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The Murder of Mary Magdalene and the Hidden Encryption in Art The Murder of Mary Magdalene and the Hidden Encryption in Art by Dan Green The mysterious biblical figure of Mary Magdalene received a high profile boost to the uninitiated courtesy of Dan Brown’s blockbuster ‘The Da Vinci Code’, elevating her status even higher than when in 1969 the Catholic Church decided to pronounce her a Saint – quite an improvement from their previous character assassination that had assured her image for the previous centuries as being that of a harlot. In Brown’s book and movie Mary was the partner of the biblical Jesus and bore him a child, Sarah, thus the dawning of a royal bloodline. Now cast into the role of a Hercule Poirot style forensic detective, I will try to explain how the evidence began to unfold. A portrayal of Mary Magdalene Mourners at the tomb of the assassinated Benazir Bhutto However I remained troubled by one piece of evidence that had unexpectedly presented itself along the way, originally noticed by an ex-BBC correspondent. Click to enlarge
Early Christian Writings: New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, Ch Maya Once considered an unsolvable enigma, recent advances in the decipherment of the Maya writing system has not only shed light on the mechanics of the script, but also on the socio-political, artistic, and historical aspects of Maya civilization. As a whole, the Maya people created the longest lasting civilization of the New World. It became distinguishable from other early farming cultures of Mesoamerica in the middle of the first millenium BCE, when the first great Maya cities were constructed. Their culture endured through changes, wars, and disasters until it was suppressed by the Spanish conquest in the 16th and 17th centuries. General Overview The Maya hieroglypic writing is arguably one of the most visually striking writing systems of the world. While we're on the subject of what the Maya could "say", let's talk about Maya languages. The visual construction of Maya glyphs is very interesting. The order to read Maya glyphs is also not as straightforward as it would seem. Syllabary
The Three Love Mantras that Open Your Heart By Marci Shimoff The first time I fell in love I couldn’t believe what happened to the world. The sky had never been that blue before! We’ve all been there, haven’t we? That was the question I set out to answer in my latest book, Love for No Reason. Three Love Mantras that Open Your Heart Love Mantras – #1: Love is Who We Are. Instead of walking around with a little cup, begging for a few drops of love from others, recognize that you’re the huge ocean of love. Ten Mysterious Undeciphered Codes and Inscriptions From Neolithic tablets containing the oldest known system of writing, to a series of letters scrawled on the back of a dead man’s book, some of the most legendary undeciphered codes and texts remain a challenge for even the world’s best cryptographers, code breakers, and linguists. Yet unravelling these mysterious puzzles remains as important as ever, since many of these enigmatic inscriptions could hold the keys to understanding civilizations that have long since faded into the pages of history. Here we feature ten of the most fascinating undeciphered codes and inscriptions throughout history. The enigma of the Shugborough Inscription In the grounds of Shugborough Hall in Staffordshire, England, sits an 18th-Century monument known as the Shepherd’s Monument, which was commissioned by Thomas Anson, a member of the British Parliament, and crafted sometime between 1748 and 1763 by Flemish sculptor Peter Schee. The Mysteries Trapped Within Mayan Hieroglyphs The indecipherable Rohonc Codex
How To: Change Your Karma We hear people talking about having good or bad Karma all the time but what really is Karma? Does it affect my soul? How can I change my Karma? First things first, What is Karma? kar·ma noun (in Hinduism and Buddhism) the sum of a person’s actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences.informal destiny or fate, following as effect from cause. Check out this awesome video by Shunyamurti from the Sat Yoga Institute about Karma and how we change our Karma. Karma is attached to our EGO. When we are in a deep state of meditation you can access these higher levels of consciousness and change your Karma if you wanted to. How can we change it from our current state of consciousness? There are two main ways to change our Karma here on earth. 1. When you are in meditation focus on sending love to everyone and everything in existence. 2. What do you think about Karma? Thank you for reading, Kirsten Team Spirit
Ancient Symbols, meanings of symbols from Ancient Egyptian, Celtic, Greek, etc. How to be Anything and Everything in Existence It’s not as hard as you might think to see yourself as everyone and everything all around you. In truth, there is no separation. The appearance of individuality and isolated-ness comes from the filters we’ve set up inside the left hemispheres of our brains, as i’m sure if you’ve seen Jill Taylor describe it, when that part of the brain goes away, those laws of separation goes away with it. It’s actually quite remarkable, as the awareness of the interconnectedness flows through you to the depth and core of who You really are, you begin to see and recognize the Truth in it, and the old ideas of the way things are begin to break down. So its really working in both directions. The deeper you go into each other, the more the programs break down. You are a part of everything, you are One with everything, and everything you observe and experience in your external reality is a reflection and a part of what is inside you.
Internet Sacred Text Archive Home 8 Things You Didn’t Know About Death By Annie Kagan, OmTimes When my brother Billy woke me three weeks after he died, describing what was happening to him in the afterlife, I thought maybe I had gone a little crazy. How could my bad-boy brother, who died a tragic death, who had problems with addiction all his life, who didn’t live what most people would call a successful life, how could he be sharing secrets about life’s greatest mystery from another dimension? But as time passed, my skepticism turned to wonder as Billy taught me all about death. The List 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. About the Author When she was sixteen, Annie Kagan was signed by a producer from Columbia Records.
8 Ancient Writing Systems That Haven't Been Deciphered Yet The Indus Valley civilization was one of the most advanced in the world for more than 500 years, with more than a thousand settlements sprawling across 250,000 square miles of what is now Pakistan and northwest India from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE. It had several large, well-planned cities like Mohenjo-daro, common iconography—and a script no one has been able to understand. Over at Nature, Andrew Robinson looks at the reasons why the Indus Valley script has been so difficult to crack, and details some recent attempts to decipher it. One team has created the first publicly available, electronic corpus of Indus texts. The Indus Valley script is far from the only one to remain mysterious. 1. In 1893, British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchased some ancient stones with mysterious inscriptions on them at a flea market in Athens. 2. The excavations on Crete also revealed a third type of writing system, with symbols that looked more picture-like than those of the linear scripts. 3. 4. 5. 6.
5 Signs You’re in a Toxic or Draining Relationship “Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.” ~Billy Wilder I call these relationships toxic because our authentic self is withered away into someone or something else—forgetting all that was natural to you in the process. Little do we know that our desire to be agreeable and accepted is inhibiting the natural process of growth. While some difficult relationships can open our eyes to new perspectives and expand our awareness, some obviously shut us in and hinder our development. It’s important to know when you’re in a toxic relationship so you can choose something better for yourself. When I was in my toxic relationships, I ignored my intuition in favor of my logical mind, which told me that losing that person was worse than having him/her around. But our intuition knows best; unlike our mind, its only motive is our happiness. 5 Signs You’re in a Toxic Relationship These are 5 signs that you are in a typical toxic relationship: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.