Quantum Physics and Religion

Every religion states that god is beyond our ability to comprehend it yet we put him in sandals and a robe, or some derivative thereof. Humans have created god in their own image, and I believe this is done in an effort to bring him closer to us, or to better understand the unfathomable. Therefor, when we reach different understandings of god conflict ensues.

Although many people believe that science and religion are at odds, they are in fact one in the same. Religion was once our science, now science has become our religion. Quantum physics suggests we exist beyond our ability to perceive ourselves and are limited to what we do perceive. This means that we cannot sense the energy that surrounds us, nor the souls that inhabit every body that surrounds you along with your own, but this doesn’t mean they do not exist. In other words, when you close your eyes the world does not go away. Many scientists suggest this theory may very well explain and/or confirm the existence of souls.

Humanity is laden with flaw, but from a positive view one might say our flaws are merely our separation from each other, our distinguishing characteristics. Our flaws are our humanity. I find it perplexing that people with beliefs different from most are considered insane, when mainstream religion is no more provable as truth. It seems that the more people that believe something, the more right it becomes. On that note I’d like to ask, what is the difference between religion and insanity – is it how close we think we are to god? And who are any of us to draw that line in the first place?

Many religions suggest that we are made from god, and even that we are each pieces of god and as one consciousness but different bodies we thrive and view the world from billions of different perspectives. If this is the case, we are god’s eyes and ears. God’s emotions, god’s drive, god’s ambition. This, I believe, is probable if you consider that god did create us in his own image. If so, perhaps we can understand god by better understanding ourselves.

How to Test A Psychic

"....I sense someone in the audience yes....you! You know someone named John."

"Oh my god! My neighbor's cousin's husband's name is John!"

Come on, people. It seems these days all you need to be a 'real psychic' are a few EMF meters, some frumpy clothing and maybe endorsement from Oprah (yeah, I'm talking to you Sylvia Brown and trim those fucking nails). For those positively obsessed with both proving and disproving psychics, I respect you. People can hold claim to anything that can't be concretely debunked. Sure, it can't be proven. But it can't be disproven either. With that said let's move on.

You'd be surprised to know that a lot of ghost hunters are in fact skeptics on task to dispel some misconceptions. Whatever their intention, ghost hunters are scientists, and use science to provide us with something before them unheard of - evidence. They use many tools but for this you'll probably only need the EMF Detector.

EMF is an acronym for electromagnetic field detector, and is used to...well...detect electromagnetic fields. The significance behind ghosts and electromagnetism can be explained by Einstein's theory that energy can never be extinguished, only transformed. This means that the energy we produce everyday that doctors detect using CAT Scans and EEG maps doesn't just dissipate when we die - it has to go somewhere. Whether this energy is we ourselves or just remnants of us is up for debate, but one thing is for sure - it's there, and EMF detectors can read it. The EMF Detector pictured can be purchased at Ghost Mart for about 100 bucks but they run as cheap as 30 dollars. To me it looks crappy for that price but I guess looks aren't everything.

Here is what you do: You take your psychic friend and your EMF detector and go somewhere that is notorious for hauntings that Suzy Psychic-pants has not been to or heard of. Have her walk around and point in the general direction of spots she deems high in activity. Run the meter around it and if it goes off, don't stop there. Keep looking. Base her credibility on the number of hits and misses. Scientists are happy, psychics are happy. Everyone is happy.

Granted, you cannot rely on a machine any more than you can rely on flawed man, for machines are the flawed fruits of man's labor. In a world built from the hands of the flawed human race you can only survive in certainty by taking from life only what you know to be true and leaving the rest behind. That is all for now.

Interview with Puzuzu

For those of you who don't know (and I doubt there are many of you) Puzuzu is the creator and webmaster of the long running occult-oriented site SpellsandMagic.com, and has become an icon in the alternative and/or religious community both online and off. Though to the common man he may have an intimidating exterior, he has actually proven to be both a very friendly and patient guy, and has granted me the opportunity to interview him. During this interview we discover Puzuzu's views on religion, the current state of humanity, and his take on everything from religious drug use to cloning for medical purposes:

First of all, I'd like to thank you for taking the time to participate in this interview with me. I'm sure you are quite the busy person so before we start, may I ask in general what you've been up to lately? Any new projects or endeavors?

I have been debating on whether 2 write a book or not and exactly what 2 write about.
My main endeavors would be seeking a greater "Thrill". I am an Adrenaline Junkie. I need to do high risk things or things that will scare me. But scary things really don't scare me... they make me excited and get my blood pumping. Even if I am Out of body and end up in the astral pits.... I find it the adventure of a lifetime. What I am planning next is a more radical flesh hook Suspension, something much more painful than the last. This will put my mind 2 the test.



