Matthew James - Live on Foxtel Expo Channel 4th & 5th November 2016

Ten Years Old Tomorrow

A Light In The Darkness is 10 YEARS OLD tomorrow. Ten years old! Time flies when you are having fun they say ... A Light In The Darkness evolved from a personal library of occult links and paranormal studies into a regular obsession. A need to connect all that was of interest in the paranormal, the occult, the conspiracies in one place started as a tiny seed which grew and grew. 

There have been a number of major and notable inspirations and traumas along the way ... but we have pretty much stuck to the task and kept A.L.I.T.D going. Apart from a few spaces here and there, posts have appeared regularly and on a daily basis. We've remained up to date with the latest conspiracies and also been informative in the occult field. 

We need to thank each and every one of you who regularly visit A Light In The Darkness ... we thank those of you who pass our good name on to others, so they can experience this compendium of the great unknown for themselves. 

Here's to another 10 years! There have been several make overs since that first blog version. There are likely to be many more. We tend to evolve as we don't wish to remain the same ... watch out for new ideas and new themes. New inspirations flood our mind all the time.

Martian Anomalies

Each of these images have been obtained from Google Mars in 2012 or earlier. They are now priceless as the regions of Mars where these images were captured from have since been made 'off limits' to visitors of Mars on Google Earth. Its a confirmation in some way that there really is something to hide on Mars.

Each image is a negative of the photographs released by NASA that made up the Martian 'map' on Google Mars. Look clearly with an open mind and see for yourself there is clearly 'something there'. These are not just 'natural formations' as NASA would have us believe. There is evidence here of intelligent life, technology, buildings ... all of which is not on Mars according to the popular story.

It is clearly not the true story .... or else someone would not have gone to such great lengths to disguise the real terrain of Mars; then go to the extra deception of pixellating the surface post 2014.

 

'The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind'

Crazy Waves

There is a strange vibration in the aethers at this time. A madness on the air waves that is clearly affecting the unwary. A malaise that matches a hidden agenda; the chosen few fully conversant with the intention and the outcome. A menace set free in the minds of mankind. A wanton virus of the psychopathic type with the intention of creating as much chaos as it can silently. 

We talk of L.E.M.F signals put out on the airwaves. Intentional energies of sound designed to mind control areas of the populace; forcing them to act out strange reactions; their sub-conscious peppered with a craziness it merely acts upon. The conscious mind naive and unprepared; manifesting the behaviour programmed into the individual by those crazy waves.

 It was on the air this evening, like a bad smell, a threatening presence there on the periphery of the conscious mind. For those who know it is there, a sense of negative presence; a watcher out of the corner of their eye. For those unsuspecting who have no awareness, it will strike with no warning. 

There was evidence this night of strange behaviour. Craziness on the road, and by the shore line. Irrational behaviour perhaps sparked by those low electromagnetic frequencies in the air. Beamed into their minds by the cunning to disrupt life patterns; to sway the perceptions of the collective to think and act in a different way.

Song That Inspired Me #12

Prior to hearing this particular song my interest in Genesis had been a couple of turns of 'And Then There Were Three' on the turntable;  an interest in The Knife from Trespass and an occasional listen to 'Wind and Wuthering'. I hadn't been a big fan of Genesis.

I first heard Turn It On Again on Top Of The Pops when it had just been released as a single. The next day I bought the single, by the end of the weekend I was a re-established fan of Genesis. I remember playing the song through my headphones via my Walkman in the English Lakes that weekend where I was staying. I remember a friend commenting if I'd heard the new Genesis song. I immediately let them knew I had it on my latest compilation tape and loved it. This moment has remained as a memory I associate with this inspiring song.

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“A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength.”

Days when vampires were a real nightmare: 17th and 18th century research says creatures were infesting villages in Eastern Europe

Daily Mail: Vampires were real creatures infesting the peasant villages of Eastern Europe and sucking the blood of innocents. Or scientists once thought they were. The reality of vampires was firmly believed in by the doctors and scientific pioneers of 300 years ago, who crammed their journals with stories of the undead who feasted on the living, according to a new academic analysis.

Dr Groom, Professor of English at Exeter University, said vampires were considered real in the 1600s and early in the 1700s serious scientists in London were producing widely-read papers discussing their behaviour.

‘For many years vampirism was a serious subject of research: on the one hand it was a terrifying medical disorder, on the other a mass delusion fostered by wretched social conditions,’ he said.

Medical authorities in the 1670s wrote Latin treatises about ‘grave eating’ where the undead were dug up to find they had been eating their own shrouds and even feasting on their own limbs and bowels, according to his research...read more>>>...

