations of practitioners. Previous interview with Dr. Hartmann on the New Books Network: Teaching Buddhist Studies Online A Discussion with Kate Hartmann. Milarepa, the One Who Harkened, by Nicholas Roerich. Dr. Hartmann's website with contact information: https://www.drkatehartmann.com.

Last time we spoke about the Long March. Amidst escalating conflicts, the Red Army, led by the newly empowered Mao Zedong, faced immense pressures from the Nationalist Army. Struggling through defeats and dwindling forces, they devised a bold retreat known as the Long March. Starting in October 1934, they evaded encirclement and crossed treacherous terrain, enduring heavy losses. Despite dire circumstances, their resilience allowed them to regroup, learn from past missteps, and ultimately strengthen their strategy, securing Mao's leadership and setting the stage for future successes against the KMT. During the Long March (1934-1936), the Red Army skillfully maneuvered through treacherous terrain, evading the pursuing National Revolutionary Army. Despite harsh conditions and dwindling numbers, advances and strategic ploys allowed them to cross critical rivers and unite with reinforcements. Under Mao Zedong's leadership, they faced internal struggles but ultimately preserved their unity. By journey's end, they had transformed into a formidable force, setting the stage for future victories against their adversaries and solidifying their influence in China.   #131 The Complicated Story about Xinjiang Welcome to the Fall and Rise of China Podcast, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about the history of Asia? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on history of asia and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel where I cover the history of China and Japan from the 19th century until the end of the Pacific War. I've said probably too many times, but theres one last major series of events I'd like to cover before we jump into the beginning of the 15 year war between China and Japan. When I say Xinjiang I imagine there are two responses from you in the audience, 1) what the hell is Xinjiang or number 2) oh what about that place in northwest China. That pretty much sums it up, the history of this province, or region if you want to call it that is almost never spoken about. It was a place as we have seen multiple times in the series, where conflicts come and go like the weather. But in the 1930's things really heated up. What I want to talk about is collectively part of the Xinjiang Wars, but more specifically I want to talk about the Kumul Rebellion. There's really no way to jump right into this one so I am going to have to explain a bit about the history of Xinjiang.  Xinjiang in a political sense is part of China and has been the cornerstone of China's strength and prestige going back to the Han dynasty over 2000 years ago. In a cultural sense however, Xinjiang is more inline with the Muslim dominated middle-east. It's closer to th Turkic and Iranian speaking peoples of Central Asia. From a geographical point of view Xinjiang is very much on the periphery. It is very isolated from western asia by the massed ranks of the Hindu Kush, the Pamirs, the Tien Shan, the Indian Subcontinent of Karakoram, Kunlun, the Himalaya ranges and of course by the Gobi desert. It neither belongs to the east or west. As a province of China its the largest and most sparsely populated. It can be divided into two main regions, the Tarim Basin and Zungharia and then into two lesser but economically significant regions, the Ili Valley and Turgan Depression. The Tien Shan mountain range extends roughly eastward from the Pamir Massif, creating a formidable barrier between Zungharia and the Tarim Basin. This natural obstacle complicates direct communication between the two regions, particularly during winter. The Ili Valley, separated from Zungharia by a northern extension of the Tien Shan, is physically isolated from the rest of the province and can only be easily accessed from the west. This western area came under Russian control in the mid-nineteenth century and now forms part of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. Now it has to be acknowledged, since the formation of the PRC in 1949, Xinjiang changed in size and ethnic composition. The CCP drove a massive Han migrant wave over. Regardless, Han's make up a minority and according to some population statistics taken during the 1940s, Xinjiang was dominated by 7 Muslim nationalities, roughly 3.5 million people out of a total population of 3.7 million. 200,000 of these were Han settlers, while 75,000-100,000 were Mongols, Russians, Tunguzic peoples (those being Sibo, Solon and Manchu), a few Tibetans, Afghans and Indians. Among the various indigenous Muslim nationalities of Xinjiang, the Uighurs stand out as the most numerous and politically important. This Turkic-speaking group primarily consists of sedentary agriculturalists who reside in the oases of the Tarim Basin, Turfan, Kumul, and the fertile lowlands of the Hi Valley. In the late 1940s, the Uyghur population in Xinjiang was estimated to be approximately 2,941,000. Following the Uyghurs, the second-largest Muslim nationality in the region is the Kazakhs, with an estimated population of around 319,000 during the late Republican Period. Kirghiz come in third, with an estimated population of about 65,000 at the same time. Both the Kazakhs and Kirghiz in Xinjiang are nomadic Turkic-speaking peoples, with the Kazakhs primarily found in the highland areas of Zungharia and the Hi Valley, while the Kirghiz inhabit the upland pastures of the Tien Shan and Pamirs. There also exist a small group of Iranian-speaking 'Mountain' Tajiks living in the upland Sarikol region in the far southwest, with an estimated population of 9,000 in the mid-1940s; a primarily urban group of Uzbeks residing in larger oasis towns and cities of the Tarim Basin, numbering approximately 8,000 in the mid-1940s; and a smaller group of Tatars settled mainly in Urumqi and the townships near the Xinjiang-Soviet border, estimated at 5,000 during the same period. Lastly, it is important to mention the Hui, a group of Chinese-speaking Muslims dispersed throughout China, particularly in Zungharia and Kumul within Xinjiang, as well as in the neighboring northwestern provinces of Gansu, Qinghai, and Ningxia. Known as 'Tungan' in Xinjiang, the Hui population was estimated at around 92,000 in the mid-1940s and held significant political and military influence during the Republican Period. Excluding the Ismaili Tajik's of Sarikol, the Muslim population of Xinjiang, whether Turkic or Chinese speaking, are Sunni following the orthodox of Hanafi Madhhab.  As for the non Muslim population, excluding the Mongols who numbered roughly 63,000 and inhabit a narrow strip of land along the northeastern frontier between Xinjiang and the Mongolian People's Republic, Tien Shan, Ili Vally and Chuguchak, most were newcomers, migrants from the mid 18th century while the region was being conquered. Again according to the same statistics from the 1940s I mentioned, Hans represented 3-4 % of the population. Although the Han population disproportionately held power with the main administrative areas, they had no sizable territorial enclaves. The Han population can basically be divided into 5 groups; descendants of exiled criminals and political offenders; Hunanese settlers who came over after Zuo Zungtang's conquests; Tientsin merchants who were supplying Zuo's army; Shanxi caravaneers who came to trade and Gansu colonists. Lastly there were the Tunguzic Peoples and Russians. The Tunguzic speaking Sibo, Solon and Manchu settled mostly in the Ili region. The Russians also tended to live in the Ili region. These were mostly White Russian refugees from the civil war.  Xinjiang's first Republican governor was Yang Zengxin, a Yunnanese native. He had previously worked as the district magistrate in Gansu and Ningxia earning a reputation as a good manager of the local Tungan Muslim population. In 1908 he was transferred to Xinjiang and quickly found himself promoted to by the last Qing governor of Xinjiang. He held out his post after the Xinhai revolution and quelled a Urumqi rebellion soon after. Yang Zengxin's survived politically by always siding with whichever faction he thought was winning. For example in 1917, President Li Yuanghong dispatched Fan Yaonan to watch over Yang and try to replace him if possible. Yang recognized quickly whichever Warlord faction held power over the Beiyang government should be courted. Thus Yang held out for a long time and his province was comparably peaceful compared to most of warlord era China. To maintain his power, Yang enacted a divide and rule style, trying to placate the conflicts between certain groups within Xinjiang, but made sure to exclude Russian influence. Basically Yang tried his best to keep groups who could come into conflict away from each other, keeping the Uyghurs of southern Xinjiang away from the pastoral nomads of Zungharia and Tien Shan. Above all Yang considered the Bolshevik Russians to be the greatest threat to his regime, in his words “The Russians ... aimed at ... isolating the country from all outside influence, and at maintaining it in a state of medieval stagnation, thus removing any possibility of conscious and organised national resistance. As their religious and educational policy, the Russian administrators sought to preserve the archaic form of Islam and Islamic culture. . . Quranic schools of the most conservative type were favoured and protected against any modernist influence”. During his 16 year of power, Yang established himself as a competent autocrat, a mandarin of the old school and quite the capable administrator. Yet his economic policies were long term exploitative causing hardship and exhausting the province. Yang realized he was reached the threshold of what the population was willing to endure and endeavored to allow corruption to emerge within his administration provided it remained within acceptable limits. IE: did not spring forward a Muslim revolution. He opened junior positions in the administration to Muslims which had a duel effect. It made the Muslim community feel like they were part of greater things, but placed said officials in the path of the populations anger, insulating senior Han officials. Ironically it would be his fellow Han Chinese officials who would become angry with him. Some were simply ambitious of his power, others felt that Xinjiang should be more closely inline with China proper.  Rumors have it that after a dinnr party, Yang deliberately surrounded himself with opium addicts, stating to his subordinates “the inveterate opium smoker thinks more of his own comfort and convenience than of stirring up unrest among his subordinates”. Needless to say, Yang later years saw him seriously alienating senior officials. By 1926 he claimed “to have created an earthly paradise in a remote region” so he seemed to be quite full of himself. That same year he turned against his Tungan subordinates. He accused many of conspiring with Ma Qi, a Tungan warlord of Xuning in Qinghai, whom he also thought were driven by Urumqi. Deprived of his formerly loyal Tungans, Yang found himself increasingly isolated. A expedition was sent to Urumqi in 1926, whr G. N Roerich noted “The Governor's residence consisted of several well-isolated buildings and enclosed courtyards. The gates were carefully guarded by patrols of heavily armed men ... The Governor's yamen seemed to us to be in a very dilapidated condition. The glass in many of the windows on the ground floor was broken and dirty papers and rags had been pasted on the window frames. Numerous retainers roamed about the courtyards and villainous bodyguards, armed with mauser pistols, were on duty at the entrance to the yamen.” It seems likely Yang had decided to leave Xinjiang at that point. He had amassed a immense personal fortune and sent much of it to his family in China proper and also to Manila where he had a bank account. Further evidence of this was provided by Mildred Cable and Francesca French, two members of the China inland Mission who reported 'Wise old Governor Yang ... as early as 1926 ... quietly arranged a way of escape for his family and for the transference of his wealth to the security of the British Concession in Tientsin. Later in the same year, accompanied by several 'luggage cases of valuables', Yang's eldest son was sent out of Sinkiang, travelling incognito, in the company of these missionaries”. It was also at this time Yang erectd a statue of himself in th public gardens at Urumqi. According to Nicholas Roerich, this memorial was paid for with forced contributions 'from the grateful population'; by all accounts the statue was in execrable taste . While the NRA was marching upon Beijing in June of 1928, Yang ordered the KMT flag to be raised in Xinjiang. This gesture indicated to all, Yang was about to depart the province. One of Yang's most dissident subordinates, a Han named Fan Yaonan decided to act. Fan Yaonan was an ambitious modernist who received his education in Japan and someone Yang distruste from day one. Fan was appointed the post of Taoyin of Aksu by the Beijing government, an appointment Yang could have easily ingored, but was grudgingly impressd by Fans abilities. Fan proved himself very useful to Yang and was soon promoted to the Taoyin of Urumqi alongside becoming the Xinjiang Provincial Commissioner for Foreign Affairs. It seems Fan and Yang mutually disliked each other. At some point in 1926 Fan got together with a small group of like minded officials, such as the engineer at Urumqi's telegraph station and the Dean of the local school of Law, and Fan told them he wanted to assasinate Yang. Some believe Fan sought to gain favor with the KMT as motivation. Regardless on July 7th of 1928, 6 days after Yang took the post of Chairman of the Xinjiang Provincial Government under the KMT, Fan attacked. On that day, Yang was invited to a banquet to celebrate a graduation ceremony at the Urumqi law school. Fan had arranged the banquet, with 18 soldiers present, disguised as waiters wearing “red bands around their arms and Browning pistols in their sleeves”. During the meal, Fan proposed a toast to the health of Yang at which time “shots rang outsimultaneously, all aimed at the Governor. Seven bulletsin all were fired, and all reached their mark. Yang, mortally wounded, but superb in death, glared an angry defiance at his foes, 'who dares do this?' he questioned in the loud voice which had commanded instant obedience for so many years. Then he fell slowly forward, his last glance resting upon the face of the trusted Yen, as though to ask forgiveness that he had not listened to the advice so often given to him”. According to Yan Tingshan who was also wounded, Fan Yaonan finished Yang Zengxin off with two shots personally. After the assassination, whereupon 16 people were killed or wounded, Fan went to Yang official residence and seized the seals of office. He then sent a letter summonig Jin Shujen, the Commissioner for Civil Affairs in Xinjiang and Yang's second in command. Jin called Fan's bluff and refusing to come, instead sending soldiers to arrest the assassin. It seems Fan greatly miscalculated his personal support as a short gun battle broke out and he was arrested by Jin and shortly thereafter executed with his complices on July 8th. And thus, Jin Shujen found himself succeeding Yang, a less able man to the job. Jin Shujen was a Han Chinese from Gansu. He graduated from the Gansu provincial academy and served for a time as the Principal of a Provincial normal school. He then entered the Imperial Civil Service, where he came to the attention of Yang, then working as the district Magistrate at Hozhou. Yang took him on as district magistrate and Jin rose through the ranks. By 1927 Jin became the Provincial Commissioner for Civil Affairs at Urumqi. After executing Fan, Jin sent a telegram to Nanjing seeking the KMT's official recognition of his new role. Nanjing had no real options, it was fait accompli, they confirmed Jin into office and under the new KMT terminology he was appointed Provincial Chairman and commander-in-chief. In other words an official warlord.  Following his seizure of power, Jin immediately took steps to secure his newfound power. His first step was to double the salaries of the secret police and army. He also expanded the military and acquired new weaponry for them. Politically, Jin maintained the same old Qing policies Yang did, pretty much unchanged. Jin did however replace many of the Yunnanese followers under Yang with Han CHinese from Gansu. Jins younger brother, Jin Shuxin was appointed Provincial Commissioner for military affairs at Urumqi and his other brother Jin Shuqi was given the senior military post at Kashgar. His personal bodyguard member Zu Chaoqi was promoted to Brigade Commander at Urumqi. Jin maintained and expanded upon Yang's system of internal surveillance and censorship, like any good dictator would. According to H. French Ridley of the China Inland Mission at Urumqi “people were executed for 'merely making indiscreet remarks in the street during ordinary conversation”. Jin also introduced a system of internal passports so that any journey performing with Xinjiang required an official passport validation by the Provincial Chairman's personal seal, tightening his security grip and of course increasing his official revenue. Travel outside Xinjiang became nearly impossible, especially for Han officials and merchants seeking trade with China proper.  Under Jin Xinjiang's economy deteriorated while his fortune accumulated. Yang had introduced an unbacked paper currency that obviously fell victim to inflation and Jin upted the anty. Within a process of several stages, he expanded the currency, causing further inflation. Under Yang the land taxes had been a serious source of the provincial revenue, but Yang was not foolish enough to squeeze the Turkic peasantry too hard, he certainly was intelligent enough to thwart peasant revolts. Jin however, not so smart, he tossed caution to the win and doubled the land taxes, way past what would be considered the legal amount. Jin also emulated Ma Fuxiang, by establishing government monopolies over various profitable enterprises, notably the gold mine at Keriya and Jade mine at Khotan. He also monopolized the wool and pelt industry, using his police and army to force the sale of lambskins at a mere 10% of their market value. Just as with Yang's regime, wealth flowed out of the province in a continuous stream, straight into banks within China proper. According to George Vasel, a German engineer and Nazi agent hired to construct airfields in Gansu during the early 1930s, he knew a German pilot named Rathje who was secretly employed by Jin to fly a million dollars worth of gold bullion from Urumqi to Beijing. Jin did his best to keep all foreign influence out of Xinjiang and this extended also to KMT officials from China proper. Jin also of course did his best to conceal his corrupt regime from Nanjing. For all intensive purposes Jin treated Xinjiang like a feudal, medieval society. He tried to limit external trade to only be through long distance caravans. All was fine and dandy until Feng Yuxiang occupied Gansu and thus disrupted the traditional trade routes. Alongside this the Soviets had just constructed a new railroad linking Frunze, the capital of Kirghiz with Semipalatinsk in western siberia. This railroad known as the Turksib was aimed primarily to develop western Turkstan, integrating it within the new soviet system. The railroad was constructed 400 miles away from the Xinjiang frontier, on purpose to limit any activities with capitalists. When the railway was completed in 1930 it virtually strangled Xinjiang. China's share of Xinjiang's market dropped by 13% and the value of trade with the Soviets which had dropped to zero since the Russian civil war was not rising past 32 million roubles by 1930. The Soviet trade gradually was seizing a monopoly over Xinjiang and this of course affected the merchants and workers who were unable to compete. The revenue of the merchants and workers declined as new taxes were levied against them. Meanwhile alongside an increase in Soviet trade, the new railway also increased Soviet political influence over Xinjiang. It was also much faster and easier to travel from China proper to Xinjiang via Vladivostok, the trans-siberian railway and Turksib than across the North-West roads of China. For the Turkic speaking Muslims of Xinjiang, it was quite impressive and many wanted to do business and mingle with the Soviets. However to do so required a visa, and thus KMT officials in Nanjing held the keys. Jin's policies towards the Turkic Muslims, Tungans and Mongols were extremely poor from the very beginning. It seems Jin held prejudice against Muslims, some citing bad experiences with them in Gansu. Whatever the case may be, Jin rapidly antagonized both his Turkic speaking and Tungan Muslim citizens by introducing a tax on the butchering of all animals in Xinjiang and forbidding Muslims to perform the Hajj to Mecca. Some point out he did that second part to thwart a loophole on leaving Xinjiang for trade. Obviously the Muslim majority of Xinjiang and the military powerhouse of Torgut Mongols in the Tien Shan bitterly resented Jin. Despite wide scale hostility against him, the first challenges at his autocratic rule came not from various minority groups, but some ambitious Han officers under his command. Palpatin would say it was ironic.  In May of 1929 the Taoyin of Altai attempted a coup against Jin, but he was forewarned and able to confine the fighting to the Shara Sume area. In the spring of 1931 troubles broke out in Urumqi as discontented Han officers and soldiers attacked Jin's yamen. The attack failed, and the instigators of the plot were all executed. The same year, Jin annexed the Kumul Khanate, known to the Chinese as Hami, finally pushing the Turkic speaking Muslims into open rebellion. Going back in time, after Zuo Zengtangs reconquest of Xinjiang in the 1870s, a few local principalities were permitted to survive on a semi-autonomous basis. Of these Kumul was the most important and was ruled by a royal family dating back to the Ming Dynasty and descended from the Chaghatay Khans. The Khanate of Kumul dominated the chief road from Xinjiang to China proper and was therefore of strategic importance to the Chinese. It extended from Iwanquan northwards to the Barkul Tagh and along the mountains to Bai and south to Xingxingxia along the Xinjiang-Gansu border. During the Xinhai Revolution of 1911, Maqsud Shah was sitting on the throne of Kumul. He was known to the Chinese as the Hami Wang, to his subjects as Khan Maqsud or Sultan Maqsud and to Europeans as the King of the Gobi. He was the last independent Khan of Central Asia as the rest were tossing their lot in with the progress of the times. During Yangs regime he was content with allowing Kumul to train its semi autonomous status, mostly because Maqsud Shah was very friendly towards the Chinese. He spoke Turkic with a marked Chinese accent and wore Chinese clothes. On the other hand he had a long whit beard and always wore a turban or Uyghur cap. He was a staunch Muslim ruling a petty oasis kingdom from an ancient and ramshackle palace in Kumul proper, one of three towns making up the capital of Kumul, known to the Chinese as Huicheng. He had a bodyguard consisting of 40 Chinese soldiers armed with mausers and had a Chinese garrison billeted in fortified Chinese town. The third city in his domain was known as New City or Xincheng, populated by a mix of Chinese and Turkic peoples. By 1928, shortly after the assassination of Yang, it was estimated Maqsud Shah ruled over roughly 25,000-30,000 Kumulliks. He was responsible for levying taxes, dispensing justice and so forth. His administration rested upon 21 Begs, 4 of whom were responsible for Kumul itself, 5 others over plains villages and the other 12 over mountain regions of Barkul and Karlik Tagh. Maqsud Shah also maintained a Uyghur militia who had a reputation as being better trained than its Chinese counterpart at Old City. Throughout Yangs regime, Kumul remained relatively peaceful and prosperous. Maqsud Shah paid a small annual tribute to Urumqi and in return the Xinjiang government paid him a formal subsidy of 1200 silver taels a year. Basically this was Yang paying for the Sultans compliance when it came to moving through his strategic Khanate. For the Uyghurs of Kumul, they were free from the typical persecution under Chinese officials. The only tax paid by citizens of Kumul was in livestock, generally sheep or goats, given annually to the Khan. The soil of the oasis was rich and well cultivated. Everything was pretty fine and dandy under Yang, but now was the time of Jin. In March of 1930, Maqsud Shah died of old age. His eldest son Nasir should have inherited the throne of Kumul, but Jin and his Han subordinates stationed in Kumul Old City had other plans. Shortly after Maqsud Shah's death, Nasir traveled to Urumqi, most likely to legitimize his rise upon the throne. Nasir was not very popular amongst his people, thus it seemed he needed Jin's aid to bolster him. However there also was the story that it was Jin who ordered Nasir to come to Urumqi to perform a formal submission. Now at the time of Maqsud Shah's death, Li Xizeng, a Han Chinese divisional commander stationed in Kumul suggested to Jin that the Khanate should be abolished and annexed officially. There was of course a great rationale for this, if Jin took control over Kumul it would offer increased revenue and new positions for his Han Chinese officials. Thus Jin ordered a resolution be drawn up by his ministers to abolish the Khanate, dividing Kumul into three separate administrative districts, Hami centered around the capital, I-ho and I-wu. When Nasir arrived in Urumqi he was given the new position of Senior Advisor to the provincial government, but forbidden to return to Kumul. Basically it was the age old government via hostage taking. Meanwhile another official named Yulbars was sent back to Kumul with a group of Chinese officials to set up the new administration.  While the people of Kumul had no love for Nasir and were taxed pretty heavily by his father, this did not mean that they wanted the Khanate to end. For the Turkic Muslims the Khanate held a religious significance. For Uyghurs there was a question of national pride associated with it. Of course there were economic issues. Within Xinjiang Han were allowed to settle, but in the Khanate there were restrictions. In the words of the Nanjing Wu Aichen on the situation “subject peoples obstinately prefer self-government to good government”. Well Jin's government was definitely not good, so what outcome does that give? The newly appointed Han administration upset the people of Kumul from the very minute of its installation. When it was announced the privilege of being except from direct taxation by Urumqi was to be abolished, ompf. To add insult to injury, one years arrears of taxes were to be collected from the Uyghurs. On top of that, Kumul was tossed wide open to Han settlers who were incentivized to settle by giving them a tax exemption for two years. Yeah that be some wild policies. To add even more misery, Kumul being situated on the chief road from northwestern Gansu to Xinjiang saw an enormous flow of refugees from famine and warfare going on in Gansu. A column of these refugees were seen by Berger Bohlin of the Sino-Swedish Expedition of 1931. His account is as follows “During my stay at Hua-hai-tze I witnessed a curious spectacle. The Chen-fan region had for a number of years been visited by failure of the crops and famine, and large numbers of people therefore emigrated to more prosperous tracts. Such an emigration-wave now passed Hua-hai-tze. It consisted of a caravan of 100 camels, transporting 150 persons with all their baggage to Sinkiang, where it was said that land was being thrown open”. It seemed to Bohlin that the refugees looked carefree and happy and that the ruler of Xinjiang, Jin Shujen, a Gansu man himself was enthusiastic to have them come settle his province. Jin had his official in charge of I-ho district Lung Xulin provide land for the would-be settlers coming from Gansu. Lung Xulin responded by forcing his Uyghur population to leave their cultivated land and simply handed it over to the refugees. The expropriated Uyghurs were compensated for their land by being given untilled lands on the fringe of the desert where most soil was barren. The Uyghurs were also assessed for their land tax based on their old holdings. To make this even worse hear this, untilled land was exempt from taxation for two years, so they didn't even get that, while the Gansu refugees were excused from tax payments for three years. So yeah the Kumul people quickly organized a petition and sent it to the yamen in Urumqi. There was zero acknowledgement from the yamen it was received and nothing was done to address the long list of grievances, especially from the Uyghurs. Instead the Gansu settlers kept flooding in and with them the price of food skyrocketed, largely because of the enormous amount of provincial troops sent in to watch over everybody. Now for the moment the Turkic speaking Muslims in the region remained relatively peaceful, and this perhaps lulled Jin into a false sense of security. But according to Sven Hedin of the Sino-Swedish Expedition “Discontent increased; the people clenched their teeth and bided their time; the atmosphere was tense and gloomy. Inflammable matter accumulated, and only a spark was needed to fire the powder magazine.”  I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. The history of Xinjiang is unbelievably bizarre, complicated and quite frankly really fun. Before researching this I had no idea about anything and am really enjoying this as I write it. The next episode is going to be on the Kumul Rebellion, so buckle up buckaroo. 

