William Henry on 9/11

Crossposted from Reflections Journal.

William Henry has been talking about the symbolism of the World Trade Center Memorial architecture for some time. Above, in the player, is a video blog he did in 2011 which lays the groundwork for his new interview with Mark Gray; also in the player. In it they discuss, among other things, the startling connection between the new architectural vision for Ground Zero and it's relationship Mecca. And, no, it has nothing to do with the radical Islamists who apparently leveled the original towers.

Meanwhile, coincidence?

Koenig Sphere ~ Battery Park




Sphere in Pine Cone Court ~ The Vatican

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James Ray: Felon

Crossposted from Reflections Journal.

James Ray Sports Guru-do Upon Release

James Arthur Ray will remain a convicted felon. Arizona's Court of Appeals has granted Ray's request of last week to drop his appeal. It appears that he weighed an attempt at clearing the conviction from his record against the very real possibility of being convicted again in any potential retrial and facing more than the paltry sentence he's already served. He's opted not to risk his recently gained freedom from incarceration.

In documents filed with the Arizona Court of Appeals Thursday, Ray, 55, signed an affidavit stating that he wishes to "avoid any possibility of a retrial and a resentencing."

Had he not dropped the appeal, oral arguments would have begun today. He would have also faced a cross-appeal from the State claiming, among other things, that the jury should have been informed of Ray's duty to act when participants were in distress.

Tom Kelly is unhappy with Ray's decision to let the matter drop.

His local attorney during the trial, Tom Kelly, said he was less than pleased with his former client's decision to abort the appeal. He said he met with Ray, who has remained in the Phoenix area pending the end of his parole, earlier this week.

"I was disappointed with his decision and I believe justice requires a resolution of the points raised on appeal," Kelly said.

But since it appears that Kelly's passion for "justice" seems not to include his continued representation of the harmonically destitute Ray, who cares.

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"Why Shamanism Now?" with Christina Pratt

What is the Axis Mundi?

The axis mundi is an existential place or point wherein creation and entropy, the essential generative and destructive forces of the universe, exist as one within the Great Mystery. The axis mundi is an important concept in many philosophies and religions and it has a unique relationship to shamanism. Join us this week as host and shaman, Christina Pratt, explores the axis mundi and why contemporary practitioners often stay on the surface of their practice because they avoid deep relationship with the axis mundi and it's energy. We can use ancient sexual practices to cultivate our relationship with the energy of the axis mundi which is essential to a strong and deep shamanic practice. The axis mundi is not just a mental concept for the shaman; it is both a practical tool and a spiritual awareness. It is the place through which the shaman travels when journeying in an altered and often ecstatic state. Ecstasy is not the purpose of the shaman's journey, however it is often a valuable by-product.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at 11:00 AM Pacific

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Awake in the DREAM with Laura Eisenhower and Dr. DREAM

White Ops: Free Energy, Healing Technology, and Cosmic Awareness

Fernando Vossa has been designing technology experiences for over 18 years. Mr. Vossa's approach is to reach the psyche and heart of his audience using multidisciplinary techniques from Industrial Design, Cognitive Psychology, Virtual Reality, Cinematography, Architecture, Graphic Design, and Fine Art.

Mr. Vossa's accomplishments include being part of leading edge design teams for major brands such as Microsoft, Sony, US-WEST, GE-Aerospace, and most recently unfolding innovative installation concepts at The Center of Mass Creation.

This media pioneer holds degrees in Computer Science, Cognitive Science, and Technology Design from the University of Washington. His passion for Divine technology has let him to discover evolutionary transformations of our energetic body. His journey is to explore the integration of Free Energy Research, Healing Technologies, and a Cosmic Awareness of our Extra Terrestrial neighbors.

Vossa is a co-organizer of the Global Breakthrough Energy Movement also a member of the Exopolitics movement.

Current projects www.globalbem.com and www.prepareforchange.net
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Tue, September 10, 2013 at 9:00 pm Eastern

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The Kensington Runestone
& Other Out Of Place Artifacts In America

Scott Wolter
The Kensington Runestone
& Other Out Of Place Artifacts In America
Forensic geologist Scott Wolter is the host of History’s H2 channel’s hit show America Unearthed . Scott is also the author of several books including The Hooked X: Key to the Secret History ofNorth America, which covers the story of his continued research and resulting discoveries made over the last 12 years, including his ongoing quest to uncover the mysteries of the controversial Kensington Rune Stone. More ...
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The Holy War Against Pop Culture Pagans

Crossposted from Reflections Journal.

