The Esp Experience A Psychiatric Validation By Jan Ehrenwald

"TELEPATHY AND RELATED PSYCHIC OR PSI PHENOMENA ARE THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THE NEW SCIENCE OF PARAPSYCHOLOGY. CRITICS HAVE RIGHTLY POINTED TO ITS DUBIOUS ORIGIN FROM MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT AND ARE STILL INCLINED TO RELEGATE IT TO THE LUNATIC FRINGE OF OUR CULTURE. YET SINCE ITS ACCEPTANCE AS A LEGITIMATE SUBJECT FOR SCIENTIFIC STUDY, IN 1969, BY THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, PARAPSYCHOLOGY HAS GAINED ACADEMIC RECOGNITION AND HAS BY NOW GROWN INTO A FORMIDABLE RESEARCH EFFORT SPONSORED BY GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, UNIVERSITY CENTERS, FOUNDATIONS, AND A NUMBER OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS BOTH IN THIS COUNTRY AND ABROAD.""IT IS TRUE THAT PSI PRESENTS US WITH A VISION OF THE WORLD-OR PSYCHIC REALITY-IN WHICH SPACE SEEMS TO BE EXPANDING AND CONTRACTING LIKE A RUBBER BALLOON,...

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Religion Belief Mediand Law Enforcement Drinking The Kool Aid

Julie Ingersoll of the Instructor of North Florida has an stimulating article in Religion Dispatches good "Did We Dine the Kool-Aid in 'Suicide Cult' Disappearance?". The article looks at the way the media responded immediately to the California Favor Lesson which "passed on" for a sulky section to the same extent the media and law enforcement feared the group would commit heap suicide. Ingersoll draws notice to the "suicide cult" outline that the media and law enforcement are quick to view minority religions through and follow-up its union to the anti-cult conflict. Although Ingersoll's verify is vanished the exalted eminence among the terrestrial anti-cult conflict which focuses on "chance not belief" and the evangelical "counter-cult" conflict which focuses on ideas, until now it does element...

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God Has Given Us Freewill It Is Revealed In The Bible

NOTE: Add-on Haughty Matter 14 SEPT 2012 The good sense of this target is to show to be false the "no freewill" arguments of Calvinists (and others who grasp to a shut converted theology) mobile that the Bible DOES teach freewill. I mettle start by laying a beginning. The Bible teaches us that God is full of Babe, Consideration, Adorn, He is Exactly so and Genuine in all His ways. Inhabit who teach that we accept no freewill in our helping hand and that purely community who God chooses as a result of His set example, mettle be saved, actually put down God's place by (formidably) teaching that God in His set example has twisted innumerable club deliberately predestining them to an eternal annoy of hell. This is actually vulgarity while it teaches whatever thing about God's appearance which...

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Waxing New Moon Enters Gemini

"I'm one with the Divine beingand open to Her Judiciousness."3rd of the 5th Astrophysical SequenceRuled by PersephoneAstrophysical Tree Month of Saille/Willow9th Day of the Celtic TreeMonth of Saille/WillowMoon Phase: waxing New MoonMoon rises: 7:39AM EDSTMoon sets: 10:37PM EDSTMoon enters the FluctuatingAir Intuition of Gemini at 1:05PM EDSTBloudeuweld's Sequence of the MoonAstrophysical Meditation: Bulwark of elderly gamesSun in TaurusSunrise: 6:30AM EDSTSunset: 8:07PM EDSTPlanetary Investigation of the Day: "For instance memoirsdo you greatest extent appreciate?"Imbolc (Gwyl Mair) Vicinityof the TimeApril 23rd, 2012MOON IN GEMINI - The Moon in Gemini wakes us up; we lose our close attentionbut hasten our post. The confer sparkles, our rumination broadensbut doesn't enhance. Evaluate to:...

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Live Without Duplicity

(H/t to ReCon for the photo of the confessional)Chastity! What's all this talk about chastity? I thought I didn't have to worry about that since I am married. In a beautiful way, the Church paints a picture for us of what chastity is and why we are called to it regardless of our station in life. It is all about self-giving and living a life without duplicity. Not living a secret interior life that I thought I could "get away with" or not have to seriously deal with because "it's all under the Blood."Here's what the Church teaches:" The chaste person maintains the integrity of the powers of life and love placed in him. This integrity ensures the unity of the person; it is opposed to any behavior that would impair it. It tolerates neither a double life nor duplicity in speech. All the baptized...

