Are We in the "End Times"? (Revelations)

[Jhanon]

I had a "rapture" experience in 2012 (Kundalini). I was gone, man. I mean it. I didn't go to other realms or anything like that. It wasn't that. I never felt like that. It felt like straight up Union. It was just light and ecstatic bliss. But at one point, I was gone, but not gone. This Union, I somehow didn't finish it. That was the biggest one. When I came back, I felt like I wasn't able to let go all the way. That's just how i felt. It may have been for other people, at least in the context i am presenting it. Because as soon as I was done, I called tons of people.

So, *sigh*, you know all that 2012 stuff? And then, I dunno, I heard that there was a "first rapture" (2012) and then a much larger "second rapture" (2030-ish) for everyone else (revelations.) I lost the most benevolent friend I'd ever met--in 2012. She was also prophetic, or seemingly. Before she went, she told many people to get out of America. I'm basically asking if we have about 16 years left to attain enlightenment--assuming we live that long.

Look, I don't know any of this stuff. I know how crazy it sounds. And I tend to stay away from prophecy, because it can be distracting and anxiety-ridden. But, what is everyone's take on all this? More specifically, I am looking for direct knowledge anyone has. Is there basically 16 years or so left before all this "mark of the beast" and what not happens?

I've had some insight/kundalini blasts (just a few minutes ago) that weren't exactly indicative that this is incorrect. Rather, I got a distinct "non-answer"

I just wanna be on the straight and narrow, so to speak. And I've never addressed this part of all of it. I have a lot of fundamentalist friends who are very gifted, and this is something I feel I should know about.

[Alexander]

Here is my perspective on it. The world we are living in is changing dramatically every day. So, for me it is not destruction, but transformation.

The word "rapture" you used is from the mystic language. Its meaning is "samadhi." When you hear people who use this word mean "ascend bodily into heaven," that is a product of an American theology which developed in the 1800s. It has no basis in the Christian tradition.

[Jhanon]

When I say rapture, I mean Kundalini of the strong variety. The one that destroys everything, yet heals it, and suddenly you're gone. No where. Nothing. Not even "nothing." And yet vast. My perspective is that this kind of experience is the final event before full enlightenment. It also seems to be recurring when each stage of enlightenment is fulfilled. So, "rapture" means Enlightenment. Then the world being destroyed in many ways would be a "get out of jail free card", because why would a fully Enlightened Being care if they die? Would they even suffer? The only reason I see to keep this body alive is enlightenment and enlightenment of others.

I've only experienced kundalini/God/whatever you wanna call it, to that intensity once, or well, 2-3 times. I can't remember the very first one that well.



Okay, so is Revelations all imagery of repeating transformative cycles of earth? This is the heart of my question

[Alexander]

Revelation is a bizarre part of the Bible. I have never studied it in-depth. But, I don't take the popular Christians' view of it seriously. If you're really interested you could email my friend Father Roger, who could probably answer your question.

[Jhanon]

It's unfortunate that the sheer number of people who take it literally has lead to a large quantity of theories and back stories to substantiate it. It appears to be both literal and figurative. I think I do want to e-mail your friend Father Roger, if you would do me the kindness, please.

[Jhanananda]

Eventually an asteroid large enough to collapse civilization, if not completely bring humans to extinction, will one day occur; and it might be any minute now.  So, let us all give up our cravings and spend the rest of our lives cultivating the bliss, joy, and ecstasy of direct spiritual communion.

[Jhanon]

Eventually an asteroid large enough to collapse civilization, if not completely bring humans to extinction, will one day occur; and it might be any minute now.  So, let us all give up our cravings and spend the rest of our lives cultivating the bliss, joy, and ecstasy of direct spiritual communion.

Jhananda, you are right. I've considered this recently, but you saying it, again, has a power behind it.

[Cal]

Eventually an asteroid large enough to collapse civilization, if not completely bring humans to extinction, will one day occur; and it might be any minute now.  So, let us all give up our cravings and spend the rest of our lives cultivating the bliss, joy, and ecstasy of direct spiritual communion.

-Que Michel with N8P  (I jest, it is actually something that I have found very humbling. It even allows me to relate the particular instance exactly to what it should be related to, Thanks Michel ) 

To Michel- I have been struggling with the aggregates as of late, may I entreat you to conversation about them? I think it is safe to say that you have been most critical about them and have an intuitive knowledge of their nuances. I am not sure I could bring anything more than appreciation to the table, though.

To the GWV-Doesnt it say in the discourses that one should study those who are dead? I think they meant this was in hopes that one will realize that they are already dead. All humans die. Therefor one should be "dead" while they are alive. I believe this to mean the 4th Jhana in everyday (outside of formal meditative) activity.