Sejam bem-vindos ao nosso podcast Sabedoria Arcana, o seu portal para a magia, o ocultismo, a Tradição Primordial e os caminhos iniciáticos! No episódio 67, preparem-se para uma exploração profunda e enriquecedora sobre a figura intrigante de Nicholas Roerich. Junte-se a nós enquanto o Professor Adílio Jorge Marques e o Presidente do Instituto Brasil Nicholas Roerich, Raimundo Santos, mergulham nos mistérios e na vasta contribuição desse grande visionário para a arte, a cultura e a paz mundial. Vamos desvendar como sua visão única e seus esforços incansáveis moldaram a proteção do patrimônio cultural da humanidade. Este é um episódio que você não vai querer perder!

absurd beliefs can lead to atrocities. Cult specialist Joe Szimhart is an artist whose journey into the world of cults began with his interest in the paintings of Nicholas Roerich who led Agni Yoga. Roerich believed he was the 'king of the world' and cultivated an influential following - including Henry Wallace, FDR's Secretary of State for Agriculture and FDR's wife Eleanor. Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife were also members, as was Putin's former wife. The Russian Orthodox Church has declared both Theosophy and Agni Yoga satanic. Agni Yoga is a major source of New Age material - Joe tells the story of its use as the secret teaching at the heart of the Church Universal and Triumphant. And some discussion of Nazi beliefs, which were also influenced by Theosophy. Spike's note: For those of us who can't just hop on over to Spain (yes I'm jealous), I highly recommend the Prado Museum's interactive website.

With Jonah still MIA, Chris Stirewalt returns as Remnant guest host extraordinaire, joined by Benn Steil, director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, to discuss Steil's latest book and determine if the bizarreHenry Wallace was a noble man of the soil, an unsophisticated victim, or vindictive villain. To determine how Wallace changed the course of history, Stirewalt and Steil discuss the Soviet Union's duping of an Einsteinian genius, the cult of Nicholas Roerich, and why you should never slaughter 6 million pigs. Show Notes: — Chris' American Enterprise Institute page — Benn Steil's The World that Wasn't — Benn Steil's The Marshall Plan — Oliver Stone's The Untold History of the United States — Benn Steil and Elisabeth Harding's “The Farm Legacy of Henry Wallace: Regressive Subsidies” The Remnant is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including Jonah's G-File newsletter, weekly livestreams, and other members-only content—click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, I breakdown and analyze the Buddhist manuscripts that talk about Jesus that were discovered Nicolas Notovitch in 1887. These manuscripts were written approximately three years after the crucifixion taken from firsthand eyewitness accounts of merchants who had witnessed the crucifixion. This is by far the earliest known text that discusses Jesus with an incredible amount of accuracy. it's authenticity has been independently verified by multiple people such as Nicholas Roerich, William O Douglas, Madame Caspari, Swami Abhedananda and others. Jesus lived and studied in India and Tibet during the lost years of the gospels!

This week we delve into the Eldritch world of HP Lovecraft and try and decode hidden magickal lessons. Mario Garza from Symbolic Studies from joins me to grill ‘Polaria' author WH Müller on his book ‘Polaria'. This week we discuss: Did Lovecraft encode a secret magickal lesson into each of his stories, what is ‘The Mystic Polar Tradition', Why was the Polar tradition hidden, and much more. Check out Mario's site here, and his YouTube channel here Main theme by Simon Smerdon (Mothboy) Music bed by chriszabriskie.com Good luck finding this book for less than £1500, check it on Amazon here WH Müller Bio: Born in 1964, I gained access to Kabbalah and various occult doctrines related to it through my interest in the American author HP Lovecraft. My first book was published in 1992 bearing the title “Lovecraft – Treasurer of the Forbidden”. In 1994 I published the first occult exegesis and translation of the Babylonian Epic of Creation in “Primordial Light” which was substantially enlarged in its second edition “Fiat Nox” in 1994. In the 1990s I was also a patron member of the British Museum Society. Besides, I always worked as a translator and was for example responsible for the first Nicholas-Roerich-biography by Jacqueline Decter. Further translations in the 1990s included works by WB Yeats and EA Wallis Budge. In 1996 I authored “Polaria – The Gift of the White Stone” on Lovecraft and Western Occultism which was published in the US. In 2001 I founded my own publishing company with two books on esoteric Traditionalism (Guénon) and related subjects of Alchemy as well as the first German translations of some of Suhrawardi's most eminent Sufi writings. After having positively identified Einstein's famous equation of Special Relativity in Kabbalah, I published “NecroYoga” in 2011 containing the Kabbalistic “threshold-equation” later termed “Moshe-Formula”, and partly based on a so-called “Babylon-Workout” on Kabbalah, Special Relativity and Black Hole ‘Physics which had appeared previously in Germany. My most recent translations include Nevill Drury's biography on the life and work of the Australian artist and occultist Rosaleen Norton and Stephen Flower's “Lords of the Left-Hand Path”. “Antarktos: Understanding the Age of Rebellion” in which I write comprehensively on the “real” secrets of Antarctica in connection with the ongoing conflict of the Old Ones vs. the Elder Ones, E.A. Poe's secret messages in “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym” and further revelations from Lovecraft's occult heritage, is due for publication soon.

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!  The poem, "Untitled," came in a dream this morning. When I heard, “Returning” by Jennifer Berezan recorded in the underground oracle temple in the Hypogeum in Hal Saflieni, Malta a 6000-year-old Goddess site for healing, I recited a poem I wrote to it. In the YouTube video, the song is sung against a visual landscape with works of art by Nicholas Roerich. It is stunning. I then went to Berezan's website and bought the song which is 52 minutes long. it is deeply meditative and calls on the dieties from different traditions. Linda Tillery, historian, musician and scholar in African folk, spirituals, sings to Yemanja. I'd just read an essay, "Jesus and Mary Dance with the Orishas: Theological Elements in Intereligious Dialogue" by Clara Luz Ajo Lazaro (Cuba), last night from the collection, "Hope Abundant: Third World and Indigenous Women's Theology," edited by Kwok Pui-lan. In the essay, the scholar explains syncretism or the blending of African and Christian theologies in slave states. Yemonja and Yeye Osun are explored along with other orisha in the essay. Osun is reinvented to reflect rape culture, linguistic co-mingling and survival strategies. My poem is untitled and came to me when I awoke this morning.   

