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My Shamanic BreathworkTM Journey - A Close Encounter with Isis
by Linda Star Wolf
I found myself upon a precipice overlooking the four directions of the earth - the desert, the mountains, the oceans, the forest, the high plateaus and plains. No matter where I looked, I saw massive destruction of the land and everything upon it: the people, the animals, plant life, the earth itself. I looked down and seeing my lion paws I realized I was in my lioness form that I think of as the Egyptian Goddess Sekhmet. I could feel Sekhmet's familiar power and strength within my own body and spirit but when I looked out upon the world through her great eyes, I suddenly felt very small, helpless and despaired. At first I allowed the rage to burst forth as I thrashed about and tried to stop the ravaging of the planet. I searched the rivers and streams endlessly trying to find just one fish to eat that didn't have mercury poisoning in it. I witnessed whole majestic mountaintops being dynamited and blasted apart for their coal and other minerals. I cried huge tears as the great trees were burned, or chopped down and the rest of the rain forest was clear-cut, leaving only desolation upon the land. The whole world was in utter chaos. Fear, apathy, bitterness and greed ran rampant in the hearts of all the people everywhere.
I felt myself losing control as I raged, frothing at the mouth, tearing things up as I whirled in pain and confusion. I fought, I roared, I slashed out wildly with my mighty claws. I ran in all directions trying to stop the killing, stop the destruction, and all to no avail. I felt so discouraged, as if my life and everything I had done on my spiritual path to avert the destruction of the planet and human kind had all been for naught. I fell to the ground in a hopeless slump and curled up weeping, silently preparing to just die.
At the moment when I finally felt that I had completely given up, realizing that all I had ever done or could do would never be enough to prevent or stop the suffering and insanity of this world, I felt myself being lifted up as tears ran down my lioness cheeks. Very slowly I noticed that I was being held in the arms of some great being or force and I was afraid. I could not imagine what could have the strength to hold me, my anger, my fear, my despair. When I found the courage and the willingness to raise my head, I found myself looking into the face of the most beautiful Goddess I have even seen.
To read about Star Wolf's encounter with Isis, please click HERE
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Remember when you first typed in "wizard101.com?" You saw Merle, gazing into his crystal ball, at what would soon be you. You're the reason for Wizard101 - the players. If you want to be direct and say "money," you can take that route, but without YOU, Wizard101 could not properly function. To get your money, though, KingsIsle has to constantly update the game and its features to gain new players and keep old ones entertained. For the first part of "The Future of Wizard101," a four part series, we'll take an in-depth look at where our in-game future is headed based on what will be added because of player feedback.
We obviously know that KingsIsle views their community very highly, and spends a great deal of time reviewing discussions, blogs, fansites, and Central for opinions and potential solutions to in-game problems, and ideas for new content. They've already made several changes based on community feedback.
They once changed chat options to how they were originally supposed to be - you had to maintain membership with a valid credit card to have Open Chat, verifying that you were 18 years of age or older. Without it, you revered to "Text Chat" with filtered words and no numbers allowed! Because of community feedback, they changed their changes back to requiring only one month of membership and credit card registration to activate open chat.
The same thing was true with our REAL last major update, Zafaria. We gave feedback on spells, and three were changed according to that feedback. Read more about the level 68 spells and their changes in our most popular post, Analyzing the Level 68 Spells, Plant-A-Palooza, and December Newsletter.
Based on this, wizards have to realize that their voices matter, and every contribution counts. While KingsIsle certainly doesn't add or change everything suggested, we can predict some potential changes based on what people are saying now! The question for most of the reasonable update suggestions is not "if," but "when."
One of the best places to get some ideas is to take a look at the Wizard101 Feedback section of their top fansites - Wizard101 Central!
Here are some of the current discussions.
IDEA: Topic
THREAD: [Link]
POTENTIAL CHANGES: What is being suggested
IDEA: Menu Chat Phrases
THREAD:
Someone even suggested, "No, I won't be your husband." Seeing that there is no negative impact to adding to the Menu Chat phrases, and it wouldn't be the first time, it isn't unlikely that KingsIsle would add these in time.
IDEA: Balance Specific Shield/Blade/Prism/Etc.
THREAD:
There have been many, many suggestions like this one. Originally, KingsIsle added Unbalance, but it never made it past the Test Realm, but now, they've added it back. Is it possible that we'll see these in the future?
IDEA: More "Rides"
THREAD:
POTENTIAL CHANGES: Merle no longer calls us to his office to tell us that another world is in trouble. We discover other worlds and areas on our own, or at least some of them. This potential change, in one form or another, must eventually happen. That, however, is a discussion for next month.
With this first part of the series, I suppose I'm really hoping to expose all "young wizards" to figuring out some of what may be released themselves. If you decide to journey into this oftentimes crazy section of Wizard101 Central, let me know if you find anything worth mentioning. I think I've given you the basic idea of going to find information on the future... at least through this method.
Remember, however, that when writing to KingsIsle, there are some definite "do's" and "don'ts." Sandy has some great advice HERE. If you're ready, start posting or reading HERE.
Thanks for reading and see you in the Spiral!
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Nos dia 11, 12 e 13 de junho aconteceu em S~ao Paulo a sexta edic~ao da Conferencia de Wicca e Espiritualidade da Deusa. Devo dizer que a organizac~ao foi muito boa, tirando algumas falhas que considero normal para qualquer evento de grande porte, afinal a CWED 'e considerad o maior evento relacionado a wicca e neo-paganismo da Am'erica Latina.
Uma das falhas foi a quest~ao da lotac~ao do p'ublico nas palestras, a inscric~ao via internet dava a opc~ao para escolher tres palestras, uma no per'iodo da manha eoutras duas no per'iodo da tarde, s'o que essa pr'e-inscric~ao parecia n~ao serivr para nada, pois l'a com a credencial em m~aos voc^e poderia entrar em qualquer pelestra, isso pode ter resultado na falta de lugares e espaco em uma das palestras (MAGIA DRU'IDICA: LUGARES DE PODER NO OUTRO MUNDO CELTA - ACESSANDO PORTAIS PARA A BUSCA XAM^ANICA DO CONHECIMENTO E DA MAGIA).
Eu estava l'a e n~ao aguentei ficar em p'e o tempo inteiro numa salinha sem ar condicionado, at'e mesmo uma senhora que estava do meu lado n~ao ficou nem quinze minutos, n~ao aguentou ficar l'a, ainda mais porque era uma senhora, e infelizmente ningu'em lhe cedeu o lugar. Na verdade n~ao tinha nem como ficar ali a sala n~ao comportava, o interesse das pessoas nesse tema era grande, acredito que foi o que mais encheu nesse dia.
Depois assisti a uma palestra sobre quest~oes hist'oricas, evidencias hist'oricas, seria deselegante da minha parte fazer coment'arios sobre o conte'udo da palestra j'a que sou historiador e pesquiso o tema. Afinal n~ao estou aqui para julgar mas para observar. No fim das contas o evento estava muito bem organizado, com hor'arios bem definidos, uma feira com objetos religiosos, m'agicos, vestimentas ritualisticas, enfim tudo que o praticante precisasse.
Os organizadores estavam a disposic~ao para esclarecer e orientar os participantes, conversei com algumas pessoas e mais uma vez fui muito bem atendido. Postei algumas fotos do evento (est~ao no slide abaixo). Agradeco a oportunidade de poder conversar com os praticantes e tirar fotos do evento.
