Merfolk Discussions - Soul Star Travelers of Elven World2024-03-29T14:34:21Zhttps://elvenworld.ning.com/group/merfolk/forum?feed=yes&xn_auth=noMermaid Origins: Lost Civilizations of Lemuria and Atlantistag:elvenworld.ning.com,2023-04-17:2735650:Topic:1136982023-04-17T00:23:42.496ZᏉℓἇ∂ἇ ኔጡ።https://elvenworld.ning.com/profile/VladaMikahlSchoon
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<h4 class="post-title" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Mermaid Origins: Lost Civilizations of Lemuria and Atlantis</strong></span></h4>
<p class="subtitle" style="text-align: center;"><em>Where do mermaids come from? Mermaid legends are told all over the world. We hear of mermaids in Ireland, Scotland, England, Israel, India, Greece, Syria, China, and in Africa. How is it that so many different…</em></p>
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<h4 class="post-title" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Mermaid Origins: Lost Civilizations of Lemuria and Atlantis</strong></span></h4>
<p class="subtitle" style="text-align: center;"><em>Where do mermaids come from? Mermaid legends are told all over the world. We hear of mermaids in Ireland, Scotland, England, Israel, India, Greece, Syria, China, and in Africa. How is it that so many different cultures across the world have their own mermaid legends? How is it that cultures far away from one another have similar tales of mermaids? Most people believe mermaids are mythical creatures fit for a kid’s imagination and nothing more. But legends come from somewhere. Truth lies behind every legend, including the legends of mermaids and where they come from. A new age concept tells us mermaid origins come from lost civilizations like Lemuria and Atlantis. Learn more below.</em></p>
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<div id="txtd_23503177" class="txtd"><p style="text-align: center;"><em>There were once civilizations of beings who were much different than modern humans. The beings that lived before us were human-like; however, they had different DNA. Today we would consider these beings extraterrestrial. One of these prehistoric civilizations, now called a “Lost Land”, was Lemuria (a.k.a. Mu or Motherland). In Lemuria, there were beings with the ability to shape-shift. Some Lemurian shape-shifters could breathe underwater. This was the origin of the mermaid legend. In Lucy Cavendish’s book Lost Lands, she explains their ability to breathe underwater is attributed to a hole that was located in the third eye spot. The water was breathed in and out through this hole. Cavendish has past life memories of being a mermaid in Lemuria, and was connected with the land and sea around her.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Yet another question is where did these mermaid beings come from BEFORE they lived in Atlantis and Lemuria? Some believe they were originally from another planet, specifically from the Orion constellation. Starseeds believe the planet Mintaka was covered in diamond-like waters and they say this is where whales and dolphins come from originally.</em></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><em>The Fall of Atlantis</em></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Many people have past life memories of Lemuria – memories of swimming underwater with dolphins and whales. Some say they could walk right onto land and breathe the air too. So what happened to the mermaids and shifters from the lost civilizations? When Lemuria began to collapse, mermaids migrated to Atlantis with extraterrestrials and other shape-shifters. Unfortunately, there were darker beings that tried to mutate the Lemurian mermaid DNA leading to the destruction of Atlantis. Some of the mermaids escaped the fall of Atlantis, while many perished in the catastrophe along with the other beings. If they escaped, where did they go? What happened to the mermaids and mermen?</em></p>
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<h2 class="subtitle" style="text-align: center;"><em>Mermaid Origins: Migration out of the Lost Civilizations</em></h2>
<div id="txtd_23562703" class="txtd" style="text-align: center;"><p><em>Legends of mermaids permeate cultures all over the world, from Asia to Africa. From Europe to North America and beyond. Is it possible that evolution could have gone a separate way when we were developing from mere fish as some theories suggest? Could these fish have evolved into mermaids and mermen who still live in the oceans today? Why are there so many legends and sightings if mermaids don’t actually exist?</em></p>
<p><em>If Lemuria and Atlantis could’ve existed, who’s to say mermaids and shape-shifters didn’t reside in these ancient cities along with human beings? This story of ancient times could be true. If the mermaids and shape-shifters left Lemuria and Atlantis and spread out across the world, this would explain the hundreds of mermaid legends all over the globe. What do you think? Could mermaids and mermen be real? What about the stories of Lemuria and Atlantis?</em></p>
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<h2 class="subtitle" style="text-align: center;"><em>Mermaids in Greece</em></h2>
