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Book of Ritual Knowledge - Sumatra, Indonesia (1895)
The book contains magical formulas, divinations, recipes, and laws. The pustaha is written and compiled by a Batak magician-priest known as the datu (or sometimes the guru). A datu wrote the pustaha in Batak script using an ancient language style.
The book contains magical formulas, divinations, recipes, and laws. The pustaha is written and compiled by a Batak magician-priest known as the datu. A datu wrote the pustaha in Batak script using an ancient language style. The pustaha is used by the datu as a reference for him and for his students for all kind of information related to magic, rituals, prescriptions, and divination.
The magic knowledge contained in a pustaha is known as the hadatuon ("knowledge of the datu"). Johannes Winkler, a Dutch doctor was sent to Toba in 1901 and learned the pustaha from a datu priest. The result of his study divided the content of the pustaha into three types of main knowledge: the art to sustain life (white magic), the art to destroy life (black magic), and the art of divination.
What happened to all the historic books in Sumatra? Something similar to this:
Of the thousands of books written by the ancient Maya, only three - possibly four-survive today. On one night in July 1562 Bishop Diego de Landa destroyed thousands of Maya books, but throwing them on a bonfire. Overnight, the literature, science, and myths of the Maya was lost
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Daydream Your Way to Success - by Martin Faulks
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"In conclusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time." - Robert Anton Wilson
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The Great Conjunction - 21st December 2020
On the 21st December 2020 a rare astronomical event will occur. The "great conjunction" of the two largest planets of our Solar System, Jupiter and Saturn, will bring them to only 0.1 degree apart, the closest they've been since 1623 and the closest that can be observed since 1226.
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Img 1: Spiritualism Seance in Berlin (1930) - Img 2: Macy Conferences on Cybernetics (1946-1953)
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Reality - Waking From A Dream - Interview with Peter Kingsley
"You can't understand thinking by thinking about it. You have to get behind thinking in order to understand" - Peter Kingsley
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Here there be dragons (hic sunt dracones)
Ancient cartographers would sometimes depict a drago, with the phrase "Here there be dragons" (hic sunt dracones) where there was no knowledge of what existed. This would be a warning to sailors that this is dangerous unexplored territory, and was often map shorthand for "Here Be Other Stuff We Don't Quite Know About." At this time the Lenox Globe seems to be the only only map where this is found.
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Welcome my friend, I have awaited you. Sit, relax and enjoy some tea. The time is now, the place is here. Our journey has begun. What we seek is seeking us.
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Photo from the Mount Hakusan Biosphere Reserve in Japan, where the guiding principle is "Coexistence between nature and human society".
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The Pauli effect or Pauli's Device Corollary is the supposed tendency of technical equipment to encounter critical failure in the presence of certain people. The term was coined after mysterious anecdotal stories involving Austrian theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, describing numerous instances in which demonstrations involving equipment suffered technical problems only when he was present.
