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Here are the Realities to this Nonsense:

1. the illumination is not from the 1200sAD but from the 1400s.AD, however some copying of earlier notes may be identified by someone comparing monastery records (a huge job!).

2. The Binding is either put together from various bindings or it is mid-1400s AD (Many Bibles and Histories of Kings were bound in this fashion from 1620s-1680s approx.)

3.Its time to read a book entitled: THE DAY OF ST. ANTHONY'S FIRE by John Grant Fuller (ist published 1969, still in print).
http://www.amazon.com/The-day-St-Anthon ... 0090954602

4. Ergotism notes are helpful after reading Fuller's book:

FROM WIKIPEDIA........
n the Middle Ages, the gangrenous poisoning was known as "holy fire" or "Saint Anthony's fire", named after monks of the Order of St. Anthony who were particularly successful at treating this ailment. The 12th century chronicler Geoffroy du Breuil of Vigeois recorded the mysterious outbreaks in the Limousin region of France, where the gangrenous form of ergotism was associated with the local Saint Martial. According to Snorri Sturluson, in his Heimskringla, King Magnus, son of King Harald Sigurtharson, who was the half brother of Saint King Olaf Haraldsson, died from ergotism shortly after the Battle of Hastings.
The blight, named from the phallus's spur it forms on grasses, was identified and named by Denis Dodart, who reported the relation between ergotized rye and bread poisoning in a letter to the French Royal Academy of Sciences in 1676 (John Ray mentioned ergot for the first time in English the next year). "ergotism", in this modern sense, was first recorded in 1853; however, Sir Thomas Browne in his Christian Morals (published posthumously in 1716 although penned sometime in the 1670s) also made mention of 'ergotisms' ] Browne in turn, may have been introduced to the word through correspondence with John Ray.

Notable epidemics of ergotism occurred up into the 19th century. Fewer outbreaks have occurred since then due to rye being carefully monitored in developed countries. A severe outbreak of ergot poisoning occurred, however, in the French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit in 1951, resulting in five deaths.[3] Paranormal researcher John Grant Fuller wrote about the incident in his book The Day of St Anthony's Fire.
There is evidence[5] of ergot poisoning serving a ritual purpose in the ritual killing of certain bog bodies.

Ergot in barley
When milled, the ergot is reduced to a red powder, obvious in lighter grasses but easy to miss in dark rye flour. In less wealthy countries, ergotism still occurs; an outbreak in Ethiopia occurred in mid-2001 from contaminated barley. Whenever there is a combination of moist weather, cool temperatures, delayed harvest in lowland crops and rye consumption, an outbreak is possible.

Poisonings due to consumption of seeds treated with mercury compounds are sometimes misidentified as ergotism.[7][8] As Dr. Simon Cotton (member of the Chemistry Department of Uppingham School, UK) notes, there have been numerous cases of mass-poisoning due to consumption of mercury-treated seeds.

Identification of Ergot
Dark-purple or black grain kernels, known as ergot bodies, can be identifiable in the heads of cereal or grass just before harvest. In most plants the ergot bodies are larger than normal grain kernels, but can be smaller if the grain is a type of wheat. A larger separation between the bodies and the grain kernels show the removal of ergot bodies during grain cleaning.

How ergot is removed and prevented

Removal of ergot bodies is done by placing the yield in a brine solution; the ergot bodies float while the healthy grains sink.[10] Infested fields need to be deep plowed; ergot will not germinate if buried more than one inch deep and won't spread their spores in the air. Rotating crops, using non-susceptible plants, helps reduce infections since ergot spores only live one year. Rotation is an important part of managing ergot, since most cereal crops are sown with a "no-till" practice, where new crops are seeded directly into the stubble from the previous crop to reduce soil erosion.[11] Wild and escaped grasses and pastures can be mowed before they flower to help limit ergot infections.

Chemical controls can be used, but are not considered economical especially in commercial operations, and germination of ergot spores can still occur under favorable conditions.

