Supernatural Iceland (video)

Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly; AnimusAeternus

Viking Up Helly Aa (Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty Images/theatlantic.com)

"Elves, Ghosts, Sea Monsters, and ETs in Iceland -- Investigation into the Invisible World"

Nagas, devas, dragons, and fairies (M9)

"Enquête Sur le Monde Invisible" is a documentary by French director Jean-Michel Roux. In Icelandic towns like Hafnarfjörður and Reykjavik, a large percentage of the population believe in devas (subtle unseen beings), elves, ghosts of the dearly departed, and other paranormal entities. In fact, many claim to have seen and interacted with them. And some even claim to engage in frequent contact with them. This rare documentary is the first outside look at the strange but seemingly common events that take place on this small and remote island country. Note the similarity with mysterious island nation Ireland and its wee people and extraterrestrials. Irish slaves, in fact, were brought to Iceland.

Our True Ghost Story (video)

Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Seven, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly HALLOWEEN TEAM

(Dave Symes) Now, kids, obey the nice police. They're only here to protect you from expressing yourselves and saying things you might regret later. This is just like the Battle at Kruger:

(Jason Schlosberg) Now, water buffs, obey the nice lions.

They're only here to eat you alive.

Gary Holt, Tom, Kerry King, Paul (LAW)

One strange (i.e., paranormal) thing did happen at the Slayer concert! It sounds silly to recount it given that one might discuss the societal or interpersonal freak show that most any concert in Hollywood becomes.

Standing, watching the show from the pit -- a sweaty, chaotic mass of humanity pressing in with everyone blocking the view by throwing up "Hang Ten" hand signs -- it was mesmerizing to watch it for a few seconds from the vantage point of a well placed little screen.

The person in front was videotaping through a good quality cellphone with a good size screen. He was holding it up above the fray, so by looking up one had a good vantage point. He was focusing it on Kerry King during a quick guitar solo. We very clearly saw Jeff Hanneman playing guitar with his unmistakeable long blond hair.

 

Not having previously thought much about who else was now playing guitar on tour with Slayer, we were standing stage right in front of the deafening speakers, 20 feet or so away from the stage where the crush of fans is not all-consuming.

Kerry King (right) and Jeff Hanneman (Jesse Davis biography-tribute video, see below)

Hey, Jeff, I've been waiting. - Just one more solo, Mara! (namedtranslation.co.uk)

 

Now when the camera came down, we saw Kerry King playing guitar on our right. We rushed forward to figure out who was stage left. Were there five people up there? No. The Hanneman-replacement (Gary Holt) was on his own side of the stage, and he doesn't look anything like Hanneman. We searched and searched the stage from various angles in case someone had fallen back obstructed by the stacks playing rhythm guitar in addition to the duo, who were not interacting but just keeping to their sides.

When the camera and arm came down, it had clearly been pointing at a bald, head-tattooed Kerry King, not a long-haired blond guitarist. They look nothing alike. We assumed that who had been in the frame must have just stepped aside, but no. The sheen of Hanneman's hair magnified and amplified, glowing as luminescent pixels on the screen, left an even greater impression, in jarring contrast to King's baldness.

• Jeff Hanneman remembered by titans of metal

It is due to karma -- actions willed, carried out, and accumulated -- that one lives.

Flesh eating bacteria destroy a limb (wiki)

Then it dawned on us whose image had been on that camera screen -- that was DEAD Jeff Hanneman! (Hanneman died this year as a result of  liver failure due to years of drug and alcohol abuse and perhaps demons after a mysterious spider bite that led to him contracting a crippling case of necrotizing fasciitis, "flesh-eating disease," which almost led to the amputation of his right arm). His story is told here:

Jeff Hanneman (1964-2013) memorial tribute by Jesse Davis

Did the image appear as a transient interaction between an electronic device and our eyes, the camera capturing and transducing a haint, making visible for a moment what the unaided eye cannot normally see? Or was their a documented intersection of planes: Did Hanneman's image appear on the digital video that person's camera was taking? There was no one on stage who looked anything like Hanneman, certainly no one wielding a guitar. We'll have to go through our messy, poorly lit photos and footage in search of paranormal artifacts.

• Edgar Cayce gave instructions for a device to see human aura  (Maybe some phones can sometimes transpose subtle-ectoplasmic-matter into pixels?)

