Meditation done inside a pyramid, or underneath a pyramid, is called as Pyramid Meditation. Many people experience feelings ranging from calmness to extreme euphoria during their meditation sessions inside the pyramids.
Most people who have experimented with Pyramid Meditation, describe themselves as experiencing a total relaxation of their body, followed by the shutting out of unnecessary external stimuli and irrelevant thoughts and finally achieving an altered state of consciousness which allows them to concentrate on deeper inner levels.
Pyramids provide most effective high-energy environments for beginners of meditation. Pyramids help to reduce the level of stress and tension in the physical body.
Maitreya-Buddha Pyramid and other facilities at Pyramid Valley have been in use by pyramid masters and spiritually inclined general public, since May 2005.
Resident pyramid masters conduct anapanasati meditation classes for visitors regularly. Overnight full-moon meditation programs are conducted in the Maitreya-Buddha Pyramid every month. Workshops are organized on Science of Meditation regularly.
Whether you are looking for intense spiritual development or just be with yourself, Pyramid Valley is the place to be. Located in a beautiful valley surrounded by natural hills and thick vegetation and with pleasant weather throughout the year, Pyramid Valley provides natural conditions for self development.
Visitors and Masters from different parts of India regularly visit the Vishwalayam campus and make use of Maitreya-Buddha Pyramid. Several of them often stay overnight in the Valley for three days to a week, practicing meditation in Maitreya-Buddha Pyramid.
There have been numerous cases of healing of long term ailments in several individuals. Individuals with traumatic health conditions often stay in the Vishwalayam campus for two weeks to forty days and practice intense meditation in Maitreya-Buddha Pyramid. They have reported total healing of their traumatic health conditions in most cases.
” Meditation is very simple! ‘Anapanasati Meditation’ means to sit comfortably, clasping hands, closing eyes and observing the natural breathing… without chanting any mantra whatsoever and without holding onto any form of any deity, or god, or master, or guru ! ”
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” Meditation, in its final essence, means the activation of the inner senses. The third-eye symbolizes the totality of the inner senses. ”
Preservation : Pyramid energy preserves fruit, milk and other perishables ; taste of coffee, wine, fruit juices, etc., is improved ; used razors, knives get sharpened ; acts as a room freshener, foul smells disappear.
Healing : Wounds, boils and bruises heal quicker ; reduces over-weight and increases resistance to diseases ; gives relief to and cures asthma, toothaches, migraine, common cold, high B.P., arthritis, palpitation of heart, epilepsy, insomnia etc.
Drinking pyramid energized water cures conjunctivitis, other eye problems; helps digestion ; gives the skin a healthy and youthful glow.
Out-of-body Experiences : Out-of-body experiences are much easier if done inside a pyramid. Dreams become clearer and they take the quality of normal working state.
Pyramids
The pyramid is a solid structure with four triangular sloping sides resting on a square base… and the four apices joining at a point forming the apex of the pyramid. Each triangular sloping face is an isosceles triangle, with the two sloping sides being equal and the base angle equal. The length of the equal sides are all equal and all are similar to each other and of equal area.
The Great Pyramid at Gizeh
The fact that a geometric design collects and radiates energy was known to Ancient Egyptians, more than 10,000 years ago. They utilized the concept when they built their pyramids. The pyramids are storehouses of energy drawn from the universe. The Power of the Pyramid was obtained through a blending of the radiated cosmic energy with that of the gravitational force of earth.
Scholars are aware that The Great Pyramid at Gizeh was built as a place and as an instrument of initiation into altered and higher states of consciousness,… through the mechanism of conscious out-of-body experiences.
PYRAMID CONSTRUCTION
Pyramids can be made from any material. For every one foot of height, the corresponding sides would be 1.4945 feet and base, 1.5708 feet. Side is measured from corner to the apex, and height is the vertical height from the apex to the base, i.e., perpendicular from the apex to the base.
HEIGHT BASE SIDE
3 4.71 4.48
4 6.28 5.98
5 7.85 7.47
6 9.42 8.98
8 12.57 11.96
10 15.70 14.95
11 18.85 17.93
When the sides of the pyramid are in place, they will be forming an angle of 52 degrees 51 minutes to the base, a miniature replica of the Great Pyramid.
The pyramid must be aligned to the four cardinal points i.e., north, east, south and west ; one of the sides can be used as the north-south axis.
