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In a controversial announcement that is likely to cause quite a stir with animal rights groups the Russian space agency is planning to send a monkey on a trip to Mars during which time it will belooked after by a robot."A monkey ma... Read More
New research on the Maya civilization which is believed to have collapsed due to its overuse of natural resources and slash-and-burn farming may have actually held a great appreciation forthe environment."For decades, the Maya –– a... Read More
A new book by author Malcolm Robinson has shed new light on Scotland"s most enduring UFO mystery, the abduction of Garry Wood and Colin Wright from their car in West Lothian some 17 years ago."A remarkable new book explores the mys... Read More
Dark matter is thought to account for three-quarters of the matter in the universe but to date has never been directly observed. Now scientists are claiming a breakthrough discovery ofactual dark matter in a mine half a mile underg... Read More
Belief in ghosts, demons and spirits has been deep-rooted in Japanese folklore
throughout history. It is entwined with mythology and superstition derived from Japanese
Shinto, as well as Buddhism and Taoism brought to Japan from China and India. Stories and
legends, combined with mythology, have been collected over the years by various cultures
of the world, both past and present. Folklore has evolved in order to explain or
rationalize various natural events. Inexplicable phenomena arouse a fear
in humankind, because there is no way for us to anticipate them or to understand their
origins.
The mystery of death is a phenomena that does not offer a rational explanation to
various cultures. Death is an intruder. Death is the change from one state to another, the
reunion of body with earth, of soul with spirit. Humans, throughout the ages, have seldom
been able to believe or to understand the finality of death. For this reason fables and
legends have evolved around the spirits of the dead.
The Japanese believe that they are surrounded by spirits all the time. According to the
Japanese Shinto faith, after death a human being becomes a spirit, sometimes a deity. It
is believed that eight million deities inhabit the heavens and the earth - the mountains,
the forests, the seas, and the very air that is breathed. Traditions tell us that these
deities have two souls: one gentle (nigi-mi-tama), and the other violent (ara-mi-tama).
Buddhism, which was introduced into Japan in the sixth century CE, added a new
dimension to the belief in spirits and other supernatural forces. The Buddhist
belief in
the world of the living, the world of the dead, and the ‘Pure Land of Buddha’
(Jodo)1 achieved a new meaning. The way a man behaved during his lifetime determined
whether he would go to the world of the dead or the ‘Pure Land’. Those driven to
the nether-world found it to be a hell in all its vileness...
In Greek mythology, Aphrodite is the goddess of love, beauty and sexual
rapture. According to Hesiod, she was born when Uranus (the father of the gods)
was castrated by his son Cronus . Cronus threw the severed genitals into the
ocean which began to churn and foam about them. From the aphros ("sea foam")
arose Aphrodite, and the sea carried her to either Cyprus or Cythera. Hence she
is often referred to as Kypris and Cytherea. Homer calls her a daughter of Zeus
and Dione. After her birth, Zeus was afraid that the gods would fight over
Aphrodite's hand in marriage so he married her off to the smith god Hephaestus
the steadiest of the gods. He could hardly believe his good luck and used all
his skills to make the most lavish jewels for her. He made her a girdle of
finely wrought gold and wove magic into the filigree work. That was not very
wise of him, for when she wore her magic girdle no one could resist her, and she
was all too irresistible already.
She loved gaiety and glamour and was not at
all pleased at being the wife of sooty, hard-working Hephaestus. Aphrodite loved
and was loved by many gods and mortals. Among her mortal lovers, the most famous
was perhaps Adonis . Some of her sons are Eros, Anteros, Hymenaios and Aeneas
(with her Trojan lover Anchises. She is accompanied by the Graces. Her festival
is the Aphrodisiac which was celebrated in various centers of Greece and
especially in Athens and Corinth. Her priestesses were not prostitutes but women
who represented the goddess and sexual intercourse with them was considered just
one of the methods of worship. Aphrodite was originally an old-Asian goddess,
similar to the Mesopotamian Ishtar and the Syro-Palestinian goddess Ashtart. Her
attributes are a.o. the dolphin, the dove, the swan, the pomegranate and the
lime tree. In Roman mythology Venus is the goddess of love and beauty and Cupid
is love's messenger...
