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SOLID CRYSTAL BALLS

2012-01-24T01:54:00.000-08:00

SOLID CRYSTAL BALLS
Solid crystal Balls are highly prized and best used to energize the Earth element in Feng Shui practice as well as to create very useful harmonizing effects within the home. This is acknowledged by many Feng Shui masters because a solid crystal Ball has the most pure and powerful earth energy.

Green is the color of balance, which is in the center of the rainbow spectrum. A Green colored crystal is generally said to balance our energies, bring stability,
increase love and compassion. Being the color of the nature, it brings peace and harmony.

A Blue colored crystal is generally said to increase career opportunities, business, finances, and leadership qualities. It also awakens intuition and eases loneliness.

A Yellow colored crystal is generally said to promote optimism, help you go through changes, aid memory, boost will-power and improve concentration. It also helps you feel expressive and joyful.

A Purple colored crystal has the power to attract and concentrate chi. It can improve the chi of the house/office.

A Pink colored crystal may help people pursue and grasp love. They can improve personal relationships.

Here are how you can utilize Crystal to Feng Shui your way to a better life.

o 1. Place the Crystal in the Southeast sector of living rooms, office, shops, work desk, near cash registers and important areas in your business premises to bring in more sales and achieve more monetary gains and successes, increase income and windfall luck. The Southeast sector governs Wealth Luck.

o 2. Display the Crystal in the Northwest to increase money luck and opportunities from helpful people in your business pursuits or career. The Northwest is the universal sector for Mentor Luck based on the Bagua 8 Life Aspirations Theory and its element is Metal. Crystals represent earth energy, and Earth produces Metal in the productive cycle of elements.

o 3. Display the Crystal in the Southwest corner of your living room to enhance relationship and romance luck The Southwest corner is the universal corner for Love and Romance based on the Bagua 8 Life Aspirations Theory and its element is Earth.

o 4. Place the Crystal in the Northeast of a bedroom to embellish the occupant's educational luck.

o 5. Place up to six pieces of Crystals in the center of the home to ensure ultimate wealth success and to magnify your windfall and speculative luck in life, and to achieve greater harmony in the family. They can me made up mixed crystals. This Feng Shui practice is highly recommended by many Feng Shui masters.

http://www.squidoo.com/thecrabbynook

crystal balls

2012-01-24T01:48:00.001-08:00

GOLD Healing

2012-01-24T01:44:00.000-08:00

Gold Healing

An excellent all-purpose, high level gem amplifier and electrical conductor, especially on Solar plexus and Heart Chakra. Strengthens meridians, nerve system, digestion. Positively charged with warming sun energy. Often worn by teachers/healers, especially after much self-healing (addictions, childhood...) Attracts prosperity, stores, amplifies thoughts/emotions/energy (Greed too). Yang. Pink = Gold + copper. Lovingness, warmth, spirituality. Amplifies gem effects. White: Combines sun and moon's energy, thus higher conductor and amplifier. A regenerator, helping one renew oneself. Works on the physical, mental, and spiritual planes. It benefits the nervous system and improves the ability of the nerves to transmit information in the most efficient manner. Helps digestion and helps the body in the proper assimilation of food. Benefits the circulatory system and blood. Helps control hormonal and chemical imbalances. Can be of great importance to individuals with degenerative diseases, such as heart disease or arthritis. Helps the brain work more efficiently. It works well with all crystals and gemstones. Can be used in conjunction with Copper and Silver, which aid in boosting its abilities in specific instances. Gold settings: Gold is ruled by the Sun a masculine planet, and therefore imparts a more assertive energy to crystals & minerals that are mounted in it.

Gold’s long history of use by mankind has given rise to a great number of healing myths. No doubt, its monetary value, which wells from a human lust for gold that is almost archetypal, has amplified the powers that healers attribute to the metal. That New Age healers call gold, “the Master Healer” is of little surprise considering how the desire that gold inspires approaches worship of the metal.

Physical Healing
Gold’s lack of toxicity and its scientific properties of incredible malleability and ability to conduct energy, while remaining resistant to wear and corrosion, make it highly useful for Medical Science. Medical uses based on science have included the treatment of Arthritis, dental fixtures, and more.

Healing uses for Gold based on the beliefs of the New Age include the treatment of blood, skin, neurological and heart disorders. They believe Gold to be an energy generator and remover of blockages with the power to strengthen, amplify and conduct energy in the body for the treatment of autism, dyslexia, epilepsy and scoliosis.

Mental Healing
To those who use minerals, metals and crystals for healing Gold symbolizes the purity of spirit and they attribute the power of cell regeneration, energy conductivity, communication transmission and energy purification to the metal. According to their belief system, Gold spurs the regeneration of neurotransmitters in both lobes of the brain and creates a balance of brain function between creative and logical thought. It also benefits the nerves with its ability to improve the flow of information through the body. In the world of spiritual healing, Gold has the emotional power to ease tension, feelings of inferiority, an anger as well as encouraging the realization of one’s potential and bringing comfort.

http://www.crystalsrocksandgems.com/Healing_Crystals/Gold.html

Animals as good luck symbols

2012-01-05T19:03:00.000-08:00

Iguana
Her finest lessons are:

* Contentment
* Awareness
* Confidence
* Expectation
* Contemplation
* Appreciation
If iguanas or lizards are coming into your awareness, it could be a clear sign to bask in the art of appreciation.

It really is an art form too. Many of us are trained to work, slave, do, do, do - it can be a real effort to stop and smell the roses . Iguana energy beckons us to value the beauty around us, envelope ourselves in a good book, get lost in a good meal, revel in ecstasy over a few spare moments to just relax.

And speaking of relaxing, another symbolic meaning of iguana deals with contemplation. Spike is always observing. My human mind believes she's always suspending judgment about what she sees too.

Rather, she just observes and contemplates with youthful acceptance and peripheral curiosity. She seems to ruminate over every little thing for no other reason other than she can. From the birds that fly overhead, to the leaves that change color with the season - nothing is lost on her awareness. She drinks in her surroundings with an openness and marvels at the spectacles available for her contemplative pleasure.

Same holds true for us. The iguana encourages us to put ourselves in a mindset of utter wonder.

Rabbit
I'm not even going to touch the rabbit's foot thing. However, rabbits are lucky. They're considered extremely auspicious in matters of childbirth and fertility. Ever wondered about the Easter bunny? It's a throwback from fertility rites in which Eostre, a hare-headed goddess derived from ancient Saxon people would hail the blessed beginning of spring. If you'd just endured months of barren winter (maybe even facing starvation) the sign of the rabbit (and the coming of spring) was lucky indeed. I haven't written a page on the rabbit yet (but I'm sure I'll get around to it). However, our stargazing ancestors recognized faint silhouettes of hares hopping around in the moon, and I have written a page about lunar symbolism here.

Spider
I'm going to get derision about this one, I just know it. I realize not everybody is a fan of spiders (I happen to love them), but you can't deny spiders are good luck symbols to many cultures. In fact, spiders are attributed to saving the life of Christ as an infant. Apparently, the Holy Family needed a hideout to elude Herod. They hid in a cave, and spiders wove a thick web at the entrance of the cave making it appear abandoned (and icky) so Herod avoided looking for the Christ child in the cave altogether. Superstition insists it's unlucky to kill a spider.

Dog
In Chinese symbolism, dogs are also considered a harbinger of friendship. The legendary Fu Dog is also a guardian of sacred spaces and embodies concepts of protection too. Dogs are considered very auspicious. In Asian wisdom dogs are symbols of: Good Luck, Loyalty, Obedience and Prosperity.

A short-list of dog meaning includes symbolic attributes like:

* Fidelity
* Loyalty
* Assistance
* Intelligence
* Obedience
* Protection
* Community
* Cooperation
* Resourcefulness
* Communication
* Sensory Perception

The theme of communication becomes heightened when we peer into histories and discover dog meaning and symbolism is connected to the metaphysical realms. The dog has long been considered a liaison between the physical and non-physical dimensions. Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Celtic and beyond have all prescribed the dog as a sacred guardian of the Otherworlds - those realms outside our daily/mundane experience. If you hear of dogs being symbols of death - this is the connection: Dogs are the guardians of ephemeral domains, and can even serve as spirit guides in non-physical journeys.

Consider Anubis, the Egyptian god whose charge is to insure safe transitions from common reality (physical life on Earth) into the Afterlife experience. With the head of a jackal (of canine ilk), Anubis dons the super-powerful sensory perception of the dog. Further, that dog connection represents the epitome of protection, guidance, loyalty and adherence to the flow of unseen spiritual energy. To be sure, safe passage from "life" to Afterlife will be seen to success under the governance of the dog/jackal-headed Anubis. In this ancient light, we get distinct impressions of: Security, Guardianship, Protection.

Dogs are sacred to Hecate, the Greek-Roman overseer of lots of things - but surely a matron bound to protect that which is misunderstood. It seems (to me) where there is senseless lashing out against that which is misunderstood, Hecate comes ferociously in justification - her dogs baying with equal verve at her side. Death, darkness, wild wandering, lunar moodiness, midnight journeying...Hecate defends the soul's right to wander in these little-known, oft-misunderstood alleyways. With her highly perceptive hounds guiding the way (and protecting the body as the spirit wanders), astral travel becomes eons easier.

http://www.whats-your-sign.com/dog-meaning-and-symbolism.html

Dolphin
In Celtic animal symbolism, the dolphin as a highly honored creature as it was seen as the protector of sacred wells and sacred water. The dolphin, to the Celtic mind, is the watcher of the waters, and the guardians of all things water-associated.

A quick-list of symbolic dolphin meaning includes:

* Playfulness
* Transcendence
* Gentleness
* Harmony
* Intelligence
* Contentment
* Friendship
* Community
* Resurrection
* Generosity
* Power

Christian symbolism conveys the dolphin as an aspect of Christ. Dolphins seen in Christian art are symbolic of resurrection. Some artists utilize the protective, stabilizing, compassionate demeanor of the dolphin as a message of wellbeing to the pure of heart. Some artistic renditions speak of dolphins transporting the spirits of the faithful to Christ's side upon leaving their physical bodies.

This dolphin meaning is mimicked in ancient Greece where legend tells us the dolphin was responsible for carrying the souls of the dead to the Islands of the Blessed.

Also in Greece, the dolphin is a compatriot of both the god Apollo (sun) and the goddess Aphrodite (moon). Both lunar symbolism and solar symbolism are represented in the dolphin.

* Sun Dolphin meanings: Active, Life, Vibrant, Health, Renewal, Intelligence
* Moon Dolphin meaning: Hidden power, Intuition, Dreams, Conception, Feminine
http://www.whats-your-sign.com/dolphin-meaning-dolphin-symbolism.html

Bad luck

2012-01-05T18:59:00.000-08:00

BLACKBIRD
If this bird makes a nest on your roof, this is said to be a traditional sign of good luck. In fact most people believed that if this bird nests anywhere near the house it a positive sign. Seeing the sight of two together is unusual and a sign of good luck as the blackbird is very territorial.

DOVE
Seen by many as a sacred bird since ancient times as the dove is the one bird into which the Devil cannot transform. The messenger of 'Venus', Goddess of Love, the dove is associated with lovers. For Indians the dove is traditionally believed to contain the soul of a lover, and that to kill one would bring misfortune. Miners though see the bird as one of ill omen and it is reputedly too dangerous to go underground after seeing this bird near a pitshaft. To have one tapping on the window or flying near the room of a sick person is also believed by some to be an omen of death, as is to see one circling a house. Today the dove is an international symbol of peace and also a Christian symbol of the 'Holy Spirit'. The dove is one bird into which reputedly a witch cannot transform.

DUCK
If this bird hisses or quacks more than normal it is said that rain is on the way. If the bird lays any dun-colored eggs it should be destroyed, along with the eggs, according to a traditional English belief that indicates that misfortune will follow should this event happen. At this and any time hanging a duck upside down is asserted to assure that negative energies and spirits can fall from it.

OWL
A bird with a poor reputation despite being known for being extremely wise hence the expression being a 'wise old owl'. Perhaps this stems from the fact that the owl leads a nocturnal and solitary existence and that the night has long been associated with the time when darker forces and negative energies are present. To see one by day is unlucky and to experience one flying around the house at night signals that death is present, which is thought to stem back to Roman times when the historian 'Pliny' in AD 77 was quoted as saying the bird was 'most execrable and accursed' and always brought bad news. Should an owl brush its wings against a window pain or be seen perching for a considerable length of time on a roof then it is traditionally believed that illness and even death is present within. To look into an owl's nest is reputed to leave the observer with a sad and morose soul. According to an old Welsh tradition if you hear an owl hooting amongst a densely built up area then a female in the locality is said to have just lost her virginity! To hear the hoot of the owl when pregnant, it is traditionally believed in France, means that the baby will be a girl. In Germany if one is heard as a child is being born then the life will be an unhappy one. In the Southern states of America an old traditional rhyme tells of the cry of the owl:

'When you hear the screech owl, honey, in the sweet gum tree,
It's a sign as sure as you're born a death is bound to be;
Unless you put the shovel in the fire mighty quick,
For to conjure that old screech owl, take care the one that's sick.'

A dead owl has served many purposes including mixing some of the flesh with boar's grease as an ointment to ease the pain of gout. Owl broth was once used to feed children to avoid whooping cough according to British tradition, perhaps because the owl itself never suffered in pain when making a similar sound. The eggs were also once thought to help prevent epilepsy, bad sight (for obvious reasons) and more amusingly to bring drunks back to their senses.

http://www.shawcreekbirdsupply.com/folklore_superstitions.htm

Peace of Mind Tips and Advice

2011-12-26T20:37:00.000-08:00

Peace of Mind Tips and Advice
By Remez Sasson

Most people would be glad to have some peace of mind in their life. They would be happy to forget their troubles, problems and worries, and enjoy a few moments of inner calmness and freedom from obsessing thoughts.

What is peace of mind? It is a state of inner calmness and tranquility, together with a sense of freedom, when thoughts and worries cease, and there is no stress, strain or fear. Such moments are not so rare. They may be experienced while being engaged in some kind of an absorbing or interesting activity, such as while watching an entertaining movie or TV program, while being with someone you love, while reading a book or while lying on the sand at the beach.

When you are on vacation, do you experience some sort of mental numbness? At this time, the mind becomes calmer, with fewer thoughts and fewer worries. Even while you are deeply asleep, not aware of your thoughts, you are in a state of inner peace.

Such activities, and similar ones, take away the mind from its usual thoughts and worries, and bring about temporary inner peace.

The question is, how to bring more peace of mind into our life, and more importantly, how to experience it in times of trouble. You might also ask whether it is possible to make it a habit, and enjoy it always and under all circumstances. First, you need to learn to bring more moments of inner peace into your daily life. Later, you will be able to experience these moments in times of trouble or difficulties too, when you really need inner calmness and tranquility.

You can turn peace of mind into a natural habit, but to do so, special training is required, through concentration exercises, meditation and other means. Browse this website, and you will find articles, advice and techniques for attaining peace of mind, as well as a special book dedicated to this subject.

Here are a few simple things that can help you:

Reduce the amount of time you read the newspapers or watch the news on TV.

Stay away from negative conversations and from negative people.

Don't hold grudges. Learn to forget and forgive. Nurturing ill feelings and grievances hurts you and causes lack of sleep.

Don't be jealous of others. Being jealous means that you have low self-esteem and consider yourself inferior to others. Jealousy and low self esteem, often lead to lack of inner peace.

Accept what cannot be changed. This saves a lot of time, energy and worries.

Every day we face numerous inconveniences, irritations and situations that are beyond our control. If we can change them, that's fine, but this is not always possible. We must learn to put up with such things and accept them cheerfully.

Learn to be more patient and tolerant with people and events.

Don't take everything too personally. Some emotional and mental detachment is desirable. Try to view your life and other people with a little detachment and less involvement. Detachment is not indifference, lack of interest or coldness. It is the ability to think and judge impartially and logically. Don't worry if again and again you fail to manifest detachment. Just keep trying.

Let bygones be gone. Forget the past and concentrate on the present moment. There is no need to evoke unpleasant memories and immerse yourself in them.

Practice some concentration exercises. This will help you to reject unpleasant thoughts and worries that steal away your peace of mind.

Learn to practice meditation. Even a few minutes a day will make a change in your life.

Inner peace ultimately leads to external peace. By creating peace in our inner world, we bring it into the external world, affecting other people too.
http://www.successconsciousness.com/peace_mind.htm

Attaining Wealth Through Mind Power

2011-12-26T20:29:00.000-08:00

Wealth
Attaining Wealth Through Mind Power

By Remez Sasson

The word wealth brings into the mind thoughts about riches, plenty of money and the ability to buy and enjoy whatever one wants. It brings thoughts about fancy houses, hotels, world travel, cars and everything money can buy. It is something most people want, but do not believe they can get and enjoy.

Wealth is all the above and much more. It is not restricted only to money and possessions. It manifests as plentitude in various and many forms in our life and in nature. A person can be wealthy with love, compassion, goodness, strength, energy, knowledge and wisdom. Nature manifests wealth in the many life forms and plants it produces, and in the endless stars and worlds it has created.

The Life Force, which is also called the Universal Consciousness, Spirit or Creative Power, desires to constantly express and manifest itself, and it does so through the physical frame of plants, animals and human beings. This power also expresses its desire to manifest wealth, which is the desire to grow, develop and become stronger and bigger. Yet, many find this desire and natural tendency for growth inhibited in them, due to negative programming, negative thinking and lack of faith in themselves and their abilities.

Understanding And Changing Your Attitude Toward Wealth
The first step to make wealth flow into your life is to change your thoughts and attitude toward it. The mind has to be cleared from its wrong concepts about wealth, before it can start to manifest. This is done by bringing to consciousness all of your thoughts and ideas about wealth, money and prosperity.

Take a pen and a sheet of paper, and find a place to be alone and undisturbed for a while. Think about wealth and what it means to you, and then jot down any thought that comes into your mind. Write down every thought, good and bad, positive and negative. Do this for at least ten minutes or until you do not find more ideas and thoughts.

After you finish writing, read, think, and analyze what you have written. You will be surprised at the stuff that comes out of your mind. This analysis will help you to find out where and why you are inhibiting yourself in regard to success, money, and prosperity. You will find out what thoughts and wrong concepts have been holding you back.

You will discover the fears that have been holding you from success, and from manifesting any degree of riches in your life. There might be various reasons to account for that. You may have been educated to regard wealth as bad and corrupting. You may have experienced lack in your childhood, and now you are locked into the belief that it is not possible to improve your life or that you do not deserve to possess money.

It might be that you shun the responsibility and the work that wealth might entail. Maybe you are afraid that you would not be able to handle wealth or that you will not know what to do with it. These reasons or any others might be responsible not experiencing prosperity and wealth. The inner inhibitions are mostly due to former mental programming, making you feel and believe that you are not worthy, do not deserve success or that wealth and money should be avoided.

If you perform this analysis sincerely, you will find out what thoughts and attitudes hinder your way to success, and it will be clearer to you what you should do. Now that they are out, it will be easier to handle these inhibitions, free yourself from their grip, and to start attracting wealth into your life. If one session is not enough, keep writing down your thoughts, and think about them every day until feel you have discovered what is holding you back.

After this analysis you will find it easier to start changing your thoughts and attitude towards money, possessions and wealth. You will find it easier, and experience less inner resistance when you visualize what you want to get or accomplish. It will take less effort to refuse negative or contradictory thoughts from entering your mind. Persistence in your efforts of holding an image of success in your mind until you realize your desire, and at the same time keeping an open mind for opportunities will lead you to do the right thing at the right time, and attract the right people at the right time.

An intense and concentrated thought possesses a vast power. All wealthy people focus their energies in a positive and powerful manner on what they desire to achieve. Some of them understand and practice consciously the laws of success, while others do so unconsciously.

Unlimited Thinking
The Universal Consciousness is unlimited and contains unlimited wealth. There is plenty of everything in it, and it constantly creates more of everything. It expresses itself through everything, including the individual unit that you consider as yourself. The problem is that negative thoughts and attitudes hamper the natural tendency of the Universal Consciousness to freely manifest its creative powers in unlimited ways.

You need to open your mind to prosperity and throw away your limiting thoughts. It does not matter how limited your life and circumstances are at the present moment, because if you choose to change your thoughts and attitudes, and start thinking without imposing limitations, your life will start to change. In your mind, refuse to be tied and limited by your circumstances. Think about possibilities, not about limitations.

Expand your unlimited thinking to what you consider as yourself, your personality and individuality. Your Consciousness is one with the Universal Consciousness. If you consider yourself as only a body you limit yourself. You are limitless consciousness, but erroneously identify yourself with the body and therefore feel limited. The feeling of limitation obstructs you from expressing the great powers of the Universal Consciousness. By being one with the Universal Consciousness you participate in the power of creation. Think about it, you are connected to the powers of the Universe.

Wealth And Detachment
In your search for wealth it is important not to be too attached to it. If you heed this suggestion you will save yourself a lot of trouble. Pursue wealth and material objects if and when they are necessary and add ease and happiness to your life, but do that without attachment.

By expressing detachment, you become able to avoid frustration, depression and anger if things do not turn out as expected. Material objects come and go. It is only temporarily that we own them. Attachment to possessions brings fear, anger and feelings of insecurity. On the other hand, detachment concerning possessions makes us feel free, and helps us to view the material life in a saner and more practical way.

Detachment is not indifference. It is a feeling of inner freedom and strength. If you develop this quality you will be able to stay composed and in control of yourself in every situation. This quality will also help you make new starts if things do not go well, without brooding over the past.

Mind Power and Prosperity
Prosperity and success can be yours if you seek them with an open mind. As suggested in this article, find out your inhibiting thoughts, analyze them and learn to get rid of them. Put into your mind positive and unlimiting thoughts, visualize your desire day after day, and gradually you will start to see your circumstances improving.

Thoughts possess great power. You should be aware of the thoughts you think and admit only positive ones. If you desire prosperity and riches, admit only these thoughts into your mind. Learn to free your mind from limiting thoughts as suggested earlier, and then use the power of your mind to attract success into your life.

Visualization is one of the most important keys to success. Visualize clearly your desire, put feelings into your mental images, add faith and belief, and you have created a mighty power. Keep an open mind, be willing to act and take up the opportunities that will come your way, and you are on the proper road to success.

http://www.successconsciousness.com/index_00000b.htm

Negative Electric Ions

2011-12-19T21:31:00.000-08:00

Negative Electric Ions have excellent effects on the body’s fluids, cells and nerves. This not only improves the function of the internal organs, functions of the tissue are regulated, as well as, autonomic nerves. There are many sources of Negative Electric Ions in Mother Nature. For instance, in forests, near the waterfalls, or hot mineral springs.

ELECTRIC PEOPLE
http://amasci.com/emotor/zapped.html

While dry weather and carpet-scuffing will charge up your body, the source of some human-body sparking is a mystery. There are reports of rare people, "Electric Humans," who spontaneously develop high voltage on their bodies and who suffer the continuous problem of "static" sparks. Their sparking occurs regardless of footwear, clothing, humidity, or even motion! Electric humans are forever getting zapped whenever they touch other people, or when they touch large metal objects. For the rest of us, "static sparks" can only occur when humidity is very low, and we walk across certain carpets, or when we wiggle around while sitting upon certain car seats or chairs. And for the rest of us, the problem vanishes when the humidity is high, or when we go barefoot or avoid wool or nylon sweaters/pants, avoid plastic seats, etc.

But the bodies of "Electric Humans" are different, and seem to become electrified all the time, all by themselves, without involving the friction or the contact/separation of differing surfaces.

R.A. Ford mentions two cases of Electric Humans in chapter 13 of his book HOMEMADE LIGHTNING (1991 Tab Books). In one case from 1837 a woman could repeatedly jump sparks 1-1/2" long to a large smooth metal object while she stood unmoving on a thick carpet, or she could continuously create 1/16" sparks much faster (once per second.) Another case took place in 1920, when prison inmates in upstate New York suffering from Botulin food poisoning were found to be "electrified." They were able to attract paper, create sparks, etc., even when partially submerged in a bathtub. (Obviously the 1920s bathtub must not have been attached to grounded pipes, otherwise the excess charge would have vanished instantly.)

In modern times an Electric Human would have additional problems besides irritating sparks. Computers, stereo equipment, digital watches, etc., are easily damaged by high voltage and spark discharges. All sorts of electronic appliances would not survive very long under the electrostatic barrage. An electric human would be advized to buy mechanical watches, and to avoid buying any appliance which contains a microprocessor.

Unfortunately, scientific skepticism is currently at an all time high, so if a person with this sparking problem was to seek help, they would probably be ridiculed and their sanity questioned! Scientists don't believe in "electric people." Reputable scientists "know" that Electric Humans are mere superstition and cannot exist. Therefor anyone claiming to have this problem is irrational, perhaps deranged! At least the internet is there, giving opportunity for 'charged humans' to tell their stories.

What could cause the "Electric Human" problem? First, shoe sole material and clothing material needs to be eliminated as a possible cause. Maybe you aren't an "electric human" at all. Maybe you simply have electric shoes! If sparks are ALWAYS a problem, regardless of wearing various conductive clothing (cotton,) or various shoe soles (leather, metal foil, etc.), then perhaps the problem isn't from "frictional" charging, and it's something mysterious.

In order to create a static electric imbalance on our bodies other than through "contact electrification" or "frictional" methods, we would have to be sending out ELECTRICALLY CHARGED AIR (and so our bodies would take on an opposite charge.) Perhaps the skin does this somehow. Or maybe the membranes of our lungs can somehow emit air which is electrically non-neutral.

If a person were to constantly be breathing out negative ions (charged air molecules), then unless their body was electrically grounded to the earth, they would rapidly accumulate strong a positive charge-imbalance on their body; an imbalance which is equal and opposite to the charged air being breathed out. But why would our lungs be producing electrified air? One possibility: when microscopic bubbles burst, the natural surface-charge of the water will cause the spray of tiny droplets to have a negative charge. If the liquid on the inner surface of alveoli in our lungs should be full of micro-bubbles, then our lungs might become VandeGraaff generators.

Another possibility: certain viruses grow outwards from cells using long filaments. Smallpox does this. If you catch a virus which spreads through the air because it launches viral "spores" from your lungs, those spores might carry enough of an electric charge that they will stick to any surfaces that they encounter (such as other nearby humans.) Evolution might favor such a capability. But the spores would also act as charged air, and whenever you breathed outwards, your body would aquire an increasing opposite charge. In other words, the "electric human syndrome" might be caused by viruses, it might be an actual static electricity disease that you could catch from another "electric human!" Think about it: cold viruses spread themselves by causing people to cough and sneeze. The "electric human" virus would spread itself by causing people to breath out virus-laden air (and the annoyance of the electric charging would just be a side-effect.) Hmmmm, maybe those prisoners in 1930 didn't actually have Botulin poisoning, maybe they had some other ...illness.

Another, more exotic possibility: maybe it's not static. Maybe it's something else, Torsion Fields for example. The Russians believe that Torsion Fields explain telepathy, psychokinesis, hands-on healing, and many other "paranormal" phenomena. If the human aura exists, then Torsion Physics might explain it, and the "electric human" effect might come about because of a super-strong torsion effect which surrounds a particular person.

NOTE: Exploding Light Bulbs! Here's an interesting bit of science trivia. When incandescent light bulbs get old and weak, sometimes they explode. This isn't an Unusual Phenomenon. Instead, it's caused by an electric arc inside the bulb. When the light bulb filament breaks in half inside the bulb, sometimes the two ends are close together. Sometimes a powerful electric arc leaps between the tungsten wires. When this happens, the light changes color. It becomes brighter, and much more white. But the bulb can't put out more than normal wattage, right? WRONG. If the filament happens to be rotated vertical inside the bulb, the electric arc can rise like a flame. It can skip around the filament and leap between the two filament-support wires. When this happens the bulb can put out up to 1400 watts! It glows intense blue white for an instant. But then the pressure of the hot gas inside the bulb causes the bulb to pop. BANG! Glass fragments all over your carpet! So, if you have an old incandescent bulb which is near the end of its life, and an "electric human" pushes it over the edge, it may just go dark. Or rarely, it may suddenly flash bright blue-white like an electric welder. Then go POW!

NOTE2: In private communications M. Foster mentioned that if you blast a hair dryer through a PVC pipe after first wetting the inner surface of the pipe, the pipe becomes highly electrified. The cause is unknown, but it might involve the bursting of microbubbles (which are known to launch negative water droplets into the air.) This might indicate a mechanism whereby human bodies can becomes mysteriously electrified WITHOUT scuffing any shoe soles on carpet. If the wetted PVC pipe is replaced by human lungs, and if the hair dryer is replaced by the act of breathing, we have an analogy for the infamous "electric human." But do the surfaces inside human lungs spew out droplets of water? We're not talking about condensation here; the wet surfaces would have to eject droplets. (Maybe they do, since doctors find that the air coming from the mouths of victims of chicken pox and other diseases can infect others.)

healing hearts

2011-12-19T21:29:00.001-08:00

The vicious human rights crimes by the Hussein regime still haunt Iraq. Thanks to the atrocities committed by Saddam, the number of babies born with a birth defect is skyrocketing at rates nothing less than alarming. Depleted uranium weapons used by British and American troops in the liberation of Iraq contributed to the problem. In some parts of Iraq, nearly one in 10 newborns have a congenital heart defect. Our weapons are still killing. It’s time we use all the weapons of kindness we have to stop it. Congenital heart defects are the most common of all these birth defects, and sometimes require surgery to save the child’s life. Unfortunately, only an estimated 400 kids are operated on each year, while 30,000 children in Iraq need surgery. Children are dying.

This is a peace making and heart-healing mission. This war is measured by lives saved.

Preemptive Love Coalition operates on Iraqi children and trains surgeons. The goal of the group is set up a system for pediatric cardiology care in Iraq, but for now, Iraq needs visiting surgeons and nurses.

We’re supporting Preemptive Love’s Remedy Missions. During one mission, 20+ children receive life saving surgery, 5 surgeons are trained and hearts are healed, in more ways than one.

This is one war we can all support.

When you support Operation Healing Hearts through a donation, spreading the word, becoming a Blogger with Heart or holding a fundraiser, you’re directly benefiting Preemptive Love. All funds go directly to that tax exempt organization.

ROSARIES AND AMULETS

2011-11-27T23:40:00.000-08:00

ROSARIES AND AMULETS
By Adan Makina
May 24, 2009

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes
James Feibleman

Rosaries and Amulets are two religious symbols whose historical significance has baffled researchers mainly those engaged in anthropology, sociology, and archeology. Mythological, religious or otherwise, the rosary is seen as a device that plays a great role in human contemplation of the unknowns as well as a revealer of unfathomable heavenly mystiques. An ordinary object of daily use for millions of committed adherents with differing religious, ideological, and cultural backgrounds, the rosary continues to dangle from the necks of Sheikhs, priests, Rabbis, knowledgeable hermits, spiritualists, and monks without losing its rightful role in society regardless of whether it is crafted from simple wood or made from precious gemstone.

