posted February 12, 2012 01:58 AM            

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagination
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/interwoven
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_stimuli
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/veiled

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Check the names and the descriptions of the episodes of season 2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gargoyles_episodes

4.
"A Lighthouse in the Sea of Time"
"The seeker of knowledge need fear nothing here, the destroyer everything"
A set of scrolls believed to have belonged to Merlin the wizard are discovered, and stolen by Macbeth. Hudson makes a new friend in the blind novelist, Jeffrey Robbins, who teaches him about reading.
"The magic of reading"
-To Learn-
*Wisdom Owl*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaL5RlPho44

If books are magic, What is the Internet?

15.
"The Price"
After an encounter with MacBeth, Hudson does not wake up from his stone sleep. Meanwhile, Xanatos attempts to use a magic cauldron to make himself immortal.
"Not everyone can reclaim their head after loosing it."
http://economictimes.indiatime s.com/features/corporate-dossier/unique-spiritual-cauldron-of-taoism-buddhism-confucianism/articleshow/2765877.cms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt825aoxO_M

21.
"Avalon"
Tom, the boy from Castle Wyvern, appears in New York fully grown and asks Goliath for his help in defeating the Archmage, Macbeth, Demona, and the Weird Sisters on the mystical island of Avalon.
*The Sisters
http://www.animal-symbols.com/owl-symbol.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMlP_7y4bWE

22.
"Avalon 2"
Goliath, Elisa and Bronx accompany Tom to Avalon to stop the Archmage and in doing so find out what happened 1000 years ago. Meanwhile, a back-story is given to the Archmage.
"Because unless you get them yourself, I will not have them in the future."
"We cannot directly interfere with human events"
"Laws can be bent"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5mNjt1hMBI
http://gargoyles.wikia.com/wiki/Eye_of_Odin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_eye
"What am I supposed to do? Eat it!?"
-The knowledge became part of him.-

23.
"Avalon 3"
Goliath enlists some unusual help to defeat the Archmage and the Weird Sisters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOVgJq5zv7s

27.
"Golem"
Arriving in Prague, Goliath, Elisa, and Bronx come across Halcyon Reynard who wants to make himself immortal by taking the form of the mythical Golem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_QM-HgJvZA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem
The word golem occurs once in the Bible in Psalm 139:16, meaning "my unshaped form". The Mishnah uses the term for an uncultivated person.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Astronomical_Clock

Wonderful for 1410, The oldest part of the Orloj, the mechanical clock and astronomical dial, dates back to 1410 when it was made by clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň and Jan Šindel, the latter a professor of mathematics and astronomy at Charles University.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjWJHEmFfPA
http://library.thinkquest.org/15413/history/history-ren.htm

The Renaissance era encompasses Western music history from 1400 to the begining of the 1600’s. This period in time marked the rebirth of humanism, and the revival of cultural achievements for their own sake in all forms of art, including music. The word "Renaissance" in itself is defined as a "rebirth"or a "reconstruction".

39.
"Sentinel"
The world tourists arrive on Easter Island and encounter an alien sentry who is stubbornly convinced that the gargoyles are alien enemies of Earth.
*Green Man*
*Kundalini Snake*
*No Mind*
"And you trust these instincts?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dt7-09JJZE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elixir_of_life
The elixir of life, also known as the elixir of immortality and sometimes equated with the philosopher's stone, is a legendary potion, or drink, that grants the drinker eternal life and/or eternal youth. Many practitioners of alchemy pursued it. The elixir of life was also said to be able to create life. It is related to the myths of Thoth, and Hermes Trismegistus, all of whom in various tales are said to have drunk "the white drops" (liquid gold) and thus achieved immortality. It is also associated with the Qur'an's Al Khidr ('The Green Man'), and is mentioned in one of the Nag Hammadi texts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khidr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Island

