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Ancient mystery School teachings - the God of Wisdom - Thoth

The All is in All and All is in The All”

or put another way

“God is in All and All is in God”

 

 

My aim with the building of the Flower of Light center, with running my Retreats and Workshops, is to bring back the Ancient Mystery School Teachings to Egypt and to make the teachings available to all who seek them. To build a beautiful Retreat Center, for all who are in need of a place of peace and tranquility, an oasis for the soul.

 

Ever since I was a child I wanted to live in Egypt. My first connection to Egypt, came through my father. He was a man who was on his own spiritual journey long before I was born. He had traveled to India and Egypt among other numerous places around the planet. He had a vast and deep understanding of Spiritual Wisdom which I was blessed to have access to. He had a library of books on all sorts of Spiritual Wisdom traditions and practices and he taught me, from a very early age to know the difference between the dogmas and rituals of organized religion and that of Spiritual Wisdom. He was a deeply enlightened human. As I look back, I realize that he was preparing me, all my life, for what I am endeavoring to do now. When I was a child I was reared on stories of Ancient Secrets, the secrets of the incredible feats of the Yogi's of India, the high civilization and technology of the Ancient Egyptians and Maya's etc. but above all, my Dad taught me what all those civilizations and ages had in common, the knowledge of the Unified Spirit within Man. He taught me the knowledge of the Universal Mind, all is Thought and all is created with Thought. He taught me self empowerment, he showed me that the root of all truth can be found only deep within the self, in our own inner space. He taught me that Spirit or God is not separate to the creation, but is the Creation itself. He taught me the knowledge of As Above, So Below, As Below, So Above, the macrocosm and the microcosm. He told me, at a time when he was very sick and nearing his own departure from this world, that not even so called death would destroy our connection, he promised me that our ability of sixth sense communication would not stop, he told me that he would continue to guide and assist me. He is and was a man of his word and today, even though he passed from this planet, we still talk to each other on a daily basis, he continues to guide me in all my decisions and he is my EYE on the higher planes, he gives me a birds EYE view of my future, we work hand in hand together and everything I do in my life is guided by his ever increasing knowledge.

 

At the time of my Dad's departure from this world, I was working in a large electronic company in Dublin. I had studied electronic engineering after I left school and worked ever since then in this area, but by this time I was trying to figure a way out of it, out of the world of 9 to 5 mindless boring work that brought me no satisfaction at all. I was being mentally and spiritually deprived by my working lifestyle and just couldn't see a way out. I had recently completed a course in Holistic Healing, Holistic Therapy and Ki Energy Massage with the Irish Health Culture Association and was trying to build up a business with this, things weren't going right and I found it very difficult to make the break. My Dad had always had an excellent mathematical mind, which I did not, and he always said that “Maths was the language of the God's” I never quite got the concept of that one at the time. Then one day, just about 3 months after Dad's departure, I was in work and I was looking at some websites to do with Egypt, which I did often to keep myself sane and I came across a site which was talking about the connection between Sacred Geometry, Maths, Quantum Physics and Sacred Symbolism and in particular about the symbol of the “Flower of Life.” On the top of the website page it said “Maths is the language of the God's” where had I heard that before? As I read through the site, it all fell into place, everything that my Dad had been talking about, the concept of Maths being a language, it suddenly made sense and I got a huge kundalini rush. I read further and discovered that the Flower of Life symbol not only described everything that my Dad had been trying to tell me, but that also it was found in the most Ancient Sacred sites around the world, and of course it was also in Egypt, in a Temple called the Osirion in Abydos. You can read about the secrets of the Flower of Light and of Life in the Emerald Tablets of Thoth. This led me into an even deeper study on the subject of the connection between maths, the coded language of our DNA, astronomy, astrology, symbolism, quantum physics, gematria (a system of assigning numerical value to an alphabet) electro magnetic energy, zero point energy, alchemy, the light body, ancient myth and mythology. In short the Secrets of the Knowledge of the Ancient and highly advanced Civilizations, those wise and Spiritually advanced races of people that just seemed to disappear off the face of the planet...or did they? Did they understand some profound knowledge that we have forgotten today? The Universal Laws and Principals and the Sacred Law of One?

 

When I first got the idea to build the Flower of Light Center, on one of our many return visits to Luxor, it came to me in a holographic image, literally! I saw the center in my minds EYE almost exactly as it is today, I was walking down the road past the Sonesta Hotel on the East Bank of Luxor with my husband Dony, we were talking about how it was so difficult for anyone coming to Egypt to find Spiritual Guidance, Spiritual Wisdom connected with the Esoteric Mysteries of Egypt. I wondered why? Surely, I thought, there should be somebody here willing to offer this knowledge to Spiritual seekers, after all, an ever increasing number of people coming to Egypt today, come on Spiritual Journeys. I couldn't believe that in the home of the Mystery Schools, Egypt, there was nobody teaching the Mysteries? Why not? So, in that moment, we realized that this was our goal. My mission, was to return the Mystery Schools and the teachings of Thoth, Hermes, to Egypt and to make the teachings available, once again, in the land where the Ancient God's once lived. It was said by the Ancient Egyptians that Thoth (thought) brought humanity into manifestation, Thoth the Scribe, the messenger of the Gods.

