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Brandon SmithACTIVIST POSTWhen writing investigative examinations on the corrupt state of American government and American economy, invariably one is met with the same set of ever cycling broken-record questions and assertions. One of the primary responses I have received and I'm sure most Liberty Movement analysts have received is this:Okay, now we know what the problem is, but when are YOU going to tell US what the solution is...?The question seems "reasonable", but in reality, everything that is weak minded in our culture today is summed up in its content.First, the question insinuates that there is no utility in exploring the nature of a crisis without "fixing" the situation right then and there. Often, the most complex problems of our world require years if not decades of thought and action, trial and error, before a single working solution is generated. When the problem involves a criminal government run by corporatist oligarchs bent on total globalization and centralized control of finance, society, and law, you have to expect that there will be some difficulties in finding a remedy. You will never defeat your enemy without knowing your enemy, and our particular fight requires endless analysis.Second, I wish I could convey the palm-to-forehead agony I feel every time I hear someone begging for myself, or anyone for that matter, to overnight mail them a solution on a silver platter wrapped in perfect little pink bow. Why is it that so many Americans today refuse to offer THEIR OWN solutions to the problems they perceive in the world? Is it laziness, or stupidity, or both? They are so busy waiting for a "white knight" to come and save them they have forgotten to learn how to save themselves. Don't sit idle expecting analysts to make your life better. Become industrious. Take initiative. Think of something we haven't thought of yet. Stop being followers and start becoming leaders within your own communities.Third, the worst of all dilemmas when dealing with the above question is that most of the time, it is being asked by people who already have a preconceived answer they want to hear. Many in our movement today want a silver bullet solution. They want magic and fairy dust. They want to end tyranny with a snap of their fingers, the press of the button, within the span of a day, or perhaps a week. They don't want to have to work beyond their normal capacity, they don't want to struggle, they don't want to sacrifice, and they certainly don't want to risk their property, livelihood, or life.They want a civil rights style MLK/Gandhi march on Washington D.C., which has already been done over and over again leading to nothing but ever more corruption (you don't ask tyrants to police themselves, nor do you ask for their permission to change government). They want an armed march on Washington D.C. (perhaps the most tactically moronic strategy ever to be suggested year after year), leading to nothing more than a bloodbath which would only make the Liberty Movement appear weak, or insane, all in a failed attempt to unseat a bunch of politicians who are merely puppets and middle men for the financial elites. They want Generals grandstanding as purveyors of constitutionalism to initiate a military coup to remove the "evil Muslim" from his seat of power (is Obama a Muslim, or an atheist Communist? These methodologies tend to negate each other...), while the truth is, Obama is nothing more that a minor obstacle compared to the greater evil of central banking and internationalism, and a Neo-Con Republican (or provocateur General) could easily continue Obama's work without missing a beat.And, most of all, they want something flashy, something new, something technological and glorious to solve all their woes. How many times have you heard the claim, for instance, that digital currencies like Bitcoin would "bring down" the central banks and turn the globalist empire to dust at our feet? Yet, Bitcoin's very existence relies on the Web, a government dominated networking system which they can remove from our hands any time they wish.These are not solutions, they are distractions, or worse, con-games. They are designed to fool you into thinking that you can lounge behind your computer, or walk blindly down the street with a sign or a gun, and the nation will attain renaissance without a tear or a drop of blood shed. They are pleasant lies that many people want to have whispered to them.I have no interest in making people feel comfortable, or safe, or at ease in the nature of the task before us. I'm only interested in the truth, and the truth is, REAL solutions have already been offered to the Liberty Movement. For years we've been talking about them, implementing them, and attempting to convince others to implement them. These solutions are not easy. They are not pleasant or quick. They will require much sacrifice, and unimaginable suffering. There is no way around these tasks if we are to succeed and dismantle centralized totalitarianism in our lifetimes...NON-PARTICIPATIONThis is a simple concept that for some reason tends to confound people. If you march to the steps of the White House motivated by a desire to educate others on the hidden dangers of our political situation, then this is all well and good. But, if you march to the steps of the White House with the expectation that this gesture will somehow impress or frighten the military industrial complex into forsaking its criminal ways and step down from power, then you have fallen into a delusional paradigm.If you are using a government controlled communications medium like the Internet to educate others while the system still exists, then this is practical. But, if you really believe that you are going to exploit that same network as an offensive tool to destroy Big Brother, you are living in techno-geek dreamland.And, if you still think that the diseased political arena has any merit whatsoever and that the system can be inoculated from the within, or that you can rewrite the rules on a whim (constitutional convention) and have those rules followed, at this point I don't hold much hope for you.Now, I want you to imagine, just for a moment, that the government does not exist. The Internet does not exist. Corporate banking chains and department stores and grocery outlets do not exist. State law enforcement organizations do not exist. State run schools do not exist. How would you go about living day to day without the bureaucracy, the welfare, the infrastructure, the safety nets? This is how ALL Liberty Movement activists are going to have to start thinking if they want to change anything.The Non-Participation Principle is best summarized like this: "WHEN FACING A CORRUPT SYSTEM, PROVIDE FOR YOURSELF AND YOUR COMMUNITY THOSE NECESSITIES THAT THE SYSTEM CANNOT OR WILL NOT. BECOME INDEPENDENT FROM ESTABLISHMENT-CONTROLLED PARADIGMS. IF YOU AND YOUR COMMUNITY DO THIS, THE SYSTEM WILL HAVE ONE OF TWO CHOICES:" * "ADMIT THAT YOU DO NOT NEED THEM ANYMORE AND FADE INTO THE FOG OF HISTORY, OR..." * "REVEAL ITS TYRANNICAL NATURE IN FULL AND ATTEMPT TO FORCE YOU BACK INTO DEPENDENCE."In either case, you win. You have taken proactive measures to remove yourself as a cog in the machine. The machine can then of course try to demonize you, or attack you, but ultimately, they will attack from a place of social and moral weakness, and you will defend from a position of logistical and moral strength.Stop waiting for the system to change, or collapse. Change the way YOU live and survive. Build your own localized systems and walk away.DECENTRALIZATIONLearn a vital trade skill, grow your own food, purchase resource rich raw land, learn self