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It's my 19th birthday today and I started the day with running down to the ocean in the rain to take the first picture of my 365 days. I'm really doing this. I'm recording my 20th turn around the sun.
I wanted a picture that would be really "me" to start off this project. And there's no place else I feel more like myself than when I'm by the ocean.
So here I go. 365 days of photography.
Two new Hamilton Wildcats AFC members get the traditional water treatment after their first game for the team. A win in their first game of footy. Doesn't get much better than that.
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The Initiation Wells (AKA initiatic wells or inverted towers) are two wells on the property that better resemble underground towers lined with stairs. These wells never served as water sources. Instead, they were used for ceremonial purposes that included Tarot initiation rites. The tunnels described above connect these wells to one another, in addition to various caves and other monuments located around the park. Of the two wells, the larger one contains a 27-meter spiral staircase with several small landings. The spacing of these landings, combined with the number of steps in the stairs, are linked to Tarot mysticism. The smaller well contains straight stairs that connect a series of ring-shaped floors to one another. This well is also called the 'Unfinished Well'. A structure similar to these wells can be found in the Pozzo di S. Patrizio in Italy.
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If being a werewolf is really a curse, you've got to treat it honorably. If werewolves are going to carry on, there has to be an incredibly powerful force. There is the business of the craving, the hunger for the kill. It has to be deeply pleasurable and more than an appetite for meat. There has to be a sensual dimension to it.
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Kathleen === Yes!!! Here she is, none other than Miss B herself. Barbie has entered the building. She's looking angelic in this blue couture dress with beautiful gold accents. There you have it ladies and gentlemen. That wraps up the red carpet and on to the world premiere of "The Initiation." Join us to see what Blossoms Inc. has in store. I'm Kathleen Jensen, thank you for joining me tonight.
From basic, Paracelsus went to Colmar where he stayed with Lorenz Frics, the author of popular medical literature- written like Paracelsus treaties in the vernacular. There, however, the similarity ends - Fries work being on common dietetic lines. Though rejoined at Colmar by his pupils- notably Oporinus- Paracelsus soon moved and, after a short stay at Essingen, reached Nuremberg in 1529.
However, he soon moved to Colmar, to stay with an acquaintance, Doctor Melchior Fries. This may have been unfortunate choice, as Fries was a supporter of Avicenna and published a defense of him the following year. Someone other than Paracelsus may have been able to accommodate his host’s support of his authority, but inevitably he quarreled with Fries and departed for Esslingen, south east of Stuttgart. This way was not the only reason for his departure from Colmar. The authorities of that town had refused Paracelsus the right of permanent residence and also did not permit the publication of a manuscript that he had just written. However, something soon went wrong at Esslingen, and for unknown reasons Paracelsus moved to Nuremberg. Here he got involved in the struggle to publish his work on syphilis.
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At Colmar, Oporinus left his master, exhausted by his demands, and returned to Basle. Despite some attempts by biographers to cast this separation as acrimonious, there is no real evidence that the parting was other than friendly, and Paracelsus even gave to his former secretary a portion of his famous laudanum remedy. Oporinus became a man of fluctuating fortunes: he married four times, and his reputation as scholar and printer apparently did not spare, him from the persistent specter of debt. When Paracelsus posthumous fame began to grow, Oporinus deeply regretted having lent out the book of his former master and never getting them back.
For a time Paracelsus thrived in Colmar. He told Amerbach that he had quickly become busy with patients there, and Oporinus confirms how much Paracelsus was admired in the town. He was welcomed into the humanist circle of the town officials, and befriended the town provost. Hieronimus Boner, and the magistrate, Konrad Wickram. His commitment to clients and his chemical experiments did not prevent him from writing: he dedicated a book on syphilis, paralysis, boils and agues to Boner in June, and another entitled ; On Open and Visible Discases to Wickram in July.
The relationship with Fries was agreeable. Given the Colmar doctor’s Galenist inclinations and veneration of Avicenna, it was inevitable that the two would quarrel sooner or later. Fries‘ s astrological prediction for 1531 contains a jibe against physicians who reject the ancient and claim to each a new kind of medicine, wich was probably a barb meant for Paracelsus. In time he was to accuse his former guest of being a necromancer who did the devil’s work.