VYS0023 | Mercurial, Mutable, Mysterious Something - Vayse to Face with Paul Weston - Show Notes It's episode 23 and joining Hine and Buckley to pull that cosmic trigger is none other than author, researcher, lecturer and master of synchro-mysticism, Paul Weston. In the way that only Paul knows how, he spins a wonderful, breath-taking web of strange events, synchronicities and bizarre connections which all emerged in a single extremely powerful month in his home town of Glastonbury - How did he end up scattering Courtney Love's father's ashes in the centre of the Glastonbury Zodiac? How does that relate to a series of macabre and grisly murders? And how did the discovery of a swastika on the threshold of Dion Fortune's former residence trigger a waking-dream-proximity-alert? Paul also talks about how Cosmic Trigger is a psycho-active book (a trip he's taken 29 times!), how you can encourage synchronicities in your own life and how to deal with Chapel Perilous when your time comes... recorded 26 March 2023 Thanks to Keith for compiling the show notes!!! Paul's interview is so reference-dense that we've broken down the links into subject headings to help you find your way around: Paul Weston Links Paul Weston's website (https://www.paulwestonglastonbury.com/) Paul Weston's YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@PaulWestonGlastonbury) Paul Weston's Avalonian Aeon Publications Facebook page (https://en-gb.facebook.com/AvalonianAeonPublications/) Avalonian Aeon (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25789350-avalonian-aeon?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=nK5vEDt9u5&rank=1) by Paul Weston The Occult Battle of Britain (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44076194-the-occult-battle-of-britain) by Paul Weston Paul Weston talking about The Occult Battle of Britain (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkVJpFlezGA) Mysterium Artorius (https://www.waterstones.com/book/mysterium-artorius/paul-weston//9780955769603) by Paul Weston Aleister Crowley and the Aeon of Horus (https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780955769641/Aleister-Crowley-Aeon-Horus-History-0955769647/plp) by Paul Weston Glastonbury Zodiac and Earth Mysteries UFOlogy (https://paulwestonglastonbury.com/videos/glastonbury-zodiac-and-earth-mysteries-ufology/) by Paul Weston A Glastonbury Abbey Dream (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuXVDeE0IJ4) a series of photographs set to music by Paul Weston Robert Anton Wilson/Timothy Leary Links The official Robert Anton Wilson Website (http://rawilson.com/) RAW fan site (https://rawilsonfans.org/) RAW Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson) Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/cosmic-trigger/author/robert-wilson/) by Robert Anton Wilson Wikipedia Article on Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Trigger_I%3A_The_Final_Secret_of_the_Illuminati) Excerpt from Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (http://rawilson.com/cosmic-trigger-final-secret-of-the-illuminati/) The 23 Phenomenon, article by RAW, originally published in Fortean Times #23 (of course!), 1977 (https://rawilsonfans.org/the-23-phenomenon/) RAW talking about Aleister Crowley (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt8TZ0hYHiE) RAW and Timothy Leary at The Bridge Psychedelic Conference 1991 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uHLy0q9kWA) Wikipedia Article on Timothy Leary (psychologist, author) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary) Timothy Leary's Eight-circuit model of consciousness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-circuit_model_of_consciousness) Prometheus Rising (https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31538633908&ref_=ps_ggl_2039220669&cm_mmc=ggl-_-UK_Shopp_Tradestandard-_-product_id=UK9781561840564USED-_-keyword=&gclid=CjwKCAjwhdWkBhBZEiwA1ibLmHF7z2-sJtnD0IMVFbp08c1vnXIpx9eS8qkKVL_gK8PDvzCOpniN0BoC2oUQAvD_BwE) by Robert Anton Wilson Hank Harrison Links Wikibin article on Hank Harrison (http://wikibin.org/articles/hank-harrison.html) (not up-to-date!) Videos of Paul Weston's tribute to Hank Harrison, and the scattering of Harrison's ashes in Park Wood at the heart of the Glastonbury Zodiac, 2023: here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS_EE4nIN2U) and here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjkro8jSTqY) The Cauldron and the Grail (https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780918501172/Cauldron-Grail-Harrison-Hank-0918501172/plp) by Hank Harrison Love Kills: The Assassination of Kurt Cobain (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13580168-love-kills) by Hank Harrison Author Hank Harrison on his Book "Love Kills" and his daughter, Courtney Love (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElZ2hSbUQy4) Covert Action article on the Kurt Cobain Suicide/Murder Cover-up (https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/07/21/u-s-intelligence-coverup-newly-declassified-fbi-file-on-nirvanas-kurt-cobain-compounds-evidence-implicating-his-wifes-role-in-his-murder/) Twin Peaks Links Wikipedia Article on Twin Peaks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Peaks) Wikipedia Article on Mark Frost (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Frost) Mark Frost interview, The Independent, 1992 (https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/higher-peaks-in-view-the-man-who-wrote-twin-peaks-has-plans-to-get-weirder-mark-frost-talked-to-kevin-jackson-about-sherlock-and-warlocks-1541807.html) Psychic Self-Defence (https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/psychic-self-defence/author/dion-fortune/) by Dion Fortune Twin Peaks Blog Article - 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Dr. John McCannon's new biography of Russian artist, mystic, and all-around fascinating character Nicholas Roerich follows its subject from his artistic beginnings in the 1880's to the end of his life in India, in the 1940's. While not generally a household name in the English-speaking world, Roerich's influence punches over its weight. Roerich worked on the Rite of Spring, with Stravinsky, attempted to create a pan-Buddhist state in Asia, and may have influenced the outcome of a U.S. presidential election. All this and more, makes Roerich a wonderful character for a biography, and Nicholas Roerich: The Artist Who Would Be King (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023) brings out that character, in all its engaging and sometimes maddening complexity. Aaron Weinacht is Professor of History at the University of Montana Western, in Dillon, MT. He teaches courses on Russian and Soviet History, World History, and Philosophy of History. His research interests include the sociological theorist Philip Rieff and the influence of Russian nihilism on American libertarianism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Dr. John McCannon's new biography of Russian artist, mystic, and all-around fascinating character Nicholas Roerich follows its subject from his artistic beginnings in the 1880's to the end of his life in India, in the 1940's. While not generally a household name in the English-speaking world, Roerich's influence punches over its weight. Roerich worked on the Rite of Spring, with Stravinsky, attempted to create a pan-Buddhist state in Asia, and may have influenced the outcome of a U.S. presidential election. All this and more, makes Roerich a wonderful character for a biography, and Nicholas Roerich: The Artist Who Would Be King (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023) brings out that character, in all its engaging and sometimes maddening complexity. Aaron Weinacht is Professor of History at the University of Montana Western, in Dillon, MT. He teaches courses on Russian and Soviet History, World History, and Philosophy of History. His research interests include the sociological theorist Philip Rieff and the influence of Russian nihilism on American libertarianism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Dr. John McCannon's new biography of Russian artist, mystic, and all-around fascinating character Nicholas Roerich follows its subject from his artistic beginnings in the 1880's to the end of his life in India, in the 1940's. While not generally a household name in the English-speaking world, Roerich's influence punches over its weight. Roerich worked on the Rite of Spring, with Stravinsky, attempted to create a pan-Buddhist state in Asia, and may have influenced the outcome of a U.S. presidential election. All this and more, makes Roerich a wonderful character for a biography, and Nicholas Roerich: The Artist Who Would Be King (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023) brings out that character, in all its engaging and sometimes maddening complexity. Aaron Weinacht is Professor of History at the University of Montana Western, in Dillon, MT. He teaches courses on Russian and Soviet History, World History, and Philosophy of History. His research interests include the sociological theorist Philip Rieff and the influence of Russian nihilism on American libertarianism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

Dr. John McCannon's new biography of Russian artist, mystic, and all-around fascinating character Nicholas Roerich follows its subject from his artistic beginnings in the 1880's to the end of his life in India, in the 1940's. While not generally a household name in the English-speaking world, Roerich's influence punches over its weight. Roerich worked on the Rite of Spring, with Stravinsky, attempted to create a pan-Buddhist state in Asia, and may have influenced the outcome of a U.S. presidential election. All this and more, makes Roerich a wonderful character for a biography, and Nicholas Roerich: The Artist Who Would Be King (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023) brings out that character, in all its engaging and sometimes maddening complexity. Aaron Weinacht is Professor of History at the University of Montana Western, in Dillon, MT. He teaches courses on Russian and Soviet History, World History, and Philosophy of History. His research interests include the sociological theorist Philip Rieff and the influence of Russian nihilism on American libertarianism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/russian-studies

Dr. John McCannon's new biography of Russian artist, mystic, and all-around fascinating character Nicholas Roerich follows its subject from his artistic beginnings in the 1880's to the end of his life in India, in the 1940's. While not generally a household name in the English-speaking world, Roerich's influence punches over its weight. Roerich worked on the Rite of Spring, with Stravinsky, attempted to create a pan-Buddhist state in Asia, and may have influenced the outcome of a U.S. presidential election. All this and more, makes Roerich a wonderful character for a biography, and Nicholas Roerich: The Artist Who Would Be King (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023) brings out that character, in all its engaging and sometimes maddening complexity. Aaron Weinacht is Professor of History at the University of Montana Western, in Dillon, MT. He teaches courses on Russian and Soviet History, World History, and Philosophy of History. His research interests include the sociological theorist Philip Rieff and the influence of Russian nihilism on American libertarianism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

Dr. John McCannon's new biography of Russian artist, mystic, and all-around fascinating character Nicholas Roerich follows its subject from his artistic beginnings in the 1880's to the end of his life in India, in the 1940's. While not generally a household name in the English-speaking world, Roerich's influence punches over its weight. Roerich worked on the Rite of Spring, with Stravinsky, attempted to create a pan-Buddhist state in Asia, and may have influenced the outcome of a U.S. presidential election. All this and more, makes Roerich a wonderful character for a biography, and Nicholas Roerich: The Artist Who Would Be King (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023) brings out that character, in all its engaging and sometimes maddening complexity. Aaron Weinacht is Professor of History at the University of Montana Western, in Dillon, MT. He teaches courses on Russian and Soviet History, World History, and Philosophy of History. His research interests include the sociological theorist Philip Rieff and the influence of Russian nihilism on American libertarianism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/art

"Excerpts from Shambhala, The Resplendent," by Nicholas Roerich, from the “Rosicrucian Writers” issue of the Rosicrucian Digest. This podcast is an excerpt from a book by Nicholas Roerich, a painter, author, humanitarian, philosopher, Rosicrucian, and well-known public figure from the early twentieth century. This selection is an exploration of the mythical Buddhist kingdom that inspired the idea of Shangri-La. Running Time: 14:29 Podcast Copyright © 2023 Rosicrucian Order, AMORC. All Rights Reserved.

Livia Manera Sambuy"Il segreto di Amrit Kaur"Feltrinelli Editorehttps://www.feltrinellieditore.it/A pochi giorni dal funerale del fratello, Livia si ritrova in un museo di Mumbai, davanti all'immagine di una giovane donna avvolta in “un sari impalpabile e traslucido”, una principessa indiana. È vero, come legge nella didascalia che accompagna lo scatto, che la principessa ha venduto i suoi gioielli per salvare vite di ebrei? E che per questo è stata arrestata, ed è morta in un campo di concentramento?“È così,” scrive l'autrice, “che è cominciata quest'avventura: come un lampo di curiosità in un momento della mia vita in cui il senso di perdita era così intenso da oscurare sia il passato sia il futuro. Desideravo saperne di più. Desideravo capire che cosa avesse spinto una principessa del Raj a lasciare l'India per Parigi negli anni trenta; e soprattutto desideravo scoprire che cosa l'avesse trattenuta là finché era stato troppo tardi.”Istintivamente, visceralmente, Livia si lascia coinvolgere nel mistero, perdendosi nella storia del Raj britannico, tra i diamanti e gli zaffiri dei suoi palazzi, tra i balli e i giubilei dell'aristocrazia del Novecento, e nelle vite di personaggi straordinari come il maharaja Jagatjit Singh di Kapurthala, il banchiere ebreo Albert Kahn e l'esploratore russo Nicholas Roerich, tutte tessere di un mosaico che lentamente restituisce nella sua sorprendente interezza la figura di Amrit Kaur.Dopo l'incontro con la figlia ottantenne della principessa, “Bubbles”, la ricerca assume una nuova dimensione: mentre si sforza di riavvicinare una figlia alla madre che l'ha abbandonata, Livia si ritrova a sciogliere alcuni nodi della sua stessa vita.Il segreto di Amrit Kaur è un mystery avvincente, basato su fatti e personaggi reali, un commovente ritratto di donne, attraverso i secoli e i continenti, alla ricerca della libertà a qualsiasi costo. Un romanzo in cui perdersi, per ritrovarsi.Mi avrebbe dato la sua approvazione, se avessi scritto un libro su questa storia? Di fronte al suo immediato assenso l'avevo messa in guardia. Né lei né io potevamo sapere cosa avrei trovato. Se la sentiva di correre i rischi che questo comportava?Livia Manera Sambuy è una giornalista letteraria che scrive sul “Corriere della Sera”. Ha realizzato due film documentari su Philip Roth. Ha vissuto tra Milano e New York, ora vive tra Parigi e la Toscana. Philip Roth. Una storia americana è stato pubblicato da Feltrinelli nella collana di dvd “Real Cinema” nel 2013. Ancora per Feltrinelli, Non scrivere di me (2015).IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEAscoltare fa Pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

Frank Lloyrd Wright, Taliesin, FLW's family, Celtic influence, Driftless Region, high strangeness, House on the Rock, Alex Jordan, Neil Gaiman, Circle Sanctuary, neo-paganism, Neo-Druidism, bardism, Rosicrucianism, Wright's style, influence from Japan, feng shui, flow of house, Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, Church of Satan, murders that occurred there, Julian Carlton, Wright's wives and mistresses, Wright's morals, Chicago, 1893 World's Fair, Richard Lloyd Jones, H.H. Holmes, sprites, Tree of Life, Celtic symbolism, Wright as Fortean, Gurdjieff, Nicholas Roerich, Fortean Society, Aztec/Mayan revival, John Sowden House, the Black Dahlia murders, strange deaths linked to Wright designs and familyMore on Wright:https://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2012/06/frank-lloyd-wright-and-synchromysticism.htmlMusic by Keith Allen Dennis: https://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/ Get bonus content on Patreon Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

The extraterrestrial comedy podcast where we probe the 1926 Maitland Lights. But what if there were more sightings this year? What if they were connected? What if they occurred not just in Brockville, Canada, but in China, Mongolia and the United Kingdom too? Can we prove that numerous sightings that year were connected? Will we even try? One of those connections may be a little-known case from Lancashire, England in the UK during November 1926 - did Henry Thomas get away from whatever Henry saw? Along the way, we ponder what Moonwalker has been guzzling. We also learn a little about prohibition and Harry Houdini (who we have since learned may have been struck before he was prepared). We also, also, explore whether cows lay down when it is going to rain and indeed, whether cows can forecast the weather. Most importantly, who were Nicholas Roerich's team? Oh and how does all this connect to the Mafia? All that and more on this week's file.     Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/butitwasaliens   Store: https://butitwasaliens.co.uk/shop/     Probe us: Email: butitwasaliens@gmail.com Instagram @ ButItWasAliensPodcast Twitter @ ButItWasAliens Facebook: @ ButItWasAliens - join Extraterrestrial Towers     Music:  Music created via Garageband. Additional music via https://freepd.com - thank you most kindly good people.

