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非常感谢师父 @Huat Zai 时时刻刻的提点。让我在这道路上走得比较顺心。

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Utah introduces bill echoing 1980s Satanic Panic

SALT LAKE CITY – Last Wednesday, Utah State Representative Ken Ivory (R-district 39) introduced a bill in the Utah State House addressing sexual crimes.  The bill was introduced via the House Judiciary Committee and amends the sexual abuse statute to include ritual abuse.  The bill was backed by Utah County Sherriff Mike Smith who testified in its support.

Critics noted that it harkens to the Satanic Panic because it specifically codifies ritualistic child abuse.

House Bill 196, seeks to add “Ritual Abuse of A Child” to the sexual crimes statute. The bill defines “ritual” as “an event or act or a series of events or acts marked by specific actions, gestures, or words, designed to commemorate, celebrate, or solemnize a particular occasion or significance in a religious, cultural, social, institutional, or other context.”

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The bill goes on to list the explicit actions that can fall under the newly proposed definition including animal sacrifice and torture, cannibalism, bestiality, and forcing a child to ingest urine or feces,  Other notable actions are “enter a coffin or open grave containing a human corpse or remains.” and “ participate in a mock, unauthorized, or unlawful marriage ceremony as an individual being married to another individual or a fictional representation;”

The inclusion of a marital act is particularly notable because various religious practices use marriage to supernatural forces as a metaphor.

In an emotional hearing about the bill during its introduction, several adults identified themselves as survivors of ritualistic child sexual abuse. The survivors testified that they experienced horrifying elements of abuse that included devil worship and animal cruelty to coerced bondage, rape, cannibalism, child prostitution, and mind control. The victims described these assaults as deeply physically and emotionally distressing, to the extent that they suppressed memories of the abuse.

One activist, Kimberli Raya Koen, who leads summits on ritual abuse says she experienced “everything named in the bill” while also never having seen her abusers brought to justice.

“Utah has an incredible opportunity to lead the country in naming and acknowledging this horrific abuse is real,” she said at the hearing.  She writes on her website, “Physical, sexual, and satanic ritual abuse battered my psyche and heart. I was tortured into forgetting my identity as a child of God and into believing I was “satan’s bride”, “demon child”, a tool, meant for him to use and suffered greatly as a result. There were literally hundreds of people who would rape and torture me as the years went on.”

Rep. Ivory described ritualistic sexual abuse as common in Utah.  In a press release from 2022, the Utah County Sherriff’s Office asked for the public’s assistance to help their  Special Victims Unit Detectives in collaboration with other agencies with investigations.  They wrote, “We are pleading with the public and encourage victims, or individuals with knowledge of these crimes, to contact the Utah County Sheriff’s Office Special Victim’s Unit, so that they can be offered all the assistance possible.  We understand that there are individuals who have concerns for their safety and/or well-being, who have been silenced.  We need your help.”

That information led to the arrest of David Hamblin, a former therapist, and his ex-wife Roselle Anderson Stevenson, both for sexual abuse of children in the 1980s.  The prosecution has been fraught with accusations of mismanagement and witness tampering.  Neither Hamblin nor Stevenson have entered pleas. NBC News reports that Hamblin’s attorney said in a statement that he “strongly denies the allegations”; Stevenson’s attorney said she “is adamantly denying the charges.”

At the hearing for the bill, Representative Nelson Abbott cited The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ practice of having teenagers reenact the journey of Mormon pioneers to Utah as an example. Reflecting on his own experience leading such a trek, he raised the question of whether it would qualify as “ritual child abuse” since they had the youths skip breakfast one day—considering that the law prohibits withholding food from a child as part of a religious ritual.

However, Ivory contested this viewpoint, emphasizing that the bill also necessitates the action to result in bodily or psychological harm.

“This isn’t a trek… or fasting for a meal,” he argued. “This is a form of ritual abuse.”

