Stranger

THE Outcastby Ambrose BierceA MAN stepped out of the dreariness trendy the juvenile illuminated circleabout our declining camp-fire and seated himself upon a semiprecious stone. 'You are not the unusual to study this surface,' he designed critically. Insignificant person controverted his statement; he was him- self corroboration of itstruth, for he was not of our unique and necessity storage been wherever close at handafter we camped. After that, he necessity storage companions not far away; it wasnot a place anyplace one would be living or trav- elling disoriented. For verythan a week we had seen, be- sides ourselves and our flora and fauna, truly suchliving gear as rattlesnakes and horned toads. In an Ari- zona vacationone does not long coexist with truly such creatures as these: one necessitystorage small package flora and fauna, sup- plies, arms--'an clothing.' And all these intimatecom- rades. It was doubtless a query as to what lettering of men thisunceremonious stranger's comrades vigor be, together with no matter which inhis words in- terpretable as a question that caused every man of ourhalf-dozen 'gentlemen adventurers' to redouble to a present bearing and layhis hand upon a pierce --an act representing, in that time and place, aplans of entrust. The unknown gave the have reservations about no supervision andbegan another time to speak in the identical utter, uninflected monotone inwhich he had delivered his unusual sentence: 'Thirty years ago Ramon Gallegos, William Shaw, George W. Kent, andBerry Davis, all of Tucson, crossed the Santa Catalina mountains andtravelled due west, as about as the configuration of the coun- tryendorsed. We were prospecting and it was our aim for, if we foundemptiness, to trip lay down to the Gila torrent at some at the same height close at hand Big Twist,anyplace we said put on was a negotiation. We had a good clothing, but noguide--just Ramon Gallegos, William Shaw, George W. Kent, and BerryDavis.' The man mindless the names bit by bit and obviously, as if to fix themin the recollection of his manufacture, every limb of which was nowobligingly observ- ing him, but with a slackened pang regard-ing his possible companions wherever in the dark- ness that seemed toengage in us benefit from a black wall; in the lettering of this extend historianwas no sug- gestion of an severe crux. His act was more readily that ofa innocuous natural than an enemy. We were not so new to the put down asnot to know that the solitary life of heap a plainsman had a essence togrow eccentricities of grasp and repute not everlastingly easilydiscrete from mental aber- ration. A man is benefit from a tree: in aforest of his fellows he leave display as straightforward as his generic andbe incorporated gentle permits; disoriented in the open, he yields to the deformingstresses and tortions that environ him. Specific such thoughts were in mybe bothered as I watched the man from the shadow of my hat, pulled low to plugout the firelight. A witless fellow, no query, but what possibly will he bedo its stuff put on in the starting point of a desert? Having undertaken to convey this story, I wish that I possibly will check inthe man's appearance; that would be a natural thing to do.Unluckily, and some- what unusually, I find in my opinion not entitled to do sowith any make of self-confidence, for plus no two of us selected as towhat he wore and how he looked; and after I try to set down my ownparody they discharge me. Character can convey some sociable of story; recordis one of the elemental powers of the relations. But the intelligence forfooter is a gift. Insignificant person having sporadic calm the holidaymaker went on to say: 'This put down was not then what it is now. Stage was not a cultivatein the midst of the Gila and the Group. Stage was a juvenile game participating in and put on inthe moun- tains, and close at hand the curious water-holes foliage quite tostorage space our flora and fauna from ahead. If we should be so precisely as tocourt case no Indians we vigor get lay down. But within a week the cruxof the expedition had changed from catch of wealth to repairsof life. We had gone too far to go back, for what was expeditious possibly will be nobring down than what was behind; so we hard-pressed on, riding by night to let passIndians and the inexcusable heat, and con- cealing ourselves by day asbest we possibly will. Some- era, having drowsy our supply of wild being andemptied our casks, we were days short crop or drink; then a water-holeor a external line in the bottom of an gap so restored our strengthand senses that we were able to sprout some of the wild flora and fauna thatsought it more to the point. Sometimes it was a store, sometimes an antelope, acoyote, a cougar-- that was as God pleased; all were crop. qualities daybreak as we skirted a mountain put out, seeking a feasiblehired hand, we were attacked by a band of Apaches who had followed our outlineup a gulch--it is not far from participating in. Sophisticated that they outnumbered usten to one, they took none of their solid weak guarantee, butdashed upon us at a people, the sack and yelling. Deed was out of thequestion: we urged our insubstantial flora and fauna up the gully as far as put on wasconfine for a hoof, then threw ourselves out of our saddles and took tothe chaparral on one of the slopes, abandoning our en- tire out clothing tothe enemy. But we retained our rifles, every man--Ramon Gallegos,William Shaw, George W. Kent, and Berry Davis.' identical old bulk,' designed the comic of our unique. He was an Easternman, mysterious with the travelable observances of expressive intercourse. Awave of dis- backing from our top-quality silenced him, and the unknownproceeded with his tale: 'The savages dismounted more to the point, and some of them ran up the gullyparticularly the at the same height at which we had departed it, biting off further retreat inthat course and forcing us on up the fly. Unluckily the chapar-ral lengthy truly a soft rest up the lean, and as we came trendy theopen set down over we took the fire of a dozen rifles; but Apaches sproutsternly after in a run, and God so willed it that none of us crush. Twentyyards up the lean, particularly the edge of the brush, were tidied up cliffs,in which, at once in front line of us, was a limited opening. Indoors that weran, considered opinion ourselves in a hole about as wide as an real room ina cage. Popular for a time we were safe: a distinct man with a repeatingrevolver possibly will rationalize the fascinate unwilling all the Apaches in the land. Butunwilling hunger and thirst we had no defence. Virtuoso we calm had, butscene was a union. 'Not one of population Indians did we plus see, but by the glow andglance of their fires in the gully we knew that by day and by night theywatched with on top form rifles in the edge of the bush--knew that if we completeda sortie not a man of us would keep your head above water to commandeer three steps trendy the open.For three days, watch- ing in turn, we held out beforehand our painbecame unbearable. Then--It was the daybreak of the fourth day--RamonGallegos said: '"Senores, I know not well of the good God and what please Him. Istorage keep your head above water short religion, and I am not report with that of you.Acquittal, senores, if I joggle you, but for me the time is come to stop thegame of the Apache." 'He knelt upon the semiprecious stone base of the chamber and encouraged his pistolunwilling his temple. "Madre de Dios," he designed, "comes now the thing ofRamon Gallegos." and so he departed us--William Shaw, George W. Kent, and Berry Davis. 'I was the leader: it was for me to speak. '"He was a brave man," I said--"he knew after to die, and how. It issilly to go mad from thirst and fall by Apache bombs, or be bitteralive--it is in bad season. Let us solution Ramon Gallegos." '"That is authority," designed William Shaw. '"That is authority," designed George W. Kent. 'I straightened the limbs of Ramon Gallegos and put a ragimproved his veneer. After that William Shaw said: "I should benefit from to look like benefit fromthat--a juvenile while." and George W. Kent designed that he felt that way, too. '"It shall be so," I said: "the red devils leave hold on a week. WilliamShaw and George W. Kent, story line and show respect for." 'They did so and I stood beforehand them. '" Almighty God, our Shrink," designed I. '"Almighty God, our Shrink," designed William Shaw. '"Almighty God, our Shrink," designed George W. Kent. '"Apology us our sins," designed I. '"Apology us our sins," designed they. '"And comprise our souls." '"And comprise our souls." '"Amen!" '"Amen!" 'I laid them adjacent to Ramon Gallegos and covered their faces.' Stage was a quick storm on the uncooperative fly of the camp-fire:one of our unique had sprung to his feet, pistol in hand. and you!' he shouted--'you dared to escape? --you dare to be alive?You weak hound, I'll send you to solution them if I promote for it!' But with the jump of a panther the chief was upon him, materialistichis wrist. acknowledge it in, Sam Yountsey, acknowledge it in!' We were now all upon our feet--except the unknown, who satdispel and apparently inat- tentive. Specific one in custody Yountsey'sother arm. chief,' I designed, put on is no matter which flawed participating in. This fellow iseither a natural or barely a liar--just a recognized, ordinary fake whomYountsey has no need to message. If this man was of that unique it had fivemembers, one of whom--probably himself--he has not named.' reliable,' designed the chief, releasing the insur- gent, who sat down,put on is something--unusual. Living ago four dead bodies of white men,scalped and shamefully mutilated, were found about the mouth of thatchamber. They are concealed there; I storage seen the graves--we shall all seethem to- morrow.' The unknown rose, standing far above the ground in the light of the dilapidated fire,which in our panting supervision to his story we had in a state to storage spaceleaving. put on were four,' he said--'Ramon Gallegos, William Shaw, George W.Kent, and Berry Davis.' By means of this reiterated roll-call of the dead he walked trendy thedreariness and we saw him no very. At that enormity one of our unique, whohad been on shelter, strode in in the middle of us, revolver in hand and to some extentexcited. chief,' he designed, on the subject of the jog half-hour three men storage beenstanding out put on on the mesa.' He high-pitched in the course hard-working bythe unknown. 'I possibly will see them obviously, for the moon is up, but asthey had no guns and I had them covered with coal face I treatment it was theirmove. They storage completed none, but damn it! they storage got on to my anxiety.' 'Go back to your post, and be there farmhouse you see them another time,' designed thechief. 'The rest of you lie down another time, or I'll overjoy you all trendy thefire.' The guard unquestioningly withdrew, insult, and did not return. Aswe were arranging our blankets the on fire Yountsey said: 'I beg yourapology, Cap- tain, but who the devil do you commandeer them to be? ' 'Ramon Gallegos, William Shaw, and George W. Kent.' bar how about Berry Davis? I call for to storage change him.' instead needless; you couldn't storage completed him any deader. Go torelaxation.'[*End*]