 

When I returned to Ireland after this visit to Luxor, lots of things began falling into place, the memory of a motorbike accident I had when I was 14 years old and the out of body experience I had during the accident. The way I had been saved from the accident by a man who just seemed to disappear into thin air, this man had saved my life, the accident happened at 3 o'clock in the morning on an old country road, and to make things worse it was lashing rain, the chances of me being found by anyone was very slim as the road was not used by many people. This man had come from nowhere and found me, brought me to the hospital and then just vanished. My Dad put adds in the newspapers looking for him, to thank him for saving my life, but he never came forward nor did he ever call the hospital to find out how I was doing. It was very odd, a man who was kind and concerned enough to take me to hospital, you would think that he would want to know if I survived or not, wouldn't you? I also started to remember a dream that began just after I had the accident, a dream that would eventually connect with everything I am doing today.

 

We set our sights on finding land in Luxor to build the Flower of Light center, we came back to Luxor many many times after to find the right piece of land, we found disappointment after disappointment. Every time we thought we had found the right land, something went wrong. We had just about given up on the idea of buying land but we decided, after long discussion, that we would leave Ireland and move to Luxor anyway and see where it would take us. Long story short, just after we moved to Luxor, we met a guy that brought us to the land that we would eventually build the center on. After sorting out various different things, we moved out of the apartment we were staying in at the Nile, and up to our new land and house. We were living on the land for about six months at this stage and were well into the build of the center, every evening when we would go out to the front of the land and look over at the mountains of the Valley of the Kings, I would always wonder about the mountain right in front of our center because it had something built right on top of it. I didn't know what it was and Dony thought it might be an army base. One night we had an Egyptian friend of ours over, he worked as a Tour Guide, and we were sitting out front of the land, I asked him “Do you know what the building on top of that mountain is?” he said yes its a Temple and the mountain is called Thoth Hill. I nearly fell off my chair and once again I got a huge kundalini rush, I realized in that moment that we had bought the land for the center right in front of Thoth Hill without even realizing it. I knew more surely then ever that we were on the right track. The synchronicity that has flowed and the guidance that I have been receiving since then has been phenomenal. The whole process has been a huge lesson for Dony, Dylan and myself.

 

I remember, years ago, when I was younger and always hopping from job to job, my Dad said to me one day, after I had just walked out of another good job..he said ”I know what you don't want to do with your life, but tell me, do you know what it is that you do want to do”? I said YES...I told him that, “if one day I found myself in a position where I was working on the Ancient Mysteries and living in Egypt, I would think that I had died and gone to Heaven” WELL, here I am, and who knows, maybe I am in Heaven....

 

  “THE LIPS OF WISDOM ARE CLOSED EXCEPT TO THE EARS OF UNDERSTANDING”

                   Excerpt From the “Kybalion” Hermetic Philosophy..

 

In Love & Light
Antoinette - from the flower of light in Luxor Egypt

http://www.freewebs.com/flower-of-light

or www.floweroflight.com


 

 

 

 
 
   
 

a day in the life of a gunky hubcap

well, recently i've been having some life troubles.

my friend's in a very awful situation and we're all dealing with it in our own way.

i'm really very scared.

i had a sleepover with my bestfriend, and she and i had a 10 hour "venting session"

it was very soothing and relaxing. it helped a lot.

but the next day my other very good friend found himself in a shitload of trouble.

i don't know where he is, but i have a idea of what he's doing. and i'm pretty sure he's safe.

we're all very worried.

i think i'm getting a sinus infection, i haven't eaten in over 2 days, i've slept for 5 hours in the past 5 days.

i am losing my fucking mind.

please excuse my profound and offensive language.

it's hard not to explode when in a situation of this extreme.

i just thought i'd get this off of my chest.

tootles, and enjoy the rest of your evening.

 

 
 
 

   
Egypt's Baha'is STILL struggle for ID papers but outlook optimistic

Egypt's Baha'is struggle for ID papers-group

Wed 30 Apr 2008, 11:12 GMT
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By Cynthia Johnston


CAIRO, April 30 (Reuters) - Official foot-dragging means Egypt's Baha'i religious minority is still struggling to get identity papers, despite a landmark court ruling seen as a challenge to the Muslim religious establishment, a rights group says.

A January court ruling lets the unrecognised Baha'i minority obtain state documents if they omit their faith. Baha'is regard their faith's 19th-century founder as the latest in a line of prophets including Abraham, Moses, Buddha, Jesus and Mohammed.

