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Tracing the Ancient Wisdom-Religion in Theosophy and Samkhya

TRACING THE ANCIENT WISDOM-RELIGION: NOTE ON THE NATURE OF MATTER IN THEOSOPHY AND THE Sāṃkhya SYSTEM “What we desire to prove is, that underlying every ancient popular religion was the same ancient wisdom-doctrine, one and identical, professed and practised by the initiates of every country, who alone were aware of its existence and importance. To ascertain its origin, and the precise age in…

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Goodnight, Sugar Babe: The Killing of Vera Jo Reigle (2013)

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Deutschland hat eine neue Partei: Am 1. März 2020 wurde in Dortmund die DOS - Digital, Oekologisch, Sozial gegründet

Deutschland hat eine neue Partei: Am 1. März 2020 wurde in Dortmund die DOS – Digital, Oekologisch, Sozial gegründet

v.l.n.r. Lisa DeZanet, Torsten Sommer, Magdalena Zenglein, Dirk Pullem, Nadja Reigl, David Grade, Maja Tiegs, Britta Söntgerath, Andrea Wille. Fotos: Claus Stille

Seit dem 1. März 2020 hat unser Land eine neue Partei. Im Biercafé West wurde die „DOS – Digital, Oekologisch, Sozial“ gegründet. Wie die gewählte Vorsitzende Nadja Reigl sagte, verortet sich die Partei links der Mitte. Die DOS hat sich…

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The Best True Crime Documentary — Day 2

Yesterday we started our 2019 legal March Madness feature, wherein we try to determine the very best true crime documentary. Because who doesn’t love binging Netflix (or Hulu or Amazon Prime) for their dose of “oh my god, I can’t believe this is real”?

Today, we reveal the second half of the bracket and you can start voting to determine which is your favorite.

(1) Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father v. (16) Capturing the Friedmans

              Just when you think Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father has completely gutted you and left you a sobbing mess, it ups the ante in a completely devastating way. The documentary was conceived by Kurt Kuenne when his friend Andrew Bagby was murdered. The woman suspected of his murder was pregnant with Bagby’s child and thus became inspiration for this 2008 documentary.

The 2003 documentary Capturing the Friedmans is a shocking look at the investigation of Arnold and Jesse Friedman for child molestation. The movie is bigger than the charges against the father and son, and looks at the striking family dynamics at play.

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(2) Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills v. (15) Breaking Vegas: The True Story of the MIT Blackjack Team

              Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming and spurred by two sequels, which continued following the same story of the West Memphis Three, Paradise Lost 2: Revelations, and Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory. The documentary looks at the case against Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley, Jr., and Jason Baldwin who were convicted of the murder and sexual mutilation of three boys: Christopher Byers, Michael Moore, and Stevie Branch.

Who doesn’t like the story of clever, plucky people that take on a big institution for personal gain? The real story behind the famous card counting scheme has been so popular it’s inspires multiple books, movies, and documentaries.

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(3) Evil Genius: The True Story of America’s Most Diabolical Bank Heist v (14) Dirty Money: Drug Short

Pretty much from the opening minutes of Evil Genius: The True Story of America’s Most Diabolical Bank Heist, I was screaming at the TV screen. The movie tries to parse out who, exactly was responsible for a bank robbery and the death of Brian Wells, who died by a collar bomb during the robbery, and it will leave you infuriated.

Dirty Money: Drug Short lures you in thinking they’ll be talking about convicted pharma bro Martin Shkreli, but instead pulls off one of the most effective bait and switches as it details the rise and fall of Valeant Pharmaceuticals. The entry of this documentary may strike some as misplaced, because despite investigations by the SEC, the U.S. Attorney’s Offices in Massachusetts and New York, the state of Texas, the North Carolina Department of Justice, the Senate’s Special Committee on Agin,g and the House’s Committee on Oversight and Reform there’s never been a formal allegation of legal wrongdoing by the company. But Dirty Money expertly tells the tale of activity that should maybe be illegal expertly, and is so on our list.

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(4) Cropsey v. (13) Goodnight Sugar Babe: The Killing of Vera Jo Reigle

                    Cropsey is the documentary on our list that scares me the most. The subject, Andre Reed, was convicted of the kidnapping (the jury deadlocked on a murder charge) of Jennifer Schweiger — a crime that rocked my hometown and led to countless “stranger danger” lessons. The movie also details other unsolved missing children cases and the way urban legends fed the fear which led to the outcry over the Schweiger case.

The people who murdered Vera Jo Reigle may be convicted, but as laid out in Goodnight Sugar Babe, the reasons why Reigle was killed may be much more convoluted and twisted than authorities believe. This documentary’s interviews with Cheri Brooks (aka “Sugar Babe”) the crime family matriarch that may have organized the crime for shocking reasons are chilling.

