On Resonance, Frequency, & The Body

Posted on November 29, 2014 by marcia

Frequency, DNA and The Human Body

on 25 November, 2014 at 17:37

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J. Richardson, Prevent Disease, Guest | Your entire existence…all matter, all life, all experiences–everything owes its existence in the physical world to frequency. Absolutely everything is frequency. You cannot have an experience on this planet without attracting it through frequency. Every emotion, including love and hate tunes into a specific frequency. Health has a frequency. Disease has frequency. Your organs are each tuned to a specific frequency as is your entire body which resonates at its own frequency. You are a symphony of frequencies while you project yourself through this universe and create your physical reality. You are a master of your energy, and thus you are able to control everything you are, everything you do, everything you experience. From the day you are born until the day you die, nothing will ever change the fact that you are both a frequency emitter and receiver in flux with your internal and external environment.

DNA possesses two structural characteristics of fractal antennas, electronic conduction and self symmetry. Electrical conduction allows the movement of electrically charged particles within the body and that flow produces our life force.

Life itself as we know it is inextricably interwoven with geometric forms, from the angles of atomic bonds in the molecules of the amino acids, to the helical spirals of DNA, to the spherical prototype of the cell, to the first few cells of an organism which assume vesical, tetrahedral, and star (double) tetrahedral forms prior to the diversification of tissues for different physiological functions.

The molecules of our DNA, the cornea of our eye, snow flakes, pine cones, flower petals, diamond crystals, the branching of trees, a nautilus shell, the star we spin around, the galaxy we spiral within, the air we breathe, and all life forms as we know them emerge out of timeless geometric codes.

Our human bodies on this planet all developed with a common geometric progression from one to two to four to eight primal cells and beyond.

The universe is more than 99.999% empty space, including our own bodies. All physical things are made of atoms which are mostly empty space. If the nucleus was the size of a marble, the electrons would be specks of dust a half mile away. Every physical thing has that much empty space in it. Inside that empty space is intelligence and frequency.

Almost everywhere we look, the mineral intelligence embodied within crystalline structures follows a geometry unfaltering in its exactitude. The lattice patterns of crystals all express the principles of mathematical perfection and repetition of a fundamental essence, each with a characteristic spectrum of resonances defined by the angles, lengths and relational orientations of its atomic components.

Golden ratio of segments in 5-pointed star (pentagram) were considered sacred to plato and pythagoras in their mystery schools. Note that each larger (or smaller) section is related by the phi ratio, so that a power series of the golden ratio raised to successively higher (or lower) powers are automatically generated

Fibonacci ratios appear in the ratio of the number of spiral arms in daisies, in the chronology of rabbit populations, in the sequence of leaf patterns as they twist around a branch, and a myriad of places in nature where self-generating patterns are in effect. The sequence is the rational progression towards the irrational number embodied in the quintessential golden ratio.

The world and the universe around us are filled with sacred geometry and the golden ratio. From seashells to the human body, from the cosmos to the atom, all forms are permeated with the shapes found in sacred geometry.While sacred geometry theories can be verified mathematically, it is also a field which holds much interest to many different religious communities who can find that it holds deep spiritual meaning for them. Scientists, archaeologists, mathematicians, and many spiritual seekers study sacred geometry as well.

The human genome is packed with at least four million gene switches that reside in bits of DNA that once were dismissed as “junk” but it turns out that so-called junk DNA plays critical roles in controlling how cells, organs and other tissues behave. The discovery, considered a major medical and scientific breakthrough, has enormous implications for human health and consciousness because many complex diseases appear to be caused by tiny changes in hundreds of gene switches.

As scientists delved into the “junk” — parts of the DNA that are not actual genes containing instructions for proteins — they discovered a complex system that controls genes. At least 80 percent of this DNA is active and needed. Another 15-17 percent has higher functions scientists are still decoding.

Most of the molecules in the body are electrical dipoles. These dipoles electronically function like transducers in that they are able to turn acoustic waves into electrical waves and electrical waves into acoustic waves.

A number of membrane proteins as well as DNA consist of helical coils, which may allow them to electronically function as inductor coils. Biological tissues may possess superconducting properties. If certain membrane proteins and the DNA actually function as electrical inductors they may enable the cell to transiently produce very high electrical voltages.

Chronic disease occurs when voltage drops below a certain voltage. Cells then don’t have enough energy to work correctly and amount of oxygen in cells drops, switching from aerobic (oxygen- available) metabolism to anaerobic (oxygen diminished) metabolism.

The natural properties of biomolecular structures enables cell components and whole cells to oscillate and interact resonantly with other cells. The cells of the body and cellular components possess the ability to function as electrical resonators.

Professor H. Frohlich has predicted that the fundamental oscillation in cell membranes occurs at frequencies of the order of 100 GHz and that biological systems possess the ability to create and utilize coherent oscillations and respond to external oscillations.

