Egyptian Mau

Magellan at 8 months...reacting to a Wiz Khalifa song. Lmao!

@Leslie, Magellan says bye bye!

1 kitten in a basket = Magellan ;-)

He loves using my arm and hands as his pillows

Sleeping in the sunshine...                                                             

Magellan...ready to pounce on the plant lol

History

The Egyptian Mau dates back over 3000 years. The Egyptian Mau is perhaps the oldest of all domestic cats and one of only two naturally spotted breeds still in existence (the other being the Bahraini Dilmun Cat). The Mau is most likely the descendant of the African Wild Cat (Felis lyica ocreata.) The domestication of the Mau occurred sometime between 4000 and 2000 BC.

The religious significance of the cat in Egypt predates recorded history. In the XIIth Dynasty (2800BC) the Egyptian Book of the Dead portrays the benevolent sun god, Ra, in the form of a spotted cat slaying the evil serpent of darkness.

The worship of the dual natured goddess, Bast, started out as a local cult and reached its zenith around 950BC when Bubastis, home of the cult of Bastet, became the capital of Egypt. The goddess Bast was depicted as a cat, representative of both the sun and the moon which reflects the life giving light and warmth of the sun in the darkness of night. She is also depicted as holding the serpent of darkness at bay with bloody tooth and claw and as such was referred to as the 'Tearer' or 'Renderer'.

Through the cult of Bast, the cat came to represent fertility, strength, and agility. It is most often depicted under the woman's chair in frescos and papyri. Paintings on the walls of the Pharaohs tombs often showed the spotted Mau’s on the laps and shoulders of their owners (much the same places you find them today). It is reported that family members showed their grief in losing a cat by shaving their eyebrows and the cats were prepared for burial in linens and fine jewels so that all could be rejoined in the afterlife. Tomb paintings depict the role of the family pet in ancient times. They are shown, bejeweled and pampered, on the laps and shoulders of their owners in domestic scenes. They are also shown as fishing and fowling companions in the papyrus marshes.

Legend has it that the Egyptians reverence for their Mau’s went so far as to cause them to lose a major battle with Cambyses II of Persia. According to legend, the Persians quickly realized that the Egyptians Achilles heel was their fanatical dedication to their cat and took many cats hostage. They then rode into battle holding the cats before them on their shields. Rather than risk killing or wounding the precious felines, the Egyptians surrendered the city of Pelusium.  The Mau was still held in reverence by the Egyptian people as late as Roman Times. In 1 BC the Sicilian historian Diodorus chronicles an incident where a Roman soldier stationed at Alexandra killed a cat. Although the Egyptians were in a delicate situation and would really have preferred not to antagonize the Romans at that point, there was no controlling the fury of the people. The soldier was seized by an angry mob and executed.

Further evidence of the high esteem given to the cat in Egyptian culture are the ornate and elaborate sarcophagi that were used for cats in tombs.  Mummies of cats complete with mummified mice included in their tomb for food, have been found in the hundreds of thousands, many have been found with fur intact. That fur was generally yellow (bronze in color) and exhibited spots, or in some cases, stripes and spots. Despite the spotted fur found on mummified cats, there do seem to be two "types of cats depicted in the ancient art work - spotted felines and a sandy colored cat. Both seem to have the moderate body type that we see today in the Egyptian Mau. There is some speculation that the little known and rather shy Jungle cat, Felis Chaus.., may have also been an ancestor of the Mau and/or the Aby. Although the theory is not widely accepted, there is significant evidence that suggests that both the Jungle cat and the African Wild Cat were held in captivity and it is likely that there was some inter-breeding between these two. (Felines and Pharaohs). Regardless of the actual origin, the cats that we find in the tombs do indeed bear a striking resemblance to our modern-day Maus, lending credence to the theory that the Egyptian Mau is indeed one of the oldest, if not the oldest, breed of domestic cat today.

The mau is long, graceful, and muscular with a stride like a cheetah. A unique flap of skin extends from the flank to the back knee, which allows for greater length of stride and agility. The Egyptian mau is the fastest breed of domestic cat, clocked at more than 30 miles per hour.

They are medium-sized cats, and usually weigh 10 to 14 pounds for adult males, and 6 to 10 pounds for adult females. The mau's head is a slightly rounded wedge shape, with a slight rise from the bridge of the nose to the forehead. The muzzle is neither short nor pointed. The alert ears are medium to large, pointed, broad at the base, and set with ample width between. The large, alert eyes are almond shaped and slightly slanted. Eye color is gooseberry green.

