Joseph Patrick Farrell is an American theologian, scholar on the East-West Schism and the author of a number of books on alternative history, history, historical revisionism, archaeology, and science/physics.
Biography
Born and raised in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Farrell is Adjunct Professor of Patristic Theology and Apologetics at California Graduate School of Theology, an unaccredited Christian institution of higher learning in La Habra, CA.
Additionally, he is an organist, plays the harpsichord and is a composer of classical music.
Education
A student of Timothy Ware, Farrell became a professor of Patristics at Saint Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary. He also holds an M.A. from Oral Roberts University, a B.A. from John Brown University and is a doctoral graduate (D.Phil.) of Pembroke College, Oxford University with specialty in Patristics awarded in 1987.
Work
Theology
Farrell has produced two major sets of works. One set concerns theology, the Church Fathers, and the Great Schism between East and West, with its cultural consequences for the resulting two Europes.
Farrell produced the first English translation of the "Mystagogy of the Holy Spirit" by Patriarch Photios I of Constantinople (9th century). The book includes a preface by Archimandrite (now Archbishop) Chrysostomos of Etna.
He concentrated on St. Maximus the Confessor, publishing "Free Will in St. Maximus the Confessor" (forward by Timothy Ware - now Bishop Kallistos Ware), and "The Disputation with Pyrrhus".
He also authored a four volume work on the Great Schism between East and West, with its cultural consequences for the resulting two Europes, entitled God, History, and Dialectic. It has yet to be peer reviewed by any major scholarly journal.
Other work
Farrell's other work deals with alternative archaeology, physics, technology, history and alternative history. In his own words, he pursues research in physics, alternative history and science, and “strange stuff”. He is the creator of the weapons hypothesis concerning the pyramids at Giza, based on Christopher Dunn's work. Farrell states that his books on Giza "takes off where Christopher Dunn's 'The Giza Power Plant' left off." He has also authored several books on the reputed survival of extraordinarily advanced Nazi secret weapons technology and its relationship to the U.S. Department of Defense's "black" technology programs.
Bibliography
Theology
* '. Bound edition 1997. Electronic edition 2008.
* The Mystagogy of the Holy Spirit - St. Photius (Holy Cross Orthodox Press 31 Dec 1982)
* Free Will in St. Maximus the Confessor (Saint Tikhon's Seminary Press, June 1989)
* The Disputation with Pyrrhus (St Tikhons Seminary Press, February 1990)
Alternative history
His book "The Giza Death Star" was published in the spring of 2002, and was his first venture into "alternative history and science". In order of subject readability and topicality:
On The Paleophysics of the Great Pyramid, and the Military Complex at Giza:
* Giza Death Star: The Paleophysics of the Great Pyramid and the Military Complex at Giza (Adventures Unlimited Press, Dec 2001)
* Giza Death Star Deployed: The Physics and Engineering of the Great Pyramid (Adventures Unlimited Press, 1 Oct 2003)
* Giza Death Star Destroyed (Adventures Unlimited Press, 1 Jan 2006)
* Cosmic War: Interplanetary Warfare, Modern Physics and Ancient Texts (Adventures Unlimited Press, 15 Oct 2007)
* Genes, Giants, Monsters, and Men: The Surviving Elites of the Cosmic War and Their Hidden Agenda (Feral House, 3 May 2011)
* Grid of the Gods: The Aftermath of the Cosmic War and the Physics of the Pyramid Peoples (Adventures Unlimited Press, 1 September 2011)
On the subject of secret Nazi technology and its applications and impact today:
* Reich of the Black Sun: Nazi Secret Weapons and the Cold War Allied Legend (Adventures Unlimited Press, 2005)