A trio of pretty, karate trained teens are battling demons around the world. Charmed? No. Worse. Brynne Larson, Tess Scherkenback, and Savannah Scherkenback are evangelical Christian exorcists who have been touring impoverished mining towns in Ukraine armed with nothing but crosses, holy water... and Larson's preacher father. Their efforts at saving these lost souls from the tortures of hell have received mixed reviews... from the director of their documentary.

[Charlet] Duboc said: ‘The way they come across on camera is just the way they were when we turned off the camera, they never stopped the vacant smiling,’ the British film-maker said.

They weren’t horrid, they weren’t unpleasant, they were just a bit creepy. It was a bit like talking to the Stepford Wives, I was like “where are the humans behind this?”’

The girls will be taking their glazed expressions and vapid smiles to the heart of the dragon, which is to say Potterworld, which is to say London. Someone has to protect unwitting entertainment seekers from demonic possession!

The threesome, from Arizona, believe the spells in J.K. Rowling's best-selling fantasy series are real, and dangerous.

In fact, they see Britain as a hotbed of occult activity whose origins go back to pagan times.

Savannah explains: 'It has been centuries in the making, but I believe it came to a pinnacle with the Harry Potter books.'

'The spells you are reading about are not made up,' adds Tess. 'They are real and come from witchcraft.'

Well, no. The Potter series is actually based on Western Alchemy, but why quibble.

Meanwhile, Methodist minister Keith Cressman is keeping his battle against idolatry closer to home -- Oklahoma, to be precise. It would appear that the state has graced its official license plate with the image of a the "Sacred Rain Arrow." The sculpture on which it is based depicts an Chiricahua warrior shooting an arrow into the sky to make it rain.

Said Cressman, through an attorney, putting such a plate on his car makes him a "mobile billboard" for a pagan religion. Despite his insistence to the contrary, it seems pretty clear that he holds Native American "religion, culture, or belief" in a fair bit of contempt. That, however, is his right, so I'm not really sure which side of this debate bothers me more -- Cressman's fear of the unholy savages who lived in Oklahoma first or the State's trivialization and cooptation of Native practices by reducing them to a logo.

Oklahoma no doubt meant this to be a way of honoring its large -- and largely discriminated against -- Native American population. But by putting an image of an Apache ritual on a state issued plate, they're effectively saying that those beliefs are not a religion. Would they put a an image of the Eucharist on a license plate? I'm betting not -- not even those Oklahomans who don't believe in separation of church and state.

“(T)he case presents legal issues of freedom of speech and religion that I feel are important for all Americans of all religious, non-religious and ethnic backgrounds,” Cressman wrote.

“The case may help define personal liberties and freedoms protected by the Constitution of the United States.”

. . .

Hemant Mehta, author and board member for the humanist-based Foundation Beyond Belief, wrote of the ruling:

“If this image goes too far, then surely a cross or other religious symbol can’t be allowed on a license plate, either. A devout Christian may have done a huge favor to all of us who support church/state separation.”

Okay, I've picked a side.

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"Why Shamanism Now?" with Christina Pratt

How to Begin Shamanic Journeying

Shamanic Journeying is not an "out of body experience." When this particular alternate state is achieved the journeyer has "a foot in both worlds." The senses in the physical body and the dreaming body are fully engaged and drawing in the multi-dimensional communication from the invisible world. Join us this week as host and shaman, Christina Pratt, explores this common misunderstanding along with other misconceptions and expectations that inhibit beginning journeyers. Shamanic journeying is not a mental construct to be understood by the rational mind. Journeying is an embodied practice that requires surrender to the basic discipline. The discipline then frees the mind from ordinary thought allowing the senses, ordinary and extraordinary, to engage with the formless powers and heart felt meaning of the invisible world. The world of the shamanic journey is not here on the surface with the safe and familiar, but requires diving deeper into the realms of dreams, hearts, and the Unknown.