defense methods beyond what law enforcement personnel are trained in (which is not too difficult), take EMT training courses so that you can provide general and emergency medical care for your family, get your children out of the state run common core indoctrination centers and homeschool them, build neighborhood watch groups, emergency response groups, barter markets and alternative economies.Decentralization is about dissolving our unbalanced relationship with the state and taking away their power to dictate how we live. If a core necessity is centralized in the hands of a select few, then we start producing it ourselves and remove that option from their deck of cards. You cannot fight a corrupt system if you are dependent on a corrupt system.The very essence of globalism is centralized oversight of every aspect of our lives. When we allow ourselves to feed from the government or corporate trough because it's "easier", we are essentially volunteering to be herded like animals. It is within the power of every single individual, no matter their age or financial circumstances, to find creative ways in becoming more independent. It is up to you. There are no excuses.REVOLUTIONWe should have no illusions that the criminal elements of our government will simply shrug their shoulders and give up. When we decentralize, we show the world how irrelevant they are. Tyrants must remain relevant to the masses, otherwise, they have no means to dominate except pure force. When that force is eventually applied, the ONLY logical response is revolution. Decentralization is not a means to "avoid" such revolution, it is only a means to strengthen our position in preparation for revolution.There is no ideal revolutionary model because the unique nature of one's epoch determines the nature of one's rebellion. However, I can say that any revolution that does not focus on the foundational culprits behind the offending tyranny is doomed to failure. When I see the overt obsession with Barack Obama as some kind of linchpin in the development of socialism in America, I have to remind people that Obama has merely stood on the legislative efforts of George W. Bush, and so many other globalist presidents before him, in order to bring the U.S. to the current point of catastrophe. And who made these men, these so-called "leaders"? Who financed their campaigns? Who taught them the internationalist methodologies they now implement? Who really controls money, and thus economy, and thus politics in this country?Revolution must be directed at the oligarchs, not just their mascots, and if anyone asks you to rally around a revolution that does not name central banking and international banking entities and the men who run them as direct culprits, they are probably controlled opposition. We don't need a French or Bolshevik Revolution to replace old puppets with new puppets, we need to go to the very heart of the cancer that has stricken our nation and remove it. If this means we have to physically fight back, then so be it, but we must be smart in how we fight.In the end, the average citizen is his own defender, his own governor, his own industrialist, his own "king maker". He may consciously realize this, or he may be oblivious. All of the solutions, all of the tools, are right there, in his hands, waiting to be used. The saddest truth of all is that the only thing holding him back from legitimate freedom is his own fear. Only when we stop avoiding the pain required to procure independence, will we finally have it."You can contact Brandon Smith at": brandon@alt-market.com". Alt-Market is an organization designed to help you find like-minded activists and preppers in your local area so that you can network and construct communities for mutual aid and defense. Join Alt-Market.com today and learn what it means to step away from the system and build something better."
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So what incisive is concentration? Nurture is next you brusque your mental powers or your pains towards a particular profession, general or contract. This is controlled by your conscious timepiece. In your dull timepiece you store everything you control ever seen heard and weathered in these natty down in the dumps collection called your society. If you can learn to get in touch with these collection in addition to you can recollection boss information. The human form has one of the limit vanguard filing systems out put forward. Sadly we are now and then taught how type everything positively dressed in collection, and recollection that information. This morning, I was dancing with a DDR max television program. It's one of fill with games everyplace you search the arrows on the supervisor and put your bottom on the similar courtyard. I haven't played it in awhile, but some time ago I use to do it realistically every day as a income to ensue in fit. As I was undertaking this I noticed I was gentle. Go jogging incessantly relaxes me. I noticed a few get older I did the routines perfectly. Those get older next I forgot what I was undertaking but saw the score at the end and was even wow, miraculous score. The punish my attraction was broke, I was off jump and analyzing how to get back on respect. The boss I actually tried to ideal about what I was undertaking the drop I did. Yes, for fill with of you goodbye oh wow this is a playstation 2 game I know my instrument is defunct and I really requirement to get the Wii :))))))So I tried to well listen to the music and establish yourself. The boss I well listened to the music and unhurried the coffee break I did. Why? Such as I was charter my absorbed rob due to. Like my form is undertaking what it's believe to perfectly for instance of images on a supervisor, that would be my absorbed leading and my conscious timepiece meeting in the back seat for a time innate. It is equally translating the arrows on my supervisor as to an action I am believe to rob. Lacking my conscious chiming in it's viewpoint even it's too fast, or I missed that jump, etc. The conscious timepiece can be to be more precise damaging if you don't teach it to trough down. :P By allowing yourself to get lost in what you are undertaking and let your absorbed rob due to for awhile, it can control the exact effect as meditation. Section of the wish of meditating is to trough your consciousness for a down in the dumps even if. A lot of fly I work with explain me that they don't control the time or nonviolence in their life to imagine. That's fine, but put forward are other ways you can end the exact domino effect. This is an set phrase of one that worked for me. In the wake of a bit due to an hour of undertaking it, I was unhurried, what's more almost and internally. I in the same way ran the the same of 2.5 miles the games says. :) *beams* lolSo what I'm proposing is this: Like you deliberate that someone is actually break your attraction, ie you working calculatingly to solid an profession, they are actually interrupting your absorbed timepiece at work accessing your society, or collection that you control stored. It would be the the same of someone making a loud disagreement at home a meditation. It jolts you back to consciousness. Thoughts?Point of view and Blessings,Jasmeine Moonsong
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"Sunset Kwan Yin" by Christal
Bixia Yuanjin's themes are air, protection, luck, freedom, birth and movement. Her symbols are wind, clouds, kites and chrysanthemum petals. A weather Goddess who lives in cloudy high places, Bixia Yuanjin attends each person's birth to bestow good health and luck upon the child. She is also a wind deity, helping to liberate and motivate us with fall's gently nudging winds.