* SS Brotherhood of the Bell: The Nazi's Incredible Secret Technology (Adventures Unlimited Press, 2006)
* Secrets of the Unified Field: The Philadelphia Experiment, The Nazi Bell, and the Discarded Theory (Adventures Unlimited Press, 2008)
*The Philosopher's Stone: Alchemy and the Secret Research for Exotic Matter (Feral House, April 2009)
* Nazi International: The Nazis' Postwar Plan to Control Finance, Conflict, Physics and Space (Adventures Unlimited Press, March 15, 2009)
* Roswell and the Reich: The Nazi Connection (Adventures Unlimited Press, 15 Feb 2010)
* Babylon's Banksters: The Alchemy of Deep Physics, High Finance and Ancient Religion (Feral House, April 2010)
* Saucers, Swastikas and Psyops: A History of A Breakaway Civilization: Hidden Aerospace Technologies and Psychological Operations (Adventures Unlimited Press, February 2012)
* Covert Wars and Breakaway Civilizations: The Secret Space Program, Celestial Psyops and Hidden Conflicts (Adventures Unlimited Press, 26 December 2012)
* Covert Wars and the Clash of Civilizations: UFOs, Oligarchs and Space Secrecy (Adventures Unlimited Press, 15 October 2013)
* Financial Vipers of Venice: Alchemical Money, Magical Physics, and Banking in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Feral House, 15 October 2013)
Other:
* LBJ and the Conspiracy to Kill Kennedy: A Coalescence of Interests (Adventures Unlimited Press, 1 March 2011)
* with Scott D. de Hart Transhumanism: A Grimoire of Alchemical Agendas (Feral House, 30 October 2012)
Biography
Born and raised in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Farrell is Adjunct Professor of Patristic Theology and Apologetics at California Graduate School of Theology, an unaccredited Christian institution of higher learning in La Habra, CA.
Additionally, he is an organist, plays the harpsichord and is a composer of classical music.
Education
A student of Timothy Ware, Farrell became a professor of Patristics at Saint Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary. He also holds an M.A. from Oral Roberts University, a B.A. from John Brown University and is a doctoral graduate (D.Phil.) of Pembroke College, Oxford University with specialty in Patristics awarded in 1987.
Work
Theology
Farrell has produced two major sets of works. One set concerns theology, the Church Fathers, and the Great Schism between East and West, with its cultural consequences for the resulting two Europes.
Farrell produced the first English translation of the "Mystagogy of the Holy Spirit" by Patriarch Photios I of Constantinople (9th century). The book includes a preface by Archimandrite (now Archbishop) Chrysostomos of Etna.
He concentrated on St. Maximus the Confessor, publishing "Free Will in St. Maximus the Confessor" (forward by Timothy Ware - now Bishop Kallistos Ware), and "The Disputation with Pyrrhus".
He also authored a four volume work on the Great Schism between East and West, with its cultural consequences for the resulting two Europes, entitled God, History, and Dialectic. It has yet to be peer reviewed by any major scholarly journal.
Other work
Farrell's other work deals with alternative archaeology, physics, technology, history and alternative history. In his own words, he pursues research in physics, alternative history and science, and “strange stuff”. He is the creator of the weapons hypothesis concerning the pyramids at Giza, based on Christopher Dunn's work. Farrell states that his books on Giza "takes off where Christopher Dunn's 'The Giza Power Plant' left off." He has also authored several books on the reputed survival of extraordinarily advanced Nazi secret weapons technology and its relationship to the U.S. Department of Defense's "black" technology programs.
Bibliography
Theology
* '. Bound edition 1997. Electronic edition 2008.
