Magic in nature. Man levitating on the meadow
Meditation in mountains. Man levitating in lotus pose. Planets, stars and galaxies in background
Magic in nature. Woman levitating above the stream
Meditation in mountains. Woman levitating above water
Mystical Sunday Rite
Miraculous light in the Church. The people listening a mystical Sunday Rite.
Magic in nature. Woman levitating above the stream
Meditation in mountains. Woman levitating in lotus pose
World's first Islamic experience center breaks down prejudices in Netherlands
ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS - JUNE 26: The ‘Islamic experience center’, which opened in the Netherlands to break down prejudices, is the first of its kind in the world. The experience center in Rotterdam City provides virtual reality goggles, holograms, and 8D sound technology. The center was established by the Islamic Experience Center (IXC) Foundation, founded and represented by Joram van Klaveren, a former member of the far-right Freedom Party (PVV), who converted to Islam while writing an Islamophobic book. Klaveren stated that he initially started the application of Islam in schools targeting students after high demand, he decided to establish the Islamic Experience Center at a fixed location. "Sometimes people in the West have strange ideas about Islam, and with this center, we aim to change that," he added. The center explores various themes such as "prophets," "miracles," "evidence of Allah," and "Why believing in Allah is more reasonable than not believing?" He said, “We visit mosques, schools, churches, synagogues, and various institutions whenever they invite us, and we use state-of-the-art technology to present Islam through a free, approximately 45-minute application.” Klaveren will send an invitation to his former colleague from PVV far-right Geert Wilders on his birthday for the center. One of the visitors Sumeyra Teber said: "The lighting is very impressive, and the provision of information on Islamic topics is particularly pleasing, especially for those unfamiliar with Islam. By experiencing different activities, you feel like you are exploring the essence of Islam." (Footage by Abdullah Aşıran/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Kal Bhairav The Deity That Protects The City Of Ujjain, Whose Popular Offering Is Liquor
UJJAIN, MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA – FEBRUARY 13: A priest offers prayers and liquor at the Kal Bhairav Temple whose main deity is what protects the city of Ujjain is supposed to be an avatar of the Hindu God Shiva in its fiercest form on February 13, 2023 at Ujjain, India. The stone deity has a slit in its mouth and the liquor that is poured in disappears as if Kal Bhairav has consumed it. Threads and amulets are also tied and an eternal fire with coconut offerings burn sacred ashes that are used by Hindu visitors. (Footage by Pallava Bagla /Getty Images)
Spanish ‘devil’ leaps over newborns in 400-year-old festival
CASTRILLO DE MURCIA, SPAIN - JUNE 11: In one of Spain's most unusual festivals, a man dressed as a devil took a leap over piles of newborns on Sunday. This peculiar event has been held in the northern Spanish village of Castrillo de Murcia since 1621. Despite the seemingly dangerous act, organizers assert that no babies have been harmed in the centuries-long history of this daring ritual. The baby jump is the culmination of a longer festival that involves El Camacho, the masked devil donning yellowing clothing, terrorizing the village for days. In a display of good versus evil, El Colacho disrupts masses during the holy celebration of Corpus Christi, mocks the local priest and chases the villagers with his horse-tail whip. When not fleeing from his antics, the locals return the favor with a barrage of insults. On the festival's climactic Sunday, parents willingly lay their babies, born in the preceding year, on mattresses in the town square. As El Colacho is chased out of the town, he leaps over the newborns as part of the ancient tradition believed to cleanse the babies of original sin and ward off evil spirits. The organizing religious group estimates that around 100 babies participate each year. Once El Colacho has been driven away, the villagers celebrate their victory with copious amounts of food and drink. Although the festival marks the yearly triumph of the pious villagers driving the devil off their streets the day after the Christian holiday of Corpus Christi, historians suggest it has pagan roots. Pope Benedict XVI even went as far as requesting Spanish priests to distance themselves from this baptismal tradition that contradicts some core teachings of Catholicism about original sin. According to the local daily Burgos Conecta, historians are still unsure of El Colacho's exact origins, but many theorize that the pagan tradition was connected to fertility rites and the summer solstice. (Footage by Senhan Bolelli /Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Kaleidoscope effect of People walking in Angkor with Little Planet Effect
