I was shocked to read that a school in Massachusetts uses electric shock devices on disabled children. Not a mental hospital with dated methods, but a school! Can anybody still wonder that many Europeans see the USA as a part of the Third World?

Some people hear voices. These often claim to be God or Jesus. Yet they abandon people, who hear them, right in the moment, when they would need advice. So these voices are likely to be mere hallucinations or even something evil. Some affected people try to test this by double-checking the voices’ statements with the […]

Fāng Zhǎngguāng (方 掌光)/ Fong Cheung-Kwong shall have been a monk of the Southern Shàolín (少林) Monastery, yet also the father of Fāng Qīniáng (方 七娘)/ Fong Chat-Neung. She shall have been his only daughter or even his only child, yet her personal name means “Seventh Daughter” and thus contradicts those ideas. This indeed is […]

Survivalists are hobbyists, who love stays in the wilderness and who also teach how to cope with the wilderness if for whatever reason stranded there. If you strand in the wilderness, then your main concerns are to find potable water and to get something to eat. Many people, who had never been in the wilderness, […]

A search engine’s AI agent recently and surprisingly told me that aikidō (合気道) isn’t a topic on my blog. So I asked it what Phoibe.home.blog is about. The search engine’s AI agent replied: “The content is characterized by deep dives into specific, often obscure subjects rather than general lifestyle or news commentary.” It also called […]

In a comment section on the Martial Development blog, I found some interesting insights in the fighting styles of US armed forces and police forces. These seem to be based on Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, yet only partly. The article to the comment section is about a real fight at a fast food restaurant in Texas. What […]

The fourth part of this article series treated the legend of Zhì Shàn (至 善)/ Chi Sin/ Gee Sin. Yet several survivors of the destruction of the Shàolín (少林) Monastery appear in legends. Several legends tell about the whereabouts of Wǔ Méi (伍 枚)/ Ng Mui. She shall have fled to a White Crane Temple. […]

Yashin is asteroid #3442 and also known as 1978 TO7. Yashin’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 3.15 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.14, a period of revolution of 2 038 days, and an inclination of 12.2 degrees. Yashin is of the type C and measures twenty-six kilometers in diameter. Yashin was discovered […]

Siddhī are superpowers attained by Hindu or Buddhist spiritual training. Examples for siddhī are tum-mo and lung-gom. I find astounding how differently they are treated in the West. Alexandra David-Neel seemingly is the only Westerner, who ever saw a lung-gom-pa. Hence lung-gom is believed to be something mythological. Tum-Mo on the other hand is an […]

All bullies think that they would be superior to their victims. This is wrong in most cases, but not in all. Bullies can be found in all positions, for example in the position of moderators of online forums or social media. Then they are likely to abuse their power for cyber-bullying. This happened often on […]