#cannot believe I used to be able to read 18th century documents in this language

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Part 3:

{The following morning, I got dressed and had some breakfast. I was looking over the papers I had. Something caught my eyes, it was the letter I had gotten from my mother. It was the one that detailed my father's death and how she was hidden when it had happened. It has been three years now that he was killed but I had not known who had done it. I had thought it was a gang never in a million years. I read the letter twice but the part of who really did it I read that part at least three or four times now. I couldn’t believe what I had read, I picked up the phone to call my mother to hear it from her but she didn't answer when I called.

My mother finally answers the phone and tells me she is outside of my door. I open the door and my mom Helena walks in. We sat and talked for hours about the letter I had and learned how my father was really killed. I couldn't believe that he was killed by a group of lesser whatever that is.

Later on that day I went to the Caldwell police station to file a report of the killing. Some of the police officers look at me as if I was crazy. I end up walking away from them till a man stops me to speak to me about what I was really doing to talk to these people. I learned his name is Mharcus and he will help me with my report. We left the station and headed to his place to talk, once we arrived we sat in his living room to talk.

I spent hours explaining to Mhacurs about what I knew about my father killing. Mhacrus looked at me as he was going to do something but stop. Mhacrus ends up offering me a job when I tell him all about the history stuff I know. I agree to his offer and work for him, it seemed like the best bet to work with him to get these people killed for what they did to my family.

After leaving Mhacrus place, the more likely one of his drivers took me home. My mother was still here when I told her about the job from this government agent. She was happy that I found someone to help her look into this. My mother and I spent hours on the information I had on vampires and what one of my colleagues had on them as well.

I had shown my mother the ancient symbol for the vampires, the Egyptian ankh. The look that my mother had told me something but I knew to not ask her till she was ready to tell me whatever it was on her own time. I knew that my mom knew what the symbol meant and I knew not to push her to tell me things. My mother was a symbology expert just as me and sometimes we work together. If this ankh was what my mother reminded me it could be, I still couldn't place this thing to them.

I wasn’t sure if this ankh was connected somehow to vampires. There had to be another way to prove this and I didn’t know how not yet anyway. The more I look at this ankh the more it looks like it was true. I went to my library to look for some books that I had gotten from my travels but these few books I had were written in some weird language which I still have not been able to figure out. I had even talked to my mother about them and she couldn't figure them out. I was thinking of either making a few copies and have one of my colleagues look them over to see if they knew of the language or not. I could tell it was old but whoever wrote it could use some kind of different way of writing.

I went over to my desk to see if I could remember where I had found these books. I was searching my papers when one of the papers caught my eye of ancient Babylonia that talked about one of its first demons that became a vampire. There was a legend of Lilith/Lilitu (and a type of spirit of the same name) originally arose from Sumer, where she was described as an infertile "beautiful maiden" and was believed to be a harlot and vampire who, after having chosen a lover, would never let him go. Lilitu (or the Lilitu spirits) was considered to be an anthropomorphic bird-footed, wind or night demon and was often described as a sexual predator who subsisted on the blood of babies and their mothers. Other Mesopotamian demons such as the Babylonian goddess Lamashtu, (Sumer's Dimme) and Gallu of the Uttuke group are mentioned as having vampiric natures.

Lamashtu is a historically older image that left a mark on the figure of Lilith. Many incantations invoke her as a malicious "Daughter of Heaven" or of Anu, and she is often depicted as a terrifying blood-sucking creature with a lion's head and the body of a donkey. Akin to Lilitu, Lamashtu primarily preyed on newborns and their mothers. She was said to watch pregnant women vigilantly, particularly when they went into labor.

Then there was more information in Ancient Greek mythology containing several precursors to modern vampires, though none were considered undead; these included the Empusa, Lamia, and striges (the strix of Ancient Roman mythology). Over time the first two terms became general words to describe witches and demons respectively. Empusa was the daughter of the goddess Hecate and was described as a demonic, bronze-footed creature. She feasted on blood by transforming into a young woman and seduced men as they slept before drinking their blood. Lamia was the daughter of King Belus and a secret lover of Zeus. However Zeus' wife Hera discovered this infidelity and killed all Lamia's offspring; Lamia swore vengeance and preyed on young children in their beds at night, sucking their blood.

