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I have a lot on propaganda that I would like to read this year. If you see a book you would like to twin read with me friend/message me!(view spoiler)
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
Review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
January
* Modem man worships “facts"
* the situation of the “lonely crowd,' or of isolation in the mass,
* Propaganda tends to make the individual live
in a separate world;
**propaganda can succeed only when man feels challenged.
* When war is declared truth is the first victim...
* propaganda must change a person environment
* the individual is depersonalized,
* the disintegration of such small groups as the family or the church.
* Media must be concentrated
* The uncultured man cannot be reached by propaganda.
* Propaganda is the modem instrument
* Psychological warfare has become the daily bread of peace policy.
* propaganda is necessary to prevent this awareness from being desperate
* And neurosis can actually become collective when some event throws a whole group into frenzied anxiety or irrational considerations.
* the man who justifies himself and unconsciously plays this farce not only believes it himself but also has the need for others to believe it.
* Psychological Crystallization
* the man who has been successfully subjected to a vigorous propaganda will declare that all new ideas are propaganda.
* The Psychic Dissociation Effect of Propaganda
Related material to this chapter:
Michael Tsarion
The psychosis of control. Why people want to be in their prison...through propaganda
https://archive.org/details/michaelts...
* The individual subjected to propaganda can no longer do without it.
* propaganda can and does
produce contradictory psychological results
* ideology becomes bent on conquest. The drive toward conquest may arise within a society as a conflict between groups
* Ideology has become part of the system of propaganda and depends on it.
* collective consciences, mass effects of propaganda
* If one can harden opinion on a certain key point, one can control an entire sector of opinion from there
* Everybody is susceptible to the propaganda of his group. He listens to it and convinces himself of it. He is satisfied with it. But those who belong to another milieu ignore it.t
* As in all propaganda, the point is to make men endure, with the help of psychological narcotics, what he could not endure naturally, or to give him, artificially, reasons to continue his work and to do it well.
* this de-Christianization through the effects of one instrument— propaganda— is much greater than through all the anti-Christian doctrines
* On one fact there can be no debate: the need of democracy,
in its present situation, to “make propaganda."
* propaganda can penetrate the consciousness of the masses of a foreign country only through the myth
* the creation of a religion is one of the indispensable elements of effective propaganda.
* To prove with figures, after long statistical inquiries, that women are more receptive to emotional propaganda than men is hardly an astounding revelation.
* But what is “appropriate education?" It is to teach children a Marxist catechism, to give them a Marxist conception of the world in history and science.
* all politicians and all big businessmen agree that
psychological action, propaganda, advertising, human relations,
and public relations are indispensable and definitely produce
results.
* Propaganda can never be a propaganda of ideas, but must pronounce judgment on certain facts (whether these judgments are accurate or not).
* By “organization” is meant that every individual must be put into a network comprising many organizations that surround him on all sides and control him on all levels.
* Side by side with the official administration (still the administration of
the enemy government in the battle areas), a clandestine,
revolutionary, and complete administration was being built.
* The aim of brainwashing is to retrieve enemies and transform rather than eliminate them—
Propaganda continued
(view spoiler)
Don Quixote
Don Quixote was originally published in 1605 by Miguel de Cervantes. Translated into English by John Ormsby in 1885. Illustrations by Gustave Dore.
So I came up with a schedule:
Jan1-7 chapters prologue- chapter7
Jan 8-14 chapters 8-14
Jan 15-21 chapters 15-20
Jan 22-28 chapters 2. -26
Jan 29- Feb 4 chapters 27-30
Feb 5 -11 chapters 31 -35
Feb 12 -18 chapters 36- 42
Feb 19- 25 chapters 43-47
Feb26 - March 4 48 to End of book
Book 2
March 5 to March 11 Prologue to chapter 10
Mar 12 Mar 18 chapter 11 to chapter 22
March 19 March 25 chapter 23 to chapter 31
March 26 April 1 Chapters 32 to 39
April 2 to April 8 chapters 40 to 49
April 9 to April15 chapters 50 to 57
Two Portraits: Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
Structural Matters
Cruelty And Mystification
The Chroniclers Theme, Dulcinea, and Death
Victories and Defeats
Narrative and Commentary Part One (1605)
Narrative and Commentary Part Two (1615)
Appendix
The Novel that Invented Modernity: Don Quixote de la Mancha
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Heroes and Legends: the most influential Characters in Literature
1. Don Quixote The First of the Wannabes
Mysteries and Light ReadsAgatha Christie
Sleeping Murder
Midwinter Murder: Fireside Tales from the Queen of Mystery
The Big Four
The Man in the Brown Suit (audible)
Captain Blood (audible)
The Fatal Eggs and Other Soviet Satire 1918-1963
The Nutcracker and the Golden Pot
Ray Bradbury Collected Short Stories
Philosophy and History:The Works of Lucian of Samosata
Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
Solar History: The Connection of Solar Activity, War, Peace and the Human Mind in the 2nd Millennium
Solar Behavior: How Solar- and Geomagnetic Conditions shape Human History, the current Self- Destruction Attempt of the West and the new Golden Age
Hormonageddon: How Chemical and Electromagnetic Influences weakened the Human Character in three Generations
Biography and AutobiographyThe World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster and the Year that Changed Literature
Simplicity at Home: Japanese Rituals, Recipes, and Arrangements for Thoughtful Living
Picture BooksThe Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History
The Power of Myth
Think Small: The Tiniest Art in the World
Smithsonian Natural History: The Ultimate Visual Guide to Everything on Earth
My Creative Space: How to Design Your Home to Stimulate Ideas and Spark Innovation
The Story of Food: An Illustrated History of Everything We Eat
History of the World in 1000 Objects
How to Make Hand-Drawn Maps: A Creative Guide with Tips, Tricks, and Projects
Oceanology: The Secrets of the Sea Revealed
The Noble Approach: Maurice Noble and the Zen of Animation Design
Man-Made Wonders of the World
Art That Changed the World
Live Life Colorfully: 99 Ideas to Add Joy, Positivity, and Creativity to Your Life
The Journalopoly for ReadingSo some other things to look for are:
Mythologies,
Symbolism,
Joke or humor
Philosophy
Some of these require that you know enough to recognize when you come across them. But as you see them they will create more textual meaning. As you question their significant you will look for more references.
