The obvious things in this movie having to do with abrahamic religion are the 9 circles of hell, but they also go into Greek mythology with Cerberus. Basically the promise of the movie is a young boy keeps having nightmares about his dog burning in hell and his sister tries to make him feel better by manipulating him to having fun in the woods However certain things that the sister has conjured up is up as make believe or starting become real This has to do with a Tibetan mysticism called tulpa, tulpa is the idea if enough people believe in one thing thing it can be manifested into real life It would seem that these 2 children have manifested is manifested Domonic entities Into the Woods, which are terrorizing them in the woods. There's a lot of occult stuff happening in Antrim as well. Maybe if you believe in that sort of thing, you may not want to watch this movie.

The reality of it the movie is not cursed and it will not kill you if you watch it it's an interesting movie to say at least.

Hello, I am going to make a short film for my Diploma this semester. I will be going to Bylakuppe (Namdroling monastery), Karnataka, India. My audience is aged 6-8yrs old kids. Any story that is from the culture of Tibetan Buddhism will help. Thank you in advance. :)

Hi again. Three weeks ago I posted about a project I'm working on. For those who haven't seen it yet:

>So, I am embarking on an interesting project. I intend to experience the best art and media humanity has to offer before I die. Namely this is all the highly notable and interesting books, plays, art, music, films, TV shows, and video games. I guess you could call it a bucket list. I've been indexing it chronologically and downloading it to an external hard drive.

I then solicited suggestions for highly notable/significant ancient and medieval literature that I was missing from an early draft of what the list would cover. I got over 100 responses; it was clear I was missing a lot. So, I pretty much started from scratch, doing multiple sweeps of any pre-Renaissance literature, and incorporated many of the suggestions I received, ranging from missing individual works to missing authors and cultures.

I should also note that in order to prevent this list from becoming unwieldly, I am limiting myself to 10,000 entries total, forcing myself to take a more deliberate and top-down approach. So far, I have 261 entries for the time span 4000 BC to 1400 AD: 12 Ancient-era, 121 Classical-era, and 128 Medieval-era works. 251 are literature, 10 are music. In other words, 2.61% of the list is Medieval era works or earlier, which seems quite reasonable to me and leaves plenty of room for more modern works spanning across more mediums.

I thought I would share what I have so far before I begin work on more modern stuff. Note that bolded entries are in the top 1,000 works, the cream of the crop, the most notable of all. If you're following along with me and don't want it to take a decade or longer to get through the whole completed list, just sticking to the bolded entries will give you a good taste too.

Ancient Era (4000 BC - 1001 BC)

I was looking into antartica today and after some research i came back to the conspiracy of agartha. I looked good at the picture byrd draw of his experience the shamballah city was what made me curious and thinking he could be right and told us no lies.

If you search on shamballah you probably came to the same thing that in tibetan buddhist shamballah standa for a spiritual kingdom were peace and joy are the fabric of being.

If you read the secret diary of byrd. He tells the world he experienced was beautiful peaceful.

Also if we take a look further in the tibetan buddhist tradition you came also across of a closely related land called Tagzig Olmo Lung Ring. That the Bon scriptures speak of. If you click on Bon you came across this picture. I insert the link so you can check the picture.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/fqqFile:Bon_-_Yungdrung.jpg

Looking like something you know?

Now we are switching a little from points. We know in the ww2 hitler has come to antartica and had a secret base build on it. Yes we also know about the flying saucers. He must have found something or he worked togheter with usa because they would be the only one that knew of agharta.

More info on the yungdrung https://earlytibet.com/2008/04/30/buddhism-and-bon-iii-what-is-yungdrung/

I looked more into the swatstika but the only resemblance they had with hitler was the symbol. I didn’t saw any other reasons for him to use it as the the way the buddist etc use the swatstika.

I got another advertisement i found but I don’t know the date of it. But it announced that there was a book out 2 in 1 the secret dairy of richard e. Byrd and the phantom of the poles by william greed.

Very interesting about the book phantom of the poles is that it was publiced date 1906. Far before byrd would discover agharta. Also his questions are very interesting and hos answers also. A mist read I recommend!

