tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74283280438363051122024-03-13T14:47:07.949-07:00Way of WitchSelenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14539342654344447025noreply@blogger.comBlogger2332125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428328043836305112.post-29689331660224549642015-03-09T06:45:00.000-07:002015-03-11T05:56:43.664-07:00Zen For The Intelligence Community<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 49%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-nINdcKF8tXY/VQA7h02eEaI/AAAAAAAAnH0/9OqdM5wDpIc/Zen%252520For%252520The%252520Intelligence%252520Community.jpg" border="0" alt="Zen For The Intelligence Community" title="Zen For The Intelligence Community" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>ZEN FOR THE INTELLIGENCE ANALYST AND OPERATIVE</h4>By Ed Komarek<br/><br/>(5/10/06)<br/><br/>Blog: http://exopolitics.blogspot.com/<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Copy and Distribute Freely</h4><br/>A background in both the natural sciences and in religion can been extremely useful in the gathering, analysis and modeling of exopolitical reality. I was born into a family of well know and respected ecologists where I received a good background in the natural sciences at a very early age. My study of religion developed later in my early twenties following a existential crisis that forced me to educate myself in the nature of self and reality. I have intuitively always attempted to mentally grasp the biggest picture possible of life so as to able to guide my actions and the actions of others in a constructive manner.<br/><br/>Correct intelligence collection, analysis and modeling are as essential to the study of ecology as they are to the intelligence community. The ecologist attempts to grasp a understanding of the natural world just as the intelligence analyst attempts to comprehend a understanding of human world. Since humans are a part of nature it stands to reason that human culture can be understood using the same basic tools or concepts as used to understand the natural world.<br/><br/>If I sit out on my back porch and observe the life around the pond, I am using the same tools of observation, data collection and analysis, and modeling that a intelligence operative and analysis uses when steping into another culture. Just as the ecologist must remove himself from his human culture and programing to understand nature, so to must the intelligence individual step out of his culture leaving the comfort and safety of the embassy enclave for he rigors of the culture he is attempting to understand and model.<br/><br/>The first step toward understanding nature or another culture is to get out of ones own shoes and into the shoes of the other, a very difficult task. The process is greatly assisted by religious understanding. Zen Buddhism and Taoist thought provide very useful insights into the importance of self understanding to the understanding of both natural and human culture.<br/><br/>So just how does one step out of oneself and into nature or another culture. The first step is an awareness of just how we have become embedded or indoctrinated into the culture we are in and what is it that keeps us stuck in our self and our culture. I believe this involves the mental dialogue that is constantly going on in our heads. We share mental self and cultural reinforcements continuously amongst those we associate with and over time this mental dialogue can become a impediment to observation and analysis of ourselves, nature and human culture with disastrous results.<br/><br/>In order to step out of ourselves and our culture we must exert discipline over the mental dialogue of culturally reinforcing views and beliefs constantly streaming through our minds. This mental dialogue separates and distorts individual and collective perception of the outside world and keeps the individual or collective bottled up in their own mental imagery and in a state of conflict inwardly and outwardly. An extreme case of this are people with mental illness walking down the street constantly talking to themselves, oblivious to their surrounding.<br/><br/>Zen Buddhism and teachers of meditation understand this problem with the ever present mental dialogue and work to develop techniques and disciplines to deal with the problem. <br/><br/>The most useful techniques are techniques that focus the mind on one thing and hold it there. One learns through these techniques how to slow down and even drop the mental dialogue resulting in great clarity of perception, observation, and analysis of both oneself their surroundings. In other words one learns how to step out of themselves and their culture and into a greater reality unencumbered by preconceived notions and beliefs tied up in the streaming mental imagery. One really has to look no farther than ones own self to understand and resolve problems of the individual and of humanity.<br/><br/>I strongly believe that as more people grasp what is right before them, closer than even their nose, then the futile chase for that ever elusive pot of gold at the end of the rainbow will stop. The problems of humanity will begin to abate as we learn to stop seeing our own reflections superimposed on our surroundings both natural and cultural. This would be a great step in our human evolution and great boon to both our political and exopolitical understanding.<br></span>Selenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14539342654344447025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428328043836305112.post-40590978403311737652015-03-08T03:02:00.000-07:002015-03-12T07:10:20.378-07:00Beyond 2012 Catastrophe Or Ecstasy By Geoff Stray<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 63%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Bz-iOJpRnu4/VQGeQloh-9I/AAAAAAAAnXI/0bOECChE7Dc/Beyond%2525202012%252520Catastrophe%252520Or%252520Ecstasy%252520By%252520Geoff%252520Stray.jpg" border="0" alt="Beyond 2012 Catastrophe Or Ecstasy By Geoff Stray" title="Beyond 2012 Catastrophe Or Ecstasy By Geoff Stray" /></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">In 1975, Dannion Brinkley was speaking on the telephone during a thunderstorm. A lightning bolt hit the phone line, sending thousands of volts of electricity through his head and body. His heart stopped and at the hospital, he was pronounced dead, and a death certificate was issued. He was then covered with a sheet and wheeled towards the morgue....then he woke up! He had been dead for 28 minutes, and this was the longest clinically documented near-death experience ever recorded at that time.<br/><br/>He later told how he had gone down a tunnel into a bright light, went through a life-recall self-judgement process and was shown a series of future world events, up to 2014. Brinkley said that "<b><i>between 2004 and 2014, more precisely between 2011 and 2012</i></b>", there would be "<b><i>the return of an energy system that existed here a long time ago</i></b>", and that it would culminate in an "<b><i>electromagnetic polar Earth shift</i></b>" between 2012 and 2014.<br/><br/>The whole process would present mankind with a spiritual opportunity to raise their consciousness. What Brinkley didn't know, was that 2012 is the next "<b><i>Creation Date</i></b>" of the ancient Maya civilization.<br/><br/>The Olmecs, who are the first civilization known to have inhabited Mesoamerica, are said by archaeologists to have arrived there between 1800 BC and 1500 BC. Several Maya scholars now agree that the calendars used by the Maya were developed by the Olmecs in a town called Izapa, which became populated between 1500 BC and 800 BC, and which the Maya inhabited from about 250 BC. The "<b><i>Tzolkin</i></b>" (<u><b>literally: "count of days"</b></u>) calendar was developed by the seventh century BC, according to Mayanist, Munro Edmonson, and consists of 260 days.<br/><br/>The calendar was used as an almanac, giving each of the 260 days a unique quality that not only influenced the character of those born on that day, but that would also make it favourable for doing certain tasks and unfavourable for doing others. The descendants of the ancient Maya that live in the highlands of Guatemala, have been using this 260-day calendar in an unbroken sequence, for thousands of years. They explain that the 260-day calendar is based on the period of human gestation.<br/><br/> The Long Count calendar has a direct relationship to the Tzolkin, since it consists of 260 "<b><i>katuns</i></b>" rather than the 260 days of the Tzolkin. The Long Count was fully developed by the mid fourth-century BC, according to Edmonson, although the oldest stela dating a contemporary historical event, shows a Long Count date equivalent to 36 BC. The Long Count consists of a hierarchy of cycles; 20 "<b><i>kin</i></b>" or days made one" uinal", or 20-day period; 18 "<b><i>uinals</i></b>" made a" tun" (<u><b>360-day year</b></u>); 20" tuns" made a "<b><i>katun</i></b>", and 20 "<b><i>katuns</i></b>" made a "<b><i>baktun</i></b>". After 13 baktuns had passed, a Creation Date is reached, which is written: 13.0.0.0.0. The last Creation Date occurred on a Gregorian historical date of 11th August 3114 BC, and this is the "<b><i>base-date</i></b>" of the 13-baktun cycle, from which all dates inscribed on stelae were counted. The next time the Long Count date reaches 13.0.0.0.0 will be on 21st December 2012.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> Precession</h4><br/>Maya scholar, John Major Jenkins has made a strong case that the Long Count calendar of the Maya was actually a device for tracking the cycle of precession. This is the 26,000-year cycle in which the Earth's axis, which is 23.5 degrees off "<b><i>vertical</i></b>", rotates in a circle, and is measured by the movement of constellations against the fixed positions of the rising equinox or solstice Sun. The winter solstice 2012 termination point of the 13-baktun cycle indicates a 36-year time window (<u><b>1980 to 2016</b></u>) in which the winter solstice Sun rises on the galactic equator. Astronomers variously put the exact half-way point of this process at 1998 or 1999, but the Olmecs and Maya targeted it at 2012. Some commentators have said that the Maya were thus 13-14 years out with their end-point, which is still quite impressive considering it was calculated over 2,000 years ago by a non-technological society. However, as we shall see, there are reasons for considering that the year 2012 is a significant year in the Galactic Alignment process, and was deliberately targeted. <br/><br/> The Toltec people of northern Mexico, like the Maya, used the 260-day almanac and also a 365-day calendar known to the Maya as the "<b><i>Haab.</i></b>" Each day had a name in the 260-day calendar and a name in the 365-day calendar, but it took exactly 73 Tzolkins, and 52 Haabs for the combination to repeat itself. This period is known as a Calendar Round, and every Calendar Round the Toltecs held a ceremony called a New Fire Ceremony six months before the day of the zenith passage of the Sun (<u><b>when it is directly overhead</b></u>). John Major Jenkins has shown that this New Fire Ceremony was originally also a method of tracking the cycle of precession. It is recorded that exactly six months before the New Fire Ceremony, the priests would go to the top of a hill to see if the Pleiades reached the zenith at midnight, and if the constellation reached the zenith, that meant that the "<b><i>world would not end</i></b>". They would then know exactly how close the Pleiades would be to the zenith Sun, six months later, when the stars were not visible due to the daylight.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> THE STONE ALARM CLOCK</h4><br/>When the Toltecs moved down to the Yucatan peninsula, in southern Mexico, it seems that they merged their zenith cosmology with the Maya system, and encoded the result into the Pyramid of Kukulcan at Chichen Itza. The pyramid has 91 steps on each of its four sides, totalling 364, plus the top step: 365 altogether. This is a clear sign of a calendrical meaning. Every year, on spring equinox, the afternoon Sun causes a shadow play on the pyramid, so it appears that a huge snake is descending the pyramid from the sky. The effect is enhanced by stone snake heads at the bottom of one staircase. The Crotalus durissus rattlesnake, whose zig-zag pyramid pattern has heavily influenced Maya art and architecture, also has a marking close to its rattle, that is identical to the Maya Ahau glyph, which is associated with the Sun. The rattle itself, is called "<b><i>tzab</i></b>" in the Yucatec Maya language and this is also the word for the Pleiades constellation. Jenkins argues that Kulkulcan, the Maya name for Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent of the Toltecs and Aztecs, is thus a symbol for the Sun-Pleiades-zenith conjunction, and sure enough, we are now at the beginning of a 360-year time window when the Pleiades conjuncts the zenith Sun directly over the Pyramid of Kukulcan. Right at start of the 360-year time window is 2012, and on the 20th May 2012, 60 days after the equinox snake shadow-play, the Pleiades-zenith Sun conjunction will occur on the same day as a solar eclipse, on the day 10" Chicchan "in the unbroken Tzolkin count of the highland Maya. "Chicchan "means snake, and the snake rattle is sounding our wake-up alarm call! <br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> The Hopi Emergence</h4><br/>According to Frank Waters' "<b><i>Book of the Hopi</i></b>", the Native American Hopi people say that we are in the fourth of seven eras - the Fourth World, and that we are approaching the transition to the Fifth World. The First World ended by fire; the Second World ended when the Earth "<b><i>teetered off balance</i></b>", causing floods and an ice age, and the Third World ended in a flood. There will be a "<b><i>Great Purification</i></b>" just before the start of the Fifth World. The transition is called an "Emergence "and every year, in November, the Hopi have a ceremony called "<b><i>Wuwuchim</i></b>", held in an underground chamber called a "<b><i>kiva</i></b>", in which they re-enact the" Emergence", which is seen as a birth process, and "<b><i>initiates undergo a spiritual rebirth</i></b>". There is a hole in the floor of the "<b><i>kiva</i></b>", symbolising the previous ascent, or "<b><i>Emergence</i></b>" from the Third World to the Fourth World. The ladder leading up and out of the "<b><i>kiva</i></b>" represents the forthcoming "<b><i>Emergence</i></b>" from the Fourth World into the Fifth World. The ceremony includes a "<b><i>New Fire Ceremony</i></b>" and culminates at midnight, with the Pleiades constellation overhead, showing a direct connection with the Toltec (<u><b>and later Aztec</b></u>) New Fire Ceremony, which Jenkins has decoded as a precession-tracking method, as encoded in the Pyramid of Kukulcan, "<b><i>stone alarm clock</i></b>" with its 2012 rattle-snake alarm.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> THE SPIRITUAL WEDDING</h4><br/> It seems that "<b><i>the end of the world</i></b>" actually means "<b><i>the end of the World</i></b>", as in the end of the current era, and there are at least three more to go, according to Hopi mythology. Archaeologist Laurette Sejourn'e says that the Aztecs misunderstood the religion of the Toltecs, which was based on the concept of rebirth - symbolised by the snake, since it sheds its skin and Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent, who is represented in the "<b><i>stone alarm clock</i></b>" at Chichen Itza, represents a union of Earth (<u><b>snake</b></u>) and sky (<u><b>feathers</b></u>). <br/><br/> In Kundalini yoga, there is said to be a fire-snake, coiled in three and a half coils in the base chakra (<u><b>one of seven power-zones along the human spine</b></u>). It is coiled around the Shiva lingham - the male line of force that comes down from the sky. Kundalini, according to Mary Scott, is an Earth force that comes up from the Earth. She also notes that there are several findings by dowser Guy Underwood, which confirm this connection. Kundalini yoga is the practise of awakening the snake and allowing it to rise up the spine until it reaches the highest chakra, the Crown chakra, where the meeting of Shiva and Shakti lead to enlightenment and the trance of Samadhi - ecstasy - the annihilation of the ego and the end of duality. This sounds very similar to the meeting of the Maori Sky and Earth gods, which has been predicted for 2012, and also the merging of the Inca Overworld and Underworld onto the everyday world - also predicted for 2012. <br/><br/> The original Toltec religion of rebirth associated with Quetzalcoatl has actually now been revealed in a long lost Aztec codex called "<b><i>Pyramid of Fire</i></b>" - (<u><b>published by Jenkins</b></u>), which says that Quetzalcoatl is "<b><i>the man that achieves God</i></b>", "and that concept of sacrifice was originally the sacrifice of the ego. Everyone has their own serpent, which is the energy of Tonatiuh, the Sun. "<b><i>And in this serpent sleeps consciousness, in this serpent is hidden divinity. From this serpent his wings will grow</i></b>".