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O Mary, Seat of Wisdom, so many persons of common intellect have made through your intercession admirable progress in their studies.
I hereby choose you as my guardian and patron of my studies. I humbly ask you to obtain for me the grace of the Holy Spirit, so that from now on I can understand more quickly, retain more readily, and express myself more fluently. May the example of my life serve to honor you and your Son, Jesus. Amen.
Confucianism divides men into rulers and ruled. From the former it requires a sense of duty and from the latter filial piety. Here we see that the social Law is in no wise detached from the spiritual meaning of the whole tradition; inevitably it has concomitant spiritual elements which concern man as such, that is, man envisaged independently from society.
Indeed every man rules or determines something which is placed in some way in dependence on him, even if it is only his own soul, made up of images and desires; and, again, every man is governed or determined by something which in some way surpasses him, even if it is only his own intellect. Thus each man bears in himself the double obligation of duty in relation to the inferior and of piety in relation to the superior, and this double principle is capable of incalculable applications: it includes even inanimate nature in the sense that each thing can have in relation to us, according to the circumstances, the function of being either a celestial principle or a terrestrial substance.
Chinese wisdom foresees an application that is first social and secondly personal of the universal pair 'Heaven-Earth' ( Tien-Tz) and thus a conformity with the 'Ineffable' ( Wu-Ming) from which this pair proceeds, the Tao.
The point of junction between Confucianism and Taoism is in the virtues. The former envisages their social and human value and the second their intrinsic and spiritual quality. Man is the place where Earth and Heaven meet.
Egoism must be extinguished between devotion and duty.
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F. Schuon: The Chinese Religions from SPHF
Zeyon: One of the last Great Beings Know as the Ventrillions. Zeyon is One of if Not the most powerful being in the Multiverse Capable of taking on Huge armies Single handily, His Super speed ,Strength, time Manipulation , strategic Capabilities , And Genius intellect Make him A match for anyone!
“If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship.
We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ."
Well, that's nonsense.
You're going to miss life.
You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
The boys rolled into Vegas in style for the annual Intellects band reunion. Truthfully, Vegas ain't much to look at during the daytime. It's the night time lights that really grab you. So, it seemed like a good time for a little sliding.
Happy Slider's Sunday everyone. Check out the Intellect's reunion poster in the comments section below.
Las Vegas, Nevada
On his nightly route through Gotham on patrol, Batman was ambushed by the mighty Bane. The fight took damage on both sides as Bane used his intellect and brute strength in a match that the Dark Knight was having trouble to stay ahead in the fight. Batarangs flew all over Kane graveyard and into tombstones of forgotten men and woman. The fight began to die and Batman was tossed into a freshly dug grave. On the tombstone it writ "Here lies the Dark Knight, defender of the night." Will Batman recover quick enough to stop Bane from breaking the man beneath the cowl or will the foreign villain finally defeat his adversary?
Now here it is the final part of my Justice League/Legion of Doom face offs, I saved the best for last and soon I'll begin a new project that'll share the same universe as these battles. Please enjoy!
Currently on view at: Getty Center, Museum West Pavilion, Gallery W202
Title:
Portrait of Leonilla, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn
Artist/Maker:
Franz Xaver Winterhalter (German, 1805 - 1873)
Culture:
German
Date:
1843
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
142.2 x 212.1 cm (56 x 83 1/2 in.)
In a daring pose reminiscent of harem scenes and odalisques, the Princess Leonilla of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn reclines on a low Turkish sofa on a veranda overlooking a lush tropical landscape. Only her unassailable social position made it possible for Franz Xaver Winterhalter to use such a sensual pose for a full-length portrait in Paris in 1843.
Known for her great beauty and intellect, the Princess is resplendent in a luxurious gown of ivory silk moiré with a pink sash around her waist. A deep purple mantle wraps around her back and falls across her smooth arms. Under carefully arched eyebrows, her heavy lidded eyes gaze languidly at the viewer while she artfully toys with the large pearls around her neck. Winterhalter contrasted sumptuous fabrics and vivid colors against creamy flesh to heighten the sensuality of the pose, the model, and the luxuriant setting.
I Only Want You
Speaking In Tongues
So Easy
Flames Go Higher
Bad Dream Mama
English Girl
Stacks O' Money
Midnight Creeper
Stuck In The Metal
Already Died
Kiss The Devil
Whorehoppin' (Shit, Goddamn)
San Berdoo Sundburn
Wastin' My Time
Miss Alissa
Who'll love the Devil?
Who'll song his song?
Who will love the Devil and his song?
Who'll love the Devil?
Who'll kiss his tongue?
Who will kiss the Devil on his tongue?
Eagles of Death Metal is an American rock band from Palm Desert, California, formed in 1998 by best friends Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme. Despite their band name, Eagles of Death Metal is not a death metal band. The story goes that a friend was introducing Josh Homme to the death metal genre. When he played a song by the Polish band Vader and made a claim that the song was within the death metal genre, Homme then referred to Vader as "The Eagles of Death Metal". After hearing this phrase, he wondered what a cross between the Eagles and a death metal band would sound like. With that, the band was born.
TRANSFORMATIONS OF AVALOKITESVARA.In case, young man of good family, creatures, carried off by the current of rivers, should implore the Bodhisattva Mahâsattva Avalokitesvara, all rivers will afford them a ford.
The concert of November 13th never ended. I would thus like, this time, to have in mind the image of a public who applauds jubilant and of a group happy to be there, greeting the crowd before leaving the scene(stage). I feel irreparably bound(connected) to this public and to this group from now on. At night of November 13th, we found ourselves parked in an inner courtyard with a part(party) of the group: the bass player, the sound engineer, etc. We had discussed. See again(revise) them on stage, with the physical courage which it always supposes, and in particular in these circumstances, it will be a very strong image. Finally, it is doubtless a positive image of myself whom I fetch through them. The hours pass, the term approaches, and I have more and more the feeling that it is about the concert.
www.lefigaro.fr/musique/2016/02/16/03006-20160216ARTFIG00...
In its psychological association the eagle shares and opposite symbolism which can be reversed through personal effort. Being symbolic of St. John the evangelist most firmly established in the intellectual realm, the eagle symbolizes the height of intellectual activity; however, this bird also can represent the degrading, consuming passion, of the intellect, which causes humans not to be ruled by the mind but the body. The eagle displays such behavior when he interrupts his elegant flight to swoop down on his prey to satisfy his carnal needs. At times humans behave the same way, their passions control them. This is the reason the eagle symbolized Adam, the first man, in medieval bestiaries: Adam, too, who originally dwelt close to heaven, lost his glory when sighting the forbidden fruit. Humankind like the eagle can improve its status by returning to the intellectual realm. This also has alchemical symbolism: when an experiment failed the alchemist had to start over again.The eagle's alchemical symbolism can readily be recognized in that the goals of alchemy are the transmutation of base (impure) metals or spirits into more purer or finer ones. This called for the destruction of the base metals to release the spirit and the renewal or reunion of the spirit in the new one. This is a renewal process, the death one the one and birth of the new, symbolized in the eagle. The eagle is thought as a royal bird as alchemy was called the royal art.
www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/~alchemy/eagle.html
But already, the room stamps for reminders(abseilings). Encouraged by mooses(run-ups) francophiles of Jesse Hughes, who wrapped himself later(just now) with a scarf(sling) blue, white, red knitted which anonymous hands tightened(stretched out to) him(her) since the pit, and by this three-colored(French) guitar which he took(brought) out for his last piece, the crowd demands La Marseillaise. It will be Brown Sugar, Rolling Stones. For whom dreamed about the " first concert besides of (its) life ", it is a value far more rock 'n' roll. At night, on the boulevard where the crowd passes by, Jesse Hughes's deep words resound as a mantra: " mother fucker, nobody will prevent me from continuing this trick "
Mais déjà, la salle frappe du pied pour les rappels. Encouragé par les élans francophiles de Jesse Hughes, qui s’est enveloppé tout à l’heure d’une écharpe bleu, blanc, rouge en tricot que des mains anonymes lui ont tendue depuis la fosse, et par cette guitare tricolore qu’il a sortie pour son dernier morceau, la foule réclame La Marseillaise. Ce sera Brown Sugar, des Rolling Stones. Pour qui rêvait du « premier concert du reste de [sa] vie », c’est une valeur autrement plus rock’n’roll. Dans la nuit, sur le boulevard où la foule s’écoule, les paroles profondes de Jesse Hughes résonnent comme un mantra : « Enculés de votre mère, personne ne m’empêchera de continuer ce truc. »
En savoir plus sur www.lemonde.fr/attaques-a-paris/article/2016/02/17/eagles...
connard, personne ne m'empêchera de continuer ce tour est plus juste
“The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect”
City of Westminister, CO
The colour Yellow is the colour of Sunshine, Hope, and Happiness !! It stands for Freshness, Positivity, Clarity, Energy, Optimism, Enlightenment, Remembrance, Intellect, Spirituality, Honor, Loyalty, and Joy !!! ……What else do you want???
I personally prefer the Golden Yellow , because it makes my heart sing, like the colour White does !! Therefore, I have plenty of both representatives in the garden, which make EXCELLENT associations with all the rest strong bloom colours in the garden, like the reds , Indian pinks, and blues!! Well, I would say a very ….Mediterranean-style-coloured garden…
"At the pessimism of the intellect must counterpose the optimism of the will"
Antonio Gramsci.-
“Al pesimismo de la inteligencia hay que contraponerlo al optimismo de la voluntad”
Antonio Gramsci.-
Doom’s Journal
August 29
The castle was cold this morning. If I hadn’t already executed the facilities manager I would go execute him right now. I contemplated using the Time Platform to go back and execute the facilities manager yet again, but decided the consequences would be a distraction.
Susan arrives today.
I still have to go through my notes, memorize my lines, and get the new “lair” set decorated and prepped. I really think this World Conquest Plan could be the one, it pushes all the right romantic buttons. It will make Reed look witless and controlling (not difficult), force the brother and the brute to act overprotective, and show Susan she can be empowered and fully equal to any man. In fact the entire scenario can only be defeated by Susan. Not fire, nor intellect, nor brute strength will have any effect. Only the thoughtfully applied abilities of Susan can save the world today, and “defeat” Doom.
It will be difficult of course. There’s little point in just handing her a victory, not when I’m trying to show her how strong and independent she can be. If during the day’s events her brother, or her damnable boyfriend were to be maimed (oh darn), or even killed (hee hee!), then so be it.
I changed my mind. I am going to pop into the Time Platform and execute that idiot facilities manager after all. I think it will be just the thing to relax me.
There’s an anecdote about man meeting god one day and they both exclaiming to each other, “I created you.”. But there’s much more beyond our intellect that makes us what we are.
Have you ever felt this total upliftment , watching bloom photos on your computer screen?? This awe, that is a very emotional moment, like sharing with a beloved person a clear starry sky, somewhere out there all alone , during a serene summer night?
Well, for me, both situations, create unbelievable strong feelings of upliftment, of a deep, emotional gratitude, of thanking the Universe, because I have eyes to see , a human heart to feel, an intellect to admire…
"I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind."
- Emily Brontë
All my affection zoe_blue happy birthday! Your beauty and intellect has done so much to enrich my life!
Additional art work by my old Silverlake friend Aaron Goland and texture by les brumes.
Aaron Goland now works and lives in the Chicago area.
Sad Chimpanzee at Colchester Zoo.
The complexity of a Chimpanzee intellect is matched by their rich and complex emotional repertoire. They feel, and they express those feelings. They use feelings as yet another way to navigate through their lives and relationships. Their feelings range from anger to exhilaration, from humor to despondence – and every other emotion we know.
“Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts.
This is the secret of success”.
(Swami Sivananda)
This is a picture of Vinod who is a pehlwan (Indian wrestler), while Pritviraj (an other pehlwan) is giving him a facial massage during their training at the gym, the akhara which is at Scindia Ghat along river Ganga in Varanasi (Benaras).
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"Among the Scholastic Doctors, the chief and master of all towers Thomas Aquinas, who, as Cajetan observes, because "he most venerated the ancient doctors of the Church, in a certain way seems to have inherited the intellect of all." The doctrines of those illustrious men, like the scattered members of a body, Thomas collected together and cemented, distributed in wonderful order, and so increased with important additions that he is rightly and deservedly esteemed the special bulwark and glory of the Catholic faith. With his spirit at once humble and swift, his memory ready and tenacious, his life spotless throughout, a lover of truth for its own sake, richly endowed with human and divine science, like the sun he heated the world with the warmth of his virtues and filled it with the splendor of his teaching."
– Pope Leo XIII.
Detail from the 'Triumph of St Thomas Aquinas' painted by Benozzo Gozzoli in 1471. This painting is in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct."
- Carl Jung
"It is a happy talent to know how to play."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thanks a lot for stopping by, my friends, I truly appreciate it...!
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October 1
The plant Pammy gave me is startin to turn into its own little Jungle. I’ve been askin’ Orchid to water it when I’m out, and I dunno what she’s been waterin’ it with, but that little guy is happy. Her and Pam should exchange gardening tips. Sweet kid, that Orchid. Doesn’t say much, but she seems to mean well. I have no idea what Waller offered her to stick around. Come to think of it, I don’t really know anything about her at all. Except she’s bonkin’ Patten upstairs.
Ugh.
