tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56126453808035573422024-03-17T03:07:22.964-07:00Dark ImpulsesWelcome to the Dark recesses of the mind. Come explore the real you. Enter the night time. Submerge thyself in the cave of the unconscious.The Granovitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973854784125577396noreply@blogger.comBlogger941125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612645380803557342.post-9223651306682772024-03-17T03:06:00.000-07:002024-03-17T03:06:39.476-07:00The Divine Feminine from the Coasts of Africa<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG6Mu5DAU64ST6KRwVesTg17TfXAd67pbbbep1if8OThhu6JBIAXcUndWYsx4oxNctgdFIyWlwMEDCtL2zvE3PQ3G0x4-lFrsw6uCP8j0jFTTj6eftJOJSmaTdPD_L0HulW5SxLrTCufySP_EWayttovFrIa2kNwe3ejdn4HNmurhd6fZA0B3wq9eF-m0/s2000/Screenshot_20240317-030509.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG6Mu5DAU64ST6KRwVesTg17TfXAd67pbbbep1if8OThhu6JBIAXcUndWYsx4oxNctgdFIyWlwMEDCtL2zvE3PQ3G0x4-lFrsw6uCP8j0jFTTj6eftJOJSmaTdPD_L0HulW5SxLrTCufySP_EWayttovFrIa2kNwe3ejdn4HNmurhd6fZA0B3wq9eF-m0/w240-h400/Screenshot_20240317-030509.png" width="240" /></a></div><br />Orisha's, Goddesses and Voodoo Queens<p></p><p>By: Lilith Dorsey</p><p>From Lilith Dorsey comes a tour de force that gives someone new to African-Carribean Religions an overview of the female deities within the Afro Carribean Religions. There are many. Depending on the religion you are working with you will call the deities of Voodoo either Orishas or Loa's. Afro Carribean Religions such as Voodoo (New Orleans), Voudou (Haitian), Candolombe, Santeria or Hoodoo developed under the boot of a harsh slavery. Based on African traditions back home, the slaves did their best to keep the practices alive. But it was difficult as the slave masters tried to suppress this practice and force them into Christianity. Plus slaves from different parts of Africa were thrust together. No common language and no common religion makes it hard to mount a rebellion. Often times the religion and spirituality of the slaves combined with that of the master's Christianity, native American practices and with that of other slaves.</p><p><br /></p><p>The way voodoo is structured is that Bondeye is the main creator god and under this god were the Loa, Orisha or spirits who ran the affairs of the universe. The Loa is what one works with or prays to if they want to do magic or do rituals. Hoodoo is voodoo with a catholic lay over it. If a human being is spiritualy advanced enough they can beome a Loa in their lifetime, as what happened with Marie Lavaugh. the religion was the slaves way of combatting an unjust system they were forced into. being suppressed has forced it to develop in diferent ways than it could have if left out in the open. Voodoo houses can be real secreteive as well and not too open to outsiders. The author stresses and rightly so that if you want to get serious about Voodoo you need to get initiated along with proper training.</p><p><br /></p><p>The book is primarily about female Orisha's. Now not only has the African religions been mligned and a certain space must be reclaimed but also the sacred feminine has been maligned and must be restored. These Orisha's can be role models for women to stand up to the patriarchy, Covered in this book are thirteen female Loa. They are Oshun, Yemaya, Oya, Nana Baruku, Mami Wata, Erzulie, Aida Wedo, La Sirene, Annie Christmans and Maman Briggitte along with Pomba gira, Marie Lavaugh and Santa Muerte. The coverage of these deities is as follows. First there is a description of the deity and an explanation of the lore behind them. Next comes mention of how some artists have honored them. Finally there are recipes and rituals to connect with these deities.</p><p><br /></p><p>An excellent book fo beginners to Voodoo or someone who wants an overview of the dieties and Afro Carribean Religions.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy the blog</div>The Granovitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973854784125577396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612645380803557342.post-18318447245877976252024-03-12T12:18:00.000-07:002024-03-12T12:18:26.348-07:00Libraries of the Subconscious <p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdF0F8GzCwXM2Dk9qOtbaQjnsd45CpddpBoge7NVMPQPqNltQCUAi2Q5pHvn7QHHPTXKG_VeMzDZtuFrQzITgYR-TdV67qQj6SLJJls3amgZ8dRr5qVHv_Kk6eQOFloxpFGd78hN-IxnH1QshUI5sCV1Uemhr4rbG4kUbmxWCUhMN6e2d09_2o2NY8wDA/s2000/Screenshot_20240312-121722.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdF0F8GzCwXM2Dk9qOtbaQjnsd45CpddpBoge7NVMPQPqNltQCUAi2Q5pHvn7QHHPTXKG_VeMzDZtuFrQzITgYR-TdV67qQj6SLJJls3amgZ8dRr5qVHv_Kk6eQOFloxpFGd78hN-IxnH1QshUI5sCV1Uemhr4rbG4kUbmxWCUhMN6e2d09_2o2NY8wDA/s320/Screenshot_20240312-121722.png" width="192" /></a></div><br />Lost Wisdom <p></p><p>By Heather Lynn PHD</p><p><br /></p><p>Libraries those great repositories of knowledge. There is one is every city, in fact several in every city and they have been with us since ancient times. Looking back to ancient times we come across two great libraries. One is in Egypt and the other in Mesopotamia. Both libraries are no longer in existence. It is somewhat of an open question as to who built the library in Alexandria. It may have been rebuilt a coupe of times. Certain sources say Julius Ceasar burned it down when he attacked ships in the Egytptian harbor. Others say Christians burned it down while others would have you believe that Muslims burned it down. Speculation continues did it really burn down and did it exist.</p><p><br /></p><p>Asshrbanipal was supposed to be trained as a priest hence he had all thsi philosophical knoledge and scientific knowledge. He collected all this stuff in one big library. After the fall of Assyria the libray fell to disuse and was buried under stone. Many were still left as raw clay. Once fired up we had a treasure trove of knowledge. Other clay tablets were so baly smashed up that many years later we ar still trying to piece them together.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Library in Epheus is just a fascade left standing. Epheseus is known for it's temple to Artemis. It was founded by a Greek ruler who was told in a divination that he should build a cirty marked by a boar and a fish.It while cooking that the fish jumped out of the frying pan and then a boar fled from the fire of the camp. Hence Epheseus was found. Another library or it's ruins wefe found in the city of Cologn Germany. It was built by the Romans and housed a substancial amount of scrolls.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dr. Heather Lynn believes that information is not just passed down through books. Rather like the cloud all livin things are connected to the universal or collective consiousness. Not sure if I one hundered percent buy into it but is it not weird that two people all the way across the world with no contact with each other come up with the same idea at the same time. Civilizations do it as well. The book is short and concise but I wish it could have been longer and more fleshed out. She has many good insights.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy the blog</div>The Granovitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973854784125577396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612645380803557342.post-42060297208613965862024-03-05T15:09:00.000-08:002024-03-05T15:09:40.417-08:00Alternate Djinn Reality<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A Master Of Djinn</p><p>by P.Djeli Clark</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy5TByBSvfADGBvsUkD-vM5dqpHbntKrTgHC7xbSoq1fI234Id0wXQA-N5ieX7i407J9R4yyPjnijQU3-DGH5RQO6mOCJcwM9EjnYOGsqV5JG-UMxBiPr1yWJrkozC4e26W4rvHUuRJDNmIuXxMXPkhLGH9MgVe-3RZLBXnOpuGb-BzCD_NAGah7r_cF4/s2000/Screenshot_20240305-150856.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy5TByBSvfADGBvsUkD-vM5dqpHbntKrTgHC7xbSoq1fI234Id0wXQA-N5ieX7i407J9R4yyPjnijQU3-DGH5RQO6mOCJcwM9EjnYOGsqV5JG-UMxBiPr1yWJrkozC4e26W4rvHUuRJDNmIuXxMXPkhLGH9MgVe-3RZLBXnOpuGb-BzCD_NAGah7r_cF4/s320/Screenshot_20240305-150856.png" width="192" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>In an alternate reality the scenery of World War I looks a lot differnt then it does here. It is a world filled with Djinn from an opening torn into the Kaf or Djinn world. Marids, Ifrits and ghouls walk the streets with human beings. The technology is a little bit different as well. Robots or automatons serve an warm up coffee. Mechanical dogs guard the doorways to ministries checking out those who enter. An important backdrop is back in the 1800's Al Jahiz a sufi mystics opened the gateway to the world of the Jinn.</p><p><br /></p><p>Much like in our world there are secret brotherhoods sudying the mystica arts, kind of reminiscent of Aleister Crowley and his studies of magic in Egypt. Shrine and temples are built for the gods of old. The brotherhood is attacked by a man in a gold mask. He kills everyone in the brotherhood. He can duplicate his baody and he can command the Djinn. Some say he is Al Jahiz. Despatched to the case are fatma an her partner Hadia.They are part of the ministry that investigates paranormal activity. Together with other members and Fatma's girlfriend Sitti , who is a follower of bastet, go forward battling Djinn as tehy solve the case. After killing the brotherhood the masked man creates a disturbance in the city promising to reveal all. He also robs a ministry of angels where he steal the sword of Al Jahiz an Solomon's Ring.</p><p><br /></p><p>Who is the masked man? What is his motive? In the end we find out who it is and they is a nice battle that ensues with some reconciliation between Djinn and man. there is more in the series.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy the blog</div>The Granovitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973854784125577396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612645380803557342.post-56626691963907432142024-02-28T02:47:00.000-08:002024-02-28T02:47:33.573-08:00Tex Mex Vampires<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Vampiros Del Norte</p><p><br /></p><p>By Isabel Canas</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1836 Magdalena and nestor were roaming the chapparal in search of Spanish gold. What they found instead was a ravenous beast that walked on al fours only to approach them on it's bipedal legs. Looking much like a bat this feral beast has no eyes. It feasts on both animal and human blood. These vasmpires were much discussed in the lore of the abuelas. Confronted by the beast after followin orbs of light. Magdalena is attacked and almost dead. Nestor brings her back...almost dead and then the father who owns the rancheros they both live on and work on chases him off. He works independently for different rancheros. He has an affair with a widow named Celeste. He left the ranch for 9 long years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Magdalena gows into a curandera or healer albeit with a damaged aura. the vaqueros or workers start geting sick with sustos, she knows the evil that is afoot. Not only are vampres a plague bu the American army is invading Mexico and the army and ay able bodied men are being called in to fight. Nestor returns to find his loved one alive. Upon his return there is a ton of drama as teh two reconcile. This is also a classic Romeo and Juliet tale. Nestor is a vaquero or a worker for the rachero. Magdalena is the daughter of the patron or owner of the ranchero. Their love is forbidden. They must overcome lots of challnenges.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the battle field they realize that the ranchero is vulnerable to vampire attack. They head back and along the way they fight many vampires. Back at the ranchero there are challenges taht contiue to plague their love. At the end there is a ferocious vampire and it is learned that the vampires and the invading American army are in league. These vampires are not your classic vampire. While salt drives them back they never really apear to be human, rather they are wild animals that hunt to survive like any other but they do comprehend human speech and they are capable of acting like humans even thouh you will never mistake them for one. The story also deals with forbidden love..a worker fallin or the bosses daughter and all he rules their society must follow to conform with ettiquette. Excellent book. They should base a series or a movie on it.