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We are all loved
Roger Knights directed me to this story in the Washington Post. It's heartwarming and reassuring, and may provide some comfort in these increasingly crazy (and crazy-making) times.
The story is written by a hospice social worker, Scott Janssen, who, like many people in that field, has encountered patients with compelling stories of deathbed visits and similar phenomena. In this case, an elderly patient remembered a deeply meaningful event from his time in World War II. After a particularly traumatic day of dealing with casualties from a combat operation, the patient was unable to shake the memory of one patient in particular. He said:
"Later that night I was on my cot crying. Couldn't stop crying about that poor guy, and all the others I'd seen die. My cot was creaking, I was shaking so hard. I even started getting scared that I was going insane with the pain."
I nod, waiting for him to continue.
Then I looked up," he says. "Saw a guy sitting on the end of my cot. He was wearing a World War I uniform, with one of those funny helmets. He was covered in light, like he was glowing in the dark."
"What was he doing?" I ask.
Evan starts crying and laughing at the same time. "He was looking at me with love. I could feel it. I'd never felt that kind of love before."
"What was it like to feel that kind of love?"
"I can't put it in words." He pauses. "I guess I just felt like I was worth something, like all the pain and cruelty wasn't what was real."
"What was real?"
"Knowing that no matter how screwed-up and cruel the world looks, on some level, somehow, we are all loved. We are all connected."
This turned out to be the first of several paranormal visits. Each time the specter arrived, he'd wordlessly express love and leave Evan with a sense of peace and calm.
"After the war, the visits stopped," he says. "Years later, I was cleaning out Mom's stuff after she died, and I found an old photograph. It was the same guy. I looked on the back, and Mom had written the words 'Uncle Calvin, killed during World War I, 1918.'
Janssen asked him why he'd brought up this subject, and Evan replied:
"He's back," he whispers, staring out the window. "Saw him last night on the foot of my bed. He spoke this time."
"What'd he say?"
"He told me he was here with me. He's going to help me over the hill when it's time to go."
Janssen goes on to describe some paranormal experiences of his own, which opened his mind to the conviction that his patients were not merely hallucinating. He writes that while he tried to dismiss one such experience as coincidence ...
Inside, though, a part of me knew it was real.
After nearly 30 years as a hospice social worker, I'm certain of it. And I have patients like Evan to thank: dying patients who have convinced me that the world we inhabit is lovingly mysterious and eager to support us, especially during times of disorientation and crisis. It even sends messages of love and reassurance now and then when we're in pain.
I would add to this only two things.
First, I think there are times when we all feel we are "going insane with pain." This particular moment in American history may be one of them – and this is true for people on both sides of the increasingly wide political divide. It is comforting to think that others who've endured their own share of earthly misery, perhaps in much larger measure, are watching over us and are ready to take our hand and lead us to a better place when it's our time to go.
As an aside, I sometimes think that only my exposure to spiritualist concepts and the evidence for them has kept me from losing my mind entirely. Admittedly, sometimes I come pretty close to losing it, anyway ... But as G.K. Chesterton reportedly said when told he was a pretty rotten person for all his Christian faith, "Imagine how much worse I would be without Christianity." (Quoted from memory, because I can't track down the actual quote.) In my case, just imagine how much worse I would be without my knowledge of the afterlife and the higher self! I shudder to think of it.
Second, I would note that my own rather limited experience with hospice workers, during the brief time when my father was on in-home hospice care, made me realize that these people – people who deal with death on a daily basis – are often profoundly spiritual in their outlook. In fact, I would even describe them as "Spiritualist." Some of them use the language and concepts familiar to me from my own readings of Spiritualist literature of a hundred years ago.
It is, of course, entirely possible that some people influenced by Spiritualism went into the hospice field precisely so they could attend the dying. But I think it is also the case that hospice workers have witnessed so many examples of anomalous phenomena – deathbed visions, near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences, apparitions, and so forth – that they have no choice but to adopt the language and mindset of spiritualism in order to make sense of it.
I might add that years ago, I was in a used bookstore when two hospice nurses asked the clerk if she had any of John Edward's books. This was a time when John Edward was the most famous medium in America. I somewhat regret not talking to those nurses, as I imagine they had some interesting stories to tell.
To repeat what hospice patient Evan said, his comfort came from "knowing that no matter how screwed-up and cruel the world looks, on some level, somehow, we are all loved. We are all connected." This is so easy to forget and so hard to remember. Yet it is true – profoundly true.
Why do we forget? My forthcoming book The Far Horizon has some thoughts on this, essentially suggesting that we are temporarily players in a fully immersive virtual-reality environment. "Fully immersive" means we cannot easily emerge from the illusion of earthly life. We must endure all the Sturm und Drang of our environment even if it is only an illusion. Apparently, this is how we learn and grow. And those who refuse to engage with the world and endure its highs and lows, those who prefer to sequester themselves in ignorance and apathy, are missing out and will probably have to return again and again until they learn their lesson.
The late Bruce Siegel, who often commented on this blog, liked to emphasize the primary role of love in any understanding of life and spirituality. I was frequently inclined to downplay his input, preferring to focus on more "scientific" concepts like information theory. But I'm starting to suspect he was right all along. Without love, what is there? What's the point?
Ultimately, one way or the other, all the pain and drama of this world will fade like a bad dream. That's worth remembering at times when the bad dream becomes especially nightmarish.
Duncan is in his grave;
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well;
Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison,
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing,
Can touch him further.
MacBeth Act 3, Scene 2
January 06, 2021 in Apparitions, Deathbed visions, Personal thoughts | Permalink | Comments (8)
A minor but ongoing mystery surrounds a couple of photos apparently taken of the British materialization medium Helen Duncan. The photos show a blindfolded and loosely secured Duncan in a chair during a séance, attended by two different "phantoms" – which, all too obviously, are crude, cartoonish puppets. The implication is that Duncan used these puppets in the dimly lit séance room to fool her clientele, but when they were captured on film in the glare of a photographer's flashbulb, their laughable artificiality was revealed.
Now and then, these photos show up on skeptical websites with some snarky comment to the effect that believers in mediumship actually accept these dolls as spirits. One website claimed that 60% of people on a pro-paranormal forum took the photos as genuine. It appears that the 60% figure was just made up.
I doubt that anyone other than the most hard-core true-believer would be fooled by the puppets, which appear to consist of papier-mâché heads, coat-hanger shoulders, and muslin or cheesecloth "bodies."
The controversy mainly concerns the photos' provenance and whether or not they actually depict Helen Duncan. If you search online, you'll find many sources attributing the photos to photographer Harvey Metcalfe, who took photos of Duncan in her home in 1928. It is said that the photos were reproduced in Harry Price's 1933 book Leaves from a Psychist's Case-Book, though when I searched for the name "Metcalfe" in the Google Books preview edition, nothing came up. (The preview format does not allow me to look for the photos themselves.)
In the forum linked above, a commenter named Open Mind offers this explanation:
The most authoritative book on the Duncan case is Maurice Cassier's Medium On Trial who comments on these photographs' history …
'... Price is silent about their origin in his published works, or about the circumstances under which they were taken—supposedly at Helen's home ... It is even possible that the photographs are reconstructions of what was supposed to have been seen, in line with others to be presently considered ...'
Manfred Cassier, 1996, Medium on Trial
(Other books imply the photograph was taken by a Harvey Metcalfe due to his claim emerging after Duncan's death, however this claim is doubtful as Metcalfe didn't have the original photographs, only the same 4 photographs as in Harry Price's collection and it is a different name on the back of these)
I've ordered Price's book (used copies are still floating around), and when I get it, I'll let you know if the pictures are really in there and if any attribution is provided. At this point, having read a dozen different versions of the story, I trust no one!
Another photo that seems to be more solidly attributed to Metcalfe shows Duncan in apparently the same surroundings – at least, the wallpaper looks the same – spewing "ectoplasm" out of her nose to produce a materialized infant.In the puppet photos, the "ectoplasmic cord" extending from the puppet to the medium looks very much like a thick strip of cloth secured under the blindfold.)
Photo taken from the website Survival After Death
In his book Hellish Nell, Malcolm Gaskill similarly attributes the puppet photos to Metcalfe. This seems to be the conventional custom, and they may have originated in just that way.
But a question arises. Duncan was put on trial twice in her life, first in 1933 and later in 1944. In both cases, she was accused of fraud. The puppet photos would have been strong evidence against her, but they were not introduced in either trial. Moreover, Harry Price, who apparently published the photos in his 1933 book, was closely involved in the first trial, so he certainly would have known about the photos, if they existed at that time and if they were photos of Duncan herself.
What I've read in other sources is that the photos were discovered after Price's death, unlabeled and undated, mixed in with miscellaneous items in a desk drawer. People who make this claim say that the photos may have been taken later than Metcalfe's 1928 photo sessions, possibly by Price himself, using a stand-in for Helen Duncan and puppets that Price made in an effort to "re-create" the behind-the-scenes reality of a Duncan séance.
The same Open Mind cited above introduced a new bit of information in a comments thread on Michael Tymn's blog. He quoted from the book Helen Duncan: The Mystery Show Trial, by Robert Hartley:
6th November 1931, Empire News. Harry Price confirms he produced photographs using a model similar to Mrs Duncan and Butter Muslin [a gossamer-thin cloth] and that her husband Mr Duncan could not discern the forgery [p. 296]
The Empire News was a weekly newspaper published on Sundays in the UK.
The point of the quote is not that the puppet photos are the ones mentioned in the article, but simply that Price did sometimes photograph re-creations of séances using a stand-in. If he did it once, he could have done it again. If a stand-in was used, this would explain why the photos never came up in any trial. They could not be submitted as evidence, since they did not depict Duncan herself.
There seem to be three possibilities.
The photos are of Helen Duncan and were taken by Harvey Metcalfe in 1928. Perhaps they were not introduced at trial because Metcalfe wasn't available to testify about them, or for some other reason.
The photos were taken prior to 1933 and depict Duncan, but were not taken by Metcalfe.
The photos were taken prior to 1933, were not taken by Metcalfe, and do not depict Duncan, only a stand-in.
The photos were taken sometime after 1933, using a stand-in.
In the latter three cases, it is possible that Harry Price himself took the photos as part of his practice of re-creating seances. The post-1933 option is the least credible, because multiple sources attest that the photos are reproduced in Price's book, though at this point, as I said, I want to see for myself.
The controversy is not terribly important. Undisputed photos that Price took of Duncan (reproduced on the official Harry Price website) clearly show that the "ectoplasm" she exuded was cheesecloth or muslin. The tight weaving on the edges, known as selvage, is quite visible.