The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights said that three months after the court ruling, it was still unable to obtain proper identity documents for the teenage twins of Raouf Hindy, who had brought the legal case, or for any other Baha'is.

The authorities were also refusing to issue identity papers for Christians who converted to Islam and then sought to revert to Christianity, despite a legal ruling in their favour in February.

Both rulings represented a challenge to Egypt's Muslim religious establishment, which rejects conversion away from Islam and has long resisted recognising faiths other than Islam, Christianity or Judaism.

But the government had also not filed an appeal in the Baha'i case during a 60-day appeals period, raising optimism that the ruling would ultimately be put into effect, if slowly.

"We are encouraged by the positive signal that they did not appeal. But we think that all the necessary changes should not take three months," said Hossam Bahgat, head of the Egyptian Initiative, which represented the Baha'is in court.

Interior Ministry officials could not immediately be reached for comment. Bahgat said officials had told Baha'is who sought identity papers that they needed more time to implement changes.

The ruling should give members of the tiny Baha'i community access to documents, largely denied them since 2004, needed to marry, enrol in school, drive a car, or open a bank account.

Many Muslims regard Baha'is, who number between 500 and 2,000 in Egypt, as heretics. Rights activists say they face systematic persecution in socially conservative Egypt, the most populous Arab country.

In the Christian reconversion case, the Egyptian Initiative said that none of the 12 Egyptians whose cases were decided in February had been able to obtain new identity cards.

The ruling obliges the Interior Ministry to issue them with birth certificates and papers identifying them as Christians, but their papers would note a previous conversion to Islam -- a caveat rights activists say could lead to discrimination.

Egyptian courts had previously upheld a traditional reading of Islamic law in such cases, blocking conversion from Islam to any other faith, regardless of the convert's original religion.

While Egyptian law is largely secular and modelled on the French legal system, personal status issues such as conversion, marriage and divorce are governed by religious laws of the relevant community. (Editing by Jon Boyle)

© Reuters 2008.
Source:
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL30824827.html
 
 
   
 

Yes, these are my breasts. Every woman has them.
I got a haircut.



I'm as attentive as ever.

So recently there's something about my boobs that have made people stare relentlessly at them. They barely exist so I don't know exactly why they would stare, but they do.

Thursday I was on a bus with some of my friends; they occupied the back row, and I sat in front of them. This hairy old man gets on, passes about 20 free seats, comes to the back and sits next to me, while I was gorging myself on a triple chocolate sundae (yum!). I can only imagine he was senile because he wasn't exactly being very discreet about where he was looking, and I got poked fun of by Ben and Naj, who said he fancied me :( Thank fuck he got off the bus before we did, he might've expected me to climb over his lap to get off. Or get him off. Whichever you fancy.

Yesterday I had these two men sat beside me on the train that were actually leaning over to take a good look, under the pretence that they were checking the map. My coat went straight up, and it didn't help that two other guys were following me on the train.

Aaaand on Wednesday I got hit on on the train. I tried my best to ignore it but this guy kept waving his hand in front of me, and it was getting closer to my face, so I had to say something to make him go away. The hot weather seems to make everyone go crazy!

I went around Naj's place last week to do some revision, and much revision was done in between eating and pissing around talking about random crap. I got bored on one of the mornings and took a load of random pictures to kill some time before I had to leave.





On Thursday I had an exam (which is why I was on a bus. I usually try to avoid buses, they make me sick but there was no other way to get to the venue) which went pretty well. The questions were amazing, but I hadn't done a lot of revision. I'm sure I did well enough to pass the course, but how well I don’t know. I guess it's not a very good sign that I finished a 3 hour exam in half the time. But I wasn't the only one, so either pretty much everyone failed, or it really was that easy. People have been calling me crazy because I've been talking to my lecturer about how the exam went. I felt he had a right to know, he wrote it after all! After the exam we all decided to relax a little so we went to the park. Naj attracted many flies due to her smoking (we assumed), and there were many squirrels around.

Me: I think my trousers are too low, my arse might be hanging out.
Ben: A squirrel might try to get in them.
Me: It’ll find no nuts in there.

I dunno.

Me: Margaret Thatcher's a fucking bitch.
Gav: She’s from Grantham, show some respect.
Me: Margaret Thatcher's a fucking whore.

Oh how I look forward to moving up there…

I was with Gav yesterday, we went to IMAX to watch Speed Racer :D We had some time to kill before the film started so we went to Zavvi, where we took this picture!



Yes, it's awesome, I know. Though he's missing an arm, which is why I was standing where I am. We went Nandos for lunch, and just to prove I do actually eat, Gav took this picture of me:



And I finished all that off :D I feel very piggy all of a sudden.

