tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74460102024-02-19T07:05:53.875+01:00Quetzalquatl blogMy quest into spirituality, politics & personal development.HGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06532147893496894815noreply@blogger.comBlogger577125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446010.post-89855164949872593832017-09-12T15:47:00.003+02:002017-09-12T15:47:59.442+02:00Reisblog: Candidasa priesters
Deze dag begon met een bezoek aan een priester-smid, die zelf keris pusaka smeedt. Hij heeft geen collectie voor losse verkoop, want hij maakt die voorwerpen alleen in opdracht als hij een goed gevoel heeft bij de client.
In zijn visie is een keris niet alleen maar voor magie, status; het is vooral voor de ontwikkeling van de ziel. Een keris die qua karakter niet past bij de eigenaar, geeft problemen. Omdat de smid de keris met intentie bezielt, voelt hij zich ermee verbonden en verantwoordelijk voor, als de nieuwe eigenaar er niet goed mee om gaat heeft de smid er ook last van. Daarom maakt hij niet zomaar een keris voor iemand.
Van wat hij liet zien aan krissen die hij heeft gemaakt, was ik onder de indruk van de kwaliteit, beduidend hoger dan de eerste smid die ik heb gezien. Ook zijn smidse is van betere kwaliteit, in tegenstelling tot de eerste smid is hier boven het vuur een schoorsteen waardoor het vuur heter kan worden en de rook goed wordt afgevoerd, dat was dus in het geval van de eerste smid absoluut niet het geval!
We hadden een lang gesprek over mijn reden om een keris te zoeken: als middel om mijn contact met de voorouders te bekrachtigen.
In zijn visie is de innerlijke afstemming belangrijker dan het voorwerp, en als het de bedoeling is dat ik een keris heb, dan komt het naar me toe.
Ik ben onder de indruk van deze priester-smid. Als ik weer in Bali ben kan ik een afspraak maken, en anders hoop ik hem te zien als hij naar Nederland komt voor een bijeenkomst van krissen-specialisten.
Na dit gesprek had ik ook geen enkele behoefte om verder te zoeken, en zeker niet om terug te gaan naar de eerste smid of om naar de krissen-winkel te gaan.
Ik ben heel blij met deze uitwisseling!
In Lempuyang twee verschillende tempels bezocht:
Bij de eerste voelde ik me niet welkom, de priesteres was weinig toeschietelijk; van mijn gids begreep ik later dat ze nogal strak was in de leer wat betreft het uitvoeren van rituelen. We zijn nog wel in de oude Tempel geweest, maar hier kon ik geen verbinding voelen.
De tweede was een wereld van verschil:
We werden heel gastvrij ontvangen door de priester, die eerst uitgebreid vertelde over het ontstaan van deze Tempel:
Destijds had Soekarno een gelofte gedaan aan Nyai Loro Kidul, de Godin van de Zuidzee, dat hij een aantal hotels zou bouwen met een speciale kamer voor haar gereserveerd. Vanwege de omwentelingen in 1966, was dit bij het laatste hotel niet gelukt.
De priester kreeg de ingeving om voor deze Godin midden in de bergen een nieuwe Tempel op te richten.
Volgens hem is Guanyin een andere manifestatie van deze Godin; dat kan ik wel invoelen: Guanyin manifesteert zich ook als een Godin die een draak berijdt in de oceaan.
Gedurende mijn verblijf te Bali heb ik de Vrouwe van de Wateren in verschillende tempels in diverse manifestaties gezien: Vrouwe van het Meer, GuanYin, Vrouwe van de Zee.
Op weg naar haar Tempel werden we overvallen door een regenbui, dat voelde aan als een zuiveringsbad, een welkomstgebaar van de Vrouwe van de Wateren.
Op mijn verzoek voerde de priester een ritueel uit, om mijn band met dit land, de voorouders en de spirits te bekrachtigen.
