tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88846320438104055722024-03-13T01:41:13.350+01:00Andromedawaked-globalLudovica Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04317613281826428911noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8884632043810405572.post-23128672932431020752011-11-06T19:38:00.000+01:002011-11-06T19:38:22.445+01:00The Enfield Poltergeist<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ilsitodelledonne.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/poltergeist.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" ida="true" src="http://www.ilsitodelledonne.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/poltergeist.jpg" width="320px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Quite possibly, one of the most fascinating paranormal cases I've run across is that of the Enfield case in North London. It revolved around a family of five. Peggy Harper, a divorced mother, and her four children. They lived in a three bedroom house in Enfield. The events began in August of 1977, when two of the children Janet and Pete complained that their beds were moving. When their mother went to investigate, however, the beds were still, leading Peggy to believe that the children were making the story up.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The next night, however, Peggy was once again called by the children to investigate a shuffling noise they heard in their room. When the sound was described as sounding like a chair was moving across the floor, Peggy removed the chair to stop the complaints. However, when she turned off the light to leave, she also heard the sound. It stopped when she turned the light on, but when the room was dark again, she heard it again. Things rapidly escalated from there, with Peggy there to witness it for herself. There were four loud knocks on the wall, and a chest of drawers moved by itself. Moving the chest back against the wall proved fruitless, as it moved away again on it's own when Peggy turned away. A second attempt to move it proved impossible, and Peggy finally lost her composure. Terrified, she ordered her children out of bed, and they ran to a neighbors' home for help.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The neighbors investigated, hearing the knocks for themselves. A search of the house and garden brought up nothing, and when the police arrived, they also witnessed the knocking on the walls. In a signed statement made by one officer, a chair moved across the floor of its' own accord.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The events continued and escalated. There were numerous witnesses to the phenomena of objects flying through the air, knockings on the walls, etc. A local vicar, the police, a local medium, reporters from the Daily Mirror numbered among the witnesses. Finally, the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) contacted Maurice Grosse, one of their members, to look into the case. He stayed at the Harper home for several days before experiencing any activity, which began with a chair in one of the children's' bedrooms being thrown across the room. One of the children were asleep in the room at the time. The chair was returned to where it belonged, and when it happened again an hour later, a photographer who was also staying in the house, captured it on film.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The case made the front page of the Daily Mirror, and was picked up by a London based radio station which resulted in a two and a half hour NIGHT LINE program. Peggy, Grosse, and a neighbor participated in the show, where they talked about the case. The Harper family was becoming famous, and the Enfield case was attracting more and more attention. Writer Guy Lyon joined Grosse in his investigations of the strange occurrences, which continued for two years before it finally ended.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It must have been a long two years. Knockings on walls and floors happened on an almost daily basis, furniture moved of it's own accord across the floor, and threw itself down the stairs; objects would fly across rooms and bedsheets and blankets would get pulled off the beds; there were unexplained puddles of water appearing on the floor, and the children made claims that they were being pulled out of bed, thrown across the room, and more. The children's mother, Peggy witnessed many of these events, and backed up her children's' claims.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Most of the activity seemed to center around one child in particular. 11 year old Janet. She would be seen being thrown about the room, the curtains would try to wrap themselves around her neck, threatening to strangle her. Janet also began speaking in a very rough male voice, claiming to be, among others, someone named Bill who had died in the house. This was verified later that it had indeed, happened, but at time time Janet was manifesting this, no one in the family was aware that this had actually happened. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Doctors and psychiatrists were brought in to examine the family, particularly Janet. While the gravelly voice was determined to indeed be coming from Janets' throat, no explanation could be given as to how her normal speaking voice was not damaged by using the rougher voice for hours on end. Janet was examined for mental problems, etc., going to Maudsley Hospital in South London for six weeks for observation and tests to check for any physical or mental abnormalities. None were found. However, during Janets' absence, the activity in the house stopped.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Suspicion centered on Janet. Hidden cameras were set up, which recorded her bending spoons with her hands and trying to bend an iron bar. Other researchers from the SPR came to investigate, but when they came into Janet's room to observe, they were made to stand facing away from the children, only to be hit with objects while the children giggled. The investigators felt that the children were producing the 'voices' themselves, and trying to hide it by burying their faces in sheets, etc, to disguise what they were doing. One researcher, Anita Gregory claimed that the children's uncle had told her he believed Janet had taught herself to talk in a deep voice, and that she had always been very athletic and mischievous, delighting in tricking strangers. He apparently believed that Janet was the cause of the phenomena.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In any event, the phenomena stopped, finally, after two long years. But the questions remain. Was it an actual paranormal case, or was it a hoax, perpetuated by the children? Or, could it have been a combination of both? I tend to believe that perhaps it may have started with some unexplained occurrences, and that the children then perpetuated a hoax for the attention it brought them. After all, they were photographed, people came to investigate, they received media attention...it must have been very tempting, indeed, to continue, if that is in fact the case. It seems unlikely to me that Peggy Harper, the mother, was a part of it, however. Another fact that seems to bear out it being a possible hoax was the sudden cessation of activity after two years, allowing the family to return to a normal life. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hoax or not, the Enfield Case continues to be one of the most fascinating and intriguing paranormal events, worthy of further study. To read more details about this case, and to see photos, visit the link below:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Source: The Enfield Case by John Zaffis</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">For an alien looking to explore Earth, the frozen wastes of Siberia may not be the most attractive of landing locations.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But if this film footage is to be believed, that's exactly where these 'little green men' chose to land their UFO. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The clip, filmed in the remote Irkutsk region of Siberia, appears to show a strange glowing craft and five aliens walking about in the snow. </span></div><br>