42.
"Ill Met By Moonlight"
When Goliath and company return to Avalon, the faerie lord Oberon and his queen Titania return as well after a millennium-long exile. Trouble ensues when Oberon decides to evict the Avalon Clan from his island.
"On your heads be it!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LriFfJCCRLs&feature=related

Past Present Future

The Grimorum is a book of knowledge concerning the Children of Oberon,and Humans.
Symbol of Hermes is on the book.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetica
The Hermetica are Greek wisdom texts from the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE, mostly presented as dialogues in which a teacher, generally identified with Hermes Trismegistus or "thrice-greatest Hermes", enlightens a disciple.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes_Trismegistus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon%27s_children

The Three Weird Sisters

Like Oberon, their true motives are inscrutable and their behavior amoral. While they unquestionably follow Oberon's will, they have done actions that often circumvent his will such as assisting the Archmage.

The item that the white haired sister is holding is interesting.

http://gargoyles.wikia.com/wiki/Phoenix_Gate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_%28mythology%29
"The phoenix has long been presented as a symbol of rebirth, immortality, and renewal. Renaissance"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate
"A gate is a point of entry to a space enclosed by walls, or a moderately sized opening in a fence. Gates may prevent or control entry or exit."

-Renaissance Gate-

http://history-world.org/renaissance.htm

The term Renaissance, literally means "rebirth" and is the period in European civilization immediately following the Middle Ages, conventionally held to have been characterized by a surge of interest in classical learning and values. The Renaissance also witnessed the discovery and exploration of new continents, the substitution of the Copernican for the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, the decline of the feudal system and the growth of commerce, and the invention or application of such potentially powerful innovations as paper, printing, the mariner's compass, and gunpowder. To the scholars and thinkers of the day, however, it was primarily a time of the revival of classical learning and wisdom after a long period of cultural decline and stagnation.

The new birth of resurrection(phoenix) known as the "Renaissance" is usually considered to have begun in Italy in the fourteenth century, though some writers would date its origin from the reign of Frederick II, 1215-1250; and by this Prince - the most enlightened man of his age - it was at least anticipated. Well versed in languages and science, he was a patron of scholars, whom he gathered about him, from all parts of the world, at his court in Palermo.

The Phoenix Gate has the ability to bear the user to any point in time or place when accompanied by the incantation of

**DEFLAGRATE MVRI TEMPI ET INTERVALIA**

Burn down the walls of Time and Space

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ98IJ0usoE
http://www.purelyrics.com/index.php?lyrics=omgmywrg
"You Are Not Here"

posted February 13, 2012 10:02 AM            

There appears to be a goal of targeting the subconscious minds of young fans with the notion that shape-shifting, winged reptilian-human hybrids are cool.

This is similar to the "Vampire = Stylish and awe-inspiring" feed to the subconscious through Underworld, Twilight, New Moon etc.
Strong Humanity is belittled as beastly Werewolves [Lycans, eerily rhyming with Lyrans, our actual heritage.]

The second goal is to slyly initiate clever fans into demonology even though the intention would appear to be revealing Gnostic Truths or Hermetic Wisdom. The trick here is that unawakened hybrids would gain power from positive occult practices, and then they can be hired for negative work when needed.

Hermetic Wisdom is great but after a time when an initiate is not seeing results, the Goetia and Invocation based magick gets very very tempting.

posted February 13, 2012 11:07 AM            

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Originally posted by iQ:
The second goal is to slyly initiate clever fans into demonology even though the intention would appear to be revealing Gnostic Truths or Hermetic Wisdom. The trick here is that unawakened hybrids would gain power from positive occult practices, and then they can be hired for negative work when needed.

Hermetic Wisdom is great but after a time when an initiate is not seeing results, the Goetia and Invocation based magick gets very very tempting.

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I suppose life is what you make it, Interesting interp.

-Magick or reptiles.. things of that nature etc was not of interest to me.

Or perhaps I am just seeing what I want to see. Remove the dross of mundane symbols and look at whats underneath.

I found only good messages about helping your own self and things to look out for.

