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Apopsi Anti-Psi Deflective Filtering
2007-12-02 19:48:00 ?"? ????? ???"?Shamash 24I've found a phrase which describes the phenomenon where news items seem to reflect in a similar manner dreams I've had immediately preceding the "news event" - the dream Peace Talks and the murder of Sean Taylor, for example. That phrase is apopsi anti-psi deflective filtering.Phaedra Bonewits in Real Energy writes regarding anti-psi talents and the specific anti-psi talents of filtering and deflection:Anti -psi is a categorical term for psi talents that operate primarily by affecting other psi talents. Several of these anti-psi talents seem to involve the generation of certain psi fields [1] to alter the content, directon, or power levels of other psychic energy fields. Catapsi is the generation of a psychic field of "static" in order to disrupt the data of other psychic energy fields. Similarly, splodging is a kind of psychic yelling meant to drown out competing data. Apopsi is the generation of a field into which other psi fields cannot enter, possibly ... More About: Erin
Ehyeh & The Guardian Malchitzedek
2007-12-01 19:01:00 ?"? ????? ???"?Shamash 23In follow-up to my Peace Talks entry on Monday, where I saw 4 of the 5 shots fired at me by a guard, the news report below emerges today about the murder of Sean Taylor which occurred on Monday. My birth surname is Taylor. The name "Sean" is similiar to the word "shin", where the 4-Shin of Binah "guards" the entrance to my musical website, Walking On Fire. Sean/shin - similiar, but not quite the same. ???? ???? ???Four Arrested In Taylor SlayingSaturday, December 1, 2007By Michael ChristieMIAMI (Reuters) - Tipped off by the public and armed with a confession, police in Florida arrested four young men on Friday for the murder of Sean Taylor, a star defensive player [#21] with the National Football League's Washington Redskins.Taylor, 24, who was the Redskins' first pick in the 2004 draft, was shot in the groin area during a home robbery on Monday, resulting in a severed femoral artery. He died the next day in hospital after losing massive amounts of blood.T... More About: Guardian , The Guardian , Hitz , The G
Witness To Clear Vision
2007-11-29 04:56:00 ?'? ????? ???"?Shamash 21I ritually hand-magnetized my crystal ball this evening, with the waning gibbous moon 74% full during the planetary hours of the moon and Saturn. Following the magnetization ritual, I gazed into the sphere's depths expecting to see "cloudy" forms. Cloudy forms are not what I saw.In the soft candlelight, the candlelight and shadows came immediately together in such a way as to form the clear image of an old large wooden table (like one from the middle ages) with a steaming iron cauldron set in the middle of it. Behind both of them was a firelit hearth with a broomstick resting beside it. The formation was so clear and distinct - even the darkness of the "wood" and iron cauldron. The soothing energy of the experience tenderly embraced me, leaving me feeling deeply satisfied inside.Amazing. More About: Witness , Clear , Vision
Electro-Magnetic Field Disturbances
2007-11-28 02:10:00 ?'? ????? ???"?Shamash 20I have a "wind" chime in my magic room that operates on electromagnetism. It operates using an electric current and a magnet. Sometimes, even though the current is always on, the wind chime doesn't always work - the magnetic pendulum fails to be moved by the current sufficiently to strike the chimes.The chime has not been working for several days. Suddenly today, it is working just fine again. Right now I am listening the soothing peaceful sound of my chimes. This has occurred several times - it works, then it doesn't for a few days or weeks. Then, suddenly it works fine again.Whatever recently has been "in the air" adversely impacting the functional ability of my electromagnetic "wind" chime is no longer present.I welcome the sound of my chime's gentle music back into my magic room. I've missed it.What could be causing this phenomenon? Is it happening via cyclic influences on the electric current? What would cause the magnetic domains within the magnet... More About: Electro , Field , Magnetic
Kaf Ha'Yareich
2007-11-28 01:55:00 ?'? ????? ???"?Shamash 20In follow up to my previous post, Peace Talks, where I disclosed that within a dream yesterday my head (kaf ?) was targeted and shot at by a factory gate guard, I found these tidbits regarding Yaakov's wrestling match with the "guard of Esau" as it pertains to the "remembrance thread of techelet", lashon kodesh and the meaning of the word "yerech":The posuk says that the guardian angel struck the ?kaf ha?yareich.?"Yerech" is Lashon Kodesh.Yerech is the place of conception (see also Rashi Bamidbar 5:20 D"H Es Yirecheich), Yerusha which is mainly from the father is expressed as the leg which is an extension of the body.Taking all this together, my dream is telling me of "the wrestling match" of my "husband" where the "guardian angel" of Esau struck at my head using the discarded weapon of Yishmael. Esau's angel sought to strike me through the place of conception of holy or unholy language (the difference between the two being good-willed or ill-willed). Had...
