And Then, It's Too Late

Science is when someone has a process that they do, and then it results in a direct material effect, and they pass this process on to someone else, who also does the process and the same effect occurs - and they can all pass the process on and on to any others they like.

'Faith' is to do with some idea or other, which does not have any immediate obvious material effect. And this does not preclude there being material consequences though, at some time thereupon after the intellectual process is implemented. For example, civilized societies have concepts of justice, which they intend will have material consequences - but these are subtle and intellectual in the first instance. So it is not as though these things relate to completely non-material matters - except they relate more particularly to the underlying thoughts rather than material procedures that have to do with arrangements of actual things. 'Rituals' might have metaphorical or even metaphysical purposes, but they are not intended to be exactly like chemistry processes or 'engineering.' Still this is arguable too, on a level, because there have been dubious practices like 'alchemy' and magical incantations in so-called 'black masses' or in witchcraft and all of this... 

German engineering - complex, and will
get you an immediate material effect!

Yet even so, no one has reliable experience that is widely accepted that says that any of these sorts of things procure material effects in any immediate way like the connected relationships observed in, as I said, chemistry and electronics and so on.

Broadly, very broadly speaking, we could say that the intellectualizing of certain complex things - be it even say, the Big Bang Theory, or the Theory of Evolution, or even just any design plan, circuit design/diagram, all of that kind of thing - is propagated, rather than actually 'experimented' in every single instance of it being transferred from one mind to another. 'Science' though, is just the thing where we do expect there to be a more - a much more direct - set of results and effects that may be observed right away, or in the sense of 'right away' being the chain linking all the actual things within the specified process itself. ...Whatever that process is.

So then there are big systems of organised 'ideas' that are not actually expected to produce immediate material effects, but which human societies all use: the modern education system, for instance, is one such thing -, so are religious faiths examples of this, and written and intellectual 'law' in societies.These things are both propagated (you can go to a Law School to study 'the Law') but they are also 'culturally enacted daily' or virtually daily anyway in normal life within any society. We can try to put metrics on them.

Anglo-French design - the Baccarat Bar
at Harrods.

To some extent, science is actually quite crass, because it wants to make a big fuss of anything that is immediately obvious! Explode a big BIG bomb - wow. Nuclear Bomb; science, yeah man. Wow. Science.

Music, the playing of it can also procure an immediate effect in the emotions of people hearing it but scientists do not call this thing actual 'science.' And that is because artists will tell them to fuck off! And produce Beethoven's 9th if they can which they can never do.

Can, never do. And there is a reason why not. This vain notion that 'scientists' all secretly maintain that someday they will 'create' a scientifically-designed, mechanistically (meaning, a process able to be passed on to anyone who can repeat it to specification very reliably) 'new' 'Beethoven's 9th' (IE a creative masterpiece) is fundamentally amiss because they do not perceive that there is a geometry and hence also a dynamics, a 'celestial motion' law, of intangible form, force, number and shape. And that they don't know it.

One problem is that although one can make a statement that intangible dynamics of the arts are like dynamics of material physics (IE 'as above so below') - in fact they are not exactly like it though... And that's the problem.

Art is choice, science has no choice.

A thing is held to be 'good' in art often as a matter of taste, not mechanistic rule.

You can, if you choose, bow to an unknowable, non-materially present, invisible deity as someone doing 'noble servitude' (Islam, certain Chinese beliefs as well) to that deity, or you can choose to have a transactional relationship with a 'Demonic' Supreme Nature such as you might do in Satanism or in black witchcraft or sorcery or 'Voodoo,' or you can try to have a transactional relationship also with a deity which demands your worship and your 'sacrifice' of something (whatever, I don't know), or you can choose none of those, or you can choose even some other thing entirely different too. But 'religion' and 'faith' too, are questions ultimately of volition (deliberate choice), even though they are almost never that according to the outward forms of organized religion: that is, you will go to Hell if you don't 'choose' such-and-such! Not much of a real act of volition there...

American industrial constructing
techniques (J. Edwards Deming-style),
has its charms, too...

Religion has choice, but art is choice.

And there is a difference.

When you are attracted to something it is because you are something, even though you are also pretending to yourself that it is entirely a matter of choice - although, addiction is a compulsion, and not exactly a fully independent choice. So, art is a relationship of equivalency between the object, and the subject which is also part of the intangible ellipse of the object itself.