<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> Plasmatic Immersion</h4><br/>So the "<b><i>spiritual opportunity for mankind</i></b>" spoken of by Danion Brinkley can be confirmed as a time very close to 2012, when something will trigger a mass Kundalini experience in mankind... but what could the trigger be? <br/><br/> Alexey Dmitriev, a Russian geologist, has analysed the increasing changes in Earth's weather and seismic phenomena, plus recent changes to the geomagnetic field. He has also taken into account solar changes, and changes to the weather and magnetic fields of all the other planets in the solar system. A ten-fold increase to the layer of deflected interstellar plasma on the heliosphere boundary indicates that the solar system is headed into an area of magnetised plasma that Dmitriev says is causing these changes. An increasing incidence of plasma balls in the atmosphere is a sign of the imminent "<b><i>transformation of Earth</i></b>" says Dmitriev, involving an interaction with processes beyond the three-dimensional world. <br/><br/> Like Brinkley, other near-death-experience subjects have also foreseen Earth changes and consciousness changes associated with 2012, as have many who have undergone out-of-body experiences, lucid dreams, remote viewing, meditative trance states, and even alien abduction experiences. These are all mystical states in which the pineal gland in the centre of the human brain secretes dimethyltryptamine (<u><b>DMT</b></u>) into the blood, according to Rick Strassman's recent study, and the Maya shamans used a mushroom containing psilocybin, which is a close relative of DMT, apparently accessing some sort of global mega-mind - the developing consciousness of the Earth mother. <br/><br/> The13-baktun cycle is a 260-unit cycle and thus a macroscopic version of the 260-day sacred Tzolkin calendar, which is based on the period of human gestation, so the 13-baktun cycle may measure a planetary gestation period of 5,125 years, which is the length of human civilization's recorded history. It seems that our entry into the magnetised plasma band will cause Earth weather changes, and a geomagnetic reversal, which will trigger the pineal gland into DMT and pinoline production, leading to kundalini and out-of-body experiences and increasing incidents of telepathy, while we develop our ability to see beyond the veil and into the next World.<br/><br/> Buy The Book ( Title changed to "Beyond 2012 Catastrophy or Awakening )<br/><br/>Reference: <a href='http://practicing-wicca.blogspot.com' target='_blank'>practicing-wicca.blogspot.com</a></span>Selenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14539342654344447025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428328043836305112.post-30510837005526955882015-03-06T08:05:00.000-08:002015-03-15T10:10:39.197-07:00My Role Model My Childhood Priest And Doctor Fr Jan Jaworski<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 47%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-T8Li8Gnc0YA/VM2AKfB9aqI/AAAAAAAAiJc/CxBdZl0YbZ8/Understanding%252520Plutarch%252520As%252520A%252520Historian.jpg" border="0" alt="My Role Model My Childhood Priest And Doctor Fr Jan Jaworski" title="My Role Model My Childhood Priest And Doctor Fr Jan Jaworski" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">http://www.theage.com.au/world/the-m...#ixzz2Z7JgxKsc<br/><br/>I wanted to share this with you. Fr Jan was my childhood Priest, he is also our family Doctor. He operated on my sister, my Dad and myself. He encouraged all the girls in my family to continue our studies onto University. A wonderful, wonderful person. Our family drove him 200kms through the jungle to see Pope JPII the Great when he visited PNG, an experience I will always treasure.<br/><br/>When Jan Jaworski graduated from medical school in Poznan, Poland in 1970, he was determined to take his skills to someplace in the world where doctors were scarce. When a university friend became a Priest and was sent to Papua New Guinea, it became the young doctor's objective.<br/><br/>But first came many more years of medical training, accumulating the skills he hoped to one day take to PNG. Finally, in 1984, he was ready. He was in Vienna finishing up a final year of training. He dropped into an exhibition of PNG culture. The pictures showed highlands men in traditional costume. 'I was a little bit frightened of where I was going, and what I would do.'<br/><br/>Then 'a friend of mine, a Pallottine father who had been taking spiritual care of me for many years, said, '<i>Now is time for you to make a decision - you should enter the priesthood.</i>' I was ready for this somehow I never before directly spoke of it, but I was sensing I was going in this direction. I was waiting for a sign from God.'<br/><br/>He sent off a letter of application to the PNG Health Department, and he put his name down to enter a novitiate to study for the priesthood.<br/><br/>'I made a contract with God - that whatever will happen, I will accept.' Two weeks before he was supposed to enter the novitiate, the visa paperwork came through from PNG, and he flew to Port Moresby - with some relief.<br/><br/>'The priests had said, '<i>You have to make a decision. Once you enter our congregation, you will not practise surgery.</i>' This was very painful for me, but I said 'God's will is God's will.' One of the first people I met in PNG was an Australian missionary father, Father Peter Flynn, who had entered medical school and become a doctor, and was doing some basic surgery. I thought perhaps it is possible for me to be a priest and to practise surgery.'<br/><br/>But four years later, the Bishop who sent him to Rome to the seminary for late vocations was adamant that when he returned he would need to choose - he could be a doctor, or a priest, but not both. By the time of his ordination by Pope John Paul II in 1992, the Bishop had undergone a pragmatic change of heart - he could keep operating.<br/><br/>By all accounts, this was a great mercy to the people of Simbu. Professor David Watters, chair of surgery at Geelong Hospital and a former professor of surgery at the University of Papua New Guinea, based at Port Moresby General Hospital, describes Father Jaworski as '<i>a remarkable and wonderful man who has served the people of Kundiawa and Simbu province well</i>', and whose breadth of surgical ability would be hard to match anywhere.<br/><br/>If you understand the lack of medical resources in the area, where people die from preventable diseases, to the thousands of people of my area he is a godsend. He is already a Saint in our eyes. When he departs from us, there will be a week long feast to celebrate his sacrifices, commitment to God and the area and for being an integral part of our family.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>God Bless Fr Jaworski<br/><br/>:signofcross:</h4><br></span>Selenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14539342654344447025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428328043836305112.post-50757593146667070992015-03-03T15:57:00.000-08:002015-03-05T10:25:37.206-08:00Pumpkin Soup Hearth Spell<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 51%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ThY2EFYW-e0/VEJRDRAFXWI/AAAAAAAAXm4/CT-wBbvUqss/Who%252520Is%252520The%252520Future%252520Buddha%252520Maitreya%252520Sutra.jpg" border="0" alt="Pumpkin Soup Hearth Spell" title="Pumpkin Soup Hearth Spell" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">Below is a link to an awesome pumpkin soup recipe. Only difference between her's and mine: I add cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and nutmeg (<u><b>aka pumpkin pie spice</b></u>).<br/><br/>Spell properties: Pumpkin is a super food full of antioxidants for good health and all those spices provide protection, prosperity, and healing properties plus you get a little extra. <br/><br/> * CINNAMON: psychic power development and spiritual healing/growth; <br/> * GINGER: luck; <br/> * NUTMEG: clarity of mind for important decisions; <br/> * CLOVE: curse removal and protection. <br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>SPELL CAST</h4><br/>Now when you add these ingredients concentrate on your families health, protection, and happiness. Really "<b><i>feel</i></b>" these things. Humans are giant batteries that produce energy fields, we pull and push energy. This is why people can "<b><i>feel</i></b>" when your upset or when you walk into a room and you feel your not wanted. When you feel happy, protected, and prosperous you will push this energy into your ingredients. Plus they have a natural energy for each of these properties which increases the spell power. <br/><br/>Keep this energy going until you serve the dish. As I set it on the table I set the activator for the spell by saying "<b><i>as they eat so shall it be</i></b>". This adds when the spell will activate and by what actions are needed. Spells can be cast without activators but I like keeping control. If your a Wicca witch use "<b><i>as they eat so mote it be</i></b>". <br/><br/>Here is an awesome recipe for pumpkin soup. http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2011/11/pumpkin-soup/<br/><br/>Author "><br/><br/>HOW TO POST COPIES OF THESE ARTICLES FOR FREE ON YOUR WEBSITE<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Except where otherwise noted, content on these sites:</h4><br/>Sycamore Meadow, Grimoire, and Social Media by Sycamore Meadow<br/><br/>and our contributing authors' articles at Sycamore Meadow is licensed under a<br/><br/>Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.<br/><br/>Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at<br/><br/>http://www.sycamoremeadow.com/copyright.<br/><br/>Photos and our witch school are excluded<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>from this creative commons copyright.<br/><br/>~~</h4><br></span>Selenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14539342654344447025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428328043836305112.post-18774567824759821862015-02-28T16:53:00.000-08:002015-03-03T23:53:02.560-08:00The Third Secret Of Fatima The Impostor Sr Lucia And The End Of The W<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 67%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-gQABjcn387w/VPa525l2b1I/AAAAAAAAmP0/BC5xTp8Wqrs/The%252520Third%252520Secret%252520Of%252520Fatima%252520The%252520Impostor%252520Sr%252520Lucia%252520And%252520The%252520End%252520Of%252520The%252520W.jpg" border="0" alt="The Third Secret Of Fatima The Impostor Sr Lucia And The End Of The W" title="The Third Secret Of Fatima The Impostor Sr Lucia And The End Of The W" /></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"> Over and done with THE Put the lid on Several Report, THE Instructor GOES Another time BIBLE VERSES, BUT Thus THE Objective Story BEGINS.<br/><br/>An entrancing Tape that's to the same extent promoted by some Catholic Churches. They illustration that Sr. Lucia was killed and replaced by original individual to exclusively shield the truth about the Third Unidentified of Fatima. There's no conjecture the photos of this individual in her formerly days, compared to photos of her in future days reveal a thriving being individual. <br/><br/>How could this happen, unless she was vertical immature and replaced? Her moral regulate about announcing the Third secret that was particular her by the assumed Pious Mother, was crucial in her carefulness, but later she uncommon her carefulness and no longer felt the nation be obliged to understand it. So, as the church is saying, how is it that this fervent individual that was tailing the Pious Mother's ruling, all of a swift grave that "<b><i>SHE</i></b>" knew superior than the ostentatious Saint? How is it her looks uncommon so appreciably in this area the exact time? <br/><br/>This is a really suspicious story, but it seems to protect some big questions. One of inhabit questions is whether Lucia was replaced, but the tiny is if the aberrational check over that the children saw, really of a spiritual type, or was this from extraterrestrials, who manifold uniformity bind directed human's pace from the beginning? <br/><br/>.<br/><br/>Reference: <a href='http://magic-and-spells.blogspot.com' target='_blank'>magic-and-spells.blogspot.com</a></span>Selenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14539342654344447025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428328043836305112.post-50272714742798825042015-02-27T00:00:00.000-08:002015-03-11T16:04:53.219-07:00A Daily Magic Ritual For The Times<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 43%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-EpT4vS5xees/VPS9XnFoz9I/AAAAAAAAmEg/u5vr9z60z8I/The%252520Grimoire%252520Of%252520The%252520Lamb%252520The%252520Iron%252520Druid%252520Chronicles%2525200%2525204.jpg" border="0" alt="A Daily Magic Ritual For The Times" title="A Daily Magic Ritual For The Times" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>By Alan Joel</h4> "Monday morning blues. Lack of motivation. Confusion. Depression. Anger. The "<b><i>Why me?</i></b>" syndrome. Fear."<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> These</h4><br/>are all topics that people are emailing us about. People are<br/><br/>experiencing these states because they have lost their jobs, are<br/><br/>affected by health issues, or are simply "<b><i>waiting for the other shoe to<br/><br/>drop.</i></b>" They all want to know what kind of magical rituals and spells<br/><br/>can help them get back to feeling happy, positive, radiant, balanced,<br/><br/>and peaceful.<br/><br/> In magic, there is no "<b><i>cure-all</i></b>" that will fix all<br/><br/>problems for all people, but one the simplest magical rituals that<br/><br/>anyone can do to feel more balanced during these turbulent times is the<br/><br/>Beauty Way.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> THE BEAUTY WAY MAGIC RITUAL</h4><br/>This ritual is a non-denominational set of exercises from very ancient times, which has many magical purposes, including:<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> * Restore personal power</h4><br/>* Develop a practical working relationship with higher powers and beings or natural forces and laws<br/><br/>* Be safe and protected without the need to build walls or hide behind masks.<br/><br/>* Maintain spiritual integrity for individuals or groups during times of high external change and stress.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> HOW TO DO THE BEAUTY WAY MAGIC EXIT RITUAL</h4><br/>One of the most common forms of the Beauty Way is called the Exit<br/><br/>Ritual. You do the Exit Ritual every time you leave an enclosed space,<br/><br/>like your car or your house. Here's how you do the ritual.<br/><br/> 1. Put<br/><br/>your focus up into the sky and say aloud, "<b><i>Sky Above</i></b>" or "Sky Father."<br/><br/>(Note: the reason we extend our focus first is that the exit ritual is<br/><br/>a form of asking favor from powers and beings, so it is appropriate<br/><br/>that we go to them rather than asking them to come to us. In ritual,<br/><br/>when we have carefully prepared sacred space, we can then invite them<br/><br/>in and then bid them farewell).<br/><br/> 2. Keeping the awareness up above, extend your focus into the earth and say aloud, "<b><i>And Earth Below</i></b>" or "And Earth Mother."<br/><br/> 3. Then, keeping awareness of both above and below, say aloud, "I Greet You."<br/><br/> 4. Wait a moment and see what happens. Be alert for acknowledgment or response in one of these three ways:<br/><br/>* From within you, such as a realization, a change of attitude or belief, a new awareness.<br/><br/>* Changes in your environment, such as a sudden breeze, a change in<br/><br/>the color of the sky, a bird or animal suddenly appearing, or a tree or<br/><br/>shrub suddenly becoming vividly visible.<br/><br/>* A response from Sky and/or Earth: a special message for you, an answer to a question, or guidance and new directions.<br/><br/> 5.<br/><br/>What happens may happen in just that moment, or it may happen<br/><br/>throughout the day. It may change the quality of our day, our awareness<br/><br/>... whatever we notice.<br/><br/> 6. You may also want to use hand<br/><br/>gestures. Arms raised in a upward facing V for "<b><i>Sky Father</i></b>" and arms<br/><br/>down in a downward facing V for "Earth Mother."<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> Alan</h4><br/>Joel co-founded the Esoteric School of Shamanism and Magic with the<br/><br/>goal of the helping people create permanent, positive change in their<br/><br/>lives through the study of magic and shamanism. Get free magical and<br/><br/>shamanic tips and resources at http://www.shamanschool.com<br/><br/> Check out the upcoming Basic Magic class at http://tinyurl.com/basicmagic<br></span>Selenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14539342654344447025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428328043836305112.post-68689077138707434332015-02-26T15:20:00.000-08:002015-03-13T08:05:08.730-07:00The Incredible Adventures Of Van Helsing Ii Out Now On Steam<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 41%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9ELKKBhx2qw/VQL8oZnrQ9I/AAAAAAAAna8/4VG5wDtt50Y/The%252520Incredible%252520Adventures%252520Of%252520Van%252520Helsing%252520Ii%252520Out%252520Now%252520On%252520Steam.jpg" border="0" alt="The Incredible Adventures Of Van Helsing Ii Out Now On Steam" title="The Incredible Adventures Of Van Helsing Ii Out Now On Steam" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">"Neocore Games has announced the launch of The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II" on Steam. The sequel to the popular action RPG, steampunk series arrives a year after the series was first introduced and brings new features that includes more playable classes, new mini-games and more. Read on for more details. <br/><br/>"The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II key features:"<br/><br/> * "THREE PLAYABLE CLASSES - Players can now choose from three very different classes: the classic Hunter with shooting and melee skills, the magic-wielding Thaumaturge or the Arcane Mechanic, the master of deadly devices, all included in the base game."<br/> * "HUNTER'S LAIR - The Lair returns in the sequel as the perfect hideout for players to stash collected loot, trade with non-playable characters, teleport between locations, forge new items, utilize the alchemy lab and accept new quests from allies who join the resistance against the scientific scourge."<br/> * "EXTENDED TOWER DEFENSE MINI-GAME - With enemies invading in waves, players have the opportunity to defend their Hunter's Lair and other strategic locations with deployable traps and several upgradable functions to ward off evil, now with improved gameplay mechanics and up to 7 levels presented as optional side quests."<br/> * "RESISTANCE MANAGEMENT - As the leaders of the Borgovian Resistance, players now participate in the micromanagement of the allied troops, improve the equipment of the Resistance fighters or find loot that makes them more powerful."