Thursday, May 14, 2026

The wickerman film 1973 uses the phrase "generative force" from the 1970 book Taoist Yoga: alchemy and immortality

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdFxyBBCaZs

 https://www.theotherfolk.blog/dissections/wicker-man

  • Wickerman/Body Structure: In these practices, the body is seen as a "cauldron" or "stove," where the lower Dantian acts as a furnace to refine the generative force, and the "Wickerman" reference may relate to the internal cultivation and transformation of this essence through intense focus and breathwork.
  • The Goal: The aim is to turn the generative force (Jing) into Qi (vitality), which then rises to the brain (Ni Wan) to nurture the spirit, cultivating health and potentially immortality. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
The "Wickerman" may be a reference to a particular, intense, or symbolic visualization of this internal alchemical process of transforming the body’s innate energy.

  the start for the folks of Summerisle, who get into public orgies at night, dance naked around fires, and teach kids to venerate “the penis … as symbolizing the generative force in nature.”

 https://yeoldewitchcraftshoppe.co.uk/2020/03/21/how-the-golden-bough-inspired-the-wicker-man/

 Frazer then goes on to give examples of the primitive fire rituals performed by those all over the world. Customs such as leading a bride to or around a hearth in hopes of making her fruitful through the generative virtue ascribed to the fire. The story of Tullius “expresses in daily life the same idea…[that] virgin mothers conceived through contact with a spark or tongue of fire.”

Frazer’s explanation for the procreative virtues attributed to fire is that the very ritual of creating fire, that is rubbing sticks together, is the sexual union that creates the child, flame. “This of itself suffices to impress on the mind of a savage the idea that a capacity for reproduction is innate in the fire, and consequently that a woman may conceive by contact with it.”

 ............

Further on in this chapter Frazer decides to change his view on the motives behind the may pole tradition “However in these and similar European customs it seems that the influence of the tree, bush or bough is really protective rather than generative; it does not so much fill the udders of the cows as prevent them from being drained dry by witches, who ride on broomsticks or pitchforks through the air on the Eve of May Day (the famous Walpurgis Night) and make great efforts to steal the milk from the cattle.”

It is clear that in the case of the Wicker Man, the power of the May Pole is indeed a generative one,..........

  The teacher says “Thats right, the pole represents the phallus, or penis which is the generative force in nature.”

Daoyin healing exercises

 https://journeytothewestresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Chinese-Healing-Exercises-The-Tradition-of-Daoyin-2008.pdf

Whales proven to have a tonal language with vowels

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm9ADZ28Wgo

 

  • The AI model identified 156 distinct codas, each with internal structures involving shifts in tempo and rhythm.
  • Vowel-like Structures: The clicks have been found to have vowel-like properties similar to human speech, with whales adjusting the pitch, tempo, and ornamentation of their clicks to change meaning, similar to tonal languages like Mandarin.
  •  https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/293/2069/20252994/481340/The-phonology-of-sperm-whale-coda-vowels

     

     

    Tuesday, May 12, 2026

    The best depiction of Spacetime as not a rubber sheet: Jim Kelley

    For speed of light to be invariant in all reference frames spacial curvature and time curvature must always play equal roles. In his 1911 paper, "On the Influence of Gravitation on the Propagation of Light," Einstein deduced that the speed of light is variable in a gravitational field, suggesting a refractive index proportional to gravitational potential. This implies that vacuum behaves like a dense medium, bending light toward regions of higher gravitational potential. Given that the mass density and gravitational potential of the early universe was as much as 5 or 6 orders of magnitudes greater than local mass density,...And as matter congealed into discreet pockets, the space between these discreet pockets expanded. But it expanded not so much by force, but rather as a relaxation of force. The decreased gravitational force effectively allows space to expand as a result of the expansion of mass. As the shape of the gravitational field lines changes so does the shape of spacetime. This effective change in shape may have had profound affects on our observations and on our interpretation of them in the evolution of the universe. Jim Kelley, Electronics Engineer, UCI Physics and Astronomy,

     

    Sunday, May 10, 2026

    Are divine prophecies mechanical results like a musical instrument being played by God? Montanist Lyre heresy

     The resulting explanation described them as being like a musical instrument upon which the Spirit played a tune. This mechanical theory of inspiration was greatly advanced by the Montanist heresy, for they claimed that same kind of inspiration for themselves in their utterances. The prophet was supposedly lifted up out of himself so that he became a merely unconscious instrument in the hands of the Holy Spirit....

    https://sb.rfpa.org/montanism-and-the-word/ 

    Strange to think of music as being mechanical - yet that is precisely the great problem in Western music - a focus on "technical skill" without true inspiration...

     "mechanical error" refers to the Montanist view of the prophetic trance, where the prophet allegedly surrendered all personal control, becoming a passive instrument—like a "lyre" played by a "plectrum"—rather than an active, conscious messenger....

    That's still the Liar of the Lyre as I have exposed!!

     The Lyre Metaphor: Founder Montanus described the phenomenon by stating, "Lo, the man is as a lyre, and I fly over him as a pick. The man sleepeth, while I watch."

      The prophet Montanus described this as being like a lyre being played by a divine plectrum. Orthodox critics of the early church argued that this trance-like state was far closer to the ecstatic, divinatory practices of paganism (such as the cult of Apollo) than to orthodox Christian revelation.

     Montanists were based on Turkey - which is also where Pythagorean philosophy was based....