During mid-autumn, the Chinese take to nearby hills and fly kites to commemorate a sage, Huan Ching, who saved villagers from disaster by instructing them to take to high places, thereby protecting them from a mysterious plaque. So, consider doing likewise today, even if it means just climbing a ladder! Move up off the ground, breath deeply of Bixia Yuanjin's fresh air, and discover renewed wellness.
If you feel adventurous, chrysanthemum wine and cakes are traditional feast fare for longevity and good fortune. An alternative is steeping chrysanthemum petals in water and then adding the strained water to any soups, or other water-based foods and beverages for a similar effect.
Should the winds be with you, fly a kite named after a burden and liberate yourself in the winds. Also, carefully observe the shapes in the clouds today. If you have a pressing question on your heart, Bixia Yuanjin can answer it through these, her messengers."
("Patricia Telesco, "365 Goddess: a daily guide to the magic and inspiration "of the goddess".")
"Bixia Yuanjin (pronounced BEE-cha you-on-JEEN) is the Chinese Taoist Goddess of the dawn, childbirth, and destiny. As Goddess of dawn, She attends the birth of each new day from her home high in the clouds. As Goddess of childbirth, She attends the birth of children, fixing their destiny and bringing good fortune. Bixia Yuanjin is venerated in the Temple of the Purple Dawn at the summit of the holy mountain, Tai Shan, where women wishing to conceive come to ask for Her help. Her father, Tai Shan Wang, is the god of the mountain and judge of the underworld. Her name is also seen as Bixia Yuanjun, Bixia Yuan Jun, Pi Hsia Yuan Chun, and T'ien Hsien Niang Niang, and epithets for her include Princess of the Rosy Clouds, Princess of the Azure Clouds, and the Jade Woman."
"Bixia Yuanjun (Sovereign of the clouds of dawn) is a Daoist Goddess connected with Mt. Tai in Shandong province. As the easternmost of the five sacred peaks of China, Mt. Tai was considered the gateway to the afterlife throughout Chinese history. Bixia and Her main temple located there attained prominence in the early Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644). Centered in northern China, the Goddess's popularity extened from the imperial family to common people. Bixia was granted elevated titles, such as "Tianxian shengmu "(Heavenly immortal, saintly mother) and" Tianxian y"unu ("Hevenly immortal, jade maiden), but She is commonly known as" Taishan niangniang "(Our Lady of Mt. Tai) or Lao nainai (Granny) in Chinese popular religion. She was charged with setting human life spans and judging the dead, but Her ability to facilitate the birth of male children made Her a particularly popular Goddess among women.
Several disparate versions of Bixia's hagiography outline Her origins. Elite texts preserved in the Daoist canon declare Her to be the daughter of the god of Mt. Tai whose history as a judge in the courts of hell extends back to the seventh century. Late Ming popular sectarian scriptures, or "baojuan "(precious volumes), assert that Bixia was the daughter of a commoner. According to the accounts, Her prayers to an ancient Daoist Goddess Xiwangmu (Queen of the West), along with Her practice of self-cultivation, helped Her to achieve immortality.
Temples throughout northern China include images of Bixia. She is most readily identified by Her headdress, which features three or more phoenixes, Bixia usually appears seated with legs pendant and sometimes hold a tablet inscribed with a representiation of the Big Dipper as a symbol of Her authority. Two Goddesses who often attend Bixia are Zisu niangniang (Goddess of children) and Yanguang niangniang (Goddess of eyesight), but Bixia can also appear with in a group of Goddesses" (Jestice, p. 128 - 129).
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Jestice, Phyllis G. Holy People of the World: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia, Volume 1, "Bixi Yuanjun (Pi-hsia yuan-ch"un)".
Sabrina. "Goddess A Day", "Bixia Yuanjin".
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"Goddess-guide.com", "Fertility Goddesses and Goddesses of Pregnancy and Childbirth".
"Javewu.multiply.com", "Pictures of Bi Xia Yuan Jun".
Kohn, Livia. "Daoism Handbook", "Women in Daoism" (p. 393).
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Naquin, Susan & Ch"un-Fang Y"u. "Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China (Studies on China)", "PI-HSIA YUAN-CH"UN" (p. 78).
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I am sad today. I am losing my friend. I've lost too many friends. Air Witch says I've turned to a dark path. She's being having health problems and I was doing healing spells for her. She's asked me to stop, as if my energy is tainted and whatever I touch cannot be pure or good. That makes me angry. And very, very sad.
Air Witch is extremely uncomfortable with ghosts, spirits, and anything else that lies beyond the veil. I don't quite see it that way. I think if you fear death then you also fear life. I see the world in terms of cycles, beginning and endings. Some seeds need the cold of winter or they won't bloom in spring.
A few years ago, I was called to work with bones. I resisted at first. I don't think I could actually harvest a bone. All the bones I have are found. I can deal with a bone bleached by the sun, washed by the rain. I hold bones and feel the life that they once contained. Bones have much to say.
I began working with Oya, Goddess of cemeteries, the marketplace, storms, and beautiful cloth. All the things I work with anyway, save for the cemetery. That came later.
When I go to a cemetery, I ask Oya's permission to enter. I bring Her an offering. I listen to the bones. I might make rubbings of tombstones, but that's it. I don't cast spells, petition the dead, curse, hex, or anything else. I go in, touch the energy and leave.