<div id="txtd_23503176" class="txtd"><p style="text-align: center;"><em>After the fall of Atlantis, the Lemurian and Atlantean refugees started new lives and built new civilizations. One of those civilizations became Greece. This is how the mermaid legends were passed down through time. One of the Greek mermaid legends tells of the siren. The Sirens were mermaids who lured sailors to their deaths using just their voices; however, in Homer’s Odyssey, sirens were depicted as bird-women. This indicates the ability to shapeshift, similar to the Lemurian mermaids. In other Greek legend, Alexander the Great’s sister turned into a mermaid following her untimely death. Mermaids and mermen appear in other tales from ancient Greece, and also in other ancient civilizations like Sumeria and Babylon.</em></p>
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<h2 class="subtitle" style="text-align: center;"><em>Mermaid Origins: The Ancient Celts and Mermaids</em></h2>
<div id="txtd_25193129" class="txtd"><p style="text-align: center;"><em>The ancient Celts also had legends of mermaid origins. There were stories of merrows, selkies, finfolk, and ben-varry. These creatures could breathe underwater but also on land. Depending on the region, mermaids and mermen could be helpful or downright dangerous. Mermaid sightings have been documented in Europe dating back centuries. My favorite mermaid sighting story was of a man who found two mermaid children dying on a cliff by the sea. He took the surviving mermaid home and nursed it back to health. The mermaid child never talked but would eat shellfish and stayed in a tub in the man’s home. The man believed the mer-children had washed to shore during a sea storm a few nights prior to. The man was a good soul and returned the mermaid back to its home in the sea. This story was published in a local newspaper in the 1800’s.</em></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><em>Selkies</em></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>A different mermaid story is the story of the selkie. The selkie is thought to be a shapeshifter – one who can change from a seal to a man or woman when on land. This legend is often compared to the swan maiden and the frog prince. Men and women would fall hopelessly in love with selkies because they were gorgeous in their human form. There are even tales of men marrying selkie women, only to have their hearts broken when the selkie woman leaves and returns to the sea, never to be seen again. One legend says a woman can cry seven tears into the sea to call up a selkie man for love. Some say the story of the selkie was created by lonely sailors on long voyages away from home. They would see a seal and be mistaken for a lovely woman perched on a rock or seashore.</em></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><em>What Do You Think?</em></h2>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Read more information on the lost civilizations of Atlantis and Lemuria in Edgar Cayce’s work. Find it in his books or clips of his audio on YouTube for free. Much of Cayce’s prophecies, as told in the early nineteen hundreds, have come true or have come close to truth in modern times. One of these predictions was the discovery of the Bimini Road in the Caribbean…Cayce claimed this was part of the lost civilization of Atlantis.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>If we subscribe to the idea of Atlantis and Lemuria, then we might also believe mermaids and shape-shifters and aliens once occupied this planet. It seems far fetched, but how do we know what earth was like ten thousand years ago? What do you think? Do they exist and are mermaid origins linked to Lemuria or Atlantis? The problem nowadays is you never know whether a mermaid photo or video is real or fake. We have modern technology CGI to thank for this.</em></p>
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<p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start" style="text-align: center;"><span>The Earth Baby John Collier United Kingdom, 1909</span></p>
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<p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Merrows,Mermaids,Sirens & Silkies..</strong></span></p>
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<p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start" style="text-align: center;"><em>Merrows were mermaids - also mermaids- Irish (hence the red hair, for symbolic taste...). They were beautiful women waisted up and down, fishtail (although Magritte would slightly dynamite the myth in one of her paintings...).</em></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start" style="text-align: center;"><em>As we know, mermaids sang a song so hypnotic, those who heard it fell in surrender to these creatures so termed as Sirens.</em></p>
