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Every one in the world turns into a happy child the moment that they enter a theme park. These theme parks can be found in just about every corner of the world. While they are all different each of these theme parks shares the same qualities that Alton Towers theme park in England has. That quality stand for family fun.

You will find Alton Towers theme park in Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England. Alton Towers is considered to be England’s number one theme park and there are rides and endless excitement for the whole family. The original park was designed by Augustus Welby Pugin during the Victorian period.

The Alton Towers officially became a theme park in 1980. The very first ride that was designed for Alton Towers theme park was the Corkscrew ride. Today there are many different rides that are constantly being added to the park along side some of the favorites of the theme park. You can go on extreme rides like the Nemesis ride or the new ride that is called Oblivion.

These are both extreme roller coaster rides that are found within different areas of Alton Towers Theme park. In the ride Nemesis visitors to the park ride in coaster cars with their legs hanging over the edges. You will find the Nemesis in the Forbidden Valley.

The Oblivion which is one of the park’s new rides is found in the X-sector. Here you can ride in a roller coaster where you suddenly drop down a steep 90 degree incline into a black hole that is gaping up at you. The Oblivion is the world’s first vertical drop coaster in the world.

Besides these rides there are other attractions like the white knuckle ride or a visit to Ug Land, which just happens to a virtual reality cave game that is set in prehistoric times. You can reach Ug Land by the Skyride cable car system which will also take you to the Forbidden Valley.

Of course there are rides for all ages and tastes in Alton Towers theme park. You can find scary haunted mansion rides, roller coasters, water log rides and many areas of the theme park have rides for children. There are also many places where you can rest and eat some delicious food from any of the eateries that are located in the park.

In addition to these you will find that Alton Towers Theme park also has a reputation for being haunted. One of the rides in the theme park is based around the legend of the Towers. So unlike many of the other theme parks in the world you just might find yourself coming back to Alton Towers theme park over and over. All to experience the thrills of riding in one of the world’s haunted theme parks.

Learn how to block the psychic vampires.

Have you ever noticed how some people wear you out or how tired you feel in the presence of someone’s company? ‘Psychic vampires’, as they are known, and other people or entities may drain energy from an unshielded individual. And quite often it is cost effective in terms of time spent to project full-scale protective shields for a very rare occurrence, small protective measures are often very effective in hindering such infringements. If you were to do this technique after meeting all the psychic vampires out there then you would end up with obsessive-compulsive disorder. With banishing rituals, the key is to find one that is relatively simple and to practice it regularly, although learning some more advanced rituals for more selective use is always practical. Most banishing rituals boost natural psychic shielding. Magical shields can be learned to the point where they can be erected easily[spin], usually through visualization, or|or[spin] can be established more permanently.

Protective amulets can give powerful protections and wards can be placed around homes or into charms and recharged on a regular basis, if that suits the practitioner’s needs better. Any of these techniques, if regularly employed, can greatly increase both the magical efficacy and clarity of mind. The boundaries established by banishing and protective ‘magic’ can be of great help by providing clarity and focus, and keeping unwanted influences away.

Get rid of bad vibes quickly.

Visualise your crown chakra emitting a powerful light of white energy. Imagine this white light flowing from your crown chakra all around you and right down to your feet. Visualise the white light cleansing you of these bad vibes. Use this method before going in for a job interview or before using cosmic ordering, it really does work.

USING CREATIVE VISUALISATION.

Creative visualisationis the ability to use the imagination, see images in our minds and make them come true. If we add concentration and feelings, it becomes a great creative power that makes things happen. Used in the right way, visualisation can bring changes into our lives. The thought is the matrix or blueprint; the feelings provide the energy, the ‘electricity’. This is the nearest thing to Cosmic Ordering that can alter our environment and circumstanceschange habits and improve the health.

By visualising an event, a situation, or an object, such as a car, a house, furniture etc, we attract it to us. We see in our imagination what we want and it happens. It is like daydreaming. It resembles magic, though actually there is no magic here. It is the natural process of the power of the thoughts.