Peace Talks
2007-11-26 23:56:00 ?'? ????? ???"?Shamash 19This morning, I dreamt.My "husband" and I were visiting an Arab family somewhere here in the U.S. My "husband" and I were Israeli-Americans in the dream. We were going on a recreational outing with the Arab man and his wife as two couples. To where, I didn't know. It was daytime. We had been invited into their home to wait as they settled their children to stay with older siblings while we went on our outing.We took the Arab couple's car. The two men were in the front seat and the man's wife and I sat in the back seat. We had to make a quick stop somewhere before we proceeded on to our recreational destination.The Arab man got out of the car at a place that looked like the entrance gate to an industrial factory. He spoke with one of the guards that occupied the booth at the entrance gate. He sold the guard his machine gun and got back inside the car.As we were driving away, the guard at the entrance booth shot toward the car. He was shooting at me. "It'... More About: Peace
Poetic Rites Of A Jewitch
2007-11-25 23:40:00 י'ו בכסלו תשס"חShamash 18In addition to my musical website at geocities, I'm creating a new no-frills blog to contain the best of my poetic writings. The new blog is:AwendynPoetic Rites Of A Kabbalistic Jewitch More About: Witch
It's Here!
2007-11-25 04:40:00 י'ה בכסלו תשס"חShamash 17My handmade Shades Of Grey quill pen to be used for spellwork and writing in my Book Of Shadows arrived today. Yay! It's exquisite! It's gorgeous! Well worth the wait!
Path Of The Just
2007-11-24 18:07:00 ?'? ????? ???"?Shamash 16Acting with the energy of the lights of Tohu, in vessels of Tikkun ... because I can.This shabbat full moon esbat at 6:33 am, I woke up and wrote down the major symbols of a complex dream so I would remember them.I saw two Hebrew letters clearly in the dream, a tzadi (?) was somewhat hidden behind a zayin (?). The zayin "stepped forward" toward clearer closer identification. In the dream, I said,"I claim the zayin for now."In other words, while both letters were "mine", I indicated the one acting "for now" was the letter zayin.There was another hidden letter as well.Each letter was associated in some manner with a different and specific aspect of a dandelion.The zayin, the clearer letter visually, was associated with a yellow dandelion set in a mid-horizontal line on a white door. (This mid-horizontal line corresponds to the path of the letter aleph (?) located "between" Gevurah and Chesed on the Tree of the Sefirot. Zayin is the letter corresponding to the... More About: Path
Real Magic In Shades Of Grey
2007-11-21 03:38:00 ?'? ????? ???"?Raising up sparks with Real Magic In Shades Of Grey by me.
Released
2007-11-20 03:37:00 ?' ????? ???"?Yaakov Nathan comments today at Mystical Paths:In honor of 9/10 Kislev, the birthday/hilula of the Mitteler Rebbe and the day of his geulah from prison ...I had a dream last night about a prison. I was camping out in the lobby sort of, got up morningtime and walked out into the street. I wasn't behind prison bars at any point in the dream - it was almost as if I had been "waiting" for something or someone to be released. More About: Released
Flourish Yesh M'Ein
2007-11-19 01:12:00 ?' ????? ???"?This evening's Hebrew letter tarot reading, performed under a waxing gibbous moon 61% full during the planetary hour of Mars, brought down 4 letters - 3 revealed letters and "the missing/hidden letter":the missing/hidden letter - ???This particular configuration of letters follows previous entries dealing with "A Bud Appeared In The Land", "Secrets In My Soul" and "Kochava D'Shavit".The prefix letter ?, as the "source of all the letters" yesh m'ein, gives birth to the entire array of creation energies (all the letters of the aleph-beit) and implies specificity in those letters which follow the prefix. In other words, the newly born creative energies are being specifically (as opposed to generally) directed. The sha'ar ?? means "to grow" and "to flourish". Specifically, given the previous entries as linked above, what is being empowered to grow and to flourish is the soul-root of messianic consciousness, symbolized through the phrases "kochava d'shavit" and "the m...
Kochava D'Shavit
2007-11-17 21:49:00 ?' ????? ???"?Here is an artistic graphic of my bronze Jewitch star, my kochava d'shavit, which symbolically represents the two primary soul sparks of my Jewish neshamah - Dinah (the encircled hexagram of David) and King Solomon (the pentacle of Solomon) in Unity.