Let's get back to the stupid bizarre unrealistic subject of 'grey' ET aliens.

And, by now you all have read all of those free reads I linked and you remember everything in there, right. And so, you will pick up all the ideas, the muscle groups, the actual people referred to, what they do, who they are, where they are. Right?

Grey aliens are not 'grey.' And they are certainly not 'giants' as the recent FBI declassified files (the supposed 'Memorandum 6751' or some 'new-release' of related files) say, because that is to protect their actual really quite diminutive and almost fragile nature until they get 'adapted' to the Earth conditions.

Now remember - you are in the loop here - I have already told you beforehand, about this era, and the archives and files, I even named one of those in charge: Munro Leaf. 

 

Think You're On The 'Outside...?'

No, you're not. If you are reading here - you are on the inside.

Just keep this in mind: as a 'human race' we have developed having 'ownership,' as they say in Los Angeles, of our own ideas, our advances in science and technology, and art and culture. Einstein is broadly credited with 'inventing' the nuclear bomb, and so we think, as humans, we did this...

A 'Wendy's' is a conspiracy theory meme, about a
restaurant, which is a front for a place that cooks you 'well-done'
while they are roasting you...

He never really invented it, though, did he? It was already there as part of the underlying nature of things, something to be exploited with highly developed tools and engineering.

Let's say an advanced species arrives here - having basically already been well aware of this place for a long time - nevertheless though, some significant matters become new issues if such a thing ever took place: our own 'trajectory' of intellectual development would instantly be impeded and altered either by us leaving off from undertaking any 'new' task from the standpoint of where we 'were' at, or else, we would be tacking onto the existing development trajectory of a wholly other species and their 'history.'

Was there, in fact, ever a story of historical change by conquest, that really happened the way 'the standard narratives' say...? Or, was it the case that a prior Empire self-damaged, got wound down internally, and other people filled in the vacuum?

The standard Islamic narrative, is that some leader 'Muhammad,' took around a thousand warriors at max, and overcame a range of previous 'ruling elites' that surrounded him, ostensibly, 'him' being in the first place, a nomad.

Is the whole world a 'Wendy's' and are we
being 'well-done?'

In the key 'turning point' battle of Islam, during the third Caliphate (Uthman) a general, Hudhayfah, prosecuting the main battles in Armenia and Azerbaijan (what were they doing there? This is nowhere near the Hijaz...) tells Uthman that almost all the people who could 'recall and recite' the Quran were being killed (and by some hadiths this amounts to 900 men and women, and by al-Tabari, the strength of Hudhayfah's army was 10,000 persons). That's when Hudhayfah advises Uthman to write down one single 'correct' recitation...

Now when you keep in mind that the army of the Persian 'King' Khosrau was over 80,000 men, fully armed with the latest weapons and highly trained and paid - there is no rational basis to the idea that 'Muhammad' from the Hijaz, traveled up to Iran and Armenia and Kufa (Iraq/Baghdad) and overpowered the Persians.

In the Quran itself, there are references to 'Ad,' or 'Ud/Uz/Az,' and 'Thamad/Thamaz.' What this directly means when translated, even from basic modern Arabic - is 'Az' (Azerbaijan) and 'the people after Azerbaijan').

So here is what really happened: Baghdad was the center of all 'maintained' knowledge - IE a major library center - and here Jews centered their own 'global' Hebrew center for Jewish Jurisprudence and religious rulings (this is a matter of historical fact which is not disputed anywhere), and, it was where the Persians also maintained their technical libraries consisting of engineering books and mathematics books and so on, including works of art and culture.

'Muhammad' was a nomadic leader in the vicinity, slightly north of Baghdad. He was armed literally by the Persians. That's how come 'the Qurayshi' dialect - the word has been conflated with Kurayshi, meaning of the people of Khosrau! The Persian Empire self-destructed in a huge civil war and internal conflicts, in which one of the Persian ruling family representatives assassinated virtually all his own male family members - and then the women deserted him though and he was murdered eventually, and the whole place collapsed as a cohesive 'Empire.'

Goan crab curry... Very nice.

Hulagu Khan a little later caused the Great Library of Baghdad to be burned down completely.

