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reenawolfespirit-blog · 7 years

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why i practice hoodoo

It is the practice of my ancestors. It is distinct from religion, yet in cahoots with it. As cliche as it sounds, it’s something I feel I was born to do. But it wasn’t always that way.

Two years ago, I met a lover who introduced me to African Traditional Religion. His choice was Afro-Brazilian Candomblé, but through observing him in his practice, and through the beautiful songs and stories he shared with me, I got to know one of my favorite goddesses, Yemaya.

There was something about her story, her songs, her images, that brought me very deep comfort. Before then, I had never thought of god as a woman, much less a black woman. I lived near the beach, and some nights, I would sit in the sand, staring out into the vast ocean under the moonlight. Other times, I would wade into the waves and just feel her surrounding me.

I told my guy at the time that I wanted to give an offering to Yemaya, and I asked for his help in doing it the proper way. I expected some encouragement, and mistakenly, some form of congratulations for converting to his religion. Instead, I received a condescending attitude and a patronizing take-down.

“You can’t just shop around for a religion. You don’t even know anything about it. Make sure you do some research before you rush into worshipping an Orisha.”

I was floored. I had done research. I had read book after book, and he knew it. I had scoured the forums, made friends who were part of the religion, and I even had a cousin who was heavily involved in Santeria. At the time, she and I talked frequently about African spirituality, and we shared some candid feelings about religious journeys. How dare he?

After threatening to do the ritual by myself, my guy’s suspicion of my motives subsided, and he agreed to go to the beach with me. He gave me lots of instructions on what to wear, what do bring, and how to bless the offering the night before. On the special day, we offered white roses and baby’s breath to the ocean goddess. He even took the lead in singing sacred songs to Yemaya. The experience was beautiful.

Through context, you can probably guess that it didn’t work out between he and I. It was a bitter goodbye, but it wasn’t religion that drove us apart. And it wasn’t our parting that pulled me away from Yemaya. Long after I had left that man, I still prayed to her. I still believed in her.

What I didn’t believe in was the tradition surrounding her. I had been in contact with a few people in the religion, and I often lurked in online discourse of the practices. It wasn’t long before I realized that even though it was a tradition that had preserved its African roots, it was still riddled with the same strife as Christianity. It was incredibly dogmatic. It was rife with charlatanry, backbiting and abuse.

As a vegetarian and a person deeply concerned with animal rights, I couldn’t condone the practice of animal sacrifice. Even on the basis of karma, many people in Orisha-based traditions fiercely rejected the notion of being part of it, and not participating in animal sacrifice.

“No Orisha, no blood,” they said.

I know there are plenty of good people who venerate Orishas, and who believe whole-heartedly in the realness of them. The Orishas are real, just as any other being in this Universe. However, I question whether or not any higher being truly requires humans to shed animal blood.

Would it have been totally possible for me to cling to Yemaya, despite rejecting the tradition that surrounds her? Sure. Anything is possible. But in a Euro-centric world that constantly waters down and makes a mockery of indigenous religions, I could not justify being a grey voice of “modernization.” I could not separate Yemaya from the millions of African and Diaspora people that perform sincere and authentic rituals as they have been done for hundreds, even thousands of years.

And so, as much as I love her, I let her go.

What I gained instead was a knowledge of a different tradition that did feed my soul. I would not have searched for it so intently had I not let go of Orishas. Letting go of those African deities sent me on a quest to find something that was right for me. I wanted to pay homage to my roots. I wanted to immerse myself in a tradition that was mine–that was free of red tape, initiation and overzealous secrecy.

A lot of people confuse Hoodoo with Voodoo, and they mistakenly interchange it with African religions. But real Hoodoo is a collection of magical practices, down-home herbal uses, and old-time beliefs that reflect African, Native American, and European heritages. It is an American practice, born of slaves who had been converted to Christianity, but still managed to hold on to the ways of the conjurer.

“Laying tricks” was their way of fighting back against centuries of oppression in the United States. It was how rural blacks cured themselves of sickness, with the help of prayer and Native American herbal remedies. It was how they held onto Africa yet embraced this new, ill-fitted world.

Hoodoo is strange, absent of moral judgement, and free flowing in power. There is no structure, but there are parameters. I learn from others who have practiced and researched longer than I have. I read their books, and I follow their blogs. I spend hours pouring over traditional herbal legends, and mixing up my own concoctions.

Hoodoo brings out the curious girl in me. It helps me get closer to the earth. It keeps me grounded and connected to my ancestors. It helps me remember the joy in the simple things in life: a bunch of charms sewn into a flannel bag. A jar of citrous oils that can wash away devils.

It’s a pile of graveyard dust to remember where I came from, and a deck of cards and spells to know where I’m going.

#hoodoo #magic #voodoo #orisha #yemaya #candomble #santeria #african religion #tradition

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justonesongmore · 7 years

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XX. 1920

On Robot Rhythms, Comforting Tapestries, and Black women Saving Us All

1. Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds: “Crazy Blues”

Everything to this moment has been prologue: minstrelsy, marches, ragtime, dance crazes from South America or the Pacific, all has merely made straight the paths. Today the prophecy is fulfilled in your hearing. The record that shook the foundations of the earth, the record that won the first battle in a war most people didn’t yet know was happening, the record in the shadow of which all that has happened since still dwells. “Ain’t had nothing but bad news,” but the joy and energy and racket that propels her is a grand fuck-you to all false merchants of that news.

2. Al Jolson: “Swanee”

Another record important for different, and lesser, reasons. Where “Crazy Blues” is African-American musicians finally presenting their vernacular music unmediated by white caricature, “Swanee” is white (well, Jewish) Americans claiming a new and modern identity directly through the caricature of blacks. It’s a multigenerational caricature, as the 22-year-old composer (meet George Gershwin) quotes the original minstrel songwriter, and the performer, at his reckless height, has abandoned any pretense of imitation: his caricature, though performed in blackface, yowling cretinously for Mammy, is more self-parody than any other. The song’s melodic verve creates the future even as its lyrics plunder the past.

3. Baiano & Izaltina: “Cangerê”

As the Jazz Age begins, so too does the golden age of samba, with this slangy underground duet, the only known composition by Chico de Baiana, or the Bahia woman’s boy. “Cangerê,” said to be derived from an African language, is a specific ritual in the Afro-Brazilian Feitiço religion; the man and woman, arguing as usual in pop duets, threaten each other with the supernatural, while the samba rhythm works its own ineluctable magic on the listener. Two instrumental versions of the song were also cut in 1920, and the rhythmic power of the Banda da Casa Edison’s remains galvanizing.

