Occult Profiles: Father Giancarlo Gramolazzo

Father Giancarlo Gramolazzo is an Italian Roman Catholic priest who serves as an exorcist. He is the current president of the International Association of Exorcists. The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... Highly reclusive, no photos exist of him, nor interviews.

International Association of Exorcists is a Roman Catholic organization that was founded by the world famous exorcist of Rome Father Gabriele Amorth in 1993. ...

In September 2004, in Mexico City, Mexico, Father Gramolazzo addressed the more than five hundred participants including exorcist priests from various dioceses in the country at the annual meeting of the International Association of Exorcists.

Recently traveled to Malta to conduct secretive business with the Knights Of St John. It is believed that the agenda at the meeting deals with a more "agressive stance" in dealing with satanic cults as mandated by the Pope.

UFOland to be Built by Raelian sect

A UFOland is to be built in Las Vegas by a sect which believes humans were created by extra-terrestrials.

Visitors will be able to attend a Happiness Academy and see a full-size replica of a UFO.

UFOland is to be set up by the Raelian Movement who say they want to share their belief with visitors to Las Vegas.

They will also host a museum and a 1000-seat theatre where their spiritual leader, Rael, will give lectures.

Ricky Roehr, leader of the North American Raelian Movement told Las Vegas Now: "The museum will display all the evidence we've gathered for the past 35 years that shows we were indeed created by scientists - highly advanced human beings from another planet."

He said he expects the UFOland to become one of the most popular destinations in Las Vegas within the next five years.

The Raelian Movement was was founded in France in 1973 by a former journalist, Claude Vorilhon, who worked for a racing car magazine.

He claims he was contacted by an extra-terrestrial being who emerged from a flying saucer and told him - in fluent French - that humans were created in laboratories by people from another planet.

Since then the Raelians have grown into an international movement.

In 2002, the Raelian movement is the founder of the Clonaid company claimed to have produced the first cloned baby.

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New blood thirsty cult confirmed in Uganda

Police say the cult whose members are mainly wealthy Kampalans originated from West Africa

Police are investigating a religious cult of predominantly wealthy people linked to human sacrifice in the country.

The Observer has learnt that Police earlier this year, acting on a tip-off, sanctioned an investigation into claims that some wealthy people in the country are responsible for the spiralling acts of child human sacrifice in the country.

The Acting Commissioner of the Police Investigations Department, Moses Binoga, told The Observer in an interview last Thursday at CID headquarters in Kibuli that the Police are taking these allegations seriously.

Since the start of the year, his department has gathered information on this cult whose activities are mainly concentrated in Kampala. He says the cult originated from West Africa.

Authorities in West Africa have in the recent past fought running battles with cult members. On August 6, cult members shot and killed a policeman in Nigeria who was considered a threat to the cult’s activities in Adigbe area.

In the same country, 13 students were killed in clashes between cults calling themselves the Black Axe and the Black Eye, all said to be practising black magic. Some of their activities include killing, rape, extortion and theft.

Nigeria Police also clashed with the Boko Haram cult, killing 700 people and arresting hundreds of members of the group.

“We are investigating a cult which makes them [followers] take human blood periodically. It is a devil cult,” Binoga says of the Kampala cult.

Binoga, who also heads the Collation Crime Intelligence Unit, could however not discuss their findings so far, citing fear of jeopardising the investigations.

“It is an open secret everyone is talking about it, they say if you don’t take blood, the wealth will go,” Binoga says.

Dawn of human sacrifice

Human sacrifice and more intensely child sacrifice is not new to Uganda. On January 22, 1999, one-year-old Milly Nsonyiwa of Mukono District disappeared from her mother, Esther Nakachwa. Her remains where discovered in a shrine a month later.

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Las Vegas Based Scientists Study 'Skinwalker Ranch'

A team of scientists based in Las Vegas has been conducting a study that may be different from anything that's ever been tried. The research is focused on a ranch in rural Utah where, for 50 years or more, paranormal activity has been reported, including UFOs, Bigfoot, mutilated animals and poltergeists. Some call the place Skinwalker Ranch, and George Knapp of the I-Team is the only journalist allowed to visit the property.

Oil executive Gregory Todd is one of the hundreds, if not thousands of northeastern Utah residents who've seen weird objects -- call them UFOs -- over their homes in the past 50 years. The Utah basin has also been a hotbed of other strange activity including Bigfoot encounters and mutilated animals.