BUT, we’re not here to discuss petals and the crackpot, we’re here for somethin’ else. GUESS. WHO I HAD. IN MY OFFICE THIS MORNING. C’mon guess! (Naw you’ll never guess, you’re a journal). None other than LEX. FREAKIN’. LUTHOR. That’s right! He disappeared for a while after that whole Cloudburst disaster Digger and Floyd were tellin’ me about, then he popped up again, get this, completely penniless, tryin to steal from a bake shop! He got thrown into the general clink, but Amanda pulled all the right strings and got him on the Squad purely just to humiliate him. Normally I’d be kinda appalled, but if anyone deserves it, it’s him. Either way, I was sent to “analyze” ole baldy, and hoo boy, it was a riot. . .
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Excerpt from Harley’s tape recorder:
The sound of chairs being pushed around on the floor rings out briefly. Papers are laid on the table
Harley, warmly: Hello, Mister Luthor, let me be the first t’welcome you here to lovely Belle Reve.
Luthor, entirely flat: You’re hardly the first. Don’t I know you, Doctor . . . ?
Harley: Quinzel! Doctor Quinzel.
Luthor, more animated: Quinzel. Harley Quinn? You’re my ‘psychiatrist’? *Luthor laughs* Alright, Now I know this is one of your boyfriend’s sick pranks.
Harley, entirely calm: I’ll have you know Mister Luthor, I am a trained an’ seasoned pro. And my ‘boyfriend’ and I haven’t spoken in some time. In fact, I kinda hope he’s dead.
Luthor: Well, at least we have that in common. So tell me, what is it that you want to talk to me about?
Harley, flipping through papers: Welllll, it says here that I’m supposed to see if you’re fit for field missions, but let’s not insult both of our intellects, huh? Instead, I wanna talk to ya about The Big Blue Boy Scout.
There is about a minute of silence. Then;
Luthor: Didn’t you bite my head once?
Harley: Let’s just try an’ see past that. What is it, about Superman, that drives you so bananas?
There is another pause, and then:
Luthor: Well, ‘Doctor’ Quinn, it’s a number of things.
Harley: Let’s start with the most basic.
Luthor: Well, to start, he’s not even really a man. He’s not even of this earth. By that reasoning alone, Superman is a fraud. He masquerades as a symbol of hope, of human perfection, and yet his very name is a deception. Am I the only person left who remembers he’s not even one of us?
Harley: So to you, he’s unworthy of his hero-worship.
Luthor scoffs: Unworthy doesn’t begin to describe it. He isn’t god. He hasn’t helped humanity progress. He merely catches purse snatchers and the occasional radioactive psychopath. And yet humanity treats him as a supreme being, holding all our lives in his hands.
Harley: So, you see him as a false god?
Luthor: Indeed. Humanity is its own maker: Its own supreme being. Only we as a species have propelled ourselves this far. It only follows that Superman would represent a Demiurge, in the Gnostic terms. We’re human beings, it’s only natural that we follow the strongest and most cunning of our kind. That arrogant caveman has been basing his motivations off of that fact alone for centuries. But when the strongest and most cunning are not only a fraud in their name, but their ideals, that is something that weakens humanity. Take his principles for instance. Hell, just take one. Take Justice. An abstract concept, with no true definition. In a sense, Justice could mean anything. For some, it means sending a murderer to prison. For others, it’s removing the hands of a thief. Would Superman allow a thief’s hands removed? Of course not. Justice is too broad a concept for one ma-, excuse me, one being, to fully encompass.
Harley: Fascinating. And if not for Superman, who do you think would stand in that place, leading humanity?
Luthor chuckles: Well, I don’t wish to self-aggrandize, but me, naturally. Look at me, the peak of human intelligence, the peak of human physicality. I was hewn for this role.
Harley: Ah, and that’s why you masqueraded as him for so long, protecting Metropolis yourself.
Luthor, getting energized: That was the only point when the world was as it should be. And for a time, I thought he and I could work in harmony. But, as I should have anticipated, he abandoned me, and cast aside both my help and my trust.
Harley: Now, an’ excuse me for sayin’ this, but dressin’ up in a big red S and protecting Metropolis, doesn’t sound like hatred for an enemy. It sounds a lot like hero worship.
Luthor says nothing.
Harley: I’d even go so far as to say that, maybe, deep down, you even . . . love him.
Luthor, angry: Hold your tongue, woman.
Harley: I mean think about it! Everyone always accused my “Ex-Boyfriend” of bein in love with Bats, even me after a while, and it’s such a similar thing! The two of you are always buildin’ death traps tailor-made, you’re dressin’ up in their costumes and sometimes takin’ on their roles. Look at you, you’ve done so much workin’ out so achieve his body on yourself. Hell, Mercy once told me at a party y’sleep with a picture of him under your pillow! That’s crazy stalker girlfriend stuff, Lex!
Luthor, angrier: Shut up, SHUT UP! I loathe every fiber of his being. I want nothing more than his insipid, vacant smile wiped from the face of this earth. I – no, no I see what you’re trying to do. You’re trying to get me angry on purpose. I don’t know why. Maybe because That Bitch in charge told you to. Well, I’m not going to be goaded into violence for your amusement.
Harley, after a decent pause: You want to have sex with Superman.
The sound of angry shouting, yelling, and crashing. The table audibly flips, a chair smashes. The sound of prison shoes on metal walls is heard. The creak of the door and sounds of struggle as guards manage to subdue Luthor.
There is panting, and silence, then:
Luthor, quietly, scathingly: I hope That Bitch blows your head clean off you psychopathic little clown.
There is the sound of him spitting, then being dragged bodily out of the room.
The sound of footsteps, heels on the tile floor, the door shutting, and the heels returning. The chair squeaks.
Then, the sound of Harleen Quinzel laughing uproariously. It echoes around the room. She’s laughing so hard, tears are in her eyes, then there is a click on the recorder, and nothing.
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I'm not gonna lie, I could have just made the entire arc this conversation.
Well here's my version of the Bronze Age Clayface -- Preston Payne.
- Transmits viral infection that courses through his body into others. He is immune to his own power to some extent, his touch causes organic matter to bubble, blister and melt into a pool of protoplasm.
- Gifted with an enhanced intellect that enabled him to graduate top of his class at Hudson University, and become a researcher at S.T.A.R. Labs immediately following graduation.
- Cannot exist outside of his special exoskeleton or else anything he comes into physical contact with will dissolve. In addition, Payne suffers massive migraines -- he refers to as the "fever" -- which can only be alleviated by transmitting his virus to another resource, ultimately killing them.
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I took some liberties instead of going for a faithful comic book design. The helmet, I would have preferred to use regular clear helmet instead of this one, if only I could have found the damn thing. I really should organize my parts better than just dumping them in my large "minifig parts" plastic bin. Since he's a former S.T.A.R. Labs employee I gave him a lab coat instead of using a blue cape/cloak.
Overall he's a pretty simple custom. But gets the job done, I just have to finish getting the parts for his wife Lady Clay and I'll be done with my Mud Pack.
C&C is always welcomed and appreciated.
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The Mud Pack:
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- Preston Payne
disuse, noun...the state of not being used.
"Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect."
Leonardo da Vinci
...better keep those brain cells busy then!
textures thanks to Skeletalmess
🇬🇧 English
This photograph, taken during Giovanni Spadolini’s official visit to Bogotá in August 1990, captures one of those moments where his presence filled the room even before he spoke. Spadolini had a way of combining sharp intellect with an almost disarming calm — the kind of charisma that didn’t need grand gestures, just a glance over his glasses and a measured word.
I wanted to show exactly that: the quiet authority, the reflective pause with a glass in hand, and the sense that whoever sat across from him was fully drawn into his orbit. Even in a simple exchange, he managed to make the atmosphere feel important… with that touch of Tuscan irony you could sense even without hearing the dialogue.
🇮🇹 Italiano
Questa fotografia, scattata durante la visita ufficiale di Giovanni Spadolini a Bogotá nell’agosto 1990, racconta uno di quei momenti in cui la sua presenza riempiva la stanza ancor prima che parlasse. Spadolini aveva quel modo unico di unire lucidità e calma apparente: un carisma che non aveva bisogno di gesti plateali, solo di uno sguardo sopra gli occhiali e di una parola misurata.
Volevo mostrare proprio questo: l’autorevolezza silenziosa, la pausa riflessiva con il bicchiere in mano, e la sensazione che chiunque gli sedesse di fronte finisse inevitabilmente nel suo campo di gravità. Anche in una conversazione informale riusciva a dare all’atmosfera un tono di importanza… con quella punta di ironia toscana che si percepiva anche senza ascoltare le parole.
Before, one could borrow books. Now one can borrow books & vinyl (and this is not 1997; with our inflation, today needs a borrowing system more than ever). But feelings for this place are not something one can borrow and give back. It’s always here.
"50 shades of ... blue!"
Blue like the sea and the sky .. Blue represents the intellect, truth, fidelity, constancy; it is the color of great depth, the feminine principle. It is the color of calm, infinity, peace, emotional serenity and harmony.
Tilly wears: Gzhel tatoo by *Find the Fish* 🐟🐠
Lorez wears: Gzhel Face Tattoo by *Find the Fish* & Slavic Siren Tintable by *Find the Fish*
Where can you find them?
Inworld 1: maps.secondlife.com/.../Buenos%20Aries.../146/218/26
Inworld 2: maps.secondlife.com/secon.../Serena%20Upolu/45/210/30
For the psychedelic trance musical band, see Astral Projection (band). For physical travel to other stars, see Interstellar travel."The Separation of the Spirit Body" from , a Chinese handbook on alchemy and meditation
Astral projection (or astral travel) is a term used in esotericism to describe a willful out-of-body experience (OBE), a supposed form of telepathy, that assumes the existence of a soul or consciousness called an "astral body" that is separate from the physical body and capable of travelling outside of it throughout the universe where it interacts with other astral bodies and is capable of implanting ideas into other people's minds. The idea of astral travel is rooted in esotericism and occultism, and was promoted by 19th century Theosophists—philosophers who explored the mystical and preternatural origins of the natural world.It is sometimes reported in association with dreams, and forms of meditation.Some individuals have reported perceptions similar to descriptions of astral projection that were induced through various hallucinogenic and hypnotic means (including self-hypnosis). There is no scientific evidence that there is a consciousness or soul which is separate from normal neural activity or that one can consciously leave the body and make observations..Claims of scientific evidence of astral projection are pseudoscientific.According to classical, medieval and renaissance Hermeticism, Neoplatonism, and later Theosophist and Rosicrucian thought the astral body is an intermediate body of light linking the rational soul to the physical body while the astral plane is an intermediate world of light between Heaven and Earth, composed of the spheres of the planets and stars. These astral spheres were held to be populated by angels, demons and spirits.The subtle bodies, and their associated planes of existence, form an essential part of the esoteric systems that deal with astral phenomena. In the neo-platonism of Plotinus, for example, the individual is a microcosm ("small world") of the universe (the macrocosm or "great world"). "The rational soul...is akin to the great Soul of the World" while "the material universe, like the body, is made as a faded image of the Intelligible". Each succeeding plane of manifestation is causal to the next, a world-view called emanationism; "from the One proceeds Intellect, from Intellect Soul, and from Soul - in its lower phase, or that of Nature - the material universe".Often these bodies and their planes of existence are depicted as a series of concentric circles or nested spheres, with a separate body traversing each realm.[18] The idea of the astral figured prominently in the work of the nineteenth-century French occultist Eliphas Levi, whence it was adopted and developed further by Theosophy, and used afterwards by other esoteric movements.
Biblica
Some have claimed that the Bible contains mentions of astral projection.[weasel words]Carrington, Muldoon, Peterson, and Williams—renowned experts in the field of astral projection—claim that the subtle body is attached to the physical body by means of a psychic silver cord. The final chapter of the Book of Ecclesiastes is often cited in this respect: "Before the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be shattered at the fountain, or the wheel be broken at the cistern." Scherman, however, contends that the context points to this being merely a metaphor, comparing the body to a machine, with the silver cord referring to the spine
Paul's Second Epistle to the Corinthians is more generally agreed to refer to the astral planes; "I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago, (whether in the body I know not, or out of the body I know not, God knows) such a one caught up to the third heaven..."This statement gave rise to the Visio Pauli, a tract that offers a vision of heaven and hell, a forerunner of visions attributed to Adomnan and Tnugdalus as well as of Dante's Divine Comedy.
Ancient Egypt
Similar concepts of soul travel appear in various other religious traditions. For example, ancient Egyptian teachings present the soul (ba) as having the ability to hover outside the physical body via the ka, or subtle body
China
Taoist alchemical practice involves creation of an energy body by breathing meditations, drawing energy into a 'pearl' that is then "circulated". "Xiangzi ... with a drum as his pillow fell fast asleep, snoring and motionless. His primordial spirit, however, went straight into the banquet room and said, "My lords, here I am again." ... When Tuizhi walked ... with the officials to take a look, there really was a Taoist sleeping on the ground and snoring like thunder. Yet inside, in the side room, there was another Taoist beating a fisher drum and singing Taoist songs. The officials all said, “Although there are two different people, their faces and clothes are exactly alike. Clearly he is a divine immortal who can divide his body and appear in several places at once. ..." ... At that moment, the Taoist in the side room came walking out, and the Taoist sleeping on the ground woke up. The two merged into one."
