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A series of programs transmitted on UNED's channel in Madrid (Spain), from 1996 to 2005.
Through TVE-2, the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (National University of Education at Distance) transmitted a high educational quality series whose participants especially emphasized the historical description and comparison of subjects, finding continuities with the current ways and meanings of fortune-telling and magical practices. In a very clear style, easy to understand, the series is far from the usual trivialization of these subjects in massive media, as well as from reductive psychological and philosophical points of view when trying to blur fortune-telling's oracular worth.
Three of the programs (videos in Spanish language) were especially focused on some classical subjects mentioned in Tres Mancias: practical works for physical and psychic development including chakras, oracles and fortune-telling, throughout time and in different civilizations.
Magic and sexuality in the ancient world
Transmission: 16-04-96. Duration: 56’ 48”.
Participants: Ignacio Pérez. Ana María Vázquez Hoys. María Teresa Román. Oscar Muñoz Martín.
Description. Sex and magics from a historical point of view. Orgies in the ancient world, phallic amulets and sex relations with animals. Normality in different cultures and ages. Symbolizations and rituals. Sensorial primacy and deprivation. Sexual organs as protecting amulets against the evil eye and bad spirits. Nature, sexuality, fecundity and death. Corporal liquids and their relationship with magics and fertility. Tantric practices, chakras, kundalini, deidentification and ego disappearance.
Magic and fortune-telling in the ancient world: fortune-telling (I)
Transmission: 29-10-96. Duration: 43’ 33”.
Participants: Ana María Vázquez Hoys. Federico Lara Peinado. Oscar Muñoz Martín.
Description. Definitions and differences between religion, magics and fortune-telling. The Mesopotamy before The Flood. The 3,000 omens in The Tables of Sargon, some of them as conditionals ("If A then B…"). Discontinuity with ancient times since the Middle Age and distortions produced by time passing by. Dancing with snakes in fortune-telling: the importance of Earth contact, the subterranean world and the connection with the animal's immortality for premonitions. Psychic and physical opening of channels (chakras) to forecast through colors.
Magic and fortune-telling in the ancient world: fortune-telling (II)
Transmission: 13-12-96. Duration: 45’ 19”.
Participants: Ana María Vázquez Hoys. Santiago Montero Herrero. Oscar Muñoz Martín.
Description. Live fortune-telling with coffee ground and oil water. Forms of fortune-telling. Oracles in Ancient Egypt, Elade (Greece) and Sicily (Magna Greece), integrations into official religions and into magics. Usages for programming colonizations, wishing evilness and death with execrations. The origin of some current superstitions and the way magics is useful for fortune-telling. Specialized sanctuaries, like those of Asclepius whose clients were ill people. Some references in Aeneid by Virgil: Febus' oracle (Apollo), Cassandra, the Sibyl, itinerant fortune-tellers like Calcas. The Gorgone, Pythia and ecstatic forecasting by using drugs, laurel, steams, mirrors and oil water. The control of fortune-telling ecstatic practices, the fearing Roman clergy, their books, demonization and the Sibyl's sanctuary closure.
For watching and directly downloading other programs of Magic and fortune-telling... series, visit UNED's website:
Costumes and popular religiosityr (04-12-96, 45’ 08’’).
Magic in the ancient world. The serpent a benefic animal (04-23-96, 55’ 50”).
The serpent in the ancient world (10-31-97, 19’ 59”).
Amulets in the ancient world (04-24-98, 14’ 03”).
Shamanism (06-21-98, 15’ 08”).
The Gorgone (06-28-98, 14’ 13”).
Inti Raymi: Inca people honor the Sun (06-30-02, 05’ 30”).
A date with the Devil (04-02-05, 17’ 38”).
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