Oddities and Eccentricities

[anileve]

Often I come across very bizarre and strange information or witness weird occurrences. So I decided to dedicate this thread to anything you find odd, abnormal or absurd.

I was doing a search on the net and came across this weird organization, which is based on the teachings of some strange spirit called “Seth”, who apparently projected his teachings through a woman named Jane Roberts. And this spirit was allegedly recalled through a Ouija Board.

“Seth is a non-corporal (in this reality) entity who, through a "psychological bridge" with author Jane Roberts and the assistance of her husband Robert Butts, wrote several good books in the 1970's and 1980's. Seth Speaks and The Nature of Personal Reality are a couple of them.”


1.) We create our own reality.
2.) Our point of power is the present.
3.) We are not at the mercy of the subconscious, nor are we helpless. and
4.) We are gods couched in creaturehood.

Needless to say that it looked absurd to me, I tried to do some research to see, if there was any media criticism available on this organization. I didn't find any. It was started in New York by Jane Roberts and her husband and there is a large network in England. Their website is

http://www.sethworx.com

This is a brief info. I am still trying to understand the concept. Tell me what you think. The ideas are interesting, but it still seems to be a hoax and a sect to me.

http://www.spiritual-endeavors.org/seth/howitall.htm

This is another site from one of the spirit followers. I like his views on prostitution and porn.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/7723/w-view.htm

[anileve]

Howard Robard Hughes (September 24, 1905 - April 5, 1976) was at times a pilot, a movie producer, a playboy, an eccentric, a recluse, and one of the wealthiest people in the world.

Hughes was born in Houston, Texas. As a teenager, he declared that his goals in life were to become the world's best golfer, the world's best pilot, and the world's best movie producer. In 1923 he inherited the highly profitable Hughes Tool Company from his father, Howard R. Hughes, Sr., who invented the diamond-studded drill bit for oil wells.


As time passed, Hughes developed debilitating symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), he became a reclusive, living a drug-addled life locked in darkened rooms and terrified of germs. He moved from hotel to hotel, from the Beverly Hills Hotel to Boston to Las Vegas, where he bought the Desert Inn (because they threatened to evict him) and several other hotel/casinos (Castaways, New Frontier, Landmark, Sands and Silver Slipper)—he was known for modernizing Las Vegas by buying it from the Mafia. He bought television stations such as KLAS-TV in Las Vegas so that there would be something to watch when he was up all night with insomnia. He became addicted to codeine and other painkillers, was extremely frail, wore Kleenex boxes as shoes, and stored his urine in jars. As he deteriorated, he ended up moving to the Bahamas, Vancouver, London, and several other places, always in the top floor penthouse with the windows blacked out—and every time he moved out the hotel seemed to need to remodel to clean up after him. Hughes died on an airplane enroute from his penthouse in Mexico to the Methodist Hospital in Houston on 5 April 1976. Much of his strange behavior at the end of his life has been attributed to tertiary stage syphilis by modern biographers.

One of Howard Hughes' short-lived attachments was to Baskin and Robbins banana-and-nut flavored ice cream. For some months he ate a scoopful with every meal. When it was noticed that stocks were running low, a domestic was sent out for more. He returned empty-handed, reporting that the line had been discontinued. In a state of shock, the staff contacted Baskin and Robbins and begged them to make up a special batch. Although the minimum order was three hundred and fifty gallons the purchase was authorised and the crisis averted. The very day the consignment arrived, Hughes announced that he no longer liked banana-and-nut flavored ice cream, and would try a scoop of French vanilla instead. His aides spent the next twelve months asking everyone they knew whether they liked banana-and-nut flavored ice cream. Those who said they did were presented with a two-galllion drum.

[Crimson Glow]

I've never heard of this organization before, but I can say that these philosophies....

1.) We create our own reality.
2.) Our point of power is the present.
3.) We are not at the mercy of the subconscious, nor are we helpless. and
4.) We are gods couched in creaturehood.

...are akin to many occult beliefs. The idea that we forge our own reality through our will, that we can control the subconscious through certain techniques, etc. It's all been done before. Copycating bastards.

[anileve]

The Aetherius Society was first visualized into existence by Saint Goo-Ling, who is considered by the Aetherians to be an Ascended Master in the Spiritual Hierarchy of Earth and a member of The Great White Brotherhood" (The Aetherius Society, intro). The Great White Brotherhood, or the Brother/Sisterhood of Light, "is a multi-dimensional, interplanetary, intergalactic organization of beings who choose to serve the divine cosmic plan in this universe" (SpiritWeb, Spirit/masters). Ascended Masters, believed to have been such historical figures as Jesus, St. Germain, El Morya, and Lord Buddha, make up the higher order of the Brotherhood (SpiritWeb, Spirit/masters). Members of the Society believe that George King was chosen by the Brotherhood to become the next spiritual prophet.
In 1954, George King was researching the field of radionics while practicing an intense regimen of yoga, when he received a message during a meditative trance. He later identified the voice as The Cosmic Master Aetherius (The Aetherius Society, bio). During this contact with Master Aetherius, King claims that he was appointed to become the Voice of the Interplanetary Parliament, headquartered on Saturn, for Earth (Melton: 676).

