We take for granted that our technological prowess is unequaled in the sum of history. But this view is wrong. There is an increasing body of discoveries of ancient technology that not only rivals what we do, but in some cases, suppresses it.
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Steven Spieberg's "Lincoln" was an amazing movie with an even more amazing message. Coincidentally to the release of "Lincoln" was an opinion piece on Politico by former Governor Jennifer Granholm on what went wrong with the Republican message in the 2012 election. The two intersect on several levels which I explore.
Burying Mandiba shows the unspoken 'but' of Nelson Mandela's life and work.
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Ancient cultures worldwide were all connected by a powerful religious symbol, the “GodSelf Icon,” an image depicting a central figure, a hero or god, facing forward and holding in either hand parallel objects or animals is especially conspicuous among the pyramid cultures which also employed the same three-door “Triptych Temple” pattern. The center door is the “source”—the “soul” inside the body. The twin doors are the opposing bodily forces of duality that surround the soul on either side, and that the soul must confront and master in life. Like the Triptych, the GodSelf Icon represents the soul of the hero balancing his opposing bodily forces, represented by the twin objects held symmetrically in each hand calls upon to develop our inner strength and spiritual potential by means of balancing the twin opposing forces within us and by carefully cultivating our physical and mental powers.
MADAME BLAVATSKY The furor of interest in Spiritualism set off by the Fox sisters H. P. Blavatsky was born in 1831, the daughter of a Russian colonel. Her early life reads remarkably like a tale from a cheap pulp narrative. After marrying a forty-year old man at the eager ripe age of sixteen, she swiftly deserted him, leaving the marriage unconsummated as she spun like a whirlwind through a series of odd jobs, including one as a bareback rider in a circus. There she apparently fell off a horse and damaged her womb and uterine canal which made sexual intercourse impossible. found its philosophical outlet in the writings of an incredible woman, Madam Blavatsky. She traveled extensively for the next twenty years or so throughout Europe, Mexico, America, Canada, and the Himalayan mountains. Another tragedy befell the future mystic in her fortieth year when the passenger ship she was sailing from Greece to Italy exploded and sank with only seventeen of the four hundred plus passengers surviving. In her accounts she described the awful scene, referring to the rain of body parts falling all around her as she struggled to swim for safety. The years had matured the once delicate yet precocious virgin into an enormously stout woman who possessed great candor in speech, a speech nearly always punctuated with a resourceful, picturesque profanity quite uncommon to women of her era. She was a life-long chain-smoker, and occasionally pacified her bouts of raw nerves by inhaling marijuana, which was not illegal in those days. Details of her earlier experiences dealing with the occult are sketchy at best, but in 1873 she returned to America, at the height of the spiritualist fad then sweeping the nation. Her knack for nosing out the best and the brightest in this latest surge of occult practitioners led her to a farm in northwest Vermont. The locally renowned Eddy brothers had been stirring things up lately with their demonstrations of flying furniture, musical spirits, and the like. In 1875 she founded the Theosophical Society in New York City in collaboration with Henry Steele Olcott, a lawyer and writer While at the farm she met Henry Steel Olcott, a quaint, serious-minded man who was immediately enchanted by Madame Blavatsky, and was to remain a lifelong friend and admirer, save for a few professional jealousies. Her explosive vitality made for irresistible copy and Olcott, among the many other newspaper correspondents eager to please an audience hungry for the bizarre tales of high seances and the active spirit world, made her a frequent subject for his articles. She and Olcott were never linked romantically, although they traveled extensively and together founded the Theosophical Society in September, 1875, after they attended a lecture on the ascetic mathematical proportions of the pyramids and their use for the conjuring of spirits. Soon Mrs. Blavatsky was deeply involved in writing the great volumes upon which the foundation of the Society still rests. Numerous commentators have remarked in awe of the extreme diligence with which she gave herself to the task of distilling what she called the true or secret doctrine of man's beginning and his ultimate fate. She wrote tirelessly