<br/> * "RAGE SYSTEM - Enables players to dynamically modify their skills by activating Power Ups in the heat of the battle. Power Ups consume the player's Rage that they accumulate by slaying the most dangeroues foes in Borgovia."<br/> * "UNIQUE COMPANION SYSTEM - Lady Katarina, a ghost with snappy wit, comes to the support of Van Helsing with her own set of abilities, behaviors, and skill trees."<br/> * "RUNECRAFTING - Besides forging, enchanting and infusing items with essences, players now have another option to alter items to their liking. Artifacts can be taken apart, shattered into magical fragments. The process generates a basic shard, and then the enchantments also dissolve into separate fragments. Fragments can be turned into purely magical runes that can be altered and put on new items, changing them into various new powerful artifacts."<br/> * "THE BEAST IN THE LAIR - The Chimera is a unique creature, an artificial monster straight from the Ink that players find during their adventures, claim as theirs, enhance its abilities and summon it into combat or send away to the Ink to hunt for treasure."<br/> * "HALL OF TROPHIES - Players can decorate their Lair with trophies that give global modifiers to the game world, like empowering monsters, granting more spellpower to all allies or turning Katarina into a more lethal ghost."<br/> * "MULTIPLAYER - Allowing players to test their skills against each other via the PVP mode (<u><b>8 players</b></u>) or join their forces and complete the story in the co-operative campaign (<u><b>4 players</b></u>)."<br/><br/>For more information on the game, check out the official "<b><i>THE INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES OF VAN HELSING II</i></b>" WEBSITE. <br/><br/>Credit: <a href='http://lilith-dark-moon.blogspot.com' target='_blank'>lilith-dark-moon.blogspot.com</a></span>Selenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14539342654344447025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428328043836305112.post-43783392631395897952015-02-25T22:14:00.000-08:002015-02-28T04:43:49.564-08:00Jan 21 Playing The Infinite Game<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 42%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-NEJdm1xlOqw/VPG3_iCwkKI/AAAAAAAAl4A/eW7F4yvRxOA/Jan%25252021%252520Playing%252520The%252520Infinite%252520Game.jpg" border="0" alt="Jan 21 Playing The Infinite Game" title="Jan 21 Playing The Infinite Game" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"> Dear Friends,<br/><br/>http://www.realitysandwich.com/playing infinite game<br/><br/>Be Well.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>David</h4><br/>"PLAYING THE INFINITE GAME "<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> Kevin Kelly </h4><br/> "<b><i>The following is adapted from</i></b>" What Technology Wants, "<b><i>published by Viking/Penguin, used with permission.</i></b>" There are two kinds of games in the universe: finite games and infinite games. A finite game is played to win. Card games, poker rounds, games of chance, bets, sports such as football, board games such as Monopoly, races, marathons, puzzles, Tetris, Rubik's Cube, Scrabble, sudoku, online games such as "<b><i>World of Warcraft</i></b>", and "<b><i>Halo</i></b>" -- all are finite games. The game ends when someone wins. An infinite game, on the other hand, is played to keep the game going. It does not terminate because there is no winner. <br/><br/> Finite games require rules that remain constant. The game fails if the rules change during the game. Altering rules during play is unforgivable, the very definition of unfairness. Great effort, then, is taken in a finite game to spell out the rules beforehand and enforce them during the game. <br/><br/> An infinite game, however, can keep going only by changing its rules. To maintain open-endedness, the game must play with its rules. <br/><br/> A finite game such as baseball or chess or Super Mario must have boundaries -- spatial, temporal, or behavioral. So big, this long, do or don't do that. <br/><br/> An infinite game has no boundaries. James Carse, the theologian who developed these ideas in his brilliant treatise "<b><i>Finite and Infinite Games</i></b>", says, "<b><i>Finite players play within boundaries; infinite players play with boundaries.</i></b>" <br/><br/> Evolution, life, mind, and the technium are infinite games. Their game is to keep the game going. To keep all participants playing as long as possible. They do that, as all infinite games do, by playing around with the rules of play. The evolution of evolution is just that kind of play. <br/><br/> Unreformed weapon technologies generate finite games. They produce winners (<u><b>and losers</b></u>) and cut off options. Finite games are dramatic; think sports and war. We can think of hundreds of more exciting stories about two guys fighting than we can about two guys at peace. But the problem with those exciting 100 stories about two guys fighting is that they all lead to the same end -- the demise of one or both of them -- unless at some point they turn and cooperate. However, the one boring story about peace has no end. It can lead to a thousand unexpected stories -- maybe the two guys become partners and build a new town or discover a new element or write an amazing opera. They create something that will become a platform for future stories. They are playing an infinite game. Peace is summoned all over the world because it births increasing opportunities and, unlike a finite game, contains infinite potential. The things in life we love most -- including life itself -- are infinite games. When we play the game of life, or the game of the technium, goals are not fixed, the rules are unknown and shifting. How do we proceed? A good choice is to increase choices. As individuals and as a society we can invent methods that will generate as many new "<b><i>good</i></b>" possibilities as possible. A good possibility is one that will generate more good possibilities... and so on in the paradoxical infinite game. The best "<b><i>open-ended</i></b>" choice is one that leads to the most subsequent "<b><i>openended</i></b>" choices. That recursive tree is the infinite game of technology. <br/><br/> The goal of the infinite game is to keep playing -- to explore every way to play the game, to include all games, all possible players, to widen what is meant by playing, to spend all, to hoard nothing, to seed the universe with improbable plays, and if possible to surpass everything that has come before. In his mythic book "<b><i>The Singularity Is Near</i></b>", Ray Kurzweil, serial inventor, technology enthusiast, and unabashed atheist, announces: "Evolution moves toward greater complexity, greater elegance, greater knowledge, greater intelligence, greater beauty, greater creativity, and greater levels of subtle attributes such as love. In every monotheistic tradition God is likewise described as all of these qualities, only without limitation.... So evolution moves inexorably toward this conception of God, although never quite reaching this ideal." <br/><br/> If there is a God, the arc of the technium is aimed right at it. I'll retell the Great Story of this arc because it points to an infinite game. <br/><br/> The story and game begin at the beginning. As the undifferentiated energy at the big bang is cooled by the expanding space of the universe, it coalesces into measurable entities, and, over time, the particles condense into atoms. Further expansion and cooling allows complex molecules to form, which self-assemble into self-reproducing entities. With each tick of the clock, increasing complexity is added to these embryonic organisms, increasing the speed at which they change. As evolution evolves, it keeps piling on different ways to adapt and learn until eventually the minds of animals are caught in self-awareness. This self-awareness thinks up more minds, and together a universe of minds transcends all previous limits. The destiny of this collective mind is to expand imagination in all directions until it is no longer solitary but reflects the infinite. Everything present in the universe is a winner. <br/><br/> There is even a modern theology that postulates that God, too, changes. Without splitting too many theological hairs, this theory, called Process Theology, describes God as a process, a perfect process, if you will. In this theology, God is less a remote, monumental, gray-bearded hacker genius and more of an ever-present flux, a movement, a process, a primary self-made becoming. The ongoing self-organized mutability of life, evolution, mind, and the technium is a reflection of God's becoming. God-as-Verb unleashes a set of rules that unfold into an infinite game, a game that continually loops back into itself. <br/><br/> I bring up God here at the end because it seems unfair to speak about autocreation without mentioning God -- the paragon of autocreation. The only other alternative to an endless string of creations triggered by previous creation is a creation that emerges from its own self-causation. That prime self-causation, which is not preceded but instead first makes itself before it makes either time or nothingness, is the most logical definition of God. This view of a mutable God does not escape the paradoxes of self-creation that infect all levels of self-organization, but rather it embraces them as necessary paradoxes. God or not, self-creation is a mystery. <br/><br/> In one sense, this is a story about continuous autocreation (<u><b>with or without the concept of a prime autocreation</b></u>). The tale tells how the ratcheting bootstrapping of increasing complexity, expanding possibilities, and spreading sentience -- which we now see in the technium and beyond -- is driven by forces that were inherent within the first nanospeck of existence and how this seed of flux has unfolded itself in such a manner that it can, in theory, keep unfolding and making itself for a very long time. <br/><br/> A single thread of selfgeneration ties the cosmos, the bios, and the technos together into one creation. Life is less a miracle than a necessity for matter and energy. The technium is less an adversary to life than its extension. Humans are not the culmination of this trajectory but an intermediary, smack in the middle between the born and the made. <br/><br/> For several thousand years, humans have looked to the organic world, the world of the living, for clues about the nature of creation and even of a creator. Life was a reflection of the divine. Humans in particular were deemed to be made in the image of God. But if you believe humans are made in the image of God, the autocreator, then we have done well, because we have just birthed our own creation: the technium. Many, including many believers in God, would call that hubris. Compared to what has come before us, our accomplishments are puny. <br/><br/> "As we turn from the galaxies to the swarming cells of our own being, which toil for something, some entity beyond their grasp, let us remember man, the self-fabricator who came across an ice age to look into the mirrors and magic of science. Surely he did not come to see himself or his wild visage only. He came because he is at heart a listener and a searcher for some transcendent realm beyond himself." That's Loren Eiseley, anthropologist and author, ruminating on what he calls our "<b><i>immense journey</i></b>" so far under the stars. <br/><br/> The bleak message of the stars in their overwhelming infinitude is that we are nothing. It is hard to argue with 500 billion galaxies, each with a billion stars. In the mists of the endless cosmos, our brief blink in an obscure corner is nothing at all. <br/><br/> Yet the fact that there is something in one corner that sustains itself against the starry vastness, the fact that there is anything bootstrapping at all, is an argument against the nihilism of the stars. The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it. The existence of a single rosebud, a single oil painting, a single parade of costumed hominins strolling down a street of bricks, a single glowing screen waiting for input, or a single book on the nature of our creations requires life-friendly attributes baked deeply into the primeval laws of being. "<b><i>The universe knew we were coming,</i></b>" says Freeman Dyson. And if the cosmic laws are biased to produce one bit of life and mind and technology, then one bit will flow after another. Our immense journey is a trace of tiny, improbable events stacked into a series of inevitabilities. <br/><br/> The technium is the way the universe has engineered its own selfawareness. Carl Sagan put it memorably: "<b><i>We are starstuff pondering the stars.</i></b>" But by far humanity's greatest, most immense journey is not the long trek from star dust to wakefulness but the immense journey we have in front of us. The arc of complexity and open-ended creation in the last four billion years is nothing compared to what lies ahead. <br/><br/> The universe is mostly empty because it is waiting to be filled with the products of life and the technium, with questions and problems and the thickening relations between bits that we call "<b><i>con scientia</i></b>" -- shared knowledge -- or consciousness. <br/><br/> And whether we like it or not, we stand at the fulcrum of the future. We are in part responsible for the evolution of this planet proceeding onward. <br/><br/> About 2,500 years ago most of humanity's major religions were set in motion in a relatively compact period. Confucius, Lao-tzu, Buddha, Zoroaster, the authors of the Upanishads, and the Jewish patriarchs all lived within a span of 20 generations. Only a few major religions have been born since then. Historians call that planetary fluttering the Axial Age. It was as if everyone alive awoke simultaneously and, in one breath, set out in search of their mysterious origins. Some anthropologists believe the Axial Age awakening was induced by the surplus abundance that agriculture created, enabled by massive irrigation and waterworks around the world. <br/><br/> It would not surprise me if we saw another axial awakening someday, powered by another flood of technology. I find it hard to believe that we could manufacture robots that actually worked and not have them disturb our ideas of religion and God. Someday we will make other minds, and they will surprise us. They will think of things we never could have imagined, and if we give these minds their full embodiment, they will call themselves children of God, and what will we say? When we alter the genetics in our veins, will this not reroute our sense of a soul? Can we cross over into the quantum realm, where one bit of matter can be in two places at once, and still not believe in angels? <br/><br/> Look what is coming: Technology is stitching together all the minds of the living, wrapping the planet in a vibrating cloak of electronic nerves, entire continents of machines conversing with one another, the whole aggregation watching itself through a million cameras posted daily. How can this not stir that organ in us that is sensitive to something larger than ourselves? <br/><br/> For as long as the wind has blown and the grass grown, people have sat beneath trees in the wilderness for enlightenment -- to see God. They have looked to the natural world for a hint of their origins. In the filigree of fern and feather they find a shadow of an infinite source. Even those who have no use for God study the evolving world of the born for clues to why we are here. For most people, nature is either a very happy long-term accident or a very detailed reflection of its creator. For the latter, every species can be read as a four-billion-year-long encounter with God. <br/><br/> Yet we can see more of God in a cell phone than in a tree frog. The phone extends the frog's four billion years of learning and adds the open-ended investigations of six billion human minds. Someday we may believe the most convivial technology we can make is not a testament to human ingenuity but a testimony of the holy. As the technium's autonomy rises, we have less influence over the made. It follows its own momentum begun at the big bang. In a new axial age, it is possible the greatest technological works will be considered a portrait of God rather than of us. In addition to holding spiritual retreats in redwood groves, we may surrender ourselves in the labyrinths of a 200-year-old network. The intricate, unfathomable layers of logic built up over a century, borrowed from rainforest ecosystems, and woven together into beauty by millions of active synthetic minds will say what redwoods say, only louder, more convincingly: "<b><i>Long before you were here, I am.</i></b>" <br/><br/> The technium is not God; it is too small. It is not utopia. It is not even an entity. It is a becoming that is only beginning. But it contains more goodness than anything else we know. <br/><br/> The technium expands life's fundamental traits, and in so doing it expands life's fundamental goodness. Life's increasing diversity, its reach for sentience, its long-term move from the general to the different, its essential (<u><b>and paradoxical</b></u>) ability to generate new versions of itself, and its constant play in an infinite game are the very traits and "<b><i>wants</i></b>" of the technium. Or should I say, the technium's wants are those of life. But the technium does not stop there. The technium also expands the mind's fundamental traits, and in so doing it expands the mind's fundamental goodness. Technology amplifies the mind's urge toward the unity of all thought, it accelerates the connections among all people, and it will populate the world with all conceivable ways of comprehending the infinite. <br/><br/> No one person can become all that is humanly possible; no one technology can capture all that technology promises. It will take all life and all minds and all technology to begin to see reality. It will take the whole technium, and that includes us, to discover the tools that are needed to surprise the world. Along the way we generate more options, more opportunities, more connection, more diversity, more unity, more thought, more beauty, and more problems. Those add up to more good, an infinite game worth playing. <br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> That's what technology wants. <br/><br/>"<br/><br/> </h4><br></span>Selenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14539342654344447025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428328043836305112.post-13266835730675673032015-02-25T07:24:00.000-08:002015-02-26T06:42:22.257-08:00Witch Bottles<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 54%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-cBzKFa1YPyo/VEe78fFlP_I/AAAAAAAAYMg/bmY-lh_8xa8/Review%252520How%252520To%252520Read%252520An%252520Egg%252520Divination.jpg" border="0" alt="Witch Bottles" title="Witch Bottles" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">Witch bottles are some of the oldest magic dating back hundreds of years. They are described in historical sources in England and the United States. The first mention of a witch bottle appears in the 17th century. One of the earliest descriptions of a witch bottle in Suffolk, England appears in 1681 in Joseph Glanvill's "Saducismus Triumphatus, or Evidence concerning Witches and Apparitions"<br/><br/>Photo of one of the earliest bottles found.