I always tell people that if they want to stay informed in the world, you’re not going to do it by watching TV anymore. I read books and magazines to do so, and now I’m always checking out google video (youtube.com) too.

The best educational google videos are at the bottom of the videos page. Click on google, and at the left top of the google screen click on the word VIDEO. Now on that page, skip  down the following section to the last one on the bottom — EDUCATION:

Popular
Featured
Comedy
Fatured on AOL
Music
Movie Trailers
TV Shows
Sports
Education – this has all the best videos on 911 etc. which reveal the real stories, facts and news  they’re keeping from you

Of course, there’s entertainment there, too. When I want a quick pick-me-up, I watch this video which is the TOP SEEN COMEDY video of all timeon google and YouTube. Watch it — it’s fun:

 

When I was young, my three brothers and I used to listen to comedian George Carlin, who is famous for his Seven Dirty Words routine that encompassed "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television." You can look them up on Wikipedia if you’re that interested.

George has been making a resurgence in these last few years, though he’s still using those dirty words in his comedy routines (and more). I was recently made aware of some videos of his comedy sketches freely available on the web. George likes to make fun of contemporary American culture and many strange things people do.

Enjoy….but be careful about the Dirty Words if that offends you (seems Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock and lots of other comedians are using them, so Carlin is no stranger there).

Religion:

The Ten Commandments:

Blair Warren has a great blog on persuasion, and is always a joy to read. Recently he posted the following story, which he graciously allowed me to reprint. 

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Mr. Amazing’s Magic Rocks

A man sets up a booth at a fair.  He then places an ordinary rock upon his table and hangs a banner behind him that reads:

 

Mr. Amazing’s Wealth Attracting Rocks – $20
Money Back Guarantee

 

Onlookers gather around the mysterious salesman and soon one approaches him.

“How do I know these rocks really attract wealth?”

“They work based on universal laws and are proven effective by quantum physics.  You don’t have to do anything except think about wealth.  The rock does the rest.”

“And you’ll return my money if it doesn’t work?”

“Absolutely.”

The onlooker pauses, then slaps a $20 bill on the table and leaves with his magic rock.

Mr. Amazing pulls another rock from a box and gently places it upon the table.

Another onlooker steps forward.

“How do I know these rocks work?” he asks.

“Well, I could tell you all about universal laws and quantum physics, but instead I’ll prove they work right here, right now.”

“Okay.  Prove it.”

Mr. Amazing points to the $20 on the table and says, “See that?  It wasn’t there just a few moments ago.  I manifested it using my magic rocks.”

The onlooker thinks for a moment, then realizes that Mr. Amazing is correct.  The money wasn’t there just a few moments ago.  He immediately slaps a $20 bill down on the table and he, too, leaves with a magic rock.

The remaining onlookers are now closing in on the table.  They overhear Mr. Amazing and another customer talking.

“How do I know these rocks work?” the customer asks.

“You see that $40 on the table?  It was only $20 a few moments ago.”

Hearing this, the crowd goes mad and everyone is now fighting to be the next lucky customer.

But soon, reality sets in on some of his former customers.  Most are too embarrassed to ask for a refund, but a few do just that.

“I’d be happy to return your money, but are you sure you have been thinking about wealth?” Mr. Amazing asks them.

“Constantly,” one man assures him.  “Why do you ask?”

“Because I know my rocks attract wealth.  Just look at this pile of money here.  It’s much, much larger than it was when you were here earlier today and I owe it all to my magic rocks.  Perhaps you aren’t thinking correctly.”

The customers look confused.  After all, Mr. Amazing is correct.  His pile of money is much larger than it was before.

“You know,” says Mr. Amazing, “I really want to see you folks enjoy the same type of prosperity I enjoy so you might consider taking one of my wealth attraction seminars.  They aren’t cheap, but they really work for me.”

His customers lean in a bit, but seem uncommitted.

“I’ll tell you what,” Mr. Amazing says, “I’ll even take $20 off the price of the seminar.  That way you’re getting all your money back and get to learn my advanced success strategies.”

The customers fight to present him with their credit cards.

And soon the day is done Mr. Amazing tallies his earnings.  To celebrate, he goes out and buys a new wardrobe, a luxury car, a new home, and plans his dream vacation.

The next week, he is spotted at another fair and overheard saying…

“How can I prove these rocks work?  Just look at all my success.  I didn’t have any of these things last week.  And I owe it all to my magic rocks.”

With that, Mr. Amazing is mobbed and becomes a legend.

And though many will try, none of his customers will be able to duplicate his success or discover the true secret behind it.  But they won’t give up for they’ll still have hope.  After all, they’ll still have their magic rocks.

 

The end.

 

Of course, this is just a fable.  Something like this could never work in real life.

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Does this story remind you of something you know about that was recently on Oprah and the like?  "The Secret," which made Oprah and has gone on to make $20 million, offers this idea that you can attract good fortune to yourself just by opening yourself up to it, and projecting your needs and wants into the universe.

Baloney. Sloppy thinking. Ridiculous. And a bad influence to society to even suggest this with an absence of responsibility and hard work.

