About Mermaids: a body found and the new evidence as seen on animal planet this memorial day weekend.2013

i don't have a problem with the possibilty of mermaids existing. being a shaman. and a student of middle eastern magick. i have had my shares of encountering what some call the paranormal as well as what others would call jung archtypes of the human psyche. to me both are communications from actual beings whatever it be from another dimension or archtypes from the human mind. because it has been proven that somehow the human mind effects the universe as in "the measurement problem."
to me mermaids exist already as spiritual entities called in some parts of the world as Fae or Faeries. other parts of the world call them Djinn.
i think it is possible that humanity may have branches to its family. they found the hobbit skeleton in indonesia not too long ago. some researchers think bigfoot might be another offshoot of humanity. others a descendant of gigantopithecus. but it proves something found in folkalore, myth, and legend may have bases in fact. besides beings from another plane of existence whatever some see that of one's own's mind.
or from another dimension. and the latter has been proven a possibility thanks to quantum mechanics.
to me mermaids as depicted in the "mockumentry " are a branch of homo sapiens aquaticus. they are called mermaids because they RESEMBLE THEM.
the fae kind are the others. the REAL ONES.
and yeah i believe they might exist. problem is once we know they do exist. do we exterminate them as other branches of the human race? because sadly we are a race with issues. we don't get along with each other.

my experience with negative entities: updated

lets face it. if you are a sensitive, a paranormal investigator, a shaman, witch, wiccan, wizard, spirit keeper, paranormal collector. you will have run ins with negative entities. whatever they be demons, fallen angels, dark fays, red djinn, bad human spirits, dark succubae, etc.
i myself had run ins because i’m a student of shamanism as well as the occult and mysticism and being a spirit keeper i have had experiences.
first thing i learned is don’t be too afraid. the other is conditioning your mind.
conditioning i refer to is an affirmation that you are a child of the divine. that god, the goddess is your parent. if you don’t believe in any deity. that’s fine too. just believe you are the light of the universe in intelligence and influence.
also remember there are good spirits; helpful spirits out there. and you can call on them to aid you. you just need to believe.
with that said and done. the easiest ritual to clear one’s self or home, etc of entities is just telling them to leave. not in anger. but in a calm but very strong voice to tell them to leave. depending what kind of entity you are dealing with. it is good to be polite to them. the reason for this no spirit not even a demon can ever accuse you of being impolite. and use it against you in the spirit world. however if the spirit is impolite to you. you may be likewise.
if it continues (that is the negative activities) you may use whatever prayers or rituals in your belief system against the entities.
then there is smudging:
smudging is burning either sage sticks or grounds. after you light them the latter in a smudging bowl.
ther you go from one room to the other to each corner and say the following:
in the name of father sky mother earth to all unwanted entities who wish to do me harm leave. this is my home. leave now.
i myself use rituals based on ceremonial magick of the hemetic order of the golden dawn.
this is the banishing ritual of the lesser pentagram. you stand at each wall and draw a pentagram as shown in diagram

and you say the following:
before me raphael
behind me gabriel
at my right hand michael
at my left hand auriel
before me flames the pentagram
behind me the six rayed star
i hereby banished all negative and unwanted spirits from this space.
and repeat this at each wall of a room while burning incense which can be sandalwood, frankincense
and if you ancestry is jewish there are some kabbalistic prayers.
most of the time i use a ritual that involves using the name of God and Goddess of the Hebrews: the tetragrammaton and burning incense (mostly frankincense) and blessing the letters of god and goddess’s name in hebrew ( the letters themselves are in hebrew as well). as i hold the incense in my hand and point it in the directions of the earth. and at the end of the ritual i asked God and his shekinah. (the name of God’s bride the hebrew goddess) to clear my living space of negative entities. and to welcome positive ones in. i learned this ritual from reading passages in the zohar and the sefer yetzirah.
if your muslim the reading of surah 72 while burning incense such as the above can be used.
christians would read psalm 91 and recite the lord’s prayer. as well as the hail mary if they be catholic.
if all else fails. and if you fear for the safety of your family. please seek help from paranormal investigators as well as those of your religious
and spiritual backgrounds.
if you are a keeper of spirits and have relationships with spirits. make certain that the spirits that you have a connection to. understand the limits and boundries of that relationship. even spirits can make mistakes. so be patient with them and love them. if there be negative spirits in your presence. chances are they are aware of situration. and will try to get your attention. sometimes those spirits may behave in strange ways even in negative ways. do not pass judgement on them. instead asked them what is wrong. once you know. then asked for their aide and guidance. trust them. they will help you. or lead you where you can get help.
post script: kabbalistic prayer in dealing with negative entities.
the prayer is one line  and three words.
and the first one represents the Divine masculine and feminine as one.
and it is as follows:
yod hey vav hey qora satan
the last word is familiar. it appears in jewish, christian, muslim texts. it represents the leader of the chaos demons.
and it is said as a chant with a lit candle or incense. or without.

