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even! when I try to sleep
I feel you, just around me
silent as night
whispering as the sea
You got to chase a dream, one that's all your own
Before it slips away
When you're flyin' high, take my heart along
I'll be the harmony to every lonely song
That you learn to play
When you're soarin' through the air
I'll be your solid ground
Take every chance you dare
I'll still be there
When you come back down
When you come back down
I'll keep lookin' up awaitin' your return
My greatest fear will be that you will crash and burn
And I won't feel your fire
I'll be the other hand that always holds the line
Connectin' in between your sweet heart and mine
I'm strung out on that wire
And I'll be on the other end
To hear you when you call
Angel, you were born to fly
And if you get too high
I'll catch you when you fall
I'll catch you when you fall
Your memory's the sunshine every new day brings
I know the sky is calling
Angel, let me help you with your wings
When you're soarin' through the air
I'll be your solid ground
Take every chance you dare
I'll still be there
When you come back down
Take every chance you dare
I'll still be there
When you come back down
When you come back down
Nickel Creek
dark smell of seaweed, crush of mud and light,
what secret knowledge is clasped between your pillars?
What primal night does Man touch with his senses?
Ay, Love is a journey through waters and stars,
through suffocating air, sharp tempests of grain:
Love is a war of lightning,
and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.
Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity,
your margins, your rivers, your diminutive villages,
and a genital fire, transformed by delight,
slips through the narrow channels of blood
to precipitate a nocturnal carnation,
to be, and be nothing but light in the dark.
Pablo Neruda
I’ve met some people along the way,
Some of them split some of them stay,
Some of them walk some walk on by,
I’ve got a few friends I’ll love till I die
From all of these people I try to learn,
Some of them shine some of them burn,
Some of them rise some of them fall,
For good or bad I’ve known them all
We live our life in our own way,
Never really listened to what they say,
The kind of faith that doesn’t fade away
We are the true believers
We are the true believers
Well you can fight or you can run,
Hide under a rock till the war is won,
Play it safe and don’t make a sound,
But not us we won’t back down
True believers all the way,
You and I…
We live our life in our own way,
Never really listened to what they say,
The kind of faith that doesn’t fade away
We are the true believers
We are the true believers
True believers
This song always puts me in a good mood. I fucking love The Bouncing Souls.
TIME WAS, fingers were for playing the piano and pulling a trigger. The most a set of hands could betray was how often the dishes got washed. Then scientists announced that our fingers may reveal personal details about our sex lives-whether we're gay; for instance, and how likely we are to be infertile- and suddenly hands are being slid deep into pockets. After all, that's not the kind of information you want to be waving around in public.
Sexual preferences and fertility aren't the only secrets on display, either. Scientists now suspect that fingers may reveal our risk of suffering a heart attack or developing breast cancer. They may shed light on disorders such as autism and dyslexia or gifts such as musical ability.
At first blush, the idea that a person's hands can tell intimate stories about them seems outrageous. But on closer inspection, there might be something in it. Fingers are formed early in fetal development, at around the end of the first trimester a very critical time. Just as hand development is influenced by the unique hormonal bath in the uterus, so is the development of the brain, gonads and heart. Since the relative lengths of our fingers seem to stay fixed throughout our lives, they are robust markers of what our early life was like in the womb-fetal fossils, if you will.
Take a close look at your own hands. Pay particular attention to your index and ring fingers. In women, the two fingers tend to be almost equal in length, as measured from the crease nearest the palm to the fingertip. In men, the ring finger tends to be much longer. The ratio of the lengths of the index finger to the ring finger is called the 2D:4D ratio, and low ratios are considered "masculine", high ratios "feminine".
THE STARCHILD SKULL is a genuine 900-year-old bone skull found in Mexico in the 1930s. The Starchild Project is an informal organization which began in 1999 when Ray and Melanie Young, the owners of the Starchild Skull, asked Lloyd Pye to head research efforts to determine what caused the unusual shape and properties of the bone.
The results uncovered by the research team ruled out all known deformities [click to read the report], and presented the scientific community with a genetic and physical profile never before seen on Earth.
Now new DNA findings indicate that the Starchild Skull may well be “alien”! Now all that remains is to determine whether alien means “foreign to normal human genetics within the framework of that subject as it is currently understood,” or “definitely not from planet Earth”…. or something in between.
Early in 2011, a geneticist attempting to recover Starchild Skull DNA identified four fragments that matched with human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Comparing those fragments with matching fragments from human mtDNA produced an astonishing result. In every comparison, the Starchild presented many more nucleotide differences than are normally found among humans. In one comparison detailed in this report, the compared segments of human mtDNA came from one of its most highly conserved regions. Across 167 nucleotides in this segment, only 1 single variation is found among the 33 human haplogroups. In contrast, the same length of Starchild mtDNA has 17 differences! Of those 17, a significant number should be confirmed by multiple repetitions of the test. If several are confirmed (which is highly likely), it will be enough evidence to establish a new earthly species. [In 2010 just such a new prehuman species, Denisova, was confirmed by having a significant number of differences in its mtDNA. This will be explained later in this report.]
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be critical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy.
© Max Ehrmann 1927
I lay here in bed,
toss and turn, when
Your in my head. My
body earns, but ever
more this is such
sweet sorrow
A' las, I dream, of
heat, passion,
Sweat and grinding
bodies, mereging into
One. Each night
I try to control, but this
burning desire, rises
Deep within-- oh no
This ropes cant keep
me bond, my hands linger
Free, playing your part
So easily; they toy with
me, discover the depths
Of me
Legs open wide, so inviting
Cumm take a peak inside;
Be gently at first,
Taking time to savor
the lustful sin with bliss
at hand-- oh no
Not this again
Fingers probe deeper
and deeper inside, I can't
Keep them in control;
The mere thoughts of
You set them, and every
Inch of me a flame
Faster and deeper they go,
I erupt in moans, nipples
Erect, sweat drips down,
I've never been this wett
Oh no here I cumm
Gonna explode
I yell In ecstasy
and wake From
this uncontrolable
Dream Im soaked in
sweat, and dripping wet,
well I guess I wont be
satisfied till you cum
and join in with me ;)
I can't see where it ends, or where it starts.
I should get over you, but baby, it's so hard,
with this dark cloud hanging over my heart.
There's a sad song ringing in my head.
Baby, it's been here ever since you left.
I should be moving along how far would I get
with this sad song ringing in my head.
Chorus:
I just really miss you, I just really miss you,
There's a life I can't ask you to leave.
I just really miss you, right now I kinda want to.
The closest that you'll ever be to me
is free.
There's a hard wind blowing through this town.
And nothing left to hold is pushing me down.
It blows over you and me without a sound.
There's a hard wind blowing through this town.
Chorus:
I just really miss you, I just really miss you,
There's a life I can't ask you to leave.
I just really miss you, right now I kinda need to.
The closest that you'll ever be to me
is free.
Now it's one more night at the upside down,
it's ten steps in, and hundred miles back out.
Chorus:
I just really miss you, I just really miss you,
There's a life I can't ask you to leave.
I just really miss you, right now I kinda need to.
The closest that you'll ever be to me
is free.
There's a dark cloud hanging over my heart.....
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Well known American Egyptologist Mark Lehner has stated that the ancient Khemitian term for pyramid was something he calls MR.Pyramid. Lehner bases this on his translation of MR as "Place of Ascension" following his belief that pyramids were tombs for kings and where the dead king’s souls "ascended". But MR, usually written as Mer, is commonly translated as beloved, as in Meriamen (Beloved of Amen, The Hidden) or Meritaten (Beloved of Aten, The Wiser). Our indigenous sources tell us Mer meant "beloved" and had nothing to do with pyramid.
My Indigenous Wisdom Keeper teacher, Abd’El Hakim Awyan, states unequivocally that the ancient Khemitians used the term PR.NTR, Per-Neter, for pyramid. Per means "house" and Neter we have discussed in the previous article. Neter has been translated by Egyptologists as "God" or "Goddess" but we reject this mistranslation. In alignment with the indigenous tradition, we use the interpretation "House of Nature, House of Energy" for Per-Neter. The temple was Per-Ba (House of the Soul) and the tomb was Per-Ka (House of the Physical Projection) according to the indigenous tradition.
With this understanding of Per-Neter as House of Nature, I state categorically that no one was ever intended to be buried in a pyramid in its original intent! Even Mark Lehner has admitted that no evidence of an original burial in any of the major Khemitian pyramids has ever been found. Also no inscriptions or reliefs either depicting or stating that any king was ever buried in a pyramid have ever been found.
One of the main purposes of the Great Per-Neter was to generate, transform, and transmit energy. The Indigenous Wisdom Keepers of Egypt have provided us a concrete paradigm to support the power plant theory of Christopher Dunn. Although Egyptologists base their pyramid-as-tomb theories on the writings of Greek historians such as Herodotus, the Greek word Pyramidos is closer to the true meaning. Indeed, if we support Dunn’s ideas that the energy reactions in the Great Pyramid took place in the so-called Queen’s and King’s Chambers, then certainly it was Fire In The Middle.
this is as real as it gets! Mass sightings in China, London and N.Y.
For a number of reasons, natural and human, people have recently evacuated or otherwise abandoned a number of places around the world -- large and small, old and new. Gathering images of deserted areas into a single photo essay, one can get a sense of what the world might look like if humans were to vanish from the planet altogether. Collected here are recent scenes from nuclear-exclusion zones, blighted urban neighborhoods, towns where residents left to escape violence, unsold developments built during the real estate boom, ghost towns, and more.
It was a night oo-oo what a night
It was it really was such a night
The moon was bright oh how so bright
It was it really was such a night
The night was alight with stars above
Oo-oo when she kissed me
I had to fall in love
Oh it was a kiss oo-oo what a kiss
It was it really was such a kiss
Oh how she could kiss oh what a kiss
It was it really was such a kiss
Just the thought of her lips
Sets me afire
I reminisce and Im filled with desire
But Id gave my heart to her in sweet surrender
How well I remember, Ill always remember
Oh, what a night oo-oo what a night
It was it really was such a night
Came the dawn and my heart and her love
And the night was gone
But Ill never forget the kiss
The kiss in the moonlight
Oo-oo such a kiss, such a night
It was a night oo-oo what a night
It was it really was such a night
Came the dawn and my heart and her love
And the night was gone
But Ill never forget the kiss
The kiss in the moonlight
How well I remember, Ill always remember
That night oo-oo what a night
It was it really was such a night
When we kissed I had to fall in love
But Id gave my heart to her in sweet surrender
How well I remember, Ill always remember
Oh that night oo-oo what a night
It was it really was such a night
When we kissed I had to fall in love
Well she's gone, gone, gone
Yes she's gone, gone, gone
Came the dawn, dawn, dawn
And my love was gone
But before that dawn
Yes before that dawn and before that dawn
Oo-oo, oo-oo, oo-oo, oo-oo, oo-oo
Such a night
I could feel your beauty
I watched you throw the water
Water against the sun
I could feel life
In the cemetery
No time to remember
My marker wasn't standing anymore
I could feel the sadness
Against the red sunset
I float on the music
I dance across the pastures
I see the rattle snake in the grass
I feel alive in death
Against the sky
I feel the stepping out violins
My heart is beating in the sun
I see the river running through it
I look into the eyes of the predator and prey
I know the red rocks
So harsh
I know beauties desolation
Unknown Poet
Dr. Alan Watt once told a New York City audience that, "You didn't come into this world at all. You came out of it, in just the same way that a leaf comes out of a tree... Our world is peopling, just as the apple tree produces apples, and the vine grapes." He explained that, if we are intelligent beings, it must be that we are the fruits of an intelligent Earth, symptomatic of an intelligent energy system, for one "doesn't gather grapes from thorns." We should realize that we are intelligent products of a sentient Earth. If we wish to "survive" in what is likely an intelligent cosmos, we must heal planet Earth, which we have been steadily maiming. Reducing our population is essential.