* The Mystagogy of the Holy Spirit - St. Photius (Holy Cross Orthodox Press 31 Dec 1982)
* Free Will in St. Maximus the Confessor (Saint Tikhon's Seminary Press, June 1989)
* The Disputation with Pyrrhus (St Tikhons Seminary Press, February 1990)
Alternative history
His book "The Giza Death Star" was published in the spring of 2002, and was his first venture into "alternative history and science". In order of subject readability and topicality:
On The Paleophysics of the Great Pyramid, and the Military Complex at Giza:
* Giza Death Star: The Paleophysics of the Great Pyramid and the Military Complex at Giza (Adventures Unlimited Press, Dec 2001)
* Giza Death Star Deployed: The Physics and Engineering of the Great Pyramid (Adventures Unlimited Press, 1 Oct 2003)
* Giza Death Star Destroyed (Adventures Unlimited Press, 1 Jan 2006)
* Cosmic War: Interplanetary Warfare, Modern Physics and Ancient Texts (Adventures Unlimited Press, 15 Oct 2007)
* Genes, Giants, Monsters, and Men: The Surviving Elites of the Cosmic War and Their Hidden Agenda (Feral House, 3 May 2011)
* Grid of the Gods: The Aftermath of the Cosmic War and the Physics of the Pyramid Peoples (Adventures Unlimited Press, 1 September 2011)
On the subject of secret Nazi technology and its applications and impact today:
* Reich of the Black Sun: Nazi Secret Weapons and the Cold War Allied Legend (Adventures Unlimited Press, 2005)
* SS Brotherhood of the Bell: The Nazi's Incredible Secret Technology (Adventures Unlimited Press, 2006)
* Secrets of the Unified Field: The Philadelphia Experiment, The Nazi Bell, and the Discarded Theory (Adventures Unlimited Press, 2008)
*The Philosopher's Stone: Alchemy and the Secret Research for Exotic Matter (Feral House, April 2009)
* Nazi International: The Nazis' Postwar Plan to Control Finance, Conflict, Physics and Space (Adventures Unlimited Press, March 15, 2009)
* Roswell and the Reich: The Nazi Connection (Adventures Unlimited Press, 15 Feb 2010)
* Babylon's Banksters: The Alchemy of Deep Physics, High Finance and Ancient Religion (Feral House, April 2010)
* Saucers, Swastikas and Psyops: A History of A Breakaway Civilization: Hidden Aerospace Technologies and Psychological Operations (Adventures Unlimited Press, February 2012)
* Covert Wars and Breakaway Civilizations: The Secret Space Program, Celestial Psyops and Hidden Conflicts (Adventures Unlimited Press, 26 December 2012)
* Covert Wars and the Clash of Civilizations: UFOs, Oligarchs and Space Secrecy (Adventures Unlimited Press, 15 October 2013)
* Financial Vipers of Venice: Alchemical Money, Magical Physics, and Banking in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Feral House, 15 October 2013)
Other:
* LBJ and the Conspiracy to Kill Kennedy: A Coalescence of Interests (Adventures Unlimited Press, 1 March 2011)
* with Scott D. de Hart Transhumanism: A Grimoire of Alchemical Agendas (Feral House, 30 October 2012)
In the Dramatic Arts, Neurostethic Acting is a technique used by actors to control and rely on their subconscious thought process using a series of exercises and disciplines creating a variant pattern of thought.
Origin
It was taught as part of the Centre Stage Academy from September 2012 in the United Kingdom including parts of Scotland and the Republic of Ireland and was officially originated as a technique by British actor and director Alexander Matthews who studied at numerous schools internationally including the Royal Academy, London and schools in Germany, Vienna, and New York.
Technique
Unlike most acting techniques, Neurostethic is not an emotion based theory; it draws effects from science and neurological behaviour and patterns. Most actors who use the Neurostethic approach still draw from other methods - specifically sense memory and affective memory which form part of method acting.
Training often includes activities that stimulate subconscious and instinctive behaviour; prevent reliance on the senses of sight and sound; work on the speed of delivery (including the 'quick draw'); and re-acting.
Most commonly actors using the technique allow their focus to drift from behaviour and delivery (which when thought about can seem deliberately forced and over acted) to the mundane. Actors who remember lines to be delivered retain this information in the hippocampus - as part of the technique, the actors, through practice, change their thought and delivery pattern to use the orbitofrontal cortex generating a natural instinctive response. Similar techniques are used for motor function, balance and behaviour.
Additionally chemical and sensory responses are used to cause responses in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland.
Origin
It was taught as part of the Centre Stage Academy from September 2012 in the United Kingdom including parts of Scotland and the Republic of Ireland and was officially originated as a technique by British actor and director Alexander Matthews who studied at numerous schools internationally including the Royal Academy, London and schools in Germany, Vienna, and New York.