4. Carlos Gardel: “Milonguita”

We have met many classic tango songs already, and will meet many more; but tango too is kicking into a new gear at the start of a new decade. “Milonguita,” by Argentine composer Enrique Delfino and Uruguayan lyricist Samuel Linnig, is one of the crown jewels of the Golden Age of Tango, never more exquisitely rendered than by Gardel’s burnished pipes. Full of the lunfardo slang that characterized the Buenos Aires underworld, it’s a portrait of a young woman driven to perdition by wine, men, and tango; her very name, “little-milonga,” refers to the dancehalls where the tango corrupted souls.

5. Mistinguett: “Mon homme”

Of the four canonical twentieth-century renditions of this song, the original is the least well-known; but Fanny Brice, Billie Holiday, and Édith Piaf sang other songs. The shining star of the Folies-Bergère between 1900 and 1930, Mistinguett sang many others too, but she may as well not have; this song, whether called “Mon homme” or “My Man,” has far superseded her own limited fame, and dragged her along rather cruelly in its wake. But pay attention to her studied lightness and flippancy, far from Brice’s and Piaf’s tragic posturing or Holiday’s bitter resignation: self-pity would be unfitting of her stardom.

6. Maurice Chevalier: “Oh! Maurice”

Mistinguett had been the toast of Paris since the Belle Époque; meanwhile, her nearest male equivalent, thirteen years her junior, was just rising to fame in 1920. (As though to exemplify the Parisian spirit, they had been lovers since 1911.) His first recorded hit, “Oh! Maurice” is an orgy of ribald egotism, a rhapsody on his masculine charms and the flutters into which he sends the female of the species. It’s tongue-in-cheek, of course, as all music-hall songs (of which it is a cousin) are; but it also owes its insouciant verve to the brio drifting from across the Atlantic.

7. Salvatore Papaccio: “Scettico Blues”

As does this. To be sure, it’s only called a blues because anything with even a slightly downbeat view of life was called a blues in 1920 (the copyright registration books were full to bursting of “blues”), but although structurally it’s what it sounds, a canzone napoletana, it’s also a witty, cynical plaint about the unfairness and falsity of life; and the see-sawing melody, though it doesn’t sound much like the blues strictly defined, owes more to ragtime-inflected American stage music than to traditional Italian bel canto. When pop singer Mina covered it in 1976, nostalgia couldn’t entirely obscure existentialism.

8. Lucille Hegamin & Harris’ Blues and Jazz Seven: “The Jazz Me Blues”

“Crazy Blues” had an immediate, electrifying effect on the recording industry; then as now, the most overwhelming flattery of success was imitation. It would take longer for authentic blues sensations, as measured by live performance in venues whites knew nothing of, to get on record, but refined generalist Black performers like Lucille Hegamin were pressed into immediate service to fill the obvious gap in the market. “Jazz Me Blues” was written by the young Black songwriter Tom Delaney, and its slangy but chaste evocation of the pleasures of the new groove under the sun is spun juicily in her mouth.

9. Bert Williams: “Unlucky Blues”

He was there at the beginning of the century, making outlandish grunts and twisting a love song into travesty; and he remains here at the century’s maturation, in some ways only catching up to where he was then. His voice is weathered with age and experience, the humorous glint in his eye undimmed but his face still poker-straight. Although the blues has now exploded into commercial popularity as feminine tragedy, his throaty plaintiveness looks forward to the masculine rural blues which will overshadow them. The song is Broadway pop, not blues, but his soul has always known the flatted fifth.

10. Nora Bayes: “The Broadway Blues”

It’s not often that I’ll privilege a recording by a white vaudevillian over a more famous one by an epochal Black act, but in this case the Sissle and Blake record is a bit too jaunty and careless, which only makes sense, as they didn’t write it. Bayes, a veteran Jewish coon singer, takes it at a drag, and is no longer burlesquing Blackness with weird hiccoughs, just singing, with the authority of age, a song about the pallor of the limelight. And with hindsight it’s hard to believe the aforementioned Gershwin kid didn’t have an ear on the orchestration.

11. Edith Day: “Alice Blue Gown”

The upheaval among the downmarket forms of musical entertainment, as authentic Black music begins to challenge the galumphing jeers of minstrelsy, did not necessarily have any immediate effect on the upmarket musical theater, which remained prissy, stodgy, and sentimental: but perhaps not quite unrecoverably foreign to us as it may sound today. “Alice Blue Gown” is meant to be wistful: in the show Irene, it is a song by a young woman nostalgic for her childhood dress of the shade named for President Roosevelt’s daughter. Chelsea Clinton would occupy the same cultural space today; and similar nostalgias are at work.

12. Paul Whiteman & His Ambassador Orchestra: “Whispering”

It is perhaps no accident that the “King of Jazz” cut his first record the same year that the real first jazz record was cut, and anyone curious about understanding the currents and cultures at work in the early 1920s would do well to study the sonic, rhythmic, tonal, and (yes) verbal discrepancies between “Crazy Blues” and “Whispering.” The Ambassador Orchestra is crisp, slick, not a hair out of place, not a glimpse of human feeling. Not only easy listening but Kraftwerk is predicted by their well-drilled rhythms; it is perhaps no accident either that Čapek’s robots emerged this year.

13. Ted Lewis Jazz Band: “When My Baby Smiles at Me”

While we’ve met Ted Lewis before, this more conventional dance-band number, with parts portioned out fairly among the band’s instrumentalists and his shabby-genteel crooning avant la lettre, was his first big hit, both on record and (helped by his star appearance at the Greenwich Village Follies of 1920) on sheet music. Compared to “O,” his klezmer-derived clarinet is more integrated into the tune’s jazz gestalt, and the way forward to Benny Goodman is clearly pointed; but there are still elements of ODJB-like novelty, as in the “I cry… I cry” refrain towards the end, squawked in parody by the band.

14. Ben Hokea Players: “Honolulu March”

A star instrumentalist, bandleader, and educator whose first records were also made in 1919, Ben Hokea was a Hawaiʻian-born guitarist who, on coming to the mainland, made his home base in Toronto, and his slack-key technique, more peppy and jazzy than dreamy and wistful, was instrumental in making hula music one of the everyday sounds of the 1920s, not just an exotica fad of the decade prior. The traditional song his band cuts here is taken at such a raggy, stuttering clip that the pedal steel swing of the Nashville-oriented decades to come is conjured by its streamlined, modern drive.

