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The Holocaust as Sacred Myth and Ideology Final Reflections in the Wake of the Iran Holocaust Conference by Paul Grubach Published: 2007-01-01 Note: article edited for brevity I. The Specter II. The Weakness of the Holocaust Doctrine III. Media Responses IV. The Holocaust as Sacred Myth V. The Holocaust Ideology and Israel VI. The Holocaust […]
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Worshipped by Millions: The Sacred River Ganges
July 18th, 2021 
Awake Goy Why is the Ganges so significant and sacred in Hinduism? Many rivers have nourished humans in our boundless history, and some of the greatest ancient civilizations have been born on the banks of rivers. But none of them achieved such recognition as “the Goddess Ganga”, the river Ganges. Only the great River Nile, which sustained […]
Mount Shasta: Mystery Mountain and Sacred Destination
June 3rd, 2021 Awake Goy Mount Shasta is not the tallest or most beautiful mountain in the Cascade Range; but it is the most legendary. In terms of weirdness and strangeness, the unusual stories surrounding the mountain will challenge any other region in the contiguous United States, or perhaps even the world. According to the Sacramento Bee newspaper, over 100 […]
The Sacred Band of Thebes: Elite Fighters… and Lovers!
June 3rd, 2021 Awake Goy The Sacred Band of Thebes was an elite fighting unit consisting of 300 Theban soldiers who were not only warriors but coupled lovers as well. According to the scholar Plutarch, the creation of the unit took place sometime between 379 and 378 BC, the brainchild of Gorgidas, a military leader who believed that those who […]
The Eleusinian Mysteries: Demeter’s Secret And Sacred Rites
May 29th, 2021 Awake Goy Conjuring up mystical images of secret initiation rites held under cover of darkness, the Eleusinian Mysteries had a reputation as a dark and dangerous festival. In fact, it was surrounded by such an aura of deadly secrecy that the tragedian Aeschylus was nearly killed on stage just for referencing it. But what were the Mysteries really […]
Sacred Alignment: The Constellation of Orion and Ancient Egypt
May 23rd, 2021 Awake Goy For thousands of years, the constellation of Orion has been tracked across the sky by numerous ancient cultures who studied the heavens since time immemorial. Based on the constellations and position of stars, the ancients built fascinating monuments, calendars, and ‘observatories’ that allowed them to track the position of constellations and heavenly bodies across the […]
The Ancient Language Of Sacred Sound: The Acoustic Science Of The Divine
May 15th, 2021 Awake Goy It is an astonishing fact that, from the end of the so-called ‘Dark Ages’ and the settlement of Europe, a massive building program took place that was to transform Europe in a hitherto unsuspected way. Shortly after the construction of the Gothic (1130’s AD – 1480’s AD) came to its inevitable conclusion there seems to […]
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No Comments »Two Sacred Medicine Trees of North America
March 1st, 2021 Awake Goy March 1st, 2021 By Nick Polizzi Guest Writer for Wake Up World A few years ago, I took a trip up to the coastal wilderness of Northern California to meet with Native American elder, Dennis Martinez. Born of O’odham and Chicano heritage, Dennis has spent his life educating both native and non-native people in the practices of […]
Millions take sacred dip during India’s Magh Mela bathing festival
February 28th, 2021 Awake Goy Millions of people have taken part in a 45-day Hindu bathing festival in the northern Indian city of Prayagraj. Pilgrims attending the annual Magh Mela offer prayers and enter the holy waters where the Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati rivers meet. They bathe at Sangam, the sacred confluence of the rivers, on certain days considered to […]
Judge Refuses Injunction To Stop Sacred Oak Flat Destruction
February 14th, 2021 Awake Goy By Apache Stronghold, Popular Resistance. February 13, 2021 Above photo: PK Weiss, Southwest Photo Bank. Phoenix, AZ – This afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge Steven Logan denied Apache Stronghold’s request for an injunction preventing the giveaway and destruction of sacred Oak Flat to Rio Tinto/Resolution Copper. Judge Logan said that Apache Stronghold has no right to ask […]
The Mystics – Uncover Ecstatic Wisdom and Reclaim Your Own Connection to the Sacred: FREE 5-Day Online Event
January 30th, 2021 Awake Goy What does it mean to be a mystic in our time? In this modern era brimming with technology, complexity, and noise, have we lost our connection to mystery and mysticism? With the chaos of our contemporary world, can we still access poetic states of bliss and the experience of the sublime? Mystics across time have written […]