India
Similar ideas such as the Lin'ga S'ari-ra are found in ancient Hindu scriptures such as the YogaVashishta-Maharamayana of Valmiki. Modern Indians who have vouched for astral projection include Paramahansa Yogananda who witnessed Swami Pranabananda doing a miracle through a possible astral projection, and Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) who practiced it himself.The Indian spiritual teacher Meher Baba described one's use of astral projection:In the advancing stages leading to the beginning of the path, the aspirant becomes spiritually prepared for being entrusted with free use of the forces of the inner world of the astral bodies. He may then undertake astral journeys in his astral body, leaving the physical body in sleep or wakefulness. The astral journeys that are taken unconsciously are much less important than those undertaken with full consciousness and as a result of deliberate volition. This implies conscious use of the astral body. Conscious separation of the astral body from the outer vehicle of the gross body has its own value in making the soul feel its distinction from the gross body and in arriving at fuller control of the gross body. One can, at will, put on and take off the external gross body as if it were a cloak, and use the astral body for experiencing the inner world of the astral and for undertaking journeys through it, if and when necessary....The ability to undertake astral journeys therefore involves considerable expansion of one’s scope for experience. It brings opportunities for promoting one’s own spiritual advancement, which begins with the involution of consciousness.Astral projection is one of the Siddhis considered achievable by yoga practitioners through self-disciplined practice. In the epic The Mahabharata Drona leaves his physical body to see if his son is alive.
Japan
The 'ikiryō' as illustrated by Toriyama Sekien.
In Japanese mythology, an ikiryō (生霊?) (also read shōryō, seirei, or ikisudama) is a manifestation of the soul of a living person separately from their body. Traditionally, if someone holds a sufficient grudge against another person, it is believed that a part or the whole of their soul can temporarily leave their body and appear before the target of their hate in order to curse or otherwise harm them, similar to an evil eye. Souls are also believed to leave a living body when the body is extremely sick or comatose; such ikiryō are not malevolent.[
Inuit In some Inuit groups, people with special capabilities are said to travel to (mythological) remote places, and report their experiences and things important to their fellows or the entire community; how to stop bad luck in hunting, cure a sick person etc., things unavailable to people with normal capabilities.
Amazon
The yaskomo of the Waiwai is believed to be able to perform a "soul flight" that can serve several functions such as healing, flying to the sky to consult cosmological beings (the moon or the brother of the moon) to get a name for a new-born baby, flying to the cave of peccaries' mountains to ask the father of peccaries for abundance of game or flying deep down in a river to get the help of other beings.
"Astral" and "etheric"
The expression "astral projection" came to be used in two different ways. For the Golden Dawn and some Theosophists[ it retained the classical and medieval philosophers' meaning of journeying to other worlds, heavens, hells, the astrological spheres and other imaginal landscapes, but outside these circles the term was increasingly applied to non-physical travel around the physical world.Though this usage continues to be widespread, the term, "etheric travel", used by some later Theosophists, offers a useful distinction. Some experients say they visit different times and/or places:"etheric", then, is used to represent the sense of being "out of the body" in the physical world, whereas "astral" may connote some alteration in time-perception. Robert Monroe describes the former type of projection as "Locale I" or the "Here-Now", involving people and places that actually exist: Robert Bruce calls it the "Real Time Zone" (RTZ) and describes it as the non-physical dimension-level closest to the physical. This etheric body is usually, though not always, invisible but is often perceived by the experient as connected to the physical body during separation by a “silver cord”. Some link "falling" dreams with projection.According to Max Heindel, the etheric "double" serves as a medium between the astral and physical realms. In his system the ether, also called prana, is the "vital force" that empowers the physical forms to change. From his descriptions it can be inferred that, to him, when one views the physical during an out-of-body experience, one is not technically "in" the astral realm at all.Other experients may describe a domain that has no parallel to any known physical setting. Environments may be populated or unpopulated, artificial, natural or abstract, and the experience may be beatific, horrific or neutral. A common Theosophical belief is that one may access a compendium of mystical knowledge called the Akashic records. In many accounts the experiencer correlates the astral world with the world of dreams. Some even report seeing other dreamers enacting dream scenarios unaware of their wider environment.The astral environment may also be divided into levels or sub-planes by theorists, but there are many different views in various traditions concerning the overall structure of the astral planes: they may include heavens and hells and other after-death spheres, transcendent environments, or other less-easily characterized states
Notable practitioners
Emanuel Swedenborg was one of the first practitioners to write extensively about the out-of-body experience, in his Spiritual Diary (1747–65). French philosopher and novelist Honoré de Balzac's fictional work "Louis Lambert" suggests he may have had some astral or out-of-body experience.
There are many twentieth century publications on astral projection,although only a few authors remain widely cited. These include Robert Monroe,Oliver Fox,Sylvan Muldoon, and Hereward Carrington,and Yram.Robert Monroe's accounts of journeys to other realms (1971–1994) popularized the term "OBE" and were translated into a large number of languages. Though his books themselves only placed secondary importance on descriptions of method, Monroe also founded an institute dedicated to research, exploration and non-profit dissemination of auditory technology for assisting others in achieving projection and related altered states of consciousness.Robert Bruce,William Buhlman, and Albert Taylor,have discussed their theories and findings on the syndicated show Coast to Coast AM several times. Michael Crichton gives lengthy and detailed explanations and experience of astral projection in his non-fiction book Travels.The soul's ability to leave the body at will or while sleeping and visit the various planes of heaven is also known as "soul travel". The practice is taught in Surat Shabd Yoga, where the experience is achieved mostly by meditation techniques and mantra repetition. All Sant Mat Gurus widely spoke about this kind of out of body experience, such as Kirpal Singh.Eckankar describes Soul Travel broadly as movement of the true, spiritual self (Soul) closer to the heart of God. While the contemplative may perceive the experience as travel, Soul itself is said not to move but to "come into an agreement with fixed states and conditions that already exist in some world of time and space".American Harold Klemp, the current Spiritual Leader of Eckankar practices and teaches Soul Travel, as did his predecessors, through contemplative techniques known as the Spiritual Exercises of ECK (Divine Spirit).
In occult traditions, practices range from inducing trance states to the mental construction of a second body, called the Body of Light in Aleister Crowley's writings, through visualization and controlled breathing, followed by the transfer of consciousness to the secondary body by a mental act of will.There is no known scientific evidence that astral projection as an objective phenomenon exists.There are cases of patients having experiences suggestive of astral projection from brain stimulation treatments and hallucinogenic drugs.Robert Todd Carroll writes that the main evidence to support claims of astral travel is anecdotal and comes "in the form of testimonials of those who claim to have experienced being out of their bodies when they may have been out of their minds."Subjects in parapsychological experiments have attempted to project their astral bodies to distant rooms and see what was happening. However, such experiments have produced negative results.According to Bob Bruce of the Queensland Skeptics Association, astral projection is "just imagining", or "a dream state". Although parallel universes are mathematically possible,Bruce writes that the existence of an astral plane is contrary to the limits of science. “We know how many possibilities there are for dimensions and we know what the dimensions do. None of it correlates with things like astral projection.” Bruce attributes astral experiences such as "meetings" alleged by practitioners to confirmation bias and coincidences.The psychologist Donovan Rawcliffe has written that astral projection can be explained by delusion, hallucination and vivid dreams.Arthur W. Wiggins, writing in Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction: Where Real Science Ends...and Pseudoscience Begins, said that purported evidence of the ability to astral travel great distances and give descriptions of places visited is predominantly anecdotal. In 1978, Ingo Swann provided a test of his alleged ability to astral travel to Jupiter and observe details of the planet. Actual findings and information were later compared to Swann's claimed observations; according to an evaluation by James Randi, Swann's accuracy was "unconvincing and unimpressive" with an overall score of 37 percent. Wiggins considers astral travel an illusion, and looks to neuroanatomy, human belief, imagination and prior knowledge to provide prosaic explanations for those claiming to experience it.A recent study, The AWARE Study, conducted by medical researcher Sam Parnia, was designed to get information on possible OBEs during cardiac arrest.
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
--Percy Byshhe Shelley, Letter, January 3, 1811
The lighting of the Deepam signifies its presence to the Deities. It is worth remembering the lighting of the Deepam represents knowledge. This also free us from darkness.
'Deepajoyothi Parabrahma Deeepajoythi Janardhana, Deepo me hara tu paapma Deepa Jyohtir Namostute
'I salute the One who is the lamplight that brings auspiciousness;prosperity,
good health and the destruction of the intellects enemy'.
seen from Heidelberg Castle
gesehen vom Heidelberger Schloss
Heidelberg (German: [ˈhaɪdl̩bɛʁk]) is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. In the 2016 census, its population was 159,914, of which roughly a quarter consisted of students.
Located about 78 km (48 mi) south of Frankfurt, Heidelberg is the fifth-largest city in Baden-Württemberg. Heidelberg is part of the densely populated Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region.
Heidelberg University, founded in 1386, is Germany's oldest and one of Europe's most reputable universities. Heidelberg is a scientific hub in Germany and home to several internationally renowned research facilities adjacent to its university, including the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and four Max Planck Institutes. The city has also been a hub for the arts, especially literature, throughout the centuries, and it was designated a "City of Literature" by the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.
Heidelberg was a seat of government of the former Electorate of the Palatinate and is a popular tourist destination due to its romantic cityscape, including Heidelberg Castle, the Philosophers' Walk, and the Baroque old town.
Geography
Heidelberg is in the Rhine Rift Valley, on the left bank of the lower part of the Neckar in a steep valley in the Odenwald. It is bordered by the Königsstuhl (568 m) and the Gaisberg (375 m) mountains. The Neckar here flows in an east–west direction. On the right bank of the river, the Heiligenberg mountain rises to a height of 445 meters. The Neckar flows into the Rhine approximately 22 kilometres north-west in Mannheim. Villages incorporated during the 20th century stretch from the Neckar Valley along the Bergstraße, a road running along the Odenwald hills.
Heidelberg is on European walking route E1 (Sweden-Umbria).
History
Early history
Between 600,000 and 200,000 years ago, "Heidelberg Man" died at nearby Mauer. His jaw bone was discovered in 1907. Scientific dating determined his remains as the earliest evidence of human life in Europe. In the 5th century BC, a Celtic fortress of refuge and place of worship were built on the Heiligenberg, or "Holy Mountain". Both places can still be identified. In 40 AD, a fort was built and occupied by the 24th Roman cohort and the 2nd Cyrenaican cohort (CCG XXIIII and CCH II CYR). The late Roman Emperor Valentinian I, in 369 AD, built new and maintained older castra (permanent camps) and a signal tower on the bank of the Neckar. They built a wooden bridge based on stone pillars across it. The camp protected the first civilian settlements and was eventually captured by Germanic tribes. The local administrative center in Roman times was the nearby city of Lopodunum, today known as Ladenburg.
Middle Ages
Modern Heidelberg can trace its beginnings to the fifth century. The village Bergheim ("Mountain Home") is first mentioned for that period in documents dated to 769 AD. Bergheim now lies in the middle of modern Heidelberg. The people gradually converted to Christianity. In 870 AD, the monastery of St. Michael was founded on the Heiligenberg inside the double rampart of the Celtic fortress. Around 1130, the Neuburg Monastery was founded in the Neckar valley. At the same time, the bishopric of Worms extended its influence into the valley, founding Schönau Abbey in 1142. Modern Heidelberg can trace its roots to this 12th-century monastery. The first reference to Heidelberg can be found in a document in Schönau Abbey dated to 1196. This is considered to be the town's founding date. In 1156, Heidelberg castle and its neighboring settlement were taken over by the house of Hohenstaufen. Conrad of Hohenstaufen became Count Palatine of the Rhine (German: Pfalzgraf bei Rhein). In 1195, the Electorate of the Palatinate passed to the House of Welf through marriage. In 1214, Ludwig I, Duke of Bavaria acquired the Palatinate, as a consequence of which the castle came under his control. By 1303, another castle had been constructed for defense. In 1356, the Counts Palatine were granted far-reaching rights in the Golden Bull, in addition to becoming Electors. In 1386, Heidelberg University was founded by Rupert I, Elector Palatine.
Modern history
Heidelberg University played a leading part in Medieval Scholasticism, Renaissance humanism, the German Reformation, and in the subsequent conflict between Lutheranism and Calvinism during the 15th and 16th centuries. In April 1518, a few months after proclaiming his Ninety-five Theses, Martin Luther was received in Heidelberg, to defend them.
Heidelberg's library, founded in 1421, is the oldest existing public library in Germany.
In 1537, the castle located higher up the mountain was destroyed by a gunpowder explosion. The duke's palace was built at the site of the lower castle.