Link to book- http://iapsop.com/ssoc/1906__reed___the_phantom_of_the_poles.pdf

I found this question very interesting because of the explanation of the red green and yellow color of snow. I quote - What causes colored snow in the Arctic region? Two causes: The red, green, and yellow are caused by a vegeta ble matter permeating the air with such densitythatwhen itfallswiththesnow it colors it. This vegetable matter is sup posed to be the blossom or pollen of a plant. As it does not grow on earth, one can naturally believe that itmust grow in the interior. To add to the colore

Hello, I plan to make a film for Tibetan kids aged 5-7 yrs. I want them to be able to relate to it and therefore I was hoping to get something from the same culture. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you :)

EDIT: Stories can be the ones that Grandmother tells her grandchildren, a simple tale with a peek into the history, a story with animals in it. It can be anything at all but withing the culture.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

My attempt at creating a fantasy race based off of chinese and tibetan buddhist mythology.

Overview

Xian are an immortal race of humans that are bound to the world system. However, they are not invulnerable. Upon the destruction of their bodies (forms of earth, water, air and fire) the void part will remain and the xian will be forced to wander the world as a "ghost" until the end of the kalpa.

Abilities.

Due to their binding to the world, they gain supernatural abilities from absorbing some of the worlds qi. By manipulating the forces of yin and yang, xians can telekinetically push and pull on matter with great force allowing them to levitate and jump great distances and move objects without touching them. This power always follows newtons third law. However if a xian is skilled enough and standing on the ground he or she can use the entire planet as a counterweight to move large objects. Xians can also push and pull on the internal energy of other sentient beings and alter their states of mind either reducing sensation or increasing it. This gives them the ability to hypnotise and even ease a persons physical pain.

Another ability they have is more powerful perception than mortals. They are able to see into the ghost world and as a result perceive the ghostly remnants of their brethren. In the ghost world, it is also to be noted that xians have spiritual radiance and appear to glow brightly compared to mortals who only appear dull and fuzzy.

It is to be noted mortals can develop similar abilities. A mortal who practices cultivation can perceive the ghost world and an enlightened human can even exceed the perception of a xian. For an example a xian will see a deva who transformed into a xian as a xian whereas an enlightened mortal will see the deva for what it is. Mortals can also learn to manipulate their qi as well although it is much weaker than that of a xian's. A mortal with strong psychic attainment can use his or her qi to hypnotise and influence the minds of weaker mortals and a mortal with incredibly strong power can even telekinetically move small objects. This can be used to say, unlock a door without a key. There is quite a bit more to this magic system but I wont get into it here.

Physiology

Genetically and biologically xian are nearly identical to humans. However they do not appear this and their physiology is different. They are able to use their qi to nourish their bodies and can go for a long time without eating or drinking

I got to chat with the titan that is u/Hugmeetoo about their forging career, their creation process, and more general Hero Forge and DnD- related things!

Hi, thanks for being here!

Nah mate, thank you for having me! A welcome surprise to be asked to do this!

Most have (rightly so) called you one of the best, if not the best, forger on this sub. Do you feel you live up to that name?

It's always been really funny to me when I get called that- fairly certain I just haven't processed it properly yet, but I'm in the stage of having tonnes of admiration for all of the awesome creators on this sub! To me it's always been a bit of a wonder that my creations have gotten so popular!

How and when did you get into Hero Forge?

I started making minis back before we had colour on the site, and then sort of forgot about the site until the middle of last year where I realized how far it had come and all of the crazy stuff that had been added in the interim! Beyond that it was just a matter of time before I fell down the rabbithole properly- especially with all of the TTRPG's I play with my mates!

What do you enjoy about the platform?

I think it's got to be how massively customisable and easy to get into it is! I've spent what I'd call a fair whack of time tweaking and tinkering and it always surprises me just what you can make with the tools at hand! Having a painted with a colour-picker and all of the extras just makes it really dangerous for someone like me- I tend to get lost in it...

Do you have a DnD campaign that you are currently in? If so, how much is Hero Forge used?

