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Gaze: Encyclopedia Ii - Gaze - Forms Of Gaze
The gaze can be characterized by who is doing the looking:
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Gaze: Encyclopedia Ii - Gaze - Effects Of Gaze
Gazing and seeing someone gaze upon another provides us with a lot of information about our relationship to the subjects, or the relation...
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Crystal Gazing:
Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Crystal Gazing
CRYSTAL GAZING - the use of a candle flame, a crystal ball, a black mirror, a dark bowl of water or a bright sword for divination. (SD...
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Meditation And Concentration: Techniques In Contemplation
As a common precursor, when you sit down to practice exercises in concentration and contemplation, precede your sessions with a prayer...
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Angel Quotes: Wisdom About Love
Love
does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same
direction.
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Crystal Gazing: Encyclopedia - Crystal Gazing
Crystallomancy, or crystal gazing, is a method of divination of distant or future events by gazing into a crystal or a ball of polished r...
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Spiritual Enlightenment: The Enlightened Mom - Anette Carlstr鰉
Like a fairy tale princess she sits on a white throne and lets her loving gaze wander over everyone. Anette Carlstrom is an unusual mothe...
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Meditation: Should I Meditate
With My Eyes Open Or With My Eyes Closed?
Should I meditate with my eyes open
or with my eyes closed?
Different traditions give different
answers. Closing your eyes may contribu...
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Kundalini Maha Yoga: Shaktipat
Initiation - Awakening The Kundalini
Shaktipat Initiation - Awakening the Kundalini
Kundalini can be awakened by attaining perfection of certain hatha
yoga postures called a...
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Love And Happiness: Tolerance And Tranquility Go Together
It was a beautiful night. Poets lay awake, drawing inspiration from the star-spangled sky. Lovers drew closer, gazing at the moon. The...
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Parenting: Paint Your Child's World With Cheer
In my travels to different countries, it is always the children, filled with energy and hope, who leave me with the most lasting impre...
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Meditation Techniques: Osho Gourishankar Meditation
This meditation is a unique combination of breathing, looking, letting go and witnessing. Looking at the light with soft gaze is so re...
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Evil Eye: Encyclopedia - Evil Eye
The evil eye is a widely distributed element of folklore or superstition: a belief that some people, often women seen as witches, can bes...
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Bodhidharma: Encyclopedia - Bodhidharma
Bodhidharma (Sanskrit: 啶啶оた啶оぐ啷嵿ぎ Chinese 鑿╂彁閬旀懇, pinyin P煤t铆d谩m贸 or simply D谩m贸; Wade-Giles Tamo; Japanese 銉...
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Catoptromancy: Encyclopedia - Catoptromancy
Catoptromancy (Gk. Katoptron, mirror, and manteia, divination), divination by mirrors and related techniques such as crystal gazing, etc....
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Urim And Thummim: Encyclopedia - Urim And Thummim
Urim and Thummim (in Hebrew Urim VeTumim, 讗讜专讬诐 讜转诪讬诐, Tiberian Hebrew 示脹r卯m w蓹峁畊mm卯m, Standard Hebrew 讗讜专讬诐 讜转讜...
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Lecanomancy: Encyclopedia - Lecanomancy
Lecanomancy is a form of divination in which a diviner uses stones, oil, or meditation, coupled with a basin of water. Stones are dropped...
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Trataka: Encyclopedia - Trataka
Trataka ( in Sanskrit to look, or to gaze ) is the practice of staring at some external object. It is used in yoga as a way of developing...
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Bili Light: Encyclopedia - Bili Light
A Bili Light is a phototherapy tool to treat newborn jaundice (hyperbilirubinemia) which in higher levels causes brain damage Kernicterus...
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Christ Falling On The Way To Calvary Raphael: Encyclopedia - Christ Falling On The Way To Calvary Raphael
The Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary, also known as Sicilia's Spasimo, is a painting of the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael, ...
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Medusa: Encyclopedia - Medusa
In Greek mythology, Medusa (Greek: 螠苇未慰蠀蟽伪), was a monstrous female character whose gaze could turn people to stone.
Some classica...