Tiny Planet, Angkor, Siem Reap, Cambodia, Indochina
RUSHES: Abortion debate
Abortion debate; USA: Nevada: Reno: West End Women's Medical Group: INT Dr Damon Stutes (Doctor, West End Women's Medical Group) interview SOT -Those who firebombed practice should read bible more carefully, don't take word from born again ministers / sounds facetious but born again thing is ridiculous, women would die in process -Priest in Alabama calling for execution of families and friends of physicians / same man called for execution of women who use IUDs and birth control pills, he is still a priest, stripped of parish but still wears collar of Catholic Church and still has official support of Pope / deny right of Catholic Church to call for execution / Europe devastated for centuries at time by wars between factions of church
Meaning in Modern Painting, Part 1 - part 29 of 38. Part one of a two film series, the two films combine sound, color, form and motion in a dazzling series of visual and intellectual shocks with a single purpose: to persuade the student to look, to unlear
1960s: painting of a square. Shapes painted on canvas. Painting by Mark Rothko. Painting of lady with bare feet holding out her hand
Hand drawing animation with effect
Hand drawing animation
Sorceress In Red Medieval Clothes In The Woods
Portrait of sorceress in red medieval clothes standing in the woods.
Sorceress In Red Medieval Clothes In The Woods
Portrait of sorceress in red medieval clothes standing in the woods.
Sorceress Holding Lantern In The Woods At Night
Portrait of sorceress holding lantern in the woods at night.
Young Woman Dressed Like A Witch Holding A Crystal Ball
Portrait of a beautiful young plus size woman dressed like a witch holding a crystal ball under neon lights.
Young Woman Dressed Like A Witch Holding A Crystal Ball
Portrait of a beautiful young plus size woman dressed like a witch holding a crystal ball under neon lights.
Young Woman Dressed Like A Witch Holding A Crystal Ball
Portrait of a beautiful young plus size woman dressed like a witch holding a crystal ball under neon lights.
A young witch with candle burning skull and a spellbook casting a spell in her ritual, Halloween concept
A young witch with candle burning skull and a spellbook casting a spell in her ritual, Halloween concept
A young witch with candle burning skull and a spellbook casting a spell in her ritual, Halloween concept
A young witch with candle burning skull and a spellbook casting a spell in her ritual, Halloween concept
'Father Christmas' and carolers sing from bus, UK; 1969
A man dressed as Father Christmas (Santa Claus) 'conducts' music as a group sings and a man plays, or pretends to play, a clarinet from the top of a double-decker bus which seems to passing a children's home. UK; December 1969. (BBC News BSL Rushes - 10/12/1969 - AEXZ288W)
Christmas bus approaches playing carol, UK; 1969
An illuminated double-decker bus, which is decorated with balloons, tinsel and Christmas imagery such as a picture of Father Christmas (Santa Claus) and a Christmas tree, turns a corner and passes whilst blaring a Christmas carol, as people stand on its top deck and hang from the back. The bus seems to be visiting children's homes in the local area. UK; December 1969. (BBC News BSL Rushes - 10/12/1969 - AEXZ288W)
New Yorkers celebrate the end of World War I on 11/7/1918, four days before war actually ended
Pan left of a huge crowd of people with most waving American flags / At Wall Street, the statue of George Washington draped in a flag, with a sign: "Liberty Cannot Die" and a pan from a man speaking from its platform with a predominantly male crowd underneath him waving their hats / A Jewish man speaking through a megaphone / effigy of Kaiser Wilhelm II hanging in air between two bldgs / crowd holding up effigy of the Kaiser / a man in a bizarre mask caricature of Wilhelm's and his mustache and "America" on the forehead; he waves an American flag
Young Gothic Woman Holding A Burning Book In The Forest
Beautiful young gothic woman holding a burning book in the forest.
Young Gothic Woman Holding A Burning Book In The Forest
Beautiful young gothic woman holding a burning book in the forest.