From the varied content held in your web site, you seem like a pretty diverse individual. Would you say you are occult-oriented or something else?

Absolutely..... Every aspect of the Occult has become part of my life in some way. It is mostly all I think about.



How long have you been involved in the occult or magic?

Since I was 15 and became awakened 2 the fact that there was more 2 life and the universe than the Bible told me. From that moment on I studied and read every book on the Occult I could get my hands on. And during those years there were not as many books available as there are 2day.



How did you get started and how long did it take you to find the answers you needed?

One day when I was 15 I had a strange urge to read about pyramids. I was obsessed with them. This later led to me finding out about my past lives in Egypt.
To this day I am still searching for some answers. Most of my questions of why and how we got here have been answered, but there are a couple things I still need 2 know.



Do you have a basic philosophy in regards to religion and everyday life?

Well I believe in Jesus and I believe that we were created by the Creator Gods... Enki and Enlil who are both of the Reptilian Race. I know that were just a genetic experiment. There is no loving caring god like the Bible states. This god From the Bible, Yahweh also known as Enlil, was a brutal blood-thirsty renegade god struggling for power and in competition with his half Brother Enki, also known as Lucifer. If there was a compassionate loving god...then why are children born deformed? No, not because of our damn sins. It is because the gods did not perfect their DNA experiment in making man. As far as Jesus goes, I believe him 2 belong to another race, the Pleiadians, who are of light and harmony. I myself am from the same race of beings.



What are some of the sources you used to find this information?

Ancient Sumerian texts that were translated.



Do you have any religious or spiritual inspirations?

Archangel Michael is my inspiration along with Jesus. If it were not for Michael...I would have been dead long ago.



Living an alternative lifestyle in the Southeastern United States can prove challenging. Are your loved ones accepting of your chosen path?

Ha ha.....well. I live in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. There are so many assholes that live here. People are mean and not friendly, but they stay away from me.
My family accepts me and knows what I do but they think I am off my rocker sometimes for my knowledge is so advanced.



We are all perceived inaccurately from time to time. With that in mind, what do you think is the biggest misconception people gather of you?

Well not everyone agrees with my words and I do not wish 4 anyone 2 follow me. A lot of people write me and try 2 correct things on my site. For example: "You don't use the right colors on your Triangle of Solomon". I tell them "There are many different ways 2 do things and what works 4 me...works 4 me". What is right 4 one person may not be right 4 another. But some people get really mad if I do not go by there ways of thinking. They think the rules of the Occult were written in stone.



Do you have any advice for them to set the records straight?

Yes. Mind your own business and tend 2 your own life and not mine.



How do you feel about utilizing drugs to obtain a higher level of consciousness?

Why I have never done drugs..."cough cough"...ha. I think it is great sometimes.
I am not talking about getting high just to get high. I am talking about doing it to reach the Spiritual Realms. I must say I use absinthe, the high grade absinthe, to get where I need 2 be. No it is not a drug, it is a poison. Good ol' wormwood oil. I would have to say that mushrooms are the best thing in the world. Yet it has been 20 years since I did that. It is probably what awakened me to the Occult.



Are there any people, famous or none, alive or dead, that you think we should pay attention to?

Crowley.



How do you feel about the controversy surrounding medical technology and cloning?

Hell ya. I think we should definitely play God. Why? Because we are all God. Besides, our government has secret bases where they have been doing that for years along side ETs in genetics and creating human/alien hybrids.



Overall, do you think the state of humanity is getting better or worse?

Much worse. Every country is power hungry and all governments are evil bastards. The amount of pedophiles out there sickens me, especially here in Florida.
The fact that you can send money to help starving people and know that your money will never reach pisses me off too.



Have you encountered the prophecies of 2012? If so what is your take on it?

No one knows 4 sure, but I believe that is when Planet X (Nibirru) returns and throws us off our Axis. Then most of us will die. Some will be picked up by motherships by several different races of beings...some good and some bad. Say your prayers.



What is your opinion on the current state of the environment?

I do not believe all this bullshit about climate warming. Yes it happens naturally and always has, but people are blowing it out of proportion.



On a more basic level, what do you like to do for entertainment?

Drinking, watching women dance for me and going out for fine Dining.



Do you have any books you recommend to readers interested in occult or religious knowledge?

The Gospel of Judas, Children of the Matrix and Modern Magick. I could list so many that I like.



Do you recommend any other resources, i.e. web sites, places like museums, or anything of that nature?

Well most of the places I recommend are on my links page. There are so many. My favorite is WeatherWars.info.



What are your future plans for Spells and Magic?

To expand much, much more when I get the free time. There is just not enough time in the day.