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsTbHhozEPLHFbgccuNrMr7EUDxxP3ZDwmHHXsI3EEzzbV0AAGrJUof19bINqXr3X4tpVIFpCp5Qm4RkRPcON0G2M456zkGdzR7MRyLXuiBFLoVOALU0dmkTXXT-NPm4NoS2WmR7qY0v8IXnAivW6L3ROjHU1zjDl9h5pfSbdDpjUZes8RDWM-49kHxvI/s2000/Screenshot_20240228-024606.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsTbHhozEPLHFbgccuNrMr7EUDxxP3ZDwmHHXsI3EEzzbV0AAGrJUof19bINqXr3X4tpVIFpCp5Qm4RkRPcON0G2M456zkGdzR7MRyLXuiBFLoVOALU0dmkTXXT-NPm4NoS2WmR7qY0v8IXnAivW6L3ROjHU1zjDl9h5pfSbdDpjUZes8RDWM-49kHxvI/s320/Screenshot_20240228-024606.png" width="192" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Vampiros of El Norte</p><p>By Isabel Canas</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1836 Magdalena and nestor were roaming the chapparal in search of Spanish gold. What they found instead was a ravenous beast that walked on al fours only to approach them on it's bipedal legs. Looking much like a bat this feral beast has no eyes. It feasts on both animal and human blood. These vasmpires were much discussed in the lore of the abuelas. Confronted by the beast after followin orbs of light. Magdalena is attacked and almost dead. Nestor brings her back...almost dead and then the father who owns the rancheros they both live on and work on chases him off. He works independently for different rancheros. He has an affair with a widow named Celeste. He left the ranch for 9 long years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Magdalena gows into a curandera or healer albeit with a damaged aura. the vaqueros or workers start geting sick with sustos, she knows the evil that is afoot. Not only are vampres a plague bu the American army is invading Mexico and the army and ay able bodied men are being called in to fight. Nestor returns to find his loved one alive. Upon his return there is a ton of drama as teh two reconcile. This is also a classic Romeo and Juliet tale. Nestor is a vaquero or a worker for the rachero. Magdalena is the daughter of the patron or owner of the ranchero. Their love is forbidden. They must overcome lots of challnenges.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the battle field they realize that the ranchero is vulnerable to vampire attack. They head back and along the way they fight many vampires. Back at the ranchero there are challenges taht contiue to plague their love. At the end there is a ferocious vampire and it is learned that the vampires and the invading American army are in league. These vampires are not your classic vampire. While salt drives them back they never really apear to be human, rather they are wild animals that hunt to survive like any other but they do comprehend human speech and they are capable of acting like humans even thouh you will never mistake them for one. The story also deals with forbidden love..a worker fallin or the bosses daughter and all he rules their society must follow to conform with ettiquette. Excellent book. They should base a series or a movie on it.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy the blog</div>The Granovitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973854784125577396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612645380803557342.post-78950195308018258432024-02-16T04:39:00.000-08:002024-02-16T04:39:20.758-08:00Omuamuma the Interstellar Asteroid<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiutGhRW0_5eMvBx2vLm-A88Wh9YhI_528zz-TkaBprFLCFPU1AdBazbgXAt0znTQsm2bfFbYBNgOL_dQNiwgK9X6lU6OdlCGoSvUeFHAs5d2uvfd_ADlttPLTtArc9vJzNxZeSX6sOq5RaD4l3nlC2PryiuQ2OWOa8TwowIKjX6eIIh5qQClEt78HaYKY/s2000/Screenshot_20240216-043655_kindlephoto-86192619.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiutGhRW0_5eMvBx2vLm-A88Wh9YhI_528zz-TkaBprFLCFPU1AdBazbgXAt0znTQsm2bfFbYBNgOL_dQNiwgK9X6lU6OdlCGoSvUeFHAs5d2uvfd_ADlttPLTtArc9vJzNxZeSX6sOq5RaD4l3nlC2PryiuQ2OWOa8TwowIKjX6eIIh5qQClEt78HaYKY/w384-h640/Screenshot_20240216-043655_kindlephoto-86192619.png" width="384" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> Extra Terrestrial</p><p>By Avi Loeb</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It was a few years ago that an interstellar asteroid type object sailed through our solar system. It's long cigar like shape was rather od and it drew lots of attention. When I said interstellar I meant that it came from outside the solar system. It is very rare for objects to travel accross space and enter into another solar system. It would have to have lots of propulsion for it to travel from one solar system to the next. It was first spotted from a super strong telescope in Hawaii and hence teh name of the asteroid is call Omuamuma . It's trajectory was rather odd as it sailed right on through ou solar system and pat the sun. Usually objects like this smash into a planet or get caught in some other body's orbit. Since it caught a lot of attention there was speculation that this miht be extraterrestrial. That is waht Harvard's Avi Loeb felt, and this wnet against the established grain of thought that does not really believe in life out there in the stars.</p><p><br /></p><p>This large rock is rather strange and some of the facts miht lean into extra terrestrial origin. First off in order fo it to sail through our solar system it had to have lots of force pushing it. This could happe though a planet exploding and bits o debris go flying around or someone sent it for one purpose or another. At certain points it appeared to accelerate in order for it to maintain speed and accelaerate it would have to have somekind of fuel. the burn off should have eroded some of the rock o taken some of th ice of it's surface. There have been speculaions as to why it is able to do that, some have said tha the ice was made of hydrogen but i does not hold water. Pardon the pun.</p><p><br /></p><p>What could possible fuel this rock to fly. There is no exhaust coming from a fuel supply. The author says it is light sails that ge there power from sunight. The next question is what is this rock and what is it's purpose. the author posits that is could be a buoy or some debris from an old space craft. The cilization that produced i could be extinct. While the author spend a good chunk o the book discussing this interstellar object he also goes into the speculation about life in the universe and what it would be like t make contact. The author also suggests exploring other planets and doing archaeology to disover the remnants of other civilizations to see what we could learn from them. This part can get real philosophical. He also goes into his background as well. Informative read.</p><p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy the blog</div>The Granovitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973854784125577396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612645380803557342.post-57678878603256934532024-02-13T03:16:00.000-08:002024-02-13T03:17:54.032-08:00Shapeshifter Stories <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtIDcfySeU1g1-ox7w3blxqOoqQ2k1e9smEaIPTwUVK0vUVGE3fZjE2r7gA_2lYWCQjqBv4LXpslaTRwLd3NeKsGqi4ixtY4nhQxTCpaPkWyZRMGnRtZwGiOfau4ZlMFRjAPp-Y-pxQZ89GZfHcsqWXcPr3nlNtHpK9iAG15Ruh7ugXfl-aFJLdJ9EG8A/s2000/Screenshot_20240213-031259.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtIDcfySeU1g1-ox7w3blxqOoqQ2k1e9smEaIPTwUVK0vUVGE3fZjE2r7gA_2lYWCQjqBv4LXpslaTRwLd3NeKsGqi4ixtY4nhQxTCpaPkWyZRMGnRtZwGiOfau4ZlMFRjAPp-Y-pxQZ89GZfHcsqWXcPr3nlNtHpK9iAG15Ruh7ugXfl-aFJLdJ9EG8A/s320/Screenshot_20240213-031259.png" width="192" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Werewolf Stories =</p><p>By Nick Redfern</p><p><br /></p><p>Stories about werewolves and wolf like creatures and more. Like the subtitle says they also talk about other shapreshifters. As if that is no enough even werewolves are varied and not easy to put into a category.</p><p>Never mind the legend that if you get bit by a werewolf or scratched by one you will become, total Hollywood legend. same for the silver bullet killing the werewolf. The only way to become a werewolf is to do magic to become one or if a sorcereror turns you into one. Stories are filled with the Gods punishing people by turning them into animals. King Lycas sacrificed bad meat to Zeus and for that he was turned into a werewolf. In Medieval Europe you have witches placing 7 year curses on people making them into wolves so they have to wander about in the wood.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lots of people volunterily became were wolves. Usually this involves the werewolf having a magic wolf pelt that can turn them into a wolf if they wear it. Some do rituals in circle but it is always a wolf pelt. Stories abound of elderly women o strang men living somewhat off from the rest of society who have a pelt and when they put it on a wolf will terrorize the village by eating people or livestock. When hunters wound it and follow the trail of blood it leads to that strange person's house. Persone would later die of their wounds. Norse legends had warrior bands going out into th forest and doning wolf skins from this they would be turned into wolves for a certain period of time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Where do the concepts of werewolves come from ? One guess would be the Norse Berserkers who would don a wolf o bear skin and rage on the battle fild as though they were wild animals and totally impervious to pain. They were called Bear Serkers or war wolves. The Ulfreddin were warrior swho donned wolf skins and faught in packs. It is also said that withces can shapeshift into any animal they desire and they can summon animals as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>Modern day America has it's share of werewolf type creatures roaming around. The Beast of Brey Road in Wisconsin is know as a wolf man who is really tall an chases after cars down the road. Fortunatly non one was hurt. Often times these beast or more frightening than harmful. One could question if they are entirely physical. The Author Nick Redfern saw a wolfman creature come for him in his house and as it reached his bed it disappeared. Some of these creatues are tracked and pursued often to only have them disappear. Are these creatures extraterresrial or are they inbterdimensional creatures?</p><p><br /></p><p>Shapeshifters exist th world over. In America you have skin walkers who are evil sorcerors who take any animal shape they want and they are dangerous to humans. You have have hyena men, jaguar men from Africa and the Americas. The author discusses many shapeshiting creatures out there and their origins. Very informative read.</p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy the blog</div>The Granovitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973854784125577396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612645380803557342.post-12326605879616090812024-02-06T12:20:00.000-08:002024-02-06T12:20:29.598-08:00The Science Behind the Legend of Big Foot<p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkdPWQlek1xej6jAt0rHbpoMmT8p8ZlSrbotHjxbw-umpHp7IzLPn6GokQI1ePkCo2oOsJ_3gGpbPx2CyhnTNbOOfTKtUa8gP9EsaOZJrUKK48MQC3KlPIFwjb2RfCNJB6CDM3rkJUk6xtNivN0CzdbK0dEP1pTLFCS8OMZaKchVt-XVTA9Gb2BTqyJWE/s2000/Screenshot_20240206-121948.