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SunRa — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:29:53 GMT

use this instead of facebook anymore? i am thinking more communication has gone person to person now in person... am i correct?

my cat died early this morning...

SunRa — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:39:16 GMT

his name was chewy.... he was a beautiful large orange wonderful marvelous being... not even a year old yet... i acquired him last summer in arizona and he travelled with us to the midwest over our summer psytrance tour... when we arrived in indiana to visit my mother, and after staying with her for a week, i asked her if she would like a companion... my mom has a slipped disk that is inoperable and has forced her into a disabled condition... she had to move from the west coast to a small town there in the midwest in order to afford life... she has been without friends and family and really alone... i had been really concerned about her will to live and felt a loving companion would give her a reason to get up out of bed every day... i felt she needed someone/thing to love on and be loved on by... she quickly decided she had fallen in love with the cat and accepted my offer... and the cat did indeed give her a reason to get up... the cat kept her company, loved on her, slept with her and all the like... she had never had a pet other than a canary that she kept for ten years which was long dead by this time... once, she let me get a kitten, when i was six... but she couldn't handle the kitten stage as it broke several of her heirloom japanese christmas ornaments and we gave it to a no kill shelter... broke my heart... that cat's name was tigger... so, she made it through the kitten stage, and him knocking things down and messing up the place playing even though it was very difficult to keep up with his messes in her disabled condition... and she hates to clean litter boxes, but she did... and then he started attacking her ankles and nearly drove her nuts over this winter, his first winter, not being able to go outside... when it was fall she would call every so often worried about him cause he had not come home, wanting reassurance that he was alright... i tried to explain to her that she could not control the relationship... cats are independent curious living creatures, and please dont worry so much... she tried... she ended up loving him very dearly... as i said... he gave her a reason to get out of bed each morning, and midday, and evening... to take care of him, to let him out, to let him in... he snuggled with her during naps, and would lay next to her at her bench when she was sitting at her table... he would touch his nose to hers, which she knew to be the greatest honor a cat could bestow upon a human... yesterday she called with a great delight... chewy had brought her home his first bird... all mangled feathers and everything... she was so proud... she was so happy... and then she called today a hysterical mess chewy had been run over by a car... she said she was 'stupid enough' to think she could carry a towel out to the street and scoop him up and rush to the vet... but no... she said he was smashed and one could tell he was a very well fed cat with all the entrails smooshed everywhere upon the blacktop... she was so upset... said many things while she cried to me and expressed all her pain and anguish... told me when you have a cat to never let them outside... my poor mom... and her lesson about temporal reality and letting go... i was crying when we got on the phone i told her i loved her, that i am so sorry... she said she was sorry... i told her that i was not crying about the cat, i was crying about her and her emotions and turmoil... i told her i loved her... i love you mom, i love you soooo much... i am sorry that my cat that you took in to love has now caused you all this pain... but i also am not regretful... i told you about cats... i warned you to love without attachment or control... so i quickly attempted to turn the self sorrow to lesson... i said to her that chewy was just too good for this world, with what is happening, and going on... my mother and i talk about everything, and i keep her well informed about global politics and everything that i find here and on GLP... she is also well informed about my spiritual growth or lack thereof... all of it... so, i tell her that chewy was just too good of a cat to stay here any longer... i go on to speculate for her that maybe he was able to evolve enough in his short life of love with her that it was time to get out of his cat body... she started to talk about how he was never afraid of the cars, and it always worried her... that she would open the front door for him to come home and he would be across the street and zip back across it and to the door without ever looking for a car... so happy and full of verve and living life to its happiest and fullest he did, and god took him... and i go on to postulate on the strange lesson, with all the doom and gloom lurking everywhere, that here is the cat, showing us what we are to do with our own lives... i told her, here i was concerned that he would get some older age complications from the vaccines she made him get or have a long death struggle with some weird government concocted disease... and what does he go and do? while in the middle of living in the moment, living to the fullest, the day after he proves himself a good hunting cat with the bird present he brought home, god takes him so fast that he doesn't even know the difference... and we should be doing the same... and trust that if we are to die that god shall takes us quickly at just the right moment... and she agreed and then i went on to tell her of the amazing thing that happened to me last night... to help soothe her and calm her and put her in right perspective on the tragic event, as well as to participate in my regular sharing with her about my personal god revelations... as she too has noticed the empty, the lackluster, the no energy... she was happy to know that i could feel my very large angel again which protects me and connects me to the living light force... and that is what happened...

ummmm...

SunRa — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:39:31 GMT

http://www.mondovista.com/rainbow.html The BioMusic Conspiracy: Secrets of the Rainbow Serpent Flute Goddess by drew hempel, MA Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, the esteemed anthropology expert on the Bushmen, the culture representing 90% of human history, gives the secrets of the Eland Bull ritual in her new book, "The Old Way." The Eland Bull ritual is considered the oldest Bushmen ritual, is practiced by the women, and also similarly found among the closely related forest peoples misnomered as the pygmies. What distinguishes the ritual is the music used -- an old pentatonic or 5 note scale. This simple 5 note scale is considered the most universal scale, found in most human cultures, and it is built on the 1-4-5 music intervals, considered to be used in all human cultures. My music philosophy masters thesis research, linked at http://nonduality.com/hempel.htm, details how the 1-4-5 music intervals are also the basis for yin and yang principles in Taoist philosophy. In other words, the oldest ritual of humanity uses the same ratios that are the secret meaning for Taoist paranormal healing. Anthropology professor Chris Knight connects the Eland Bull ritual with the Rainbow Serpent ritual of the Australian aborigines. These two ancient rituals parallel the "flute cults" found in both Amazonia and Melanesia. The basic story of these universal rituals, much like the Garden of Eden story, is that the females used to control the power for healing and the power for paranormal creation. The men have taken this healing power but secretly know it comes from the females and the men have to be very careful not to lose this ability -- the ability to create "rainbow snakes" for paranormal reality. Amazingly Dr. Andrew Parker's recent book on the Cambrian Explosion of life, some 500 million years ago, argues that "quantum diffraction gradients" were the secret behind evolution. In other words the same "rainbow snake" that you see when looking at the back of a compact disc is also how early sea bioluminscence worked in developing neurons that became brains for cognition. The quantum diffraction gradients look evenly spaced but because of asymmetric resonance the grooves enable self-organizing of ionized energy -- into mass -- and back again into spacetime communication. This self-organizing through a higher holographic dimension is called "hidden correspondance" in quantum chaos science and also called "ghost resonance." Science makes all this seem complicated but that's because of the biomusic conspiracy. Biomusic is a new science discipline based on the discovery that nature -- protozoa, whales, birds, mice, etc., use the same type of harmonics found in human music for communication. In other words the 1-4-5 music intervals are not just limited to humans, but are the secret behind all evolution. Dr. Daniel Levitin speculates on this possible music-evolution connection in his new book "This is your Brain on Music." Music connects with the cerebellum which recently has been discovered to connect with our emotions via the electrochemicals of our autonomic nervous system. Previously the cerebellum was thought to be mainly for motion but it turns out that motion is a means to regulate our emotions! While nonwestern music sounds unsophisticated to the modern ear there is a timeless secret to its apparent monotony. The chanting and single-note singing is based on the concept of sound transducing into ultrasound which creates heat, called N/um by the Bushmen, which then ionizes our electrochemicals, and creates electromagnetic fields for healing. When Daniel Bournelli "disproved" the shamanic Law of Pythagoras, based on the Tetrad of the 1-4-5 music intervals, he lost this timeless and very advanced concept of total energy-mass and spacetime transduction -- this is the Biomusic conspiracy. In nonwestern cultures sex roles are intertwined into all aspects of culture with the understanding that the complimentary opposites can resonate with formless awareness to create strong healing energy. So in the Bushmen culture, traditionally, 90% of the men were healers, while the females sang all night so the men could dance for 10 hours straight. The men would go into a trance state, after the N/um was very strong -- "boiling heat" in the belly -- and then the men would put one hand on the front chest of the female and one hand on the back of the female. This trance state would, through electromagnetic light vision, suck the sickness out of the females. The men would suck in the sickness and then send the sickness back to the spirits of the dead which feed off this extra energy. The "rainbow snake" is the undulating "love-current" of this timeless healing energy. There are 12 harmonic nodes along the front and back of the human that resonate just like the 12 notes of the music scale, created by the overtones of the 1-4-5 harmonics -- the Tai Chi symbol or "rainbow snake flute cult" symbol. The Perfect 5th harmonic is the ratio 2:3 as yang, male energy, which resonates as the infinite spiral of fifths -- the Law of Pythagoras -- back into the formless awareness or eternal feminine consciousness. This practice, of sitting in a chair and focusing the mind along the 12 "notes" of the body, can be done by anyone, so that blissful, electromagnetic energy is created for healing. This natural resonance practice is called the "small universe" or "microcosmic orbit" and guidance c.d.s can be found at http://springforestqigong.com The 12 notes practice is also detailed in Professor Mircea Eliade's book on Indian yoga. The ancient tradition of this biomusic practice is the focus of the book "Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality," translated by Charles Luk. Once the energy channels are opened then a person can sit in full-lotus, which is a tetrahedron, made up of 4 equilateral triangles, each made up of two 2-3-4 triangles, resonating as yin (3:4) and yang (2:3). The full-lotus is a very quick and powerful means to harmonize the electrochemicals of the body. Eventually light can be shot out of the eyes, via the 3rd Eye or the pineal gland, so that healing of others can be achieved. This is a natural resonance revolution from the formless awareness. More details can be found on my old blog, http://drewhempel.gnn.tv. and then http://www.mondovista.com/vz.message.html and the text of this one is left out on purpose... it is a very long read....

Night of the Red Sky: The Prophetic Vision of 'Grandfather'

SunRa — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:01:17 GMT

http://www.humanresonance.org/apache.html Sacred Visions of an Apache Elder Night of the Red Sky: The Prophetic Vision of 'Grandfather' By Tom Brown Jr. (1991), from Nexus Magazine, Volume 7, Number 1 (Dec '99 - Jan '00) December 22, 1923 In the 1920s, an Apache wise man had a Vision of four prophecies that foretold death and destruction for mankind, unless we incorporate Spirit in our daily lives. Two of these prophecies may already have come true. A number of people can predict the future, but few get the timing correct. "Grandfather" was an Apache wise man and scout, named Stalking Wolf, who grew up outside white man's influence. His many predictions not only came true in the manner he predicted, but also when he predicted... Grandfather had been wandering for several years and was well into his forties when the Vision of the four signs was given to him. He had just finished his third Vision Quest at the Eternal Cave when the Vision made itself known. He had been seated at the mouth of the cave, awaiting the rising Sun, when the spirit of the warrior appeared to him. He felt as if he were in a state somewhere between dream and reality, sleep and wakefulness, until the spirit finally spoke and he knew that it was not his imagination. The spirit called Grandfather's name and beckoned him to follow. As Grandfather stood, he was suddenly transported to another world. Again, he thought that he was dreaming, but his flesh could feel the reality of this place; his senses knew that this was a state of abject reality, but in another time and place. The spirit warrior spoke to Grandfather. "These are the things yet to come that will mark the destruction of man. These things you may never see, but you must work to stop them and pass these warnings on to your grandchildren. They are the possible futures of what will come if man does not come back to the Earth and begin to obey the laws of Creation and the Creator. There are four signs, four warnings, that only the children of the Earth will understand. Each warning marks the beginning of a possible future, and as each warning becomes reality, so too does the future it marks"... The First Sign ..."Welcome to what will be called the 'land of starvation'. The world will one day look upon all of this with horror and will blame the famine on the weather and the Earth. This will be the first warning to the world that man cannot live beyond the laws of Creation, nor can he fight Nature... There will come starvation before and after this starvation, but none will capture the attention of the world with such impact as does this one. The children of the Earth will know the lessons that are held in all of this pain and death, but the world will only see it as drought and famine, blaming Nature instead of itself"... In his dream, the spirit spoke to Grandfather. "It is during the years of the famine, the first sign, that man will be plagued by a disease, a disease that will sweep the land and terrorise the masses. The white coats [doctors/scientists] will have no answers for the people, and a great cry will arise across the land. The disease will be born of monkeys, drugs and sex. It will destroy man from inside, making common sickness a killing disease. Mankind will bring this disease upon himself as a result of his life, his worship of sex and drugs, and a life away from Nature. This, too, is a part of the first warning; but, again, man will not heed this warning and he will continue to worship the false gods of sex and the unconscious spirit of drugs." [Author's note: This is presumably a reference to AIDS.] The Second Sign The spirit looked at Grandfather for a long moment, then finally spoke. "Holes in the sky... will become the second sign of the destruction of man. The holes in the sky and all that you have seen could become man's reality. It is here, at the beginning of this second sign, that man can no longer heal the Earth with physical action. It is here that man must heed the warning and work harder to change the future at hand. But man must not only work physically, he must also work spiritually, through prayer, for only through prayer can man now hope to heal the Earth and himself"... "These holes are a direct result of man's life, his travel, and of the sins of his grandfathers and grandmothers. These holes, the second sign, will mark the killing of his grandchildren and will become a legacy to man's life away from Nature. It is the time of these holes that will mark a great transition in mankind's thinking. They will then be faced with a choice-a choice to continue following the path of destruction, or a choice to move back to the philosophy of the Earth and a simpler existence. It is here that the decision must be made, or all will be lost"... [A reference to harmful radiation from holes in the ozone layer caused by burning fossil fuels.] The Third Sign Grandfather spent the next four days at the cave entrance, though for those four days nothing spoke to him, not even the Earth. He said that it was a time of great sorrow, of aloneness, and a time to digest all that had taken place. He knew that these things would not appear in his lifetime, but they had to be passed down to the people of the future with the same urgency and power with which they had been delivered to him. But he did not know how he would explain these unlikely events to anyone. Surely the elders and shamans of the tribes would understand, but not society, and certainly not anyone who was removed from the Earth and Spirit. He sat for the full four days, unmoving, as if made of stone, and his heart felt heavy with the burden he now carried. It was at the end of the fourth day that the third Vision came to him. As he gazed out onto the landscape towards the setting Sun, the sky suddenly turned to a liquid and then turned blood-red. As far as his eyes could see, the sky was solid red, with no variation in shadow, texture or light. The whole of Creation seemed to have grown still, as if awaiting some unseen command. Time, place and destiny seemed to be in limbo, stilled by the bleeding sky. He gazed for a long time at the sky, in a state of awe and terror, for the red colour of the sky was like nothing he had ever seen in any sunset or sunrise. The colour was that of man, not of Nature, and it had a vile stench and texture. It seemed to burn the Earth wherever it touched. As sunset drifted to night, the stars shone bright red, the colour never leaving the sky, and everywhere the cries of fear and pain were heard. Again, the warrior spirit appeared to Grandfather, but this time as a voice from the sky. Like thunder, the voice shook the landscape. "This, then, is the third sign, the night of the bleeding stars. It will become known throughout the world, for the sky in all lands will be red with the blood of the sky, day and night. It is then, with this sign of the third probable future, that there is no longer hope. Life on the Earth as man has lived it will come to an end, and there can be no turning back, physically or spiritually. It is then, if things are not changed during the second sign, that man will surely know the destruction of the Earth is at hand. It is then that the children of the Earth must run to the wild places and hide. For when the sky bleeds fire, there will be no safety in the world of man." Grandfather sat in shocked horror as the voice continued. "From this time, when the stars bleed, to the fourth and final sign, will be four seasons of peace [that is, one year]. It is in these four seasons that the children of the Earth must live deep in the wild places and find a new home, close to the Earth and the Creator. It is only the children of the Earth that will survive, and they must live the philosophy of the Earth, never returning to the thinking of man. And survival will not be enough, for the children of the Earth must also live close to the Spirit. So tell them not to hesitate if and when this third sign becomes manifest in the stars, for there are but four seasons to escape." Grandfather said that the voice and red sky lingered for a week, and then were gone as quickly as they were manifest. The Fourth Sign He did not remember how many days he'd spent at the mouth of the cave, nor did it make a difference, for he had received the Vision he had come for. It was in his final night at the Eternal Cave that the fourth Vision came to Grandfather, this time carried by the voice of a young child. The child said, "The fourth and final sign will appear through the next ten winters [that is, ten years] following the night that the stars will bleed. During this time, the Earth will heal itself and man will die. For those ten years, the children of the Earth must remain hidden in the wild places, make no permanent camps, and wander to avoid contact with the last remaining forces of man. They must remain hidden, like the ancient scouts, and fight the urge to go back to the destruction of man. Curiosity could kill many." There was a long silence, until Grandfather spoke to the child spirit, asking, "And what will happen to the worlds of man?" There was another period of silence until finally the child spoke again. "There will be a great famine throughout the world, like man cannot imagine. Waters will run vile, the poisons of man's sins running strong in the waters of the soils, lakes and rivers. Crops will fail, the animals of man will die, and disease will kill the masses. The grandchildren will feed upon the remains of the dead, and all about will be the cries of pain and anguish. Roving bands of men will hunt and kill other men for food, and water will always be scarce, getting scarcer with each passing year. The land, the water, the sky will all be poisoned, and man will live in the wrath of the Creator. Man will hide at first in the cities, but there he will die. A few will run to the wilderness, but the wilderness will destroy them, for they had long ago been given a choice. Man will be destroyed, his cities in ruin, and it is then that the grandchildren will pay for the sins of their grandfathers and grandmothers." "Is there then no hope?" Grandfather asked. The child spoke again. "There is only hope during the time of the first and second signs. Upon the third sign, the night of the bleeding, there is no longer hope, for only the children of the Earth will survive. Man will be given these warnings; if unheeded, there can be no hope, for only the children of the Earth will purge themselves of the cancers of mankind, of mankind's destructive thinking. It will be the children of the Earth who will bring a new hope to the new society, living closer to the Earth and Spirit." Then all was silent, the landscape cleared and returned to normal, and Grandfather stepped from the Vision. Shaken, he said that he had wandered for the next season, trying to understand all that had been given to him, trying to understand why he had been chosen. Grandfather had related the story to me in great detail during that night of the four prophecies. I don't think that any event had been left out, and his emotions and thoughts were such that he actually relived it for us. Thus the power of his Vision became part of our spirit, our driving force, and a big part of our fears. I sat for a long time up on the hill. The fire had gone out, and all had retired to sleep for the night. Creation seemed to be at a standstill, awaiting this darkest part of the night to pass by. I felt alone and vulnerable, as if all of Creation were scrutinising my every thought. Grandfather had this Vision some time in the 1920s. Analysis The prophetic accuracy of Stalking Wolf's visions are quite stunningly clear thus far, both in their highly detailed descriptions and sequence of events, as presented to the young Tom Brown and friends. Here is the prophecied timeline as interpreted in the context of the ongoing magnetic polar reversal: 1st Sign............ 1975 - 1985 . African famine and AIDS spread 2nd Sign........... 1985 - 1995 . Holes form in Earth's ozone layer, permitting destructive solar rays 3rd Sign........... Dec 22, 2012 . Magnetic reversal ignites a plasma canopy seen as red skies worldwide 4th Sign............ 2012 - 2022 . Large-scale destruction of low-resonance human technology ensues This interpretation of the timeline of Grandfather's visions is based on the notion that plasmas in our skies (now seen as auroras) will become more and more visible, eventually forming a complete canopy enveloping Earth. Identical scenarios of firestorms and the Red Dawn are prophecied by several other indigenous traditions from the Americas, including the Hopi, Sioux and Maya. Contemporary solar scientists as well as Mayan timekeepers are predicting the most intense solar event in the history of humanity, culminating in a system-wide magnetic reversal involving all of Sol's planets on December 22, 2012. The Prophecy of the Night of the Red Skies predicts an atmospheric change of epic proportions in our imminent future, however, without providing a specific date, after which time humanity is advised to abandon his technological traps before they become lethal. The precursors of this oncoming energy wave are already manifesting, as the electromagnetically oriented patterns of weather, animal and plant activity around the world are collapsing. Even more specific to the prophetic warnings are recent incidents of anomalous electric fires, such as the igniting cellphones and shavers in Vallejo, California, as well as in the Berici Hills of northern Italy and Messina, Sicily. The changing ambient conditions of Earth are mitigated by the world's gigantic pyramidal transducers of infrasound, the Orion pyramids at Giza, which serve to balance the energy moving through our planet to reduce erratic earthquakes. This energetic build-up process has already reached evacuation levels in various parts of the world. Piezoelectric firestorms are concurrently being experienced in waves of erratic activity, also measured as infrasound pulsation, in Ratria, India, Bodibe, South Africa, Seattle and Santa Barbara, USA.

personal universal provisions

SunRa — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:57:20 GMT

i want to be happy, peaceful... in my truth... and my truth is to be REAL... to be a REAL person... i want my kids at home with me... i want to follow my spiritual path... i want to throw ritual psychedelic full moon parties where we have a fun yet serious spiritual purpose each month... i want to run my psychedelic trance radio station and be the marketer and promoter for many talented artists... i want a huge garden and some chickens... i want to paint paint paint... i want to help children and adults with the huge transition that is coming.... i want to be more than simply ADEPT with it myself even.. i want to write childrens affirmation books beautifully illustrated... little spell prayers to help their parents teach them about focus meditation prayer and imaginative focus... i am so very good at it i want a large property where there is an open air ampitheater... well... more like a psytrance dancefloor... i want a pacific dome house event sized for indoor gatherings where we can project visual imagery to go with the music... i want to incorporate higher vibrational imagery to go with the music to amplify and activate higher consciousness.... i want a dome house for myself as well... and one for my mother... and a few small ones for showers and composting toilets... and a special one for lovely baths and saunas... i want hippie travelers with college education or self education to find my property a beautiful haven for practicing self sustainability... teach and work in our fields with the most luscious foodstuffs... i want workshops and symposiums and special event group meditations to also be held in our event dome... i want chickens for eggs as well as chicken compost... i want to attract the most beautiful people who have much to share and teach and learn and experience... i want to sit outside at dusk and look out onto the scene/landscape and FEEL the inbetween transition which sends me into transcendental shifts and amazing ecstasy... i want windmills to generate electricity and pump the water from the well... i want a pond or small lake to skinny dip in... i want tree swings and mini bio diverse eco systems for us and our visitors to play with and wonder over... and really... i want my children by my side to experience it all... and i dont care if they learn the difference between an isosolese triangle and an obtuse triangle... i do care if they know what triangulation of energy means... i dont care if they remember the exact dates of which important person in history did what and when they were elected... i do care if they learn the true history they wont get in text books at school... i do care if they really understand what all the concepts of sovereignity are and what that means... there might be a lot more details... but that is most of the big stuff right now... this is what i want... and i want my kids away from that dreaded machine... and i realize what many of my dreams meant from a long time ago... and i realize that if i keep putting off what i truly want, my time will run out... i do know that universe shall provide a way for me as long as i am acting in my truth and in concert with the divine will of universe/god... and it is by gods will that act in my truth and thus stop being afraid to do that which i know is right to do... universe shall support as long as i am vibrating at the universal truth flow for me... .... sunra

Definitions of the Day: Audultery and Fornication

SunRa — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:07:06 GMT

The word adultery is a biblical term and means betrayal. God accused Israel of adultery by worshiping other gods,,etc. You can commit adultery by going to lunch and playing footsie with someone, or by doing anything that emotionally "hurts" your spouse. If she feels betrayed, you have committed adultery. They didn’t have condoms in ancient Israel and it was wrong to sleep around because of messing up blood lines and spreading disease. Ie, the reason fornication is a sin. Adultery is a mental injury you cause to another person as a direct result of your actions. Fornication is physical act. They can happen at the same time but are separate acts and separate sins.

while you were out chasing chemtrails...