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Some of our favorite magic words are actually pictographic. Take, for example, the profoundly arcane Rebus figure of alchemy, conjoining the opposites, or the Ouroboros dragon who guards the treasure of the Great Work. Glasgow's Adam McLean is an authority on the symbolic language of alchemy. He shares his passion for the subject in a hardcover volume entitled Alchemical Sequences Coloured.
It's a meticulous labor of love and a joy to behold and explore. Printed with extraordinary detail on high-quality, silky paper, the painstakingly hand-tinted emblems come to life, inspiring active study to unlock their mysteries. Each alchemical symbol is beautiful and intriguing in its own right, but together the symbols compose the basic elements of a grander allegorical literature.
The very first page of McLean's emblems dispels the popular, romantic misconception of alchemists as gold-obsessed wizards. Two distinct yet complementary faces of alchemy become immediately apparent: the exoteric (EMPIRICAL/METHODICAL/EXPERIENTIAL/SCIENTIFIC) and the esoteric (THEORETICAL/PSYCHOLOGICAL/POETICAL/MYSTICAL).
Though there is no one correct definition of alchemy, it may be safe to say that McLean's emblems constitute knowledge meant to float outside of time like a message in a bottle. As Gustav Meyrink suggests in his mystical novel The Green Face, "What is of value is not the invention itself, but man's inventiveness, not the picture - it's value is measured in monetary terms at the most - but the ability to paint.
Any one picture can fall to pieces, but the ability to paint will not be lost, even if the painter should die. What remains is the power that has come from heaven; even if it should sleep for centuries, it always awakens when the genius who can reveal its majesty is born." Indeed, McLean's ability to paint is the true genius of this book.
Highly recommended!
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My clients know that I am a woman who wears a LOT of hats.
I Currently Foster and Re-Home Abandoned or Neglected Horses.
The proceeds for this round of Etsy Listings is going to go for Hay Money!
We need stuff like good hay, rice bran, supplements for hooves and joints and money to pay the farrier and PANELS.
I also run a used tack shop. We buy sell and trade to help the community out.
It is mainly a consignment shop that is community based.
I live in Nevada where we have a lot of horse issues. The wild horse issue.. the unwanted horse issue and the slaughter issue. We have slaughter sale barns not 40 miles from here and I like to be a place where we can foster the ones we can save and move them to new homes.
So NOW on to the details.
3 question love reading
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I can tell you if you need crystal therapy and the like or if you will find your Guru soon.
I am very in depth even for these cheap readings.
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My name is Erin Renee, I have been a Psychic Medium for 20 plus years. I have been reading for the public since I was 12 years old. Shortly around that time I was working with animals in a training environment and have learned that some of those pragmatic techniques along with my psychic abilities can and do help my fellow men and women. I am very connected to my own personal guides as well as higher entities that come on through during channeling to convey their wisdom to us poor dumb souls down here struggling with life. I mean that with all the love in my heart.. cause Im here too.. duking it out with the rest of you! I am building better human beings one Reading or Energy Manipulation at a time! We CAN beat the human condition! Please be open to any messages that come through. 18 and older only. For entertainment and beyond! Blessings! Erin Renee
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This course of 16 lessons, written by Dharmavidya, the Dharma Teacher of the
Amida Order, guides you from Basic Buddhism to a deeper understanding of the Pureland Tradition.
As a member of the study group, you will receive the lessons as email newsletters and will have access to an on-line discussions forum. Lessons will be sent out at a rate of one every 2-3 weeks and will take a maximum of 3 hours to complete, including engaging in discussion. The course will start during the first week of March.
Sujatin, a senior teacher with the Order, is tutor on the course, which she has taught on-line and face to face for over 7 years.
To sign up and pay for the course look here. A concessionary rate is available for people on benefits/pension etc
Previous participants have said:
"A thorough grounding in Pureland Buddhism, which doesnt just transmit the facts but also the warm heart and reassuringly human face of this school of Buddhism. Id recommend this illuminating course to anyone who
wants to find out more about Buddhist philosophy and practice." ~
Satyavani
"This course which introduces us to Pureland Buddhism became for me an intense personal journey into the spirit that Shakyamuni Buddha found and shared. The interactive nature of the teachings and discussions is a most wonderful medium for reflection, both personally and within group process...the discussion questions are good and part of this
reason is that they confront our- selves... to sit with a discussion
question or a comment made by other participants, or by myself, for hours or sometimes days, weeks - this is such a gift of reflective space which is unavailable in the real time of a workshop or talk." ~ Rob
"I have found that the Introduction to Pureland Buddhism course has been interesting and also at times challenging. The course has given me the opportunity to be able to deepen my practice. Along with having the forum to be able to share a few of my life experiences through these winter months, although this has felt challenging, it also has been cathartic. Gratitude to the other group members for given me the space to open my heart. Much gratitude to Sujatin for her support and spiritual guidance throughout. Namo Amida Bu." ~ Colin.
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In ancient Germanic runecasting rituals, the eighth step of the rune rite calls for confirmation of a rune reading by omen. So, after reading last night's rune, what confirms the rune reading and it's Seven people are dead and two critically injured in a massacre at a southeastern Georgia mobile home, though police won't say whether they think the killer is on the loose or among the dead.
"This is a record for us. We've never had such an incident with so many victims," Doering told reporters. "It's not a scene that I would want anybody to see.
The 1,100 acre tract is all that remains of a Crown grant made in 1763 to Henry Laurens, who later succeeded John Hancock as president of the Continental Congress in 1777.
Laurens obtained control of the South Altamaha river lands and named it New Hope Plantation, according to the plantation's Web site.
In Jewish kabbalah, seven is the magical number-letter (zayin) of an adornment - like mannaz is the adornment of the ship of safe passage in relationship to my dream. Again, the magical alphabets of my ancestors are in agreement within me.
There was a massacre... on a tract of land which is all that remains of a Crown - just as the massacre in my dream concerned the cut up crown of a woman's head.
The first owner of the land was involved in 'politics and wealth' as the President of the Continental Congress in 1777 - just I was chosen by the President in my dream to investigate the massacre.
The President's tract where the massacre occurred is called river lands in the news article - which links to Mysteries of the Staircase, the rune dream previous to last night's rune dream which contained references to a race of land-bound people and a race river-ice people.
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Schemas of history are not unique to religion. For example, one popular schema divides history according to whether the years in question precede or follow the Age of Enlightenment (roughly 1650-1800). We hear of Ages of Stone, Bronze, and Iron from historians and of Triassic, Jurassic, or Cretaceous from paleontologists. The most famous chronological distinction is perhaps BC/AD, which is explicitly religious - though there is also AH, which counts years from Mohammad's flight to Medina.
The term "dispensation" has long been used in Christian speech to denote not only the period in God's economy belonging to the Incarnation, but other distinctions based upon the Fall of Man, the Flood, the giving of the Law to Moses, and so forth. It is not unique, as might be thought, to those versions of Protestantism that call themselves Dispensationalist - who have, however, earned the sobriquet by their taking such schematizations to baroque levels of detail and controversial levels of doctrinal importance.
Common to many schemas of history is the notion of a Golden Age. In Buddhism, for example, the Siddhartha Gautama's life was a Golden Age, followed by two ages in which his Dharma could thrive. A third, much longer age - the age we are currently in - is "mo-fa" or "mappo": the "Degenerate Age of the Dharma".
I suggest using the idea of dispensations such as the Degenerate Age of the Dharma in the sub-creative act. When turning your mind to mythopoesis, try this question: "WHAT ARE THE EVENTS THAT DEFINE THE HISTORY OF THIS WORLD?" You can ask this question both from a normative point-of-view (What are the events that really define the history of this world?) and from a descriptive point-of-view (What are the events that define the history of this world from within the point-of-view of a given culture?). Defining the ages of your world will give you a history to work within, and describing them from the point-of-view of cultures within your world will help create those distinctive cultures, religions, and so forth.