Today's economic problems will remain unsolvable as long as the illusion is maintained that Earth can support an infinite number of people. Scientists understand that a species can remain healthy only as long as its population does not exceed the environment's carrying capacity. World population five centuries ago, in 1500, was just 400 million. It quadrupled to 1.6 billion by 1900, and in little more than one century has now mushroomed to seven billion.
Physicist Fritjof Capra, in The Web of Life, states that "scarcity of resources and environmental degradation combine with rapidly expanding populations to lead to the breakdown of local communities and to the ethnic and tribal violence that has become the main characteristic of the post-Cold War era."
It is an ecological maxim that species are healthiest in under-populated habitats.
A homocentric focus enables people to assume they own Earth and can extract from it whatever wealth and amusement will sate our boundless avarice. We are trapped in a syndrome which combines the maximization of both the production of goods and the number of potential consumers.
In Collapse, Jared Diamond repeated the Malthusian insight "that population growth proceeds exponentially, whereas food production increases arithmetically." This was exemplified in Rwanda's genocidal bloodbath. A population increase from 1.9 to 8 million people took place there between 1950 and 1994. The amount of land allowed each individual for growing food declined from one-fifth of an acre to one-seventh. Forest growth could not equal the demand for firewood, the traditional cooking fuel. People started using crop residues such as straw as cooking fuel. Soil fertility then declined from lack of needed organic matter. Land scarcity contributed to the massive attack by Hutus on Tutsis, which led to the massacre of 800,000 people, mostly Tutsis. Entire Tutsi families were slaughtered so that no survivors would be left to claim the available land.
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Today's focus on the economy largely ignores the problem of human numbers and the Malthusian consequences: war, famine, and disease.
The economic focus also ignores Plato's insight that a stable society can be preserved only if deeply moral philosophical concerns guide advances in technology. Lulling materialists with a never-ending cascade of new toys, our industrial society has foolishly felt itself exempt from judicious moral restraint and so has recklessly set the stage for disaster.
In his book Ecological Ethics, Patrick Curry, senior lecturer at Bath Spa University, informs readers that a studious neglect of population problems has become a modern characteristic. He advises that England's present population of 60 million people is twice what the nation will be able to support as energy problems grow more severe. He quotes an Optimum Population Trust researcher who states that only by extravagant use of fossil fuel can England support its present numbers and that, as such fuel runs out, the sustainable population figure "at most" will be 30 million. In England as well as North America there is "little evidence" of public concern or political awareness of this problem.
A recent issue of Worldwatch Magazine offers population growth figures for several nations -- figures for 1950, for today, and projections for 2050: "Afghanistan 6, 28 and 79 million, respectively; Pakistan 37, 170, and 292 million; Somalia 2, 9, and 21 million; Sudan 9, 39, and 73 million; and Yemen 4, 23, and 58 million. The projections for Africa as a whole: 242 million, 922 million, and over 2 billion."
Alan Weisman, in The World Without Us, states that every four days the planet's population rises by 1 million, and that in 12 years hence population will increase by another one billion.
Humanity has eliminated predators, introduced sanitation, mechanized agriculture, and improved medical treatments, and has thus unwittingly accelerated population growth.
Sometimes increased knowledge can become a two-edged sword. In Seeds of Change, Henry Hobhouse writes that the British in India became supersensitive to the impact of malaria. When India's population was 150 million, each year a million babies under the age of one year died from the disease and another million between one and 10 years succumbed, while 2 million mostly over 10 were crippled by recurrent fever. Malaria, Hobhouse conjectures, was a population control factor. The British answer was to invent the Wardian Case (terrarium) and import thousands of cinchona trees to plant in India's Nilgiri Hills and thereby making quinine available to the native people.
The population of India has now risen to 1.1 billion.
Yes, our species' survival has been enhanced by such advancements, but to an extent that the growing size of human population now threatens the planet. Humans need to realize the ramifications of their skills. Controlling our numbers is now a procedure we have usurped from Nature, but continue to ignore, and the ecological consequences are calling us to account. A terrible fate awaits humankind if we do not grasp the reality that Earth provides a limited carrying capacity for all species -- and act on that knowledge before it's too late.
As J. Anthony Cassils points out, "The good news is that populations that grow exponentially can shrink exponentially." If all fertile women, worldwide, were to have only one child, global population would drop one billion by 2050. By 2075, human population would be reduced to 3.43 billion, and by 2100 it would be reduced to 1.6 billion!
An awareness is growing that our planet is becoming overpopulated. Harper's, a widely read magazine, has repeatedly published full-page advertisements stating that, unless restrained, the U.S. population, now 300 million, will rise to 400 million within 30 years. Increasing demand for water, food, housing, recreational sites, and other resources are a natural result of increased population.
Recent examples given by UN Earthwatch clarify this understanding. To wit: The 20 per cent of us who live in industrial nations use 80 per cent of the world's aluminium, 81 per cent of its paper, 89 per cent of its iron and steel, and 76 per cent of its timber. An average citizen of the U.S. during his or her lifetime contributes to the use of 540 tons of construction supplies, 18 tons of paper, 23 tons of wood, 16 tons of various metals, and 32 tons of chemicals.
More examples could be given, but consider this salient point about increase in consumption-population ratios: "In the U.S., total consumption of virgin raw materials was 17 times greater in 1989 than it was in 1900, compared with a threefold increase in population." (Young 1995a)
We must choose between starting now to reduce our population, or move rapidly toward apocalypse.
One of my favorite movies! this part is so funny...
By Stan Nielsen
My interest in Nevada’s caves came from my research in the Lost Wagon Train Treasure. I have spent many days traveling over a large part of Nevada in tracking what I believe to be the trail of this treasure. At the time of this great treasure’s loss, there were no maps of the area involved.
The facts are as follows:
In 1856, war between Utah and the federal government appeared imminent. Brigham Young and the Mormon elders decided to gather the wealth of the Mormon Church and to protect it by finding a suitable hiding place. They dispatched several converted Indians to find an appropriate place. A large cave was found between the present towns of Pioche and Ely in what's now the state of Nevada.
In Utah, every attempt was being made to convert every possible asset to gold. Goods were sold to passing travelers, banks were being liquidated, and church members were being drained of all possible cash. Over $1.5 million dollars were collected, mostly in gold.
Relations with the federal government seemed to be improving until news reached Brigham Young of the infamous Mountain Meadow Massacre. For reasons still unclear, the members of an entire wagon train from Arkansas were slaughtered, leaving only a few of the very youngest children alive.
Brigham Young now felt that even the cave would be unsafe. He ordered that the gold be transferred to the Mormon town of San Bernardino in California, from where, if necessary, it could be moved quickly to Mexico.
Twenty-two wagons with an armed escort of forty Utah militiamen traveled to the cave to remove all of the gold. They decided to take a route that would bypass any settlements to avoid any detection. To do this, they would have to travel across the uncharted area of south-central Nevada.
However, the desert proved to be too much, even for these hardy men. They soon found themselves critically short of water and all efforts to locate water proved futile. Finally, they decided the best solution was to go back to the last water they had passed. So, leaving the gold wagons and horses to the care of the teamsters, the forty militiamen headed back.
Several days later, the militiamen returned only to find the teamsters murdered, the wagons burned, the horses stolen and the gold gone. The Piutes had wiped them out to a man. There was absolutely no trace of the gold. After a diligent search, the militiamen returned home. Subsequent searches by the Mormons proved equally fruitless. None of the gold has ever surfaced, as far as anyone has ever been able to tell.
The gold is still out there for someone to find. By today's value, the gold would be worth over 30 million dollars. However, the aesthetic value would be much, much higher.
The gold is too heavy to have been moved very far without the wagons, so it would have to be hidden close to the massacre site.
The journalist covering this story was very knowledgeable although she may have debunked the original news article and coast to coast am podcast with David Hatcher Childress, Egyptians in the Grand Canyon. A friend of mine works for Xanterra Parks at the south rim of the Canyon and after having him listen to that podcast last year he decided to go with a few of his friends and make a weekend camping trip out of it. He told me they came acoss a sphinx carved into a large rock and he started to snap a few pictures of it and as he was doing so he was approached by a Military MP who demanded his camera, the entrance was on the cliff wall just down from them but the military was threatining to arrest them for being there so if there's nothing there why is the military protecting the entrance of a cave by gunpoint 24/7? interesting.....
http://www.youtube.com/movies/documentary?feature=mv_c
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----- Original Message -----
From: Deepwater Horizon Response
To: JOE PETTUS +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Sent: Sat, 15 May 2010 14:57:47 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: (Deepwater Horizon Response) Inquiry Response (278271)
The following inquiry was submitted to Deepwater Horizon Response on
05/15/10 13:55 (278271):
From : Joint Information Center
Date : 05/15/10 13:57
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considering options for mitigating both your ideas in the response and clean-up
efforts.
Please submit your future suggestions by going to the following link and
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also an email account:
Sincerely, Joint Information Center Team
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From : JOE PETTUS
Date : 05/15/10 13:55
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I am so proud of my husband for submiting his brilliant idea to help stop the BP Oil Spill. This is the reply msg. back from Deep Water Horizon.
This is so cool!
This Commercial is so creepy, but I still giggled at it.
WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication. It is credited by many of the elder zoologists with a certain vestigial docility acquired in a former state of seclusion, but naturalists of the postsusananthony period, having no knowledge of the seclusion, deny the virtue and declare that such as creation’s dawn beheld, it roareth now. The species is the most widely distributed of all beasts of prey, infesting all habitable parts of the globe, from Greeland’s spicy mountains to India’s moral strand. The popular name (wolfman) is incorrect, for the creature is of the cat kind. The woman is lithe and graceful in its movement, especially the American variety (felis pugnans), is omnivorous and can be taught not to talk.