One that has been on my mind is Hamlet. In Ulysses, James Joyce makes a rather big deal about Hamlet. I think it went right over my head. I read Hamlet. It still hasn't quite made it comprehensible what he was driving at.
So I was listening to a book What to Remember When Waking: The Disciplines of an Everyday Life and he mentioned something about Hamlet. He also said that whatever you bring to Shakespeare, Shakespeare will out contextualize it. But he said "For instance in this play called Hamlet he asks you to ask a terrifying question which is "What if it is all about nothing?" What if you made the whole thing up and told it to yourself just so you will play the game? But if your really knew what was occurring you would run a 100 miles screaming in the opposite direction, because you would be terrified. He simply asks you to ask the question. To look life in the eyes."
Now there were plenty of times I wanted to run 100 miles screaming in the opposite direction in Ulysses. LOL
I guess what I am getting at is what does the book make you question? How does it change the way you see your world today? What surprised you? Not just the text but connections between right now?
How can I make this book a living book? I guess that might be too deep and most people really would rather use reading as an escape.
Group Challenges The Reading Challenge Group - 2023 Monthly Genre Challenge
Into the Forest
Read an original tale, collection of tales, retelling or novel inspired by each of the mythic/fairytale themes:
1. Descent into the underworld
2. Witchcraft
3. Tricksters
4. Shapeshifting
5. Crone
6. Quest
7. Celestial Lore
8. Plant Lore
9 Deals with the Devil
10 Creating order out of chaos
11. Free spot
12. Free spot
Start Date: January 01, 2023
End Date: December 31, 2023
Jan Feb
Italian
Mar/Apr
May/June
German
July/August
Sept/October
Historical Fiction - Down With History
Level 1 - Ancient Ancestors (2 Books)
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Level 2 - Medieval Mayhem (4 Books)
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Level 3 - Days of Empire (7 Books)
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Level 4 - Wars of Old (10 Books)
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Level 5 - The Past is the Past (15 Books)
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I will try for 11
Read a book by:
2023: The Giants of Literature
Aldous Huxley
Thomas Hardy
Pearl S BuckPearl S. Buck
Robert Penn Warren
Victor Hugo
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
J.D. Salinger
George Orwell
Daphne du Maurier
Honoré de Balzac
Mary Renault
Discussion GroupsNon-fiction Classics
Litwit Lounge discussion
Lounge: OPEN, please come in... What are you currently reading?
Foucault's Pendulum
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INDEX
Dartmouth Professor Discusses Foucault's Pendulum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMxLV...
Discusion Group
Numb3rs Don't li3
The tree of life 11:11
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nCrHyzR...
Cube, saturn, black robes, elect, priest, judges
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjsf6Wl...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keter...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi
Circles
Time
Patterns
Mystic rose math
https://www.transum.org/Maths/Investi...
pentaculum
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/pent...
June 23
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_23
Saint-Martin-des-Champs Priory
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint...
St. John's Eve
Eve of the Feast of Saint John the Baptist
Saint John's Eve, starting at sunset on 23 June, is the eve of celebration before the Feast Day of Saint John the Baptist. The Gospel of Luke (Luke 1:26–37, 56–57) states that John was born six months before Jesus; therefore, the feast of John the Baptist was fixed on 24 June, six months before Christmas according to the old Roman calculation (ante diem VIII Kalendas Iulias).[1] This feast day is one of the very few saints' days which commemorates the anniversary of the birth, rather than the death, of the saint being honored.
The Feast of Saint John closely coincides with the June solstice, also referred to as Midsummer in the Northern Hemisphere. The Christian holy day is fixed at 24 June; but in most countries festivities are mostly held the night before, on Saint John's Eve. This holiday is celebrated in many places.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrah...
Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia (Hebrew: אברהם בן שמואל אבולעפיה) was the founder of the school of "Prophetic Kabbalah" . He was born in Zaragoza, Spain in 1240 and is assumed to have died sometime after 1291, following a stay on the small and windswept island of Comino, the smallest of the three inhabited islands that make up the Maltese archipelago.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_G...
he wrote the Guide "to enlighten a religious man who has been trained to believe in the truth of our holy Law, who conscientiously fulfills his moral and religious duties, and at the same time has been successful in his philosophical studies."
This work has also a second object in view: It seeks to explain certain obscure figures which occur in the Prophets, and are not distinctly characterized as being figures. Ignorant and superficial readers take them in a literal, not in a figurative sense. Even well-informed persons are bewildered if they understand these passages in their literal signification, but they are entirely relieved of their perplexity when we explain the figure, or merely suggest that the terms are figurative. For this reason I have called this book Guide for the Perplexed.
