oregon mall

PORTLAND OREGON MALL
WHERE SHOOTING OCCURED 12-11-12

 

 

 

Dee Finney's blog

start date July 20, 2011

today's date December 11, 2012

page 396

 

TOPIC:  OREGON MALL SHOOTING

 

HERE ARE A PAIR OF DREAMS PUBLISHED BEFORE THE EVENT:

 

10-4-12 - I had this dream after listening to a youtube.com video/audio about something going to happen soon. I couldn't listen to the whole thing because I got so tired, I felt like I was going to fall off the chair.

DREAM - I was in my house somewhere, and I looked up at the ceiling and I could see a round dark object that was rather blueish purple with pinkish blue lines on it going clockwise, but when I looked at them, it seemed they were also going counter-clockwise direction. The lines were not moving, but the object was hanging in the space above me.

I looked down and back up multiple times, and each time I looked up, this dark object was hanging above me - not in the room, nor on the ceiling, but it was like I was seeing it 'through' the ceiling into the night time sky.

I wanted to go outside and see if I could still see it, and the telephone rang.

I picked up the phone quickly and said, "Hello!" and a female voice said very quickly, "This is beefnet.net." She said it like it had some meaning to me.

I said, "Yes?" and she repeated it again, "This is beefnet.net." Again, it sounded like I should know what it was without her telling me.

I had not called anyone, so I was dumbfounded about it.

Just then, the radio came on all by itself, and a male voice announced like it was an emergency, "Something pink has just landed on the ground."

That didn't make any sense either. Emergency radio announcements were suppose to have like warning beepings before they said anything. so again I was dumbfounded as to what he was talking about.

My husband came into the room then, and I told him these strange things that had happened, and he said, "Well, let's go for a ride in the car and see what we can see."

I thought that was a great idea. I wanted to see what was in the sky, and what had landed on the ground.

When we got outside, it was fairly dark outside, but not pitch black and we could see well without a flashlight or street light.

I didn't see anything hanging in the sky, but thought perhaps it was behind a tree or a house or building at that moment and I'd see it from a different vantage point.

My husband started driving towards the mall, and the road became more and more crowded as we neared the place, and hundreds of cars ahead of us were turning into the mall parking lot where I could see two large piles of something pink on the ground next to the driveway where the cars were turning.

Instead of finding a parking space near the piles of pink, whatever it was, he decided to go all the way to the buildings where Sears was located.

While we were driving towards the Sears building, I saw several large, tall roosters that were brownish-red and they were almost running but not trying to fly - just walking really fast towards where the piles of pink were on the ground.

 

ABRAXAS

The roosters weren't together, but apparently they were going to gather at the piles of pink.

 



Sheila's response:

Dee, Osama bin Laden was born in the Year of the Rooster. Sears, my high school teacher, Mr. Soper or Mr. Sexton, said was the fourth largest department store in the world. These days, Indonesia is the fourth largest country in the world. So it might mean something about the earthquakes recently in Indonesia--maybe there are going to be more of them.

I also dreamed about being in a mall this morning. I was passing Burlington Coat Factory which is on the Sears end of Del Amo Mall in Los Angeles. I looked up "Del Amo" in my Spanish dictionary and it means "Boss."

10-5-12 [dream one] I'm in the backseat of my old Datsun wagon. The driver [my deceased father-in-law] parks across the street from the National Park Service building at the Price Mall and everyone else jumps out leaving the doors unlocked and car running. I fall behind checking all the windows. I climb into the driver seat and turn the key off but it doesn't work. I remove the key and it still doesn`t work. I put the key back in, follow a girl on her way to work and turn right on Front Street. The street is under construction and she drives through a big pile of sand. My gear shift knob comes off in my hand.

[dream two] I'm in a bus--pointed away from the school--that's parked in the middle of the street in front of my deceased Aunt Lucille's house next door to the school [she died 1-18-11]. I see my nephew's ex-wife Lacey with her relatives on the corner near her old apartment across the street. The bus is parked on the bridge over the creek that runs alongside the school property and baseball field. Two guys get on the bus talking about their aunt [Blake/ Zane].

The bus driver drives towards the school. It's Friday night and there are a lot of people milling around on the baseball field in the twilight looking for people they know. I spot Don Six in a plaid check suit he wore in high school with two friends in the crowd.

I get in a bronze Classic Ford/ Chevy [downtown in real life at the car show]. I'm in the backseat with 5-6 other passengers. There aren't any seatbelts, but there's a strap to hang on to. The driver drives fast, around the school, through some piles of dirt in a construction site around the school, down a straight flat road and stops at a Mall entrance that looks like an emergency room.