Elector Frederick III, sovereign of the Electoral Palatinate from 1559 to 1576, commissioned the composition of a new Catechism for his territory. While the catechism's introduction credits the "entire theological faculty here" (at the University of Heidelberg) and "all the superintendents and prominent servants of the church" for the composition of the Catechism, Zacharius Ursinus is commonly regarded as the catechism's principal author. Caspar Olevianus (1536–1587) was formerly asserted as a co-author of the document, though this theory has been largely discarded by modern scholarship. Johann Sylvan, Adam Neuser, Johannes Willing, Thomas Erastus, Michael Diller, Johannes Brunner, Tilemann Mumius, Petrus Macheropoeus, Johannes Eisenmenger, Immanuel Tremellius and Pierre Boquin are all likely to have contributed to the Catechism in some way. Frederick himself wrote the preface to the Catechism and closely oversaw its composition and publication. Frederick, who was officially Lutheran but had strong Reformed leanings, wanted to even out the religious situation of his highly Lutheran territory within the primarily Catholic Holy Roman Empire. The Council of Trent had just concluded with its conclusions and decrees against the Protestant faiths, and the Peace of Augsburg had only granted toleration for Lutheranism within the empire where the ruler was Lutheran. One of the aims of the catechism was to counteract the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church as well as Anabaptists and "strict" Gnesio-Lutherans like Tilemann Heshusius and Matthias Flacius, who were resisting Frederick's Reformed influences, particularly on the matter of Eucharist (the Lord's Supper). The Catechism-based each of its statements on biblical proof-texts, and Frederick himself would defend it as biblical, not reformed, at the 1566 Diet of Augsburg when he was called to answer to charges of violating the Peace of Augsburg. This was the Heidelberg Catechism, officially called the ″Catechism, or Christian Instruction, according to the Usages of the Churches and Schools of the Electoral Palatinate.″
In November 1619, the Royal Crown of Bohemia was offered to the Elector, Frederick V. (He was married to Princess Elizabeth, eldest daughter of James VI and I of Scotland and England, respectively.) Frederick became known as the "Winter King", as he reigned for only one winter before the Imperial House of Habsburg regained Bohemia by force. His overthrow in 1621 marked the beginning of the Thirty Years' War. In 1622, after a siege of two months, the armies of the Catholic League, commanded by Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, captured the town. Tilly gave the famous Bibliotheca Palatina from the Church of the Holy Spirit to the Pope as a present. The Catholic and Bavarian House of Wittelsbach gained control over the Palatinate and the title of Prince-Elector.
In late 1634, after the Swedish army had conquered Heidelberg, imperial forces attempted to recapture the city. They quickly took the city, but were unable to take the castle. As they prepared to blow up its fortifications with gunpowder the French army arrived, 30,000 men strong, led by Urbain de Maillé-Brézé, who had fought in many battles and participated in the Siege of La Rochelle (1627–1628), and Jacques-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force. They broke the siege and drove off the Imperial forces.
In 1648, at the end of the war, Frederick V's son Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine, was able to recover his titles and lands. To strengthen his dynasty, Charles I Louis arranged the marriage of his daughter Liselotte to Philip I, Duke of Orléans, brother of Louis XIV, King of France. In 1685, after the death of Charles Louis' son, Elector Charles II, King Louis XIV laid claim to his sister-in-law's inheritance. The Germans rejected the claim, in part because of religious differences between local Protestants and the French Catholics, as the Protestant Reformation had divided the peoples of Europe. The War of the Grand Alliance ensued. In 1689, French troops took the town and castle, bringing nearly total destruction to the area in 1693. As a result of the destruction due to repeated French invasions related to the War of the Palatinate Succession coupled with severe winters, thousands of German Calvinist Palatines emigrated in the early 18th century. They fled to other European cities and especially to London (where the refugees were called "the poor Palatines"). In sympathy for the Protestants, in 1709–1710, Queen Anne's government arranged transport for nearly 6,000 Palatines to New York. Others were transported to Pennsylvania, and to South Carolina. They worked their passage and later settled in the English colonies there.
In 1720, after assigning a major church for exclusively Catholic use, religious conflicts with the mostly Protestant inhabitants of Heidelberg caused the Roman Catholic Prince-Elector Charles III Philip to transfer his court to nearby Mannheim. The court remained there until the Elector Charles Theodore became Elector of Bavaria in 1777 and established his court in Munich. In 1742, Elector Charles Theodore began rebuilding the Palace. In 1764, a lightning bolt destroyed other palace buildings during reconstruction, causing the work to be discontinued.
1803 to 1933
Heidelberg fell to the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1803. Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden, re-founded the university, named "Ruperto-Carola" after its two founders. Notable scholars soon earned it a reputation as a "royal residence of the intellect". In the 18th century, the town was rebuilt in the Baroque style on the old medieval layout.
In 1810 the French revolution refugee Count Charles Graimberg began to preserve the palace ruins and establish a historical collection. In 1815, the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia formed the "Holy Alliance" in Heidelberg. In 1848, the German National Assembly was held there. In 1849, during the Palatinate-Baden rebellion of the 1848 Revolutions, Heidelberg was the headquarters of a revolutionary army. It was defeated by a Prussian army near Waghaeusel. The city was occupied by Prussian troops until 1850. Between 1920 and 1933, Heidelberg University became a center of notable physicians Czerny, Erb, and Krehl; and humanists Rohde, Weber, and Gandolf.
Nazism and the World War II-period
During the Nazi period (1933–1945), Heidelberg was a stronghold of the NSDAP/Nazi party, (the National Socialist German Workers' Party) the strongest party in the elections before 1933 (the NSDAP obtained 30% at the communal elections of 1930). The NSDAP received 45.9% of the votes in the German federal election of March 1933 (the national average was 43.9%). In 1934 and 1935 the Reichsarbeitsdienst (State Labor Service) and Heidelberg University students built the huge Thingstätte amphitheatre on the Heiligenberg north of the town, for Nazi Party and SS events. A few months later, the inauguration of the huge Ehrenfriedhof memorial cemetery completed the second and last NSDAP project in Heidelberg. This cemetery is on the southern side of the old part of town, a little south of the Königstuhl hilltop, and faces west towards France. During World War II and after, Wehrmacht soldiers were buried there.
During the Kristallnacht on November 9, 1938, Nazis burned down synagogues at two locations in the city. The next day, they started the systematic deportation of Jews, sending 150 to Dachau concentration camp. On October 22, 1940, during the "Wagner Buerckel event", the Nazis deported 6000 local Jews, including 281 from Heidelberg, to Camp Gurs concentration camp in France. Within a few months, as many as 1000 of them (201 from Heidelberg) died of hunger and disease. Among the deportees from Heidelberg, the poet Alfred Mombert (1872–1942) left the concentration camp in April 1941 thanks to the Swiss poet Hans Reinhart but died shortly thereafter due to illness he contracted while held prisoner. From 1942, the deportees who had survived internment in Gurs were deported to Eastern Europe, where most of them were murdered.
On March 29, 1945, German troops left the city after destroying three arches of the old bridge, Heidelberg's treasured river crossing. They also destroyed the more modern bridge downstream. The U.S. Army (63rd Infantry, 7th Army) entered the town on March 30, 1945. The civilian population surrendered without resistance.
Heidelberg, unlike most German cities and towns, was spared from Allied bombing raids during the war. A popular belief is that Heidelberg escaped bombing because the U.S. Army wanted to use the city as a garrison after the war, but, as Heidelberg was neither an industrial center nor a transport hub, it did not present a tactical or strategic target. Other notable university towns, such as Tübingen and Göttingen, were spared bombing as well. Allied air raids focused extensively on the nearby industrial cities of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen.
The U.S. Army may have chosen Heidelberg as a garrison base because of its excellent infrastructure, including the Heidelberg–Mannheim Autobahn (motorway), which connected to the Mannheim–Darmstadt–Frankfurt Autobahn, and the U.S. Army installations in Mannheim and Frankfurt. The intact rail infrastructure was more important in the late 1940s and early 1950s when most heavy loads were still carried by train, not by truck. Heidelberg had the untouched Wehrmacht barracks, the "Grossdeutschland Kaserne" which the US Army occupied soon after, renaming it the Campbell Barracks.
History after 1945
In 1945, the university was reopened relatively quickly on the initiative of a small group of professors, among whom were the anti-Nazi economist Alfred Weber and the philosopher Karl Jaspers. The surgeon Karl Heinrich Bauer was nominated rector.
On 9 December 1945, US Army General George S. Patton was involved in a car accident in the adjacent city of Mannheim and died in the Heidelberg US Army hospital on December 21, 1945. His funeral ceremony was held at the Heidelberg-Weststadt Christuskirche (Christ Church), and he was buried in the 3rd Army cemetery in Luxembourg.
During the post-war military occupation, the U.S. Army used the Thingstätte for cultural and religious events. Civilian use started in the early to mid-1980s for occasional concerts and other cultural events. Today, the celebrations on Hexennacht ("Witches' Night"), also called Walpurgis Night), the night of April 30, are a regular "underground" fixture at the Thingstätte. Thousands of mostly young people congregate there to drum, to breathe fire, and to juggle. The event has gained fame throughout the region, as well as a certain notoriety due to the amount of litter left behind. Officially, this event is forbidden due to security concerns. The City declares it will fence the Thingstätte and prosecute any trespassers.
In 2022, a mass shooting occurred in the university, killing a woman and injuring three other people. The gunman then committed suicide.
Cityscape
The old town
The "old town" (German: Altstadt), on the south bank of the Neckar, is long and narrow. It is dominated by the ruins of Heidelberg Castle, 80 metres above the Neckar on the steep wooded slopes of the Königstuhl (King's chair or throne) hill.
The Main Street (Hauptstrasse), a mile-long pedestrian street, running the length of the old town.
The old stone bridge was erected 1786–1788. A medieval bridge gate is on the side of the old town, and was originally part of the town wall. Baroque tower helmets were added as part of the erection of the stone bridge in 1788.
The Church of the Holy Spirit (Heiliggeistkirche), a late Gothic church in the marketplace of the old town.
The Karls‘ gate (Karlstor) is a triumphal arch in honour of the Prince Elector Karl Theodor, located at Heidelberg's east side. It was built 1775–1781 and designed by Nicolas de Pigage.
The house Zum Ritter Sankt Georg (Knight St. George) is one of the few buildings to survive the War of Succession. Standing across from the Church of the Holy Spirit, it was built in the style of the late Renaissance. It is named after the sculpture at the top.
The Marstall (Stables), a 16th-century building on the Neckar that has served several purposes through its history. It is now a cafeteria for the university.
Heidelberg Castle
The castle is a mix of styles from Gothic to Renaissance. Prince Elector Ruprecht III (1398–1410) erected the first building in the inner courtyard as a royal residence. The building was divided into a ground floor made of stone and framework upper levels. Another royal building is located opposite the Ruprecht Building: the Fountain Hall. Prince Elector Philipp (1476–1508) is said to have arranged the transfer of the hall's columns from a decayed palace of Charlemagne from Ingelheim to Heidelberg.
In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Prince Electors added two palace buildings and turned the fortress into a castle. The two dominant buildings at the eastern and northern side of the courtyard were erected during the rule of Ottheinrich (1556–1559) and Friedrich IV (1583–1610). Under Friedrich V (1613–1619), the main building of the west side was erected, the so-called "English Building".
The castle and its garden were destroyed several times during the Thirty Years' War and the Palatine War of Succession. As Prince Elector Karl Theodor tried to restore the castle, lightning struck in 1764, and ended all attempts at rebuilding. Later on, the castle was misused as a quarry; stones from the castle were taken to build new houses in Heidelberg. This was stopped in 1800 by Count Charles de Graimberg, who then began the process of preserving the castle.
Although the interior is in Gothic style, the King's Hall was not built until 1934. Today, the hall is used for festivities, e.g. dinner banquets, balls and theatre performances. During the Heidelberg Castle Festival in the summer, the courtyard is the site of open air musicals, operas, theatre performances, and classical concerts performed by the Heidelberg Philharmonics.
The castle is surrounded by a park, where the famous poet Johann von Goethe once walked. The Heidelberger Bergbahn funicular railway runs from Kornmakt to the summit of the Königstuhl via the castle.
The castle looks over the entire city of Heidelberg and the Neckar Valley.
Philosophers' Walk
On the northern side of the Neckar is located the Heiligenberg (Saints' Mountain), along the side of which runs the Philosophers' Walk (German: Philosophenweg), with scenic views of the old town and castle. Traditionally, Heidelberg's philosophers and university professors would walk and talk along the pathway. Farther up the mountain lie the ruined 11th-century Monastery of St. Michael, the smaller Monastery of St. Stephen, a Nazi-era amphitheater, the so-called Pagan's hole and the remains of an earthen Celtic hill fort from the 4th century BC.
Heidelberg churches
There are many historical churches in Heidelberg and its surroundings. The Church of the Holy Spirit has been shared over the centuries since the Protestant Reformation by both Catholics and Protestants. It is one of the few buildings to survive the many wars during the past centuries. It was rebuilt after the French set fire to it in 1709 during the War of the Palatinian Succession. The church has remains of the tombs and epitaphs of the past Palatinate electors. This Church stands in the Marktplatz next to the seat of local government. In 1720, Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine came into conflict with the town's Protestants as a result of giving the Church of the Holy Spirit exclusively to the Catholics for their use. It had previously been split by a partition and used by both congregations. Due to pressure by the mostly Protestant powers of Prussia, Holland, and Sweden, Prince Karl III Philip gave way and repartitioned the church for joint use. In 1936 the separating wall was removed. The church is now exclusively used by Protestants. Furthermore, there is the Catholic Church of the Jesuits. Its construction began in 1712. It was completed with the addition of a bell tower from 1866 to 1872. The church is also home to the Museum für sakrale Kunst und Liturgie (Museum of Ecclesiastical Arts). The oldest church in Heidelberg is the St. Peter's Church (now Lutheran). It was built some time during the 12th century.
Tourism
In 2004, 81.8% of people worked for service industries, including tourism. As a relic of the period of Romanticism, Heidelberg has been labeled a "Romantic town". This is used to attract more than 11.9 million visitors every year. Many events are organized to attract visitors. One of the biggest tourist attractions is the Christmas market during the winter time.