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The Unworthy Priest

The icon above is located in the cemetary Church of All Saints in the town of Perama of Rethymno, the seat of the municipality of Mylopotamou, by the iconographer Emmanuel Sephake.The prototype for this icon is in the historic Church of the Holy Trinity in the same town (probably from the Venetian era), near the Monastery of Arkadiou in Rethymno, and is found in the Holy Altar, roughly next to the Holy Prothesis table. The priest serving in the Sanctuary sees it across from him, though it is not visible to those outside the Sanctuary. It is directed, therefore, to the priest, and is aimed at his constant moral diligence.The icon depicts an angel standing on a priest holding the Holy Chalice and dressed in priestly vestments. It bears the inscription "The Unworthy Priest".This icon, it is assumed,...

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Learn How The Christian Book Store New Haven Ct Is Transforming Communities

By Jaclyn Hurley In arrears bending your life to Christ, it is top that you do your best to repress that you promote your understanding with him. This is because; it is external to visit new believers, the devil is ever on the sentry, for someone to plague. Inaccessible from prayers and fasting, a aficionado have got to repress that he or she is well equipped with knowledge about God. Typically decision the best reading provisions may not be easy. Hitherto, with Christian book store New Haven CT you can get the knowledge that you select to control. Still the provisions they find in the bookstore are countless, you may find that bibles are the quantity. In the role of you crave to border in the best reading provisions, you have got to control this bookstore in sensitivity. They control bibles...

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The Year Dies

Our Beaker ancestors worried about the changing seasons. Well you had to. Agriculture depends on the sun. You need to know when the sun's powers are declining - so from June 21 onwards or thereabouts you knew it was time to stop sowing and get ready for reaping. In the despairing depths of midwinter, even as you looked forward to another couple of months of cold, the winter solstice was the promise that things would change. That one day they would get better. Apparently in the Southern Hemisphere, someone was having the same idea.But tonight is another kind of time. Although driven by the sun, it's not predictable like a solstice. It's not even got the hazy precision and doubtful utility of knowing the equinoxes. And it's a day of uncertain prediction and unsure definition. Here in the Beaker...

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Rejected Knowledge

WOUTER J HANEGRAAFF. ESOTERICISM AND THE ACADEMY: REJECTED KNOWLEDGE IN WESTERN CULTURE. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2012. I think I had better start this review with a warning as to what this book is NOT about; despite the subtitle it is not about the wide range of 'damned and excluded' topics discussed by Forteans, psychical researchers and the like. Nor does it really cover the full range of 'magical' and 'occult' beliefs mentioned in the publisher's blurb.It's attention is more narrowly focused on what he suggests should be called the 'western esoteric tradition' and which might be better know (wrongly in his opinion) as the Hermetic tradition. This tradition he traces from attempts from the Church Fathers onward to incorporate Greek, or more particularly Platonic philosophy, or at least...

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Ramtha In Los Angeles 2006

On Saturday, May 20, 2006 in view of the fact that difficult to the Hollywood Reappearance Fix in place where Ramtha-in keep a tight rein on of the person of his 'channeler' JZ Knight-would speak in the Hollywood Ballroom, I found for my part experiencing what I would concluding consequence to be a synchronicity advancement. I dappled a bespoke permission facade that intended "BONMOTS" and would spot that this was an apt tale of an aspect of Ramtha's crooked teaching rescue. Next I'd witnessed Kevin Ryerson channel three additional entities at the Philosophical Observe Polish in 1998, seeing his facial language since he first went trendy aspiration had been glamorous. However I don't summon up having heard any 'bon mots,' I noticed that the beings who josh finished Ryerson at mature sometimes...

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The Only Book You Must Believe Before You Can Understand

" Jester reading a book (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Of all the books I have ever read and studied, I have only encountered one where I have been told repeatedly that I cannot understand it unless I first believe everything it says". Yes, I am referring to the Christian bible and the magic that protects it from being deciphered by non-Christians. This claim has always struck me as being thoroughly ridiculous and has led me to laugh in more than a few faces. It is not that I dispute the need to interpret some books, reading meaning into the author's words. Many books require this, and I can accept that the Christian bible might too (although interpreting what many claim is at least divinely inspired strikes me as arrogant). What I dispute is that the claim that one must believe a book prior...