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Enrico De Pedis-Enrico De Pedis was an Italian criminal and one of the bosses of the Banda della Magliana, an Italian criminal organization based in the city of Rome, particularly active throughout the late 1970s until the early 1990s.
The Vatican's chief exorcist for years, Father Gabriele Amorth has claimed a missing schoolgirl thought to be buried in a murdered gangster's tomb was kidnapped for Vatican sex parties. He said that The Holy See was directly involved in the disappearance of 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi in 1983. Father Gabriele Amorth was appointed by Pope John Paul II and has carried out more than 70,000 exorcisms, is no stranger to controversial public statements.
Along with many of the crimes committed by his gang, De Pedis has also been linked to the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, whose case has been linked with the attempt on pope John Paul II. On February 2, 1990, he was ambushed and murdered by his former colleagues on Via del Pellegrino near Campo de Fiori.
He was buried in the Sant'Apollinare Basilica in Rome. The unusual interment has been linked to the case of Emanuela Orlandi's kidnapping and the tomb was opened for investigation in 2012.
The Rome prosecutor's offices is currently investigating why he was entombed in the Vatican-owned basilica. According to the former Banda della Magliana member Antonio Mancini, this was a reward to De Pedis for his role in persuading other members to stop the strikes (including Orlandi's kidnapping) that the gang was making against the Vatican in order to force the restitution of large amounts of money they had lent to the Vatican Bank through Roberto Calvi's Banco Ambrosiano.
Catholic Church exorcist, Father Gabriele Amorth, has claimed that Harry Potter and Yoga are evil. Father said yoga is Satanic because it leads to a worship of Hinduism and all eastern religions are based on a false belief in reincarnation and the Harry Potter Father Amorth was also one of the voices that made public warnings to parents about J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels, stating that the Father Amorth has previously said that people who are possessed by Satan vomit shards of glass and pieces of iron and have such superhuman strength that even children have to be held down by up to four people.
He has also claimed that the sex abuse scandals which have engulfed the Catholic Church in the US, Ireland, Germany and other countries was proof that the Anti-Christ is waging a war against the Holy See.
For most people it is a way of toning the limbs and soothing the stresses of everyday life, but the Catholic Church's best-known exorcist says yoga is evil.
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Anna Kuznetsova, "St. Stephen of Perm: Missionary and Popular Saint," in "The Man of Many Devices, Who Wandered Full Many Ways: Festschrift in Honor of J'anos M. Bak" (Budapest: Central European University Press, 1999), pp. 222-229 (at 226, notes omitted):This story is combined with another one about St.
Stephen's destroying the birch tree specially venerated by pagans and even new converts. The saint decided to cut the tree down and he did it over three days. When he began cutting the birch, various voices were heard screaming and asking him to leave them in peace. As Stephen was unable to complete his project on the first day, in the evening he left his axe in the tree and went away.
Next morning, to his surprise, the birch appeared untouched and the axe was next to it on the ground. However, on the third day St. Stephen managed to cut down the tree and he threw it into the water. The fall of the birch was followed by a great storm and even an earthquake...On the place where the birch tree stood, St.
Stephen built a church dedicated to Michael the Archangel. When the old wooden church was dismantled in 1787, the stump of the birch tree was discovered. It was used as the altar, probably the idea of St. Stephen himself.The source of this legend is Petr Sestakov, "Svjatoj Stefan, pervosvjatitel' Permskij" [St.
Stephen, the first bishop of Perm] (Kazan: Universitetskaja tipografia, 1868), pp. 38-40, according to Kuznetsova, n. 28 on p. 229.
The "Life of St. Stephen of Perm" by Epiphanius the Wise (died 1420) apparently also contains See also Alexander Chuvyurov, "Trees in Komi (Zyrian) Rituals and Beliefs, Pro Ethnologia" 18 (2004) 69-86 (at 69-70, notes omitted):In the hagiography of St.
Stephen of Perm it is mentioned that in Ust-Vym, on the bank of the Vym River, there stood a big birch tree especially worshipped by local people. As the author of the hagiography says, this tree was so big that three people were hardly able to encircle its trunk with their arms (Povest... 1996:68).
According to the same source, the Permians (Komi-Zyrians) took sacrificial animals and hides to this tree. The Komi-Zyrians worshipped this tree as a deity, maintaining that any disrespectful act towards itthreatened people with all kinds of troubles (Povest... 1996: 69). Several legends have been passed down describing how St.
Stephen of Perm chopped this birch tree down. The aforementioned story, about St.Stephen of Perm, presents a colourful description of this event. According to this source, St. Stephen was chopping this birch for three days, and in the course of this process the birch, like a living creature, uttered cries of pain reminding people of the voices of men, women and children.
During chopping, blood streamed out of the tree (Povest... 1996: 69). As the birch was so big, the saint was not able to chop it down on the first day. He drove his axe into the tree and went to have a rest. When morning came and he returned to the tree, he saw that it was standing undamaged, but his axe, which he had left stuck in the trunk, was lying on the ground, next to the birch tree (Povest...
1996: 69). And it was only on the third day that the saint, according to the source, was able to chop down the birch tree, worshipped by the Komi-Zyrians, and it fell on the ground, crying and groaning loudly. The tree was burnt right after it had been chopped down. Later on, St. Stephen of Perm had a church erected on the site of this birch tree in the honour of the holy archistrateges Michael and Gabriel (Gavriil) (Povest...
1996: 70).Unfortunately, I can't find complete translations of primary sources, only these summaries.
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As channeled through Tazjima
Were you expecting to be somewhere else?It is actually a case of being some One else than actually going anywhere. Your earth is now able to hold the energies of 2D to 10D and so your physical bodies are adapting to new sensations. Just last night before going to sleep, our scribe felt her feet tingling almost like they were in the process of disintegrating, buzzing and just feeling odd.
Today those feet look the same to her; her body has not changed its appearance as yet.In the recent messages from Aisha North her group has stated that your bodies are going to be giving you mixed signals of distress in the next days. Our scribe has found this to be quite an accurate interpretation of what is going on, without knowing quite where this is all going.
It is a time to trust Spirit as you move into the higher vibrational worlds and rediscover what it is to be human, to still be in a physical body that you thought was designed to exist only in the third dimension. Your body is in the process of adjusting to being more ephemeral, less dense than before.
Its energies are spreading out and adjusting to the lack of pressure from the element of time. With practice you will be able to change your body's appearance, but not quite yet, as you are still in the process of adjusting to the new "feel" of the energies.We understand that some lightworkers believe there needs to be disasters and catastrophes to announce the advent of the new world, but we tell you that those events are no longer necessary.
We are here to let you know that while there will be necessary adjustments on the part of your mother, the Earth, that humanity on the whole has adjusted enough in their collective attitude to make the long prophesized "events" of the Shift totally unnecessary. This will prove to be a disappointment to some for there is in some people a desire to be right, to show that some people deserve to suffer through judgments by the Almighty.
Why else would all the various sects exist, even among those ranks of the lightworkers and starseeds who have come to this planet to save it and its people from destruction?We ask you now: Where is your compassion? Where is your humanity? Can you not see that even the smallest and most humble of beings upon this planet is worthy of God's love?