And regardless of what the nature of my posts seem like, they are not conspiracy minded.

I have never been interested in summoning demons or anything like this.

---*Edit: I would probably summon a p!ssed off Alex Jones by accident, He would spend the next hour convincing me with compelling documents & high-tech visualization on what a poor choice I made.

posted February 17, 2012 06:24 AM            

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posted February 18, 2012 08:45 PM            

This kinda reminds me of those TV shows like, Vampire Diaries, Secret Circle. I was thinking, oh man, they are really going to mess kids up at this rate (with all the witch craft stuff).

I had actually wanted to make a thread on warning people here on LL about the dangers of following Gurus with the original intent of mystic schools/meditation/yoga etc.

["Hermetic Wisdom is great but after a time when an initiate is not seeing results, the Goetia and Invocation based magick gets very very tempting."]

~Yup along the lines of what usually happens. Every single person who studies metaphysics, whether it's healing or anything else, always wishes for better psychic abilities or confirmations from the spirit realms. This already sets one up for potential seductions from the dark side.

The light always attracts the dark, cuz the dark is always trying to overcome the light, or wanting the light to lift it to a higher vibration. So usually seduction happens to Gurus, healers, etc who have reached a pretty high level of enlightenment. This is exactly how the bible described the, "devil," trying to seduce Jesus by offering him anything of his heart's desire.
Many gurus start out with good intentions, but afterall they're human...so many succumb to the offer in the end. Trading their soul in for more powerful psychic abilities; healing, levitation, etc. The darkside needs to be worshipped, and gets this thru the Guru. Cords/vectors are established between the gurus & his students. The students put their guru on a pedestal which is like worshipping him, & this feeds the darkness, but drains your energy in doing so.

Anytime a meditation/yoga/mystic school group that insists on charging ridiculous amounts (even if they know you're broke), taking up too much of your time, or does, "initiations." BEWARE, especially the so called initiations. You're literally agreeing to be corded to them by getting initiated.

They wont do anything to you as long as you comply, but the moment you decide to leave the group...They'll send black magic attacks after you. Sending dark entities to mess with you.

It's serious stuff, and they can easily locate you cuz you're vectorized to them. Moving out of the country helps throw them off energetically tho, but they can still find you pretty fast.
Calling in angelics & asc masters can remove the attacks temporarily. Ultimately, you need a hardcore shamanic/pranic healer who knows how to, "physically," remove vectors energetically along with utilizing the help of angelics/masters.

So all this witchcraft stuff is like a fast track to inviting in darkness, without even having reached a certain state of enlightenment. The vampire scene the last few years has already created enough vampy wannabes...now there'll be more witch wannabes playing hocus pocus without understanding the dangers of, "spells."

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IQ,

posted February 18, 2012 10:23 PM            

I know I wouldn't want to be sacrificed in such a way.

Agent_009: I would imagine in the case of someone involved with this in a large country, say the continental US or Russia, moving cross-country would also be sufficient, especially if someone were to move to a place with a higher or different energy signature, like say from Moscow to Siberia, or Northeastern US to southwestern US/California. (I have heard California has a lot of energy points).

posted February 19, 2012 12:41 AM            

Nope, if you apply the logic, ALL energy can move through time & space.
Besides, I've seen people still corded or vectored to their dead abusive parent/lover before. Just cuz someone dies, doesnt mean the energetic cord is cut. Energy cannot be destroyed, only altered.

I got this girl out of a cult before, and after she left the U.S. for Africa to, "clear the air," the dark entities still pursued. Didnt end for her, until she sought the help of a reeeally good shaman.

Right now, I'm able to protect myself pretty well, but I'm not at the point I would want to help others remove vectors/entity attacks, etc. It's dangerous & powerful stuff. Cords, perhaps, cuz it's less dangerous than vectors. I'm still apprenticing with a very gifted shaman who's able to levitate, etc. The darkside has tried to seduce her before when she had reached a high level of enlightenment. She said it had been, "very," tempting but was able to say no.