In a basin known for an array of unexplained phenomena, the epicenter of high strangeness seems to be a picturesque spread known to many as Skinwalker Ranch. Native Americans who live near the property advise members to steer clear because, they say, this is the path of the skinwalker, an evil force.

The last family to live on this spread lasted only 20 months. From the first day back in 1994, they were terrorized by an unseen intelligence that played mind games with them, shadowy figures inside their house, objects that moved on their own, disembodied voices and bad things happening to their animals beginning with cattle and bulls that disappeared and others that were carved up with surgical precision in broad daylight. A gigantic wolf that attacked one of their calves was tracked through the mud, but the tracks simply stopped as if the animal had evaporated into thin air. Three dogs were vaporized after while chasing blue orbs of light in a pasture.

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UK: Witches could get posthumous pardon for execution

Online Petition Launched

Campaigners are seeking a posthumous pardon for the men and women who were executed as British witches centuries ago.

They have collected a set of eight grave “miscarriages of justice” with which they hope to persuade Justice Secretary Jack Straw on the issue.

More than 400 people were put to death in England for alleged witchcraft, and over 2,000 were executed in Scotland, before the 1735 Witchcraft Act put an end to the trials, they said.

Their bid to obtain justice for the victims follows an official pardon granted earlier this year by the Swiss Government to Anna Goeldi, beheaded in 1782 and regarded as the last person executed as a witch in Europe.

The family behind Angels, the Halloween costume supplier, came up with the idea for the petition and turned to historian Dr John Callow to collect some of the victims’ stories.

Dr Callow, editor of Witchcraft and Magic in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Europe [UK] , said it was now time to recognise the witch trials as “most dangerous and tragic” fabrications.

“Today we are well aware that these individuals were neither capable of harmful magic nor in league with the devil,” he said.
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Notorious cases mentioned in the petition include that of Agnes Sampson, executed in East Lothian, Scotland, in 1591.

Considered a healer, she acted as midwife to the community of Nether Keith but, following a near shipwreck involving King James VI of Scotland, became one of many Scottish women accused of witchcraft.

Although she initially resisted torture, even before James VI at Holyrood House, she finally confessed and was burned at the stake.

In another case, 80-year-old clergyman John Lowes was forced to conduct his own funeral service before he was hanged in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, in 1645.

The octogenarian was seen as too attached to the Catholic religion in a strongly Reformed area and was forced to walk for days and nights by the witch hunter Matthew Hopkins until confessing.

Emma Angel, head of Angels Fancy Dress, said: “We decided to launch this initiative because we feel that it is time that sinister associations held by a minority of people about witches and Halloween were tackled head-on.
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The campaign aims to make people realise that witches never really existed, and the fears of the past - such as criticism of Halloween as a sinister celebration of the occult - deserve no place in the present.

The petition, officially launched tomorrow, will be presented to the Ministry of Justice and its Scottish counterpart on Halloween.

It can be seen at www.pardonthewitches.com/content/witches

‘Traditionalist Catholics’ Attack, Expel Christians in Mexico

MEXICO CITY, August 19(Compass Direct News) – “Traditionalist Catholic” leaders last month expelled 57 evangelical Christians from towns in two states for refusing to participate in their religious festivals.

Leaders of traditionalist Catholicism, a mixture of Roman Catholicism and native rituals, expelled 32 Christians from their homes in a village in Hidalgo state and another 25 from a town in Oaxaca; in each case, the evangelicals were deprived of their property for refusing to participate in drunken festivals that included worship of Catholic icons.

Hundreds of evangelical Christians from six states of Mexico organized a caravan on Aug. 10 on behalf of the 32 evangelicals from Los Parajes, near Huejutla in Hidalgo state, who were violently torn from their homes on July 13 when the town’s traditionalist Catholic leaders struck them with machetes and ropes. They were forced to leave behind 121 acres of land planted with crops, as well as their homes and animals.

The 32 Christians in Hidalgo state, north of Mexico City, say they have lost their entire crops of corn and sesame, and they are missing the season for planting jicama.

