Foreign Film: Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul

Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul is the story of a blind dervish named Bab'Aziz and his spirited grand daughter, Ishtar. Together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years. With faith as their only guide, the two journey for days through the expansive, barren landscape.

To keep Ishtar entertained, Bab'Aziz relays the ancient tale of a prince who relinquished his realm in order to remain next to a small pool in the desert, staring into its depths while contemplating his soul. As the tale of the prince unfolds, the two encounter other travelers with stories of their own --including Osman, who longs for the beautiful woman he met at the bottom of a well, and Zaid, who searches for the ravishing young woman who fled from him after being seduced by his songs. A fairytale-like story of longing and belonging, filmed in the enchanting and ever-shifting sand scapes of Tunisia and Iran.



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Ancient Astronaut Theory or God's Pantheon of divine beings who administer the Cosmos?

The Ancient Astronaut theorists have compiled a wonderful tapestry of questions (and not many answers). All of these questions steeped in the most ancient of mysterious; and they've attributed the origin of these mysteries to nothing other than extraterrestrials from either another planet or another dimension. If this sounds a little far-fetched to you, your not alone, because like most people you've relegated these mysteries as unsolvable, or you've left such questions answerable only by those who are into Archeology.

The Ancient Astronaut theorists delve into the mysteries of these ancient architectural achievements, but they don't do it using science alone like Archaeologists do; there using sacred religious texts and the stories from legends and myths to give them justifiable weight in the arena of public opinion. Now how does that make their theories justifiable truth? It's safe to say that there are still greater numbers of adherents to religion than there are adherents to science, no matter how secular our world has gotten. Ancient Astronaut theory in my opinion strikes the sheppard to scatter the sheep. Sheep who have already begun to question their faith in God, and now they can find something more physical to latch on to, an alien being (the Annunaki) who according to Sumerian text descended from the heavens and gave primitive man a head start on civilization.



Daniel 4:17: "This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men."

To me...Ancient Astronaut Theory uses passages like the one shown above from the Bible to support it's theories. I can already see how religion will combat these claims by simply claiming that these extraterrestrial beings are themselves either demons or angels, working within the divine council or hierarchy of God. Religious ideologues will always be able to say that God created the alien even if the alien tampered with man, and to that there will be no defence until of course an alien ship lands down on this planet declaring to all who would believe that they are in fact the gods that we have always believed in. Until then this entire discussion about whether it was Aliens or God is all conjecture and fanciful story-telling at best.

The Mayan Ruler Palenque, said to be flying inside a space craft?!?
You decide...


I will say this about ancient astronaut theory, I do love how it challenges earth's timeline of history, how it digs to find evidence that debunks long held claims in both Archeology and History (that the Pyramid of Giza was a tomb, which I don't happen to believe is true). Our textbooks on history are an out-dated propaganda and there are so many loose ends that have been considered legitimate means to an end. So in my opinion it's healthy to inject good questioning into the debates that have long had it's doors closed by orthodoxy. The findings at Puma Punku we're amazing. The precision stone cutting abilities of the Inca found at Puma Punku merit more investigation. The painting by artist Carlo Crivelli in the year 1486 entitled "The Annunciation" was a remarkable old world illustration of a UFO. The Piri Reis Map caught my attention also (not because I thought aliens gave them the aerial precision with which to make such a map) but because I've always thought that man was smarter than the current timeline of history would give him credit for.




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Artist Elihu Vedder: One of the greatest "symbolist painters"

Via: www.artcyclopedia.com


Elihu Vedder (February 26, 1836 – January 29, 1923)

I make it a point to study the work of many artists, and eventhough I am a novice in the field of art and design I couldn't help but be in awe of the featured artist I'm blogging about today...Elihu Vedder.

An American symbolist painter, book illustrator, born in New York City.

He is best known for his fifty-five illustrations for Edward FitzGerald's translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, which is considered a marvelous and masterful piece of work. It is said that he was influenced by the work of English and Irish mystics such as William Blake and William Butler Yeats. Vedder was trained under masters like Tompkins H. Matteson in New York, then in Paris with François-Édouard Picot. Finally, he completed his studies in Italy - where he was strongly influenced not only by Italian Renaissance work but also by the modern Macchiaioli painters and the living Italian landscape.

