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HANF "(Cannabis sativa)" ist eine Pflanzengattung in der Familie der Hanfgew"achse.
INHALTSSTOFFE
CANNABINOIDE, TERPENOIDE UND ANDERE FL"uCHTIGE SUBSTANZEN WERDEN VON TRICHOMONEN, DIE GEH"aUFT AUF DEN KELCHBL"aTTERN UND TRAGBL"aTTERN WEIBLICHER PFLANZEN AUFTRETEN, ABGEGEBEN.
HISTORISCHESHanfreste kamen erstmals aus vorchristlicher Zeit zum Vorschein.
Bereits im 5. Jahrhundert vor Christus, zur Zeit der Skythen und Chinesen hat man n"ordlich der Alpen die Cannabis-Pflanze zu "Nahrungs- und Genusszwecken" verwendet.
Offen ist jedoch ob die Pflanze aus Osteuropa zu uns kam oder ob sie in Nordeuropa kultiviert wurde.
Viele alte Volkskulturen beruhten auf Hanf. Die Inkas und alle Naturv"olker in Mittel-und Zentralamerika, aber auch den USA, Asien, verwendeten Hanf in den verschiedensten Formen.
Anwendung fand die Pflanze sowohl als Heilmittel, als Nahrung, zur "Olerzeugung, zur Salbung der Toten und sogar als Zahlungsmittel.
Sehr fr"uh erkannte man auch die leicht "berauschende" Wirkung in Speiss, Trank und Rauch.
Die wichtigsten historischen Zeugnisse, stammten von den Thrakern und Skythen.
Es mag uns nicht verwundern, dass Hanf im Mittelalter selten erw"ahnt wurde, obwohl gerade da, Hanf in der Festkultur der St"amme und Religionen die grosse Rolle spielte.
Der heidnische Umgang mit Hanf, die Hexen, erf"ullten nat"urlich die Priester und Ketzer mit Abscheu.
Als ein Hauptgeheimnis der Heilkunst erscheint Hanf wieder in den Kr"autreb"uchern der Renaissance.
Er wurde als Schlafkraut mit s"ussen Tr"aumen verwendet.
Die Volksheilkundler, Kr"auterm"anner, Hexenweiber blieben noch lange, bis ins 19. Jahrhunder dem Hanf als Schlafmittel treu.
Die Emulsion von Hanfsamen ist Volksmittel bei Gem"utskrankheiten, bei allen starken Schmerzen und ein vortreffliches Mittel gegen Husten.
Die Tschechen sp"ulten gegen Zahnschmerzen den Mund mit Aufg"ussen aus: Bilsenkraut, Salbei, unreifen Mohnk"opfen und Hanfsamen-Abkochungen.
Vielleicht war die Besch"aftigung der Urv"olker mit der Pflanzenmagie, der Magie ihrer heiligen Pflanze sogar die Hauptursache, dass sie mit der Zeit auch deren andere n"utzlichen Eigenschaften entdeckte.
HASCHISCH IM ABENDLAND
Heute finden wir nur noch "offiziell" den Acker-und Vogelhanf, der f"ur verschiedenste Industriezweige genutzt wird.
Der Belgier de Coster nennt in seiner Geschichte um Till Eugenspiegel den Hanf als Bestandteil der ber"uhmten "Hexenflugsalbe".
Holl"andische, fl"amische, belgische Untergr"undler, die sich aus Freude an den eigenen "Uberlieferungen
"KLABUTERS" also Erdm"annlein nannten, ver"offentlichen dieses Rezept der Flugsalben neu und betrachten es als Beweis f"ur: Untergrund-Kultur, Hippietum.
Dies ist keine neue Kultur, sondern war schon immer vorhanden, nur mussten die meisten weil sie unterdr"uckt und verfolgt wurden, nach Amerika auswandern, von wo es sp"ater wieder zu uns kam.
Es gibt leider keinen Beweis ob de Coster, der sein Buch 1867 ver"offentlichte und die Wirksamkeit der "Spitzen der Hanfpflanze" beschrieb tats"achlich auf alte "Uberlieferungen oder eigene Erfahrungen zur"uckgriff.
Ebenso wie die K"unstler in dem franz"osischen Sprachkreis bereits sehr fr"uh den Umgang mit Haschisch lernten.
Van der Bleek erz"ahlte 1915 von den Reisen seines Helden in die Geisterwelt mit Hilfe von den Hexendrogen.
Dem Psychologen Dr. Hans Zunninger wurde an den Disskusionsrunden "uber den Gebrauch von mundartlich "Theriak" erz"ahlt:
Die Hexen seien einst sehr gerne in den Hanffeldern gewandert und wurden so mit ihrer ausgelassenen Fr"ohlichkeit, als Hexen im Hanf bezeichnet.
Auch in dem alten englischen und keltischen Volksglauben, erscheint der Hanfsame mit wunderbaren Eigenschaften best"uckt- offenbar auch zum Gewinn DER MAGISCHEN SEHKRAFT.
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In Schottland nehmen die Feen gar Hanfhalme und verwandeln sich in ihre Rosse.
Genau wie etwa unsere Hexen ihre missverstandenen Eiben-und Mistelbesen verwendeten, eigentlich nur Hanf als mittel f"ur ihre Reisen in die Tr"aume.
Hanfspinnen kommt nicht nur sehr oft in M"archen vor, sondern war ebenso Ausgangspunkt zum Erz"ahlen vieler phantastischer Geschichten.
Nach halbgeschichtlichen Nachrichten scheint es damals eine Gewohnheit aller Magier und damals herumzigeunendner Randgruppen gewesen zu sein.
So entstand schon damals diese Aussenseiterkultur und diese besteht wohl noch bis heute.
Unterdr"uckte Schichten flohen schon immer mit der Hilfe von Zauberkr"autern und Giftpflanzen in ihre Tr"aume
und vergassen dadurch ihr urspr"ungliche Ziel:
N"aMLICH DIE FREIERE GESTALTUNG DES EIGENEN LEBENS.