With that said, there is great wisdom in your words, if this was the intention Jhanananda. Of course it was, it always is. You inspire me to revisit your previous posts, yet again =) I dont think one could ask for a better way of learning, nor is there a better teacher. 

[Jhanon]

Ebola Spreads through the Air. First case in Dallas

http://themindunleashed.org/2014/10/ebola-youre-told.html

I feel like I am broken when it comes to stuff like this because it seems like I'm the only concerned one.

[Cal]

Ebola Spreads through the Air. First case in Dallas

http://themindunleashed.org/2014/10/ebola-youre-told.html

I feel like I am broken when it comes to stuff like this because it seems like I'm the only concerned one.

Nah, you're not alone. When ya roll out of bed I'll come get ya and well go pick a couple things up. There's a few books on edibles in the wild for this area. I also want to head out to the foot of the Blue Mountains. I was born in that area, there's a large glacial lake and fair amount of wild game. Let's go poke around and scout it out. It's a rural area, but I'd like to be more familiar with the roads and accesses to the mountains, trails etc. I don't think it possible to go west in an emergency. There's 3 passes over those mountains and with panic and the area being so populated, we'd have to go either north or south. With warning we should be able to cross the Columbia rather easily.  Also, I'll teach ya a couple ways to snare

[Jhanananda]

Ebola Spreads through the Air. First case in Dallas

http://themindunleashed.org/2014/10/ebola-youre-told.html

I feel like I am broken when it comes to stuff like this because it seems like I'm the only concerned one.

It is wise to take precautions, and do wilderness training.  One should keep in mind that the Spanish Flue killed something like 50 million people world wide in a 2 year period.  Ebola could be the next great plague.  Also, don't forget a major asteroid impact is due any minute now.  So, spend every moment in meditation, and give up all of your craving.

[Michel]

Any minute an asteroid impact? Do you mean in the near future?

[Jhanananda]

Any minute an asteroid impact? Do you mean in the near future?

The more that impact theory is embraced by geologists, the more they realize that most, if not all, of the major geological periods, and thus the accompanying ecological changes, were the consequence of a major asteroid impact.  Thus, it is a fact of the geological record that a major asteroid impact will inevitably come, and it will cause extinctions, and the most complex organism are more likely to go extinct at that time. 

The most complex organism at this time is the human species.  Thus, unless we get serious about supporting hunter-gatherer societies, then we are the most likely to go extinct due to an asteroid impact, and one is likely to happen any minute now in geological time. 

Does that means that I am predicting a holocaust?  Not really.  It is just a fact of the geological record that a major asteroid impact will happen any second now for the next few million years.

[Jhanananda]

Assessing the Asteroid Impact Threat: Are We Doomed Yet?

"Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour," could be still an actual description of our ability to predict asteroid threats to Earth.

The Coronal Mass Ejection is yet another way that civilization could be brought down. (Note: I am reposting this from Electromagnetic radiation and health, because it is relevant here as well.

Homeland Security: 100 million Americans could lose power in major sun storm

Solar storm of 1859, AKA the Carrington Event.

The solar storm of 1859, also known as the Carrington Event,[1] was a powerful geomagnetic solar storm in 1859 during solar cycle 10. A solar coronal mass ejection hit Earth's magnetosphere and induced one of the largest geomagnetic storms on record. The associated "white light flare" in the solar photosphere was observed and recorded by English astronomers Richard C. Carrington and Richard Hodgson.

Studies have shown that a solar storm of this magnitude occurring today would likely cause widespread problems for modern civilization. There is an estimated 12% chance of a similar event occurring between 2012 and 2022.[2]

Carrington Super Flare

From August 28 through September 2, 1859, numerous sunspots were observed on the Sun. On August 29, southern aurorae were observed as far north as Queensland in Australia.[3] Just before noon on September 1, the English amateur astronomers Richard Carrington and Richard Hodgson independently made the first observations of a solar flare.[4] The flare was associated with a major coronal mass ejection (CME) that travelled directly toward Earth, taking 17.6 hours to make the 93 million mile journey. It is believed that the relatively high speed of this CME (typical CMEs take several days to arrive at Earth) was made possible by a prior CME, perhaps the cause of the large aurora event on August 29, that "cleared the way" of ambient solar wind plasma for the Carrington event.[4]

Because of a simultaneous "crochet" observed in the Kew Observatory magnetometer record by Scottish physicist Balfour Stewart and a geomagnetic storm observed the following day, Carrington suspected a solar-terrestrial connection. Worldwide reports on the effects of the geomagnetic storm of 1859 were compiled and published by Elias Loomis, which support the observations of Carrington and Stewart.

