tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47343122586584203012024-03-12T19:23:38.464-07:00LIFE -- magical mystery journeyA blog about my hobbies and interests which include Movies, Magick, Tarot. Astrology, the Occult and Esoteric Sciences, etc.J. Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770834452187089855noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734312258658420301.post-2362665651348682262018-07-06T21:55:00.001-07:002018-07-06T21:55:07.277-07:00Harry Potter: Phenomenal Books and Films
Harry Potter : From Books to Films
When I read the first Harry Potter book in the 1990s, I thought that if the book’s author, JK Rowling, wrote it for a general audience instead of a target market – children, the book could become a classic at the level of Charles Dickens’s works.
I found the author’s coining of names for the characters, places and objects very amusing – giving the readers J. Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770834452187089855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734312258658420301.post-69073358160725790932009-10-21T21:34:00.000-07:002022-11-27T03:07:05.450-08:00DON'T USE BLOGGER. BLOGGER SUCKS!For some reasons, I cannot view this site anymore. I don't know if anybody can. But I could still open the dashboard, edit and write new posts. Blogger has just deleted my other blog. Now they appear to be doing the same for this blog.
This is from my previous post:
My other blogspot blog -- m-reality.blogspot.com -- is now lost. Years of effort gone to naught. A week ago, I J. Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770834452187089855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734312258658420301.post-71526595065249384792009-08-25T01:42:00.000-07:002009-08-28T18:02:19.616-07:00WARNING TO BLOGGER USERSMy other blogspot blog -- m-reality.blogspot.com -- is now lost. Years of effort gone to naught.A week ago, I couldn't go to my post because it was blocked by google saying it has malware. I went to Google help. There were several with the same problems. But no solutions.The blogowners are supposed to remove whatever malware was put in there because of the hackers or third party gadgets like J. Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770834452187089855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734312258658420301.post-64687534193662584792009-04-06T23:53:00.000-07:002009-04-07T00:21:58.807-07:00The Midheaven and Your Career PathIt is Graduation time again in the Philippines. Young graduates are now about to be thrown into the real world, a world where people work for money, for fulfillment or even for just killing time.As a guide to the graduates, I am posting here an article I wrote for Mr. Ms. magazine, May 2006:“Whatever is born or done this moment has the qualities of this moment in time.” -- Carl G. J. Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770834452187089855noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734312258658420301.post-7072903677866383972008-12-31T05:40:00.000-08:002008-12-31T05:46:08.516-08:00Happy 2009!2009 is another year when Jupiter sojourns in the Sign of Aquarius. This means "Let's Party!" and expect some revolutionary changes in ourselves and in society.Happy New Year!J. Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770834452187089855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734312258658420301.post-22188112511979277682008-12-13T23:39:00.000-08:002018-07-07T06:25:32.319-07:00How to be a Ladies’ Man or a Femme Fatale
Have you ever dreamed of becoming a Ladies’ Man or a Rudolph Valentino, gathering swarms of adoring girls wherever you go? Or if you are a woman, have you dreamed of being a femme fatale such that when you walk into a room, all the guys turn their heads to admire you? Fret no more, because you can be the macho guy or sexy girl whom everybody adores.