Posted in Religion Tags: connection, ecstatic, mystics, reclaim, sacred, uncover, wisdom No Comments »The Sacred Ground of Being…The Quintessence of Who We Are
January 25th, 2021 Awake Goy January 25th, 2021 By Open Contributing Writer for Wake Up World We are amidst the most phenomenal shift of consciousness in the history of our planet, and of humanity’s journey on it. Day by day the external drama seems to ratchet up another notch. With the plandemonium, environmental degradation and the bankruptcy of the governing system, the […]
Hindu Ceremony on Church Grounds in Goa Marks Trend to ‘Deny Sacred Places to Christians’
January 21st, 2021 Awake Goy (Barnabas Aid) — A significant Hindu religious ceremony (pooja) to a Hindu deity was held on the grounds of a Christian church in Sancoale, Goa, India but police have not yet filed a report on the church minister’s complaint under Indian laws that ban deliberate and harmful acts intended to “hurt the religious feelings” of […]
Master Architects of Sardinia: The Sacred Well of Santa Cristina
January 10th, 2021 Awake Goy The Well of Santa Cristina is an ancient structure located on the Italian island of Sardinia. The name of the structure is somewhat misleading. In spite of its association with a Christian saint, the well has little to do with the Christian faith. In fact, it was constructed during the Bronze Age, long before the […]
National park ranger condemned for attacking unarmed Indigenous man on sacred Native land
January 2nd, 2021 Awake Goy Indigenous and wilderness conservation groups were among those on Wednesday responding with outrage to video of a National Park Service ranger tasering an unarmed Indigenous man after he walked off a trail in Petroglyph National Monument in New Mexico on Sunday and then refused to comply with the ranger’s orders. Darrell House, a Diné (Navajo) and Oneida […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: attacking, condemned, indigenous, national, ranger, sacred, unarmed No Comments »President Assad Slaughtered Neoliberalism’s Four Sacred Cows
December 28th, 2020 Awake Goy By Andrew Korybko Source Syrian President Assad just slaughtered neoliberalism’s four sacred cows of gay marriage, radical secularism, marijuana legalization, and gender theory in a short video of his latest speech that recently went viral on social media where he condemned these examples of “total moral degeneracy” that he very passionately believes “target our humanity”. […]
How Sacred Geometry is embedded in Your DNA – Secrets of Geometric Art
December 25th, 2020 Awake Goy [embedded content]Unknown commented on “CONSCIOUSNESS?” Part 1 Consciousness is similar to physical strength and intellect in many ways. It varies greatly from individual to individual. The vast majority of people neither realise or question their consciousness in any meaningful sense. Self inquiry rarely breaches the surface of their conscious reality. The humans are kept in […]
A Sacred Light in the Darkness: Surprising Winter Solstice Illuminations at Spanish Missions
December 19th, 2020 Awake Goy On Monday, Dec. 21, nations in the Northern Hemisphere mark the winter solstice – the shortest day and longest night of the year. For thousands of years people have marked this event with rituals and celebrations to signal the rebirth of the sun and its victory over darkness. At hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of missions […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: darkness, illuminations, light, sacred, solstice, surprising, winter No Comments »How A Roman Sacred Site Became A 300-AD Tile And Brick Factory
December 5th, 2020 Awake Goy It’s always surprising when you read that a sacred site was “abandoned” for commercial opportunity. But it happens! UK researchers have determined that a large sacred site and Roman villa complex in England were despiritualized and, not much later, repurposed to function as a tile and brick workshop. The 1,600-year-old Roman industrial site, located at […]
The Whirling Dervish Dance: A Sacred Ritual to Touch the Divine
November 21st, 2020 Awake Goy The divine may be experienced through a variety of means. In various global spiritual traditions, these include prayer, meditation on sacred texts, participation in religious ceremonies, and going on pilgrimages. There are other means of achieving a religious experience that are perhaps not so common in the Western world. One of these is through the […]
Sobekneferu’s Legacy: The Sacred Places of Egypt’s First Female Pharaoh
