A controversial take, maybe? Aaron Abke is back in the UFO-Law of One fold, arguing that alien abductions are good?! The aliens (including the Greys and the Mantis beings) are helping us by reprogramming our chakras. Our civilization really deserves to perish anyway, so we should be grateful to the space brothers?! Hmmm...
Not sure if I like this new direction in Abke´s content.
Not sure what to make of this quasi-latest Thomas Sheridan rant. But then, I often don´t know what the schmuck to do with them! Or him, for that matter.
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So I just watched the movie "A Haunting in Venice" from 2023. It´s apparently loosely based on an Agatha Christie novel, "Hallowe´en Party". Which obviously explains why Swedish television choose to show it now. I admit the movie was quite good.
The year is 1947. The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot lives in Venice, Italy and refuses to take any new cases. Naturally, he is tricked into a situation anyway. In the film, Halloween is celebrated even in Venice. Poirot, a skeptic and atheist, participates in a séance in a supposedly haunted house. He exposes the medium as fake. Naturally, the hoaxer is killed in gruesome fashion and the game is on.
The rest of the plot is very Agatha Christie-esque: everyone´s guilty of something, more murders follow and the full story turns out to be quite complex. You have to pay attention, rather than going into the kitchen and make a coffee! And yes, some of the characters are pretty colorful.
Since it´s a Halloween-themed flick, there is a supernatural element to the story. Poirot has an explanation (I actually suspected that the passing reference to Mithridates would turn out to be significant) but in the end, we are left to think that maybe some of the hauntings were real after all...
That´s probably all I can say in a short review (muh-hah-hah). Happy Halloween, kids.
The Trump admin has apparently dropped its very last tranche of UFO-related documents. So that was that, then. Tranche 7 contains no videos, and deals to a large extent with defense contractor Robert Bigelow´s attempts to obtain hard UFO evidence from the US military. In other words, we´re dealing with an earlier version of today´s push for disclosure.
As far as I understand, the activities of BAASS has been known for quite some time now. I mean, some of them are mentioned on Wikipedia! Note the piquant fact that Bigelow obtained 22 million dollars in federal funding thanks to support from a high-ranking politician, Senator Harry Reid. Despite this, very little seems to have come out of the project (except a still classified database of UFO observations...), probably because of opposition from anti-disclosure / anti-UFO factions within the CIA, et cetera.
Interesting, to be sure, but it also means that the entire Trump Disclosure ends pretty much were it started. I mean, I assume the disclosure (such as it is) is the result of the pro-UFO faction very temporarily getting the upper hand. Unless, of course, "they are all in on it". Or manipulated by forces higher up.
OK, it´s been a fun distraction, but I assume we know have to resume our regular programming...
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Some shit from MSN: Baba Vanga (allegedly, supposedly, purportedly, certainly not) has prophesized that a yuge and perhaps amazing UFO will enter Earth´s atmosphere this November, ushering in First Contact or something to that effect. That´s a daring prediction, LOL, so let´s see if the Vangaists will walk it back come December 1. I suppose they can always blame MSN...
Some paranormal Bigfoot stuff. Also featuring orbs. Quite extraordinary if true. Stuff like this is why the Bigfoot "phenomenon" aint going anywhere, despite the recent Patterson-Gimlin contretemps...
Overheard on YouTube. Biblical scholar and personal maverick Dan McClellan pointed out on Joe Rogan Show (sic) that Adam and Eve are only mentioned exactly once in the entire Old Testament. Yet, in Christian theology they are extremely central.
Hmmm...
So the temptation in the Garden, the Fall and the Curse weren´t particularly important features of the religion of Israel. They weren´t used to explain the origins of evil, und so weiter. But what was? The Book of Enoch...?
Demons? Space aliens? Lemurians???
Please note that Anton *doesn´t manage to debunk the paranormal experiences*, he simply declares them "anecdotal" on purely formal grounds and then talks about something else. And I don´t think he´s very convincing there either. Give this man some shrooms!
