a crow just landed right on my window frame outside, 3 foot from me, and looked right at me for a few seconds, then just flew away... what was that about? it didnt land at the bottom on the window sill, but a foot up the frame at the side, the only bit visible into my room. what do you make of crows, and their supposed connotations with other realms, and what do you suppose this could have been about- simply a crow landing somewhere random or is there something to it perhaps? Gun it to 88.....::those who speak do not know, those who know do not speak::..ॐ<3ॐ
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..some cultures would say it's a sorcerer checking you out...
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My sister does do a lot of work with crows and their related family members. Crows are VERY smart animals and will remember many things. If you ever hurt a crow it will remember that it was YOU who hurt him and will then stay away from you while still coming close to other people. They are also good in things like lock-picking and finding their way through a maze. My sister has a special net on her balcony that needs a certain trick to enter. Inside there is food for the crows and somehow the crows learn from each other how to enter that balcony by using that trick, something that doves for example are unable to do. So combine their total black appearance, the fact that they can fly and their above average intelligence and you have an animal made for myths.  Kind regards, The Traveler
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i have the feeling, crows are tools of magic! associates of powerful beings. elusive illusion
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interesting stuff, Trav. ive always liked crows, they are in fact in my top 3 favourite birds. nen888, could you elaborate on the sorcerer thing? i thought it was very odd as it was a random place to land, the only bit that looks into my room, and it landed and looked directly at me for about 2-3 seconds then flew off. PS- cool links Purges & nen888  Gun it to 88.....::those who speak do not know, those who know do not speak::..ॐ<3ॐ
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Birds of doom 
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i just googled "crow birds of doom". very reassuring, thanks tele  Gun it to 88.....::those who speak do not know, those who know do not speak::..ॐ<3ॐ
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..feats of 'shapeshifting' (by sorcerers, in a lot of cultural magical beliefs), and what kyrolima said..associates and messengers...
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..from an 'old world' POV, it could also be your 'totem' animal... 
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RebornInSmoke wrote:i just googled "crow birds of doom". very reassuring, thanks tele I don't know what google says, but I've always seen them as doomey birds.
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..i thought it was Ravens who were associated with doom (they're very nice animals too BTW) crows..they're just tricky IMO.. ps. as for the "Beware: crows - birds of doom" blog, next they'll be saying Eagles are evil for not being vegetarian.. 
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I had a funny thing happen involving crows a couple years back. I was in one of my favorite forest spots and i had just blasted off when a very large batch of crows showed up right nearby. It had to be more than 50 of them. They starting going absolutely crazy . I've never heard anything like this in my life. Try to imagine a giant batch of crows screaming all at once at top volume. It was insane and i could barely keep it together during this. At first i thought they were chasing a hawk but it wasn't that it was some kind of roosting rituel as it was late in the afternoon heading to dusk. I read someplace later that crows sometimes do this type of thing at roosting time. The unique timing of the crows arrival felt like the spice had triggered them to go crazy. It took me a few minutes to get a grip because the crows went on and on and on. They carried on for quite a long time only a few yards from where i was. it was a very memorable experience. Crows are quite amazing animals. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke http://vimeo.com/32001208
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^..must've been insane! thanks for the sharing...
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I didn't know there was an alleged connection between crows and the spirit realm. Having said that, following my white light godhead encounter on ayahuasca/vaped DMT, around 15 crows flocked over to my window, as if they were trying to bathe in the immense energy I was radiating. "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind" - Albert Einstein
"The Mighty One appears, the horizon shines. Atum appears on the smell of his censing, the Sunshine- god has risen in the sky, the Mansion of the pyramidion is in joy and all its inmates are assembled, a voice calls out within the shrine, shouting reverberates around the Netherworld." - Egyptian Book of the Dead
"Man fears time, but time fears the Pyramids" - 9th century Arab proverb
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http://www.ted.com/talks...telligence_of_crows.html I like this guy, talking about finding ways to coexist with pest species instead of just exterminating them. "let those who have talked to the elves, find each other and band together" -TMK
In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the quality or value of products, or about the health of one's own place and economy.
In such a society, also, our private economies will depend less upon the private ownership of real, usable property, and more upon property that is institutional and abstract, beyond individual control, such as money, insurance policies, certificates of deposit, stocks, etc. And as our private economies become more abstract, the mutual, free helps and pleasures of family and community life will be supplanted by a kind of displaced citizenship and by commerce with impersonal and self-interested suppliers...
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.” - Wendell Berry
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that sounds intense, Felnik. wild stuff. ive been doing a bit of reading up on crows and this stuff. i found this rather interesting - Crow, Power Animal, Symbol of Sacred Law, Change Quote:"Many cultures consider crows to be the keepers of the Sacred Law, for nothing escapes their keen sight. To have a Crow as a power animal is extremely powerful stuff. When we meditate on the crow and align with it, we are instilled with the wisdom to know ourselves beyond the limitations of one-dimensional thinking and laws. We are taught to appreciate the many dimensions of both reality and ourselves, and to learn to trust our intuition and personal integrity." Gun it to 88.....::those who speak do not know, those who know do not speak::..ॐ<3ॐ
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Crow is jesus christ, everyone knows that. ..at least that is what the Iskut first nations peoples of BC always told one of my anthropology profs. I like them. Ravens too. Long live the unwoke.
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