Na een aantal gebeden, offers en meditaties, vroeg hij me om met gesloten ogen een Javaanse Dans te doen. Hoewel ik dat nooit heb gedaan, was ik op dit moment in een lichte trance, waardoor er iets door me heen kon gaan.
Hij sloot af met zuiveringen en zegeningen.
Ik ben dankbaar voor de gelegenheid die me deze keer werd gebeden!
<div class="blogger-post-footer">Q blogspot</div>HGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06532147893496894815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446010.post-9980169344435044842017-09-11T20:08:00.001+02:002020-05-23T16:52:17.509+02:00Candidasa, Keris pusaka<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;">
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 17pt;">De smid vertelde een en ander over het werken met keris pusaka. Hij doet er 6 maanden over om te smeden, exclusief de tijd die nodig is om het voorwerp te laden met de intentie van de gebruiker. </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 17pt;">Daarna liet hij een deel van het smeedproces zien, bijzonder interessant. Zonder die rituelen is de keris nog leeg, maar dan kan ik die zelf laden met mijn intentie door gebeden en offers. </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 17pt;">Eentje die voor mij op maat gemaakt wordt, zou na mijn overlijden door mij bezield worden maar ik denk niet dat ik in een keris wil gaan wonen!</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 17pt;">In het krissen museum zag ik een groot aantal bijzonder mooie exemplaren, een wereld van verschil met de producten van de smid!</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 17pt;">De dag afgesloten bij een verkoper van krissen: er waren er twee die mijn aandacht trokken, omdat ze vrij eenvoudig er uitzagen, zonder uitgebreide versieringen, nogal rechttoe-rechtaan, passend bij het idee om op mijn manier contact te leggen met de voorouders en de spirits. Toch wil ik hier een nachtje over slapen, kijken welke inspiraties in mijn dromen komen</span></div>
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Het was fijn om de orakelvrouw te weerzien, sinds de laatste keer dat we elkaar zagen is er ook veel veranderd in haar leven: op Bali verliefd-verloofd-getrouwd, nu wonend in een schattig huisje met veel groen, en een peutertje in haar armen, een mooi gezicht!
Mijn vraag was nu: wat kan ik nu doen om de banded met de voorouders en spirits nog meer te versterken?
Wat de orakelvrouw me vertelde, probeer ik nu samen te vatten in een lop end verhaal:
De grond waarom je nu staat is uitgeput, op sterven na dood (hierbij moet ik denken aan de aarde van de rijstvelden, waarvan de toplaag om de zoveel tijd afgegraven moet worden en verwerkt wordt tot klei voor de bakstenen). Veel kennis over de voorouders is moeizaam te achterhalen.
In de tweede laag is een verzwakte wortel, een energie dat lange tijd geblokkeerd was.
In de diepste laag is een grote kracht, verbonden aan de Godin die door een Wachter wordt bewaakt.
Je wordt aangetrokken door die kracht maar je houdt jezelf tegen. Geef je over aan die aantrekkingskracht, confronteer de Wachter om contact te krijgen met de Godin.
Het kan zijn dat wat je nu aan spiritueel contact voelt in Bali, gaat missen in Nederland, maar je kan hier en nu een goed fundament leggen .
Welke stappen kan ik nu ondernemen, in de laatste dagen dat ik op Bali ben?
Ga naar de Watertempel Pura Tirtagangga en naar de koningsgraven bij Gunung Kawi.
Bij de Watertempel deed ik de rituele wassing om te zuiveren, bij de koningsgraven ervaarde ik het vele trappenlopen als een bedevaart.
Ik sloot de dag af met een speurtocht naar een authentiek masker, zo vond ik de Oude Wijze.
Er is een link tussen de Danu, Vrouwe van het Meer bij Pura Batur en Gangga, de Godin bij de Watertempel. Verder is er een link tussen het koningshuis van Balingkang en de Koningsgraven bij Gunung Kawi.
