Big dog

 

Or just a wild psychopomp? Sure hope this isn´t a true story...

The night journey

 

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...

I want to believe

 

I want to see one of these. I would feel privileged...

Magical geography

 

Theota?

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! 

Notes on magical geography

Conditions apply

 

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.   

Breakthrough

 

If you know, you know!

Angels and demons

 

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?

Pareidolia

 

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.  

Paradigm shift

 

It´s happening, fam. The Second Religiosity is now. Make of this content whatever you wish. 

Deceiving spirits

 

Here we go again. I actually wondered about this myself: if even the Anti-Christ makes miracles, how can miracles prove the Catholic Church? Or Christianity in general? How do we know *they* aren´t the Anti-Christ?

From MythVision, commenting the recent conversion/reversion of YouTube personality Joe Schmid to Catholicism. 

Makabert

 

Credit: JM Ligero Loarte

Källan är en avhoppare, men även den amerikanska militären undersökte ju om djur kunde ha övernaturliga förmågor. Och människor! Så visst kan detta vara sant. Och sanslöst. 

Makabert experiment skulle testa kaniners övernaturliga förmågor

Absorption

 

My result on the "Tellegen Absorption Scale" was only 5 out of 34. So is *that* why I never have any spiritual or religious experiences? Or almost never. Damn. I suppose I will never see the sky fairies and their luminous orbs...

They hunt us for food

 

Three scary stories about apparent alien abductions with deadly outcomes. One is from the UK, the two others from Brazil. Note the weird Spiritualist-cult connection in the second case! Let´s hope these are just tall tales...

The world is larger

 

I want to have this kind of experience...

Candle in the dark

 

A Catholic debunks an Orthodox miracle. Hmmm...

Private revelation

 

Can I please have a revelation like this tonight? I promise to keep it strictly private...

Vindicatory

 

The distinction between "public" and "private" in this video about revelation is just a sleight of hand trick. Weren´t most revelations given to Paul and John (at Patmos) "private"? Wasn´t Fatima "public"? But RZ (the content-creator) isn´t a Catholic. The ministry of Jesus was a "public revelation", but why didn´t the resurrected Christ show himself to his enemies or to the indifferent? In a certain sense, his resurrection was therefore also "private". Und so weiter. 

He´s right about the NDEs, though. 

Social experiment

 

I admit that I never heard about the famous Princeton philosopher Joe Schmid before. Perhaps because he is just a random guy on YouTube who happens to study philosophy somewhere at Princeton? Recently, Schmid shocked his fellow atheists/agnostics by converting (or strictly speaking reverting) to Catholicism. Or did he? 

Some suspect he is just trolling. His video does look unserious, but perhaps he is just the hyperactive autistic type? Anyhow, this is the current drama on YouTube right now. 

Do I care? Nupe. But in case you´re interested, the first video above is Schmid´s conversion story, while the second is a critique from Derek of MythVision. 

Dwarfs and genocide

 

An essay on various Native American / American Indian legends about the Little People. And not just from southern Ontario, either! I suppose it *is* interesting that many (all?) cultures around the world have legends of both Little People and Giants. At the very least, we´re dealing with a very powerful psychological archetype here. 

But I couldn´t help noticing something else...

Yes, the Iroquoian Confederation (extolled by feminists and romantic leftists) genocided other American Indian nations.    

Iroquoian Dwarf Legends from Southern Ontario

Science in default

 

Ufologist Richard Dolan discusses a recent paper analyzing every video released by the Trump admin as part of their "UFO disclosure". Unsurprisingly, the paper reaches the conclusion that the lack of "telemetry data" makes it impossible to know what the UAPs captured on camera really are. For all we know, they could be birds or small drones. It´s not even certain whether stationary objects (which seem to be hovering) are really stationary! And so on.

The refusal of the US government to release the relevant data means that the "disclosure" is very partial...at best. It´s compatible with the conspiracy theory (not discussed in the video) that UFOs are really earthly aircraft, and that the military is intentionally psy-opping the public into believing in extraterrestrials as an excellent cover for its secret projects. Of course, the devious way in which the "disclosure" is made is *also* compatible with the UFOs actually being extraterrestrial, the military trying its best to hide that fact. Maybe that´s the thing: one purpose of the psy-op is to create confusion and conflict among UFO researchers. 

My personal impression is that there is enough data to suggest that something genuinely anomalous is going on. Which doesn´t preclude all kinds of psy-ops and black-ops, of course. Both "ours" and "theirs" (as in Russia and China). Maybe Greenland is sending auk-like drones to mess with the Don´s ballroom blitz? That was a joke, but you do get my point...

There is also the very distinct possibility that neither the US military nor anyone else knows what in heaven´s name (pun intended) is going on. *We* know of course. It´s that "8th tower" going mustang. But hey, don´t tell the CIA!