Media & its affect on society
October 3, 2008
‘The media is bound to reflect the polarisations in society’
There are a number of reasons for media falling prey to fundamentalism. Editors who are sympathetic to one or another type of religious fundamentalism, journalists who are so inclined and of course the fact that media quite easily become the conduit for views expressed by politicians who harbour fundamentalist positions.
What is the reason behind media being used as a tool in spreading communal hatred? Why does media allow itself to become a stooge in the hands of the fundamentalists? Pradip Ninan Thomas, associate professor, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Queensland, Australia, has sought to find out answers in his recently published book Strong Religion, Zealous Media brought out by Sage.
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Do you see any change over selection and methods of use of media for religious fundamentalism over the last decade?
Absolutely. A number of factors determine the communication strategy used by these groups. Just as Ayatollah Khomeini used audio cassettes as a key tool to inform, educate and mobilise the masses against the Shah of Iran, today new technologies, such as the internet, are used with great effect by these groups. For instance, both Pentecostal and neo-Pentecostal and Hindutva groups use websites as a communication tool and both are involved in broadcasting, although I have argued that conservative Christians use broadcasting to a greater effect partly because tele-evangelism is an established, trans-national project and genre that has been supported by conservative Christian groups over many decades.
Would you differentiate between electronic and print, English and language media in this context?
I guess the key question is why people become fundamentalists. When people have zealous views and claims, any medium can be subverted to serve any given cause. Print of course appeals to the educated, while aural and visual media can be used to communicate fundamentalist views to the general population. I think that the vernacular media played a key role in India in fomenting Hindu-Muslim tension, while the English, transnational Christian broadcasting channels are used to communicate conservative Christian views.
There are a number of reasons for media falling prey to fundamentalism. Editors who are sympathetic to one or another type of religious fundamentalism, journalists who are so inclined and of course the fact that media quite easily become the conduit for views expressed by politicians who harbour fundamentalist positions. In the context of heightened inter-religious tension, the media is bound to reflect the polarisations in society given that the media is an essential part of society.
Does the choice and use of means of communication vary according to countries and communities?
Not really. The 9/11 bombers used the cellphone. Christian fundamentalists believe that every medium of communication is a gift from God to be used to proclaim Gods truth and as a means to convert the world to Christ.
What are the possible safeguards to insulate media from this kind of intrusion?
It is extremely difficult to insulate the media. One could regulate ‘old’ media but it is close to impossible to regulate ‘new’ media. The best way to counter such forces is for faith-based communities and secular groups to work together, establish inter-faith broadcasting channels and maximise the strength and value of all religions.
Outbreak of salmonella
October 3, 2008
What others say about food safety
If more than 1,400 people had fallen sick due to nationwide outbreak of salmonella ? A Colorado man has sued Wal-Mart, claiming that he was sold a tainted jalapeno pepper even though the retailer leads its customers to believe that the food it sells is wholesome.
Lawsuits on the outbreak that started in the spring and dragged into summer will probably be rare. Although it’s known that jalapenos contributed to the food poisoning, the US Food and Drug Administration hasn’t figured out whether tomatoes might have as well. The rare Salmonella Saintpaul bacterium implicated in the illness was never found on any tomatoes, though it was found on peppers. That leaves victims in the position of proving that they ate poison vegetables. The Colorado case is exceptional because the plaintiff’s wife reportedly brought the pepper to health officials, who found the strain of salmonella on it.
Wal-Mart, of course, would have had no way of knowing whether its peppers were tainted, if the store was indeed the source, but that’s not an excuse under strict product liability laws, which hold anyone who profits from the sale or production of an item responsible for it.
Considering how amorphous food production is under modern agribusiness practices retailers represent the consumer’s best chance of being compensated for food poisoning. Because of that, they also might turn out to be the strongest force for safer agricultural methods.
Britney gets MTV nomination again
October 3, 2008
It seems that Britney Spears is getting over her troubled times. The singer has been nominated for Best Female Video for Piece of Me at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards.
Meanwhile the 26-year-old star is currently working on a new album, and is excited about what she has done in the studios so far.
The nomination list also includes Katy Perry for I Kissed a Girl, Jordin Sparks for No Air, Rihanna for Take A Bow and Mariah Carey for Touch My Body. “Now that MTV has given me a VMA nomination, I think my parents should unblock the channel! Thanks MTV!” Perry said.
