Roxana-Mălina Chirilă

Prin 20 decembrie îi spuneam unui amic că o să termin de citit seria „Cincizeci de umbre” a lui EL James până la sfârșitul anului. Da, da. Vezi să nu. De-abia azi am terminat cu volumul doi, „Cincizeci de umbre întunecate” („50 Shades Darker”). Pur și simplu nu m-a prins. Poate și pentru că toate firele narative au fost abandonate în aproximativ 3-5 pagini după ce au apărut.

Pe scurt, romanul e atât de prost încât devine bun. Am citit mai demult seria „Amurg” („Twilight”) de S. Meyer, pe care se bazează, și pot să spun cu mâna pe inimă că „Cincizeci de umbre” e chiar mai prost scrisă.

Ca nouă postare de Anul Nou, adun câteva din statisticile din anul 2012 (în care am avut prea puține luni de bloguială). Îmi plac statisticile 😛

Cică ar fi intrat persoane din 39 de țări – deși pun pariu că numărul ăsta mare mi se trage de la cei care au intrat cu IP-uri ascunse 🙂 Majoritatea au fost din România (nu cred că surprinde pe cineva), SUA și Germania.

Cel mai tare mă distrează căutările pe Google. 109 persoane au venit căutând „bancuri cu apocalipsa”. 65 au căutat „bancuri despre apocalipsa”. Au mai fost și alte variațiuni pe tema. Și au fost câteva căutări extrem de simpatice, sau la care simt nevoia să răspund.

Cui îi plac orchestrele și corurile?

Muzică de Akira Senju pentru coloana sonoră din „Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood”.

Author’s notes: I wrote this a while ago for a friend. It turns out that this blog has any number of spiritual people visiting, so as I was going through stories and trying to pick one to post here, I decided that this one would be perfect for all audiences.

I broke a few polite rules in writing this one. One such unspoken rule is that a character’s name shouldn’t resemble that of the author. Another says that characters aren’t supposed to look like self-inserts unless they are self-inserts. Those things make it so much easier for people to interpret and criticize, but I like having fun and seeing what happens if I do one thing or another.

EN:
The conference I held for the FECRIS organization in October has been translated into Spanish by the wonderful people over at AIIAP and published into their magazine, Traspasos (No. 3). It was also translated into German.

„Sucker Love is Heaven Sent” – A Romanian Yoga Cult Under Investigation

In Romania, MISA has a dark and worrying public image: an orgiastic, pee-drinking yoga movement, full of strange, incomprehensible practices, spiral meditations, brainwashing and master-worship. The Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute, founded in 1990, has often been featured in the media after it came into public attention in 2004 when the police broke into and searched a number of MISA homes in Bucharest.

The legal prosecution against MISA and its guru, Gregorian Bivolaru, includes accusations such as sex with a minor girl, tax evasion and illegal crossing of the border. Bivolaru escaped to Sweden, where he managed to convince the Swedish court that the violence of the media against him, as well as the context of a post-communist country and the unexpected and rough treatment MISA received in 2004 at the hands of the police involved in the searches were proof enough of his being persecuted in his home country. Due to this, he received political asylum and he supposedly lives in Malmo, Sweden – although former members point out that his actual location may be Paris, France.

E acea perioadă a anului (2012) în care poți să începi să faci bancuri cu apocalipsa. Sau să continui să faci bancuri cu apocalipsa. Sau să inventezi noi bancuri cu apocalipsa. Hai, repede! Că dacă nu le spunem acum, cine știe când vine următoarea…

[Roxana Chirilă’s note: Despite the initial misunderstanding, I did not write this. I just got asked to post it (by the person who wrote it and who remains anonymous). My actual article discussing Italy and other issues is here.]

The prosecutor of Florence has ordered 25 raids across Italy against the Italian branches of the Romanian association „MISA” (which stands for „The Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute”), which were carried out in collaboration with the anti-cult police. The raids took place in Bologna, Florence, Milan, San Benedetto del Tronto and Bari on the sixth and seventh of December 2012 and have been carried out not only in the quarters of the MISA branches, but also in the homes of involved suspects.

[Roxana Chirilă’s note: This is the follow-up of the article I’ve just posted before this one, and it contains some new disclosures from Virgil Cătălin Călin. They were initially posted on Rapcea’s blog one day apart, but I got to both of them now, hence the speed. If you have any connection to MISA, keep reading. This stuff sounds bad. The original Romanian version can be found here. It has pictures. I might get around to adding them – or not.]

II. Message from Cătălin Călin concerning the recent events in Italy, written for all those interested in the truth.

Dec.11,2012

[Roxana Chirilă’s note: This message was written by Virgil Cătălin Călin, formerly a MISA instructor in Italy. It refers to the recent events in that country. It can be found in the original Romanian on Mihai Rapcea’s blog. I was asked to translate it for the benefit of English speakers and I am taking the liberty of spreading it around via my blog.]