thuk,” meaning mind, and “
m,” referring to the meditative state of
samadhi or concentration. As recently reported, scientific studies of this state are underway. Most recently in August, the Taiwan-based Tibetan Buddhist monk and scholar Geshe Jampa Gyatso entered the state. Thereafter his body was observed by scientists from Academia Sinica, the pre-eminent academic research institution in Taiwan. From bod.asia
thukdam in his book
Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy (Columbia University Press 2017):
Another case is Lama Putse, of Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery near Boudhanath on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal. He died March 31, 1998, and is reported to have remained in thukdam
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Nearly 4,000 non-citizens voted in Nevada
A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law.
~ Alexander Hamilton, The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, Harold C. Syrett, ed. (New York, Columbia University Press, 1962), Vol III, pp. 544-545.
Subpoenaed Nevada Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) records suggest that nearly 4,000 illegal aliens cast votes in the 2020 general election. The state’s GOP had requested the records.
The DMV automatically registers every person to vote who obtains a driver’s license. Non-citizens can get driver’s licenses in Nevada.
December 11, 2020
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Reports from the Economic Front This is the first in a series of posts that aim to describe and evaluate the World War II mobilization experience in the United States in order to illuminate some of the economic and political challenges we can expect to face as we work for a Green New Deal.
This post highlights the successful government directed wartime reorientation of the U.S. economy from civilian to military production, an achievement that both demonstrates the feasibility of a rapid Green New Deal transformation of the U.S. economy and points to the kinds of organizational capacities we will need to develop. The post also highlights some of the strategies employed by big business to successfully stamp the wartime transformation as a victory for “market freedom,” an outcome that strengthened capital’s ability to dominate the postwar U.S. political economy and suggests the kind
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