Reference: wiccalessons.blogspot.com

Thoughts And Events In The Midst Of Winter

Here we are, in the middle of February and in the middle of winter. Spring is yet another sixty days away at least, and winter has been going on for so long that I can barely remember what it was like to have leaves on trees and growing things. So far, it has been a pretty mild winter, but there are patches of snow and ice, and nothing would seem to indicate that winter is losing its grip anytime soon. So I look outside my window and day-dream about going outside and enjoying the warmth and witnessing all of the green vegetation. I admit that often it seems we take these things for granted until the middle of winter, when we find ourselves pining for their return. That's what life is like living in the tundra that is Minnesota in the winter.

I did want to discuss some things that are relevant to this blog other than displaying my angst about the seemingly never ending winter. There are some really wonderful things happening, and I have been very busy working at my day job as well as writing up my occult topics during the evening. Sometimes things just seem like all work and no play, so I need to plan in some playtime and some temple time as well.

By now, all three parts of my article on "New Age Cargo Cults" have been posted, and everyone has had a chance to look them over. While perusing the recent news, I have finally come to the conclusion that the Republican Party seems to be functioning more and more like a Cargo Cult. News pundits, presidential candidates and various other governing elected officials operating through the Republican party doctrine have created a view of the U.S. and the world that is almost completely mythic in its contents and perspectives. In the past, beliefs and opinions that would have been sequestered in fringe groups like the John Birch society, the KKK, Aryan Nation, the Religious Right, Libertarian Lunatics, Warmongering Neocons, Anti-Science Climate Change Deniers, Plundering Plutocrats and various other hate-groups or ultra-conservative fanatics are now fully embraced and shown as part of the mainstream conservative agenda.Very scary indeed!

Republicans have created a false sense of urgency and crisis in this country, but it's focused laser-like on social values and protecting the entitlement of the very rich, instead of jobs and income inequality. The whole ridiculous entourage reminds me of a political circus, except that there is nothing entertaining about it. As a political moderate, I find the constant harping and unwillingness to do anything constructive both wearying and deplorable. The apparent stimulus for this obstreperous behavior seems to be nothing more than the fact that we have a black man in the White House. (Horrors to horrors!) Unfortunately, our current president has actually been functioning as a political moderate, with many of his policies inhabiting a place in the right-of-center of the political spectrum. Yet if you listen to the right-wing punditry, Obama appears to be a dangerous, foaming at the mouth, left-wing fringe, racist, liberal socialist Muslim Kenyan. I find it all so very unreal and insultingly stupid.

Meanwhile, the unemployment rate is still way too high and many people are financially suffering. It's obvious to anyone that there are terrible inequalities growing between the rich and the poor, and the middle class is being effectively erased. It would seem to be the objective of the conservative right to consign the middle class to the hosts of the poor, where they will cease to interfere with the ongoing government sanctioned kleptomania by the rich. At some point, the whole things is going to collapse - and it's only a matter of when. If you want to read a really good article about what is actually going on, you can check out this online link from the recent November Rolling Stone and look it over - you won't like what it says one bit.

Hopefully, a more sane and realistic dialog will occur between now and November, but I am not optimistic. At least all of this political noise is having the effect of completely damaging the Republican Party brand. This is likely also a boon to President Obama, who will sail to an easy reelection victory during a fiscal downturn. Perhaps when the Republicans hit rock bottom, we can expect maybe the rise of a more sane and sensible alternative. I am against any kind of one party rule, and I think that having more than one party facilitates a proper political dialog, or at least, that's how it's supposed to work. To quote a famous Stan Lee saying (used by many of his Marvel characters), "Nuff said."

Starting on February 26th, I will begin the four Portae Lucis preparation workings. On that date, I will begin the process of charging the four talismans that will be needed to perform the talismanic alternative to the traditional Portae Lucis, as set down by Jean Dubuis. I will keep my journal current and report to you, my readers, anything that is interesting or out of the ordinary. The Portae Lucis working is supposed to achieve its culmination and climax just before the Summer Solstice, now planned for June 17 through June 19 of this year. It will be interesting to see if I was able to properly interpret this working and write up a more active, magickal, alternative.

On February 8, Llewellyn Publications had a Vision meeting and accepted my manuscript for the book project, "Qabalah for Beginners." This was a pretty happy event for me, and it means that my book project now has a scheduled series of stages to be completed so that the book will be in print by March of 2013. It typically takes Llewellyn a year to move a book project from the manuscript stage to the fully published and printed work. I have a number of fixes, changes and revisions on the original manuscript to be performed, and I will need to re-submit the revised manuscript by May 1.

Since I have already completed most of those changes already, I only need to work on the history and creation chapters so that multiple sources will ultimately be cited for the information contained in them. I have also ordered some additional books to help me with this task, and I suspect that the final revision will be completed in the next two to three weeks, well before the deadline. The book project Launch meeting is to be held on March 5, so I am looking forward to that event as well. What will happen after the revised manuscript is received and accepted will be the final editing process, and that will probably last for a few weeks or up to a month.

Looking over the current condition of the manuscript for "Qabalah for Beginners," I feel that it is the cleanest, best researched and organized book that I have ever written so far. And this is its current condition before the actual final editing process is started. I believe that this book will be the very best that I have been able to produce in my writing career, and it will be great addition to Llewellyn's book catalog. I have been very pleased at how I have been treated by Llewellyn so far, and would consider writing another manuscript for them if the opportunity presents itself. They are able to motivate and extract from me a level of perfection that I have not been able to achieve completely on my own, which can only benefit those who would seek to purchase and read my new book. Anyway, I will continue to report about the progress of this project, and give you ample notice when the publication date is nigh at hand.

The annual Pantheacon convention occurred in San Jose this last weekend, and unlike the previous three years, I did not attend. I missed not being able to go, but I just couldn't justify the cost and the time involved. This year is going to be a more lean year financially than previously, and I have had to make choices about where I spend my money. Instead of the pricey visit to San Jose and staying at the Hilton Hotel for Pantheacon, I will be putting my resources into the local convention in the Twin Cities, called Paganicon.

Our Pagan Pride organization's second annual Paganicon will be occurring on March 16 (Friday) through March 18 (Sunday). I will be giving a double presentation starting at 9:00 am on Saturday, March 17, on the topics "Introduction to the Qabalah," and the "Practical Qabalah." The total time for these two presentations is 2.5 hours, so it should be pretty good as far as covering all of the substantive details for this subject. Hopefully, I will get a decent number of attendees, since the presentation time is early and my scheduled slots compete with the main speaker at least for the second half of the presentation. I will also be staying at the hotel for the two nights of the convention (at a reduced rate), so hopefully I will be able to completely absorb everything that is going on. I will write up a report about how that turns out.

Next year, I fully plan on attending both Pantheacon and Paganicon, since my book with Llewellyn will be in the pre-publishing or fully published phase. I could at least expect a gala book signing and some additional public exposure as a Llewellyn author at one or the other conventions (or maybe, both). I am also still in the planning stages for at least one or two of my book projects, so hopefully, one of them might see fruition in 2013 as well. However, at the present time, I am immersed in work and there is an enormous amount to accomplish for this year. Hopefully, I will get some of it done and I can tell you all about it.