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The Devil’s Dictionary
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The lights that spatter heaven above,
More precious than these wonders are
My heart-of-hearts filled with your love.
The ocean's power, the heavenly sights
Cannot outweigh a love filled heart.
And sparkling stars or glowing pearls
Pale as love flashes, beams and darts.
So, come Into my ample, feverish heart
For heaven and earth and sea and sky
Do melt as love hath melt my heart.
-Heinrich Heine (translated by David Doggett)
2012: End of the 5th Sun
by Will Hart
Certain aspects of the interlocking Maya calendar system have filtered into public consciousness in the last decade and a half. One of them is the prediction that we will come to the end of a solar-planetary cycle in 2012. But what is this cycle exactly and why is it going to end on the winter solstice of that auspicious year? Is the world going to end as some people are forecasting?
The Maya conceived of time and human history as moving in cycles, small and large. While we use a single calendar to keep track of our annual solar circuit and to mark all of the important days within a year, the Maya used a variety of calendars. The array included a 365-day solar calendar; a 260-day sacred calendar and a Long Count calendar that operated something like an odometer with a zero start date. Unlike the other calendars the Long Count clocked linear time and was programmed to stop after 5,125 years elapsed.
The Long Count was begun at the onset of this current cycle, known as the 5th Sun, in 3114 BC. It will clock the required number of years to complete a full cycle of five suns on December 21, 2012. John Major Jenkins has made the case that this date corresponds to two major alignments, (one between the winter solstice sun and the galactic equator; the other an approximate one between solstice sun and galactic core) and it also completes the Great Zodiac precession cycle of 26,000 years. I am not questioning this thesis however I do wonder if that is all there is to the end of this solar cycle- the 5th Sun?
The Maya began their Long Count on what they referred to as the ‘Birth of Venus.’ Scholars have never been able to determine what the Maya were referring to and neither have alternative researchers. Nevertheless their sacred calendar, the Tzolkin, placed the synodic cycles of Venus in a central role. The 104-year ‘Venus Round’ cycle (2 Calendar Rounds of 52 years each), was a very important ceremonial event as this was the point in time when the solar and sacred calendars realigned with the cycle of Venus.
I need to insert an important numerical progression at this point to provide a basis for the rest of the article. The number thirteen was a root number for the Maya. It is both a prime number and the eighth number in the crucial Fibonacci series that is one source of the Golden Ratio, 1.618.
If we use 13 as the root of the Mayan calendar system we find the following sequence: 13, 26, 39, 52, 65, 78, 91 and 104, which are achieved by simply adding 13 to each succeeding sum. These are the key numbers in the Mayan calendrics and they have a solid scientific footing. Venus was the central component of the Mayan cosmology. It is for good reason that our nearest planetary neighbor is called earth’s sister planet. They have a phase-locked orbital cycle that is based on a 13:8 ratio. That is derived from the fact that Venus revolves around the sun 1.6 times faster than Earth so that 13 Venus revolutions is equal to 8 years.
Why is this important? By establishing Venus as the key component of the sacred calendar they automatically built the Golden Ratio (1.6) into the system since that ratio defines the difference between the two planets orbital cycles. By using 13 as the root number they also included the crucial multiples, or powers, of thirteen - 13,000 and 26,000 - or half as well as the full number of years in the precession. We see that the 5 Suns, each lasting 5,125 years, also add up to the Great Zodiacal Year.
We can break these numbers down in different ways and each will show that there was nothing arbitrary about the Mayan system. We somewhat arrogantly disdain other cultures for being superstitious until we come to the number 13 and our own irrationality surfaces. But let’s examine how deeply embedded this number - as well as 26, 52 and 91 - are in our own calendar. Our year is divided into four seasons that are demarcated by the equinoxes and solstices.
Each of the four seasons is 91 days or 13 weeks long, which gives us a year of 52 weeks. We see the key Maya 13-base numerical progression reflected in our own calendar. Half of a year is 26 weeks. It is beyond the scope of this article to delve into all of the intricacies of the Mayan calendrical and mathematical systems; they were extremely adept in these fields.
What I have uncovered during my decades of research into this topic are two crucial keys to understanding the system: the ‘Transit of Venus’ and solar output cycles. It just so happens that the 2012 end date corresponds to a Venus Transit cycle that occurs twice in the next 10 years in 2004 and then in 2012. As mentioned above Venus was central to the Mayan cosmology. The Long Count began on what the Maya call the “Birth of Venus” so it is perhaps not too surprising that it ends on a Transit of Venus.
My research has revealed that a Transit of Venus occurred in 1518 and 1526. This was the period when Cortez landed on the shores of the Yucatan and wound up conquering the Aztec empire. The next transit was in 1631-’39. It was followed by a complete stoppage of the sunspot cycle, which lasted for 70 years (science has no explanation for this event). The ‘little ice age’ occurred between 1645 and 1720. What do we find associated with the next transit in 1761-‘69? We discover the birth of the American Revolution.
There is no doubt that the Transit of Venus was an important divinatory alignment factored into the Maya calendar. We will not have to wait for long to test this theory and also get a glimpse of 2012 during the ‘passage’ years. But in reality as Jose Arguelles and others have pointed out the precursor years began in 1987 and the final stages of this cycle really kicked into gear in 1991-’1993. How do we know? There has been a tremendous surge in the number and magnitude of natural disasters and this was also forecast as a harbinger of the 5th Sun’s demise.
13,000 years is a very important time period since we know that the last ice age ended then. This indicates that there is a periodicity to the solar output cycle. There are short and long term fluctuations in solar output and as a result great ice ages, little ice ages and warm interglacials, which we are in and nearing the end of now.
The cyclical nature of the long range weather patterns are well established as is the variable nature of solar activity. We know that that is true since we have been in a ‘global warming’ period for the past 300 years. The “little ice age” started to thaw in the early 1700s when the sunspot cycle returned. The level of solar activity has been increasing steadily from that ‘zero sunspot point’ right up to our recent sunspot cycles in 1989-‘90 and the double peak in 2000- ’02.
Is it a coincidence that 2012 also coincides with the next solar sunspot maximum? The actual peak of this 300-year cycle of increasing solar output occurred in 1960 when the number of sunspots exceeded 200, the usual peak is around 100-150. Now, what is interesting is that during the first half of the 20th century the Earth’s seismic and volcanic activity were comparatively quiet.
Then after 1960 the level of seismic and volcanic activity increases steadily to the point that the 1990s can accurately be called the ‘decade of disasters’. The surge in major earthquakes and volcanic eruptions radically departed from earlier decades. According to the chief scientist for the world’s largest reinsurance company Zurich Re, “since 1960 natural disasters are a growth industry.”
I hardly need to mention “global warming” since it is constantly in the headlines. However, the truth is obvious for those that care to see it. The Earth has been warming for 13,000 years with periodic short-term cold spells. However, solar output is the forcing mechanism behind global warming and the 5th Sun is intimately tied to that phenomenon. What does the end of the 5th Sun really mean?
I take it very literally to mean that the sun’s output is going to change. We are going to enter the flip side of a new 13,000 year cycle. The earth is overheated and so is the sun, the result being planetary instability manifested in rising earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and erratic weather patterns.
These will increase further starting in 2004. The volcanic ash will create more and more cloud cover and that will begin to cool the planet down. If my theory is correct the Maya knew that the Venus Transit acted like a circuit breaker switching off the sunspot cycle and impacting the Sun-Moon-Earth-Venus system. This appears to have happened just prior to the previous two ‘little ice ages’ that were preceded by what solar physicists call the Spoorer (1400-1510) and Maunder Minimum(s) 1640-1710), periods of radically diminished solar activity.
The Venus Transit will trigger the demise of the 5th Sun and set the stage for the next cycle, the 6th Sun. That is the physical side of the Maya 5th Sun forecast. Unlike many predictions this one is built into the Maya calendar and it can be verified with some historical research. Is the world going to end in a violent crescendo of natural disasters and impacts from cosmic objects? I do not think that is likely nor is it what the Maya predicted.
However, a prolonged period of change is on the horizon that will be ushered in by the 2004 – 2012 ‘passage’. It will culminate in the galactic alignment and complete the precessional cycle at that point.
THE HOW AND WHY OF THE MAYAN END DATE IN 2012 A.D.
by John Major Jenkins
¾ May 23rd, 1994
Originally published in the Dec-Jan '95 issue of Mountain Astrologer.
Why did the ancient Mayan or pre-Maya choose December 21st, 2012 A.D., as the end of their Long Count calendar? This article will cover some recent research. Scholars have known for decades that the 13-baktun cycle of the Mayan "Long Count" system of timekeeping was set to end precisely on a winter solstice, and that this system was put in place some 2300 years ago. This amazing fact - that ancient Mesoameri- can skywatchers were able to pinpoint a winter solstice far off into the future - has not been dealt with by Mayanists. And why did they choose the year 2012? One immediately gets the impression that there is a very strange mystery to be confronted here. I will be building upon a clue to this mystery reported by epigrapher Linda Schele in Maya Cosmos (1994). This article is the natural culmination of the research relating to the Mayan Long Count and the precession of the equinoxes that I explored in my recent book Tzolkin: Visionary Perspectives and Calendar Studies (Borderlands Science and Research Foundation, 1994).
The Mayan Long Count
Just some basics to get us started. The Maya were adept skywatchers. Their Classic Period is thought to have lasted from 200 A.D. to 900 A.D., but recent archeological findings are pushing back the dawn of Mayan civilization in Mesoamerica. Large ruin sites indicating high culture with distinctly Mayan antecedents are being found in the jungles of Guatemala dating back to before the common era. And even before this, the Olmec civilization flourished and developed the sacred count of 260 days known as the tzolkin. The early Maya adopted two different time keeping systems, the "Short Count" and the Long Count. The Short Count derives from combining the tzolkin cycle with the solar year and the Venus cycle of 584 days. In this way, "short" periods of 13, 52 and 104 years are generated. Unfortunately, we won't have occasion to dwell on the properties of the so-called Short Count system here. The Long Count system is somewhat more abstract, yet is also related to certain astronomical cycles. It is based upon nested cycles of days multiplied at each level by that key Mayan number, twenty:
Number of Days / Term
1 / Kin (day)
20 / Uinal
360 / Tun
7200 / Katun
144000 / Baktun
Notice that the only exception to multiplying by twenty is at the tun level, where the uinal period is instead multiplied by 18 to make the 360-day tun. The Maya employed this counting system to track an unbroken sequence of days from the time it was inaugurated. The Mayan scholar Munro Edmonson believes that the Long Count was put in place around 355 B.C. This may be so, but the oldest Long Count date as yet found corresponds to 32 B.C. We find Long Count dates in the archeological record beginning with the baktun place value and separated by dots. For example: 6.19.19.0.0 equals 6 baktuns, 19 katuns, 19 tuns, 0 uinals and 0 days. Each baktun has 144000 days, each katun has 7200 days, and so on. If we add up all the values we find that 6.19.19.0.0 indicates a total of 1007640 days have elapsed since the Zero Date of 0.0.0.0.0. The much discussed 13-baktun cycle is completed 1872000 days (13 baktuns) after 0.0.0.0.0. This period of time is the so called Mayan "Great Cycle" of the Long Count and equals 5125.36 years.