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkdPWQlek1xej6jAt0rHbpoMmT8p8ZlSrbotHjxbw-umpHp7IzLPn6GokQI1ePkCo2oOsJ_3gGpbPx2CyhnTNbOOfTKtUa8gP9EsaOZJrUKK48MQC3KlPIFwjb2RfCNJB6CDM3rkJUk6xtNivN0CzdbK0dEP1pTLFCS8OMZaKchVt-XVTA9Gb2BTqyJWE/s320/Screenshot_20240206-121948.png" width="192" /></a></div><br /> Out in the forests of America, especially on the West Coast there exists a very hairy and large biped. Native Americans call it sasquatch, popular vernacular identifies the beast as Big Foot. It's existence is very difficult to prove as no one has ever produced a corpse or brought in a live specimen. The Only evidence produced is scat, footprint and some very questionable hair samples. Large hairy ape like creatures are found all over the world. In the Himalayas you have the Abominable Snowman or the Yeti. Since Sasquatch's existence is so hard to prove the author strives to do that using science.<p></p><p><br /></p><p>As mentioned earlier there are no physical specimens in captivity. Just cause a live one has not been caught does not mean that it does not exist. Many animals exist but canot be kept in captivity. Of course we have all seen footage of great white sharks which cannot be kept in captivity. Yet scientists are discovering new species daily. Bigfoot is elusive. Few people have seen him and when they come forward they are often ridiculed our someone says that they have mistaken it for some other animal out there. The Photos and videos that are produced are often labeled as hoaxes and experts will find something wrong with it. The pictures oten times do not produce a very clear image. Bigfoot remains have not been found either. Of course it is hard to find skeletal remains of animals that we know do exist. The skeletons disappear or rot away very quickly . Over all the places where these giant hairy ape like creatures have been found , very few remains have been found.</p><p><br /></p><p>Native American legends describe the Sasquatch as a tribe of beings who used to kidnap their women and even mate with their women. Sometimes these monsters would even eat people. Sasquatch appears to be omnivorous. Giganticus pithicus appears to be a distance ancestor of the Big Foot and he lived in Southern China. The author makes the case that Giganticus Pithicus traveled nothward due to climate changes until it reached Siberia from Siberia it crossed teh Bering Streit into America.</p><p><br /></p><p>The main evidence the author focuses on are the foot prints and the Patterson Gimli film showing big foot running accross a sand break. It has generated controversy. Many of the footprint were found in very out of the way places where very few people dare to venture. To call these foot prints a hoax missing the point as to why a hoaxer would hang out in some desolate area and pretend to be big foot. The author goes examinations of the films and foot print. While nothing is conclusive the things is not human.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy the blog</div>The Granovitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973854784125577396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612645380803557342.post-67609633791692590512024-01-31T14:49:00.000-08:002024-01-31T14:49:24.356-08:00The Story of Inanna Retold<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHmdPWsvGxDIugICZreO8d2v0YkG6uRiI2VLlstlYOmFuBw8uBrO7EJrqXMastNbIFlG8patnqbWEC7dyYIqi1IDdfvhrSRdcYXo1cThAy0sMvjhiIutbSt8t1wacqOZj2QS5S1uNFKaHgUOQWDgKcS6LNuqCUXqb82cm5GkEBQkWIXTE4H9g29wlCFzU/s2000/Screenshot_20240131-144755.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHmdPWsvGxDIugICZreO8d2v0YkG6uRiI2VLlstlYOmFuBw8uBrO7EJrqXMastNbIFlG8patnqbWEC7dyYIqi1IDdfvhrSRdcYXo1cThAy0sMvjhiIutbSt8t1wacqOZj2QS5S1uNFKaHgUOQWDgKcS6LNuqCUXqb82cm5GkEBQkWIXTE4H9g29wlCFzU/s320/Screenshot_20240131-144755.png" width="192" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Inanna : Book One of the Sumerians</p><p><br /></p><p>By Emily H Wilson</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally some good fiction about the Annunaki from Sumeria. I wish it would reach best seller status and become a movie but I guess that is wishful thinking. Great book and I mean it. Could not put it down. The story centers around Inanna , Although the point of view shift over to Ninshubar, Gilgamesh and some times Ereshkigal. While te Annunaki are superior being they are more like super humans as opposed to invincible deities. Thus plugs into the mythos that if the Gods ate some food they could become immortal and live forever but do not get the food then they become like us. The story also plugs into the Ancient Aliens theory by having them say they came from heaven in a ship called the thunderird. The Mees they wear on their wrists are like superior technolgy and the melam or black pwder they use to give them their powers might be produced in a laboratory.</p><p><br /></p><p>The story starts out about Inanna the first Annunaki who is born on earth who is actually Anunaki . Usually the Annunaki cannot breed or if they are lucky they come out as mortal. The melam makes them gods. Gilgamesh is mortal but was born of Anunaki parents. The story then switches over to Gilgamesh who is on the run from king Akka of Akkadia. Once he is captured he is a hostage in Akka's court. While in Akka's court he seduces the kings daughter which renews a conflict between Enlil, a god and Akka. Soon Gilgamesh is forced in to a marriage with Della , Enlil's daughter. Gilgamesh goes on to fight several battle. Ninshubar is a warrior who adopts a hairy man named Potta. Her adventures include getting captured and sold as a priest to lunar temple. SAhe ends up in Enki's prison and escapes to be united with Inanna.</p><p><br /></p><p>Enki in Sumerian mythology is a good god who helps out mankind. In this tale he is cruel and sadistic. He arranges the marriage of Inanna to Dumuzi his son. Enki captures Inanna mom and imprison's her. While at Enki's castle Ningal, Inanna's mom tells her t o go to Ereshkigal in the underworld. The rest of the story follows the mytholgy but with a different interpretation. She goes down to get her Mee fixed so she can challenge the evil Enki. But Ereshkigal bears her sister no love and you know the story. In the end it is Enki who has the means to save her. An sends Gilgamesh to get more Melam. In the end it will be Inanna vs Enki. Her Mee starts to work and she is ready to fight and assume control.</p><p><br /></p><p>The book effectivey tells an alternate story to the mythology.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy the blog</div>The Granovitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973854784125577396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612645380803557342.post-25161875271595701142024-01-22T13:12:00.000-08:002024-01-22T13:12:45.475-08:00The History of Soma<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUihZsNokipAG3J-oHL2FaFzXldejHZ86ijIJ0Fq_5USEaFGUzyOjKh8DujOKqgCLo1jMCtz6V3jEFvZycMxIL4ynTg5wpqnNhRzi09AeR4uid5LYxepfGviMsDIiHaI2vQuWo8KNRkauUgUkUit57BLGKPgaOS-d4M5bmN7pYsbOH8Uhg5rfjlkmLw74/s2048/D7F199B3-6785-47CC-B25E-C4462BEFC812.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUihZsNokipAG3J-oHL2FaFzXldejHZ86ijIJ0Fq_5USEaFGUzyOjKh8DujOKqgCLo1jMCtz6V3jEFvZycMxIL4ynTg5wpqnNhRzi09AeR4uid5LYxepfGviMsDIiHaI2vQuWo8KNRkauUgUkUit57BLGKPgaOS-d4M5bmN7pYsbOH8Uhg5rfjlkmLw74/s320/D7F199B3-6785-47CC-B25E-C4462BEFC812.png" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Cannabis and the Soma Solution</p><p>by Chris Bennet</p><p><br /></p><p>In India there was an elixir called Soma which brought one closer to the gods. In Iran it was called Haomas this too brought one closer to the gods. The big question is what is Soma or Haoma made of. There has lots of specuation. Author, Chris Bennett, makes the argument that the main ingredient was cannabis. Cannabis was introduced by to the world by the Scythians. At first they burned the seeds in an enclosed tent. Later they would graduate to smoking and then finally makin an elixir or drink out of it. The scythians went all over the place. They went to Europe, India, Iran and the use of cannabis spread with them. All the while making his argument that cannabis was the ingredient in Soma he goes through the history of how cannabis influenced many civiliations. Among the civilizations are Persia, India, Ancient Israel, Arabic world and european civilization. </p><p><br /></p><p>There has been debate that Soma or Haoma was made with Barsom, Ephedra, Cannabis and Amanita Muscaria. The author desribes the effect of these herbs or substances on the human being and then he describbes the effects of Marijuana. Over the years the original recipe for Haoma became lost. there may have been substitutions. Under Zoraster when he founded Zoroastrainism began to limit the use of cannabis to the elect priesthood. In the bible the annointing oil may have been cannabis. It was healing and could bring about visions. It was used for annointing as well. Jesus may have imbibed a cannabis mixture before he got crucified. Enough cannabis can make someone appear dead.</p><p><br /></p><p>buddha himself ate nothing but hemp seeds when fasting. His visions of nirvana may hve been induced by Marijuana. He was also called Saka which is the chinese word for Scythian. In Egypt it is not talked about too much. But it was used in medicine, food making and making clothes. In Greece there ar some mentions of it but not much. I might have been used to help induce vision. Dionysus was first a god of the bud before switching over to wine. In the Islamic world and India fakirs and mystical Islamic sects consumed cannabis to reach their ecstatic states. Hashishim are said to have used hashish to drug new recruits into thinking they had a taste of paradise. they got intoxicated then woke up in a pleasure garden. Of course no evidence of these pleasure garden.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cannabis has been used in spiritual system since time immemorial. Slowly the world is waking up to it's value.nabis and the Soma Solution</p><p> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy the blog</div>The Granovitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973854784125577396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612645380803557342.post-30951877670041410472023-12-29T03:03:00.000-08:002023-12-29T03:03:55.713-08:00Realm of the Annunaki<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEXdXtzJo8IXhiGiLs5Fo1LVdXAlIASMtefscrSNnRWu-Z_O-7KmrwM5bXQiZsDgLDO0_SAfXoECmiVpjIucL1jidXlOyZUD3fGVrEjKDDmDLs_jC8KLrJ7ApJMZVWBhb3iQRllYGKTtnr2aKNZi4-QEvCcb1i8sj4y7RDUvDaovfKG8tiJVZeyC8OlPk/s3264/IMG_20231229_030158_0.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEXdXtzJo8IXhiGiLs5Fo1LVdXAlIASMtefscrSNnRWu-Z_O-7KmrwM5bXQiZsDgLDO0_SAfXoECmiVpjIucL1jidXlOyZUD3fGVrEjKDDmDLs_jC8KLrJ7ApJMZVWBhb3iQRllYGKTtnr2aKNZi4-QEvCcb1i8sj4y7RDUvDaovfKG8tiJVZeyC8OlPk/s320/IMG_20231229_030158_0.heic" width="240" /></a></div><br />the Land of the Watchers<p></p><p>By Dr. Heather Lynn</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> In the ast few years there has been rather an intense amount of interest in the middle east. Skipping past the Gaza incident we look at American involvement in Iraq. After all Mesopotamia was the land o theAfter all Mesopotamia was our first civilization. It was the land of the watchers. The watchers werer the Annunaki or the ones who came from heaven. It was the first civilization ever and a giant leap from hunter gatherers. Hunter gatherers can build temple complexes and simple dwelling but they could not build complex cities with a modern buracracy that takes care of all society's needs. No one knows where the annunaki came from. The Sumerians left behind several documents in Cuneiform. One of them was the "Tablet of Destinies"</p><p><br /></p><p>The real reason why Iraq is of such interest is not because of the oil. There are other factors at play. Those factors are archaeology and documents. While ISIS was ravaging Syria and Iraq they also raided the museum and destroyed many ancient Mesopotamian artifacts. They knew what they were going after. They had expensive ear pieces and chose their target of destruction carefully. Why destroy this stuff and who sent these guys. The main interest is in the artifacts and documents. When people destroy archaeology you are cutting off humanity from it's origins. Why would they want to do that? There is something they do no want us to know.