Why aren't graveyards expanding?
Why do you think?
>>18819392
I have not had enough sleep for this, Goddamn it op. Though i live in a state that people are leaving at a high rate.
They aren't expanding because they re-use the graves. When someone is buried and someone else needs to be buried, they dig up the previous corpse dig the whole a bit deeper and put both cadavers in the same hole. It costs money to have a headstone, have you ever thought about what happens when you run out?
Cats have a long history in western occultism, both as villains and guardians. One of the arguments about the European black death is that it was the cat's revenge for the feline slaughter of the 1200's. What is the role of cats today in mysticism and the paranormal?
>>18819342
read Sandman story Dream of a Thousand Cats to learn how truly dangerous cats are
>>18819342
>What is the role of cats today
To be companions for crazy and lonely old lesbians
>whats the role of cats today
To be cute as fuck
Today is the day, friends!
>March 26 is the 20th anniversary of a grisly discovery in Rancho Santa Fe: the corpses of 39 members of a religious group called Heaven’s Gate. They committed suicide believing their souls would travel on a UFO to new bodies in a better world... It was front-page news in probably every major newspaper in the world. There were specials on network television. A Time magazine cover with a close-up photo of wild-eyed group leader Marshall Applewhite is one of the signature images of the 1990s.
What are your memories of the group?
Any recommendations for reading, listening or viewing pertinent to the subject?
How do you believe they should be remembered?
>>18819229
I remember when this happened, and watching the hale bopp comet in the sky, i was in my teens at the time.
If I remember correctly, they believed that the uvo they went up to after death was hidden behind the comet.
I think they should be remembered as a warning to the dangers of allowing others to manipulate the way you think.
Some stuff I would put out there, for starters:
>Here Be Monsters, Episode 43 (July 22, 2015)
Podcast with a general overview of Heaven's gate, but more interestingly, a focused looked at former member Steven Hill's life within, and after-leaving the group.
http://www.hbmpodcast.com/podcast/hbm043-last-chance-to-evacuate-earth
(More about Steven can be found here, from this Washington Post story written roughly a month after the events of March 22-March 26: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1997/05/02/the-purgatory-behind-heavens-gate/42f37e94-ef34-4955-8517-527bc5c72e9a/)
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>As Families Grieve, a Portrait Emerges of Cult's Final Days . . . Members prepared for trip, held a last supper at a restaurant. Some had given up jobs and abandoned their families to pursue nomadic life. (Los Angeles Times, 3/29/97)
Probably among the more humanizing looks at the members of Heaven's Gate you'll see, post-suicides.
http://articles.latimes.com/1997-03-29/news/mn-43284_1_cult-member
I've always really liked this quote
>"Tonight . . . forget about the world for a minute, go outside, look up in the northwest and take a look at this comet. It's a beautiful object. It's lovely. It's one of the most magnificent celestial objects you will ever see. But for all its beauty, its magnificence, its splendor, all it is is a dirty snowball that's orbiting the sun," Hale said. "Nothing more."
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>At The Gates Of Heaven (Orlando Sentinel, 6/8/97)
>Dick Joslyn Spent 15 Years As A Member Of The Heavens Gate Cult. He Left To Find His Own Way And Today Is Trying To Explain The Hearts And Minds Of 39 Others Who Stayed Behind.
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1997-06-08/news/9706050500_1_heaven-joslyn-teachings-of-jesus
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https://sawyerhg.wordpress.com
A former member of the group, who still maintains an active online presence
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>>18819255
If you've ever wanted to know more about why the Heaven's Gate website (heavensgate.com) is still online, this is a good starting point:
>The Online Legacy of a Suicide Cult and the Webmasters Who Stayed Behind (Gizmodo, 9/17/14)
http://gizmodo.com/the-online-legacy-of-a-suicide-cult-and-the-webmasters-1617403237
What do people envison the afterlife to be like? Are there any books or /lit/ about it?
>>18819200
I don't believe in the afterlife. Why would there be one? Who deserves a perfect or hellish eternity for forever?
>>18819200
>Afterlife
>Books on /lit
Lulz
>>>/tv/80912198
I am completely convinced that realistic dreams are yourself in a parallel universe. N-dimentional interaction. Anybody else believe in the multiverse?
Why only realistic dreams?
DUDE
>>18819150
Ever been banned from a dream?
Seriously.
Ever been forced to wake up? Attacked, chased, snuffed out of a dream on purpose by intelligences or entities that are not you or your own?
This is near skinwalker ranch.
Hey /x/ I don't know if this is really paranormal or not but I'm gonna post anyways bc there's nothing else but divination bullshit
Can anyone tell me about radio interference? About a year ago I was on a long road trip with my dad and we were listening to the radio when we passed an unmarked cargo truck and all of a sudden our radio fully blacked out and then started to make distorted static like another radio was trying to communicate, this was in middle of nowhere Utah, any thoughts?
>>18818883
I don't know much about radio interference but that is pretty interesting.
>>18818899
Yeah not too long after we saw a personal plane landing in literally bumfuck nowhere far off the road with a helicopter following it I don't want to sound to conspiratorial but it was pretty weird
Most big rigs have a two way citizens band radio with stepped amplifiers on board. If was talking on that radio just as you passed that could have messed up your fm car radio.
Then again, with all the air bases aND military shit in Utah it could have just as easily been military shit too.
Came across a few of these memes on /lit/, but from what I can tell, they originated here on /x/.
Anyone have book recommendations for gnosticism? I'm specifically interested in the notion of the Demiurge as the creator of a 'bad reality'.
Not particularly concerned whether any of you actually believe in this stuff. My reading is for research purposes, so Primary Sources and secondary scholarship are preferred over your personal interpretation, no offense.
Any reading guides on the topic?
>>18818880
also, post demiurge memes
>>18818880
>>18818882
like the adventures of greenpill?
Why are humans so dumb?
>>18818839
compared to which entity which is more intelligent?
>>18818845
The one that just watches in silence
>>18818855
I guess we would need more information about them to answer your question.
Hey /x/, I need to know if you guys have any advice or tips for DIY exorcisms, me and some friends are going to a site we think is haunted during the week and want to be prepared just in case.
>>18818783
you're going to invade a ghost's territory and try to exorcise it? rude.
>>18818783
There's a manual for it.
You should check it first, also it doesn't works if your faith ain't solid.
>>18818795
we're all devout (although I have doubts about one of us), what's the name of the manual?
Is it possible for someone to naturally repel spirits or paranormal entities?
If you don't believe in them, they can't hurt you.
>>18818747
not showering for a year will help
>>18818747
Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram. Alternatively try pic related.
Though it has many meanings it is often used as a rune of protection. Draw it out with your intent (protection) and you'll have it. Most of magick is symbolism/willpower.
Found from Freak Lore here:
http://www.freaklore.com/tiny-human-fossils-have-been-found-in-antarctica
Is that the Furtive Pygmy???
>>18818724
Any more reputable sources on this?
This picture it's of a chilean humanoid that was found by a family, the case it's not as well known as the other chilean humanoid, the one from the sirius movie, but it's equally interesting, this specimen ended in private hands and nothing it's known of his current location.
How does this picture make you feel?
Wtf?
anyone else feel like [PROJECTING] themselves in Antarctica tonight?
This will be an ongoing experiment for the next week. Post your results on the daily thread.
>Location
McMurdo Station in Antarctica
>summon anything you can think of, project a garden, forest, a tree, a nuclear bomb, a river of blood, a black hole, a fountain, a tv, a castle, a farm, a giant cat, the moon crashing down, a volcano erupting, ufo's landing, anything you want.
Step one
>Close your eyes
>tell yourself "I will my spirit to Antarctica"
>visualize yourself teleporting there
>begin your summonings
Make some noise boys and girls.
>>18818669
*walks up to mic*
>you and this entierty of this bored is gay.
*laughs*
>heh you fags should grow up.
*drops mike*
>>18818682
*teleports you to the past*
fooolish samurai!
>>18818669
Fine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwOF5Bvzk1U
Help me, /x/, my entire life I have been drawn to a place I can't find when I'm awake. I'm fixated upon it every day, and I know something waits for me there that will transcend me. It has a deep, radiating vibrance that is dissonant from its dull, mundane appearance. The brilliant and lonely contrast of light and dark in the ashen grey of an overcast day is its signature, the calling card that hooks me to it. Every day, I can see fleeting glimpses of things that remind me of it, but as quickly as their connection to this place is revealed, the mundane washes back over and it was never anything like that place. I feel like it's all around me, just out of reach, but unless I'm dreaming I can't exist in it.
Anyone with dreamscape experience willing to help another traveler find his way?
I'm having kind of a similar thing, although any feelings I have about the location are uncomfortable in the dreams, no matter how dull they are.
Every few months, I'll have a dream in this rural, ass-end middle-of-nowhere farm town. Very flat, aside from the "main" road of it which is raised up. The dreams I've had their range from the mundane (visiting a friend who, in the case of the "story" of the dream, lives there with his family) to the fucking weird (I murder my dad for some reason, freak out, and then invisible aliens abduct him to heal him, but restrict me from seeing him ever again). I've only ever seen it at night in the dreams (although really, that's pretty consistent in all of my dreams, so probably not that unusual) There's also a recurring mention/appearance of a mom-and-pop BBQ restaurant.
It looks like it'd be in the American Midwest or Texas. The latter of which I've actually been to. The dream land actually does kind of resemble my dad's hometown in Texas, but not quite. Although really, rural farm towns all look pretty similar in that region.
It's probably nothing, but I just find it interesting that I've seen it at least three times, each dream having a correlating element to others.
I know how it feels. My dreamscape may not even be in this time and or on this planet.
It's a place with the softest grass that can be. Trees are shortish and reassuring. The sky glows permanently with the gold of a powerful setting sun, the light of which permeates and warms you to the very essence of your being.
I have a house with my name on it there. And someone is waiting for me to get there.
Idk if this is right for this but i had a dream often when i was younger of a run down apoc city, The sky was mostly dark. Little no stars and had no moon. The streets had dim lights and there was small contand fires for more light, First time i had the dream i had what all i can come up with id a tour guide. I remember walking with her past a set of two steel doors that opened from the out side, I could hear voices from with in asked, Begging to be let out. I went to open it and she stopped me and told me no. It's the damned and we walked on.
Ive dreamed of this places more times i can remember, Last time i was in a different dream and walked down an ally in my city. Noticed the ally around me started to warp into the dark city and noped myself awake.