There was also an embarrassing incident when a sitter at one of Duncan's séances grabbed hold of the "materialized spirit guide" Peggy and tried to wrest "her" away from the medium. An undervest worn by Duncan, torn in the encounter, was later produced as evidence in Duncan's 1933 trial. It appears that Duncan had simply pinned a picture of a baby's face to the vest, something she had done more than once; the vest is littered with telltale pinpricks.
Overall, I think Helen Duncan was a fake, though sending her to prison for nine months, as happened after her 1944 conviction, seems a tad harsh. But was she dim enough to think that her subpar "Punch & Judy" puppetry would stand up to flash photography? Or was she — in this case, at least — a victim of circumstances?
December 28, 2019 in Apparitions, Materialization mediumship | Permalink | Comments (9)
Bleed-throughs
Matt Rouge's thought-provoking guest post has stimulated a lot of discussion, and it got me thinking, as well. Lying in bed last night around 2 AM, I couldn't help noodling on the whole question of UFOs and some related matters. The idea I kept coming back to was "bleed-throughs."
According to Wiktionary, the three main definitions of "bleed-through" are:
The seepage of ink from one side of a printed page to the other
The discolouration of a wood veneer due to seepage of glue
A weak imprint of magnetic information transferred to adjacent layers of audiotape, resulting in an unwanted echo.
I remember reading a passage in the Seth material channeled by Jane Roberts in which Seth tells us that reality consists of many parallel dimensions or timelines, only one of which we occupy. There can be intrusions from other dimensions or timelines, resulting in anomalous phenomena. This is essentially what I mean by "bleed-through."
The third definition quoted above is the one closest to my meaning. "An imprint of information transferred to an adjacent layer of the information storage medium" could be a valid explanation – or at least the beginning of an explanation – for UFOs and a variety of other seemingly inexplicable phenomena.
As readers of this blog know, I'm partial to the idea that information is fundamental to our reality. In other words, the physical reality that we perceive with our senses can be likened to the virtual reality rendered in a headset by a computer program. In both cases, the seemingly real world of three-dimensional objects reduces to an unseen realm of data and data-processing algorithms.
If each stream of reality in Seth's multi-dimensional scenario is ultimately a stream of information, then perhaps some of this information can be transferred from one stream to another, either intentionally or by chance. The resulting bleed-through would yield artifacts in our reality that seemingly don't belong here – weird intrusions from other timelines.
UFOs seem to have much in common with apparitions, which may be another form of bleed-through. Apparitions vary in their degree of corporeality; some seem wispy and insubstantial, while others are reported to be quite tangible and solid. In cases where an apparition has been observed by several people at once, it appears that it is seen from various perspectives, like any other physical thing; the person facing the apparition will see it head on, while the person standing to the side will see it in profile. Apparitions also have been seen reflected in mirrors, and they can match the light-and-shadow conditions of their environment. In some cases, apparitions seem to have been caught on film, videotape, or other recording media, while the field of electronic voice phenomena offers many examples (admittedly often disputed) of voices captured from the ether.
In short, apparitions can, in some cases, seemingly have the physical characteristics we associate with ordinary physical objects. And yet they are certainly not ordinary physical objects, because they walk through walls, appear and vanish unpredictably, and sometimes are seen by only certain observers while remaining invisible to others in the vicinity.
All of these characteristics can be ascribed to UFOs, as well. Do they sometimes show up on radar? Yes. Are they sometimes captured on film or video? Yes. Do they appear and vanish unpredictably? Yes. Are they sometimes seen by certain observers but not others who are equally well situated? Yes.
We can extend the argument by looking at other paranormal or anomalous phenomena such as poltergeists, deathbed visions, out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, after-death communications, and episodes of cosmic consciousness. Any of these could be seen as a bleed-through, sometimes accidental, sometimes intentional. This presumes, of course, that one (or more) of the parallel timelines can be characterized as "the afterlife," and that the "spirits" occupying this zone can cross "through the veil" from one timeline to another.
In many of these phenomena, an altered state of consciousness is involved, so we may be talking about a combination of the bleed-through of information and an adjustment of the "frequency" of consciousness to perceive it. As a rough analogy, imagine listening to the radio and hearing a faint signal from another radio station; if you adjust the dial, you can tune in the other station more clearly. The bleed-through itself may be only half the equation, with the fine-tuning of consciousness as the other half. Either factor, alone, can result in some degree of perception of an anomalous phenomenon, but when both factors are in play, the perception will be more vivid.
This notion might go some way toward explaining why both UFOs and apparitions vary in their degree of physical reality. Some UFOs do not show up on radar. Some do not appear on film or video even when the camera operator is certain he got the image in frame. Perhaps the correct combination of informational bleed-through and perceptual fine-tuning is needed to get fully "real" results.
The same line of thinking may also explain why UFO sightings sometimes come in waves. An initial sighting may trigger a subconscious adjustment of perception in other people's minds, making them more likely to perceive UFOs. It is said that when Uri Geller performed his spoon-bending act on television, many people – especially children – started bending spoons spontaneously, something they had never done before. Seeing Geller do it was enough to alter their consciousness so they could do it too, at least temporarily. The same thing has been known to happen in the "PK parties" hosted by Jack Houck; it can take a while for anyone to start bending spoons, but once one or two people have done it, the rest of the crowd will find it much easier to follow suit. A small adjustment of consciousness, perhaps merely a lowering of inhibitions, seems to help bring the phenomena into being.
Consider also the recurrent waves of excitement about spiritualism from the mid-19th century through the early 20th century, which can be compared to a social mania. The positive results obtained by some amateur experimenters – hearing raps or getting messages via planchette – would stimulate other people to obtain similar results. Simply seeing or hearing about the phenomena may be enough to alter consciousness just a bit and make it more susceptible to picking up bleed-throughs.
Returning to our list of anomalous phenomena, we can consider how each one might relate to bleed-throughs.
Poltergeists — a persistent bleed-through of a particular spiritual entity, often associated with the consciousness of a particular person (typically an adolescent or young adult who is emotionally disturbed or high-strung, perhaps exhibiting traits of altered consciousness).
Deathbed visions — the bleed-through of the afterlife timeline into our own, as perceived by the altered consciousness of the dying person and sometimes by people nearby.
Out-of-body experiences — possibly a way of projecting our own awareness into another timeline; in effect, a reverse bleed-through. Are poltergeists in our world simply entities that are having out-of-body experiences in their world?
Near-death experiences — essentially a combination of deathbed visions and out-of-body experiences, with the altered consciousness that attends the dying process tuning in to information from a nearby dimension and then projecting itself into that timeline.
After-death communications — intentional bleed-throughs on the part of people who are no longer alive in our timeline, but who have a strong emotional connection to somebody here. These are most common, I think, when the living person is dealing with the emotional shock and disorientation of grief and loss – in other words, when the percipient is experiencing an altered state of consciousness.
Episodes of cosmic consciousness — "cosmic consciousness," a term coined by Richard Maurice Bucke in his book of the same name, is an epiphany in which a person has a sudden, profound sense of the meaning of life and the ultimate nature of reality. Again, this could be understood as a combination of a shift in consciousness and a bleed-through of information that is normally masked from our perception.
Other phenomena, such as the Mothman, Bigfoot, visions of the Virgin Mary or other iconic figures, alien abductions, and even levitation and miraculous healing may also be connected with the idea of information transfer and consciousness fine-tuning.
June 01, 2019 in Afterlife, Apparitions, Consciousness, Information Philosophy, Mystical experiences, NDEs, OBEs, Personal thoughts, UFOs, VR | Permalink | Comments (21)
The Devil made them do it
Lately I happened to read Washington Irving's famous story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," about Ichabod Crane and his terrifying steeplechase with the Headless Horsemen. It's a very well written and amusing story, well worth a look. Ichabod, who is depicted in less than flattering terms, is said to be "a perfect master of Cotton Mather's 'History of New England Witchcraft'." I was sufficiently intrigued to buy a digital version of one of Mather's many books on the subject and read it myself.
This particular book is known today as On Witchcraft, though the original title was Wonders of the Invisible World. Its relevance to the subject matter of this blog is twofold: First, it illuminates the attitude of the Puritan settlers of New England toward all manner of things that might be termed "paranormal" today. To be brief, that attitude was one of sheer superstitious terror and fanatical rejection. Second, it includes a fairly detailed and apparently well-attested account of what would now be called a "crisis apparition." This account has little or nothing to do with the main themes of the book, and seems to be included only because Mather found it so interesting.
Of course, it should be noted that Mather's book is crowded with strange portents and inexplicable occurrences, including the case of a bird that began speaking in a human voice and urging people to read Paul's letter to the Colossians and another case in which a cat (said to be a witch in feline form) attacked a man in his bed and was driven off only by his fervent appeals to the Holy Trinity. In other words, we can hardly take Mather as a wholly reliable narrator. Nevertheless, the crisis apparition story has a level of detail that makes it, to me, more credible than some of the other accounts.
Cotton Mather
Let's set the stage by looking at attitudes in New England circa 1692. This was at the tail end of the notorious witch hysteria that gripped Salem, Massachusetts, and surrounding villages, resulting ultimately in the execution of 19 people and two dogs. (The dogs were apparently guilty of witchcraft, as well.) Many others were arrested and held in prison for months, facing the very real possibility of death, only to be released when the tumult finally died down.
It was in this atmosphere that Cotton Mather took it upon himself to write a book defending the witch trials, which were beginning to attract criticism from people who felt the whole matter had gone too far. He was only 29 at the time, but had already made a name for himself after graduating from Harvard at 15 and following in the footsteps of his famous father, Increase Mather, by becoming a noted preacher. Though as far as we know he had no direct involvement in the trials themselves, he did have access to court records, and he knew many of the principals involved.
He informs us that,
I have indeed set myself to countermine the whole PLOT of the Devil against New England, in every branch of it, as far as one of my darkness can comprehend such a work of darkness....
We have been advised by some credible Christians yet alive, that a malefactor, accused of witchcraft as well as murder, and executed in this place more than forty years ago, did give notice of an horrible PLOT against the country by WITCHCRAFT, and a foundation of WITCHCRAFT then laid, which if it were not seasonably discovered, would probably blow up, and pull down all the churches in the country. And we have now with horror seen the discovery of such a witchcraft! An army of devils is horribly broke in upon the place which is the center, and after a sword, the first-born of our English settlements: and the houses of the good people there are filled with the doleful shrieks of their children and servants, tormented by invisible hands, with tortures altogether preternatural.