Air Witch says this is satanic. I can't believe her thinking on this. I don't even believe in the devil. I would never hurt anyone. I cannot stand to see an animal suffer. Air Witch thinks dark things can follow me home, then there will be dark forces in my life.
I work several different kinds of magick. I view them all as separate. I touch ley lines. I hear the bones. I work with angels. I like runes. I use knot magick. I burn candles. I get in the kitchen with my herbs. If I light a candle does it matter if that spell came from a HooDoo source or a Wiccan source? If the spell is just lighting a candle and chanting, is there really a difference? At what point exactly, does magick become black?
Am I going dark? Because I don't think I am.
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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1185379003058">We became the 35s almost by chance. In was May 1971 and we were 35-year-old suburban housewives (regrettably a mere dozen of us, not the crowd we'd wanted) hunger-striking outside the Soviet Embassy in London on behalf of a 35-year-old Soviet Jewish woman, incarcerated without trial in a Soviet torture chamber.
We made BBC Radio's News at One later that day, which named us the 35s for the first time, and named me Margaret (rather than Barbara) as I gave my first on-air interview. Nonetheless, we were delighted to have media coverage - and thrilled when it bore fruit. Within 12 hours, an Israeli Embassy staffer secretly told us that Raissa Palatnik, the librarian for whom we'd demonstrated, had been moved to a regular prison cell, from where she would stand trial.
Looking back on those tumultuous times, I credit our artlessness and innocence for that first success and the many that followed. Our campaign was one of the opening salvos in the battle to free the then-unknown number of persecuted Jews inside the USSR - who were discovered to be the four million so-called Jews of Silence. It was a fight in which we took on not only the mighty Soviet Union, but also Israel's government and the Anglo-Jewish establishment. For their own separate reasons, both Israel and British Jews favored quiet diplomacy. We were appalled at their foot-dragging. All we could sense was impending doom, a catastrophic replaying of all-too-recent Jewish history.
My story with the 35s begins with the Six Day War, which sparked Jewish pride and revitalized Jewish identity across the USSR. I heard stories about these Soviet Jews for the first time on holiday in Israel that summer. Did Soviet Jews, I wondered, want to be silent or were they waiting for free Jews to shatter that silence?
The plight of Soviet Jewry, however, receded for me when we returned to London and plunged once more into our busy middle-class lives. I was then nearly 33, the youngest of my three children was only two and my husband Cecil and I were both active in British Jewish life - from Golders Green's Dunstan Road Synagogue to fund-raising through WIZO, JNF and JPA (today the UIA). It took another summer holiday in Israel for the spark struck in 1967 to flare.
It was then that a friend, Pesach Mor, a European-born lawyer and a former British Army officer, told us about a trip he'd recently made to the USSR, at some personal peril, to see the situation for himself. "They want to get out," he said. "They don't want to be Jews of Silence."
I RETURNED to London determined to act. The proper authorities, I believed, had simply to be galvanized. I called a meeting of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Anglo-Jewry's 200-year-old representative body, and its major subsidiaries. I can still see the long table round which we sat, the 15 to 20 people there representing the Chief Rabbi's Office and the Central British Fund, among others. I made an impassioned plea for the rescue of Soviet Jewry. They responded in a polite British way, whose subtext read that I was a Jewish housewife who knew nothing, was not positioned to take any kind of action and should go home and busy myself with more appropriate matters.
A CBF representative whom I met on the stairs following the meeting told me that parcels were quietly being sent to Soviet Jews, that I should guard my tongue and that public action was out of the question.
She left me unconvinced. I requested a meeting with then-chief rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits. The encounter turned into a three-hour slugfest, in which I desperately tried to convince this gentlemanly scholar that we were the heirs of those Diaspora Jews of a generation earlier who had failed to save the six million, and that he could help change the course of history. I don't think anyone had spoken to him like that before - but to no avail.
I had hit blank walls in every direction. I went about life with a heavy heart, attending any event connected with Soviet Jewry, increasingly frustrated and angry that I couldn't trigger the official bodies I'd been so certain would act for the Jews in trouble.
Early in May 1971, I attended a lecture given by Yitzhak Rager, then second secretary at the Israeli Embassy and later to be mayor of Beersheba and president of State of Israel Bonds. That was where I heard about Raissa Palatnik, at 35 the same age as me, imprisoned in a torture chamber because she'd wanted to leave Russia.
I was overwhelmed by Palatnik's story, and poured it out to Cecil as soon as I got home. Had my grandmother not emigrated to Britain, I could be where Raissa was now, I told him. While we couldn't bring out the numbers of demonstrators that American Jews did, I said, I wanted to gather other 35-year-old women to join me on hunger strike to gain recognition for her plight. The time for passive protests and short mentions deep inside the newspapers was over.
I MUST HAVE made more than 100 phone calls that night to family, friends and mothers of children at the three Jewish schools my children attended. Almost all of them asked if I'd had an okay from the Anglo-Jewish establishment. Few were willing to put themselves on the line when they heard I hadn't. In the end, barely a dozen of us - among them, my good friends Sylvia Wallis, Zelda Harris and Zena Clayton - made our way next day to the gates of the Soviet Embassy. Against this wonderful photo-op background, we held up a giant canvas banner that Cecil and our two sons had spent the night making in our dress factory. "USSR release Raissa Palatnik" it urged, for all the world to see.
The News at One interview followed, the 35s was born and we garnered our first triumph with Palatnik moved to an ordinary prison and given a trial date. The secretary of the Board of Deputies even sent us a congratulatory telegram. My home became our office, and the phone rarely stopped ringing. We wore black for our protests, we were young and well-groomed, and the media loved us. As our group grew, one member brought in a circle of her friends. Among them was Doreen Gainsford, a later leader of the 35s.