This breed's most striking feature is the randomly placed, distinctive spotting. Considerable variety exists in placement and shape; the spots can be large or small, round or oblong, irregular or uniform, or in any combination. Regardless, the spots must be vivid and distinct with good contrast between the background and the color of the spots. The face bears tabby barring including mascara lines on the cheeks. The characteristic "M" on the forehead is sometimes described as a scarab beetle mark in reference to the most popular of the magical amulets worn by ancient Egyptians.The legs and tail also possess barring and the tail ends with a dark tip.

The coat is medium-short with a lustrous sheen. Three strikingly beautiful colors are universally accepted – silver spotted, a pale silver ground color with charcoal black spots; bronze spotted, a warm bronze ground color shading to tawny-buff on the sides with dark brown-black spots; and black smoke, a pale silver ground color with all hairs tipped in black with jet black spots. Blue silver, blue smoke, blue spotted, and blue solid, all dilute versions of black, also occasionally occur and can be registered with some associations but not shown for championship.

Like their alleged ancestors who tagged along on bird hunts with their Egyptian worshipers, maus love to stalk, be it catnip mice, rubber balls, or wiggling fingers. In fact, they adore all mock hunting games, particularly fetch. Toss a catnip mouse and your mau will run it down and trot it back to you, toy firmly gripped in powerful jaws and eyes gleaming with predatory triumph, for repeated throwing.  Maus are also fascinated by water – they love to dabble their toes and drink from the faucet, and some even enjoy splashing around like a dog. Maus are fiercely faithful, too, and become completely devoted to the humans who pay them homage. They generally don't talk to strangers, but with their chosen humans they are loving and loyal companions who want to be at your side and involved in every aspect of your life. When engaged in conversation with their human companions, maus wag their tails, tread with their feet, and make a variety of sounds called "chortling."

Magellan....with those eyes

 Magellan

Just to demonstrate how spirit works in these sorts of things, when I got Magellan I had no idea he was an Egyptian Mau. I responded to the ad below on Craigslist:

Free Kitten

Date: 2010-07-22, 1:44PM

Healthy, house-broken, weined and eating well, about 7 weeks old. Has had one shot already and the follow-up shot next week. 

Location: Carpentersville

Original URL: http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwc/pet/1857305497.html

I followed up with the owners, drove over an hour to pick Magellan up. He was actually one of five kittens available. When I arrived at the pick-up spot, the owner of the kittens opened a big duffle case filled with 5 little kittens all sleep on each other. She picked up one of them and handed it to me, this one was half sleep and was looking at me as if it did not want to be bothered.  At that moment, Magellan popped his little head up, jumped out the bag and onto my shoulder. He was meowing like crazy! I told the lady well I guess this one is mine. On the ride back to Chicago, Magellan would not sit still, he did not want to stay in his travel case. He explored the entire car which is how he earned his name : Magellan (thank you John John).  Once home Magellan immediately got familiar with Patches (my other guide) though Patches wanted nothing to do with him at first. Patches actually stopped talking to me for some time after I got Magellan! This lasted about two weeks, after that they were  BFF’s.

Some of Magellan’s characteristics:

• VERY TALKATIVE…he is ALWAYS talking about something- he interrupts conversations and responds to questions/greetings/etc
• Playful, he starts fights with Patches all the time
• Possessive- he wants me all to himself. He doesn’t like ANY of my male companions and he does not like anyone sleeping over. He will nudge Patches out of the way if Patches is sleeping under me.
• He doesn’t like strangers…at all. He is VERY protective of me…and rightfully so! HAH
• He rolls his eyes, smirks, and yells. If he doesn’t like you, he will roll his eyes and turn his back on you. If I wake up later than normal and miss his designated feeding time, he will YELL at me (cussing me out)
• He is PURR CRAZY…he LOVES being rubbed and will purr for hours. He stares at you directly and will lay on you with his head and eyes looking up at you (serious energy exchanges)
• What is really special is that Magellan hangs out when I am meditating or dancing, and loves certain mantras that I play.

I was bewildered when I learned that Magellan was an Egyptian Mau. Now I know why….these slight of hand things all add up. As my remix fam always says:  KNOW YOUR MAGICK!!!!!!!

The Psychic Skill of Clairvoyance

Peace Family-- I have been working hard on strengthening my skill of clairvoyance and have spend the last several months thoroughly researching the topic. There is literally a TON of information out there about developing psychic ability. My goal in publishing this information here is to give you all a condensed version of some of the information that I have discovered along with some personal results from the methods that I have tried myself.

