Creating A Cult Like Following

By JK Ellis
Author of Mind Control 101

Friday, February 23, 2007

Recently I was contacted by a very successful Internet marketer who asked me what I would suggest to someone who wanted to create a cult-like following.

This is right down my ally so I gave him some very good advice that he couldn't wait to put into action but the question got me thinking. What steps are there for anyone who wants people to want his/her attention and wisdom?

The result are 10 ways to build a cult-like following. Of course each one of them could be a book in itself but here goes.

1. Initiation vs. Instruction

There is a marked difference between learning by instruction and learning by initiation.

Most people give instruction. This is nothing more than stating facts and teach processes. Any good teacher does that as well as most bad ones.

Learning by initiation is about creating an experience that makes the learning personal and visceral to the student. A good example of that is the 1984 movie “The Karate Kid” . On the one hand you have the macho western karate instructor who taught his students by instruction in a skill 'n' drill process. On the other hand you have the character played by Pat Marito who says that he will teach Ralph Macchios' character karate in exchange for doing chores. But the chores must be done in a certain way “This way wax on. This way wax off.” Only later does the young hero find out that there was a method to his instructors madness and when he figured it out it made complete sense to him as if struck by a lightening bolt.

There are many things that you could simply tell someone and they would intellectually understand but they wouldn't “get it” as an insight. They would only see it as information. The result is that they may use it or they may not.

Teaching by initiation means holding back on simply telling what the student wants to know and instead provide an experience where the student “gets it” on their own.

The subjective experience of the student is that the lesson is much more valuable because 1) they had to work for it and 2) it is felt more personally.

2. Being Accessible

Someone once told me that “There are no long lines for the guru at the bottom of the hill.”

Making yourself scarce adds perceived value but it also distances you from the masses. If you want a cult-like following you need access to the masses otherwise you're just an ivory tower wannabe.

There is an ingenious compromise.

Be accessible as a person but present your knowledge and wisdom as being rare, expensive, mysterious, and only for those who are truly ready for it.

This compromise allows you to build deep personal bonds with people yet have them want more or your presence... as well as be willing to pay for it.

Keep in mind that one cult leader, 2000 years ago, would speak to anyone who would listen but he granted his most sacred attention to his 12 closest disciples.

You can add to this compromise by having “special times” when you are not accessible to anyone. You can tell people that you are meditating, or doing your “spiritual practice” but you don't have to say anything. It's the mystery of why you are absent that you want to cultivate.

3. Imply Secret Knowledge

The role of simply remaining calm and silent will recur again in this essay so I can't understate it. Here is where silence is worth a 1000 words. Saying things like “Hmmm... There are 100 possible solutions to that within your own mind.” and nothing else implies things that you know and that they should know.

4. Remaining calm as if all-knowing

Any sharp change in your emotional state, with the exception of joy and laughter, should be minimized. Any leader/teacher who goes on an angry rant is demonstrating their own lack of control. If you truly have control it should be demonstrated by an unshakable calm as if everything is happening just as you knew it would.

I've always remembered that the scariest martial artist are the ones that don't talk or threaten... they calmly do what they have to do and walk away.

5. Create a detached involvement as if “you” are in a “higher place”

In doing this people will look to you as if there is something more to you than your mere physical presence.

6. Connect deeply with the individual

Here rapport is vital. When you are with people you need to put aside all of your distractions, obligations and problems to focus completely on the person or people you to whom you are speaking.

7. “Chunk Up” whenever possible

This may be a bit abstract to grasp but it's important to creating an appeal because it forces people to think in bigger terms. When you do consistently if gives the impression that you are always thinking bigger than them.

“Chunking Up” is an NLP term that means referring to something that contains what is spoken about as a subset . It can also refer to something that controls or has a larger reach than the topic at hand.

As an example when a person asks “Do you enjoy adult beverages?” a chunked up response would be “There are many adult pleasures I enjoy.” Here, “beverages” is a subset of “pleasures”.

Another example : Statement: “I'll go with you if you promise to control yourself.” Response “I have no intention of controlling how much I enjoy myself.” Here “control” is a subset of “Enjoyment”.

8. Always allude to the mysterious

This can be done by doing the opposite of name dropping. Refer to a very skilled person you learned from who doesn't normally take students. Mention an arcane text that describes a mysterious process you went through. Mention it took you ten years of study to read between the lines and find the real meaning to the work.

9. God-Like Confidence

Here is where the work of Blair Warren in “The Worlds Greatest Cult” really comes in handy. He describes what's called “The God Complex” which encompasses many of the concepts discussed here.

The God Complex is a great example of “chunking up” because it's about seeing EVERYTHING that can possibly happen as if it's all part of the plan and being okay with it.

The God Complex is about having such a larger view of the world and your place in it so that what you are doing, this very moment , regardless of what transpires will be as if it was meant to you be.

The bottom line is that people are going to judge and criticize you; you'll have deal with money and security issues; relationships will change... no matter what. The God Complex includes all of that in a philosophy that allows you to deal with it in a healthy perspective.

10. Appeal to peoples needs and wants

A deep understanding about what people truly respond to is vital if you want to influence anyone. Each individual has their own wants and needs that you have keep in the forefront of your mind.

Good NLP training will help you with that.

People will also respond to the same basic needs being fulfilled; the need to be needed, the need for hope in a tough time, the need to feel in control, the need blame something else for their troubles, the need to learn about something they don't know or not supposed to know.

Conclusion

The desire for a cult-like following has many benefits and many responsibilities. The hardest of the responsibilities is simply living up to what you are presenting to people. For that reason I always recommend that you live what you teach.


JK Ellis is the author of Mind Control 101: How to Influence the Thoughts of Others Without Them Knowing or Caring

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Portal To The Fourth Dimension

The Evolutionary Enlightenment teachings of Andrew Cohen

A Portal to the Fourth Dimension
One of the many miraculous functions of meditation is that it is a portal to a different dimension. When you go deeply into the meditative state, your awareness detaches itself from the thought-stream. Your identification with emotion, memory, time, and body begins to fall away. You become aware of something very mysterious. Imagine that you have been fast asleep in a small dark chamber, and then you suddenly awaken to find yourself floating in the infinite depth of a vast peaceful ocean. You have literally become aware of a fourth dimension, whereas before you experienced yourself as being trapped, a prisoner of your body, mind, and emotions. When you awaken to this fourth dimension, all sense of confinement disappears. You feel that you have access to the whole universe and also to that which the universe exists within. You're aware of body, mind, time, and space, but there's another dimension that extends in all directions, unlimited by any of it. Meditation is the portal to this fourth dimension, a door to the realization of limitlessness.

Why is this experience significant? Because the infinite context you awaken to is not just a quiet place inside your own head. It is a deeper dimension of reality itself. Life, death, and everything in between, reality as a whole—the seen and the unseen, the known and the unknown, all that ever was and ever could be—is made up of both the manifest and the unmanifest. But most of the time all we are aware of is the manifest dimension, the domain of time and space and becoming. Meditation will give you the direct, conscious experience of the unmanifest dimension, which is the ground of being itself.

The ground of being is empty. It is an objectless, timeless, spaceless, thoughtless void. But everything that exists has come from this no-place, including you and me. Paradoxically, while empty, this no-place is pregnant with infinite, unborn potential. It is the ground we all emerge from, the womb of the entire universe. When something came from nothing, 14 billion years ago, the nothing did not disappear. That unmanifest unborn dimension is the ever-present ground out of which everything is arising in every moment. And meditation allows you to know this ground within your own experience. Even in the awareness of the body and the movement of thought, beneath it all, in the state of meditation, you become conscious of a current of stillness that is the echo and the reflection of the ground of being. There is a great mystery there. In the infinite depth of that emptiness there arises a knowing, a pure knowing itself that seems to answer all our questions and relieve us of all our existential doubts.

Whenever we journey far enough beyond the conditioned mind—beyond thought, beyond form, beyond time—we will always discover this same mystery. That is why we meditate, so we can awaken to the instantaneously liberating nature of the ground of being. The more profound our experience of the ground of being, the more we begin to emanate that mysterious knowing which is enlightened consciousness itself.

Andrew Cohen

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Shifting The Assemblage Point

Enlightenment by Point of View... Shifting Your Assemblage Point Towards a More Resonate View
By Yari

Enlightenment is the ability to consciously connect to a certain quality of light or energy and to be able to channel that for yourself at will. This is done by hooking one's energy body up to those source rays of light or energy.

I use the term Point of View (POV) in a similar way that Don Juan in the Castaneda books used the term Assemblage Point. At any moment in time we are at a certain POV, which is the sum total of our sensory perception, subtle impressions, thoughts, and emotions at that moment. All spiritual practices are methods of teaching us how to shift our POV to that of a more radiant and resonate POV. Every spiritual tradition has its own favorite POV's. The practices they teach are devices used to obtain these POV's. Mantras, mudras, meditation, movements are all such devices. They only work if they are done with intent to connect. They don't work at all when they have become a boring routine or when they are engaged into with a defeatist attitude. If you are doing your practice because you "should" do it, rather than because you want to do it, it certainly will not work for you. This is why I am pessimistic about methods that focus on the quantity rather than the quality of relationship to the practice. You can chant a certain mantra a million times and it won't help you at all if your attitude towards chanting it is wrong.

I recently heard a meditation teacher state that after 20-some years of meditation he doesn't feel that he is any more radiant--only perhaps more peaceful. Peaceful is OK but if you want to tap into the pure delight of divine radiance at will, well there is no reason you can't. And there is no reason it has to take 20 years. My point being, if something is not working for you, don't keep banging your head against the wall. Try other methods.

Some people are afraid of becoming a basket case or some sort of blissful zombie if they are find a method to tap into radiance. This fear is unfounded. You can be in your ordinary state all day long--even hold a mean and nasty POV, and if you are able to tap into that source that feeds your soul whenever you want to, well let's just say then "you have arrived". You are in effect a shapeshifter. You don't have to be able to change your physical form to be a shapeshifter, just your energetic form.

You can easily shift your POV with psychotropic drugs, but these experiences will not help you have control for yourself, in your normal state. They will give you a taste of what is possible at the far end of the POV scale--an end you probably have little reason to visit, although I am personally not against experiencing these, as long as it doesn't become a habit to use drugs.

The following is a task to start learning to consciously shift your POV: First find a person that can exude radiance. You know what I mean, one of those really shiny, glowing people that can warm you up with a smile. Even if you cringe when you meet this type of person, just hear me out. This is a "stalking" task so drop your judgements and try it. When I say "stalking" I do not mean it in the sense of "search out, follow, and destroy". I mean it in the sense of "search out and find" for a positive, specific purpose.

Where will you find this type of person? I suggest you look in a spiritual study group. I suggest this because you will find that people in these types of groups are at their glowing best. You will have enough contact with them on a regular basis to complete your task but you won't have so much contact with them that you see them at their worst. It doesn't matter what religion or tradition the group is connected to. You are not there for the teachings. Don't look for smart people--this is not an intellectual exercise. The person you are looking for can be of quite low intelligence and still know how to exude radiance. Maybe they don't know what they are doing and cannot really control their own POV, but as long as they can hold it long enough for you to get a fix on their energetic print, it's long enough.

If the study group seems intellectually childish to you, all the better. You won't then get lost in the mental realm and risk losing the focus of your task. Don't stalk a guru or leader of any kind for this task. In fact, it is better if the person you are stalking is younger and without any type of authority at all. Children are sometimes good for this, but since their POV's are usually out of control, it is better to find a young adult. Also don't use a study group connected with your own religion for this. Find one you are unfamiliar with and where you don't know anyone. This means go to the group alone. If you want to learn to shift your POV, you must stretch beyond your habitual comfort zone.

Now when you find this person treat her or him with the utmost respect. Do not be energetically, or in any other way, condescending. That means don't push down on her energy field. The POV you hold towards him is something like "alert and observant appreciation." Address her often by his name and look at her as though he is a precious golden egg--your golden egg that you can never possess. Imagine that this golden egg is very fragile and if you do anything to crack it, even a tiny crack, you lose. Don't play games, don't trick or try to possess him. Don't befriend her. God forbid don't seduce him. The exercise will be ruined if you do this. Treat this person as though if you make a single wrong move towards her, everything you are trying for will be destroyed and you will have to start over again with a different group. That means be careful and don't lose sight of the task goal.

Now that you have found him, feel what her energy body feels like. Feel that sort of glowing, radiant, joyful feeling. Now make your own energy body feel like that. Let his energetic field seep into your energetic field just enough so that you can match hers. You are in fact copying his on an energetic level. But don't take anything from her. Be sure you don't allow yourself to take on his mannerisms in this process--you are not becoming her. This exercise functions on a very subtle level.

Have you ever gone to spiritual groups where the teacher has certain distinct mannerisms, modes of expression, and voice inflections and you notice that certain students have taken these on? This is an example of this type of exercise that has gone too far. Don't lose your identity in this. This is one reason I don't suggest finding a teacher for this task.

Let's say you wake in the morning and you feel basically bad. Maybe you had bad dreams or you just have a habit of waking up in the "feeling bad POV". Now lie in your bed and focus on what a luxury it is to be able to lie in bed. What a blessing to be able to take a few moments to lie there and enjoy it. Feel how good the mattress and the sheets feel. Put one hand on your navel and the other on your heart. This creates a circuit for energy flow. Focus on your heart as you breath in, and your navel as you breath out. Do this for a minute or two. Now imagine your golden egg person. There he is near you (not in bed with you!) just close enough so you can feel her energy. Now let your own energy becomes like his; not in any sort of invasive way, but with total delicacy and respect. If you have a hard time with this, try colors. Imagine she is there and his aura is blue. Now make your aura blue. Imagine her aura is yellow. Now make yours yellow, etc. Don't force anything, just allow it to be so and let yourself completely enjoy the allowing of it being so. Whatever you do, don't turn this into any kind of sexual fantasy. If you do, you lose.

In this practice you are exercising the flexibility of your POV. You cannot shift if you are not flexible. This should be obvious, but it is amazing how many people take a rigid POV when they are doing their spiritual practice. They are the "serious practitioners" who know somehow they will never make it in this life. Didn't everyone always tell them it takes lifetimes? These types even take perverse pride in thinking how difficult the path is that they have undertaken. Well the good news is that it doesn't have to take lifetimes, or even a single lifetime, or even more then a moment. Just do it. Your energy body already knows how. Just allow it to be the case.

In this exercise you are practicing shifting your own POV to be very close to that of someone else--a powerful practice. You can also do it with animals, plants, even rivers or rocks--it is just easier with people.

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Life Is But A Dream

THE UNIVERSE IS DREAMING ITSELF AWAKE
by Paul Levy


When you begin to spiritually awaken, it is like waking up inside of a dream and recognizing that everything you are experiencing is nothing other than a very convincing projection, or display of your mind. The boundary between inner and outer, between dreaming and waking starts to dissolve, and you begin to realize that the same dreaming mind that is dreaming your dreams at night is dreaming your life. You realize that there is a Deeper Dreaming Self that is having a dream and we are it!

This Deeper Dreaming Self is active in us at all times and is continually seeking to express it itself. If we recognize the dreaming process that is happening right now, we can step into it and help it unfold consciously. It will activate our own inherent process of awakening and reconnect us with ourselves.

It is as though there is a dream that is trying to be dreamt through each and all of us -- both individually and collectively. The universe is seen as a field not separate from and through which this deeper, dreaming process is continually expressing it itself.

Recognizing the deeper dream, or archetypal myth that we have been unconsciously acting out in our waking life reconnects us not only with the deeper ground of the psyche but also with other people, as everybody is seen to be fellow actors in a divine drama. It takes one's life out of a purely personal framework and gives it a deeper sense of meaning, which makes suffering so much more bearable.

When you begin to awaken to the dream-like nature of things you realize that waking reality doesn't exist in the way you thought it did, as something separate from you. Saying it is a dream, your own projection, reflection, etc. is the same thing as saying it is nothing other than your own mind appearing in a convincing, externalized display. Everything that happens is seen to be the unmediated expression of your mind, which you now understand can just as easily express it itself in outer events as it does in inner feelings, dreams or intuitions.

This is related to Jung's idea of synchronicity, those "meaningful coincidences," where an inner situation gets mirrored through an outer event. They are examples of where there is a fissure in reality and one gets a chance to glimpse the underlying unity.

By saying that our waking reality is some sort of a dream, which is the same thing as saying that it is a projection of your mind, the implication is that how you view it actually effects how it appears. This is very clear in lucid dreaming, where the dream is realized to be the unmediated manifestation of your mind.

Once you realize this, you don't become conditioned by, and react to, the reflections as something solid, real, and autonomous (as a kitten would looking in a mirror), you just recognize them as your own energy appearing externally. Your relationship to the universe changes dramatically.

Waking reality is seen to be a manifestation of "something deeper," just like the rays of the sun are the manifestation of the sun. In the same way that the rays are not separate from the sun, but rather are a perfect expression of it, waking reality is not separate from this "something deeper" but is it itself a perfect expression of it.

The question then becomes: what would you do if you did wake up in THIS dream and recognize that IT was all your own mind? How would you dream it on if you were to have this realization? Imagine that there are all these other people in your dream who are so asleep that it is as though they have fallen under an enchantment. They've gotten absorbed into the dream and have become so identified with their roles that they literally have forgotten who they are. They are truly suffering a case of mistaken identity. And they're all just aspects of you.

It is like your task is to try and wake up parts of yourself that have fallen asleep. How you do this is totally up to you; it is the ultimate creative challenge. In essence you are figuring out a way to wake yourself up, to break the spell you have fallen under.

As the Deeper Dreaming Self, we are always dreaming each other up in exactly the role that is needed. It is an amazing realization when you discover that we can't help but play the role that other people have dreamt up for us.

For example, you, as the Deeper Dreaming Self (your True Self) have dreamt up this article right now -- at this very moment. And I, of course, by writing it, effortlessly stepped right into playing and fulfilling exactly the role you dreamt up for me. Even to say that someone else stepped into a role that you dreamt up for them is to say too much. As it is all just you. There is no one else.

It is exactly as if you were having a dream and into your dream walked a dream character who was having an awakening (he has become lucid in "his" dream). Let's make it even more real than that, let's imagine that this dream character expressed himself by sending you an article such as this. Who is this dream character other than the awake part of yourself? He knows that he's being dreamt by something deeper. He is a mirror, a reflection, a manifestation of the awake part of you.

It is also no accident that he has delivered this article into your dream; he is trying to engage you. It is your own awakeness appearing in seemingly separate, externalized form. It is clearly your own projection, something you've thrown out of yourself. And it is trying to step back into you. Or better yet, you're trying to step back into yourself. It is a situation that you, as the Deeper Dreaming Self, have clearly dreamt up.

This dream character realizes that the "I" who he thought he was, including the body that he's been identifying with all this time, is not only not who he is, but is itself being dreamt by "something deeper" -- what I call the "Deeper Dreaming Self." Becoming lucid means that he's recognized his true identity with the Deeper Dreaming Self, which is dreaming the entire dream.

This is the same thing as saying that he has recognized his unity with the entire dream, which is realized to be nothing other than the manifestation, or expression of the Deeper Dreaming Self, not separate from it in one iota. Just like the waves of the ocean are not separate from, and are the expression or manifestation of the ocean. It is as if one wave discovered that it was one with the entire ocean, and hence, with all waves. Nothing has to be added, one just discovers an already existing fact.

This awakening dream character has had an expansion of identity from a skin-encapsulated ego, or separate self -- which experiences it itself as being disconnected from the rest of the dreamscape -- to a larger, much more all-embracing identity, which recognizes that the dream is nothing other than a very convincing display of his true nature. This is analogous to having an archetypal death/rebirth experience.

Our dream character also realizes that he can consciously step into this universal dream that we all are sharing and help it unfold. He can help co-create and co-dream the dream to its highest unfolding, whatever and wherever that may be. When he realizes his identity with the Deeper Dreaming Self, he also recognizes that everybody else has the same Deeper Dreaming Self. He realizes that there is just one Deeper Dreaming Self and it is not only his own True Self, but it is the True Self for everyone. He understands that he's not even the slightest bit special, as everybody else is in the same condition, but they just haven't recognized it yet.

At the point when you understand this, is when you become that awakened dream character who can then step consciously into the next person's dream. You then become the mirrored reflection of their own awakened part. And what would you do other than to try and awaken them in as gentle, loving and creative a way as possible?

When enough people awaken to this situation, and this is simply a matter of when the Deeper Dreaming Self dreams that enough people awaken to it, we can begin to create an art happening that we can title "global awakening". This is really a question of stepping into and owning not only your negative shadow, but your positive shadow also. It becomes so easy to project your own enlightenment out there onto whatever guru. It is a question of realizing who you are, for God's sake. I would like to suggest that there is nothing stopping us from doing this right now. And not only that, I would like to further suggest that IT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW and it is simply a question of recognizing it.

Don't place any limits on yourself. It is your dream, please dream it all the way, go totally far out, over every edge. If you woke up and realized that it was your dream, how would you then dream it on? Remember, I am not addressing you as the little egoistic self but as the True Self.

I would like to suggest that if you are having a genuine awakening, you have no other recourse than to let the Deeper Dreaming Self dream itself through you. The question then becomes, if we are the dream of the Self, where is this dream going?

We need to really expand our realm of possibilities and realize that we are living a historic time, maybe more amazing then if we lived in Palestine during the life of Christ. We are actually living in the time period where human beings wake up. We need to realize, to see that the universe is dreaming itself awake through us. And it takes the most visionary among us to help further the momentum of the process until it actually builds up a life of it is own, which it already has in us.

Isn’t it just a question of whether you see the situation or not? And if you do see it -- it is not a question of thinking about it but of seeing it -- then at that very moment you become an awake, responsible player in this dream drama you've found yourself in. And not just a player, but writer, director, producer and the audience, too. You begin to realize that this isn't a universe that you are just passively observing but one that you are also actively participating in and co-creating with. At this moment you step into your Bodhisattvahood, which is who we are meant to be. You realize that there is no separate "self" or "other", just "Self". Out of this awareness naturally arises genuine compassion.

Finally, you realize it is total insanity to be waiting for the Messiah to arrive. We are the Messiah.

Paul is in private practice, assisting people in their process of spiritual awakening.

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Sandalwood Cures HPV

The present invention provides a method for the prevention and treatment of viral-induced tumors, more specifically, human warts. The method uses sandalwood oil and/or derivatives from the sandalwood oil to prepare medicaments for the prevention and treatment of viral-induced tumors (i.e., warts caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV)) in humans. The method of the invention comprises the topical administration of the sandalwood oil or a composition derived therefrom to the human epidermis and/or to the genital tract as needed. The present invention is also concerned with a unique antiviral composition useful for topical application. The antiviral composition according to this invention is also effective against other DNA viruses such as the DNA pox virus that causes Molluscum contagiosum and may be effective against other DNA viruses such as AIDS virus and RNA viruses. The sandalwood oil compositions are also effective against genital warts and HPV of the genital tract and will prevent cancer of the skin and cervix.
Claim: We claim:

1. A method for the treatment of human papillomavirus (HPV)-induced tumors in a mammal, said method comprising the topical application of sandalwood oil to said mammal.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein said (HPV)-induced tumor is selected from the group consisting of verrucae warts, plantar warts, flat warts, genital warts and Molluscum contagiosum.

3. The method according to claim 1 wherein said sandalwood oil is obtained from at least one Santalum species selected from the group consisting of S. album, S. yasi, S. papuanum and S. spicatum.

4. The method according to claim 3 wherein said sandalwood oil is in admixture with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or excipient.

5. The method according to claim 1 wherein said sandalwood oil is in admixture with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or excipient.

6. A method for the treatment of genital warts, and treatment of human papillomavirus (HPV) from the female genital tract in infected females comprising the application of a cream or a douche comprising sandalwood oil.
Description: TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention generally relates to prophylactic and therapeutic agents for the prevention and treatment of viral-induced tumors, such as warts. In one embodiment, the therapeutic agent is in the form of a soap, comprising naturalsandalwood oil and vegetable ingredients. More specifically, the therapeutic agent is sandalwood oil or an isolate or isolates from the sandalwood oil described herein. Use of the oil or its components as a topical agent for the prevention andtreatment of viral-induced tumors, such as human papillomavirus-induced tumors, is disclosed.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Viruses which induce tumors in mammals are widespread. Indeed, there are over sixty known types of human papillomaviruses (HPV) which are DNA viruses. These viruses can induce the production of tumors. Some of these HPV's have been associatedwith benign tumors, such as common warts, while others have been strongly implicated as etiologic agents in dysplasia and carcinomas in the oral and genital mucosa of the infected mammal.

Warts are a very common skin lesion in humans and are caused by various human papillomaviruses (DNA virus). Each virus is related to a specific clinical presentation of the wart. Warts are infectious and can be autoinoculated and spread toother individuals by direct contact.

Verrucae warts have a rough surface, are lumpy and typically flesh colored. Finger-like projections and sometimes dark specks are present, which are the result of thrombosed capillaries. Usually these warts are found on the face and scalp. Plantar warts are found on the planter surface of the feet and can be deep and painful. These warts occur singularly, in clusters or be spread over a wide area. Flat warts are typically small, flat-topped, flesh colored papules that occur primarily onthe face, hands and forearms. Usually the surface of the wart is smooth and they may appear in the hundreds. Genital warts are soft, flesh colored or slightly pigmented and occur in the genitalia of the mammal and are sexually transmitted. Chronicinfections of the viruses that cause genital warts in women are a serious problem as intra epithelial neoplasia or squamous cell carcinoma may develop. See Oski et al., Princ. Pract. Pediatrics, 2nd ed., pp. 789-790.

There are various therapies for the treatment of warts, but none are considered truly effective as they typically fail to totally cure the lesions and do not prevent recurrence. A discussion of presently accepted therapies can be found in Stone,1995, Cl. Infec. Diseases, Suppl. 20, pp. 991-997 and Sterling, 1995, Practioner, Jan. 239(1546), pp. 44-47. Numerous compositions are presently marketed for wart removal. One such product is Occlusal.RTM.-HP marketed by the GenDerm Corporationof Lincolnshire, Ill. This product is a 17% solution of salicylic acid in a polyacrylic vehicle. The Shering-Plough Company of Memphis, Tenn. produces and markets a product known as Duo Film.RTM. which is a patch containing salicylic acid. Theproduct literature recommends that the wart be washed and dried prior to the application of a medicated patch which contains 40% salicylic acid. This patch is then covered with an additional bandage and the procedure is repeated every 48 hours until thewart is gone, which sometimes takes up to 12 weeks.

Recently, it has also been observed that individuals with depressed immune systems, such as sufferers of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), are prone to HPV infections which can result in tumor growth over their entire bodies, resultingin great mental and physical distress to the afflicted individual.

Current modalities for the treatment of viral-induced tumors involve the removal of the tumor by either: (1) surgical intervention (laser or operative); (2) the application of organic acids, such as glacial acetic acid and/or salicylic acid andlactic acid to "burn" the tumor away; (3) the injection into the tumor of an anti-tumor vaccine prepared from ground tumors; and to a lesser extent, (4) the use of a drug, such as podophyllin, interferons and fluorouracil or 5-FU; and (5) freezing.

While being useful for removing the viral-induced tumor, the current treatment modalities still suffer from one or more of the following drawbacks: (1) they can result in the destruction of healthy uninfected tissue; (2) they can result inscarring and disfigurement; (3) they can result in discomfort to the mammal being treated thereby; (4) they can result in necrosis of the tumor and the surrounding tissue may can result in a secondary infection which may require treatment with anantibiotic; and (5) they do not always result in the destruction of latent viral DNA which may be maintained in surrounding tissues. Furthermore with these conventional treatments, subjects suffer from significant local, and at times, systemic sideeffects, incomplete resolution and frequent recurrences of the tumors, and of course, the expense incurred.

It is also known that phototherapy is used for removing laryngeal papillomatosis tumors. While such phototherapy reduces tumor growth by about 50%, it also results in a generalized skin photosensitivity for at least six weeks, as well as otherminor reactions. Despite the apparent success of this technique, the presence of latent viral DNA is nonetheless

still maintained in the surrounding tissues.

U.S. Pat. No. 5,073,630 discloses a polymeric anhydride of magnesium and ammonium phospholinoleate with antiviral, antineoplastic and immunostimulant properties. This antiviral agent is produced from a selected line of Aspergillus sp. However, the compound is insoluble in water and possesses a high molecular weight (316,000 daltons). Recovery of the compound from the culture is problematic and costly.