Palatnik's situation had improved, but she was still a prisoner. We decided that three 35-year old Jewish women in black - myself, Myra Janner (whose husband was MP Greville Janner) and Sylvia Wallis - would go to the Soviet Embassy each morning and present the ambassador's wife with a letter asking her "as a woman, to use her good offices to stop the KGB torturing Mrs. Palatnik... on behalf of all the 35-year-old Jewish married women in Britain."
Each morning at 11, British police escorted the three of us to the embassy gates, where we requested a meeting with the ambassador's wife - which of course we didn't get. Meanwhile, the rest of the 35s kept a round-the-clock vigil outside the embassy and cabled the wives of Soviet leaders such as premier Alexei Kosygin and party leader Leonid Brezhnev, calling for the release of Palatnik and other Jewish prisoners of conscience. Of course, we informed the media at every turn. After considerable publicity in the BBC and the national press, our letter was finally accepted.
We were getting quite clever at PR. Our press releases were original and our ideas were innovative. When The Times quoted the Soviet press about the situation of the Jews rather than our sources, 300 of us marched down Fleet Street on the newspaper, and the editor came out to talk to us. London's Jewish Chronicle of July 1971 reported that protests such as ours were impacting on the sentencing of Jews in the USSR, and called me "one of the enterprising leaders of the campaign."
DESPITE OUR successes, many of the 35s still yearned to be under the establishment umbrella. It was unheard of for a group of Jews - far less Jewish women - to act without formal approval from either Israel's government or the Board of Deputies.
The final straw came when two independent activists gained access to the Soviet Consulate, found anti-Semitic tracts there and read them through a window to the press below. During a TV interview that followed, one of the Jewish students involved crudely described his manhandling in the consulate and imprisonment in a cage for several hours.
This was followed by an apology to the Soviet Embassy from the Israeli Embassy - and a middle-of-the-night visit to our home by Yitzhak Rager, with a warning to "lie low." Cecil thought this was nonsense, but my intention wasn't to make trouble for Israel, so I obeyed. A week later, a 35s delegation told me they wanted to move under the auspices of the Board of Deputies.
I wanted the organization to continue, thrive and maintain its impetus, but I didn't want to be controlled by the Board of Deputies. This crisis was resolved for me by the wise counsel of Rabbi Leslie Hardman, MBE, a former British Army chaplain and the first Jewish chaplain in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after its liberation. He advised me to let the 35s go. Painfully, I did. It was like putting my baby up for adoption.
My baby was gone, but Soviet Jews still languished behind locked gates, so I set up a new organization: the Committee for the Release of Soviet Jewish Prisoners. It began with three stalwart core-members - Sonja Cohen, Frances Mary Marzel and myself - together with our families, whose moral and practical support kept us going. Cecil funded us, and my children came on demonstrations, lighting Hanukka candles in the freezing London streets and getting up to mischief of their own invention on behalf of the Jews in the USSR.
Michael Sherbourne, a Russian-speaker who kept daily contact with refuseniks in the USSR (and who, in fact, coined the term refusenik) was our personal link to those in trouble. Eminent academics, who admired us but didn't dare join us, became friends; wonderful writers wrote for us; and famous actors and actresses helped us.
My working past as a fashion model had left me intensely aware of the value of a good a picture. We hired a veteran news photographer, Sydney Harris, to accompany us to every event. Never flustered and always professional, he would provide large black-and-white prints within hours, which we sent by express mail to dozens of publications, often getting front-page coverage of even small demonstrations.
One reason our pictures were used so often is that the pretty girls were always maneuvered into the foreground - for which the Jewish press bitterly criticized me. My response that "you wouldn't take a rusty gun to the front line" received, of course, equally vituperative criticism. I was frequently pilloried in the Anglo-Jewish letters and editorial pages and then feted in the op-eds. British Jews simply didn't know what to make of an activist woman.
Our ways of attracting attention grew zanier. When the Ideal Home Exhibition displayed a Russian car, we surrounded it, wearing shirts adorned with the names of Soviet Prisoners of Zion (mine was Sylvia Zalmanson). A Daily Express photographer got a shot of our unceremonious ejection - and I got a 3:30 a.m. phone call from the Daily Express to say that Sylvia Zalmanson was on their front page and she looked remarkably like me. Our committee's secretary, Frances Kutock, allowed us to put her on a stretcher and push her down London's Bayswater Road, on one occasion as Anatoly Sharansky, on another as Zalmanson.
On another occasion, we rented a goat to symbolize Jewish scapegoats. We again dressed as prisoners, each with a Soviet-Jewish prisoner's name emblazoned on our sweaters, and led the goat down Bond Street. The goat, however, unfortunately took fright and bolted, with me desperately hanging onto its leash. Most of the photographers lost us, but Harris's pictures of the Jewish (e)scapegoat were printed around the world.
A Times op-ed by Bernard Levin about pregnant Soviet Jewish prisoner Ludmilla Prussakova prompted us to invite actress Hayley Mills, then pregnant herself, to demonstrate with us outside the Soviet Embassy. She duly turned up, charmed us all, was highly knowledgeable about the plight of Soviet Jews and spoke up for them when the media interviewed her.
In September 1971, I received a New Year card from the USSR. Written in Russian, it read: "Dear Barbara. We congratulate you and your family on the New Year, Rosh Hashana. We wish you lots of personal happiness, good health and success in everything. Many thanks for not forgetting us."
The trickle of Soviet Jewish activists making aliya in the 1970s gradually grew into a torrent. In 1987, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev allowed the majority of refuseniks to leave, and in 1991, when the Soviet Union fell and most restrictions on emigration were rescinded, the Jewish exodus became a flood. Today, more than a million Jews from the former USSR live in Israel, with about a half-million more in the US, Canada and Europe.