I do! I run a (mostly) weekly HEAVILY refurbished & tweaked homebrew DND 5e campaign called Echoes of Morthir's Past in person with my mates where we're going to be starting to use Talespire to import all of the minis I make, an online LANCER campaign with some of the same people, and an online Soulsborne setting within the Longest Night mythos where I've written a whole grimdark system for it! Most of the minis are either digitally added tokens, or renders of the minis for Morthir!

Where and how do you get your inspiration? How do you implement your ideas into your minis?

It's mostly been a mixture of Pinterest (The time-loss I have on that site is legendary), and various artists I tend to follow! You may have noticed nearly the entire Celestial Orrery being inspired by Halycon450's art, and the

ruminant: ruminants are large hoofed herbivorous grazing or browsing mammals like cows

extant: (especially of a document) still in existence; surviving

theophoric: bearing the name of a god (Josh, Dennis, Martin, Hermoine, Diana, Krista)

theonym: the proper name of a deity

onomastics: the study of the history and origin of proper names, especially personal names

thealogy: a discourse that critically engages the beliefs, wisdom, practices, questions, and values in accordance with feminine aspect of the divine

palimpsest: in textual studies, a manuscript page, either from a scroll or a book, from which the text has been scraped or washed off so that the page can be reused for another document

yogini: Though it refers primarily to a female master practitioner of yoga, it is a more expansive word than yogi, having many definitions. The word yogini can also refer to various non-Hindu deities. In India, many temples are dedicated to yoginis who practiced outside Hindu tradition. Tibetan Buddhists believe a yogini can transmit her spiritual power to a man to facilitate his spiritual progress.

theriomorphic: (especially of a deity) having an animal form

therianthropy: the mythological ability of human beings to metamorphose into other animals by means of shapeshifting

Do your worst!

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

For ease of following the major figure I'll be invoking. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCwa

For the record I'm a Progressive Christian, for a good idea of my analytical method, albeit I subscribe to classical Christianity but not Creationism in the typical sense and definitely not YEC. I'm non denominational because I am a academic and my research and no sect seems correct to me. My stance on LGBT and Abortion are one of "divine grace", as in if wrong then it'll be punish at the end of time while I engage in neither act. I'm a fan of Offenheimer, Walton, and others. Now let's get started.

I'm a huge fan of Chinese culture, history, and mythology.

As such I studied a lot about it and eventually decided to research what echoed of the Bible could be found there.

However it wasn't as clear cut as I thought it'd be.

I used to consider a variety of possibilities for what the Chinese Great Flood was. However I found that Yu the Great ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_the_Great ) defied the classical flood narrative and also seemed distinctly a recent figure. No where else is the flood hero a ruler.

So it made me scratch my head for a while until I was researching the three Sovereigns and five Emperors era again (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sovereigns_and_Five_Emperors) and I found Nuwa to fit the criteria.

I initially considered it unlikely due to the gender and dismissed the name similarity as coincidence but I remembered that gender swapping tended to be common in the ancient world for ancient figures or deities, albeit the exception rather than the norm. Examples include a lot of Hinduism, and the androgynous nature of the Norse Gods etc.

Then I found that she was indirectly connected to multiple flood myths, including one where she and her brother were survivors of a great flood, and others where she stopped a great flood. The connection to mountains is also interesting.

I finally came to the conclusion that for unknown reasons, Nuwa was originally male but was made female, perhaps due to another event, or cultural reasons or just people forgot the gender. In that case, I theorize that Nuwa and Fuxi were originally swapped in gender, and that Nuwa dates older than Yu the Great, who's flood is datable to 2000B.C. and the Erlitou Culture.

I propose that the flood myth of Nuwa fell out of fashion after Yu, who established the Xia dynasty and the culture began to revolve around his own accomplishment and morality, therefore Nuwa

This is a deep spiritual process that has been described by many religious and esoteric traditions.

These traditions generally include the following elements:

• the primordial angelic hermaphrodite
• the notion of a divine soulmate or twin
• the dual forces of mind and matter (these are usually assigned a gender, but not always)
• the descent of the soul into matter for a purpose and the ascent back to unity, following a successful incarnation
• the eternal nature of consciousness and the soul
• an acknowledgment of the higher realms, i.e. the astral plane

Humans are composed of two opposites: mind - immortal Being; body - mortal Becoming. These opposites trouble us and produce a dynamical, life-long process of spiritual growth. In psychological understanding, this process is directed toward the realization of one's essential person, one's Platonic "higher self".