<br/><br/>Folk Magic contends that witch bottles protect against evil spirits and magical attack, and counteract spells cast by witches; they are countermagical devices, the purpose of which is to draw in and trap harmful intentions directed at their owners. Historically, the witch's bottle contained the victim's (<u><b>the person who believed they had a spell put on them</b></u>) urine, hair or nail clippings, or red thread from sprite traps. In recent years, the witch's bottle has taken on a nicer tone, filled with rosemary, nails and pins, and red wine. Historically and currently, the bottle is then buried at the farthest corner of the property, beneath the house hearth, or placed in an inconspicuous spot in the house. It is believed that after being buried, the bottle captures evil which is impaled on the pins and needles, drowned by the wine, and sent away by the rosemary. <br/><br/>Sometimes sea water or earth are used instead. Other types of witch bottles may contain sand, stones, knotted threads, feathers, shells, herbs, flowers, salt, vinegar, oil, coins, or ashes. A similar magical device is the "<b><i>lemon and pins</i></b>" charm. (Stick a lemon full of pins and bury.)<br/><br/> Another variation is within the disposal of the bottle. Some witch's bottles were thrown into a fire and when they exploded, the spell was broken or the witch supposedly killed.<br/><br/> The witch bottle was believed to be active as long as the bottle remained hidden and unbroken. People did go through a lot of trouble in hiding their witch bottles - those buried underneath fireplaces have been found only after the rest of the building has been torn down or otherwise disappeared. The origins of this tradition have been dated at least to the 16th century. In ancient times the bottles were made of stone and originally contained rusty nails, urine, thorns, hair, menstrual blood and pieces of glass, wood, and bone.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>from Wikipedia</h4><br></span>Selenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14539342654344447025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428328043836305112.post-67323974363780550502015-02-23T06:21:00.000-08:002015-03-08T21:10:24.174-07:00Planets And Astrology The Saturn<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 45%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-p0rvtHsitU8/VP0dKjpeB7I/AAAAAAAAmq0/3sN8_FVi0c4/Planets%252520And%252520Astrology%252520The%252520Saturn.gif" border="0" alt="Planets And Astrology The Saturn" title="Planets And Astrology The Saturn" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> Saturn Astrology</h4>PLANETARY ASTROLOGY SCIENCE, CONSIDERABLE SUBJECTS AS PER PLANETS IN ASTROLOGY, THE EFFECTS OF SATURN IN DIFFERENT HOUSES OF KUNDLI OR HOROSCOPE, THE SATURN ASTROLOGY, SATURN AND RELATED THINGS AND HOW IT AFFECTS THE LIFE, HOW PLANETS MAKES IMPACT ON DIFFERENT SUBJECTS?, MANTRA OR SPELL OF SATURN, THINGS OF SATURN TO OFFER OR DAAN.<br/><br/>Saturn is a very harsh planet and give fruits of deeds. People generally fear of Saturn or shani because it gives the results as per the work done by person in past and present life. So actually it is not harsh but work as a judge. If any one has done good work he or she will get good results during shani mahadasha or saturn time. This planet actually purify a person life. <br/><br/>SOME IMPORTANT THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT SATURN OR SHANI AS PER ASTROLOGY:1. It represent the element air.2. Saturn is ascendant in Libra and if this is present in horoscope then person is very lucky. He or she is able to get the property, power easily.3. Strong Saturn is able to provide abundant money.4. The Saturn of Aries, Cancer, Leo and Scorpio give problems too much at the time of Saadesati.5. The combination of Saturn, Mars and Sun is always dangerous.6. The combination of Saturn and Sun create contradiction.7. The combination of Saturn and Mercury makes a person Civil Engineer.8. The combination of Saturn and Moon makes candid i.e. who speaks straight. 9. Many types of diseases are happens due to Saturn malefic effects like as diseases of feet, ghost impacts, sufferings from stones or wood, mental problems, Poision due to empty stomach.10. It is good to feed servent, blacksmith, crow, cuckoo etc to get the grace of Saturn.<br/><br/>If any one is facing problems due to Saturn then it is good to consult a good astrologer who will tell you how to get the power Saturn.<br/><br/>Don't read your own kundli. It is better to reach at any decision only after taking advice from an experienced astrologer because there are many other rules which must be kept in mind while analyzing any horoscope. <br/><br/>SIMPLE MANTRA OR SPELL OF SATURN OR SHANI :'Om Shanaye Namah'<br/><br/>THINGS OF SATURN OR SHANI TO OFFER OR DAAN:Iron, black things, blanket, black sesame, mustard oil, black urad pulse, black cloths, blue sapphire etc. <br/><br/>DAY OF SHANI:Saturday is the day of Saturn or Shani So if any remedies or rituals are done on Saturday to cool down the malefic Saturn or Shani then it is very beneficial. <br/><br/>SUBJECTS RELATED WITH SHANI:Saturn or Shani is related with many important subjects like as Servant, Age, Death, West Direction, Laziness, sneak or sycophant, anger, agricultural work, captivity, moron, cheating, strife, greediness, selfishness etc.<br/><br/>There is no need to fear of shani or Saturn. Use the occult sciences to get rid of problems of Saturn. If you are facing any type of problems related to Saturn then don't worry consul now and get the best remedies to protect your life from evil Saturn.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> Powerful Solutions of Saturn Problems<br/><br/>READ MORE ON:</h4><br/>Planet and Astrology-- The Power of Sun<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Planets and Astrology-- The Power of Moon</h4><br/>Planets and Astrology-- The Power of MarsPlanet and Astrology -- The Power of Mercury<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Planet and Astrology-- The Power of Jupiter</h4><br/>Planet and Astrology-- The Power of Venus<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Planet and Astrology-- The Power of Saturn</h4><br/>Planet and Astrology-- The Power of Rahu and Ketu<br/><br/>HOW TO BE A SUCCESSFUL BUILDER THROUGH ASTROLOGY?Navagrah Remedies<br/><br/>PLANETARY ASTROLOGY SCIENCE, CONSIDERABLE SUBJECTS AS PER PLANETS IN ASTROLOGY, THE EFFECTS OF SATURN IN DIFFERENT HOUSES OF KUNDLI OR HOROSCOPE, THE SATURN ASTROLOGY, SATURN AND RELATED THINGS AND HOW IT AFFECTS THE LIFE, HOW PLANETS MAKES IMPACT ON DIFFERENT SUBJECTS?, MANTRA OR SPELL OF SATURN, THINGS OF SATURN TO OFFER OR DAAN. ASTROLOGY FOR LIFE, ASTROLOGY FOR SUCCESS, ASTROLOGY FOR LOVE LIFE, ASTROLOGY FOR CAREER, ASTROLOGY FOR PROFESSION, ASTROLOGY FOR MARRIAGE LIFE, ASTROLOGY FOR BUSINESS, ASTROLOGY FOR HOLLYWOOD AND BOLLYWOOD, ONLINE ASTROLOGY FOR OVER ALL SUCCESS.<br/><br/>Credit: <a href='http://mysteryvoodoo.blogspot.com' target='_blank'>mysteryvoodoo.blogspot.com</a></span>Selenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14539342654344447025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428328043836305112.post-1951551953102375232015-02-18T23:41:00.000-08:002015-02-26T06:42:11.679-08:00Netanyahu The Face Of Falsehood<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 75%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-DXdsWhJtOEg/VO8wuT0kLVI/AAAAAAAAloo/78ezCr66yE8/Netanyahu%252520The%252520Face%252520Of%252520Falsehood.jpg" border="0" alt="Netanyahu The Face Of Falsehood" title="Netanyahu The Face Of Falsehood" /></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"> (<u><b>c</b></u>) Intifada-Palestine.com<br/><br/> INTIFADA-PALESTINE.COM Mar 7, 2014 William A. Cook<br/><br/>"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PEACE IS ISRAEL'S HIGHEST ASPIRATION. I'M PREPARED TO MAKE A HISTORIC PEACE WITH OUR PALESTINIAN NEIGHBOURS - - A PEACE THAT WOULD END A CENTURY OF CONFLICT AND BLOODSHED. PEACE WOULD BE GOOD FOR US. PEACE WOULD BE GOOD FOR THE PALESTINIANS" (<u><b>BIBI NETANYAHU BEFORE THE AIPAC CONFERENCE EARLIER THIS MONTH</b></u>)."THERE ARE THOSE WHO STAND IN REGAL SPLENDOR IN HALLS RESPLENDENT WITH BRILLIANTLY COLORED FLAGS AND EMBLEMS OF RANK TESTIFYING TO THEIR POSITIONS AS LEADERS IN THE WORLD, ACKNOWLEDGED WITH RESPECTFUL APPLAUSE, AS THE AUDIENCE STANDING IN ADULATION OF THAT POSITION, WITNESS THE ENTRANCE OF THE ANNOUNCED LORD OF THE REALM AS HE ASCENDS TO THE PODIUM TO DECLARE HIS MORAL RIGHTEOUSNESS BEFORE THE WORLD SPREAD OUT THROUGH THE NATIONS IN THE TEMPLE OF TELEVISION, AND BOLDLY, SHAMELESSLY LIE BEFORE ALL HUMANKIND-THEY ARE THE FACE OF FALSEHOOD. YESTERDAY THAT FACE WAS GEORGE W. BUSH ADDRESSING THE JOINT SESSIONS OF CONGRESS AS HE ANNOUNCED VENGEANCE AGAINST AN UNKNOWN ENEMY AS LIE AFTER LIE FELL FROM HIS LIPS. TODAY IT IS NETANYAHU DECLARING HIS LOVE FOR PEACE WHEN HE SPEAKS FOR A NATION LED BY ZIONIST IDEOLOGY THAT HAS NEVER SOUGHT PEACE AS THAT WORD IS KNOWN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD AND THUS MASKS TRUTH IN OBFUSCATION, FOR "<b><i>PEACE</i></b>" TO THE ZIONIST HAS BEEN AND CONTINUES TO BE "<b><i>GREATER ISRAEL</i></b>" ACHIEVED BY POWER NOT BY PEACE AS WE KNOW IT. -<br/><br/> (<u><b>c</b></u>) Intifada-Palestine.com<br/><br/>For all the years of my life, from 1936 when the Zionists began their efforts to fill Palestine with Jews to displace the existing people who lived there, as recorded in documents seized by the Mandate Police and acknowledged by many historians (<u><b>see Ilan Pappe's Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine</b></u>), through the war Zionists declared against their British hosts in Palestine, and through their brutal Nakba against the defenseless Palestinian people as they invaded and massacred the inhabitants of more than 416 towns and villages on their way to declaring the existence of a new state called Israel, and then for 65 more years held out hope for a peaceful two states to exist in peace side by side, two doves joined by a laurel wreath, to today, this March when the two peace loving nations of Israel and the United States declare before the world once again that they want peace when there can be no peace when they shovel lies through deception masked as "peace negotiations."<br/><br/>Zionism is a contagion that has infected the Jewish people in the last 100 years, a contagion emanating out of a minority of European Jews who manipulated their way to control of those in positions of power seeing opportunity for gain in land and wealth regardless of the truth they told about their motives or the faith of Judaism. True Torah Jews will speak to this as they find their faith distorted and used by deceivers. There is a tale that can illuminate the dichotomy represented by Zionism and true Judaism, a tale told by Herman Melville in "<b><i>Moby Dick</i></b>".<br/><br/>Father Mapple's sermon in Melville's tale of the white whale teaches a lesson with the fable of Jonah, "<b><i>a lesson to us all as sinful men...it is a story of the sin, hard-heartedness, suddenly awakened fears, the swift punishment, repentance, prayers, and finally the deliverance and joy of Jonah.</i></b>" It is a story that bears repeating since we live in a world drowning in sin, the sins of deception, omission and outright lies, sins committed by those who pretend to lead the world like Puritan preachers of old, bathed in despair, guiding by fear, controlling by naked power, pretending to believe in a God of morals, rectitude and love when in reality they believe only in self and whatever they can amass from the resources that should be the shared goods of all.<br/><br/>Before setting sail for voyages that could last more than three years, sailors went to the Whaleman's Chapel in New Bedford, and there in moody silence they prayed to their respective gods for a safe voyage, a safe return and safe from sin. Perhaps before America joins an unknown voyage captained by a madman, we should listen to Father Mapple that we might understand the dangers that lurk beneath the ocean of lies this Captain utters from his pulpit at AIPAC's offices in Washington D.C.. He is no Father Mapple.<br/><br/>"As with all sinners among men, the sin of (<u><b>Jonah</b></u>) was in his wilful disobedience of the command of God...which he found a hard command." What is the command of God? Love all, share God's riches with all, respect all, dignify all, know thyself in all, give yourself to all, hard commands indeed and commands Zionism neither understands nor desires to hear much less abide by. It's easier for Zionism to be the god that controls all, that commands all, that uses all for its ends. Hence the lies that drool from Netanyahu's lips like drops of blood sucked from those he has destroyed as he feigns a moral stance on the right side of the "<b><i>red</i></b>" line he draws for himself:<br/><br/>My friends, I've come here to draw a clear line. You know that I like to draw lines - especially red ones. But the line I want to draw today is the line between life and death, between right and wrong, between the blessings of a brilliant future and the curses of a dark past.Those Syrians discovered what you've always known to be true: In the Middle East, bludgeoned by butchery and barbarism, Israel is humane; Israel is compassionate; Israel is a force for good. That border, that runs a hundred yards east of that field hospital, is the dividing line between decency and depravity, between compassion and cruelty. On the one side stands Israel, animated by the values we cherish, values that move us to treat sick Palestinians, thousands of them, from Gaza. They come to our hospitals. We treat them despite the fact that terrorists from Gaza hurl thousands of rockets at our cities. (<u><b>MWCNews, 3/4/14, NETANYAHU'S SPEECH TO AIPAC</b></u>).<br/><br/> (<u><b>c</b></u>) Intifada-Palestine.com<br/><br/>NEEDLESS TO SAY, THE LIFE HE CHOOSES IS LIFE FOR HIS PEOPLE IN THE JEWISH STATE EXECUTED BY HIM ON HIS TERMS REGARDLESS OF RIGHT OR WRONG REGARDLESS OF THE CONSTANT AND CALCULATED ETHNIC CLEANSING THAT HE PERPETRATES ON THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, INDEED ON THE VERY SYRIANS HE DECLARES HE IS HELPING. THAT RED LINE HE DRAWS SWIPES ACROSS SYRIAN LAND THAT ISRAEL OCCUPIES ILLEGALLY AND THE FIELD HOSPITAL HE REFERS TO SITS IN SYRIAN LAND THAT ISRAEL HAS ILLEGALLY BOMBED ON THREE RECENT OCCASIONS WHEN IT DETERMINED WHAT IS RIGHT FOR ISRAEL AND NOT WRONG FOR ISRAEL THOUGH IT DEFIES INTERNATIONAL LAW AND IS IN FACT AN INVASION OF A SOVEREIGN STATE; SO MUCH FOR TRUTH. INDEED, WHAT THE SYRIANS REALLY DISCOVERED IS WHAT THE WORLD HAS ALWAYS KNOWN TO BE TRUE: IN THE MIDDLE EAST, BLUDGEONED BY BUTCHERY AND BARBARISM, IT IS ISRAEL THAT IS THE BUTCHER AND THE BARBARIAN; WE NEED ONLY RECALL THE "<b><i>BUTCHER OF BEIRUT</i></b>" ARIEL SHARON AS HE WATCHED HIS MERCENARIES SLASH AND SLAUGHTER THE DEFENCELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF SABRA AND SHATILA REFUGEE CAMPS IN LEBANON.<br/><br/>"That border," Netanyahu proclaims, "<b><i>that runs a hundred yards east of that field hospital, is the dividing line between decency and depravity, between compassion and cruelty.</i></b>" Where is the decency and compassion in stealing the land of those Syrians displaced by an invading occupier whose responsibility under International Law requires compassion and care for those imprisoned by occupation and true settlement for return of the stolen land to those who own it? "<b><i>On the one side stands Israel, animated by the values we cherish,</i></b>" values that any civilized state would find repugnant, especially when the true facts reveal Israeli IDF forces preventing hundreds of Palestinians from getting to hospitals even to bring a child into this world or the record of intentional killings by sniper fire of children. We need only check the weekly reports of the PCHR that lists those murdered by name. How repulsive to proclaim civilized behaviour when you lead a nation so savagely.<br/><br/>But there he stands in his pin striped suit, Israeli star embossed on the US flag pin, glistening in the podium lights, smiling delightedly as he mouths lie after lie to the delighted listeners, including some 400 Congress members who find it a bit awkward as the klieg lights get brighter and brighter shining on them as stooges for this foreign government that commands them how to vote regardless of the desires of the American people, a slightly different picture than that of Jonah who knew his sin.<br/><br/>"See ye not then, shipmates, that Jonah sought to flee world-wide from God? Miserable man! Oh! most contemptible and worthy of all scorn; with slouched hat and guilty eye, skulking from his God; prowling among the shipping like a vile burglar hastening to cross the seas. So disordered, self-condemning is his look, that had there been policemen in those days, Jonah, on the mere suspicion of something wrong, had been arrested ere he touched a deck." But there are still no policemen to arrest this "miserable man, most contemptible and worthy of scorn."