Thoughts to get you Thinking #61

"The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time."-- Sydney Smiles

When I get overwhelmed by the number of tasks on my to-do list, I remind myself that the only way to get anywhere is step by step. And I cover the most distance in the journey of my life when I take a moment to decide which step will bring the greatest rewards.

"Often he who does too much does too little."-- Italian Proverb

"If you chase two rabbits, both will escape."-- Source Unknown

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AVEBURY, WILTSHIRE copyright Matthew James 2016

Leaked Homeland Security Footage Shows UFO Morphing Into Two

In the mysterious clip, a metallic sphere is seen hurtling across the sky before plunging into the ocean. As it emerges from the water, it appears to split in half – changing shape in the process.

Diabetes opens floodgates to fructose

S.O.T.T: Fructose, once seen as diabetics' alternative to glucose, is fast-tracked to the liver in diabetic mice and contributes to metabolic diseases, according to new research from Harvard University. 

In a study to be published in eLife, scientists discovered that the effect is dependent on a protein that is turned on by diabetes and that then opens the floodgates to fructose in the small intestine. The findings are the result of both short-term and long-term feeding experiments, and they provide a vivid picture of what may be happening after consuming high-fructose food and drink.

The surprise is that diabetic mice absorb more fructose within minutes after it hits the stomach, sending it to the liver where it manufactures fat.

"By building a picture of what happens inside the body when you drink a sugary drink or eat that extra cookie, we might be able to help people to think about the effects and also identify which people could be most vulnerable to excess sugar," says Professor Richard Lee of Harvard, who supervised the study.

"What is a safe amount of sugar for one person could be different from what is safe to another. Our findings suggest that some diabetics might be more susceptible to the damaging effects of fructose because diabetes tunes the body to reach into the intestine and grab more of this type of sugar."

Fructose is a sugar that has found its way into our diets at higher levels via food and drink containing table sugar (which is half fructose) or high-fructose corn syrup. This increase over the last few decades has been associated with several metabolic diseases including obesity, fatty liver disease, hypertension, insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes. Meanwhile, there is no evidence that fructose from unprocessed fruit is a health risk...read more>>>...

We Are Beings of Light

Daily Om: We are all beings of light. Put another way, we are spiritual beings having a human experience. As children, most of us know this, but other human beings who have forgotten what they really are and who cannot help us to know ourselves train us to forget. As a result, we are led to believe that magic is not real, that our invisible playmates do not really exist, and that we are limited beings with only one earthly life to live. There is enormous pressure to conform to this concept of ourselves and so we lose touch with our full potential, forgetting that we are beings of light.

At this time, many of us are reawakening to the truth of who we are, because we are living amidst such large-scale changes in the world. We need to access this light in order to not only survive but thrive as we shift into a new order of consciousness. As the changes around us proceed in rapid progression, we will want to be able to trust our own ability to sense what is happening and how we can best respond...read more>>>...

Stranger Pond Panorama

STRANGER POND, CANBERRA SOUTH Matthew James 2015

STRANGER POND, CANBERRA SOUTH Matthew James 2015

'Sometimes silence paints the perfect picture'

Song That Inspired Me #11

This is THAT song. My all time favourite song. I first heard this track on the 'Live In The Heart Of The City' LP. Live and awe inspiring. I first heard the studio version when I obtained the Snakebite EP. This song has always epitomised Whitesnake. I've never got bored of listening to the song.

The song is "Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City". It is an old Joe Walsh cover sung by Whitesnake. Here is the Castle Donnington 1983 encore version ... I choose this version because I had the video of this concert plus I was there in the crowd, somewhere.

There are far better versions than this. But this is history, my history

 

'Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?'

Clearing Your Mind

Daily Om: After a full day out in the world, stories, words, images, and songs from any number of sources continue to play in our heads hours after we encounter them. Even as we lie in bed, in the quiet dark, our minds continue noisily processing all the input from our day. This can leave us feeling unsettled and harassed. It also makes it difficult to take in any new information or inspiration. Like a cluttered house that needs to be cleared if it is to have room for movement and new life, our minds need clearing if they are to be open to new information, ideas, and inspiration. Too often, the activities we choose to help us relax only add to the clutter...read more>>>...

