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A Middle Eastern favorite, this Everything Hummus is smooth and creamy and totally addictive.
Seriously, I could live on hummus. It’s one of my favorite snacks. This Everything Hummus is thick and creamy, cheaper than store-bought versions and takes no time to whip up.
It’s high in protein and fiber and it’s also packed with vitamins and minerals.
What is hummus?
Hummus is a dip or spread that’s made from cooked, mashed chickpeas. It’s blended with tahini, lemon juice, and garlic. It’s a popular Middle Eastern favorite.
I love making a batch at the beginning of the week and enjoying it as a snack for the remainder of the week. I love to spread it on sandwiches and use it as a dip for fresh veggies, naan or pita bread or chips, crackers/breadsticks or pretzels.
I use canned chickpeas to make my hummus. I make sure to peel the skin from the chickpeas, which does take a bit more time, but it’s so worth it. Peeling the skins yields an extra smooth hummus, so honestly, I don’t usually skip that step.
I always want a generous serving for the week, so I use two cans of chickpeas for this recipe. You’ll need some tahini, olive oil, some water, garlic, fresh lemon juice and some everything bagel seasoning. You simply blend everything up in your food processor until it’s well combined and nice and smooth. It’s as simple as that!
Stay tuned, because later in the week I’ll be sharing a homemade naan recipe which goes perfectly with this hummus. Enjoy!
A Few Cook’s Notes for Everything Hummus Recipe:
As mentioned above, I would definitely go the extra step and peel the skins from your canned chickpeas. It will give you a much smoother hummus.
Sometimes I make my own homemade everything bagel seasoning, but you can also find it now in the spice area of your local food store. Trader Joe’s carries one called Everything But the Bagel Sesame Seasoning Blend.
- 1/2 cup tahini
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 tsp. fine sea salt
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 lemon, juiced
- 2 15-oz. cans chickpeas, rinsed, drained and shelled
- 1/3 cup cold water
- 1 Tbsp. everything bagel seasoning, plus some extra for sprinkling on top
- 1/4 tsp. red pepper flakes, optional
- Add tahini, olive oil, salt, garlic and lemon juice to food processor and pulse until smooth.
- Add the chickpeas and water and process until smooth, about 3 minutes, scraping down halfway through. Add more water if too thick. Add the everything bagel seasoning and pulse once or twice to combine. Spoon into a serving bowl and top with a bit of olive oil and some extra everything bagel seasoning. Serve with vegetables, crackers, pretzels or chips.


Britain handed out 204,000 passports to foreign nationals, latest figures reveal
In demand: Figures have revealed that 203,600 British passports were given to foreign nationals in 2009 - up 57 per cent on the previous year
Britain gave citizenship to the highest number of foreign nationals in Europe, new research has found.
A total of 203,600 foreign nationals were awarded British citizenship in 2009 - that is 50 per cent more than second-placed France and more than double the number in Germany.
The figures, from the EU statistics body Eurostat, followed predictions that Britain could become the most populated EU country by 2060 - with 79 million people.
UK passports were given to one in four of the 776,000 new citizens entering the EU in 2009.
The EU saw an 11 per cent rise on the number of people entering the euro zone from the previous year.
The 203,600 people who entered Britain was a 57 per cent increase on the 129,300 who came in 2008.
Critics have said the figures revealed that Labour's immigration policies had left borders 'wide open'.
Ukip's home affairs spokesman Gerard Batten told the Daily Express: 'These figures show how Labour's uncontrolled, unlimited immigration policy is coming home to roost.
'David Cameron must get a grip and introduce radical policies to halt mass immigration.'
The Prime Minister has said wants to cut net immigration to the 'tens of thousands'.
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Ilana's is a lovely peaceful place to stay outside of Jerusalem yet conveniently close. It is especially good if you have a rental car as they offer plenty of covered parking spaces. They have lovely gardens to enjoy surrounding their place. They do not offer any meals but are very helpful in directing one to restaurants & places to buy groceries for your kitchen, etc. The innkeepers themselves are very hospitable, helpful, lovely people with a wealth of knowledge about the area. The accommodations are not fancy but they are private, peaceful & pleasant. There was ample hot water for a nice long shower & nothing to complain about. I would definitely stay again & reccommend it to anyone who enjoys peace, privacy, the beauty of natural surroundings & very gracious hosts.

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Edouard Vuillard Galleries
Jean-Edouard Vuillard, the son of a retired captain, spent his youth at Cuiseaux (Saone-et-Loire); in 1878 his family moved to Paris in modest circumstances. After his father\'s death, in 1884, Vuillard received a scholarship to continue his education. In the Lycee Condorcet Vuillard met Ker Xavier Roussel (also a future painter and Vuillard\'s future brother in law), Maurice Denis, musician Pierre Hermant, writer Pierre Veber and Lugne-Poe. On Roussel\'s advice he refused a military career and entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he met Pierre Bonnard.
In 1885, Vuillard left the Lycee Condorcet and joined his closest friend Roussel at the studio of painter Diogene Maillart. There, Roussel and Vuillard received the rudiments of artistic training. Related Paintings of Edouard Vuillard :. | Woman lying on the sofa | the flowered dress | The mother s hair grown | Vial home after lunch | Self-portrait of glasses |
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was an Irish-Canadian painter, famous for his paintings of First Nations peoples in the Canadian West and other Native Americans in the Oregon Country. A largely self-educated artist, Kane grew up in Toronto (then known as York) and trained himself by copying European masters on a study trip through Europe. He undertook two voyages through the wild Canadian northwest in 1845 and from 1846 to 1848. The first trip took him from Toronto to Sault Ste. Marie and back. Having secured the support of the Hudson's Bay Company, he set out on a second, much longer voyage from Toronto across the Rocky Mountains to Fort Vancouver and Fort Victoria in the Columbia District, as the Canadians called the Oregon Country. On both trips Kane sketched and painted Aboriginal peoples and documented their lives. Upon his return to Toronto, he produced more than one hundred oil paintings from these sketches. Kane's work, particularly his field sketches, are still a valuable resource for ethnologists.oskar kokoschka
Kokoschka was born in Pöchlarn. His early career was marked by portraits of Viennese celebrities, painted in a nervously animated style. He served in the Austrian army in World War I and was wounded. At the hospital, the doctors decided that he was mentally unstable. Nevertheless, he continued to develop his career as an artist, traveling across Europe and painting the landscape.John Kane
American painter of Scottish birth. In 1879 Kane emigrated to western Pennsylvania. He worked as a bricklayer, coal miner, steel worker and carpenter in the Ohio River valley and, in 1890, began to sketch local scenery. After losing his leg in a train accident in 1891, he was employed painting railway carriages. When his son died in 1904, Kane left his family and spent years wandering and working in odd jobs; his earliest surviving paintings date from around 1910. Settling in Pittsburgh, he worked as a house painter and in his spare time painted portraits, religious subjects, the city's urban landscape and memories of his Scottish childhood. In 1927 the jury of the Carnegie International Exhibition, Pittsburgh, encouraged by the painter-juror Andrew Dasburg (b 1887), accepted Kane's Scene in the Scottish Highlands (1927; Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie Mus. A.). Kane's success, at first considered a hoax by the press, was based on the modernist interest in primitive and folk art. His work was regarded as non-academic and boldly original, and he became the first contemporary American folk artist to be recognized by a museum. Larimer Avenue Bridge (1932; Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie Mus. A.) is characteristic of his style with its meticulous detail, flat colour and dominant green and red. Though he sketched and painted on the site, Kane freely transposed pictorial elements to create a more pleasing composition. This innate compositional sense is evident in his Self-portrait (1929; New York, MOMA).

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Over 800 voices were added to the #800 Lions campaign; in fact, more than 660 schoolchildren and students joined the cause to help raise awareness.
South Africa (21 January 2021) – The 800 Voices for 800 Lions campaign aimed to visually represent through art the quota of 800 lion skeletons South Africa exported every year for use in traditional medicine that has no proven curative benefits.
Blood Lions wanted to inspire and mobilise people to raise their voices by creating their own lion art to submit to the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF). The campaign has been submitted to Honourable Minister Barbara Creecy at DEFF, and the organisation is awaiting further communication. They are also awaiting news on what was recommended to the Minister by the High-Level Panel.
