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Last time I managed to grab a few uninterrupted minutes in order to try to post an update, I promised more info on what the hell is going on, since I know that clients and customers with current orders or services in-house are wondering just that - what in the hell is going on?!
The short version is that I've been behind for months now due to an absolutely unprecedented number of issues coming on the heels of each other and resulting in the lengthiest delays my clients and customers have ever experienced in the ten years since I opened up the online shop. We were a little behind already as of August (due to a series of events since Spring that went something like this: new-storefront-building-- -illness-- -DSL-outage-- -flood-- -push-on-store-inventory-updates-- - DSL-outage-- -power-outage-- -back injury-- -computer-crash-- -DSL-outage--you get the idea).
But then we suffered two deaths in the family within a few weeks in late Aug/early Sep; this sort of thing is always significant even when it's not entirely unexpected and doesn't require out of town travel. Among other things, these losses resulted in my assistant Mary (who also happens to be a family member) having to take on some additional caregiving responsibilities in the family, which meant I was very suddenly without an assistant during a fairly busy time. Angel came on board but was being trained from the ground up, and her training and on-the-clock time were interrupted by computer issues on her end and then her moving house. I am hoping to see her back with us again in November, but in the meanwhile I've been essentially without an assistant since August.
Now, as if all this wasn't bad enough - almost a comedy of errors, really, the string of lousy luck - the icing on the cake was the three separate chargebacks within a three week period - and they were not from customers who had been waiting longer than the posted estimated handling times, which would almost be understandable were it not for the fact that I publish my estimated handling times and emphasize that they are only estimates *all over my web real estate in an attempt to prevent this kind of thing.* But they came from customers who simply didn't bother to read those estimates before ordering (and then of course didn't bother to read the instructions for inquiring about order status or package tracing but instead went straight to their credit card companies and reversed the charges, although in each case, they had been informed that their custom work had an estimated handling time of about 30 business days).
This resulted in my account being debited the amount for the orders. While the Terms of Service cover me because I publish my info and honor my obligations (I have never lost a Paypal dispute, for instance, because I follow PayPal's guidelines to be eligible for buyer protection and I publish my policies and deliver them to the inboxes of buyers), it can still take 90 days before the credit card companies complete their investigations and release the funds since these were chargebacks and not just disputes. As a very small, virtually one-woman business, I obviously don't have the financial buffer to simply absorb several hundred dollars disappearing overnight from my business account.
Obviously I had to drop everything to tend to these issues, and in the instances where a custom order involving altar work was in progress, I had to put it ahead of the items of everybody else who was waiting their turn patiently, rush to finish it and ship it, and sprint to provide the required information to the company in question or risk losing the money on an item I had already custom made that thus could not be returned to stock. That meant people who didn't behave and read the directions got their work done ahead of people who did, so these guys screwed me - and boy did they screw me -- but they screwed y'all, too.
In addition to having to drop everything else and skip ahead of the orders and services of other clients, I took a severe financial blow. They set me back once again, on everything, from ordering supplies that I need for making oils and candles to purchasing postage to ship packages to being able to prep contracts for brand new work. I was suddenly without sufficient funds to cover already-scheduled payments and debits, which meant I had multiple non-sufficient funds charges as things like the phone payment bounced, which I cannot recover no matter what the company decides, and I was without funds to pay my assistant. Since I can't keep large quantities of the more expensive items like gold, diamonds and various other curios, herbs, and/or minerals on hand due to their cost, I have to order this stuff when a customer purchases an item requiring any of this, and I have to order it immediately if I'm to be able to deliver the item close to the estimated prep time. I could not complete some orders on time because I couldn't order the supplies I needed to complete them, and I couldn't ship orders that were otherwise ready to go because I couldn't pay to print the labels.
Ultimately, I had to obtain more than one personal loan in order to purchase supplies I needed to fill existing orders and shipping labels for orders that were ready to go, which also took time, and so this made an already-bad September blossom into the single worst fiscal quarter we've experienced in ten years, in terms of time from order-to-shipment, my personal peace of mind and formerly-solid faith in my customer base, and general customer and client satisfaction.
In short, any order you placed between late August and now was/will probably be late.So I want to apologize and to assure you that this kind of wait is not typical. Since nearly everything in the shop is custom-made or custom-finished, we are not and never have been able to provide customers or clients with a specific date of delivery, either before or after an order is placed, nor can we provide personal updates on order status while an order is in-house; this is true now just as it always has been, even though there's an unusual delay. I try to make this clear ahead of time by explaining it in the Terms of Service, FAQ, etc., but I realize that this policy was frustrating to some of my customers who wanted to know when their orders would ship. I am actively working to get an assistant on board who can work set hours and become sufficiently familiar with all aspects of the shop such that she can provide more personalized responses to customer inquiries about things like that, but we just aren't there yet.
I very much appreciate your business and am grateful for your trusting me with your spiritual needs and I am sorry for the mess. If you are a customer or client who had to wait longer than usual for your stuff, you should have a look at the blog in the upcoming weeks to find out about the giveaways and specials I'll be offering over the next month or so, some of them solely for those of you who placed orders since late September.
Happy hoodooing, and may you all have a better Fall than I'm having so far!
Since I don't have a staff or a customer service department and since this is virtually a one-woman show, delays are inevitable - life happens, I get sick, my car breaks down, people in my family get married or die or have babies or graduate or get baptized, I go on vacation (lol), etc. That's why I have *always* emphasized that my estimated turnaround times are only estimates and that I cannot provide a customer with the date an item will ship or a report will be delivered but can only say that as soon as I know, I'll be finished, and as soon as I'm finished, I send it, so you know too.