I]n the speech of Isaiah, … it very frequently occurs … that when he speaks of the fall of a dynasty or the destruction of a great religious community, he uses such expressions as: the stars have fallen, the heavens were rolled up, the sun was blackened, the earth was devastated and quaked, and many similar figurative expressions (II.29).[7]
Maimonides outlines 11 levels of prophecy, with that of Moses being beyond the highest, and thus most unimpeded. Subsequent lower levels reduce the immediacy between God and prophet, allowing prophecies through increasingly external and indirect factors such as angels and dreams. Finally, the language and nature of the prophetic books of the Bible are described.
Keter
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan...
De Arte Cabbalistica (Latin for On the Art of Kabbalah) is a 1517 text by the German Renaissance humanist scholar Johann Reuchlin, [1] which deals with his thoughts on Kabbalah. In it, he puts forward the view that the theosophic philosophy of Kabbalah could be of great use in the defence of Christianity and the reconciliation of science with the mysteries of faith. It builds on his earlier work De Verbo Mirifico.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Ar...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictu...
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pict...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq7Qd...
Empedocles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empedocles
Empedocles challenged the practice of animal sacrifice and killing animals for food. He developed a distinctive doctrine of reincarnation.
Based on the surviving fragments of his work, modern scholars generally believe that Empedocles was directly responding to Parmenides' doctrine of monism and was likely acquainted with the work of Anaxagoras, although it is unlikely he was aware of either the later Eleatics or the doctrines of the Atomists. Many later accounts of his life claim that Empedocles studied with the Pythagoreans on the basis of his doctrine of reincarnation, although he may have instead learned this from a local tradition rather than directly from the Pythagoreans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile
demiurge (plural demiurges)
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/demi...
(Platonic philosophy) The (usually benevolent) being that created the universe out of primal matter. quotations ▼
A demiurge or craftsman god takes pre-existing matter and fashions it in light of the eternal Forms.
(Gnosticism) A (usually jealous or outright malevolent) being who is inferior to the supreme being, and sometimes seen as the creator of evil. quotations ▼
(figuratively) Something (such as an idea, individual or institution) conceived as an autonomous creative force or decisive power.
(historical, Ancient Greece)
The word is capitalized as Demiurge when used as a name; however, in practice capitalization is inconsistent.
36
666 is the 36 triangular number
IHS the jesuit acronym is 36
Jesus Christ sums to 151 the 36th prime
Not by chance, when you decode ‘Satanic Gematria’ using this cipher, it sums to 666. And even further, 61 is the 18th prime number, and 6+6+6 sums to 18. These values sync with the gematria of ‘IHS’, the Jesuit acronym, equating to 36 with Simple English and 18 with Pythagorean. Furthermore, ‘Jesus Christ’ sums to 151 with Simple English, the 36th prime number, and ‘Jesus’ equates to 61 with Reverse Simple, the 18th prime. Thus, think light and dark, and black and white, which is symbolized in Masonic and Vatican checkerboard flooring. Think duality. And think Revelation 13:18, which references 666, the number of the beast, but also the number of a man. From Number Games: 9/11 to Coronavirus
Chaye Ha-Nefesh - Life of the Soul
in the Hebrew alphabet there are no vowels, but twenty-two consonants plus five variants—
I recalled Diotallevi’s words: “In the second sefirah the dark aleph changes into the luminous aleph. From the Dark Point spring the letters of the Torah. The consonants are the body, the vowels the breath, and together they accompany the worshiper as he chants. When the chant moves, the consonants and vowels move with it, and from them rises Hokhmah—wisdom, knowledge, the primordial thought that contains, as in a box, everything, all that will unfold in creation. Hokhmah holds the essence of all that will emanate from it.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpo...
"I had come across Carpocrates’s assertion that to escape the tyranny of the angels, the masters of the cosmos, every possible ignominy should be perpetrated, that you should discharge all debts to the world and to your own body, for only by committing every act can the soul be freed of its passions and return to its original purity. When we were inventing the Plan, I found that many addicts of the occult pursued that path in their search for enlightenment. According to his biographers, Aleister Crowley, who has been called the most perverted man of all time and who did everything that could be done with his worshipers, both men and women, chose only the ugliest partners of either sex. I have the nagging suspicion, however, that his lovemaking was incomplete.
1666 Redemption Through Sin: Global Conspiracy in History, Religion, Politics and Finance
1666 and the Dark Messiah - ROBERT SEPEHR
https://youtu.be/sXsnLskb7pA
Rosecurcian Museum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRG_v...
Credited as the father of toxicology, Paracelsus was a Swiss physician, alchemist, and philosopher that pioneered several aspects of the "medical revolution" of the Renaissance, establishing the role of chemistry in medicine. Paracelsus was especially venerated by German Rosicrucians, who regarded him as a prophet, and developed a field of systematic study of his writings.
Anthropology of Occult Secret Societies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tVEL...
Chapter 32 of Foucault's Pendulum
Rosicrucian teachings are a combination of Hermeticism, Jewish mysticism, and Christian Gnosticism that rose to prominence in Europe in the early 17th century after the publication of several alchemical texts that purported to announce the existence of a hitherto unknown esoteric order to the world, which claimed to have wisdom passed down from ancient civilizations such as those of Egypt, Babylon, and the Phoenicians.