“We are proud to report that the campaign reached 163% of its goal, with over 1,300 lion art submissions from across the globe.”
“Looking at the numbers, we received 853 submissions from South Africans, including 593 from young South Africans under the age of 16. The campaign also attracted 36 submissions from Vietnam, including 27 from students at Thai Phien Primary School and 20 from school children in China, which was really inspiring to see.” – Cath Jakins
A few schools in South Africa really took to the challenge and submitted student artwork en masse. Manor Gardens Primary School in Durban submitted over 138 pieces of artwork, including songs and poems written and performed by the students.
La Lucia Junior Primary School (Durban) blew Blood Lions away with a submission of 257 pieces of art created by their learners. Other schools that took part in the campaign were Camelot College (DBN), Chelsea Preparatory (DBN), Thomas More College (DBN), St Elizabeth’s Pre Primary (DBN), Bishops College (CT) and Generation School (CT). All of the artwork can be seen on the #800Lions webpage, under “Children’s Submissions” and/or “Video Submissions”.
Here is a video clip with just a handful of the youth artwork: Youth #800Lions Art Submissions.

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Turkey’s Bayraktar Akinci combat drone broke a new record in the country on July 8th. by flying at an altitude of 38,039 feet and staying in the air for 25 hours and 46 minutes.
According to the defense company Baykar, the unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) was a project spearheaded by the Defense Industries Presidency and took off in the long-haul flight and high-altitude performance test held in the presence of official delegations.
During the flight tests in the Akinci Flight Training and Test Center, it traveled 7,507 kilometers (4,660 miles) in air, making 870 sorties during the tests to date and performed a total of 347 hours and 28 minutes of flight.
The Bayraktar Akinci UCAV made its first flight on Dec. 6 2019. Test activities carried out at the center in the northwestern Corlu Airport Command are conducted with three other prototypes.
Source: Anadolu Agency
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Join Holly as she talks to Tiff Randol about her new Music and projects !
Tiff Randol (Songstress/Creator) has released a number of albums, performed with a number of amazing artists including Fred Armisen, Lady Gaga, Semi Precious Weapons, Ween, most recently Moby on the Tonight Show, and has been nominated by the Songwriters Hall of Fame as an up and coming songwriter.
She has had her music featured in tv and film, some of which include Royal Pains, MTV, Bravo, Comedy Central, The Hills, Barnes and Noble, VH1, Logo Channel, and Planet Earth. iAMEVE is her newest creation, spinning a seductive web of hypnotic melodies, haunting lyrics and unique instrumentation that immediately captivates listeners. The debut EP THE TRAP is a concept album which chronicles the beginning of iAMEVEs journey from self-destruction to ascension and will release in Sept 2011.
About the Kickstarter campaign and the vision we are putting together: iAMEVE is a new musical creation by singer songwriter Tiff Randol which tells the story of Eve Ami in a concept album and series of music videos that explores death, rebirth, magic, and adventures through past lifetimes.
What we want to do is finish the music, artwork and visuals for the first release which will be a 4-5 song EP called "The Trap", including a webseries of music videos that accompany the music to tell the story. The first priority for this campaign will be to raise $7500 for the first video in the series "Throw Me A Line" and all additional funds will go towards artwork and continuing videos and marketing. Our ultimate goal is to raise at least $25,000 to jumpstart this entire vision.
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Victaria Saxton earning playing time
With its back against the wall and staring down a crucial SEC loss, South Carolina women’s basketball got everything it needed from two newcomers and one savvy veteran.
After trailing by 12 by one point at Arkansas, the Gamecocks stormed back to defeat the Razorbacks, 87-79, on Sunday, strengthening the team’s grip on second place in the conference and keeping its hopes for a regular season title alive.
Playing its third game in seven days, USC leaned heavily on junior guard Tyasha Harris, freshman forward Victaria Saxton and freshman guard Destanni Henderson to outscore Arkansas 35-23 in the fourth quarter, the most points Carolina has ever scored in a final quarter.
Henderson and Saxton led USC with 19 points each, while Harris added 15 points, five assists and four rebounds.
That strong finish erased any memory or a poor start in which South Carolina missed its first 10 field goal attempts. Over the course of that drought, Arkansas built up a 9-0 lead. With 5:42 left in the first quarter, senior forward Alexis Jennings finally put USC on the board with a jumper. That shot jump-started a 7-for-10 stretch from the field to finish the quarter. Senior guard Bianca Cuevas-Moore led the way with three baskets in a row at one point.
Into the second quarter, Saxton, who has provided Staley with a spark off the bench as of late, came in and tallied seven points and four rebounds in just over five minutes. Fellow freshman Destanni Henderson added four points, two rebounds and an assist in the period.
With 4:09 left in the half, Henderson’s helper to junior guard Te’a Cooper put the Gamecocks within one, 33-32. But Arkansas senior guard Malica Monk continued to tear apart the USC defense, scoring Arkansas’ final eight points to restore her team’s advantage to 39-33 at the break. Monk led all scorers at the break with 19.
Sophomore guard Chelsea Dungee picked up where Monk left off in the third quarter, putting up 10 points to help beat back any run the Gamecocks made.
But while neither team shot the ball very well on the night, South Carolina got plenty of second chances with 20 offensive rebounds. Arkansas kept pace early on with seven made 3-pointers, but USC’s defensive pressure eventually started to take its toll on the Razorbacks.
With 7:56 left to play, South Carolina took its first lead of the game on a fast-break layup from Harris. From there, she proceeded to take over. After scoring five points in the first 10 minutes and being held scoreless in the middle two quarters, she exploded for 10 points, including eight in a 12-2 run.
Henderson, Saxton and Harris accounted for USC’s first 26 points in the fourth quarter, and Arkansas made just one 3-pointer in the final 10 minutes.
Star of the game: The freshman duo of Henderson and Saxton both set career highs in scoring, but Saxton was simply on another level with eight rebounds, five of them offensive, and a perfect 7-for-7 mark from the field.
Stat of the game: South Carolina started 1-for-12 from 3. Then the Gamecocks went 3-for-4 from long range in the their comeback stretch.
Play of the game: With 8:19 left in the fourth quarter and South Carolina trailing 58-54, Saxton got the ball inside and amid a crowd of defenders had the awarness to kick the ball out to Henderson for a 3-pointer to put USC within one and spark the game-winning surge..
South Carolina returns home to play Ole Miss on Thursday at 7 p.m. The Gamecocks and the Rebels will be streamed online on SEC Network Plus.


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Is ‘One World’ a Utopian idea? Or just a dream in a world which today more than ever before stays riven by parochial, deep-rooted barriers : nationalistic, ethnic, religious, linguistic and many other, leave alone a whole diversity of divisive ‘isms’? An eminent exponent of Vedantic philosophy here examines this question afresh to suggest that the one-world dream could become a reality, if Man only learnt to cultivate the unitive vision.
Essentially a vital part of Nataraja Guru’s globally wide educational programme, Experiencing One-World seeks to evolve “one-world consciousness” that tunes Man to look beyond the trees to stars to run on his mind to world fraternity, and to discern the language of audiovisual arts and the charm of poetry – as for instance is manifest in the world of architecture and music.
Spelling out Nataraja Guru’s view of One-World that embraces his long-contemplated perspectives on one world government, one-world economics, world education, one religion, unified sciences and a language of unified sciences, the book highlights the specialties of well-groomed unitive consciousness of a world citizen, who wishes not only to restructure the existing scheme of things, but also to see mankind live a better life – and with dignity.
Nataraja Guru, the direct disciple of the great philosopher-poet-yogi Narayana Guru, studied at the Sorbonne (Paris), specializing in Educational Psychology. And his D. Litt thesis : Le Facteur Personnel dans le Processus Educatif, written under the guidance of Henri Bergson won high critical acclaim. In 1923 he founded at Varkala, Kerla, Narayana Gurukula : a spiritual school patterned on guru-sisya-parampara which today has branches all over South India and extends beyond to Singapore Europe, USA, Australia and the South Pacific.