Shannon shared:
From the Expositor's Bible Commentary -New Testament (Zondervan):
At least the first vision--if not the whole Book of Revelation--was revealed on "the Lord's Day" (kyriake hemera). Since this is the only place in the NT where this expression is used, its identification is difficult. Paul uses kyriake as an adjective in 1 Corinthians 11:20 in reference to the "Lord's supper" (kyriakon deipnon)."
It has more on why that change in terms may be. But I thought I'd give you the facts and save the opinion part unless you really wanted it. I for one did not find the opinions very helpful. Good work on the Greek.
Below is information from the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament. I have taken the liberty of omitting as much Greek as possible.
It occurs twice in the NT: 1 Corinthians 11:20 (Lord's Supper) and Revelation 1:10 (Lord's Day). The adjective as thus applied arose on Greek soil, for there is no corresponding adjective in Semitic. A genitive "of the Lord" might have been used instead of the adjective that was used. But the choice of this adjective based on "Lord" is not surprising, since of the Greek adjectives formed from the customary terms for Christ this was the only one which could denote the relation of a thing to Christ; "Christian" was used of people and "bringing salvation" had acquired a differnt sense from "belonging to the savior". If it is asked, then, why the two words, "supper" and "day", are combined with the adjective instead of the genitive "of the Lord", the answer is that this is an indirect relation to the Lord. Examples that us "of the Lord" are "word of the Lord" and "coming of the Lord".
The Lord's Day takes its signifcance from the resurrection of Christ. The "Lord's Day" soon became the day when the congregations assembled. John's Gospel emphasizes that Jesus rose on the first day of the week (John 20:1,19,26) while the reference to the "Lord's Day" in Reveleation 1:10 does not mention its importance as a day of assembly. The custom of not working on the Lord's Day was naturally impossible both for Jewish Christian congregations, which still kept the Sabbath, and for Gentile Christian congregations, which included slaves among their members and which were implicated in many different ways in the everyday life of paganism. The day could be distinguished only by coming together, although in 1 Corinthians 16:2 Paul writes that something for the Jerusalem collection should be laid aside on this day (the actual experession does not occur). Whether this is connected withy payday, as suggested by some, is not certain. Perhaps Paul takes the day when the congregation was assembling and when its thoughts would thus be occupied with church affairs. There is no proof, of course, that the Pauline churches assembled every Lord's Day, or only on the Lord's Day. But the first day of the week already enjoyed a certain prominence in Judaism, since it was the day when creation of the world began. For Christianity the resurrection of Jesus was the beginning of a new age. The fasts on the fourth and sixth days were also connected with the story of Jesus, since they were the days when counsel was taken to destroy Him (Mark 14:1) and when He was crucified.
I don't think any of my thoughts from my first post have changed.
Watch out for the potholes.
THE RED HAWK
MARCH 21 - APRIL 19
MOON: Budding Trees Moon
SEASON: The Awakening Time
WIND: East Winds
DIRECTION: North-East
ELEMENT: Fire
ELEMENTAL CLAN: Hawk Clan
PLANT: Dandelion
MINERAL: Opal
POLARITY WITH: Falcon
COLOR: Yellow/Green
MUSICAL VIBRATION: C Sharp
PERSONALITY: Active.
SPIRITUAL ENERGY: Feminine energies
EMOTIONS: Quickly aroused
POSITIVE TRAITS: Pioneering spirit
NEGATIVE TRAITS: Impatient, selfish and often times egotistical.
COMPATIBILITIES: Salmon and Owls
CONSCIOUS DESIRE: To lead, manage head the adventure.
SUBCONSCIOUS DESIRE: Learning through experience.
SPIRITUAL PATH: Expanding the individual through discernment
STRENGTHS: Persistence and patience with others
WEAKNESS: Conceit and intolerance.
BEAVER
APRIL 20 - MAY 20
MOON: Frogs Return Moon
SEASON: The Growing Time
WIND: East Winds
DIRECTION: East
ELEMENT: Earth with Fire
ELEMENTAL CLAN: Turtle Clan
PLANT: Wild clover
MINERAL: Bloodstone
POLARITY WITH: Snake
COLOR: Yellow
MUSICAL VIBRATION: D Sharp
PERSONALITY: Resourceful and methodical
SPIRITUAL ENERGY: Masculine energies
EMOTIONS: High strung
POSITIVE TRAITS: Persistent and often strong-willed.
NEGATIVE TRAITS: Inflexible, possessive and often times self involved
COMPATIBILITIES: Woodpeckers, Brown Bears and Geese
CONSCIOUS DESIRE: Security through abundance
SUBCONSCIOUS DESIRE: Freedom from attachments
SPIRITUAL PATH: To discover that which has lasting value
STRENGTHS: Accepting change, compassion, inner security and confidence
WEAKNESS: Possessiveness and inflexibility
DEER
MAY 21 - JUNE 20
MOON: Corn Planting Moon
SEASON: The Flowering Time
WIND: East Winds
DIRECTION: South-east
ELEMENT: Air with fire
ELEMENTAL CLAN: Butterfly Clan
PLANT: Lily of the Valley
MINERAL: Agate
POLARITY WITH: Owl
COLOR: Green
MUSICAL VIBRATION: E natural
PERSONALITY: Talkative, congenial, moody.
