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types of cults the leader is mystical-type person. This could include Mediums, Superheros and the like. Also The “Members rely on New Age paraphernalia, such as crystals, astrology, runes, shamanic devices, holistic medicine, herbs, spirit beings, or Tarot or other magic cards. Practices and influence techniques: magic tricks, altered states, peer pressure, channeling, UFO sightings, “chakra” adjustments, faith healing, or claiming to speak with or through ascended masters, spiritual entities,…

On February 19, 2013, news about America’s Most Haunted Hotel shocked the world. A woman was found dead on the roof, and no one knew how she got there. Elisa Lam, born in 1991, was a 21 year old Canadian college student looking to travel the world. She began her journey in California, planning to stop in Los Angeles. While she was there, she booked a room at the Cecil Hotel. The day she planned on checking out, Elisa went missing without a trace. After her parents didn’t hear from her for a few…

The Resource: Michelle Jenkins is a licensed witch and works at The Sojourner at 414 Evans street downtown Greenville. At The Sojourner Michelle conducts meditation, tarot card readings, jewelry, and much more. Michelle is a great witch and is willing to help students learn about what it means to be a witch and accurately practice the rituals and meditations. She is easily reached through emails at…. walk ins at The sojourner or on the company 's website at…..Her and The Sojourner staff made me…

Breaking into and out of the Blues: The Universal Neuroses of Mankind in Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin In Sonny’s Blues, James Baldwin illustrates what Sigmund Freud might call the “universal neurosis of mankind.” It is also the story of overcoming the silence caused by that neuroses, which for Freud, is deeply rooted in the history of human conflict. Baldwin’s story gives the reader an intimate look at the reciprocal nature of societal repression and the way in which people express that…

The DC Snipers October 2, 2002, is the start of a series of murders that authorities had a difficult time explaining. At 5:20 p.m. the first shot of many over the course of several days was fired through a window at a Michaels Craft Store in Aspen Hill. In a little over an hour later, at 6:30 p.m., James Martin, who was a 55-year-old program analyst at NOAA, was fatally shot and killed in the Shoppers Food Warehouse grocery store parking lot in Glenmont. The next morning on October 3, within two…

The Waste Land invokes a feeling of nostalgia for a time gone by coupled with a sense of dissonance for what the world has become. The last vestiges, like the fragments stand as reminders that we can never go back. This embrace of the fragmentation offers no resolve but rather demonstrates a sort of encumbered acceptance of the world as it is now with ever so brief glimpses of hope, which come and go. Even the structure of the poem itself is as presented as fragmentary, a reflection of the…

Wicca: A Misunderstood Religion Most people know them as witches. Some are terrified that they might cast a spell on them. Others might want to be like them so that they could have the power to make someone fall in love with them. And the rest of the population does not even know who they are. Who are they? Wiccans. I spoke with one only a couple weeks ago. And no, she didn’t cast a spell on me. As a matter of fact, the Wiccans are opposite of what many people imagine about them; they are just…

Engagement with Traditions, Teachings, and Practices. Furthermore, the New Age tradition revolves around a vast amount of rituals that Buddhism may oppose. The New Age promotes and encourages the belief of cosmic energy. The New Age leaders believe in tarot card reading, mediation and magic. “The magician explores the spiritual world in an attempt to master the forces and entities one finds there." The New Age movement, dogma, practices and applications are completely different than the…

Around the year 1416 in the city of Florence the “Master of the Jarves Cassone" was born. Little is known about Apollonio di Giovanni’s private life, but his works remain influential masterpieces to this day. He trained in the circle of exceptionally skilled illuminators and miniaturists like Bartolomeo di Fruosino and Battista di Biagio Sanguini . Giovanni’s place in this circle allowed him to join the Guild of St Luke around 1442. Through this association Giovanni meets a fellow artist…

Analysis of the Short Story “Gryphon” by Charles Baxter In the short story, “Gryphon”, the author, Charles Baxter, writes a story about a fourth-grader named Tommy who gets a strange substitute teacher, Miss Ferenczi, who tells “substitute facts” in order to expand students’ minds and make them wonder more (Baxter 253). The setting of the story is mainly in Tommy’s fourth-grade classroom at Garfield-Murray School in Five Oaks, “a rural community” in Michigan (Baxter 251). It takes place from…