First you have to meditate; i.e., go to theJ. Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770834452187089855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734312258658420301.post-75077045011792771662008-09-28T00:08:00.000-07:002009-04-07T00:37:12.513-07:00Goodbye, Mr. PAUL NEWMANPaul Newman is dead. He is 83 years old. Really, how time flies. I still remember watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid when I was in the elementary school. I immediately related to the clever Butch Cassidy character rather than to the faster (at the draw) and younger Sundance Kid character. This was the first Newman film that I saw although his films like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof were J. Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770834452187089855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734312258658420301.post-67345133166671004342008-09-25T20:34:00.000-07:002008-09-25T20:48:37.912-07:00What The Bleep Do We Know?This is from my QUANTUM CINEMA column in Mr. & Ms. Magazine, May - June 2008 issue:==============================================================I have just finished watching for the nth time the documentary What The Bleep Do We Know? Enthusiasts of the documentary The Secret, which has since been made into a book, should watch this one as it would give the principles of The Secret more J. Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770834452187089855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734312258658420301.post-83633418693418710362008-06-30T04:08:00.000-07:002008-06-30T04:36:46.958-07:00MANNY PACQUIAO MEETS DESTINY This Sunday morning (Manila Time) June 29, 2008, with the Moon in Aquarius, Manny Pacquiao of Mindanao, Philippines finally met his destiny – to be the first Asian to win championships in FOUR categories – flyweight, super bantamweight, junior lightweight (super featherweight) and lightweight. He thus joins the likes of Tommy Hearns, Roberto Duran, Sugar Ray Leonard and Oscar de la Hoya – J. Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770834452187089855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734312258658420301.post-40671991058645146602008-03-25T18:52:00.000-07:002008-03-25T19:13:51.296-07:00ERAGON and THE FOUNTAIN - Film ReviewsBelow is an article Of Dragons, Magic, Immortality and Special Effects from my magazine column, QUANTUM CINEMA in M. & Ms. Magazine, March 2007Two fantasy films are making the rounds of the world’s movie houses this year – Eragon and The Fountain. One is about mythical beasts in a mythical land which looks like medieval Europe. The other is a story of a man and a woman in three different J. Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770834452187089855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734312258658420301.post-79815090689816548752008-03-20T07:05:00.000-07:002008-03-20T07:32:24.391-07:00Deconstructing Da Vinci Code during LentWhen I was a kid, all TV programs and movies in the Philippine were all related to the story of Jesus Christ or the Bible. Because of this, I saw The Ten Commandments, The Bible, Ben Hur, Samson and Delilah, David and Bathsheba, The Robe, and films like these more than ten times at least. There was no choice because there was nothing else to see. Besides, when I was a kid, I just wanted to go to J. Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770834452187089855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734312258658420301.post-81455377075300696152008-03-16T03:11:00.000-07:002008-03-16T08:58:35.729-07:00PACQUIAO TAKES BOXING CROWN FROM MARQUEZFilipino fighter Manny Pacquiao has been dreaming of the super featherweight crown for more than four years. In 2004, even though he floored Juan Manuel Marquez three times in the first round, the fight was declared a draw.For some reasons, he got to fight the world's best boxers, Marco Antonio Barreira and Erik Morales when these guys just happened to have lost their championship belts.Last yearJ. Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770834452187089855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734312258658420301.post-27106716932758124352008-03-08T09:04:00.000-08:002008-03-09T08:04:48.879-07:00Mary Magdalene, Judas and the Da Vinci Code OriginsMarch 8, 2008 is International Women's Day. On this day, women all over the world not only celebrate the role of women in today's society but also to fight for more women's rights.Women have been maligned in literature and myth just as much, if not worse than in real life. One such woman was Mary Magdalene, who for some reasons, is thought of as a prostitute by most people today. That belief has J. Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770834452187089855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734312258658420301.post-66024886902147151392008-01-26T02:22:00.000-08:002008-03-09T08:02:17.376-07:00Maria Sharapova wins Aussie OpenThe glamorous Maria Sharapova of Russia just won the 2008 Australian Open, beating another young and beautiful tennis player, Ana Ivanovic of Serbia in straight sets, 7-5, 6-3.Maria played top-notch tennis, the way she was playing all throughout the tournament. In her victory speech, she mentioned that Billie Jean King sent her a message today that says "champions take chances and pressure is a J. Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770834452187089855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734312258658420301.post-31547166409903156982008-01-25T22:06:00.000-08:002008-01-25T22:34:27.307-08:00Magic and Glamor in the Australian Open 2008 For some time now, tennis king Roger Federer and tennis queen Justine Henin have dominated world tennis so that only they get to win the Grand Slam championships. Of course there’s Nadal who made the French Open his own. And there’s the come-backing Williams sisters who won a Grand Slam each last year.I like both Federer and Henin, but it can get boring watching them win again and again.J. Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770834452187089855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734312258658420301.post-6409888099492537742007-11-19T06:47:00.000-08:002007-11-19T07:21:12.805-08:00The Secret -- Law of AttractionIn my QUANTUM CINEMA column, I reviewed the film "The Secret". The book and the film are quite the talk of the town in the country since it was twice featured in Oprah's show. In its trailer, it announced that “The Secret has passed through the ages known only to a few men,.. who… harnessed its Power.” This Secret was allegedly used to keep the rest of humanity ignorant and J. Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770834452187089855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734312258658420301.post-48398373352645762007-11-13T17:32:00.000-08:002007-11-13T17:59:16.836-08:00Money VisualizationI subscribe to one e-zine which sends me articles on Mind Power stuff. In one article, it says Free Articles at icreatewisdom.com I might re-post here some of the free articles. One such article is the following:==========================Anticipate Wealth With Barry's Money Visualization This is a money visualization tip from Barry Goss, who learned it from Margo Zaher, Manifesting Coach. You J. Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770834452187089855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734312258658420301.post-46341411143689566502007-11-06T11:17:00.000-08:002007-11-06T12:05:47.033-08:00As Pluto Meets the Galactic CenterPluto will be leaving the sign of Sagittarius in late January next year, thus ending an era that started in 1995. Bush's War on Terror and Huntington's Clash of Civilizations characterize this period in our history. At the end of this era, Pluto conjuncts with the Galactic Center. The effects of this era will be clearly seen in the next epoch which would most probably change the world as we J. Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770834452187089855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734312258658420301.post-51133814503065012992007-10-30T13:11:00.000-07:002007-10-30T13:15:47.596-07:00Happy Halloween!!Halloween, a Christian and Pagan TraditionJ. Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770834452187089855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734312258658420301.post-87154824773094477242007-10-09T08:18:00.000-07:002007-10-22T04:21:24.629-07:00Harry Potter: Order of the PhoenixFrom my QUANTUM CINEMA column in Mr. & Ms. Magazine, Supermonthly of the Body, Mind and Spirit, Sept. 2007:After a very disappointing Goblet of Fire, English Director David Yates brought Magic back in Harry Potter: The Order of the Phoenix, the 5th installment of the Harry Potter series based on the phenomenal novels of J.K. Rowling, Not only is the film intelligible even to non-Potter fans,J. Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770834452187089855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734312258658420301.post-53047313837695563042007-09-30T00:20:00.001-07:002007-09-30T00:35:13.943-07:00ASTROLOGY and HEALTH“A physician without knowledge of astrology has no right to call himself a physician”– Hippocrates (born ca. 400 BC) Astrology was studied and respected in the ancient Egyptian civilization, in the Greek and Roman civilizations, in the old Islamic civilization, and in the Renaissance. In 1125, the chair of Astrology was founded at the University of Bologna. The prestigious Cambridge J. Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770834452187089855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734312258658420301.post-22321241981924127792007-07-23T09:29:00.001-07:002007-07-23T09:45:33.299-07:00The Magic of PhysicsThere is a new theory in the scientific community - the M-theory. Princeton professor Edward Witten, its leading proponent, says that M stands for mystery, magic or matrix, his favorite words. It is understandable for physicists to like the word matrix as calculations using matrices are necessary in particle physics. But it seems strange for physicists to favor terms like mystery or magic. Or is J. Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770834452187089855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734312258658420301.post-1590802874621769822007-07-10T00:49:00.001-07:002007-07-10T01:07:45.804-07:00Daniel Radcliffe of Harry Potter is magazine cover storyThe cover story for this month's Mr. & Ms. magazine, Supermonthly of the Body, Mind and Spirit is Daniel Radcliffe of Harry Potter fame.I can't wait to see Order of the Phoenix. I have high hopes that director David Yates will not make the same mistakes as Director Mike Newell.Check out the site of Mr. & Ms. Magazine and read my review of Spiderman 3 ==============================================J. Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770834452187089855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734312258658420301.post-63402000847542077502007-06-22T09:18:00.001-07:002018-07-07T06:19:15.158-07:00A more mature Daniel Radcliffe and Harry Potter
In April, I uploaded an article I wrote about Harry Potter books and films. I prefaced the article with notes on how the actors had grown. I included a picture of a naked Daniel Radcliffe taken from behind. See post.
There were hundreds of visitors to this site looking for naked photos of Radcliffe. I am thus posting a few Radcliffe publicity shots for his play, EQUUS.
The Harry Potter hero J. Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770834452187089855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734312258658420301.post-32940985487596004762007-06-09T09:11:00.000-07:002007-06-09T10:10:18.976-07:00What Would You Do?If the boatman were you, would you rather that you see the shark or simply be oblivious to it?J. Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16770834452187089855noreply@blogger.com0