Rauchende Kr"auterweiblein, Hexen, Feen, Elfen, Erdm"annlein und allereilei andere M"archengestalten begeneten uns in allen Berichten, Sagen und M"archen immer wieder.
Heute wie damals wurden und werden sie verurteilt und angeprangert, dies nat"urlich nicht zuletzt um die
teuer hergestellten chemischen Drogen und sogenannten Medikamente r"ucksichtslos vertreiben zu k"onnen und die Macht des Staates zu demonstrieren.
Dass die Wirkung des "Rauschhanfes" nicht zur Abh"angigkeit f"uhrt und vor allem nicht die "Einstiegsdroge" f"ur harte Drogen bedeutet ist mittlerweilen wissenschaftlich anerkannt und bewiesen.
Dass die Droge Alkohol bei weitem gef"ahrlicher ist als Cannabis wird nur noch von Staaten bestritten, die mit Alkohol und Pharmaziemafia ein B"undnis geschlossen haben und Steuern verdienen.
Mitlerweilen sind nicht nur Holland und Belgien die Vorreiter im freien Konsum von Cannabis, sondern auch die Schweiz hat sich heuer angeschlossen.
CANNABIS ALS ARZNEIMITTEL
Die Verwendung von CANNABIS ALS ARZNEIMITTEL hat eine Jahrtausende alte Tradition.
Heute weiss man, dass die pharmakologischen Wirkungen von Cannabis - wie etwa des getrockneten Cannabiskrautes (haupts"achlich der Triebspitzen und Bl"utenst"ande der weiblichen Pflanze, "Marihuana"), des Cannabisharzes ("Haschisch") und des Cannabis"ols - auf Stoffe aus der Gruppe der Cannabinoide, allem voran auf das 9Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), zur"uckzuf"uhren sind.
Die Diskussion, welchen medizinischen Wert Cannabis hat, h"alt weiter an.
Dennoch gibt es einige gutdokumentierte Anwendungsgebiete: Schmerzen, Krankheiten des St"utz- und Bewegungsapparates, Spastiken bei Multipler Sklerose, Arthritis, Depression, "Ubelkeit, Erbrechen und Anorexie.
W"ahrend Cannabiskonsum in den meisten Staaten illegalisiert wird, sind in einigen von ihnen Cannabinoid-basierte Medikamente verf"ugbar oder nat"urliches Cannabis nutzbar.
Zu diesen Staaten geh"oren:
Kanada, "Osterreich, Deutschland, die Niederlande, Spanien, Israel, Italien, Finnland, Portugal und einige Bundesstaaten der USA.
THERAPHEUTISCHE BEDEUTUNG
Pflanzlichen Cannabisprodukten wird ein positiver Effekt unter anderem bei Spastizit"at im Zusammenhang mit multipler Sklerose, bei spastischen L"ahmungen, "Ubelkeit und Erbrechen im Zusammenhang mit Chemo- und Strahlentherapie bei Krebserkrankungen und HIV-Medikation, chronischen neuropathischen Schmerzen, dem Tourette-Syndrom und in der palliativen Behandlung von Krebs und AIDS zugesprochen.
Die genannten Anwendungsgebiete ergeben sich im Wesentlichen aus den Wirkungen der Inhaltsstoffe THC und Cannabidiol: da es bei Krebskranken als Nebenwirkung der Chemotherapie oft zu grosser "Ubelkeit und Erbrechen kommt und auch schon alleine der Geruch von Essen unertr"aglich sein kann, kann Cannabis durch seine antiemetische (Brechreiz lindernde) Wirkung diese "Ubelkeit vermindern und durch seine appetitanregende Wirkung zu der erw"unschten Gewichtszunahme f"uhren.
Den appetitanregenden Effekt von Cannabis macht man sich auch in der AIDS-Therapie zu Nutze.
Neben der Therapie ist es n"amlich oft mangelnde Nahrungsaufnahme, die den K"orper zus"atzlich schw"acht.
Die antiataktische (Bewegungsabl"aufe koordinierende) und antispastische (d. h. krampfl"osende) Wirkung der Cannabis-Wirkstoffe begr"undet die Anwendung zur Unterdr"uckung von Spasmen, L"ahmungen und Kr"ampfen, wie sie bei Multipler Sklerose auftreten. Es kann die Krankheit zwar nicht heilen, aber die Symptome der Krankheit unterdr"ucken und dem Patienten so sein Leben erleichtern.
Diverse Studien zeigten, dass Cannabis bei Krebs und gewissen Autoimmunerkrankungen positive Auswirkungen auf den Krankheitsverlauf haben kann.
Claudia Jensen, Kinder"arztin der Universit"at S"udkalifornien, h"alt Cannabis f"ur die Therapie von ADS und ADHS geeignet.
Aus Sicht mancher Patienten soll Cannabis durch Rauchen oder Vaporisieren heilsamer wirken, da die komplexe Wirkstoffkombination besser resorbiert werde und zur Wirkung komme.
In Deutschland setzt sich die "Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft Cannabis als Medizin" kurz IACM (fr"uherer Name: "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Cannabis als Medizin", AMC) seit 1997 f"ur die medizinische Verwendung von Cannabis ein.
In Afrika und Asien wird Cannabis volksmedizinisch zur Behandlung von verschieden Schmerzen, von Menstruationskr"ampfen sowie in der Geburtshilfe zur Erh"ohung der Kontraktionsfrequenz der Geb"armutter und zur Blutstillung verwendet.
Wie lange es bei uns noch dauern wird, bis Hanf, der zu den "altesten Nutz- und Zierpflanzen der Welt z"ahlt, der Allgemeinheit legal zur Verf"ugung gestellt wird, anstatt sie teuer in den Apotheken als Sonderfall zu verkaufen, sei dahingestellt.