lilith an enigma more info

Lilith an enigma re-editedBy richard tanzer (formally richtan on hubpages)
PART1: Lilith; goddess to demoness; and back again
There are many articles and essays about Lilith. so mine isn't any different. For the exception as a student and practioner of Shamanism as well as a student of mysticism especially the Kabbalah. and the occult. I myself had a fascination with Lilith when i was young. Which lead me to a relationship with one of her 'daughters' later in my life.
Which has lasted well over a year. Because of this i have an 'understanding' about her.
What is known and taught in the myths of mesopotamia which found its way in jewish mysticism about Lilith is this:
Lilith was originally seen as a goddess known as Kalili mother goddess of sex and fertility. and was equated with the goddesses Balili (assistant to Ereshkagil the goddess of the underworld who was the sister of Dammu), Inanna/Ishtar, and Abtagigi.
With Inanna she was the Hand whom brought men to worship the goddess in hertemple. She later was merge with Abtagigi who is another goddess that was involved with the sacred aspect of sex; such as a cult prositute. However Lilith was later referedto as Ardat Lili and Lilitu the succubi that plague men of mesopotamia.
So how did a goddess of sex and fertility was seen as a demoness in Judaism?
Simple: change in viewpoint. Remember the Jews of ancient times were monotheists and patriarchial in their views. The Tanakh called the old testament in western bibles never refered to any goddesses in a positive light. The only book in the collection of books that make up the Tanakh that refers to the Divine Feminine is the Proverbs.
Lilith was seen as not only a Succubus but as a child killer which is the incorporation ofthe child stealing demon of Mesopotamian beliefs named Lamashtu.
What maded matters worst was that their homeland was invaded by the Babylonians in586 bce. And the jewish people taking into captivity until the Persians came a couple100 years later. So naturally they adapted some beliefs of their Babylonian captives.
And demonized their gods and goddesses. Lilith was one of them.
This continued up through the middle ages with Lilith incorporated in their legends and mysticism as the first wife of Adam. And elder sister of Eve. Who later fell after her quarrel with Adam. and became a lover of Demons. As well as a succubus and childkiller.
However it is interesting to note despite all the negative press of Lilith in the middle ages by Jews, Christians, and even Muslims there were some scholars mystics, and writersthat saw Lilith in a positive light. Among of these was a Rabbi named Issac Luria.
Rav Luria saw that Lilith was to be restored to Adam. this was to be done in the marrige of Leah to Jacob. There was another book of the Zohar entitled the book of concealment that said Lilith and her daughters were restored to Adam through the wisdom of Solomon in the symbolism of the two prositutes that came before him. And other passages that i will not go into detail that spoke of the reconciliation of her daughters. and so forth.
In Muslim romances we have the story of Laylah and her lover. And later between the 19th and 20th centuries the romances of the christian writer George MacDonald's Lilith.
Indeed the demonizing of Lilith came full circle. She was seen in a new light as fallen being to be later restored.
This doesn't mean that there isn't a demon named Lilith. On the contrary as Rav IssacLuria taught there were many Liliths. the most evil and darker of these is the feminineaspect of Samael. This is found in the Zohar 1; 5 a-b. In contrast of the first wife o{ Adam the other Lilith who finds rest. Zohar 1:34 a-b.
Rabbi Luria believed that there was another Adam called Adam Qadmon. And he had awife named Lilith. This is the Lilith who is the hebrew goddess.
Here we find the restoration of Lilith as part of the Divine Feminine. Sister of Eve.
Daughter of Wisdom whom is the Shekinah
PART2: Is Lilith a goddess
It really depends on your belief. i myself believe their are many gods and goddesses.
they are aspects of the Divine which is both God and Goddess.
And Lilith is part of this Divine. however she is a primal being. was there at the creation of the universe. existed along side her husband and brother whom kabbalists called Adam Qadmon. she is, borrowing from a gnostic treatise called the Thunder the Perfect Mind  Sophia; a virgin and a prositute; the wise woman and witch; the high priestess and seer.
to me she is both a dark angel full of love and passion. as well as a demoness of wrath and vengeance. but only other demons need to fear this aspect. not humanity; whomshe has loves dearly; even though she has been ostricized from them.
she is wild and independant. but at the same time is fiercely loyal to those who honor her and are devoted to her.
Lilith is mother, sister, daughter, lover. she exists through her avatars her children her sons and daughters called the shedim, lilim, seirim, lilot (shiddahim) . and in the hearts of men and women. in men she is the anima. in women she exists as the animus. you may hate her; fear her. but never deny her existence. for she will remind you she is a round!
she calls to a man through the eyes of a woman that he desires. if the man does what is right towards the woman. he will win Lilith's heart. but only if he loves the woman without fail. and without any condition. and in mutural love. the anima also represents lilith as the guide and teacher as well as a lover.
she calls to a woman through her animus not only as a lover. be that lover a man or woman. but also in fellowship of womanhood. a sisterhood in which she once shared with Eve.
This is what Lilith is
PART 3 mystery of rahab
Rahab is a mysterious figure found in scripture. seen in the negative rahab is found in isaiah51:9, psalm:89:10. as noted in my other hub: respect for satan: the reason whymichael didn't revile against satan over the body of moses. rahab has been identified in symbolism as egypt. and egypt symbolises one of satans reconciliation to God.. there isalso a teaching among the jewish mystics that rahab is another symbol of Lilith as does the (female ) leviathan. ( she rides the leviathan actually; a symbolism of her connection to the name as the blind dragon).
this connection of Lilith is found in the book of Joshua chapter 2 as in the innkeeper/prositute name Rahab. Rahab actually shelters two israelite spies while they were in jericho. and later she was saved along with her family. when the israelites invaded the city after the walls fell.
jewish mystics who wrote the Zohar the book of concealment had seen this. and wrote in an allegory in chapters 4 and 5. although in some commentaries these chapters the two spies were interpret as the watchers who fell after being seduced by 'daughters of adam' later identified as Lilioth. there is a hidden connection that points to the salvation of a prositute and her family. and Lilith is a patron goddess of prositutes and cult prositutes in the ancient middle east.
and the name Rahab means to be proud. which not only is reference to satan's fall. but into Lilith leaving Adam. and later leaving Samaels
PART4 : ritual in summoning lilith? and her avatars?
to anyone who wishes to learn how to summon lilith.
well in truth. you will get to know Lilith through her avatars: the succubi.
this i learned later in my relationship to my succubus. however there are rituals. i foundsome in which i add the link below to one such. but my advice is do not try it! the reason why i say this is that there are many Liliths. and one of them is pure evil.
conclusion:
Lilith is a dynamatic figure. a powerful goddess who has seen many interpretations. but remains what she is.
an ancient primodial goddess that deserves are respect if not our veneration.