Other critics have noted the bill has many other issues. “This bill is a very good example of panic legislation, hastily cobbled together, on the basis of testimony from a couple of women recollecting childhood histories of satanic ritual abuse,” said Mary DeYoung to NBC News. DeYoung is a professor emeritus of sociology at Grand Valley State University who has documented the harms of the satanic panic. “It’s a bill that responds with the kind of approach where we get really angry and say, ‘There ought to be a law.’ And we don’t think about whether it can be enforced in such a way that adds any benefit to society or that ensures that justice is done.”

At the hearing, Representative Brian King pointed out that physical and sexual abuse are already against the law and expressed skepticism about the necessity of the proposed legislation. He emphasized the need for more quantifiable data demonstrating that ritual abuse is a prevalent issue before he could endorse the bill.

“I am not convinced about the ritual abuse aspect,” he stated. “I’m not ruling it out entirely, but I require more information before reaching a decision.”  King was the only dissenting vote.

Representative Kera Birkeland motioned to advance the bill to the full House. She cried as she addressed the victims, expressing her support and shock at the realization that this type of abuse was occurring in Utah.

“We stand by you,” she assured them. “And we acknowledge your pain.”

For his part, Smith defended the bill and his investigation.  “I was attacked, I was ridiculed, I’ve had memes made about me because of it,” he said. “Without a doubt, these things do happen in Utah,” Smith added. “I believe they’re happening, I believe they have happened.

If the bill passes Utah will become the first state to codify ritual abuse since the Satanic Panic, a period in the United States during the 1980s and early 1990s when there was widespread fear and moral panic about alleged Satanic ritual abuse involving children. This panic was fueled by a combination of religious fervor, sensationalized media coverage, and the promotion of unfounded conspiracy theories.

Investigations and subsequent court proceedings found virtually no evidence supporting the existence of widespread Satanic cults involved in ritual abuse. Many of the accusations were discredited, and some innocent people faced unjust legal consequences.

 

https://wildhunt.org/2024/02/utah-introduces-bill-echoing-1980s-satanic-panic.html

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SALISBURY, England – In February 2024 campaigners lost a High Court challenge to prevent the go-ahead of the proposed road tunnel beneath Salisbury Plain, close to Stonehenge. The plans for the tunnel were originally rejected, for a variety of reasons which we have investigated in previous Wild Hunt articles, but were approved by the Department for Transport (DfT) again in July 2023. A subsequent challenge was brought by the Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site (SSWHS) in December 2023 but this was thrown out by the High Court last month.

In a 50-page ruling, Mr Justice Holgate told the court that ministers had “rightly focused on the relevant policies” and said that the evidence provided by campaigners “provides no basis for undermining that conclusion”. James Strachan KC , acting for the Department for Transport, also told the court that the benefits of the scheme – which the DfT believes will minimise the impact of traffic on the site by taking it underground – will outweigh the negatives.

 

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Duncan Wilson, Chief Executive of Historic England, who manages the monument, told the BBC that the charity approved of this decision:

“We firmly believe that putting much of the busy, noisy, and intrusive A303 road into a tunnel past Stonehenge is right for the World Heritage Site. This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to restore this internationally important landscape, which has been of great importance to people for over 5,000 years.”

The SSWHS says on its website, however, that a panel of independent experts have described the tunnel as the ‘wrong solution’ and would introduce “a greater physical change to the Stonehenge landscape than has occurred in its 6,000 years as a place of widely acknowledged human significance.” They say that they plan to appeal the most recent decision. In their press release, they note that

“In the face of Government indifference to the harm this road will cause the World Heritage Site, we had no choice but to bring this legal action. While this judgement is a huge blow and exposes the site to National Highway’s state-sponsored vandalism, we will continue the fight. We cannot let the Government destroy our world heritage.” (John Adams, chair of the Stonehenge Alliance).

“This is a devastating loss, not just for everyone who has campaigned against the
Government’s pig-headed plans for the Stonehenge landscape, but for Britain, for the world,
and for subsequent generations.” (Tom Holland, historian and president of the Stonehenge Alliance).

