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Peebles, Dr. James Martin
Chief Powhatan by terren in Virginia / Terren
Dr. James Martin Peebles (1822-1922) was an American spiritualist and Universalist minister who believed that he received inspiration and spiritual guidance from a ‘band of angels,’ as he put it.
Some of these alleged guides were famous characters, such as Mozart, the sister of Louis XVI of France and Chief Powhatan, father of Pocahontas.
Other guides were less famous, such as John W. Leonard, a deceased Scottish clergyman.
Peebles traveled to India several times with Col. Henry Steel Olcott, the co-founder of Theosophy.
Today, Linda Pendleton and others claim to channel messages from Dr. Peebles.
His alleged message to humanity is consistent with much New Age channeling–that is, universal love, cooperation, and the need to overcome the illusion of separation among individuals and nations.
Dr. Peebles, himself, lived three days short of 100 years.
On the Web:
- Linda Pendleton’s web site: http://www.todancewithangels.com/peebles.html
- Answers.com: http://www.answers.com/topic/james-martin-peebles
Remote Viewing
Charging My Batteries aka Sun Worship: Vox Efx
Remote Viewing
The term ‘Remote Viewing’ (RV) was coined by Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff.
RV is the alleged ability to internally perceive objects and events at a distance beyond the range of the normal senses.
Remote Viewers (RVers) usually say they perceive objects and events in the past, present and probable future. But RVers don’t believe they psychologically time travel when seeing the past. Instead, they say they access a holographic cosmic memory bank that records all of the events that ever took place, somewhat like the Akashic Records of Theosophy and Anthroposophy.
With regard to the future, RVers apparently see possible outcomes but don’t claim to predict the future with any certainty.
One difficulty with RV is a margin of error that researcher Dale Graff calls “white noise.” RVers strive to scientifically verify their distance visions and apparently are developing new methods to increase accuracy.
On this point RVers differ from some psychics who remain convinced that their distance visions are accurate without ever attempting to verify them.
Interestingly, RV researcher Russell Targ says his team got better scientific results when they kept the research environment “fun” and relaxed.
Although Targ admits to making money from RVing future probabilities, he reports that human greed came to interfere with the success of his experiments.¹
Targ later introduced the term Remote Sensing because RV may also be accompanied by an inner sense of hearing, smell and touch.
The paranormal writer Rosemary Ellen Guiley says that Remote Sensing is a well-documented phenomenon, both in ancient and contemporary times.
According to Anthony C. LoBaido at WorldNetDaily.com and Steve Hammons at AmericanChronicle.com, the CIA has used RV for intelligence gathering. LoBaido also claims that the FBI has adopted RV for the same purposes.
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» Akashic Records, Clairvoyance, Doors, ESP, New Age, Psychic Spies, Seer, “The New Age and Remote Viewing,” Third Eye
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Tramp Souls
A Haunted Trail by Joshua Debner
Tramp Souls
Deceased persons believed to be clinging to the material world, often to some particular locality and possibly holding a grudge against someone whom they believed wronged them in life.
Alternately, tramp souls are regarded as the victims of an accidental death who don’t understand why or haven’t accepted the fact that they’ve passed.
Tramp souls are said to be responsible for hauntings, obsessions and possessions.
An unofficial branch of Catholic thinking expressed by author Michael Brown (Prayer of the Warrior) attributes to homosexuality the psychological influence of tramp souls. According to Brown, a deceased woman’s spirit influences a man’s sexual preference or a male spirit influences a woman’s.
From this belief the opposite-sex spiritual influence apparently permeates the personality and the living individual comes to identify with it over time. » Demons, Obsession, Possession, Transmigration
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Tarot
KP - Tarot readings at the cafe by szczel
Tarot
Rosemary Ellen Guiley says the word tarot comes from the Italian tarocci, meaning ‘triumphs’ or ‘trumps’ (Harper’s Encyclopedia of Mystical and Paranormal Experience, 1991).