Paracelsus influential connections did not help him gain permanent residence in Colmar, for the authorities were aware of his chequered career and controversial ideas, and would not extend the temporary permit required for residing in the town. Not would they allow him to publish his book on syphilis. And so he had no option but move on again, wich he did some so he had no option but to move on again, wich he did some time in the first half of 1529. He travelled to the Duchy of Wurttemberg, east of Alsace, and made his way to the small town of Essingen, close to the ancient family of Hohenheim.
The work on Syphilis From Basle, Paracelsus went to Colmar where he stayed with Lorenz Fries”, the author of popular medical literature – written like Paracelsus' treatises in the vernacular.” There, however, the similarity ends .
Nuremberg was the town of his hope- the great center of commerce, of artists, artisans and religious reformers. His reputation went before him, however, and and precluded any access to the phalanx of professionals which stood firmly closed against him. He immediately challenged the latter by proposing to cure any patient deemed incurable- in which he miraculously succeeded among nine or five-teen of the lepers of the town. Conceivably this intensified the hostility of his colleagues. Worse than this, he alienated the strong Lutheran orthodoxy. In this view this was just a condemnable a popery. Standing as he did for practicing rather than preaching Christianity, he was bound to take exception to the Lutheran worship of ‘Word’ and ‘Faith’ in contrast to ‘Deed’. The support given by Luther and his Church to social injustice as practiced by the ruling circles in exterminating the rebellious poor, the dissenters and the enthusiasts could not fail to provoke Paracelsus ‘anger and disgust ‘. More than anywhere else, his literally work at Nuremberg went straight against recognized doctrines and ruling opinions.
Paracelsus von Hohenheim (1490-1541) was the outstanding medical therapist of his time and, perhaps, the greatest mystic in the history of Western medicine. He devoted his life to research in the healing arts. Paracelsus visited Constantinople to acquaint himself with the secret practices of the Dervishes and the Sufis.
The following is an excerpt from Paracelsus - His Mystical and Medical Philosophy, by Manly P. Hall, published by the Philosophical Research Society:
[According to Paracelsus]...the elementary energy blockage is an artificial being, created in the invisible worlds by man himself - and some of the guys who do this are really bad people. In harmony with more recent findings, Paracelsus noted that most elementaries energy blockages seem to be of an evil or destructive nature. They are generated from the excesses of human thought and emotion, the corruption of character, or the degeneration of faculties and powers which should be used in other, more constructive ways....
Bad habits, emotions, addictions, irritation - all from energy blockages.
Man is therefore a creator, not merely in terms of the perpetuation of the species, but especially in terms of the imagination. Man is creative in the arts, sciences, and philosophies, but his creative powers are not only external, but also internal. Because he lives, man bestows life, and he can generate creatures from his thoughts and emotions....The power to create is the power of vibration, by which anything is set into a peculiar motion....
The invisible progeny of man include thought-forms and emotion-forms energy blockages . These are like infants or inner children, especially in their beginnings, for they depend upon their creator for their nutrition and survival. Later, however, if the forces which generate continue to operate, these thought and emotion-forms gain strength, finally attaining a kind of independence....Having thus become even stronger than their creator, these thought and emotion-forms energy blockages will turn upon the one who fashioned them, often causing in him a terrible habit or addiction and destroying his health and happiness.
We know that the human psyche can become ridden with pressure centers or pressure-patterns which we call fixations, complexes, phobias, and the like. We know that these negative psychic formation energy blockages are nourished by the continued repetition of the attitudes which caused them. We say that negative attitudes become habitual energy blockages, by degrees taking over and destroying the mental and emotional integrity of the individual.
A fixation energy blockage, well nourished by attitudes suitable for its perpetuation, intensifies, becoming actually avaricious and resolved to dominate or possess the entire life of its unhappy victim....
Modern thinking therefore, sheds light upon the concept of elementaries energy blockages, extending beyond the basic research of Paracelsus...[He] used the term obsession to signify possession by an entity. Today the term is used to signify possession by an abnormal attitude....Is it possible that the abnormal attitude has gradually become an entity?
...Many persons under psychological obsession energy blockages resist treatment, as though some foreign creature were fighting for its survival in them....
Out of his philosophy of elementaries energy blockages, Paracelsus came to the conclusion that a very large part of what we consider to be disease, results from psychic parasites energy blockages generated by wrong thoughts and emotion - Energy Blockages of this particular type.