Popular movies, TV and games
Heidelberg features in the 1968 film The Girl on a Motorcycle, the university being the ultimate destination of Marianne Faithfull's character.
Heidelberg also features during a mission in the Electronic Arts strategy game Red Alert 3.
Morris from America takes places in Heidelberg.
In the Watchmen TV series which serves as alternate direct sequels to the original Watchmen graphic novel, Dr. Manhattan aka Jonathan "Jon" Osterman aka Calvin "Cal" Abar (né Jelani), is said to be born in Heidelberg, Germany and immigrates to the US along with his father.
Heidelberg is also revealed to be the home town of Sergeant Schultz on Hogan's Heroes.
Popular literature
Heidelberg Castle forms the setting for the beginning of Mark Twain's story The Awful German Language.
Most of David Lodge's novel Out of the Shelter takes place in Heidelberg in 1951 during the American occupation after World War II.
Heidelberg is the home of a professional Quidditch team operating within the fictional Harry Potter universe: the Heidelberg Harriers have been described as “fiercer than a dragon and twice as clever”.[45]
Heidelberg is the residence of fictional character Nina Fortner/Anna Liebert in the anime/manga series Monster, by Naoki Urasawa.
Heidelberg also features in Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage and its film versions.
Heidelberg also is he setting of some German crime novels, for example by Wolfgang Burger (protagonist: Detective Gerlach) or Carlo Schäfer (protagonist: Detective Theurer).
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Heidelberg ([ˈhaɪ̯dl̩bɛɐ̯k], etymologische Bedeutung unsicher) ist eine Großstadt mit 159.245 Einwohnern (31. Dezember 2021) im deutschen Bundesland Baden-Württemberg. Die Stadt liegt am Neckar dort, wo dieser den Odenwald verlässt und in den Oberrheingraben eintritt. Die ehemalige kurpfälzische Residenzstadt ist bekannt für ihre malerische Altstadt, ihre Schlossruine und ihre Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, die die älteste Hochschule auf dem Gebiet des heutigen Deutschlands ist. Die Stadt zieht Besucher und Wissenschaftler aus der ganzen Welt an.
Hinsichtlich der Einwohnerzahl ist Heidelberg die fünftgrößte Stadt Baden-Württembergs und auf Platz 52 der größten Städte Deutschlands. Sie ist ein Stadtkreis und zugleich Sitz des umliegenden Rhein-Neckar-Kreises. Das dicht besiedelte Rhein-Neckar-Gebiet, in dem Heidelberg gemeinsam mit den Großstädten Mannheim und Ludwigshafen am Rhein liegt, wird als Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar bezeichnet.
Lage
Heidelberg liegt zum Teil in der Oberrheinischen Tiefebene überwiegend am linken Ufer des unteren Neckars vor dessen Ausfluss aus dem Odenwald in einer länglich, flussaufwärts sich zuspitzenden Talsohle. Der Neckar fließt hier von Ost nach West, am rechten Neckarufer erhebt sich der Heiligenberg (445 m). Im Süden wird Heidelberg vom Königstuhl (568 m) und vom Gaisberg (375 m) begrenzt. Der Neckar mündet etwa 22 Kilometer nordwestlich, gemessen vom Ende der Talsohle, in Mannheim in den Rhein. Die im 20. Jahrhundert eingemeindeten Orte reichen über das Neckartal in die Bergstraße hinein, die am Rand des Odenwalds entlangführt. Die Stadt liegt in der Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar, einem 2,35 Millionen Einwohner zählenden Verdichtungsraum, der neben Teilen Südhessens und der rheinland-pfälzischen Vorderpfalz in Baden-Württemberg die beiden Stadtkreise Mannheim und Heidelberg sowie die westlichen und südlichen Gemeinden des Rhein-Neckar-Kreises umfasst.
Geschichte
Die Stadt Heidelberg wurde im 12. Jahrhundert gegründet; ihre Geschichte reicht aber bis in keltische und römische Zeiten zurück. Vom 13. Jahrhundert bis zum Jahr 1720 war Heidelberg Residenz der Pfalzgrafen bei Rhein und Hauptstadt der Kurpfalz.
Vorgeschichte
Nahe bei Heidelberg, in der Gemeinde Mauer, fand man 1907 in einer Sandgrube den Unterkiefer eines Urmenschen (Unterkiefer von Mauer), einen der ältesten Funde der Gattung Homo in Europa überhaupt. Von dieser ausgestorbenen Hominiden-Art Homo heidelbergensis (Heidelbergmensch) stammt der Neandertaler ab.
Kelten
Ab etwa 500 v. Chr. gründeten die Kelten auf dem Heiligenberg eine größere befestigte Siedlung. Deren doppelter Ringwall, zum Schutz gegen die vordringenden Germanen angelegt, ist noch zu erkennen. 200 Jahre später wurde diese Anlage aus ungeklärten Gründen aufgegeben.
Römer
Das römerzeitliche Heidelberg bestand vom 1. bis zum 3. Jahrhundert n. Chr. Um 70 n. Chr. gründeten die Römer ein Lager im heutigen Neuenheim, das um 90 durch zwei steinerne Kastelle ersetzt wurde. Über den Neckar führte zunächst eine hölzerne Brücke, ab circa 200 eine Steinpfeilerbrücke. Auf dem Gipfel des Heiligenbergs entstand ein Merkurtempel, auch der Mithras-Kult war in Heidelberg verbreitet. Der Hauptort der Region war in römischer Zeit das benachbarte Lopodunum (heute Ladenburg), aber auch um das Militärlager in Heidelberg (dessen lateinischer Name unbekannt ist) entwickelte sich ein florierendes Töpfereizentrum.
Nach 260 mussten sich die Römer vor dem Germanenstamm der Alamannen, der den Limes durchbrochen hatte und in römisches Territorium eingefallen war, an den Rhein zurückziehen. Der Sieg des Merowingerkönigs Chlodwig I. über die Alamannen im Jahr 506 machte Heidelberg schließlich zu einem Teil des Frankenreichs, zugleich wurde das Gebiet christianisiert.
Mittelalter
870 wurde auf dem Gipfel des Heiligenbergs an Stelle des alten Merkurtempels das Michaelskloster als Filialkloster des Klosters Lorsch, das zu jener Zeit mit dem Bistum Worms um die Vorherrschaft in der Region rang, gegründet. Später folgten eine weitere Filiale, das Stephanskloster, und das Stift Neuburg.
Die älteste schriftliche Erwähnung Heidelbergs stammt aus dem Jahr 1196. Es ist aber davon auszugehen, dass der Ort bereits im Laufe des 12. Jahrhunderts entstanden war. Zu jener Zeit war Heidelberg im Besitz des Bistums Worms und bestand aus der Oberen Burg auf der Molkenkur am Hang des Königsstuhls und einem Burgweiler im Bereich der Peterskirche am Fuße des Berges. Viele der heutigen Stadtteile Heidelbergs gehen auf Dörfer zurück, die schon zur Frankenzeit im 6. Jahrhundert entstanden waren. Einige von ihnen wurden im Lorscher Codex erstmals urkundlich erwähnt, Neuenheim und Handschuhsheim etwa im Jahr 765.
Der Vorgängerbau des Heidelberger Schlosses wurde im 13. Jahrhundert auf dem Jettenbühl errichtet. Wohl zur gleichen Zeit wurde die Stadt im Bereich zwischen Königstuhl und Neckar planmäßig mit einem rechtwinkligen Grundriss und dem Marktplatz im Zentrum angelegt. Diese Stadtanlage nahm den östlichen Teil der heutigen Altstadt bis zur Grabengasse ein. Sie war von einer Stadtmauer umgeben, über den Neckar führte eine Brücke.
Kaiser Friedrich I. Barbarossa hatte 1156 seinen Halbbruder Konrad den Staufer zum Pfalzgrafen bei Rhein ernannt. Die Pfalzgrafschaft wurde später von der Dynastie der Wittelsbacher regiert und entwickelte sich zu einem größeren Territorialgebilde innerhalb des Heiligen Römischen Reichs. Im Jahr 1225 erhielt der Pfalzgraf bei Rhein das vormals Wormser Heidelberg als Lehen. In der Goldenen Bulle wurde 1356 den Pfalzgrafen bei Rhein die Kurwürde verliehen. Von da an waren sie als Kurfürsten von der Pfalz bekannt, ihr Herrschaftsgebiet wurde als Kurpfalz bezeichnet. Anfangs hatten die Pfalzgrafen keine feste Residenz, sondern hielten sich an verschiedenen Orten ihres Herrschaftsbereichs auf. Schon im 13. Jahrhundert hatte Heidelberg den Charakter einer Residenzstadt entwickelt. Als im 14. Jahrhundert die Reiseherrschaft aufgegeben wurde, konnte sich die Stadt gegen Neustadt an der Haardt durchsetzen und wurde zur Hauptstadt der Kurpfalz.
Im Jahr 1386 gründete Ruprecht I. die Universität Heidelberg als dritte Hochschule im Heiligen Römischen Reich (nach Prag und Wien). Sie ist die älteste Universität in Deutschland. 1392 wurde Heidelberg umfangreich erweitert, das Stadtgebiet nahezu verdoppelt und entsprach der heutigen Altstadt. Von der Herrschaft Ruprechts III., der im Jahr 1400 zum römisch-deutschen König gewählt wurde, profitierte Heidelberg durch den Bau der Heiliggeistkirche. Seine Nachfolger machten die Universität Heidelberg gegen Ende des 15. Jahrhunderts zu einer Hochburg des frühen Humanismus.
Neuzeit
Martin Luthers reformatorische Ideen hatten sich schon in der ersten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts in Südwestdeutschland verbreitet. Die Bevölkerung entschied sich 1545/1546 für die Annahme des neuen Glaubens, dessen Einführung Paul Fagius im Auftrag von Friedrich II. vorbereiten sollte.[14] Unter Kurfürst Ottheinrich (1556–1559) wurde in der Kurpfalz schließlich die Reformation eingeführt. Nach dem Übergang zum Calvinismus zog Heidelberg Studenten und Wissenschaftler aus ganz Westeuropa an und galt nach Leiden als drittes Genf. So erschien 1563 in Heidelberg der Heidelberger Katechismus und 1572 die erste deutsche Gesamtübersetzung der Institutio Christianae Religionis, des Hauptwerks von Johannes Calvin. Gegen Ende des Jahrhunderts wurde in Heidelberg eine Vielzahl prächtiger Renaissancebauten errichtet, die im Pfälzer Erbfolgekrieg allesamt zerstört wurden – lediglich die Fassade des Hauses zum Ritter überstand die Verheerungen. Auch das Schloss wurde damals wesentlich erweitert und von der mittelalterlichen Burg zu einer neuzeitlichen Residenz umgestaltet.
Um seiner Gattin, der englischen Königstochter Elisabeth Stuart, ein standesgemäßes Hofleben bieten zu können, ließ Kurfürst Friedrich V. (1610–1623) das Heidelberger Schloss durch den Bau des Hortus Palatinus umgestalten. Auf politischem Terrain war Friedrich als Führer der Protestantischen Union in die Wirren des Dreißigjährigen Kriegs verwickelt, als er sich 1619 zum böhmischen König wählen ließ. Er konnte sich aber nicht gegen den katholischen Kaiser durchsetzen und wurde 1620 in der Schlacht am Weißen Berge geschlagen. Wegen seiner kurzen Herrschaft ging er als Winterkönig in die Geschichte ein. In den ersten Wochen des Septembers 1622 belagerte Tilly als Heerführer der Katholischen Liga Heidelberg erfolgreich. Die Einnahme Heidelbergs erfolgte am 16. September. Die Stadt blieb, wie die ganze rechtsrheinische Kurpfalz, bis zu den Friedensschlüssen von Münster und Osnabrück bayerisch besetzt (während die linksrheinische Kurpfalz spanisch wurde). Allerdings wurde die Stadt wiederholt erobert und war zwischen 1632 und 1634 von schwedischen Truppen besetzt. Während dieser Zeit schenkte Herzog Maximilian I. von Bayern die Bibliotheca Palatina Papst Gregor XV. Sie wird seitdem in der Bibliotheca Vaticana verwahrt (und hat auf diese Weise die spätere Zerstörung Heidelbergs durch die Truppen Ludwigs XIV. im Pfälzischen Erbfolgekrieg sicher überdauert). Heidelberg wurde vom Krieg schwer getroffen, die Bevölkerung litt große Not. Im Westfälischen Frieden, der 1648 den Dreißigjährigen Krieg beendete, wurde die Kurpfalz wiederhergestellt, sie verlor aber viel von ihrem politischen Gewicht.
Als Kurfürst Karl II. 1685 kinderlos verstarb, erlosch die Linie Pfalz-Simmern des Hauses Wittelsbach, und die Kurfürstenwürde ging auf die katholische Nebenlinie Pfalz-Neuburg über. Aus den Erbansprüchen, die der französische König Ludwig XIV. nun mit Verweis auf seine Schwägerin Elisabeth Charlotte (besser bekannt als Liselotte von der Pfalz) erhob, resultierte der Pfälzische Erbfolgekrieg. Im Verlaufe dieses Krieges wurde Heidelberg zweimal, 1688 und 1693, von französischen Truppen eingenommen und dabei komplett verwüstet. Nachdem der Erbfolgekrieg 1697 beendet war, baute man das zerstörte Heidelberg im Stil des Barock auf mittelalterlichem Grundriss wieder auf. Die nunmehr katholischen Kurfürsten siedelten in der Stadt Jesuiten an.