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<p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start" style="text-align: center;"><em>The medieval writings (and earlier, on the Odyssey....) there's talk of entire music drunk crews throwing themselves over the edge and being devoured by these beings...Here, Collier's mermaid sees her alleged daughter on the beach, and of course... It's a moment of immense emotion as the sea creature remembers its ancient earth love with which they formed an impossible family.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Merrow (from the Irish Muruch) is a mermaid or merman, who needs a magical cap (cohuleen druith) in its possession in order to travel between deep water and dry land. In the land of the ancient Celts, they were described as beautiful mortal women swimming in the sea. However, the surface of the water hid the fish-like tails of these strange, supernatural creatures.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Sailors and fishermen found the Merrow irresistible, especially when the sea fairies combed their silken hair. The comb was a magical symbol of feminine power in Celtic mythology. The term merrow applies to both the male and female of the species. They are said to dwell in Tír fo Thuinn, or “The Land beneath the Waves.” Merrow men were said to be hideously ugly to the point that the mermaids refused to take them as mates.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Little is known about merrow except that their bodies were covered in emerald scales with stunted limbs and green hair. It is said they are so bitter over their appearance and loneliness that they capture the spirits of drowned sailors and keep them incarcerated under the sea in a desperate attempt at revenge.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Merrow women, on the other hand, were beautiful, with long radiant hair and glistening scales on their tails. They preferred the company of the human men to those of their hideous species. Many human men have been seduced by these mystical creatures over time. Those with the surnames of O’Flaherty and O’Sullivan in County Kerry and County Clare are believed to descend from such unions.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>It was said that in order to keep these beautiful creatures on land, a human mate would need to take the merrow’s magical cap before she could enchant them with her song, or their soul was captured forever to be held in a cage beneath the waves. When this cap was taken from her and hidden she could not return to the sea. To possess her cap meant you held a great power over her and the human could persuade her to marry them. However the yearning was so strong that these creatures would find their cap and return to their land below the waves, the cap holds the power of the merrow and enables them to live under the ocean. Such unions with humans were destined to be short-lived and the merrow would drag her suitor back with her beneath the waves.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Written accounts of the merrow women luring unsuspecting Irishmen date back to the ancient Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, also known as the Annals of the Four Masters. Indeed, even the all powerful demi-gods of chaos known as the Fomorians were not immune to their charms. Legend tells that at Killone Abbey in County Clare, a merrow swam up to the lake to enter the crypts and steal wine from their cellars. She was caught and killed, but before she died, she dragged herself back to the lake where it is believed that every 40 years the water turns red with her blood. The lake has red clay, which can give it it’s red tinge, but I like to believe it is the merrow mermaid reminding us of the injustice done to her.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>In the 1960s, there was a reported sighting of merrow women at Kilconly Point, Kerry, and in 1936 in Renvyle County Galway, there were reported sightings of the more elusive merrow men. Two fishermen, Martin Heanue and Thomas Regan, were approached by him in a cove and the bearded creature grabbed at their curragh, or scabbard. One of the fishermen went to hit the creature with his oar, but the other man stopped him, for superstition dictated that the man who struck a merrow with his oar would die within the year.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>Selkies are another form of the ancient folklore. They are part human and part seal and can appear as seals in the water and once on land, they remove their skins to reveal their human form, when they can be seen dancing on the beaches at night. The selkie stories are more common in the northern coastal counties, in Scotland, and in Scandinavian folklore. If a human was to steal her skin, she was bound to stay with them, unable to return to the sea.</span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>There are many more accounts of these mythical creatures and their interactions with us in our Irish folklore. These tales, though not as well known in modern times, are a testament to life on this island. The Irish are a nation of sea travelers and have relied on it for our survival for thousands of years. And, we are a nation of superstitious people with an love of storytelling. But, I like to believe as I walk our beaches listening to the song of the sea, that somewhere out there in the water is a beautiful song being sung by the alluring and mystical creature known as the Celtic merrow.