Supernatural & Paranormal

Progenitor Curse

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:10:19 +0000

What do you know about the lore where the progenitor's death destroys the curse of all descending from him?

Ouija

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:12:05 +0000

Spirit boards or talking boards have ancient roots, they were used in ancient China and ancient Greece. Some believe it serves as a useful mode of communication with the spirit world, and that it can help with advice, foretelling the future, etc. Others fear its powers, and demon possessions, and that it attracts malevolent creatures.

Have you used one? What's your experience? Would you ever use one?

Do you think that it's "ghosts" or spirits of the dead that are being contacted, or other spiritual beings, like gods, goddesses, angels, lwa, etc.?

Tarot

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:16:22 +0000

As I do not consider myself an expert on Tarot, I have been practicing for many years. I've seen some threads about Tarot, but not many. So I've decided to do a thread primarily about Tarot. As I said, I am not an expert, so if you guys ask any questions that I don't know, I'll definitely find out what I can for you.

Okay, so let's begin.

The one thing with Tarot is that you need to remember all meanings to all cards are subject to interpretation and though there are core meanings. I will tell you my personal interpretation of the tarot cards.

The tarot deck is made up of 78 cards divided into two categories: the Major and Minor arcana's. 22 cards in the Major Arcana, , the remaining 56 in the Minor Arcana.

The first card I will show you is:

0 (Zero), The Fool

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t64/kairosd/TheFool.jpg

This card represents the young, carefree, childish, an nuisance, innocence, enthusiasm, start of a quest.
Indicates a willingness to leap into the unknown. A new beginning.

Reversed (Meaning the card can have a weaker meaning, or opposite mening of the upright card):

The quest has been achieved; it is time to rest and decide on a new objective.
Low energy. It's time to move forward.

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I, The Magician

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v61/pussicat/tarot/maj01.jpg

This card is a deeply masculine card. You have the ability to brainstorm and summon new ideas. You have control over your own destiny.

Reversed:

You lack confidence and hesitate.
Be careful where you place your trust.

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II, The High Priestess

http://mystical-arts.com/02_High_Priestess.jpg

(Tip: Because The High Priestess is a woman in a throne, this means she is a woman of power or great wisdom. A woman on a throne is always a mother.)

The Mother/Motherly figure

This card represents fertility, intuition, seeking wisdom and meaning of life and mysteries.

Reversed:

Knowledge recieved is tailored to ones ability to understand.
Suggests deception, selfishness, vanity and instability.

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III, The Empress

http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/pkt/img/ar03.jpg

(Tip: The Empress is another card representing a woman on a throne, which is always a mother. But in this case, in my interpretation, I also consider the Empress as a sister but it usually depends on the other cards to tell me which.)

This Empress is also called 'The Mother of All.'

Mother/Sister

This card suggests luxury and abundance, inspiration, beauty, competence. It can also indicate pregnancy.
A project nears completion.

Reversed:

Progress is slow but one gains understanding. It can also suggest overindulgence, barrenness or domineering attitudes.

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I will post more later. If you have any questions about Tarot, please feel free to ask them.

This Has to be a Scam

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:44:07 +0000

UFO Disclosure. He also has one more recently made for Obama... This is fake, right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vyVe-6YdUk

Pagan Groups/Clubs/Covens

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:41:42 +0000

Are there any pagan groups, covens, churches, clubs, or organizations in your area? Are you a part of it? What's it like? How often do you meet? What do you celebrate, how do you celebrate? What rituals do you participate in?

No group in your community? You can start one of your own.

I've been searching around and have found two such groups in my area.

Healing

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:24:16 +0000

I was reading this case study of a Hmong man who was suffering from an attack of dab tsog. It's also known as "Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome" to the Western scientists. It's something that happens during sleep, when you feel that you are suffocating and are in a panic.

A shaman came to heal him, in a healing process that involved candles, chanting, and walking between two knives. The man was healed.

If we convince ourselves that we have an illness, if there's some mystical cause for it, or some real cause that creates a mystical illness, doesn't it make sense that a mystical cure would work? Without the healing process, the man may have died. But the cure worked, and he hasn't had an attack since.

Shamans and healers, even if it's only the "placebo effect," have real power.

Evil Eye- Mal de Ojo

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:13:23 +0000

Mal de Ojo

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Mal de ojo, sometimes called “evil eye,” is a folk illness which most commonly affects children. It has been defined as a hex caused by a gaze from a more powerful or stronger person looking a weaker person (usually an infant or child but sometimes a woman). It may be someone from outside the family looking at the child with envy, or a stare from a powerful person who is admiring the child. It is usually caused inadvertently.