Secrets In My Soul
2007-11-17 19:58:00 ?' ????? ???"?In my previous post regarding the legacy of my grandmother Gladys Ruth Faulkner-Collins, daughter of Elizabeth Grunwald-Faulkner and George Samuel Faulkner, and granddaughter of Sue Turner-Grunwald and Will Grunwald, I noted that my grandmother had four daughters, each daughter corresponding to one of the Jewish matriarchs - Sarah, Rivkah, Leah and Rachel.My mother, as the third daughter of my grandmother, corresponds to the matriarch Leah. I am my mother's only daughter, just as Dinah the daughter of Leah, is Yaakov's only recorded daughter. Thus, from this perspective, my particular soul has a significant root in the soul of Dinah (as well as Ruth and Leah roots).My grandmother, Gladys Ruth, was born in Rosebud, IL. I, containing the soul of Dinah, the only recorded daughter of Yaakov and Leah, was born in Danville, IL.From a second perspective, both Sue and Will Grunwald were observant Jews by family oral history. There is nothing in our family oral history to su... More About: Soul , My Soul , Secrets
A Bud Appeared In The Land
2007-11-17 05:40:00 ?' ????? ???"?Gladys Ruth Faulkner-Collins, daughter of Elizabeth Grunwald-Faulkner and George Samuel Faulkner, and granddaughter of Sue Turner-Grunwald and Will Grunwald was born in Rosebud, Illinois on August 5, 1915. One of her final gifts to her four daughters was to say "I love my beautiful, beautiful daughters! We've told a beautiful story, haven't we?" She was a gift we will cherish forever. She is survived by her daughters, Elizabeth Satterlee, Brenda Davis, Cheryl Taylor and Karen Bell. She also leaves behind eight grandchildren, nine great grandchildren, and eight great-great grandchildren.????A bud appeared in the Land ... Shir Hashirim 2:12 ... the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our Land.Through my mothers are "the powers of evil annihilated" and the destruction of generations prevented. Because buds appeared in the Land.????Yes, Grandma, a very beautiful story.
Oppression At The Kotel
2007-11-13 00:06:00 ?' ????? ???"?The Jewish Press reports that 13 Austrian bishops were recently denied entrance to the kotel because they would not put their crosses inside their robes.This is not right. I feel very strongly that it is a terrible thing to oppress another's expression of personal religious identity. Oppression , the antithesis of holiness, especially does not belong at the kotel.
Seats At The Tzadik's Table
2007-11-12 03:30:00 ?' ????? ???"?I dreamt.There was some teaching event going on in a nearby town with a "tzadik". Only a limited number of "seats at the table" were available.The table which was shaped like the letter kaf (?). The open end of the kaf was toward the east wall where the doorway of the room was also located. My mother and I had acquired seats at the table. We sat next to one another on the north side of the room which was also the bottom leg of the kaf-table. The seats at the table filled up and no more were available.The "tzadik" sat by the western wall of the room, in the center of the curve of the kaf-table. Before class started, while the room was being cleared of those who couldn't find seats, he got up from his seat and walked down the inner-side northern leg of table seats to see and/or speak with the students who occupied the places on this leg of the table. Coming down the leg (my mother and I sat in the center of the northern leg), he came to my mother first. He and my mothe... More About: Table
My Blog's Readability Test
2007-11-11 19:37:00 Somehow, I'm not surprised. I was told a few weeks ago at work to "dumb down" my clinical care plans. I don't get it. I'm not a genius. Ok, I was in an advanced reading class in gradeschool, but I don't think that counts, even though my parents were told at that time that I had an above-average IQ (or so I am told). Other than the advanced reading class, my parents wouldn't let the school system place me in any other advanced classes - they thought I'd turn out "not normal" if they allowed it. I turned out "not normal" anyway, even if I'm not really a genius.Cute blogthing.Hat-tip to The Atheist Jew More About: Test
Cultural Flexitime
2007-11-10 23:16:00 ?'? ????? ???"?It seems Britain is far ahead of the United States in providing its citizens "cultural flexitime" at their places of employment as a human resources "standard" policy.Civil servants to take bank holidays on religious days of their choice 09.11.07 ThisIsLondon NewsCivil servants will be able to take bank holidays on the religious days of their choice under moves to introduce "cultural flexitime".Officials in the education department will be allowed to work from home on statutory days off and take the time owed to mark their own religious traditions.It means staff will be able to work at home on Christmas Day for the first time this year and swap it for a different religious festival such as Eid or Diwali.The pioneering arrangements also apply to cultural traditions, meaning a Welsh employee could move a bank holiday to St David's Day.Some public bodies and firms already offer similar arrangements, such as allowing Christian holidays to be exchanged for festivals from... More About: Cultural , Ural , Lexi