in long hand, day after day, endlessly puffing on cigarette after cigarette, deep into the night. Frequently she copied from books held up to her by spirits who were said to be guiding her in this most necessary project of revealing the true essence of man's inner life. Quick to claim that she was not channeling any new doctrine, she considered herself merely a vessel or medium for the assimilation of all the ancient ontological knowledge and wisdoms that have since been lost or buried within the profane interpretations of science and the revealed theology of the world's major religions. Her books are an incredibly difficult read, scholarly in tenor, and filled with references to scriptures and secret writings of every contemporary culture, in addition to those now lost to archaeology and world catastrophe. Threaded within the fabric of the occultist's teachings are sweeping rebuttals of the many conflicting theories of scientific materialism. Mysteries of "dead-letter" theology are granted true interpretations, that is to say, given deeper resonance by unlocking the keys to the proper symbology, thus providing theosophists everywhere a sacred cure for the world's discouraging theological blindness. Central to the "Secret Doctrine" is her teaching on root races. Ancient continents, lands, and peoples of Atlantis and Lemuria play pivotal roles in her eschatology as man struggles to evolve into the godlike creature he is destined to become. She taught that the current race of humanity is the Aryan race, the fifth incarnation of man. Her Aryan race is not to be confused with teachings of white supremacists, European in identity, but rather, her concept included the whole of the Indo-Eurasiastic races, including the African peoples. Her definitive text "Isis Unveiled" was issued in two volumes in September, 1877, selling incredibly well from the outset. The wide scope of Madame Blavatsky's enormous bulk of written work is best described as unprecedented. She did not learn English until late in life, prompting her work to be criticized harshly over the years for its defects of literary style and clarity. As stated before, she did not pretend that she was revealing some new revelation, but rather, she was merely shining a spotlight upon the great scriptures, whose true meaning had long suffered under veiled glyph and symbol. Theosophical Society Convention, Bombay, 1881. HP Blavatsky is standing behind Colonel Henry S. Olcott. Damodar Mavalankar is to the left of Colonel Olcott. Three years after they had organized the Theosophical Society, Madame Blavatsky decided interest in America was waning, so she and Henry Olcott shoved off to India. There they met a Hindu called Swami Dayananda Sarasvati, who subsequently found the Theosophists rather naive and too preoccupied with occult phenomena. But the swami's teachings were absorbed into the Blavatsky scheme, and her own fame in Asia began to grow. Eventually, the three of them grew to mistrust each other. Olcott went astray and converted to Buddhism, later developing his own healing powers, and writings. The swami was furious with both of them, accusing them of charlatanism, and fought to disassociate his Arya Samaj movement from the Theosophical Society. But the ever bombastic first lady of occult affairs continued to launch branches of the Society throughout India and Ceylon. Meanwhile as her powers continued to increase, and her health began to fail, she decided it was time for a trip back to Europe, where she was approached by the Society for Psychical Research of London for permission to investigate her claims. Mysterious letters from a Mahatma Koot Hoomi were observed floating from the ceiling during her sessions. Initially the research team was persuaded of Madame's powers and were going to report favorably but suspicions of fraud soon were satisfied by accident when a faithful disciple, in his glee, slapped the rear wall of a shrine, popping open the panel which revealed another room. Phenomena were common in her presence. When a visitor remarked that he had tried spiritualism once, but couldn't even get a rap on the table, she replied, "Raps are the easiest thing to get." Tapping sounds at once began to dance around the room to the visitor's amazement. Like Crowley, Madame Blavatsky developed a taste for court battle, and threatened to sue some Christian missionaries who had been her staunchest rivals. But after a cat and mouse game of threatened libel suits versus charges of fraud, Blavatsky gave up on that, and spent the next few months traveling back and forth across Europe and India. The poet W.B. Yeats met her several times and was impressed with her sense of humor. But for all her charm and self-possession, Madame Blavatsky suffered a series of grave illnesses during her last six or seven years of life, her enormous weight