<br/><br/>Jonah's shipmates knew of his evil, they sensed it and demanded to know of him. "<b><i>What is thine occupation? Whence comest thou? Thy country? What people? He in repentance of his known crimes cries out, '<i>I am a Hebrew,</i>' he cries-and then-'I fear the Lord the God of Heaven who hath made the sea and the dry land!' Fear him, O Jonah? Aye, well mightest thou fear the Lord God THEN!</i></b>" Where we might ask is the repentance of Netanyahu? Certainly his crimes are greater by far than those of poor Jonah, who sinned against his soul and his fellows by usury only while this man leads a state that defies the citizens of the world in assembly by mocking their councils and executing crimes against humanity.<br/><br/>BUT THE MAN IS BLIND TO HIS CRIMES; HE CONTINUES HIS BABBLING LIES:<br/><br/>Ladies and gentlemen, peace is Israel's highest aspiration. I'm prepared to make a historic peace with our Palestinian neighbors - - a peace that would end a century of conflict and bloodshed. Peace would be good for us. Peace would be good for the Palestinians. But peace would also open up the possibility of establishing formal ties between Israel and leading countries in the Arab world.<br/><br/>WITHOUT BLINKING AN EYE, HE UTTERS LIES THAT DEFY THE 65 YEARS OF ISRAELI INTRANSIGENCE AGAINST PEACE, AGAINST THE POSSIBILITY OF A TWO STATE SOLUTION WHEN THEY HAVE CONFISCATED ALL BUT 11 PER CENT OF PALESTINIAN LAND; WHEN PEACE TO ISRAEL MEANS NO CONTIGUOUS LAND FOR A STATE OF PALESTINE, MEANS NO RECOGNITION OF THAT STATE FOR YEARS TO COME, MEANS ONLY THEIR TROOPS WILL PROTECT THEIR PEOPLE AND NO PROTECTION IS PROVIDED FOR THE PALESTINIANS EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE THE ONES WHO ARE THE VICTIMS, MEANS PEACE CAN ONLY BE ATTAINED IF ISRAEL DETERMINES IT IS SAFE, NOT BEHIND BORDERS, BUT BEHIND THEIR TANKS, MACHINE GUNS, DRONES, F-16S AND NUCLEAR DETERRENTS TO BE USED AT THEIR WHIM.<br/><br/>A man cannot proclaim peace if he does not understand the word; he cannot be a man with morals if he does not know what morality means; he cannot offer peace if he's not prepared to sit down with Palestinians and the communities of the world if he has predetermined that he will not and his nation has never determined that it will share Palestine with its indigenous people. Yet that is the reality; everything the man says is fabrication. This is not Jonah;<br/><br/>"...he drops seething into the yawning jaws awaiting him; and the whale shoots-to all his ivory teeth, like so many white bolts, upon his prison. Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord out of the fish's belly. But observe his prayer, and learn a weighty lesson. For sinful as he is, Jonah does not weep and wail for direct deliverance. He feels that his dreadful punishment is just. He leaves all his deliverance to God, contenting himself with this, that spite of all his pains and pangs, he will still look towards His holy temple. And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment. And how pleasing to God was this conduct in Jonah, is shown in the eventual deliverance of him from the sea and the whale."<br/><br/>This is the essential difference between Jonah and Netanyahu: the one is a human who understands his place in the community of peoples he must live with, the other is devoid of human sympathy even as he survives on cradling his own exclusive tribe to maintain his power, lies are but a means to his end. This is the dividing line between Zionism and true Judaism and would that Netanyahu would draw this line and cross to the true moral side!<br/><br/>"...when the whale grounded upon the ocean's utmost bones, even then, God heard the engulphed, repenting prophet when he cried. Then God spake unto the fish; and from the shuddering cold and blackness of the sea, the whale came breeching up towards the warm and pleasant sun, and all the delights of air and earth; and '<i>vomited out Jonah upon the dry land;</i>' when the word of the Lord came a second time; and Jonah, bruised and beaten-his ears, like two sea-shells, still multitudinously murmuring of the ocean-Jonah did the Almighty's bidding. And what was that, shipmates? To preach the Truth to the face of Falsehood! That was it!"<br/><br/>NETANYAHU CANNOT PREACH TRUTH TO FALSEHOOD, HE IS THE VERY FACE OF FALSEHOOD; HE MUST FIND TRUTH OUTSIDE HIMSELF AND SEEK REDEMPTION FROM THOSE HE HAS SLAUGHTERED, AND KNOW AS JONAH KNEW THAT HIS PUNISHMENT IS JUSTIFIED AND WILL BE DETERMINED BY GOD AS IT MUST BE. AND WHAT IS THAT GOD HE MUST FACE? LISTEN TO THE ELOQUENCE OF FATHER MAPPLE AS HE BRINGS TRUTH TO FALSEHOOD FROM THE LESSON OF JONAH:<br/><br/>"This, shipmates, this is that other lesson; and woe to that pilot of the living God who slights it. Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty! Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale! Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal! Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness! Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonour! Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation! Yea, woe to him who, as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is himself a castaway!" But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight;...Delight is to him-a far, far upward, and inward delight-who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self. Delight is to him whose strong arms yet support him, when the ship of this base treacherous world has gone down beneath him. Delight is to him, who gives no quarter in the truth, and kills, burns, and destroys all sin though he pluck it out from under the robes of Senators and Judges. Delight,-top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven. Delight is to him, whom all the waves of the billows of the seas of the boisterous mob can never shake from this sure Keel of the Ages. And eternal delight and deliciousness will be his, who coming to lay him down, can say with his final breath-O Father!-chiefly known to me by Thy rod-mortal or immortal, here I die. I have striven to be Thine, more than to be this world's, or mine own. Yet this is nothing: I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the lifetime of his God?"<br/><br/>That God is all who live on this earth and rightfully share all that this earth has provided, for those who lived before us, those now living, and for our children and their children. That God is our desire to find love with all, to recognize the equity of all, to acknowledge our limitations and our potentials and aid all in fulfilling their promise. That God is understanding the finality of our being, our momentary existence, our need to comprehend the rights that must be passed on from generation to generation lest destruction and death be our gift to all children yet to come. None of us will outlive that God; existence of all things is the God we pass on but only if we have comprehended the totality of our responsibility to gift all to those yet to come in equal measure. Our ultimate responsibility is to Preach Truth to the Face of Falsehood; if we do perhaps Netanyahu will be preaching to an empty room.<br></span>Selenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14539342654344447025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428328043836305112.post-66944393085773345202015-02-11T04:07:00.000-08:002015-03-15T10:09:31.734-07:00Making Sense Of One Of The Most Shocking Verses In Scripture<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 58%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AnWz0Y-aosk/VQW8x5L6BjI/AAAAAAAAniY/7-FhaYg3244/Making%252520Sense%252520Of%252520One%252520Of%252520The%252520Most%252520Shocking%252520Verses%252520In%252520Scripture.jpg" border="0" alt="Making Sense Of One Of The Most Shocking Verses In Scripture" title="Making Sense Of One Of The Most Shocking Verses In Scripture" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"> "<b><i><br/><br/> James Tissot, Jesus Found in the Temple</i></b>" (1890)<br/><br/>Yesterday's Gospel has one of the most shocking verses in the New Testament, Luke 2:51, "<b><i>And he [<u><i>Jesus</i></u>] went down with them [<u><i>Mary and Joseph</i></u>] and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things in her heart.</i></b>" Is there any Marian hymn in the world with a more scandalous message than that? Scripture is telling us that the God of the all the Universe, the omnipotent, omniscient Second Person of the Trinity, chose to lower Himself and become obedient to Mary and Joseph.<br/><br/>The point of the occult, of every bit of black magic throughout every age of history, has been fixated on one thing: bending the supernatural or Divine to our wills. Instead of obeying God, the occult seeks to make God obey us (<u><b>or, barring that, settling for working with one of His fallen angels</b></u>). Yet Jesus Christ takes the initiative, and gives this most coveted authority to a poor Jewish couple. If this weren't explicitly in Scripture, can there be any doubt that Protestants would accuse Catholics of idolatry for believing this about Mary and Joseph? <br/><br/>This affirms that Mary and Joseph are true parents to Jesus Christ, as shocking and upsetting as that might be. There is a tendency amongst some Protestants to reduce them to something much less: to treat Mary like some sort of human mason jar that happened to hold the Christ, but who can be discarded after Christmas along with the tree, or to treat Joseph like an imposter. A Protestant reader actually accused Mary of being a liar for calling Joseph Jesus' father (<u><b>Lk. 2:48</b></u>), yet that's exactly what Scripture says of him (<u><b>Lk. 2:41</b></u>). True, he's not Jesus' "biological "father, but that's how adoption works. And since all of us are adopted (<u><b>since Christ is the only-begotten Son, as John 3:16 says</b></u>), who are we to complain?<br/><br/>And the timing of this verse is significant. It comes just two verses after Jesus says to His parents (<u><b>Lk. 2:49</b></u>), "Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?"<br/><br/>That is, Jesus doesn't trade obedience to God the Father for obedience to Mary and Joseph. Rather, in obeying His parents, He is obeying the Father; and in obeying the Father, He is obeying His parents (<u><b>since this is their greatest desire for Him</b></u>). There's no tension or competition between the two. The Father isn't jealous of Joseph for doing the very thing He placed him on earth to do, for example. Loving and honoring Mary and Joseph isn't somehow contrary to loving and honoring the Father.<br/><br/>So we, who are adopted into the Holy Family by virtue of our Divine adoption (<u><b>cf. Ephesians 1:5</b></u>), must follow our Lord's example. LOVE, HONOR, AND OBEY MARY AND JOSEPH WITH ABANDON, with the knowledge that you are doing the will of God, and following the example of Jesus Christ.<br></span>Selenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14539342654344447025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428328043836305112.post-17834867046172931682015-02-08T09:31:00.000-08:002015-03-04T07:51:32.291-08:00Religion Belief 2012 Will We Ascend To The 4Th Dimension By Activating Our Dna<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 62%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-qFVVCxgTWLA/VNmPk197VdI/AAAAAAAAjvU/3fuT2VIUtwU/The%252520Most%252520Important%252520Ancient%252520Egypt%252520Books110.jpg" border="0" alt="Religion Belief 2012 Will We Ascend To The 4Th Dimension By Activating Our Dna" title="Religion Belief 2012 Will We Ascend To The 4Th Dimension By Activating Our Dna" /></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">Something is happening out there, and within. Life is speeding up, changes are happening at a faster pace than ever before, what we used to rely on doesn't seem to be there any more. We are dreaming more lucidly than ever. Things are no longer as they seemed. What is happening?<br/><br/>One possible reason is that we are on the brink of an evolutionary leap, to the 4th or higher dimensions. The Mayans predicted that on December 21, 2012, our current world phase would end, to be replaced by the next one, repeating a cycle that has occurred approximately every 5,000 years since the beginning of time. A number of other religions, races and belief systems say that a major event will occur in the early part of this century, that will change our way of life completely.<br/><br/>Part of this process is said to be causing the acceleration we are experiencing at the moment, and will continue to experience at an ever-increasing pace until 2012, as we get closer to the 4th dimension.<br/><br/>Some say that the activation of dormant DNA strands will happen at that time, as part of our spiritual and physical evolutionary path. This will be apparently experienced as a spiritual awakening, or ascension to 4th dimensional living, which will see the expansion of our 3-dimensional world into a completely new experience. This experience will result in a lighter physical body, increased mental and spiritual abilities, and connections to other dimensions.<br/><br/>Each of our DNA strands are said to vibrate at a particular rate, and so can be activated with particular frequencies, by sounds that we can hear, and sounds that we cannot hear. These frequencies are apparently being emanated by the universe at the moment, affecting our abilities, and speeding up our daily life. Things we never knew existed will suddenly become a reality. Abilities we never had will suddenly emerge, and will vary according to the energy patterns we already hold.<br/><br/>For example, some will excel in healing abilities, and move objects with telekinesis, others may see into multi-dimensions. Many of us will be able to communicate telepathically, and manifest wonderful and self-fulfilling outcomes. We will be guided by our existing interests, and soul journey. As part of this process, new synapses will be forged in the brain to widen our sphere of reference.<br/><br/>The skeptical mind may dismiss this whole theory as ridiculous. However, there is another part of the mind we could also use, one that is not restricted by self-limiting beliefs. Now is the time to break free and open up to new possibilities.<br/><br/>This is an exciting time to be alive! This momentous event can be described as strings of energy pulsating through the universe, raising the octaves of life's being, and creating a major evolutionary shift. Once the process is complete, everything will synchronise in perfect harmony, and the world will experience the magnificent symphony of life, in all its beauty<br/><br/>Angela Clarke is an author, having published her first novel 2012 The Symphony http://www.2012thesymphony.com, a story based on the Mayan Calendar predictions for 2012, in December 2008. Before becoming an author, she was a business consultant. Angela lives between London and Southern France.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Angela Clarke</h4><br></span>Selenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14539342654344447025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428328043836305112.post-77603703443401425262015-02-05T15:40:00.000-08:002015-02-08T11:25:35.356-08:00Heavenly Baby Names From The Greek Gods<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 44%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-TzQQ8BdwzVs/VNe4KhJ2xRI/AAAAAAAAja0/AZqetrnG-Jk/Heavenly%252520Baby%252520Names%252520From%252520The%252520Greek%252520Gods.jpg" border="0" alt="Heavenly Baby Names From The Greek Gods" title="Heavenly Baby Names From The Greek Gods" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"> Are you considering a wonderful name for that new little baby boy or baby girl? If so, then let us look at some heavenly baby names from the Greek Gods.<br/><br/>These beautiful baby names and their meanings would be a treasured gift for a beloved child.<br/><br/>Here are a few of these best baby names.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>BABY GIRL NAMES AND THEIR MEANINGS</h4><br/>ARIADNE - (<u><b>Greek</b></u>) meaning "<b><i>Very Pure.</i></b>" Ariadne, daughter of the sun god, was the goddess of spring. Legend has it that Ariadne helped save the life of Theseus, King of Athens. She unwound a ball of string to show him the way out of the Minotaur's labyrinth and reach safety. Ariadne is also known as "<b><i>Ariana,</i></b>" or "Arianna."<br/><br/>DAPHNE - (<u><b>Greek</b></u>) meaning "<b><i>Laurel Tree.</i></b>" In legend, Daphne was a maiden who, while fleeing Apollo's advances, turned into a laurel tree. Apollo was so saddened by this that he made a laurel wreath from her branches and wore it on his head as his symbol. The laurel wreath remains a symbol of the highest honor bestowed on man.<br/><br/>HELEN - (<u><b>Greek from the name of the Greek sun god, "Helios"</b></u>) meaning "<b><i>Light.</i></b>" According to legend, Helen was so beautiful that word of her beauty spread from land to land. Finally, Paris, son of the King of Troy, abducted Helen and this act started the Trojan War.<br/><br/>PENELOPE - (<u><b>Greek</b></u>) meaning "<b><i>The Weaver.</i></b>" Penelope has come to mean "<b><i>One Who is Faithful.</i></b>" Legend has it that while Ulysses, her husband, travelled, she kept suitors away by vowing to first finish her weaving. However, every night, she undid the woven piece and started anew in the morning. This beautiful name remained mildly popular until mid 20th Century. Today, it is rather rare.<br/><br/>DORIS - (<u><b>Greek</b></u>) meaning "<b><i>Of the Sea.</i></b>" In mythology, Doris was a sea goddess. She was also mother of the sea nymphs, or "<b><i>nereids,</i></b>" and had great influence on the gods and goddesses. In the late 19th Century, "<b><i>Doris</i></b>" burst upon the scene with great popularity. The name remained high on the charts throughout the 20th Century.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>BABY BOY NAMES AND THEIR MEANINGS</h4><br/>DAMON -(Greek) meaning "<b><i>One Who Tames.</i></b>" However, over the years, "<b><i>Damon</i></b>" has come to mean "<b><i>Loyal Friend.