I hope you all read the first two posts about Siddhars and Supernatural Abilities. This post is going to focus on the use of mantras in Tantra and in what I will call magick and/or sorcery. AFTER I take another detour or so it will seem.

Recall what I wrote about Sri Hanuman and Sun Wukong. Since there is no such thing as a coincidence, while extracting passages about mantras from Lutgendorf’s tome on Hanuman, I saw a pop up ad on Netflix for a new movie called New Gods: Nezha Reborn. I ASSUMED the character that had this ugly mask was Sun Wukong but NO – it’s the EVIL Six eared Macaque or SPOILER ALERT, IS it Sun Wukong afterall?!

And even more synchronicities! As I was typing yesterday an email notification popped up. None other than Jim R. McClanahan had JUST uploaded his latest blog

I posted a comment on his Facebook page and let him know about the Nezha movie and the Six Eared Macaque and he wrote back “That movie has driven a lot of traffic to my site for some reason. My article on the Six-Eared Macaque got 3,265 views in April, which is tenfold the normal monthly views”.

The general consensus from what I see is that this six eared macaque who shape shifts so that he looks EXACTLY like Sun Wukong, may also be a stone monkey and possibly born at the same time and may be a brother or sorts. BUT the six eared macaque is classified as a demon.

So back to mantras. Guanyin created a magical headband to control Sun Wukong and then she gave Tang Sanzang (aka Tripitaka) a mantra (or “spell”) to recite which would “activate” the band and cause unbearable, debilitating pain to Sun Wukong if his demonic nature were to emerge.

You can spend days reading Jim’s blog and I highly recommend doing so, but I must get back to mantras and Siddhars and/or people seeking after supernatural abilities.

Philip Lutgendorf’s incredibly detailed and heavily footnoted academic tome on Sri Hanuman includes material I never expected to find.

“Because tantra is understood to connote a body of esoteric knowledge capable of generating awesome supernatural powers and even immortality, known or suspected tantrics—particularly those of the ‘‘lefthand’’ path who may ritually engage in normally forbidden practices such as extramarital sexual intercourse and the consumption of meat and alcohol— have been both admired and feared. They are believed to have the power to invoke supernatural beings to carry out their will, especially deities in their dangerous wrathful (raudra) aspects, or to practice ‘‘black magic’’ (Hindi mūth, literally a ‘‘fist’’) through fatal curses and spells” (p. 103)

I’m not sure if you need me to “unpack” that paragraph or not. There are many forms of tantra but if you re-read this paragraph you might notice the summoning of the “WRATHFUL” aspects of a deity. In the TV series Vighnaharta Ganesh the infamous asura Durgamasur in Episode 395 prays to a “form” of Mata Adishakti known as Nimavata in front of a puja fire. Durgamasura prays to summon Mata to seek help. In the next episode Durgamasur is hell bent on compelling the goddess to tell him how to defeat Mata Adishakti.

And this is the point, the producers take great pains (pun intended) to depict Durgamasur sitting on a bed of blood red hot coals offering a twisted form of puja to elicit a boon. The actor, Manav Sharma, is to be commended for his wicked performance as he pretends to eat the coals and cut off parts of his body. He screams for Mata Nimavat to give him darshan and to tell him how to how to defeat Mata Adishakti.

Telly Updates summarizes the scene. Because the subtitles are not always accurate, I quote from Tanaya:

Durgamasura says Mata, you are the Ansh of Aadishakti. Her power flows in you so you know her weakness, how do I defeat her? What do I do Mata! Mata Nimavat says Durgamasura, you are anyway going to be killed by Adishakti, so try what you can. I will help you because I am forced! Mata says Durgamasura, just know that no god or goddess can hurt innocent Cobras, go and use Shesh Naag to help you in your process to defeat Adishakti. Durgamasura says yes Mata, you are right. I shall summon my friend Mayasura, he will help me because no one can escape his maya, not even Brahmadev.

An ansh is one of the forms of a deity – not the same as an avatar but a form. It’s very confusing but let’s not get lost in this detail. The point I wish to make is that by using horrific forms of self mutilation, it appears that in Vedic times, it was possible to coerce a deity to do something against his or her will.

Now keep in mind that Sun Wukong acquired his supernatural abilities through arduous study and practice under the tutelage of a “sifu” (guru). His counterpart, the Six Eared Macaque only listened in on the lessons (from afar) which made him vulnerable in the very end. Nonetheless, Sun Wukong did, more often than not, stray towards doing evil prior to receiving the headband.