Some people use this power in an unconscious manner. They are not aware that they are using some sort of power. They visualise their goals in a positive way and attain success. All successful people in all fields use it consciously or unconsciously.

How does it work and why? Thought is a power and has its effect on the material world. Thoughts, if powerful enough, travel from one mind to another. If we keep thinking the same thought, people in our environment perceive it and act on it, furthering, usually in an unconscious manner, the materialization of our desires.

By changing our thoughts and mental pictures, we change our ‘reality’; we change the ‘illusory’ world we believe we live in. We are not employing magic or supernatural powers when creating and changing our life and circumstances. It is not something ‘material’ that we change; we only change our thoughts, which are the world. It is like dreaming a very realistic dream and then switching to a different dream. We are not awakening, just changing the dream. This explanation has to be read and reread and pondered [spin]upon in order to understand its full meaning|upon[spin].

Rest assured that you can employ the power of visualisation, even if you do not accept what you have just read or it seems too complicated or far-fetched. Yet, understanding and accepting the above, at least in theory, will help you achieve results faster.

Creative visualization can do great things, but for every person there are some areas, which he/she may find hard to change, at least in the immediate future. This is a great power, but there are some limits to using it. These limits are within us, not in the power. You just need to do your own spiritual growth workshop.

THINK OF GOOD THINGS AND THEY WILL HAPPEN

By thinking of the good things you want to happen as part of a regular routine, you’re creating a positive energy. This positive energy then takes on form as the actual reality you desired.

Here are some examples of creative [spin]visualisation that might have happened to you through your subconscious|visualisation[spin].

1. Your phone rings, and when you pick it up, it was a person you’d just been thinking of talking to.

2. You think to yourself, “I’m going to read a book,” and then you do.

3. You believe you attract the ‘wrong’ kind of man/woman, so that’s the kind that come into your life.

Using creative visualisation is not simply positive thinking. It is a learning process. We learn who we really are, deep inside. What our basic feelings are towards ourselves, and how we might have been holding ourselves back. Once we realise these views, we can then change them to work towards a more harmonious life!

HOW DO YOU DO IT?

The first step is to relax. Sit or lie in a comfortable position, and make a conscious effort to feel each part of your body relaxing. Start at your toes, and work your way up to your head. As you do this, take slow, deep breaths. This should take a few minutes. Another term for this is meditation. If you would like to learn more about it, you can find many self-help books and tapes which teach you how to do it!

The second step is to visualise. Many people can’t ‘see’ a mental picture at first, so if this happens don’t let it worry you. After you’ve relaxed, you can ‘practice’ visualising by picturing things you see and do in everyday life.

Try to imagine enjoyable things. You might picture your favourite room or eating your favourite meal. Doing these practice runs will help you ‘see’ when it comes time to try the real thing!

You may want to work on these for a while before trying your first real visualisation. When you are ready to give it a try, you will need to do these very important things. Decide what it is that you want. Is there something you want to change about yourself? Do you want a better job? You pick your goal. You will probably want to start with ‘easier’ goals. Ones that you believe can happen in a timely manner. You can then work up to ‘harder’ ones.

Next, picture the idea or object exactly as you want it to be. Picture yourself in the situation or using the object as if you already possessed it. See this very clearly. You might also draw the scene to reinforce the idea, although, this step is not necessary.

Once you’ve got the picture in your head, think of it often. Not only when you are relaxing or meditating, but throughout the day as well. This is the process of sending that positive energy out into the universe. Remember the old saying ‘You reap what you sow’? Well, you’re ‘sowing’ when you think of what you want. The more positive energy you send out, the more you will get back.

Lastly, BELIEVE that the object is yours or will be yours. Any disbelief is negative energy and will counteract what you’re trying to achieve. And once you see it come true, acknowledge that you made it happen! Give yourself a pat on the back! Of course, you always have Cosmic Ordering to fall back on for the larger Orders … go for it.