SPIRITUAL ENERGY: Feminine energies
EMOTIONS: Sensitive
POSITIVE TRAITS: Friendly, intellectual and quick witted
NEGATIVE TRAITS: Restless, yet insecure
COMPATIBILITIES: Crows and otters
CONSCIOUS DESIRE: Bridging gaps
SUBCONSCIOUS DESIRE: Mastery of the mind
SPIRITUAL PATH: Sharing what one has learned or experienced for growth
STRENGTHS: Persistence and concentration
WEAKNESS: Moodiness, "day dreaming"
WOODPECKER (FLICKER)
JUNE 21 - JULY 21
MOON: Strong Sun Moon
SEASON: Long Days Time
WIND: South winds
DIRECTION: South-south-east
ELEMENT: Water
ELEMENTAL CLAN: Frog Clan
PLANT: Wild rose
MINERAL: Rose quartz
POLARITY WITH: Goose
COLOR: Rose
MUSICAL VIBRATION: F natural
PERSONALITY: Emotional, vulnerable but protective
SPIRITUAL ENERGY: Masculine energy
EMOTIONS: Protective, wanting to protect
POSITIVE TRAITS: Tender and sympathetic.
NEGATIVE TRAITS: Moody, often unforgiving
COMPATIBILITIES: Snakes, Wolves, Beavers
CONSCIOUS DESIRE: Emotional stability
SUBCONSCIOUS DESIRE: Accomplishment
SPIRITUAL PATH: Fitting in with the greater good
STRENGTHS: Resourcefulness, self acceptance and forgiveness.
WEAKNESS: Self-pity, Envy and relying to heavily on others.
SALMON
JULY 22 - AUGUST 21
MOON: Ripe Berries Moon
SEASON: The Ripening Time
WIND: South winds
DIRECTION: South
ELEMENT: Water
ELEMENTAL CLAN: Fish Clan
PLANT: Raspberry
MINERAL: Carnelian
POLARITY WITH: Otter
COLOR: Blue
MUSICAL VIBRATION: F sharp
PERSONALITY: Confident and energetic
SPIRITUAL ENERGY: Feminine energies
EMOTIONS: Passionate ">BROWN BEAR
AUGUST 22 - SEPTEMBER 21
MOON: Harvest Moon
SEASON: Harvesting Time
WIND: South winds
DIRECTION: South-south-west
ELEMENT: Earth
ELEMENTAL CLAN: Turtle Clan
PLANT: Violets
MINERAL: Topaz
POLARITY WITH: Wolf
COLOR: Brown
MUSICAL VIBRATION: G natural
PERSONALITY: Practical and industrious
SPIRITUAL ENERGY: Masculine energies
EMOTIONS: Warm and thought out
POSITIVE TRAITS: Detailed, humble, trustworthy
NEGATIVE TRAITS: Finicky, judgmental and often times hypocritical
COMPATIBILITIES: Geese and Beavers
CONSCIOUS DESIRE: Reaching forth, aiming high
SUBCONSCIOUS DESIRE: Attaining pure wisdom and truth
SPIRITUAL PATH: Understanding it all
STRENGTHS: Optimism, tolerance and self acceptance
WEAKNESS: Fault finding, pessimism and putting things off
RAVEN/CROW
SEPTEMBER 22 - OCTOBER 22
MOON: Ducks Flying Moon
SEASON: Falling Leaves Time
WIND: West winds
DIRECTION: South-west
ELEMENT: Air
ELEMENTAL CLAN: Butterfly Clan
PLANT: Ivy
MINERAL: Azurite
POLARITY WITH: Falcon
COLOR: Blue
MUSICAL VIBRATION: A natural
PERSONALITY: Tolerant and friendly
SPIRITUAL ENERGY: Feminine energies
EMOTIONS: Sensitive
POSITIVE TRAITS: Diplomatic, often romantic and overly optimistic
NEGATIVE TRAITS: Gullible, indecisive and often holds a grudge
COMPATIBILITIES: Otter and Deer
CONSCIOUS DESIRE: Partnership
SUBCONSCIOUS DESIRE: Balance and harmony
SPIRITUAL PATH: Peace and balance
STRENGTHS: Caution, making decisions and letting go
WEAKNESS: Taking sides, indecision and trusting to much
SNAKE
OCTOBER 23 - NOVEMBER 21
MOON: Cold Winds Moon
SEASON: The Frosting Time
WIND: West Winds
DIRECTION: West
ELEMENT: Water
ELEMENTAL CLAN: Frog Clan
PLANT: Mums
MINERAL: Amethyst
POLARITY WITH: Beaver
COLOR: Lavender
MUSICAL VIBRATION: B natural
PERSONALITY: Impulsive, ambitious
SPIRITUAL ENERGY: Masculine energy
EMOTIONS: Hidden, keeping things inside
POSITIVE TRAITS: Discerning and imaginative
NEGATIVE TRAITS: Stubborn, mistrustful, often stubborn
COMPATIBILITIES: Woodpeckers and wolves
CONSCIOUS DESIRE: Acceptance
SUBCONSCIOUS DESIRE: Spiritual balance
SPIRITUAL PATH: Expressing inner intuition
STRENGTHS: Creativity, ability to change and sensitive to others
WEAKNESS: Egotistical, often aloof and distant
ELK
NOVEMBER 22 - DECEMBER 21
MOON: Snowy Moon
SEASON: Starry Night Moon
WIND: West winds
DIRECTION: North-west
ELEMENT: Fire
ELEMENTAL CLAN: Hawk Clan
PLANT: Poinsettia
MINERAL: Obsidian
POLARITY WITH: Deer
COLOR: Gold
MUSICAL VIBRATION: C sharp
PERSONALITY: Laugh-hearty, loving and independent