Because cell membranes are composed of dielectric materials a cell will behave as dielectric resonator and will produce an evanescent electromagnetic field in the space around itself. This field does not radiate energy but is capable of interacting with similar systems.

The applications of certain frequencies by frequency generating devices can enhance or interfere with cellular resonance and cellular metabolic and electrical functions. The changes in the degree that water is structured in a cell or in the ECM will affect the configurations and liquid crystal properties of proteins, cell membranes, organelle membranes and DNA.

Healthy tissues have more structured water than unhealthy tissues. Clinicians who recognize this fact have found that certain types of music, toning, chanting, tuning forks, singing bowls, magnetic waters, certain types of frequency generators, phototherapy treatments and homeopathic preparations can improve water structuring in the tissues and health when they are correctly utilized. Electricity, charge carriers and electrical properties of cells.

The cells of the body are composed of matter. Matter itself is composed of atoms, which are mixtures of negatively charged electrons, positively charged protons and electrically neutral neutrons. When an electron is forced out of its orbit around the nucleus of an atom the electron’s action is known as electricity. An electron, an atom, or a material with an excess of electrons has a negative charge.

There are multiple structures in cells that act as electronic components. If biological tissues and components of biological tissues can receive, transduce and transmit electric, acoustic, magnetic, mechanical and thermal vibrations then this may help explain such phenomena as:

1. Biological reactions to atmospheric electromagnetic and ionic disturbance (sunspots, thunder storms and earthquakes).

2. Biological reactions to the earth’s geomagnetic and Schumann fields.

3. Biological reactions to hands on healing.

4. Biological responses to machines that produce electric, magnetic, photonic and acoustical vibrations (frequency generators).

5. Medical devices that detect, analyze and alter biological electromagnetic fields (the biofield).

6. How techniques such as acupuncture, moxibustion, and laser (photonic) acupuncture can result in healing effects and movement of Chi?

7. How body work such as deep tissue massage, rolfing, physical therapy, chiropractics can promote healing?

8. Holographic communication.

9. How neural therapy works

10. How electrodermal screening works

11. How some individuals have the capability of feeling, interpreting and correcting alterations in another individual’s biofield

Electric fields need to be measured not just as strong or weak, but also as low carriers or high carriers of information.

The Russian biophysicist and molecular biologist Pjotr Garjajev and his colleagues also explored the vibrational behavior of the DNA. The bottom line was: “Living chromosomes function just like solitonic/holographic computers using the endogenous DNA laser radiation.” This means that they managed for example to modulate certain frequency patterns onto a laser ray and with it influenced the DNA frequency and thus the genetic information itself.

Because electric fields conventionally defined as strong thermally may be low in biological information content and electric fields conventionally considered as thermally weak or non-ionizing may be high in biological information content if the proper receiving equipment exists in biological tissues. Weak electromagnetic fields are: bioenergetic, bioinformational, non-ionizing and non-thermal and exert measurable biological effects. Weak electromagnetic fields have effects on biological organisms, tissues and cells that are highly frequency specific and the dose response curve is non linear. Because the effects of weak electromagnetic fields are non-linear, fields in the proper frequency and amplitude windows may produce large effects, which may be beneficial or harmful.

Homeopathy is an example of use weak field with a beneficial electromagnetic effect. Examples of a thermally weak, but high informational content fields of the right frequency range are visible light and healing touch. Biological tissues have electronic components that can receive, transduce, transmit weak electronic signals that are actually below thermal noise.

Biological organisms use weak electromagnetic fields (electric and photonic) to communicate with all parts of themselves An electric field can carry information through frequency and amplitude fluctuations.

Biological organisms are holograms.

Those healthy biological organisms have coherent biofields and unhealthy organisms have field disruptions and unintegrated signals. It is said that frequency and thus vibration is the variable of dependence. The genetic wave information from DNA, recorded within the polarizations of connected photons, being quantum-nonlocal, constitutes a broadband radio wave spectrum correlated by means of polarizations with the photons.

There is at present on our planet, a great schism in belief regarding resonant frequency. There are those who believe that yes, we all vibrate to the same frequency, whether it is the vibrational rate of the energy points or the vibrational rate of the liver. And many of these are people who believe they have indeed figured out the vibrational rate of the various organs, other bodily parts and etheric fields have invented instruments, made tapes or created machines which will somehow project the correct resonant frequency back in to the body to heal what ails you.

Then, there are others who believe that we are all unique vibratory beings; that the frequencies of our organs and bodily systems may be different and are not the same.

One fact will always remain…we are all energy bounded by frequency. How we interpret ourselves and our universe is guided by the one elusive concept that scientists still find mysterious, yet intriguing. Until that day comes when more research is devoted to how frequencies affect our entire existence, the answers to those mysteries will remain unanswered.

