Buddhism

Opinion — There is a desperate humanitarian crisis underway in Myanmar, centering around the Rohingya Muslims.

Kalki Weisthor, otherwise known as Robert, is an Armanist, Wotanist, student of the Vedas, and former attorney.

Eclipsing excitement, critical events and Kelly's cult + this day in history w/Bill Clinton's testimony and our song of the day by Guided By Voices on your Morning Monarchy for August 17, 2017.

Jay Dyer
21st Century Wire
The Fountain is one of Hollywood’s more difficult esoteric films: The failure of the film to achieve at the box office can be chalked up to this heavily mystifying plot and symbolism.

A tea hostess stands next to a mural depicting Tibet on display in the Tibet room in the Great Hall of the People during the Tibetan province delegation meeting held as part of the National People’s Congress in Beijing, March 10, 2017. (AP/Andy Wong)
As a result of Hollywood and a fascination with Buddhism among certain celebrities and in some bohemian circles, many Americans are deeply misinformed about Tibet.

(ANTIMEDIA) Amid continuously mounting tensions and division throughout the world, religious leaders of various faiths recently came together to issue a plea to their followers: make friends with those who hold beliefs different from your own.
“Our advice is to make friends to followers of all religions,” said Ayatollah Sayyid Fadhel Al-Milani, a senior Shia Muslim cleric in the U.K., in a video recently posted to Youtube. It is accessible in 16 languages.

The opposition to the pillaging by the founders of what came to be called capitalism took many forms: from utopian colonies and secret societies of craftsmen to dissenting religious congregations, among other insurgent formations. Many of these rebellious eruptions have modern day equivalents. Intentional communities never disappeared though they cycle from popular ventures to backwoods near oblivion and workers hesitantly emerged from clandestine meetings to openly organize for their rights, though today corporate hostility to unions sees them returning to caution and secrecy.

March 6, 2017
By Johan Galtung
An Unstable World: Analysis, Forecasting, Solutions

20 February 2017
By Johan Galtung
Visions of the Past for Constructing a Future: Historiography of Spain

By Johan Galtung
February 27, 2017
Keynote: New Vision of Peace in East Asia – Sino-Japanese Peace Dialogue
Nanjing, 22-23 Feb 2017
As Buddhist philosophy teaches, peace, like violence and conflict, is a relation; not an attribute of China or Japan. As Daoist philosophy teaches, in a holon like East Asia there are forces and counterforces, yin/yang, with yin and yang in both.