George W. Bush Refuses UFO Disclosure and the Beat Goes On.

So, appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to promote his new book of paintings of soldiers wounded in the wars he started, former President George W. Bush refused to reveal anything about the government’s classified “UFO documents.

Kimmel asked, “This is a question that I think is very important to me and very important to the country.  When you were in office — and I don’t know when this happened or if it happened — did you go through the secret files; the UFO documents?”

The audience broke into laughter. Bush answered: "Maybe, I’m not telling you nothing."

So, the former President Bush is following the clever lines of the, then, president Obama, who had told Kimmel live, jokingly I might add: "The aliens won’t let it happen… they exercise strict control over us...I can’t reveal anything.”

Now, wouldn't it make sense for these guys to tell us something to lessen our interest in the subject if they could?  I don't know, maybe something like, "There's nothing there!"   Obviously, they don't gain anything from the vague answers.

As John Lennon once sang, "All I want is the true, just give me some truth... no short haired son...."

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Ah yes, March 3rd fellow earthlings, or should I say... Pagans?   Witch?  Truth Seeker?  (I just demonstrated the Rule of Three's in writing there, very clever of me).   Nonetheless, today is the third day of the third month, and as you may or may-not know, "three" is a very magical number.  

The third day of the month is believed to be a very favorable time for Witches and practitioners of magic throughout the world.  This day is sacred to all Triple Goddesses and deities of the Moon (which shows itself in three aspects: waxing, full, and waning). 

The 3rd card of the Major Arcana is The Empress, symbolizing creative intelligence.  She is the perfect woman, the ultra-feminine, Mother Earth nurturer, who is our dreams made real, our hopes and aspirations embodied.  The Empress represents positive traits of charm, grace and unconditional love, and negative traits of vanity and affectation, as well as intolerance for imperfection.

And for those of you who are still holding on to the dying, false religion of duality and cruelty, the 3rd verse of the 3rd chapter of the 3rd book of the Shakespearean version (King James) bible (also know as Leviticus 3:3), says, "And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards."

Okay, that makes no sense, something about using your body fat to light a candle, I think (?)

Regarding the Kabbalah, the Third day of creation G-d created the grass, trees and fruits. This is also the only day that G-d says: “it is good” twice! Therefore, three represent the need for space, freedom and success (fruitful) in your work.

So get off your ass and do something. 

Now that I understand.  Don't you?

Mother March

In various parts of Europe (also on March 9th by some calendars, and not to be confused with the Woman March against Donald Trump, although closely related), women celebrate Mother March each year on this date.

The Mother-Goddess who presides over the third month of the year is honored and a festive parade is held to commemorate all women who have created life.
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If you understand yourself as a spiritual being, you can save yourself from all troubles.  No matter what happens to you, you will be untouchable.

-- Father Tolstoy

March 1st, Esoterically Speaking.

On this day in 1692, in Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba, an Indian slave from Barbados, are charged with the illegal practice of witchcraft. Later that day, Tituba, possibly under coercion, confessed to the crime, encouraging the authorities to seek out more Salem witches.

Interesting that also on this day in the year 1888, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (an influential Western occult order and secret society) was established.  It offered teachings on ceremonial magic, divination, Kabbalah, and other occult oriented sciences.  Many of its rituals are still in use by modern-day practitioners of High Magic.  Aleister Crowley (one of the Golden Dawn's most famous members) was initiated into the Order in the year 1898 but was later expelled.

The only thing missing is a human sacrifice, wait, there was one: on this day in 1932, Charles Lindbergh Jr., the twenty-month-old son of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh, was kidnapped from the family’s new mansion in Hopewell, New Jersey.  For those of you who don't know, Lindbergh had become famous around the world five years earlier when he flew The Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic.  Unfortunately, the kidnappers had dropped the twenty-month old son off the ladder making their escape and he died immediately.  

Racist Hollywood

So yesterday's Oscar mix-up was a strange thing, and I'm sure offering the award to the wrong winner has nothing to do with the fact that the winner was the first LGBT film to receive an Academy Award for best picture...