Today’s tarot consists of 78 cards divided into major and minor arcanas. The major arcana of 22 cards contains symbolism paralleling different mythic traditions.
The minor arcana of 56 cards is divided into four suits: Cups, Wands, Swords, and Pentacles. These in turn are separated into King, Queen, Knight and Page.
Believers use the cards for depth psychology, the achievement of goals, divination or some combination of the three.
The cards are usually shuffled and placed in one of several different patterns or ‘spreads’ (e.g. the “Horseshoe,” the “Star,” the “Celtic Cross”). The choice of a spread arguably reflects the dealer’s current state of mind, proficiency level and possibly their unconscious intentions, hopes and desires.
The origins of tarot cards have been variously traced to Hellenistic Egypt, India, Morroco and Atlantis. Guiley says that a French painter, one Jacquemin Grinngonneur, presented cards “that may have been Tarot” to King Charles VI of France in 1392.
My Tarot Decks by Chin
Alfred Douglas says that in 1415, the Duke of Milan had Tarot cards painted for his own personal use. Gordon Melton in The Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America (1992) says these particular cards were precursors to the current Tarot deck. Melton claims that the Tarot was first differentiated from playing cards in the eighteenth-century, mostly due to the efforts of the French Freemason Anntione Court de Gebelin (1719-1784).
Alphonse-Louis Constant, a.k.a. Eliphas Levi, (1810-1875) wrote extensively about the tarot. Levi was first headed toward being a Catholic priest but fell in love, discovered the occult and never looked back. As such his writings were later incorporated into the practice of magic. He also associated the tarot with the Kabbala.
On this Stuart Gordon says:
Levi developed the pack’s occult connection by associating the card of the Major Arcana with Qabalah, assigning each of the twenty-two trumps to letters of the Hebrew alphabet, with corresponding numerological significances (The Paranormal: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, Headline 1992, p, 647).
Tarot 12 Le Pendu by Jorge Rangel
During this era the tarot was believed to have first been discovered (not devised) in Europe by gypsies, thought to have originated in Egypt–”(e)gyp(t)sy.”
The cards or, at least, the ideas behind them, were apparently preserved by scribes who, up to medieval times, quietly saved a lion’s share of ancient pagan texts, spells and incantations from the ravages of the war-torn Roman Empire and the official, outward condemnation of the Church.¹
The obvious influence of pagan Celtic symbolism in the tarot lends some support this view, as do the 22 Major cards corresponding to prominent deities from classical Greek and Roman lore.
In 1910, Arthur Edward Waite together with artist Pamela Colman Smith devised a new tarot deck, known today as the Rider-Waite Tarot. Shortly afterward, Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) emphasized the tarot’s alleged Egyptian origin, devising a deck with commentary called The Book of Thoth, which rivaled Waite and Coleman’s tarot in popularity.
In the 1950′s, Jungian writer Marie Louise von Franz suggested that the tarot parallels steps along the individuation process.
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¹Along these lines Arnold J. Toynbee and others say organized Christianity effectively replaced pagan Rome as the creator of a persecutory culture of fear.
» Earthpages.org Review – Tarot Stripped Bare (DVD), Magic, Odin
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Uriel
"St Uriel" by Jenny Mansfield - Tim Mansfield
Uriel
One of the four Catholic Archangels, along with Michael, Gabriel and Raphael.
He is not mentioned in the Bible but appears in various apocryphal works–that is, in books that are similar to the Bible but which have not been accepted by a major Christian religion.
Occult writers have picked up on the apocryphal writings and added their own fanciful interpretations as to who and what Uriel is.
Of course, a similar criticism has been leveled at the Catholic interpretation of Uriel.
Non-Catholics say that Catholic teachings such as this are unbiblical and hence man-made fictions.
This leads to the ongoing debate between Catholics and non-Catholics about the supposed authority of the Catholic Tradition.
Contemporary Catholics believe that the Catholic faith articulates the authentic teachings of Christ as given to the apostles and recorded in scripture, these teachings being preserved, present and developed through a legitimate and holy apostolic tradition. Whereas non-Catholics tend to see this claim as so much pompous hokum.