</p><p><br /></p><p>As relics are destroyed or bought out by private collectors our access to the truth is cut off. To learn the history we have to ask and be dependent on so called experts. There is something they are trying to hide what is it? Humanities origins? After all they suppressed the book of Enoch. Technology? If they were aliens wouoldn't you want it. then there are the kings lists. this is what everyone is after . The names of kings and how long they lived. Many billionaires believe they are descended from Ancient Mesopotamian families.</p><p><br /></p><p>Society is meant to serve people but it also controls them. Rulers set up institutions t promote their ideology. they tell us what we want. As Dr. Lynn went pursuing the bread crumbs she met retired professors nd UFO nuts. She was also followed by one of these rich families and taken to their head quarters with a bag over her head. In look forward t reading more of her works.</p><p> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy the blog</div>The Granovitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973854784125577396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612645380803557342.post-30580698570982605372023-12-07T10:01:00.000-08:002023-12-07T10:01:03.600-08:00A return to the Grisaverse<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHcyJ5nzHwrhXMnPSb5MkkZtYZSaCnkOYx_mmpjVHzG7y_hDEkqoLVAmx3YLI7thoDwrTXSy-5iqkeM2Ly0mEAjkwHXBrzg7b89nJzyK4IhwGBiaQADkInAqS2E_hxg3bcZl-oYtBpAzABEEXxDzk1yU44RtnpuLFb3m3T20GqQdSMIMg61IM52Piheh0/s2000/Screenshot_20231207-095952.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHcyJ5nzHwrhXMnPSb5MkkZtYZSaCnkOYx_mmpjVHzG7y_hDEkqoLVAmx3YLI7thoDwrTXSy-5iqkeM2Ly0mEAjkwHXBrzg7b89nJzyK4IhwGBiaQADkInAqS2E_hxg3bcZl-oYtBpAzABEEXxDzk1yU44RtnpuLFb3m3T20GqQdSMIMg61IM52Piheh0/s320/Screenshot_20231207-095952.png" width="192" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>King of Scars</p><p>Leigh Bardugo</p><p>Welcome to the Grisaverse! these days we are exposed to the monsterverse, DC Universe, Marvel universe . I think you get the picture. Now if you are familiar with the Netflix series "Shadow and Bone" you will find yourself very famiiar with this extension. Taking place after Sancta Alina defets the Darkling or the Starless one, King Nicolai is running the kingdom of Ravka. The kingdom is still beset by war, Fjerda eants to attack, Shu wants to attack and in different kingdoms the Grisha are being huntered down by Druxel . Grisha are witches and Druxell are witch hunters. The story starts off with a beast about to attack a young boy. Fortunately for the boy Zoya a general in the Ravkan army is there to save him. Yet, she does not kill the beast but rather leads him away. In the country of Fjerda they are rounding up Grisha. Nina has the job of getting them to Ravka safely. As Nina explores Fjerda she become aware that certain areas are contaminated with poison. The water is undrinkable. Nina also gets communication from the dead. The dead are urging her to investigate the source of contamination.</p><p><br /></p><p>The beast is in fact King Nicholai . When the Darkling was defeated he infected the king with part of his shadow. So every night the king must be chained up kind of like a werewolf to keep him from harming others and to keep his curse a secret. Ravka has no heir. He has got to get married. In Fjerda Nina investigates a factory where Grisha are being held like labrats forced to endure inhumane experiments. A drug that effects Grisha has been released out into the world. Parem is the name of the drug. It increases Grisha power manifold but it also wastes them away and kills them. Nina was hooked on that once before and beat the addiction. Not many cn beat the addiction. While spying on Fjerda they hole up in a nuns convent. They stay there and teach the language of Zemeni in exchange for food and lodging. The dead are calling out to Nina.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back in the kingdom more statecraft ensues. Deals for new wr machines . Spies watching enemy countries trying to get wind of new miliatry machines. For king Nicholai the beast within is getting harder to control. The Apparat much like the clergy in Medievil Europe wileds great power and sometimes goes against royalty. A new monk arrives on the scene with other monks following. They wish to magnify the Darkling into a saint. The idea is appalling everyone wants this moink dead except for king Nicholai. He has a plan, a plan to help rid him of the beast and make use of Yuri the monk. So they take a journey to the Fold inn order to do a ritual to rid him o this beast. In Fjerda after securing lodging , Nina and her company investigate the factory that is dumping water into Fjerda's rivers. Inside the factory they are experimenting on Grisha with a synthetic version of Parem. They are weponizing magical workers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Once in the fold both Zoya and Nicholai face sets of challenges and recieve some training as well. They will not leave the fold the same as when they went in there. Nina an company investigate the factory and attempt to rescue the imprisoned Grisha. A fine story to abn awesome series.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy the blog</div>The Granovitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973854784125577396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612645380803557342.post-72046227876247940142023-11-24T01:57:00.000-08:002023-11-24T01:57:12.516-08:00Surviving Prison Using High Magick<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUV4aIS9D0PhjZOZE38Y5ni42ghR1iDCJPIimClLnkOFizcv6cuM9EwPfSldCjCcfFQRVmEVnkUN5C5rA1bnZ3TnBllswsmmTvKtKQEy4Q3SFKIUMNy3kDBgv4UtJOoiRg4jomG20deAe-nQqRIAIKSYsZMZdMj3Gt07VzLmClJOzxLxAyMQ3Qkh9XUa4/s2048/9FE0FE0E-E18C-4885-B4F9-15458DD0F4E4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUV4aIS9D0PhjZOZE38Y5ni42ghR1iDCJPIimClLnkOFizcv6cuM9EwPfSldCjCcfFQRVmEVnkUN5C5rA1bnZ3TnBllswsmmTvKtKQEy4Q3SFKIUMNy3kDBgv4UtJOoiRg4jomG20deAe-nQqRIAIKSYsZMZdMj3Gt07VzLmClJOzxLxAyMQ3Qkh9XUa4/s320/9FE0FE0E-E18C-4885-B4F9-15458DD0F4E4.png" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> High Magick</p><p><br /></p><p>By Damien Echols</p><p><br /></p><p>Damein Echols was wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of three 8 year old boys in a Satanic ritual. For over twenty yers he languished in prison. Growing up in small town Arkansas , he had few options and parents who never saw beyond living from check to check. He had long hair an listened to heavy metal which made him an instant target. When he was accused of ritual murders he was not given a fair trial rather they wre just looking for way to lock him. In order to stay sane and ultimately get out out he relied on magick. As a youth he was drawn to magic and horror. He would go to the library and check out books.</p><p><br /></p><p>In prison you do not have access to magical tools like athames or wands. One has to make do with the ultimate tool they have which is themselves. The author goes through the different kinds of magick. He spells out the difference between high and low magick, natural magic and ritual and non ritual magic. The focus of his work is box breathing. Box breathing has the practitioner work with breathing in to the count of four, holding the breath to the count of four, relesing he breath to the count of four and finally holding your breath again to the count of four. This is a spiritual exercsise unto itself. It also forms the basis for several other meditations as well. One aura strengthening exercise has the practitioner breath in energy and then exhale it out onto their aura, Another exercsie has the practitioner focus on different seasons during the different breathing cycles. there are lunar and solar meditations as well focusing on differnt solar and lunar phases in sync with breathing cycles.</p><p><br /></p><p>the most important exercises he renders are the Lesser Pentagram banishing Ritual and the Middle pillar meditation. Both are based on ancient kabbalistic practices. Doing these alone for one year straight balances out the aura, cleans up the energy and can give one spiritual power similiar to being intitiated into the inner ring of the Golden Dawn. there are also some basic straight forward techniqes on raising enrgy and then programing it into a talisman or amulet.</p><p><br /></p><p>The book is short an sweet and gets right to the point. While most book on Ceremonial Magick can be daunting this books strips it down to the bare bones so the practitioner can get working on it.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy the blog</div>The Granovitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973854784125577396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612645380803557342.post-38707895604381050372023-11-14T05:14:00.000-08:002023-11-14T05:14:04.204-08:00Becoming a Word Witch<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpE_LboGIvnJ7Pq3BEz2YCv5w94hzVDa55B58YuMn2q0TqjbbgKMShpwzXBXPvlclhHQSecCYXBgvfZxBPf1H8ypxBCXQjNoDq6O4a7i7aYTTlzYpXpuQfw9eDQz-amKk4UxF0WysnbheaggRgGMmVGf5Lf_GGCcc0-TPdM1T7WYgz8waYIuH-0yGuWLE/s2000/Screenshot_20231114-051043.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpE_LboGIvnJ7Pq3BEz2YCv5w94hzVDa55B58YuMn2q0TqjbbgKMShpwzXBXPvlclhHQSecCYXBgvfZxBPf1H8ypxBCXQjNoDq6O4a7i7aYTTlzYpXpuQfw9eDQz-amKk4UxF0WysnbheaggRgGMmVGf5Lf_GGCcc0-TPdM1T7WYgz8waYIuH-0yGuWLE/s320/Screenshot_20231114-051043.png" width="192" /></a></div><br />The Magical Writing Grimoire<p></p><p>By Lisa Marie Basil</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the most potent tools a witch has are his or her words. Writing and more in particuar poetry or journaling can help one take control of their narrative and life. It lets you own your lifestory. The journal can be your quiet place , your respite from a crazy world. Most witches would want to use writing in order to help with manifestation but it is also helpful in healing from trauma and it can be helpful in moving through a difficult period in our life. It can help us acheive mindfulness. Writers use slogan, mantras and affirmations all the time as do witches but magical workers use sigils as well. The tools for the word witch are simple, your pen and paper, other tools are optional.afterall not all witches have access to expensive tools and that should never be a requirement.</p><p><br /></p><p>What exactly are sigils? They were first popularized by Austin Osman Spare. One could write out there intention for example "It is my well to become more productive" Every repeating letter is crossed out. The remaining letters are fashioned into a design and the design could be burned or destroyed. It could also be turned into artwork an worn to attract more energy. Writing is also used to achieve mindfulness. This mindfulness is like being aware of everything that is happening in the moment. When your thought rise up your just going to recognize a thought and let them run their course. This enriches living and makes one more effective and more productive. Writing can also be used to help the disenfrachised. Especially with the internet an onlne forums our words can have a real strong impact and we can use that impact to create a loving environment or a bitter hateful one. We can support business of the under represented by not only frequenting their shop but also by writing very positive reviews fo the business.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dream journaling is another effective use of writing. Constantly our dreams are trying to deliver us messages. Writing them down or making poems out of them can help us get the message an understand the meaning. Hypnos is the lord o dreams. He dwells with the poppies in the underworld. He can pull us into dreams aas they are liminal, between life and death. Things that are holy to hypnos are amethyst crystal, Valerian root, mugwort an stuff like stars an the moon. One can also write down a dream intention of what they want to dream about. There are other methods of divination.