About the Author

Josh Richardson is blogger, healer, and a constant pursuer of the natural state of human consciousness.

from: http://themindunleashed.org/2014/11/frequency-dna-human-body.html

Edible Medicinal Plants

Posted on November 27, 2014 by marcia

Highly Nutritious and Medicinal Edible Plants That Will Supercharge Your Health

HJ: The list below encompasses some of the most powerful, medicinal and nutritious edible plants on the planet at this time. As they are medicines, they should be used with care. The plants clearly labelled to be included in the diet can be used more liberally, however, the more powerfully medicinal plants (which are marked as so), should be treated with respect and intake should be limited.

We recommend using fresh herbs liberally in your cooking and emphasizing the section D plants in your diet regularly as these are the safest and some of the most nutritious of the bunch. Even then, however, we recommend starting slowly. It is not that the plants are dangerous, however, they do affect the body powerfully and can cause cleansing at first if that is what your system needs. This can be uncomfortable if approached with too much vigor and so we recommend easing into it for maximum benefit and increase in happiness without the added cleansing burden.

– Truth

From Esoteric Online

A. Edible Plants and Healing Herbs That Should Be Included in Your Diet & Garden

Basil

Known as one of the purest plants, nicknamed holy basil, its ability to purify the blood of toxins, kill bacteria, or to treat skin disorders is very useful. Some of its other wide capabilities include its anticancer and antiviral properties or using its scent which can act as an insect repellent and to deal with stress. The Ancient Romans used it to treat poisonings, such as stings from scorpions, and to stimulate breast milk production. In India it is also used to treat asthma and diabetes.

Rosemary

This is the great “warming” herb, increasing blood flow and circulation. The carnosic acid in rosemary can reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s. It also has antibacterial and antifungal properties, and because it can increase circulation in the brain it is often a plant used for memory.

Cilantro

Its ability to remove toxic heavy metals from the blood and tissues has made it a very great purifier. It is antiflammatory, antibacterial, helps with digestion, lowers blood sugar and cholesterol, helps with gas/upset stomachs, helps with nausea, and also contains many nutrients such as iron and magnesium.

Garlic

This “cure all” has not only been known to kill intestinal parasites but has been known to have anti-viral, anti-bacterial, and immune system boosting properties. Those living during the bubonic plague of old Europe had eaten it to protect themselves. Not only does it prevent infection internally but can be used externally as well. It is a natural pesticide against mosquito larvae and can help lower blood sugar and blood pressure also. If eaten in a large enough quantity it can ward off bites from fleas, ticks, and other parasites. Some interesting qualities it contains are its ability to brighten the face, drive away envy and jealousy from the heart, and to increase the semen.

Alfalfa

To some it is known as the King of plants. Not only is it extremely rich in vitamins, and minerals, it can cure auto-immune disorders, relieve swelling, heal arthritis, lower cholesterol, prevent strokes, cleanse the blood and liver, helps the digestive, urinary, glandular, and skeletal systems, heals arthritis, helps with diabetes, dissolves kidney stones, prevents hair loss, and more. Soak in a bath of alfalfa and it extracts just about everything toxin and infection from the skin.

Sunflower

It was used by the Russian government to help with the Chernobyl disaster because of its ability to remove toxins from the soil. Using its leaves in a tea, it can be used as a diuretic, to reduce fever, and an astringent as well as taken to reduce colds.

Thyme

Similar to basil, it helps with digestive problems and can be also used to treat wounds. It has antifungal and antiviral properties as well. Similar to mint, can be chewed to clean the mouth. In the past it was used to treat depression, and epilepsy. Because of its antispasmodic properties it can relieve coughing.

Garlic Chives

These can cure ingested poisons, help with fatigue, and control excessive bleeding. Both the bulbs and leaves if used as a salve on insect any cut or bite can heal them and keep them infection free. The liver, kidney, or digestive system can also benefit from this if taken when there is a gastro-intestinal issue. Chive Family: Chives can also be used to treat intestinal parasites, enhance the immune system, and it also helps with digestion. It can treat anemia as well. Other parts of the chive family like onions, scallions, and leeks have flavanols which have anti-tumor effects which can reduce the risk of prostate cancer.

Aloe vera

Aloe vera is one of the greatest of healers, sections of it even heals itself once sliced from its mother branch (sealing away its own juices so its gel never dries out). It is known to have large quantities of Ormus compared to any other plant. It has been used to treat wounds and also skin infections. Because of its inflammatory properties it is great for reducing pain, redness in the skin and allergic reactions. It has been known to relieve constipation it is known treat heartburn as well.

Catnip

Famous for cats, it actually has more uses for humans. It can lower fevers through making one sweat, is a mild sedative and helps toothaches if chewed. It is also known as an insect repellent and works 10 times better than DEET.

Peppermint

Peppermint is numbing and can help with arthritis, soothing headaches when placed on temples, skin irritations, aches and pains, nausea, diarrhea and flatulence. It is best known in helping stomach aches by calming the stomach and contributing to digestion. It also has anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties and can relieve chest congestion. Many chew its leaves to have breath and to kill bacteria in the mouth.

