Ted Owens claimed to have powers ranging from precognition, telekinesis, and telepathy to levitation, the power to cause natural disasters, and the power to direct and manifest UFOs.
Despite how extraordinary his claims are, many of the people in his life gave testimony to his abilities; when Mishlove began researching his case, he received a pile 6-inches thick of affidavits, letters, newspaper clippings, etc. in his support.
On various occasions he turned his powers to stopping droughts: in the UK, the US, and even Australia.
After becoming angry with a newspaper not reporting one of his UFO manifestations, he turned his powers against them:
He accidentally set off a volcanic explosion. Something similar later happened with a plane:
He accurately predicted two attempts on Presidents' lives:
He often tried to manipulate football games psychically.
Owens was taught to speak to animals by his grandparents; his grandfather in particular seems to have shared some of the same talents.
Throughout his life he was accompanied by poltergeist phenomena – much to the rue of his family and associates.
He claimed his methods could be learnt by anyone, and successfully trained some. He taught meditation, visualization, affirmations. He would imagine a “chamber” through which “higher intelligences” would communicate with him – including two entities he named Twitter and Tweeter.
Mishlove compares Owens’ abilities to those of a sportsman – not performing well in every game, but over the course of a career, distinguishing himself from his fellows. There are so many interesting things reported in the book that it was hard to choose what to share. /END
worth reading Evola's take because Montessori has become the dominant way of thinking about education & learning - this is in part what led to and justifies all the 'open learning', 'flipped classroom' nonsense on one side, and 'we don't need no education' on the other
in the thread i mention Steiner schools, which, although nowadays falling victim to the same Montessorian way of thinking, are quite comfortable with things like rote learning, and see their role as impressing values, culture on the children, e.g.
it would probably be worth comparing something like the neo-classical approach, which is also gaining popularity. a lot of people here are interested in homeschooling - even and especially then, it is worth thinking about what education is.
Most people know Evola from his books, but he also wrote dozens if not hundreds of articles for a range of publications. Here he discusses Montessori education - he was actually at their conference in Fascist Italy, presided over by Mdm. Montessori herself.
As one of the two big 'alternative education' systems, Montessori is often lumped in with Steiner schools. But they are very different. See below on Steiner:
Montessori's background was psychology and medicine - she worked especially with children with learning difficulties. A true 'trailblazer', she left her illegitimate son in the care of a wetnurse to pursue her career.
The Seven Towers of Satan corresponding to Ursa Major
This is from a book (Les Sept Tours du Diable) by Jean-Marc Allemand where he takes up and develops something mentioned by Guenon in his review of W. S. Seabrook's 'Adventures in Arabia' and elsewhere.
Seabrook relates a legend from the Middle East about the Seven Towers of Satan, which control and direct the forces of evil in the world. Guenon describes one tower amongst the Yazidi as perhaps being the "tangible and localized base for a centre of counter-initiation."
*** Do we live in a gynaecocracy? ***
Evola introduction to Bachofen's 'Das Mutterrecht' (1949).
Bachofen describes an opposition in the classic & ancient Mediterranean world between civilizations w/ heroic, solar, virile spirituality and cthonic, lunar, feminine spirituality.
Evola describes such civilizations as 'telluric' (tellus = cthonos = earth). They consider the law of the earth the highest law; the Divine Woman embodies what is eternal and unchanging; all it produces has a birth and decline, a purely individual and fleeting life.
Wherever the supreme principle is understood as a Great Mother, the earthly woman, who appears as the closest incarnation thereof, comes to assume a religious dignity and the highest authority. She is the *giver of life*; man is only her instrument.
Everyone has heard of siestas - usually thought to be taken only due to the heat of the day - and nanna-naps, which are seen as a quirk of old age. Soldiers are also famous for kipping whenever they can. These are seen as deviations -- but...
In pre-industrial societies it was normal to have two sleeps - so normal, that people would casually refer to a 'first sleep' and a 'second sleep':