Creativity

Creative assistance from one's Genie:



Many of Rudyard Kipling's stories were allegedly dictated to him by an entity he called his Deamon:

Lucid Dreaming

I-Doser has a binaural beat designed to stimulate lucid dreaming-

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African Dream Root- wiki article

Silene capensis (syn. Silene undulata) (also known as African Dream Root) is a plant native to the Eastern Cape of South Africa, where it is regarded by the Xhosa people as a sacred plant. Its root is traditionally used to induce vivid (and according to the Xhosa, prophetic) lucid dreams during the initiation process of shamans, classifying it a naturally-occurring oneirogen similar to the more well-known dream herb Calea zacatechichi.

In Cultivation it is an easily grown but moisture hungry herb, but tolerant of extreme heat (+40C) and moderate cold (-5C). A moisture retentive seedbed is essential. The flowers open at night and close in the day. They are very fragrant and smell something like cloves, jasmine and bananas.

It acts a biennial to short lived perennial and the root can be harvested after the second year.

Jabal - Mountain - Jewel

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Variations of words Jabal, Jabel, Jebal, Jebel, Jbel, Djebel, Jibal, etc. have been used for the Arabic word "Jah-BAYL" meaning "mountain, hill or slope" (as elevations). The words have been used to name many mountains, places, people, or others:

• Biblical figure Jabal:

Genesis 4:20: "And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents."
Jabal:

• Jabal al-Tariq, a.k.a. Rock of Gibraltar
• Jabal al-Thawr
• Jabal al-Nour, "Mountain of Light"

Jabal an-Nour (also Jabal an-Nur or Jabal Nur), (Arabic: جبل النور‎), meaning "The Mountain of Light", is a mountain near the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. It houses the cave Hira where Muhammad is said to have received his first revelation from God (Arabic Allah) through the angel Gabriel^[1].
Many Muslims will climb up to the cave Hira to see the place where Prophet Muhammed received the first revelation of the Qu'ran on the Night of Power.

• Jabal Jur,Bingöl, Turkey
  

"Around the World in 80 faiths" Faith 36: Alevi: Takes part in a cem ritual in a cemevi in a suburb of Istanbul, Turkey.
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MOUNTAIN OF LIGHT

The Kōh-i Nūr (Hindi: कोहिनूर, Persian/Urdu: کوہ نور, Telugu: కోహినూరు) which means "Mountain of Light" from Persian, also spelled Kohinoor, Koh-e Noor or Koh-i-Nur, is a 105 carat (21.6 g) diamond that was once the largest known diamond in the world. The Kohinoor originated at Kollur, Guntur district in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. It has belonged to various Hindu, Mughal, Persian, Afghan, Sikh and British rulers who fought bitterly over it at various points in history and seized it as a spoil of war time and again. It was finally seized by the East India Company and became part of the British Crown Jewels when Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India in 1877.

The curse of the Koh-i-Noor

It is believed that the Koh-i-Noor carries with it a curse and only when in the possession of a woman will the curse not work. All the men who owned it have either lost their throne or had other misfortunes befall them. The British are wary of this curse and so far, only Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth have adorned the gem as sovereigns. Since Queen Victoria the diamond has always gone to the wife of the male heir to the throne.

The possibility of a curse pertaining to ownership of the diamond dates back to a Hindu text relating to the first authenticated appearance of the diamond in 1306: "He who owns this diamond will own the world, but will also know all its misfortunes. Only God, or a woman, can wear it with impunity."^[14]

The Crown Jewels

Disappointment in the appearance of the stone was not uncommon. In 1852, in Amsterdam^[15] under the personal supervision of Victoria's consort, Prince Albert, and the technical direction of James Tennant, the diamond was cut from 186 1/16 carats (37.21 g) to its current 105.602 carats (21.61 g) to increase its brilliance. Albert consulted widely, took enormous pains, and spent some £8,000 on the operation, which reduced the weight of the stone by a huge 42% -- but nevertheless Albert was dissatisfied with the result. The stone then was mounted in a brooch which Queen Victoria often wore. It was kept at Windsor Castle rather than with the rest of the crown jewels at the Tower of London.^[16]

After Queen Victoria's death it was set in Queen Alexandra's brand new diamond crown, with which she was crowned at the coronation of her husband, King Edward VII. Queen Alexandra was the first Queen Consort to use the diamond in her crown, followed by Queen Mary and then Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother. In 2002, the crown rested atop her coffin as she lay in state.

Politics of Koh-i-noor claims

Given the long history of the diamond, many countries claim it. In 1976, Pakistan's prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto asked British prime minister Jim Callaghan for the Koh-i-Noor to be returned to Pakistan. The prime minister replied to Bhutto with a polite "No", and British diplomats in the countries, likely to counter this claim, were asked to lobby to 'kill the story'.^[17] Other claims have been made by India.^[18] The gem remains in the Tower of London.