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Book of Shadows is a secret book that is known to be filled with mysterious spells and incantations. However, this thought only exists in television series and movies. With this, most witches who are new to the craft are becoming disappointed at this point because they would think that there are such books available for purchase. Nevertheless, this is not just the case. Back at the past, the fear of being discovered was at its peak that any secrets and wisdom handed down were performed so verbally; not to mention that the capability in reading and writing were given mostly to the wealthy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Generally, the Book of Shadows is a <strong>witchcraft book</strong> that serves two main purposes. The first purpose serves as a <strong>witchcraft book</strong> that serves as a reference guide of all sorts. This could be a place where one keeps tables and correspondences, rituals and spells that one would like to try. On the other hand, the purpose is more personal. In this aspect, one would keep track of dreams, spells, rituals, and personal readings. Therefore, it is a more magical journal than an ordinary workbook. This is the common purpose of Book of Shadows as a <strong>witchcraft book</strong>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br>
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</div><a href="http://andromedawakedglobal.blogspot.com/2011/10/making-witchcraft-bookbook-of-shadows.html#more">Read more »</a>Ludovica Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04317613281826428911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8884632043810405572.post-84717861835102289462011-10-02T21:27:00.000+02:002011-10-02T21:27:25.851+02:00HOW TO SEE AND READ AUREA<div style="text-align: justify;"><br>
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In the distant past, people admired things they could not explain and called them “miracles”. Long ago, people were able to see Auras. Advanced spiritual people such as Buddha, Christ and their immediate students were painted with golden haloes around their heads, because some artists could actually see Auras. In Australia remote West Kimberleys you can find prehistoric cave paintings (bottom left), many thousands of years old, depicting people with golden haloes. (photo courtesy G.L.Walsh) Nature gave us ALL we need to see Auras. All is required is the knowledge how to use your senses together with your conscious effort. If you decide not to try, you will NEVER see the Aura. On the other hand, when you SEE something for yourself, no longer will you need to rely on believing someone. You will KNOW. And you can use your knowledge to learn more.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br>
</div><a href="http://andromedawakedglobal.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-to-see-and-read-aurea.html#more">Read more »</a>Ludovica Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04317613281826428911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8884632043810405572.post-69144228078964247972011-10-02T21:21:00.001+02:002011-10-02T21:28:26.674+02:00ASTRAL TRAVEL BASICS by Dr Tom J. Chalko<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQIGPgJKnWlwKkqWTCefxaADy6l3z8OX9JywrZeK5gpFpbPa-RMSMgccEKEBA" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214px" kca="true" src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQIGPgJKnWlwKkqWTCefxaADy6l3z8OX9JywrZeK5gpFpbPa-RMSMgccEKEBA" width="320px"></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br>
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Material technology, without spiritual knowledge, is leading us to a <a href="http://bioresonant.com/news.htm" target="_blank">global catastrophe</a> on Earth. Technology should ASSIST in the spiritual development and not be used (as it is used now) to confine and enslave people within a monetary system and materialistic world, which are both temporary anyway.<br>
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;">T</span><span>he oldest calendars in the world are all mooncalendars. Archeologists found carved bones dating back early as 11000 years B.C. (see the book </span></span></span><a href="http://www.literati.net/Duncan/index.htm"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;">Calendar</span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span>). At present the </span><span><b>Hindu, Chinese and Jewish</b></span><span> people have so-called luni-solar calendars which are leaped calendars that remind one of the moonorder of the old Babylonians. Every 3-4 years a month is added to stay in line with the seasons according certain mathematical rules to cycles of time. Next to that do the Muslims have a purely lunar calendar which once in the 32 years is realigning with the solar calendar.</span></span> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">T</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">he</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Roman Empire before the julian reform of 45 B.C. also had a lunar calendar. Because it was subject to political/religious manipulation it was at the time abolished by Julius Caesar. But still our present gregorian calendar shows the signs of the old times: December is derived from the roman word for ten, meaning the tenth month. There were originally no more than ten lunar month's on our calendar which began 753 years B.C. at the Foundation of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) A.U.C.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br>
</div><a href="http://andromedawakedglobal.blogspot.com/2011/10/moon-calendar.html#more">Read more »</a>Ludovica Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04317613281826428911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8884632043810405572.post-78304058145509242642011-09-21T00:32:00.006+02:002011-09-26T19:48:36.939+02:00A Protocol for Messaging to Extraterrestrial Intelligence<div style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHl5RYqOZLeKeRW-mm6LtiaOh1jfimxhjc00g-xGt45ORgYkZwE-C62sp82gPyyQY8JpVcohVtm6C_Kg31cY80eZB8aeX1y0YDj3RbuvnkBDyOReVdjHQ0KsNf-CMw5MtVvNLazV0I4gAG/s1600/contatto.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="217px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHl5RYqOZLeKeRW-mm6LtiaOh1jfimxhjc00g-xGt45ORgYkZwE-C62sp82gPyyQY8JpVcohVtm6C_Kg31cY80eZB8aeX1y0YDj3RbuvnkBDyOReVdjHQ0KsNf-CMw5MtVvNLazV0I4gAG/s400/contatto.jpg" width="400px"></a></div><br>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">constructing and broadcasting a message toward habitable planets. Since the Arecibo message of 1974, the handful of METI broadcasts have increased in content and complexity, but the lack of an established protocol has produced unorganized or cryptic messages that could be difficult to 2</span><span style="font-size: small;">interpret. Here we outline the development of a self-consistent protocol for messaging to</span><span style="font-size: small;">extraterrestrial intelligence that provides constraints and guidelines for the construction of a</span><span style="font-size: small;">message in order to maximize the probability that the message effectively communicates. A</span><span style="font-size: small;">METI protocol considers several factors including signal encoding, message length, information</span><span style="font-size: small;">content, anthropocentrism, transmission method, and transmission periodicity. Once developed,</span><span style="font-size: small;">the protocol will be released for testing on different human groups worldwide and across cultural</span><span style="font-size: small;">boundaries. An effective message to extraterrestrials should at least be understandable by</span><span style="font-size: small;">humans, and releasing the protocol for testing will allow us to improve the protocol and develop</span><span style="font-size: small;">potential messages. Through an interactive website, users across the world will be able to create</span><span style="font-size: small;">and exchange messages that follow the protocol in order to discover the types of messages better</span><span style="font-size: small;">suited for cross-cultural communication. The development of a METI protocol will serve to</span><span style="font-size: small;">improve the quality of messages to extraterrestrials, foster international collaboration, and extend</span><span style="font-size: small;">astrobiology outreach to the public.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br>