Tuesday, September 3, 2013 at 11:00 AM Pacific

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Awake in the DREAM with Laura Eisenhower and Dr. DREAM

Universal & Individual Akashic Records

Andrew Bartzis has been an active healer and psychic reader for nearly 20 years. He is an active medical intuitive and Shaman with many talents in the spirit world. Andrew began his journey into spirituality at a very young age. His early childhood life shaped the future person and beyond. It is through the exploration of childlike innocence that we learn to reclaim the fully power of our purpose on this world. Andrew Bartzis is also known as the Galactic Historian. He has the unique ability to read the Akashic records live, without using the method of a trance. This ability provides direct answers toe questions of about the foundations of reality, our planetary and galactic heritage. The akashic record is read from a completely sacred neutral point of view. Andrew is linked to the Akashic records of 20,000 other worlds. His unique ability provides details about lost Earth History and beyond. He has read the history of Earth going back 54 million years, when all of this began. He has the ability to shed light on and provide truth to once alluding mysteries.

Find Andrew at www.andrewbartzis.com

Tue, September3, 2013 at 9:00pm Eastern

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The Nummo & The Mythology Of The Dogon

Shannon Dorey
The Nummo & The Mythology Of The Dogon
Shannon Dorey is a graduate of Trent University in Peterborough Ontario, where she first became immersed in the study of history and mythology. She began her writing career as a journalist and first began research on the Dogon in 1999. Realizing the importance of the symbolism in the Dogon religion, Dorey has devoted most of her time to researching and writing about this subject. More ...
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Thursday From 7-9pm CST ~ 09/05/13

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Suzanne Toro

BeSimply...Sound&Silence {Clear}

Join 'She' for a 15 minute Guided Meditation. Sound and Silence Meditation...Open the Crown. Connecting with your highest self.

During this segment: Guided meditation to connect you to the your 'Breath, your CENTER' , and inner peace...Sound, Breath and Silence! Align with Heart.

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Mon, September 9, 2013 at 12:00am Eastern

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Bertone Out

Crossposted from Reflections Journal.

Pope Francis is continuing to remake the Church in his image, replacing the divisive Tarcisio Bertone with more of a people person who reportedly shares his preference for frugality.

Pope Francis on Saturday appointed a senior Vatican diplomat as his new Secretary of State, ousting divisive cardinal Tarcisio Bertone as he looks to overhaul the Church's scandal-ridden administration.

His replacement for the "number two" position at the Vatican, Italian cleric Pietro Parolin, is currently the Catholic Church's envoy to Venezuela and has worked on improving ties with communist China.

"The Holy Father has accepted... the resignation of His Eminence Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone," the Vatican said in a widely-expected announcement, adding that the changeover would formally take place on October 15.

There have been rumblings about Bertone for a while. He's been badly tainted by the sheer volume of scandal that has consumed the Vatican.

One of the most damaging scandals to hit the Vatican under Bertone was "Vatileaks", when Benedict's butler stole documents alleging corruption from the pope's desk and leaked them to the media.

That coincided with tumult at the Vatican bank, which Italian magistrates are investigating on suspicion of money laundering.

The former president of the bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, was close to Bertone. The board of the bank, officially known as the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), ousted Gotti Tedeschi last year, saying he was incompetent. He says he was pushed out because he wanted the bank to be more transparent.

Fairly, or unfairly, Bertone has been widely blamed for the failings of Pope Benedict's reign. It doesn't help that he has a penchant for saying and doing really idiotic things. Let us reflect on some of Bertone's greatest hits as they've been recorded on this blog.

Letting prolific pedophiles like Wisconsin's Lawrence Murphy off the hook:

In 1996, Cardinal Ratzinger failed to respond to two letters about the case from Rembert G. Weakland, Milwaukee’s archbishop at the time. After eight months, the second in command at the doctrinal office, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, now the Vatican’s secretary of state, instructed the Wisconsin bishops to begin a secret canonical trial that could lead to Father Murphy’s dismissal.

But Cardinal Bertone halted the process after Father Murphy personally wrote to Cardinal Ratzinger protesting that he should not be put on trial because he had already repented and was in poor health and that the case was beyond the church’s own statute of limitations.

Blaming the Church's pedophilia problem on gay priests.

The Vatican's second-highest authority says the sex scandals haunting the Roman Catholic Church are linked to homosexuality and not celibacy among priests.