Is it really that strange though?  In routine fashion in 1940, Hollywood gave nearly all of its awards, eight Oscars, to Gone with the Wind, which was a long sigh of nostalgia for the good old days of slavery.

Thus Hollywood confirmed its ways.  Twenty-five years earlier, its first blockbuster was Birth of a Nation, an anthem of praise to the Ku Klux Klan.

Something to think about for those of you who actually watched the awards.   I'm saving my sham time for the palme d'or show.  

A True American Hero Was Born On This Day, And You Probably Don't Know His Name.

When he was descending a spiral staircase on-board ship, it occurred to him that protein molecules might travel the same way in a spiral over a wavy base.  The thought turned out to be a scientific breakthrough.

When he discovered that automobiles were the reason he coughed so much in the city of Los Angeles, he invented the electric car, which was a commercial failure.

When he came down with kidney disease and medicine did not help, he prescribed himself healthy food and bombardments of vitamin C.  He got better.

When the bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he was invited to speak at a scientific conference in Hollywood.  And when he discovered that he had not said what he wanted to say, he went on to lead the global campaign against nuclear weapons.

When he received the Nobel Prize for the second time, Life magazine decried it as an insult to all Americans.  By then the government of the United States, suspecting him of communist sympathies, had taken away his passport twice, or perhaps it was because he said that God was an unnecessary idea.

His name was Linus Pauling.  He was born along with the twentieth century.

- Eduardo Galeano

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Night of the Kuna

The Panamanian government passed a law commanding "the settlement into civilized life of all existing barbarous, semi-barbarous and savage tribes in the country."

Its spokesman announced:  "The Kuna Indians will never again paint their noses, only their cheeks, and they will no longer put rings in their noses, only in their ears.  And they will no longer dress in molas, rather in civilized attire."

The religious ceremonies of Kuna women and men, which offended God, were outlawed, as was their mania for governing themselves in their own traditional way.

In 1925, on the night of the twenty-fifth day of the month of iguana, the Kunas used their knives on all the policemen who forbade them from living their lives.

Ever since, Kuna women wear rings in their painted noses and dress in their molas, a splendid art form done by needle and thread instead of paintbrushes.  And Kuna women and men continue holding their ceremonies and assemblies on the two thousand islands where they defend, by hook or by crook, their shared kingdom.

-- Eduardo Galeano

god i like this pope

If this post angers you, it's because it is you. The Pope is calling "bullshit" on most of the Christians I know:

In case you want to read it all, here it is:

(CNN)If you're a Christian who exploits people, leads a double life or manages a "dirty" business, perhaps it's better not to call yourself a believer, Pope Francis suggested in a homily on Thursday in Rome."So many Christians are like this, and these people scandalize others," Francis said during morning Mass at Casa Santa Marta, according to Vatican Radio. "How many times have we heard -- all of us, around the neighborhood and elsewhere -- 'But to be a Catholic like that, it's better to be an atheist.' It is that: scandal."

Finally, I remember when I wanted to be a Christian, when Christians stood for something other than a Good Republican.  When they seemed above it all.  Now, I figure if not being one of those hypocritical, self serving bastards means burning in hell for eternity,  I'll take hell.

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Pig Blood, Donald Trump, and, oink, oink. e i e i o

On February 23rd the last festival of the ancient Roman year (the Terminalia) was celebrated annually in honor of the god Terminus, a deity who ruled over boundaries and frontiers.  During the Terminalia, neighbors whose lands were divided and protected by Terminus would gather together and pour libations of wine, honey, and the blood of sacrificed pigs on their stone boundary-markers.

Speaking of pigs, a member of the Suidae family, often known in the United States as a hog, the Pig has a very mixed reputation in world mythology, as both sacred (e.g. in ancient Rome) and unclean (e.g. Hebrew and Islamic law).  distrust of the pig passed into Christian lore partly from the Judaic tradition and partly from the biblical episode in which Jesus drives a legion of unclean spirits into a herd of swine.  In many societies the reasons for avoiding pig-meat are bound up with sympathetic magic rather than religious beliefs; Zulu women avoid eating pigs lest they produce ugly babies.  The Celts had no such qualms, and among Manannan's greatest treasures were two self-perpetuation pigs, one forever roasting while the other forever fattened itself to take its place.

