"The Politics of Ecstasy" (video)

The oxymoronic "Politics of Ecstasy" (one not having anything to do with the other) might be about meditative bliss (piti and sukha). It might be about the dance club drug "E" (which is a groovy love potion and a terrible health menace because it contains the brain-depleting toxic chemical amphetamine "Meth"). Or it might be about having fun in an oppressive Judeo-Christian society with Puritanical (Sharia Law) leanings.

America is great, but it can be just a little hypocritical. We all try as best we can to enjoy ourselves, while being made to feel guilty about it. This shaming does us more harm than good. And in the long run, we are co-opted: We are lied to as kids and go on to lie to our kids in the naive beliefs that this keeps them "innocent."

It leads to disillusionment. We have fun and enjoy having fun, and there's no reason for fun other than fun. There's plenty of time to suffer and discover that most things are unsatisfying. All of these issues are called "politics" only when our hippie parents sit around and talk about it academically:

Buddhism at minute 22:22

• AUDIO: Deep Buddhist meditation explained in English
  
• North Korea's Global Happiness Index: China is the world's happiest place!
• Most global polls rate Scandinavian and west European nations as being among the world's happiest and most liveable. Not so says a North Korean survey, which ranked China as "the happiest place on earth." As Shanghaiist is reporting, a new global happiness index awarded China 100 out of 100 possible points.
• Be happy anywhere: the Beautiful Buddhist Nuns of Burma
  
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Shell Oil US President Marvin Odum talks about both history and the future.... witness cutting-edge college and high school student vehicles, many getting over 1,000 miles-per-gallon. Eco reporter Cary Harrison is covering the 2010 Shell Oil Eco-marathon, bonding with the brilliant minds who have gathered in the oil capitol to demonstrate what the future could look like.

• Radio and online webstream: Go Harrison!

Natural Cures: "Dying to Have Known" (film)

(NewVideoDigital) In "Dying To Have Known," filmmaker Steve Kroschel went on a 52-day journey to find evidence to the effectiveness of the Gerson Therapy -- a long-suppressed natural cancer cure.

The filmmaker's travels take him across the Atlantic and the Pacific, from upstate New York to San Diego to Alaska, from Japan and Holland to Spain and Mexico. In the end, he presents the testimonies of patients, scientists, surgeons, and nutritionists who attest to the therapy's effectiveness.

Gerson Therapy is efficacious: It cures cancer and other degenerative diseases (heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, hypoglycemia, and more)!

Scientists present the hard scientific proof to back up their claims. We hear from a Japanese medical school professor who cured himself of liver cancer over 15 years ago, a lymphoma patient who was diagnosed as terminal over 50 years ago, as well as noted critics of this world-renowned healing method who dismiss it out of hand as "pure quackery."

So the question remains, "Why is this powerful curative therapy still suppressed, more than 75 years after it was clearly proven to cure degenerative disease?" Viewers are left to decide for themselves.

• BOOK: Healing the Gerson Way: Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases (gerson.org)