According To Pete - The Jockey Lost His Seat

Supernatural Horsepower, is a folk song commemorating Synchronised, According To Pete, The Nile, Tears Of A Clown and all the other horses that have died as a result of racing.  As I understand it, racehorses are trained from an early age to run fast.  They are intelligent, sensitive creatures who, not only make money, but also give lots of prestige to their owners, who house them with a trainer.  But what happens when the training goes wrong?

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The Cat with Wings

The cat with wings was found by a housewife in an Oxford garden in 1933. The cat had black and white markings and was found wondering around the lady's garden. Later, the cat got in to her stables. She said (quote), 'I saw it move from the ground to a beam - a considerable distance, which I do not think it could have leaped - using its wings in a manner similar to that of a bird'.

A further quote from a reporter of the time was 'I carefully examined the cat tonight and there is no doubt about the wings. They grow just in front of its hindquarters'. Two officials arrived and took the cat away. The creature was placed on display at Oxford Zoo.

The photo shows the winged cat at Oxford Zoo in 1933. (The internet reference says 1934). There is a discrepancy as to the photo shown as to which winged cat it really is.

My reference book (undisclosed source, but a book published in the 1980s, which I own) says it is the 1933 winged cat, the internet reference says it is a winged cat from the 1899. At any rate winged cats abound apparently! Claws out and lots of cattiness!

The Totem Pole in a Dark Garden

The light catches the shadows. A picture taken in a rainstorm. Light in wet, long grass. Nature and Elementals as one. The secrets of ages whisper on the wind. The small Canadian Totem Pole stands close to the lantern. Ancient Gods still hold court in the grass in the Shipley, Yorkshire, Bohemian Grove night.

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The Church of the Green Ray Bunny

Browsing the internet I came upon this rather spectacular photograph, showing that the Green Ray can be found in many different places. It shows that the great power of the Universe can reach out and give new life and light, in this case, to a forgotten, derelict church, which the photo shows connecting once again, albeit perhaps in a more abstract way, to the great power of the planet Earth.

Rabbits' Rights

Animal Liberation Organisation Exhibition

This is the May 2011 animal rights themed exhibition, held in Shipley Library, Wellcroft, Shipley, West Yorkshire. Included are the Animal Liberation Organisation (ALO) and also RACE (Rallying Against Cruelty to Equines).

Included in the exhibition are of course, photos or pictures of 19th and early 20th century public attraction or circus elephants - Chunee, Jumbo, Topsy and Mary, all of whom met a cruel and undignified end, but who are still remembered to this day and who are featured on our website.

Psychic Cows

The cows can tell if its going to rain, that's when they all lay down. An old wives' tale you say? Well, just watch the weather and strange as it may be, when you see lots of cows laying down in fields it often does rain.

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The Owlet Vampire Joined by Bradford Phantoms in Shipley Haunting

Owlet in Shipley, a town just outside Bradford in West Yorkshire, is one of the most haunted places in the entire area. Not only does Owlet have a vampire, it also has many ghosts, a couple of which are captured here on a photograph taken in September 2010.

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Buddha in the Suburbs

Buddha brings calm and genuine serenity to an Autumn evening. Everything felt calm, peaceful and relaxed. Just as Siddhartha Gautama Sakyamuni - known as 'Buddha' - The Enlightened One, would have wanted it to be.

Lord Ganesha

Lord Ganesha sits in his windowsill shrine amongst his gifts. He has his personal jars of honey, chocolate and sweet things around him as well as a red or orange plant or flowers standing nearby. Lord Ganesha is the remover of obstacles.

A Meat-Free Christmas

I got this cutting from my local paper. To be honest I find it a bit sickening when people mention Christmas turkey and certainly give it a miss. However there is another problem and that is that plants are live too.

Cleve Backster did polygraph tests on plants and found that they responded, even to being shouted at. Also plants apparently faint when they are cut or chopped down so that they do not feel the pain.

Unfortunately virtually everything a human eats, even stuff like sugar, comes from life. Doors are often made from wood, as is furniture, so if you have wood in your house that is from life too.

Just because plants and trees do not react in the same way as livestock it doesn't mean that they do not feel fear or pain. To be totally humane we would have to develop synthetic food and homewares that had nothing to do with either animals,birds, fish OR plants.

