Solving the 800-year mystery of Pisa's Leaning Tower

 

Professor John Burland has spent the last two decades striving to save - and understand - the Leaning Tower of Pisa. After defying gravity, Italian bureaucracy and accusations of corruption, it seems he's finally cracked the case. All six donkeys were impeccably behaved. They'd been ridden into Pisa's main square, the Piazza dei Miracoli, last November by vexed vets from Pisa University and ceremoniously set down beneath its Leaning Tower. In protest at government cuts across Italian education, the profs duly gave an al fresco lecture on donkey anatomy to hundreds of bewildered tourists. Silvio Berlusconi's photo appeared on many a banner, beside the words 'The biggest ass of all'. Such a display of faculty dissent would have been impossible a decade ago, when the area of piazza around the tower was completely cordoned off. It looked then more building site than World Heritage site and the howls of protest from local Pisans were far louder than a few braying donkeys. From 1990 to 2001, the tower remained closed - many doubting it would ever reopen - as the International Committee for the Safeguard of the Leaning Tower strove to save it from collapse. Visitors to Pisa dropped off by 45 per cent. 'The street vendors were furious about lost trade and demanded the tower be reopened,' says John Burland, the only Brit on the 14-man committee. 'But it was close to toppling over. Without our intervention, any local storm or earth tremor could have finished it off.' Burland, 72, is emeritus professor of soil engineering at Imperial College London, his reverend-like humility belying the fact that he helped solve one of the most fascinating riddles in architectural history.

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/212939-Solving-the-800-year-mystery-of-Pisa-s-Leaning-Tower

7,000-Year-Old Village Found Near Bulgarian Town of Shoumen

 

A settlement dating back about 7,000 years has been discovered by a hill near the village of Ivanovo, in Shoumen municipality, in eastern Bulgaria, Bulgarian National Television (BNT) reported on July 26 2010. The settlement, 900 square miles in area, lies between two rivers on the south face of the hill. In spite of its natural defenses, the settlement was fortified with a defensive wall of "unusual shape", BNT said. "The shape of the fortification was not circular or oval-like, which was typical for the time but an irregular pattern resembling an octagon," archaeologist Svetlana Venelinova said in a television interview for BNT. Additionally, the entire settlement was encircled by a moat outside the fortification.

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/212946-7-000-Year-Old-Village-Found-Near-Bulgarian-Town-of-Shoumen

All around you anarchy, pride and rebellion

 

Date:

Tue, 2010-07-20

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All around you anarchy, pride and rebellion

Pelianito
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

ISAIAH 27:13
On that day, a great trumpet shall blow, and the lost in the land of Assyria and the outcasts in the land of Egypt shall come and worship the LORD on the holy mountain, in Jerusalem.

“My child, how I long for this day, when I will GATHER MY SMALL FLOCK under the shelter of my wings, when all are FREE TO WORSHIP ME as is fitting.
Many have suffered and toiled, giving all for the sake of the kingdom.
But in your day, the LOST FAR OUTNUMBER those who are in the sheepfold.

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Time of Mercy closing - Time of Justice about to begin

 

Date:

Sun, 2010-07-25

Prophet:

Marie Philippines

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Message Thru Marie
July 25th, 2010

God the Father, Abba:

TIME: It is now the time for total trust, say, TOTUS TUUS [completely yours].
I pour down my Love for it is the time of Mercy.
I give Mercy through My Son's precious blood.
I give myself as the perfect offering so my children will come to trust me instead of fear me.

Come to me in trust instead of fear.
Many centuries have passed when you witnessed my judgement upon sins of men in ages past.

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Earthquake vision and dream

 

Date:

Sun, 2008-04-27

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An EARTHQUAKE VISION and DREAM of the NEW MADRID FAULT
By Pastor John Kilpatrick
May 29th, 2008 (Prophetic Vision and Dream)

Sunday - April 27th, 2008 (Vision)

As I was approaching the Daphne Civic Center for Sunday morning service at Church of His Presence, I had a vision which lasted for about two or three seconds.
In this vision, I saw the ground buckling before me.
It was so real that I actually moved aside to avoid what I was seeing.

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Mankind: Return to your Father

 

Date:

Sun, 2010-07-11

Prophet:

Littlest of Servants

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Mankind: Return to your Father

Message to the Littlest of Servants
July 11th, 2010

The Eternal Father Speaks To His Little Children

For Thousands Of Years I AM Have Been Calling Mankind To Return To
Their Father'S Arms.
Most Have Ignored My Calls And Have Gone On As Though I Do Not Exist.
The Time Is Now !!!
The Time Is Now !!!
The Time Is Now, ALL MANKIND To RETURN TO YOUR FATHER.
The Father Who Has Loved You And Who Has Cared For You.

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Study changes picture of U.S. quake hazards

 

The risk of earthquakes in the U.S. Midwest may be more widespread than geologists have believed, but a "big one" may be less likely at Missouri's New Madrid fault, researchers said on Wednesday. They found that rivers that swept away sediments at the end of the last ice age could have triggered a series of large earthquakes that began in 1811 in the New Madrid seismic zone. This suggests that these fault segments are unlikely to fail again soon, but the same process could trigger earthquakes on nearby fault segments, they reported in the journal Nature. When glaciers melted at the end of the last ice age between 16,000 and 10,000 years ago, monstrous rivers formed and washed away 40 feet of sediment. Eric Calais of Purdue University in Indiana and colleagues developed a computer model that shows this could have caused the crust underneath to slowly lift and cause the magnitude 7 and greater quakes that shook the Missouri-Arkansas border region in 1811 and 1812, causing the Mississippi River to run backwards and ringing church bells as far away as Boston. "Models indicate that fault segments that have already ruptured are unlikely to fail again soon, but stress changes from sediment unloading and previous earthquakes may eventually be sufficient to bring to failure other nearby segments that have not yet ruptured," Calais and colleagues wrote. Areas such as Charleston, South Carolina, hit by a highly damaging quake in 1886, may be susceptible to more activity cased by the processes described by Calais, geophysicist Mark Zoback of Stanford University in California wrote in a commentary. Scientists have a good understanding of earthquakes at major faults where one of the Earth's tectonic plates touches another one -- such as in California, Indonesia and Haiti. Less well understood are intraplate faults -- faults in the middle of a plate -- like the New Madrid fault.

American Soldiers Brainwashed with "Positive Thinking"

 

The U.S. military has become increasingly excited about positive psychology techniques. Maybe a better route would be to offer soldiers respect for their critical thinking While U.S. military psychiatrists are prescribing increasing amounts of chill pills, America's psychologists are teaching soldiers how to think more positively about their tours in Afghanistan, Iraq, and wherever else they are next ordered to kill the bad guys and win the hearts and minds of everyone else. The U.S. Army is planning to require that all 1.1 million of its soldiers take intensive training in positive psychology and emotional resiliency. Army Research Psychologist Capt. Paul Lester, who leads the assessment of the program, told the National Psychologist ("Army to Train its Own in Positive Psychology," July/August 2010), "As far as I can tell this is the largest, deliberate, psychological intervention in human history. . . . We don't know when the global war on terrorism is going to end so we're preparing to have to be engaged for a long period of time." Lester said the program would develop "communication skills, cognitive reforming skills and help soldiers not to catastrophize -- don't think of the worse case scenario about every potential problem." The program also teaches soldiers to focus on "expressing appreciation" and "correcting negative views of ambiguous events."

Wiki-Leaks is Israel, Like We All Didn't Know-Lame 'Leak" Site Nothing More Than Thin Cover For "The Tel Aviv Tango"

 

Now "Wiki-Leaks" is busy selling phony bin Laden stories, having the long dead Osama humiliating the CIA by running around villages in Afghanistan selling vacuum cleaners. What is our "leak" site really about? This is a dead news cycle. The World Cup is over, lots of people on holiday and no major stories. Only in a dead news period like this, as Oliver Stone pointed out, could the Israeli controlled media dump a pile of lame rumors mixed in with box loads of chickenfeed, passing it off as the story of the century. Even the cover story, the mysterious Assange fleeing the murderous CIA, working to save the world is lame. WikiLeaks is lame. Please, everyone, go to the site and read everything there. I have seen more confidential information on a weather report. Assange is hardly a James Bond figure. Woody Allen is masculine in comparison. Journalists all get leaks, and frankly, we don't print most of them. Some we can't trust. Some are just too dangerous. Some are simply illegal. Some are blatantly self serving Israeli propaganda coated with a veneer of anti-Americanism. This is "Wiki-leaks" material. What is important is what they don't print. The only things that come out about Israel, the country most vulnerable to leaks, the country always up to the most skulduggery, is an occasional harmless story like their major leak on East Jerusalem settlements. It hit the New York Times first.