(Note: In all my quotations, I've modernized the spelling, punctuation, and capitalization for easier reading.)
An important theme of Mather's book is that there is not just one devil, but a horde of them – legions, in fact, as the New Testament itself assures us in the story of the man possessed by a "legion" of demons. These evil beings are everywhere; we are cribbed, cabined, and confined by them; they are with us in our homes, in our shops, even in our churches.
When we speak of the Devil, tis a name of a multitude; it means not one individual devil, so potent and scient, as perhaps a Manichee would imagine; but it means a kind, which a multitude belongs unto. Alas, the devils, they swarm about us like the frogs of Egypt, in the most retired of our chambers. Are we at our boards [= dining tables]? There will be devils to tempt us unto sensuality. Are we in our beds? There will be devils to tempt us unto carnality. Are we in our shops? There will be devils to tempt us unto dishonesty. Yea, though we get into the Church of God, there will be devils to haunt us in the very temple itself, and there tempt us to manifold misbehaviors. I am verily persuaded that there are very few human affairs whereinto some devils are not insinuated; there is not so much a journey intended but Satan will have a hand in hindering or furthering of it.
Mather was by no means unusual in holding this view; in New England in that era, almost everyone believed much the same thing. The atmosphere must have been stifling in its superstitious dread and omnipresent paranoia. He invites his readers to imagine that, even as they sit in their pews in church, they are surrounded by hundreds of invisible demons.
Contemporary woodcut of Mather, protected by a magic circle, confronting the Devil
"That there is a Devil," Mather writes, "is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil. For any to deny the being of a Devil must be from an ignorance or profaneness worse than diabolical." Ergo, disbelief in the Devil proves that one is an agent of the Devil! It is not likely that many people expressed such disbelief publicly, even in the (unlikely) event that they had any private doubts.
Another theme of Mather's book is that New England has been singled out for a no-holds-barred attack by the devil and his minions. Here, in the unspoiled wilderness where a small band of faithful are attempting to build a new Jerusalem, the devil sees his infernal plans most at risk. He has brought his full wrath and his total arsenal of weapons to bear against the hapless New Englanders in a desperate attempt to derail their utopian project. Thus, it is only to be expected that New England will be a hotbed of demonic possession, hexes, pestilence, and other ills. And what do you know? All these things are happening! Crops have failed, cattle have died, winters have been harsh, plagues have devastated whole communities. Now witch covens are being uncovered by the score. It all points to the conclusion that, following the Book of Revelation, we are entering the last days, when our ordeals will be most severe.
Although in his later years, Mather was known for advocating inoculation against disease (an advanced and controversial position for his time), in 1693 he put the blame for illness squarely on the Devil. Here's a look at the state of medical science in New England in the late 17th century:
'Tis the destroyer, or the Devil, that scatters plagues about the world. Pestilential and contagious diseases, 'tis the Devil who does oftentimes invade us with them. 'Tis no uneasy thing for the devil to impregnate the air about us with such malignant salts as meeting with the salt of our microcosm shall immediately cast us into that fermentation and putrefaction which will ultimately dissolve all the vital ties within us; even as an aqua fortis, made with the conjunction of niter and vitriol, corrodes what it seizes upon. And when the devil has raised those arsenical fumes, which become venomous quivers full of terrible arrows, how easily can he shoot the deleterious miasms into those juices or bowels of men's bodies, which will soon inflame them with a mortal fire! Hence comes such plagues, as that be some of destruction, which within our memory swept away such a throng of people from one English city in one visitation; and hence those infectious fevers, which are but so many disguised plagues among us, causing epidemical desolations.
As you might expect, Mather is suspicious not only of those accused of witchcraft, but also of those who practice other socially marginalized arts.
It was said in Deuteronomy 18 – 10, 11, 12, There shall not be found among you an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer; for all that do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations, the Lord thy God doth drive them out before thee....
Persons who have never made any express contact with apostate spirits yet may act strange things by diabolic aids which they procure by the use of those wicked forms and arts that the Devil first imparted unto his Confederates.… Some of them that have been cried out upon [as] employing evil spirits to hurt our land have been known to be most bloody fortunetellers; and some of them have confessed that when they told fortunes, they would pretend the rules of chiromancy and the like ignorant sciences, but indeed they had no rule (they said) but this, The things were then darted into their minds. Darted! Ye wretches; by whom, I pray? Surely by none but the devils; who, though perhaps they did not exactly foreknow all the thus predicted contingencies, yet having once foretold them, they stood bound in honor now to use their interest, which alas, in this world, is very great, for the accomplishment of their own predictions.
It's interesting that the so-called fortunetellers "confessed" that they didn't actually use any esoteric methods, but simply allowed relevant thoughts to enter their minds. In other words, they received psychic impressions, while the crystal ball, tarot cards, or whatever items they pretended to employ were merely props. I suspect that this is still true today; there is no power in crystals or cards and no meaning in the random distribution of creases on someone's palm, but concentrating on such things may free a sensitive mind to receive impressions via psi. Of course, to the Reverend Mather, it's all the work of that old trickster, the Devil.
1892 lithograph imaginatively representing a Salem witch trial
And what a monster the Devil is. Or at least, what a monster he became in people's minds, leading them to acts of self-destruction and the destruction of their loved ones. At the height of the witch hysteria, neighbors were accusing neighbors, prominent pastors and their wives were accused of consorting with demonic powers, and family members across New England were informing on each other. Children, the most suggestible of persons, confessed to their own heinous crimes while implicating their parents:
It would break an heart of stone to have seen what I have lately seen; even poor children of several ages, even from seven to twenty, more or less, confessing their familiarity with devils; but at the same time, in doleful bitter lamentations that made a little portraiture of hell itself, expostulating with their execrable parents for devoting them to the devil in their infancy and so entailing of devilism upon them!
All of it was enough to make a good Christian desire an end to earthly life. Despite the promise of better times to come, the 29-year-old Mather had a morbid preoccupation with the sweet release of death.
For, though when we call to mind that the Devil's time is now but short, it may almost make us wish to live unto the end of it.… Yet when we bear in mind that the Devil's wrath is now most great, it would make one willing to be out of the way.… We should not be inordinately loath to die at such a time. In a word, the times are so bad that we may well count it as good a time to die in as ever we saw.
This, then, was the world of Cotton Mather. It's a depressing place, and we should be glad to have left it behind. After all the above, it may be hard to take anything that Mather says very seriously. Clearly, despite his academic achievements and undoubted brilliance in some areas, he was led by his unbending theological dogmas to believe in all manner of superstition.
Accordingly, we should take his account of a possible crisis apparition with due skepticism. But since his report is similar in many ways to better attested and more recent accounts of the same type, and since it was recorded long before the idea of crisis apparitions was formalized by the Society for Psychical Research, it's at least worth considering, if only for its historical interest.
Here is the relevant passage in full:
It was on 2 May in the year 1687 that a most ingenious, accomplished and well-disposed gentleman, Mr. Joseph Beacon by name, about 5 o'clock in the morning, as he lay, whether sleeping or waking he could not say (but judged the latter of them), had a view of his brother then at London, although he was now himself at our Boston, distanced from him a thousand leagues. This his brother appeared unto him, in the morning about 5 o'clock at Boston, having on him a Bengal gown, which he usually wore, with a napkin tied about his head; his countenance was very pale, ghastly, deadly, and he had a bloody wound on one side of his forehead. Brother! says the frightened Joseph. Brother! answered the apparition. Said Joseph, What's the matter, brother? How came you here! The apparition replied, Brother, I have been most barbarously and injuriously butchered by a debauched drunken fellow to whom I never did any wrong in my life. Whereupon he gave a particular description of the murderer, adding, Brother, this fellow, changing his name, is attempting to come over on to New England in Foy or Wild [transatlantic passenger ships]; I would pray you on the first arrival of either of these to get an order from the governor to seize the person whom I have now described; and then do you indict him for the murder of your brother: I'll stand by you and prove the indictment. And so he vanished. Mr. Beacon was extremely astonished at what he had seen and heard; and the people of the family not only observed an extraordinary alteration upon him for the week following, but have also given me under their hands a full testimony that he then gave them an account of this apparition.
All this while, Mr. Beacon had no advice of anything amiss attending his brother then in England; but about the latter end of June following, he understood by the common ways of communication that the April before, his brother, going in haste by night to call a coach for a lady, met a fellow then in drink, with his doxy [= female companion, trollop, wench] in his hand: some way or other the fellow thought himself affronted with the hasty passage of this Beacon, and immediately ran into the fireside of a neighboring tavern, from whence he fetched out a fire-fork, wherewith he grievously wounded Beacon in the skull; even in that very part where the apparition showed his wound. Of this wound he languished until he died on 2 May, about five of the clock in the morning at London. The murderer it seems was endeavoring to escape, as the apparition affirmed, but the friends of the deceased Beacon seized him; and prosecuting him at law, he found the help of such friends as brought him off without the loss of his life; since which, there has been no more heard of the business.
This history I received of Mr. Joseph Beacon himself, who a little before his own pious and hopeful death, which followed not long after, gave me the story written and signed with his own hand, and attested with the circumstances I have already mentioned.
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Man who police say was drink driving detained by public after allegedly trying to flee crash
A drunk driver tried to flee the scene of a collision between a ute, a car and a motorcycle in South Australia's Barossa Valley, police said.
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The ute driver allegedly fled the scene but was detained by members of the public.
police say he was a drunk driver
The 38-year-old Lyndock man, who had a blood alcohol level of 0.177, was charged with DUI, driving without a license, and fleeing the scene of the accident.
South African police said he was driving a Toyota HiLux ute around 7pm last night when he lost control on the Barossa Valley Way and crashed into a Mercedes driven by a 53-year-old Lindoch woman.
A 46-year-old male rider from Lyndock was injured when a motorcycle that was following a Mercedes collided with the rear of the vehicle.
Police claim the Toyota driver fled his Ute after the crash, but was stopped and detained by members of the public until police arrived and arrested him.
Both the Mercedes driver and the motorcyclist were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The Toyota driver has been released on bail and will appear in the Tananda Magistrate's Court next month.
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#include "open_cdm.h"