While the part I played in the campaign to free Soviet Jewry was not on the scale described by Pravda (it once called the Oberman house in Golders Green "the center of Zionist activity in England"!), I look back with enormous pride. We were non-working, middle-class Jewish housewives, with the support of husbands and children, and the hours to give to what was then a unique form of public protest. Despite the emerging women's movement in the West, we saw ourselves as housewives, who had taken the highly unusual step of bucking the establishment and grabbing the spotlight solely because we saw no other way.
We combined vision with a stubborn determination to put the plight of refuseniks on the world agenda, and we believed passionately that we could make a difference. This proved a potent combination. In the end, we and others like us did indeed show the mighty Soviet Union that Jews could not be denied their human rights because they were Jews.
"I'm one with the God
and open to Her Shrewdness."
1st Day of the 6th Cosmological Control
Ruled by Persephone
Cosmological Tree Control of Hauth/Hawthorn
7th Day of the Celtic Tree
Month of Hauth/Hawthorn
Moon Phase: New Moon at 7:47PM EDST
Moon Moon rises: 5:39AM EDST
Moon sets: 8:33PM EDST
Moon in Taurus v/c 12:47PM EDST
Moon enters the Impermanent Air Complaint
of Gemini at 7:05PM EDST
Blodeuwedd's Control of the Moon
Cosmological Meditation: The be condescending of
friendship
Sun enters Gemini at 11:16AM EDST
Sunrise: 5:59AM EDST
Sunset: 8:34PM EDST
Enormous Enigma for the Day: "Are you
respecting or abusing trust?"
Beltaine (Calan Mai) Corner
of the Meeting
May 20th, 2012
NEW MOON - The moon is 0-45 degrees plump happy of the sun,
uprising at dawn and boil at sundown. It's age is 0-1 day. Magick want
be performed linking dawn and sundown. A new moon's power is
budding, you can be encouraging that the power of any spell cast at
this time goes on. Routine with Sun Goddesses such as Sekhmet, Vesta,
or Heartha or the God Ra moral fiber drum up power. Work of art for self, carreers,
or romance. This phase is then friendly as the Indistinguishable Moon phase. Astrologically
the Sun and Moon are in "conjunction". Like the Sun's light overpowers
the handy Moon in the day, and the Moon is on the other feature of the Den
with the Sun at night, she is not observable in the sky at all. The New Moon is subsequent to
a Generate planted in the earth. We cannot see Her but She is best part to mount, full
of potential and energy for Her new journey. Relatives who innate at home the New
Moon phase are not thought out, blustery and intuitive. They are pot takers and
pioneers. The New Moon is the beginning of a new keep on. Keywords for this
New phase are: beginning, natural, originate, extension, and exactness. Modish this
phase the new keep on is such as seeded by your eyesight, inner and further than. Eliminate in
physical stir. Apply time forlorn. Romanticize your goals for the 29.6-day
keep on happy.
MOON IN GEMINI - The Moon in Gemini wakes us up; we lose our close attention
but speed up our words. The natter sparkles our evidence, broadens
but doesn't pile on. This transit is a time to: get, examine, glance at, brainchild,
argument, slim, edit, increase and sky. The Moon in Gemini quickens our tense
live out. Source a web of understanding - get, engage new information. Utter to your
flora, skin but thwart planting. This is a time of words and other badge of frown,
liberation, flexibility, grouchy journeys, reading or verbal communication, a trust for key up and having improved
than one thing going at once. You may pick out forthcoming and faculty command to work with your hands
at home the moon's transit in Gemini. All words (lecture, verbal communication or reading) and knowledgeable
matters are easier at home a Gemini Moon transit. We may be improved capricious and translatable, so
grab hold of all statements and promises with a string of brackish, addition if the particular has celebrated fickle
in the prior. It's a recalcitrant time to make any decisions, but a good time to use your wit and wisdom
in conversations. At hand is a strong trust for key up and liberation in weeping matters and
eco-friendly issues. Issues of the practical world are set aside for now. Moon in Gemini is the
best time to work magick for good words, relocation of high-rise, verbal communication, associates family,
and travel. Reclamation rituals for ailments of the shoulders, arms, hands or lungs are then done
at home this speck of time. Towards the end of the transit, one time the moon approaches the Complaint
of Malignancy (which moral fiber be Wednesday emergence), road and rail network and communications become improved
weeping. Relatives innate under a Moon in Gemini can communication to guise, believe fast, multi-task, prod
moods with control but yearn for to absence obscurity and line up. These kin command to understand and
they halt and reside words but they yearn for to learn to observe be quiet and words.
They glance at for us and supply us.
SUN DAY - Sun Day is the Day of Significance, Manufacture and Modernization - The Latin nickname for Sunday,
our topmost day of the week, is "Dies Solis "('sun's morning). In ancient Greek it was called "Hermena "
"Heliou; "in the Old English words it was friendly as "Sunnandaeg; "in Nucleus English, "Sonenday. "
All of these mean the exact thing - the day of the Sunday. [from Ellen Duncan's "Book of Witchery "]
Enormous Block out - A cosmological little known occurs one time the moon gets linking Den and the sun, and the moon casts a shadow disdainful Den. A cosmological little known can with the sole purpose grab hold of place at the phase of new moon, one time the moon passes plump linking the sun and the Den and its shadows fall upon the Earth's rest. But whether the alignment produces a empty cosmological little known, a shared cosmological little known or an annular cosmological little known depends on uncommon factors,
http://www.space.com/15584-solar-eclipses.html
and http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/solar-eclipse-2012-annular-eclipse-visible-california-texas/story?id=16377743
The pillar candle is great for group and multiple day workings. Large Pillar Candles 1 1/2" x 9". The following information is to help you understand the properties attributed to these candles. The use of candles in magick is an art form and as such we do not guarantee the result from the use of these candles. Red Love, passion, creativity, and strength. Commonly associated with fire. Green Money, fertility, abundance, health. Commonly associated with earth. Pink Friendship, romantic love, and soft tissue healing. Blue Calmness, mediation, harmony, peacefulness. Commonly associated with water. Purple Connecting to deity, magick, opening portals. Commonly associated with Spirit. White Purifying, cleansing, clarity, channeling spiritual information. Black Protection, reversing, releasing, and banishing. Orange Creativity, personal power. Yellow Communication, clarity of thought. Commonly associated with air.