Book by Innocent Victim Suggests Torture by U.S. Was Widespread

 

"We don't torture," squawked George W. Bush time and again; he was lying. Murat Kurnaz in Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo describes the horror that we, America, became. - Although U.S. officials have attributed the torture of Muslim prisoners in their custody to a handful of maverick guards, in fact such criminal acts were widely perpetrated and systemic, likely involving large numbers of military personnel, a book by a survivor suggests. Additionally, guards were responsible for countless acts of murder, including death by crucifixion, lynching, poisoning, snakebite, withholding of medicines, starvation, and bludgeoning of innocent victims. And the murders committed by U.S. troops numbered at least in the hundreds, according to reliable sources. As well, Pentagon architects designed prisons that were sadistic torture chambers in themselves, barely six feet high and seven feet wide, in which human beings were kept for months or years at a time - spaces which, one prisoner noted, are smaller than the legal requirements in Germany for doghouses. Architects who knowingly designed these hellholes may have also committed crimes against humanity. After the photographs of sadism at Iraq's Abu Ghraib in May, 2004, shocked the world, President Bush called the revelations "a stain on our country's honor and our country's reputation." He told visiting King Abdullah of Jordan in the Oval Office that "I was sorry for the humiliation suffered by the Iraqi prisoners, and the humiliation suffered by their families." Bush told The Washington Post, "I told him (Abdullah) I was equally sorry that people who have been seeing those pictures didn't understand the true nature and heart of America." A year later, Lynddie England and 10 others from the 372nd Military Police Company were convicted of torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq, yet the events of that prison were likely duplicated everywhere across the spectrum of Pentagon and CIA detention camps acting on orders from the Bush White House.

Earthquake vision and dream

 

Date:

Sun, 2008-04-27

KIL08042701
Earthquake vision & dream

An EARTHQUAKE VISION and DREAM of the NEW MADRID FAULT
By Pastor John Kilpatrick
May 29th, 2008 (Prophetic Vision and Dream)

Sunday - April 27th, 2008 (Vision)

As I was approaching the Daphne Civic Center for Sunday morning service at Church of His Presence, I had a vision which lasted for about two or three seconds.
In this vision, I saw the ground buckling before me.
It was so real that I actually moved aside to avoid what I was seeing.

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Time of Mercy closing - Time of Justice about to begin

 

Date:

Sun, 2010-07-25

Prophet:

Marie Philippines

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Message Thru Marie
July 25th, 2010

God the Father, Abba:

TIME: It is now the time for total trust, say, TOTUS TUUS [completely yours].
I pour down my Love for it is the time of Mercy.
I give Mercy through My Son's precious blood.
I give myself as the perfect offering so my children will come to trust me instead of fear me.

Come to me in trust instead of fear.
Many centuries have passed when you witnessed my judgement upon sins of men in ages past.

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All around you anarchy, pride and rebellion

 

Date:

Tue, 2010-07-20

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All around you anarchy, pride and rebellion

Pelianito
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

ISAIAH 27:13
On that day, a great trumpet shall blow, and the lost in the land of Assyria and the outcasts in the land of Egypt shall come and worship the LORD on the holy mountain, in Jerusalem.

“My child, how I long for this day, when I will GATHER MY SMALL FLOCK under the shelter of my wings, when all are FREE TO WORSHIP ME as is fitting.
Many have suffered and toiled, giving all for the sake of the kingdom.
But in your day, the LOST FAR OUTNUMBER those who are in the sheepfold.

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Details on coming Great Warning

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Details on coming Great Warning
Message to Michael DiBitetto
July 13th, 2010
EXCERPTS
"Our Lady Of Fatima"
My Dear, Dear Children
Look At Your Weather
Please, My Dear, Dear, Children, Realize The Changes In The Weather Are Signs
They Are SIGNS OF CHANGES That Are Coming
ARE YOU PREPARED ?
Not Just With FOOD Or WATER
But Mostly Are You Prepared With Yourself ?
With Your Soul ?
Are You Prepared To FACE My Son, Your Lord And Savior, Jesus Christ, On JUDGMENT DAY ?
When He Shows You Your SINS For Your Entire Life ?
These Are The Days That You Must Be Prepared For.
ALSO BE PREPARED FOR THE WARNING.
Your THREE DAYS OF DARKNESS Is Yet To Come
When That [Warning] Day Does Come With The Three Days Of Darkness
You CAN NOT OPEN Your Doors Or Windows, NOR Look Outside
As All You Would See  Is Satan  And Souls That Are Lost
You CAN NOT Answer The Phone
NO Television, NO Radio.
WINDOWS MUST BE COVERED
And The Only Thing That Can Help You  Is: To Pray Every Minute
You Will NOT Want To Go To Sleep
And You Should Not
You Will Hear Friends, Family Members, Knocking On Your Door Asking You To Let Them In
They Will Be Pleading With You
Even Your Loved Ones That Have Passed On
You Will Hear Them
BUT YOU MUST BE STRONG
AND REFUSE
AND DO NOT ANSWER THEM.
[The sounds and voices and cries outside are made by demons in order to mislead you]
My Dear, Dear Children
Look At The World
Look At The Disasters That Are Occurring.
Not Just The Wars In Iraq, And Afghanistan
But Riots That Are Occurring
Killings In Streets
And Another Thing Thats Been Going On For Years And Years
And That Is Starvation
Especially Young Children
No Food, Or Water
Do You Ever Stop And Think Of This ?
You Do See It On Your Television But Usually People Get Up And Go In Their Kitchen And Get Something To Eat Or Drink
Look At Here In The United States
Floods, Floods That Never Occurred So Much
Look Into The Ocean In THE GULF
With The Oil That Is Still Leaking
Over Eighty Days Of Oil
Being Lost
Thats Over Billions And Billions Of Gallons Of Oil
That Goes Into The Ocean Not Only Is Oil Lost
But Look At The Fishermen, That Lose So Much Money
That They Can Lose Their Homes  Because Of Negligence
THINGS ARE ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE, My Dear, Dear Children
ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE
Are You Prepared ?
Once Again ?
My Dear, Dear Children
Please  Remember The Time Is Getting Short
THINGS WILL CHANGE
So Fast  It Will Happen
Like It Would Be Overnight
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Planned enemy attacks on USA

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Planned enemy attacks on USA
Heavenly Messages as given to Anna Marie,
an Apostle of the Green Scapular
MESSAGE FROM JESUS OUR SAVIOR
ALL NATIONS UNDER GOD,
PRAY TO THWART PLANNED ENEMY ATTACKS
JULY 14, 2010 AT 4:49 PM
Jesus:
Now I need your attention.
The ENEMY IN YOUR LAND HAS GROWN STRONGER than ever before.
They DO HAVE ATTACKS PLANNED for various CITIES IN AMERICA.
It is to be your responsibility to post this new message quickly.
Pray to my Holy Heavenly Father daily, in all Rosaries, in all chaplets of Divine
Mercy, that these ATTEMPTS TO HARM AND KILL Americans and all American Service men and women be THWARTED by My Divine Justice and Mercy.
Anna Marie: My Lord, does this INCLUDE ALL OUR ALLIES TOO, like Uganda and the United Kingdom, like France, Australia and Germany and the rest ?
Jesus: YES, INCLUDE ALL NATIONS UNDER GOD.
Pray for the ending of DEMONIC DOCTRINES that espouse hate and death in all countries.
There is NO PLACE IN HEAVEN for those who HATE another because of their race or ethnicity.
If you hate others because they do not share your same beliefs, then you pray for them, NOT KILL THEM.
You cannot call yourself a �servant of God� IF you randomly kill others because you disagree with them.
You cannot go about serving your own form of justice upon any man, woman or child because they are different than you, or they speak, look or act different than you.
Justice can only be deemed acceptable by CIVIL LAW in the exacting of a penal judgment according to the law of the land, PROVIDED THE LAW IS JUST.
Have you not read, �Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord, I shall repay.�
In a civil government, laws must be implemented and followed in order of assuring a civil society has peace and tranquility of its citizens.
If any man CLAIMS TO KILL in the name of God, my Father, in a RANDOM ACT OF VIOLENCE, I can assure you, he is NOT SERVING my Eternal and Merciful Father, but the deceitful liar, Satan, the enemy of God.
Jesus: Now children, will you pray ?
Will you pray for peace ?
Will you pray now, so that ANY PLANNED ATTACKS ARE NOT CARRIED OUT in your homeland ?
America, you would have much to loose if these plans are fulfilled.
Pray today.
Pray to my Mother for peace.
Pray to my Mother for healing.
Plead to My Father in Heaven for mercy !
And know, each prayer offered will be received and offered to stop any new attacks !
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Saint Balderic

Also known as
Memorial
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Born a prince, the son of King Sigebert I of Austrasia, an area in the east of modern France; brother of Saint Bova. Founded the monastery of Montfaucon in Switzerland and a convent for his sister in Rheims, France.

