I Love Trumps Bigoted Homophobic America.
The Dark is emboldened to come out into the light and HATE on full display. We can see them now. We can FULLY see what is on the inside, what is in their thoughts and inner world .Now they feel emboldened to speak their homophobic, racist hate. They are empowered to verbally and physically assault those of color, gays, lesbians, trans, and those women who think they need equal pay and rights to choose for their own body and life.
Now we CAN SEE THEM. And we, in masse, Can Stand up to THEM. The Light has arrived. Trump has brought the LIGHT. Now let’s clean house and remove the haters from our world, stand up to them, expose them. And Change the World. ~ Reverend Crystal Cox
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Newscasters Becoming the News and the Rise of the Feminine Divine by Reverend Crystal Cox
It is interesting, the News Casters being removed for Sexual Assault that then become the News. It’s seems cannibalistic in a way. And you know that many of the newscasters themselves reporting on these guys have done the same or worse. It must be an odd sensation knowing what you have done while reporting on someone doing it.
The top tier DARK are falling and the next levels are in queue. The LIGHT is everywhere and there will soon be no DARK left. The Feminine Divine is Rising FRONT AND CENTER.
The old Paradigm of Sexual Authority used to Control Women and absorb their precious Sacred Divine is a Timeline that is rapidly coming to an end, as many timelines merge and collapse.
This has been horrifically happening for hundreds of years in time as we have known time to be. At one point and still in a big part today adult rape, the sexual energy theft was by pure aggressive and the sole, purely physical fact that men were stronger than women physically.
More modern days found women fighting back and many stronger physically and/or had modern day weapons of defense. Then instead of brute force in mass against women sexually it became power, authority be it a boss, cop, father, stepfather, mother, or anyone who has some kind of authority over you.
They use the leverage or let’s say ENTITLEMENT of “owning you” as our parents did, no other way to say it really as back then per say, they could do whatever they want to their children and even if the children told who would they tell and who would believe them?
A purely sexual biological act, and it comes with the TITLE to your body, your soul, your guilt and shame, your programs for their making, your human vehicle and your very life. What you eat, learned behavior, your view of the world, your opinion of yourself, your belief of a woman’s role, all becomes their version of you which was someone else’s version of them.
Yes many break out of that titlement, that born with ownership and habit of being controlled, but most have not. They live as adults still owned by the views, needs, lifestyle, beliefs, expectations, guilt trips, memories,ethics, morals and subjective perspectives of their parents. Who in a sense, were slave masters as you were, simply born unto them and then you were their pet in a way, in the cage of their subjective perspective and holding their lineage of belief, programming, habits and patterns firmly in place.
You are fed and your physical needs brought to you. You watch how love and life is to be through your “family”. You are not really encouraged to act, feel, believe a different way but instead expected to “play along” with the heteropatriarchal norm. The sexual entitlement and masterhood of home, intelligence and body of men over women is learned, taught, suggested, seen, and expected. It is also worshipped and ordained.
Most do not escape this parental ownership of arrogance and entitlement of their life by those who simply had sex and their “human vehicle” only, was created from this one biological act.
I believe we create our lessons and experiences here in some sort of plan before we are born. That said and holding true that I am the creator of my experience on some level, well we are born unto them out of a sexual excursion of some sort, could be love, could be rape, could be molestation.
They could have been in love, they were most likely to have been in lust. And well it was probably more like our Mothers being infatuated with some young guy, needing attention and love for that one moment in time, and choosing to have sex with some guy who really did not know her, respect her, like talking to her or was even actually her true friend but instead someone who simple wanted to have sex, to have that one brief moment in time be it an hour or a year or more.
Still odds are your birth father did not really know your Mother, know her interests, her truths, her hopes and dreams, or even her real beliefs. Odds are he did not ever really listen or respect her views on the world or ideas or even that she knew best in any area at all.
Odds are, especially if you are over 40, your Mother looked to your father for answers on things and was not respected as someone with intelligence and worth in totality. Or to even be taken serious. All of these programs, patterns of abuse and control and the heteropatriarchy in general was given to you in your DNA at birth, and learning of choice of thoughts creating reality, choosing what reality we want to believe or live in, choosing our morals, choosing who touches us and how, consciously choosing how we live our life, and walking our own version of ourself and not our parents or society, well that is lessons most are not aware exist.
Now all this sexual assault to sooth the lost boy male ego craving love and power insatiably is a program, most men could not help it and may have not have even noticed a choice point, they were simply born into the HeteroPatriarchy and they went along with the role of their father and the archetype of the man’s role in “those times” and timelines.
Universal law is changing all this now as men are seeing men fall from Grace and examining their own actions, of which most were not even aware it was abusive, controlling and of the dark. They were simply living the program given unto them as their own birthright per say.
We are born into this, and then we are owned. We are not adults when we are programmed and have no rights to our own choices in the society we were born into. Some magical made up age of 18 (Numerological Number 9), and we then get to have the rights to our body back, choose who were are around, have societal rights?
Possibly, possibly not as the programs run deep and we find jobs, bosses, friends, lovers who perpetuate the program as we believe that to be the way it is suppose to be. All of this having contributed to massive sexual assault as the patriarch is constantly trying to undo their own pain from being forced into that programming and it displays as assault, entitlement, and control over women in whatever way they can get it.
The agenda of regulating and controlling women’s bodies is the overarch per say of all of this. It is a way for the Heteropatriarchy to stay alive as it gasps for air with the rise of the feminine divine. If they can maintain “ownership” of woman by creating “laws” over women’s bodies then they keep this childhood programming in place until death, and then they can recreated it with birth again and the cycle continues.
This is ALL coming to a screeching halt as the sexual predators are outed and removed.
We were taken to dark rooms (rooms without a plethora of knowledge and a variant perspective) and we were programmed be it religion, a man’s role and entitlement, a woman’s place, a commandment, a way to raise our children, have our home or live our life and even programmed on who is the authority, who can license us, who can give us permission to be who we actually want to be and is true for ourselves.
They make laws about our body, our choices, our “world” and this is all crashing down as the LIGHT explodes the dark to the finest of grains and then it simply blows away to all parts of all universes to heal, to re-program, to feel and be love and to never again rule our consciousness, torment our soul, own our flesh and bone our human vehicle, keep us as debt slaves, rape and molest us, and use our emotions as their ravenous fuel to feed their own asphyxiation.
This “dark room” could be the family home, a bedroom, a shed, or it could be church, school, the park, the family dinner table, guilt or shame voiced “at us”, unwanted OPINIONS on who we are or who we should become based on the subjective perspective of the yapper.
It is more than sexual assault, it is constant opinions at you about you. It is a constant, “their version” of who you should be or their assumptions of who you are. These “dark rooms” per say are in point and place in society where you pretend to be some other version of you then you know yourself to be, in order to get or keep the approval of the heteropatriarchal society of which you were born into. You shine the light whereby you tell your Truth and you Out the Predators, the Dark Ones, the Entitled Controllers.
The “assault” makes itself known by way of watching you, of saying you are prettier if you smile, commenting on your looks as if their version of you is somehow more important than your own. Sexual Assault is the energy of all that controls you and keeps you in a program that prevent your authentic you actually creating and living in the reality you actually do consciously choose.
The brute force rape and entitlement to a woman’s body morphed into the power of money and being at the helm of some capitalistic economic model which is an illusion created out of their made up money loaned to you, debt, bank fees, taxes, licensing and so many more economic oppression programs to keep you controllable and keep you having to take the PURE sexual DISGUST and Venomous Leers, Oppressive Opinions, Exhaustive Banter, Antagonistic Arrogance played out as your need for the energy, the power, the survival force of money. Money that if you don’t lay down and take it per say, you will be the one asphyxiated.
Everywhere women go they are met with some man’s eyes that have a sense of “ENTITLEMENT” to their body, their smile, how they dress, what they are reading or listening to and well many men out there in public land seem to think they are the master and woman are the slave or the crop even perhaps. And often this actually comes natural to them as the habits of their ancestors. We are now at a Choice Point and the Male Divine is rising up to meet the Feminine Divine in a Grand Galactic Expression of Pure Love and Light.
The Archaic Days of Darkened Ol’ are crumbling to HeteroPatriarchy Ash.
The Feminine Divine is Truly Rising. Goddess Bless You.
~ Reverend Crystal Cox
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Sunday, October 29, 2017
I Do NOT Worship a Flag nor Sing Joy to songs of Bombs Bursting in Air and Rockets Red Glare. Bombs have been used to kill, torture, terrorize and are NOT tools of Freedom. The “Anthem” is a War Cry, the U.S Flag is a Symbol of Slaughtering the Native Americans, Oppressing pretty much EVERY country around the World on behalf of and of benefit to the Corporation of the United States. The Flag is NOT a representation of Freedom nor is the words of the Anthem. I do not worship False Gods such as a Flag and a Song. America is NOT the Land of the Free and is nowhere near being a so called “Christian Nation”.
There is no “My Country”. We are all Global Citizens coming from varying countries around the world and that is just our status while we are alive in human bodies. When we die we go elsewhere and Country, Borders, Oppression as such does not Exist.
The whole in God we Trust thing is a farce, it is a motto yes but not a reality they pursue or even really fully honestly allow. Why is GOD only for the American Flag winning that war any war, the American flag flying while bombs are shedding the blood of other God’s People.
The arrogance and war mongering of the American Flag is not something I have ever loved, saluted, respected or worship nor is the National Anthem. I have, in the past, in school or other places been actually FORCED to salute this false God of War and Oppression, but in my heart I sand a different song and prayed for the Light to come to Earth and stop the Bombs Bursting in air and shedding blood from shore to shore.
America is not the land of the Free, we are not even free to use God given plants as medicine, we are not free to use free energy, we are NOT Free regarding thousands upon thousands of reasons. Those who believe America is the Land of the FREE, are Asleep. Wake Up. Wake Up. Remember who you really Are.
~ Reverend Crystal Cox
I am a Global Citizen, a Universal Citizen, no COUNTRY owns me.
The United States of America Corporation abducted my Citizenship Rights. My ancestors are from Northern Ireland and the Uk on one side and Russia on the other. Yet I am deemed a U.S citizen because I was born here? Why? The U.S corporation does not own me, they abducted me. And you unless you are Native American. And with those in America before it was allegedly discovered, well they had no rights at all and are still persecuted, after a massive slaughter of their ancestors. This U.S is NOT the land of the Free. There is so many levels to our NOT Free in America, and yet over and over the U.S claims to be so righteous and promoting Freedom. The U.S corporation and it’s military was NEVER about promoting Freedom. Why is the U.S in every country of the world oppressing people? They are not here oppressing us as American “Citizens”. Our government is there oppressing them. Remember. Wake Up. Remember who you are in the Galactic sense of it all, your true oversoul higher consciousness version of YOU.
I protest Citizenship anywhere. It makes no sense, we are from all over. And here in the U.S that most call America, well we are not from here yet we are restricted to travel to other countries freely, even the ones our ancestors came here from. Open Borders is a Civil Right. Accountability on an Individual Level is Key. Transparency is the road to getting there.
I Object to the Corporation of the United States owning me, trading my rights on the market, forcing citizenship at my birth and oppressing the WORLD in my name as an abductee forced to be a citizen of ONE COUNTRY when my ancestors are from many, and my oversoul, my true essence is multi-dimensional and has no word or expression for the term COUNTRY.
~ Reverend Crystal Cox
Friday, October 13, 2017
The Story of Biddy Early: Ireland’s Most Famous Witch and Faery Friend
"“There is a country called Tír-na-n-Og, which means the Country of the Young, for age and death have not found it; neither tears nor loud laughter have gone near it… According to many stories, Tír-na-n-Og is the favourite dwelling of the fairies…”
– W. B. Yeats, Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
“Mrs. Sheridan, as I call her, was wrinkled and half blind, and had gone barefoot through her lifetime… She had never been to school she told me, because her father could not pay the penny a week it would have cost. She had never travelled many miles from the parish of her birth, and I am sure had never seen pictures except the sacred ones on chapel walls…
She had never heard of the great mystic Jacob Behman, and yet when an unearthly visitor told her the country of youth is not far from the place where we live, she had come near to his root idea that ‘the world standeth in Heaven and Heaven in the World, and are in one another as day and night.'”
–Lady Gregory, Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland
In Ireland the Church has raised its monasteries atop the sacred groves and springs which, in their virgin state, long served as temples for the Irish. But by most accounts, the Irish minded little. Perhaps they thought one god is as good as another–Brigid might as well be the Blessed Mary, I suppose. Or perhaps their hopes for keeping their old faith—like so many hopes in the Isle’s history—hinged on a battle that was fatefully lost.
As St. Patrick walked about the countryside, it’s told, spreading the Gospels throughout the Emerald Isle, he met mostly the gentle hospitality of the Irish peasantry, with their willing ear for lore of all kinds, their love of things bright and grand in spirit, and their warm fires of peat and twigs.
But one Druid saw that his whole order and the fate of the Irish was threatened by this new mission from Rome, and so challenged the Saint to a battle of magic and power. They met in an open field where billowing clouds traversed across the sun.
The Druid began the battle by rising into the air high above the meadow, until all who watched had to squint into the sun to see him any longer. St. Patrick ended it by uttering a few words, with which the Druid faltered, and fell from the light of the sun. His body was broken on the stones below, and his blood joined in with the clover.