David Bullock, National Highways A303 Stonehenge Project Director, says:

“We welcome the decision, it’s a huge step forward in tackling the long-standing issues of the A303 at Stonehenge and it represents years of working with our stakeholders, heritage bodies and local communities.”

 

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Local opinion is mixed, with some of the WH’s local contacts relieved at the prospect of having the pressure taken off their villages, which often get used as a bypass or rat run if the A303 is busy or if there’s an accident, while others remain concerned about the significant impact on the landscape. Others may not be so concerned about the monument but don’t think that the tunnel will resolve the issues of the A303. Lucy Bennett, of Williton, told the Salisbury Journal that

“Until they build a dual carriageway from Countess Roundabout right the way down to Cornwall, I don’t think you’re going to solve the problem, because the problem at the moment is you’ve got dual carriageway, then it goes down to single carriageway, then it goes up to dual carriageway.”

Jeremy Budd, a resident of Salisbury, is quoted by the paper as saying

“I think it’s good. I think the traffic is horrendous going through there, so I think it’s great that it’s going ahead. Obviously, I hope they will do some proper excavations first to see what’s there. It would be nice to make sure they don’t destroy any kind of archaeological site or whatever. It would be nice if they obviously looked through that first. I know that will take time, but ultimately, progress has to be made somewhere.”

Local archaeology, under the aegis of private firm Cotswold Archaeology, is ongoing, although some of this is unconnected to the road developments (relating most recently to a dig scheduled prior to a new housing development in southwestern Salisbury). This uncovered a complex of Bronze Age burial mounds near the henge in January 2023. These barrows were constructed around the same time as parts of the monument, according to archaeologists, many of whom take the view that Stonehenge was primarily a burial ground with an additional communal function. There is, for instance, evidence of a mass Neolithic grave, but also other interesting features such as pits of red deer antlers which were used for a variety of tools, from digging implements to hair combs, throughout this period. Beakers have been found, further clues to the presence of the people named after this particular artefact. Signs of late occupation, such as during the Iron Age and Saxon periods, are also evident. A Saxon waterhole and tools such as knives have been found. On-site project leader Steve Bush says

“Developer-led archaeology projects now make up the majority of archaeological discoveries in the UK and help to increase our knowledge of the past enormously. The site has uncovered some brilliant archaeology and has been an amazing opportunity for our archaeologists to excavate and better understand how this area fits into a wider landscape of settlement.”

It is to be hoped that if the Stonehenge tunnel goes ahead, further rescue archaeology will at least uncover more of the secrets of Salisbury Plain’s unique history and release more clues about the lives of the people who built Britain’s primary monument.

 

https://wildhunt.org/2024/03/stonehenge-update-march-2024.html

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Researchers shed light on Philistine Religion and Mother Goddess cult practices

 

JERUSALEM – A team of researchers from Israel’s Bar-Ilan University announced the unearthing of botanical remnants and archaeological clues at a 3,000-year-old temple situated in central Israel. These findings are crucial in unraveling the mysteries surrounding the ancient people of south Canaan, commonly referred to as the Philistines. The researchers said that the evidence suggests a Mother Goddess cult, as well as the use of plant medicines that included psychoactive substances.

The research published recently in Scientific Reports describes the excavation of two successive temples at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfī/Gath, Tel Tsafit, an archaeological site located in central Israel. It is identified as the largest known Philistine settlement and is recognized as the ancient city of Gath. The site has been particularly interesting to archaeologists and historians because of its association with the Philistines, an ancient people mentioned in biblical accounts and known for their interactions and conflicts with the Israelites. Gath is mentioned in the Bible as the home of Goliath, ‘a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, whose height was six cubits and a span’ (Samuel 17:4), and famously felled by David.