The Emerald Tablet of Thoth/Hermes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtWaZ...
Rudolf Steiner was an Austrian-born philosopher, lecturer, and founder of anthroposophy, a movement based on the notion that there is a spiritual world comprehensible to pure thought but accessible only to the highest faculties of mental knowledge. Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and spirituality, and began speaking publicly about spiritual experiences and phenomena in his 1899 lectures to the Theosophical Society.
Who Wrote (Edited) the Bible?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPMsZ...
Stayin Alive Saturday Night Bee Jees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1qN6...
"No piece of information is superior to any other. Power lies in having them all on file and then finding the connections. There are always connections; you have only to want to find them."
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tow...
That is interesting. Another one of Umberto Eco character's is Brother William of Baskerville. Just like Garamond, the name Baskerville also has to do with a typeface.
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The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjsf6Wl...
Time 144
Light 144
Killer 144
1440 minutes in a day
We are all light beings, and time is the killer of light.
Saturn wears the crown, corona, saturnalia
King 38 like hexagon
King 66 like Corona
Nimrod = 73 and 37
EL = 37
Crown equals 73. 73 is the 21st prime number
Its mirror is 37 which is 12th prime
And its mirror 21 is the sum of 7x3
73 in binary is a 1001001 which is a Palindrome
"The best number" =73
"Perfect" =73
"Saturnalia"=73
" Grim reaper" = 73
73 the 21 prime Saturn =21 Event 201
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satur...
Perfect numbers = 66
1+2=3 3+3=6 6+4=10 1+0=1 1+5=6
The planet Saturn is being recognized as the “moon king” of our solar system.
Article published October 13 2019
Jupiter used to hold the record for most moons orbiting around it. It has 79. But scientists in the United States have announced the discovery of 20 new moons around Saturn. That gives the planet a new total of 82 moons.
Moon king =44
Kill =44
Hex = 44 (hexagon)
29 years for Saturn to orbit the sun Kronos=29 six =29 black =29
The keeper of time = 73
the infamous Saturn return.
The Saturn Return is a cycle that we all experience around the age of 29, which lasts for around 2 years. This cycle actually happens in our lives every 29 years, as Saturn literally returns to the same position in our solar system as it was when you were born.
29, 58, 87
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belph... =38
Saturn, time
Goats under 6 are called kids =29 (and were used in sacrifices)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch =66 king =66
Owl Bohemian grove
https://thenarrowgateweb.com/2016/07/...
Child sacrifice =66
Death=38 and 118
Sacrificial lamb =118
Sacrifice the children =118
Sacrificial lamb =118
Homoicide =118
Predictive programming=118
one hundred and forty four = 118 (bringing it back to saturn and time)
"Twenty two divided by seven = 118
This is significant because when you do you get pi 3.14
Another tribute to time
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anunnaki =31
https://sciencevibe.com/2018/04/06/th...
Science =31
Zodiac=31
Vaccination =31
31 is the 11 th prime
11 is a master number it fundamental that tge numerical value of the shapes would Constitute the fundamental building blocks to Reality has a Direct link to not only primes but master numbers as well.
Cube =31 and 13 13 is the 6th prime Saturn is the 6th planet.
Saturns conjunctions
https://astrolekha.com/blog/saturn-pl...
The Saturn-Pluto Conjunction in Capricorn, one of the significant cosmic events that will occur in the first days of 2022, is one of these. In fact, it is one of the most anticipated astrological events that everyone is looking forward to and will undoubtedly usher in a new era.
The most terrifying planets in our solar system, Saturn and Pluto, will collide on January 12, 2022, in the sign of Capricorn. Saturn, on the other hand, is all about justice, a person's actions, Karma, and has control over the bones in the human body.
Pluto, on the other hand, is a fantastic revealer and exorcist. This is the greatest time to accept responsibility and work to turn your weaknesses into your strengths. Therefore, when these planets collide, it will create a huge planetary complex that will undoubtedly have a significant impact on people's lives.
In January 2022, solar system Saturn and Pluto will begin a new cycle as a prominent aspect in Capricorn that also includes Jupiter. But because it will join the moon in Capricorn, the sun will also play an important part. In addition, the day after Saturn and Pluto join forces, they will make a conjunction with the sun, ushering in a brand-new era.
https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy...
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyl...
Saturn and pluto will be 22 degrees in capicorn on january the 12, 2020
Saturn is the turbulent unseen and pluto is the deep state the hidden hand and death cults. Both planets of Indians (?) Death, resurrection Which contain many paradoxes. January 12th 1/12/2020 Or 12/1/2020. Like 121
Corono virus outbreak 121
World health organization 121
Bill and melinda health foundation 121
John Hopkins university 121
National Health Service 121
First case confirmed in Seatle in America On 1/12/2020 deep state, death cults and law.
Saturn and pluto conjunctions are 36 years cycles 1982, 1947, 1914
Major occurance in 2001 (2021)
What happen in 2001? 9/11 one of the biggest saturn rituals. http://www.inspiralnexus.com/2019/05/...
On January 11, 2020 China reported its first death linked to the virus; and on January 12, with Saturn conjunction Pluto in the sky at peak power, the first coronavirus case outside China was reported in Taiwan. On the same day Jupiter in the sky moved into orb of a conjunction aspect with Saturn – planet of pandemics. Their historic in-sky conjunction would culminate on December 21, 2020.
https://astrologyforaquarius.com/arti...