Although the Church had its way with abbeys and crosses, some traditions refused to die. From the very first the Christian priests abhorred any talk of the faery—the fair people—that invisible race of sometimes helpful, sometimes wicked folk who had blessed the Irish with miracles and cursed them with tragedy since before anyone’s greatest grandmother could recall.
“Many poets, and all mystic and occult writers, in all ages and countries, have declared that behind the visible are chains on chains of conscious beings, who are not of heaven but of the earth, who have no inherent form but change according to whim, or the mind that sees them. You cannot lift your hand without influencing and being influenced by hoards. The visible world is merely their skin. In dreams we go among them, and play with them, and combat with them,” wrote Yeats of the faeries.
Although the priests told all to not believe in such pagan nonsense, they themselves were the most afraid to go about at night time where a troop of faeries might be traveling from their cave to the sea, or from their hawthorn tree to the fields below, or simply dancing to their heavenly music from twilight to dawn in a circle of moss-covered stones.
And though the priests forbade it, their words alone could not hinder the fair people from sometimes bestowing on mortals certain gifts—the sight of things far away, the power to heal and root out evil, or a music so divine that maidens would dance off their toes for the joy of it, or die slowly pining away for it.
Though the gift of flowering music wasn’t bestowed on the red-haired lass named Biddy Early, no one doubted that she had been touched with the gifts of foresight and healing. She has since earned the title of Ireland’s most famous witch.
How her power came to her no one knows. Some say her first husband (she had at least three and outlived them all) came to her after he died and told her secrets which gave her the power. Others say she was a seer from birth. Terry Glavin of Lost Magazine wrote, “When Biddy was a girl she spent a great deal of time talking to herself, in places where the blackthorn grows, places like the rath in Jack Brian’s field beside the farm at Coolreagh. It’s one of those overgrown stone circles where people used to see faint lights dancing on certain nights of the year.”
Some say that it was her son, who was coveted by the faery for his skill at the game of hurley. Yeats once wrote, “The people of faery cannot even play at hurley unless they have on either side some mortal.” The boy was an astounding player, able to leap like a deer and dodge like a rabbit.
That’s why they say when he was eight the faery took him away (which is the way of saying to their land, a place of everlasting youth, leaving the living to mourn over the lifeless body left behind like so many rags forgotten).
It is said the boy returned to Biddy in her grief and granted her a little blue bottle with which to make her living. Biddy, they say, would shake this little bottle and see inside a vision that would answer any matter brought before her. She never charged any money for her services (as is the custom the world over with shamans and healers), but would sometimes take a little bread or tea, or more often whiskey (the abundance of which they say lead to the death of all her husbands).
According to a little girl whose mother inherited Biddy’s cabin, “She was as good, and better, to the poor as to the rich. Any poor person passing the road, she’d call in and give a cup of tea or a glass of whiskey to, and bread and what they wanted.”
Little is known of Biddy’s early years. She was born to a poor farming family in County Clare in 1798. “That was the year of the Croppies,” writes Glavin. “Seamus Heaney wrote a great poem about it. The peasants filled the pockets of their greatcoats with barley, to feed themselves on the run, and they made their final stand at Vinegar Hill, shaking scythes at cannon. They fell in the thousands, and they buried us without shroud or coffin, and in August the barley grew up out of the grave.”
Perhaps it’s fitting that with a tragedy such as the failed Irish Rebellion of 1798 comes a blessing to the people, and Biddy was certainly that. She had a little shed in which she would go and consult the faeries, working miraculous cures and telling the future of any who would come and seek her help. She made many cures with little bottles of potion and prayers and holy water.
Often she would warn someone she had given a cure to that they should mind the bottle when crossing such a bridge, or that it would break by such a gate, or that they should not come to any door but their own or they should lose it. And she was always right.
Daniel Curtin told Lady Gregory a story of both her healing and foresight, “There’s not a man in this countryside over forty year old that hasn’t been with her some time or other. There’s a man living in that house over there was sick one time, and he went to her, and she cured him, but says she, ‘You’ll have to lose something, and don’t fret after it.’ So he had a grey mare and she was going to foal, and one morning when he went out he saw that the foal was born, and was lying dead by the side of the wall. So he remembered what she said to him and he didn’t fret.”
As the Tarot deck includes cards of ill-fate, so Biddy’s tidings were not always happy, and the will of the faery is not always kind to the earthly folk. “There was a woman, Mrs. Leary,” Mrs. Sheridan told Lady Gregory, “had something wrong with her, and she went to Biddy Early. And nothing would do her but to bring my son along with her, and I was vexed… When Biddy Early saw him she said, ‘You’ll travel far, but wherever you go you’ll not escape them.’
The woman he went up with died about six months after, but he went to America, and he wasn’t long there when what was said came true, and he died. They followed him as far as he went.” The faeries, that is.
Now, the priests loathed Biddy and often brought fire and brimstone down on anyone seeking her help. A blacksmith told Lady Gregory, “The priests were against her and used to be taking the cloaks and the baskets from the country people to keep them back from going to her.” They even once attempted to put her on trial for witchcraft (she was the last in all of Ireland to be accused in court), but at the last minute all of the witnesses refused to testify.
Many stories are told of how she hexed a priest’s horse as her rode past her house (he had been whipping those on the road to see her) by having it run into the middle of the nearby river and refuse to go either backward or forward.
She got out of another stitch with the authorities when an eviction notice was served. The night of its execution, she was told by the faery (some say it was her dead husband) to tell the sheriffs, “Stay where you are,” when they came a-knocking. She did just that, and all four were stuck to their spot in the road as if their feet were encased in stone. After two hours she said, “Be away then!” and the enchantment was released. They never again brought ill will to the stout woman’s door.
Besides curing all manner of sick folk and cattle (a lost foul or a sour milking cow could mean destitution for a family), she would also trace the source of harmful magic and give the ailing a cure. Sometimes it was a thornbush planted in a faery road which was causing cattle to fall sick. Sometimes it was a curse of jealousy or ill-will wrought in the mind of someone who may not even know they had the power to do harm. This is a common theme in the Evil Eye lore. A certain Mrs. Crone, interviewed by Lady Gregory relates a tale about her healing by Biddy:
“I was myself digging potatoes out in that field beyond, and a woman passed by the road, but I heard her say nothing, but a pain came on my head and I fell down, and I had to go to my bed for three weeks. My mother went then to Biddy Early. Did you ever hear of her? And she looked in the blue bottle she had, and she said my name. And she saw me standing before her, and knew all about me and said, ‘Your daughter was digging potatoes with her husband in the field, and a woman passed by and she said, ‘It is as good herself is with a spade as the man,’’ for I was a young woman at the time. She gave my mother a bottle for me, and I took three drinks of it in the bed, and then I got up as well as I was before.”
A popular form of evil spell in Ireland was the use of a dead man’s hand (the infamous Hand of Glory, used the world over for all types of theft and deceit) to steal the butter right from the churn, or milk right from the cow. Biddy would find the culprit and stop the theft. (A popular way of doing this was for the inflicted family to put red hot coals beneath their churn, at which point the thieving conjurer would run up to the cottage in a terrible ruckus, screaming that they were being burned alive.)
This practice is further evidence of Biddy’s shamanic nature, as in most ancient cultures there are two types of magic workers—the good and the evil. The evil always work for their own benefit, seeking wealth and glory at the cost of others. Envy is their heart’s affliction, and that void is never filled.
The favorite trick of a greedy shaman is to bewitch unsuspecting folk with sickness to cause them to seek the enchanter’s help, at which point they would simply remove their own curse and collect the bounty. This is one reason that good shamans never accept money for their services, and are obliged to be generous with what they have and humble with what they don’t. Otherwise they might be accused of seeking wealth at the expense of others’ suffering.
It’s a shame that the Church failed to recognize this distinction, and early on put the black mark of witch on all those wise men and women who used the herbs of the mountains and valleys, as well as the prayers and visions through which the spirits guided them, to cure the ill and attempt to bring a heavenly grace into the earthly realm—a task which we all may hope is still not in vain. Lady Gregory recorded the words of a Mr. McCabe: “The priests were against her, but they were wrong. How could that be evil doing that was all charity and kindness and healing?”
Biddy’s old cottage is in ruins now, the stone walls broken and the thatched roof caved in. But when Terry Glavin visited its remains not so long ago, he found that not everyone had forgotten this miraculous woman. “Someone had draped a pretty red kerchief over a hole in a stone wall where a window had been. On the sill, in the nettles and the moss, there were offerings of the sort that people used to leave at saints’ wells. There was a pen, a little bottle, some coins, a package of stamps, and a ribbon.” Such tokens are important in humble folk traditions.
A few simple pins in a bottle were thought to keep evil spirits away. A coin thrown into a sacred spring brought good fortune, and even today a hopeful seeker might cast a penny into a wishing well. Biddy herself worked untold miracles with nothing but a little blue bottle (and their help, of course).
The emblems of this healthy and humble faery faith are not of golden rings and grand cathedrals, but of butter and bread, thimbles and tea. “Lay not up your treasures,” as they say. That’s something to keep in mind as both the pomp of the picking of the Pope (say that three times fast) and the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day cross our path this spring.
Source
http://weekinweird.com/2013/03/20/biddy-early-irelands-famous-witch-faery-friend/
– W. B. Yeats, Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
“Mrs. Sheridan, as I call her, was wrinkled and half blind, and had gone barefoot through her lifetime… She had never been to school she told me, because her father could not pay the penny a week it would have cost. She had never travelled many miles from the parish of her birth, and I am sure had never seen pictures except the sacred ones on chapel walls…
She had never heard of the great mystic Jacob Behman, and yet when an unearthly visitor told her the country of youth is not far from the place where we live, she had come near to his root idea that ‘the world standeth in Heaven and Heaven in the World, and are in one another as day and night.'”
–Lady Gregory, Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland
In Ireland the Church has raised its monasteries atop the sacred groves and springs which, in their virgin state, long served as temples for the Irish. But by most accounts, the Irish minded little. Perhaps they thought one god is as good as another–Brigid might as well be the Blessed Mary, I suppose. Or perhaps their hopes for keeping their old faith—like so many hopes in the Isle’s history—hinged on a battle that was fatefully lost.
As St. Patrick walked about the countryside, it’s told, spreading the Gospels throughout the Emerald Isle, he met mostly the gentle hospitality of the Irish peasantry, with their willing ear for lore of all kinds, their love of things bright and grand in spirit, and their warm fires of peat and twigs.
But one Druid saw that his whole order and the fate of the Irish was threatened by this new mission from Rome, and so challenged the Saint to a battle of magic and power. They met in an open field where billowing clouds traversed across the sun.
The Druid began the battle by rising into the air high above the meadow, until all who watched had to squint into the sun to see him any longer. St. Patrick ended it by uttering a few words, with which the Druid faltered, and fell from the light of the sun. His body was broken on the stones below, and his blood joined in with the clover.
Although the Church had its way with abbeys and crosses, some traditions refused to die. From the very first the Christian priests abhorred any talk of the faery—the fair people—that invisible race of sometimes helpful, sometimes wicked folk who had blessed the Irish with miracles and cursed them with tragedy since before anyone’s greatest grandmother could recall.
“Many poets, and all mystic and occult writers, in all ages and countries, have declared that behind the visible are chains on chains of conscious beings, who are not of heaven but of the earth, who have no inherent form but change according to whim, or the mind that sees them. You cannot lift your hand without influencing and being influenced by hoards. The visible world is merely their skin. In dreams we go among them, and play with them, and combat with them,” wrote Yeats of the faeries.
Although the priests told all to not believe in such pagan nonsense, they themselves were the most afraid to go about at night time where a troop of faeries might be traveling from their cave to the sea, or from their hawthorn tree to the fields below, or simply dancing to their heavenly music from twilight to dawn in a circle of moss-covered stones.
And though the priests forbade it, their words alone could not hinder the fair people from sometimes bestowing on mortals certain gifts—the sight of things far away, the power to heal and root out evil, or a music so divine that maidens would dance off their toes for the joy of it, or die slowly pining away for it.
Though the gift of flowering music wasn’t bestowed on the red-haired lass named Biddy Early, no one doubted that she had been touched with the gifts of foresight and healing. She has since earned the title of Ireland’s most famous witch.
How her power came to her no one knows. Some say her first husband (she had at least three and outlived them all) came to her after he died and told her secrets which gave her the power. Others say she was a seer from birth. Terry Glavin of Lost Magazine wrote, “When Biddy was a girl she spent a great deal of time talking to herself, in places where the blackthorn grows, places like the rath in Jack Brian’s field beside the farm at Coolreagh. It’s one of those overgrown stone circles where people used to see faint lights dancing on certain nights of the year.”
Some say that it was her son, who was coveted by the faery for his skill at the game of hurley. Yeats once wrote, “The people of faery cannot even play at hurley unless they have on either side some mortal.” The boy was an astounding player, able to leap like a deer and dodge like a rabbit.
That’s why they say when he was eight the faery took him away (which is the way of saying to their land, a place of everlasting youth, leaving the living to mourn over the lifeless body left behind like so many rags forgotten).