Uriel is also mentioned in works of fiction, such as John Milton‘s Paradise Lost, where the sharp-sighted angel acts as God’s eyes and helps Raphael to defeat the pagan god, Adramelech.
» Angels, Catholicism
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Voodoo
Voodoo
Vodun originated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the West African kingdom of Dahomey.
Spanish slave traders brought inhabitants of Dahomey to North America and the majority of these people ended up in Haiti.
While Haiti is predominantly Roman Catholic, a hybrid form of Catholic Voodoo continues today.
Voodooists believe in a variety of spiritual beings as well as two human souls. One soul, the gros bon ange is free at night to wander.
Like the ancient Chinese, Voodooists believe that the dreamer will die if this soul does not return to the body before waking.
The other soul, the petite bon ange, may stay near its corpse after death for a relatively short while or may transform itself into an inanimate object or animal, such as a snake.
Voodoo also involves rhythmic dancing and divination.
Voodoo mythology emphasizes themes of sex and death, which David Leeming says parallels the West Indian trickster Gede.
Like most tricksters, Gede shakes the cage of the conventional psyche, allowing individuals to penetrate hidden layers of the unconscious and beyond.¹
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¹ David Leeming, The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 398.
» Ancestor Cults, Hendrix (Jimi), Zombie
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Virgo
Virgo ( August 22-September 22)
The sixth and a summer sign of the zodiac, symbolized by the idea of the Virgin and associated with the planetary ruler of Mercury.
Its element is Earth.
The Latin term virgo means “maid,” “maiden,” “virgin,” “girl” and also refers to the constellation Virgo as well as an aqueduct near Rome.
Astrologers claim that Virgo is not a stereotypically prudish virgin, but rather a highly refined, unmarried sensual being who enjoys privacy and solitude.
From Mercury Virgo is said to obtain a thirst for knowledge.
Prominent Virgos are Sean Connery, Michael Jackson and Stephen King.
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Vampires
Vampires
Legends about vampires or vampire-like beings have flourished throughout world folklore, to include the regions of India, China and Greece.
The current incarnation of the vampire is usually traced back to Eastern European myths and superstitions that inspired several vampire novels, the most enduring being Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897).
In the eighteenth-century, Eastern European reports of vampirism ran high, taking two sometimes related forms of
- Physical vampirism – robbing another person’s vitality by drinking their blood.
- Spiritual vampirism – psychic possession of another person’s free-will and theft of their vitality.
Traditionally, vampires are said to reside in or around graveyards, having a strong aversion to daylight. They rise only at night to freely select their victims.
Repelled by the cross, these agents of darkness are known as the ‘undead.’
In the 1970s and ’80s moviegoers dressed up as characters and recited lines from the film, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, perhaps entering into a state of consciousness which anthropologist Lévi-Bruhl called participation mystique.
A more recent newspaper report of alleged vampirism in Toronto tells of a man who forcefully cut and drank the blood of a young woman.
At first the woman was horrified and pressed charges, resulting in the aggressor’s imprisonment. Over time, however, she began to feel united and in love with him, visiting him in prison on a daily basis.
Paranormal researchers and psychics generally explain vampirism in terms of a restless earth-bound spirit or so-called ‘tramp soul’ that gains control of psychologically weak and vulnerable individuals.
By way of contrast, vampire nightclubs seem to be harmless, non-violent and socially acceptable outlets for individuals seeking to experience the numinous aura of the Jungian shadow.
A comparable situation might be the upstanding priest who enjoys horror movies during his off-hours.
But clearly not everyone can keep a mature, adult perspective on vampires. Violent murders have been committed by teens in vampire cults who take the Goth lifestyle to its tragic extreme.
» Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dracula, Lycanthropy, Swedenborg (Emanuel), Transmigration, Werewolf
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Witch
Witch
The word witch comes from the Old English wicca (male) and wicce (female).