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dreams and tarot card are not the only forms of divination out there. Bibliomancy is another form. This means consulting a book and asking a question. You open the book to the age and line an your answer is right there. Of course you may need a little creativity. You can also put the book on it's spine and let it fall open to a given page. Another method I like is to place a card randomly in a book and se what comes up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Writing can be used to craft your own rituals, poems to the gods etc. Writing can help release us from pain and abusive situations in the past. It helps us to let go. If you are an intuitive magic worker who is free spirited then this book is for you. Word smithing is a manifestation of free spirit as is dancing. Dancing puts us into ecstacy and connection with the gods. Use this book in good health.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy the blog</div>The Granovitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973854784125577396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612645380803557342.post-49253779799806562762023-11-12T03:18:00.000-08:002023-11-12T03:18:44.710-08:00Reflections of an Arab Jew<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKtv8ON2BYgd60SXp_iSxMClBsF5Aqf1bcYIhB1TZR48AdZLSzxCOyo3SHbsjMMMx4z1sV4D7ktsQFpkRc5DuJN8R6cS2mIYdRW4FnSwA7TNhHr5Yl3umRAoSha9s46hkGsKiRmFZoAxmbnuU_l3GadzL9I3UGbBi3hD6RJD-wbAA3N12Ul5kfmdfzPYk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKtv8ON2BYgd60SXp_iSxMClBsF5Aqf1bcYIhB1TZR48AdZLSzxCOyo3SHbsjMMMx4z1sV4D7ktsQFpkRc5DuJN8R6cS2mIYdRW4FnSwA7TNhHr5Yl3umRAoSha9s46hkGsKiRmFZoAxmbnuU_l3GadzL9I3UGbBi3hD6RJD-wbAA3N12Ul5kfmdfzPYk" width="240" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>When We Were Arabs </p><p>By Massoud Hayoun</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Lately I have been reading memoirs about Jews who fled or left Arab countries with little more than their lives. Having fled the countries they lived in for many years these Jews left behind property, real esate and money. this story is a bit different. Massoud is a Jewish man of Middle Eastern descent. He describes himself as Jewish Arab. Being Arab and being jewish are equal parts of his identity. He mostly tells teh story of his grandfather Oscar and his grandmother Dida. Oscar was Morrocan on his father's side and Egyptian on his mother's side. His Mother was Tunisian. Massoud culls his information from his grandfathers three Costco notebook and from a biography of his grandmother. He has fond memories of his Oscar tryin to teach him Arabic on Sunday's. Of listening to the classic arabic songsters and watching the old Egyptian cinema. Then there were the stories of their youth in those countries.</p><p><br /></p><p>Remember that their growing up in an Arab country they were occupied by Ottoman powers, British and the French. In their countries they were considered Arab whether their religion was Judaism, Christianity or Islam. One never asked what faith you were as everyone was Arab back then. They would even go to each other's celebrations. their origin stories did not hearken back to Israel of the first and second temple period rather the stories carry back to what Middle Eastern region their family hailed from. The author discusses some possible convert origins for differnt Middle eastern jewish communities. Either way they were part and parcel of the countries they lived in.</p><p><br /></p><p>things hen began to change with the coming o European powers. First it was he French and they came in and colonized Algeria and Tunis. their claim was to make things better for he natives but in fac they tended to look down on indigenous culture and their education system sought t inculcate that. The French imediately set up school system with the intention of cementing French culture and ways in the country's youth. Soon you had youth dressing and looking like the French an looking down on the ways of their elders. These yougsters knew French history but not the history of their own country. THe Jews were taught to be French and that they were unique to everyother Jewish community. The French saw the Jews as instruments for their own colonial designs. Classic divide and conquer. It would isolate the Jews from each other and their neighbors.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the Arab countries the more like the colonizer you were the higher class you were. Europeans did not mix with the locals but lived in their own neighbohood. Class was stratified. The Alliance Israelite schools taught a secular identity but one that also looked down on their middle eastern background. Their stress was that the Jews were a nation seperate from the others. This would pave the way for Zionism. The French schools also indoctrinated the youth against the British when they had control over Egypt. Often times Jews were seen as being connected with the occupying powers. If this would cause a division political Zionism would expand that breach even further.</p><p><br /></p><p>Zionism in the author's opinion was aimed at divesting Arab land from the Palestinians. This angered many Arabs and caused many of the to turn against their Jewish neighbors. The Jews did not necesarily side with Zionism. Many of the wealthy sought to distance themselves from it. Mainly the poorer jewish Arabs were drawn to it. The author deplores some of the the tactics used by zionist agent to lure Jews to Palestine. He often called it human tafficking. Middle Eastern Jews were often used for menial labor jobs despite being well educated. Jobs the white Ashkenazi Jews would not do. The Zionist were deceptive. they wanted an Ashkenazi state with Middle Eastern Jews as a labor source.</p><p><br /></p><p>Upon arrival to Palestine/Israel these Jewish Arabs who were well educated as much so as their Ashkenazi counterparts were given tin shacks and makeshift tents while the European jews were given houses or apartment right away. Many Jewish Arabs were sprayed wit DDt. While understandable to concentration camp victims not needed for Arab jews. the Zionist education system denigrated their arab background and made them look down on themselves. There was lots of violence against Arab Jews as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>I found this memor enlightening. The colonialism divorce the Arab Jews from their Arab identity both on the European front and the Zionist front. It shows you that no one in this conflict is entirely clean. Yet i cannot agree with him calling Israel occupied Palestine, nor do i think that a two state solution is still viable. While he focused on the wrongs of Zionism I feel that he left out the injustices suffered by Jews in Arab land over the years. It was second class citizenship. Prior to those golden years life could be harsh for Jews in Arab lands. Many Jews were displaced from Arab countries an left behind land, money and property and I wonder if they will get it back. I doubt it. The Palestinians have responded to Israeli peace overtures with rockets and suicide bombers. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yet on the other hand Jewish Arabs who find the terms Mizrachi and Sephardic misleading and degrading have not had a good time in Israel. Mizrachi means east but east of where. Morroco is not east of Poland and the term Sephardic denotes Jews who were exiled from Spain. two terms that do not apply the Jewish Arabs. Jewish Arabs are subject to harrasment due to their skin color. The Yemenite Jews ad their babies stolen fro them. Israel was not so good to them either.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy the blog</div>The Granovitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973854784125577396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612645380803557342.post-32897122289767718022023-11-07T04:32:00.001-08:002023-11-07T04:32:36.443-08:00The Mesopotamian Origins of Hebrew Myth<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlcKjd8I6su6Z8ZgC_Ago_icFmN7bQhdK_X-FlNemhU-vxjZ3F1MnyDz76EHbqQI2ss7Ak-Km9TG_cdsuoyvs_HMOCUn2d4EtyasQjfVMuWD5mXqk5VAxVFY6QrwScPm0KGFCuFTcnA0G5l-c3fXc-8V2AbJrGd3GmdotpjOczAjJu0iVcNjSvBBsmitA/s2048/FA0BA69B-F635-42D6-9BAB-83D0E6F28A47.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlcKjd8I6su6Z8ZgC_Ago_icFmN7bQhdK_X-FlNemhU-vxjZ3F1MnyDz76EHbqQI2ss7Ak-Km9TG_cdsuoyvs_HMOCUn2d4EtyasQjfVMuWD5mXqk5VAxVFY6QrwScPm0KGFCuFTcnA0G5l-c3fXc-8V2AbJrGd3GmdotpjOczAjJu0iVcNjSvBBsmitA/s320/FA0BA69B-F635-42D6-9BAB-83D0E6F28A47.png" width="240" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">The Ark Before Noah <o:p></o:p></p><p><!--StartFragment-->
<!--EndFragment--></p><p class="MsoNormal">By Irving Finkel<o:p></o:p></p><!--StartFragment-->
<p class="MsoNormal">We are all familiar with the story of Noah’s Ark. The world
sins so God decides to punish the world with a huge flood that covers the
world. Noah is the only righteous person and so God spares Noah and his family
by instructing them to build an ark and take a bunch of animals to save them as
well. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are some contradictions to
the story for example in one instance god tells Noah to take a pair of animals
on the ark. In another he is told to take 7 pairs of clean animals and a pair
of unclean animals. Kind of strange if it all came from God. In fact, I did not
but rather was based on an older tale, a Mesopotamian tale or myth.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the Sumerian version of things Noah is called Utnapishtim
and he was sort of like a king albeit a righteous one. The people on the planet
are far too noisy so the gods decide wipe them out with a flood. Utnapishtim
survives. This tale is included in the epic of Gilgamesh. In other Babylonian
version and Assyrian versions, the hero is called Atrahasis. There are different
versions of the story going around as is with all stories and they can change
with each telling.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">How did this tale with changed names enter itself into the Old
Testament. Assuming that there was a huge flood or at least a flood that impacted
that region it was well known to the Sumerians. Abraham the first Hebrew or Jew
was from Mesopotamia. A big debate as to whether he was Aramean or Sumerian. He
might have learned the flood story from his Sumerian upbringing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Another theory is that when the Judeans were brought into exile,
they were totally shell shocked by being conquered then bought to a more
advanced culture. They were assimilated into the Babylonian culture. The
Ancient Mesopotamians invented cuneiform writing and it was a special honor to
be inducted into a scribal school. Many Judean were inducted. It was from there
that they learned the flood myth. Since their mythology might have been lacking
some elements, they borrowed and made it their own. There are other elements
like the Assyrian king Sargon who was born of a priestess and then cast into
the river in a small basket. Sound familiar? Remember Moses going on to Mount
Sinai and getting the ten commandments well Hammurabi went up to a Mountain and
received the law from the sun god Shamash.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There is a question as to what the water vessel used looked
like. Looking at Mesopotamian society and how it is placed on the river it can
be expected that they had to get around somewhat by boat and they had to
experience periodic flooding. There are two types of craft. One is a round
craft made of reed and bitumen and it is water proof. Some versions of the
story have it as a craft with one level and another has it as a craft with
multiple levels. The other version is a boat like structure that Noah used.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There has been some speculation as to where the ark landed.
In the Bible we have been trained to think that the Ark landed on Mount Ararat.