But how are we to relate this to a time frame we can understand? How does this Long Count relate to our Gregorian calendar? This problem of correlating Mayan time with "western" time has occupied Mayan scholars since the beginning. The standard question to answer became: what does 0.0.0.0.0 (the Long Count "beginning" point) equal in the Gregorian calendar? When this question is answered, archeological inscriptions can be put into their proper historical context and the end date of the 13-baktun cycle can be calculated. After years of considering data from varied fields such as astronomy, ethnography, archeology and iconography, J. Eric S. Thompson determined that 0.0.0.0.0 correponded to the Julian date 584283, which equals August 11th, 3114 B.C. in our Gregorian calendar. This means that the end date of 13.0.0.0.0, some 5125 years later, is December 21st, 2012 A.D.1
The relationship between the Long Count and Short Count has always been internally consistent (both were tracked alongside each other in an unbroken sequence since their conception). Now it is very interesting to note that an aspect of the "Short Count", namely, the sacred tzolkin count of 260 days, is still being followed in the highlands of Guatemala. As the Mayan scholar Munro Edmonson shows in The Book of the Year, this last surviving flicker of a calendar tradition some 3000 years old supports the Thompson correlation of 584283. Edmonson also states that the Long Count was begun by the Maya or pre-Maya around 355 B.C., but there is reason to believe that the Long Count system was being perfected for at least 200 years prior to that date.
The point of interest for these early astronomers seems to have been the projected end date in 2012 A.D., rather than the beginning date in 3114 B.C. Having determined the end date in 2012 (for reasons we will come to shortly), and calling it 13.0.0.0.0, they thus proclaimed themselves to be living in the 6th baktun of the Great Cycle. The later Maya certainly attributed much mythological significance to the beginning date, relating it to the birth of their deities, but it now seems certain that the placement of the Long Count hinges upon its calculated end point. Why did early Mesoamerican skywatchers pick a date some 2300 years into the future and, in fact, how did they pinpoint an accurate winter solstice? With all these considerations one begins to suspect that, for some reason, the ancient New World astronomers were tracking precession.
The Precession
The precession of the equinoxes, also known as the Platonic Year, is caused by the slow wobbling of the earth's polar axis. Right now this axis roughly points to Polaris, the "Pole Star," but this changes slowly over long periods of time. The earth's wobble causes the position of the seasonal quarters to slowly precess against the background of stars. For example, right now, the winter solstice position is in the constellation of Sagittarius. But 2000 years ago it was in Capricorn. Since then, it has precessed backward almost one full sign. It is generally thought that the Greek astronomer Hipparchus was the first to discover precession around 128 B.C. Yet scholarship indicates that more ancient Old World cultures such as the Egyptians (see Schwaller de Lubicz's book Sacred Science) and Babylonians also knew about the precession.
I have concluded that even cultures with simple horizon astronomy and oral records passed down for a hundred years or so, would notice the slow shifting of the heavens. For example, imagine that you lived in an environment suited for accurately demarcated horizon astronomy. Even if this wasn't the case, you might erect monoliths to sight the horizon position of, most likely, the dawning winter solstice sun. This position in relation to background stars could be accurately preserved in oral verse or wisdom teachings, to be passed down for centuries. Since precession will change this position at the rate of 1 degree every 72 years, within the relatively short time of 100 years or so, a noticeable change will have occurred. The point of this is simple. To early cultures attuned to the subtle movements of the sky, precession would not have been hard to notice.2
The Maya are not generally credited with knowing about the precession of the equinoxes. But considering everything else we know about the amazing sophistication of Mesoamerican astronomy, can we realistically continue to deny them this? Many of the as yet undeciphered hieroglyphs may ultimately describe precessional myths. Furthermore, as I show in my book Tzolkin: Visionary Perspectives and Calendar Studies, the Long Count is perfectly suited for predicting future seasonal quarters, indefinitely, and precession is automatically accounted for. Some of the most incredible aspects of Mayan cosmo-conception are just now being discovered. As was the case with the state of Egyptology in the 1870's, we still have a lot to learn. In addition, Mayanists like Gordon Brotherston (The Book of the Fourth World) consider precessional knowledge among Mesoamerican cultures to be more than likely.
The Sacred Tree
We are still trying to answer these questions: What is so important about the winter solstice of 2012 and, exactly how were calculations made so accurately, considering that precession should make them exceedingly difficult?
If we make a standard horoscope chart for December 21st, 2012 A.D., nothing very unusual appears. In this way I was led astray in my search until Linda Schele provided a clue in the recent book Maya Cosmos. Probably the most exciting breakthrough in this book is her identification of the astronomical meaning of the Mayan Sacred Tree. Drawing from an impressive amount of iconographic evidence, and generously sharing the process by which she arrived at her discovery, the Sacred Tree is found to be none other than the crossing point of the ecliptic with the band of the Milky Way. Indeed, the Milky Way seems to have played an important role in Mayan imagery. For example, an incised bone from 8th century Tikal depicts a long sinking canoe containing various deities. This is a picture of the night sky and the canoe is the Milky Way, sinking below the horizon as the night progresses, and carrying with it deities representing the nearby constellations. The incredible Mayan site of Palenque is filled with Sacred Tree motifs and references to astronomical events. In their book Forest of Kings, Schele and Freidel suggested that the Sacred Tree referred to the ecliptic. Apparently that was only part of the picture, for the Sacred Tree that Pacal ascends in death is more than just the ecliptic, it is the sacred doorway to the underworld. The crossing point of Milky Way and ecliptic is this doorway and represents the sacred source and origin. In the following diagram of the well known sarcophagus carving, notice that the Milky Way tree serves as an extension of Pacal's umbilicus. The umbilicus is a human being's entrance into life, and entrance into death as well:
Diagram 1: Pacal and the Sacred Tree.
We may also remember at this point that the tzolkin calendar is said to spring from the Sacred Tree. The Sacred Tree is, in fact, at the center of the entire corpus of Mayan Creation Myths. We should definitely explore the nature of this astronomical feature.
The first question that came up for me was as follows. Since Lord (Ahau) Pacal is, by way of divine kingship, equated with the sun, and he is portrayed "entering" the Sacred Tree on his famous sarcophagus lid, on what day does the sun come around to conjunct the crossing point of ecliptic and Milky Way? This would be an important date. In the pre-dawn skies of this date, the Milky Way would be seen to arch overhead from the region of Polaris (Heart of Sky) and would point right at where the sun rises. This (and the corollary date 6 months later) is the only date when the Sun/Lord could jump from the ecliptic track and travel the Milky Way up and around the vault of heaven to the region of Polaris, there to enter the "Heart of Sky." It should be mentioned that 1300 years ago, during the zenith of Palenque's glory, Polaris was much less an exact "Pole Star" than it is now. Schele demonstrates that it wasn't a Pole Star that the Maya mythologized in this regard, it was the unmarked polar "dark region" symbolizing death and the underworld around which everything was observed to revolve. Life revolves around death - a characteristically Mayan belief. The dates on which the sun conjuncts the "Sacred Tree" are thus very important. These dates will change with precession. Schele doesn't pursue this line of reasoning, however, and doesn't even mention that these dates might be significant. If we go back to 755 A.D., we find that the sun conjuncts the Sacred Tree on December 3rd. I should point out here that the Milky Way is a wide band, and perhaps a 10-day range of dates should be considered.
To start with, however, I use the exact center of the Milky Way band that one finds on star charts, known as the "Galactic Equator" (not to be confused with Galactic Center). Where the Galactic Equator crosses the ecliptic in Sagittarius just happens to be where the dark rift in the Milky Way begins. This is a dark bifurcation in the Milky Way caused by interstellar dust clouds. To observers on earth, it appears as a dark road which begins near the ecliptic and stretches along the Milky Way up towards Polaris. The Maya today are quite aware of this feature; the Quich» Maya call it xibalba be (the "road to Xibalba") and the Chorti Maya call it the "camino de Santiago". In Dennis Tedlock's translation of the Popol Vuh, we find that the ancient Maya called it the "Black Road". The Hero Twins Hunahpu and Xbalanque must journey down this road to battle the Lords of Xibalba. (Tedlock 334, 358). Furthermore, what Schele has identified as the Sacred Tree was known to the ancient Quich» simply as "Crossroads."
This celestial feature was not marginal in ancient Mayan thought and is still rec- ognized even today. In terms of how this feature was mythologized, it seems that when a planet, the sun, or the moon entered the dark cleft of the Milky Way in Sagittarius (which happens to be the exact center of the Milky Way, the Galactic Equator), entrance to the underworld road was possible, which could then take the journeyer up to the Heart of Sky. Shamanic vision rites were probably involved in this scenario. In the Yucatan, underground caves were ritual places used by shaman to journey to the underworld. Schele explains that "Mayan mythology identifies the Road to Xibalba as going through a cave" (Forest of Kings, 209). Here we have a metaphorical reference to the "dark rift" in the Milky Way by way of its terrestrial counterpart, a syncretism between earth and sky which is characteristic of Mayan thinking. Above all, what is becoming apparent from the corpus of Mayan Creation Myths is that creation seems to have taken place at a celestial crossroads - the crossing point of ecliptic and Milky Way.
To clarify this ever growing picture, we should stop here and plot out some charts. In addition to the detailed star maps from Norton's 2000.0 Star Atlas which allowed me to pinpoint the crossing point of Galactic Equator and ecliptic, I use EZCosmos to plot these positions3. What I found answers the question of why the Maya chose the winter solstice of 2012, a problem seemingly avoided by astronomers and Mayanists alike. While it is true that the sun conjuncts the Sacred Tree on December 3rd in the year 755 A.D., over the centuries precession has caused the conjunction date to approach the winter solstice. So, how close are we to perfect conjunction today? Exactly when might we expect the winter solstice sun to conjunct the crossing point of Galactic Equator and ecliptic - the Mayan Sacred Tree? Any astronomer will tell you that, presently, the Milky Way crosses the ecliptic through the constellation of Sagittarius and this area is rich in nebulae and high density objects. In fact, where the Milky Way crosses the ecliptic in Sagittarius also happens to be the direction of the Galactic Center.4
The Charts
So the quest returns to identifying why December 21st, 2012 A.D. might represent some kind of astronomical anomoly.