Why can you not love them, the forgotten ones? Why can you not love those who are deemed by some among you as the scum of the earth, the traitors to your cause, the ones who have forsaken family and friends? Why can you not forgive those who have "hurt" you, who have taken away your home, your belongings, your health, your children, and your freedom?
Do you really believe that a part of God can harm another part of God? Are you so sunk in the illusion of duality that you cannot see that you have bought into, at least temporarily, the conditional aspects of duality - that there is actually limitations, that there is something and someone to fear, that other parts of God can destroy you and all that you are?
We have come to remind you that you are a part of God, a part of those who have created you and now it is time to remember that as being real. Your body is the first bit of yourself to begin to experience this new sensation of being a part of the Whole. Your mind and thoughts must adjust to this new sensation, too.
We tell you that it is a part of remembering who you truly are, a child of the most High, and a creator god in training. It matters not what name your God takes or even if you believe in gods; you are the extension of your soul who is undergoing a re-union to those other parts of yourself and that includes everything and everyone whom you see around you.
You are now in the process of returning to your true state of being; you are in the process of being more than you have ever been able to be in the delusional and temporary state of being of experiencing duality. Remember, dear ones, your soul sent you into duality to learn from the experience of being separated from Source.
Now you are in the process of returning to Source, but you don't have to go anywhere but be where you are now, on a small but sacred water planet at the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy somewhere in a huge Universe, which is only a small portion of All That Is. Your neighborhood is about to get bigger.We understand that there are those among you who will insist, at least for a while, still that some among your ranks should be punished for their acts against the rest of humanity.
We remind you that you are One being. You cannot punish your finger for acting irresponsibly and expect the best of your body not to experience the pain of being separated out. Each of your souls agreed to send portions of themselves into this "lower" world as extensions of themselves, in order to learn what it is to be separated from Source, to experience what it feels like to experience the illusion of being able to believe that you are no longer connected, that you are no longer loved and that you do not deserve love from anyone, including what you believe is yourself.
We remind you that this temporary state of delusion, this form of madness is now ended. Duality is coming to an end; it has come to an end. Now it is time for all the soul extensions as it were, to wake up to the fact that the play has come to an end. The cycle of duality is over for this particular little planet.
You are now in the process of moving into a cycle of reunion with Self, all the bits of self that thought for so long while submersed in the fields of duality that they were separate. You are not separate; you have never been separate. In some way humanity has just completed experiencing a state of schizophrenia; you are now in the process of coming out of that particular state and emerging into the light of sanity and the reunion of self with Self.
You are all a part or portion of a Great Soul. And now you will be able to experience the re-union with that Soul as you undergo these next days, weeks and months of renewal of spirit.We feel that once you begin to intuit what is happening to you, around you and through each of you, that the people of this planet will begin to let go of their fears.
There will be a period of necessary adjustment as it has been some "time" in what you believe and understand as linear time that many of you have been in a deeply hypnotic state believing that you had no power to change what you saw as the collective insanity of the world. This state has been the result of a collective nightmare, one that is now ended.
You, as a people, as one being, are now in the process of waking up from that nightmare. Yes, we understand that there are still those among you who will insist that the nightmare is real and to be feared, that there is someone or something "out there" to be feared and hated. Yet, again, we remind you that there is nothing "out there" that is not a part of you.
All of you are one being. That includes every creature, every stone, every blade of grass, every ethnicity, every "nation", every religion there is on the planet and beyond. The time of xenophobia is over; the time to reunite with each man, woman and child... and creature... and the planet is Now.It will take "time" to learn to translate the new language and energies of this place that each of you have entered, some well prepared and others completely confused and frightened.
We encourage those of you with more open minds to assist your neighbors and friends to help them rediscover the sensation of not being limited to being what they thought they were for so long. The horizons in this new world are vast indeed and it will take some adjustment to the lack of limitation; however, we know that you are, at heart, a creative and dynamic species of being and will take eagerly to the new "waters" in which you find yourself now.
And on the way, you will discover and meet other portions of yourselves that you have forgotten about, your galactic and intergalactic neighbors, the celestial beings and the ascended masters who have graduated from duality long ago and who are now here to assist you in adjusting to the new environment in which you are discovering that you have entered, all unknowingly, due to the movement of cycles and the journey home of the soul.
You are Home and you will discover that your home is a very big place, one that has plenty of places and beings to explore, new things to understand and incorporate into your awareness. We know that you will enjoy the new possibilities and challenges that lie before each of you; at least once you have become more acquainted with the new sensations and ways of beingness that will expand before your still very physical eyes.
In time, your senses will expand and you will delight in the new ways to experience the world that surrounds you. You are now in a living dream, one that encompasses the vastness of inner and outer space. Let your imagination soar. Learn to play together, again. We know that as your awareness of your new world expands, that you will re-member your true unity and discover a new purpose in life, to find a way to live as one people with all that you encounter.
Remember dear ones that dates on a calendar cannot define what is beyond comprehension. Do not attempt to limit creation through your thoughts. You cannot re-create duality for each of your souls has collectively determined that the cycle of experiencing duality is over. Move on beyond your fear and relax to the new experiences that will naturally unfold before you in the fullness of the eternal Now.
We believe that you will enjoy the journey once you find your feet again.Go now with our warmest love and blessings as you move along on your first tentative steps. You are but babies, reborn and will have to learn to walk, live and explore in this new world that you have all entered together. You will find that you will forget and forgive those differences that have kept you apart from your neighbor as you discover the new wonders that lie before you.
The horizons are vast; the opportunities great. Be at peace and be kind to yourselves. Allow your bodies and minds to readjust to the new sensations that will encompass your awareness. We know that you will be pleased to be, once more, a conscious part of the wholeness that is creation.
Go in peace and know that you are loved more than you know, and that each of you are worthy of that love.
Namaste.Thank you, beloved Council of Nine.Copyright (c) 2012-13 by Elizabeth Ayres Escher. All Rights Reserved. Permission is given to copy and distribute this material, provided the content is copied in its entirety and unaltered, is distributed freely, and this copyright notice and links are included.
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Intrigued by Ronald Hutton's assertion that "Wicca" (meaning the wiseones) is the first all British religion given to the world, I approached his book The Triumph of the Moon as my first serious study of Wicca and Witchcraft with an objective attitude and without any preconceived perspectives on the matter. As anyone who has read any Hutton will already know, his First, a belief that all Pagans, both of European prehistory and of contemporary tribal peoples represented a religious expression of humanity's ignorance and savagery.
Second, that derived from the religion and culture of Ancient Greece and Rome, the Pagans were noble and admirable people but essentially remained inferior to Christianity in their ethics and spiritual values.
Third, that some writers considered Paganism superior to Christianity, being a life affirming and joyous alternative approach to religion which respects all of nature and seeks to integrate our lives with it.
Fourth, that a number of thinkers, writers and poets with connections to the Romantic movement such as Shelley, Leigh Hunt and Thomas Love Peacock, considered Paganism a remnant of a great universal religion of the distant past, elements of which were to be found in all the major religions practice by civilized humanity, from which contemporary NeoPaganism is descended.
Hutton then explored in greater depth the various strands of Romantic literary Paganism, the Frazerian Anthropology, Folklorism, Freemasonry, Theosophy, the revival of Ritual Magic and of Ceremonial magic, Thelema, and Woodcraft Chivalry, among others.
I found his research into the varieties of 'Cunning Folk' and other groups including 'The Toadmen' (still around in 1938) and a Masonic styled secret society called 'The Society Of The Horseman's Word' in the 19th century to be particularly enjoyable and informative reading.