In popular proverb lore the pig represents low animal nature and specifically greed, ignorance and filth.  It is seldom featured in animal tales, and even more rarely as a trickster or a figure with intelligence and wit.  In a Walloon (southern Belgium) tale also found in Catalonia and among Native Americans however the pig is caught in an apple tree by the wolf and saves himself by dropping into his persecutor's mouth, not the ham that he has promised, but a thorny branch that splits the wolf's gullet.  In the popular European nursery tale of the Three Little Pigs, the three build houses of varying strength -- one of straw, one of week and one of bricks.   Finally all the pigs take shelter in the last house.  In some versions the wolf is killed when he tries to enter through the chimney and either falls or is burned by the fire.

Of course, there is the Chinese year of the pig, of which we are in: 2017.  Wouldn't you know it:
Pigs are not considered smart animals in China.  On the positive side, they are regarded as wealth.

Yes, 2017, the year of The...  Trump.

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Disclaimer:  Here at EsotericDaily.com we decided to go political when we realized Sir Donald Tic Tac Trump is still running his campaign of divisiveness and ugliness, which is so,  well, oink! oink!

There Is No Evil

If one iota of the effort people put into getting rich, entertaining themselves, or arguing were invested in improving their inner self and not fighting their conscience, soon all the evil would disappear from this world.

Do not tell or complain about the bad things your loved ones have done.  If others gossip, judge, and criticize their neighbors, try to ignore it.  The less you judge others, the better it will be for you.

You cannot increase the goodness of this life.  Your life in itself is a good thing.  All you have to do is not spoil it.  We do live bad lives sometimes, but this is because we did bad things that we shouldn't have done.

The words, "Aut bene, aut nihil," are understood to mean, "About the dead say only good, or say nothing."  This is wrong.  One should say the opposite:  "About the living say only good,  or say nothing."  Doing this would save us from many mistakes and from mixing up what is good with what is evil.

Father Tolstoy

Ancestral Guardian Spirits

In ancient Rome, an All Soul's Day ceremony known as the Feralia was held annually on February 21 at the close of the Parentalia festival.  Family reunions were held and Lares (ancestral guardian spirits) were honored with prayers and offerings.


Equally as peculiar, February 21 is the International Mother Language Day.

Every two weeks, a language dies.

The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts.

In 1974 Angela Loij died.  She was one of the last Ona Indians from Terra del Fuego, way out there at the edge of the world.  She was the last one who spoke their language.

Angela sang to herself, for no one else, in that language no longer recalled by anyone but her:
                     
                                                        I'm walking in the steps
                                                        of those who have gone.
                                                        Lost, am I. 

In times gone by, the Onas worshipped several gods.  Their supreme god was named Pemaulk.

Permaulk meant "word." 
(Eduardo Galeano)

The owl.

Athenian Owl Coin

The owl is a predatory bird of the night.  In classical Greece it was the emblem of Athena and hence a symbol of wisdom (Athens was renowned for its profusion of owls). In Rome, however, the hoot of an owl was known as an omen of death, appearing at the deathbeds of several emperors, and a prophetic bird.  Among the Pimas of North America owls were thought to embody the spirits of the dead.  In Celtic lore, too, the owl was a bird of the underworld, the 'corpse bird.'  In Asia and the Middle East the nocturnal visits of the owl are feared as he can carry off souls, although in some areas of Japan the owl is regarded as beneficent.  It association with darkness led inevitable in medieval Europe to identification with the Devil.

Because of its night vision, the owl is venerated by several Native American groups and in India owl's eyeballs are a delicacy with the power to make one see in the dark.  Owl feathers are a charm to induce sleep, and in some cultures bring about an easy delivery in childbirth.

A pious legend tells how Christ visited a baker's shop and asked for a cake; the parsimonious baker's daughter reduced the size of the dough by half and was transformed into an owl as punishment for her meanness.

Owls can see in the dark but become blind in bright light.  The same is true of many scholars.  They know many unnecessary scholarly trifles but do not know, or want to know, the most important science needed for life -- how you should live in this world.