It is said the boy returned to Biddy in her grief and granted her a little blue bottle with which to make her living. Biddy, they say, would shake this little bottle and see inside a vision that would answer any matter brought before her. She never charged any money for her services (as is the custom the world over with shamans and healers), but would sometimes take a little bread or tea, or more often whiskey (the abundance of which they say lead to the death of all her husbands).
According to a little girl whose mother inherited Biddy’s cabin, “She was as good, and better, to the poor as to the rich. Any poor person passing the road, she’d call in and give a cup of tea or a glass of whiskey to, and bread and what they wanted.”
Little is known of Biddy’s early years. She was born to a poor farming family in County Clare in 1798. “That was the year of the Croppies,” writes Glavin. “Seamus Heaney wrote a great poem about it. The peasants filled the pockets of their greatcoats with barley, to feed themselves on the run, and they made their final stand at Vinegar Hill, shaking scythes at cannon. They fell in the thousands, and they buried us without shroud or coffin, and in August the barley grew up out of the grave.”
Perhaps it’s fitting that with a tragedy such as the failed Irish Rebellion of 1798 comes a blessing to the people, and Biddy was certainly that. She had a little shed in which she would go and consult the faeries, working miraculous cures and telling the future of any who would come and seek her help. She made many cures with little bottles of potion and prayers and holy water.
Often she would warn someone she had given a cure to that they should mind the bottle when crossing such a bridge, or that it would break by such a gate, or that they should not come to any door but their own or they should lose it. And she was always right.
Daniel Curtin told Lady Gregory a story of both her healing and foresight, “There’s not a man in this countryside over forty year old that hasn’t been with her some time or other. There’s a man living in that house over there was sick one time, and he went to her, and she cured him, but says she, ‘You’ll have to lose something, and don’t fret after it.’ So he had a grey mare and she was going to foal, and one morning when he went out he saw that the foal was born, and was lying dead by the side of the wall. So he remembered what she said to him and he didn’t fret.”
As the Tarot deck includes cards of ill-fate, so Biddy’s tidings were not always happy, and the will of the faery is not always kind to the earthly folk. “There was a woman, Mrs. Leary,” Mrs. Sheridan told Lady Gregory, “had something wrong with her, and she went to Biddy Early. And nothing would do her but to bring my son along with her, and I was vexed… When Biddy Early saw him she said, ‘You’ll travel far, but wherever you go you’ll not escape them.’
The woman he went up with died about six months after, but he went to America, and he wasn’t long there when what was said came true, and he died. They followed him as far as he went.” The faeries, that is.
Now, the priests loathed Biddy and often brought fire and brimstone down on anyone seeking her help. A blacksmith told Lady Gregory, “The priests were against her and used to be taking the cloaks and the baskets from the country people to keep them back from going to her.” They even once attempted to put her on trial for witchcraft (she was the last in all of Ireland to be accused in court), but at the last minute all of the witnesses refused to testify.
Many stories are told of how she hexed a priest’s horse as her rode past her house (he had been whipping those on the road to see her) by having it run into the middle of the nearby river and refuse to go either backward or forward.
She got out of another stitch with the authorities when an eviction notice was served. The night of its execution, she was told by the faery (some say it was her dead husband) to tell the sheriffs, “Stay where you are,” when they came a-knocking. She did just that, and all four were stuck to their spot in the road as if their feet were encased in stone. After two hours she said, “Be away then!” and the enchantment was released. They never again brought ill will to the stout woman’s door.
Besides curing all manner of sick folk and cattle (a lost foul or a sour milking cow could mean destitution for a family), she would also trace the source of harmful magic and give the ailing a cure. Sometimes it was a thornbush planted in a faery road which was causing cattle to fall sick. Sometimes it was a curse of jealousy or ill-will wrought in the mind of someone who may not even know they had the power to do harm. This is a common theme in the Evil Eye lore. A certain Mrs. Crone, interviewed by Lady Gregory relates a tale about her healing by Biddy:
“I was myself digging potatoes out in that field beyond, and a woman passed by the road, but I heard her say nothing, but a pain came on my head and I fell down, and I had to go to my bed for three weeks. My mother went then to Biddy Early. Did you ever hear of her? And she looked in the blue bottle she had, and she said my name. And she saw me standing before her, and knew all about me and said, ‘Your daughter was digging potatoes with her husband in the field, and a woman passed by and she said, ‘It is as good herself is with a spade as the man,’’ for I was a young woman at the time. She gave my mother a bottle for me, and I took three drinks of it in the bed, and then I got up as well as I was before.”
A popular form of evil spell in Ireland was the use of a dead man’s hand (the infamous Hand of Glory, used the world over for all types of theft and deceit) to steal the butter right from the churn, or milk right from the cow. Biddy would find the culprit and stop the theft. (A popular way of doing this was for the inflicted family to put red hot coals beneath their churn, at which point the thieving conjurer would run up to the cottage in a terrible ruckus, screaming that they were being burned alive.)
This practice is further evidence of Biddy’s shamanic nature, as in most ancient cultures there are two types of magic workers—the good and the evil. The evil always work for their own benefit, seeking wealth and glory at the cost of others. Envy is their heart’s affliction, and that void is never filled.
The favorite trick of a greedy shaman is to bewitch unsuspecting folk with sickness to cause them to seek the enchanter’s help, at which point they would simply remove their own curse and collect the bounty. This is one reason that good shamans never accept money for their services, and are obliged to be generous with what they have and humble with what they don’t. Otherwise they might be accused of seeking wealth at the expense of others’ suffering.
It’s a shame that the Church failed to recognize this distinction, and early on put the black mark of witch on all those wise men and women who used the herbs of the mountains and valleys, as well as the prayers and visions through which the spirits guided them, to cure the ill and attempt to bring a heavenly grace into the earthly realm—a task which we all may hope is still not in vain. Lady Gregory recorded the words of a Mr. McCabe: “The priests were against her, but they were wrong. How could that be evil doing that was all charity and kindness and healing?”
Biddy’s old cottage is in ruins now, the stone walls broken and the thatched roof caved in. But when Terry Glavin visited its remains not so long ago, he found that not everyone had forgotten this miraculous woman. “Someone had draped a pretty red kerchief over a hole in a stone wall where a window had been. On the sill, in the nettles and the moss, there were offerings of the sort that people used to leave at saints’ wells. There was a pen, a little bottle, some coins, a package of stamps, and a ribbon.” Such tokens are important in humble folk traditions.
A few simple pins in a bottle were thought to keep evil spirits away. A coin thrown into a sacred spring brought good fortune, and even today a hopeful seeker might cast a penny into a wishing well. Biddy herself worked untold miracles with nothing but a little blue bottle (and their help, of course).
The emblems of this healthy and humble faery faith are not of golden rings and grand cathedrals, but of butter and bread, thimbles and tea. “Lay not up your treasures,” as they say. That’s something to keep in mind as both the pomp of the picking of the Pope (say that three times fast) and the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day cross our path this spring.
Source
http://weekinweird.com/2013/03/20/biddy-early-irelands-famous-witch-faery-friend/
Witchcraft and Magic in Ireland
"The first rigorous academic overview of witchcraft in Ireland, this publication is a very welcome addition to a growing corpus of scholarship on this relatively neglected aspect of Irish social and cultural history. For decades, St John D. Seymour’s Irish Witchcraft and Demonology (1) was the only academic text on the subject available to researchers.
Since the early 1970s the handful of scholars who have delved into research in this field have been mainly concerned with ascertaining why there was so little witch-hunting in Ireland, though significant case studies of Irish witchcraft trials, such as that of Florence Newton in Cork (1661) and the Islandmagee witches in Antrim (1711) have appeared since the early 2000s, lending greater depth to the analysis.
From the late 1990s, Raymond Gillespie’s work in mapping the magical, moral world of early modern Irish people has deepened our understanding of how witchcraft, ghosts, divination, prophesies and astrology and other forms of supernatural intervention in earthly affairs constituted an essential part of both Catholic and Protestant popular religion in Ireland.
Similarly, it has only been in recent decades that the non-Christian supernatural as part of popular religion alongside official Catholic doctrine in late 18th and 19th-century Ireland has been explored, with current historiography remaining largely silent on Protestant witchcraft belief during that period. In the context of this emerging scholarship,
Ronald Hutton and Andrew Sneddon have led the way in exploring the nature of early modern Irish witchcraft belief and the ways in which this differed from beliefs in the British Isles and continental Europe. This is Sneddon’s third book on the subject. While the central focus is on the period between the passing of the 1586 Witchcraft Act and its repeal in 1821, witchcraft and magic during the late medieval era and the 19th and early 20th centuries are also covered.
By examining these phenomena over such a lengthy period, he has made a very significant contribution towards advancing scholarship which traverses the usual chronological and conceptual boundaries imposed on Ireland’s past by historians, charting change and continuity over the centuries. The author’s deep understanding of his subject, his keen awareness of the nature of witchcraft and magic throughout the British Isles, his mastery of historiography, his familiarity with relevant source material and record compensation, and his adeptness in developing a methodology suited to the Irish context have resulted in an original, systematic study which goes a long way in addressing a significant lacuna in Irish historiography.
Sneddon is to be commended on producing a work of such substance notwithstanding the serious limitations imposed by a dearth of source material. In his introduction, he explains to those not familiar with the sorry history of archival collections in Ireland that combined with the destruction of records during the 17th and early 18th centuries, almost all Irish administrative and criminal manuscripts relating to the main criminal courts of Quarter Sessions, Assizes and court of King’s Bench) down to the mid-18th century are now lost, together with probate material and Church of Ireland parish and institutional records. Consequently, as another Irish historian Neal Garnham has observed, Irish historians have no choice but to reply on ‘aggregations of examples drawn from the contemporary press, or the wealth of anecdotal evidence contained in the private papers of prominent individuals’ (quoted p. 1).
To his credit, Sneddon has mined an extensive range of new, under used and under analysed primary sources ranging from church record, private correspondence, depositions, newspapers, periodical, printed pamphlets and books to ballads and almanacs, and woven highly fragmented material into a coherent, original narrative that is solidly grounded in archival evidence. His extensive endnotes and select bibliography serve as excellent starting points for further reading and research in this field.
The book also makes an original contribution in a number of other important respects. Because Sneddon’s approach is informed by recent developments in the study of European witchcraft and popular magic, this study veers away from representing the Irish experience as particularly exceptional. As befits a volume in this series edited by Jonathan Barry,
Willem de Blécourt and Owen Davies which aims to illuminate lesser known or little studies aspects of the history of witchcraft and magic and to explore their relevance and influence from the medieval to the modern period, the interpretative framework for this study of witchcraft and magic in Ireland is the British Isles in particular, with Sneddon constantly comparing beliefs and practices in Ireland with those in England, Scotland and Wales. This is an especially strong feature of the study.
His analysis of belief in witchcraft and popular magic within the three main religious denominations (Catholic, Church of Ireland, and Presbyterian) is another innovative feature of this work. Sneddon also breaks new ground by examining, for the first time, both harmful magic and its beneficial counterpart together, highlighting how cunning-folk or commercial, magical practitioners were recognised as part of both Catholic and Protestant popular culture in early modern and modern Ireland, just as they were in the British Isles and elsewhere in Europe.
Sneddon states explicitly that this book is ‘by no means comprehensive but breaks the hard ground of the academic study of Irish witchcraft, lays a foundation upon which future studies can be built, and dispels the myth that witchcraft and popular magic were not an important part of Protestant and Catholic culture well into the modern era’ (pp. 3–4). The book is very well structured, comprising seven thematic chapters which follow a logical sequence.
Chapter one explores the nature of witchcraft belief beliefs across denominational and socio-cultural groups in early modern Ireland, offering a nuanced, contextualised overview of the very specific nature of Irish beliefs in magic and witchcraft. Presenting a different approach to interpretation of Irish witchcraft beliefs from those offered by Raymond Gillespie, Elewyn C. Lapoint and Ronald Hutton, and drawing heavily on scholarship on beliefs in contemporary England and Scotland, Sneddon argues that belief in potentially harmful magic, especially love magic, had a longer lineage in Ireland, ante-dating the 12th-century Anglo-Norman colonisation.
He also claims that the female butter-stealing witch was not, as existing historiography contends, a corrupt version of the malefic/demonic figure found in continental Europe but a distinct part of Gaelic Irish culture that dated from at least the early medieval era. Chapter two provides a brief overview of witchcraft legislation and legal administration in early modern Ireland, set within the comparative framework of the British Isles, with specific emphasis on the Irish witchcraft statute of 1586 which, as Sneddon points out, has hitherto tended to be cited rather than studied. He concludes that although almost identical to the 1563 English statute, the 1586 Irish Witchcraft Act was part of a grander programme for conquest and consolidation of Elizabethan power in Ireland. The following two chapters examine how civil and ecclesiastical authorities interpreted the 1586 Act and the degree to which they punished practitioners of magic, be they harmful witches or benign cunning-folk.
Chapter three concentrates on cunning-folk whom Sneddon identifies as ‘a recognised, cross-denominational cultural phenomenon in early modern Ireland’ (p. 36). He concludes that such men and women specialised in three activities (finding lost goods or treasure, diagnosis and curing of witchcraft, and, in Gaelic Irish and Catholic regions, protection again fair attacks on livestock and humans) and that notwithstanding the illegality of popular magic, there is no evidence of any concerted drive by the civil authorities to suppress it. Furthermore, he argues, opposition to cunning-folk was expressed in Ireland in the same way as it was by demonologists in Europe and England. Chapter four tackles the question of why prosecution and execution rates for witchcraft in Ireland were so low compared with England, Scotland and continental Europe.