Continuamos haciendo un repaso histórico de cómo han sido retratados los Maestros de Sabiduría. En el episodio anterior hablamos de los primeros intentos por plasmar a través de la pintura el rostro de estos Mahatmas, de Hermann Schmiechen y sus dos obras que sirvieron de inspiración para futuros artistas, de Wolfgang Freiherr von Bibra y de David Anrias. Hoy hablaremos de los Ballard, de Nicholas Roerich, del rostro del Maestro DK y Annie Menie Gowland, de la supuesta "foto" de Blavatsky y los Mahatmas, entre otros temas.

Gemäß der Haager Konvention gilt: „Wer Kulturgüter zerstört, der begeht ein Kriegsverbrechen“. Wegbereiter dazu war der Künstler Nicholas Roerich. Dessen Ideen seien angesichts des Ukraine-Krieges aktueller denn je, sagt der Historiker Hans von Trotha. Hans von Trotha im Gespräch mit Marietta Schwarzwww.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, FazitDirekter Link zur Audiodatei

Explores the gem archetype of the Chintamani, the wish-fulfilling jewel known in legends around the world, and how to access it energetically• Examines myths of the chintamani from East and West, including from China, India, and South America; in legends of the Holy Grail and Atlantis; and in Nicholas Roerich's real-life quest for Shambhala• Explains the chintamani matrix--the multidimensional field of light, energy, and consciousness that forms networks of gems on the etheric and physical levels• Provides simple and advanced practices with crystal grids and meditation to help you access the chintamani matrix and realize your innermost heart's desiresSpace, time, intention, matter, and consciousness all entangle in crystals. Nowhere is this more evident than in the ancient gem archetype of the chintamani, the wish-fulfilling jewel known in legends around the world as the stone that grants your heart's desires. As authors Johndennis Govert and Hapi Hara reveal, the chintamani's “tachyolithic” technology of wish-granting and spiritual enlightenment creates a vehicle for positive transformation. They show how the chintamani energy matrix can be accessed using tangible crystals and gemstones, meditation, yoga, and the powerful science of intention.Exploring the many chintamani myths and legends from East and West, the authors explain how there are three types of chintamani: the mythical gemstone; the power crystals of history, such as the Koh-i-Noor diamond; and the multidimensional field of light, energy, and consciousness that forms a network of all gems in what is known as “the jewel net of Indra” in Hinduism and Buddhism. Activating this crystal energy matrix provides a way to manifest your intentions and help you create the subtle diamond body.The authors detail specific gems and crystal spiritual technology that can affect material reality and trigger profound spiritual growth. They provide a number of simple practices with crystal grids and meditation to help you access the chintamani matrix and become aware of the interconnected jewel net of consciousness. They examine the science of intention, which provides a basis for connecting to gemstones and crystals, and share advanced meditations to realize and activate your innermost heart's desires.Johndennis Govert is a Zen Roshi and Tibetan Buddhist Lama, feng shui master, astrologer, shodo calligrapher, and qi gong healer. He is the author of Feng Shui: Art and Harmony of Place and REALty Feng Shui. Hapi Hara, MA, is a crystal energy expert, crystal astrologer, Reiki practitioner, and earth energy grid researcher. In addition to crystal and energy consultations, she offers guided tours to vortex and earth energy spots. Both authors live in Tucson, Arizona.

Hapi Hara and JohnDennis Govert wrote an amazing book called The Chintamani Crystal Matrix - Quantum Intention and the Wish-fulfilling Gem. It is a wonderful overview of working with crystals on any kind of level and also a deeper look in to the kind of esoteric teachings that exist about Shambhala and other dimensions. We talk about Nicholas Roerich and intensions and portals and crystals and magic, what more could you ask for! Enjoy the ride and check them out here: https://chintamanimatrix.com New Book: The Chintamani Crystal Matrix: Quantum Intention and the Wish-Fulfilling Gem https://www.innertraditions.com/books... Nikki: WEBSITE: https://www.nikkianajones.com/TELEGRAM: https://t.me/nikkiana_jones​​​​​​​​​​IG: nikkiana_jones TWITTER: @LivingExtraord1 PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/nikkianajonesCONTACT: Nikkianajones@protonmail.com ODYSEE: https://odysee.com/@nikkianajones:1BITCHUTE: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/uXvR... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nikkianajones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nikkianajones/support

The wheel of karma forms a significant theme for this show as we hear about the life of a man whose actions in Atlantis led to a 25,000 year cycle of reincarnation. In an astonishing journey from Norway to Atlantis we follow his many unusual experiences including interactions with leprechauns, the ominous hand of the sea, squid demons and much more. Then in our Plus+ extension we cover stories of those who claim to have entered the mystical Shambhala and met with the hidden masters who seemingly only want the best for humanity. Though as we know, nothing is ever what it seems and we look at the construction of a temple in Russia that might have carried a hidden secret involving tantric sex rituals. Links Transforming Demons: The True Story of how a Seeker Resolves his Karma: From Ancient Atlantis to the Present-day Demons and Healing: The Reality of the Demonic Threat and the Doppelgänger in the Light of Anthroposophy: Demonology, Christology and Medicine Batman Forever Mind Scene Plus+ Extension The extension of the show is EXCLUSIVE to Plus+ Members. To join, click HERE. In Search of Shambhala Kalachakra System Shambhala. Nicholas Roerich and the Tibetan Buddhism Shambala -Tony Bushby Darkness Over Tibet Shambhala

The wheel of karma forms a significant theme for this show as we hear about the life of a man whose actions in Atlantis led to a 25,000 year cycle of reincarnation. In an astonishing journey from Norway to Atlantis we follow his many unusual experiences including interactions with leprechauns, the ominous hand of the sea, squid demons and much more. Then in our Plus+ extension we cover stories of those who claim to have entered the mystical Shambhala and met with the hidden masters who seemingly only want the best for humanity. Though as we know, nothing is ever what it seems and we look at the construction of a temple in Russia that might have carried a hidden secret involving tantric sex rituals. Links Transforming Demons: The True Story of how a Seeker Resolves his Karma: From Ancient Atlantis to the Present-day Demons and Healing: The Reality of the Demonic Threat and the Doppelgnger in the Light of Anthroposophy: Demonology, Christology and Medicine Batman Forever Mind Scene Plus+ Extension The extension of the show is EXCLUSIVE to Plus+ Members. To join, click HERE . In Search of Shambhala Kalachakra System Shambhala. Nicholas Roerich and the Tibetan Buddhism Shambala -Tony Bushby Darkness Over Tibet Shambhala

Photo:  Volok by Roerich. "They're dragging along." N.K. Roerich. Nicholas Roerich Museum, USA. New York.  Said to be of Ukraine. If you're not familiar with the work of the strange, brilliant painter Nicholas Roerich, it's worth looking up. @Batchelorshow #Ukraine:  Kiev POV sees going it alone.   Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/biden-admin-weighs-offering-russia-cuts-to-us-troops-in-eastern-europe/ar-AASxJR6

In this Origininally Patreon exclusive episode, now unlocked for our free-cast, we chat all things Nicholas Roerich, a  fascinating figure in 20th century politics, art, and esoteric and theosophical circles,  and supposed caretaker of the fabled Lapis Exillis or Stone of Destiny! Stay tuned we have some exciting things coming to Patreon this season! patreon.com/consensusunreality Merch: https://consensusunreality.bandcamp.com/merch/mystic-tote-bag thanks to Treatment for the theme song "Tell Tale" treatmentforu.bandcamp.com/