Inside, I find a military installation and watch two young guys in belted white uniforms like UFO aliens wear. An alarm sounds and they run to a glass wall where two girls fall down an up escalator. There are 3-4 huge earth-movers parked there. I crawl over them trying to get back up on the Mall floor. They drive away like the job is done and I climb up the escalator like the two girls did.

There are 2-3 rectangular plots of white tulips and some short blue and gold flowers like primroses I have to walk across to get back inside the mall. I can't lift my feet and I glide. Then I'm in shock watching a movie of myself in the denim dress on my Facebook page. I eat a cake donut with chocolate frosting and white sprinkles and take a bite of another cake donut with white frosting and [white?] sprinkles--then smash it down on the white fried donut hole, putting it back in the donut and dumping it down a hole in the counter.

I get anxiety and walk through the crowd looking for someone I know. I didn't see the faces of the people in the Classic car, and the driver I thought I knew was just a youngish skinny guy with a short beard.

There are two levels to the mall like at Del Amo [Boss] Mall. The upper level is like a bridge or cat walk over Burlington Coat Factory in real life. The crowd ahead of me stops and I hear them talking about a woman getting off a plane.

I tell my boss that I should find the Food Court--that's the most likely place someone I know would eventually would show up. I say that my second sister is deaf and wouldn't go to a music store.

I walk past a woman's cubicle. She's at lunch and I read two books from her desk and hold her black cordless receiver to my ear the whole time. I don't want to steal the book, so I look for the title and author in the front and see the price of $5-- like it`s from Psychic Eye Bookstore.

My boss walks up and looks impatient so I hand him the phone and books. I tell him the book was by someone, not Cocteau, and that the summary of the plot was that it's a dream he had, while waiting the night before, to write a letter. [Joe Haldeman/ Forever War/ Forever Peace/ Marsbound/ Earthbound/ Starbound]

I go back to the desk to see if my boss put the books back and look around some more. The books have red and blue plaid covers, the woman's photo and name are on the end of her cubicle wall--she's blond with long hair, named "Devereux." There are two DVDs on the desk and 5-6 boxes of candy. I open the book looking for the first story and find a second one with illustrations of Roman/ Greek statues, some new and some in ruins. A voice says that antiquity is best viewed in two timelines [Gary Jennings/ Mayan 2012 book].

An elderly lady walks up and asks where the chocolate is that I saw on the desk a second ago. One small flat box has jelly bellies in it. I want to call my father for a ride but I don't know his number and I remember in the dream that my mother has dementia so I can't call her anymore. A blond girl tells me that the phone [I was using earlier] stores the last four numbers you called and the company checks long distance calls to see if you've ever called them before to fit your profile/ usual pattern. My boss still has the phone.

I follow the elderly lady wondering what she's going to do. She walks to a door and asks for a referral to a "rich young artist."

After I wake up, a voice says, "who did you trust then, Ed Arnold?" NOTE: my uncle, Keith Arnold, worked for Firestone and moonlighted for the police/ sheriff department.


Sheila

 

THE ROOSTERS IN THE DREAM ARE IMPORTANT:

 

FROM READING ABOUT ABRAXAS AS A DEMON AND KNOWING THAT ALCOHOLISM BRINGS IN THE DEMONIC, THIS COULD EASILY FIT INTO THE SCENARIO OF THE SHOOTER.

 

ABRAXAS

 

Abrasax (Gk. ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ, which is far more common in the sources than the variant form Abraxas, ΑΒΡΑΞΑΣ) was a word of mystic meaning in the system of the Gnostic Basilides, being there applied to the “Great Archon” (Gk., megas archōn), the princeps of the 365 spheres (Gk., ouranoi).[1] In Gnostic cosmology, the 7 letters spelling its name represent each of the 7 classic planets—Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.[2]

The word is found in Gnostic texts such as the Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, and also appears in the Greek Magical Papyri. It was engraved on certain antique gemstones, called on that account Abraxas stones, which were used as amulets or charms. As the initial spelling on stones was 'Abrasax' (Αβρασαξ), the spelling of 'Abraxas' seen today probably originates in the confusion made between the Greek letters Sigma and Xi in the Latin transliteration. The word may be related to Abracadabra, although other explanations exist.

There are similarities and differences between such figures in reports about Basilides' teaching, ancient Gnostic texts, the larger Greco-Roman magical traditions, and modern magical and esoteric writings. Opinions abound on Abraxas, who in recent centuries has been claimed to be both an Egyptian god and a demon.[3] The Swiss Psychologist Carl Jung wrote a short Gnostic treatise in 1916 called The Seven Sermons to the Dead, which called Abraxas a God higher than the Christian God and Devil, that combines all opposites into one Being.