The use of rosaries or prayer beads is widespread among the followers of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. In Buddhism and Hinduism, the Japa Mala or simply Mala, is a rosary of 108 beads usually worn by priests exclusively for chants purposes. In esoteric Japanese and Tibetan Buddhism, rosaries are used for counting the Mantras and also serve as attributes for some deities most notably the Avalokiteshvara who is the Bodhisattva of compassion. In almost all religions, as usual, the right hand is the regulator of the rosary in every session with the finger nearest the thumb being the one that flicks and counts the preferred chant. In Chinese, the rosary is called Nianzhu; in Japanese it is Nenju; in Vietnamese it is known as Tranghat; while it is Rosarium in Latin.

There is a lot of debate regarding the origin of the rosary among users. [(1)] “In Islam, however, the performance of the rosary is an act of piety. The word for "rosary" in the Arabic language is sibha or masbaha, which is derived from Subhana Allah (God be praised). According to Ali Gom'a Mohamed, professor of fiqh (Jurisprudence in Islam) at Al-Azhar University, the number of beads in the Muslim rosary varies: there is a 33- bead rosary which requires three turns around the circle of beads. Each bead represents one of the names of God mentioned in the Qur'an, the total of which is 99. Another is divided into three parts, each made up of 33 beads which are used at the end of each of the five daily prayers. There is also a 100- bead rosary used in accordance with Sunah. In his book, Manners and Customs of Modern Egyptians, Edward Lane mentioned a 1,000-bead rosary used for funerals.” To some Muslim scholars, the use of the fingers is more preferred than the rosary. They claim that the joints at the phalanges and metacarpals have been created to count prayer chants and that the rosary is an unnecessary innovation into Islam.

Abrahamic and philosophic religions, Pagan and animist practices display amulets of various makes, shapes, and colors worn around the neck with the promises of wealth, children, health, and other human allures or to ward off evil, magic, wicked spirits, and misfortunes. [(2)] “An amulet or charm is an apotropaic object or device, usually with writing on it, which provides prophylaxis against harm, whether of natural or supernatural origin. The use of amulets and charms is virtually universal across human cultures and across time, and Jews are no exception. Jewish amulets have been used to ward off a variety of ills: disease, mishap, sorcery, and/or malevolent spirits. They can also serve as love charms. They have been particularly used by Jews to protect women during pregnancy and to shield newborn infants.”

Amulets have been in existence since the days of the Canaanites, Phoenicians, Assyrians, and Ancient Egyptians. In Turkey, Nazar boncuk, is a special type of amulet believed to protect one from evil eye. Amulets can be found all over Turkey; Turkish women use amulets as bracelets, earrings or necklaces. Turkish people hang them in their houses, offices and also inside cars while babies have specially designed amulets attached to their cloths. This leads us to the notion that the nation of Turkey is the leading producer of amulets in the world. Turkish amulets are mainly blue in color and look like an eye. Some Turkish amulets have magnetic fields making them easily stick to some select surfaces like the refrigerator door. There is a common belief among the Turkish people that even well-intentioned compliments have a conscious or unconscious measure of spite and resentment. For a Turkish amulet to guard a house, it should be hang at the entrance to the house.

An explanation of the origin of the amulet in Turkish superstition goes this way: once upon a time…there was a massive rock by the sea that could not be split asunder, cracked or broken into pieces despite the combined efforts of a hundred men and repeated dynamiting. After exhausting all energy and technical expertise, mention was made of a man who lived by the sea and who was known to carry the evil eye (nazar). Finally, a plan was hatched to bring the man to the rock venue so he could display his spectacular rock-splitting skills. Upon arriving at the scene and upon setting his sights on the rock, the man was heard to exclaim, “oh my God, what a gigantic rock!” The instant he finished his intonation, there was a crack and then a thunderous sound followed by violent convulsion that reduced the unbreakable huge rock into two pieces.

Moreover, in almost all superstitious communities, it is common for visiting neighbors and strangers alike to compliment on the health, shape, size, and color of newborn babies. For some reason, as fate would have it, the baby gets sick because the invisible evil eye penetrated the baby’s body and soul. At this point in time, parents and immediate relatives of the infant have no other choice but to contact a shaman or cleric to prepare an amulet to keep at bay all varieties of evil eyes as the baby undergoes various developmental stages of metamorphosis. In some communities, a crack on an amulet resulting from prolonged use denotes the wearer has received overwhelming protection and blessings for the duration the amulet was worn.

Egyptologists carrying out archeological excavations in the many burial sites scattered all over Egypt stumbled upon historical amulets made of papyrus finely encased in pharaonic sarcophagus. “Also, Coptic amulets dating back to the 3rd and 4th centuries A.D. have been unearthed in Egypt. Some of the amulets found in Egyptian pyramids are written in Mandaic (an Eastern Aramaic dialect) and have not been translated to this day. In some rare amulets, ancient Egyptians displayed images of the two-headed god (snake and Ibis); there are amulets depicting the cock-headed-snake-legged god, others display the eagle-headed god, crowned hawks, papyri boats, symbols of deities and the ram-headed god. Uterine amulets helped control contraception and childbirth, others were meant for regeneration and eternity and for hip pains (sciatica).” [(3)] The discovery of Greco-Roman, Babylonian, and other varieties of amulets used by diverse ancient civilizations add flavor to the expanding infant archeological sciences.

In Somalia, amulet use is common among nomadic, urban and tribal communities. A well crafted amulet, depending on size and shape, typically is encased in leather while others are sheathed in fine threads. However, there is a type of amulet known locally as “Qardhaas” which is usually carved out of wood and worn around the neck.

Also, Qardhaas may be strapped round the neck of domesticated animals for protection against theft, disease, and the evil eye. The most remarkable trademark amulet known among Somalis is “Xirsi”- which is used for overcoming the whispers of the dreaded Jinni notorious for its mischievous use of supernatural powers. Whether one is seeking to expand a stagnated business enterprise, win the heart of a stubborn mademoiselle, embark on a treacherous journey, overcome the trauma of sterility or recover from a debilitating malady, owning an amulet that will dangle from one’s wrist, neck, leg, thigh, around the waist or other parts of the body, will, if determined by the amulet’s original designer or prescriber bring about abrupt changes and healing to the afflicted body and mind in the nick of time. In women, amulets may be worn to overcome gynecological ailments, vitamin deficiencies, urinary tract infections, migraines, infertility, schizophrenia, mental disorders and even to overcome jealousy.

Perhaps, humans used amulets to triumph over hardships at a time when modern medications other than herbal medicine were nonexistent. Natural hazards like Tsunamis, epidemics, flooding, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other unavoidable predicaments that decimated populations may have contributed to the discovery of amulets by shamans whose livelihood depended on the knowledge and skills of prescribing medication and healing the sick. Despite their dependence on trial and error techniques and despite premeditated medical malpractices, healers and shamans continued to be a source of inspiration for millions in need of medical attention.

Religious and historical accounts of human sacrifices as a last resort evolved as a result of appeasing virulent gods and deities whose anger could only be contained by spilling blood and goring human flesh in pagan and animist ritual practices-secret procedures found in some communities. The wave of secret murders of Albinos for ritualistic purposes and the rape of infants by HIV/AIDS sufferers in some countries epitomizes the continuation of ancient practices and the total disregard for the sanctity of human life.

People living in modern western democracies do attach importance to the use of amulets. Rock band musicians, reggae ragamuffins, gangsters, heads of government institutions, and people from all walks of society wear amulets in daily life either as ornaments or for protection against the unknowns. In the African continent, reports of leaders seeking consultations with magicians, shamans, and soothsayers, palmists and astrologers during election times is no secret. Thus, mythological experts have the power to instill fear in the hearts of their clients’ opponents or even cause them to suffer diseases unbeknownst to modern doctors. In some Asian cultures, shamans have mastered the art of shedding light on natural phenomena say like how a perceived volcanic eruption will affect surrounding inhabitants.

Amulets are widely worn as aphrodisiacs in some communities even with the advancement of medical technology. In some diverse cultures, dangling a piece of rhino horn around the neck is a prescription for erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, and other aspects related to sexual genitalia malfunctioning. A man in need of instantaneous desirability from an unfriendly woman may resort to wearing a specially designed amulet meant to win her heart even when real love is not on her side. Likewise, women may influence men by wearing amulets of like kind and purpose. Wearing articulately designed amulets with religious inscriptions is a common occurrence across cultures.

However, amulets come in many shapes and designs depending on culture, religion, and intention. Primarily, women who are sterile may wear them around the waist right across where the uterus is located; it may dangle from the neck; it is worn on the wrist and it may also be worn around the thighs. It could be as tiny as a finger ring or it could even be a seed to be retained in the pocket. It is up to one’s preference and choosing how an amulet should be worn and how it should look like.

The emergence of religious fundamentalism has instilled terror among amulet wearers. Fear of retribution or the dread of being associated with certain cults has forced many to formulate assortment of amulets that dissuade the attention of religious fanatics. For example, the use of regular necklaces, finger rings, and even ear rings as amulets has made ancient amulet blueprints obsolete and replicated for modernity.

Thus, inscriptional amulets have been substituted with intentional amulets. This brings us to the idea that amulets need not be handwritten on a piece of paper by a cleric with verses from a divine scripture and then folded into shape anymore. Instead, reciting select verses on to a piece of jewelry is enough to hold the message as intention is superior to scribbling. In Africa, amulet use is widespread among cultures though its use among communities depends on the nature of religious practices and form of worship. Surprisingly, Tuareg amulets sell for up to $150 a piece on eBay. However civilized and transformed the world has become, amulet and rosary use will remain with humankind for a long time to come.

(1) http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/627/fe2.htm

(2) http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/amulet.html

(3) http://www.lib.umich.edu/pap/exhibits/magic/def1.display.html

http://wardheernews.com/Articles_09/May/Adan_Makina/24_Rosaries_&_Amulets.html

Symbols of Protection Against Evil

2011-11-27T23:23:00.000-08:00

Symbols of Protection Against Evil
Omens, Curses and Hexes that signify Dark Forces, Evil Spirits, Bad Luck and Negative Energy, are based upon Ancient Superstitions and Folklore.

Why Does Religion Make People Happier?

2011-11-27T23:09:00.000-08:00

This Emotional Life: Why Does Religion Make People Happier?
By Therese J. Borchard
Associate Editor

Harvard psychologist and bestselling author Daniel Gilbert has teamed up with Vulcan Productions and the NOVA/WGBH Science Unit to create a multimedia project called This Emotional Life .

This 3-part documentary ends tonight on PBS. Featured in the third episode is Dr. Edward Diener, who has studied happiness across cultures and has pinpointed some universal reasons that people are happier. One is religion. I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Diener.

Question: Why does religion seem to make people happier?

Dr. Diener: Many studies find that religious people on average are happier. But since not all religious people are happier, and not all religious beliefs seem to lead to happiness, we have to search for the “active ingredient” in what aspect of religion might increase feelings of well-being. In our book on happiness, my son and I argue that one key ingredient is positive spirituality, feeling emotions such as love, awe, wonder, respect, and gratitude that connect us to others and to things larger than ourselves. That is, spirituality can focus us on larger causes than our own personal welfare, and this can give us purpose and meaning. Also, this broader focus on others and purpose can help us quit worrying so much about ourselves. And it can help us connect to others.

Religion has been associated with happiness for other reasons. For instance, religion often gives people social support and contact. People meet other like-minded people at church, and in many instances can count on those folks when they need help. Another reason that some religions might increase subjective well-being is that they provide optimism for an afterlife. These religions solve the “terror” associated with death by promising a better life after death. Another reason that religion can help happiness is that it provides a moral compass, rules to live by. We need something more than our own hedonism to guide our behavior, and religion can help to provide guidelines to follow in order to have an orderly and moral life, that helps us get along well with others. Finally, religion can provide answers to large questions, such as where did the universe come from, why is there evil, etc.

In our research, we are surprised to find that the happiest nations are often relatively nonreligious, such as Scandinavian societies. This is surprising, because we also find that religious people have more positive feelings in most nations. So it is a puzzle as to why people in wealthier societies are so frequently turning away from religion. It seems from our analyses that people most turn to religion when conditions in their society are tough – poverty, conflict, and so forth. When conditions are good, fewer people in a nation continue to be religious. Even then, the religious individuals report more positive emotions.

Question: What are some other key principles to happiness?

Dr. Diener: There are many, many causes of happiness and happiness, and so we do not subscribe to any single “key” to it. Rather, in our book my son and I write that happiness requires a recipe of ingredients mixed in the right amounts. When a person is depressed, it can be for a number of reasons, and the same is true of happiness. For some, happiness comes primarily from their relationships, and for others they obtain a lot of well-being from the contributions of their work. In other words, there are individual differences in the causes of a person’s happiness and unhappiness, and we must look at the facts in each individual case. At the same time, we can say some things about statistical averages, and the common causes of happiness:

Having supportive relationships is very important. We found that all happy people have them.
Being a supportive person to others is also important. People who help others seem to be better off. Some data show that people who help others a lot are healthier.
Having purpose and meaning in life is important, a devotion to people or goals that are larger than ourselves.

Finding activities in which one can use one’s talents and strengths, including one’s work

We outline more of these in our book: However, please note: We are talking here about what makes people happy, not necessarily the causes of unhappiness. Some things might contribute to both, but there can be separate causes of unhappiness and depression. So it really requires something more than getting rid of unhappiness to be happy.

However, Martin Seligman, the founder of positive psychology, has argued that perhaps depression can be best alleviated not by getting rid of problems, but instead by focusing on positive goals, optimism, and positive thinking.

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2010/01/06/this-emotional-life-why-does-religion-make-people-happier/

Gem bracelets good for health

2011-11-19T00:50:00.000-08:00

Turquoise symbolizes our source (spirit/sky) and spiritual love for healing and helping. It is known as the stone which connects heaven and earth. Balancing Yin and Yang, energizing the meridians and cleansing/clearing the Aura. Turquoise is used at the Third Eye Chakra for increasing our psychic connection to great spirit through intuition and allows for much deeper meditation. This bracelet is made from turquoise and fashioned into multiple diamond-shapes symbolizing perfect symmetry. The diamond-shape vibrates toward harmony. This makes it an excellent shape for meditation healing or finding a peaceful purpose. As this shape also vibrates toward the solidity of Earth, it's a good bet for magical intentions involving prosperity and abundance, and issues of the family, home, and hearth.

Obsidian is a strong grounding stone and is known as "the protector". It is said to "mirror one's soul. This stone brings about objectivity, dis-attachment and is grounding. It reduces fantasy and escapism. Absorbs and dissolves anger, criticism, fear, and therefore is protective. This unusual black stone absorbs darkness and converts it to white light energy. It is a warm and friendly stone, which is used at the Root Chakra, encouraging ones survival instincts and is grounding. Black obsidian brings higher Chakra light into lower ones; cleanses and uplifts. Changes fear into flexibility with the advent of change. The diamond-shape vibrates toward harmony. This makes it an excellent shape for meditation healing or finding a peaceful purpose. As this shape also vibrates toward the solidity of Earth, it's a good bet for magical intentions involving prosperity and abundance, and issues of the family, home, and hearth. Obsidian is used for transformation.

The Preseli bluestone is the stone that was used at the Stonehenge standing stones. This stone only occurs in one place in the entire world, Carn Meini in the Preseli Mountains. This site is now protected and stones can no longer be taken, but the stones that are being sold were mined many years ago, before this law took effect. That makes them a unique item because eventually they will run out. The properties of Preseli stone include help with dream Work, past life recall, will power, spiritual gift enhancer, powerful as a meditation stone and has been used for protection, energy enhancer, dowsing and for receiving messages. Keep a piece close to you in your working environment or under your pillow.

Lapis Lazuli symbolizes intellect and is a powerful thought-amplifier. It is helpful in aligning all the elements of the body and mind. Can increase psychic abilities and will open the third eye. Can guide you in the direction of mental and spiritual purity. It should be worn as close to the body as possible as the energy of the wearer is drawn upward. Lapis organizes and quiets mind. Opens Throat/Thyroid Chakra and helps on fronts of self-expression, writing, creativity, dream insight, allows total awareness. This bracelet is made from Lapis and fashioned into multiple square-shapes symbolizing the physical world. Like the quartered circle, it directs its user to the power of the four compass directions: north, east, south and west.

Garnet symbolizes faith, love, devotion and trust. Garnet is most famous for balancing our emotional states. Therefore, garnet is one of the best stones for soothing emotional stress and balance. Garnet is a stone of passion. It is given as a gift of love's attraction, a gift of estranged love or a gift of quick return. Red represent love and helps the aspirant to strive for improvement in moral conduct. Garnet has been used for protection against the perils of travel. It encourages a strength and therefore, personal power, which increases success, a victorious attitude and sparks the energies of creativity. Garnet will show you the way out. It is the perfect stone for clearing the Emotional Layer of the Aura.

Ammonite is a stone of protection. It provides for insight and it helps to assist one in seeing the "whole picture." Gives stability to it's user. Since it is associated with the Root Chakra, it encourages ones survival instincts and is grounding. Believed to ease birthing pains and bring relaxation. It helps to remind us to keep breathing, due to its circular design. Ammonite is believed by Feng Shui masters to be associated to the scales of the mythical creature "Chi Lin" Therefore, it is said to be a powerful wealth stone and brings prosperity, grandeur and illustrious sons, similar to the potency of the Chi Lin.

Lepodolite is the stone of rebirth. Useful for transitions in life. Helpful in times of stress and coping with stress therefore, creating calm and relaxation. Lepidolite is used to help ease the transition from addiction. Gently eases intensity of our emotional feelings, mood swings, depression, manic-depression, worry, and anxiety. Brings hope, relief, gentleness, self-love, patience, self-forgiveness, unworried sleep, mental/emotional balance, and well-being. This stone is particularly good for students as it is helpful for studying, learning, manifesting, change and awareness. This stone is used for self-criticism, when we become down on ourselves, lepidolite allows us to see for ourselves who we really are and the potential that lies within us. Lepidolite balances Brow Chakra with new spiritual love. It speeds up decision making, stimulating the intellect and encouraging independence and free and clear thinking. Scanning this stone around the Aura will allow you to locate discomfort and dis-ease anywhere in the energy field.

Pearl is in tune with emotions, water, and women, especially pregnant women. Pearls are a symbol of pure heart and mind; innocence and faith. Because it is from the sea, it has watery and lunar elements, therefore it is used for balancing emotions, especially for water signs. Absorbing by nature, this mineral draws in thoughts and emotions and therefore, very nuturing. White mother of pearl represent purity, spiritual balance and can be used to engage the Crown Chakra. Remember, Pearl is the result of layer upon layer of substance produced to combat irritation, therefore, pearl can cool and soothe, protecting its wearer from all that is irritates our auric energy field.

The martyr stone, aptly named, due to the legend of this stone being at the foot of the cross and stained by the drops of blood from Jesus. Metaphysically, bloodstone is used to either promote a calm, tranquil atmosphere that is grounding or revitalize insufficient energy. A great stone for mental exhaustion. This stone represents both courage and strength and is used for achieving these attributes. It is associated with honesty and integrity and is useful in removing obstacles in life. A classic stone for wealth, it attracts abundance and good luck. Most effective on the Heart (green) and Root (red) Chakra. Bloodstone, also called "Heliotrope" (named for it's sun "red" glow - helios - setting over a green sea). Both colors are depicted in the cross. This is a modern version of the Coptic cross which can be traced to the Coptic ankh symbol and was adopted by early Christians, most notably Valentinus of Alexandria, Egypt.

Freshwater Pearls honor the Goddess in all women. In tune with emotions, water, and women, especially pregnant women, pearls are a symbol of pure heart and mind; innocence and faith. Pearl is the result of layer upon layer of substance produced to combat irritation. Pearl can cool and soothe. It is very nurturing. If using pearls in conjunction with other gemstones, consider amethyst to amplify and purify, or rose quartz, to bring love and open heartedness and aqua aura to bring negative energy out and disperse it.

Multi-colored fluorite is an important body balancer and healer. Opens heart (especially green). It initiates the Crown Chakra for clarity, overview, and seeing additional truths/realities. It is a wonderful crystal for detoxing, anxiety, insomnia. Benefits people with arthritis and rheumatism. Fluorite helps to rekindle sexual appetite and heighten intuitive powers. Assists in gaining spiritual awakening. Helps one become more aware of the higher levels of reality and can anchor and free one from overstimulation on the psychic plane.

Clear and Purple fluorite help with objectivity; clears the way for new things, uplifting, aura cleanse, 3rd eye, eyesight, sinuses; repels colds. Enhances other gems. Green fluorite stills mind and heart, harmonizes and recharges all Chakra. Green Fluorite is a valuable helper in grounding excess energies. Blue fluorite benefits the throat, nose, ears and is soothing and assists in Karmic impasses, unresolved issues, and atonement.

Rose Quartz can be used to facilitate emotional healing, ease loss, calm stress, relieve hurt, dissolve fear, help strengthen low confidence, resolves resentment and quells anger. Slowly eases childhood traumas/neglect/lack of love and low self-esteem. Rose quartz aligns mental, emotional, and astral bodies. It is deeply in tune with emotional states. Advantageous for the heart and circulatory systems.

Secrets of gemstones

2011-11-11T01:11:00.000-08:00

Secrets of gemstones
Geologist - profession today is a rare, nice stainless Soviet spirit of Romanticism. It is understandable, one has only to look at the beauty of precious minerals, each of which has not only chemical composition but also its history, shrouded in legends and stories, an element of magic rites and the astrological interpretation is. Today we tell about the most interesting gems.

Aventurine - rock composed mainly of quartz, a type of quartzite. Quite valuable and popular arts and inexpensive semi-precious stone, beautiful shimmering due to the numerous inclusions of small flakes of mica or hematite (iron slyudki). Painted aventurines usually in yellow, green, blue, cherry red and black.

Aquamarine (Latin for «aqua marina» - sea water) - mineral beryl group. The name was first introduced Beotius de Boot (Beotius de Boot) in 1609, linking the color of the mineral with the color of sea water, the similarity is obvious: the stone sparkles like the sea water and its color varies from pale blue to dark blue, sometimes with a greenish tint.

Alexandrite - natural stone, the most valuable of chromium-bearing variety of the mineral chrysoberyl, transparent stone, which has grass-green in daylight and raspberry red in artificial.

The first stone was found at the emerald mine in the river currents in the vicinity of Yekaterinburg in 1833 and was presented with the royal family to adulthood Alexander (the future Tsar Alexander II). Because rare gems with the name of the king of luxury reflect the national colors (green and red), the alexandrite immediately gained recognition of the elite. Necklaces, earrings alexandrite and other jewelry worn by ladies only, but the wife of foreign diplomats. Due to the exceptional rarity and high cost of living, afford to buy or alexandrite jewelry alexandrite with only could only know.

Diamond (in Arabic "invincible") - a mineral, a cubic allotropic form of carbon. Faceted clear diamonds of gem quality diamonds is called (from the French «brillant» - brilliant). The term appeared in the XVII century after the invention of diamond cut. Diamonds are usually colorless or pale colored in shades of yellow, brown, blue, green, pink.

In Russia, the first diamond discovered July 4, 1829 in the Urals in the Perm region in the Holy Cross gold mine fourteen serf Pavel Popov, who found the crystal, washing gold. The first diamond was discovered in Siberia near the town of Yeniseisk in November 1897 at the Mill River. Search for diamonds in Russia was carried out almost half a century, and only in the mid-50s were discovered rich deposits of diamonds in the root of Yakutia.

Amethyst - dark blue, bluish-pink or reddish-purple variety of quartz. It occurs usually in the form of loosely seated in cavities and veins of crystalline rock crystals and their intergrowths.

Amethyst was known in ancient Egypt. In ancient Rome, amethyst was called "blessed the stone," believed that he brings good luck, peace and good, calms the nerves and settles feuds. In the Middle Ages it was called "apostolic stone." According to most European astrological calendar, the stone can be useful for people born in the second half of February - early March.

Beryl - a mineral of subclass island silicates. Some of the varieties of beryl in particular, emerald and aquamarine colored juicy, are gems. The beryl crystals are found as single or combined as a friend. Stained diverse varieties of beryl and is due to impurities. Good specimens of beryl are highly regarded and decorated with collections and museum collections.

Turquoise (Persian, "a stone of happiness" or "are winning") - one of the most popular from ancient mineral. Color from a bright sky-blue or blue-blue to bluish-green and pale green. Turquoise has always been a popular stone and was highly regarded, it has been and remains one of the first semi-precious stones.

In adherents of Islam turquoise - is an indispensable element wedding dress the bride as a symbol of virginity, chastity and a future happy life together. Ring with turquoise, traditionally exchanged on the day of betrothal. They were presented as a sign of attraction, they were symbols of eternal love.

Hematite - a widespread mineral of iron, one of the biggest iron ore. In nature, hematite is widely distributed, often forming large clusters, and ore deposits. Hematite color black to dark steel in the crystals and a cherry-red in skrytokistallicheskih poroshkovatyh and differences. Magicians and conjurers say that hematite has healing properties and protects against evil forces.

Hyacinth - a mineral, gem, clear reddish-brown manganese jewelry jargon with a strong adamantine luster. Stained hyacinth resembles the eponymous flower, hence the name of the stone. There are allegations that the hyacinth contributes to emotional balance and cures insomnia. Extract it in Thailand, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, India, South Africa, Russia (Yakutia, the Urals), Brazil, USA, France, Madagascar.

Rock crystal - mineral, pure natural silica, a colorless, transparent variety of quartz, one of the crystalline modifications of silica. Pure rock crystal defect-free crystals are relatively rare and highly sought after. The ancient Greeks and Romans carved from rock crystal print, vessels and jewelry. Roman patricians in the summer cooled hand balls of rock crystal. Crystals were cut from incendiary lens through which priests "divine fire" ignited a fire on the altar.

Pomegranates - a group of minerals, dark-red crystals which resemble grains of fruit "Phoenician apple" - a grenade. Transparent and translucent, beautifully painted grenades used in jewelry. For precious stones usually include almandine, pyrope, rhodolite, hesonit, grossular, topazolit, demantoid. Well-formed crystals are a wonderful collection material.

Grenades, oriental and European legends, represent the tenacity and strength, persistence and dedication, health and fidelity. The Persians considered him a stumbling king, and believed that one who wears garnet acquires power over people.

Emerald - gem of the 1st class and the most expensive variety of beryl, amazing color gem. Perfect emerald - a transparent stone evenly distributed saturated colors. The main criterion of quality emeralds - the color, the second place - transparency. Natural emeralds almost always have cracks and splits. Large defect-free dense emerald tones in weight from 5 carats of diamonds valued more.

On an emerald and its origin is composed of many legends. According to one, the largest emerald fell to the ground with the head of Lucifer in his exile from heaven. Emerald - the symbol of passionate and faithful love. If the lovers exchange rings with emeralds, their love will not weaken with age, but only grow stronger. Myths attribute this charming stone goddess of love Venus. About Emerald say that it brings happiness only clean person, even if illiterate, so it can crack, unable to overcome the evil inclination to master. He gives courage to the soldiers, and the winners - mercy.

Jade - a mineral green. Jadeite is formed in metamorphic rocks under high pressure and relatively low temperature. In a fresh fracture luster dull, on the polished surface - bold, sometimes with a pearly sheen. Used as ornamental stone.

Pearls - the only jewelry materials formed in the body of mollusks, and he's probably one of the oldest stones used as jewelry, because it does not need additional treatment.

The pearl is formed inside a clam shell as a result of getting back the foreign body (sand, etc.). Further, it is deposited around the pearl, a thin film of concentric layers. Nacre is an organic unit of calcium carbonate. Thus, pearls and a member of the mineral, and of organic matter.

Usually pearls are white, sometimes pink or creamy; also found yellow, green, black and even blue pearls. Blue pearls are very rare, are of high value and attractive because of the rare, blue, lead-gray color.

Quartz - the most common mineral in nature, the earth's crust, silicon dioxide, is found in deposits in the form of a solid mass (quartz veins), in the form of fine-grained dense quartzite, as well as a well-formed columnar, prismatic crystals of large sizes. The color of quartz is very diverse.

Coral is the skeletal material of corals colonies ("bioherm"). Large accumulations of corals form coral reefs and coral islands. In nature, there are more than 2500 species of corals, which are distinguished in a palette of 350 colors. Corals are used as raw material for lime, some - for the manufacture of jewelry. In the latter case, a particularly prized black (akkabar), white pearl and silver "angel skin" and the most popular red and pink corals noble.

Corundum - a mineral that has some variety: ruby, sapphire and others. Strong metallic gloss to matte.

Lapis (lapis lazuli) - opaque minerals from blue to bluish-gray or greenish-gray color, consider the best stones lush blue or blue-purple, and rich blue. Name of the stone, "lapis lazuli" appeared only in the early Middle Ages, denoting it as "blue stone". The word "blue" comes from the Arabic "Azul", used to refer to the sky, or wider, something blue at all. The modern name "lapis lazuli" appeared in the XVIII century. "Lapis lazuli" called only dense and uniformly colored dark-blue variety of lapis lazuli. In ancient times, lapis lazuli was considered a stone of sincerity, a symbol of abilities, talents, success and divine arrangement. In Europe, lapis symbolizes prosperity, luck and success in India, devoted love and prosperity.

Malachite - one of the most beautiful and precious gemstones. The chemical composition of malachite is copper carbonate. Copper compounds cause the green color of the mineral. Under natural conditions, malachite is formed in the oxidation zone of copper, in places where copper ore deposits are combined with sedimentary carbonate rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and others. Despite the fairly widespread, is rarely seen malachite in a form suitable for use in jewelry.

Dense difference with good color and beautiful patterns are valued fairly expensive and are used for making vases, inlaid (facing tables, boxes) and other items. Columns in St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg faced with thin slices of malachite. Most malachite vase is decorated with antique work center hall of the Mineralogical Museum. Fersman.

Jade - a mineral, a variety of actinolite, mainly composed of matted fibers of amphiboles. A remarkable feature of this breed: Extremely high viscosity - fragments of jade is very difficult to split into pieces. The strength of jade is commensurate with good grades of steel. Jade was used in the Bronze Age as a rock to make a very strong weapons and tools, and later - as objects and jewelry.

Color Breed varied - from almost white through all shades of green (yellowish, grass, emerald green, swamp) to almost black. Still occurs and red jade, but he is very valuable and very rare. Jade is often used as an ornamental stone.

Obsidian - volcanic glass uniform, passing through the rapid cooling of molten rock. Does not enter the water, well polished, has a characteristic conchoidal fracture, belongs to the most recent rocks. It is found in the Aeolian Islands, Iceland, Transcarpathia, Siberia, Central Asia, the Baikal region, Primorye, the Caucasus, Kamchatka, Kuril Islands. Obsidian played a big role in the history of mankind: it produced tools, weapons and jewelry.