Technique
Unlike most acting techniques, Neurostethic is not an emotion based theory; it draws effects from science and neurological behaviour and patterns. Most actors who use the Neurostethic approach still draw from other methods - specifically sense memory and affective memory which form part of method acting.
Training often includes activities that stimulate subconscious and instinctive behaviour; prevent reliance on the senses of sight and sound; work on the speed of delivery (including the 'quick draw'); and re-acting.
Most commonly actors using the technique allow their focus to drift from behaviour and delivery (which when thought about can seem deliberately forced and over acted) to the mundane. Actors who remember lines to be delivered retain this information in the hippocampus - as part of the technique, the actors, through practice, change their thought and delivery pattern to use the orbitofrontal cortex generating a natural instinctive response. Similar techniques are used for motor function, balance and behaviour.
Additionally chemical and sensory responses are used to cause responses in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland.
Ice Massacre is the first novel of the fantasy trilogy of the same name, written by Canadian author Tiana Warner. Published on September 18, 2014, the novel is narrated by Meela, a teenage girl who is sent to battle the hostile population of mermaids that's driving her people into poverty. The Massacre is an annual event in which trained warriors from the island Eriana Kwai are sent to battle mermaids, dangerous sea demons that use their supernatural beauty to lure sailors to their deaths. Meela is among the first group of female warriors to be sent on the Massacre.
Synopsis
To ten-year-old Meela, Lysi is a beautiful mermaid and a loyal friend. To Meela’s people, Lysi is a flesh-eating sea demon who should be killed. That’s why Meela must keep Lysi a secret. Meela knows the mermaids have been attacking fishermen, but she refuses to believe all mermaids are bad. And she definitely doesn’t agree with the Massacres. Every year, she must watch her island’s best warriors depart on the month-long quest to massacre as many demons as possible—and since mermaids have the supernatural ability to lure men to their deaths, the warriors always fail to return.
Meela won’t let anything come between her and Lysi—until Meela’s nasty classmate, Dani, tattles and exposes the secret. Meela’s papa tries to kill Lysi and is furious at Meela for shaming the family. Despite his warnings about a sea demon’s false allure and hostile nature, Meela is determined to believe mermaids are good. Worried Papa might have hurt Lysi, she sneaks out to the beach one more time. But instead of Lysi, Meela finds an older mermaid who tells Meela that she and Lysi were never truly friends. Lysi was supposed to kill Meela. The mermaid attacks, but Meela escapes, her emotional wounds even more painful than her physical ones. Her parents were right: humans and mermaids can never be friends. Meela grows to resent the memory of Lysi as the sea demons push her people into a state of fear and poverty.
When the Massacre fails to bring home sailors yet again, the island decides to try a new tactic that will prevent the warriors from being lured into the water: sending women instead of men. Meela is terrified by the idea of facing more of those evil sea demons, and Papa knows his daughter will be chosen to go because of her tall build and fiery personality.
Seven years later, Meela has been moulded into a ruthless warrior and is determined to get revenge on the mermaid who betrayed her so many years ago. The island is more hopeful than ever as she and nineteen other teenage girls—including Annith, her best friend, and Dani—depart on the first female Massacre. When the demons attack, Meela witnesses the deaths of crewmates and is troubled by how the demons fight and feast on their kills. Her warrior mentality is jostled further when she comes crossbow-to-throat with a familiar face. She and Lysi fight, both after revenge for the past. Then Lysi says she never wanted Meela dead, leaving Meela conflicted.
As they continue on the Massacre, many girls become kill-driven and compassionless. Meela, however, meets with Lysi in secret. They know it’s treacherous, but they don’t want to stay away from each other. Meela soon becomes torn between loyalty to her people and to Lysi. Her feelings are complicated further when their connection begins to feel stronger than friendship. Is this emotional pull real, or is this the supernatural allure to be leery of? In their meetings, Meela learns the truth of the war between humans and merpeople: her island can have peace if the merpeople’s tyrannical king, Adaro, is defeated.