Edgar Cayce, Sleeping Prophet

But if the person who was filming finds Hanneman on it, please contact us! (Leave a comment in the Comments section with a way to contact you). Up the street at the Magic Castle, private members conduct a seance trying to contact the Great Houdini. It's been almost a century, and they have not reported any success. Here along Sunset Blvd., where a bicyclist once died right in front of the Palladium just before a Slayer show, having been driving without a helmet and being side swiped by a slow moving semi truck (a head is no match for asphalt), a deceased band member steps in, occupies, possesses his erstwhile friend and musical partner for a moment of Hollywood glory on stage together again. 

This really happened, as hokey as it may sound. But "see is believing," and we know what we saw. Without digital evidence there is no sense in others believing. So readers can take comfort in that. Halloween is just a few days away. The Moon is round. And The Veil is thinning in this hemisphere, just as it was a few months ago for Obon in Asia on the other side of the planet. This thinning between the dimensions, the Planes of Existence (as outlined in Buddhist cosmology), allows for the interaction of the worlds here on Earth. We coexist with animals and space-devas ("shining ones") and space-others [asuras, nagas, gandharvas: celestial titans/Annunaki (as explained by Michael "Forbidden Archeologist" Cremo), reptilians/Draconians, and angelic messenger-musicians].

Slayer, the concert (death and cartoons)

Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Pat Machperson, Seven, Irma Quintero, Wisdom Quarterly

Great Slayer song (from "Reign in Blood") as covered by Tori Amos, "Strange Little Girls." The song famously appears in the South Park episode "Die Hippie, Die."
  

HOLLYWOOD, California - Who could believe Slayer's singer/bassist Tom Araya when he said last night that this was the first time thrash/death metal demons Slayer had played the City of Los(t) Angels in a quarter century?

 

But that's what he said. Their co-guitarist died! Who knew? (Jeff Hanneman RIP). Everyone knew it when the US military/Slatanic Wehrmacht helmet Slayer logo dropped to reveal the classic sword pentagram logo then a Converse-like seal that read "Death Angel Hanneman," a touching tribute for a bunch of uber tough guys to display. Kerry King was doing what he could to get most of the guitar licks in there, but it wasn't the same without the original duo.

One of Jeff Hanneman's last performances ("Raining Blood")

 

One could hardly tell Dave Lombardo was gone, at one time considered the fastest/most talented drummer since [blank], at least according to the bull pen/mosh pit/sandbox at Wisdom Quarterly.

I could really get into this! - Uh, Stewie...

What do we have to say for ourselves, given that this outing was "paranormal research"? Halloween or not, why would anyone go see Slayer live when s/he can see them nightly in his/her nightmares? It was fun and interesting. There weren't nearly as many ghosts as we expected. But there were many possessed, hagged out, and otherwise compromised individuals at the show. It was like being in prison, or at least a "drunk tank" (block of holding cells). The pit was constant but not vicious. Tom (see below) was less talkative than usual, less vicious. He has become a stunning cross between Sasquatch (Bigfoot, Abominable Snowman) and Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead).

 

Slayer on "religion," spirituality, and right-and-wrong

Is death metal dead? It was dead when it started, in that death -- except in the case of the arhat -- always entails rebirth. This is Zombie-core; just ask any incarnation of Chris Barnes (Cannibal Corpse, Six Feet Under) or Jack Owen (Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Adrift). How could it die? The wheel of suffering grinds on with much faster (who would have thought it possible?) bands. They may be less sincere, but they are darker, more technical, and killing it on a larger scale than Slayer ever imagined, kind of like the US military-industrial complex.

Why not? War is a lie. We know our "glorious" killers in the Army, Air Force, and USMC in Iraq and Afghanistan listen to Slayer. Who? Y'know, the ones aspiring to become mass murderers when they get back home with PTSD and a VA (Veterans Administration) who could hardly care less about their compromised karma, brain health, and massive moral injuries. And we couldn't find Mike Judge or the guy from Tricycle anywhere.

Why Slayer fans really get sent to War

(Ms NWO) What Slayer sings about is real, very real albeit unknown to most Americans: US military, NAZIs, NASA, German war criminals welcomed to the USA. This video gives the actual reasons for attacking Iraq and building military bases all over Central Asia (Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan...). The real reasons for American militarism are finally revealed from their roots in post-NAZI Germany to the modern of drones and full-spectrum dominance. All hail the corporations who finally wedded our government. Sieg heil, corporations.