Nikola Tesla never ceases to amaze me! As you all recall, Yasmin Boland introduced us to Kulreet Chaudhary, MD who lives at the same ashram in India that Yasmin visits. Dr. Chaudhary’s book, Sound Medicine, was not yet out and as soon as it was published I ordered it.

What you all don’t know is that back in 1969 I saw an exhibit of musical instruments from around the world and I bought the book by Laura Boulton.

I am proud to say my copy has held up okay. The edges of the paper have yellowed but the pages themselves are in good condition and the cover is fine. It was one of my prized items. I imprinted on Laura Boulton and wanted to be an ethnomusicologist from the moment I read the first page. I spent years collecting instruments and folk music. I was even a guest on a children’s TV show back in the late 70s! I still have a studio recording of three of the guest appearances. But as my friend, Brent would say ” STOP WITH THE STORIES ABOUT YOUR LIFE! GET TO THE POINT”.

I did NOT know that Tesla was good friends with Samuel Clemens (aka MARK TWAIN!)

I also had NO clue that Tesla used SOUND to heal none other than MARK TWAIN! Seriously, this should have been in the history books. I grew up near Edison, New Jersey and even visited the Edison labs on a school trip in 1965! And my grandfather was friends with a guy who has worked with Edison who DESPISED the man. Used to lock his employees in the lab until THEY, not he, invented something.

Tesla, on the other hand, appears to have been a really nice guy. Weird. Possibly, an extreme INDIGO (star seed) or as some speculate a NON-HUMAN!

I wish Research Gate had existed when I was working on my doctoral dissertation. It’s fantastic! I just download this entire paper for free.

“Speaking of good and useful electricity, Tesla used to say that one should protect himself from bad electricity, the so-called “evil spirit” [9]. Giving an interview to an amazed journalist of the “Sun” magazine he said: ‘’One of the beneficial effects of water is that it mechanically washes away the electricity from the skin. If you put some clay on the bottom of the bathtub, it will absorb all the harmful electricity from your body. Grounding is placing one’s bare feet on the ground, grass, or sand, especially when it is humid or wet. Rinse your hands and/or feet under running water to remove any static electricity. Spending time by the water, like lakes, rivers, fountains, waterworks or streams, will fill you with natural electricity that will successfully fight the damaging one’’ [9]. (p. 396)

WOW! I just HAD this conversation with “Ryan” about three weeks ago and we talked about creeks last night. Elko has hot springs. In the late 1800s and early 1900s we even had SPAS but no more. When you live in a barren desert, water is super precious. Las Vegas is just figuring out how precious as the water in Lake Mead keeps dropping.

Nikola Tesla and Vibrational Medicine

Nikola Tesla also examined the effects of mechanical vibration on the human body [3]. It is known that he made a ‘’vibrator’’ for treating painful leg muscle spasms [2–4]. <I use a TENS unit that also has settings for EMS (electric muscle stimulaton> Here is how Tesla later recalled his work in this field of research: “Electrical oscillations of an extremely high rate act in an extraordinary manner upon the human organism. Thus, for instance, I demonstrated that powerful electrical discharges of several hundred thousand volts, which at that time were considered absolutely deadly, could be passed through the body without inconvenience or hurtful consequences. These oscillations produced other specific physiological effects, which, upon my announcement, were eagerly taken up by skilled physicians and further investigated. This new field has proved itself fruitful beyond expectation, and in the few years which have passed since, it has been developed to such an extent that it now forms a legitimate and important department of medical science [18]. On February 6, 1894, Tesla patented his mechanical oscillator called Means for generating electric currents [7].

Tesla left a record about how he accidentally came to the discovery of mechanical treatment while using the mechanical oscillator: “I had installed at the laboratory one of my mechanical oscillators with the object of using it in the exact determination of various physical constants. The machine was bolted in vertical position to a platform supported on elastic cushions and, one day, as I was making some observations, I stepped on the platform and the vibrations imparted to it by the machine were transmitted to my body. The sensation experienced was as strange as agreeable, and I asked my assistants to try. They did so and were mystified and pleased like myself. But a few minutes later some of us, who had stayed longer on the platform, felt an unspeakable and pressing necessity which had to be promptly satisfied, and then the stupendous truth dawned upon me”. It was a discovery of laxative effects of mechanical oscillators, or technical therapy in a broader sense, about which Tesla said: “When I began to practice with my assistants mechanical therapy we used to finish our meals quickly and rush back to the laboratory. We suffered from dyspepsia and various stomach troubles, biliousness, constipation, flatulence and other disturbances, all natural results of such irregular habit. But only after a week of application, during which I improved the technique and my assistants learned how to take the treatment to their best advantage, all these forms of sickness disappeared as by enchantment and for nearly four years, while the machine was in use, we were all in excellent health” [12, 26, 27]. 

