tag > Magic
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Happy Walpurgis Night!
„Nim den Hexen Besen raus und los gehts! Schön ist wüst, und wüst ist schön. Wirbelt durch Nebel und Wolkenhöhn!“ — William Shakespeare
„Die Fee Morgana, wie würde sie erschrecken, wenn sie etwa einer deutschen Hexe begegnete, die nackt, mit Salben beschmiert, und auf einem Besenstiel, nach dem Brocken reitet.“ — Heinrich Heine
Die Deutschen müssen unbedingt ihre magischen wurzeln neu entdecken. Die nächste Bundeskanzlerin soll doch lieber eine BundesHexe werden. — Samim
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This is a test: Do NOT think of a Zebra right now.
"I'm feeling anxious and vulnerable" - Disgustingly manipulative predictive programming - by BBC
"you are ugly, stupid and worthless" - is the mantra of the advertising industry
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The Breakaway Civilization - Interview with Jason Reza Jorjani on New Thinking Allowed
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The War of the Worlds - 1938 radio drama by Orson Welles
"The War of the Worlds" is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles as an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1898).The episode became famous for causing panic among its listening audience.
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A Mysterious 25,000-Year-Old Structure Built of the Bones of 60 Mammoths (Smithsonian)
The remains of the newly discovered structure. (A. E. Dudin) A jaw-dropping example of Ice Age architecture has been unearthed on Russia’s forest steppe: a huge, circular structure built with the bones of at least 60 woolly mammoths. But exactly why hunter-gatherers enduring the frigid realities of life 25,000 years ago would construct the 40-foot diameter building is a fascinating question. [...] “This project is giving us a real insight into how our human ancestors adapted to climate change, to the harshest parts of the last glacial cycle, and adapted to use the materials that they had around them,” Pryor said. “It’s really a story of survival in the face of adversity.”
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The Rite of Memphis-Misraïm in Italy (wikipedia)
The Rites of Misraïm and Memphis were united into a single order under Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1881. On 26 and 27 October 2019 in Naples (Italy), Brothers Initiated to the Most High Degrees of Egyptian Freemasonry from Italian Shrines of different but equal Regular Constitution met Ritually, for the first time in Italy in a Council, to "bring together what is spread "; verify the possibility of merging Rituals and Operating Instructions among the various Egyptian "currents" on Italian soil while recovering the Operative Ritual of the Arcana Arcanorum coming from an Ancient Private Archive containing historical documentation (ancient rituals and ritual jewels) by Giustiniano Lebano. At the end of the two days, after a joint verification of the Ritual contents of the Lebano Archive, Six Sublime Principles Patriarchs Great Conservators for Life (95th), they signed the historic Bolla di Fondazione and installed the Santuario Egizio d'Italia of the Ancient Rite and Primitive of Memphis-Misraïm Arcana Arcanorum Scala di Napoli (1777), Royal Custodian of the Venerated Ark of Tradition throughout the Italian territory; the whole Ceremony took place on a Sacred Altar where Egyptian Masonic Objects and Symbols were used by the Past Master Giustiniano Lebano.
Dec. 19, 2019: Italian Police Arrest Over 300 in Raids on Organized Crime (nytimes)
Officials said they had dismantled a major crime family within the ’Ndrangheta, the group based in the southern region of Calabria that is Italy’s most powerful mafia syndicate.
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Perpetua Mobilia Patent: Motionless electromagnetic generator (US6362718B1)
An electromagnetic generator without moving parts includes a permanent magnet and a magnetic core including first and second magnetic paths. A first input coil and a first output coil extend around portions of the first magnetic path, while a second input coil and a second output coil extend around portions of the second magnetic path.
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Aum Shinrikyo: The intersection of Cult, Bio-Terror, PSI and Madness
"Asahara recruited scientists more actively than he did any other group. His enthousiasm about science undoubtedly was connected with his lust for murderous weapons. But the guru also wished to consider himself a scientist and once declared, "A religion which cannot be scientifically proven is fake." He was especially interested in brainwaves and claimed that by studying them Aum could establish a scientific basis for the stages of spiritual attainment described by past Buddhist saints. With the help of Hideo Murai, his chief scientist, Aum introduced the use of a headset that purportedly contained the guru's brainwaves, which it transmitted to the disciple in a procedure known as the "perfect salvation initiation" (or PSI). The PSI, much revered in Aum, was meant to bring about the desired "cloning" of the guru by means of technology and science. There was also a strong element of science fiction in the PSI and other Aum projects, much of it actively fed by television. What took shape in Aum was a blending of science, occultism, and science fiction, with little distinction between the fictional and the actual." (via)
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Situated on the outskirts of the city of Osogbo along the banks of Osun River, the Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove is a dense forest famous for being the home of the goddess of fertility in Yoruba land. The forest houses shrines, sculpture, art works and the sacred river. There is a festival celebrated in the month of August every year. (See this overview video)
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Music of the Month: Haruna Ishola (1919–1983)
Haruna Ishola Bello M.O.N. (Member of the Order of the Niger) was a Nigerian musician, and one of the most popular artists in the apala genre. In the decades leading up to Nigerian independence in 1960, apala music developed when amateur musicians would play to arouse the faithful after the long fast of Ramadan.
Much like Cuban Santeria and Haitian vodoun, the music of Nigeria's Yoruba tribe is believed to have mythical powers, either to heal or to curse. Chief Haruna Ishola's brand of Apala music is treated with the same reverence typically reserved for the Orishas - the Yoruba pantheon of deities - and it was believed that his singing was so powerful it could kill its intended recipient if not properly restrained. (source)