In fact the original legend says they landed in the mountain of Urartu. Uartu
was a kingdom to the North of Mesopotamia. But there are other legends that
place the mountain elsewhere. Assyrian legend which held sway briefly believed
that the mountain was Mount Nizar which is in Assyrian territory and part of
the Zagros Mountains. Islamic tradition and Nestorian tradition placed it on
Mount judi Dar. It held sway for the longest but now everyone settle on Ararat.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<!--EndFragment--><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy the blog</div>The Granovitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973854784125577396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612645380803557342.post-74981821660224388742023-10-30T11:27:00.000-07:002023-10-30T11:27:01.006-07:00The Witch of Blacksprings<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvTkJNfQFmpwQc4OXuAJV345hA16QuGxceBQ2k1YU-WS-i1msFXHozBdUo7vi6nzQiizL9WC_5dun5OKiucHOgQxZFVEUnT-Nv-UgfwDOM9nsHTy8Alhrb1wwfBPlLenmEHXz9_i3c6Jv3oVo8sN8CRIycAst6_TmS6Gqym1KqzZJgWfHJdhPYwQfQ2e4/s2000/Screenshot_20231030-112445.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvTkJNfQFmpwQc4OXuAJV345hA16QuGxceBQ2k1YU-WS-i1msFXHozBdUo7vi6nzQiizL9WC_5dun5OKiucHOgQxZFVEUnT-Nv-UgfwDOM9nsHTy8Alhrb1wwfBPlLenmEHXz9_i3c6Jv3oVo8sN8CRIycAst6_TmS6Gqym1KqzZJgWfHJdhPYwQfQ2e4/s320/Screenshot_20231030-112445.png" width="192" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>HEX</p><p>By Thomas Olde Heuvelt</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> The only evil out there is not witches, vampires or other monsters. The worst kind of evil is generated from humans themselves. In the town of Black Spring there exists a witch and a curse. Or rather the ghost of a witch. A ghost that can become flesh and blood. The town curse is that once you decide to become a resident of that town that is it you are stuck there forever. Leaving the town for any period of time can lead to suicidal thoughts. These thoughts are fatal.</p><p>Katherine was a lone woman who lived out in the woods when Black Spring was a Dutch town. She had two children and one died. Then the dead child came back to life. Towns people freak out so they make her kills the child that was revived and she gets burned at the stake. For years she haunts the settlement. Eventually it becomes depopulated and another British town rises up in it’s place. The British soldiers see her ghost and they get the bright idea to sew her lips and eyes shut. Eventually the British settlement fades and Black Spring pops up. Still haunted by the witch.</p><p>Leap into the modern day and the town of Black Spring is still dealing with the neighborhood witch. Hex is the in town organization tasked with handling the witch problem. Surveilance cameras are set up all over town. If she appears in the middle of no where local towns people make an effort to hide her so outsiders do no see. Under no circumstances are people to bother or try to interact with the witch. There is an app that is meant to track the appearances of the witch.</p><p>Messing with the witch is bad news . She causes death, destruction and all around mayhem. Back in 1961 the military wanted to cut the stitches of her eyes. That did not end well. Several people died. There are people in town who do not follow the rules laid down by Hex. You have Griselda who makes food sacrifices to the ghost. Several of the twon boys get it into their head that they want to mess with the witch.</p><p>A couple times they throw stones at her, injure her with sharp weapons and turn a dog onto her. This sets into motion a series of events that will lead to a fiery end. Get ready for chaos. The book is somewhat chilling but suffused with a certain bent of humor that makes what would be very scare to read a down right entertaining read. </p><p>The real monsters are the towns people who tortured and killed the young Katherine. The ghost only comes back after it has been wronged. The ghost was also wronged by British colonists who sewed her mouth shut. But in reality Katherine is more humorous than dangerous. Mostly she shows up unexpectedly and people have to find a way to hide her. She is a comical nuisance.</p><p>Jaydon who is Griselda’s son of somewhat rebellious. He and a group of his friend are angry that they are stuck in this town for life thanks to a witch. The anger caused him to torture the ghost of the witch in a frightening way. Tyler tries to stop them. Jaydon still manages to sic Tyler’s dog on the ghost. Tylers dog dies. He gets punished as well. You would think because he tried to save her that he would be saved. But good and bad pay alike.</p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy the blog</div>The Granovitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973854784125577396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612645380803557342.post-61289582044067938122023-10-23T12:31:00.004-07:002023-10-23T13:23:45.445-07:00Entrepreneurial Jeet Kune Do<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi18i2DVpgZQEjq6ACy4RcW_2AXxHT7PWFRleZx7aJPsqKhJzozRWzRrMujOXYzO_Duxzwq-ExEVIQbL7vh3TbNuG8tNbwOR3IDO8mO5sBui_9uJL0HmW81vRmWP0yPHkkwYdsesstq1juwI86JS8ZQJS_L9UxFWUSeRVXmWgahyphenhyphenMOVbdAgWW31Vzf-r04/s2079/034F7733-3BE3-4603-9861-93673C776047.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2079" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi18i2DVpgZQEjq6ACy4RcW_2AXxHT7PWFRleZx7aJPsqKhJzozRWzRrMujOXYzO_Duxzwq-ExEVIQbL7vh3TbNuG8tNbwOR3IDO8mO5sBui_9uJL0HmW81vRmWP0yPHkkwYdsesstq1juwI86JS8ZQJS_L9UxFWUSeRVXmWgahyphenhyphenMOVbdAgWW31Vzf-r04/s320/034F7733-3BE3-4603-9861-93673C776047.png" width="148" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">The Bruce Lee Code</span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">By Thomas Lee</span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> </span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">Among the greatest of </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">entrepreneurs</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> certain name have a way of standing out. Steve Jobs, Bill Gate, Elon </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">Musk</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> and several others. One of the best known who had an entrepreneurial spirit was Bruce Lee. Now Bruce was an icon a hero that everyone looked up to. </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">Know</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> for his martial arts prowess and chiseled </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">physique but little do people know that he was an entrepreneur. Bruce had big </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">plans .</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> He wanted to combine the east and the west and show everyone the good parts about Chinese culture. His way to do that involved show casing his Kung Fu skills.</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> His original plan was to </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">open up</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> a string of kung fu schools. When Bruce found that he would reach more people with the cinema that is the route he took. His role as Cato in the Green Hornet propelled him to fame and his character was the main item of the show. People liked Cato. After that role was finished Bruce did not have any roles. Being flexible and brave he went to Hong </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">kong</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> started his own production company and made several movies. Later he had a stronger </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">bargaining </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">.</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> One could say that if he had plans on opening schools and then </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">later</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> he opened his own production company that he was pretty entrepreneurial.</span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">When compared to someone like Steve Jobs he was an innovator. Bruce took what was there and made it simpler. Easier to use. If anyone remembers using computer or technologies before Apple it was clunky and difficult. Now Apple products are one of the easiest to use and other tech companies have copied this approach. Bruce Lee also made things simpler. He hated forms and patterns and useless movement that cluttered up the martial arts. He wanted to make it more efficient and useful </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">for combat</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">. Using Wing Chun as a basis he studied more fighting </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">styles</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> and he took what was useful and discarded the rest. He formulated his own martial art called </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">JeeT</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> Kune Do.</span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">Not only did Bruce study martial arts and exercise routines but he was learning about eastern and western philosophy. He also studied camera angles and script writing. A good entrepreneur is always curious and learning new things because when you start your own business you must do everything yourself. If Bruce wanted to realize his vision of introducing kung fu and his philosophy to world he would have to do more than just act. Bruce had to write his own scripts, choreograph fight </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">scenes</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> and learn the basic of production.</span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">Hollywood back in Bruce’s time was very racist. Chinese or Asian actors had limited roles. Often times when certain characters were Asian in a </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">movie</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> they would often cast a white person to that role. Bruce himself was paid the price of a stuntman for his role as Cato in the Green Hornet. He had fewer spoken lines then his Caucasian counter parts. Bruce knew this racism was </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">wrong</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> but he had and enlightened outlook on it.</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> It was wrong but he understood their reluctance and said that if an American came to Hong Kong he might experience the same thing. This impacted Bruce in a lot of ways.</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> First </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">off</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> he taught Kung Fu to all nationalities something that the Chinese masters frowned upon at first. The second is that he reflected that sense of discrimination in his films. The Chinese Connection showed how Chinese and dogs were not allowed in a park. In Enter the Dragon you have an African American being pushed around by cops. </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">Finally</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> Bruce was like water. He was flexible. He knew America was a closed </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">market</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> so he went to Honk </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">kong</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">.</span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">No nuggets here just the gist. </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">Gonna</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">have to</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> read the book and pull out the nuggets yourself.</span></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy the blog</div>The Granovitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973854784125577396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612645380803557342.post-1289257519361463682023-10-17T05:40:00.001-07:002023-10-17T05:40:15.774-07:00When Fire Says Be Like Water. Shannon Lee Renders the Teaching o Bruce Lee<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIvn2-YEuKkThNSy1XJTXds2Y89V64jhV_TNXpdwT4U9GP9-i_8YEcjU64Jid6N13KDutf8N1Vnm3FzS5VgfMbTdQ-XHKPQaPnCCKUcar3qlqGeHYWVr8qnvzCZChdiDEmIvw8fnFe_v2N0vjvr04L_nopOHpyBKLfUwoEHjIvOwhuAUnuFsWSs1VxGso/s2048/17625686-E766-4C10-B6C1-C9AAC3ECCE9A.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIvn2-YEuKkThNSy1XJTXds2Y89V64jhV_TNXpdwT4U9GP9-i_8YEcjU64Jid6N13KDutf8N1Vnm3FzS5VgfMbTdQ-XHKPQaPnCCKUcar3qlqGeHYWVr8qnvzCZChdiDEmIvw8fnFe_v2N0vjvr04L_nopOHpyBKLfUwoEHjIvOwhuAUnuFsWSs1VxGso/s320/17625686-E766-4C10-B6C1-C9AAC3ECCE9A.png" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> Be Water My Friend.</p><!--StartFragment-->
<p class="MsoNormal">Be like water was one of Bruce Lee’s most famous teachings. However,
Bruce Lee himself was in many ways like fire. He was burning with intensity and
desire. To be himself he had to make his mark an he pursued it relentlessly. As
a youth he was hot tempered and often found himself getting into scraps. To be
the best he sometimes sought to always out do his opponent. It would cause his
Wing Chun sifu to kick him out for a week so he could cool off and improve his
ways.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bruce took a boat and went out into the Honk Kong Sea. It
was there that he punched and grasped a the water. From that point on he made a
stunning realization. No matter how he grabbed at the water or punched at it ,
the water remained the same. Water was formless and adaptable. Being formless
it could assume any form. Being adaptable if the river was on it’s way to the
sea and an obstacle was placed in it’s path it would either go aound, move it
away or go over it. Water is free to do that.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Shannon lost her father at a very young age. It impacted her
greatly. Her brother Brandon died in the 90’s making a film called the crow. The
grief was overwhelming and from her father’s words, martial arts training and
therapy she was able to work though it. The book elucidates Bruce’s way,
applying the concept of jeet Kune Do to everyday life.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What might be more amazing is that Bruce Lee was not only a
martial artist and an actor but more importantly he was a philosopher who learned
from everything. What is surprising is that he read several self help books and
made use of such tools as affirmations, suggestions and making symbols of his
growth periods.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Affirmations can be simple as I am a generous person. Of
course Bruce had his own and he wrote them down in places to help remind himself
of them. He believed in cultivating the mind and he subconscious. He made a
symbol of a grave stone. It symbolized the death of rigid thinking and becoming
a free thinker. He did not believe in being bound by a tradition or listening
blindly to a master of sorts. He believed you should do your own research. He
