Switzerville Canada - named after my ancestors!!

 

Switzerville is a small, historic rural locality located in Loyalist Township, which sits within Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada. It is situated just northeast of the wider Bay of Quinte region, a highly scenic waterway on the northern shore of Lake Ontario. [1, 2]

Key highlights tying Switzerville to the Bay of Quinte and Canadian history include:

📜 Historical Significance

United Empire Loyalist Roots: Switzerville was settled in the late 18th century by a cluster of German Palatine families (including the Switzer family) who fled to Canada following the American Revolutionary War. [1, 2, 3]
Cradle of Canadian Methodism: In the early 19th century, Switzerville was part of the prominent Bay of Quinte circuit for itinerant Methodist ministers. The historic Switzerville Methodist Chapel was completed in time to host the very first Canada Methodist Conference. [1]
Pioneer Cemeteries: The Switzerville Cemetery on Newburgh Road stands as a designated heritage site, preserving the graves of some of the region's earliest European pioneers. [1]

🗺️ Geography & Tourism

Location: It is positioned near the eastern entrance of the Bay of Quinte, a narrow, 121 km (75-mile) Z-shaped bay famous for world-class trophy walleye angling, boating, and scenic parklands. [1]
The Loyalist Parkway: Switzerville is situated a short drive north of the Loyalist Parkway (Highway 33), a historic driving route along Lake Ontario that links local heritage sites, local wineries, and neighboring Prince Edward County

The Death-Mother Jungian alchemy meaning of the Gospel of Thomas: Martijn Linssen

 https://www.academia.edu/145286380/The_Jungian_death_mother_archetype_in_the_so_called_gospel_of_Thomas

https://leidenuni.academia.edu/MartijnLinssen 

 the concise crux of Thomas is that we are torn
between these two opposites; we are dualized, split (a word occurring 12 times!), unaware of the
sickness (Logion 74) of the separation (Logion 74) that we live in; we must Heal ourselves as
Logion 14 instructs, and overcome what has happened as Logion 47 describes: we were fresh Skins
that got patched with old rags, and thence we split.
And when we split, when we become those so very lamentable children of the living father,
when our original ‘I’ moves into the background and the Ego takes centre stage, then we
spiritually die. We become dead, and forever will be dead – until and unless we work our way
back in, upon which we finally and eventually become the Son of Man (Logion 106), or, more
neutrally, the Child of the Human. 

 This paper discussed the anarthrous use of the masculine noun for ‘death’ being alternated with
its anarthrous use, upon which suddenly it becomes a homonym with the feminine noun for
‘mother’; while the Jungian death-mother archetype is present in the title, none of it was brought
to the fore as the author is completely unfamiliar with anything Jungian

 It most commonly refers to Koine or Ancient Greek nouns that lack the definite article (such as ὁ). This absence often emphasizes the quality, essence, or characteristic of the noun

 Marcion is the Mediator between the Gospel of Thomas and the Synoptics....

Gospel of Thomas is not Christianity.... 

 

 

The German Palatine-Irish Seed-sowing Plow was invented in Sumeria

 

 Wow the Irish hand-dug the sowing of Potatoes while the German Palatine-Irish used a Sumerian invention!!

Think about it - the Irish were from the Yamanaya culture of the steepes!! The German farmers were from the Anatolia influx from the Near East West Asia cultures.... Wow....

 

  

 

 

Adam Miglio: Tiamit in Genesis

 Review of Adam Miglio: From Gilgamesh to Genesis

 

Six "Fasting Cure" Centers exist in Germany! Fasting significantly heals chronic disease

 So awesome!! People in the U.S. freak out about fasting - think it's some kind of brain disease! 

A 48 hour fast causes the chronic conditions to vanish.... some people do 22 days of fasting - and still stay active, etc. 