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican's secretary of state, made the comments during a news conference Monday in Chile, where one of the church's highest-profile pedophile cases involves a priest having sex with young girls.

"Many psychologists and psychiatrists have demonstrated that there is no relation between celibacy and pedophilia. But many others have demonstrated, I have been told recently, that there is a relation between homosexuality and pedophilia. That is true," said Bertone. "That is the problem."

Blaming Dan Brown, the media, and, of course, the devil, for the Church's problems:

The Vatican's No. 2 official on Monday blamed the media – and the devil – for fueling the scandal over leaked Vatican documents.

Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone told an Italian Catholic weekly that journalists reporting on the leaks scandal are "pretending to be Dan Brown ... inventing stories and replaying legends." The reference to Brown is particularly acute; Brown wrote "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels and Demons" the best-selling fictional accounts of power struggles and scandals inside the Catholic Church.

. . .

"The truth is that there's a will to create division that comes from the devil," he said. The interview is due on newsstands Thursday but was made available to journalists Monday.

As much I love unintentional humor, I wouldn't mind seeing the last of Cardinal Bertone.

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"Why Shamanism Now?" with Christina Pratt

The Shaman's Power

Where does the shaman's power come from? In cultures all over the world shamans heal what our medical system can't heal and transform decades of dysfunction through a ritual and ceremony. What is this power and how does the shaman access it? In part this comes from the shaman's cultivation of a strong working relationship with spirit help, explains host and shaman, Christina Pratt. This is common knowledge in our contemporary understanding. But the piece we disregard is the internal action of initiation. The initiated shaman's access to power is not moderated by an immature ego's struggle between a crippling scarcity of self worth and an excess of externally defined self-esteem. Join us this week as we explore how we can change the old ways we understand power and learn to discern our own abuse and misuse of power from right action. We are here now in the transition time from old world into a new world. If we are to pick up the responsibility to make the new world better than before, then we must change.

Tuesday, August 27, 2013 at 11:00 AM Pacific

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BeSimply...LoveSelf {Finding HUMor}

Join 'She' for 54 minutes to work on the inner self.

During this segment:
Finding your sense of HUMor. Discover how laughter, lightening up on your world view and how your percieve your self in DIVINE comedic LIGHT.

Explore and Align with 'Self', Gaia, and Community. How to reconnect to Self, Soil and your Tribe?

Parables shared...Walk through a guided release experience/meditation. This will assist you in BEing...YOU!
Opening your heart center...the gateway to the universe.

Please send in your questions to s@suzannetoro.com.

Sat, August 31, 2013 at 12:30 am Eastern

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Myth, Symbol, Reality & The Mystery Of The Great Serpent Mound

Laird Scranton
Myth, Symbol, Reality
Laird Scranton is an independent software designer from Albany, New York.  His degree is in English from Vassar College. He has lectured at Colgate University on two occasions to classes studying his books. He was invited to write three articles for Temple University's upcoming Encyclopedia of African Religion, and has a published article on Dogon cosmology in the April 2007 edition of Anthropology News, an academic journal produced by the University of Chicago. More ...
The Velikovsky Heresies
The Cosmological Origins of Myth and Symbol

Ross Hamilton
The Mystery Of The Great Serpent Mound
Beginning in the year 2000, author and investigator Ross Hamilton with a staff of eight researchers commenced the Tradition of Giants Project, uncovering over time many hundreds of accounts suggesting that a race of highly intelligent, physically robust people once lived throughout the eastern woodlands of the United States. The following year, Ross published the culmination of a 14-year study, The Mystery of the Serpent Mound, an illustrated guide to the Serpent Mound of Adams County, including its geometries, astronomies, and many similar mysteries from myth to measure, suggesting the effigy to be a site worthy of world-class recognition in spite of its being overlooked by researchers around the world. More ...
Star Mounds
Thursday From 7-9pm CST ~ 08/29/13

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Suzanne Toro

BeSimply...Sound&Silence {Ease}

Join 'She' for a 15 minute Guided Meditation. Sound and Silence Meditation...Reconnect to EASE. Connecting to the element of water and fire.

During this segment: Guided meditation to connect you to the your 'Breath, your CENTER' , and inner peace...Sound, Breath and Silence! Align with Heart

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Mon, September 2, 2013 at 12:00 am Eastern

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