On September 1–2, 1859, one of the largest recorded geomagnetic storms (as recorded by ground-based magnetometers) occurred. Aurorae were seen around the world, those in the northern hemisphere even as far south as the Caribbean; those over the Rocky Mountains were so bright that their glow awoke gold miners, who began preparing breakfast because they thought it was morning.[4] People who happened to be awake in the northeastern US could read a newspaper by the aurora's light.[5] The aurora was visible as far from the poles as Cuba and Hawaii.[6]

Telegraph systems all over Europe and North America failed, in some cases giving telegraph operators electric shocks.[7] Telegraph pylons threw sparks.[8] Some telegraph systems continued to send and receive messages despite having been disconnected from their power supplies.[9]

On Saturday, September 3, 1859, the Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser reported, "Those who happened to be out late on Thursday night had an opportunity of witnessing another magnificent display of the auroral lights. The phenomenon was very similar to the display on Sunday night, though at times the light was, if possible, more brilliant, and the prismatic hues more varied and gorgeous. The light appeared to cover the whole firmament, apparently like a luminous cloud, through which the stars of the larger magnitude indistinctly shone. The light was greater than that of the moon at its full, but had an indescribable softness and delicacy that seemed to envelop everything upon which it rested. Between 12 and 1 o'clock, when the display was at its full brilliancy, the quiet streets of the city resting under this strange light, presented a beautiful as well as singular appearance."[10]

In June 2013, a joint venture from researchers at Lloyd's of London and Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) in the United States used data from the Carrington Event to estimate the current cost of a similar event to the US alone at $0.6–2.6 trillion.[11]
Similar events

Ice cores containing thin nitrate-rich layers have been analyzed to reconstruct a history of past solar storms predating reliable observations. Data from Greenland ice cores, gathered by Kenneth G. McCracken[12] and others, show evidence that events of this magnitude—as measured by high-energy proton radiation, not geomagnetic effect—occur approximately once per 500 years, with events at least one-fifth as large occurring several times per century.[13] However, more recent work by the ice core community (McCracken et al. are space scientists) shows that nitrate spikes are not a result of solar energetic particle events, so use of this technique is in doubt. 10Be and 14C are considered to be more reliable indicators by the ice core community.[14] These similar but much more extreme cosmic ray events, however, may originate outside the solar system and even outside the galaxy. Less severe storms have occurred in 1921 and 1960, when widespread radio disruption was reported. The March 1989 geomagnetic storm knocked out power across large sections of Quebec. On July 23, 2012 a "Carrington-class" Solar Superstorm (Solar flare, Coronal mass ejection, Solar EMP) was observed; its trajectory missed Earth in orbit. Information about these observations was shared first publicly by NASA on April 28, 2014.[2][15]

If we had another one of these events the entire industrial age would collapse and billions of people would starve to death in weeks.  Records indicate we have one ever couple of centuries.

There is also some evidence that Coronal mass ejections stimulate conflict among human populations.

The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other sectional names, was fought from 1861 to 1865. Seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America, known as the "Confederacy" or the "South". They grew to include eleven states, and although they claimed thirteen states and additional western territories, the Confederacy was never recognized by a foreign country. The states that did not declare secession were known as the "Union" or the "North". The war had its origin in the fractious issue of slavery, especially the extension of slavery into the western territories.[N 1] After four years of bloody combat that left over 600,000 Union and Confederate soldiers dead, and destroyed much of the South's infrastructure, the Confederacy collapsed, slavery was abolished, and the difficult Reconstruction process of restoring national unity and guaranteeing civil rights to the freed slaves began.

My medical response to geomagnetic disturbances suggests that there would also be wide spread illness, or at least joint pain experienced by people all over the world.

To keep from causing billions of people from starving to death due to a Carington level Solar Event causing the permanent damage of computers, which are the backbone of the infrastructure of the industrial age, which will cause it to collapse; then Radiation hardening of the entire global infrastructure of the power generation, power transmission, transportation and communication network is necessary.  Radiation Hardening is the technology that might protect such equipment.

Radiation hardening is the act of making electronic components and systems resistant to damage or malfunctions caused by ionizing radiation (particle radiation and high-energy electromagnetic radiation),[1] such as those encountered in outer space and high-altitude flight, around nuclear reactors and particle accelerators, or during nuclear accidents or nuclear warfare.

Most semiconductor electronic components are susceptible to radiation damage; radiation-hardened components are based on their non-hardened equivalents, with some design and manufacturing variations that reduce the susceptibility to radiation damage. Due to the extensive development and testing required to produce a radiation-tolerant design of a microelectronic chip, radiation-hardened chips tend to lag behind the most recent developments.

Radiation-hardened products are typically tested to one or more resultant effects tests, including total ionizing dose (TID), enhanced low dose rate effects (ELDRS), neutron and proton displacement damage, and single event effects (SEE, SET, SEL and SEB).