When you begin to investigate what it means to have clairvoyance, you will run into a lot of information dealing with psychic abilities in general. In essence, you will run across the following terms: clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, divination, telepathy, dowsing, ESP, empathy, intuition, precognition, retrocognition, automatic writing, channeling, and aura reading. For the purpose of this blog, I will discuss clairvoyance, clairaudience, and clairsentience in further detail.  

What is Clairvoyance?

"The Visionary"
First things first- clairvoyance simply means "seeing clearly"- it is the ability to decipher visual information through extrasensory means. When you access your clairvoyance you are using the same mechanics and parts of your brain that are active when you dream or visualize. If you have the ability to visualize anything, then you have clairvoyant ability---everyone has the capacity to use these skills. Clairvoyance enables you to know people on an extremely intimate level, you pick up info about people that they aren't conscious of. Clairvoyants typically pick up others energy without knowing it and take on others problems without being aware of it. Clairvoyants also are very easy to talk to, and typically have random people spill their guts to them without any probing.

Clairvoyance is often referred to as the sixth sense. It is the art of seeing with senses beyond the five we normally use. It is usually associated with precognition or retrocognition. It is related to the images that are always present in your mind that brings messages from other realms. These images can be shape, colors, still, animated, remain a few seconds, or last a long time. You may see them with your eyes open or closed. If an artist, a decorator, a creative person, or someone who mainly uses the right side of their brain were to become enlightened they would have the ability to read auras, our chakras, draw guides, and this is how they would channel what they received because the ability to see images is their most heightened sensitivity.

What is Clairaudience? 
"The Intuitive"

This is a person who will pick up a thought and hear it. This persons mental or intellectual understanding is very important and they can make good leaders. We all know someone that we would say was a mental person, always having to understand mentally. They carefully think things through. If this person were to become enlightened they would have the ability to become a medium, someone who channels information from entities who have passed over, because their most heightened sensitivity is to hear. It is also the hearing of sounds that are not audible by most people that are associated with angels,spirits and even events from the higher planes

What is Clairsentience?
"The Prophetic" 
This is a person who will pick up a thought and just knows it. This person is sensitive to precognition and has hunches, dreams and knowings and this person usually deals with the future or present and how it will affect another. If you were to meet an enlightened Prophetic you would be able to get some information about your 'line of probability', tomorrow is not set in time remember. This could be a person who has a dream about something and that dream turns out to happen in reality. They have the ability of prediction because they 'just know' and can tune into and understand their hunches.

"The Feeler" 
This is a person who will pick up a thought and transform it immediately into a feeling. This persons life can revolve around how it feels to them. Their sense of touch is well-developed and they have the ability to know people by feeling what they feel. After enlightenment, this is someone would have the ability to practice psychometry. The ability to put something belonging to someone in their hand and read the energy. Depending on their other gifts, they could tell the past, present or future from the energy. They have the ability to feel how others feel but only on the emotional level. They will be able to not only empathise but experience their pain, loss, grief etc. For instance, if they were to channel energy from a persons past life they would experience the pain and hurt that that soul experienced in that past lifetime.

Note: You may find that you possess traits/skills from each one of these areas, they are not mutually exclusive, and many people experience flashes in the form of audio/visual/intuition. 

Beginning to develop your Clairvoyance


Step 1- Opening Your 3rd Eye
Everything dealing with psychic abilities involves the opening of the 3rd eye aka the pineal gland; in order to read energy and pick up on others energy your 3rd eye must be activated and in constant reception mode. There are herbs and crystals that can help with this as mentioned later in the blog. 


Step 2- Meditation and Visualization
Secondly, you must be able to meditate and visualize. I won't spend too much time discussing meditation and visualization here because each warrant their own piece. For some quick and easy meditation techniques you can visit: http://www.how-to-meditate.org/breathing-meditations.htm . Visualization is key because this is how you will "see" what is around u and other people. Debra Katz has an entire chapter dedicated to Visualization techniques in her book "You are Psychic",  that are very useful.