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Afterimage: Encyclopedia - Afterimage
An afterimage is an optical illusion that occurs after looking away from a direct gaze at an image. This is closely related to the phenom...
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Colossi Of Memnon: Encyclopedia - Colossi Of Memnon
The Colossi of Memnon (known to locals as el-Colossat, or es-Salamat) are two massive stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. For the pas...
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Annie Jump Cannon: Encyclopedia - Annie Jump Cannon
Annie Jump Cannon (December 11, 1863 鈥 April 13, 1941) was a US astronomer whose cataloguing work was instrumental in the development o...
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Crystal Gazing:
Parapsychology
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Crystal Gazing:
Staring into a reflecting surface (e.g., mirror, glass, crystal, liquid) in order to obtain paranormal information. A...
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Crystal Gazing:
New Age
Spirituality Dictionary On Crystal Gazing
Crystal Gazing the use of a crystal ball, for divination.
(See
also: Crystal Gazing ,
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Candle Gazing:
Ayurveda Ayurvedic Dictionary On Candle Gazing
Candle Gazing Place a candle at eye-level in a darkened, draught-free room. Close your eyes and hold an after-image of the bright fl...
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Frontal & Nasal Gazing:
Ayurveda Ayurvedic Dictionary On Frontal & Nasal Gazing
Frontal & Nasal Gazing · Gaze at a point between your eyebrows, seat of the 'Third Eye' or at the tip or your nose. ...
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Skygazing: Encyclopedia Ii - Skygazing - Binocular Gazing
Binoculars are very useful when you wish to observe bright, large astronomical objects. Thanks to them it is possible to see lunar crater...
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Shoegazing: Encyclopedia Ii - Shoegazing - Nu-gazing And Current Trends
After the initial first wave of bands whose careers petered out in the early 1990s, or moved in different directions, a number of bands s...
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Eye Contact: Encyclopedia Ii - Eye Contact - The Other Roles Of Eye Contact
Eye contact - Facilitating other non-verbal communication.
A person's direction of gaze may indicate to others where his or her attenti...
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Eye Contact: Encyclopedia Ii - Eye Contact - The Role Of Eye Contact In Facilitating The Expression Of Emotions
Eye contact and facial expressions provide key social and emotional information; we continually probe each other's eyes and faces for pos...
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Astrology:
Alternative
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astrology (star-gazing): means of obtaining information that can provide individualized insights regarding emotional, professional, an...
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Eye Contact: Encyclopedia Ii - Eye Contact - Instinctive Behavior
As with primates, human beings show an extreme alertness to where others are looking. Although a person may consciously control where his...
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Skygazing: Encyclopedia Ii - Skygazing - The Observation With A Reflecting Telescope
A reflecting telescope is constituted not of lenses but of mirrors. It being less costly to manufacture, one can, for the price of a refr...
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Skygazing: Encyclopedia Ii - Skygazing - Observations With A Refracting Telescope
A refracting telescope is an instrument that is constituted of one or several lenses and that focuses the luminous rays toward one point ...
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Shoegazing: Encyclopedia Ii - Shoegazing - The Scene That Celebrates Itself
The first stirrings of recognition came when indie writer Steve Lamacq referred to Ride in a review for the NME as "The House of Love wit...
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Shoegazing: Encyclopedia Ii - Shoegazing - Technical Definitions
Shoegazing is characterised by the use of distortion and the fuzzbox, droning riffs and a Phil Spector-esque wall of sound from the noisy...
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Shoegazing: Encyclopedia Ii - Shoegazing - Influences
The Velvet Underground was often cited as a major influence, as the band had been on the C86 movement before it. Many of the bands eschew...
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Scrying:
New Age
Spiritual Dictionary On Scrying
scrying Crystal gazing
(See
also: Scrying ,
Body
Mind and Soul)
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Trataka:
Hindu Sanskrit Dictionary On Trataka
Trataka: Steady gazing; the process of fixing the gaze on a small dot, point, yantra, etc.
(See also:
Trataka , Hinduism, Hi...
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Trataka: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary I On Trataka
Trataka - Gazing at a particular spot.