Hollow Earth Theory   Well hello there passengers, and welcome to yet another exciting day aboard the MidnightTrain. Today we delve deep into the mysterious, creepy, possibly conspiratorial world that is our own. What do I mean by that? Well we are digging our way to the center of truth! Today, we learn about Hollow Earth… and for the flat earthers out there… you're gonna wanna hang out for a minute before you dip outta here… also fuck you.   (Cinematic trailer voice) In a World where there exists people who think the world is a flat piece of paper with trees growing out of it and a big guy who flips the piece of paper over to switch between day and night. One man wants to change that idea. His name… is Edmund Halley. Yes that Halley. The one known for the comet he discovered. But before we explore more about him and his findings, let's discuss what led us to this revolutionary hypothesis.   So besides idiots who believe the earth is flat, I mean stupid-endous personalities, there are other more interesting characters that believe the earth is completely hollow; or at least a large part of it. This is what we call the Hollow Earth Theory. Now where did this all come from? Well, nobody cares, Moody. That's the show folks!   Ok, ok, ok… fine. Since the early times many cultures, religions, and folklore believed that there was something below our feet. Whether it's the lovely and tropical Christian Hell, the Jungle-esque Greek Underworld, the balmy Nordic Svartálfaheim, or the temperate Jewish Sheol; there is a name for one simple idea. These cultures believed it to be where we either come from or where we go when we die. This may hold some truth, or not. Guess we will know more when the time comes.   The idea of a subterranean realm is also mentioned in Tibetan Buddhist belief. According to one story from Tibetan Buddhist tradition, there is an ancient city called Shamballa which is located inside the Earth. According to the Ancient Greeks, there were caverns under the surface which were entrances leading to the underworld, some of which were the caverns at Tainaron in Lakonia, at Troezen in Argolis, at Ephya in Thesprotia, at Herakleia in Pontos, and in Ermioni. In Thracian and Dacian legends, it is said that there are caverns occupied by an ancient god called Zalmoxis. In Mesopotamian religion there is a story of a man who, after traveling through the darkness of a tunnel in the mountain of "Mashu", entered a subterranean garden. Sounds lovely.  In Celtic mythology there is a legend of a cave called "Cruachan", also known as "Ireland's gate to Hell", a mythical and ancient cave from which according to legend strange creatures would emerge and be seen on the surface of the Earth.​​ They are said to be bald, taller than most with blue eyes and a big, bushy beard… fucking Moody. There are also stories of medieval knights and saints who went on pilgrimages to a cave located in Station Island, County Donegal in Ireland, where they made journeys inside the Earth into a place of purgatory. You guys know purgatory, that place or state of suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners who are shedding their sins before going to heaven. In County Down, Northern Ireland there is a myth which says tunnels lead to the land of the subterranean Tuatha Dé Danann, who are supposedly a group of people who are believed to have introduced Druidism to Ireland, and then they said fuck it and went back underground. In Hindu mythology, the underworld is referred to as Patala. In the Bengali version of the Hindu epic Ramayana, it has been depicted how Rama and Lakshmana were taken by the king of the underworld Ahiravan, brother of the demon king Ravana. Later on they were rescued by Hanuman. Got all that? The Angami Naga tribes of India claim that their ancestors emerged in ancient times from a subterranean land inside the Earth. The Taino from Cuba believe their ancestors emerged in ancient times from two caves in a mountain underground. Natives of the Trobriand Islands believe that their ancestors had come from a subterranean land through a cavern hole called "Obukula". Mexican folklore also tells of a cave in a mountain five miles south of Ojinaga, and that Mexico is possessed by devilish creatures who came from inside the Earth. Maybe THAT'S where the Chupacabra came from! In the middle ages, an ancient German myth held that some mountains located between Eisenach and Gotha hold a portal to the inner Earth. A Russian legend says the Samoyeds, an ancient Siberian tribe, traveled to a cavern city to live inside the Earth. Luckily, they had plenty of space rope to make it back out.  The Italian writer Dante describes a hollow earth in his well-known 14th-century work Inferno, in which the fall of Lucifer from heaven caused an enormous funnel to appear in a previously solid and spherical earth, as well as an enormous mountain opposite it, "Purgatory". There's that place, again. In Native American mythology, they believed that the ancestors of the Mandan people in ancient times emerged from a subterranean land through a cave at the north side of the Missouri River. There is also a tale about a tunnel in the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona near Cedar Creek which is said to lead inside the Earth to a land inhabited by a mysterious tribe. It is also the belief of the tribes of the Iroquois that their ancient ancestors emerged from a subterranean world inside the Earth. The elders of the Hopi people believe that a Sipapu entrance in the Grand Canyon exists which leads to the underworld. Brazilian Indians, who live alongside the Parima River in Brazil, claim that their forefathers emerged in ancient times from an underground land, and that many of their ancestors still remained inside the Earth. Ancestors of the Inca supposedly came from caves which are located east of Cuzco, Peru. So, this is something that has been floating around a shit ton of ancient mythos for a long ass time. Well, ya know… before that silly thing called SCIENCE. Moving on. Now to circle back to our friend Edmund. He was born in 1656, in Haggerston in Middlesex (not to be confused with uppersex or its ill-informed cousin the powerbottomsex). He was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist; because what else was there to do in the 1600's but be a know-it-all? He was known to work with Sir Isaac Newton among other notable (but not gonna note them here) proponents to science.  In 1692 he proffered the idea that the earth was indeed hollow and had a shell about 500 miles thick with two inner concentric (having a common center, as circles or spheres… hear that flat earthers??) shells and an inner core. He proposed that the atmospheres separated the shells and that they also had their own magnetic poles and that the shells moved at different speeds. This idea was used to elucidate(shed light upon… yes pun intended) anomalous(ih-nom-uh-luhs) compass readings. He conceptualized that the inner region had its own atmosphere and possibly luminous with plausible inhabitants. MOLE PEOPLE!! He also thought that escaping gases from the inner earth caused what is now known as the Northern Lights.   Now another early ambassador to this idea was Le Clerc Milfort. Jean-Antoine Le Clerc, or known by a simpler name, Louis Milfort. Monsieur Milfort was a higher ranking French military officer who offered his services during the late 1700's. He is most notably known for leading Creek Indian warriors during the American Revolutionary War as allies of the British. I guess having a common enemy here would make sense as to why he chose this group to lead. He emigrated in 1775 to what was then known as the British Colonies of North America. But we all know there is nothing Bri'ish about us.    Now why would a higher ranking French military Officer want to emigrate from his home to a place of turmoil? Great question Moody! I knew you were paying attention. Well, a little about this French saboteur.   He was known by many aliases, but we will just stick with Louis (Louie) for all intents and purposes. Louis was born in Thin-le-Moutier, near Mezieres, France. He served in the French Military from 1764 to 1774. Now this is according to his memoir that was dated in 1802. He left France after he ended up killing a servant of the king's household in a duel. Apparently, the king's servant loved the king. So much so that when Louis read aloud a poem that he had written that included the king, the servant jumped up, tore off his glove and slapped Louis across the face not once, but 4 fucking times! This is obviously something that Louis could not just let happen, so he challenged the servant to a duel. Not just any duel, mind you. He challenged him to a duel of what was then known as a “mort de coupes de papier.” The servant died an excruciating death and Louis fled. Here is the poem that started the feud.  There's a place in France Where the naked ladies dance There's a hole in the wall Where the men can see it all But the men don't care Cause they lost their underwear And the cops never shoot Cause they think it's kind of cute There a place in France Where the alligators dance If you give them a glance They could bite you in the pants There's a place on Mars Where the ladies smoke cigars Every puff she makes Is enough to kill the snakes When the snakes all die They put diamonds in their eye When the diamonds break The dancing makes them ache When the diamonds shine They really look so fine The king and the queen Have a rubber ding-a-ling All the girls in France Have ants in their pants Yes, this is 100% bullshit… but, you'll have that shit stuck in your head for days. Now as much as we tried to find ACTUAL information as to why there was duel and why it was with a servant of the king, we couldn't find much. But after digging up some more information on Louis we found out that he ended up going back to France to be a part of the Sacred Society of Sophisians.    This group is also known as the secret society of Napoleon's Sorcerers… This may have to be a bonus episode so stay tuned for more!   Now back to the “Core” of our episode. The Creek Indians who are originally from the Muscogee [məskóɡəlɡi](Thank wikipedia) area which is southeast united states which roughly translates to the areas around Tennessee, Alabama, western Georgia and Northern Florida. Louis adapted their customs and assimilated into their Tribe.  He even married the sister of the Chief.   Now after Louis and the rest of the people in the American Revolutionary War lost to the U.S. he decided to lead the Creek Tribe on an expedition in 1781 because, well, they had nothing else to do. On this expedition they were searching for caverns where allegedly the Creek Indians ancestors had emerged from. Maybe even the Origin of Bigfoot.   Yes, the Creek Indians had believed that their ancestors lived below the earth and lived in caverns along the Red River junction of the Mississippi River. Now during the expedition they did come across these caverns which they suspected could hold 20,000 of their family in. That's pretty much all they found. They didn't have video cameras back then otherwise, I'm pretty sure they would have found footage of bigfoot though.   Another advocate was Leonhard Euler, yes, you heard right. Buehler… Buehler… No Leonard Euler. A great 18th century mathematician; or not so great if you didn't enjoy math in school unlike moody who was the biggest nerd when it came to math.    Euler founded the study of graph theory and topology. No moody, not on-top-ology. Mind always in the gutter. Euler influenced many other discoveries such as analytic number theory, complex analysis, and the coolest subject ever; Infinitesimal Calculus. Which is Latin for BULLSHIT.   But anyways I digress. This guy knew his stuff BUT he did think with all his “infinite” wisdom that the earth was in fact hollow and had no inner shells but instead had a six hundred mile diameter sun in the center. The most intriguing and plausible theory he had within this whole idea was that you could enter into this interior from the northern and southern poles. Let's hold to that cool hypothesis for right now and move along with our next Interesting goon of the hollow earth community.   With Halley's spheres and Eulers's Holes came another great man with another great theory. Captain John Symmes! Yes you know Captain Symmes. HE was a hero in the war of 1812 after being sent with his Regiment to Canada and providing relief to American forces at the battle of Lundy's Lane. He was well known as a trader and lecturer after he left the army.    In 1818 Symmes announced his theory on Hollow Earth to the World! With his publication of his Circular No. 1.   “I declare the earth is hollow, and habitable within; containing a number of solid concentric spheres, one within the other, and that it is open at the poles 12 or 16 degrees; I pledge my life in support of this truth, and am ready to explore the hollow, if the world will support and aid me in the undertaking.”— John Cleves Symmes Jr., Symmes' Circular No. 1  While there were few people who would consider Symmes as the “Newton of the West”, most of the world was less than impressed. Although his theory wasn't as popular as one would expect, you gotta admire the confidence he had.   Symmes sent this declaration at a rather hefty cost to himself to “each notable foreign government, reigning prince, legislature, city, college, and philosophical societies, throughout the union, and to individual members of our National Legislature, as far as the five hundred copies would go.”15]   Symmes would then be followed by an exorbitant amount of ridicule for his proclamation, as many intellectuals were back then. This ridicule would later influence a rather bold move, Cotton. We'll touch on this later.    What was so special about his theory that got 98% of the world not on the edge of their seats? Well, to start he believed the Earth had five concentric spheres with where we live to be the largest  of the spheres. He also believed that the crust was 1000 miles thick with an arctic opening about 4000 miles wide and an antarctic opening around 6000 miles wide. He argued that because of the centrifugal force of the Earth's rotation that the poles would be flattened which would cause such a gradual gradation that you would travel into the Hollow Earth without even knowing you even did it.   Eventually he refined his theory because of such ridicule and criticism. Now his theory consists of just a single hollow sphere instead of five concentric spheres. So, now that we know all about symmes and his theory, why don't we talk about what he decided to do with his theory?    What do you think, Moody? You think he created a cult so he could be ostracized? Or do you think he gave up and realized he was silly? Hate to be the bearer of bad news here but he decided to take his theory and convince the U.S. congress to fund and organize an expedition to the south pole to enter the inner earth.    Good news and bad news folks. Good news, congress back then actually had some people with heads on their shoulders as opposed to those today and they said fuck that noise and denied funding for his expedition. Hamilton, Ohio even has a monument to him and his ideas. Fuckin' Ohio. Next up on our list of “what the fuck were they thinking?” We have Jeremiah Reynolds. He also delivered lectures on the "Hollow Earth" and argued for an expedition. I guess back in those days people just up and went to the far reaches of the earth just to prove a point. Reynolds said “look what I can do” and went on an expedition to Antarctica himself but missed joining the Great U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842, even though that venture was a result of his craziness, I MEAN “INTEREST”. He gained support from marine and scientific societies and, in 1828, successfully lobbied the House of Representatives to pass a resolution asking then-President John Quincy Adams to deploy a research vessel to the Pacific. The president, for his part, had first mentioned Reynolds in his November 4, 1826, diary entry, writing: “Mr Reynolds is a man who has been lecturing about the Country, in support of Captain John Cleves Symmes's theory that the Earth is a hollow Sphere, open at the Poles— His Lectures are said to have been well attended, and much approved as exhibitions of genius and of Science— But the Theory itself has been so much ridiculed, and is in truth so visionary, that Reynolds has now varied his purpose to the proposition of fitting out a voyage of circumnavigation to the Southern Ocean— He has obtained numerous signatures in Baltimore to a Memorial to Congress for this object, which he says will otherwise be very powerfully supported— It will however have no support in Congress. That day will come, but not yet nor in my time. May it be my fortune, and my praise to accelerate its approach.”  Adams' words proved prophetic. Though his administration opted to fund Reynolds' expedition, the voyage was waylaid by the 1828 presidential election, which found Adams roundly defeated by Andrew Jackson. The newly elected president canceled the expedition, leaving Reynolds to fund his trip through other sources. (The privately supported venture set sail in 1829 but ended in disaster, with the crew mutinying and leaving Reynolds' ass on shore.) Per Boston 1775, the U.S. Exploring Expedition only received the green light under the country's eighth president, Martin Van Buren. As Howard Dorre explains on his Plodding Through the Presidents blog, multiple media outlets (including Smithsonian, in an earlier version of this article) erroneously interpreted Adams' description of Reynolds' ideas as “visionary” as a sign of his support for the hollow earth theory. In fact, notes Bell in a separate Boston 1775 blog post, the term's connotations at the time were largely negative. In the words of 18th-century English writer Samuel Johnson, a visionary was “one whose imagination is disturbed.” The president, adds Dorre, only agreed to support the polar expedition “after Reynolds abandoned the hollow earth idea.”  I had always heard that he was a believer in mole people and hollow earth, turns out his words were just misinterpreted. Hmm… I wonder if there are any other books out there where the overall ideas and verbage could and have been misinterpreted causing insane amounts of disingenuous beliefs? Nah!   Though Symmes himself never wrote a book about his ideas, several authors published works discussing his ideas. McBride wrote Symmes' Theory of Concentric Spheres in 1826. It appears that Reynolds has an article that appeared as a separate booklet in 1827: Remarks of Symmes' Theory Which Appeared in the American Quarterly Review. In 1868, a professor W.F. Lyons published The Hollow Globe which put forth a Symmes-like Hollow Earth hypothesis, but failed to mention Symmes himself. Because fuck that guy, right? Symmes's son Americus then published The Symmes' Theory of Concentric Spheres in 1878 to set the record straight. I think the duel would have been a better idea. Sir John Leslie proposed a hollow Earth in his 1829 Elements of Natural Philosophy (pp. 449–53). In 1864, in Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne described a hollow Earth containing two rotating binary stars, named Pluto and Proserpine. Ok… fiction. We get it. William Fairfield Warren, in his book Paradise Found–The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole, (1885) presented his belief that humanity originated on a continent in the Arctic called Hyperborea. This influenced some early Hollow Earth proponents. According to Marshall Gardner, both the Eskimo and Mongolian peoples had come from the interior of the Earth through an entrance at the North Pole. I wonder if they knew that.    NEQUA or The Problem of the Ages, first serialized in a newspaper printed in Topeka, Kansas in 1900 and considered an early feminist utopian novel, mentions John Cleves Symmes' theory to explain its setting in a hollow Earth. An early 20th-century proponent of hollow Earth, William Reed, wrote Phantom of the Poles in 1906. He supported the idea of a hollow Earth, but without interior shells or inner sun. Ok, no sun. Got it. The spiritualist writer Walburga, Lady Paget in her book Colloquies with an unseen friend (1907) was an early writer to mention the hollow Earth hypothesis. She claimed that cities exist beneath a desert, which is where the people of Atlantis moved. Mmmk. Deserts and Atlantis. Check. She said an entrance to the subterranean kingdom will be discovered in the 21st century. Pretty broad brush she's painting with there. Next up we're gonna talk a little about Admiral Richard E. Byrd. According to Hollow Earth theorists, Byrd met an ancient race underground in the South Pole. According to Byrd's “diary,” the government ordered Byrd to remain silent for what he witnessed during his Arctic assignment:              March 11, 1947 “I have just attended a Staff Meeting at the Pentagon. I have stated fully my discovery and the message from the Master. All is duly recorded. The President has been advised. I am now detained for several hours (six hours, thirty- nine minutes, to be exact.) I am interviewed intently by Top Security Forces and a Medical Team. It was an ordeal!!!! I am placed under strict control via the National Security provisions of this United States of America. I am ORDERED TO REMAIN SILENT IN REGARD TO ALL THAT I HAVE LEARNED, ON THE BEHALF OF HUMANITY!!! Incredible! I am reminded that I am a Military Man and I must obey orders.” After many polar accomplishments, Byrd organized Operation Highjump in 1947. The objective: construct an American training and research facility in the South Pole. Highjump was a significant illustration of the state of the world and the cold war thinking at the time. The nuclear age had just begun, and the real fears were that the Soviet Union would attack the United States over the North Pole. The Navy had done a training exercise there in the summer of 1946 and felt it needed to do more. The northern winter was coming, and Highjump was a quickly planned exercise to move the whole thing to the South Pole. Politically, the orders were that the Navy should do all it could to establish a basis for a [land] claim in Antarctica. That was classified at the time.Now Operation High jump could probably be its own episode, or is at minimum a bonus. But we'll get some of the important details on how it pertains to this episode. Some say the American government sent their troops to the South Pole for any evidence of the rumored German Base 211. Nazis were fascinated with anything regarding the Aryan race. They traveled all over the world including Antarctica to learn more of alleged origins. The Germans did make their mark in the South Pole. However, what they have discovered doesn't compared to what Byrd recorded in his diary. the time. The nuclear age had just begun, and the real fears were that the Soviet Union would attack the United States over the North Pole. The Navy had done a training exerci but was that all it was   “For thousands of years, people all over the world have written legends about Agartha (sometimes called Agarta or Agarthi), the underground city. Agartha (sometimes Agartta, Agharti, Agarath, Agarta or Agarttha) is a legendary kingdom that is said to be located in the Earth's core. Agartha is frequently associated or confused with Shambhala which figures prominently in Vajrayana Buddhism and Tibetan Kalachakra teachings and revived in the West by Madame Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society. Theosophists in particular regard Agarthi as a vast complex of caves underneath Tibet inhabited by demi-gods, called asuras. Helena and Nicholas Roerich, whose teachings closely parallel theosophy, see Shambhala's existence as both spiritual and physical. Did Byrd find it? He claims to have met “The Master,” the city's leader, who told him of his concerns about the surface world: “Our interest rightly begins just after your Race exploded the first atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. It was that alarming time we sent our flying machines, the ‘Flugelrads' to your surface world to investigate what your Race had done…You see, we have never interfered before in your Race's wars and barbarity. But now we must, for you have learned to tamper with a certain power that is not for your Man, mainly that of atomic energy. Our emissaries have already delivered messages to the power of your World, and yet they do not heed.” Apparently, the government knew about Agartha before Byrd. Marshall Gardner wrote A Journey to the Earth's Interior in 1913 and published an expanded edition in 1920. He placed an interior sun in the Earth (ah ha! The Sun's back!) and built a working model of the Hollow Earth which he actually fucking patented (U.S. Patent 1,096,102). Gardner made no mention of Reed, but did criticize Symmes for his ideas. DUEL TIME! Around the same time, Vladimir Obruchev wrote a novel titled Plutonia, in which the Hollow Earth possessed an inner Sun and was inhabited by prehistoric species. The interior was connected with the surface by an opening in the Arctic. The explorer Ferdynand Ossendowski wrote a book in 1922 titled Beasts, Men and Gods. Ossendowski said he was told about a subterranean kingdom that exists inside the Earth. It was known to Buddhists as Agharti. George Papashvily in his Anything Can Happen (1940) claimed the discovery in the Caucasus mountains of a cavern containing human skeletons "with heads as big as bushel baskets" and an ancient tunnel leading to the center of the Earth. One man entered the tunnel and never returned. This dude was a sniper with the Imperial Russian Army during World War I Moody is going to love these next examples.  Novelist Lobsang Rampa in his book The Cave of the Ancients said an underground chamber system exists beneath the Himalayas of Tibet, filled with ancient machinery, records and treasure. Michael Grumley, a cryptozoologist, has linked Bigfoot and other hominid cryptids to ancient tunnel systems underground. According to the ancient astronaut writer Peter Kolosimo a robot was seen entering a tunnel below a monastery in Mongolia. Kolosimo also claimed a light was seen from underground in Azerbaijan. Kolosimo and other ancient astronaut writers such as Robert Charroux linked these activities to DUN DUN DUNNNN….UFOs. A book by a "Dr. Raymond Bernard" which appeared in 1964, The Hollow Earth, exemplifies the idea of UFOs coming from inside the Earth, and adds the idea that the Ring Nebula proves the existence of hollow worlds, as well as speculation on the fate of Atlantis and the origin of flying saucers. An article by Martin Gardner revealed that Walter Siegmeister used the pseudonym "Bernard", but not until the 1989 publishing of Walter Kafton-Minkel's Subterranean Worlds: 100,000 Years of Dragons, Dwarfs, the Dead, Lost Races & UFOs from Inside the Earth did the full story of Bernard/Siegmeister become well-known. Holy fucking book title, Batman!   The science fiction pulp magazine Amazing Stories promoted one such idea from 1945 to 1949 as "The Shaver Mystery". The magazine's editor, Ray Palmer, ran a series of stories by Richard Sharpe Shaver, claiming that a superior pre-historic race had built a honeycomb of caves in the Earth, and that their degenerate descendants, known as "Dero", live there TO THIS DAY, using the fantastic machines abandoned by the ancient races to torment those of us living on the surface. As one characteristic of this torment, Shaver described "voices" that purportedly came from no explainable source. Thousands of readers wrote to affirm that they, too, had heard the fiendish voices from inside the Earth. The writer David Hatcher Childress authored Lost Continents and the Hollow Earth(1998) in which he reprinted the stories of Palmer and defended the Hollow Earth idea based on alleged (cough… “alleged”) tunnel systems beneath South America and Central Asia. Hollow Earth proponents have claimed a number of different locations for the entrances which lead inside the Earth. Other than the North and South poles, entrances in locations which have been cited include: Paris in France, Staffordshire in England, Montreal in Canada, Hangchow in China, and The Amazon Rain Forest.   Ok, have you two gents heard of the Concave Hollow Earth Theory? It doesn't matter, we're still going to talk about this lunacy. Instead of saying that humans live on the outside surface of a hollow planet—sometimes called a "convex" Hollow Earth hypothesis—some whackamuffins have claimed humans live on the inside surface of a hollow spherical world, so that our universe itself lies in that world's interior. This has been called the "concave" Hollow Earth hypothesis or skycentrism. Cyrus Teed, a doctor from upstate New York, proposed such a concave Hollow Earth in 1869, calling his scheme "Cellular Cosmogony". He might as well have called it Goobery Kabooblenuts. See, I can make up words, too. Anyway, Teed founded a group called the Koreshan Unity based on this notion, which he called Koreshanity. Which sounds like insanity and would make far more sense. The main colony survives as a preserved Florida state historic site, at Estero, Florida, but all of Teed's followers have now died. Probably from eating Tide Pods. Teed's followers claimed to have experimentally verified the concavity of the Earth's curvature, through surveys of the Florida coastline making use of "rectilineator" equipment. Which sounds like something you use to clean out your colon.   Several 20th-century German writers, including Peter Bender, Johannes Lang, Karl Neupert, and Fritz Braut, published works advocating the Hollow Earth hypothesis, or Hohlweltlehre. It has even been reported, although apparently without historical documentation, that Adolf Hitler was influenced by concave Hollow Earth ideas and sent an expedition in an unsuccessful attempt to spy on the British fleet by pointing infrared cameras up at the sky. Oh boy. The Egyptian mathematician Mostafa “Admiral Akbar” Abdelkader wrote several scholarly papers working out a detailed mapping of the Concave Earth model In one chapter of his book On the Wild Side (1992), Martin Gardner discusses the Hollow Earth model articulated by Abdelkader. According to Gardner, this hypothesis posits that light rays travel in circular paths, and slow as they approach the center of the spherical star-filled cavern. No energy can reach the center of the cavern, which corresponds to no point a finite distance away from Earth in the widely accepted scientific cosmology. A drill, Gardner says, would lengthen as it traveled away from the cavern and eventually pass through the "point at infinity" corresponding to the center of the Earth in the widely accepted scientific cosmology. Supposedly no experiment can distinguish between the two cosmologies. Christ, my head hurts. Gardner notes that "most mathematicians believe that an inside-out universe, with properly adjusted physical laws, is empirically irrefutable". Gardner rejects the concave Hollow Earth hypothesis on the basis of Occam's razor. Occam's razor is the problem-solving principle that "entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity", sometimes inaccurately paraphrased as "the simplest explanation is usually the best one." Purportedly verifiable hypotheses of a Concave Hollow Earth need to be distinguished from a thought experiment which defines a coordinate transformation such that the interior of the Earth becomes "exterior" and the exterior becomes "interior". (For example, in spherical coordinates, let radius r go to R2/r where R is the Earth's radius; see inversive geometry.) The transformation entails corresponding changes to the forms of physical laws. This is not a hypothesis but an illustration of the fact that any description of the physical world can be equivalently expressed in more than one way.   Contrary evidence   Seismic The picture of the structure of the Earth that has been arrived at through the study of seismic waves[52] is quite different from a fully hollow Earth. The time it takes for seismic waves to travel through and around the Earth directly contradicts a fully hollow sphere. The evidence indicates the Earth is mostly filled with solid rock (mantle and crust), liquid nickel-iron alloy (outer core), and solid nickel-iron (inner core).[53]   Gravity Main articles: Schiehallion experiment and Cavendish experiment Another set of scientific arguments against a Hollow Earth or any hollow planet comes from gravity. Massive objects tend to clump together gravitationally, creating non-hollow spherical objects such as stars and planets. The solid spheroid is the best way in which to minimize the gravitational potential energy of a rotating physical object; having hollowness is unfavorable in the energetic sense. In addition, ordinary matter is not strong enough to support a hollow shape of planetary size against the force of gravity; a planet-sized hollow shell with the known, observed thickness of the Earth's crust would not be able to achieve hydrostatic equilibrium with its own mass and would collapse.   Based upon the size of the Earth and the force of gravity on its surface, the average density of the planet Earth is 5.515 g/cm3, and typical densities of surface rocks are only half that (about 2.75 g/cm3). If any significant portion of the Earth were hollow, the average density would be much lower than that of surface rocks. The only way for Earth to have the force of gravity that it does is for much more dense material to make up a large part of the interior. Nickel-iron alloy under the conditions expected in a non-hollow Earth would have densities ranging from about 10 to 13 g/cm3, which brings the average density of Earth to its observed value.   Direct observation Drilling holes does not provide direct evidence against the hypothesis. The deepest hole drilled to date is the Kola Superdeep Borehole,[54] with a true vertical drill-depth of more than 7.5 miles (12 kilometers). However, the distance to the center of the Earth is nearly 4,000 miles (6,400 kilometers). Oil wells with longer depths are not vertical wells; the total depths quoted are measured depth (MD) or equivalently, along-hole depth (AHD) as these wells are deviated to horizontal. Their true vertical depth (TVD) is typically less than 2.5 miles (4 kilometers).   Ok, then let's discuss what actual scientists, like ALL OF THEM, believe the earth is actually composed of. The inner core This solid metal ball has a radius of 1,220 kilometers (758 miles), or about three-quarters that of the moon. It's located some 6,400 to 5,180 kilometers (4,000 to 3,220 miles) beneath Earth's surface. Extremely dense, it's made mostly of iron and nickel. The inner core spins a bit faster than the rest of the planet. It's also intensely hot: Temperatures sizzle at 5,400° Celsius (9,800° Fahrenheit). That's almost as hot as the surface of the sun. Pressures here are immense: well over 3 million times greater than on Earth's surface. Some research suggests there may also be an inner, inner core. It would likely consist almost entirely of iron.   The outer core   This part of the core is also made from iron and nickel, just in liquid form. It sits some 5,180 to 2,880 kilometers (3,220 to 1,790 miles) below the surface. Heated largely by the radioactive decay of the elements uranium and thorium, this liquid churns in huge, turbulent currents. That motion generates electrical currents. They, in turn, generate Earth's magnetic field. For reasons somehow related to the outer core, Earth's magnetic field reverses about every 200,000 to 300,000 years. Scientists are still working to understand how that happens.   The mantle   At close to 3,000 kilometers (1,865 miles) thick, this is Earth's thickest layer. It starts a mere 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) beneath the surface. Made mostly of iron, magnesium and silicon, it is dense, hot and semi-solid (think caramel candy). Like the layer below it, this one also circulates. It just does so far more slowly. Near its upper edges, somewhere between about 100 and 200 kilometers (62 to 124 miles) underground, the mantle's temperature reaches the melting point of rock. Indeed, it forms a layer of partially melted rock known as the asthenosphere (As-THEEN-oh-sfeer). Geologists believe this weak, hot, slippery part of the mantle is what Earth's tectonic plates ride upon and slide across.   Diamonds are tiny pieces of the mantle we can actually touch. Most form at depths above 200 kilometers (124 miles). But rare “super-deep” diamonds may have formed as far down as 700 kilometers (435 miles) below the surface. These crystals are then brought to the surface in volcanic rock known as kimberlite.   The mantle's outermost zone is relatively cool and rigid. It behaves more like the crust above it. Together, this uppermost part of the mantle layer and the crust are known as the lithosphere. The crust   Earth's crust is like the shell of a hard-boiled egg. It is extremely thin, cold and brittle compared to what lies below it. The crust is made of relatively light elements, especially silica, aluminum and oxygen. It's also highly variable in its thickness. Under the oceans (and Hawaiian Islands), it may be as little as 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) thick. Beneath the continents, the crust may be 30 to 70 kilometers (18.6 to 43.5 miles) thick.   Along with the upper zone of the mantle, the crust is broken into big pieces, like a gigantic jigsaw puzzle. These are known as tectonic plates. These move slowly — at just 3 to 5 centimeters (1.2 to 2 inches) per year. What drives the motion of tectonic plates is still not fully understood. It may be related to heat-driven convection currents in the mantle below. Some scientists think it's caused by the tug from slabs of crust of different densities, something called “slab pull.” In time, these plates will converge, pull apart or slide past each other. Those actions cause most earthquakes and volcanoes. 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本期节目嘉宾是由宓与蔡影茜。由宓是来自北京的策展人，研究员。她目前任教于科隆媒体艺术学院，授课方向是跨历史，跨文化视野下的艺术和媒介理论。由宓的策展实践及研究项目曾展出于深圳/香港城市及建筑双年展（2007）、伊斯坦布尔双年展（2012）、里斯本三年展、雅典双年展（2013）、SAVVY现代艺术中心（2016）。她也是2021年上海双年展的策展人之一。她的长期策展与研究课题以丝绸之路作为一种深度时间、深度空间，去中心化以及游牧精神的象征。蔡影茜是广东时代美术馆的首席策展人。[2:30] 由宓的“丝绸之路”项目；如何能够在旅行中，变成地球身体的一部分；旅行中碰到很多理论不能解决的问题[8:00] 在中亚结识很多艺术家，对他们的兴趣不仅仅是作品，而是整个生命历程作为一种艺术实践[11:00] 不同的经历之间贯穿的问题是，艺术怎么样可以开启社会关系和不同的认知通道[16:00] 不是改变策展的策略，而是策展的伦理，以伦理去策划一个展览，以及如何在这个过程中与社会产生更多关联[20:00] 在全球文化交往遭遇危机时，艺术家和研究者会把一些不被主流历史青睐的区域概念翻出，进行重新的演绎和猜想[24:00] 地理想象的错综复杂中，有帝国主义的想象，原住民（indigenous）的想象，可以是超越地域的，还有看似光鲜的新自由主义全球化的地理想象。这些想象可以是解放性的、追求自由的、进步的，但同时也可以被运用在民族主义的、保守的政治语汇中[27:00] 通过“未被测绘的欧亚大陆”（Unmapping Eurasia）最终想要探索的是如何让地理想象变成一种生命实践，更加尊重自然，而不是狭隘的民族国家体系里的想象[29:00] 艺术家和研究者所提供的地理想象的批判性潜力在于打开可能的通路；通过展览、工作坊和教学，策略性的引介其他语境内有价值的工作，维系一个实践者的网络，更大的野心是能够在基础架构上支持这个网络中不同的区位[31:00] 当媒体技术和媒介工具人人皆可掌握时，媒介研究需要的是把整个社会和信息产业等等作为我们今天的媒介去思考[36:00] 当代艺术行业寻求与科技行业合作时，要用一种社会性的逻辑去思考，从企业收益的角度找到撬动合作的契机和媒介，将当代艺术的这些思考和实践输入到企业中去，成为企业的一部分。[40:00] 后殖民主义理论在非西方国家谈后殖民主义，是怎么被使用的？想打破的是什么？在自觉利用后殖民主义的理论时，也可能吊诡地为民族主义提供支持。[43:00] 第三世界主义的历史叙事在不少艺术家工作里重新出现，其中与现实的连接还需梳理。1980年代，许多来自第三世界的文艺工作者被吸收到美国的大学里，从第三世界的共同抗争被直接放到另外一个情境里，这些历史和线索显示后殖民主义并不只是打破一个西方霸权的问题。相关阅读：“南方以南：地理想象与脱羁之像”——广东时代美术馆泛策展系列之七，2018年12月19日-21日编辑、剪辑：蔡俏凌排版：邱奕枳、宗晓片头音乐制作：Dim Sum production插曲：维克多·崔 《Красно-желтые дни》、《Нам с тобой》、《Кукушка》对谈中提到的一些背景知识：1. 受时代美术馆展览“东南偏南。一个平面的延展”的邀请，2015年独立艺术组织“从万隆到柏林”与由宓合作了作品“从万隆到柏林：客人和幽灵”。以舞台的形式布置，以由宓关于游牧文化和丝绸之路象征路径的演讲作为开场。2.《帖木儿大帝》（Tamburlaine），由英国文艺复兴时期与莎士比亚齐名的剧作家克里斯托弗·马洛（Christopher Marlowe）于1587年创作。剧作讲述了14世纪牧民帖木儿，如何成为一个野心勃勃、残暴无情的鞑靼统治者的故事，是一部“巨星陨落”式的悲剧。3. 亚历山大·杜金 是一名俄罗斯哲学家和政治理论家，国家布尔什维克党主要组织者。以提出第四政治理论和多极世界著称，他也因此与克里姆林宫和俄罗斯军方保持密切关系，被称为普京总统智囊。4. Unmapping Eurasia，由Binna Choi和由宓在CASCO艺术协会发起的关于欧亚的研究学习小组5. Sci - (no) - Fi，由宓于The Akademie der Künste der Welt策划的展览，展示出关于未来的更加当代的概念6. 博伊斯赋予“欧亚大陆”这个地理概念以政治色彩和乌托邦含义，他的一系列“欧亚大陆”的项目也是在与包括白南准在内的诸多艺术家合作中塑造的。博伊斯认为世界两极分化的局面荒谬无比，两大政治阵营的军事竞赛和侵略战争也是愚蠢至极。他希望将欧、亚大陆连接起来，成立一个世界国家，即“欧亚大陆”。1966年10月31号，博伊斯在这一天在柏林画廊由布罗克所领导的柏林画廊当中展现了他的一件艺术作品就叫《欧亚大陆：西伯利亚交响曲1963 三十二章》，同时外面的大街上正在进行学生游行，抗议由美国发起的越南战争。7. 麦克卢汉，《看不见的环境，一种腐蚀的未来(The Invisible Environment: The Future of an Erosion)》8. Élisée Reclus，雷克吕斯（1830年3月15日－1905年7月4日），法国地理学家、作家、无政府主义思想家和活动家。9. Nicholas Roerich，尼古拉斯·洛里奇，俄罗斯画家、作家、考古学家和神智学家。10. 艺术家安置小组 Artist Placement Group (APG) ，创立于1960年代，这个组织致力于将艺术家的角色重新安置于更广阔的社会语境，包括政府部门和商业公司，旨在让艺术家进入权利独霸的环境，并且和从管理层到劳动阶层的员工进行互动交流，促进自下而上的创造力，并且试图将艺术逐渐向那些边缘的观众普及。11. 由沈莘发起，由宓、向在荣、王拓参与的线上讨论TRANSMISSION