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The day before, I felt the need to go to Haarlem. Surprise! Found a wayang golek representation of Srikandi, the one I have been wishing for, to keep my other wayang golek (Irawan) company.</div>
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A beautiful pair! Truly, the spirits guided my feet to the right place, they are really helping me to connect to my roots and my ancestors!</div>
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Rainy, cold, clammy... only the real diehard dedicated people showed up. And even then it was not easy to hold the group together during the procession, people have the tendency to straggle, even with a watchdog herding the rearguard. </div>
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An aged passer-by asked: 'is this a Maria procession?'. I nodded Yes, for Maria is another face of the Goddess.</div>
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The weather cleared during the procession till the very end in the Green Chapel.</div>
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Why I am doing this? Because I feel the Call to do this. It is Sacrifice, Worship on the altar Aknostos Theos. It is a way of saying 'Thank you' to the Universe.</div>
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Q blogspot</div>HGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06532147893496894815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446010.post-35061754724802688742012-05-05T23:22:00.002+02:002012-05-05T23:22:38.677+02:00Liberation Moon<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/NGxwmYuZTUo?fs=1" width="459"></iframe><br />
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Personal Meditations concerning Liberation Moon:<br />
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Liberating my Self from all my attachments, desires, projections concerning potential lovers who did not work out.<br />
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Liberating all my past loves from obligations, promises, guilt.<br />
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I am free!<br />
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You are free!<div class="blogger-post-footer">Q blogspot</div>HGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06532147893496894815noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446010.post-88225224143692784272012-03-20T21:24:00.004+01:002012-03-20T22:22:31.889+01:00GUAN YIN ORACLERecently I discovered an interesting site, describing <a href="http://www.springsgreetingcards.com/catalogs/store.asp?pid=157217&catid=22647">GUAN YIN ORACLE</a><br />
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</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;">It is too easy to shift the burden of guilt to the leader, forgetting the role of the group-members who consented.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;">On the other hand, it is too easy to blame the group-dynamics only.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><br />
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font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: #ba9f70; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Remember our compact with Ravenqueen!</span><br style="background-color: #ba9f70; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: #ba9f70; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">And so, Foxy Lady went out of Faery into the world of Men...</span><br style="background-color: #ba9f70; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: #ba9f70; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">....</span><br style="background-color: #ba9f70; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: #ba9f70; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: #ba9f70; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Remembering the last temple of Earthshaking Sealord, high up the Great Mountain...</span><br style="background-color: #ba9f70; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: #ba9f70; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">The faithfull, who fled the wrath of the Sorcerer-King, made their last stand.</span><br style="background-color: #ba9f70; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: #ba9f70; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Lightning smote their ranks, but still they stood firm...</span><br style="background-color: #ba9f70; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: #ba9f70; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: #ba9f70; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Unable to stand the strain of eldritch energies, the Land broke apart, the Sea invaded, all were scattered to the corners of the Earth...</span><br style="background-color: #ba9f70; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: #ba9f70; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: #ba9f70; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">great mother abyss<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />devouring myriad bodies<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />vortex well of soul</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Q blogspot</div>HGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06532147893496894815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446010.post-87988561823281202012-01-15T12:07:00.000+01:002012-01-15T12:07:03.765+01:00Exodus from weblog.nl to wordpress.comMigration weblog.nl sucks, Exodus is a better option!<br />