Cars and buses forming the caravan met at noon in the town of Tantoyuca, Hidalgo, proceeding together with police escort to Huejutla, where they left their vehicles and continued on foot toward the central plaza carrying the Mexican flag, a Christian flag, and placards with messages of love and support. Pastor Carlos Del Angel of Cerro Azul, Veracruz organized the protest, with the demonstrators also bringing food and clothing to the victims.

At press time Christian lawyer Samuel Noguera had still not been able to reach a solution with authorities. One of the expelled evangelical leaders, Enrique Garcia, told newspaper Milenio Hidalgo on Aug. 11 that local and state authorities should respect the rights of those who have been expelled.

“It seems to me impossible that once it has been proven that all of us evangelicals have fulfilled our obligations to the town, we should still be exiled,” Garcia reportedly said. “I understand that approximately 70 percent of the population of Los Parajes is open to our return.”

In February the Christians had reached an agreement with the community allowing them to choose to follow their own faith, but when Enedino Luna Cruz became town leader he burned the document, according to the evangelicals.

At first the expelled group, including two infants, four other small children, and several older adults, took refuge in two rooms of Benito Juarez School in nearby Huejutla, sleeping on the floor and going without food and water – and quashing plans for a 15th birthday celebration, a traditional Mexican quinceanera or “coming out” party, for Alejandra Dorotea Geronimo, according to local newspapers.

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Germany: Exorcists are summoned from abroad to drive the demons away

Hundreds of Germans, tortured by inner voices, are on the search for priests who can free them from what they believe to be the grip of the Devil, according to an extraordinary radio documentary that has stirred an awkward debate about exorcism in the Catholic Church.

“Over the past year alone I have received requests from around 350 people who think they are possessed by an evil spirit,” says Father Joerg Mueller, who heads a group of priests, doctors and therapists to deal with the problem. “Therapy hasn’t worked for them; they want exorcism — a prayer that can free them.”

Father Mueller, who is based in a Bavarian monastery, was talking to a team from WDR, the state radio network, which was allowed to record extracts from eight exorcisms.

A Polish exorcist, named only as Father Wiktor, suggested that this was only a fraction of the actual number seeking help

“I would say that every day at least one person is undergoing a full-scale exorcism,” he told WDR.

This has come as a shock to the Catholic Church in Germany, which has shied away from exorcism since the tragic case of Anneliese Michel in 1973.

Ms Michel, 23, from a strongly Catholic Bavarian village, had epilepsy and suffered from hallucinations. Two priests were authorised to perform an exorcism. They performed the ritual 67 times until she died, having starved herself to 31kg (68lb).

After her death the priests and her parents were sentenced to six-months’ suspended jail sentences for not referring her for medical treatment.

That verdict and the publicity — two films were made about the case including The Exorcism of Emily Rose in 2005 — scared the Church hierarchy. Permission for a full exorcism now has to be granted by a bishop, but few permits have been given. In a poll of German dioceses, only Paderborn admitted to having authorised three exorcisms.

Frustrated by the lack of exorcists in their own country, disturbed Germans are turning to esoteric spiritual healers and priests in Switzerland and Poland. Andrzej Trojanowski, a Polish priest, even has plans to set up an exorcism centre in Poczernin, on the Polish-German border.

WDR broadcast some of the sessions of the exorcists with Ms Michel. She is heard growling and barking. “Tell the truth in the name of the Holy Trinity and the Blessed Virgin Mary!” commands Father Arnold Renz. The answer comes in the form of a long, terrifying scream.

The recording is making the Church leadership more reluctant to address the needs of the supposedly possessed. Yet by doing so the bishops are flying in the face of the Pope, who urged a convention of exorcists to “carry on your important work in the service of the Church”.

Father Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican exorcist-in-chief, has performed the ritual more than 40,000 times.

The Vatican aim appears to be to place at least one exorcist in each diocese to ensure that the distressed do not drift away from the Church. In Germany, however, that drift is already happening.

“I would say that 90 per cent of those who think they are posessed by the Devil are mentally ill,” said Father Mueller. A large number of them have suffered sexual abuse as children. Some think that an exorcism is easier than long years of psychotherapy.

He added: “But about ten per cent of the people who approach us have some sign of demonic possession and then you have to turn to special, charismatic men and women who have the gift of being able to feel and recognise if demons have entered someone.”

Only a handful qualify for exorcism. He gave the example of a widow who was convinced that her late husband had returned, in demonic form, to taunt her. She was offered psychotherapy.