Onyx - a term of ancient origin and broad meaning, used to refer to the parallel-banded varieties of different minerals ornamental quality, mainly of calcite (marble), chalcedony (carnelian) and cryptocrystalline quartz. Color - brown with white and black patterns, red-brown, brownish-yellow, honey, white, yellow, pink seams. For onyx especially characteristic of plane-parallel layers of different colors.

Agate and onyx sardonyx ("sardonyx", "SARD") has been used by people since prehistoric times for the manufacture of small carved art products (glyptics), as well as carved cylinder seals. Calcite (marble, etc.) types of onyx were used, and are now widely used in larger products: it's all sorts of small and medium plastic, onyx vases, jewelry boxes, candle holders, table tops, etc. It is also used in mosaics and wall. A relatively inexpensive semi-precious stone. The onyx is often cut out a variety of jewelry, the most rare and high-quality varieties of sardonyx - cameos, in which the higher part of the dark image contrasts with the bright background.

How To Create Deep Attraction

2011-10-30T21:00:00.000-07:00

How To Create Deep Attraction Part 1: 1/4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2rZqgkVDlg&feature=player_embedded&noredirect=1

How To Create Deep Attraction Part 1: 2/4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv18yBe7dsc&feature=player_embedded

How To Create Deep Attraction Part 1: 3/4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DBa22Dew8o&feature=player_embedded

How To Create Deep Attraction Part 1: 4/4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1pJkoTkCLQ&feature=player_embedded

Energy Healing – 5 Ways To Heal Your Heart

2011-10-30T20:55:00.001-07:00

Energy Healing – 5 Ways To Heal Your Heart
by Dawn DelVecchio
March 11, 2011
As you know, your heart chakra is the energy center connected with your capacity to give and receive love. If you’ve been wounded emotionally in your life (and so many of us have), how you managed your heart energy had – and may still have – an impact on your experience of love today.

But even if you’ve made it into adulthood unscathed by the slings and arrows of love, energizing the heart chakra to expand your capacity to give and receive love – to and from all of life – is a healing gift to all of us. So here’s a few things for you to experiment with in order to build your physical heart and super-charge your energetic one.

1. Do a few Push-ups

I know, I know, some of you are thinking, “You’re not serious, are you?” Well, Push-ups aren’t my favorite either, but I’m not talking about boot-camp. Just two or three push-ups done with a focus on your heart center’s movement toward the earth and back again helps build your heart-felt connection with the heart of our planet. Just straighten your body from knees to head, with your weight on straightened arms – palms flat on the ground. Take in a deep breath. Exhale. And on the next inhalation, bend your elbows and lower yourself as far as it feels comfortable. You don’t have to go very far. The important thing here is to keep your focus on your heart area while imagining a ray of green light coming up from the earth and into your heart chakra.

2. Hug Yourself

This let’s you physically demonstrate your love and appreciation for yourself, which activates your heart chakra. You can add affirmative statements like “I love you,” or “I really love and appreciate myself,” or “even though I’ve sometimes blocked my heart, I deeply love and appreciate myself.”
3. Lift your Heart to the Heavens

I love this one and do it a few times every day. Simply stretch your arms out wide and imagine your heart literally lifting toward the sky. Breath in deep and say to yourself or out loud: “I open my heart to the love of the Divine” (or God or whatever word has most meaning to you.) You can also do this when you feel too much ego-mind; or you can do this to surrender your heart to your higher self, your angels or guides. The most important thing is that is has meaning to you and that you allow the love to come through.

4. Breath from your Heart

I’ve been practicing this method of conscious breathing for almost two years now and it’s noticeably deepened my awareness of what my heart chakra is up to throughout my day. Whenever I go into meditation, I roll my eyes up and back toward the back of my head. From there I imagine that energy going downward into my heart. Once I feel it there, I inhale and draw the breath from that heart space, as I visualize energy pouring from the heavens into my heart. Sometimes I visualize the color green – especially if my meditation will be followed by a distant Reiki session. Sometimes it’s pure white light or golden light. But with each breath, I see the light pouring in to my heart chakra as I inhale, then spreading out through my entire being as I exhale.

5. The Heart Chant

I love this chant and sing it any time I’m starting to feel overwhelmed by too much thinking. It goes like this: “I open my Heart in Sweet Surrender to the Luminous Lovelight of the One!” I just sing it over and over again until I start to let go the mind and return to loving energy of my heart. (Let me know if you want me to record this for you as a future post).

http://www.finerminds.com/health-fitness/energy-healing-2/

he best teachers are people with high self-esteem.

2011-10-30T20:51:00.001-07:00

he best teachers are people with high self-esteem.

The way you care for yourself as an adult is connected to how you were cared for as a child. Another contributing factor to self-esteem is what we witnessed as a child; how did your parents care for themselves? They looked after you but did they look after themselves?

Children who grow up being cared for by parents who care for themselves, are in an optimal position for a lifetime of great self-esteem.

If you experienced a caring environment, chances are you take care of yourself. If you didn’t, you may neglect some of your needs without even realizing it.

If you have habits of neglect for yourself, no matter how much you love teaching and how hard you try, you may be unintentionally reflecting a lack of self-care behavior.

Here are a couple of simple pointers and techniques to help you discover how much you actually like yourself, how to adjust your perspective and bring to your classroom a stronger foundation of self-esteem:

On waking in the morning take deep breaths, slowly and softly
Make an intention, a strong heartfelt statement to yourself, along the lines of “today I will do what I can to truly love myself more.”
Before you have coffee or tea, slowly sip a glass of fresh water, acknowledging your body’s needs and bringing your awareness to the miracle of your bodily functions.
Remember to breathe deeply whenever the thought of self-love arises
Be aware of the thoughts that travel through your mind, don’t try to change them as yet, but do notice them. These are the thoughts that are creating the emotions and the stress levels in your body.
You may be surprised at how nasty or self-defeating some of these thoughts can be. Once again, it is not the time to change these thoughts but simply to acknowledge and accept.
Feelings may arise as you discover this “programming” and that’s okay. Simply feel the feelings with the intention to do what you can to start to love yourself more and more every day.
With strong intentions, gentle acknowledgement and self-acceptance, your self esteem will grow; the natural natural evolution of the human mind is to heal and change.

You may notice as you continue your journey of self-awareness that you will begin to see more synchronicities in your daily life. This is a sign that you are working toward truly loving yourself. Your mind has accepted your intention and is responding by alerting you to healing opportunities in the form of books, things people say, television moments etc.

The decision to grow self-esteem and open your heart to yourself is an exciting and important step to take, not only for the benefits you will see in your own life but for the lives of the little ones you have pledged to nurture.

To look at it simply, there are four major areas of self-care:

Mental
Emotional
Physical and
Spirtitual Health

They are intertwined and you can start in any area at any time, it is never too late.

Make an intention to do something from each area every day, until you begin to feel your self-esteem and self-care rising. This may take a little while but if you deliberately and consistently change your patterns of thought you will develop more positive neural networks in your brain so don’t give up, you are worth it!

http://www.selfhealingexpressions.com/blog/?p=81

I Am Ready for Love

2011-10-30T20:24:00.001-07:00

I Am Ready for Love

Dear God, I am ready to have a relationship
with a wonderful person,
who truly gets me, loves me, adores me,
and is ready to build a life with me.

I choose to believe there is a special person out there for me.
My name is written across his/her heart.
Please put me on the right track toward true love.
and lead me to a place of committed love.

I am willing to work on myself and
To make myself ready for love.
Please grant me the power
to look at love through spiritual eyes,
And to remain sincere about
finding the relationship I have longed for.

Wood Element Symbols

2011-10-30T20:21:00.000-07:00

Wood Element Symbols

One of the ways you can work with the seasons and elements is by using feng shui symbols (or enhancements) in your surroundings. And why would you want to? Working with the elements helps to bring balance into your life; to bring forth certain qualities or to tone down any qualities that have been less than helpful. As an example, imagine three trees:

The first one is a healthy tree with abundant growth. It is well proportioned with a strong trunk and the leaves are a vibrant shade of green. It represents balanced Wood element energy.
The second tree has stunted growth. It has a strong trunk but it never seems to get any larger and it never blooms. It represents under-active Wood element energy.
The third tree has out of control growth. Although it looks like it is doing well at first glance, the roots and trunk are weak and can’t hold the weight of the tree. The branches are numerous but spindly where they are reaching too far to find the light and the growth is pale. It represents over-active Wood element energy.

We can have the same emotional states: healthy growth is when we are well balanced. Stunted growth can show up as resistance, fear, depression. It is a general inability to act - sometimes not even having the energy to dream. Out of control growth can manifest as scattered energy. The dreams are there but the roots and foundation are not in place to help them blossom. There may be too many dreams without a clear focus, or perhaps a certain staying power is lacking: just when the dream is about to mature some obstacle gets in the way halting all growth. Emotional states can, and often do overlap. Well thank goodness for that! It means we are strong and balanced in some respects but perhaps have under-active or over-active energy in certain situations or particular facets of life.

So we use the symbols of the elements as reminders of how to expend our energy. Out of control growth? Pull your energy back. Concentrate on the basics - a solid foundation and organization. A Zen-style garden might settle your energy more than an overflowing English cottage garden. For someone with under-active Wood energy, I would give the opposite advice. No minimalist Zen gardens for this person, which could represent control and stunted growth! I’d advise them to surround themselves with light and images of things coming to fruition.

As you can imagine, the strongest symbol for Wood element are plants and flowers which are symbols of growth: healthy green plants, potted trees, flowering plants and vases of flowers.

Some plants and flowers are considered better than others: the number one criteria to look for are healthy plants and flowers. Silk foliage and flowers are an alternative if the area you want to put the greenery in does not receive enough light to maintain a healthy plant. It is a better feng shui practice to use silk plants than to try to nurse sickly plants in the locations you want them, but you could also use fresh cut flowers in these locations and replace them as needed.

Other symbols that are really great to bring in Wood element energy are shapes that look like the trunk of a tree: tall rectangular shapes, long narrow stripes (wall paper or a long wall hanging - even a scarf hung on the wall), columns and tall lamps (especially uplights).

The colors for the Wood element are green for foliage of course, but also blue and purple are considered appropriate symbols for the Wood Element. The patterns we use in feng shui to represent the Wood element are stripes and floral patterns.

There is another level of symbols which will be uniquely personal to you and represent your own personal story. There is no “rule” that the only feng shui enhancements you can use in your home must be the ones from the traditional Chinese culture of feng shui and I believe that in feng shui “one size does not fit all”. I encourage you to find and use Wood element symbols which have personal meaning for you and fit where you are in your life right now. The trick with the all the elements is in: 1) figuring out where you are, 2) what your challenges are, and 3) to take a look at what you have in your surroundings. Are they helping to balance your energy or holding you in the status quo?

Copyright © Deborah Redfern. All rights reserved.

pray for PEACE

2011-10-21T02:26:00.000-07:00

Spirituality: spiritual growth for a higher consciousness

2011-10-20T00:29:00.001-07:00

Spirituality: spiritual growth for a higher consciousness

With spirituality, we designate our relationship with the spiritual world, i.e. with the non incarnated world. The term spirituality has to be understood in a very broad way, it comprises our relation to invisible beings, like for example God, angels, spiritual guides, non incarnated souls and other non incarnated beings. Spirituality also comprises questions about the meaning of life and about our personal attitude towards life as a whole and all its related goals and cycles.

Why do we show interest in spiritual growth and spiritual information?
According to the definition of spirituality further above, this term comprises not only religiosity of human beings but also very fundamental questions about the meaning of life in a larger context. For obvious reasons these questions have always concerned humankind and philosophy. Everybody gets confronted with these questions, at the latest on the occasion of births and deaths.

Meaningful dealing with spirituality
Some people strictly refuse to acknowledge the existence of spiritual beings (non incarnated beings). Often, the same people dismiss anything, which has not been stringently proven according to scientific rules. They only accept a rational founded world - irrational things or concepts (e.g. the spirituality) are being suppressed and denied. By the way, these persons should also for the very same reasons deny the existence of such everyday happenings like affection, antipathy, love, hate, fear and so on.

On the other hand, there are many people, who are trying to explain every little event in life with irrational, mystical explanations. Everything has been planned a long time in advance with the help of stars, karmas or whatever. Often, such persons have at least at times lost their touch to the ground and live in a different world. Their theory that everything is predetermined is not compatible with our free will: I can decide on my own whether I will watch a film at the cinema or whether I stay at home. The "stars" - or whatever higher influence they are talking about - won't push me to the cinema nor will they hold me back at home.

A meaningful dealing with spirituality is of course somewhere in between these two extreme positions. It does not make sense to deny or discredit spirituality. Neither does it make sense to suppress our material (incarnated) world and to devote oneself exclusively to a spiritual world (see also further below).

What is the benefit of spirituality and spiritual growth?

Spiritual information should serve to understand our life and our life's tasks better and thereby to achieve our purpose of life more easily. A contact to the spiritual world can be in particularly helpful to sense and confirm one's goals and tasks of life. In addition, this spiritual contact can be a tremendously important guide and assistance in our daily life.

We should realize again that the purpose of our incarnation is to live in the material world, to gain some experiences and to develop some of our qualities further (personal growth ). These experiences are to be made in the material world, therefore it does not make sense and it is even counterproductive to suppress the material world, like already mentioned further above. Our qualities, which are to be developed further, are difficult or even impossible to comprehend with our rational intellect. In most cases these qualities are unconditional love, joy, self-honesty, modesty and humility. This learning process is often called spiritual growth or developing awareness (developing higher consciousness). For this learning process of concepts, which are difficult to grasp by our rational intellect, we can get very important help and assistance from the spiritual world. Therefore it does absolutely make sense to integrate the spiritual world - in other words spirituality - in our daily life.

Spirituality: Information and integration in our daily life

From the above, it can easily be concluded that spirituality should always be integrated in our daily life, in everything we do or do not do. "Always" is to be understood as in all our decisions and deeds both in business and private life. This is in contradiction to applying or living spirituality like a leisure activity only on evenings, or for two hours on Sundays or for two weeks per year in a seminar. To integrate spirituality in the daily life is somehow similar to wearing clothing: You most likely wear clothes and make sure you are adequately dressed all day round and not just on some rare occasions. You don't walk around naked. Likewise you should try to be connected with the spiritual world all day as well in business as in private life. Of course you cannot achieve this from one day to the other - a lot of training is needed.

We have already discussed in a different text that all beings on earth should respect certain cosmic laws. We have called the most important of these cosmic laws «the basic rights of existence». It states: «The basis of all life on our planet is the equal right of all beings to live here, to develop here and to carry out their tasks here». We automatically train our above mentioned qualities of unconditional love, joy, self-honesty, modesty and humility when we follow this cosmic law. In other words: The meaning of life is training the above mentioned qualities (or spiritual growth).

Spiritual growth: Information from and about spiritual beings
There are a high number of publications and web pages about spiritual topics and there are an equally high number of publications containing information from spiritual beings, which have been received through channelling. The quality, truthfulness and reliability of such information must be assessed case by case. An universal judgement is not possible.

It can be very fascinating to hear or read about the work, purpose and tasks of non incarnated beings. However for most of us, such information is useful at best for entertainment. If we, respectively our soul, wanted to learn about the interrelations in the spiritual (non incarnated) world, why then should we incarnate at all? Our soul could have stayed in the spiritual world. The interrelations of the spiritual world are certainly easier to grasp while you indeed are in the spiritual world. If you currently were in the rain forest with the goal to understand the system of the rain forest better, would you then for this purpose drive to the desert?

It is little help to our daily life if we know whether we are being supported by three or by five angels. However, it is extremely important to know that we are indeed supported in our daily life by angels and other spiritual beings and that we can ask these beings for help.

Support from spiritual beings for spiritual growth
How do you feel and understand the above mentioned support from the spiritual world? And how can you make sure that this support is real and not just imaginary?

We all have a sensor in us for this purpose. This sensor can and should be trained, however. Since it is not easy - or even impossible - to understand with our rational intellect, we have given this sensor many different and quite vague names, like intuition, gut feeling, heart, inner sense, sixth sense, instinct, etc. As a general rule, this sensor is available to everyone. Children's sensor is usually much more developed than the ones of adults, however. This is one of the reasons why children can be very important for the personal development of their parents, see here .

Once a certain level of personal consciousness is reached, further development is hardly possible without a good contact to the spiritual world. Dismissing spirituality therefore can have severe consequences for the respective person and soul. Re-establishing a good contact to the spiritual world is part of our personal growth. For that reason we ought to train this ability ourselves, we should not try to outsource or buy this ability, it won't work. It is not sufficient to read books and web pages about it - we finally have to acquire this ability ourselves. We will have to train this again and again.

The development and training of our personal sensor to communicate with the spiritual world has further important advantages:

In our incarnated world, there is information of different kind available, some of it is perfectly correct and valuable but an awful lot of information is wrong or does not make sense. It would be quite foolish to believe that whatever information you receive from a non incarnated being, should automatically be correct and meaningful. In other words you have to be able to judge the trustworthiness of the information received.
It might be tempting to ask someone else to get spiritual information on your behalf. While this is not generally bad or dangerous, you have to realize that you make your decisions depending on the abilities and correct interpretation of other people. To finally be able to assess spiritual information yourself is an invaluable advantage for spiritual growth. You thereby minimise the risk of getting manipulated by others.

Before we continue, let's have a look at the definition of spirituality according to Wikipedia :

«Spirituality, in a narrow sense, concerns itself with matters of the spirit. The spiritual, involving (as it may) perceived eternal verities regarding humankind's ultimate nature, often contrasts with the temporal, with the material, or with the worldly. A sense of connection forms a central defining characteristic of spirituality - connection to something greater than oneself, which includes an emotional experience of religious awe and reverence. Equally importantly, spirituality relates to matters of sanity and of psychological health. Like some forms of religion, spirituality often focuses on personal experience.

Spirituality may involve perceiving life as higher, more complex or more integrated with one's world view; as contrasted with the merely sensual. ...»

Spiritual growth: Information on timeforchange.org

Based on the reasoning outlined above, it is of very high concern for us as publishers of timeforchange.org to put spirituality back on the right place in our daily life. We would like to help re-establishing a meaningful integration of spiritual concepts not as interesting leisure activity but as integral part of everything we do or do not do. What matters in the end, is to be able to live a meaningful life, which allows the soul to develop qualities as planned for the respective incarnation.

Therefore you will on timeforchange.org find some relatively simple and down-to-earth explanations for the general comprehension what life is about and for personal growth as the meaning of life. Additional texts are regularly being added.

http://timeforchange.org/spirituality-daily-spiritual-growth

Bracelet of crystals for healing

2011-10-09T01:17:00.000-07:00

The first 3 chakras deal with material world issues and the top 3 are spiritual. The heart chakra bridges the gap between the 2 worlds within us.

red - root chakra - survival and sustenance concerns (money, shelter, food and basic material needs)
orange - sacral or naval chakra - physical desires, appetites and addictions
yellow - solar plexus chakra - power and control
green - heart chakra - love - clairsentience
blue - throat chakra - communication - speaking your truth and getting your message across, relating messages from spirit
indigo - brow chakra - clairvoyance
purple - crown chakra - divine guidance
clear crystals balance and harmonize the other colors

mahogany obsidian - root chakra
carnelian - sacral or naval chakra
citrine - solar plexus chakra
aventurine - heart chakra
blue lace agate - throat chakra
sodalite - brow chakra
amethyst - crown chakra
quartz crystal - balances and harmonizes all the chakra and gemstone energies

rose quartz - emotional healing, self-love and love attracting
clear quartz - programmed to attract love
rhodonite - self-esteem, confidence, manifests love energy
amethyst - divine love, psychic connection, transforms negative energy into positive
moonstone - balances emotions, increases intuition

FACTS on dreams

2011-09-29T23:15:00.001-07:00

Within 5 minutes of waking half of your dream is forgotten. Within 10, 90%
is gone.

People who became blind after birth can see images in their dreams. People
who are born blind do not see any images, but have dreams equally vivid
involving their other senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion

Every human being dreams (except in cases of extreme psychological
disorder). If you think you are not dreaming you just forget your dreams.

Our mind is not inventing faces in our dreams we see real faces of real
people that we have seen during our life but may not know or remember. We
have all seen hundreds of thousands of faces throughout our lives, so we
have an endless supply of characters for our brain to utilize during our
dreams.

A full 12% of sighted people dream exclusively in black and white. The
remaining number dream in full color. Studies from 1915 through to the
1950s maintained that the majority of dreams were in black and white, but
these results began to change in the 1960s. Today only 4.4% of the dreams
of under-25 year-olds are in black and white. Recent research has
suggested that those changing results may be linked to the switch from
black-and-white film and TV to color media.

If you dream about some particular subject it is not often that the dream
is about that. Dreams speak in a deeply symbolic language. Whatever symbol
your dream picks on it is most unlikely to be a symbol for itself.

The most common emotion experienced in dreams is anxiety. Negative
emotions are more common than positive ones.

On average you can dream anywhere from one or two hours every night.

Studies have been done on many different animals, and they all show the
same brain waves during dreaming sleep as humans. Watch a dog sleeping
sometime. The paws move like they are running and they make yipping sounds
as if they are chasing something in a dream.

Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a normal stage of sleep characterized by
rapid movements of the eyes. REM sleep in adult humans typically occupies
20-25% of total sleep, about 90-120 minutes of a night's sleep.
During REM sleep the body is paralyzed by a mechanism in the brain in
order to prevent the movements which occur in the dream from causing the
physical body to move. However, it is possible for this mechanism to be
triggered before, during, or after normal sleep while the brain awakens.

Our mind interprets the external stimuli that our senses are bombarded
with when we are asleep and make them a part of our dreams. This means
that sometimes in our dreams we hear a sound from reality and incorporate
it in a way. For example you may be dreaming that you are in a concert
while your brother is playing a guitar during your sleep.

Men tend to dream more about other men. Around 70% of the characters in a
man's dream are other men. On the other hand, a woman's dream
contains almost an equal number of men and women. Aside from that, men
generally have more aggressive emotions in their dreams than the female
lot.

Results of several surveys across large population sets indicate that
between 18% and 38% of people have experienced at least one precognitive
dream and 70% have experienced dvu.The percentage of persons that believe
precognitive dreaming is possible is even higher ranging from 63% to 98%.
*Precognition, also called future sight, refers to perception that
involves the acquisition of future information that cannot be deduced from
presently available and normally acquired sense-based information.

Singing Bowls

2011-09-29T00:11:00.000-07:00

Singing bowls are very enjoyable to play. The experience is both invigorating and relaxing. Take time out to play a singing bowl every day, either as part of meditation or just to enjoy a few minutes of peace. Sound is very beneficial to our our health and well being. The warm tone, gentle vibration and subtle harmonic overtones provide many subtle benefits. Give yourself this little gift every day. It is also a wonderful opportunity to share with others. You can play them in group mediation, with music, in the classroom or yoga studio. There are many uses for sound. Even if you don't have a reason, it's always a nice treat. For Buddhists, singing bowls offer a way to renew the Bodhisattva vow every day or can be used as part of your daily offerings. Think of the sound as an offering for the benefit of all living things.

Large singing bowls (9 inches or larger) can be heavy to hold, so leave it sitting on the floor or on a table. If placing a bowl on a hard surface, use a cushion to prevent friction. Large bowls have a wonderful grounding quality. The deep and slow vibrations are very calming and instantly relaxing. You can also hold a large bowl flat on your hands at a level in front of you where it feels easiest for you - around the level of your heart, solar plexus, in front of your belly or resting in your lap. Experiment holding it at different levels and notice how the vibration feels. A person can lay on the floor with bowls surrounding them for a sound healing session.
The traditional way to use singing bowls in meditation is to play a large bowl to begin meditation (as a calming influence) and a small bowl to end meditation (as a signal and wake up call).

Medium singing bowls (6-8 inches) offer the best balance of small size and full vibration. They are the ideal choice for an all around personal bowl. Hold a medium bowl on your fingertips, or flat on your palm. Be sure not to touch the sides of the bowl, which will dampen the sound.
Try lying down and putting the bowl on your torso. Couples love playing the bowls for each other. For professionals, large bowls are best on the floor around the client but medium and small bowls can go directly on the body.

Small bowls (under 6 inches) are the ultimate for portability and produce the highest pitches. Small bowls are lightweight, so be careful it doesn't fly out of your hand when you play it. Hold a very small bowl on your fingertips with the fingers spread slightly for easier balance. When singing a very small bowl, it helps to press the bowl against the mallet as you press the mallet against the bowl - as you go around the rim both hands can move.

How to Energize Water with Crystals

2011-09-23T00:49:00.000-07:00

How to Energize Water with Crystals

Positive ions in air molecules are a type of electric charge that is harmful to your health. Places that are heavily polluted or that have been closed for a long time without air are heavy with these positive ions. On the other hand, the negative ion is beneficial for your health.

Using crystals to structure water will charge it with negative ions, which makes the water healthier as well as the body that ingests it. Understanding the different stones and how they can affect water is the first step in charging water or making elixirs.

Clear Quartz Crystal Points are perfect for this purpose. You can always find just the right size and shape to charge your water with amazing energy. Choosing Quartz points would eliminate any concerns you may have about the clusters such as other mineral inclusions that may contain toxins. Quartz can also be programmed with your intention for an added energy vibration.

Lithium is found in every cell of the human body and greatly contributes to the balance and well being of the body/mind. It enhances the immune system, and vitalizes Prana (life force). Lithium has this amazing calming energy, which soothes and balances the body. If you have trouble sleeping, drink some Lithium in Quartz infused water before bedtime.

Charging water is really a simple process. Using a glass container, fill with distilled, filtered or pure water. Sun Tea Jars or Glass pitchers work great. Some tap water may have minerals and chemicals that react with the crystals, so it is best to filter it first. Simply use what you have available.

Wash the crystal(s) to be used in this process in tepid water and allow them to dry. Water that is too cold or too hot may damage the crystal. I suggest using either single quartz (Clear, Amethyst, Citrine, etc) crystals or tumbles as opposed to raw for ease of use and safety. Many pieces in raw form may break down, causing ingestion concerns.

Add the clear Quartz crystal you have selected to your glass container of water and allow the water to sit for 8-12 hours. You can additionally infuse the water by sitting it in the sun and/or the moon for 8-12 hours. If you do choose to infuse with sunlight and/or moonlight outside, make sure the top of the container is covered to keep dust, bugs and such out of your water. Parchment paper, a glass top or clear wrap will do the trick.

Psychic Attacks and Protecting Yourself

2011-08-30T00:24:00.000-07:00

Psychic Attacks and Protecting Yourself
By Mary Kurus
Copyright Mary Kurus 2001 All Rights Reserved

Psychic Attacks and Dark Negative Energies
Psychic attacks are defined as the manipulation of supernatural energies and forces. Psychic attacks occur when dark and negative energetic vibrations are sent from one individual to another individual or place creating disturbances in the energetic and physical bodies of the person or place. This negative energy can be called a spirit, an entity, a thought form or a dark negative energy. Each of these energies can create harmful effects within the person receiving them.

Not everything that's considered difficult in a persons life is the result of a psychic attack, but psychic attacks do happen and they happen more often today than ever before. You will hear some people say that negative energies and psychic attacks don't exist and cannot happen if you don't believe in them or give them energy by paying attention to them. This is not true. Problems can and do happen as a result of negative energies and psychic attacks. Recently mothers have contacted me about their teenagers who are practicing bits of black magic wanting to know how to help their children. There are disadvantages as well as advantages to Harry Potter.

Mother Earth and all of us who live on her are surrounded by many mysterious, supernatural and beautiful energies, including intelligent energies, angels and guides. We are affected by the energies of all the planets including the Sun, the Moon, other planets, asteroids and stars. At the same time we are also exposed to many negative energies, entities, spirits and intelligent energies which can affect us in so many different ways.

Ancient Societies and Psychic Attacks
Societies from ancient times to the present have worked with psychic attacks and dark negative energies. The African and Haitian people practice voodoo and black magic. North American and European cultures practice black magic and witchcraft. Indian, Chinese and South American tribes have similar practices. Australian Aboriginals practice something called "pointing the bone". Similar practices are recorded from ancient times and continue to be practiced today in all societies. In medieval times they burned people for practicing witchcraft.

Psychic Attacks - What Are They?
Psychic attacks involve the manipulation and movement of different types of dark energies, entities and spirits. They involve the transferring of dark and negative energies into someone's physical and/or energetic bodies. Some of the dark energies and entities that find their way into physical and energetic bodies, and homes are sent without awareness, even though they are sent by humans. Others are sent intentionally to create harm and damage, often to control, manipulate or punish the individual. They can involve ritualistic techniques or ceremonies or use the psychic powers of the mind or a combination of both.

It's difficult for anyone to penetrate an aura that is healthy and strong. Auras are weakened by repressed emotions, negative emotions, through the regular use of drugs and alcohol, through smoking cigarettes and a variety of diseases. The physical presence of fungus, parasites, worms, or metal, chemical or atomic poisons can seriously weaken an aura. It's important to understand that all illness begins in the aura and then eventually moves into the physical body. Therefore the care and protection of your energetic body is as important as the physical body so you can repel psychic attacks and stay strong and healthy.

Intentional Psychic Attacks, Spells, Curses, Voodoo, Witchcraft
The dark and negative energies sent intentionally by others are called psychic attacks and can seriously affect humans and animals at a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels. Psychic attacks can include spells, voodoo, mantras, invocations, negative energy rays, or other types of black magic. They attack psyches and can produce debilitating effects on the overall health and energy level of the affected person.

Dark Spirits and Entities
There are dark spirits and entities that can move into physical bodies and auras affecting what people think, speak, do, desire, and feel. The human who is invaded by these spirits or entities can take on the physical attributes, illnesses and behavior of the spirit or entity occupying the person to such a degree that there appears to be a complete personality change.

Negative Thought Forms
Another major type of dark negative energy that can be sent to others is through negative thinking, anger, wishing harm to others, jealousy, animosity, seeking revenge, vindictiveness, or other forms of thought that are based in anger, rage and fear. These are called thought forms and they can be lodged in a persons body or various layers of their auras causing a wide range of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual difficulties.

Degrees of Strength of Psychic Attacks
Psychic attacks and other dark negative energies, entities and spirits can have a wide range of effect from low to medium to high. The symptoms or changes in health or behavior can also range from low to medium to high. Not all health problems or behavior changes are caused by psychic attacks since there can be so many causes for the same symptoms. Confusion often exists when other physical and emotional difficulties are present in an individual's life. It's important to carefully assess all possible sources for the difficulties including physical factors, energetic factors and emotional factors.

Can We Draw Dark Energies To Ourselves?
We definitely can draw dark energies, entities and spirits into ourselves without any influence whatsoever from external sources. Prolonged states of anger, rage, resentments, bitterness, vindictiveness, and many types of fears, will draw and attract these negative energies. It's normal to get angry or fearful when things happen in our lives. These occurrences do not draw the dark side in to us. It's the long-term and prolonged states that set up the energetic attraction. Ongoing repressed negative emotions can eventually turn into a certain type of entity.