15. María Teresa Vera & Manuel Corona: “El yambú guaguancó”

Although we’ve heard from María Teresa Vera before, it was as a generalist singer covering a popular theater song; with this recording, she and her trova mentor, Manuel Corona, finally introduce the rumba proper (as distinct from the sones marketed as rhumbas in the 1930s) to recorded history. Yambú and guaguancó are both varieties of rumba, and the wordless chorus is characteristic of yambú. Vera’s verses are from the ancient storehouse of Cuban verse and symbol which, like blues verses, were mixed and matched to make up a song; but the insinuating rhythm, with its bell-clear clave, is what moves.

16. Zaki Murad: “Zuruni Kulli Sana Marra”

Because my focus has been (and will remain) primarily on Western music, I have paid scant attention to the deep wonders of Egyptian music, on record since before the century turned. Zaki Murad, of Jewish descent like many early Arabic-language recording stars, had been a successful recording artist since 1910, touring the Arabic-speaking world, and it is unjust that only this magnificent taqtuqa, “Visit Me Every Day,” by the legendary secular composer Sayyid Darwish (often considered the father of Egyptian popular music) represents him here. Do remember Murad’s last name, however; his daughter will join us later in the century.

17. Mishka Ziganoff: “Odessa Bulgar”

The Jewish diaspora, filtered through the sieve of immigration and collected in the tenements of New York, was always many peoples instead of one. Mishka Ziganoff was born in Odessa under the Russian Empire and emigrated to the US around the age of ten; his family settled in Brooklyn, and he became a virtuoso accordionist. His heritage was a jumble: he spoke Yiddish, but considered himself a Gypsy and communed as a Christian. In the ancient tradition of the musician as outsider, he managed to combine multiple interpretations of identity and home into a comforting tapestry, calling everyone to dance.

18. Abe Schwartz & Sylvia Schwartz: “National Hora Pt. 1”

Meanwhile, the most popular Jewish bandleader of the period, while cutting many lively freilach tunes that remain deathless today, paused to record something more quiet and perhaps personal: accompanied only by his daughter on piano, he fiddles a longing, keening improvisation in the “tzigane” (Roma) tradition, and wraps it up in what to Western European ears is an Irish jig. Klezmer scholars have declared this side a one-off, not a rendition of any familiar tune (Pt. 2 is better known as “Der Gasn Nigun”), and it’s impossible for me not to hear it as a thrilling expression of American pluralism.

19. Enrico Caruso: “I’ m’arricordo ’e Napule”

In a year, the Voice will be no more. This isn’t his last recording (that’s a selection from a Mass by Rossini), but it’s his last great canzone napoletana, a brand-new song of nostalgia and reverie about his hometown of Naples. More than anyone, he was the greatest star of the first age of recording, and as he dims, a new generation of stars is beginning to glow. Soon their brightness will eclipse his own; but few of them will retain anything like his name recognition over the years. A century later, and Caruso is still synonymous with beautiful singing.

20. Anita Patti Brown: “Villanelle”

The spectrum of authentic Black femininity which became, for the first time in recorded history, a live issue in 1920 ranged widely even then. The furthest away you could get, anyone would have said, from Mamie Smith’s vaudeville faux-lowdown, was the light classical canon; and here we find another Black woman. Her stage name is a double reference to Sissieretta Jones, her racial forebear in classical singing, nicknamed “the Black Patti” after Italian diva Adelina Patti; Anita Brown was called “the Bronze Tetrazzini” after Caruso’s duet partner. “Villanelle” was composed by Belgian miniaturist Eva Dell’Acqua in 1893, femininity in watercolors.

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succorcreek · 5 years

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Hamsa Blessed Water, the Five Fingers

Hamsa Blessed Water

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“Carlos, a priest of Afro-Brazilian Indigenous spiritual traditions in Santos, Braz. il, lead me out to the Statue of Yemanja, in the great bay, surrounded by beautiful coconut palm beach, stunning fluorescent pink sunsets, lighted cruise ships, and distant cargo ships for the largest port of South America, and shipping point for half the world’s coffee beans. There were other spiritual people visiting, wading the waste deep Atlantic ocean, half from this indigenous and ancient tribal belief, and half from all other spiritual traditions and interest, all open minded and intelligent persons on their own Soul Quests.

It seemed peaceful as he said certain phrases and blessed the water gathered there. It seemed, for me, with a Ph.D., in world cultures, to be common to world universal spiritual views. I mean, it wasn’t odd, garrish, funny, or a spectacle. I’ve seen this belief worldwide and in multitudes of people, the same searching, prayer, honoring, and openness, whether it is the syncretised view of a Mexican at Virgen de Guadaloupe, a non-Catholic going to Fatima, Portugal, or even the 60% of the persons in my conservative state of Idaho, where those 60% state they have their true spirituality, it’s a mystery, but they’re satisfied with it and don’t feel they need a view of “another person” imparted or guilted onto them. They are in contrast to the rigid and dogmatic, and they seek a Beloved, God, Goddess, Universe, or Unknown, with that universal tongue, from soul and (defined bottom of page), Universal Unconscious of Man/Woman kind, patterned even in our genetic code!

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The 5 fingers:

5 Fingers, 5 World Traditions, 4 Continents, Healing Goddess within saying: the messages:

ü Don’t Fear (Fear Not)

ü Be Healed

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4. Brazil and Africa, and Santeria and Indigenous religions worldwide: Water from Statue / Atlantic at Santos Brazil, priest blessed. Yemanja (Iemanja), traditions from all Brazil, all sub-Saharan Africa, and all World Santeria

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Information on the 5 fingers, symbolism, and world traditions

1. Evil Eye

2. Abhaya Mudra

3. And more background for the 5 Fingers / 5 World Traidtions

HAND OF FATIMA

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The Hand of Fatima is an ancient talisman that symbolizes feminine power. Originating from the Hebrew word hamesh, literally meaning five, the hand is worn as a defense against negative energy, deflecting the gaze of the evil eye away from the wearer. Believed to channel the forces of good, the Hand of Fatima promotes healing and fosters miracles.