To introduce them briefly, the 'Cunning Folk' were professional or semi-professional practitioners of magic active from at least the fifteenth up until the early twentieth century who practiced folk magic - also known as "low magic" - although often combined this with elements of "high" or ceremonial magic. In earlier times, the witch's power to harm people, livestock, and crops was greatly feared: for this reason country people consulted with the 'Cunning Men' and 'Wise Women' who had the power to negate their spells with counter-magic. Cunning-folk practitioners were also consulted for love spells, to find lost property or missing persons, exorcise ghosts and banish evil spirits.
Ronald Hutton suggests that the 'Cunning Craft', rather than dying out, had changed character by being subsequently absorbed into other magical currents.
The decline of the cunning craft in Britain was not however indicative of other European nations: in Italy for example, cunning practitioners continued operating right into the early twenty-first century.
Nevertheless, the author portrays that through the increasing interest in ancient Paganism and survival of traditional magical practices like charms during the 19thC, there came about in the 20thC what amounts to a new religion.
Laurie Lipton. The Black Sun
OF THE RISE OF MODERN WICCA,
WITCHCRAFT AND PAGANISM IN BRITAIN;
The second half of this book traces in greater depth the modern history of that new religion, of Paganism and Wicca, with particular focus on Gardnerian and Alexandrian traditions of Wicca and examines the personalities involved in launching modern pagan witchcraft, including Gerald Gardner, Sanders, Valiente, the Crowthers, Pickingill and others.
Hutton says that Wicca was introduced by Gerald Gardener in the mid to late 1950's shortly after Britain repealed their anti-witchcraft laws. Gardener had claimed that he became acquainted with a group of Rosicrucian actors who introduced him to an ancient surviving craft and that Dorothy Clutterbuck, their priestess, initiated him into their coven.
However, Hutton also argues that Wicca's origins go well beyond Gardener claiming that Gardener was influenced not only by Ancient Hinduism following his period of civil service in India, but also a diverse collection of sources including 17th and 18th century fraternal organizations, 19th century esoteric societies including the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Ordo Templi Orientis and Freemasonry from whom he borrowed Wicca's ritual structure, initiations, handshakes and passwords. The author makes clear that Gardener also derived inspiration and some practices from the Occultist Aleister Crowley and Romantic literary authors including Yeats, Frazer and Graves as well as the Back-To-Nature movement.
Despite Gardener's claimed introduction to an older craft group - which Hutton points out is contested, and because of Gardener's own subsequent gathering of sources and resources such as The Book Of Shadows, his forming of Covens and publicizing of his new organization, Gardener is nevertheless portrayed as the founding father of modern Wicca.
Whilst this early NeoPaganism may appear a socially or politically subversive movement, particularly because of its secrecy and the reversal of cultural norms such as that some aspects of ritual were to be carried out naked, the point is made that at this stage the movement was not of a socially minded reactionary nature at all. Several of its founding figures were deeply conservative (and politically Conservative), and their quarrel was not with social and economic status quo, but rather against the unnaturalness and destruction of traditional patterns of life and societies deep involvement with nature that characterized the rising industrial modernity.
On the one hand then Hutton appears to make the argument that early modern Pagan Witchcraft did not stem from any unbroken lines of succession and does not represent a survival of ancient forms of indigenous religious practice, but equivocally he also states that various forms of earlier practice such as the Cunning Craft, Wise Women and others had been subsumed and evolved into the new forms of neo Paganism and Wicca...
OF THE MODERN WORLD VIEW
Moving on to consider the more recent developments in Wicca and Paganism, Hutton presents the modern world phenomenon of Witchcraft and of Paganism as having developed in Great Britain and been exported to USA where they were taken up by feminist pagans who massively popularized the concepts as well as imbued them with a more socialistic communal minded orientation. After this socialization the author says a "new and improved" Wicca made the jump back across the pond to England in the early 1980's, that Paganism and Wicca have returned with greater prominence and popularity to Great Britain in large part via the AND THEIR ULTIMATE UNCERTAINTY;
Despite the apparent academic objectivity of Ronald Hutton's research which I have thoroughly enjoyed in a number of his studies, I found in this work an ambivalence and lack of clear resolution on a number of occasions. Mr Hutton seems to present an evidence based case as far as it would go and then implies the ensuing conjecture without the definitive evidence for the the implied conclusions, a practice which he points out in others as imaginative if academically erroneous. I find myself further intrigued by such deft footwork from an academic author and because of these misgivings I have looked about for other reviewers opinions. Of the many such reviews that I found among those who were not too overwhelmed, like myself, by all the cross references and closely written and basically bewildering panoramic scope of fine details, some appear to see the wood through the trees, claiming that the authors main pitch in this work, that Wicca and NeoPaganism do not carry any unbroken lineage to antiquity, are partisan perspectives that the author has impelled his evidence to support. These views of Ronald Hutton as expressed in The Triumph Of The Moon have then provoked a certain amount of debate from both sides of the camp so to speak. In response to such perspectives, Hutton frequently hints that there is more to this story, but states that without definitive evidence we cannot be sure and then proceeds present to his own conjectured conclusion almost as a definitive orthodoxy.
OF THE DEBATE OVER AUTHORIAL OBJECTIVITY IN
THE TRIUMPH OF THE MOON;
For a balanced review of The Triumph Of The Moon, I have include a few quotes here from a well argued case against Ronald Hutton's conjecture that there is no ancient lineage of Witchcraft or Paganism in Britain, from the author of the website 'e g r e g o r e s' under the title of
The Recantations of Ronald Hutton;
'In Triumph of the Moon, Ronald Hutton triumphantly claimed that the whole notion of the Old Religion had been "swept away" by a "tidal wave" of research...Hutton had spent a decade studying the question of the relationship between modern Paganism and ancient forms of religion...Hutton had reached the conclusion that no such relationship existed whatsoever, and that no one could be taken seriously who believed otherwise, explicitly including anyone who so much as "suggest[ed] that there might be some truth" in the notion of the Old Religion.
The only problem was that the whole time Hutton had, now by his own admission, been systematically ignoring "certain types of ancient religion" which just so happened to be precisely the ones which most "closely resembled [modern] Paganism, had certainly influenced it, and had certain linear connections with it"! And why did he ignore the one place he should have been looking all along? Because it was "in every sense marginal to my own preoccupations."
Hutton was by his own admission preoccupied then with his own proposition that "the paganism of today has virtually nothing in common with that of the past except the name."
IN CONCLUSION;
As I have previously held no particular view over the ancient lineage claims for Witchcraft, Wicca and Paganism in Great Britain, and their authenticity or lack ther, and because I have followed a largely intuitive path similar perhaps to that of a Hedge-Druid in my relative independence of groups and traditions as regards my own awareness of Pagan and nature reverencing issues and of what I shall term Supernature and its apprehension in daily life, I have found this volume to be informative, enjoyable and unexpectedly provocative. That there ensues some degree of partisan prejudice was almost to be expected, as the wider public may still hold various oppositional perspectives based on an until recently dominant Christian cultural ideology and its ensuing misinformation against Paganism and Witchcraft in particular. That such views should apparently inform an objective academic in his choice of how to handle his subject matter is not a question that I am well enough equipped to consider. I would surmise however by saying that I have learned a lot by reading this work, both within the tome itself and further by becoming aware of sensible and informed dissent without.
For all of these reasons I recommend this study to any who would consider the origins and developments of Witchcraft, Wicca and Paganism in modern Britain today, with the caveat that there may indeed be more to this story than meets the eye or is presented here.
SO MOTE IT BE ~
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Sometimes I forget how long I've been doing this, seriously a very very long time.
