tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47343122586584203012011-11-27T15:37:55.994-08:00A 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.comBlogger381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4734312258658420301.post-69073358160725790932009-10-21T21:34:00.000-07:002011-02-24T07:50:46.521-08:00

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 couldn't go to my post

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My 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

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It 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.

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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!

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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 the

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Paul 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

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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

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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 –

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Below 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

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When 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

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Filipino 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 year

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March 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

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The 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

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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.

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In 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

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I 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

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Pluto 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

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Halloween, a Christian and Pagan Tradition

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From 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, it

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“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

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There 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

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The 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 ==============================================

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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 has

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If the boatman were you, would you rather that you see the shark or simply be oblivious to it?

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FROM MR. & MS. MAGAZINE JUNE 2007 ISSUE. Playboy Magazine produced a documentary titled Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003) that was written and directed by Kevin Burns and Steven Smith. It gives the viewers a brief glance at the relationship between Sex and Hollywood. In line with its producer’s characteristics, the film gives the audience a review of Hollywood’s sex goddesses from Theda

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Here in the Philippines, we have just finished a national election. There are allegations of massive fraud and cheating. Some 130 people have been killed in election-related violence. The Mass Media, or at least some of them, are trying to inform the people of all the cheating and violence going on in an effort to have a relatively fair election. The Mass Media, especially Broadcast Journalism,

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Most people are familiar with Sun-Sign astrology. When a person says s/he is a Sagittarian, it means that when s/he was born, the Sun was in (under the influence of) the constellation Sagittarius. There is, however, another very important planetary body in our solar system – the Moon, Earth’s closest neighbor.The Sun is 93 million miles away from the Earth. The Moon, on the other hand, is just

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Today is Mother’s Day in many countries including U.S.A. and the Philippines. May all Mothers bring out the best in their husbands and children while living up to their own full potential. Below is an article I wrote for The Philippine Post on December 14, 1999. It is about Eve, the Mother of all the Living. ================================================================Eve, the Mother of all

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by Jamal Ashley Abbas To come or not to come (?), that is the question that concerns practitioners of Taoist sexual kung fu. In Taoism, the life force energy is hugely concentrated in the male semen. The conservation of this energy is thus imperative. For monks, celibacy is the traditional way but there is a more practical way – the path of the Seminal and Ovarian Kung Fu. Western

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FROM MR. & MS. MAGAZINE - Supermonthly of the Body, Mind & Spirit According to the esoteric sciences, NAMES are sacred. There are secrets buried in one’s name. In Numerology, each letter corresponds to a number. By calculating the number according to some equations, the name’s properties, and hence, the destiny of the bearer of the name can be discovered. For those not

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FROMChocolatey Life of Nestle Poell :Free-to-watch movie sites Watch all of your favorite TV shows, movies, music videos, and anime. (Indefinite downtime issue)View hundreds of TV shows and movies. Dozens of top TV shows are listed on this site One of the best places to find full-length TV shows. Lots of full-length TV shows from dozens of the best

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Check out my Film Review of Guillermo del Toro's El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan's Labyrint) at the Mr. & Ms. Magazine website. Click the image above to reach the site. Then right click the May 2007 issue. Then go to TOC (Table of Contents) and click page 60.

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Mr. & Ms. Magazine - the Supermonthly of the Body, Mind, and Spirit May 2007 is now out in the streets and in cyberspace.The cover story is the movie Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End.It also features my film column QUANTUM CINEMA, where I reviewed the film PAN'S LABYRINTH.I have another article there -- the Art of the Anagram.Click the magazine image above to go the site -- a

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While I was taking my MA in Media Studies, I usually debated with my teachers who insisted that Films should be viewed only as reflecting Social Practice. I argued that a film must be viewed primarily as a creative work, as Art. These teachers were all trying to be politically correct, in other words, they try to appear as left-leaning and "progressive".Then one day, the officials of China's

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It seems just like yesterday when we first saw three cute kids play the roles of Harry, Hermione and Ron in the film adaptation of J.K. Rowling's phenomenal Harry Potter novel.Today, these kids are now all grown up. In fact, Daniel Radcliffe is enjoying a successful run at the West End playing a mature role in the play EQUUS. Like Peter Firth and other actors before him, Radcliffe gets to strut

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There are times when life seems hopeless. During these times, because we feel badly, we tend to attract bad or negative vibrations. In the world of energy, like attracts like. And so the spiral downwards into living hell starts.Some people, who are not spiritually strong, can be possessed by other entities. Many people reject the idea of possession because they have neither seen them or

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The term Sex Magick brings to mind images of naked witches and warlocks in orgy, or scenes from Stanley Kubrick’s forgettable film Eyes Wide Shut that showed hooded men fornicating with nude women, or the paintings and sculptures of the Kama Sutra. Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise in Eyes Wide Shut (above)Tom Cruise and others in Kubrick's Eyes Wide

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Join me in my magickal, mystery journey called Life."The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends." -- Penn

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