Everything NASA tells us is a lie. - John Lear

According to space.com there will be a solar eclipse today -- Tuesday, Oct. 25 -- just in time to confuse all the spirits stirring for their annual appearance on the human plane. Animals will be disturbed, too, as they seem to be able to see them. What causes an eclipse?

The unrecognized Rahu (alternating with Ketu) strays across the sky and covers it, according to the ancient Dharmic religions of India -- Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Brahmanism, Skihism, and possibly Rumi's Sufism (which is technically mystical Islam) -- not to mention the biblical views of Sumer, Judea, and Christiandom.

Sure, science has a different explanation that drowns everyone else out. How dare a religion have a point of view. Something about the sun be 400 times farther away than the moon but at a perfect distance to seem exactly the same size as the moon. That's unlikely and not what our eyes tell us. But who are we to believe, what someone says science says or what we say when we look up and see for ourselves?

In any case, however it happens, someone celestial object is getting in the way of another today. And that may have some astrological portent. Maybe a "dark pall" has spread over the British Empire because Rishi Sunak has become the first person of color (and Hindu) to become the country's political leader?

Or maybe it's American royal K Ye West spreading his dark message of antisemetism and white supremacy (Trump loving White Lives Matter moves). Or maybe the billions of oppressed "darker" people of color on the planet are reflected in the skies.

Or maybe it's the scourge of anti-dark worldwide racism wrought by white supremacists worldwide trying to keep an advantage provided to them by past and present empires (like the Greeks of yore and Americans of Apocalypse Now).

Who knows for sure? Any symbolism could be made out of it, depending on how one chooses to see natural phenomena play out over our personal affairs and points of view.

Wild Frontiers; AW; VVTV: BM; Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly

Buddhist prayer flags fly all over the Himalayas, rooftop of the world (blog.onlineprasad.com)

Buddhist Himalayan festival (ericsjourney.com)

Wild Frontiers' Jonny Bealby presents the highlights of the Kashmir Valley and Himalayas region of India in this guide to northern India.

Comprising a region north of the Ganges River flood plains, to the east of Nepal (home of Mt. Everest), over the foothills and high mountain passes all the way to the former Himalayan Buddhist kingdom of Ladakh and the fabled earthly paradise Kashmir, the Himalayas represent the least populated and arguably most beautiful region in all of India. What are the main highlights?

Heading out of Delhi the first place one comes to is Shilma, former summer capital to the British Raj echoing the history of that era.

Then the road moves on to Dharamsala, the home of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan community in exile. Close by there are wonderful walking trips or "treks" to stay with local villagers in their authentic and comfortably converted homes.

Secret of the Himalayas

(VedaviewTV) A film by George Aistov -- a monk, philosopher, and traveler -- with Italian subtitles. This is the first movie of the "Following in the footsteps of the Vedic Civilization" series and was shot in the Himalayas. The main heroes are The Monk (Swami Avadhut), The Scientist (Sahadev Prabhu), and The Pilgrim (Ajita Krishna Prabhu). Together with a shooting team they go through the Himalayas to speak with sages and visit holy places like the sources of Ganges and Saraswati rivers. They also meet teachers of various yoga systems. And all is intertwined with Vedic stories about local deities (devas), personal talks in the search for Truth, as well as historical references and breathtaking mountain views.
 

Further north is an old favorite of the hippy era, Manali, which is the last town before the high passes, some at over 16,400 feet (5,000 meters) that quite literally take one's breath away, and lead to Ladakh.

Sandwiched between the vast ranges of the Karakoram and Himalayas, Ladakh is the highest, most remote, and least populated region in India.

Formerly a part of Tibet, it is a Buddhist state, home to some extraordinary landscapes, some stunning architecture, great trekking, and fascinating people.

Out and about in India (dalailama.com)

And finally there is Kashmir. As one of the oldest tourist destinations in the world -- a place favored by Moghul emperors, British memsahibs, and Sixties' hippies -- the beauty of the Vale of Kashmir has had poets waxing lyrical for millennia, and for good reason.

Famed for its cool, clear summer air, its alpine meadows and its tranquil lakes, Kashmir is a region like no other. Throw in the quirky and atmospheric wooden houseboats on Lake Dal and the lifting of the British Foreign Office advice against travel here in November 2012, and one has everything needed for a unique adventure holiday destination.

Inspiration to go: One Night's Shelter (Ven. Rahula)

There are a number of group tours that take in these regions: A Journey to Ladakh -- goes on a mega road journey to the Buddhist mountain kingdom; Hill Stations to Kashmir, which hits some of the interesting hill stations on the way to Kashmir.