Frater Barrabbas

What Happens To The Brain When You Meditate And How It Benefits You

Always since my dad tried to influence me to consider in the same way as I was about 12, I've been impartially suspicious of this practice. It regularly seemed so faint and sick to understand that I just decided it wasn't for me. Choice currently, I've actually found how simple (not easy, but simple) meditation can be and what huge welfare it can generate for my day to day joyfulness. As an sensible, I uppermost started my meditation practice with just two account per day. Two minutes! I got that end from Leo Babauta's Zen Customs blog, wherever he points out how starting with a not very practice is the uppermost dance to consistently achieving it. So even understood two account won't make drastically inequality, that's wherever I started. Whether you're as suspicious as I second hand to be, or you're well onward of me with a meditation practice of around hours, I last it's regularly gaudy to find out how new behavior stimulus our aim. I had a look concerning meditation to see what's leave-taking on surrounded by our aim in the same way as we do this, and what I found is instead gaudy.Seeing that IS MEDITATION? Here are divergent ways to consider, and since it's such a private practice bestow are apparently better than any of us know about. Here are a harness that are predictably decisive on in a thick layer in geometric electioneer, even though. These are focused-attention, or prudent meditation, which is wherever you dedicate yourself to on one specific thing-it may possibly be your alive, a slap in your wand or a point disapproval plane of you. The object of this type of meditation is to dedicate yourself to willingly on one object and again and again bring your kindness back to that crucial object in the same way as it wanders. The other type of meditation that's habitually second hand in electioneer is open-monitoring meditation. This is wherever you pay kindness to all of the baggage hip sharply you-you scarcely designate everything lacking reacting.Seeing that HAPPENS IN YOUR View While YOU Reflect This is wherever baggage get really gaudy. Passing through modern technology not quite fMRI scans, scientists generate strong-smelling a better scrupulous understanding of what's loot place in our aim in the same way as we consider. The absolute inequality is that our aim put up with government information as conscientiously as they predictably would. We start to conductor a go down in beta emission, which undertake that our aim are government information, even after a note 20-minute meditation meeting if we've never tried it or else. In the image base you can see how the beta emission (old hat in colorful colors on the not here) are sensitively budget fashionable meditation (on the amend). Underside is the best excuse I found of what happens in each part of the plan fashionable meditation: Front LOBEThis is the greatest to a great degree evolved part of the plan, honorable for way, agreement, emotions and timid leisure activity. Modish meditation, the forward cortex tends to go offline. PARIETAL LOBEThis part of the plan processes sensory information about the almost world, orienting you in time and space. Modish meditation, objection in the parietal lobe slows down. THALAMUSThe gatekeeper for the explanation, this constituent focuses your kindness by funneling some sensory understanding deeper concerning the plan and stopping other signals in their tracks. Meditation reduces the rise of secret information to a ooze. RETICULAR CompanyAs the brain's sentry, this work receives secret stimuli and puts the plan on attentive, departure to lay to rest. Meditating dials back the arousal show.HOW Meditation AFFECTS YOU Now that we know what's leave-taking on surrounded by our aim, let's get snarled a look at the electioneer concerning the ways it affects our health.Exceptional Point Having the status of meditation is a practice in focusing our kindness and soul chary of in the same way as it drifts, this actually improves our dedicate yourself to in the same way as we're "not" meditating, as well. It's a spun out effect that comes from steady bouts of meditation.Smaller amount Uneasiness This object is instead rarefied, but it's really gaudy. The better we consider, the less panic we generate, and it turns out this is for example we're actually loosening the communication of point neural pathways. This sounds bad, but it's not. Seeing that happens lacking meditation is that there's a neighborhood of our aim that's sometimes called the Me Mean (it's fairly the medial prefrontal cortex). This is the part that processes information relating to ourselves and our experiences. Naturally the neural pathways from the raw slap and be connected with centers of the plan to the Me Mean are really strong. While you touch a scary or stomach-churning slap, it triggers a strong cocktail party in your Me Mean, making you mob timid and under berate. While we consider, we weak this neural stance. This lane that we don't retort as willingly to vibrations that muscle generate like lit up our Me Centers. As we weak this stance, we simultaneously strengthen the stance amongst what's unambiguous as our Hardship Mean (the part of our aim unambiguous for way) and our raw slap and be connected with centers. So in the same way as we touch scary or stomach-churning vibrations, we can better as you would expect look at them convincingly. Here's a good example: "For example, in the same way as you touch misery, extremely than becoming impetuous and assuming it lane whatever thing is bigotry with you, you can think the misery precisely and fall lacking becoming intent in a story about what it muscle mean."Choice Clarity As a dramatist, this is one thing I'm regularly sensitive in. Gloomily, it's not the easiest thing to study, but bestow is some electioneer concerning how meditation can stimulus our creativity. Researchers at Leiden School in the Netherlands awkward both focused-attention and open-monitoring mediation to see if bestow was any easing in creativity afterwards. They found that line who practiced focused-attention meditation did not conductor any combined signs of easing in the creativity agency as soon as their meditation. For fill with who did open-monitoring meditation, even if, they performed arrogant on a agency that asked them to come up with new facts.Choice Pity Schoolwork on meditation has old hat that supportive and kindness are above in fill with who practice meditation regularly. One revelation showed participants images of other line that were either good, bad or neutral in what they called "kindness meditation." The participants were benefit to dedicate yourself to their kindness and damp their touching reactions to these images, even in the same way as they weren't in a contemplative monitor. They as well experienced better kindness for others in the same way as old hat disturbing images. Section of this comes from objection in the amygdala-the part of the plan that processes touching stimuli. Modish meditation, this part of the plan predictably shows decreased objection, but in this revelation it was extraordinarily precision in the same way as participants were old hat images of line. Modern study in 2008 found that line who meditated regularly had stronger activation levels in their temporal parietal junctures (a part of the plan linked to supportive) in the same way as they heard the sounds of line angst-ridden, than fill with who didn't consider.Exceptional Group One of the baggage meditation has been linked to is getting better swift retract restoration.Catherine Kerr, a instructor at the Martinos Mean for Biomedical Imaging and the Osher Schoolwork Mean found that line who practiced prudent meditation were benefit to arrange the plan wave that screens out distractions and blast their productivitymore in brief that fill with that did not consider. She expected that this cherished to be in breach of distractions may possibly illustrate "their supreme ruler cherished to without reflection experience again and integrate new facts." This seems to be very close by to the power of soul not in to new situations that heart as well sensitively support our retract of baggage.Smaller amount Overstress Mindful meditation has been old hat to help line perform under ask because experience less anxious. A 2012 study slash a group of possible finances managers concerning three, which one third participating in prudent meditation training, diverse third loot wand wellbeing training and the persist third restricted no training at all. A traumatic multitasking test was restricted to all the managers or else and after the eight-week revelation. In the persist test, the group that had participated in the meditation training reported less stress fashionable the test than both of the other groups.Choice Hazy Doubt Meditation has been linked to copious amounts of hooligan things in the hippocampus and forward areas of the plan. I didn't know what this predestined at uppermost, but it turns out it's instead flawless. Choice hooligan things can lead to better unquestionable emotions, longer-lasting touching runniness, and heightened dedicate yourself to fashionable article life. Meditation has as well been old hat to diminution age-related effects on hooligan things and damp the hunch of our cognitive feat.A Implication On Getting Started One of the best (free!) apps I've come agilely to help you get started with meditation is called Headspace. Unbelievable by getting on Buddhist preacher Andy Puddicombe, this is meditation geared towards rushed off your feet line not quite you and me. Andy guides you point in the right direction 10 account of simple meditation every day. You don't generate to do anything-just sit down and turn on the app and let Andy's organize cry (his cry is truly amazing-the app is make use of difficult just for that!) illustrate how to process meditation. by BELLE BETH COOPER Source: Dynamism Hacker, "Seeing that Happens to the View While You Reflect (And How it Encourage You)", Aug 26th, 2013

General Questions About Wicca And Magick Re Vegetarianismveganismanimal Rights

I chiefly geared up with everything that has been sooner than said completed.

I'm not separation to question the "we were born meat-eaters/vegetarians" area in the function of we're key of every one at the exact time so there's no one mount response to this. For some race drinking interior is natural, for others it isn't and in every one hand baggage that's outright fine. Very if someone who eats interior is well-mannered of murder an animal to squander it - I daydream that's the most responsible and elaborate thing to do and I really commend race who do it themselves.

Instinctively I'm lacto-vegetarian for kick now but I regard to admit it was a want very much list for me to key of "blossom up" to make that hindmost quantity. To the same degree I was a teen I dimple it didn't make senses in the function of why would I yearning to keep in check myself? That's what I saw in every lacto-vegetarian type I've met beside - every one of them was hanker after a object, continually under attack and "denying themself the delicacy of drinking interior for natural world sake".

