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| 21db5f8 | You're shivering with cold. I'll make you a cup of hot soup to warm your bones. That'll have to do for now - I'll cook you a nice big meal later.' I was trembling more than shivering, upset by what had happened in Morgan's room, but gradually I began to calm down. I did as I was told and warmed my hands at the fire, watching my boots begin to steam. 'It's good to see you've still got all your fingers!' Meg said. I smiled. 'Where's Mr Gregor.. | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 05b6ca1 | And, finally, what about the reality of spiritual experience? Are saints and madmen equally deluded? Are witches' sabbats the same as alien abductions? Is exorcism merely a form of psychotherapy, or is it something more? Something... other? What is evil? Can everything we experience as human beings be explained away by a tranquil, Carl Sagan-like belief in science? Was Carl comforted in his final moments by reciting the Second Law of Thermo.. | Jim Hougan Peter Levenda | ||
| 279e843 | Is science a "candle in the dark"?... Or is it simply whistling in the dark?" | Jim Hougan Peter Levenda | ||
| 2de107f | It was Lippmann who gave us the concept of the "stereotype" (1922), which was basically a continuation of the Jungian concept of the archetype (1919) by other means. To Lippmann, the world outside our borders exists in a different space, consciously, from our own. We develop notions about life in those countries, their cultures, attitudes, and values, without ever going there. Yet, their political situation affects our own; they exert a pol.. | Jim Hougan Peter Levenda | ||
| 79763c8 | one of the famous shew stones of the Elizabethan magician and spy, John Dee, was of Aztec obsidian brought back from the New World by Spanish conquistadores. The Aztecs used the obsidian shew stone in an identical fashion to that used by Dee (and, later, Joseph Smith), as a kind of crystal ball. | Jim Hougan Peter Levenda | ||
| 928145e | Elizabethan magician and spy, Dee also became convinced that a Welsh prince had "discovered" America centuries before Columbus.24" | Jim Hougan Peter Levenda | ||
| 760fb1a | Halloween (known among European pagans as Samhain, pronounced "sa-wen") is traditionally the day when the dead return to visit the living, similar to the Asian "Wandering Souls" festival mentioned above. It is the day when the gate between the living and the dead is open, a favorite day for evocations of spirits and demons. Candlemas, on the other hand, is the day of "quickening," when the earth begins to wake from its slumber, a day of pro.. | Jim Hougan Peter Levenda | ||
| 883ff45 | Jack Parsons was born Marvel Whiteside Parsons on October 2, 1914 in Los Angeles, California. His father was a captain in the US Army. His name was also Marvel Parsons. That's right: his father was Captain Marvel. | Jim Hougan Peter Levenda | ||
| 62536e6 | Levenda's study is broad and deep, a life's work that runs to volumes. What distinguishes it from other efforts, such as those of Pasolini, is not merely its comprehensiveness. Rather, it is Levenda's realization that a matrix of politics and violence is incapable of explaining the demented century that shuddered to an end in Manhattan, not so long ago. What's needed is a third dimension, and that dimension, he tells us, is "the occult." By.. | Jim Hougan Peter Levenda | ||
| 11936e4 | It is better to rely on one's self alone. In my cat-life, all our training is founded on suspicion. I can see that it is just the same in the life of men. Those who confide in others are only betrayed. It is better to keep silent and to be treacherous one's self. | Jim Hougan Peter Levenda | ||
| 38ff855 | Perception like a Gestapo boot in the middle of a crystal night. He saw a | Jim Hougan Peter Levenda | ||
| ea49519 | The physical world has its boundaries; only the psychic is 'oceanic,' as the author of Civilization and its Discontents puts it. That is why mankind's next bold step must be the materialization of the psychic." -- "General von Greehahn" (General Reinhard Gehlen) in Agent of the Devil by Hans Habe 23" | Jim Hougan Peter Levenda | ||
| 32b0e18 | The involvement of intelligence agents in the field of Egyptian archaeology, the UFO phenomenon, and other odd pursuits will be discussed in a later chapter. For now, it suffices to point out that psychological warfare, literature, archaeology, and the paranormal not only make for strange bedfellows: in the war years of the last century it was positively an orgy. | Jim Hougan Peter Levenda | ||
| c2f4556 | Using selective evidence out of context and ignoring evidence that doesn't fit in with basic assumptions, it is possible to attack virtually everything and sound knowledgeable doing it. | Jim Hougan Peter Levenda | ||
| b5da4b9 | It was plain to see the toll the extraordinary climb had taken--for an hour after Bandoola reached the top, his legs continued to quiver with involuntary contractions. What a relief | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| eea0b57 | When someone else in the village tried to extort money from Williams over damaged banana trees, he felt it was a sure sign they were reentering civilization | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| 3625f25 | In part due to the 270 bridges they built from local materials, lightweight prefabricated sections were available to construct the largest known Bailey bridge, which was built across the Chindwin at Kalewa in December 1944. | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| bbee9f3 | The world he loved was not just disappearing; it was already gone. The British Empire would shrink away from its borders. Williams had lost the Burmese members of his family, and the elephants were next. The effect of the separation would be momentous. The bond he had forged with the animals was something so large and deep he could frame it only in spiritual terms, saying they were his "religion." | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| 129296b | Though he had always thought logging elephants had a good life, he found himself now pining for them to have something better. The war sometimes made men harder and softer at the same time. Even with this reassuring | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| e885533 | Many men who had spent their working lives in the East were terrified of going home to England and living on a pension. Gone were the spacious home, the servants, the ponies, the cars, and the memberships in every club. But | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| ecf12d2 | Unfortunately, by then, he had already seen the last of his beloved elephant Bandoola. The great tusker had been killed before war's end, in circumstances that would haunt Williams for the rest of his life. It was, he would always maintain, nothing short of murder | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| 9a84261 | When Williams unleashed his