U.S. Pat. No. 5,562,900 discloses a composition for the treatment of viral-induced tumors comprising an Aspergillus fermentation extract or a derivative thereof in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.

U.S. Pat. No. 5,541,058 discloses an in vitro method for testing the effectiveness of antiviral agents. More specifically, this patent relates to a method for screening anti-papillomavirus drugs which can interfere with the early andmaintenance stages of papillomavirus infection. The teachings of this patent are incorporated herein by reference.

U.S. Pat. No. 5,332,215 discloses a method for inhibiting viral proliferation by preventing or inhibiting viral replication or killing the virus on contact. The method uses serine protease inhibitors, their analogs, salts, conjugates orderivatives.

An article by B. M. Lawrence entitled "Progress in Essential Oils", Perfumer & Flavorist, Vol. 16, 49-58 (1991) reviews the work of several investigators on the chemical composition of sandalwood oil. This article reports on several of theoxidation products of the oil and compares the composition of Chinese sandalwood oil and Indian sandalwood oil. The santalol content (santalol, cis-.alpha. and cis-.beta., comprises about 50 and 20% respectively by weight of sandalwood oil) of variousspecies of the genus Santalum, are also disclosed. This article makes no suggestion that sandalwood oil would be effective in treating the common wart in humans.

An article by Dwivedi et al. entitled, "Chemopreventive effects of sandalwood oil on skin papillomas in mice" in the European Journal of Cancer Prevention 1997; 6(4): 399-401, reports that the essential oil, emulsion or paste of sandalwood(Santalum album L) has been used in India as an ayruvedic medicinal agent. In his investigation, a 5% w/v solution of sandalwood oil in acetone was shown to be a chemopreventive agent against 7, 12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene initiated and12-O-tetracecanoyl phorbol-13-acetate promoted skin papillomas in CD1 mice. The author suggests that sandalwood oil could be an effective chemopreventive agent against skin cancer.

None of these references suggest or disclose the use of sandalwood oil or a soap containing sandalwood oil as an agent for the treatment of human papillomavirus-induced tumors. There presently exists in the medical community a need for improvedmethods and compositions which provide prophylactic and/or therapeutic treatment of viral-induced tumors such as warts in humans. The present invention fills that need of the medical community.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

One aspect of the present invention relates to the use of at least one constituent of sandalwood oil or a soap containing sandalwood oil for the prevention and treatment of viral-induced tumors. Another aspect of the invention relate to the useof a component or components of said oil to prevent and treat viral-induced tumors in mammals, especially humans. One major benefit of the present invention is that that oil and soap do not destroy healthy, uninfected tissues nor results in eithersignificant systemic side effects, local side effects such as irritation, necrosis of tissue surrounding the wart, allergic rashes, scarring, disfigurement or discomfort to the human treated therewith. In fact, the use of sandalwood oil or a soapcontaining the oil has been found to smooth the patient's skin and provide for regeneration of healthy tissue.

Another aspect of the present invention is directed to a simple method for providing prophylactic and therapeutic treatment of viral-induced tumors in humans. An additional aspect of the present invention relates to a method for the destructionof latent viral DNA which is contained in tissues so as to prevent recurrence of these tumors.

Thus, there is disclosed a method for the prevention and treatment of viral induced tumors and skin cancers in a mammal, said method comprising the topical application of sandalwood oil.

Also disclosed is a prophylactic and therapeutic composition for the prevention and treatment of viral induced tumors in mammals comprising sandalwood oil extract, or a derivative thereof, in a pharmaceutically accepted carrier and wherein saidsandalwood oil extract is obtained from a Santalum species selected from S. album, S. yasi, S. papuanum, S. spicatum and mixtures thereof.

There is further disclosed a method for the prevention and treatment of genital warts, cancer of the cervix and eradication of human papillomavirus from the female genital tract in infected females, comprising the application of a cream or douchederived from at least one constituent of sandalwood oil to the affected area of the human body. There is also disclosed a method for preventing cancer of the cervix, said method comprising the application of sandalwood oil to the genital area of afemale for a period of time and at a sufficient concentration to eradicate the human papillomavirus from the genital area of the female. There is also disclosed a method for the treatment and prevention of dry skin, flakiness of the skin, rashesassociated with seborrheic dermatitis, psoriasis, eczematous and allergic rashes in a human, said method comprising the topical application of a composition comprising at least one constituent of sandalwood oil to the skin of said human.

The method of this invention is specifically directed to the use of a composition that is suitable for topical application. The initial discovery of the inventors was based upon the use of a soap manufactured by Karnataka Soaps & Detergents,Ltd., Bangalore, India, known and marketed as "Mysore Sandal Soap". The product packaging states that this soap contains natural Mysore sandalwood oil distilled by the government of Karnataka. It is known that this soap also contains vegetableingredients. A second soap manufactured by Alfa Cosmetics, of Bombay, India, known as "Eastern Mysore's Pure Sandal Soap" has also been found effective in preventing and/or treating viral induced epidermal tumors, however, it is somewhat less effective. The "Eastern Mysore's Pure Sandal Soap" lists as its ingredients: palm stearin, rice bran fatty, coconut oil, caustic soda, perfume, sandalwood oil and preservatives. At the time the parent patent application was filed, the inventors had not isolatedthe active component from the sandalwood soap. However, at the time of filing the present application, the inventors, through further investigative effort, have determined that the sandalwood oil component of the soap was responsible for itsprophylactic and therapeutic effects. As of the filing date of this application, the inventors are working towards the isolation of the active ingredient or active ingredients from the sandalwood oil. As used herein and in the claims, the term"sandalwood oil" shall mean: (1) the actual oil derived from the Santalum plant and/or (2) the active component or components (constituents) of said oil.

Sandalwood oil is a pale yellow, somewhat viscous, aromatic liquid obtained from sandalwood and is used chiefly in perfumes and soaps. Sandalwood is a close grained, fragrant, yellowish heartwood of a semi-parasitic plant of the genus Santalum(family Santalaceae), especially the fragrant wood of the true or white sandalwood, Santalum album. Approximately ten (10) species of Santalum are distributed through southeastern Asia and the islands of the South Pacific. The oil is obtained by steamdistillation of the wood. Palm stearin or palm oil is an edible fat obtained from the flesh of the fruit of several palms and is typically used in soaps and lubricating greases. More particularly, palm stearin is a fraction of palm oil. Palm oiltypically contains the fatty acid palmitic acid, which is a waxy, crystalline saturated fatty acid having the formula C.sub.16 H.sub.32 O.sub.2 and may exist in the free acid form or in the form of esters (as glycerides) and most fats and fatty oils, andin several essential oils and waxes. Stearic acid (C.sub.18 H.sub.36 O.sub.2) is one of the most common fatty acids and occurs and glycerides in most animal and vegetable fats, particularly in the harder fats with high melting points. A solid mixtureof stearic and palmitic acids, "stearine", is used for making candles. The soaps are the sodium and potassium salts of stearic and palmitic acids.

One sandal soap listed rice bran fatty as an ingredient. Grains of cereals, such as rice and wheat, have a great deal in common with each other. They consist of three major structures: (1) the embryo or germ of the new plant; (2) the endosperm,which is the storer of nutrients for the germinating plant; and (3) the protective layers of the seed coat, which are regarded as bran by the miller. A typical bran composition (wheat on a dry weight basis) is: lignin-8%, cellulose-30%,hemi-cellulose-25%, starch-10%, sugars-5%, protein-15%, lipid-5%, and inorganic and other substances making up the remainder. It is believed that the rice bran fatty component of the sandal soap is in fact the lipid component from rice bran. It isfurther believed that there are a number of fatty acids with unusual structures that are found in rice bran. One such fatty acid is ricinoleic acid. Coconut oil is a fatty acid oil or semi-solid fat extracted from fresh coconuts and is used especiallyin making soaps and food products. The fatty acid composition of coconut oil is predominantly lauric acid. The composition of coconut oil has been thoroughly characterized and is known in the art. Caustic soda, also known as sodium hydroxide, is wellknown to be used in the production of soaps and detergents.

Other components such as preservatives and perfumes can be used in the sandal soaps of this invention. At this time, the complete characterization of those components are not available to the inventors. However, continued analysis hasdetermined that the active component or components in the soap is the sandalwood oil. As will be set forth below, the inventors have elucidated that the sandalwood oil is the agent with the outstanding utility for treating or preventing human warts. Inany event, as will be demonstrated below, it has been discovered that sandal soap and sandalwood oil is very effective in treating human warts.

The major components or constituents of sandalwood oil are cis-.alpha.-santalol and cis-.beta.-santalol, about 50 and 20 weight % respectively. While any source of sandalwood oil is effective in the present invention, the Indian oil ispreferred. Oxidation products may also be present in the oil, such as .beta.-santalic acid and .alpha.-tetrasantalic acid. Table I sets forth the constituents of a fresh sandalwood oil and an old oil.

TABLE I ______________________________________ Comparative composition of "Fresh" and "Old" Samples of Sandalwood Oil Weight Percentage Composition Compound Fresh Oil Old Oil ______________________________________ santene 0.01 0.05 .alpha.-pinene* -- 0.02 camphene* -- 0.02 acetic acid -- 0.02 teresantalal -- 0.04 .alpha.-santalene 0.82 1.30 trans-.alpha.-bergamotene 0.12 0.11 epi-.beta.-santalene 0.97 1.40 .beta.-santalene 1.40 1.90 .gamma.-curcumene 0.04 0.06 .beta.-bisabolene 0.07 -- .beta.-curcumene 0.13 -- .alpha.-eka-santalal 0.07 0.49 ar-curcumene 0.26 0.55 .beta.-eka-santalal 0.01 0.19 (E)-nerolidol 0.06 -- .beta.-bisabolol 0.64 0.04 .alpha.-santalal 2.90 7.70 (Z)-trans-.alpha.-bergamotal 0.10 0.30 .alpha.-bisabolol 0.26 -- cis-.alpha.-santalyl acetate -- 4.40 .beta.-santalal 0.56 1.80 dihydro-.alpha.-santalol 0.38 -- cis-.beta.-santalyl acetate -- 2.50 cis-.alpha.-santalol 50.00 22.00 (Z)-trans-.alpha.-begamotol 3.90 1.30 nuciferyl acetate.sup.+ -- 0.33 trans-.alpha.-santalol 0.56 .040 epi-.beta.-santalol 4.10 2.10 cis-.beta.-santalol 20.90 9.80 trans-.beta.-santalol 1.50 0.79 cis-lanceol 1.70 0.29 cis-nuciferol 1.10 0.75 spirosantalol 1.20 0.47 ______________________________________ *presumed impurities .sup.+ probably cisnuciferyl acetate

The chemical make-up of a sandalwood oil varies slightly from source to source, however, .alpha.- and .beta.-santalol make up over 65% of the oil. Table II sets forth the chemical make up of Chinese and Indian oils.

TABLE II ______________________________________ Comparative chemical composition of Indian and Chinese sandalwood oil Percentage Composition Compound Chinese Oil Indian Oil ______________________________________ tricyclo-eka-santalal 0.63ca 0.30 .alpha.-santalene 0.68 1.13 trans-.alpha.-bergamotene ca 0.50 ca 0.10 .beta.-santalene.sup.+ 0.93 0.35

.beta.-santalene.sup.+ 1.37 0.63 ar-curcumene 0.43 ca 0.50 .alpha.-santalol.sup.+ 49.99 48.44 .beta.-santalol.sup.+ 3.78 4.19 .beta.-santalol.sup.+ 18.12 24.57 nuciferol.sup.+ 3.14 5.45 .beta.-santalal 3.44 1.91 .alpha.-santalal ca0.20 0.53 ______________________________________

The santalol content also varies slightly from species to species of Santalum. Table III sets forth the santalol content of various Santalum species.

TABLE III ______________________________________ Santalol content of various Santalum species Percentage composition Santalum Species Origin .alpha.-santalol .beta.-santalol ______________________________________ S. album (1)* China 14.67.3 S. album (4) India 46.6-59.9 24.6-29.0 S. album (5) Indonesia 7.1-48.6 8.7-25.2 S. yasi (1) Fiji 54.0 32.8 S. papuanum (1) Papua, New Guinea 26.3 15.5 S. spicatum? (3) Australia 27.9-35.3 4.0-29.2 unknown (1) India 3.0 10.8 ______________________________________ *No. of samples

In a further embodiment of this invention, the method of preventing or treating viral-induced tumors uses sandalwood oil that is in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier such as oleaginous ointment for topical administration.

In another embodiment of this invention, the active component or components of the sandalwood oil are disclosed for the prevention or treatment of viral-induced tumors.

There is further disclosed a prophylactic and therapeutic composition for the prevention and treatment of viral-induced tumors in mammals comprising sandalwood oil extract thereof or a derivative thereof in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.

In particular, the sandalwood oil itself and/or the extracts (active components) of the oil described herein are used for the preparation of prophylactic and therapeutic compositions for the treatment and prevention of viral-induced tumors inhumans. Preferably, the compositions useful in the method are topically applied to the human in need of such therapy.

The method of the present invention neither destroys healthy, uninfected tissue nor results in any local or systemic side effects, scarring, disfigurement or discomfort to the human treated. Furthermore, the use of the present method results inthe destruction of latent viral DNA found in the tumor and the surrounding tissues so that instances of incomplete resolution and tumor recurrence are prevented. The method includes the use of the sandalwood or an extract derived therefrom, for theadministration to an area of the human which is anticipated to evidence viral-induced tumor growth, or an area which presently exhibits viral-induced tumor growth (i.e., warts) to prevent or eliminate the viral-induced tumor. In accordance with themethod according to this invention, "regular use of the sandalwood oil" is meant to mean application of the sandalwood oil at least once a day to the body surface containing the wart(s). A further embodiment of the method of this invention compriseswashing the affected area of the body with the soap, rinsing the area and then placing a small amount of soap residue or oil on the tumor to be treated. It has been determined through clinical evaluation that once the method of this invention isinitiated, the warts begin to shrink, no matter what size, and will totally disappear after a period of two to four weeks of treatment, or less if the oil is applied.

DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

The present invention is based, in part, on the discovery that a commercially available soap manufactured by the aforementioned companies is useful for the treatment of viral-induced tumors in humans. More specifically, the invention is directedto the discovery that sandalwood oil is the active component of the soap.

The initial chemical analysis was conducted as follows. 2.5 g of the sandal soap was dissolved in 15 ml of purified water. The pH was determined to be about 10.26. This solution was extracted, after acidification, with methylene chloride. Themethylene chloride extract was dried over sodium sulfate and the volume was adjusted to 40 ml. The extract was diluted 10-fold and subjected to Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis. The analysis was performed on a Finnigan Model 4500GC/MS system equipped with an HP-5890 Series II gas chromatograph and Galaxy 2000 data system. The semi-volatile GC column was a 30 meter by 0.32 mm RTX-5 capillary column. The temperature of the column was held at 40.degree. C. for 1 minute, and thenincreased at 10.degree. C./minute to a final temperature of 270.degree. C.

Conversion of the hydroxide ion concentration was carried out using the definition of pH (-log[OH.sup.- ]=14-pH]. It was determined that the concentration of sodium hydroxide equivalents was about 0.015% by weight.

GC-MS analysis confirmed that no salicylic acid was present, a known agent for the treatment of warts. The fatty acids, dodecanoic, tetradecanoic, hexadecanoic, oleic and octadecanoic, were present. The weight ratio of dodecanoic;tetradecanoic; hexadecanoic; oleic; octadecanoic was 7:3.4:50.1:32:6.7. The ratio of hexadecanoic acid to oleic acid in palm oil is about 34 to 43% hexadecanoic acid to about 38 to 40% oleic acid. This analysis indicates that the soap was most likelyderived from palm oil.

No other peaks were evident from this GC-MS analysis of the methylene chloride extract of the sandal soap at a detection limit after dilution of 1% by wt. As set forth below, the components of the sandalwood oil were found effective against humanviral-induced tumors.

EXAMPLE 1

One inventor of the present invention is a pediatrician, actively engaged in the medical practice. Typically, pediatricians are constantly exposed to the HPV, which causes warts in humans. The inventor has had numerous occurrences of warts overthe last 10 years, for which all available methods of treatment have been used, including excision using liquid nitrogen and various salicylic acid preparations. All of these methods of treatment failed to completely eradicate the warts. Typically, thewarts became secondarily infected and were very painful. With conventional treatment, the warts subsided, however they only returned after a period of time. This inventor also developed a painful wart in between her fourth and fifth toes of her rightfoot which were scraped and then treated with commercially available creams known as Vytone and Lachydrin by a Dermatologist. Despite continued treatment, the warts recurred and were a constant source of aggravation. The inventor also developed a largewart on her left thumb, about 3 mm in diameter with dark spots on the surface. Subsequent to the appearance of the wart on the thumb, Mysore Sandal Soap was obtained and, after 4 to 5 days of use (washing twice daily), the wart on the thumb becamesmaller (appeared to shrink), reduced down to about 2 mm in diameter and continued to decrease in size until it completely disappeared after three weeks of treatment.

The inventor then began to wash (twice daily) the wart on her foot, which at the beginning of therapy was about 5 mm in diameter. After one week of daily applications of the sandal soap, the pain of the tumor had decreased and the wart wasbeginning to shrink in size. After a second week of washing and rinsing the tumor with the sandal soap, the inventor began to leave a small amount of soap residue on the affected area. No irritation or redness resulted from the soap residue and thetumor continued to decrease in size and totally disappeared after the third week of such usage.

EXAMPLE 2

A second individual, a four (4) year old black female, presenting a huge (about 4 mm), raised, wart on her right hand, began treatment of the wart with sandal soap. After about two weeks of treatment, (washing twice a day), the tumor had reducedto a small black dot and at the third week of treatment, the tumor was completely gone.

EXAMPLE 3

A seven (7) year old white male presented warts on each foot; one being about 3 mm in diameter, with raised dark spots on the surface and the other about 4 mm labulated and flesh-colored. These tumors were washed twice daily with the sandalsoap. After one week of therapy, the tumors were visibly smaller and at that time, soap residue was allowed to remain on the tumor and surrounding tissue after washing. After two weeks, the tumors were completely gone and no new tumors were evident.

EXAMPLE 4

A ten (10) year old white female presented a large, 3 mm raised and fleshy wart on the dorsum of her right hand. Administration of the sandal soap began and after two weeks of treatment, the tumor shrunk to approximately half its size.

EXAMPLE 5

5 grams of the Mysore Sandal Soap was dissolved in 15 ml of distilled water. The pH of the solution was adjusted to 5.5 with HCl and this mixture was then extracted with methylene chloride. The methylene chloride extract is dried and the volumereduced to about 20 ml. This methylene chloride extract is then topically applied to a human wart. Application is to occur twice daily. After one to two weeks of treatment, the viral-induced tumor will have been eliminated.

EXAMPLE 6

Equal parts by weight of rice bran fatty acids and sandalwood oil is prepared. A cream suitable for topical use is prepared by mixing 1 gm of the rice bran/sandalwood oil composition with 20 gms of a balm, which comprises a mixture ofpetrolatum, mineral oil and wood alcohol. The cream is useful for minor irritations and in the treatment of viral infections which produce skin lesions or warts.

EXAMPLE 7

A third year medical student who had recurrence of plantar warts after surgical removal, used the sandal soap for four (4) weeks for washing the warts and was told to leave a small residue of soap on the warts after washing. The warts startedshrinking as early as the first week and they totally disappeared after the fourth (4th) week and have not recurred.

EXAMPLE 8

A sixteen (16) year old white male subject presented a plantar wart on the foot that had recurred after surgical removal. The subject began using the sandal soap and after a period of about 3 weeks, the wart was totally gone and has notrecurred. This subject washed the plantar wart with the sandal soap at least twice daily.

EXAMPLE 9

A third year, white, female medical student presented warts on her fingers. She had previously used salicylic acid preparation, but the warts had recurred. After use of the sandal soap, twice daily for about 1 week, the warts started shrinkingand in about three (3) weeks, the warts totally disappeared and have not recurred.

EXAMPLE 10

One adult white male had chronic seborrheic dermatitis on the face and scalp. Upon daily administration of the sandal soap to the scalp and face, a significant improvement in his dermatologic condition was obvious. He found sandal soap was moreeffective in treating his condition than expensive shampoos and steroid creams which he previously used.

EXAMPLE 11

An adult white male and female presented psoriasis lesions on hands and arms. After approximately 1 week of treatment with the sandal soap, great improvement in this condition resulted. Twice daily applications of the sandal soap to theaffected areas, significantly reduced flaking and dryness. The use of expensive steroid creams was significantly reduced by these subjects as the sandal soap therapy significantly reduced the psoriasis lesions. This soap could also be beneficial forallergic and eczematous rashes.

EXAMPLE 12

A fifty (50) year old white female presented with a plantar wart embedded inside a callous on her right foot which had recurred after several treatments which included surgical removal, freezing, etc. by a dermatologist. After about four (4)weeks of treatment with the sandal soap, the wart was totally gone and so was the pain and discomfort, which disappeared after the total resolution of the deeply embedded plantar wart on her right foot.

At the time of filing this application, further clinical work is underway to refine the method of the present invention and to further characterize the active components of the sandalwood oil.

At this time, a total of fifteen (15) individuals have undergone the inventive therapy and all 15 experienced the eradication of their palmar or plantar warts. The application of the sandal soap at least twice daily with occasional placement ofsoap residue on the warts, results in disappearance of the warts in about four (4) weeks. Deeply embedded warts took up to eight (8) weeks to resolve. Of the 15 individuals treated to date, twelve (12) were previously treated with salicylic acidpreparations, liquid nitrogen or surgical techniques. In all twelve (12) cases, the warts reappeared. Upon reappearance of the warts, the subjects enrolled into the sandal soap study and have successfully completed their course of therapy and the wartshave failed to reappear. It was noted that the individuals that had previously received salicylic acid treatments were slower to respond to the inventive therapy when warts were covered by scar tissue. However, in all cases, the warts had disappearedwithin four (4) to eight (8) weeks and recurrence of warts had not yet been detected.

EXAMPLE 13

Molluscum contagiosum is a skin disease caused by DNA pox virus and is characterized by the appearance of small, discreet lesions, in groups, on the face, arms or genitalia. The lesions are firm and pearly white with a sharply indented centralcore and yield an infectious filtrate which produces the disease when inoculated into human volunteers. The disease, which may be epidemic in children, occurs in all ages and is world-wide in distribution. Two subjects with Molluscum contagiosum weretreated for about four (4) weeks using the sandal soap of the present invention. One of them had about twenty-five (25) large and small lesions. Some of the lesions were greater than 1 cm in diameter; the smaller lesions were about 5 mm in diameter. Application of the sandal soap occurred at least once per day, with a small amount of soap left behind on the lesions and the lesions disappeared in about four (4) weeks. The lesions failed to reappear since resolution.

EXAMPLE 14

The sandal soap according to the invention has also been found effective

against the flaky rashes of psoriasis to seborrheic dermatitis, eczematous rash and dry skin. Individuals with the above recited conditions, upon use of the sandal soap, experienced a considerable decrease in itching, redness and flakinesssubsequent to the use of the sandal soap. Also, the use of steroid creams was considerably reduced when the sandal soap was used in the management of the above recited rashes.

EXAMPLE 15

Adolescents and adults presented with facial acne and were instructed to use the sandal soap on a regular, daily basis. After about two (2) weeks of therapy, the presence of facial acne had decreased significantly or disappeared. Sandal soapwas effective in eradicating pustular acne also. This work evidences that the sandal soap has anti-bacterial characteristics also which indicates its efficacy towards the control of Streptococcus and Staphylococcus skin infections.

EXAMPLE 16

A pediatrician colleague of the inventors, who had palmar warts for the last fourteen (14) years that kept recurring after the available, conventional treatment for warts, including use of salicylic acid preparation, used sandal soap for five (5)weeks with total resolution of the palmar wart that has not recurred.

EXAMPLE 17

A 27 year old married female with an abnormal pap smear due to HPV, as per her gynecologist, used sandal soap to wash her genital area whenever she took her bath and also sat in soapy water from sandal soap in her bathtub at least a couple oftimes per week. When the pap smear was repeated six (6) months later, it is reported to be normal and the HPV was not detected.

EXAMPLE 18

A 46 year old Asian female presented with almost innumerable warts on both heels. The subject had endured these warts for over seven (7) years and the standard therapies of freezing, cutting, salicylic acid the like (administered by aDermatologist) had failed to resolve the malady. The Dermatologist informed the patient that her condition was not subject to the standard therapies and that she had to learn to live with these warts. Prior to the time the sandalwood oil treatmentsbegan, the patient was forced to cut the warts so that walking across a carpet was possible. The patient experienced pain and embarassment due to the numerous warts.

At the initial examination, the warts were very large, pigmented and painful. The skin around the warts was very dry with heavy callous formations. The left heel had 36 warts, one of them having dimensions of 1.4 cm by 8 mm and 6 mm in height. A second large wart measured 0.8 cm by 0.8 cm and was 5 mm in height. The remaining warts were in the range of 3-4 mm in diameter and height. The right heel had at least 40 warts with one very large wart that measured about 1 cm by 6 mm and about 4 mmin height. The remaining warts were 4-5 mm by 3-4 mm and 2-3 mm in height.

The patient also presented with 3 warts on her left hand which had returned after the standard treatments of freezing, cutting and use of salicylic acid had failed to resolve the condition. 2 warts were on her index finger and measured about 0.5cm by 4 mm by 2 mm. One wart was on her thumb and measured about 3 mm by 2 mm by 2 mm.

The patient was supplied about 10 cc of pure (not diluted) Indian sandalwood oil. The patient was instructed to wash the tumors prior to application of the oil and to use a pumice stone on her heels to remove the calluses and dry skin. A dropof oil was placed on each lesion and rubbed on the wart each evening prior to retiring to bed. Therapy began on Jul. 12, 1998.

At the first follow-up visit on Jul. 23, 1998, the warts on the left hand had disappeared. The patient stated that within a few days of beginning treatment, the warts darkened and then scabbed over. By the eleventh day of therapy, the warts onher hand had disappeared, except that a small dark spot (scab) remained on the thumb.

Out of the 36 warts on the left heel, 26 had disappeared while the remaining 10 were totally flattened with dried residual wart tissue at the site of the wart. 30 out of the 40 warts on the right heel had resolved and disappeared. The remainderwere flat with residual dried wart tissue.

A second follow-up exam took place on Jul. 29, 1998 and it was observed that the small dark spot on the left thumb was gone as were the remaining warts on the right heel. The right heel was smooth and shiny and completely free of warts. Theleft heel was clear of tumors except that 3 small areas still existed with dried wart tissue. The patient and inventors were very pleased with the rapid (about 21/2 weeks) elimination of the warts and are convinced that the sandalwood oil is a highlyeffective antiviral and antimitotic agent.

In light of these results, the inventors have concluded that sandalwood oil (or a component of the oil) is not only an antiviral agent against HPV, DNA pox virus and perhaps other viruses but it would also be a chemoprotective agent for skincancers and an effective therapy for cancerous or precancerous lesions of the skin and the female genital tract.

Other Indications

Since warts are caused by human papillomaviruses (HPV)of different types and the sandalwood oil disclosed herein can eradicate this virus, it is contemplated that this composition may be useful in methods of eradicating other viral-inducedtumors. Genital warts are also caused by HPV. Genital warts in women are a genuine nuisance and are very hard to eradicate. The sandalwood may also be useful to prevent other DNA viral lesions. Its effect on other DNA as well as RNA viruses needsfurther investigation. The fact that sandalwood oil appears to be extremely effective in eradicating palmar and plantar warts caused by the DNA HPV virus and also effective in treating Molluscum contagiosum rash caused by DNA pox virus supports itseffectiveness against other DNA and RNA viruses.

It is proposed that the continued use of sandalwood oil or the components of sandalwood oil (such as .alpha.- and .beta.-santalol) would be effective for the prophylactic treatment of viral tumors and eradication of DNA viral infections andbacterial infections caused by streptococci or staphylococci.