Died
Canonized
Additional Information
MLA Citation
Saint Balderic. Saints.SQPN.com. 29 July 2010. Web. {today�s date}.
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Sep 11-19, 2010 Los Angeles, Calif.

Los Angeles, California
Pilgrimage to 21 Missions
$1400/person by bus, hotels
Speakers: Fr. Paul Bergeron, Fr. John Stuzzo
John & Carol Leary
Contact: 818-895-8918

Speaking Event

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Aug 28, 2010 Albany, New York 12203

Albany, New York 12203
19 Velina Dr.
Talk 2:00 p.m.
Sue 518-452-1175

Speaking Event

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Aug 22, 2010 Louisville, Kentucky 40228

Louisville, Kentucky 40228
5907 Bay Harbor Dr.
Talk 1:30-5:00 p.m.
Pam 502-499-6174

Speaking Event

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The Human Capacity for Boredom & Its Implications on Happiness

We humans have this great evolutionary trait that allows us to quickly adapt and become accustomed to new environments and scenarios. For prehistoric man, I�m sure this helped a lot. For instance a thunderstorm would only terrifying the first time it was experienced.
But for modern man, this concept means one thing: we get bored easily. Or maybe a better way to say it is we get used to things very quickly. Marriages turn ugly, lottery winners commit suicide, and that exciting promotion just doesnt do it for you anymore.
Many people say I will be happy when _______ happens and when I have _______. Well as you should know from pas experience, youre going to get bored of _______ soon after you have attained it. Were constantly wanting something different, especially when it comes to the concrete.
If this boredom effect happens with everything, then how could you ever be happy unless you are happy right now?
**This is probably the shortest post Ill ever write but I hope we can get some good, long discussions going on in the comments. Have an awesome day.

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Aug 21, 2010 Louisville, Kentucky 40228

Aug 21 Louisville, Kentucky 40228
5907 Bay Harbor Dr.
Talk 1:00-5:00 p.m.
Pam 502-499-6174

Speaking Event

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From Church to Neo-Pagan Temple Of Freemasonry-Illuminist Usurpers

In 1744, King Louis XV vowed that if he recovered from a mysterious illness he would replace the ruined Abbey of Sainte-Geneviève with an edifice worthy of the patron saint of Paris.

The king regained his health, and the Marquis of Marigny was entrusted with the fulfillment of the vow. Marigny's protégé Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713-1780) was charged with the plans, and the construction of [what is known today in sacrilege as] the Panthéon began.



The foundations were laid in 1758, but due to financial difficulties, it was not completed until after Soufflot's death, in 1789. As it was completed at the start of the French Revolution, the new Revolutionary government ordered it to be changed from a church to a mausoleum for the interment of great Frenchmen.



Twice since then it has reverted to being a church, only to once again become a temple to the great men of France...



The Panthéon's façade is modeled on that of the [ancient imperial] Pantheon in Rome, surmounted by a small dome that resembles that of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. Located in the 5th arrondissement on the top of Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, the Panthéon looks out over all of Paris...Among those buried in the Panthéon's necropolis are Voltaire, Rousseau, Honoré Mirabeau, Marat, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Jean Moulin, Marie Curie (the only woman to be so honored), René Descartes, Louis Braille and Soufflot, its architect. [Source]

http://stephen-hand.blogspot.com/2010/07/from-church-to-neo-pagan-temple-of.html

The Path of Trust, Part 2: What is a Guru?

Friends,


The flood of comments keeps coming in from recent blogs about calling hallowed saints psychos and describing a path of trust that is perhaps higher and truer a path than those of borrowed faiths. So, let’s fill up a new blog page full of community commentary as we explore part two of the Path of Trust with something I wrote for a book published in 1999 (for more information, click on Messiah).

***



The word Guru is a new victim in the serial killing of beautiful words by pop-culture. Apply it in titles like “guru of golf,” or the “gurus of Washington wonk” and you have secularized this Hindu term for a religious teacher to fit any Svengali of politics, sports or the arts. The technically correct dictionary translation of the Sanskrit word “guru” is the “venerable one” or “the spiritual master,” but that definition is a dead statue to anyone who has known and loved the real living and breathing article. The seeker touched by the presence of the guru knows a far more poetic definition.



A guru is like a great cloud, heavy with rains. So burdened is the rain cloud that it cannot contain itself. The heavy cloud must give the rain to the earth. The guru cloud doesn’t put conditions on where it deposits its rains; the guru cloud will equally share its bountiful showers on the sterile rocks and the fertile, thirsty soil.



A guru is a giving phenomenon.



A guru drowns its parched recipient with a monsoon of love, a cloudburst of refreshing awareness.



A guru doesn’t do anything. Just as the cloud doesn’t decide when or upon whom it releases its showers, a guru releases the heavy, bountiful silence and peace of his presence on everyone. And as with the rain, most people will just “open their umbrellas” and ignore this intrusion, while a precious few find the “soaking” inspiring.



In this latter group are the people who seek out gurus. They gather around the guru’s tranquil eye in the center of a cyclone that is an ashram — the guru’s spiritual community, or college campus of seekers and disciples. Dozens or tens of thousands of disciples can surround the guru of an ashram, and it can appear to outsiders and followers alike that he is their leader. It can appear that he is doing something to influence them. But a guru is not a doer. You could say he is filled to the brim with being.



Is-ness is his business.



The rain cloud doesn’t make an effort to grow flowers. Let the flowers and the rocks respond as they like. They are the doers. The rock does the drying off and forgets the rain; the seeded earth does the blossoming.



A guru is a catalytic agent. He or she precipitates a process in disciples without being involved in or changed by the consequences. He may walk and sit and eat and do the things other people do. He may help precipitate a transformation in his disciples as a result of committing some action that might surprise and shock the disciple to attention. A guru can be like a thunderclap—a rain cloud thunders whether or not anyone is there to be jolted to attention. The doing — or lack of response—to the Guru’s thunder is up to the disciple.



Each seeker of a spiritual teacher must bear witness to this mystery in their own unique way. I can say from my own experience that you know you are in the presence of an authentic guru when just his presence, his silence, is enough to bring new context to your existence. Just the fragrance of the master’s “Is-ness” can resurrect a forgotten knowing. Just his aura of no-worry, no-body-ness can nourish new buds of a lost innocence sprouting in a life lived in the drought-cracked land of society’s conditioning.



The guru is full of an emptiness you once had: a cleanness of mind and spirit you had forgotten. The guru is a catalytic agent for remembrance of a time when your brain wasn’t a dustbin for other people’s ideas and emotional baggage.



The master’s call is like the first kiss of humidity against the cracked and desiccated land. It is the electricity in the dry season’s stifling heat preceding the guru thunderstorm. You are expectant like the land. You trust that wet kiss on your cracked and desert-like face more than all the so-called better judgment dumped into you by your society’s mentors and tormentors. Something magnetic awakens inside and it draws you to his presence. Your heart leads the way, dragging the ego along like a cluster of cans clattering behind a honeymoon carriage. You go to the guru dragging your rusty bits of better judgment, ideas of love, and mental training along for the ride.



You go to your master. You take a risk.



Maybe society is right, and your guru is indeed a madman like a Hitler, or Jim Jones, or an Ashahara. Still you gamble that this one will not exploit you for his or her own messianic ego trip. You put your trust in your guru as being God’s madman, or as Godliness itself wearing a persona or masquerading in a brief illusion of form as a fly lure for the Infinite Fisherman to catch your heart.



Once it becomes clear that you have, for better or worse, already thrown your “deity dice” on this person’s crap table, you become your master’s disciple — you become someone willing to learn. This is fifty percent of the journey down the path of trust. In the second half the guru helps you take two more steps on the path.

http://hogueprophecy.com/2010/the-path-of-trust-part-2-what-is-a-guru/

2012: The End of the World?

The year 2000 came and went. If we flash back for a moment, we recall that in the period up to 2000, the chaos was expected to wrap our civilization computer and electrified. It was called Y2K: a flaw in the simple design of the software was supposed to cause the end of the civilized world. Power stations, telecommunications, bank accounts, billing processes were all supposed to be paralyzed or thrown into a state of chaos.


But it never happened. Instead, in late 1999 and early 2000 is best known for the amazing displays of fireworks in major cities worldwide, many of them on television and shared with viewers of all nations. The spectrum of the end of the world was a ghost.

A decade later, where are we? Wars are fought in Iraq and Afghanistan with the help of sophisticated computerized weapons. A sluggish global economy desperately trying to restart itself. The Internet is an indispensable part of life for the majority in the Western world and even for a considerable number of people in the developing world. And we are told on another end of the world was approaching.