The whole human race very nearly, in that particular incident, actually almost lost all the key works of Euclid and Pythagoras.

There are over 2 billion Muslims on the planet today, this is not an insignificant number, and they all hold that Muhammad was in the Hijaz (region), and that he received instructions via a being that came down from space literally as a star which turned into a man when it came to the ground, and that 'God' is so-and-so, and such-and-such a thing and this is what you must do and what you must believe and so on and so forth.

None of that is true.

The Persian Empire crumbled in a 'natural' way, and warlords picked up the pieces and other warlords much later on in the Hijaz, expanded into the vulnerable places all around taking over supreme power, more or less completely. The Byzantines in like manner were also already on the verge of their own self-destruction by this time. Rome had long become a collapsed Empire.

The 'Greys' are not grey - they have little tiny hairs that are translucent
and make them look bluish-grey when they are calm, unless their skin starts to glow,
in which case they get orange-y. Don't worry this is just 'art' done by some Ruskies.

But, we are now left with 2 billion people who believe literal nonsense. If an advanced 'super species' turned up - what would they do with this 2 billion, and the other several billion who believe varying other forms of childish nonsense too?

Would they simply exploit all - as I said previously - like some kind of Cosmic act of species 'pedophilia?'

Would they even - as my Russian interpreter friends point out to me about this - be even slightly interested in us at all? Why would they be? 

I'll tell you why.

Go back to the Library of Baghdad. Or the Library of Alexandria. Or the Louvre. Or the Paris Opera. Or the Mariinsky Ballet.

Oh we matter all right. Just not in any 'political' or 'power-expressing' Imperial, way.

Let me show you something. This is a mansion in Penang called 'Suffolk House.' It was where the Colonial founder of Penang, Francis Light, lived. At that time 'Penang' was not anything at all to do with 'Malaysia' (there are simply thousands of 'Malay' ethnic islands all over Asia all the way up to and including parts of the Philippines). It isn't part of the 'Sultanate' federation of Malaysia, although it was a protectorate of Kedah Sultanate, and it has never had any hereditary monarchy, although most all other places in Malaysia do.

Suffolk House

Penang was part of the Presidency of India. It was part of British India. But then, before that - it had been in any case part of the ancient Indian Raj under very ancient major Indian kings.

The current 'narratives' all over the internet will say that Suffolk House 'went into decline and disrepair after the war (WWII).' But that is not what happened. It got the reputation of being 'haunted' by local Chinese and Indians and Malays of Penang, because it had been where the Japanese Kempeitai torutured local gold merchants in particular.

In other words, for modern political reasons, the 'standard narrative' is in fact false.

What you see in modern day pictures of modern day 'Suffolk House' is a completely rebuilt structure based on the original Georgian mansion that was there.

Now, what I mean by 'you are on the inside' is that you are on the inside. Which still does not mean to say for sure, there are going to be advanced alien super-species people turning up on your doorstep just right now exactly. (Unless they do, of course! But not my call...!).

However, you will be able to notice very quickly, if anything that you are observing, might have a different explanation, than the standard narrative.

Unveiling The Sihr Magic

This series here is still in context of the idea that there is something going on regarding 'possible' advanced ET alien interactions with the human race - on some clear-cut, even possibly government-acknowledged basis at present time.

Those of you who have been following from the perspective of a more rational, scientifically-verifiable position, are going to think perhaps this is now about to take a turn-off, a side-track to who-knows-where. But along the way, if you stick with it, it will take on a hugely significant character once things become more and more clear about all the relevant implications.

Now the other thing to keep in mind right now, is that I am deliberately pitching this to those people who I know read here, and who are standard traditional Muslim faith practitioners and followers - partly this is due to the fact that we have a small contingent of people around the world involved with the 'Digital Dirhams' thing, but also because I have to give fair warning that many people are not going to like what I'm about to say, and there are others who will completely dispute all the linguistic 'ties.'

But the real problem with linguistics is this - none of us were there. You have absolutely no clue what someone really said or meant way way back in history, other than by adducing things from various surrounding other indicators; which really may or may not be sound girders for whatever various conclusions academics do make.

