Hello everybody, welcome to Esoteric Atlanta. Of course, my name is Bryce and today we're going to be looking at part 8c of the Magdalen Manuscript. Once again, if this is your first time on this channel, welcome. I'm so happy that you're here But you might want to start at the beginning. I will be putting the playlist down in the description box below. Now once again, if you are new to this series, the first part of this book was a channeled message from Magdalen. And the last part of this book is the channeler himself writing about his experiences with things like Tantric Yoga, Egyptian alchemy, all these things that Magdalen herself speaks about in the first part of the book. Now as I've said many times, a lot of times in life as in channeling, there is something called confirmation bias. I believe that this book was channeled and written in the early 2000s. And so some of the stuff in this book is quite groundbreaking for that time. For example, in this manuscript, Magdalen is very clear that her and Yahshua were born into the priest and priestesshood of Isis. This is something that I have definitely found to be true in my research, meaning that they were not Jewish. Alright, so that's one thing. But she does also talk about his crucifixion, which you guys know if you've been on this channel for a while. The real Yahshua, the real Christ, carrier of the Christ, teacher of the Christ, which was both Yahshua and Magdalen, because there has to be a divine feminine and a divine masculine. There can't be one or the other. They have to come together as twin flames. As you guys know, the real Christ was not crucified. That is not something that the real Source God would ever demand of his people. For many reasons. One, that's just not cool.  In Eastern philosophy, any time we screw up or there's friction in our life, it's actually an opportunity to transmute, to use it to learn to grow, to understand yourself. And so there's a very different perspective on this thing called sin, that the church wants you to believe exist, versus the actual true teachings. Again, the word sin originally just meant to miss the mark, that you misunderstand who you are.  And so the whole, the whole, the whole point of being human is to work through that. To not be in sin, meaning to find your way back to who you really are.  So therefore, not only is human sacrifice something that only Satanists and who's Apharians do, but it's also, there's a point, because no one else can clear that for you. You have to go through it. You can't go around the forest. You have to go through the forest to the other side. Now this is important because when we're looking at working through ourselves and understanding the alchemy within us to transmute energy, this is really comes into play in her channelings. And if you have read her channelings, you know that Magdalen was the person who activated Yahshua. Again, they were both the Christ. They were teaching together. They were helping people understand this work together, but she was the one that that activated him. So she was already kind of aware of who she was before he was. Now, we do understand again that both Magdalen and Yahshua were what we call twin flames. So a twin flame is when a soul has decided to incarnate into two different bodies, that of a divine feminine and that of a divine masculine. Now, there are different schools of thought of this. Again, one is where the soul literally decides to just coexist into two different entities, incarnation. And another thought of this is that the soul actually splits. Now, the splitting of the soul is more along my train of thoughts because I, from what I understand, once the soul decides to split and to experience a broken half in order to have more friction, more alchemy, more learning, it doesn't actually really come back together until the final incarnation, if that makes sense. It does come back to come to that. Let me rephrase that. It does come back together in our human forms. So the union we are in. So I am on a twin flame journey myself. So my divine masculine, if we come together in this life physically, doesn't mean that our souls are going to then merge together after we've passed away. And in fact, a lot of twin flames have been split for a very long time for many, many, many, many, many, many lifetimes. For example, I know for a lot of you that have been on this channel for a while, you know that I have a very close relationship with Magdalene. She's one of my guides. She talks to me a lot and I know that I lived in the same time that she lived with Yahshua. I do know what my relationship was to her, but I'm not comfortable saying that yet. At that point, though, I was already, I was already a twin as well. At that point, my soul had already split because I know who the other person was to, if that makes sense. So this is a very, very, very long journey. With that being said, however, it does kind of go through this in this book as well as some other books. We're looking about the sexual unity between twins, when the broken soul, the two different beings come together sexually. There does release a certain type of like vibration through the antenna of the people that alchemizes not only them, but the world around them. You know, Stephanie and I have talked a lot about how we're finding the solar flash, we're all waiting for might be an orgasm coming from somebody. So anyway, I just kind of wanted to go through that. That is why he is going through all of this stuff with the Egyptian alchemy, with tantric yoga, with Taoism for us as people learning from this experience can understand it in a more complex way, if that makes sense. All right. So today we're going into Taoism. And on my book, this starts on page 150. Taoism, there are two primary streams of philosophical thoughts in ancient China, those of Confucianism and Taoism. Confucianism was pragmatic and focused upon one's position and one's responsibility to family and state. Taoism, on the other hand, was largely mystical and was concerned with such things as one's relationship to the cosmos. And then the means to extend one's life for the purpose of spiritual elimination. I beg to differ. So if you've heard of the Yi Qing, if anybody out there has heard of the Yi Qing, that apparently Confucius, apparently, apparently stayed alive longer, kept himself alive to work on the Yi Qing. The Yi Qing is another form of divination. I don't know how to read the Yi Qing, but I know people who do. And it is very complicated to learn how to do that. But any Yi Qing readings I've had have been very accurate. So I wouldn't say that Confucius totally was pragmatic, focused on one's position and one's responsibility to family because there was a lot of mysticism about Confucius as well in regards to the Yi Qing. All right. The foundation of Taoism is based upon an abstract concept known as the Tao. This ethereal field of intelligence is said to be responsible for the entire universe. It continually emanates energy, but is untouched by its creation. According to Taoism, mankind is blessed due to the fact that his or her deepest nature allows him or her to make direct contact with the source of all things. Taoist alchemy is fundamentally a means to make contact with one's deeper nature, thereby giving access to the Tao itself. Such contact is highly transformational. Those sages who accomplish this feat attained almost mythical stature do no doubt to their ex exhibiting the powers of consciousness. Cities mentioned in the last chapter. So again, cities are spoken about in the Yoga Sutras. It's like yoga powers. It's, you know, basically it's the lesser ones are like intuition, like all the clairvoyances and like the greater cities feel like levitation and just FYI, I've actually been to a Taoist ceremony before. I did not understand a word they were saying, but it was very peaceful. So. Meaning I didn't speak the language they were speaking. If they were speaking in English, I probably would have understood a lot of time and very much ingrained into this world of spiritual spiritual philosophy, but they were speaking in another language. And that's why I didn't understand them. All right. In order to comprehend Taoist alchemy, we must come to the understanding of subtle force called Chi or life force from the immense mystery of the Tao, which creates all worlds, but is untouched by them. There is eternal flow of the vital force Chi or Chi is also Prana and yoga. It's just life force. It's that rising life force in all of us. There are many types of Chi. There is, for instance, a vital force flowing out of the stars. So this is quite different in quality from the Chi created by a stream. When people think about Chi, they usually think about the subtle life force in air. This type of Chi is most concentrated in natural areas away from cities. This kind of vital force is strongest in large areas of tree growth by lakes, rivers and streams, as well as by large bodies of waters like ocean. Some individuals have speculated that this type of Chi is related to negative ions, and there is some evidence that this is so. But there are other types of Chi as well, more subtle, more refined types of Chi. And this is one of the focuses of advanced Taoist alchemy. Traditionally, Taoist sages spent much of their time as hermits in nature. In later periods, a group of men or women would form communities to pursue their alchemical search with others. But almost always, these Taoist abodes were far from cities. They were usually located in places where Chi was especially strong, often in areas designed as dragon points. Dragon points are places of convergence, where one form of Chi meets another. They are most dramatically seen in mountain ranges. When two ridges meet, there is often a trench or gorge that flows down the side of the mountain, a celestial Chi. The type of Chi generated in the sky flows downward into meet the terrestrial Chi of the mountain. At this point between the ridges, this is called a dragon point, where two streams or river converge. There is detectable increases of Chi, and this too is called a dragon point. Taoist sages would search for these places and put their abodes either in the dragon point itself or nearby. This made their alchemical work easier since there was already an abundance of Chi that they could draw upon in their practices. And it's interesting, so I know from our data, so you cannot be internally, you cannot be as pure as your external world. So I live right smack dab in the middle of a city of six million people. There's traffic everywhere. There's lights everywhere. There's constantly smells. There's always something going on. And so for me, I it would be very bad for my mental, spiritual and physical health if I were to, let's say meditate for two hours a day and only drink pure water and only eat vegan, because I would not be able to alchemize to the outside world. Right? And so you have to match your Prana, your Chi with your outside Chi. Now, so as I tell my students, because we live in the middle of the city, that means we get to drink a beer every once in a while and eat some greasy French fries, right? Because we have to alchemize with the world around us. That also means that our meditation should only be about 15 minutes a day. Your meditation should only be about 15 minutes a day. If you're if you're meditating over 15 minutes a day, you're moving into escapism and that's going to cause delusional thinking and derangement, FYI. However, if I were to live up in the North Georgia