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(5) Enron: Smartest Guys In The Room v. (12) Abducted In Plain Sight

The documentary about one of the biggest financial scandals in the history of the country, Enron: Smartest Guys In The Room, certainly deserves a spot in our bracket. You’ll find yourself disgusted by the smug hubris of Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling and the financial machinations that led to the collapse of Enron.

Just in case you haven’t seen Abducted in Plain Sight, I won’t spoil the twists and turns which are guaranteed to leave your jaw on the floor. The 2017 documentary is about the kidnapping of Jan Broberg Felt, but I promise you won’t see all the craziness coming. It’s wild.

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(6) Leaving Neverland v. (11) Beware the Slenderman

What more is there to say about Leaving Neverland, the 2019 documentary that details the allegations of Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who both accuse Michael Jackson of sexual abuse? The movie describes Jackson’s alleged abuse in horrifying detail, and it’s pretty clear you’ll never listen to the King of Pop’s music in the same way again.

What happens when an online urban legend makes its way into the real world and motivates an attack on a child? That’s the disturbing true crime story behind Beware the Slenderman. Two 12-year-olds, Anissa E. Weier and Morgan E. Geyser, stabbed their friend Payton Leutner 19 times during a game of hide and seek in the woods. The girls said they committed the shocking crime to appease the Slenderman, an online horror story creation.

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(7) OJ: Made In America v (10) Mommy Dead and Dearest

            O.J.: Made in America has a prestigious pedigree, as it won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 89th Academy Awards. It was produced as part of ESPN’s 30 for 30 series, and traces the trajectory of O.J.’s life, from his days playing as a football star at the University of California to his eventual 2007 conviction on robbery charges. Oh, and his acquittal for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman also get some attention.

On the other side is the twisted tale of Dee Dee Blanchard and her daughter, Gypsy Rose Blanchard. Gypsy Rose and her boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, were arrested for the murder of Dee Dee, but it’s the reasons behind the crime will really leave you stunned.

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(8) The Seven Five v (9) The Central Park Five

The last matchup features two films aboout terrible miscarriages of justice in the 1980s in New York City. The first is the 2014 documentary The Seven Five, which tells the tale of corruption in the NYPD’s 75th precinct in the 1980s. The film largely focuses on the misdeeds of Michael Dowd, and uses footage obtained from the Mollen Commission, a task force put together in 1992 to investigate the NYPD.

The last film in this year’s bracket is by famed documentarian Ken Burns, who along with David McMahon and Sarah Burns, tells the tale of the wrongful conviction and eventual exoneration of Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise known as The Central Park Five. The men were convicted of the assault and rape of a woman jogger in one of the most publicized attacks of the 1980s.

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Polls are open until Tuesday, happy voting!

The Best True Crime Documentary — Day 2 republished via Above the Law

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Goodnight, Sugar Babe: The Killing of Vera Jo Reigle

Goodnight, Sugar Babe: The Killing of Vera Jo Reigle

The discovery of the mutilated body of a mentally challenged young mother begins a journey into madness that is so unbelievable the mastermind behind the crime ultimately got away with murder. Revealing for the first time how and why it happened filmmaker J. David Miles ventures into the insane mind of a small town crime family’s matriarch and uncovers a conspiracy that continues to elude law…

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Cub Crafters Sport Cub vs. Air Force One

There are several moments that serve as aviation milestones in my life.

My first flight as a young boy, back in the 70s, in a Piper Cherokee, based out of the Hershey Airpark, in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Talking my newlywed wife into allowing me to spend $2,500 of cash from our wedding gifts on flying lessons in the late 80s, only to run out of money right before the first solo cross country.

Then, some 30 years later, after paying off our mortgage, talking that same wife into allowing me to use our former mortgage payment money to restart flying lessons, culminating in earning my private pilot’s license three years ago.

Since that time I’ve purchased a 1979 Mooney M20J with two friends and have been blessed by another friend – a Cub Crafters Sport Cub S2 owner – who allowed me unbridled access to his hangar and his yellow taildragging beauty.

Even Air Force One pilots need practice.

And while the Mooney is great for cross-country trips to visit my son near Dayton, Ohio, and as a training platform for my instrument ticket, it is the Cub that has truly allowed me to know the joy and adventure of flying.

I have flown her in the mountains of West Virginia, along the skyline of New York City, in and out of virtually every grass strip in Pennsylvania, and right to the edge of Camp David’s restricted airspace.

But it would be on a crystal clear spring day in May of last year that Cub 718CC would allow me to experience something few pilots ever know.