Dernier épisode de la série… quoique ! Je reviens sur le parcours que le livre de l'Apocalypse nous a permis de faire, mais aussi, et peut-être surtout, sur ces éclairages culturels et historiques, qu'il nous a été permis d'entendre et d'apprécier. Enfin, je vous dis pourquoi cette série n'est pas tout à fait finie... REFERENCES•Épisode disponible sur l'application TUMULT : https://tumult-podcast.com/au-large-biblique •«Au Large Biblique » est un podcast conçu et animé par François Bessonnet, enseignant bibliste et prêtre en Vendée. https://www.aularge.eu/blog/le-podcast/ •Image de couverture : Nicholas Roerich, le dernier ange, 1912 - source : wikimedia-commons.•Musique : Erwan Marchand (D.R.)•Épisode enregistré en Vendée (85, France), juillet 2021.•Sous Licence Creative Commons (cc BY-NC-ND 4.0 FR)SOURCES ET RESSOURCES•Le livre de l'Apocalypse de Jean https://www.aelf.org/bible/Ap/1 •Les autres épisodes, les références et notes : https://www.aularge.eu/blog/lapocalypse-dhier-a-demain/ GRAND MERCI AUX INTERVENANTS•Winny (Pop Culture): Mana & Plasma : https://manaetplasma.lepodcast.fr/ et Galaxie pop : https://galaxiepop.fr/•Dam (Musique) : Écoute ça, le podcast d'analyse musical https://ecoutecapodcast.fr•Jérémie (Art – Basquiat): Le Sens de la Visite : https://www.podcastics.com/podcast/sens-de-la-visite/•Lloyd (Armageddon) : C'est plus que de la SF : https://podcast.ausha.co/c-est-plus-que-de-la-sf •Thomas M. (BD - X-Men) : The Cold Cases : https://smartlink.ausha.co/the-cold-cases•Thomas B. : Podcut fictions : https://podcast.ausha.co/podcut-fictions & Certains l'aiment à chaud : https://podcast.ausha.co/certains-l-aiment-a-chaud •Zu et Grandpoil (Good Omens) : Watchlist : https://podcast.ausha.co/watchlist•Corine (Le Nom de la Rose) : Pépites et papillotes : https://podcloud.fr/podcast/pepites-et-papillotes•J.C. Schmitt (Moyen-âge) : Le cloître des ombres, Paris, coll. Bibliothèque des Histoires, Gallimard, 2021•Pauline (Tolkien) : Et Tolkien dans tout ça : https://etdtc.carrd.co/•Manu (666 – Aphrodite's Child) : Tartine ta culture : https://podcast.ausha.co/tartine-ta-cultureSUIVRE AU LARGE BIBLIQUE •Instagram : @aularge.eu https://www.instagram.com/aularge.eu/ •Twitter : @AuLargeBiblique https://twitter.com/AuLargeBiblique •Facebook : @aularge85 https://www.facebook.com/aularge85/ •LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/fbessonnet/ •Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/user/aulargefbessonnet •Mail : podcast@aularge.eu •Newsletter : https://www.aularge.eu/blog/abonnement/ •RSS : https://www.spreaker.com/show/3266391/episodes/feed •VOS QUESTIONS sur https://www.aularge.eu/blog/votre-voix-minteresse/ Soutenir le podcast avec Tipeee : https://fr.tipeee.com/au-large-biblique