If we are to believe the latest hype, 21 or 23 December 2012, when the world will really come to an end climate. This time, fear was triggered by an interpretation of the ancient Mayan calendar, favored by many books and documentaries. And it gave birth, perhaps surprisingly, yet another Hollywood disaster film.

The supposed cataclysm of 2012 may appear to be corroborated by some sources, ranging from economics to science. This does not mean that 2012 is necessarily central to their concerns, in some cases, it’s just a convenient peg to hang his hat as they rally support for other pet theories.

However, the Mayan calendar really speak of an end of the world, or is it just the end of a calendar repeating events based on calculations Maya? Those who have studied the timing and the culture that has developed reject any prediction end of world as a misinterpretation of the data: they say he does not speak of an end in itself but a new beginning.

However, the Mayan calendar is not the only source of anxiety apocalyptic present. The words of Nostradamus strongly in the latest forecasts. In fact, an Internet search on “Nostradamus 2012″ yields nearly 1.5 million visits. Nostradamus wrote about religious themes, in fact, the theme in 2012 has become a phenomenon for the New Age movement and thus a religious event.

But the writings of the prophet of the 16th century, recorded in quatrains, or four lines in poetry format, are flexible enough to support a number of doomsday scenarios that are put forward today. A website that provides resources and documentation for those interested in 2012 offers this assessment of Nostradamus: “It is best known for his book The Prophecies…. Many of his prophecies dealt disaster such as epidemics, earthquakes, wars, floods and the entry of three antichrists have. But his predictions are vague and people tend to apply his words to many situations. ”

It is an appropriate commentary. People often used to strengthen their own Nostradamus predictions, whether as to its mystics were more accurate when superimposed on past events.

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Mankind: Return to your Father

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Mankind: Return to your Father
Message to the Littlest of Servants
July 11th, 2010
The Eternal Father Speaks To His Little Children
For Thousands Of Years I AM Have Been Calling Mankind To Return To
Their Father'S Arms.
Most Have Ignored My Calls And Have Gone On As Though I Do Not Exist.
The Time Is Now !!!
The Time Is Now !!!
The Time Is Now, ALL MANKIND To RETURN TO YOUR FATHER.
The Father Who Has Loved You And Who Has Cared For You.
Will You Say: I LOVE YOU DADDY, And Come Running Into My Arms, Or Will You Turn Away In Fear And Disgust NOT RECOGNIZING The One Who Has Loved And Cared For You.
Mankind I AM Is Coming.
Your Father In Heaven Has Set Aside His Crown And Is Now Reaching Down To His Children.
You Will SOON See Your Father FACE TO FACE !!!
It Will Be Then That YOU WILL KNOW That I AM Formed You And With My Breath Gave You A Soul !!!
Mankind Come To Me Now !!!
Do Not Wait !!!
Come To My Daughter [Holy Mary] And She Will Lead You To My Son !!!
Come To My Son [Jesus] And You Will Discover Your Father !!!
Come To My Son !!!
You CANNOT Reach Me By Any Other Means !!!
It Is Only Through My Son That You Will Know And Recognize Me !!!
All Who Have Come To My Son Will Rejoice On THE GREAT DAY That Is RAPIDLY APPROACHING And Is So Near, When I AM Will REVEAL HIMSELF To All Mankind As You Will Recognize The Father !!!
All Who Recognize The Son Will Recognize The Father Because The Father And The Son Are One !!!
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A Paranormal Dream Story

A blog about the paranormal and the occult comes in handy when socializing. I’m on the lookout for people’s personal stories concerning encounters with the unusual. When I mention blogs, I find many aren’t familiar or interested with the blogosphere, or just roll their eyes at my topic. Yet, I also get stories from people who had unusual experiences. Here is one such story about a teenager and his strange dream.

Rick is a 15-year-old who related a special dream to me. Dreams in themselves are usually just that, dreams. However Rick’s dream had some intriguing elements. Rick’s dream occurred when he was 10-years-old. He said it was so vivid he can remember the details clearly today. Most dreams are not like this. The details of a dream tend to fade away even if we happen to remember one. These clear, memorable dreams are one clue a dream may be more then just a dream.

Rick’s dream was of his grandfather. His grandfather died nearly a year before he was ten. Rick’s grandparents originally came to America from Italy long ago. However, Rick actually hadn’t seen his grandfather very often as his grandparents lived quite far away from his family.

In his dream Rick’s grandfather spoke to him in his native Italian. Rick does not speak any Italian, yet he understood every word his grandfather spoke to him. And Rick somehow spoke back in Italian. He could not explain that. In the dream as they talked to each other, his grandfather put his hand over his chest, looked pale and staggered, falling face down on a street curb. Rick saw him sprawled out with his arms and legs in a particular position.

Rick awoke with this strange dream clear in his mind. As a boy he did not tell his dream to anyone, until two years later at the age of 12. He told his father his dream, and his father listened very carefully. His father asked him about the exact position of the grandfather’s arms and legs. When Rick related precisely what he remembered, his father was stunned. Rick’s grandfather had indeed died on a street from a heart attack, and from a photo of the scene the father had seen, the position of the limbs Rick described was exactly what was on the photo. Rick had never been previously aware of any of these details.

Speaking and understanding an unknown language and having knowledge of events that were unknown are certainly curious. Did Rick’s grandfather visit him in a dream? Or was this a clairvoyant dream, where Rick saw events as they transpired in the past? Or both?

Here is another story about a clairvoyant dream I posted:

http://occultview.com/2009/06/01/world-series-baseball-premonition/

An element both stories share is the clarity of the dream, how it sticks in the mind, and how it seems as if the dreamer is actually present witnessing the event. Curious indeed.

Another Full Moon Earthquake, And The Tarot’s Message.

 
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We have another full moon earthquake. This is starting to become a regular event. Nobody seems to notice these full and new moon quakes, but I do. There was a full moon on June 26, 2010 at 11:31 GMT. In addition there was a partial lunar eclipse beginning from 1017 GMT and lasting for 3 hours.  54% of the moon was covered by the earth�s shadow at its peak at 1138 GMT.   And on June 26 at 05:30 GMT there was an earthquake which struck off the Solomon Islands. It was a powerful 6.7 magnitude quake.
Strong earthquake strikes off the Solomon Islands, no tsunami threat
The idea the moon has an influence over the earth is an old one.  One example is in a tarot card, The Moon.  The moon card shows the moon hovering above, and below are baying hounds and a crayfish crawling out of a pool of water.  In the background is a pair of towers.  The tarot�s moon card shows the moon having an esoteric impact on the world below.
Outside the spiritual symbolism is also a curious symbolism suggesting the moon�s ability to cause earthquakes.  The towers in the background seem very similar to the destroyed tower in the tarot card titled the Tower, or the Lightning Struck Tower.
The Lightning Struck Tower appears to be struck down by lightning, but it is actually impacted by a force from the heavens.  Notice the only partly cloudy sky.  This mysterious force may be construed as the influence of the moon over its towers.  Observe the flame-like energies in both cards.  Did the tarot recognize a connection between the moon and the power of the moon to destroy towers?  Lightning would never topple a stone tower.  But an earthquake could, prodded by a power from the heavens�the moon!
Partial lunar eclipse to dominate sky June 26
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China Suddenly Approves (with UNESCO) Neo-Pagan Religion, Christianity Essentially Remains Outlawed.


China's communist leaders once dismissed worship of deities such as Mazu as nothing more than superstition and banned it. But far from mistrusting Mazu's millions of worshippers, China's atheist Communist Party is now encouraging them and overseeing massive events, such as the birthday celebration in early May this year at Mazu's birthplace, Meizhou Island in the southern Chinese province of Fujian. China's communist leaders are supporting worship of Mazu and using it to advance their own political and economic goals...



Last year, UNESCO, the U.N. agency that promotes preserving cultures, designated Mazu as "intangible cultural heritage of humanity." ...Read it all
http://stephen-hand.blogspot.com/2010/07/china-unesco-suddenly-approves-neo.html

Saint Romanus of Nepi

Memorial
24 August
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Spiritual student of Saint Ptolemy of Nepi. Bishop of Nepi, Italy. Martyr.
Died
martyred in the 1st century in Nepi, Italy
Canonized
Pre-Congregation
Patronage
Nepi, Italy
Additional Information
Book of Saints, by the Monks of RamsgateOur Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
MLA Citation
“”. Saints.SQPN.com. 20 July 2010. Web.

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Mankind: Return to your Father

Date: Sun, 2010-07-11
Prophet: Littlest of Servants
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Mankind: Return to your Father

Message to the Littlest of Servants
July 11th, 2010

The Eternal Father Speaks To His Little Children

For Thousands Of Years I AM Have Been Calling Mankind To Return To
Their Father'S Arms.
Most Have Ignored My Calls And Have Gone On As Though I Do Not Exist.
The Time Is Now !!!
The Time Is Now !!!
The Time Is Now, ALL MANKIND To RETURN TO YOUR FATHER.
The Father Who Has Loved You And Who Has Cared For You.

