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Post by hibernicus on Apr 15, 2021 20:45:30 GMT
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Post by assisi on Sept 24, 2022 18:31:33 GMT
Rod Dreher draws attention to an article on Hilary Mantel (perpetrator of WOLF HALL, celebrator of Thomas Cromwell, etc) which cites passages in Mantel's memoir suggesting something resembling demonic infestation. He also recalls some odd experiences of his own. A useful reminder of the dangers of becoming fascinated with darkness www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/hilary-mantel-cursed-childhood-demonic/Hilary Mantel is dead. It's worth quoting again the passage she wrote herself regarding what she saw and felt as a young girl staring out to the field beyond the family's back garden: [The spot] is, let us say, some fifty yards away, among coarse grass, weeds and bracken. I can’t see anything, not exactly see: except the faintest movement, a ripple, a disturbance of the air. I can sense a spiral, like flies; but it is not flies. There is nothing to see. There is nothing to smell. There is nothing to hear. But its motion, its insolent shift, makes my stomach heave. . . . It is as high as a child of two. Its depth is a foot, fifteen inches. The air stirs around it, invisibly. I am cold, and rinsed by nausea. I cannot move. I am shaking. . . . I beg it, stay away, stay away. Within the space of a thought it is inside me, and has set up a sick resonance within my bones and in all the cavities of my body.
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Post by Askel McThurkill on Sept 27, 2022 21:43:47 GMT
Rod Dreher draws attention to an article on Hilary Mantel (perpetrator of WOLF HALL, celebrator of Thomas Cromwell, etc) which cites passages in Mantel's memoir suggesting something resembling demonic infestation. He also recalls some odd experiences of his own. A useful reminder of the dangers of becoming fascinated with darkness www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/hilary-mantel-cursed-childhood-demonic/Hilary Mantel is dead. It's worth quoting again the passage she wrote herself regarding what she saw and felt as a young girl staring out to the field beyond the family's back garden: [The spot] is, let us say, some fifty yards away, among coarse grass, weeds and bracken. I can’t see anything, not exactly see: except the faintest movement, a ripple, a disturbance of the air. I can sense a spiral, like flies; but it is not flies. There is nothing to see. There is nothing to smell. There is nothing to hear. But its motion, its insolent shift, makes my stomach heave. . . . It is as high as a child of two. Its depth is a foot, fifteen inches. The air stirs around it, invisibly. I am cold, and rinsed by nausea. I cannot move. I am shaking. . . . I beg it, stay away, stay away. Within the space of a thought it is inside me, and has set up a sick resonance within my bones and in all the cavities of my body.Just read the Dreher piece. It's fascinating, but scary. I hate to think that Hilary Mantel's mother's actions might have cast such a dark shadow over her.
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Post by Beinidict Ó Niaidh on Oct 5, 2022 8:35:08 GMT
Dreher has a particular interest in this and he returns to it often enough in his articles. I've heard anectdotally of a lot of stuff coming up in regard to the occult recently - from public displays of Tarot cards to private requests for house blessings. I have a couple of stories to relate, but I am a bit nervous of doing so publicly on a forum like this because I don't have the people's permission.
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Post by Askel McThurkill on Oct 15, 2022 21:21:27 GMT
In the last couple of weeks, I got several reminders of the preternatural. The prevalence of yoga, reiki and other practices adopted from the orient is one, but I have also come across someone unashamedly advertising herself as a medium. I know people find this funny, but these things have inherent dangers.
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