(See also: Trataka ,Yoga, Yoga Dictionary)
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Trataka:
Ayurveda Ayurvedic Dictionary Ii On Trataka
Trataka: steady gazing
(See
also: Trataka , Ayurveda, Ayurvedic Dictionary, Alternative
Health, Body Mind and Soul)
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shambhavi Mudra:
Sanskrit
Dictionary On shambhavi Mudra
Shambhavi Mudra:
gazing between ones eyes
(See
also: Shambhavi Mudra ,
Body
Mind and Soul)
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Hydromancy:
New Age
Spiritual Dictionary On Hydromancy
hydromancy A means of discovering hidden objects by gazing into water surfaces
(See
also: Hydromancy ,
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Mind and Soul)
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Scry:
Spiritual Dictionary On Scry
Scry: To predict the future by gazing at or into an object such as a crystal ball or pool of water.
(See also:
Scry , Magic,...
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Skygazing: Encyclopedia Ii - Skygazing - Naked Eye Skygazing
Skygazing - Diurnal observation.
The extreme brightness of the Sun saturates the sky and prevents the observation of less luminous obje...
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Tratak:
Hindu Sanskrit Dictionary Iii On Tratak(a)
TRATAK(A): steady gazing
(See also: TRATAK ,
Hinduism, Hinduism Dictionary, Sanskrit Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul)
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Crystalomancy:
Health And
Healing Dictionary On Crystalomancy
Crystalomancy: Divination or fortune telling by gazing into a crystal rock or crystal ball.
(See
also: Crystalomancy ,
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Scrying:
Health And
Healing Dictionary On Scrying
Scrying: A form of divination by gazing into something, usually a reflective surface (ie a crystal ball).
(See
also: Scrying...
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Crystalomancy:
New Age
Spirituality Dictionary On Crystalomancy
Crystalomancy Divination or fortune telling by gazing into a crystal rock or crystal ball.
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also: Crystalomancy ,
New A...
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Bodhidharma: Encyclopedia Ii - Bodhidharma - Spiritual Approach
Tradition holds that Bodhidharma's chosen sutra was the Lankavatara Sutra, a development of the Yogacara or "Mind-only" school of Buddhis...
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Bodhidharma: Encyclopedia Ii - Bodhidharma - Portrayals Of Bodhidharma
Throughout Buddhist art, Bodhidharma is depicted as a rather ill-tempered, profusely bearded and wide-eyed barbarian. He is described as ...
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Fourth Wall: Encyclopedia Ii - Fourth Wall - Origin And Meaning
Although it originated in theatre, where conventional three walled stage sets provide a more literal "fourth wall", the term has been ado...
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Dyadic Eye Fixation:
Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Dyadic Eye Fixation
DYADIC EYE FIXATION - meditation technique of mutually gazing into one another’s eyes. (NAD)
(See also:
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Trataka:
Spiritual Sanskrit Dictionary On Trataka
Trataka: fourth shatkarmas; technique of gazing into steadfastly upon an object such as a candle flame, mandala or yantra.
(...
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Floater: Encyclopedia Ii - Floater - Description
Floaters are suspended in the vitreous humour, the thick fluid or gel that fills the eye. Thus, they generally follow the rapid motions o...
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Fourth Wall: Encyclopedia Ii - Fourth Wall - Breaking The Fourth Wall
The term "breaking the fourth wall" is used in film, theatre, television, and literary works; it refers to a character directly addressin...
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Shambhavi Mudra: Hinduism Sanskrit Dictionary V On
Shambhavi Mudra
shambhavi mudra:
shambhavi mudra - gazing between ones eyes
(See also: shambhavi mudra , Hinduism, Hinduism
Dictionary, S...
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Trataka:
Spiritual Yoga Dictionary V On Trataka
Trataka:
one of the cleansing techniques (shatkarma) in which the gaze is focussed upon an object such as a candle flame.
(S...
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Bahiranga Trataka:
Spiritual Yoga Dictionary V On Bahiranga Trataka
Bahiranga trataka:
concentrating the attention (gaze) upon an external object such as a candle flame.