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In this episode I am once again joined by Tibetologist, author, and Tantric Buddhist lama Glenn Mullin. We discuss a fascinating range of topics, including Theosophists Madame Blavatsky, Colonel Olcott, and Alice Bailey; and controversial American spiritual teacher Adi Da. We explore the line between mystical experience and psychotic delusion, and how mystics from various traditions have related to hearing voices and seeing visions. Glenn comments on the role of teachers and lineage in keeping mystics on track, reveals the 5 different ways to achieve clairvoyance, and discusses why the West produces so many self-initiated adepts. … Video version: https://www.guruviking.com/ep58-glenn-mullin-mystics-psychosis-madame-blavatsky/ Audio version of this podcast also available on iTunes and Stitcher – search ‘Guru Viking Podcast’. … Topics Include 0:00 - Intro 0:41 - Helena Blavatsky’s influence and Glenn’s history with the Theosophical Society 14:31 - Mysticism or psychosis? The paranormal powers of the Theosophical Society 31:07 - Nicholas Roerich and Glenn’s up-coming book 32:50 - Adi Da, 5 means of achieving clairvoyance, and the pitfalls of self-made mystics 38:14 - The benefit of a strong living tradition 45:47 - How do Tibetan cave yogis stay sane? Advice for long retreat. … Audio version of this podcast available on iTunes and Stitcher – search ‘Guru Viking Podcast’. … Previous Glenn Mullin episodes: - https://www.guruviking.com/guru-viking-interviews-ep9-glenn-mullin/ - https://www.guruviking.com/ep19-glenn-mullin-guru-viking-interviews/ - https://www.guruviking.com/ep26-glenn-mullin-illusory-body-yoga-of-waking-sleep-and-death/ - https://www.guruviking.com/ep28-glenn-mullin-dream-yoga-solo-retreat-guide-and-unlocking-the-human-potential/ - https://www.guruviking.com/ep42-glenn-mullin-death-divination-and-sacred-relics/ - https://www.guruviking.com/ep47-glenn-mullin-tales-of-translation/ - https://www.guruviking.com/ep51-glenn-mulin-ufos-lineage-holders-tantric-secrecy/ To find our more about Glenn, visit: - https://www.runawayjourneys.com/ - http://www.glennmullin.com/ - https://www.facebook.com/Maitripa.Glenn For more interviews, videos, and more visit: - http://www.guruviking.com Music ‘Deva Dasi’ by Steve James

In which a Siberia-obsessed Russian mystic counts a future U.S. vice president among his acolytes, and John offers up our softest poets to the mosquitoes of Alaska. Certificate #43738.

In this episode:#Manali #HimachalPradesh #Himachal #offbeat #oldmanali #oldcity #walking #trail #trekking #hiking #temples #hotsprings #architecture #himachali #naggar #vashisht #kathkuni #zorbing #river #rafting #beas #yoga #nature #mountains #himalayasThis week, The Musafir Stories speaks to Priyanka Gupta from the blog onmycanvas.com as she takes us offbeat in Manali! Today's destination: Manali, Himachal Pradesh    Nearest Airport: Bhuntar airport (50kms) Nearest Railway Station: Joginder Nagar, Himachal Pradesh (50kms) Nearest Bus Station: Kullu (40kms) Prerequisites:  n/a Packing: pack some light layers of wool as mornings and evenings can be chilly. Warmer clothes are required for the winters Time of the year: October to Feb is a good time to enjoy the snow, March to July is best for summers  Length of the itinerary: 5-6 days Itinerary Highlights: - Priyanka sets her sight on Old Manali to explore having already visited New Manali in the past. Just crossover the bridge from New Manali to wander off in the less explored older Manali- Old Manali is more laid back with a lot of homestays and old rickety wooden cottages, apple orchards and friendly locals. The best thing to do in Old Manali is to wander off with google maps handy to ensure you don't get lost. One can also explore close by villages like Bari which are rich with the nature and in the vicinity of river Beas. - While in Manali, make sure to try out the rainbow trout, juicy apples and the local dishes like Siddu. - Naggar is another village that is not far away (20kms) and has a lot of points to cover. There are a lot of beautiful temples like Gauri Shankar temple, Vishnu temple with stunning Himachal architecture (nagara style) with stone shikharas and a wooden level on top. - Naggar castle is the seat of Kullu kings for a long time before it was moved to Kullu. The castle is built in a beautiful kathakuni architecture is made mostly of stone and an upper wooden level. The castle is now a heritage hotel and also houses a small temple and a museum. - Other points of interest include the Nicholas Roerich museum, the home of the famous Russian painter and traveler which has now been converted to a museum. - After spending a day or two in Naggar, another option is the Vashisht village about 5-6 Kms from Old Manali which is where the Rishi Vashisht is believed to have meditated. Must see places include the Vashisht temple, the hot springs and the Jogini falls. Other famous temples include the Manu temple and Hidimba Devi temple which are situated within Manali. - Spiti valley is another spot that is pretty close to Manali and deserves an itinerary of itself. You can check out our podcast on Spiti for more places. - If you want to indulge in some adventure activity, one can sign up for river rafting in the Beas river, Zorbing, paragliding (viral paragliding video!) are some options. Links:Link to Priyanka's blogpost: https://www.onmycanvas.com/best-places-visit-manali-itinerary/https://www.onmycanvas.com/places-visit-naggar-manali-himachal/Spiti blogpost:https://www.onmycanvas.com/spiti-valley-travel-blog/Link to Priyanka's blog: https://www.onmycanvas.comSocial media:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/priyanka_onmycanvas/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/guptapranky Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/onmycanvasblog/ Thank you for doing the episode introduction, Girish Shivakumar! You can check out the Mission Shunya podcast on your favourite podcast app and follow on social mediaWebsite: https://missionshunya.comTwitter: Mission Shunya Podcast: hhttps://twitter.com/missionshunyaGirish Shivakumar: https://twitter.com/SivakumarGirish  Other episodes mentioned in the podcast:Naggar/Nicholas Roerich - https://themusafirstories.com/podcasts/paintings-of-the-himalayas-with-medhavi-gandhi/ Spiti - https://themusafirstories.com/podcasts/tms005-explore-spiti-with-the-desi-traveler/Follow the Musafir stories on:Twitter : https://twitter.com/musafirstories?lang=enFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/themusafirstories/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/musafirstoriespodcast/?hl=enwebsite: www.themusafirstories.comemail: themusafirstories@gmail.comitunes -  https://apple.co/2LPtTA3Google podcasts - http://bit.ly/2toY7lj website - http://bit.ly/2xFZqOV Saavn - https://bit.ly/2J5rIqiSpotify - https://spoti.fi/2HLPSViGaana - http://bit.ly/2NClUYYpocketcasts - https://bit.ly/2xu3Ewgcastbox - https://bit.ly/2sqBDQiOvercast - https://bit.ly/2LN9wnfStitcher Radio - https://bit.ly/2JiBbhwaudioBoom - https://bit.ly/2oZZowSTuneIn - https://bit.ly/2xyQH4aRadioPublic - https://bit.ly/2snY9u0 iHeartradio - https://ihr.fm/2xvOG8RDeezer - https://bit.ly/2L7GmOo

Puntata #224- Venerdì 17 Gennaio 2020  Reincarnazione, karma e peccato: usciamo da questi schemi! E poi parliamo di solitudine, felicità e gioia, cammini spirituali e... Shamballa come dimensione interiore del nostro Essere. In copertina: dipinto di Nicholas Roerich. Per rivolgere domande: info@carlodorofatti.com -Per informazioni: www.carlodorofatti.com 

JULGAMENTO UNIVERSAL Julgamento se constitui na parte final de um processo, de uma ação. Representa a colheita, senão, a seleção das sementes para nova semeadura. Se o ser humano nunca tivesse experimentado a ação da liberdade, jamais poderia ser julgado. A vida de cada homem ou de cada criatura humana é um julgamento permanente, eis que passa a agir dentro da atividade cósmica, e depois, dentro da Lei do Carma. Qual o verdadeiro sentido desse julgamento? Se existe um julgamento, quem julga? Qual o significado do julgamento das religiões em 1959 quando todas elas foram condenadas? O que significa "salvar uma alma"? Quem são os Lípikas, os que anotam e registram todos os nossos atos? SANCTUM SANCTORUM Sanctum Sanctorum é o seio da Terra, onde se acha o grande mistério espiritual de nosso globo. É o lugar onde se elaboram as chamas do fogo sagrado e dos fenômenos que se processam no centro da Terra, de cujos profundos mistérios a ciência oficial não tem o menor conhecimento. É o Tártaro ou Inferno para alguns, pois, de fato, inferno (ou in-fera) significa lugares inferiores. Em tal região inferior centro-terrena arde em plena atividade o fogo cósmico, o qual as antiquíssimas escrituras orientais denominam Kundalini, e que nas lendas chinesas, mongólicas e tibetanas se chama Serpente ou Dragão de Fogo, aquele mesmo fogo que, através da sarça ardente, falou a Moisés, ordenando-lhe que se descalçasse, pois estava pisando em terra sagrada. O Sanctum Sanctorum simboliza o útero materno, pois é ai que os homens nascem pela segunda vez, através das iniciações no mundo espiritual. O Sanctum Sanctorum da Terra é e continua sendo obscuro e polêmico, secreto e sagrado, ainda que alguns místicos tenham se pronunciado sobre essa intrincada matéria, como foi o caso, por exemplo, de Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891), Saint-Yves D'Alveydre (1842-1909), Annie Besant (1847--1933), Stanislas de Guaita (1861-1897), Mario Roso de Luna (1872-1931), Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947), Ferdinand Ossendowski (1876-1945), Henrique José de Souza (1883-1963), René Guénon (1886-1951), Raymond Bernard (1923-2006) e outros. PROGRAMA VIDA INTELIGENTE com Eustáquio Andréa Patounas Quinta-Feira, 8 às 9 da noite, AO VIVO TV Floripa Canal 4 da NET www.vidainteligente.blogspot.com www.vidainteligente.tv.br

 Jose “Joe” Sanchez on Tara in the Neighborhood Jose is a resident on South Padre Island, he is a teacher, musician, storyteller, inn keeper and sandcastle maker.  Jose left the Valley in the mid 1970's to attend Harvard University in Cambridge,  Massachusetts.  Jose started his academic journey as anthropologist but dropped out of Harvard to experience life.  Jose finished Harvard  10 years later after "being" many things from laborer to cook to musician.  Jose shares his philosophical views and highlights his nonconformist adventures.   The beat movement of the 1950's inspired Jose and authors such as Kerouac created a blueprint for experiencing life "on your own terms".  Jose was drawn to folklore throughout his life, he taught at the the Circle School in San Antonio.  The school is based on the work of Nicholas Roerich and is used stories as part of the curriculum.   Jose learned much at the Circle school by teaching folklore to children by day and  going to underground clubs to sing his music at night.    The new chapter in his life brings Jose to South Padre Island.  He has honed his sandcastle techniques and is part of a non profit which teaches sandcastle lesson for free on South Padre Island.  Jose plans to take his sandcastle making on the on the road throughout  Rio Grande Valley schools.  Jose's partner is Lucinda  and together they are building castles and raising dogs on the Island.  

Please be aware the stories, theories, re-enactments and language in this podcast are of an adult nature and can be disturbing, frightening and in some cases offensive. Listener Discretion is advised – there is very adult content ahead and you have been warned. Welcome heathens welcome to the world of the weird and unexplained. I’m your host, Nicole Delacroix and together, we will be investigating stories about the weird, wonderful, unexplained, eerie, scary and down-right unbelievable. There will be tales of ghosts, murder, supernatural beings and unexplained mysteries. So, sit back, grab your favorite drink, relax and prepare to be transported to today's dark Enigma.... And on today’s Dark enigma we’re going to be exploring another listener request, this time it’s going to center outside of the US and we’re going to be travelling… metaphorically to Shambhala. As always, we will be playing our drinking game but once again, the drinking game is only for those of us that are at home and have nowhere else to go tonight. I’m leaving the choice of libation up to you, so choose wisely, my young padawans… yep, I’m feeling very Star Wars right now so deal with it… Alright, now for the game part how about every time I say Shambhala that will be a single shot and every time I say Agharta, that’s a double shot. Now that we have the business end out of the way we can jump headfirst into today’s dark enigma… and Agharta and the Prophecy of the Golden City of Shambhala… let’s jump into it heathens… As the Russian philosopher Nicholas Roerich passed through the sprawling mountains of Central Asia in 1926, he and his guides were shocked to witness an incredible, golden orb floating in the sky. From Chapter 4 of Invisible Eagle: The History of Nazi Occultism by Alan Baker, and I quote: “…high up in the cloudless sky, they clearly saw a golden spheroidal object moving from the Altai Mountains to the north at tremendous speed. Veering sharply to the south-west, the golden sphere disappeared rapidly beyond the Humboldt Mountains.” Perhaps Roerich shouldn’t have been surprised. Some claim his journey was no mere expedition: He was attempting to return a fragment of the legendary Cintamani Stone to its rightful place at the center of Shambhala, and the golden sphere was a welcoming sign from within.