The karma you received is only the karma you deserve in life. If you haven’t created the merit to receive some excellence you desire, all the mental projection in the world will do nothing for you. What comes, good or bad, is ALL due to karma. And it’s karma you created, so don’t blame other people.

If you create good karma, then good fortune will result even if you don’t want it, and the opposite holds true. No matter how good your fortune this instant, some bad fortune from some ancient karmic life situation is always ready to come due – no one lives a perfect life. That’s why Zen teaches you it’s how you DEAL with what arises that matters.

Basically, if you want a new future in THIS life which is different from  the karmic fate you already laid out (created) for this life due to past actions, you have to create it with actions other than just thoughts. Consistent, determined, wise actions.

What are the keys to accomplishing this?

The normal self-help crowd talks about being motivated, creating a model for success and working it with massive intelligent action, flexibility and a monitoring system to keep you on track.

But guess what? You can still fail at reaching your goal despite A+ marks along these lines.

What’s missing?

The merit to succeed. No merit = no karma for the result you want.

Secondly, keeping to and holding to  habits that stand in  the way of creating the future you desire, which meditation can help you overcome by the very act of shining light on them (vipassana practice).

Lastly, asking for help from heaven for changing a karma that has already been set.Yes, sometimes you need help from others to change your future, including heaven.

All this and more are the things I go over in White Fat Cow and related self-help articles on the website.

White Fat Cow is not like these hundreds of other self-help, New Age, prosperity books out there. It’s paradigm busting. It’s the real thing. It takes the life events that manifest, and proves that what manifests is from karma, and tells you what all the sages from various religions have said is the formula for changing the karma to come. Latet this year, after over a decade of preparation,  I’ll even introduce a Chinese astrology/I-Ching karma calculator that lets you see what’s in store in your future, and tells how to change things.

Why write about White Fat Cow? Another testimonial just came in:

"I just finished reading ‘White Fat Cow’, and the only word that come to mind is gratitude. Thank you for sharing with us this amazing resource. Merging material and spritual success has always been a personal quest of mine, but I had been unable to find a comprehensive book on the topic… Until I came accross White Fat Cow…

This may sound a bit exagerate, but I believe in every word of it: this book is worth more than a full library of self-help books on how to bring success into your life. I read a lot of those, and at some point they all say the same things. Well, you go much further than that. Those books take one original idea, mix it with old recipes, dilute it over 200 pages and call this a book. You go much further than this, bringing an integral perspective on how to change one’s life for the better in the msot profound way. In short, White Fat Cow to me is the ultimate resource on how to profoundly and sustainably change one’s life for the better, both on the material and spiritual fronts.

In addition, it is a great read, full of anecdotes and concrete examples that make the concepts come to life. I was a bit overwhelmed with the information at time, but I guess it’s part of the necessary learning process.

So thanks again for this amazing book, I’d definitely recommend it to any seeker of material and/or spiritual riches out there !"

I don’t cheat people when I say this book is paradigm busting and has the real story on fate, fortune and destiny that the self-help millionaire crowd misses. I urge you to read the other testimonials about White Fat Cow, all true, and to pick up a copy yourself:

http://www.meditationexpert.com/WhiteFatCow.htm

I’ve long known that Chinese feng shui practitioners burn a special type of orange peels when they want to clear a house of ghosts, ghouls or other nasty inhabitants that have come to make it their own denizen. Seems there’s something about the smell they don’t like. Of course, we’re talking about INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH space clearing here.

Now scientists have found that mosquitoes hate burning orange peels, too. Researchers dried orange peels in an oven for 3 days (the Chinese also dry them out extensively) at 140 degrees heat. Then they crushed the peels into a powder. Next they placed this powder in a sealed room with mosquitoes, and ignited it with a hot coal (just as you would with powdered incense).

One hour later, 60% of the mosquitoes were dead.

After two hours…70%.

Three hours later — still it was working.

Sounds like a deodorant commercial, doesn’t it?

There is actually a Buddhist mantra you can say to chase insects away so that you don’t have to kill them. I keep trying to get a copy to test it and see what it does but can’t find one. My teacher says he has a formula for an incense that drives wild animals away when you’re cultivating in the wild, and I have a mantra for requesting help from the Dragon King of a country who is responsible for rain, but I don’t have this chase-away-insects mantra. I’m told it has a lot of sounds like "dee-dee-dee" in it that insects don’t like, or something like that.

Usually there’s a science to these things; one master I know had a mantra for preventing death from poisonous snake bite, and when a friend suffered a heart attack he reasoned that the mantra worked by preventing blood clots, so used it to help his friend. Smart! That’s the type of thinking you need for cultivation matters. When you enter the road of meditation…and make progress…you’ll start encountering ALL sorts of things. You need to turn to logical thinking and science to explain what you’re seeing or experiencing. Of course, if you are lucky you have a  good teacher, or books that explain these things. Typically the best information sources will be India or China, not Russia or Greece for these things.

You can also use radionics/psionic equipment (do a google search for Hieronymus and his corn borer experiments) to chase away insects from a property, and from all the accounts I heard, boy does it work.

