Tag: religion

The value of introversion, and probably reclusion

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Do reclusive and monastic religious practices foster wisdom about the human condition?

A new study indicates that they may.

Insights into social psychological phenomena have been thought of as solely attainable through empirical research. Our findings, however, indicate that some lay individuals can reliably judge established social psychological phenomena without any experience in social psychology. These results raise the striking possibility that certain individuals can predict the accuracy of unexplored social psychological phenomena better than others. (Social Psychological Skill and Its Correlates)

In an article about this study, its authors say that introverted people tend to be better at observing others because they are good at introspection and have fewer motivational biases. Here’s that article: Yale Study: Sad, Lonely Introverts Are Natural Born Social Psychologists.

Lev Tahor, a Jewish cult which has repeatedly been busted for child abuse

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Lev Tahor, a 200-300 member ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect founded in 1988, promotes isolationist practices and has faced U.S. federal charges since 2021 for child exploitation, including forced underage marriages and sexual abuse, per DOJ indictments and Wikipedia summaries of peer-reviewed investigations.

Lev Tahor has a documented history of international raids for child abuse allegations, including Canada’s 2014 removal of 14 children, Mexico’s 2018 rescue of two, Guatemala’s 2024 extraction of 160 minors, and Colombia’s November 2025 rescue of 17, as confirmed by Reuters, AP, and BBC reports.

‘A dangerous subversive elite has infiltrated the highest levels of Western institutions to implement a criminal global plan’ — Archbishop Vigano

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As we contemplate the recent terror shootings in DC and the many criminal gangs and clans which entered USA during Biden, it is important to remember that entities like these have been harming the West for centuries. Some are very sophisticated versions of the Somali gangs in Minnesota and Maine. USA and the West have been living with internal parasites for many years. What has changed enough today to make this moment unique is a much greater segment of the public is aware of what is happening. ABN

Jewish Cult and Child Trafficking

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Colombian authorities just rescued 17 underage girls and boys (some of them American children) from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish cult known as Lev Tahor, one of the most notorious and nomadic extremist sects operating today.

This latest operation comes after years of cross-border investigations into the group’s abuse of minors, its systematic control of families, and its ability to relocate from country to country in an effort to evade prosecution. According to Colombian police, early reports suggest the possibility of kidnapping, forced confinement, and human trafficking, all carried out under the protective guise of religious practice.

Lev Tahor, founded in the 1980s in the state of Israel, has long been described as the “Jewish Taliban”. Its roughly 300 members have migrated between Israel, Guatemala, Canada, the U.S., Mexico, the Balkans, and Colombia, usually fleeing investigations, court orders, or criminal charges. Each time, the group arrives in a new country presenting itself as a persecuted religious minority. Each time, the pattern repeats: children disappear from schools, medical care is denied, marriages are arranged for children, pregnancy is forced, adults are violently controlled, and children are malnourished, uneducated, and neglected.

In December 2024, authorities rescued 160 children from a farm occupied by Lev Tahor. These children reported rampant abuse, coercion, and sexual violence. The Colombian prosecutor overseeing the case said the raid was launched due to credible suspicions of:

  • forced pregnancy
  • mistreatment of minors
  • sexual abuse and rape
  • child disappearance and parental separation
  • transnational movement of children without documentation

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The pattern has been consistent for centuries: the same supremacist rhetoric, the same hostility toward outsiders, the same inability to coexist without trying to control the narrative

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This is the kind of behavior we see every single day from that cult. The same arrogant, entitled mindset that has created friction with every society they’ve tried to dominate. It’s naïve to pretend this mentality suddenly appeared in 2025. The pattern has been consistent for centuries: the same supremacist rhetoric, the same hostility toward outsiders, the same inability to coexist without trying to control the narrative.

What people like Levine say openly today is so grotesque and dehumanizing that it’s waking up more and more people to the reality of this ideology and the damage it causes. The more they double down on this misanthropic superiority complex, the more resistance they will create.

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Physicist proposes theory of consciousness – which could explain what happens when you die

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A physicist has proposed a radical new theory of consciousness – and it could finally explain what happens when you die. 

Consciousness does not emerge from human brains, according to Professor Maria Strømme, a professor of nanotechnology at Uppsala University.

Instead, she claims that it exists as a fundamental field.

If this is correct, ‘mysterious’ phenomena such as telepathy, near–death experiences, and even life after death could finally be explained by science.  

According to Professor Strømme’s theory, consciousness does not end when we die.

Instead, when a person passes away, their consciousness simply returns to the background field.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, Professor Strømme explained: ‘The possibility that consciousness is fundamental has been under–explored. But that is changing rapidly.

‘We are reaching a point where asking deeper questions about consciousness is not philosophy on the margins — it is becoming a scientific necessity.’

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This is not a new theory in the modern world or the ancient.

This is what many thinkers are saying today and what Mind-Only Buddhism has always been saying.

The vocabularies available today—quantum fields, localization, non-local—allow us to make descriptions of consciousness sharper for the modern mind.

Buddhist samadhi states (meditative states) may be thought of as the realization of the underlying quantum field of universal consciousness, or immersion of individual consciousness in that field or fields.

I personally think something like this is the actual structure of reality and why it is so important to live morally and have clear and honest mind.

I hope more understanding of human life along these lines, whether they are called Buddhist or not, will end human tribalism and the absurd values and beliefs that support it. ABN