«La musica non può esistere senza il suono. Il suono esiste di per sé senza la musica. È il suono ciò che conta» Un compositore simbolo del XX secolo: l'italiano Giacinto Scelsi si è accostato alla musica con una concezione e una composizione del tutto innovativa, un approccio il suo, che lo condurrà a vivere un vero e proprio percorso spirituale, quasi mistico. L'autore del suono sospeso tra cielo e terra. La sua musica viene dal futuro, e assieme a Michele Selva, autore di questa serie di monografie intitolata "La Musica come Pratica dell'Impossibile, riscopriamo le tappe della sua carriera artistica attraverso aneddoti e sessioni di ascolto. Image courtesy of Nicholas Roerich

This week, The Musafir Stories speaks to  Medhavi Gandhi, the founder of Heritage Lab (heritagelab.in), a unique media platform for citizens to interact with museums!   Today's destination: The Indian Himalayas in paintings by Nicholas Roerich!  Nearest Airport: NA  Nearest Railway Station: NA  Length of the itinerary: 5-8 years, 25,000 kms  Itinerary Highlights:   -  Medhavi takes us on the Himalayan expedition covered by Nicholas Roerich and his family in the early 20th century (1923) in search of the mythical kingdom of Shambala, that is believed to be home to the King who will bring peace and harmony to humanity.   Roerich's expedition started from Sikkim through Punjab, Kashmir, Ladakh, the Karakoram Mountains, Khotan, Kashgar, Qara Shar, Urumchi, Irtysh, the Altai Mountains, the Oyrot region of Mongolia, the Central Gobi, Kansu, Tsaidam, and Tibet" with a detour through Siberia to Moscow in 1926.   The journey was done on horses and mules, with minimal resources and it is during this expedition that Roerich painted more than 500 marvellous paintings of the himalayan landscapes, architecture and people.   Roerich also uses very novel ways to paint, using crushed rocks minerals in his paintings to give them a unique finish.   The expedition wasn't witout controversy - Roerich was often accused of being on a spy mission and was also detained in Tibet for over 5 months in very harsh climatic conditions.   After the expedition, Roerich settles down in Naggar, Kullu in Himachal Pradesh - it is now converted into a house museum and run by the Naggar trust and still houses a lot of his important paintings.   Other important paintings of Roerich can be found in the Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York.   A huge collection of his paintings is also available in National Gallery of Modern Art, Allahabad Museum, International Roerich Trust, Naggar - Himachal Pradesh, Government Museum and Art gallery, Chandigarh, Shri Jaganmohan palace, Mysore,  Chitrakala parishad, Bangalore.   Some of his paintings that were passed on to his son, have been the subject of a legal tussle for his estate that has gone of for the longest time, with paintings worth several lakhs reportedly stolen and sold abroad.   Over his lifetime Roerich made over 7000 paintings, but his Himalayan paintings and the mystery of the expedition live one!  Some notable paintings from Roerich's Himalayan expedition detailed in Medhavi's blog  A view of Kanchenjunga from Sikkim (Tashi view point)  A view of Kanchenjunga from Darjeeling (Tiger hill)  Tashiding Monastery, Sikkim (Bhumchu festival/Banners of the east)  Mt Kailash (tibet)  Kinner Kailash (HP, 28 colors of the ranges)  Lahual (Himachal), Rohtang Pass;   Buddhist MOnks, Sissu waterfalls  Ladakh - shooting star in Changthang plateau  Buddhist sculptures on boulders (Zanskar range)  Maitreyi Buddha, near Mulbek monastery  lamayaru Monastery, Leh (Yuru Kabgyata festival, masked dance)  Lake sheshnag, Kashmir (enroute amarnath yatra, Shiva's serpent)  Naggar, Kullu  Links:  Link to Medhavi's website: http://www.theheritagelab.in/ Link to the blog post: http://www.theheritagelab.in/himalayas-paintings-roerich/ Twitter: @medhavigandhi @theheritagelab Instagram: @theheritagelab Facebook: @heritagelab Image Credit : The Heritage Lab, Painting at Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York  Follow the Musafir stories on  Twitter Facebook Instagram website: www.themusafirstories.com  email: themusafirstories@gmail.com  itunes -  https://apple.co/2LPtTA3  Google podcasts - http://bit.ly/2toY7lj or voice or google search "Ok Google, play The Musafir stories podcast"  website - http://bit.ly/2xFZqOV   Saavn - https://bit.ly/2J5rIqi  Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2HLPSVi  pocketcasts - https://bit.ly/2xu3Ewg  castbox - https://bit.ly/2sqBDQi  Overcast - https://bit.ly/2LN9wnf  Stitcher Radio - https://bit.ly/2JiBbhw  audioBoom - https://bit.ly/2oZZowS  TuneIn - https://bit.ly/2xyQH4a  RadioPublic - https://bit.ly/2snY9u0   iHeartradio - https://ihr.fm/2xvOG8R  Deezer - https://bit.ly/2L7GmOo

Suppose that a Foundation type civilization encounters some non-Euclidean geometry from which enter Lovecraft's monstrous pantheon. Would such an advanced civilization be affected on the same basic level of sanity as one of Lovecraft's 1920-era protagonists?  Do you feel that the excuse that Ridley Scott's "Prometheus" essentially tackled the same style of story is a sufficient reason not to make Del Toro's "Mountains of Madness" adaptation? Iâ??m curious if you are aware of a Mexican 1959 horror film by Mario Bava entitled Caltiki, the Immortal Monster, I think that is about as Lovecraftian as any non-Lovecraft movie Iâ??ve ever seen. Has anyone figured out and listed which of Nicholas Roerich's paintings, which are so frequently mentioned in "At the Mountains of Madness", were accessible to HPL? Are we to believe the assertions of Satanist Winter Laake that when a young boy Lovecraft encountered a 'spirit guide' and that he denied this for fear of being labeled mentally ill like his father, and that Lovecraft met Aleister Crowley in New York City?   Is there a generally accepted Lovecraft canon?    Is there a concise document or website that effectively lists all the works tied to the Cthulhu Mythos?   Do you know if Lovecraft pioneered the horror trope of people unexpectedly wandering into a cursed town in the Shadow Over Innsmouth?

O tema deste podcast é “Nicholas Roerich” com o frater Oswaldo Muhlmann Junior. Personalidade mística conhecida mundialmente, Nicholas Roerich era um visionário humanista. Suas obras têm muito a revelar, como a Bandeira da Paz que representa paz e cultura.

El objetivo del arte contemporáneo es hacernos ver el mundo de otra manera. Porque el arte a veces es muy raro y en ocasiones busca asombrar o provocar. Surgen tendencias como el happening, el body art, el land art o el arte marginal que buscan precisamente eso. Hablaremos de su faceta más comercial con la galerista Paula Alonso quien nos relatará los intríngulis del coleccionismo y esas ferias que se celebran en España, como ARCO, cargadas de polémica para saber hasta dónde puede llegar el arte o la tomadura de pelo. Un programa hecho con mucho arte en el que no faltarán los cuadros de Nicholas Roerich, las trasgresiones de Marcel Duchamp y su urinario o las esculturas-insecto de Judith Scott. El pintor sevillano Miguel Rodríguez nos hablará de su magnífica obra y los mensajes ocultos que lleva implícita, así como de uno de sus pintores favoritos, Marc Chagall. Fermín Mayorga se referirá a esos artistas que fueron perseguidos por la Inquisición por pintar cuadros morbosos o escandalosos. Y pondremos el broche final con un cuento muy artístico, teniendo siempre como divisa aquell

In this episode Justen, Tom and Josh discuss the Paranormal Scenarios that are Culminating up to the End of the Age. The adventure includes Nicholas Roerich and the Mysterious Occult Box, The DNA of Osiris & Ancient Watcher Resurrection Rituals, The Evolution of Fallen Angel Communication & Higher Dimensions, Modern Spiritual Warfare and Entity Manifestations, as well as a Bible Study on Listening to The Voice of Truth and Being Blessed in Obedience. Join us tonight for these and much more! This is one broadcast you won't want to miss!

In this episode Justen, Tom and Josh discuss the Paranormal Scenarios that are Culminating up to the End of the Age. The adventure includes Nicholas Roerich and the Mysterious Occult Box, The DNA of Osiris & Ancient Watcher Resurrection Rituals, The Evolution of Fallen Angel Communication & Higher Dimensions, Modern Spiritual Warfare and Entity Manifestations, as well as a Bible Study on Listening to The Voice of Truth and Being Blessed in Obedience. Join us tonight for these and much more! This is one broadcast you won't want to miss!

Aurovilian Loretta speaks of the openness and reception of the people and the spiritual force at two International workshops in October, one in Italy, sponsored by the Community of Living Ethics, and one in Canada, sponsored by The Mother's Circle study group. Fiorenza Bortolotti, A community leader in the Italian community, gives the history of her community. Their teachings about the new force and the new age, and the yoga related to its coming are similar to Sri Aurobindo's. Called Psychosynthesis, these teachings and methods were created by psychologist Roberto Assagioli, a contemporary of Sri Aurobindo. He based it all on teachings from the East, including Sri Aurobindo's teachings and the transmissions received by Helena Roerich, wife of the Russian painter, Nicholas Roerich, and combined it with his knowledge of psychology and medicine. Auroville and the Community of Living Ethics have many spiritual things in common.

This podcast is a conversation between David Silver and myself about the Russian mystic and painter Nicholas Roerich. Roerich, who died in 1947 also lived in the United States for many years during the nineteen thirties and died in India.  He and his wife Helena Roerich were deeply connected to the Masters of the Great White Lodge, best known in writings about Theosophy and they created a path called Agni Yoga. Roerich’s paintings, his greatest legacy were vivid colorful renditions of saints from all religions as well as many sites in nature, particularly the Himalayas. Several hundred of Roerich’s paintings are on permanent exhibit at the Roerich Museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. (Details and examples of dozens of the paintings at Roerich.org). Though large forgotten in modern culture, Roerich had a huge influence on culture and politics of the first half of the twentieth century. In the U.S. he became close to both Henry Wallace and Franklin Roosevelt (in mid thirties went on an expedition to China and Mongolia on behalf of the US Dept. of Agriculture). Roerich also conceived of a symbol called the “pax cultura” that was to be placed on artistic institutions so that during war time they would be spared in a similar way that the red cross was designed to signify hospitals. Thirty-five nations, including the U.S. signed the”Roerich Pact” to that effect but the brutality of World War II overcame its noble intentions. Later, in India Roerich befriended future leaders Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Ghandi.  In the world of arts, Roerich was an international force for elevating the purpose and stature of the arts and was a close friend and associate of Charlie Chaplin, Ernest Hemingway, Rabindranath Tagore, and H.G. Wells, among others as well as Igor Stravinsky for whom Roerich designed the sets for the famous and infamous debut of “Rites of Spring” in Paris in 1913.

Our(John and Chris's) second conversation with Andrei Znamenski, author of Red Shambhala: Magic, Prophecy, and Geopolitics in the Heart of Asia. We discuss the misunderstanding of the beliefs of Tibetan Buddhism and religions in general in modern times, The New Age use of Tibetan Buddhism, The use of religions in particular time periods and their ultimate internally orchestrated destruction. Why and how is this done? Is it happening now with today's dominant religions to make way for Tibetan Buddhism? Theosophy, Nicholas Roerich, Helena Blavatsky, Buddhism in America, Buddhism and Alchemy, Modern Buddhism, The Unification of Religions, CIA involvement,Communism, Communist Utopian Ideals, The Kalachakra, Dalai Lama, ........hoaxbusterscall.com

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! El viaje científico y espiritual de la familia Roerich inicia su recorrido en Srinagar, la Ciudad del sol, de población mayoritariamente musulmana. Les sorprenden las leyendas de Issa (Jesús) y de Salomón, sobre cuya montaña se posaban el rey y sus acompañantes con su "aparato volador". Navegaron por el Lago Vular durante varios días, en cuyas aguas estuvieron a punto de perecer a causa de las tormentas. La descripción de dos cuadros de Nicholas Roerich nos permiten reflexionar sobre las enseñanzas originales de Jesús. El primero de ellos Los Signos de Cristo, haciendo uso de la simbología, nos muestra la verdadera naturaleza humana de Jesús. El segundo de ellos Cáliz de Cristo describe la transfiguración de Cristo en el monte Tabor como el punto culminante de las sucesivas reencarnaciones del alma humana. La distorsión de las Enseñanzas originales de Jesucristo dio lugar a un cisma entre los primeros cristianos. Por ello reflexionamos sobre un controvertido texto de Orígenes, el más respetado y amado Padre de la Iglesia Cristiana original. Escucha este episodio completo y accede a todo el contenido exclusivo de La Rueda del Misterio. Descubre antes que nadie los nuevos episodios, y participa en la comunidad exclusiva de oyentes en https://go.ivoox.com/sq/4754

On the 29th of May 1912, exactly a year earlier than the premiere of The Rite of Spring, Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes had scandalized Parisian audiences with the first performance of another famous ballet choreographed by Nijinsky – L’Après-midi d’un Faune. This ballet represents a precursor for The Rite of Spring not only for this chronological correspondence, success, notoriety, and choreography by Nijinsky: both works also drew some inspiration from a rather distant prehistoric past, as shown by the sets and costumes created by Léon Bakst and Nicholas Roerich (for Faune and Rite, respectively). This paper discusses Bakst’s use of prehistoric materials for the Faune and previous Ballets Russes productions, and how this related to his ideas about a modern art of the future.

Vaslav Nijinsky’s choreography for the Rite of Spring was structured by movement patterns based on simple geometrical forms – such as circles, triangles, lines and angles – which his dancers incorporated with their bodies and limbs. Repeated over and over again, the patterns were gradually transformed or harshly interrupted by other choreographic figures, thus reflecting the repetitive character of Igor Stravinsky’s music as well as the use of ornament and colour in Nicholas Roerich’s costume design. The non-mimetic character of these ornamental patterns is also strongly related to Nijinsky’s own abstract paintings as well as to the rise of abstract art in Paris of 1913, namely the work of Sonia Delaunay-Terk and František Kupka. Applying to The Rite of Spring new theories of ornament focusing more on generative and perceptive aspects rather than on the decorative functions of ornament, I will ask: what is the relationship between the narrative – the sacrifice of an individual person for the sake of the community – and the use of ornamental patterns in Nijinsky’s choreography? To what extent do abstract ornamental patterns generate narrative, emotional, and even political references? Looking back on The Rite of Spring in the knowledge that it premiered only one year before the outbreak of World War I, does its aesthetic relationship between disruption and continuity ultimately mirror a political impact? Is its use of ornament only connected to a potential continuity of decorative transformation and a lack of representation? Or does the modus of ornament generate narrative, emotional, and even political references?

Rene DeFazio and Tamara Veitch, authors of “One Great Year” share their story in Grimerica for this great episode. This book is a fantastic adventure of intertwined souls deeply in love, the darkness that balances the light, ancient knowledge – mystery schools, a world that may have been, synchronicities and symbolism, and of course reincarnating thought the cycle of the One Great Year.  Rene and Tamara chat with the guys about what influenced them to write this book. Lots of what you hear already in Grimerica... ancient sites, sacred geometry, tree and flower of life, Atlantis, consciousness, synchronicities and much more. We are looking forward to reading the sequel and seeing this on the big screen one day. http://onegreatyear.com/  http://onegreatyear.com/events/  https://twitter.com/onegreatyear  https://www.facebook.com/OneGreatYear  Links to topics and other researchers and inspirations from episode: http://www.robertlanzabiocentrism.com/  http://www.grahamhancock.com/  Tree of life = Nassim Haramein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzEWgs9X998  Shambhala, the book: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/288848.Nicholas_Roerich  Ian Stevenson’s reincarnation research http://www.near-death.com/experiences/reincarnation01.html  Hamlet’s Mill http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1439.Hamlet_s_Mill  Thomas Cambell’s My Big Toe http://www.my-big-toe.com/  In the intro Darren and Graham talk about extending the moneybomb another month.... but still gifting back minimum $100 to one of you. Contribute to the show via the 50/50 Moneybomb link below. The guys chat about Fermilab testing our 3d holographic reality, the news from Ripperology on Jack, The UFO quote of the week, and the upcoming Paradigm Symposium 2014.  Graham tries reading his friends crazy space war dream but get’s the kibosh. They also get into some feedback and the first voicemail. Review The Grimerica Show on itunes, youtube, or grimerica.ca and leave a voicemail with your stories, synchronicities or feedback. Thanks for listening!! Link to Fermilab article - which is not the exact same one they talk about. That one seems to have disappeared. Gist is the same though.... http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/press_releases/2014/2-D-Hologram-20140826.html  Paradigm Symposium 2014 http://www.paradigmsymposium.com/  Grimerica 50/50 Moneybomb http://www.grimerica.ca/moneybomb/  Ripperologists have the skinny on Jack http://www.theage.com.au/comment/it8217s-case-closed-for-jack-the-ripper--alas-20140910-10et93.html    MUSIC Grimerica Theme - Lock & Key X Files Dub - Dubway Beatfresh Save The Rave - Haters (Funk4mation Remix) Nasty - Ghost Rider Tree House - Syxx   Somebody That I Used To Know - Clem Beat’z