#include <cdm_logging.h>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <open_cdm_common.h>
#include <open_cdm_mediaengine_factory.h>
#include <open_cdm_platform_factory.h>

using namespace std;

namespace media {

OpenCdm::OpenCdm()
    : media_engine_(NULL)
    , platform_(NULL) {
  CDM_DLOG() << "OpenDecryptor construct: key_system";
  platform_ = OpenCdmPlatformInterfaceFactory::Create(this);
  m_eState = KEY_SESSION_INIT;
}

OpenCdm::~OpenCdm() {
  CDM_DLOG() << "OpenCDM destruct";
  // clean up resources
  if (media_engine_) {
    delete(media_engine_);
  }

  if (platform_) {
    platform_->MediaKeySessionRelease(m_session_id.session_id, m_session_id.session_id_len);
    delete(platform_);
  }
}

void OpenCdm::SelectKeySystem(const std::string& key_system) {
  CDM_DLOG() << "OpenCdm: SelectKeySystem$" << "\n";
  m_key_system = key_system;
  platform_->MediaKeys(key_system);
  m_eState = KEY_SESSION_INIT;
}

void OpenCdm::SelectSession(const std::string& session_id_rcvd) {
  CDM_DLOG() << " Enter : SelectSession";
  m_session_id.session_id = strdup(session_id_rcvd.c_str());
  m_session_id.session_id_len = (uint32_t)session_id_rcvd.size();
}

int OpenCdm::SetServerCertificate(const uint8_t* server_certificate_data,
                                  uint32_t server_certificate_data_size) {
  MediaKeySetServerCertificateResponse ret = platform_->MediaKeySetServerCertificate((uint8_t*)server_certificate_data, server_certificate_data_size);
  if (ret.platform_response ==  PLATFORM_CALL_SUCCESS)
    return (true);
  else
    return (false);
}

int OpenCdm::CreateSession(const std::string& initDataType, unsigned char* pbInitData, int cbInitData, std::string& session_id) {
  int ret = 1;
  m_eState = KEY_SESSION_INIT;
  CDM_DLOG() << " Enter : CreateSession";
  MediaKeysCreateSessionResponse response = platform_->MediaKeysCreateSession(initDataType, pbInitData, cbInitData);
  CDM_DLOG() << "Contin : CreateSession ";
  if (response.platform_response == PLATFORM_CALL_SUCCESS) {
    CDM_DLOG() << "New Session created";
    m_session_id = response.session_id;
    if (KEY_SESSION_INIT == m_eState)
      m_eState = KEY_SESSION_WAITING_FOR_MESSAGE;
    ret = 0;
  } else {
        CDM_DLOG() << "FAIL to create session!";
        m_eState = KEY_SESSION_ERROR;
  }

  session_id.assign(m_session_id.session_id, m_session_id.session_id_len);// initializing out parameter.

  return ret;
}

// caller provided buffer, MAX_LENGTH...
int OpenCdm::GetKeyMessage(std::string& challenge, int* challengeLength,
    unsigned char* licenseURL, int* urlLength) {

  std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lck(m_mtx);
  CDM_DLOG() << "GetKeyMessage >> invoked from ocdm :: estate = " << m_eState << "\n";

  while (m_eState == KEY_SESSION_WAITING_FOR_MESSAGE) {
    CDM_DLOG() << "Waiting for key message!";
    m_cond_var.wait(lck);
  }

  CDM_DLOG() << "Key message should be ready or no need key challenge/message."<< "\n" ;

  if (m_eState == KEY_SESSION_MESSAGE_RECEIVED) {
    char temp[m_message.length()];

    m_message.copy(temp,m_message.length(),0);
    challenge.assign((const char*)temp, m_message.length());
    strncpy((char*)licenseURL, (const char*)m_dest_url.c_str(), m_dest_url.length());
    *challengeLength = m_message.length();
    *urlLength = m_dest_url.length();
    CDM_DLOG() << "setting m_eState to KEY_SESSION_WAITING_FOR_LICENSE";
    m_eState = KEY_SESSION_WAITING_FOR_LICENSE;
  }

  if (m_eState == KEY_SESSION_READY) {
    *challengeLength = 0;
    *licenseURL= 0;
  }
  return 0;
}

int OpenCdm::Load(std::string& responseMsg) {
  int ret = 1;
  CDM_DLOG() << "Load >> invoked from ocdm :: estate = " << m_eState << "\n";
  CDM_DLOG() << "Load session with info exisiting key.";

  m_eState = KEY_SESSION_WAITING_FOR_LOAD_SESSION;
  MediaKeysLoadSessionResponse status = platform_->MediaKeysLoadSession(m_session_id.session_id, m_session_id.session_id_len);
  if (status.platform_response ==  PLATFORM_CALL_SUCCESS) {
    CDM_DLOG() << "Load session with info exisiting key complete.";

     while (m_eState == KEY_SESSION_WAITING_FOR_LOAD_SESSION) {
       CDM_DLOG() << "Waiting for load message!";
       std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lck(m_mtx);
       m_cond_var.wait(lck);
     }

     if (m_eState == KEY_SESSION_UPDATE_LICENSE || m_eState == KEY_SESSION_MESSAGE_RECEIVED) {
       while (m_eState == KEY_SESSION_LOADED) {
         CDM_DLOG() << "Waiting for Load message!";
         std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lck(m_mtx);
         m_cond_var.wait(lck);
       }
       if (m_eState == KEY_SESSION_UPDATE_LICENSE) {
         ret = 0;
         CDM_DLOG() << "setting m_eState to KEY_SESSION_LOADED";
         m_eState = KEY_SESSION_LOADED; //TODO : tobe rechecked and updated
       }
       if (m_eState == KEY_SESSION_MESSAGE_RECEIVED) {
         ret = 0;
         CDM_DLOG() << "setting m_eState to KEY_SESSION_EXPIRED";
         m_eState = KEY_SESSION_EXPIRED; //TODO : tobe rechecked and updated
         responseMsg.assign("message:");
      }
    }
  }
  responseMsg.append(m_message.c_str(), m_message.length());
  return ret;
}

int OpenCdm::Update(uint8_t* pbResponse, int cbResponse, std::string& responseMsg) {
  CDM_DLOG() << "Update >> invoked from ocdm :: estate = " << m_eState << "\n";

  int ret = 1;
  CDM_DLOG() << "Update session with info from server.";
  platform_->MediaKeySessionUpdate((uint8_t*)pbResponse, cbResponse, m_session_id.session_id, m_session_id.session_id_len);
  CDM_DLOG() << "Update session with info from server complete.";
  while (m_eState == KEY_SESSION_WAITING_FOR_LICENSE) {
    CDM_DLOG() << "Waiting for license update status!" << "\n";
    fflush(stdout);
    std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lck(m_mtx);
    m_cond_var.wait(lck);
  }
  if (m_eState == KEY_SESSION_UPDATE_LICENSE || m_eState == KEY_SESSION_REMOVED) {
    ret = 0;
  }
  else {
    CDM_DLOG() <<"Got license update status!" << "\n";
    fflush(stdout);
    if (m_eState == KEY_SESSION_MESSAGE_RECEIVED) {
      m_eState = KEY_SESSION_WAITING_FOR_LICENSE;
      responseMsg.assign("message:");
    }
  }
  responseMsg.append(m_message.c_str(), m_message.length());
  return ret;
}

int OpenCdm::Remove(std::string& responseMsg) {
  CDM_DLOG() << "Remove >> invoked from ocdm :: estate = " << m_eState << "\n";
  int ret = 1;
  CDM_DLOG() << "\nEnd";
  CDM_DLOG() << "Remove session with info exisiting key.";

  m_eState = KEY_SESSION_WAITING_FOR_LICENSE_REMOVAL;
  MediaKeySessionRemoveResponse status = platform_->MediaKeySessionRemove(m_session_id.session_id, m_session_id.session_id_len);
  if (status.platform_response ==  PLATFORM_CALL_SUCCESS) {
    CDM_DLOG() << "Remove session with info exisiting key complete.";

    while (m_eState == KEY_SESSION_WAITING_FOR_LICENSE_REMOVAL) {
      CDM_DLOG() << "Waiting for remove message!";
      std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lck(m_mtx);
      m_cond_var.wait(lck);
    }

    if (m_eState == KEY_SESSION_REMOVED || m_eState == KEY_SESSION_MESSAGE_RECEIVED) {
        while (m_eState == KEY_SESSION_REMOVED) {
           CDM_DLOG() << "Waiting for remove message!";
           std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lck(m_mtx);
           m_cond_var.wait(lck);
        }
        if (m_eState == KEY_SESSION_MESSAGE_RECEIVED) {
           ret = 0;
           CDM_DLOG() << "setting m_eState to KEY_SESSION_REMOVED";
           m_eState = KEY_SESSION_REMOVED;//TODO : tobe rechecked and updated
           responseMsg.assign("message:");
      }
   }
  }
  responseMsg.append(m_message.c_str(), m_message.length());
  return ret;
}

int OpenCdm::Close() {
  CDM_DLOG() << "Close >> invoked from ocdm :: estate = " << m_eState << "\n";
  CDM_DLOG() << "\nEnd";
  CDM_DLOG() << "Close session with info existing key.";
  MediaKeySessionCloseResponse status = platform_->MediaKeySessionClose(m_session_id.session_id, m_session_id.session_id_len);
  CDM_DLOG() << "Close session with info existing key complete.";
  if (status.platform_response ==  PLATFORM_CALL_SUCCESS) {
    m_eState = KEY_SESSION_CLOSED;
    return (true);
  }
  else
    return (false);
}

int OpenCdm::ReleaseMem() {
  if(media_engine_)
     return media_engine_->ReleaseMem();

  return (false);
}

int OpenCdm::Decrypt(unsigned char* encryptedData, uint32_t encryptedDataLength, unsigned char* ivData, uint32_t ivDataLength) {
  int ret = 1;
  uint32_t outSize;
  CDM_DLOG() << "OpenCdm::Decrypt session_id : " << m_session_id.session_id << endl;
  CDM_DLOG() << "OpenCdm::Decrypt session_id_len : " << m_session_id.session_id_len << endl;
  CDM_DLOG() << "OpenCdm::Decrypt encryptedDataLength : " << encryptedDataLength << endl;
  CDM_DLOG() << "OpenCdm::Decrypt ivDataLength : " << ivDataLength << endl;
  // mediaengine instantiation
  if (!media_engine_) {
    // FIXME:(ska): handle mutiple sessions
    media_engine_ = OpenCdmMediaengineFactory::Create(m_key_system, m_session_id);
    CDM_DLOG() << "::" << endl;
    if (!media_engine_){
      CDM_DLOG() << "::" << endl;
      return ret;
    }
  }