Besides his translations and commentaries on Narayana Guru’s works, he has written on wide ranging subjects that reflect a correlation between science and mysticism which in turn have made an epochal contribution to the advancement of philosophic thought. Indubi-tably, Nataraja Guru was a brilliant exponent of Advaita Vedanta. And more than that an absolute lover of humanity, invested with unitive consciousness.
Seeing the parochial and clannish loyalty of the people in India in general and Kerala in particular, Narayana Guru advised his disciple Natarajan to move to a distant place where the mental clime was not infected by the relativistic vested interests of castes and clans. The disciple choose Sorbonne in Paris for the completion of his higher studies and to begin his mission of bringing all the major interests of man to a global appraisal of values and appreciating the collective effort of humanity to live a better life.
Nataraj a Gum had the great fortune to have a father who was devoted to Narayana Guru, even before he was born. The Gum gave great attention to steer the mind and spirit of young Natarajan. He evinced his interest in Natarajan’s progressive educational formation which came providentially in a graded manner. After his geological studies, he moved to biology especially zoology, and then to educational psychology in which he took his doctorate at the Sorbonne. Up till then, Narayana Gum’s guidance and inspiration was with Nataraja Gum. With the one world vision of Narayana Guru, Nataraja Guru familiarized himself with all the great people of his time — poets, philosophers, scientists and educationalists. He came into intimate contact with Henri Bergson and was much influenced by Jean Jaques Rousseau.
After teaching in the International Fellowship School in Geneva, where Rousseau was still considered as ‘The citizen of Geneva’, the Gum returned to India to share his wisdom with the students of his own country. It was at that time John Spiers came to him as a camp-follower and helped him in all his literary works. The Gum had a programme in his mind of giving a full course in one-world-teaching, beginning with an integrated science of’ the absolute in which he brought together all the loose ends of the conclusive teachings of religion, science, philosophy, psychology, art and literature.
The foremost need to evolve a one-world-people is to spell out the philosophy of unitive vision, for which Narayana Guru’s classic, Darana Maid, gave him the fundamentals. Based on that, the Guru wrote his Integrated Science of the Absolute in three volumes. The major guidelines for thinking in terms on one-world lay dormant in two great areas where human interests are acute. One is the physical needs, so Nataraja Guru saw economics as a basic requirement of understanding and training to meet one’s own neighbour as part of the world corporation of sharing the amenities that one gets from nature. That led him to write Towards an One World Economies.
To appreciate One-World Economics, seeds of a new attitude is to be sown in children, to look upon the world as his country. A child, like a seed, has to grow on earth, nourished by nature’s favours, and his aspirations should be raised to be tall enough to look beyond the trees to the stars. The educational theory of Nataraja Guru therefore touches the alpha point of necessities and the omega point of higher freedom.
Once the young mind is turned on to world fraternity, his natural environment should be a world of socio-political and geographical familiarization with the world where the man at the farthest post is looked upon as a brother. For this, a new manifestation was needed. That made Nararaja Guru turn to World Government. with Garry Davis and his crew as activists in the field as a band of world citizens.
It is at this stage that Nataraja Guru felt the need to have a unified scheme of a common language for scientists and the bards or spiritual seers. He wanted the ancient and the modern, the physical and the spiritual, and philosophies of all outlooks to be conversant with the language of audiovisual arts and the charm of poetry. He found clearly that the impartial reasoning that brings certitude to all lies in mathematics and the field of its popular application is in the world of architecture and music.
Such was the ambition of Nataraja Guru as an absolute lover of humanity.
I am sure this book will highlight the main features of the well-groomed unitive consciousness of a world citizen who wishes the world to be educated to enhance the dignity of man. Living in the warmth of universal fraternity we solicit everybody’s cooperation in this noble endeavor of restructuring our world.
This book is a complication of four books and several articles written by Nataraja Guru over a period of about twenty years. Serialized in the English magazine values from Narayana Gurukula, Kaggalipura, Bangalore South, these books and articles are part of a programme of educating the public which began with Narayana Guru’s earlier attempts to focus people’s attention on evolving a one world consciousness.
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A Honolulu law firm has filed a class action complaint against Volkswagen for fraudulent conduct and deceptive acts and practices on behalf of consumers in Hawaii.
The complaint, filed by Starn O’Toole Marcus & Fisher on Sept. 28, 2015, in U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii, alleges that Volkswagen used software on certain diesel vehicles manufactured by the automaker so the vehicles appear to comply with U.S. laws related to vehicle emissions standards, when they do not.
The lawsuit seeks damages on behalf of affected Hawaii consumers.
“Volkswagen marketed these ‘clean diesel’ vehicles as high performing, fuel efficient, and environmentally-friendly and consumers bought them for that combination of features,” said attorney Sharon Lovejoy, a director of Starn O’Toole Marcus & Fisher. “Hawaii consumers paid a premium for these vehicles based on the belief that they were ‘clean’ and better for the environment. Volkswagen has now admitted to using deceptive software to make it appear as though these vehicles passed EPA testing when, in fact, in day-to-day use they did not. We intend to make sure that Volkswagen owners in Hawaii affected by this deception receive the compensation they deserve.”
The complaint claims that Volkswagen did not disclose that certain so-called “clean diesel” vehicles actually violated Federal emission standards, and instead marketed and sold the vehicles as meeting emissions standards.
According to the EPA, “These cars contain software that turns off emissions controls when driving normally, and turns them on when the car is undergoing an emission test. Known as a ‘defeat device,’ this design feature results in the cars emitting up to 40 times the amount of NOx emissions that the standards allow. NOx standards are in place to ensure public health is protected.”
The lawsuit is brought on behalf of all Hawaii owners or lessees of the following 2.0-liter diesel automobiles:
- VW Jetta (model years 2009-15)
- VW Beetle (model years 2009-15)
- VW Golf (model years 2009-15)
- VW Passat (model years 2014-15)
- Audi A3 (model years 2009-15)
The lawsuit seeks statutory penalties and compensatory and punitive damages for the class members, which are all consumers in Hawaii who purchased or leased the affected VW and Audi diesel cars.
Volkswagen says it doesn’t comment on pending or active litigation.

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Last week our summer campers harvested a healthy pea crop and we left a few pea pods to dry so we can harvest seeds for fall planting. Students have been harvesting kale, carrots, swiss chard, sorrel, fennel and mint for their salads. We are still waiting for a seed harvest on the arugula and radishes. The hot, dry weather has slowed early growth but we have flowers on the tomatoes and pumpkin plants so fingers crossed we will have a true fruit to harvest soon!
On June 16th our School Garden Development Training participants built a small cedar bed for us to try our hand a growing peanuts! More to come on that project as the season continues. If you have any experience with growing peanuts please be sure to leave a comment below.

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Bohostyle's clothing comes from a place that isn’t a place at all; it’s a reflection of a journey that was lived by me. I was born into a life that is lived on the road – being a gypsy is a part of Bohostyle’s nature. As I spent my early years travelling around Portugal, Brasil and the world with my father, there was no escaping the creativity that was developing inside of me. I didn’t have any form of design schooling, up until then I was sewing clothes for my dolls at the ripe old age of four. This of course, introduced me to the world of design. Bohostyle clothing label is based in Porto - Portugal, which is home for me and my immediate family and the extended family of my label.
Bohostyle clothing is a representation of my life lived on the road. Characterised by striking landscapes and earthy hues, it will make you feel like you’re on the road yourself. Distinctive signature prints of vintage inspired floral, tribal and worldly patterns encapsulate Bohostyle’s vision entirely.
Bohostyle is a celebration of being adventurous, being free and without strings attached, it is a celebration of the feminine spirit and evokes a sense of excitement to get out there and explore the wonders of the world.
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were reversed in negativing a proposal to let the matter stand over for the present.