Violence of all types, physical, emotional and mental is a very powerful draw for negative and dark types of energies. The regular use of drugs and alcohol also draws these types of energies. Now one glass of wine is a social habit and does not affect our energy fields. However, when we become drunk, be it from alcohol or drugs, our auras becoming weakened substantially and negative invaders are attracted to the energy set up by this state. Smoking also greatly weakens the energy field and leaves us very vulnerable to negative influences.

Symptoms of Psychic Attacks and Dark Energies
There are many different symptoms that can indicate negative and dark psychic energies, spirits or entities. The following list identifies a few major symptoms. But these symptoms can also indicate other types of health problems and it's important to investigate all possibilities.

Suddenly acting totally out of character
Major changes in behavior for no reason
A loss of memory
Major changes in clarity of thinking or analytical ability
Sudden ongoing fatigue for no apparent reason
A drained feeling
Icy cold feeling on part or all of your body
Hearing someone's voice regularly
Hearing voices
Recurrent or frequent nightmares
Strange or recurring accidents
Feeling someone is watching you
A discomfort or fear in a specific room or area in your home or office
A loss of self-confidence
A sudden loss of energy
Sudden illnesses that elude diagnosis
Sudden illnesses that cannot be explained
Feeling someone touch you or bump into you when nobody is present
Sensing a presence · Sensing a large pair of eyes watching you or following you
Sudden or irrational difficulties with finances or relationships
Imagining monsters, animals or frightening shadows
Sudden depression without an apparent cause · Seeming ongoing bad luck
Visions or hallucinations
Irrational fear, anger or sorrow
A negative obsessive thought, desire or fetish that won't go away
This is not a complete list but should give you a fairly good idea of areas to look at in the physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual areas. Each person who is on the receiving end of psychic attacks or dark energetic forces will have their own indications and effects. If you are not certain please consult with an experienced energy worker knowledgeable in identifying and clearing energies from different types of psychic attacks and dark energies.

How Do You Pick Up Negative Energies, Entities and Dark Energies ?
Negative entities, spirits, and dark energies can be picked up almost anywhere where negative people, emotions or thoughts exist. They are drawn to negatives. Therefore you can pick these up at meetings, in stores, at any type of gathering, or in your own home. At times when individuals have suffered prolonged pain in a certain place, the energies of this pain can remain there even though a person has left that place.

Negative entities, spirits and dark energies are strongly drawn to individuals who use drugs and alcohol. When people get stoned, their auras get weak and these negative entities and energies can easily penetrate into a persons aura or body. Humans are quite defenseless when they are stoned.

Smoking cigarettes or any other type of drug seriously weakens an individuals aura making them quite vulnerable to the entry of negative entities, spirits, and dark energies. Smoking eventually creates holes in an individuals aura so that their vital energy can seep out making them feel fatigued as well as making them vulnerable to negative energies.

Negative energies can be absorbed or can attach themselves to objects during the process of being made or by resting somewhere where negative energies exist. If you have the opportunity, ask an experienced antique dealer to tell you some of their stories about negative energies in antique furniture.

Negative energies can attach themselves to an object when it's being made or just by where is lives. These can be very difficult to eliminate. This past Christmas I received a gift of a small box as gift given in love. One day as I was checking my desk I realized that negative energies were attached to this little box. They had attached themselves from dark energies in the store they were sold from. I placed the box in the sun but that was not sufficient to clear the box. I then washed it thoroughly with soap and water and then placed it in the sun again and that finally cleared the box. It is much more difficult to clear old energies from antique pieces.

Sex and Negative Energies, Entities and Spirits
It's important to look at sex as an exchange of energies, entities and potential vulnerability rather than from a moral perspective. When you have sex with another human being you absorb their very essence mixing it with your own essence. You literally absorb their good stuff as well as their bad stuff.

If you have sex with someone who has negative energies, entities or spirits, it is almost guaranteed that some of this negative energy will be transferred into your body and/or aura through the physical act of sex. It's very important to ensure you want to absorb the very essence and energetic elements of the other person before having sex with that person. The more sex partners you have, ensures the greater diffusion of your own very special essence. It amounts to not being quite yourself anymore.

A client told me the story of her father who had an affair with a neighbor who happened to be a Wicca witch. This lady conducted many ceremonies and cast many spells. After a period of time, this man, his wife and their children were all invaded by negative energies and entities. Be careful of the company you keep.

How To Eliminate Psychic Energies
There are a variety of methods available for eliminating dark and negative energies, entities, spirits, and thought forms. The following will give you many ideas of things you can do to help yourself. It will also help you to ask an energy worker the right questions if you need help to eliminate energies through psychic attacks.

You will read many different methods and find a wide spectrum of suggestions regarding clearings. Some will even suggest that it's important to know who has entered your body or aura whereas others do not believe this to be important. Personally, I don't think one needs to spend time identifying the characteristics of the invading energy. What's important is to know how to clear and protect yourself and your home.

The following are a number of methods you can use, normally in combination, to ensure you get clear and remain clear. There is no perfect solution that can be applied to every psychic attack. What someone could need would depend on the power and strength of the psychic attack or dark energy, and the present state of the individual who has absorbed this energy.

http://www.mkprojects.com/fa_PsychicAttacks.htm

Spiritual Power

2011-08-29T00:20:00.001-07:00

Power - These gifts do something:

Faith - This is not the faith that is measured to every believer, nor is it "saving faith." This is special, supernatural faith given by the Spirit to receive miracles or to believe God for miracles.

Healing - This is supernatural healing, beyond natural means, given by the Spirit.

Miracles - This is the supernatural suspension of the natural laws, or an intervention by the Holy Spirit into the laws of nature.

- These gifts reveal something:

Word of Wisdom - This is supernatural knowledge applied in a godly or correct way. One commentary describes it as "insight into doctrinal truth."

Word of Knowledge - This is supernatural knowledge of facts and information that can only be revealed by God for the purpose of applying doctrinal truth.

Discerning of Spirits - This is the supernatural ability to distinguish between spirits such as good and evil, truthful or deceiving, prophetic versus satanic.

http://christianity.about.com/od/holyspirittopicalstudy/a/spiritualgifts.htm

5 Ends of the World that Came and Went

2011-08-29T00:08:00.000-07:00

5 Ends of the World that Came and Went

The Apocalypse is always already upon us.
Every year, it seems, a new crop of doom is brought forth. Consider all the swords of Damocles that dangled above us in just the last couple of decades. In 1997, the extraordinarily bright appearance of the passing Hale-Bopp comet convinced 39 Heaven’s Gate cultists to nosh on applesauce laced with phenobarbital in order to escape a planet about to be ‘recycled.’ Ten years ago, Y2K was going to drop planes out of the sky, zero all bank accounts, and spontaneously empty the world’s nuclear silos into everyone’s back yard. And in 2008, the public trembled at the thought of the Large Hadron Collider tearing a miniature black hole in the space-time continuum and feeding the Earth to it. The LHC even brought some grade-A crazy out of otherwise estimable physicists, two of whom volunteered a theory that its launch was being sabotaged by God from the future, because God hates Higgs bosons. Having dodged all these potential calamities, the world now stands endangered by the infamous “Mayan prophecy” of 2012, – an innocuous feature of the vigesimal Mesoamerican “Long Count” calendar which was first re-cast into apocalyptic terms by the American archaeologist Michael D. Coe in 1966.
Let us therefore calm our nerves and cast our eyes into the past. Here are some other times when the world failed to end.

70 CE: The Essenes

“‘In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God’” – so goes the Book of Isaiah. And that is just what a small Jewish community called the Essenes did – they moved out into the wilderness. Admittedly, they did not have very far to move: in their days, terrain turned harsh and inhospitable only about 13 miles east of Jerusalem. This area stretched to the Dead Sea cliffs, where the main artifact of this apocalyptic sect was found in 1947:

the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Contemporary historical accounts describe the Essenes as kooky but friendly types who kept celibate, held all their property in common, did not own slaves, rejected animal sacrifice, and wrote extensively and secretively about various Angels in their holy books. In 66 CE, when Jews revolted against the Roman rule, the Essenes took it as a sign that their pious efforts had made the desert highway of the Lord sufficiently straight, and that the End Times were now upon them. In a sense, they were absolutely right. Buoyed by their anticipation of deliverance, the Essenes marched out triumphantly against the Romans, counting on celestial back-up. But the expected hosts of angels failed to materialize, and most of the sect met its long-awaited doom.

In 1492, if the World doesn’t end, just blame the Jews!
The year 1492 is famous for bringing Columbus to the New World. It is rather less famous for failing to bring Armageddon to Russia. That was the last year for which the Eastern Orthodox Church had calculated the paschal date, i.e. the day on which Easter fell in a given year. Their number-crunchers reckoned 1491 to be the 7000th anniversary of world’s creation, and the Church judged that it would be pointless for the world to carry on past such a momentous date. Convinced by the Church that the Second Coming was imminent, many Russian peasants decided not to bother sowing any crops in 1491. A year later, their earthly time did not run out, but their bread did, and a famine ensued. A scapegoat was urgently required to explain away this fiasco of scheduling, and everyone happily heaped the guilt for the absence of both bread and Christ on the Jews, who, being understandably skeptical of the whole thing, had sown their fields the same as ever.

In the 14th and 15th century, many Jews living in Spain and Portugal were urged at sword-point to convert to Christianity. Some did convert, though a few continued to observe their old holidays in secret. In the 17th century, however, a different sort of conversion shook the Jewish world. A young Kabbalist and mystic from the Turkish city of Smyrna by the name of Shabbethai Zebi proclaimed himself the Messiah to a small group of followers in 1648 – the year that some Kabbalistic computations, not altogether coincidentally, held to be the year of Israel’s redemption by the Messiah. What he lacked in sanity, Shabbethai made up for in charm, and the revelation was received tolerably well. Unsurprisingly, authorities soon expelled him from Smyrna. In the following decades, Shabbethai wandered around Middle East and Europe, gathering supporters, fame and money wherever he went. Europe was already gripped with Messianic fervor in anticipation of the apocalyptic and beastly-numbered year 1666; Shabbethai’s appearance seemed timely, and his preaching fell on many a ready ear. In 1666, now wildly popular throughout most of the Old World, Shabbethai set out for Constantinople, where he hoped the coming struggle of Light and Dark would land him in prime position to score the sultan’s crown. Turkish authorities sent an under-pasha out to meet him on the ship; the man welcomed the half-baked Messiah with a box on the ear and had him thrown into prison. It was then advised to Shabbethai that the only way for him to save his life was to embrace Islam. And, in a rare flash of good sense, he did exactly that, leaving thousands of stunned and demoralized followers all over the world high and dry. The Jewish businesswoman and diarist Glueckel of Hamelin likened the entire experience to “enduring nine months of pregnancy and birth pains, only to break wind.”

1843/1844: The Great Disappointment

In 1818 William Miller, the future spiritual father of Seventh-Day Adventists and Advent Christians, sat down to the table to calculate the exact date of Christ’s Second Coming. Miller had lapsed into Deism in his youth and was now trying to regain his Baptist roots through intense Bible study. A verse in the Book of Daniel caught his eyes: “And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.” Miller took this “cleansing” to stand for the Last Judgement, and, like many theologians before him, followed the “day-year” principle of prophecy interpretation. Following the vague hints of another Daniel verse, Miller started the countdown not from the moment of creation but from 457 B.C., when Artaxerxes I of Persia ordered the rebuilding of Jerusalem. Adding 2300 years to 457 B.C. yielded the date 1843 – specifically, sometime between March 21st, 1843 and March 21st, 1844. By 1831 he was actively preaching his apocalyptic algorithms to the public.
As the years passed and the Judgment Day drew nearer, Miller steadily gained followers, until by 1840 the United States was in the firm grip of Millerism. When March 21st of 1844 came and went anti-climactically, Miller revised the date to April 18th, 1844. The world survived April 18th unscathed. Miller confessed his error but declared that the end of the world was nevertheless nigh – he was just no longer sure exactly how nigh. A Millerite preacher by the name of Samuel S. Snow declared that he double-checked the numbers and got a different date: it was not March or April but October 22nd of 1844 that was going to see Christ’s triumphant return! For six months, the excitement built up once again to a fever pitch. When the fateful day came and went without any supernatural incident, October 22nd became known as “The Great Disappointment of 1844.”

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Apocalypse Now! …no wait, now! … Now! delayed indefinitely

It would take a hefty monograph to tally up all the prophesied and discarded Doomsdays littering the eschatology of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, or Jehovah’s Witnesses. The Society’s founder Charles Taze Russell, who had only several years of schooling but a great deal of business sense, at first affiliated himself with a group that expected the world to end in 1873. When that did not happen, the date was moved to 1874. When nothing happened in 1874, the group decided that the Second Coming had actually taken place as planned, and that Christ was here in the world, only he was invisible. It was then decided that the actual visible and palpable end of the world would come in 1914. This gave Russell and his colleagues a full forty years to proceed with their mission of saving lost souls without being undermined by their own predictions. The year 1914 saw the Great War break out in Europe, but the world still refused to end. This was highly inconvenient, because Russell had promised eternal life to “millions” who witnessed the events of 1914. And so after his death in 1916, Watch Tower publications continued to push back the fateful day as became necessary. First it was moved to October 1, 1917. Then to 1925. From the mid-1930s to early 1940s, pamphlets said it was “months away.” Later another delay was effected until September 5, 1975. All the while, the generation of 1914 continued to die off at normal pace, which was making some people antsy. By 1995, Russell’s teaching about its elect immortal millions had to be discarded. These days, a Watchtower tract is likely to talk about Armageddon being seen by the “anointed” whose lives overlap with the lives of those who saw 1914, effectively pushing the end of things many vague decades into the future
Apocalyptic fervor is a game with few rules and ever-moving goal-posts. Those who get Doomsday balls rolling usually count on the fact that for many people, it takes surprisingly little to trigger ecstatic cravings of annihilation. There is seemingly nothing that those who are less susceptible to the hysteria can do about it. So sit back, relax, pop some popcorn, and get ready for the next wave of Armageddonism. Humanity is unlikely to disappoint: according to a poll taken in early March of 2010, 14% of all Americans think Barack Obama may be the Antichrist. Plus ça change, plus c’est la meme chose. The End of the World is always on the horizon – an illusive, elusive line separating Heaven from Earth which moves away from us as we try to approach it.

Author: A.M. Lorenz — Copyrighted © roadtickle.com

Ying Yang Double Dragon

2011-08-27T22:54:00.001-07:00

POINTS ON THE CONCEPT OF MAN AND HIS SPIRITUAL POWERS IN ISLAM

2011-08-27T22:31:00.001-07:00

POINTS ON THE CONCEPT OF MAN AND HIS SPIRITUAL POWERS IN ISLAM
Dr. Mehdi Ben Abboud
MOROCCO

GENERALITIES:

Islamic medicine is based on the image of man in Islam and the Islamic comprehensive view of man and the universe.
If Chinese medicine, for instance, has been characterized by a special approach to the nervous system that is drastically different from the universal academic anatomy of this system, Islamic medicine is characterized by its overall view of man as an integral composite of physiological, psychological, mental, and spiritual components unaffected materialism or sectarianism.
On the basis of this universal concept of man the spiritual and material prescriptions of Islamic medicine are as good to all mankind as those of modern medicine.
The great advantage of Islam lies in the possibility for those nearest to God the Inscribed Register, as the Quran says, to be elevated to the supramundane lights.
Therefore, the Muslim doctor may prescribe aspiration to such heights to Muslims and non-Muslims alike according to the patient's strength of faith.
The scientific, medical, philosophical, and psychological schools in the West are still investigating the image of man about which Carl Jaspers says it is out of reach, beyond perception and eludes scientific research.
Man is naturally equipped to utilize strength of will, self-confidence and faith in God in getting cured from a host of diseases.
Contemplation, remembrance of God, peace of mind, silence, seclusion, hope, optimism, worships, adherence to Shariah, combining material and moral medicine when necessary as enjoined by the Sunna are all aspects of extensive work from an overall point of view based on the moral potentials of life as well as on: a) Mystic and secular sciences based on faith. b) Diligence, which is the highest form of will, based on confidence in God and reliance on Him. c) Enlightened conduct without narrow-mindedness or ingratitude.
Recent experiments add yet another evidence in support of the effective role of the spiritual approach to treatment involving will, contemplation and submission to God.
Psychosomatic medicine is a good start towards appreciating the interaction between body and mind Some psychosomaticists have embarked on a series of experiments to determine the nature of bio-electric changes in the body resulting from total absorption in Salaat (prayer) and complete submission to God during it. The aim is to establish the therapeutic effectiveness of the spiritual approach to treatment.
The ultimate objective of medicine is the maintenance of man's material and moral well-being through education, development, enhancement, and prevention of various diseases as well as through prescribing all sorts of treatment that are materially and morally effective. According to the Islamic heritage, there are two closely related kinds of science: the science of bodies and the science of religions. The real purpose of medicine should be to help man lead a sound material and moral life so that when he dies he may return to his Creator with a clear conscience.
What should be of primary concern to us is the real, not the theoretical, image of man. Scientific endeavours should be made to keep this image pure, undistorted by ideologies and preconceived ideas based on mere conjectures and not on solid scientific grounds. We should also extend our view beyond the limited area of secular sciences into that vast realm of mysticism combining material and spiritual factors. Man stands to gain both physically and spiritually depending on how further up he can be elevated to the supramundane heights, how much he values faith and will, and whether his attitude to his God is positive.
The evoked spiritual power of healing ranges from the ability to effect personal cure to the ability invested in prophets and God's favourites to cure the blind and the leper, depending on the rank of the soul.
All medical evidence in all civilizations and religions support this thesis.
I. THE MEETING-POINT OF MATTER AND MEANING,
THE CONCRETE AND THE ABSTRACT:

If human knowledge is indeed mainly divided into the science of bodies and the science of religions, it occurs to one's mind that medicine, the knowledge closest to man, may be presented in two forms: material medicine using surgery and materia medica, and moral medicine using the mind and resolution to enter into a state of submission and deep reflection based on a certain creed or established wisdom.

This latter form has gradually been gaining a notable status with a considerable number of doctors all over the world who seem to be saying that if only people could realize the therapeutic potentials latent in their spiritual powers they would readily dispense with a good deal of the drugs they consume every day which, however, treat only the symptoms without in any way penetrating to the causes.

The deeper we think of and investigate the real meaning of matter and the real image of man, the more this spiritual aspect and its therapeutic techniques grow in importance. Physicists and technologists have come to recognize the dematerialization of matter, the thinglessness of things, and the desubstantiation of substance. When they got down in their researches to the infinitesimal state of matter after breaking it up and splitting the atom into electrons of various types and forms they could not get beyond the concept of electro-magnetic energy and a multitude of complex mathematical operations reaching a point where the material structure of things came pretty close to the abstract meaning of the general scientific concepts. Some even went so far as to say that the concept of electron and electronic energy with regard to man can never be understood unless his image in our minds is given a spiritual meaning. The French physicist, Jean E. Charon, calls the spirit-carrying electron, as he conceives it, "EON". He says, "We have tried to analyze thinking as a simple psychological process performed by each one of the electrons of which our organism consists. What we have found very clearly, however, is that our mind, which is very similar to the spirit existent in the electrons, also performs the process of thinking each time we undertake to do a certain job or whenever we try to form a new idea. That is, we create new meanings based on information stored in the memory.

On a deeper level, what we call consideration follows the same mechanism of contemplation and thinking. In view of what we have said, one can realize the great significance of contemplation to spiritual situations.

We should be aware of the fact that our spiritual roots reach back to millions of years ago. This constitutes a vast field of knowledge treasured deep down in our unconsciousness. For this vast knowledge to surface in our conscious minds we have to give every opportunity to our electrons to enhance the contemplation process, i.e. to make us discover artificial signs that can at the right time be decoded and interpreted in our consciousness as symbols. Consideration on the human level takes another form. When the human body undergoes a certain disorder we ask ourselves what could restore it to its normal condition? Well, it is the electrons themselves. The health of the body is nothing more than the psychological harmony of our eons.

When we are ill, either physically or mentally, what we usually do is to hurry to the doctor, or at least that is what the modern man does now. Yet, animals and plants are not liable to such frequent recurrence of disorder.

I am not trying to underestimate the role of doctors or of the enormous amount of drugs they prescribe for their patients. But in the long run, no matter what the role of the doctor is or the effectiveness of the drugs he prescribes, the electrons from which our bodies are made up will have to depend on themselves in restoring balance to the sick body. Here, too, I think that consideration has an important role to play. The influence of the spirit on the body and its vital role in effecting cure has long ceased to be a cause for surprise especially in the dying years of the 20th century when a host of physical diseases are treated by psychiatry. I believe there is still a lot to be done in this direction. Many of our doctors still consider the patient just a physical body where the spirit plays only a peripheral part.

The fundamental cause of disease is disorder in the spiritual functioning of our eons when they have to accept information they fail to harmonize with their stored information. The source of the new information is the conscious mind, that is, of every day life. The reason why certain therapies, like the acupuncture, have succeeded is that it is our electrons that are mostly affected by the disorder. Acupuncture is a means of bringing about electric balance in the body through redistributing its electric charges. But such a treatment affects only the less important symptoms of the ailment, the profound causation of which lies, in fact, on the level of the spirit these eons carry. This spirit should be activated towards contributing to the cure. Who hasn't experienced relief of pain at a certain spot of the body once he concentrated his mental power on this particular spot? A great deal is still unknown about the potentials of our mental and spiritual powers and their great influence on the body functions.

It is the unconscious, which is charged with the main life-preserving functions such as respiration and digestion. This does not mean, however, the futility of opening up a channel of communication between our conscious mind and these unconscious functions of the body for achieving a state of balance and to enable the conscious mind to feel and follow up these unconscious processes. This way the mind is in a better position to anticipate the disorder and, in a way, forestall it. Through concentrated thinking the mind is thus able in a far easier way to determine its contribution in bringing balance back to a malfunctioning unconscious process. The Indian Hakims say, "Feel your breathing and be aware of its importance. Try to influence it by your conscious minds".

Thinking, thus, emerges as a very important process for every spiritual development in the universe. On the level of each electron, this thinking seems to be the proper way of organizing the influx of heterogeneous information from the outer world into a meaningful, homogenous body of knowledge that helps one brace up for a future action.

Hence, it is becoming clear for scholars of physics, psychology, biology, and, to some extent, philosophy that the wide gap, which previously separated matter from spirit and meaning from structure is gradually narrowing down. Consequently, the artificial gap between body and soul is being bridged in an apparent recognition of the interaction between them especially in the field of medicine with respect to prevention as well as treatment. This recognition is based on the diminishing of the molecules of matter to atoms, then to electrons which has led up to the concept of energy, a point beyond which there are only meanings of abstract notions or mathematical equations. Matter here becomes nothing more than a set of relations and proportions that translate to the mind motions and interacting electro-magnetic energies.

If we envisage the body cells and their ingredients as composed of chemical materials the tiniest of which are the electro-magnetic eons and pure motion, we can easily conceive the great similarity between mental functions and the functions of these physical, infinitesimally small eons and the interaction between body and mind, i.e. between matter and thought. Recognition of this Interaction, particularly In the field of medicine, is bound to change our attitudes in trying to maintain a balance between the physical and psychological aspects of the human body, and bring about harmony to the functions of the body and of the soul individually, and then harmony between body and soul as the integrated sum of the human personality.

When we conceive of man as a harmonious composite of body and soul, little wonder will remain in accepting the idea of spiritual treatment and its great physical and psychological efficacy.

There has recently been a time when materialistic thinking prevailed in scientific research leading to a wave of relevant atheism. Under those circumstances it was difficult to pay any attention to spiritual treatment except when it was confined to hypnotism or the distorted practice of boringly slow psychoanalysis based on a distorted conception of the human soul as is well known about the Freudian doctrine and its followers.

This unhappy distortion did not pass without casualties. It resulted in perplexity of minds and perturbation of individual and social behaviour, which in turn led to great confusion among the common people and a great rift into various schools of thought among the scholars of medicine, psychology and the humanities. The impervious confinement of man into this stifling mould of matter deprived him of a great portion of his due potentials and deformed his real image. Individuals and societies have been paying a high price for this deformation. The world we live in is suffering from a host of various physical and psychological disorders dubbed by the medical public opinion as "The ailments of civilization" with all the ironical paradox that goes with the term in collocating the two words "ailment" and "civilization"; for if there really was an ideal civilization as dreamed of by mind and heart it would not be so deformed by intellectual and ethical impurities, nor would there be that large number of neuroses and psychoses in addition to disorders in most of our physical organs. What is called modernism now is characterized by the word "pollution" of the environment including the human body besides pollution of souls which reveals itself in reversal of facts, forging of information, ideological terrorism, and the presentation of man in the image of an animal.

In such a turbid atmosphere, when "hearts are locked up", it is hardly expected that the Idea of spiritual treatment can be embraced. The image of man that modern medicine is still investigating is one outlined in a set of psychological factors, avoiding any mention of words like spirit or even soul, and another set of physiological factors.

Despite these continued efforts, modern medicine admits its inability to solve man's problem especially when it comes to the relation between his body and his soul. How can a doctor believe in what he is doing when he is so confused?
Psychologists are following an ostrich-style policy of dodging an adequate definition of the term "soul".
Some physicians admit that man in general and man's soul in particular are simultaneously related to the fields of medicine, sciences and philosophy. But the philosophy of medicine runs into contradictions when it is confined to the physical image to the neglect of the spiritual side. It says that man has a body and he is also this body. This is as contradictory as saying that man has a house and he is also this house. Man cannot be what he owns. This philosophical attitude was therefore very unsatisfactory. Modern medicine has finally settled for ignoring the whole issue.
The image of man has gradually been shrinking to the point where his meaning has become purely materialistic and, consequently, vague. This state of affairs has led to psychological crises and serious morbid developments such as the prevalence of rejection, recalcitrance, neurosis, psychosis, aggression, etc. The recession of man's image was engendered by the positivistic movement and monolithic materialism. The value of spiritualism has been lost sight of and its real meaning has gone with the wind. Consequently, the value of the mind has declined after it was described by the materialists as a mere secretion of the brain and particularly after man has completely lost confidence in himself and in his superiority to other creatures as a result of Darwinism. Talk about spiritualism has ceased, and psychologists have disavowed the term "psyche" and started talking about "behaviourism".

Since the materialistic sciences as expounded by the contemporary barren mentality have failed to meet man's essential need of wanting to know his real image, meaning and purpose of living, some thinkers have admitted the futility of such sciences. Jean Paul Sartre, for instance, said, "What do I care about sciences?" So, man is left with no protection against anxiety, boredom, the bitter meaning of absurdity, and the prevalence of depression as happened at the turn of the 9th century when it came to be known in the history of Western literature, particularly in France, as "the malady of the age". Life then, in the words of some writers at that time, became a cadaverous affair based on a dry, heartless and mean trinity of lust for money, selfishness and individualism, which, by the way, was the official motto recommended by government circles for the citizens; "Stay at home and mind your own business".

No wonder, then, that the age came to a disastrous end characterized by a spate of suicides after all that chaos and corruption of souls and the sharp rise in the rate of physical and psychological diseases.

In recent years, however, medical scientists have come around to admitting the necessity of recognizing certain clear psychological factors that deeply affect the human body such as exhaustion, nervous tension and violent crises.

Modern medicine recognizes various trends including the materialistic unilateral view which accepts the body only, and the dichotomous view which does not deny the existence of two factors: the body and the soul as an integrated unit which is the human being or, more accurately, the "person".

In every day life, body and soul are closely related. Physical stimuli become psychological responses and vice versa.

All mental faculties including consciousness, attention, telepathy, perception, reasoning, judgement, consideration, understanding, memory, resolutions, decision-making, behaviour, concepts, emotions, desires, passion, feelings, etc., are physically based at least in terms of the good condition of the brain and glands and the effects on the mind of the environment, circumstances, nutrition, narcotics and liquors, which cause changes in mental behaviour. By the same token, psychological factors clearly affect the body especially with relation to heartbeats, blood pressure, metabolism, shivering, hair standing on end, secretions, fainting, shyness, paleness, etc.

But medical research has not been able so far to explain the process whereby the body affects the mind and vice versa to the extent that the physician-philosopher, Karl Jaspers described this process as "Magie Factice = Factsche Magie". There is also the enigma of sensory perception being turned into abstract conception and a psychological state or attitude.

Modern medicine is also faced with the dilemma of the organic location of the mind or the faculties. The question that eludes answer is: where exactly in the body do the mental processes take place? There is also the question of the particular type the mind has taken which gives the body its unique form throughout the stages of development envisaged by modern scientific research where the body appears as a carrier of sensation and motion, and the mind as a vague image.

Is it a substance or just a meaning? Is it pan of the body or independent and pre-existent before the body takes shape? to the rest of these philosophical, religious and medical theories that cannot be expounded here in detail.

The conclusion reached by the American behaviourists, however, is a type of psychology without psyche opting for the materialistic theory to the neglect of other theories. Their view of man is that he is more or less an animal, whose body is a machine worked by its physiological functions. As for the mind, it is nothing more than one aspect of these functions.
Then Marxism stepped in and ideologized the rigidity of materialism until it almost became a fanatic creed that aggressively blocked all routes to discussion and honest scientific research. Scientists were gagged, and nature was presented in its material form alone.

In the wake of this rigidity, Kretschmer cited the case of a child who is born blind and dumb. Psychologists and physicians began to wonder how such a child could possibly have a full psychological and mental life without access to tactile sensations. How could this happen if matter was really the origin of psychological life and the source of mental processes?

The efforts made at present have ended up by creating a situation pervaded by conflicting opinions, multiplicity of theories, and increased difficulties for finding a solution to man's problem and determining the relation between soul and body. All these efforts have so far failed to come up with a clear definition of man's entity with a view to understanding his meaning and elucidating methods of treating his diseases on the basis of this interaction between body and soul. Scientific research today is also trying to understand the relation between body and soul, but Karl Jaspers underscored the difficulty of such a quest, when he said, "The image of man is beyond our reach and eludes scientific research".
II. THE UNITY OF MAN AND HIS COMPONENTS IN THE HERITAGE:

Man is a well-ordered unit each pan of which is held accountable for his deeds such as good or bad intentions, moderation in nutrition, chastity of his body extremities, abstinence from sins, and ignorance which leads to wronging oneself and others as well and renders one liable to many physical, mental and psychological disorders.

In Islamic heritage man's image is characterized by cohesion and comprehensiveness. The Quran says:

WE HAVE INDEED CREATED MAN IN THE BEST OF MOULDS.

(S.95: V.4)

This superior image is made of many components including:

The Body: It is the point of contact between man and the world as well as between man and himself.
Al-nafs (The soul): It is man's self, which is accountable for his deeds. It is educatable and capable of sublimation and nearness to God.
The mind: It is the mind that is charged with carrying out man's mission on earth.
The heart: It is the seat of God's light and canonical laws and faith in them.
Al-Ruh (The spirit): This is the divine breath that irradiates the whole of man's being at the moment of his creation. It is qualified to do what is outside physical or natural laws.
Our good ancestors were keen to attain self-knowledge, as a means of prevention against individual and social maladies, through strict observation of the Holy Scripture, the Sunna, and the Islamic laws. Islamic literature has elaborated the two component spirits and Soul, often considering them two variants of the same concept though they occur in the Quran and Tradition (Hadith) with various meanings.