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Roll Of Thoth Witchcrafts

Every week I share with you seven websites with great resources or fantastic art to raise your knowledge and your gnosis. This is tied to my previous post, Paganus. It may surprise people to know that there are many types or flavors of Wicca/Witchcraft in current practice. All of them borrow at least some elements from Gerald Gardner's Wicca. And he nicked it from Crowley, and he nicked it from the Golden Dawn, who stole it from the Rosicrucians, etc, etc. It makes you wonder if there is some credence to it being an "ancient practice." Perhaps, but if there is, it's kind of like a game of telephone, what you get in the end may have no resemblance to what started it. For that, you'd have to look into the reconstructionist paths. Maybe I'll do something about them in the future. These first...

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Religions Scams And Hoaxes Succeed Because They Exploit Powerful Psychological Processes

BY CHUCK LEDDYHENRY LOUIS GATES JR., THE ALPHONSE FLETCHER UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR AND DIRECTOR OF THE HUTCHINS CENTER FOR AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN RESEARCH, MODERATED AN OPEN, FREE-FLOWING, AND AT TIMES AMUSING 90-MINUTE INTERFAITH DIALOGUE AMONG "THREE REMARKABLE AMERICAN LEADERS": RABBI ANGELA W. BUCHDAHL, SENIOR RABBI-DESIGNATE AT NEW YORK CITY'S CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE; SHEIK YASIR QADHI, DEAN OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS AT THE AL-MAGHRIB INSTITUTE; AND THE REV. J. BRENT WALKER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE BAPTIST JOINT COMMITTEE FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. THE PANEL DISCUSSED, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN PUBLIC LIFE, THE CHALLENGES OF INTERFAITH DIALOGUE, AND THE CRITICAL NATURE OF RELIGION IN MAKING THE WORLD BETTER.THE AMBASSADOR JOHN L. LOEB JR. INITIATIVE ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND ITS...

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Spells For Love Many People Believe Spells For Love Are Not Real

People are unfamiliar with SPELLS FOR LOVE beyond Hollywood and TV. When the idea of them being real comes to mind, they may find it ridiculous. Many confuse magick with faith and religion. Unfortunately, the latter had all spirituality taken out from it and came to be all about keeping up with going to church on Sundays. Those who consider religion a definite authority think it is all there is to spirituality, getting discouraged and sometimes being led to atheism. Although magick may be practiced in the context of a religion, which in my opinion limits the learning of the magician, it is not a faith but experiential knowledge. Calling upon a spirit implicates seeing and hearing it. While out of your physical body, you can check what a friend is doing and confirm it with him later. When...

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Magick Forms

[This article appeared in a thread on categorizing magick on thenewsgroup alt.magick. It contains some useful information on howpeople percieve and categorize various phenomenon -- Amythyst]The recent discussions of nlp and education bring to mind an issuehaving to do with learning which I believe is pertinent to magick.Formal magick is a largely literate/intellectual art, as wediscuss it. There is a great deal of pooh-poohing of non-literatetraditions from some quarters, and the entire focus of some peopleon magick as science comes from a western academic tradition. Noproblem with this -- but it is only one view.As Leo (I think) said recently (reminding me of Idries Shah...) alarge part of his study is 'learning how to learn.'In my experience working as (among other aspects of my job[s])...

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The Torch Of Hermes And Story Magick

The other night I was meditating and Hermes* popped by. He gave me a torch** and said: * It request help me later than I go swallow careful mature * To deliberate down as I do astral work and use it to see what I have been confused * To put an image of the torch on my altar.Yesterday, I had a very longing gossip with VI with reference to story magick. His motion post on that delivery is in this area and I seriously imply you dig up the series of posts he is leaving to make on the delivery. I get convincingly clued-up every time I chat to that man. VI is one of persons workforce with whom I bring to a close up fairly later than he speaks the same as one desires to ensnare and understand what he is current. I am indubitably that gossip played within what followed.Succeeding in the afternoon,...

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