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Ayahuasca Medicine
A type of Shamanistic sacrament in use in certain South American rituals, which involve use of hallucinogenic alkaloid extracts from certain Amazonian vines. |
Brane Theory
Collectively, a set of theories in particle physics and cosmology, related to string theory in physics (about multiple-dimensional universes). |
Enochian
An ancient "angelic alphabet" first popularized in the 1500s by two occultists named John Dee and Edward Kelley. |
Fibonacci
In short, the fibonacci sequence is the series of number that is found by adding the previous two numbers in the sequence together, starting at 1 (though sometimes starting at 0)
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Commonly thought to be a latin paragraph at first glance, it is essentially these days the equivalent of a random collection of words and phrases used to demonstrate either text/font or layout web pages, because it's filled with what appears to be regular grammar. It's typically used by web developers or some web development programs for this purpose, and this purpose alone. There are a number of altered versions around the web also. Its roots do stem from an ancient Latin text. For its history, see www.lipsum.com Here is some example text:
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Nephilim
In Judeo-Christian mythology, believed to be a possible race of half-men, half-angels. (see Nephilim) |
Noumenal
Pertaining to a noumenon, a term coined by the philosopher Kant. It is an object as it is in itself independent of the mind, as opposed to a phenomenon. |
Oculus
Means "eye" in Latin. Also in Roman architecture, it can also refer to a round hole in the ceiling of a structure, something of a skylight for observing celestial bodies, opening up the interior to the elements of weather (drains in the floor). The most famous of these is in the roof of the Pantheon of Rome, which was used as a sun observatory. |
Rune
Characters in several alphabets used by ancient Germanic peoples from the 3rd to the 13th century or a similar character in another alphabet, sometimes believed to have magic powers. |
Synaesthesia
A neurological condition in which two or more senses are interconnected, so that individuals claim to "see sounds" or "smell colors". Historically, has been linked with hallucinatory drug use, brain damage patients, and savants with artistic inclinations, such as Kadinski. |