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The Golden Dawn and Green Ray Elemental Magick

Famous 19th century Order, The Golden Dawn, had an Inner Order who worked on a paper called 'Scrying in the Spirit Vision'. This taught initiates how to expand their aura to also take in the aura of plants and form a magnetic link with them. Further examples of this were described in another Golden Dawn paper 'The Book of Wylwn'. Another good example of this is Cleve Backster's 'Primary Perception'.

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Green Ray Critters Anonymous and Cleve Backster's Primary Perception

Animals are often closer to the Green Ray than humans, especially if they live in the Wild Wood governed by the very ancient Celtic horned God, Herne, also known as Cernunnos, who actually dates from the Stone Age and is depicted in cave paintings thousands upon thousands of years old.

Cleve Backster discovered primary perception and proved that plants have feelings and responded to anxiety situations. See Golden Goat Radio for a podcast about Cleve Backster and Primary Perception. For more bizarre animal information see the Critters Anonymous show on Blog Talk Radio and selected shows on Golden Goat Radio.

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A Faery Ring in Shipley

This natural faery ring appeared in summer 2009 on a grass verge near a hawthorn tree in Shipley, West Yorkshire, and has done so each since, apparently expanding as the years go by.  It is said if you dance round a faery ring nine times then you will see the faeries, but if you do this on their sacred days, such as Beltane (May 1), Coamhain (Midsummer), or Samhain (Halloween), then the faeries will be very offended and will take you to Elf Land.

If you stand in a faery ring under a full moon and make a wish, then it is supposed to come true. Faery rings are also called hags rings because witches were thought to dance in them. You can make your own faery ring from small white pebbles or stones in a suitable woodland clearing, or grassy area, or even as part of your nature garden, as a tribute to natural elements.

Kentmere Hydro Trust

The Kentmere Hydro Trust is harnessing the power of the River Kent in South East Lakeland part of the Lake District National Park, in order to make its own hydro electric power. Since the place looks like a mini Switzerland, but is very desolate and in parts isolated, that seems like a good idea.

When I was a child, myself and family would occasionally stay at my aunt's house at Hallow Bank, Kentmere, near Kendal, or at neighbouring Fold Howe, a house just across the way from Hallow Bank. Actually, her house was in a small hamlet up a private road which was really more like a dirt track. The road up there from Staveley runs for about four miles and is very narrow in parts.

Kentmere village is about one and a half miles from Hallow Bank and it has a church there I am sure it used to have some kind of post office but this will have long gone I think. The Eagle and Child pub in Staveley was near a playground and the River Kent rushed along neaby. There was apparently one part of the River Kent in which it was possible for adults to swin but you had to know exactly where it was as some areas of the river were dangerous. Another feature was the nearby pinewood and a stream called The Dolly Tub which was an area forming a small pool where it was possible to actually sit on rocks in the water if it was warm weather.

Originally my aunt's house had a generator for electricity and there was only enough power to use during the day. At night the house was lit by oil lamps and I was always dubious when the lamps were brought out of the lamp cupboard in the evening as I hated the smell of them when lit. My aunt and uncle had no TV in their house but there were lots of interesting things to do, it was such a beautiful place.

The postman would bring the mail in a 'Postman Pat' type van and we used to walk up to Dickinson's farm nearby, carrying a small milk churn and bring home milk straight from the cows. Sometimes the milk was warm and had a few black specks in it and yes it was probably not a good idea to drink untreated milk, but we used to put it on the cornflakes back then and my aunt would cyphon it into milk bottles and put her own coloured stoppers on them. She also made her own cider from apples growing in her orchard.

From one of the kitchen windows it was possible to see a snow capped mountain with a small stream running down it (you could see the stream if you used binoculars). The kitchen was very homely with red and white striped curtains, a Raeburn cooker and a sort of calendar written in German with an owl on it, next to a barometer. In large walnut style glass fronted cupboards my aunt kept pewter goblets and ancient crockery from times long past. Dinah, my aunt's faithful golden labrador, would lay contentedly on her blanket in the kitchen.

Extra Terrestrial Elementals

The Ministry of Defence secretly held thousands of records of UFO sightings in the UK, which were only revealed after a 'Freedom of Information' request was made by UFO experts. Hundreds of people claimed to have been abducted by aliens and Judy Jafaar, secretary of the British UFO Research Association, claims that UFO sightings in the UK have increased dramatically over the last few years. Shropshire is apparently a UFO hotspot, along with Milton Keynes and Wrexham in North Wales, now dubbed 'Welsh Roswell', after the famous Roswell in New Mexico, where an alien spaceship reportedly crash landed and the 'Roswell Incident' was allegedly covered up by the US government.