Will You Say: I LOVE YOU DADDY, And Come Running Into My Arms, Or Will You Turn Away In Fear And Disgust NOT RECOGNIZING The One Who Has Loved And Cared For You.

Mankind I AM Is Coming.
Your Father In Heaven Has Set Aside His Crown And Is Now Reaching Down To His Children.
You Will SOON See Your Father FACE TO FACE !!!
It Will Be Then That YOU WILL KNOW That I AM Formed You And With My Breath Gave You A Soul !!!
Mankind Come To Me Now !!!
Do Not Wait !!!

Come To My Daughter [Holy Mary] And She Will Lead You To My Son !!!
Come To My Son [Jesus] And You Will Discover Your Father !!!
Come To My Son !!!
You CANNOT Reach Me By Any Other Means !!!
It Is Only Through My Son That You Will Know And Recognize Me !!!
All Who Have Come To My Son Will Rejoice On THE GREAT DAY That Is RAPIDLY APPROACHING And Is So Near, When I AM Will REVEAL HIMSELF To All Mankind As You Will Recognize The Father !!!
All Who Recognize The Son Will Recognize The Father Because The Father And The Son Are One !!!


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Worse than in the days of Noah

Date:  Sun, 2009-06-21 Prophet:  Gianna Talone Sullivan

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RECENT RELEASE OF Message to Gianna Sullivan
The Words of God the Father through Gianna Talone Sullivan To the World
June 21st, 2009

Children of Humanity,

IN THE DAYS OF NOAH.
Oh, yes, My Noah, he was a difficult person.
He argued all the time.
They mocked him, persecuted him and alienated him and his family.
He would say,


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Planned enemy attacks on USA

Date:  Wed, 2010-07-14 Prophet:  Anna Marie

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Heavenly Messages as given to Anna Marie,
an Apostle of the Green Scapular
MESSAGE FROM JESUS OUR SAVIOR
ALL NATIONS UNDER GOD,
PRAY TO THWART PLANNED ENEMY ATTACKS
JULY 14, 2010 AT 4:49 PM

Jesus:
Now I need your attention.
The ENEMY IN YOUR LAND HAS GROWN STRONGER than ever before.
They DO HAVE ATTACKS PLANNED for various CITIES IN AMERICA.
It is to be your responsibility to post this new message quickly.

Pray to my Holy Heavenly Father daily, in all Rosaries, in all chaplets of Divine
Mercy, that these ATTEMPTS TO HARM AND KILL Americans and all American Service men and women be THWARTED by My Divine Justice and Mercy.

Anna Marie: My Lord, does this INCLUDE ALL OUR ALLIES TOO, like Uganda and the United Kingdom, like France, Australia and Germany and the rest ?

Jesus: YES, INCLUDE ALL NATIONS UNDER GOD.
Pray for the ending of DEMONIC DOCTRINES that espouse hate and death in all countries.
There is NO PLACE IN HEAVEN for those who HATE another because of their race or ethnicity.
If you hate others because they do not share your same beliefs, then you pray for them, NOT KILL THEM.


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Details on coming Great Warning

Details on coming Great Warning
Date: Tue, 2010-07-13
Prophet: Michael DiBitetto.
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Details on coming Great Warning

Message to Michael DiBitetto
July 13th, 2010
EXCERPTS

"Our Lady Of Fatima"

My Dear, Dear Children …
Look At Your Weather
Please, My Dear, Dear, Children, Realize The Changes In The Weather Are Signs …
They Are SIGNS OF CHANGES That Are Coming …
ARE YOU PREPARED ?
Not Just With FOOD Or WATER …
But Mostly Are You Prepared With Yourself ?
With Your Soul ?
Are You Prepared To FACE My Son, Your Lord And Savior, Jesus Christ, On JUDGMENT DAY ?
When He Shows You Your SINS For Your Entire Life ?
These Are The Days That You Must Be Prepared For.

ALSO BE PREPARED FOR THE WARNING.
Your THREE DAYS OF DARKNESS Is Yet To Come …
When That [Warning] Day Does Come With The Three Days Of Darkness …
You CAN NOT OPEN Your Doors Or Windows, NOR Look Outside …
As All You Would See … Is Satan … And Souls That Are Lost …
You CAN NOT Answer The Phone …
NO Television, NO Radio.
WINDOWS MUST BE COVERED …
And The Only Thing That Can Help You … Is: To Pray … Every Minute …


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More Earthquake Preparations

Date:  Tue, 2010-07-13 Prophet:  Carol Ameche

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More alleged Heavenly Words of Preparation,
at adoration, July 13th, 2010 to Carol Ameche:

God, the Father: "Please follow My instructions for a kit for each one, who arrives at your doorsteps; NOT a hundred kits, but SOME, a FEW that I might multiply them for all who arrive.
Daughter, CONTINUE TO PRINT MY WORDS to encourage Our people, TO PREPARE in this way I have described;
and, yes, have plenty of Holy Water (take several gallons to your priest to be blessed) on hand to use for HEALING AND CLEANSING of serious wounds.
Continue to work hard at your faithfulness and obedience, and pray for your children. EVERYTHING WILL HAPPEN SO QUICKLY NOW, and ALL WILL BE PREPARED as it needs to be.
You are prepared for all that now unfolds and filled with grace.
Amen, dear one."

July 14th, 2010 at Adoration:

"Dearest one, I am your Jesus.
Rest today, little one.
The earthquakes RUMBLE DEEP WITHIN the earth on their way to an EXPLOSIVE ENTRANCE AT THE SURFACE.
The Father had mentioned several times that the EARTH WAS ABOUT TO EXPLODE, and SO IT BEGINS.
Please, remind all Our faithful in the two areas: the NEW MADRID IN THE CENTER of the country

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Catastrophes will make new government to take over US

Date:  Mon, 2010-07-19 Prophet:  Victoria (Vicky) Spalding

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Message to Vicky
July 19th, 2010

My child, I realize it is hard for you to not be able to go on vacation this year even to visit your family, but offer it as ANOTHER SACRIFICE for these souls and you will be able to endure.
Pray also for your vacation in SEPTEMBER so that I can bless it for you and that it WILL BE ABLE TO TAKE PLACE.
There will be MANY, MANY CHANGES COMING as you know.
This

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The Vaccine War

Examining the emotionally charged debate over medical risks vs. benefits and a parent's right to make choices about her child vs. a community's common good...


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On New Madrid and California earthquakes

Date:  Wed, 2010-07-21 Prophet:  Carol Ameche

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Message to Carol Ameche
Adoration, 1:05 p.m.
July 21st, 2010;

"My dear little servant to My people, I am your God and Father.
How happy you make Me with your patience and joy.
Continue to rest and be hidden in My Perfect Will for you and My people.
THE FIRST EARTHQUAKE (NEW MADRID) CHILD, IS CLOSER EVERY DAY, as My chosen ones there have responded quickly and eagerly and obediently to each request.

REMIND OUR PEOPLE EVERYWHERE TO PRAY ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE TAKEN INTO ETERNITY and their families left behind to suffer and grieve.
Again, it is so powerful to send your prayers and strength to all.
THE NUMBERS TAKEN (IN QUAKES) WILL BE VERY MANY, and the sorrow GREAT AND LONG-LASTING because they will be connected to so much TRAUMA AND PERSONAL SHOCK.

Prayers are the love and support you send to them who will FEEL SO HELPLESS during the strong shaking of the earth.
As I have told you, EVEN THE AFTERSHOCKS WILL CAUSE MANY TO BE TAKEN INTO ETERNITY, who will need new courage in a totally new and frightening situation

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Now the earth will shake

Date:  Thu, 2010-07-15 Prophet:  Carol Ameche

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Message to Carol Ameche
July 15th, 2010

"Dearest little one, patience and strength is yours today.
I am your Father God, and I assure you:
In your obedience to My requests and preparation, MUCH REST and SIMPLE WAITING before My Jesus is in order.
Please tell Our people they are protected and victorious in My plan.

IT IS NOW, child, that the EARTH WILL SHAKE ALONG THESE HUGE FAULTS (interesting what a play on words that word faults can be now !) along with the HEARTS AND MINDS of many

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INTERNET SOON TO GO DOWN

Date:  Fri, 2010-07-16 Prophet:  Littlest of Servants

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URGENT MESSAGES to Littlest of Servants
July 16th, 2010

FIRST URGENT MESSAGE

THE INTERNET IS SOON TO GO DOWN.
It will happen SUDDENLY and WITHOUT NOTICE.
When it comes up again ALL RELIGIOUS SITES WILL BE GONE.
Any religious sites LEFT CANNOT be trusted because the content on these sites can be changed without their knowledge.