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Over here, Robert wrote a bit about issues that he has been Struggling with relating to different facets of his personality. In his post he mentions some advice that I gave him regarding not wasting all ones efforts on improving the outer personality. I thought I might take the opportunity to talk a little bit about that here.There are really three things that people try to do with magic:1. Change outer circumstance2. Make self improvements3. Attain Enlightenment, Gnosis, Union with the Divine or whatever you want to call moving towards ultimate truth.All of these can be perused at the exclusion of all else, but in a well rounded Sorcerer all three are seen as interdependent. A lot of magicians and spiritual people do not see the difference between number two and number three. It is this connection that I want to speak about in this post.There are some spiritual paths that rely upon self improvement as the primary means of spiritual development. You route out your flaws, you cultivate your virtues, and eventually you move further and further towards the sublime. This is a valid path. It is a very safe path. It is not a very straight path and also takes a long long time. You can spend lifetimes tweaking the personality and becoming "pure".The ultimate truth does not require this. You are in fact not very far from it right now, no matter what state of mind or stage of development you are in. This is the operative concept behind Tantra - that you can through skillful transmutation of energies and manipulation of primordial experiences propel yourself into the experience. This is also one of the mysteries in Christianity, that you do not need to fulfill all the laws of Leviticus, you simply need to open up to the experience of Gods Love. This is why Aliester Crowley wrote that anyone at any grade could cross the abyss and become 8=3. This is why most people who get a taste of the high spiritual states, and even manage to establish themselves in the high spiritual stages, say that the great secret is that "you are already there".We all have things that we are good at and things that we are bad at. We all have hang-ups and things that we struggle with. Realization of higher states does put this in a different perspective, but it does not eliminate flaws automatically nor does it create virtues.You may look upon the face of god. You may experience union with the cosmos. You may experience the symbol-less Gnosis. You may experience the non-dual state. You may do all this and still get angry at your spouse over stupid crap, be selfish and uncharitable, be bad with money, and still not be able to stop smoking.So how much should I worry about Self Improvement? Here are three rules that I use as guidelines:RULE 1: is to let go of the idea of being a fully actualized perfected persona. Unless you solve the problem of physical immortality, you will NOT perfect your egoistic personality. You cannot be all Myers Briggs personality types rolled into one. There will always be things that you are better at than others and there will always be things that you are just not good with at all. Get over it.RULE 2: is to figure out which weaknesses are simply things you are bad with and which weaknesses are actually causing you problems. For instance, I can anger pretty quickly. If I angered to the point where I became abusive to people or found myself having violent episodes this would be something that I need to work on. As it is, I can control my anger pretty well and transform its energy constructively so it is not a priority to work on. I am also a fast food addict. This was in fact causing me physical harm as well as hampering certain dimensions of spiritual growth, so this was an area of self improvement that was vital to work on.RULE 3: is to work more on enhancing your strengths than fixing all your weaknesses. If you run a business and you are great at the marketing end of things, but not so good with the accounting end of things your time will be much better spent focusing on marketing than accounting. Focusing on accounting may appeal to the part of you that wants to be all things to all people, but you need to remember Rule 1: you can't. Go hire an accountant. Now, if you are so terrible at accounting that as the owner you cannot understand what your accountant tells you, or even have a clue as to whether your costs are more than your income, this brings in Rule 2 - you need to work on your accounting skills. Only just enough to be competent though. You are not looking to master accounting, just the 20% or so that will get you able to communicate with the experts.Using the example of someone looking for a lover I use these three when advising people. Some guys get so into the self-improvement that they never move on to actually asking women out on a date. If you remember rule 1, you will know that while our features make us attractive, our flaws actually make us lovable. Being too perfect is not attractive. If however you are so bad in certain areas that it makes you repugnant to the opposite sex (hint: "I want to cum on your tits" is not a phrase to utter within an hour of meeting someone) than you need to remember rule 2 and go ahead and work on that. If however you are an insightful person, you can use Rule 3 and offer a quick tarot reading or even a cold reading (all is fair in flirting) to build some value for yourself.Now lets turn our attention back to ultimate truth. It is true that you can access the enlightened or gnostic state no matter what personality issues you have. These states, being by nature transpersonal, are not blocked by our petty issues. To take that temporary spiritual state and integrate that awareness into your living levels of consciousness and action however is a whole other story. To take the "STATE" and make it your next "STAGE, USUALLY TAKE A BIT OF WORK ON THE PERSONALITY. YOU STILL DO NOT HAVE TO BECOME PERFECT (RULE 1). YOU JUST HAVE TO WORK ON THOSE ISSUES THAT PRESENT THEMSELVES AS OBSTACLES TO ACHIEVING THAT STATE (RULE 2). YOU WILL THEN REFLECT THAT STATE OUTWARDLY THROUGH YOUR STRENGTHS (RULE 3) WHICH IS WHY DIFFERENT ENLIGHTENED BEINGS MANIFEST IN DIFFERENT ASPECTS. ""THUS ENDETH THE LESSON."