believed in learning from everything in order to be the best martial artist.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After a fight in Long Beach at 1964 Karate tournament Bruce
Lee defeated a challenger. He should have been elated. Yet he was distraught. He
found that he was out of breath and did like a million things wrong. He worked
on them. He incorporated breath work, cross training, weights. In his martial
arts adding to his Wing Chun he incorporated boxing moves, fencing moves and different
forms of footwork.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">While not a praticing Buddhist or taosist he learned from those
philosophies as well. Bruce lee had an ultimate dream and like all successful
people he realized it by never giving up. He approached it with enthusiasm and
being like water when he experienced a set back he just kept on going and he
went around the obstacle.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Too much to share in this book for a petty review. Buy the
book you will be glad you did. <o:p></o:p></p>
<!--EndFragment--><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy the blog</div>The Granovitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973854784125577396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612645380803557342.post-36370801748546799692023-10-03T05:01:00.000-07:002023-10-03T05:01:02.418-07:00Haunted Glimpse into Delhi<p><br /></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-42b6f042-7fff-0e75-1fd2-d3dbc18cf831"><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-dfc7b6e1-7fff-b0b3-5913-1b9283d97945"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDAmSGkkMEw6jhYhhTkQS-H2DRmlXuBr-ElAOEMqMHjtEZE0XMEV89Ft2EtW8e0JbGLk1oVcOZRXkkEOx23Tn4oIS7j3tPyN0hiIyuAEcfw59ou3J7PeVhSxICPqdrEsY_X9P5hn2BurGKWjV5gs3DvlIuVLKvHz3fNgI05ASs1QxfaV9sxu54PNV1Yrg/s2000/Screenshot_20231003-045858.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDAmSGkkMEw6jhYhhTkQS-H2DRmlXuBr-ElAOEMqMHjtEZE0XMEV89Ft2EtW8e0JbGLk1oVcOZRXkkEOx23Tn4oIS7j3tPyN0hiIyuAEcfw59ou3J7PeVhSxICPqdrEsY_X9P5hn2BurGKWjV5gs3DvlIuVLKvHz3fNgI05ASs1QxfaV9sxu54PNV1Yrg/s320/Screenshot_20231003-045858.png" width="192" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Haunting of Delhi City</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">By: Jhatin Basin</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Delhi city is a city filled with many ghost and many broken dreams. Many of the residents live in slums, not even houses but rather bed roles and tents. Most of the people are beggars who make their livin by either begging or selling little cheap souvenirs. Authorities are indifferent to the plight of the street people. Delhi city also has the filthy rich who are sometimes more affected then the poor people.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Delhi city was built by both the British and the Indian authorities by dispossessing villagers and relocating them or forcing them to become begar. In one particular story a young woman enter the cosmetic industry and becomes uber rich. One day she finds that all her dreams are becoming true as soon as she makes the wish. After a bit this ability becomes frightening. After she moves into her childhood home in a very ritzy neighborhood. When they leave the ghost of an old childhood friend reveals herself and tells her that she granted all wishes because she wanted her as a childhood friend. I will not spoil the ending.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Beggars are not all that innocent and good hearted. In one story there is an uncle beggar who looks after all the street urchins. One by one though they are led somewhere to their death. After three or four of these beggars dies it is revealed that the uncle is behind it. After all it was the beggar that murdered his family.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Stories of love and betrayal are common staple in India much like they are in Arabia. A daughter falls in love with a man that her father disapproves of. So inn order to avoid shame he has the daughter and the lover murdered. His guilt consumes him as he goes through lfe making life like puppets of his daughter. He also goes on a killing spree to make young people about to get married rather miserable by kiling the groom.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Certain areas are always sacred and sometimes by the mentally ill. There is a spot by the metro wheere people leave candies and snacks for a man and his children. Someone makes the mistake of smoking by the tree and the gentleman gets haunted for the evening. The story behind the children is that they were murdered by their mentally ill mother.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Overall haunting tales with sometimes surprise an ironic endings. Enjoy your glimpse into India.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy the blog</div>The Granovitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973854784125577396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612645380803557342.post-60573068355863932232023-09-21T10:15:00.001-07:002023-09-21T10:18:28.223-07:00Maoshan School of Taoist Magic<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3kMiO5BTtzS8uZUDwLwKu-UDqkf9XiL9abxgguEfOF2-jlFHfOTKR0wpe5_AQFrBhSdmgjmV9IIr8oyAGlQOBx4fqogkKasZ-KYff-9eY2NKq_rXHwj3sA8GYWtt5MQvqTnPahu1XQAovHoGkR7ppaDxKh9JdWQImX6alvOM4ankFaXhMZwpIQzFi_1Y/s2048/98F42888-9F18-46BA-A4CB-7C14633B83E8.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3kMiO5BTtzS8uZUDwLwKu-UDqkf9XiL9abxgguEfOF2-jlFHfOTKR0wpe5_AQFrBhSdmgjmV9IIr8oyAGlQOBx4fqogkKasZ-KYff-9eY2NKq_rXHwj3sA8GYWtt5MQvqTnPahu1XQAovHoGkR7ppaDxKh9JdWQImX6alvOM4ankFaXhMZwpIQzFi_1Y/s320/98F42888-9F18-46BA-A4CB-7C14633B83E8.png" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Practical Chinese Magic</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">By Jason Read<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have long been interested in far eastern spirituality and
martial arts and I have been interested in magic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My main beef with any magical system is that
it is too complicated. I mean like if I want to do a money spell, it would be
like never mind easier to spruce up my suit , dust off my resume and go job
hunting. I found Chinese magic to be complicated. What is so difficult are the
longevity of ritual and the hand mudra’s all that stuff is hard to understand.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The school of magic this gentleman works with is the Taosist
Maoshan school. Often times magic was separate from the official religion of
Taoism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not every Taoist subscribes to
magic. Certain magics could be taught in the temple. Most magic though was kind
of informal folk magic practiced by the common people as opposed to high ritual
in the temple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are 4-5 other
schools of Taoist magic. It must be noted that Maoshan magic preceded the
oncoming of Taoism. Taoism and Taoist magic have absorbed element from Buddhism
that came from India. As the Chinese migrated to different lands, they took
their magic with them. The magic took on the local flavor of where the people
migrated to.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Taosism and Taosist magic operate on the principle of Chi or
bodily energy. Our bodies produce energy that travels through meridians on our
body. Energy can be directed and stored. There are objects meant for storing
chi so that it can be used later. Another aspect of Chinese magic is fu
talismans. Artists who make these are called Fulus. The amulet or talisman can
be used for repelling evil or attracting wealth or love.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Much like western magic there is reverence for the ancestors
and gods. Ancestors can be biological, or they can be ancestors of the magical
school, otherwise known as lineage. As in Western Magic offering to the gods
and ancestors are given. The Chinese have gold money which is burned and given
to the gods. There is also red money that is burned to the ancestors. This
gives the ancestor money to spend in the afterlife which is pretty like western
tradition. Also, like western magic tradition there is spirit flight.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Similar to the witches sabbat Taoist do some meditation that
transports them to a mountain for a party or spiritual experience. Wudang Mountain
is the most famous as it has a Taoist monastery. The Taoist do not ingest any
chemicals or anoint themselves with flying ointment.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In Taoism there are also methods of divination. Most notable
is the I-ching. The querent throws the bague or tangrams to get a reading. The different
bagua means different things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are
checking out different magical systems, then give this book a read. Honestly
though I do like the idea of burning fake money to a deity or ancestor. Fu talisman
are something to investigate.<o:p></o:p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy the blog</div>The Granovitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973854784125577396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612645380803557342.post-84913899462679615492023-09-17T01:12:00.002-07:002023-09-17T01:12:30.933-07:00History of a Popular Occult Movement <p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: gainsboro; font-size: 23px;">From the years 1981 to 1991 musician Genesis Breyer P-Orridge founded the Temple of Psychick Yourh. It was meant to last only 10 years. The Temple’s purpose was so help,people wake up and shake off the shackles society has put us in. Their main vehicle for reaching this enlightenment was the use of Magick, Art, Meditstion and music. With Magick they took a Chaos Magick approach which was to demystify and make those oh so secret magical techniques available to all.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: gainsboro; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.4px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: gainsboro; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">The organizTion was inspired by the artistic magical techniques of Austin Osman Spare. The most notable and widely practiced technique was that of the sigil. The sigil is made by first writing out your statement of Magical intent then going through and crossing out all the repeating letters. Those letter are then arranged into a design. Finally the design is charged then destroyed.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: gainsboro; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.4px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: gainsboro; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Their headquarters in Britain used to have it’s members make sigil on the 23 rd hour of the 23. Day of the month. The sigil were usually magic aimed at self improvement . There was another technique called the cut up technique where in everything is collages from all things going on during the moment. The technique was developed by William Burroughs on Brian Gysin.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: gainsboro; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.4px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: gainsboro; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">The Temple also was involved in social change. Using magic and protests they managed to close down the Dolphinarium in Britain. The place was known for its inhuman treatment of dolphins. They also use music, and videos to promote change.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: gainsboro; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.4px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: gainsboro; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">But things did not go well for the author. Often times magical orders were accused of ritual abuse of young children and satanism . This was also happening during the Satanic Panic.This lead to Scotland Yard raiding his home and confiscating his belonging. The author lived in exile in Kathmandu helping a Tibetan refugees. Afterward he would return to America.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: gainsboro; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.4px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: gainsboro; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">After the folding of the Temple there were legal issues as to using the name and the trademark cross. Incredible adventure.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy the blog</div>The Granovitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973854784125577396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612645380803557342.post-55845074572936671492023-09-07T05:39:00.000-07:002023-09-07T05:39:15.621-07:00Alien Origins of the Watchers<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM_pKjDtXvOyhd1YDlkDL_im1qR_qlVaVkDCsBoFVps3Q0Qc0-1nuZ3ZTC4Zxq8nQS9unNk8m010454XFI9tAo8X0DTNnYT_BBL07Pc8h4BykmDZwha2qgUhITMcaOGqUwxWsNkMnNcGPVfXEgUQgelx5rNEZbul-MMf0OReOx0-o-QgN7m7kgsY0dN8E/s2048/3ADD60C1-B02B-4C00-BAAA-C06D8675B736.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM_pKjDtXvOyhd1YDlkDL_im1qR_qlVaVkDCsBoFVps3Q0Qc0-1nuZ3ZTC4Zxq8nQS9unNk8m010454XFI9tAo8X0DTNnYT_BBL07Pc8h4BykmDZwha2qgUhITMcaOGqUwxWsNkMnNcGPVfXEgUQgelx5rNEZbul-MMf0OReOx0-o-QgN7m7kgsY0dN8E/s320/3ADD60C1-B02B-4C00-BAAA-C06D8675B736.png" width="240" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The Rise and Fall of the Nephilim: The Untold Story of Fallen Angels</span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">By Scott Alan Roberts</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px;">The book of Enoch which elucidates the story of to hundred angels descending to earth in order to mate with human women and teach mankind. The angels mate with mankind and create a hybrid beings called Nephilim or fallen ones. These hybrids were the demigods and heroes of old. They were giants. The book is controversial, it was left out of the official canon and is considered Apocrypha. Not official scripture.</span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Scant reference is made to the Watchers in Genesis. One could wonder why that would be? It is part of the Ethiopian bible. Reason this book is explosive. Angels and demons are spiritual being and as such cannot mate with humans as they are physical. So who were these watchers? Angels are not flesh and blood and they cannot mate. They must be human like and if they came from the sky then chances are they are extraterrestrials. They came from another planet with superior skills and they attempted to teach these skills to mankind. The bible does not speak highly of these watchers they consider them to have been corrupting human kind.</span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">All across the planet there are stories of teachers or people coming from the sky. They are depicted in a positive way. The bible makes them look bad.</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> When human women mated with them they produced giants who could either be heroic or oppressive. The bible speaks about a council of gods. If there is a council there must be many and there is more than one god.</span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The author makes reference to other cultures coming into contact with these giant shining beings. It would have been nice if he would have gone more into depth about these shining ones and the cultures they mingled with. Since the author is a bible scholar he did give good over view of the judeo Christian viewpoint and examining their culture.