(See
also: Bahiranga ...
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Drishti:
Spiritual Yoga
Dictionary Iv On
Drishti
Drishti:
Drishti ("view/sight"): yogic gazing, such as at the tip of the nose or the spot between the eyebrows; cf....
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Bodhidharma: Encyclopedia Ii - Bodhidharma - Biography
The major sources about Bodhidharma's life conflict with regard to his origins, the chronology of his journey to China, his death, and ot...
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Bodhidharma: Encyclopedia Ii - Bodhidharma - Biography
The major sources about Bodhidharma's life conflict with regard to his origins, the chronology of his journey to China, his death, and ot...
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Meditative Postures:
Ayurveda Ayurvedic Dictionary On Meditative Postures
Meditative Postures Yoni Mudra · Close your ears with thumbs. · Cover your eyes with your index fing...
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Scrying: Pagan Wicca Dictionary On Scrying
Scrying - Any form of divination which involves gazing at or into something, such as a crystal ball or black mirror, to observe psychi...
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Sarabhanga:
Sai Baba Dictionary On Sarabhanga
Sarabhanga:
Sarabhanga: Sage, who cast off his body while gazing at Rama on a pyre of fire (RRV2-1)
(See
also: Sarabhanga...
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Evil Eye: Encyclopedia Ii - Evil Eye - Talismans Offering Protection
Attempts to ward off the curse of the evil eye resulted in a number of talismans being resorted to. Painted balls (or disks) painted with...
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Islam And Clothing: Encyclopedia Ii - Islam And Clothing - Everyday Modest Dress Hijab
Muslims, male and female, are expected to dress modestly as expressed in the Qur'an:
"Say to the believing men that they should lower th...
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Evil Eye: Encyclopedia Ii - Evil Eye - Distribution Of The Belief
Belief in the evil eye is strongest in the Middle East, Asia and Europe, especially the Mediterranean region; it has also spread to other...
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Scrying: Paganism Pagan Dictionary On Scrying
SCRYING: A method of divination. To gaze at or into an object (a quartz crystal sphere, a pool of water, reflections, a candle flame) ...
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Phenytoin: Encyclopedia Ii - Phenytoin - Side-effects
At therapeutic doses, phenytoin produces horizontal gaze nystagmus, which is harmless but occasionally tested for by law enforcement as a...
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Scry, Scrying:
Craft Witchcraft Dictionary On Scry, Scrying
SCRY, SCRYING: 1) the act of gazing into an object to still Conscious Mind, allowing contact with Psychic Mind. 2) to practice divin...
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Bodhidharma: Encyclopedia Ii - Bodhidharma - Legends
Bodhidharma - Encounter with Emperor Liang.
According to tradition, around 520, during the period of the Southern Dynasties, Bodhidharm...
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Grigori:
New Age Spirituality
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Grigori
Grigori (Italian) They serve as guardians to the portals between the worlds - the physical world and what lies beyond. They are the pr...
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Being And Nothingness: Encyclopedia Ii - Being And Nothingness - Connection To No Exit
Men and women will always be in a world of other people, who can capture him within their gaze, reducing him to his external materiality....
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Grigori:
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Spirituality Dictionary On Grigori
Grigori (Italian) They serve as guardians to the portals between the worlds - the physical world and what lies beyond. They are the pr...
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Strabismus: Encyclopedia Ii - Strabismus - Types
Strabismus may be concomitant or incomitant. Concomitant strabismus means that the strabismus is equal regardless of which direction the ...
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Elisha Ben Abuyah: Encyclopedia Ii - Elisha Ben Abuyah - The Four Who Entered Paradise
The oldest and most striking reference to the views of Elisha is found in the following baraita (Hagigah 14b; Jerusalem Talmud 2:1):
"Fou...
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Avalokitesvara: Encyclopedia Ii - Avalokitesvara - Origin Of The Concept
The exact origin of the religious practices relating to Avalokitesvara is unclear. Some Western scholars have suggested that the concept ...
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Bard On The Beach: Encyclopedia Ii - Bard On The Beach - History
Bard on the Beach was started in 1990 by current artistic director, Christopher Gaze. The self-stated goal of the festival was to provide...