why i don’t believe the nature spirits and the other people (fays, faeres, sidhes, djinn) are lost.

i read the book  the vengeful djinn by rosemary ellen guiley and phillip imbrogno and found it fascinating about what the people of the middle east  believe in a race of spiritual beings called the djinn. i myself had read up on these entities. even collected some vessels of marid djinneyeh. and have a few friends among them. as well as a qarinah whom is a daughter of Lilith as a lover and ‘wife’ and some of her sisters as companions. however when i got to chapter 8 page134 i was a little upset when i read an account of oscar widle wife concerning faires and they are not allowed salvation in christianity.
actually   not all christian theolgians  felt that way. there is a teaching of one of the church founders by the name of origen that taught universal salvation, reconciliation, or redemption. that even demons could be saved.
there are a few jewish mystics such as  rabbi issac luria that taught the belief of tikkun olam which  is reconciliation of all creation (including demons).  and  taught  Lilith would remarry Adam. this was done in the marrige of leah to jacob. (this i’ve noted in my post Lilith an enigma).
in the quran surah 72 the al djinn it says that some of djinn would be saved if they believe in Allah.
however  origen’s  views among a few others such as those of ludovico maria sinistrari isdore liseux  (concerning succubi) were largely supress and forced to recant their views because of fear of the inquisition.  along with the gnostics
rabbi issac luria’s views were equally supress by mainstream judaism until now. and muslim  theologians are divided on the interpretation of surah 72.
i myself believe these beings have their own Path, their own evolution to follow. at times their paths cross ours. most of the time due to fears on our part. such relationships didn’t go well. and their are those among these beings are a bit resentful. because of prejudices  born of misunderstandings. i think we are reaching a point in human history where we have to embrace the other dwellers of the universe.  as well as those in our world. but exist in different dimensions.
on a personal note. after i read the book i said a little prayer saying if such a God exist. and doesn’t allow salvation  to beings who are trying (and succeeding most of the time)  to live up to the good deeds that are outlined all the holy books of all these religions. then i would gladly share in their (the faeres, fays, sidhes, succubi, djinn) destiny.
and that night i felt a little kiss on my forehead.