No amount of logical arguments
can convince some Christians of the fact of reincarnation. Nor would the
accounts of the personal experiences of other people persuade such Christians.
Even though it is quite obvious that, without reincarnation, one cannot argue
convincingly of the perfect Justice of God, many Christians would still want to
know what the Scriptures say about reincarnation. They would ask: Does the Bible
support it? What did the earliest followers of Christ think of it? We shall
show, in this Chapter, that in Biblical times, belief in reincarnation was so
widespread, was so much a part of the culture, that it was taken for granted.
Some Truths Are
Not in the Scriptures: Before we discuss specific
passages in the Bible that indicate acceptance of reincarnation, let us remark
that it is wrong to assume that all truths are to be found in the Scriptures. It
is simply not so. Truths are revealed to mankind according to men's state of
spiritual maturity. Some truths may not have been given to men at some
particular point in time because they were not yet ready for such truths. Even
the way a particular truth is presented also depends on how mature the audience
is perceived to be. We find that this makes sense in our educational system; why
should it not make sense in the school of spiritual life?
When a child has finished
drinking his bottle of Coke, we may tell him that the bottle is empty. He will
agree, and this is true for his age. But we may tell an older child that the
bottle is not really empty, that nature does not permit a vacuum. The bottle is
full of air. And again, this is true. And yet we can go on to tell a yet more
mature person, that the empty bottle contains more than one item; that it
contains a mixture of many gases including nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide.
It is in a similar manner that spiritual truths have been revealed to mankind
over millennia...
The
Christmas Shop: Some of the stock crew has reported an strange feeling when
alone stocking the store for the morning. There is an old photo from the 19th
century of a young woman up on one of the shelves. It has been documented
several different times that a stock person will noticed the photo frowning (her
photo is taken with a straight face) at them along with a strange wind in the
room.
Fire Station: some employees heard foot steps at 2nd floor at night and someone
knocked the door. The 2nd floor is not open for public and it's been an empty
room for several years.-walt? Haunted Mansion: There are 3 spirits that are in
the place all the time, elderly man (who died of a heart attack in Aug. of 1970
before there was a first aid station on the west side of the park), an elderly
woman and a young man who has quite a sense of humor. There is also something
nasty in the attic just before the omni-movers exit into the graveyard.
Witnesses report having hair pulled in the crypt (exit) area with no one in
sight, touched on the back by a hand in a car that ended up having no one in the
car, seen people walk up the portrait hall or grand staircase, stop and vanish,
faces peer from behind the corner at the top of the grand staircase, heard
footsteps on the false floor behind the load area when there is no one else
there, been touched on the face by unseen hands, seen a man in the exit mirror.
It's a Small World: Lights have turned themselves off/on by themselves, as well
as the all the dolls moving without power. Matterhorn Mountain: The ghost of a
woman named Dolly, she was crushed to death after she fell out of her sled and
was hit by the sled behind her. Pirates of the Caribbean: The story goes that a
young boy and his mom loved the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. The boy got
cancer and his last wishes was that his ashes be spread over the Pirates ride.
Disneyland rejected that for health reasons but his mother did it anyway. At
night the ride operators can sometimes see a lone boy riding one of the boats on
the video monitors, but when they check it out there is no one...
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Norman A. Rubin
There are countless deities associated with love and/or sexuality in every
culture throughout history, here are some..
The
Christmas Shop: Some of the stock crew has reported an strange feeling when
alone stocking the store for the morning. There is an old photo from the 19th
century of a young woman up on one of the shelves. It has been documented
several different times that a stock person will noticed the photo frowning (her
photo is taken with a straight face) at them along with a strange wind in the
room. 
