Post Midterm Lecture Flashcards
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Lodges
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rising of witch hunts, science
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Covens
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rise shifts to formal lodges
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H.O.G.D.
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Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
- oldest organization
- came trough germany
- occult scientist
- upper class educated phenomenon
- driven by the elite
- occult influenced art
- very few women
- Crowley
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Aleister Crowley
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- considered left hand path - very shocking person at the time - the important would be involved in the H.O.G.D. not peasants - Crowley into sex magic, controlling power very philosophically (India, Eastern countries) - he joined the h.o.g.d. - ceremonial magic(k)fans, very ritual and specific - - very big ego. - get kicked out from the golden dawn
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O.T.O.
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Order of the Temple of the Orient
- much older occult, old roots in Europe
-still around today and somewhat similar
- Crowley then join O.T.O. and become very popular
-very bitter rivalry b/w O.T.O. and H.O.G.D. because of Crowley- tried to go back to H.O.G.D. and “coo” them
-don’t use name in golden dawn, crowley get his revenge by publishing secret occult knowledge of h.o.g.d. (brought to court) .. you can still find papers with crowley’s name
THELMA : rules and book of the O.T.O.
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Goddess worshipper
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- started in U.S.A. 1960 & 1970
- same time as many social movements ( Gay liberalism, black power, QC movement)
- Feminist movement looking at mainstream religion
- W.I.C.C.A. = Women in Constant Creative Action
- W.I.T.C.H. = Womens International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell
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Prudence Preese
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founder of W.I.T.C.H.
- political movements
- 1960-1970 in QC, FLQ and October crisis
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Marija Gimbutas
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- scholar
- Anthropologist and archeologist
- Women entered study
- Poetry ( could tell if from male or women based community)
- goddess rather than just god
- one of key researcher in ancient goddess
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Mary Daly
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- Went to Boston University “ Roman Catholic “
- gets her Tenyear
- starts saying there is no position for women in judaism and christianity
- writes her texts almost like poetry (very hard to understand)
- ” Beyond God the Father “, “The Church and the Second Sex” - 2 main books
- Get radical and starts talking about women as witches ( women should make their own religion “uncontrolled women” -would justify herself as a witch - started to think of God as a women)
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Z. Budapest
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- Immigrates to U.S.A. because of communism ( San Francisco) late 60’s
- Open up feminist book story and occult stuff
- Start designing a women centered goddess
- writing spiritual system for JUST women (don’t care about men at all)
- cursing ritual for rapist
- made up system of goddess worships
- called their religion Dianic ( from goddess Diana)
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Morgan McFarland & Mark Roberts
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- involved in feminist movements
- lived on communs “hippies”
- interested in social and environmental change
- they came up with their own goddess worshippers
- men have a role now
- socialist equalitarian worshippers
- call their spirituality Diana
- more conservative
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Starhawk
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- get involved in whole new religion “Wicca”
- social activist (L.A.)
- Involved in inccults ( goes to Z. Budapest’s store / they come up with a collective )
- Starhawk and many other men and women start other spirituality “Reclaiming” ( hold rituals and gatherings)
- still active today
- Starhawk is not the founder..
- wrote books about it
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Pagan(us)
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Neo pagan: the young pagan or reborn
- not as emotionally loaded as witch
- > means somebody who lives in the country
- practice pre-christian practices from somewhere in Europe
- considered new religion
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Wicca
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also call themselves witches or NeoPagan
Starhawk was already studying wicca
- wiccan are polytheist
- celtic faiths (British Isle)
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Asatru
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- recognized as state religion in Iceland
- WHAT THE HELL ?!*
- Scandinavian and Germanic
- Someone who practices Asatryr
- written language
- Pantheistic
- use lunar calendar
- practice magic mostly for healing
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Druids
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practiced druidry
- composing and speaking traditions - this was crushed when the romans showed up.
- druids came back & restructured what they thought b/c nothing had been written/ all oral
- Elite people
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Alexandre Sander ( Alexandrian's ) * gotta remember my damn name *
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- dies early 80’s
- high magic ( ritualized )
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Electic
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Mix/Blend, wiccans, don’t go though initiation with a coven
- a bit of everything
- do what works for them
- popular in North America
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Charles Arnold
* HEY ARNOLD * :D
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- ran a coven, canadian, electric Alexandrian
- 1980s first time canadian said wicca was a religion
- illegal to practice modern satanism in prison (b/c you practice what is in your best interest)
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Gerald B Garden ( Garnerian)
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studies wicca….?