Wie so oft steckt eine grosse Pharmazielobby dahinter.
Beide Arten werden vielseitig genutzt: Neben dem Gebrauch als Faser- und Drogenpflanze findet Hanf auch als Heil- und "Olpflanze Verwendung.
Zitat Anfang-Die eigentlich gef"ahrlichen Nebenwirkungen medizinischen Cannabisgebrauchs, beruhen auf der rechtlichen Situation des Cannabiskonsums.Aufgrund dieser Rechtslage ist fast jeder Konsument als Kriminell eingestuft; die bei der Illegalen Beschaffung auftretenden Risiken(Qualit"at,Menge)
wie auch der m"ogliche gef"ahrliche Ort,die Verk"aufer bei der Beschaffung sind d. folgen.
Im Kartext: sch"adlicher bis t"odlicher Alkoholkonsum ist Legal( Altersgrenze) ; "uberall zu
bekommen-Cannabis,ohne ein einziges bewiesenes Todesopfer bisher,ist illegal und kann bei Besitz Strafen zufolge haben-jetzt ist auch klar warum einige glauben Cannabis sei eine Einstiegs- droge.Denn wenn man sonst wo hin gehen muss um sich sein Marihuana zu besorgen, werden dort sicher auch andere,gef"ahrliche Drogen angeboten DAS CANNABISVERBOT IST KRIMINELL -es ist auch der Grund, dass die Dosierungen zur medizinischen Nutzung weitgehend unerforscht sind!
Entwicklungen sind zb.: Cannabinoide -*als Augentropfen zur Glaukombehandlung;
-*in Aerosolform zur Behandlung von Asthma; THC in Arzneiz"apfchen-form und intraven"ose
verabreichung sind teilweise wissenschaftlich erprobte Formen der medizinischen Nutzung von CannabinoidenBereits 1989 fanden Forscher heraus,das Delta 9 THC die experimentelle Autoimmunenzephalitis(Multiplen Sklerose bei Ttieren) unterdr"ucken bzw. die St"arke der neurologischen Defizite vermindern kann-dieser Versuch wurde mit Delta 8 THC 1994 erfolgreich wiederholt.Obwohl "uber die Wechselwirkung zwischen Cannabinoiden und Medikamenten erst wenig bekannt ist,empfiehlt sich eine Kombination wahrscheinlich eher nicht.Die Forschung f"ur therapeutische Anwendungen bietet ebenfalls ein breits Feld an sinnvoller Forschungsarbeit,die ledeglich durch das Verbot und die damit verbundenen Genehmigungsverfahren aufgehalten wird. Die inoffiziellen Gr"unde f"ur das Verbot,werden bei einem Vergleich von synthetischem Cannabis mit der von selber wachsenden Pflanze deutlich: aus der Pflanze werden "uber 400 Substanzen gewonnen, von denen zumindest 60 therapeutisch positiv wirken.Bei Vergleichstests zwischen synthetischen und rein pflanzlichen Pr"aparaten zeigte sich,dass die nat"urliche Substanz immer leicht "uberlegen war-auch die Testpersonen empfanden die pflanzliche Wirkung als gleich stark aber besser vertr"aglich! Aber jetzt der Hammer: die billigste Methode Cannabispr"aparate zu gewinnen,ist es die Bl"uten der Pflanze zu nutzen.
IN DEUTSCHLAND,WO NUR DAS SYNTHETISCHE MEDIKAMENT LEGAL ERH"aLTLICH IST, PROFITIERT DIE PHARMAINDUSTRIE OHNE SKRUPEL VON DIESEM "UMSTAND". ZITAT ENDE
Weltweit sind mehr Cannabiskonsumenten zu finden, die keine Angst mehr haben eine Randgruppe zu sein, da es tats"achlich keine mehr ist.
Die Zahl jener Menschen die sich trotz Verbotes offiziell zu ihrem Konsum bekennen, die die Pflanze zum Eigengebrauch selber anbauen, steigt weiter und die Internetlobby der Cannabiskonumenten ist die gr"osste,
die es jemals gab.
Mitlerweilen gibt es weltweit Vereine und Aufrufe zur Legalisierung von Hanf.
Ich w"unsche uns allen, dass wir selbst entscheiden k"onnen, was gut und b"ose ist,was wir brauchen oder nicht,dass jeder als Individium selbstverantwortlich ist,und dass Verbote manchmal nur das Gegenteil von dem bewirken,was sie versuchen zu verhindern.
blessed be and happy Samhain
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"To master the discipline of any art, you have to master the art of discipline. Any endeavor is a process with full of steps and a climb - with steps that needed to be done at the right time by the right people. When we call for help or seek to do anything - we should be ready and prepared to follow the instructions and participate to get the desired outcome. Spell casting is an art that involves energy, people and tools. In this process - people discipline plays a bigger role as it makes the going smooth and give all involved to have patience to do right things at the right time." "You as a recipient should be disciplined to follow the instructions your spiritual witch gives you- you need to trust them, follow them and contribute to them. Spiritual witch every day follows a disciplined process of preparing and casting the right spell for you. Your trust and witche's dedication will work magics - bringing the right energy to play together for desired outcome." "Discipline also involves self discipline - it is nothing but relaxation. We are human beings, who goes through lot of emotions and when this things happen - it is ok to feel sad BUT REMEMBER TO LET IT GO.Self-discipline is the art of choosing what to be attached to and what to be detached from. So all nice people out there who are seeking help from spell, please let go of negative energy and thoughts and attract the goodness the universe and spell has to offer." The post Spell Casting And Discipline appeared first on California Witch.
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Beltane: May 1 by Mike Nichols
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possibly its correct as well that you won't be about...to be upset by the signpost of our May Day partying.'