How to Answer Your Calling – 3 Ways to Remember Why Your Soul Chose This Life

Prior to birth, just like an artist who is selecting which paints will go onto the blank canvas, our souls choose a set of colors to work with which determine our parents, ethnicity, country of birth, etc. We also choose a number of possible paths that would allow us to experience certain aspects of our being. For instance, if courage is one of those aspects of ourselves we wish to experience, we would collaborate with other souls in this physical realm so circumstances would arise in our lives where we are required to invoke courage within us. Likewise, we choose a certain mission, or a calling that would allow us to maximize our full potentials on this live stage called earth. In order to fully step into our calling with power and consciousness, we must first elect to forget what it is at birth so we may, after years and decades, and for some, lifetimes of soul searching, arrive at a point in our lives where we must make a choice to remember who we truly are and deliberately call forth what gives us highest joy...read more>>>...

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Avebury Panorama #2

AVEBURY, WILTSHIRE,UK copyright Matthew James 2016

AVEBURY, WILTSHIRE,UK copyright Matthew James 2016

Stuck in the Mud

Daily OM: Pain comes and it goes. It is just one component to the grand cycle of life. And when experienced as such, pain can serve as an important teacher. It is when we get stuck in our pain that it becomes detrimental to our well-being and development. If you notice that you feel closed-off, resentful, heavy-hearted, or that you try very hard to avoid being hurt again, there may be a part of you that is still stuck in pain.

We can get stuck in our pain for many reasons. As children, it was natural for us to cry, throw a tantrum, and let the experience move through us. By fully feeling our pain in this way, our emotions would wash us clean, leaving us open and available to new experiences...read more>>>...

Guides part 1

Often portrayed as the 'necessary' new age fashion accessories, these guys are just about the most exaggerated and most fantasied aspect of 'psychic mediumship' and 'spiritual development'.

These 'essential' aspects of the contrived industry have somehow eluded me in all of my 30+ year history of mediumship and clairvoyance. Yet I've had no problem whatsoever making connections with the other worlds.

And its not because 'they have just been around me and I've not been aware of them'. The fact has been I've never had an illusory third party to use as an excuse; or have to rely on to establish connections with 'the other side'. It's always been ME that's done these things. It's always been me that has talked directly to 'the guests at my table' so to speak. I've never bought into the 'illusion' of guides. 

The thought that each and every one of us has at least 12 guides around us at any one time. That is according to popular new age myth, is very disturbing to say the least. There are 7.4 billion people on the planet. Multiply that by a factor of at least 12 and that is apparently how many spiritual guides there are around us. Get real. 

Guides are, in my opinion, a figment of an over active imagination. Created by those who invented the new age movement to be a divide and rule constraint. I've never had a guide and never needed a guide. I work perfectly fine the way I do without ever needing a third party assistance. I've sat in development circles to meet with my guides. I was the only one in the groups who didn't have tales of wonderful beings coming to visit me. I was sad at first. I felt left out. I felt neglected and ignored. Then I realised what it was all about. Now I am so glad to be the black sheep in this respect. I can take full responsibility for my actions and reactions in a spiritual sense . You only need the concept of guides when you cannot fully accept it is yourself and you are alone in your universe. Guides are like comfort food, and a normality that you must have one if you are in the psychic industry. In the last three decades I have come across countless people who have admitted to making up their guide malarkey because they didn't want to be the oddball in the group. Seriously! ---  Matthew James

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White-faced Heron copyright Matthew James 2016

Hyperborea & the Quest for Mystical Enlightenment

New Dawn Magazine: Far north, somewhere near the icy regions of the North Pole, legend speaks of an ancient and mostly forgotten civilisation. Mythical in character, the Hyperborean civilisation is said to have flourished in the northern most region of planet Earth at a time when the area was suitable for human habitation. According to certain esoteric systems and spiritual traditions, Hyperborea was the terrestrial and celestial beginning of civilisation. The home of original Man. Some theories postulate Hyperborea was the original Garden of Eden, the point where the earthly and heavenly planes meet. And it is said Man transgressed Divine Law in this Golden Age civilisation, the ultimate price being his banishment to the outside world. Man ventured into other regions of Earth, establishing new civilisations, bringing to an end this great and glorious Golden Age...read more>>>...

Zptech - White Powder Gold Secrets Revealed

What is the Phantom Self?

Permission to Be Real

Daily OM: Most of us are familiar with the idea of keeping it real and have an intuitive sense about what that means. People who keep it real don't hide behind a mask to keep themselves safe from their fear of how they might be perceived. They don't present a false self in order to appear more perfect, more powerful, or more independent.

People who keep it real present themselves as they truly are, the good parts and the parts most of us would rather hide, sharing their full selves with the people who are lucky enough to know them.

Being real in this way is not an easy thing to do as we live in a culture that often shows us images of physical and material perfection. As a result, we all want to look younger, thinner, wealthier, and more successful...read more>>>....