  CDM_DLOG() << "Returned back to OpenCdm::Decrypt";
  DecryptResponse dr = media_engine_->Decrypt((const uint8_t*)ivData, ivDataLength,
      (const uint8_t*)encryptedData, encryptedDataLength, (uint8_t*)encryptedData, outSize);

  CDM_DLOG() << "media_engine_->Decrypt done " << dr.platform_response;

  return 0;
}

bool OpenCdm::IsTypeSupported(const std::string& keySystem, const std::string& mimeType) {
  MediaKeyTypeResponse ret;

  ret = platform_->IsTypeSupported(keySystem, mimeType);
  CDM_DLOG() << "IsTypeSupported ";

  if (ret.platform_response ==  PLATFORM_CALL_SUCCESS )
    return (true);
  else
    return (false);
}

void OpenCdm::ReadyCallback(OpenCdmPlatformSessionId platform_session_id) {

  CDM_DLOG() << "OpenCdm::ReadyCallback";

  std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lck(m_mtx);
  m_eState = KEY_SESSION_READY;
  m_cond_var.notify_all();

  CDM_DLOG() << "OpenCdm::ReadyCallback";
}

void OpenCdm::ErrorCallback(OpenCdmPlatformSessionId platform_session_id,
    uint32_t sys_err, std::string err_msg) {
  CDM_DLOG() << "OpenCdm::ErrorCallback";
  std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lck(m_mtx);
  m_message = err_msg;
  m_eState = KEY_SESSION_ERROR;
  m_cond_var.notify_all();
}

void OpenCdm::MessageCallback(OpenCdmPlatformSessionId platform_session_id,
    std::string message, std::string destination_url) {

  CDM_DLOG() << "OpenCdm::MessageCallback:";
  fflush(stdout);
  CDM_DLOG() << "Start MessageCallback";
  for(int i = 0; i < message.length(); i++)
    printf("%2x ",message[i]);
  CDM_DLOG() << "End MessageCallback";
  std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lck(m_mtx);
  m_message = message;
  m_dest_url = destination_url;
  m_eState = KEY_SESSION_MESSAGE_RECEIVED;
  m_cond_var.notify_all();
}

void OpenCdm::OnKeyStatusUpdateCallback(OpenCdmPlatformSessionId platform_session_id, std::string message) {

  if (message == "KeyUsable")
    m_eState = KEY_SESSION_UPDATE_LICENSE;
  else if (message == "KeyReleased")
    m_eState = KEY_SESSION_REMOVED;
  else if (message == "KeyExpired")
    m_eState = KEY_SESSION_EXPIRED;
  else
    m_eState = KEY_SESSION_ERROR;

  m_message = message;
  m_cond_var.notify_all();