SECOND URGENT MESSAGE

Do Not Fear !
Do Not Fear !
Do Not Fear !
The LONG AWAITED EVENTS ARE SOON TO BEGIN and we are to continue to pray, pray, pray.
Especially The Rosary, The Divine Mercy Chaplet, And The Precious Blood Devotion.
Ask The Eternal Father To Have Mercy Through The Most Precious Blood Of His Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ On Those That Will Be Taken.

DO NOT FEAR, but trust in the plan that the Eternal Father Has For You.
The Eternal Father Will Take Care Of You !!!
Remember That Our Souls Will Live Forever So Our Eternal Destination And That Of Our Brothers And Sisters Is The Most Important Thing We Should Be Concerned With.
Pray And Do Not Worry !!!
Please Read Matthew, Chapter 6, Verses 24 Through 34.

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Words of Saint John unfolding now

Date: Fri, 2010-07-23
Prophet: Marie Philippines
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Words of Saint John unfolding NOW

Message Thru Marie
July 23rd, 2010

God the Father:
« The words of John in the Book of Revelation, are ALL UNFOLDING NOW !!!
Hurry on your task.
Be the living tabernacle of my love, peace, charity and humility.
Do NOT busy yourselves with the world.
It's time is coming to an END.
Give your time to Me.
The cross of my Son is manifesting fully Now.
In each one's life, the cross is manifesting More because I love you.
I want to draw all to Me.
I want to draw all back to Me.
Take up your cross.
Follow my Will. I love you.
I love you more than you can fathom.
TRUST IN MY PLAN, not in your own understanding.

Do not wait for the CROSS TO MANIFEST IN THE SKIES.
Reconcile with me today and today I will grant you healing, freedom from the cares of this world, true peace, a reinstatement to the paradise you lost.
How many instruments [seers, voiceboxes, locutionists, etc] must I use (exasperation was showing) for you to turn back to Me.
HOW OFTEN must I remind you, how often must I wait in patience as you continue to choose the ways of this world over the pearls of my Kingdom.

THERE IS NO MORE TIME TO WASTE.
MY PATIENCE IS COMING TO AN END.

But know I love you so much and want to pour my blessings a thousandfold upon your souls. Choose me now, enter My will now !
I will illuminate your souls and refresh your weary hearts.
Those who have already found Me, have an urgent task to bring all I send to them back to me Now.
Those who stay silent shall pay for the souls they did not try to save !
HURRY.
I love you.
Return to Me.
I am coming in My glory now. »


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College, Inc.

Investigating how Wall Street and a new breed of for-profit universities are transforming the way we think about college in America...


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Death through Europe

Date:  Fri, 2010-07-02 Prophet:  Anguera

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Messages to Pedro Regis, Anguera, Brazil
3339 - Message of Our Lady Queen of Peace
Transmitted July 2nd, 2010

Dear children, WASHINGTON RESIDENTS will drink the bitter cup of SUFFERING.
Pray and God

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Nest of Eagle to be invaded

Date:  Sun, 2010-07-18 Prophet:  Anguera

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On July 18, 2010 Pedro Regis the Brazilian "Seer" of Anguera claims the Nest of the Eagle (US ?, Poland ?, Germany ?) will be invaded.

Dear Sons and Daughters, I am your Mom and I love you.
I thank you for all that you do for the plans of God.
Tell everybody that God is in a HURRY and there is NO TIME TO BE LOST.
Return to Him Who is your one and true Savior.
Don

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Saint Pancharius of Besançon

Memorial

22 July

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Bishop of Besançon, France. Much persecuted by the Arian Emperor Constantius.

Died

c.356

Canonized

Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

Book of Saints, by the Monks of RamsgateOur Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson

MLA Citation

“”. Saints.SQPN.com. 20 July 2010. Web.

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The reality behind Inception. Can another consciousness enter our dreams?

Inception will be considered a classic sci-fi film along with films like Blade Runner, The Matrix and 2001 A space Odyssey.  Often such classics are not immediately appreciated when they are first released, but I think Inception has this instant recognition.  Classic movies are few and when one suddenly appears it is a joy we wait years for.
The zero gravity fisticuffs scene in Inception was a cool homage to the Matrix.  Yet this scene was done with physical special effects and not strictly CGI.  There was a hallway set that actually rotated.  Give me human stunt work over CGI anytime.  That gave the scene gravitas and believability.  And that is what makes Inception way different then the Matrix.  Where the Matrix was strictly sci-fi speculation, with Inception we are dealing with actual reality.  Dreams.
Dreams are real, we all dream.  Lucid dreaming is real. Even animals dream. Science does not understand why dreams are essential to cognizance, but we’d die without dreaming. We often don’t remember our dreams, but when we do, they can affect our awakened state of mind. I have been influenced by some of my dreams when I recall them.  If Inception is about planting ideas in the subconscious, such things happen daily in reality.  We dream about our worries, our hopes, the nightmare from the scary movie we watched a few nights ago.  Advertising and marketing are skillful at planting subliminal messages into our subconscious.  Inception happens everyday.
The true premise of the movie is the ability of another sentient consciousness to enter our dreams and communicate with us.  Can this actually happen?  Not with current technology.  But our dream state can open us to communication with other sentient beings.  Not physical beings, but separate consciousness nevertheless.  This happens so often nobody really notices.
The Bible often tells of God speaking to his prophets in a dream.  King Solomon was spoken to in a dream with the famous question, what would you want if I granted you any wish?  The living often encounters the dead in their dreams.  It usually is only a dream, but once in awhile it may be a true encounter with the deceased, to comfort the living. I know stories of a dream immediately preceding someone’s death, or just after and the individual died and they were unaware of the death.  Crisis apparitions.  Many had premonitions of the future in their dreams that came true.  And not only holy spirits may visit our dreams.
Our dreams may on occasion lead us into a supernatural experience.  Since a dream is only a dream we can’t take all dreams seriously

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Economy is falling, depression will follow

Date:  Wed, 2010-06-02 Prophet:  Valentina Papagna
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Message to Valentina Papagna, Sydney, Australia
2nd June, 2010
Lord Jesus came to me during prayers this morning.
He was holding His hand over His Sacred Heart.
He spoke:

‘Valentina, My child, honour My Sacred Heart full of pity and love for all of you.’

‘Look how My Heart is grieving for all the whole world which is offending Me so much.’
‘So severe is the pain in My Heart.
With all this pain, I still feel very sorry for all of you.
Nothing is sure in the world.
THE ECONOMY IS FALLING and will SLOWLY DEVELOP INTO A DEPRESSION.’

‘There will be DEMONSTRATIONS in ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD and IN PLACES there will be REVOLUTIONS due to the CORRUPTION of governments.’
‘I am sorry to tell you this, My children, but EVENTUALLY THERE WILL BE FAMINE WORLDWIDE.
In SOME parts MONEY will become WORTHLESS.
The wealthy will look after themselves.
The rich will get richer and the poor will be poorer.’
‘With all this coming and all these problems, IF only they would TURN TO ME, I would be more than happy to help them.
My Sacred Heart grieves to see all this INJUSTICE in the world.’
‘My children, trust Me and console My Sacred Heart.’
Lord Jesus, have mercy on us.

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Inheritors of the New Earth

Date:  Fri, 2010-05-21 Prophet:  Lec
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Message Thru Lec
May 21st, 2010
Son, write for me.
I wish to re-awaken the SLUMBERING SOULS who by this time have already grown weary of waiting for the fulfillment of my glorious promises.
A RENEWED EARTH AWAITS MY FAITHFUL CHILDREN and to make sure that those, whom I intend to live in the New Era, SURVIVE the darkest period in mankind’s existence, I REITERATE MY PROMISE.
I WILL REMOVE

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The Path of Trust, Part 1: What is It?

Friends,
My last blog St John of Revelations broke a record in reader responses. I take this to mean a lot of you would like my Rogue Scholarly progress to venture down the path of more religiously iconoclastic themes, such as posing that St. John’s famous closing chapter in the New Testament was not hiding a prophecy about the future but exposing a man suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. It is possible John survived the sack of Jerusalem by the Romans. He had become their prisoner in later years, exiled to the island of Patmos on the Aegean Sea. There he sat in his dark cave, like a wounded, grumpy-bear evangeloid with candle and parchment, he began scratching out his letter to the Churches that soon switched tone into a docu-demented psychotic episode becoming the Book of Revelation.

In that blog I began to share some stories about a man who had a chief influence in my spiritual education while visiting this mortal coil. The anecdote and the picture of Osho stimulated a lot of interest, vigorous comment, debate and a few hit-and-run acts of emailed calumny. Many of you seek a clarification about my take on Osho and gurus in general and I feel the time has come to ramp the HogueProphecy narrative up a notch for a few rounds of postings. Let us explore for a bit the higher definition of prophecy beyond being the act of forecasting the future, to prophecy as the message of good news and revelations of eternal truths showered on us by authentic masters. We will still provide each posting of this four-part series with a fix on current events tied to forecasts about and fulfillment of predictions for 2010.