1 day before or after will remove the sun a noticeable distance from the crossing point. December 21st, 2012 (13.0.0.0.0 in the Long Count) therefore represents an extremely close conjunction of the winter solstice sun with the crossing point of Galactic Equator and the ecliptic, what the ancient Maya recognized as the Sacred Tree. It is critical to understand that the winter solstice sun rarely conjuncts the Sacred Tree. In fact, this is an event that has been coming to resonance very slowly over thousands and thousands of years. What this might mean astrologically, how this might effect the "energy weather" on earth, must be treated as a separate topic.
But I should at least mention in passing that this celestial convergence appears to parallel the accelerating pace of human civilization. It should be noted that because precession is a very slow process, similar astronomical alignments will be evident on the winter solstice dates within perhaps 5 years on either side of 2012. However, the accuracy of the conjunction of 2012 is quite astounding, beyond anything deemed calculable by the ancient Maya, and serves well to represent the perfect mid-point of the process.
Let's go back to the dawn of the Long Count and try to reconstruct what may have been happening.
Why: Winter Solstice Sun Conjuncts The Sacred Tree in 2012 A.D.
First, the tzolkin count originated among the Olmec at least as early as 679 B.C. (see Edmonson's Book of the Year). We may suspect that astronomical observations were being made from at least that point. The tzolkin count has been followed unbroken since at least that time, up to the present day, demonstrating the high premium placed by the Maya upon continuity of tradition. In this way, star records, horizon positions of the winter solstice sun, and other pertinent observations could also have been accurately preserved. As suggested above, precession can be noticed by way of even simple horizon astronomy in as little time as 100 to 150 years. (Hipparchus, the alleged "discoverer" of precession among the Greeks, compared his own observations with data collected only 170 years before his time.) Following Edmonson, the Long Count system may have appeared as early as 355 B.C. Part of the reason for implementing the Long Count system, as I will show, was probably to calculate future winter solstice dates.
We must assume that even at this early point in Mesoamerican history, the crossing point of ecliptic and Milky Way was understood as the "Sacred Tree". Since the Sacred Tree concept is intrinsically tied into the oldest Mayan Creation Myths, this is not improbable. At the very least, the "dark rift" was already a recognized feature. Early skywatchers of this era (355 B.C.) would then observe the sun to conjunct the dark ridge in the Milky Way on or around November 18th.5 This would be easily observed in the pre-dawn sky as described above: the Milky Way points to the rising sun on this date.
Over a relatively short period of time, as an awareness of precession was emerging, this date was seen to slowly approach winter solstice, a critical date in its own right in early Mayan cosmo-conception. At this point, precession and the rate of precession was calculated, the Long Count was perfected and inaugurated, and the appropriate winter solstice date in 2012 A.D. was found via the Long Count in the following way.
How: Long Count and Seasonal Quarters
Long Count katun beginnings will conjunct sequential seasonal quarters every 1.7.0.0.0 days (194400 days). This is an easily tracked Long Count interval. Starting with the katun beginning of 650 B.C.:
Long Count Which Quarter? Year
6.5.0.0.0 Fall 650 B.C.
7.12.0.0.0 Winter 118 B.C.
8.19.0.0.0 Spring 416 A.D.
10.6.0.0.0 Summer 948 A.D.
11.13.0.0.0 Fall 1480 A.D.
13.0.0.0.0 Winter 2012 A.D.
Note that the last date is not only a katun beginning, but a baktun beginning as well. It is, indeed, the end date of 2012.6
The Long Count may have been officially inaugurated on a specific date in 355 B.C., as Edmonson suggests, but it must have been formulated, tried, tested, and proven before this date. This may well have taken centuries, and the process no doubt paralleled (and was perhaps instigated by) the discovery of precession. The Long Count system automatically accounts for precession in its ability to calculate future seasonal quarters - a property which shouldn't be underestimated.
Summary
This has been my attempt to fill a vacuum in Mayan Studies, an answer to the why and how of the end date of the 13-baktun cycle of the Mayan Long Count. The solution requires a shift in how we think about the astronomy of the Long Count end date. The strange fact that it occurs on a winter solstice immediately points us to possible astronomical reasons, but they are not obvious. We also shouldn't forget the often mentioned fact that the 13-baktun cycle of some 5125 years is roughly 1/5th of a precessional cycle. This in itself should have been suggestive of a deeper mystery very early on. Only with the recent identification of the astronomical nature of the Sacred Tree has the puzzle revealed its fullness. And once again we are amazed at the sophistication and vision of the ancient New World astronomers, the decendants of whom still count the days and watch the skies in the remote outbacks of Guatemala.
This essay is not contrived upon sketchy evidence. It basically rests upon two facts:
1) the well known end date of the 13-baktun cycle of the Mayan Long Count, which is December 21st, 2012 A.D. and
2) the astronomical situation on that day. Based upon these two facts alone, the creators of the Long Count knew about and calculated the rate of precession over 2300 years ago. I can conceive of no other conclusion. To explain this away as "coincidence" would only obscure the issue.
For early Mesoamerican skywatchers, the slow approach of the winter solstice sun to the Sacred Tree was seen as a critical process, the culmination of which was surely worthy of being called 13.0.0.0.0, the end of a World Age. The channel would then be open through the winter solstice doorway, up the Sacred Tree, the Xibalba be , to the center of the churning heavens, the Heart of Sky.
Excerpt from "The Egyptian Chronicles"
by Dawn-Michelle Baude
The Supreme Guide of the Council of Antiquities of Egypt is a small, compact sparkplug of a man fond of his laser pointer. With typical modesty, he announces, "I have a great respect for Howard Carter--Carter never moved Tut's remains. He left that to me."
Tutankhamen's tomb is projected on screen and submitted to precise laser probing while I take my seat as discreetly as possible in the conference hall of the new Biblioteka Alexandrina, the latest incarnation of the renowned Library of Alexandria, one that meets current seismic and fire-safety standards. No crazy Caesar is going to set this place aflame--there are no books to burn. In an institution prepared to house over three-million volumes, a flimsy 250,000 fill the shelves. All the money for the library was spent on the architecture.
Since the Supreme Guide of Antiquities has rock-star status in Egypt, the event is sold out. The guards size me up--female, unescorted, Western, blond--and decide I should be encouraged. I walk past the other Egyptians thronging the doorway, people who probably know more about the antiquities than I do. I show no remorse. Organizers produce wireless headphones for the live English translation and carry in a chair so that I can sit comfortably in full view of the screen and the esteemed guest.
The Supreme Guide, Zahi Hawass, has incontestably done more for Egyptian antiquities than any of his predecessors. But like the bull in a shawabti shop, he's been a little too quick, a little too visible. Zahi has formidable enemies--mostly on account of megalomaniac tendencies of Pharaonic proportions. But his heart is in the right place--he has a kind face, a lively spirit and an agile mind.
"I wanted to give Tut a CT scan," Zahi continues, projecting a slide of himself in a room outfitted with the latest medical technology. "In the past, it would have been impossible. But now we Egyptians have our own machines. We don't need foreigners to do this anymore."
Zahi knows how to play his audience. He doesn't mention that the CT-scanner wasn't an Egyptian purchase. While the Supreme Guide points out the 18 breaks in Tut's skeleton, I look around the room for headphones--evidence of foreigners. I spy an older couple who are probably among the last handful of Greeks calling Alexandria home. The rest of the audience seems Egyptian, about half women, mostly veiled. No one in headphones. I don’t understand why I keep looking for foreigners in Alexandria. I guess I'm hoping to find a friend.
"So, when we rotated the mummy inside the machine, something odd happened." The Supreme Guide projects a slide of the scanner. Tut's boney feet poke from the tunnel, chicken legs out of the roaster.
"The scanner stopped." The Supreme Guide pauses; the audience rustles. "The curse of the mummy?" He walks across the stage, looking perplexed. "It's a brand-new, state-of-the-art machine. We don't know why it stopped at the exact moment that the mummy went inside."
A wry smile flickers across Zahi's features. After all, things break in Egypt all the time--telephones, generators, computers, elevators, antennas, motors of every stripe. Perhaps the curse is more generalized than is usually supposed. "It took a while," he says, "but some days later the scanner worked and we were able to complete tests."
Skeptics of invisibilities--that rather large group of people whose brains are made in such a way that they struggle to rationalize or dismiss every synchronicity and presage, every intuition and déjà vu, every telepathic coincidence and hypnogogic insight--point out that the fan in the scanner needed to be rebooted. For them, the rupture of electricity when Tut entered the CT tunnel is perfectly logical.
But the Italian film crew who were there on the scene when Tut brought the house down won’t buy a simplistic fan scenario. The assistant director told me that the CT-scanner worked just fine in the trials of other mummies. I can still see her pretty, baffled face. "It was really very weird," she said. "Mummies go in, mummies go out. But the minute Tut went inside: boom. No power. No power anywhere. It all cut everywhere on the set."
Zahi is a man of science, but he is also Egyptian. He knows that the country is full of mystery that even the most stalwart of rationalists have to fight to keep at bay. It flows from six thousand years of ruins the way that water flows from a desert spring. Zahi doesn't tell the audience that the electrical outage was traced to a malfunctioning fan because arguably that just replaces the event by another event, not its cause. And besides, it's to Zahi's advantage to keep Tut cloaked in mystery, since mystery brings the tourists to Tut's tomb and to the museums, even to the country itself. I'm willing to bet that Zahi has seen a lot of strange things roaming around the monuments after dark. He's keeping his mouth shut.
"The CT-scan," Zahi proclaims to an enraptured room, "showed that Tut did not die by a blow to the head, so that theory is now laid to rest."
Next up is the slide of The Supreme Guide between the paws of the Great Sphinx. He is wearing his trademark cowboy hat. "Many people don't know that there're openings to a room inside the Sphinx, probably used for ritual purposes."
Zahi doesn't mention the location of the main shaft in the Sphinx's rear end. Why on earth, I wonder again, would the Pharaonic Egyptians decide to make more or less an anal entry? I know the Pharaonic architects couldn’t put a door in the front of the Sphinx, as that would mar the majesty of what is usually thought to be Khafre's portrait. But they could have tucked the rear shaft closer to the elbow. They didn't have to conceal the opening in the Sphinx's behind.
"We haven't found anything inside the Sphinx yet," the Supreme Guide sighs. "There's problems pumping out the ground water from the tunnels--it's very complicated." His laser pointer lingers on a slide of what looks like a pit, the Supreme Guide peering solemnly over the edge into the inky blackness. "Radar from Stanford helped us locate the shafts--we don't have these machines yet." Technology is apparently a sensitive issue. "Is there a passage from the Sphinx to the Khafre's pyramid? We don't know."
Cue the three Gizeh pyramids. Numbers of blocks. Approximate weight. Approximate dates. Timeline. But like a description of a piano concerto as a fixed scale of sound arranged in mathematical sequence, an empirical description of the monument omits more than it includes.
That's not just a big pile of stones.
*
"Come on, let's go!" I encouraged X on a dark and balmy night. We walked up the hill of the Gizeh plateau to the pyramids at about 4:30 AM. "There's the guard," I observe. "Under the light at the rest house."