  CDM_DLOG() << "Got key status update ->  " << message;
}
} // namespace media


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Taking a rare tour of a Mormon temple
By Eric Marrapodi and Brian Todd, CNN
Kansas City, Missouri (CNN) - Elder William Walker slipped white booties over his black wing-tip shoes and instructed his guests to do the same as he led them into the newest Mormon temple in the world.
This day was the first chance the public had to see inside the sacred space for the area's 49,000 Mormons, and it was also one of the last.
On May 6, when Thomas S. Monson, the head of the 14 million member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, dedicates this temple, the doors will close forever to the public. The church said it expects as many as 100,000 visitors in Kansas City before the temple will be closed to the public.
After that, only temple-recommended Mormons will be able to walk through the heavy wooden and stained-glass doors.
"This is a sacred space, set apart place for only those who are devout followers of the faith," Walker said.
For Mormons, temples serve as places of contemplation, instruction and worship experiences, like weddings and posthumous baptisms.
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The 67-year-old Walker is the executive director of the Temple Department, and he is the point man for the church's 137 temples.
Walker is a top official in the LDS church as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy and he reports directly to Monson. The Canadian-born hockey fanatic has been a lifelong member of the church. He graduated from Brigham Young University, served a Mormon mission to Japan and spent time in the private sector working in securities and investment banking before being called to serve the church full-time in 2002.
Kansas City's temple is the latest to open. The church has announced it will build 29 temples across five continents. Construction is under way in Paris and Rome, and temples are planned for Peru and South Africa.
"We're building temples where the church is grown and have a concentration of members," he said.
Outside the new Mormon temple in Kansas City, Missouri.
Inside the temple the required first stop is the Recommend Desk. After the dedication, only Mormons who have a recommend card are able to enter and participate in worship. The personalized cards are given by local church leaders to adherents who profess to be living in accordance with church teachings.
As he explained the process, Walker reached into his wallet, pushed his Utah driver's license aside and pulled out his recommend card, which was endorsed by Monson, his bishop. Walker said his credit-card-sized recommend card, like all others, is only good for two years.
CNN was invited by church officials to tour the temple with Walker before its dedication. The church denied CNN's request to film inside the space, saying it was against church policy. The LDS church provided still images after the tour, which accurately depicted key parts of the temple. In a rare move, CNN was permitted to film inside the front of the temple at the Recommend Desk, but no farther.
"It's not about secret. It's about sacred," Walker said after the tour, making what the church sees as a key distinction. "We feel that it's a very sacred and special place and therefore it is reserved for those worship functions and those ordinances that take place in the temple. It's not about secret."
Walker said the policy is not unlike that for Shinto shrines in Japan, where he served his mission.
But it's a thin line between sacred and secret. Public tours of the temple are only available when they are first built or undergo massive renovations. After that, outsiders and Mormons who are not temple recommended are kept out, even from wedding ceremonies.
In the sealing room, where eternal weddings take place, Walker points out the altar at the center of the room. The bride and groom kneel facing each other and the officiant stands off to the side. The room is richly decorated with Swarovski crystal chandeliers and massive gilded mirrors on either side of the room, and Walker raves about the design on the white carpet, carefully explaining how local artisans cut the meticulous pattern by hand.
Despite the grand size of the building, each room is small: This is the biggest of the three sealing rooms, and its capacity is just 49 people.
Guests are welcome at Sunday worship at one of the church's 18,000 meeting houses, Walker is quick to note. The temple, he observes, "is a sacred, special place that's unique. There are only 137 of these temples in all the world."
The temple also contains a gleaming baptismal font. Though it's a point of pride for Mormons, it has been controversial elsewhere. A church ceremony called "proxy baptisms" by Mormons includes posthumous baptisms of Jews, some of whom have protested the practice.
The baptismal font at the newest Mormon temple.
However, in Mormon doctrine, baptism is essential for salvation. While converts to the faith are baptized in services at local wards, the weekly meeting place for services open to the public, proxy baptisms take place only in the temple and in private.
The proxy baptisms are supposed to be for Mormons' ancestors who were not of the faith. Walker said the baptism serves as an invitation to accept Mormonism as an avenue into heaven.
Explainer: How and why do Mormons baptize the dead?
At the temple, Walker took his visitors through the process as it is supposed to work.
The font rests on 12 oxen, which he said represent the tribes of Israel.
Adherents change into white gowns he jokingly referred to as "jumpsuits," provided by the temple. A male priest leads the proxy into the waist-high water, gives the blessing and the name of the ancestor, then the proxy is lowered into the water, fully immersed, then brought up to the surface. The desk next to the font has a small monitor and a light. That person's job is to record the act for the church's central database.
When the temple begins operation, Walker said, this is a scene that will play out "hundreds of times a day."
But some Mormons have used the church's extensive genealogy database to baptize others who are not Mormon ancestors, such as the murdered Jewish reporter Daniel Pearl and holocaust victims like Anne Frank. It's a practice that has outraged Jewish leaders.
"When people violate the church policy of doing baptisms for those who our leaders have said we're not going to do that, they're acting on their own in contradiction of church policy," he said. "We're unhappy about that. We love our Jewish friends. We don't want to offend them or anyone else by our religious practices."
"We're sorry. We live by our word and when we say we're going to do something, we're going to try and do it," Walker said.
He promised disciplinary action.
"We're now tracking those who've done this contrary to church policy and we're going to shut down their access to the church's database, Family Search, so they can't do this."
He acknowledges interest in proxy baptisms, and other Mormon practices, has spiked thanks to Mormon Mitt Romney's run for president.
While the church takes no position on party politics nor allows its officials to endorse candidates, Walker can see some good coming out of Romney's run for the White House.
"I think it's perfectly understandable people who are considering him would want to know more about the church he espouses," he said. "In many ways it may be a good thing that people will want to know more. Maybe some of the old ideas about the church that have persisted in American culture can change."
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Christians, take note. This is exactly what your cult looked like to the world 150 years after its founding.
Dear Bo,
Growing up as the daughter of a man who was raised Mormon-I can tell you
that these people really are scary. The first time I heard him talk about Jesus, once he returned to the church-
he said in the same breath- "its those Muslims I dont know about." So, I asked him, well, when was the last time
you met a Muslim, had dinner with him, or read a different religious text? To which he said he hadnt for decades. Over
the years, Ive witnessed many condescending comments towards an African American in the church (the one time I have
heard him talk about black people in the church) he said that he didnt realize they had such big hands. Ive heard him talk about women in ways that would make most men cringe. He hasnt said a loving or genuine thing to me since re-joining the church. Except once. He has alienated all four of his children who are not Mormon and see the changes he has undergone. I have to tell you, it is very odd to see such behavior in light of the claims to behavior that I assume is pronounced within church walls. SCARY. VERY VERY SCARY for a daughter and the rest of the non-Mormon family. What I would like to see is a genuine acceptance of the true equality of all humans, and a love and happiness that radiates throughout him. Rather, he comes across as an angry, abusive and aging person who is not happy about where his life has gone and vents those things onto other people and groups that are safer for him to do so. And he continues to do so thru stories I hear about- in leadership in the church as "State ward President" I want him to be happy and kind and loving. He could exhibit those traits before he converted. Now I see him as fearful and weak in his abilities to lead a balanced emotional life.
November 14, 2012 at 8:22 am |
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Danielle, I'm sorry your father was such a poor example of what a Christian person should be to you. I am a member of the LDS faith and I can tell you that most people I know in the faith do not espouse the views your father expressed about people of other faiths and races. There are going to always be people who express such views in all walks of life, but in no way does our church condone or teach such views. I know it is hard to believe what I am saying because you experienced this from someone who was so close to you, but I hope you will look a little farther into the matter and see if what I am saying is true.