Urambi Hills Panorama #6

COPYRIGHT MATTHEW JAMES 2016

COPYRIGHT MATTHEW JAMES 2016

Light of Truth Oracle Review: "Rebirth"

The REBIRTH card, is of the PERSONALITY suit, and indicates that after a period of sweat and toil, your life is no longer the same as it was. It seems to be all worth it in the end. So, if this appears not to be the happy ever after, it is still a vast improvement on where you were before. Consider yourself re-born. A second chance is presented provided you learn from your experiences that are now behind you. This is an important phase in your life.

The magical glyph affirmation states “Step out now into the world you have created. See with new perceptions the reality you now have to explore.”

The Rebirth card is equivalent to the 6 of Swords in the tarot. The 6 of Swords indicates a period of your life has arrived where you can move away from the stresses and strains that have been experienced in the recent past. This generally indicates these difficulties have been overcome on the higher levels of consciousness, and you are now in the process of discovering a new sense of being here on the earth plane. This is the rebirth described by this card. 

COPYRIGHT MATTHEW JAMES  2012

Taken from The Light Of Truth Oracle card meanings 

'Simplify and focus on the good. The beauty of the journey ahead will flourish on its own'

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Thoughts to get you Thinking #60

"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. You can see that when you think how the friends that really listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius as though it did us good, like ultraviolet rays."-- Brenda Ueland

How well do we communicate with others? Often, when we are interacting with others, our attention in both speaking and listening is focused on meeting our own needs.

Our communication skills improve when we can open to be aware of the needs of the other person. When we listen, we can release the filters that serve our own needs for security and receive the message with our compassionate heart. And when we speak, we can choose words that the listener is able to receive. True communication happens when we harmonize with the other individual.

"So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it."-- Jiddu Krishnamurti

"The first duty of love is to listen."-- Paul Tillich

Angels Don’t Do Readings!!

Lorraine Holloway White: Angels are not spirit guides as people call them (helpers) – ever. To say they are is an insult. Watching some of the nonsense on Facebook with some groups talking about angels is sad and quite shocking.

Thousands and thousands are claiming to be in touch with them every day just to give one sentence of meaningless drivel they call a reading. Yet these inane sentences that mean nothing are always grabbed at hungrily as the ever-increasing need for escape from reality increases on a daily basis...read more>>>...

Long Meg & Her Daughters Panorama

LONG MEG AND HER DAUGHTERS, CUMBRIA, UK

LONG MEG AND HER DAUGHTERS, CUMBRIA, UK

Knowing Our Heart’s Desire

Daily OM: Jealousy is one of the toughest feelings we come up against in our lives. There is not much worse than this aching sense that somehow life has been unfair to us, while amply rewarding someone else. It's even worse if that someone else is present in our daily lives, making it difficult for us to get the space we need to feel and heal our pain. We may be jealous of a sibling, a dear friend, or even famous personalities. We may even face the challenge of feeling jealous of our spouse, our child, or one of our parents. Whatever the case, we can normalize our experience by understanding that, as painful as it is, jealousy is a common human feeling.

Nevertheless, it is important that we not revel in our jealousy for too long, feeding it with inner talk or gossip with others. If we do, we run the risk of losing ourselves to its negative power. Jealousy has something good to offer us, though, and that is information about our own heart's desire. When we are jealous of certain people, we want what they have, and if we are to be conscious, we must acknowledge that. In this way, we discover what we want for ourselves, which is the first step to getting it. It may be a certain kind of relationship or a career....read more>>>...

The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America: 7 Ways the Ruling Elite Are Making Us Dumber

If you want to hijack a planet, what could be a better way of doing it than by controlling the populace without them ever knowing? Unaware that anything’s going on, the populace would never revolt. Such is the nature of our world’s hijack by the invisible enemy — the ruling ‘elite’ and their silent war on humanity.

In this gross deception, the elite’s carefully orchestrated plans have two distinct purposes. The first purpose is to deceive the populace into believing that their manufactured lies — psy-ops, falsehoods, distortions, manipulations — are real. To prevent any of this from being found out, a number of deceptions and distractions have been manufactured to take the populaces’ attention elsewhere. The second is to advance their agenda for total global domination with minimal resistance, because the populace don’t know that they’ve been deceived by the first purpose. A minority, such as those of us frequenting the alternative media, do indeed know this, but as a safeguard to prevent the ‘sleeping masses’ from waking up in numbers and causing a revolt, the ruling elite are systematically working to make our society on the whole, dumber!..read more>>>...

