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Pictures of the Beyond

A reflection on the two distinct "Polarity"

"Even the tales of pe rsone survivors of clinical death from an accident or near-fatal run along with a continuum that ranges from abstract to detailed descriptions of states pictorial visions. In describing his pr ime discoveries, Raymond Moody [*] emphasized the lack of mythological elements, such as "a paradise from p erlacee ports, roads and golden winged angels playing the harp or a hell of flames and demons armed with pitchforks typical illustrations of the popular . However, in his initial book, and the Affer star but discovering an increasing number of individuals who, during their encounters with death, experience archetypal images of concrete and detailed landscapes the blue, with the city of light, shining blade Means, exotic gardens and beautiful rivers. With regard to expect to negative experiences he described of astral realms inhabited by spirits perpl them confused disembodied entities were not able to release completament and the physical world. "

(S. Grof, Beyond the Sog lia, the unconscious projected Eternity, Red Edizion i).

[*] Raymond Moody: Raymond A. Moody jr. (Porterda the , 30 June 1944) is a physician, psychologist and parapsychologist status nit ense, known for his studies on NDEs.

Gustave Doré - An illustration of the Paradiso of Dante's Divine Comedy

Gustave Doré, an illustration of 'Inferno of Dante's Divine Comedy

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The Procession of the Dead - Part I



I " born with the veil "

you see them in spirit, in a dream ...

parades are "here and there, walking between one world and another, and usually - and rightly so! - Passing a pregnant sentence to reveal the secrets they learned in the procession.
The smell of fennel seeds stinging smell of human flesh at the stake and that's why I collect intact, the tie beam and never burn. The pick of Isarno in that, where there is still wild. Well-protected leave in a dream is always wise .. I wonder what ever touch you battle ... by a "blue born" can be expected of all ...


This Marazul is Schiarazula, " Scjarajule Maracjule ( LINK ) Friulian folk song that belongs to the repertoire of Benandanti , performed by Angelo Branduardi Futuro Antico II in.

In the following excerpts from: The Benandanti Carlo Ginzburg


"... as the conferences the sorcerers, the processions of the dead can be reproduced from benandanti only "in spirit, "ie, leaving the dead body, surrounded by a deep lethargy. In both cases, you go in spirit" is, as has been pointed out repeatedly, a kind of death: a death fictitious, however, by having a benandanti risk event that could lead to actual death, if the spirit does not return back from night meetings to take possession of abandoned body. So hibernation - this might be caused by the use of ointments or soporific catallessi of unknown nature - it looked like a appropriate means to tap into the mysterious world of the dead and otherwise unattainable, the spirits restlessly wander the Earth, which in the "agricultural" preserve the features of the cult of the ancient terrible "Wild hunt", while the other version, the "funeral" took the most composed and consistent with Christian tradition of the procession desscritta for the first time in Orderic Vital

BUT ... it can also happen that the spirit of a benandante lingered outside the body for more than 24 hours:

"Similarly, according to the Gasparutto, the spirit of that benandanti" Stano at least 24 hours to return "by the nocturnal gatherings or committing any foul, is" separate from the body, and then ... sepelendolo, ihis mind is wandering, et malandante is called - had to wander implacable "hora until that that body had to die," as an evil presence, hostile. Thus, the dead punish benandanti who break the secret of their nocturnal processions stick with the sorghum canes that grow in gardens ...".


And speaking of " born with a veil" ( as Benandanti), also says its Bermani:

"In many countries of Europe to the" born with a caul "is attributed magical powers, including the main ones are: enjoy protection against water and fire (since before birth, the amniotic membrane allows the child's life in which surrounds the baby in his womb, after birth the "shirt" to prevent his death by fire or water) to be invulnerable to injury (as it is protected by the "veil", a sort of magical armor) , the belief that, for example, has been shown to be present in Romagna, become invisible (because behind the "veil") have a special relationship with the dead (and this is because the "shirt" refers to the shroud and is contiguous to the world of the dead belonged to that of the unborn, which allows them to have a second view), project his soul out of the body and "processed in animals "go to the A nother world (the" shirt "is the soul of the place" outside ", a guardian spirit that can turn into an animal in a dream and look to other people, not randomly HAMR means housing in both senses of the soul in shape, usually animal, and amnion, placenta. From helm that F. Kluge shows an Indo-European root Kel ("protecting cover") derives hamle (Liege), which literally means "the child's shirt," So, hamle, the Prince of Denmark Shakespeare, was predisposed to see ghosts . How, for example, wrote Gabriel Naude (1600-1653), about France, "all children born in the days leading Ember ordinariam institution on their own shirt or membrane and can much more easily than others come to know and get familiar with in the genes that are intended to guide them. "

(Cesare Bermani, Fly for the Sabbath, Edizioni Derive Landing)

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the terrifying "forms" of sleep

Part

Ephialtes

'The Nightmare Generally seizes people sleeping on Their backs, and Often begins with frightful dreams, Which are soon succeeded by a Difficult respiration, a violent oppression of the breast, and a total privation of voluntary motion '
(John Bond, 1753)

HERE you can read Some excerpts from the book.