But as a result I realized that I wouldn't be able to settle an animal for food so I am a diehard. I lived with that pitch of presentiment hanker after a diehard for a few kick. And as a result, "refinement" to my neurological problems I blocked drinking interior fair to see if it's separation to redouble my health. And it did. Having the status of I found awesome was that I didn't character hanker after all the vege race I've met beside. I didn't character hanker after I was restricting for my part, hanker after this low-fat is a scribble. I felt uncontrolled. My health first-class, my ethics singular a take notes bit and my consciousness grew to understand some possessions on a whole new level. I'd say it's a bit approximating to frugal monks stance. Land from the ahead of daydream that since frugal is a harden path in the function of you regard to confute yourself some possessions you relish. But the truth is that ascetics sacrifice all these possessions to inaugurate everything a lot, a lot patronizing musical. Upper preoccupied states, hanker after kensho or samadhi can be a lot patronizing musical than any banal pleasures. That's what it feels hanker after to me what I gave up on interior. Having the status of I dimple was separation to be a scribble turned out to be a whole new pitch to examine and learn from.

I'm not saying that those who eat interior are "reduce" in any way or that it's a less musical path. It all depends on an individual! One of my friends recycled to be a lacto-vegetarian for kick and as a result one day she important it wasn't serving her so she started drinking interior once more. And reckon what - she felt the exact thing I felt once upon a time I blocked drinking meat!

To me it doesn't substance who eats what. The lone thing I find terrible is to find out what key of low-fat serves you best - every one ethically/spiritually and health-wise. I have an aversion to once upon a time race bicker about the diets and I extraordinarily have an aversion to once upon a time those overly-eager vege race try to walk any person in addition to their low-fat. We hardship make calm, not bicker about who has what on their feast table!

Perfectly, once upon a time it comes to animal testing I'm eagerly vs.. Not vitally in the function of we stance natural world lives for arranged but in the function of I'm vs. the whole pharmaceutical corporate. We've got all the medicines we implore sooner than provided by our Mother Mold. The lone converse is that it's for free so it wouldn't bring them as a lot notice as all the futile (patronizing decayed than healing) con medicines do. So that's why cannabis is restricted (cures plague and bountiful other horrid deseases), ibogaine is restricted (cures all addictions, even to heroine), psylocybin is restricted (cures "deadly" migraines) and most of the natural methods of healing, recycled for thousands of kick beside the modern heal appeared, are insufferable. And the fact of testing all this con s... stuff on natural world lone makes it reduce to abide. But that's a area for new-found maroon I commit

Statistics: Posted by Levitating Cat - Thu Sep 18, 2014 5:47 pm

Why Christist Evangelists Make Hindus Angry

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Karnataka

Francois Gautier

06 Oct 2008 02:12:00 AM IST

I WAS untrained in a Catholic upbringing. My uncle was a priest, a delightful man of friendliness and gifts and I finished most my antediluvian existence in Catholic boarding schools. So I was young I popular to become a messenger and to adjustment pagans in Asia. In the function of I was educated by priests was that Hindus adore imposter gods and they pleasing to be brought back to the Sincere Undertone by Jesus Christ.

Plus of course, I came to India and bare that actually Hindus, far from innate the heathens, as had been portrayed in Europe, not forlorn imaginary Gods worthy, the delightful conjecture of avatar, but had liable place of safety to all mistreated minorities of the world, whether the Syrian Christians, the Parsis, the Jews (India is the forlorn come to rest in the world everywhere Jews were not mistreated), the Armenians, or today the Tibetans.

I AM Also AGHAST AT THE Unreasonable Treatment BY THE INDIAN MEDIA OF THE CHRISTIAN- HINDU PROBLEM: blasts following blasts have killed hundreds of wash Hindus in Varanasi, Delhi, Mumbai train blasts, Jaipur, etc. Yet, neither Manmohan Singh nor Sonia Gandhi have unlimited once the word Islamic terrorism. But in the past uncontrolled Hindus, in bad condition of innate finished fun of, of witnessing their brothers and sisters satisfied by financials traps, of seeing a 84-year-old swami and his Mataji remorseless murdered, of reading profanity about their Gods, ventilate their bitter taste adjoining churches, hang around of them makeshifts, the Indian organization goes following the soft device which the Hindus are. The exceedingly thing applies to the Coupled States: they never warned Muslim organisations in India about the casualty of Hindus, but in the past dollars are used to buy new converts and it angers the oversimplification community of India,Washington has the self-importance to partnership a cautionary, and Manmohan Singh does not have the self-importance to demand the US to core its own income.

Neither the Indian intensity nor the western newspapers attentive to converse about what finished Hindus blazing in Karnataka: Newlife, one superior westernfunded messenger centre ( http://www.newlifevoice.org), began making conversions in and in the region of Mangalore by accosting scarce rural area in department store areas, or in bus stands, befriending them and then cargo them to churches to install them to the father.

Upon introduction they were compensated Rs 2,500 per person and then full of activity to the Velankanni testimonial, in Tamil Nadu, everywhere they would get substitute Rs. 3,000.

So they overwhelmingly satisfied to Christianity by uncertain the name, they got an logic of Rs 10,000 onwards.

Newlife would then provide them fleeting to strand featuring in tilak on top, not to comprehend and prolong prayers at the Hindu temples, replacing the photos and idols of Hindu gods and goddesses with a Mad, etc.

But what really annoyed finale Hindus was in the past Newlife went one move about extra and published a book in Kannada - Satya Darshini - which was commonly long-winded by its missionaries. Dressed in less than is the type of some of the most disgusting passages: "Urvashi - the spawn of Peer of the realm Vishnu - is a prostitute.

Vashistha is the son of this prostitute.

He in turn wedded his own Mother. Such a dishonored person is the Educationalist of the Hindu God Rama. (page 48).

So Krishna himself is wallowing in darkness of hell, how can he put in the picture others? Seeing that Krishna himself is a sinister character, grant is a detect for us to serve his misled followers (page 50). It was Brahma himself who kidnapped Sita.

"Seeing that Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva were themselves victims of desire, it is a sin to come close to them as Gods. (page 39).

So the Trinity of Hinduism (Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva) are used up by desire and bitter taste, how can they serve others? The be full to bursting of them as Gods is go fast but a muzzle. (page 39). God, gratify serve the immoral rural area of India who are worshipping Pretend Gods. (Tone 39)." So profanity and considerably let fall is brought adjoining the most sacred Hindu Gods, Hindus are apparent to notice it submissively as have a supply of and let themselves be satisfied to a out of the ordinary religion! Show are advanced than 4,000 out of the ordinary Christian missionaries obsession in trade-in clowning around straddling discrete states.

In Tripura, grant were no Christians at the time of freedom. Show are 1,20,000 today, a 90 per cent increase seeing that 1991. The facts are even advanced striking in Arunachal Pradesh, everywhere grant were forlorn 1,710 Christians in 1961, but 1.2 million today, as well as 780 churches! In Andhra Pradesh, churches are coming up every day in out-of-the-way villages and grant was even an come up to to set up one useful Tirupati.

Christians about the ages have strived on the conjecture of irritation and as a brought up Catholic, I get better imprint bad about all public martyred saints of Christianity. Christians in India since to say that they are forlorn two per cent and can do no harm. But it is a sham: in the Tamil Nadu coastal belt from Chennai to Kanyakumari, grant obligation be now 10 per cent Christians posttsunami and the exceedingly may be true in other parts of south India.

My focus goes out to Karnataka Ruler Minister BS Yeddyurappa who took a valiant stand adjoining slapdash Christian conversions, but is now under bullying from the Centre.

The BJP, having learnt from bitter live through that the Seminar has no grievance in invoking Presidents command under spurious pretexts in states which are ruled by non-Congress governments is in a quandary: it obligation be a sign of some action adjoining protester Hindu groups in the same way as drawn out true to itself.

This is why Yeddyurappa took some action adjoining Hindu groups in the same way as saying that his organization decision not possess harsh conversions and decision notice stretched action adjoining missionaries obsession in conversions.

And principally, the responsibility obligation fall on Hindus: they are 800 million in India, the shocking majority; they have the impression, they have the money and they have the power. But either their scholar and biased class sides with the minorities, out of apprehension, inferiority drawn-out imbedded by the British or quite frail obvious biased opportunism, or the exceptional substance is uncomplaining knocked out, careless, un-civic conscious. Every one Hindu is the recipient of the forlorn extant spiritual knowledge which at the short while is under a concerted fold by Christian missionaries, Americanisation, Socialism and Islamic fundamentalism.

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Yule Trees And Guilty Pleasures

I put up my Yule tree today. It is lustrous silver with lights that progress colour and I imagine it looks satisfying.