</span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>In <a href="https://mythus.fandom.com/wiki/Greek_mythology" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a>, the <b>Siren</b> (Ancient Greek: Σειρήν (Seirḗn)) was a dangerous creature that lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and singing voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island. Although they lured mariners, for the Greeks, the Sirens in their "meadow starred with flowers" were not sea deities. Roman writers linked the Sirens more closely to the sea, as daughters of <a href="https://mythus.fandom.com/wiki/Phorcys" title="Phorcys">Phorcys</a>.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Roman poets placed them on some small islands called Sirenum scopuli. In some later, rationalized traditions, the literal geography of the "flowery" island of Anthemoessa, or Anthemusa, is fixed: sometimes on Cape Pelorum and at others in the islands known as the Sirenuse, near Paestum, or in Capreae. All such locations were surrounded by cliffs and rocks.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>According to the Greek Neoplatonist philosopher Proclus, Plato said there were three kinds of sirens: the celestial, the generative, and the purificatory/cathartic. The first were under the government of <a href="https://mythus.fandom.com/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a>, the second under that of <a href="https://mythus.fandom.com/wiki/Poseidon" title="Poseidon">Poseidon</a>, and the third of <a href="https://mythus.fandom.com/wiki/Hades" title="Hades">Hades</a>. When the soul is in heaven the sirens seek, by harmonic motion, to unite it to the divine life of the celestial host; and when in Hades, to conform the soul to eternal infernal regimen; but when on earth their only job to "produce generation, of which the sea is emblematic".</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>As the name would suggest, this story is about a merman, the male counterpart to a mermaid.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Like mermaids, they are half men and half fish. They are sometimes described as having feet and hands and can be hideous even if it’s more likely they are…</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>As the name would suggest, this story is about a merman, the male counterpart to a mermaid.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Like mermaids, they are half men and half fish. They are sometimes described as having feet and hands and can be hideous even if it’s more likely they are handsome. In Icelandic sources, mermen are not considered evil and usually do not harm the people who find or fish them.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>The Icelandic word for merman is “marbendill”. It is possible that the word was originally marmennill which means small sea-man (mennill means small man, mar means sea).</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Long ago, a farmer lived at Vogar, who was a mighty fisherman, and, of all the farms around, not one was as good as he was.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>While fishing one day, he cast down his line from the boat. After a bit, he found it very hard to pull up again, as if there were something very heavy at the end of it. Imagine his astonishment when he discovered that he had caught a great fish with a man’s head and body! When he saw this creature alive, he addressed it and said, “Who and what are you?”</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>“A merman from the bottom of the sea,” was the reply.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>The farmer then asked him what he had been doing when the hook caught his flesh.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>The other replied, “I was turning the cowl of my mother’s chimney pot to suit it to the wind. So let me go again, will you?”</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>“Not for the present,” said the fisherman. “You shall serve me awhile first.”</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>So, without more words, he dragged him into the boat and rowed to shore with him.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>When they got to the boathouse, the fisherman’s dog came to him and greeted him joyfully, barking and fawning on him and wagging his tail. But his master’s temper being none of the best, he struck the poor animal, at which point the merman laughed for the first time.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Having fastened the boat, he went towards his house, dragging his prize with him over the fields and stumbling over a hillock that lay in his way. He cursed it heartily; after that, the merman laughed for the second time.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>When the fisherman arrived at the farm, his wife welcomed him and embraced him affectionately. He received her salutations with pleasure, at which point the merman laughed for the third time.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Then said the farmer to the merman, “You have laughed three times, and I am curious to know why you have laughed. Tell me, therefore.”