We had decided that we needed a new mattress and I wanted to do it "before" I go to "full time" Professional Bohemian and "part time" home office worker. That big change in my life will happen exactly at the Celtic New year, that's right Oct. 31 is when the office I work at will close, although the business will remain but running lean and mean, with a small office in the city and most of our work done on our laptops. My boss has decided that she wants to keep me on part time working from home so I'll still have a suplimentary income and lots more time for my art career. It's pretty exciting, especially now that I'm starting on the Mystical Cats Tarot with teamie Lunaea Weatherstone.
"Love Spell" an unpublished spec illustration from years ago that I hand colored last night!
So Dan and I decided that any upgrades we needed at home better happen now while I still have that full time check rolling in, and our mattress had big dips in it where our bodies go, not so nice. In the process of getting our new mattress, I pulled a couple of those flat plastic tubs from under my bed that store tons of old memorabilia in from days of yore...yep, yore. You know, the old days when I used to make promotional art for local rock bands, and my early forays into my current path of spiritual art. I really had fun going through it, so many memories. I kept about half of it, pitching duplicate flyers, notes that didn't mean anything anymore, etc. Some of what I found as I dug through were some "original pieces" that I had created for different reasons, circa 1997-99. I have some small full color art I had made to use for various promotional pieces back when I was Mickie Hodges, before Dan and I got married. I also had a few small pen and ink line art samples that I had made as spec pieces to show as examples of my work from 1999. At the time I was stretching my fledgling wings and sending samples to magazine and book publishers looking for illustration jobs.
All the ACEO cards made from "lost art!"
I almost put these little gems back in the box to go back into storage until the next time I took a trip down memory lane...almost. Then it occurred to me, these were pretty darned cool and they were just hidden away. Someone might really enjoy having these little drawings. Then I realized that they were almost the right size for ACEO cards. Inspiration had struck! I measured them and I was right. I trimmed them down ever so slightly, three full color pieces, and three pen and inks. I decided that I would add color to the pen and ink ones, and I must say, it was really fun and I "love" the results.
Pen and ink unpublished original illustrations, hand colored all one of a kind.
Promotional pieces, used to promote my art business long ago, also unpublished, one of a kind!
So there you have it, I have 6 new ACEO cards to offer, each one a little history from the Old Wooden Art Table that you can own if you're so inclined. Three unpublished spec illustrations hand inked in 1999 and hand colored with watercolor and colored pencil in 2011. Three colored pencil drawings created in 1997 as promo pieces for my business. All six are one of a kind. I just posted them in our Etsy shop I hope you enjoy seeing them as much as I enjoyed creating them!
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[>] Pictures from Sidi Shaykh Muhammad Sa'id al-Jamal ar-Rifa'i ash-Shadhuli's visit to Del Mar, Southern California, 1st December. 2007. Since 1994 Shaykh visits the United States every year, staying for a few months and traveling the country visiting his beloveds.
Yesterday i had the blessed opportunity to meet the Shaykh, the present guide of the Shadhdhuliyyah Tariqah, affectionately known as Sidi meaning Sir or Teacher. Sidi gave bayat (INITIATION TO SUFI PATH) to new aspirants and i got initiated as well, Alhamdulillah. Shaykh gave each a new sufi name and while gazing lovingly he called me Salim. So there goes my sufi name, Salim. '"Selim"' or '"Salim"' means "PEACEFUL", "SAFE", derived from Arabic salima "TO BE WITH PEACE". Its also the same in Hebrew Salem meaning the same.
During the Bayat the Shaykh blessed the new aspirants and helped them say and do tauba, a spiritual, physical and mental process of turning back to God. Shaykh adorned all new aspirants with a beautiful prayer bead or tasbih (ROSARY) in the initiation ceremony.
Bayat, an Islamic word for allegiance, and the word means "TAKING HAND", a practice mentioned by Quranic Surah 48:10: "VERILY, THOSE WHO GIVE THEE THEIR ALLEGIANCE, THEY GIVE IT BUT TO GOD HIMSELF, GOD'S HAND IS UPON THEIR HANDS...". This tradition of the Prophet himself is thus observed for the initiation ceremony specific to many Sufi orders.
. About the teacher Sidi Shaykh Muhammad Sa'id al-Jamal ar-Rifa'i ash-Shadhuli, the Guide of the peace, the mercy, and the love to the way of God through the Sufi path a guide of the Shadhdhuliyyah Tariqah, founded by as-Shaykh Ali Abu-l-Hasan as-Shadhili in Egypt in the thirteenth century.
The Shaykh is a descendent of the Prophet Muhammad, may God's peace and blessings be upon him, through his ancestor, Shaykh Ahmad ar-Rifa'i. He was born in Tulkum in the Holy Land in 1935. He is the spiritual inheritor through the Shadhili line from his Guide and Master, Shaykh 'Abdu-r-Rahman Abu-r-Risah of Halab in the land of Syria, and is one who has kept Sufism alive and at work as an institution and a school of thought and spiritual knowledge. In 1997 he restored the 1000 year old Sufi Council that served in the Holy Land. He is the Head of this Council in Jerusalem and the Holy Land and has been a teacher and central figure at the Masjid al-Aqsa or the Dome of the Rock for many years.
The Shaykh has been living on the Mount of Olives in the Holy City of Jerusalem since the year 1959. (credit)
. About the Sadhiliya Tariqa Shadhiliya is one of the major tariqa or sufi path, founded by Imam Shadhili, may God sanctify his station, who originated from North East African country. Imam Shadhili was the Shaykh of all Shaykhs and Quthub (THE SPIRITUAL AND ENERGY POLE OF GOD) of his time.
Being the 23rd hereditary grand son of our beloved Prophet Muhammad, the Messenger of God, Shaykh Shadhili was the first in this world to introduce Zikr JAHRI. That is meditating '"Allah"' louder so that to get control over all the five human sensations.
Shadhiliyya Tariqa is known as Thareeqush Shukr (THE PATH OF GRATITUDE) and one of the teachings that Shadhiliyya preaches is to enjoy all (HALAL) permitted matters in the world and thank God always who provided every thing, and Hence the name THAREEQUSH SHUKR.
The Tribute of spreading this Tariqa world wide through His (KARAAMATH - E - JAHRI) exhibited wonders goes to Shaykh Muhammadh Ajwadh Al Fassy, may God be pleased with him, who was the 21st Khaleefa or representative. During his tenure as Khaleefa tariqa with Zikr Jahri, Inshaadh, Auraadh and Hizb was spreaded all over the world. The path also focuses on sufi healing methods. details The University of Spiritual Healing and Sufism.
Today there are 117 countries around the globe where the practices of Shadhiliyya tariqa are being performed. People from all over the world, because of the mixture of their regional languages, pronounce and spell Shazuli(ya) as, Shadhili(ya), Shazili(ya), Shadhuli(ya), Chadhuli(ya), Chadili(ya), Chadhili(ya), Chazuli(ya), chazli(ya) etc., Though it is spelled with various pronunciations and spellings all refers only to this tariqa "SHADHILI(YA)".
. reference. bayat in islamic shariya
. photos: sufi gathering @ Del Mar, California, 1st Dec, 2007. Shaykh Sidi giving his teachings and blessing individuals. God willing i will write later few of the highlights about which Sidi spoke in the gathering.[+] Please visit MysticSaint.Info For full multimedia experience and enjoy special music.