"Ephialtes (lit." that jumps on you ") is an anxiety syndrome identified as such by the Scottish physician John Bond in 1753 along with other authors of the time, in his treatise" Incubus. The famous greek physician Galen in the second century AD had already called nightmares "Ephialtes". The idea of \u200b\u200ban incubus as a generative factor nightmares arose from the belief that a spirit or ghost crept and was lying on the chest of the sleeping person so much, with its weight to crush his chest and make breathing difficult, thus leading to a sense of suffocation, with the terrifying dream of being crushed or (in the case of a woman) suffer sexual violence by a Ephialtes. The sleeper feels as if he were to die and wakes up in the throes of a great and throbbing languor, but also relief at the narrow escape. " (Wikipedia)

Incubus, watercolor by Charles Walker, 1860

Between the pages of myth is told of the terrible anger of the Giants by the decision of Zeus in Tartarus confine their fellow Titans. Imagine the Giants as they were in ancient Greece, which is not beings of flesh and blood, but spirits were born from the Earth with tails of snakes instead of feet. Ephialtes was one of their leaders, who undertook the battle against the gods, but the goddess had foretold that a man, a mortal man dressed in lion skins, would triumph with the help of a magic herb. The man was Heracles, the Savior, and the grass was the Ephialtion . But do not go look for grass, because you can not find! You can not. Neither you, nor I. And how magical and exorcistic Heracles used this herb? I'll get when we talk about another scary spirit that can sometimes stir in our sleep, He who speaks of murder and violence ... we'll see, we'll see .... you never know what you can then move between the folds of our sleep ... what could create our own dark thoughts and agitated ... and these days the world the wind blows too "heavy thin" ... However, if in your sleep you were attacked by quest'Efialte, when you wake up rammentatevi of Heracles, accompanied dell'Ephialtion from the Intelligence, the blind campers a dart in the right eye. It 's always Heracles against these entities shell the final blow. It 's always a mortal who triumphs over them. The gods intervene by providing advice, this is true, but the final action is up to him. It is up to us.

Milena-velba With Man

Carnival and the World Beyond

Masks of the Carnival of Venice

Mask is "licensed" in and of itself. For this I have always linked the over world and I was always a little carnival 'scared. And here I mean 'fear' in the sense of transition, change in status. It 's a fierce context, that of the Carnival, something that we talk about survival of parades and of' processions' where people dress up lingering on the brink of another world. The 'jokes Carnival', which I always considered from a certain point of view 'cruel', speak to us to cause fear and terror, tell of death (ritual) and initiation and the same forms, in their grotesque laugh or cry, recall the exaggeration and refer the look 'beyond' the normal. There is something more than that but at a first glance would seem only to mask the burlante corteo.Penso Mamuthones of Mamoiada in Sardinia, as not to get caught by the thought that something 'much older than what you think' will survive in that particular tradition? The "end of winter" or "call the summer" (and with it wealth and fertility) can not be separated from the "terror", by agitation rattles and bells to scare the season hard and death, to call the beautiful season and the life. But there is no life without death ritual, passing - even - with fear.

All my thoughts and feelings have also found a response when I read years ago, the intervention of Franco Castelli "Masca vel Stria: a symbolic mountain, " reported in the Proceedings of the Fourth National Congress of Historical Studies held in anthropological Triora (Imperia), on 22-24 October 2004. A few excerpts for your consideration:

"In archaic Carnevali, masks are the dead who return. Carnival is the ever recurring symbol of renovatio mundi metaphor of the alternation of life and death in nature and humans. Carnival dies (most often burned, but also hanged, shot, dismembered, dissected) to be reborn. The practice of ritual dismemberment of the body Carnival (grotesque body, as open and gutted) definitely connects the ancient custom of anatomy theater (attested for example in modern times to Rome, Florence, Pisa, Padua and Bologna), which involves allowing the audience on the last day of Carnival, to witness the dissection of a human cadaver, in an anatomical theater. But the performances in Carnival time were not uncommon, so much so that in Rome, even in the relatively marked, was used Thursday to kill the fat a person sentenced to death (and Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in Campo dei Fiori on Thursday Carnival of 1600). This link-Carnevali archaic rites of death is the basis of a series of processing symbolic and cultural practices on which it is perhaps not sufficiently investigated, but which belong to the realm of the sacred and magical with which traditional communities were seeking confrontation with the unknown and the supernatural. It is therefore not a coincidence that in several places within the Carnival archaic, if this demonstrates the presence, among the practices associated with the life cycle, the dirge (so Rueglio in Canavese, and Sapphire mountain Bagolino Brescia Mamoiada Ottana Barbagia in Sardinian, etc.) as a rite of reintegration and technique that secures the presence of risk does not exist in history. "

the same tone is also following the intervention of Paul in his door The Witch and the crucifix " Editions Castel Negrino:

" Nellla second half of February, at the critical output of winter, it was believed that the world was exposed to the onslaught of the living souls of the dead. It was said that pathetic mundus, the gate of hell, in other words, it was ajar, and went back with their darkest secrets of the dead. The Carnival would thus seem to fit within this tradition of rites of passage, most notably the masked figures and atavistic as the Salvan or inferred as Herlequin. An age in its rituals and symbols, but not in name, largely unknown in the folk world. For example, in France, the term Carnival was introduced in 1596, directly from Italian, and in villages north of the Alps, even in 70s of XX century, was used to indicate the masked winter with this exact name. Carnival is unknown in many dialects, while in many European countries, the festival was known by passing a particular term that sometimes remembered as personifying the date of the mask or the costume, so, for example, are known in European folklore the "jours de Pailhasses, Tchuddigs des, des Kurents, de la Capra, des Masques, the output of Mamuthones, etc ".

Harlequin and Columbine (Jean Antoine Watteau)

And always the intervention of Franco Castelli

"(...) Let us return then to the fundamental relationship with the afterlife. The larvae are male-male, spirits of ancestors, ancestors who are underground, like seeds. It follows that fertility, abundance, wealth can not be achieved without the mediation of the spirits and the underworld chthonic. Camporesi then cites a testament of Sier Carnival [2], the popular press Gobbo di Rialto, which dates back to the earliest seventeenth century, in which Messer Carnival said its extreme will, taking a seven witnesses loyal secretaries that meet the funny names Crack el, el Zogo, el Bagordo, Mattezzo el, el parcel, the Imbriaghezzo, el Strighezzo. Now, Strighezzo, Stregazzo, striazzo, Strazza, as well as picenale, Barlow, of course are all synonyms of sand. "


And here in our reflection comes into play - a very right! - Procession of the Lord, where live and dead participate in the dance without any distinctions: the living to "initiate" the secrets of death and win the favor of the underworld and the dead to enjoy the contact with that world that are leaving the course ... (Parade), the Lady of the Games is this sort of 'contact point', and the parades of Carnival is modeled on some features.



Returning Castles in what he writes and another thought:

"Carnival, Agricultural festival par excellence, is a magical moment suspended in time. What we would like to emphasize here is that this archaic concept of carnival as Antimondo, topsy-turvy world, belongs to a rich symbolic repertoire that becomes part of the construction of the stereotype of the sabbath, as Ginzburg has shown, it crystallizes just in the Alps West. What is its origin? From below, from the folkloric heritage of the witches, or from above, from ecclesial culture that establishes the equation paganitas = demonic? Or the result of two within a conflictus between folk culture and learned culture that is manifested and developed for more than three centuries, from one end of Europe. Because what the witches, writes Peter Burke, is one of the most striking examples of interaction between the classical tradition and popular. "

course I am for the second option, the question posed by Castelli. Consider the fact that often in one of Carnival costumes "interpreted" in a very burlesque is the man with the miter on his head (a sort of "dad") while in the public punishment of "witches" are often used to disguise, dress Masked and joke. Interactions. For better or worse. It is not said that common sense be deemed a 'good' rather than being the result of an inquisitorial culture that would be good to understand and then overcome.

The punishment of the witch - Grevenbroch

"In this context, it is easy to understand why, as pointed out by Ginzburg, is right in the carnival period (late winter, early spring) that, across Europe, reported cults, myths, rituals and shamanistic background, which he summarized in a map that divide them: ecstatic journeys in the wake of gods mostly female; battles in ecstasy, mainly for fertility, semi-bestial appearances during the 12 days, groups of young people dressed as animals, mainly during the 12 days, battles for fertility rituals, apparitions of dead people predestined to [*]. Moreover, the connection between Witchcraft and going masked is highlighted and reiterated linguistic survey on European names of the witch, in particular where the two terms of the romance, the Northern Italian type masca "witch" and the Provencal grimaou appear related to the concept of form. "

my A note: Note that there is another period of "magic" that runs over 12 days referred to as "magic" and that's what comes from Christmas to Epiphany, and even there the 'disguise' take on key roles.

Carnival as a contact point, then, and its importance is also given by the reminder of the fundamental function of all the rituals that are asserted in the 'moments of transition', particularly in the most delicate moment in the transition from the absolute or the summer, days delicate as seals of propitiatory magic and hope. And it is 'in moments of transition' that we know as "the moment stops and everything is possible ...

[*] Death and mourning ritual, Ernesto de Martino


texts cited:

Masca vel Stria: a symbolic system Alpine, Franco Castelli , reported in the Proceedings of the Fourth National Congress of Historical Studies held in anthropological Triora (Imperia), on 22-24 October 2004.
The Witch and the crucifix Paul's Gate, editions Castel Negrino
The country's hunger Piero Camporesi