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I want to make it clear, it's not just gurus of the East Indian tradition. It could be healers, shamans, any metaphysical practitioner. So be very careful whom you choose to follow or learn from!!

posted February 19, 2012 09:56 PM            

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Originally posted by Agent_009:
I'm still apprenticing with a very gifted shaman who's able to levitate, etc.

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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pics%20or%20it%20didn%27t%20happen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_phone

posted February 23, 2012 10:39 PM            

quote:

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Originally posted by Agent_009:
So all this witchcraft stuff is like a fast track to inviting in darkness, without even having reached a certain state of enlightenment. The vampire scene the last few years has already created enough vampy wannabes...now there'll be more witch wannabes playing hocus pocus without understanding the dangers of, "spells."

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My experience is there isn't much to worry about. My girl is a huge Harry Potter fan, and she watches Wizards of Waverly Place (which included a wizard dating a vampire, btw) and the like. None of that got her interested in magic because to her it was fantasy, just like people who read comic books don't typically (if ever) expose themselves to radiation in the hopes of becoming mutants with super powers because it's just a cool story to them not to be confused with reality. They know it's make believe (which is strange to me given how many ADULTS don't seem able to realize that...) Her watching magic rituals on Kim Possible didn't get her into magic anymore than watching Kim Possible in space got her interested in being an astronaut.

She did have a short-lived love for Twilight and got me to read the book. In return I let her watch my Buffy DVDs and she almost instantly forgot Twilight. In season 2 she even decided Xander was better boyfriend material than Angel (and gave good reasons for it, IMO, which surprised me).

But as Willow got into witchcraft she finally got interested in Wicca (as that's what Willow called it). Having been part of Wicca before I explained it to her as best I could and loaned her Drawing Down the Moon and The Spiral Dance. She then realized that real Wicca and witchcraft weren't anything like Buffy (or Harry Potter, etc) and lost all interest in it.

She did--after I talked about him--get briefly interested (I think mostly out of morbid curiosity) in Aleister Crowley, but I had a quick cure for that: I loaned her 777aOQWoAC and my plan of boring her to death (though I did honestly answer her questions about it) until she lost interest succeeded.

So despite spending so many of her formative years obsessed with occult and vampire theme books and movies, she doesn't cast spells, drink blood, summon demons, or even believe in it. She's not even interested in astrology.

And given that I also volunteered for a children's summer reading program which featured Harry Potter and related activities (like making wizard hats to wear), attending birthday parties (as an entertainer) of countless girls, having babysit quite a few kids and taken kids to the Hannah movie (many of whom were also into Wizards of Waverly Place and Harry Potter themselves with a few even talking about Twilight), I've seen virtually nothing to make me worry about them drinking blood, being possessed by demons or becoming adepts of the left hand path.

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posted February 26, 2012 07:52 AM            

quote:

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Originally posted by Randall:
Interesting.

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What caught your eye?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4LVEAiZJyg&feature=watch_response

posted April 06, 2012 08:02 PM            

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyrd

Wyrd is a concept in Anglo-Saxon culture roughly corresponding to fate or personal destiny. The word is ancestral to Modern English weird, which retains its original meaning only dialectally.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norns

The Norns in Norse mythology are female beings who rule the destiny of gods and men, a kind of dísir comparable to the Fates in classical mythology.

1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur%C3%B0r
"That Which Has Come To Pass"
2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ver%C3%B0andi
"Happening" or "Present"
3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skuld_%28Norn%29
"Debt" or "Future"

Thence come maidens
much knowing
three from the hall
which under that tree stands;
Urd hight the one,
the second Verdandi,
on a tablet they graved,
Skuld the third;
Laws they established,
life allotted
to the sons of men,
destinies pronounced.

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Past,Present,Future.