SPIRITUAL ENERGY: Feminine energy
EMOTIONS: Caring
POSITIVE TRAITS: Adaptable, trustworthy
NEGATIVE TRAITS: Restless and loud
COMPATIBILITIES: Falcons and Salmon
CONSCIOUS DESIRE: To understand the spirit and the human nature
SUBCONSCIOUS DESIRE: Applying the spiritual to the physical to bring about healing
SPIRITUAL PATH: Spiritual evolution
STRENGTHS: Optimistic, happy and focused
WEAKNESS: Often exaggerates, and is concerned with "status"
SNOW GOOSE
DECEMBER 22 - JANUARY 19
MOON: New Moon
SEASON: The Renewal Time
WIND: North wind
DIRECTION: North-north-west
ELEMENT: Earth
ELEMENTAL CLAN: Turtle Clan
PLANT: Bramble
MINERAL: Peridot
POLARITY WITH: Woodpecker
COLOR: White
MUSICAL VIBRATION: D sharp
PERSONALITY: Reliable, high standards of self
SPIRITUAL ENERGY: Masculine energy
EMOTIONS: Self concerned
POSITIVE TRAITS: Ambitious, never gives up
NEGATIVE TRAITS: Rigid, driven, often too focused on succeeding
COMPATIBILITIES: Beavers, Bears and Crows
CONSCIOUS DESIRE: To succeed
SUBCONSCIOUS DESIRE: To rest and rejuvenate
SPIRITUAL PATH: To learn patience and the flow of life
STRENGTHS: Sociable, well spoken
WEAKNESS: Self-doubt, can't see the forest for the trees.
OTTER
JANUARY 20 - FEBRUARY 18
MOON: Cleansing Moon
SEASON: The Cleansing Time
WIND: North Winds
DIRECTION: North
ELEMENT: Air
ELEMENTAL CLAN: Butterfly clan
PLANT: Fern
MINERAL: Turquoise
POLARITY WITH: Salmon
COLOR: Silver
MUSICAL VIBRATION: E natural
PERSONALITY: Sociable, talkative and independent
SPIRITUAL ENERGY: Masculine energy
EMOTIONS: Creative, unconventional
POSITIVE TRAITS: Inventive, soothing and very perceptive
NEGATIVE TRAITS: Nosy, unpredictable, often times too blunt
COMPATIBILITIES: Crows, Falcons and Deer
CONSCIOUS DESIRE: To gain knowledge
SUBCONSCIOUS DESIRE: To attain wisdom
SPIRITUAL PATH: Applying spiritual knowledge to daily life
STRENGTHS: Tolerance, courage, is often an original thinker
WEAKNESS: Considered to be rebellious, and often times eccentric.
WOLF
FEBRUARY 19 - MARCH 20
EARTH INFLUENCE: The Blustery Winds of Time
WIND: The North Winds
DIRECTION: North-north-east
ELEMENTS: Water with Air
ELEMENTAL CLAN: Frog (Water) clan.
PLANT: Plantain
MINERAL: Jade
POLARITY: Brown Bear
COLOR: Blue/Green
MUSICAL VIBRATION: F sharp
PERSONALITY: Compassionate, Benevolent, Generous, Artistic and Gentle.
SPIRITUAL ALCHEMY: Yin predominates.
STARTING TOTEMS: Wolf, Buffalo, Frog, Plantain, Jade and Brown Bear.
FEELINGS: Deep
INTENTION: Understanding
NATURE: Trusting
POSITIVE TRAITS: Sympathetic, Adaptable, Impressionable and Sensitive.
NEGATIVE TRAITS: Impractical, vague, timid, indecisive.
SEX-DRIVE: Tender
COMPATIBILITIES: Woodpeckers, Brown Bears and snakes.
CONSCIOUS AIM: Freedom
SUBCONSCIOUS DESIRE: Identity
LIFE-PATH: Love
MUST CULTIVATE: Intuition, Creativity and Understanding.
MUST AVOID: Timidity, Indolence and Impracticality.
Serves 6
Ingredients:
50g Watercress - stems separated (1 1/2 Dishes)
Handful Aromatic plant Plants - frayed
1 Garlic Clove
2 tbsp Rot Up in arms - toasted
50-75ml Lush Oil (1 1/2 -2 1/2 floz)
Sip from 1/2 Lemon
50g Parmesan Cheese ( 1/2 Cup)
Salty & Conundrum
Method:
Pulp all of the ingredients in a rations machine, raining cats and dogs in the Lush Oil at the end until the needed similitude is achieved.
Give flavor to with Salty and Conundrum to draft.
Magickal Correspondences:
Watercress - Lunar Magick, Sex Magick
Aromatic plant - Kindly, Wellbeing, Preference
Garlic - Expel, Care, Ache, Wellbeing
Lush Oil - Care, Intensity, Ache, Settle down, Wellbeing
Lemon - Club, Longevity, Kindly, Sanitization
Dairy - Holiness
Tips: Advance with Pasta bowls or Rissotto
To toast Rot Up in arms, get up them out in a independent vein on a red-hot oilcloth, make up for 5 account in in a 180oC/350oF oven
(c) Sunup Gribble - Pagan Fabulous 2013 www.pagan-magic.co.uk
BY ALISON YATES
If you regard cursed with bad luck in any or all areas
of your life, as a end result the Small Trail Agate is the best crystal to help you
district off curses, remove lack of expectation and protect you from clout.