Mountains, where it's very few people, not a lot of humans, not a lot of smog, I would it would be who of me to eat cleaner and to constantly have pure water because my my body needs to match the alchemy of the Chi outside of my body, if that makes sense. So that is why you see a lot of highly spiritual communities of monk like people in all religions going outside of cities because it can alchemize better with their pursuit, if that makes sense. All right, thought, time and breath. As with tantric yoga, the Taoist alchemist must train the mind to enter pro long states of stillness. This quinceance of mind is crucial since the Tao can only be experienced in mental silence. Furthermore, many of the alchemical transformations in Taoist alchemy require a silent mind as well. There are many classes of stillness practices, some of them involve movements such as Tai Chi and others involved sitting meditation such as a celestial gate, which I will discuss to some extent in a moment. In these stillness practices, the mind is eventually led to a state of deep quietude, an actual practice, especially at the beginning. There may be a flurry of mental activity, thoughts come and go, sometimes in a torrent, sometimes in a trickle. Eventually, the practitioner notices that the speed of his or her own thoughts seems to be slowing down. There seems to be more space between thoughts and at some point they stop altogether, if only briefly. The practitioner also notices that the breath changes during these states. There is a tendency for the breath to slow down as thought slows down. And when there is no thought, there is often no breath or it is very shallow. This is significant for several reasons. From a neurological standpoint, we could say that this is because the brain waves of the practitioner are in the lower states of alpha and or theta, where the breath naturally gets slower. Research on meditation has noted, by the way, that these states also produce a decrease in muscle tension, heart rate, blood pressure and respiration, all of which are quite positive in their stress-producing effects. In fact, studies have shown that those who practice forms of meditation that produce these effects, as in the Taoist stillness practices, are generally less stressed than their counterparts who do not meditate. Several years ago, about an hour before Twilight, I chose to do a stillness practice known as Celestial Gate, sometimes referred to as Heaven's Gate in the park. As Twilight descended around me, I was still doing the practice and noticed that my breathing had stopped. Not only this, but the thoughts seemed to be arrested. My mind was clear and as calm as the surface of a tranquil lake. But most impressive to me in that moment was that time also seemed to have stopped and I was suspended in a timeless dimension of mind. I decided to walk back to my car as it was getting dark and the trip took me 20 minutes or so. I noted that the impulse to go back to the car came as a sensation as if I had come from deep within my body and not as a thought. I did not think now I need to go back to my car. This non-speaking state of mind seemed oddly amusing to me at the time. During my saunter, I noticed that my breath was very shallow, even though the trail back to the car was over hilly terrain. That timeless feeling was still very strong and I seemed to move over the hill with little effort. Ironically, when I saw my car in the parking lot, I remembered an appointment later that evening and I spontaneously took a deep breath. My breath had returned to normal and the feeling of timelessness vanished. I was firmly rooted back in time. There is a fascinating relationship between the perception of timelessness and the cessation of breath. In yoga, you may recall, the cessation of breath is called Kumbhaka. In Taoist meditation practices, the suspicion of breath is often encountered as well, especially when entering the deep states of mental coincidence. Interestingly, the idea of breath suspension can be found in the Egyptian alchemy and the concept of onk. The onk, sometimes called the Egyptian cross, consists of three main parts. The cross itself representing matter, the sheen, our lupus spirit and the shennaj, which represents the breath. As long as we are breathing, our spirit is bound to the matter of our bodies, our embodiments. However, when the shennaj loses, the breath stops or gets very slow when we can, in that moment, enter timelessness. Once again, we see a central concept in one alchemical system repeated in other alchemical traditions. I do think it's fascinating that the Taoist word for spirit shen is the same as the Egyptian shen. I do not know if it is simply a coincidence of translation or if the terms really were the same. Nevertheless, it is quite interesting. But that's the paradox of time, thought and breath. As a psychotherapist who often worked in the area of psychoneuroimmuniology, psychoneuroimmuniology, how our thoughts and feelings affect immunity. I find the time paradox also intriguing from the vantage of points of help. A study of patients admitted to an emergency room due to cardiac arrest reveals some fascinating information about the interplay between body and mind. During recovery, these patients were asked questions about their perception of time. Based on their responses, researchers could predict who would recover and who would die from another heart attack. Those patients who said that they were letting things go to take care of themselves and who reported feeling that there would be more than enough time to do it would seem to be done were more likely to recover and avoid a second heart attack. Those patients, however, who stated that they were under tremendous pressure to do what had been left undone and who felt that they were running out of time, invariably suffered a higher incident of death due to a second cardiac arrest. None of this would come as a surprise to a Taoist sage. For the standpoint of Taoism, our modern time prompt to world is disturbing to both health and spiritual attainment. We need to bring our time bound minds back to tranquility on a regular basis or suffer the ill effects of the modern age. I have taught a simple form of Taoist stillness practices to hundreds and thousands of people by now. Everyone has expressed a deep appreciation for a method of meditation that is so quick and easy to enter into. Those who have never been able to meditate due to potential thoughts in our dialogue are especially appreciative of this method since thought is not a hindrance to the practice. I think this meditation is effective. So I've included a brief description of how to do it below. If you aren't interested in experiencing this yourself, just skip it and go to the next part. The celestial gate meditation. The celestial gate meditation practices based on dragon points. Dragon points, as I mentioned earlier, places of convergence for one form of chi needs another. There are several dragon points within the human body. The celestial gate is just one of these and happens to be a place where the heavenly chi, a very subtle form of chi, flows into the body and meets the terrestrial or earthly chi of the body itself. Thus, this place is an energetically charged area. And Taoist sage discovered a long time ago how to take advantage of it. Sit comfortably and close your eyes. You can lie down if you wish, but this makes some people go to sleep. For a moment, just notice your breath. Don't change it in any way. Just watch it. Notice the rhythm and depth of your breath. Then after a moment, become aware of the space about an inch behind the bridge of your nose. Imagine that there is an opening about one inch square in this area. This is the celestial gate. All you do is focus on it. Do not concentrate on it. Just be aware of it. If you are having thoughts or fantasies, this is not a problem. Let them continue on their merry way. Just let some part of your attention be on that opening. You can think all you want about anything you want and practice will still work. So long as some part of your attention is on the celestial gate or the opening. As you continue to focus at the gate, you will notice that thoughts seem to slow down. There will seem to be more spaces between the thoughts or fantasies, and eventually they will stop altogether if only temporarily. It is during these moments that you might find that your breath has stopped or has become very shallow. This is natural and is in fact a sign that you are entering the deeper states of stillness. It is in these deepest states of quintessence that there is no breath and no thought that contact the Dow takes place. Doing it for about five minutes will usually give you a clear sense of how this practice alerts awareness. Eventually, you can extend the period of time for a deeper experience.  It is a profound stillness practice that will lead you directly to the Dow itself. Gently extend the periods of stillness so that you can become acquainted with and comfortable with these deep places of quiet. As you explore your own inner world, you might eventually encounter celestial beings who may grace you with their guidance and instruction. And Dow is in the deepest secrets are revealed only by the Dow itself. You cannot find these truths written in the book for it is forbidden to write about them. Thus, meditations like the celestial gate are more like cosmic keys. Like keys, however, you must turn them to open the lock. If you wish to experience the mysteries of the Dow for yourself and not just read about them, you must turn the key. Cultivation of chief. As with the tantric yogi who attained Samadhi, a Taoist practitioner will become aware of ever more subtle levels of perception. The subtlety of perception allows the Taoist to sense the flow of Qi directly and to draw it into the body called collecting for the purpose of alchemical transformation called cultivation. With a heightened sensitivity to Qi, a Taoist alchemist undertakes several things. First of all, he or she collects Qi throughout the day, drawing its vital force as the body to strengthen organs and systems. There are many forms by which this is done. Qi Gong masters from China have recently started teaching in the West, and this is one form of Qi collecting and cultivating, but there are other forms as well. Depending upon the school of methods used, most Taoists eventually turn their attention to the Qi body. This is the same as the etheric body of the yogi or the Ka body of the Egyptians. And like the aforementioned bodies, the Qi body is the same shape as the physical body. It interpenetrates the physical body and there is no part of the physical body that is not within the Qi body. The development of the Qi body is a crucial element in many forms of Taoist alchemy. Part of the reason for that is that this potent Qi body lays the foundation for more advanced practices. If either the physical body or the Qi body is depleted, certain alchemical processes cannot be undertaken. And strengthening the Qi body is crucial for the attainment of immortality. One of the more interesting ways of cultivating Qi and thereby strengthening the Qi body involves what the Tao is called alixir fields. These energetic reservoirs of Qi are in three areas of the Qi body itself. When they are fully charged with Qi, they emit an energy that is called an alixir due to its strengthening effects. The first alixir field is the area of the lower organ from the diaphragm down to the pelvic floor. This alixir field strengthens the lower visceral