Like Lamia, the striges feasted on children, but also preyed on adults. They were described as having the bodies of crows or birds in general, and were later incorporated into Roman mythology as strix, a kind of nocturnal bird that fed on human flesh and blood. The Romanian vampire breed named Strigoï has no direct relation to the Greek striges, but was derived from the Roman term strix, as is the name of the Albanian Shtriga and the Slavic Strzyga, though myths about these creatures are more similar to their Slavic equivalents. Greek vampiric entities are seen once again in Homer's epic Odyssey. In Homer's tale, the undead are too insubstantial to be heard by the living and cannot communicate with them without drinking blood first. In the epic, when Odysseus journeyed into Hades, he was made to sacrifice a black ram and a black ewe so that the shades there could drink its blood and communicate.

Then there was more in India, tales of vetalas, ghoul-like beings that inhabit corpses, are found in old Sanskrit folklore.The vetala is described as an undead creature who, like the bat associated with modern-day vampirism, hangs upside down on trees found on cremation grounds and cemeteries. Pishacha, the returned spirits of evil-doers or those who died insane, also bear vampiric attributes.

The Hebrew word "Alukah" (literal translation is "leech") is synonymous with vampirism or vampires, as is "Motetz Dam" (literally, "blood sucker").

Later vampire traditions appear among diaspora Jews in Central Europe, in particular the medieval interpretation of Lilith. In common with vampires, this version of Lilith was held to be able to transform herself into an animal, usually a cat, and charm her victims into believing that she is benevolent or irresistible.However, she and her daughters usually strangle rather than drain victims, and in the Kabbalah, she retains many attributes found in vampires. A late 17th- or early 18th-century Kabbalah document was found in one of the Ritman library's copies of Jean de Pauly's translation of the Zohar. The text contains two amulets, one for male (lazakhar), the other for female (lanekevah). The invocations on the amulets mention Adam, Eve, and Lilith, Chavah Rishonah and the angels—Sanoy, Sansinoy, Smangeluf, Shmari'el, and Hasdi'el. A few lines in Yiddish are shown as dialog between the prophet Elijah and Lilith, in which she has come with a host of demons to kill the mother, take her newborn and "to drink her blood, suck her bones and eat her flesh". She informs Elijah that she will lose power if someone uses her secret names, which she reveals at the end.

There was so many in Various regions of Africa have folkloric tales of beings with vampiric abilities: in West Africa the Ashanti people tell of the iron-toothed and tree-dwelling asanbosam, and the Ewe people of the adze, which can take the form of a firefly and hunts children. The Eastern Cape region of South Africa has the impundulu, which can take the form of a large taloned bird and can summon thunder and lightning, and the Betsileo people of Madagascar tell of the ramanga, an outlaw or living vampire who drinks the blood and eats the nail clippings of nobles.

The Loogaroo is an example of how a vampire belief can result from a combination of beliefs, a mixture of French and African Vodu or voodoo. The term Loogaroo possibly comes from the French loup-garou (meaning 'werewolf') and is common in the culture of Mauritius. However, the stories of the Loogaroo are widespread through the Caribbean Islands and Louisiana in the United States.[80] During the late 18th and 19th centuries, there was a widespread belief in vampires in parts of New England, particularly in Rhode Island and Eastern Connecticut. There are many documented cases of families disinterring loved ones and removing their hearts in the belief that the deceased was a vampire who was responsible for sickness and death in the family, although the term "vampire" was never actually used to describe the deceased.

The deadly disease tuberculosis, or "consumption" as it was known at the time, was believed to be caused by nightly visitations on the part of a dead family member who had died of consumption themselves. The most famous, and most recently recorded, case of suspected vampirism is that of nineteen-year-old Mercy Brown, who died in Exeter, Rhode Island in 1892. Her father, assisted by the family physician, removed her from her tomb two months after her death and her heart was cut out and burnt to ashes.