Das Heidelberger Schloss war nach der Zerstörung durch die Franzosen unbewohnbar, entsprach aber ohnehin nicht mehr dem barocken Zeitgeschmack, der großzügige Schlossanlagen nach dem Vorbild von Versailles bevorzugte. Pläne, eine solche Residenz in der Ebene im Bereich des heutigen Stadtteils Bergheim zu bauen, scheiterten am Widerstand der Heidelberger Bürgerschaft, und so entschloss sich Karl III. Philipp 1720 nach einem Streit mit den Heidelberger Protestanten um die evangelische Heiliggeistkirche, die der katholische Kurfürst für sich beanspruchte, seine Residenz nach Mannheim zu verlegen. In der Quadratestadt, die dem barocken Zeitgeist und dem Repräsentationsinteresse des Kurfürsten weitaus mehr entsprach als das mittelalterliche Heidelberg, ließ er das prunkvolle Schloss Mannheim errichten. Heidelberg verlor seine Stellung als politisches Machtzentrum und litt auch ökonomisch durch den Weggang des Hofstaats. Von der Herrschaftszeit Kurfürst Carl Theodors (1743–1799) profitierte aber auch Heidelberg durch den Bau der Alten Brücke und des Karlstores. Die Instandsetzung des Schlosses wurde 1764 nach einem verheerenden Blitzschlag wieder eingestellt.
1803 bis 1933
Im Reichsdeputationshauptschluss des Jahres 1803 wurde die Kurpfalz aufgelöst, die rechtsrheinischen Gebiete und somit auch Heidelberg wurden dem bald darauf zum Großherzogtum erhobenen Baden zugeschlagen. Der badische Großherzog Karl Friedrich (1771–1811) machte die Hochschule zu einer staatlich finanzierten Lehranstalt und verhalf ihr zum Wiederaufstieg zu einer renommierten Bildungsstätte. Ihm und dem Universitätsgründer, Kurfürst Ruprecht I., zu Ehren erhielt die Universität Heidelberg den neuen Namen „Ruprecht-Karls-Universität“.
Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts wurde die Neckarstadt zu einem der wichtigsten Orte der deutschen Romantik, begünstigt durch die schöne Landschaft und die pittoreske Schlossruine. Das Wirken von Dichtern wie Friedrich Hölderlin, Ludwig Achim von Arnim, Clemens Brentano und Joseph von Eichendorff wurde als „Heidelberger Romantik“ bekannt. Arnim und Brentano veröffentlichten zwischen 1806 und 1808 in Heidelberg unter dem Titel Des Knaben Wunderhorn eine Sammlung deutscher Volkslieder. Auch ein Künstlerzirkel um die Maler Carl Philipp Fohr, Carl Rottmann und Ernst Fries entstand in Heidelberg.
Während des Vormärzes wurden an der Heidelberger Universität nationale, liberale und demokratische Ideen verbreitet. Nach Beginn der Märzrevolution versammelten sich am 5. März 1848 liberale und demokratische Politiker aus Südwestdeutschland zur Heidelberger Versammlung, die maßgebliche Impulse zum Vorparlament und somit zur Konstituierung der Frankfurter Nationalversammlung setzte. Nach dem Scheitern der Nationalversammlung wurde der Maiaufstand in Baden von zu Hilfe gerufenen preußischen Truppen niedergeschlagen. Auch in Heidelberg kam es zu Kämpfen gegen liberale Freischärler.
Die Industrialisierung ging an der Neckarstadt ohne größere Spuren vorbei. Der Tourismus entwickelte sich ab dem frühen 19. Jahrhundert, vor allem ab dem Anschluss der Stadt an das Eisenbahnnetz im Jahr 1840, zu einem wichtigen Wirtschaftsfaktor in Heidelberg, ebenfalls nahm die Zahl der Studenten zu, von denen viele den Studentenverbindungen angehörten. Joseph Victor von Scheffels Gedicht Alt-Heidelberg, du feine (später in der vertonten Version ein populäres Studentenlied) und das 1901 uraufgeführte Schauspiel Alt-Heidelberg machten Heidelberg zu einem Sinnbild des Studentenlebens im 19. Jahrhundert.
Im letzten Viertel des 19. Jahrhunderts erlebte Heidelberg eine rasante Expansion, als das Stadtgebiet durch zahlreiche Eingemeindungen vergrößert wurde. Die Einwohnerzahl Heidelbergs stieg von 20.000 im Jahr 1871 auf 85.000, also mehr als das Vierfache, im Jahr 1933. Zugleich wurde die Infrastruktur mit der Einführung der Straßenbahn und der Bergbahn sowie der Kanalisierung des Neckars (in den 1920er Jahren) ausgebaut. 1930 ermöglichten großzügige Spenden von einflussreichen US-Bürgern den Bau des Hörsaalgebäudes der Neuen Universität am Universitätsplatz. Eine Gedenkplakette im Innern des Hörsaalgebäudes nennt unter anderem die Familie Chrysler.
Die Wahlergebnisse der NSDAP lagen in Heidelberg meist über dem Durchschnitt der Ergebnisse im Reich oder in Baden: Bei der Reichstagswahl am 20. Mai 1928 im Reich 2,6 %, in Baden 2,9 % und in Heidelberg 4,4 %; bei der Reichstagswahl am 14. September 1930 im Reich 18,3 %, in Baden 19,2 % und in Heidelberg 30,2 %.
Zeit des Nationalsozialismus und Zweiter Weltkrieg
Nach der Machtergreifung der Nationalsozialisten am 30. Januar 1933 begann eines der dunkelsten Kapitel der Stadt, die organisierte Diskriminierung von Juden und anderen „Nichtariern“. Die NSDAP wurde bei den Reichstagswahlen vom 5. März 1933 mit 45,8 % der abgegebenen Stimmen (Reich: 43,9 %; Baden: 45,4 %) die stärkste Partei in der Stadt. Im April 1933 wurden alle „nichtarischen“ Beamten zwangsbeurlaubt, bis 1939 verlor die Heidelberger Universität mehr als ein Drittel ihres Lehrkörpers aus rassistischen oder politischen Gründen (1930 waren 9 % des Lehrkörpers jüdischer Konfession). Während der Reichspogromnacht am 9. November 1938 brannten Heidelberger Nationalsozialisten die Synagogen in der Altstadt und in Rohrbach nieder. Zeitgleich zerstörten sie den Betsaal in der Plöck 35 und verwüsteten bzw. plünderten zahlreiche Geschäfte und Wohnungen jüdischer Bürger vor den Augen der Bevölkerung und der Polizei. Am nächsten Tag wurden 150 Heidelberger Juden in das Konzentrationslager Dachau zur vorgeblichen Schutzhaft verschleppt, um sie zur Emigration zu nötigen und ihr Vermögen zu arisieren. Am 22. Oktober 1940 wurden in der „Wagner-Bürckel-Aktion“ über 6000 badische Juden, darunter 280 aus Heidelberg, in das Internierungslager Camp de Gurs nach Südwestfrankreich deportiert. Nur wenige überlebten.
Als sichtbare bauliche Hinterlassenschaft steht die Thingstätte auf dem Heiligenberg, eine zwischen 1934 und 1935 vom Reichsarbeitsdienst und Heidelberger Studenten errichtete Freilichtbühne. Ebenso wurde der Ehrenfriedhof auf dem Ameisenbuckel 1934 vom Reichsarbeitsdienst angelegt. 1935 wurde die Reichsautobahn Heidelberg–Mannheim eingeweiht, heute als A 656 bekannt, und an beiden Endstücken, in Mannheim und Heidelberg, auf Bundesstraßenniveau herabgesetzt, heute die B 37. Bis in die späten 1990er Jahre führte die A 656 direkt nach Mannheim und Heidelberg hinein.
Das mit Lazaretten angefüllte Heidelberg überstand als eine der wenigen deutschen Großstädte den Zweiten Weltkrieg nahezu unversehrt. Den ersten Luftangriff flogen die Alliierten in der Nacht vom 19. auf den 20. September 1940, als der Stadtteil Pfaffengrund von Bomben getroffen wurde. Am 23. September 1940 folgte als Vergeltung für diesen Angriff auf Heidelberg ein deutscher Luftangriff auf Cambridge. Kleinere Luftangriffe in den Jahren 1944 und 1945 richteten nur geringe Schäden an. Von den 9.129 Wohngebäuden Heidelbergs wurden insgesamt 13 total zerstört (0,14 %), 32 schwer beschädigt (0,35 %), 80 mittelgradig (0,87 %) und 200 leicht beschädigt (2,19 %). Von 25 933 Wohnungen wurden 45 total zerstört (0,17 %) und 1 420 beschädigt (5,47 %). Der Wohnraumverlust durch Luftangriffe betrug insgesamt 0,8 %. Güterbahnhof und Tiergarten wurden durch Bomben bzw. Artilleriebeschuss schwer beschädigt. Durch Luftangriffe kamen in Heidelberg insgesamt 241 Menschen ums Leben.
Warum Heidelberg fast verschont blieb, ist nicht gänzlich klar. Zahlreiche Zeitzeugen aus Altstadt, Weststadt und Pfaffengrund berichten davon, dass in Heidelberg wenige Monate vor dem US-Einmarsch Flugblätter abgeworfen wurden mit der Aufschrift „Heidelberg wollen wir schonen, denn wir wollen selbst drin wohnen“; lediglich der genaue Wortlaut variiert geringfügig je nach Bericht. Die Ankündigung der Verschonung und Befreiung wurde von allen Zeitzeugen weggeworfen, sodass bis heute kein Exemplar archiviert werden konnte.
Bei ihrem Rückzug am 29. März 1945 sprengte die Wehrmacht u. a. die Alte Brücke. Am 30. März marschierten die amerikanischen Truppen der 63rd Infantry Division der 7. US-Armee ein, ohne auf nennenswerten Widerstand zu treffen. Sie konnten viele Gebäude in der Stadt für ihre Zwecke übernehmen, u. a. die Großdeutschland-Kaserne, die seitdem den Namen Campbell Barracks trägt. Bis Kriegsende war dort das deutsche Infanterieregiment 110 stationiert, das der 33. Infanteriedivision und ab Ende 1940 der 112. Infanteriedivision unterstellt und im Frankreich- und Russlandfeldzug eingesetzt worden war.
Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg
Das unversehrte Heidelberg zog nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg viele ausgebombte und vertriebene Menschen an. Heidelberg wurde Teil der amerikanischen Besatzungszone und Standort hoher Kommandostellen der US-Armee und später auch der NATO. Dafür enteigneten die amerikanischen Behörden Immobilien, was zunächst für Unmut sorgte. Von 1948 bis 2013 waren die Campbell Barracks in Heidelberg Sitz des Hauptquartiers der United States Army Europe (USAREUR), der früheren 7. US-Armee. Bis 2013 war die Stadt zudem Sitz des NATO-Landhauptquartiers Mitteleuropa.
Im Oktober 2009 wurde bekanntgegeben, dass das Hauptquartier von USAREUR nach Wiesbaden verlegt werden sollte. Im August 2011 verließ das traditionsreiche V. US Army Corps Heidelberg und zog nach Wiesbaden um. Im September 2013 wurden die Campbell Barracks offiziell von der US-Armee geschlossen. Mit dem Umzug in das neue Hauptquartier nach Wiesbaden-Erbenheim ging 2013 in Heidelberg die 65 Jahre währende Geschichte der USAREUR – und der amerikanischen Truppen generell – zu Ende. Im Jahre 2008 hatten die amerikanischen Streitkräfte noch fast 200 Hektar Fläche belegt, unter anderem für zwei Kasernen, zwei Wohnsiedlungen sowie ein Militärkrankenhaus (Nachrichten Kaserne). 2010 lebten rund 16.000 US-Amerikaner in Heidelberg; die Amerikaner hatten damals also einen Anteil an der Heidelberger Bevölkerung von zehn Prozent.
Die Ruprecht-Karls-Universität nahm im Januar 1946 als zweite westdeutsche Hochschule nach Göttingen den Lehrbetrieb wieder auf. Schon vor dem Krieg waren vereinzelte Einrichtungen der Universität vom Altstadtcampus nach Neuenheim auf die andere Neckarseite verlegt worden, ab 1951 begann man dann mit dem Aufbau eines komplett neuen Campus, des Neuenheimer Feldes, am westlichen Stadtrand. Mitte der 1970er Jahre war der Ausbau des 120 Hektar großen Geländes im Wesentlichen beendet. 1955 wurde der Hauptbahnhof an seine heutige Stelle rund 1,2 Kilometer westlich des alten Standortes verlegt. Die freigewordene Fläche nutzte man für den Bau zahlreicher Verwaltungsgebäude an der Kurfürstenanlage. Um der wachsenden Einwohnerzahl Heidelbergs Rechnung zu tragen, entstanden in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren im Süden der Stadt mit Boxberg und Emmertsgrund zwei gänzlich neue Wohngebiete.
Mit der Eingemeindung der im Neckartal gelegenen Gemeinde Ziegelhausen war die flächenmäßige Expansion Heidelbergs 1975 abgeschlossen. Während der Amtszeit von Oberbürgermeister Reinhold Zundel (1966 bis 1990) wurde die Altstadt saniert, die Hauptstraße mit 1,6 Kilometern Länge in eine der längsten Fußgängerzonen Europas umgewandelt und der Bismarckplatz erhielt seine heutige Form.