November 11th, 2020 Awake Goy In part one , we saw how Egypt’s first female pharaoh Sobekneferu (also written Neferusobek) has emerged as a major character both in literary fiction and in the cinema. Her mysterious life and devotion to primeval gods such as the crocodile god Sobek no doubt helped foster this romantic image. Despite this, Sobekneferu’s achievements in […]
The Sacred Geometry of Tarot
October 22nd, 2020 Awake Goy October 22nd, 2020 By Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing writer for Wake Up World The Tarot Cards are a means to comprehend subtle energy. The Tarot is often used to perform divination, essentially intuitive understanding of specific subtle energies. The Tarot reveals the story of energetic development of an individual and the situational through the understanding of subtle […]
Intricacy and Reflection: Transforming Mandalas from Sacred Designs to Art Therapy
October 17th, 2020 Awake Goy Although the word ‘Mandala’ simply means “circle” or “discoid object” in Sanskrit, the significance is far more complex. Traditionally, mandalas represented the intricacy of the universe and served as a guide for reflective practices such as meditation. Mandalas have been present in Tantric Hinduism, Tantric Buddhism, and Jainism for hundreds of years. But it may […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: designs, intricacy, mandalas, reflection, sacred, therapy, transforming No Comments »Atlantean Temples of Mexico: The Sacred Valley Of Tepoztlàn
October 15th, 2020 Awake Goy Nestled in a sacred valley, at an altitude of about 1,700 meters (5,560 feet) above sea level, to the south of Mexico City, lies the town of Tepoztlán. The surrounding landscape has been shaped by millions of years of volcanic eruptions and erosion. Due to its unusually mild climate and the presence of many caves […]
College Chastised For Dumping On Sacred Land
October 6th, 2020 Awake Goy Above photo: Michelle Castillo, a Native American community leader at Puvungna when crews were dumping dirt in 2019. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova. A state department tasked with preserving historic landmarks recently criticized Cal State Long Beach for depositing soil and debris from a construction zone on a parcel of land called Puvungna that is […]
Sacred Cenotes: Portals to the Maya Underworld
October 3rd, 2020 Awake Goy The ancient Maya who populated the Yucatan Peninsula in the first millennium AD believed that there were three ways for the living to enter Xibalba, the world of the dead: through deep caves, through competition in the Maya ball game, and through the sacred cenote (sinkholes). It was the cenotes that were most important to […]
Your Body is Sacred: 3 Ways to Practice Embodied Spirituality
September 25th, 2020 Awake Goy September 25th, 2020 By Aletheia Luna Guest writer for Wake Up World Since the very beginning of all religious and spiritual drive, there has been a deep prejudice against the body. The body has been called carnal, worldly, lustful, sinful, and illusory. At best, it has been thought of as mere dust, at worst, it has been thought of […]
Algerian President: Palestinian Cause Remains Sacred (VIDEO)
September 25th, 2020 Awake Goy Posted on September 24, 2020 by uprootedpalestinians September 24, 2020 Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune. (Photo: File) The right of the Palestinian people to have a state with Jerusalem as its capital is not subject to bargain, the Algerian president said on Wednesday, Anadolu reports. Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s remarks came at a speech he delivered at the […]
Posted in Bahrain, UN General Assembly Tags: algerian, cause, palestinian, president, remains, sacred, video No Comments »Imam Khamenei: Sacred Defense Established Security in Iran, Enemies Will Pay Dearly If They Invade Country
September 22nd, 2020 Awake Goy By Staff, Agencies Leader of the Islamic Revolution His Eminence Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei says Iran’s decisively victorious defense against foreign-backed forces of Iraq’s former dictator Saddam Hussein proved that invading the country is a “very costly” undertaking. “When a nation shows that it has the diligence and power to defend itself and delivers a […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: dearly, defense, enemies, established, khamenei, sacred, Security No Comments »Caring for Our Sacred Earth
September 2nd, 2020 Awake Goy September 2nd, 2020 By Santoshan (Stephen Wollaston) Guest Writer for Wake Up World “We have been trying to go into the future as a human community in an exploitative relationship with the natural community without any sense of being integral with this natural world as a sacred community. From now on, that is just not […]