organs. The second alixir field is in the area of the upper organs of the torso from the diaphragm up to the tops of the lungs. This alixir field strengthens the lungs and the heart as well. The thymus gland, one of the major sites of the immune system. The third alixir field is in the head and strengthens the neurological function. Certain forms of Taoist alchemy draw Qi into these areas, collecting and circulating the Qi through the corresponding organs and up towards the head, cultivation. As the Qi is refined and drawn to the next alixir field, the organs within the field are strengthened and the circulating Qi is refined. The ancient Taoists also explore the subtle energy pathways of the body and map them out to the considerable detail. The meridians used in acupuncture were discovered and described by the Taoist. They are similar to the Naughties of Yoga. Scientific research on the meridians, mostly notable in Japan, has demonstrated that they are an energetic phenomenon. In addition to the meridians, the Taoists described a pathway that became crucial to certain types of alchemy. They are called microcosmic orbits. This pathway circulates Qi from the perineum up the spine into the head and then down the front body, back down to the perineum. As the microcosmic orbit makes its way through the Qi body, it passes the three alixir fields by moving Qi through the microcosmic orbit. The practitioner stimulates the higher brain centers and greatly refines the quality of circulating Qi. The refinement of Qi is crucial in Taoist alchemy since it's only through refined Qi that one can enter Shen or the spirit world. It is also said in the more esoteric schools of Taoism that practicing the microcosmic orbit dissolves negative karmas, negative effects arising from past actions. Sexual essence into spirit, Jing and Shen. If we look at the transformation of consciousness through the Taoist metaphor, we could say the task is that of changing water into mist. The energy of it, of embodied life is refined through alchemical processes to the point that it becomes like mist. When one has attained this highly refined state, one's essence is now more spirit than that of man or woman. And the key to this remarkable transformation from a biological into a spiritual being begins with sex. The transformation of sexual essence into spirit is a key component in many types of Taoism.  One's spiritual nature is called Shen. By drawing the sexual energy of Zhen up the spine through the microcosmic orbit, it is refined and eventually becomes Shen. This movement of Qi up the spine is, of course, reminiscent of the raising of the Zhen in Egyptian alchemy as well as the concept of Shushumar, a central pathway of the chakras in yoga. I have not read any existing traditional Taoist writings for women in regard to this transformation of their sexual essence into Shen spirit. Of course, this is not me, of course, and such writings don't exist, just that I haven't seen them. Nevertheless, I believe the process is similar to that of the male in many ways. As in nature, there is always more than one way to accomplish a task as the transformation of one's sexual essence into spiritual illumination is no exception. In some forms of Taoist alchemy, the practitioner focuses on collection of Qi into the first elixir field. When there is an excess of Qi in this area, meaning not needed by the visceral organs, the alchemist will activate the first alchemical furnace in which the dross or the impurities of the Qi are removed. This refined Qi is then progressively circulated into the second and third elixir fields. This movement also refines the Qi, making it more subtle. By the time it reaches the head, the third elixir field, it is transformed into Shen, giving the Taoist access to the spirit world. When a Taoist alchemist had successfully transformed his or her sexual essence into Shen, he or she has attained a very exalted state of being. Myths and legends abound from ancient China in regards to these high Taoist sages. Legend has it that these beings live in the highest places of mountains, dragon points, sustaining themselves off of dew and herbs. From an alchemical standpoint, morning dew collected on leaves of planes is highly concentrated Qi.  For such a person, the digestive system would be highly refined and could easily metabolize the Qi of dew into usable energy. Makes sense to me. Here on the island. Here on this island, there is a wonderful melon accustomed to the honeydew. But unlike other melons that need watering, this melon grows on the barren, dry and windswept soil of the island without any water whatsoever. Amazingly, it draws its water from the air. And it is one of the most extraordinary melons I have ever tasted. One can sense the intensely concentrated Qi and the taste is sweet. There is another botanical wonder on the island that does something similar. It looks like our cedar trees in northwest, but it is like the melon. It does not need any water. This is good because there is precious little on this island. These trees grow near the ocean and draw the salt-laden air into their leaves, extracting the moisture and leaving the dried salt behind. I never thought about plants being alchemists other than the obvious process of photosynthesis. But these two plants have obviously attained a high degree of alchemical mastery. But let's return to our human alchemist. When a Taoist has refined his or her sexual nature into the state of Shen or spirit, he or she becomes a very different order of being and how this miraculous transformation takes place is through balancing two opposing cosmological forces, Yan and Yang. Yan and Yang, the deeply intuitive sages of ancient China explored the patterns of creation within nature and one of their discoveries was the existence of two subtle complementary and at times opposing forces called the Yan and Yang. Endowed symbolism, the sun and the moon are sometimes used to denote these two elements of creation, same in yoga. Again, the sun is Prana and the moon is Apana. Yang, the sun is associated with light and heat. It is kinetic, meaning energy and motion, and it moves decisively. Lightning is Yang. It lights up the sky, has tremendous force. And when it strikes, there is no hesitation. Yet, as the moon is moist, cool and dark, it is potentially it is potential energy, not kinetic. A seed sitting underground is under the influence of yet. It is surrounded by moisture and is dark and is cool. But when the sunny Yang comes out, it's heat warms the soil and the seed begins to grow. It is the balance of the Yan and Yang that produces life. Too much moisture, Yan and the seed will rot, too much heat. Yang and it will shrivel up and die. Yan and Yang are not static forces. They are continually transforming into each other. Yet it becomes Yang and Yang becomes yet. Although we can never see yet or Yan directly, we can't experience their effects. For some reason, I've reminded of an experience I had during my freshman year at Thelma Abbey. Although I did not know at the time, it was an example of the ever constant transformation of Yan and Yang. It was October and the trees on campus were brilliant with their bolded reds and yellows of fall. Everywhere once stepped the grass cracked with the sound of dead leaves underfoot. A stiff breeze was blowing across the quadrangle and omen of winter just ahead. I had stepped out into the brisk air for my dormitory and route to an afternoon soccer game. I don't remember who we were playing, but it was homecoming and the campus was humming with activity, a state rarely experienced and has benedict run cons. And has benedict team run college. The lanes were full of parked cars with the logs returning to their alma mater. The trunks in the backs of the station wagons were brimming like some kind of modern cornucopia later with fried chicken potato salad and iced tea. This was, after all, the South. Here and there, a May shift barbecue was obscured by smoke and the smell of hot dogs and hamburgers wafted through the air. Students walked with their parents in a kind of spontaneous parade, some seeing crowd of being seen with their families, some slink back, pretending not to belong to the parents who had born them. This menagerie of humanity floated to the soccer stadium like a river and I joined it on the last rug of the bleachers. As the game ensued, I remember being oddly detached as if watching a ballet. The sky was a bright Carolina blue and the sun was hanging midway in the sky. It's warmth was just enough to be pleasant against the cold air and I suppose it was this balanced force of the elements that created the odd effect in me. The soccer team came onto the field and we released a hella balloon like only any group of suppressed Catholic boys can muster. We had become yay. We were full of energy, yelling and whooping the sound of our cat calls, no doubt, heard in the small town hounds away. And then the team took their positions waiting for the ball to be tossed in the air by the referee. We stood breathlessly still. We watched with rapt attention. We had become yet. Then our team miraculously got the ball. I say miraculously because almost every game we played that year we lost. Not only that, but we had lost the homecoming game to the same team every year for the last five years. You can imagine the tension. Suddenly we sprang to our feet. The aluminum bleachers groaned from the weight. We had transformed in the twinkling of an eye from the end into yank. We were screaming with delight as our team got closer to the goal.  After some cat calls from a few of the alumni we settled in mass back into our seats. Yank had become yet. I watched this constant ballet of yank into yank and back into the yank the whole afternoon. When the game was over I watched the last glimmer of the sun as it set behind the large oaks on campus. The air was still. The alumni had gone home and most of the students were in the pub or in their dorms. I walked strangely silent grounds. The silver of the new moon was rising through the last remnants of sunset. Yank had turned into yet. Oh, in the ball game we lost. Cultural attitudes and the cultivation of qi. We live in an ocean of qi.  