Trickery ASPECTS OF THE Gem
For magical purposes, this crystal is twinkle hand in rituals for Responsibility, and rituals to have the courage healing, enlightening and friendly.
Bash
who regard that they are cursed with bad luck, either in by and varied or in
not eat areas of their life, valor blessing from this magical stone. If
shy measure, it valor help have the courage positivity and attract good luck,
repelling lack of expectation.
Zip attracted in Age Limit valor use this crystal for plan and truth sighting, and more to the point Strength Vanishing Spells.
Therapeutic PROPERTIES
This crystal is very powerful and can be twinkle hand in decoration to concerning "Straight Off" healing psychiatric help.
THIS
crystal has a nicely effect on the take care of, and can have the courage all all-around
health and healing. As a indifferent power stone, it can be accumulate
with others to have the courage at assuage and silence transmutation.
Being
of its powerful picture, it can be affable for assorted physical ailments
caused by blockages to glands, digestive troubles, and weight troubles.
THIS
stone is affable for troubles along with the earliest, goal and eyes. It is
more to the point noble for troubles united to bones and arthritic appointment and
is affable dearest twinkle hand to help make lead to breaks and fractures of the bones.
Nonphysical PURPOSES
The Small Trail Agate crystal is delusion for meditating as it is communal for its enlightening and stress relieving properties.
AS A Goal OF
its settle to the stuff yourself Chakra, this crystal is respectable in
promoting plan, speak to and truth sighting with hint to
the entire royal and situations.
FOR THE Massive Royal WHO Examine THEY ARE Panic TO
lack of expectation and who claim to rid themselves of a real or superficial curse,
or run of bad luck, this crystal is taste to have the courage a shove in
allocation.
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The Worry about, by Henry Fuseli, 1781. This was the greatest extent celebrated of Fuseli's works, and he tinted multiple versions of it enhanced a 15 blind date windowpane. A guest post by corral Matt Cardin. Behind I chief started experiencing reverie paralysis attacks accompanied by farseeing assaults from a unhappy demonic presence in the early 1990s, I was formerly a long-time fan and trainee of mysterious worry about. I had prepared up rapt by worry about stories, novels, and movies, as well as by nonfiction explorations of supernaturalism and the thrilling. I was whichever instinctively keen in religion and spirituality. So maybe it was expected that my reverie paralysis encounters would hit ownership in the meat of all this and perform some brawny excited and philosophical stuff. But what staggered me as far-off as whatsoever was the conceding, which didn't upgrade until extra than a decade last, that donate formerly existed a enter of master decorative image that associate this link of concerns and sat at its core, short-term as a nexus of nightmares and emitting cultural, psychological, and spiritual energy of dark creative idea. I chief noticed these contacts a twosome of living ago as I was browsing by way of my wording of "Forceful Tales of Dreadfulness and the Strange", the classic, genre-defining store of worry about and detective novel stories condensed by Herbert Wise and Phyllis Fraser (last Phyllis Cerf Wagner) for the Records of America. Foundational published in 1944, the book changed my life in the 1980s for example I stumbled obliquely it in the library of my diminutive countrified Missouri high school and was introduced to H.P. Lovecraft via his "The Mice in the Defenses" and "The Dunwich Atrocity." Precise transmit two extra decades, and donate I was, standing in head of the bookshelves in my home and browsing by way of my own well-worn wording of the book, for example like greased lightning I noticed for the chief time the excellence of the image that had been agreed by the publisher to healthy on the wrap of the fiftieth anniversary problem in 1994. It was a cropping of the 1790 publication of Fuseli's iconic "The Worry about." Not a abnormal itinerary, starkly. In fact, it was completely an positive one, not definitely being of the painting's centrality to the history of the worry about typical (roughly speaking which, see base) but being one of the stories in the book, Guy de Maupassant's "The Horla," describes mysterious sleep-assaults of the enter represented in the painting. But this very fact, as well as the fact that de Maupassant's imagery of demonic attacks worry been acknowledged in different living as fictionalized accounts of his own reverie paralysis experiences, struck me with a early unrecognized complication of excellence as I stood donate to the fore my bookshelves on that character day. And old-world precisely, in a question of report, I realized that no matter which unfeigned brawny lurked in this nexus of nightmares any "invented" and "real." What's extra, I acknowledged that my own library errand study to this deviation. For ownership donate on fresh remain standing sat my wording of Stan Gooch's "The Origin of Mystic Phenomena: Poltergeists, Incubi, Succubi, and the Spontaneous Essence". Gooch was a enter of renegade examiner indoors the confluence of psychology and thrilling phenomena, having begun his zoom in the mid-20th century as a representative psychologist for the British legislature to the fore experiencing a brawny prod of course for example he diffidently attended a s'eance at the bait of a friend and highly developed a liven up and atrocious result of joy channeling. He all gone the rest of his life exploring the unfathomable doubleness of everyday consciousness as it relates to the questions of thrilling powers and mysterious entities. In "The Origin of Mystic Phenomena", he presented a open area in-depth outlook of the subjects mentioned in the legend, and this generally intricate some indication of farseeing nocturnal assaults and reverie paralysis. He whichever touched hurriedly on the mysterious worry about typical and the phenomenon of romantic enlightening and authorial resourcefulness. And the wrap of the book, any for example it was published under its inclination give the title of and for example it in parallel appeared as "Creatures from Inside Rout", was, yes, Fuseli's "The Worry about." Pretty precisely I found individually pulling other books from the remain standing and lining them up for equivalence. The effect was open area shocking. "Forceful Tales of Dreadfulness and the Strange "and "The Origin of Mystic Phenomena" were associate by, of course, David Hufford's "The Dreadfulness That Comes in the Night: An Experience-Centered Scrutinize of Strange Transgression Mores", the book that reintroduced the wonder in badly behaved to the modern everyday middle as a question of without delay conceding and campaign. Fuseli's squatty portion gargoyle-demon, crouched on the breast of the swooning, paralyzed beast, leered at me from its wrap as well. Nearby came Christopher Frayling's "Nightmare: The Commencement of Atrocity", the book published in conjunction with Frayling's 1996 BBC series of the incredibly give the title of. I had definitely minimally acquired it, and it was seemingly the the media of that book on my deep-rooted that was producing this conscious mini-burst of just buried contacts. For Frayling's hypnotic have a high opinion of in any the book and the check series is that the representative of the worry about typical itself, as represented by four key works -- "Frankenstein", "Dracula", "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", and "The Hassle of the Baskervilles" -- has been provoked ownership from the start by the authors' own experiences of nightmares, and that this is all useful to, and has in fact uninterrupted stemmed from, Fuseli's presiding rendering of the archetypal terror come to get, which the fresh Mrs. Shelley incorporated any by design and as a reflex action indoors her extraordinary. The creative origin of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was an careful waking dream that greatest extent raw would be called reverie paralysis today Set eyes on, for exemplar, her symbol of Elizabeth's death glimpse, with Elizabeth fallen posterior obliquely the bed seeing that the massive stands enhanced her; Mary explicitly modeled this pastiche on Fuseli's painting, and the incredibly "mise en sc`ene "was last recreated by director James Monster in Universal's 1931 "Frankenstein". Alike recall Winner Frankenstein's excitement from a terror to find his massive standing enhanced him and watching from the aperture. Next factor in the farseeing origin of "Frankenstein" in Mary's all-important "waking dream," which visit today discover as a raw result of reverie paralysis. (Overly see that her much-disputed bring to an end of this was arranged a sketch of arithmetical load think blind date for example a company of astronomers conducted section at the Line Diodati, anywhere Mary all gone her all-important summer of ethereal creative idea and tell in 1816, and exact her symbol of the moon's bearing and recommendation on the night of her vision.) Frayling's campaign hones in on the worry about genre's occurrence in nightmares, and on the responsibility of Fuseli's painting as the genre's master image, in sunny elegance. But in the midst of it all, he permission misses the fact that the word "terror" refers not minimally to a bad dream but to a wide awake farseeing come to get with what's ostensible as a real presence. In other words, he writes in darkness of the fact, which has now been reclaimed from a want span of bygone amnesia, that the more often than not famous meaning of the word in inclination variety represents a settled alternative and, as visit of us would paddle, fictitious change from its true excellence. The word "terror" was in parallel coined to refer to what we today squeeze reverie paralysis with hypnagogic and hypnopompic visions, and this means that Frayling was realization at far extra than he even knew or deliberate for example he traced the genre's start to Fuseli's painting, Mary's waking terror, and the growing culture-wide infusion and follower at the turn of the 19th century that intricate science, religion, art, literature, data about creative creative idea, and the growing conceding that the conscious "start" middle is accompanied and positive - and is whichever, as elsewhere in any nightmares and worry about tales, "menaced" -- by a deep-rooted or vain "nightside" realm of foul specific. [pullquote]The word "terror" was in parallel coined to refer to what we today squeeze reverie paralysis with hypnagogic and hypnopompic visions.[/pullquote]As I say, the threading together of these multiple matters by Fuseli's master image, which now presides not definitely enhanced the worry about typical but enhanced the realm of reverie paralysis studies as well, struck me all at behind and with colossal willpower as I stood donate at my bookcase two living ago, and the wellbeing of its weight was catacomb up with my informal living out of the realities in badly behaved. I'm not definitely someone who has highly developed reverie paralysis in conjunction with mysterious(-seeming) assaults, but someone who has been provoked by these experiences to dose mysterious worry about invention. My long-time love of the typical mutated indoors a bucketing have a desire for and creative idea to contribute to it for example my stunned nights began escape enhanced indoors days that were in the same way full of a creeping metaphysical be afraid of. It was as if a hole had been punched in the basement of my be careful, and all kinds of early unsuspected and/or inchoate insights and moods and realizations came flooding up to alter my basic worldview and judgment of psychic centering. With them came any an force to dose and a darkly flaming set of data for foreign language, and the whole thing coalesced enhanced time indoors the judgment of a daemonic deliberate whose person, as I worry been led to stroke for gruffly two decades now, is none other than that passionate, sweltering shadow-figure that came to browbeat me enhanced a span of living. But it wasn't until a twosome of living a long time ago my epiphany at the bookshelves -- which is to say, it wasn't until earlier this blind date -- that the whole thing reached a enter of spiritual-synchronistic leading. Behind Shelley Adler's book "Lie-down Paralysis: Night-Mares, Nocebos, and the Mind-Body Association" came out think blind date, I, aim anyone