Salem witchcraft accusations

The convulsive symptoms that can be a result of consuming ergot-tainted rye have also been said to be the cause of accusations of bewitchment that spurred the Salem witch trials. This medical explanation for the theory of “bewitchment” is one first propounded by Linnda R. Caporael in 1976 in an article in Science. In her article, Caporael argues that the convulsive symptoms, such as crawling sensations in the skin, tingling in the fingers, vertigo, tinnitus aurium, headaches, disturbances in sensation, hallucination, painful muscular contractions, vomiting, and diarrhea, as well as psychological symptoms, such as mania, melancholia, psychosis, and delirium, were all symptoms reported in the Salem witchcraft records. Caporael also states there was an abundance of rye in the region as well as climate conditions that could support the tainting of rye. In 1982, historian Mary Matossian raised Caporael’s theory in an article in American Scientist in which she argued that symptoms of “bewitchment” resemble the ones exhibited in those afflicted with ergot poisoning.

The hypothesis that ergotism could explain cases of bewitchment has been subject to debate and has been criticized by several scholars. Within a year of Caporael’s article, the historians Spanos and Gottlieb argued against the idea in the same journal. In Spanos and Gottlieb’s rebuttal to Caporael’s article, they concluded that there are several flaws in the explanation of ergot poisoning as a cause of conditions associated with cases of alleged bewitchment. For example, they argued that, if the food supply was contaminated, the symptoms would have occurred on a house-by-house basis, not just in particular individuals. Historian Leon Harrier has challenged this theory by claiming that even, if supplies were properly cooked, residents suffering from stomach ulcers had a risk of absorbing the toxin through the stomach lining, offering a direct route to the bloodstream. Being similar to Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), the chemical composition of the average human's stomach would be too acidic for the ergot to survive, especially if the food was properly cooked. But, if some residents were malnourished and suffering from bleeding stomach ulcers, there is valid reasoning to say that, while most of the residents would not be affected by ingesting contaminated grains, a small percentage could have become affected, offering an explanation for why ergotism was never initially recognized. Harrier has even argued that the numbers could have been exponentially larger, possibly even the entire town, but, due to the trials on bewitchment and heresy, and the fear of being accused and subsequently executed, few could come forward while suffering from legitimate medical conditions. Spanos and Gottlieb also state that ergot poisoning has additional symptoms not associated with the events in Salem and that the proportion of children afflicted were less than in a typical ergotism epidemic. The anthropologist H. Sidky noted that ergotism had existed for centuries before the Salem witch trials, and argued that its symptoms would have been recognizable during the time of the Salem witch trials.

More recently, it has been pointed out that ergots produced by different strains of Claviceps purpurea, and those growing in different soils, may have expressed different ergot alkaloid compositions. This may explain the different manifestations of ergotism in different outbreaks. For example, an alkaloid, present in high concentrations in ergots from Europe east of the Rhine, may historically have caused convulsive ergotism, while to the west it caused epidemics of gangrenous ergotism
END OF WIKIPEDIA

4. the last times a major breakout of st Anthony's Fire taking place was 1200s AD; the 1400s, and the 1940s.

5. An old friend (Sadly deceased and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century - Alan Robbe-Grillet, was working as an agronomist when the Saint Anthony's Fire broke out in France (this is covered by Fuller's book. And Alan got many of his ideas of "time-depression and compression, and seeing multiple realities at once, as well as the reversals of time - hallucinatoiry yes, some real truth there probably. But in any case Alan saw the craziness going on.

6. The murderous witch craze in Salem Massachusetts; From Wiki:

n the Middle Ages, the gangrenous poisoning was known as "holy fire" or "Saint Anthony's fire", named after monks of the Order of St. Anthony who were particularly successful at treating this ailment. The 12th century chronicler Geoffroy du Breuil of Vigeois recorded the mysterious outbreaks in the Limousin region of France, where the gangrenous form of ergotism was associated with the local Saint Martial. According to Snorri Sturluson, in his Heimskringla, King Magnus, son of King Harald Sigurtharson, who was the half brother of Saint King Olaf Haraldsson, died from ergotism shortly after the Battle of Hastings.
The blight, named from the phallus's spur it forms on grasses, was identified and named by Denis Dodart, who reported the relation between ergotized rye and bread poisoning in a letter to the French Royal Academy of Sciences in 1676 (John Ray mentioned ergot for the first time in English the next year). "ergotism", in this modern sense, was first recorded in 1853; however, Sir Thomas Browne in his Christian Morals (published posthumously in 1716 although penned sometime in the 1670s) also made mention of 'ergotisms' Browne in turn, may have been introduced to the word through correspondence with John Ray.