SunRa — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:18:21 GMT

"The Human Genome Project may now open the door to the development and use of genetic weapons targeted at specific ethnic groups. This project is currently being conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Energy Department, which also oversees America's nuclear weapon arsenal. In October 1997, Dr. Wayne Nathanson, chief of the Science and Ethics Department of the Medical Society of the United Kingdom, warned the annual meeting of the Society that "gene therapy" might possibly be turned into "gene weapons" which could potentially be used to target particular genes possessed by certain groups of people. These weapons, Nathanson warned, could be delivered not only in the forms already seen in warfare such as gas and aerosol, but could also be added to water supplies, causing not only death but sterility and birth defects in targeted groups. Current estimates of the cost of developing a "gene weapon" have been placed at around $50 million, still quite a stretch for an isolated band of neo-Nazis, but well within the capabilities of covert government programs. On November 15, 1998, the London Times reported that Israel claimed to have successfully developed a genetically specific "ethnic bullet" that targets Arabs. When an Israeli government spokesman was asked to confirm the existence of ethnic weapons, he did not deny that they had them, but rather said, "we have a basket full of serious surprises that we will not hesitate to use if we feel that the state of Israel is under serious threat." Some scientists worry that the modified genes that corporations have spliced into fish, fowl, fruit and vegetables have permanently altered the world's food supply. Some may be intended to reduce populations. The U.S. has a long history of interest in such genetic research. The current home of the Human Genome Project is the Cold Springs Harbor laboratory on Long Island, NY—the exact site of the notorious Eugenics Research Office that was started in 1910 by the Harriman family. The project's 1910 agenda included governmental imposition of sanctions on such human rights as reproduction, and on U.S. immigration, based on the alleged inferiority of particular ethnic groups. The Eugenics Research Project established medical and psychological conditions that would qualify one for sterilization or euthanasia. Prominent advocates of the program such as the Rockefeller family, Henry Ford, and Margaret Sanger helped smooth the way for the passage of forcible sterilization laws in 25 states. These laws allowed the forcible sterilization of tens of thousands of people, mostly of minority status, during the first half of the 20th century. The November 1970 issue of the Military Review published an article entitled "Ethnic Weapons" for command-level military personnel. The author of the article was Dr. Carl Larson, head of the Department of Human Genetics at the Institute of Genetics in Lund, Sweden. Dr Larson wrote of how genetic variations in races are concurrent with differences in tolerances for various substances. For instance, large segments of Southeast Asian populations display a lactose intolerance due to the absence of the enzyme lactase in the digestive system. A biological weapon could conceivably take advantage of this genetic variance and incapacitate or kill an entire population. Update by Greg Bishop The ubiquitous nature of racism and the ruling power structure's history of handling "undesirables," as well as dealing with an enemy (almost always of different racial stock than a dominant aggressor) virtually assures us that the more powerful countries and their allies are continuing to look into new and better ways of subduing and killing whole (or major parts of) foreign populations. When the London Times broke the story of the Israeli bioweapons project and interest in the development of pathogens that would disable or kill by ethnicity, they quoted an unnamed British intelligence source that said that these sorts of weapons were "theoretically possible." They were not only "theoretical" but had been researched for nearly 50 years. The lynchpin of the Times article was the writer's reliance on a specifically genetic explanation for ethnic weapons. Bioweapons have been used since at least the Roman Empire, when armies dumped dead animals into an enemy's water supply to spread disease. Research into ethnic-specific bioweapons was first broached publicly in 1970, when Dr. Carl Larson's article "Ethnic Weapons" appeared in the Military Review. Larson discussed the possibility of utilizing differing races' sensitivity or low resistance to specific compounds (such as lactose intolerance among Asians) as either a bioweapon in itself, or as a "vector" that would allow other poisons or microorganisms to more easily enter a human body when defenses were lowered or destroyed. This method was not as surgically accurate as the military might want it to be, since many populations are not completely homogenous. The strange thing about the Times coverage was that it completely ignored this history and the fact that any technology for killing more of the enemy than your own would most likely be (and has been) looked upon with interest by military strategists. No updates have yet appeared (or I have been unable to locate any) on the subject of Israeli ethnic weapons. In this country, continuing a historic policy toward Native Americans, it has been revealed that the American Indian Health Service (IHS—funded by the Federal Government, who employ the doctors and nurses) coerced Native American men and women into forced sterilizations in the early to mid 1970s. The General Accounting Office (GAO) estimated that 3,400 people (mostly women) underwent the treatment, but their study only covered four of twelve IHS regions for four years. Activists put the estimate much higher, at 60,000 to 70,000. This, coupled with the suspicion raised by the hantavirus outbreak in the Four Corners region of Arizona/New Mexico/Colorado/Utah keeps suspicion and fingers pointed at the federal government and at least some government policies toward the American Indian population. (Hantavirus is one of many "new" diseases that have come under suspicion of having their origins in genetic engineering or biowarfare labs.) As reported in a 1994 Project Censored update, Utah's Dugway Proving Grounds biowarfare research site was also reopened despite local residents' protests over fears that the facility was originally closed because of safety concerns. Fort Dietrick, the site of the most notorious CIA drug and army biowarfare research in the United States now houses major research facilities of the National Cancer Institute, raising issues of conflict (or collusion) or interest. No major press outlets were consulted about publication of the story. It was written to appear on the Konformist.com website. Public awareness spread from there. There appears to have been no followup in the mainstream media on the original 1998 London Times story. For more information on this story: Cole, Leonard A. Clouds of Secrecy: The Amy's Germ Warfare Tests Over Populated Areas, Rowman & Littlefield, Totowa, N.J. , 1988. Hersh, Seymour M. Chemical and Biological Warfare: America's Hidden Arsenal, Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1968. Murphy, Sean. No Fire, No Thunder: The Threat of Chemical and Biological Weapons, Monthly Review Press, New York , 1984. Piller, Charles. Gene Wars: Military Control Over the New Genetic Technologies, Beech Tree Books, New York , 1988. Spiers, Edward M. Chemical and Biological Weapons: A Study in Proliferation, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1994. Websites: www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id293/pg1.html Article by Preston Peet on U.S. biowarfare testing in Puerto Rico in the 1930s. Island population was deliberately infected with cancer in a program run by Dr. Cornelius Rhodes, who went on to win seats on the Atomic Energy Commission and the Rockefeller Institute, as well as running U.S. chemical warfare programs in WWII. Many useful links. www.ratical.org/ratville/sterilize.html Long and detailed article on the American Indian sterilization program. cns.miis.edu/pubs/reports/zilin.htm This Center for Nonproliferation Studies site features text of threat assessment presented to Congressional subcommittee in October 1999, by Dr. Raymond Zilinskas. Includes information on bioweapons and ethnic weapons. www.gene.ch/gentech/1999/Jan-Feb/msg00070.html Genetech discussion list featuring exchanges on ethnic weapons. Concentrates on possibility of genetically engineered versions. Update by Robert Sterling, Editor of the Konformist Let me add personal knowledge of response to the article of which the author Greg Bishop was unaware. While the media response was predictably non-existent, I did receive numerous comments that spoke volumes. The main thrust of "Ethnic Weapons for Ethnic Cleansing" was reports of an Israeli biowarfare program targeting Arabs. One of the key groups of readers of the Konformist are Zionist Jews, courtesy of the promotion of the provocative writings of Israel's Barry Chamish, a dedicated Zionist who has done tremendous work investigating the Rabin assassination and the suppressions involved with it. What is interesting is that, though I received quite a few Emails from the Zionist community, none denied the accuracy of the story. Instead, they brashly admitted it was true, then added it was necessary because Israel needed to defend itself from its Arab neighbors. What is most telling is that many letters included references to Arabs that were derogatory and dehumanizing. That such a destructive philosophy is accepted by so many uncritically in Israel explains much of the vicious thuggery performed against the Palestinians over the last four months (not to mention the last 33 years). This is why I submitted the story, because it underscored an important point that no group has a monopoly of hatred and oppression, and that authoritarian values of all flavors must be rejected and battled with words. Update by Robert Lederman While the average person has no particular interest in nor any tangible use for the Human Genome Project it, more than the economy or whichever political party is in power in Washington, will very significantly mold the future of human life on this planet. Like its origin, Eugenics, the Human Genome Project (HGP) has been presented to the public as an effort by our government to help people live happier, healthier, and more productive lives. Nothing could be further from the truth. When I first wrote the article "The Human Genome Project and Eugenics" I received a lot of correspondence from media people and scientists who felt I was unfairly associating the HGP with Eugenics and its expression in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. Since then I've found on the HGP's own website an introduction to the project that makes exactly the same connection in no uncertain terms. From vector.cshl.org/eugenics.html: "Although it is easy to conceive of the Human Genome Project and genetic engineering as an entirely new epoch in scientific history, this is not our first-scale involvement with human genetics. Our current rush into the "gene age" has striking parallels to the eugenics movement of the early decades of the 20th century. Eugenicists sought an exclusively genetic explanation of human development, neglecting the important contribution of the environment. Their flawed data were the basis for social legislation to separate racial and ethnic groups, restrict immigration from southern and eastern Europe, and sterilize people considered "genetically unfit." Elements of the American eugenics movement were models for the Nazis, whose radical adaptation of eugenics culminated in the Holocaust." As of this writing, the human genomes of the populations of Estonia, Tonga, and Iceland have been bought and patented by private corporations with many more such corporatized human lineages to follow. James Watson, the discoverer of the structure of DNA and the project's first director, has spoken publicly of his enthusiasm for human germline engineering—making permanent inheritable changes in the human populations' DNA. In the brief time since I wrote the article, insurance companies have publicly admitted that they will use prospective clients' DNA in deciding whether to grant them health insurance. Mayors and governors across America are following NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in demanding that DNA samples be taken from every person arrested regardless of how minor their crime. Man-made transgenic organisms are being introduced into the human food supply and environment under the guise of distributing vaccines and improving nutrition with what can only be described as either reckless enthusiasm or an intent to do harm. In short, we will soon be living in a society in which Eugenics science applied by government may play a greater role in ones destiny than any other factor. While all of this is happening the public is being misled into believing that the Project's main purpose is to cure diseases and extend human life. Once this genie is out of the bottle, it will never be put back in. While it may seem like science fiction to most people, the Human Genome Project represents the single biggest threat to human freedom that has ever been devised. The following websites contain a great amount of scientific, historical, and propaganda material on Eugenics and the Human Genome Project. Some of the sites are anti-eugenics and others, including a neo-Nazi site, are pro- eugenics and blatantly racist. My including them in this list should not be construed as an endorsement of any of the statements contained therein, other than those in my own articles. Baltech.org/lederman/spray/ www.hli.org/issues/pp/bcreview/index.html www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/scopenotes/sn28.htm www.biol.tsukuba.ac.jp/~macer/SG.html www.notdeadyet.org/eughis.html www.techreview.com/articles/as96/allen.html www.hli.org/issues/pp/bcreview/index.html www.csu.edu.au/learning/ncgr/gpi/grn/edures/scope.28.2.htm l users.erols.com/straymond/EUGENICS2.htm home.att.net/~eugenics/ www.sightings.com/general3/eugene.htm www4.stormfront.org/posterity/"

SHIFTING 2008

SunRa — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:39:40 GMT

In the year 2008, more and more people will begin questioning things that they never questioned before. Individuals from all walks of life will be seeking new answers and to make sense of a nonsensical world. For some people—who have been asleep to humanity's great current of change—a personal crisis in the not too distant future could be the catalyst to seriously question the status quo. The crisis could be anything from a grave health condition, a costly divorce, a house foreclosure, or a job loss. When the person begins questioning more deeply than before, and realizes how shaky the traditional means of support are, an opening is created to change course. To be sure, such a person receiving this "wake up call" must act on the "call" in order to shift their circumstances. As part of that, they must choose a different path than the one they have been traveling. The New Path of Heart This new path involves looking within for answers and responding to the world with a heart-centered focus. It means giving up, bit by bit, the habitual ego-based patterns learned in the conventional world. Giving these up is not a simple thing to do, for there is much resistance and ignorance about the truth of one's real condition. That is a normal part of being human. This awakening person will need to approach the new path with dedication, persistence, self-love, compassion, and patience. The last quality of patience is particularly important, for success in navigating the new heart-centered path will require ongoing actions and choices. The person must be willing to continue choosing the higher path, and taking actions that reflect that choice, regardless of what appears to be happening. Sometimes it may appear as though nothing at all is happening. Other times, the progress may simply seem to be too slow. No matter what adversity is experienced, discouragement must not be allowed to block the person's resolve. The shifting into an entire new way of being requires tenacity and an ability to continually remember the big picture. For Experienced Travelers For those already on the path of conscious awakening, this coming cycle will precipitate an even deeper level of questioning than before. Light will continue to shine on disparities and dysfunctional old paradigm approaches. As that happens, many secrets and much hidden knowledge will be exposed. Truth will come out into the open. Some of this uncovering will involve personal issues that will present themselves in a new way, perhaps escalating into even more of a crisis. When these things occur, if approached intuitively and sanely, doorways will open to allow for resolution. A skilled person who desires to rid themselves of a longstanding concern, therefore, may find that this next cycle gives them just the spiritual fuel needed to finally complete the healing. The Shift on a Global Scale Each person on the planet will be impacted in some way by the accelerated transformational shifting in 2008. It may be conscious or unconscious, but the impact will be there. The challenge will be in connecting the dots and making sense of the oppositional forces. Fear-based agendas and actions can be subtle, disguised as something benevolent. Again, remembering the larger view and making sure to regularly question within are keys to each person's individual progress. If you feel that your ability for inner inquiry needs to be strengthened, there has never been a more important time to further develop this skill. Having this talent in these pivotal times is not a luxury, but a necessity. This ability is developed by first opening to it, and then through lots of ongoing practice. Opening to your natural ability to question will take a very strong desire, and a willingness to learn new ways of approaching your reality. It will also require an inner strength that does not waver when you feel challenged by others, the status quo, or unflattering information you receive about yourself. You must be willing to see the truth behind the falseness in everything, including your own human-formed identity. That, too, must be allowed to fall away so that you can discover your true Divine self hidden underneath. Inner inquiry is also an essential part of developing your intuitive knowing or psychic abilities. Those who have developed their skill of using intuitively guided reason will be in high demand in the times to come. They may call themselves intuitives, or they may use other language to describe their gifts. Those gifted with intuitive ability will be needed everywhere – from corporations, government bodies, households, health care facilities, to the intuitive arts. They will surface to help others not yet skilled in inner inquiry. They will also be able to help other skilled intuitive people, who from time to time desire additional input from someone outside the conventional paradigm. Sometimes it will be in sharing the results of one's own inner questioning with such a person that hidden truths of one's dilemma will surface. Need for Restoration of Atrophied Talents For most people, questioning and listening are rather atrophied talents. Everyone can learn to do these things, but the conventional world puts little value on them. In fact, from an early age, most people are told what to do, how to think, and what is true. Education, even at the higher levels, does not teach people to question, to listen, or to really think for themselves. People learn that to succeed in the outer world, they must be first, best, fit in with what society dictates, and be the loudest voice in the crowd in order to stand out. There is tremendous pressure to do and be these things. When people follow this conventional recipe for success, they are headed for disappointment. The recipe may be all they know, and it may appear that others use it for great achievements, yet it is based on a lie. At the root of the lie is a tangled web of false notions of the conditional world. They appear real because humanity has given them so much energy and accepted them as a guidebook for living. Each person must dispel the false notions for themselves, one at a time. To do this, a person must restore their atrophied talents of inner questioning and listening. When atrophied talents are restored and made relevant for these times, a person has an intuitively guided rational means of responding to uncertainty and chaos. Those who are drawn to focus on these untraditional approaches know, at a deep cellular level, that this time in history is unique. The next few years will not be a carbon copy of any other time, even though some dynamics are similar. The familiar themes—long part of the human landscape—include war, greed, ego-based control and power maneuvers, hatred and prejudice towards anything or anyone seeming to be different, fear-based messages of doom and gloom which include predictions of the "end of the world," and growing numbers of people fed up with it all. What's Different This Time This time around, the world is being profoundly impacted by the cumulative force of an awakening consciousness. Underway is the biggest shift in consciousness humanity has seen in so short a time period. The force of awakening has been building for many years across the planet, with new levels of progress reached each year. Much of this forward movement is difficult to discern, especially in times of hardship, and when most people are so focused on what's wrong. Humanity, right now, stands on the edge of the crucial jumping off point that can allow for a dramatic leap into higher consciousness. This is the leap you have come to Earth to make, and what you have been working towards—knowingly or unknowingly—your whole life. The brand new paradigm of enlightened consciousness really is more within reach than ever, despite what you hear to the contrary. It is important that you believe this, and that you focus your energies on creating it—mainly within yourself but also in your actions taken in the world. The more consciously you work to create this new paradigm in the next few years, the greater your opportunity to shift into a higher vibrational state, and to positively impact the planet. As you do this inner work, you will be assisting others around you and also helping to create a more heart-centered world. It is vital in these next few years to stay awake to the lies and manipulation. You will be told that there's no hope for the planet, no Earth for your great-grandchildren to inhabit, and that only certain "good" people will "survive." You will be told that you must give up your freedoms to be protected from the "enemy." You will be told that it's too costly (or some other explanation) to fix human dysfunctional systems involving health care, allocation of resources, and destruction of the environment. None of this is true. Setting Your Intention for Change Set your intention right now to be one of the ones who seriously questions what is happening, and to take conscious responsible action in the world to be a positive force for change. Intend that you do this continually, regardless of what seems to be happening. Remember that your intentions and actions count. The momentum of change is all around you. You can see evidence of it regularly. Noticing the discontent in people and their desire for something brand new can become inspirational reminders that people are growing less accepting of conventional ways of being. When you view it this way, rather than as a reminder of how much everyone is suffering, you shift your vibration higher. This view may also inspire you to be of more service to others. In 2008, people in all corners of the world will have less tolerance of lies, hidden agendas, broken promises, cover-ups, and deceit of all kinds. These ways of being, and public outcry about them, will be more out in the open than ever before. Differing points of view about truth will continue to be a source of conflict, on both a personal level and within groups of people. Most of the wars fought between peoples have involved disagreements involving truth. Some cultures teach the idea that there will be a final battle between good and evil, and that only certain "good" ones—classified by their idea of "good"—will survive and be "saved." Other cultures have very different ideas of truth. The truths at issue will always be relative truths, based on the conventional reality. Your truth may look quite different than another person's. Truth is sometimes thought of as what you think is real. Consider that, without a full awareness of reality, including the physical and nonphysical, it is impossible to know truth except in relative terms. Waking Up to Human Interconnectedness Thanks in part to the power of the media, growing numbers of the world's population are now realizing the interconnected stream of energy that has always impacted the diverse forms of life on the planet. A war or peacemaking event in one place impacts the whole. Oppressed peoples in one country become a cause of global outrage. A large-scale natural disaster in one place stirs compassion and aid relief from strangers living half way around the world. A new discovery in medicine in one country helps to resolve a health crisis for a threatened impoverished culture. The need for joining together and helping one another has never been more urgent. In the next few years, humanity as a species will have the opportunity to fully understand human interconnectedness and to utilize this to help create a brand new world. Checklist for Personal Transformation in 2008 The following are some guidelines for approaching your own personal transformation in 2008. Become still and move your focus to your heart as you read these words. Invite your intuitively guided reason to show you which of these is a priority for right now. Then, as 2008 begins, review this list again in the same way, noticing if the priority has shifted and if you have new insights about your personal journey. 1. Observe your mind. Become more aware of what you are thinking, what you focus on, and what you repeat over and over to yourself like a broken record. This will give you clues about what belief systems you hold within you at the DNA level. 2. Learn to focus your mind. You can do a number of things at one time, yet your mind can only efficiently focus on one thing at a time. Notice when you go out of focus, putting your attention on another topic. Practice focusing your mind on something positive you wish to create or experience. 3. Bring your intuitive right brain more into your everyday experience. As an example, as you focus on something you desire to create, imagine your creation in living color with details filled in. Allow your right brain to come up with additional details you may not have included when thinking of your creation through logic alone. 4. Question. Set your intent to question things you have never questioned before. Then get into the habit of questioning what your world presents. It could be a television show that glorifies meanness, your doctor giving a dire prognosis, or your government officials voting away your freedom of choice. It could be something personal, such as a relationship challenge or your own doubts that you have made any progress in recent years. Question these things and more. 5. Take action on your questioning. If you inquired within about your doctor's prognosis and received very emphatic intuitive guidance that your doctor doesn't have all the information—another more positive outcome being possible—refuse to let the doctor's prognosis decide the outcome. Be willing to take every step you can to create a different outcome. Invite a Divine solution and ask to be shown the way, a step at a time. Continue to trust what your heart tells you is true for you. 6. Do not settle for an everyday approach to personal growth. Conventional approaches do not allow you to progress spiritually. You have not come here to be conventional. You are here to make a new mold. Ask to be guided to new paradigm methods of healing and knowing the Self. Find and apply new approaches in ways that suit the particular approach. Have the courage to stick with it, even when your lifestyle seems increasingly foreign when compared with that of the everyday person. .Remember during times when your courage wavers that you did not incarnate this lifetime to simply continue your cycle of ordinary existence. You came to rediscover the Divine at the core of your being. 7. Become more compassionate. Without compassion for yourself and others, you will not be able to realize your true Divine nature. 8. Drop all judgments. Set your intention that you will become more awake to your judgments. Humans have a habitual tendency to judge everyone and everything. This puts people and things into boxes labeled right and wrong, good and bad. When you judge, you reinforce the polarity of opposites. In the process, you limit yourself. Decide that you will judge less and be more accepting of what is. 9. Reassess and update your relationship with yourself regularly. Get into the habit of frequently asking yourself whether your life is reflecting the new paradigm road you desire to travel. At home, for example, you can reevaluate your environment, your lifestyle, and even your clothes. Consider whether some modifications are in order. You may have an extra bedroom filled with things you hardly ever use, and you've been wondering where you would find a quiet space for your meditation practice. Perhaps some reorganization could serve a number of purposes. Another example could be your quiet time, and the realization that you would like to devote more time to inner reflection and being still. Consider what outside distractions and other factors you would need to address. A third example involves looking at your use of time and energy in the context of the path you want to travel. One week you may have invitations to become involved in several diverse projects. When you carefully evaluate each one—using your heart's wisdom and keeping the big picture in mind—you may realize that at least one of the projects may divert you from your goals. You may discover that there are much better uses of your time and energy. 10. Trust that you will be guided to solutions. Regardless of how hopeless a personal dilemma may seem, it is important that you trust there is a Divine solution. Invite in this solution and then be open to how and when it shows up. The solution that is perfect for you may not be the solution that would work for others, yet it will be exactly what you need. If your dilemma remains unresolved after a time, it is important that you are willing to simply be with your condition. If you can learn to trust what is and to know that there is always a higher purpose to things, you can find peace. 11. Use your time wisely. Remember that each moment and each new day is an opportunity to grow spiritually, to love, and to progress on your path of light. Set your intention that you will make full use of your gift of physical life. Treasure the moments during which you experience love, openings, and awakening to the movement of spirit. Let go of the rest. 12. Go gently with yourself. Treat yourself as you would a best friend. When you know you need to rest, don't push yourself needlessly. When you have suffered a major disappointment, be kind to yourself. When you don't meet your own expectations, resist the temptation to criticize yourself.