</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>“Never will I tell you,” replied the merman, “unless you promise to take me to the same place in the sea wherefrom you caught me and there to let me go free again.” So, the farmer made him the promise.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>“Well,” said the merman, “I laughed the first time because you struck your dog, whose joy at the meeting was honest and sincere. The second time, because you cursed the mound over which you stumbled, which is full of golden ducats. And the third time, because you received with pleasure your wife’s empty and flattering embrace, who is faithless to you, and a hypocrite. And now be an honest man and take me out to the sea whence you have brought me.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>The former replied: “Two things that you have told me I have no means of proving, namely, my dog’s faithfulness and my wife’s faithlessness. But the third, I will try the truth, and if the hillock contains gold, then I will believe the rest.”</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Accordingly, he went to the hillock and, having dug it up, found a great treasure of golden ducats, as the merman had told him. After this, the farmer took the merman down to the boat and to that place in the sea where he had caught him. Before he put him in, the latter said to him:</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>“Farmer, you have been an honest man. I will reward you for restoring me to my mother if only you have skill enough to take possession of property that I shall throw in your way. Be happy and prosper.”</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Then the farmer put the merman into the sea, and he sank out of sight.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Sometime later, seven sea-grey cows were seen on the beach, close to the farmer’s land. These cows appeared unruly and ran away when the farmer approached them. So, he took a stick and ran after them. He believed that if he could burst the bladder that he saw on the nose of each of them, they would belong to him. He contrived to hit out the bladder on the nose of one cow. It then became so tame that he could easily catch it while the others leapt into the sea and disappeared. The farmer was convinced that this was the gift of the merman. And a handy gift it was, for better cow was never seen nor milked in all the land, and she was the mother of the race of grey cows so much esteemed now.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>And the farmer prospered exceedingly but never caught any more mermen. As for his wife, nothing further is told about her so we can repeat nothing.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://johnwilliamwaterhousehome.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/1892-the-merman-sketch-1.jpg?w=1024" alt="The Merman (sketch) – John William Waterhouse"/></p> Informationtag:elvenworld.ning.com,2016-10-20:2735650:Topic:458582016-10-20T18:49:44.365ZCarl Gustaf Prienhttps://elvenworld.ning.com/profile/TheGreatSea
<p><a href="http://williammistele.com/mermaidlove.pdf">http://williammistele.com/mermaidlove.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mermaids-101-Exploring-Underwater-Merpeople/dp/1401938841/ref=pd_sim_b_10">http://www.amazon.com/Mermaids-101-Exploring-Underwater-Merpeople/dp/1401938841/ref=pd_sim_b_10…</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://williammistele.com/mermaidlove.pdf">http://williammistele.com/mermaidlove.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mermaids-101-Exploring-Underwater-Merpeople/dp/1401938841/ref=pd_sim_b_10">http://www.amazon.com/Mermaids-101-Exploring-Underwater-Merpeople/dp/1401938841/ref=pd_sim_b_10</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mermaids-The-Myths-Legends-Lore/dp/1440538573/ref=pd_sim_b_9">http://www.amazon.com/Mermaids-The-Myths-Legends-Lore/dp/1440538573/ref=pd_sim_b_9</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/A-Survival-Guide-Landlocked-Mermaids/dp/1582701601/ref=pd_sim_b_2">http://www.amazon.com/A-Survival-Guide-Landlocked-Mermaids/dp/1582701601/ref=pd_sim_b_2</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mermaid-Wisdom-Enrich-Your-Insights/dp/B006OHZKAI/ref=pd_sim_b_3">http://www.amazon.com/Mermaid-Wisdom-Enrich-Your-Insights/dp/B006OHZKAI/ref=pd_sim_b_3</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-History-Mermaids-Berk/dp/076364515X/ref=pd_sim_b_6">http://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-History-Mermaids-Berk/dp/076364515X/ref=pd_sim_b_6</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Magickal-Mermaids-Water-Creatures-Conway/dp/1564147843/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381082892&sr=1-5&keywords=ocean+magic">http://www.amazon.com/Magickal-Mermaids-Water-Creatures-Conway/dp/1564147843/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381082892&sr=1-5&keywords=ocean+magic</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mermaid-Magic-Connecting-Energy-Healing/dp/0987050532/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381082892&sr=1-2&keywords=ocean+magic">http://www.amazon.com/Mermaid-Magic-Connecting-Energy-Healing/dp/0987050532/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381082892&sr=1-2&keywords=ocean+magic</a></p>