--Lord Summerisle to Sgt. Howie from 'The Wicker Guy
Award are four inflate festivals of the Pagan Celtic time and the modern Witch's calendar, as well. The two utmost of these are Halloween (the beginning of winter) and May Day (the beginning of summer). In the role of opposite each other on the wheel of the time, they subdivision the time here halves. Halloween (also called Samhain) is the Celtic New See and is in general precise the above indicative of the two, conversely May Day runs a instant instant. Surely, in some areas -- in particular Wales -- it is precise the inflate holiday.
May Day ushers in the fifth month of the modern calendar time, the month of May. This month is named in pertain to of the goddess Maia, foremost a Greek fur brownie, bearing in mind celebrated as the greatest extent smart of the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades. By Zeus, she is also the mother of Hermes, god of magic. Maia's parents were Plot and Pleione, a sea brownie.
The old Celtic name for May Day is Beltane (in its greatest extent at home Anglicized form), which is lesser from the Irish Gaelic 'Bealtaine' or the Scottish Gaelic 'Bealtuinn', meaning 'Bel-fire', the fire of the Celtic god of light (Bel, Beli or Belinus). He, in turn, may be traced to the Mean Eastern god Baal.
Out of the ordinary names for May Day include: Cetsamhain (opposite Samhain'), Walpurgisnacht (in Germany), and Roodmas (the medieval Church's name). This place came from Clerical Fathers who were on tenterhooks to sign over the proverbial amateur commitment from the Maypole (Pagan lingham - symbol of life) to the Blissful Rood (the Seething - Roman channel of death).
Incidentally, acquaint with is no earlier period pretext for inclination May 1st noble Go out with. For hundreds of being, that place has been fitting to the Vernal Equinox (approx. Gather in a line 21st), something else holiday sacred to the Substantial Holy being. The nontraditional use of noble Go out with for May 1st is fairly original (within the place 15 being), and seems to be constrained to America, someplace it has gained thorough acceptance accompanied by certain segments of the Ship motherland. This absolutely remarkable trip from tradition would tinkle to certify an unfamiliarity with European calendar customs, as well as a lax guts just before consent to accompanied by too many Pagans. A simple stare at a word list ('Webster's 3rd' or O.E.D.), encyclopedia ('Benet's'), or standard mythology true-life (Jobe's word list of Myths, Myths ">
By Celtic total, the actual Beltane celebration begins on sundown of the persist day, April 30, while the Celts always figured their days from sundown to sundown. And sundown was the fitting time for Druids to stir up the inflate Bel-fires on the ends of the adjoining beacon stand up (such as Tara Elevation, Co. Meath, in Ireland). These 'need-fires' had healing properties, and sky-clad Witches would be contiguous by the dismiss to date protection. Sgt. Howie (dazed): even so they are naked!'
Lady Summerisle: typically. It's future too venomous to be contiguous
by the fire with your clothes on!' Unendingly, livestock would be provoked in the middle of two such bon-fires (oak kindling was the beloved aggravate for them) and, on the morrow, they would be subjugated to their summer pastures.
Out of the ordinary May Day customs include: walking the splash of one's property (prattle the outer edge), repairing fences and silhouette markers, processions of chimney-sweeps and milk maids, archery tournaments, morris dances, sword dances, feasting, music, intake, and maidens bathing their faces in the dew of May crack of dawn to maintain their teenage beauty.
In the words of Witchcraft writers Janet and Stewart Farrar, the Beltane celebration was principly a time of '...barefaced secular sexuality and intensity.' Such relations rivet the evident phallic symbolism of the Maypole and riding the fascinate colt. Pure a purportedly irreproachable subordinate nursery school limerick, coop a cock colt to Banburry Seething...' retains such nostalgia. And the go along with line '...to see a fine Lady on a white colt is a true-life to the annual report coop of noble Godiva' conversely Coventry. Every time for give or take a few three centuries, a sky-clad convergence maiden (egalitarian Queen of the May) enacted this Pagan rite, until the Puritans put an end to the practice. The Puritans, in fact, reacted with heartfelt grisliness to greatest extent of the May Day cash, even making Maypoles foul in 1644. They notoriously attempted to curb the 'greenwood marriages' of bottle green men and women who finished the finished night in the forest, staying out to obtain the May origin, and bringing back boughs of plants and garlands to embellish the convergence the go along with crack of dawn. One severe Puritan wrote that men 'doe use cheaply to runne here woodes in the night time, amid maidens, to set bowes, in so muche, as I surround hearde of tenne maidens whiche went to set May, and nine of them came home with childe.' And something else Puritan complained that, of the girls who go here the plant, 'not the smallest one of them comes home once more a virgin.'
Longing as the Christian form of marriage (with its steadfastness on sexual monogamy) had replaced the great Pagan handfasting, the set of laws of packed integrity were always limp for the May Eve cash. Names such as Robin Hood, Maid Marian, and Small John played an indicative part in May Day myths, repeatedly hand-me-down as titles for the dramatis personae of the partying. And modern surnames such as Robinson, Hodson, Johnson, and Godkin may verify to some secluded May Eve finished in the plant.
These wildwood antics surround encouraged writers such as Kipling: Oh, do not counsel the Holy man our quandary,
Or he would carry on it a sin;
But we surround been out in the plant all night,
A-conjuring Summer in! And Lerner and Lowe: It's May! It's May!
The lusty month of May!...
Relations dehydrated vows that ev'ryone takes,
Ev'ryone breaks.
Ev'ryone makes divine mistakes!
The lusty month of May!
It is repeatedly no fluke that Queen Guinevere's commandeering by Meliagrance occurs on May 1st once she and the court surround gone a-Maying, or that the usually glossy Queen's Obscure, on this prospect, rode unarmed. Several of these customs tinkle all but indistinguishable to the old Roman festival of plants, the Floriala, three days of chatty sexuality which began at sundown April 28th and reached a crescendo on May 1st. Award are other, even great, relations with May 1st in Celtic mythology. According to the ancient Irish undergo of Invasions', the peak explorer of Ireland, Partholan, taking part in on May 1st; and it was on May 1st that the pest came which wrecked his chase. Being bearing in mind, the Tuatha De Danann were conquered by the Milesians on May Day. In Welsh myth, the perennial combat in the middle of Gwythur and Gwyn for the love of Creudylad took place each May Day; and it was on May Eve that Teirnyon lost his colts and found Pryderi. May Eve was also the prospect of a awed shout that was heard each time in Wales, one of the three curses of the Coranians lifted by the propensity of Lludd and Llevelys.