Notable epidemics of ergotism occurred up into the 19th century. Fewer outbreaks have occurred since then due to rye being carefully monitored in developed countries. A severe outbreak of ergot poisoning occurred, however, in the French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit in 1951, resulting in five deaths.[3] Paranormal researcher John Grant Fuller wrote about the incident in his book The Day of St Anthony's Fire.

There is evidence of ergot poisoning serving a ritual purpose in the ritual killing of certain bog bodies.[6]

Ergot in barley

When milled, the ergot is reduced to a red powder, obvious in lighter grasses but easy to miss in dark rye flour. In less wealthy countries, ergotism still occurs; an outbreak in Ethiopia occurred in mid-2001 from contaminated barley. Whenever there is a combination of moist weather, cool temperatures, delayed harvest in lowland crops and rye consumption, an outbreak is possible.

Poisonings due to consumption of seeds treated with mercury compounds are sometimes misidentified as ergotism.[7][8] As Dr. Simon Cotton (member of the Chemistry Department of Uppingham School, UK) notes, there have been numerous cases of mass-poisoning due to consumption of mercury-treated seeds.

Identification of Ergot

Dark-purple or black grain kernels, known as ergot bodies, can be identifiable in the heads of cereal or grass just before harvest. In most plants the ergot bodies are larger than normal grain kernels, but can be smaller if the grain is a type of wheat. A larger separation between the bodies and the grain kernels show the removal of ergot bodies during grain cleaning.

How ergot is removed and prevented

Removal of ergot bodies is done by placing the yield in a brine solution; the ergot bodies float while the healthy grains sink.[10] Infested fields need to be deep plowed; ergot will not germinate if buried more than one inch deep and won't spread their spores in the air. Rotating crops, using non-susceptible plants, helps reduce infections since ergot spores only live one year. Rotation is an important part of managing ergot, since most cereal crops are sown with a "no-till" practice, where new crops are seeded directly into the stubble from the previous crop to reduce soil erosion. Wild and escaped grasses and pastures can be mowed before they flower to help limit ergot infections.

Chemical controls can be used, but are not considered economical especially in commercial operations, and germination of ergot spores can still occur under favorable conditions.

Salem witchcraft accusations

The convulsive symptoms that can be a result of consuming ergot-tainted rye have also been said to be the cause of accusations of bewitchment that spurred the Salem witch trials. This medical explanation for the theory of “bewitchment” is one first propounded by Linnda R. Caporael in 1976 in an article in Science. In her article, Caporael argues that the convulsive symptoms, such as crawling sensations in the skin, tingling in the fingers, vertigo, tinnitus aurium, headaches, disturbances in sensation, hallucination, painful muscular contractions, vomiting, and diarrhea, as well as psychological symptoms, such as mania, melancholia, psychosis, and delirium, were all symptoms reported in the Salem witchcraft records. Caporael also states there was an abundance of rye in the region as well as climate conditions that could support the tainting of rye.[12] In 1982, historian Mary Matossian raised Caporael’s theory in an article in American Scientist in which she argued that symptoms of “bewitchment” resemble the ones exhibited in those afflicted with ergot poisoning.