In this brief presentation we shall limit ourselves to the following elucidation of man's image from the perspective of a contemplative view of life and Islamic heritage.

The human body is the visible component of man's identity and is different from the animal body in that its members are held accountable for man's deeds because they are created for a noble purpose. In this sense, the body is the total sum of its individual extremities or of the purposes for which they have been created. The unbeliever regards these extremities as nothing more or less than a set of members devoid of any special life of their own. He fails to recognize that each of these members has a noble function to perform and that man should never undermine these members or tamper with their activities, for they are not as instinctively stimulated as the members of an animal's body are. The hand, for instance, is created for fruitful work and not for striking, stealing, aggression, distortion, forgery, etc. Rather, it is a means of production and worship. The same principle applies to each one of the other extremities of the body which are created to behave in the framework of the religious teachings so that man's whole being may be sublimated to the supramundane levels of nobility and charity from the mundane levels of evil, prohibitions, and corruption.

In the course of man's spiritual development, al-nafs (the soul) passes through many stages each of which is higher in rank than the one before. These stages include:

1. The vegetal soul:

This is the embryonic stage where, like plants, the soul is marked with stationary life and growth but, again like plants, joins in God's glorification in its own language which we do not comprehend. At this stage, the mother should maintain feelings of reassurance and contentment and strike a balance between material and moral living through rest and stability to ward off any undesirable complications occurring to herself or her baby. The best means of attaining reassurance and serenity is regular prayer, remembrance of God and, as much as possible, avoidance of drugs that may have toxic or deforming effects on the body.

2. The animal soul:

This is the stage of infancy when the suckling which was connected to its mother by the umbilical cord is now tied up to her by the life preserving trickle of milk and the warmth-giving embrace of sympathy and love.

At this stage when the soul is still living in an atmosphere of innocence and God's glorification, the mother should give her baby a large dose of love, fondling and kindness to shield it against acquired frivolity and privation when later she becomes unavailable through death or when she is away at work leaving her children alone at home exposed to all kinds of physical and psychological perils of a fire breaking out accidentally in the kitchen, or toxic drugs or detergents swallowed. In addition, there are other possible dangers arising from the maid's cruelty, inefficiency or ignorance of proper childcare. At this stage also the mind begins to open up to sensory perceptions and a little later to abstract conceptions when the baby becomes curious about the outer world and wants to know through hearing, seeing, touching and later through its conceiving heart. This gradual development from perceiving the concrete through the senses into conceiving the abstract through the heart and mind should be taken into account by education to cope with the stage of moral development where altruism should be made to prevail over selfishness. This is the stage when seeds of righteousness should be sown so that when the child grows to adulthood he can be expected to respect the rights of others, have confidence in God, think well of people, and hold out against temperamental and psychological maladies to which young people are usually liable such as paranoia, fantasy, infatuation, delusion, depression, etc.

This is especially so because such traits as selfishness, possessiveness, domination, struggle, craze for winning and seizing make their fullest appearance at the stage of life extending from boyhood to puberty and the beginning of adulthood. During this stage another rank of soul is fully conspicuous:

3. Al-nafsul Ammarah: (The evil-inciting soul)

This is man's baser self, which always incites him to do evil. The common people say, "The moment a child learns how to clap his hands, he drops the keys of heaven", indicating that the best of moulds in which man is created is taking a gradual downward course to the lowest of the low when selfishness begins to take a grip on him. The only hope for safety lies in Islamic education and the implementation of Islamic laws to combat juvenile delinquency and criminal behaviour. Application of Islamic teachings is the only guarantee for society against anxiety and boredom; pollution of mind, body, and environment; disunity of families and of the whole nation; imbalance, instability, etc. which lead to individual disorder and national deterioration.

Religious upbringing followed and reinforced by proper education that utilizes the natural tendencies will lead to love of truth, good, and beauty giving rise to the higher rank of:

4. Al-nafsul Lawwamah: (self-reproaching soul)

In today's terminology this is the conscience or the scrupulous heart that seeks to attain the three noble aims of truth, piety, and right conduct. Corresponding to physical exercises, these are the strongest spiritual exercises for self-purification, spiritual elevation and personal integrity. This is in sharp contrast with the unsteady personality, characteristic of the invading Western civilization, which is liable to psychological and mental disorders and is notorious for being prone to perversion of facts and distortion of knowledge in the so called humanities. Such traits are bound to end up with disintegration of both the individual and the whole nation.

5. Al-nafsul-Mutma'innah: (The reassured soul)

A person with such a soul is characterized by stability, equilibrium, moderation, firm opinion and sound judgement based on divine revelation in the Holy Scripture, the Sunna, and the examples set by our good ancestors. Responding positively to the call by God and His apostle for adopting the right way of honest living, he enjoys a peaceful and good life free from the grip of rank, wealth, greed, lust, passion, and corruption. He knows only too well that God the Almighty is merciful to mankind and that the occasional incidence of such ordeals as fear, hunger, loss of wealth or dear relatives or health is only God's way of testing His servants' fortitude and patience. Those lucky enough to successfully pass the test are promised guidance in this world and paradise in the Hereafter. Physicians' practices have always witnessed severe cases that eventually show remarkable improvement as a result of deep contemplation, patience, and consideration which reveal to the sufferer the real dimensions of human existence and the deep significance of God's ways. This way, man is reconciled to his God and the life He has created, and revels in an atmosphere of optimism, hope, and feelings of happiness that can overcome any hardship. A person with such an attitude is endowed with:

6. Al-nafsul Radhiya: (the contented soul)

He beholds the system of the universe and loves its Creator. He enjoys the delights of truth in this universe and not the tyranny of falsehood, which is doomed to be removed and obliterated, because it is inherent in falsehood to vanish.

If contemporary Western civilization had been fully aware of the real significance of this contentment there would never have been a chance for the emergence of this atheistic existentialism with all its concomitant restlessness and dissatisfaction, or that discord created by materialistic ideologies whether rightist or leftist. Nor would there have been amongst us those westoxicated young people who have given in to this intellectual invasion and feel they are inferior to their Western counterparts taking Western falsities for indisputable facts and thus jeopardizing their mental health. A contended soul turns to God for everything wanted or done. God responds by accepting it and raising it to a higher status where its conformity with the wider universe is as harmonious as the beats of music. At that level it becomes:

7. Al-nafsul Mardhiyyah: (the well-pleased soul)

At that rank the soul is brought closer to the divine light and acquires the believer's intuitive knowledge and ability to see through things by God's light according to the Tradition. When man reaches that high status in his spiritual development, God reveals for him what is concealed and unknown as he has become now in full control of passions and desires and has entered into the spiritual world where he sheds his human skin and becomes entitled to the acquisition of true knowledge of God. All truth is in itself certain. But as received by men and understood with reference to men's psychology, certainty may have three degrees: there is the probability or certainty resulting from the application of man's power of judgement and his appraisement of evidence This is "ilm-ul-yaqeen", certainty by reasoning or inference. Then there is the certainty of seeing something with our own eyes. "Seeing is believing". This is "ain-ul-yaqeen", certainty by personal inspection. Then there is the absolute Truth, with no possibility of error of judgement or error of the eye. This absolute Truth is the "haqq-ul-yaqeen".

Now, this vast spiritual world and the beginning of true knowledge of God is only accessible when one has completed the first two degrees of certainty (yaqeen) and exerts individual effort of judgement in trying to understand God's signs in the horizons and in oneself until the absolute Truth dawns upon one. Once this is achieved, further up one goes to have:

8. Al-nafsul Arifa Billah: (God-knowing soul)

At this stage one is made aware of the hidden secrets of worships and injunctions and grows vigilant over God's commandments and people's rights as well as over the noble functions of each member of one's body.

The ultimate objective is always more knowledge and greater self-purification (this, again, is in sharp contrast with the distorted idea of catharsis in modern psychology). With this purification the spiritual powers for curing is greatly consolidated.

9. Al-nafsul Qudsiyah: (the saintly soul)

At this most elevated rank man becomes God's direct protege and receives God's full support and protection. The way up to God, to knowledge, to action, to full spiritualism is wide open. Man becomes saintly, divine, invested with divine powers of hearing, seeing and acting. This stage is sub-ordered into special ranks for God's closest favourites about whom the Quran says:

THOSE WHO HAVE BELIEVED AND BECOME RIGHTEOUS

Further up there is nothing except:

10. Al-nafsul Kamilah: (The perfect soul)

What is meant here is human perfection and not divine perfection which is the exclusive attribute of God. Of all the human beings since the beginning of creation till the Day of Reckoning, the only person who has attained or will ever attain this supreme rank is Prophet Muhammad who was protected by God against anyone or anything.

Starting from the rank of saintliness all barriers are lifted for those nearest to God who are entitled to witness the Inscribed Register. Their souls radiate with divine light and they are invested with the power to act beyond the physical or natural laws.

This ten-point image gives us a completely different view from anything we know in contemporary psychology studied at occidental universities and their oriental blind imitators. Whilst the Islamic view elevates this image to the highest moral sublimation and fullest spiritual development, Western psychology is lost in abstractions and observations made about the human body comparing them with those made about the animals until it hit the lowest level with Watson's behaviourism.

What we stand to gain from the heritage and Islamic view is combining knowledge with action and enhancing the one with the other. The spiritual therapy is thus achieved as a result of contemplation, consideration, prayer, righteousness, piety, patience, fortitude, certainty, hope, supererogatory rites, fasting, alms-giving, Quran reciting, etc. all of which based on perception, understanding and the experiences of the active believers in addition to those contemporary experiments recently carried out involving some clergymen in Asia as will be detailed below,

This wider view requires using the word "mind" in a similarly wider sense than that we find in applied sciences.

III. THE MIND:

It is charged with the noble function of cognition, which starts with learning religious and secular sciences until it reaches the highest degree of wisdom. It is the basis of responsibility and personality, which is not impaired if the body is injured or attacked by a disease. A one-armed person still maintains all the characteristics of his identity. If a person is badly shaken by a personal calamity or a social disaster or is plagued by a chronic tension he can still go on working though a bit unsatisfactorily. But when a person loses his memory or breaks into hallucination or becomes schizophrenic or melancholic, then his personality will really collapse leaving him with just a name that denotes nothing.

On the other hand, if a person confines his mental activities to the function of learning materialistic and applied sciences without contemplating God's signs he may be said to enjoy intelligence but not a "mind"; for he who has no religion has no mind as the Prophet says.

Misuse of the mind or impairing it with intoxicants, e.g. drugs, alcohols, false ideas, etc. lowers man to the level of an animal which eats, drinks, mates, and fights until it ends up into meaningless dust.

This uninspiring kind of existence is behind the well-known absurdity in the atheistic extential philosophies. It is a kind of disease, for which there is no cure except faith,

IN THEIR HEARTS THERE IS A DISEASE.

(Quran, S.2: V)

It becomes clear from this definition why in Islam the mind is considered the basis of the mission with which man is entrusted on earth. It is also the only safeguard against psychological and social disorders such as suicides.

Consequently, knowledge, specially in the field of humanities, should be weeded out to safeguard individuals and the whole society against diseases arising from the pursuit of prohibited things. Now, a word about prohibiting all intoxicants in Islam. It is meant to prevent the harm done by them to the body and mind. It is like the red traffic light, which saves lives that could be lost in road accidents. As Islam lays such a great stress on the mind it is only natural that it does not allow anything to interfere with its functions or disrupt them. Islam allows only what is essential for growth and for the welfare of the individual and the society as a whole.

IV. THE HEART:

It is the seat of intentions, faith, devotion, inspiration, and the light which, in the words of Imam Ghazzali, God casts into it. What is crucial to the heart is its orientation: is it oriented towards God or is it lured by satanic passions and desires; for the heart is the seat of either divine guidance or devilish misguidance.

It has often been said that the heart, being the source of emotions, denotes changeability and must therefore be strongly supported by the mind and adherence to God, i.e. to the Shariah, as the mind is the light of the canonical law and hence the real shield for the heart against error. If this happens then people will have (hearts to understand with) as mentioned in the Quran.

Every deviation from the right course by the mind or the heart leads to the disease of hearts (IN THEIR HEARTS THERE IS A DISEASE), obliteration of mental vision and the domination of distorted ideas disseminated by ideologies and some intellectual philosophical trends which have created the psychological and social maladies prevalent now on a wide scale in this age of crises and explosions. In this connection, some Western physicians are getting interested in studying diseases resulting from misleading knowledge.

What must be mentioned here is that the atheistic philosophical theories are being exploited by the corrupt to promote immorality and licentiousness and reap windfall profits from selling barbituaries to the young misled people. This has created a situation where parents are no longer able to communicate with their sons and daughters who are washed away by the wave of sexploitation.

Corrupt profiteers are building their wealth on the dead hearts of the young generation who are brainwashed by propagandistic campaigns selling Freudianism, Darwinism, Marxism, and all sorts of atheistic materialism. Proliferation of such misleading ideologies and philosophies is bound to have adverse effects on proper thinking, faith, the right balance, moderation, modesty, and dignity. It also contributes to the spread of all sorts of diseases: venereal, heart, psychological, mental, you name it.

Since the heart is the seat of faith, it is essential that it remain clean and pure; otherwise it will be the origin of all such maladies that affect the rest of the body as evidenced by the fact that psychosomatic diseases account for 60% of the cases under treatment in our modern times.

V. THE SPIRIT:

It is the divine breath in man after he is fashioned by the hands of God:

WHEN I HAVE FASHIONED HIM (IN DUE PROPORTION) AND BREATHED
INTO HIM OF MY SPIRIT,

(Quran, S.15: V.29)

This is the most effective component of man's image that has been completely ignored by the 20th century though it is the real pivot of man's existence. Thanks to this vital component we understand the significance of ordinary and extraordinary phenomena. It is the point of departure for true knowledge to the most elevated levels. Talk about the spirit is usually limited by the difficulty of explaining this almost inexplicable aspect of man:

THEY ASK THEE CONCERNING THE SPIRIT. SAY: THE SPIRIT (COMETH) BY COMMAND OF MY LORD. OF KNOWLEDGE IT IS ONLY A LITTLE THAT IS COMMUNICATED TO YOU (0 MEN!)

(Quran, S.17: V.85)

Therefore, we can only refer to certain points in the Islamic heritage that could help us understand the meanings of will, truth, independent judgement, and individual endeavour for spiritual treatment.

The spirit is a luminous essence of a fluid nature that differs from anything perceptible through the senses.
This fluid is made of atoms that are different from those imagined by physicists. It is more like luminous circles that penetrate bodies and members and spread in them as fire spreads in matter.
The luminous essence is a discerning power that is aware of itself and its God to the extent of how much momentum it maintains from its origin. Spirits differ along the same patterns of difference between persons in their talents.
The spirit is an indivisible whole and an ethereal secret in communication with the world of secrets because it roams in purity the realm of God's glorification.
It is capable of perception and conception in a luminous fashion.
Its properties are different from anything we know about matter or perceptual objects.
Like bodies, spirits have their distinctive features.
Things surrounding a spirit are reflected on it as objects are reflected on a mirror
Bodies originate in the same way as spirits radiate atom by atom.
The spirit is a power whose light is the origin of talents.
For each spirit there is a certain capacity and a certain form. There are as many various degrees of capacities and forms as there are people created by God. Treatment is greatly affected by a given capacity and form of a person's spirit.
Being different from matter, the spirit is able to act supernaturally.
Access to the invisible world is gained only by believers endowed with physiognomic powers who can see by the light of God and whose invocations are well received and responded to for the spirit has the following properties:
a) hearing from remote distances.
b) Seeing remote places. It also enhances the believer's other senses.
The best illustration of the spirit's visionary and predictive powers and its capability of acting beyond the physical and natural laws is the record of miracles achieved by prophets and God's nearest favourites including the ability to cure the sick. At a lower rank than that, ordinary people can also have various degrees of similar powers and abilities depending on the strength of their faith and will, the extent of their mental concentration, and how profound their submission to God is.

SPIRITUAL TREATMENT

The Prophet Muhammad said:

"Make full use of the two cures: honey and the Quran".

This means that cure is two-sided: material and moral. Man can benefit from both. Islam, being the religion of moderation, prescribes both ways of treatment without excess in the former or neglect of the latter as man is an integral composite of body and soul. It is this comprehensiveness both in its teachings and in its view of man that characterizes Islam and distinguishes it from other religions.

Man needs to penetrate into the core of matter and the essence of things in order to understand the visible world around him. But he also needs to turn his mind to the world of light and the invisible so that he may not get lost in ignorance and blind imitation driven by impetuosity and foolishness of young age.

What most people readily accept is that man is endowed with great potentialities for growth, learning, adjustment, and cure of a host of diseases. These potentialities also include the moral and spiritual powers, which the patient can utilize if he knows how to use them. The extent to which he can benefit from these latent powers hinges upon the real value of his faith, persistence of his certainty, cleanness of his heart, purity of his soul, trust in God, and devotion to truth.

The point of departure is the strength of will which is graded upwards from: 1) the wish, 2) clarity of purpose, 3) intention, 4) determination, 5) firmness, 6) perseverance, 7) diligence, which is the highest level attained by the believer who is elevated to the zenith of complete trust in God.

It can be said in general that in the domain of worships strength of will and frequent use of contemplation are basic factors of the act of consideration, which ultimately conduces to profound submission to God.

Some physicians have been observing the biological and physiochemical changes that co-occur with absorption in religious consideration and profound submission during worship. The point of interest in these investigations, conducted recently, was reaction on the will and use of this will in controlling disorders.

It was established that such changes were not observed in other situations such as hypnotism. The changes recorded were biological in terms of electro-waves of the brain.

In the state of relaxation what happens is that the will affects the contraction of muscles, which are connected to nerves in the spinal cord, causing them to relax. This muscle relaxation gives one a feeling of relief that has preventive advantages and can even be useful in heart attacks and at times of intense agitation and excitement. Similar observations about willed relaxation are also found in Yoga. Here, the strength of will is aided by assuming certain physical postures that aim to cause relaxation in specific muscles and joints. The purpose of such Yoga exercises is the reduction of tension in a group of muscles of opposite direction.

Relaxation of muscles accompanied by closure of the eyes systematically affects the electro-encephalogram in the following way:

1) Electro-waves are medium with pulses ranging between 9 and 12 waves per second, which is characteristic of alpha waves.

2) After opening the eyes, even when one is still relaxed and calm, alpha waves disappear and are replaced by faster, less regular waves called "Basic Waves".

3) Scientists agree that alpha waves indicate "calm and stillness", and Basic Waves indicate "activity and movement".

4) The effect of light on the retina leads to wakefulness and activity in the cerebral cortex.

5) On the contrary, even when the eyes are closed, thinking of a certain subject or problem leads to the disappearance of alpha waves.

6) Alpha waves were not observed in worried persons even when they closed their eyes.

7) Experimental tests involving Buddhist monks show that when they are in deep meditation they have alpha waves even if their eyes are wide open.

8) This situation means that in the case of these monks alpha waves are different in that they do not indicate "calm and stillness" because cerebration here has to do with refined intellectual activity. Alpha waves in this case are not in contravention of cerebral activity.

9) The experiments of Dr. Dass and Dr. Gasto consist of recording the electro-encephalogram of the Yogist:

9.1 The electro-encephalogram takes the form of alpha waves upon entering into a state of meditation with the eyes closed.

9.2 Once the eyes are opened, the alpha waves disappear.

9.3 Alpha waves also disappear on cerebration relating to search for an "image" and resulting in telepathy.

9.4 Soon alpha waves reappear upon getting into introspection.

9.5 These waves do not disappear even when the monk opens his eyes, which shows that something must be happening in his cerebral cortex.

9.6 Finally, after a long time, slower waves appear ranging from 7 to 8 pulses per second. These are called "Theta waves" which spread all over the head.

9.7 The appearance of Theta Waves may be caused by entering into a state of unoccupiedness in which the mind is completely cut off from its surroundings and freed from "other passions and attachments".

9.8 The maintained appearance of alpha waves after the eyes are opened is an evidence of disengagement from the surroundings and related attachments.

9.9 This cerebral case is not observed in relaxation, hypnotism, or in conditioning of metabolism.

Observations made during the period of repose after passing through meditation show:

1. Lower blood pressure and slower heart beats and respiration rate.

2. Blood pressure stabilizes but the heart beats go down to less than 30 pulses per minute. Breathing decreases and becomes feeble.

3. Inhalation of oxygen is rapidly reduced from 251 cm3 per minute during the relaxation to 211 cm3, then rises after meditation to 242 cm3 per minute.

4. Exhalation of carbon dioxide goes down from 219 cm3 during relaxation to 187 cm3 during meditation and then up again to 219 cm3 after meditation. Thus the proportion of: exhalation of carbon dioxide does not inhalation of oxygen except after meditation when exhalation increases slightly.

5. What really changes is the inhalation of oxygen so that the proportion: O2 remains constant.

6. This change constitutes less inhalation while exhalation remains constant.

7. The rate of respiration is reduced involuntarily.

8. Voluntary reduction of the respiration rate showed increase in the need for oxygen to offset the carbon dioxide not yet exhaled which could lead to toxemia and possibly asphyxia. The experiment had to be discontinued of course.

9. With meditation, metabolism tends to be aerobic rather than anaerobic. These two processes are conditioned by hormonopoiesis that necessitates either one or the other. Anaerobic metabolism increases with the increase of lactic acid.

During the pre-meditation stage of relaxation the secretion of lactic acid is put at 11 .4 mgs. per hour for each 100 cm3 of the circulating blood. Then it goes down to 8 mgs. during meditation and even further down to 7.3 mgs during the immediate post-meditation stage.

10. This lactic acid is known to result from muscular contraction. Reduction of its amount has nothing to do with reduction in muscular tension as one might think at first, for we observe this tension reduction during relaxation with no change in the amount of secreted lactic acid.

11. The rate of lactic acid secretion is put at 11.4 mgs. at the beginning of relaxation. It goes down to 10.25 mgs. per hour for each 100 cm3 of blood at the end of this stage. Reduction does not begin to precipitate until meditation is well under way.

12. This establishes that meditation makes metabolism tend to be aerobic.

13. This phenomenon occurs at first with reduction in muscular tension of course but then specifically because metabolism itself is affected by meditation.

14. The signal initiating metabolism originates in the brain and is transmitted to the tissues of the body members through the parasympathetic nervous system which helps vasodilatation and affects harmonic secretion besides secreting a number of hormones of great importance to the body in general and the brain in particular, one of which is noradrenaline.

15. Aerobic metabolism is of great benefit to the body organs. Some physicians hope to develop a drug that can effect the same result for curing angina pectoris and thrombus. It is extremely important to remember that cancer is always connected with the anaerobic tendencies of metabolism. This makes us consider oxygen a preventive means against cancer.

16. We can safely say, then, that contemplation and submission affect that portion of the autonomic nervous system known as the parasympathetic system, to the extent of reducing its secretion of noradrenaline known for its vasoconstrictor action.

17. This reduction of activity does not occur as a result of the will factor alone. Drugs, on the other hand, have only a limited effect in this concern.

These findings bear evidence of the close connection between structure and meaning or what is called "matter and spirit". Thus, the clouds that used to shroud the body-soul relationship have been amply dispersed.

Medical thinking has also changed, after the British Philosopher David Hume, from adhering tenaciously to the concept of mechanical inevitability to admitting the existence of moral and spiritual factors that go beyond the visible, material ones and greatly influence them. These would include the factors of will, intention, prayer, invocation of God for oneself as well as for others, in addition to other methods of treatment beyond the circle of the official academic medicine.

These factors are employed by all religions in spiritual treatment. As human beings are almost identical in their physical anatomy, so are they almost made the same way spiritually and psychologically. Their emotional, mental and spiritual functions are also similar. The only advantage Islam has over other creeds and religions is the perfection of the message and completion of God's favour upon Muslims, as the Quran says (5:4).

Islam is also distinguished by its overall scientific view of the universe and existence encompassing finite time and absolute eternity; the visible and the invisible; the past, present and the future.

From the religious point of view, there are several means of spiritual treatment including:

1) Will, silence, seclusion, concentration.
2) Attention, trust in God, devotion to purpose and action.
3) Faith and certainty.
4) Prayer, submission, and recitation of the Quran.
5) Remembrance and supplication both during prayer and at other times.
6) Reflection, consideration, contemplation, heeding God's commandments and discerning through wisdom.
7) Knowledge of the Shariah secrets and firm belief in the benefits of worships and the virtues of religious teachings.

Answering prayers and fulfillment of requests depend to a large extent on:

1) Purifying the heart from all doubts.
2) Refraining from doing evil or committing sins.
3) Eliminating pessimism and despair.

These can be achieved when one is close to God so that God may be close to one at moments of trouble. One is never afraid or desperate in the security of God's presence. This also implies a sort of adjustment, but in a far wider sense than that narrowly used in modern psychology. The "environment" to which man should adjust must be expanded to include:

The External Environment: Location, climate, geographical situation, fresh or foul air, pure and potable water, the sun and its connection with the material, biological life, etc.
The Internal Environment: The circulating blood with its well-balanced chemical components of proteins, fats, salts, vitamins, hormones, minerals, hematocytes, etc.
The Psychological Environment: Temperament, emotional life, instinctive and acquired traits, etc.
Socio-economic and Political Environment: The family, school, street, administration, work, etc. All these are important factors in shaping up man's upbringing and personality.
Moral Environment: The surrounding atmosphere with positive virtues or negative vices and the influence either have on man's attitudes.
Intellectual Environment: The ideas, views, trends, philosophies, traditional and scientific or semi-scientific beliefs, ideologies, educational and cultural attitudes, etc.
Spiritual Environment: This is based on supramundane conceptions in contrast with the mundane perceptions. The former would form the core of the mystic science of hearts" based on belief in the Unseen World, historical events and evidence, introspection, and consideration of the horizons.
It is this kind of adjustment resulting in safety for man's body, soul, mind, heart, and spirit that gives a clear illustration of Islam's comprehensiveness and unique characteristics which can be summed up in the five life fundamentals: soul, mind, religion, offspring, and wealth, each of which is adequately covered by the Islamic teachings.

Accordingly, obedience, which is religion itself, is synonymous with adjustment; righteousness is the gateway to obedience, and the basic condition for answering prayer.

Man is inherently good as he is created in the best of moulds according to the Quran. Later deviation from the right path is acquired and can be prevented or cured. For the more disobedient man becomes, the farther he drifts from the light of his Creator; and every new sin he commits is in fact a new barrier out casting him into the world of darkness.

The most striking uniqueness about Islam is the direct relationship between a Muslim and God. In Islam nothing or nobody plays agent or mediator between God and man. And God has promised to respond to whoever calls on Him, provided the call emanates from a pure heart:

WHEN MY SERVANTS ASK THEE (MUHAMMAD) CONCERNING ME, I AM INDEED CLOSE (TO THEM): I LISTEN TO THE PRAYER OF EVERY SUPPLIANT WHEN HE CALLETH ON ME.

(Quran, S.2: V.186)

And God does listen, but not to anyone:

AND HE LISTENS TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND DO DEEDS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.

(Quran, S.42: V.26)

So, the way to God is wide open for anyone who wants to enjoy the bliss of nearness to God. But one cannot begin to step into the road to God until one is completely dedicated to Him with a concentration of will and after one has purified one's heart of all other attachments. These are of three types:

Loyalties to others amounting to polytheism whether overt or covert. This is the neo-paganism in our modern times of idolizing leader, rationalism, materialism, Darwinism, Marxism, Freudianism, capitalism, nationalism, the banner, gold, and many other such distracters.
Major sins that cut off man's relation with God leaving him with disturbing feelings of insecurity and depriving him from peace of mind. Closeness to God is the highest degree of conformity to the ultimate truth. It makes man live in harmony with himself and with others. On the contrary, getting farther away from God disrupts this harmony and breeds instability and anxiety leading to psychosomatic diseases and social disorders in the form of public upheavals and militancy.
Lust for rank, wealth, power, etc., neglect of duties, and failure to heed God's prohibitions. These deviations tend to switch off the light of spiritual potentialities that are latent in man.
All major religions, notwithstanding the impurities that have pervaded them, exhort their followers to turn to God with remembrance, contemplation, and prayer. Remembrance of God is in fact an act of recalling higher truths. This reminds us of Plato's theory of learning which argues that the soul had been knowledgeable until it got into the human body when it forgot, and that by learning it recalls what was forgotten. Remembrance in this sense is a kind of learning and its opposite, neglect, is a kind of ignorance, which is either temporary or chronic. Now, ignorance is classified as a disease because it is the gateway to all evils and harms caused by committing prohibited things such as addiction to drugs and alcohols.

The best means of remembrance is reciting the Quran and reading the Traditions (Hadith). But remembrance should not be confined to lipservice. It should extend to include obedience and fear of God at moments of weakness. With remembrance in this wider sense one becomes alert and God fearing, which is the surest way to good conduct, good health, and peace of mind.

Religion can be summed up in three words: faith, submission, and charity. Failure to stay away from what Islam has prohibited leads to physical disorders caused by venereal diseases, intoxicants, malnutrition whether in the form of over-eating or under-eating, and neglect of such other vital health-preserving factors as fresh water, unpolluted air, exposure to sunlight, physical exercises, fasting, moderation in sleep, and peace of mind attained through contemplation, remembrance and prayer.

Faith and trust in God is man's best shield protecting him against despair and depression. Many physicians have become aware of the great therapeutic effects of remembrance and prayer. Most notable amongst these in the West is Dr. Alexis Curril, a Nobel prize laureate, and author of: "Man, That Unknown Being". He published a short paper about the medical effect of invocation and prayers in which he says that weakness and atrophy of the sense of veneration and moral obligation is as serious as atrophy of the brain. Moral atrophy has made modern man totally blind from the spiritual point of view. As such he is not capable of forming a community. Alexis adds that it is this low quality of the modern individual that stands behind the decline of our civilization.

The sense of veneration is most apparent in prayer. When prayer, supplication and remembrance become a daily regular practice, especially if they are carried out in complete submission, the effect becomes tangible. In a way, this effect is similar to that of a ductless gland such as the thyroid or suprarenal gland. So, it leads to mental and organic change, which occurs in a gradual manner as if a light has been switched on inside the all-feeling soul.

A moment of truth dawns upon man as he is able to see himself for what he really is: selfish, greedy, proud and arbitrary in judgement. This self-revelation is conducive to moral restoration. Gradually, man regains stability and peace of mind leading to harmony between physical and mental activities and providing him with greater fortitude and forbearance.

Dr. Alexis says in his paper that a doctor should feel happy when he sees his patient pray. For the resulting tranquility of mind will be of great help in bringing about speedy recovery.