Counting the Devil

• 300 Estimated number of trained exorcists in Italy

• 70 Estimated number of exorcists in Poland

• 84 Pages in the Vatican’s 1999 Latin “rule book” on exorcism

Source: Times archives

Ghost Hunting 101: why are some spirits earthbound?

Assuming that ghosts of any type actually do exist, there seem to be a variety of reasons for spirits to choose to remain earthbound. They range from the silly to the serious and sometimes determining why they’re staying where they are is key to understanding the activities at a particular location.

Many spirits seem to be able to move back and forth between their world and ours. This accounts for occasionally seeing, hearing, or sensing loved ones, including departed family, friends, and pets. They can make their presence known during stressful times to provide comfort and encouragement and can also choose to spend time with us during our daily activities and hope that we somehow feel their presence. Many times, they come to us in the dream state and these tend to be particularly vivid and memorable experiences. Often, they’ll visit in response to our thoughts or memories of them and they’ll try their best to send a sign and surround us with love. The last thing they want is for their loved ones to be sad – they much prefer that we smile when we think of them. These spirits represent the vast majority of those who have died – they have successfully made their transition to spirit and are going on with their happy and busy “afterlives,” while retaining their love and concern for those they left behind.

But, there are others who are not so fortunate. For reasons of their own, they remain here long after their time on earth should have ended. Most have no malevolent intentions. They generally prefer to be left alone, although there have been more than a few reports of gregarious ghosts.

So, why would anyone choose to stay around rather than move on? These are some possible reasons:
1. TRAUMA: They died so suddenly or violently that they don’t know they’re dead or simply refuse to accept it.
2. LACK OF A BELIEF SYSTEM: They expected non-existence following death and have trouble coping with the fact that they’re still around and aware.
3. UNFINISHED BUSINESS: Something needs to be completed; for example, an important project at work or home. An intense interest in “seeing it through” can cause a person to linger for a while on the earth plane. The desire to send a message to someone still living can also be a powerful reason to remain.
4. PROTECTION: A spirit may be trying to protect a loved one for some reason and is reluctant to move on until they’re assured of their safety.
5. LOVE: A very strong love bond between spouses, parent/child, or even friends can cause a spirit to remain.

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Paranormal Investigations Vs Ghosthunting

6thSensitive.com has this great piece on the difference between Paranormal Investigations vs Ghosthunting.

Ok so some Paranormal Investigators are a bit snobby when it comes to being called a "GhostBuster" or "GhostHunter" ... not me though! Its usually the only reference some people have and they are just being curious.

That said I do distinguish between an Investigation and a GhostHunt:

Paranormal Investigation: For me this is when a group of people go to a location which has specific reports of activity. So you're investigation the (claims of) activity.

GhostHunt: This is usually where you decided to check out a place because it looks spooky or because there is a history to the place (i.e. a site of a battle etc). Sure theres no activity to investigate but it can be worthwhile. Its a good way to try out new ideas or procedures and at the end of the day if you walk away with nothing you can just write it off.

Anyway thats been in my head for a bit and a recent conversation about why people bother checking out places that have no reports of activity made me want to put it out there. Its not like I'm saying thats how they should be defined, thats just how it works for me.

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Are Extraterrestrials Victims of Negative Stereotypes?

Yesterday, I got the chance to watch District 9. Unfortunately, it was an unhappy experience. I walked out after 20 minutes. While District 9 largely showed extraterrestrials on the receiving end of racist human policies, what most disturbed me was the crude depiction of the extraterrestrials. District 9 was a clever reversal of the invading alien genre that nevertheless succeeds in propagandizing extraterrestrials via negative stereotypes. Together with the upcoming November release of The Fourth Kind, Hollywood is once again resorting to pretty crude depictions of extraterrestrial life.

Is there a hidden purpose in movies such as District 9 to propagandize extraterrestrial life? Are government/corporate entities secretly conditioning humanity for future disclosures based on a contrived alien threat? To find answers, I asked world renowned UFO/exopolitics expert, Paola Harris. She has researched UFOs for over thirty years and on September 14 begins teaching an online course on UFOs and Hollywood. Her answers to my eight questions cast light on how Hollywood has historically depicted UFOs and extraterrestrials, and what one will encounter in what promises to be a fascinating online course. I should have first sat through her course before venturing out to watch District 9.