adonai

SunRa — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:38:53 GMT

thank you so much lady for working in my life, working in the created world, loving us --- u r most special energy thank you

Democracy Is Not Freedom

SunRa — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:12:26 GMT

Democracy Is Not Freedom by Ron Paul “…man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.” ~ Ronald Reagan We’ve all heard the words democracy and freedom used countless times, especially in the context of our invasion of Iraq. They are used interchangeably in modern political discourse, yet their true meanings are very different. George Orwell wrote about “meaningless words” that are endlessly repeated in the political arena.* Words like “freedom,” “democracy,” and “justice,” Orwell explained, have been abused so long that their original meanings have been eviscerated. In Orwell’s view, political words were “Often used in a consciously dishonest way.” Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language. As a result, Americans have been conditioned to accept the word “democracy” as a synonym for freedom, and thus to believe that democracy is unquestionably good. The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this, as evidenced not only by our republican constitutional system, but also by their writings in the Federalist Papers and elsewhere. James Madison cautioned that under a democratic government, “There is nothing to check the inducement to sacrifice the weaker party or the obnoxious individual.” John Adams argued that democracies merely grant revocable rights to citizens depending on the whims of the masses, while a republic exists to secure and protect pre-existing rights. Yet how many Americans know that the word “democracy” is found neither in the Constitution nor the Declaration of Independence, our very founding documents? A truly democratic election in Iraq, without U.S. interference and U.S. puppet candidates, almost certainly would result in the creation of a Shiite theocracy. Shiite majority rule in Iraq might well mean the complete political, economic, and social subjugation of the minority Kurd and Sunni Arab populations. Such an outcome would be democratic, but would it be free? Would the Kurds and Sunnis consider themselves free? The administration talks about democracy in Iraq, but is it prepared to accept a democratically-elected Iraqi government no matter what its attitude toward the U.S. occupation? Hardly. For all our talk about freedom and democracy, the truth is we have no idea whether Iraqis will be free in the future. They’re certainly not free while a foreign army occupies their country. The real test is not whether Iraq adopts a democratic, pro-western government, but rather whether ordinary Iraqis can lead their personal, religious, social, and business lives without interference from government. Simply put, freedom is the absence of government coercion. Our Founding Fathers understood this, and created the least coercive government in the history of the world. The Constitution established a very limited, decentralized government to provide national defense and little else. States, not the federal government, were charged with protecting individuals against criminal force and fraud. For the first time, a government was created solely to protect the rights, liberties, and property of its citizens. Any government coercion beyond that necessary to secure those rights was forbidden, both through the Bill of Rights and the doctrine of strictly enumerated powers. This reflected the founders’ belief that democratic government could be as tyrannical as any King. Few Americans understand that all government action is inherently coercive. If nothing else, government action requires taxes. If taxes were freely paid, they wouldn’t be called taxes, they’d be called donations. If we intend to use the word freedom in an honest way, we should have the simple integrity to give it real meaning: Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he is advocating more government action or less. The political left equates freedom with liberation from material wants, always via a large and benevolent government that exists to create equality on earth. To modern liberals, men are free only when the laws of economics and scarcity are suspended, the landlord is rebuffed, the doctor presents no bill, and groceries are given away. But philosopher Ayn Rand (and many others before her) demolished this argument by explaining how such “freedom” for some is possible only when government takes freedoms away from others. In other words, government claims on the lives and property of those who are expected to provide housing, medical care, food, etc. for others are coercive – and thus incompatible with freedom. “Liberalism,” which once stood for civil, political, and economic liberties, has become a synonym for omnipotent coercive government. The political right equates freedom with national greatness brought about through military strength. Like the left, modern conservatives favor an all-powerful central state – but for militarism, corporatism, and faith-based welfarism. Unlike the Taft-Goldwater conservatives of yesteryear, today’s Republicans are eager to expand government spending, increase the federal police apparatus, and intervene militarily around the world. The last tenuous links between conservatives and support for smaller government have been severed. “Conservatism,” which once meant respect for tradition and distrust of active government, has transformed into big-government utopian grandiosity. Orwell certainly was right about the use of meaningless words in politics. If we hope to remain free, we must cut through the fog and attach concrete meanings to the words politicians use to deceive us. We must reassert that America is a republic, not a democracy, and remind ourselves that the Constitution places limits on government that no majority can overrule. We must resist any use of the word “freedom” to describe state action. We must reject the current meaningless designations of “liberals” and “conservatives,” in favor of an accurate term for both: statists. Every politician on earth claims to support freedom. The problem is so few of them understand the simple meaning of the word. *Politics and the English Language, 1946. February 7, 2005 Dr. Ron Paul is a Republican member of Congress from Texas.

What is this place? I wish i could say in regular human cognition patterns of language

SunRa — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:59:07 GMT

Love is the most abundant energy of the universe, even though the whole of creation is energy of varying levels. The lower levels seem to fracture, or vibrate or limit in such a way, that it blocks out much of creation from your senses, which ultimately causes the perception of less love, and all things which one may see during a time of mental, emotional, and spiritual balance while incarnate. The existence which you are experiencing, is within a universe, that YOU ultimately created. Your ideas, are this life. Your imagination, has presented you with this fairy tale of yourself. Although it is true, I only say fairy tale because it is possible for one to believe that *this* life is the DREAM, while the other is reality. A spiritual reality of course, higher than the physical, and with different laws than the physical. That's that, dimensions range infinitely high and low, and are infinitely characterized, uniquely, within different parts of the total creation.i Each dimension may seen be a living memory bank of existences, and or reality, dependent upon the thought-forms of the beings expressing themselves within it. You can view the particular way we choose to live our lives without carrying over a large amount of information beyond that which we learn while we are here. Most humans do today, anyway. What this thread is about, is trying to help you waken up to the reality which this user deems sufficiently accepting of all the so-called 'non-real' phenomena. The beginning and the end of creation, is a gift, a gift of all things. For you need not experience any of this, it is a all a gift of existence, creation, co-operation and learning, for a long time, in a very large arena, most of which is impercievable for the time being, in the place which can only be described as 'the only place in existence', it is the place of all things, of all lives and realities, all universes, dimensions, and those beyond that which we cannot begin to fathom. All these things. All these experiences, waves, energy, dreams, or moments in time, all exist in an infinitely non-linear version of time. Where-as, all time is dependent on the way you choose to either with-hold, or to express your ability to view the 'over-all' timelessness nature of infinite universe. The literal creation of this universe cannot be fathomed by your mind which is locked within this universe. This is the simple hint. You can now expand on this. If you accept it, to provide a more multi-dimensional, and spiritually 'fuller' understanding of yourself. Spiritual aspects, and multi-dimensional existences which you CAN and DO, and WILL continue to consciously interact with more and more. The first moment of understanding, is always followed by an intense premise, which is simply that, you are all that is, all that was, and all that ever will be. This is astounding, because you are both wonderful and dark at the same time. Lifting you above being stuck within a single repeating point of view within the universe, which we call the ignorance of earth humans. The blank state which you exist within, as you over look the entire existence and creation, is one of selflessness. This is much more wonderful than it sounds. For instance, in this state of being, which can be achieved on earth, and can come from all states if desired enough, you are aware of yourself as EVERYTHING. This means you are neither NO SINGLE OBJECT, NOR are you truly the combination of all objects, any number of objects, or any variance of kind. But you are also, and always, that which IS NOT OBJECTIVE. For instance. You are not only..water, and DNA, but you are also the feeling of excitement, you created that vibration, you designed a biological system which could contain and record information, provided the right sensations and environmental patterning to frame this consciousness, within self-awareness. And thusly you created and on some level expected all feelings you feel in life, all experiences, and all things within the universe. You created all this in the most mysterious way. A way which you have hidden from your current self through the relocating of your attention, to a small void, with planets and stars. In this focusing of your attention from that large and omnipotent view, you have created as well as experienced through divine self-willed existence, life, in the physical. The farther from this omnipotent view, usually the closer to the physical. Although there are views which tend to be more 'grim', 'dark', and 'negative', these views are said to contain many truths about the universe, which are simply misrepresented, misunderstood, and mishandled, by the human or being experiencing this. For instance, while on earth, you can believe you need food to alive. And that in a good state of mind, you can go on eating, and actually live a relatively slow, physical, and in comparison, evolutionarily primitive lifestyle. You will not quickly learn about your true self in this state, you will not experience things quickly enough to drastically change your consciousness, to the extend of disintegrating, forgetting (temporarily losing access to the vibratory and conscious aspect that was previously experiences. Slow, and less responsive physical life, is used to build up a foundation of awareness, within a very rigidly designed reality 'program', so as to provide an ultimately complete understanding of reality, when the being finally remembers is previous position, and returns to it's higher stance. Change, and self-preservation, no matter what, is the loving idea of this universe. Throughout all deaths, what was once living, will always exist. Whether or not you are aware of it. There is always another being, whom, when you leave your current self, will be evolving towards the positive integration and state of. These collective awarenesses are the foundations of all things, and cannot be escaped. With one last thing to say to you I say, and We, that human consciousness, is just a dream, and you must learn to play nice in dreams, for we all experience each others existences, as interchangeably as people of different countries may access information about another country on earth. Very simple right? What's that catch...yes..how is it done? Look to the body, and by body, we mean the planet as well as your human selves, as well as the empty space around you. The energy patterns have been well recorded and passed around your sphere of life for decades and even beyond that. But more recently your accessing of information has profoundly affected your evolution. This is because of the new ideas of the time, and the methods which we use today, involving physical objects, utilizing electrical impulses traveling at the speed of light. This is similar to the original design of the human brain. Although this is where we can leave you off for now. What kind of brain does the earth have if the humans have a biological computer, and computers are simply a creation of the original human computer/brain. If we create ourselves, into our surroundings. What is the earth doing to the solar system? :) If you let the light/love in, it will quickly share itself with you, and as well, learn a little bit about yourself as you, and the influx of light energy continue to change all aspects of the situation, and thus the single consciousness itself learns more about that which can only be perceived as a temporary, holographic, non-temporal, non-spacial, memory and imaginative, cognitive, and self-awareness multi-dimensional object/wave/nothingness particle. In a giant sea of these particles. If a human brain represents the earth, then what of the shift between earth consciousness and human? If global earth consciousness is close to the actual view of reality and the human race than each individual humans' view is. And we are quickly reaching global consciousness, or regaining it, THROUGH, and AFTER the surrendering of our wills to exist as anything BUT the single individual human brain, full of all it's limitations. This is a cycle, it's one of the largest, and it is the monumental "jump" from the world of resistance, and withholding, to one of realizing the limits, taking them, and continuing to evolve without the misunderstanding of the self. We are one in the truest of realities, and this knowledge is contained within our MEMORY, and is NOT learned, but both CREATED AND REMEMBERED simultaneously. We continuously create or allow certain aspects of reality, into our awarenesses and experiences, and so as we go along, we create our possibilities. Choosing the road we will walk, as we walk it. The intuition, combined with practiced logical behavior, will bring about information, which is not contained within this universe, and brought in through the DNA and the brain/memory/energy system. Your consciousness is not contained within any particular part of the brain or body. Nor is life itself, limited to any particular part of the universe. A rock is as much a conscious entity, as is yourself. The only difference is that we have a very fancy way of telling the world that we are conscious. While the rock, unmoving, doesn't look awake, it knows, on a very very far reaching quantum level, what it is, where it is, where it's been, where it's going, and how this relates to all things around it. It knows. But it doesn't express this. This is consciousness, this knowledge. Self-awareness, is when you express knowledge gained after the initial knowledge, which may give way to the acceptance, that one doesn't only exist, but that one KNOWS they exist, and has not deducted such materialistically, but through a multi-dimensional patterning of information, ranging from your 5 senses, to your higher emotions, your lower desires, your balance of logical hierarchy, etc etc. It is not a single fact, proved or pulled from a single set or series of single events. But this is a single leaping, gasping, full of life, deep within the moment, I AM, from deep within yourself, a place which doesn't exist physically, and cannot be measured in a purely materialistic fashion. And really is..no place. Which is our self. Our home within our own mind. This emotional, and usually ground breaking expulsion of knowledge from absolute non-knowledge, but total consciousness, will loosen the chains which hold you to any certain belief system. Intuition, and internal communications with the universe itself, or any higher aspect of it, has been our most dangerous experiments with evolution. And yet, on earth, you go through so much, that if you do not turn away from life altogether, you will almost surely end up changed dramatically, and your spirit, which is aware of itself as eternal, but truly, self-less, and multi-faceted, will not choose one state of being over the other. But will exist within all experiences of being, while you traverse through the particular stages in a period of suspension, viewing time as linear, and reality as objective. Until the previously spoken of "awakening" to the larger reality is reached, through utilizing the changing cycles, and rhythms, to provide a constant flow of new information and experience, constantly expanding (when consciousness/attention is focused on) and providing for new experiences, and thus future possible selves and positions. All these aspects of reality exist, and are experienced, in fact, you may have heard this, they are experienced as the majority within the universe. A limited experience, in which the future is not focused on, out of fear of learning more about your own predictability, is not really considered a "normal" rate of learning for what you may consider normal. Even as soon as you move away from our particular of space and time, separated by so much seeming empty space, that the light would take a staggering about of "time", to reach us, to the point where most of which we see around us is in the far past. Even as you move to beyond the limits of earth, what is normal becomes increasingly awkward, until a reversal happens, in which case the poles have been traversed in some aspect. Note. This traveling occurs differently to a being with no place on earth. We walk to the market to get there. A being simply begins to feel that it is a different way, and a different mind set, to move to another area of experience, within the universe. For instance, to move away from planet earth, you must begin to think less and less like an earthling. After a while of this earth thing not working, you may find yourself enjoying life in another star system, where you may have been originally from. And you can bet that all differences in belief system, in relation to your current objective reality, are a direct result of your own methods of life creation. Thought is the next step, coloring thoughts with emotion, temporal and spacial dynamics, and even individual, unique, genuine characters and consciousnesses, that may seem to be self-aware, within your own self-awareness, while still remaining closely tied with you (for as the thought-awareness deviates from your local sphere of universe and mind, it will travel to another human, through the motion of the soul's journey to experience life, in the fullest sense, in the same we mentally travel the universe, to whichever life experience we see fit). Creating this much detail inside your mind's eye, will create not only a portal to this existence and "place", by directly linking you to it, from your relative universe, or reality, or "time line", and thus lowering the distinction between your aspects, your characteristics, and your life, and the life of the characters, and events within the "thought event" that a human mind can positively create, vividly, if required. In other words, if you learn to do this, you probably have realized many other things about your life and reality, which have in turn, lead you to this method of attracting reality, with thought, event, situation, or reality creation.. The more energy put through the brain, the greater the connection, the greater the attraction, and the close and faster one reality will shift to the next, in turn altering the consciousness of the reality shifter. Each thing affects all other things in the universe, all at once, everywhere, always. Time moves forwards or backwards, depending on how you interpret the current moment, and your method of device used for measuring it (picking a spot on the circle, in relation to the background (consensus reality). If you are following this, thank you, in the observance of the circle of life, you will ultimately realize the current circle to be inadequate and in fact only a single clue to the now regained, larger version of life. The most interesting fact is this: You will see life change and see life change yourself through this, at an ever increasing rate, until all that you are, and experience, and all the change taking place, does more to "YOU"(which is reading this, at the computer right now) in a single perceivable instant, that was ever thought possible, or even closely realized, in thousands of lives within an individually minded human body. And the increase will continue, for as we create new aspects, new possibilities become available for experiencing. Even though all that has ever been created, all possibilities, are already existing and ready to be accessed whenever needed for experience in direct or indirect form, we create new space, and new energy when we re-experience something, and it seems like new. Excitement can come infinitely. Love can as well. Because you can always become small and helpless again, and need to be helped and loved by others in order to survive. And you can always forget about any aspect of the universe, in order to rediscover it with a positive increase of understanding and affection every time. Can you imagine how long a single being, who is primarily light or vibrations, can live. When it is the only thing in existence? And it is the universe that we perceive, as well as ALL OTHERS? That is a length of time which transcends temporal and spacial boundaries. Into a simple, always, and with love, this always is always here, experiencing US as itself, in the most interesting ways. Unless of course it's particular lifestyle causes damage and harm, like on the planet earth, but THAT! is another story, and rather developing aspect of our history, at the moment. Can't wait for the future to reveal things you feel you need to know? Go meditate.

QUIT FEEDING THE BEAST!

SunRa — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:13:05 GMT

STOP watching mainstream news on all TV channels STOP buying all newspapers and rag mags STOP paying Income taxes STOP depending on the Pharm Cos for your well being STOP buying from CHINA STOP supporting representatives that can be bought STOP being apathetic STOP supporting Israel STOP encouraging your children to join the armed services STOP supporting any business that gains from WAR STOP working for a gov that does not work for you STOP FEEDING THE BEAST AND IT WILL STARVE TO DEATH