The results of supplication are especially striking in cases where all other methods of treatment have proved to be futile.

Dr. Alexis asserts that at times the effect of prayer takes an explosive form when patients with serious diseases such as cancer, nephritis, ulcer, and tuberculosis get cured in almost no time. This phenomenon almost always occurs in the form of unusually acute pain followed by feeling of relief and recovery. Surgeons and physiologists had never seen such quick recoveries in their experiments before.

Elsewhere in the paper the author says that societies which lack the need to turn to God are not a long way from total disintegration and collapse. "We can think of the sense of veneration as very similar to oxygen, and prayer as very similar to breathing".

In their attempts to investigate man's spiritual powers and understand the nature of influence prayer and remembrance have, scientists and thinkers are nearing consensus that there must be a spiritual environment without which the living matter would lose its meaning, value, and purpose. It is the point of contact between man, who is a composite of body and soul, and the Creator, who is unlike anything we know, according to the Holy Quran.

REFERENCES

1. DR. ALEXIS, "Carrel".

2. MARVIN KARLINS and LEWIS M. ANDREWS, "Bioeedbak".

3. Revue Science et vie No. 670 Juillet 1973.

4. JOSEPH MURPHY, "Techniques in Prayer Therapy" (French Translation:Lapriere Guerit).

5. JEAN E. CHARON, "Mort voici ta defaite".

http://www.islamset.com/hip/mehdi_abboud.html

Emotional abusers

2011-08-01T21:57:00.001-07:00

When people end up in an emotionally abusive relationship, it’s usually a reflection of what they learned about affection as kids. Our brains are wired for bonding, and if we grew up in a home with parents who were harsh, judgmental, and unkind, we probably learned to confuse love with pain –duplicating this pain over and over again in our adult relationships.

It’s important to recognize early warning signs of emotional abusers. Here are a few red flags to watch out for:

1. Being a blamer. A person can blame someone for cutting him or her off on the road, or worse, blame their ex for making their life tough. This blaming trait is hard to detect because it’s often hidden in a compliment. For instance he or she might say, “You’re nothing like that %!&#* I used to date.” The law of blame is that it goes to the closest person –you’ll eventually be the object of it.

2. Being resentful. People like this don’t know how to deal with the fact that life can sometimes be tough and unfair. They dwell on the injustice; their resentment is a self-defense mechanism.

3. Having an entitlement complex. If life is so hard for them, then they’re entitled to cut in line and break other rules. If you let this person get close, they’ll feel entitled to abuse you if you don’t let them have their way.

4. Having a superiority complex. Emotionally abusive people aren’t satisfied by feeling OK about themselves –they have to feel better than other people. This can play out as competitiveness or self-righteousness, and can be charming at first because he or she might flatter you with the ways in which you, too, are superior.

5. Being petty. If this is the kind of person that will make a big deal about anything, like when a waitress doesn’t put enough ice in his/her soda –be warned.

6. Being sarcastic. This sort of humor is designed to make someone feel bad. Eventually, you’ll be the target.

7. Being deceitful. If your partner exaggerates or distorts his/her past, it’s a bad sign. It’s not unusual to put on a good face when you’re trying to impress a potential mate. But lying shows that their self-respect—and their regard for you—is low.

8. Being jealous. It’s OK to be a little jealous, but any more can be toxic. Most severe relationship violence has jealousy at its root.

9. Being pushy. Those who push for too much too soon can be trouble. Your partner should care more about your boundaries than his/her desires.

Breaking up with an emotionally abusive partner isn’t easy. These relationships can be like a physical addiction; when romantic love mixes with fear, the result is powerful and dangerous.

Da Vinci Mona Lisa Mystery; Real Secret Codes Discovered

2011-07-28T23:06:00.000-07:00

Da Vinci Mona Lisa Mystery; Real Secret Codes Discovered
By Theimproper, on December 12th, 2010

Leonardo Da Vinci’s mysterious Mona Lisa has just gotten even more intriguing. The Italian genius apparently painted tiny numbers and letters into the eyes of the enigmatic painting, but their meaning is unclear.

The 500-year-old Renaissance masterpiece has long puzzled art historians, from Mona Lisa’s wry smile to the identity of the woman in the painting. Some believe it is Da Vinci himself, painted as a woman.

As for Da Vinci, he was a fan of riddles and secret codes and his paintings formed the basis of the best selling fictional work “The Da Vinci Code.”
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The book by Dan Brown and the 2006 movie based on it starring Tom Hanks claimed the Mona Lisa contained secrets about the life of Jesus Christ.

The book postulated that Christ had a child with Mary Magadelene and established a blood line that exists to this day.

The real codes in Mona Lisa’s eyes may not be quite so consequential, but they are mystifying, nonetheless, not only for what they may mean, but also because of that fact that Da Vinci was able paint them so small.

The letters and numbers cannot be seen with the naked eye.

Italy’s National Committee for Cultural Heritage said the symbols were detected through high resolution images of the painting.

“To the naked eye the symbols are not visible, but with a magnifying glass they can clearly be seen,” said Committee President Silvano Vinceti.

“In the right eye appear to be the letters LV which could well stand for his name Leonardo Da Vinci, while in the left eye there are also symbols, but they are not as defined,” he said.

“It is very difficult to make them out clearly but they appear to be the letters CE or it could be the letter B. You have to remember the picture is almost 500 years old so it is not as sharp and clear as when first painted,” he added.

In the arch of the bridge in the background the number 72 can be seen or it could be an L and the number 2, he said.

The clue to the codes was found in a 50-year-old book about the painting that was discovered in an antique shop. It mentions the codes and symbols, Vinceti said.

“It’s remarkable that no-one has noticed these symbols before and from the preliminary investigations we have carried out we are confident they are not a mistake and were put there by the artist,” Vinceti said.

http://www.theimproper.com/art/380/da-vinci-mona-lisa-mystery-secret-codes-discovered#01

Lucky Buddha

2011-07-27T23:56:00.000-07:00

The Buddha of Wealth
We have nothing to lose. �They say whoever receives this buddha will recieve an abundance of unexpected money or some very good news

Why men are happy

2011-07-23T22:30:00.001-07:00

Why men are happy
What do you expect from such simple creatures?

Your last name stays put.
The garage is all yours.
Wedding plans take care of themselves.
Chocolate is just another snack.
You can never be pregnant.
You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park.
You can wear NO shirt to a water park.
Car mechanics tell you the truth.
The world is your urinal.
You never to drive to another gas station restroom because this one is just too icky.
You don't have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt.
Wrinkles add character.
Wedding dress $5000. Tux rental-$100.
People never stare at your chest when you're talking to them.
The occasional well-rendered belch is practically expected.
New shoes don't cut, blister, or mangle your feet.
One mood all the time.
Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.
You know stuff about tanks.
A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase.
You can open all your own jars.
You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.
If someone forgets to invite you, he or she can still be your friend.
Your underwear is $8.95 for a three-pack.
Three pairs of shoes are more than enough.
You almost never have strap problems in public.
You are unable to see wrinkles in your clothes.
Everything on your face stays its original color.
The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades.
You only have to shave your face and neck.
You can play with toys all your life.
Your belly usually hides your big hips.
One wallet and one pair of shoes one color for all seasons.
You can wear shorts no matter how your legs look.
You can "do" your nails with a pocket knife.
You have freedom of choice concerning growing a moustache.
You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relatives on December 24 in 25 minutes.
No wonder men are happier!!

Sliver Healing

2011-07-17T02:03:00.000-07:00

Excellent for mental, emotional, and physical releasing and cleansing. Works on mind/emotions to see overview, emotional balance, patience. Like the moon's energy, it has gentle, cool, smoothing effect. Thus it reduces inflammation, fever, nervous system stress. Best with the gentler, cooler-colored gems. Works with pituitary and upper energy centers. Generally Yin. Wear the metal that you feel attracted to. Works best as a communicator. Should be worn only when it feels right. Benefits the circulation and detoxifies the blood. Helps the body recognize imbalances or high levels of hormone and chemicals more readily, enabling them to be naturally corrected. Helps the lungs and throat and reduces irritation by pollutants and other impurities in the air. Improves the transmission of nerve impulses. Aids those with degenerative brain disease, poor memory, irrational fears, and emotional imbalance. Also aids in verbal and representational communication. Helps balance the functions of both sides of the brain. Can be worn as a belt buckle to improve fertility. Can help resolve sexual problems that result from dysfunction or impotence. Mental activity is clarified. An increase in your ability to approach intellectual problems. Also known to lessen anxiety over problem-solving. Suggested use in conjunction with Agate, Jet, Moonstone, and Turquoise.

http://www.crystalsrocksandgems.com/Healing_Crystals/Silver.html

Mental Healing
Healers recommend Silver for hormonal and/or chemical imbalances and improving the transmission of nerve impulses, all of which can affect the patient’s mental state. They also ascribe powers for improving communications, reducing conflicts and increasing popularity, transforming energies and negativity and cleansing/balancing emotions.

Silver is told to bring advantage to it's wearer throughout life. It is used to conjure patience and perseverance to the wearer, and it used extensively with gemstones due to the fact that the metal attracts and retains the qualities emitted by the stones.
It is known to enhance the powers of the moon, particularly during the full and new moons. Throughout the world it is identified with the lunar manifestations of the Great Mother, the eternal goddess. As the metal is reflective, as the moon reflects the light of the sun, so does silver reflect negativity from the wearer. Tiny silver globes, or any sliver jewelry can be worn for magical security; used to provide protection again evil intent, reflecting spells of harm back to the sender.

Silver can also be used to enhance your psychic abilities, as it is a psychic-influencing metal. When worn it stimulates your psychic awareness but simultaneously lulls the conscious, so as not to overwhelm. Donning silver jewelry before sleep is another method of producing psychic dreams. If the piece is set with moonstone or other gemstone with psychic properties the effects will be more powerful.

Chakras
Third-Eye or Brow Chakra.

How Depression Differs From Sadness

2011-07-12T01:14:00.000-07:00

How Depression Differs From Sadness
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
How Depression Differs From Sadness

Depression is a term, often used in the wrong context, by every one. Depression is often wrongly thought as a synonym for sadness. But it is not so. Depression is not just sadness. It is more than that. It is a medical illness.

So how does a seasonal sadness in a person differ from depression? The main difference between the two is sadness goes away after a certain amount of time but depression persists. In depressive disorder a person has a depressed mood or a loss of interest in daily activities consistently for at least a fortnight. A sad person can cope with life whereas a depressed one feels hopeless and he feels he can't take it anymore.

To a person who is depressed, the most uncaring and insensitive phrase you can utter is "to snap out of it". When you say this to a depressed person, you not only get him mentally more depressed but also leave him keep wondering what the real problem with him might be. The most important thing you have to understand when dealing with depressed people is that if a person diagnosed with depression can snap out of it, then probably a person with heart decease or kidney failure may as well snap out of it.

Many people think that people with depression are weak and they never try to come out it or they are just acting. All these assumptions are wrong. On the other hand depression is a serious mental illness, which if left untreated, can even lead to suicide. So never go easy if any one you know is suffering from it. It is highly curable and the first thing you need is to consult with a doctor. Most of the people react well to the treatment and get better as the days pass by. So next time, when you feel like yelling at a depressed person, hold it. Try to help him with the right treatment.

Plumeria Flowers

2011-06-25T00:03:00.000-07:00

Paranormal Investigation Techniques and Equipment

2011-06-21T23:30:00.000-07:00

Paranormal Investigation Techniques and Equipment
Ghost

More and more people are wanting to do their own paranormal investigating. The popularity of shows such as "Ghost Hunters" has everyone wanting to find their own proof of the paranormal. If one is seriously wanting to investigate a haunting, there are several things that are important to know... and many misconceptions that need to be clarified.

First and foremost, if you are expecting the drama that many ghost hunting shows portray... pack it in now. Paranormal investigating is a process of research, documentation, recording, videotaping, and hours upon hours of examining photographs and evidence. ( How to Conduct Research for a Paranormal Investigation ) There will also be hours of listening to tapes for EVP's ( Electronic Voice Phenomenon ) studying temperature changes, monitoring EMF meters (electromagnetic field), and gathering all of the evidence to be examined. Then all natural explanations for any apparent activity captured must be ruled out.

If you are planning on investigating with a group of people it is preferable to go with people you know and trust. However, if you are going to interview for positions outside of who you know, make sure you ask tough questions to eliminate anyone who is looking for a thrill or who isn't serious about it. Ask the same question in different ways and listen for the answers and any variations. Do criminal background checks as well.
Rule Out Natural Causes

Whatever can be ruled out initially as natural causes needs to be done first and foremost. If it is a private residence that is still in use, check for faulty wiring and possible plumbing issues. Old water pipes can make very unusual noises, which are noticed more at night when the house is quiet. Bad wiring can cause power surges, creating an electrical "fear cage"... areas of such concentrated electricity that it can be felt and experienced as fear, physical illness, and paranoia. This can also be caused by living near a large source of electricity such as a power station. Houses are also hotbeds for mold and other toxic substances (such as carbon monoxide leaking) which can cause hallucinations and strange "feelings" or unexplained illnesses. Any environmental toxins of the area in general would need to be investigated as well.

asic Equipment for Paranormal Investigations
Video Camera with Night Vision:

Sony would be the affordable top in the field here... of course the more complex, the more expensive the camera will be. DVR's will have the advantage of being able to have multiple cameras being used at once, as well as being able to control the settings and speed. IR (infra red) illuminators are especially helpful for recording at night by using LED's (light emitting diodes) to conduct the light so the images can be easily seen. Flir cameras, although extremely expensive, are ideal for capturing thermal images (the heat produced by energy). However, at nearly $30,000, there aren't many teams who have these yet.
Digital Camera:

Digital Camera

Digital Camera with minimum picture storage of 300: Again, Sony would be the most widely used and recommended. Make sure the speed and the flash are on the correct settings, as the wrong ones will cause anomolies in the photograph. Having the camera set on manual will allow you to prevent camera shutters from being open longer than necessary, and give you more control with the focus. SLR (single lens reflex) cameras allow you to set the aperture to let the maximum amount of light into the camera lens when the lighting in the room is dim. Shutter speeds should start at about 1/60seconds, which are ideal in dim lighting with ISO's (which measures the sensitivity of the image sensor) set between 400-800.
Digital Recorder for Audio:

(To listen for Electronic Voice Phenomenon, or EVP): Sony wins again with affordability and clarity. You will want the recorder placed in an open area to pick up any voices that could have an unknown source. In listening for EVP's, make sure that all natural sounds are noted, and that each person hears the recording without knowing what the others heard. The recording should not be altered in any way, however you can slow down for clarity. Class A EVP's are when it can be distinctly heard with no extra clarification. Class B's can be heard with some sharpening... and Class C's are unintelligable sounds.
EMF (Electromagnetic Field) Meter:
Trifield EMF Meter

Trifield EMF Meter

The Trifield meter is ideal for this. It has the advantage of being able to detect fields from electricity, magnetic, and microwave emissions. It is actually preferable to some of the more expensive ones, as it can be purchased for under $200.00. Another meter, which is only slightly more expensive and has a temperature sensor as well, is the Mel-KII Hybrid meter. Before using it in an investigation, become familiar with how it works. EMF meters were intended for finding man-made sources of electricity, which is what needs to be ruled out first. Readings from natural sources of electricity don't often rise and fall as man-made ones do.

his is becoming more popular in the field of paranormal evidence and storing of data. They can store the data collected immediately so it can be downloaded on the computer at a later time. Since they work independently of the computer while collecting the data, they are extremely convenient. Omega is a good brand and works well with most signals such as temperature and sound.

For gauging temperature changes: It is often thought that when a spirit is present, a particular room or area will have "cold spots". Keeping a thermometer available will measure any temperature changes that in turn, will be compared with any other evidence.
Miscellaneous Items:

Other miscellaneous items that would be needed are flashlights, batteries, (plenty of spares), notepads (for taking notes during the investigation) and a first aid kit for any emergency medical issues.

More Tips for Paranormal Investigators
Assign Tasks

Give everyone that is with you a different task. One should be taking notes, another should be monitoring the DVR, with another taking the pictures with the digital camera. Any equipment such as data loggers, EMF meters, thermometers, etc. should have constant monitoring for changes, especially if no data loggers are being used.
Psychics

Some teams will use a psychic... if this is done, it is better that any information obtained is backed up by research of the place's history. The psychic should know as little about the place as possible, to see what is felt without suggestion.
Video Recorder

When setting up your video recorder, make sure it is firmly on a tripod (if one is being used) and that the night vision is enabled. Make sure there is no one smoking and that everyone participating remains still. During the recording, it is a good idea to snap several pictures, making sure that the straps and other attachments are removed from the camera. Be sure you are using the flash if it is at night, and that the photographer's hair is completely pulled back and out of the way as not to interfere with the image produced. Take several pictures of the same area for later comparison.
EVP's

When recording for EVP's, be sure that the digital recorder is completely charged and is placed in an area where nothing else is around.

1.Make an announcement at the beginning of the recording telling who is there and a brief summary of what is going on. Begin asking a few questions such as "Is anyone here?" or "will you allow us to talk with you?" in a clear, loud voice.

2.Announce any noise that has a natural cause (such as a cough or a car going by).

3.Feel free to ask questions, just remember to leave plenty of time between each one to give anything that might be there a chance to respond. Make sure everyone is as completely quiet as possible.

areidolia (Matrixing)

Many photographs that can appear paranormal actually are nothing more than pareidolia (also known as matrixing). This is when a nondescript object seems to appear as something specific. It is the mind looking for something familiar.

Orbs

If any "orbs" are captured... there's a 99% chance that it is dust on the lens or some kind of moisture. This is the main reason it is so important to make sure the equipment is clean. Even so, if there is dust in the area being investigated, those little spheres that show up in a picture are most likely cured by a good vacuuming of the area! So always keep these things in mind when looking over photographs. Eliminate any possible causes for drafts that would change the temperature of the room, as well as any source of power that would change EMF readings.

When all of the evidence has been gone over and if you feel you have captured something... then would come the time for it to be looked at by a knowledgeable and reputable source in examining paranormal evidence. Be sure all pictures are originals, so that the exif information is included. Exif information tells everything about the camera when the picture was taken. If the camera had any faulty settings or long exposures, it would be able to be seen with this information.

Once the investigation is completed, it is then time for the many, many hours of going over evidence. Video, pictures and recordings must be pored over and closely examined. The records of the EMF meters, thermometers, and any other equipment used has to be noted for any changes or patterns. Another several hours will be spent listening to the audio captured for any EVP's. Once all of this is done, and if there is anything captured that raises a question... it then comes time to rule out any natural causes for the evidence captured.

All in all... seems like a lot more time is spent debunking than actually finding paranormal evidence. This may be true, however it does no good to have evidence that can be otherwise explained. Many amateur ghost hunters pop up and present pictures and EVP's as "proof" of spirits... only for it to be explainable. It may make for some interesting stories and chills... but it brings us no closer to finding real evidence of ghosts, UFO's or any other paranormal activity.

To understand what lies beyond what we see, we have to first know what it is that we are seeing. If it turns out that it isn't paranormal, it is better to report that. There is still evidence, especially in EVP's, that has been captured and has no real explanation at this time, although it is few and far between. An educated and honest approach to investigating are the first steps in finding answers in a field that has so many questions left to ask.

Written by Angela Sangster, Copyright 2010 TrueGhostTales.com all rights reserved. Special thanks goes to "UglyNRude" of Debunk the Paranormal for his valuable input.

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Diamonds, Symbol Of Love

2011-06-16T01:30:00.000-07:00

Diamonds, Symbol Of Love

The diamond is referred to as the king of gemstones. It stands for durability, courage, wealth, power, purity, as well as innocence. History shows that already in 1477 AD, Maxmillian presented a diamond ring to Mary. This has started the era, when a diamond ring has been renamed as an engagement ring. It became the synonym to the symbol of love and constancy. The intensity of chemical bonding of a diamond is said to fortify the emotional bonding for couples. The myth is, the more you will spend on this gemstone, the more the bondage increases proportionally. This can be rephrased as, the larger the size of the diamond, the more commitment and love.

The Truth About Healing

2011-06-12T22:54:00.000-07:00

The Truth About Healing
by Djehuty Ma'at-Ra

The truth of the matter is that I myself or Dherbs.Com has never healed anybody. This is the gospel truth! I have only healed myself and no one else. I don't have the power to heal anyone other than myself. No one can heal another person. No one! To do so would violate Divine law and order. Only God and the human body can heal. To say someone else or some product healed or cured you of a disease is to give your power away to something or someone outside of yourself.

Always remember this people of the planet. No one can heal you but God and yourself. Your and my body was constructed and designed to naturally and automatically heal from any disease or injury no matter how insidious the disease or injury may be or no matter how degenerate we've become due to the last great fall of man which occurred some 6,000 years ago (and it had nothing to do with Adam and Eve disobeying God in the Garden of Eden).

Even in our collective degeneracy or degenerate state we showcase and manifest greatness in our ability to heal.

I say we are degenerate today only in the sense of comparing modern humanity with ancient humanity. Ancient humanity was solar-tarian (or breathatarian) in nature. Sunlight and oxygen was enough for them. Sunlight sustained them. There were no books or institutions of learning. There was no need for education or learning. Ancient humanity knew! Ancient humanity was conscious (aware). The consciousness came directly from absorbing the energy from the Sun's rays. But today, certain entities have purposely positioned certain planets and satellites in the way of our Sun in an attempt to block the accelerated consciousness that is coming to our planet. No matter how dark the energy may be on earth at present, certain benevolent galactic and invisible entities and forces are at work assisting us, the people of planet Earth, in our evolution and progression. They are helping to accelerate our consciousness because we are the lowest vibratory creatures in all existence and throughout the Universe, all galaxies and solar systems.

They know we are enslaved to a small body of men whom I call the Rulers, the Controllers, or the Masters. More importantly, they know we are enslaved to our egos (false self) and emotions. They know our egos and emotions which is representative of our inner world and being, serve the Rulers, Controllers and Masters who take advantage of our outer world situations and conditions. It is very true that our outer world and conditions reflect our inner world and conditions. The Rulers have conditioned us to always go outside of self for everything including happiness, love, answers and solutions, God, peace, etc.

Eating things (so-called foods) laced with harmful, man-made chemicals (e.g., sugar, salt, MSG, food coloring, preservatives, etc.) shuts the body awareness and intelligence down. Not only does the physical body shut down and become impaired, but so do our other bodies, our invisible or subtle bodies (e.g., ethereal, mental, astral, celestial, etc.). The invisible body refers to our energy body which makes up our biomagnetic sheath or aura. Our physical body is connected with the other bodies by the vortex system known as the chakras, a Sanskrit word mean "wheel, or vortex. There are seven (or eight) main chakras located in a line along the spine. Every chakra corresponds to a major organ of the human endocrine field which regulates human emotions and attitudes.

The major chakras or energy centers are located at the bottom of the feet (Earth Chakra), base of the spine at the genitals (Base Chakra), below the belly button or naval (Sacral Plexus Chakra), the abdomen (Solar Plexus Chakra), between the chest or breasts (Hermetic Plexus or Heart Chakra), the throat (Throat Chakra), between the eyes (Brow Chakra), and above the head (Crown Chakra).

However, there also chakras located in the palm of the hands, the eyes, ears, nose, joints, nipples of the female breasts; and directly above the head (three of them - Soul Star Chakra, Casual Center Chakra, and Stellar Gateway Chakra).

Chakras are throughout our entire body. This system of subtle energy channels is the foundation for the meridians (energy points) used in acupuncture, energy or vibrational medicine and healing (chakra balancing), and yoga.

When the chakras are functioning properly the body's physical and subtle energies are in balance and harmony. Disturbances or malfunctions of this system can lead to physical, emotional, mental and spiritual disturbances or dis-ease.

It is important for purposes of healing on all levels to know that the human body has subtle energy fields. Albert Einstein said, "Everything is fields and this concept includes thoughts, emotions, desires and the human body."

Working with the chakras, meridians and acupuncture points of the body not only influences our emotions, but directly affect the physical body itself.

Because the true basis of disease is on the energy level, the true basis of healing too is on the energy level.

Today, the Rulers have us eating a lot of meat (dead, slaughtered animal flesh) in an attempt to make us animal-like in nature and behavior. Animals are easier to control than humans. The Rulers know that there is truth to the saying "You are what you eat" or "You become that which you devour."

When you hear of names with a ring like 'Richard the Lion' or 'Edward the Tiger' that permeates European history, these men were not just called that because they desired to be called by those names. They literally would slaughter a lion or tiger and eat certain organs of those slaughtered animals so as to take on the attributes of those particular animals. They believed that to have the heart of a lion, one should devour a real lion's heart. To be a tiger or like a tiger, one should devour a tiger.

But look at what they have you eating today. They ate powerful animals, carnivores; but today, they have you eating peaceful and docile animals, herbivores. I'm not condemning herbivores and negating peace and docility. It's okay to be peaceful and docile to one another (under truthful circumstances), but the Rulers (government) have you eating peaceful and docile animals so that you can be peaceful and docile (easily managed or taught) when it comes to them and their tyrannical rule. Look at how quiet, peaceful and easily managed people are today in the midst of so much darkness (wickedness, tyranny, oppression). The Rulers know what they are doing to you.

They have your innocent children in their public fool system where they are feeding them mind-altering and controlling chemical drugs via the so-called foods in the breakfast and lunch programs; chemical substances that work on the part of the brain that makes you resist evil and tyranny. This is why there are over 2 million statute books in existence today in the United States that only serves to vex, annoy and oppress the American people under the guise of government regulation for purposes of public safety and hardly anybody does anything about it. This is how the Rulers take away the American citizen's constitutional rights - under the guise of public safety. In order to protect you guys, we have to take away your fundamental rights so says the U.S. government's Legislative Branch (which is controlled by a curtain government); and the little dumb, sheeple (sheep-like) American people let the government do it.

The more government helps you, the worse off you become.

The government will create a needed enemy if need be. They'll concoct an enemy, any one so long as they have some one to point the finger at as the bad guy who seeks to take away our liberty. Hey, no tyrant can take away your liberty faster than your own government (state legislators, Congress). Osama Bin Laden has not taken away your freedom. Saddam Hussein has not taken away your freedom. Fidel Castro has not taken away your freedom. The politicians you have unwisely voted for and elected into office (via fraud and illusion) are the ones who have taken away your freedom. George Bush Sr. and Jr., two bumbling idiots, have taken away your freedom. Franklin D. Roosevelt has taken away your freedom. Woodrow Wilson has taken away your freedom. The people you foolishly and blindly trust have taken away your freedom and replaced it with the illusion of freedom. In the U.S., we went from a constitutional republic to a legislative democracy and people think this is okay, not having a real clue to what a democracy really is and what results under democracy based upon the examples of democracies in world history.

The people, generally-speaking, do nothing about tyranny because they are silent and easily managed today, just like animals, many of whom end up in abattoirs (slaughter houses) and processed as so-called food and protein for the ignorant masses of the people.

Animal tendencies are high amongst us today. We call ourselves by animals like it ain't nothing. Females are bitches (female dogs). Males are "dogs," and "road dogs." This is especially true of African-Americans, thanks to gangster rap music (which has awesome beats to the most violent, sexist, self-hatred and ignorant lyrics). And what's sad and frightening is the fact that America (the youth) is following Black people (African-American) in their ignorance. Many other races think it's cool and hip to act Black, but to act Black is to act degenerate, mentally retarded, and insane. Other races should have been following and mimicking Black people during the 1950s and 1960s when Black people were into cultural awareness, pride and social justice.

The children and youth of other races are looking up to ignorant rappers and professional athletes. This is a travesty! Instead of looking up to Shaquile O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, Jay-Z, Nelly, P.Diddy, Beyonce, Foxy Brown and Lil Kim, in my view they should be looking up to Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers, Barbara Jordan, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Marcus Garvey, Shirley Chisolm, Mary McCloud Bethune, Noble Drew Ali, Louis Farrakhan, Harriet Tubman, Kwame Toure, Muhammad Ali, Huey P. Newton, and Fred Hampton to name a few of the dignified Black people or African-Americans who were positive role models and instrumental in social justice for people in general, Black people in particular. It doesn't matter that these people above are dead. They live through books, videos, and audio tapes.

Many of them died (or were killed) before I incarnated on the planet but that didn't stop me from mimicking them based upon what I read in a book, heard on audio, or saw in a video. These people were leaders and when you mimic a leader you become a leader. You take on leader consciousness which affects your thinking, attitude and behavior. When you become conscious overall, you learn that a true leader is one who leads people to themselves and leadership outside of self is really not needed, except for the irresponsible, immature, unaware, and dependent people in the society.

But today, people are animalistic. People have been eating so much meat that it is now normal to have canine teeth. Our bodies via a collective conscious mind agreement has embraced and adapted to a pathology (carnivorism) which resulted in delusional and defective herbivore status. Human beings now have canine teeth. These teeth have developed so as to help in the chewing of flesh - dead and cooked flesh. And people are so delusional and sick in the mind today they attempt to justify this carnivorism under the pretense of obtaining protein. When have you ever seen a real carnivore cook its kill (food)? Never! And you never will. Carnivores in nature are not delusional like us.

It is imbecilic to eat meat in order to obtain meat (or attempting to obtain protein by eating alleged protein) just as it is imbecilic to eat hair in order to grow hair. This shows that we are in need of healing - mental and psychological healing.

Are women going to start eating breasts and buttocks so as to develop breasts and buttocks? Because of natural hormones women don't need to resort to this activity. Natural intelligence is on the scene. But leave it up to the Rulers and they'll actually have women out their believing they need to eat ground up and pulverized human female breasts and buttocks in order to have breast and buttocks, or bigger ones.

You know the Rulers got us under the illusion of "living large." Everything is large or fat today. We're living large. We got fat cribs (big homes). Our pockets are fat (got a lot of money in our pockets, but no sense in our heads). Our women got "fat asses." We like large tits and butts. We drive and travel in large cars (SUV) where it takes nearly $50 to fill up the gas tank today (pimped at the pump!). We got big screen televisions. The rappers and thug youth wear large silver and gold medallions and chains around their necks (symbolic of choking or hanging themselves like what was done during slavery and right after slavery). Everything is getting bigger except our hearts, dreams, integrity, and courage. Sensationalism has us trapped. Miserably trapped! We need healing.

Large is acceptable today. At first there were only three pants sizes - small, medium and large; but today, there's extra large, extra extra (double) large, and triple large. This promotes obesity and acceptance of it. It doesn't matter if you blow up like a house because you can still get into clothes and go on out in public and promote obesity, which is a pathology and a sin (in worldly terms).

Did you know that if the fashion industry stopped making clothes at the "Large" size obesity would diminish? Obese people would have to stay in the house all day or risk coming outside naked and getting arrested for indecent exposure.

I'm not attacking obese people. I'm just making a point. Obese people are voluntary victims of the synthetic food industrial complex. Obese people need healing just like the rest of us.