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Polish Yeti Caught Spying On Bikini Girl

The Polish Yeti allegedly roaming the Tatra mountains has been spotted again already.

Earlier this week The Morningstarr*reported how 27 year old Piotr Kowalski from Warsaw spotted an ape-like creature hiding amongst rocks up in the Tatra mountains. Now 19 year old Justyna Folger has come forward with a video of her on a camping trip in the same area.

Folger reported to Superexpress how the hairy creature stalked her as she swanned around in her bikini as her boyfriend filmed with his free hand.

“I wandered into the river for a dip when I realised that something was on the opposite shore,” she said.

“At first I thought it was a bear but it appeared to be stooping and then it raised itself on to two legs and ran off. I couldn’t believe it.”

Mountain rangers are now searching for the unidentified beast, and they’re confident they’ll find it if it exists.

“We are investigating the matter. If there is something out there we will find it.” National Park Guards Commander Edward Wlazlo told Superexpress.

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Can psychics be good for your health?

Three months ago, Twitter hosted its first scientific experiment and invited users to help demonstrate the existence of psychic powers. Professor Richard Wiseman, of the University of Hertfordshire, recruited 7,000 volunteers via the social messaging service to investigate "remote viewing" (RV). A remote viewer is a gifted individual who claims to be able to "see" events in the past, present and future, and identifying distant locations.

The psychology professor, famed for his mass-participation experiments, which explore the curious science of everyday life, travelled to a mystery site in the UK, whereupon he sent a Tweet. Participants were asked to pinpoint his location by selecting it from a line-up of five photographs. As only 15 per cent of people correctly predicted Prof Wiseman's location – despite a 20 per cent probability – he pronounced RV to be a hoax.

Historically, however, governments have not been not so quick to condemn. During the Cold War, the American military spent $20 million (£12.2 million) on an RV project, conducting "psychic spying" missions against the Soviet Union for two decades. In 2001, the Ministry of Defence also investigated the potential of remote viewing, but the outcome is unknown.

Recently, Hollywood has got in on the act. In The Men Who Stare at Goats, to be released in 2010, George Clooney plays a soldier who uses his paranormal powers to track down the Iraqi enemy.

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Haunted Stanley Hotel Billiard Room Investigation EVPs

Dream walk

Mark Dohle: The other morning I got up for one of my walks. It was very early, about 1:30. The walk started off well, for one of the best moments is simply opening the door and stepping out into the darkness, embracing the feeling of expansiveness that comes from looking up at the night sky, the stars and best of all the moon, in all of it’s phases. Usually I find it easy to meditate as I slowly take my steps around the property. Or if I can’t meditate and quiet my mind, using my prayer rope helps a great deal in keeping me centered and in the moment. However this one morning this did not happen which grabbed my attention for some reason.

As I was walking I would over and over again lose myself in a ‘walking dream’, or “day dream’ if you prefer. I would lose all sense of myself as being present to the moment. I would wake up out of my meanderings and again quiet my mind, only to be swallowed up again in my walking dream. Most of my walk was done in an almost unconscious state and when it was over this experience stuck with me. I noticed this because as stated above, my mind tends to be calm in the wee hours and I can easily be present to the actual moment that I am in. This often becomes more and more difficult as the day proceeds.

Who am I? My thoughts do not make up who I am, since for the most part they are compulsive; tapes that wind and unwind most of the time. Dreaming (daydreaming) about the past, worrying about the future, or listening to inner tapes that make up scenarios about some unresolved issues played out with those I live with as the unknowing participants. It is like going through the day lost in my unconscious, lost to the present that I move through without actually being there. So yes perhaps my everyday consciousness if not checked is not much more than a dream, a world of mirrors in which I play out my inner dramas with others, who are only there for me to take on my projections and transference’s. The less inner awareness the more outer drama I guess.

Are we always dreaming, even when awake? Is enlightenment merely waking up to this reality, at least as far as living in this world is concerned? What does it mean to be awake? I am not sure I have been awake enough to really know. What would it be like to truly see the one before me? Is it even possible? If it is, what is the bridge that allows this? I don’t necessarily think it is language that leads to this, though of course to truly try to listen is a beginning. I would think that hell would be a state of eternal dreaming, where the only important character is the one having the dream, powerless to see others as something more than mere extensions of ones inner nightmare.

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