Unexplained Mysteries - Roopkund The Mysterious Skeleton Lake

• Roopkund is better off known as “The skeleton lake” due to the presence of an enormous grave that holds about 300 to 600 skeletons. This discovery has revolutionized the world of ancient history ever since 1942, when a park ranger came across this mass deposition of bones. It probably is an in-accessible frozen lake that requires about four day travel to reach from the nearest locality. Recently, it has become an important spot for the visitors as they learn and conjecture this advent of science….
• Coming back to the Skeleton Lake riddle, probably the skeletons were those of the devotees participating in such a mass procession centuries ago. The folklores say that a certain king had participated in this religious ‘yatra’ with his company of female dancers. This had offended the Goddess Nanda and she vented her rage by bringing down the snowstorm at the hapless revelers.

• A small but growing number of evangelical churches are using cage fighting programs to increase their odds of converting young men, reports the New York Times. Pastors say they hope to “inject” some irresistible “machismo” into their ministries by incorporating the bloody, but increasingly popular, sport of mixed martial arts: “What led me to find Christ was that Jesus was a fighter,” Brandon Beals, 37, lead pastor at Canyon Creek Church outside of Seattle, told the Times. Is brawling consistent with Christianity?

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Lord Uranda & The Emissaries of Divine Light ~

In 1932, in the midst of the Depression years, Lloyd Arthur Meeker, was living in Nashville, Tennessee.

He was twenty-five years old at the time when he began to “channel” a Being known as Uranda. For three successive nights, while in trance, he blogged some gnarly teachings. As he reported later, during this initial encounter with Uranda the room filled with a silvery cloud.

Through his writing came answers to questions that had been in his mind and heart for many years. It astounded him that the answers didn’t come from anything separate from him, but from a reality that dwelt deep within him. It was described as a case of spontaneously arising gnosis.

That time marked the beginning of a spiritual movement that Uranda named The Emissaries of Divine Light.

For the next thirteen years, Uranda traveled across the United States and Canada, teaching, writing, and doing vibrational healing work. (He later teamed-up with a British nobleman by the name of Martin Exeter… more on that some day, maybe.)

Uranda was recognized by his hundreds of devotees as a Being from a distant planet, and the most advanced Being to ever have visited Earth… the most enlightened Teacher of them all… ever. They knew this as fact. Of course.

Today his “Third Sacred School” has morphed into the “Fourth Sacred School”. They are now an “international spiritual network” who continue to serve and guide humanity “vibrationally”.

Amongst themselves they share a conviction of great purpose and a sense of enlightened superiority. Many Emissaries are beyond learning because they already know. They consequently enjoy, amongst themselves, an unshakable certainty of divine specialness. This deep sense of specialness is very, very strong. It electrifies them. It radiates from them. It makes their eyes shine. They know what they know. They know who they are. They know how important their work is. They know they know. And above all, they have Uranda.

Right now they are working tirelessly to help steer Earth’s spiritual leaders, political figures, global events, even planetary weather patterns; they even have a technique for helping the Sun to shine. They use vibrational methods to shift patterns. EDL is above all a “vibrational ministry”.

As for their lifestyle, the higher-ups, as you might expect, aren’t bound by any convention. They do what they want, they serve a higher law, or as they phrase it, “the truth of love”.

It follows that most of their history and esoteric teachings and practices are utterly secret to all but the most core members and the “Supreme Council” itself, i.e. spiritual board of directors.

Also, Uranda’s spoken words were consistently transcribed into fancy hardbound volumes… lots and lots of volumes. For the Emissaries, these books are the most sacred texts on Earth. A good Emissary won’t read anything but these books, as they are granted access over time - after the appropriate classes have been taken, prerequisite retreats attended and proper devotional services rendered - they are rewarded with access to the next volume - or they are finally offered a secret book they didn’t know existed.

That’s how it works. They have a very structured, hierachical and secretive organization through which one advances incrementally… if they choose you and approve your progress.

Nowadays, the elders of the Supreme Council operate as invisibly and anonymously as possible and have done their best to disappear from plain sight. The Council has recently begun to call themselves “the steering committee” as an attempt to appear less grandiose to others.

Many Emissaries do continue to live communally - from Ashland, OR to Loveland, CO to Vancouver, BC. In fact, they have Centers networked around the globe where they continue to carry out the Master’s vision. They have, however, radically altered their facade, their tone and curriculum; the past is the past. In fact, the past is so much the past they kinda want to blow-off the silvery cloud origins. Their own Precious Guru, Lord Uranda himself, quickly becoming yet another secret as they go about their busy spiritual business.