Radiation-hardening techniques
    Physical:
        Hardened chips are often manufactured on insulating substrates instead of the usual semiconductor wafers. Silicon on Insulator (SOI) and sapphire (SOS) are commonly used. While normal commercial-grade chips can withstand between 50 and 100 gray (5 and 10 krad), space-grade SOI and SOS chips can survive doses many orders of magnitude greater. At one time many 4000 series chips were available in radiation-hardened versions (RadHard).[3]
        Bipolar integrated circuits generally have higher radiation tolerance than CMOS circuits. The low-power Schottky (LS) 5400 series can withstand 1000 krad, and many ECL devices can withstand 10 000 krad.[3]
        Magnetoresistive RAM, or MRAM, is considered a likely candidate to provide radiation hardened, rewritable, non-volatile conductor memory. Physical principles and early tests suggest that MRAM is not susceptible to ionization-induced data loss.
        Shielding the package against radioactivity, to reduce exposure of the bare device.
        Capacitor-based DRAM is often replaced by more rugged (but larger, and more expensive) SRAM.
        Choice of substrate with wide band gap, which gives it higher tolerance to deep-level defects; e.g. silicon carbide or gallium nitride.
        Shielding the chips themselves by use of depleted boron (consisting only of isotope Boron-11) in the borophosphosilicate glass passivation layer protecting the chips, as boron-10 readily captures neutrons and undergoes alpha decay (see soft error).
    Logical:
        Error correcting memory uses additional parity bits to check for and possibly correct corrupted data. Since radiation effects damage the memory content even when the system is not accessing the RAM, a "scrubber" circuit must continuously sweep the RAM; reading out the data, checking the parity for data errors, then writing back any corrections to the RAM.
        Redundant elements can be used at the system level. Three separate microprocessor boards may independently compute an answer to a calculation and compare their answers. Any system that produces a minority result will recalculate. Logic may be added such that if repeated errors occur from the same system, that board is shut down.
        Redundant elements may be used at the circuit level.[4] A single bit may be replaced with three bits and separate "voting logic" for each bit to continuously determine its result. This increases area of a chip design by a factor of 5, so must be reserved for smaller designs. But it has the secondary advantage of also being "fail-safe" in real time. In the event of a single-bit failure (which may be unrelated to radiation), the voting logic will continue to produce the correct result without resorting to a watchdog timer. System level voting between three separate processor systems will generally need to use some circuit-level voting logic to perform the votes between the three processor systems.
        Hardened latches may be used.[5]
        A watchdog timer will perform a hard reset of a system unless some sequence is performed that generally indicates the system is alive, such as a write operation from an onboard processor. During normal operation, software schedules a write to the watchdog timer at regular intervals to prevent the timer from running out. If radiation causes the processor to operate incorrectly, it is unlikely the software will work correctly enough to clear the watchdog timer. The watchdog eventually times out and forces a hard reset to the system. This is considered a last resort to other methods of radiation hardening.

Since learning about the very real danger of the Coronal Mass Ejection, I have taken to keeping all of my electronics, backup drives, and flash drives in a tin box that I found at a thrift store for $.50.  It might work to protect my data from destruction during a Coronal Mass Ejection. 

There is also a steel 4-drawer filing cabinet here, that I plan to use as a safe and for its EMF shielding.  All I will need to do is lag bolt it from inside to wall studs, then ground the cabinet, then lock it securely.

[Jhanananda]

130 million Americans could suffer due to intense solar storm

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the latest official confirmation about the acute vulnerability of the U.S. electric grid, the Washington Free Beacon has revealed that a Freedom of Information Act request produced a fact sheet describing a 2012 Federal Emergency Management Agency interagency plan for severe space weather. The FEMA document refers to a 2010 study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that “an extreme solar storm could leave 130 million people without power for years, and destroy or damage more than 300 hard-to-replace electrical grid transformers.”

According to Dr. William Graham, President Reagan’s Science Advisor and chairman of the congressionally mandated Electromagnetic Pulse Threat Commission, in the wake of widespread and prolonged blackouts, nine out of 10 Americans could perish.

Importantly, the level of damage described by FEMA and NOAA could be caused by what is known as a G5 class storm, the last of which hit the earth in 1921. That geomagnetic disturbance is estimated to have been roughly one-tenth the power of an 1859 solar storm known as a Carrington Event. Congressional testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee earlier this year established that the likelihood of another Carrington-class solar storm, to say nothing of less powerful ones, striking our planet in the foreseeable future is 100 percent.

In fact, on Dec. 5, Robert Rutledge, who directs NOAA’s Space Weather Forecast Office, advised the DuPont Summit – a conference in Washington, D.C. on grid vulnerability and steps needed to mitigate it – that such storms are as certain as earthquakes and hurricanes, and should be planned for accordingly.

The closer to either pole is consider greater risk during a coronal mass ejection; whereas, the closer to the equator the safer people and technology are.  60° toward either pole, or more, is consider at most risk.  Below are some maps that might help you to determine your risk factor during a coronal mass ejection.