Dandelion

Similar to Sunflowers, can detoxify soil and are also a diuretic. It can remove heavy metals from the blood and as a tea it can regulate blood sugar levels. It can be used to treat eczema, arthritis, and also intestinal disorders. They also contain potassium, which experts say is lost through excessive urination.

Lavender

This flower not only has a tranquil and beautiful scent but it has anti-inflammatory and antiseptic properties. Its relaxing scent helps treat depression, insomnia, headaches, and other stress-induced ailments.

Celery

This antiflammatory is known to reduce blood pressure and can also treat psoriasis. Its oils can be used for anticonvulsant and sedative means. It is also capable of treating arthritis, urinary disorders, and hypertension.

Echinacea Purple Cone Flower

Best known to prevent sickness, it can help strengthen the immune system by stimulating the production of T-cells. Its anti-viral and anti-fugal abilities make it great for colds and respiratory infections. It can also be used topically on scratches and cuts. Other uses for it include ear infections, gingivitis, canker sores, bronchitis, yeast infections, enlarged lymph glands, sore throat, urinary infections, and more.

Marigold

These flowers are known to ward off pests such as rabbits, deer, and even insects! Can be included in gardens to deter small animals because of their odor, which some claim disguises the smell of the vegetables in garden. There are also some anti-inflammatory and antibiotic (bacteria, fungi and viruses) properties. Some known treatments used from this plant are for athletes foot and ringworm.

Witch-hazel

Its bark and leaves can be used to treat eczema if crushed as a liquid, as it is wildly known to treat skin disorders. However it can also be used as an eyewash, to treat bruises, sores, acne, and is also good for diarrhea.

St. John’s Wort

Its blossoms have been known to get rid of depression and lift the spirits, and also to treat other mental disorders. Native Americans have used it to treat wounds, extreme pain, and tubercolosi. It is also a very strong antiviral. If kept in a pot inside or outside it keeps away evil spirits.

Ginger

Native to the tropical rain forests, is very good at boosting the immune system and destroying a cold. The Native Americans used ginger for female gynecological problems, cardiac and even respiratory disorders. Many women used this during pregnancy to quell the nausea or upset stomachs as it can be used against motion sickness and to help digestion by causing circulation to be stimulated by dilating blood vessels. It also has an anti-tumor compound “aristocholic acid”.

B. The Most Amazing Plants

Cedar Tree

Because of its essential oil, it is known an amazing “cure all” that has many different ways of healing. It has been known to be used against hair loss, acne, tuberculosis, bronchitis, arthritis, anxiety, depression, dandruff, stimulating circulation, alzheimer’s disease (or other forms of senility), and many other diseases. It is both calming and purifying, a cerebral stimulant that has been known to enhance awareness, eliminating disorders such as ADHD, and allow its user to think clearly as it can pass into the brain through inhalation and stimulate blood circulation. It is said the palaces of King David and King Solomon were built of cedar. It is 98% sesquiterpenes, which has been said to delete erase misinformation written in the DNA as a result of trauma, abuse, loss, ancestral or generational, and limiting beliefs Other uses include insect repellant if dabbed on skin or even in clothes drawers, if added to soles of feet can boost the immune system.

Gingko Biloba

Best known as a living fossil, it is the oldest living species of tree because of its 200 million year history. It was present in the time of the dinosaurs. It is considered sacred by Buddhist monks who tended them near their temples and in forests. It is resistant to many environmental pollutants and as a tea can be used to treat Alzheimer’s, improve memory, and can be used for poor circulation in the body and the brain. The Chinese have used it to treat asthma and cerebral disorders.

Turmeric

Turmeric is a powerful plant which has anti-cancer and antioxidant properties as well as reducing inflammation in arthritis. It’s been known to prevent breast cancer if either taken internally or applied on the skin. It is also widely used for beauty in Indian cultures due to its ability to heal skin problems such as infections, boils, or discoloration as it can also bleach and remove tans from the skin.

C. These are Powerful Plants. Take Caution, and Care. Do Plenty of Research.

Vervain

It has been known to refresh the mind, create prophetic dreams, and also help with difficult decisions if placed underneath a pillow. It is said rubbing it into the skin makes it possible to achieve all the hearts desires or to break curses. It was used to predict the future and also lift spells, being used as a plant of prophecy for thousands of years. Its scent removes worries and is calming for sleep. It was also used in love potions or to rekindle a dying passion.

Thorn Apple

It is said to aid in both prophecy and astral projection however no part of this plant should ever be ingested even in low doses. Smelling its flowers can help in getting an insight to difficult decisions but do not keep its scent in a closed room as it is a mild narcotic. This extremely dangerous plant can induce a state of forgetfulness. Anyone who drinks it while under its influence will not be able to remember what was done. It can also be used as an anesthetic, and any pain can be annihilated if its flowers are used on the ache because of its numbing affect.