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</div><div sizcache="4" sizset="30" style="text-align: justify;">Two early medieval skeletons were unearthed recently in Ireland with large stones wedged into their mouths -- evidence, archaeologists say, that it was feared the individuals would rise from their graves like zombies. </div><div sizcache="4" sizset="30" style="text-align: justify;">The skeletons, which were featured in a British documentary last week, emerged during a series of digs carried out between 2005 and 2009 at Kilteasheen, near Loch Key in Ireland by a team of archaeologists led by Chris Read from the Institute of Technology in Sligo, Ireland and Thomas Finan from the University of St. Louis.</div><div sizcache="4" sizset="30" style="text-align: justify;">The project recovered a total of 137 skeletons, although archaeologists believe that some 3,000 skeletons spanning from 700 to 1400 are still buried at the site.</div><div sizcache="4" sizset="30" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div sizcache="4" sizset="30" style="text-align: justify;">The "deviant burials" were comprised of two men who were buried there at different times in the 700s.</div><div sizcache="4" sizset="30" style="text-align: justify;">One of the men was between 40 and 60 years old, and the other was a young adult, probably between 20 and 30 years old. The two men were laid side by side and each had a baseball-sized rock shoved in his mouth.</div><div sizcache="4" sizset="30" style="text-align: justify;">"One of them was lying with his head looking straight up. A large black stone had been deliberately thrust into his mouth," Chris Read, head of Applied Archaeology at IT Sligo, said.</div><div sizcache="4" sizset="30" style="text-align: justify;">"The other had his head turned to the side and had an even larger stone wedged quite violently into his mouth so that his jaws were almost dislocated," he added.</div><div sizcache="4" sizset="30" style="text-align: justify;">Initially, Read and colleagues thought they had found a Black Death-related burial ground. Remains of individuals buried at the end of the Middle Ages with stones stuck in their mouths have hinted at vampire-slaying rituals. </div><div sizcache="4" sizset="30" style="text-align: justify;">It was believed that these "vampire" individuals spread the plague by chewing on their shrouds after dying. In a time before germ theory, the stone in the mouth was then used as a disease-blocking trick.</div><div sizcache="4" sizset="30" style="text-align: justify;">Since the vampire phenomenon didn't emerge in European folklore until the 1500's, the archaeologists ruled out this theory for the 8th century skeletons.</div><div sizcache="4" sizset="30" style="text-align: justify;">"In this case, the stones in the mouth might have acted as a barrier to stop revenants from coming back from their graves," Read told Discovery News.</div><div sizcache="4" sizset="32" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div sizcache="4" sizset="30" style="text-align: justify;">Revenants or the "walking dead" tended to be people who lived as outsiders in society, according to Read.</div><div sizcache="4" sizset="30" style="text-align: justify;">The two Irish men could have been considered potentially dangerous people, such as enemies, murderers, rapists or they could have been ordinary individuals who died suddenly from a strange illness or murder.</div><div sizcache="4" sizset="30" style="text-align: justify;">Anything outside the norm would have caused the community to fear that these people could have come back to life to harass their loved ones or others against whom they had a grudge. </div><div sizcache="4" sizset="30" style="text-align: justify;">The mouth was seen as a key part of the body for such a transformation.</div><div sizcache="4" sizset="30" style="text-align: justify;">"It was viewed as the main portal for the soul to leave the body upon death. Sometimes, the soul could come back to the body and re-animate it or else an evil spirit could enter the body through the mouth and bring it back to life," Read said.</div><div sizcache="4" sizset="33" style="text-align: justify;">According to <a href="http://www.poweredbyosteons.org/">Kristina Killgrove,</a> a biological anthropologist at the University of North Carolina, the burials' dating is particularly interesting as it appears to predate historical records on revenants. </div><div sizcache="4" sizset="30" style="text-align: justify;">"I'm also intrigued by the fact that the two males were not buried at the same time but were nonetheless buried side-by-side in this non-traditional manner, which suggests these burials were not accidental or careless," Killgrove told Discovery News.</div><div sizcache="4" sizset="30" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's possible that a similar animal created both structures.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"You should imagine the tracemaker as a stout, short-bodied, four-legged animal with a short tail and short neck," lead author Sebastian Voigt told Discovery News. "The trunk was about 20-25 centimeters (8-10 inches) in length. We have to assume that it had five sturdy digits with claws suitable for digging into moderately soft sediment."</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Funded by the German Research Foundation, ichnologist Voigt from the Institute of Geology at TU Bergakademie Freiberg and his colleagues studied the burrows, located in red beds of the Argana Basin in central Morocco. The architecture consists of numerous openings, exists, tunnels and chambers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The Argana burrows do not have any equivalent in the fossil record or among extant burrowing vertebrates," Voigt said. "Their chambers are exceptionally complex structures and two-fold winded tunnels have never been observed anywhere else."</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Based on this arrangement and what can be inferred about the burrow makers, the scientists think the underground world served as a retreat, permitting escape from predators. Although dinosaurs were not yet around, huge fast-running crocodiles with long legs were in the area, as evidenced by fossil finds. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Close relatives of today's lizards, snakes and tuataras were also around, along with relatives of birds and dinosaurs.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The site's geology as well as the burrow's design also suggests the animals headed underground to tolerate weather extremes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"During the Triassic, the region probably was a semiarid large inland basin," Voigt explained. "Rivers were slowly flowing after episodic rain fall. Streambeds were flat and completely dry for lengthy periods. Loose vegetation covered the banks of the streams. It was hot during the day and cold in the night."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 278px;"><img alt="burrows" border="0" height="225px" src="http://news.discovery.com/animals/2011/09/13/burrows-278x155.jpg" width="278px" /><br />
<left><span style="color: #a64d79;">The burrow system, as illustrated by the study authors.</left></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The smooth floor of the tunnels reveals they were well used, with the animals probably gathering food, such as plants, roots and insects, at the surface during nighttime.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Burrows made by individual animals, such as fish, date to early Paleozoic periods, indicating this behavior was very important since practically the beginning of complex animal life on the planet. Voigt suspects it first evolved to permit escape from environmental extremes, particularly drought.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It seems that whenever animals could dig to escape, they did. Some dinosaurs dug burrows. One of the limitations is having the right substrate. In the case of the Moroccan animals, the conditions were perfect for digging. The burrows there were constructed in riverbank sandy substrates intermixed with moist overbank mud.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Molly Miller, a professor of earth and environmental sciences at Vanderbilt University, told Discovery News, "This is an exciting discovery. The careful description and analysis make a convincing case that the burrows provided shelter to numerous animals."</div><div style="text-align: justify;">She added, "It demonstrates that the development of complex tetrapod behavior in response to challenging environmental conditions goes back over 200 million years. It has a very long history!"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">An uncovered letter written by John F Kennedy to the head of the CIA shows that the president demanded to be shown highly confidential documents about UFOs 10 days before his assassination.</span></div><div style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">The secret memo is one of two letters written by JFK asking for information about the paranormal on November 12 1963, which have been released by the CIA for the first time.</span></div><div style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Author William Lester said the CIA released the documents to him under the Freedom of Information Act after he made a request while researching his new book 'A Celebration of Freedom: JFK and the New Frontier.'</span></div><div class="clear" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"></span></div><div class="thinCenter" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"></span><br>