 

The rotating batch Year-Round Five Bay composting toilet design at a USFS site

 Year-Round rotating Batch composting toilet vid!

https://biorealis.com/composter/rotating/ 

Better to build your own probably.... 

https://greenloo.org/rota-pod/ 

That one is SELF-contained - much better design. Nope - that one still has a "drain hose" for "excess liquid" 

  That's the Huntington Ravine shelter at the summit - it's HUGE.... OK it's NOT the Hermit Lake shelter... OK so the Rotating 5 vault system must be THIS one - Rota-Loo 950 for YEAR-round use

Hermit Lake shelter vid 

 

Utilizing a "five-bay" or batch-style layout, the system allows waste to be isolated into rotating compartments. This gives earlier deposits ample time to break down naturally via aerobic decomposition before being emptied, ensuring the system can handle fluctuating crowd sizes....Winter, Spring, and Fall: The flush toilets are closed, and composting/pit outhouses are opened for public use https://www.outdoors.org/destinations/new-hampshire/hermit-lake-shelters/

 

 The Appalachian Mountain Club proposed a five-bay composting toilet system for the Hermit Lake Complex Shelters in the White Mountain National Forest

 

The Hermit Lake Shelters (including the caretaker's cabin, unofficially known as "HoJo's") sit 2.4 miles up the Tuckerman Ravine Trail on Mount Washington in White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire. [1, 2]

Overview of Hermit Lake Facilities

Accommodations: Includes three-sided and four-sided wooden shelters/lean-tos and tent platforms serving winter mountaineers and skiers.
Caretaker Cabin: Staffed year-round by an on-duty Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) / U.S. Forest Service caretaker who provides daily weather forecasts, avalanche bulletins, and emergency support.
Winter Operations: Outhouses are open, and water must be treated or boiled directly from the nearby Cutler River
 
 

 

 Moldering privies, or slow-composting dry toilets, are more cost-effective and efficient than traditional pit or vault toilets, as they don’t need to be emptied or have new holes dug. They also tend to produce less odor.

The United States Forest Service (USFS) manages a prominent five-bay composting toilet system at the Hermit Lake Complex. [1] at Huntington Ravine  vid

 

White Mountain shelter vid 

 You have to pack out your toilet paper.... 

https://www.nps.gov/articles/composting-toilets.htm 

 Humus from NPS composting toilets is domestic septage and deposits in permitted landfill or wastewater treatment plant, unless it meets 40 CFR 503 requirements as a Class A or Class B sludge. Fecal material in a form easily transported is the primary function, for NPS purposes, of a composting unit.

The U.S. Forest Service has found that recreational user acceptance of composting toilets is extremely high, since well-functioning units have no offensive odor and are considered an environmentally sound waste disposal method.

From the crest of Mount Le Conte in the Great Smoky Mountains to the isolated beach of Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park, park visitors can find composting toilets built following the latest designs and technology in national parks across the country. For NPS, perhaps the most successful example of composting toilets is at Northern Cascades National Park where composting toilets have successfully operated in 16 locations in alpine and sub-alpine elevations for almost 30 years!

 Huntington Ravine trail is the hardest in New Hampshire vid

Location & Context

Site: Hermit Lake Complex (located in Tuckerman Ravine / Huntington Ravine area)
Forest: White Mountain National Forest
Region: Sargent's Purchase, Coos County, New Hampshire [1, 2]
 
 

The Holy Spirit "divided tongues" in Acts 21-4 refers to ancient Pythagorean Snake healing!

 

 Meghan Henning - University of Dayton professor - fascinating

 9-2022
Holy Impairment: The Body as the Nexus of Apocalyptic EkphrasisHoly Impairment: The Body as the Nexus of Apocalyptic Ekphrasis
in Acts 2:1–13in Acts 2:1–13

 Michael Peppard has noted, there are direct discussions
about the connection between Jesus and Asclepius (The World’s Oldest Church: Bible, Art, and Ritual at Dura-Europos, Syria, Synkrisis [New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016], 329 n. 31). Cf.
Origen, Cels. 3.24, Justin Apol. 1.22, Tertullian, Nat. 2.14.42.
37 Asclepius took on the guise of a serpent and arrived in this form to found the shrine in
Athens (IG 2.4960a; SEG 25.226), Rome (Livy, Periocha 11, Urb. cond. 29.11.1), and Halieis (IG 4.1.122.33). Wells, Greek Language of Healing, 29......

 Holladay notes that the Greek literally reads “split [divided] tongues,” ....“tongues of fire” are present in 1 Enoch, where, unlike in Acts, the tongues do not rest on people or effect bodily transformation (1 En. 14:9–10, 15; 71:5).29
Like the events in 1 Enoch, however, the scene in Acts 2 is not a stock image
that is being replayed for audiences—it is an apocalyptic scene that is drawing on
multiple images to depict something utterly novel.

............