A reason I posted the immediate preceding video is because I am going to 'have a go' not just at the standard Islamic narrative, as well as the Christian one, but also at modern era science too - and in this way: modern day science on the whole, almost completely right across the board, consists of people who have watched Francesca Dego, and imagine themselves also to be as good at playing the violin, and then they fill up the white-board behind them, with musical notation until no one can follow anything there, and worse still, they literally do also believe they are engineers and craftsmen as well, who have made the very Stradivarius or Guarneri being played... ...forget about the composers! Listen - not even Francesca Dego was the composer of the piece that you watched; if you understand my drift here.

"Unlocking precious insights using
a collection of lights before the hour of Dawn."

There is a tremendous amount of 'leaping to undue conclusions' going on...

What I want you to do now though, is, just jot down how many things down the page from here, that you have never heard of before, and then ask yourself what the chances are, that those upon whom you have been relying in the past, to 'give' you the viewpoint that you held until you read this here - what the chances are that they are correct and that I am not?

1. All great myths have some truth in them. One of the biggest myths there is, is that of the Kaaba in Mecca. This is a grand myth. Abraham was never there, Adam was never there, even Muhammad was never there. EVER.

You see, Allah instructed Jibreel (this is in the Quran) to build the Kaaba in the best place, because Allah is the best of planners, and Jibreel his best builder, and Adam almost as good, and Abraham certainly as good as Adam... ...which is why, the Kaaba floods all the time, right? And, until recently, when Allah himself committed shirk by asking American engineers to partner with him to help stop the flooding, the Kaaba almost washed away completely in fact.

But not to worry, Allah committed Kufr (disbelieved his own self, and got some partners to assist him; aka committed 'shirk'), and so everything is just about fine now in Mecca.

2. The Black Stone.

Other people have had a stone also fall from the sky, in many places around the Middle East, and in each instance, the stone started out white. In the story of the Hijaz Arabs, when Muslims kiss the Black Stone there at the Kaaba (which fell from space) the stone absorbs their sins and that is why it has been turning black over the years.

The same kind of story is in the Bible, in the New Testament, and the stone is attributed to a 'myth' about the Goddess Artemis...

Now please keep all of this in mind as we proceed from here.

3. In Islamic teaching about 'magic,' the Jinn are not very bright, and demand ibadah (servitude) from humans before they undertake the 'magical' tasks asked of them. Allah, on the other hand, only requires - requires, mind you - 'noble' servitude, from Man. 

All religious conceptions everywhere throughout the whole world, have the potential of being of only two kinds: one, transactional - the deity/powerful being is given something which it demands, in return for which, you get something 'good,' and/or, if you don't do as you're told, you get something very unpleasant instead. And the whole thing is transactional in an unequal way, because you have no power, whereas the deity has all power, or very very much greater power/s.

...And two, it might be 'relational' (yeah I know, not very grammatical, but still); that is - the deity has a relationship with you that is not simply transactional.

Now. There is no sense in which a deity can have an 'equivalent' relational position with humans unless it is actually in the human society, and I'll tell you why: humans are not in a relationship in human society; human society is inter-relational. Human beings relate with many other people within their society on all different kinds of levels and in various different ways.

So those who have this standard fixated ideologue thing about what they imagine a 'Deity' is, had better think very carefully before they proceed here much further now.

Let's say a 'Deity' knows that they have far superior knowledge and information than you do, but that you humans have a stunningly huge potential number of neural network combinations in your brain - as much or more than all the atoms in the Universe by permutation/combination... And so they must realize, that as long as they teach you various critical things, at some point, you are going to be able to make 'right decisions/correct choices.' (Yes I'm cutting a long story short here). And so, a smart Deity (which is also benevolent) is not going to need to consign you permanently to the Fires of Hell where you will have your face burned off each day forever throughout Eternity.

4. The principle behind why Muslims are not to do 'magic,' is that this is stepping on God's realm of powers. But this is a real problem too, for Muslims, because um, okay let's say you are at a Muslim Kindergarten, right, and what -, when you ask the Kindy teachers 'what do you teach the kids?' Do they say 'nothing because this would be associating partners with Allah since Allah knows best and Allah will teach them - so we can't do that.' No, because, presumably a distinction is made by Muslims as to what is a 'God' thing, and what is a Kindy teacher thing. Right? Right?

Where does this go...? LOL

Because I mean, hey, back in history, when someone suggested you could send 'messages' thousands of miles away through the invisible air, this would be a 'God' thing and therefore 100% haram and kufr and shirk... Right? Magic, right...

