The caves were built in two phases, the first starting around the second century BCE and the second occurring from 400 to 650 CE, according to older accounts, or in a brief period of 460–480 CE according to later scholarship.[7]
The Ajanta Caves constitute ancient monasteries (Viharas) and worship-halls (Chaityas) of different Buddhist traditions carved into a 75-metre (246 ft) wall of rock.[8][9] The caves also present paintings depicting the past lives [10] and rebirths of the Buddha, pictorial tales from Aryasura’s Jatakamala, and rock-cut sculptures of Buddhist deities.[8][11][12] Textual records suggest that these caves served as a monsoon retreat for monks, as well as a resting site for merchants and pilgrims in ancient India.[8] While vivid colours and mural wall paintings were abundant in Indian history as evidenced by historical records, Caves 1, 2, 16 and 17 of Ajanta form the largest corpus of surviving ancient Indian wall-paintings.[13]
This is a view of Cave 26, which is a Buddhist “Chaitya Griha” or prayer hall. Ajanta Caves in Maharashtra, India is a World Heritage Site.
The Ajanta Caves are mentioned in the memoirs of several medieval-era Chinese Buddhist travelers.[14] They were covered by jungle until accidentally “discovered” and brought to contemporary attention in 1819 by a colonial British officer Captain John Smith on a tiger-hunting party.[15] The caves are in the rocky northern wall of the U-shaped gorge of the River Waghur,[16] in the Deccan Plateau.[17][18] Within the gorge are a number of waterfalls, audible from outside the caves when the river is high.[19]
Speech proscriptions can be overt with legal ramifications.
Or they can be sort of covert, couched in ideas like good manners, respect, make no waves, maintain friendly relations, follow group norms, etc.
I believe the covert ones happen most basically because almost all people are terrible at speaking their own subjective truths. And this leads to being terrible at hearing others’ subjective truths, even if they are well-expressed which is rare.
This problem arises from the pervasive, inherent ambiguity of language in general but especially spoken language.
Speech flies by and we are required to extract coherent meaning from bits of it. We make stories out of it and judge people, including ourselves, based on bad evidence.
Ambiguity in speech also requires us to maintain the same personas and most of the same beliefs for decades. We travel in herds of ideological banality due to it.
Staying the same, conforming to the group, is a way of displaying a profoundly diminished species of unambiguous meaning, even though we may sense that deep down the whole thing is a bad game.
I used to be bothered by this, but stopped after I figured out FIML and practiced it with my partner for a few years.
After maybe five years, our speech started to become so much clearer it didn’t even feel like the same medium anymore. After ten years, it got so good it seems we may have transcended psychology as it is normally conceived.
This happened because psychology as normally conceived is massively based on speech ambiguity and the ways people react to it. Fact is, you probably should feel a bit crazy in most interpersonal situations because speech proscriptions mixed with compounding ambiguities cannot possibly allow the psychological freedom needed to be cognitively healthy.
The Catholic archbishop of Washington, D.C., Cardinal Robert McElroy, on Wednesday removed a well-known priest as an exorcist of the archdiocese after he made public comments suggesting that UFO sightings were the work of demons.
McElroy said the archdiocese also was cutting ties with the St. Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal, a Washington-based nonprofit headed by the priest, Monsignor Stephen Rossetti.
The archbishop said Rossetti’s statements “linking UFOs to demonic presence and the Center’s recent use of social media gravely undermine the Church’s very precise teaching on the devil, demons and exorcism.”
“There’s a danger here,” Rossetti said in a May 29 video posted on his Facebook page addressing UFO sightings and the existence of aliens. “As an exorcist I wanted to raise that danger. And that is that demons like to hide. … They don’t want us to know what they’re doing because they’re more effective when we don’t realize it.”
“They can kind of get into your head, you know, and manipulate things in the world to influence us to do evil.”
“It’s my personal belief that probably many if not most of these UFO sightings are in fact demons,” Rossetti added.
Karmelo Anthony, who is black, was arrested in 2025 after he stabbed and killed Austin Metcalf, who is white, at a track meet at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas. Karmelo has been charged with first-degree murder: the unlawful killing of another, with malice aforethought and specific intent.
In the past several days 600 people were reviewed to generate a potential pool of 250 jurors. The 250 were further whittled down to 12 with six alternates. The jury selection is over and the opening statements in the trial will likely begin tomorrow. The jury will not be sequestered during trial.
The killing is not being disputed by the defense, there were dozens of witnesses to the murder. However, the defense is claiming ‘stand your ground’ and ‘self-defense’ as justification for the killing. The defense is also promoting a motive of racism for everything surrounding the event between Metcalf and Anthony and throughout the pre-trial motions and public positioning.
Race has become the focal point of the issue because the defense is promoting race as the cause. Interestingly, last week Jack Cashill noted the Karmelo Anthony trial was likely to become the summer 2026 racial motivation for the midterms -similar to George Floyd- assuming Karmelo is found guilty. {See Cashill Prediction Here}
Karmelo is transparently guilty and Cashill rightly notes there is a long history of Communists and Marxists using the transparently guilty as martyrs for their racism narratives. The Austin Metcalf murder and Karmelo Anthony trial is perfect fuel for the “Black Lives Matter” remnants to reassemble.