 Aristotle thinks of the snake as the paradigmatic animal with a “divided
tongue”; he mentions it first before describing other animals (such as seals) who
have this characteristic.31 In antiquity one prevalent image of the snake is positive:
as a sacred animal whose touch could bring about healing.32 The walking staff
entwined with the snake was the “iconographic trademark” of Asclepius that
became prevalent in antiquity (and even today appears in medical seals). In antiq
uity this image appeared on reliefs, mosaics, medicine boxes, and even signet rings.33
In the first century CE

 ...............

 (Aristotle, Hist. an. 2.17; ἐσχισμένην τὴν γλῶτταν)....

 for the ancient listener of Acts, snakes—and specifically snake tongues—would signify divine presence and bodily healing. Images of sacred snakes, and of Asclepius as a snake healing with his tongue, are found throughout the material evidence from the Asklepieion as well.40 ........

 So what is the meaning of divided tongues “resting on” the apostles? Elsewhere
in LukeActs καθίζω is used to refer to remaining or “staying” some place.50 The
implication of using ἐκάθισεν instead of some other verb seems to be one of a last
ing contact. Alone the verb ἐκάθισεν does not itself have medical resonance; but,
when combined with the imagery of a divided tongue and the transformation of
bodily ability, the phrase “rest on” recalls common medical images of healing. This
odd verbal expression may remind some hearers of ancient medical images of
touch or sustained bodily contact, specifically with a god in the form of a snake.
But in this apocalyptic ekphrasis these different images of divine touch and bodily
transformation are brought together to emphasize the staying power—not just of
the transformed bodily state but of the divine touch itself in the “last days.”

.................... 

 Acts 2:1–4 still brings together the biblical imagery of theophany
with ancient medical imagery of Asclepius and ancient physicians who healed
through snake tongues, touch, and fire. The result is a story of bodily transforma
tion that is conferred by the touch of a fiery divided tongue.54

 The ties between Asclepius (the Greek god of medicine and healing) and Pythagorean philosophy run deep through ancient concepts of harmony, medical ethics, and holistic health. Their intersection manifests in two distinct contexts: the historical integration of Pythagorean concepts into ancient Greek clinical medicine (including the Hippocratic Oath and the cult of Asclepius), and the late-antiquity Hermetic text known as the Asclepius

 

Pythagorean Music Theory: Pythagoras discovered that musical intervals could be expressed in mathematical ratios. He pioneered the use of specific musical scales and hymns to purify the soul (katharsis) and quiet bodily passions. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Asclepian Shrines: At the holistic healing sanctuaries of Asclepius, patients underwent a process of physical and spiritual purification. Alongside theatrical performances and sacred sleep (incubation), poetic and musical recitals of hymns or paeans were actively utilized to soothe patients and stimulate healing. [1, 2]

3. The Ethical Foundations of the Hippocratic Oath

The Hippocratic Oath—the foundational code of medical ethics historically bound to the cult of Asclepius—begins by swearing an oath directly to "Apollo the Physician, and Asclepius, and Hygieia, and Panacea..." Scholars have long noted that the secondary directives within the oath align explicitly with Pythagorean duties and taboos: [1, 2]

Strict requirements for secrecy regarding medical knowledge.
Deep moral solidarity with peers and absolute reverence/financial protection for one's teachers.
Absolute prohibitions against euthanasia, assistance in suicide, and abortion (reflecting the Pythagorean belief in the sacred, divine nature of the soul from conception). [1, 2]

4. The Asclepius Hermetic Text (Late Antiquity)

There is also a textual link. In the 2nd or 3rd century CE, a highly influential philosophical dialogue was written under the title Asclepius. Part of the Corpus Hermeticum, it features a dialogue where the Egyptian sage Hermes Trismegistus teaches his pupil, Asclepius (named after the deity). [1]

The text is deeply infused with Neopythagoreanism and Neoplatonism. For instance, the dialogue advocates a pure, ascetic lifestyle and recommends a vegetarian diet. This explicitly mirrors the iconic Pythagorean doctrine of metempsychosis (the transmigration of souls into humans or animals), which prohibited the slaughter and consumption of living creatures. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Giovanni Bazzana has argued, the exclusion of spirit possession from the scholarly conversation about the miraculous sidelines the way that ancient persons would have understood these texts (Having the Spirit of Christ: Spirit Possession and Exorcism in the Early Christ Groups, Synkrisis [New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020], 4–9).