The two measures already referred to were by far the most important disposed of during the long session. Of other bills passed may be mentioned the Ship Registration Act, dealing with a subject which had been under consideration for a long time. An act was also passed introducing supervision, when deemed expedient, of foreigners; but otherwise the legislative result was of no great importance. Several measures, which are of more significance, were allowed to stand over in various stages of progress. The Government seems to have in recent years adopted the practice of often introducing late in the session bills which are beforehand certain of not being carried through their final stages, it no longer being necessary to reintroduce such measures in the following session. A constitutional proposal was carried giving women the right to become Government officials, thus determining a question which had been in a considerable amount of doubt, inasmuch as women had for several years been entitled to pass the examinations necessary for such Government appointments. Proposals, in the constitutional sphere, relating to the King's right of dissolution and to a limitation of fees for the Members of the Storthing were negatived, the Radical majority being against them,
In the course of September Dr. Sigurd Ibsen, a kind of Government expert in consular and diplomatic matters, was commissioned to frame a new proposal for the reorganisation of the consular system, the three heads being organisation of a purely Norwegian consular service, new regulations for the consuls, and a consular budget. In the course of October M. Lagerheim, the Foreign Minister, proposed to M. Blehr, Norwegian Minister, the appointment of a “Union Committee,” consisting of two gentlemen possessed of special knowledge in such matters from each country to consider the possible severance of the consular representation of the two countries. During the preliminary negotiations there was some dissension as to the scope of the reference to the proposed committee, Norway preferring an entirely separate consular department, whereas Sweden was in favour of separate consulates under one joint head. At the close of the year there was, however, every prospect of a committee soon being appointed.
When the Storthing met in the autumn the financial position attracted a considerable amount of attention. In many quarters expression was given to grave apprehensions, and greater economy and more foresight were strongly recommended. The report of the Budget Committee was ready by October 22, and this report is in Norway both a comprehensive and an exhaustive work, intended to supply much of what may transpire on the first reading of the Ways and Means Bill in other Legislatures. The committee pointed out “the urgent necessity” of introducing as much economy as was compatible
[339 with the interests of the country," which had not yet overstrained its financial capacity, but which was running the risk of doing so if public expenditure, without the support of improving times, went on increasing at the same rate as had been the case during the last ten to fifteen years." The aggregate national expenditure, the committee pointed out, had been about doubled during the last fifteen years, and although the national credit had been unaffected by the many national loans of the last few years, that fact was due to their having been applied to “material development,” while the ordinary expenditure had, on the whole, been covered by the ordinary revenue. The State had expended an aggregate of 130,000,000 kr. on railways, of which the direct annual revenue amounted to only 1,500,000 kr., whilst the interest on the capital amounted to more than 5,000,000 kr. It was therefore desirable that the revenue of the railways should increase. The financial result of the Kongsberg Silver Works (State property) was not satisfactory, and the expenditure of the Legislature was steadily increasing
The financial discussion commenced in the Storthing on October 28, and a number of Members spoke at great length. Professor Hagerup, in the course of a very able and comprehensive speech, took a somewhat gloomy view of the future, and thought the Government would in all probability have to introduce increased taxation beyond that included in the Budget now under consideration.
A new State loan of 35,000,000 kr. was ultimately proposed and accepted by the Storthing on December 17, the interest not to exceed 34 per cent., to be repaid within sixty years. The Opposition proposed to limit the loan to 30,000,000 kr., but the committee's proposal was carried against thirty-five votes.
Towards the end of the year a change took place in the Ministry, M. Sparre being made Admiral-in-Chief, and M. Gunnar Knudsen being appointed, in succession to him, Minister, or member of the Norwegian Council of State, domiciled in Stockholm.
The municipal election in Christiania attracted much attention, more especially on account of its being the first time the new suffrage regulations came into operation. In spite of the extended suffrage the result was a victory for the Conservatives, who polled a total of 15,017 votes, giving them 47 seats on the Municipal Board against 43 in the previous Town Council. The Left polled 5,150 votes (16 seats), the Socialists 4,485 (14 seats), the Teetotallers 930 (3 seats), the Democrats 874 (2 seats), and the non-political list was supported by 700 votes (2 seats).
I. ASIA (SOUTHERN).
By the Russo-Persian Treaty Russia obtained the right to establish branches of the Russian Imperial Bank in Persia, and one was opened at Resht with considerable ceremony in November last.
The existence of a widespread revolutionary movement was reported earlier in the year, owing to the Government having entered into loan negotiations with Russia, and it was said that the Grand Vizier had incurred great unpopularity for selling his country, and that a minor state of siege had been proclaimed in Teheran. This was officially denied by the Persian Legation in London. On the other hand, Persia raised the duty on Russian imports to 5 per cent., and has imposed a similar duty on exports to that country.
A Convention was signed between the Persian and British Governments for the construction of a three-wire telegraph line from Kashan to British Baluchistan via Yezd, Kirman and Bampur.
The most important events of 1901 in South-Western Asia have been those connected with Koweit in the Persian Gulf. Early in the year hostilities broke out between Mabarik, Sheikh of Koweit, and Bin Rashid, who called himself King of Arabia. At the outset Mabarik, whose troops were the better armed, inflicted a severe defeat upon Bin Rashid, conquered his kingdom of Nejd, and deposed him. But in a subsequent engagement Mabarik was defeated in a battle or rather an ambuscade, in which 5,000 men were said to have fallen, and retired in disorder to his own territory. He was then threatened with invasion by Bin Rashid, and a considerable Turkish force was collected not far from his borders. He appealed for protection to the Indian Government and a British warship prevented the landing of another body of Turkish troops.
Diplomatic explanations followed, and it was said that the Turkish troops were intended for the protection of Mabarik and to act against Bin Rashid, who had usurped the authority of the Sultan by calling himself King of Arabia. The Turkish troops were withdrawn, but towards the close of the year it was said that the Sultan was making great efforts to induce the Sheikh of Koweit to recognise his suzerainty.
The contest between Mabarik and Bin Rashid is of importance only from the danger of its bringing into the field greater Powers, especially England and Russia. The paramount influence of England in the Persian Gulf has been tacitly assumed rather than expressly acknowledged by other Powers; the protection given to Mabarik is regarded as an open assertion of the
1901.) Afghanistan. -Death of the Amir Abdul Rahmán. [341 British claim, and as evidence of an intention to turn Koweit into a British port. Other Powers are claiming as compensation ports for themselves, and Russia in particular wants Bunder Abas.
For many years past a strong religious revival has been in progress throughout the Mahomedan world: the Sultan has joined in it heartily, and it is his great desire to be recognised as the head of Islam, not indeed as its spiritual head, which would be contrary to the whole spirit of the religion, but as Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the Faithful. His claim to suzerainty over Koweit is no doubt mainly due to this desire; but whatever may be his motive it is obvious that the claim can be utilised by the Powers who have influence over Turkey for the purpose of obtaining the concessions they desire.
BALUCHISTAN. The most noteworthy fact connected with Baluchistan during the past year has been the opening up of the trade route between Quetta and Persia, via Nushki and Seistan. A railway from Quetta to Nushki, a distance of ninety miles, has been sanctioned, and the road has been completed in the rough in Seistan. Owing to the perseverance and energy of Captain Webb-Ware, the great desert which lies along most of the route has been overcome; fortified serais have been built for the shelter of travellers, and wells have been dug along the whole way. A considerable development of trade has already taken place, its value, which in 1898-9 was only 71 lakhs, rose in 1899-1900 to 13 lakhs, and the returns for last year show an increase of 45,0001. The shortsighted fiscal policy of the late Amir of Kabul, which choked our trade from Quetta to Meshed via Kandahar, has really worked for our good, for it has caused us to make a road through our own territory, as Baluchistan, including Nushki, may now be called, into Persia.
