Search results

You have first to leave modern rationalism behind: that was a simplification of the quadrivium, where music was the right-hemisphere expression of left-hemisphere arithmetic (putatively numerology), contrasting with astology-cosmology-astronomy as the right-hemisphere expression of geometry...

Deuteronomy 2:9-12, then.

OK, so I didn't check. Yes, the Irish author of the Deryni Books. She has her own blog, so I touched base with her. Since then, I've learned a lot more. Firstly, about my own mentality. In the 1960s, IQ assessment was extended to children. It's done statistically, the test produces a score...

True in miniscule detail, but not in terms of drive and dynamic. That's why I put the word "original" in. The original vocation, focused on the Temple, changed soon after Jerusalem fell, to become a form of armed escort for pilgrims, and as you say, finance. It's the pre-change set, the 12...

If you calculate the number of breaths in a lifetime of 40 years (from the time of the Nova spotted by Chinese Astronomers in July 7BCE to the dates Pontius Pilate was in charge), you get enough air, when blown around the earth by the odd storm, to mean that there's a reasonable chance the next...

One of the headaches is that there's a common thread running through child abuse for a very long time, and some sources on the edge of the Dark Web suggest rather a strange motivation. As a result, child disappearances which fit the pattern (and I think there may be more than one such) are...

There's an old debunking line, "If you're that good a seer, why aren't you rich?" which somewhat misses the point that spiritual gifts tend to deny that kind of value. On the other hand, the labourer is generally worthy of his hire, and those wanting that kind of skill are willing to pay for it...

Some of The Avengers and their American copycats The Champions walked that path, too. Really naive schlock, though, more worthy of Hammer than here.

These are interesting thoughts. My formal seer gift was switched on by testing following an absolute compulsion to be at an exact point and time, while remaining in ignorance of the reason why. The only way to resolve it was to comply, and find out empirically what was going on, so I did, and...

That's particularly interesting, because I've very mild Aspergers but excellent hyperperception. I'm getting something already without the noise blanking, but I'm wondering how to manage the profiling without vision.

OK, close enough to be viable now. My first perception is that my focus shifted to nothing for a while, then to my very "Third Eye", which is in any case very active anyway, because of my hyperperception. I've never had it quite so dominant as with my eyes blanked out, though. To some extent, it...

The Indonesian case may be related to Hobbit Man, which died out, as far as they know, around 30 000 years ago. However, just as we now know that Neanderthal Man bred into Homo Sapiens, so it's possible other genes may exist in the Indonesian tribal population. I'm in particular thinking of one...

A similar tale comes from The inner Game of Music, concerning a ferociously fast piece of music, Rimsky-Korsakov's The Flight of the Bumble Bee. Technically, you can learn all the notes, but unless and until you stop thinking about it, you'll never play it. It's exactly the same here: I don't...

Sorry, I think I did. When I was 8, the Tavistock arrived at my school starting testing on the extension of IQ testing to kids, in the 1960s. So we all sat the same General Knowledge paper, really long, and that was that for a while. Then the Head announced we'd been accepted, we all got set an...

New York? Goatham City!

Anyway, my first encounter with the weird? Hard to say, Perhaps it was aged 11, coming across the KGB for the first time, at the start of the Lada-Fiat 125 rip-off. Academician Ivanoff and minder, in the foyer of the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, at the Fisita conference. Definitely something...

I'm an advanced meditative and have channeled something external to me under test conditions as a result. Now I have more data on the underlying activity, I can see a difference between the purely opthalmic conditions you describe and the more advanced mental interpretative symbolism created by...

The oddities of how language got dressed up in ritual to arrive at a sufficiently ridiculous conclusion for the core meaning to have got lost in the flummery. It happens in almost every religion, that a sense of interhuman commitment gets lost in the ritual. The Hammer example was vindictive...

Well, I was a member of the Cecil Sharp House Choir, until their Chief Exec decided she preferred the LibProt bit over defending the heritage against HS2. The Chester bit was the Chester Minstrels' Court, in commemoration of the time the local entertainers scared a Welsh raiding party off..

You wouldn't happen to have accurate profiles for the skin covering, would you? The eyelid muscles need space cut from the strict hemisphere, ideally. These things have to be worn for some time to kick in properly: I can sense it happening after 20 minutes, my interest is to see how the...

Some of us have actually performed said work in ernest, not in kit, thankfully. I'm from a naval family... The one time I've been found dressed funny ended up with me licenced by the local magistrates to bash me nakers lewdly in public, without let of hindrance from the Police, in the streets of...

The secret being, the machicolation's only about three feet above the walkway on the other side....

Those of you versed in the Alchemical will recognise the dark side. The Massacre of the Innocents. I found a coherent pattern stretching as far back as Dagon, and including Weinstein of the Dutroux Gang. And widely spread as part of OTO in America. Gilles de Rais, Joan of Ark's lieutenant. Note...

And for that to be housed immediately adjacent to the posited home of the Ark could hardly be more explicit - in theory. In practice, there is some exidence of it. As is not unusual in Spanish holdings, the sites - and the one Templar foundation in Brussels - are connected by tunnels. In 1843...

OK, how did I get mixed up in it? Well, I was Jonahed into it. In the best traditions of the thing, I landed a house opposite the Roman Catholic ArchiAssociation of the Eucharist, declared the Perpetual and Universal Seat of the subject by Pope Leo XIII in the 1870s. Perpetual seems to have...

The cloister is normally entered from the South transept of the Church, and that transept is bare, other than four wall bosses, capuchin monkeys telling a tale in dumb crambo: "Something deadly dangerous is here, and the Sisters don't know". At least, that something deadly dangerous was there...

Next up, Brussels. In 1618, Jan van Helmont, parish priest of the nearby village of Neder over Heembeek, and part-time Paracelsian student, spent an evening in discussion with an otherwise unnamed alchemist who left him a packet of red powder. He wrote up what followed as a scientific...

Hang onto your hats. Firstly, let's split the eras. The original Templars ended, because their job was done. The modern ones aspired to the same spiritual goals, and have achieved something miraculous in their work: the Medical Division of Johnson Matthey exists because the senior Management are...

Kindly differentiate between those who would be God and the real thing. Once you talk about Organised Religion, one thing is sure: somone's playing the kind of power games which makes faith a rival. The first symptom is when it starts to claim Universality: when the faith is accessible to all...

The inherent logic was that the Russian threat was significantly reduced by the loss of the Warsaw Pact, which had functionally carried the load of the nuclear delivery force, which is prohibitively expensive. At that time, we were under the impression that the strategic arms were under the...

From my side, it was the other way around. Some time before the event, another seer-sensitive, Kathryn Kurtz, wrote verbatim the death-bed events which surrounded my wife's passing. The book was published about a month later, which came as a considerable shock, given the only people in the room...

All I know is having sheltered outside a peacock cage, in the rain, I can imitate the sexiest peahen in creation. It was quite fun, in the Efteling theme park in the Netherlands, where they have them running around loose, to get one to display for the crowds. Another angle I'm just rebounding...