November 29, 2012 at 2:37 pm |
Lol @ Danielle. Your father is quite a character. If you attribute this one man's behavior to all of Mormons then you are out of touch with reality. As long as humans are imperfect and exercise free will there will always be people like your father. I thought this went without saying... You might want to broaden your horizons a bit.
What a beautiful place to worship the LORD.
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Thus says The Lord concerning that which is obvious, a warning made plain, which shall go greatly unheeded by those with veiled heads: This is but the first of many things, which men in the churches have built up in their pride, that shall be struck!...
For they build themselves up for show, a false goodness...
Foolish servants, who forsake the poor and the needy,
In favor of the praises of men...
FALSE GLORY! Says The Lord in His jealousy.
For their works are perverse in My sight, and their words contemptible. Therefore, because they have robbed Me, I will rob them. I will tear them in pieces, with every foundation collapsing... No wall shall be left standing... And they shall become as those, whom they have forsaken. And they shall no more preach from their finely-crafted pulpits, standing tall among all their expensive ornaments, broadcasting lies with all their purchased devices.
I am The Lord!...
I will not share My glory!...
Neither shall they pollute My name, anymore!
Behold, all these great churches of men,
Who have accomplished great gain in the world,
Shall become the offscouring among the nations...
Says The Lord.
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Top Ten Signs You're a Christian
10 – You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.
9 – You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.
8 – You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.
7 – Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including women, children, and trees!
6 – You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.
5 – You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is a few generations old.
4 – You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs – though excluding those in all rival sects – will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving."
3 – While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" Christianity.
2 – You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.
1 – You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history – but still call yourself a Christian.
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Of course the other way you can tell someone is a christian is by how derogatory they are to other people...like the white trash that keeps posting over and over the same thing on this chat board about being gay and black....
Oh well, can't stop white trash from being trash.
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As we start the 2018 season, we will begin the 10th year of Behind the Lens and Inside the Headset. This will be our third year of live streaming of Friday night games which we call "StorkVision" sponsered by John Jones Real Estate which we are grateful for his support. Stork is totally independent, not filming or promoting just one school. Stork, and this website, stand for all the schools and wish them great success.
INSIDE THE HEADSET: This is an opportunity for each of the coaches to communicate to the fans what is going on with their team. Stork enjoys watching each coach lead young men through each season. He appreciates their time and feels lucky to catch up to them whenever possible. He currently interviews the following High School coaches: Coach Jason Dobbs at Moore County in Lynchburg TN, Coach Thomas McDaniel at Christian Brothers in Memphis, Coach Kit Hartsfield at Blackman in Murfreesboro (Juan Jennings and David Price graduates), Philip Shadowens Blount County South of Knoxville, Coach Will Kriesky at Riverdale, Coach Kevin Creasy at Oakland (Jack Jones graduate) and Donnie Webb at Franklin.
BEHIND THE LENS: Stork's brother Sam came up with this idea. It started off as a blog in the written form and has since progressed into a video blog. The format is simple: 3 topics…First 2 topics are a little about life and then the last topic is the wrap up in which he usually tells you where he will be that Friday Night or how to catch up with him. It's your quick weekly fix on game day during the season.
HISTORY: It all started in 1998 when Scott (Stork) Montgomery's son Tyler began playing football for the Smyrna Youth Football League. At that time, the games were being announced by whomever would grab the microphone. Stork, seeing the need, jumped at the chance and began running the Public Address System for all games. Jeff Childs was the president of the League and let Stork have reins. He was asked to be the official announcer for the Mid State Youth Football Championship from 1998 to 2002.
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In 2002 Stork set a record for the most football games called in a single season, at it still stands today at 71 games. Players who have benefited from the Stork crafting their talents and including being on this website have gone on to well-known colleges such as Navy, Virginia Tech, Tenessee State, Middle Tennessee State University, Tennessee, Ole Miss, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt and Maryland. Other colleges include Rhodes, UT Martin, Eastern Kentucky University, Brown, Princeton, Cason-Newman, Cumberland, Holmes Community, Lambuth, Maryville, Itawamba Community, and Tusculum. Click HERE to read a feature article on The Stork from The Tennessean from back in 2004. He has also filmed and announced the amateur teams.
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This article introduces the reader to some of the hierarchies that are contained within most organizations. We discuss uses and limitations of this information.
The typical company organogram shows the line management relationship between two individuals. That is it shows who within an organisation reports to whom. Within large organisations this can be extremely useful information to access. For example when is trying to resolve a difficult decision or conflicting views between two peers the decision is often "escalated" to the person above. In any sized organisation it is possible to keep escalating further and further up the hierarchy until finding a single individual who is able to make a decision to resolve the issue.
In Figure 1 below, if Rosalyn and Bill cannot agree then they can escalate their issue to Hannah for resolution. If Rosalyn and Tony cannot agree, then they can escalate to Hannah and Mike respectively. If Hannah and Mike cannot agree then they can escalate to Peter.
Whilst the process of escalating an issue through an organisation may not be always desirable it does mean that, in theory at least, there should always be someone in the organisation who can make a final decision.
In real-life certain behaviours can be observed the effects of these can be both positive and negative depending on the context and culture of the organisation.
Decision bottle-necks occur when too many decisions need to be escalated to higher levels. This is often compounded by the fact that senior levels of management are often extremely busy.
Lobbying of decision makers occurs with politically astute lower level staff members trying to ensure that their views or ideas take precedence over other ideas being forwarded by their peers.
Information Filtering : Peter does not get to hear the real risks and issues from Rosalyn, Bill, Toby and Tony as they are filtered by Hannah and Mike.
Succession Planning : Hierarchy immediately gives the organisation a choice of succession plan. If Hannah were to leave then Rosalyn or Bill could step into the role.
Although most people who work in structured companies are aware of the Line Management hierachy there are several other inherent hierarchies within organisations. Not all will be present in all organisations and some large organisations will exhibit all of them.
By recognising the existence of other hierarchies it is possible to take advantage of them and build software applications that allow the organisation to take advantage of the information contained within.
All but the smallest of companies will usually be comprised of one or more organizational units. These can be of varying size and may or may not be based in the same location or can be based in multiple locations.
For large multinationals the picture is complicated further with legal entities often created to allow trading within different tax and legal juristrictions. The creation of "Joint Ventures" between two or more distinct companies can also add further complexity to the picture. Below is listed typical organisational units.
Departments - Smaller departments, usually specialising in one specific area of expertise. For example, telecoms or policy.
Teams - Normally the smallest organised unit. Concentrating on a particular niche skill.
Staff - And finally we get down to the people within the organisation!
Figure 2. Below shows the organisation of an imaginary company. This is not fully expanded as each sub group could be divided down further.
In the example in Figure 2. We have a large organisation presented in a simple, accessible manner. The chart displays the number of employees and head of each unit.
By making the "unit head" a hyperlink the programmer could allow end users to easily switch from an organizational chart to a line management chart. We could also display key performance indicators ( KPI's ) relevant to each unit , in this example we have used "head count".
The next hierarchy to consider is locational. Locations can be thought of as a hierarchy starting with "The World" ( or "Global" ) as the top of the tree and splitting down further into regions, countries, counties or states, cities and streets.
At the bottom of each branch of the hierarchy will be an actual physical location usually with some company asset ( an office, manufacturing plant, service centre etc ) located at it.