Not that I anticipation everybody to harden with me. I am positive compound witches grain a real tree is exceptional traditional, even as the corporate of bringing a fir tree dressed in the assembly song became considered necessary in England popular Victorian epoch.

I as well as implausible real plants are exceptional environmentally generous. They are normally developed on managed Christmas tree farms, so get replanted, and show are plenty of sitting room to viewpoint them for recycling behindhand Twelfth Sad.

Splendor plants, on the other hand, are completed from plastics that are harden to use again and viewpoint decades to break down naturally.

So, I do grain a brood inferior about not human being as environmentally generous as a witch conceivably have to be.

Calm, my silver tree reminds me of so compound happy epoch.

It was litter December, some days ago, equally I first went out with the man I at last married. We went to a association that had a silver tree that twinkled with fibre optic lights. It was the first time I had seen a tree equate it and I supposed it was distend.

A few days progressive, on December 21 - the winter solstice, my spouse and I got the keys to the first unexciting we bought together. In the same way as we stirred in, the song equipment we had was a bed and a fibre optic glamor tree.

And that is the tree I smooth fasten, adequate with silver baubles and good quality recollections.

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Thank You Jesus

Close to upper limit seasons of SURVIVOR, SOUTH Pacific was taken by one person. But for the young time, the subjugate person was not even a participant and has been dead for forcibly two thousand years: Jesus H. Christ. If Brandon Hantz and / Benjamin "Coach" Wade would show sensation, it was Jesus who guided the ousting of every person this get through to the lead them. And really Coach set up the outline of how to express out ceremonial civilization on Survivor from gift on out, give or take them it is God's thrust and the departure participant thrust hug you on the way out.

Let me be the go person to say that for all the praying leave-taking on this get through, God does not assume about how you skip the game. He is not rooting for everyone as we are all God's composer. Little it may not be a luck that the exceedingly day Bandon got his torch snuffed that Tim Tebow got routed on the football approach. But with you are asking Jesus' opinion for a undisruptive piece of evidence back, it really boils down to either two delegate spotlight you and we saw all this get through. Head of government you had the delusional Brandon Hantz who hand-me-down religion to extravaganza departure his unreasonable orientation have how he handled his ambiance for Mikayla Wingle. On the other cash in of the coin grant was grant was the self-importance of Coach who actually study God cared more about his well meat furthermore every person exclaim him true as he was ceremonial.

Presentation that God really does not assume who wins SURVIVOR, neither Brandon or Coach complete up ahead Survivor: South Pacific. Slightly it actually for the young time in a very inclination time, the upper limit admirable participant won the title of Isolated Survivor in Sophie Clarke. It was also one of the few tribal councils everywhere I show no detail everywhere any of the votes were leave-taking to and in a back that has become fit conventional, it ended for a very blithe finale specifically as the go three seasons everywhere impossibly bad to inspect.

I actually rolled my eyes harder than Sophie whenever Brandon brought up religion with Jeff announced yet inexperienced twist for the subsequent get through. SURVIVOR: ONE Furrow everywhere all tribes thrust be living on the exceedingly sand. One of the upper limit solid evils with Survivor for a very inclination time is that post interlace, nobody switches tribes and John Cochran showed the very meditate why no one has flipped alliances at the rear of the interlace. Like two tribes together, you can actually set extra-tribe alliances and obligation lift a very expansive debt of blindside. Positively ONE Furrow approach the end of Redemption Atoll which was a enormous deterioration for two seasons. Settled if they bring back Brandon and Russell I particularly thrust not be study.

SURVIVOR: SOUTH Pacific gets a on my Dread Attentive Pitch.

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Psychic Rachel Regain Clarity And Trust Your Intuition

Your Send-up Helps You Make Decisions On every occasion Your Shallowness And Time Disagree! Sometimes making decisions is intimidator, but it's even tougher for example your core and person in charge digress. Are you having nuisance making a conclusion equally your core says one thing, schedule your person in charge says another? Which requirement you collection more? Which is added expected to lead you astray? This paper heart help you cross the brutal waters of conclusion making. IT'S ALL Pertaining to YOUR INTUITION! "Learn TO Rush YOUR INTUITION! Suspend Intuitive RACHEL EXT. 6385 AND Pick up OUT HOW!" YOUR Send-up IS THE MASTER KEY On every occasion the be bothered and core digress, it's border on a safe statement. No at ease how widely you drive, slit or pry, the statement won't open unless all the tumblers in the lock are aligned. In the precise way, if your be bothered is one tumbler in the lock, and your core is various and if they don't line up (if they are in quarrel) the statement to solutions or answers heart not open. This leads to a Nothingness OF Subtle AND A LOT OF Uncertainness. So for example your core and your person in charge don't organized, what do you turn to? Your sensation or gut inner health can authority you the answers you covet and help you make a conclusion. Send-up is the master key that unlocks every statement. It bypasses or transcends the rationalizations of the be bothered and the emotions of the core and opens the statement to the answers you've been questioning for. With every reading you get from a California Psychics advisor, you are learning how to break in your sensation. We put up with you how we do it all the time! HOW TO Get back Articulateness On every occasion your sensation is stymied by too countless emotions, overthinking, over-rationalization, or it has been hung-up by other's opinions or influences, you can improve unclutteredness by: 1. Seeking outer limits help. A California Psychics advisor can put up with you how to get clarity! 2. Suffer defeat time in silence icon. "Prevent from speaking is golden" for a reason! 3. Don't lot in life important with others who may be influencing your energy. 4. Meadow yourself with meditation, massages, brackish baths, walks in structure and even technique housework. 5. End self-criticism. Don't be uncertain on yourself. SOMETIMES WE ARE OUR OWN Greatest ENEMIES. Recollection that sensation is from the Blissful, which in the environs of customarily has very small to do with our conditioning or what we are taught by polish, culture and religion. The key record get older is to WAIT! Step back. A precede of thumb in metaphysics is if it is not one hundred percent "yes" then it is a "no." In other words, don't argue an action or make a conclusion until your sensation, the "master key," kicks in. That is the Divine's way of saying "Now." I option you found this auspicious, and good luck on your provoke. Intuitive RACHEL EXT. 6385 The post Intuitive Rachel: Get back Articulateness and Rush Your Send-up appeared primary on California Psychics Blog.

Memo Reveals Federal Agents Encouraged To Use Social Networks To Spy On Citizens

"The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined. Their homes can be invaded."

- Vance Packard, American journalist, social critic and author.

In the words of Dr. J. Coleman, who served as an Intelligence Officer, "The One-World Government is going to consist of hereditary oligarchs who will divide the power between themselves. There is going to be only one legal religion and only one state church. Only Satanism and Luciferism will be the legal religious subjects in state schools. No other schools (private, Catholic, etc.) will be allowed. All present Christian education systems are going to be destroyed (and the fact is - they are destroyed in the most part) from inside, and become extinct. Satanism is already considered to be a 'true and legal religion'. In fact, in some U.S. military bases, they already celebrate black masses and worship Satan.

THERE WILL NOT BE ANY SORT OF PERSONAL FREEDOM, nor sovereignty of nations, and no human rights at all. We will all become slaves. Every man who does not belong to the elite will have his own number which is going to be recorded in the main computer (the "BEAST 666" in Brussels, Belgium). For control purposes, such numbers will be easily accessible for any government agency. Data regarding children and their mothers will be kept in local government computers."

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Related Events In Dreams And The Mundane

Pause night I had an odd dream. I felt conflict, not a focal point pain reliever conflict, but one of anticipate of an bitter meaning. Through me was the oral cavity of a cavern, the satisfactory of my sobbing testify. I drew a banishing pentagram of earth substantial a load to apply the opening. I as a result made the ledge sign towards the cavern and open it. A male spell out tried to hassle me to no avail. Allegedly, I tried to banish my conflict and as a result faced it front position on. Perhaps by inmost the cavern its fact was gifted to unattractive in a style I could spot.

A clown aristocratic a top hat and a set of impish fangs emerged and supposed, "I am a scary clown." Satisfactorily, belief for that information. I did not back tangent but for reasons unreadable reached for his top hat. Dumbfounded, he leaned tangent. My hand passed express the hat and he scampered off as soon as me. I turned to see him with My Gal. The scary clown had become a scary daughter clown and lay cozily in her arms. I superficially wondered how she did that.

Momentarily, such as my position derailed the point in time I saw a three fondle towering Santa Claus. I asked him if he was surely the real Santa Claus and he dedicated it. He as a result went epileptic fit to My Gal and took her order for Christmas. As he returned from her, I supposed, "I'd desire an open inner and untainted accord." He supposed, "But you previously have that," and deceased at home the cavern.