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So now I have to really decide about going to a sportschool with all kinds of torture instruments,anyway I should do more magick excercises at home, doing taijiquan & whitecrane qigong.</span></span><br />
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</div><a href="http://annevis.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupy-stock-exchange-amsterdam.html?spref=bl">Inspirational Art & Healing: Occupy Stock Exchange Amsterdam</a>: I am really pissed off that media and governments do not take the Occupy Wall Street movement seriously and say "well, they are too vague, ...<div class="blogger-post-footer">Q blogspot</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07956903780016283247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446010.post-26192703901573608452011-09-11T17:51:00.002+02:002011-12-19T20:11:05.320+01:00Remember, remember eleven september....1973Salvador Allende' last stand against the CIA-backed fascist coup of Pinochet!<br />
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Surely this will be the last opportunity for me to address you. The Air Force has bombed the antennas of Radio Magallanes.<br />
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My words do not have bitterness but disappointment. May they be a moral punishment for those who have betrayed their oath: soldiers of Chile, titular commanders in chief, Admiral Merino, who has designated himself Commander of the Navy, and Mr. Mendoza, the despicable general who only yesterday pledged his fidelity and loyalty to the Government, and who also has appointed himself Chief of the Carabineros [paramilitary police].<br />
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Given these facts, the only thing left for me is to say to workers: I am not going to resign! Placed in a historic transition, I will pay for loyalty to the people with my life. And I say to them that I am certain that the seeds which we have planted in the good conscience of thousands and thousands of Chileans will not be shriveled forever.<br />
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They have force and will be able to dominate us, but social processes can be arrested by neither crime nor force. History is ours, and people make history.<br />
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Workers of my country: I want to thank you for the loyalty that you always had, the confidence that you deposited in a man who was only an interpreter of great yearnings for justice, who gave his word that he would respect the Constitution and the law and did just that. At this definitive moment, the last moment when I can address you, I wish you to take advantage of the lesson: foreign capital, imperialism, together with the reaction, created the climate in which the Armed Forces broke their tradition, the tradition taught by General Schneider and reaffirmed by Commander Araya, victims of the same social sector who today are hoping, with foreign assistance, to re-conquer the power to continue defending their profits and their privileges.<br />
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I address you, above all, the modest woman of our land, the campesina who believed in us, the mother who knew our concern for children. I address professionals of Chile, patriotic professionals who continued working against the sedition that was supported by professional associations, classist associations that also defended the advantages of capitalist society. I address the youth, those who sang and gave us their joy and their spirit of struggle. I address the man of Chile, the worker, the farmer, the intellectual, those who will be persecuted, because in our country fascism has been already present for many hours -- in terrorist attacks, blowing up the bridges, cutting the railroad tracks, destroying the oil and gas pipelines, in the face of the silence of those who had the obligation to act. They were committed. History will judge them.<br />
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Surely Radio Magallanes will be silenced, and the calm metal instrument of my voice will no longer reach you. It does not matter. You will continue hearing it. I will always be next to you. At least my memory will be that of a man of dignity who was loyal to his country.<br />
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The people must defend themselves, but they must not sacrifice themselves. The people must not let themselves be destroyed or riddled with bullets, but they cannot be humiliated either.<br />
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Workers of my country, I have faith in Chile and its destiny. Other men will overcome this dark and bitter moment when treason seeks to prevail. Go forward knowing that, sooner rather than later, the great avenues will open again and free men will walk through them to construct a better society.<br />
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Long live Chile! Long live the people! Long live the workers!<br />
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These are my last words, and I am certain that my sacrifice will not be in vain, I am certain that, at the very least, it will be a moral lesson that will punish felony, cowardice, and treason.<br />