Sneddon is especially thoughtful in his engagement with explanations advanced by historians, notably Raymond Gillespie and Elwyn Lapoint, and while he is at pains to emphasise the limitations imposed by the dearth of sources, he makes excellent use of archival examples, particularly the 1641 Rising Depositions (Trinity College Dublin) and Presbyterian session minutes to offer some fresh insights into this complex phenomenon. Sneddon contends that although by the mid-17th century accusations of malefic, demonic witchcraft were being made by and against Presbyterian and Church of Ireland settlers, during the disturbances of the 1640s prosecutions rates were low owing to ‘serendipity, informal arbitration, execution, and imprisonment without trial’ (p. 61). Furthermore, he asserts, the Catholic majority did not make formal accusations of malefic witchcraft while the Protestant only did so late in the 17th century.
Chapter five focuses on witchcraft trials and demonic possession in Ireland. It begins by setting the record straight on what ought to be regarded as witchcraft trials, revising downwards the numbers identified by earlier scholars to a total of four recorded trials and one execution. After an overview of demonic possession in Britain and Ireland, Sneddon presents detailed analyses of two well-documented trials, the first in Youghal (1661) and the second in Islandmagee, County Antrim (1711) and affords cursory attention to the prosecution of Irish women for witchcraft abroad – in Scotland during wide scale witch-hunts (1590s, 1670s) and in America during the 1680s.
The focus then shifts to witchcraft in modern Ireland, with an exploration of popular belief in witchcraft in Protestant and Catholic communities after the witch trials, from the early 18th century onwards. Using public discourse, parliamentary and court records, as well as folklore sources, Sneddon traced the decline in educated belief in magic and witchcraft, and examines the attitude of the judicial authorities to cases involving witchcraft before and after repeal of the Irish Witchcraft Act in 1821.
This is done within the context of a wide ranging sketch of the decline, decriminalisation and legislative repeal in other countries in the British Isles and continental Europe. Sneddon argues that while the ‘Catholic clerical elite, in the eighteenth century at least, condemned many popular folk beliefs considered superstitious, traditional malefic, demonic witchcraft was still regarded as orthodox, along with various forms of the miraculous’ (p. 122).
He stresses how in contrast to Catholic Ireland, little research has been undertaken on magic or witchcraft in Irish Protestant communities during the 18th and 19th centuries.
In this context, his finding that witchcraft scepticism in public discourse was voiced by growing numbers of Irish Protestants post-1750 breaks new ground in deepening our understanding of denominational differences about witchcraft. Sneddon argues plausibly that this trend towards scepticism, combined with the legal authorities brushing aside allegations of witchcraft, marginalised belief in magic and witchcraft within educated culture to the point that the Irish Witchcraft Act ‘slipped quietly from the statute book in 1821’ (p. 123).
In the concluding chapter he contends that cunning-folk, who are widely recognised as having been part of popular culture in early modern society, continued to serve both Catholic and Protestant communities in Ireland as late as the 20th century. Having highlighted how other magical practitioners (namely fortune-tellers and magical healers) differed from cunning-folk, Sneddon combines case studies of individual practitioners, contemporary clerical reactions and newspaper reports to construct a picture of what cunning-folk did, who sought their assistance, and how they were deal with by the authorities once complaints were made against them.
Sneddon contends that from the mid-19th century, popular recourse to cunning-folk declined as legal action was taken against them by clients, usually for theft or obtaining money under false pretences, and at this trend was facilitated by changes in policing and legal administration. In addition, Sneddon highlights the contribution of both the Catholic and Presbyterian hierarchies who, on spiritual and religious grounds, warned their faithful against having any dealings with cunning-folk.
On reaching the end of this original, scholarly book, the reader will have gained an excellent, fresh insight into the nature of beliefs about magic and witchcraft in Ireland, and the various ways in which these both conformed to and differed from beliefs in the British Isles and continental Europe throughout this period. It is, therefore, extremely suitable as a textbook for university students and is likely to be the main scholarly work on this subject for several years to come."
Source
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1946
Since the early 1970s the handful of scholars who have delved into research in this field have been mainly concerned with ascertaining why there was so little witch-hunting in Ireland, though significant case studies of Irish witchcraft trials, such as that of Florence Newton in Cork (1661) and the Islandmagee witches in Antrim (1711) have appeared since the early 2000s, lending greater depth to the analysis.
From the late 1990s, Raymond Gillespie’s work in mapping the magical, moral world of early modern Irish people has deepened our understanding of how witchcraft, ghosts, divination, prophesies and astrology and other forms of supernatural intervention in earthly affairs constituted an essential part of both Catholic and Protestant popular religion in Ireland.
Similarly, it has only been in recent decades that the non-Christian supernatural as part of popular religion alongside official Catholic doctrine in late 18th and 19th-century Ireland has been explored, with current historiography remaining largely silent on Protestant witchcraft belief during that period. In the context of this emerging scholarship,
Ronald Hutton and Andrew Sneddon have led the way in exploring the nature of early modern Irish witchcraft belief and the ways in which this differed from beliefs in the British Isles and continental Europe. This is Sneddon’s third book on the subject. While the central focus is on the period between the passing of the 1586 Witchcraft Act and its repeal in 1821, witchcraft and magic during the late medieval era and the 19th and early 20th centuries are also covered.
By examining these phenomena over such a lengthy period, he has made a very significant contribution towards advancing scholarship which traverses the usual chronological and conceptual boundaries imposed on Ireland’s past by historians, charting change and continuity over the centuries. The author’s deep understanding of his subject, his keen awareness of the nature of witchcraft and magic throughout the British Isles, his mastery of historiography, his familiarity with relevant source material and record compensation, and his adeptness in developing a methodology suited to the Irish context have resulted in an original, systematic study which goes a long way in addressing a significant lacuna in Irish historiography.
Sneddon is to be commended on producing a work of such substance notwithstanding the serious limitations imposed by a dearth of source material. In his introduction, he explains to those not familiar with the sorry history of archival collections in Ireland that combined with the destruction of records during the 17th and early 18th centuries, almost all Irish administrative and criminal manuscripts relating to the main criminal courts of Quarter Sessions, Assizes and court of King’s Bench) down to the mid-18th century are now lost, together with probate material and Church of Ireland parish and institutional records. Consequently, as another Irish historian Neal Garnham has observed, Irish historians have no choice but to reply on ‘aggregations of examples drawn from the contemporary press, or the wealth of anecdotal evidence contained in the private papers of prominent individuals’ (quoted p. 1).
To his credit, Sneddon has mined an extensive range of new, under used and under analysed primary sources ranging from church record, private correspondence, depositions, newspapers, periodical, printed pamphlets and books to ballads and almanacs, and woven highly fragmented material into a coherent, original narrative that is solidly grounded in archival evidence. His extensive endnotes and select bibliography serve as excellent starting points for further reading and research in this field.
The book also makes an original contribution in a number of other important respects. Because Sneddon’s approach is informed by recent developments in the study of European witchcraft and popular magic, this study veers away from representing the Irish experience as particularly exceptional. As befits a volume in this series edited by Jonathan Barry,
Willem de Blécourt and Owen Davies which aims to illuminate lesser known or little studies aspects of the history of witchcraft and magic and to explore their relevance and influence from the medieval to the modern period, the interpretative framework for this study of witchcraft and magic in Ireland is the British Isles in particular, with Sneddon constantly comparing beliefs and practices in Ireland with those in England, Scotland and Wales. This is an especially strong feature of the study.
His analysis of belief in witchcraft and popular magic within the three main religious denominations (Catholic, Church of Ireland, and Presbyterian) is another innovative feature of this work. Sneddon also breaks new ground by examining, for the first time, both harmful magic and its beneficial counterpart together, highlighting how cunning-folk or commercial, magical practitioners were recognised as part of both Catholic and Protestant popular culture in early modern and modern Ireland, just as they were in the British Isles and elsewhere in Europe.
Sneddon states explicitly that this book is ‘by no means comprehensive but breaks the hard ground of the academic study of Irish witchcraft, lays a foundation upon which future studies can be built, and dispels the myth that witchcraft and popular magic were not an important part of Protestant and Catholic culture well into the modern era’ (pp. 3–4). The book is very well structured, comprising seven thematic chapters which follow a logical sequence.
Chapter one explores the nature of witchcraft belief beliefs across denominational and socio-cultural groups in early modern Ireland, offering a nuanced, contextualised overview of the very specific nature of Irish beliefs in magic and witchcraft. Presenting a different approach to interpretation of Irish witchcraft beliefs from those offered by Raymond Gillespie, Elewyn C. Lapoint and Ronald Hutton, and drawing heavily on scholarship on beliefs in contemporary England and Scotland, Sneddon argues that belief in potentially harmful magic, especially love magic, had a longer lineage in Ireland, ante-dating the 12th-century Anglo-Norman colonisation.
He also claims that the female butter-stealing witch was not, as existing historiography contends, a corrupt version of the malefic/demonic figure found in continental Europe but a distinct part of Gaelic Irish culture that dated from at least the early medieval era. Chapter two provides a brief overview of witchcraft legislation and legal administration in early modern Ireland, set within the comparative framework of the British Isles, with specific emphasis on the Irish witchcraft statute of 1586 which, as Sneddon points out, has hitherto tended to be cited rather than studied. He concludes that although almost identical to the 1563 English statute, the 1586 Irish Witchcraft Act was part of a grander programme for conquest and consolidation of Elizabethan power in Ireland. The following two chapters examine how civil and ecclesiastical authorities interpreted the 1586 Act and the degree to which they punished practitioners of magic, be they harmful witches or benign cunning-folk.
Chapter three concentrates on cunning-folk whom Sneddon identifies as ‘a recognised, cross-denominational cultural phenomenon in early modern Ireland’ (p. 36). He concludes that such men and women specialised in three activities (finding lost goods or treasure, diagnosis and curing of witchcraft, and, in Gaelic Irish and Catholic regions, protection again fair attacks on livestock and humans) and that notwithstanding the illegality of popular magic, there is no evidence of any concerted drive by the civil authorities to suppress it. Furthermore, he argues, opposition to cunning-folk was expressed in Ireland in the same way as it was by demonologists in Europe and England. Chapter four tackles the question of why prosecution and execution rates for witchcraft in Ireland were so low compared with England, Scotland and continental Europe.
Sneddon is especially thoughtful in his engagement with explanations advanced by historians, notably Raymond Gillespie and Elwyn Lapoint, and while he is at pains to emphasise the limitations imposed by the dearth of sources, he makes excellent use of archival examples, particularly the 1641 Rising Depositions (Trinity College Dublin) and Presbyterian session minutes to offer some fresh insights into this complex phenomenon. Sneddon contends that although by the mid-17th century accusations of malefic, demonic witchcraft were being made by and against Presbyterian and Church of Ireland settlers, during the disturbances of the 1640s prosecutions rates were low owing to ‘serendipity, informal arbitration, execution, and imprisonment without trial’ (p. 61). Furthermore, he asserts, the Catholic majority did not make formal accusations of malefic witchcraft while the Protestant only did so late in the 17th century.
Chapter five focuses on witchcraft trials and demonic possession in Ireland. It begins by setting the record straight on what ought to be regarded as witchcraft trials, revising downwards the numbers identified by earlier scholars to a total of four recorded trials and one execution. After an overview of demonic possession in Britain and Ireland, Sneddon presents detailed analyses of two well-documented trials, the first in Youghal (1661) and the second in Islandmagee, County Antrim (1711) and affords cursory attention to the prosecution of Irish women for witchcraft abroad – in Scotland during wide scale witch-hunts (1590s, 1670s) and in America during the 1680s.
The focus then shifts to witchcraft in modern Ireland, with an exploration of popular belief in witchcraft in Protestant and Catholic communities after the witch trials, from the early 18th century onwards. Using public discourse, parliamentary and court records, as well as folklore sources, Sneddon traced the decline in educated belief in magic and witchcraft, and examines the attitude of the judicial authorities to cases involving witchcraft before and after repeal of the Irish Witchcraft Act in 1821.
This is done within the context of a wide ranging sketch of the decline, decriminalisation and legislative repeal in other countries in the British Isles and continental Europe. Sneddon argues that while the ‘Catholic clerical elite, in the eighteenth century at least, condemned many popular folk beliefs considered superstitious, traditional malefic, demonic witchcraft was still regarded as orthodox, along with various forms of the miraculous’ (p. 122).
He stresses how in contrast to Catholic Ireland, little research has been undertaken on magic or witchcraft in Irish Protestant communities during the 18th and 19th centuries.
In this context, his finding that witchcraft scepticism in public discourse was voiced by growing numbers of Irish Protestants post-1750 breaks new ground in deepening our understanding of denominational differences about witchcraft. Sneddon argues plausibly that this trend towards scepticism, combined with the legal authorities brushing aside allegations of witchcraft, marginalised belief in magic and witchcraft within educated culture to the point that the Irish Witchcraft Act ‘slipped quietly from the statute book in 1821’ (p. 123).