Copyright by stephen richards.

ALTERNATIVE REALITIES AND PARALLEL UNIVERSES

Are there many parallel universes and would it be possible, say, if I were to die tomorrow would find myself in one of them? The notion of cosmic ordering is full of the theories of quantum physics, this is just one of the Cosmic Ordering insights into parallel universes. The full insight into Cosmic Ordering can be read in the book by Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide: where dreams can become reality.

A parallel universe is basically just another name for an alternate reality. I have always believed in parallel universes, although I was a bit a sit-on-the-fence believer as I often thought it was quite difficult to believe in the concept since how could anyone ever prove such a thing exists.

Well, after finding out many things that go beyond words I am now quite convinced they definitely do exist. If we go back, metaphorically speaking that is, to 1954, a young Princeton University doctoral candidate named Hugh Everett III came up with a radical idea: that there exist parallel universes, exactly like our universe. These universes are all related to ours; indeed, they branch off from ours, and our universe is branched off of others. Within these parallel universes, our wars have had different outcomes than the ones we know. Species that are extinct in our universe have evolved and adapted in others. In other universes, we humans may have become extinct.

This is a mind-boggling thought, and yet, it is still comprehensible. Notions of parallel universes or dimensions that resemble our own have appeared in works of science fiction and have been used as explanations for metaphysics. But why would a young up-and-coming physicist possibly risk his future career by posing a theory about parallel universes?

Alternate realities or parallel universes are an alternative reality to the reality you are currently living in. The bottom line for that is the following - if you made a different choice somewhere during the course of your life then could you have gone off at a tangent, so to speak, and be living that different life in some parallel universe!

The ‘Many-Worlds’ theory of Everett was attempting to answer a rather sticky question related to quantum physics, and that was: why does quantum matter behave erratically? The quantum level is the smallest one science has detected so far. The study of quantum physics began in 1900, when the physicist Max Planck first introduced the concept to the scientific world.

People make choice all the time, all day and every day of our lives so the idea of alternate realities would seem to suggest there could be literally billions or an almost infinite number of possible alternate realities or parallel universes.

Planck’s study of radiation yielded some unusual findings that dumbfounded the laws of physics and suggested that there are other laws at work in the universe, operating on a deeper level than the one we know.

Physicists studying the quantum level noticed some peculiar things about this tiny world. For one, the particles that exist on this level have a way of taking different forms arbitrarily. For example, scientists have observed photons - tiny packets of light - acting as particles and waves.

I mean, imagine if you looked and acted like a solid human being when a friend glanced at you, but when he looked back again, you’d taken a gaseous form. WOW! The idea that there could be billions of alternate realities might seem a little difficult to grasp at first, but it can be explained by science.

This idea has come to be known as the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. The physicist Werner Heisenberg suggested that just by observing quantum matter, we affect the behaviour of that matter. Thus, we can never be fully certain of the nature of a quantum object or its attributes, like velocity and location.

This idea is supported by the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. As far as the idea of alternate realities and parallel universes is concerned, I believe we can prove they do exist. The Danish physicist Niels Bohr says that all quantum particles don’t exist in one state or the other, but in all of its possible states at once! The sum total of possible states of a quantum object is called its wave function. The state of an object existing in all of its possible states at once is called its superposition.

According to Bohr, when we observe a quantum object, we affect its behaviour. Observation breaks an object’s superposition and essentially forces the object to choose one state from its wave function. This theory accounts for why physicists have taken opposite measurements from the same quantum object - the object ‘chose’ different states during different measurements.

Bohr’s interpretation was widely accepted, and still is by much of the quantum community. But lately, Everett’s Many-Worlds theory has been getting some serious attention.

DREAMING AND PRECOGNITION

Through the process of dreaming and precognition we can all find an alternate reality, and since we all know that dreams do exist due to the fact that sometimes when we wake we wonder if we have been in some type of alternate reality to the one we know.