You can be like Rudolf Steiner and burn them, and homeopathetize (potentize) the ashes of the insects to be sprayed on a property to drive them away.  He successfully did that with rabbits to rid an estate of their presence.

I once made a study of all these methods because I thought it was a fascinating topic. But after you smell burnt orange peels, you’ll see that that is probably the strongest memory you’ll have of all these techniques.

 

I was producing an new mp3 on animals that cultivate — about all sorts of experiences with fox spirits, dragons, mountain ghosts, beavers, turtles, badgers, snakes, and the whole gamut of animals that can and do cultivate. Plenty of people have told me their own experiences over the years with these beings, I’ve had many experiences myself, and it’s just great dinner conversation.

After recording several hours worth of stories and lessons, I realized that begining cultivators would definitely get the wrong impression about this topic because they have no background, no foundation, no high cultural knowledge  or wisdom on how to deal with this sort of information.  They would be misled and misconstrue the cultivation path for just something interesting, entertaining or weird. That couldn’t be further than the truth because cultivation is so ordinary that’s it’s actually boring and uninteresting to  people! Yet the conclusion would most certainly be the opposite.

Nevertheless, I don’t want this work to go entirely to waste and there are lots of lessons to learn, so here’s just a short 15 minute segment of some stories that show what our mp3s are like….this section was just a short segment from the 45 minute section on fox spirits alone and what to do with them in dreams, how to recognize them, how they cultivate and so on.

Fox Spirits

Basically, if you don’t cultivate you’ll never encounter this sort of stuff. You’ll never encounter higher beings or lower beings that ask for your help. If you do cultivate to a sufficiently high level, this is just the tip of the iceburg of what you’ll encounter in the universe and along the cultivation trail. If you cultivate and still don’t encounter this stuff, your cultivation isn’t high enough nor is your chi purified enough. Congratulaions — someone just told you the truth.

Frankly, as pretty much all the Eastern cultivation schools (the ones developed by the independent teachings of samadhi and enlightened masters, not the ones controlled by central authorities desiring offerings and obedience), the whole universe is awash with life bobbing up and down throughtout the Three Realms due to the karma of reincarnation. The only ones who can control it are those who become enlightened.

As soon as you cultivate your chi, open up your chi channels and chakras or develop a yin shen transformation body, you’re on the very start of the path and this knowledge, from direct personal experience, will open up to you. As my teacher says, until then you can’t discuss this stuff with ordinary people except as entertainment because they have no cultivation experience or gongfu and won’t appreciate it. I’ve seen time and again that ordinary people can’t understand such things, except at the most rudimentary levels. So my own teacher rarely bothers discussing them.

Nevertheless, the whole universe is filled with infinite forms of life in infinite worlds, including this world. Just concentrate on the region of your third eye for about an hour a day and after a few months you’ll be able to see the etheric beings in this world mentioned by all sorts of saints and sages but unbeknownst to those who don’t cultivate.  As to other worlds, you can read Buddhist sutras and learn of the beings throughout the cosmos who cultivate, especially in the Form Realm, using movement, smells, consciousness, or other means we cannot fathom. Everyone is cultivating to realize the Tao. When you start to get just a little teeny tinsy bit of experience in this area, you can start to believe this stuff and realize that the Western religions cut people off from this knowledge for purposes of  control.

In the whole universe, you must cultivate merit and non-ego meditation to realize the Tao. Otherwise you keep bobbing up and down in various incarnations that you cannot control, suffering along the way. If you’re reading this you have access to a computer, so this life is probably pretty good, but who can say that about the next life or the next when your stock of bad karma catches up?

It’s so hard, throughout those lives, to come into contact with real cultivation teachings. Just look at this world, a tiny speck amongst an infinite number, and look how many people follow "religious paths"  totally devoid of cultivation practice and knowledge. It’s all around them and yet they are ignorant of the path to liberation that involves meditation techniques applied with diligence.

So go ahead and enjoy this 15 minutes of entertainment. But remember to cultivate afterwards …

In researching White Fat Cow, I came upon many very neat esoteric sciences, including astrocartography. A modern invention, astrocartography computes areas int he world where various influences or environments — money, love, wealth, career success — are likely to happen. Most people do it incorrectly, but one man I respect for readings is Julian Lee.

Another neat astrocartography graph I just found is found at http://www.alphee.com/air_reading/astro_map/astro_mapping.htm and takes several days to produce (usually 3 days). It’s done by computing 3000 relocated natal charts, in conjunction with neural network algorithms, to find "hot spots" for various influence potentials you’re seeking to experience in life.

While Julian can search the world and tell you which spots will produce beneficial results of what type  for how long, and can tell you everything about how you will experience life in a new location (highly recommend before you move or are about to relocate to a new job or area…after all, before you’re ready to buy a $300K house in a new area, wouldn’t you want to know a little bit more?), this chart can give you the static potential of an area. Obviously you’d want to get the static chart, and then probe for more info based on Julian’s readings.

That’s one way to combine the results of esoteric sciences.