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Nano chips in vaccines since 1997 - CIA scientist leaks to David Icke

That is too important, especially if you are American taking vaccines in that period of time. Without panic, you must follow the sane reason including that of people smarter than you. Because your reason ability and decision making ability is lowered from the nano vaccines. Surely not following brainwashing broadcasts, and not the Sunday or CNN. There are enough forums where at least some people are not chipped. Too pity there aren't many pastors who talk about that either.



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The Splendour of God (4/17/2010)

This is a short introduction to the Baha'i religion, part of theWisdom of the East series.It includes short but profound texts by the foundersof the religion, including the Bab, Baha'u'llh and Abdul Baha(also known as Abbas Effendi).It includes a longer text, The Seven Valleys an allegoricaltale of the journey of the soul.

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Dragons from around the world

From China all the way to Britain, as far back as 7000 years ago, the dragon has often appeared in stories, mythologies and cultural references. Yet the dragon plays a benevolent role in the East and an evil one in the West; is it a psychological symbol of our struggles or is there a better explanation for the myth of dragons?

For centuries, the dragon has played a big role in art, myth and religion. "St. George and the Dragon" is one of the many legends about this symbolic creature. While there are several variations of this story, one version goes like this:

The people of Silene (Cyrene, in present day Libya) had lived for a long time in fear of an evil dragon outside their gates. At first they had placated it each day with several sheep but soon it was demanding both a man and a sheep for its meals. Then, not happy with the arrangement, it wanted more delectable flesh and insisted on the sacrifice of young virgins. The king decided that the young girls of the city should draw lots each day to determine who would be the next victim. One day, to his horror, the lot fell to his daughter, the beautiful Princess Sabra. In vain, the king pleaded with his subjects for her life. They were adamant. He must abide by the rule that he himself had made.

Against his wishes, but bound by his own law, the king saw his beloved daughter, dressed as a bride, led off to the spot where the dragon was eagerly waiting. But at that moment a strange knight appeared on horseback. It was George of Lydda, on his way to see the Roman Emperor Diocletian and plead for the lives of Christian slaves. Making the sign of the cross with his sword, he spurred his horse against the dragon. They fought until the beast fell wounded to the ground. George told the princess to fasten her belt around the dragon's neck and lead it into Silene. The people honored George as a hero and he told them that if they would consent to becoming Christians and be baptized, he would slay the dragon. The people agreed and George took his sword and cut the dragon's head off. By coincidence, the town of Silene is near the place that Perseus, a Greek hero, is said to have rescued Andromeda from a terrifying sea dragon.


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Taking water to the Jordan

Rev. Dr Walter Altmann delivering the sermon at the opening worship service A plea to "bring new life into the ecumenical movement" was issued by Rev. Dr Walter Altmann in his first report as World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee moderator. He also emphasized the Council's role as "the privileged instrument of the ecumenical movement" and rejected the possibility of "a minimalist agenda".

Opening the first meeting of the WCC's governing body, elected at its 9th Assembly in Porto Alegre last February, Altmann spoke about the "beautiful, though difficult, ecumenical commitment which has brought us together, in spite of the many differences that exist among us".

"The ecumenical movement," he argued, "must not be understood as based on a lowest common denominator". Instead, it is "driven by a much higher and challenging vision". That vision is "full and visible unity among the churches", its basis is the unity that the Holy Spirit grants "through the gospel and baptism," and it is received "in faith".

On those terms, "ecumenism is not optional, but compelling". Ecumenical dialogue and cooperation amount not to some kind of strategic planning, but rather to "a passion for unity". Those committed to ecumenism envisage "full communion" as its goal, although they don't lose sight of "the divisions among us," which are "a sin against God".

The ecumenical movement "moves slower than we wish", and "our churches probably move slower than they could," Altmann recognized. In a sober assessment of the "century of ecumenism," he affirmed that "in many places the relations among the churches have improved considerably," but observed that the question of whether churches are "closer to the stated goal of visible unity" remains open.

Since "burning and divisive issues, both doctrinal and ethical," create "inner tensions" in many churches, they experience the temptation "to 'defend themselves' against the centrifugal forces of fragmentation, entrenching themselves within their own theological or institutional walls". As a result, they may regard "their ecumenical commitment as a lower priority".

In this context, Altmann affirmed, the WCC is "a fellowship of hope". He challenged the central committee members to consider that their "primary and fundamental task" is to "live out" that fellowship among themselves.

This also has institutional implications: at its first meeting, the committee's agenda is to be devoted mostly "to trying to cope with the challenge" of establishing a new programme structure for the Council. The result must be "faithful to the decisions of the Assembly, responsible in its stewardship of resources

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TV used to serve Antichrist

Date:  Mon, 2010-06-07 Prophet:  Marie Philippines
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Message Thru Marie
June 7th, 2010
JESUS OUR LORD:
SIMPLIFICATION !
WEALTH IMPLOSION !
ASSET PRICE COLLAPSES (especially: real estate)
DUALITY PEAKING
- climate (hot/cold inversions)
- people (mind snapping - manic behavior)
- families mostly will divide further
- deterioration, except those already mine - they will begin reunifying now.
My Chosen ones, PREPARE !
My little children, my remnants few, you MUST RISE UP AND FIGHT NOW !
The lines are drawn.
Those not consecrated to me, though many, will not overpower my weary, yet obedient, children.
I call each one to take his place in My Circle of Light.
This is my chosen few.
There is no accident as you are all where I planned you to be.
So take up your positions, arm yourselves: with humility and sacrifice, with love and prayers (rosary), with generosity.
Make of your lives a living offering.
Your crosses will get heavier, but unite it to My and My Mother's hearts in order that the perfect offering be made to the Father.
Because you suffer, the Father's JUSTICE HAS BEEN LESSENED, and delayed.
LITTLE TIME IS LEFT TO HELP My other lost children.
Every child of Mine needs to be FULLY AWARE, awakened as to the TIME OF GREAT CHANGES.
You will need to light each other for the DARKNESS WILL TAKE OVER for a while.
It is necessary for you to CONVERGE, to GATHER, because the darkness now will drown my few who choose not to unite.
I have asked you NOT TO ALLOW THE INTRUDER (TV) IN YOUR HOME.
But this can be difficult for the black idol (TV) draws all into its web.
So few can resist its DAMAGING MAGNETIC PULL.
But I keep WARNING you out of love.
(Many times my spiritual advisor Fr. F has asked me to remove the TV from my home.
This was maybe 5 years ago but still I said no.
Lately, I am beginning to see it for what it has become.)
ME: I do see how much we as a family begin to relate to it and this time is stolen from family bonding time.
Not only do we have one in each bedroom, but we choose to watch different shows hence leaving us little time to connect to each other.
Also, I've noticed LEVEL OF VIOLENCE AND CRIME IS VERY BIZARRE ALREADY and VERY FEW are the POSITIVE mentors, that my kids and I can pick up from TV.
Also I worry that my kids' TV idols will be copied, already their fashion is idolized somewhat by my kids.
But it's the behavior of their idols, that are LACKING PROPER VALUES that I worry about more.
Though I take great pains to teach them about my faith.
JESUS: It will soon be USED TO SERVE THE GREAT DARKNESS (ANTICHRIST?) TO CONTROL THE MIND.
It is NOT merely a form of leisure entertainment.
It has stopped being so for some time now.
It is the GREAT TEACHER OF DARKNESS.
What child now does not listen to it ?
IT TAKES THE PLACE OF PARENTS, authority figures, TRULY REPLACING generations
of families where values used to be handed down by daily communication from parent, grandparent to the children.
The wisdom of previous generations are now LOCKED UP in homes away from their children, or else, they are made to LIE TO WASTE AND THEIR WISDOM DISREGARDED while the INTRUDER continues to fill up your children's minds and hearts with GARBAGE.
TAKE GREAT CARE FOR SOON IT SHALL HYPNOTIZE YOU INTO A STATE OF FEAR AND PARANOIA.
All is in place and many will fall, even some of my own who disregard this warning.
ME: Lord, you know I will ask that you PROTECT MY ENTIRE FAMILY, and circle of friends, prayer groups, consecrated souls, and grant us the strength and the wisdom to follow your requests/commands.
Give us the STRENGTH TO RESIST THE TV for it OCCUPIES A BIG PART OF THE LIVES of most families now including my own.
May your warning SERVE TO ENLIGHTEN OTHERS out there, who are reading this message.
May I not remain stubborn, because even though I know it's harmful effects (I'd been thinking this already) sometimes I don't want to stop watching TV - though I have reduced time spent on it.