Struggling to decide who the real enemy is, Meela becomes hesitant to kill the mermaids in battle. But the reality is that her crew is diminishing, and the remaining warriors are cracking from strain. Then Dani snaps and shoots a crewmate dead. The girls lock her in the brig to keep themselves safe, and the few remaining warriors struggle when they’re attacked again. Meela is about to be killed when Lysi saves her life, revealing their secret to all. The demons capture Lysi, and the crew labels Meela a traitor and throws her in the brig with Dani. Dani tells Meela she could be the best warrior if she didn’t let her compassion get in the way, but Meela sees what that type of warrior mentality has done to the psychotic girl before her, and she decides she would rather be the worst warrior in the world than become as heartless as Dani.
The girls are nearly home, and though less than half the crew survived, they’ve killed more mermaids than any previous Massacres. Meela isn’t sure if this is a victory because she now knows the Massacres are not the solution to her people’s problems—Adaro should be the target, not the entire mermaid population. The mermaids attack one last time; they locate Meela in the brig and take her to Adaro after a violent struggle. Adaro says he will stop attacking Meela’s people if Meela agrees to help him find and release her island’s legendary monster. Meela agrees, feeling that she’s been handed the solution to her people’s poverty. Adaro vows to hold Lysi hostage until Meela frees the monster. She also knows she will do whatever it takes to get Lysi back—because, she realizes, she has fallen in love with a mermaid.
Critical reception
Ice Massacre has received critical acclaim. In a review for Foreword Clarion, Catherine Thureson called it "thought provoking and intelligent, "fresh and thoroughly entertaining", and "a truly exceptional book". The most common reviewer critique is related to the length of the flashback to Meela's childhood at the beginning of the story.
Synopsis
To ten-year-old Meela, Lysi is a beautiful mermaid and a loyal friend. To Meela’s people, Lysi is a flesh-eating sea demon who should be killed. That’s why Meela must keep Lysi a secret. Meela knows the mermaids have been attacking fishermen, but she refuses to believe all mermaids are bad. And she definitely doesn’t agree with the Massacres. Every year, she must watch her island’s best warriors depart on the month-long quest to massacre as many demons as possible—and since mermaids have the supernatural ability to lure men to their deaths, the warriors always fail to return.
Meela won’t let anything come between her and Lysi—until Meela’s nasty classmate, Dani, tattles and exposes the secret. Meela’s papa tries to kill Lysi and is furious at Meela for shaming the family. Despite his warnings about a sea demon’s false allure and hostile nature, Meela is determined to believe mermaids are good. Worried Papa might have hurt Lysi, she sneaks out to the beach one more time. But instead of Lysi, Meela finds an older mermaid who tells Meela that she and Lysi were never truly friends. Lysi was supposed to kill Meela. The mermaid attacks, but Meela escapes, her emotional wounds even more painful than her physical ones. Her parents were right: humans and mermaids can never be friends. Meela grows to resent the memory of Lysi as the sea demons push her people into a state of fear and poverty.
When the Massacre fails to bring home sailors yet again, the island decides to try a new tactic that will prevent the warriors from being lured into the water: sending women instead of men. Meela is terrified by the idea of facing more of those evil sea demons, and Papa knows his daughter will be chosen to go because of her tall build and fiery personality.
Seven years later, Meela has been moulded into a ruthless warrior and is determined to get revenge on the mermaid who betrayed her so many years ago. The island is more hopeful than ever as she and nineteen other teenage girls—including Annith, her best friend, and Dani—depart on the first female Massacre. When the demons attack, Meela witnesses the deaths of crewmates and is troubled by how the demons fight and feast on their kills. Her warrior mentality is jostled further when she comes crossbow-to-throat with a familiar face. She and Lysi fight, both after revenge for the past. Then Lysi says she never wanted Meela dead, leaving Meela conflicted.
As they continue on the Massacre, many girls become kill-driven and compassionless. Meela, however, meets with Lysi in secret. They know it’s treacherous, but they don’t want to stay away from each other. Meela soon becomes torn between loyalty to her people and to Lysi. Her feelings are complicated further when their connection begins to feel stronger than friendship. Is this emotional pull real, or is this the supernatural allure to be leery of? In their meetings, Meela learns the truth of the war between humans and merpeople: her island can have peace if the merpeople’s tyrannical king, Adaro, is defeated.