For those of us living in and around Harrisburg International Airport (MDT), every month we get to witness a three-hour airshow put on by one of two shimmering blue-and-white 747-200Bs owned by the United States Air Force (tail numbers 28000 and 29000). The Air Force calls them VC-25A but you and I know them as Air Force One.

Because of the 10,001 ft. length of MDT’s runway, the moderate air traffic of its class D airspace, and its proximity to the VC-25A’s home at Virginia’s Joint Base Andrews, Harrisburg International is the perfect location for the presidential pilots to practice instrument approaches.

Watching one of the most recognizable symbols of our country fly low and slow circuits over our hometown is nothing short of magical.

The day started off as just a regular Monday.

Because I am a pastor, Mondays are my normal day off.  They are also my regular day to fly.

On this particular morning, I was heading out to Reigle Airport (58N) to fly the Cub. Reigle is a small, family-owned airport, 10 nautical miles northeast of Harrisburg International.

My plan for the day was to spend two hours practicing three point and wheel landings at several area grass strips.

Well, that was the plan until I heard the distinctive whine of jet engines and noticed a large shadow envelop my car as I made my way to the Cub’s home.

There she was… VC-25A… almost low enough that it seemed I could reach out and touch her.

It was that moment that my flight plan changed.

Would it be possible to not just watch her from the ground, but actually fly with her in the air?

Why not give it a shot? What would I have to lose?

So as soon as I arrived at Reigle, I quickly pulled out ForeFlight and searched for a destination that would set me on a flight path directly over Harrisburg International Airport.  It didn’t take long to determine Gettysburg Regional Airport (W05) would do the trick.

A great perch for airplane watching.

With the Cub thoroughly preflighted and Gettysburg dialed into the GPS, I lined up at the end of runway 31, pushed the stick forward, advanced the throttle and rotated off the runway in search of my next aviation milestone.

After clearing Reigle’s pattern, I contacted Harrisburg Approach, informed them that I was flying direct to Gettysburg and would like to transition their airspace.

Without hesitation the controller replied back, “Cub 718CC, squawk 0362, climb to 2,500, and fly directly over International midfield direct to Gettysburg. Traffic is a 747 doing pattern work.”

So I leveled off at 2,500 ft. with Harrisburg’s runways 31/13 right off my nose.

The timing could not have been any better. Just to the north, five miles away, flying the downwind for 31, was aviation majesty.

As I watched it come closer and closer, I heard the controller say, “Venus 02 (Air Force One’s typical call sign when the President is not aboard), traffic your 10 o’clock, 2,500 ft., three miles, a yellow Cub.”

“We’re looking,” was the reply.

Which was quickly followed by, “Cub 718CC, traffic your 2 o’clock, 2,000 ft., three miles, a 747.”

With just a hint to pride and because she was impossible to miss, I replied, “Cub 718CC has the traffic.”

It was then that the magic occurred. For the very first time, rather than looking up at Air Force One from the ground, I looked down upon the beautiful Boeing as she flew directly below me.

What was just another training day for an Air Force pilot, who is regularly entrusted with the care of the leader of the most powerful nation in the world, was one of my most memorable flying moments.

With a smile on my face, I flew on to Gettysburg and headed back to Reigle. By the time I arrived at Harrisburg’s Class D airspace, she was gone for she certainly had more important things to do than fly with a 250-hour private pilot.

But for me, it was an encounter of a lifetime that will be forever recorded in my logbook: “VFR flight to Gettysburg. Crossed HIA. Air Force One (w/o the president) flew 500 ft. below me. Amazing!”

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Cosmological Notes in Theosophy on “God”

Cosmological Notes in Theosophy on “God”

mahatma letters. fundamental position on God and Substance There have existed philosophical schools that have a spiritual ideal of nature, without a God. Theosophists described its position as functionally non-theistic, similarly to Buddhism and Jainism, but admits belief in both the plurality of worlds and gods. In place of the worship of the gods holds our respect, it is spiritually,…

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The Hodgson-Coulomb Case and Other Charges Against Helena Blavatsky

The Hodgson-Coulomb Case and Other Charges Against Helena Blavatsky

Helena Blavatsky, THE Hodgson-Coulomb Case & OTHER CHARGES: MIRACLES, Plagiarism and Inventing the Adepts Artist Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572) – Ugolino Martelli. What was the Hodgson ReportAccount of Constance Wachtmeister the day the S.P.R. hit H.P.B.’s DeskWalter A. Carrithers on the Hodgson-Coulomb CaseSylvia Cranston on Accusations of Plagiarism in Blavatsky’s WritingsDavid Reigle on the…