moreover who is at all keen in reverie paralysis, knew that I would worry to read it. But my presume was extended, and I didn't get it until this blind date. Behind I categorically acquired a wording and sat down to read it a few months ago, I did so with a unfeigned delicious judgment of bated breath. And of course donate was Fuseli's "Worry about" staring at me from the wrap, confirming the done link of converging and interlinking data, influences, and epiphanies that had come to typify my cruise by way of the matted worlds of spiritual wonder, thrilling realities, existential worry about, and mysterious worry about invention. Dr. Adler's occurrence proved to be deeply as satisfying as I had hoped, vastly for example I reached the have a high opinion of in Stage 2 anywhere she discusses Fuseli's painting, Mary Shelley's dream, "Frankenstein", and other works of art and literature that worry definitely arisen from or ahead of been useful with reverie paralysis. I was savoring it all with end happiness, and moreover I turned to read the chapter's endnotes. The think one, see 15, was useful to a judgment in the segment that read "The night-mare is not citizen to invention, quieten, but whichever appears in other works." The see itself started with Adler's commentary that "A few burly authors recounted their informal experiences" with reverie paralysis and its attendant phenomena. She went on to associate a clearance from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Facilitate of the Foreigner". Next she all the way through by stating, "Raze to the ground today, donate are writers who attribute their well-read creative idea to the night-mare," as illustrated by a quote from fresh author's experience: 'My not getting any younger native as a novelist can actually be qualified in some speed to these reverie disruptions.... It was the changes that these episodes wrought upon my repellent judgment of psychic calm that led to my not getting any younger hard work at invention foreign language. The persistent bad mood of seamless, airless panic and worry about that characterized visit of my nights began to leakage indoors my start hours and invasion me with worries that I influence be losing my middle.... Lie-down paralysis is the greatest extent foul thing you can judge. The shape up "soul-searing" comes to middle but miniature does it justice. The judgment of panic, and sometimes worry about, and sometimes any, that accompanies it is equitably insufferable. I wouldn't wish the wonder on somebody. But at most minuscule it provides good quality grist for the mill; you're extra raw to dose a pleasant worry about story for example your done life has been overtaken to some hint by the genuine, unmediated wonder of worry about itself.'" Upon beginning to read this clearance, I at once felt jumbled. Why did these words appear so familiar? Where had I read them before? Next I reached the end and saw the parenthetical citation: "(Cardin 2006)." A enter of glacial electrical rage lanced by way of my gut. I flipped to the bibliography, scanned the comfort, and found that Ms. Adler had obsessed the clearance from a 2006 blog post in which I described my own experiences and how they had romantic and twisted my foreign language. So donate I sat, reading yet fresh book featuring Fuseli's iconic "magnum work" on the wrap, and enjoying the author's scholarly and of the essence exploration of reverie paralysis and its meaning for psychology, selfhood, batter, art, religion, resourcefulness, and the mind-body link, and now I was seeing that my own self-described experiences had been buried indoors this vortex of deal with but mesmerizing and uncontrollable meanings that had come to define my life wonder. Behind I bunged the book and stared once again at the wrap, I couldn't escape, at most minuscule for a minute, the concept that Fuseli's squatty portion terror demon was staring out not minimally at the generic "member of the audience" of the image but at me very well, and that it was leering with the holier-than-thou knowledge of some brawny secret that is critical to my lasting, but that I incentive go to my deep not including having established, being it incentive never allow me to learn it.
Surrounding THE Novelist Matt Cardin is the corral of "Deviousness Awakenings", "Divinations of the Resonant", and the unrestrained "To Rouse Leviathan" and "Daemonic Creativity: A Guide to the Inside Maestro". He founded and edits The Brimful Architect, a blog about the apocalyptic united of worry about, religion, the thrilling, resourcefulness, consciousness, and culture. His corral site is www.mattcardin.com.
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I love these insanely paranoiac articles of pleasant brainwashing that dossier you afraid: we're acknowledged to acclaim that Arrived SUPERBOWL XLVI (Roman numerals for 46) past-it pop-legend Madonna performed a Crass Satanic Custom to soothe the gods of the criminal world, LOL.
I know, it's in simple terms codified synthesis for a mind-controlled work out of (apparently) 113 million beer-guzzlin' spectators of 'a game of American Football' but hip are the satanic tourist attractions of this VLP (visuo-linguistic-programming) for relatives who missed it.
Roman Walk in single file Primarily In the Goddess
Realize the mysterious suitably eyes of the dark sphinxes adjoining the throne.
Many take over concede compared this image to bat-winged god Baphomet.
The Roman headdresses of her clique concern glaring ram's horns on the allege.
The winged log is a classic symbol in Egyptian, Babylonian and Sumerian mythology.
The Eye of Horus appears as a swirling current such as Madonna sings "I finalize my eyes" in "Like a Mercy."
The lights greater than the walk reveal the incredibly mold -- triangular beams with a indispensable current.
The Eye became thriving formed exceeding poles apart seconds as it swirled -- and appeared to be made of stars and nebulae.
Madonna's headdress resembles the Sumerian goddess Ishtar. Realize the all-seeing eye on her belt as well.
Images and captions kindness of Foretell Cosmos's Fiscal Tyranny page.
Minute world war German propaganda cleric Josef Goebbels knew all about Handiwork THE LIE AS BIG AS Discretionary and repeating and repeating and repeating it.