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David and Goliath by Michelangelo, on the Sistine Chapel ceiling (1509). [Public Domain

The site has previously provided valuable insights into the material culture, daily life, and religious practices of the Philistines during the Iron Age. Discoveries at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfī have included artifacts, structures, and remains that contribute to our understanding of the ancient history and dynamics of the region. The site is significant not only for its historical and biblical associations but also for the information it provides about the broader cultural context of the ancient Near East.

In the present investigation, archaeologists aimed to enhance our understanding of these ancient communities. They relied, in part, on charred seeds and fruits retrieved from the remnants of an ancient temple in Gath, covering two consecutive periods of its usage between the ninth and tenth centuries B.C.E. The ancient city of Gath/Tell eṣ-Ṣâfī is located about halfway between Jerusalem and the modern city of Ashkelon on the Mediterranean coast.

The focus on plants has helped the researchers describe not only their possible use but also how the site connected across the cultures of the regions. The researchers write that “plants in ritual contexts shed light on the seasonality of rites, the role of agriculture, medical/psychoactive activities, and the geographic origin of offerings.”

The researchers noted that the site links up many aspects of ritual practice and how the Philistines could tap elemental powers. Some plants appear to be used for incense, others as insecticides, and still others for medicine and magic.

“Freshwater, agriculture, and the cyclical birth, death, and rebirth of a plant are recognized and venerated as transformative, and even magical, in the oldest myths, such as the Gilgamesh epic, the tale of Aqhat, and the worship of deities such as Tammuz, Ishtar, and Baal.”

The researchers also noted that “These widespread Mediterranean plants were known so far only in later cults,” the authors of the new study write, which they link to “early Greek deities, such as Hera, Artemis, Demeter, and Asclepios.” The plants also appear to highlight cross-cultic connections in regional traditions and practices.

The research team highlighted the chaste tree as an example. Although the chaste tree is widespread around the Mediterranean, its symbolic use is limited to ancient Greece. The plant is associated with cults in Sparta (Artemis and Asclepios), with Thesmophoria rites, as well as with the cult of Hera on Samos.

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Archaeological findings at Tell es-Safi [Photo Credit Ori~

The archaeological team also found evidence of psychoactive plant use as part of the rituals performed at Gath/Tell eṣ-Ṣâfī. One plant, poison darnel (commonly called ryegrass), is a natural source of ergot, a fungus that “contains an LSD-type alkaloid, known to be hallucinogenic, used by midwives and as a fortifying ingredient in brewing.”

Ergot is known in other contexts related to the more recent Witch Trials of the 1600s. Some historians believe that an ergot infestation in Massachusetts caused strange activities among some women in 1691 and eventually led to the Salem witch hunts. Toxicologists now know that ergot poisoning can lead to convulsions, spasms, hallucinations, crawling sensations on the skin, and erratic behaviors.

The researchers noted the ergot’s “use in cultic contexts as a psychoactive is mentioned in relation to the Greek Eleusinian Mysteries, associated with cults of agriculture.” They added, “It is plausible that temple ritual praxis included the use of medicinal and mood-enhancing additions to regular foods.” The presence of ritual chalices suggests the use of these substances in this manner.

What seems clear is that the site had ritual use connected with season and offerings while also being a place of healing and connection to mother goddesses across the region. The findings also appear to show that the practices of using these plants were older than their presence in later cults of early Greek deities, such as Hera, Artemis, Demeter, and Asclepios.

“These female deities accord with the wide occurrence of female figurines in Philistine contexts,” the researchers wrote, adding that the discovery of figurines at Gath/Tell eṣ-Ṣâfī “connect Philistines with widespread cults of the Aegean or Mycenaean Great Mother Goddess.”

The researchers underscored that the Philistine religion clearly relied on the “magic and power of nature, such as freshwater and seasonality, which influence human life, health, and activity.”

 

https://wildhunt.org/2024/03/researchers-shed-light-on-philistine-religion-and-mother-goddess-cult-practices.html

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FYI: the concept behind 'draw the light down' version of mantra chanting works exactly like LBRP, so if you practice daily, it should rid most problems. Unless you're doing it wrong.

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