In den 1970er und 1980er Jahren verübte die Terrororganisation RAF in Heidelberg zwei Anschläge gegen amerikanische Militäreinrichtungen. Am 24. Mai 1972 wurden durch einen Sprengstoffanschlag auf das US-Hauptquartier der 7. US-Armee in den Campbell Barracks die amerikanischen Soldaten Clyde R. Bonner, Charles L. Peck sowie Ronald A. Woodward getötet und fünf weitere Personen schwer verletzt. Das Attentat vom 15. September 1981 auf den Oberbefehlshaber der US-Landstreitkräfte in Europa, General Frederick James Kroesen, mit einer reaktiven Panzerbüchse des sowjetischen Typs RPG-7 am Heidelberger Karlstor scheiterte, da das LKA Baden-Württemberg ihm kurz zuvor eine gepanzerte Mercedes-Benz-Limousine zugeteilt hatte, nachdem verdächtige Personen bei der Observation Kroesens beobachtet worden waren.
Ein Antrag auf die Aufnahme des Schlosses und der Altstadt in die UNESCO-Liste des Weltkulturerbes wurde 2005 und 2007 abgelehnt.
Am Mittag des 24. Januar 2022 schoss ein 18-jähriger in einem Hörsaal des Centre for Organismal Studies der Universität auf dort anwesende Personen, wobei es drei Verletzte und ein Todesopfer gab. Der Täter beging anschließend Suizid.
Kultur und Sehenswürdigkeiten
Bauwerke und Anlagen
Heidelberg ist eine der wenigen deutschen Großstädte, die im Zweiten Weltkrieg nicht zerstört wurden. Eine Besonderheit ist die barocke Altstadt, die – nach den Zerstörungen in den Jahren 1689 und 1693 – auf mittelalterlichem Grundriss neu errichtet wurde. In der Altstadt, die mit 1,6 km Länge eine der längsten Fußgängerzonen Europas hat, befinden sich auch die meisten der bedeutenden Bauwerke. Im gesamten Stadtgebiet stehen etwa 2830 Gebäude unter Denkmalschutz (Stand: April 2017).
Schloss
Das Heidelberger Schloss ist eine der berühmtesten Ruinen Deutschlands und das Wahrzeichen der Stadt. Das Bauwerk entstand ursprünglich als wehrhafte Burg an strategisch günstiger Lage oberhalb einer Verengung des Neckartals und wurde später zur prachtvollen Residenz der Kurfürsten von der Pfalz ausgebaut. Seit den Zerstörungen 1689 und 1693 im Pfälzischen Erbfolgekrieg wurde das Schloss nur teilweise restauriert. 1764 besiegelte ein weiterer Brand nach Blitzschlag das Los des damals gerade renovierten Schlosses. Es wurde aufgegeben und die Ruine als Steinbruch (Baumaterial) für das neue Schwetzinger Sommerschloss und später für die Heidelberger Bürger verwendet, bevor es Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts von Literaten entdeckt und als Sinnbild für die Vergänglichkeit, in der Epoche der napoleonischen Kriege aber auch als patriotisches Monument begriffen wurde. Die Schlossruine erhebt sich 80 Meter über dem Talgrund am Nordhang des Königstuhls und dominiert von dort das Bild der Altstadt. Der Ottheinrichsbau, einer der Palastbauten des Schlosses, gehört zu den bedeutendsten Bauwerken der Renaissance nördlich der Alpen.
Alte Brücke
Der offizielle Name der Alten Brücke ist Karl-Theodor-Brücke. Sie gehört zu Deutschlands ältesten Brückenbauten und wurde 1284 erstmals urkundlich erwähnt. Es gab viele Vorgängerbauten aus Holz, die jedoch wiederholt durch Eisgang zerstört wurden. In ihrer heutigen Form wurde sie 1788 erbaut, jedoch wurden gegen Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges zwei Pfeiler von der Wehrmacht gesprengt, um die vorrückenden alliierten Truppen aufzuhalten. Im Jahr 1947 war die Brücke vollständig rekonstruiert.
Bedeutende Kirchen
Die Heiliggeistkirche ist die bekannteste Kirche Heidelbergs. Sie steht im Zentrum der Stadt, nur unweit des Heidelberger Schlosses. Ihre Fassade prägt zusammen mit dem Schloss die Silhouette der Neckarstadt. Sie diente einst als Aufbewahrungsort der berühmten Bibliotheca Palatina, doch während des Dreißigjährigen Krieges wurde die Sammlung von Handschriften und frühen Drucken von Kurfürst Maximilian I. geraubt und dem Papst als Geschenk überreicht.
Die älteste Kirche der Heidelberger Altstadt ist die Peterskirche. Es wird vermutet, dass die Peterskirche schon vor der Gründung Heidelbergs errichtet wurde. Ihr Alter wird auf etwa 900 Jahre geschätzt. Im Spätmittelalter wurde sie zur Universitätskapelle. Sie dient als letzte Ruhestätte für etwa 150 Professoren und kurfürstliche Hofleute. Unter anderem ist hier auch Marsilius von Inghen begraben, der Gründungsrektor der Universität Heidelberg. Zum 400. Geburtstag Martin Luthers wurde an der Ostseite 1883 die Luthereiche gepflanzt.
Unweit befindet sich die im Jahr 1749 fertiggestellte Jesuitenkirche. Sie ist das Wahrzeichen der Gegenreformation in Heidelberg und bildete einst den Mittelpunkt des ehemaligen Jesuitenviertels.
Repräsentative Kirchbauten des Historismus entstanden Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts in der planmäßig angelegten Weststadt: die evangelische Christuskirche (1904) und die katholische Bonifatiuskirche (1903).
Historische Bauwerke
Eines der ältesten noch erhaltenen Gebäude in der Heidelberger Altstadt ist das Hotel „Zum Ritter“. Es wurde 1592 von einer Tuchhändlerfamilie erbaut. Mit seinem Standort in der Altstadt gegenüber der Heiliggeistkirche ist es eine der meistbesuchten Sehenswürdigkeiten Heidelbergs.
Am östlichen Rand der Altstadt steht das Karlstor, ein freistehender Torbogen, welcher ein Geschenk der Bürger Heidelbergs an den Kurfürsten Karl Theodor war. Die Bauarbeiten dauerten sechs Jahre und wurden 1781 abgeschlossen. Das Karlstor ist dekoriert, unter anderem befinden sich das Wappen des Kurfürsten sowie Porträts von ihm und seiner Ehefrau auf dem Torbogen.
In der Altstadt befinden sich weitere historische Gebäude der Universität Heidelberg. Eines der bedeutendsten ist die Universitätsbibliothek, in der die zentrale Bibliothek der Universität und ein Museum mit alten Handschriften und Codices, ebenfalls Teil des Buchbestandes der Universität, untergebracht sind. Eine davon ist der Codex Manesse, die umfangreichste und berühmteste deutsche Liederhandschrift des Mittelalters. Die gesamte Bibliothek befindet sich in einem klassizistischen Gebäude aus rotem Sandstein.
Historische Orte
Einen berühmten und oft dargestellten Ausblick auf die Heidelberger Altstadt hat man vom Philosophenweg. Der Weg beginnt im Stadtteil Neuenheim, führt halb auf den Heiligenberg, welcher sich auf dem dem Heidelberger Schloss gegenüberliegenden Neckarufer befindet, und zieht sich dann oberhalb vom Neckar durch das Tal bis nach Ziegelhausen.
Der Bergfriedhof ist eine der bekanntesten letzten Ruhestätten Deutschlands. Viele bedeutende Persönlichkeiten wie der erste Reichspräsident Friedrich Ebert oder die Wissenschaftler Carl Bosch und Robert Bunsen liegen hier begraben. Zahlreiche Denkmäler erinnern an die Opfer vergangener Kriege und des Holocaust.
(Wikipedia)
History
The John Rogers who bought Riverhill in 1840 was an only child, with a modest fortune, and a fine intellect. He became a classics scholar, a scientist and a friend of Charles Darwin. He was one of the first members of the Royal Horticultural Society and a patron of the plant collectors of the day.
He chose Riverhill because its sheltered situation offered an ideal lime free hillside where he could hope to establish newly introduced trees and shrubs. From his garden notebook, it can be seen that planting started in 1842. Subsequent generations, continued the planting and in 1910 Colonel John Middleton Rogers created what is now known as ‘The Wood Garden’ a fine collection of Japanese Maples, Rhododendrons and Azaleas. His wife, the infamous Muriel, created many additions including the now hidden Rock Gardens.
Until the beginning of the 2nd World War, eight full time gardeners kept Riverhill looking immaculate. Since the war years, however, a shortage of manpower and a lack of money has meant that the garden was allowed to deteriorate, with many parts of the original planting lost to everyday use and visitors.
Today, four generations of the Rogers family live at Riverhill,
The estate is managed by Edward Rogers (Great-great-great-grandson of the John Rogers who bought Riverhill in 1840) and his wife, Sarah.
“In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny.”
(Henry David Thoreau - American Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)
This man was having a ritual bath in the holy waters of the Ganges at Munshi ghat in Varanasi (Benaras).
Maybe his mind was then connected to the study of the origin and development of the universe mentioned by Henry David Thoreau...
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Alice: Diana has really gotten my curiosity up, Batman. Quite a declaration! The greatest mind in the Justice League!
Batman: ...
Wonder Woman: (thinking) Oh no, I know that look. Alice, be careful with what you say. Should I interrupt? No, it would do no good.
Alice: Why, it's actually like a gauntlet being thrown down. I think such an intellect should be tested.
Batman: ...
Olieverf op canvas, 137,5 x 104,5
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
Wie de man op het schilderij is, is een onderwerp van voortdurende discussie. Klassieke helden, zoals Achilles, of goden, zoals Mars en Apollo, zijn voorgesteld, terwijl krijgergodinnen zoals Bellona en Pallas Athene (de Romeinse Minerva) ook zijn voorgesteld op grond van de jeugdige trekken van het onderwerp en de prominente pareloorring. Deze laatste bewering wordt ondersteund door de aanwezigheid van een uil - een heilig symbool voor Athene - in reliëf in de voorhoofdsplaat van het pantser.
Het meest waarschijnlijke onderwerp van het schilderij is echter de succesvolle Macedonische koning Alexander de Grote. Hij was beroemd om zijn intellect, jeugd en militaire bekwaamheid en, zoals veel soldaten in de klassieke oudheid, vereerde Athene - die hier allemaal vertegenwoordigd zijn.
Several years ago I created a group for women called WIIPS (Women of Intellect, Influence, Power & Strength) I believe a woman can be a most delicate, refined and elegant creature but beneath that demure facade lies a fierce warrior....Mari
Breaking Benjamin - Blow Me Away (Good Song)
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Bonnie Tyler-I Need A Hero
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Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods ?
Where's the street-wise Hercules to fight the rising odds ?
Isn't there a white knight upon a fiery steed ?
Late at night I toss and I turn and I dream of what I need
I need a hero, I'm holding out for at hero 'till the end of the night
He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast
And he's gotta be fresh from the fight
I need a hero, I'm holding out for a hero 'till the morning light
He's gotta be sure and it's gotta be soon
And he's gotta be larger than life, larger than life
Doo doo doo doooo, doo doo doo doooo, doo doo doo doooo
Aaahhh, aaahhh
Somewhere after midnight, in my wildest fantasy
Somewhere just beyond my reach
There's someone reaching back for me
Racing on the thunder and rising with the heat
It's gonna take a superman to sweep me off my feet
I need a hero, I'm holding out for a hero 'till the end of the night
He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast
And he's gotta be fresh from the fight
I need a hero, I'm holding out for a hero 'till the morning light
He's gotta be sure and it's gotta be soon
And he's gotta be larger than life
I need a hero, I'm holding out for at hero 'till the the end of the night
Up where the mountains meet the heavens above
Out where the lightning splits the sea
I could swear there is someone somewhere, watching me
Through the wind and the chill and the rain and the storm and the flood
I can feel his approach, like a fire in my blood
I need a hero, I'm holding out for a hero 'till the end of the night
He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast
And he's gotta be fresh from the fight
I need a hero, I'm holding out for a hero 'till the morning light
He's gotta be sure and it's gotta be soon
And he's gotta be larger than life
I need a hero, I'm holding out for a hero 'till the end of the night
He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast
And he's gotta be fresh from the fight
I need a hero, I'm holding out for a hero 'till the morning light
He's gotta be sure and he's gotta be soon
And he's gotta be larger than life
I need a hero, I'm holding out for a hero 'till the end of the night
Dedicated to Tuvok
Security Chief – Spaceship Voyager – TV Series “Stark Trek”
To me he represents the energy of Logos, Apollo, Intellect, Rationalism I call A5.
HKD
Ansichtssache
Thema Nr. 9
Was sind meine Ansichten über den Intellekt? – A5
Wissen – Bewusstsein – Spiritualität – Religion
Für mich ist der Intellekt die Fähigkeit des Erkennens und der Differenzierung. Über ihn habe ich gelernt, mir selbst Rechenschaft über meine emotionale und schließlich geistige Befindlichkeit abgeben zu können.
Wer bin ich? Woher komme ich? Wo stehe ich? Welche Richtung schlage ich in meinem Leben ein?
Die Fragen selbst formulieren sich mit Hilfe des Intellekts und die Antworten sind das Ergebnis einer ausgiebigen Expansion des philosophischen und psychologischen Wissens.