AFGHANISTAN. The death of the Amir at Kabul in September, 1901, is an event of such importance that all minor matters connected with the history of Afghanistan during the year must pass unnoticed. According to his autobiography Abdul Rahman was born in 1844, but he was probably some four years older than he wished us to believe. In his early life, when a young man of eighteen, he filled several important posts with ability and distinction, and was the main prop of his uncle, Mohammed Azim Khan, against his rival Sher Ali. On the final defeat of Azim Khan Abdul Rahmán fled to Turkestan and lived there as a Russian pensioner until 1880, when he was brought forward by Sir Lepel Griffin and accepted as Amir by the British Government and placed on the throne of Kabul. His position was at first & precarious one, but he was a man of great ability, energy
and force of character, and he triumphed over all difficulties. His method of Government cannot be judged by a European standard; it was briefly one of crushing all opposition by terror and force, and sometimes by savage cruelty. But Abdul Rahman was far from being a mere tyrant; he had constantly before him a distinct and a worthy object, that of not only firmly establishing his own power and dynasty, but also of rendering his country united, independent and prosperous. How far he succeeded in this policy can be seen not only from his autobiography, which no doubt gives us an exaggerated picture of his success, but also from the evidence of Europeans who have resided in or visited Kabul. During his reign of twenty years he effectually got rid of all possible rivals or persons likely to give trouble; he transformed his Army from a mere rabble into a well-armed and efficient force; religious fanaticism was brought under control, a regular system of judicial and general administration was created, and the industries of the country were greatly developed by the establishment of factories under European supervision at Kabul. As regards his foreign policy, he could hardly be expected to have any real love for England. His ideal would have been a really independent Mahomedan Kingdom, free from the control or influence alike of England and of Russia, and he was much disappointed at the failure of his efforts to be allowed direct representation at the Court of St. James. But, although there was occasional friction between the Amir and the Government of India, he fully recognised the value of the English alliance and was faithful to it.
His eldest son, Habibullah Khan, has succeeded to the Throne with an absence of disturbance or even excitement that was almost unexpected. He was born in 1872, and is, therefore, a man of between twenty-nine and thirty. He has been carefully trained by his father in all branches of the administration. Since 1897 he has had control of the State Treasury and Exchequer, and has been the Supreme Court of Appeal from all courts, ecclesiastical and secular. He acted as Regent for his father during his prolonged absence in Turkestan, and distinguished himself by the intelligence and sobriety of his administration. He is said to be popular with the people and with the Army; he knows English fairly well and is believed to entertain very friendly sentiments towards the British Government. Since his accession he has raised the pay of the Army, and he is said to be going to adopt a much more liberal trade policy than his father and to reduce the poll tax on Hindus. His reception of Mahomedan gentlemen sent by the Government of India in November last to condole with him on the death of his father and to congratulate him on his own accession was cordial in the extreme. He has also issued a proclamation inviting the return of exiles from India, and probably many of them will go back.
The new Amir may be said to have started well, and his


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Hewlett-Packard on Thursday rolled out what could be a key accessory and application to its Sprout PC, which is designed to connect virtual with 3D printed worlds.
The company launched Sprout late last year with the aim of making 3D printing easier. In a nutshell, Sprout is an all-in-one PC with a digital projector on the top of the monitor that projects down onto a mat. This mat serves as a touch-enabled second screen with a digital pen.
For designers and engineers, Sprout can take a 2D image and turn it into a real world object. HP's software---dubbed Workspace---has tools to serve as a digital camera.
The catch is that the scanning process was too manual. Now HP is adding a turntable that it calls a 3D Capture Stage, hardware that automates the scanning process, cuts steps and tilts to maximize the scan quality. The Capture Stage will run $299 and is optional. Sprout goes for $1,899.
With Sprout, HP bets on remaking the PC as a 3D maker tool | HP to enter 3D printing market in 2016: Will customers wait? | Special Report: 3D Printing: Building the Future | TechRepublic: From food waste to carbon fiber, the wide world of 3D printer filament | CNET review of Sprout
In addition, HP is releasing a new 3D Capture app that takes depth and color to make it easier to share and print.
The app, a free software update, and turntable will be available in July. Capture Stage is connected via USB 3.0.
Eric Monsef, vice president of HP's immersive systems group, which is a collection of technologies and technology from various parts of the company, said the additions are a combination of Intel's RealSense and HP tools.
With the move HP is hoping to create an accessory that will make it easier for anyone to become a maker and utilize design libraries, engineering prototypes and simple objects to create products.
It's unclear how many units of Sprout HP has sold. The company doesn't disclose individual product sales, but the big picture is fairly obvious. In 2016, HP will enter the commercial 3D printing market. And rest assured, HP will get into the consumer 3D printing market at some point. Sprout will work with other 3D printers, but what HP is really hoping for is to create a stack just like it does for inkjets and its PCs today.
HP said it is working with Dremel to create a scan to print experience with the Dremel 3D Idea Builder printer. HP also said it will use print service providers to provide a way to order 3D prints via mail.


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The Soul After Death by Father Seraphim Rose shares the Orthodox Christian position on what happens to human beings upon death. Father Seraphim reviews the teachings of saints to explain modern phenomena such as near-death experiences of those who have been revived after clinical death and also out-of-body experiences among psychedelic drug users. His book is critical reading for serious Christians, because if one were to subscribe to errant beliefs about death, and come to think that “everybody goes to heaven” or that “heaven is a state of mind, not a place,” it will start to negatively affect their spiritual life and may ultimately lead to eternal condemnation.
What is death?
Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov: “By the fall both the soul and body of man were changed. In the strict sense the fall was for them also a death. That which we see and call death is in essence only the separation of the soul from the body, both of which had already before this been put to death by an eternal death!”
Do you believe in a spiritual reality?
We who live on earth can hardly even begin to understand the reality of the spiritual world until we ourselves come to dwell in it. This is a process that begins now, in this life, but ends only in eternity, when we will behold “face to face” what we now see only “through a glass, darkly” (1 Cor. 13:12).
If you don’t believe in a spiritual reality then everything you do will be structured around pleasing your body and flesh until you die, and then when you die, none of that body-pleasing will be useful when you are fully aware and present in soul to be judged by God.
What can we learn from near-death experiences among heterodox and non-Christians?
…Dr. Kubler-Ross mentions one remarkable case where a blind person “saw” and later described everything clearly in the room where she “died,” although when she came back to life she was once again blind—a striking evidence that it is not the eye that sees (not the brain that thinks, for the mental faculties become quicker after death), but rather the soul that performs these actions through the physical organs as long as the body is alive, but by its own power when the body is dead.
It is characteristic of our times of unbelief that these people seldom use the Christian vocabulary or realize that it is their soul that has been set free from the body and now experiences everything; they are usually simply puzzled at the new state they find themselves in.
…most, perhaps indeed all, of [near-death] experiences have little in common with the Christian vision of heaven. These visions are not spiritual, but worldly. They are so quick, so easily attained, so common, so earthly in their imagery, that there can be no serious comparison of them with the true Christian visions of heaven in the past… Even the most “spiritual” thing about some of them—the feeling of the “presence” of Christ—persuades one more of the spiritual immaturity of those who experience it than of anything else. Rather than producing the profound awe, fear of God, and repentance which the authentic experience of God’s presence has evoked in Christians saints (of which St. Paul’s experience on the road to Damascus may be taken as a model—Acts 9:3-9), the present-day experiences produce something much more akin to the “comfort” and “peace” of the modern spiritistic and Pentecostal movements.
…[near-death experiences] may be said to “prove” no more than a minimum doctrine of the bare survival of the human soul outside the body, and of the bare existence of a non-material reality, while giving decisively no information on non-material reality, while giving decisively no information on the further state of even existence of the soul after the first few minutes of “death,” nor of the ultimate nature of the non-material realm.
What does it mean to see dead relatives?
St. Gregory the Great, in describing many of these experiences in Dialogues, explains the phenomenon of meeting others: “It frequently happens that a soul on the point of death recognizes those with whom it is to share the same eternal dwelling for equal blame or reward” (Dialogues, IV, 36). And specifically with regard to those who have led a righteous life, St. Gregory notes that “if often happens that the saints of heaven appear to the righteous at the hour of death in order to reassure them. And, with the vision of the heavenly company before their minds, they die without experiencing any fear of agony” (Dialogues, IV, 12).
These encounters, while they do not seem by any means to occur to everyone before death, still can be called universal in the sense that they occur without regard to nationalist, religion, or holiness of life.
…it must be that the dead relatives who are seen as not actually “present” as the dying believe them to be. St. Gregory the Great says only that the dying man “recognizes” people, whereas to the righteous “the saints of heaven appear”—a distinction which not merely indicates the different experience of the righteous and ordinary sinners when they die, but also is directly bound up with the different afterlife state of the saints and ordinary sinners. The saints have great freedom to intercede for the living and to come to their aid, whereas deceased sinners, save in very special cases, have no contact with the living.