Legends of female vampire-like beings who can detach parts of their upper body occur in the Philippines, Malaysia, Cambodia and Indonesia. There are two main vampire-like creatures in the Philippines: the Tagalog Mandurugo ("blood-sucker") and the Visayan manananggal ("self-segmenter"). The mandurugo is a variety of the aswang that takes the form of an attractive girl by day, and develops wings and a long, hollow, thread-like tongue by night. They use an elongated proboscis-like tongue to suck fetuses off pregnant women. They also prefer to eat entrails (specifically the heart and the liver) and the phlegm of sick people. The manananggal is described as being an older, beautiful woman capable of severing its upper torso in order to fly into the night with huge bat-like wings and prey on unsuspecting, sleeping pregnant women in their homes. The tongue is used to suck up blood from a sleeping victim.

I had so many books on vampires that I picked up on my travels around the world, on my last trip I was in Alexandria, Egypt. I went to the great library of Alexandria well now it is called the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, which functions as a modern library and cultural center, commemorating the original Library of Alexandrina. When I was there that was where I found a lot of the books that I was able to bring home with me just as long as I would send them back home. That was till I had a talk to the president of Egypt about my research I was doing on the books and that I would be using some of the books in my classroom. I would also teach a class of ancient Egyptian mythology to any of the students from Egypt. That is how I have these books, well some of them. The mysterious books that I did find were not in Egypt's great library but in two libraries one in London and one in Italy. The more I learned of this town, I learned that it had a mix of many cultures, from other countries.

I came out of my thoughts when my phone ping with a text message, it was from Mhacrus that he was asking me to come to the police station. I texted him back asking him what it was really about? I waited for his response, which was that there was some strange symbol that he wanted me to help explain what it is and what it means. I told him that I was coming in to see it and see if I can help him.

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HOW EXACTLY TO Hypnotize Someone (Powerful Techniques)

When you see hypnosis, perhaps a vintage black and white movie with a villain swinging a pocket watch involves the brain. Do you think hypnosis could work? Experts say that thinking is fifty percent of the procedure.

The history of Hypnotism

Because it is surrounded by many misconceptions and myths, this issue of hypnotism is highly controversial. Despite conclusive medical research and its popular medical use, many people are frightened by hypnotism, addicted to the stigma around it. To breakdown some of these ideas, we will walk you through a brief overview of the roots and development of hypnotism.

Did you know hypnotism 's been around in America because of the mid-1800s? You may be surprised to learn that its roots go dating back to historic historical times. Inseparable from traditional western medication and mindset, proof its use are available in Sumerian, Persian, Chinese language, Indian, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman ethnicities. The famous Sanskrit publication regulations of Mandu identifies many degrees of hypnosis, including “Dream-Sleep”, “Sleep-Walking”, and “Ecstasy-Sleep.”

During the DARK AGES, kings and princes were widely thought to have the energy of curing, also called the ‘royal touch.’ It is documented that they performed miraculous healings called ‘magnetism’ or ‘mesmerism.’ The 16th-century doctor Paracelsus was the first person to use magnets as a kind of healing. This technique of healing recognition, carrying into the 18th century.

It had been then that the Austrian Doctor Franz Mesmer found out that he could incite a trance without the utilization of magnetic pressure. Mesmer incorrectly figured the healing capabilities came from a low profile force in addition to the magnets. You might have noticed someone say something was mesmerizing?

Mesmer was the first ever to describe a ritualistic way for hypnotism, which he passed on to his fans who continued to build up the method. Regrettably, Frank Mesmer is also the key reason why we've such a mystical view of hypnotism, as he previously some rather unusual and elusive methods to his methods, such as putting on a cloak and playing unusual music through the ritual.

Other doctors believed that hypnosis wasn’t a magical power, but an extremely useful trance that opened your brain. Even still, the introduction of hypnosis continued without Mesmer’s unusual ways, and throughout the background, many have believed hypnosis to be a highly effective psychological solution to many ailments of the mind and body. Viewing the potential of hypnosis in the medical field, a few significant doctors risked their medical licenses to pioneer its use in their procedures.