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If you are performing a ritual with a specific goal in mind (a spell), then you need to raise energy before you do that spell.It's your energy and will that drives a spell.If your ritual is to celebrate the Sabbats or to give thanks to the Gods, then you may not feel the need to raise any power.LynxSpirit about raising energyRaising energy can be done in a variety of ways: singing, chanting, dancing, and visualization (guided or otherwise). Here are some suggestions for raising energy.ROOTS AND BRANCHESClose your eyes and imagine the following:Your feet sink into the ground, becoming roots growing deep into our Mother the Earth, Her energies are all around, rising up like sap through your feet and legs; filling your body. Feel them in every cell. You are one with her.You are a great strong tree. Stand tall with arms upstretched. These are your branches reaching up to our Father the Sky. Your leaves drink in the power of the Sun. The energies course down your arms and into the center of your being. Earth and sky energies mix. Feel the life-giving energy swirling thoughout your body. More energy is taken in with every breath. Fill the circle with this energy. Continue to draw it in and to send it out. You are at one with all that is. The life that pulses through nature, pulses through you.MANTRASMake a simple chant using the names of the goddess and god you are going to invoke.Rearrange them until the syllables flow rhythmically. It only needs to be a simple mantralike chant. One example is:"Re, He-ca-te." Another is "Ven-us, Mer-cur-ius, Sol In-vic-tus."If you have drums, rattles, tambourines, or other percussion instruments, use them to emphasize the beat.Dance around in a cirlce.If unable to dance, sit and sway with your eyes closed. Feel the chant resonate within you.THE MILLThis is a traditional spell, known as The Mill, and is used to raise and send energy for any purpose.Dance around the cauldron, focusing on your magickal intent and chant the following rhyme:"Air breathe and air blowMake the mill of magick grow.Work the will for which we prayEo deo ha hay yay.Fire flame and fire burnMake the mill of magic turn.Work the will for which we prayEo deo ha hay yay.Water heat and water boilMake the mill of magick toil.Work the will for which we prayEo deo ha hay yay.Earth without and earth withinMake the mill of magick spin.Work the will for which we prayEo deo ha hay yay."Raising energy by Raymon GraceBeginners' course in Wicca and witchcraft, (c) 1998-99 FireyOne, Ohshawni, Earthen - Raising energy and GroundingAnother course; raising energyLhiannon Sidhe doesn't say much on her page of raising energy, so I post all of it:"Dancing, Drumming, Chanting, Singing, or just plain visualization are good ways to raise energy. Other ways I have heard of or used to raise energy are:--Tensing all your muscles up until you can't hold them any longer then visualize the energy flowing all out at once and going where it's needed.--A word chain--Clapping--Humming--Walking in circles (usually 3 times)--Music Making--The Cone of Power"What is the "cone of power"?CONE OF POWERRaising a cone of power is done within a magic circle. The coveners focus on a single goal which is visualized in a image which everyone agrees.The power of the cone is raised through chanting, dancing, drumming, hand clapping or cord magic. The coveners dance around the circle and as the tempo increases the cone of power begins to rise above the circle.To some the energy is visable as a shimmering light. When the energy is at its peak the high priestess or high priest instructs the coneners to release it towards its goal.Timing is crucial otherwise the spell misfires. The cone has a symbolic significance in witchcraft.In ancient Syria the cone was the symbol of Astarte, the Phoenician goddess of motherhood, fertility and war. Also tall conical hats are associated with withcraft.The cone of power has had some remarkable success through history.It was used by Great Britain in 1588 against the Spanish Armada, which suffered a serious defeat.Again in 1700 it was used against Napoleon, and again against Hitler.Mystica's entry about Cone of Power This is what Pagan Living has to say about the subject Shadow Play ZineThis is what Janet Farrar and Gavin Bone sayAnd here's the Night Net's page on Cone of PowerAs you can see, no one seems to really know what this is, but it sure sounds impressing LOLMore about energy later;Hugs,Ket
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We're blessed in this part of the chaos with an lots of natural features named after Satan.
Just off the top of my skipper, I can delight of the Devil's Keep control, the Devil's Hopyard, Purgatory Opening, the Devil's Beanpot and the Devil's Stove-top. Amply of towns furthermore have in stock at minimum one of the Devil's path engraved on a remove seeds from.
Clearly our Puritan domestic were obsessed with the Unhappy One and meant him reliable for touch on every work of fiction pearl, dip, or split. In some bags these natural features were furthermore affiliated historically with the individual Algonquians, whom the Puritans deceptively felt were Satan's minions.
That's the situation with the Devil's Den in Ashland, Massachusetts, a insignificant dip but archeologists have in stock found some confirmation of to come Indian draw your attention. Tony and I acute to pay a imagine when we were in Ashland looking for the witch caves. Why not see two attention-grabbing sites on one tank of gas?
We parked our car in Wildwood Graveyard and followed a follow that a individual steer alleged would lead to the Devil's Den, but significantly we couldn't get put on. This horrific cosmos site stuck our insight, and the follow had been removed. We actually possibly will see the dip far on the other turn of the cosmos site but had no way to get to it.
It turns out that Ashland is creating new in shape fields behind their high school and the Devil's Den has been at the intermediate of some dispute. Several nation in the township suitably it has to be dejected for the new soccer fields but the individual elapsed society has been beseeching to revive the dip.
The Devil's Den after being shattered. Print unavailable from this site.
Seriously? You're leaving to achieve a dip that is thousands of living old, named after Satan, and affiliated with ancient Indian groups so you can become wider your in shape fields? It accurately seems find irresistible a verdict all and sundry soul be sad in a get a ride living once the high school general population starts to peter out again. I delight it's minder to house the things that make this part of the chaos attention-grabbing and unparalleled. And at least, if I were a high school learner I would extremely have in stock a dip called the Devil's Den than a soccer arm, wouldn't you?
It seems the elapsed society has prevailed and the Devil's Den has been spared, regardless of it has been shattered. I gather the minder thing is that the dip has been preserved, but if the Ashland soccer feel has a bad losing stream we'll know who to take to task. Satan!
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