And for yourself?

To travel more abroad. To go back to Egypt and if the god damn war weren't going on my ass would be in Iraq. The Sumerian Occult history there is so Deep. I believe the real reason we are there is for our government to find a hidden stargate. Most people overlook the fact that that is the area where the Ggod Enlil and Enki were based with Space Stations eons ago.



Do you have any good advice or anything else you would like to say to the readers?

Yes. Read every book you can get your hands on. Never stop learning. Realize that you are God incarnate! Remember that all mainstream religions are part of a control system to keep your ass in the Matrix. Get out of the Matrix!



Thank you, Puzuzu, for taking the time to state your standing on these issues and topics, and hopefully in the future we can get some updates on both you and the site to see how things are going. Before we part, do you have anything else to say to the public that hasn't been covered?

No, I think that's about it. I enjoyed answering your questions and I must say they were good ones!

For more information on Puzuzu visit his Myspace profile. His web site holds within its pages a lexicon of occult information including but not limited to the following topics: spells, meditation, astral projection, dream recall, time travel, hypnotism, and omens and beliefs. The spells section is especially extensive and the methods used for each spell are very well explained. Spells included will aid in conjuring energy, finding lost items, getting your way, banishing and reversal, invisibility, protection, evocation, and much more.

Click here to visit Spells and Magic.

All about the Damned

In today's society the strange are not very accepted, and often complain about it despite the fact that the worst they get are stares and maybe an otherwise avoidable traffic ticket or two. I personally find it ridiculous, because these people choose to be different unlike people with the misfortune of being born with deformities, just like I've chosen, but refuse to accept the consequences of their decision. It is for this reason that I've decided to post about people who chose to be different back in the old days, and sometimes were just accused of being different, and the price they had to pay in the end. Maybe this will shut those emo kids up for a while...

Accused witches

Witches and those like them have been around sense the dawn of time, though it was only during the introduction of Judo-Christianity that they were deemed evil and spawns of Satan. According to recorded history it became a common practice around the early 1400's. It is unfortunate that the gospel itself brought them no harm, but as it always goes when you present a complicated idea to a mass of stupid people something always goes horribly wrong.

The people targeted with the accusation of witchcraft were on occasion practitioners or unrelenting pagans, but far more often than not they were just the mentally ill, the misunderstood or the poor. What is currently known as schizophrenia was first viewed as prophetic ability, whereas the person could converse with spirits and the deceased. Upon the introduction of Christianity, they were believed to hold the power of Discernia, which is the ability to detect and communicate with angels or demons, and sometimes both. Over time, as often happens with oral tradition and old works of religious documentation, Discernia was somehow either forgotten or scewed into the belief that these people were possessed by demons. The sufferers were first taken to a holy man for exorcism either once or a few times, depending on the importance or wealth of the person, and when this yielded no results the individual was either run off from the village or killed.

The impoverished rarely followed the common etiquette of the towns people, and this was generally because they couldn't afford to. The women couldn't by the clothes to cover themselves, had little opportunity to properly wash, and in desperate times even engaged in prostitution in a last effort to feed themselves. It is for these reasons that when it came to the poor the women were almost always the ones accused. Methods for doing away with accused witches of all kinds include the following:

• Throwing them into the river: If they floated they were witches and were burned at the stake and if they sank they were dead anyway from drowning. The conviction in the case of witchcraft was almost always the death penalty as well.


• Burning: Either at the stake or thrown onto a pile, this was a popular method. Many believed destroying the body in this manner eliminated the possibility for them to return from the dead. Also, when burned on a pile the towns people would often throw their belongings into the pile with them, in a effort to rid themselves of potentially cursed items.


• Stoning: Back in the ancient days a stoning would involve throwing rocks at someone until someone made a fatal blow. However, by the time the witch hunts began the people would just assume dig a shallow hole in the ground and pile rocks on top of the unfortunate victim. This led to the crushing of the ribcage and eventual suffocation.

The Left-handed

According to statistics today, only 3 out of every 100 people are left-handed. Scientists believe it is not hereditary, but I am left-handed and so is my father so the odds are against them on that one. Once considered little more than an interesting trait, the left-handed were eventually considered children of the devil somewhere through the course of history, and were treated as such. The term left is actually Latin for sinister, which tells you for just how long the left side has been associated with the evil and just plain bad. In the early middle ages children were beaten and sometimes killed for using their left hand. Believe it or not, left-handed children were being encouraged and even forced to use their right hand as recently as fifty years ago. I personally knew an old woman who told me herself that as a child in school they would tie her left hand to her desk so she was forced to write with her right one. She was ambidextrous as a result.