more on natural foods and body/mind development

SunRa — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:00:23 GMT

Weston Price's Nutrition and Physical Degeneration A book review by Steve Solomon It is a truth: "In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king." Even more certainly--a one-eyed king is going to feel very alone. Different than everyone else. Like what happened to me twenty years ago after Weston Price's book had opened both my eyes. I discovered Nutrition and Physical Degeneration in when I began to reconsider and then to reject the conventional and unexamined answers I'd been given about health, and healing, and doctoring. Like most people who are glad to accept their smoothly-running body without question or concern, I only got curious about my health after I first noticed the onset of middle-aged degeneration. I visited the medical doctor in town who was generally regarded as the most progressive and least likely to prescribe drugs, to ask why I was feeling "off" such a large proportion of days during the week. His answer mainly it consisted of 'get used to it,' and 'it's middle age, everyone goes through it,' and 'take two aspirin when it gets bad and don't worry about it.' But I felt I was entitled to enjoy physical well-being and could not accept an increasingly hopeless, ever-worsening prognosis. So I then asked the advice of a very wise, and very old gardener in my neighborhood, who lent me his treasured first-edition copy of Price's book and referred me to a naturopath practicing nearby, Dr. Isabelle Moser. Isabelle became my doctor, taught me how to repair much of the degeneration that had already happened, and some years later, became my wife. Life has never been the same since I read Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. Price started me observing the bone structure and state of constitutional degeneration of most of my neighbors. I found myself noticing peoples' teeth and jaws and faces and how many of them had crooked, crowded, irregular teeth, narrow jawbones, thin, pinched noses, and flat, nasal voices that derive from small, inadequately developed sinus cavities. Instead of admiring only the hefneresque charms of the young women, I began to observe and catalog the size of their pelvic girdles, to note if their "ovens" were adequate for the purpose of baking babies. Most were too small. I stopped thinking thin, aristocratic faces were beautiful and began considering that broad faces with flat noses were. I put new significance on the small number of children younger married couples were having, the difficulty their young parents had with the raising and management of even one child, the uncooperative and unfocused behavior of these kids, and how often the children around me were seeing the doctor, and how many of them seemed to suffer from a ever-ongoing series of physical complaints. And I contrasted this with how it had been for my parent's generation, where three children per family was normal. Or with my Grandparent's generation, where four or five kids per family was typical. And my increased understanding has created a wide gulf between me and most of my neighbors, who are lost in a confusion over why they and their loved ones get sick and who depend on medicine and medical doctors for their cures when they should be focused on their nutrition and life-styles. • Most writers of books on health and alternative medicine mainly offer prescriptions and explanations to overcome degenerative complaints, of which most of us have no shortage. The Hygienists (my favorite of all the holistic approaches) at least have a systematic theory that explains how and why the body gets sick and offers a method of remedy that is the logical response to the cause of illness. But almost none, including some of the Hygienists, offer a standard of comparison which one can hold up and say, "This is an example of what true health would look like." Others in other fields have stressed that when studying some aspect of life how essential it is to have a standard of comparison--a control group--and that without a control group it is virtually impossible to grasp significant truths. For example, Abraham Maslow wisely tried to envision what a psychologically-healthy human would be like before figuring out what we might do to become better beings. He called this ideal a "self-actualizing" person. Maslow contested that if one knew what a person should try to become, then one could recognize a person who had grown to realize our potentials--and then could have a target to aim at for improving their own life. L. Ron Hubbard, another person who was deeply interested in achievement of the full human potential, created a dozen or more of these targets with his scales of various aspects of experience, from the most desirable state to most undesirable. G.T. Wrench did a similar thing when he stressed so strongly that if no one around you has had a good nutritional "start" in life, it is virtually impossible to recognize what a truely healthy person looks like. (You can read Wrench's book, The Wheel of Health, in this Longevity Library collection. Unfortunately there aren't many really healthy bodies around and they don't carry prominent labels. So we muddle in a morass of medical confusion. Weston A. Price did humanity a great and largely-unappreciated service by establishing an easily-understandble standard of human health, clearly demonstrated with photographs. A really good picture really is worth many thousands of words and Price offers the reader a narrated slide show of over a hundred photos, many of them of extremely healthy people contrasted with degenerated ones, photos taken all over the world, of people of different races living in climates eating totally different dietaries, accompanied by sensitive, compassionate narration. This coupling of the visual image with narration increases the power of Price's argument by a hundred-fold. Price's book is basically a photographic travelogue, the story of a world-wide search for a standard by which to judge human health. This makes Nutrition and Physical Degeneration the most convincing and powerful awakener of health-consciousness I have ever encountered. As I stated at the beginning of this essay, I was never the same after reading his book the first time. Only a handful of other books have so strongly influenced how I understood life. So I have gone back and re-read Nutrition and Physical Degeneration periodically--about once every five years it seems. I have lectured about Price's work, promoted the Foundation that tries to continue it, and have deeply wanted to make Price's book a central part of the Soil and Health Library. But have not been able to obtain permission from those who control the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation. They have denied my requests because a reprint of Nutrition and Physical Degeneration is still being sold by the Foundation and income from these sales are a major sustainer of that group. However, under the rules of "Fair Use" regarding copyright protections, one is allowed to quote from a book for the purposes of book reviewing or scholarly discussion. This is what follows below, a book review. Now, dear reader, comes a caution, and what I hope will be taken as a strong suggestion. Long ago before the university-trained, academic-minded English majors completely took over the editorial side of publishing business, writers were allowed to repeatedly restate their themes. If clever about how they go at this, an author can restate their restatements many times without seeming to be repetative or redundant. Restatement can be a useful technique and often necessary because most people do not really read carefully and don't fully grasp a concept the first time they are exposed to it. However, a book review must, by definition, be concise. If the reader wishes to achieve full understanding of what the book under discussion is about, they are almost required to go slow, to think the ideas over as they occur. I suppose what I am trying to communicate here here is a plea that you take your time, and think over the small portions of Price's book that I am able to excerpt here--look long and hard at the few photographs that accompany this article. Then, I hope you will be inspired to visit http://www.price-pottenger.org/ and order yourself a copy. And study it! • Weston A. Price was a successful midwestern American dentist practicing during the 1920s. He could have merely enjoyed a financially-comfortable life ameloriating the ravages of rampant dental decay and facial deformity in those upper-crust mid-western Americans who were able to pay his fees. Instead, he worried about the marked degeneration he saw occuring in modern civilization. Though by Price's time mainstream medicine had largely ceased causing increased mortality from ordinary infection, the incidence and severity of many forms of degenerative conditions were increasing. The recent reduction in infant mortality from innoculation and sanitation made the statistics appear to show that we were living longer, but Price felt that as individuals we were not enjoying the same good health and well-being enjoyed by previous generations. Nor were we probably living any longer as individuals. The amount of dental decay and frequency of malformed facial bones, Price's direct day-to-day concern, also seemed to be increasing rapidly. A third area of degeneration Price discussed with considerable worry, will probably cause the readers of his book the most difficulty to accept--he perceived and agonized over a marked decline in the overall character of people in the "civilized" world. The academic will probably conceed that Price might have been qualified to evaluate mass dental health. However, it is all too easy to glibly dismiss worry over "moral decay" because for thousands of years the middle-aged portion of humanity has been complaining that the young are not the equal of their parents, yet the species still has gone on. It is not the purpose of this article to convince the unconvinced of modern moral decay, but to quickly transmit the essence of Price's work in a positive way such that the reader of this article will be motivated to obtain the book and read it. I observe that Price's vague worry about the degeneration of modern character solidified into a strong concern only after his searches in "primitive groups," where he noted that people isolated from modern civilization seemed to have a higher intelligence and more refined moral/ethical presence. In essence, Price concluded that healthy, well-nourished persons tend to be brighter, more honest, and happier. Or, physical nutrition is senior to spiritual health. Price said of this: "The origin of personality and character appear in the light of the newer data to be biologic products and to a much less degree than usually considered pure hereditary traits. Since these various factors are biologic, being directly related to both the nutrition of the parents and to the nutritional environment of the individuals in the formative and growth period, any contributing factor such as food deficiencies due to soil depletion will be seen to produce degeneration of the masses of people due to a common cause. Mass behavior, therefore, in this new light becomes the result of natural forces, the expression of which may not be modified by propaganda but will require correction at the source." (p. 4) Price thought we were wasting our efforts at reforming antisocial behavior by mental therapy or punishment. The cure rested in nutrition and to be effective, proper nutrition had to begin before birth. Another who saw this same reality from a very different starting point was the German mystic and spiritualist Rudolf Steiner, inspiration of the Waldorf method of education and founder of the Anthroposophical philosophy. Steiner wondered why so many involved in his spiritually-oriented communities demonstrated such reactive, irresponsible, virtually criminal behavior, when these, of all people, were the ones who had focused so hard on self-improvement. Why, Steiner wondered, were his communities such hot beds of internicine strife, such deep-seated backstabbing and covert politics? He finally concluded that the problem was not in his teachings or in the methods he was suggesting for self-improvement. The problem lie in the nutrition of those who were his followers. Until the body was well nourished, there was little or no point in talking about spiritual nourishment. So Steiner began to study agriculture, and the result was Biodynamic farming and gardening. Price said of his book: "In my search for the cause of degeneration of the human face and the dental organs I have been unable to find an approach to the problem through the study of affected individuals and diseased tissues. . . . The evidence seemed to indicate clearly that the forces that were at work were not to be found in the diseased tissues, but that the undesirable conditions were the result of the absence of something, rather than the presence of something. This strongly indicated the need for finding groups of individuals so physically perfect that they could be used as controls. In order to discover them I determined to search our primitive racial stocks that were free from degenerative processes with which we are concerned in order to note what they have that we do not have. These field investigations have taken me to many parts of the world though a series of years. The following chapters review the studies made of primitive groups, first when still protected by their isolation, and, second, when in contact with modern civilization. (p. 21)" What proved to be the something missing was nutrition. Remember, dear reader, that Price (and interestingly, Rudolf Steiner) began practice shortly after a massive change occurred in peoples' food habits. The degenerations observed during the 1920s came about thirty years after the introduction of the roller mill and the consequent wide-spread consumption of denatured white-flour products. Price started researching Nutrition and Physical Degeneration around 20 years after nationally-distributed devitalized brand-name prepared packaged food products began to dominate the food shops and peoples' dietaries. Proving his points by argument or data when faced with the intense opposition from powerful vested food interests and contrary established medical viewpoints was obviously beyond his (and probably anyone's writing skills). So Price took a different tack. "In presenting the evidence I am utilizing photographs very liberally. A good illustration is said to be equivalent to a thousand words of text. This is in keeping too with the recent trend in journalism. The pictures are much more convincing than words can be, and since the text challenges many of the current theories, the most conclusive evidence available is essential." (p. 4) • Price began nearly a decade of travels and research by journeying to Switzerland, where, on his first "expedition" he began to sort out a mish-mash of suspected causes of superior dental health. He initially supposed that living at high elevations might produce greater physical health. Better food also would have something to do with it. He said: "In order to study the possibility of greater nutritive value in foods produced at a high elevation, as indicated by a lowered incidence of morbidity, including tooth decay, I went to Switzerland and made studies in two successive years, 1931 and 1932. It was my desire to find, if possible, groups of Swiss living in a physical environment such that their isolation would compel them to live largely on locally produced foods. . . . at a little less than a mile above sea level, a group of about 2,000 people had been made easily accessible for study, shortly prior to 1931. Practically all the human requirements of the people in that valley, except a few items like sea salt, have been produced in the valley for centuries. "(p. 23) Price discovered that he accorded the people of this valley unusually deep admiration. "The people of this valley have a history covering more than a dozen centuries. The architecture of their wooden buildings, some of them several centuries old, indicates a love for simple stability, adapted to expediency and efficiency. Artistically designed mottoes, many of them centuries old, are carved deep in the heavy supporting timbers, both within and without the buildings. They are always expressive of devotion to cultural and spiritual values rather than to material values. These people have never been conquered, although many efforts have been made to invade their valley." (p.23) "If one is fortunate enough to be in the valley in early August and witness the earnestness with which the people celebrate their national holiday, he will be privileged to see a sight long to be remembered. These celebrations close with the gathering together of the mountaineers on various crags and prominences where great bonfires are lighted from fuel that has been accumulated and built into an enormous mound to make a huge torchlight. These bonfires are lighted at a given hour from end to end of the valley throughout its expanse. Every mountaineer on a distant crag seeing the lights knows that the others are signalling to him that they, too, are making their sacred consecration in song which says "one for all and all for one." This motive has been crystallized into action and has become a part of the very souls of the people. One understands why doors do not need to be bolted in the Loetschental Valley. "How different the level of life and horizon of such souls from those in many places in the so-called civilized world in which people have degraded themselves until life has no interest in values that cannot be expressed in gold or pelf, which they would obtain even though the life of the person being cheated or robbed would thereby be crippled or blotted out. "One immediately wonders if there is not something in the life-giving vitamins and minerals of the food that builds not only great physical structures within which their souls reside, but builds minds and hearts capable of a higher type of manhood in which the material values of life are made secondary to individual character." (p. 27) Price began to notice certain themes in his first journey of exploration that would replay themselves as he visited other areas of the planet in subsequent years. The first and most important factor common to all healthy environments seemed to be isolation--from "civilization," from the modern foods of industrial civilization, and perhaps from the stresses of industrial life. And the next recurring aspect of living in such isolation was the absence of social problems and degenerative diseases of all sorts. "The people of the Loetschental Valley make up a community of two thousand who have been a world unto themselves. They have neither physician nor dentist because they have so little need for them; they have neither policeman nor jail, because they have no need for them. The clothing has been the substantial homespuns made from the wool of their sheep. The valley has produced not only everything that is needed for clothing, but practically everything that is needed for food. It has been the achievement of the valley to build some of the finest physiques in all Europe. This is attested to by the fact that many of the famous Swiss guards of the Vatican at Rome, who are the admiration of the world and are the pride of Switzerland, have been selected from this and other Alpine valleys. It is every Loetschental boy's ambition to be a Vatican guard. Notwithstanding the fact that tuberculosis is the most serious disease of Switzerland, according to a statement given me by a government official, a recent report of inspection of this valley did not reveal a single case." (pp. 24,25) Though Price noticed the absence of illness in general, he focused on teeth and jaws, his specialty: "We are primarily concerned here with the quality of the teeth and the development of the faces that are associated with such splendid hearts and unusual physiques. I made studies of both adults and growing boys and girls, during the summer of 1931, and arranged to have samples of food, particularly dairy products, sent to me about twice a month, Summer and winter. These products have been tested for their mineral and vitamin contents, particularly the fat-soluble activators. The samples were found to be high in vitamins and much higher than the average samples of commercial dairy products in America and Europe, and in the lower areas of Switzerland." "Hay is cut for winter feeding of the cattle, and this hay grows rapidly. The hay proved, on chemical analysis made at my laboratory, to be far above the average in quality for pasturage and storage grasses. . . . In the summer the cattle seek the higher pasturage lands and follow the retreating snow which leaves the lower valley free for the harvesting of the hay and rye. The turning of the soil is done by hand, since there are neither plows nor draft animals to drag the plows, in preparation for the next year's rye crop. A limited amount of garden stuff is grown, chiefly green foods for summer use. While the cows spend the warm summer on the verdant knolls and wooded slopes near the glaciers and fields of perpetual snow, they have a period of high and rich productivity of milk. The milk constitutes an important part of the summer's harvesting. While the men and boys gather in the hay and rye, the women and children go in large numbers with the cattle to collect the milk and make and store cheese for the following winter's use. This cheese contains the natural butter fat and minerals of the splendid milk and is a virtual storehouse of life for the coming winter. . . . The natives of the valley are able to recognize the superior quality of their June butter, and, without knowing exactly why, pay it due homage.