In the concluding chapter he contends that cunning-folk, who are widely recognised as having been part of popular culture in early modern society, continued to serve both Catholic and Protestant communities in Ireland as late as the 20th century. Having highlighted how other magical practitioners (namely fortune-tellers and magical healers) differed from cunning-folk, Sneddon combines case studies of individual practitioners, contemporary clerical reactions and newspaper reports to construct a picture of what cunning-folk did, who sought their assistance, and how they were deal with by the authorities once complaints were made against them.
Sneddon contends that from the mid-19th century, popular recourse to cunning-folk declined as legal action was taken against them by clients, usually for theft or obtaining money under false pretences, and at this trend was facilitated by changes in policing and legal administration. In addition, Sneddon highlights the contribution of both the Catholic and Presbyterian hierarchies who, on spiritual and religious grounds, warned their faithful against having any dealings with cunning-folk.
On reaching the end of this original, scholarly book, the reader will have gained an excellent, fresh insight into the nature of beliefs about magic and witchcraft in Ireland, and the various ways in which these both conformed to and differed from beliefs in the British Isles and continental Europe throughout this period. It is, therefore, extremely suitable as a textbook for university students and is likely to be the main scholarly work on this subject for several years to come."
Source
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1946
WITCHES of IRELAND
"Ireland has many tales of witches and their evil ways. My personal favorite is that of Seamus Rua’s housekeeper. Partially because I like Yeats’s collections, but also because Seamus is Irish for James. Before we get to the main dish, though, let’s take a short look at some other famous Irish witches. Perhaps just enough to whet your appetite for now.
First up is Dame Alice Kyteler, who owned the Kyteler Inn, in Kilkenny, where she would lure local businessmen with her charms, taking their gifts and money. She survived four husbands, although gossip has it that it was through her own machinations. Between those possible murders and her talk against the Church, she was ill looked upon. She was the first to be accused of witchcraft in Ireland, although she managed to escape and was never heard from again.
Next is Biddy Early, who was born in 1778, County Claire. She had been taught herbal cures from her mother, until she became an orphan at 16. Being an outcast, she started talking to the fairies and learned how to use them against others. She, like Dame Alice, was married four times, one of whom was her stepson from a previous marriage. As time traveled on, she started to make a name for herself as a healer, with legend saying her powers came from a mysterious blue bottle. This bottle was brought to her by a dead relative from the Irish Otherworld. She denounced the Catholic Church and was accused of witchcraft in 1865. She was acquitted, and later repented on her deathbed. Her blue bottle was never found after her death, with the locals whispering that the fairies came back to collect it.
The last witchy appetizer is Florence Newton of Youghal. She supposedly cursed the maid of a local prominent figure. Being a beggar, Florence asked the maid for scraps, and when the maid refused, Florence grabbed her and gave her a cursed kiss. The maid started to have seizures and, when Florence was brought into the maid's presence, started vomiting needles and pins. Florence was arrested, where she was then accused of causing the death of her jailer. It would not be a far-fetched assumption to think that she was found guilty and hanged, but all the records were lost, and so we do not know. Perhaps she used her magical powers to escape?
Also from Youghal, there is the annual Halloween festival that goes with the legend of An Bhean Uisce, The Water Woman, of whom you can read about here, from the excellent folklorist Pollyanna Jones: http://hubpages.com/holidays/The-Youghal-Halloween-Festival-The-Legend-of-An-Bhean-Uisce.
Seamus Rua (Red James) woke up one night from a very deep sleep, as voices wafted up from the floor below. He crept down the stairs and saw half a dozen old women sitting around the fire in his kitchen, joking and laughing, one of whom was his housekeeper. He thought briefly back of the bedtime drink she had brought to him, which he had left untouched on his bed stand, for which he was happy to have skipped for the first ever time.
They were passing around a jug of his whiskey one noticed it was empty. She stood up and cried out “It is time to go, my sisters!” She placed a red cap upon her head, grabbed a bundle of yarrow, and changed “By yarrow and rue, and my red cap, too, away and hie over to England!”
Before the last word was out of her mouth, she flew and disappeared up the chimney. The other women copied this action and, as they all started away, Seamus leapt out and grabbed his housekeeper. He took the yarrow and red cap away from her. “If you don’t mind, I will take this for myself. By yarrow and rue, and my red cap, too, away and hie over to England!”
The moment the words were out of his mouth, he shot up through the fireplace. He flew over the Wicklow hills, across the Irish Sea, skimmed the Welsh mountains, and sped headlong over the ramparts of a large castle. He went through an open door, down many flights of stairs, and was bracing himself for impact as he neared a stout door, not even breathing a sigh of relief as he flew through the key hole, unharmed, finding himself in the kitchen cellar.
Groggy and confused from the ride, he found himself astride a stillion (a cradle for beer vats). Lights were flashing around him, and he didn’t even notice his hand held a tumbler of wine before he started drinking it, joining the old women who had flew in before him. They were laughing as loud and lustily as they had in his own kitchen.
He attempted to keep up with their drinking, but was soon left under the table. He woke to rough hands pulling him up, dragging him up the stairs, and then slamming him down in front of the Lord of the castle. The sheriff was called and Seamus was taken to jail. Found guilty in no time at all, he was roundly ridiculed for the story he told of how he had turned up in the cellar.
A gallows was prepared and soon he was in a cart, the horse taking him to his final destination. He had a sign on his back that told everyone he had been draining the casks of the Lord's estate every night for the past month, to the jeers of the throng who had come to watch him twist in the wind. Evidently his housekeeper and her fellow witches had been doing nightly visitations for some time, quaffing quite heartily!
Along the way he spied in elderly woman who yelled to him “Seamus Rua, are you going to die in such a strange place without your caipin dearg?”
Recognizing his birth language, Irish, term for red cap, Seamus smiled and nodded a thank you. He turned to the lord and humbly asked. “My Lord, I would very much like to die with my red cap on, which should still be in your cellar.” The aristocrat relented and sent a servant to get the article of clothing. In a matter of minutes it was handed back to James, whereupon he put on his head and looked out at the crowd as he was marched up onto the gallows.
“My good people please take my plight as a warning... By yarrow and rue, and my red cap, too, away and hie my way back home!”
No sooner were the words out of his mouth when he astonished the crowds by suddenly flying into the air, heading west back over the English countryside to his home in Ireland.
So now, my gentle reader, I wish you all spooky Samhain dreams and haunted Halloween treats. I hope this story, retold with my own inflections, adds to your scary merriment, this October season!"
Source
https://exemplore.com/wicca-witchcraft/Witches-of-Ireland
First up is Dame Alice Kyteler, who owned the Kyteler Inn, in Kilkenny, where she would lure local businessmen with her charms, taking their gifts and money. She survived four husbands, although gossip has it that it was through her own machinations. Between those possible murders and her talk against the Church, she was ill looked upon. She was the first to be accused of witchcraft in Ireland, although she managed to escape and was never heard from again.
Next is Biddy Early, who was born in 1778, County Claire. She had been taught herbal cures from her mother, until she became an orphan at 16. Being an outcast, she started talking to the fairies and learned how to use them against others. She, like Dame Alice, was married four times, one of whom was her stepson from a previous marriage. As time traveled on, she started to make a name for herself as a healer, with legend saying her powers came from a mysterious blue bottle. This bottle was brought to her by a dead relative from the Irish Otherworld. She denounced the Catholic Church and was accused of witchcraft in 1865. She was acquitted, and later repented on her deathbed. Her blue bottle was never found after her death, with the locals whispering that the fairies came back to collect it.
The last witchy appetizer is Florence Newton of Youghal. She supposedly cursed the maid of a local prominent figure. Being a beggar, Florence asked the maid for scraps, and when the maid refused, Florence grabbed her and gave her a cursed kiss. The maid started to have seizures and, when Florence was brought into the maid's presence, started vomiting needles and pins. Florence was arrested, where she was then accused of causing the death of her jailer. It would not be a far-fetched assumption to think that she was found guilty and hanged, but all the records were lost, and so we do not know. Perhaps she used her magical powers to escape?
Also from Youghal, there is the annual Halloween festival that goes with the legend of An Bhean Uisce, The Water Woman, of whom you can read about here, from the excellent folklorist Pollyanna Jones: http://hubpages.com/holidays/The-Youghal-Halloween-Festival-The-Legend-of-An-Bhean-Uisce.
Seamus Rua (Red James) woke up one night from a very deep sleep, as voices wafted up from the floor below. He crept down the stairs and saw half a dozen old women sitting around the fire in his kitchen, joking and laughing, one of whom was his housekeeper. He thought briefly back of the bedtime drink she had brought to him, which he had left untouched on his bed stand, for which he was happy to have skipped for the first ever time.
They were passing around a jug of his whiskey one noticed it was empty. She stood up and cried out “It is time to go, my sisters!” She placed a red cap upon her head, grabbed a bundle of yarrow, and changed “By yarrow and rue, and my red cap, too, away and hie over to England!”
Before the last word was out of her mouth, she flew and disappeared up the chimney. The other women copied this action and, as they all started away, Seamus leapt out and grabbed his housekeeper. He took the yarrow and red cap away from her. “If you don’t mind, I will take this for myself. By yarrow and rue, and my red cap, too, away and hie over to England!”
The moment the words were out of his mouth, he shot up through the fireplace. He flew over the Wicklow hills, across the Irish Sea, skimmed the Welsh mountains, and sped headlong over the ramparts of a large castle. He went through an open door, down many flights of stairs, and was bracing himself for impact as he neared a stout door, not even breathing a sigh of relief as he flew through the key hole, unharmed, finding himself in the kitchen cellar.
Groggy and confused from the ride, he found himself astride a stillion (a cradle for beer vats). Lights were flashing around him, and he didn’t even notice his hand held a tumbler of wine before he started drinking it, joining the old women who had flew in before him. They were laughing as loud and lustily as they had in his own kitchen.
He attempted to keep up with their drinking, but was soon left under the table. He woke to rough hands pulling him up, dragging him up the stairs, and then slamming him down in front of the Lord of the castle. The sheriff was called and Seamus was taken to jail. Found guilty in no time at all, he was roundly ridiculed for the story he told of how he had turned up in the cellar.
A gallows was prepared and soon he was in a cart, the horse taking him to his final destination. He had a sign on his back that told everyone he had been draining the casks of the Lord's estate every night for the past month, to the jeers of the throng who had come to watch him twist in the wind. Evidently his housekeeper and her fellow witches had been doing nightly visitations for some time, quaffing quite heartily!
Along the way he spied in elderly woman who yelled to him “Seamus Rua, are you going to die in such a strange place without your caipin dearg?”
Recognizing his birth language, Irish, term for red cap, Seamus smiled and nodded a thank you. He turned to the lord and humbly asked. “My Lord, I would very much like to die with my red cap on, which should still be in your cellar.” The aristocrat relented and sent a servant to get the article of clothing. In a matter of minutes it was handed back to James, whereupon he put on his head and looked out at the crowd as he was marched up onto the gallows.
“My good people please take my plight as a warning... By yarrow and rue, and my red cap, too, away and hie my way back home!”
No sooner were the words out of his mouth when he astonished the crowds by suddenly flying into the air, heading west back over the English countryside to his home in Ireland.
So now, my gentle reader, I wish you all spooky Samhain dreams and haunted Halloween treats. I hope this story, retold with my own inflections, adds to your scary merriment, this October season!"
Source
https://exemplore.com/wicca-witchcraft/Witches-of-Ireland
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Friday, August 25, 2017
"We've entered a whole new Zero Point range that will change the dynamics of REALities for us all here. "
"StarGates now charging up to synchronize all, this synchronization re-aligns realities to all new geometric and equation codes. As our new StarGate Systems sync up, old timelines that no longer serve dissipate, dissolve, fall away as new ones prepare to materialize/arrive/take their place."
"This Eclipse was a huge activation in so many ways. With it, so very much...
I've yet to share, as we continue the immense integration phase of anchoring these mega-high-light encodements into our physical forms and the Crystalline Grids of our Earth Gaia for more NEW Earth REALities by way of experiencing Heaven on Earth more here.
It's been profound, prolific, powerful and a very sacred, beautiful and magical experience that continues as we HOLD these new encoded geometrics here.
We've entered a whole new Zero Point range that will change the dynamics of REALities for us all here. I will be sharing more soon, as I continue to anchor/integrate as an intentional Gatekeeper/Gridkeeper here.
These new codes are immense and require all of our attention and energy until this process is complete.
This whole week has been dedicated to this anchoring/integration process, which should complete over the next few days.
As our EARTHly bodies complete this cellular and molecular re-coding, re-calibrating and re-tuning processes, StarGates charge up ever so slowly/continually until we've reached Critical Mass and a new tipping point.
The Eclipse was one. This is another. A completion phase of a week long integration process (or however long it takes).
StarGates now charging up to synchronize all, this synchronization re-aligns realities to all new geometric and equation codes.
As our new StarGate Systems sync up, old timelines that no longer serve dissipate, dissolve, fall away as new ones prepare to materialize/arrive/take their place.
At this point, we still have a couple of days (it appears). We never know until this starts to occur, which is what I normally share with you all ....
The purposes and benefits of this very palpable and important Eclipse, was a marker point for us all "triggering" (activating) an important up-shift in collective Unity Consciousness, where Tsunami Waves of Christed Light and Love flooded our gridding system, having a profound and often "invisible" affect for those not fully connected to their own subtle-inner realms in order to understand how physical realities are created yet....