Step 3- Creating and Destroying
Third, you must learn the importance of creating and destroying, in everything. This is probably one of the most underrated skills to possess. We all create and destroy everyday. When you are hungry you create(make appear) food to eat. When you are done eating, you destroy (make disappear) the plate. When you visualize an object in your imagination, you are actually creating the object on an energetic level. When you imagine that you are destroying the object you are actually moving and changing molecules that make up this energy form. When you create and destroy an object an energy force is set in motion that affects all other energies surrounding it. Therefore you can utilize this process to move and release unwanted energies. In tangent with this, you have to be able to recognize your own energy, what it looks like, smells like, feels like, what color is it? How does it flow?  This will allow you to know immediately when someone else's energy is intruding upon your own. 

Grounding Energy
Ok, once you know your own energy you must practice grounding yourself. Often times when we become stressed, nervous, or have extreme emotions, our spiritual body becomes ungrounded. When a person is ungrounded, our physical body is present but the rest of our energy is all over the place. People who lose things frequently,who become hysterical over the slightest thing, are spacey, or have problem  following directions are typically ungrounded. The grounding of our spirit and even our physical body can be strengthened thru the use of a grounding cord. The grounding cord will harness your energy so that you can focus and remain calm and strong even in the face of adversity. A grounding cord can be visualized as any object and is typically plugged into your 1st chakra. It extends and connects you to the center of the planet. 


To ground yourself, follow these steps:
1.) Imagine whatever you wish to release within yourself dislodging itself effortless from wherever it is located.


2.) Imagine it falling and passing thru your first chakra (the spinning energy center) as if it were a drain and falling down your grounding cord. 


3.)  Imagine it falling down your cord until it is released into the center of the earth (which is scalding hot). 


4.) Once the energy reaches the center of the earth it will dissipate and return to its original source. You will feel the energy release. 


There are several grounding techniques that are far more in depth, this is one that is pretty easy to start with if you are new to the practice. 


You can also use stones to help you with grounding, and in this case, the visualization technique is much easier. You simply use the stone to project all of your negative energy into, visualize the energy taking over a particular color and covering the stone. Then go through the same steps mentioned above starting from the draining step.  Good stones for grounding are: Hematite, Moonstone, Obsidian, and Kunzite.

Strengthening Your Clairvoyance
Once you have your energy identified and you have begun the process of opening your pineal, you can begin to access your psychic self on a regular basis. Start by doing simple predictive tests-- make a list of who you will see on a particular day beforehand, make a list of who will call you on a particular day when you first wake up. Some more tedious predictive tests are card tests, using Zener cards which is a set of cards containing 5 designs. You can make them at home if you don't want to purchase them. The designs are: 5 circles, 5 waves, 5 squares, 5 crosses, and 5 stars. With Zener cards you can practice with another person and guess what card has come up, or practice which card will come next. Zener cards can get to be boring and easy to beat so I don't like to use them to often. Instead I have focused on utilizing thought, I put energy into thoughts such as "I want (blank) to call today" When the things actually happen I note them, I also note when they don't. Your accuracy rate will increase with practice.

Other Techniques: 
C.W. Leadbeater gives 10 techniques that are very helpful for beginners or those wishing to test their psychic abilities. 


1.) When the telephone rings, pause. Before doing anything, try to visualize the person calling. Before answering the doorbell, try to guess who it will be. Accuracy in intuition and precognition will improve dramatically through practice.


2.) At a queue, visualize the teller who will serve you. This exercise is done to develop intuition and ability to psychically connect with those who are in close proximity.


3.) At sporting events, guess the outcome before the event begins. To develop this skill, expand to predicting more statistics such as scores. (Many of us already practice this and are pretty good at it!)


4.) Practice at a dice roll by calling "even" or "odd" before the dice is thrown; your accuracy will increase with practice.  Expand to call the number the dice will land on.


5.) With a friend and a deck of cards, being by predicting black or red. When accuracy is at 80% or better, expand to predict the suit and later the face of the cards.


6.) When in an elevator, if another passenger joins you, guess the button that they will press.


7.) First thing in the morning, write down the names of those you will have important interactions with that day. Instead of relying on logic, clear the mind and allow faces or names to come to you naturally. Doing this regularly will improve your accuracy.


8.) Guess another's intentions. This exercise helps you improve your intuition concerning the intentions, preferences, and actions of other, and it can lead to developing telepathy and empathy.


9.) Before a meeting or appointment, guess the color of clothing the other person will be wearing before you meet. This improves your clairvoyant abilities and develops remote-viewing skills as well. Or, see if you can guess the mood of the people you will meet today.