My X engaged the guard in a quick conversation. Money changed hands. "Don't climb Khufu," the guard roared across the sand, apparently as an after-thought. "Khufu many people die!"
"Are you sure you want to do this?" X looked anxious.
I felt like I did when I was heading off into the Kushite ruins of Musawwarat in the Sudan with my sleeping bag in hand, determined to sleep in the temple ruins where oracular dream incubation took place. Yes, I'm going to do this.
We gazed on the mighty edifice of Khufu's pyramid respectfully while we crossed the plain to the next monument. Khafre's pyramid looked no less magisterial beneath the stars. The first few layers of blocks at the bottom are easy to climb--find a hold, yank and pull yourself up. Although Khafre's pyramid seems taller than Khufu's, in fact, it's an optical illusion created by the positioning of the son's pyramid higher up on the plateau than his father's. Since I'm climbing faster than X, I'm a couple of layers above him, too.
"Putin de merde," X cursed. His foot slipped and he hit his knee.
"Don't forget," I yelled down, "they were still holding races to the top of the pyramids until just a few decades ago." I hoped I could goad X on by arousing macho competitiveness.
"They stopped the races because too many people died," X shouted.
I get about halfway up the pyramid face, climbing in the starlight, the faintest glow of the morning sky appearing on the horizon like the distant embers of a fire.
"Dawn, it's getting more difficult. Slow down."
He didn't have to warn me. I was at a kind of impasse. The blocks had gotten bigger, like they'd decided to enlarge somehow, adding some centimeters here, some there, their volume increasing accordingly. But I know the blocks in the pyramids are all of a maddeningly consistent size--about five and half feet in height and width. I was in front of one that had swelled to the point where I couldn't find a grip. It was strange--a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't moment, when you look away, and back, and it's changed. Something has changed. The person you loved no longer loves you. The one you relied on has died. It happens so fast. The blocks have gotten bigger. And for reasons that I still can't understand, they had also started to taper out, as if their top surfaces were pushing away from the center, slanting into space. They were no longer an orderly 90° from the earth. More like 120°, 130°. I felt as if I had to swing out away from the face of the pyramid to reach the next surface.
Equally puzzling was the perception I had when looking down, past X, to the sands below. Instead of feeling as if I were in a stable position, since the base of a pyramid is progressively wider than the slant of the sides, I felt the opposite--as if I were tilting out, away from the center of the monument. I knew this was impossible. Every photo of the pyramid, every observation made from sky and earth from time immemorial, records a geometrical solid possessed of specific, quantifiable features. The sides of a pyramid trend toward the center, not out, into the sky. I stood there, slightly above the halfway mark--about 30 stories from the ground--panting. It wasn't vertigo. I wasn't dizzy--it was a sense that gravity was not operating as it should, as if gravity itself were somehow transforming matter, pulling it in odd ways. The pyramid wasn't leading me up to the sky. It was pushing me off into a topsy-turvy ripple in the fabric of reality, some dynastic wrinkle in space-time decreed by Pharaoh himself.
X convinced me to go back down.
I never spent the whole night in the Kushite dream temple either.
*
"As you can see from this slide," continues the Supreme Guide, "there are two entrances to The Great Pyramid of Khufu. The upper one is the original entrance, but it's plugged with granite blocks, an ancient method for deterring thieves. The lower tunnel was hacked out by tomb robbers in antiquity."
He projects the cross-section of the Great Pyramid on the screen so that the audience can appreciate how much trouble the robbers went to in order to tunnel into the main shaft on the other side of the granite plugs.
"We don't know what they found."
Zahi gazes regretfully at the audience.
"No artifacts have ever been located in the pyramid."
He looks baffled.
"Zero. Not even a single hieroglyph."
*
If you're lucky enough to enter Khufu's pyramid alone, a silence that is not silence but the strange, full vibration of air presses upon the inner workings of the ear in such a way that you perceive an audible pressure--very faint. This happens within the first few minutes of entering the robber's shaft. Like in a dream, you're not sure you're hearing something that somehow you hear.
In the main shaft, beyond the granite plugs, you're forced to ascend, leaning over a little more, obliged to bend your knees and bow your head. The heart beats somewhat faster; the temperature rises a few degrees. The hand-cut limestone blocks under your feet, above your head, brushing your arms at the sides are so smooth that only a trained eye perceives the trace of the rope and mallet. The joints between the blocks are disguised as geologic fissures. The fit between them is so perfect and tight it is as if the shaft is a continuous wall of undressed stone.
After hunching over during the first part of the ascent, you reach the Grand Gallery, where the ceiling inexplicably opens in a vertical slice, very narrow but over eight-and-a-half meters tall, creating an interior space that, instead of alleviating the sensation of compression, seems to augment it, so that the very air thickens as breathing becomes slightly more labored. The Grand Gallery is not cave-like, because there is nothing natural about it; nor is it depersonalized in the way that subterranean floors in skyscrapers are. It is noble, on the verge of hospitality, were it not for the overwhelming inhibition produced by the tactile perception of an exact astronomical weight placed with utmost precision overhead. The reach of the ceiling so very high above allows your thoughts to rise, too--but not too far. The ceiling height is but a fraction when measured against the actual summit of the pyramid outside.
The floor slants steeply now, so that visitors in poor physical condition have to fully concentrate on the climb. Those who suffer from claustrophobia turn around. It is a long, difficult ascent, even if you're in shape, because you have to scramble, the incline is steep, and the weight of those blocks thunder overhead. Every step is an act of trust and grace. At the top of the shaft, you have to crawl a short distance before stepping into the King's Chamber, lined in sacrificial red granite brought from Aswan 800 kilometers to the south. The ceiling leaps up again to eight meters. The room is large enough to hold 30 comfortably. It is empty, save for Khufu's lidless granite sarcophagus where perhaps Pharaoh's body was laid to rest--or perhaps the sarcophagus has been empty for all time.
Written evidence of the use of mathematics dates back to at least 3000 BC with the ivory labels found at Tomb Uj at Abydos. These labels appear to have been used as tags for grave goods and some are inscribed with numbers.[1] Further evidence of the use of the base 10 number system can be found on for instance the Narmer Macehead which depicts offerings of 400,000 oxen, 1,422,000 goats and 120,000 prisoners.
Egyptian Mathmatics
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The evidence of the use of mathematics in the Old Kingdom (ca 2690 - 2180 BC) is scarce, but can be deduced from for instance inscriptions on a wall near a mastaba in Meidum which gives guidelines for the slope of the mastaba.The lines in the diagram are spaced at a distance of one cubit and show the use of that unit of measurement.
The earliest true mathematical documents date to the 12th dynasty (ca 1990 - 1800 BC). The Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, the Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll, the Lahun Mathematical Papyri which are a part of the much larger collection of Kahun Papyri and the Berlin Papyrus all date to this period. The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus which dates to the Second Intermediate Period (ca 1650 BC) is said to be based on an older mathematical text from the 12th dynasty.
The Moscow Mathematical Papyrus and Rhind Mathematical Papyrus are so-called mathematical problem texts. They consist of a collection of problems with solutions. These texts may have been written by a teacher or a student engaged in solving typical mathematics problems.
An interesting feature of Ancient Egyptian mathematics is the use of unit fractions. The Egyptians used some special notation for fractions such as and and in some texts for , but other fractions were all written as unit fractions of the form or sums of such unit fractions. Scribes used tables to help them work with these fractions. The Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll for instance is a table of unit fractions which are expressed as sums of other unit fractions. The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus and some of the other texts contain tables. These tables allowed the scribes to rewrite any fraction of the form as a sum of unit fractions.
During the New Kingdom (ca 1550 - 1070 BC) mathematical problems are mentioned in the literary Papyrus Anastasi I, and the Papyrus Wilbour from the time of Ramesses III records land measurements. In the worker's village of Deir el-Medina several ostraca have been found that record volumes of dirt removed while quarrying the tombs.
Our understanding of ancient Egyptian mathematics has been impeded by the reported paucity of available sources. The sources we do have include the following texts generally dated to the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period:
The Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll
The Lahun Mathematical Papyri
The Berlin papyrus was written around 1300 BC
The Akhmim Wooden Tablet.
The Reisner Papyrus dates to the early Twelfth dynasty of Egypt and was found in Nag el-Deir, the ancient town of This.
The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (RMP) dates from the Second Intermediate Period (circa 1650 BC), but its author, Ahmes, identifies it as a copy of a now lost Middle Kingdom papyrus. The RMP is the largest mathematical text.
From the New Kingdom we have a handful of mathematical texts and inscription related to computations:
The Papyrus Anastasi I is a literary text from the New Kingdom. It is written as a (fictional) letter written by a scribe named Hori and addressed to a scribe named Amenemope. A segment of the letter describes several mathematical problems.
Ostracon Senmut 153 is a text written in hieratic.
Ostracon Turin 57170 is a text written in hieratic.
Ostraca from Deir el-Medina contain computations. Ostracon IFAO 1206 for instance shows the calculations of volumes, presumably related to the quarrying of a tomb.
Numerals
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Main articles: Egyptian numerals and Egyptian fraction
Ancient Egyptian texts could be written in either hieroglyphs or in Hieratic. In either representation the number system was always given in base 10. The number 1 was depicted by a simple stroke, the number 2 was represented by two strokes, etc. The numbers 10, 100, 1000, 10,000 and 1,000,000 had their own hieroglyphs. Number 10 is a hobble for cattle, number 100 is represented by a coiled rope, the number 1000 is represented by a lotus flower, the number 10,000 is represented by a finger, the number 100,000 is represented by a frog and a million was represented by a god with his hands raised in adoration.
Hieroglyphics for Egyptian numerals
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Smile Now Cry Later
Look to this day
for it is life
the very life of life.
In its brief course lie all
the realities and truths of existence
the joy of growth
the splendor of action
the glory of power.
For yesterday is but a memory
And tomorrow is only a vision.
But today well lived
makes every yesterday a memory
of happiness
and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day....
~ ancient Sanskrit poem ~
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This is also orgasmic, I have found a few small placer deposits nothing to this scale yet but I am trying!! most of the gold here in Nevada's southern region is called Carlin Trend because it is microscopic and has to be leeched using cyanide but there is plenty and you can see that looking at th Cortez Mine which is more than 5 miles but Kimberlite shafts interest me here, they say there are kimberlite shafts here that would produce more diamonds than South Africa has ever has....Wow I need a GPR military auction might have one or wholesale .
Now this would be awesome to find with today's gold prices!
There’s an ancient, ancient garden that I see sometimes in dreams,
Where the very Maytime sunlight plays and glows with spectral gleams;
Where the gaudy-tinted blossoms seem to wither into grey,
And the crumbling walls and pillars waken thoughts of yesterday.