</i></b>" This last designation is due to the amazing tale of Damon and Pythias, who were the best of friends. As the story goes, Damon offered his own life to save that of Pythias. Damon is also known as "Damian."<br/><br/>JASON - (<u><b>Greek</b></u>) meaning "<b><i>The Healer.</i></b>" This great hero of Greek mythology set out on his quest for the Golden Fleece. The King of Colchis had placed this Golden Fleece in a grove that was guarded by a dragon. But the brave Jason with his warriors, the agronauts, set sail and captured the Golden Fleece.<br/><br/>ORION - (<u><b>Greek</b></u>) meaning "<b><i>Light.</i></b>" According to legend, Orion was a handsome young hunter. When he was killed, the goddess who loved him placed him in the sky among the stars. As a constellation, he is pictured on charts as a hunter with a belt and a sword.<br/><br/>HECTOR - (<u><b>Greek</b></u>) meaning "<b><i>Holding Fast.</i></b>" Legend tells us that Hector was an outstanding hero of the Trojan War. In the midst of frenzied fighting, Hector was slain by Achilles. Hector was a beloved figure and was greatly mourned. He remains an enduring hero.<br/><br/>HERCULES - (<u><b>Greek</b></u>) meaning "<b><i>Glory of Hera.</i></b>" This fabled Greek hero was known for his amazing strength. Hera, Queen of the Gods, forced Hercules to perform 12 seemingly impossible feats of strength. With steely determination, Hercules perform them all.<br/><br/>Perhaps these heavenly baby names from the Greek Gods will help you choose your own beautiful baby name.<br/><br/> To learn more about your own name, visit http://www.giftscrolls4u.com Also, browse through unique gift ideas for birthdays, anniversaries, graduation, baptisms and many other occasions. Claim your personalized name scroll and receive a free treasured gift. For more information, visit http://www.giftscrolls4u.com<br/><br/>(c) Benedict Manovill. All Rights Reserved Worldwide.<br/><br/> Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Benedict Manovill <br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/1313516</h4><br></span>Selenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14539342654344447025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428328043836305112.post-85407873765805447882015-02-03T10:03:00.000-08:002015-03-02T11:43:40.546-08:00How To Tell A Premonition From Your Imagination<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 73%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-lHFuvxSWV0o/VPS9ad6QDgI/AAAAAAAAmEs/JoTamfiLRPY/How%252520To%252520Tell%252520A%252520Premonition%252520From%252520Your%252520Imagination.jpg" border="0" alt="How To Tell A Premonition From Your Imagination" title="How To Tell A Premonition From Your Imagination" /></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"> Premonitions are often on the mind of audiences I speak with and I am often asked to speak about psychic phenomena and the premonitions I get. I think the premonitions you get are far more important though. As one learns to meditate the psychic part of our brain begins to wake up and if we keep with it like an atrophied muscle it can spasm and come awake again. One of the most exciting things about meditation is the promise of leading a more awake existence and the ability to listen to our inner wisdom is the greatest tool we can use to achieve a happy life.<br/><br/> When you first begin to meditate its good to bring a pen and paper into the room because your mind throws all kinds of stuff at you to distract you. So if it gets to be do distracting stop and write the grocery list or the to do list that won't shut up and move on to silence.<br/><br/> Amethyst is a good crystal to meditate with to improve premonitions<br/><br/> The second thing your mind will do is create entertaining little scenes for you to enjoy rather than meditate. I have to be very careful of what music I listen to as I meditate It can transport me to a middle eastern harem or a japanese tea ceremony if it is too culturally specific. Sometimes this is lovely but it is not meditation.<br/><br/> The best advice I can give you is pay attention to the little things and know that premonitions rarely come while you are meditating. They come because you meditated but sometimes they take a while to sneak through. For me they often come while I am completely absorbed in something else. Cooking or canning or washing the dishes and I get a flash of a feeling or emotion that is out of context and much more intense than anything I am doing should warrant.<br/><br/> Often my premonitions are accompanied by feelings in my body as well as images in my mind. In fact if I see a scene and don't feel any emotions in the midst of it. That is probably my imagination at work. But I am an empath so emotions are a big part of my nonverbal landscape. You will have to pay close attention to how it works for you.<br/><br/> I will also say that when you act on these premonitions and see them through it strengthens the ability for the next time. Pay attention to the fact that you know who is on the phone before it rings. Soon bigger messages will start coming through.<br/><br/> It is great fun to learn your own internal landscape and I wish you much joy and adventure as you explore it.<br/><br/>POSTS RELATED TO HOW TO TELL A PREMONITION FROM YOUR IMAGINATION<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> * <br/><br/>A GOOD LUCK SPELL THAT REALLY WORKS</h4><br/> I get asked about real spells that really work for beginners or where to start with your spell casting and I am really a shaman at...<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> * </h4><br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>HOW TO BECOME MORE INTUITIVE</h4><br/> Learning to become more intuitive is really about being willing to be wrong. Strange isn't it? 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I think the best...<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> * </h4><br/>HOW TO TALK TO YOUR HOUSE PLANTS.<br/><br/> House plants make a house a home, they are always so pretty and green when we see them in the store we just love them...<br/><br/> The post How to tell a premonition from your imagination appeared first on Nayleon.<br/><br/>Credit: <a href='http://crafty-witch.blogspot.com' target='_blank'>crafty-witch.blogspot.com</a></span>Selenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14539342654344447025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428328043836305112.post-49652251520541334912015-01-30T16:22:00.000-08:002015-01-31T12:39:37.460-08:00It Doesnt Matter What This Sign Says Youll Call It Racism Anyway<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 73%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Hk-pTMRAxPE/VF9CkaZqyfI/AAAAAAAAbZ4/4k1jwv3_jpw/Magi%252520And%252520Magicians.jpg" border="0" alt="It Doesnt Matter What This Sign Says Youll Call It Racism Anyway" title="It Doesnt Matter What This Sign Says Youll Call It Racism Anyway" /></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">A timely post from www.VDare.com about the TEA Party. This follows this post analyzing so called Nazis in Arizona. This follows this post about the November 2010 elections and this post about the MURDER of ROBERT KRENTZ, who the protestors and boycotters won't give a solution for, but will call Americans racist for trying to prevent another MURDER, and this post which shows that there are 30,000 openly illegal immigrants in the border town of El Paso. For more interesting stories like this click here to follow this blog.<br/><br/>THE MARK WILLIAMS FIASCOA SILLY SURRENDER BY TEA PARTY "LEADERSHIP"<br/><br/>By A.W. Morgan<br/><br/>"It doesn't matter what this sign says, you'll call it racism anyway."<br/><br/>That's a popular sign at Tea Party rallies. But it's a firm sentiment among those who understand The National Question and have experienced its truth when discussing, no matter how innocently, any issue involving race or ethnicity.<br/><br/>If you're white, and refuse to accept President Barack Hussein Obama's rhetorical usurpation of your country, you're a racist. If you're white, and you refuse to accept Mexican immigration's destruction of your neighborhood, you're a racist. If you're white, you oppose the Islamification of America because you believe the United States is at least historically a nation built upon the foundation of Christianity, you are, again, a racist.<br/><br/>So the "<b><i>Conservative</i></b>" Establishment which ought to oppose this, has long learned to shut up and keep to their talking points about "<b><i>fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government</i></b>" and "<b><i>free markets.</i></b>" Now the national Tea Party movement has followed suit. Those slogans, along with a fierce-looking Paul Revere in silhouette, emblazon the internet banderole of the National Tea Party Federation-which has recently, amid much publicity, banished talk show host Mark Williams, leader of the based Tea Party Express, to the outer darkness.<br/><br/>Williams, you see, dared ridicule the NAACP-that group of black professional shakedown artists who see a racist under every bed.<br/><br/>That Mark Williams has been purged suggests that he understands what is stake in this country. It isn't just about free enterprise and our constitutional freedoms, or whether Ben Stein gets a great reception at a college campus. In short, Williams gets it.<br/><br/>After the NAACP passed its now infamous resolution calling on the Tea Party to expel its racist members, Williams unbosomed himself of an piece of satire poking fun at "<b><i>colored people</i></b>" It was a letter to the Great Emancipator, Father Abraham himself.<br/><br/>"Dear Mr. Lincoln:<br/><br/>"We Coloreds have taken a vote and decided that we don't cotton to that whole emancipation thing....<br/><br/>"In fact we held a big meeting and took a vote in Kansas City this week. We voted to condemn a political revival of that old abolitionist spirit called the 'tea party movement.'<br/><br/>"The tea party position to '<i>end the bailouts</i>' for example is just silly. Bailouts are just big money welfare and isn't that what we want all Coloreds to strive for? What kind of racist would want to end big money welfare?...<br/><br/>"And the ridiculous idea of '<i>reduce[ing] the size and intrusiveness of government.</i>' What kind of massa would ever not want to control my life? As Coloreds we must have somebody care for us otherwise we would be on our own, have to think for ourselves and make decisions!<br/><br/>"The racist tea parties also demand that the government '<i>stop the out of control spending.</i>' Again, they directly target coloreds. That means we Coloreds would have to compete for jobs like everybody else and that is just not right.<br/><br/>"Perhaps the most racist point of all in the tea parties is their demand that government '<i>stop raising our taxes.</i>' That is outrageous! How will we coloreds ever get a wide screen TV in every room if non-coloreds get to keep what they earn? Totally racist! "<br/><br/>And so went the satirical letter from "<b><i>Precious Ben Jealous, Tom's Nephew</i></b>" and "NAACP Head Colored Person."<br/><br/>Juvenile, of course-although the idea that welfare has become a form of slavery has long been a standard conceit among house-broken conservatives like Jack Kemp. But a firing offense? Do we believe in free speech or what?<br/><br/>Nevertheless, the National Tea Party Federation reacted as quickly as the colonial American pictured on its home page: "<b><i>The Racists Are Coming! The Racists Are Coming!</i></b>" It demanded that the Tea Party Express "<b><i>publicly rebuke</i></b>" Williams. Said rebuke must "<b><i>take the following form</i></b>"-or else:<br/><br/>"1. Mark Williams must be officially removed from the ranks of the Tea Party Express.<br/><br/>"2. Notice of Mark Williams' removal must be placed prominently on the official Tea Party Express website.<br/><br/>3. Tea Party Express must issue a press release articulating points 1 and 2 above."<br/><br/>The Tea Party Express, greatly to its credit, refused-whereupon the Federation sent expelled Williams and his organization.<br/><br/>Williams has published something of an apology at his Web site, but for all intents and purposes, he stuck to his guns. Good for him.<br/><br/>Of course, Williams uttered the usual platitudes in his apology. Conceding that he went too far, he wrote, "I reiterate what I and every tea partier have said repeatedly: We denounce racists of any color and all those who seek to divide the American People along any lines."<br/><br/>(In a late-breaking development, the NAACP's Jealous may be reaching out to Williams in the wake of Obama Administration official Shirley Sherrod's forced resignation after the revelation of her speech to an NAACP group apparently gloating about denying aid to a white farmer).<br/><br/>Despite the obligatory cant, Williams knows very well who "<b><i>seek[s] to divide the American People</i></b>", and it isn't the whites who opposes or in many cases voted for the son of an alcoholic Kenyan bigamist and radical white mother as president of the United States.<br/><br/>Indeed, when necessary, Williams jettisons the tea party line that touts the virtues of a race-blind society governed by men (<u><b>and women, of course</b></u>), who understand the rule of law, free markets, limited government, and the Constitution et etc.<br/><br/>That might be one reason he denounced the Ground Zero mosque. The Cordoba Initiative's principal backer is an imam who supported the unsuccessful and Hamas-backed Gaza flotilla and seeks to impose Sharia law in the United States. He wants to build The Cordoba House at the site of the now missing World Trade Center towers, which are missing precisely because that imam's co-religionists (<u><b>even if incensed by America's misguided imperial policies in the Middle East</b></u>) knocked them down with two passenger jets on Sept. 11, 2001.<br/><br/>The Cordoba Initiative, Williams wrote at his blog, "<b><i>would consist of a Mosque for the worship of the terrorists' monkey-god</i></b>".<br/><br/>For good measure, Williams rightly described Islam as a "<b><i>7th-century death cult coughed up by psychotic pedophile,</i></b>" referring to Mohammed's marriage to 6-year-old Aisha.<br/><br/>Naturally, the spokesman for Islam demanded an apology, and they got one - sort of: "I was wrong and that was offensive. I owe an apology to millions of Hindus who worship Lord Hanuman, an actual Monkey God."<br/><br/>Indeed. As conservative and former Capitol Hill staffer Jim Jatras observed in an article in 1989, Muslims actually worship "the former chief deity of the polytheistic Arab pantheon - a variation on the moon god common throughout the ancient Middle East, among the Babylonians known as Sin (<u><b>the Sinai peninsula is probably named after him</b></u>) and among the Sumerians as Nanna - stripped of his consorts and offspring.... In short, Islam is a self-evident outgrowth not of the Old and New Covenants but of the darkness of heathen Araby.")<br/><br/>That article sent Muslims into a rage. They demanded, unsuccessfully, Jatras' ouster as a key Republican staffer. (<u><b>He's now in the private sector.</b></u>) To paraphrase H.L. Mencken, it isn't lies that hurt; it's the truth.<br/><br/>Williams may have misspoken about the Muslim deity. But he was right to puncture the myth, widely accepted by gullible dim bulbs including some tea party Americans no doubt, that Islam is merely an amalgam of Judaism and Christianity. That said, Williams was likely as incensed about this as Americans would have been in 1946 if the government had allowed the Japanese to build a shrine at Pearl Harbor.<br/><br/>Anyhow, Williams' "<b><i>expulsion</i></b>" as a leader within the Federation-if one can be expelled from a movement that has no real membership list or list of officers, shows just what is at stake in the debate over President Obama's policies and what they mean for the future of this country.<br/><br/>Conservatives and even liberals, including Geraldine Ferraro, have rightly complained that any criticism of Obama brings on the accusation of "<b><i>racism</i></b>". The inevitable result of Williams' ouster is that Obama's supporters will now utter that charge even more frequently.<br/><br/>Undoubtedly, the tea party movement contains a contingent of such people, just as Obama's movement contains Communists, murderers and child molesters. Yet most Tea Partiers clearly aren't "<b><i>racists,</i></b>" at least in the sense the Southern Poverty Law Center and NAACP use that hackneyed term. Anyway, the question is how long it will be before any criticism of Obama or any other black person is simply not allowed.<br/><br/>Williams understands this. And he clearly knows that the United States of America is more than an "<b><i>idea</i></b>"-that the liberties Americans enjoy depend more upon what kind people live here and govern, pace the National Tea Party Federation, than upon merely defending abstract libertarian ideological tenets traveling under the names of "<b><i>fiscal responsibility</i></b>", "<b><i>constitutionally limited government</i></b>" and "<b><i>free markets</i></b>".<br/><br/>Indeed, because these ideas, particularly the latter two - and let's include the rule of and respect for the law - are rooted in the Christian conception of human nature and political liberty, they depend upon citizens imbued and educated in a Christian cultural milieu.<br/><br/>Asian, African and Mexican or Central American (<u><b>Aztec or Mesoamerican</b></u>) immigrants don't understand them because they come from cultures in which raw power, corruption and superstition control their lives.<br/><br/>That zoning ordinance limits a single-family dwelling to one family, meaning parents and children? Ignore it. Pack in the in-laws and cousins, too!<br/><br/>The law respects a woman's place in society. Ignore it. If she disobeys, beat her to a pulp or chop off her head.<br/><br/>The law forbids drinking and driving? Bah. Macho men swizzle a 12-pack and put the pedal to the metal.<br/><br/>Williams gets all this-and so do many if not most tea-party Americans, despite brainwashing by the media and government schools.