This might have already happened to you - you wake up and feel like you have been thrust back into the ‘real’ world, even though the dream often feels real while we are actually in the dream state.

The reason I say we can prove that alternative realities do exist is because so many people throughout time have had exceptionally clear dreams seeing themselves in life threatening situations or actually dying or being killed and then waking from these dreams and telling other people about the dream or precognition. Some have then deliberately avoided being caught up in these circumstances in the future by staying clear of certain areas or situations they recognised from their dream and subsequently changed their reality. Others have also told people about their dreams and have ended dying just like in the dream.

Young Hugh Everett agreed with much of what the physicist Bohr had suggested about the quantum world. He agreed with the idea of superposition, as well as with the notion of wave functions. But Everett disagreed with Bohr in one vital respect. To Everett, measuring a quantum object does not force it into one comprehensible state or another. Instead, a measurement taken of a quantum object causes an actual split in the universe.

The universe is literally duplicated, splitting into one universe for each possible outcome from the measurement. For example, say an object’s wave function is both a particle and a wave. When a physicist measures the particle, there are two possible outcomes: It will either be measured as a particle or a wave. This distinction makes Everett’s Many-Worlds theory a competitor of the Copenhagen interpretation as an explanation for quantum mechanics.

When a physicist measures the object, the universe splits into two distinct universes to accommodate each of the possible outcomes. So a scientist in one universe finds that the object has been measured in wave form. The same scientist in the other universe measures the object as a particle. This also explains how one particle can be measured in more than one state.

WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?

Well, as unsettling as it may sound, Everett’s ‘Many-Worlds’ interpretation has implications beyond the quantum level. If an action has more than one possible outcome, then - if Everett’s theory is correct - the universe splits when that action is taken. This holds true even when a person chooses not to take an action.

This means that if you have ever found yourself in a situation where death was a possible outcome, then in a universe parallel to ours, you are dead. This is just one reason that some find the Many-Worlds interpretation disturbing.

QUANTUM SUICIDE

A person cannot be aware of his other selves - or even his death - that exist in parallel universes. So how could we ever know if the Many-Worlds theory is correct? Assurance that the interpretation is theoretically possible came in the late 1990s from a thought experiment - an imagined experiment used to theoretically prove or disprove an idea - called quantum suicide.

A man sits down before a gun, which is pointed at his head. This is no ordinary gun; it’s rigged to a machine that measures the spin of a quantum particle. Each time the trigger is pulled, the spin of the quantum particle - or quark - is measured. Depending on the measurement, the gun will either fire, or it won’t. If the quantum particle is measured as spinning in a clockwise motion, the gun will fire. If the quark is spinning counter clockwise, the gun won’t go off. There’ll only be a click.

Nervously, the man takes a breath and pulls the trigger. The gun clicks. He pulls the trigger again. Click. And again: click. The man will continue to pull the trigger again and again with the same result: The gun won’t fire. Although it’s functioning properly and loaded with bullets, no matter how many times he pulls the trigger, the gun will never fire. He’ll continue this process for eternity, becoming immortal.

Go back in time to the beginning of the experiment. The man pulls the trigger for the very first time, and the quark is now measured as spinning clockwise. The gun fires. The man is dead.

But, wait. The man already pulled the trigger the first time - and an infinite amount of times following that - and we already know the gun didn’t fire. How can the man be dead? The man is unaware, but he’s both alive and dead. Each time he pulls the trigger, the universe is split in two. It will continue to split, again and again, each time the trigger is pulled.

This thought experiment is called quantum suicide. It was first posed by theorist Max Tegmark in 1997. A thought experiment is an experiment that takes place only in the mind. The quantum level is the smallest level of matter we’ve detected so far in the universe. Matter at this level is infinitesimal, and it’s virtually impossible for scientists to research it in a practical manner using traditional methods of scientific inquiry.