There are vines in nooks and crannies, and there’s moss about the pool,
And the tangled weedy thicket chokes the arbour dark and cool:
In the silent sunken pathways springs an herbage sparse and spare,
Where the musty scent of dead things dulls the fragrance of the air.
There is not a living creature in the lonely space around,
And the hedge-encompass’d quiet never echoes to a sound.
As I walk, and wait, and listen, I will often seek to find
When it was I knew that garden in an age long left behind;
I will oft conjure a vision of a day that is no more,
As I gaze upon the grey, grey scenes I feel I knew before.
Then a sadness settles o’er me, and a tremor seems to start:
For I know the flow’rs are shrivell’d hopes - the garden is my heart!
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Reach out with the love . . . reach out with the understanding you have for life and for the wonders that life can hold for you and for your world. Be loving . . . be understanding . . . be at peace with each; be at peace with each other.—Lazaris
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I’ve taken the same ride too many times.
I could fall asleep in the loop.
I know the clowns wipe the fake, makeup smiles off their faces once the show is done.
I know the lions sleep in cages at night.
I know the tightrope walkers have blisters on their feet.
I know the ringmaster doesn’t believe in what he yells to the crowd anymore.
I know the strongman, isn’t as strong as he once was.
I know the candy floss has always been, just sugar and air.
You are the only reason I come back here every night.
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The Fragrance Drifted Bye
I could smell the honey suckle rose
And I wondered why
I was down in the dregs
I had resolved no more
I was on my way
Actually I am still on my way
It was just a remembrance
Or was it
Did God communicate just now
I feel the joyful passion
Filling my empty soul
Was this his message
His statement
That I shouldn't lose the dream
How important is remembrance
To the mindful soul
Some could say it is a necessary requisite
The nectar is on the wind
I want to lay down with it
And fill my lungs
But my glucose should not be refined
by Rand Newell Dodd
Life and Frenetic Purpose
The winds of time are blowing against me
I am being pushed both forwards and backwards
My mind spins into the middle way
Down the highway divider
Of stasis
I've lost time
I am in the malaise of the now
Having come from somewhere
While I was going someplace
I am nowhere now
When all of this doesn't matter
When I spin in the transcendence
When I suckle the teat of milk and honey
For a breif moment I feel it
I feel my consciousness lifting from my body
There is life after death
I look back at my shell
I feel the pull of the collective
There is no more problem solving
There is just disconnected consciousness
I feel the wind in my heart
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Her eyes are crying
To fill a deep hole
Her lips are cracked
From spitting out her soul
She is the girl
who lives in the forest
of fallen stars
She stands like a tree
That is rotten at its core
Beautiful and deranged
her limbs reach for yours
When you first see the girl
who lives in the forest
of fallen stars
A hammer beats on eyes
Your fingers feel numb
Her skin is like rain
That will never come
When you first touch the girl
who lives in the forest
of fallen stars
You don't want to see her
But can't shut your eyes
You taste her tongue
and eat her surprise
When you first kiss the girl
who lives in the forest
of fallen stars
Your head is a blanket
Covered in sand
You reach for her neck
But no longer have hands
When you first love the girl
who lives in the forest
of fallen stars
You can no longer move
Your feet becomes roots
Your hair becomes leaves
Your fingers are shoots
When you marry the girl
who lives in the forest
of fallen stars
So you've added to her forest
Yet another burnt out star
You hear her voice in the night
Laughing from afar
She is the girl
who lives in the forest
of fallen stars
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The rags of language are streaming like weathervanes,
Like weeds in water they turn with the tide, as he turns
Back and forth the looking-glass pages, the words
Pouring and slippery like the silk thighs of the tomcat
Pouring through the slit in the fence, lightly,
Until he reaches the language that has no word for his,
No word for hers, and is brought up sudden
Like a boy in a story faced with a small locked door.
Who is that he can hear panting on the other side?
The steam of her breath is turning the locked lock green.
by Ní Chuilleanáin
The kind of hope I often think about I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us or we don't; it is a dimension of the soul; it's not essentially dependent on some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation. Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart; it transcends the world that is immediately experienced, and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but, rather, an ability to work for something that is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. The more unpropitious the situation in which we demonstrate hope, the deeper the hope is. Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. In short, I think that the deepest and most important form of hope, the only one that can keep us above water and urge us to good works, and the only true source of the breathtaking dimension of the human spirit and its efforts, is something we get, as it were, from "elsewhere". It is also this hope, above all, which gives us the strength to live and continually to try new things, even in conditions that seem hopeless as ours do, here and now.
- Vaclav Havel, Disturbing the Peace: A conversation with Karel Hvizdala
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- Vaclav Havel, Disturbing the Peace: A conversation with Karel Hvizdala
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Your result for The Lover Style Profile Test...
The Devoted Lover
64% partner focus, 38% aggressiveness, 50% adventurousness
Based on the results of this test, it is highly likely that:
You prefer your romance and love to be traditional rather than daring or out-of-the-ordinary, you would rather be pursued than do the pursuing and, when it comes to physical love, your satisfaction comes more from providing a wonderful time to your partner than simply seeking your own.
This places you in the Lover Style of: The Devoted Lover.
The Devoted Lover is a wonderful Lover Style, and is perhaps the best Lover Style when it comes to developing a long-term, caring and rewarding relationship. The Devoted Lover is a treasure to find, though it is sometimes difficult to time establishing a relationship with one just right; usually, this is the last romantic relationship you'll need to find, so sow any wild oats first.
In terms of physical love, the Devoted Lover can be shy at first but gradually warms and eventually can be a thrilling partner who knows every need of his/her partner. Given a strong and loving relationship, and the right lover, the Devoted Lover can be a delight in bed.
Best Compatibility can probably be found with: The Suave Lover (most of all) or the Classic Lover, or the Carnal Lover.
Congratulations!
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Thanks Again! -- THE LOVER STYLE PROFILE TEST
You prefer your romance and love to be traditional rather than daring or out-of-the-ordinary, you would rather be pursued than do the pursuing and, when it comes to physical love, your satisfaction comes more from providing a wonderful time to your partner than simply seeking your own.
This places you in the Lover Style of: The Devoted Lover.
The Devoted Lover is a wonderful Lover Style, and is perhaps the best Lover Style when it comes to developing a long-term, caring and rewarding relationship. The Devoted Lover is a treasure to find, though it is sometimes difficult to time establishing a relationship with one just right; usually, this is the last romantic relationship you'll need to find, so sow any wild oats first.
In terms of physical love, the Devoted Lover can be shy at first but gradually warms and eventually can be a thrilling partner who knows every need of his/her partner. Given a strong and loving relationship, and the right lover, the Devoted Lover can be a delight in bed.
Best Compatibility can probably be found with: The Suave Lover (most of all) or the Classic Lover, or the Carnal Lover.
Congratulations!
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America/Politics
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Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.
They have square watermelons in Japan - they stack better.
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
Armadillos can be housebroken.
The first Fords had engines made by Dodge.
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.
The flashing warning light on the cylindrical Capitol Records tower spells out HOLLYWOOD in Morse code.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.
The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.
Over 1,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
The State of Florida is bigger than England.
Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.
Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food. That's the weight of about 6 elephants.
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones.
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe.
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.
Slugs have 4 noses.
Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours.
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue.
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Five Things to Know About the Heart
1. Your Heart Beats in Sync with Mother Earth
The Earth has a heartbeat (resonant frequency) called the Schumann Resonance which has been 7.8 cycles for thousands of years, but has been rising since 1980. (It is at about 12 cycles at present and increasing each year). Planet Earth is our mother and our heart beat must synch with hers. When we are not in sync, we feel fearful, insecure and anxious that there is not enough time in the day. To counteract these effects, make time to be with your Mother: go out in nature, breathe fresh air, look at the sky. As you intentionally send the frequency of Love from your heart to the center of the Earth, you will feel her Love return back to you.
2. The Heart has its Own Brain
Science has discovered that 60-65 percent of the heart is made up of neurons that connect directly to the limbic system. What we think of as ‘the brain’ is not just in the head – but also in the heart. These neurons have a direct connection with the right hemisphere of the brain and is responsible for dreaming, intuition, and creativity. The ancients tell us that we used to create our world with our hearts. When you visualize or pray, bring your awareness to your heart
“ Whenever you pray with the head, it takes a long time before you see the desired goal. Whenever you sing or pray from the heart, it will be timeless, spaceless and absolutely effective. Praying from the heart is 108 trillion times more effective than praying from the head.” – Yogi Bhajan
3. The Heart Has its Own Electromagnetic Field
Heart cells are unique in that they produce strong and measurable electromagnetic signals extending as far as twelve to fifteen feet from the body in the shape of a torus. The electromagnetic field of the earth, the solar system, and the galaxy has the same toroidal shape. The quality of our thoughts and feelings affect the electromagnetic field of the heart which in turn affects all the people around us.
We are all connected to one another through these electromagnetic fields and to that of the earth’s electromagnetic field. This is why when we see harm done to another we can feel it – because in truth, it is also being done to us.
One of the 5 Sutras for the Aquarian Age is Recognize the Other Person is You.
4. Heart Cells Naturally Beat in Unison
Science has discovered that if the cells of the heart are removed and separated they will beat at their own unique rhythm. When these cells are brought together they will naturally synchronize and start beating in unison.
This is why when you listen to someone speaking from the heart you feel included in the conversation. No matter how large the group, it feels as though that person is speaking directly to you. The heart is beyond duality and conflict – it is the perfect balance point where the upper and lower chakras meet. The heart does not judge others as higher or lower- it knows we are all brothers and sisters on this planet.
When you experience conflict with someone this is an opportunity to bring compassion to the situation. Go into your heart and see and feel things from their point of view. If this is challenging, pray to the Infinite to see this person as God sees them. Relate to their light not their darkness (ego).
5. The Heart Responds to Laughter
Science has discovered that a hearty laugh causes the lining of our blood vessel walls (called endothelium) to relax, increasing blood flow for up to 45 minutes afterwards. Damage to the endothelium can lead to the narrowing of blood vessels and eventually cardiovascular diseases.
Laughter brings comfort to the heart. When you embrace your Divine Nature you can’t help but laugh at the silliness of the mind/ego and how perfect the world is – how perfect we all are.
What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up! – Hafiz
Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh. – The Koran
Make time to laugh for no reason – watch funny movies – hang out with people who make you laugh.
If you need some real Resurrection paddles for your heart – Practice this Meditation for a Broken Heart for 40 days. It works with the heart meridian and will bring energy and prana to this area.
1. Your Heart Beats in Sync with Mother Earth
The Earth has a heartbeat (resonant frequency) called the Schumann Resonance which has been 7.8 cycles for thousands of years, but has been rising since 1980. (It is at about 12 cycles at present and increasing each year). Planet Earth is our mother and our heart beat must synch with hers. When we are not in sync, we feel fearful, insecure and anxious that there is not enough time in the day. To counteract these effects, make time to be with your Mother: go out in nature, breathe fresh air, look at the sky. As you intentionally send the frequency of Love from your heart to the center of the Earth, you will feel her Love return back to you.