White Sage

The great purifier, this plant can flush out the body of every toxin in the blood and flesh. It has anti-bacterial properties and can be used on the skin for many ailments or for problems such as gingivitis. Many use it as an incense to drive away negative energy and to purify a place of evil entities. Its smell creates a meditative environment, and can induce lucid dreaming and heighten spiritual senses. Depending on how you take it (warm or cold) its effects differ, as taken warm it can “open up” systems and increases circulation and flow, while taken cold it can “close up” and still the internal systems. It is great for female gynecological issues, and starts and mediates the menstrual flow.

Belladona

Also known as deadly nightshade, it has been associated with dark spirits. Sumerians used it 5,000 years ago to treat those possessed. The Greeks used it like they used mandrakes. It is associated with beauty and erotic love and used in many love potion. European witches used it as an ointment when attempting to fly on a broom and often applied it when trying to induce any charm or amulet for a darker purpose. Put it underneath a pillow when you fall asleep and it can help prevent a partner from straying (while also giving you erotic dreams).

Chrysanthemum

This plant is famous for bringing longevity in life and is eaten as salads or drinking in tea especially in the Chinese culture. It is used by Koreans to treat depression and vertigo. If you have a fear for heights drinking this will increase ambition and confidence. A rumor is said drinking from a stream that flows between the bushes of this plant can make one immortal.

Hellebore

It is associated with demons and is extremely toxic, if planted outside the home will ward off evil spirits. It was administered to possessed victims as well but also used on tips of arrows to poison people. It blooms in December and is known as the Christmas rose as well even while other plants whither in the snow. It can also cure worms in children. It drives away the feeling of “foreboding” or an unpleasant atmosphere and instead provides a feeling of protection.

Daisy

It is symbolic of innocence and is known as the plant of purity and light, as well as being associated with children. It leaves cam be used to heal stiffness, back ache, pains, and arthritis. It also reduces swelling and bruises. It was used as protection for children who wore it while walking alone so not to be taken away by faeries.

Myrtle

This flower of love as it represents pure virgin love of the young. It has been used by the Greeks and Romans to make love strong if drunken together by lovers as a tea. It is also used for beauty to keep the skin youthful and fresh. It has a sweet smell and uplifts ay feelings of unhappiness in the heart. Some have used it for babies and are put underneath their mattresses to keep them happy

Violet

Its scent is linked with love, and it can help heal a broken heart if used as an incense or tea. It is used to cure dizziness, and is known as a powerful charm against evil. It can be conducive to meditation especially if focused on purity or love. It was used to treat skin cancers and gypsies currently use it to rid the body of tumors and other purifications.

Narcissus

This Daffodil flower was known to be symbolic of new beginnings and is great for starting new projects or starting a new direction if burning it as incense. It is also capable of numbing pain, and is known to cause lethargy. It is strong enough to induce headaches if the scent of its flowers overcomes a small space. It can be used as an aphrodisiac as well.

The Orange Tree Blossom

Its scent been known to be able to create a meditative state and empty mind as it is symbolic of spiritual innocence and freshness. It is good for indigestion, insomnia, and also making the body relaxed. It is thought to bestow fertility and good fortune.

D. Plants You Should Definitely Eat

Kales: This plant grows in the snow and the heat! It is known to get sweeter when it frosts. Vitamin C, B1, B2, B6, B3 or niacin, Vitamin A, K, E. Minerals are Potassium, Magnesium, Iron, Sodium, Zinc, Copper, Mangenese, Selenium, Calcium, Folate.

Musk Melon: Is drought resistant and can survive in intense heat with little water. Has a lot of vitamin A 100+%, Vitamin C 100+%, Vitamin B, Folica acid, Protein, Potassium. Has a sweet flavor and is a great bulk diet with lots of fiber.

Winter Melon: Very nutritious and grows during the winter season, great for switching out plants out of season. Has protein and a lot of Vitamin C, vitamins A and B and a great bulk item for the diet. They can measure 15 inches in diameter and can weigh in excess of thirty pounds at maturity. They can also keep in a cool place for months. A lot of options when cooking, can be steamed, simmered, braised or parboiled and added to stir-fries or in soups. this rather mild and bland melon with strong spices and herbs. Tastes better if you season.

Silverbeet or Swiss Chard: This plant is capable of growing even in the snow or hot heat. It has high fiber, Vitamins; C, E, A, B6, B1 or thiamine, Potassium, Riboflavin, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Copper, Manganese, Folate, and Zinc.

Winter Squash (i.e. Butternut Squash): Grows in the winter time. 450+% Vitamin A, a lot of Vitamin C, Iron, calcium, potassium and protein and beta carotene (found in carrots). Bulk item.

Alfalfa Sprouts: Have Vitamin C, B1, B2, B6, B3 or niacin, Vitamin A, K, E. Minerals are Potassium, Magnesium, Iron, Sodium, Zinc, Copper, Mangenese, Selenium, Calcium.

