Musings and opinions on almost any topic, but focused mainly on spirituality,politics, activism, and some poetry. Also included will be sites that i find informative and interesting, as well as others that i come across during my wanderings through cyberspace. Enjoy the journey!
Some of the world's leading physicists believe they have found startling new evidence showing the existence of universes other than our own. One possibility is that the universe is so vast that an exact replica of our solar system, our planet and ourselves exists many times over. These Doppelganger Universes exist within our own Universe; in what scientist now call "The Multiverse." If proof is found it will change our lives, our minds, our planet, our science and our universe....
We are commonly asked about the buildings which remain standing. Most were destroyed. What we see are those in remote areas and those which were so incredibly massive in size it was impossible to destroy them, even with the use of cannons. However, the entire Aztec capital was destroyed, and in its place is the capital of Mexico, Mexico City, and its hundreds of Catholic churches and cathedrals.
We are also asked if we believe the world will end in 2012? The answer is: "no." The next cycle of the Mayan calendar ends on 2012. Does this mean the Maya's believed the world end on 2012? No. It means the calendar ends. Yet, there is also a warning, and we must learn from the past, so let those with eyes, see.
I recently came across this excellent video series while wandering through cyberspace...very good videos on a very interesting and intriguing subject....check out more videos on this subject and more here :) Commentary from the video: There is a complete misconception, especially from Christian channels and different sorts of "debunkers" of what is The Mystery School, specifically in relation to the ancient Egypt. A lot of ignorance and arrogance comes from the individuals who intentionally "misinterpret" the Egyptian Mystery School as it was in existence before the changes were made by the Pharaoh of 18th Dynasty Akhenaten (Akhenaton). Egyptian Mystery School is the initiatory "home" of Biblical Moses as stated in Torah-Tanach. These videos are posted for the clarification of the meaning of the Mystery School. Suffice to say that later transformation of Egyptian Mystery Schools with the insertions of other teachings including Luciferianism and Satanism produced the effect of negativism to the paradigm of "Mystery School" itself as we see it today.
Murder ballads are a notable portion of recorded medieval ballads from Scandinavia and Great Britain. In those, the victim overcomes the murderer, tricks him and stabs him to death while sleeping. Thus, justice is fulfilled, and the murderer is punished. Many of those ballads mention a row of dead brides, from seven and up to ten, until the final surviving heroine. Often the details and locales for a particular murder ballad change as it is sung over time, reflecting the audience and the performer. For example, "Knoxville Girl" is essentially the same ballad as "The Wexford Girl" with the setting transposed from Ireland to Tennessee - the two of them are based on "The Oxford Girl", the original murder ballad set in England. American murder ballads are often versions of older Old World ballads with any elements of supernatural retribution removed. For example, the English ballad "The Gosport Tragedy" of the 1750s had both murder and vengeance on the murderer by the ghosts of the murdered woman and her unborn baby, who call up a great storm to prevent his ship sailing before tearing him apart. In contrast, the Kentucky version, "Pretty Polly", is a stark murder ballad ending with the murder and burial of the victim in a shallow grave. A murder ballad typically recounts the details of a mythic or true crime — who the victim is, why the murderer decides to kill him or her, how the victim is lured to the murder site and the act itself — followed by the escape and/or capture of the murderer. Often the ballad ends with the murderer in jail or on their way to the gallows, occasionally with a plea for the listener not to copy the evils committed by the singer.
"Knoxville Girl" at the Museum of Appalachia: "Knoxville Girl" is an old murder ballad that originated not in Tennessee, but in the British Islands, where it was known by such names as "Wexford Girl." Murder ballads were the tabloid press of centuries past made into a song. Singing it was a spur-of-the-moment act.
The Oxford Girl~Shirley & Dolly Collins: I fell in love with an Oxford girl...
PRETTY POLLY:
Tom Dooley~Frank Warner & Pete Seeger:
Ballad of Hollis Brown~Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan singing Ballad of Hollis Brown, 1963
El Paso - Marty Robbins:
1913 Massacre~Woody Guthrie:
Graveyard Train - Ballad for Beezlebub: Graveyard Train ripped chains and hammers from hell to forge Horror Country. They are the pioneers of a new genre that will make you cry and curse and scream. Ghost stories, murder ballads and tales of redemption are crooned through melodies plucked directly from the afterlife. Haunted love, haunted souls, even haunted clothes are typical subjects covered by the songs of the Graveyard Train.These aren't the kind of ghost stories kids tell around the campfire they are the tales of horror whispered by inmates in the dark, the tales of blood lust muttered by the insane, the tales of woe and regret whimpered through dying last words. Five men play men's instruments just as men were born to do. Chain, washboard, steel guitar, banjo and harmonica instruments with a long history of storytelling underlay five voices tempered by whiskey, blood and poverty. Graveyard train offer penance to this town of sinners. Beware the plague of locusts, beware the hail of frogs, beware the localized apocalypse that is the Graveyard Train.
46 year old outdoors type who loves live music,hanging out at mystic hot springs,spirituality, writing and reading poetry, learning all i can from this journey called life,and meeting interesting, open minded people along the way.
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