The periodic descent back into matter fuels novelty generation and the Individuation process. Your Self is eternal, and this realm is you fishing for more unique experiences that color your true divine identity.

Bringing forth the immortal person (known as Jungian individuation), living fulfilling life guided by divine providence, and reuniting with your twin soul in a hieros gamos, or holy marriage, is the most noble goal of many of these traditions. It is captured in the alchemists’ description of the Great Work or Magnum Opus of the "Rebis": married in the physical, United once again in spirit.

Below, I’ll provide examples of how these themes reveal themselves in various spiritual traditions and some notes on a syncretic approach to spiritual metaphysics.

______________________________________________

Hermeticism, Jungian Psychology, and Myth

Hermes can be thought of as the God voice in bicameralism that reveals itself once the brain hemispheres have been balanced and synchronized. Hermes, the messenger of the gods or “god of travelers/boundaries”, literally means “heap of stones, boundary marker.” The duality from which this reference stems is life and death – the heap of stones at a gravesite that stands at the threshold between the material and spiritual. The word hermaphrodite, which shares the same root, is characterized by having attributes of both sexes – a literal manifestation of a higher level integration of the anima/animus.

Similarly, Shiva (Purusha) and counterpart Parvati/Kali/Shakti (Prakriti) were originally a merged en

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Basically as the title says, Does the spell book have a place in any mythology? I've done a bit of research but so far the results are slim. Looking into the concept of a Grimoire which from my findings wasn't a concept until after guns were invented, though the word it comes from is from old French word meaning book written in Latin. I also looked up the origins of a spell book itself which go no further than Christianity from what I can tell, and it was mostly about black magic and demon worship. Lastly I looked into the book of the dead, which comes from Egyptian and Tibetan stories about guiding the dead through the afterlife and that doesn't have the same use as what people would think of as a spell book.

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

Dzogchen or "Great Perfection"/"Great Completion" is considered the highest Tibetan Buddhist practice. It is pure contemplation/meditation on the ground of existence (God), a realization of the nature of reality. The goal of Dzogchen, as for the spiritually inclined Baha'i, is gnosis of that ground of existence; '...to know Thee and to worship Thee.'

The Mirror of the Heart of Vajrasattva explains that Dzogchen is "great" because:

• It is the pinnacle of all vehicles, views, meditations, behaviors, goals.
• It is "never moving from the natural state."
• It functions "without obstacles in the realm beyond change."
• It manifests "beyond concepts in the realm beyond attachment."
• It manifests "without attachment in the realm beyond desire"
• It manifests "in great bliss in the realm beyond speech."
• It is "the source that pervades pure enlightenment."
• It is "non-substantial rigpa [knowledge] beyond action and effort."
• It remains "in equality without moving from the realm of total bliss" and "without moving from the essential meaning."
• It exists "everywhere without being a dimension of grasping."
• It is "the essence of everything without being established with words and syllables."

"Bahá’u’lláh says there is a sign (from God) in every phenomenon: the sign of the intellect is contemplation and the sign of contemplation is silence, because it is impossible for a man to do two things at one time—he cannot both speak and meditate...

Through the faculty of meditation man attains to eternal life; through it he receives the breath of the Holy Spirit—the bestowal of the Spirit is given in reflection and meditation.

The spirit of man is itself informed and strengthened during meditation; through it affairs of which man knew nothing are unfolded before his view...

Meditation is the key for opening the doors of mysteries. In that state man abstracts himself: in that state man withdraws himself from all outside objects; in that subjective mood he is immersed in the ocean of spiritual life and can unfold the secrets of things-in-themselves. To illustrate this, think of man as endowed with two kinds of sight; when the power of insight is being used the outward power of vision does not see.

This faculty of meditation frees man from the animal nature, discerns the reality of things, puts man in touch with God." - Abdu'l Baha - https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/ab/PT/pt-55.html

"According to the Dzog

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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

Where ever you left it 🤷‍♀️🤭

There hasn't been a post all year!