…we need not doubt that the saints actually appear to the righteous at death, as is described in many Lives of Saints. To ordinary sinners, on the other hand, there are often apparitions of relatives, friends, or “gods” which correspond to what the dying either expect or are prepared to see. The exact nature of these latter apparitions it is probably impossible to define; they are certainly not mere hallucinations, but seem to be a part of the natural experience of death, a sign to the dying person (as it were) that he is about to enter a new realm where the laws of ordinary material reality no longer hold. There is nothing very extraordinary about this experience, which seems to hold constant for different times, places, and religions.
Applying discernment to near-death experiences
…we must clearly distinguish between genuine, grace-given visions of the other world, and a merely natural experience which, even though it may be outside the normal limits of human experience, is not in the least spiritual and tells us nothing about the actual reality of either the heaven or the hell of authentic Christian teaching.
One who is aware of this Orthodox teaching cannot but look in amazement and horror at the ease with which contemporary “Christians” trust the visions and apparitions which are now becoming so common. The reason for this credulity is clear: Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, cut off for centuries now from the Orthodox doctrine and practice of spiritual life, have lost all capability for clear discernment in the realm of spirits.
Those who are seeing “paradise” in the aerial realm today are “pleased,” “happy,” “satisfied”—seldom anything more; if they behold “Christ” in some form, it is only to indulge in the familiar “dialogues” with him that characterize experiences in the “charismatic” movement. The element of the Divine and of man’s awe before it, the fear of God, are absent in such experiences.
Demons will tempt you at the time of death and even right after
The Orthodox Lives of Saints have numerous accounts of… demonic spectacles which appear at the moment of death, usually with the aim of frightening the dying person and making him despair over his salvation.
The hour of death, then, is indeed a time of demonic temptation, and the “spiritual experiences” which people have at this time… are to be subjected to the same standard of Christian teaching as are any other “spiritual experiences.” Likewise, the “spirits” who may be encountered at this time are to be subjected to the universal test which the Apostle John expresses in the words: Test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets are gone out into the world (1 John 4:1).
It befits us, therefore, to be very suspicious (at the least) of the “beings of light” who seem to appear in the moment of death. They seem very much like demons posing as “angels of light” in order to seduce, not only the dying person himself, but even more those to whom he will later tell this tale if he is resuscitated (concerning the chances of which, of course, the demons are well aware).
The demons are not ignorant that people who are clinically dead may be revived, so it is profitable for them to give people a “peaceful” and “calm” vision so that, in the case they do come back to life, they will ecstatically share this vision to all, reinforcing the desired notion that everybody goes to heaven and spiritual labors are not necessary.
Also, don’t despair if you’re swarmed by imp-looking demons surrounding your deathbed. You may think that your judgment has arrived, but really it could be a final temptation by Satan for you to forsake God.
Demons provide a vision at death that corresponds to an individual’s beliefs
It is not necessary for us to define precisely the nature of the apparitions of the dying in order to see that they depend to some extent, as we have already seen on what the dying person expects or is prepared to see. Thus, Christians of past centuries who had a lively belief in hell, and whose conscience accused them in the end, often saw demons at death; Indians of today, who are certainly more “primitive” than Americans in their beliefs and understanding, often see beings that correspond to their still very real fears about the afterlife; while contemporary Americans, with their “enlightened” views, see apparitions in harmony with their “comfortable” life and beliefs, which in general do not include a very realistic fear of hell or awareness of demons.
On the objective side, the demons themselves offer temptations which accord with the spiritual state or expectations of those being tempted. For those who fear hell, the demons may appear in terrible forms in order to make a person die in a state of despair; but for those who do not believe in hell (or for Protestants who believe they are infallibly “saved” and therefore need not fear hell) the demons would naturally offer temptations in some other form that would not so clearly expose their evil intent. Likewise, even to a Christian struggler who has already suffered much, the demons may appear in such a way as to seduce him rather than frighten him.
The activity of demons
Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov: “The holy spirits avoid communion with men who are unworthy of such communion; while the fallen spirits, who have drawn us into their fall, have mingled with us and, so as the more easily to hold us in captivity, strive to make both themselves and their chains unnoticeable to us. And if they do reveal themselves, they do it in order to strengthen their dominion over us.”
Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov: “…the spirits who appear sensuously to men who are in a state of sinfulness and fall, are demons and not in the least holy angels. ‘A filthy soul,’ said St. Isaac the Syrian, ”does not enter the pure realm and is not joined to holy spirits’ (Homily 74). Holy angels appear only to holy men who have restored communion with God and with them by a holy life.”
Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov: “The fallen angels are dispersed in a multitude throughout the entire transparent immensity which we see above us. They do not cease to disturb all human societies and every person separately; there is no evil deed, no crime, of which they might not be instigators and participants; they incline and instruct men towards sin by all possible means. Your adversary the devil, says the holy Apostle Peter, walketh about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour (1 Peter 5:8), both during our earthly life and after the separation of the soul from the body. When the soul of a Christian, leaving its earthly dwelling, begins to strive through the aerial spaces towards the homeland on high, the demons stop it, strive to find in it a kinship with themselves, their sinfulness, their fall, and to drag it down to the hell prepared for the devil and his angels (Matt. 25:41). They act thus by the right which they have acquired.”
The foolishness of seeking visions and spiritual experiences
Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov: “The desire to see spirits, curiosity to find out anything about them and from them, is a sign of the greatest foolishness and total ignorance of the Orthodox Church’s traditions concerning moral and active life. Knowledge of spirits is acquired quite differently than is supposed by the inexperienced and careless experimenter. Open communion with spirits for the inexperienced is the greatest misfortune, or serves as a source of the greatest misfortunes.”
Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov: “One who perceives spirits sensuously can easily be deceived to his own harm and perdition. If, on perceiving spirits, he shows trust or credulity towards them, he will unfailingly be deceived, he will unfailingly be attracted, he will unfailingly be sealed with the seal of deception, not understandable to the inexperienced, the seal of a frightful injury in his spirit; and further, the possibility of correction and salvation is often lost. This has happened with many, very many.”
Judgment after death
[Concerning] our redemption by Jesus Christ, [Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov says,] “all who have openly rejected the Redeemer comprise the inheritance of satan: their souls, after the separation from the body, descend straight to hell. But Christians who are inclined to sin are also unworthy of being immediately translated from earthly life to blessed eternity. Justice itself demands that these inclinations to sin, these betrayals of the Redeemer should be weighted and evaluated. A judging and distinguishing are required in order to define the degree of a Christian soul’s inclination to sin, in order to define what predominates in it—eternal life or eternal death. The unhypocritical Judgment of God awaits every Christian soul after its departure from the body, as the holy Apostle Paul has said: It is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment (Heb. 9:27).”
What is certain is that there is a testing by demons, who appear in a frightful but human form, accuse the newly-departed of sins and literally try to seize the subtle body of the soul, which is grasped firmly by angels; and all this occurs in the air above us and can be seen by those whose eyes are open to spiritual reality.
In the Orthodox Church, the initial judgment after death is called the “particular judgment.” Prayers can help the dead who have not fared well in this judgment, changing their eternal fate. The final judgment occurs on the Last Day and is, as you may have guessed, final.
What exactly happens when you die?
St. Cyril: “What fear and trembling await you, O soul, in the day of death! You will see frightful, wild, cruel, unmerciful and shameful demons, like dark Ethiopians, standing before you. The very sight of them is worse than any torment. The soul, seeing them, becomes agitated, is disturbed, troubled, seeks to hide, hastens to the angels of God. The holy angels hold the soul; passing with them through the air and rising, it encounters the toll-houses which guard the path from earth to heaven, detaining the soul and hindering it from ascending further. Each toll-house tests the sins corresponding to it; each sin, each passion has its tax collectors and testers.”
As a sensuous or “natural” experience, therefore, it would seem that death is indeed pleasant. This pleasantness may be experienced equally by one whose conscience is clean before God, and by one who does not deeply believe in God or eternal life at all, and therefore has no awareness of how he may have displeased God during his lifetime. A “bad death” is experienced, as one writer has well said, only by “those who know that God exists, and yet have lived their lives as though He did not”—i.e., those whose consciences torment them and counteract by their pain the natural “pleasure” of physical death. The distinction between believers and unbelievers occurs, then, not at the moment of death itself, but later, at the Particular Judgment. The “pleasantness” of death may be real enough, but it has no necessary connection whatever with the eternal fate of the soul, which may well be one of torment.