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<b>The art of Zen meditation is a simple one. You don't need any prior experience. The meditation is the experience.</b> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You don't need to have read any books about it. The wisdom you receive from a Zen practice is original. It comes from the quiet space in your soul. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">You don't even need to know what Zen means. It's not mystical or rare or even necessarily spiritual. It's the simplest and most natural thing in the world. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Zen meditation is not a religious thing. Athiests practice and benefit from it in the same way Christians, Buddhists, and Muslims do. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Zen meditation has nothing to do with where you live or where you're from. You can be anywhere in the world and benefit from it. Peace of mind is not geographically specific. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>I believe even animals practice Zen.</b> I have seen cats, monkeys, lizards, dogs, and many other animals behaving as though they were meditating. Not just staring intently at food bowls, but genuinely looking like they were actively seeking the quiet spaces within themselves. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>I encourage you to give it a try. Sit comfortably in a chair. Gently close your eyes. Bring your attention to the breath moving effortlessly in and out of your body. Feel how it ebbs and flows, like water lapping at the shore of the ocean. </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If other thoughts come into your mind, simply acknowledge them and bring your attention back to your breath and how your body feels. Pain, pleasure, comfort, discomfort; just feel them. Experience these sensations without judgement about whether the sensations are good or bad. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.energy-healing-info.com/symbol-for-zen.html"><span style="color: #663366;">Zen</span></a> allows you to be aware of how your actions affect the world around you. This allows you to be more productive. A cluttered mind is like a cluttered desk. Makes it hard to be fully productive. Meditation clears clutter from your mind. It stops that endless wheel of worrisome thoughts and allows you instead to focus on how to move forward from where you are. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>After practicing Zen and mindfulness meditation for over 20 years, I can honestly say I have benefited more from meditation than from any other single thing I have ever done. Seriously.</b> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Give zen meditation a try. The worst thing that can happen is you feel like you wasted a few minutes of otherwise productive time. The best thing that can happen is that you'll find a simple, free, and effortless way to make your entire life better. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">May peace and harmony bless you this day and always. <br />
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<a href="http://www.energy-healing-info.com/zen-meditation.html">took from</a></div>Ludovica Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04317613281826428911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8884632043810405572.post-43503302787113599882011-09-05T20:32:00.000+02:002011-09-05T20:32:07.713+02:00Spells for Consecration and Purification<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="" name="constructivespells"></a><em></em></b> </h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.natures-desktop-hd.com/wallpaper-previews/trees/red-maple-leaves.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300px" nba="true" src="http://www.natures-desktop-hd.com/wallpaper-previews/trees/red-maple-leaves.jpg" width="400px" /></a></div><h2 style="text-align: justify;"><b><em></em></b> </h2><h2 style="text-align: justify;"><b><em></em></b> </h2><h2 style="text-align: justify;"><b><em>Constructive spells</em></b></h2><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>Spells of a constructive nature should be performed during the waxing of the moon, when the moon is full and bright. Examples of constructive spells would be spells for luck, fertility rites and protection spells. In witch craft, all spells should be practiced while in a positive mood, because this will achieve the best end for what you want. Many things are used in the practice of witchcraft as aids in spells, such as different herbs and leaves, as many of these things are believed to have magical properties. An example is the bay leaf, which is believed to have a lot of positive energy associated with it, and used often in witchcraft to invoke positive energy</em>. </div><br />
<div align="justify"></div><h2><b><a href="" name="ConsecrationSpells"></a>Consecration/Purification in Spells</b></h2><div style="text-align: justify;">Consecration is defined by the dictionary as to “dedicate formally to a religious or divine purpose.” Consecration must be practiced before any tool can be used in the practice of witchcraft. Consecration is a form of purification, and is done with salt, water and incense, which all stand for the five elements of nature – water, earth, fire, air and spirit. It is important that consecration to be used for witchcraft be done in a positive state of mind, as this incorporates the “spirit” part of the elements. Consecration is used in witchcraft to gain the approval of the God and Goddess for what they are about to practice. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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The following tools will be needed:</b></div><strong></strong><div align="justify"><br />
1 White Candle – this is representative of positive energy<br />
1 Black Candle – this is representative of negative energy<br />
1 Green Candle – this is representative of healing<br />
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Clear your mind and light the white candle. Say the following incantation:</b></div><div align="justify"><br />
<i>“Mother Earth, Fire, Wind, Water and Spirit,<br />
I ask thee to cleanse my body of all negative energies”</i><br />
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Light the black candle and say the same thing. After this light the green candle and say the following incantation:</b></div><div align="justify"><strong></strong><br />
<i>“Mother Earth, Fire, Wind, Water and Spirit,<br />
I ask thee to free and heal my body from all negative forces.<br />
Blessed be!”<br />
Sit back, and keep your mind clear for fifteen minutes. After this you should feel renewed and fresh.</i> </div><div align="justify"><br />
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</div><div align="justify"><b>Three Red Leaves Spell</b><br />
This spell is used to protect the mind against things such as nightmares, negative thoughts and “invasions of evil”. First you must gather three red leaves from any tree, plant or bush. Lay them in a triangle on a flat surface. In the centre of the leaves, place an already lighted candle, and place a few drops of chrysanthemum oil on each leaf. </div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify"><b>Say this incantation three times:</b><br />
“Red leaves, gift from earth,<br />
Birth to death and death to birth,<br />
Keep all evil far away, <br />
Day to night and night to day.”<br />