</span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Going through the book one learns more about Moses, now mind you some of this is well known in Jewish scripture. They cannot identify where in Egyptian history did the figure Moses occur. Careful reading of Egyptian history may shed light on some things. The Pharoah he grew up under was thutmosis. Hatshepsut was the queen. Thutmosis the third was her step child. Egyptian history makes note of Seknut. He was like her adopted son meant to take the throne. Moses always wanted to be a ruler. Seknut disappears from the record and is never heard of again. Very similar to the story of moses .</span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The Garden of Eden story has some different details as well. In Genesis it says that Eve was tricked by the serpent to eat of the tree of knowledge, after god has said “No” A more careful reading of symbolology we learn that the serpent had arms and legs and could talk. Sort of like a lizard person.</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Looking through the symbolism we find that he is a magician who seduced eve and that was how Cain was born. Cain was hybrid and Nephilim . Supposedly the flood cleaned them out. Wiped out all the hybrids. Yet they survived. Mention of them echoes throughout the Old testament and New. Why the flood happened no one knows. The Bible says sin like Adam knowing Eve kind of sin.</span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">In the end it is aliens. While the author does subscribe to Alien intervention he does criticize Zecharia Sitchin and Erich Von Daniken. Good book.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy the blog</div>The Granovitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973854784125577396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612645380803557342.post-34548461970984522023-08-31T05:05:00.003-07:002023-08-31T05:05:53.126-07:00Where are the Djinn ?<p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: gainsboro; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold;">Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: gainsboro; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.4px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: gainsboro; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">By Deepak Anappara </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: gainsboro; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.4px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: gainsboro; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">The story opens up with the introduction of a spirit named Mento, who even after he is dead still looks after the poor slum boys who worked underneath him building railway lines in India. Mento does not play that big a role in the story.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: gainsboro; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.4px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: gainsboro; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">The story does not showcase the djinn as much as it showcases what life is like loving in a poor Bhasti or slum. The houses are one room which houses four to five people. People go outside to use the facility. There is dirt everywhere and people do not have enough to really make ends meat.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: gainsboro; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.4px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: gainsboro; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">The story showcases another facet of life in India, that of the missing children. About 180 children go missing in India daily often times never to be hear of again. What happens to them no one really knows. Are they used in an organ racket, labor exploitation or something even worse.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: gainsboro; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.4px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: gainsboro; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">In the bhasti near the Boot Bazaar children are starting to go missing. First is Bahador then Omvir and soon the list goes on. People begin to worry w out the missing children. They try to get the police to take action but their efforts are in effective . Due to the futility of the search Jaya and his friend Pari become detectives and try to find their missing friends.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: gainsboro; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.4px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: gainsboro; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">The Bhasti is filled with characters like drunken Lalu, quarter Faisal. Lalu is the drunken father of Bahador. He beats the child and the child runs away. A similar story is behind all the missing children. Trouble at home. Some people think the kids ran away. A smog like haze lingers over the Bhasti. As the children run away they are greeted by strange people who appear to come out of the smog.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: gainsboro; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.4px;"><span class="s2"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: gainsboro; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2">The case of the missing children vexes the community so greatly that there are riots against Muslims as there is a fear that it is Muslims who are kidnapping Hindu children. Eventually innocent Muslims get arrested . They do find a culprit which leads to showing how the rich get treated better than the others. Unfortunately no djinn are involved. The worst monsters are always human beings.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy the blog</div>The Granovitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973854784125577396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612645380803557342.post-28867787472096172692023-08-17T14:50:00.001-07:002023-08-17T14:55:23.294-07:00Flight of the Divine Feminine<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg0PpG4ZVHXyZwHe8zMiE7gNAwBDiEM337Xlub96nEvclU0eSy3rrRvGFzdl5Ic7OE8alFlpVaLEg2eVnGkJru2qiUzLvyDYTAR9q3jrRVPL-t2uUCsp6KVii52fYKvnTbHDnCwzkmrXkXOEw_tnYYfmEbp5bVPRF91FdluBggn4tKWwT-3yGXC-dUvM8/s2048/1FF54129-A306-4E91-8D60-1F29B2D2F336.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg0PpG4ZVHXyZwHe8zMiE7gNAwBDiEM337Xlub96nEvclU0eSy3rrRvGFzdl5Ic7OE8alFlpVaLEg2eVnGkJru2qiUzLvyDYTAR9q3jrRVPL-t2uUCsp6KVii52fYKvnTbHDnCwzkmrXkXOEw_tnYYfmEbp5bVPRF91FdluBggn4tKWwT-3yGXC-dUvM8/s320/1FF54129-A306-4E91-8D60-1F29B2D2F336.png" width="240" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Women Who Fly<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">By Serenity Young <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Flying about throughout the world in the skies overlooking
the ground, someone in the air can see everything from the Americas all the way
to the far east. This book does precisely that albeit from a valid feminist perspective.
With the coming of religions like Christianity, Judaism, Islam, early Pagan
religions, Taoism and Buddhism have all reduced the once prominent role of
women to the sidelines. Ousted from power they were subjugated, dominated and
used as accessories for men. A travel through the mythologies one finds that
certain women were able to escape the prison of patriarchy.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Women like the European swan maiden are shapeshifter par
excellent and take the form of whatever they want. These women chose to be
swans. Most of the stories go that a man abducts a swan maiden and forces her
to marry him. In some tales she finds her swan suit and manages to escape
leaving behind her children and husband. Sometimes it is a willing marriage but
the man must honor certain conditions like never hit the wife, yell at her etc.
in these tales the man usually breaks the prohibition. These tales represent
the feminine being subjugated by male power.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the Western World during modern times, we have Emelia
Earhart, Wonder Woman and Hannah Reiche. Their stories are indicative of the patriarchy
attitude for women. During the war years when there was a shortage of pilots
women were allowed flying jobs for the time being. They were not allowed to fly
when menstruating. If there were problems during a flight, if the pilot was a
man it was blamed on mechanical failures. If the pilot was a woman it was
blamed on her incompetence. Once the war was done the women were dismissed an
never allowed to fly again. That is until the 1970’s and a limited but growing
basis.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the world,
in fact the first person. Her plane went down and she was never found. She did
not live a conventional life. She was seldom with her husband and did not have
children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hannah Reach was a German who
loved Germany during World War 2 . She was a fighter pilot and learned how to
use gliders when the Germans were not allowed to have an air force. She later
became part of the Luftwaft. Wonder Woman flew an invisible jet.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Other Flying women in Europe were more fairy like and magical.
The Valkyries of the Norse arrived after a battle to escort dead warriors to
the realm of Valhalla. Sometimes they are mates to loyal warriors. Women used
to be powerful warriors and leaders. Now they are reduced to being rewards for
brave male warriors. The women who stood outside the fold are often most
degraded by the patriarchy. Women who were independent, mate freely with who
they want or who have ability beyond man were shunned and persecuted. One group
of the women was the Witches. Know one really know if there were even any of
these do called witches. They were said to fly to sabbat by putting on an
ointment and riding a broom to the sabbath where in they would cavort with the
devil . Later it was learned that they would make an ointment and fall asleep
inn their beds and astral travel. Further on it was realized that they were
hallucinating. The gist behind this was to target old, widowed and disagreeable
women.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There are further myths of flying women that run throughout
the far east and India. If women can ever equal men it is not because they are
mortal women but they have to be supernatural. Many time <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they do not meet with good . The Patriachy
hates strong women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy the blog</div>The Granovitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973854784125577396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612645380803557342.post-64264599378247974152023-07-30T05:36:00.003-07:002023-07-30T05:36:38.766-07:00<p> <a class="bookTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54291250-priestess-of-the-morrigan" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16.8px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.3;">Priestess of The Morrigan: Prayers, Rituals & Devotional Work to the Great Queen </a></p><p>By Stephanie Woodfield</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnp26EWjB3sMmcGfzo8cosKR-xzokI0lm7smNWvcZ6dvBEK6nvgN5jKMTtnX8IyKsqlVpaMKS8N8Lp1QsT4KeXyI5Vkxv2F5VwjsvZFzA4byYOqujlfPni-K7DGIxSBK_ceJeKBM1jM_0HcAsOR6P7rqgh4Mx5H56sBVzl1EKgYXWEoOgfSgGu59sV41o" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="75" data-original-width="50" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnp26EWjB3sMmcGfzo8cosKR-xzokI0lm7smNWvcZ6dvBEK6nvgN5jKMTtnX8IyKsqlVpaMKS8N8Lp1QsT4KeXyI5Vkxv2F5VwjsvZFzA4byYOqujlfPni-K7DGIxSBK_ceJeKBM1jM_0HcAsOR6P7rqgh4Mx5H56sBVzl1EKgYXWEoOgfSgGu59sV41o" width="160" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Authoress Stephanie Woodfield is a priestess to the Goddess
Morrigan. This book serves to recount her experiences as a priestess of the Morrigan.
In this book she discusses the identity of the Morrigan and other goddesses that
are associated with her. She also discusses some of the challenges involved
with being a priestess and running rituals for pagan. Included at the end of
the book are rituals and working for the Morrigan.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Who is the Morrigan? Is the Morrigan a title or is it the
Goddesses name. In some Irish folktales she is identified as Morrigan. She is
also identified with three other Goddesses. They are Anu, Baive and Macha. Anu
is a mother goddess. Macha is a horse goddess and Baive can be a furious
goddess of war. Each of these three goddesses conflated with Morrigan have
their own separate histories along with different parentages, children and
husbands.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Morrigan is identified as a goddess of war. She does not
crave war and relish it like her reputation suggests but rather she recognizes
the need for war and battle at times. She does weep for the fallen and realizes
the cost. She is concerned with making and keeping the peace. This gets into
the question, what is the nature of the Morrigan.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Many in the Pagan community did not take to the Morrigan
until quite a bit of time elapsed. Many felt that she was a violent goddess who
promoted anger and fighting. Now her worship is more widespread and it is
realized that she is not all about violence. Morrigan is a tough goddess who
expect certain things from her devotees. She expect them to work on themselves
and throw away the parts of themselves that are no longer useful. When the
Morrigan gives advice it better be heeded or she might ignore you. If you say
your are going to do something then you better do it or a string of bad luck
will follow.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Other areas of controversy include how the Morrigan is portrayed.
One time she was portrayed in the nude. This caused quite a bit of controversy.
Was portraying her naked making her like an erotic goddess? She is a goddess of
war but not a goddess of love. The Celts used to go out to battle naked dressed
in blue dye called Woad. So showing her naked is a display of power and
sovereignty. In the mythos she is not a lusty goddess who goes after men. In
fact she is married to the Dagda and has a son with him named Mecha.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sometimes there are battle in the community. Often times it
is a power struggle or an ideological difference. Sometimes it involves back
stabbing and the priestess would have to expel someone from the group. Or else
it could be solved by peaceful overtures and compromise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are other challenges as well. Balancing
your life is a real challenge. Being a pagan priest or priestess is difficult.
Unlike regular clergy who gets paid from their house of worship , Pagans have
to hold down outside jobs for income. They also have to have time for the congregants
and for their relationship with deity. This book covers a lot. Dive in and learn.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Enjoy the blog</div>The Granovitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13973854784125577396noreply@blogger.com0