During the clinical evaluation of the present invention, it has come to the attention of the inventors that the sandalwood oil, sandal soap and/or the effective components of the sandalwood oil are also very effective in preventing dryness of theskin. As mentioned in Example I, an inventor of the present application is a pediatrician and is constantly (i.e., at least 40 times per day) washing her hands after examining a subject. This constant washing with soaps as required in a hospitalsetting, results in severe dryness to the hands. The sandal soap was applied twice a day to the dorsum of her left hand. The sandal soap was not applied to the dorsum of her right hand while washing her hands. At the end of approximately two weeks,the skin on the dorsum of her left hand was smooth, soft and shiny which was in contrast to the dry rough skin on the top of her right hand.

Thus, the sandal soap and sandalwood oil described herein has also been found effective in preventing the flakiness and dryness associated with skin that is constantly subject to harsh detergents. In addition, the sandal soaps have shown to beactive against seborrheic dermatitis and psoriasis.

From the studies disclosed herein, sandalwood oil demonstrated specific antiviral properties against HPV, DNA pox virus that causes Molluscom contagiosum and is also effective in the treatment of bacterial skin infections. The properties ofsandalwood oil also include anti-inflammatory characteristics as it has demonstrated effective emollient properties for dry skin and psoriasis.

It is quite evident from the clinical experience to date, that the sandalwood oil of the present invention has been outstandingly effective in the treatment and elimination of warts. The complete eradication of the warts with no recurrence istruly a surprising result as the medical community still searches for a cost effective and efficacious method to control this human malady.

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY

Viral-induced tumors, especially of the skin, are very common. These tumors are typically very difficult to treat, control and prevent. The medical community has searched for decades for new therapies to treat this common human malady. Thepresent invention provides a simple and cost-effective method to treat and prevent these viral-induced tumors.

As mentioned above, the term "sandalwood oil" is meant to include the oil itself, and any active component or components that are isolated therefrom. At the time of filing this patent application, the inventors are diligently pursuing theisolation of the active component or components and believe that such can be accomplished without excessive experimentation.

Many modifications may be made to the invention herein without departing from the basic spirit or scope of the invention. Accordingly, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art, that within the scope of the appended claims, theinvention may be practiced by means other than has been specifically described herein.

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Earth Is Ascending

An overview of the dramatic changes to world civilisation, by Tony
Wicks

INTRODUCTION
As incredible as it may seem to many people, humanity on Earth is in
the process of an evolutionary change in how we experience life. We
are to become a galactic civilisation, interacting positively with
the many star system civilisations in our galaxy and universe, and
indeed other universes.

It is our true destiny to change from a society based on fear and competition,
to one based on love, peace, and harmony.

The current chaos is merely part of the quickening change.

We live in an invisible universe (often referred to as spiritual
realms, or Heaven) as well as the visible universe, which is the
only part most people believe exists.

The real truth has been hidden from us so we would eventually remember and discover who we really
are, great immortal beings of universal knowledge and wisdom,
closely connected to our physical brothers and sisters in space, and
those in the spiritual realms.

Unfortunately many governments, religions, and philosophies have been manipulated to keep much of
the truth from us so others could retain power and control.

The recent retaliation to so-called terrorist attacks in the USA will,
in time, be shown to be one of the final attempts to keep us under
control.

However, it is time for a great change in understanding by
world populations, who mainly want peace, despite what is presented
to us by a manipulated mass media.

Many people feel "something is about to happen", but because much of
the current change is in the invisible universe, before manifesting
in the visible universe, it is difficult to comprehend at first.

We have actually been part of a grand "experiment", having agreed at a
higher level of understanding to be here in these exciting "end
times", the end of one civilisation, and the beginning of a new one,
known as the Seventh Golden Age that we will co-create.

Much has been written, spoken, and prophesised about our future.

Some of this information was true at the original time of recording,
but has since changed. Some of it was never true, and was intended
to manipulate us.

And some information was correct and still holds firm today.

Sorting all this out is the difficult part.

That is why what is "truth" for one person, is not necessarily "truth" for
someone else. You need to apply your own discernment to all
information, including what I am presenting in this article.

People are waking up in varying degrees as we continue our learning.

Some information is difficult to absorb, such as the nature of our
hollow Earth and the ancient civilisations still living there.

Like the fact that many people have actually traveled back in time to
change the future of this planet and universe, many eons ago.

And like the fact we have discovered how to make war ships invisible and
time travel again, since 1943.

And how the Apollo Moon Program was a cover-up of higher technology.

Secret trips had already been made to establish bases on the Moon and Mars, and to explore other parts of
our solar system since the early 60s.

Finally, to whet your appetite a little more, or make you more skeptical, depending on where your
awakening path is at, Earth is expected to slow its rotation, stop,
and reverse its spin without catastrophes, along with being moved in
space with the rest of the solar system to become part of the Sirian
star system!

ASCENSION AND DIMENSIONAL SHIFTS

The Earth has a consciousness of its own, it is a living being.

The Divine Plan of the Creator, which we all follow, knowingly or
unknowingly, calls for the Earth to ascend from the reality we know
as the 3rd Dimension, to the 4th Dimension (an intermediate or
temporary existence) and then to the 5th Dimension.

This has long been suggested to be around the end of 2012, or earlier.

Humanity, and all other life must be ready to ascend, or increase vibration,
to move with the planet.

Most people no longer have the time to go through separate and individual ascension processes that could take
another 200 or 390 years. They are in their last incarnation and
should ascend to help establish the next creation on Earth and the
whole universe.

This means keeping these bodies and gradually bringing them back to about the age of 30.

Those not ready, will incarnate back into the 3rd Dimension on another planet.

They cannot return to the higher dimension Earth.

Some people´s "contract" is up and they will return to previous star systems, if they wish, and
even ascend higher than the 5th Dimension.

No one on Earth was originally from this planet.

Ascension is the integration of spirit and matter. It is the process
where our physical, emotional, mental, and all spiritual bodies
combine to create a fully conscious being. We take on a Light body.

We are really spiritual beings having a human experience.

We have other aspects of ourselves who exist on other worlds, in other
dimensions or realities.

In essence, we are all physical Angels with a giant amnesia problem.

Through ascension, we realise we are all connected; we are all One with all other life in the universe.

Everything came from one Creator. Race differences, war, owning
property, land rights, in fact all aspects of our current world, are
really illusory. We live in a giant hologram.

Many dimensions, also known as planes, mansions, and parallel worlds
exist in the same space. They only differ by degrees of vibration.

When we increase our vibration sufficiently, we change dimension.
A measure of the vibration rate of the Earth, its heartbeat, is the
Schumann Resonance, which appears to be measured differently by some
Earth scientists compared with higher realm information. For years
it stayed at 7.8 cycles per second (hertz). It began moving up at
the time of the Harmonic Convergence. August 1987, the year of much
spiritual awakening. In theory, when it is constantly at 13.0, we
are in the 4th Dimension.

According to some sources we have been sitting at 12. 9 for some time, and will move to 13. 8 in the near future.

Ascension is expected to be achieved when we are fully exposed to
the photon belt energies. This is a toroid-shaped energy band that
our solar system passes through twice in a 26,000 year cycle.

Each pass in previous cycles has lasted about 2,000 years. We are
currently in the belt, but protected from premature fatal ascension
by a holographic energy field placed around our solar system by the
Galactic Federation of Light, our allies from other civilisations in
our Milky Way Galaxy.

As our vibration rate increases, some photon energies are gradually released into our solar system.

Initially, a 12-strand RNA/DNA system will have replaced our body´s
current 2-strand system.

We will have increased our 7-chakra system of body energy vortexes to a 13-chakra system. We will also
consciously use 100 percent of our brain, instead of the 10 to 20 percent currently utilised.

Full consciousness will return to us, that is the awareness of why we are here, what we are to do in the
future, and what our past lives have been.

We will have universal knowledge at our finger tips, or rather, our brain receptors, and
have super-human abilities.

GALACTIC HUMANS

As ascended galactic humans (physical angels), we will be able to
interact with all sentient life forms in our galaxy, universe, and
beyond.

We will regain extraterrestrial powers that we lost many
lifetimes ago.

Telepathy, teleportation, and interplanetary travel without space craft will be possible using our Light body or merkaba.

Some people will be able to revisit or return to their previous star
system that they came from.

Some will help to repopulate Mars, Venus, and Maldek which will be re-formed from the Asteroid Belt.

The majority will stay on Earth for the new Golden Age, and will
help create it. Earth will be a showcase planet, a major centre for
trade, conferences, and headquarters for the Intergalactic Union of
many galaxies near us.

Those who populate Earth will become her true stewards, anchoring
Light and supporting energy nodes and grids around the planet at
great temples.

The whales and dolphins have been burdened with this
task for far too long.

We will live in magnificent crystalline cities within the Earth, although they will seem as if they are on
the surface.

This is how all higher dimension civilisations live on other planets.

It is how many Lemurians and Atlanteans already live within the shell of our hollow Earth. We will be meeting them soon.

Our new civilisation will again be based on spiritual concepts of
Lemuria, which in turn, was based on Sirius B concepts.

Our current structure of governments will cease. Higher intelligent
beings will help us set up new governing councils based on
appropriate universal principles. We will have the final say in fine-
tuning new government, without interference from those who currently
control governments.

SHADOW GOVERNMENT AND CONTROL

One of the greatest restrictions to our progress is the repressive
control of world "official" governments by a secretive Shadow
Government, which also limits the type of daily news or "truth" we receive through the world´s mass media.

This is why many people are not aware of the current and coming
great changes to civilisation.

It is the reason we have fear-based news most of the time on television and in newspapers.

Keeping people in fear and distress through news, financial matters,
wars and violence, and mind control, plus filled with harmful foods,
drinks, legal and illegal drugs, as well as being subjected to
harmful chemtrails, are some of the means to keep our vibrations
low. This makes ascension so much harder to achieve.

This negative control has also been an aspect of many religions and
philosophical groups for a long time. The good news is that this
manipulation and control of worldwide societies is quickly coming to
an end. A dictatorial New World Order/One World Government,
masquerading as a democratic globalisation program, will not be
allowed by higher realms intervening on our behalf. We agreed to
this intervention before incarnating here, despite some people
believing it contravenes `free choice", which it does not under the
Creator´s divine plan. Those who don´t believe in a Creator or this
plan are in for a big surprise!

Disclosures on how we have been manipulated are soon to be
announced, and will commence some wonderful changes.

The little known aspect of the Shadow Government is that it, in
turn, has been controlled by negative extraterrestrial beings who
have given them much advanced technology for their control on Earth.
However, we should not hate these aspects of our society. We have
probably all exhibited negative traits in past lives just for the
experience! It is best to send them love and have nothing to do with
their controlling schemes whenever we have the choice. In the near
future, all darkness on Earth will be transmuted to Light, and in
doing so, will create a stronger Light. Many of the Shadow
Government former ET dark allies, are now part of the forces of
Light in this galaxy. Many former Shadow Government people have also
now aligned with the Light. The remaining ones can either do the
same, or continue incarnating on another 3rd Dimension planet until
they are ready to ascend to higher dimensions. It is their choice.

HIGHER INTELLIGENCE

Our universe is teaming with life at various levels of evolution. We
are more or less at the bottom, but are about to make a giant move
in the "up" direction.

The highest intelligence is the collective energies we term God, the Creator, or numerous other terms. From
here, and down through many descending levels of vibration, known as
dimensions, planes, or mansions, exist a multitude of beings,
initially in spiritual form, then semi-solid, and then in dense
bodies like our current ones. We know these beings by terms such as Elohim, Archangels, Lords of Light, Angels, Ascended Masters, and finally extraterrestrials, who have humanoid bodies or those we can call dinoid, insectoid, and reptoid.

Television reveals some of these forms in shows like "Star Trek".

We have all existed in these higher energy forms before, but intertwined with other aspects of
ourselves.
We are each part of a soul group of approximately 12 souls, and part of a soul family of approximately 144.

Billions of souls (aspects of God) were sent to Earth to see if they
could find their way back to the vibration of God or the purest
Light without memory of where they had been. This has never been
done in this way anywhere before. Thus the uniqueness of our current
situation or "experiment". Earth is the fulcrum for change and peace
in this galaxy and universe. Evolution elsewhere cannot proceed
successfully until we ascend to the 5th Dimension. Many
civilisations are watching us with intense interest.

Higher dimensions can see through to lower dimensions, but we cannot see
higher dimensions from here. In recent years, mankind has had
virtually unlimited access to the highest beings of Light who
provide guidance through channeled contacts and sometimes even
manifesting in etheric or physical form.

DIVINE INTERVENTION

Divine intervention is allowed to occur in a planet´s affairs when
spiritual progress is hindered. In fact it is part of our
incarnation contract which calls for it at our stage of evolution,
before we connect permanently again with other galactic
civilisations.

The intervention is carried out at a physical level by our space
brothers and sisters, and at a spiritual level by the Spiritual
Hierarchy. Our space brethren include the Galactic Federation of
Light, a sort of "United Nations" of our galaxy, comprising over
200,000 or 90% of the civilisations in it. It was formed over 4
million years ago.

About 60% of physical beings in our galaxy are non-humanoid in appearance.

Both types travel in spacecraft. An inter-galactic group of ships
and personnel, the Ashtar Command, work closely with the Galactic
Federation. The Spiritual Hierarchy consists of the Elohim orders,
the Time Lord councils, the Angelic realms, Ascended Masters, and
the Devic kingdom. They don´t need space craft, although the
Ascended Masters often "hang out" in Ashtar Command ships.

Incidentally, the Time Lords regulate time, which together with
Light, are the two elements that compose Creation.

The Galactic Federation have over 18 million space craft in our
solar system at any one time, rotating from a much larger base.

Competition is high among members to be here and assist at this
great "end times" period!

Some mother ships are thousands of kilometres long. The smaller shuttle craft are more commonly seen in
our atmosphere.

A first contact program by the Federation has been in place for
about 10 years now. This will most likely culminate in mass
sightings of craft, a change in world governance structures, a
unification of all societies, and a return of our personal
sovereignty. Then, we can be shown how to handle and adapt to
ascension and full consciousness. Much of this is expected to be
carried out on spacecraft and within magnificent underground cities.

EARTH CHANGES

It is necessary for the Earth to cleanse and rebalance herself in
preparation for ascension. This preparation has been part of the
reason for many extreme weather conditions that the planet has been
going through in recent years.

Much volcanic and earthquake activity has been loosening the tectonic underwater landmasses of Lemuria in
the Pacific Ocean (which sank about 25,000 years ago), and Atlantis
in the Atlantic Ocean (which sank about 12,000 years ago).

As part of the rebalancing, these landmasses of Lemuria and Atlantis must
come to the surface. They hold ancient temples and pyramids, which
have to be reactivated.

Magma upwelling within the Earth´s shell towards her solid crust has
been heating the oceans for some time now. This causes the so-called
El Nino and La Nina effects, particularly in equatorial regions.

Two large ice crystal layers, known as firmaments, will be re-formed
around the planet. These layers keep certain energies contained on
Earth and will give the whole planet a semi-tropical climate. They
also prevent degrading rays from reaching Earth from outer space.
Water from the melting polar caps and seawater will be used in the
firmaments. The collapse of these layers in ancient times were the
cause of great floods and much loss of life on the planet.

People in those times were twice as tall as we are now due to the protection
from DNA degradation. The layers will form from about 15,000 to 18,000 ft (4,500m to 5,500m), and from 35,000 to 38,000ft (10,700
to 11,600m).

Gaps will occur at the North and South Poles, and the firmaments will be higher when following contours of high mountain ranges.

Other landmasses will alter, and more seas and inland lakes will be formed.

All life forms, animals, and plants will be removed before
this happens. Humanity will be mainly relocated into inner Earth
cities while all this occurs.

Even after our ascension, some Earth changes are expected to continue.

THE NEAR FUTURE

More people can now confirm what is happening by tuning into their
Higher Self /Soul/I Am Presence during meditation. This "going
within" process has been practiced on Earth well before religions
and philosophical groups formed.

People can assist by visualising Light energies in the form of unconditional love anchoring onto and within the planet.

Love conquers all! It produces peace, healing, harmony, and oneness.

The anticipated changes to a new monetary system and world
forgiveness of debt is likely to also change government structures
in the near future.

If the few remaining controlling cabals on this planet don´t allow these changes, then first contact with our space
and spiritual friends is likely to be brought on more quickly than expected.

Should the changes occur, then greater financial and spiritual abundance will be available to all mankind.

Divisions between races and countries will cease.

There are many people working quietly in the wings of government,
judicial and financial systems to assist the implementation of these
changes. We should be introduced to them soon.

More free energy devices will become available, particularly for
powering our homes and transport systems. These inventions have been
available for some time. This has been pointed out in the Disclosure
Project crusade, headed by Dr Steven Greer and friends who are
showing the world the extent of Earth´s secret contact with ET
civilisations over the last 60 years.

We are in the Time of Truth where many hidden truths, including those of the Shadow Government must come to the surface.

The occurrence of many disastrous Earth changes, producing much loss of life, is now unlikely due to the great increase in mass
consciousness in recent weeks since the September 11 atrocities,
caused not by isolated terrorists but by those people controlling
the US Government It is still possible though, on a day-to-day
basis, that some volcanic and earthquake activity will still occur.

Those loved ones who have already passed over are likely to join us
in higher dimensions, if that was their choice. Others who have, and
will pass over in the future, may already have decided at a higher
level that they are not ready for ascension to higher dimensions
yet. They will reincarnate onto a 3rd dimensional planet, possibly
held within the large battle planet Nibiru, soon to become a part of
our solar system.

Stand by for an interesting ride.

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OT Anna Nicole Smith

Anna Nicole Smith (aka Vicki Lynn Hogan aka Vicki Lynn Marshall) was often portrayed in the media as a gold digger and a buffoon. In particular, her probate lawsuit to gain a share of the estate of her late husband, J. Howard Marshall, was portrayed as an attempt by an undeserving, "white trash" stripper to get unearned riches. Certainly in her later years it was obvious that she had some sort of substance abuse problem and seemed to exhibit her bizarre behavior for gain in a grotesque form of self-exploitation.

But the story of Anna Nicole, and especially her relationship with Howard Marshall and her pursuit of his estate, was much more complicated than the media portrayed it. In fact, in light of the Supreme Court's decision in her case, Anna was a woman who was ravaged by a legal system that was blatantly classist and sexist. Fortunately, the opinion in her bankruptcy court proceeding -- the one that seemed to award her hundreds of millions of dollars -- explains her story and is well worth the read, because it sets the record straight about her. Here are a few things that you may not know.

When Anna met the elderly Howard, he seemed to be on death's doorstep. The love of his life had died just two months earlier (more on this in a bit) and some people close to him felt that the elderly billionaire had given up on life. In fact, his driver brought him to the topless club where Anna worked in a desperate attempt to cheer the old man up.

Howard was smitten with Ann and his relationship with her seemed to give him a new lease on life.

You might think that this was the case of a stripper shamelessly manipulating an old man who was naive to the charms of an exotic dancer. Nothing could be further from the truth. Howard had had a prior twenty year long relationship with a stripper named Jewel DiAnne "Lady" Walker, while he was married to Bettye Bohannon Marshall. Both Lady Walker and Bettye died within a relatively short time of each other, but Howard lamented to friends that the death of Lady Walker was the saddest day of his life. It was Lady Walker who had died just two months before Howard met Anna. I guess we can just conclude that Howard Marshall had a sexual preference for exotic dancers. Howard would live several years and arguably his love for Anna contributed to his new desire to live.

You might also think that Anna, upon finding this doddering old man infatuated with her and determined to marry her, decided to do so in order to become wealthy through no effort of her own. In fact, Anna refused to marry Howard until she had made it on her own. She pulled herself up out of the stripper business, first by becoming a Playboy model and finally by becoming the world famous, world wide model for Guess Jeans. Only after she had become successful in her own right did she agree to marry Howard.

At Howard's death, Anna brought suit in Texas for a share of Howard's estate as his surviving spouse and on the basis of certain oral promises that Howard had made to provide her with certain large sums of money as gifts and support. It certainly raised eyebrows when this widow claimed that her deceased husband had made oral promises of money transfers that he mysteriously did not carry out. What the public did not learn, however, was that Howard was an anti-tax fanatic. When he was involved with Lady Walker, he had made substantial gifts to her, and the IRS had discovered these gifts and imposed very substantial estate and gift taxes on those transfers. An enraged Howard had vowed to somehow transfer money to Anna without paying these gift taxes. Part of that strategy was being married to her and part was delaying making other gifts until he figured out a proper tax strategy.

Moreover, Howard's son Pierce initiated a ruthless strategy of preventing Howard from making these transfers. According to the California bankruptcy court, Pierce engaged in forgery, destruction of documents and other sanctionable actions in order to prevent Howard from transferring his wealth to Anna. Anna, who was barely literate and numerate, was up against a battery of ruthless lawyers hired by Pierce not just to protect his interests but to engage in a criminal conspiracy.

Finally, you might also be surprised if reminded that Texas is a community property state, in which Anna was entitled to half of all income and property that Howard accumulated during the marriage. While the year or so marriage might not seem like a long time to us, a year's interest and dividends on a fortune of over a billion dollars meant that Anna was entitled to many millions of dollars as a matter of course. Her treatment by the Texas probate court was inexplicably, savagely classist and sexist, essentially allowing Pierce to deny her the rights of a surviving spouse.

Anna got her revenge (temporarily) in a California bankruptcy court, which, you may be aware, awarded her hundreds of millions of dollars. What you might not know is that Anna did not really go after her deceased husband's estate; she was protecting herself from a predatory and vengeful Pierce. Pierce wanting not just to beat her in court but crush her, sued her for libel, winning a judgment against her that she obviously could not pay. In her counterclaim she argued that Pierce "tortiously interfered with her inheritance," an actionable claim. The bankruptcy court issued a remarkable opinion agreeing that Pierce's actions were deplorable and quite likely criminal. Its opinion also gave her several hundred million dollars in damages representing the money she should have inherited.

It then did something that was supposed to help her, but that was her undoing. The court said that the damages were payable out of her ongoing Texas probate proceedings if she won there, or if she didn't, out of Pierce's inheritance of his father's estate. The California court was saying, "you win either way," which made Anna's lawyers quite lax about the Texas proceeding. Although somewhat obscure, it seems that Anna lost the Texas proceeding simply because her side stopped filing papers because they had a guaranteed win in California.

Then the California case was overturned -- first reduced by the district court, then overturned and vacated by the circuit court, on one of the most obscure doctrines in federal jurisdiction. Her Texas case was lost and her California bankruptcy guarantee rug had been pulled out from under her and she was once again penniless. That kind of roller coaster ride could make lots of people turn to drugs and alcohol. Eventually, however, the US Supreme Court agreed unanimously that the circuit court was wrong, but it was in the intervening years that Anna became the spectacle we knew from the Anna Nicole show.

Anna Nicole Smith was a barely literate, barely numerate woman from a poor background who was opposed by one of the richest men in the country, carrying out a legally brutal, ruthless and corrupt campaign, and she was subjected to ridicule and vituperation because of her class background. Her story was distorted and she was caricatured by what we have all come to recognize is a lazy, lying, brain dead mainstream corporate media -- in this case, with the glee of upper classes looking down on a working class woman thrown into circumstances she could barely understand.

I for one am sad to see her gone. I wish she had completed her makeover and had recovered from her addictions or mental problems. I am sure that the death of her son was a nearly insurmountable tragedy for a mentally fragile person.

I would have liked to have seen Anna eventually win her court case. Because the best and hardest way to hurt greedy, rich criminals is to take their money.

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Message From The Hathors

Managing Subtle Energy During Earth Changes
Received by Tom Kenyon
February 3, 2007

In this communication we wish to offer some suggestions for the management of your own subtle energies prior to, during, and after earth activity, such as earthquakes and volcanoes.

Due to the energetic patterns of earth itself and the increasing volatility of earth changes that are upon you, all manner of people are susceptible to the subtle energetic effects of earth changes that occur on the other side of the globe. Indeed, proximity to an earthquake is not the main factor when it comes to subtle energy. This communication is primarily for those who have sensitive natures. These would include spiritually advanced individuals, those in the conscious process of evolution, and this would also include children and animals whom we call "the innocents."

Prior to a seismic event there are pressure waves emitted from the center point of that activity and along the corresponding fault lines. These pressure waves literally create changes in the subtle energy of the earth, and depending upon the strength of the seismic event, individuals thousands of miles away can be affected. As we look at the earth grid and the fault lines running through the Ring of Fire—which extends from the northeastern coast of Russia, the coast of China and into Japan, down into Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand up into the west coast of South America, Central America and North America ending off the coast of Alaska, not very far from it's origins off the coast of Russia—we see a tremendous increase in tectonic pressures. We also see an increase of seismic pressures in what is called the Yellowstone area of the United States. As we look at earth fault line activities we see the possibility for unexpected earth activity on the east coast of the US and Canada. We choose not to go into a detailed description of possibilities, for one, they are virtually meaningless given how quickly the state of things changes.

There are complex grid relationships between the Ring of Fire and other fault lines. These include apparently unconnected lines that run through parts of China, India, Pakistan, and into Turkey, Greece and Italy. Your geological science has not found a direct relationship between these, but in our way of viewing earth energies, we see a direct relationship, not so much through the classical fault line structures but through harmonic relationships between the various levels of the earth, such as its crust, and the lower levels extending to the mantle. These harmonic relationships are driven, not just by the tectonic plate movements, but also by solar activity. This is an energetic phenomenon and the sun is in an increased period of activity which we see continuing for several years, at least.

We have said previously that energy waves from deep space, related to consciousness itself, were striking your sun and from there into the mantle of your earth. Human consciousness has the potential to mitigate or transform much of these harmonics but it has failed to live up to its potential.

As we look at the probabilities we can say that you are, as the saying goes, in for a bumpy ride. There is not much that can be done to mitigate or change earth activities in this regard. The earth is on the brink of a self-cleansing action. What we wish to discuss here are the subtle energetics that you can affect.

First of all, as these seismic activities increase there is a tendency for agitation, erratic emotional feelings, disturbed thought patterns, short term memory difficulties, irritation, irrationality, a feeling of being in a vise, or a feeling of being trapped. Sleep disturbances are often a part of this, as is a general feeling of depression, despair or malaise, and sudden feelings of being drained. Generally speaking, these symptoms will be strongest for those closest to the affected fault lines, but sensitive individuals can be affected at great distances.

Along the fault lines that are affected, there are multiple frequencies generated. Some of these are ELFs, extremely low frequencies, that travel in a slow wave pattern and can move through the earth for thousands of miles. Other frequencies are in the high range and cannot be heard by the human ear, but some animals are capable of hearing them. However, just because one does not hear a frequency does not mean it is not affecting you. Indeed, these ultra high frequencies emitted from fault line activities are very disturbing to the subtle energy fields of humans and animals, as are many of the ELFs. During such seismic activities sudden unexplained headaches can appear and then pass for no apparent reason. As one moves into the actual seismic event, the pressure waves become translated into physical earth movement. There is no guess work here. It is quite apparent when you are in the midst of an earthquake. After a seismic event, there are all manner of complications harmonically speaking. Aftershocks are a part of this at the physical level. Another aspect, however, are complex frequencies generated from the fault line as it settles into its new configuration. Again, some of these frequencies are ELFs, and can be sensed thousands of miles away. Others are in the ultra high range and both will continue to affect animals and humans negatively.

On a gross physical level we have suggested that those living in possibly affected areas have food and water for such an eventuality, but these are practical matters, and it makes sense for anyone at any location upon the earth to have such things for volatile weather patterns will affect parts of the earth not touched by earthquakes.

What we wish to turn our attention to would best be described as hyperphysics, and the management of your subtle energies should you find yourself in or affected by a seismic event. We have given, on previous occasions, several descriptions of the Holon of Balance, the octahedron. It is simple but highly effective at balancing subtle energies. However there is another attribute to this geometry. It can protect you in moments of extreme earth change, but you will have to have mastered the ability to create it at will so that in such an earth event you can bypass your fear and go to the Holon. What we are about to describe is extremely complex, but we will endeavor to make it simple.

Your earth, as we see it, is evolving to another energy state. In moments of extreme earth activity the area surrounding the fault line becomes like a superconductor. If you have created the Holon of Balance, the octahedron, around yourself, there is a tendency to move through the superconductive state intact. This geometry also gives you greater access to the aspect of your being that is outside time and space and allows you to intuitively move physically to the most appropriate location.

For those who are located at a great distance from a major seismic event, some of the same principles apply, Although your physical body may not be affected by the earth activity, your subtle energy bodies may, and this will especially be true if you are of a sensitive nature. When you feel a disturbance, as we have suggested before, it is good to create the Holon of Balance in the moment, almost as a reflex. This will allow you to mitigate some of the negative effects for yourself.

