Hello and welcome to the Psychic News.
In this edition we discuss the following:
1. Crow Lore
2. Humour Offering
3. Astral Travel
4. Trivial Tidbit
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Crow Lore
One Crow Sorrow
Two Crows Joy
Three Crows a Wedding
Four Crows a Boy
Five crows Silver
Six Crows Gold
Seven Crows a Secret
Never to be told.
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Crows have in many cultures, been a bird used in divination,
ritual, art and storytelling. They are also the totem
animal
for people born in the sign of Libra. The crow was regarded
in many periods as a messenger of death or harbinger
of
misfortune; a number are said to have flown around Cicero's
head on the day he was murdered and crows were said
to possess
magical powers. This may have something to do with
the crow's
cry of 'cras' - the Latin word for 'tomorrow'.
The crow, as "Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and
Fable" puts
it, 'symbolizes contention, discord and strife'. The
ravens,
of the crow family, owe part of their sinister reputation
to
their odious habit of picking out the eyes of corpses
- as
the wicked are warned in Proverbs. It's colour, black,
invested the raven with ideas of darkness, oblivion
and
death.
In ancient Greece the raven was an attendant of Apollo.
The Norse people believed that their god Odin possessed
two ravens, which flew around all day collecting information.
In the evening they would perch upon his shoulders,
giving
him the latest news they had gathered - a highly economical
form of secret service.
In both the Old and New Testaments the raven figures
frequently, and in Christian history. The ravens fed
Elijah,
and St. Benedict is often depicted with a raven at his
feet.
It was a raven that brought St. Paul the Hermit a loaf
of
bread.
The keeping of ravens at the Tower of London is a strange
tradition, for it is assumed that bad luck will result
if they
leave the place. Yet the building itself has so sinister
a
history that, far from relieving the all pervading gloom
of
the place, some think that the presence of the ravens
heightens it.
A more genial legend persists in the Welsh superstition
that
if a blind person is kind to a raven his sight will
be
restored. In Cornwall the superstition persists that
the soul
of king Arthur took the form of a raven for which reason
one of
the species could never be shot. In Brazil a similar
belief
exists - it is held that the human soul can inhabit
the body of
a raven.
Another pleasant superstition is that crows can bring
you good
luck. If you see one flying, your wish will come true
as long
as the crow does not flap its wings before going out
of sight.
If it should, the wish might still be granted if your
cover
your eyes. If the bird is no where in sight when you
uncover
them, you'll get your wish.
One curious feature of the behaviour of crows is their
seeming
capacity to hold 'courts' at which, by numerous accounts,
they
pass judgement and carry out summary execution of such
of their
numbers as, for some mysterious reason, they consider
deserving
of it. As Edward Stanley, the Victorian naturalist
put it:
In the Northern part of Scotland, and in the Faroe Islands,
extraordinary meetings of crows are known to occur.
They
collect in great numbers, as if they had all been summoned,
for the occasion; a few of the flock sit with dropping
heads,
and the others seem as grave as judges, while others
again
are exceedingly active and noisy; in the course of about
an
hour they disperse and it is not uncommon, after they
have
flown away, to find one or two left dead on the spot.
Another writer (in Dr Edmonston's "Shetland Isles"),
says that
these meetings will sometimes continue for a day or
two, before
the object, whatever it may be, is complete. Crows
continue to
arrive from all quarters during the session. As soon
as they
have all arrived, a very general noise ensues, and shortly
after, the whole fall upon one or two individuals, and
put them
to death; when this execution has been performed, they
quietly
disperse.
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Humour Offering
Roadtest: The Difference Between a n and a Witch
A n and a Witch each plan to go for a drive. They
want
green lights the whole way through their trips. The
n first
dresses in her ritual regalia, gets out all her tools,
casts a
circle around her car, invokes a deity of transportation,
lights
some specially-oiled green candles, smudges her car,
concludes
the circle, gets in her car and goes on her way. The
Witch, on
the other hand, just gets in her car and goes. At every
intersection she screams "TURN GREEN!" or
"STAY GREEN DAMMIT!"
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Astral Travel or
Out of Body Experience (OOBE)
Astral projection, known by many different names, has
been
practiced and reported as long ago as the beginnings
of modern
history. The ancient Egyptians referred to the astral
self as
"ba", a spirit with the body and wings of
a bird and a human
head. Through the centuries thousands of people have
reported
experiences with astral travel. Mystics, scientists,
artists,
and housewives have successfully learned to launch their
astral selves and travel out of their physical bodies
at will.
One of the first Westerners who wrote about this process
was
S. J. Muldoon, whose 1929 book "Projection of the
Astral Body"
explains how to launch oneself.
Make sure you are located somewhere that you won't be
disturbed and loosen your clothing. Relax, shut your
eyes,
and breath deeply. Let tension and worry drain away.
Lie on
your back on a bed or other flat surface and free your
astral
self (your consciousness). You travel astrally every
night
through your dreams, so this process of freeing the
astral
self is simply letting your mind dream, wander or drift
while
you are actually awake.
To begin with, you can deliberately induce this split
between
the astral and the physical bodies at the moment of
falling
asleep by imagining you are flying or rising in some
manner.