There is also the ever-popular High [a.k.a. Main] Road to Kashmir that connects Ladakh with Kashmir. And of course, back at the offices in London and Delhi, there are specialist travel planners that know all of these places inside out waiting to help create the most perfect tailor-made experience.

For holidays that come with stunning views, mountain lakes, forest temples, and ancient shrines, a myriad of cultures and creeds, excellent cuisine, and some very good shopping, look no further than the intoxicating Kashmir Himalayan region of India.

• The American Theravada Buddhist monk Ven. Rahula wrote of his drug-addled travels in Asia as a hippie before becoming a wandering ascetic in One Night's Shelter.

Ancient Tibet: The End of Time
(Ancient World) Ancient Tibet: The End of Time (Ancient Discoveries) Tibetan history, as it has been recorded, is particularly focused on the history of Buddhism in Tibet. This is partly due to the pivotal role Buddhism has played in the development of Tibetan, Mongol, and Manchu cultures and partly because almost all native historians of the country were Buddhist monks. More

Crystal Quintero, Dhr. Seven, Dev, Wisdom Quarterly; Semjase [Sam-yasi], akasha-devi

(BTC) UFO Contact from the Pleiades, Chapter 3: Aboard the DAL Spacecrafts

Semjase with vimana

Swiss earthling human Billy Meier (Eduard Albert Meier) is taken for a ride through this galaxy and many others. Moreover, he is taken to different epochs of time. It is one heck of a ride! No wonder, he was taken there by Asket (a female deva called a devi). She is from an inverse-universe, like matter to antimatter!

Follow your heart. Devas do.

But one might ask, "Why did Billy Meier get to go whereas I did not?" It is because Meier made a deal before he was born. Did we? No, of course not. One has to get up pretty early in samsara to beat Billy onto alien craft.

Meier says that contacts resumed again after years (beginning on January 28, 1975) with an extraterrestrial female named Semjase (Portraits der Kontaktpersonen, FIGU Switzerland, Schmidrüti, Switzerland: FIGU), the granddaughter of Sfath. Meier says that he has also had many contacts with another Plejaren (Pleiadian?) man called Ptaah, starting in 1975 and continuing up to the present day.

 

Meier has claimed that he has also visited other worlds and galaxies and another universe with these extraterrestrials. He claims that he was instructed to transcribe his conversations with the various extraterrestrials, most of which have been published in German. These books are referred to as the Contact Notes (or Contact Reports). Currently, there are 26 published volumes of the Contact Reports (titled Plejadisch-Plejarische Kontaktberichte).

Some of the Contact Reports were translated into English, extensively edited and expurgated, and published in the out-of-print four-volume set Message from the Pleiades: The Contact Notes of Eduard Billy Meier by Meier case investigator Wendelle C. Stevens. There are also many contact reports translated into English (unedited) by Benjamin Stevens ("Billy Meier Translations: Contact Reports" Billy Meier Translations. Shelocta, PA).
 

Coleridge saw an Abyssinian (P)

Meier's discussions with the Plejaren are highly detailed and wide-ranging, dealing with subjects ranging from spirituality and the afterlife to the dangers of mainstream religions, human history, science, and astronomical phenomena, ecology, and environmental dangers caused by global overpopulation, in addition to prophecies and predictions of future events. More

• Semjase.net/index_en.html
• VIDEO: World's Earliest Civilization (BBC)
• Forbidden Archeology: human life is much older
• Buddhist cosmology measures time in aeons (kalpas)
• AUDIO: Annie Nanji - spirit communication from beyond (The Leslie Flint Educational Trust, flash player)

(UFO TV) TOP 100 UFO VIDEOS OF ALL TIME FROM 16 COUNTRIES AND SPACE -  MUSIC ODYSSEY

India's long-disputed, war-torn valley in the state of Jammu & Kashmir is home to Dal Lake with its luxurious houseboats and exotic scenery, but it is deteriorating.

Kashmir, in the extreme north of India, is a state (J&K) with a wondrous valley, home of the remains of Jesus Christ, and the gateway to Buddhist-India (Ladakh). Its proximity to Tibet means constant foot traffic between world-famous Hemis Gompa, the Chinese line-of-control (de facto border), and Lhasa (in the Tibetan Autonomous Region).

Mumbai (formerly Bombay) is the banking and movie capital (Bollywood) of India. It is home to millions -- as made infamous by the Academy award-winning "Slumdog Millionaire" -- and recently suffered an appalling attack from Pakistan. It is home to a little-known religious minority (the Parsis) who practice Zorastrianism (Zoraster as in Zarathustra), which formed the foundation of the Christian tradition.