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Hamsa Hand: history

Examples of Khamsa

Early use of the hamsa has been traced to ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) as well as ancient Carthage[citation needed] (modern day Tunisia). The image of the open right hand is seen in Mesopotamian artifacts in the amulets of the goddess Ishtar or Inanna.[2] Other symbols of divine protection based around the hand include the Hand-of-Venus (or Aphrodite), the Hand-of-Mary, that was used to protect women from the evil eye and/or boost fertility and lactation, promote healthy pregnancies and strengthen the weak.[2] In that time, women were under immense pressure and expectation to become mothers.[8] The woman’s upbringing was centered on becoming a mother as an exclusive role, and it indicated child bearing as necessary.[9] It was also thought that marriage was a sense of protection for both the man and the woman.[10] In Jewish culture, the hamsa is associated with the number five because of the five fingers depicted on the hand.[11]

Art depicts a hamsa

One theory postulates a connection between the khamsa and the Mano Pantea (or Hand-of-the-All-Goddess), an amulet known to ancient Egyptians as the Two Fingers. In this amulet, the Two Fingers represent Isis and Osiris and the thumb represents their child Horus. It was used to invoke the protective spirits of parents over their child.[2] Another theory traces the origins of the hamsa to Carthage (Phoenicia, modern Tunisia) where the hand (or in some cases vulva) of the supreme deity Tanit was used to ward off the evil eye.[12] According to Bruno Barbatti, at that time this motive was the most important sign of apotropaic magic in the Islamic world, though many modern representations continue to show an obvious origin from sex symbolism.

This relates to the belief that God exists in everything. Another meaning of this symbol relates to the sky god, Horus. It refers to the Eye of Horus, which means humans cannot escape from the eye of conscience. It says that the sun and moon are the eyes of Horus. The Hand of Fatima also represents femininity, and is referred as the woman’s holy hand. It is believed to have extraordinary characteristics that can protect people from evil and other dangers.[13]

Symbolism and usage

Clay hamsa with an inscription in Hebrew (translates to “good luck”)

Amulet with two hands of Fatimah, bearing the inscriptions “God is the guardian”, “God brings consolation in all trials”

The Hand (Khamsa), particularly the open right hand, is a sign of protection that also represents blessings, power and strength, and is seen as potent in deflecting the evil eye.[2][18] One of the most common components of gold and silver jewelry in the region,[19] historically and traditionally, it was most commonly carved in jet or formed from silver, a metal believed to represent purity and hold magical properties.[2][20] It is also painted in red (sometimes using the blood of a sacrificed animal) on the walls of houses for protection,[21][22] or painted or hung on the doorways of rooms, such as those of an expectant mother or new baby.[2] The hand can be depicted with the fingers spread apart to ward off evil, or as closed together to bring good luck.[23] Similarly, it can be portrayed with the fingers pointing up in warding, or down to bestow blessings. Highly stylized versions may be difficult to recognize as hands, and can consist of five circles representing the fingers, situated around a central circle representing the palm.[23]

Hamsa in the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam

Used to protect against evil eye, a malicious stare believed to be able to cause illness, death or just general unluckiness, hamsas often contain an eye symbol.[20][24] Depictions of the hand, the eye or the number five in Arabic (and Berber) tradition are related to warding off the evil eye, as exemplified in the saying khamsa fi ainek (“five [fingers] in your eye”).[24] Raising one’s right hand with the palm showing and the fingers slightly apart is part of this curse meant “to blind the aggressor”.[21] Another formula uttered against the evil eye in Arabic, but without hand gestures, is khamsa wa-khamis (“five and Thursday”).[25][26] As the fifth day of the week, Thursday is considered a good day for magic rites and pilgrimages to the tombs of revered saints to counteract the effects of the evil eye.[27]

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Evil eye

Nazars, charms used to ward off the evil eye.

The evil eye is a curse or legend believed to be cast by a malevolent glare, usually given to a person when they are unaware. Many cultures believe that receiving the evil eye will cause misfortune or injury,[1] while others believe it to be a kind of supernatural force that casts or reflects a malevolent gaze back-upon those who wish harm upon others (especially innocents). Talismans created to protect against the evil eye are also frequently called “evil eyes”.[2][3]

The idea expressed by the term causes many different cultures to pursue protective measures against it. The concept and its significance vary widely among different cultures, primarily in West Asia. The idea appears multiple times in Jewish rabbinic literature.[4] It was a widely extended belief among many Mediterranean and Asian tribes and cultures. Charms and decorations with eye-like symbols known as nazars, which are used to repel the evil eye, are a common sight across Portugal, Brazil, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Albania, Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Nepal, Pakistan, parts of North India, Palestine, Morocco, southern Spain, Italy, Malta, Romania, the Balkans, the Levant, Afghanistan, Syria, and Bahrain, and have become a popular choice of souvenir with tourists.

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The Hand up: Abhayamudra

Remember: the message of all Gods, all traditions: FEAR NOT

Hindu Gods, most with right hand held up, palm out.

Buddha with his right hand in abhaya mudra.

Dewi Sri (Parvati) with her right hand in abhaya mudra, Bali Indonesia.[1]

The Abhayamudrā “gesture of fearlessness”[2] is a mudrā (gesture) that is the gesture of reassurance and safety, which dispels fear and accords divine protection and bliss in many Indian religions. The right hand is held upright, and the palm is facing outwards.[3] This is one of the earliest mudrās found depicted on a number of Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh images.

The abhayamudrā represents protection, peace, benevolence and the dispelling of fear. The Hindu god Nataraja is depicted with the second right hand making the Abhaya Mudra, bestowing protection from both evil and ignorance to those who follow the righteousness of dharma. In Theravada Buddhism, it is usually made with the right hand raised to shoulder height, the arm bent and the palm facing outward with the fingers upright and joined and the left hand hanging down while standing. In Thailand and Laos, this mudra is associated with the Walking Buddha, often shown having both hands making a double abhayamudrā that is uniform.

Yemanja, Iemanja:

Goddess protector of Africa, Brazil, and world Santeria Traditions

Goddess of the Andes:

See posters for info on:

Holy Water, blessed,

From Cathedral de Fatima

Note on Santeria: a serious faith of followers based on Afro-Brazilian Indignous religions, and is only mocked in caricature of voodoo, the New Orleans movie parody and not related to indigenous religions.

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Above info from Wikipedia.com

Now: this is water collected worldwide: use some sense here:

It’s not for children, ingestion.

It’s often used to anoint a forehead, objects, or places: but don’t drink, get on lips or eyes, mix with foods or drinks, give to children. If anointing pets, do on top of head, not eyes or mouth. Keep the contents away from children, jokers, pets.

This isn’t dirty water, but consider it as any water from a local creek or river: you don’t drink it. Hey, you’re an adult here so take charge of the concepts, bottle, because you’re assuming risks of misuse by others, kids, pets.

We’re providing a leak proof bottle, and pack to prevent breakage up front: all items at Scooter Bee’s are pretty scrutinized: no refunds or returns in any situation. We also don’t accept returns as nobody wants used stuff.