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Blessed János Scheffler

Memorial
6 December
Profile
Ordained on 6 July 1910. Bishop of Satu Mare, Romania on 26 March 1942. Martyr.
Born
29 October 1887 in Camin, Diocese of Satu Mare, Hungary (in modern Romania)
Died
martyred on 6 December 1952 in Bucharest, Romania
Venerated
1 July 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI (decree of martyrdom)
Beatified
1 July 2011 by Pope Benedict XVI
Canonized
if you have have information relevant to the canonization of Blessed János, contact
   Rev. Szoke János, SDB
   Episcopia Romano-Catolica
   Str. 1 Decembrie 1918, nr. 2
   440010 Satu Mare, ROMANIA
Additional Information
Catholic-Hierarchy.OrgHagiography Circle
MLA Citation
“”. Saints.SQPN.com. 21 July 2010. Web.

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WCC calls for repeal of Pakistan Blasphemy Law after killings

Rev. Dr Walter Altmann delivering the sermon at the opening worship service A plea to "bring new life into the ecumenical movement" was issued by Rev. Dr Walter Altmann in his first report as World Council of Churches (WCC) central committee moderator. He also emphasized the Council's role as "the privileged instrument of the ecumenical movement" and rejected the possibility of "a minimalist agenda".

Opening the first meeting of the WCC's governing body, elected at its 9th Assembly in Porto Alegre last February, Altmann spoke about the "beautiful, though difficult, ecumenical commitment which has brought us together, in spite of the many differences that exist among us".

"The ecumenical movement," he argued, "must not be understood as based on a lowest common denominator". Instead, it is "driven by a much higher and challenging vision". That vision is "full and visible unity among the churches", its basis is the unity that the Holy Spirit grants "through the gospel and baptism," and it is received "in faith".

On those terms, "ecumenism is not optional, but compelling". Ecumenical dialogue and cooperation amount not to some kind of strategic planning, but rather to "a passion for unity". Those committed to ecumenism envisage "full communion" as its goal, although they don't lose sight of "the divisions among us," which are "a sin against God".

The ecumenical movement "moves slower than we wish", and "our churches probably move slower than they could," Altmann recognized. In a sober assessment of the "century of ecumenism," he affirmed that "in many places the relations among the churches have improved considerably," but observed that the question of whether churches are "closer to the stated goal of visible unity" remains open.

Since "burning and divisive issues, both doctrinal and ethical," create "inner tensions" in many churches, they experience the temptation "to 'defend themselves' against the centrifugal forces of fragmentation, entrenching themselves within their own theological or institutional walls". As a result, they may regard "their ecumenical commitment as a lower priority".

In this context, Altmann affirmed, the WCC is "a fellowship of hope". He challenged the central committee members to consider that their "primary and fundamental task" is to "live out" that fellowship among themselves.

This also has institutional implications: at its first meeting, the committee's agenda is to be devoted mostly "to trying to cope with the challenge" of establishing a new programme structure for the Council. The result must be "faithful to the decisions of the Assembly, responsible in its stewardship of resources

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Monday, July 12, 2010

My people, when you pray and come to Mass, you must be sincere in truly coming to Me for forgiveness of your sins as a sinner, and not just a self-righteous person whose actions are just for show. Isaiah was critical of the people who made their offerings to God and then went out and lived a life of sin. I know My people are weak to sin, but do not act as hypocrites when you preach one thing, but your actions are contrary to My laws. You need to be sincere and contrite as you ask Me to forgive your sins. Then you need to strive to imitate Me in a holy life of prayer and good deeds. Every day you need to struggle in carrying your cross of life’s trials. Give good example to your family and others because you can evangelize souls by your good actions which speak louder than your words. Your preaching must match your lifestyle, or you may be just going through the motions without meaning to your life. Call on My help to lead you on the narrow path to your goal in heaven.

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Video: Former Canadian defence minister Paul Hellyer about UFOs

More and more of these testimonies start to surface as we approach the change of the era with 2012. This time, former defence minister of Canada reveals and confirms information about the existence of UFO’s and how our governments do what they can to keep the truth from its citizens.
The Truth is that we live in a Pyramidal system where most of the population is in the bottom and the top always has been ran by the same group of families we have came to a point were we have to decide what kind of future we want for humanity and the planet. Nobody by you can do something about the fraudulent system that we take for granted for too long.
Watch Hellyer’s testimony here:


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This Will Mindfuck You: The Double-Slit Experiment

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The video below shows scientific proof as to why there is something about this universe that is NOT quite logical nor scientific. The mere act of observation can completely change the outcome of an event! Before I get too ahead of myself, you need to watch the video below to understand:
(Forgive the corny cartoon character explaining the concept — at least he knows his stuff)
Recap: When a camera observed the electrons, they acted as particles. However, when the no equipment was used to observe the electrons, they acted as waves and particles simultaneously.
So what’s the reason for this? Does the electron somehow know that it is being watched? That was the only “logical” reason that scientists could come up with so much skepticism and controversy followed.
Want even further proof?
Then in 2002, a group of researchers set up the experiment in a way that the electron could not possibly receive information about the existence of an observing instrument. The setup was on a much smaller scale: a single photon was emitted and an interferometer that observed the wave-or-particle behavior was either inserted or not inserted. (Click here to download the full report)
Here’s the kicker: The insertion of the interferometer took only 40 nanoseconds (ns) while it would take 160 ns  for the information about the configuration to travel from the interferometer to reach the photon before it entered the slits. This means in order for the photon to “know” if it was being watched, that information would have to travel at 4 times the speed of light, which is impossible (the speed of light is the universal speed limit).
The Results: The photons acted like particles 93% of the time that they were observed. Even if the photon “guessed” the configuration each time, statistically speaking it would never have more than 52% accuracy. In scientific experiments, a 93% success rate is as conclusive as they come.
What are the implications of this?
1. Matter can act as both a wave and a particle depending on whether or not it is being observed (Wave-Duality Theory)
This is the least meaningful implication for you as a macroscopic organism, but nonetheless it’s a pretty crazy concept.
2. Observation can (possibly) affect the outcome of macroscopic events
After all, you and everything you know are composed of these microscopic particles, so why couldn’t something large be influenced as well? It would be the sum of a seemingly infinite amount of pieces of matter acting as either waves or particles. Scientists have very mixed opinions on this topic so I’ll just say it makes sense to me that this could happen on a larger scale.
3. We don’t know very much about this universe (Science is not yet an ‘exact science’)
There are a couple things out there that science still cannot explain like the characteristics of gravity, but this blows Newton’s discovery out of the water. As we study smaller and smaller particles in order to understand more about what we’re made, we seem to find more things that just don’t make sense. Point being that nothing should be ruled out completely because we simply cannot know anything for certain at this point.
What other implications did you get out of these experiments?
Sources:
1. http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/schroedinger/two-slit2.html
2. http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.2597
3.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind

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Saint Wandrille of Fontenelle

Also known as
Vandrille of FontenelleWandregisel of FontenelleWandregisilus of Fontenelle
Memorial
22 July
Profile
Member of the court of King Dagobert I. Married. Pilgrim to Rome, Italy, his wife became a nun and Wandrille became a monk at Montfaucon, Switzerland. Spiritual student of Saint Balderic. Hermit at Saint-Ursanne, Jura, France. Monk in Bobbio, Italy. Priest, ordained by Saint Ouen of Rouen. Founded the Abbey of Fontenelle in Normandy, France in 657.
Born
c.600 near Verdun, Austrasia (in modern France)
Died
668during the Viking invasions, Wandrille’s relics were dispersed to assorted church and abbeysin the 19th century his skull was found in storage in Liège, Belgiumskull returned to the Fontenelle Abbey’s new church in 1967
Canonized
Pre-Congregation
Additional Information
Book of Saints, by the Monks of RamsgateOur Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen BunsonWikipedia


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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

My people, this is an unusual sight to see all the souls from all over the earth come all at once through this transparent tunnel. This tunnel leads to their mini-judgment with Me. The soul bodies all look between twenty to thirty years old. The speed that the souls are moving makes them look like a blur of movement. All souls will see their destination of where they would go if they do not change their lives. Many who have a taste of hell or purgatory could repent of their sins, once they are returned to their bodies. Some will change, but others will prefer to remain in their comfortable sinful lifestyles. Once these souls are given this information, they will be held more accountable for their actions because they will know the consequences of their decisions. All souls will still have their free will to decide their own destination. Pray and work on your family members to repent and confess their sins. You have tried to advise your relatives of the importance of saving their souls even now. If they refuse to listen to Me or your pleading, then they may face hell or the bottom of purgatory. This again is another message of the Warning experience when everyone will see their life review and how I will judge them. Be grateful for this grace of My Divine Mercy.

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