Rider
2007-11-08 02:39:00 ?'? ????? ???"?In my previous entry I mentioned the Druidic concept of the airts, quoting Nigel Pennick:The fourfold division of the world, and its further subdivision into eight directions known as airts is derived directly from the structure of the human body and its interaction with the physical structure and processes of the planet upon which we evolved and upon which we live.According to Druidic teachings, there are 12 airts or "winds of the directions".In my mind, these 12 Druidic airts (the fourfold division and the eight "directions" evolving from the division) correspond to the 12 elemental letters (shteym esarah pshutot) as described in Sefer Yetzirah 5:2 as 12 diagonal "Boundaries" or "Arms" of the Universe, which parallel the 12 "tribes" of Yisrael.According to Sefer Yetzirah, above the "Arms of the Universe" is the "Place" of the Universe. Interestingly, in my dream, also posted earlier today, the lethal stormclouds were "passing over" my "locations", yet I was in a Hi... More About: Rider
Axis Of The Land
2007-11-07 22:34:00 ?'? ????? ???"?Small excerpts from an interesting new book I recently acquired - Secret Signs, Symbols & Sigils by Nigel Pennick:Writing and symbols, art and architechture, technology and warfare are all structured according to the human body.The fourfold division of the world, and its further subdivision into eight directions known as airts is derived directly from the structure of the human body and its interaction [emphasis mine] with the physical structure and processes of the planet upon which we evolved and upon which we live. At the centre of this fourfold division is the individual person, the source, fount and origin, the naval, the relic of the point from which each of us developed as an embryo within our mother.Naval points in the landscape [of feminine malchut, for example - my addition] are known in geomantic terminology by its Greek name omphalos. This terminology, calling the central point a naval, reiterates the slain giant motif of the primal creation of the wo... More About: Land , Axis
Death Passed Over
2007-11-07 18:53:00 ?'? ????? ???"?After my grandmother's passing this past Halloween morning October 31, the date Samhain is typically observed, the festival of death and renewal (of death only in the eyes of some, whereas others consider Samhain to be a festival of scholars) continued to seek out souls to remove from the physical world. While my grandmother's passing was not so unexpected at 92 years of age with failing health (it was an obvious blessing toward renewal of life for my grandmother even as it was a loss for my family), a woman's husband at work died unexpectedly the very next day, Thursday evening November 1 (may she be comforted by the kindness extended to her by our coworkers). Both she and her husband work(ed) at the facility where I work.I went back to work on Monday, but after additional work was piled onto me, along with work associated with the end of the month close (which was completed Monday morning before it was due Wednesday), with the recent passing of my grandmother, m... More About: Death
Girl Child In Box Found By Fisherman
2007-11-04 05:17:00 כ'ג בחשון תשס"חThe following story reported in Foxnews today reminds me of Pharaoh's decree to throw all the Hebrew baby boys into the Nile. Only, in this contemporary case, it was a girl-child.Fisher man Finds Box With Girl 's Body PartsSaturday, November 03, 2007HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities have released a sketch of what they think a young girl, whose remains were discovered inside a storage box that washed ashore on Galveston Bay, looked like.Investigators also said a forensic dental examination has narrowed the girl's age to between 2 and 3 years*.The girl, whom police call "Baby Grace," is described as white, 32 to 35 inches tall and weighing 25 to 30 pounds.She had waist-long, wavy blond or light brown hair. She was wearing a Target-brand pink, flowing skirt, a pink or red shirt and white light-up tennis shoes with purple flowers on them.A fisherman found the girl late Monday night. Her body was inside a blue plastic utility box that washed ashore along the Interc... More About: Child
PUBIC NOTICE Re: my primary email down
2007-11-04 03:00:00 כ'ג בחשון תשס"חApparently, my primary email service provider has deleted or lost my entire inbox at liorah@net66.com. They are and have been experiencing technical problems and power outages throughout today. Until further notice, please direct any email inquiries to me at liorahchanah@yahoo.com.UPDATE: My primary email service is up again and my inbox restored. More About: Email , Primary , Notice , Prim
Hexagram & Pentacle Sigils
2007-11-04 01:44:00 כ'ג בחשון תשס"חSigils at Craftwork Of A Jewitch:Otiot Sofiot Of The Expressive Penta cleOtiot HaShimush Of The Wise PentacleSheva Kafulot Of The Shabbat PentacleSheva Kafulot Of The Expansive HexagramThere are 1 hexagram and 3 pentacle entries, for a total of 4. These numbers bring to mind the 3 or 4 phenomenon discussed in other entries throughout Walking On Fire.
