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excerpt from Chapter II from the Platte to Vermilion River

JULY 30th Monday 1804

     Set out this morning early proceeded on to a clear open Prarie
on the L. S. on a rise of about 70 feet higher than the bottom
which is also a Prarie (both forming Bluffs to the river) of High
Grass & Plumb bush Grapes &c. and situated above high
water, in a small Grove of timber at the foot of the Riseing
Ground between those two preraries, and below the Bluffs of the
high Prarie we Came too and formed a Camp, intending to waite
the return of the frenchman & Indians. the white horse which we
found near the Kanzus river, Died Last night
     posted out our guard and sent out 4 men, Captn. Lewis & [I]
went up the Bank and walked a Short Distance in the high
Prarie this Prarie is Covered with Grass of 10 or I2 inches in
hight, Soil of good quality & at the Distance of about a mile still
further back the Countrey rises about 80 or 90 feet higher, and is
one Continued Plain as fur as Can be seen, from the Bluff on the
2d rise imediately above our Camp, the most butifull prospect of
the River up & Down and the Countrey Opsd. prosented it Self
which I ever beheld; The River meandering the open and
butifull Plains, interspursed with Groves of timber, and each point
Covered with Tall timber, Such as Willow Cotton sum Mulberry,
Elm, Sucamore Lynn [linden] & ash (The Groves contain Hickory,
Walnut, coffee nut & Oake in addition)

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Weird but interesting. Links below are to this cited arXiv submission as well as to a later one on the same subject by the same authors.

"We propose an experiment which consists of drawing a card and using it to decide restrictions on the running of Large Hadron Collider (LHC for short) at CERN, such as luminosity, and beam energy. There may potentially occur total shut down. The purpose of such an experiment is to search for influence from the future, that is, backward causation. Since LHC will produce particles of a mathematically new type of fundamental scalars, i.e., the Higgs particles, there is potentially a chance to find unseen effects, such as on influence going from future to past, which we suggest in the present paper."

Holger B. Nielsen The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen φ, DK2100, Denmark and Masao Ninomiya Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan | http://ub0.cc/4j/b4 | see also http://ub0.cc/bc/bm

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0707.1919v3.pdf (174 KB)

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Through the practice of tantra one is seeking to achieve the supreme feat of Buddhahood in order to become a source of help and happiness for all beings. Along the way common feats are also sought for the sake of enhancing the accumulation of merit necessary for attaining Buddhahood. For both supreme and common feats deity yoga is necessary, the initial process being called 'approximation' because through imagining the deity one is approaching closer to it. Without preliminary approximation the feat of lengthening the lifespan, becoming youthful, gaining the five clairvoyances, and so forth cannot be achieved. It is to achieve such feats that prior approximation is performed, called 'prior' because it necessarily precedes actualising a specific feat and using it for the welfare of others.

--from Deity Yoga in Action and Performance Tantra by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tsong-ka-pa, and Jeffrey Hopkins, published by Snow Lion Publications | http://ub0.cc/1v/4L

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making miso in Japan the traditional way - note the scale | http://ub0.cc/hn/0P

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Every saying and, through it, every creation and work, every deed and action receives from ἀλήθεια { Aletheia } and retains in it the determination of their type. For ἀλήθεια { Aletheia } is this place [Bereich]: the open space that is taking place [sich darreichende] and gives place [erreichende] to every thing, that determines and liberates, that allows what is present and absent to come and last, to leave and err.

 Heidegger : Sojourns The Journey to Greece. Translated by John Panteleimon Manoussakis, Foreword by John Sallis, Albany, State University of New York Press, 2005. p32

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Fresco of saffron gatherers from the bronze age excavations in Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini [ Σαντορίνη ]. Minoan type circa 2000 to 1580 BCE.

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