 

 

As an Archon

ABRAXAS
Gemstone carved with Abraxas, obverse and reverse.

In the system described by Irenaeus, "the Unbegotten Father" is the progenitor of Nous, and from Nous Logos, from Logos Phronesis, from Phronesis Sophia and Dynamis, from Sophia and Dynamis principalities, powers, and angels, the last of whom create "the first heaven." They in turn originate a second series, who create a second heaven. The process continues in like manner until 365 heavens are in existence, the angels of the last or visible heaven being the authors of our world. "The ruler" [principem, i.e.. probably ton archonta] of the 365 heavens "is Abraxas, and for this reason he contains within himself 365 numbers."

The name occurs in the Refutation of all Heresies (vii. 26) by Hippolytus, who appears in these chapters to have followed the Exegetica of Basilides. After describing the manifestation of the Gospel in the Ogdoad and Hebdomad, he adds that the Basilidians have a long account of the innumerable creations and powers in the several 'stages' of the upper world (diastemata), in which they speak of 365 heavens and say that "their great archon" is Abrasax, because his name contains the number 365, the number of the days in the year; i.e. the sum of the numbers denoted by the Greek letters in ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ according to the rules of isopsephy is 365:

Α = 1, Β = 2, Ρ = 100, Α = 1, Σ = 200, Α = 1, Ξ = 60

 As a god

Epiphanius (Haer. 69, 73 f.) appears to follow partly Irenaeus, partly the lost Compendium of Hippolytus.[4] He designates Abrasax more distinctly as "the power above all, and First Principle," "the cause and first archetype" of all things; and mentions that the Basilidians referred to 365 as the number of parts (mele) in the human body, as well as of days in the year.

The author of the appendix to Tertullian De Praescr. Haer. (c. 4), who likewise follows Hippolytus's Compendium,[5] adds some further particulars; that 'Abraxas' gave birth to Mind (nous), the first in the series of primary powers enumerated likewise by Irenaeus and Epiphanius; that the world, as well as the 365 heavens, was created in honour of 'Abraxas;' and that Christ was sent not by the Maker of the world but by 'Abraxas.'

Nothing can be built on the vague allusions of Jerome, according to whom 'Abraxas' meant for Basilides "the greatest God" (De vir. ill. 21), "the highest God" (Dial. adv. Lucif. 23), "the Almighty God" (Comm. in Amos iii. 9), and "the Lord the Creator" (Comm. in Nah. i. 11). The notices in Theodoret (Haer. fab. i. 4), Augustine (Haer. 4), and 'Praedestinatus' (i. 3), have no independent value.

It is evident from these particulars that Abrasax was the name of the first of the 365 Archons, and accordingly stood below Sophia and Dynamis and their progenitors; but his position is not expressly stated, so that the writer of the supplement to Tertullian had some excuse for confusing him with "the Supreme God."

 

] As an Aeon

 

With the availability of primary sources, such as the those in Nag Hammadi library, the identity of Abrasax remains unclear. The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, for instance, refers to Abrasax as an Aeon dwelling with Sophia and other Aeons of the Pleroma in the light of the luminary Eleleth. In several texts, the luminary Eleleth is the last of the luminaries (Spiritual Lights) that come forward, and it is the Aeon Sophia, associated with Eleleth, who encounters darkness and becomes involved in the chain of events that leads to the Demiurge's rule of this world, and the salvage effort that ensues. As such, the role of Aeons of Eleleth, including Abrasax, Sophia, and others, pertains to this outer border of the Pleroma that encounters the ignorance of the world of Lack and interacts to rectify the error of ignorance in the world of materiality.

 

Anguipede

 

In a great majority of instances the name Abrasax is associated with a singular composite figure, having a Chimera-like appearance somewhat resembling a basilisk or the Greek primordial god Chronos (not to be confused with the Greek titan Cronus). According to E. A. Wallis Budge, "as a Pantheus, i.e. All-God, he appears on the amulets with the head of a cock (Phœbus) or of a lion (Ra or Mithras), the body of a man, and his legs are serpents which terminate in scorpions, types of the Agathodaimon. In his right hand he grasps a club, or a flail, and in his left is a round or oval shield." This form was also referred to as the Anguipede. Budge surmised that Abrasax was "a form of the Adam Kadmon of the Kabbalists and the Primal Man whom God made in His own image."[7]