Except - no; not.

Sure a long time ago it might have looked like a 'God' thing, but today everyone knows it is a simple 'Man/technology' thing.

So where does that distinction end?

5. 'Sihr' (Arabic magic - what the word means). Even when you go consult the highest academic scholars of Islam that exist today, the most elevated, most respected, most learned people - they will tell you either an outright lie as to what 'Sihr' means ('Sahr' is what you call a practitioner of 'Sihr' - magic). 'Sahar,' by the way, is also a term for the shining of the Moon.  

Shaykh Yasir Qaadhi himself says 'Sihr' means 'that which is hidden.'

It doesn't mean that.

Okay so here comes one 'secret reveal...'

Are you listening?

It means the moments before the Dawn.

The Dawn we know...

6. Remember I have already talked about the cacophony that can be 'heard' from people's minds?

Everyone else is asleep, their frontal lobe thinking is 'off' and you are in your 'cave' or out in the desert, or on the mountain, or in the middle of a lake... ...whatever. So, the 'Djinn' comes and 'listens' to you - let's say using the same kind of technology that IBM and their lead public face research into AI, Luca Turin, has today... Is this a 'God' thing? Or a basic technology thing?

They can hear what you're thinking, if you are being clear enough. Both of them - the Djinn(!) as well as IBM.

7. Now - if and when the ET aliens do turn up, if they take advantage of you because you're an idiot, who wants to go around believing in transactional servitude to a psychopathic deity, rather than conducting some grown-up interchanges with you on a socio-psychological equal-footing, if not a technological one at least, is this some form of Cosmic pedophilia??

You know, playing around with your mind and your body and anything and everything else because they have you at a complete disadvantage, and they maintain that power imbalance? Is that being decent? Would they be being decent at all?

No. And they wouldn't do it. Not if they are benign and benevolent towards you.

8. Here is where the Christians all will stick their fingers in their ears. Mostly.

You're going to get this kind of c* all over the internet, even in major Universities... They have no certain idea, apparently, as to what the Greeks called 'lions.' Either - either - it was 'Ailuros,' or else it was 'Leones,' or maybe, it was 'panthera.'

The Jews - some of them - thought Mary the Mother of Jesus, was from the House of Panthera, and then, some of them conflate this with some account that there was a commander of Alexander the Great's army called 'Panthera.'

And the, well, basically at this stage, the everyone (except not me), says that Mary Magdelene, was someone from a town called Magdala in Galilee. Or, maybe her name meant 'tower' because she was tall because 'Magdala' means tower.

Now. Let me pull a few things together for you...

This woman, unnamed in the source texts, turns up with an alabaster jar, and takes out some expensive nard ointment, you see. And there is this whole 'tradition' though not in the texts themselves in that way - that she must have been a prostitute because she had the access to the money for the ridiculously expensive nard and alabaster jar. In different places the jar contains clear water.

'Alabaster' is a very white and also sometimes partly clear-like-crystal gypsum rock, that has been worked into various containers and things for thousands of years.

Etymologically, it is said to come from the Egyptian word for 'lion' or 'cat.' There are a few 'puns' I could venture too, if you employ the typical Greek lisping but I'm not going to go there; it isn't important.

Anyway now listen to me - this is how you do 'Sihr' magic:

You get an alabaster jar (doesn't have to be alabaster, doesn't have to be 'jar' especially). And you get some clean water. And then you shut up and I don't know, wait, I suppose, until the time before Dawn, and then, you 'establish an up-link' and now here's a thing though right - you are talking way faster than 'mere' light speed; that is positively slow. 

So when you 'see' the types of people who come from more or less the same place that the 'white rocks from space' did - you know, that fell where the Kaaba is - initially, because your perception (just like a baby's getting used to light-globes) is not great, you might not have a great experience of much duration. This is why, in the past, people went out to lonely places for 'forty days/forty nights' and so on.

This is just the information exchange phase. These people are real material physical people. You're the one likely to have a completely messed-up head! Not them.

Back to the Greek word for 'cat.' Would that like 'Lyra?' Why does Wikipedia say 'Ailuros.' There is no 'u' in Greek; it is 'y.'

Here, here take this also. You know that music we posted a few days ago - 'Gouryella.' That is an Australian Aboriginal word.