<p></p> Lac Delph - Dolphin's Milktag:elvenworld.ning.com,2016-10-20:2735650:Topic:459702016-10-20T18:43:43.043ZCarl Gustaf Prienhttps://elvenworld.ning.com/profile/TheGreatSea
<p><a href="http://www.narayana-publishers.com/homeopathy/pdf/Lac-Remedies-in-Practice-Philip-M-Bailey.09157_2reading.pdf">http://www.narayana-publishers.com/homeopathy/pdf/Lac-Remedies-in-Practice-Philip-M-Bailey.09157_2reading.pdf</a></p>
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<p>LAC DELPHINUM<br></br>Lac delphinum has a very distinct energy in women (I have seen<br></br>no male cases).</p>
<p><br></br>Th ere is a combination of innocence, warmth, and sensuality that<br></br>tends to be irresistible to men.</p>
<p><br></br>Th e most obvious…</p>
<p><a href="http://www.narayana-publishers.com/homeopathy/pdf/Lac-Remedies-in-Practice-Philip-M-Bailey.09157_2reading.pdf">http://www.narayana-publishers.com/homeopathy/pdf/Lac-Remedies-in-Practice-Philip-M-Bailey.09157_2reading.pdf</a></p>
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<p>LAC DELPHINUM<br/>Lac delphinum has a very distinct energy in women (I have seen<br/>no male cases).</p>
<p><br/>Th ere is a combination of innocence, warmth, and sensuality that<br/>tends to be irresistible to men.</p>
<p><br/>Th e most obvious example of this energy is Marilyn Monroe. A sex<br/>kitten, not a cat. Th e combination of child-like vulnerability and sexuality<br/>is very typical of Lac delphinum. Her helplessness makes her seem even<br/>more desirable. And yet a man who falls for her fi nds he has taken on<br/>more than he bargained for. She can be very demanding of his attention.<br/>She needs constant reassurance that he loves her and fi nds her attractive,<br/>and she is so moody and volatile that he runs away from her.</p>
<p><br/>I have found that Lac delphinum women lack many of the defence<br/>mechanisms that help other Lac people to cope with grief and loneliness.<br/>In this sense they resemble Lac caninum. Th ey are more open emotionally,<br/>less analytical, and more in touch with their feelings. As a result, they<br/>are so sensitive that they easily feel overwhelmed by their own emotions.</p>
<p>Fear<br/>Fear is the emotion which dominates Lac delphinum. She has<br/>many fears, but the most important are fears of attack and fears of<br/>abandonment. Lac delphinum is both psychic and highly imaginative.<br/>Th is works against her, as she can imagine hidden dangers, particularly<br/>at night. She senses attackers in the shadows, or ghosts by<br/>her bed. Some such women are terrifi ed by horror stories, yet also attracted. Th ey watch horror movies, then feel terrifi ed and haunted<br/>for weeks.</p>
<p><br/>Lac delphinum has a peculiar relationship to danger. She seeks<br/>dangerous situations, and feels calm in them. For example, she will<br/>drink too much, and then drive. Th is can be compared to the dolphin<br/>who is always aware of sharks nearby, yet is not threatened. Dolphins<br/>will chase sharks away from the pod, and it is only sick and young<br/>who fall victim to sharks. Yet dolphins are very aware of the danger<br/>from sharks. Several Lac delphinum women reported dreams of being<br/>stabbed by sharp objects such as spears of knives, which may represent<br/>the shark’s teeth.</p>
<p>Relationships and Sexuality<br/>Whereas many Lac individuals complain chiefl y about their relationship<br/>with their mother, Lac delphinum tends to struggle especially<br/>with her relationships with men. She knows she is sexually attractive,<br/>and may use her sexuality to hook a man, from whom she seeks<br/>security. Lac delphinum is often clingy and dependent in relationships,<br/>and this tends to push partners away. She very easily goes into<br/>a helpless, childlike mode, where she expects to be looked after. She<br/>is also moody in relationships, because she easily feels neglected, hurt<br/>and indignant. As a result she is prone to brief and stormy relationships.<br/>She will also push men away deliberately, because she easily<br/>feels trapped.</p>
<p>Another pattern I have seen in Lac delphinum is a tendency to<br/>attract older men, who become father fi gures. Th ey provide security<br/>for Lac delphinum, but are seldom sensitive enough for her. Hence she pouts and fi ghts with them, and eventually leaves them. Often in the<br/>process she becomes a single mother.</p>
<p><br/>Sexuality is a prominent feature in the proving of Lac delphinum.<br/>Most of my patients who responded to the remedy had a high sex<br/>drive and a strongly sensual feel. Yet many also reported problems<br/>with sexuality. Th e most common complaint was that they could<br/>not connect sexuality with their heart. Th ey either felt love, or sexual,<br/>but not both at the same time. Often there was an inability to reach<br/>orgasm during intercourse, part of a general inability to let go during<br/>sex. And some reported fear during sex, as if they were being raped.<br/>Th e same women felt some masochistic desire to be raped by their<br/>partner, and some also felt violent themselves during sex. It appears<br/>these symptoms relate to the fact that male dolphins are very aggressive<br/>when mating. Several males will chase a female and eff ectively<br/>gang rape her.</p>