666 = Star of David, hexagon and Saturn
Cult of Saturn and the Star of the Sun - ROBERT SEPEHR
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rvw4wv6...
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In to the forest:CHALLENGES
2023 MYTHIC AND FAIRYTALE THEMED CHALLENGE
Read an original tale, collection of tales, retelling or novel inspired by each of the mythic/fairytale themes:
1. Descent into the underworld
2. Witchcraft
3. Tricksters
4. Shapeshifting
5. Crone
6. Quest
7. Celestial Lore
8. Plant Lore
9 Deals with the Devil
10 Creating order out of chaos
11. Free spot
12. Free spot
Start Date: January 01, 2023
End Date: December 31, 2023
This challenge will begin January 01, 2023
Jan/Feb
March /April
May/June
British
July/Aug
Swedish
Asian book shelfSurviving Hiroshima: A Young Woman's Story
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
Imperial Woman: The Story of the Last Empress of China
A Hero Born
Simplicity at Home: Japanese Rituals, Recipes, and Arrangements for Thoughtful Living
Hatha Yoga Commentary: The yogi philosophy of physical well-being, with numerous exercises, etc
Essence of the Upanishads: A Key to Indian Spirituality If you know about this you can give me your opinion.
Japanese Farm Food
Mastering the Art of Japanese Home Cooking
Practical Ikigai: A Guide for the Japanese Art of Unlocking Your Best Life, Relieving Anxiety, Ending the Struggle, and Discovering Your Happiness & Purpose
The Good Earth Trilogy: The Good Earth, Sons, and A House Divided
Foundations of Oriental Art & Symbolism
One Thousand and One Nights: Complete Arabian Nights Collection
Japanese Notebooks
The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook: Patterns, Projects and Inspirations
Bento Power: Brilliantly Balanced Lunchbox Recipes
The Simplified Bento Cookbook: Featuring Easy, Simple and Effortless Recipes for a Healthy Diet
Life and Death in Shanghai
Minka: My Farmhouse in Japan
The Yoga Deck: 50 Poses & Meditations for Body, Mind, & Spirit
The Cleansing Power of Yoga: Kriyas and other holistic detox techniques for health and wellbeing
TCM: A Natural Guide to Weight Loss That Lasts
The Power of Myth
Snow Country
Chakras & Self-Care: Activate the Healing Power of Chakras with Everyday Rituals
The Rhetoric of Mao Zedong: Transforming China and Its People
Chair Yoga For Seniors: The Only Chair Yoga For Seniors Program You'll Ever Need
The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
https://ghss.georgetown.edu/pandemicp...
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fauci-...
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/2017-...
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.o...
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discussion group
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Chapter 1 epigraph translation
“When the Light of the Endless was drawn in the form of a straight line in the Void… it was not drawn and extended immediately downwards, indeed it extended slowly — that is to say, at first the Line of Light began to extend and at the very start of its extension in the secret of the Line it was drawn and shaped into a wheel, perfectly circular all around.” –Gruberger, Philip S. (ed.) The Kabbalah: A Study of the Ten Luminous Emanations from Rabbi Isaac Luria with the Commentaries Sufficient for the Beginner. Vol. II, Jerusalem: Research Center of Kabbalah, 1973. p. 7."
Pendulum.
This video explains how it works and the philosophy the Umberto Eco was trying to explain. How the universe is the point that is stationary and that the universe is rotating.
I think that there is more to this philosophy that what this man is saying. I believe that there are cycles, just like there are cycles of the Pendulum. There is the rotation of the earth there is the rotation of the planets and these positions are a measure of time. Just as we know when it is 12 noon where we live because of the hour cycles in a day, so it is with the sun and the planets and the rotation of the universe.
Solar History: The Connection of Solar Activity, War, Peace and the Human Mind in the 2nd Millennium
So the fixed point where the pendulum is suspended is the point that doesn't move. It is also the important point, philosophically. Because if you are looking at the Pendulum going back and forth you are seeing the results of the rotation of the earth. But if we look at the point we can understand the cycles of the sun and the planets and the universe.
Then Umberto Eco goes on to talk about those cycles. I love this quote when describing what is around the pendulum in the museum. "A swarm of Jurassic insects and reptiles, allegory of the long terrestrial migrations the Pendulum was tracing, aimed at me like angry archons with their long archeopterix-beaks: the planes of Breguet, Bleriot, Esnault, and the helicopter of Dufaux." He uses this as a "juxtaposed" of the old (ancient) and the modern.
I like this video as it is a time lapse and it reminds me of Casaubon's stay over night in the museum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmqjo...
"That was when I saw the Pendulum. The sphere, hanging from a long wire set into the ceiling of the choir, swayed back and forth with isochronal majesty." Foucault's Pendulum
These are the first two sentences and you are supposed to weigh them very heavily in meaning. Since Umberto Eco is a man of "words" I imagine that he doesn't just throw words around.
The word isochronal means : uniform in time : having equal duration : recurring at regular intervals.
The Great Year - The Yuga Cycle - Cosmic Catastrophe Cyle - The Clock Cycle - Micro Nova - Amnesia
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rqGTe_4...
Note the Templars Cross.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7lFa...
"....we were rotating beneath the Pendulum, whose own plane never changed direction, because up there, along the infinite extrapolation of its wire beyond the choir ceiling, up toward the most distant galaxies, lay the Only Fixed Point in the universe, eternally unmoving."
Astrophotography
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7lFa...