(p. 26) In my opinion the dairy products were superior because the soil of this valley was extraordinarily fertile and the farming system used was entirely natural--it must have been without any access to industrial materials. I ask the reader to beware at this juncture, and not to conclude as many have mistakenly done, that natural farming will create fertile soil. It will not. There is a belief in the Organic Farming and Gardening "religion" that you can take any old clay pit or gravel heap and turn it into a vertible garden of 'eatin if only enough compost is added. The actuality is that there are some places (unfortunately not the majority) where the soil is naturally very fertile and there are others where the soil is quite infertile. Proper farming techniques can preserve and enhance fertility that is already there. Modern civilization, with its ability to move huge quantities of materials at a relatively low cost, now has the ability to take less-than-ideally-fertile farmland and make it produce much more nutritious food than it otherwise would, but rarely does modern farming do this, because our focus is on profit and bulk production, not on health and quality production. Over the course of several succeeding years, Price visited the African highlands, very isolated Peruvian coastal settlements, Native Americans in the Arctic and Seminoles in the swamps of Florida, Gaelics living on the Outer Hebridies of Scotland, Melanisans in Fiji and Polynesians in Polynesia, the Maori of New Zealand, aboriginals on the mainland and the Torres Straits Islanders living north of Australia. In each local he found people who, due to extreme isolation, were restricted to a self-sufficient dietary which also happened to be of high nutritional quality. Price found the same qualities of health in all these places and realized that no one diet can be prescribed as the ideal human diet and that extremely healthy people were found eating all sorts of dietaries. Some of these people were primarily flesh and seafood eaters, others vegetarian, others ate large quantities of dairy. Some wheat, some oats, some vegetables and sea foods. Each people's dietary is described and considered in detail. His description of the highland Swiss will serve to illustrate the richness this book holds to those who will study it in its entirety. "The nutrition of the people of the Loetschental Valley, particularly that of the growing boys and girls, consists largely of a slice of whole rye bread and a piece of the summer-made cheese (about as large as the slice of bread), which are eaten with fresh milk of goats or cows. Meat is eaten about once a week. In the light of our newer knowledge of activating substances, including vitamins, and the relative values of food for supplying minerals for body building, it is clear why they have healthy bodies and sound teeth. The average total fat-soluble activator and mineral intake of calcium and phosphorus of these children would far exceed that of the daily intake of the average American child. The sturdiness of the child life permits children to play and frolic bareheaded and barefooted even in water running down from the glacier in the late evening's chilly breezes, in weather that made us wear our overcoats and gloves and button our collars. Of all the children in the valley still using the primitive diet of whole rye bread and dairy products the average number of cavities per person was 0.3. On an average it was necessary to examine three persons to find one defective deciduous or permanent tooth. The children examined were between seven and sixteen years of age. . . ." (pp. 26-7) "As one stands in profound admiration before the stalwart physical development and high moral character of these sturdy mountaineers, he is impressed by the superior types of manhood, womanhood, and childhood that Nature has been able to produce from a suitable diet and a suitable environment. Surely, here is evidence enough to answer the question whether cereals should be avoided because they produce acids in the system which if formed will be the cause of tooth decay and many other ills including the acidity of the blood or saliva. Surely, the ultimate control will be found in Nature's laboratory where man has not yet been able to meddle sufficiently with Nature's nutritional program to blight humanity with abnormal and synthetic nutrition. When one has watched for days the childlife in those high Alpine preserves of superior manhood when one has contrasted these people with the pinched and sallow, and even deformed, faces and distorted bodies that are produced by our modern civilization and its diets; and when one has contrasted the unsurpassed beauty of the faces of these children developed on Nature's primitive foods with the varied assortment of modern civilization's children with their defective facial development, he finds himself filled with an earnest desire to see that this betterment is made available for modern civilization. . . . "(p. 31-32) • Price also demolished any notion that these isolated groups of unusually healthy people somehow had a unique hereditary resistance to disease and degeneration. He reasoned that had superior genes been the case, then following up people who abandoned life in a healthful community for the life of "civilization" should find them continuing in the same good condition. If genetically determined, then not only the adults who left should continue to be healthy, but when a married pair left, their children, carrrying the exact same genetics, should also be foundto be in good fettle. This proved not to be the case. Resistance to dental degeneration was actually based on diet, not genes. Here are three little snippets from the book concerning this area of interest: "Again and again we had the experience of examining a young man or young woman and finding that at some period of his life tooth decay had been rampant and had suddenly ceased; but, during the stress, some teeth had been lost. When we asked such people whether they had gone out of the mountains and at what age, they generally replied that at eighteen or twenty years of age they had gone to this or that city and had stayed a year or two. They stated that they had never had a decayed tooth before they went or after they returned, but that they had lost some teeth in the short period away from home." (p.32) "At this point of our studies . . . Dr. Gysi accompanied us to the Anniviers Valley, which is also on the south side of the Rhone. The river of the valley, the Navizenze, drains from the high Swiss and Italian boundary north to the Rhone River. Here again we had the remarkable experience of finding communities near to each other, one blessed with high immunity to tooth decay, and the other afflicted with rampant tooth decay. "The village of Ayer lies in a beautiful valley well up toward the glaciers. It is still largely primitive, although a government road has recently been developed, which, like many of the new arteries, has made it possible to dispatch military protection when and if necessary to any community. In this beautiful hamlet, until recently isolated, we found a high immunity to dental caries. Only 2.3 teeth out of each hundred examined were found to have been attacked by tooth decay. Here again the people were living on rye and dairy products. We wonder if history will repeat itself in the next few years and if there, too, this enviable immunity will be lost with the advent of the highway. Usually it is not long after tunnels and roads are built that automobiles and wagons enter with modern foods, which begin their destructive work. This fact has been tragically demonstrated in this valley since a roadway was extended as far as Vissoie several years ago. In this village modern foods have been available for some time. One could probably walk the distance from Ayer to Vissoie in an hour. The number of teeth found to be attacked with caries for each one hundred children's teeth examined at Vissoie was 20.2 as compared with 2.3 at Ayer. We had here a splendid opportunity to study the changes that had occurred in the nutritional programs. With the coming of transportation and new markets there had been shipped in modern white flour; equipment for a bakery to make white-flour goods; highly sweetened fruit, such as jams, marmalades, jellies, sugar and syrups—all to be traded for the locally produced high-vitamin dairy products and high-mineral cheese and rye; and with the exchange there was enough money as premium to permit buying machine-made clothing and various novelties that would soon be translated into necessities." (pp. 32-3) Ane here's another additional bit of evidence disproving the notion that certain small groups of onlyhighland Swiss had especially good genetics: "It is reported that practically all skulls that are exhumed in the Rhone valley, and, indeed, practically throughout all of Switzerland where graves have existed for more than a hundred years, show relatively perfect teeth; whereas the teeth of people recently buried have been riddled with caries or lost through this disease. It is of interest that each church usually has associated with it a cemetery in which the graves are kept decorated, often with beautiful designs of fresh or artificial flowers. Members of succeeding generations of families are said to be buried one above the other to a depth of many feet. Then, after a sufficient number of generations have been so honored, their bodies are exhumed to make a place for present and coming generations. These skeletons are usually preserved with honor and deference. The bones are stacked in basements of certain buildings of the church edifice with the skulls facing outward. These often constitute a solid wall of considerable extent. In Naters there is such a group said to contain 20,000 skeletons and skulls. These were studied with great interest as was also a smaller collection in connection with the cathedral at Visp. While many of the single straight-rooted teeth had been lost in the handling, many were present. It was a matter of importance to find that only a small percentage of teeth had had caries. Teeth that had been attacked with deep caries had developed apical abscesses with consequent destruction of the alveolar processes. Evidence of this bone change was readily visible. Sockets of missing teeth still had continuous walls, indicating that the teeth had been vital at death." (pp. 33-4) • One of the most valuable lessons to be found in Nutrition and Physical Degeneration comes from studying its many illustrations and learning to immediately recognize what a healthy face and bone structure looks like. This is demonstrated by contrasting numerous pairs of photographs. Price introduces the lesson in this way: "The reader will scarcely believe it possible that such marked differences in facial form, in the shape of the dental arches, and in the health condition of the teeth as are to be noted when passing from the highly modernized lower valleys and plains country in Switzerland to the isolated high valleys can exist. Fig. 3 shows four girls with typically broad dental arches and regular arrangement of the teeth. They have been born and raised in the Loetschental Valley or other isolated valleys of Switzerland which provide the excellent nutrition that we have been reviewing. They have been taught little regarding the use of tooth brushes. Their teeth have typical deposits of unscrubbed mouths; yet they are almost completely free from dental caries, as are the other individuals of the group they represent. In a study of 4,280 teeth of the children of these high valleys, only 3.4 per cent were found to have been attacked by tooth decay. This is in striking contrast to conditions found in the modernized sections using the modern foods." (p. 34) FIG 3. Normal design of face and dental arches when adequate nutrition is provided for both the parents and the children. Note the well developed nostrils. "It is of significance that a study of the child life in the Rhone valley, as made by Swiss officials and reported by Dr. Adolf Roos and his associates, shows that practically every child had tooth decay and the majority of the children had decay in an aggravated form. People of this valley are provided with adequate railroad transportation for bringing them the luxuries of the world. As we pass eastward over the pass through Andermatt, we are reminded that the trains of the St. Gotthard tunnel go thundering through the mountain a mile below our feet en route to Italy. To reach our goal, the beautiful modern city and summer resort of St. Moritz, we enter the Engadin country famed for its beauty and crystal-clear atmosphere. We already know something of the beauty that awaits us which has attracted pleasure seekers and beauty lovers of the world to St. Moritz. One would scarcely expect to see so modern a city as St. Mortiz at an altitude of a little over a mile, with little else to attract people than its climate in winter and summer, the magnificent scenery, and the clear atmosphere. We have passed from the communities where almost everyone wears homespuns to one of English walking coats and the most elegant of feminine attire. Everyone shows the effect of contact with culture. The hotels in their appointments and design are reminiscent of Atlantic City. Immediately one sees something is different here than in the primitive localities: the children have not the splendidly developed features, and the people give no evidence of the great physical reserve that is present in the smaller communities. "Through the kindness of Dr. William Barry, a local dentist, and through that of the superintendent of the public schools, we were invited to use one of the school buildings for our studies of the children. The summer classes were dismissed with instructions that the children be retained so that we could have them for study. Several factors were immediately apparent. The teeth were shining and clean, giving eloquent testimony of the thoroughness of the instructions in the use of the modern dentifrices for efficient oral prophylaxis. The gums looked better and the teeth more beautiful for having the debris and deposits removed. Surely this superb climate, this magnificent setting, combined with the best of the findings of modern prophylactic science, should provide a 100-per-cent immunity to tooth decay. But in a study of the children from eight to fifteen years of age, 29.8 per cent of the teeth had already been attacked by dental caries. Our study of each case included careful examining of the mouth; photographing of the face and teeth; obtaining of samples of saliva for chemical analysis; and a study of the program of nutrition followed by the given case. In most cases, the diet was strikingly modern, and the only children found who did not have tooth decay proved to be children who were eating the natural foods, whole rye bread and plenty of milk." (pp. 36-7) FIG 4. In the modernized districts of Switzerland tooth decay is rampant. The girl upper left, is sixteen and the one to the right is younger. They use white bread and sweets liberally. The two children below have very badly formed dental arches with crowding of the teeth. This deformity is not due to heredity. "Another change that is seen in passing from the isolated groups with their more nearly normal facial developments, to the groups of the lower valleys, is the marked irregularity of the teeth with narrowing of the arches and other facial features. In the lower half of Fig. 4 may be seen two such cases. While in the isolated groups not a single case of a typical mouth breather was found, many were seen among the children of the lower-plains group. The children studied were from ten to sixteen years of age. . . . "Bad as these conditions were, we were told that they were better than the average for the community. The ravages of dental caries had been strikingly evident as we came in contact with the local and traveling public. As we had at St. Moritz, we found an occasional child with much better teeth than the average. Usually the answer was not far to seek. For example, in one of the St. Moritz groups, in a class of sixteen boys, there were 158 cavities, or an average of 9.8 cavities per person (fillings are counted as cavities). In the cases of three other children in the same group, there were only three cavities, and one case was without dental caries. Two of these three had been eating dark bread or entire-grain bread, and one was eating dark bread and oatmeal porridge. All three drank milk liberally." (pp. 39-40) • One of the most valuable things I gleaned from Nutrition and Physical Degeneration occurred because of data that came from another small book called Pottenger's Cats, also published by the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation. By combining the two books into one understanding I have obtained an ability to see how the human body adapts to inadequate nutrition, especially inadequate mineral nutrition. I suppose that's why the PPNF keeps Pottenger's Cats in print and why Francis Pottenger gave his support to the foundation. Francis Pottenger was a medical doctor who probably lacked a sympathetic, profit-making bedside manner. So he developed a successful medically-related business instead of a clinical practice--he set up a testing laboratory behind a big old house in Pasadena, California, where he assayed the potency of adrenal hormone extracts. In his time (1920s) medical adrenalin was extracted from animal adrenals, but the potency of the extracts varied enormously. To be safely used in clincial work these extracts had have a measured potency. To accomplish this with the technology available during the 1920s, Pottenger had to remove the adrenal glands of cats, and then find out how much of a particular batch of extract it took to keep his cats alive and in good condition. These cats, being precious to Pottenger, were given every possible support to health and longevity. They were carefully and hygenically housed, and Pottenger fed them on a diet of slaughterhouse meat and organs, carefully cooked to prevent parasite infestation. They were given Grade-A pasturized whole milk and dosed daily with cod liver oil to prevent vitamin deficiencies. Unfortunately, despite all this good care, the cats frequently sickened and died, and generally did poorly. Pottenger attributed this to having no adrenals and to the cats having been through surgery to remove their adrenals. But Pottenger's business did well anyway, and his need for cats grew and grew. Eventually he was housing so many that he build a new pen to hold the most recent lot of them, and to feed this batch, being overworked, he did not bother to cook their meat, but just fed it raw as it came from the slaughterhouse. Amazingly this batch of cats, even without adrenals, thrived and were very healthy. Francis Pottenger noticed this remarkable occurrence and decided to do a small cat nutrition study. He divided up his cats into four groups to observe the result of feeding the entire matrix of possibilities: raw meat/raw milk; raw meat/pasturized milk; cooked meat/raw milk; cooked meat/pasturized milk. Not surprisingly, he found that the cats fed on cooked meat but who got raw milk did a little better than those on all cooked food. The ones on raw meat and pasturized milk did pretty well; the ones on all raw food did great. Pottenger concluded that cats have a digestive system that is not really capable of assimilating nutrition from cooked protein foods. He concluded that the cat illnesses he had been fighting were caused by mal-nutrition. Dr. Pottenger also noticed that cats on raw food lived very long, often 20 years. They also had good temperments and bred very successfully. When a cat that had been on raw food was placed on cooked food, its life was greatly shortened. The progeny of these cats began to change their appearance. Their overall size lessened, their teeth got poor, their reproductive organs did not develop well, they had smaller litters, and within three generations on all cooked food, they would barely reproduce, the females often refused to nurse or mother their young if they did get pregnant, and cooked-food cats developed nasty temperments. The one study Pottenger reported that had the most profound effect on my awareness was when he took some cats that he had intentionally degenerated by feeding all cooked food for three generations. This group worsened to the point that they would barely reproduce. Pottender then took some of their young and began to feed them the ideal all-raw diet. After four generations of perfect feeding, only some of them began to look like fully-healthy cats. Degeneration is much easier to create than it is to recreate perfect health from degenerated stock. If these phenomena are expanded to include humans, then we could guess that after creating mass degeneration from mass mal-nutrition since the turn of the twentieth century, it will take humans several generations of near-perfect feeding to begin to virtually overcome the effects.This also suggests to me the reason why someone who has already developed a degenerative condition often can't cure it simply by adopting dietary reforms. Pottenger also provided photographs of his groups of cats. They are amazingly like the photos in Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. The bodies of those humans Price studied expressed the same forms of degeneration when the humans were given inadequate nutrition. • Virtually all human bodies carry genes that would create a jawbone large enough to hold all the teeth the body is programmed for.Would create a large-enough dental arch if they could create one. When the body is starved for the raw materials to build its structures, at first it wisely robs areas that aren't immediately vital to survival and usually does so according to a sort of scale of "vitalness." At any price, the blood chemistry must be maintained perfectly, and the nervous system kept entirely intact. These can't be shortchanged, not at all. Then, the vital organs: heart, lungs, kidneys, etc, can't really be scrimped on either, or the body won't survive to reproduce. The bones that move the body, allow it to work and fight and flee, these must also receive as large an allocation of reserves as possible. But certain bone structures aren't nearly so vital. These include the jawbone, the facial bones, and the pelvic girdle. When a developing fetus is semi-starved during pregnancy, the result is a narrow, pinched face, small jaw and pelvis--an aquiline nose and crooked teeth. When that fetus is well-nourished and created by a mother's body that also has had a lifetime of good nutrition, a body carrying sufficient nutritional reserves in its tissues, the result is an infant with a broad face, wide jaw and broad hips--a stocky, stout appearance. If after being born, a well-nourished person is deprived of good nutrition during childhood, the result is not quite as bad, as this body at least had a good "start." One nutritionally-oriented dentist who wrote prolifically named Melvin Page, concluded that when the body received at least 75% of ideal nutrition, the teeth and bone structures were maintained intact. When nutrition fell below 75% of ideal, dental disease manifested rapidly. Please study the pictures that are to come and learn to notice the size of jaws and width of hips, the thin, delicate look or the strong, stocky look. (If you can't "see" what I am referring to after studying the photos I have reproduced to accompany this book review, I suggest you buy Price's book, wherein you'll find many other photos, including many of skulls and jaw bones that graphically explain the dental arch and how it functions.) What I find most remarkable is when I look at all the pictures of healthy people, of whatever race, nation, color, they all look fundamentally the same. They have a broad flat nose because narrow noses are caused by facial bones failing to be broad, thus pinching the nostrils together. The tend to be shorter and stockier. The females, even as children, all have adequately-sized "ovens" for the baking of babies. They all look alike except for skin color and hair texture. • Price also wondered if there were some special types of soils that made for good teeth? Regarding Switzerland, he said: "It is of interest that the southern part of Switzerland including the high Alpine country is largely granite. The hills in the northern part of Switzerland are largely limestone in origin. A great number of people live in the plain between these two geologic formations, a plain which is largely made of alluvial deposits which have been washed down from the upper formations. The soil is extraordinarily fertile soil and has supported a thrifty and healthy population in the past. "When I asked a government official what the principal diseases of the community were, he said that the most serious and most universal was dental caries, and the next most important, tuberculosis; and that both were largely modern diseases in that country. When I visited the famous advocate of heliotherapy, Dr. Rollier, in his clinic in Leysin, Switzerland, I wondered at the remarkable results he was obtaining with heliotherapy in nonpulmonary tuberculosis. I asked him how many patients he had under his general supervision and he said about thirty-five hundred. I then asked him how many of them come from the isolated Alpine valleys and he said that there was not one; but that they were practically all from the Swiss plains, with some from other countries." (p. 41) Price concluded of all this data: "High immunity to dental caries, freedom from deformity of the dental arches and face, and sturdy physiques with high immunity to disease were all found associated with physical isolation, and with forced limitation in selection of foods. This resulted in a very liberal use of dairy products and whole-rye bread, in connection with plant foods, and with meat served about once a week. "The individuals in the modernized districts were found to have widespread tooth decay. Many had facial and dental arch deformities and much susceptibility to diseases. These conditions were associated with the use of refined cereal flours, a high intake of sweets, canned goods, sweetened fruits, chocolate; and a greatly reduced use of dairy products." (pp. 42-3) In this respect, I feel Price missed a vital truth about soil fertility and human health. Price can easily be excused for this limitation, after all, he was a dentist, not an agriculturalist. Fortunately the relationships between soil and health were fully appreciated by another remarkable being who also maintained an association with the Price-Pottenger circle--William A. Albrecht. Albrecht found that the nutritional qualities of foods and the consequent health of the animals who ate these foods were enormously effected by the intrinsic fertility of the soil that grew them. And sadly, that most soils on Earth are not fertile enough to produce maximally nutritious food and thus, most regions of Earth will not produce the longest-possible living people whose health is maximized. Albrecht also provides insights about how to manage soil with the aim of improving the nutrition of the food it grows. But Albrecht's remedies for lack of soil fertility do not exactly allign with the Organic Farming and Gardening Religion as defined by J.I. Rodale and successor company. During his lifetime J.I. Rodale denegrated Albrecht for non-conformity with organicism, and so, even today, Albrecht's writings are often overlooked.Fortunately, William Albrecht's works are kept in print by an organization called Acres, USA.The Albrecht Papers, all three volumes of them, are available for order through any book store or at Acres' website, and many libraries have them or can get them through their interelibrary loan service. For starters I particularly recommend reading volume two. • In the next section of this book review, I have reproduced a small selection of the photographs and a bit more narrative from Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. They'll take you a few minutes to download, but I strongly recommend that you do so and then study them, and the comments Price made about them. Then, go out to your local food market or mall or where ever people gather and observe faces, dental arches, and crooked teeth. If you see someone with perfect-looking straight teeth, but their face is narrow, take a chance, walk up to the person, introduce yourself as a student of human health, and ask if you might ask a somewhat personal question: have they been to an orthodontist? And also please do this website a service. If you decide to buy a copy of Nutrition and Physical Degeneration from the PPNF, please tell them where you first learned of the book. Thank you for reading this book review! Steve Solomon Exeter, Tasmania February, 1999 http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0203CAT/020305ppnf/PPNF.HTML please visit this web site for images and links.