Are men on the verge of extinction?
October 3, 2008
Are men the latest endangered species? Yes, insists a leading Aussie expert, who says men are much ahead in the queue of becoming extinct.
In a speech titled ‘Should Human Beings Have Sex’, Dr Robert Sparrow told the Australian Medical Students Association convention that females could soon rule the world as hermaphrodites without the biological use of men.
And the reason behind it is that with the help of some frozen sperms, females could procreate on their own until stem-cell technology, meant bone marrow and other human tissues could be converted into sperm, the senior lecturer at Monash University’s Centre for Human Bioethics said.
To reach this post-sex world, Dr Sparrow said parents wanting the best for their children should start choosing baby girls through IVF because they live longer and have more opportunities in life. “There are significant restrictions on the opportunities available to men around gestation, childbirth and breastfeeding, which will be extremely difficult to overcome via social or technological mechanisms in the foreseeable future. Women also have longer life expectancies than men,” theage.com.au quoted him, as saying.
Dr Sparrow said his somewhat “tongue-in-cheek” argument was based on a line of thought about medical ethics that suggest medical technology should be used to serve the welfare of individuals and remove limitations on the opportunities available to them.
He said, “I argue that, if these are our goals, we may do well to move towards a ‘post-sex’ humanity. Until we have the technology to produce genuine hermaphrodites, the most efficient way to do this is to use sex selection technology to ensure that only girl children are born.”
“Girl babies therefore have a significantly more ‘open’ future than boy babies,” he added.
Most dreaded hacker from Uk wanted in US
October 3, 2008
A British man who hacked into computers at the Pentagon will face trial in the United States after the law lords ruled that he should be extradited.
At the House of Lords on Wednesday, Gary McKinnon, 42, was told that his appeal against extradition would not be granted.
McKinnon, an unemployed computer systems administrator from north London, invaded computer systems belonging to the US military in 2001 – shortly after the attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
He said he was merely searching for evidence of extraterrestrial life, but American officials labelled him the ‘world’s most dangerous hacker’ and accused him of deleting important files and causing hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of damage.
According to prosecutors, McKinnon scanned more than 73,000 US government computers and hacked into 97 machines belonging to the US Army, Navy, Air Force and NASA.
His lawyers have fought vigorously against the extradition, arguing that McKinnon could face up to 60 years in prison as a result of his actions, and could even be classed as an “enemy combatant” and interned at Guantanamo Bay.
Instead they argued that he should face prosecution under Britain’s more lenient computer crime laws because he carried out the hacking from his bedroom in London. But the law lords rejected that argument.
“The difference between the American system and our own is not perhaps so stark as the appellant’s argument suggests,” said Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood in his ruling.
The Honeybee’s CAMP
October 3, 2008
Twelve million honey bees got released along Canada’s largest highway in northwest New Brunswick after a transport truck carrying 330 crates-each containing four hives- overturned.
When the truck landed on its side, many of the crates broke open thus letting a number of bees out. Thankfully for all, Mother Nature arrived in the form of rain. Apparently, bees don’t like to get wet and so most opted to get back home!
Are you wondering where the bees were being taken in such hordes? Put that question to the bees and they would tell you that they were off on one of those delightful, field trips. But ask the driver of the truck and he would tell you that he was rushing to deliver the bees, in time, to a labour camp!
Beekeeping or apiculture is the maintenance of honey bee colonies, in man-made hives. Since honeybees alone can make that wonderfully sweet, sticky liquid, the general impression is that a bees are raised in order to harvest the honey.
That is only partially true, because, not all apiarists are in the honey business. Many of them are in the market as ‘Pollinator Service Providers’. Pollination, as you know, is an important step in the reproduction of seed plants. It requires the transfer of pollens containing the sperms of a flower to a structure that contains the ovule.
Many plants use nectar as a way of encouraging insects to stop at the flower. Honeybees gather the nectar and turn it into honey. Bees also gather the pollen which is a source of protein for them. The bees have dense hairs on their hind legs which are referred to as pollen baskets. By rubbing against the anthers, the bees fill the ‘baskets’ with pollen so they can carry it back to the hive. By mixing honey and pollen together, bees make ‘beebread’, and feed the growing larva. As the bee flies from flower to flower, some of the pollen grains are transferred onto the stigma of other flowers and the flowers thus get cross-pollinated.