You know it's really sad when you know that many of these weight loss facilities are owned by food companies. The food companies promote junk food to American females (due to an apparent emotional crisis going on in American females, and males too) which they eat too much of and all the time and blow up and then are faced with the new challenge of losing weight. This has created a weight loss industry which has failed miserably in helping people to lose weight.

I was going to save this metaphysical fact for my weight loss ("release") article, but I'll give it up now as to why weight loss programs and products don't work or why folks are not successful with them. The human body is supposed to have weight. It belongs to us. Because it (weight) is ours, we cannot ever lose it for the body is programmed and designed to never lose that which rightfully belongs to us.

So when you say, "Girl, I lost weight - 30 pounds!" Your Body Intelligence hears this and responds to it. The Body Intelligence says "Oh my God, the owner lost something that rightfully belongs to him/her, I must help my owner to retrieve or find that which he/she lost because this is the natural order of things."

The problem is not weight or fat, but UNNECESSARY weight or fat. Also, the proper terminology is "weight release", not "weight loss." You want to release that unnatural and unnecessary weight from your body. You don't want to lose it, because you may find it again and this is something that you do not want.

Your Body Intelligence triggers your emotions via the endocrine system to act up, negatively, and the next thing you know you create situations (arguments, relationship breakups, failures, anger, hurt and pain, etc.) that create the need to binge and on junk foods laced with sugar which converts into fat in the body.

The Body Intelligence only does this to help retrieve that which has been claimed to be lost - your weight. So the body gains the weight back under the pretense of benefit or success at that which was purportedly lost.

And you usually gain an extra 10-20 pounds when you gain your weight back which is the body's way of making sure you don't lose your weight again. So it gives you a little extra added weight (incentive) just to be on the safe side in case you lose that weight again. The whole thing is truly psychological and metaphysical.

And remember, your thoughts create your reality. If you constantly thinking about how big or fat you are, you will only attract more big and fat via circumstances and situations (such as binge eating probably predicated upon attracting certain people into your aura who make you feel bad or depressed which in turn compel you to binge on food).

So don't think about what you don't want (fat), think about what you do want (to release weight; to be a certain size and weight). The science of NLP (Neuro Linguistic programming) teaches us that the mind cannot process negative language. Nor does or can the Universe and the subconscious mind (located at our third chakra - abdomen).

Okay, let's switch to the environment. Look at what the Rulers are doing and are allowing to be done to the environment. They purposely have the air and water polluted. Polluted water and air negatively affects our health. Harsh, toxic chemicals in the environment cause our cells to degenerate, hence the epidemic of cancer. Who in their right mind would intentionally pollute the drinking water which life is dependent upon? No sane and conscious individual would do such. To pollute the earth's water is akin to polluting the human bloodstream. Because we are poisoning the earth's water, Nature is striking back at us via the Law of Karma with severe blood diseases and disorders - leukemia, skin cancers (melanoma), eczema, herpes, psoriasis, dermatitis, acne, etc.

Look at the foolish constant cutting down of trees for industrial reasons and purposes. The trees are the lungs of the earth. Trees are part of the family of Nature spirits and elementals. Yes, invisible beings live in the trees (and plants). Who do you think teaches the shamans and herbalists about the medicinal or therapeutic nature and properties of the trees and plants? People ask me all the time how did I learn to mix herbs the way I do to produce such powerful concoctions and formulas. I tell people the herbs speak to me. Herbs speak to me the same way the peanut spoke to George Washington Carver. Trees and plants are alive. They emit consciousness. They have an aura. This is why many ancient peoples worshipped (acknowledged) the trees (or certain trees) as sacred. Take the Druids and the oak tree for example.

Trees convert carbon dioxide into beneficial oxygen for us. Who in their right mind would cut down and destroy trees that perform such a life-saving function?

By destroying the natural lungs of the earth (trees), Nature is striking back at us with severe respiratory and lung disorders and diseases - asthma, bronchitis, Legionnaire's disease, whooping cough, lung cancer, etc.

To destroy the earth's lungs is to destroy our own lungs. To destroy the earth's blood is to destroy our own blood.

Now take a look at the oil or petroleum industry. By digging for crude oil or fossil fuel deep within the earth, the oil industry (Rockefellers, Bush family, et al.) is damaging the bones or skeletal system and structure of Mother Earth. Petroleum is the earth's bone marrow. And you wonder why bone marrow cancer and joint disorders are rampant today. To destroy the Mother Earth's bones is to destroy our own bones, hence osteoporosis, arthritis, rheumatism, bone disease, etc.

And where is the logic in terminator seeds? Where is the logic in genetically engineering natural crops? Where is the logic and morality in gene splicing? Why place fish genes in tomatoes? Why produce seedless fruit? Why eat seedless fruit if you are Christian, Muslim or Jew, especially when the Bible directs you to eat fruit with seed in it?

"And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat." Genesis 1:29

Even the Bible tells us in the above passage that meat is really fruit or the flesh of fruit. Meat only means "flesh," but the flesh of fruit, not animals.

Europeans came along (into power) and converted meat from flesh of fruit to the flesh of animals. Due to colonization by Europeans, many subjugated peoples of color were introduced to meat or to larger portions of meat and from strange or exotic animals never before eaten. This made many peoples sick and like I always say, sick people are easier to control.

So today, peoples of color eat almost as much meat as Europeans. African-Americans eat plenty of salami but have never gone to the Island of Salamos where the name for salami meat is derived. They also eat plenty of bologna meat but the majority of them have never visited Bologna, Italy, where this meat originated. They eat plenty of hamburger meat, but the majority of them have never visited Hamburg, Germany, where the meat originates. They eat plenty of franks (frankfurters), but most will never visit Frankfurt, Germany, where the meat originates.

Your meats have names that derive from European cities because they originated in Europe and have made their way all over the world.

It is true that some peoples of color, especially in Africa, ate meat before coming into contact with Europeans. However, their meat (and dairy) consumption was very minimal to say the least.

So man (humanity) fell, huh? Yes! The Great Fall of man in the Garden of Eden is allegorical. Man (Adam) did not obey God in the form of a person, as God does not take on flesh (and never has or will) or even have human attributes so as to be susceptible to human frailties, though many people believe contrary due to man-made religious dogma and doctrine.

This particular ancient man (humanity) disobeyed the Laws of Nature. Humanity has been given the story or fairytale of Adam and Eve to brainwash us into accepting original sin which is so absurd. Where is the benefit in original sin? However, it makes a lot of sense when you understand the nature of the game which is control, especially through guilt (sin), ignorance and fear. If you were born into sin (from the natural sex act) then your nature is automatically sin or sinful for the law by which a thing comes into existence determines the nature of the thing. Sliding out of the female vagina at birth would be a naturally sinful act as well as the sex act itself which is necessary for the natural conception of physical life.

Sexual repression due to beliefs of sin is a mutha! That which feels good is bad, evil, sinful? Sexual repression and guilt has a lot of people (mostly females, women) messed up mentally, emotionally, spiritually and psychologically. One of the greatest consciousnesses is sexual consciousness. There are certain levels you can attain in the sex act that you cannot attain in meditation, yoga, etc. With the right person (mate), under the right circumstances, and at the right time, you can experience true divinity (climax, ascension) based upon the coming together of the polarities (Yin and Yang).

Sexual guilt is the major metaphysical cause of many sexually transmitted diseases that have been thought into existence as a form of punishment for the guilt of engaging in the forbidden sex act. You can also add infertility, lack of orgasm, and reproductive area cancers to the list of diseases caused by sexual guilt as well as sexual repression and sexual neglect. Women and females carry more sexual guilt than men and boys because males are freer with sex than females in society. Males in general don't see sex (especially before marriage) as sinful like many females do, though the trend is changing due to the climate of degeneracy. I guess you could also say that females see sex as more sacred than males do. Sex is a portal or gateway. The female vagina is not called Holy of Holies, Holy Grail, or Pearly Gates of Heaven without reason. There's a powerful energy in this chamber females possess. Why do you think males, especially those in power, have been looking for the Holy Grail for nearly 1,700 years?

The Holy Grail is the cup that holds the blood of life, the female vagina (Shekina). If you are to control the world, you must control the female.

Original sin beyond our control sets us up for the need of salvation through a savior or messiah figure. Now you need Christ! Not just for the sake of Christ and all the good that Christ has to offer, but mainly due to some sin some man and woman allegedly committed 6,000 years ago. Unfortunately, for most people, the nexus between Christ and them is SIN! They can't get off into Christ Consciousness (true salvation) because of the illusion of sin (guilt). Guilt (sin) shuts down consciousness (awareness). It paralyzes! This is why you have religious institutions today. Religions were established to keep man blocked from the truth which is why even today 95% of the people on the planet are not free!

Jesus allegedly said, "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." Well, considering our sad state of voluntary slavery and servitude and state of affairs, truth is not known or is known but not acted upon. How do I know? It's easy! I just look around at all the people who pay state and federal income taxes, child support, traffic and parking tickets, vehicle registration, etc. against their will. Look at all the people locked away in prison and jail. These people don't know the truth. You can't know the truth and not be made free in mind, body and spirit. Look at all the prostitutes, especially those in the hands of pimps. They are not free! Look at all the people who are working jobs (9 to 5's) not because they want to but because they have to in order to survive. These people are not free! Look at all the people who cannot think freely. These people have not known the truth. They are enslaved in prisons and dungeons in their minds. These people are not free!

Religion is another chain on the brain. It is slavery using God which is damnable.

This is why the Rulers can now put out movies which contain a lot of truth like Da Vinci Code, Stigmata, Celestine Prophecy, and Godfather Part 3 utilizing their magic wand called Hollywood (as ancient magician's wand were really made out of holly wood or wood from the holly tree, which were used to cast illusions on the people) and the people will walk away never realizing the hidden truths and messages in such films.

Belief is powerful but belief in that which is impotent is futile. Impotent means "lacking potency." Potency means "power." When you believe in lack of power under the guise that it's required for salvation, you will receive this lack of power for the subconscious mind and the Universe manifests your every belief, be the belief good or bad.

So today, millions of people have a belief in a helpless Jesus nailed to the cross, unable to save himself. This is an impotent and damnable picture to hold in the mind. The picture of Jesus on the cross is constantly shown as a constant reminder and programming. It teaches and reinforces endurance of unnecessary pain and suffering at the hands of evil people or dark forces.

If you understand the status of Jesus as an Ascended Master, a Ninth Dimensional being on the Gnostic level of understanding, it is virtually impossible for Third Dimensional beings (the Romans) to crucify a Ninth Dimensional being. It would never make sense.

Religions render you powerless. You'd come closer to power (worldly power) in the field of politics than in religion. Just look around you. Politics runs and controls religion. In fact, politics run and controls the world. Islam and Christianity combined cannot get George W. Bush and company (big business) out of Iraq. In fact, politicians go to religious leaders for blessings before they declare and go to war. Muslim leader Iman Warith Deen Mohammed prayed at the White House for George Bush Sr. right before Bush went to war against Mohammed's Muslim brethren.

Where's the logic in blessing war? Where's the logic in a so-called holy war (Jihad)? If holy means sacred and war means bloodshed of innocent human lives and all life is sacred, how can war be sacred? Holy war is a contradiction of terms.

You can even see the military presence in the fields of religion and medicine. What were the Crusades? Nothing but so-called holy wars! What is Jihad? A so-called holy war! Look at the language - a fight for Christ, a fight for the Holy land, a battle against Satan. Battle and combat terms in religion!

And look at the medical field and its use of battle and combat terms - the fight against AIDS, the fight against cancer, the war against drugs; the war against diabetes, a new drugs that combats epidemics, a crusade against breast cancer, etc.

War dominates our daily language. The molecules of our body are affected by the words we use. That's why today there are diseases and disorders of the nature where the body attacks itself. Doctors call it "autoimmune disorder." Lupus is said to be in this category. You know something is wrong when the body attacks itself.

When you believe that something is always attacking you, attacks will always manifest. The biggest attack on Americans today is heart attack. But the truth of the matter is that people are attacking their hearts (through degenerate diet excessively high in meat; and by not "having a heart" pertaining to feelings or emotions).

It would be more wise and beneficial for a person to hold a picture of Jesus' alleged resurrection in their mind than a picture of Jesus hanging helplessly on a cross. To hold a picture of overcoming death in one's mind is a powerful picture that will eventually bring about this outcome. You will resurrect from the grave of the ignorance of this world. You will overcome the world, all the politics, all the bullshit (beliefs, doctrine, dogma, etc.), all the glass walls and barriers, all the "isms" (racism, sexism, classism, etc.).

You can now expose all the evils of the Roman Catholic Church in history and it still will not shake the foundation of the Roman Catholic Church and faith. People will not think and ask themselves how come Rome is the head or capital of the Catholic Church when Jesus himself never set foot in Rome? Why is Rome the capital of Christianity and not Israel where Jesus allegedly walked?

If Mark and Luke who have books in the Bible (New Testament) were disciples of Jesus, how come Matthew, a contemporary of Luke and Mark, didn't list Luke and Mark as two of the twelve disciples of Jesus in Matthew, Chapter 10, Verse 1? Most people just never seem to think on such things. Well, after all, you can't question God, right? How absurd! God gives you a brain to think and question and then you cannot use it to question God or God's action, plan, and world in which lies earth where you are catching hell every single day in spite of your sincere and constant prayers?

Man has greatly fallen and needs to be healed, which is why we need to know the truth about healing.

This early man fell due to violating the natural laws of Nature. His fall initiated when he began to consume foreign things for the first time. Originally, he/she didn't eat or drink and because he/she didn't eat or drink, he/she didn't urinate or defecate. The kidneys and rectum gradually formed due to pathology and the need to eliminate waste. The stomach developed and so did a thing call hunger.

The cell salts from the tubers in the earth and the vegetables irritated the tissues and this created thirst, the need to drink water. Drinking water developed for the purpose of cleansing the tissues of the irritating cell salts.

This early man began eating grains (cereal grasses). He/she lost his way. Grains are livestock food. Grains are food for animals with long necks who can eat grains (grass) without effort or having to bend over, simply standing on all four legs. What human being do you know who can bend over while standing on both feet and eat and chew grass?

The natural green hue of his/her skin (due to magnesium binding with gold) tarnished with the drinking of a liquid called water combined with air (oxygen) and the mineral iron which is a mineral by defect (and default) to replace the lost magnesium molecule. The green hue became dark (oxidized). Basically, rust! What happens when you mix water, air and iron? You get rust? But does gold rust? Of course not!

This human had chlorophyll in his/her body which means he/she was able to directly absorb sunlight or solar energy and thus solar consciousness. Today, it is proven that liquid chlorophyll is basically the same as human blood. The only difference is the mineral magnesium which is still in the chlorophyll which is why chlorophyll is green and because of chlorophyll, plants are green. Humans lost magnesium in the blood due to the Fall.

The ancient Egyptians, knowledgeable of this great fall, attempted to get the gold back into their bodies and become original again. They wanted to get back to the color of Osiris and Nut (Nyoot), whose hue were green. To get back to green, the ancient Egyptians begin to powder up gold and eat it. This powdered gold was known as monatomic gold (white powder gold). Gold was known for its anti-aging properties. This is why white powder or monatomic gold is known for preventing the aging process. This gold stimulates the pineal gland, site of the seventh chakra which links to the Higher Self (God) and the Akasha or Akashic records (Book of Life) and also the sixth chakra, site of the Third Eye, the seat of intuition, telepathy, clairvoyance, and Christ Consciousness. Gold makes the pineal gland naturally enlarge. To this day the sixth and seventh chakras will respond to gold and its counterpart, Iron Pyrite.

The lost magnesium mineral prevented the gold from being stable in our blood. Embracing this pathology for purposes of existing, the body replaced the gold with the mineral iron, which is not only rusting in nature but also grounding. We are heavily grounded in the flesh and to the 3rd dimensional earth realm today. This is why astral projection and traveling is so rare today amongst the masses today. All that iron, heme iron, in our systems responds to the gravitational pull, keeping us grounded in 3rd dimensional state of existence. Iron is magnetic in nature. It has a profound attracting force or power.

The ancients with the green hue didn't need to astral project or travel like us today. They literally could demolecularize (like the villain Sand man in Spiderman 3) and go anywhere in space or the Universe or galaxy they wanted to and at will. Today with you and I, our souls (on its own) leaves the body and travels to different dimensions, mainly the fourth dimension, know as the astral plane. This occurs mostly at night when the conscious mind is given a rest. Traveling to the astral plane or dimension while sleeping is called "dreaming." The Rulers can't have you consciously doing something of the occult world such as astral projecting. So when you go to sleep and have these experiences whereby you can fly, disappear, visit one place to another within seconds and without effort, see and communicate with people who have died or passed on, go back to your younger years and days, etc., you are said to be dreaming.

The shock of the soul coming back into the physical body is the equivalent of a bumpy airplane landing at the airport which is why many people forget or cannot recall their dreams, which is really sad and unfortunate. I vividly dream every night. My dreams are bright, colorful, and clear. I travel to all kinds of places and connect with many people who have actually died (like my parents), and those who are still alive. The images of what I see in my so-called dreams serves as symbols which provide waking life information that helps me to navigate and progress in the 3rd dimensional realm. Life is easy for me in the U.S. because I have the Rulers' game mastered and did so at an early age. Well, it does help that I'm an old soul. Old souls are people who learn a lot and remember much of their past life lessons and experiences. They can tap into their self-knowledge recorded from past lives. They can access their recorded memories from various atmospheres that exist on different dimensions. Old soul does not refer to someone who has been on earth before and is back revisiting. Old soul refers to "wisdom" accumulated from past lives (lessons and experiences) including various past lives on earth.

Anyways, spirituality is the key for overcoming the Ruler's game. You are here to experience for the sake of your soul, not to get caught up in materialism and concocted illusions. Politics is a diversion for the soul. Religion is more beneficial than politics in this respect.

We have forgotten much due to being in the Matrix or the Net. However, the crystal kingdom and the devas or elementals who live within the crystals can help us to remember everything. Crystals can help to balance, ground and open us up. Crystals hold the entire history of the earth within them, especially the quartz crystal. Our computers work and can hold a lot of information because of the crystals used in making them.

Many crystals allow us to access the Akashic Records. Moldavite, Phenacite, Tanzanite, and Pietersite are crystals (and meteorite) that help us access the Akasha, the Universal storehouse or library that exists beyond time and space that contains information of all that has occurred, is occurring, and that will occur. Thanks to the Akasha, I don't have to read and study as much and like I used to. I can get answers real quick.

Placing the crystals supra on our Third Eye center (between the two physical eyes) can help us to access the Akashic Records while meditating.

It is important to ground the body too when blasting off to the Akashic Records. The iron stones will help to ground. These include Lodestone (Magnetite), Hematite, and Iron Pyrite. Black colored stones (i.e. Jet, Obsidian, Black Tourmaline, and Onyx) also are grounding. These should be placed under and near the feet and in the palm of the hands.

Accessing the Akasha is important, but so too is contacting and attuning to the angelic realm. You've always heard about having a guardian angel or an angel on each shoulder. We saw this in cartoons while growing up, but due to grooming within the Matrix we never took angels seriously, always associating angels with death (Heaven). Yes, the angels, our guardians, accompany us to the other side when the flesh dies, serving as our guardians and shock counselors (as death can be very shocking to many people), but they are also with us at the time we're born (incarnating).

My whole life changed for the better and miraculous when I first began to collect, study, and experiment with crystals. I opened up a whole new world with these crystals and gemstones. I invited a whole bunch of devas and beautiful spirits into my home and life. The crystals also prepared the way for me to become angel conscious. I went 34 years without consciously interacting and talking to my angels. But in just over a year, my life has sped up. I have angelic help 24/7. I used to always lose and misplace things and go days and weeks before finding things but those days are over. I simply ask Archangel Michael to help me locate a lost object and within seconds it's discovered. I go right to the thing. It's credible! Not incredible, but "credible" because it most certainly is believable.

Selenite wands surround my home, in every corner and above the front door. Selenite invites in your protection angels (plus abundant peace). I'd take Selenite any day over a home alarm system.

Crystals such as Selenite, Angelite, Celestite, Kyanite, Amethyst and Smithsonite placed on our Crown chakras help us to connect with the angelic realm. These same stones facilitate the physical death process, making the transition easier. They can be placed under the pillow and the back of the dying person. Above the head is ideal if you ask me because this is where the Crown chakra is located and the soul leaves the body via the Crown chakra which beams a very bright white light which seems like a tunnel.

My good friend Etirsa Coon told me of an interesting story of a friend's dying dad (or grandfather), the bright light and crystals. Etirsa brought a piece of Selenite for the dying man, placing it under his pillow. Subsequently, everybody left (as Etirsa's friend put together a gathering for this dying relative). When Etirsa's friend left the room for a quick minute and went outside, she saw a bright light in the room and immediately went back in only to discover a lifeless body. The bright light was the opening of the Crown chakra releasing the soul out of the expired vessel.

Knowing all of our bodies can really help us to heal on all levels. To know thyself means to know all of thy bodies and to take it much deeper, to know (meet with) all of our other selves existing right now on different dimensions. You are not complete until you meet every last one of yourselves (souls) and introduce yourself to your other selves.

Okay, to end this article, what is it that makes a reptile such as a lizard have the ability to repair a damaged (disconnected) body part? How come a lizard can get it's tail cut off and grow another one but a human can get it's fingers or a leg cut or chopped off and cannot grow another one?

Reptiles are very wise creatures and have all of their circuit breakers plugged up. All of their DNA circuit switches are on or plugged up. They remember their healing powers unlike humans. We have lost or gave up the knowledge of our innate healing power. We too can heal ourselves on the most profound level such as the lizard if we learn to turn our DNA circuit switches back on or plug up the ten disconnected DNA wires. Remember the scene in the movie "Brother From Another Planet" starring Joe Morton, when he landed on earth and his foot was cut off and he grew another one? Well, that's what I'm talking about.

Even in our present condition, we can successfully heal from paralysis. Healing from paralysis is a precursor to growing new limbs if necessary (following disconnection).

Humans don't remember because they have been dismembered. To be dismembered means to be cut off. When you learn to go within yourself to find God, answers, inner peace, etc., you will remember all there is to know for your evolution and progression.

The program for successful self-healing is within you. The answers to all your questions are in your DNA and cells. You incarnate on to earth possessing all the information and knowledge you need. The density of taking on flesh makes us forget that our new suits are constructed with capsules (cells) of information and knowledge. Our every makeup is information and knowledge. We are living and manifested intelligence. School does not make you intelligent. School makes you unaware. It prepares you for servitude within the walls of the Matrix.

Once you remember that you are the Source and possess all that you need to know, you can begin to heal on all levels and from all diseases. The power to heal is within you. Healing is manifested from the subconscious mind which responds to the conscious mind's thinking.

The majority of us think ourselves into sickness and disease. Thoughts are things and things manifest. It really is true that you create your reality with your thoughts. If your life is a mess, you thought this into existence and likewise you can think yourself right out of a messed up life. It all boils down to choice. We have choice because we live on a free will planet.

Many entities know that Earth is a free will zone and visit here so as to experience and to play out certain dramas. The majority of entities on earth are invisible due to their vibration or frequency, which is thousands of times higher than ours.

Earth is a free will planet and zone in the Universe and where there's free will, there's choice. You can't have one without the other.

You can make the choice to heal. You can think yourself into health. You can think yourself out of cancer. You can think yourself out of infertility. You can think yourself out of so-called diabetes. You can use your imagination and the power of your subconscious mind to clear up your skin. Just simply see yourself in your mind as you would want to appear. Carry this image around with you in your mind all the time. See the results, how you desire for your skin to be, and not how it may actually be. Concentrate on the desired result and watch it manifest. It has to. It's a law!

It is not wise to let a doctor give you drugs or to cut up your beautiful temple of God with surgery that leaves you coming out looking like Frankenstein in the end. Here you are sick and you go to the Western doctor for help and the man offers you poison and convinces you to take it. The doctor knows you're delusional from the jump or start from even visiting him/her in the first place.

You cannot heal the body with poisons (man-made medications). Think about it people, how can you give a well or healthy person something that will make them sick and turn around and give it to a sick person and expect to make them well? This is what doctors do every day. In fact, doctors are the third leading cause of death in the U.S. Study the term "Iatrogenics." It means "doctor/physician induced death."

This is why I purposely avoid going to hospitals. Have you ever thought about the fact that hospitals have morgues on the bottom floors? This means you stand a chance of dying while in the hospital and if you do die they got a place on the bottom floor they can take you to. This doesn't sit well with me. How could a pregnant woman in her right mind give birth to her child (baby) in a hospital where there's a morgue on the first floor?

People die in hospitals all the time. People are leaving (dying) and coming (incarnating) all the time in hospitals so you have a lot of souls on the scene in one condensed area. What about those souls who just died and who are upset and don't want to leave the earth realm? I'm talking about ghosts, angry entities who are bodiless but earthbound and who still have earthly aims, desires and ambitions.

The soul does not enter into the body until the time of birth. It hangs out above the mother until the baby comes out of the vagina and within seventeen minutes, the soul makes its way into the baby's body which is why the umbilical cord should never be cut within seventeen minutes after arrival or manifestation. But in a hospital birth, you can forget about this. Doctors will cut that cord as soon as the baby slips out and the soul will be impaired. The soul will not fully incarnate into the body. A portion of it will wonder out in the ethers and may end up in some other part of the State, country or world, creating this thing called a mid-life crisis which forces us Westerners (especially Americans) to go on a "soul search." Westerners are the only people who talk about needing to find themselves. This was the theme of the Bill Murray movie entitled "The Razor's Edge."

So thanks to the doctor whom you love and trust so much, who untimely cut your umbilical cord impairing your incarnation during birth which allowed a part of your soul to end up in some other area of the world, you now have to go on a "soul search" to find a part of yourself. So you were born in New York but part of your soul ended up in California so you have to travel out west to find yourself, to become "whole."

Without the midlife crisis, most folks would have never sought to make themselves whole. However, there's really no more midlife crisis these days. People are experiencing life crisis at a very young and early age today. Most young people know something is miserably wrong with society and the world and become very depressed and suicidal. That's why most suicides in the U.S. are committed by youth (teenagers).

A lot of older people, in their 40s, 50s and 60s may opt for neurotic problems such as schizophrenia instead of suicide. Many schizophrenics possess or possessed serious knowledge and knew many truths but turned a blind eye and deaf ear to it. They knew society was messed up and did nothing to change it. Living against truth and Universal law will eventually kill you (suicide, premature death) or make you go crazy.

You see all these homeless people walking around today talking to themselves, shouting, and arguing with what appears to be with themselves and no visible person? They are not crazy as many would deem them to be! They are vexed by invisible entities, dark forces.

Knowledge requires you to use and share it, especially for right action. When you don't do this, you pay a price.

Not all schizophrenics are the results of not sharing what they knew or running from responsibility (teaching). Some are paying Karmic debt.

The same applies to many of our sicknesses and diseases. Yes, many of us plant the seeds of our diseases and sicknesses in past lives. Our etheric blueprint comes from past lives. The etheric blueprint is a subtle program from which the physical body is constructed and which carries imprints of past-life disease from which present life disease or disability can result. So karmic seeds are lodged in the etheric body.

The residue of past-life trauma, attitude or illness can follow us in this present life existence and develop into disease, sickness or injury. For example, many Black people with unexplained back problems could be experiencing past life trauma from their last lifetime on earth as slaves who did a lot of heavy lifting on the plantation or who experienced excessive whippings on the back.

Physical pain always points to something much deeper. Pain is only a sensor - a sensor that something is wrong on a much deeper level, usually energetically.

Pain truly is the friend nobody wants.

In my honest assessment, emotions are the number one area most people need to focus in regards to healing. We must heal on the emotional level. Many of us carry a lot of emotional baggage with us. When we are damaged emotionally from harsh words, behavior and activity, the pain runs deep. The pain stores in our cells and create memories. Not only does the pain store in the cells, but the pain also lodges in the subtle body, the etheric body. We actually take our emotions with us on the other side (death). We do this with the etheric body. So when we don't heal on an emotional level, the etheric blueprint is set and the emotional scars and pain follow us to new incarnations and manifest themselves.

So if you are emotionally hurt or wounded, why not now take the time to work on yourself and heal from the pain and injury? Might as well do it now! What's not done or completed now will be done or completed later on (in future lives). You will learn your lessons before you move on to higher ground and that's a karmic fact.

If you don't learn how to love now on Planet Earth in this lifetime, what makes you think you can go to the planet of love - Venus in the next lifetime? If you don't learn love here on earth now, you'll take your romance and love problems (imbalances) with you wherever you go in the next lifetime. Might as well learn the lesson now!

Self-healing begins with love, unconditional love. Love is the basis for healing. Forgiveness is a requisite for healing. Gratitude is a requisite for healing. Happiness and joy are requisites for healing. Right action is a requisite for healing. Truth is a serious requisite for healing. You have the power to show and exude all of the above. To love, forgive, show gratitude, to be happy and joyful, and to be truthful are all within you NOW!

Healing is a choice just like disease is a choice. You have to learn to make the right choice for yourself. Health is your sovereign birthright. Reclaim it!

I'm telling you, health really is the indisputable foundation for happiness. Make the choice for your own good to heal so that you can enjoy health and enjoy health more abundantly.

Peace, Love, Life and light be unto you!

This article is compliment of www.dherbs.com and Djehuty Ma'at-Ra

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Satanic Symbols

2011-05-24T00:19:00.001-07:00

Ancient Talmudic Satanic symbols in common use today by gentiles, not knowing what they are doing.

A second Satanic symbol appears above the Nine Satanic Statements in LaVey's book: The Satanic Bible, page 25. It is an infinity sign (a figure 8 on its side). A shortened Lorraine Cross is placed on top. [A Lorraine cross is a Roman '†' cross, with a second, longer cross piece added below the main cross piece.] This is an ancient symbol which alchemists -- many of whom were Satanists -- used to represent brimstone. 2 Brimstone is the element sulfur, and was long associated with Satan by the Christian church. LaVey might have adopted a brimstone symbol as a humorous gesture to poke fun at Christianity.

A stone relief depicting the ancient Biblical leader 'Nimrod'and his pride as he ascended his tower of 'Babel'

Horned Hand
The sign of recognition between those in the Occult. When pointed at someone it is meant to place a curse. Note the thumb over the fingers and given by the left hand.

All seeing Eye
Believed to be the eye of Lucifer and those who claim control of it have control of world finances. Used in divination. Hexes, curses, psychic control and all corruption are worked through this emblem. This one is a symbol of the Illuminati. Look at U.S. currency. This one is the basis of the New World Order.

*Baphomet, The Goat of Mendes.

"Baphomet was indeed a common medieval form of the word Mahomet and that not only meant a false prophet but a demon." (E of F, p. 124.)