This is genuine: collected waters. To purchase means you’ve read all the text and know what you’re buying. We’re not shipping you several liters silly. Read all, buy, enjoy, be healed and don’t forget to bless that cat.

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Please ask the day your order, and we’ll add a set of full page copies of the “posters” above, for your use. No Charge.

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Where will you keep your Blessed Water, that you charge? Here’s a idea:

Treat the charged water just like you would if you were making a personal home altar:

Set an intention of finding an a bottle or air proof container that is special to you. Give it a week or two for that item to “find” you. For one person, it could be something found at a yard sale, old, but then you wash it. For another person, it could be something costly, or a bottle you then embellish with tiles or gems. What ever it is for you, it will be “important”. Than, add your water to the container. It’s just me, but I’d use a highly filtered water (even from the machine at Walmart), because this would be missing local contaminants and smells, but a simply bottle of your favorite commercial water would do!

Then, add 2-3 drops of Blessed Water. It will charge the whole bottle. As I’ve done this personally, and kept both the original blessed waters and my “charged water to use”, they last and last. For instance, I may dab my pets on the forehead, the doorways inside and out to, of my home, a sacred object that may mean nothing to another person, my own forehead with prayers, a piece of clothing for some reason of prayer, blessing, to unseat obstacles, and open myself to what I view as God, the Universe, the Mystery, and the universal and pan cultural myths of ALL religions and the gods within.

Unlike lighting a candle or incense daily in the morning, this blessed water blessings is often done on a special day, special time, or struggling time, occasionally. It’s also important to do at the start of journey, quest, new jobs, new relationships, new intentions and dreams. How and by who’s power does the water work? It is the Mystery that lives in every person, and it’s the mystery of how the Spiritual World works. There are those who doubt, or totally disbelieve anything, but there are those who know that this world is as real as the seen and touched world. It’s sort of like the mystery and science writers of 1,000 to 3,000 years ago: they wrote about particles smaller than atoms, and edges of universes, and other realities and parallel universes now accepted by the most noted brained physicists. Why would then so many worldwide believe in this unseen? Carl Jung, European Psychiatrist, wounded healer, and deceased, said:

These ideas are patterned in every brain to know and believe that. Some body tells you about the spiritual world (which is often apart from organized religion), and you just “know”. These concepts exist in all persons, all places, and all times that we know of. Even if you have persons in an isolated tribe, they have these spiritual concepts, which are brain archetypes called the Collective Unconscious of Man/Woman Kind. They are not just there for a survival mechanism. Did the great mystery called God, Deity, Universe or Mystery put them in our genetic code? Or are they part of our soul: we just function so naturally with a concept of the Beloved: one or many or a mystery that we seek, seeks us, can be prayed to, is part of each person’s personal definition of that (you know for yourself who the Beloved is, apart from, or just influenced by books), you can reach directly, and yet is a Mystery of the Unknown and Unseen.

Some Quotes from the Poet Rumi, 13 Century Mystic Sufi Poet, and Seminary Teacher at a school in Turkey that taught to seekers from All religions, not presenting a dogma view:

“God is nearer to you than your self.”

“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”

― Rumi

“One went to the door of the Beloved and knocked.

A voice asked: “Who is there?” He answered: “It is I.”

The voice said: “There is no room here for me and thee.”

The door was shut.

After a year of solitude and deprivation

this man returned to the door of the Beloved.

He knocked.

A voice from within asked: “Who is there?”

The man said: “It is Thou.”

The door was opened for him.

The minute I heard my first love story,

I started looking for you, not knowing

how blind that was.

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere,

they’re in each other all along.

Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.

The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death.

Tomorrow, when resurrection comes,

The heart that is not in love will fail the test.

When your chest is free of your limiting ego,

Then you will see the ageless Beloved.

You can not see yourself without a mirror;

Look at the Beloved, He is the brightest mirror.

Your love lifts my soul from the body to the sky

And you lift me up out of the two worlds.

I want your sun to reach my raindrops,

So your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.

There is a candle in the heart of man, waiting to be kindled.

In separation from the Friend, there is a cut waiting to be

stitched.

O, you who are ignorant of endurance and the burning

fire of love–

Love comes of its own free will, it can’t be learned

in any school.

There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired,

as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts

from books and from what the teacher says,

collecting information from the traditional sciences

as well as from the new sciences.

With such intelligence you rise in the world.

You get ranked ahead or behind others

in regard to your competence in retaining

information. You stroll with this intelligence

in and out of fields of knowledge, getting always more

marks on your preserving tablets.

There is another kind of tablet, one

already completed and preserved inside you.

A spring overflowing its springbox. A freshness

in the center of the chest. This other intelligence

does not turn yellow or stagnate. It’s fluid,

and it doesn’t move from outside to inside

through conduits of plumbing-learning.

This second knowing is a fountainhead

from within you, moving out.”

“What else can I say?

You will only hear

what you are ready to hear.

Don’t nod your head,

Don’t try to fool me—

the truth of what you see

is written all over your face!”

― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved

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“Why are you so enchanted by this world

when a mine of gold lies within you?”

― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved

“In the heavens I see your eyes,

In your eyes I see the heavens.

Why look for another Moon or another Sun?—

What I see will always be enough for me.”

― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved

“Lose yourself,

Lose yourself in this love.

When you lose yourself in this love,

you will find everything.

Lose yourself,

Lose yourself.

Do not fear this loss,

For you will rise from the earth

and embrace the endless heavens.

Lose yourself,

Lose yourself.

Escape from this earthly form,

For this body is a chain

and you are its prisoner.

Smash through the prison wall

and walk outside with the kings and princes.

Lose yourself,

Lose yourself at the foot of the glorious King. When you lose yourself

before the King

you will become the King.

Lose yourself,

Lose yourself.

Escape from the black cloud

that surrounds you.

Then you will see your own light

as radiant as the full moon.

Now enter that silence.

This is the surest way

to lose yourself. . . .

What is your life about, anyway?—

Nothing but a struggle to be someone,

Nothing but a running from your own silence.”

― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved

“Then I looked within my own heart

and there I found Him—

He was nowhere else.”

― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved

“I once had a thousand desires,

But in my one desire to know you

all else melted away.

The pure essence of your being

has taken over my heart and soul.

Now there is no second or third,

only the sound of your sweet cry.

Through your grace I have found

a treasure within myself.

I have found the truth of the Unseen world.

I have come upon the eternal ecstasy.

I have gone beyond the ravages of time.

I have become one with you!

Now my heart sings,

“I am the soul of the world.”

Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved, book at all book resources.

Where will you keep your Holy Water?

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Thank you to my friend bringing me the Holy Water, official type, from Fatima and Lourdes. The other three were gathered on my own journeys and quests. All, come out of a “quest, seeking, journey, sincerity”

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Why I Practice Hoodoo

It is the practice of my ancestors. It is distinct from religion, yet in cahoots with it. As cliche as it sounds, it’s something I feel I was born to do. But it wasn’t always that way.

“You can’t just shop around for a religion. You don’t even know anything about it. Make sure you do some research before you rush into worshipping an Orisha.”

“No Orisha, no blood,” they said.

And so, as much as I love her, I let her go.

It’s a pile of graveyard dust to remember where I came from, and a deck of cards and spells to know where I’m going.

#hoodoo #magic #voodoo #orisha #yemaya #candomble #santeria #african religion #tradition

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Hamsa Blessed Water, the Five Fingers Hamsa Blessed Water 5 World Traditions Holy Water / Blessed Water Hamsa, Fatima, Ganges, Evil Eye ++Get yours here at our Ebay store: https://ift.tt/2OfKHDZ . 5 Fingers of the Sacred Hand of World Traditions, healing, protection, removal of obstacles, blessing of self / life, anointing of quests, doorways, pets, photos, and your own forehead! “Carlos, a priest of Afro-Brazilian Indigenous spiritual traditions in Santos, Braz. il, lead me out to the Statue of Yemanja, in the great bay, surrounded by beautiful coconut palm beach, stunning fluorescent pink sunsets, lighted cruise ships, and distant cargo ships for the largest port of South America, and shipping point for half the world’s coffee beans. There were other spiritual people visiting, wading the waste deep Atlantic ocean, half from this indigenous and ancient tribal belief, and half from all other spiritual traditions and interest, all open minded and intelligent persons on their own Soul Quests. It seemed peaceful as he said certain phrases and blessed the water gathered there. It seemed, for me, with a Ph.D., in world cultures, to be common to world universal spiritual views. I mean, it wasn’t odd, garrish, funny, or a spectacle. I’ve seen this belief worldwide and in multitudes of people, the same searching, prayer, honoring, and openness, whether it is the syncretised view of a Mexican at Virgen de Guadaloupe, a non-Catholic going to Fatima, Portugal, or even the 60% of the persons in my conservative state of Idaho, where those 60% state they have their true spirituality, it’s a mystery, but they’re satisfied with it and don’t feel they need a view of “another person” imparted or guilted onto them. They are in contrast to the rigid and dogmatic, and they seek a Beloved, God, Goddess, Universe, or Unknown, with that universal tongue, from soul and (defined bottom of page), Universal Unconscious of Man/Woman kind, patterned even in our genetic code! All 5 waters Blessed by local traditions. Blessed Waters, Holy Waters. Most information is put onto posters here you can zoom in on each one for each finger, location of holy blessed water, traditions, more. You’ll not find this information Any place else, because this combination of Blessed, Holy Waters is based on my travels and research worldwide for my Ph.D. in World Cultures and World Religions. I also believe these ancient traditions and symbols, found in EVERY culture, are valid for us today. These views are pancultural: found in all places. I collected the not just as an academic, but a world mystic and respector of these views, their validity, and world people. I believe in the power you’ll find in the 5 Fingers, 5 blessed waters, and that the symbolism will connect you with your soul and a greater Universe or Beloved. Size: Each purchase is one tiny bottle, shipped in triple protection. One tiny bottle will recharge one million gallons of water! It’s not necessary to buy a big two liter of this, or ever by more! The Blessedness of this water is spread throughout all particles, and if you put it in a fountain, or a crystal jar: it’s all blessed. But, this product is for sensible folks: see the note at the bottom of the text: consider this like water from a local stream or mountain river: you don’t drink it, give it to kids or pets, or get in eyes. It’s NOT dirty or buggy, it’s natural. (Remember when your mother told you to not put that in your mouth?). Each Purchase is: One tiny light proof bottle, with ALL 5 waters mixed in, described below. Yep, all 5, through great personal travail to get…… You’d think water like this should be given away: but you make the journeys, pay the tickets, and work to get the waters all blessed! Whew…. About 1-3ml. Use to recharge other water, for you, gifts to others, anointing of self, object, pets, etc. This is Quantum Blessing: Rumi: “the Universe is held in a drop of Water”. 5 Fingers, 5 World Traditions, and the message: Don’t Fear Be Healed Be Protected · Hamsa Hand · Hand of Fatima or · Abhaya Mudra A tradition and symbolism known and respected worldwide: the Holy Hand. The 5 fingers: 5 Fingers, 5 World Traditions, 4 Continents, Healing Goddess within saying: the messages: ü Don’t Fear (Fear Not) ü Be Healed ü Be Protected 1. Fatima: Holy Water from Fatima, Portugal Shrine 2. Lourdes: Holy Water from the Grotto of Lourdes, France 3. Ganges, India: Holy Water from 1,000 locations along the Holy Ganges River, India 4. Brazil and Africa, and Santeria and Indigenous religions worldwide: Water from Statue / Atlantic at Santos Brazil, priest blessed. Yemanja (Iemanja), traditions from all Brazil, all sub-Saharan Africa, and all World Santeria 5. Americas: 5. Water from Ecuadorean Andes: combined / joined / synchretized Mary Aparitions in Quito and 50 other sites and Kechua Indigenous Beliefs: a. Shown: Virgen has a lizard like creature chained, is only winged Mary in world. b. Our Lady of Clouds Aparition. c. Quechua people, indigenous of Ecuador Information on the 5 fingers, symbolism, and world traditions 1. Evil Eye 2. Abhaya Mudra 3. And more background for the 5 Fingers / 5 World Traidtions HAND OF FATIMA positivity | abundance | faith The Hand of Fatima is an ancient talisman that symbolizes feminine power. Originating from the Hebrew word hamesh, literally meaning five, the hand is worn as a defense against negative energy, deflecting the gaze of the evil eye away from the wearer. Believed to channel the forces of good, the Hand of Fatima promotes healing and fosters miracles. ******************************** Hamsa Hand: history Examples of Khamsa Early use of the hamsa has been traced to ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) as well as ancient Carthage[citation needed] (modern day Tunisia). The image of the open right hand is seen in Mesopotamian artifacts in the amulets of the goddess Ishtar or Inanna.[2] Other symbols of divine protection based around the hand include the Hand-of-Venus (or Aphrodite), the Hand-of-Mary, that was used to protect women from the evil eye and/or boost fertility and lactation, promote healthy pregnancies and strengthen the weak.[2] In that time, women were under immense pressure and expectation to become mothers.[8] The woman’s upbringing was centered on becoming a mother as an exclusive role, and it indicated child bearing as necessary.[9] It was also thought that marriage was a sense of protection for both the man and the woman.[10] In Jewish culture, the hamsa is associated with the number five because of the five fingers depicted on the hand.