Asch Conformity Experiment

aka Group Think vs. YOU.

This 4min video shows how easy it is to conform, even against your own perceptions and experiences.

You experience this mental bug in: Politics, Society, Religion, Corporations, Peer Groups, etc…you know, the real Great Beast…

Think, Think, THINK.

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Part One: On the Technology and the Ethics of Wishing

William S. Burroughs on the technology and the ethics of wishing. The discussion includes rules for wishing, the dogma of science, L. Ron Hubbard, The Big Lie, and sympathetic magic. The class also includes a question and answer session covering subjects such as memory, Henry Miller, dreams in writing, and defining the soul.

Part Two: On the Technology and the Ethics of Wishing

[Part Two] contains additional commentary by Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg. Included is a question and answer session that covers the space shuttle Challenger explosion, lucid dreaming, yoga, feminine energy, DNA, the Dalai Lama, and music. Waldman also discusses the ego, rituals, science and why questions, death, birth, mortality, and the bodhisattva.

Today’s lessons are courtesy of Aleph9 Waveform Research Journal and the Naropa Poetics Audio Archives.

Image: William S. Burroughs as illustrated by Shaky Kane

some of my favorites:

• 992: Good Friday coincided with the Feast of the Annunciation; this had long been believed to be the event that would bring forth the Antichrist, and thus the end-times events foretold in the book of Revelation. Records from Germany report that a new sun rose in the north and that as many as 3 suns and 3 moons were fighting. There does not appear to be independent verification of this remarkable event.
• 1000-JAN-1: Many Christians in Europe had predicted the end of the world on this date. As the date approached, Christian armies waged war against some of the Pagan countries in Northern Europe. The motivation was to convert them all to Christianity, by force if necessary, before Christ returned in the year 1000. Meanwhile, some Christians had given their possessions to the Church in anticipation of the end. Fortunately, the level of education was so low that many citizens were unaware of the year. They did not know enough to be afraid. Otherwise, the panic might have been far worse than it was. Unfortunately, when Jesus did not appear, the church did not return the gifts. Serious criticism of the Church followed. The Church reacted by exterminating some heretics. Agitation settled down quickly, as it later did in the year 2000.
• 1000-MAY: The body of Charlemagne was disinterred on Pentecost. A legend had arisen that an emperor would rise from his sleep to fight the Antichrist.
• 1284: Pope Innocent III computed this date by adding 666 years onto the date the Islam was founded.
• 1346 and later: The black plague spread across Europe, killing one third of the population. This was seen as the prelude to an immediate end of the world. Unfortunately, the Christians had previously killed a many of the cats, fearing that they might be familiars of Witches. The fewer the cats, the more the rats. It was the rat fleas that spread the black plague.
• 1524: Many astrologers predicted the imminent end of the world due to a world wide flood. They obviously had not read the Genesis story of the rainbow.
• 1844-OCT-22: When Jesus did not return, William Miller predicted this new date. In an event which is now called “The Great Disappointment,” many Christians sold their property and possessions, quit their jobs and prepared themselves for the second coming. Nothing happened; the day came and went without incident.
• 1919: Meteorologist Albert Porta predicted that the conjunction of 6 planets would generate a magnetic current that would cause the sun to explode and engulf the earth on DEC-17.

• ANKARA, Turkey - The Turkish man who shot Pope John Paul II nearly 29 years ago emerged from prison and declared himself a messenger from God, then spent his first night of freedom in a luxury hotel room.
• “I will meet you in the next three days,” Agca said. “In the name of God Almighty, I proclaim the end of the world in this century. All the world will be destroyed, every human being will die. I am not God, I am not son of God, I am Christ eternal.”
• Agca, who has previously claimed to be the Messiah, said the Gospel was full of mistakes and he would write the perfect one. He delivered a similar message in a long, rambling statement distributed by Abosoglu outside the prison in Sincan on the outskirts of Ankara, the Turkish capital.

Read the Secret ‘Jesus’ Messages on U.S. Military Weapons

(yeah, and tell us again that this is NOT a religious war…)

• In August of 2005 Trijicon was awarded a $660 million dollar, multi-year contract to provide up to 800,000 of its Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight (ACOG) to the U.S. Marine Corps. According to Trijicon, the ACOG is “designed to function in bright light, low light or no light conditions,” and is “ideal for combat due to its high degree of discrimination, even among multiple moving targets.” At the end of the scope’s model number, you can read “JN8:12”, which is a reference to the New Testament book of John, Chapter 8, Verse 12, which reads: “Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” (King James Version) (ABC News)

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Happy Birthday, Lord Ganesha!
OM GAM GANAPATAYE NAMAHA!
OM GAM GANAPATAYE NAMAHA!
OM GAM GANAPATAYE NAMAHA!