<p>Heart-centred and Dreamy<br/>Lac delphinum has a very warm heart. Th is is part of her attractiveness.<br/>She feels great empathy for almost everyone, and will give<br/>and give when she feels needed. As a mother she tends to be a natural,<br/>exuding maternal warmth whilst dreamily fl oating through the early<br/>stages of being a parent. Very often motherhood is the one stable<br/>element of her life, the one relationship she can count on to endure.<br/>She is generally a permissive mother, who delights in every aspect of<br/>her child.</p>
<p><br/>Although Lac delphinum often has a sharp intellect, she is<br/>frequently unable to focus. She is particularly liable to space out when<br/>she is anxious. Her boundaries are not strong, and she easily feels overwhelmed by pressure. She then panics and goes into a fugue-like<br/>state, where she feels dreamy and cannot think straight. Indecision is<br/>a keynote symptom of Lac delphinum. She fears making a mistake,<br/>and hence will not decide. Perhaps this also relates to the life and<br/>death situations that dolphins face with regard to sharks.<br/>Lac delphinum’s dreaminess is an essential characteristic of the<br/>remedy. It is there even when she is not stressed. She will laugh easily,<br/>and seem unable to take problems seriously. She has a child-like giggle,<br/>reminiscent of Ignatia and Pulsatilla, and she likes to fool around<br/>and make others laugh.</p>
<p>Play, Escape and Magical Th inking<br/>Playfulness is another keynote of Lac delphinum, closely tied to<br/>her dreaminess. Dolphins are famous for their playfulness. I feel it<br/>is more than coincidence that dolphins are so often used in New Age<br/>images of spirituality. Th ose New Agers who are attracted to the dolphin<br/>image often share characteristics with Lac delphinum, including<br/>innocence, dreaminess and unrealistic optimism. I have found that<br/>Lac delphinum people are attracted to using aphorisms to attract what<br/>they want, and to ward off trouble. It is a kind of magical thinking that<br/>can be seen as an escapist or immature form of spirituality, associated<br/>not only with dolphins, but also fairies, unicorns and angels.<br/>Lac delphinum is a very escapist type. One way she will escape<br/>is to bury her head in the sand. She simply will not look at diffi cult<br/>issues, and so she can feel quite slippery when she seeks psychological<br/>help. Instead of responding when asked a question that touches on a<br/>painful issue, she may laugh, or stay silent, or change the subject.</p>
<p>Another way Lac delphinum escapes is by taking drugs. It is a<br/>very addictive type, particularly to alcohol and sedatives like valium<br/>and marijuana.</p>
<p><br/>Depression<br/>Lac delphinum is prone to depressive illness. Her life is very<br/>often chaotic, and lacking in support. She is extremely sensitive to<br/>the world’s harshness, and she easily feels overwhelmed, and then<br/>sinks into depression. When depressed she is very tearful, and full<br/>of self-pity and self-loathing. She is also prone to anxiety when she<br/>is depressed. At such times she isolates herself, though she can also<br/>behave in a clinging way if she trusts someone. A depressed Lac delphinum<br/>usually appears lost and hopeless, and has little idea how<br/>to help herself. She tends to feel extremely disconnected from other<br/>people, and hence very lonely.</p>
<p>Lac delphinum has many characteristics in common with China.<br/>In particular, both types tend to be dreamy and psychic, and both<br/>types are prone to panic. Th ey also share the same defence mechanism.<br/>Both can be very stubborn and defi ant, particularly with men.<br/>One Lac delphinum patient told me that she studied astrophysics at<br/>university, just so that she could beat her father at something. She was<br/>beautiful and sensual and dreamy, the kind of woman you would only<br/>expect to be an astrophysicist in Hollywood movies.<br/>As children, Lac delphinum are shy, sensitive and dreamy. Th ey<br/>tend to live in an imaginary world, and are easily frightened. As with<br/>other Lac types, sibling rivalry is often strong.</p>
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<p>From Goddess Alchemy -</p>
<p>On Pluto and Dolphin's Milk</p>
<p>I find myself constantly dying in my life. At times, everything feels like death to me, including my body, my heart, my soul. I really feel I am dying, or at least I want to.</p>
<p>Everything is over. dead. bleak. There is no joy, no feeling, just emptiness. And this means it is time to go to the underworld, where Persephone (see blog on her in the goddess archetype section) lives in meditation, to be reborn, with her consort, co-ruler of the Underworld, Hades (Pluto).</p>
<p>So I have come to realize that these deaths always bring forth some sort of rebirth in myself.</p>