Some parts at least of the figure above mentioned are solar symbols, and the Basilidian Abrasax is manifestly connected with the sun. J. J. Bellermann has speculated that "the whole represents the Supreme Being, with his Five great Emanations, each one pointed out by means of an expressive emblem. Thus, from the human body, the usual form assigned to the Deity, forasmuch as it is written that God created man in his own image, issue the two supporters, Nous and Logos, symbols of the inner sense and the quickening understanding, as typified by the serpents, for the same reason that had induced the old Greeks to assign this reptile for an attribute to Pallas. His head—a cock's—represents Phronesis, the fowl being emblematical of foresight and vigilance. His two hands bear the badges of Sophia and Dynamis, the shield of Wisdom, and the scourge of Power."[8]

 Hebraic names

These Abrasax-stones often bear Hebraic names of God: Iao, Sabaoth, Adonai, Eloai. The name ΙΑΩ, to which ΣΑΒΑΩΘ is sometimes added, is found with this figure even more frequently than ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ, and they are often combined. Beside an Abrasax figure the following, for instance, is found: IAΩ ABPAΣAΞ AΔΩN ΑΤΑ, "Iao Abrasax, thou art the Lord".[9] With the Abrasax-shield are also found the divine names Sabaoth Iao, Iao Abrasax, Adonai Abrasax, etc.[10] Magical papyri

The magic papyri reflect the same ideas as the Abrasax-gems. The following example will suffice: "Iao Sabaoth, Adonai . . . Abrasax".[11] The patriarchs are sometimes addressed as deities; for which fact many instances may be adduced. In the group "Iakoubia, Iaosabaoth Adonai Abrasax,"[12] the first name seems to be composed of Jacob and Ya.

The Leyden papyrus recommends that this invocation be pronounced to the moon:

[24] Ho! Sax, Amun, Sax, Abrasax; for thou art the moon, (25) the chief of the stars, he that did form them, listen to the things that I have(?) said, follow the (words) of my mouth, reveal thyself to me, Than, (26) Thana, Thanatha, otherwise Thei, this is my correct name.[13]

The magic word "Ablanathanalba," which reads in Greek the same backward as forward, also occurs in the Abrasax-stones as well as in the magic papyri. This word is usually conceded to be derived from the Hebrew (Aramaic), meaning "Thou art our father" (אב לן את), and also occurs in connection with Abrasax; the following inscription is found upon a metal plate in the Carlsruhe Museum:

 


 

EVERYTHING IS SPECULATION EXCEPT THAT THE SHOOTER AND TWO CITIZENS ARE DEAD

12-12-12 - THE SHOOTER IS IDENTIFIED AS JACOB TYLER ROBERTS - AGE 22

THE SHOOTER COMMITTED SUICIDE.

A FOURTH PERSON WAS ALSO HURT - BUT CONDITION UNKNOWN

THE SHOOTER WENT INTO MACY'S AND WENT DIRECTLY TO THE FOOD COURT AND STARTED SHOOTING AT RANDOM,
WITH MURDER IN HIS EYES, IT HAS BEEN SAID.  INVESTIGATION HAS BEGUN. 

THE ENTIRE MALL WILL BE CLOSED TOMORROW. 

THE FOURTH PERSON IS A YOUNG LADY - STILL UNIDENTIFIED.

FOUR SWAT TEAMS RESPONDED AND MADE SURE THERE WERE NO OTHER SHOOTERS INVOLVED.

THE MALL IS 4 MILLION SQ. FT. AND 10,000 PEOPLE WERE THERE, RUNNING CHAOTICALLY IN EVERY DIRECTION.

IT WAS HIGH STRESS FOR EVERYONE.  NURSES AND DOCTORS WERE THERE IMMEDIATELY TO HELP PEOPLE WHO WERE INJURED.

OVER 100 LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS WERE THERE. 

THE FAMILY MEMBERS OR WITNESSES ARE ASKED TO CALL AND TELL WHAT THEY SAW. SPECULATION IS RUNNING RAMPANT STILL AT THIS TIME.

THERE ARE STILL MANY DESCRIPTIONS OF WHAT THE SHOOTER WAS WEARING.

THE SHOOTER IS TENTATIVELY IDENTIFIED, BUT THE POLICE ARE NOT RELEASING HIS NAME UNTIL THEY ARE 100% SURE THEY KNOW WHO HE WAS.

STROLLERS, PURSES, ALL KINDS OF THINGS WERE LEFT BEHIND IN THE MALL, AND THERE WILL BE A DELAY IN RETURNING THOSE THINGS TO THEIR OWNERS,  BUT IT WILL BE DONE IN A COUPLE OF DAYS.