Three legs of Apollo on the Oracles(female) Tripod.

http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/delphicoracle/g/081109tripod.htm

Definition: Tripod comes from Greek words meaning "3"+"feet" and refers to a three-legged structure. The best known tripod is the stool at Delphi on which the Pythia sat to produce her oracles. This was sacred to Apollo and was a bone of contention in Greek mythology between Hercules and Apollo.

http://www.delphi-tours.com/pythia-oracle/

Opposite from common belief, Pythia was not one person, but the title of every priestess delivering the prophecies. There were three Pythias at the height of the Delphic Oracle. Past,Present,Future.

http://www.goddess.org/vortices/notes/delphi.html

"but there is also a madness which is a divine gift, and the source of the chiefest blessings granted to men. For prophecy is a madness, and the prophetess at Delphi and the priestesses at Dodona when out of their senses have conferred great benefits on Hellas, both in public and private life, but when in their senses few or none." (Phaedrus, 243)

But being out of one's senses does not mean that one is "plunged" into a state of frenzy. On the contrary, all ancient paintings of the Pythoness show her seated on her tripod with a laurel sprig in her right hand and a bowl of water in her left from which she descries the oracle. No picture of the Pythoness shows her in a frenzied state, nor would she have been able to hold a bowl of water in that condition.

"She sat on a brass tripod, with a brass bowl filled with water in one hand and a laurel sprig in the other; it was not fumes from the cavern which intoxicated the Priestess, for oracle had been given there long before the murder of Python by Apollo(Ethylene Gas Fumes); the Pythoness was entered by the Spirit of the Vortex while alone in the lower cavern, protected by her two assistants who remained above. When she ascended she gave oracle in the ancient Cretan tongue, which was gibberish to the uninitiated, but was translated or interpreted by the priest and given to the inquirant. When the spirit was too weak to enter the Pythoness, she used a plant to induce a weakened physical and mental state; the plant which induce the trance-like state grew near the temple, and Coretas' goats had become intoxicated from eating the leaves of the tree (or bush), while the sheep, which are grazers, not browsers, were not affected. Coretas, however, had not eaten the leaves, but had become intoxicated after he had drunk a tea he had made from the leaves - which our priestesses say is a Laurel which grows only in that area; but originally oracle was given to the priestess when she was in an orgiastic state in the lower chamber and her assistant priestess conveyed the oracle to those who waited above." (The High Priestess also stated that while the fumes did not intoxicate, they produced a sense of euphoria which elevated the Priestess the same way music elevates the soul.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete

Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It forms a significant part of the economy and cultural heritage of Greece while retaining its own local cultural traits (such as its own dialect, poetry, and music). Crete was the centre of the Minoan civilization, the earliest "high culture" civilization in Europe, which built the first palaces in Europe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_civilization

Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age civilization that arose on the island of Crete, came to dominate the shores and islands of the Aegean Sea, and flourished as a maritime power from approximately the 27th century BC to the 15th century BC. It was rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th century by British archaeologist Arthur Evans. Will Durant referred to it as "the first link in the European chain."The earliest inhabitants of Crete may have settled as early as 800,000 BC, during the Middle Paleolithic age. Hand-axes of the type attributed to Homo erectus in Africa, except the material is local quartz, rather than flint, have been found at Preveli Gorge in southern Crete. However, it was not until 5000 BC that the first signs of advanced agriculture appeared. Minoan civilization is considered to have begun with the palace complexes that appeared in the Bronze Age. The relationships of the Minoans with the more ancient peoples of Crete are unknown.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex

A vortex (plural: vortices) is a spinning, often turbulent, flow of fluid. Any spiral motion with closed streamlines is vortex flow. The motion of the fluid swirling rapidly around a center is called a vortex. The speed and rate of rotation of the fluid in a free (irrotational) vortex are greatest at the center, and decrease progressively with distance from the center, whereas the speed of a forced (rotational) vortex is zero at the center and increases proportional to the distance from the center. Both types of vortices exhibit a pressure minimum at the center, though the pressure minimum in a free vortex is much lower.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylene

