By Psyche | October 16, 2009
Sorry, no time.
Hallowe’en’s but a few short weeks away, and it’s supposed to be the time of the dead, when “the veils are thinnest ‘tween worlds”. Yet, outside obvious fiction, when was the last time you heard of a young ghost?
Recently I reviewed Claude Lecouteux’s The Return of the Dead
for SpiralNature.com. In it, the author delves into Germanic and Scandinavian folklore to discover their pre-Christian beliefs about death and the afterlife, focusing on ghosts and revenants in particular.
He was writing of a time when they were taken to be a very real phenomena, yet for the mainstream, this no longer holds. He writes:
In terms of evolution, having suffered the outrages of time and history, revenants have lost almost everything that distinguished them: their physicality and their powers. They no longer kill or threaten, nor do they perform domestic tasks. They are no longer the tutelary or wicked spirits of an earlier age. Ordinarily, they appear mute, using their eyes or gestures to express what they wish to say, but they no longer have the power to express themselves with words because they are no longer of this world.
Lecouteux attributes their decline to Continue reading »
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By Psyche | May 9, 2009
Hey, kids! Remember this?
Saturday Signal is Plutonica.net’s weekly round up of neat stuff found on the occult Internet. Though as it’s been on hiatus for a bit, I’ve decided to highlight a few nifty things you may’ve missed in that time.
As it was in the past, so shall it remain: if you find something weird, cool or otherwise noteworthy, please e-mail me about it. If you’re pro-promotion, include your name and website for extra credit. Thanks!
So, let’s see what we’ve got this week… Continue reading »
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By Psyche | August 16, 2008
Saturday Signal: attempting to sift signal from the noise of the Internet’s occultural cacophony.
In our first Saturday Signal Beth asked “how our “fun day” (Saturday) got named after the least fun god/planet of the week”. Last week we looked at one possible reason, and Gesigewigus commented on how the planetary hours align nicely with the days of the week: Continue reading »
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By Psyche | May 20, 2008
Practicing Conscious Living and Dying: Stories of the Eternal Continuum of Consciousness, by Annamaria Hemingway
O Books, 9781846940774, 218 pp. (incl. bibliography and works cited), 2008
The book opens with an introduction to near death experiences, or NDEs, offering an overview of what happens, then follows with several stories recounted by individuals who’ve died and “come back”, naturally with a sense of greater purpose and an increased zest for life. Continue reading »
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By Psyche | February 11, 2008
Alan Miller, Ph.D. died of cancer on February 9th in Scotsdale Arizona. A student of Israel Regardie in the 70s, Miller was perhaps better known under his pseudonym, Dr. Christopher S. Hyatt, as the author of Undoing Yourself with Energized Meditation, The Psychopath’s Bible and numerous other works published by his company New Falcon Press, and was the founder of the Extreme Individual Institute (EII). Continue reading »
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