It is thought that shielding the infant from powerful people's direct eye contact can prevent mal de ojo. Having the powerful adult touch the child on the head is also thought to prevent mal de ojo, and a traditional treatment for mal de ojo is to find the person who placed the hex and have them touch the affected child. If this is not possible, a healer (usually a relative or a curandera) may roll a egg over the sufferer's body. The egg is then cracked, placed in a glass of water, and set under the bed of the sufferer. Sometimes a straw cross is made on top of the glass. Prayers are usually said during this ritual.

I've been reading a lot about "culture-bound syndromes" which are illnesses that are culture-specific. These are usually unexplained by Western science. I've been reading about alternative healing, shamans and healers. It's fascinating. If you can believe yourself sick, you can believe yourself well again, sort of. Or maybe it actually is magic.

UFO Disclosure

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:37:27 +0000

I was just wondering what Darkness thought about it. It seems to be a real hot topic in the circles I've been running in lately and I was curious how many of you even believed in UFOs. As in real ET.

A lot of the opinions I've been getting is that it's being forced from the opposing forces to the world powers on this planet. That it's going to happen whether the governments of the world want it to or not. It's probably going to result in wide spread panic if our world leaders don't step up to the plate. What with the UFO over the Kremlin and signs that spiral was not a missle appearing.

I'm assuming with the revelation that we are not alone in the universe many things will change. Definitely world power structures and the technology that is available to every day citizens. I won't say all those UFOs are ETs. There is witness testimony stating that the U.S. government has had outside contact for quite some time and have been reverse engineering. The resounding sentiment is that it's supposed to happen soon. Who knows.

Probably another can of worms, amirite?

The Return of the Werewolf

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:41:45 +0000

More than 140,000 years ago wolves and humans formed a common bond and evolved together in one of the most successful partnerships ever fashioned. The wolf's strength, stamina, keen sense of hearing, and extraordinary sense of smell helped humans to hunt prey and to overcome predators. Because we humans teamed up with wolves, we became better hunters and thus supplanted our rival species of Homo erectus and Neanderthal.

The human species greatly depended upon wolves for its continued existence and modeled much of their behavior, especially in the area of survival skills, upon the wolf. As these prehistoric "wolf men" learned over time to hunt in packs and, with the assistance of their wolf allies, to subdue much larger predators, then certain elements of lupine savagery may well have been "inherited" along with the more noble aspects of a sense of community and mutual support.

From the earliest stages of social evolution when all men and women strove to be like wolves, the human community eventually reached the time when it would be considered improper, antisocial, and criminal to behave like a wolf. Still, there remained the sorcerers and those on the fringes of society who believed that one could attain great power by maintaining those lupine links to a more savage past. They believed that they had the ability to shape shift to werewolves--wolf men and women.

http://www.hauntedamericatours.com/vampires/LOUPGAROU/RETURNOFTHEWEREWOLF.php

Moments.

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:37:41 +0000

What is life? A measure of time? Our recognition of it's passing? Or is it simply a series of moments. A layer upon layer of coincidence which our supposedly higher mind trys to link together....instead of just living?

I was talking to an ex, and realized how beautiful she was but then I thought, is it in this moment that she is actually beautiful or is her beauty based on a previous moment....

Paranormal Study/Investigation Organizations.

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:37:53 +0000

Are there any paranormal investigation or study groups or organizations in your area? Any sort of official or unofficial group of any sort? What do you talk about? What do you do?

If there isn't one in your community, do you think it would be something you would join if there was? What's stopping you from starting one yourself?

I recently saw a flyer at a bus stop in my community that was advertising a meeting for a Paranormal Study Organization. I'm going to go to the first meeting. I'm actually pretty excited about it. I'll post here again and tell you what it was like.

Lair of the Beasts: Beware of the Devil Dogs

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:13:18 +0000

In his absolutely definitive book Explore Phantom Black Dogs, the author and researcher Bob Trubshaw wrote the following: “The folklore of phantom black dogs is known throughout the British Isles. From the Black Shuck of East Anglia to the Mauthe Dhoog of the Isle of Man there are tales of huge spectral hounds ‘darker than the night sky’ with eyes ‘glowing red as burning coals.’ The phantom black dog of British and Irish folklore, which often forewarns of death, is part of a world-wide belief that dogs are sensitive to spirits and the approach of death, and keep watch over the dead and dying. North European and Scandinavian myths dating back to the Iron Age depict dogs as corpse eaters and the guardians of the roads to hell. Medieval folklore includes a variety of ‘Devil dogs’ and spectral hounds.”