affecting her heart and kidneys. And surely a lifetime of tar and nicotine did her lungs no favors. Just shy of sixty, she died on May 8, 1891, undoubtedly a woman of spectacular passion and spit, and one of the most prolific mystic writers of all time. Text of Blavatsky Online Books by Blavatsky (Many of these titles are also available in hardcover form at the Seeker Books.com.) Secret Doctrine - 2 volumes, 1888. Madame Blavatsky's magnum opus on the creation of the universe, the evolution of humankind, and the primordial tradition underlying the various religions, mythologies and philosophies of the world. See Secret Doctrine Page for more information Isis Unveiled - 2 volumes, 1877 Blavatsky's first major work outlines the errors of orthodox Christianity and the fallacies of established science against the backdrop of the Esoteric teachings. The Key to Theosophy - 1889. Blavatsky answers basic questions about Theosophy. A good introduction for inquirers. Voice of the Silence - 1889. Blavatsky's mystical treatise for those who desire to tread the "Path". Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge - 1890-91. (Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge) Blavatsky's answers to questions of students who had been reading the first part of Volume I of The Secret Doctrine. Other writings of Blavatsky Articles of H.P. Blavatsky -1874-1891. A collection of 236 major articles in alphabetic order Mystery about Buddha - explains relationship between Buddha and Shankaracharya and other occult matters. H. P. Blavatsky to the American Conventions, 1888-1891 - Blavatsky's letters to the Theosophical Society Conventions in the USA. Letters from H. P. Blavatsky to Alexander Wilder, M. D. Nightmare Tales 1892. Blavatsky's occult novels. Related articles by Blavatsky My Books - article by H. P. Blavatsky Compiled by Blavatsky Gems from the East: A Birthday Book - a quotation for each day of the year - compiled by Blavatsky Extracts from Blavatsky's writings 3 Fundamental Propositions from the Proem of the S.D. Summing Up Blavatsky sums up some basic ideas of The Secret Doctrine. Table of Contents of The Secret Doctrine - index to the master work Stanzas of Dzyan -- Cosmogenesis -The famous seven Stanzas extracted from Vol. I of the S.D. Stanzas of Dzyan -- Anthropogenesis - The remaining twelve Stanzas extracted from Vol. II of the S.D. Archaic History of the Human Race: As recorded in The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky - by Gertrude W. van Pelt Propositions of Psychology - 10 fundamental propositions from Blavatsky's Isis Unveiled Dreams 1889-90. Blavatsky answers questions about dreams, the inner worlds, etc. Appendix to Secret Doctrine Commentary. Indexes to Blavatsky's writings Glossary of Theosophical Terms - 1890. Blavatsky appended this glossary of 60 pages to the 2nd edition of The Key to Theosophy. Index to The Secret Doctrine - (prepared by John P. Van Mater) Search Engines - over Blavatsky's writings. The search engine for Theosophical Glossaries on that page includes her Theosophical Glossary.
A while back I helped Act 3 design and build a videogame for the photographer Scott Smith's website. I did a bunch of "pixel" drawings of locations, characters, weapons, bikinis, etc. Here are some of 'em.It was a neat project and pretty different from most of my other work. The idea was to emulate the look 'n feel of old adventure games and their EGA graphics, like the early Sierra Online games. My middle-school years included a lot of Space Quest, Police Quest, and (of course) Leisure Suit Larry:It was fun turning real and semi-real people and places into pixelized versions of themselves:More challenging was designing all the games-within-the-game. This was was sort of a Frogger-style deal:For those interested in tech talk, all these drawings are 100% vector. I won't reveal any more of my secrets. Unless you ask me.This is an interstitial loading screen:This is the climactic photo-shoot, sketched then rendered:This was the celebratory duck-hunt afterwards:Anyway, if you've got a few minutes, you should go play the full game!
A downtown homeless shelter, the Settlement, is targeted for demolition during the Great Recession. In its place, the city wants to build a sports complex. Reverend Stephen Bentham, the Settlement's founder and director, draws on the loyalty of his assistant, the house physician, and a visiting archeology professor to save the hundred beds. A school-age boy also joins the effort. Fending off the bulldozers tests each character. Their own troubled histories compel them to help. One of the toughest challenges is burying the house physician when he succumbs during the fight. Loyalty to one's faith or to progress or to honor itself are grand phrases. The actual work at a shelter is hard and tedious, like growing a garden out of concrete.