<br/><br/>Problem is, the tea-party leadership either don't get it or don't care to get it.<br/><br/>And as long they speak for "<b><i>conservatives</i></b>" and other real Americans, Obama and his janissaries have nothing to stop them from dispossessing those upon whom this country's prosperity and political liberty ultimately depends: people who look like Mark Williams.<br/><br/>A.W. Morgan [<u><i>Email him</i></u>] is fully recovered from prolonged contact with the Beltway Right. He now lives in America.<br></span>Selenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14539342654344447025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428328043836305112.post-83981746673076906112015-01-30T03:36:00.000-08:002015-01-30T15:36:52.770-08:00Shaman Saiva And Sufi<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 44%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-kRtyRXYMFfw/VMwVkcmuE2I/AAAAAAAAhwU/o_sZW0-yqVg/Shaman%252520Saiva%252520And%252520Sufi.jpg" border="0" alt="Shaman Saiva And Sufi" title="Shaman Saiva And Sufi" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> </h4>BOOK: SHAMAN SAIVA AND SUFI BY RO WINSTEDT<br/><br/>THis book is the outcome of a close study of the language and beliefs of the Malays during a period of residence in the Malay Peninsula that has now reached twenty?two years. Its object is to unravel a complex system of magic in the light of historical and Comparative data. By itself this system is a tangle every thread of which scholars working in Europe are led to term Malay, although even the native distinguishes this thread as Indian and that as Muslim. Chapters i.?iv. deal with the Malay's evolution from animist to Muslim; chapters v. and vi. with his animism; chapters vii. and viii. with his shamanism; chapter ix. with rites largely infected with Hindu magic; and chapters x. and xi. with Muslim accretions. Like all writers on this subject I am indebted to the classical works of Tylor, Frazer, and Jevons, and particularly to the articles by specialists on the magic of different races and faith in Hastings' Encyclopaedia<br/><br/>of Religion and Ethics. Working far away from an adequate library, I have found this Encyclopaedia of incalculable value.<br/><br/>Chapters iv., vi. and viii. are based almost entirely on manuscripts written down for me by Malays and checked by my own observation. The chapter on "<b><i>Magician and Muslim</i></b>" is founded on Malay lithographed texts and on a Manuscript magic religious treatise obtained by Dr. Gimlette in Kelantan and kindly lent by him to me. The same manuscript and an old Perak court charm book have been used for the chapters on "<b><i>The Malay Charm</i></b>" and "<b><i>Magician and Mystic.</i></b>" Papers on Malay charms, on birth and marriage ceremonies, on the ritual of the rice field and the ritual of propitiating the spirits of a district have appeared from my pen in the Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums, and should be in the hands of those who wish to study original sources and vernacular terms. I owe a debt to the authors of many articles printed in the Straits (<u><b>now Malayan</b></u>) Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, to Dr. Gimlette's Malay Poisons and Charms, to Fasciculi Malayenses by Messrs. Annandale the former has made many useful suggestions and the latter given me valuable material. SINGAPORE,1924.<br/><br/>Download Ro Winstedt's eBook: Shaman Saiva And Sufi<br/><br/> :Leo Ruickbie - Halloween And Samhain<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Carroll Runyon - Magick And Hypnosis</h4><br/>Anonymous - Pagan Stones And Gems<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Ro Winstedt - Shaman Saiva And Sufi</h4><br></span>Selenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14539342654344447025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428328043836305112.post-89040642361704497052015-01-28T23:42:00.000-08:002015-03-11T05:57:17.951-07:00Tim Burton Day Comics Feature If You Like Tim Burton<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 62%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ofPpxmjlPkk/VQA7qe183DI/AAAAAAAAnIc/TTiNwHvDb0I/Tim%252520Burton%252520Day%252520Comics%252520Feature%252520If%252520You%252520Like%252520Tim%252520Burton.jpg" border="0" alt="Tim Burton Day Comics Feature If You Like Tim Burton" title="Tim Burton Day Comics Feature If You Like Tim Burton" /></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">"REECE MORRIS-JONES GIVES ADVICE TO ALL THOSE THAT WANT SOME GOTH IN THEIR LIFE COMICS WISE..."<br/><br/>Tim Burton is a Goth with Daddy issues - it's not controversial to say that anymore, right?<br/><br/>It's been pretty well established that Burtons unique visual style and method of story telling has been heavily influenced by the Goth scene of the 80's, which took a skewed look at the western world and decided it didn't want to follow in the footsteps of its parents.<br/><br/>So those of you out there who quite like Burton's style whilst also being fans of comics...where do you start? This article hopes to help you with that. From homicidal killers to poetry in motion, here's a recommendation of where to look.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>SANDMAN</h4><br/>"Let's start with the the most obvious choice. Neil Gaiman's celebrated story of a group of living concepts, headed by Morpheus, a being who is so 80's he manages to wear just a black dressing gown and still" pull it off, has been talked up so much its not even worth mentioning too much. Many more than I have phrased it's appeal better than I ever will, but suffice to say, it mixes baroque concepts with prose that drips the kind of humour Burton is famous for. Mind you, there's a far better story out there...<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>LUCIFER</h4><br/>"People say that Sandman is a great story and to an extend it's true. But where Sandman is a comic that and a great story to boot". Spinning out of the events of Sandman, Lucifer stars the Morningstar himself, who having grown weary of the role God assigned him abandons hell and strikes out for himself to try and make a better world than his father even could.<br/><br/>proves the medium can be literary, Lucifer is both that <br/><br/>Lucifer himself is cold, calculating and aloof with a million plans all in motion at once, John Constantine but a bigger bastard, which is why his supporting cast are so essential, helping craft a tale that deserves to be acknowledged for the greatness it possesses. Though it's always lived in the shadow of Gaiman, its one that in merits, eclipses it. Worth a read for all those Burton fans who like the religious elements of his work alongside the macabre.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>EMILY THE STRANGE</h4><br/>Though I've remarked in the past that she's more an icon than an actual relatable human being, Emily has still inspired millions around the world with her DIY spirit and determination that girls can do it better than boys. She's starred in a few comic series, most recently Emily and the Strangers, but really her effect has been teaching a generation of girls that its ok to shy away from what is considered '<i>normal</i>' and just be themselves. Which is the Goth spirit personified really.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>JOHNNY THE HOMICIDAL MANIAC</h4><br/>Jhonen Vasquez's first breakout hit, the comic series tells the story of a young man named Johnny C., as he explores the psychological and possibly supernatural forces which compel him to commit a string of murders. Heavy on blood whilst giving everything a slightly humorous twist, JTHM is dark, twisted and distinctly counter-culture, despising everything that modern day life is.<br/><br/>It's also a very funny comic from start to finish which actually challenges the apathy that counter culture thinking can bring. All whilst involving a villainous stuffed bear.<br/><br/>A must see for those who like the spikier, more biting Burton.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>LENORE</h4><br/>Channelling the whimsy of everyday life/death, Lenore stars a character who is dead, who spends most of her days mucking around with her friends and scaring the living. Whereas the prior entries all are extremes to one end or another, Lenore imagines a slightly softer and irrelevant side to the goth lifestyle without sacrificing any of what makes it appealing to those attracted to the subculture.<br/><br/>Lenore has attracted a dedicated following during her exitance in part due to her creator Roman Dirge's desire to keep the project creator owned and underground. Worth checking out if the you know someone who needs a gentle introduction to Burton's work.<br/><br/>"REECE MORRIS-JONES IS THE THECULTDEN'S BOOKS AND COMICS EDITOR. ANY QUESTIONS OR QUERIES, YOU CAN REACH HIM ON @REECEMJONES."<br/><br/>"Article images courtesy of Roman Dirge, Jhonen Vasquez, DC Comics and Rob Reger."<br></span>Selenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14539342654344447025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428328043836305112.post-53766738567594832002015-01-27T09:38:00.000-08:002015-02-12T15:00:55.776-08:00Catholic Values<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 51%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-iJYP7ilPju8/VN0wpNsoidI/AAAAAAAAkXU/qC_Y8k3nCpg/Catholic%252520Values.jpg" border="0" alt="Catholic Values" title="Catholic Values" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>CATHOLIC BOARD BANS '<i>"GOLDEN COMPASS"</i>' INAUDIBLY</h4>I deduce we are lucky not to be under a Catholic Theocracy like peas in a pod feudal Europe did. Or to boot hard-up Phillip Pullman and his books would not suitably comprise been suitably prevented by a Catholic school board. His books would comprise been second hand for kindling as the Place of worship attentive him to an vehicle da fey which was their select for the felony of heresy. <br/><br/>Now aren't you content you be in a chronological pluralist memory which allows you the Size to Gain access to unless of course you go to a taxpayer funded Catholic School in.<br/><br/>Dryly the Catholic Place of worship and its school boards are proving Pullman just later than he asserts the Place of worship and hardheaded religion is a threaten to humanist account philosophy.<br/><br/>In the same way as they accept citizens confirmation for instance rejecting chronological and citizens philosophy in favour of their full integrity it is time to tax the churches. Thrust em pay for their crimes opposed to chronological memory and its educated philosophy that they deter.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>SEE</h4><br/> AN Going away Brains<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> NITWITS</h4><br/> Director Stupid CENSORSHIP<br/><br/>"Get stuck blog posts, photos, comings and goings and ended off-site about:"<br/><br/>pagan, paganism, witch, J.K.Rowling, Hassle Potter, novels, paganism,,<br/><br/>US, UK, anti-god, skeptic, heresy,Wicca, school, pagans, witchcraft, neo-pagans, censorship, books, Christians, magic, Britain, library, religion,full schools, Ontario, Poorly lit Raw materials" Christians, The Fair Compass, event, citizens schools, Philip Pullman, Place of worship of the In the air Spaghetti Monster, Dufferin-Peel Catholic board,<br/><br/>Reference: <a href='http://new-generation-witch.blogspot.com' target='_blank'>new-generation-witch.blogspot.com</a></span>Selenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14539342654344447025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428328043836305112.post-806025254205314142015-01-20T04:48:00.000-08:002015-03-10T17:12:26.962-07:00Themis Also Justicia Iustitia Lady Justice<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">Themis is a Titanid goddess of custom, assemblies, and right order, also presiding over the feasts of the gods on Olympia. She was one of Zeus' most trusted advisors, sitting by his side and whispering her prophetic words of wisdom to him. She is one of the daughters of Gaia and Uranus, also the mother or the Horae (<u><b>Thallo, Auxo and Carpo- Greek goddesses of the three seasons</b></u>) and the Moirae (<u><b>Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos- goddesses who controlled the destiny of everyone from the time they were born to the time they died</b></u>), all of whom were fathered by Zeus. She has oracular powers, and it is said that she built the oracle at Delphi. <br/><br/>She is often depicted as a stern looking woman, blindfolded and holding a pair of scales. Justicia, her Roman counterpart, was portrayed blindfolded, with balanced scales and holding a sword, or sometimes shown holding the fasces (<u><b>a bundle of rods around an axe- symbolising judicial authority</b></u>) in one hand and a flame (<u><b>symbolising truth</b></u>) in the other. Classical representations of Themis did not show her blindfolded- as she had the gift of prophecy, there was no need for her to be blinded. Nor did she hold a sword, because she represented consent, not coercion. In modern times, she is often referred to as Lady Justice.<br/><br/>click for image one.<br/><br/>click for image two.<br/><br/>click for image three.<br/><br/>click for image four.<br/><br/>click for image five.<br/><br/>click for image six.<br/><br/>click for image seven.<br/><br/>click for image eight.<br/><br/>click for image nine.<br/><br/>click for image ten.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>small gallery containing 8 images of one large statue.</h4><br></span>Selenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14539342654344447025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428328043836305112.post-7678358724799929242015-01-17T16:50:00.000-08:002015-02-10T09:24:29.339-08:00Obeah Love Spell Jamaican Spell<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 48%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-TJFJGphkrLI/VNo-yQN2_aI/AAAAAAAAj7M/DqLdGLoZ4-A/Obeah%252520Love%252520Spell%252520Jamaican%252520Spell.jpg" border="0" alt="Obeah Love Spell Jamaican Spell" title="Obeah Love Spell Jamaican Spell" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">Many so called spiritualists has claimed to be powerful love specialists who make ridiculous false promises e.g., They say they solve love problems which never seemed to be solved, returns lovers instantly/ overnight, one day for lover to commit for life, love a phone call away and love in 24 hours. However professor Aba is an occultist voodoo master, healer, teacher and hypnotist and do not make these false promises, but has discovered the root to unearth all these love mysteries and have solve thousands of love problems. a special formulated love spell personally designed by me, involves a three and a half week process that will solve the most difficult of all love situations.<br/><br/>I will send the wild and whirling spirits in the thoughts and mind of the one you desire, this will ensure that he/she will return and no one will be able to lessen, break, destroy or interrupt your happiness. This special invocation is not ordinary and should not be taken for granted. Only when you are sure that you love and want the person forever, then should you ask me to perform this love spell this spell binds people together and even takes away sexual feelings for other persons. So be very sure when requesting this spell. Along with this love you will receive a blessed handkerchief.<br/><br/>For more information please visit http://www.professoraba.com<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>or call 305-396-2451 or 876-971-0337.