In 1813, a priest named Abbe Faria started to analyze the validity of hypnotic techniques. He suggested that it had not been magnetism or some outside push that triggered a trance but instead the subject’s brain. Faria’s strategy created the building blocks for the theoretical and scientific work of the French hypnosis-psychotherapy college, Nancy College (also known as the institution of Recommendation).

Ambroise-Auguste Liebault, the creator of the Nancy College, believed hypnosis was a psychological trend and disregarded the theories of magnetism. He concentrated his studies and hypnosis training on the relationship between being asleep and going through a trance. He figured hypnosis is the circumstances of mind made by suggestion. Out of this theory, he released Sleep and its own Analogous Says in 1866. His work drew lots of the prominent pioneers of mindset to review at the Nancy College.

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Included in this are Sigmund Freud, Pierre Janet, and Hippolyte Bernheim (who visited his clinic).

During the top of hypnotic studies, many physicians used hypnosis for anesthesia. In 1821, Recamier became well-known for utilizing a hypnotic trance on an individual for anesthesia in a significant procedure. Thirteen years later, the English doctor John Elliotson (who launched the stethoscope to Britain) reported multiple pain-free surgeries using hypnosis.

Taking over a hundred years to take action, doctors and researchers finally could take away the stain Mesmer remaining on the practice of hypnosis, exposing it as a valid clinical technique. By the finish of the 19th hundred years, private hospitals and medical colleges were discovering and applying hypnosis with studies and patients for a bunch of medical anomalies.

Despite having many predecessors in his field, it's the Scottish ophthalmologist Wayne Braid who's credited as the ‘dad of modern hypnotism.’ He was the first-ever to coin the word neuro-hypnotism (meaning anxious rest). This term was shortened to hypnotism in 1841. Within the next hundred years, the utilization of hypnosis proliferated and was integrated into medical practice for quick treatment pursuing WWI and WWII.

After centuries of documentation and development, modern tools helped uncover reality. By using brain imaging, doctors and experts could see that hypnosis is its condition. It isn't a trance, neither is it vacant. Instead, it is a genuine mindset where the subject matter is very available to change and taking new ideas, something our very mindful condition has been trained to filter.

Is Hypnosis Backed by Technology Today?

From reading about the annals of hypnosis, you have discovered that it's something of scientific inquiry. We realize that hypnosis works. But what exactly are the implications for a hypnotic program today? The Director of this program in Placebo Studies at Harvard Medical College, Irving Kirsch, has this to state: “There are numerous common myths about hypnosis, mainly via press presentations. ” Aside from these preconceptions, hypnosis is a well-studied and proven approach to treatment for conditions which range from stress to choosing healthy lifestyle practices.

With regards to weight loss, Kirsch’s team uncovered that those patients who few cognitive behavior therapies (CBT) with hypnosis lose a lot more weight than those who do not. Carrying out an amount of 4-6 weeks, those patients who used CBT with hypnosis lost more than twenty pounds while those only using CBT lost ten pounds. Furthermore, the hypnosis-tested group managed that weight reduction for eighteen a few months thereafter whereas the other group didn't.

Besides aiding weight reduction, there is proof that demonstrates that hypnosis works well in short-term pain relief. Len Milling, a teacher at the university or college of Hartford and medical psychologist, figured hypnosis may help reduce post-surgical pain in children and pain related to other surgical procedures.

Stanford University College of Medicine’s Doctor David Spiegel, a hypnosis expert, and teacher of psychiatry and behavioral sciences had some interesting information to include as well. He said: “Fifty percent individuals I see once stop [smoking], half of this won’t touch a cigarette for just two years.” His declaration is supported by the Smoking & Cigarette Research’s 2007 research, where over 20% of 286 patients stop smoking after hypnotic treatment whereas only 14% stop through regular behavioral counseling. The hypnotic treatment was especially successful in patients with a brief history of depressive disorder and panic.

However, pinpointing just how hypnotherapy is prosperous is tricky. If you ask ten different certified therapists how it works well, chances are that you'll get ten completely different answers. One thing that a lot of skillfully developed can acknowledge though is that the procedure of how to hypnotize someone occurs in two phases. The first stage is also known as induction. The second stage is the recommendation.