Spinach: A rich source of protein, minerals, vitamins, pigments and phytonutrients. Health benefits of spinach are due to presence of vitamins, pigments, phytonutrients and minerals like potassium, manganese, zinc, magnesium, iron and calcium. Spinach is a source of vitamins like folate, niacin, vitamin A, B6, C and traces of the rest of the vitamins. Other important elements, including thiamine and riboflavin, that are used in various reactions in our body are also found in spinach. Spinach is rich in pigments like beta carotene, lutein and xanthene and chlorophyllin etc.

Yellow Crookneck Squash: A lot of protein, vitamin A, C, Calcium, and Iron, Riboflavin, Niacin. Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, potassium, Sodium, Zinc, Copper, manganese, Selenium.

Micro greens: High levels of Vitamin C, B9,K and Vitamin A, and many other nutrients.

Green Peas: Vitamin A, Vitamin c, Iron, Vitamin B6, Calcium, Manganese, phosphorus, but has sugar.

Leeks: Have Vitamin A, vitamin C, Calcium, Iron, B6, Magnesium, Vitamin K, dietary fiber. Have many other things such phosphorus, potassium, zinc, copper selenium, niacin.

Lentils: have a lot of protein, calcium, phosphorus, Vitamin A, Vitamin B1, B9, Iron, but also has zinc. Copper, Magnesium, Selenium .

E. Alternative Plants:

Neem

Neem has been used for treating all sorts of skin problems for centuries. It contains Nimbidol and Gedunin, which have excellent fungicidal properties. The herb proves extremely effective in the treatment of skin disorders, such as warts, scabies, psoriasis, eczema, and dandruff. Neem: Neem has been used for treating all sorts of skin problems for centuries. It contains Nimbidol and Gedunin, which have excellent fungicidal properties. The herb proves extremely effective in the treatment of skin disorders, such as warts, scabies, psoriasis, eczema, and dandruff.

Noni

Other people make a tea using the leaves of this plant. The fruit can be used in recipes as a reputed remedy against tuberculosis, arthritis, cancer, rheumatism and the changes of old age. The leaves and bark of the stem can be pounded and strained, resulting in a liquid drunk as a tonic or for urinary disorders, muscle and joint pain. The juice of the fruit is applied to the hair to rid it of head lice.

Kava

Perhaps the most potent of the three calming herbs, kava is a central nervous system depressant famous for its sedative effects in the limbic (emotion) system. Used for centuries throughout Asia and the western Pacific, kava and kava extracts have been scientifically proven to reduce short-term anxiety and tensions related to stress when taken occasionally. Due to its potency as a numbing agent and sedative, high dosages over prolonged periods can cause irritation in the liver and can be generally detrimental to health. Traditional Chinese medicine typically associates the root of the kava plant for safe consumption in small quantities—chewing on the root, for instance, is a common method of relieving tongue and throat pain, as it releases a number of numbing agents. For individuals requiring a quick calming effect, take a dropper of kava tincture up to three times a day, up to three days a week, until the symptoms of stress have been eliminated.

Black cumin

Iis a generalist medicinal plant used for diverse ailments such as cough, pulmonary infections, asthma, influenza, allergy, hypertension and stomach ache. The seeds are considered carminative, stimulant, diuretic and galactogogue. It is often taken with honey. Seed powder or oil is externally applied for eruptions of skin

Comfrey

Comfrey contains allantoin used in ointments for psoriasis and other skin problems. It has been known since Greek and Roman antiquity and used primarily externally as a poultice for surface wounds and to form a cast to hold broken bones immobile while they knit. Comfrey is a corruption of the Latin “con firma” implying that the bone is “made firm”. Comfrey is also highly nutritious — being one of the best sources of minerals, especially calcium and magnesium, on the planet.

Lowbush blueberry

The Chippewa Indians used the flowers to treat psychosis. The fruit contains anthocyanosides. These chemical compounds are very powerful antioxidants that are very effective in the prevention of heart disease and cancer.

Hen-and-chicks or Houseleek

The Latin botanical name has an historical reference. Charlemagne (742-814 A.D.) recommended that his subjects plant these hardy prolific plants on the roof of their houses to ward off lightening and fire. The leaves contain tannins and mucilage that are soothing to skin. It is used in the treatment of burns, skin wounds and infections.

Wild Strawberry

America Indians and Europeans found multiple medicinal uses for this plant. The leaves are mildly astringent so that they can be used as a gargle to treat sore throats. The leaves as well as the fruit contain a diuretic.

Wild Indigo

Preparations made from the roots and leaves were used by North American Indians (Mohicans and Penobscots) in poltices to treat bruises, snake bites and superficial lacerations. Such preparations have effective antiseptic properties.

Butterfly Weed or Pleurisy Root

This plant is native to North America. Omaha Indians ate the raw root to treat bronchitis and taught the pioneers to do the same. It is an expectorant; it promotes coughing that raises phlegm. It also contains cardiac glycosides and an estrogen-like substance.

