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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

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Asking someone to pray on your behalf

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Semiotics

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The study of signs & symbols

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Candle spell

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  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

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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

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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

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-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

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Altered states of consciousness ( daydreaming)

  • sleep = unconscious
  • Costco syndrome : disrupts your state of awareness
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EHE

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Extraordinary Human Experience

ex. me.. passing the final

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OBE

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Out of body experience

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NDE

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Near Death Experience

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Phase & shift

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  • 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
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Trance

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possession : you remember NOTHING

Trance : you remember EVERYTHING unless they don’t want you to (hypnose)

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Possession

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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

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willing possession by an angel or person of that religion

- can happen to more than one person

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Syncretic

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Traces of other religion in “larger” religion

ex. there is judaism in christianity

40
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why are ppl unwillingly possessed?

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DEVIL, SAAAATAN

41
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What can you be possessed by?

6666666

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  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

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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

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similar to Voudon ( willing possession)

  • Spanish Roman Catholic + Yoruba
  • referred to as Orishas
45
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Bite of Benin

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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

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worshipped by SATAN

  • orisha = lesser divine figures (cuba & Dominican Republic)
  • represented by white and gold
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Zommmmmbiesssss

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  • proven that there is zombification
  • founded by Dr. Wade Davis (canadian)
  • ethnobotany (plants)
  • illegal to zombify ppl
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Fugu fish

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  • powder from the “Poison” = Zombie Powder
  • Removes the higher consciousness
  • degrades brain (with time)
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Who got zombified ?

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  • 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)

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