Durch die Funktion des Intellekts wird die Emotionalität als solche und ihre Färbungen erkannt. Zweifellos drücken auch Tiere Emotionen aus, doch der mit seinem Schwanz wedelnde Hund besitzt nur den körperlichen Ausdruck seiner Freude.
Als kleines Kind lag die Motivation zur Ausbildung von Sprache und Wissen in mir verborgen und diese Sehnsucht nach Licht und Erkennen, das Streben nach „Gott“ und schließlich die Rückanbindung an „Ihn“ (religio = Rückanbindung) entwickelte sich aus ein und derselben Motivationskraft, nämlich der innerpsychischen Funktion des Intellekts, der für mich zur Grundkraft des Logos gehört.
Logos, Intellekt, Ratio… Ich verwende diese Begriffe häufig analog, manchmal differenziere ich sie noch untereinander, doch fasse ich sie in meinem Konzept unter der Bezeichnung Motivationskraft A5 zusammen.
Ich habe dieser Kraft in meinem Leben den Umstand meiner relativen Freiheit von der Ignoranz zu verdanken.
Durch Erkenntnis der Notwendigkeit der Vereinigung der Gegensätze von Logos und Eros, öffnete ich mich auch für die Hinwendung zur konkreten Erfahrung des Geistes und seiner Aspekte.
Der Logos führte mich zu Schamanen im Himalaya nachdem ich in Kathmandu (Nepal) zuvor die Stupa von Bodnath (buddhistisches Heiligtum) besucht und dort meine geistigen und intellektuellen Wurzeln geehrt habe.
Neben Ägypten liegt die andere Hochburg antiker geistiger Hochkulturen in Nordindien und dem heutigen Pakistan. Der philosophische und psychologische Buddhismus, den ich so nenne, um ihn respektvoll von der Volksreligion und ihren Regeln zu unterscheiden, gehört für mich zu den höchsten Erkenntnissen über die Aspekte des Geistes. Natürlich speist sich auch der Buddhismus aus noch älteren Quellen der Weisheit, ich möchte nur die indische „Advaita“ Tradition nennen.
Der Philosoph und Mystiker Ramesh Balsekar ist ein neuzeitlicher Vertreter dieser Weisheit. Seinen logisch präzisen Aussagen und nachvollziehbaren Schlussfolgerungen habe ich viele Erkenntnisse zu verdanken unter anderem die Auflösung der Restbestände meines christlichen Schuldbewusstseins.
Erkenntnis ist befreiend. Das Licht übte auf mich stets eine magische Anziehungskraft aus. Doch ich bin kein Lichtarbeiter. Ich kann meine emotionalen Wurzeln nicht leugnen, meine dunklen menschlichen Aspekte wie Neid, Eifersucht, Antipathie, Angst und Gier.
Natürlich ist meine ethische und gute Seite nicht erfreut über diese unbequemen Emotionen, doch werden sie vom Intellekt anerkannt und nicht verurteilt. Hagel, Sturm und Winter sind, was sie sind. Ich bin ein logisch orientierter Vertreter der Mitte, des mittleren Pfades und in so fern bringe ich das Licht des Herzens.
Der Weg zurück ins Herz, in dem Himmel und Erde, irdische Lust und geistige Klarheit vereint werden können, war für mich der logisch richtige Schritt. Logos und Eros sind antagonistische Pole – aus der Perspektive der Einheit in ihrer stärksten Ausprägung jeweilige Extreme. Daher erschien es mir unmöglich, ein nur geistiges Leben zu führen, wie es stark von A5 motivierte Menschen wollen und können.
Wer aus den Star-Trek-Serien Mr. Spok oder Tuvok kennt, hat Abbilder vor Augen, die ganz hervorragend auf „Menschen“ passen, die extrem von der Logik beherrscht werden. Aus der Sicht der Mitte, wird ein Mensch tatsächlich von einer Motivationskraft beherrscht. Sie macht mit ihm, was sie will und er kann sich nicht beherrschen, ob bei Schokolade, Sex oder geistiger Bildung.
Ohne die Motivationskraft die dem Logos, dem Intellekt oder der Ratio entspringt wäre mir Selbsterkenntnis nicht möglich. Ich danke den Gottheiten Apollon, Manjushri und allen anderen Göttern des Lichtes, die mir mit ihrer Einsichtsfähigkeit den Weg zurück ins Herz ebneten.
Im Licht ihrer Sonne vereinen sich Selbstliebe und Selbsthass zum Abenteuer Leben.
HKD
Digital Art – own resources
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Zeyon: One of the last Great Beings Know as the Ventrillions. Zeyon is One of if Not the most powerful being in the Multiverse Capable of taking on Huge armies Single handily, His Super speed ,Strength, time Manipulation , strategic Capabilities , And Genius intellect Make him A match for anyone!
== Markovia- Five Months Ago==
Slade Wilson. If anyone asked who was the best killer in the business, chances are, his name would be the first to come up every time. Trained in the US army, he was the only one in his squad to volunteer for the experiments that would grant him enhanced strength, intellect and a healing factor. When Strange recruited him in Markovia, toppling a monarchy of some kind, he was quick to suss out his true agenda (or one of them at least). The only member to know the truth about Arkham City, Strange was adamant he be put in charge, the only one he was sure he could trust. So long as the money didn't run out, which was never going to be an issue with the Court of Owls.
====Today====
*The fire basks them in an orange glow.*
Talia- Tea?
Miranda- Yes.
*She pours a stream of Chinese tea from the teapot, and they drink*
Talia- Your father was once a powerful man, and a friend of the League. He must be proud of you.
* "He is." she replies, not taking her eyes off the tea, sipping it slowly in case it's poisoned. Talia watches her curiously, it was ten years ago when they first drank tea together, and she had been just as suspicious then*
Talia- Good. I'm glad.
Miranda- Still with *your* dad, I presume?
*Talia stokes the flames with a wooden stick*
Talia I work with him, yes. But, I am here now, not as your enemy, but as an old friend, and as a sister, warning you. Turn back.
*Miranda rises*
Miranda- Yeah, no, I don't think so. Thanks for the tea. And, uh, knocking out Chancer for a bit.
Talia- Please. There is no safe space for your family. Ra's Al Ghul is a man of great resources, you know this. If The Demon's Head has decided that your family must be punished, that your husband must pay, you must understand that there is no place on earth where they can go where they can't reach them. But it is not too late for you. My father is still fond of you, if you would only-
Miranda- I'm not going back Talia. You should be the one joining *me.* Help us stop him, before he destroys Gotham, or whatever it is he's planning.
...
Talia- My father has sired hundreds of children, many of whom have perished in the name of his cause. In spite of his fondness for myself and for you, he will not hesitate to sacrifice either of us, if we were to stand in his way. He may be a man of honour, but even he has his limits. And he is tired of betrayal. Unfortunately for you, neither Hugo Strange nor The Court of Owls follow those same principles. Do you truly believe your husband has any hope in completing the Trials?
*Miranda had no intention of killing her. But in that moment, she was contemplating slapping her across the face*
Talia- I mean no disrespect, but he is not you, he is not my beloved, nor is he my father. You know that toys or not, he is but one man who's "training" has been conducted solely by arsonists and drug addicts in asylums and prisons, and when he challenges him, my father will draw his sword through his chest, and end him.
==San Francisco- Four Months Ago==
Alcatraz Island has changed a lot in the last year. The present home of the Suicide Squad, it has been completely renovated to accommodate the task force, and the scores of potential members and prisoners. One such inmate caught the attention of Senator Wade Eilling four years ago, when he fought the entire Justice League to a standstill. His real name may be purged from any computer database in the world, but his alias is well known by every government agency from Washington to Louisiana. Prometheus. He would become the second recruit of Task Force XI, much to the protests of Amanda Waller, who's warnings went unheeded. He didn't need to be a team player, Eilling thought, he didn't need to like the feds. He just needed to wear that helmet, and wear it well.
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*Those were Black Mask's men they'd past. Preparing for a siege of some kind. Armour, guns, makeshift tanks. Selina growled. Roman Sionis was far from a friend of hers, and she'd very much like to keep out of his territory*
Selina- Just where are we going?
Drury- The old GCPD precinct. About a hundred yards that way
Selina- The one you burnt down?
Drury- The one Gar- Yeah, that was us. We can set up a camp there, meet up with Miranda, and contact Chuck, Chuck Brown. He'll know what's going on.
Norbert- If he's alive.
Drury- Don't think like that Norbert.
*And yet, amidst the ruins and gunfire, it was hard for either of them not to rule it out. If only they knew all the Misfits had been through, and all which was still to come.*
==Brazil- Three Months Ago==
The Copperhead Gang was born out of poverty, living in the slums of Rio, quickly taking over the favellas and establishing a vicious syndicate of drugs, murder, and occasionally cannibalism. Only two ever left for the States, the most talented out of all of them. One, Larissa Diaz, specialised in poisons, and acrobatics, currently resides in Central City, as one of the city's biggest crime bosses. The other, a John Doe, a body contortionist, was deported to a Brazilian jail after Edward Nygma sent out an anonymous tip when a previous team-up saw him throttled one too many times. This Copperhead's skills are just as great as his unpredictability, but there was no doubt in Strange's mind he'd come in handy.
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She brought him to an old warehouse, filled with C-Listers. A few glared at him. The Iceberg Shooting, and the ensuing hunt had hurt them badly. They didn't quite like Needham. He didn't blame them. But of course, they liked Penguin even less. Rigger offers a handshake, and Needham takes it, addressing the assembly.
Needham- None of you shoulda come here. You don't know what Penguin's capable of.
Rigger- We knew what we signed on for. Didn't we lads? We're getting you out of here, and we're doing it tonight.
*A pair of gloved hands clap, and from behind Zeiss emerges*
"Actually, I don't think you do. Penguin isn't the one you have to worry about. It's me"
Rigger- And who the hell are you, Mohawk Man?
*Dragonfly spits on the ground*
Meghan- Zeiss. His name is Zeiss.
He smirked. "My reputation precedes me. Let's make this interesting." He slicks back his hair, and he tosses his guns to the side, and empties his pocket. "Now we've leveled the playing level... Let's begin"
Ten was first. He ran at Zeiss with everything he had, but was thrown to the ground almost instantaneously. Rigger was next, firing blasts of Napalm from his gun, none landing their mark. He was grabbed from behind and pushed into the dirt. To add insult to injury, Zeiss jumped on his leg, snapping it in two. A perfect compound fracture. Dragonfly flew in furiously, trading blows, but he sweeped her off her feet, knocking off balance, leaving her vunerable enough for him to take her out next. Then came the Spiders. Eric Needham was done letting people get hurt because of him- he and Violet rushed Zeiss, and for a while it looked like they might just beat him. Then he pinned Needham's arm behind his back, and dislocated it. Then he did it again with the other arm. Distracted, and rushing to Needham's aid, Silken Spider was the last to fall.
Zeiss- What a disappointment. Oh we-
A squirt of ketchup covers his face. And he snarls. "Almost forgot about you." Mitchel Mayo, bottle in hand stands defia- he stands. "I... I should've used the peanut oil." Zeiss nods mockingly. "Well, it'd be a shame to break up the set."
==Manchester- Two Months Ago==
And lastly, the wildcard. Ever since he was a boy Abner Krill had an obsession with the round, the dotted and the circular. Some blamed it on autism, others claimed it was a form of OCD. But, whatever the case, as he drank from a perfectly round coconut, atop a bar stool in the middle of his living room, one thing was certain- it was one hell of a quirk, and manifested itself in nearly aspect of his life. His latest in a long line of girlfriends was a Geordie called Dot.
With a gimmick like his, many wrote him off as a C-Lister. He let them believe that, kept the attention away from him. If they took a second to think about exactly how much power he has, he'd never get a moment's peace from the idiots wanting to have a go with his tech. He turns to his visitors, a bald man with a pair of dark glasses and a beard that couldn't possibly be real and his equally bald colleague with a spruce moustache, and reached into his pocket.
"Skittle?"
"No," Strange replies. Abner shrugs, and pours the whole packet into his mouth, washing it down with some more coconut milk straight from the source
"Sorry about that, was a bit peckish. So what's this job anyhow?"
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Len- Chuck.
Chuck- Len.
Len- You look like shit.
*"You don't. Soda please" he replies faintly. Len nods, and fills the glass with something that's definitely not cola.*
Chuck- You shouldn't be here. Bartending. Not here.
Len- Neither should you. Needham escapes, you were the last one to see him... If I can connect the dots, then so can-
Chuck- I can't explain it, not now, not-
"Well, you better explain it. Fast."
Sionis- Where's my Spider, Charlie?
==Arkham City- Four Days Ago==
"I want in."
Strange turned to the bearded, shaggy haired imbecile behind the glass. He'd stop scratching the walls. That was some progress, though they'd still spot him pacing about on all fours every now and again. They'd caught him nine months prior, when he'd broken into Julian Day's cell with a kitchen knife, and he had been hissing at the guards ever since. Strange, the file said he had brown eyes, but it was green ones staring at him now.
Strange- Absolutely not.
"I'm a wild animal Doc. Need to feel the wind on my face, need to kiss a girl or two. Need a cell that's not two meters big!"
Strange- And how can you assure me you won't simply kill me or Mr Day?
"Can't. But you're a shrink. Admit it, you're curious"
Strange- Very well Thomas. I will see what I can do.
He kicked his lips. Then spat out a hairball.
"What?"