Each one of us experiencing differently, based upon what's important to each of us now. For some it was excitement for the experience, which is to open us all up even more, this EVENT brought more to connect in a whole new way, like never before.
All, looking to the skies, the Universe, Sun & Moon, this focus alone is powerful to open each's human aspect up more to awaken their own Soul and Galactic connections up more. For those experiencing in groups, the commUNITY, the sharing of an experience, the happiness, the exchange, so very beneficial to unite/bring more together in all new ways. For others, being alone, experiencing the simplicity & profoundness in silence and purity was a chosen profoundly subtle and powerful experience of deep inner connection with all as this cosmic convergence began. For others, the hype and outward focus may have triggered deep inner clearings/cleansings necessary to empty out old programming, so that more inner-connection can occur.
The night before the eclipse, powerful energies began. Our "normal" zero point was different, not bound to one day, as usual, it started the day before the Eclipse and continues even now. A new Zero Point Range being established, very important for us all.
This "New Moon" was nothing like our "norm". This was not a reset day like before, this was a RESET ACTIVATION EVENT, this was POWERFUL and every activation/movement of energy possible occurred in a linear 24 hour space that started the night before and continued through the night of the Eclipse itself, cycling through every season, every possibility, every temp, every weather/climate, every emotion, an immense energetic process preparing us for huge convergence that has thus far taken all week and continues until Stargate Alignment and Synchronization occurs. And then there's always more!
The day after the eclipse, we entered the zero point/void space where particle matter comes to a halt/slows and any density is easier felt.
Yesterday, we entered a space of Suspended Animation, floating and light... while continuing to anchor/integrate/embed powerful encodements into our Crystalline Matrix Power Grid Systems.
The Video I released on August 21 still very much applies... maintain zero point intentionally, while this process completes. BE if all you can do is BE, accomplish if you are powered up to create or simply create/be from a silent space without exerting any energy not absolutely necessary.
It's important to hold this INTENTIONAL ZERO POINT consciously with your energy/heart/mind until this process completes and synchronization has occurred for our new StarGate Systems to come online.
BE fully in your current experience with your presence and Divine Essence and hold what is REALity loosely right now.
For me, I had/have tons to share, yet this interfered with my own anchoring/integration process for us all, so I had to let it all go. I recorded amazing videos that I hope to merge into one, from Lightening & Thunder Storms (here on Kauai is unheard of), to rainbows galore.
A huge collective cleansing with wow power, I forgot how much I used to LOVE storms and the power/cleansing they represented/held.... with more rainbows yesterday. Rainbow Bridges rock! ♥
Minimizing external influences during these integrations are necessary for those of us integrating the immensity instantly. This is not a "few hour job", one moment or even a few days. It's been all week and we are still doing this, as anchoring in these new highest timelines occurs in our physical form/body template first.
Keeping our own Super Consciousness Field clear is necessary for this very important part of the process to occur. Many are celebrating, inJOYing relief, lighter energies, happiness after intense clearing phases that increased when we entered less-linear 2017, experiencing the magnitude of these higher frequency realities, while others experience deep inner cleansings of old programming that surfaced, which is a very important part of this process as well. Injoy everything available. We've all worked hard over the years through dedicated service .... it's well deserved! :)
Observing collectives and their experiences, it's interesting to see how each perceives reality and these shifts as well. The August 21st Eclipse was the activation of so very many, to shift the focused UP into the Cosmos, into the Heavens, into the BEyond and "off of the Earth" (the old physical realities as they once were). Activating the "higher realms" within us, our mind/focus shifts to the stars, the skies and "way out there". Heads in the clouds, literally... the old timelines are allowed to finally dissipate, as the body re-calibrates itself accordingly. Shifting focus off of what used to be important and onto what's truly important, opening up to FEEL CONNECTED in all new ways, to connect with each other on a SOUL Level, from deep inside.... and to REALize that REALity IS DIFFERENT... it's important for us all. Ascending our bodies, while re-birthing ourselves, while descending our highest aspects into this physical here, while maintaining a physical body and learning to EXPERIENCE REALITY instead of "think it" first is a profound shift for all. Our human mind is slow to catch up with what's actually occurring in the "invisible realms" (energetically) that must be felt, observed and allowed in order to be understood. Holographic access gives us capabilities to see what was not visible before.
Many new timelines are anchoring in, that will change how all view REALity here.
Responses will be different, based upon each's current level of perception (expanded consciousness) vibrationally, non-linearly.... to see the bigger picture instead of just the smaller ones....
We shall see/experience an even greater RISE of Collective Crystalline/Unity/Christed Consciousness, Divine Masculine, Divine Feminine, of Sovereignty and for any transcending old programs of duality/ego, a rise of separation programs playing out, so that distortions can be seen (experienced where necessary) in order to dissipate/dissolve the energy, so that new clarity/visibility can occur as a RETURN TO UNITY-LOVE is allowed to emerge from within.
We additionally have a huge rise of the Divine Masculine awakening to step more into the forefront, allowing others to step back a bit to bring more balance and expand through more supportive roles through more UNITY RELATIONSHIPS now. Where each maintain full inner unity balance/unified existence from within, then outer relationships will also more reflect this.
External realities will amplify reflecting back what each holds inside and through expanded consciousness (or unconsciousness). All is for the purpose of unification on a higher timeline, which cannot occur until the ENERGY of ego-duality-separation once held dissipates/dissolves fully, so that the cellular body can re-structure realities faster/easier.
Greater POWER now emerges through LOVE and through realizations that were not as easily accessible before. Power in numbers, through a UNIFIED EXISTENCE and Creating Reality through intentional actions, especially by way of access to higher timelines "in advance", instead of re-acting to a matrix program that no longer hold value anymore are KEY.
Our NEW Higher Dimensional Matrix System fully anchored in by each one of us, and held together through the inner workings of Light Intelligence and pure hearts uniting instead of separating like before.
Our new programs, our new HUmanity, our new Galactic Civilizations forming, through and by each one of us, as we come together to create, come together to share and support in all new ways, releasing the mindsets of the matrix prisons (representing Hell) that once held power, because we believed it, thought we needed it, feared it and supported it with our energy, our money, our time, our everything... which changes as each realizes this.
No longer believing the old untruths IS POWER....
Veils removed, chaos is no longer necessary, unless this is the only thing one understands.... Peace prevails as victim mentality drama energy dissolves and inner-connection is reestablished for unification to occur within.
Unity-Love is the ANSWER through the emanation of each of our own Christed Light.... LOVE, respect, kindness, consideration, sharing, opening up, coming together, inner honor & integrity and realizing that what we allow/hold/do creates.... re-focusing our energy on CREATION OF OUR NEW, by anchoring these highest timelines in, is a POWER WE ALL HOLD HERE.
When/As these StarGates activate fully and begin to bring all online (at a MUCH HIGHER FREQUENCY THAN BEFORE), the old timelines will further fall away, faster and instantly, as each allows them to go....
Today we have submerging StarGate activity as each system is booting up slowly. Full convergence will occur when all have reached PEAK and synchronize at the HIGHEST POINT OF INTEGRATION, collapsing/unifying all previous timelines into ONE.
I will share more when this full integration process is complete. There is so very much, yet full integration/anchoring/embedding into our body templates are most important for us all right now. I'll return online as appropriate. Injoy these magnificent energies that are available through full presence and zero point field. The only thing that matters is what you allow/experience/consciously create in "this moment right here". ♥
p.s. The day after the eclipse, the words "post eclipse" morphed into "Apocalypse"... which then correlated differently... showing that many have just completed their apocalyptic phase, while others have just moved into theirs. There is a RESET that occurs individually and for each collective as well. These Zero Point Resets occur individually and with different collectives. This RESET determines how often each has to return to zero point to "empty out", until all can exist from this Space of Fully Conscious Connection & Intentional Focused Creation all of the time and stop "leaving" to separate off again. The ability to maintain from within "Zero Point Space" determines everything, especially how long/how dramatically one experiences the physical reality itself. Reversing existence is a vibrational experience.
The more of our own Soul/Higher Consciousness Light that we integrate/hold/embody, the more Zero Point is our Home. This collective Zero Point we now anchor in is a game-changer for us all. ♥ For those experiencing deeper "Dark Night of the Soul", this is the death/dying process of the mentalities/emotional energy of separation/ego energy/programs housed inside of your bodies, that allowed you to previously maintain your disconnected/amnesiac state. Our Soul is PURE, the rest is our own separation from Self AS Source.
This intense process expedites so that UNITY can occur easier/faster now, so that PURE JOY, bliss, powers/abilities/gifts can activate within you and be accessed/held/experienced with greater ease. It's a pivotal shedding process point in the Death of Dualistic Ego for Transcendence to occur, which is immense, as each prepares to transition over to "the other side" of the veils, to exist and live beyond the old matrix illusions, so be patient, hang in there, be kind to yourself and know that it will pass as your heart opens fully to release the old programs/energy that kept you anchored in lower dimensional timelines of amnesia (that we all pre-agreed to).
Much sleep is/was necessary for the foggy veils of amnesia to lift, for clarity, peace and happiness to come forth and you will enter a whole new phase where your Higher-Self-Soul-Universal-You emerges from within. A new day will dawn, and a whole new existence (NEW Earth) will too. More simplicity, profound beauty, more vibrancy, color, more fuzzy softness, more magic and miracles become the norm. Keep recognizing and releasing the old unconscious everything. You don't need it anymore.... it no longer serves any highest good. Surround yourself with that which inspires you, supports you... sleep, nature, nurture, community, crystals, whatever calls forth your Soul inside to emerge to be happy, at peace and connected in silence, laughter, beauty, song..... ♥
As you start to get yourself out there, support others, share your self and your natural knowledge/gifts, connect on a heart-soul level, help/assist others for no reason other than the way it makes you feel, you'll start to open up to "new" easier as you do. Connecting with others on a Soul level means that our Soul must be fully present for this.... what's dissolving are the barriers between dimensions (our hearts) that we all held before/within, so that each can connect fully as Light BEings and Star BEings here. ♥
I love you. ♥ Injoy these magnificent frequencies available to each one of us now.
Lisa Transcendence Brown ☼
www.AwakeningToRemembering.com"
Source and More
http://www.awakeningtoremembering.com/daily-writings/zero-point-range-gatekeepers-gridkeepers-continue-deep-anchoring-integration-of-new-soul-star-codes-activated-with-the-eclipse#.WaBBbTZ6HNs.facebook
"This Eclipse was a huge activation in so many ways. With it, so very much...
I've yet to share, as we continue the immense integration phase of anchoring these mega-high-light encodements into our physical forms and the Crystalline Grids of our Earth Gaia for more NEW Earth REALities by way of experiencing Heaven on Earth more here.
It's been profound, prolific, powerful and a very sacred, beautiful and magical experience that continues as we HOLD these new encoded geometrics here.
We've entered a whole new Zero Point range that will change the dynamics of REALities for us all here. I will be sharing more soon, as I continue to anchor/integrate as an intentional Gatekeeper/Gridkeeper here.
These new codes are immense and require all of our attention and energy until this process is complete.
This whole week has been dedicated to this anchoring/integration process, which should complete over the next few days.
As our EARTHly bodies complete this cellular and molecular re-coding, re-calibrating and re-tuning processes, StarGates charge up ever so slowly/continually until we've reached Critical Mass and a new tipping point.
The Eclipse was one. This is another. A completion phase of a week long integration process (or however long it takes).
StarGates now charging up to synchronize all, this synchronization re-aligns realities to all new geometric and equation codes.
As our new StarGate Systems sync up, old timelines that no longer serve dissipate, dissolve, fall away as new ones prepare to materialize/arrive/take their place.
At this point, we still have a couple of days (it appears). We never know until this starts to occur, which is what I normally share with you all ....
The purposes and benefits of this very palpable and important Eclipse, was a marker point for us all "triggering" (activating) an important up-shift in collective Unity Consciousness, where Tsunami Waves of Christed Light and Love flooded our gridding system, having a profound and often "invisible" affect for those not fully connected to their own subtle-inner realms in order to understand how physical realities are created yet....
Each one of us experiencing differently, based upon what's important to each of us now. For some it was excitement for the experience, which is to open us all up even more, this EVENT brought more to connect in a whole new way, like never before.
All, looking to the skies, the Universe, Sun & Moon, this focus alone is powerful to open each's human aspect up more to awaken their own Soul and Galactic connections up more. For those experiencing in groups, the commUNITY, the sharing of an experience, the happiness, the exchange, so very beneficial to unite/bring more together in all new ways. For others, being alone, experiencing the simplicity & profoundness in silence and purity was a chosen profoundly subtle and powerful experience of deep inner connection with all as this cosmic convergence began. For others, the hype and outward focus may have triggered deep inner clearings/cleansings necessary to empty out old programming, so that more inner-connection can occur.
The night before the eclipse, powerful energies began. Our "normal" zero point was different, not bound to one day, as usual, it started the day before the Eclipse and continues even now. A new Zero Point Range being established, very important for us all.
This "New Moon" was nothing like our "norm". This was not a reset day like before, this was a RESET ACTIVATION EVENT, this was POWERFUL and every activation/movement of energy possible occurred in a linear 24 hour space that started the night before and continued through the night of the Eclipse itself, cycling through every season, every possibility, every temp, every weather/climate, every emotion, an immense energetic process preparing us for huge convergence that has thus far taken all week and continues until Stargate Alignment and Synchronization occurs. And then there's always more!