BLESSINGS,
SADIQ
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From Fr. Trigilio:
"Sorry for the brief hiatus from the blogoshere. I was in Erie all last week to visit my mom and to preach the Days of Prayer Novena for the discalced Carmelite nuns (also in Erie). My mom was admitted to the hospital yesterday to have an EKG. She had an MRI and CAT scan last month which came back negative for stroke (Deo gratias). However, she has been having dizzy spells and has fallen several times. Her doctors suspect that is is her meds for blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes and glaucoma. All this week she has been fatigued, so the ECG was done to see if she has a heart murmur.
Needless to say, I appreciate any and all prayers for my mother. She buried three of her five children and then her loving husband of 39 years. Then four of her six siblings died in just a sequence of several months.
Being the head nurse of the Trauma Center / Emergency Room for more than 40 years did large damage to her spine, so she is also on cortisone shots to help alleviate some of the chronic pain she experiences in addition to her other ailments. While home last week, she fell at the Novena and hit her head. I am stationed more than 300 miles away in another diocese.
I visited Father Bob Levis (who also lives in Erie). He is in a nursing home. Needs a walker to get around since his nasty fall at Christmas time which gave him a cuncushion. Since then, he fell a few more times. Fr. Bob turned 89 this summer and is still very much alive but has been grounded for health reasons. Hence, you won't see him on EWTN as much or at conferecences, workshops or conventions but know he is still very much among the living but in need of your prayers. He has never been so confined and constrained from getting around. He has been independent 88 years and now he needs assisted living.
Thank you and God bless you and Mary keep you"
Father John Trigilio
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ALEKSANDER SOLZEHENITSYN LIVED IN STALIN'S GULAG, AND FOUGHT IN THE RED ARMY. HE WROTE PASSIONATELY AND FAMOUSLY (FOR WHICH HE WAS ARRESTED) ABOUT THE EVIL OF SOCIALISM AND HIS EXPERIENCES. LATER IN LIFE HE BECAME A CHRISTIAN AND WROTE PHILOSOPHICALLY AND AUTHORITATIVELY ABOUT SOCIALISM. HE DIED AT 89 YEARS OF AGE IN 2008 AND IS AN INTERNATIONAL ICON.
HE ONCE WROTE,
"OVER A HALF CENTURY AGO, WHILE I WAS STILL A CHILD, I RECALL HEARING A NUMBER OF OLD PEOPLE OFFER THE FOLLOWING EXPLANATION FOR THE GREAT DISASTERS THAT HAD BEFALLEN RUSSIA: "MEN HAVE FORGOTTEN GOD; THAT'S WHY ALL THIS HAS HAPPENED." SINCE THEN I HAVE SPENT WELL-NIGH 50 YEARS WORKING ON THE HISTORY OF OUR REVOLUTION; IN THE PROCESS I HAVE READ HUNDREDS OF IT SEEMS THAT CERTAIN THINGS IN THIS WORLD SIMPLY CANNOT BE DISCOVERED WITHOUT EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE, BE IT PERSONAL OR COLLECTIVE.
THIS APPLIES TO THE PRESENT BOOK WITH ITS FRESH AND REVEALING PERSPECTIVE ON THE MILLENNIA-OLD TRENDS OF SOCIALISM.
WHILE IT MAKES USE OF A VOLUMINOUS LITERATURE FAMILIAR TO SPECIALISTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, THERE IS AN UNDENIABLE LOGIC IN THE FACT THAT IT EMERGED FROM THE COUNTRY THAT HAS UNDERGONE (AND IS UNDERGOING) THE HARSHEST AND MOST PROLONGED SOCIALIST EXPERIENCE IN MODERN HISTORY.
NOR IS IT AT ALL INCONGRUOUS THAT WITHIN THAT COUNTRY THIS BOOK SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN PRODUCED BY A HUMANIST, FOR SCHOLARS IN THE HUMANITIES HAVE BEEN THE MOST METHODICALLY CRUSHED OF ALL SOCIAL STRATA IN THE SOVIET UNION EVER SINCE THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION. IT WAS WRITTEN BY A MATHEMATICIAN OF WORLD RENOWN: IN THE COMMUNIST WORLD, PRACTITIONERS OF THE EXACT SCIENCES MUST STAND IN FOR THEIR ANNIHILATED BRETHREN.
BUT THIS CIRCUMSTANCE HAS ITS COMPENSATIONS. IT PROVIDES US WITH A RARE OPPORTUNITY OF RECEIVING A SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SOCIALISM FROM THE PEN OF AN OUTSTANDING MATHEMATICAL THINKER VERSED IN THE RIGOROUS METHODOLOGY OF HIS SCIENCE. (ONE CAN ATTACH PARTICULAR WEIGHT, FOR INSTANCE, TO HIS JUDGMENT THAT MARXISM LACKS EVEN THE CLIMATE OF SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY.
) WORLD SOCIALISM AS A WHOLE, AND ALL THE FIGURES ASSOCIATED WITH IT, ARE SHROUDED IN LEGEND; ITS CONTRADICTIONS ARE FORGOTTEN OR CONCEALED; IT DOES NOT RESPOND TO ARGUMENTS BUT CONTINUALLY IGNORES THEM-ALL THIS STEMS FROM THE MIST OF IRRATIONALITY THAT SURROUNDS SOCIALISM AND FROM ITS INSTINCTIVE AVERSION TO SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS, FEATURES WHICH THE AUTHOR OF THIS VOLUME POINTS OUT REPEATEDLY AND IN MANY CONTEXTS.
THE DOCTRINES OF SOCIALISM SEETHE WITH CONTRADICTIONS, ITS THEORIES ARE AT CONSTANT ODDS WITH ITS PRACTICE, YET DUE TO A POWERFUL INSTINCT-ALSO LAID BARE BY SHAFAREVICH - THESE CONTRADICTIONS DO NOT IN THE LEAST HINDER THE UNENDING PROPAGANDA OF SOCIALISM. INDEED, NO PRECISE, DISTINCT SOCIALISM EVEN EXISTS; INSTEAD THERE IS ONLY A VAGUE, ROSY NOTION OF SOMETHING NOBLE AND GOOD, OF EQUALITY, COMMUNAL OWNERSHIP, AND JUSTICE: THE ADVENT OF THESE THINGS WILL BRING INSTANT EUPHORIA AND A SOCIAL ORDER BEYOND REPROACH.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY MARKS ONE OF THE GREATEST UPSURGES IN THE SUCCESS OF SOCIALISM, AND CONCOMITANTLY OF ITS REPULSIVE PRACTICAL MANIFESTATIONS. YET DUE TO THE SAME PASSIONATE IRRATIONALITY, ATTEMPTS TO EXAMINE THESE RESULTS ARE REPELLED: THEY ARE EITHER IGNORED COMPLETELY, OR IMPLAUSIBLY EXPLAINED AWAY IN TERMS OF CERTAIN "ASIATIC" OR "RUSSIAN" ABERRATIONS OR THE PERSONALITY OF A PARTICULAR DICTATOR, OR ELSE THEY ARE ASCRIBED TO "STATE CAPITALISM.
" THE PRESENT BOOK ENCOMPASSES VAST STRETCHES OF TIME AND SPACE. BY CAREFULLY DESCRIBING AND ANALYZING DOZENS OF SOCIALIST DOCTRINES AND NUMEROUS STATES BUILT ON SOCIALIST PRINCIPLES, THE AUTHOR LEAVES NO ROOM FOR EVASIVE ARGUMENTS BASED ON SO-CALLED "INSIGNIFICANT EXCEPTIONS" (ALLEGEDLY BEARING NO RESEMBLANCE TO THE GLORIOUS FUTURE).