Before the Titanic set off on its maiden and only voyage, many people who were to be on the boat had dreams that it would sink and most people would lose their life. Many of these people told others about their horrible dream and afterwards there were three outcomes or three different realities for those who had the dreams. Some of these dreamers decided to take the voyage and dismiss their dreams and ended up losing their life when the boat sank. Other dreamers also decided to take the trip but were among the few who managed to survive. The other dreamers were so disturbed by their dream that they decided against boarding the Titanic and went on to live long lives.

This has led some to believe that our grasp of quantum physics is as basic as the understanding of ancient Egyptian astronomers centuries ago, who claimed that the sun was a god.

DREAMS CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE

Over the years we have all heard strange stories of how people would ream about meeting their demise, seeing themselves in car accidents or plane crashes and then they have either died in exactly the same way they envisioned they would in their dream or have gone on to survive because of what they foresaw in their dream.

I see this as proof that alternate realities and parallel universes do exist since some people experience a reality just like in the dream, whereas others are able to change the reality of the dream by avoiding certain situations and subsequently moving into an alternate reality.

YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE

We can change the direction of our lives, we are not on a path we cannot change, we are very much in control of our lives. This is a comforting thought I believe, I would not like to think I was not in control of the direction my life will take. But in any case goal setting activities are something worth trying and giving a chance.

With an open mind, I think through dreams and precognition we can see that alternate realities and parallel universes do exist side by side with the reality we experience from a moment to moment basis in our lives and we always have the choice to take whatever direction we so desire. It also makes me think that following our intuition and analysing at least some of our dreams might also be a step in the right direction. It is certainly some interesting food for thought.

Physicists have been engaged in reverse engineering the universe - they have studied what they could observe and worked backward toward smaller and smaller levels of the physical world. By doing this, physicists are attempting to reach the final and most basic level. It is this level, they hope, that will serve as the foundation for understanding everything else.

Following his famous Theory of Relativity, my old friend Albert Einstein spent the rest of his life looking for the one final level that would answer all physical questions. Physicists refer to this phantom theory as the Theory of Everything. Quantum physicists believe that they are on the trail of finding that final theory. But another field of physics believes that the quantum level is not the smallest level, so it therefore could not provide the Theory of Everything.

These physicists turn instead to a theoretical subquantum level called string theory for the answers to all of life. What’s amazing is that through their theoretical investigation, these physicists, like Everett, have also concluded that there are parallel universes.

NEXT TIME YOU HAVE A DREAM

So, next time you have a dream then maybe you will listen to it in more detail, it might save your life in this universe!

Planning for a theme wedding is one of the most important things that you will do in your lifetime. If you are not interested in planning a traditional wedding, you should consider a theme Wedding. Theme Weddings are a great way to take you away from the norm and into something a lot more fun.

Here are some themes to get you thinking
1920s
1940s
butterfly
calla lilies
big band
air force
army
winter
spring
summer
fall
sand and surf
beach
rose
snowflake
diamond
heart
horse shoe
fairytale
favorite movie

A good theme wedding package can be made available in every shape, budget and size. You can look for all-inclusive theme wedding packages, which cover everything from your flight reservations to hotel rooms to outfits for the entire wedding party should your wedding take place out of town. Or you might be interested in a smaller package, which includes the chapel service, flowers, and a cake for your special day.

If you’ve ever been to a theme before, your best bet is to do some of the legwork yourself. Pick out your favorite hotel and make a reservation for yourself and anyone else who might be coming with you. You might also want to arrange a limo from the airport so that transportation and carrying your luggage won’t be a worry. Everything else for your wedding, you can leave up to the wedding people.

Picking the right theme can save you a lot of time and hassle. Most of the good theme weddings offer several different types of packages for the guests. The cheapest them weddings available usually include the chapel fee, flowers, and photographs of the ceremony. The more expensive ones can include a lot of details you may not have even thought of.