A good instance of this practice is found in the pentagram, or five-pointed star, made of five connected lines. This figure is the time-honored symbol of the magical arts.... The pentagram is used extensively in black magic....The star may be broken at one point by not permitting the converging lines to touch; it may be inverted by having one point down and two up; or it may be distorted by having the points of varying lengths. When used in black magic, the pentagram is called the "sign of the cloven hoof," or the footprint of the Devil. The star with two points upward is also called the "Goat of Mendes*," because the inverted star is the same shape as a goat抯 head. When the upright star turns and upper point falls to the bottom, it signifies the fall of the Morning Star." (Secret Teachings of All Ages, p. CIV. Emphasis added.)

*Baphomet, The Goat of Mendes.

The Pentagram is Basic to Satanism and is used with a victim placed upon it and tied securely. The victim is then either beaten so as to recover, usually with full healing, at least after several days; or is used in various forms of sacrifice, sometimes having their bones cruelly broken while being beaten to death, at times concluding with having their heart pierced with the pointed end of an inverted cross.
When the pentagram is drawn upon the abdomen of a woman's naked body it means that her infant (an innocent victim who is seen as a great offering) will be placed on her and sacrificed as her offering to Satan to seek a better position in Hell than she would otherwise have. She believes the lie of Satan that he is in control of punishments in Hell and not the true God, the only one with this power and authority.

Hand Mudras

2011-05-21T20:53:00.000-07:00

Hand Mudras

http://www.dragonflyyoga.com/resources/mudra.php

Mudra is a term most commonly referring to gestures with the hands. More broadly it signifies a seal. Many mudras are ingrained culturally and speak much of the way humans around the world relate to each other in different ways.

Namaste

Power of Prayer...

2011-05-05T00:27:00.001-07:00

"There are a hundred reasons to cry but a thousand reasons to smile!"

Louise Redden, a poorly dressed lady with a look of defeat on her face, walked into a grocery store..

She approached the owner of the store in a most humble manner and asked if he would let her charge a few groceries.

She softly explained that her husband was very ill and unable to work, they had seven children and they needed food.

John Longhouse, the grocer, scoffed at her and requested that she leave his store at once.

Visualising the family needs, she said: 'Please, sir! I will bring you the money just as soon as I can.'

John told her he could not give her credit, since she did not have a charge account at his store.

Standing beside the counter was a customer who overheard the conversation between the two. The customer walked forward and told the grocer that he would stand good for whatever she needed for her family. The grocer said in a very reluctant voice, 'Do you have a grocery list?'

Louise replied, 'Yes sir.' 'O.K' he said, 'put your grocery list on the scales and whatever your grocery list weighs, I will give you that amount in groceries..'

Louise hesitated a moment with a bowed head, then she reached into her purse and took out a piece of paper and scribbled something on it. She then laid the piece of paper on the scale carefully with her head still bowed.

The eyes of the grocer and the customer showed amazement when the scales went down and stayed down.

The grocer, staring at the scales, turned slowly to the customer and said begrudgingly, 'I can't believe it.'

The customer smiled and the grocer started putting the groceries on the other side of the scales. The scale did not balance so he continued to put more and more groceries on them until the scales would hold no more.

The grocer stood there in utter disgust. Finally, he grabbed the piece of paper from the scales and looked at it with greater amazement.

It was not a grocery list, it was a prayer, which said:

'Dear Lord, you know my needs and I am leaving this in your hands.'

The grocer gave her the groceries that he had gathered and stood in stunned silence.

Louise thanked him and left the store.... The other customer handed a fifty-dollar bill to the grocer and said; 'It was worth every penny of it. Only God Knows how much a prayer weighs..'

THE POWER: When you receive this, say a prayer. That's all you have to do.

So dear heart, trust God to heal the sick, provide food for the hungry, clothes and shelter for those that don't have as we do. Amen & Amen

Zodiac Signs and stones

2011-05-05T00:24:00.001-07:00

Zodiac Signs and stones

Birthstones have been around in one form or another nearly as long as people have. Most gem historians believe our ancestors regarded gems as sacred gifts from the heavens. Some people theorize that the earliest associations between gemstones and months of the year evolved from the twelve stones mentioned in the Bible as being on the breastplate of the high priest, while others attribute the development of the birthstones to the Twelve Apostles. Still other religions have produced quite different beliefs.

ARIES (21MAR-19APR) : For Aries , the lucky stone is Coral. This helps you in achieving love, peace and financial success.

TAURUS (20APR-21MAY) : For Taurus, the lucky stone is Turqouis FirozaThis helps you in controlling your anger and removes the obstacles in your life.

GEMINI (22MAY-21JUNE) : For Gemini , the lucky stone is Emerald. This helps in getting rid of habits like restlessness, impatience and help in completing work rather than leaving it in the middle.

CANCER (22JUNE-22JULY) : For Cancer, the lucky stone is Pearl. This helps in getting rid of your habits like inferiority complex, mood fluctuations and pessimist nature.

LEO (23JULY-AUG22) : For Leo, the lucky stone is Ruby. This helps in getting rid of violent, arrogant, boastful, impulsive, egotistical and impatience nature.

VIRGO (AUG23-SEP22) : For Virgo, the lucky stone is Emerald. This helps in getting rid of narrow, rigid and quarrelsome habbits.

LIBRA (SEP23-OCT23) : For Libra, the lucky stone is Opal. This helps in dealing with easy going, sometimes selfish and changeable nature.

SCORPIO (24OCT-21NOV) : For Scorpio, the lucky stone is Coral. This helps in controlling habits like being possessive, dominating, jealousy, cunningness which are obstacles in your path of success.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV22-DEC21) : For Sagittarious, the lucky stone is Turqouise. These can help in dealing with th habbits like boastful, aggressive over confident and prone to exaggeration and achieving your goals.

CAPRICORN (DEC22-JAN19) : For Capricorn, the lucky stone is Garnet. This helps you in getting rid of your suspicious pessimistic, and selfish nature.

AQUARIUS (JAN20-FEB19) : For Aquarius, the lucky stone is Amethyst. This helps you in getting rid of your suspicious pessimistic, and selfish nature.

PISCES (FEB20-MAR20) : For Pisces , the lucky stone is Cat’s eye. This helps you in controling your habits like impracticality and mood fluctuations.

http://luckystones.webs.com/gemsbyastrology.htm

Gemstones and their magical properties

2011-05-05T00:16:00.000-07:00

Gemstones and their magical properties

In the past, jewellery was much more than a decoration and beauty object. Minerals and metals employed in the jewellery were selected and combined together to create a desired “magic” or “healing” effect, to bring help and protection against particular ills or enemies. Talismans and amulets were sought after as powerful instruments in the struggle with evil forces and different diseases, as important “magical tools”.

What are the “magical” properties that the minerals which compose various gemstones may possess? It is believed that minerals can accumulate and channel large amounts of energy to the wearer, as well as enclose and transmit to the outside various codes (information), fulfill protective functions, influence mood and temperament of its wearer, etc.

Most minerals combine not one, but several aspects of magical powers. After centuries of observations and studies it is possible today to distinguish between “happy”, “unhappy”, “friendly”, “unkind” stones, and so on.
Some stones, under special conditions, are capable to emit a powerful, coherent beam of light. This effect is known as laser radiation.
From various ancient sources we learn about miraculous crowns and necklaces decorated by gemstones (mainly Rubies and Diamonds) that were able to deeply affect mentality of the wearer.

The laser beam, although barely visible, can penetrate deeply into a living tissue.
For example, Alexandrite is capable to create such radiation continuously. Alexandrite laser is used in engineering to evaluate the temperature and pressure of gaseous environment. Installed in the front part of airplane, an Alexandrite gage warns pilots about possible turbulence in advance.
Laser effect may indeed be the source of many magical properties of gemstones. Special method of photography (developed by Kirlian) revealed that different crystals have different radiation spectra. Even crystals of the same mineral have strictly individual radiation. In fact, each crystal has its own “energy encryption”, “crystal fingerprints”.

Besides emitting its own radiation, many crystals have the ability to change – absorb, reflect and redirect an external radiation, in particular sunlight. As the result , we observe colors and color changes in gemstones. Many precious and semiprecious stones are transparent and have a strong shine, it means they have an ability to absorb and reflect and consequently, to change radiant energy. Scientists have established that color of minerals is connected to ions of the elements capable at insignificant external influence to give up electrons, entering in a crystal lattice.

The gemstone "breathes” lives its own internal life. Its external manifestation makes a set of qualities which name “magical”.

Magicians and sorcerers were the first to pay attention to the relationship between person and stone. The first thing people pay attention at, is a dependence of "magical" properties of a stone on its color and color’s intensity. Stones of red, violet, dark blue, green colors have the strongest influence on the person; yellow minerals and rocks influence to a lesser degree.
Diamond stands apart among colorless stones. Influence of Diamond is so substantial, that can change the fate not only of its owner, but also of his relatives.

Tiny additions of some metals, such as iron, copper, manganese, chrome, lithium can have a significant effect on the energy of a crystal.

Dr. Carl (Karl) Ludwig von Reichenbach was one of the first scientists who investigated unusual phenomena in crystals. He established that around the stones there is a certain force field, not visible and not felt by the majority of people. Any self-organizing system, whether it be a mineral or a person, acts as an oscillator with the certain frequency of fluctuations. When frequencies coincide, there is a resonance, i.e. an information and energy exchange between the stone and the person.

Be adjusted on your gemstone frequency, and you receive effect.
Some magical properties of minerals are connected with their natural weak radio-activity. It is typical for Carnelian and Amber. The ability of Carnelian to stir up, strengthen the body and to inflame passions is caused by a tiny amount of radium. That is why it is recommended to be worn not constantly, but periodically.

Every stone has its own magical power and its own philosophy. During the whole history of mankind people searched for a philosophical stone, not suspecting, that each person has his own one.

If you look closely at a stone, you'll see, that it lives its own full life. It is alive and can feel any shades of mood, accept them or not accept, it can serve you, protect you, and it can even manipulate you or guide you.

Brought into human society, a natural gemstone which once was a piece of mountain or simply an element of the earth became separate and individual formation, it was born anew.

But stone bears with itself spirit of that place, whence it has came, a smell of that sea, light of that sun, and also century wisdom of the earth, the sky and ocean. In each natural gemstone - and in each product from it the history of the earth and, certainly, the person is embodied.

http://www.jewels-empire.com/gems_magical_properties_page2.html

Healing Stones

2011-05-05T00:11:00.000-07:00

diamond
Element Fire
Diamond is a stone of exceptional power and miraculous abilities. It is a king of gems, the strongest precious stone. Ancient Greeks named it "adamas", meaning invincible, indestructible. Diamond is usually colorless or exhibiting pale hues of yellow, brown, blue, grey, pink, green colors. Brightly colored Diamonds are unique; invariably they attract a lot of admiration, acquire individual names and detailed descriptions. If Diamond is properly faceted, it will sparkle with multi-colored rays of light. Famous Persian poet Hafiz remarked "the rainbow is confined in it forever".
Astrologists regard Diamond as a stone of Sun and Venus.

Talismans & amulets
Diamond is one of the amulets of motherhood. In antiquity Diamond was considered a symbol of purity and innocence. It also symbolized perfection, invincibility, force and authority. Diamond is capable to drive away fears and to protect the owner from negative influences. Diamond is an amulet that protects against fire, water, snakes, thieves, illnesses, predatory animals, sorcery, poison. Mary Stuart always had Diamond with her, believing it will help to identify a poison. Always having a piece of Diamond hardwired in one's clothes protects the owner from evil eye and evil spell.

Healing properties
Diamond strengthens all the energy centers of its wearer. In the East Diamond is used as heart tonifier. For this purpose it has to be placed for a night in a glass of water, and on the next day patient should drink this water in several steps. Since old times people believed Diamonds are miracle stones. It was believed, that a person carrying Diamonds will not be bothered by stomach aches. Moreover, neither poison nor memory loss will affect him. A variety of surprising healing properties were attributed to Diamonds. Ancient Hindus considered that "vibrations" of a Diamond stone render positive influence on various organs of the body, in particular on heart and brain. It was also believed, that Diamonds protect the owner from illnesses, drive away bad dreams, fight severe depressions, prevent apoplexy and formation of /calculi/. Furthermore, Diamond reduces fever, fights infections, helps with skin diseases, reduces physical tiredness and invigorates metabolism. The ring with Diamond helps at delivery at birth. The Green Diamonds, especially helpful for the latter, are considered a symbol of motherhood.

Magical properties
Since ancient times Diamond was believed to exert favourable influence on its owner. It was said that the stone provides strength, courage and invincibility in fights. Diamond always was considered a stone of winner; it was the talisman of Julius Caesar, Louis IV and Napoleon. Diamond makes the person invincible, preserves against sorcery, reflects negative energy back to its sender, helps to keep the mind clear and focused and strengthens abstract thinking. Magical properties of Diamond depend on its quality: stones with defects and cracks are considered dangerous and even fateful. The mount should not prevent Diamond from touching the skin, otherwise its magical properties will disappear. For stronger influence it is recommended to wear Diamond on the left hand and on the neck.

Chakras
Chakra Seven: Sahasrara
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tourmaline
Element Air
Tourmaline is available in a wide variety of colors: from black to bluish-black, dark brown, yellow, medium brown, blue to neon blue, lime to dark forest-green, red and reddish purple, yellow, pink, and even colourless. Some Tourmaline varieties even change their colors when brought from the daylight into a room with artificial lighting. Green and pink are two most common tourmaline hues.

Talismans & amulets
As amulets, Tourmalines of all kinds help to preserve youthfulness and strengthen marriages. Tourmaline promotes safe procreation and grant potency to men.

Healing properties
Tourmalines of any color have positive influence on endocrine and nervous systems. They eliminate fears, sharpen attentiveness to other people's feelings and needs.

Magical properties
Red Tourmaline possesses the most powerful magical force, as it brings happiness in love to men, boosts their energy and strengthens their potency. Crimson Tourmaline is a talisman for artists, as it activates their creative power. Green Tourmaline absorbs excessive energy, calms nervous system. A Multi-colour Tourmaline - red with green - is the stone of creative and erotic impulses which preserves youthful vigour.

Chakras
Black Tourmaline - Chakra Three: Manipura, Chakra Two: Svadhisthana; red Tourmaline - Chakra One: Muladhara; green Tourmaline - Chakra Four: Anahata; blue Tourmaline - Chakra Six: Ajna, Chakra Five: Vissuddha

opal
Element Water
Opal is a stone of sympathy and compassion, pure thoughts and confidence. It is the most unpredictable stone, a symbol of ever-changing fortune. The name "opal" originated from Sanskrit «upala» which means "jewel". Colors of Opal are very diverse (almost all colors of the spectrum). There are more then 100 color varieties of Opal. When submerged in water, some varieties of Opal become semitransparent. The Opals are known to humanity at least since 250 B.C. An opal stone was inserted into a crown of Roman emperor Constantine who claimed that this stone shines in darkness, and believed it protects imperial authority, and his life. In his numerous stories about Opal he mentioned one miracle property of this stone which will allow the wearer to become invisible. Naturally, opal became the talisman of thieves. Some people thought Opal is a stone of "vain hope" while others believed that Opal's sparkles clarify mind, give pure thoughts and drive fears away. In the East Opal was considered the stone of faith and love, in Europe it was a symbol of hope and happiness. According to Delphian oracle, Opal is a symbol inconstancy, typical in beautiful women. Shakespeare also shared this opinion. Astrologists consider Opal a stone of the Moon.

Talismans & amulets
Opal talisman boosts foresight. According to some legends Opal's wearer can telepathically influence other people - if not for his own profit. As a talisman, Opal is supposed to be worn on the right index finger, gold-mounted. As an amulet, Opal works best when in trinket. White Opal helps musicians and composers. Fiery Opal protects from natural disasters. Black Opal is a stone of Scorpio.

Healing properties
It was believed that water, fire and heat are enclosed in Opal so it is a remedy for many diseases. Opal helps against heart diseases, calms nerves, guards against melancholy, restores visual acuity, normalizes functioning of epiphysis and hypophysis.

Magical properties
It is a stone of deceptive hopes and illusions, secret passions, superstitions, the favourite stone of magicians and alchemists. Opals intensify intuition and promote inspiration. Opals help recollect the past lives. Magical properties are related to the color of stone and since Opal's colors are very diverse so are its magical properties. For example, on one hand Opal as a stone of sympathy and compassion is a protector of Nurses and Doctors, on the other hand it is a stone of thieves; it can clarify spirit and thoughts and also can induce its wearer to foolish actions. People with instable character would better avoid wearing Opal. To increase Opal's magical properties it should be mounted in gold or silver. Opal reaches its maximum power in October.

Chakras
All chakras
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Agate is a symbol of health, prosperity and longevity.
It is a striped variety of chalcedony with different layers exhibiting different tints. Agates have very diverse appearances and do not resemble each other. There are more then 150 varieties of Agate. This stone is named after the river Ahates (now river Dirillo) on the island of Sicily. The agate has been found and extracted there from ancient times. Usually Agate was used to make cameos. The Eye Agate was used as inserts in statues as well as for manufacturing talismans and amulets to protect against "evil eye", "bedevilling", sorcery, etc. Some call Agate “The Twelfth Anniversary Gift” as by the twelfth year of family life a married couple supposedly knows already all the shades, nuances and stripes of coexistence. Astrologists consider Agate as a stone of Mercury, Venus, Moon and Saturn.

Talismans & amulets
As a talisman Agate is used to promote courage and self-confidence it also promotes longevity. As an amulet Agate guards against sorcerers and vampires, shields from alcoholic, smoking and drug addictions, strengthen the memory, drives away depressing thoughts and nightmares. Placing an Agate under your pillow will grant you happy dreams. Black Agate is man's talisman. Ring with the black Agate makes the wearer irresistible in woman's opinion and also increases his sexual energy. Light Agates since old days are considered woman's protectors.

Healing properties
In the Middle Age healers recommended to wear Agate beads to those suffering from chronic cough, throat and dental diseases. To strengthen the stone's healing power, requests about health were engraved on the surface of Agate balls; Agate cameos with symbolic picture of disease were also popular (for example, woman with a loose hair symbolized migraine), as it was believed this will drive away the illness. According to an ancient superstition, grinding Agate in water gives strong medicinal properties to water. This water can be used to heal wounds, as well as stings / bites of snakes or animals. Agate strengthens sight, settles digestion, protects from kidney diseases, improves hearing and guards against dehydration and skin diseases. Black Agate has positive influence on intestines, especially on the large intestine, improves a condition of blood and lymphatic system.

Magical properties
Ancient Greeks believed that Agate amulet confers to the wearer prudence and guards him against dark thoughts and unrequited love. In the Ancient Rome Agate was devoted to Goddess of fertility and it was considered the stone of farmers and gardeners. It was believed that placing the Agate balls along the garden fence will protect the plants from adverse weather conditions. Pliny the Elder affirmed that Agate helps athletes to win, as it confers to them serenity, courage and power and also suppresses excessive anger. It was also believed that Agate has an ability to give to the wearer eloquence, attraction, convincingness in speeches and self-confidence. Black Agate protects from danger, gives power against forces of darkness, and brings emotions into equilibrium.

Chakras
Depends on its color, Agate may be used on any charka.
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Far better it is to dare mighty things …

2011-04-19T21:35:00.000-07:00

Far better it is to dare mighty things …

Here is a little mid-week inspiration, one of my favourite quotes on “doing”:
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.  It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Good Luck Stone

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http://www.crystalsandjewelry.com/crystalsandstones/goodluckset.html
It contains crystals and stones for increasing one's good luck energies: 1 Tree Agate, Tumble, 1 Citrine Tumble, 1 Natural Pyrite Rough, 1 Tiger Iron rough (drilled), 1 Alluvial Topaz, and 2 Small Clear Quartz Tumbles to boost the energies of the other stones.

Lucky Stones

2011-04-19T21:25:00.000-07:00

The gemstones help change the life force around you and that is how gemstones can change your luck.

Need lucky protection - Agate gemstone
Need luck in gambling - Aventurine gemstone
Need luck in gambling - Tourmaline gemstone

Need a better relationship - Hematite gemstone
Need double luck in any situation - Tourmaline gemstone

Need luck in getting physical energy - Carnelian gemstone
Need luck in getting physical energy - Smokey Quartz gemstone

Prayers Nourish Your Soul

2011-04-03T01:28:00.001-07:00

Prayers Nourish Your Soul

Prayer develops our soul into its full potential.

Nothing can compare to the inner growth that is available in prayer and meditation. Prayers train and develop the faculties that express more and more of our genius... our fullness of being.

All of us have a mission for greatness in life, and we all share the same 'common well'. Prayer connects us with God and supplies us with the nourishment we need for our self-actualization.

Prayer is that direct pipe-line that accesses the water of life within.

While many can get by with some sort of 'spiritual hydration' from beauty, from good literature... it is in prayer that we draw the purest, cleanest and most abundant form.

Again, it is no coincidence that all of the greatest souls that have shaped the world for the better, have all used prayer as their fundamental tool. That is in itself proof.

The legacy of prayers that we have from the great saints, poets and philosophers can provide you with the nourishment needed to transform that spirit 'seed-potential', into a mighty oak. When you feed your spirit with the exact same nutrients that the Greatest Souls have, - you will know first hand your source of true genius, power and love.

Connection quotes

2011-04-03T01:22:00.000-07:00

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Anais Nin

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
Anais Nin

“When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves”
Jack Kornfield

“Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.”
Augustine of Hippo

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment”
George Washington

“I'm angry. I'm sad. It's a very difficult and sad time. It was a real deep connection, a deep marriage, so it's not that simple to say this or that one thing caused the problems. It's clear to me that our priorities shifted overnight. He's focused on his music and career. I'm focused on my baby.”
Angelina Jolie

Star in my eyes

2011-04-02T23:55:00.001-07:00

The Healing Power of Dolphins

2011-03-27T22:47:00.000-07:00

The Healing Power of Dolphins
By Susan Dillon, M.A.
The dolphins are here to bring more light into the world. One of the ways they do this is to remind us who we are. They say we are Pure Light and Pure Love! Let that sink in for a moment. Dolphins are multidimensional unconditionally loving beings. In their infinite compassion and caring for the human race they are bringing us the message that this is who we are also.

Dolphins help heal this planet energetically. They remember their times in Lemeuria and Atlantis and hold that vision for us especially when they are healing the planet by repairing and upgrading the ley lines that connect the sacred sites all over the world and support the spiritual etheric energetic structure of our world.

A purely physical way that dolphins heal is through the high-pitched sounds they make (way out of our range of hearing) they create serotonin in our brains. Have you noticed how happy everyone is when they are around dolphins? I have found that I can call in the dolphins even when I am not physically with them and ask for more serotonin and I then feel a lightness and subtle enlivening in my mood. Just connect with the dolphins in your heart and call their energy in to you. You can do it whenever you wish.

Often when dolphins approach you in the water they will scan you with their sonar. You may hear clicking buzzing sounds as they send sound waves through your body in order to receive back a picture of what is happening inside your body. Dolphin swimmers report that dolphins have even bumped their body with their nostrums (nose) at a place on their bodies where they had a problem and later it felt better or the problem was even gone. I am not sure how this works but it seems through sound they are also able to heal.

What does it mean that dolphins are multidimensional?

Dolphins can exist and function in many different dimensions at the same time as can many spiritually advanced humans. Research in quantum physics now shows us that there are 12 dimensions and we live in the 3rd dimension. In addition to my own experiences-there are many people who have swam with dolphins that report multidimensional experiences such as “no time or space awareness”, a feeling of expansion to include everything or colors and sounds and visions that are not of this 3D world.

Dolphins communicate with us in many ways. When they communicate telepathically the receiver often has a sense of knowing or a sense of feeling in their body. The communication is not always in words but often as feelings such a sense of joy, total acceptance, extreme aliveness and oneness. Also it can be a release of deep-rooted self-doubt, anger or fear. The communication can also be received as an image, like an energy packet, in your mind. These can be scenes where everything seems okay, our life appears sparkling and magical, or you see yourself as the person you’ve always wanted to be. Some of these energy packets continue to unfold for days or weeks after a dolphin swim.

One of the profound healings I had from the dolphins was an experience they gave me of love and totally loving myself that I remember so clearly to this day. That experience shifted and cleared my emotional body and heart so permanently that my experience of myself has been joyously expanded ever since that day. Anyone can have these experiences, which are very healing.

Author's Bio
Susan Lewella Dillon, M.A., is an Intuitive Artist, author of Dolphin Alchemy-the Healing Power of the Dolphins

http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the-healing-power-of-dolphins

SECRET POWER of PYRAMIDS !

2011-03-26T00:12:00.000-07:00

SECRET POWER of PYRAMIDS !

Pyramid power is supernatural or paranormal properties of the ancient Egyptian pyramids and objects of similar shape. This power, is said to preserve foods, maintain the sharpness of razor blades, improve health function, trigger sexual urges and cause other dramatic effects.
Pyramid power is one of many theories, referred to as pyramidology.
Some of the effects are:
Food kept under a pyramid will stay fresh for two to three times longer than uncovered food. Artificial flavorings in food will loose their taste, but natural flavors are enhanced.
The taste of foods change; they become less bitter or acid. Spectrographic reading of the treated item will show a change in the molecular structure.
The pyramid will dehydrate and mummify things, without decay or mold growing.
There is also a slowing or complete stopping of the growth of microorganisms.
Kirlian photographs show the aura to be significantly brighter after a 15 minute exposure period.

Reactions to pyramid environments:.
Persons living, meditate, work or sleep inside of a pyramid building or under a pyramid framework, generally feel immediate positive reactions. Creatures are magnetically attracted to Pyramid replicas.
Testimonials from several sources, demonstrate that pets of all kinds thrive under, or within open frame pyramids. Dogs and cats are observed to respond to the pyramids.

Pyramid research:
Bill Kerell is a researcher who experimented with pyramids for about 17 years. He has done many experiments using brine shrimp. Brine shrimp usually live 6 to 7 weeks; but under the pyramids, Bill has kept them alive for over a year. He also noticed that pyramid-grown shrimp grew two to three times larger than normal. Bill has also done a lot of work with humans.
One of the things he and his associates have found is that hypertensive individuals become tranquilized, but lethargic people become energetic again.

A lot of work has been done with individuals who meditate. The theta and alpha brain waves are increased. These frequencies are also higher and the signal strength is twice the 9amplitude of normal. Dr. Carl Benedicks (a Swedish scientist) discovered that the pyramid produced a resonance or frequency inside it. Two German scientists, Born and Lertes, also discovered that this frequency was in the microwave range.
Researchers discovered that items placed under a pyramid stay "charged" for various lengths of time after being taken from under the pyramid. Crystals and water keeps their "charge" longer than anything else.

Doctors have been experimenting with Pyramids.
A Canadian hospital tried using a pyramid in their burn ward. The results were that after being under the pyramid for a few minutes, the patients' pain started to reduce.
They also found that burns areas healed much faster.

How a Pyramid Works ?
Negative Ions help to reproduce and repair body cells. They're transmitted into the body through the air and are circulated by the blood. Too many positive ions (the result of air pollution) can cause depression, and ultimately, illlnesses. Thus, negative ions have a beneficial effect on the body.
Pyramids generate negative ions. In addition, they are believed to have a generally balancing effect on the body's electromagnetic field. This effect is greatly enhanced if the materials used, is gold or copper.

* Charging Crystals is a popular use with pyramids. Quartz crystals are most effective for that, as they hold the charge for several weeks. These crystals can then be used for healing purpose as they release their charge into the surrounding.
* Large pyramids (the kind you sit inside) are often used for meditation, massage, acupuncture, and Reiki.
* Many people have also experienced that after sleeping inside a pyramid they find that they need less sleep and feel more relaxed and at peace when they wake up.
* Many people put their drinking water in pyramids to charge it with the pyramid's negative ions.
It is recommended to put a glass inside a pyramid for about half-an-hour, and large quantities overnight.
* The pyramid activates the energies of the pineal and pituitary glands Users experience balance, relaxation, tranquility, well-being, and in some instances, the reduction of headaches.

Evidence From Ancient Egyptian Tombs:
Egyptologists have found well preserved grain in tombs that is thousands of years old. In sharp contrast, grains stored in modern silos usually spoils after only a few seasons of storage. Grain in modern silos usually keeps no longer than four years.

The preservation of organic material in pyramids has received a lot of attention in popular books. In the 1930s, a Frenchman named Antoine Bovis observed that a dead cat in the Great Pyramid did not decompose. The animal apparently wandered into the King's Chamber and perished before finding an exit route. The cat's body dried out, although the air in the King's Chamber is always humid.
The animal apparently wandered into the King's Chamber and perished before finding an exit route. The cat's body dried out, although the air in the King's Chamber is always humid.

Bovis's observation gave rise to the idea of 'pyramid power,' which preserve organic matter. Advocates of pyramid power include a French radiologist named Jean Martial; an electronics engineer from Prague named Karl Drbal; author and biologist Lyall Watson; and physicist Patrick Flanagan.
Small models made of paper, wood or other materials, have been tested for desiccating organic matter and sharpening razor blades. Several tests have demonstrated pyramid to be capable of preserving organic matter.

At Saqqara, Egypt, Egyptologists excavated a tomb of a woman of lesser nobility. In accordance with funerary customs, an elaborate meal was set out on pottery platters. The meal consisted of porridge, quail, kidneys, pigeon, fish, beef ribs, triangular loaves of bread, cakes and fruits. Their state of preservation was so excellent that Egyptologists easily recognized all of the foods in the entire meal, although it is almost 5,000 years old.
The example suggests that shape is the key to the phenomenon popularly known as ' pyramid power.'

Conclusion: Some experiments using properly oriented model pyramids, built of a variety of materials and oriented to the Earth's north-south axis, have preserved organic matter. My own experiments conducted in the mid-1980s included a number of small, model pyramids and closed vessels of other shapes.

MEDITATION IN PYRAMIDS:
Careful study reveals several unique and beneficial qualities that may be derived from Pyramid Meditation. Experienced Meditators relate profound results in their quest for expanded awareness.Many people feel that psychic powers are stimulated or heighten by the use of pyramids.
Psychics who use pyramids in that fashion have achieved an altered state of consciousness more rapidly than they would have otherwise, placed on the head focussing through the chakra system, during Meditation sessions, clearing psychic passages which may have become blocked.
The pyramid is a geometric amplifier which increases the power of prayer or strengthens the spiritual request of a religious devotee.
Pyramid Meditators suggest that the best results are achieved by sitting upright with the upper chakras located approximately one third up from the pyramid base directly under the apex.
The use of a pyramid in meditation can excellerate the process bringing feelings of calmness, wellbeing and a more open and positive attitude. Many users claim increased memory recall, visions of past incarnations, telepathic communication and an expansion of awareness.
Verbal and written testimonials, among experienced and non-experienced pyramid meditators throughout the world have reported that the pyramid shows the following reactions.
1. A sense of weightlessness.
2. Electric-like tingling sensations.
3. Feelings of warmness, usually in the upper portions of the body.
4. Tranquility, relaxation and freedom from tensions.
5. Dreams with vivid colors and graphic visions.
6. External stimuli, sight and sounds particularly fade away.
7. Time distortion, Space consciousness prevails.
8. Deeper, more fulfilling meditations and higher energy levels .

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