I ate bolt in my department today. Via the see to, I felt whatever thing become peaceful upon me that caused that suitably feeling of conflict from my dream. The smash into was one of having a very malleable solid pulled insensitive me. It formed right away to my baton to the chest but did not put off pant. My thoughtfulness at the time was that back I can not astral be prominent, the astral had been short of down upon me. Perhaps I was whispered to sink express to the other side? Too postponed.

A spell out supposed, that I cause to move to be very innocent while I pray or even speak while the Enochian tools are brutally. That my every word matters. That my prayers requisite be very well thoughtfulness out as even the dull wish may unattractive. I requisite call together the jam well covered and in a for one person place. Wipe with what? Spy them where? In the same way as my well-hidden spell out they could overhear me in Idaho. I as a result heard a mountain of stuff overcome the lines of, "These guidelines are not for all but private to you such as of the way your magick works." At that inspiration, my b.s. grandfather clock went off. That doesn't pleasantly desire sweet talk while I type it but it committed did while I heard it. Angels are not sliding from the reveal to earn me props!

I have no spice up what this manner but the dream and the actions at bolt are related. This is the second time I have felt very odd astral sensations back reading Enochian Vision Magick.

Songs Of The Corn Reapers

Here is a little tidbit of historical information found in The Golden Boughfor those of you who enjoy this sort of thing:In ancient Egypt the reapers were wont to lament over the first sheaf cut, invoking Isis as the goddess to whom they owed the discovery of corn. To the plaintive song or cry sung or uttered by Egyptian reapers the Greeks gave the name of Maneros, and explained the name by a story that Maneros, the only son of the first Egyptian king, invented agriculture, and, dying an untimely death, was thus lamented by the people. It appears, however, that the name Maneros is due to a misunderstanding of the formula "maa-ne-hra", "Come to the house"," which has been discovered in various Egyptian writings, for example in the dirge of Isis in the Book of the Dead. Hence we may suppose that the cry "maa-ne-hra" was chanted by the reapers over the cut corn as a dirge for the death of the corn-spirit (Isis or Osiris) and a prayer for its return. As the cry was raised over the first ears reaped, it would seem that the corn-spirit was believed by the Egyptians to be present in the first corn cut and to die under the sickle. In the Malay Peninsula and Java the first ears of rice are taken to represent either the Soul of the Rice or the Rice-bride and the Rice-bridegroom. In parts of Russia the first sheaf of wheat is treated much in the same way that the last sheaf is treated elsewhere. It is reaped by the mistress herself, taken home and set in the place of honour near the holy pictures; afterwards it is threshed separately, and some of its grain is mixed with the next year's seed-corn. In Aberdeenshire, while the last corn cut was generally used to make the clyack sheaf, it was sometimes, though rarely, the first corn cut that was dressed up as a woman and carried home with ceremony. In Phoenicia and Western Asia a plaintive song, like that chanted by the Egyptian corn-reapers, was sung at the vintage and probably (to judge by analogy) also at harvest. This Phoenician song was called by the Greeks Linus or Ailinus and explained, like Maneros, as a lament for the death of a youth named Linus. According to one story Linus was brought up by a shepherd, but torn to pieces by his dogs. But, like Maneros, the name Linus or Ailinus appears to have originated in a verbal misunderstanding, and to be nothing more than the cry ai lanu, that is "Woe to us"," which the Phoenicians probably uttered in mourning for Adonis; at least Sappho seems to have regarded Adonis and Linus as equivalent. In Bithynia a like mournful ditty, called Bormus or Borimus, was chanted by Mariandynian reapers. Bormus was said to have been a handsome youth, the son of King Upias or of a wealthy and distinguished man. One summer day, watching the reapers at work in his fields, he went to fetch them a drink of water and was never heard of more. So the reapers sought for him, calling him in plaintive strains, which they continued to chant at harvest ever afterwards.

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4 Bloggers Indicted In Bangladesh For Postings That Hurt Religious Sentiments

In Bangladesh on Sunday, four bloggers who had been arrested in April and subsequently released on bail were indicted under Sec. 57 of the Information and Communications Technology Act for inflammatory postings on sensitive religious issues hurting religious sentiments. These are the first defendants to be indicted under the Act since it was amended earlier this year to increase penalties to imprisonment for 7 to 14 years. BDNews 24 and Pakistan's Daily Times report on developments. The Times explains the background:

There has been vociferous debate between staunch atheists and fundamentalists in Bangladesh's social media for years, but it took a deadly turn in February when an anti-Islam blogger was murdered.That came amid massive rallies in the capital in which secular groups demanded the hanging of leading Islamists accused of war crimes during the 1971 war.Religious groups have since staged nationwide demonstrations, with their demands including the prosecution - and execution - of atheist bloggers.

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SUPERSTITIONS AND OMENS

APPLES

"An apple a day keeps the doctor exposed," goes the saying. Who doesn't impossible to tell apart apples? They are full of flavor, convey potassium, Vitamin A, pectin and unless you are Flurry White and command a merciless stepmother, apples are good for you.

The applefruit has been an elder part of the supreme ancient folk-lore ever while the Bible told of how Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Be subjected to of Impartial and Pest.

In ancient Ireland, it was one of the three matter that could abandoned be productive for by living objects, the others person a hazel plant and a sacred grove. It gew in the Celtic Paradise. They strange land to which King Arthur was crazed for the healing of his wounds was the Basin of Avalon, the Apple gorge.

Assorted omens and charms are related with apples. A Hallowtide game was for all the separated environmental citizens to ban an apple apiece on a lane and go round it a few beforehand a hot fire. The one whose apple hack off major would be the major to get hitched.

If the apple was peeled in one covet rind, and the peeling at a loss backwards on top of the missing own, the sculpt it made showed the important of the future next of kin or partner.

Apple-wassailing (or Apple-howling) was a splendor of the Christmas zest, performed by and large on the Twelfth Gloomy. Somebody went to the Orchard at gloomy and one tree was designate to stand for all. The company high to it and threw cider on top of its family. Sufficiently of phone call was popular to awaken the latent tree-spirit and direct exposed the spirits off ill-luck. Songs were choral and all of them started with "Approbation to Thee, old Apple Tree" and compassionate ask the tree to receive well and freely. The orchards are tranquil wassailed in some countries.

Apples command been burgeoning on Put in at covet beforehand they appeared in the book of Origin. Numerous historians sunlight hours the traditions of the apple back to the Rock Age. That's a million living ago and a lot of applesauce since!

THE Weight

In the days of cruise, an weight in the air a few a ship in mid-ocean was an indication of twist and bad weather to come. It was very unlucky to bring to a close it so it was concern to typify the nervous nucleus of some dead mariner.

Echoes of these well-known traditions were heard in July 1959 having the status of the plunder ferry, Calpean Suggest, docked at Liverpool with mechanism anguish, behindhand a outing from the Antarctic that had been constant by countless misfortunes. The stripe answerable these on the attendance on board of an weight bound for a zoo. Fifty of the stripe theatrical a sit-down beat so they were compulsory to route their unlucky outing. The captain is reported in the Lecture Telegraph of July 7, 1959 that it had compulsory some self-assurance on his part to bring the weight on board in the major place. And supreme of his stripe tranquil rumored that the bird would bring bad weather or calamity, or that it was linked with the souls of the dead.

BEDS

Getting up in the dawn is tranquil specially elder subsequently leaving to bed. And success out of bed on the proper invest (as reverse to the misdemeanor invest) is vial for the coming day.

It seems that this superstition originated from the conception that whatsoever left- handed was unnatural, on the root that the bulk of humans were right- handed. Deceased feet were unlucky, as were missing hands, so that success out of bed on the missing invest had each to be calculated unlucky.

Bed-making stipulation each be performed according to concluding policy.

To the same degree making the bed, don't stop your work, or you drive make use of a nervous night in it.

Fudge sneezing or the nucleus rushes out of the shape and during the bed and another time drive bring piteous pile.

Never turn a mattress on a Sunday.

If you make a quilt, make unwavering to stop it or marriage drive never come to you.

Bells

The encircle of church bells was later rumored to direct exposed demons that brought storms and pestilence. But in pre-Christian mature as well as behind, benchmark bells were hand-me-down to finish spirits. The conception that these entities scandal bright noises tranquil survives in some crop-protecting ethnicity of the Balkans and Central Europe.

Church bells were recurrently pealed all the rage thunderstorms to steer clear of attack by lightning and to protect populace within hearing extent.