The Deformed

In today's society those burdened with deformities suffer the incessant gawking of the public every time they have to go out on common endeavors that we participate in without incident every day. Believe it or not, it has been worse. Back in the fifties was around the time the government started to help the deformed rather than just hide them, by offering funded income and medical insurance to aid them in any complications they might face due to their illness. However, as recently as the early 1700s infants born deformed were severely neglected and often left to die. Further before that almost every culture would abandon them entirely and races like the Vikings would actually leave a sick infant naked in the snow over night. If the child survived it was allowed to live. If not, well, you get the idea.

To those lost to the ignorance and unsettling violence innate to human beings, I'd like say something you've been needing to hear for all of these years: We miss you, we love you, and on behalf of mankind - we are sorry. And for those of us both chastised and chastising, the moral of the story is stop complaining - It could always be worse.

Penanggalan

It was oh, ninth grade I suppose, when I was actually bored enough to utilize the library of my humble high school in my oh-so-Baptist hometown. I didn't expect to find anything of interest but to my surprise the school actually gave in to the 'freedom of religion' schtick and provided the holy bible, and according to law a few other less checked-out books. One of them was called The Picture Book of Devils, Demons and Witchcraft, and it was in this book that I discovered the glory that is the penanggalan. Needless to say, I never returned it.

Originating in the Malay Peninsula, the penanggalan is a rather gruesome breed of vampire. There are many explanations of what causes the creation of such a
monstrosity, but one of the most prominent is the belief that it is the detached head of a woman who died during childbirth, that in her madness ravages the region in search of blood and flesh. The penanggalan is always depicted as a severed and floating female head with entrails and bit of bone hanging from the neck, as well as the heart.

According to oral tradition, the creature appears as a normal woman during the daytime, and it is only at night that the head detaches from the body and perches on trees or roofs of houses of women who are in labor, waiting to drink the blood left by afterbirth. The women who have been preyed upon almost always contract a fatal wasting disease and die soon after. The penanggalan is also referred to as the penanggal, and in the Philippines, the manananggal.

How to Banish A Strigoi

Romania will probably be touched on a lot in this log, because even in present day extreme measures are taken to both deter and evoke demonic or otherwise evil aspects in the everyday life of the Romanian. This particular post is about the strigoi, the beings from whom I adopted my name, and a ritual often performed in an effort to banish them.

The strigoi are in encyclopedia terms the undead, both spirits and physical forms, that rise from the grave to seek vengeance or otherwise haunt the countryside, feasting on either the life force or actual flesh and blood of its victims. The Romanian engage in the following practice to rid the burdened of the strigoi:

There are a few variations on this ritual depending on region and oral tradition, but the basics remain the same: The suspected deceased is exhumed by the victimized with more often than not a holy man present, for protection I suppose, and more often than not without consent from the dead man's family. The victims then cut out the heart and burn it to a crisp, then grind it into a fine powder. The powder is then mixed with a few ingredients including water, maybe oil, and often alcohol. Finally the concoction is heated to a near boil to make sure the powder is soaked and evaporated into the other ingredients, and a cup is passed between the victims who proceed to drink the brew of powdered heart.

Today only rural areas of Romania practice this, and even then it isn't very often the dead rise. Even though modernized parts of Romania no longer practice acts of this nature, urban and rural alike still both believe and fear these beings and take superstitious measures to evade their attention.

Hand of Glory

A while back I traded my modern wicca-inspired rites in favor of works of raw energy and studies of the old ways and I find this one to be particularly fascinating. I could be posting a lot of magic(k) as I am well versed in many areas of the concept, but I've come to understand the basis for every ritual of that nature is the same - intent and will, and these are things that can't be explained no matter that people have tried to explain it. In my opinion you can or you can't, simple as that. In other words, expect little more than ritual posts of the following nature from me. On with the Hand of Glory:

Though the rite can be traced back to early 14th century Europe, I get the feelings it's much older than the best evidence conveys. Back in the day it was believed the hand of a newly hanged man held mystical powers and was incredibly lucky. So as you can imagine, when someone fucked up and was strung from a tree thieves were standing in line with a hatchet to chop of the hand and either sell it or harvest it for personal use. More often than not, it was the thief himself who cultivated the power of the Hand of Glory by lighting the fingers on fire, rendering whomever he chose motionless for as long as the hand was lit. Surprisingly no preparation was needed in making the hand flammable, as human fat burns easy - ask any mortician with an an urn and an oven. Burnable fat is also the reason why the hand had to be fresh. Too bad people don't get hanged anymore, otherwise instant power would be ripe for the pickin'.

Another superstition like it is one in which the tooth of a hanged man was charged and could be used for many ritualistic purposes, though these were often extracted and cultivated by women.

A Hand of Glory from the 'glory days'