The day after the eclipse, we entered the zero point/void space where particle matter comes to a halt/slows and any density is easier felt.
Yesterday, we entered a space of Suspended Animation, floating and light... while continuing to anchor/integrate/embed powerful encodements into our Crystalline Matrix Power Grid Systems.
The Video I released on August 21 still very much applies... maintain zero point intentionally, while this process completes. BE if all you can do is BE, accomplish if you are powered up to create or simply create/be from a silent space without exerting any energy not absolutely necessary.
It's important to hold this INTENTIONAL ZERO POINT consciously with your energy/heart/mind until this process completes and synchronization has occurred for our new StarGate Systems to come online.
BE fully in your current experience with your presence and Divine Essence and hold what is REALity loosely right now.
For me, I had/have tons to share, yet this interfered with my own anchoring/integration process for us all, so I had to let it all go. I recorded amazing videos that I hope to merge into one, from Lightening & Thunder Storms (here on Kauai is unheard of), to rainbows galore.
A huge collective cleansing with wow power, I forgot how much I used to LOVE storms and the power/cleansing they represented/held.... with more rainbows yesterday. Rainbow Bridges rock! ♥
Minimizing external influences during these integrations are necessary for those of us integrating the immensity instantly. This is not a "few hour job", one moment or even a few days. It's been all week and we are still doing this, as anchoring in these new highest timelines occurs in our physical form/body template first.
Keeping our own Super Consciousness Field clear is necessary for this very important part of the process to occur. Many are celebrating, inJOYing relief, lighter energies, happiness after intense clearing phases that increased when we entered less-linear 2017, experiencing the magnitude of these higher frequency realities, while others experience deep inner cleansings of old programming that surfaced, which is a very important part of this process as well. Injoy everything available. We've all worked hard over the years through dedicated service .... it's well deserved! :)
Observing collectives and their experiences, it's interesting to see how each perceives reality and these shifts as well. The August 21st Eclipse was the activation of so very many, to shift the focused UP into the Cosmos, into the Heavens, into the BEyond and "off of the Earth" (the old physical realities as they once were). Activating the "higher realms" within us, our mind/focus shifts to the stars, the skies and "way out there". Heads in the clouds, literally... the old timelines are allowed to finally dissipate, as the body re-calibrates itself accordingly. Shifting focus off of what used to be important and onto what's truly important, opening up to FEEL CONNECTED in all new ways, to connect with each other on a SOUL Level, from deep inside.... and to REALize that REALity IS DIFFERENT... it's important for us all. Ascending our bodies, while re-birthing ourselves, while descending our highest aspects into this physical here, while maintaining a physical body and learning to EXPERIENCE REALITY instead of "think it" first is a profound shift for all. Our human mind is slow to catch up with what's actually occurring in the "invisible realms" (energetically) that must be felt, observed and allowed in order to be understood. Holographic access gives us capabilities to see what was not visible before.
Many new timelines are anchoring in, that will change how all view REALity here.
Responses will be different, based upon each's current level of perception (expanded consciousness) vibrationally, non-linearly.... to see the bigger picture instead of just the smaller ones....
We shall see/experience an even greater RISE of Collective Crystalline/Unity/Christed Consciousness, Divine Masculine, Divine Feminine, of Sovereignty and for any transcending old programs of duality/ego, a rise of separation programs playing out, so that distortions can be seen (experienced where necessary) in order to dissipate/dissolve the energy, so that new clarity/visibility can occur as a RETURN TO UNITY-LOVE is allowed to emerge from within.
We additionally have a huge rise of the Divine Masculine awakening to step more into the forefront, allowing others to step back a bit to bring more balance and expand through more supportive roles through more UNITY RELATIONSHIPS now. Where each maintain full inner unity balance/unified existence from within, then outer relationships will also more reflect this.
External realities will amplify reflecting back what each holds inside and through expanded consciousness (or unconsciousness). All is for the purpose of unification on a higher timeline, which cannot occur until the ENERGY of ego-duality-separation once held dissipates/dissolves fully, so that the cellular body can re-structure realities faster/easier.
Greater POWER now emerges through LOVE and through realizations that were not as easily accessible before. Power in numbers, through a UNIFIED EXISTENCE and Creating Reality through intentional actions, especially by way of access to higher timelines "in advance", instead of re-acting to a matrix program that no longer hold value anymore are KEY.
Our NEW Higher Dimensional Matrix System fully anchored in by each one of us, and held together through the inner workings of Light Intelligence and pure hearts uniting instead of separating like before.
Our new programs, our new HUmanity, our new Galactic Civilizations forming, through and by each one of us, as we come together to create, come together to share and support in all new ways, releasing the mindsets of the matrix prisons (representing Hell) that once held power, because we believed it, thought we needed it, feared it and supported it with our energy, our money, our time, our everything... which changes as each realizes this.
No longer believing the old untruths IS POWER....
Veils removed, chaos is no longer necessary, unless this is the only thing one understands.... Peace prevails as victim mentality drama energy dissolves and inner-connection is reestablished for unification to occur within.
Unity-Love is the ANSWER through the emanation of each of our own Christed Light.... LOVE, respect, kindness, consideration, sharing, opening up, coming together, inner honor & integrity and realizing that what we allow/hold/do creates.... re-focusing our energy on CREATION OF OUR NEW, by anchoring these highest timelines in, is a POWER WE ALL HOLD HERE.
When/As these StarGates activate fully and begin to bring all online (at a MUCH HIGHER FREQUENCY THAN BEFORE), the old timelines will further fall away, faster and instantly, as each allows them to go....
Today we have submerging StarGate activity as each system is booting up slowly. Full convergence will occur when all have reached PEAK and synchronize at the HIGHEST POINT OF INTEGRATION, collapsing/unifying all previous timelines into ONE.
I will share more when this full integration process is complete. There is so very much, yet full integration/anchoring/embedding into our body templates are most important for us all right now. I'll return online as appropriate. Injoy these magnificent energies that are available through full presence and zero point field. The only thing that matters is what you allow/experience/consciously create in "this moment right here". ♥
p.s. The day after the eclipse, the words "post eclipse" morphed into "Apocalypse"... which then correlated differently... showing that many have just completed their apocalyptic phase, while others have just moved into theirs. There is a RESET that occurs individually and for each collective as well. These Zero Point Resets occur individually and with different collectives. This RESET determines how often each has to return to zero point to "empty out", until all can exist from this Space of Fully Conscious Connection & Intentional Focused Creation all of the time and stop "leaving" to separate off again. The ability to maintain from within "Zero Point Space" determines everything, especially how long/how dramatically one experiences the physical reality itself. Reversing existence is a vibrational experience.
The more of our own Soul/Higher Consciousness Light that we integrate/hold/embody, the more Zero Point is our Home. This collective Zero Point we now anchor in is a game-changer for us all. ♥ For those experiencing deeper "Dark Night of the Soul", this is the death/dying process of the mentalities/emotional energy of separation/ego energy/programs housed inside of your bodies, that allowed you to previously maintain your disconnected/amnesiac state. Our Soul is PURE, the rest is our own separation from Self AS Source.
This intense process expedites so that UNITY can occur easier/faster now, so that PURE JOY, bliss, powers/abilities/gifts can activate within you and be accessed/held/experienced with greater ease. It's a pivotal shedding process point in the Death of Dualistic Ego for Transcendence to occur, which is immense, as each prepares to transition over to "the other side" of the veils, to exist and live beyond the old matrix illusions, so be patient, hang in there, be kind to yourself and know that it will pass as your heart opens fully to release the old programs/energy that kept you anchored in lower dimensional timelines of amnesia (that we all pre-agreed to).
Much sleep is/was necessary for the foggy veils of amnesia to lift, for clarity, peace and happiness to come forth and you will enter a whole new phase where your Higher-Self-Soul-Universal-You emerges from within. A new day will dawn, and a whole new existence (NEW Earth) will too. More simplicity, profound beauty, more vibrancy, color, more fuzzy softness, more magic and miracles become the norm. Keep recognizing and releasing the old unconscious everything. You don't need it anymore.... it no longer serves any highest good. Surround yourself with that which inspires you, supports you... sleep, nature, nurture, community, crystals, whatever calls forth your Soul inside to emerge to be happy, at peace and connected in silence, laughter, beauty, song..... ♥
As you start to get yourself out there, support others, share your self and your natural knowledge/gifts, connect on a heart-soul level, help/assist others for no reason other than the way it makes you feel, you'll start to open up to "new" easier as you do. Connecting with others on a Soul level means that our Soul must be fully present for this.... what's dissolving are the barriers between dimensions (our hearts) that we all held before/within, so that each can connect fully as Light BEings and Star BEings here. ♥
I love you. ♥ Injoy these magnificent frequencies available to each one of us now.
Lisa Transcendence Brown ☼
www.AwakeningToRemembering.com"
Source and More
http://www.awakeningtoremembering.com/daily-writings/zero-point-range-gatekeepers-gridkeepers-continue-deep-anchoring-integration-of-new-soul-star-codes-activated-with-the-eclipse#.WaBBbTZ6HNs.facebook
Saturday, August 19, 2017
Monday, July 24, 2017
As per the experience of the Mandela Effect, an ACTUAL physical change in my physical reality that happened to me in a very notable way in May of 2016, at this point, for me personally, it is about daily focus on the reality, the timeline that I want to live in.
It is about waking up in a world where things may not yet be ideal as far as the timeline I really want to be living in, however, keeping my own thoughts, energy, and focus on the things I do want. Pondering, visualizing the way I want things to be. Staying out of the energy of old programs, moving through old reactions and patterns with new ones, even if only a slight each time.
It is about being the best me I can be everyday with each energy, program, circumstance, personal attack, that comes into my awareness. It is about refocusing when I lose my focus because old reactions come up to new circumstances, challenges or events. I find myself reacting inside, however, I process the energy as to not react outside. Then I continue to work on transmuting the initial feeling, what is the root cause and working toward clearing it all.
I do this all day everyday. A feeling comes up that does not feel good, feel right. Therefore I know it is not True for me. So I then look at the root cause and trying different methods to reprogram myself to not be triggered. Such as imagining what a triggerless me would feel like in that moment, or meditation where I focus only on a beat, or other methods of frequency and eye movement changes to try and uproot the original wound let’s call it or simply expose the hiding place of the program within my own existence.
Reminding myself daily that I can move energy better, clearer, more joyfully. And that I don’t have to react, buy into what other people are feeling or seeing or have as their life mission. To not react to those who don’t get me or validate me. But instead to validate myself and to transmute the energy to that, just energy and not a program that triggers an old response of earlier versions of Me, be it in this life or my or my entire ancestral line in any reality.
With this I believe I am clearing out old programs for good, and collapsing lower vibrational realities I once lived or experienced, clearing, lower frequency timelines of which I nor my ancestral line will have to visit again.
It is about recognizing my old patterns, which are programs of ego from lifetimes, and removing those programs, simply by stating I remove that program. It comes up, I see it I remove it, over and over until it does not come up, does not trigger a feeling or lower vibrational response.
I believe this daily work is monumentally important and that it is say my Graduate class, or Doctorate class in the school of Earth. I have done the work, lived the lifetimes. I have seen that we literally shift realities, actual physical reality, WOW. And so now the work to bring all that together is the work within my daily thoughts, my triggers, my reactions to things outside of my control and my willingness to participate in or abandon Patterns and Programs of which are not what I want and not part of the higher frequency Reality I really want to live.
Yes I do believe there is a need out there for Facebook pages, blogs and such to assist people in validating that the Mandela Effect is real. This is a valuable tool, as is learning to walk, to talk. It is also valuable to assist you to not feel it is a mental illness as many around you may claim. However, once you have validated it to yourself and once you yourself fully, truly, without a doubt believe that you have experienced a reality shift, an actual physical, then it is time to do the clean up work to level up debri in your realities in lower timeline frequencies, to remove programs, to create worlds by focusing on what you do want
If you continue focusing on is it real, prove its real, needing others to see it as real or believe it as real then you are denying yourself the beautiful, amazing Gift of actually experiencing this awakening and all it truly has to offer you by focusing on YOU and not on proving it over and over or trying to convince others. They will KNOW when it’s right for them, PERIOD. That work is done, now it’s about the individual you with you, me with me.
I have no further need to convince myself that “it” is happening. As to go daily down that rabbit hole, I change my focus to proving something that I already know is True for me. It is not my job to convince others. The internet has ALL the information they need to validate it has happened for them personally. And if it has not then why spend my time convincing them of my Truth, of which may be no where near their truth? There is Simply No Need for that.
What I spend my thoughts, my time, my energy on every day, LITERALLY creates worlds. I know that now. So I don’t want to focus on all the things that have changed, as they are constantly changing. I want to focus on being the absolute purest, happiest, most abundant, joyous, loving, fun, wealthy, healthy, high vibration, high frequency me that I can possibly imagine, and therefore at some point obtain. I want to focus on the world I want to create and not get jumbled in proving each new reality shift.
YES it is real, it is WOW amazing, magic and supernatural. It is REAL. You know that, you have seen and felt it so let’s stay focused on Joy, on what we want. And not get trapped in energetic struggles trying to convince others every day or follow every new change in each timeline shift.