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Santiago (Chile), 11 September 1973 </span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Q blogspot</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07956903780016283247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446010.post-35768116061606361662011-08-10T20:22:00.003+02:002011-10-29T16:21:51.544+02:00London Riots: the voice of the colored people<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/biJgILxGK0o" width="425"></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">Q blogspot</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07956903780016283247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446010.post-7333487637123173072011-07-26T11:10:00.000+02:002011-07-26T11:10:32.193+02:00Setting of the Fifth Black Sun<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia, times, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">“December 21, 2012 will be the most important date for all of Humanity. The ancient Mayans created the Long Count calendar to mark this date as the beginning of a new cycle for Mankind.” <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anonymous</em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia, times, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"></span><br />
<div class="textile_longtext page-body" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What if…</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The wild-eyed cultist are right…up to a certain point?</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Something</em> changes in 2012,,,<br />
Maybe…<br />
the stars are ‘right’, depending on whose viewpoint: if Rlyeh arises from the ocean, the Ctulhu-cultist might rejoice, or maybe not…<br />
…the Veil between the Worlds are rent asunder, and the Dead will outnumber the Quick…<br />
…the Star-People revisit Gaia to evaluate the Human experiment…<br />
…Hailey’s planet strikes home at last…</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Who knows?<br />
Maybe HE nows, maybe not (Rig Veda)</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But before the Great Change comes, it will be foreshadowed by small changes:<br />
Weird tales, Anomalous Phenomena…<br />
Reported sightings of <span class="caps" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">UFO</span>, ET, ghosts, and other things that go bump in the night.</div></div><div class="textile_longtext gm-only" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: black; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Q blogspot</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07956903780016283247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446010.post-34983167957525982012011-07-18T20:18:00.002+02:002011-07-18T20:20:41.240+02:00Copy/pasteSwapped some stuff between this blog and my Dutch one...<div><br /></div><div>http://quetzalquatl.web-log.nl/quetzalquatl/<br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Q blogspot</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07956903780016283247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446010.post-41458875270765260132011-07-16T19:58:00.004+02:002011-10-29T16:18:48.964+02:00Ghost/Echo: The First Run<div>The Government was unwilling to dirty their hands in a backwater Balkan state, so they used some intermediaries to contract the Black-op branch of Orpheus corporation. </div><div><div><div>If anything went wrong, the whole operation was deniable as usual, the spindoctors would call it a terrorist strike of the separatist.</div></div></div><div>...</div><div>Coil, Grip, Hull and Vixen discussed their strategy for the job. </div><div><br />
</div><div>It sounded like an easy one: extricate Herr Professor alive (preferrable) or dead to insure the Opposition will never again have access to his theoretical knowledge of Matrix-construction.</div><div>He was temporary held at a secret interrogation camp, waiting for transfer to the headquarters of Herr Colonel.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Simple plans are the best, and victory goes to the bold;</div><div>The idea was to 'borrow' a chopper of the Opposition; flying under false colours it should be possible to infiltrate the interrogation camp.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Well...a battleplan never survives the first shots...</div><div><br />
</div><div>They found a hidden chopper on a hidden part somewhere in the woods, guarded by a single watchtower, a typical Opposition-setup for a covert-operation camp.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Coil took out the main tower with his rocket-launcher, Grip sprinted to the chopper while the rest gave covering fire.</div><div>Some surviving guards stormed out of the tower, but were taken down by a frontal grenade and some flanking fire. The grenade caused some collateral damage in the tower, soon it started burning!</div><div>Grip discovered the chopper was out of fuel...</div><div>Hull entered the burning tower twice: the first time to secure a single drum of fuel, the second time he was out of luck, something exploded...Hull was blown outside by a fireball!</div><div>Badly hurt, Hull was carried by the rest to the chopper to escape the towering inferno.</div><div><br />
</div><div>They decided to push their luck to finish the job.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Boldly they flew the chopper to the interrogation camp.</div><div>Vixen fast-talked the ground crew and the commander Herr Colonel to refuel the chopper and to transfer the prisoner.</div><div><br />