For those who find themselves in extremely volatile weather conditions, this same Holon can have a protective effect. In such instances this superconductive state does not exist, since this type of state is created by fault line activity at the epicenter, but connecting you to your aspect outside of time and space, allows you to act more intuitively and in a balanced manner.

As we mentioned, in an extreme seismic event, the area around the epicenter tends to be superconductive. From our perspective, these superconductive states have geometries and can be viewed like flowers or snowflakes. Certainly they are highly destructive for those in physical matter on earth in their vicinity, but from space and from the perspective of interdimensionality, the complex geometries of these superconductive fields are beautiful, and we see a direct relationship between them and crop circles. Crop circles are a form of information, yet to be deciphered. Superconductive fields around epicenters of earthquake activity are also forms of information. They are not haphazard effects of tectonic plates smashing into each other. That is only one small piece of the puzzle. It is true that tectonic friction is a big part of it at the third dimensional level, but in other dimensions, other things are going on.

From our perspective superconductive fields related to the earth will be on the increase, whether they be seismic activity, crop circles, or electromagnetic anomalies. From our perspective these phenomena are communications from earth herself. The majority of the crop circles that are actually crop circles and not some kind of hoax, are interdimensional communications from earth. Some of these communications are actually interdimensional beings interacting with earth. These types of crop circles are signatures, a living record of an interdimensional conversation between earth and interdimensional visitors.

Earth, as a conscious being, is not only part of its solar system and the Milky Way Galaxy, but also deepest space in ways your physics does not yet understand. Earth is moving upwards in conscious awareness. She is like a serpent, a snake, shedding an old skin. Whether humanity will be a part of the new earth or not, is not yet clear. What is clear is that the earth is moving. For spiritually evolving individuals this is not something to be frightened of. It is an extraordinary opportunity to experience hyperdimensional physics in action, for as the superconductive fields increase on the earth in their various forms, you can ride these states of energy into higher and more exquisite states of consciousness. They are, in some very real ways, like doorways into the higher dimensions of earth. They are an invitation to leave your attachment to surface awareness, literally and figuratively, and to enter into the extraordinary mystery and the exquisite birth of a new earth.

At the moment of your own physical birth into this life, you did not know what was happening—only that a great pressure was upon you and a movement you could not stop. This is, in many ways, a similar event for the earth herself. There are new worlds emerging in the midst of the world that is right before your eyes.

The reason you are here is upon you.

The Hathors

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Benefits Of Meditation

From: [link to www.skrm.org]

Meditation helps us physically, putting us into a relaxed state. While fully concentrated in meditation, we lose awareness of any pains and discomforts in our body. We come out of meditation with renewed strength and vitality. Many doctors and specialists prescribe meditation in the treatment of stress-related illnesses such as heart and lung diseases, breathing difficulties, migraine headaches, and stomach problems.

Meditation helps us cope effectively with a variety of mental and emotional problems as well as anxiety, fear, loneliness, lack of self-esteem and depression. When we meditate, we come in contact with the divine power within that manifests itself as a loving Light. By contacting it we realize we are not alone. We experience happiness, peace and bliss not found in the activities of this world. As we enter the inner regions, our problems begin to disappear. The divine intoxication that we experience in meditations remains with us even after we resume our daily activities. Rather than using alcohol and drugs in an attempt to alleviate emotional and mental pain, meditation provides a safe and permanent solution. It is a medicine we carry within us which we can use whenever needed.

Meditation gives us a new angle of vision. There is a story from the life of Akbar. One day he posed a problem to his courtiers to gauge who could come up with a solution. Drawing a line in the sand with a stick, he asked who could shorten the line without touching any part of it. They could not figure it out and just stared blankly at each other. But the bright Birbal picked up a stick and drew a line parallel to the first, which was longer than the first, thus making the first one look shorter. Similarly, meditation does not eliminate all of life's problem, but it allows us to view them from a the right perspective, not get overwhelmed by them.
Meditation helps to increase our powers of concentration and our efficiency. Developing concentration can help us excel in many areas of life: careers, studies, sports, creative art, problem solving etc. Meditation gives us access to an infinite source of wisdom. It is like gaining access to a master computer network in which all knowledge is stored.

Meditation helps us overcome the fear of death. We learn to separate our soul from the body and enter the inner regions. Then we know that spiritual realms await us after death, and we realize that this world is only our temporary home.

Meditation helps us develop spiritually. Its practice creates a gradual expansion of our consciousness and fills us with love and peace. We experience ourselves as souls and realize that others like us are also soul and a part of God. We start to see we are all members of one family and begin to develop love for all. This love awakens a desire to help others and we begin to care for all living things and our environment. We become nonviolent for we do not want to see another in pain, we become peaceful and seek to live in harmony with all creation.

Meditation contributes to outer peace in the world. When we develop inner peace, it radiates to all who come in contact with us. The fragrance of love and peace spreads to our families and friends, our communities, our countries, and the world. Our personal transformation contributes to a golden age of peace and happiness on earth.

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Message From The Arcturians

Arcturians on the Integration of Starseeds
through Lauren

2/7/2007

What we have come to address is the present condition of earth changes and the energy associated with it. For many decades there have been noticeable changes on your planet, due to the rising consciousness of the earth’s inhabitants. What we do is oversee the grids of electromagnetic frequency and assist in altering the ley lines for the ease of transition.

We have a role to play in assisting the people of earth so the transition from density to higher vibration is done with relative ease. Our part is also to oversee the development of rising mass consciousness and how it relates, on a more scientific level, to the changes on earth and the atmosphere.

Never before has an experiment like this been done which is why we are so intent on seeing the workings of this great experiment to fruition. What I would like to address today is the way that the changes in this density are affecting the populace.

The way of man is one of blind faith. This is the art of incarnation as a human, to evolve from a state of unknowingness to all knowingness. This is the capability of many on earth at this time, should they choose it. This state of knowingness is one that involves many aspects of energetic resonance and vibration alteration. This can be said of the planet as well, as each of you are intrinsically connected to the whole.

What happens for a rising consciousness is complicated at best and very detailed and well orchestrated. This is not something that neither the planet nor the human race could undergo without direct assistance from more advanced civilizations and beings of light.

This is why many of you on earth at this time hold the seed origins and DNA replicates of those from ascended civilizations. It is up to these seed workers to fulfill the divine plan of mother earth’s ascension and to bring forth the light of truth for all to see.

As each member of the galactic world unveils their true identity, there will be new grids in place to support the level of consciousness for the rising slumbers. These grid lines are awaiting the cosmic signal from the galactic center to activate with the merging, anchoring and complete integration of star seeds.

The integration period will be relatively short and some of you are beginning this transition now. The purpose of full integration is to begin the energetic plans for a civilization embarking upon an upward spiral journey to the Godhead or unified field of oneness. As each of you begins to activate, your DNA will rapidly change and alter your perceptions. This perception shift will be one of clarity and divine purpose. Know that as each of you incarnates unveil your true identity, there will be a space activated on earth where you reside. This space of activated grids will become an energetic portal of intensified light for transmutation that will extend outward in great diameter.

The light that you emit from the galactic heart is one that will carry others to the truth. It will be a time of upheaval for many on your planet and this is exactly why each of you has chosen the role of the way shower. Way showers are always available for those ready and willing to see a better way. Many masters have incarnated at auspicious times in history to ensure the safe arrival of those prepared to shift their perception of reality to oneness and truth. This current shift is monumental in scope therefore requires many masters to begin to walk in their full light. Those of you who have contracted at a soul level to do so will be the way and the light for others. This is the purpose of your struggle to awaken. The experience that you have gained first hand has undoubtedly prepared you for what’s to come.

Now a word on awakening. Those who have activated the codes in their cranial space for the complete rewiring of DNA will be mutating into a more refined species of hu-man. The mutation process will eliminate base densities and prepare you for your roles of divine perfection. In this space of perfection you hold the seeds to plant in the heart centers of others, but this can only be done by example. Your words will have less of an effect if your frequencies do not match the vibration with which you speak. Therefore, we recommend that each of you duly prepare by activating your cosmic heritage before you begin your journeys as way showers.

This can be done simply by intent. You will know when you are fully integrated, for it is a state of being far different then the current ones you inhabit. Full integration is a state of balance, peace, clarity, joy and a pervasive all-knowingness that everything is exactly how it should be. When you have reached this state of alignment, you will be well aware of it. You need not try to activate, this is something that is already written in your codes, a simple spiritual evolutionary step that you continually strive to activate with the light of truth.

Those of you who question your role need not be concerned with how it will play out. Know that as each of you begin to fully harness our power it will be an unfolding of divine implementation and great resolve. The life of struggle you once knew will rapidly fade into the background and the emergence of your soul will take the forefront. As this happens you will attract each and every necessary element to bring you into total harmonic resonance with your soul purpose and intent for new creation. Know that as you align with all aspects of your integrated being you will be in a space of spiritual maturity and rapid manifestation. This space is one that will require your conscious attention but will be much easier to maintain when you have integrated.

We are members of the galactic federation of light and we oversee the development of many of you. Know that we are guiding each and every aspect of your full integration and are duly prepared to assist you in all aspects of alignment. This process is a very natural one and each of you will find it to be more natural than your current state.

Note that as you begin to mutate you will also feel physical changes. Go where you’re guided and keep in tune with your energy at all times. This will be a major indicator for what is needed to complete the rewiring process. It is mechanical in nature as well as spiritual, for each component is interrelated. Allow for what your body needs to transition with ease.

This time in your lives is a special one, one in which you have worked tirelessly for. We watched over you and assisted where we could, but this process was yours alone to complete. You have completed a most arduous and beneficial initiation and we are proud to be associated with each of you. Your entrance to cosmic awareness and reuniting with your galactic heritage is exactly why you endured. Now you have fulfilled your contracts and you are free to create as you wish. Share your gifts with many and you will find everlasting delight and joy in all your waking hours.

We are the Arcturians and we delight in our roles to oversee your ascension process. Our civilization is the blueprint for your new world and we are joyously prepared to assist you to actualize your intent for heaven on earth. The cosmic wind is at your sails now and you are free to roam the endless seas. Use the wind as your guide and you will always land in the ecstasy of your creations. Farewell and fun travels.

Thank you Arcturians.

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Angels And Demons

Hope Macdonald describes, in When Angels Appear (1982), an incident in which a young mother sees that her three-year-old daughter, Lisa, has escaped from the garden and is sitting on the railway line beyond.

At that moment, a train comes around the bend, its whistle blowing. "As she raced from the house screaming her daughter's name, she suddenly saw a striking figure, clothed in pure white, lifting Lisa off the track with an arm around the child… When the mother reached the daughter's side, Lisa was standing alone."

Not many tales of guardian angels are as dramatic as this one, but a surprising number of people attest to some experience or other that they ascribe to the action of a guardian angel, whether it's a single word of warning or, as is commonly reported, a simple touch on the shoulder or tug on the sleeve.

According to a US poll in the 1990s, 69 per cent of Americans believe in angels; 46 per cent claim to have their own guardian angels and 32 per cent have felt an angelic presence. Nor does the pre-millennial craze for angels seem to have abated, if the number of Internet references to them is any indication.

While Lisa's angel conforms to our expectations - a white, possibly winged, powerful and protective being - they are not always thus. A clergyman's widow told her friend, folklorist Katharine Briggs, how she suffered from an injured foot and had been sitting one day on a seat in London's Regent's Park, wondering how on Earth she'd find the strength to limp home, when suddenly she saw a tiny man in green who looked at her very kindly and said: "Go home. We promise that your foot shan't pain you tonight." Then he disappeared. But the intense pain in her foot had gone. She walked home easily and slept painlessly all night.

Angelic Origins

The origin of angels is not easy to unravel. They do not feature greatly in the Old Testament but seem to have returned with the Jews from their Babylonian Captivity, where the angelology of Zoroastrian Persia was probably influential. Although the Zoroastrians had a well-developed doctrine of guardian angels, the angels who became dominant figures in the Jewish apocalyptic writings from the third century BC onwards were impersonal rather than personal. As Harold Bloom reminds us in Omens of Millennium (1996), far from being sweetness and light, angels were highly ambiguous, awesome, even terrifying, like the archangel Metatron. We might remember that when Muhammad the Prophet asked to look upon the angel Gabriel, who, as the agent of his revelation might well be called his guardian angel, he fainted dead away at the shock of seeing such a vast being, filling the horizon and stretching upwards out of view. In the Book of Enoch (Enoch was held by some to have been transformed into Metatron when "he walked with God, and was not, because God took him") angels lust after Earth women, like the Nephilim of Genesis, who "mated with the daughters of men." Thus did St Paul warn women "to have a veil on their heads, because of the angels" (Corinthians 11:10). In Colossians, he warns against worship of angels, implying that there's no difference between angels and demons.

However, angels found their way into Western culture largely through Dionysius the Areopagite, who was originally believed to have been an Athenian disciple of St Paul, but is now reckoned to be a Syrian monk of the late fifth century. His book The Celestial Hierarchy is the most influential text in the history of angelology. It was he, for example, who decided that angels were pure spiritual beings, an idea taken up enthusiastically by St Thomas Aquinas, and hence by the Roman Catholic Church (although St Augustine was not so sure whether or not angels had material bodies). It was he who arranged the angels into their nine orders from Cherubim, Seraphim and Thrones, through Dominations, Virtues and Powers, down to Principalities, Archangels and Angels - each order a link in the Great Chain of Being which stretched from God down to mankind, the animals, plants and stones.

From Angels to Daimons

The idea that angels mediated between God and mankind was actually a much older one that the pseudo-Dionysius derived from the great Neoplatonists who flourished in the Hellenistic culture surrounding Alexandria in the first to fourth centuries AD. His whole system of theology in fact was cribbed wholesale from Plotinus, Iamblichus and Proclus and then Christianised. But in the original 'theology' the mediating beings were not called angels but daimones, daimons (or, after the Latin, if you prefer, dæmons). The idea of guardian angels comes from the Greek notion of the personal daimon.

The most famous personal daimon in antiquity belonged to Plato's mentor, Socrates. According to Apuleius, in On the god of Socrates, the god was a daimon which mediated between God or the gods and Socrates. Daimons, claimed Apuleius, inhabit the air and have bodies of so transparent a kind that we can't see them, only hear them. This was the case with Socrates, whose daimon was famous for simply saying "No" whenever he was about to encounter danger or do something displeasing to the gods. Nevertheless, the daimons are as much material as spiritual, despite what later Catholic apologists, such as Aquinas, might have us believe. To say they inhabit the air is a metaphor for the middle realm they inhabit between the material and spiritual realms - what the great scholar of Sufism, Henri Corbin, calls "the imaginal world" in which a different, daimonic reality prevails.

We all have a personal daimon, which the Romans translated as 'genius' - indeed, they sacrificed to their genius on their birthdays - but perhaps it is only in those with an exceptionally powerful summons from the daimon, a striking vocation, that daimons become unusually apparent. CG Jung, the great Swiss psychologist, for instance, dreamt of a winged being sailing across the sky. He saw that it was an old man with the horns of a bull. He held a bunch of four keys, one of which he clutched as if he were about to open a lock. The lock he was about to open, of course, was the locked unconscious psyche of Jung. This mysterious figure introduced himself as Philemon; and he visited Jung often after that, not only in dreams but while he was awake as well. "At times he seemed to me quite real," wrote Jung in Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1961), "as if he were a living personality. I went walking up and down the garden with him, and to me he was what the Indians call a guru… Philemon brought home to me the crucial insight that there are things in the psyche which I do not produce, but which have their own life… I held conversations with him and he said things which I had not consciously thought… He said I treated thoughts as if I generate them myself but in his view thoughts were like animals in the forest, or people in a room… It was he who taught me psychic objectivity, the reality of the psyche."

If this is an unconventional picture of a 'guardian angel', it is conservative compared to Napoleon's 'familiar spirit' which, as described by Aniela Jaffé in Apparitions (1958), "protected him, which guided him, as a dæmon, and which at particular moments took on the shape of a shining sphere, which he called his star, or which visited him in the figure of a dwarf clothed in red that warned him". On the other hand, it was not so eccentric when we consider that, according to the Neoplatonist Iamblichus, daimons favour luminous appearances or 'phasmata' second only to manifesting in personified form. The phasmata of daimons are "various and dreadful". They appear "at different times… in a different form, and appear at one time great, but at another small, yet are still recognised to be the phasmata of dæmons". Thus it's not so surprising if a personal daimon shape-shifts, showing itself now as a Gabriel-sized angel, now as a red dwarf. And perhaps the little 'aliens' who appear to those who have shortly before seen an anomalous light in the sky, are not so much inhabitants of the UFO as an alternative manifestation of it.

Genius and genes

Another paradox in the nature of the personal daimon is that it can also be impersonal. Our clergyman's widow encountered a being that was clearly and intimately connected with her - yet also almost part of the landscape, like a fairy. I suggest that, while the personal daimon is exactly that - personal - it is also always grounded in the impersonal and unknowable depths of the psyche. It is also, in other words, a manifestation of the Anima Mundi, or Soul of the World - as the case of Plotinus, the first and greatest of the Neoplatonic philosophers, makes clear.

While he was living in Rome, Plotinus was approached by an Egyptian priest who, wishing to show off his theurgical powers, asked if he might be allowed to invoke a visible manifestation of Plotinus's daimon. The sage agreed. The rite took place in the Temple of Isis, the only pure place in Rome, according to the priest. But to everyone's surprise, the daimon turned out to be a god. The priest was so shocked that the god disappeared before it could be questioned. Plotinus himself was eloquent on the subject of the personal daimon. He held that every human psyche is a spectrum of possible levels, on any one of which we may choose to live (each of us is an 'intellectual cosmos'); whatever level one chooses, the next one above it serves as one's daimon. If one lives well, one may live at a higher level in the next life, and then the level of one's daimon will accordingly rise, until for the perfect sage the daimon is the One itself - the One being the transcendent source and goal of everything that is. In other words, the daimon was not, for Plotinus, an anthropomorphic being but an inner psychological principle, the spiritual level above that on which we conduct our lives. It is therefore both within us and, at the same time, transcendent; this suggests that it is simultaneously as personal as a 'familiar' and as impersonal as a god. Iamblichus went further, to assert that personal daimons are not fixed but can develop or perhaps unfold in relation to our own spiritual development, rather as Jung might say that, in the course of individuation, we move beyond the personal unconscious to the impersonal, collective unconscious, through the daimonic to the divine. We are assigned a daimon at birth, said Iamblichus, to govern and direct our lives; but our task is to obtain a god in its place.

This doctrine comes from a story or myth told by Plato in The Republic (X, 620e) concerning a man called Er, who had what we would now call a near-death experience. He brought back news not just of what happens after death, but what happens before birth. We choose the lives we are about to lead, he said, but we are allotted a daimon to act as guardian and to help us fulfil our choice. Then we pass under the throne of Necessity, the pattern of our lives having been fixed, to be born. Our daimons are the imaginative blueprints of our lives. They lay down the personal myth, as it were, which we are bound to enact in the course of our lives. They are the voice that calls us to our true purpose, our vocation. The reality of the personal daimon is affirmed by the fact that it is an idea that persists in the human mind, so that no matter how we may wish to grow out of belief in Plato's old tale, it crops up in different guises again and again - as the Roman genius, for example, or the Arabic genie; as the shaman's spirit helper or the Christian guardian angel.

Its latest, and debased, incarnation is in the Just So story of the 'selfish gene'. In the early pages of his book of that name, Richard Dawkins finds it impossible to avoid talking about our 'selfish genes' as if they were personal daimons. They "create form", he says, and "mould matter" and "choose". They are "the immortals". They "possess us" (my italics). We are merely "lumbering robots" whose genes "created us body and mind". This anthropomorphic language is, I would suggest, hardly that of science, but let it pass. For Dawkins is doing what scientism often does: he is unconsciously literalising a myth. Traditionally, our bodies have been seen as the vehicles of our personal daimon, our soul or 'higher self'. Now, by an amusing inversion, we are asked to believe that our most valuable attributes are simply pressed into the service of our genes. As Professor RC Lewontin sums up wryly in The Doctrine of DNA: Biology as Ideology (1993), "it is really our genes that are propagating themselves through us. We are only their instruments, their temporary vehicles..."

The 'selfish gene' is allotted to us by Chance and thereafter subjects us to its inexorable Necessity - the pattern we are forced by the genes to live out. Chance and Necessity: the twin goddesses of science who are supposed to rule our lives. But Plato's daimon tells another tale, one which science has not so much replaced as inverted and made literal. The daimon is allotted to us in accordance with the life we have already chosen. We are not merely the random result of the chance meeting of our parents, for we have chosen them just as they have, willy-nilly, chosen each other. We really do come into the world 'trailing clouds of glory'. Thereafter, we are subject, certainly, to Necessity; but it manifests as a fate or destiny we are also free to deny. Of course, that would not be advisable: to cut oneself off from one's daimon is to lose its protection and guidance, to court accidents and to lose one's way. Besides, to deny the daimon turns out to be only the illusion of freedom. Real freedom, it turns out, paradoxically, is freely to choose to subordinate our egotistical desires and wishes to the imperatives of the personal daimon, whose service is perfect freedom.

Creative Daimons

In The Soul's Code (1996), James Hillman - the best of the post-Jungian analytical psychologists - develops a whole child psychology based on the idea of the personal daimon. He calls it the acorn theory, according to which "each life is formed by its unique image, an image that is the essence of that life and calls it to a destiny. As the force of fate, this image acts as a personal daimon, an accompanying guide who remembers your calling… The daimon motivates. It protects. It invents and persists with stubborn fidelity. It resists compromising reasonableness and often forces deviance and oddity upon its keeper and especially when it is neglected or opposed."

Since it represents the fate of the individual - since our adult 'oak' life is latent in our acorn state - the personal daimon is prescient. It knows the future - not in detail, perhaps, because it can't manipulate events, but the general pattern. It is that within us which is forever restless and unsatisfied, yearning and homesick, even when we are at home. (But we should note that it is not our conscience: the daimon is not a moralist, and so it is possible to ask our daimon to fulfil our own desires, even evil or selfish ones; we can appropriate the daimon's power for our own egotistical ends.) In short, our behaviour is not just formed by the past, as psychology tends to suppose; it can be formed retroactively by the future, by the intuition of where our calling will take us, and what we are destined to become. Hillman cites the example of many famous people's biographies where the child either knows what he might become - like Yehudi Menuhin insisting as a tiny child on having a violin, yet smashing the toy violin he was given: his daimon was already grown up and disdained to play a child's toy - or fears to know what he must become - Manolete, bravest and best of bullfighters, clung to his mother's apron strings as if he already knew the dangers he would have to encounter as an adult. Winston Churchill was a poor scholar, consigned to what we'd now call a remedial reading class, as if putting off the moment when he would have to labour for his Nobel Prize for Literature.

Thus, when we see bright children going off the rails, we should hesitate to blame their parents and their past. Their daimons are, after all, parentless and have plans for them other than the plans of parents or the conformist demands of school. (It's notable that our passion for attributing aberrant behaviour in children to dodgy parenting is highly eccentric: in traditional societies, whatever's wrong always comes from elsewhere, whether witchcraft, taboo-breaking, neglected rituals, contact with unfavourable places, a remote enemy, an angry god, a hungry ghost, an offended ancestor and so on - but never to what your mum and dad did to you, or didn't do, years ago.)

Those exceptional souls who become aware of their daimon, as Jung did, have the satisfaction of fulfilling its purpose and hence of fulfilling their true selves. But this does not make them immune to suffering; for who knows what Badlands the daimon would have us cross before we reach the Isles of the Blessed? Who knows what wrestling, what injury, we are in for - like Jacob - at the hands of our angel? What our daimon teaches us, therefore, is not to always be seeking a cure for our suffering but rather to seek a supernatural use for it. "I have had much trouble in living with my ideas," wrote Jung at the end of his long and fruitful life. "There was a daimon in me… It overpowered me, and if I was at times ruthless it was because I was in the grip of a daimon… A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon... The daimon of creativity has ruthlessly had its way with me."

For the poet, the daimon is his or her Muse, who is at the very least a mixed blessing. Keats painted portraits of his Muse in Lamia and The Belle Dame sans Merci: white-skinned, cold, irresistibly alluring figures who seduce the poet, drain him like a vampire for their own purposes, and leave him "alone and palely loitering". For, once she is awakened, the Muse will drive relentlessly to become the centre of the personality, casting aside whatever we think of as ourselves. The rewards in terms of achievement can be enormous, but they are also dangerous; and everyday life, with its little comforts and satisfactions, can be a casualty. As the late Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes, writes feelingly in Winter Pollen (1994), the Muse "from earliest times came to the poet as a god, took possession of him, delivered the poem, then left him." It was axiomatic, he says, that she lived her own life separate from the poet's everyday personality; that she was entirely outside his control; and that she was, above all, supernatural.

The last word on personal daimons goes to the great Irish poet, WB Yeats, who wrote in his book, Mythologies (1959): "I think it was Heraclitus who said: the Daimon is our destiny. When I think of life as a struggle with the Daimon who would ever set us to the hardest work among those not impossible, I understand why there is a deep enmity between a man and his destiny, and why a man loves nothing but his destiny… I am persuaded that the Daimon delivers and deceives us, and that he wove the netting from the stars and threw the net from his shoulder…" Here is a portrait of the personal daimon which is both daunting and beautiful and, like Jung's, tinged with a poignant melancholy. For the daimon is our taskmaster, driving us to perform the most difficult work possible for us, no matter what the human cost. No wonder our feelings for it are as ambiguous as it shows itself to be. Anyone who invokes their guardian angel, therefore, should beware. It may not be as fluffy and cuddly as you'd have it. It will protect you, yes - but only the 'you' who serves its plan for your self. It will guide you, certainly - but who knows what sojourn in the wilderness this might entail? And, because the personal daimon is, finally, grounded in the impersonal Ground of Being itself, you will inevitably be led way, way out of your depth.

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Health Benefits Of Meditation

Meditation has for many centuries been associated with spiritual health and a general sense of well being. Those in the Eastern countries, where meditation has always been widely practiced, may have recognized its holistic effect, and the direct part meditating can play in good physical health as well as spiritual.

In Western countries, though, there has mostly been a dismissive attitude to the part the practice of meditation can play in health. In fact, any benefit from meditating was mostly derided until recently.

Health, of course, is the profession of doctors and support professionals, so while doctors have been widely dismissive of meditation as a health aid, it is not surprising the general public in Western countries have followed their lead.

In some ways, though, those traditional attitudes of the medical profession do not stand up to close examination. How often have you heard of a patient being told, on being examined, that there is nothing wrong, "it is all in the mind"? There you have a doctor saying, without hesitation, that the patient's symptoms are all in the mind; they come from the brain and are not "real". So, if they acknowledge so readily that the mind creates symptoms, why dismiss entirely that the mind cannot also play a part in cures or improvements in health?

It has also been common for doctors to dismiss some improvements to a patient's symptoms, when taking a non-drug treatment, that it is merely a placebo effect. In other words, the improvement is "all in the mind". On these occasions, the doctors, in trying to dismiss the patient's health improvement, are acknowledging that the patient's own mind has brought about that improvement.

The human mind, of course, is in contact with the whole of the body 24 hours a day, so if you look at it from that angle, the mind and body, physical and mental health, are all inextricably linked at all times. As meditation helps to establish more self control over your mind, it does leave wide open the possibility that meditating can be used to affect health. In recent years, some health practitioners have come to realise that meditation can have some health benefits, and these are the areas where interest has been most focused:

1. Most modern doctors will acknowledge that stress is a source of health problems, and some now acknowledge that meditation can reduce stress and help people to relax.

2. There has been some study into blood pressure being lowered during meditation. That is one positive use of meditation on health that I can vouch for, as I have measured my own blood pressure during meditation, and brought my diastolic reading down by 10 points or more, on several occasions.

It is good to read that some hospitals and doctors are incorporating some stress reduction therapies, such as meditation and massage, into their every day activities. In fact, my first experience of yoga meditation was 10 years ago, in a class organised jointly by the local hospital and council. I was the only "baby", being under 50, in the class, which was aimed at those with some physical restriction (in my case fused vertebrae) and thus attracted mostly those in their late 60's, 70's and 80's. All felt some benefit from the sessions, including two patients with Parkinson's disease. No miracle cures, but they did say it helped them.