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supplication
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Relationship where you do something to heal or get a favour to god
- you pray to…
- hoping it is pleasing and answers
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Magic(K)al
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Operating your actions to make change not god
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Shamanic
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Not hierarchical
ex. praying to the deer ( supplication)
- equal to equal or spirit to spirit connection
- ex. my family is hungry and i will honour your sacrifice
- every individual has its right and equal
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Shaman- Tungus (siberia)
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-someone who masters or speaks to spirits
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intercessor
Asking someone to pray on your behalf
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Semiotics
The study of signs & symbols
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Candle spell
1. reason
2. colour
3. intent :
- personalize (marking it) - write name/D.O.B./zodiac
- Symbolic ( ex. food)
4. Dress with oil
5. Speak spell
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Mezmer
Doctor that learnt a new technique
- moving the blood with magnets
- "animal magnitism"
- not what politicians have but medical matter
- he starts teaching his technique ( get patient to lower, calmer state.. relax)
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Marquis de Puysegur
one of Mesmer's disciples
- he was easy to be put in relax state
* ** MAKE HIM WALK AROUND LIKE A FUCKING CHICKEN **
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Braid
-goes to the puysegur cliniques
-brings the term "hypnose" (hyper relaxed, can't hypnotize someone who doesn't want to )
- you can do surgery under hypnose
you can't make anybody do something that they would not do if they were not hypnotized.
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ASC
Altered states of consciousness ( daydreaming)
- sleep = unconscious
- Costco syndrome : disrupts your state of awareness
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EHE
Extraordinary Human Experience
| ex. me.. passing the final
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OBE
Out of body experience
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NDE
Near Death Experience
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Phase & shift
- science based
- accepted in Western society (ex. sitting,standing..)
- all humain beings go b/w phase & shift ( have to go trough neutral)
* meditation would always be in shift
* daydreaming is in shift
* drugs may induce shift faster or make it longer perhaps
- north American societies never stop/pause so we don't shift as much
* Harry S. - walking in someone's dream that is in shift
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Possession
VS
Trance
possession : you remember NOTHING
Trance : you remember EVERYTHING unless they don't want you to (hypnose)
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Possession
recognized in most culture & societies around the world
- in our culture : being possessed by the muse ( not a spirit but an action.. music, painting)
* willing and unwilling ppl can be possessed (cursed, in the way)
- some societies consider possession as a gift, blessing
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Speaking in tongue
willing possession by an angel or person of that religion
| - can happen to more than one person
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Syncretic
Traces of other religion in "larger" religion
| ex. there is judaism in christianity
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why are ppl unwillingly possessed?
DEVIL, SAAAATAN
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What can you be possessed by?
| *6666666*
1. Incarnatity : spirit that had or has a body
- sometime accidental,evil eye.
ex. western societies : sudden death syndrome
2. Discarnate: never had a body
ex. Devil
3. Forces of nature
- not as common in North America
- nature can act up.. (volcano, Tsunami, Earthquake)
- non conscious thought
- not long (1-2 day)
- will not eat or sleep, not rational
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Sincretic religions
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Santeria = Spanish Roman Catholic + Yoruba
Voudon = French Roman Catholic + Kongo
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voudon
ppl willingly possessed but have trained for years in the system and religion
- French Roman Catholic + Kongo
- comes from Haiti
- spreads to Santeria Cuba
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Santeria religion
similar to Voudon ( willing possession)
- Spanish Roman Catholic + Yoruba
- referred to as Orishas
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Bite of Benin
Western Africa
- slavery
- they thought they weren't humans
- stealing humans
- once they were sold to slavers they weren't humans anymore
- only thing that saved them was believe
- started making common language
CUBA & Hispaniola
- islands they brought the slaves to
- where they bought their goods ( produced sugar)
- when they finally got out of holes... they were baptized by christians.
- killed if they spoke of believed in their gods.
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Santeria
worshipped by SATAN
* orisha = lesser divine figures (cuba & Dominican Republic)
- represented by white and gold
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Zommmmmbiesssss
- proven that there is zombification
- founded by Dr. Wade Davis (canadian)
- ethnobotany (plants)
- illegal to zombify ppl
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Fugu fish
- powder from the "Poison" = Zombie Powder
- Removes the higher consciousness
- degrades brain (with time)
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Who got zombified ?
- mostly male
- annoying ppl (Nasty)
- isolated community (rural)
- present as dead
- acts like mule, kept away from ppl
- eventually will never come back to full functionality ( Kills brain cells)
