WHY Woo
Why did the Trump indictment fall now? Clif High reaches into the woo to address the question “why.” He also gets into the theory of everything and how you can harmonize.
Call Me Stormy
Finding righteous currents in turbulent times
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Nazi Hunt for the Holy Grail
Deplorable McAllister examines stories of Otto Rahn, the German metaphysicist and member of the Nazi SS (the Schutzstaffel), who conducted a search in the 1930s for the Holy Grail. What is the Holy Grail? That is the cup or vessel that Christ used in the Last Supper.
Rahn served as the inspiration for Indiana Jones, the fictional hero of several adventure movies by Steven Spielberg. Rahn’s search for the Holy Grail took him to the mountaintop of Montsegur high up in the Pyrenees — the mountain range straddling southern France and northern Spain. A group known as the Cathars supposedly had taken the Holy Grail to a grotto somewhere within the mountain. They had a fortress atop Montsegur and held off the French for many decades.
It does not appear Rahn found the Holy Grail. He died an outcast, having quit the SS and been found frozen to death in 1939 on a mountainside in Austria. He had previously been assigned guard duty at the Dachau concentration camp, as punishment for a drunken, homosexual scrape.
Here is the trailer for Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark, which transforms Rahn into an American archaeology professor, played by Harrison Ford.
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Otto Rahn: Inspiration for Indiana Jones
Hidden History of Europe
The swastika (卐) was used as the cross of the Manicheans, a religious movement started in the latter half of the third century. that was founded by the Iranian prophet Mani in the Sasanian Empire. Manichaeism taught an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness. Its beliefs were based on local Mesopotamian religious philosophy, Buddhism, Tantra, and Christian Gnosticism.
Catharism was a christian Gnostic movement that thrived in some areas of Southern Europe, particularly what is now northern Italy and southern France, between the 12th and 14th centuries. Followers were known as Cathars, and their beliefs were said to have been brought from Persia, influenced by concepts rooted in the Manichean philosophy.
Robert Sepehr is an author, producer and independent anthropologist.
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