Some of it's yank, receptive and resting. For the most part we are unaware of it though it affects us on many levels. Adalva's alchemist is one who has become aware of this all-pervading sea of qi. And through the practices of alchemy here she learns to draw this energy into his or her body to transform consciousness and to enhance health and well-being. Our modern lifestyle in the industrialized West is destructive of well-being. We are overly fixated on yank. We honor productivity in action. We do not as a culture understand or appreciate inaction. It is considered weak. We jazz ourselves up with coffee and other drugs. We are obsessed with speed. We are yank and proud of it. But there are problems with this. For one it is out of balance. And two it is ultimately destructive. We don't generally understand this but yank comes out of yank. In the state of Washington there was a powerful hydroelectric dam. There was nothing more yank perhaps than electricity. The source of this yank power is watery yank. The lake that was dammed to make this hydroelectric plant is now a vast body of water. It sits absolutely still most of the time except for little wavelets created by the wind. It is yank. It is potential power but it is unmoving. It is all potential. But when the gates open at the plant this watery yank is transformed to yank and the rushing water turns the immense turbines of the power plant. This in turn produces another form of yank. The electricity that runs our lights and TVs and our other time saving appliances. Of course we do not have enough time to enjoy those time saving devices but that is another issue. We are caught up in a cultural whirlwind of yank madness. Fast food restaurants abound and are painted with yank colors like red and yellow to encourage customers to eat faster making room for more customers. Mindless repetitive tech pop flares in the background and fast paced ambient music encourages us to do everything a little faster. I use the term music rather loosely since this postmodern craft bears little resemblance to the loftier attributes of music like healing and inspiration. But you see music or the bastardization of it is one of my pet peas. So please do forgive me and let's get back to the yank and yank. Same buddy, same. To summarize my main point here I would say that many Westerners especially those in the United States seem to be uncomfortable with leaving any space or moment in time unfilled. The net effect of all this is that we are seeing an immense increase in stress related illness. The body is simply not equipped to remain yank states for long periods of time. It means yank. It needs time to do nothing to rest or dream. But in our Western culture doing nothing is seen as being lazy. Yet this is sometimes the wisest thing we can do. If you want to be yank then you have to had best spend some time being yank. A Taoist would never be caught dead having an expended too much yank if he or she can avoid it. The reason is that Taoist alchemy requires an exquisite balance of these two forces. The ancient Taoists understood this phenomenon to great extent. And if anything characterizes Taoism it is the concept of poised balance. This concept becomes second nature to a practicing alchemist since the success of Taoist alchemy requires that the force of yank yank be used correctly. I have a lot to say about this because I have really, really struggled with this and it all stems from my childhood.  And I have said many, many times that that is nothing but just darkness and stress. That's the world I grew up in. And even to this day, even to this day I feel like I have to explain myself when I do decide to take a day off. I feel like I have to go and explain myself for why I'm going to rest. And I rarely do rest. I work seven days a week because I feel like I have to. I'm going to be honest with you guys and my father is the main person. I feel like I have to apologize when I'm resting. I have to feel like I have to apologize when I take a vacation. Like for some reason, like I don't deserve a vacation. And that's been that way since I was a kid, since I was a child. And so I understand what he's saying here and it's awful, it's horrible. I'm 39 years old and I'm still working on this. I'm still working on allowing myself at least one day a week to rest. Because I don't give myself that day a week because I was raised not to rest. I was raised, you get up in the morning, you start working. My grandfather, my dad's dad own these factories. And I remember my parents got into an argument when I was like in middle school, I was like 12 years old. And my dad, my dad was just mean to us a lot growing up. He really was. My God feels so much therapy, so much therapy from things my dad sets me growing up. And I remember my dad and my mother getting into an argument because my father wanted me at 12 years old to get up at four o'clock in the morning and go sweep out my grandfather's factory before going to school. And my mother was not gonna have it. There was no way her 12 year old little girl was going to go sweep out a factory before going to school all day. And I agree, there's no way my 12 year old girl should be doing that. It's just not safe, it's not practical. It's not good for the health. And my parents got into an argument about it. And my dad was really, he had this like chip on his shoulder about the fact that we went to a private school but he went to the same school. He went to that same school when it was an old boy school when he was a kid. He went to a private school. So I don't know what was going on there but I still to this day, 39 years old. I feel like I have to apologize for going to bed early. I feel like I have to apologize when I want to take a break. I work myself so hard sometimes that I end up with a fever just for overworking myself. The same thing would happen to me when I was in school. And so I understand what he's saying. For me, it's very psychological because of how I was raised or how I was abused growing up, let's be honest. I mean, that is really the way I don't have a relationship with my dad to this day. So I just want to put that out there. If you're someone who's struggling with that, same, same, same. And I'm still really working on it.  Like at 39, I feel like I have to apologize even to this day to my parents when I want to take a break from something. When I need to like rest, I feel like I have to apologize for that or answer as to why I'm not working, working, working, working, working, working, working, working. Everything's a constant work. Everything, everything. So I get that, I get that. And that really, this is big for me. It's something that I really need to work on. I'm not apologizing when I take a day off, right? So anyway, all right. Dual cultivation. Dual cultivation has some striking parallels to methods discussed in this manuscript. There are some very significant differences. In order to understand this type of alchemy, we must return to Yan and Yang. According to Dawes' theory, a healthy female possesses a vital, unlimited amount of Yan Qi. Qi that is Yan, and that is part of her nature. A healthy male, on the other hand, has a limited amount of Yang. Unlike the female, his nature does not grant him an unlimited reservoir of Yang Qi. Yeah, because aponic is female. The moon, aponic is male. As we said earlier, it's the same thing as Yan and Yang. In the advanced forms of Qi cultivation, the female alchemist must collect Yan energy in order to balance her excess Yan. And the male must collect Yan energy in order to balance his excess Yang. In actuality, it is much more complex. The ultimate balancing of Yan and Yang within a practitioner's paramount, since it is only when the Yan and Yang have been balanced that certain alchemical practices can thus be engaged. All Dawes seek to balance the force of Yan and Yang within themselves, yes. And as I said, feminine aponic, pranic is masculine, pranic is sun, pranic is moon, but we do carry both qualities. All men and women do carry both qualities within them as well. Those alchemists practicing alone must accomplish this task through elaborate alchemical meditations and energy work. Those who do this with a partner of the opposite sex can simply collect desired Qi during the act of sex. During the sexual contact, there is an abundance of excess Qi, the act of stroking and fondling sets off the flow Qi both inside and around the body. An alchemist trained in the methods of dual cultivation can draw the excess Qi into his or her Qi body, therefore greatly enhancing his or her alchemical work. During dual cultivation, the male avoids ejaculation as this would deplete his Yang energy and bring the act of intercourse to an end. In this, sorry, I just, yeah. Some men should learn that. Cause it's too quick. So anyway, in this type of alchemy, long periods of intercourse are desired. The reason is quite simple and pragmatic. Prolonging sex generates massive amounts of Qi and since the goal of dual cultivation is to collect the excess Qi, the more the better. To assist in this process, the ancient Taoist developed something called the valley orgasm. When the male starts to feel the ejaculation is closed at hand, he backs off from the genital simulation. He rests for a moment until the desire passes, then he returns to intercourse. This continues in cycle of simulation and rests for as long as the partner's desire. The results of both partners enter highly altered and deeply sensual states by which their sensitivity to Qi is greatly increased. In addition, the amount of excess Yang and Yang generated from such continual sexual contact is considerable. That would be kind of weird though cause they say like men are like microwaves and women are like ovens, which is true. It's definitely true. It takes a woman a while. I don't know. I mean, I've never tried it. So I guess I'll let you know if this ever happens. So anyway, maybe I won't let you know, maybe that's TMI. But I don't know. I just be kind of like all of a sudden you stop for a moment. Like what do you do? Like start to share stories of childhood memories before you get back. I don't, that's just anyway, anyway. All right. The final attainment lands of the immortals. The ultimate goal of Taoist alchemy is immortality. Having attained a coincidence of mind through the stillness practice, the Taoist alchemist has trained his or herself to be aware of the many types of Qi. And with this knowledge, he or she has been able to collect and cultivate beneficial Qi through the subtle pathways of the body. He or she has learned how to distill the essence of this excess Qi into energy for the purpose of increasing health and generating enhanced consciousness. Along the way, the alchemist gets healthier and more vital, a result of collecting Qi and circulating it into the major organs of the body. This is gratifying, one of the key benchmarks to progress in this way of alchemy. And even if he or she does not attain the immortal body, the work of alchemy has been well worth the effort. Eventually through persistent practice, the subtle Qi body is charged with vital force as well. It becomes as real to the Taoist alchemist as his or her physical body. And through it, he or she can in meditation enter the heavenly abodes where master alchemist abound and one can greatly accelerate what's progress through the grace of instruction.  Long years of practice are bearing fruit and the alchemist is in some ways more spirit than flesh, though he or she still has a body. The moment comes when the Taoist, now a sage senses a moment in time. All the forces has come together in perfect timing. Nian and Yang are perfectly balanced. Death might be near or the alchemist might simply choose to leave the earth plane at will. Entering into deep meditation, the sage passes beyond the grips of time and space. The breath stops. Attention is shifted into the Qi body and it has been done so many times before. The Taoist has mounted the dragon. His or her own transformative nature and flies off into the heavenly abode. The alchemist is now an energy being. He or she might remain like this for a very, very long time. The moment may come, however, when no longer desiring even a subtlest of forms, the sage leaves the heavenly abode behind. The master alchemist refines because of her already subtle Qi even more. Attaining the subtlest form, he or she returns to the formless heaven from which he or she originated. And as the sage slips into this primal space, all traces of self disappear. The drop has slipped into the shining area. There is no form. There is no sage. There is only Tao. And we'll leave it at that for now. Next week, we will get tied into Tibetan Buddhism. All right, guys, I hope you're having a wonderful day. Leave me your thoughts and your opinions down in the comment section below and I will talk to you soon.