In the contemporary experiences the soul is most frequently offered a choice to remain in “paradise” or go back to earth; while the genuine experience of heaven occurs not by the choice of man but only at the command of God, fulfilled by His angels. The common “out-of-body” experience of “paradise” in our days has no need of a guide because it takes place right here, in the air above us, still in this world; while the presence of the guiding angels is necessary if the experience takes place outside this world, in a different kind of reality, where the soul cannot go by itself. (This is not to say that demons cannot masquerade as “guiding angels” also, but they seldom seem to do so in today’s experiences.)
Secular people are hung up on the delayed inevitability of physical death, and cope by distracting themselves in this life with endless amusements and doctor visits, but it’s really the potential for spiritual death that we should focus our labors on.
Death experiences of the Saints
Saint Ignatius: “The great saints of God pass through the aerial guards of the dark powers with such great freedom because during earthly life they enter into uncompromising battle with them and, gaining the victory over them, acquire in the depths of their heart complete freedom from sin, become the temple and sanctuary of the Holy Spirit, making their rational dwelling-place inaccessible for the fallen angels.”
The aerial realm
The realm into which the soul immediately enters when it leaves the body and begins to lose contact with what we know as “material reality” (whether after death or in a simple “out-of-body” experience) is neither heaven nor hell, but an invisible realm close to earth which is variously called the “After-death” or “Bardo plane” (Tibetan Book of the Dead), the “world of spirits” (Swedenborg and spiritism), the “astral plane” (Theosophy and most of occultism), “Locale II” (Monroe)—or, in Orthodox language, the aerial world of the under-heaven where fallen spirits dwell and are active in deceiving men for their damnation. This is not the “other world” that awaits man after death, but only the invisible part of this world that man must pass through to reach the truly “other” world of heaven or hell. For those who have truly died, and are being conducted by angels out of earthly life, this is the realm where the Particular Judgment begins at the aerial “toll-houses,” where the spirits of the air reveal their real nature and their hostility towards mankind; for all others, it is a realm of demonic deception at the hands of these same spirits.
The beings contacted in this realm are always (or almost always) demons, whether they are invoked by mediumism or other occult practices, or encountered in “out-of-body” experiences. They are not angels, for these dwell in heaven and only pass through this realm as messengers of God. They are not the souls of the dead, for they dwell in heaven or hell and only pass through this realm immediately after death on their way to judgment for their actions in this life. Even those most adept in “out-of-body” experiences cannot remain in this realm for long without danger of permanent separation from the body (death)…
Almost all contemporary researchers accept or at least are highly sympathetic to the occult teaching regarding this realm, for the single reason that it is based on experience, which is also the basis of science. But “experience” in the material world is something quite different from “experience” in the aerial realm. The raw material being experienced and studied in the one case is morally “neutral,” and it can be studied objectively and verified by others; but in the other case the “raw material” is hidden, extremely difficult to grasp, and, in many cases, has a will of its own—a will to deceive the observer.
What is really going on with modern near-death experiences?
The passage through the toll-houses—which is a kind of touchstone of authentic after-death experience—is not described at all in today’s experiences, and the reason for this is not far to seek. From many signs—the absence of the angels who come for the soul, the absence of judgment, the frivolousness of many of the accounts, even the very shortness of the time involved (usually some five to ten minutes, compared with the several hours to several days in the incidents from saint’ Lives and other Orthodox sources)—it is clear that today’s experiences, although sometimes very striking and not explainable by any natural laws known to medical science, are not very profound. If these are actual experiences of death, then they involve only the very beginning of the soul’s after-death journey; they occur in the anteroom of death, as it were, before God’s decree for the soul has become final (manifested by the coming of the angels for the soul), while there is still a possibility for the soul to return to the body by natural means.
It is not precisely an “after-death” experience; it is rather the “out-of-body” experience which is only the antechamber to other much more extensive experiences, whether of death itself or of what is sometimes called “astral travelling”… Although the “out-of-body” state might be called the “first moment” of death—if death actually follows—it is a gross mistake to conclude from it anything whatever about the “after-death” state, unless it be the bare facts of the survival and consciousness of the soul after death, which hardly anyone who actually believes in the soul’s immortality denies in any case.
There is an aerial realm above us that we cannot see because our spiritual eyes are shut. This aerial realm is infested with demons. When you die, your soul launches into the aerial realm for a brief period, where the demons can influence you with various visions, until the holy angels come down to begin your trial of particular judgment. Many psychedelic drugs have the ability to put you in the aerial realm where what you see is almost certainly a demonic trick. Proof of this is the fact that very few psychedelic users interpret their “spiritual experiences” of the aerial realm in a way that steers them into the Orthodox Church. The vast majority fall back into a variety of pantheistic, gnostic, deistic, or New Age belief systems that are not sufficient for salvation.
It is pleasing for the soul to separate from a body corrupted with sins
Our physical bodies in this fallen world are bodies of pain, corruption, and death. When separated from this body, the soul is immediately in a state more “natural” to it, closer to the state God intends for it; for the resurrected “spiritual body” in which man will dwell in the Kingdom of Heaven has more in common with the soul than with the body we know on earth.
What will our resurrected body be like?
[The] resurrected body, like that of Christ Himself, will be different from our earthly bodies in that it will be more refined and more like the angelic nature, without which it could not dwell in the Heavenly Kingdom, where there is no death or corruption; but it will still be the same body, miraculously restored and made fit by God for eternal life, as Ezekiel saw in his vision of the “dry bones” (Ezek. 37:1-14).
Erroneous concepts of heaven
…many Christians, in order to escape the mockery and unbelievers and avoid even the slightest taint of any materialistic conception, have gone to an opposite extreme and declare that heaven is “nowhere.” Among Roman Catholics and Protestants there are sophisticated apologies which proclaim that heaven is “a state, not a place,” that “up” is only a metaphor, the Ascension of Christ (Luke 24:50-51, Acts 1:9-11) was not really an “ascension,” but only a change of state. The result of such apologies is that heaven and hell become very vague and indefinite conceptions, and the sense of their reality begins to disappear—with disastrous results for Christian life, because these are the very realities toward which our whole earthly life is directed.
The Christian after-death experiences all affirm the existence of heaven, hell, and judgment, of the need for repentance, struggle, and fear of losing one’s soul eternally; while the contemporary experiences, like those of shamans, pagan initiates, and mediums, seem to point to a “summerland” of pleasant experiences in the “other world,” where there is no judgment but only “growth,” and death is not to be feared but only welcome as a “friend” that introduces one to the pleasures of “life after death.”
What to do when someone you know dies
As soon as someone has reposed, immediately call or inform a priest, so he can read the “Prayers on the Departure of the Soul,” which are appointed to be read over all Orthodox Christians after death. Try, if it be possible to have the funeral in church and to have the Psalter read over the deceased until the funeral. The funeral need not be performed elaborately, but most definitely it should be complete, without abbreviations; think at this time not of yourself and your convenience, but of the deceased, with whom you are parting forever.
The spiritual world is merging with ours
St. Gregory the Dialogist: “As the present world approaches its end, the world of eternity looms nearer… The end of the world merges with the beginning of eternal life… The spiritual world is moving closer to us, manifesting itself through visions and revelations.” The end of this world’s existence began with the coming of Christ, and sensitive souls are always seeing how the other world is “breaking into” this world ahead of time and giving “hints” of its existence.”
The only way to heaven is through Lord Jesus Christ
The Church’s teaching is that whereas before our redemption by Christ, no one could pass through the air to heaven, the path being closed by demons, and all men went down to hell, now it has become possible for men to pass through the demons of the air, and their power now is restricted to men whose own sins convict them. In the same way, we know that even though Christ “destroyed the power of hell” (Kontakion of Pascha), any one of us can still fall into hell by rejecting salvation in Christ.