Through the hypnotic induction, patients tend to be informed to relax. The physician will inform them to target their attention and they 're going into hypnosis. The suggestion phase entails subtly proposing suggestions to the individual to help them address or solve harmful behaviors or feelings. Patients receive situations to help them imagine hypothetical situations as if these were real. The types of recommendations and prompts given vary by the kind of patient and their specific treatment needs.

In lots of ways, hypnosis can be in comparison to mindfulness practices and techniques since it prompts the individual to get into a deeper state of introspection. Spiegel says: “Some people fear to drop control in hypnosis, it is, in truth, a way of improving mind-body control.”

The Condition of Hypnosis Today

Nowadays you can attend seminars for smoking cessation to overeating. But do they work? If the scientific research and recorded improvement of hypnosis have anything to state about the topic, then yes, an individual can be positioned in a hypnotic condition to improve their mind in regards to a habit. This is the part where experts say you have to trust in the capability to be hypnotized, to begin with. Otherwise, your mindful condition will thwart any work to go your brain into a hypnotic condition. A hypnotic condition can help you enter an even of consciousness that your mindful condition cannot achieve, therefore uncovering your mental roadblocks and letting you be more available to the ways around them.

FOCUSING ON HOW Hypnosis Works in the Conscious Brain and Subconscious Brain

The principal principle of hypnosis is that we now have ways to gain access to and influence the subconscious brain. Through the induction period, the majority of this impact occurs through conversational hypnosis. For instance, the individual being hypnotized may consciously make an effort to relax, concentrate on their deep breathing, and recall information. However, by doing many of these things, your conscious brain is employed in coordination with the unconscious mind to be able to gain access to the area of the brain that solves problems and formulates programs. Whenever a new idea pops into your mind, for the reason that it has come up with unconsciously.

Your unconscious is accountable for all the procedures you do this does not require concerted thought or work. Your subconscious brain is exactly what directs the majority of your thought procedures. Your conscious brain evaluates your ideas to make decisions and do something. It also procedures new information and that means you can relay it freshly. Psychiatrists theorize that rest and concentrating techniques work to relaxed the conscious brain. In so doing, therefore it assumes a less energetic role in your thought procedures. During this mind-set, you remain aware of the proceedings, but your mindful brain requires the backseat.

So How Will One Hypnotize a Person?

First, You should know About Informed Consent

Perhaps you have ever pondered how to hypnotize people for magic take action? Before we enter the facts to help you figure out how to hypnotize, we should address this issue of educated consent and hypnotherapy. This term identifies the receiver providing the hypnotizer or hypnotherapist authorization to execute the take action.

You tend alert to the act of giving consent throughout many days to day activities in life. For instance, when you attend your hairdresser, you tell them how much locks to cut and what style you desire. When you go to the doctor, they clarify the visit and any procedures that you may need, including security concerns and guidelines. Informed consent is reassuring because you understand that you'll have sufficient information to make a smart decision that is within your very best interest.

With this thought, it's important to identify the rights and well-being of the receiver of hypnotherapy. Common internet queries including ‘how to hypnotize someone without them knowing,’ how to hypnotize you to do what you would like, and ‘how to hypnotize someone instantly’ are very disconcerting.

Inside the field of hypnotherapy, three types of consent are essential to discuss. There is certainly implied, explicit, and up to date consent. We’re here to breakdown these ideas in a straightforward way.

Implied, Explicit, and Informed Consent

As the word suggests, implied consent is one that is not explicitly mentioned by your client but instead indicates their acceptance via an action (e.g. shaking hands). Explicit consent is documented by verbal or written approval by the receiver. Finally, educated consent is one step before explicit consent. It requires the hypnotist straight asking your client if they're willing to endure hypnosis plus they say yes. This means that your client has received sufficient information and it is making the best decision. Ensure that you have up to date consent if you want to learn how to execute the work of hypnosis (vision contact is important). Never attempt covert hypnosis.

Now the procedure of Hypnosis Starts with Meditation

Now that you understand about consent, let’s begin by learning about yoga. This is the practice of removing all competing sounds and energies around you and calming all of the body and brain to gain a definite perspective. Some individuals say they feel lighter during deep breathing; that it's like emptying the rubbish drawer in your kitchen, and they feel less pressured after a program. They can process deep thoughts after yoga easier. However, through the process of deep breathing, there are practically no thoughts at all. Yoga clears your brain of thoughts and frees your body from the strain of transporting them.