and my honey's mother asks me how i can say i eat healthy when i cook with real butter and not vegetable oil

SunRa — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:12:38 GMT

Nasty, Brutish and Short By Sally Fallon In order to believe that our society has "progressed," we must believe first that the lives of our ancestors were indeed nasty, brutish and short. But, as study after study has confirmed, the health of traditional peoples was vastly superior to that of modern industrial man. Modern technology—father of the combine harvester, the automobile, the flush toilet and the fully electric house—does not bestow his blessings without a price. These twentieth century tools that have conferred freedom of movement and comfort, and freedom from drudgery and dirt, leave dark trailings of pollution, congestion and alienation. This much is apparent. The wise use of technology has exercised the minds of thinkers and writers for a fair number of decades. Less obvious is the connection between modern technology and health. Conventional wisdom asserts that our current health crisis—in which one in three people in the Western world develops cancer and almost half suffer from heart disease—will be solved by more technology, not less, and that disease, like drudgery and dirt, will give way to a combination of innovation and funding. My colleague, Dr. Tom Cowan, likes to tell the story of a typical patient who comes in for a checkup. "It's just a precaution," says the patient, "I'm actually very healthy." Yes, he had his tonsils removed when he was a youngster; he had his wisdom teeth taken out and his teeth straightened with braces; he has a mouth full of fillings and several root canals; he had a hernia operation a few years ago and his back bothers him sometimes. True, he often feels under stress, even depressed, and wishes he had more energy, but he passes these off as normal conditions, just what one would expect in the course of an average life-span. A family history reveals a sister who died at the age of 40 from breast cancer and a father who is senile with Alzheimers living in a nursing home. Both his children were born by Cesarean section. They needed extensive (and expensive) orthodontics. His daughter suffers from allergies and his son attends a special school for the hyperactive and learning disabled. What allows Dr. Cowan's typical patient to claim that he is healthy is, indeed, the same technology that gave us the vacuum cleaner and the computer. Without the modern inventions used to shore up his teeth, safely remove his tonsils, repair his hernia and help his wife give birth, our typical patient would be a toothless, childless cripple—or dead before adulthood. But the technology that allows him to fly to California in five hours and illumine his living room with the flick of a switch was not able to save his sister from cancer nor his father from Alzheimers. The solutions proffered for his depression and fatigue, his daughter's allergies and his son's difficulties in school are palliative at best, and dangerous at worst. Modern technology allows the appearance of health but not the substance. The age of solutions has a health crisis it cannot solve. Although heart disease and cancer were rare at the turn of the century, today these two diseases strike with increasing frequency, in spite of billions of dollars in research to combat them, and in spite of tremendous advances in diagnostic and surgical techniques. In America, one person in three suffers from allergies, one in ten will have ulcers and one in five is mentally ill. Every year, one quarter of a million infants are born with a birth defect, who then undergo expensive heroic surgery, or are hidden away in institutions. Other degenerative diseases—arthritis, multiple sclerosis, digestive disorders, diabetes, osteoporosis, Alzheimers's, epilepsy and chronic fatigue—afflict a significant majority of our citizens. Learning disabilities such as dyslexia and hyperactivity make life miserable for seven million young people—not to mention their parents. These diseases were extremely rare only a generation or two ago. Today, chronic illness afflicts nearly half of all Americans and causes three out of four deaths in the United States. Most tragically, these diseases, formerly the purview of the very old, now strike our children and those in the prime of life. We have almost forgotten that our natural state is one of balance, wholeness and vitality. It seems as if the twentieth century will exit with a crescendo of disease. Things were not so bad back in the 1930's, but the situation was already serious enough to cause one Cleveland, Ohio dentist to be concerned. Dr. Weston Price was reluctant to accept the conditions exhibited by his patients as normal. Rarely did an examination of an adult patient reveal anything but rampant decay, often accompanied by serious problems elsewhere in the body, such as arthritis, osteoporosis, diabetes, intestinal complaints and chronic fatigue. (They called it neurasthenia in Price's day.) But it was the dentition of younger patients that alarmed him most. Price observed that crowded, crooked teeth were becoming more and more common, along with what he called "facial deformities"—overbites, narrowed faces, underdevelopment of the nose, lack of well-defined cheekbones and pinched nostrils. Such children invariably suffered from one or more complaints that sound all too familiar to mothers of the 1990's: frequent infections, allergies, anemia, asthma, poor vision, lack of coordination, fatigue and behavioral problems. Price did not believe that such "physical degeneration" was God's plan for mankind. He was rather inclined to believe that the Creator intended physical perfection for all human beings, and that children should grow up free of ailments. He had heard utopian stories about the good health of primitive cultures and resolved to find out if the "backward" societies that American was intent on evangelizing and colonizing were indeed healthier than his own. For the next ten years, he traveled to various isolated parts of the earth, where the inhabitants had no contact with "civilization," in order to study their health and physical development. His investigations took him to isolated Swiss villages and a windswept island off the coast of Scotland. He studied traditional Eskimos, Indian tribes in Canada and the Florida Everglades, Southsea islanders, Aborigines in Australia, Maoris in New Zealand, Peruvian and Amazonian Indians and tribesmen in Africa. Once Price had gained the confidence of the tribal or village elders, he did what came naturally to him—he counted cavities. Imagine his surprise at finding groups of people in whom less than 1% of the permanent teeth were decayed. He found 14 isolated groups in all where tooth decay was rare to nonexistent, in people who had never seen a dentist and never brushed their teeth. Freedom from caries always went hand in hand with freedom from disease, both chronic disease like cancer and heart disease, and infectious disease like tuberculosis, which in Price's day afflicted much of the world in epidemic proportions. These studies occurred at a time when there still existed remote pockets of humanity untouched by modern inventions; but when one modern invention, the camera, allowed Price to make a permanent record of the people he studied. The photographs Price took, the descriptions of what he found and his startling conclusions are preserved in a book considered a masterpiece by many nutrition researchers who followed in Price's footsteps: Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.1 Yet this compendium of ancestral wisdom is all but unknown to today's parents and the medical community. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration is the kind of book that changes the way people view the world, because it describes not only societies in which excellent health was the norm, but also because it shows us how healthy people look. Healthy people have faces that are broad, well-formed and noble. Their teeth fill the smile with a band of dazzling whiteness, as even and perfect as. . . false teeth. Price took photograph after photograph of beautiful smiles, and noted that "healthy primitives" were invariably cheerful and optimistic. Such people were characterized by "splendid physical development." The women gave birth with ease. Their babies rarely cried and their children were energetic and hearty. Many others have reported a virtual absence of degenerative disease, particularly cancer, in isolated, so-called "primitive" groups.2 Price observed a number of societies in transition where stores or outposts had been established and native foods were replaced by the products of western civilization—sugar, white flour, condensed milk, canned foods, chocolate, jams and pastries—what Price called the "displacing foods of modern commerce." His photographs capture the suffering caused by these foodstuffs—chiefly rampant tooth decay. Even more startling, they show the change in facial development that occurred with modernization. Parents who had changed their diets gave birth to children who no longer exhibited the tribal patterns. Their faces were more narrow, their teeth crowded, their nostrils pinched. These faces do not beam with optimism, like those of their healthy ancestors. The photographs of Dr. Weston Price demonstrate with great clarity that the "displacing foods of modern commerce" do not provide sufficient nutrients to allow the body to reach its full genetic potential—neither the complete development of the bones in the body and the head, nor the fullest expression of the various systems that allow humankind to function at optimal levels—immune system, nervous system, digestion and reproduction. The diets of the healthy "primitives" Price studied were all very different: In the Swiss village where Price began his investigations, the inhabitants lived on rich dairy products—unpasteurized milk, butter, cream and cheese—dense rye bread, meat occasionally, bone broth soups and the few vegetables they could cultivate during the short summer months. The children's teeth were covered in green slime but Price found only about one percent decay. The children went barefoot in frigid streams during weather that forced Dr. Price and his wife to wear heavy wool coats; nevertheless childhood illnesses were virtually nonexistent and there had never been a single case of TB in the village. Hearty Gallic fishermen living off the coast of Scotland consumed no dairy products. Fish formed the mainstay of the diet, along with oats made into porridge and oatcakes. Fishheads stuffed with oats and chopped fish liver was a traditional dish, and one considered very important for growing children. The Eskimo diet, composed largely of fish, fish roe and marine animals, including seal oil and blubber, allowed Eskimo mothers to produce one sturdy baby after another without suffering any health problems or tooth decay. Well-muscled hunter-gatherers in Canada, the Everglades, the Amazon, Australia and Africa consumed game animals, particularly the parts that civilized folk tend to avoid—organ meats, blood, marrow and glands, particularly the adrenal glands—and a variety of grains, tubers, vegetables and fruits that were available. African cattle-keeping tribes like the Masai consumed no plant foods at all—just meat, blood and milk. Southsea islanders and the Maori of New Zealand ate seafood of every sort—fish, shark, octopus, shellfish, sea worms—along with pork meat and fat, and a variety of plant foods including coconut, manioc and fruit. Whenever these isolated peoples could obtain sea foods they did so—even Indian tribes living high in the Andes. Insects were another common food, in all regions except the Arctic. The foods that allow people of every race and every climate to be healthy are whole natural foods—meat with its fat, organ meats, whole milk products, fish, insects, whole grains, tubers, vegetables and fruit—not newfangled concoctions made with white sugar, refined flour and rancid and chemically altered vegetable oils. Modern nutrition researchers are showing renewed interest in the foodways of our ancestors, but myths about primitive diets abound. The first is easily dismissed—that traditional diets were largely vegetarian. Anthropological data confirm what Price found, namely that throughout the globe, all societies show a preference for animal foods and fats.3 Modern scientific literature does not support the claims made for vegetarian diets.4 Dr. Price's trip to Africa gave him the opportunity to compare primitive groups composed largely of meat eaters, with those of similar racial stock that were mostly vegetarian.5 The Masai of Tanganyika, Chewya of Kenya, Muhima of Uganda, Watusi of Ruanda and the Neurs tribes on the western side of the Nile in the Sudan were all cattle-keeping people. Their diets consisted largely of milk, blood and meat, supplemented in some cases with fish and with small amounts of grains, fruits and vegetables. The Neurs especially valued the livers of animals, considered so sacred "that it may not be touched by human hands. . . It is eaten both raw and cooked." These tribes were noted for their fine physiques and great height—in some groups the women averaged over 6 feet tall, and many men reached almost seven feet. Until his Africa trip, Price had not found groups that had no cavities at all, yet Dr. Price found six cattle-herding tribes that were completely free of dental decay. Furthermore, all members of these tribes exhibited straight, uncrowded teeth. Bantu tribes such as the Kikuyu and Wakamba were agriculturists. Their diet consisted of sweet potatoes, corn, beans, bananas, millet and kaffir corn or sorghum. They were less robust than their meat-eating neighbors, and tended to be dominated by them. Price found that largely vegetarian groups had some tooth decay—usually around 5% or 6% of all teeth, still small numbers compared to Whites living off store-bought foods. Even among largely vegetarian tribes, dental occlusions were rare, as were degenerative diseases. It is a mistake, however, to think that these groups consumed no animal products at all, as is often claimed. Some Bantu tribes kept a few cattle and goats which supplied both milk and meat; they ate small animals such as frogs; and they put a high value on insect food. "The natives of Africa know that certain insects are very rich in special food values at certain seasons, also that their eggs are valuable foods. A fly that hatches in enormous quantities in Lake Victoria is gathered and used fresh and dried for storage. They also use ant eggs and ants." Other insects, such as bees, wasps, beetles, butterflies, moths, grubs, cricket, dragon flies and termites are sought out and consumed with relish by tribes throughout Africa.6 It is significant that groups who consumed mostly plant foods practiced the feeding of special animal foods during gestation and lactation. Apparently carnivorous groups found no need to supplement the diet, as it was already rich in the factors needed for reproduction and optimum growth. Another myth about primitive diets, and one that is harder to dispel, is that they were low in fat, particularly saturated animal fat. Loren Cordain, PhD, probably the most well known proponent of a return to Paleolithic food habits, recommends a diet consisting of "lean meat, occasional organ meats and wild fruits and vegetables." While this prescription may be politically correct, it does not jibe with descriptions of Paleolithic eating habits, either in cold or hot climates. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who spent many years living with the Eskimos and Indians of Northern Canada, reports that wild male ruminants like elk and caribou carry a large slab of back fat, weighing as much as 40 to 50 pounds. The Indians and Eskimo hunted older male animals preferentially because they wanted this backslab fat, as well as the highly saturated fat found around the kidneys. Other groups used blubber from sea mammals like seal and walrus. "The groups that depend on the blubber animals are the most fortunate in the hunting way of life," wrote Stefansson, "for they never suffer from fat-hunger. This trouble is worst, so far as North America is concerned, among those forest Indians who depend at times on rabbits, the leanest animal in the North, and who develop the extreme fat-hunger known as rabbit-starvation. Rabbit eaters, if they have no fat from another source—beaver, moose, fish—will develop diarrhoea in about a week, with headache, lassitude, a vague discomfort. If there are enough rabbits, the people eat till their stomachs are distended; but no matter how much they eat they feel unsatisfied. Some think a man will die sooner if he eats continually of fat-free meat than if he eats nothing, but this is a belief on which sufficient evidence for a decision has not been gathered in the north. Deaths from rabbit-starvation, or from the eating of other skinny meat, are rare; for everyone understands the principle, and any possible preventive steps are naturally taken."7 Normally, according to Stefansson, the diet consisted of dried or cured meat "eaten with fat," namely the highly saturated cavity and back slab fat that could be easily separated from the animal. Another Arctic explorer, Hugh Brody, reports that Eskimos ate raw liver mixed with small pieces of fat and that strips of dried or smoked meat were "spread with fat or lard."8 Pemmican, a highly concentrated travel food, was a mixture of lean dried buffalo meat and highly saturated buffalo fat. (Buffalo fat, by the way, is more saturated than beef fat.) Less than two pounds of pemmican per day could sustain a man doing hard physical labor. The ratio of fat to protein in pemmican was 80%-20%. As lean meat from game animals was often given to the dogs, there is no reason to suppose that everyday fare did not have the same proportions: 80% fat (mostly highly saturated fat) to 20% protein—in a population in which heart disease and cancer were nonexistent. Obtaining adequate fat in the diet was a greater challenge for the Australian Aborigine, living in a very different climate.9 They were close observers of nature and knew just when certain animals were at their fattest. For example, kangaroos were fat when the fern leaf wattle was in flower; possums when the apple tree was in bloom. Other signs indicated when the carpet snake, kangaroo rat, mussels, oysters, turtles and eels were fat and at their best. Except in times of drought or famine, the Aborigine rejected kangaroos that were too lean – they were not worth carrying back to camp. During periods of abundance "animals were slaughtered ruthlessly, and only the best and fattest parts of the killed game were eaten." Favorite foods were fat from the intestines of marsupials and from emus. Highly saturated kidney fat from the possum was often eaten raw. The dugong, a large seagoing mammal, was another source of fat available to natives on the coasts. Other sources of fat included eggs – from both birds and reptiles – and a great variety of insects. Chief among them was the witchety grub, or moth larva, found in rotting trunks of trees. These succulent treats – often over six inches long – were eaten both raw and cooked. Fat content of the dried grub is as high as 67%. The green tree ant was another source of valuable fat, with a fat-to-protein ration of about 12 to one. Another important seasonal food in some parts of the country was the begong moth. The moths were knocked off rock walls on which they gathered in large numbers, or smoked out of caves or crevices. They were roasted on the spot or ground up for future use. Moth abdomens are the size of a small peanut and are rich in fat. Modern investigators find it hard to accept the fact that groups exhibiting superb physical development and perfect health ate liberally of the very dietary component that modern nutritionists have demonized: Saturated animal fat. Yet, even a cursory look at disease trends exonerates traditional fats like butter, lard and tallow. As these fats have been replaced by commercial vegetable oils in the western diet, cancer and heart disease have soared. Dietary saturated fats actually play many important roles in the human biochemistry: Saturated fatty acids constitute at least 50% of the cell membranes, giving them necessary stiffness and integrity; they play a vital role in the health of our bones;10 they lower Lp(a), a substance in the blood that indicates proneness to heart disease;11 they protect the liver from alcohol ingestion;12 they enhance the immune system;13 they are needed for the proper utilization of essential fatty acids;14 they are the preferred food for the heart;15 and they have important antimicrobial properties, protecting us against harmful microorganisms in the digestive tract.16 Even more important, animal fats are carriers for vital fat-soluble vitamins A and D, needed for a host of processes, from prevention of birth defects to health of the immune system, to proper development of the bones and teeth. In fact, Price was convinced that these "fat-soluble activators" were key to the beautiful facial development and freedom from dental caries that characterized the people he studied. When he analyzed their diets, he found that they contained at least four times the minerals—calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron and so forth— and TEN times the fat-soluble vitamins as the American diet of his day. The richest sources of vitamins A and D are the very foods modern man eschews: animal fats, organ meats, lard, fish eggs, shellfish, eggs and butter—but not pale, commercial store bought-butter. Butter rich in fat-soluble vitamins is the soft, orange-yellow product that comes only from cows eating green grass on fertile pastures, a commodity that is almost impossible to find in western supermarkets. Vitamin A from animal sources is not the same as its precursors, the carotenes found in plant foods. The conversion of carotenes in the human body is often compromised, and even under optimal conditions is not efficient enough to supply the amount of true vitamin A Price found in the diets of healthy isolated populations.17 A surprising source of nutrients in traditional diets is shrimp, which contains ten times more vitamin D than liver. Shrimp sauces and shrimp pastes made from dried shrimp, and therefore a concentrated source of vitamin D, are used throughout Africa and the Orient. This is the most likely explanation for low rates of osteoporosis in these regions, as well as a virtual absence of diseases linked to vitamin D deficiency—colon cancer and multiple sclerosis. Price accurately predicted that western man would develop more and more diseases as he substituted vegetable oils for animal fats, and that reproduction would become increasingly difficult. By some estimates, 25% of American couples are now infertile, a condition that may send the population reductionists into paroxysms of glee but that causes untold heartache to millions of individuals. Infertility treatments are problematic, painful and expensive compared to the primitive prescription: More animal fat. "The flesh of bear hath a good relish, very savory and inclining nearest to that of Pork," wrote American colonist Col William Byrd in 1728. "The Fat of this Creature is least apt to rise in the Stomach of any other. The Men for the most part chose it rather than Venison. . . . And now, for the good of mankind, and for the better Peopling an Infant colony, which has no want but that of Inhabitants, I will venture to publish a Secret of Importance, which our Indian . . . disclosed to me. I asked him the reason why few or none of his Country women were barren? To which curious Question he answered with a Broad grin upon his Face, they had an infallible SECRET for that. Upon my being importunate to know what the secret might be, he informed me that, if any Indian woman did not prove with child at a decent time after Marriage, the Husband, to save his Reputation with the women, forthwith entered into a Bear-dyet for Six Weeks, which in that time makes him so vigorous that he grows exceedingly impertinent to his poor wife and 'tis great odds but he makes her a Mother in Nine Months." Dried fish roe was highly valued by a number of tribes Price studied—from the Eskimos of Alaska to Indian tribes living high in the Andes. When Price asked these disparate groups why they ate fish eggs, the answer was the same: "So we will have healthy babies." Scientists have discovered numerous factors in fish roe that contribute to fertility—vitamins A and D, iodine and other minerals and special elongated fatty acids—but such is the mindset of modern medicine that this information is not passed on to parents-to-be. Other special foods given to pregnant women and growing children included shell fish, organ meats and deep yellow butter, all of which Price found to be extremely rich in minerals and "fat-soluble activators." The response of orthodox paleo-diet researchers to overwhelming evidence that the hunter-gatherers sought out and consumed large quantities of animal fat and high-cholesterol foods, rich in fat-soluble vitamins, is that while the primitive diet allowed for optimal reproduction and development—borne out not only by Dr. Price's photographs, but by skeletal remains of hunter-gatherers from throughout the world—it had the unhappy side effect of shortening his life-span. Yet Arctic explorers reported great longevity among the Eskimo;18 Australian Aborigine communities were noted for containing a sizeable number of old people, who lived together as a separate group and for whom were reserved special foods that were easy to gather and hunt.19 The diets of traditional groups noted for longevity are rich in animal fats: The people of Hunza consume large quantities of fermented goat milk products, and goats milk is higher in fat, and contains more saturated fat, than cows milk; the inhabitants of Vilcabamba in Equator consume fatty pork and whole milk products; and the long-lived inhabitants of Soviet Georgia also eat liberally of pork and whole milk yoghurt and cheeses. In fact, a Soviet study found that longevity was greatest in rural communities where people ate the most fatty meat, compared to town dwellers who ate more carbohydrates.20 Yet carbohydrates, in the form of whole grains and related seed foods, are not absent in healthy traditional diets, even in the diets of hunter-gatherers. Price found that millet and corn were consumed throughout Africa; quinoa and amaranth in South America. American Indians consumed wild rice, corn and beans; Australian Aborigines gathered a species of wild millet and consumed a large variety of legumes. One school of thought claims that grains and pulses should be avoided, arguing that they were absent from the Paleolithic diet and citing the obvious association of grains with celiac disease and studies linking grain consumption with heart disease.21 What researchers often overlook is the fact that seed foods—grains, legumes and nuts—are prepared with great care in traditional societies, by sprouting, roasting, soaking, fermenting and sour leavening.22 These processes neutralize substances in whole grains and other seed foods that block mineral absorption, inhibit protein digestion and irritate the lining of the digestive tract. Such processes also increase nutrient content and render seed foods more digestible. For example, in India, rice and lentils are fermented for at least two days before they are prepared as idli and dosas; in Africa the natives soak coarsely ground corn overnight before adding it to soups and stews and they ferment corn or millet for several days to produce a sour porridge called ogi; a similar dish made from oats was traditional among the Welsh; in some Oriental and Latin American countries rice receives a long fermentation before it is prepared; Ethiopians make their distinctive injera bread by fermenting a grain called teff for several days; Mexican corn bread cakes, called pozol, are fermented for several days and for as long as two weeks in banana leaves; Cherokee bread was similar, but wrapped in corn husks; before the introduction of commercial brewers yeast, Europeans made slow-rise breads from fermented starters; in America the pioneers were famous for their sourdough breads, pancakes and biscuits; and throughout Europe grains were soaked overnight, and for as long as several days, in water or sour milk before they were cooked and served as porridge or gruel. Grains carefully prepared in this manner confer far more nutritional value than modern quick rise breads, granolas, rice bran concoctions, extruded breakfast cereals and, of course, denuded white flour products. Weston Price's studies convinced him that the best diet was one that combined nutrient-dense whole grains with animal products, particularly fish. The healthiest African tribe he studied was the Dinkas, a Sudanese tribe on the western bank of the Nile. They were not as tall as the cattle-herding Neurs groups but they were physically better proportioned and had greater strength. Their diet consisted mainly of fish and cereal grains. This is one of the most important lessons of Price's research—that a mixed diet of whole foods, one that avoids the extremes of the carnivorous Masai and the largely vegetarian Bantu, ensures optimum physical development. Purists argue that, as with grains, man should not eat dairy products because the keeping of herds dates back only a few thousand years, a mere drop of time in the evolutionary bucket. But there are many healthy milk-drinking populations including disease-free traditional Europeans, Americans up to the first World War, Greeks and other inhabitants of the Mediterranean, Africans, Tibetans, the long-lived inhabitants of Soviet Georgia and the hearty Mongols of Northern China. Even today, the use of relatively processed milk products is associated with longevity in countries like Austria and Switzerland.23 Modern milk is denatured through pasteurization and homogenization; stripped of its valuable fat content; filled with antibiotics and pesticides; laced with additives and synthetic vitamins; and comes from cows bred to produce huge amounts of milk and fed everything under the sun except what cows are supposed to eat—green grass.24 There is evidence to link such milk with the whole gamut of modern ailments including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, breast cancer, osteoporosis, autism and allergies. Other practices common to traditional groups throughout the world include the use of animal bones, usually made into broth that is added to soups, stews and sauces; the preservation of vegetables, fruits, grains and even meats through the practice of lacto-fermentation to make condiments, meat products and beverages; and the use of salt. In areas where salt is not available, sodium-rich grasses and other plants are burnt and added to foods. Familiar lacto-fermented foods include old-fashioned sauer kraut and yoghurt. Almost any food can be preserved by this method, which encourages the proliferation of beneficial bacteria. The lactic acid they produce is an excellent, natural preservative prevents spoilage in plant foods as pickles and chutneys, meats as sausage and haggis, milk as a variety of soured products and grains as chewy breads and thick sour porridges. Lacto-fermented beverages are ubiquitous in traditional cultures—from kaffir beer in Africa to kvass and kombucha in Slavic regions. Lacto-fermented foods are artisinal products—instead of mass produced items preserved with vinegar and sugar—which taste delicious and confer many health benefits. They add valuable enzymes to the diet, and enhance digestibility and assimilation of everything we eat. Gelatin-rich broth also enhances digestion and provides the gamut of macro-minerals in easily assimilated form. Broth-based soups are snack foods in Asian countries, usually prepared in mom-and-pop shops; and they form the basis of both peasant and gourmet cuisines throughout Europe. But in most western countries, the stock pot has given way to convenience foods whose meat-like favor derives from flavor enhancers—MSG and other neurotoxic additives. The first happy lesson gleaned from a study of traditional diets is that healthy food can and should taste good; that we can put butter on our porridge and cook in lard, that it's OK to consume whole milk, fatty meats, liver and onions, lox and cream cheese, shrimp and lobster, even insects, if you like them; that heavenly sauces made from bone broth and cream confer more benefits than pills and powders and ersatz low-fat concoctions, the stepchildren of technology, pawned off as health foods. Wisely used, technology can take the drudgery out of cooking, and help us bring properly grown and prepared foods to the marketplace. Wrongly used, technology produces breads that are soft and sweet rather than sour and chewy; coca-cola rather than cottage-industry lacto-fermented soft drinks; bouillon cubes rather than homemade broth; sugar-embalmed ketchup with infinite shelf life rather than enzyme-rich condiments and pickles preserved to last a few months in a way that adds nutrients instead of taking them away. The second lesson is that healthy eating is good for the ecology. The building blocks of a healthy diet are pesticide-free foods raised on mineral-rich soil, and healthy animals that live free to manure the paddocks of thousands of farms, rather than suffer in factories, confined to misery and disease. The road to health starts with a willingness to pay a good price for such food, thus rewarding the farmer who preserves the land through wise farming practices, rather than the agribusiness that mines the soil for quick profits. And, finally, a return to traditional foods is a way of taking power away from the multinationals and giving it back to the artisan. The kind of food processing that makes food more nutritious is the same kind of food processing that the farmer or the farming community can do in situ—sour milk and grain products, aged cheeses, pickles, sausages, broth and beverages. All the boxed, bottled and frozen products in modern supermarkets—the cheerios, crackers, cookies, egg-beaters, margarines, diet sodas and TV dinners—have made fortunes for a few and impoverished the rest of us. The way we eat determines not only how healthy we will be, but what kind of economy we have—the kind where a few people make millions and millions of dollars or the kind where millions of people make a decent living. Technology propels us headlong into the future, but there will be no future unless that technology is tamed to the service of wise ancestral foodways. 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New York, NY Khosla, P, and K C Hayes, J Am Coll Nutr, 1996, 15:325-339; Clevidence, B A, et al, Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol, 1997, 17:1657-1661 Nanji, A A, et al, Gastroenterology, Aug 1995, 109(2):547-54; Cha, Y S, and D S Sachan, J Am Coll Nutr, Aug 1994, 13(4):338-43 Kabara, J J, The Pharmacological Effects of Lipids, J J Kabara, ed, The American Oil Chemists Society, Champaign, IL, 1978, 1-14; Cohen, L A, et al, J Natl Cancer Inst, 1986, 77:43 Garg, M L, et al, The FASEB Journal, 1988, 2:4:A852; Oliart Ros, R M, et al, Meeting Abstracts, AOCS Proceedings, May 1998, p 7, Chicago, IL L D Lawson and F Kummerow, "B-Oxidation of the Coenzyme A Esters of Vaccenic, Elaidic and Petroselaidic Acids by Rat Heart Mitochondria," Lipids, 1979, 14:501-503 Kabara, J J, The Pharmacological Effects of Lipids, J J Kabara, ed, The American Oil Chemists Society, Champaign, IL, 1978, 1-14; Cohen, L A, et al, J Natl Cancer Inst ,1986, 77:43 Sally Fallon, "Vitamin A Vagary," PPNF Health Journal, Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, Summer 1995, 192):1-3 (619) 574-7763 Dr. Henry Greist, Seventeen Years Among the Eskimos, date unknown, Cited by Stefansson Sally Fallon and Mary G Enig, PhD, "Australian Aborigines," Health and Healing Wisdom, Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, Summer 1998, 222):8 (619) 574-7763 Pitskhelauri, G Z, The Long Living of Soviet Georgia, 1982, Human Sciences Press, New York, NY Lutz, W A, "The colonization of Europe and our Western diseases," Medical Hypotheses, Aug 1995, 45(2):115-20 Steinkraus, Keith H, ed, Handbook of Indigenous Fermented Foods, 1983, Marcel Dekker, Inc, New York, NY Moore, Thomas J, Lifespan: What Really Affects Human Longevity, 1990, Simon and Schuster, New York For more information see www.realmilk.com About the Author Sally Fallon is the author of Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats (with Mary G. Enig, PhD), a well-researched, thought-provoking guide to traditional foods with a startling message: Animal fats and cholesterol are not villains but vital factors in the diet, necessary for normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels. She joined forces with Enig again to write Eat Fat, Lose Fat, and has authored numerous articles on the subject of diet and health. The President of the Weston A. Price Foundation and founder of A Campaign for Real Milk, Sally is also a journalist, chef, nutrition researcher, homemaker, and community activist. Her four healthy children were raised on whole foods including butter, cream, eggs and meat. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 1999 Sally Fallon. All Rights Reserved. First published in The Ecologist, Vol 29, No 1, January/February 1999. 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PROFESSIONALS' STATEMENT CALLING FOR AN END TO WATER FLUORIDATION