<p>This is the work of Pluto, the planet of not only destruction, but transmutation (also known as alchemy, which is why I called this site goddess alchemy, the feminine side of transmutation). Pluto is the great transformer. It destroys, only to rebuild again. Pluto is where the word “plutonium” comes from; think nuclear war…</p>
<p>Pluto is associated with the Greek God/Archetype of Hades, ruler of the Underworld. It is known astrologically as a dark planet because it may destroy, but it also rules change, transformation, death of the old, birth, and rebirth…where a situation or belief is no longer needed, Pluto will transform it.</p>
<p>However, it is not like Uranus that comes along unexpectedly and jars things harshly; Pluto works subtly and affects the roots of our being.</p>
<p>I have Pluto in my 12th house, the house of the hidden unconscious, and it is conjunct ketu (my south node, which gives liberation, but through great suffering), which is extremely intense. Lots of death and transformation all the time, at a deep soul level. There is constant upheaval coming up from my subconscious and exploding on me, so it forces me to do inner work.</p>
<p>Luckily, life has given me amazing tools to deal with the constant upheaval. Today I just took the most amazing remedy called Lac Delfinum, or Dolphin’s milk. I have various homeopaths that I work with, some who specialize in sequential homeopathy, and one who is a genius of classical homeopathy: Danny Murphy. His genius never ceases to amaze me. He is Irish and British and totally charming and irritating at the same time (who ever knew I could love a gemini so much??? mind you, i did have a few fights with him to get through to the love…!)</p>
<p>I was so agitated and upset and even paranoid in the last while. And even my usual daily meditation practice wasn’t releasing this agitated, distrustful, angry state of mind. Then I had a horrible nightmare where I was trying to save a dolphin, taking it to a spiritual ashram, but they were cooking the dolphins..yes, that is why it was a horrendous nightmare. I had to take the dolphin out to the ocean. My heart hurts so much at how the animals suffer on this earth. Humans have not yet developed the empathy to FEEL other beings, like animals (or children). It is extremely tragic, and the one issue I wish I could change on earth. I pray so much for the innocent animals and children, who have no voice.</p>
<p>Well, Danny gave me the homeopathic remedy of dolphin’s milk, and I could swear someone drugged me. Danny explained that this remedy is deeply calm and tranquil (under all the mistrust and other emotions), and I honestly feel so calm at a soul level. I only yearn to sit in silence and meditate, which is my favorite state of being <img src="http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif?m=1129645325g" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley"/></p>
<p>Meditation is my bliss, my ecstasy, my love, and my passion…so I am grateful to have remedies that can wipe out deeply disturbed states of mind and bring me back to blissful meditation which i love to do for hours on end <3</p>
<p>So, I think it is important to remember that when you feel that everything is falling apart, being destroyed, dying…remember that Pluto is doing his job and the old is being released so that rebirth can occur…</p>
<p>And here are more notes on the rubrics of this fabulous remedy. Generally you want to consult a professional homeopath to help you match your exact symptoms with the remedy…but I find these remedies so totally fascinating that i love the idea of sharing them here…</p>
<p>Remember, we can see our nature reflected in the plants, animals, and mineral realm, and when we find our match, we take that substance in an energetic/potentized form to heal ourselves…I love that Danny now calls me a little dolphin!</p>
<div>Lac Delfinum.</div>
<div>Introverted.</div>
<div>Avoids the company of men and woman, and is more comfortable in the company of animals.</div>
<div>Deep love of animals.</div>
<div>Dreams of dolphin.</div>
<div>Dolphins operate in a pod, as families, and need to belong to a community, a family.</div>
<div>Fear of being rejected by family, pod, or community.</div>
<div>Slow metabolism. All LACS have to do with digestion.</div>
<div>ARTISTIC.</div>
<div>Lack of trust, suspicious, distrustful.</div>
<div>Feeling of a lack of safety.</div>
<div>community. threat. feeling threatened. the major threat to dolphins is from sharks!</div>
<div>more rubrics:</div>
<div>artistic aptitude. (dolphins sing, and dance, and play!)</div>
<div>feeling of being a failure.</div>
<div>lack of self confidence.</div>
<div>feeling alone, isolated, forsaken feelings, feeling of isolation.</div>
<div>shame.</div>
<div>suspicious.</div>
<div>introverted.</div>
<div>dreams of fish, animals.</div>
<div>has visions.</div>
<div>feels separate from world.</div>
<div>helpful to people.</div>
<div>the duty of male is to make circles around female. dances around her. themes of circling.</div>
<div>very playful, chase one another. take huge leaps out of water.</div>
<div>very erotic, strong sexual energy .</div>
<div>strong sense of danger. desire to play.</div>
<div>In provings, sense of calmness.</div>
<p>calmness within. tranquility.</p>