The hypothesis that ergotism could explain cases of bewitchment has been subject to debate and has been criticized by several scholars. Within a year of Caporael’s article, the historians Spanos and Gottlieb argued against the idea in the same journal. In Spanos and Gottlieb’s rebuttal to Caporael’s article, they concluded that there are several flaws in the explanation of ergot poisoning as a cause of conditions associated with cases of alleged bewitchment. For example, they argued that, if the food supply was contaminated, the symptoms would have occurred on a house-by-house basis, not just in particular individuals. Historian Leon Harrier has challenged this theory by claiming that even, if supplies were properly cooked, residents suffering from stomach ulcers had a risk of absorbing the toxin through the stomach lining, offering a direct route to the bloodstream. Being similar to Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), the chemical composition of the average human's stomach would be too acidic for the ergot to survive, especially if the food was properly cooked. But, if some residents were malnourished and suffering from bleeding stomach ulcers, there is valid reasoning to say that, while most of the residents would not be affected by ingesting contaminated grains, a small percentage could have become affected, offering an explanation for why ergotism was never initially recognized. Harrier has even argued that the numbers could have been exponentially larger, possibly even the entire town, but, due to the trials on bewitchment and heresy, and the fear of being accused and subsequently executed, few could come forward while suffering from legitimate medical conditions. Spanos and Gottlieb also state that ergot poisoning has additional symptoms not associated with the events in Salem and that the proportion of children afflicted were less than in a typical ergotism epidemic.[14] The anthropologist H. Sidky noted that ergotism had existed for centuries before the Salem witch trials, and argued that its symptoms would have been recognizable during the time of the Salem witch trials.

More recently, it has been pointed out that ergots produced by different strains of Claviceps purpurea, and those growing in different soils, may have expressed different ergot alkaloid compositions. This may explain the different manifestations of ergotism in different outbreaks. For example, an alkaloid, present in high concentrations in ergots from Europe east of the Rhine, may historically have caused convulsive ergotism, while to the west it caused epidemics of gangrenous ergotism

Heronymous (Jerome) Bosch: Painted some of the greatest fantasy pics and probably did eat ergot at some time. Now here is a subtley. There are 2 (not one) LSDs that are hallucinogen and are equally powerful yet very different...There is the will know LSD-25 but also there is the almost unknown LSD-6. I have had both, and from my viewpoint LSD-6 is the ergot type substance that Bosch must have eaten,, Wheras from my past experience.....1,000 mics of LSD-25 is the same as St Anthony's Fire.

So it it easy to see that The Mediaeval Mind could cobble up this type of very dangerous nonsense (killing people, burning houses, etc) and lower astral visions into a giant book of Devil Nonsense.

Also, Pieter Bruegel the elder painted a grand picture that I have had a copy of since I studied it in art class in 1960 - DULLE GRIET. SHE IS MY HERO, with a saucepan on her head and a giant spoon, she unleashes the strongest of all human warfare's - feminine sexual energy pi%%ed off. The thought form of Her is my protector and mental lover. And by studying a large copy of this masterpiece....you will learn a lot that goes past and above most words.

This book should be seen as a rare and complete artifcact of the period of the Black death, when people bubbled up like burnt oatmeal and exploded, when whole fields were filded with locusts, and many people were equivalently high on 1,000 mics of LSD....to know more about this, then add, a book written by a friend of mine (also in 1969) The Black Death by George Deaux.

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Death-1347- ... 0679400117


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Footnote: If you want to see what my friend Alan Robbe-Grillet could do with a movie, and time compression, and multiple view dimensions, you can read his book In the Labrynth, and/or take a look at this (a trailer) for the entire film...the trailer does not do it justice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5km-4o3EAY

also Alan Renais' Muriel (complet film here)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VuiF3-KtUE:

also Jean Cocteau's Blood of a Poet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47Nf06qbbV8

If you want to see the insides of killer's mental views and thus compatable with evil beings, read these 2 books:

The Voyeur by Alan Robbe-Grillet (in English as well as french)
Merovagine by Blaise Cendrars (in English as well as French)

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This is a lot of information. It could explain a lot of things from medieval times, through the 1800's.


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Huffette wrote:This is a lot of information. It could explain a lot of things from medieval times, through the 1800's.
I can definitely imagine that various infections, be it from microbes, fungi, viruses, or anything else, would have been misconstrued as witchcraft in the generations before science began to understand the reasons behind the symptoms.