There is a process of removing, eliminating, the energy blockages which exhibit Attention seeking behaviour through the Energy Enhancement Process. This is the process of Integrating the mind under the aegis of the Soul, the Higher Self, and by purifying the Nafs, the Talents, the Energy Blockages in Energy Enhancement Level 2 - Eliminate Energy Blockages, and Energy Enhancement Level 3 - Eliminate the Attention Seeking Sub-Personalities and Strategies of the Vampire
ENERGY ENHANCEMENT DESTROYS, REMOVES AND INHIBITS ALL ENERGY BLOCKAGES...
The Kundalini Kriyas and The Five Elemental paths of the Chi of the Taoist masters, like Energy Enhancement, gives the Hidden Taoist Secrets of the Microcosmic AND the Macrocosmic Orbit, The Energy Enhancement Supra Galactic Orbit
These symbols symbolise how to clean all the Chakras through a guided meditation. Helping all parts of the mind including the Unconscious, to become more calm and still.
"To remove the stones in the path of the watercourse. To remove blockages to the flow of your energy" A description of Samyama or Energy Enhancement from the 5000 years old Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the source of Raja Yoga.
The Kundalini Kriyas and The Five Elemental paths of the Chi of the Taoist masters, like Energy Enhancement, teaches how to cleanse the psychic body so that our psyche becomes sensitive and our energy more powerful.
The Kundalini Kriyas and The Five Elemental paths of the Chi of the Taoist masters, like Energy Enhancement, strengthens the psychic circuits and decreases the resistance to the flow of Energy. It helps to build the psychic body, as Gurdjieff called it, "The Body Kesdjian".
The Kundalini Kriyas and The Five Elemental paths of the Chi of the Taoist masters, like Energy Enhancement, are guided meditations to increase sensitivity to energies is given in the next Initiation of the techniques of Energy Enhancement- "The Grounding of Negative Energies." - the Earth Path of the Five Elemental Pathways of the Qi.
Energy Enhancement's first seven Initiations of the full Twenty Eight Initiations consists of Meditation, Shaktipat, Energy Circulation, The Kundalini Kriyas, The Five Elemental Paths Of The Chi Of Chinese Alchemical Taoism, The Grounding Of Negative Energies, Alchemical V.I.T.R.I.O.L and the Art Card Of The Thoth Tarot, Kundalini Energy, Strong Psychic Protection, The Merkaba, Pyramid Protection, Power Tower Protection, The Antahkarana, Soul Fusion, Monadic Infusion, Logos Infusion, the Painless Removal Of Stress, Trauma And Negative Emotion.
Black tower, red tower, Catedrala, wall of the Bastion with gutters.
Left: 👉 Black Tower: the initiation of this building belongs to the rulers of Wallachia who ruled “Fagaras County" in the second half of the 14th century (Mircea cel Batran; Vlad Tepes). The tower was completed by Stefan Bathory and Balthazar Bathory in the last quarter of the 16th century. It had the destination of passing space to the stables (level 1). of storehouse (level 2) and Lady's' house" (last level)
Right: 👉 Red Tower (Donjon Tower): It is the first built tower of the fortress. Its construction started in the second half of the 14th century, with 3 meters thick wall and a 9 meters inner diameter, being also the tallest tower. It had the following destinations: cellar (level 1), treasure room (level 2). Princes’ house (level 3). prince's summer desks (levels 4 and 5) and observation point (level 6).
Fagaras Fortress, the most imposing monument of the region, whose construction began at the end of the 14th century and continued until the middle of the 17th century, has been preceded by a wooden fortification surrounded by at fosse and a soil wall dating from the 12th century. In the 15th century, the stone fortress, having a quadrilateral precinct with bastion towers and a barbican outpost tower, was a military fortification which corresponded to the occidental fortification style introduced in Transylvania in the 14th century. The 16th century brought the most important changes to the fortress architecture, which will transform the defense fortress into a castle having a strong exterior fortification.
In the 17th century, architectural changes — the construction of the bastions, stylistic and artistic changes, and the arrangement of the fosse — set the current shape of the fortress. Nowadays the fortress is like a real princely court, the main role of the fortress had was that of being a residence for the princes of Transylvania and their wives and the one as administrative center of the big domain of Fagaras.
Being attacked and assaulted countless times, Fagaras Fortress having a well-build system has never been conquered.
After 1696 the fortress became a garrison for the Austrian army, then for the Magyar army, and after that for the Romanian army. Between 1948 and 1960 the fortress was a communist prison