So most of you would be wondering what is wrong with our Khilsa today? Why is he showing us the videos of cats and tigers? So, dear all, this is a small attempt from my side to bring out the distinction between the discriminant of a quadratic equation and the discriminant of a cubic equation. Does a cubic polynomial equation even have a discriminant hat? Friends here will do some flow tests, will ask people whether they are actually aware. I am very sure that many people are not aware of cubic equation discriminant at least. So let's find out. Okay, so first we'll start from Chaitanya. Chaitanya, have you heard of quadratic equation discriminant? No sir. Have you heard of cubic equation discriminant? No sir. Okay, let's ask Krishna now. Krishna, have you heard of quadratic polynomial equation discriminant? Have you heard of cubic equation discriminant? I know. Let's ask Pragun. So Pragun, have you heard of quadratic equation discriminant? No. Discriminant of a quadratic equation? No. Have you heard of discriminant of a cubic equation? No. Okay, let me ask Bharat. Bharat, have you heard of quadratic equation discriminant? Yeah. But have you heard of cubic equation discriminant? No. Seethu, have you heard of quadratic equation discriminant? Yeah, yes sir. Have you heard of cubic equation discriminant? No, don't have it. In the morning, sir, have you heard about the Discriminate of Quality Equation? No discrimination policy at Sentom. We tolerate all this. All are equal before us. In the afternoon, sir, have you heard about the Discriminate of Quality Equation? Discriminate of Quality Equation? Dharacharya had told me about it. Dharacharya is not Dharacharya. No, Dharacharya had told me about it. But have you heard of Cubic Equation Discriminate? Cubic Equation Discriminate? Oh my God. I don't know. Can you tell me? Is it real? Now, those who are wondering what's a discriminant, a discriminant is basically an expression whose value helps us to discriminate between the nature of roots of an equation. So, for a quadratic equation, let's discuss the discriminant briefly. So, let us quickly recap the quadratic equation discriminant. So, let's say we have a quadratic equation A x square plus B x plus C equal to 0. So, in this quadratic equation, I am assuming that the coefficients of the quadratic equation are all real. So, my A, B and C, they are all real numbers. And of course, we know that A cannot be 0 in a quadratic equation. All right. So, what are the discriminant in this case? The discriminant in this case is this term B square minus 4 AC because this term helps us to discriminate between the nature of the roots. How does it do that? Let's see that. If the discriminant is positive, then what does it mean that the roots of the quadratic equation are real and distinct? They are real and distinct. Okay. And if this discriminant is equal to 0, the roots of this quadratic equation are real and equal. And finally, if this discriminant is negative, then the roots of the quadratic equation are non-real or imaginary. And one more thing I would like to add on here is that if the coefficients of the quadratic equation are all real numbers, then these two imaginary roots will be conjugate pairs of each other. So, if one of them is of the form P plus IQ, the other would be of the form P minus IQ. I hope this information is known to everybody who's watching this video. Now, time for some scary part. So, talking about a cubic equation, let me assume my cubic equation to be AX cube plus 3 BX square plus 3 CX plus D equal to 0. Okay. Of course, here also I'm assuming that your coefficients A, B, C, D, they are all real numbers. Okay. So, A, B, C, D, they are all real numbers. Now, in this case also, there is a discriminant which is associated with two terms. First, I'll talk about a term called H. This H is basically given by AC minus B square. So, as you can see, the coefficient of X, which is 3 C, take out the C from there. The coefficient of X cube, which is A, take the A from there. And the coefficient of X square is 3 B, take the B from there and make this term H, which is AC minus B square. Okay. There's another term G, which is slightly complicated. It is given by A square D minus 3 A, B, C plus 2 B cube. So, here the term G is A square D minus 3 A, B, C plus 2 B cube. Okay. Now, actually we go for a determinant. So, the determinant here is given by D is equal to G square plus 4 H cube. Okay. So, this term G square plus 4 H cube. And the reason why I gave it separately as G and H is that if I would have written all of them together, it would have become a very huge term for anybody to remember. This D plays a major role in deciding the nature of the roots of the cubic equation. Now, first let us talk about what all types of roots can I have for a cubic equation. I can have four cases. I can have a case number one, where all the roots are real and distinct. Number two, where two roots are equal and one root is different. Case number three, where all the roots are real and equal. And case number four, where I have one real root and two roots imaginary. So, let us see how this discriminant D plays a major role in me deciding which of the scenarios will hold true. So, if this discriminant D is lesser than zero. In that case, you realize that this equation will have three real and distinct roots. Okay. So, the roots will be all real and of course, they will be all distinct from one another. Means no two roots will be the same. Okay. Next, if your D value is equal to zero and apart from that your GNH, they are also equal to zero. Okay. In this situation, you would realize that it would have three real and equal roots. Three real and equal roots. And mind you, my dear friends, if my D is equal to zero, but my GNH, they are not zero individually. That means my GNH, they are non-zero terms, but still my D term is equal to zero. Then in this case, I will have two real and equal roots. Okay. Plus one distinct real root. Okay. So, what am I going to get? I am going to get three real roots out of which two will be same roots. Means there will be a repetition of the roots and one root will be distinct from the other two. And coming to the last case, when your discriminant is positive. Okay. So, when your discriminant is positive, please note this down that you will have a case of one real root and two non-real root or you can say two imaginary roots. Okay. So, one of the roots will be real. That means the x-axis is going to be cut by the cubic polynomial function only at one point. And two of the roots will be imaginary in nature. And again, I would like to repeat here that if the coefficients of the cubic polynomial equation are all real, these imaginary roots would be conjugate pairs of one another. So, hi-haul, I will be just showing you the demonstration of how does the discriminant basically decide the nature of the roots. So, let's have a cubic equation. Y is equal to A x cube plus 3 B x square plus 3 C x plus D. Okay. Now, you can see here that since I have not chosen the value of A, B, C and D, the system is smart enough to basically pick up some values of A, B, C and D because it treats them as parameters. And right now it has kept them as one, one, one each. Okay. However, it has given us a liberty to change these values from minus 5 to 5. Okay. Now, here is a situation where the tool has actually taken up A, B, C, D each as one. Okay. So, let us find out H first. So, H is A, C minus B square. Okay. So, A, C minus B square as you can see here is coming out to be zero. And G value is A square D minus 3 A, B, C plus 2 B cube. Okay. And the discriminant here which is G square plus 4 H cube. Okay. So, right now here you see a scenario where H is zero, G is zero and D is zero. So, this is basically a case if you recall from the flow chart. It's a case where the discriminant is zero along with the fact that H and G, they are also zero each. So, in this case, the cubic equation will have three real and equal roots which you can see right on your graph over here. The three real and equal roots here are minus one. So, the equation, the cubic equation has got three real equal roots which is minus one, minus one, minus one. Okay. Now, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to vary this value of C slightly. And I'm going to vary it in such a way that it is only cutting the graph at one point. So, this is a scenario where you see that the function has only one real root and two imaginary root. So, this is a situation where you see the D value to be positive. So, you can see down here I'm showing it with my cursor 3.038. Now, I'll be shifting the graph a bit down so that it has got three real and unequal roots. So, this is a situation where you'll see the D value becomes negative 1.332. So, just quickly recapping it, the value of D here is negative which basically ensures that the cubic polynomial equation has got three real and unequal roots. Now, I will slowly shift the value of D so that the function touches the x-axis at one point and cuts at another. So, basically this is to ensure that the function has got two real and equal roots and one root is distinct. Okay? So, I'm trying my best to best take it up and you can see here that the D value is almost zero. It's very difficult to make it zero because you need an accurate positioning of the graph. So, here is a situation where h and g, they are non-zero values but D is coming out to be zero which was as expected in the algorithm. So, I hope the discriminant of cubic equation did not scare you that much. But you know what? Let me give you a piece of respite here. Let me help you to tame this tiger by giving you a small mnemonic over here. Alright, so the memory mnemonic goes like this. So, we have to first remember this fact that D is g square plus 4h cube. Okay? So, you know, you can make your own mnemonic for remembering this but this is something which I would request you to remember on your own. Yes, for remembering, h I would give you a small suggestion. Okay, so normally what I follow is h for home, a for ac. Okay, ac is your air condition minus b square. b square I'm treating as two b's. So, big bills. So, I'm reading this as home ac without, minus is without, big bills. Right? So, this is the way to remember h.  Okay, so this is how I break this up. So, I break this up as a square d as aad minus 3abc plus 2bbb. Okay? So, I've just written this expression down. So, this is how I make a mnemonic out of it. So, this is basically army attempts to destroy. So, army attempts to destroy aad, three Afghani bomb cars. So, army attempts to destroy three Afghani bomb cars, but two big bombs still burst. Okay? So, again a very funny way of remembering it, but this is what you can actually, you know, remember if you want to. So, army attempts to destroy three Afghani bomb cars, but two big bombs burst. But means they wanted to destroy three, so minus three, but they could not. So, plus two, big bombs burst. Hey, I hope that Ramani gave you some sigh of relief, didn't it? And it will also help you to remember the formula for the rest of your life. Because you're going to see the application of cubic equations in future part of your studies during engineering. Thank you so much for watching this short video. Bye-bye. Take care and stay safe.