From his study of African witchcraft, the anthropologist E. E. Evans Pritchard distinguished witchcraft from sorcery: Witches are physically born as such while a person may become a sorcerer later in life.
Both are traditionally associated with evil.
In legend witches use magical spells and potions to work their malice. Legends also tell of good “white witches,” as found in shamanism or fairy tales.
European witch hysteria became so pronounced in the 14th century that mass witch trials began in 1397 in Lucerne.
In 1326 Pope John XXII responded to Dominican pressure by proclaiming witchcraft a heresy.
In 1486 two Dominican monks wrote the Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of Witches or Witches Hammer). The book was a grisly, perverse ‘manual’ on how to identify and force confessions out of suspected witches, who in most cases were deemed guilty before their arrest.
Statistics reveal that in Essex of Southwest England 91% of the 271 accused of sorcery from 1560 – 1680 were women.
The Church could legally claim the land and economic holdings of convicted witches. Some believe that in convicting so-called witches, perverse clergy were more interested in worldly than spiritual gain. Most of the condemned were vulnerable women and therefore scapegoats–the poor, the single and those deemed unattractive or different.
In this regard, Carl Jung says the persecution of witches in Europe and North America was a mass projection of the shadow.
Witchcraft today has become a complicated phenomenon.
Many recognize it as an alternative religion. Aspiring women witches join covens and many practice what they believe is white magic.
A variety of commercial occult products has grown alongside the modern practice of witchcraft.
The idea of the ethically ambiguous witch has also been popularized and, to some degree, normalized through film and TV productions, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
In the TV version of Buffy, the character Willow originally uses witchcraft for the good but becomes consumed by a quest for magical power and eventually allows evil to dominate her.
Although many religious fundamentalists might deplore such an apparently ‘evil’ program, the TV series closes with Willow regaining her humility (and humanity) by allowing love to enter into her life again.
» Ancestor Cults, Archetypal Image, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Glamour, Haensel and Gretel, Latin, Lewis (C. S.), Macbeth, Madness, Neo-Paganism, Odyssey, Psychosis, Scholarship, Walker (Barbara G.)
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John Paul II revived the Inquisition» http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2006/11/john-paul-ii-revived-inquisition.html
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Werewolf
Werewolf In ancient and medieval European folklore and mythology, a werewolf is a shapeshifter, a human being who is either cursed into transforming into a wolf-like creature or who does so at will.
A werewolf often enjoys the taste of human flesh and hunts for living people at night.
Similar ideas are found on just about every continent. And if the wolf motif is not present, some other threatening animal suffices–for instance, the Chinese and Japanese tiger; the African leopard, lion and crocodile; the Greek and Turkish boar; the North American bear; and the South American jaguar.
In North America the Navaho are said to change into a wolf and practice witchcraft to the detriment of living human beings.
The belief in werewolves was rampant in the 15th and 16th centuries. Stuart Gordon says some 30,000 people are said to have been destroyed in France for this occult offense against man and nature (The Encylopedia of Myths and Legends, London: Headline, 1993, p. 727).
As with Vampire myths, some interpret the werewolf as nothing but a metaphor for a human who displays arrested psychological development, deficient moral judgment, serious lack of self-control and an extremely strong sex drive–i.e. a sexual predator.
A contemporary ‘werewolf’ in the figurative sense of the word could also be a criminal psychopath who calculatingly marries a naive person to advance a career, gain social legitimacy, and so on.
Although we usually hear a lot about male werewolves, female werewolves have been depicted in fiction. A notable contemporary example is found in the Canadian film Ginger Snaps (2000).
Today, fictional werewolves are also depicted as coming into being through some kind of hereditary condition or infectious disease transmitted through the blood, a kind of fusion of modern scientific theory and ancient myth.
Further Reading:
- Maria Leach, ed., The Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend, New York: Harper & Row, 1984, p. 1170.
» Animus, Lycanthropy, Myth, Reincarnation, Vampires
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