PATRON OF HUNTERS, MATHEMATICIANS, MACHINISTS, AND METALWORKERS, INVOKED AGAINST DOG BITES AND RABIES
Hubert was an affable and shallow hanger-on at the court of King Pepin, content to do little but indulge his passion for hunting until an event (remarkable similar to the experience of Saint Eustace, whom SEE) changed his life.
One Good Friday, after Hubert passed up church for a hunting trip, he encountered a stag in the forest with a crucifix between its antlers. The tiny figure on the crucifix warned him, "Turn to the Lord, or thou wilt fall into the abyss of Hell!" Soon after this, his wife died in childbirth and the chastened Hubert placed himself and his newborn son in the service of the bishop, Saint Lambert, (whom SEE), After Lambert's assisination, an angel appeared to the pope, citing Hubert as Lambert's successor. Allied with Charles Martel, Hubert converted the region, working miracles and casually exorcising the possessed by making the sign of the cross over them. Hubert had a vision in which Saint Peter gave him a stole the Blessed Virgin Herself had embroidered in Heaven. Hubert's son succeeded him after his father's death, and rabies victims came to the older man's tomb seeking a successful if complicated cure a thread was taken from the stole the Virgin had given to him and placed in an incision in the forehead of the patient, who, among other things was forbidden to comb his hair for forty days and to eat only pork and bacon from a boar.
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HUNTING & HALLUCINATION
The innuit speak of hunting and eating not animals but souls.
Eating and being eaten from animals to the ecological Eucharist, from sucking mother's milk and the sacrament of the body and blood to sacrifice, show that the ambiguity of "eating souls" can never be entirely resolved. The Fall from the infantile dream of Paradise, where all animals lived on plants (whose sentience was not allowed), was a descent into a world of predator and prey. In the ethos of the ancient conjunction of "to prey on" and "to pray to," the hunt is not a seizure but a voluntary immolation.
Mania hallucinations tended to be more of the visual type, strikingly vivid and associated with bright, colorful sensations, and often coupled with intensely pleasurable or ecstatic feeling (similar to psychedielic experiences). In summary, hallucinations occur less frequently than delusions in both the manic and depressed phases of bipolar illness. Hallucinatory phenomena appear to represent the extreme end of the symptomatic picture, being nonexistent in milder forms of depression and mania and most pronounced in the gravest, most delirious states. Hallucinations during mania are frequently ecstatic and religious in nature....Manic delusions are usually grandiose and expansive in nature, often religious and not infrequently paranoid. They generally can be differentiated from schizophrenic delusions by their tendency to be wish-fulfilling in nature and more oriented toward communion rather than segregation.
Eating and being eaten from animals to the ecological Eucharist, from sucking mother's milk and the sacrament of the body and blood to sacrifice, show that the ambiguity of "eating souls" can never be entirely resolved. The Fall from the infantile dream of Paradise, where all animals lived on plants (whose sentience was not allowed), was a descent into a world of predator and prey. In the ethos of the ancient conjunction of "to prey on" and "to pray to," the hunt is not a seizure but a voluntary immolation.
Mania hallucinations tended to be more of the visual type, strikingly vivid and associated with bright, colorful sensations, and often coupled with intensely pleasurable or ecstatic feeling (similar to psychedielic experiences). In summary, hallucinations occur less frequently than delusions in both the manic and depressed phases of bipolar illness. Hallucinatory phenomena appear to represent the extreme end of the symptomatic picture, being nonexistent in milder forms of depression and mania and most pronounced in the gravest, most delirious states. Hallucinations during mania are frequently ecstatic and religious in nature....Manic delusions are usually grandiose and expansive in nature, often religious and not infrequently paranoid. They generally can be differentiated from schizophrenic delusions by their tendency to be wish-fulfilling in nature and more oriented toward communion rather than segregation.