[11] Art depicts a hamsa One theory postulates a connection between the khamsa and the Mano Pantea (or Hand-of-the-All-Goddess), an amulet known to ancient Egyptians as the Two Fingers. In this amulet, the Two Fingers represent Isis and Osiris and the thumb represents their child Horus. It was used to invoke the protective spirits of parents over their child.[2] Another theory traces the origins of the hamsa to Carthage (Phoenicia, modern Tunisia) where the hand (or in some cases vulva) of the supreme deity Tanit was used to ward off the evil eye.[12] According to Bruno Barbatti, at that time this motive was the most important sign of apotropaic magic in the Islamic world, though many modern representations continue to show an obvious origin from sex symbolism. This relates to the belief that God exists in everything. Another meaning of this symbol relates to the sky god, Horus. It refers to the Eye of Horus, which means humans cannot escape from the eye of conscience. It says that the sun and moon are the eyes of Horus. The Hand of Fatima also represents femininity, and is referred as the woman’s holy hand. It is believed to have extraordinary characteristics that can protect people from evil and other dangers.[13] Symbolism and usage Clay hamsa with an inscription in Hebrew (translates to “good luck”) Amulet with two hands of Fatimah, bearing the inscriptions “God is the guardian”, “God brings consolation in all trials” The Hand (Khamsa), particularly the open right hand, is a sign of protection that also represents blessings, power and strength, and is seen as potent in deflecting the evil eye.[2][18] One of the most common components of gold and silver jewelry in the region,[19] historically and traditionally, it was most commonly carved in jet or formed from silver, a metal believed to represent purity and hold magical properties.[2][20] It is also painted in red (sometimes using the blood of a sacrificed animal) on the walls of houses for protection,[21][22] or painted or hung on the doorways of rooms, such as those of an expectant mother or new baby.[2] The hand can be depicted with the fingers spread apart to ward off evil, or as closed together to bring good luck.[23] Similarly, it can be portrayed with the fingers pointing up in warding, or down to bestow blessings. Highly stylized versions may be difficult to recognize as hands, and can consist of five circles representing the fingers, situated around a central circle representing the palm.[23] Hamsa in the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam Used to protect against evil eye, a malicious stare believed to be able to cause illness, death or just general unluckiness, hamsas often contain an eye symbol.[20][24] Depictions of the hand, the eye or the number five in Arabic (and Berber) tradition are related to warding off the evil eye, as exemplified in the saying khamsa fi ainek (“five [fingers] in your eye”).[24] Raising one’s right hand with the palm showing and the fingers slightly apart is part of this curse meant “to blind the aggressor”.[21] Another formula uttered against the evil eye in Arabic, but without hand gestures, is khamsa wa-khamis (“five and Thursday”).[25][26] As the fifth day of the week, Thursday is considered a good day for magic rites and pilgrimages to the tombs of revered saints to counteract the effects of the evil eye.[27] ********************************************* Evil eye Nazars, charms used to ward off the evil eye. The evil eye is a curse or legend believed to be cast by a malevolent glare, usually given to a person when they are unaware. Many cultures believe that receiving the evil eye will cause misfortune or injury,[1] while others believe it to be a kind of supernatural force that casts or reflects a malevolent gaze back-upon those who wish harm upon others (especially innocents). Talismans created to protect against the evil eye are also frequently called “evil eyes”.[2][3] The idea expressed by the term causes many different cultures to pursue protective measures against it. The concept and its significance vary widely among different cultures, primarily in West Asia. The idea appears multiple times in Jewish rabbinic literature.[4] It was a widely extended belief among many Mediterranean and Asian tribes and cultures. Charms and decorations with eye-like symbols known as nazars, which are used to repel the evil eye, are a common sight across Portugal, Brazil, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Albania, Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Nepal, Pakistan, parts of North India, Palestine, Morocco, southern Spain, Italy, Malta, Romania, the Balkans, the Levant, Afghanistan, Syria, and Bahrain, and have become a popular choice of souvenir with tourists. *********************************** The Hand up: Abhayamudra Remember: the message of all Gods, all traditions: FEAR NOT Hindu Gods, most with right hand held up, palm out. Buddha with his right hand in abhaya mudra. Dewi Sri (Parvati) with her right hand in abhaya mudra, Bali Indonesia.[1] The Abhayamudrā “gesture of fearlessness”[2] is a mudrā (gesture) that is the gesture of reassurance and safety, which dispels fear and accords divine protection and bliss in many Indian religions. The right hand is held upright, and the palm is facing outwards.[3] This is one of the earliest mudrās found depicted on a number of Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh images. The abhayamudrā represents protection, peace, benevolence and the dispelling of fear. The Hindu god Nataraja is depicted with the second right hand making the Abhaya Mudra, bestowing protection from both evil and ignorance to those who follow the righteousness of dharma. In Theravada Buddhism, it is usually made with the right hand raised to shoulder height, the arm bent and the palm facing outward with the fingers upright and joined and the left hand hanging down while standing. In Thailand and Laos, this mudra is associated with the Walking Buddha, often shown having both hands making a double abhayamudrā that is uniform. Yemanja, Iemanja: Goddess protector of Africa, Brazil, and world Santeria Traditions Goddess of the Andes: See posters for info on: Holy Water, blessed, From Cathedral de Fatima Note on Santeria: a serious faith of followers based on Afro-Brazilian Indignous religions, and is only mocked in caricature of voodoo, the New Orleans movie parody and not related to indigenous religions. *********************************** Above info from Wikipedia.com Now: this is water collected worldwide: use some sense here: It’s not for children, ingestion. It’s often used to anoint a forehead, objects, or places: but don’t drink, get on lips or eyes, mix with foods or drinks, give to children. If anointing pets, do on top of head, not eyes or mouth. Keep the contents away from children, jokers, pets. This isn’t dirty water, but consider it as any water from a local creek or river: you don’t drink it. Hey, you’re an adult here so take charge of the concepts, bottle, because you’re assuming risks of misuse by others, kids, pets. We’re providing a leak proof bottle, and pack to prevent breakage up front: all items at Scooter Bee’s are pretty scrutinized: no refunds or returns in any situation. We also don’t accept returns as nobody wants used stuff. This is genuine: collected waters. To purchase means you’ve read all the text and know what you’re buying. We’re not shipping you several liters silly. Read all, buy, enjoy, be healed and don’t forget to bless that cat. ****************** Please ask the day your order, and we’ll add a set of full page copies of the “posters” above, for your use. No Charge. ******************* Where will you keep your Blessed Water, that you charge? Here’s a idea: Treat the charged water just like you would if you were making a personal home altar: Set an intention of finding an a bottle or air proof container that is special to you. Give it a week or two for that item to “find” you. For one person, it could be something found at a yard sale, old, but