Meditation can be considered a relaxing tool or a preparatory action. Once in circumstances of yoga, a person may continue into prayer (religious trip), self-help, or psychoanalysis. Yoga is effective in removing dread before a predicament and reducing stress after a predicament. That seems easy enough to comprehend, right? Some respiration exercises and mindfulness is all it requires.

Clearing your brain of stressful thoughts and harmful ideas is imperative for achieving a hypnotic condition. One must recognize that a hypnotic condition is not a cure alone; it's the door you open up and walk to accept recommendations and images that help reach a remedy or relief. Through the condition of hypnosis, your fast-wave brain activity, used for considering and control, lowers, and slow-wave brain activity, used for rest and concentrate, increases greatly.

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The Essential Black Muslim Reading List

4) A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said by Omar ibn Said and Ala Alryyes

Omar Ibn Said was born in the late 18th century to a wealthy family in West Africa and later enslaved and brought to the United States. The book’s description notes that he became known by “a prominent North Carolina family after filling the ‘walls of his room with piteous petitions to be released, all written in the Arabic language.’” He wrote the only surviving narrative of an enslaved person written in Arabic text.

Recently, the U.S. Library of Congress uploaded the entire manuscript. The collection consists of 42 documents in both Arabic and English. Ala Alryyes’s book is essential for anyone who wishes to better understand Ibn Said’s manuscript.

“The significance of this lies in the fact that such a biography was not edited by Said's owner, as those of other slaves written in English were, and is therefore more candid and more authentic,” Mary Jane Deeb, chief of the African and Middle Eastern Division at the Library of Congress, said in a press release.

5) African American Islam by Aminah Beverly McCloud

Islam within Black America is often oversimplified or identified using terms that do not belong to it and thus cannot fully capture such a diverse community.

In her book, McCloud introduces readers to different Muslim groups and focuses on tensions between two differing Islamic views of community, as outlined by a 1996 review in The Journal of Religion: asabiyah, solidarity due to kinship relationships or nation-building involving separatism, and ummah, the unifying relationships of the world community of Islam. By looking into the community using its own terms, McCloud’s book offers something entirely unique.

6) Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking Toward the Third Resurrection by Sherman A. Jackson

According to Sherman A. Jackson, Islam among Blackamericans (a term he outlines and fully explains within his book) owes its prominence to “Black Religion,” an American response that is a form of religion-based protest against anti-Black racism. Within his book, Jackson frames Islam’s extensive history in America as existing within a series of resurrections, almost like waves.

Central to Jackson’s work is an exploration of the necessity for the Black community to become an authoritative agent within Sunni Islam, capable of transcribing and accounting for their own experiences. Jackson identifies the 1965 repeal of the nationals origins quota system, where immigrant Muslims were able to come to the U.S. in larger numbers, as a significant shift of power in the American Muslim community.

The move of Black Muslims as only passive participants of Islam to authorities makes up a key component of Jackson’s third resurrection.

Women of the Nation: Between Black Protest and Sunni Islam by Dawn-Marie Gibson and Jamillah Karim

The singular focus on Black male leaders, which has been standard over time, perpetuates the notion that Black American Muslim women are, and have always been, invisible. Through oral histories and interviews, Women of the Nation catalogs the experiences and influences of women in the Nation of Islam.

The book includes those who are still within the Nation now and those who followed its offshoot into Sunni Islam under Imam W.D. Mohammed. Latinx and Native American women within the Nation are included as well.

8) The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X and Alex Haley

“I believe in action on all fronts by whatever means necessary,” Malcolm X told a 1964 audience during his famous speech known as “The Ballot or the Bullet”. Perhaps one of the best known Muslims in American history, Malcolm X’s “by any means necessary” is a continued cry in movements for Black liberation today. The 1965 autobiography outlines Malcolm X’s journey as he rose to prominence as a minister and national spokesman for the Nation of Islam.

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