Struggling to decide who the real enemy is, Meela becomes hesitant to kill the mermaids in battle. But the reality is that her crew is diminishing, and the remaining warriors are cracking from strain. Then Dani snaps and shoots a crewmate dead. The girls lock her in the brig to keep themselves safe, and the few remaining warriors struggle when they’re attacked again. Meela is about to be killed when Lysi saves her life, revealing their secret to all. The demons capture Lysi, and the crew labels Meela a traitor and throws her in the brig with Dani. Dani tells Meela she could be the best warrior if she didn’t let her compassion get in the way, but Meela sees what that type of warrior mentality has done to the psychotic girl before her, and she decides she would rather be the worst warrior in the world than become as heartless as Dani.
The girls are nearly home, and though less than half the crew survived, they’ve killed more mermaids than any previous Massacres. Meela isn’t sure if this is a victory because she now knows the Massacres are not the solution to her people’s problems—Adaro should be the target, not the entire mermaid population. The mermaids attack one last time; they locate Meela in the brig and take her to Adaro after a violent struggle. Adaro says he will stop attacking Meela’s people if Meela agrees to help him find and release her island’s legendary monster. Meela agrees, feeling that she’s been handed the solution to her people’s poverty. Adaro vows to hold Lysi hostage until Meela frees the monster. She also knows she will do whatever it takes to get Lysi back—because, she realizes, she has fallen in love with a mermaid.
Critical reception
Ice Massacre has received critical acclaim. In a review for Foreword Clarion, Catherine Thureson called it "thought provoking and intelligent, "fresh and thoroughly entertaining", and "a truly exceptional book". The most common reviewer critique is related to the length of the flashback to Meela's childhood at the beginning of the story.
Manut pa (, also spelled manus pa and manud pa, literally "super aunt" or "aunt man") is a Thai neologism and stereotype used to refer to an inconsiderate person, especially an older female.
Behavior
# When people buy something in a convenience store store or supermarket, they have to line up to buy something but manut pa will cut in line.
# When people wait for a bus, they have to wait for people inside to get out of the bus but manut pa won’t get in a bus and won’t wait for people inside.
# In a bus, manut pa will put her bag on the seat and won’t let other people sit.
# At a subway or skytrain, there are 2 ways to get in and 1 way to go out. manut pa will wait at that 1 way and get in that 1 way.
# When there are sales, manut pa will go to that place all the time and when they can’t get something that they want, they will be mad at employer or other people.
# If manut pa have more than 2 people, it will be very hard to talk with them.
# They always right all the time. You can’t dispute to them.
# When manut pa gets in a van, they will not go inside and will sit near the door.
To conclude, manut pa is a kind of person that breaks the rules in the public places and doesn’t know or doesn’t care about other people. They always do what makes them feel happy or comfortable. They are a cause of daily frustration for many people in Thailand.
Behavior
# When people buy something in a convenience store store or supermarket, they have to line up to buy something but manut pa will cut in line.
# When people wait for a bus, they have to wait for people inside to get out of the bus but manut pa won’t get in a bus and won’t wait for people inside.
# In a bus, manut pa will put her bag on the seat and won’t let other people sit.
# At a subway or skytrain, there are 2 ways to get in and 1 way to go out. manut pa will wait at that 1 way and get in that 1 way.
# When there are sales, manut pa will go to that place all the time and when they can’t get something that they want, they will be mad at employer or other people.
# If manut pa have more than 2 people, it will be very hard to talk with them.
# They always right all the time. You can’t dispute to them.
# When manut pa gets in a van, they will not go inside and will sit near the door.
To conclude, manut pa is a kind of person that breaks the rules in the public places and doesn’t know or doesn’t care about other people. They always do what makes them feel happy or comfortable. They are a cause of daily frustration for many people in Thailand.