George King has been described as a "mystagogue" by Roy Wallis, or someone "who performs magical and/or sacramental actions to promote salvation" (Lewis: 223). George King became interested in spirituality at a young age, first exploring orthodox Christianity and, later, going on to study psychic phemonena and spiritual healing. After receiving the command to become a channel for the Cosmic Masters, King mastered the sciences of Raja, Gnani, and Kundalini Yoga which allowed him to consciously attain the state of Samadhi (The Aetherius Society, bio). This power allowed King to communicate with beings from other spiritual energy spheres. In this state of consciousness, King was able to receive many teachings from the Cosmic Masters which the Aetherius Society believes will guide humanity to spiritual enlightenment. George King founded the Aetherius Society in 1955. King was named the "Primary Terrestrial Mental Channel for the Cosmic Masters" while his followers bestowed the mediator with the full title of Sir George King, OSP, PhD, ThD, DD, Metropolitan Archbishop of the Aetherius Churches, Prince Grand Master of the Mystical Order of St. Peter, HRH Prince De George King De Santori, and Founder President of the Aetherius Society (Pick'n Mix Spirituality).

After recieving his call, King gave up his research and materialistic pursuits in order to publish The Cosmic Voice, a transcript of his communications with the Cosmic Masters, and Spiritual Healing Bulletin. He also began giving lectures around England telling about his spiritual experiences (Melton, 677). On May 21, 1959, BBC broadcasted King while in a Samadhic trance, allowing a huge audience to witness this yoga master's skills (The Aetherius Society, bio). In 1960, King expanded the Society to the US and established a center in Hollywood, CA where it was treated as a non-profit religious, scientific, and educational organization (Dir. of International UFO). Since the 1960's, the Society has opened another branch in Detroit, MI and continued to expand until it now reaches every continent in the world
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Their website. I would love to be a member of their cult, as long as they don't operate on my brain.

http://www.aetherius.org/NewFiles/Aetherius_Society.html

[anileve]

Secretary to the Spirits

The north of England, Stella Horrocks, teaching with the retirement awaits in its armchair a notebook with the hand the moment when the spirit of a missing author will contact it. Suddenly, the pen which it holds in the right hand starts to move and slips on paper, while the words appear, at the rate sometimes of 200 at the minute.

Among the authors who dictated his work to him, Stella Horrocks counts great figures of the world literature: Virginia Woolf, Thomas Hardy, Charles xxxxens, Jane Austen, the president John F Kennedy, the star of cinema David Niven and Lord Louis Mountbatten. The output of this "secretary of the spirits" is époustouflant. Its pen gave rise to letters, speeches, intimate diaries, memories, parts and books, all of a different writing.
Stella seems to be of these people who apparently write under the dictation of deaths. The practise of this art, that in the psychic circles one calls "automatic writing", sincerely believe to come into contact with the spirit of missing writers, anxious to prove that the life is not completed in the tomb. For the skeptics, to provide another explanation is not easy matter to achieve. Some compare with the?uvres written by the author of sound living those of its "spirit", which they consider generally lower. Others call upon a split personality, the subconscious memory, and speculate in the complexity of human psychism. In the final analysis, the majority could only look at, without including/understanding, the pen to slip on paper, page after page.

That's all I was able to find on this woman online and as a translation of french.

Here is some more info.

Stella's technique for "tuning in" to dead authors is simple, she says. "You can't contact them. they have to contact you when they are ready. YOU have to keep your mind a complete blank to recieve. I don't know what they are going to write before they start: they tell me each word as they go."

She is only one of a number of people who apparently have the ability to take dictation from the dead.

I am not really a believer in the world of ghosts and spirits, but what if such obscenity is possible? What if there is really a connection between the dead? Or is she simply a disturbed dame with a split personality disorder?

[anileve]

Rub them for luck

The sculpture, in the city of Cartagena (Columbia), is of a curvaceous woman who locals have named Getrudis.

They believe that Getrudis will bless them with long and happy relationships if they touch her nipples.

Artist Fernando Botero, who created the sculpture four years ago, said he was surprised and delighted by the custom.

He told RCN Radio Station: "I think it is great that loads of tourists and locals line up to touch the sculpture's breasts.

"It's amazing to hear that the breasts have had to be repaired many times because they're being worn out by too much touching."

Well perhaps they should concentrate on rubbing each others nipples to save their relationship. More of a direct, realistic approach I think, but then again, how dull would that be I guess.

[ardenik]

Well perhaps they should concentrate on rubbing each others nipples to save their relationship. More of a direct, realistic approach I think, but then again, how dull would that be I guess.

hehe yea imma have to agree with that.
how dull? not nearly as dull as rubbing a STATUE's nipples.. which, beyond the spiritual belief, has no real purpose, as opposed to rubbing ur partner's nipples.....





mmm nipples... LOL

[dusken]

Arvestaked mentions odd thing...

The more dissimilar the immune systems of a man and a woman are, the more they will like eachothers natural smells.

[ckBejug]

This guy won 17 times on Jeopardy, and counting. What I want to know is where the hell he fits all this information he seems to know so effortlessly!

[dusken]

I have been watching him play. He is unbelieveable. Not only does he win but he gets at least twenty five thousand dollars a game. As a matter of fact, he usually has about thirty thousand dollars before Final Jeopardy. The guy is nuts.