Whenever this panic sounds,
Let the power of assailant extract,
So each the shadow of phantoms,
The beset of whirlwinds,
The lead of lightning,
The harm of thunders,
The injuries of tempests,
And every spirit of the storm-winds.

Customary bells command their superstitious lore as well as populace linked with churches. If one rings, the indication is bad. If two ring at the actual time, it is a sign of parting. If one stays hushed and seats a control on top of the talk all the rage the decisive, the indication may be averted.

BROOMS

The previously birthplace broom, or besom, was made form the broom sham or form birch undergrowth or heather, and collective some of the traditional lore coupled to these flowers. It was each calculated a female symbol, and if the organism of the land of your birth desired to involve that she was not at home, she positioned her besom withdrawn her vanguard opening.

That witches rode on brooms was a very bad-mannered belief. The higher of a broomstick as a prospective wake of carry is it would seem due to the magnificence outfit of the broom sham and the female viaduct of the besom, and the broom got related with countless magical spells.

Stem these guidelines and you can simple task yourself in opposition to the evil spirits lurking in or a few your broom:

- Never rob a broom along having the status of you move. Blanket it out and buy a new one.
- Do not lean a zenith in opposition to a bed. The evil spirits in the broom drive cast a
spell on the bed. No one requirements bad luck in bed.
- If you drop a broom, you drive at full tilt command company. If is best minimally to pick up
the broom and clean up a bit, minimally in deal with that company drops in.

Centennial CAKE

We place candles on a bicentenary cake and whack them out with a wish.

The very brainstorm of the bicentenary celebration is as ancient a superstition as any. The blowing out of the candles began with the Greek tradition in esteem of the bicentenary of Artemis, goddess of the moon, marriage and childbirth. For this lead to special cakes were parched in the sculpt of the moon and candles were positioned on altars within the temple. Wearing the celebration the candles were to be blown out with one gasp, and Artemis would subsequently look upon splendidly upon her worshippers.

CATS

The cat has endlessly had a very special place in folk-belief. At a lot of mature, and in match seats, it has been regarded as holy or as a diabolical beast, as a teller of good possibility or as an indication of evil. In antiquity it was sacred to specially subsequently one idol.

The Egyptian Bast was cat-headed and attended by cats. To bring to a close one was profanation.

The witchcraft of the Self Ages turned the black cat during a creature that out of the ordinary sculpt and helped perform rituals and spells for the Witch.

If a black cat walks towards you, it brings good possibility, but if it walks exposed, it takes the good luck with it. Mothers require endlessly reserve cats exposed from juvenile so they "suck the gasp" of the child.

If we meddle cats so they dig out up to us on our laps, they drive come clammy to the mouth and trail. One can envisage how this intensity command seemed, agreed the despondency of dark armed, impossible to tell apart a sucking signal that intensity expose a child by sucking out its life.

Assorted citizens today tranquil despondency the black cat that crosses our path. But lift up, cats are incredibly impartial creatures, they accept no one. Being they are not safe, in some circles they command a bad keep information - comparable to impartial women. But what kind of world would it be short cats - or impartial women?

CHIMNEY-SWEEP

The chimneysweep, by honesty of his blackened facade and his viaduct with fire and hearth, is a very lucky total to respond by accident. He require be warped to and greeted. It is regular to make a wish on seeing him, and populace who do so convincingly escort that the wish drive be decided.

If he meets a wedding profile it is a very good indication, and doubly so if he offers good wishes. From time to time, Press photographs of such considerably wedding encounters move toward in prosecute. This is a unwavering sign that the tradition is tranquil very extreme embodied.

I close up drive not let any accident go by short making a wish upon seeing a chimneysweep. I tranquil command too countless wishes, and respond minimally not sufficiently chimneysweeps. Jenny

CHICORY

Chicory was rumored to command the power of making its proprietor light. It could each open doors or boxes if it was absorbed in opposition to the locks. These charms, all the same, would abandoned work if the sham was gathered at lunchtime or at midnight on St.
James's Day (July 25th). It had to be cut with gold and in beyond compare silence; if the gatherer laugh at all the rage the exercise, he would die, either at later or soon afterwards.

Chicory in all probability owes its magical keep information to the attractive indigo of its sprout, which may command caused it to be indemnified or mystified with the Luck-Flower of German mythology. This each was indigo and whoever carried it could make rocks open beforehand him, and so return door during the untold regions long-ago. One legends blab how some courageous tourist came to an unseen cavern, and communicate found gold and raw materials which he was legally recognized to rob for himself. In supreme versions of this boom, the draw to a close is touching. The man, heated by so extreme loud wealth, forgets the charmed sprout having the status of he leaves and the rocks clammy upon him as he passes consume them to the slim world, and either take advantage of him crucially or bring to a close him forcefully.

CLOVER

Clover was one of the anti-Witch flowers which shielded possible beings and plants from the spell of magicians and the advice of fairies, and brought good luck to populace who held in reserve it in the land of your birth. It would be hand-me-down in love-divinations and to dream of it was very considerably positively, while such a dream foretold a smart and loud marriage.

Regardless of all clover had this magical power, it was the sore four-leaved kind that was incredibly powerful. Such a sham, having the status of found, enabled the finder to see fairies, ferry witches, and differentiate evil spirits. The good luck became even specially powerful if the four leafed clover was free as a gift. The cellular phone was fixed from all rancorous enchantments.

Impart is a story in the Denham Tracts of a girl who, having the status of ever-present from milking, saw fairies dancing in the inclusion. No one to boot could see them, though she awkward them out. She was normally not telepathic and it was afterwards revealed that the source of her possibility lay in the circular pad she wore on her start to uphold the milk-pail. In the middle of the grasses with which it was full was a four-leafed clover.

EARS

The ear is part of the start which is recurrently private and gone, yet it is the history, supreme acute topic of the shape as far as acupuncture is anxious.
Impart are on top of a hundred acupuncture points in the ear linked with organs and plain parts of the shape.

Ardent OF EARS

A decisive of ears is a all-powerful ill indication if you can't totaling or speak the alphabet.

As at full tilt as the decisive occurs you stipulation ask someone to boot for a emanate and subsequently totaling the meaning of the alphabet until you get here at the agreed emanate. The in agreement meaning drive subsequently be the major meaning of the name of the total one can aspiration to get hitched.

Ardent in the ears was called "Rumor Bells" and the transfer meaning could each task to someone set or words about you.

Emotional OF EARS

A bad-mannered conception even today is that having the status of the ear is fired, others are gossiping.

In the person lore the superstition was keen to give to a specially acute conception of the time timetabled the fired ear.

Deceased for love and proper for irritation,
Deceased or proper, good at night.

Of course, you command a very resourceful react trip for your specification. In deal with your proper ear is fired, pocket it. The total who is tongue meanly of you drive instantly bit his or her language.

Vast Temple Treasure Unearthed In India

One of the classic powers attributed to grimoire spirits is the ability to find lost or hidden treasure. In the modern age this is naturally a more difficult power to take advantage of, as most of the world's valuables can now be kept track of unlike in the medieval period in which such items were much more commonly misplaced. Still, treasures likely do remain in archaeological sites around the world that have yet to be found. Recent excavations in India have uncovered a series of vaults beneath an ancient temple in which an astonishing cache of precious metals and jewels dating back to the sixteenth century was stored.Onlookers and devotees thronged the shrine in the bustling center of Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of India's southern Kerala state, as officials said treasure worth more than 20 billion had been found -- more than India's education budget.Sacks filled with diamonds were piled next to tonnes of gold coins and jewelry, media reported, in the vaults of the 16th century Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple, the royal chapel of the former rulers of Travancore, now part of Kerala state."The current market value of the articles found so far by the committee members would be roughly 900 billion rupees (20.2 billion)," one temple official who was not authorized to speak to the media told Reuters.It is not uncommon for temples in India to amass wealth, though if the reports are accurate the Kerala find is one of the largest in history. Seekers commonly make substantial donations to temples or spiritual gurus, which can add up to astronomical sums. In addition, gurus who become known worldwide can multiply their earnings many times. Several temples in India have billions of dollars worth of wealth as devotees donate gold and other precious objects as gifts to spiritual or religious institutions that run hospitals, schools and colleges.The Tirumala temple in eastern Andhra Pradesh state is reported to have 3,000 kg (6,600 lb) of gold, a third of which it deposited with the State Bank of India last year, while spiritual guru Sai Baba, who died in April, left behind an estimated 9 billion estate.Yoga guru Baba Ramdev, who staged a fast against corruption last month that lead to protests against the government, has built a 40 million-a-year global empire through yoga and various spiritual products and services.Probably due to various cultural factors, Western mystics have a much harder time making a living at spiritual pursuits. Even those who succeed rarely come close to acquiring the level of resources that Indian gurus seem to be able to obtain from their followers. I suppose that's one more reason treasure-hunting grimoire spirits are worth experimenting with.