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NOISY FRIARBIRD copyright Matthew James 2016

Night Terrors: The Pisadeira

Brazilians speak in hushed tones about an ugly monster - sometimes a giant man, sometimes an old hag, sometimes a scary demon - that sneaks into bedrooms while they're sleeping, sits on their chests and presses down on their throats so that they wake up gasping for breath and unable to move. It turns out versions of the same tale are told in many countries by many cultures about many monsters. While science has not developed a get-this-monster-off-of-my-chest cure, it has come up with an explanation for them.

In Brazil, the monster is called Pisadeira and is most often described as an old hag with long fingers who jumps down from roofs onto the chests of unsuspecting sleepers. In Portugal, Pisadeira is sometimes depicted as old man (sadly, a Friar) and occasionally sits on the full belly of children rather than on their chests. In Spain, it's a large black dog or cat. The indigenous people of Canada believe the creature is a shapeless demon created by an evil shaman. Nigerians describe it as a scary old woman while the Japanese say it's a male spirit trying to suffocate his enemies. In Cambodia, it's a "khmaoch sângkât" - "the ghost that pushes you down." Victims all say they can see the monster or spirit but can't move or breath until it finally goes away...read more>>>...

Hermit's Cave Panorama

Hermit's Cave, Griffith, NSW copyright Matthew James 2016

When a Bad Apple Spoils the Bunch

Daily OM: Because life requires that we interact with different personalities, it is not uncommon for us to encounter a situation where there is one person whose behavior may negatively impact the experiences of others. Someone who is loud and crass can interrupt the serenity of those who come together to practice peace. A disruptive worker can cause rules to be imposed that affect their colleagues' professional lives. A team member who is pessimistic or highly critical may destroy the morale of their fellow members. And one "bad apple" in your personal life can be a potent distraction that makes it difficult to focus on the blessings you've been given and the people who love you.

There may always be people in your life who take it upon themselves to create disruption, foster chaos, stamp out hope, and act as if they are above reproach – even when, in doing so, they put a blight on their own experiences. But you don't need to allow their negativity and callousness to sour your good mood. Often, our first impulse upon coming head-to-head with a bad apple is to express our anger and frustration in no uncertain terms. However, bad apples only have the power to turn our lives sour if we let them...read more>>>...

Cormorant Totem Animal

Known in ancient Latin and Germanic languages as the “sea raven”, cormorants make a presence in your life when it is time to overcome obstacles and see new possibilities.

The cormorant invites you to dive into life FEARLESSLY, and to dive deep into the emotional realms knowing that you have evolved to do this, and you will always rise to the surface once you have gotten what you need from the depths.

The cormorant is all about self-reliance, wit, and a powerful ability to move through watery emotion with the power of feet and wings; then to translate that movement into forceful sky flight. Cormorant power supports realisation of seemingly impossible goals, dissolution of obstacles, and the application of multi-faceted skills which surprise and dazzle outsiders. (Gaia Earth Oracle)

An Enchantment Of Despair on the eve of the great war ...

So many sensitive souls are feeling, as an individual, an enchantment which appears to have attached itself to the collective. Its intention to create despair and a feeling of hopelessness. If you are feeling like this right now, know you do not feel it on your own. 

It is not just happening to you. It has not been sparked by anything that has occurred in your life. You've done nothing wrong. It is something that will pass. It is overcome by you being mentally strong. Look around you, instinctively talk to other around you feeling the same. It appears like it is something in the air. Or in the water. Or in the food. Or hotwired through the DNA. 

Somewhere out there in the invisible broadcasting net a frequency has been set to broadcast. Perhaps an experiment in LMF control. We will never know for sure. But something is happening, significant, for us all to feel the same despair AT THE SAME TIME. Our minds and our bodies are processing a feeling of utter negative depression right now. All of us at the same time. It makes sense that 'they' are tampering with our minds and our DNA. Tampering with the way we feel and the way we act. 

What would be their intention you ask? They do it because they can and they know what it will do. For these tampering signals will be known to them. For it will have been done before perhaps on a smaller scale. But we talk about the beginning of a world war. We, the goyim, must be suppressed and subdued. Must be lulled into a certain state of mind. This is what is going on. This is nearly midnight. Two minutes to midnight has been passed, and it is now a critical time.

Now we've identified the cause of the doom and gloom. We need to identify the source. Everyone, has a mobile phone or a digital TV or lives close by to a mobile phone tower. We all live within an invisible network of LMF energy lines.  The network has been built around us, there in plain sight for many years. They have planned and planned down to the minutest detail this operation. They are fearful of our awakening and our awareness of what is really going on. It is time, they say, to suppress and dumb down the goyim.

This will pass when you realise you are consciousness and what they attack is the intellectual brain and mind. You are stronger than the part they attack. Overcome this attack by realising your true self, by suppressing the ego and the false self.