IT IS UNKNOWN WHETHER THE SHOOTER HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE MALL OR THE STORE.

THE POLICE DO NOT YET KNOW WHAT VEHICLE OR HOW THE SHOOTER GOT THERE.

THE POLICE DO NOT YET KNOW IF THERE WAS AN ACCOMPLICE TO THE SHOOTER.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A gunman opened fire in a suburban Portland shopping mall Tuesday, killing two people and wounding another as people were doing their Christmas shopping, authorities said.

Witnesses described a scene of chaos and disbelief as a gunman wearing some sort of camouflage outfit and what looked like a hockey mask fired rounds fire from a military-style rifle near the food court at Clackamas Town Center.

Parents with children joined other shoppers rushing to stores' backrooms for safety as teams of police officers began entering the mall to find the shooter.

Clackamas County sheriff's Lt. James Rhodes said later that the gunman was dead, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. A shopper told KATU-TV he saw a man lying on the floor with a gun next to him.

Authorities went store-to-store to confirm that there was only one shooter and to escort hiding shoppers outside, Rhodes said.

Austin Patty, 20, who works at Macy's, said he saw a man in a white mask carrying a rifle and wearing a bulletproof vest.

He heard the gunman say, "I am the shooter," as if announcing himself, Patty said. He then fired several shots paced seconds apart.

A series of rapid-fire shots in short succession followed. Patty said he ducked to the ground and then ran.

His Macy's co-worker, Pam Moore, told The Associated Press the gunman was short, with dark hair, and dressed in camouflage.

"I heard about 20 shots and everyone hit the ground," Moore said. "That's when we all just ran."

Witnesses said the mall's Santa Claus was among those who ducked for cover.

The mall is one of the Portland area's busiest. It's in a middle-class area that has become popular with families as falling real estate prices have put its homes just a few miles from downtown Portland within financial reach.

The mall has about 185 stores and a 20-screen movie theater among anchor tenants that also include Nordstrom and J.C. Penney. Sheriff's deputies said it would remain closed during the investigation of the shooting, but it wasn't clear how long that would take.

Shaun Wik, 20, from Fairview, said he was Christmas shopping with his girlfriend Tuesday and opened a fortune cookie at the food court. Inside was written "live for today, remember yesterday, think of tomorrow."

As he read it, he heard three shots. He heard a man he believes was the gunman shout, "Get down!" but Wik and his girlfriend ran. He heard seven or eight more shots. He didn't turn around.

"If I had looked back, I might not be standing here," Wik said. "I might have been one of the ones who got hit."

Kira Rowland told KGW-TV that she was shopping at Macy's with her infant son when the shots started.

"All of a sudden you hear two shots, which sounded like balloons popping," Rowland told the station. "Everybody got on the ground. I grabbed the baby from the stroller and got on the ground."

Rowland said she heard people screaming and crying.

"I put the baby back in the stroller and ran like hell," Rowland said. "It was awful. It was shots after shots after shots like a massacre."

Holli Bautista, 28, said she was shopping in the Macy's for a Christmas dress for her daughter when she heard pops that sounded like firecrackers.

"I heard people running and screaming and saying 'Get out, there's somebody shooting,'" she told the AP. "It was a scene of chaos."

She said hundreds of shoppers and mall employees started running, and she and dozens of other people were trying to escape through an exit in the department store.

Bautista said the Macy's opens into the food court area, where it was reported the shootings took place. Bautista said it sounded like the shots were coming from that direction.

Tiffany Turgetto and her husband had exited Macy's through the first floor when they heard the gunshots coming from the second floor of the mall.

"People in front of us people were dropping, finding covering," she told the AP. "People were yelling screaming and gasping, yelling to get out.

"The lady next to us, she threw a chair and started running. We couldn't run because the chair was there."

Turgetto and her husband and other people were able to quickly leave through a Barnes & Noble bookstore before the police arrived and locked down the mall.

"I had left my phone at home. I was telling people to call 911. Surprisingly, people are around me, no one was calling 911. I think people were in shock."

Kaelynn Keelin was working at two stores down from Macy's when the gunfire began and watched windows to another store get shot out.

She and her Made in Oregon co-workers ran to get customers inside the store to take shelter, Keelin said.

"We got lucky we stayed in," she said. "If we would have run out, we would have ran right into it."

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Associated Press writers Nigel Duara in Portland, Michelle Price in Phoenix and Manuel Valdes in Seattle contributed to this report.