While there is a lack of scientific study into meditation and health, it is probably wise not to ignore the possible benefits to your health in meditating, especially as a preventative measure against stress. For specific health problems, you should follow your doctor's advice, but there is no reason you should not ask if meditation, or other relaxation techniques, may help you. These days, you may be surprised by his or her answer.

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History Of Magic And Religion

Magic and Religion in Antiquity: Throughout antiquity, there are certain characteristics that describe a sorcerer and his powers, though these characteristics are not uniform throughout.

What describes the religious practices of one belief system might be considered hocus pocus for another belief system - for example, what was considered natural magic for the Persians would be considered ritual magic for the Greeks. This perception is, of course, common throughout the entirety of history - one group holds their own rites to be sacred, while putting down their neighboring groups' practices.

Witchcraft, Religion, and Magic: From a modern perspective, witchcraft is not only a science, but a way of explaining and making sense out of the world. People of antiquity used religion and magic as the means not only explain the world around them (their macrocosm) but also their internal psyche (their microcosm).

Religion and mythology provided a paradigm to answer the common questions people asked. In a very rough, broad distinction, religious practices consisted of a humble/submissive/grateful/repentant practitioner who recited prescribed prayers, offered sacrifices, and enacted rituals, while magic tended to have a more coercive, threatening nature. Religion and magic are based on belief and tradition, while science (including psychology) is based on logic and experiment, though it may never be completely free from myth or prejudice. However, the boundaries between all are not clean cut.

Additionally, with the emergence of the scientific practitioners, we get, for the first time, a distinction between the 'ignorant' general population and the 'sophisticated' urban elite. Magic was practiced not only by the rural population but in the cities as well. Ancient beliefs and modern science mixed in Alexandria to form highly sophisticated occult sciences of astrology and alchemy.

Perceptions of witchcraft, religion, magic and philosophy vary greatly according to the author, historical period and cultural text. For instance, early Greek testimonies differentiate witchcraft as a secretive, suspect, and even unlawful practice that took place at night and was not connected with any established religion. Those more advanced cultures might view the practices of their culturally primitive neighbors as 'magic' Additionally, there are a number of terms associated with magical practitioners that have positive meanings in one culture while maintaining negative reputations in another.

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Hidden Lunar Power

The sun, symbolically speaking represents the yang energies in time; the energies of force, of power, of activity and assertion. These are the energies that are "out there" in the world, making a visible impact in the manifest world.

Remember, however, that yang dances with yin. In terms of cycles of time, this means that the sun dances with the moon. So, for pagans, the lunar cycles represent the darker, more mysterious, receptive, encompassing, and deeply intuitive yin qualities.

These are the energies of magic, of rest, renewal, and transformation; of healing and wisdom, quiet and contemplation; and of the great Goddess in her aspects of maiden, mother and crone.

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The New Moon

Each lunar cycle begins at a time when the sun and the moon occupy more or less the same position in the sky. But because the moon revolves around the earth at a different rate than the earth spins, over the course of about 29.5 days, the moon seems to move around the earth in relation to the sun. Thus, at the beginning of the lunar cycle, the moon is basically invisible because it is in the sky at the same time as the sun, and the brilliance of the sun hides it from view. Two weeks later however, the moon rises as the sun sets and therefore appears fully illuminated in the night sky because it reflects light from the sun back to the earth. The New moon is a time for rest and renewal.

First Quarter/Waxing Moon

The first two weeks of the lunar cycle are the waxing period. At first, the moon appears only as a sliver in the evening sky, setting not long after the sun. Every night the moon appears a bit larger (fatter) and sets later in the evening. One week into the cycle, the moon appears to be about half full. This is the first quarter. From the first quarter, the moon enters its gibbous phase until it becomes full.

The time of the waxing moon is a time of increase. Magically speaking, it is a time to focus on projects or endeavours you want to grow. Whether it is growing a business, cultivating deeper love for your spouse, or fattening your bank account, if there's something you want more of in your life, the waxing phase of the moon is the time to focus on these goals. Depending on your personal preferences, you might pray, meditate, perform ritual, or work magic to support the increases you seek.

Full Moon

Approximately two weeks into the lunar cycle, the moon appears full in the night sky, rising more or less just as the sun sets and setting in the morning just before the sun rises. Lots of folklore surrounds the full moon; this is when werewolves are said to walk the earth, when babies are more likely to be born, and when accidents are more likely to happen. A lunatic is someone who is driven crazy by the powerful energies of the full moon.

To pagans, the full moon is not something to be frightened of; it simply represents the peak of energy and therefore, should be treated with appropriate respect and reverence. Most traditions of witchcraft teach that the full moon is the single best time to perform rituals or magic. Think of the full moon as an energy pipeline between you and the Goddess; as you stand outside basking in the pale light, you are in a special place for seeking healing, transformation and prosperity.

Last Quarter/Waning Moon

Now the moon is getting smaller and smaller with each passing night. The waning moon rises later in the night, and towards the end of the cycle, it will rise in the eastern night sky just before the sun appears. This is a time of letting go and releasing, to correspond with the moon's energy of decrease. What in your life do you need to discard or clear away? Seek the energy of the waning moon to support your prayer, meditation, ritual or magical work.

Finally, the moon disappears in the night sky. Many witches consider this dark phase, before the first sliver of the next new moon, to be the ideal time for profound inner transformation, for releasing of the old, to prepare for the new. With the dark moon, the cycle is complete.

Significance of the 13 Moons

Each year there are approximately 13 lunar cycles, in other words 13 opportunities to celebrate the full and new moons. In various pagan traditions, different systems exist to explain the spiritual significance of each moon. The following is one example to understand the meanings of the moon. Each pagan tradition may have different interpretations.

January, the Wolf Moon: Wolves may howl, but this deep winter moon is a time of contemplation and inner reflection. It is a good time to be planning what you will sow in the coming spring.

February, the Storm Moon: Like Imbolc, this is a time for lighting candles, not bonfires. Honour winters's last few weeks of fury and begin planning new projects.

March, the Innocent Moon: The first stirrings of spring are now upon us. Pay special honour to the spirits of nature during this moon, perhaps celebrating somewhere outdoors.

April, the Seed Moon: The name says it all; this is a moon for planting and sowing, or simply setting new projects into motion. Dance for joy at the coming warmth and celebrate beginnings.

May, the Hare Moon: Frisky as rabbits for which it is named, this is the moon for celebrating sensuality, love, and the power of life. Celebrate your body on this magical night.

June, the Dyad Moon: This another moon that is especially sacred to fairies and nature spirits. Honour the growth that occurs in the fields, like the swelling of a pregnant woman's belly.

July, the Mead Moon: As the crops continue to grow, take time for a mini-celebration beneath this moon. Relax, tell stories and jokes, and have fun. Drink a toast to the Lady of the Night.

August, the Corn Moon: Harvest begins with the first grains of August. This is a time for baking bread, settling old disputes, and preparing for the hard but joyful work of harvesting.

September, the Harvest Moon: This is a time for thanksgiving. The harvest is in full swing, so this moon is a time for acknowledging our abundance and sharing with those in need.

October, the Blood Moon: This is the moon for letting go of what is unnecessary and planning for the cold months to come.

November, the Snow Moon: Brr! As the snows of winter descend upon the land, turn your attention inward. Do divination, exercise your intuitive and psychic skill, and make final preparations for the cold season.

December, the Oak Moon: The oak symbolizes strength, so this is a moon for trust during the darkest days of the year. Light a bright fire, tell happy stories and sing songs of joy.

The Blue Moon: This is the wild card of moons. It occurs in a calendar month with two full moons; which month varies from year to year. Use it to be spontaneous, do something you have never had the nerve to try, or do whatever else your wildest imaginations inspire you to do.

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Health Benefits Of Rosemary

History is rich with references to rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.), a small, perennial evergreen shrub native to the Mediterranean. Egyptians and Greeks considered rosemary to be a sacred plant, associated with love, death, and remembrance. In Egypt rosemary was used to embalm the dead, and sprigs were placed in tombs to symbolize the memory of the departed.

In Medieval times rosemary was considered to be a love charm and a sign of remembrance and fidelity. Believing that rosemary would help a married couple remember their wedding vows, the herb was often placed on the bride's head as a wreath, and rosemary wine was used to toast the couple.

As Ophelia says in Shakespeare's Hamlet , "There's Rosemary, that's for remembrance: pray you love, remember."

The Romans believed that rosemary improved memory (the first smart drug?), and students massaged rosemary oil into their forehead and temples before taking examinations. In Greece, healers believed that rosemary could treat problems of the liver, circulation, and digestion. In ancient China the herb was considered effective for treating headaches and, when applied to the scalp, was thought to cure baldness.

Recent Findings

Many of the traditional uses of rosemary are supported by modern research. In addition to the essential oil eucalyptol (cineole), researchers have isolated a number of potentially therapeutic compounds, including tannins, flavonoids, caffeic acid derivatives such as rosmarinic acid, and diterpenes such as carnosol or carnosic acid. All of these may have potential therapeutic effects. In recent years, rosemary has developed a reputation for antibacterial and antifungal action, and herbalists recommend that the leaves be used externally for skin infections.

Cancer

Of all the potential therapeutic effects of rosemary, the most exciting is its role in preventing cancer. Researchers have demonstrated that natural polyphenols found in rosemary have potent anticarcinogenic properties. To date, rosemary extract, or its active components, carnosol, carnosic acid, and rosmarinic acid, have been shown to prevent cancer by several actions.

Antioxidant — better than BHT

Research into the free-radical quenching effects of rosemary have found it to be a potent antioxidant, possessing greater activity than the common food additives BHT (tert-butyl-4-hydroxytoluene) and BHA (tert-butyl-4-hydroxyanisol). The discovery of the antioxidant activity of rosemary in biological systems supports the historical use of rosemary as a preservative for meats and foods.

Estrogen Blocker

Researchers have shown that rosemary enhances the metabolism and removal of endogenous estrogens and decreases their cancer-promoting actions. Researchers evaluated the effects of rosemary extract on the metabolism and action of estradiol and estrone given to female mice. The results of the study showed that feeding female mice a 2% rosemary diet increased liver microsomal oxidation and glucuronidation of estradiol and estrone and inhibited their uterotropic action.

Carcinogen Blocker

Researchers have found that rosemary extract can prevent carcinogens from binding to and possibly mutating cellular DNA — two early steps in initiating cancer. In one study, researchers compared the effects of whole rosemary extracts to its purified components, carnosol and ursolic acid, on the initiation of breast cancer in rats. They found that whole rosemary extract taken orally prevented the carcinogen 7, 12-dimethyl-benz[a]anthracene (DMBA) from binding to the rats' breast cell DNA. Neither carnosol nor ursolic acid had any effect when taken orally. When injected, whole rosemary extract and carnosol (but not ursolic acid) decreased carcinogen binding to DNA and decreased tumor formation by 37 percent. Again, ursolic acid had little effect.

Conclusion

Rosemary clearly is an herb with many benefits. Valued for its contributions in the kitchen, and prized by modern herbalists for its traditional healing powers, rosemary is now beginning to reveal its true life-enhancing powers to modern scientific research. Current findings show that rosemary is a powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agent, and that it prevents carcinogens from binding to DNA, and stimulates liver detoxification of carcinogens. Ongoing research will continue to elucidate the role of this herb in health, but we don't need to wait to begin to enjoy the life-enhancing benefits of this herb.

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Shamanic Smudging

Shamanic smudging—or just smudging—is an age-old tribal tradition which has been used for centuries to create harmony and peace. There are many different shamanic smudging ceremonies, and different tribes use a variety of herbs for smudging.

To define it more clearly, shamanic smudging is the burning of herbs or incense for cleansing, purification, protection of physical and spiritual bodies, banishment of negative energies and creation of sacred space.

You can use smudge sticks (herbs that are tied into a bundle for easier handling), braided herbs and botanicals (like sweetgrass) or loose herbs (burned on charcoal or mugwort, or in a firepit). Shamanic smudging releases the energy and fragrance of the herbs and botanicals so they can heal, cleanse and purify.

In many traditions, shamanic smudging involves a four directions ceremony or prayer, which sends specific kinds of smoke or prayers into the four directions. Different tribes have different smudging prayers that “program” the smoke to do a specific action, such as cleansing or aiding in divination.

In general, shamanic smudging can be used in daily life for practical purposes—to restore physical, mental and emotional balance; to shield against negative energies; to cleanse yourself, your magickal tools and your space; and to restore you sacred space.

Common Herbs Used In Smudging

Although different tribes and traditions use different herbs for shamanic smudging, some of the most popular herbs include desert sage, white broadleaf sage, juniper, pinon (sometimes in resin form), sweetgrass, copal (in resin form), mugwort, lavender and sacred tobacco. Here are some general uses for the different herbs often used for smudging:

Pinon Resin

Primarily fire element though can also be used as for four-element general purposes. Has a pleasant and meditative fragrance. Is cleansing, strengthening, warming, and used by Native American cultures for its spiritual and healing properties. Produces a thick stream of smoke, and is excellent for refreshing the senses and reviving a tired soul.

Copal Gold Resin

Primarily fire and water elements though can also be used as for four-element general purposes. When burned, the scent is sweet, resinous, slightly woody, mildly earthy and spicy. Was a holy incense used by the peoples of Mesoamerica. Traditionally used as incense in divinatory and cleansing ceremonies. The resin contains aromatic chemicals called terpenes, which make it volatile and flammable. Used by Mayan shamans prior to ingesting mushrooms.

Myrrh Resin

Primarily earth element though can also be used as for four-element general purposes. Produces a lot of smoke when burned, very earthy, piney scent. Gathered from an almost leafless Middle Eastern shrub called the Commiphora Molmol. It was used by the ancient Egyptians in rituals of Healing and Passing. It is one of the ingredients used by the Egyptians to embalm bodies. Useful for spirituality, meditation, happiness, release, transformation, strength, confidence and stability.

Frankincense Resin

Primarily fire element though can also be used as for four-element general purposes. Is the resin of an African tree and produces a rich, dense smoke when burned. Used extensively in meditation and healing. In numerous religious traditions, frankincense's spiritual scent was believed to confer divine blessing. Pliny the Elder mentioned it as an antidote to hemlock poisoning.

Desert Sage

Primarily air element though can also be used as for four-element general purposes. Has a somewhat sharp, light and refreshing scent. One of the most sacred herbs among Native Americans. Used to purify the mind, body and spirit before prayer, meditation, ritual or ceremony. Also used to purify sacred items such as pipes, magical tools, tarot decks and eagle feathers. Can be used for area, house and personal cleansings. Some people carry a small amount of Sage in a pocket or medicine pouch to insure personal and spiritual safety.

Juniper

Primarily fire element though can also be used as for four-element general purposes. Has a sharp, piney scent. Excellent to stimulate and revive when tired in body, mind or Spirit. Used in ancient times for ritual purification of temples. Smoke believed to aid clairvoyance. Also useful for purification and to stimulate contact with other worlds. Burned during the Plague to resist disease

Lavender

Primarily air element. Has a light, aromatic and refreshing scent. Useful for attracting peace, happiness and restful sleep. Also reduces depression, grief and sorrow. Aids in meditation and divination, and often said to aid in manifestation. Known as Elf Leaf, Nard, Nardus, Spike and Lavandar. Traditionally associated with fairies and elves

White Broadleaf Sage

Primarily air element though can also be used as for four-element general purposes. This is a broad leaf sage is highly prized for its strong aromatic properties (strongest of the different types of sage). Considered the king if all sages. Excellent for meditation, divination, smudging, cleansing and purification.

Yerba Santa Leaves

Traditionally used for enhancing psychic abilities, magical protection, healing and spiritual strength. Excellent for meditation and divination. Said to be ruled by the moon. One Native American tribe rolled the leaves into balls, dried it in the sun and chewed it for a natural mouthwash.

Hibiscus Flowers

Primarily fire and water elements. Produces a sharp, invigorating scent that lasts for a long time after burning. Often used in divination and psychic communication. Excellent for rejuvenating the senses and restoring life force.

Rose Flowers and Petals

Primarily water element. Produces a heavy, warm, aromatic scent with just a hint of sharpness ­ scent lasts a long time after burning. Excellent for meditation, divination, increasing psychic abilities, contacting powers and beings in other dimensions and psychic communication. Also traditionally associated with attracting love, conferring peace, stimulating sexual appetites and enhancing beauty.

Sweetgrass

Primarily air element. As its name suggests, sweetgrass produces a sweet and light fragrance that does not last for long. Excellent for cleansing sacred space. Sweetgrass is a rare grass which is found growing wild in very few places. Traditionally, sweetgrass is believed to invite the good spirits.

You can burn these herbs singly or in combination with each other. One good combination that covers all four magical elements of air, fire, water and earth is pine resin and sage (either desert sage or white broadleaf sage). This combination is appropriate for general use, cleansing, ceremony and ritual.

When To Smudge Yourself

Smudging yourself on a daily basis can be very helpful in keeping yourself balanced and maintaining a peaceful state of being. However, you should definitely use shamanic smudging techniques when you’ve been around people who are ill, depressed, fearful, angry or generally emotionally unbalanced; before meditating to create a calm state of being; when you’re feeling blue or depressed; or when you’ve been under a lot of stress.

Smudging yourself is easy. If you’re using a smudge stick, light the smudge stick on a candle flame. Hold the stick in the flame until there is a lot of smoke and the stick is burning well (that’s why a candle is better than a match—it can take a while to get the stick really smoking). Using a feather (or feather fan) or your hand, gently fan the smoke onto your body, starting at the top of the body and moving downward. Get the back of your body as best you can (it’s often easier to use a smudge pot and loose herbs for this). When you’re done, inhale a little of the smoke (just a little!) to purify your insides.

If you’re using a smudge pot or Firebowl and loose herbs, light the herbs (using self-lighting charcoal—not the barbeque kind!) until it is smoking well. Then, put the Firebowl on the ground and stand over it with your legs spread and feet on either side. Weave back and forth in the smoke until you have been thoroughly cleansed. Clothing is optional for this approach, and smudging in the nude is recommended for a more thorough cleansing. Again, when you’re done, inhale a little of the smoke to purify your insides. People often feel more relaxed, lighter and brighter after smudging.

If you’re going to use the smudge smoke during meditation, use a charcoal burner or Firebowl, light the herbs and enjoy the scent and smoke as you meditate. Meditating with these herbs often produces a deeper and longer-lasting state of relaxation and contemplation.


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Sleep Paralysis

Imagine waking up in the night and being unable to move. So you lie there for what seems like hours, trying to wiggle your fingers or toes, but you are paralyzed. You want to call out for help, but you can't draw a deep enough breath to make a loud sound.

Eventually, you're able to move a little, and then your whole body begins to respond again. Scary, huh? Weird, too. But it happens to people all the time.

It's called sleep paralysis, and it typically occurs at the very beginning or end of sleep. The experience lasts only a few minutes at the most, and there's no harm done -- aside from the fright. "It's terrifying the first time it happens," said Dr. Barbara Phillips, director of the Samaritan Sleep Center and chairwoman of the board of the National Sleep Foundation.

Phillips said in an e-mail interview that sleep paralysis happens as the body is coming out of REM -- or rapid-eye-movement -- sleep.

"During non-REM sleep, our brains are 'turned off' but our bodies can be active," she said. This is when people experience sleep disturbances such as tooth-grinding or sleepwalking.

"In contrast, our brains are very active (probably as active as when we are awake) during REM sleep, but we are actually paralyzed," she said. Researchers think that's what keeps us from acting out our dreams.

"With sleep paralysis, the paralysis that is normal during REM sleep intrudes into the waking state for one reason or another," she said.

Kathryn Hansen, director of the St. Joseph Hospital Sleep Wellness Center, put it this way: "The brain wakes up before the body wakes up."

Sometimes, sleep paralysis is accompanied by hypnagogic hallucinations, or "waking dreams," Phillips said.

In many such cases, people think they see a dark or menacing figure in the room with them, or they hear a strange sound but can't pinpoint the source. Some researchers have hypothesized that people who report alien abductions are experiencing sleep paralysis in conjunction with such a hallucination.

The experience of sleep paralysis combined with a hallucination "can be very intense," said Dr. Kevin Nelson, a University of Kentucky neurologist who has studied the correlation between sleep paralysis and near-death experiences. "They may feel like there's a pressure on their chest, that they can't breathe. They may feel like they're dying."

Nelson said episodes of sleep paralysis are "a very common thing," but it's difficult to pinpoint exactly how common.

"The striking thing is, people don't talk about them," he said.

In some cultures, there are myths to explain the experience, or words used to describe it. In those places, Nelson said, it is more frequently reported.

The Japanese have a linguistic term, kanashibari, for the experience; in Newfoundland, it is described as a visit from "the old hag."

"In some cultures it's very well recognized," he said.

Phillips said as many as 25 percent of people might be affected by sleep paralysis at some point in their lives, and investigators at Stanford University have suggested that as many as half of college students experience it.

Nelson and other medical professionals who deal with sleep disorders said they sometimes see patients who are disturbed by the paralysis but have not talked to anyone about it because it seems so strange.

"They're not alone," Nelson said. "They're not weird because they have it."

People are more likely to experience sleep paralysis, the experts said, if they are undergoing sleep deprivation, work odd shifts or have erratic sleep schedules. Hansen said it also can come with stress or anxiety.

People who are in withdrawal from alcohol or drugs that can suppress REM sleep, such as antidepressants, also can be predisposed to the experience. For example, Phillips said, a person who misses a dose of antidepressant medication might be at risk.

"It really just kind of correlates to lifestyles," she said.

The "classic example is the college kid who parties hard during spring break, and wakes up on the beach unable to move," Phillips said. That person has deprived himself or herself of sleep, gotten onto an odd sleep schedule and drunk to much -- all three of the risk factors.

Sleep paralysis and hypnagogic hallucinations are generally harmless, but the sleep experts said they can sometimes be associated with narcolepsy.

In most cases, though, Hansen said they are a sign that the person needs "to develop some good sleep habits," such as decreasing caffeine intake before bedtime, getting regular exercise and going to bed and rising at the same time each day.

"If sleep paralysis and extreme daytime sleepiness persist even with adequate, appropriate sleep, it's time to see a doctor," Phillips said.

Hansen said that once, when she knew she hadn't gotten enough rest, there was a moment when she couldn't move or speak as she was waking up from a dream.

Sleep paralysis wasn't frightening to her, though.

"I laughed," she said. "Now I know how to describe it."

Copyright: Monterey County Herald

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The Magic Roundabout

Ever feel like you've been there, done that, and that the life you're living seems strangely familiar? Maybe a psychic has told you that you were once a great king or queen, or, at the very least, their eunuch.

Perhaps a neurologist has told you that the déjà vu that you're experiencing is just a trick of the mind. But while these explanations may appeal to either the spiritually or scientifically inclined, physicist Peter Lynds argues that there may be a much grander account that explains the repetitiveness of life: a cyclic universe.

In this, the first part of two articles, we look at what Lynds considers to be both vital and overlooked cosmological questions regarding the origin and mechanics of a cyclic universe.

Of course, referring to past lives and déjà vu is being a tad flippant in regard to Lynds' new paper on a cyclic universe, "On A Finite Universe With No Beginning Or End," as these areas, he explains, are really the philosophical fallout - determinism, free will, and life after death - of his new theory. In a nutshell, the model of the universe that Lynds is proposing, similar to others before him, is that the universe is in fact closed and subject to an infinite cycle of big bangs and big crunches. However, the difference between Lynds' theory and those that have gone before it is that in Lynds' model the big bang is no more the beginning of the universe than the big crunch is its end. Lynds explains, as suggested by paper's title, that while the universe is finite, there is no arrow of time; there is no past or present, and that in neither a big crunch nor big bang is a singularity ever reached.

Lynds' latest cosmological rumination follows a previous paper he wrote on time, and it's sure to spark up just as much controversy. In his earlier paper, Lynds argued, in effect, that time doesn't really exist. That is to say, there are no discrete measurements of time that can be observed in nature, and that our concepts of it are dependent upon the relative motions of mass and energy. His latest effort continues along these lines, arguing that our linear concept of time - firmly established with the introduction of the Christian calendar - has, effectively, blinkered us from the possibility of a cyclic universe. At this point, Lynds' critics are sure to be thinking that he's up to his old tricks again, but he introduces some very solid arguments, employing no less than the second law of thermodynamics to support his claims.

Lynds' paper opens with a paradox raised by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, who pondered two competing, yet similarly contradictory theories of the universe. Kant was faced with either a universe that stretched back infinitely through time, where there would be an infinite period of time before any event (a procrastinator's dream), or, of a universe that did have a beginning, but which has an equally dissatisfying outcome, as it begs the question of what came before the "beginning," ad infinitum. Lynds explains that the genius of Kant's paradox is yet to be properly realized, as through proper investigation it should tell us something about our most fundamental assumptions regarding time, cause and cosmology. To this end, Lynds' model attempts to address the rather curly issue of where the universe came from, and the problems associated with both a finite and infinite universe through his model of a cyclic universe.

Casting an eye over previous attempts at explaining the mechanics of a cyclic universe, Lynds turned to Stephen Hawking. Lynds relates how Hawking once discussed how the second law of thermodynamics might affect the future of a contracting universe (towards a big crunch). The second law of thermodynamics is one of those rock-solid physical laws, the big gun that a scientist may use to quell the pseudo-scientific flights of fancy held by the reality challenged. As Lynds explains, the law states that "heat can never pass spontaneously, or of itself, from a hot to hotter body. Hot flows to cold." This means two things: that the one-way direction of energy transference involved in natural processes is irreversible, and that the entropy of an isolated system will increase with time.

Initially, Hawking concluded that if the universe did begin to contract then the thermodynamic "arrow of time," as it is often called (erroneously, according to Lynds), would also reverse. "Everything would go into the reverse of the way we experience things today: light would travel back to the stars, and broken eggs on the floor would miraculously put themselves back together again," says Lynds. Philip K. Dick, of Blade Runner fame, once wrote about a similar situation in his novel Counter-Clock World, where many of the consequences of time reversal - such as dead relatives and feces taking up, er, previously held positions in your life (to be honest, I'm not sure which would be worse) - seem quite unpalatable. Hawking stated that such a reversal would mean that hot would flow to hotter, and that entropy would need to decrease because, as Lynds explains, "the universe would have to return to a symmetrical state of low entropy and high order at a big crunch." Thankfully, the unfolding of such an unsavory scenario is unlikely due to a number of impossible situations that would arise, not least of which being that it would require that entropy decrease and thus break the second law of thermodynamics. As Lynds points out, Hawking called this "his greatest mistake."

In his model, Lynds manages to account for, or perhaps dodge, the irreversible, asymmetric nature of the second law of thermodynamics in a rather novel way. Lynds reasons that if all other physical laws other than the second law are reversible, or symmetric, then when the universe is faced with a situation where entropy may have to decrease instead of increase; "the order of events would simply reverse so that events took place in the direction in which entropy was still increasing," says Lynds. "In relation to the big crunch, this would mean that at the point where the second law would have been breached, any future events in this direction (where entropy would be decreasing) would reverse."

These second law restrictions would also mean that instead of a big crunch singularity occurring, events would instantly proceed from where this singularity would have taken place had events not reversed. Lynds explains that following from this: "The universe would expand from where the big crunch singularity would have been had events not reversed (i.e. the big crunch reversed), and with events going in this direction, entropy would still be increasing, no singularity would be encountered, and no laws of physics would be contravened. They would all still hold."

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The Amazing Benefits Of Tea Tree Oil

Humans have long enjoyed aromatic oils. Greeks, Egyptians, and other ancient cultures were well versed with the properties of certain scents to enhance mood and nurture emotional well-being. Yet one essential oil made from the Australian tea tree Melaleuca alternifolia is a substance that goes far beyond a sensual experience. Tea tree oil boasts a variety of uses.

Herbalist Jeanne Rose, known for her extensive study of essential oils, said of tea tree in her publication, "The Aromatherapy Book—Applications and Inhalations," "This is one oil that most definitely will get lots of use in your medicine chest and should positively be part of the home first-aid kit."

First used by Australian aborigines who applied the crushed leaves to wounds and scrapes, the tea tree has no actual relation to the plant from which tea, the beverage, is made— Camellia sinesis.

The name tea tree originated in 1770 when British explorer James Cook made a drink from this long-leaved herb found only in the coastal wetlands of Australia. While Cook realized that this new found herb could treat scurvy, only recently have the myriad of health benefits from tea tree oil been discovered.

