Ursi's Eso Garden

An outstanding series of articles about religions of the world.

Your Guide to the Religions of the World by BBC World Service. (English)

Picture on the left side: Karl Brulloff. Temple of Apollo in Phigalia. 1835. Watercolour on paper. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia.

Ancient Greek and Roman Myths Index by Olga's Gallery.

Astrology articles and information updated weekly. An amazing site with great articles, transit calculator, sabian oracle based on astrological degrees and more. Check also the Horary Astrology!

A child whispers "I see dead people" and millions of moviegoers feel a chill go up their spines. More than a century ago, however, photographs of ghosts were greeted as joyous proof that the spirit survives after death. Were these images the result of manipulations -- or miracles? View this exhibit, weigh the evidence... then, you decide.


Ghosts & Ectoplasm Captured by the Camera 1868-1935.

Do You Believe? - A Ghostly Gallery
by American Museum of Photography.

Scroll also down to the links "Science vs. Seance" and "The Mumler Mystery" ...

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The first step in understanding rune lore is the understanding of the concept rune. Runes were in use by the Nordic and Germanic tribes of Northern Europe. A rune is not merely a letter in an old Germanic alphabet, but it bears the primary definition of "secret" or "mysteries." There were many different runic alphabets in use throughout Northern Europe over the centuries. The most common is the Germanic or Elder Futhark. This system may have begun as early as 200 B.C.E. The Elder Futhark contains 24 letters divided into three groups of eight, called Ætt (aettir, plural). The first eight is called Freyja's Ætt, the second Heimdall's Ætt and the third Tyr's Ætt.

Free online runecast with viking runes icons and information.

Historical and modern runes, runemaking, and artistic interpretations and products. Includes photographs and descriptions of rune monuments.

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The Shroud of Turin is a piece of ancient linen cloth that measures about 14 feet long by 3 1/2 feet wide, and on this cloth is a very faint imprint of a human being who appears to have been crucified. Legend has it that this Shroud is actually the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. The Shroud takes it's name from its present location which is in the Cathedral of John the Baptist in Turin Italy.

Shroud of Turin Picture Tour with Dr John Desalvo. (English)

According to a legendary tale, Christ himself left the image of his visage on a linen, which would then be sent to King Abgar, who wanted to meet Jesus. So, could the mandyllon be the Shroud?

Die Probe des Turiner Grabtuches, die durch Radiokarbondatierung (C14-Methode) auf zwischen 1260 und 1390 datiert wurden, sei an einer im Mittelalter ausgebesserten Stelle entnommen worden, und das Tuch sei nach "vorläufigen Schätzungen" tatsächlich zwischen 1300 und 3000 Jahre alt. Zu diesem Schluss kommt der Chemiker Raymond N. Rogers in einem Artikel in der chemischen Fachzeitschrift "Thermochimica Acta" mit Hilfe einer von ihm entwickelten Datierungsmethode, zu der bisher jedoch keine unabhängige Validierung vorliegt.

Zweifel am Alter des Turiner Grabtuches von der Gesellschaft für Anomalistik. (German)

Im deutschsprachigen Raum wird unter Manitu irrtümlich vorwiegend die Gottheit der Indianer Nordamerikas verstanden. Das religiöse Empfinden der Indianer deckte sich jedoch nicht mit den Vorstellungen der Europäer. Der Gottesbegriff der Ureinwohner hatte nichts mit dem Gedankenbild der christlichen Religionen gemein. Unter Manitu stellen sich die Indianer keinen Gott in Gestalt einer Person vor. Manitu ist eine Energie, die sich den Indianern überall in der Natur offenbart.

In the News:

Glen Johnson said he once used his dowsing rod to communicate with a lost cat. The cat came back the very next day, he said. Welcome to dowsing in the 21st century. The 73-year-old North Berwick, Maine, resident and Portsmouth Naval Shipyard retiree said he has been dowsing for 50 years. He picked up his first divining rod - cut from a wild cherry tree - after a Grange meeting in Wells, Maine, a half-century ago. Practicing with his first forked stick that night, he found water, said Johnson.

Dowser seeks divine power with his divining rods by Portsmouth Herald. (English)
>>> With long Video.

Do you ever wonder
At the wonder of it all?

Do you ever stand in awe
of the tiniest things
and how perfectly they work together?

The Wonder of It All
by Ralph Marston. (English)

Bilder: Keystone

Without biasing anyone, personally I do believe they exist. I have had particular 'weird' experiences where I felt that I was not alone in the room, even though physically I was and yet, have actually seen any. I can now say that I have seen a ghost only two weeks ago when my friends and I were in Scotland.

The supernormal appearance of a dead person or animal, or of a living person too distant to be within the normal perception of the observer, apparitions are quite uncommon and are rarely seen more than once, apparitions of the dead which are seen repeatedly over a period of time and which apparently haunt the same location are commonly known as ghosts, most recorded cases or reports of apparitions are more likely to be associated with the living Doppelganger than of a dead person or animal, few sightings are visual, most however involve the sensing of a presence sometimes accompanied by touch, hearing strange noises, perhaps thumps, rapping's, moanings and smells of unexplainable odors.