I didn't realize that ergot poisoning would cause LSD-like symptoms. If that's what people were experiencing in Salem, no wonder they freaked out. Though it's tragic that multiple innocent people were ruined, jailed, tortured, and killed as the result of the ensuing hysteria. I had been under the impression that the reports of symptoms in Salem were the result of psychosomatic issues brought on by fear. I can vouch that psychosomatic ailments are just as troublesome as the ones whose basis is coming from something physical. But if the Salem residents actually *did* have a physical reason for their symptoms, no wonder the fear spread like wildfire. Very sad.


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One thing that should be mentioned. As previously mentioned on another thread in past, I was involved with the government tests on mind-altering drugs of all kinds. I found that I learned a lot from Yage (Banisteria caapsis) and it was exceptionally powerful - and was not based upon ergot. Also, I found that while LSD-6 imitated Yage to an almost "sisterly sameness", that what was on the street - LSD-25, was "crazy making" if the dosage was over 60 mics (micrograms), and all of the street drug LSD-25 usually ran from 300, 1,000+ mics, and created paranoid, psychotic, and various other dangerous behaviours.

In fact, I (and quite a few of my friends - names withheld) agreed then and now, that this ergot based or copied drug, destroyed the humanitarian and musical and artistic renaissance of the 1960s, and that we were lucky to get out at "2 minutes to ground zero", and others did not, and mostly went nuts and/or died. So a wonderful and amazing peoples' movement went from Rev. Martin Luther KIng to The Manson Family, The murder took place on August 6, 1969 and then Woodstock, another tragedy of a cultural explosion into "nothingness". The Good 1960s were Destroyed, by real or simulated ergot-poisoning, and should be listed along with the "Salem-MAdness", and all the other historic moments.

Further Note: I was in the Newspaper news room for the entire wekend of Woodstock. The paper syndicate was short on people (from "vacas', and a bundle of other assignments)...I had had no interest in going to Woodstock, as it would mean rotten food, durggies and drunks, no sleep, and maybe getting straded somewhere.....so too of us, myself and a marine buddy, went out bought several cartons of cigarettes, a suitcase of Bud, and some pillows and blankets, (we already had a coffee machine, and a gallon of milk, and a box of brown sugar, and a box of No-Doz), and we lived thru every 5-10 minutes on and on as to everything that was wildly being reported on Woodstock. Moday morning the team came back in and insisted we sleep on the floor or metal tables, our choice...and went home later, to return to work the next day. I wrote the headline WOODSTOCK DISASTER! WHAT NEXT?

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Woodstock, another tragedy of a cultural explosion into "nothingness".
No pun intended, given the references to psychadelics, but one phrase you just used caused me a massive flashback. It was during the 8.0s, (pls. ignore the decimal point -- the darn emoticon comes up if I try to put an 8 next to a 0) because I was heading home on the subway from Temple U. It was the afternoon, and a Friday, and there was some kind of HUGE rock concert event going on at JFK stadium... a bunch of metal bands were going to be appearing. That's not my preferred style of music, so I wasn't headed there, but the subway car was JAMMED wall-to-wall with people who were headed to the event, as evidenced by their style of dress, their hair, their choice of jewelry and piercings, etc.

By the time the 8.0s rolled around, I had already been involved with the metaphysical for a while. And as such, something began to bother me about being on that subway car jammed with metal fans. I started trying to figure out what it was. Did I feel unsafe? No, I couldn't sense any hostility or intent to harm anyone. I couldn't particularly spot anyone who was drunk, either. I was unversed in the look of people being on drugs, so it didn't cross my mind to try and pick up whether people on the train car were high.

And then I abruptly, overwhelmingly, IDed exactly what was strange about the ride. I could not pick up the energy of even ONE thought pattern. Not. One. I'm not some kind of super-telepath that reads everyone's thoughts like a book, by any means. But I can at least pick up THE ENERGY that comes off a person whose brain is working normally. These people were... blank. Empty. Vacant. The feeling of being in an absolutely jam-packed subway car, where people were emitting ZERO thought energy, made me feel suddenly creeped out and claustrophobic. I got off one stop earlier than normal, because suddenly I needed to be out in the sunlight and fresh air, and normal-feeling energy patterns. I welcomed the opportunity to walk the extra blocks home, above ground and away from that creepy blankness in the subway car.