     The New Prophecy originated in the Phrygian hinterland sometime in the middle or second
    half of the 160s CE; another possible, but less likely, date of origin is around 172 CE.1 Thus, this study presupposes that the Phrygian prophetic movement emerged under the reign of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (161–180 CE), that is, when a pandemic, the so-called Antonine Plague or Plague of Galen, raged from 165 CE onwards, at first from 165 to 168 CE, then flaring up again and again, e.g., in 189/190 CE and still in the 230s (see below).
    The two events – the emergence of a prophetic movement rapidly spreading across
    the Roman empire and a pandemic raging through the same empire at the same time,
    harvesting a high death toll – have scarcely been correlated.

     https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/36293/1/Lampe_InBuch_Montanism_Roman_world_2024.pdf

     Tertullian and Irenaeus clashed even though Tertullian was the first to coin the trinity concept. Pretty fascinating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGEhPCAi4oo&t=483 Tertullian was relying on NeoPythagorean philosophy...  "the two-stage Logos theory."... Tertullian converted to the "new prophet" Montanists movement but there was also a plague ravaging at the time... Logion 13 is an authentic oracle by Priscilla: Purity brings about harmony, and they see visions (visiones vident) and, turning their faces downwards (ponentes faciem deorsum), also hear clear sayings, as salutary/healing as they also are mysterious (voces audiunt manifestas tam salutares quam et occultas; in Tertullian, Exh. cast. 10.5). Did the charismatics in the Priscilla logion also inhale something as it was related, e.g., about the Delphic Pythia...required fasting for three days before having visions....leading a celibate life (non enim accepi uxorem) without alcohol consumption (non bibens vinum) .... https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/36293/1/Lampe_InBuch_Montanism_Roman_world_2024.pdf
    According to the logion, the “Holy Spirit” foresees “worldly plagues” (ex providentia imminentium … mundialium plagarum) and issues warnings, mandating – “as remedies” (remedia) (sic!) – “certain
    obligations”, for example the “discipline of sobriety and abstinence” (sobrietatis et abstinentiae disciplinam)"...Tertullian (Or. 18)
    mentions fasting Christians who “withhold the kiss of peace after prayer”, although it is “the seal of prayer”. Were there also medical reasons behind this social-distancing behaviour?
    Fascinating! "The experience of the devastating Antonine Plague may well have helped to rekindle
    the fire of early Christian charismatic religiosity (cf. 1 Cor 12; 14) by sparking “new” ecstatic
    prophetism, with an expectation of a near end of the world, an allegedly health-beneficial
    asceticism, and predictions of not only further disasters but also imminent salvation in a
    heavenly Jerusalem (logion 2); even the ordinary believers will shine brighter than the moon
    (logion 7)"

     Rabbi Tovia Singer emphasizes that Judaism is a Nationalist religion a "national revelation" as its unique founding

     "The Jew traces himself back to the event itself....the Jews are unique because they trace back to the event itself..."

     Rabbi Tovia Singer says - most people are deluded by the Torah says miracles can happen...

     But the Messiah predicted in the Torah have NOT come true and therefore Jesus was not the Messiah...

     Awkward! hahahaha.

     

     

     

    my Chappell family lineage includes Slave Masters in Virginia 1600s

     In 1694 Thomas Chappell received a land patent:  …unto Thomas Chappell four hundred and twenty-three acres land luing and being in the county of Charles City on the Otterdam Swamp… for the transportation of nine headrights. Buck, doe, Santall, Mungo, Gerald, Morton, Sarah, Abell, and Sue.  All being African Slaves. This was a 30 pound investment, each slave being worth 4,000 pound of tobacco, and a substantial expense.  In 1694 Thomas was tithed for 423 acres and nine slaves.  In 1701 he was granted 994 acres for twenty headrights.

    https://alliedfamilies.wordpress.com/the-chappell-family/ 

    I have no idea how this Chappell connects to my great-great-great grandfather Chappell who was born in England - but there's a ton of Chappells in England from the 1600s that came over to the U.S.

     When Charles Chappell was born on 30 October 1836, in Burwell, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Curtis Chappell, was 25 and his mother, Susan Halls, was 23.

    So I know that Curtis Chappell was my great-great-grandfather....but I can't trace anything about Curtis Chappell from East Cambridgeshire England. There was a prominent William Chappell at Cambridge in the 1600s...

     John Chappell was born on 4 October 1832, in East Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Curtis Chappell, was 21 and his mother, Susan Halls, was 19. He married Rebecca Rawlings on 15 January 1862, in Perth, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son.

     I think John Chappell was my great-great grandfather. So his son would be Thomas Chappell...as my great Grandfather and my mom's grandfather. 

    When Thomas John Chappell was born on 6 June 1869, in St Marys, Perth, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Chappell, was 36 and his mother, Sarah Elisabeth Cooper, was 23. He married Alvina Switzer on 28 December 1899, in Huron, Ontario, Canada. 

    The Surname: Schweitzer / Schwitzer / Switzer
    All three spellings are heavily intertwined as variations of the same German surname. [1]
    • Etymology: Derived from Middle High German swīzer, indicating an origin from Switzerland.
    • Variations: Depending on immigration waves and regional dialects, families adapted their names to "Switzer" (more common in English-speaking regions) or "Schwitzer".
    • Jewish Heritage: In Ashkenazi tradition, "Schwitzer" can also stem from the Yiddish word shvitser, meaning "one who perspires" (historically used as a nickname for a dandy or a flashy dresser
    •  
    •