Okay so we won't post the PVD 'Vega' track yet (Vega is in Lyra, as you know).

'Sahar/Sihr' BEFORE THE DAWN.

'Asood' - TO REVEAL A PRECIOUS INSIGHT

'Anwar' - A COLLECTION OF LIGHTS

'Zanjanah' - UNLOCKING

Now, I have UNLOCKED for you, A COLLECTION OF LIGHTS, that you will be able to see BEFORE THE DAWN, and these will reveal to you PRECIOUS INSIGHTS.

Just don't get licked to death by the lion... You know, the BIG LION.The 'Bast' if you're Egyptian. Kind of makes Christianity an Egyptian thing though... Hey, I never actually said what you do with the alabaster jar. So, I have kept a few secrets back. 

Revealing Sahar, Arabic MAGIC!

Now I'm ready to reveal some things that have never ever been revealed publicly anywhere before.

Certain 'Masters of Illumination' (Shaykh al 'Ishraq) have known these things in the past, but they never expose them except but to their most trusted inner circle students.

Some of this is going to be very disturbing to traditional religious people... Especially to Sunni Muslims, in which tradition these things are not just mildly haram, but very HARAM!

It's possible that people with little knowledge of the real affair, assume it's about casting harmful spells against people. The same way that in the West, there is an assumption that Witchcraft is also about this kind of malevolent 'cursing,' I suppose.

There are few people in the West today, who have the faintest clue about actual traditional European, especially British Isles' 'Wicce.' On the best of authority - Patricia Crowther - the word itself was always 'Wicce,' and not 'Wicca' as they all use today.

...You know I probably ought to say, at this point, that the famous/infamous Gerald Gardner himself, was at one time, a teacher under the prior Director of Teacher Training, just prior to my own father's appointment to that position - and Gardner lived a few houses away, and was in the same institution at which my dad taught. He knew Gardner. Gerald Gardner had nothing but the most respected reputation throughout South East Asia as an historian and sociologist - as well as a mainstream education system teacher in his day.

The funny thing is, when it comes to modern day Sunni Islam, very few adherents are aware of the number of times ancient Babylonian magical incantations occur within the text of the Quran itself: 'by the hill at,' 'by the tree of,' 'by the mountain of...' These are the standard Chaldean/Babylonian incantation formats for magical enchantments. There is a reason for this manner of wording, but I will not go into that here and now.

'Kismet' - means 'destiny' in Arabic...
It's also the yacht owned by billionaire owner of
the Jacksonville Jaguars - Shahid Khan.

Because we all live both in a world of science today, as well as a world of socially-pressured 'standard mainstream/orthodoxies' of religious belief or culture, at least, it is widely supposed that there is no such thing as a genie appearing for real before your eyes, or any way that 'fairy' beings or other supernatural figures can actually be seen - because of course, you would then be able to photograph them on your iPhone.

But this goes to my point that there are few and rare genuine authentic practitioners of any of this kind of thing - it's all Hollywood or pop/pulp fiction that most people are aware of. And it is very misleading and virtually completely incorrect.

Certainly, we have modern instances of terrible and tragic things having occurred, where claims had been made by various parties of some demonic or evil spirits and forces that were released, as it were. One can but think of the Charles Manson situation as at minimum something to consider with a degree of caution that it was not of the kind of thing that involved 'black' practices. And drugs too, but that's not inconsistent with the matter itself.

If I talk in detail about genuine magic - of the kind that gives rise to the kinds of powers ascribed in folklore to figures such as King Solomon, for instance - it will render to you, occult (hidden) processes that are able to give you material wealth, gain for you material things, certainly these powers can create difficulties for others; but such capability doesn't relieve anyone of moral responsibility.

Mysterious caravan...

Despite the fact that so much material does exist in various literary sources today, in various libraries and so on, if you imagine that you have heard everything - you will soon discover otherwise!

But I shall not go into any of this unless people say they would like to see it/read it.

Because once you have learned of it, at the same time you will have learned it. And so it's not reasonable to presume people all have the will to keep such things pristine unused as it were - that is, to never employ the knowledge at all. That would be a kind of a 'Tao philosophy' idealistic thing - to 'have the weapon but never to use it.'

I don't expect that. 

So you have to say whether you want to hear this. Or not.