"....we were rotating beneath the Pendulum, whose own plane never changed direction, because up there, along the infinite extrapolation of its wire beyond the choir ceiling, up toward the most distant galaxies, lay the Only Fixed Point in the universe, eternally unmoving."
The Only Fixed Point maybe unmoved but everything moves around it. Maybe that is what is meant "as above, so below".
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HIDDEN MATHEMATICS - Randall Carlson - Ancient Knowledge of Space, Time & Cosmic Cycles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7oyZ...
10 minutes in he tells you that the number of minutes that it takes for the earth to rotate around the relative to the sun, is 1440 minutes.
Love this quote:
"Were its tip to graze, (the pendulum) as it had in the past, a layer of damp sand spread on the floor of the choir, each swing would make a light furrow, and the furrows, changing direction imperceptibly, would widen to form a breach, a groove with radial symmetry—like the outline of a mandala or pentaculum, a star, a mystic rose. No, more a tale recorded on an expanse of desert, in tracks left by countless caravans of nomads, a story of slow, millennial migrations, like those of the people of Atlantis when they left the continent of Mu and roamed, stubbornly, compactly, from Tasmania to Greenland, from Capricorn to Cancer, from Prince Edward Island to the Svalbards. The tip retraced, narrated anew in compressed time what they had done between one ice age and another, and perhaps were doing still, those couriers of the Masters."
Why did the migrate "to Greenland?" from Tasmania? And how did they do it?
How the pendulum changes direction imperceptibly makes me think about the ".great year". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great...
The Platonic Year, which is also called the Great Year, has a different more ancient and mystical meaning. Plato hypothesized that winding the orbital motions of the Sun, Moon and naked eye planets forward or back in time would arrive at a point where they are in the same positions as they are today. He called this time period the Great Year and suggested that such a unified return would take place about every 36,000 years.
Word Salad for Chapter 1:
Pendulum; Sphere; Isochronal; Square Root; Sublunar; circumference; diameter; circles; arcane; conspiracy; triadic beginning of K; quadratic; unnumbered perfection of the circle itself; oscillate; radial symmetry; mandala; pentaculum; a star; a mystic rose; a tale; a story of slow migration; Atlantis; Continent of Mu; Tasmania to Greenland; Capricorn to Cancer; Prince Edward Island to Svalbards; compressed time; between one ice age and another; those couriers of the Masters; Agarttha the center of the world as it journeyed; Somoa to Novaya; Zemlya; A pattern united; Avalon to Ayers Rock; 4:00 pm June 23; astigmatic circumference; oscillation; gone full circle; thirty-two hours; Dome of Solomon's Temple; Knights; Saint Marin-des-Champs; The Pole; Earth's extended axis; Twenty-four hours; the Law; Earth was rotating; up toward the most distant galaxies; Only Fixed Point; Eternally Unmoving; The Mystery of the absolute immobility; Everything moved; Earth, Solar System; Nebulae; Black Hole Children of the Great Cosmic Expansion; One Single Point Stood Still; The one; The Rock; The Guarantee; The liminous mist that is not body; No Shape; No Weight; No Quantity or Quality; Does not see or hear; Cannot be sensed; In no place; No time; Not a Soul, Not Intelligence; Not Imagination; Not Opinion; Not Number; Not order or measure: Neither darkness nor light; Neither error or truth. boy who wore glasses; a girl who unfortunately did not; Foucault's Pendulum; 1851; Obsservatoire; Dome of the Pantheon; Wire 67 Meters; Sphere weighting 28 kilos (61.72 pounds); Geometric Point; No Dimension; Can't move Right, Left, Up or Down; There is no "itself"; The Earth turns the point doesn't; Above the only stable place in the cosmos; panta rei; Textbook that had blunted his capacity for wonder, Textbook had made her inert and insensitive to the thrill of the infinite, oblivious; the One; the Ein-Sof; the Ineffable; Altar of Certitude; Reverence and fear; Esthetic Raving; Shapeless cancer taking gradual shape in his soul; transforming game into reality; The Plan, The Universal Plot; Eve of the Summer Solstice; Not Crazy; Hit upon the truth; Numinous; Unhinge the mind; Capitals of the semicircle of columns; Mirroring the mystery of the ogive; Static Hypocrisy which rests on an absence; Columns believe they are thrusting the great ribs upward; The ribs believe that they are holding the columns down; the vault being both all and nothing; Once Cause and Effect; Becoming Drunk at the Stream instead of Drinking at the Source: The Pendulum that hung from the vault; The Choir by virtue of the Law, the Pendulum could exist; The Pendulum existed so that the choir could exist. (How is this true?)
"You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another; you cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple."