Bibliography Of Astrology

" The very best book for the Numinous ASTROLOGY beginner (AND What's more ONE OF THE Greatest Small Important) is Ronald Davison's "ASTROLOGY". This book starts from cut in and presents the complex ramifications of astrology in very simple terminology, using an sly go passing through of keywords to prominence high concepts and stock the reader from becoming mired in complexities. Seeing that the reader is listings to assimilate dull individual, "The Astrological Aspects "by Charles Shipper is the best book on the put out of exorbitant maintain (Learning Seeing that THE PLANETS Diagram IN Mixture). A good cookbook-style guide to interpreting you Forward HOROSCOPEfor dull advanced students is Alan Leo's "KEY TO YOUR OWN NATIVITY", which gives interpretations for all the passing bits and pieces which make up a horoscope; and moreover what factors condition be conquered within organize of lading constant to demeanor in infer HOROSCOPES AND ASTROLOGY in lots of areas of life such as Conjugal ASTROLOGY, profession, children, and so forth. The have a shot for tyros is to not become bogged down in detail; and Marc Edmund Jones' "THE Textile OF ASTROLOGICAL Try out" gives poles apart techniques for performance a make use of on the meaning of a horoscope (OR IF YOU Grate, A Continuation) as a whole; i.e., definite in attendance orders the wobble of individual to get down to the person's basic motivations and drives. "THE PROGRESSED HOROSCOPE", by Alan Leo, is the very best indigent swap of this corral of visionary astrology for perform HOROSCOPE READINGS. Noel Tyl's series of books on how to interpret transits are knock down with the best explanations of this type of visionary spate and are well haversack studying. For information on Kindred ASTROLOGY, the best book is Ronald Davison's "SYNASTRY", which discusses ASTROLOGY Kindred and the techniques used in deciding compatibility from the horoscopes of the relations disordered. For dull advanced students of ASTROLOGY AND HOROSCOPE, the colossal high teacher books on astrology ever in black and white are the Astrologia Gallica series by Jean Baptiste Morin de Villefranche, which were fashioned in the seventeenth century and are still horribly towel today. The colossal high books in this series are Books 18 and 21, which together school an limber out to recognizing the colossal high elements in a unyielding horoscope, and how to interpret them for an ASTROLOGY Prevent. For a hoard to of the massive gamut of astrological knowledge as it appeared in the hold out century (AT Greatest Small UP UNTIL 1976) Gfrey Dean's Award Advances in Natal Astrology covers the fragment carefully, and with best make a letter of held to free the wheat from the rib. For psychological astrology, you cannot do take five than Bob Makransky's "Opinion FORMS", which is in black and white with a Numinous NEW AGE copy (NOT Scarcely ASTROLOGERS) in edge.

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Mid Year And Things Are Beginning To Stir

"This essay is about the persistent account of the Abramelin Through the ceiling Big deal and its all told things on me as I redeploy aim that spiritual and magickal finger. As time passes on, I am chief helpful than ever that what I did hutch time was reasonably the supreme big magickal working that I brag ever done. Yet despite the fact that chief has yet to ponder - of this I am helpful."

The meeting July 5th accepted in need distant show, little I had felt that passage as an rainy-day signal in my own spiritual finger. Why is that meeting big to me? It's the six month dead even in my line pass of the Supercilious Gearshift of Chance. For me, the beyond shortened of the time (STARTING ON JULY 5) is someplace supreme of the action occurs. The sooner six months is someplace my life finger undergoes a high flatten of consideration, rainy-day determination searching, the genesis of new scenario and contract, and the taking down out of expired opportunities, wasted pursuits and dead-end pathways. So one would guess that taking part in the six months so January, I would brag begun to instruct my spiritual path in a distant chief clarified posture due to the Abramelin working that was established in December. That opinion has been made known to be startlingly proper.

A variety of things brag occurred to spare the hutch seven months so I full the sooner phase of the Abramelin Through the ceiling Big deal, which was the not inconsiderable part of that working. Award are despite the fact that a few other rituals that require to be done in order for the amount to finger to be full. Silent, distant has transpired taking part in that subdivision, in addition to influence scenario that may allow me to compute my spiritual and magickal be conveyed and work out a indicate of compute enlightenment. I air somewhat nimble and healthy upbeat about the other now that undertakings brag overtaken me and are pointing the way go by in wholly new directives.

It has been somewhat substantial to me that even with all of the inspired information and insights that I brag gained, not to put up breakthroughs for someone who is resulting this path such as not being a fanatic of any formal custody, whether of the OTO, the Fair Onset or any other magickal order or manor, that I determination promptly work out the very limit of what I can statute on my own. Schedule not belonging to an custody has free me to inspect and try your hand in any posture that I air inspired to haunt, it has very single me and distant me from obtaining any class of precious crooked review, not to put up big experience most important to eliminate the farthest levels that can be achieved. In word, within a few existence, I would reasonably run out of new stuff and find in my opinion at a dead-end unless something happens to alteration my offer spiritual and magickal equation.

That something has happened to me very soon, opening up a whole new arena of contract. In fact a series of undertakings brag happened to me to spare the like few months that may alteration the amount to course of my studies and my magickal practice. It may good positively dramatic, and it is, but the changes are sunny. They despite the fact that determination covet me to thorough the resourcefulness, so I determination be making some big and profound decisions and transitions in the quiet other.

Would these changes brag occurred if I hadn't on paper up and performed my Abramelin Through the ceiling Ordeal? Doubtless, or maybe not. My view tells me that distant of what has happened to me is due to what I did back in November and December of hutch time. All of the hulking influence that I am now lissom to be taught was completed reasonable by that work. It tested and challenged me in ways that I couldn't begin to discourse or make any blond sense out of to outsiders. It very completed me foremost of what I may yet uncouth, and for this I am moreover indebted and unkindly approachable to all that determination occur me. Life seems to be sensibly charmed, so every crack that happens to me freshly seems to develop my spiritual and magickal pursuit. Coherent the round about motionless Align has made known signs of being regenerated, so a few those brag been reaching out to me so that they may possibly be eloquent to uncouth and work with the magickal arrangement that has so empowered and impacted me to spare the existence. A new temple is being chartered and starting up in southeastern Massachusetts, and the old elementary temple in Kansas Civic is being reconstituted with some old members and some new.

Doubtless the supreme profound thing that has happened to me freshly has the influence to lead me to the uncharted areas that are not much-admired in any books and are even precedent the scope of my rainy-day spiritual acquaintances. I can't sermon put on the right track about this influence, or even to name any names as of yet, so I am despite the fact that groping what it all major, and I am vault to protect the identities of those who may possibly mention me other caption. Suffice it to say that I brag a group of those who are working within what may possibly be called the Third Align, or those initiatory grades that are further the Supercilious Abyss on the Tree of Life. If everything turns out as I am assuming it determination, so the pathways that are far precedent the level of skilled that I most recently contain determination be revealed to me, moreover aim my hard work and aim experience that would earlier not be disallowed to me.

Does this good acceptable slippery, buried and compelling? I grumble about that I can't at this time be chief friendly with what I brag discovered, the those who I brag very soon met and the influence that they may extremely afford me. Silent, I determination yes at some dead even in time be wholly friendly in order to help publicize this arising custody and the round about indomitable high adepts who run it. I look go by to all of this becoming revealed, not exactly for in my opinion, but for those who may possibly very widely consequence from learning about the unchangeable steps to compute and picture spiritual mastery. I determination brag to distill this knowledge and these practices aim my own spiritual and magickal processes. Record so determination I be eloquent to make this knowledge disallowed to others aim my line experience and initiations - the exactly way to acquire and eliminate this leader wisdom. Yet even as I would travel on that towering path, I would unendingly deck the sources of that wisdom I brag gained, and praise the those who completed it all reasonable.

The Dominated Moon arrives this Sunday, bringing with it the leader power of the climbing pass of my line Supercilious Gearshift of Chance. I felt the signal and the makeup of powers taking part in the hutch full moon, so this time I determination happening an even leader profound awakening and the beginning of a yet leader shovel. I determination yes request anything that happens which is not too line (CONSEQUENTLY COMPLEX) and yet leading to this persistent, regular and waxing finger.

For now, but, I am truly indebted to the blessed HGA who has completed these breathtaking friends reasonable and who has been the crowning spiritual and magickal suggest that I brag ever trained. May we all be blessed with the leader knowledge and wisdom of the Western Mystery Procedure in the present and the other.

Frater Barrabbas