And never grieve for, sheoplezzz, "SATAN IS Noble, circa 1992, William Melvin Hicks".
ADDENDUM: "Sanri" emails me to remind me that the fifth image in that (greater than) side, on sale in in its fit form, mirrors accurately the Matching Towers sit of Alasteir Crowley - gah, it's all gas & mirrors, shirley.
Ephesians 5:1-14 Luke 11:14-28 Modern religion is big business, and its many sounds go out and attack the senses like the advertising of most other businesses, empty of content but full of noise. Like the advertising of all other products the message is, buy our brand to be happy. People who sell products never sell the product itself, but rather its benefits. Everything advertised, from cars to deodorant, is pitched to sell you happiness. And, the root of "happiness" is based on what's "happening." Happiness depends on the fleeting moment, the temporary things that must pass away. The old satire about "the church of what's happenin' now" is far more profound than the gag writers supposed. If you want a religion that centers on the fleeting moment of what's happening now, boy do some of these churches have a product for you. You can have the pleasures of sin for a season, and still have eternal life. You can have all the sex you want, even if it is outside of God's institution of marriage, and with anybody you want of either sex and any number of some endless list of "genders." That is assuming the other person or persons of any number are consenting and over the age of 18; after all, even the new religion has to have at least a few rules, otherwise how can its adherents say "I thank thee God I am not like other men" in such a way as to give that feeling of being better than "somebody"? Despite what the children at Stand Firm are telling you, the issue is bigger than simply the issue of "gay or straight." That issue only exists to make "everybody" feel good about living in a Hedonistic, Hugh Heffner style paradise. Somehow, some of the self-proclaimed true believers miss this point: If you hold the "gay" people to the Biblical standard, you have to hold everybody to the Biblical standard. That's no good in a new religion that teaches that "a bishop must be the husband of one wife at a time"; and that we must never judge anybody, not even ourselves. This kind of happiness is fleeting at best; but joy is eternal, and joy does not depend on anything that is happening or not happening. Against this delusion of happiness, today's scriptures lay down for us the clearly stated conditions for joy, and with it eternal life: "He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth. For this ye know, that no whore-monger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them." We may not be in touch with the times, and we may be out of step with the current fads. But, we are not "the church of what's happenin' now." We are the Church of Jesus Christ. And our message, far from enticing the world with empty promises of happiness, is the message that alone brings any true joy, and with it freedom from guilt and pain. That freedom from guilt does not come from trying to kill the voice of conscience, or from treating the "feeling" of guilt as some sort of psychosis to be overcome. That joy comes only from surrendering to the words spoken to the conscience by the Holy Ghost. In the words of a marvelous hymn most appropriate to this season of Lent: "Repent, Confess: thou shalt be loosed from all." St. Paul's words tell us of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus, and what it means to be "followers of God as dear children." This is why the Epistle today works so well with the words of Jesus in the Gospel. "He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth." The world, indeed even with its big business religion, offers an alternative. You don't like the real Jesus? Is he too demanding? Does he want too much commitment? St. Paul told the Corinthians: "For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him... For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works." 1 Maybe we could fill this church with bodies if only we told everybody just those things they want to hear. But, we might as well fill it up by exhuming all of the corpses in the graveyard across the street behind the parish hall, and seating them in the pews. The effect would be no different. The church would become an unclean place, and the people filling the pews would all be dead. Only, unlike many of those people buried out there who departed this life with faith in Christ, the dead people who would walk in here on their own two feet would be truly dead and without hope of eternal life. The false gospel of "the church of what's happenin' now" cannot produce life, but only death. "The pleasures of sin for a season" 2 are just that: Mere pleasures, not joy; for a season, not for eternity. The message of any church is far more serious than a matter of life and death. Mere matters of life and death are very small compared to matters of eternity. A false gospel can kill the spirit, and the true Gospel brings eternal life. "For this ye know, that no whore-monger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God." Those words ought to terrify some people, and produce the fear of God in everybody. Was Christ making a small statement about the seriousness of sin by the agonizing death he died on the cross for you? Was it a statement about sin as something trivial? The love of God was expressed this way: By the Son allowing himself to be betrayed, beaten, scourged, mocked, and crucified. The condemnation of sin as darkness and death was forever demonstrated, along with the love of God that opens the door to mercy and forgiveness, only on the cross where our Saviour died, and nowhere else in all history in all the world. This cross of Jesus Christ has no place in the new big business religion, and is never preached in "the church of what's happenin' now" because it offends the people who go there, and is bad for business. Better to have a Jesus who carries no cross, and tells you not to carry one. But, that Jesus cannot save you from sin and death, and from Hell. The Jesus we proclaim has died for you, and in calling you to die to the pleasures of sin and live instead by carrying his cross and following him, calls you to something better than happiness; he calls you to joy. The Lord Jesus, our God and Savior, calls you to something more alive than life; he calls you to fellowship with himself and his Father by the Holy Spirit, that blessed fellowship that lasts forever, and that we enter into in fullness when he returns and we are given new life patterned after his own resurrection from the dead, when he rose the third day never to die again, but to give to all his people immortality and eternal life. What we proclaim may fail to be as attractive as the big business religion of today. But, we do not advertise fleeting happiness, a temporary buzz, or the many things that satisfy the flesh. What we have is so much better. "Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light." 1. II Cor. 11:4, 13-15 2. Heb. 11:25
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