</h4><br></span>Selenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14539342654344447025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428328043836305112.post-15885714375462896782015-01-15T18:27:00.000-08:002015-03-02T11:43:51.179-08:00Connecting To The Reality Of The Afterlife<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 42%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iKSZxXF_D0E/VPS9bhM8_dI/AAAAAAAAmE0/If-vszeoJO0/Connecting%252520To%252520The%252520Reality%252520Of%252520The%252520Afterlife.jpg" border="0" alt="Connecting To The Reality Of The Afterlife" title="Connecting To The Reality Of The Afterlife" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"> Bestow are so normal relatives in the flesh today nonetheless wondering whether dowry is life previously death, and if dowry is, what sort of afterlife is it? How can one be programmed of the information prevented today on such put forward subjects as this one? I manipulate calculated all aspects of this occupational relatively seriously and as a nonbeliever considering 1972. Unfortunately dowry has been to a great extent interpretation on this occupational see-through more or less in history, for the most part created by powerful priests, popes and bishops challenging to deposit the masses under their vary. I manipulate truly moral found some sources of information that I can payment such as the near-death experiences of others, my own own experiences, and the enormous Leslie Flint Literary Observance recordings. <br/><br/> Go to "<b><i>THE LESLIE FLINT LITERARY OBSERVANCE</i></b>" for a colossal support of unquestionably truthful and lengthy (<u><b>SOME UNRELIEVED UP TO 50 ACCOUNT</b></u>) touching approximately recordings taped by George Woodland, Betty Greene and normal others from the mid 1950's to inconvenient 1990's. As now then craftily analyzing all their work and all other recordings, I manipulate to say, they are the utmost noteworthy bright idea release in afterlife survey ever. Even if, before listening to any seance satisfied harmonize to the opening memorandum by one of Mr. Leslie Flint's sitters, Betty Greene into. Also satisfied harmonize to the recordings of radio programs, lectures, etc. explaining direct approximately mediumship, and interviews with Leslie Flint which can also be found at the The Leslie Flint Literary Observance. <br/><br/> It is best to deposit an open follow and try to inhibit any preconceived coaching, reflection, and misconceptions, like direct approximately mediumship is an now then severe, private and byzantine occupational that very few understand or even abstract seriously. The sensitively shifting touching voices manipulate to go lay down sure stages of be concerned to etheric to acceptably variety lay down the means of ectoplasm before they can be physically heard and consequently recorded on tapes of shifting echo. The opening personalities, information, and mottled accents habitually come lay down now then well and in total sounding very complete to how the distinctive sounded occasion nonetheless in the flesh. <br/><br/> Various of the personalities that come lay down are habitually channeled lay down a spirit to a great extent closer to the Realm pulsate, like the levels of pulsate or spheres that they come from are habitually too far separated (<u><b>OUT OF RANGE</b></u>) from the vibrational level of the approximately box. Moderately wish a hold go through with Leslie Flint days the physical medium or channel on Realm, occasion possibly the spirit guide Dr. Marshall, and spirit vary, "<b><i>MICKEY</i></b>" (<u><b>JOHN PERCEIVE WHO VOTED FOR TO ONE SIDE AT AGE 11 FINISH BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY</b></u>) provides the mediumship on the etheric level. Self-esteem from to a great extent exclusive spheres can consequently attach, even so some of their opening approximately is lost. This is why normal of the souls from the exclusive spheres may sometimes acceptably complete to Dr. Marshall or Mickey. The bring in sprint is awkward and now then difficult. The novel thing is, is that we are brilliant to surprise whatever at all, and that anyone in the world with a CPU and an internet approach can now harmonize to a full-size selection of them! <br/><br/> Set skeptical? It is an deep susceptibility even in the company of the utmost dazzling and professional technological minds to unreservedly sack a occupational such as extraordinary visitations or afterlife as unreservedly false desire before worldly wise whatever about it. Such predilection and dim-wittedness is wish the child who naively declares that science is unreservedly false weakness primary craftily understanding what science and the technological limit really are all about in the primary place. Citizens who in a closed-minded way prison term a occupational soley based on what far too diminutive they know about it already are yes indeed involuntary in the inferior way. "<b><i>ARGUMENT WEAKNESS EXPERIMENT</i></b>" kills knowledge. I also find the desire safe, dark age Christian belief that spiritualism is the "<b><i>DEVIL'S WORK</i></b>" somewhat bug-ridden, unquestionably non-scientific and aggravating. Each time it comes to success of truth, precise not far off from the afterlife, earth has been now then discolored at it. <br/><br/> Mr. Leslie Flint (<u><b>1911-1994</b></u>) has to be one of the utmost absolute, utmost unceremoniously scrutinized, and verifiable sources of afterlife information ever, and was one of the utmost bountiful mediums of the 20th century and the utmost methodically weathered. I give build up to you why I imagine dowry is no way these voices could manipulate been a scam and why I am 100% known that the information that came lay down is real, verifiable and precise! You give see why it would be foster artificial that they were by some means faked than actually be real souls speaking lay down in the precise, seek permission, from-the-heart, natural and chance mode that they had accepted in. <br/><br/> As very craftily listening to polished 200 recordings (<u><b>OUT OF A SUPPORT OF ONE THOUSAND OLD TRACK RECORD RECORDINGS UTMOST OF WHICH ARE NOT YET PREVENTED ON THE INTERNET AND TAPED BY THE SITTERS GEORGE WOODLAND, BETTY GREENE AND OTHERS FROM THE DELAYED 1950'S TO INCONVENIENT 1990'S</b></u>) and normal foster moral gratis, I can with 100% reality guarantee that all of the recordings are of unquestionably truthful kind claiming to be dead! The whole effect is innocently away to exhibit incorrectly. One would hunger after innumerable questionably intelligent child and bulky actors and actresses non-discriminatory to restore these tapes weakness doubling them! Convincingly orthodox and natural sounding intangible personalities manipulate been at a complete loss on tape! Regardless of the fact they were spirits or not, they were assuredly real, upright, honest-to-goodness sounding kind claiming to be spirits from newborn charisma, and assuredly NOT actors and assuredly NOT individuals attempting to fix or incorrectly copy spirits. <br/><br/> You want harmonize to all recordings craftily yourself to spring up understand jagged what I mean and why I know they are genuine; by how the personalities accessible themselves, how they sounded, the metaphors they conveyed, how they conversed very wisely with the sitters, how they answered questions truly the distinctive would know, how some seemed to be brilliant to read the sitter's follow(s), how some were brilliant to see property leaving in a unreservedly darkened room and advise the actions of the day truly the sitter had documented about, the 100% emotional and awe-inspiring spiritual occupational admire and wisdom they evocatively spoken, their entity mannerisms, the honestly reunions of old friendships and cherished ones, their truthful impression of overprotect and odd, atmosphere quirks, the difficulties some had communicating, the restrictions they faced, the odd and humorous luggage caused by the ectoplasm they were using, the keep pace with accents, mysterious and/or desire former dead languages and songs, and how they larger than their league, etc. <br/><br/> Blunt if by some means the voices were faked, how on this Realm would Leslie Flint get hundreds of 100% seek permission sounding actors and actresses to impromptu come lay down out of thin air and okay oath all questions from sitters and from audiences as spacious as two thousand kind in school halls and theatres (<u><b>SUCH AS KINGSWAY VESTIBULE</b></u>) in the UK? Big correct names and addresses of dead folks were unconditional, by impressive facts truly the living human being(s) addressed to would know about. If they were faked, where on earth would all the "<b><i>PSYCHICALLY BRILLIANT</i></b>" (<u><b>THEY WOULD MANIPULATE TO BE!</b></u>) actors and actresses considered necessary to oath all the sitters' questions come from? After that who remunerated all these actors and actresses to flicker these perfectly related and rapid conversations with straightforward strangers for polished a calculate of sixty living, even answering questions sometimes non-discriminatory before they were asked as if they were reading one's follow and consequently habitually speaking at breadth about the importance of resolved love, forgiveness, respectability, the world, service to others, and without prejudice Christianity? <br/><br/> Above information and videos related to this article can be found permission here: http://www.wholejoy.com/wholeness/news99q.html <br/><br/> Russell Symonds (<u><b>SHAKTIVIRYA</b></u>) has earnest his life to ruling wholeness and is living the "<b><i>WHOLENESS</i></b>" practice. His website, Science of Wholeness is a spiritual and relating to diet information and survey soul earnest to curb you find your keys to wholeness (<u><b>IMPERISHABLE JOY, LOVE, STATE, REVIVAL, AND TO A GREAT EXTENT, TO A GREAT EXTENT FOSTER</b></u>). Bestow is no big thing of beauty, worth and joy as wholeness! <br/><br/> The rest of his opening articles and his free online book can be found here: http://www.wholejoy.com/wholeness/NEWS.html <br></span>Selenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14539342654344447025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428328043836305112.post-19218546970269102552015-01-14T14:05:00.000-08:002015-01-16T14:08:36.271-08:00Loading Candles<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 56%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Y2xlPZuOajM/VKv99mPYdfI/AAAAAAAAe7A/n8Tr2h8HJLQ/Mystery%252520Medallion%252520On%252520Unidentified%252520Man%252520Found%252520Executed%252520Near%252520Elsa.jpg" border="0" alt="Loading Candles" title="Loading Candles" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">The term, "<b><i>LOADING CANDLES</i></b>", literally means to add items to a candle, i.e. to "<b><i>load them with objects</i></b>". The practice of loading candles is action associated with the practice of candle magic within various magical traditions, such as Hoodoo/Rootwork/Conjure. The reasons for loading candles include the desire for secrecy as well as tho make the candle magic work more powerful. A loaded candle, depending on the type of candle used, can be burnt in the presence of others without people realizing that the candle is part of a magic spell or working.In theory just about any candle can be loaded. However, in practice only candles such as Hoodoo Candles, image candles, and large pillar candles are traditionally loaded. As far as the items loaded into candles, such includes condition oils, powders, herbs, roots, stones and minerals, zoological items and personal effects such as hair and nail clippings. Certain practitioners may load name papers or petition papers into the candle, usually after folding them up as small as possible. I strongly recommend practitioners not do this. I can attest to doing this once and only once. The result of such was that I awoke in the middle of the night with the house full of dark, black smoke from the petition paper burning. HOW TO LOAD CANDLESFOR INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO LOAD HOODOO CANDLES (<u><b>7 DAY CANDLES, NOVENAS</b></u>), CLICK HERE.FOR THIS EXAMPLE I WILL BE LOADING A CANDLE FOR PROTECTION FOR MYSELF. ITEMS NEEDED: 1 LARGE PILLAR CANDLE1 COFFIN NAIL1 KNIFE (OPTIONAL)1 SMALL CANDLES (VOTIVE, EMERGENCY, TEA LIGHT, ETC.)CANDLE HOLDERRAG OR CLOTHMATCHES OR LIGHTERITEMS TO BE LOADED INTO THE CANDLEINSTRUCTIONS:LIGHT ONE OF THE SMALL CANDLES. PLACE IT IN A CANDLE HOLDER. TAKE THE COFFIN NAIL AND WRAP A RAG OR CLOTH AROUND THE HEAD OF THE NAIL. THIS IS THE PART IN WHICH YOU WILL HOLD THE NAIL. HOLD THE NAIL OVER THE FLAME UNTIL THE NAIL IS GOOD AND HOT. TURN THE PILLAR CANDLE UPSIDE DOWN AND GENTLY INSERT THE NAIL INTO THE BOTTOM OF THE CANDLE. THE WAS WILL MELT WHEN THE NAIL IS INSERTED. REPEAT THIS PROCESS UNTIL A LARGE ENOUGH CAVITY IS FORMED. IF YOU PREFER NOT DO THIS METHOD THEN USE A KNIFE TO CARVE OUT A CAVITY BUT BEWARE THAT THIS METHOD MAY END UP SHATTERING OR CRACKING THE CANDLE. NOW IT'S TIME TO LOAD THE CANDLE. SINCE THIS CANDLE WILL BE FOR PROTECTION, I WILL USE SOME OF MY OWN HAIR, A PINCH OF PROTECTION POWDER, A PINCH OF HERBS OR ROOTS SUCH AS BASIL OR ANGELICA ROOT. I WILL PUT THIS INTO THE CAVITY. NEXT I WILL TAKE THE LIT CANDLE AND DRIP THE WAX OVER THE ITEMS TO SEAL OFF THE CAVITY. IF ONE PREFERS, THE TYPE OF CANDLE USED TO DO THIS CAN BE COLOR-MATCHED TO THE CANDLE BEING LOADED SO SHOULD IF ANYONE PICK UP THE CANDLE THEY WOULD NOT KNOW THAT IT WAS BEING USED FOR A SPELL OR MAGICAL WORKING. <br/><br/>Source: <a href='http://witchnest.blogspot.com' target='_blank'>witchnest.blogspot.com</a></span>Selenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14539342654344447025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428328043836305112.post-83132347648670884912015-01-14T05:50:00.000-08:002015-02-20T18:25:53.076-08:00Archbishop Announces The Opening Of A New Seminary<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><span style="text-align:left;align:left;"><div style="float:left;text-align:left;align:left;width: 54%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-sjkSrdapZiY/VOfsrXGU5jI/AAAAAAAAlIg/oqCJ90jG-SA/Archbishop%252520Announces%252520The%252520Opening%252520Of%252520A%252520New%252520Seminary.jpg" border="0" alt="Archbishop Announces The Opening Of A New Seminary" title="Archbishop Announces The Opening Of A New Seminary" /></div></span><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;">It's not very common these days to here in the western world about the opening of a new seminary. For example in the UK it was recently announced that Ushaw College is to close. So I was pleased to read in Zenit that Cardinal designate Donald Wuerl of Washington DC has announced the opening of a new seminary in response to an increase in the number of men enquiring about the priesthood.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Here's the report from Zenit:</h4><br/>Washington, D.C., to Open New Seminary<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Cardinal-Designate Sees Growing Interest in Priesthood</h4><br/>WASHINGTON, D.C., OCT. 20, 2010 (<u><b>Zenit.org</b></u>).- The archbishop of Washington, D.C., is seeing an increased interest in the priesthood in his archdiocese, despite a culture that is often at odds with the teachings of the Church.<br/><br/>As a consequence of this increasing interest, Cardinal-designate Donald Wuerl announced Tuesday that the archdiocese is opening a new seminary. The cardinal-designate was named today as one of the 24 men who will be made cardinals in November.<br/><br/>He said: "At a time when the teachings of the Catholic faith seem counter-cultural, we are seeing an increased interest in the priesthood, particularly among younger men who want to be a part of a new evangelization in society.<br/><br/>"Until now, most of our new seminarians, especially those in college, have had to leave the area for their studies. Now, the men will begin their formation here and be an integral part of the local Catholic community from the beginning."<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>Solid numbers</h4><br/>The Archdiocese of Washington has 67 seminarians, including 29 in college and pre-theology studies.<br/><br/>Monsignor Robert Panke, archdiocesan director of priestly vocations and president of the National Conference of Diocesan Vocations Directors, is overseeing the development of the new seminary.<br/><br/>He noted that the archdiocese has annually accepted between nine and 15 aspiring seminarians in recent years.<br/><br/>The new seminary will initially have space for 30 men who will also attend the Catholic University of America while receiving their priestly formation. They will go on to complete four years of theology studies at another institution before ordination. Renovation of the building to be used is under way, and the project is being funded by donations.<br/><br/>This will be the second seminary operated by the Archdiocese of Washington. The first, in Hyattsville, Maryland, opened in 2001 to prepare men from around the world to be archdiocesan missionary priests. Once ordained, they serve in the Archdiocese of Washington and missions worldwide. Last year, 1,443 men were in college seminaries in the United States, and 3,483 in pre-theology or theology, according to Georgetown University's Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate. After three decades of decline, seminary enrollment in the United States has stabilized over the past 15 years.<br/><br/>The diocese of Marquette has some very fine men in formation right now. Please keep them in your prayers. You can find their names here.<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'> Share </h4><br></span>Selenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14539342654344447025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428328043836305112.post-13937293145529991352015-01-14T03:16:00.000-08:002015-02-24T06:10:46.098-08:00Do You Like Yourself<div style="width:200px;margin: 7px auto;"><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_16x16_style"><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_5"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_6"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_7"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_8"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js"></script><!-- AddThis Button END --></div><center><div style="float:none;text-align:center;align:center;width: 77%;margin:0px 20px 10px 0px; max-width:350px;"><img style="border-style:none; border-width:0; cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width:100%; max-width:350px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-GFUa5DjI4Oo/VLhwZZkeFII/AAAAAAAAf6A/8Qii3VD6OCk/Spring%252520Equinox%252520Ritual.jpg" border="0" alt="Do You Like Yourself" title="Do You Like Yourself" /></div></center><span style="text-align:justify !important;align:left;"><br/><br/>IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND THIS BLOG TO A FRIEND GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS BLOG AND CLICK ON THE ENVELOPE.<br/><br/>One day a little girl was playing alone in her back yard.<br/><br/>The next door neighbor saw her and said, "Mary, where's your mother?"<br/><br/>"Asleep," replied the little girl.<br/><br/>"And where's your little brother?"<br/><br/>"Oh, he's asleep too,"<br/><br/>"Aren't you lonesome?"<br/><br/>"Oh, no," the little girl answered back quickly, "I like myself."<br/><br/>But there are people who don't like themselves. They have given up on being a decent human being and feel that now it is too late to do anything about it.<br/><br/>But it is never too late.<br/><br/>And when you pray and push your way toward improving a little each day then one day you will have gone miles even though it was only an inch or half an inch a time.<br/><br/>So pray the following prayer or one like it.<br/><br/>"God give me a push. God make me want you to give me a push." You may come up with a different version of this prayer but all of us can be better and all of us need the help of our Almighty God.<br/><br/>And yes, the best way to be happy is to be nice and nicer...indeed so busy making other people happy nice automatically becomes a regular occurrence.<br/><br/>Nasty certainly isn't all its cut out to be.<br/><br/>"The Kingdom of God is not a matter of what we eat or drink,but of living a life of goodness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit." ~Romans 14:15<br/><br/>CLICK BELOW TO READ MORE OF NEIL'S WRITINGS ON HIS OTHER BLOG<br/><br/><h4 style='font-style: italic;'>HTTP://WYRICKSWRITINGS.BLOGSPOT.COM/</h4><br></span>Selenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14539342654344447025noreply@blogger.com