One of the most infamous of all black-dog encounters in the British Isles occurred at St. Mary’s Church, Bungay, Suffolk, England, on Sunday, August 4, 1577, when an immense and veritable spectral hound from hell materialised within the church during a powerful thunderstorm and mercilessly tore into the terrified congregation with its huge fangs and razor-sharp claws. In fact, so powerful was the storm that it reportedly killed two men in the belfry as the church tower received an immense lightning bolt that tore through it and shook the building to its ancient foundations.

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Messages, Signs, Hearing Voices

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:54:55 +0000

If you started getting warning messages, or stories about the future, or hearing voices, or seeing any sort of omens or anything, that were completely accurate, would you think you were going crazy?

What if what the messages were about were really mundane things, like, "Tuesday, 2:00pm, there will be a traffic jam on Highway 129." What if it was completely useless to you, but extremely accurate?

What if you started dreaming about the future? And you knew exactly what your day was going to be like, exactly what was going to happen? Would you try to change it?

Vampire Monkey.

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:37:22 +0000

I love this vampire. The yara-ma-yha-who.

http://www.vampires.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Yara_ma_yha_who.jpg

I mean, I know it's supposed to be all scary and like the bogeyman, but it's so silly. It's definitely my favorite vampire at the moment.

Werewolf Myth

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:36:07 +0000

I don't know what it is with me and mythology but I love it. I have recently fallen in love with this myth.

It's about this werewolf-like creature named Luison who is lord of death and protector of cemeteries. He lives only in cemeteries and burial grounds. He ate nothing but death and rotting flesh. In the myth he is the Guaraní version of the Grim Reaper – to see him meant death was coming.

I love it

Location of the Soul

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:55:17 +0000

The ancient egyptians believed the soul was found in the heart. They would often replace the heart back in the body during mummification.

"The soul has its principal seat in the small gland located in the middle of the brain." - Rene Descartes -- The Passions of the Soul, 1649

Where is the soul?

Happy spirits.

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 06:11:18 +0000

I've been reading through some posts and replies on this section of the forum, and it's astonishing to me how many reply as having negative experiences or beliefs about supernatural things, like seances, ghosts, ouija boards, the shadow folk, etc.

Well, I would like to believe that there's more good than bad in people, and I think the same rules apply to any other part of existence. I want to hear more about your positive supernatural experiences.

Tell me about ghosts that would help you on your math homework. Tell me about the brownies/pixies who would clean your house. Tell me about the spirit guides who would lead your way home when you were lost.

Are you thinking what I am thinking?

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:40:59 +0000

I have been told, by "normal" people and those that I know have that "extra" sense(s), that I am special in this kinda stuff. That I also have it. (yikes)

I can read people to a point that scares me. It is really crazy. But I know things I should not and it happens a lot.

Those of you who have experience with this sort of stuff, what can you tell me about this"sense" I have.

I also can tell what people are thinking to a certain extent.

It is kinda spooking me out so, anyone?

I have had a head injury as of late so do you think that has anything to do with this?

Also, if anyone else is experiencing or has had this happen to them, I would love to talk to you....

Fairies photographed in Cheltenham

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:28:05 +0000

Fairies in Cheltenham.

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She doesn't see the fairies with her naked eye, but when she looks at the camera viewfinder and produces prints, there are dozens of white orbs and mysterious misty shapes.

"I recognise that it might be a trick of the camera. But I do experiments. I've been back to the same places at all times of the day and night. And whatever I do, it's the same," she said.

The orbs, she says, are spheres of light which are manifestations of beings from another dimension, or nature spirits. The particles coalesce and separate, forming mists. And it's in the mists that the fairies show themselves in many different forms.

"When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."
-Peter Pan-

These are happy fairies, you see, not the scary nasty ones that kidnap babies.

Dab Tsog

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:51:03 +0000

The Dab Tsog is a demon in Hmong myth which they believe cause nightmares. The Dab Tsog visits a person in the night and perches on their chest, preventing them from screaming, and suffocating them to death.

It's interesting that there are so many myths of nightmare creatures throughout the world. The Mara, the Alp, the Dab Tsog. And then there is that one myth of Japanese lore of the Baku, eater of dreams, who takes away nightmares.

I suppose the myths of demons causing nightmares began because people wanted answers for what was causing these terrifying dreams.