WHETHER IT IS THE CENTRALIZATION OF CHINA IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM B.C., THE BLOODY EUROPEAN EXPERIMENTS OF THE TIME OF THE REFORMATION, THE CHILLING (THOUGH UNIVERSALLY ESTEEMED) UTOPIAS OF EUROPEAN THINKERS, THE INTRIGUES OF MARX AND ENGELS, OR THE RADICAL COMMUNIST MEASURES OF THE LENIN PERIOD (NO WIT MORE HUMANE THAN STALIN'S HEAVY-HANDED METHODS)-THE AUTHOR IN ALL HIS DOZENS OF EXAMPLES DEMONSTRATES THE UNDEVIATING CONSISTENCY OF THE PHENOMENON UNDER CONSIDERATION.
SHAFAREVICH HAS SINGLED OUT THE INVARIANTS OF SOCIALISM, ITS FUNDAMENTAL AND UNCHANGING ELEMENTS, WHICH DEPEND NEITHER ON TIME NOR PLACE, AND WHICH, ALAS, ARE LOOMING OMINOUSLY OVER TODAY'S TOTTERING WORLD. IF ONE CONSIDERS HUMAN HISTORY IN ITS ENTIRETY, SOCIALISM CAN BOAST OF A GREATER LONGEVITY AND DURABILITY, OF WIDER DIFFUSION AND OF CONTROL OVER LARGER MASSES OF PEOPLE, THAN CAN CONTEMPORARY WESTERN CIVILIZATION.
IT IS THEREFORE DIFFICULT TO SHAKE OFF GLOOMY PRESENTIMENTS WHEN CONTEMPLATING THAT MAW INTO WHICH - BEFORE THE CENTURY IS OUT - WE MAY ALL PLUNGE:...AND BEFORE WHICH CONTEMPORARY MARXIST THOUGHT STANDS BAFFLED, HAVING DISCERNED ITS OWN HIDEOUS COUNTENANCE IN THE MIRROR OF THE MILLENNIA. IT COULD PROBABLY BE SAID THAT THE MAJORITY OF STATES IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND HAVE BEEN "SOCIALIST.
" BUT IT IS ALSO TRUE THAT THESE WERE IN NO SENSE PERIODS OR PLACES OF HUMAN HAPPINESS OR CREATIVITY. SHAFAREVICH POINTS OUT WITH GREAT PRECISION BOTH THE CAUSE AND THE GENESIS OF THE FIRST SOCIALIST DOCTRINES, WHICH HE CHARACTERIZES AS REACTIONS: PLATO AS A REACTION TO GREEK CULTURE, AND THE GNOSTICS AS A REACTION TO CHRISTIANITY.
THEY SOUGHT TO COUNTERACT THE ENDEAVOR OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT TO STAND ERECT... THE AUTHOR ALSO CONVINCINGLY DEMONSTRATES THE DIAMETRICAL OPPOSITION BETWEEN THE CONCEPTS OF MAN HELD BY RELIGION AND BY SOCIALISM. SOCIALISM SEEKS TO REDUCE HUMAN PERSONALITY TO ITS MOST PRIMITIVE LEVELS AND TO EXTINGUISH THE HIGHEST, MOST COMPLEX, AND "GOD-LIKE" ASPECTS OF HUMAN INDIVIDUALITY.
AND EVEN EQUALITY ITSELF, THAT POWERFUL APPEAL AND GREAT PROMISE OF SOCIALISTS THROUGHOUT THE AGES, TURNS OUT TO SIGNIFY NOT EQUALITY OF RIGHTS, OF OPPORTUNITIES, AND OF EXTERNAL CONDITIONS, BUT EQUALITY QUA IDENTITY, EQUALITY SEEN AS THE MOVEMENT OF VARIETY TOWARD UNIFORMITY. EVEN THOUGH, AS THIS BOOK SHOWS, SOCIALISM HAS ALWAYS SUCCESSFULLY AVOIDED TRULY SCIENTIFIC ANALYSES OF ITS ESSENCE, SHAFAREVICH'S STUDY CHALLENGES PRESENT-DAY THEORETICIANS OF SOCIALISM TO DEMONSTRATE THEIR ARGUMENTS IN A BUSINESSLIKE PUBLIC DISCUSSION.
ALEKSANDR I. SOLZHENITSYN See Preface and Marx's Concept of Man
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By Jack Daniel Morris
What the world knows as Hindu Astrology or Vedic Astrology, Indians simply call it Jyotisha. The word Jyotisha means "the science of light" in Sanskrit. It is in essence a time-tested, ancient art of accurately predicting the future. The guidelines of predicting future this way hails from the Holy Indian texts i.e. the Vedas. There are primarily three branches of this art, namely-
o "The traditional Indian astronomy that predicts the movements of stars and planets."
o "The art of predicting major events that will befall a country such as war or earthquakes."
o "The art of predicting a person's future course of life, through a thorough study of his natal horoscopes".
MAKING PREDICTIONS
The Hindu Vedic astrology believes each of the heavenly bodies to have a particular function. While it takes the sun to be the primary life force, it takes the moon to be the one influencing the fertility cycles. Vedic astrology is believed to be a branch of science for it takes the magnetic field and gravitational pull between the heavenly bodies and planet earth to affect the latter physically. And this very fact acts as the prime basis of its calculation.
Although both Vedic astrology and Western astrology recognizes twelve zodiac houses, the two uses different yardsticks to calculate the zodiac signs of different individuals. Unlike Western astrological predictions which are calculated upon the solar charts, jyotisha is calculated upon lunar charts.
Moreover while the former depends upon tropical zodiac, the latter makes use of sidereal zodiac. The horoscopes are prepared by studying the planetary position ("graha"), the exact location of the stars ("nakshatra"), the zodiac houses ("rashis"), the planetary periods ("dasas"), the planetary aspects ("drishtis"), the planetary combinations ("yogas") etc.
Using these information a chart is drawn which is believed to be able to accurately predict matters of family and relationship ("Kama"), finances ("artha"), career ("dharma"), spiritual salvation ("moksha") and physical health ("arogya").
ROLE OF KARMA
Although our Vedic astrology takes the location of stars and planetary positions during a person's birth to determine his future, it undeniably believes that the person's Karma has caused these heavenly bodies to arrange themselves in the like-wise manner. That is to say, the planetary deities are subservient to the omnipotent God. Thus to dole out justice, the planetary deities may very well be asked to align themselves in a particular manner during a person's birth to either reward or punish him, depending upon whether he has led a virtuous or a vicious past life.
Laws of Karma thus combine the concept of both fate and free will to suggest that a person's present life has been determined by the choices he had made in his past life (i.e. the idea of fate) and that his future life will be guided by the way he consciously acts in his present life (i.e. the idea of free will).
The wisdom in Jyotisha lies in imparting a kind of spiritual resignation among its believers, quite like the motto of que sera, sera. It also leads its believers to embark on an enlightened spiritual journey through which not only does he get better acquainted with his soul but also with the cosmic connection that exists between his inner self and the guidance offered by the Divine One. It imparts a kind of unflustered confidence in his outlook towards his life for he knows he cannot make amends to drastically alter his present life and that he has to deal with every ups-and-down that come his way for they are but a direct consequence of the way he has led his past life.
The only thing he can make certain is a better next life through a strict adherence to the path of righteousness. However, Jyotisha does leave a scope for ameliorating the effects of the past life upon the present life through practice of meditation, yoga etc.
The ancient wisdom that has been passed down to us has become an integral part of our rich heritage. It is after all the Indian form of astrology, an art that stands out distinctly from the West's endeavors.
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