You take away their little brooms

It was about a weak back.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

This is a deep spiritual process that has been described by many religious and esoteric traditions.

These traditions generally include the following elements:

• the primordial angelic hermaphrodite
• the notion of a divine soulmate or twin
• the dual forces of mind and matter (these are usually assigned a gender, but not always)
• the descent of the soul into matter for a purpose and the ascent back to unity, following a successful incarnation
• the eternal nature of consciousness and the soul
• an acknowledgment of the higher realms, i.e. the astral plane

Humans are composed of two opposites: mind - immortal Being; body - mortal Becoming. These opposites trouble us and produce a dynamical, life-long process of spiritual growth. In psychological understanding, this process is directed toward the realization of one's essential person, one's Platonic "higher self".

The periodic descent back into matter fuels novelty generation and the Individuation process. Your Self is eternal, and this realm is you fishing for more unique experiences that color your true divine identity.

Bringing forth the immortal person (sometimes known as Jungian individuation), living fulfilling life guided by divine providence, and reuniting with your twin soul in a hieros gamos, or holy/alchemical marriage, is the most noble goal of many of these traditions. It is captured in the alchemists’ description of the Great Work or Magnum Opus: married in the physical, United once again in spirit.

Below, I’ll provide examples of how these themes reveal themselves in various spiritual traditions and some notes on a syncretic approach to spiritual metaphysics. I hope some of this contents resonates with you.

______________________________________________

Hermeticism, Jungian Psychology, and Myth

Hermes can be thought of as the God voice in bicameralism. Hermes, the messenger of the gods or “god of travelers/boundaries”, literally means “heap of stones, boundary marker.” The duality from which this reference stems is life and death – the heap of stones at a gravesite that stands at the threshold between the material and spiritual. The word hermaphrodite, which shares the same root, is characterized by having attributes of both sexes – a literal manifestation of a higher level integration of the anima/animus.

Similarly, Shiva (Purusha) and counterpart Parvati/Kali/Shakti (Prakriti) were originally a merged entity known as Ardhanarishva

This is a deep spiritual process that has been described by many religious and esoteric traditions.

These traditions generally include the following elements:

• the primordial angelic hermaphrodite
• the notion of a divine soulmate or twin
• the dual forces of mind and matter (these are usually assigned a gender, but not always)
• the descent of the soul into matter for a purpose and the ascent back to unity, following a successful incarnation
• the eternal nature of consciousness and the soul
• an acknowledgment of the higher realms, i.e. the astral plane

Humans are composed of two opposites: mind - immortal Being; body - mortal Becoming. These opposites trouble us and produce a dynamical, life-long process of spiritual growth. In psychological understanding, this process is directed toward the realization of one's essential person, one's Platonic "higher self".

The periodic descent back into matter fuels novelty generation and the Individuation process. Your Self is eternal, and this realm is you fishing for more unique experiences that color your true divine identity.

Bringing forth the immortal person (known as Jungian individuation), living fulfilling life guided by divine providence, and reuniting with your twin soul in a hieros gamos, or holy marriage, is the most noble goal of many of these traditions. It is captured in the alchemists’ description of the Great Work or Magnum Opus: married in the physical, United once again in spirit.

Below, I’ll provide examples of how these themes reveal themselves in various spiritual traditions and some notes on a syncretic approach to spiritual metaphysics.

______________________________________________

Hermeticism, Jungian Psychology, and Myth

Hermes can be thought of as the God voice in bicameralism. Hermes, the messenger of the gods or “god of travelers/boundaries”, literally means “heap of stones, boundary marker.” The duality from which this reference stems is life and death – the heap of stones at a gravesite that stands at the threshold between the material and spiritual. The word hermaphrodite, which shares the same root, is characterized by having attributes of both sexes – a literal manifestation of a higher level integration of the anima/animus.

Similarly, Shiva (Purusha) and counterpart Parvati/Kali/Shakti (Prakriti) were originally a merged entity known as Ardhanarishvara. When rejoined and reconcile, they reside back in the heart center.