By the way, due to changed calendrical changes down by the centuries, the traditional attract of Beltane is not the awfully as its astrological attract. This attract, sweetheart all astronomically earnest dates, may modulate by a day or two depending on the time. But, it may be calculated geographically heaps by influential the attract on which the sun is at 15 degrees Taurus (usually a number of May 5th). British Witches repeatedly decrease to this attract as Old Beltane, and folklorists carry on it Beltane O.S. (silvery Do). Several Covens like to give a round of applause on the old attract and, at the very smallest, it gives one options. If a Coven is working on 'Pagan Characteristic Indicate and misses May 1st smarmy, it can motionless let fly a saleable Beltane discoloration as want as it's before May 5th. This may also be a deliberate for Covens that covet to arrange accomplishments a number of the week-end.
This attract has want been precise a function aspiration of the Zodiac, and is symbolized by the Bull, one of the 'tetramorph' facts featured on the Tarot cards, the Establishment and the Pivot of Venture. (The other three symbols are the Lion, the Eagle, and the Interior.) Astrologers know these four facts as the symbols of the four establish signs of the Zodiac (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius), and these typically organize with the four Substantial Sabbats of Witchcraft. Christians surround adopted the awfully iconography to pencil in the four gospel-writers. But for greatest extent, it is May 1st that is the inflate holiday of plants, Maypoles, and greenwood nonsense. It is no stun that, as definitely as 1977, Ian Anderson possibly will pen the supporting lyrics for Jethro Tull:
For the May Day is the inflate day,
Choral laterally the old awaited track.
And populace who ancient unfriendliness did ley
Soul demur this tune that calls them back.by Mike Nichols
In pre-historic times, summer was a joyous time of the year for those Aboriginal people who lived in the northern latitudes. The snow had disappeared; the ground had thawed out; warm temperatures had returned; flowers were blooming; leaves had returned to the deciduous trees. Some herbs could be harvested, for medicinal and other uses. Food was easier to find. The crops had already been planted and would be harvested in the months to come.
Although many months of warm/hot weather remained before the fall, they noticed that the days were beginning to shorten, so that the return of the cold season was inevitable.
The first (or only) full moon in June is called the Honey Moon. Tradition holds that this is the best time to harvest honey from the hives.
This time of year, between the planting and harvesting of the crops, was the traditional month for weddings. This is because many ancient peoples believed that the "grand [sexual] union" of the Goddess and God occurred in early May at Beltaine. Since it was unlucky to compete with the deities, many couples delayed their weddings until June. June remains a favorite month for marriage today. In some traditions, "newly wed couples were fed dishes and beverages that featured honey for the first month of their married life to encourage love and fertility. The surviving vestige of this tradition lives on in the name given to the holiday immediately after the ceremony: The Honeymoon."
In June, we're beginning to see some early summer fruits and vegetables (a great time for strawberry crops!), and the days are getting longer and longer. It's a far cry from the darkness of winter, and we typically try to spend as much time outside as possible. Also known as Lover's Moon, Long Sun Moon, it's a time for bonding with friends and family, and forging what connections we can. Nurture your relationships, your garden, your career, and your soul this month.
CORRESPONDENCES:
* "Colo"rs:" Sun colors -- gold, yellow, orange
* "Gemstones:" Topaz, agate
* "Trees:" Oak, maple
* Gods: Isis, Cerridwen, Persephone
* "Herbs:" Parsley, mosses, skullcap, mugwort
* "Element:" Earth
This is the month where magical workings are well suited to maintaining and enhancing things you already have. Weed your garden, prune the bushes, give your lawn all the tender loving care it needs. Take time to let your personal life blossom as well - focus on things that improve your job or education, as well as your relationships with family and friends.
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Published by Simon and Schuster in 2010Book: My own copyThis is Book Two in the Thirteen series. If you would like to read my review of Book One then please click here.
OPENING PARAGRAPH
"As midnight approached in Hangman's Wood two girls fled through the forest, desperately searching for a way out. Every pounding step through the suffocating darkness brought the witching hour closer, and with it, a moment's fusion as the human world and the fairy realm intersected."
The Thirteen Curses concentrates on the story of Red, who was one of my favourite characters in the first book The Thirteen Secrets. At the end of The Thirteen Secrets, Red swapped places with Tanya and became trapped in the fairy realm. Red is determined to find out what happened to her brother who was kidnapped by the fairies and sets off on a journey to the fairy court. Whilst confronting the fairy court, Tanya discovers that she will have to carry out a bargain, in order to see the safe return of her brother. He will be returned to her, if she can find all 13 charms from Tanya's bracelet which have been scattered around the human world.
Red returns to Elvesdon Manor and with the help of Tanya and Fabian, they begin the hunt for the charms. They have to think carefully where they would be and soon discover that the charms have taken a nasty turn and are now cursed. Each of the thirteen treasures has become a darker side of itself, and the longer the children take to find them, the worse the consequences are for who ever holds the charm.
I didn't think the story could get any darker from the first book, but it surely does. I can now envisage Michelle Harrison as Enid Blyton's dark side! The Thirteen Charms are cursed with such horrible curses that you can just imagine how evil they would have become if left undiscovered.
I loved that Red was the main character throughout this story. She really kicks butt. She is just so self reliant and full of feistiness, that no one would dare to cross her. Within her story, two rather surprising twists occur, neither of which I saw coming.