Mystes, Epoptes, Hierophantes, Avukah
2007-10-31 23:28:00 ?'? ????? ???"?Quotes from Ancient Myst eries & Secret Societies:The Nine Days Of Initiation The Initiation - Candle In The Womb and A Mystery of ConsciousnessJust as the Lesser Mysteries discussed the prenatal epoch of man when the consciousness in its nine days (embryologically, months) was descending into the realm of illusion and assuming the veil of unreality, so the Greater Mysteries discussed the principles of spiritual regeneration and revealed to initiates not only the simplest but also the most direct and complete method of liberating their higher natures from the bondage of material ignorance. Like Prometheus chained to the top of Mount Caucasus, man's higher nature is chained to his inadequate personality. The nine days of initiation were also symbolic of the nine spheres through which the human soul descends during the process of assuming a terrestrial form. The secret exercises for spiritual unfoldment given to disciples of the higher degrees are unknown, but ther... More About: Antes
Mesorah Of The River Mnemosyne
2007-10-31 19:01:00 ?'? ????? ???"?My maternal grandmother, Gladys Collins-Faulkner, granddaughter of Sue Turner-Grunwald and Will Grunwald, daughter of Elizabeth Grunwald-Faulkner and George Samuel Faulkner, mother of Cheryl Collins-Taylor and grandmother to Liorah Lleucu HaMasovevet, passed over early this morning of Samhain, Ram Cheshvan 19, ????? full of years at the age of 92.Mnemosyne was also the name for a river in Hades, counterpart to the river Lethe, according to a series of 4th century BC Greek funerary inscriptions in dactylic hexameter. Dead souls drank from Lethe so they would not remember their past lives when reincarnated. Initiates were encouraged to drink from the river Mnemosyne when they died, instead of Lethe. These inscriptions may have been connected with a private mystery religion, or with Orphic poetry. (Wiki on Mnemosyne, Titan Goddess of Memory and Inventor of Words, One of three or four Elder Muses and Mother of nine Younger Muses.)As a Mother of Eternal Life and a Mother ... More About: River
Red-Handed With Shechinah
2007-10-28 23:37:00 י'ו בחשון תשס"חI've uncovered another interesting tidbit related to my "chance" purchase of some red ochre, my "chance" encounter with a deer which followed that purchase, and my "chance" discovery following both of those that links both red ochre and deer symbolism to Shechinah.As the deer symbol is kabbalistically associated with Shechinah, red ochre is historically and more practically associated with Shechinah. Specifically, red ochre symbolizes the immersive creative explosion characteristic of the hashra'ah of Shechinah.Kathleen Kimball writes in Red Handed : An Inquiry Into The Meaning Of Prehistoric Red Ochre:Perhaps our ancestors painted or tattooed hand prints on their bodies. Tattooing and painting red ochre hands on human skin likely went on for many tens of thousands of years before so called ‘creative explosion’ 35,000 or so years ago.This ‘creative revolution’ was an intensified interest in permanence generally and in the human hand specifically. ...
Light From Darkness
2007-10-28 22:17:00 י'ו בחשון תשס"חYesterday, before I went to the store from which I returned to encounter the deer as decribed in earlier entries today, I had purchased some red ochre for craftworking. I had just "happend upon" the pigment, and had not gone looking to buy any. I bought it on a gut impulse that it could be useful for my magic-making. So, after purchasing it online, I went to the store for a 15-watt lightbulb. יהInterestingly, the first color one sees when emerging from blindness or darkness is the color red. The first examples of human art were made with red ochre. The prehistoric art shown here is of a red ochre deer cave painting (thought by scholars to have been created during the Megathilic Period). More About: Light , Darkness
Eretz Tzvi
More articles from this author:2007-10-28 19:25:00 י'ו בחשון תשס"חIn follow-up to my earlier "deer" entries - Spared An Accident and Practical Hishtavut - where in the latter I wrote:At some level, my nefesh already knew that the accident wasn't going to happen, even though my normal awareness perceived that, had the deer frozen, the accident indeed would have happened. In other words, my physical eyes saw accurately what was in front of me, but my spiritual eyes accurately saw the outcome - the deer would move and not freeze - and communicated this information in some very practical way to my nefesh, which responded by acting as if the (near) accident was not happening.In this entry, I identify the "spiritual level" which perceived the outcome and was/ever is in integrated communication with my nefesh - it is the spiritual level called "the Land of the Deer" (Eretz Tzvi). Eretz Tzvi is one of the names by which the spiritual level of "the Land of Yisrael" is known.From Kabbalaonline article, The Uniqueness Of The Land:... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |