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Then extinguish the candle, and wrap the leaves in a white cloth or pouch. Place this near your bed within three feet of your head and it will stop all nightmares and negative thoughts.</div><div align="justify"><br />
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</div><div align="justify"><b>Invocation of the Elements</b></div><div align="justify"><br />
Air, Fire, Water, Earth, <br />
Elements of astral birth, <br />
I call you now; attend to me! <br />
In the Circle, rightly cast, <br />
Safe from curse or blast, <br />
I call you now, attend to me! </div><div align="justify">From cave and desert,sea and hill, <br />
By wand, blade,and pentacle, <br />
I call you now, attend to me! <br />
This Is my will, so mote it be!</div><div align="justify"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">This essay explores the application of Nagualism as a tool for alchemical change. After a brief introduction to the fundamental concepts of Nagualism, these concepts are used to examine the appearance of alchemical principles in Chaos magic and Native American magic.</span><br>
<h3><span style="font-family: Arial;">Concept of the Assemblage Point</span></h3><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><img align="left" height="150px" src="http://www.alchemylab.com/XaosStarSm.gif" width="153px">A most useful concept for studying the epistemology of magic is the idea of the <i>assemblage point. </i>This idea comes from a branch of combined Meso-American shamanism and magic commonly known as <i>Nagualism</i>, and is described by Carlos Castaneda in the numerous books in which he writes about his encounters with the Mexican <i>brujero,</i> Don Juan. Nagualism views the human being abstractly as a "luminous cocoon" of awareness and defines the assemblage point as that location on this sphere where all the fibers of the universe are focused by <i>intent</i> into our perception of the universe. Furthermore, this location can be changed by the operation of <i>intent</i>. Notice that intent is the key, operative word of this definition. Indeed, if it can ever be said that the brujero Nagual uttered a magic word, that word would have to be "intent", for intent<i> </i>is the quintessential, indefinable term in the language of Nagualism. Castaneda describes the role of intent in the following passage from </span><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">Silent Knowledge</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br>
</div><i></i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sorcerers, by the force of their practices and goals, refute the power of the word. They define themselves as <i>navigators in the sea of the unknown.</i> For them, navigation is a practicality, and <i>navigation</i> means to move from world to world, without losing sobriety, without losing strength; and, to accomplish this feat of navigation, there cannot be procedures, or steps to be followed, but one single abstract act that defines it all: the act of reinforcing our link with the force that permeates the universe, a force which sorcerers call <i>intent</i>. Since we are alive and conscious, we are already intimately related to <i>intent</i>. What we need, sorcerers say, is to make that link the realm of our conscious acts, and that act of becoming conscious of our link with <i>intent</i> is another way of defining silent knowledge.</span></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Working together with the other three apprentices of Don Juan (Carol Tiggs, Florinda Donner-Grau, and Tiasha Abelar), Castaneda combined all the separate aspects of Nagual magic into a single, comprehensive discipline he has named <i>Tensegrity</i>. Central to this discipline is the idea that certain, specific practices, for strengthening and conditioning the practitioner's physical (and energy) body, prepares the practitioner for moving the assemblage point by the operation of </span><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">intent.</span></i><br>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Generally speaking, a movement of the assemblage point results in perceptual changes, the intensity of which is proportional to the magnitude of that movement. Smaller movements of the assemblage point result in alterations in the way we perceive the universe of everyday, consensual reality (and vice versa). A sufficiently large movement of the assemblage point results in the perception, however brief, of a wholly new universe - a universe in which one can "live and die". A movement that ends in a new, stable location results in the experience of either a <i>re-manifestation</i> of the present universe or of the <i>manifestation</i> of a whole new universe, depending on the magnitude of the movement. The discipline of Tensegrity is intended to prepare the practitioner to survive the rigors of the larger movement that results in perception of a new universe. Furthermore, the discipline of Tensegrity is <i>abstract</i> because the greater the movement, the more abstract the perceptual experience of the universe that manifests. The following discussion, however, will focus on the smaller movements of the assemblage point that may be brought about by single-minded focus on philosophical ideas, concepts and spatial arraignments. It is these smaller movements that are so important in preparing the aspirant for the larger shift that results in the manifestation of a whole new universe.</span></div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Elements in Chaos Magic</span></h3><div style="text-align: justify;"><table border="0" cellpadding="7" cellspacing="0" hspace="12" style="text-align: right; width: 277px;"><tbody>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Figure 1. Elements of Chaos Magic.</span></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Air, Earth, Fire and Water most commonly designate the four classical elements of magic and philosophy. Chaos magic adopts the tradition of the four elements and adds a fifth, postulated element, but changes the nomenclature somewhat. Derived from the physics of quantum mechanics, the elements in Chaos magic, are Time, Space, Mass and Energy. The fifth element, Ether, is postulated to represent the so-called <i>shadow time</i> dimension used to account for the apparent paradoxes of quantum mechanics. Figure 1 illustrates the pentagram with these elements as attributes of the four vertices and the fifth element, Ether, as an attribute of the ascendant point of the pentagram. Peter Carroll describes this arraignment of the five Elements more fully in the following passage from <i>Liber Kaos</i></span></div><br>
<dir><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Matter can be conveniently divided for descriptive purposes into space, time, mass and energy… However, the consensus description on this world at least is conveniently represented by the tetrahedron… The four vertices represent space, time, mass and energy, which is the description the ancients were trying to formulate with their air, water, earth and fire analogies. When ether (or spirit) is added, a pentagram is created… The pentagram is the simplest possible map of the universe, even the Chaos from which it phenomenizes has been omitted. The pentagram is also a symbol of magic, for it shows ether and matter interacting…</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In Chaos magic operations, the Elements may be seen as alternating in position around the pentagram depending on whether they are dominant or subordinate in a particular working. In some operations, space and time might be dominant, in others matter and energy. It is my hypothesis that applying alchemical principles to the quantum mechanical manifestation of the Elements forces a change in perceptual habits of how the Elements interrelate, and that this change results in a beneficial shift in the assemblage point. In turn, this beneficial shift of the assemblage point re-manifests as novel perceptions of the magical universe.