Ethylene (IUPAC name: ethene) is an organic compound, a hydrocarbon with the formula C2H4 or H2C=CH2. It is a colorless flammable gas with a faint "sweet and musky" odor when pure. It is the simplest alkene (a hydrocarbon with carbon-carbon double bonds), and the simplest unsaturated hydrocarbon after acetylene (C2H2).

posted April 07, 2012 11:28 AM            

Paul Atreides: I am the whirlwind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlwind

A whirlwind is a weather phenomenon in which a vortex of wind (a vertically oriented rotating column of air) forms due to instabilities and turbulence created by heating and flow (current) gradients. Whirlwinds occur all over the world and in any season.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bene_Gesserit

The Bene Gesserit choose to use indirect methodologies to further their goals, rather than wield overt power themselves. They have noted the Taoist principle that whatever rises must fall; and so rather than taking direct control of the human race, they instead manipulate the social and political order with subtlety and insinuation, often using extraordinarily long-term stratagems spanning generations. The Bene Gesserit avoid appearing too rich or powerful, or revealing the extent of their powers, to prevent being seen as overtly responsible for the rise and fall of governments and empires, and to avoid any organized backlash. To this end, the Bene Gesserit provide some of their trained initiates as wives and concubines, and will train the daughters of noble families for a fee.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_That_Rises_Must_Converge

Everything That Rises Must Converge is a collection of short stories written by Flannery O'Connor during her final illness. The title of the collection and of the short story of the same name is taken from a passage from the work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The collection was published posthumously in 1965. It includes an introduction by Robert Fitzgerald, and nine stories.

http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Jacob

Jacob was the ageless protector of the Island for more than 2000 years(roughly a whole age of the zodiac). He was born on the Island with his brother(must of been a female age, the brother was the opposite sign?), the Man in Black and lived there, eventually in the statue of Taweret, until his brother convinced Ben to kill him.

Jacob and his twin brother spent centuries debating the nature of humanity, all the while trying to find a loophole to kill each other.(Faith/Pisces & Science/Virgo have done this to each other for how long now?) He repeatedly left to visit potential successors whom he drew to the Island. He also served as an unseen leader by proxy for a group of Island people. After his death, Jacob reappeared as a ghost in his youthful bodily form. He finally reappeared in his adult bodily form to his last surviving candidates to pass on the position of protector.

http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Everything_That_Rises_Must_Converge

posted April 07, 2012 01:56 PM            

Non-Literal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light

According to special relativity, c is the maximum speed at which all energy, matter, and information in the universe can travel. It is the speed that all massless particles and associated fields (including electromagnetic radiation such as light) travel in vacuum. It is also the speed of gravity (i.e. of gravitational waves) predicted by current theories. Such particles and waves travel at c regardless of the motion of the source or the inertial frame of reference of the observer. In the Theory of Relativity, c interrelates space and time, and also appears in the famous equation of mass–energy equivalence E = mc2.

*Many old teaching try to break/exceed time and space, for the mind.*

Music is normally with it somehow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj178APgdno

Also a sound, a building up of great power and a release of some kind. (much like sex in the material/external sense. Something else when done directly with the mind, using your bodies power.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWB7owOezAQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=_fPmCKt48Zw

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena

Eventually Zeus experienced an enormous headache; Prometheus cleaved Zeus's head with the double-headed Minoan axe, the labrys. Athena leaped from Zeus's head, fully grown and armed, with a shout— "and pealed to the broad sky her clarion cry of war. And Ouranos trembled to hear, and Mother Gaia..." Plato, in the Laws, attributes the cult of Athena to the culture of Crete, introduced, he thought, from Libya during the dawn of Greek culture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth

Birth is the act or process of bearing or bringing forth offspring. The offspring is brought forth from the mother.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea

An idea is a concept or mental impression. Very often, ideas are construed as representational images; i.e. images of some object. In other contexts, ideas are taken to be concepts, although abstract concepts do not necessarily appear as images.

http://www.wisegeek.com/why-are-boats-called-she.htm

posted April 07, 2012 03:56 PM            

He was surrounded by people with knives pointed at him.