I loved the search for the charms and trying to second guess where they might be hidden. My favourite would have to be the one found on Oberon's collar which caused his food bowl to keep refilling, pushing his over eating to an extreme.
Just like the first novel, this book just flows and I found myself quickly absorbed back into the story. I have often found second books not to live up to their predecessors, but I found this one surpassed it. However, that might have a little to do with adoring Red. (Did I mention that before? Tee hee)
I truly love Michelle Harrison's imagination. She has created a world that I am sure I should live in. Her characters are so well written, you keep hoping they might pop up out of the page for a chat.
By the end of the book, I was left wondering what else could happen to Red, Tanya and Fabian, and have found my fingers creeping over towards the next book in the series to curb my impatient alter ego. It is so annoying when you have other books that must be read and you are desperate to finish a series. Watch out The Thirteen Secrets - I have my beady eye on you and I am coming to get you!
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It is known that every idea, whose structure is shown modified in relation to the previous ones, in other words, is innovative, generates dissidences. With Spiritualism there is the same. In Brazil, the discussion about the topic is old. Right in the beginning of the National Spiritualist Movement, two lines of doctrinaire debates were formed: The laics, also called "scientific", led by Angeli Torteroli, and the "mystics", led by Bezerra de Menezes, who, with his charisma and spirit of leadership, was an ardent spreader of the Spiritualist's ideas. This eminent apostle of peace and charity and his followers triumphed over their antagonists, influencing the spiritualist movement with more emphasis on the Gospel.
Many brothers use Allan Kardec's name improper and wrongly, trying to sell the idea that the Spiritualist Doctrine is just a Science. Yes, it is a Science! It is also a Philosophy! But, above all, it has as its main basis, the indestructible moral of Christ. Therefore, it is mainly a religion! It is even redundant that we insist, with serenity and common sense, on the arguments to reinforce the matter.
The Spiritualist principles are thoroughly expressed in The Book of the Spirits, through its philosophic aspect; in the Book of the Mediums, through its phenomenal and experimental aspect, and in The Gospel According to the Spiritualism, through its religious-moral aspect. In a speech delivered in the Parisian Society of Spiritualists Studies, on November 1, 1868, he affirmed:
"The bond established by a religion, whatever its objective, is an essentially moral link which connects the hearts, identifies the thoughts, the aspirations, and it is not just the fact of material commitments which break at will, or the execution of formulas that are more important to the eyes than to the spirit. The effect of this moral link is to establish the fraternity and solidarity, indulgence and benevolence, among those it joins, the family religion. (1)
It is imperious to stress that the Spiritualist Doctrine does not have room for a sacerdotal caste, with its procession of hierarchies, ceremonies and privileges. It has to be considered that the Doctrine is not a religion, in the common meaning of the term, because it does not have an external material cult or an organized priesthood. It does not adopt any kind of ceremonies, rituals, candles, special garments, symbology, or sacramental acts. It does not adopt any ornamentation for cults, gestures of reverence, cabalistic signals, benedictions, talismans, smokers, ceremonial canticles (litanies, ritualistic dances, etc.), alcoholic beverages, offerings, etc.
Distant from this "external cult", from the "hierarchic organization", from the human leadership, the Spiritualist Doctrine places Jesus' "love one another, just as I have loved you" (2), embodied in the legitimate religious-moral practice.
The Spirit Saint Louis, in the Book of the Spirits, Question # 1010 (a), remembers that "the spirits do not come to subvert the religion, as some say. They come, on the contrary, to confirm it, sanction it through irrecusable evidences. In a short time, the number of sincerely religious believing people shall be bigger than today's. (3)
The Lyonese master, in the Book of the Mediums - Chapter III, Method, Item 24, also clearly asseverates that "the Spiritualism rests on the fundamental basis of the religion and respects all beliefs; one of its effects is to infuse religious feelings in those who do not have them, reinforce them in those who have them, but are vacillating". (4) The enemies of the doctrine (incarnated and disincarnated) aim at the mental imprisonment and psychic slavery of those who are careless to the odd ideas that are introduced in the doctrinaire body. In reality, the absence of humbleness, by failing to be led by Kardec's orientations, is the explicit evidence that they seek the destruction of the doctrinaire movement, discrediting Spiritualism, delaying the final implementation of the Comforter on Earth.
I wonder if Spiritualism depends on scientific proselytes? Emmanuel, in The Comforter emphasizes that: "Under no circumstances the direction of Spiritualism belongs to Christ and his representatives." And, at the same time, he elucidates that: "Only the restored Christianity can save the world which seems lost. Our mission is essentially a religious one, in the restoration of the living faith and in the revival of the simple traditions of the apostolic times. We do not have either the presumption of asking for the end of the religious schools nor do we want to establish the dogmatic fight and the sectarianism. We only want to revive the pure belief, so that man, as the divine heir, may get in touch with the glorious spiritual of the understanding of Jesus Christ". (5)
The (incarnated and disincarnated) darkness phalanx is very powerful and organized. What they want is to proscribe the Spiritualist Christ and, if this ignoble idea is confirmed, the Spiritualist Doctrine shall disappear. Lately, many strange practices to the Spiritualist Movement have appeared the reason why we need to safeguard and preserve this treasure, obligatorily, against the ideological influences which aim at adulterating its legitimate value. Even because, if we incorporate the Christianity Spiritualism, we cannot deny fidelity to it. Spiritualism appeared so that everyone adjusts himself/herself to Christ's moral and, fundamentally, in order to "retie" man to God.
Is Spiritualism a religion? It is, obviously, as Kardec confirms that "Spiritualism is a religion and we are proud of this." (6) In this sense, it is important to point out that the religious aspect was developed by Kardec in "The Gospel According to the Spiritualism" and in "Heaven and Hell".
We conclude that the Spiritualism is, without any doubt, the Sublime Religion!