This is a long music video clip - all of ten minutes! 

And, Back To The 'Fiction'

Shifting my own gears back down from mixing with a few government bureaucrat types this week...

LOL

Anyway that all went very well. 

A friend was asking about something to do with this thing that goes on in South Africa, as it does in a lot of modern places that nonetheless have a strong Islamic, particularly Sunni Muslim representation among the communities - various 'magical' practices, sometimes involving ta'wiz, which is the writing of magical charms and placing them into amulets, as well as a very ancient Babylonian-rooted system of incantation designed to create various effects in the psychology of other people. Or 'sihir,' which is much worse.

Dubai boardwalk mosque, right?
Can't be a restaurant, surely...

In fact the discussion started from there, but ended up in this aspect of praying in a mosque or temple, and how to find a specific mosque or temple that was truly an 'holy place,' as such... Therefore, where your prayers would indeed be answered. We were looking at a short video clip, in which a South African who said he was 'a Hanuman devotee' ('Hanuman' is a Hindu god) yet nonetheless went to this Mazar (mausoleum) and 'prayed with devotion,' to Allah, and his prayers were answered...

Traditionally, for example, the Hagia Sofia was seen as such a place by a range of religious peoples.

Well this type of thing is strictly forbidden in traditional Islam - it is a form of kufr (disbelief, and shirk - associating of partners with Allah, or the powers of Allah). Muslims nevertheless do it all the time! There is this widespread tradition of going to the site of the entombment of some saintly figure, and there, apparently, as they seem to think, prayers are specifically answered.

...So from here on in, I want to take you down a path to a different time and place, and you can treat it as a metaphor, and not expressly believe that it is materially true, necessarily.

Anyway, let's look at things from a modern, at least passingly (pseudo-)scientific perspective, sufficient enough to factor into the way we consider matters, much that is well-known to any common school-child.

Harut and Marut come down to Babylon...

In most ancient times, life was theoretically simpler. When the Islamic tradition angels Harut and Marut descended to Babylon, to impart magic and cosmetics to women, and sorcery to men, and chemicals and poisons to both, there would have been not too much going on inside the heads of the local citizens there beforehand. If, unseen, the angels were there listening and watching first, then it would have been far easier for them to apprehend what was going on inside the heads of the people.

Compared with what you might have to deal with today, if you stepped into any main street of some large city. 'Pick up the dry-cleaning, buy the milk, don't forget the doctor's appointment, turn your mobile off when you get into the car, where did you park the car this time, where is the parking ticket, what about that hot woman in the office, not enough cleared funds to pay the rent/mortgage/kid's school-fees...' And on and on.

Let's say I have some technology that allows me to literally hear a digitized voice reading of what the neural nets in your brain are doing moment to moment. Let's say, you are one of three hundred people in a room or a hall.

Cacophony; it's just cacophony.

Make your own stained glass with Sharpie marker pens

I mean we can go into why any mysteriously powerful 'being' is going to attend to you specifically anyway - in another post - but if you are in a large crowd, and the enhanced arousal systems are all being employed, theoretically, at some stage there is this effect called 'quorum seeking' that becomes engaged in the group mind, and then, everyone kind of thinks the exact same thoughts and feels the same emotions all at the same time.

If you are by yourself or in a much smaller group, there is a necessity to focus the thoughts into clear ones.

And in either of these situations, it is easier to 'read' what the human beings are regarding as important, at that specific time.

The 'masters of Illumination' - shaikh-i-ishraq - (ancient philosophers, magicians, sorcerers, even Hebrew prophets, hierophants, et cetera), all believed that Frankincense smoke, procured clarity of mind.

Actually, a modern perfumier, Roja Dove, has made a product he named after the Russian impresario Diaghilev, which uses Frankincense but somehow manages to incite a highly erotic spectrum of emotional responses from his olfactory pyramid in this instance. And so we have to imagine very broad-minded angelic beings listening in on the modern-day evocations by adepts trained by any such idiots like me...

Ah well, we are in the day and age of Cardi B though, right?

Here is an example of 'quorum seeking' techniques used in mass audiences, by means of standard 'enhanced arousal.' Yeah I could have posted the 'all-stops-out' Bach cathedral organ thing, but I didn't! ...This is 'sahar,' or 'sihir;' sorcery. We do this type of thing.