And we back again, man Now this is gonna be a very monumental episode Once again, man, let me go ahead and start off by Uh, uh, uh, introducing my co-pilots for the day, man Um, these are my cousins, these are my blood right here, man These are the, uh, the, uh, the godfathers of the crank movement And whatnot, man, the Soulja Boy dance Get silly, show the L.O. Man, the list goes on and on and on Y'all give it up for YBT and Lil Playboy Flashcamp, let's go! Yes, sir!  Yeah, hello, this is Farani Pride and I work for MCI Worldcom I'm here to help you lower your phone bill and everything We're not asking you to marry us We're just saying this date is for a couple of months As a matter of fact Who are you with right now? I'm with AT&T AT&T Did you know that AT&T is charging you $4.75 a minute And everything plus overages?  Honestly I didn't like the Sponics of Memphis music When I was growing up I loved the music But I didn't love the competitive side Of it because I always looked at New York in LA My favorite artist growing up was Ice Cube Scarface Sonically, the music sounded way better Than the lo-fi shit we had Right, Memphis? Not realizing That was the soul We had that kind of identity And self-awareness that they have now Because growing up we was embarrassed of Memphis Because it wasn't West Coast, it wasn't New York It was not even Atlanta It was super gritty and that's what I have now That's why I'm still around today Because I got an element in my work But in time growing up I didn't have When you grow up And you want to eat pizza But your mama making cornbread and collard greens Soul food That's what I need That's the stuff I value It was like that I didn't value it, but now I see now It's the soul of it I feel like Atlanta music is a combination Of the Miami bass And the Memphis hardcore rap Together With the money and economy And the stability they had in Atlanta To me that's the sound of Atlanta 100% I agree That's just my opinion, I'm not like a Gospel of it That's just my rationale I wanted to bring some attention to some Man, if it wasn't for You And Roland You guys I wasn't even really fucking with that YouTube shit I didn't understand That my cousins Was owned until y'all told me that They were huge It was an electrifying He was like You see what the fuck they doing Yeah, I mean just uh They still doing it in Memphis now with Duke Deuce The Crunk ain't doing it Everybody's going in numbers Kanye West just not got on to it It's like the ensemble It's like how Unix used to be Back in the day in New York Like a thousand dudes in black Hoodies it's something energetic About that, you know what I mean Y'all were kind of like a little piece of that I mean it wasn't in Cash Count It was four of us So four guys And there's a testament to all black people Black men in general When you organize you create a movement When you by yourself you just good luck You know what I'm saying When you organize Even in choreography when black men Unite and be on one page That's when you make everybody Pay attention because it's so rare For black men to be Coordinated and not having like A battle for the top Of hierarchy everybody is in sync That's rare, so I think that's a testament Of why it worked, you know what I'm saying Message That's an incredible perspective I appreciate that You guys were genes in there And just working together I think that's one of the main reasons why Well you just said it Why it worked and why we still here today And that's why you know A lot of that stuff we did We were so young too So just our age Doing that stuff It made us so rise and got us where we at now So now that we're older We already know how to do it How to keep doing it and make it look with it That's what made Michael Jackson spectacular Is that he was young doing it That's what made his age a little younger You were more spectacular at nine Singing You're genius You're something about being young Organizing like on point Temptations and when you grown People expect you to be talented When you were a kid Oh my god He must have been here before He knows something He was 12 He was older than when he was 12 Yeah that was long So when he got older Did he keep his line age Or he told the world he was lying the whole time The fans don't know the truth The fans The Beehive was nothing compared to Michael I don't know what they call it Michael fans He had true fans Fanatics They call it Jackson Mania Some shit like that Once again From a kid I was talking On one of the last episodes That Michael Jackson Was A different way, five different times In five different generations Voice changed all different Times and he adapted to The way he was growing And he made us accept it And he made it cool That just goes to show you Of how much of a genius He really was You know what I'm saying It's not even fair How much talent Michael Jackson had Yeah Rest in peace And Michael Jackson had a lot of business smarts With him too Not only he had the talent But he had the business down pat I think that's why he was just so big And he couldn't be stopped The man went and bought the whole catalog For all the artists that was on his label Yeah I heard he bought somebody's catalog And gave it to somebody else The Beatles Yeah, the Beatles catalog He tried to give it to Farrakhan No, brother Jackson No, no, no Those people are after you Find somebody else to get that shit to Hilarious No, my brother, I think I'm gonna die on my own Yeah, I will die by myself By my own But yeah, Michael Jackson He was just on a whole other level When he had bought Sony and Who even thinks to do shit like that Incredible business mind Yeah, he was on his shit though, man Yo, so gay, man Let's talk about hot topics real quick Okay Usher, Super Bowl, Halftime Crazy What y'all think, y'all? I think What's her name? Kiki Palmer She better not go She better not go It look like she back on good with her husband I think she need to get on there at the end Like Lil Mama did Just stand there and stand up on the stage Like Lil Mama With the baby and the daddy just to make it all I'm gonna say this, I honestly like The fact that they got somebody black I feel like the Super Bowl has been trying To cater to the black audience These last couple Super Bowls Just because of all the racist things That was going on in the NFL You know, dating all the way back From the cabinet And the kneeling Just, you know, the whole train That was on, but now I feel like they're trying To right their wrongs And give us that platform Give us that respect that we need I think Usher represents the black culture You know, a lot So putting him on that platform Before him last year No, no, it was Rihanna Then it was Dr. Drake Oh, yeah, yeah So last three That's supposed to be black They been stepping it up with the black Yeah, Rock Nation, Jay-Z And everybody contributed to it I like that a lot though I feel like they definitely right in their wrongs And you know, that's show change Plus most Americans have grown up with Usher Oh, yeah And the stereotype is that Country white music is the mainstream American music, but now Hip-hop is America's music And all races and denominations Grew up listening to Usher And singing just as loud And know every word just like we do So it feels like But if you don't give it a chance, you'll never know So I think he deserves it Plus it's good to go and watch something To artists that I grew up listening to Is Usher an icon Or not Absolutely What makes Usher an icon? The longevity Yeah, consistency Exactly This man got a Top 100 Top 10 record right now The good record Oh, yeah It's number one in the R&B charts And his debut was when, in 1990s It's number one on the R&B side And I definitely Like Top 20 Or Top 10, I don't know Don't quote me, but if you're number one on R&B You definitely got to be Top 10 In a Hot 100, you know what I mean? Sure And that debuted at number one Number one on radio And he's done everything with integrity At a high level I think over the years, his videos Be all on point, you know His music, his collaborations He doesn't overdo it He's been experimental He doesn't far too far From his demographic When he did the Vegas show It's phenomenal He made it Atlanta, but universal at the same time He's made the city look good Even though he's from Tennessee Chattanooga Chattanooga, Tennessee But we definitely claim That Usher Who does Usher bring out? Or should he even share the stage? Chili? Why? I don't know, I feel like I don't know, I just been a student But at the same time, it wouldn't be bad To just make it Atlanta, all the way But you think that the masses Will appreciate that?  If he start that out like, no, no, no Quit playing, quit playing, for real At the beginning of it, bring Chili out You want him to put Chili in his 13 minutes Nah, but Usually the Super Bowl Is the recap of your whole career The highlights, and she is the muse And the person that actually got the music About him No, no, no Listen, no Confessions is not about Chili Confessions was Janet Jackson's story The one before You got it bad The whole, what was the album called? 87 on one That was the album about Chili You remind me of a girl I once knew Confession was just The icing on the cake Man, no people know that But the people ain't gonna give a fuck About no goddamn Chili On the Super Bowl Sunday So who he gonna bring out then?  Set it off I thought you was the nation of this long Man, I ain't wanna What's up, man? Time out for a Brejohn session What's up, man? You got them off the boat, ain't you? Big face, man What's up, man? Oh, good to see you Hey, man One of the funniest parts about this video was when we had shot the Desert Storm scene You using that scene, Chris? I don't know how they go without it We go Straight like that We did that Lake Lanier And motherfuckers to this day when they see that video they really thought I was in Desert Storm It's just how I shot it Yeah, yeah, it looks amazing Yeah, yeah Yeah, well back to Usher, man Super Bowl, I think that like I said before all he needs is this Lil' John and Usher Lil' John and Ludacris Keep him once again It's 13 minutes It's a melody Get in there, get out of there Once again, he deserves it Man, what is it? Consistency, man In fashion and being a gentleman, being professional Good business sense You can't be, you know, begging for your masters on the internet, you know because that lends to you being a strategic I think, you know what I'm saying Let's go back to you what you just said about being a gentleman Even no matter what you had to say about Usher he ain't never respond to none of the bullshit Very classy He do pretty good at staying out of the headlines, too Like you don't hear a lot of crap about Usher You don't see a lot of stuff Another person that's like that, too, is Tidalis sign Oh, yeah, Tidalis sign You don't really hear bad news about Tidalis sign You don't ever hear him being in the headlines for cheating on somebody Because usually, in my opinion, when people actually are talented and good at what they do there's no room for people around you that can trigger that That's my opinion You're so locked in you attract other people that are locked in because they're going to be the only ones that value what you're doing That's true We're rehearsing all those choreography moves and going to the studio and traveling and they see your tone that you said Everybody's going to fall in line with that You know what I'm saying It's going to be a lot of respect for that No one's going to want to disturb that because they respect the art form They're allowed it by a lot of drama and all the other stuff that goes on But at everybody's heart, they still are artists You know what I'm saying? But they still got to manage to get their attention and the only way to get attention through it is now it's like negative stuff, unfortunately But he hasn't succumbed to that No, he ain't never did that I think it'll be pretty dope if he brought out Diddy I need a girl Him and Diddy got a lot of records Or Duel got a lot of records I'm not with you on that one I think Diddy needs his own Diddy is iconic in New York When the Super Bowl come to New York you get Diddy You get that Let Diddy go on here I think that Usher needs to let the life shine and hold Yeah I wouldn't take it in no other city Everybody got to be from Atlanta I got somebody to get the Super Bowl Diddy needs to get the Super Bowl with Usher Who's that?   