</div><div>On their way to home-base, they were intercepted by two Opposition choppers.</div><div>Grip tried to channel the ghostfield, hoping to jinx one chopper, but received a migraine instead.</div><div>With some luck Coil was able to take down the interceptors with his rocket-launcher!</div><div><br />
</div><div>Returning to home-base was a bit tense, their chopper was almost taken down by friendly fire before Vixen was able to get through to the right channels.</div><div><br />
</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Q blogspot</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07956903780016283247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446010.post-28293800419235613012011-07-15T09:41:00.002+02:002011-11-20T12:47:48.245+01:00Honour to the banner<div>Another lesson the Universe is teaching me: Relationship Red Flags - Are You Ignoring Them? <a href="http://ping.fm/RGCDv">http://ping.fm/RGCDv</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Q blogspot</div>HGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06532147893496894815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446010.post-40118042760716083362011-07-13T22:41:00.001+02:002011-07-16T20:49:34.318+02:00Ghost/Echo: Pathworking the Ghost WorldsThe Ghost Universe consists of several Ghost Worlds, each<br />interconnected by Datastreams (Echo-Paths).<br /><br />Travelling the Datastreams is a specialized skill: by channeling the<br />Ghost Field, some adepts can open temporary Gates to the Paths.<br /><br />Using the Major Arcana (e.g. Amber Trumps) is one of the many possible<br />ways of Pathworking!<br />Other Traditions use: Tattva Symbols, Hermetic Seals, Bagua, etc.<br /><br />A Grip who is specialized in Listening at Echoes, has the skill to<br />detect functional Paths.<br />Every method has its own risks....<br /><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Q blogspot</div>HGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06532147893496894815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446010.post-88851079657051086722011-07-13T11:30:00.001+02:002011-07-13T11:30:51.912+02:00Terugkerende levensles: Hoe bewaak ik mijn grenzen <a href="http://ping.fm/CGK7s">http://ping.fm/CGK7s</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Q blogspot</div>HGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06532147893496894815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446010.post-61992628266063153162011-07-10T11:34:00.001+02:002011-07-10T11:34:41.454+02:00DROOM: de logeerpartij <a href="http://ping.fm/gYdzQ">http://ping.fm/gYdzQ</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Q blogspot</div>HGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06532147893496894815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446010.post-39032245776632658942011-07-09T22:50:00.001+02:002011-07-09T22:50:10.160+02:00Ghost/Echo crossing path with World of Darkness and Shadowrun <a href="http://ping.fm/9A739">http://ping.fm/9A739</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Q blogspot</div>HGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06532147893496894815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446010.post-79581553788877602672011-07-09T22:34:00.002+02:002011-07-16T20:50:16.462+02:00Ghost/Echo crossing path with World of Darkness and ShadowrunUniverse: World of Darkness (core setting) 2012 CE. Preliminary Story: The Crewmembers are part of the experimental Shadowrun team of the Orpheus-0rganization; their mission is to find top secret information before the Others find it.<br /><br />Do you have any idea what kind of crewmember you would like to be?<br /><br />Good at...(pick one)<br />acting under pressure<br />infiltrate/steal<br />suffer harm<br />commit to violence<br />manipulate/hold steadfast<br />channel ghostfield<br />listen for echoes<br /><br />Pick an archetype:<br />coil<br />demon<br />hull<br />grip<br />vixen<br /><br />Try to visualize the skilled archetype of your choice.<br /><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Q blogspot</div>HGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06532147893496894815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446010.post-13122666618859429642011-07-08T20:02:00.000+02:002011-07-08T20:02:45.808+02:00Ghost/EchoThis game reminds me of several topics I am interested in:<div><br />
</div><div>Shamanic journey</div><div>Pathworking</div><div>Cyberpunk</div><div>Shadowrun</div><div>Oracles: Tarot, I Ching</div><div>Rules-lite storytelling games</div><div><br />
</div><div>Let me give it a try!</div><div><br />
</div><div>First take:</div><div>Trying to connect Major Arcana and Locations did not work for me. </div><div>Looking back, I realise the Major Arcana belong to the Paths, not to the Sephira!</div><div>Maybe I should connect the Minor Arcana to Locations!</div><div><br />
</div><div>Second take:</div><div>Made some index cards for Crew, Goal/Danger, Wraith.</div><div>Thinking of that other nice game: <a href="http://glyphpress.com/UtB/">Under the Bed</a></div><div>I can connect Goal/Danger cards with Crew and/or Wraith!</div><div><br />
</div><div>Hmm..</div><div>Crew can basically roll 1 die, but if he uses his special skill (Goal/Danger) he might add another die.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Example:</div><div>DEMON crew, special skill Channel Ghostfield.</div><div>SPIDER wraith, special skill Catch.</div><div><br />
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