Sorry if we got side-tracked, but "cultural explosion into nothingness" triggered a very vivid memory.


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You are right on target in terms of us (on this VERY IMPORTANT POST) solving major mysteries of what "simplistically" (but not necessarily wrong) word EVIL. I can add the last piece of your implied puzzle. Here it is: Dr. Wade Davis of The New School For Social Research (66 W. 12th St NYC) and Student and mentored by the late great Dr. Richard Evans Schulteis of HArvard (Harvard Sq. Cambridge, MA)....figured out thru being backed by Schultes' fascination with psychotropic plants and his (Davis) a trip to Haiti discovered the drug that produced all the "effects" "given to" a human to become a "Tshobay" = "Zombie"......You were zooming down North Broad Street.in an underground train filled with "Tshombeys"

Another topic. SInce you were at Temple in the 1980s, did you know George Deaux, the writer and my friend. He was a professor of English and also later became an administrator for Temple Univ Tokyo. There is a book he wrote about our adventures together. Its called Superworm, and is radical and funny, and yet has pathos. In the book, he is "the professor" and I am "Sully".

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Caiyros Arlen wrote:You are right on target in terms of us (on this VERY IMPORTANT POST) solving major mysteries of what "simplistically" (but not necessarily wrong) word EVIL. I can add the last piece of your implied puzzle. Here it is: Dr. Wade Davis of The New School For Social Research (66 W. 12th St NYC) and Student and mentored by the late great Dr. Richard Evans Schulteis of HArvard (Harvard Sq. Cambridge, MA)....figured out thru being backed by Schultes' fascination with psychotropic plants and his (Davis) a trip to Haiti discovered the drug that produced all the "effects" "given to" a human to become a "Tshobay" = "Zombie"......You were zooming down North Broad Street.in an underground train filled with "Tshombeys"

Another topic. SInce you were at Temple in the 1980s, did you know George Deaux, the writer and my friend. He was a professor of English and also later became an administrator for Temple Univ Tokyo. There is a book he wrote about our adventures together. Its called Superworm, and is radical and funny, and yet has pathos. In the book, he is "the professor" and I am "Sully".

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Wow. I have to admit, the thought of drugs didn't cross my mind. I was attributing the uniform blankness of my fellow passengers to the influence that the music itself had somehow wrought on them. Since that's not a style of music I seek out, never mind listen to in large doses, I can't speak for what a steady (perhaps exclusive) mental diet of it can do to the brain. This was a lot of years before I had heard of the precepts of sound healing, but as a musician (orchestra in HS and after that, as a church musician), I already knew very well that hearing or playing music can enliven something inside a person. What had never, ever entered my mind until that day is the possibility that there are types of music that can deaden something inside a person, too.

And, of course, there's always the additional internal-deadening that the wrong kinds of drugs will inflict on a person. For the effect I witnessed that day, literally every one of my fellow riders would've had to have partaken in God-knows-what, because they were all emitting zero energy. The impression that I got was of people thinking of nothing at all... when I say that, I don't mean "contemplating nothingness", I mean a condition of ZERO thought-process activity. Nada. Just sitting there emptily.

Again, I'm not some sort of superhero telepath who reads everybody's thoughts like a book. But I take the picking up of a certain amount of background energy for granted. But for example, even if I shut my eyes, I can tell when someone turns on a light because there's SOME amount of light that will pass through my eyelids, and I can feel the HEAT off the lightbulb when it's on. The entire throng of people emitted no perceptible equivalent of "light" or "heat", and that was an experience far creepier than the scariest haunted house I've ever been in.

So my next questions are, CAN music alone actually cause someone to descend into that level of non-activity, if they listen to enough of it? Especially if that's all they listen to and they binge on it regularly? And if not, what combinations of substances need to be absolutely avoided at all costs, lest a person turn themselves into a walking shell without a usable thought process to speak of?


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Oops, nearly forgot -- I didn't know George Deaux, but I was in the business school majoring in computers. The book sounds very intriguing, though -- I'll search his name and see if it's available.


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