If you’re interested in more all-inclusive theme wedding packages, they’re available, but they are a bit more expensive when you hire a planner to do the work for you. You can get a professional video of your wedding ceremony, custom-made photo albums, and even a wedding garter and all of them can be included in a single package.

Of course you want your wedding reception to be a success. One way to help ensure that is to use a master of ceremonies. That why someone takes control of the proceedings ensuring things run smoothly – leaving the Bride and Groom to enjoy themselves. Yes, you could hire a professional MC but that’s very expensive. So why not ask a friend or family member to do the honors. Find out more about the role and duties of being the emcee at a wedding reception
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Many top toy news sources say that vintage toys are making a come-back. This trend is surprising, considering what a big business it has become to market toys from popular movies. So what sets vintage toys apart from contemporary toys?

Firstly, most vintage toys are constructed out of environmentally safe materials. Some old-fashioned toy materials are bronze, wood, leather, string, and non-toxic paints. Another distinction is the durability of classic toys. Indeed, many ordinary toys from fifty years ago are still in use today, passed down through the generations. Back then, toys were made to last, and they could handle the rough n tumble treatment of children.

However, the biggest distinction between vintage toys and modern toys is that vintage toys were made to engage their curiousity. Comparatively speaking, contemporary toys tend to keep kids distracted. While this is great for the babysitter or the nanny, this trend is not so helpful for childhood development.

In the past, vintage toys acted as springboards for children’s imaginative powers. Additionally, toys from the past encouraged kids to move and jump around. This is very different from today, in which most toys encourage sedentary living!

That’s why parents should reconsider vintage toys. Even though vintage toys are more expensive out of the box, chances are they will stick around long enough to be appreciated – if not today, than maybe in ten years time.

by Liam Cyfrin

Witchcraft and spells - they go together like toast and honey, don’t they? Witchcraft spells form the backbone of a witch’s arsenal, but witchcraft spells alone are actually completely worthless.

These days, if you were to toddle into your local bookshop, close your eyes and fling a dart, there’s a reasonably good chance you’d hit a spell book. There’s an even better chance that you’d be forcibly ejected from the shop shortly thereafter, so I’m not advocating this practice. It does, though, make the point that this literary genre has never been more popular.

Witchcraft spells burst forth from this cornucopia of printed waffle on beginner witchcraft - witchcraft spells to find “true love”, witchcraft spells to hog-tie that wayward ex and drag them back, witchcraft spells to make us sexier, smarter, stronger, healthier and, of course, witchcraft spells to make us wealthy beyond our wildest dreams.

The biggest Witchy complaint against spell books is that the spells within in them don’t (or possibly can’t) work. The spell book, it’s argued, looks comparable to a recipe book, but whereas Delia Smith can reliably lead most of us through the creation of an omelette, the compiler of spells is less likely to guide the average punter to health, wealth and insuperable sexual charisma.

There’s some validity to this, but the better authors in the field make it clear that the spell book isn’t really the equivalent of “150 Astonishing Meatloaves”. It’s more like sheet music: valuable to those who have put the effort into learning how to read music and perhaps play an instrument, but bookshelf clutter to those who haven’t.

Witchcraft spells are less a recipe and more a starting-point for inspiration. Witchcraft spells are more like a palette than a finished painting. Only in the hands of an accomplished artist will witchcraft spells become anything which stirs the soul, or changes the world in any way.

If you want to cast witchcraft spells, and cast them effectively, you must become that artist, and master the skills which will enable you to weave the raw materials of witchcraft spells into an irresistible force.

Without this training and discipline, witchcraft spells aren’t worth the paper they are written on. A problem with texts on beginner witchcraft is that they tend to gloss over this somewhat significant fact.

There is a swathe of information debunking the myths and misapprehensions about witchcraft at the Genuine Witchcraft site, covering advanced witchcraft, witchcraft symbols, real witchcraft spells, and witchcraft supplies. Newbies to witchcraft and those who have been around the park a time or two are well advised to look in and get educated.