fury on Po Toke, the old mahout, sobbing, admitted that Bandoola was dead. He claimed he did not know what had happened. | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| 768a14b | Two riders led Williams to the body. "There lay Bandoola," Williams would write. He stared in disbelief at the rotting corpse, not quite ready to comprehend that his hero was gone. Bandoola's right tusk had been hacked off, and the left remained plowed into the earth where his head had fallen. A single bullet fired directly into his skull had killed him." | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| 164393c | Somewhere on the border of Burma and India is a monument. Carved on a giant teak tree, "preserved for humanity," are the words BANDOOLA BORN 1897, KILLED IN ACTION 1944. Williams never saw Po Toke again." | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| de7db97 | James Howard Williams died during an emergency appendectomy. So accustomed to the burning ache of his ulcer, he mistook the new, sharper agony as more of the same. The man who never spoke of his woes stoically bore the pain of a burst appendix until it was too late. | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| 3cbc57e | Eighty percent of American forces contracted dysentery in another siege, but they kept fighting. Some had to go into combat with the backsides of their pants cut away. | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| d0e916c | this point, the uzis believed that even the nicest bulls | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| a4c1f18 | I tell you, therefore, as officers, that you will neither eat, nor drink, nor sleep, nor smoke, nor even sit down until you have personally seen that your men have done those things. If you will do this for them, they will follow you to the end of the world. | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| 52e5fb3 | trust requires much more than affection; it depends on mutual confidence--strength, not niceness. | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| 00f6ad7 | The war sometimes made men harder and softer at the same time. | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| 8441e54 | Merrill's Marauders, as well as the pilots of the Flying Tigers. | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| 83cfcc0 | If you will do this for them, they will follow you to the end of the world. And, if you do not, I will break you. | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| c6d0aef | Dominance is not leadership. From animals, Williams said, people could learn about taking "authority without being a bully." | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| b01834b | Years later, historians would try to explain the complicated reasons for such behavior. In part, they would conclude, it was a cocktail of harsh discipline, national fervor, religion, childhood education, a cultural embrace of obedience over individuality, and a demand for utter allegiance and bravery that was enforced with physical punishment. But to an Allied soldier in the field, it didn't matter why. They simply never wanted to find the.. | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| b78e61f | for he felt moved by forces that weren't necessarily visible or easily explainable. Coming to Burma had only amplified those leanings. "There are ways of knowing things quite certainly but not by reason," he would write, "and in the East both the wise and the simple accept this." -- | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| 0fda129 | Run to God in times of temptation. Flee the situation by running straight into His arms. When you do so, the devil will flee from you because darkness cannot dwell in the place of the light. If your heart is tempted by the darkness, therefore, run swiftly to the light, which is the presence of the Lord. | Adam Houge | ||
| 33dadb0 | As Lucetta continued going on and on about what he should do, in that rather bossy manner he'd never imagined she possessed, he found himself having a bit of a difficult time concentrating on what she was saying. Her lips were moving rapidly, and while he was certain she was probably giving him sound advice, he found himself more concerned with the idea that it seemed to him as if she'd done something to her lips--something that made them s.. | Jen Turano | ||
| 0d3bb0e | Stalin was a driving force behind the Korean War. After NATO stonewalled communism in Europe, Stalin turned to Asia. He appointed a "Little Stalin" in North Korea named Kim Il Sung and told him in 1949: "You must strike the Southerners in the teeth....Strike them, strike them." Soviet tacticians then drew up the battle plans for the North Korean invasion of the south and Kim Il Sung assured Stalin: "The attack will be swift and the war will.. | Adam Makos | ||
| dcde6fe | During and after the war, though, no one in the Allied countries wanted to be reminded that, only a decade or two earlier, it was the King of the Belgians whose men in Africa had cut off hands. And so the full history of Leopold's rule in the Congo and of the movement that opposed it dropped out of Europe's memory, perhaps even more swiftly and completely than did the other mass killings that took place in the colonization of Africa. | Adam Hochschild | ||
| e2bd28f | The river moved so swiftly and yet it had no purpose other than to flow, just flow. | purpose | Gioconda Belli | |
| 6b3cc12 | I praise You for Your authority over me. I worship You for Your authority over the grave. I praise You! For there is none like You, and all creatures both spiritual and physical are subject to You. For You are Lord and reign over all. Everything is Yours and belongs to Your name alone. Reign in my life in all Your authority. I surrender to Your Lordship. I surrender to Your purpose and Your plans. Be mighty in my life, O God--mighty to save.. | Adam Houge | ||
| 0f7d132 | Thinking about oneself invokes the logic of consequence: Will I get sick? Doctors and nurses can answer swiftly with a no: I spend a lot of time in a hospital, I don't always wash, and I rarely get sick, so this probably won't affect me. In general, we tend to be overconfident about our own invulnerability to harm. But thinking about patients prompts a logic of appropriateness: What should a person like me do in a situation like this? It ch.. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 5e63ef8 | Is there," he asked with a bitter smile, "any one of you who doesn't with his whole heart love Miss Dobson?" Nobody held up a hand. "As I feared," said the Duke, knowing not that if a hand had been held up he would have taken it as a personal insult. No man really in love can forgive another for not sharing his ardour. His jealousy for himself when his beloved prefers another man is hardly a stronger passion than his jealousy for her when.. | Max Beerbohm | ||
| 07c1ba2 | Don't believe everything you read in the newspapers ... even if you write it yourself. | Matt Braun |