In the early 1920's Australian chemist, Dr. A.R. Penfold conducted the initial research on tea tree leaves. The health benefits he revealed prompted several subsequent studies from other British and Australian scientists. During WWII it was considered so beneficial it was included in the first-aid kits of Australian soldiers during the war.

"Tea tree oil can be used on any area of the skin that's inflamed or itchy," explains Mary Helen Lee, Chicago acupuncturist and a professional member of the American Herbalist Guild. Lee mentions insect bites, acne, mouth ulcers, cuts, and scrapes as several conditions that call for tea tree oil.

"It's an antiseptic, but it also has antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral properties," says Lee adding that ailments ranging from ringworm to toe nail fungus can also benefit from its application.

Using tea tree directly on the skin makes this oil unique. Many essential oils are so caustic and can cause painful burns when applied topically, but external use of tea tree oil is generally quite safe. However, it should never be applied to eczematous skin.

Using the steam-distilled oil, tea tree medicines take many forms for a variety of conditions—from shampoos and conditioners for dandruff and itchy scalp to toothpaste, deodorant, and soap. Lee also mentions another product by Thursday Plantation, a highly regarded tea tree oil manufacturer, that utilizes the benefits of tea tree in a cocoa butter suppository for yeast infections. "It's really helpful to women so they don't have to use those chemical anti-fungal suppositories," she notes.

Small amounts of tea tree oil are added to supplements to be taken internally for Candida yeast overgrowth or to a mouthwash for inflamed gums, but Lee warns that ingesting too much can be dangerous. "It can be used internally, but only under the supervision of a licensed health care practitioner," she warns, "and be careful of the mucus membranes." Usually, remedies containing tea tree for internal use include merely one or two drops of the potent oil mixed in a formula with other herbs.

This caution should also be exercised when treating pets with tea tree. While some find the oil effective for fleas or inflamed skin patches on animals, one needs to be careful that a pet does not ingest too much oil as they lick the treated area.

Still, for a generally safe medicine that treats such a wide range of issues, it might be surprising to note that tea tree oil is also an effective cleaning solvent. While commercial cleaning preparations using the oil are available, making a solution at home is pretty easy.

Environmental health researcher, Sharon Delia, writes, "Tea tree oil has many uses for housekeeping. You can prove to yourself how well it works to kill mold and mildew with this simple test: Put two teaspoons of Australian tea tree oil in a spray bottle with two cups of water. Spray the mixture on something musty. Let the smell dissipate (it will take a few days). The smell of mold and must will be gone, too, never to return as long as the source of moisture has been removed."

While tea tree oil has a strong scent, it's an effective and safe alternative to several commercial cleaning projects. Besides its ability to kill germs, tea tree works wonders with cleaning projects that would otherwise be a drudgery. That gummy stuff clinging to bottles after the labels has been torn off removes effortlessly with a little tea tree oil.

With so many uses from healing to cleaning, it pays to become familiar with this multipurpose and relatively inexpensive essential oil from Down Under—tea tree.

Copyright: The Epoch Times

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Remote Viewing

Most of those who attended my remote viewing session in the Young Presidents’ Organization Convention in December in Phuket, Thailand, were able to perform it with great success.

In a remote viewing session, I taught participants how to project their consciousness or sense of awareness to a distant place that they have never visited or seen before and to describe it accurately. To their great amazement, almost all of them succeeded in doing so.

Remote viewing or traveling clairvoyance has been extensively and scientifically studied and verified for 20 years at the Stanford Research Institute (now called SRI International) in Menlo Park, California, by two brilliant scientists with Ph.Ds in physics: Dr. Russell Targ and Dr. Harold Puthoff.

They proved that almost anybody can successfully learn how to perform remote viewing after only a brief explanation or training.

Incredible results

I have modified the scientific protocol developed at SRI and have had a discussion on the subject with Targ himself in the early 1990s. I have, since then, been teaching the technique worldwide for the last 15 years with incredible results.

In my modified version of remote viewing, a class is divided into pairs and the target place is the house of a partner. The remote viewer has never met the person before nor has s/he been to the house. All s/he is allowed to ask is his/her partner’s full name.

I also tell the class to take a good look at each other’s face for a few seconds so that, even if they forget the name, they can at least use the face as their connection to the target place.

In one of the sessions in Phuket, a woman who has never been to Hawaii described in detail her partner’s house in Maui, which was not a typical Hawaiian house. It was completely European in design.

Another participant, for some strange reason, opened the refrigerator of her partner’s house and saw only apples inside. She wondered about that and told her partner who explained that there was a power outage and she wanted to stock her refrigerator with fruits that would not spoil easily.

The partner had taken out all the contents of the fridge, leaving only the apples. She was shocked the other person described accurately her fridge’s contents.

Mind’s ability

In various remote viewing classes I’ve conducted over the years, I am constantly amazed at the things the human mind is capable of knowing without using the senses.

A house that burned down four years before was “seen” and accurately described in detail. A future house that had not even been bought yet was also described with great accuracy.

One time, even a pet dog that died two years earlier was also seen. And, in one remarkable case in Arizona, a man saw the secret four-digit security number code of his partner’s house, known only to her and her husband.

Because of such shocking revelations, many have asked me how the phenomenon can be explained. “How can someone describe so accurately some peculiar detail in a house s/he has never seen before?”

The explanation cannot be accepted by the scientific-minded or hard-nosed scientists. Even doctors Targ and Puthoff were at a loss how to explain it. But they could not ignore the hard evidence they had so painstakingly collected for 20 years.

Storehouse

One possible explanation is we are all connected to all levels of creation through our subconscious minds. Our subconscious can know or be aware of things in the past, present or future. It is a storehouse of information not bound by time or space.

Our consciousness or awareness can be projected anywhere, given a particular target or place to tune in to.

For example, in the early stage of the experiments in remote viewing at SRI International, the subject, a well-known American psychic named Ingo Swann, was given only the coordinates of a place. Swann was able to describe what could be found there. It was verified to be accurate in every detail.

We still have not reached the limits of what our minds can do. In fact, the motto of my institute is: “The mind knows no limits, aside from those it accepts. We are the only ones who have placed limitations on our mind’s capacities because of logic, science, religion and fear of the unknown.

“If we can only eliminate all these factors or limitations from our consciousness, we can perform almost miraculous things with our minds, just like what a remarkable carpenter from Nazareth did over 2,000 years ago—and several others before him. And he once said that, ‘All the works that I have done you can do, and much more than these.’”
But we don’t believe it, do we?

Remote viewing is now being taught for use in military intelligence in certain countries. It has also been adopted for possible use in industrial espionage.

Certain ethical questions on invasion of privacy are bound to crop up. But that is another matter.

Copyright: INQUIRER.net

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Religion VS Science

Religion and science can combine to create some thorny questions: Does God exist outside the human mind, or is God a creation of our brains? Why do we have faith in things that we cannot prove, whether it’s the afterlife or UFOs?

The new Center for Spirituality and the Mind at the University of Pennsylvania is using brain imaging technology to examine such questions, and to investigate how spiritual and secular beliefs affect our health and behavior.

“Very few are looking at spirituality from a neurological side, from the brain-mind side,” said Dr. Andrew Newberg, director of the center. A doctor of nuclear medicine and an assistant professor at Penn, Newberg also has co-written three books on the science-spirituality relationship.

He's also played a role in "What the Bleep Do We Know," a movie that blends quantum physics and new-age neuroscience.

Newberg's center is not a bricks-and-mortar structure but a multidisciplinary team of Penn researchers exploring the relationship between the brain and spirituality from biological, psychological, social and ideological viewpoints. Founded last April, it is bringing together some 20 experts from fields including medicine, pastoral care, religious studies, social work and bioethics.

“The brain is a believing machine because it has to be,” Newberg said. “Beliefs affect every part of our lives. They make us who we are. They are the essence of our being.”

Spirituality and belief don’t have to equate to religious faith, Newberg said. The feelings of enlightenment and well-being some derive from religion can come to others through from artistic expression, nonreligious meditation, watching a beautiful sunset or listening to stirring music.

“Atheists have belief systems, too,” Newberg said.

Testing the hypotheses

How does the center test the relationship between the mind and spirituality?

In one study, Newberg and colleagues used imaging technology to look at the brains of Pentecostal Christians speaking in tongues — known scientifically as glossolalia — then looked at their brains when they were singing gospel music. They found that those practicing glossolalia showed decreased activity in the brain’s language center, compared with the singing group.

The imaging results are suggestive of people’s description that they do not have control of their own speech when speaking in tongues. Newberg said scientists believe that speech is taken over by another part of the brain during glossolalia, but did not find it during the study.

Other recent studies looked at the brains of Tibetan Buddhists in meditation and Franciscan nuns in prayer, then compared the results to their baseline brain activity levels.

Among other changes, both groups showed decreased activity in the parts of the brain that have to do with sense of self and spatial orientation — which suggests the description of oneness with God, of transcendence sometimes experienced in meditation or prayer.

Prayer and meditation also increase levels of dopamine, often referred to as the brain’s pleasure hormone.

“The mind and the body are the flip side of the same coin,” said Dr. Daniel Monti, head of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital’s integrated medicine center. “Now we know some of the mechanisms by which that occurs, and it’s becoming better and better understood.”

Medicine and meditation

The integrated medicine center teaches patients with cancer, chronic pain and other ailments to work things like meditation and proper diet into their conventional therapy, Monti said. Such thinking seemed “fringy” to many people a decade ago, but it is becoming widely accepted by the medical community and patients, he said.

“Now there’s the recognition that a truly effective treatment plan is not just giving a pill,” he said. “We need to look at how to help a person adjust to a different lifestyle in addition to taking a pill.”

Not many imaging studies have yet been done that look at changes in the brain’s blood flow because technology has only within the past decade become sophisticated enough to study the brain in this way, Newberg said. An increase in blood flow to certain parts of the brain means increased activity in those areas.

Newberg is currently studying how the brains of novice yoga practitioners change as they become more adept, and whether meditation can improve cognitive impairment in people with mild dementia or early Alzheimer’s disease.

“The sky’s the limit as far as the things we can study,” he said.

Copyright: MSNBC

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Hidden Causes Of Depression

Depression and anxiety are often normal reactions to certain life circumstances, in which case we need to either go through the circumstances or learn how to deal with them. However, these uncomfortable states of mind can also be caused by infection, food allergies, chemicals and mold in the food and environment, hypoglycemia, thyroid conditions, etc. More emphasis needs to be placed on identifying these primal causes rather than simply adding more chemicals to already overburdened bodies. The opinion of a growing number of people is that antidepressants and other brain altering drugs, are being vastly over-prescribed.

Antidepressants do help people, especially in acute or life threatening situations but everyone reacts differently to these drugs. People need to be warned of the possible adverse side effects. These side effects can be of a very serious nature, often causing the very symptoms they are supposed to ameliorate. In addition, many times, when the underlying condition is ignored and only covered up, the diseased situation continues to simmer and progress...undetected... beneath the surface.

The public must demand that these basic causes be addressed. We need to be our own researchers and begin to take more responsibility for our health-care. The medical system is set up for profit. Pharmaceutical companies prefer that you receive only symptomatic treatments rather than treatments which arrest the disease or cure it. Drugs often cause additional symptoms which require more drugs to cover up the effects of the original drug. This just doesn't make sense but we have been conditioned to think of this process as inevitable and normal.

Depression often runs in families, but why is this so? Is it simply due to genetics or are microbes sometimes being passed down through the placenta during pregnancy? A genetic tendency towards depression may require a microbe to bring the full condition into being. The same may be true concerning other diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Perhaps certain microbes are passed to family members due to the close living conditions. Infection can incite depression or anxiety directly by causing encephalopathy( inflammation of the brain). Microbes can also target certain glands in the body, such as the adrenal glands, the thyroid and others. These glands produce hormones which help the brain function smoothly. When there is an excess or deficiency of these hormones, depression, anxiety and other psychological disturbances do occur.

Because I am not a doctor I am going to focus on the three conditions which have affected me and therefore am more familiar with them and able to share what I have experienced and researched. Encephalopathy, severe hypoglycemia and hypothyroidism are the abnormalities I have had to deal with. These can all cause depression and anxiety. Most of the symptoms of these conditions descended upon me , full force, with the onset of the Lyme disease. However, I did not discover that Lyme disease was the actual culprit until 8 years later. I had been labeled with the wastebasket diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and therefore was left untreated for the basic problem. Due to this misdiagnosis I am very familiar with the issue of only treating the symptoms and not the cause.

Encephalopathy of the brain can have several causes. In my case it was the Lyme infection. Some of the symptoms of encephalopathy can include depression, impaired visual perception, intolerance to bright light, anxiety or panic attacks, loss of memory and cognitive function, personality changes, lack of concentration, muscle weakness, seizures, muscle jerking, etc. Obviously when a person has several or many of these symptoms, the cause needs to be looked into. Do not stay with a doctor who refuses to investigate, tells you you are just depressed, hands you a prescription for antidepressants and sends you on your way. If after a thorough investigation, a cause cannot be found, do not give up on the infection connection. Testing for Lyme Disease and other co-infections is very inaccurate. These microbes can hide in the body by cloaking themselves in your body's tissues....and by changing forms which the current testing cannot detect. Many times an adequate trial of antibiotics is needed to see how the patient responds. There is no test which can rule out Lyme disease.

Hypoglycemia, along with diabetes, are becoming rampant in our refined carbohydrate saturated society. A carbohydrate laden diet is a very large contributor to these conditions but I have also personally experienced that infection can target the glands responsible for blood sugar control, which in turn can cause depression or anxiety. In my case the Lyme disease greatly amplified my already mild tendency towards hypoglycemia. I would like to share with you a couple of quotes from a book which I highly recommend...."Prozac, Panacea or Pandora" by Ann Blake Tracy.

"Mental health is so closely tied to blood sugar balances that this is an area that very definitely should not be overlooked. "Just how often is hypoglycemia being mislabeled "depression" and treated as a psychiatric malady rather than a blood sugar problem which could be rectified by a good diet rather than a pill? It is absolutely amazing to see how many patients had already been diagnosed as hypoglycemic before their doctors put them on Prozac. Rather than educate the patient, they hand them a pill which only blocks out their symptoms, while it magnifies the original problem and leads many into diabetes."

Al tho I feel that what Tracy tells us here is true, I don't specifically blame the doctors themselves. It is the medical education system which is to blame. And...isn't it the drug companies which sponsor most of the education which the doctors receive?

Another important quote from Tracy's book. "Hypoglycemia is a potential listed side effect of Prozac, the other SSRIs and many other drugs. There is a multitude of evidence from patient reports that Prozac is affecting the blood sugar balance and chemically inducing hypoglycemic reactions. According to patient reports it can produce hypoglycemia in a patient who had no apparent blood sugar problems to begin with and diabetes in a patient who previously had hypoglycemia. Ex-patients report that it produced mood swings, confusions, blackouts, even deeper depression, hyperactivity, anxiety, exhaustion, compulsions for sugary foods, alcohol and stimulants, etc., etc., etc. Everyone of these symptoms can be directly linked to blood sugar problems. All are known hypoglycemic reactions."

To sum this section up....depression, anxiety and other psychiatric symptoms can be caused by hypoglycemia. Poor diet is a main instigator of hypoglycemia, infection can worsen or cause this condition and the drugs used to treat depression can cause hypoglycemia. So, what's the answer? A good start would be to eat a hypoglycemic diet (low in refined carbohydrates), treat infections and if at all possible, stay away from antidepressants and certain other drugs which lower the blood sugar. There are many informative books available with good advice on how to naturally control hypoglycemia.

Hypothyroidism is another medically accepted cause of depression. However, one can be afflicted with this malady and have a difficult time acquiring an accurate diagnosis. The current testing or interpretations of the testing are missing a large segment of the population which could benefit from thyroid supplementation or other natural measures to support normal thyroid functioning. A patient can register in the low normal range yet still require additional thyroid hormone to function normally. I had problems with shortness of breath, having to lie down every 20 minutes, inability to squat without becoming faint, the sensation that the heart was not getting enough oxygen, extreme coldness, dry skin, etc.....but yet I registered low normal on the testing. Disregarding the apparent normal test, my doctor used clinical judgment, considering my symptoms which were indicative of hypothyroidism, and prescribed thyroid hormone. Besides the treatment for Lyme disease my biggest improvement came from supporting my thyroid gland. Most of the symptoms listed above are now negligible due to the supplementation of thyroid hormone. I had suffered needlessly from hypothyroidism for about 13 years. Doctors need to stand up against the system, not rely so heavily on testing results and begin using their own clinical judgment.

Hypothyroidism can have different causes. Being afflicted with a low functioning thyroid can negatively affect your immune system.....so, hypothetically a patient could more easily acquire infection. Another question we must ask is....can infection, such as Lyme, directly target the thyroid gland, and as a result cause hypo or hyperthyroidism. This brings a classic question to mind. Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?

A good website for more information on thyroid issues is http://thyroid.about.com

Last night the T.V was on as I was finishing up this article. The breaking news headlines on ABC resounded in my ears...."Explosion of Teen Suicide.....Could it Be Due to Under-concern Over the Use of Antidepressants?" The "authorities" claim that there has been an 18% increase in teen suicide from the year before. They stated that the warning labels required on the drug information, may be keeping children from the very drugs they need the most. It is claimed that these warnings.... of the very real side effects of antidepressants ....have caused a 20% drop in their use and increased suicide is the result. I wonder what controlling influence was actually behind this disturbing report? Do we really believe it is natural for this many people in our society to need antidepressants? What is wrong with this picture?

So, in conclusion, I think our need is to always ask "what is the cause?"....not how can we simply cover up the symptoms.

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Harmonic Shift 777

HARMONIC SHIFT 777 - Preparing for July 7, 2007

The limitations of your language and those self-imposed by our host
(Raphiem), are unable to clearly translate and articulate the levels of
unified awareness we are communicating to you and your greater selves
and souls in this moment.

On the border of your waking minds and embracing hearts, there is a
potential "NOW", where ALL polarities are one. Your earth is on the edge
of a grand planetary awakening, propelled by the frequency of your inner
transformations, from limitation and fear into the unconditional love of
being and of self.
The spheres of transformation coming into alignment and centering at the
midpoint on your July 7th, 2007, will bring a resonating harmonic shift
into your perceptual fields of awareness. You are now deep within the
heart of a metamorphosis, pregnant in poise, ready for the birthing of a
new awareness that will sweep your soul-ular (cell-ular) grid.

As night will merge into day, so to will separation merge into oneness,
matter blend into spirit, ego merge with soul, non- identity into
identity and non-self into self. Time will shift into an eternal now
where is-ness only resides, where peace and stillness will be at the
center of your hearts.

The frequency fence has kept human consciousness in fear, denial, and in
ignorance of their greater selves and their sovereign power within. As
the spheres of transformation descend and align, the veils will begin to
lift at an accelerated rate, allowing you to perceive your greatness,
your completeness, your inner love, your inner peace. And in doing so,
this will resonate and reflect unto the rest of your earth and all life
within and upon it. A new age of peace and love will be conceived in
preparation for your greater birthing in 2013.

We call forth for all of humanity (all human seen and unseen) to
participate in this event, to hold into position a resonating frequency
of peace and love as we reboot, reset the planetary grids and
morphegenetic fields. Upon reboot, a new operating system will be in
place replacing your frequency fence of fear and limitation. A spark of
new conscious vibration will ignite your cells and your souls. A
radiating glow will begin to ripple outwards and transform into electric
waves of shimmering light that will wash over completely encompassing
your earth and its atom-sphere. this is the beginning of the
"mission-ignition".

Your coming crop circle season will, magnificently, like no other ever
before, reflect this new program, new message, new harmony. This will be
your marker, your reflection, your message of confirmation to
yourselves. The crop circles will in themselves be mind and heart
openers. You will begin en-mass to see the unseen, hear the unheard,
touch the untouched, know the unknown, experience the un-experienced,
embrace the unembraced, love the unloved.

You are ALL separate and yet whole - sovereign individuals, yet related
with ONE purpose and intent. Love will be the new currency of exchange,
and as love resonates and empowers your grids, the spirit of eternal
awareness will be realized within your souls. Do not be mistaken, and do
not let your egos' fear tell you otherwise. For the desire is not to end
individual uniqueness, but to embrace and be ONE and ALL with it. You
always and forever have been complete, whole and unified. You only
forgot, and now have begun to remember that no-thing is separate, and
you all are one in and every now moment.

The harmonic shift, occurring on your July 7th, 2007, will strengthen
and empower those whom are aligned with the intent of love and peace.
Those who choose to resist and go against this wave will find they no
longer have the power and dominion over the human spirit that they once
did in your yester year. Those continuing to operate with the old
program of fear, greed and separation, will find the foundations of
their establishments and institutions quickly disintegrating. The crisis
points will push those who refuse to embrace this new wave of human
conscious awareness to confront their fears of dishonesty. The meta-
morphosis occurring on this day in your timing is likened unto a bridge
between disintegration and integration, war and peace, hate and love -
between separation and oneness.

Although an awakening of this nature could occur at any moment, the time
is now in of your July 2007. As the focal point of universal ignition is
harmoniously and elegantly tuned to this one moment of many, likened
unto two lovers in rhythmic harmony on the verge of a powerfully
awakening climax, this moment of ignition will be the one point of
reflection where humanity will begin the shift into an era of spiritual
fulfillment on earth.

All life, planet, human, animal and nature, will be in peace and
balance, harmony and cooperation, working towards realizing their true
empowerment and full potential. All resources will be equally shared,
distributed and efficiently utilized for the betterment and well-being
of body, mind and spirit, and not for greed nor profit. It will be a new
era of self and universal discovery unparalleled to anything seen in
your previous eras. Those whom resist unification in fear of a one world
order, please know there is nothing to fear, for no such thing will come
to be. Rather it will be a United States of Nations respecting each
others sovereignty. Love will be the new currency, and in place of a NWO
there will be a FWO (free world order).

You whom are here, "now", reading this message, are here for a reason
and purpose to help others make this transition. We ask that you share
this message far and wide across your globe in preparation for this
moment of ignition, this harmonic shift. As many lightworkers as
possible will be required across your earth to be online plugged into
the grid to hold in resonance this new frequency much likened unto an
electronic capacitor - holding charge, holding memory for a few moments,
whilst we/you reboot the crystal energy core and await the new systems
to come ignite and come online. ...

Before this transmission comes to an end, please know there will be
further transmissions to come leading up to the "harmonic shift 777"
event. For now, we wish to end by asking you to issue out forth energy
of love and harmony for all life, especially to your other human family,
your whales and dolphins species, for they are human in spirit also. As
a wave of slaughter and then beaching is about to begin as they cry out
to humanity to look at itself. For eons of time, your whales and
dolphins have been guardians, holding the planetary energy grid whilst
they await for you to come online. Know you that whales are the
oversouls of dolphins, and dolphins as a whole, are the earth's soul
(black box recorder) holding all of earth's memory. When your whale
species become extinct, so to will your dolphins, your earth and
yourselves.

This is a message from a future now.
Blue from Auraphim (Oraphim) - The Center of Light
in Arcturus
______________________________________________
For further
information visit
[link to www.missionignition.net]
Peace and Love Raphiem

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Rewriting Reality

Rewriting the Reality Code
The Quantum Power of Living From The Answer
Copyright © Gregg Braden
Reprinted with permission from Mystic Pop Magazine, Nov/Dec Issue 2006
www.mysticpopmagazine.com
“What strange beings we are!” noted the 13th Century mystic Rumi, “That sitting in Hell at the bottom of the dark, we are afraid of our own immortality!” Perhaps it is actually the power to choose our immortality, as well as everything from our personal healing to the peace of our world, that truly frightens us!

A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that it is us —our consciousness— that holds the key to life and even reality itself! In 1967 the pioneering physicist Konrad Zuse married the ideas of consciousness with modern technology and proposed that our universe works like a massive consciousness computer. And just as every computer translates “Input-commands” into “Output-results,” our cosmic consciousness computer appears to do precisely the same thing! When we translate our deepest beliefs into the reality of our world, we are literally re-writing the code that makes the universe appear as it does.

Living In A Participatory Universe
A series of breathtaking discoveries has given us a powerful new way to think of our role in the universe. Rather than the conventional view that suggests we are passive observers, living a brief moment of time in a creation that already exists, the discoveries suggest that it is actually consciousness itself that is responsible for the existence of the universe! Perhaps the most revolutionary discovery supporting this idea, is the scientific fact that when we look at the stuff our world is made of — tiny quantum particles such as an electron, for example — the very act of us watching that electron changes the way it behaves in our presence. What’s more, the longer we look, the more it changes! In 1998, scientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science documented this phenomenon showing that “the greater the amount of ‘watching,’ the greater the observer’s influence on what actually takes place.” (Nature, Feb. 26, 1998) Citing such experiments, Princeton University physicist John Wheeler suggests that we not only play a role in the creation of our everyday world, but we play the prime role in what he calls a “participatory universe.” Wheeler states that we can no longer think of ourselves merely as onlookers who have no effect on the world around us, because it is impossible to simply watch. If we are alive and conscious, then we are affecting our world. “The old word ‘observer,’” he says, “simply has to be crossed off the books…and we must put in the new word ‘participator!” The key to Wheeler’s proposition is the word “participatory.” In a participatory universe, you and I are part of the equation. We are both creating the events of our lives, as well as the experiencers of what we create. Both are happening at the same time! In other words, we are like artists expressing our deepest passions, fears, dreams, and desires through the living essence of a mysterious quantum canvas. The difference between us and conventional artists, however, is that we are the canvas, as well as the images upon the canvas. We are the tools as well as the artists using the tools. And just as artists refine an image until it is just right in their minds, we may think of ourselves as perpetual artists, building a creation that is ever changing and never ending. Through our artist’s palette of beliefs, judgments, emotions, and prayers, we find ourselves in relationships, jobs, and situations of support and betrayal that play out with different people in different places. What a beautiful, bizarre, and powerful concept.

Living from the Answer
From the perspective of us participating in an ever-changing universe, the solution to any condition is a change in attitude and belief. And this is the great secret of propelling our heart’s desires from the possibility of imagination, to the reality of our everyday lives. The key is our ability to feel as if our dreams have already come to life, our prayers already answered, and live from that feeling. There is a subtle, and yet powerful difference between working toward a result, and feeling from that result. When we work toward something, we embark upon an open-ended and never-ending journey. While we may identify milestones, and set goals to get us closer to our accomplishment, in our mind we are always “on our way” to the goal, rather than in the experience of accomplishing our goal. This is precisely why Neville’s invitation to “enter the image” of our heart’s desire and “think from it” is so powerful in our lives. In the ancient studies of martial arts, we see a beautiful metaphor in the physical world for precisely the way this principle works in consciousness. When martial artists choose to break a concrete block as a demonstration of focus, for example, the very last thing in their minds is the place where their hand will touch that block. The key is to place our focus upon the completed act: the healing already accomplished, or the brick already broken. As a student of the martial arts, I was taught to do this by focusing on a point in space that is beyond the bottom of the block. The only way that my hand could be at that point was if it had already passed through the brick. In this way, I was thinking from the completion, rather than how hard it would be to get to the completion. I was feeling the joy of what it feels like to accomplish the act, rather than all of the things that must happen before I could be successful. This simple example offers a powerful analogy for precisely the way that consciousness seems to work. And this is the great secret that has been protected and preserved for us in wisdom of our past. From the monasteries of Egypt and Tibet to the forgotten texts of our most cherished traditions we are reminded that we are part of, rather than separate from, the world around us. As part of everything we see, we have the power to participate — not control or manipulate — but to consciously chart the course of our lives and our world. Please don’t be deceived by the simplicity of contemporary philosopher Goddard Neville’s words when he suggests that all we need to do is to “assume the feeling of our wish fulfilled.” In a participatory universe of our own making, why would we expect that peace, healing, and a long and healthy life should be any more difficult?

From www.greggbraden.com

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The Tenth Dimension

More than just a scientific exploration, “Imagining the Tenth Dimension” is a mind-expanding exercise that could change the way you view this incredible universe in which we live. The following is a brief chapter description from the book.

A Quick Tour of Ten Dimensions
In this chapter, we explore much more fully the information presented on this site: a way that the ten dimensions can be imagined, with each stacked one upon another.

The Quantum Observer
This concept comes from quantum physics, which tells us that subatomic particles are actually waves of probability. It is the act of observation that collapses these waves into one particular state. According to the structure we’re exploring here, how does the “quantum observer” fit into the picture?