Tortoises, Prehistoric Birds; Evil Dragonflies; sapiential metaphors; didactic pretext; Swarm; Jurassic Insects and Reptiles; Allegory of the long terrestrial migrations: The Pendulum was tracing; Aimed At Me; The planes of Breguet; Bleriot; Esnault; and the helicopter of Dufaux; Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers; Paris; 18th century; Old Abbey Church; Priory; A Conspiracy; Sublime Universe of Heavenly Ogives and the Chthonian world of gas guzzleers are juxtaposed. Vehicles: Bicycles; horseless carriages; automobiles; planes; corroded by time; ambiguous mix of natural and electric light. Patina; Violin's Varnish; Skeleton's; Chassis, rods and cranks; Tortures; Rack; Confess; Antique machines - once mobile, now immobile; Souls Rusted; Technological Pride; guarded on the left; Statue of Liberty; Bartholdi; another world; Pascal; nightmare of deranged entomologist; chelae, mandibles, antennae, proglottides, and wings; Cemetery of Mechanical corpses; Magnetos, monophase transformer; turbines, converters, steam engines; dynamos; ambulatory beyond the Pendulum; Assyrian idols; Chaldean; Carthaginian, Baals whose bellies, long ago, glowed red-hot; Nuremberg Maidens whose hearts bristle with naked nails; Airplane Engines; Horrible Garland of Simulacra that lie in adoration of the Pendulum; Progeny of Reason; Enlightenment; Stand guard forever over the ultimate symbol of Tradition and Wisdom; Pendulum; 9 francs; Sunday; 19th century; nicotine; black cravats; frock coats; professional jealousy; farcical ghosts; cher maitre; educate; amuse; bourgeois; taxpayers; march of progress; Saint-Martin- des-Champs; priory; revolutionary museum; Compendium; Arcane knowledge; Planes; Propelled machines; Electromagnetic Skeletons; Dialog; Script; Catalog; Convention; Shrine of all the arts and trades. Francis Bacon; House of Solomon; New Atlantis; Truth; Midnight; Passageway; Network; Paris sewers; museum; Porte St, - Denis; Spell of the place; cold eyes; epiphany; information; thief; lurking; nave; vehicles; passenger; live man; inside a lifeless vehicle; games; take heart; Not Wisdom; Science.
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JORDAN MAXWELL
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Minutes 2 hours H. G. Wells
Minutes 2 hours 4 minutes Catholics (jesuits) and politics
Minutes 2 hours 9 minutes quotes George Washington and Disraeli seems to be a loop or repeat...
Arthur, the dragon king : the barbaric roots of Britain's greatest legend
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The birth of Federal Union
https://federalunion.org.uk/about/birth/
The birth of Federal Union
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THE DAY OF THE DOLPHIN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cratylus
The Black Death and Abrupt Earth Changes
https://abruptearthchanges.files.word...
Freemasons and Sacred Geometry
https://sacredgeometryinternational.c...
Gematria Calculator
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Kabbalah Numerology
https://subconsciousservant.com/kabba...
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Astrology and art
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diota...
Books
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The epigraph about which you so wisely inquire is a passage composed in the Hebrew language, the translation of which is:
“When the Light of the Endless was drawn in the form of a straight line in the Void… it was not drawn and extended immediately downwards, indeed it extended slowly — that is to say, at first the Line of Light began to extend and at the very start of its extension in the secret of the Line it was drawn and shaped into a wheel, perfectly circular all around.” –Gruberger, Philip S. (ed.) The Kabbalah: A Study of the Ten Luminous Emanations from Rabbi Isaac Luria with the Commentaries Sufficient for the Beginner. Vol. II, Jerusalem: Research Center of Kabbalah, 1973. p. 7.”
What it means is that nothing our senses perceive is as it appears - the deeper meanings, and thus consequences, contained therein radiate telescopically outward in all directions, that is to say, actions and reactions are spherically expanding in their sublime influence.
Word lists
INDEX
isochronal
Definition:
uniform in time : having equal duration : recurring at regular intervals
Greek isochronos, from is- + chronos time
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histo...
Galileo's early studies at the University of Pisa were in medicine, but he was soon drawn to mathematics and physics. At 19, he discovered (and, subsequently, verified) the isochronal nature of the pendulum when, using his pulse, he timed the oscillations of a swinging lamp in Pisa's cathedral and found that it remained the same for each swing regardless of the swing's amplitude. He soon became known through his invention of a hydrostatic balance and for his treatise on the center of gravity of solid bodies. .....Among these is what is now called Galilean relativity, the first precisely formulated statement about properties of space and time outside three-dimensional geometry.
sublunar
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublu...
In Aristotelian physics and Greek astronomy, the sublunary sphere is the region of the geocentric cosmos below the Moon, consisting of the four classical elements: earth, water, air, and fire.
The sublunary sphere was the realm of changing nature. Beginning with the Moon, up to the limits of the universe, everything (to classical astronomy) was permanent, regular and unchanging—the region of aether where the planets and stars are located. Only in the sublunary sphere did the powers of physics hold sway.
Plato and Aristotle helped to formulate the original theory of a sublunary sphere in antiquity,[4] the idea usually going hand in hand with geocentrism and the concept of a spherical Earth.
Avicenna carried forward into the Middle Ages the Aristotelian idea of generation and corruption being limited to the sublunary sphere.[pMedieval scholastics like Thomas Aquinas, who charted the division between celestial and sublunary spheres in his work Summa Theologica, also drew on Cicero and Lucan for an awareness of the great frontier between Nature and Sky, sublunary and aetheric spheres.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho...
Literary offshoots:
Dante envisaged Mt Purgatory as being so high that it reached above the sublunary sphere, so that “These slopes are free from every natural change”.
Samuel Johnson praised Shakespeare's plays as “exhibiting the real state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, intermingled”.
Nikila, energy, sound, vibration, mandala, weather, energy plants?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Br5Qik1...
"like the outline of a mandala"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandala
or pentaculum (pentacle)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentacle
or a star
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star
or a mystic rose
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulshan...
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diota...
Diotallevi
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
“Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.”
"I am remembering now (as I remembered then) in order to make sense out of the chaos of that misguided creation of ours. Now (as then, while I waited in the periscope) I shrink into one remote corner of my mind, to draw from it a story. Such as the Pendulum.