Apart from his assistants, Tesla gladly offered his visitors the opportunity to try out the mechanical treatment [12]. One of them was the famous writer and Tesla’s friend, Mark Twain [12, 14]. Tesla described it like this: “He came to the laboratory in the worst shape suffering from a variety of distressing and dangerous ailments but in less than two months he regained his old vigor and ability of enjoying life to the fullest extent” [12, 26].

LAXATIVE EFFECTS

More often than not, when I work on someone, I’ll tell them that they will a) vomit in x number of minutes or b) have a blasting emissions in x number of minutes.

OH NO NO I’m fine.

WAIT FOR IT.

Seriously, I don’t have to . . .

OMG

It’s one reason why I live alone. Your pain (emotional or physical or caused by “karma”) will GO away but you will probably think, do I really want to talk to Auggie’s mom when I’m not near a toilet?

To end on a happy note, I found this:

I found it by following up on the original article about Tesla that included a fascinating piece:

Hypogeum of Hal Saflieni

Debertoilis and Coimbra write “Certain kinds of sounds seem to have a large influence on the emotional processing of individuals. For example, hearing traditional mantras, or a non-semantic sound used in meditation has an effective influence on human brain activity, which has been shown in scientific publications (Xu et al, 2014). During the last experiments in the Hypogeum, the sound of a horn played in the Oracle Room was felt crossing the body of one of us (F. Coimbra) at high speed, leaving a sensation of relaxation, while standing in front of the prehistoric paintings in room 20. After some minutes, that instrument was played again and the result was similar but even more relaxing, accompanied by the illusion that the sound was reflected from the author’s body to the walls.

Please note that I choose to take screen shots from PRIMARY sources after stumbling upon a blog or news article that, 9 times out of 10 fails to provide a full citation to the original source. That is why as a retired, librarian, I insist on finding the originals so readers can do their own research.

I’ll end with this really incredible PRIMAL Danish/Scandinavian/Norse Viking music by Danheim. If this doesn’t stir your blood cells, you’re probably dead. I prefer the first 12 minutes and not so much the rest of it. If this music doesn’t trigger a primal memory, may I suggest remixes?

I created this Playlist to get myself motivated to use SOUND and movement therapy (dance, rocking back and forth when I broke my big toe) to treat osteoarthritis. It works for me, try it! Just don’t throw your back out trying to pretend you’re at a RAVE!

A lovely gentleman from North Carolina named Keith reached out to me via Facebook messenger after reading my account about how I used Joshua P. Warren’s Wishing Machine last July 2020 to rid my cul de sac of the neighbors from the PIT OF HELL. Josh read my email on his podcast!

Keith wanted to ask me about all of the MANIFESTATION devices that I had saved up for and over time purchased from Josh’s Curiosity Shop.

I basically have been using the prayer board to give thanks and now and then to ask for blessings. I have NOT used it as directed. If you heard my excuse, you’d think I was nuts. Oh, hell you all think I’m nuts so here goes.

I placed the board and other items on a table in a room that had been my late aunt’s bedroom when I cared for her the last year of her life before having to be placed in an Alzheimer’s locked down unit. Trust me, she did some strange things in that room. I had the hospital bed and her dressers and effects removed and donated. Then I tried to set the room up as a meditation room while the master suite (OH dear we can’t use that word anymore – THE PRIMARY BEDROOM suite) was dedicated to taking care of the late Martin Clifton who suffered from several co-morbidities that would have done in him during the COVID 19 pandemic.

That room is now set up or was until Ryan and Little Man needed a place to stay as a mini shrine/temple and place to exercise – not that I used it because the cats confiscated the Feldenkrais massage table I was using to try to do yoga. BUT let’s get back to the Miraculous Prayer Board.

Keith wanted to know all about each item and how I used each and a host of other questions. He was super animated but, if you know me, I get in someone’s head invited or not and I had to stop him and made him do a visualization as I got a HUGE download of emotion. I’ve just texted him to see what happened after we hung up but he’s in a meeting.

So now, about the jet black 2017 Mustang GT muscle car my husband bought brand new. I hated it but he had fallen in love with Mustangs (not the ponies – I love those) after renting one on a business trip.