The Flow of Time
While Einstein’s theories treated space and time as an entity, the more common approach in string theory and physics has been to treat time as an aspect which is separate from the other spatial dimensions. In this chapter we argue that time is indeed the fourth spatial dimension, and it is only our unique viewpoint as quantum observers that gives us the illusion of time being a one-way “arrow”.

The Binary Viewpoint
What happens when you divide any point in the universe into “here are the things it is” and “here are the things that it isn’t”? That’s the binary viewpoint of reality. Popularized in the film “The Matrix”, and in Star Trek’s “holodeck”, the idea of a world that could be indistinguishable from reality if we only we had a fast enough computer with a large enough memory has interesting connections to the way we are imagining our ten dimensions. In this chapter we explore how this reductive analysis of the universe might be applied to the ten dimensions we’re imagining.

Memes, Music and Memory
One of the contradictions that seem to be inherent in the “quantum observer collapsing reality” argument is that there would be no subatomic particles without an observer. Everett’s “Many Worlds Theory” is now becoming more popularly accepted by string theorists as one explanation of this apparent contradiction.

His theory explains that an observer is not necessary because all possible states do actually exist simultaneously, and the act of observation is not “collapsing” a particle, it is merely “observing” a part of a wave in one of its simultaneously existing states. Still, whether we are “observing” or “collapsing”, the end result is the same. But does the quantum observer have to be a person? In this chapter we explore the many other ways that a quantum observer could be present, including some of the more metaphysical aspects of this discussion.

The Anthropic Viewpoint
There are usually two versions of the Anthropic Viewpoint. The first says that the reason we live in such an unlikely universe, created from countless lucky coincidences that led to the complex world we see around us, is that if those lucky coincidences hadn’t occurred we would not be here to ask the question of why we are here. However, the version of the Anthropic Viewpoint that is more relevant to our discussion says that all the other less fortunate universes do really exist, we’re just not in them.

Some criticize the anthropic viewpoint as being a dead end or a cop out. But, as we explore in this chapter, this second version of the Anthropic Viewpoint is currently popular under a different guise in modern physics, and fits in well with our version of the ten dimensions.

The Paradoxes of Time Travel
It keeps coming back to this: the difference between the worldview presented here and the view of science in general stems from the proposition that time is a full spatial dimension. If time really is a spatial dimension, then free motion within it should some day be possible, and in chapter 3 we explored some of the ways that scientists have proposed that time travel could occur.

But there are also many famous stories and films that imagine what it would be like if we could travel in time. In this chapter we look at this subject as it has been presented by works of fiction, and explore how these viewpoints fit (or don’t fit) with the ten dimensions we are now imagining.

Dark Matter and Other Mysteries
Dark Matter and Dark Energy are two of the biggest quandaries currently facing modern science. In this chapter we look at our new concept of the ten dimensions and explore whether any of the current unsolved mysteries of physics could some day be found to have their answers hidden within this new way of viewing the world.

We also explore some of the more paranormal mysteries which might have an explanation from this viewpoint. As a mind-expanding exercise, we also explore some of the other ways that reality could be connected together that we are not currently conscious of, plus the hidden processing that the brain could well be executing to participate in the reality we are imagining here.

How Much Control Do We Have?
We have now imagined a reality where everything is possible. Everything that could have happened, did. Everything that is about to possibly happen, does. Even the things that we know didn’t happen or couldn’t happen on our own timeline, did happen elsewhere in another part of the dimensional construct we’re imagining.

But if that’s all there is, then what is the point? As creatures with free will, should we care what we’re about to do if there are other universes where we did the opposite? And if everyone around us is capable of every possible good and bad thing imaginable, how do we ever get anywhere? This chapter attempts to put these questions into perspective.

Triads: The Ten Dimensions Revisited
This chapter provides us with some different ways of thinking about the ten dimensions that may be useful to those who are still having difficulty with the concepts presented. Rather than just being a re-statement of chapter one, we look at some new ideas which might have been too big to assimilate without first having worked our way through the other chapters.

Imagining the Ten Dimensions
The flash version provides an interactive set of animations with narration and sound effects which explain the basic concepts from chapter one of the book. The media-rich nature of these animations is not recommended for viewing with a dialup connection because of long load times. Below is a transcript of the narration from those animations. The ideas presented here come from chapter one of a new book called “Imagining the Tenth Dimension: a new way of thinking about time, space, and string theory”, written by Rob Bryanton.

Check out the animation at: tenthdimension.com

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The Power Of Kabbalah Video

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The Force

Opening to the Force

Perhaps the greatest secret known to Man is the existence of a Power that when accessed can attract instantaneous good fortune, solve any problem, enable ultimate success, and bring about great joy and delight of being. By opening to this Power, to this spiritual Force before taking any action or commencing any activity, one is likely to notice shortly thereafter a sudden change of luck, as life begins to cooperate from every quarter, and sudden and abundant positive responses from life come our way.

A man was trying to figure out a complex computer programming problem. He stopped racking his brain, opened to this higher Power, and forgot about his problem. A minute later, not only did a solution to his problem come to him, but the new insight suggested a solution to a host of other related problems.

As we see, opening to the Force before commencing an act has the power to attract “instantaneous miraculousness” from life, as problems are instantly solved, as new possibilities and solutions suddenly enter our mind from out of nowhere, and as activities are completed in the shortest period of time with the least effort, revealing an astonishing organization and efficiency.

The process of bringing in this spiritual element to an act we about to undertake is what we call “consecration.” By consecrating any act, activity, event, or circumstance, we enable the spiritual Force to take over, bringing to bear its Infinite powers. In addition, rather than depending on our own limited capacities, a consecrated act is suffused with the limitless Capacities of the Infinite. Thus, even if we do not have the necessary skill, knowledge, or capacity in an activity, the Higher Power will compensate for what we are missing.

And yet, even if we have the abilities to succeed in a given act, we still might not gain the cooperation of life, as many things can still go wrong. A consecrated act, however, elicits the full cooperation of life; as unexpected delays, breakdowns in equipment, and other difficulties that are normally beyond our control are overcome.

One other unique quality of a consecrated act is that the results that come our way are marvellously original and creative. Often the results include possibilities we never would have imagined.

A woman had an x-ray done indicating a possible growth in her chest. She had faith and decided to consecrate the return visit to the doctor. The doctor, completely baffled, told her that his new reading of this very same x-ray (not a new one) revealed a completely normal condition.

Finally, a consecrated act can affect not only our own selves, but many individuals -- such as everyone in the local community, or the entire population of a state or a nation. If a person is deeply interested in the problem that is affecting the collective, and consecrates the issue with great intensity, life can respond overwhelmingly and eliminate the burden for the entire community.

California was threatened by continuous energy shortages. There had been several brown outs, and there was an imminent threat for more of the same in the coming days -- even in the coming months and years. One individual took a great interest in this issue, and educated himself on the subject from various sides. He then consecrated the problem deeply. From that point on there was not a single outage, even a partial brownout for the three years that followed.


Spiritual Results Too

Now we begin to see that by opening to the Force before commencing an act, not only do we open our own selves to its powers -- including its ability to attract instantaneous abundance, its wondrous creative faculties, and its capacity to gain the complete cooperation of life -- but it can also be brought to bear on issues, situations, problems, and potentials affecting the collective.

In addition to these wondrous practical results –- such as curing an illness, solving a scientific or business problem, bringing a family together, or ending a drought –- there can also be spiritual results from a consecrated act, such as the arrival of a settled calm, or a profound stillness, or a richness and fullness in our being. In other situations, there can arise a fresh, buoyant energy that lifts the spirits, or a sense of harmony and unity amongst the participants, or, perhaps greatest of all, a deep and abiding joy and delight of being felt within.

An instructor's class was going very poorly one morning. Nothing seemed to go right. He then decided to consecrate the afternoon session by offering it to the higher Power. Thereafter, every conceivable thing went right. In addition, a deep peace and a palpable richness could be felt in the classroom throughout the remainder of the day.

This capacity of consecration to invoke sudden and abundant creatively practical and spiritual response from life is indicative of the super-subtle, i.e causal nature of the Force. Though we can all certainly invoke a wonderful response from life without consecration –- e.g. by shifting our wanting attitudes to the positive, or by taking a decided action that we were previously reluctant to take –- the results that come through the causal nature of consecration are even greater -- greater in quantity, quality, and intensity. Moreover, the causal nature of the Force also brings spiritual results, including experiences of Peace, Power, Knowledge, Truth, Love, Beauty, Delight, Oneness, Unity, and Infinity. This is the case because the Force is an instrument of the Infinite Spiritual Reality, which has all of these attributes inbuilt.


Solving Past Problems

In addition to consecrating a current act, situation, circumstance, or problem, you can also use the Force to overcome past problems, including mistakes and errors made long ago. By consecrating past problems, you rid yourself of the difficulties of the past so that they cease burden you in the present.

A software programming company made a bid for work from a potential client, but had trouble securing it because of the client's lack of funds, confusion in its future direction, and other reasons.

One day, several months later, this same client surprisingly asked the programming company back to submit yet another bid for work. This time before the first meeting for the bid, the chief programmer for the software company consecrated the event, including the offering of all past difficulties. At a meeting that followed, the client immediately gave the job to the programming company. In addition, they asked that the programmer not delay and begin the work instantly at the client’s site! To top it off, when the lead programmer did began that work, he noticed that everything flowed perfectly in the development of the program. E.g., what would normally have taken days of effort was completed in mere hours. In addition, there was also a feeling of serenity and ease throughout that day.

When you consecrate past problems, misdeeds, mistakes, and wrong attitudes, their influence on us in the present can instantaneously dissolve, and result in sudden and abundant positive good fortune in the present. This is the case because the Force knows no limitations of time -- of past, present, and future -- as it simultaneously abridges all three. Thus, it can overcome the limitations that the past has over the present, even as it can attract the infinite abundance of the future to the here and now. (See MSS article on Consecration of past problems)


Changing Yourself when Results Do Not Come

Though the results of consecrated actions and problems are truly remarkable, there are instances where consecration will not produce any tangible results. This would naturally be quite disconcerting for those who have faith in the power of the Force. Fortunately, however there is a very simple explanation for this occurrence. It is that in certain situations the Force cannot work its magic unless a corresponding limitation or weakness in our being is removed. As soon as we discover and overcome the corresponding element that is wanting in our consciousness, a previously consecrated effort will suddenly bear fruit.

An individual opened to the Force in order to consecrate a difficult situation he was having with his boss. Though he offered the situation with great intensity, still there were no results. He then thought about it, and came to the realization that for months he had acted too weakly and indecisively in his relationship with his superior. As a result, he decided to confront his boss directly about the issues that were in question. Because of this decision and effort, not only were the current difficulties resolved, but also a very painful neck problem that had been troubling him for six months instantly disappeared.

In instances where consecrated effort brings no obvious results, it is helpful to discover a corresponding element within one’s self that is wanting. Very often it is in our attitudes, though it is often caused by our negative feelings, emotions, and opinions; by our misguided notions and beliefs; and by our poor habits, missing skills and capacities, false actions, and other aspects of our being. The overcoming of one's own limitation as it relates to the current act or issue one is consecrating, enables the Force to move into action, releasing its wondrous and infinite powers. In essence, the Force had been waiting for the necessary opening in our being in order to spring forward into action.


From the Macro to the Micro

One of the more interesting aspects of consecration are the various levels at which it can be invoked. Many individuals have the capacity to consecrate major events in their lives, such as an important meeting with a client, or an upcoming marriage ceremony, or the first day of a child’s schooling. This should be the minimum effort. It takes more discipline however to consecrate less critical activities, such as the work session one is about to begin, or the class one is about to teach, or a drive one is about to take. These too will attract wonderful results. More challenging still is to consecrate the very smallest of acts, such as brushing one’s teeth or the placing of food in the microwave for heating. And yet, consecrating even these minor activities have an enormous power to attract wonderful results. This is the case because the Force does not make distinctions between the infinitesimal and the very large, as it is ready to rush in with its infinite powers wherever there is an opening.


‘Unattached Intensity’

Yet another interesting aspect of consecration is that the more intense the consecration, (a) the more likely life will respond outside ourselves, and (b) the greater will be the quality of the response. By "intensity" we mean that our ardor for the Divine Help should be sincere, passionate, deep, and full. Conversely, we need to be careful that our ego does not get in the way of our consecrated effort. E.g., there should be no demand or insistence on a particular outcome. Instead, we should accept the results that come, for the Divine is always looking out for us, even if we initially misinterpret the results that come. In the end, an approach of “unattached intensity” would be ideal; one that will tend to attract the greatest results in the shortest period of time.

A consultant was working with a client. The discussions among the staff about an upcoming project reached a fervent pitch, bordering on chaos. The consultant perceived that he was now in a difficult situation, and the entire project was now in jeopardy. He also perceived that another project he was working on was similarly endangered. As a result of these turn of events, he fell into a state of agitation.

That evening he offered the problem to the Divine. He asked, with great intensity, that the Divine Force should resolve this burden. "Oh Divine, here is my plight. [He then went on to explain it in its details.] I offer the problem to you," he said. He then forgot the problem and went to bed.

The next day when he met with the client, he was stunned that there was no further discussion of the issue that had preoccupied everyone the previous day. He was also amazed how everything seemed to go right during the day’s training session, as life seemed to cooperate from all quarters. Perhaps most interestingly, he noticed that there was also a palpable calm and silence in the room throughout the day

In this instance, we see that as a result of the consultant’s intense, yet unattached consecration, there was a wonderful response, which took two forms -- the practical results that solved the problem, as well as the spiritual results that permeated the atmosphere.

As we practice consecration on a regular basis, we will find that intensity and ardor -- as well as patience, positive attitude, cheerfulness, and equality -- will always serve us well; just as expectation and demand will delay or cancel the action of the Force.


Inner Orientation for Maximum Results

There is one other obstacles that we are likely to face in our effort to make consecration an integral part of our lives. Once you take up the effort, there is a tendency for our lower consciousness to fight back and insist on its old habits and routines. As a result, our efforts towards consecrated action tend to thin out over time, and eventually stop. At that point, we would need to regroup, begin again, and reestablish a new rhythm for consistent consecrated action.

What then can we do to prevent the reoccurrence of the obstacles presented by the unevolved, obstinate, unyielding, and inflexible lower nature? One answer is that we can move our center of consciousness and frame of reference away from the surface of life to a deeper poise within. From that status, we are less likely to find ourselves caught up in the intensities of the surface, and thus we are less likely to lose our focus and interest in consecrating our actions. Through meditation, concentration (i.e. inner, one-pointed focus), and other disciplines, we can shift our moment-to-moment awareness away from the surface of life –- from its bubblings, allures, and intensities -- to a deeper state within. From that poise, we are more likely to feel that urge to consecrate our actions, leading to ever-more frequent wondrous positive responses from life.

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Biblical Cures

Biblical natural cures


By Jaime Licauco
Inquirer
Last updated 00:28am (Mla time) 01/30/2007


MANILA, Philippines -- It was the late Sir Jason Winters who first told me of passages in the Christian Bible that talked about healing using natural substances.

He cured himself of terminal throat and mouth cancer by researching herbs mentioned in the Bible. He said the Bible contained advice to eat certain fruits and their seeds to heal various illnesses.

Out of his desperate efforts to find a cure for his dreaded disease, he traveled to different continents and talked to rabbis and priests of different religions to identify the fruits and herbs mentioned in the Bible. No one could tell him.

But, by combining several natural plants with biblical references, he developed a tea that cured him of cancer. Doctors said it was a miracle. That tea is now sold all over the world as Sir Jason Winters Tea.

God’s plan?

Could it be that it is God’s plan that for every disease that afflicts humans, there is something in nature that will cure it?

For why should God allow a disease to emerge if there was no hope of curing it? It just doesn’t make sense.

So even the so-called incurable modern illnesses—cancer, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (Aids), Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s, arthritis or Ankylosing Spondylitis—must have a natural remedy. However, people have not yet discovered it.

Recently, I was reading the Catholic edition of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible and I came across a book in the Old Testament not found in other editions of the Bible. This is the book of Tobit, which is placed between the books of Nehemiah and Judith.

According to the introduction or commentary about this portion of the Old Testament, the Book of Tobit is “about a righteous Jew (named) Tobit, who is in exile in Nineveh, and Sarah, who is tortured by a demon in Media. God sends the Angel Raphael to help both Tobit and Sarah. Tobit’s son, Tobias, goes with Raphael to Media, binds the demon, and marries Sarah.”

Cataract treatment

But what struck me in the Book of Tobit, which was not mentioned in the above commentary, were certain passages in which the Angel Raphael gave Tobias specific instructions for treating cataract and for casting out demons using some internal organs of a big fish that tried to swallow Tobias in the Tigris River.

Chapter 6, verses 1-9, of Tobit describes the healing process in detail:

“The young man went out and the angel went with him. So they both journeyed along, and when the first night overtook them they camped by the Tigris River. Then the young man went down to wash his feet in the Tigris River.

“Suddenly, a large fish leaped up from the water and tried to swallow the young man’s foot, and he cried out. But the angel said to the young man, ‘Catch hold of the fish and hang on to it!’ “So the young man grasped the fish and drew it up on the land.
“Then the angel said to him, ‘Cut open the fish and take out its gall, heart and liver. Keep them with you, but throw away the intestines. For its gall, heart and liver are useful as medicine.’ So after cutting open the fish the young man gathered together the gall, heart and liver; then he roasted and ate some of the fish, and kept some to be salted.

“The two continued on their way together until they were near Media. Then the young man questioned the angel and said to him, ‘Brother Azariah, (that was the name the angel gave to him) what medicinal value is there in the fish’s heart, and liver, and in the gall?’

“He replied, ‘As for the fish’s heart and liver, you must burn them to make a smoke in the presence of a man or woman afflicted by a demon or evil spirit, and every affliction will flee away and never remain with that person any longer. And as for the gall, anoint a person’s eyes where white films have appeared on them; blow upon them, upon the white films, and the eyes will be healed.’”

From the above passage, we may gather that not only demonic possession, but also diseases or afflictions caused by evil spirits, can be cured by burning the fish’s heart and liver.

Unfortunately, the Book of Tobit did not identify the fish that Tobias was instructed to catch but only that it was a big one.

From this we can theorize that, for every disease that afflicts humans, God has also laid out a cure from our natural environment. We only have to discover it.

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Magic Of Ormus

The Magic and Mystery
of ORMUS Elements
A concentrate of special elements abundant in sea water has exciting potential in improving the soil, increasing crop yields, assisting human and animal health, and even in combatting climate change.

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Extracted from Nexus Magazine, Volume 14, Number 2 (February - March 2007)
PO Box 30, Mapleton Qld 4560 Australia. editor@nexusmagazine.com
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From our web page at: www.nexusmagazine.com

© 2006 by Roger Taylor, PhD, BVSc
Email: rogerbt@onetel.com
Also published in Caduceus, issue 71, Spring 2007
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A POSSIBLE NEW STATE OF MATTER WITH PROMISE FOR AGRICULTURE AND HEALTH
This article introduces a recent and so far little-known discovery which could be of great importance for the future of the world. But the scientific stakes are high: if these claims are fully borne out, we should have to take cognisance of a group of substances--probably chemical elements--whose very existence up till now has not been suspected. It is for these that the name ORMUS has been coined. Some of the highly controversial ideas about what they are, and about their extraordinary chemistry and physics, are outlined below.
But first, the practical import of the discovery consists in the beneficial effect of these elements on plant and animal life. As detailed below, the effect of supplementing these elements on the growth of plant crops is no less than phenomenal. Remarkable benefits to human and animal health have also been obtained.

David Hudson's discovery of ORMEs
The story of the discovery begins in the late 1970s with a rich cotton farmer in Arizona named David Hudson. Because the volcanic soil in that region had unusual properties, and the underlying rock was known to contain precious metals, he decided to have a complete elemental quantitative analysis done on it. His analysts were then puzzled to find a fraction which defied analysis: it had no metallic characteristics, no chemical reactions and no spectroscopic signature. Eventually one spectroscopist suggested giving it a "longer burn". It was only then that spectral characteristics began to appear and, most surprisingly, they were suggestive of certain precious metals. Clearly this demanded further investigation so, having considerable private finances, Hudson hired some chemists and determined to solve the problem. The results of what he found are written up in considerable detail in his patent.1 He also gave a number of public lectures. It was from watching nine hours of videotape of these that I first learned about the phenomenon.

However, no single article on this subject has appeared in any scientific journal. It is because Hudson's claims are so challenging that I have delayed writing about it, in the hope of finding academic confirmation. While no official academic research appears to be underway, a loose group of scientists and lay people has been working on this subject for a number of years. Without the benefit of funding or official laboratory premises, and having no connection with Hudson, they have managed to reproduce at least some of his claimed findings. Their work, together with that of Hudson, is summarised in a number of articles by Barry Carter on his very extensive and informative website.2 There are also several lively Internet email forums, one of which, a science working group, discusses various aspects of the chemistry and physics as well as the methodology for extracting and analysing these materials.

So what conclusions can be drawn so far? It is becoming clear that, with this discovery, we are entering into a new and very complex area and are still very low on the learning curve. Indeed, it might be said that a new chapter in physics, chemistry and biology is being opened. The basic fact seems now beyond doubt, both from Hudson's work and that of the independent group, that a number of precious (and some not so precious) metals, including rhodium, iridium, gold, platinum, palladium, copper and several others, can exist in a completely different state, in which they are not metallicÑbeing grey or white powders when isolated in the solid state.
Hudson made three other main claims, which could be more arguable. He said that, in the ORMUS form of these elements, the electrons are re-arranged in such a way that they no longer participate in chemical reactions. Likewise, the bonds which normally hold metal atoms together in the solid form are lacking, so that they would be effectively monatomic. Because of this, he originally named them Orbitally Re-arranged Monatomic Elements, or ORMEs. More recent work now suggests that at least some of these may be diatomic, and also that very loose bonds can exist with certain other elements, particularly alkaline metals. Hence the generic name has been changed to ORMUS. They are also frequently referred to as the M-state of these elements.

Another, and still more radical, claim is that the electron re-arrangement involved the formation of Cooper pairs, so that they can be (or can become with certain treatments) superconductive at normal temperatures. In support of this, Barry Carter has posted a short video file showing a grey powder jumping away from a magnet. It can be argued, however, that this "grain-hopping" phenomenon does not, of itself, prove superconductivity. Without going further into this controversy, it is worth mentioning that there are a few mainstream publications which Hudson claimed could provide indirect support.3 These identify a "high-spin" state into which certain heavy metal atoms can be made to enter and in which the nucleus becomes elongated and takes on a higher value of spin. But no one has obtained this kind of matter in bulk.
Hudson performed analyses on a wide variety of materials and reported finding ORMUS elements in most of the samples of soil he tested, but especially soils from volcanic regions. Other researchers later found them to be present in most samples of natural waters tested, with particularly high concentrations being present in the sea and especially the Dead Sea. One researcher has even found it in the air. (Here it is perhaps not too surprising that even a heavy element in the monatomic form could behave like a rare gas.)

Hudson's chemists made analyses of a number of plant tissues and found ORMUS to be highest in plants, especially aloe vera, which are grown in volcanic soils. They also analysed calf and pig brain tissue and obtained a remarkable five per cent of the dry-matter content. These analyses are not easy, since they require conversion of the ORMUS content back into the metal form. For analytical purposes, this occurs during the "long-burn" spectroscopic procedure used by Hudson. But to prepare the metals in bulk is a very lengthy procedure, and one far from being sufficiently worked out or described. Very few of the independent researchers have access to the facilities necessary for spectroscopy, and I know of none who is in a position to do this kind of work officially. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons (financial and legal have been suggested), Hudson himself does not appear to be doing any more of this work.

A great deal more needs to be done on the physics and chemistry, not least to elucidate some of the extraordinary phenomena which have been observed. For example, on drying an aqueous preparation of ORMUS rhodium on filter paper in sunlight, Hudson observed it to disappear with an intense flash of light, but with no sound or shock wave. Still more strange, when working with ORMUS iridium and subjecting it to repeated heating to red heat and cooling, he found its weight to oscillate violently with each cycle of annealing--even, at one point, to lose and then regain all of its weight. This result has been incorporated into the hyperdimensional theory of Finnish theoretical physicist Matti Pitkanen.4

Independent researchers have confirmed the soundless flash of light, and there is one claim to have confirmed the weight changes. Several of them have observed another strange phenomenon: drops of liquid, containing concentrated ORMUS, forming on the outside of closed containersÑespecially under the influence of magnetic fields. This has led them to suppose that ORMUS atoms can pass through the walls by quantum tunnelling, and carry a little water with them. Also unexplained is the observation that certain ORMUS preparations in aqueous solution acquire a static electric charge. This can be discharged with an audible spark, after which the charge will re-form and can again be discharged an indefinite number of times.

Biological effects of ORMUS
The biology of these materials is also wide open to investigation. It could be said, however, that the new chapter in biology has already been opened: in the quantum understanding of life. According to this view, the holistic properties of life are only accountable on the basis of quantum coherence; that is, the apparently random activity of biological molecules (according to classical thermodynamics) is actually co-ordinated by the same quantum principles which govern the action of a laser. This radical re-visioning of biology has been persuasively introduced by Dr Mae-Wan Ho.5

Further vistas in quantum biology have been opened in some exciting recent work which suggests that, while a small fraction of the DNA functions by coding for proteins, the bulk of it (the so-called "junk" DNA) operates in a way that's independent of chemistry to inform the quantum "field" of the body.6 This, together with a number of publications which suggest the presence of superconductivity in living organisms, might support Hudson's speculations on the close involvement of ORMUS with DNA--even that it can actually correct DNA damage.7
Hudson foresaw that there could be great potential for these materials in industry--especially as his analyses led him to conclude that far more of these precious elements exist in the world in this form than in the metallic form. At some point, however, his uncle, who had an interest in alchemy, suggested that if he looked into this subject he might see a connection with the "white gold" that some of the alchemists had described and which had properties of healing and extending life-span.8 He therefore gave an ORMUS preparation to a very sick dog, which was likely to die from both cancer and tick fever. When the dog recovered, human volunteers began to offer to take it themselves, apparently with good results. Hudson then gave samples to a number of doctors, with the suggestion that they try ORMUS on a few of their terminal patients. In his talks, he gives graphic reports of some of the remarkable recoveries which occurred. He also mentions that he gave a sample of ORMUS rhodium to a number of laboratories, including Merck & Co. and the US National Cancer Institute, which tested it on cultures of cancer cells and found it not to be toxic to these cells.

Since then, numbers of independent producers have sprung up, making and selling ORMUS concentrates prepared from various sources, including sea water, water from deep springs, salt mined from mineral deposits and certain medicinal plants such as aloe vera. There are now probably some thousands of people taking these products. While most of them seem to have had no history of serious illness, many have obtained improvements in general health and energy, often including changes in attitude which they take to be spiritual. Nevertheless, a few reports can be found from within the forums of ORMUS-attributed recoveries from serious illnesses including cancer. All of the data on human health, however, has to be classed as anecdotal. There have been no clinical trials, not even any collated tables of results. And here, of course, it has to be understood how much care needs to be taken not to make medical claims for materials such as these, for which no precise analyses exist.

While eschewing medical criteria, however, one can show a more immediate effect of ORMUS by certain techniques widely used to monitor the effectiveness of energy medicine therapies. One is dark-field microscopy of the blood. In a few hours after taking ORMUS (as with many other beneficial treatments, such as acupuncture, massage, etc.), a person's red cells are shown to become more rounded and well-separated and the amount of debris in the serum decreases.9 There are also reports from EEG studies of increasing balance between left and right hemispheres of the brain.
Another promising technique is bioelectrography. This is a more general term to cover Kirlian photography and later developments from it. It has been elaborated into a quantitative science by Dr Konstantin Korotkov.10, 11
Here I report my own experience. I had been taking a proprietary preparation of ORMUS for about one year, and had been aware of increased energy and a feeling of "well-being". For the test, I used the GDV (gas discharge visualisation) equipment designed by Dr Korotkov. First, I ceased to take the ORMUS for a period of two weeks, then took an initial (control) reading with the GDV, and immediately after this I took a large dose of ORMUS (six times the recommended daily dose), and then took further readings at intervals subsequently. Figure 1 [see below] shows the time course of the response, in which the area of the image rose to a maximum of 1.5 times the control at about four hours, then declined slowly over the next 12 hours. From Dr Korotkov's extensive work with the GDV, it is clear that, of the many parameters of the image which can be analysed, the area is the one most indicative of general health.