Lovage

Preparations made from the roots or leaves are used to treat edema, indigestion and to prevent the formation of kidney stones.

Common Mallow

Pliny II, 1st Century A.D. wrote that tea made from the seeds and mixed with wine relieved nausea. In 16th century Italy, it was considered a cure-all. American Indians made poultices from the plant and applied them to sores, insect stings and swollen limbs to relieve pain. Taken internally, it may be useful in treating digestive and urinary tract infections because it contains a large amount of mucilage.

Wrinkled Rose

This plant is indigenous to Asia; it gets its common English name, the wrinkled rose, from the appearance of its leaves. It has naturalized itself in the sand dunes of the New England seacoast. In China, the flowers are used to make tea to improve the circulation and to “soothe a restless fetus”. Tea and Jelly made from the rose hips are a very rich source of Vitamin C. The rose hips of this plant have the highest natural concentration of Vitamin C of any other natural source of Vitamin C, including all of the citrus fruits. For the sufferer of scurvy, the Rosa rugosa is a medicinal plant; for the rest of us, it is a nutritional plant.

Black-Eye-Susan

American Indians used root tea to treat parasitic infestations such as pinworm. They used it externally to treat snake bits, superficial wounds and earaches.

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Your Color Vibe for Wednesday 11/26

Posted on November 26, 2014 by marcia

Wednesday, November 26: Sage Green

You are beginning to feel today that things are definitely shifting – and for the better. You will be finding this to be a theme more and more as you move towards the end of the year. Again, however it is well to be aware that this involves choice. If you are choosing to let things overwhelm you, then they will. If you are choosing to be within your power and know that you can take care of whatever comes your way, you will succeed and triumph. There is no right or wrong here. Merely choice. The energies at the present time are there to assist all who desire to move forward. If your desire is to stay stick or return to the old ways, then that is also an option. Take time today to go within, to set an intention, and to know in all you do that you can and you will if you so choose.

Posted on November 25, 2014 by marcia

The Unity of Life & Consciousness

By Will Hart

In the early decades of the 21^st century scientists, and various independent researchers, have been blazing trails into new frontiers. The mechanical models of the universe are being sloughed off and a fresh, revolutionary vision has emerged.

They are proving that we are physical, biological and electromagnetic (EM) beings, living in a tapestry of naturally generated, oscillating EM fields. Throughout the 19^th and 20^th centuries science mostly focused attention on the biochemical side of the human body and brain.

That paradigm, however, is changing quickly and radically.

There is an acknowledged, but as yet little understood, relationship between the solar wind, lightning, the ionosphere; and the Earth’s standing wave (Schumann Resonance) with human brainwaves and consciousness.

In fact, an amazing, interlocking synchronicity exists between these phenomena, which clearly reveals just how interwoven the threads of life, the earth’s EM pulse, and awareness truly are. A research team led by Australian university professor Irena Cosic published a paper the author herein quotes with permission.

“A continuous extremely low frequency (ELF) process is present in the geomagnetic field. Resonant oscillations in the ionosphere of the Earth and oscillations in the plasmasphere and the magnetosphere are caused by the solar wind… ” (1)

To break the model down into easily understood graphic images, picture this: A bolt of lightning strikes the earth, (about 2000 thousand do every day producing 50 strikes per second) the lightning discharges hit the ground. Then the waves bounce up to the ionosphere and are reflected back to the ground creating an oscillating EM field, between the surface and the ionosphere.

Over the course of geological time, the daily lightning strikes set up a standing wave — which Tesla suspected and actually measured first in 1899 — but today is called the Schumann Resonance after a mathematician who predicted the phenomenon existed, which researchers verified in the early 1950s.

SchumannResonanceWave

This standing wave has an extremely low frequency (ELF), 7.8 Hz. Now here is where makes the bolt of lightning metaphor, for a stroke of genius, very real. The peak of the alpha brainwave is also 7.8 Hz. That means that the human brain is precisely tuned to the earth’s resonant EM field, generated by electricity.

It is very important to keep in mind the fact that this natural resonant, energy field has an extremely low frequency. By contrast most artificial sources of electromagnetism operate in much higher frequency ranges. For example Tesla set the AC electrical grid to function at 60 Hz. Radio, TV, microwave are much higher.

The ELF waves are very slow and very long compared to the higher wavelengths; from 1 to 100 Hz. These waves are subtle, which is illustrated by the fact that the range of frequencies that comprise human hearing extend from 20 to 20,000 Hz. We cannot hear the lower parts of the ELF band, though human brainwaves extend from 1 to about 30 Hz.

It is therefore interesting to discover that natural systems are based upon the ELF wavelengths. So far, we have examined the earth resonance — which our brains are in synch with — and found they are both attuned to an extremely low frequency rate.