A long but interesting skeptical discussion about Fatima, the Miracle of the Sun in particular. I was on the fence about Fatima for a while (I mean, it could have been paranormal *somehow*...or a UFO perhaps?) but this tends to tip the scales in a skeptical direction. It certainly raises awkward questions concerning the "official" Catholic position.
Many of the prophecies supposedly uttered by the Virgin Mary in 1917 were unknown at the time. Lucia never reported them to the priests interviewing her. She did so only later, in her various memoires. For instance, the prediction that her cousins would soon die.
"Mary´s" words about World War I don´t add up either. In 1917, Lucia said that the war would end in October that year and the Portuguese soldiers return home. The war didn´t end until over a year later, of course. A later version of the prophecy said that a new world war would break out under the pontificate of Pius XI (1922-1939), implying that "Mary" knew the name of the next pope already in 1917! But of course, this version was written down by Lucia *during the actual pontificate of Pius XI* and turned out to be wrong anyway, since World War II didn´t start until the pontificate of Pius XII...
The Miracle of the Sun (October 13, 1917) also turns out to be problematic. For instance, several people returned to the site in the following days and saw exactly the same phenomena as had occured on October 13. Yet, that had been the date indicated by Mary as *the* day for the miracle. While this does suggest that something "objective" was taking place, it might as well be something entirely natural. Perhaps the sun looked strange because of a sand storm which lasted for several days?
The skeptics in the video (Kevin and Derek) are more inclined towards a psychological explanation. People simply see whatever they want to see. Kevin shows a weird recording of a recent "sun miracle" at Medjugorje in Croatia which literally shows *nothing strange at all* happening, yet some pilgrims nevertheless "see" the sun spinning, change colors, et cetera. Kevin also points out the strange fact that no photos of the actual miracle in the sky over Fatima seem to exist, yet photographers were present at the site and took pictures of the crowds?!
There are other problems with the Fatima story too, not mentioned in this video, for instance that Mary wore a dress deemed "inappropriate" by the Catholic clergy (it was too short at the legs!). Official images of Our Lady of Fatima therefore don´t conform with the actual apparition as originally reported by the children.
With that little observation, I end this blog post.
This is Gemini´s attempted summary of my spiritual journey so far. It doesn´t make *complete* sense, obviously, being based on my (often strange) questions to the AI over the past year or so. Or was it last evening? Still, I find the picture fascinating for various reasons hard to explain to an outsider...
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Kind of wonder about this too sometimes. Although a natural explanation can´t be ruled out, of course. I mean, micro-climate is a thing. Just visit any cemetery muh-hah-hah!
You can´t just use *any* human skull for your Kapala Bhairava sadhana. It has to be the skull of a Candala, a Dom or another person who spent a considerable time in the cremation-ground. It can also be the skull of a person who met an untimely death. Then, the spirit is conjured by offerings and certain mantras. The offerings may include alcohol, meat, fish or eggs.
The point of the exercise is less clear, except that the spirit is supposed to help you in your worship of Bhairava, who at some point will demand the skull itself as sacrifice. The spirit must do all this voluntarily. Many a sadhu forces the spirit to work for him, but that is apparently a bad mistake. The spirit will take revenge, sooner or later...
OK, bro, thanks for warning me in advance.
An original take on American evangelicalism, arguing that it´s actually a form of populist mysticism. Note the idea that evangelicalism may channel both Christ and the Demiurge ("Satan"). So can most other religions, I think! Not sure who the content-creator is. Some kind of folkish mystic?
I know its pareidolia, but I fucking saw this guy just the other day in some old oak. Of course, not as dramatic as in this AI-generated picture! He´s gone now. A bit weird. Why doesn´t the pareidolia work two days in a row? Something about the sunlight, the moss, or my idiosyncratic psychological states...? Been very tired in the afternoons for over a week now.
OK, so Pashupati-Cernunnos lives in a tree in "my" parkland. Got it.
It´s happening, fam. The Second Religiosity is now. Make of this content whatever you wish.