Tiffany and Co commissioned him to design glassware, mosaics and statuettes for the company. He decorated the hallway of the Reading Room of the Washington Library of Congress, and his mural paintings can still be seen there. In 2008, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington organized an exhibition of Vedder's Rubaiyat illustrations that toured several museums, invluding the Phoenix Art Museum.





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The Power of Breathing: Eastern Mystics call it "Chi" or Pranayama (Energy)

A Link to: Pranayama



So long as we continue to view things through our own behavioral and cultural lens, we will always withhold from ourselves a knowledge that could be attained from other cultures more ancient than our own. In order for this to happen we have to remove certain stereotypes from our minds, and root out the deeper meanings without passing a judgment. Information like the kind you are about to see was common knowledge to humans once upon a time, but now it's been all but virtually forgotten by the majority of people.

The man in the video below is a wise teacher; his name is Swami Sundaranand and he is one of the last great hard-core Yogis who lives in Gangotri (in the Himalayas) on the Sacred River Ganges. To meet with this man you would have to seek him out, and when watching this video I could tell that he speaks to many foreigners; judging by his basic command of the English language. This video is the first stage of a practice called Pranayama (the power of your being is realized when you are taught the correct breathing and posturing techniques).





What this man is saying is very real but can only be understood through practice, and it's very easy to go a whole lifetime without an "eye opening" experience. Social dogma and monotonous religious conditioning have done a good job at keeping people from their potential. Get past the man's accent and his funny looking garb and really try to listen, and you will have taken a significant step towards enlightenment and self improvement.

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A Mystic explains 2012: The Coming of the "Kalki Maitreya Avatar" and the Four Horsemen

Via: hamsa-yoga.org



There is a scare about the year 2012, many intellectuals postulate various theories about what might happen. Below is a video illustrating the many possibilities predicted by these theorists.



Yogiraj Gurunath Siddhanath was born in Gwalior, which is in (northern) India on May 10, 1944, and is descended from the ancient family of Ikshavaku Rama. Though he belonged to a royal family, with all the comforts of palace life, he was born a Siddha: (A siddha सिद्ध in Sanskrit means "one who is accomplished" and refers to perfected masters who, according to Hindu belief, have transcended the ahamkara "the ego"). He had experienced spontaneous enlightened states from the age of 3. Because of these spiritual realizations from a very young age, he cast away his royal ties after completing his educational responsibilities and fulfilled his calling as a Yogi. In the video below he candidly speaks about what he feels is a 2012 hysteria and speaks on the coming of a spiritual figure called the "Kalki Maitreya Avatar".

The Mystery of year 2012 - an astronomical theory?

An alignment of the ecliptic and the solstice meridian


Modern astronomical theory seems to bear in resemblance and contrasts similarly to that of ancient star lore, writings of the mystics from tribes and past civilizations - they all seem to point to some very interesting questions. Based on these ancient studies and now recent findings, astrologists are making a compelling case for the profound influence on our planet by a companion star to the sun. This recently chartered planet presents with it some remarkably shocking evidence - one of the assertions is that this newly found planet has a binary orbiting relationship to our planet and that it may be the cause of a vast cycle that causes the dark and golden ages common in the lore of ancient cultures. Some people say that the distance between us and this newly discovered planet is too far for it's gravity, magnetic field, and it's radiation and that it won't have any discernible effect on the earth. Ok, maybe so...but the last time a major astronomical alignment happened on May, 05, 2003 the National Weather Service released an assessment on the performance of it's forecast operations...and from the time of that particular alignment 19 different states within America were affected by disturbing weather patterns, and nearly 400 tornadoes hit rural and major areas in a 6 day period.

A tornado is essentially a vortex, and a vortex moves energy from one place to another (and this kind of activity is measured by a planetary energy grid known to scientists). Isn't it odd that there was a strikingly higher escalation in vortex activity at around the exact time when a huge colossal astronomical alignment took place in 2003, and doesn't that at least show us that this connection can be scientifically discernible and that the data collected from this moment in history could be studied to raise questions into whether the 2 phenomena are connected ?

Shit like this is what makes me go Hmmmmm, and you should know that modern day secret societies are based on the findings of these ancient civilizations and they borrow their symbols and adopt their sciences, and they've known about these legends for hundreds of years...

Some ancient cultural background...is it Coincidence?