</span></div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Parallels in Native American Lore</span></h3><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">As a prelude to discussing alchemical principles in Native American magic, it is appropriate to introduce a few correspondences to the Elements in Chaos magic. These correspondences, summarized in table 1 below, are taken from various schools of thought inspired by a single, unifying alchemical principle in Native American magic. Unlike systems of correspondences that appear in other branches of magic, the correspondences in table 1 should not in any way be considered as set in stone. The reader should note that different Native American tribal groups often have their own preferred arraignments for these correspondences, especially for Color and Spirit Animal. In fact, one of the concepts found in Native American parallels to Chaos magic is the <i>Spinning Medicine Wheel</i>. As an aid in understanding this concept, the entries in the rows of table 1 may be visualized as written ninety degrees apart on concentric rings which may be "spun" independently of each other, as if on a pinwheel. Spinning the rings thus provides a way of randomly deriving new permutations of the entries in the table. One may ask what purpose is served by permuting the elements of table 1, other than total confusion. The answer would be that "spinning the medicine wheel" constitutes a method for forcing a change in perception, and hence is a method for shifting in the assemblage point.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table border="0" cellpadding="7" cellspacing="0" hspace="12" style="text-align: right; width: 280px;"><tbody>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Figure 2. The Native American Medicine Wheel.</span></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Figure 2 illustrates the unifying alchemical principle mentioned above, the <i>Medicine Wheel</i>. The Native American magicians generally considered achieving inner and outer harmony by balancing all aspects of one’s being an ultimate, life goal. The Medicine Wheel is a symbolic representation of this balance and harmony in all aspects of one's being. Implicit in the symbolism of the Medicine Wheel is the idea that each individual aspect within the totality of one's being is itself an infinity of aspects that must be balanced before the whole can be brought into balance. In figure 2 the smaller circle symbolizes the idea that each point on the Medicine Wheel (representing the totality of one's being) is itself a Medicine Wheel (a totality contained with a totality). As P.D. Ouspensky points out, the whole being is made up of an indefinite number of individual selves, or "I"s as he calls them. The Medicine Wheel abstracts from all these individual selves a whole made up of only four, archetypal selves: the illuminated self, the introspective self, the innocent self, and the wise (or knowledgeable) self. Although the whole being is made up of a multiplicity of selves, in Native American traditions these four, archetypal selves are thought to be the most important to re-manifest in order to bring the whole into balance and harmony. The Native American author, Hyemeyohsts Storm, describes this concept in the following passage from </span><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">Seven Arrows</span></i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In order to bring oneself into greater balance and harmony using the Medicine Wheel, one must shift one's perception of oneself. For example, if you are naturally an innocent person of the South, then you must learn to see yourself from the point of view of a wise person of the North. Alchemically this shift of perception results in a movement of the assemblage point. In this case the movement of the assemblage point is very beneficial because it results in a stable, balanced person, much better anchored, within him or herself, than the average person who does not know about or practice the teachings of the Medicine Wheel.</span></div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In Conclusion</span></h3><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We have seen how <i>Nagualism</i> can be viewed as an alchemical tool for self-development and personal change. These changes are the result of shifts in perception - of the world outside, and of all the selves clamoring within. These shifts of perception in turn result in a gentle movement of the assemblage point that not only prepares the individual for the<i> crossing of the phylum </i>implied by much greater movements, but also, in the process, produce a much better anchored and more stable person. Since the beginning of time, there have been an uncountable number of methods devised for moving the assemblage point. Yet to move the assemblage point without anchoring the individual is to cast him or her adrift on an infinite sea. The practices of Tensegrity, the use of alchemical principles in magic, and the teachings of the Medicine Wheel are but a few ways to accomplish this re-manifestation without leaving the individual hopelessly mired in an infinite universe. These few ways are not the only ways, of course, but they are among the most superlative of ways.</span></div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Medicine Wheel Correspondences</span></h3><div style="text-align: justify;"><table border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="7" cellspacing="1" style="width: 511px;"><tbody>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Time</span></div></td><td valign="top"><b></b><br>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Space</span></div></td><td valign="top"><b></b><br>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mass</span></div></td><td valign="top"><b></b><br>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Energy</span></div></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Traditional Element</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Water</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Air</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Earth</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Fire</span></div></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ritual Implement</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Cup</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sword</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Disk</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Wand</span></div></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Compass Point</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">West</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">East</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">South</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">North</span></div></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Spirit Animal</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Bear</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Eagle</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mouse</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Buffalo</span></div></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Season</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Autumn</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Spring</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Summer</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Winter</span></div></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Time of Day</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sunset</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sunrise</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Noon</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Midnight</span></div></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Color</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Black</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Yellow</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Green</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">White</span></div></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Medicine Wheel</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Introspection</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Illumination</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Innocence</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Wisdom</span></div></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Race</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">African</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Asian</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Am. Indian</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Caucasian</span></div></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Racial Gift</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Soul</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mind</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Spirit</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Technology</span></div></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Racial Achievement</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Rhythm & Dance</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Martial Arts & Taoism</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ecology & Environment</span></div></td><td valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Nuclear Fusion (?)</span></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>Table 1. Some correspondences to the Elements of Chaos Magic.</em></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><b><em>References:</em></b></span></div><dir><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>Peter Carroll</em></span></div><dir><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>Liber Null & Psychonaut</em></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, 1987, Samuel Weiser.<br>