I feel something so maybe you need a little bit of help not fame but just sometimes a little financial support or moral support your life was worth something it wasn't all of a loss mental health especially in black men man this is real we supposed to be these strong fearless human beings that are physically strong but mentally dependent on validation from everything else other than our own mental health I think that if he knew that I love you and you were a part of this even though you wasn't around that could help him whatever he got with his other children maybe he can become a better person in that way but it's all relative man it's all relative she could do when they take your DNA the ancestry they don't lie and find out who her real dad is from do she know him? no she don't know it's just some guy that needed a couple dollars she look at the opening though or maybe like Somali or something yeah she does what she have a shot and I'm some of the most beautiful she's gorgeous I dare say the most beautiful women in the world cause they all have the mitochondrial DNA which is the gajin which means most black women in Africa or from African descent have the mitochondrial DNA and that is the DNA that has all the genetic makeup of all races so you ever seen a woman with an albano baby? yeah I do that's mitochondrial that's a mutation so black women are very powerful very very powerful let's give it up for black women now just to add on to what you just said to Gabe you know Shaq even talked about he's glad that his daddy wasn't there cause he wouldn't have been who he is now can you imagine if your life is going great and you are able to accomplish the feats as far as Shaq did or even offsetting or not if your daddy had been there then how would that have changed his future? 8 foot loser come on now that got damn tall working at the stables in a changing light bulb exactly with no ladder every time I see a tall ass nigga working at some stupid ass job I was like damn his daddy must be in his life no sense saw what I did right there I see what you did Colin Kaepernick this guy he just the Jets Aaron Rodgers he wrote a note to the Jets and told them if Aaron Rodgers is not able to come back he would like to take his place how do y'all feel about that?  Loretta Heriata Heriata they took her DNA and created the vaccine for all kinds of stuff even the COVID vaccine I talk about that all the time that's crazy that's good I talk about it all the time elaborate on it I see it's a lot of people that does ignorant of this yes um if you don't know it was this um black woman in her she had cancer or something she went to a doctor in the end where they check the cells whatever her cells that she had it was able to reproduce and it's like still going on to this day it don't stop cause you know once your cell hit the air it's supposed to die something of that sort by hers then and it reproduces Oprah Winfrey did a movie about it yeah she did a whole movie about it check it out it's really deep and I'm not educated on it yeah so I can just give you a little but just look up her name and understand that that's what y'all made of so you know it's real that women should be protected in more ways than one because they're exploiting her and her family don't get no residuals curing polio, smallpox, covid and nobody in your family gets any residual income from your mama and I'm gonna say DNA from her DNA they went and researched what else they did on research on her children they messed them up kind of her children don't got it nobody got it because mama was the only person ever because it's a genetic mutation it's like the X-men mutate you so it's a phenomenon you being born is a phenomenon you're the only one of you in the whole existence of life so that genetic makeup is the same way it's like every generation the mitochondrial DNA kind of gets weaker and weaker is that what killed her? that's not what killed her she had cancer you think that might have caused her cancer? no I think that was just what it was because back then the level and the percentage of cancer was so high all black women kind of died of cancer what if she didn't have cancer and they just told you once again we don't know you don't die until you go to the hospital I don't I think that's a misconception right there when I said it I knew you were gonna hit me I think that's a conspiracy theory can you imagine how just as many people die that don't go to the hospital if not more than the ones that do, would you agree with that?


In the next ten years what we will see is a fantastic shift in power from West to East, from North to South, from the old countries and old industries to new countries and new industries to the heavy industry to the digital industry. So a huge transformation which will really change the centre of the world. So everything will change and will evolve around all these changes. The last thing that I would like to underline is that instead of having a bipolar or a tripolar world we will have a multipolar world with a strong role for some countries of Europe, both the US, for China, for India, for South Africa, Russia and Brazil and some other countries. So the idea of the world is one is something which belongs to the past. What will drive change in our industry is people. What we do is to communicate with people on behalf of the brand and to connect brands with people and as the world is changing and the behaviour of the people are changing and as Internet, digital are immensely changing the attitude and the behaviour of the people clearly our business model will be upside down and we will have to change and transform everything we do. That is very exciting and this is something which really is not only challenging but it is helping us to innovate, to change and to build a totally different model. What it will be, honestly, I don't know, what is interesting yet we will be inventing it as we will move ahead. This is probably the most difficult question. Innovation is what we drive society, innovation in everything we do and also because we will have to face scarcity of resources. Oil will become a very scarce resource energy will be very difficult to create and to transform. The idea of using more nuclear plants is something which will be very difficult to implement so therefore we will be facing a lot of huge difficulties and problems while at the same time people will resist to some innovation like for example GMOs. All this is leading us to more innovation, more creation, something which will really shape the new world. How we can do that? There is not only what we can find outside the large corporation because most of the innovation today came from small startups. We have to find ways to create more innovation from within, to change the financial model, to change the incentive model, to change the way we are compensating scientists, researchers, the people who find. So I think that innovation will come from within and the best way to build it is to probably dramatically change our compensation model, make all the people who are creating the new world partners, make them shareholders, not only stakeholders, shareholders of the future. The first thing that we have to do because we are communication people is to be ourselves exemplary on everything which is linked to the social responsibility. We have to be responsible in terms of environment, responsible in terms of compensation, responsible in terms of the way we are educating, helping our people. And if we are ourselves exemplary, we can help our partners with whom we work to communicate on CSR in a way which is different from the past. There is a lot of cooperation while doing a lot of things and they are doing pretty good things. But this is not well known today and many of them are investing a lot of money. And I wouldn't say that it is wasted money because they are doing a real thing. But the problem is that they are not like a train taking the bandwagon with them. They are just doing this on their own and what they should be is a kind of traction for other industries at that all the partners will build something which will be much greater because of the fact that we are combining our effort. And this is where we as communication partners can enhance the strength of what they are doing and we can create glue in order that they can do it at a different scale.


The workshop is giving us a lot of information, especially the Habibi Centre who appointed to study about the ASEAN Command Visa which is most wanted by our tourist minister in all the ASEAN member states. In order to work hand in hand with the ASEAN, you need to be within the ASEAN and it is very interesting that Interpol choose Singapore to be the hub for the ASEAN because Singapore is actually the more advanced amount of the ASEAN member state.


ast their vote now. The vote is now closed. Thank you. The result of the vote on amendment 32, in the name of Russell Findlay, is yes, 33, no, 89. There were three abstentions. The amendment is therefore not agreed. I call amendment 102 in the name of Rachel Hamilton. Already debated with amendment 95, Rachel Hamilton to move or not move. The question is that amendment 102 be agreed to. Are we all agreed? The Parliament is not agreed. There will be a division, and members should cast their vote now. Thank you. The result of the vote on amendment 102, in the name of Rachel Hamilton, is yes, 31, no, 92. There was one abstention, and the amendment is therefore not agreed. I call amendment 33 in the name of Russell Findlay. Already debated with amendment 30. The question is that amendment 33 be agreed to. Are we all agreed? The Parliament is not agreed. There will be a division. Members should cast their vote now. The vote is now closed. Thank you. The result of the vote on amendment 33, in the name of Russell Findlay, is yes, 33, no, 90. There were two abstentions. The amendment is therefore not agreed. I call amendment 103 in the name of Paul O'Kane. Already debated with amendment 100. Paul O'Kane to move or not move. Moved. The question is that amendment 103 be agreed to. Are we all agreed? The Parliament is not agreed. There will be a division. Members should cast their vote now. The vote is now closed. Thank you. The result of the vote on amendment 103, in the name of Paul O'Kane, is yes, 52, no, 73. There were no abstentions. The amendment is therefore not agreed. I now call amendment 104 in the name of Paul O'Kane. Already debated with amendment 100. Paul O'Kane to move or not move. Not moved. Subwayber wishes that the amendment be moved. The question is that amendment 104 be agreed to. Are we all agreed? The Parliament is not agreed. There will be a division. Members should cast their vote now. The vote is now closed. Thank you. The result of the vote on amendment number 104, in the name of Paul O'Kane, is yes, 50, no, 73. There was one abstention. The amendment is therefore not agreed. I call amendment 140 in the name of Paul O'Kane. Already debated with amendment 100. Paul O'Kane to move or not move. The question is that amendment 140 be agreed to. Are we all agreed? The Parliament is not agreed. There will be a division. Members should cast their vote now. The vote is now closed. Members should cast their vote now. Point of order, Paul O'Kane. It says that there has been a problem and an error on my digital voting platform, and I would have voted yes. We are just checking if Mr O'Kane has recorded his voting first, and I will get round to the other points of order, I promise. Mr O'Kane, your vote was recorded. Point of order, I think, was Neil Bibby. For the Presiding Officer, I would have voted yes. Mr Bibby's vote was recorded. Ruth Maguire's vote has also been recorded, and Mr Burnett's vote was recorded. The result of the vote on amendment 140 in the name of Paul O'Kane is yes, 52. No, 73. There were no abstentions. The amendment is therefore not agreed. I would advise members that given that we are nearing the time at which we were scheduled to finish for the evening, but are obviously not as far into the proceedings as we had expected to be. I am going to suspend the session for a comfort break of around 15 minutes during which time business managers will meet to consider how to proceed from here.


Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Today, we are joined by Professor Eja Zahemud and we will be discussing the situation in West Asia. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. Professor Ahmed, since the last time we discussed the situation in Iran and West Asia as a whole, there have been a lot of developments, some of which have been quite scary to say the least. So there was the attacks on the tankers, then there were further sanctions imposed recently by the U.S. and Iran and most importantly, the drone that was shot down and according to U.S. media reports, we were just 10 minutes away from a strike by Donald Trump on certain facilities in Iran, radar and military facilities. So do you see the stepping back of the United States from that strike as just a momentary or a sudden gesture or is it a more thought out step in the sense that they understand that there is only so far they can go? So is this likely to be repeated again or what do you think about that? My sense is that it's very difficult to say. The story seems to me rather bogus and I'll come to that. I think there is an institutional chaos on top of everything else in the U.S. The U.S. at the moment does not have a defense secretary. Now you can't go to war without a defense secretary. So the result is that Bolton is actually functioning not only as a national security adviser but as a proxy president. So he's making decisions. Now I think this whole story of they were all very ready to take off and strike and ten minutes before it so on. This seems to be one of those stories that get cooked up to or something else. My there is quite possible that Bolton and Pompeo Bolton in particular in his capacity as the national security adviser ordered all that and then some very high officials of the Pentagon quite possibly the general chiefs of staff came up to Trump and said this is disastrous. This will lead to a good scale. So that seems to me to be much more of a possibility than this little drama that cooked up. So what is that is concerned? Even that may be an exaggeration. It may not have gone nearly as far as they're saying it meant. But this is certainly true that there are officials like Bolton and Pompeo a very large section of the U.S. Senate and Congress which work very closely with Israel and so on who want that fight. Whereas military experts over the world are saying this is just not on because this we know we don't know what repercussions will be having said that I think basically Iran has won this round. First they have made quite clear from the beginning that this is a this is a defense that is going to be you know going to be played out in the American part of the court. So and then they went on and shot the drone by which they also showed their technical capacity to shoot down America's primary drone which was not even supposed to have been in that region in fact it may be you know how it even arrived there is very unclear and they shoot this down flying at 60,000 feet or some such thing with a weapon that is probably made in manufactured by the by the Iranis themselves. It is not a Soviet weapon I mean Russian weapon. So there is that and so on the one hand a technical display that we can do this and if we can do this then many other things follow but also saying that if you're going to to give us military threats it though that confrontation will take place on our terms because they sit on top of the Gulf so I think they have won this round but they're at a very dangerous moment you know in everything and I actually blame the the Europeans for all of this. So we'll come to that but before that also to slightly step back and just to wanted to know what exactly the US strategy here is because on the one hand this is not Iraq which has been weakened by a decade of sanctions and this is not even Venezuela where the US has propped up a coup leader a domestic leader so you have Iran which is which also has allies in the region has one of the most powerful militaries in the region too and the US has committed forces both naval and land forces to the extent that there is almost no turning back without a substantial loss of face as far as the US is concerned. So if even for Bolton and the sections allied in the Congress and Senate what exactly is the possibility they might be aiming for? I think there is a real policy chaos. You mentioned Venezuela now what happened with great fanfare they recognize this new government and Europeans idiotic just followed in the US footsteps and recognize that fake government and it collapsed like a house of cards it's ridiculous that the way in which it collapsed likewise what happened in North Korea there was a lot of sabre rattling you know Aramada is on the way etc this that and the other and the next thing to know he has made a peace initiative nothing came out of that peace initiative either and but he has made a fool of himself now he goes there and he crosses the you know demilitaries that line and so on etc for theater it has absolutely no substance whatsoever so two major these were the three great wars he was going to fought or whatever three aggressions of various kind Venezuela and North Korea they've already become absurd and my sense is that that is where it's going in Iran so far as the policy vacuum in the US is actually concerned the problem is that there you have you're dealing with Israel and Saudi Arabia who are extremely irresponsible but Trump seems to be very very beholden to the Israeli lobby in a way that previous presidents were not and there's of course Kushner who is virtually in Israel and so on so that is where I think the danger is with the kind of allies that they have and the extent to which they have gone forward and they think that that they could somehow just carry this on and what the what the Iranians are saying is that no there's going to be a settlement fast we are not going to allow our economy to collapse the ways you know right yeah so you mentioned the Iranians not willing to let their economy collapse and one of the angles they're pursued in this is engagement with the Europeans and the other signatories in a larger sense so recently on to 28th I think there was a conference in Vienna where the European officials inaugurated in stechs officially but even now there doesn't seem to be too much momentum in that and even Iran has indicated that it is it's a positive step but not really enough so is there any possibility that this direction might actually help them salvage their economy to a bit you know stechs is covers only trade which is allowed by your sanctions which is the which is food and medicine they are not the Europeans have explicitly said that they are not going to use it to break the US sanctions so then what are we dealing with um it is at the moment it's financed at 1 billion which is not terribly much so this is an empty gesture that they have made they are not they are not they will they will use this to carry on the trade which is already exempted from the sanctions so why bother you know so that is why uh they actually gave them 7th of July as the deadline and they either have to deliver or get out of the game but in that view was actually a failure even though the Europeans tried to present it as a great step forward that they had taken the Iranis are very strong diplomats that probably the world's most sophisticated diplomats at the moment they sort of said yes thank you very much it's a sort of a nice positive thing but they continued with saying July 7th is the deadline by which you have to come through but we have already increased our stockpile we are enriching it etc all within the parameters of the actually the letter of the deal so they are not in violation of the deal although that is what the Americans are saying and that's what the Europeans would say you know so the betrayal is actually from the Europeans in mind and would China for instance be able to uh would you think there's a possibility of say China stepping in and continuing or they've already continued to accept Iranian oil so does that offer some sort of a lifeline as far as economy is concerned or would they also at some point have to withdraw my sense is that the Chinese will be extremely careful and they will devise some other mechanism because I mean that is what is very important to watch uh you see there can be a direct line to Turkey to um they can also be a lot of trade with Russia Russia will actually probably take a much more openly aggressive stance on carrying on trade etc um my sense is that openly that's where it will come from the Chinese will do what they can they are setting up so far as I know some mechanisms with their banks some of their biggest banks uh to be able to trade with Iran not in the name of the government but through its bank and almost daring the Americans to sanction the bank uh you know because that that gets into another kind of game but definitely I think taking very cautious steps I don't expect them to do anything very dramatic Russians are the ones that I expect to do things dramatic including if the war you know begin if the military confrontation goes forward I won't be surprised if the Russians supply weapons okay right and in this context India's position is also interesting because recently especially with the G20 summit Pompeo's visit there was a perception that the Indian government is actually not maybe standing up to the United States but at least raising its point and the G20 summit the RIC meeting also between G and Putin and Modi was also quite prominent but is there any possibility that India might on the issue of Iran take a much stronger stand because until now it's been quite weak it's just completely banned all imports as well if Germany wants wants won't you expect you to do right you can make polite noises and that's what the Iranians are saying that we have had a year of polite noises now we are going to go you go forward according to our own judgment and if your behavior changes we step back I don't expect Indians to do anything so they never have they never win so there's also of course the largest state of the US alliance in the region the US Israel Saudi Arabia axis and the countries around it and one of the key moments in recent times regarding that was the Manama conference although ostensibly it was about the so-called deal of the century but it is also an attempted building larger consensus of countries on all these issues so do you think that in the event of say an armed conflict that this alliance of larger countries in West Asia the larger alliance of countries in West Asia will actually hold or will there be further divisions between them I think these are two different dynamics actually the real thing that is going on in Palestine is Israel's decision to actually annex large parts of the West Bank that dynamic got scuttled by the election results and then the fall of the government Netanyahu's government and the prospects that now are of greater chaos political chaos in Israel so I think that is what the real dynamic is there is no power in the world to prevent them they have decided that the Trump administration is the great chance that they have to fully implement their total plan and they are not going to wait to see if Trump is going to get reelected that is the real dynamic which has been scuttled for a while because of this political chaos in Israel the so-called peace plan is to offer a certain amount of money to make this palatable to a certain very large class of Palestinian businessmen and so on who have been in cooperation with Israel for a very long time so on in very many of the you know Palestine Authority officials and so on so that's what the game is but I think what the great success of the Manema Conference is that the main gulf powers and not all of them mind you UAE and Saudi Arabia in particular have now come out as being Israeli allies as being people who are responsive to this again rhetorically Saudi Arabia says but in order to do all this you have to get a peace plan and so on and so on but those are gestures the fact of the matter is that this was a big public relations exercise in which this alliance between Israel and the UAE and Saudi Arabia is getting cemented step by step but what also became very clear is even the majority of the sticks don't find it it's possible to really go as far as that and then there are powerful countries you know like Iraq or you know major countries you know who are opposed to us so in that sense it was it was a bigger exercise rather than making some sort of tentative the last thing I would say about is that you know who was the previous president of the United States recently given an interview to the Washington Post in which he talks about how Kushner was going behind his back all the time with Mexico when this happened here again what you have is remarkable absence of diplomats it is Kushner my peace so it is a very strange kind of fear my Trump family is highly corrupt right thank you so much Rosemarie