The potential jurors were questioned about their biases and perspectives. Several of the black jurors said they could not convict a young black man for killing a while young man. This is the part of the cultural narrative the defense teams are publicly counting on.
TEXAS – Potential jurors in the Karmelo Anthony trial said they couldn’t imagine giving him life in prison or “putting a brother in jail” — despite the heinous murder he is charged with.
Prosecutors in Collin County, Texas, grilled candidates Monday on whether they would use Anthony’s age, race, or likeness to their own children when deciding whether he killed fellow teen Austin Metcalf in cold blood.
Attorneys for the 18-year-old defendant will try to convince the jury he feared for his life when he pulled a knife and stabbed Metcalf in the heart at a track meet in April 2025.
“He looks like a child,” several said in questioning relayed by WFAA, when asked if they could consider a life sentence for the teen, who has been charged with first-degree murder.
“I don’t think I can make a decision about somebody so young. One mistake, one argument, one conflict, you can’t say he’s a bad person,” one potential juror told Assistant District Attorney Dewey Mitchell. (read more)
Defense attorneys late in the day accused prosecutors of striking three Black jurors — the only three Black candidates left in the jury pool — without proper cause. Prosecutors are required to provide a “race neutral” reason for striking the jurors, and they said it was because all three were educators. District Judge John Roach Jr. sided with prosecutors. {citation}
The theme and playbook have not changed in the past few decades. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) operations have expanded the business models of the cultural Marxists.
Within current society, black criminal behavior, accountable prosecutions and justice for the black criminal conduct have become part of a very lucrative black grievance industry. Race hustling lawyers no longer hide their motives and intentions; they are now quite open about it and dare anyone to challenge them as they weaponize a shield of racism.
GoFundMe accounts now raise hundreds-of-thousands for the black suspects, and their families benefit with luxury car purchases and new homes. Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton did it using Trayvon Martin “job well done,” so too is the family of Karmelo Anthony.
The most lasting wound left by a narcissistic parent may not be what they said to you growing up, but what you still say to yourself today.
That is the warning from family therapist Jerry Wise, who believes one of the clearest signs of a narcissistic upbringing is not a difficult relationship with a parent, but a person’s relentless inner voice that constantly criticizes, judges and tears them down.
‘Mom and dad, or whoever was narcissistic, were hypercritical and judgmental,’ Wise told Lesi Howes, the host of The School of Greatness podcast.
‘Now I grow up and say, “I’m not going to be like that,” but what am I to myself? Hypercritical and judgmental.’
He added that adults raised in narcissistic families often become their own worst critics, carrying overwhelming guilt, shame and a tendency to judge themselves harshly long into adulthood.
The therapist believes that in many cases, the voice people hear in their heads is not entirely their own. Instead, it is an internalized version of the criticism they experienced growing up.
Narcissistic parents can also leave their children with an enormous vacuum, an absence of normal instinctual care. This vacuum can be leveraged in adulthood, or sooner, into a place of great calm and reasonableness. It can be transformed into samadhi states, or provide an experiential introduction to them. The vacuum is also you, deeply you, and should not be ignored or filled with fantasies of what might have been or resentment that what might have been didn’t happen. Those were your parents, that’s what you learned and experienced. It’s not all bad, not at all. ABN
Kokinda says the Trump-Bibi phone call shows Trump controls Bibi. I hope that’s right because it’s of major importance. If Trump can break fee of Jewish Supremacist control, and not just Bibi’s control, the world will be a much better place and the West may yet save itself from infiltration, parasitism, mind-control and incessant sedition. ABN
For the average person, this tends to be true. But it is because we lack the self-awareness to know what makes us happy. Fantasies and desires always seem like they will make us happy from a distance.
For those who understand what gives them real joy and happiness, desire fades or becomes more focused.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivers testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The U.S. Senate as a whole and members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee specifically, have lost millions of dollars wealth for themselves and their families as a result of Rubio eliminating USAID. As a consequence, while they cannot publicly showcase that specific motive for opposition, the committee as a whole is not happy about losing a substantial portion of their stakeholder interests.
The families of all the senate committee members exist inside the think tanks, NGOs, political orgs, PACs and lobbyist companies for various foreign governments. Just like Q-Anon advocate ¹Mike Flynn recently taking a job that pays him $100,000/month to lobby for the Republic of Srpska (aka ‘Serb Republic’, for advice, counsel and introductions), so too all the family members of the senate leverage their DC connections to foreign governments for personal gain.
Thus, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is now being questioned by the very Senators he has defunded. WATCH (prompted):
¹Yes, Michael Flynn signed an agreement within the Trump administration not to lobby for foreign governments; but that was only a paper promise. That’s one of the reasons why it is more than a little silly for people to mention Flynn’s name as a potential DNI nomination.
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