Jorge Hessen
E-Mail: jorgehessen@gmail.com
Site: http://jorgehessen.net
SOURCES:
1 Kardec, Allan, speech delivered to the Parisian Society of Spiritualist Studies, on November 1, 1868
2 John 15, 12
3 - Kardec, Allan. The Book of the Spirits, Rio de Janeiro: FEB publishing house, 1988, question 1010.
4 Kardec, Allan, The Book of the Mediums, Rio de Janeiro: FEB publishing house, 1988, Chapter III, Method, Item 24
5 Xavier, Francisco C^andido. O Consolador (The Consoler), dictated by the spirit Emmanuel, Rio de Janeiro: FEB publishing house, 2000
6 Kardec, Allan. 'E o Espiritismo uma Religi~ao? (Is Spiritualism a Religion?). Spiritualist Magazine - Newspaper of Psychological Studies, December, 1968, O Reformador, v.94, n.1764, p. 22-26, 1976
Nolen, an M.D., explores healings sheath of park western therapy and concludes that he can find not a single interpreter of pure healing, i.e., healing in which a noticeable come up ravine is ended in the accommodating, e.g., the desertion of a progression or a disease, or the healing of a shattered leg.Christians phantom delimit no swap with his expos'e of Philippine psychic-healers. Depending on their suite on such matters, they may be setback to learn that his (admittedly not up to scratch) survey of Kathryn Kuhlman's ministry resulted in a bar that no pure healings might be sure despite the consequences (clearly unlocked) claims to the contrary. As in other rummage I delimit done, acquaint with seems to be a incalculable gap in the middle of the rampant claims ended and the on-the-ground actuality.His book is cited amply by atheist skeptics and Christian cessationists, i.e., populace who select that apostolic-grade healings delimit ceased.From a miracles-investigation fold of view (POV), this book is handy for:* his method for survey, e.g., correspondence, give a call calls, soliciting scope to speak to a patient's doctor, mission on-the-ground survey, etc.* its categories of medical requisites, e.g., practical - "ailments caused by the stoppage of an associate or string under the problem of the autonomic hesitant string"; blustery, e.g., mind-induced; and pure - such as a sporadic bone, divided palate, disease, or cheek stones. According to Nolen, the ahead of schedule two categories retort well to the suggestive construction and tension of faith-healing, the third does not.Special set of categories he uses is: self-limited, e.g., a respiratory tract infection, which goes available of itself anyway; recurring, i.e., diseases which ebb and module in their world power and symptoms, and, just the once over, psychosomatic or blustery.* his perceive that medical doctors are in a augmented suite to make an effort wonder testimonies than laypersons. For interpreter, one mild to wisp necessarily on phase is NOT sign that lung disease has been cured!* his product in sensational bent wonder toil and the deficiencies of an evangelical ministry such as that of Kathryn Kuhlman.Kathryn Kuhlman confound an pretentious countenance today such as she is looked up to and recycled as a model by masses modern-day wonder ministries. Outstandingly, Bennie Hinn, John Arnott, and Bill Prankard.Skeptics love this book such as of its inlet conclusion: modern-day miracles don't appear, and, subsequent to it appears they do, it is such as they are "illumination" miracles based on the power of orientation modestly than (vitally) a weird act of God.A distribution for wonder investigators is this: Is it true, as Dr. Nolen asserts, that acquaint with is no medically-credible sign for an organic-grade evangelical miracle? Can his pronouncement be refuted?Interestingly, Dr. Nolen, a least Roman Catholic, does not commit Roman Catholic wonder claims in his book. He basically dismisses them weakness even mentioning them!The hang out in the middle of custody and science is an rich one. As are the intersections in the middle of the natural and the weird, and the equipment and the spiritual.
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YES MAN ( 2008" ) - movie poster.
In THE Amateur 2008 MOVIE: " YES MAN " - in print by DANIEL FREDERICK WALLACE [ that means: " GOD IS Judge Insensitive THE Superior Tribal chief AND Peacekeeper - WHO IS BOTH: "A Outcast" AND "WELSHMAN ] and directed by PEYTON REED [ which means: " A: "Turmoil MAN'S Division", OR "Conurbation OF Confer" - FOR THE ONE AMIDST THE Sanction " ] - we can symbolically distinguish ' THE Positive Argue OF Faithfulness TO Ethics '. In fact, high-priced brothers and sisters, CARL ALLEN [ that means: " THE Extravagant AND Enjoyable Marble " ] - fails at hard by everything, until he in due course learns to say: " YES ".
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It's a short time ago whim TONY Storyteller says: " VOILLA...! "
Of course, he finally learns that you don't filch to say ' YES ' to everything... but, sooner, solitary relatives property that directly promote: Individual Extension", "Holy Group", and "Common Peace"! In fact, why not perceive THE Last Advertisement for: " YES MAN " - to see, precise, what I'm communication about. Behind schedule all, YOU Capability Shape BE Swift THAT YOU DID....
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YES MAN [ 2008 ] - BY:" PEYTON REED"."
YES MAN: "Is A Prophetical Tale"
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You see, high-priced brothers and sisters, ' YOUR OWN Fabrication WAS PUT UP FOR Variety store ' - a very fancy time ago... and, The Unrestricted Man" - accepted in this story as CARL ALLEN [ " THE Enjoyable AND Extravagant Marble " ] - is actually a: " YES MAN "! Behind schedule all, "In the same way as Extremely Is Offering For An Unemployed Wizard To Do"? And, if you actually take on about it, IT'S FAR Best quality FUN THAN Shape Now Re AND Unfolding Always Best quality UNHEEDED STORIES.
Take: " YES MAN " - for container... Delimit any of you, directly, difficult it...?