Teach yourself to remain conscious right up to the moment
that you fall asleep. If you can't focus your attention
well
enough for this, and many people can't, try holding
one arm
in the air when you go to bed. As you drop off to sleep,
the
arm will sway and fall toward the bed. That should
give you
a slight jolt, enough to keep you aware, but not enough
to
awaken you entirely.
First your astral form disengages and floats a few inches
above the physical body. To enable this disengagement,
envision your consciousness hanging outside your body,
slightly above you about a foot in front of your forehead.
Then little by little move the focal point forward until
you
have focused about six to eight feet from your physical
body.
Next imagine how pleasant and delightful it would be
to lift
out of your body and float overhead. Eventually the
astral
self gradually begins to rise horizontally and move
away as
it assumes an upright position. The two entities, astral
and
physical, are attached to one another by a long elastic
and
flexible cord between the heads, so there is no particular
danger of the two parts of your being becoming separated.
To return, simply reverse the process. There is a warning
necessary here for folks with heart or other serious
physical ailments to not attempt this type of travel
because
the experience for novices can be quite startling.
Always be
cautious when you embark in this new fashion, because
if you
travel to another plane, you might encounter hostile
energy
or unpleasant experiences. Until you are familiar with
the
process, particularly for returning to your physical
body,
stick to visiting all those places you have always wanted
to
see, right here on the surface of the planet earth.
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Trivial Tidbit
Egads, It's Raining Frogs!
Throughout history, there have been tales of raining
frogs.
These stories, as crazy as they may seem, are actually
real
events! From Biblical tales of Egyptian storms to British
towns suddenly finding themselves covered with frogs
falling
from the sky, such events are caused when a wind storm
passes over a pond or lake, picking the creatures up
and
dumping them elsewhere! It is unknown why the tornado
or
whirlwind air currents are so species selective.
The Bible describes a rain of manna and quails more
than 3,000
years ago. At that time this was looked upon as a supernatural
event. The rain of manna has happened often in modern
times;
the manna being a lichen that grows in great abundance
after
rainfall.
In February 1998, it rained fine sand over parts of
England.
People heard radio announcements telling them the phenomenon
was caused by a freak storm picking up sand in the Sahara
desert and blowing it thousands of miles north to Britain.
The sand was followed in March by very tiny frogs falling
in
Croydon.
The British are getting used to weird things falling
from the
sky. Fish fell on London in 1984 and six large flounders,
still alive, were recovered from the streets. In the
same year,
starfish arrived from the clouds in North Yorkshire.
The inhabitants of Bristol recalled the old song, Pennies
from
Heaven, in 1956. A shower of pennies and halfpennies
fell for
over two minutes. No one knows how much money landed,
but
children formed happy queues at sweet shops.
More frogs fell again in Scotland in 1995. Scotland
was also
the scene of a huge fall of ice in the 1800's. Ice falls
in
the past few years have been attributed to aircraft.
Richard
Griffiths of Manchester University collected ice which
he
witnessed falling in 1973. Obtaining some large fragments,
he
froze them pending analysis and checked the airport
for details
of any aircraft flying overhead. The airport confirmed
that no
planes had been in the vicinity at the time of the ice
fall.
When analysing the ice he found that the ice was of
a similar
type to that in hailstones.
We have all heard the expression "it's raining
cats and dogs."
There are several theories about this saying. It is
possible
that the word cat is derived from the Greek word 'catadupe'
meaning 'waterfall.' Or it could be raining 'cata doxas,'
which is Latin for 'contrary to experience,' or an unusual
fall of rain. In Northern mythology the cat is supposed
to have
great influence on the weather, and English sailors
still say
the cat has a gale of wind in her tail when she is unusually
frisky. Witches that rode upon the storms were said
to assume
the form of cats; and to this day the stormy northwest
wind
is called the cat's nose in the Harz mountains. The
dog is a
sign of wind, like the wolf. Both animals were attendants
of
Odin, the storm-god. In old German pictures the wind
is figured
as the "head of a dog or wolf," from which
blasts issue. The
cat therefore symbolizes the down-pouring of rain, and
the dog
the strong gusts of wind that accompany a rainstorm;
and a rain
of "cats and dogs" is a heavy rain with wind.
Another theory suggests that in medieval times cats
and dogs
sheltered in the thatched roofs of peasant huts during
storms,
and a severe storm rousted these animals causing them
to fall
from their perches, and thus 'rain' down onto the ground.
In spite of a fish fall in India in which
more than ten people picked up fish weighing up to eight
pounds, and many accounts of rains of ice-coated ducks,
grasshoppers, fish, and frogs, there is no account of
a
raining of cats and dogs.
There are lists of dozens of examples of weird rain,
all
over the world, including alabaster, ants, ashes, beef,
beetle larvae, berries, bitumen, blood, butter, charcoal,
china fragments, cinders, coal, cobwebs, coins, crabs,
crayfish, eels, fish, flesh, flowers, frogs, gelatinous
matter, grain, ham sandwiches, hay, iron balls, jelly
fish,
limestone, lizards, mud, mussels, oyster shells, periwinkles,
quartz, resin, salt, sand, sandalwood, seeds, silk,
snails,
snakes, spawn, spiders, stones, turtles,
but NEVER an actual report of "cats and dogs"!
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