He picked up a knife, killed them.

**

Paul had another problem.

His people were surrounded by others with knives pointed at them.

They picked up the knife, killed them.

**

Paul had yet another problem.

His planet was surrounded by other planets, those planets had knives pointed at his planet.

His planet picked up the knife, was not able to kill them all.

His people joined others

They all pointed knives at him.

He was surrounded yet again.

He can't kill them all, atrocity!

They would kill him, Justice!

http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Zensunni

Zensunni was a religious belief system prominent with many cultures spread across the Known Universe, especially those descended from disadvantaged and enslaved peoples.

They were followers of a schismatic sect that broke away from the teachings of Maometh (the so-called "Third Muhammed") about 1381 BG. The Zensunni religion is noted chiefly for its emphasis on the mystical and a reversion to "the ways of the fathers." Most scholars name Ali Ben Ohashi as leader of the original schism but there is some evidence that Ohashi may have been merely the male spokesman for his second wife, Nisai.

Later, the Zensunni predisposition was manipulated by the Bene Gesserit, via their Missionaria Protectiva arm and Panoplia Propheticus strategy, for their own political objectives. One of the most prominent homes of Zensunni beliefs, Arrakis, was of particular interest in this regard. The exclusivity of the critical Spice Melange on the planet made the resident Fremen, staunch followers of Zensunni, of natural interest to the Bene Gesserit.

The emergence of the powerful Paul Atreides, and his adoption of Fremen ways, gave Zensunni beliefs a dramatic new popularity. After his ascension to Emperor Paul embarked on a ferocious jihad that brought great violence and turmoil. The stark contrast of these actions vis-à-vis pacifist Zensunni beliefs was not lost on some of the faithful. <---- That was one of the problems. The faithful are the ones who hold things together when things are rough.

http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Missionaria_Protectiva

The Missionaria Protectiva was an arm of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood that was responsible for sowing the seeds of superstition in primitive cultures, so that the Sisterhood could take advantage of them. They were responsible for spreading the Panoplia Propheticus (myths, prophecies, and superstitions).

This "religious engineering" spread "infectious superstitions on primitive worlds, thus opening those regions to exploitation by the Bene Gesserit."

The Panoplia Propheticus is the collective term used to describe the superstitions and prophecies laid down by the Missionaria Protectiva of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood.

http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Orange_Catholic_Bible

The Orange Catholic Bible (or OCB for short), also known as the Koranjiyana Zenchristian Scriptures, the Accumulated Book, or the Zenchristian Navakoran, was one of the most important religious texts in the known universe.

It was supposed to be a fusion of all significant religious thought in human history, with a strong emphasis on religious beliefs originating on Earth. These included the Maometh Saari, Mahayana Christianity, Zensunni Catholicism, and Budislamic traditions. It was produced by the Commission of Ecumenical Translators in the wake of the Butlerian Jihad. Its supreme commandment was:

"Thou shalt not disfigure the soul."

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/disfigure

To mar or spoil the appearance or shape of; deform.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul

A soul – in certain spiritual, philosophical, and psychological traditions – is the incorporeal essence of a person, living thing, or object. Many philosophical and spiritual systems teach that only humans have souls, while others teach that all living things, and even inanimate objects (such as rivers), have souls. The latter belief is commonly called animism. Soul can function as a synonym for spirit, mind or self; scientific works, in particular, often consider 'soul' as a synonym for 'mind'.

posted April 07, 2012 06:10 PM            

The Three Slayers of Goodness, of Man, of Life, of the World, of the Universe.

Perverted Thought (Comes mostly from uncurbed emotions)
Uncurbed Emotions (No grip on yourself)
Destructive Actions (Comes from the other two combined)

The Magus died bringing the three to restriction.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/get-keep-a-grip-on-yourself

-to make an effort to control your emotions and behave more calmly
-"I just think he ought to get a grip on himself - he's behaving like a child."
-"Stop panicking and get a grip on yourself!"