I believe that I, as with many others, are clearing old timeline programs, old programs and identities as we collapse multiple timelines and versions of ourself into a higher vibrating version of ourselves.
Our Joy is our guide.
We literally feel bad in our body when something is not right and we literally feel good when something is right for us. That is not to say this signifies as to something being right to or for anyone else.
For me I am sitting in the eye of the Mandela storm per say. I know it is happening, some people are very upset, others curious, others disbelieve. I know it’s a huge stretch for people who have not had the experience to believe in it’s existence. They literally cannot stretch their imagination to it being real. And that is fine, they will when they are ready. For me it’s surreal, it feels space and dreamy at times as I float in and out of their realities and they really believe it is real, and well it is for them. However, I don’t get stuck there, I observe, check my own triggers and programs, work on clearing those and keep moving through.
Many people are angry and looking to argue or prove to anyone who will join them. I don’t engage with those folks, as that is not the reality I want to experience. I block them, move out of their energy, don’t hang around them. And stay focused on the things I do want in my next timeline. Their fear does not have to be owned by me, proven or justified by me in any way. Their fears are theirs and are programs they choose to still participate in. I do not.
At times it WOWS me, as I look directly at the physical changes, or come across a movie that did not exist, or things about my own body, or the sky or destinations. However, I don’t get caught in it, let fear rise or even question why now. I know why. I created all this somehow. Some version of my created this. And I trust and love me, and want to be the absolute best version of me, so I keep moving, keeping improving, keep letting old programs and patterns go and don’t engage with the naysayers, as I don’t want THEM creating MY REALITY.
~ Reverend Crystal Cox, Timeline Shift Ramblings
Reverend Crystal Cox can assist you with
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offers spiritual counseling services, intuitive readings
and is an expert in timeline shifts and what it means to you personally
and can guide you through what is happening to you.
Please eMail her at ReverendCrystalCox@gmail.com
for spiritual counseling, readings, Mandela Effect Readings and Advice
and / or healing sessions.
Friday, July 14, 2017
Tech Billionaires Are Funding A Plan To Break The Human Race Out Of The Matrix
"On the southwestern edge of Lake Titicaca, Peru, there is an ancient 23-foot doorway known as the Aramu Muru. Local natives call it the “Puerta de hayu Marca,” the gateway to the lands of the gods and immortal life. Throughout their history, the natives have described people disappearing and appearing at this doorway.
In 1998, purported extraterrestrial contactee Jerry Wills claimed a tall blonde humanoid named Zo taught him how to access Aramu Muru and enter “another universe.” Wills further claimed that Zo illustrated to him how our universe is an experimental simulation within his species’ universe. They built it to understand their own reality, which is itself nested inside a larger universe.
A few years after the release of The Matrix, philosopher Nick Bostrom published the Simulation Argument, a concise paper entitled “Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?” It presented a trilemma, a mathematical breakdown of why at least one of three provocative scenarios must be true.
“(1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a ‘posthuman’ stage;
(2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof);
(3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation.”
The “posthuman civilization” to which Bostrom refers defines a period of time after which humans have merged with technology. This is sometimes referred to as post-Singularity, with the ‘Singularity’ describing futurist Ray Kurzweil’s designation of a society in which humans are post-biological, living synergistically with artificial intelligence.
The Simulation Argument presupposes the development of this posthuman civilization, at which point, Bostrom states, advanced humans or AI might develop simulations of the past in the same way that current scientists create test environments; some of the simulations would likely be for entertainment reasons, as well, in the same way humans currently create video games and movies.
In recent years, a number of high-profile figures have come out to state their belief that we are living in a simulation. Chief among them is tech magnate Elon Musk, who has stated that the video game No Man’s Sky confirmed his belief that someday simulations would approximate reality so comprehensively that they would be indistinguishable from reality. Apparently, he was sitting in a hot tub with friends when he finally converted.
Musk is the CEO and brains behind Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and OpenAI. In recent years, he has expressed bold plans for his companies that he believes will advance the human race: with Tesla, he wants to spearhead a transportation infrastructure that doesn’t rely on burning hydrocarbons; with SpaceX, he wants to assist in humanity’s gradual extraplanetary migration to Mars; and with Neuralink and OpenAI, he wants to facilitate humanity’s merger with advanced computer technology.
When he was asked about whether humans are living inside a computer simulation, Musk made headlines last year by saying he thinks the chances are one in billions that we aren’t.
“The strongest argument for us probably being in a simulation I think is the following: 40 years ago we had Pong – two rectangles and a dot,” Musk stated. “That’s where we were. Now 40 years later we have photorealistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously and it’s getting better every year. And soon we’ll have virtual reality, we’ll have augmented reality.
If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then the games will become indistinguishable from reality, just indistinguishable.”
Here Musk is referring to the exponential growth of technology, the lynchpin of the Singularity theory.
If in 40 years we’ve gone from the two-dimensional pong to the cusp of augmented and virtual reality, imagine where we’ll be in another forty, or a hundred, or 400. Provided the human race survives, one may assume we will achieve the ability to produce simulations with sentient beings.
Already, the Department of Defense has created the Sentient World Simulation, a real-time “synthetic mirror of the real world with automated continuous calibration with respect to current real-world information, such as major events, opinion polls, demographic statistics, economic reports, and shifts in trends,” according to a working paper on the system.
In recent years, other scientists have conducted research and even experimentation in attempts to show actual evidence of the Simulation.
Heads turned last year when theoretical physicist S. James Gate announced he had found strange computer code in his String Theory research. Bound inside the equations we use to describe our universe, he says, is peculiar self-dual linear binary error-correcting block code.
A team of German physicists has also set out to show that the numerical constraints we see in our universe are consistent with the kinds of limitations we would see in a simulated universe.
These physicists have invoked a non-perturbative approach known as lattice quantum chromodynamics to try to discover whether there is an underlying grid to the space/time continuum.
So far their efforts have recreated a minuscule region of the known universe, a sliver of a corner that is but a few femtometers across.
But this corner simulates the hypothetical lattice of the universal grid, and their search for a corresponding physical restraint turned up a theoretical upper limit on high-energy particles known as the Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin, or GZK cut off. In other words, there are aspects of our universe that look and behave as a simulation might.
With news that there are two anonymous tech billionaires working on a secret project to break us out of the Matrix, it’s hard to know whether we should laugh or scream in horror.
Simulation talk is great epistemological fun and metaphysical amusement of the highest order, but it may speak to an underlying anxiety regarding the merging of our reality with machines, or an underlying existential loneliness.
It’s even been posited as a solution to the Fermi Paradox. Why haven’t we met aliens? Well, because we live inside a world they built.
Our earth is marooned in a cosmic void so vast it would take our current Deep Space I propulsion system an astonishing 81,000 years to reach the nearest star — in a galaxy of hundreds of billions, which is, itself, just one of hundreds of billions.
The thought that it’s all 1s and 0s rendered by a futuristic microprocessor is philosophically sexy but, perhaps, sociologically lazy.
That there is anxiety about reality being manufactured in a society obsessed with simulated pleasure and mediated experience isn’t altogether surprising. It’s the ultimate, though perhaps accidental, expression of resistance to a culture steeped in consumerism and artificial growth."
Source and FULL Article
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-13/tech-billionaires-are-secretly-funding-plan-break-human-race-out-matrix
Also Check this Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_NdCBvf5tc
Mixed Reality Tech
https://techcrunch.com/tag/mixed-reality/
Magic Leap is still figuring out what 'mixed reality' is.
The startup's Chief Game Wizard believes "everyday adventure" is key to the new medium.
https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/11/magic-leaps-mixed-reality/
Mixed Reality will be most important tech of 2017
https://thenextweb.com/insider/2017/01/07/mixed-reality-will-be-most-important-tech-of-2017/#.tnw_hOnpuRgI
Mixed Reality Magic
http://www.realitytechnologies.com/mixed-reality
In 1998, purported extraterrestrial contactee Jerry Wills claimed a tall blonde humanoid named Zo taught him how to access Aramu Muru and enter “another universe.” Wills further claimed that Zo illustrated to him how our universe is an experimental simulation within his species’ universe. They built it to understand their own reality, which is itself nested inside a larger universe.
A few years after the release of The Matrix, philosopher Nick Bostrom published the Simulation Argument, a concise paper entitled “Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?” It presented a trilemma, a mathematical breakdown of why at least one of three provocative scenarios must be true.
“(1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a ‘posthuman’ stage;
(2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof);
(3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation.”
The “posthuman civilization” to which Bostrom refers defines a period of time after which humans have merged with technology. This is sometimes referred to as post-Singularity, with the ‘Singularity’ describing futurist Ray Kurzweil’s designation of a society in which humans are post-biological, living synergistically with artificial intelligence.
The Simulation Argument presupposes the development of this posthuman civilization, at which point, Bostrom states, advanced humans or AI might develop simulations of the past in the same way that current scientists create test environments; some of the simulations would likely be for entertainment reasons, as well, in the same way humans currently create video games and movies.
In recent years, a number of high-profile figures have come out to state their belief that we are living in a simulation. Chief among them is tech magnate Elon Musk, who has stated that the video game No Man’s Sky confirmed his belief that someday simulations would approximate reality so comprehensively that they would be indistinguishable from reality. Apparently, he was sitting in a hot tub with friends when he finally converted.
Musk is the CEO and brains behind Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and OpenAI. In recent years, he has expressed bold plans for his companies that he believes will advance the human race: with Tesla, he wants to spearhead a transportation infrastructure that doesn’t rely on burning hydrocarbons; with SpaceX, he wants to assist in humanity’s gradual extraplanetary migration to Mars; and with Neuralink and OpenAI, he wants to facilitate humanity’s merger with advanced computer technology.
When he was asked about whether humans are living inside a computer simulation, Musk made headlines last year by saying he thinks the chances are one in billions that we aren’t.
“The strongest argument for us probably being in a simulation I think is the following: 40 years ago we had Pong – two rectangles and a dot,” Musk stated. “That’s where we were. Now 40 years later we have photorealistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously and it’s getting better every year. And soon we’ll have virtual reality, we’ll have augmented reality.
If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then the games will become indistinguishable from reality, just indistinguishable.”
Here Musk is referring to the exponential growth of technology, the lynchpin of the Singularity theory.
If in 40 years we’ve gone from the two-dimensional pong to the cusp of augmented and virtual reality, imagine where we’ll be in another forty, or a hundred, or 400. Provided the human race survives, one may assume we will achieve the ability to produce simulations with sentient beings.
Already, the Department of Defense has created the Sentient World Simulation, a real-time “synthetic mirror of the real world with automated continuous calibration with respect to current real-world information, such as major events, opinion polls, demographic statistics, economic reports, and shifts in trends,” according to a working paper on the system.
In recent years, other scientists have conducted research and even experimentation in attempts to show actual evidence of the Simulation.
Heads turned last year when theoretical physicist S. James Gate announced he had found strange computer code in his String Theory research. Bound inside the equations we use to describe our universe, he says, is peculiar self-dual linear binary error-correcting block code.
A team of German physicists has also set out to show that the numerical constraints we see in our universe are consistent with the kinds of limitations we would see in a simulated universe.
These physicists have invoked a non-perturbative approach known as lattice quantum chromodynamics to try to discover whether there is an underlying grid to the space/time continuum.
So far their efforts have recreated a minuscule region of the known universe, a sliver of a corner that is but a few femtometers across.
But this corner simulates the hypothetical lattice of the universal grid, and their search for a corresponding physical restraint turned up a theoretical upper limit on high-energy particles known as the Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin, or GZK cut off. In other words, there are aspects of our universe that look and behave as a simulation might.
With news that there are two anonymous tech billionaires working on a secret project to break us out of the Matrix, it’s hard to know whether we should laugh or scream in horror.
Simulation talk is great epistemological fun and metaphysical amusement of the highest order, but it may speak to an underlying anxiety regarding the merging of our reality with machines, or an underlying existential loneliness.
It’s even been posited as a solution to the Fermi Paradox. Why haven’t we met aliens? Well, because we live inside a world they built.
Our earth is marooned in a cosmic void so vast it would take our current Deep Space I propulsion system an astonishing 81,000 years to reach the nearest star — in a galaxy of hundreds of billions, which is, itself, just one of hundreds of billions.
The thought that it’s all 1s and 0s rendered by a futuristic microprocessor is philosophically sexy but, perhaps, sociologically lazy.
That there is anxiety about reality being manufactured in a society obsessed with simulated pleasure and mediated experience isn’t altogether surprising. It’s the ultimate, though perhaps accidental, expression of resistance to a culture steeped in consumerism and artificial growth."
Source and FULL Article
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-13/tech-billionaires-are-secretly-funding-plan-break-human-race-out-matrix
Also Check this Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_NdCBvf5tc
Mixed Reality Tech
https://techcrunch.com/tag/mixed-reality/
Magic Leap is still figuring out what 'mixed reality' is.
The startup's Chief Game Wizard believes "everyday adventure" is key to the new medium.
https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/11/magic-leaps-mixed-reality/
Mixed Reality will be most important tech of 2017
https://thenextweb.com/insider/2017/01/07/mixed-reality-will-be-most-important-tech-of-2017/#.tnw_hOnpuRgI
Mixed Reality Magic
http://www.realitytechnologies.com/mixed-reality
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