"Diotallevi told me that the first Sefirah is Keter, the Crown, the beginning, the primal void. In the beginning He created a point, which became Thought, where all the figures were drawn. He was and was not, He was encompassed in the name yet not encompassed in the name, having as yet no name other than the desire to be called by a name. . . . He traced signs in the air; a dark light leapt from His most secret depth, like a colorless mist that gives form to formlessness, and as the mist spread, a burst of flames took shape in its center, and the flames streamed down to illuminate the lower Sefirot, and down, down to the Kingdom. But perhaps in that simsun, that diminishment, that lonely separation—Diotallevi said—there was already the promise of the return."
Foucault's Pendulum
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great...
The term Great Year has more than one major meaning. It is defined by scientific astronomy as "The period of one complete cycle of the equinoxes around the ecliptic, or about 25,800 years". Ptolemy reported that his teacher Hipparchus, by comparing the position of the vernal equinox against the fixed stars in his time and in earlier observations, discovered that it shifts westward approximately one degree every 72 years. Thus the time it would take the equinox to make a complete revolution through all the zodiac constellations and return to its original position would be approximately 25,920 years. In the heliocentric model, the precession can be pictured as the axis of the Earth's rotation making a slow revolution around the normal to the plane of the ecliptic. The position of the Earth's axis in the northern night sky currently almost aligns with the star Polaris, the North Star. But as the direction of the axis is changing, this is a passing coincidence which was not always so and will not be so again until a Great Year has passed.
The tilt of the Earth's polar axis remains constant but describes a circular path in space during a period known as The Great Year.
The Platonic Year,[1] which is also called the Great Year, has a different more ancient and mystical meaning. Plato hypothesized that winding the orbital motions of the Sun, Moon and naked eye planets forward or back in time would arrive at a point where they are in the same positions as they are today. He called this time period the Great Year and suggested that such a unified return would take place about every 36,000 years.
Chapter 7
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pylades
In Greek mythology, Pylades was a Phocian prince as the son of King Strophius and Anaxibia who is the daughter of Atreus and sister of Agamemnon and Menelaus.[1][2] He is mostly known for his relationship with his cousin Orestes, son of Agamemnon.
https://voiceofpeopletoday.com/who-re...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophi...
Chapter 11
Joachim Murat
Quarante Lettres De Joachim Murat � Sa Fille Laetitia...
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Chapter 1
"In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, and old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing."
The first sentence of Don Quixote tells us that he doesn't connect himself to a place but to a time. He is a traveler. The tools that mean something to him are a lance, a buckler, a horse and a dog. These are the "symbols" that he believes in. With these entrapments he believes he is a gentleman. One that has his own mind. Is independent and an individualist. He is well read. He sees the world differently but is sure of himself. He needs a costume. (doublet of fine cloth and velvet breeches and shoes to match for holidays). He is materialistic. He was a man of leisure and his preferred propaganda was books about Chivalrey.
This is no different than people today talking about Game of Thrones or a Soap Opera and getting lost in a story. Or even a sic comedy and then mirroring the characters in that sic com and becoming "Karen's".
"Who doubts that?" said the niece; "but, uncle, who mixes you up in these quarrels? Would it not be better to remain at peace in your own house instead of roaming the world looking for better bread than ever came of wheat, never reflecting that many go for wool and come back shorn?"
Why the individualist is important:
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Why the individualist seeks out media to confirm his own beliefs.
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What Nabokov's eyes kept seeing as he prepares his lectures was the accurately perceived fact that the book elicits cruel laughter. Quite early readers and critics began to sidestep this Spanish fun and to interpret the story as another kind of satire: one in which an essentially sane, humane soul in a crass and unromantic world can only appear as insane.
Hamlet teased Polonius with the ambiguous shapes of clouds. Don Quixote's abilities to fool himself are a focus of the age's anxieties. Identity, for the first time in European history, became a matter of opinion or of conviction.
Why does this matter?
Propaganda 21/22
"Whether or not his newspaper and a set of senses reduced to five are the main sources of the so-called "real life" of the so-called average man, one thing is fortunately certain: namely, that the average man himself is but a piece of fiction, a tissue of statistics."
I want to make a map of Spain so I can chart Don Quixote quest.
...first part, takes place around the villages of Argamasilla and El Toboso in La Mancha, in the Castilian parched plain, and to the south in the mountains of the Morena range, Sierra Morena. 43 degrees to 36 degrees.
What we shall witness now is the evolution of the "epic form," the shedding of its metrical skin, the hoofing of its feet, a sudden fertile cross between the winged monster of the epic and the specialized prose form of entertaining narration, more or less a domesticated mammal, if I may pursue the metaphor to its lame end. The result is a fertile hybrid, a new species, the European novel.
Another Spanish author,
during 1605 and 1615. MIguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616); William Shakespeare (1564-1616). They die on the same day, the 23 of April, St. George's Day, 1616. Hamlet (1601), Othello (1604), Macbeth(1605), King Lear(1606), were or had just been produced. King James version of the Bible came out in 1611. Don Quixote a monomaniac but the whole of Spain in sixteenth century was overrun with madmen of the same pathological type, men of one idea --since "the king, the Inquisition, the nobles, the cardinals, priests, and nuns...were all dominated, by one mastering and overbearing conviction that the way to heaven was through a door, the keys of which were in their keeping.
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