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Reza Abbasi: Encyclopedia Ii - Reza Abbasi - Life
He is considered to be one of the foremost Persian painters of all time. He received his training in the atelier of his father, Ali Asgha...
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Ghatanothoa: Encyclopedia Ii - Ghatanothoa - Ghatanothoa In The Mythos
Ghatanothoa is a Great Old One and is so hideous that anyone who gazes upon it (or even a perfect replica) is petrified into a living mum...
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The Beautiful South: Encyclopedia Ii - The Beautiful South - Discography
The Beautiful South - Albums.
Welcome to the Beautiful South (1989) U.K. No.2
Choke (1990) U.K. No.2
0898 (1992) U.K. No.4
Miaow (1994...
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Fair Folk Exalted: Encyclopedia Ii - Fair Folk Exalted - Overview
In the beginning of time, Creation, the world, was created out of the Wyld, the mutable murk of dream-stuff. The natives of the Wyld, tak...
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Strabismus: Encyclopedia Ii - Strabismus - Treatment And Management
As with other binocular vision disorders, the primary therapeutic goal for those with strabismus is comfortable, single, clear, normal bi...
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Mobius Syndrome: Encyclopedia Ii - Mobius Syndrome - Clinical Features
Mobius syndrome is caused by abnormal development of the cranial nerves. This rare disorder has a number of causes. Most often affected a...
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Scrying: Paganism Pagan Dictionary On Scrying
SCRYING: Divination, usually using such methods as crystal gazing, or divination via incense smoke, or water as opposed to tarot or ot...
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Cornholio: Encyclopedia Ii - Cornholio - Transformation
Cornholio emerges whenever Beavis consumes large quantities of sugar or caffeine and enters a hyperactive phase, with symptoms including ...
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Koichi Kimura: Encyclopedia Ii - Koichi Kimura - Duskmon
One of Cherubimon's evil warriors, Duskmon can transform other Digimon's regret into dark energy. An expert swordsman with the blades he ...
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Barreleye: Encyclopedia Ii - Barreleye - Physical Description
The morphology of the Opisthoproctidae varies between three main forms: the stout, deep-bodied barreleyes of the genera Opisthoproctus an...
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Korean Air: Encyclopedia Ii - Korean Air - Botched Safety Record
Throughout the late 1990s safety concerns kept Korean Air under the watchful gaze of authorities at home and abroad. After the fatal cras...
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Scrying: Wiccan Witchery Dictionary Ii On Scrying
SCRYING - A form of divination intelling self hypnosis to achieve a trance state, in which joins the concious with the sub-concious to...
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Eason Chan: Encyclopedia Ii - Eason Chan - Biography
Chan was an Architecture major at University of Kingston in London before entering show business. At the age of 21, when coming back to H...
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Devil's Peak Cape Town: Encyclopedia Ii - Devil's Peak Cape Town - Landmarks
On the Eastern slopes of Devil's Peak you will find the Rhodes Memorial, to Cecil Rhodes, and the University of Cape Town. From these van...
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Sleepwalker Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Sleepwalker Comics - Powers
He possesed super strength and flotation-like flight. Sleepwalker's only offensive power was his "warp gaze". With this vision based powe...
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Brian De Palma: Encyclopedia Ii - Brian De Palma - Themes And Critical Opinion
His works explore themes of suspense and obsession, along with gender identity and the destructive nature of the male gaze. He is famous ...
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Gender Roles In Islam: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender Roles In Islam - Clothing
The most visible sign of difference between Muslim men and women is the clothing. The stated reason for the traditional dress codes was H...
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Alberto Giacometti: Encyclopedia Ii - Alberto Giacometti - Selected Works
Alberto Giacometti - Sculptures.
Spoon Woman - (1926)
Gazing Head - (1928)
The Cage - (1930)
Caress (Despite Hands) - (1932)
Woman wit...
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Dream
Dictionary Portrait:
Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Portrait
Portrait [169] To dream of gazing upon the portrait of some beautiful person, denotes that, while you enjoy pleasure, you can...
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