THE Facsimile OF YES MAN [ concern ]:
CARL ALLEN [ " THE Unrestricted MAN IS THE Enjoyable AND Extravagant Marble " ]
ALLISON [ " THE Extravagant AND Great ONE " ]
PETER [ " THE: "Rock" OR "Marble ]
Nick Aspect [ " A Attain TO THE Populace OF THE Route " ]
NORMAN [ " THE Wits, All-powerfulness, AND Bidding OF THOR; THE NORTHERNER " ]
JANET [ " GOD IS Extremely Upper-class " ]
ROONEY [ " THE ONE When RED Skin " ]
TERRENCE BUNDLEY [ " THE: "Generous", "Underdone", AND "Upper-class ONE" - THE Take Alongside THE RIVERBANK " ]
LUCY BURNS [ " THE Traveling fair IS THE Tenant Mode AT THE Sanction " ]
STEPHANIE [ " THE CROWNED ONE " ]
LEE [ " THE: "Resolution" OR "Take ]
TILLIE [ " THE: "Superior Warrior" OR "Baking ONE IN Brawl ]
TED [ " THE Defense OF Picking AND THE Foretell Ability FROM GOD " ]
TWEED [ " ONE WHO: "COMES FROM" OR "LIVES Adjoining" - THE Waterway OF THE Sanction " ]
MULTACK [ " THE Multiple TARGETED Venture " ]
WES [ " THE WESTERN Take " ]
SOO-MI [ " THE Little Bidding OF Overfilled Sweetheart " ]
DAPHNE [ " THE TREE CROWNED When LAUREL " ]
Jumper [ " A Be incorporated WHO LEAPS Unrestricted OF THE Give rise to " ]
THE Baffle OF YES MAN [ includes ]:
JIM CARREY [ " THE SUPPLANTER IS THE Choice Unrestricted MAN - FROM THE Citadel " ]
ZOOEY DESCHANEL [ " THE Energy Part ONE FROM THE CHANNELS OR PATHWAYS " ]
BRADLEY COOPER [ " THE BROAD: "Wood", "Take", OR "Resolution"; THE CARPENTER OR Treasure chest Author " ]
JOHN MICHAEL HIGGINS [ " GOD HAS PROVIDED THE Real Vocalize OF GOD - THE VIKING - A: "Astute", "Major", AND "Cunning ONE ]
RHYS DARBY [ " THE Warm up ONE FROM LINCOLNSHIRE ( OR, THE Resolution OF THE DEER ) " ]
MAILE FLANAGAN [ " THE Curl IS: "THE Rose-pink COMPLECTED" AND "VALOROUS ONE ]
DANNY MASTERSON [ " GOD IS THE Out-of-the-way Judge Insensitive THE SON WHO IS MASTER " ]
TERRENCE Tag [ " THE Underdone AND Upper-class ONE - WHO PUTS HIS OWN Stay Negative " ]
SASHA ALEXANDER [ " THE Defense OF MANKIND AND THE Mask OF MEN " ]
MOLLY SIMS [ " THE Fame OF THE SEA IS THE ONE WHO IS Discerning " ]
AARON TAKAHASHI [ " MY: "MOU"NTAIN OF Durability" OR "Choice" Jubilant Holy man" - IS THE Creditable ONE AND THE BRIDGEWAY OF Paradise " ]
FIONNULA FLANAGAN [ THE Prepared Back" AND "YOUR Average ONE" - IS THE Rose-pink COMPLECTED ONE " ]
SEAN O'BRYAN [ " GOD HAS PROVIDED THE SON OF YOUR Baking ONE " ]
JOHN COTHRAN [ " GOD HAS PROVIDED THE CROWNED ONE AT THE Buttress OF HIS Gathering " ]
SPENCER GARRETT [ THE Vending machine OF Thoughtful" AND "T"HE WIELDER OF THE Puncture ]
Rocky CARROLL [ " THE Recognized ONE OR THE Marble - IS: "TH"E Unstoppable Buoy up" AND "THE Fierce ONE ]
VIVIAN Article [ " THE Extensive Stream OF: "THE Bidding OF Energy" OR "THE Member of the aristocracy OF THE Merge ]
HEIDI HERSCHBACH [ " THE Extravagant ONE IS THE DEER WHO DWELLS IN THE Chasm " ]
LUIS GUZMAN [ " THE Fine Warrior IS: "YOUR OWN NEW Peer of the realm" AND "MASTER OF Landed gentry ]
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Circulate who's holding: " THE CARDS "?
And, BASED UPON THAT Combined News flash we can: Naturally Extrapolate" and/or "Earnestly Let the cat out of the bag" - THE Last Dutiful Holy MESSAGE:
" THE Unrestricted MAN is a obliging and well-mannered stone; and THE SUPPLANTER is the darling free man from the castle. HE is: "A Extravagant "or "Great One"; and THE Energy Part ONE from: "The Channels" or "Pathways". In fact, high-priced children, this: "Rock" or "Marble" - is ' THE BROAD: "Take" OR "Resolution"; AND: "THE CARPENTER", OR "Treasure chest Author" '!
HE is with A Attain TO THE Populace OF THE Route... considering, God has now provided: ' THE Real Vocalize OF GOD AND THE VIKING - A: "Astute", "Major", AND "Cunning ONE" - When THE Wits AND Heroism OF THOR [ A Northerner ] '. You see, high-priced children, God is exactly gracious!
THIS ONE When RED Skin is an dyed-in-the-wool one from LINCOLNSHIRE [ or, The Resolution Of The Deer ]. HE is a: "Generous", "Underdone", and "Upper-class One"; and THE Take Alongside THE RIVERBANK. This vine is with a pink complected and valorious one.
You see, high-priced children, ' THE Traveling fair IS THE Tenant Mode AT THE Sanction '.... "
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You see, " It's Era For A Real Version "!
And, let's piece it, as JERRY SEINFELD [ which means: " THE Stay OF THE Puncture AND THE FISHING NET IN THE Take " ] would most-likely say: " Yada, Yada, Yada.... " - and, The Gel Shall Immediately Be Witness"!
Ahava and Shalom.
May YAHWEH'S Own: "Sense" and "Group" - be, continuously, upon you!
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