SunRa — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:02:21 GMT

600 pros urge Congress to stop fluoridation Quote Docs, dentists, scientists cite new evidence of serious health risks, ineffectiveness Posted: August 10, 2007 [link to www.worldnetdaily.com] Citing new scientific evidence suggesting ineffectiveness and serious health risks, more than 600 professionals are urging Congress to stop water fluoridation until congressional hearings are conducted. The signers include physicians, dentists, scientists, and environmentalists. Their statement released yesterday cites a 500-page review of fluoride's toxicology by a panel appointed by the National Research Council of the National Academies. The panel looked at a large body of literature in which fluoride is said to have a statistically significant association with a wide range of adverse effects. They include an increased risk of bone fractures, decreased thyroid function, lowered IQ, arthritic-like conditions, dental fluorosis and, possibly, osteosarcoma. The signers include a Nobel Prize winner, three members of the NRC panel, two officers in the union representing professionals at the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters and the president of the International Society of Doctors for the Environment. "Fluoridation is against all principles of modern pharmacology. It's really obsolete," contends signer Dr. Arvid Carlsson, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Medicine. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it "continues to strongly support community water fluoridation as a safe and effective public health measure to prevent and control tooth decay and to improve overall health." The signers, nevertheless, say CDC data indicates dental fluorosis, caused by fluoride over-exposure, now impacts one- third of American children. An online petition to Congress in support of the professionals' statement will become available soon on the website of a group called the Fluoride Action Network, or FAN. FAN director Paul Connett asserts government officials "who continue to promote fluoridation must testify under oath as to why they are ignoring the powerful evidence of harm in the NRC report." The statement to Congress notes the new American Dental Association policy recommending infant formula not be prepared with fluoridated water and the CDC's concession that the predominant benefit of fluoride is topical not systemic. The professionals also point to major research indicating little difference in decay rates between fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities. Additionally, they cite a Harvard study indicating a possible link between fluoridation and bone cancer, noting the silicofluoride chemicals used for fluoridation are contaminated industrial waste and have never been FDA-approved for human ingestion. The CDC insists, however, that in spite of the studies, "the weight of the scientific evidence, as assessed by independent committees of experts, comprehensive systematic reviews, and review of the findings of individual studies does not support an association between water fluoridated at levels optimal for oral health and the risk for cancer, including osteosarcoma." The Environmental Working Group, a Washington, D.C.-watchdog, the professionals say, revealed a Harvard professor concealed the fluoridation/bone cancer connection for three years. The president of the watchdog group, Ken Cook, says, "It is time for the U.S. to recognize that fluoridation has serious risks that far outweigh any minor benefits, and unlike many other environmental issues, it's as easy to end as turning off a valve at the water plant." PROFESSIONALS' STATEMENT CALLING FOR AN END TO WATER FLUORIDATION AUGUST 9, 2007 We, the undersigned professionals, come from a variety of disciplines but all have an abiding interest in ensuring that government public health and environmental policies be determined honestly, with full attention paid to the latest scientific research and to ethical principles. EIGHT recent events make action to end water fluoridation urgent. 1. The publication in 2006 of a 500-page review of fluoride’s toxicology by a distinguished panel appointed by the National Research Council of the National Academies (NRC, 2006). The NRC report concluded that the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) safe drinking water standard for fluoride (i.e. maximum contaminant level goal or MCLG) of 4 parts per million (ppm) is unsafe and should be lowered. Despite over 60 years of fluoridation, the report listed many basic research questions that have not been addressed. Still, the panel reviewed a large body of literature in which fluoride has a statistically significant association with a wide range of adverse effects. These include an increased risk of bone fractures, decreased thyroid function, lowered IQ, arthritic-like conditions, dental fluorosis and, possibly, osteosarcoma. The average fluoride daily intakes (*) associated with many of these adverse effects are reached by some people consuming water at the concentration levels now used for fluoridation -- especially small children, above average water drinkers, diabetics, people with poor kidney function and other vulnerable sub-groups. For example, the average fluoride daily intake associated with impaired thyroid function in people with iodine deficiency (about 12% of the US population) is reached by small children with average consumption of fluoridated water at 1 ppm and by people of any age or weight with moderate to high fluoridated water consumption. Of special note among the animal studies is one in which rats fed water containing 1 ppm fluoride had an increased uptake of aluminum into the brain, with formation of beta-amyloid plaques, which is a classic marker of Alzheimer's disease pathology in humans. Considering the substantial variation in individual water intake, exposure to fluoride from many other sources, its accumulation in the bone and other calcifying tissues and the wide range of human sensitivity to any toxic substance, fluoridation provides NO margin of safety for many adverse effects, especially lowered thyroid function. * Note: "Daily intake" takes into account the exposed individual’s bodyweight and is measured in mg. of fluoride per kilogram bodyweight. 2. The evidence provided by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2005 that 32% of American children have dental fluorosis – an abnormal discoloration and mottling of the enamel. This irreversible and sometimes disfiguring condition is caused by fluoride. Children are now being overdosed with fluoride, even in non-fluoridated areas, from water, swallowed toothpaste, foods and beverages processed with fluoridated water, and other sources. Fluoridated water is the easiest source to eliminate. 3. The American Dental Association’s policy change, in November 2006, recommending that only the following types of water be used for preparing infant formula during the first 12 months of life: "purified, distilled, deionized, demineralized, or produced through reverse osmosis." This new policy, which was implemented to prevent the ingestion of too much fluoride by babies and to lower the risk of dental fluorosis, clearly excludes the use of fluoridated tap water. The burden of following this recommendation, especially for low income families, is reason alone for fluoridation to be halted immediately. Formula made with fluoridated water contains 250 times more fluoride than the average 0.004 ppm concentration found in human breast milk in non-fluoridated areas (Table 2-6, NRC, 2006). 4. The CDC’s concession, in 1999 and 2001, that the predominant benefit of fluoride in reducing tooth decay is TOPICAL and not SYSTEMIC. To the extent fluoride works to reduce tooth decay, it works from the outside of the tooth, not from inside the body. It makes no sense to drink it and expose the rest of the body to the long term risks of fluoride ingestion when fluoridated toothpaste is readily available. Fluoride’s topical mechanism probably explains the fact that, since the 1980s, there have been many research reports indicating little difference in tooth decay between fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities (Leverett, 1982; Colquhoun, 1984; 1985 and 1987; Diesendorf, 1986; Gray, 1987; Brunelle and Carlos, 1990; Spencer,1996; deLiefde, 1998; Locker, 1999; Armfield and Spencer, 2004; and Pizzo 2007 - see citations). Poverty is the clearest factor associated with tooth decay, not lack of ingested fluoride. According to the World Health Organization, dental health in 12-year olds in non-fluoridated industrialized countries is as good, if not better, than those in fluoridated countries (Neurath, 2005). 5. In 2000, the publication of the UK government sponsored “York Review,” the first systematic scientific review of fluoridation, found that NONE of the studies purporting to demonstrate the effectiveness of fluoridation to reduce tooth decay were of grade A status, i.e. “high quality, bias unlikely” (McDonagh et al., 2000). 6. The publication in May 2006 of a peer-reviewed, case-controlled study from Harvard University which found a 5-7 fold increase in osteosarcoma (a frequently fatal bone cancer) in young men associated with exposure to fluoridated water during their 6th, 7th and 8th years (Bassin et al., 2006). This study was surrounded by scandal as Elise Bassin’s PhD thesis adviser, Professor Chester Douglass, was accused by the watchdog Environmental Working Group of attempting to suppress these findings for several years (see video). While this study does not prove a relationship between fluoridation and osteosarcoma beyond any doubt, the weight of evidence and the importance of the risk call for serious consideration. 7. The admission by federal agencies, in response to questions from a Congressional subcommittee in 1999-2000, that the industrial grade waste products used to fluoridate over 90% of America's drinking water supplies (fluorosilicate compounds) have never been subjected to toxicological testing or FDA safety-tested approved for human ingestion (Fox, 1999; Hazan, 2000; Plaisier, 2000; Thurnau, 2000). 8. The publication in 2004 of “The Fluoride Deception” by Christopher Bryson. This meticulously researched book showed that industrial interests, concerned about liabilities from fluoride pollution and health effects on workers, played a significant role in the early promotion of fluoridation. Bryson also details the harassment of scientists who expressed concerns about the safety and/or efficacy of fluoridation (see Bryson interview). We call upon Members of Congress (and legislators in other fluoridating countries) to sponsor a new Congressional (or Parliamentary) Hearing on Fluoridation so that those in government agencies who continue to support the procedure, particularly the Oral Health Division of the CDC, be compelled to provide the scientific basis for their ongoing promotion of fluoridation. They must be cross-examined under oath if the public is ever to fully learn the truth about this outdated and harmful practice. We call upon all medical and dental professionals, members of water departments, local officials, public health organizations, environmental groups and the media to examine for themselves the new documentation that fluoridated water is ineffective and poses serious health risks. It is no longer acceptable to simply rely on endorsements from agencies that continue to ignore the large body of scientific evidence on this matter -- especially the extensive citations in the NRC (2006) report discussed above. The untold millions of dollars that are now spent on equipment, chemicals, monitoring, and promotion of fluoridation could be much better invested in nutrition education and targeted dental care for children from low income families. The vast majority of enlightened nations have done this (see statements). It is time for the US, and the few remaining fluoridating countries, to recognize that fluoridation is outdated, has serious risks that far outweigh any minor benefits, violates sound medical ethics and denies freedom of choice. Fluoridation must be ended now. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- for the complete list of the 600 Professionals, who signed this list as well as others go here http://www.fluorideaction.org/statement.august.2007.html

sugar is sweet

SunRa — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:00:31 GMT

Nutrasweet Hopes For New Future By Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum 8-16-7 Be warned of new poison soon on the market. Here is the new article: http://www.thestate.com/business/v-print/story/147446.html We already know that aspartame is an addictive excitoneurotoxic carcinogenic drug causing a global epidemic: Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, www.sunsentpress.com H. J. Roberts, M.D. An FDA toxicologist told Congress it causes cancer back in l985: http://www.wnho.net/the_fda_fable.htm The Ramazzini Studies proved again aspartame is a multipotential carcinogen. Malignant neoplasms are now the #2 cause of death according to the 2004 CDC Report. Now NutraSweet is going to be mixed with Acesulfame potassium for a new tabletop sweetener. Dr. Roberts wrote in his first book years ago about this: "Acesulfame potassium (or acesulfame K) was approved for use by the FDA as a safe artificial sweetener in July 1988. It is a derivative of acetoacetic acid Unfortunately, several potential problems associated with the use of acesulfame have been raised. They are based largely on animal studies since testing on humans remains limited. * It stimulates insulin secretion in a dose-dependent fashion, thereby possibly aggravating reaction hypoglycemia ("low blood sugar attacks"). * It apparently produced lung tumors, breast tumors, rare types of tumors in other organs (such as the thymus gland), several forms of leukemia, and chronic respiratory disease in several rodent studies, even when less than maximum doses were given. Accordingly, the Center for Science in the Public Interest formally petitioned on August 29, l988 for a stay of its approval by the FDA on August 29, l988 because of "significant doubt" about the safety of acesulfame potassium." The Delaney Amendment forbids putting anything in food you know will cause cancer. A recent investigation of cases by Lane Shore of Mission Possible Chicago shows Appeals Court have upheld Delaney. Delaney does not permit exemption for any amount of cancer. So both of these sweeteners are on the market illegally because FDA gives their loyalty to pharmaceutical and chemical companies instead of the public. Some years ago Return to Eden in Atlanta removed Acesulfame Potassium (Sunnett) because I sent them information. Immediately I got a call from Dr. Abe McCall of the company who said, "We know aspartame causes brain tumors but Acesulfame Potassium only caused mammary tumors." I explained it was more than that but no thank you consumers don't want breast cancer. He later called and told me I didn't have permission to tell that story. Manufacturers don't seem to understand that disability and death are not acceptable costs of business. Today consumers flock to sweeteners because of the epidemic of obesity. Aspartame and MSG have been proven to be the cause of this epidemic. http://www.dorway.com/walton2.txt An eight year epidemiological study by the University of Texas, Sharon Fowler, linked diet drinks to obesity. Even in the congressional record of May, l985, protest of National Soft Drink Assn, it was admitted that aspartame makes you crave carbohydrates so you gain weight. http://www.wnho.net/open_letter_dick_adamson.htm So what is happening is the consumer public is consuming a product that is triggering obesity to try and prevent it. Just Like Sugar is a safe sweetener which can be gotten in any Whole Food Store or Wild Oats. It's also approved now in many nations like UK and Australia. Dr. Russell Blaylock (Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills) wrote in the Blaylock Report that "finally there is a safe sweetener" after asking for an analysis which showed it contains chicory, orange peel, Calcium and Vitamin C. The public must read labels. The Senomyx substitute for MSG is now on the market. Ajinomoto has the marketing rights for our country. Nestle for Europe, where they have already introduced Senomyx in a line of Bouillon Cubes. This did not require approval and would be in artificial flavors. http://www.truthinlabeling.org Consumers should consider with the food supply being so poisoned that processed foods not be used. Other countries importing American products can now be using Senomyx without knowing it as well. Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder Mission Possible International 9270 River Club Parkway Duluth, Georgia 30097 770 242-2599 www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com, www.wnho.net Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame 2652 Cropsey Avenue, #7H Brooklyn, NY 11214 (718) 449-0037 mitchelcohen@mindspring.com

Forget Marajuana, Cherries are the latest "controlled substance"

SunRa — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:41:35 GMT

http://www.newstarget.com/019366.html Forget Marajuana, Cherries are the latest "controlled substance" FDA tyranny and the censorship of cherry health facts (opinion) Tuesday, May 02, 2006 by: Mike Adams In the past, I jokingly said that broccoli might someday be banned as soon as the public begins to learn about the potent anti-cancer chemicals found in the vegetable. That’s because, as I jested, the FDA wouldn’t want people treating their own cancer with the anti-cancer medicines found in cruciferous vegetables. But it seems that my joke wasn’t so funny after all, because the FDA is now threatening cherry growers with raids to confiscate their cherries, haul them into court, and put them out of business for doing one simple thing that the FDA cannot stand to allow: The distribution of scientific information describing the health benefits of cherries. On October 17, 2005, the FDA sent warning letters to 29 companies that market cherries. In these letters, the FDA threatened these companies with legal action and told them they had to remove the scientific information on their websites that described the health benefits of the natural medicines found in cherries, such as the anthocyanins that reduce inflammation for arthritis sufferers. According to the warped FDA logic that now seems to be standard, when cherry growers post scientific information about the health benefits of their cherries, they magically transform their cherries into drugs and therefore, as drugs, they must have FDA approval in order to sell them in the United States. The FDA says a cherry is a drug Now, any normal, sane person would look at a cherry and say, “It’s just a cherry.” It’s a natural fruit that people have been eating for as long as anyone can remember. But the FDA, in light of the fact that people are now discovering that cherries are actually good medicine, looks at a cherry and says (paraphrasing), “No, it’s a drug, and you have to have our permission to market it, and if you continue to talk about the health benefits of cherries, we will use our power to put you out of business.” I’ve often talked about the tyranny of the FDA and its campaign to censor the scientific truth about the healing benefits of natural foods, including cherries and many other items. This event demonstrates perfectly well the sinister nature of the FDA, which clearly intends to restrict the spread of knowledge about cherries and thereby protect the profits of anti-inflammatory drugs that treat joint pain. If Americans knew the true power of cherries to reduce inflammation, you see, the sales of anti-inflammatory drugs might plummet, and the criminal drug pushers who run organized medicine today can't allow that to happen. Hence, censorship and oppression of scientific information are the tactics used to keep the American people ignorant and, therefore, controlled. Because it's not just cherries that contain powerful medicine, you see. It's blueberries, garlic, cabbage, onions, ginger, turmeric, cinnamon, aloe vera, almonds and a thousand other natural foods and medicinal herbs. If the public understood the true healing power of these foods -- and the powerful medicines they contain -- conventional medicine and all its drug-pushing participants would suddenly be irrelevant and bankrupt. That's what the drug pushers absolutely cannot allow to happen, and that's why the American people must be kept ignorant at all costs, even if it means engaging in book burning, armed raids on alternative medicine clinics, and jackbooted censorship of simple truths that might empower people to take charge of their own health. It is the most insidious use of power by any federal agency because its aim is ignorance, not education. It seeks to isolate people from information that might save them in order to control them, and it is the same tactic used by every evil regime in world history, including Nazi Germany. It also makes the FDA the single greatest threat to the health and safety of the American people, far outweighing the threat of terrorism in terms of the number of people harmed or killed. (See "Statistics prove prescription drugs are 16,400% more deadly than terrorists") So I’m just curious; are cherry growers who distribute scientific information now going to be arrested as cherry traffickers? Will people start smuggling cherries across borders so that their customers can benefit from the healing effects of these natural foods? Will the FDA raid cherry orchards with guns drawn like it did Dr. Jonathan Wright’s clinic in Seattle many years ago? Will cherry growers be arrested and tried on crimes of making health claims or illegally marketing unapproved drugs? These things were once thought of as being ridiculous. The very idea that a natural food could be outlawed was once considered a joke. Now it is one step closer to reality as this tyrannical organization, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, is censoring scientific information on the health benefits of cherries and using its power to threaten cherry growers into silence. More nonsense from the FDA Amazingly, the FDA doesn’t claim to disagree with the scientific information about cherries. Instead, it says that cherries “have not been recognized as safe and effective when used as labeled.” And as the Life Extension Foundation explains, the FDA’s interpretation of the law means that cherry growers are “engaged in criminal conduct by relaying findings that have been published in peer reviewed scientific journals.” So now publishing information makes you a criminal even if that information is scientifically sound and widely known to be absolutely true. If this isn't a blatant violation of the First Amendment, I don't know what is. Where's the Electronic Freedom Foundation on this issue? Isn't this a clear case where the tyranny of the FDA should be openly challenged by champions of Free Speech? Cherries are now, according to the FDA, not recognized as safe and effective when used "as labeled." I’m just curious, what does the label of cherries say about using it? Does it say, “Eat me?” Because that's what we should all be saying to the FDA right now, as it is an agency immersed in such absolute nonsense that even fools can see the emperor has no clothes. To say a cherry is a drug and then threaten cherry growers with drug crimes is something ripped right out of the pages of 1984 and its Ministry of Truth. (See Wikipedia to learn more.) In terms of genuine authority, the FDA is nothing short of an utter joke and an embarrassment to the American people. Unfortunately, it still has power, and it is exploiting that power to threaten cherry growers with criminal prosecution for doing what people have done for countless generations on this earth, which is to grow their own fruits and eat those fruits while enjoying their many benefits. Do not tolerate unjust authority Gandhi once initiated the Salt March to Dandi (the "Salt Satyagraha") in defiance of the tyrannical salt taxation rules of the occupying British government, and there he and his followers intentionally violated the law by harvesting salt from the waters. It was a practice that had been carried out for centuries by the people there, and one that provides essential minerals for human health. Gandhi’s defiance may teach us something very important about modern times, and that is that when a law is so unjust as to stand in violation of fundamental human rights, it is not only the right, but the duty of individuals to stand in firm opposition to that law and to challenge whatever authority unjustly imposes that law upon the people. The FDA operates today much like the occupying British in 20th century India, oppressing the people, outlawing natural traditions like salt harvesting in order to control a monopoly market, silencing dissent, and threatening any organization or individual that challenges its power. The FDA, as it exists today, is an organization of tyranny and injustice that simply has no place in a free society. That’s why I believe it is time for growers of cherries, fruits, vegetables and other healing foods to take a stand against the FDA. Stand firm against oppression and censorship, and stand up for your right to tell the truth about the healing benefits of your natural products. The FDA’s reclassification of cherry growers as criminals is a violation of every system of law and ethics that we’ve known on this planet. It is a violation of natural law, it is a violation of God’s law, and it is a violation of basic human rights, which include the right to grow and eat food and share that food with your neighbors along with information about what those foods can do to nourish them. The FDA would like to imagine that it is the ultimate authority over all things health related and that only it can approve what words we might use to describe the fruits and vegetables we share with our neighbors. And as such, the FDA is an entity of ignorance and evil that actually seeks to de-educate the American people, and the day of outing the criminals who currently operate the FDA is long overdue. This is an agency whose decision makers need to be immediately arrested and tried for their crimes against humanity. It is an agency that demands wholesale reform from top to bottom and that must eliminate its obvious conflicts of interest and its desire to protect the pharmaceutical industry. It must be reformed with a new mission that it should have been following all along: To protect the health of the people it is supposed to serve. End the tyranny of the FDA If you're an American voter, one of the best ways to protect your health freedom, which is clearly under assault by the Food and Drug Administration as well as other disease-promoting interest groups, is to support the Health Freedom Protection Act (HR4282). It is a bill that will allow organizations like cherry growers to tell the truth about their products, as long as that truth is based on sound science. It would allow cherry growers, for example, to reference the published scientific studies that report on the healing benefits of the phytochemicals found in cherries. It is a shame that in this country we even need such a bill, but we do need it, because the level of censorship, oppression, and tyranny now practiced by the FDA has reached its apex, and we must fight back with legislation that ends the tyranny of the Food and Drug Administration and reinforces our right to access information that can help us live happier, healthier and longer lives. Support the Health Freedom Protection Act (HR4282) by writing your representatives in Congress and voicing your opinion. Also visit the Life Extension Foundation, publishers of Life Extension Magazine, which contributed to this report. Finally, refuse to live as a slave of conventional medicine and the FDA for another day. Demand health freedom and settle for nothing less than the ending of this age of medical tyranny that seeks to turn us all -- you, your parents, your children and preschoolers -- into ignorant, drug-induced consumers who will never know true freedom, nor true health. Perhaps the greatest legacy that we can pass on to our children is the ending of this medical McCarthyism and the unfolding of a new golden age of health freedom. Stay active and informed, and do not let ignorance and oppression prevail. Action items If you know a cherry grower or cherry marketing company, forward this article to them. If you are a cherry grower or marketing company, link to this article. If you'd like to take a stand against the FDA and challenge this censorship, Truth Publishing will gladly provide global coverage to your story through articles, phone interviews and even video interviews distributed to over half a million readers around the world. If you're fed up with FDA oppression, and you'd like to take part in a David vs. Goliath free speech battle that could prove pivotal to the ending of FDA tyranny, contact us through our feedback form. Anonymity is 100% assured. We won't share details about your story without your permission. ###

STATES are switching primary rules at the last minute to shut out Ron Paul - Please Read!