2. The Heart has its Own Brain
Science has discovered that 60-65 percent of the heart is made up of neurons that connect directly to the limbic system. What we think of as ‘the brain’ is not just in the head – but also in the heart. These neurons have a direct connection with the right hemisphere of the brain and is responsible for dreaming, intuition, and creativity. The ancients tell us that we used to create our world with our hearts. When you visualize or pray, bring your awareness to your heart
“ Whenever you pray with the head, it takes a long time before you see the desired goal. Whenever you sing or pray from the heart, it will be timeless, spaceless and absolutely effective. Praying from the heart is 108 trillion times more effective than praying from the head.” – Yogi Bhajan
3. The Heart Has its Own Electromagnetic Field
Heart cells are unique in that they produce strong and measurable electromagnetic signals extending as far as twelve to fifteen feet from the body in the shape of a torus. The electromagnetic field of the earth, the solar system, and the galaxy has the same toroidal shape. The quality of our thoughts and feelings affect the electromagnetic field of the heart which in turn affects all the people around us.
We are all connected to one another through these electromagnetic fields and to that of the earth’s electromagnetic field. This is why when we see harm done to another we can feel it – because in truth, it is also being done to us.
One of the 5 Sutras for the Aquarian Age is Recognize the Other Person is You.
4. Heart Cells Naturally Beat in Unison
Science has discovered that if the cells of the heart are removed and separated they will beat at their own unique rhythm. When these cells are brought together they will naturally synchronize and start beating in unison.
This is why when you listen to someone speaking from the heart you feel included in the conversation. No matter how large the group, it feels as though that person is speaking directly to you. The heart is beyond duality and conflict – it is the perfect balance point where the upper and lower chakras meet. The heart does not judge others as higher or lower- it knows we are all brothers and sisters on this planet.
When you experience conflict with someone this is an opportunity to bring compassion to the situation. Go into your heart and see and feel things from their point of view. If this is challenging, pray to the Infinite to see this person as God sees them. Relate to their light not their darkness (ego).
5. The Heart Responds to Laughter
Science has discovered that a hearty laugh causes the lining of our blood vessel walls (called endothelium) to relax, increasing blood flow for up to 45 minutes afterwards. Damage to the endothelium can lead to the narrowing of blood vessels and eventually cardiovascular diseases.
Laughter brings comfort to the heart. When you embrace your Divine Nature you can’t help but laugh at the silliness of the mind/ego and how perfect the world is – how perfect we all are.
What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up! – Hafiz
Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh. – The Koran
Make time to laugh for no reason – watch funny movies – hang out with people who make you laugh.
If you need some real Resurrection paddles for your heart – Practice this Meditation for a Broken Heart for 40 days. It works with the heart meridian and will bring energy and prana to this area.
"The pineal gland is located near to the center of the brain, between the two hemispheres, tucked in a groove where the two rounded thalamic bodies join. Unlike much of the rest of the brain, the pineal gland is not isolated from the body by the blood-brain barrier system. It is reddish-gray and about the size of a pea (8 mm in humans), located just rostro-dorsal to the superior colliculus and behind and beneath the stria medullaris, between the laterally positioned thalamic bodies. It is part of the epithalamus. It is a midline structure, and is often seen in plain skull X-rays, as it is often calcified. Calcification is typically due to intake of the fluoride found in water and toothpaste. It was the last endocrine gland to have its function discovered.
The pineal glandworks in harmony with the hypothalamus gland which directs the body’s thirst, hunger, sexual desire and the biological clock that determines our aging process. When it awakens, one feels a pressure at the base of the brain."
The pineal glandworks in harmony with the hypothalamus gland which directs the body’s thirst, hunger, sexual desire and the biological clock that determines our aging process. When it awakens, one feels a pressure at the base of the brain."
Here are some basics for pineal detox:
"Mercury - this is really bad for the pineal gland. Its poison. Dont let this get into your body. Mercury tooth fillings are pineal toxins. Have them removed. All medical vaccines are also mercury tainted. Thimersal (a vaccine preservative) is methyl mercury and is very difficult to get out of the brain once its in there. Avoid eating fish and bottom feeders such as shrimps and prawns. Tuna and dolphin meat is particularly bad for mercury - the bigger the fish the higher the concentration of mercury in its body tissue.
Mercury can be removed from the body by the daily use of chlorella, wheatgrass and spirulina. Cilantro herb taken daily can help remove mercury from brain tissue.
Fluoride - in toothpastes and tap water. Its another heavy duty poison. Avoid it at all costs. It calcifies the pineal tissue and basically shuts the gland down.
Raw cacao - a pineal gland stimulant / detoxifier in high doses because of the high antioxidant content.
Organic foods - some pesticides are pineal toxins. Organic healthy food with a high ratio of raw is supportive to pineal detox. Meat is not helpful either. Some people who channel seem to not be affected but for many the toxicity and density of meat will pose challenges and we want to make the work easy if we can.
Heart Healing - raises the overal vibration of the being and heals fear - a useful advantage for when we start seeing other dimensions.
Other toxins - if something is toxic do not put it in your body. If you cant say its name its most likely bad. Toxins include artificial sweeteners (aspartame K) , refined sugar, phylenanine (in squashes), E numbers beginning with 1, deodorants, cleaning chemicals, dental mouthwashes (saltwater is suffice) and air fresheners."
"Mercury - this is really bad for the pineal gland. Its poison. Dont let this get into your body. Mercury tooth fillings are pineal toxins. Have them removed. All medical vaccines are also mercury tainted. Thimersal (a vaccine preservative) is methyl mercury and is very difficult to get out of the brain once its in there. Avoid eating fish and bottom feeders such as shrimps and prawns. Tuna and dolphin meat is particularly bad for mercury - the bigger the fish the higher the concentration of mercury in its body tissue.
Mercury can be removed from the body by the daily use of chlorella, wheatgrass and spirulina. Cilantro herb taken daily can help remove mercury from brain tissue.
Fluoride - in toothpastes and tap water. Its another heavy duty poison. Avoid it at all costs. It calcifies the pineal tissue and basically shuts the gland down.
Raw cacao - a pineal gland stimulant / detoxifier in high doses because of the high antioxidant content.
Organic foods - some pesticides are pineal toxins. Organic healthy food with a high ratio of raw is supportive to pineal detox. Meat is not helpful either. Some people who channel seem to not be affected but for many the toxicity and density of meat will pose challenges and we want to make the work easy if we can.
Heart Healing - raises the overal vibration of the being and heals fear - a useful advantage for when we start seeing other dimensions.
Other toxins - if something is toxic do not put it in your body. If you cant say its name its most likely bad. Toxins include artificial sweeteners (aspartame K) , refined sugar, phylenanine (in squashes), E numbers beginning with 1, deodorants, cleaning chemicals, dental mouthwashes (saltwater is suffice) and air fresheners."
Proof we are the last generation on earth
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Your lips could make magic with my lips
and teasing my lips with your groan love
Prolonging the pleasure for as we love each other
and my body is entangled with your love soul
Your kisses could relieve my heart pain
and bring the passions to grow inside me
When we walk in the cool breeze in the night
and you will become my possession to hold you tight
Even the moon shower his blessing on us with sight
and my gentle stroke never fail to make you flight
My love for you is greater than infinity
and my kisses are sending waves of delight through my lips
Your eyes tell me of your hunger for my love
and your groan voice make me to understand your desire
Then my soul being to sing with pleasure
and your heart swells with moisture
So, I take my deep breath holding you
and kiss you deep and say ’ I love you
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~Ravi Sathasivam~
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and teasing my lips with your groan love
Prolonging the pleasure for as we love each other
and my body is entangled with your love soul
Your kisses could relieve my heart pain
and bring the passions to grow inside me
When we walk in the cool breeze in the night
and you will become my possession to hold you tight
Even the moon shower his blessing on us with sight
and my gentle stroke never fail to make you flight
My love for you is greater than infinity
and my kisses are sending waves of delight through my lips
Your eyes tell me of your hunger for my love
and your groan voice make me to understand your desire
Then my soul being to sing with pleasure
and your heart swells with moisture
So, I take my deep breath holding you
and kiss you deep and say ’ I love you
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~Ravi Sathasivam~
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Abashed the Devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is,
and saw Virtue in her own shape how lovely;
saw and pined his loss”
Abashed the Devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is,
and saw Virtue in her own shape how lovely;
saw and pined his loss”
Masks
My mask is what creates me
Without it, I am nothing
Each thought and every part of me
Is a shadow that accompanies
Without these masks of happiness
Of love, or pain, or shame
I'd walk along, expressionless
A shell in all but name
And so my masks create me
Each different and unique
So long as they don't hide me
They'll be mine to keep
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© Keiry M
borrowed from Ragamuffin
Sumerian Star Chart
Sky Map of Ancient Nineveh 3300 BC
A reproduction of a Sumerian star map or “planisphere” recovered from the 650BC underground library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, Iraq in the late 19th century. Long thought to be an Assyrian tablet, computer analysis has matched it with the sky above Mesopotamia in 3300BC and proves it to be of much more ancient Sumerian origin. The tablet is an “Astrolabe”, the earliest known astronomical instrument. It usually consisted of a segmented, disc shaped star chart with marked units of angle measure inscribed upon the rim. Unfortunately considerable parts of the planisphere are missing ( approx 40%), damage which dates to the sacking of Nineveh. The reverse of the tablet is not inscribed. Still under study by modern scholars, the planisphere provides extraordinary proof of the existence of Sumerian astronomy…and a very sophisticated astronomy at that.
The Harbinger
The world is about to become something else
The seasons are coming to an end
I am long in the tooth
And I can't decide
Yet no decision is a decision
My again wants no more
I feel the tide rolling out to sea
I've lost the ability to love
Tragedy of all tragedies
Black orchids in the grass
Sweltering in the sun
Sweat dripping from my brow
Is the ephemeral message
I feel the slough of the night
I feel the lick on my skin
Some creature clearly wants my salt
Or what's left of me
I give it undisturbed in my resolve
It's time for my dissolve
Take what you want
I almost don't want anymore
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rand newell dodd
one of my favorite oldies
Siren of the Bullion
by ~OctopusBird
Through voracious fingertips
Spells of golden ores melt on career lines
How Their honey twinkle drips
Jaggedly like frozen rain on shore lines
In the iris of mankind
The sunlight bursts from stone and steals the soul
To the soft palms of the blind
It feels like nothing more than futile coal
Next to lemon colored hair
It steals from love and spews sin-struck venom
Though its worth should not compare
It encloses all inside a plenum
Faster than hares it can breed
Feasting calmly on hearts as they find them
For the silent spred of greed
Is underneath, a loudly shrieking siren
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