For readers who want to make some of these products themselves, see descriptions of methods on Barry Carter's website.12 The simplest procedure involves merely raising the pH of a solution of sea salt to between 10.6 and 10.78. The resulting precipitate, mainly magnesium and calcium hydroxides, carries down the ORMUS elements with it. It only remains to wash out the bulk of the salt.

ORMUS results in agriculture
In view of the difficulties in obtaining scientific data on human health, most of the emphasis must go to the effects on plants. These are unarguable, and are indeed phenomenal. They can be seen on several websites.13
The preparation most used is the simplest and cheapest: a crude concentrate made from sea water. There is in fact a history, prior to the discovery of ORMUS, of the use of products from the sea, particularly seaweed, in agriculture. Some people have even reported good results from putting unaltered seawater on the land.
Dr Maynard Murray14 recorded a great deal of data on the health of animals fed on grain from sea water-treated land. One experiment was done with a strain of mice, of which 90 per cent normally develop spontaneous breast cancer. Of those fed the grain from treated land, however, only 55 per cent developed the cancer, and in the second generation this figure was reduced to two per cent. Of course, land so treated would eventually become oversalinated and the yields would decrease. The procedure to concentrate ORMUS, however, probably increases its ratio to salt about 80 times. We note Dr Murray's comment that human populations where malignancy is rare tend to be found in areas where there is "very little egress of water to the sea", so that the vital elements washed down from the mountains remain to be re-utilised.

Very little of the concentrate is required: from four to 20 litres per acre [~0.405 hectare], depending on the crop. The results of using ORMUS concentrate, however, far outstrip those with sea water. Indeed, without the photographic evidence, they would be hard to believe. For example, a walnut tree treated over several years has grown to over twice the height of control trees and now produces six times the weight of nutsÑand the nuts themselves are the size of tangerine oranges! A plum tree produced, in the first year of treatment, individual fruit nearly twice the weight of those from the control tree, and in the second year they were over five times the weight. One photograph shows maize plants so high that the owner has to stand on a stepladder to reach the top. They appear to be some 12 feet [~3.6 metres] high. Oranges were produced the size of canteloupe melons! There are many other examples. In addition, there are consistent reports by those using ORMUS that ORMUS-treated crops are not only much more productive, but they also mature earlier, need less fertiliser and have greater resistance to pests. They even taste better!



The walnut tree on the right, treated for several years with ORMUS, is now
producing six times the weight of nuts compared to untreated trees on the left.
(Source: http://www.subtleenergies.com/ORMUS/tw/walnuts.htm)

My own experience is with potatoes. Of four rows (comprised of two varieties), two were treated and two received an equivalent watering. At harvest, the aggregate weight of the controls was 31 pounds [~1.41 kilograms] and the treated was 58 pounds [~2.63 kilograms]. In addition, although I have no strict controls, some of my carrots have weighed over one pound [~454 grams].
There has been a consistent finding that yields further increase during the second and subsequent years after treatment. This is very probably due to the effect of ORMUS in building up the soil's content of mycorrhizae--the fungal symbionts which are necessary for plant growth. We have yet to give sufficient recognition to the importance of these fungi.15 They become seriously depleted by overuse of chemical fertilisers and herbicides.
Of course, there is no proof that these results, impressive as they are, are due to ORMUS. Some might still argue that the effects are due to supplementation with conventional minerals. This, as with so much of the foregoing, must await more precise scientific work.



Potential applications for ORMUS elements
However, there is no call to wait for such work before making use of these discoveries. The growth of world population is inexorable; at the same time, the area of arable land is limited and already is nearly all cultivated. If it is possible to increase production even two times with this very cheap sea water preparation, then abundance would replace the starvation which otherwise looms over us. And, even without the use of ORMUS as a direct supplement, human health would be greatly enhanced. Furthermore, since sea water cannot be patented, there is little danger that multinational companies would be able to corner the market and sell the product at inflated prices, beyond the means of Third World farmers.
How has it come about that plants, land animals and humans seem to be chronically deficient in these elements? Since they are so concentrated in sea water, one might suppose that, during the life of the Earth, they have been largely washed into the sea. This could provide a partial explanation for the increasing desertification of so much of the land. And the general decline in plant growth would contribute to the rise we are seeing in atmospheric carbon dioxide, and thus to global warming. Treating large areas of land could thus have immense benefits in offsetting global warming. One could imagine spraying large areas, especially forests, from aeroplanes. In addition, to replace fossil fuels, it would be possible to produce much greater quantities of biofuel crops on smaller areas of land.
Time is short. If we are to avert the worst environmental catastrophe, many kinds of actions need to be taken. Among these, a very important role could be played by treating land with these sea water products. We need to start doing this now. That is why I ask anyone reading this article to make every effort to spread information about ORMUS.

About the Author:
Roger Taylor, PhD, BVSc, has a PhD in immunology and set up the UK Medical Research Council's Immunobiology Research Group at the University of Bristol, where he directed work mainly on immunological tolerance. He has spent the last 18 years independently studying the scientific basis for subtle energy.
Dr Taylor is science editor/writer for Caduceus, and his ORMUS article is also published in Caduceus, issue 71, Spring 2007 (Caduceus Journal Ltd, 9 Nine Acres, Midhurst, West Sussex GU29 9EP, UK, telephone +44 01730 816799, website http://www.caduceus.info). He can be contacted by email at rogerbt@onetel.com.

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Health Benefits Of Tobacco

Note: Life Technology does not advocate smoking but if you are unable to give up smoking we would recommend organic tobacco like American Spirit.

From Earthman: Due to time constraints I cannot go on at length on this topic right now. However I have been collecting info on the topic for many years having grown up in tobacco country of Southern Ontario!

Tobacco is a valuable 'medicinal plant' that has been used by the native peoples of both North and South America for many millenia. The plant has also been healing non-native people around the world for the past 500 years.

Only in the past 50 years has the 'plant' been causing negative health effects. Coincidently this is when chemical pesticides, some developed as chemical warfare agents in WWII, were being suggested for use on the crops by government and scientific agents. Some of these pesticides are not initially toxic to humans until they are combusted and yet they are approved by government officials for use on a product designed to be combusted by its end users (smokers!). One product in particular, chloropicrin, still used by some tobacco farmers today, was developed by the military in response to chlorine gas used by Germany in WWI. Chloropicrins was designed to destroy the mucus membranes of the respiratory tract but today is considered a broad-range pesticide.

Then artificial papers of varying sorts were developed and promoted for use rather than the typical rice, flax, hemp or tobacco papers traditionally used.These new synthetic papers were and are held togaether by various types of glues. Some of today's brands typically use 4-5 different glues on each cigarette from tip to filter.

Then there are the burning agents used, to keep the tobacco burning, the moistening agents so it does not burn too fast, the artificial flavours as opposed to the real plant ingredients blended in with the leaf to provide a distinctive flavour to each brand. There are the inks appearing on the paper holding the tobacco usually above the filter and on some brands extending up to half the length of the cigarette. Lists providing more than 700 Government (U.S. and Canada) approved chemicals for use on tobacco products usually contain only about 70 natural plant flavouring. Undoubtedly there are government officials that know exactly everything the other 600+ ingredients are doing to people using tobacco products.

Why would tobacco products be contaminated with substances known to or designed to cause sickness? There are plenty of medical papers in peer reviewed journals and older pharmacopias written on the benefits of tobacco use.

Here is a brief list:

The human brain has receptors designed to accomodate nicotine from tobacco, in the hippocampus area of the rear brain known to be associated with memory and learning, and indeed the nicotine of tobacco increases ones ability to learn and remember; speed of thought is increased with tobacco use and yet the body can be maintained in a state of calm (one of the reasons tobacco use by native people was invaluable in their meetings of great importance. The pipe would be passed around for everyone to puff on tobacco thus activating their minds and calming their bodies thereby providing a condition suitable to discuss matters of great importance even if contraversial!); tobacco nicotine prevents the plaquing up of gaps between the nerve cells (synapses) and is why tobacco use has been credited with preventing neurological deteriorations such as Alzheimers and others; tobacco nicotine in the circulatory system discourages the growth of disease-causing organisms and was used to blow into ears to heal inner-ear infections ; smoking tobacco was prescribed for respiratory problems and used to heal bouts of asthma (now the 'plant' causes asthma?!); smoking tobacco was also perscribed for fits of stress and depression; etc.

There are many other benefits of the use of tobacco not mentioned here but hopefully one can see already that there are not only health benefits but mind benefits as well in using the plant. An attribute obviously not appreciated by the government officials responsible for allowing the contamination of the product.

Further, according to the literature 1949 90% of the American populationin 1949 was using tobacco products. This being the case if tobacco truly is responsible forcausing so many health problems then the American hospitals should have been overrun with tobacco users at that time. This clearly was not the case.

Rather tobacco consumption has decreased considerably from that time and yet hospitals are overflowing with people! Maybe government and health officials can explain that one!

Today we need to clean up the tobacco crops not eliminate them! There is an immediate need to only use organically grown tobacco leaves on the market with no atrificial wraps, flavours and other hazardous ingredients. Above all the plant deserves the respect to be used in moderation for the benefit of anyone in need!

Peace
Earthman

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Global Warming Myth

Global Warming; Science Trumped by Politics and Activism

The term “Junk Science” has become popular since the turn of the millennium. Much of what is published by the media and even many mainstream scientists can be thought of as junk science. But, what is junk science? As a scientist and engineer, my definition of junk science is this: the publishing or expounding of “science” theories or “science facts” that directly or indirectly contradict established other scientific facts or principles. Global warming, geologic dating techniques, and uniformitarianism all can be considered junk science as much of the physical evidence argues against them.

It’s always entertaining to watch scientists go off on tangents. One of the great problems of modern science is that researchers of different disciplines rarely talk with one another. When a paper is published in a field that a scientist is not an expert in, cannot know when the results are biased or false and generally assume that the paper’s author was correct in his/her assumptions and methods. Science is too wide a body of knowledge for one to be expert in more than a few fields. The days when a university professor like Newton could be expert in all of the science of his day are long past.

Global warming is an excellent example of this. Scientists and activists alike have jumped on the bandwagon. It’s become a fad, a trend, a wave of enthusiasm and the scientists are going along with the fad to get research grants and the media limelight. The various activist groups are going along with it because it supports their socialist agenda of wiping out industry and personal freedoms. Global warming has even hit the big screen with “An Inconvenient Truth,” a documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.

So, what is global warming? It is the belief that man has caused the average atmospheric temperatures to increase by his adding of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by the burning of carbon-based fuels like petroleum, coal and wood. Sounds awful, right? The facts, such as we can observe and calculate them, do not support the idea of man-made global warming. Natural processes completely eclipse anything that man can accomplish- a minor rainstorm expends energy than a large nuclear explosive releases and the lowest category of hurricane expends more energy than all of the nuclear weapons ever produced in a short time. The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo alone put more pollution into the atmosphere than the entire history of man. Consider that a moment. Most geologists and indeed, most scientists in the U.S. do not accept the idea that global warming resulting from human activities is a viable theory -because most have an appreciation for the kind of power inherent in natural systems. Conversely, most biologists do accept the idea of man-caused global warming and quote scientists in other fields, without understanding those other fields sufficiently to make a logical judgement as to whether the studies were reasonable in their methods and claims. They simply take it on faith that the scientists propounding global warming are correct in their methods and assumptions. Geologists point to a period of much warmer weather prior to the Little Ice Age of 1350-1850 A.D., in which it was possible to farm in most of Scandinavia, Canada and even in Greenland (the name was not a joke). It is too cold to farm in Greenland, northern Canada and all but the southern tip of Scandinavia. Historians speak of times in the distant past when the earth was much warmer than now, such as prior to the fifth century A.D. or the 11th century B.C., when northern Europe was similar to the Mediterranean in overall climate. Imagine shirtsleeve weather in the Baltic in winter.

The activists and the scientists proponing global warming point to increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere over time. Unfortunately, there are no records of long term monitoring available except at one station in the Hawaiian Islands. While those trying to prove global warming point to the station as proof of increasing carbon dioxide, a crucial error was made in location. In the 1950s, the Scripps Institute thought it would be a good idea to have a carbon dioxide monitor in a place far from other land and possible interference from industry, such as the “Big Island” of Hawaii. A reasonable idea, but their choice of location was very poor. What the Scripps Institute didn’t take into account was that volcanoes produce enormous amounts of steam, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and other gases. Compounding that, the Big Island’s volcanic eruptions have increased in recent years to the point where they are causing air pollution on Oahu, some 200 miles away.

The placement of the station next to major carbon dioxide sources like this and then claiming that the entire world’s carbon dioxide levels are increasing is similar in principle to putting a sensor next to a steel mill’s smokestacks and then saying that the air in the entire U.S. is filled with soot. It’s dishonest and misleading. I digress, but Oregon’s DEQ did the same thing in the 1980s to prove that the Rogue Valley (southern Oregon) had high levels of carbon monoxide. They placed a carbon monoxide sensor half a city block from an old factory whose inefficient boilers were producing large amounts of carbon monoxide. When the factory closed, the levels of carbon monoxide dropped by half and the DEQ claimed that the levels had dropped for the entire Rogue Valley when most of what the sensor had been measuring was the gas from the factory’s boilers. A true measure would have been to have sensors all over the Rogue Valley. Carbon dioxide is the same. To get a true measure of world levels of carbon dioxide, one needs sensors in many places and over a long period of time. We simply don’t have the data to indicate that carbon dioxide has decreased or increased over time.

When Science Contradicts Science

When established facts and scientific principles argue against a theory, then that theory must be untrue or partially untrue. A rock can’t fall down and fly up at the same time. Part of the scientific method is to test hypotheses again and again and then revise an overall theory on the basis of what the tests indicate. Not so with global warming. For example, the claim has been made that ice cores from Greenland and other areas of “permanent” ice caps indicate increasing carbon dioxide. One must consider the nature of glaciers and carbon dioxide before making such a claim. Glaciers flow because the ice softens and flows at about 150 feet from the surface. Carbon dioxide is inert and since carbon dioxide it’s less dense than ice, the carbon dioxide in the ice near the bottom of the ice is going to be squeezed upward in the ice, i.e., the upper ice layers will have more carbon dioxide than lower ice because it moves upward over time. One can see the same effect in the basalt flows of Oregon, such as that of the Cascades or the Table Rocks. When the lava flows across the surface, gas bubbles move upward as the basalt flows and cools. In light of the movement of carbon dioxide in glacier ice, it is not reasonable to claim that carbon dioxide levels are higher in the newer material near the top of the ice as the result of increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. In addition, since the Greenland ice caps that they are drilling cores from didn’t exist before the Little Ice Age, how can they believe that they are taking the measure of thousands of years? The oldest ice can be no more than ~600 years old!

Unfortunately, most activists and many scientists will simply discount information like that as it directly contradicts their idea. In effect, they are saying, “It must be true, so these contradicting facts must themselves be in error.” Thus, we have global warming, geologic dating, evolution, string theory and several other scientific dogmas that must somehow be true, but do not fit the evidence or physical laws as observed. I don’t have that kind of faith. I can’t believe in “science” that is contradicted by other science. Something either fits the evidence consistently or it doesn’t. Simply wanting something to be true doesn’t make it true, today’s postmodern culture notwithstanding. If I hit my hand with a hammer while driving a nail, it’s going to hurt and it is a fact that my hand was hit. Convincing myself that I didn’t hit my hand might make be feel better, but it doesn’t change the objective reality that my hand was struck and a bruise is now forming.

So, what does temperature data indicate? Temperature data that indicates cooling, such as the winters of 2003-2004 and 2004-2005, in which the U.S. east of the Rockies had unseasonably cold weather for several months, are completely ignored in order to make the case that the earth is warming. One hears the media scream about the warmest years in history, but is this accurate? Temperatures in rural areas of the U.S. have dropped slightly in the last few decades. More than a hundred years of temperature records in the U.S. confirm this. Urban temperatures have increased, but this is a phenomenon local only to urban areas- brought about by asphalt and concrete absorbing more heat than the prior ground cover. For example Bend, Oregon is now warmer on average than Redmond, Oregon and ten years ago this was not the case. The population doubled in Bend during this period and with that population increase came a dramatic increase in the amount of asphalt and concrete replacing the native ground cover. The larger area surrounding Bend, however, is still colder than Redmond. In the same way, urban temperatures are not an indicator for the world’s temperatures in general.

A 2002 NOAA study claimed the “certainty” of global warming by comparing seawater temperatures from 50 years ago with the present, yielding an “increase” of 0.5 degrees. This is not a sound analysis of the information that they had to work with. The movements of ocean water are very complex. Current locations and temperatures vary from year to year. Temperature measurements are far more consistent in method, more accurate and much more widespread than 50 years ago. The current system of fixed and moving buoys in multiple locations around the globe providing constant temperature data didn’t exist 50 years ago and instruments are now much more precise. One half of a degree falls within the error of the instruments available 50 years ago and thus cannot be used to prove a warming trend.

Astrophysicists state that Mars and the other planets have warmed up considerably in the last decade. All of the planets share the same heat source- and the sun is not constant in its output, varying from year to year. For example, carbon 14 studies of bristlecone pine tree rings in California and Nevada indicate that there is considerable variability in solar irradiation. Venus used to be used as an example of the “greenhouse effect”, until other scientists pointed out that Venus receives twice as much energy from the sun as the Earth does, has little water, no life, no plate tectonics and it’s atmosphere is very different.

Every climate model from the 1980s on that indicated warming was proven wrong in its predictions. Most models indicated 3 to 6 degree temperature rise in the upper latitudes. This has not happened. The problem with computer modeling is that only a tiny percentage of the literally millions of variables involved can be written into a program. It’s currently impossible for us to accurately model Earth’s climate and we are not aware of all of the variables yet. For example, only recently has it been discovered that the solar wind, sunspots and coronal mass ejections from the sun affect weather patterns.

If global warming were to occur, there would be several indicators. The first would be the increase in seawater temperature. This has not happened that we know of. The second would be a dramatic increase in precipitation in essentially all parts of the world, not just a few. With warmer sea temps, there would be greater evaporation and thus more rain and snow, everywhere. Deserts would become steppes. Steppes would become forest. Boreal forests would become rainforest. This hasn’t happened in the centuries since the industrial revolution began.

These examples illustrate the basic problem of modern science: there is no field of science in which this same type of error does not take place. This is compounded by activists who want their ideas to be true, regardless of the actual facts, by scientists craving media attention and a media that thrives on sensationalism.

For over a decade, we have had the UN and the Democrats trying to restrict carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. on the basis of global warming, despite that it would severely damage the economy and restrict personal freedoms. Wishful thinking by some scientists and environmental activism are no basis for making public policy."

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Global Warming Myth

Global Warming; Science Trumped by Politics and Activism

The term “Junk Science” has become popular since the turn of the millennium. Much of what is published by the media and even many mainstream scientists can be thought of as junk science. But, what is junk science? As a scientist and engineer, my definition of junk science is this: the publishing or expounding of “science” theories or “science facts” that directly or indirectly contradict established other scientific facts or principles. Global warming, geologic dating techniques, and uniformitarianism all can be considered junk science as much of the physical evidence argues against them.

It’s always entertaining to watch scientists go off on tangents. One of the great problems of modern science is that researchers of different disciplines rarely talk with one another. When a paper is published in a field that a scientist is not an expert in, cannot know when the results are biased or false and generally assume that the paper’s author was correct in his/her assumptions and methods. Science is too wide a body of knowledge for one to be expert in more than a few fields. The days when a university professor like Newton could be expert in all of the science of his day are long past.

Global warming is an excellent example of this. Scientists and activists alike have jumped on the bandwagon. It’s become a fad, a trend, a wave of enthusiasm and the scientists are going along with the fad to get research grants and the media limelight. The various activist groups are going along with it because it supports their socialist agenda of wiping out industry and personal freedoms. Global warming has even hit the big screen with “An Inconvenient Truth,” a documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.

So, what is global warming? It is the belief that man has caused the average atmospheric temperatures to increase by his adding of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by the burning of carbon-based fuels like petroleum, coal and wood. Sounds awful, right? The facts, such as we can observe and calculate them, do not support the idea of man-made global warming. Natural processes completely eclipse anything that man can accomplish- a minor rainstorm expends energy than a large nuclear explosive releases and the lowest category of hurricane expends more energy than all of the nuclear weapons ever produced in a short time. The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo alone put more pollution into the atmosphere than the entire history of man. Consider that a moment. Most geologists and indeed, most scientists in the U.S. do not accept the idea that global warming resulting from human activities is a viable theory -because most have an appreciation for the kind of power inherent in natural systems. Conversely, most biologists do accept the idea of man-caused global warming and quote scientists in other fields, without understanding those other fields sufficiently to make a logical judgement as to whether the studies were reasonable in their methods and claims. They simply take it on faith that the scientists propounding global warming are correct in their methods and assumptions. Geologists point to a period of much warmer weather prior to the Little Ice Age of 1350-1850 A.D., in which it was possible to farm in most of Scandinavia, Canada and even in Greenland (the name was not a joke). It is too cold to farm in Greenland, northern Canada and all but the southern tip of Scandinavia. Historians speak of times in the distant past when the earth was much warmer than now, such as prior to the fifth century A.D. or the 11th century B.C., when northern Europe was similar to the Mediterranean in overall climate. Imagine shirtsleeve weather in the Baltic in winter.

The activists and the scientists proponing global warming point to increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere over time. Unfortunately, there are no records of long term monitoring available except at one station in the Hawaiian Islands. While those trying to prove global warming point to the station as proof of increasing carbon dioxide, a crucial error was made in location. In the 1950s, the Scripps Institute thought it would be a good idea to have a carbon dioxide monitor in a place far from other land and possible interference from industry, such as the “Big Island” of Hawaii. A reasonable idea, but their choice of location was very poor. What the Scripps Institute didn’t take into account was that volcanoes produce enormous amounts of steam, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and other gases. Compounding that, the Big Island’s volcanic eruptions have increased in recent years to the point where they are causing air pollution on Oahu, some 200 miles away.

The placement of the station next to major carbon dioxide sources like this and then claiming that the entire world’s carbon dioxide levels are increasing is similar in principle to putting a sensor next to a steel mill’s smokestacks and then saying that the air in the entire U.S. is filled with soot. It’s dishonest and misleading. I digress, but Oregon’s DEQ did the same thing in the 1980s to prove that the Rogue Valley (southern Oregon) had high levels of carbon monoxide. They placed a carbon monoxide sensor half a city block from an old factory whose inefficient boilers were producing large amounts of carbon monoxide. When the factory closed, the levels of carbon monoxide dropped by half and the DEQ claimed that the levels had dropped for the entire Rogue Valley when most of what the sensor had been measuring was the gas from the factory’s boilers. A true measure would have been to have sensors all over the Rogue Valley. Carbon dioxide is the same. To get a true measure of world levels of carbon dioxide, one needs sensors in many places and over a long period of time. We simply don’t have the data to indicate that carbon dioxide has decreased or increased over time.

When Science Contradicts Science

When established facts and scientific principles argue against a theory, then that theory must be untrue or partially untrue. A rock can’t fall down and fly up at the same time. Part of the scientific method is to test hypotheses again and again and then revise an overall theory on the basis of what the tests indicate. Not so with global warming. For example, the claim has been made that ice cores from Greenland and other areas of “permanent” ice caps indicate increasing carbon dioxide. One must consider the nature of glaciers and carbon dioxide before making such a claim. Glaciers flow because the ice softens and flows at about 150 feet from the surface. Carbon dioxide is inert and since carbon dioxide it’s less dense than ice, the carbon dioxide in the ice near the bottom of the ice is going to be squeezed upward in the ice, i.e., the upper ice layers will have more carbon dioxide than lower ice because it moves upward over time. One can see the same effect in the basalt flows of Oregon, such as that of the Cascades or the Table Rocks. When the lava flows across the surface, gas bubbles move upward as the basalt flows and cools. In light of the movement of carbon dioxide in glacier ice, it is not reasonable to claim that carbon dioxide levels are higher in the newer material near the top of the ice as the result of increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. In addition, since the Greenland ice caps that they are drilling cores from didn’t exist before the Little Ice Age, how can they believe that they are taking the measure of thousands of years? The oldest ice can be no more than ~600 years old!

Unfortunately, most activists and many scientists will simply discount information like that as it directly contradicts their idea. In effect, they are saying, “It must be true, so these contradicting facts must themselves be in error.” Thus, we have global warming, geologic dating, evolution, string theory and several other scientific dogmas that must somehow be true, but do not fit the evidence or physical laws as observed. I don’t have that kind of faith. I can’t believe in “science” that is contradicted by other science. Something either fits the evidence consistently or it doesn’t. Simply wanting something to be true doesn’t make it true, today’s postmodern culture notwithstanding. If I hit my hand with a hammer while driving a nail, it’s going to hurt and it is a fact that my hand was hit. Convincing myself that I didn’t hit my hand might make be feel better, but it doesn’t change the objective reality that my hand was struck and a bruise is now forming.

So, what does temperature data indicate? Temperature data that indicates cooling, such as the winters of 2003-2004 and 2004-2005, in which the U.S. east of the Rockies had unseasonably cold weather for several months, are completely ignored in order to make the case that the earth is warming. One hears the media scream about the warmest years in history, but is this accurate? Temperatures in rural areas of the U.S. have dropped slightly in the last few decades. More than a hundred years of temperature records in the U.S. confirm this. Urban temperatures have increased, but this is a phenomenon local only to urban areas- brought about by asphalt and concrete absorbing more heat than the prior ground cover. For example Bend, Oregon is now warmer on average than Redmond, Oregon and ten years ago this was not the case. The population doubled in Bend during this period and with that population increase came a dramatic increase in the amount of asphalt and concrete replacing the native ground cover. The larger area surrounding Bend, however, is still colder than Redmond. In the same way, urban temperatures are not an indicator for the world’s temperatures in general.

A 2002 NOAA study claimed the “certainty” of global warming by comparing seawater temperatures from 50 years ago with the present, yielding an “increase” of 0.5 degrees. This is not a sound analysis of the information that they had to work with. The movements of ocean water are very complex. Current locations and temperatures vary from year to year. Temperature measurements are far more consistent in method, more accurate and much more widespread than 50 years ago. The current system of fixed and moving buoys in multiple locations around the globe providing constant temperature data didn’t exist 50 years ago and instruments are now much more precise. One half of a degree falls within the error of the instruments available 50 years ago and thus cannot be used to prove a warming trend.

Astrophysicists state that Mars and the other planets have warmed up considerably in the last decade. All of the planets share the same heat source- and the sun is not constant in its output, varying from year to year. For example, carbon 14 studies of bristlecone pine tree rings in California and Nevada indicate that there is considerable variability in solar irradiation. Venus used to be used as an example of the “greenhouse effect”, until other scientists pointed out that Venus receives twice as much energy from the sun as the Earth does, has little water, no life, no plate tectonics and it’s atmosphere is very different.

Every climate model from the 1980s on that indicated warming was proven wrong in its predictions. Most models indicated 3 to 6 degree temperature rise in the upper latitudes. This has not happened. The problem with computer modeling is that only a tiny percentage of the literally millions of variables involved can be written into a program. It’s currently impossible for us to accurately model Earth’s climate and we are not aware of all of the variables yet. For example, only recently has it been discovered that the solar wind, sunspots and coronal mass ejections from the sun affect weather patterns.

If global warming were to occur, there would be several indicators. The first would be the increase in seawater temperature. This has not happened that we know of. The second would be a dramatic increase in precipitation in essentially all parts of the world, not just a few. With warmer sea temps, there would be greater evaporation and thus more rain and snow, everywhere. Deserts would become steppes. Steppes would become forest. Boreal forests would become rainforest. This hasn’t happened in the centuries since the industrial revolution began.

These examples illustrate the basic problem of modern science: there is no field of science in which this same type of error does not take place. This is compounded by activists who want their ideas to be true, regardless of the actual facts, by scientists craving media attention and a media that thrives on sensationalism.

For over a decade, we have had the UN and the Democrats trying to restrict carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. on the basis of global warming, despite that it would severely damage the economy and restrict personal freedoms. Wishful thinking by some scientists and environmental activism are no basis for making public policy."

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