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/grip

power and control over yourself.
*Synonyms or related words for this sense of grip*
Power, authority, influence and leadership: oligopoly, leadership, power, authority, control, domination, might, greatness, monopoly, force.

You can not grip what you do not know is there, therefore, Know Thyself. You stand fair chance of cutting yourself down otherwise.

(I am guilty of it until I understand what's really going on)

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/to_err_is_human

-Everyone makes mistakes. It's better to have friends to help when they happen.

“We free you from our dreadful geas,
Do as thou will, and as thou please.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upjDWPunOLc

Evanescense
What You Want

Do what you what you want, if you have a dream for better
Do what you what you want till you don’t want it anymore
(remember who you really are)
Do what you what you want, your world’s closing in on you now
(it isn’t over)
Stand and face the unknown
(got to remember who you really are)
Every heart in my hands like a pale reflection

Hello, hello remember me?
I’m everything you can’t control
Somewhere beyond the pain there must be a way to believe we can break through

Do what you what you want, you don’t have to lay your life down
(it isn’t over)
Do what you what you want till you find what you’re looking for
(got to remember who you really are)
But every hour slipping by screams that I have failed you

Hello, hello remember me?
I’m everything you can’t control
Somewhere beyond the pain there must be a way to believe
Hello, hello remember me?
I’m everything you can’t control
Somewhere beyond the pain there must be a way to believe

There’s still time
Close your eyes
Only love will guide you home
Tear down the walls and free your soul
Till we crash we’re forever spiraling down, down, down, down

posted April 07, 2012 11:15 PM            

The Voice
(Reverend Mother and Paul use this against each other in the clip above, the voice distortion you hear is just there so you know when they are using it. In the books the ability was "Masked" with incredible skill. You had to be skilled in it to notice another using it.)

Bene Gesserit are trained in what they call "the Voice" — a means "to control others merely by selected tone shadings of the voice." By modulating the subtleties of her voice, a Bene Gesserit can issue commands on a subconscious level, compelling obedience in others that they cannot resist, whether they are consciously aware of the attempt or not. This control can be as subtle as influencing thoughts and motivations, or as strong as forcing physical actions in the subject. To effect this, the Bene Gesserit must "register" the intended target by analyzing his or her personality and vocal patterns through observation or seemingly innocuous direct questions.

Reverend Mother: What do you think they mean, these dreams of yours?

Paul: Why don't you tell me?..

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Do_two_negative_magnet_sides_attract_each_other

Q-Do two negative magnet sides attract each other?

A-No, two sides of the same charge push away from each other. only positive to negative attract.

http://www.leehopkins.com/subtle-psychological-power-of-suggestion.html

The subtle psychological power of suggestion

As professional communicators it is important for us to understand and appreciate all the tools we have at our disposal.

It is important that we understand and appreciate the power of the psychological art of subtle suggestion.

One of the most powerful tools is 'Suggestion', and in this article I want to delve further into the psychological power of 'suggestion'(*For What Purpose Exactly?*) and consider the implications for us as professional communicators and information marketers.

Sure, we can 'suggest' that people purchase our products or take on our ideas in a direct way: "We suggest you buy Blank's Beans because you'll like them" but in all honesty how effective is that going to be? Subtlety is a major factor in modern communication, especially advertising, and being hit over the head with a blatant message doesn't work anymore; too many people have been bludgeoned to death by over-zealous communicators.

So, like I said, it's important that we understand and appreciate the power of the psychological art of subtle suggestion...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind

Theories of mind and its function are numerous. Earliest recorded speculations are from the likes of Zoroaster, the Buddha, Plato, Aristotle, and other ancient Greek, Indian and, later, Islamic and medieval European philosophers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmet

All helmets attempt to protect the user's head by absorbing mechanical energy and protecting against penetration. Their structure and protective capacity are altered in high-energy impacts.