10.) Among three friends of yours, ask a friend to lie to you (decided among them earlier). Write down the name of the person you feel will lie to you. After asking the question and listening to their reply, show them the paper. This helps you develop intuition, precognition, and can lead to developing telepathy. This skill is especially valuable in life; the ability to recognize deception, and even predict it, can make your life and the lives of many others much smoother.

Herbs and other items for stimulating the Pineal Gland
*These herbs can be combined together into a blend and smoked, or you can make a tea out of them by grinding them and adding them to a pot of hot water with lemon. Some effects of opening your pineal gland include: increased lucidity in dreams, clearer psychic visions, hearing voices/sounds, increased telepathic ability etc; The herbs will effect everyone differently and will typically aid you in the area that you need most.

Wood Betony
Gotu Kola
Parsley
Alfalfa
Mugwort
Monoatomic Gold
Minerals: Potassium, Calcium, Sodium, and Maganese
Ginkgo Leaf (Ginko Gobola)
Wheat Germ
Olive Oil
Melons
Pineapple Juice
Peanuts
Lecithin


Stones: The following stones are soothing and de-stressing, and are related to love, wisdom, dreams, psychism, and mysticism. The stones can be made into jewelry, placed under your pillow, or held in your hands during meditation. 


-Agate
-Beryl
-Jade
-Marble
-Sapphire
-Emerald
-Amethyst
-Azurite
-Aquamarine
-Citrine
-Crystal, quartz
-Holey stones
-Lapis Lazuli




*You can also purchase herbal mixes that come prepared. I recommend Brother's Panic's "Panic Pack" which is a channeled mixture of herbs made to stimulate pineal activity. Let me know if you would like his contact information.

My Personal Experience


I have always had psychic abilities but growing up, I never spent the proper time cultivating them. As I started to get deeper in my metaphysical studies, I realized that a lot of things that I had experienced were related to my clairvoyance, clairsentience, and clairaudience. After I started experiencing chills, ear-aches, and head-aches, on regular intervals, I knew that something was different about my state. Then came the clear sight- sight of images I had never seen before, glimmers of colorful lights in my room, a sparkle following me home. Then came the precognitive dreams. I would have dreams, only about specific people, and in my dreams the exact series of events that happened in the dreams would happen in real life. For instance, I would dream that I was at the computer reading emails from a friend, several emails, one in particular detailing how they had been gone and hadn't had a chance to check emails. In my dream I saw the trail of emails. The next afternoon, I received an email from my friend saying the exact same thing, and we wound up exchanging several emails so that my email box looked exactly like it looked in my dream. Then came the psychic communication (telepathy) and energy transference. With specific people in my life, I have the ability to psychically talk to them, I call for them internally and they physically call me seconds later, I say I want to see "blank" and hours later that person will show up. I will write a separate blog about energy transference and psychic communication as these topics are quite heavy and have many implications on our day-to-day life. Understanding how these things work and using them to your benefit are critical for us to reach true ascension.


My advice to those who are beginning this process:
 (1) Believe in yourself, learning to listen to your inner voice and trust it can be difficult and even seem silly at times but all of the practice techniques mentioned here will help you to get comfortable trusting your inner voice. 
(2) Things may not happen in dramatic fashion, your responsibility is to begin to pay attention to the little things that occur in your life like-- that little sparkle of light out the corner of you eye, the cat that follows you home, the instant connection you have with a new person in your life. What i found the most amazing is that I had already been having psychic experiences in every aspect of my life, I just wasn't in tuned with them. 


(3) Begin to record your activities, the weird things that happen, and the frequency of them. Writing about these activities and sharing them with others can be very helpful and a wonderful learning experience. 


(4) Psychic ability is a skill that we all possess and as with any skill, it requires proper training and development. That being said, you must be willing to do the work required to develop and strengthen your ability. Your success at this is directly correlated with the amount of time and energy you dedicate to its cultivation!




Until next time family, peace, love, and light on your travels. 


ET

Book List/References


*The reference information/techniques presented in this blog was taken directly from these sources---

Clairvoyance- book by C.W. Leadbeater

All Women Are Psychic- book, Diane Stein

You are Psychic- book, Debra Katz

Clairvoyance and Occult Powers- book, Swami Panchadasi

Encyclopedia of Herbs- book, David Cunningham
Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem, and Metal Magic- book, David Cunningham

Chinese Herbs for Ascension - article, Karen Danrich
Psychic Development for Beginners- book, William Hewitt
Secrets Revealed: Clairvoyance, Magic, and Reality of Spirits-book, C.W. Leadbeater