Bees are flower-constant, that is, when working on blossoms for either nectar or pollen, bees seldom visit more than one kind of flower at a time. In other words, a bee that has started to gather nectar from apple blossoms will continue to gather nectar from apple blossoms until that period of foraging has ended.
In the olden days, when orchards were small, the pollination happened through insects that flew in from forests. But now fruit and vegetable farming is big business and so farmers are prepared to pay for the service and make sure that every one of the flowers produces a fruit.
Pollination service involves bringing bees in millions to a farm where crops such as almonds, apples, cherries, blueberries, melons, etc are grown. Farmers ‘book’ the bees for a specific day in spring when they expect most flowers to be in bloom. The bees are brought in trucks and released at night.
How much of a difference do the bees make? The answer is in the result of this experiment. In a certain orchard, one cherry tree was caged to prevent the bees from reaching it. The harvest from this tree was four pounds. Another tree the same size, exposed to bees, gave a harvest of forty-four pounds of cherries!
But of late there has been trouble in this paradise. Many beekeepers in the US have been reporting mass death of bees for no apparent reason. The problem is called Colony Collapse Disorder and, right now, no one knows what is happening. Farmers are afraid that if the cause is not found out soon shortage of bees will mean empty honey jars and empty shelves in the supermarket!
Poor sleep associated with high BP
October 3, 2008
Poor sleep associated with high BP
Teenagers who have bad sleeping habits can face high blood pressure problems, according to a new study.
In the latest research, the scientists looked at the relationship between not getting enough sleep and blood pressure in healthy adolescents.
From the analysis, researchers found that healthy teens (ages 13 to 16 years old) who slept less than 6.5 hours a night were 2.5 times more likely to have elevated blood pressure compared to those who slept longer.
In addition, those with poor sleep, or low sleep efficiency — having trouble falling asleep or staying asleep — had, on average, 4 mm Hg higher systolic blood pressure (the top number) and were 3.5 times more likely to have prehypertension or hypertension than their peers who slept well.
Untreated high blood pressure can increase the risk for stroke and other cardiovascular diseases later in life.
The findings are from a cross-sectional analysis of 238 adolescents ages 13 to 16 years old (average age of 14) enrolled in the Cleveland Children’s Sleep and Health Study.
Sleep efficiency and duration was evaluated at home for three to seven nights, where teens completed a daily sleep log and wore a wrist device that measures movement to determine sleep and wake cycles.
Stress worsens allergies
Even slight stress and anxiety can greatly worsen a person’s allergic reaction to some routine allergens, shows a new research. Moreover, the added impact of stress and anxiety seem to linger, causing the second day of a stressed person’s allergy attack to be much worse.
In a report, Ohio State University researchers described recent experiments meant to gauge how psychological stress might affect allergy sufferers.
“A huge number of people suffer from allergies and while hay fever, for example, is generally not life-threatening, allergy sufferers often also have asthma which can be deadly,” said Jan Kiecolt-Glaser, a professor of psychology and psychiatry.
Some data suggest that 38 per cent of the people who suffer from allergic rhinitis also have asthma, and that 78 per cent of asthma sufferers have allergic rhinitis.
Detecting autism early
University of Missouri researchers are using 3-D imaging to study correlations in the facial features and brain structures of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which they believe can help them develop a formula to detect the disorder early.
“When you compare the faces and head shapes of children with specific types of autism to other children, it is obvious there are variations,” said Ye Duan, assistant computer science professor in the MU College of Engineering.
“Currently, autism diagnosis is purely behaviour based and doctors use tape measurements to check for facial and brain dissimilarities. We are developing a quantitative method that will accurately measure these differences and allow for earlier, more precise detection of specific types of the disorder,” Duan said.
Device to detect bird flu
Researchers from Nottingham Trent University in Britain are developing a device that can detect an outbreak of bird flu in two hours.
Presently, it takes two to three days to identify the strain responsible for suspected cases of bird flu, or up to a week in countries such as Indonesia and Vietnam, which are most affected by the virus.
The new device could reduce this to a matter of hours, making it possible to set up exclusion zones or cull-infected birds before the virus has a chance to spread.
The researchers are developing two machines — a briefcase-sized version for use out in the field and one about the size of a desktop computer for international border points, hospitals and GPs’ surgeries.