Anyway, Speed Racer was awesome. But I'm easily impressed with bold colours, fast cars, and action. I didn't grow up on the cartoons so I wouldn’t know how accurate the film is, or if it's only just loosely based on the cartoons. If you can't stand kids films though, don't watch it. Gav hated the brat and his monkey, because they were just pointless. I see his point, but they didn't really irk me.

I have a big week (and a half) ahead of me again. I have another exam on Friday, and I'm going around Ben’s to revise for that three days, and I have to see Gav, and Sina, and sit the exam, and then revise for the next and final exam on Wednesday! Big week and a half. I can't believe I will have finished Uni in a week and a half. I'm really nervous about graduating, and whether or not I’ll pass well enough to actually be able to graduate. It's best not to think about it until after the exams. I'm pretty glad I'm jetting off to Egypt not long after I finish my exams, it'll keep my mind off it. And at least I would have had a good summer even if I do fail :p

I had a fun conversation with Gav yesterday...

Gav: Look at her taste in guys.
Me: It's not just guys.
Gav: Look at her taste in clothes.
Me: It's not just clothes.
Gav: OK, look at her taste.
Me: What taste?
Gav: OK, look at her.
Me: I'd rather not.

Anyway, that’s enough rambling from me. I’ll probably blog in another month or something.

Mena
 
 
 

   
Egyptian Court Upholds Baha'i Plea in Religious Freedom Cases

Egypt court upholds Baha'i plea in religious freedom cases

CAIRO
29 January 2008 (BWNS)

In a victory for religious freedom, a lower administrative court here today ruled in favor of two lawsuits that sought to resolve the government's contradictory policy on religious affiliation and identification papers.

The Court of Administrative Justice in Cairo upheld arguments made in two cases concerning Baha'is who have sought to restore their full citizenship rights by asking that they be allowed to leave the religious affiliation field blank on official documents.

"Given the degree to which issues of religious freedom stand at the heart of human rights issues in the Middle East, the world should cheer at the decision in these two cases today," said Bani Dugal, the principal representative of the Baha'i International Community to the United Nations.

"The compromise offered by the Baha'is in these two cases opens the door to a way to reconcile a government policy that was clearly incompatible with international law -- as well as common sense," said Ms. Dugal.

"Our hope now is that the government will quickly implement the court's decision and allow Baha'is once again to enjoy the full rights of citizenship to which they are duly entitled," said Ms. Dugal.

The decisions today concerned two cases, both filed by Baha'is, over the issue of how they are to be identified on government documents.

The first case involves a lawsuit by the father of twin children, who is seeking to obtain proper birth certificates for them. The second concerns a college student, who needs a national identity card to re-enroll in university.

The government requires all identification papers to list religious affiliation but restricts the choice to the three officially recognized religions -- Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. Baha'is are thus unable to obtain identification papers because they refuse to lie about their religious affiliation.

Without national identify cards -- or, as in the case of the twin children, birth certificates -- Baha'is and others caught in the law's contradictory requirements are deprived of a wide range of citizenship rights, such as access to employment, education, and medical and financial services.

These problems were highlighted in a report issued in November by Human Rights Watch and the Cairo-based Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR).

"Employers, both public and private, by law cannot hire someone without an ID, and academic institutions require IDs for admission," said the report. "Obtaining a marriage license or a passport requires a birth certificate; inheritance, pensions, and death benefits are contingent on death certificates. The Ministry of Health has even refused to provide immunizations to some Baha'i children because the Interior Ministry would not issue them birth certificates accurately listing their Baha'i religion."

The issuance of birth certificates is at the heart of the first case, which concerns 14-year-old twins Imad and Nancy Rauf Hindi. Their father, Rauf Hindi, obtained birth certificates that recognized their Baha'i affiliation when they were born.

But new policies require computer generated certificates, and the computer system locks out any religious affiliation but the three officially recognized religions. And without birth certificates, the children are unable to enroll in school in Egypt.

The second lawsuit was filed by the EIPR last February on behalf of 18-year-old Hussein Hosni Bakhit Abdel-Massih, who was suspended from the Suez Canal University's Higher Institute of Social Work in January 2006 due to his inability to obtain an identity card because of his refusal to falsely identify himself as either a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew.

In both cases, lawyers representing the Baha'is have made it clear that they were willing to settle for cards or documents on which the religious affiliation field is left blank or filled in, perhaps, as "other."

This solution is what makes these two cases different from the lawsuit that was rejected by the Supreme Administrative Court last year. In that ruling, the Supreme Administrative Court rejected a decision by the lower that upheld the right of Baha'is to be properly identified on government documents.

For more information go to:

http://news.bahai.org/story/595

and/or


http://www.bahai.org/persecution/egypt


SOURCE: Baha'i World News Service:

http://news.bahai.org/story/600

 
 
   
 

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