then you wash it. For another person, it could be something costly, or a bottle you then embellish with tiles or gems. What ever it is for you, it will be “important”. Than, add your water to the container. It’s just me, but I’d use a highly filtered water (even from the machine at Walmart), because this would be missing local contaminants and smells, but a simply bottle of your favorite commercial water would do! Then, add 2-3 drops of Blessed Water. It will charge the whole bottle. As I’ve done this personally, and kept both the original blessed waters and my “charged water to use”, they last and last. For instance, I may dab my pets on the forehead, the doorways inside and out to, of my home, a sacred object that may mean nothing to another person, my own forehead with prayers, a piece of clothing for some reason of prayer, blessing, to unseat obstacles, and open myself to what I view as God, the Universe, the Mystery, and the universal and pan cultural myths of ALL religions and the gods within. Unlike lighting a candle or incense daily in the morning, this blessed water blessings is often done on a special day, special time, or struggling time, occasionally. It’s also important to do at the start of journey, quest, new jobs, new relationships, new intentions and dreams. How and by who’s power does the water work? It is the Mystery that lives in every person, and it’s the mystery of how the Spiritual World works. There are those who doubt, or totally disbelieve anything, but there are those who know that this world is as real as the seen and touched world. It’s sort of like the mystery and science writers of 1,000 to 3,000 years ago: they wrote about particles smaller than atoms, and edges of universes, and other realities and parallel universes now accepted by the most noted brained physicists. Why would then so many worldwide believe in this unseen? Carl Jung, European Psychiatrist, wounded healer, and deceased, said: These ideas are patterned in every brain to know and believe that. Some body tells you about the spiritual world (which is often apart from organized religion), and you just “know”. These concepts exist in all persons, all places, and all times that we know of. Even if you have persons in an isolated tribe, they have these spiritual concepts, which are brain archetypes called the Collective Unconscious of Man/Woman Kind. They are not just there for a survival mechanism. Did the great mystery called God, Deity, Universe or Mystery put them in our genetic code? Or are they part of our soul: we just function so naturally with a concept of the Beloved: one or many or a mystery that we seek, seeks us, can be prayed to, is part of each person’s personal definition of that (you know for yourself who the Beloved is, apart from, or just influenced by books), you can reach directly, and yet is a Mystery of the Unknown and Unseen. Some Quotes from the Poet Rumi, 13 Century Mystic Sufi Poet, and Seminary Teacher at a school in Turkey that taught to seekers from All religions, not presenting a dogma view: “God is nearer to you than your self.” “Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.” ― Rumi “One went to the door of the Beloved and knocked. A voice asked: “Who is there?” He answered: “It is I.” The voice said: “There is no room here for me and thee.” The door was shut. After a year of solitude and deprivation this man returned to the door of the Beloved. He knocked. A voice from within asked: “Who is there?” The man said: “It is Thou.” The door was opened for him. The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere, they’re in each other all along. Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test. When your chest is free of your limiting ego, Then you will see the ageless Beloved. You can not see yourself without a mirror; Look at the Beloved, He is the brightest mirror. Your love lifts my soul from the body to the sky And you lift me up out of the two worlds. I want your sun to reach my raindrops, So your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud. There is a candle in the heart of man, waiting to be kindled. In separation from the Friend, there is a cut waiting to be stitched. O, you who are ignorant of endurance and the burning fire of love�� Love comes of its own free will, it can’t be learned in any school. There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired, as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts from books and from what the teacher says, collecting information from the traditional sciences as well as from the new sciences. With such intelligence you rise in the world. You get ranked ahead or behind others in regard to your competence in retaining information. You stroll with this intelligence in and out of fields of knowledge, getting always more marks on your preserving tablets. There is another kind of tablet, one already completed and preserved inside you. A spring overflowing its springbox. A freshness in the center of the chest. This other intelligence does not turn yellow or stagnate. It’s fluid, and it doesn’t move from outside to inside through conduits of plumbing-learning. This second knowing is a fountainhead from within you, moving out.” “What else can I say? You will only hear what you are ready to hear. Don’t nod your head, Don’t try to fool me— the truth of what you see is written all over your face!” ― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved tags: life, love, poetry, rumi 14 likes Like “Why are you so enchanted by this world when a mine of gold lies within you?” ― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved “In the heavens I see your eyes, In your eyes I see the heavens. Why look for another Moon or another Sun?— What I see will always be enough for me.” ― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved “Lose yourself, Lose yourself in this love. When you lose yourself in this love, you will find everything. Lose yourself, Lose yourself. Do not fear this loss, For you will rise from the earth and embrace the endless heavens. Lose yourself, Lose yourself. Escape from this earthly form, For this body is a chain and you are its prisoner. Smash through the prison wall and walk outside with the kings and princes. Lose yourself, Lose yourself at the foot of the glorious King. When you lose yourself before the King you will become the King. Lose yourself, Lose yourself. Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you. Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon. Now enter that silence. This is the surest way to lose yourself. . . . What is your life about, anyway?— Nothing but a struggle to be someone, Nothing but a running from your own silence.” ― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved “Then I looked within my own heart and there I found Him— He was nowhere else.” ― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved “I once had a thousand desires, But in my one desire to know you all else melted away. The pure essence of your being has taken over my heart and soul. Now there is no second or third, only the sound of your sweet cry. Through your grace I have found a treasure within myself. I have found the truth of the Unseen world. I have come upon the eternal ecstasy. I have gone beyond the ravages of time. I have become one with you! Now my heart sings, “I am the soul of the world.” Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved, book at all book resources. Where will you keep your Holy Water? ************** Thank you to my friend bringing me the Holy Water, official type, from Fatima and Lourdes. The other three were gathered on my own journeys and quests. All, come out of a “quest, seeking, journey, sincerity” **************** I think for a while we’ll not put a glitzy label on the tiny bottles, so that it is fully neutral and you. 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