Ancient cultures worldwide were all connected by a powerful religious symbol, the “GodSelf Icon,” an image depicting a central figure, a hero or god, facing forward and holding in either hand parallel objects or animals is especially conspicuous among the pyramid cultures which also employed the same three-door “Triptych Temple” pattern. The center door is the “source”—the “soul” inside the body. The twin doors are the opposing bodily forces of duality that surround the soul on either side, and that the soul must confront and master in life. Like the Triptych, the GodSelf Icon represents the soul of the hero balancing his opposing bodily forces, represented by the twin objects held symmetrically in each hand calls upon to develop our inner strength and spiritual potential by means of balancing the twin opposing forces within us and by carefully cultivating our physical and mental powers.
Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.
Many ancient megalithic structures exist in Malta and one of them is the ‘Hypogeum of Hal Saflieni’, a subterranean structure with magnificent properties that is more than 5,000 years old. The Hypogeum (a Greek word meaning ‘underground’) is supposed to be the oldest prehistoric underground temple in the world.
Crop circles are not the work of hoaxers and aerial photos of the Black Country can prove it, says Australian boffin.
\"Welcome back to Charm, North Carolina, where Everly Swan's dream of owning an iced tea shop and cafâe has finally come true-along with a healthy side dish of murder. Everly Swan is perfecting a new iced tea recipe for her seaside cafâe menu when a member of Aunt Clara's unspoken history group goes missing while on a haunted historic walking tour. Everly agrees to help with the search party and soon discovers the woman's body at a site the locals believe to be haunted. Detective Grady Hays suspects foul play, but everyone in town is crying, \"Ghost!\"\"--\nIn the fifth book of the popular Seaside Café Mysteries, Closely Harbored Secrets, Everly Swan just wants to make Halloween-themed treats and specialty teas for her customers. But when it seems that she's being haunted by the phantom of a sailor straight out of a ghost story, her plans are capsized. Could this be the bitter end for Everly?Hitting all the sweet-tea spots, this series is: A delightful Tea Shop and Café Culinary MysteryThe ideal cozy beach readPerfect for fans of Laura Childs and Kate CarlisleIt's almost Halloween, and the small island of Charm, North Carolina is decked out for the festivities. When Everly Swan agrees to close her iced tea shop early to help her aunts host their annual haunted historic walking tour, she expects some good-natured spooks. But the night turns grave when one of the ghostly actors is found dead. To complicate matters, the victim scratched Everly's name into the ground before she died, making her a key suspect.The murder mystery heats up when Everly's potential boo, Detective Grady, takes the case--and he definitely doesn't want her getting involved. Will their seaside romance be threatened by all the ghostly drama? But when a phantom sailor straight out of local legend starts leaving Everly threatening messages, she has to get involved... With a local election under way, ghosts on the loose, and a search for long-lost buried treasure, Everly can't help but stir the pot!The fifth tea cozy in Bree Baker's acclaimed Seaside Café Mystery series, Closely Harbored Secrets is culinary fiction with a frighteningly fun twist!INCLUDES DELICIOUS FOOD AND DRINK RECIPES
Are the symbols on the Dighton Rock Native American? Norse? Phoenician? Chinese? Portuguese? Japanese? All or none of the above? There have been numerous theories about who carved the inscriptions found on the 40-ton boulder in Massachusetts, USA. Nonetheless, no one has been able to say with certainty who first wrote on the rock, what they wanted to communicate, or why.
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We're used to seeing modern landmarks in their completed glory, but we gain a new appreciation for those familiar monuments when we see them in progress, and remember all the labor that went into bringing them to life.
The authorship controversy has yet to surface a compelling alternative to the man buried in Stratford. Perhaps that’s because, until recently, no one was looking in the right place. The case for Emilia Bassano.
