Friday, May 15, 2015

BLOODLETTING AND BLOODSHED, Part 4: Their 7000-Year Bond with Duality and the Ultimate Sickness

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Received from a site visitor: "Human sacrifice was not global and only happened among a few pagan religions in Central America and certainly has not happened in recent history except for a few Middle East radicals."

DUALITY-INSPIRED SACRIFICING AND BLOODLETTING AND BLOODSHED - GLOBALLY

Again, rituals involving bloody sacrifice have happened globally throughout the last 7000 years among the Hindus, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Hebrews, the Minoans, the Phoenicians, the Aztecs, Jews, Christians, Muslims, those living in the Caribbean, the Hawaiians, the Africans, the Scandinavians, and among hundreds of other places all around the globe:

Humans were reportedly sacrificed to the god Chamunda in India


Aztecs sacrificed humans


Hawaiians sacrificed humans


"Spiritual people" in Missouri, U.S.A. sacrificed humans 
(and some claim that human sacrifice continues there to this day and is tolerated by the legal system. In fact, an impartial witness will admit that is the present case all across the U.S.)


The Aztecs sacrificed around 3000 per year, possibly up to 1,500,000 total. The Shang Dynasty sacrificed over 13,000. Nearly 8,000 died in India in the early 1800's by ritual suicide. Nearly 4,000 Japanese kamikaze pilots died during WW II. The examples of duality-based bloodshed are near endless.

DUALITY-INSPIRED SACRIFICING AND BLOODLETTING AND BLOODSHED - WARS (which are always rooted in duality)

150 million killed - European conquest of "The New World"

100 million - an ancient China war

55-85 million - WWII

65 million - WWI

40 million - end of Han Dynasty

40 million - Mongol conquests

25-35 million - European wars

25 million - Qing Dynasty

Billions more in other wars around the globe

DUALITY-INSPIRED SACRIFICING AND BLOODLETTING AND BLOODSHED - MORE RECENT EXAMPLES

Cult sacrifice continues, including over 900 in the Jonestown suicides and including the fairly-recent religion-cult-based human sacrifice of Mark J. Kilroy in 1989:


On March  13, 1989, University of Texas student Mark J. Kilroy and friends traveled to South Padre Island and then to Matamoros, Mexico for a night of barhopping. The following day, Kilroy's friends notified Brownsville, Texas law enforcement authorities that he had disappeared the previous evening.

Later, a Mexican national named Serafin Hernandez drove through a police checkpoint without slowing down. Authorities gave chase and Hernandez led investigators to a remote homestead known as Rancho Santa Elena. While interrogating Hernandez, authorities learned that Kilroy and several others had been murdered at the ranch.

On April 11, 1989, investigators discovered the mutilated body of Kilroy and fourteen other victims in shallow graves at the ranch. All had been sacrificed by Aldofo de Jesus Constanzo and Sara Maria Aldrete, leaders of a cult which combined the beliefs and practices of Palo Mayombe, Santeria, and Mexican Brujeria which endorsed human sacrifice in order "to feed their spirits and protect the members of their religious cult."

Yesterday, thousands of women were killed by men all around the globe as a result of duality-based beliefs, many of those murders resulting from duality-driven homicidal thoughts during breakups and many as a result of religion-based dualistic beliefs.

Thus, the pointer stands: there has been a 7000-year bond between bloodletting and bloodshed on one hand and duality and the Ultimate Sickness on the other hand (and, as in so many cases, bonds eventually lead to bondage). Duality-based bloodletting and bloodshed have occurred globally and are occurring presently.

Such is the case with those trapped in duality-based thinking and talking and behaving: they are not free. They are trapped in the bondage of their body-mind-personality identifications which, in turn, generate chaos and fighting and bloodshed on a global basis.

To be continued.

Please enter the silence of contemplation.

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