<em>Liber Kaos</em>, 1992, Samuel Weiser.</span></div></dir><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>Carlos Castenada</em></span></div><dir><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>The Eagle's Gift</em></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, Simon & Schuster<br>
<em>The Fire from Within</em>, Simon & Schuster<br>
<em>The Power of Silence</em>, Simon & Schuster<br>
<em>The Art of Dreaming</em>, Simon & Schuster<br>
<em>Silent Knowledge</em>, Cleargreen, Inc</span></div></dir><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>P.D. Ouspensky</em></span></div><dir><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution</em></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, Hedgehog Press</span></div></dir><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>Hyemeyohsts Storm</em></span></div><dir><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>Seven Arrows</em></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">, Ballantine Books<br>
<em>Song of Heyoehkah</em>, Ballantine Books</span></div></dir></span></dir><br>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">At birth, each of us is given a particular Beginning Place within these Four Great Directions on the Medicine Wheel. This Starting Place gives us our first way of perceiving things, which will then be our easiest and most natural way throughout our lives. But any person who perceives from only one of these Four Great Directions will remain just a partial man. For example, a man who possesses only the Gift of the North will be wise. But he will be a cold man, a man without feeling. And the man who lives only in the East will have the clear, far sighted vision of the Eagle, but he will never be close to things. This man will feel separated, high above life, and will never understand or believe that he can be touched by anything. A man or woman who perceives only from the West will go over the same thought again and again in their mind, and will always be undecided. And if a person has only the Gift of the South, he will see everything with the eyes of a Mouse. He will be too close to the ground and too near sighted to see anything except whatever is right in front of him, touching his whiskers.</span></div></div><dir></dir></dir></div></span><br>
<div style="text-align: justify;"></div><a href="http://andromedawakedglobal.blogspot.com/2011/08/nagualism-and-alchemy-by-jeff-owrey.html#more">Read more »</a>Ludovica Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04317613281826428911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8884632043810405572.post-8740690060897800132011-08-28T11:19:00.000+02:002011-08-28T11:19:22.181+02:00This Diamond Planet Will Last Forever<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://news.discovery.com/space/2011/08/25/diamond-star-zoom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" qaa="true" src="http://news.discovery.com/space/2011/08/25/diamond-star-zoom.jpg" width="400px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><span class="header"> </span></em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><span class="header"> THE GIST</span> </em></div><ul><li><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>The diamond planet is part of a binary star system located 4,000 light-years from Earth. </em></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>The body is the leftovers of a once-massive star, now reduced to solid crystal-like carbon -- diamond. </em></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>Scientists would like to find a pulsar with a black hole companion</em></div></li>
</ul><div style="text-align: justify;">Astronomers have found the remains of a once-massive star, now transformed into a solid diamond five times bigger than Earth.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The object circles a pulsing companion star about 4,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Serpens (The Snake), which lies about one-eighth of the way toward the center of the Milky Way galaxy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Astronomers noticed that the steady pulses of energy coming from the star, known as J1719-1438, were regularly and minutely disturbed, a phenomenon caused by the gravitational tug of another, smaller circling object.</div><div sizcache="4" sizset="30" style="text-align: justify;"><strong sizcache="4" sizset="30"><a href="http://news.discovery.com/space/planet-in-the-sky-with-diamonds.html">NEWS: Planet in the Sky With Diamonds</a></strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;">By measuring the pattern, scientists were able to figure out how far away the second object circles and its mass, leading to the realization that they had found a bizarre binary system, with one partner reduced to a diamond core.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"In this case, something with the mass of our sun has evolved to be something the mass of a planet -- quite extraordinary," astronomer Michael Keith, with the Australia Telescope National Facility, wrote in an email to Discovery News.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The companion to J1719-1438 never got big enough to produce elements much heavier than carbon, so after its lighter-weight hydrogen and helium were stripped away that would leave a solid core of carbon -- diamond.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Due to the immense pressure, the carbon will be in a dense crystal-like structure, although much more closely packed than in a diamond on Earth," Keith said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The system is now stable, with no evidence that it will change for billions of years.</div><div sizcache="4" sizset="32" style="text-align: justify;"><strong sizcache="4" sizset="32"><a href="http://news.discovery.com/space/diamond-oceans-jupiter-uranus.html">NEWS: Diamond Oceans Possible on Uranus, Neptune</a></strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Of course, this also means that it could well have been around for a long time, just waiting for us to find it. Since it's likely to last for longer than the Earth or the sun, I would say that in this case, a diamond really is forever," Keith said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The diamond planet was found as part of an ongoing search for pulsating stars, known as pulsars, which scientists like to use as probes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"We'd like to find a pulsar with a black hole companion," Michael Kramer, director of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, told Discovery News. "It's the exotic case that tell us most about the laws of physics and what's going on in the universe."</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The research is published in this week's <em>Science.</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><a href="http://news.discovery.com/space/diamond-planet-110825.html">FROM</a>Ludovica Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04317613281826428911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8884632043810405572.post-65691550348512229352011-08-27T16:29:00.001+02:002011-08-27T16:29:33.930+02:00LOTUS FLOWER SYMBOL and IT' S SYMBOLISM IN EGIPT<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The lotus flower symbol has deep, mythic meaning for many cultures.</b> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The lotus blossom has been revered, attributed to deities, and <a href="http://www.energy-healing-info.com/mindfulness-meditation.html"><span style="color: #663366;">meditated</span></a> on for thousands of years. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The mystical lotus bloom appears in poetry, the writings of saints and sages, on temple walls, and as a central concept in several world religions. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What is it about this flower, above all others, that causes so many to color it with spiritual signifigance? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Fascination with the lotus blossom can be traced back to ancient Egypt, India and Asia, appearing in the mythologies and religions of these cultures for thousands of years</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>MEANING AND SYMBOLISM</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The lotus is associated with creation, the afterlife, enlightenment, fertility and sensuality, purity, and health.</b> Many cultures ascribe different virtues to the different colors of the blooms as well as the quantity of petals on the bloom. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The lotus is also associated with the <a href="http://www.energy-healing-info.com/7-chakras.html"><span style="color: #663366;">7 chakras</span></a>, <a href="http://www.energy-healing-info.com/buddhist-symbols.html"><span style="color: #663366;">Buddhism</span></a>, Hinduism, Bahai, and Egyptian mythos. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Within Hinduism and Buddhism the lotus flower represents awakening to spiritual consciousness.</b> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">In Indian culture, the Lotus flower represents enlightenment, wealth, knowledge, and connection to the divine. It is associated with the goddess of wealth, Maha Lakshmi, who represents purity, prosperity and generosity. She sits on a fully blossomed lotus flower. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">In Egypt the Lotus flower is called Sesen. In Egyptian mythology, the lotus flower is a symbol of the sun, creation and rebirth. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is even mentioned briefly in the Islamic tradition, that if a person dies in a state of ihram (a purification period before embarking on a pilgrimage) that they should be washed in water that has been perfumed with lotus flowers. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">With such widespread interest and spiritual signifigance attributed to the lotus, it deserves a deeper look into the symbolism surrounding it. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><h1 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">EGYPTIAN LOTUS FLOWER SYMBOL</span></h1><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The lotus flower symbol was revered by ancient Egyptians.</b> Lotus flowers sink into water at night and emerge again in the mornings. This singular trait closely associated them with creation, renewal and rebirth</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Egyptian deity Nefertem was the god most closely associated with the lotus flower symbol. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The legend of Nefertem and the blue lotus has deep underlying meanings to it. According to the legend, at the time of creation a lotus flower rose from the water. As the sun reached the bloom it slowly opened its petals, revealing Khepri (a sacred sacarb) inside. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Khepri transformed into a young boy (the diety Nefertem). As Nefertem sat within the lotus weeping, his tears fell and created humanity. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The hieroglyph shown to the left is a depiction of Nefertem with a blue lotus flower carved over his head. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br clear="all" /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Three colors of lotus blossoms grow in Egypt; white, blue and pink. The blue lotus had particular signifigance for them. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is the blue lotus that you will find carved into temples, heiroglyphics, utensils and spoken of in stories. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The blue lotus (pictured to the right) grew copiously along the banks of the Nile. It was used as a food source, a fragrance, and as a healing tonic. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Research into the blue lotus is now showing that it has psychotropic effects and may have produced a sense of euphoria in those who ingested it. It's ability to affect the mood of those who consumed it is most likely one of the reasons it was so revered by the Egyptian culture. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>LOTUS DEPICTED ON EGYPTIAN ARTIFACTS</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In this ancient egyptian art carving, Hert-watet-khet is shown smelling a blue lotus flower. Lotus blossoms were handed out at parties, smelled for their aroma, turned into perfume and ingested for food and healing properties. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">It was believed that the blue lotus had strong aphrodesiac qualities, and women were gifted with the blue lotus by their suitors. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Egyptian blue lotus flower is not a true lotus.</b> It is from the water lily family, and as such has properties not found in other lotuses. The Egyptian blue water lily rises above the water in the morning and sinks back under during the night. True lotuses rise from the water once and stay above it until they are done blooming. A lotus also has a large flat seed pod in it's center, where a lily does not. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The differences between the two flowers is contested by botanists, but most people are content to enjoy the beauty and mystical nature of these lotus flowers regardless of whether they are a "true lotus" in the world of botany. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div>Ludovica Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04317613281826428911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8884632043810405572.post-72938503643172550282011-08-27T00:04:00.005+02:002011-08-27T12:41:06.666+02:00Introduction -Presentazione<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB4SW5uZR3xGA67MXYmCoCVZNfITuX7RSJRudqREK78F36CPsaEaU8FIy67h1N5-xJASZFm-LWiYeuzkhUEDmAO9wBzvUymDAS7vE4C8-p5B_y_nv2X3zoV8azbroZpcrq2kmJRzZTmA8b/s1600/x1pbK0WuCrdpqUyTbbovlvvThmLrOHxKg2z6iIVYf5oh2YIRCk8ffseHHMI3AqJiXiP6jjh5F-jNZRSXNiklNGQhs90HWwPjKuEWw6b2a_S7xe4JotjCxmNKQ.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300px" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB4SW5uZR3xGA67MXYmCoCVZNfITuX7RSJRudqREK78F36CPsaEaU8FIy67h1N5-xJASZFm-LWiYeuzkhUEDmAO9wBzvUymDAS7vE4C8-p5B_y_nv2X3zoV8azbroZpcrq2kmJRzZTmA8b/s400/x1pbK0WuCrdpqUyTbbovlvvThmLrOHxKg2z6iIVYf5oh2YIRCk8ffseHHMI3AqJiXiP6jjh5F-jNZRSXNiklNGQhs90HWwPjKuEWw6b2a_S7xe4JotjCxmNKQ.jpg" width="400px" /></a></div> <br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hello to everyone ! this is not going to be a traduction of Andromedawaked 's post (<a href="http://www.andromedawaked.blogspot.com/">http://www.andromedawaked.blogspot.com/</a>), but something apart .</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The themes of this blog will always concern alternative information and esoterism,but i will look for articles and material in English and in Spanish ,in order to share with more people our interestes and knowledge.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Salve a tutti ! Questo blog non consistera' in una traduzione di Andromedawaked (<a href="http://www.andromedawaked.blogspot.com/">http://www.andromedawaked.blogspot.com/</a>) ,ma si trattera' di qualcosa di differente.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I temi trattati saranno sempre gli stessi ,ma il materiale postato sara' in Inglese o Spagnolo ,cosi da poter condividere con molti altri i nostri interessi e le nostre conoscenze.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Invito tutti voi ,gia' lettori di Andromedawaked a partire da adesso a segnalarmi link,articoli o materiale dal web nelle suddette lingue ,cosi da poter iniziare al piu' presto! </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Grazie a tutti!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ludovica</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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