I see the toll-houses as a way for God to show you his just judgment. It’s a fair court trial with detailed evidence presented by your accusers—the demons—and defended competently by the holy angels. Whoever ends up in hell after the Last Judgment will have no doubt why they are there, and has no standing to whine that God is unfair or arbitrary. With The Soul After Death, Father Seraphim Rose did a commendable job revealing the doctrine of death and the importance of believing in the truth instead of vague modern notions that try to exalt death for everyone, regardless of what type of lives they had. (For a podcast adaption of the book, listen to Father John Valadez’s Soul After Death lecture series. For a more academic approach to this topic, try Jean-Claude Larchet’s Life After Death.)
One caveat is that, unless you are firmly on the path of Orthodoxy, you will feel notions of despair about the perceived difficulty of being saved, at least from the anecdotes that were shared involving mostly monks who were greatly tried at their final hour. I purposefully did not share any of the hard sayings since my audience is not solely Orthodox. I cannot recommend this book to those not in the Orthodox Church except for those who have had near-death or out-of-body experiences and have fallen into a “spiritual but not religious” trap that needs to be corrected. If you’re Orthodox, this is essential reading to understand the stakes at hand.
Learn More: The Soul After Death on Amazon


When roadwork currently underway on Highway 70 is complete, Chico will no longer be the largest city in California that isn’t accessed by a four-lane highway.
While Highway 70 still has to wind through Marysville, the two projects running north and south from the Yuba/Butte county line will wrap up 16 years of work, costing in excess of $500 million.
“I’m really glad it’s being done,” said Butte County Supervisor Bill Connelly. “I look forward to getting our people in and out of town and down to Sacramento safely.”
Although actual construction began in 2006, the story goes back far longer than that, into the 1980s and earlier. At that time, the state planned four-lane freeways for both Highway 99 and the Highway 70/149 corridor.
In 1988, however, the Department of Transportation determined it couldn’t build both freeways, and asked local governments to choose one route for improvement.
After a study, the Highway 70/149 alignment was picked. More studies followed, with as many as 14 different routes being looked at. They all generally hooked into Highway 70 or Highway 65 south of Marysville, swept east of that city and north to Oroville on paths east of the existing highway.
In the interim, highways 70 and 149 began developing reputations as “blood alleys,” with numerous fatalities and injury accidents.
The roads put two rows of cars and trucks zipping past each other at highway speeds, separated just by inches of space and a line or two of yellow paint. There was no room for error.
Traveling the route was also a forced exercise in patience. At times there was slow-moving farm equipment on the road, or a pickup or car moving slow enough to back up a long line of traffic. It prompted some drivers to make unsafe passes, at times with deadly results.
Even the addition of a passing lane on Highway 70 in each direction didn’t solve the problem. The extra lanes were short, and often triggered an unsafe high-speed dash by cars that had gotten stuck behind slower traffic.
Highway 149 featured additional death traps. Entering the road from the south or the north required a left turn across a lane of oncoming traffic. All too often, a motorist would think that crossing traffic had to stop. The resulting crashes were fatal as often as not.
In 1993, the death toll on 149 prompted plans for a design similar to what’s in place now — a four-lane road with interchanges at its connections to highways 70 and 99. Work was expected to begin in 1998. The cost was estimated at $41.5 million.
However state budget problems resulted in delay after delay. Mitigating environmental issues caused further delays. Costs soared.
Work on Highway 149 finally began in 2006. In the 10 years prior, there had been 153 crashes on the road, resulting in 11 deaths and 155 injuries, according to an Enterprise-Record report at the time.
Work was completed in November 2009. By then the cost had tripled from the original estimate, up to $139 million.
Meanwhile, in 2005 Caltrans told Butte and Yuba county governments it didn’t have the money to make Highway 70 a freeway or a four-lane expressway. Environmental issues crossing the Yuba River east of Marysville seemed insurmountable, and right-of-way costs for a new road couldn’t be justified.
The Butte County Association of Governments — the local transportation planners — began working on an alternative idea. If the existing passing lanes could be extended, and new passing lanes added, it might be possible to eventually link them together piecemeal into a four-lane roadway.
That is the process that is being completed now with the two projects under construction. They are the sixth and seventh projects in the sequence, which dates to 2009. About $430 million will have been spent along Highway 70 when the current work is done.
Connelly said he was called at the start of the effort by Jon Clark, BCAG’s executive director, and asked to be “the face of Highway 70.”
They started talking about what could be done, and hit on the idea of a map with crosses showing where all the fatalities had occurred. As people continued to die, the map was updated. As of March 22 of this year, there were 122 crosses, dating just to 2010.
“The map, I think, drove it home to people,” said Clark. “I hated that it had to get to that point.”
Connelly said they took the map to every meeting on transportation funding, and lobbied hard to get the money to make the road safer.
“We were continually hammering. That’s why we were successful.”
He credits BCAG staff, particularly Clark and Ivan Garcia, for doing the work. “I just got to make the speeches.”
As a result of the effort — and the continuing deaths — money from a Caltrans safety program kept flowing to the highway, with additional federal and state dollars plugged in to allow a more complete roadway. “There at the end, we were the top priority in the state,” said Clark.
When complete, the highway will feature two lanes in each direction, with a continuous center left-turn lane in most areas. In addition to allowing safer left turns, the center lane provides more space between oncoming traffic in each direction. That provides a larger margin of error for a driver who might drift over the centerline.
The shoulders of the road will be widened to 8 feet of pavement, with an additional 6-feet unpaved beyond that. This “recovery zone” adds an additional margin of error for motorists who stray off the roadside.
There will also be two new bridges. The bridge over Simmerly Slough, just north of Marysville, was completed last year. A bridge over Honcut Creek at the Butte/Yuba county line is under construction now.
Traffic will still have to wind through the Marysville’s street grid, but a project has been approved that would widen the road under the two railroad overcrossings on the north side of city, near the high school.
The $111 million project would widen the road to four lanes, with a continuous center left-turn lane. There would also be bike and pedestrian improvements, and a levee would be moved to allow the roadwork.
The project is being held up currently by a lawsuit by the city of Marysville. Connelly said the city is seeking compensation for Caltrans for increased traffic.
“The traffic’s already there,” he said. “We’re just trying to make it safer for everyone.”
Highway 70/149 history
1988: Caltrans — then the Department of Transportation — initially had plans to widen both Highway 99 and the Highway 70/149 corridor to four lanes. In 1988, it asked local jurisdictions to pick one route, and in 1990, the 70/149 option was selected. A four-lane Highway 70 expressway or freeway was planned, with a bypass east of Marysville. The cost of completion was estimated at $400 million.
2005: Highway 70 bypass dropped by state due to rising costs. Local planners shift to idea of adding additional passing lanes along existing Highway 70.
2006: April — Construction begins on widening Highway 149 to four lanes. Work was supposed to start in 1998, but state budget problems and environmental issues pushed the start date back.
2008: November — Highway 149 widening to four lanes completed at a cost of $139 million. The initial cost estimate had been $41.5 million.
2009: Between Highway 162 and Ophir Road in Oroville, Highway 70 widened to four lanes; stoplights added at Georgia-Pacific Way and Ophir Road. Cost: $19 million.
2013: Highway 70 passing lanes and center left-turn lane added near East Gridley Road south of Oroville. Cost: $19.4 million.
2021: Between Ophir Road and Palermo Road, south of Oroville, Highway 70 passing lanes and center left-turn lane added. Cost: $43 million.
2022: Between Palermo Road and Cox Lane, south of Oroville, Highway 70 passing lanes and center left-turn lane added. Cost: $50 million.
2021: Highway 70 bridge over Simmerly Slough replaced, just north of Marysville. Cost: $84 million.
Currently under construction: From East Gridley Road to the Butte/Yuba county line, Highway 70 passing lanes and center left-turn lane being added, including a new bridge over Honcut Creek. Cost: $67 million. Target completion date: 2024.
From Laurellen Road to the Yuba/Butte county line, north of Marysville, Highway 70 passing lanes and center left-turn lane being added. Cost: $148 million. Target completion date: 2024.
Future project: In Marysville from Cemetery Road to 14th Street, Highway 70 widening to five lanes and other improvements. Estimated cost: $115 million. Work scheduled to begin in 2023/24 fiscal year and take one or two years to complete. Currently held up by lawsuit.
Total cost: $682.4 million
Includes construction, design, right of way purchases, and environmental studies and mitigation.


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