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Artists Honor Raziq With A Mural On A Police Academy Wall
Help for Afghan Heroes organization has honored the late Kandahar police chief, Gen Abdul Raziq, for his hard work and efforts in fighting terrorism by painting a mural of him on the wall of theAfghan National Police Academy in Kabul.
The painting is aimed at keeping alive the memories of Raziq and other fallen Afghan soldiers who have sacrificed their lives for peace in Afghanistan.
Matiullah Sahil, a member of the organization, said they want the nation to remember the soldiers who lost their lives defending the nation and to remember their families.
"Our aim by painting this picture is to respect martyrs of recent incidents; victims in Kandahar, especially Gen. Abdul Raziq, the people's general," said Sahil.
Hamida Zala, another member of Help for Afghan Heroes, meanwhile said there are heroes in the country who have sacrificed their lives for the country, and that government should have plans to protect them and help their families in the event of their death.
"We have heroes in our country who sacrificed their lives. We, citizens, ask the government what plans do they have for these soldiers?" Zala asked.
"The Help for Afghan Heroes asks government to announce a day of national mourning and to respond positively to the legitimate demand among Kandahar youths who want the National Police Academy to be called the Gen. Abdul Raziq Academy," another organization member Mustafa Sulaimankhel said.
Families of Afghan soldiers have repeatedly said they are struggling financially and when their sons are killed or wounded in fights against insurgency, they face numerous challenges.
The families have appealed to government to help them.
Raziq was killed on Thursday in a shooting incident after a high-profile meeting in Kandahar.
The incident happened when officials were leaving the governor's office and were making their way to a helipad.
Gen. Abdul Momin Hassankhail, head of the provincial National Directorate of Security (NDS), was also killed.
The governor, Zalmai Wesa, and the commander of Maiwand 404 police zone, were wounded.
Among those who had been at the meeting was Gen. Austin Scott Miller, Resolute Support Commander, and other high-profile officials.
A local organization has painted a mural of the late Kandahar police chief on a wall in Kabul in a bid to honor him and all fallen soldiers.
Senators Question UN Report On Kandahar Police Chief
Roadside Bomb Blast In Kandahar Kills Nine Civilians


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MSOs, which directly provide cable service to the subscribers without the intervention of any LCO, will be liable to collect and pay the entertainment tax.
The Delhi High Court has quashed a circular by which multi-system operators (MSOs) were foisted with the liability to collect and pay entertainment tax.
Contending that the liability to collect and pay entertainment tax is that of the cable operators and not theirs, MSOs had approached the Delhi High Court challenging the circular issued by the government to that effect. They had also contended that the said circular is without the authority of law and cannot be sustained.
Referring to relevant provisions, a bench comprising Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed and Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva observed that the liability to collect the tax and pay it to the government is not on all proprietors, as defined under Section 2(o) of the said Act, but only on proprietors of cable television networks.
Quashing the circular, the court held that the MSOs that provide the service through individual LCOs having their own subscriber networks, would be regarded as the proprietors in respect of their individual networks and would be liable to collect the entertainment tax and pay the same to the government.
"We do not understand as to how the Entertainment Tax Officer held the MSOs and LCOs jointly and severally responsible for payment of entertainment tax," the court said.


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President Trump posted a video to Twitter on Thursday in which he accused the Democrats of being "absolute hypocrites" on border security and his wall, using clips from numerous high-profile Democrats to support his point.
In the clips, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, failed 2016 presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama all denounce illegal immigration, and Mrs. Clinton specifically brags about voting to keep immigrants out with barriers.
Democrats have long said they favor border security and barriers while denouncing Mr. Trump's wall as different to the point of being a betrayal of America itself.
Mr. Trump introduced the clips by saying of Democrats that "all along, they've been supporting walls and supporting fences and supporting all sorts of border security.


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Manager Simon Grayson gave an update on the injuries to Greg Cunningham and skipper Tom Clarke after Easter Monday's clash with Norwich City.
Cunningham suffered a fractured leg early in the game against the Canaries, but the gaffer revealed he should still be fit for pre-season.
However, the prognosis on Clarke was worse, with potentially a ten month lay-off for the defender: "It's another big blow for us," continued the gaffer. "Tom suffered a ruptured Achilles, which is going to be eight to ten months or something like that. This is a massive blow to the player first and foremost and ultimately us as a team.
"It's horrible when you see Tom stay down as he did on Friday; when he does that you know there's something wrong. He then went for a scan and the results have come back as what we expected, but we didn't want to hear the news.
"It's a devastating blow because he's been fantastic for this club. He's suffered a poor injury in the past with his cruciate and come back stronger and played the games that he has done, and he'll do the same again when he comes back from the Achiles tendon injury.
And Simon reflected on the poor luck his side have suffered in terms of big injuries, with the likes of Baptiste, Browning, Woods and now Clarke and Cunningham all ruled out for considerable periods.
"I don't think we've had too much luck right the way through the season and that comes with decisions as well. We go back to Friday, the assessors have been in touch to say that the penalty should never have been given, so that's bad luck, but ultimately the long-term injuries to certain players is obviously hard to take.


In the 1400's, Hoegaarden Monks pioneered the Witbier or 'White Beer' - a light and refreshing ale made from about 50% wheat. Named for their hazy appearance due to all the wheat and suspended yeast, these beers grew to be very popular in the 1700's. At that time there were over 35 breweries producing this beer in Belgium. Sadly, the production of this style started declining and came to a halt in 1957 when the last Witbier producing brewery, Brouerji Tomsin, closed its doors. Along came Pierre Celis, the founder of Hoegaarden brewery. Pierre began brewing Witbiers and revived this piece of Belgian history in 1966 and is still a popular style in today's market.
Unfiltered, Witbiers have a hazy and cloudy appearance, ranging in colour from light straw to an light orange-yellow. With a high carbonation, this style has an effervescent and light taste, and a white creamy head with good retention. A good Witbier should have a hint of spice that doesn't overpower the overall flavour, and a light hop taste.
A tulip glass is the traditional way to serve a Witbier. 40-45 ℉ is the ideal serving temperature.
Ferment at 65 ºF for 2 days and let free rise to 75 ºF over a 2 week period.