SunRa — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:18:36 GMT

Hello friends and foes, This is scary important and it comes from Gambling911.com where they report on the odds for Ron Paul winning the Presidency. Ron Paul is favored 6 to 1, ahead of Mit Romney.....but, this should tell you something about HOW government KILLS freedom. http://www.gambling911.com/Ron-Paul-New-Voting-Rules-100307.html Here is the article, but click the link to read it on their site if you like. Ron Paul Betting Odds Could be Impacted by New Voting Rules Voting Rules Changed at Last Minute Will Shut out Votes for 2008 US Presidential candidate Ron Paul, according to Gambling911.com Special Contributor Jennifer Reynolds. Ms. Reynolds regularly reports on the Ron Paul campaign for the Gambling911.com website. Dr. Paul, as many of you already know, is opposed to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) and there are many in the online gambling space who would love to see him get elected into office next year. But it turns out his own party is going to make this an even more difficult task. "Many states, in an effort to shut out Ron Paul are now closing their primaries," reports Reynolds. "That means that only Republicans can vote in the Presidential primaries for a Republican candidate." And this could have a tremendous impact on Ron Paul betting odds, though probably not in the next few weeks. Ron Paul odds were slashed to 6 to 1 over this past weekend, making him a bigger favorite than Mitt Romney. Jennifer Reynolds article in its entirety appears below. Remember to follow all the latest cutting edge Ron Paul news as it pertains to Presidential betting odds at Gambling911.com, your political betting news headquarters. Add us to your favorite websites. ----- Ron Paul's popularity bridges the gap between all groups. He is truly a bi-partisan politician. Republicans like him, Libertarians like him, Independents are supporting him as well as many Democrats who see his small government, anti-war stance as attractive. Ron Paul is the first person in decades to have so many diverse groups support him. It is easy to see why: he believes in freedom and liberty for all. That includes the liberty to not have to go to war and the liberty to keep your entire paycheck. Only days ago he introduced the Tax Free Tips Act because by taxing tips, the IRS punishes workers for "doing a superior job." People in this country are fed up with being lied to and stolen from. They want the war over with and they want it ended NOW. Ron Paul is fast becoming the only candidate in either party to pledge to end the war. People in general are sick of having no power to do anything and the majority of Americans believe that things are going to get worse for them in the coming years, not better. But Ron Paul offers hope to change all of that. He is truly the only man for the people. What is so amazing that so many Democrats, Independents and Libertarians are planning on voting for him. For those of you that fall into that class, the established Republicans do not want you to do that and are changing rules as we speak to try to shut you out at the voting window. Many states, in an effort to shut out Ron Paul are now closing their primaries. That means that only Republicans can vote in the Presidential primaries for a Republican candidate. Many states are doing this quickly and quietly and giving people very little time to learn about the new rules. For example, New Hampshire decided only a week ago that you will now have to change your party affiliation by October 12, 2007 or it will be too late to do so. New Hampshire also has a closed primary and only Republicans and possibly Independents will be allowed to vote for Ron Paul. In New York, you must be registered as a Republican or you cannot vote for Ron Paul and again, you must make this decision by October 12, 2007 or it will be too late. In New York, however, Independents cannot vote for Ron Paul. Same with New Jersey and many states around the nation. I hesitate to give you a link to a site that has correct information about voting in all 50 states because I have yet to find one that does not have an error and besides, this information is changing daily, as Ron Paul gains momentum. The people in power are doing their best to shut out the multitude of voices that want to vote for Ron Paul. If you are a Ron Paul supporter, or even thinking about becoming a Ron Paul supporter, please become a registered Republican immediately so that no matter what your state does to change the rules out from under you, you will still be allowed to vote for this great man. All of these arbitrary deadlines are designed to keep a candidate such as Ron Paul from gaining momentum and making a last minute push. Effectively, Ron Paul has until October 12, 2007 to get as many Democrats, and others to switch sides in key states like New York and New Hampshire, or they will not be able to vote for Ron Paul in the primaries. That means that the people in power have shortened the Ron Paul campaign to less than two weeks with the stroke of a pen! The Ron Paul campaign now has less than two weeks to teach people about his candidacy and his policies. As of this moment, in New Hampshire you may be registered as an Independent and still vote for Ron Paul. Not so in New York. In New York you must be a registered Republican by October 12, to vote for Ron Paul (Independents cannot vote in the primaries at all). However, for those of you in New Hampshire reading this, I wouldn't trust that come election day the rules won't have been changed on you again. To be safe, make sure your voter registration card says Republican. So, all of you sitting on the fence folks, the fence is about to crumble beneath you and you will not have the ability to affect the election at all. The rules are changing all over the place for Independents. Now, if you are an Independent in New York or Arizona or New Jersey and many other states you will not be allowed to vote in any primary at all. You will only be able to sit on the sidelines and watch as other people decide for you who your choices are. So get busy! Hurry up and re-register. In another effort to stem the rising tide of Ron Paul supporters California this week just announced that they too would close their Presidential Primary, again shutting out Independents. (Despite the fact that the voters of California voted on March 26, 1996 to be make it an open primary state). So, once again, unless you are a registered Republican you cannot vote for Ron Paul if you live in California. The only good news, is that as of this moment, the deadline to change your registration is January 21, 2008. However, I would not depend on that. If it looks like Ron Paul might win, they could move that date up too. So don't put this off. Arizona pulled a sneaky move on its voters. Arizona is an open primary state. That means that anyone can vote in any race - except, and here is the catch, in the Presidential Primary. How can they get away with that? Because, they don't actually call the Presidential Primary a primary at all, it is now officially called a Presidential Preference Election. So, with that new name comes new rules. Arizona actually did this many years ago, but most of Arizona's residents are unaware of this rule. As a result, many many people who want to vote for Ron Paul will be shut out because they think they can stay Independent or "party undeclared" and still get to vote. They will be rudely met by voting proctors who will turn them away at the door. On top of all of this, many states are moving their primaries up earlier and earlier this year so that a come-from-behind candidate had better do his coming-from-behind in a sprint. Worse yet, if you call the official Secretary of State's office to find out the voting rules, you are likely to get faulty information. In my tiny sampling of seven calls, five of the states gave out incorrect information that if relied upon, would result in that voter not being allowed to vote for Ron Paul. The best place to get correct information is from your state's GOP. (But do not tell them who you are planning on voting for or they may make a mistake in the information. Beware of answers that begin with "I think..." that is almost always followed by a guess and often misinformation. Make them do the work and find out the real dates.) Here is one site that has some information, but please do not rely upon it as the rules may have changed by the time you read it. It will help you find links to places to change your registration. It is appalling that states are allowed to change their voting rules at the last minute so most people will not hear of the change. It is more appalling that when calling an official state office you are given incorrect information. It is most appalling that millions of Ron Paul voters may not get to vote for their man because they didn't know the rules were switched on them. So, for all of you Ron Paul supporters out there: Switch now. Hurry. Sign up to be a Republican if you aren't already, get that official voter registration card in hand so on primary election day no one can take away your right to vote! It doesn't matter if right now your state is an open primary state, or they claim to allow Independents to vote, they may close it tomorrow as California just did and they may give you only three weeks to make the change as New Hampshire did. Don't take the risk. Become Republican today. I know this is not fair. I know that the rules used to be different. I know, you may not want to be a Republican but still want to vote for Ron Paul. Please don't let your pride and their trickery get in the way of you voting for the man you want. And remember New Yorkers and folks from New Hampshire - You have less than two weeks left. HURRY! The deadline is October 12, October 12, October 12... make that your new mantra. Please tell all of your friends. For you Democrats out there who wanted the war to stop only to find that your party seems content on this war lasting another decade or so, Ron Paul voted against the war in the first place and would vote to stop it the minute he took office, in January of 2009. Isn't another 15 months enough time for this war to rage on and try to end with a "win." I know you may not want to switch parties. But think of it this way, if you do switch, and Ron Paul loses, then that will be another Republican who abandons the party come general election day, so you can have a little taste of revenge for them making you switch parties to vote for this man. How do you know that Ron Paul won't lie and keep this war going too? You can trust a man to behave in the future the way he has behaved in the past. Protect your right to vote. Don't let them steal the greatest man in history away from you before you have even learned about him. Check out the www.ronpaulportal.com to find links to many ways to learn about Ron Paul. My favorites are the Ron Paul Library link and the You Tube videos. And they call this a democracy? Ha! Please send this article to all that you care about. Turn this into a freedom chain letter to spread truth across the country. ---- Jennifer Reynolds, Special Contributor to Gambling911.com Originally published October 2, 2007 9:15 pm ET Regards, Bill Sisemore Unique Ron Paul Signs @ www.U8X.com Ron Paul for President in 2008! Join us at www.RonPaul2008.com

MEMO FROM GOD

SunRa — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:19:35 GMT

I am God. Today I will be handling all of your problems. Please remember that I do not need your help. If life happens to deliver a situation to you that you cannot handle, do not attempt to resolve it. Kindly put it in the SFGTD (something for God to do) box. It will be addressed in My time, not yours. Once the matter is placed into the box, do not hold on to it. If you find yourself stuck in traffic: Don't despair. There are people in this world for whom driving is an unheard-of privilege. Should you have a bad day at work: Think of the man who has been out of work for years. Should you despair over a relationship gone bad: Think of the person who has never known what it's like to love and be loved in return. Should you grieve the passing of another weekend: Think of the woman in dire straits, working twelve hours a day, seven days a week to feed her children. Should your car break down, leaving you miles away from assistance: Think of the paraplegic who would love the opportunity to take that walk. Should you notice a new gray hair in the mirror: Think of the cancer patient in chemo who wishes she had hair to examine. Should you find yourself at a loss and pondering what is life all about, asking what is my purpose? Be thankful. There are those who didn't live long enough to get the opportunity. Should you find yourself the victim of other people's bitterness, ignorance, smallness or insecurities: Remember, things could be worse. You could be them!

Kakyakyauna Aliens

SunRa — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:30:50 GMT

i found this article very interesting... maybe some of you shall as well... Kakyakyauna Aliens ("terrible and ungodly" people) "Imooyi, everyone thinking those “star brother and sisters” all are being good. Owi, those “star brother and sisters” being evolve to final form in every another Solar System (also here in our Solar System) they are *wonderful. And never will they try to stop these children of Earth Mother from evolving. Why? Because how they reach this position where they are now with *great intelligence and can travel in space ship and go around all universe? They reach this position because they face all changes and accept to their complete evolution. They also want we accept to our evolution and so they never stealing us away from our Earth Mother. If it is a good matter to go with them they will long Time ago come to us and taking us with them, but they are knowing it is a good matter if we accept to Purification and complete Pattern of Migration to Final Form. Can you understand imooyi? Now Kwa’a is asking to you, if it is a good matter to accept Purification and evolve to Final Form why will another “Star people” come to this World and try to take away us at *exactly Time of Purification? Of course they are being up to no good! Up to *very *very no good and can make you screaming of frightened! These kakyakyauna (terrible and ungodly) aliens are ancient (by our Earthly standards), and some of them have very beautiful bodies, but how did they get their beautiful bodies? I am not want to make your frightened but *think, these star people *not wanting us to evolve to complete form, what are they want from us? Why they taking us away? They are not want to help us or they will not be taking us away. We must know they *want something from us. I am thinking about to every person in this World who are not knowing about this terrible matter of what these people wanting from them and running happy into their space ships! Terrible matter! These people coming here with kind words and big smiles and speaking “Ayi! Your World is destroying! Quickly jumping into our space ship and we take you to another Place! This Place is not safe!” But they have been around a *long Time imooyi, and they are knowing this is not destroying this is evolving! They come here and they keep silent about Truth, they come here to grab those poor people who are knowing nothing. Ayi! I wish my Anglo is good and I can explain clearly. I get newspaper and some magazine and I read some Time about this “crop circle” and “dead cow draining away all blood and some pieces of cow is missing” and I think “Why is everybody forget this matter and looking up to Sky and thinking: Star brothers and sisters come and save me from dying! Why they are not thinking it is a scary matter about drain away all blood from animals and also take pieces from bodies of those animals and go around creeping in crops at night making circles when everything is dark night and we don’t give to them our permission to come and do these matters with our crops and our animals on our Earth Mother! I like you to *think about this matter and try to speak to your kwa’a, “Kwa’a I have idea what they wanting from us if they wanting to take us away from our own coming evolution.” I tell you now mouth to ear what is those other star people want from us but you must understand you speak this matter to other people, it is *disgustful. They take blood from animals because they live to very old age they must have to clean out old blood and change for new blood Time to Time. They take that plasma out of blood of animals and they change that plasma to use for their bodies. They have very good science and can change animal blood into plasma and plasma into blood for people, of course better for them if blood is coming from people! They having *very old bodies they also need to change Time to Time their INNARDS!! They smile nicely and speak “We are your brothers and sisters, you can come and live happy with us we have big fancy mothership. We take good care of you.” Then we go to live in that mothership and they look after us nicely but one by one slowly we are disappearing! One of those people are needing some new innards they taking from our bodies! They need every piece of body they can get from another people. They can change that cow blood into plasma and use in their bodies but they cannot use those cow kidney and stomach. Imooyi this matter I am *knowing for two reason. One reason is mouth to ear and the ear of no other but other reason you can share. One man who they took his stomach and they put him back on Earth Mother and him getting stomach pain going to doctor his doctor is asking, “What happened to your stomach it is ancient! You been expose to radiation?” This poor man was simple farmer and never get near that radiation but he was take up by UFO and coming back he got this ancient stomach! With one heart and straight tongue imooyi, this man has healthy stomach and is only twenty and a little Year old and never did come near radiation. They cut his body but leaving no scar and just change to his body. He first coming to see me he is very happy and excited “I had UFO experience” I am also young man at that Time (Thirty about Year) and same night he is needing Medicine for stomach and we can do nothing for this man. He going to Pahana doctor and this Pahana doctor is speaking he never did see such ancient a stomach. That man asking me “Why they not just kill me? Why they give to me this old stomach?” They do this in sneaking like way because our Star brothers and sisters who evolve to Final Form they are not allow these people to come here and they try hard to protect to us but still these people can sneaking in here and catch some people for purpose of exchange some innard. It is true our Star brother and sisters also can do some matter for us but not really suppose to interfere with our Land and Life. I know this matter is not easy to understand imooyi but I speak as one hearted man and with straight tongue: They are not like to interfere because of Mongko speaking we must learn alone and each man and woman must become good alone. I am speaking now to you in a small way (because this matter is a long telling) Himu Sinom is having *very much Respect for Time, you can see me I am always write Time in capital T and any matter about Time (Day Today Minute Year) I am always write in capital letter. You can also see me write Direction in capital D and any matter about Direction (Place West) in capital. Mongko is speaking we also must give Respect to Up Down Above Below Here There and every Direction but I cannot remember every Up and Above and Here (Direction matter) I remember Place and Direction and most of Time and I put capital letter when I can remember (and nobody asking me why!) because we must have Respect. We people looking at Calendar and we looking at Clock and we thinking this is only way of understanding to Time. This is because Time matter is hidden from us. If we discover Time matter and we go fooling around with Time matter we can Live very long Life but we can never evolve. Earth Mother is keeping Time matter secretly and giving to us as Sacred Gift when we reaching to Taalawsohu. When we reaching to Taalawsohu we understand to every matter in whole Universe but now we not yet ready. Not yet ready but same as you can see Pahana scientists looking into every matter Here and There to discover every secret of Earth Mother and grabbing from Her Hand before She is ready to give to us. Mother is knowing when child can have dangerous matter. Mother is knowing when child can have knife, when child can make fire. Some Pahana scientist is greedy child and hurry up to be better than Earth Mother, hurry up to control Nature and to control Earth Mother. They discover atom and straight way they making bomb. Now they wanting to know how to make that space ship and if they discover how to make, they go around making war and grabbing Land and Life from those people less evolve. (Universe having people more evolve and people less evolve.) Not only on Earth Mother people are grabbing matters from hand of their Mother before Time is correct, same thing happening in many Solar Systems. Some people they knowing how to move Time this way and that way. They learning this matter before Time is coming for evolve and when Time is coming for evolve they speaking “We pretty smart now, we knowing everything our Mother is keeping secret. No need to die for thousands years.” But imooyi they not knowing everything Mother is knowing. They using only small part of brain, whole brain is given by Nature and we keeping in our skull but we not using. We die and not using and some people thinking “Why man is having so big brain and only using small piece” In Fifth World we born again and using *all complete brain. We know many sounds are here in this Fourth World and we can not hear to them. My Pahana Brother showing me one small whistle for dog and I am blow that whistle but I cannot hear noise. We all know animals hearing some noise and we cannot hear, but we are not knowing how many noises is there and Mongko is speaking cannot count sound we will hear in Fifth World! We all know some colors we cannot see in Fifth World we can see all colors and hear all sound and use complete brain. This eyes and ears and brain we now are having is pretty good for this Place but is very weak. In Fifth World we getting every organ and innard completely Perfect. But those people who grabbing that Time secrets from hand of their Mother, they don’t know about this all until it is too late. Anyway, maybe even they are knowing they still don’t like to die to get all this gifts from their Mother. (You know people are afraid to die not knowing what is come after to die). So they make decision to jump in space ship and go away and they use Time to move this way and that way and when Purification Time is finish and Solar System is settle down they come running back but their Mother is gone! She having gone more near by to the Sun they cannot go there or they will die! Their bodies not made for that Place near to the Sun but only made for this Place. So now they are having understanding of Time and good science to make spaceship but they got no Mother because while they are gone away at that Time She is fly to be more near by to the Sun. Coming back to Solar System they think “What can we do now? We just live here in same World with these Fourth World people (like us, we are Fourth World people called Homo Sapiens). Only problem those Fifth World people speaking to them “You can never live with these Homo Sapiens people because they are not your people. This is another World here in the Place of your Mother Planet. Your Mother is moving close to Sun and this Planet (Mars-Third World) is coming here while you are gone. While you are gone every Planet is jumping one step closer to the Sun and now what can you do. See that Planet shining in the Sky you call Morning Star? That is your Mother who was before in this Place but you can never go there because you cannot breathe that air or you will die. Your body is not made to live so closely with the Sun. Now how we can allow you to come and steal the World of these people who staying with their Mother? Can not do! So now you have space ship and you must live in space ship and we catch you going around troubling these people who just arrive here in this Fourth World we will chase you out of their World. This is also being your Solar System and your Universe and you can go around in Space with your mothership but you can never come and mix with people having a Mother Planet. We see you try to make war and steal away their Mother or do any struggling matter with them you must be punished.” So now what can they do? Too late they learning science can give understanding of Time but innards *will growing older. Taking longer time but innards only meat and *will growing older. Even every one Second they can make it long as one Year they can never stop meat it *is growing older, slowly slowly slowly, we can speak few thousand Years, but it is coming Time to find new innards and then trouble is coming. They trying to learn how to make innards but those innards they are making can never be good as innards being made by Planet. Bigger problem is come to them. What to do when they die? They can live for very long Time and changing this innard and that innard and making this and that with DNA but accident can happen to anyone and then they die. When these people are die there is no anyone Planet they can put their dead body. Not allowed to put body in another Mother who is not making to your body. If your body cannot be put into that Mother by fire, by water, by put in soil, what is happen to you? You are finish, kaput! Every Mother is knowing the meat of Her own children. Even they like to trying to creeping around at night Time and dig hole and stick that body inside it never will be acceptable by that Mother. Every Mother is having chemicals in Her Body a little different from another Planet same as we are having finger marks a little different from each other, Planet chemicals is Her finger marks, if you put one body not made by that Mother into that Mother soil She spit it out! Chemicals no good! She cannot accept those chemicals! They are strange chemicals! And another way is she cannot rot to that body (decompose? decompost?) and that body cannot rot because those chemicals being stranger chemicals cannot working in Her soil. If body is not rot it cannot go back to soil and *soul of that body is not move away but staying in that body! Way to get from old body to new body is by soul moving from old body and going into new body but for soul to move soil must understand, “This chemicals is match with chemicals in soil”, no match and that soul is not going any Place. So what can these people do? They struggling to keep alive to their bodies and because they are having good science they can make outside of bodies look young and good looking but *innards is dying little by little by little and if accident is happen or innard surgery is go wrong (any scientist can make mistake) then they got no Place to put that body and must destroy that body! Understand Time alone is not enough! Small child is stealing big matter from Mother they cannot handle. So now you know we got these people going around. We also got another people going around not doing good. That is another matter. Good thing is *MOST people in Universe is accept to their evolution. *MOST Solar System got True Brother system. One evolve Brother dying in Fifth World to come here to Fourth World and speaking to us “To Live is Natural and has rewards. To Die is natural and has rewards. To Die is to evolve Look at me. I died to come back to you and be among you during this difficult time. I love you and I love Life and I have no fear of Death. Be like me, love Life and have no fear of Death and inherit Heaven-the Fifth World.” My feeling is too many people are not knowing it is not scary matter to die and accept to evolution. Even they having common sense and can think “My mother is die, my father is die, my grandfather is die, my dog is die, my horse is die” still they having no common sense for thinking “I also can die” when thinking “I also can die” they start thinking “Help! Star people! Coming quickly to save me from dying!” Purification Time is coming and Kwa’a is not teach to enough persons “Please you do not be afraid to die, it is natural matter, here you come sit with me and we waiting together and we eat some nice food and singing and when we again wake up we are in Taalawsohu!”

best advice i have heard all year

SunRa — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:00:49 GMT

There is great power in Minding your own business... leaving everyone alone... Honoring all as Enlightened. See ALL parts of SELF as whole... and EXPRESSING the light within... so why get involved in others causes.. Mind your own business.

Meteor over Croatia Amazing video

SunRa — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:31:40 GMT

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/bbs/message.php?messageid=418541&mpage=1&showdate=7/31/07&forum=1 "This thing must have hit somewhere one of the largest i have ever seen and caught on video awesome!!!" http://dnevnik.hr/naslovnica/vijesti/hrvatska/20070726_21921_61602.php "its in Croatian but you can get a great idea whats going on"

Music Wanted for Video Game Demo

SunRa — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:50:24 GMT

hello again if any of you have visited my website over the past couple of years, you know that i have an intimate super spy psychic astral recon collaborator named chris... he is the most amazing person i have met in my entire life... i recently received a request from him and would like to share it here... he is in need of original electronic music for his new video game demo... the premise for the video game is quite interesting... it is meant to be fully interactive online with multiple players and is based on cosmic manifestation and energy refining... i can give a more thorough description of the game upon request... here is a copy of the email request i received... ***************************************************************************** SUNSHINE hi everyone, i've got something to show you: http://www.omnicentre.ca/temp/oosVid.swf (you may need to download http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash to watch it) it's a video from a project i'm on the final stages of.. a demo of a game i'm calling 'Out Of Space'. it's going to be a sweet game about harmonic rhythms, music, interactions, and my crazy maths/geometrics. i've been working on it for the last few months, and am going to be showing it to publishers in upcoming weeks. earlier this year i've been travelling through the US, with a really great bunch of people. life has been very.. poignant.. in other news, i'm going to be a father come november.. yay! the mom is a lovely woman named meme, some of you know her, some not so much. do any of you guys have musician friends that create electronic music? this is the last element i'm needing to get together, and i'd love to have some original content to present. feel free to share the video link with other friends.. i've got a few of you guys on my email list but i know not everyone's there. lots of love, chris.

i keep forgetting about this...

SunRa — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:04:05 GMT

how could i ever forget about this!?!?!?!?!?!? and i was just typing something up last night about why "they" don't want us partying out in the wilderness... because then our money is not going back into the larger economic system in the form of not only commerce, but permits, fees, fines and whatnot... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PpMdTmVMpo

HALO

SunRa — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:08:05 GMT

the halo is an energy potential of the seventh chakra in a super opened phase in which cosmic energy is flowing in a lensed form into the physical body. it is the anatomy of "conversation with god". most times most peoples seventh chakra is a sphere about the size of a marble located an inch away from the head in both an upward curve but actually straight out of three dimensional space into quantum hyper space. the halo is the phenomenon of what happens when a person is truly opened and has become something of a receiving vessel for some thing larger than themselves. Curiously enough the exact forms and sub forms of the halo can be read very easily if you know what you are doing. Halo abuse does exist, but not in round shaped halos. "Da'at" and mama nyx and the leviathans are holding the court of the sefirot that is not; its like gods security force saying you can't go up there until you are ethical enough to be prepared to live with the consequences of becoming your own genie. So the halo stays very closed for most people, can be popping slightly larger for those that have a personal inner inquiry (or, a serious mental disturbance drawing something weird in. Theres a dark potential to pseudo halos, or "puncture attempts" through the da'at membrane.) A fully opened halo is just about as good as angel wings. Such a person can literally access any information about any subject that has ever been recorded by another sentient in the history of the universe. Access to the full collective unconscious is only possible however through direct personal ethical sanity. And you have to understand to get there in the first place that civilization is ethically insane. Then you have to leave, very slowly, the land of the demented.