MINT condition. He kept it pristine – guy thing. My 2007 Ford F-150 has been trashed by dogs, trips to the dump, long trips to hospitals with someone vomiting in the front seat more often than not. But that car was gorgeous until – until Monday. Yup, the Board Certified Addiction Specialist who spent over 2 years detoxing serial killers and rapists and gang bangers and drug dealers got slammed into by a guy with an expired ID from

WAIT FOR IT

The address to the Las Vegas Correctional Center

AND he was driving so fast his air bag went off as his Honda Accord pushed the Mustang’s trunk up like a loaf of bread that’s been smashed at the bottom of a grocery bag. The Mustang then lurched forward and got pushed into a Lexus that sustained some damage as it lurched forward into an SUV on the corner of Rainbow and Flamingo in front of a law office with a host of witnesses!

BUT the fun part is the driver of the Hondo reached in and grabbed a backpack, yelled “FUCK YOU” at my husband who was screaming and took off. There was obvious signs of drug use on the front seat so I think the guy was on the way to do a drug deal. He came back as the police arrived about 40 minutes after the accident.

AH DEFUND THE POLICE – try calling Dispatch from out of the area

Press 1 if you’re suicidal!

Press 2 if you’re experiencing domestic violence

Press 3 if you want to murder the fiend from hell that invented automated phone systems – I actually shared a college office with the bitch in New Jersey back in 1979 that helped invent it so let me tell you BITCH is putting it mildly

I freaked out for a multitude of reasons – did he get a concussion, is the car totaled, how much do we owe on the lien, what is the book value of the vehicle, will the felon’s insurance company chisel on the value?

In a dead panic after seeing that the Kelly Book value was only about $5,000 more than then lien, I went into the room with bins of Alpaca and Llama and Merino fleece, and all the crystals and magical items and

POURED MY GUTS OUT to the Miraculous Prayer Board placing my fingers on it the way Josh depicts in his video and PLEADED with Sri Ganesha and Lord Kuber for at least enough money so my husband could get something to get himself to work at the clinic that just re-opened after getting evicted for helping the

HOMELESS

WTF is it with trying to help the homeless that seems to trigger a KARMIC APOCALYPSE?

I got up this morning thinking I needed to sell everything I had downsize when my husband called

MIND YOU I only used the Miraculous Prayer Board not long after chatting with Keith from North Carolina on Wednesday at 4:42 p.m. (that’s when we hung up) I think I used the board later that day.

Instead of getting crappy check for $5,000 or less, we got a wire transfer for $17,526.59!!!!!!!!!! and Ford got paid off.

Turns out my husband’s car was worth a lot more than the initial loan and the insurance appraiser, I think, gave us a very generous settlement.

So, does the board work? YES if you focus. REALLY focus. I’ve used it multiple times just not as often as I could.

Oh, you’re wondering why, right?

The room is FULL OF FAE – sometimes they want to be left alone so I set an intention and get out. With Brent’s permission, I need to write about how they chased him out of he room and down the hall back into the living room the day Brian, Brent, and David all tried on the Yei blanket. Oh that was fun. Brushing off unseen beings screaming like a tomb raider covered in spiders or worse with the three of us already spooked as it was watching him shaking them off.

BUT if I’m agitated enough or desperate enough or I’ve saged myself enough or have the time to go in and talk to the unseen to ask permission if I can sit down in MY OWN HOUSE mind you, then yes, it works.

KEITH? Does that clarify the barrage of verbage from Wednesday? And thankfully, now my husband wants to go back to driving a truck and a pre-owned one as we now know first hand NEVER BUY A NEW CAR!

Please comment. It’s okay if it’s not all complimentary. Constructive criticism is welcomed.

PS Travis, you and Keith might want to introduce yourselves. You might not live that far apart. Josh seems to be one of those connectors on a switchboard at the moment and I’m an operator. Feel free to use the comment section to give me permission to share your phone numbers or email.

PS Found a few typos after I hit Publish and I thought you needed photos.

My life took a wild detour off the beaten path last week when my friend “Ryan” was tasked with removing all of the weeds on a series of properties in Carlin, Nevada a good 34 miles from my house.

You really cannot live in Nevada or Texas or anywhere outside a city without a pick up truck, preferably one with a full size open truck bed because you need it to transport wood for a wood burning stove, pellets for a pellet stove, yard equipment, and you really need to take debris now and then to the dump. AH, the dump. I’ll write about garbage dumps someday and how the late Martin Alexander Clifton, V (1963-2018) almost killed me imitating a TV car dealership ad voice inviting folks to “COME ON DOWN” to the dump for lunch. At the base of the entrance to the dump in El Paso, Texas there was a roadside stall with tourist items and a food cart. I kid you not, they were selling burritos and tamales and the GODDESS knows what food at the DUMP!