The technology works by scanning swabs containing saliva or a tissue sample from birds or animals, and screening them for viral traces of influenza.
Trap WBC to fight infections
Researchers at Yerkes National Primate Research Centre and the Emory Vaccine Centre have found that trapping disease-fighting white blood cells (WBC) in the lymph nodes might be a novel strategy against chronic viral infections, such as hepatitis C and HIV/AIDS.
Senior author John Altman, associate professor of microbiology and immunology, said that the discoveries are based on the study of two varieties of a virus that causes meningitis in mice.
Standard black laboratory mice can fight off infection by the Armstrong strain of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV), but are vulnerable to chronic infection by a variant called clone 13.
Altman and his colleagues found that infecting mice with the Armstrong strain sequesters white blood cells in the lymph nodes, while clone 13 does so less stringently.
Sputnik the first satellite
October 2, 2008
October 4 marks the day when Sputnik I, the satellite that launched the space race, was put in earths orbit. In the history of artificial earth satellites.
On October 4, 1957, the earth suddenly had two “moons.” Joining the natural moon in the sky was the 85 kg Sputnik I, a gleaming artificial earth satellite about the size of a soccer ball. Every 96 minutes the beeps of its Russian radio announced its another trip round the earth.
The satellite, called Sputnik (The traveller) in Russia was 58 cm in diameter and weighed 85 kg. Its speed was an estimated 28,300 km/hour. It remained in orbit until early 1958 when it fell back and burned in the earth’s atmosphere.
Sputnik II followed Sputnik I. It was the first to carry a living animal - a dog named Laika.
Americans were worried. A country that could put a satellite into orbit round the earth obviously had the kind of rockets that could send a nuclear warhead thousands of kilometres from one continent to another in a matter of minutes. The technology that helps to launch satellites in space is the same that can be used to drop nuclear and other bombs on the enemy country. Sputnik I and II were the true startling gunshots for the “space race”.
America’s first attempt to launch a satellite failed. The first success came when in January 1958, a Jupiter-C launch vehicle successfully placed the satellite, Explorer 1, into orbit.
Having lost the race to launch the world’s first artificial satellite, the US hastened its plan to develop an unmanned moon probe, hoping to be the first to the moon. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was created in 1958.
However, America’s first few attempts to reach the moon were also unsuccessful. On May 25, 1961, President Kennedy said, “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and bringing him back safely to our Earth.” Thus the space race between the US and then USSR started in full swing. Sometimes the USSR was leading while sometimes the US overtook the USSR.
What USSR was achieving by using more powerful rockets, the US was achieving by miniaturisation of the equipment.
Vostok 1, carrying cosmonaut Yury A Gagarin, made a single orbit of the earth before re-entry on April 12, 1961. Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel into space on June 16, 1963.
On May 5, 1961, Alan B Sheppard, Jr., rode a Mercury space capsule dubbed Freedom 7 on a 486-km flight of 15-minute duration, attaining a maximum altitude of 186 km. The flight came just 23 days after Gagarin’s flight.
However, the US did win the ultimate race to the moon on July 19/20/21, 1969 when Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon’s surface.
All the three astronauts returned to earth safely afterwards.
Collapse of the USSR brought a serious set back to Russian space research, but it initiated an era of collaboration in space research. International Space Station (ISS) is the result of this collaboration.
International Space Station is the largest and most complex international scientific project in history. The International Space Station draws upon the scientific and technological resources of 16 nations: USA, Canada, Japan, Russia, 11 nations of the European Space Agency and Brazil.
India took up space research only in 1963, with the formation of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), but has caught up with the international community by developing its own satellites and satellite launch vehicles. A mission to moon is also on the anvil.
Although NASA’s most visible achievements have taken place in space, the technologies that put men on the moon, launched space shuttles and built a space station have found their way into everyday life on earth. These common secondary uses, called space spin-offs, have continuously improved the life of a common man.
Quartz clock and atomic clock technology developed for navigation in space and sending signals to spacecraft at the right time has come on the wrists of a common man in the form of a watch that needs no adjustments for nearly correct time required for a common man for several months.
Technologies developed for NASA to meet the challenges of space exploration have found more than 30,000 commercial uses in several products. And the list is growing.
The launch of Sputnik initiated the research that led to the development of Global Positioning System (GPS) as it is known today.