Old Testament Four Centuries Older than thought

• Scientists have discovered the earliest known Hebrew writing — an inscription dating from the 10th century B.C., during the period of King David’s reign.
• The breakthrough could mean that portions of the Bible were written centuries earlier than previously thought. (The Bible’s Old Testament is thought to have been first written down in an ancient form of Hebrew.)
• Until now, many scholars have held that the Hebrew Bible originated in the 6th century B.C., because Hebrew writing was thought to stretch back no further. But the newly deciphered Hebrew text is about four centuries older, scientists announced this month.

Magic and everyday life. Andalusia, 16th-18th century

• Many studies have been made of magic and sorcery. However, following an exhaustive process of compiling and researching the documents of the Tribunal of the Spanish Inquisition, this study by the doctor in History from the University of Malaga, Rafael Martín Soto, is the first one to focus on the more everyday aspects of magic, bringing to life the persons who formed part of the process: the sorcerors, the clients, the witnesses and the victims. “In Spain we have highly valuable information in the registers of the Tribunals of the Inquisition, through the prosecutor’s allegations presented in each case. There is information about those involved and even regarding the districts where these sorcerors lived. These tribunals investigated matters which were not dealt with or documented in any other tribunal in Europe”, explains Martín Soto.
• This more everyday focus is what distinguishes this book published in Spanish by the Andalusian Studies Centre and the Renacimiento publishing house, ‘Magic and Everyday Life. Andalusia, 16^th-18^th Century’: eleven chapters the result of intense compilation and research in the archives and cases of the Tribunal of the Inquisition in Spain by Rafael Martín Soto.
• This essay also describes the interrelationship between the Church and magic, its benefits and its totally disproportionate prejudices, for magic was a common practice which took place on a day to day basis, with no element of obscurantism.
• Although the author assures that the results and the practices in this study could in most cases be extrapolated to other regions of Spain and Europe, Martín Soto describes the Andalusia of the time as a “benchmark for magical practices” where disciples came to learn. This essay is a vindication of the originality and singularity of Andalusian magic, deriving from the presence of Muslims in the region who, among other things, had schools of talisman magic, leaving an important legacy in this field in Andalusia. In fact, many figures such as Leonor Rodríguez (one of the famous Camachas sisters) came during this period to study magic in Cordoba, Seville and above all Granada.
• The author of the essay clarifies the difference between witches and sorcerors. “Witches were those who abandoned religion to make a pact with the devil and they were burned at the stake. However, sorcerors considered their work as a trade and did not deny religion, even going to mass every day. They received sentences of exile or whippings which in the majority of cases enhanced their fame and prestige.
• In Andalusia the majority belonged to this latter group. However, “in this period magic knew no distinctions of class or education, being an instrument recurred to by noblemen and the educated as well as lower class, illiterate folk”. Martín Soto describes in the essay various cases in high circles.
• Some were merely scams, such as that which the Count-Duke of Olivares suffered when he was tricked as to the supposed existence of a treasure. Others the author describes as “blood-curdling”. One such case was the nobleman of Granada, Andrés Segura, who sought longevity. “He had a group of sorcerors who worked for him and who had him eat gruel made from dead men’s testicles to conserve his virility and blood of unchristened children obtained while the children suffered”.
• However, the typical client of magic was a woman with relationship woes or who sought to protect herself from her husband, eliminate rivals or conquer the heart of a man, in a period when the solutions were often cruel as there was very little value placed on human life. Magic was also called upon to speak to the dead, make money, find work or see into the future. “Magic was always the last resort in all periods, even today” concludes Martín Soto.

Pat Robertson Blames Haiti Earthquake on “Pact With the Devil”

The Rev. Pat Robertson, on his CBN broadcast today, offered his own explanation of the earthquake in Haiti:

“Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it,” he said. “They were under the heel of the French … and they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, ‘We will serve you if you’ll get us free from the French.’

“True story. And the devil said, ‘OK, it’s a deal,’” Robertson said. “Ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after another.”

His words, which refer to a piece of Haitian folklore about the country’s founder, Toussaint L’Ouverture, come around the 6:00 mark in the report above, which also includes interviews with missionary groups active in the country.

(via Political Carnival)

((What a fucking idiot.))

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