The dump in Elko has some of the best fall foliage in the county. Yup. It does. But I digress YET again.

NOBODY wants to work. Ryan called everyone he knew to try to get someone to help with this job.

This video MIGHT give you an idea of why no one wanted to help PLUS everyone is collecting unemployment so why bother.

So, what is Scottish Thistle you ask?

But what you all might want to REALLY hear about is the ghost that Ryan heard taunting him the first day on the job. And how he met a local resident who told him in reply to “So has anything unusual ever happened around here” – Not really except for that weird kid laughing that no one ever sees!

I got to hear the ENTIRE account of how the day went when I brought Little Man and a change of clothes and toiletries to meet Ryan as he got out of the shower at the motel he had me book him into so he could get up early and be on the job site. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t usually meet guys – hell I have NEVER met a guy in a motel at an on-ramp to an interstate or any motel or hotel for that matter but it’s my job to help get this job done and that means getting food and ice to the site. And his dog. Ryan is never parted from his dog so I told him I’d bring him for a brief visit and then take him back with me. Best thing I ever did. Those two have a bond that is unlike anything I’ve ever seen.

You really should hear a ghost story sometime while sitting in a $75 a night hotel room with a dog and someone who can re-enact (photographic and videographic memory) blow by blow what happened. I’m the same way and it drives people crazy but Ryan has a real knack for it.

I’ll leave off here. I have to do more laundry for tomorrow.

Joshua P. Warren is famous for collecting haunted objects. He used to have an entire MUSEUM of haunted items.

Josh talks at length on his podcasts on I Heart Radio about “strange things”. His curiosity online shop has items that will blow your mind. Another site, I just found is:

I grew up with a mineral/crystal collection that I kept in an old book case with glass doors in my bedroom (where most girls would have had a dressing table). I used to have a rather large collection of dolls from around the world but I gave those away. I have been drawn to paintings or objects but never experienced anything like I did yesterday (July 11, 2021 in my own living room.

I had invited Ryan Stevens and Brent Churchfield to have a plate of homemade meatballs and pasta for a noon meal and to share stories about haunted Elko County. Brent really didn’t know any stories but Ryan did. After lunch I wanted Brent (who has been helping me clean fleece) to take a look at the Yei blanket Ryan sold me.

I wanted to test my working theory that it is a healing blanket so I had Ryan stand up and I wrapped it around him. He became emotional but he didn’t FEEL anything. We wrapped it around his dog, Little Man who just smiled.

I then had Brent stand up because he suffers, like I do, from kidney stones. He’s very tall. When you’re only 5’1″ anyone at 6 feet looks REALLY tall but he is REALLY tall so I had to lift the blanket up to drape it on him.

He didn’t scream. That would be an exaggeration. He didn’t scream GET IT OFF ME – but he yelled out that it was giving off TOO MUCH Heat and and I had to take it off him pretty much in less than 30 seconds.

I then draped it around myself. I felt like I was not getting a massage per se, but a penetrating sensation on my back. I had been suffering from one of those bouts of annoying stabbing on the right flank and the blanket at first gave a brief momentary relief. But only briefly when the stabbing intensified BUT it was the surge of kundalini that shocked me.

My hair was standing on end. My hair and scalp felt electrified. I took it off. Brent told me to be really careful with that. He didn’t hiss at it like a cat but he was spooked.

After they left, I draped it on again to see if I could treat the stone. I actually felt like I was wrapped in a warm and fuzzy baby blanket on a cold day with it snowing outside. MIND you, we here in Spring Creek, Nevada are having a heat wave and it was BRUTALLY hot out last night. And yet, I felt this lovely warmth and the sensation of sitting in the snow or that it was snowing. I did not get hot. It was ADDICTIVE. In my mind there was a kind of purr or humming.

Martha acquired the blanket well before 1984 but WHERE and HOW did a strict Lutheran who Ryan describes as a Calvinist, acquire this? IT sat in a cedar chest for years.

HOW is this possible? Brent admitted that he felt FINE after I got it off him and that it might have helped.

Has anyone ever heard of a Navajo ceremonial blanket STILL having healing energy imbued into after decades of being stored it OR

OR

OR

Are the Yei depicted on the blanket REAL YEI and not the loom weaver’s artist depiction of the yeI? Is this what the Tibetans call an empowered relic?