Now we turn to another natural, earth current called the telluric current. While the Schumann Resonance is a standing EM wave oscillating between the earth’s surface and the ionosphere, the telluric currents are geo-magnetically induced waves that flow across large areas at or near the surface.
These currents appear to be caused by interactions between the solar wind and the magnetosphere, as well as solar radiation effects on the ionosphere. The wavelengths of the TC currents are also in the ELF range.
Telluric currents have been used to measure the electric potential on the Earth’s surface at different points. This has allowed the calculation of the magnitudes and directions of theme, and at the same time helped to establish the Earth’s electrical conductivity.

If much of this is new information to you, it is a lot to assimilate, so let’s pause for a moment to reflect. Think about it. We humans are ELF receivers and transmitters, our brains are finely tuned to this naturally generated and sustained, global, electromagnetic field.

brain_waves

Next, alongside that we are generating an artificial EM field as well that is not in the ELF range. We will consider that more toward the end of this article. But first, let’s take this to an even deeper level in terms of the earth-brain resonance and human consciousness.

“The peaks of the resonant characteristic of the system…reside approximately on 100, 21, 14.1, 7.8, 5.7, 4, 1, 0.1 and 0.001 Hz [1]. The most common geomagnetic frequency is 7.8 Hz and plants, animals and humans living in such environment are known to benefit from it.”(2)

That paper was focused on a number of interesting phenomena, but the human brain-wave pattern was not its chief focus. The author’s noted the geomagnetic frequencies of the Schumann resonance quoted above; at this point I shall insert the fact that the human brainwave range precisely matches them.

In fact, the band extends from the Delta (brainwave) 1-3, Theta 4-6, Alpha 7-13, and Beta 14-21 (cycles per second).

Neurological studies tell us that the brain is made up of billions of cells, neurons, which use electricity to communicate with each other. The combination of millions of neurons sending signals at once produces a spectrum of intense, electrical activity in the brain.

That electrical activity is detected using sensitive medical equipment, i.e., an electroencephalogram (EEG), which measures the activity over areas of the scalp. So in essence, an EEG takes readings of the voltage fluctuations, which are the product of ionic current flows within the neurons of the brain.

So what exactly does science mean by the term brainwave?

From the above we can see that EEG activity therefore reflects the summation of the synchronous activity of thousands, or even millions of neurons, that have similar spatial alignment. When the cells are thus moving in synch, their ions line up and create frequencies (brainwaves) which can be detected.

brain-waves

Picture waves on the ocean as they gather momentum, form and move in undulating, synchronized, rhythmic patterns. That is a rough analogy.

Several of these oscillations have characteristic patterns, all in the ELF band described above. They have been identified from the lowest to highest: Delta, Theta, Alpha, Beta and Gamma. Their differing spatial distributions are associated with different, and very specific states, of brain functioning.

Our brain activity is regulated by these well-defined brainwave patterns. In fact we have to cycle through them every day in order to maintain health and function in the world.

Brain Waves Graph

Delta is the slowest band of brainwaves as it is also the slowest, lowest band of the Earth’s (EM) resonant field outlined above. When you are in the delta frequency band, your body is resting, asleep, healing and resetting its internal clocks on the autonomic level.

Theta is the next level up the scale. We can identify this state as being semi-conscious, when we are falling asleep or in a light sleep. It also predominates during very deep relaxation, as in a trance or hypnotic state. The theta band is also conducive to a receptive mental attitude good for positive affirmations and subliminal, self-programming.

Alpha comes when we simply close our eyes and relax, much has been made out of “achieving” alpha, when in fact it is a completely, automatic brainwave state. Feel stressed…close your eyes, take a few deep breaths and alpha appears. As noted above, the alpha and Schumann Resonance peak(s) are in unison at 7.8 Hz. Take a walk in nature, relax, alpha.

Beta Hz occurs when we open our eyes, have a cup of coffee and feel wide awake. This is the primary mental state most of us are in during the day and, in fact, all of our waking lives. This brainwave is where we reference ‘consensus reality’. It is the norm so we take it for granted but don’t underestimate its importance.

Keep in mind that you can’t lose these brainwave states or the conscious (unconscious) states they produce; each is an intrinsic feature of the brain as much as software is to a computer’s operating system. In fact, it would appear that the Earth’s EM field acted as the waveguide for the evolution of the human brain-consciousness.

We did not create these brainwave patterns, which regulate awareness and sleep. You can however, learn to be aware of and manipulate them through yoga, tai chi, and learning deep relaxation techniques. It is interesting to note that we move up the brainwave scale from infancy to puberty.

There is a reason that infants and toddlers seem to be “spaced-out” and/or sleep a lot. It is largely due to the fact that their brains are mostly limited to the Delta and Theta ranges. Do not imagine that their brains are functioning just like yours, because they aren’t.

Even Alpha does not begin to predominate, in most kids, until about the age of eight. Yet in modern civilization we are forcing our children to read, write and intellectualize at earlier and earlier ages. Why…and is it really of benefit to them and to society in general?

In much earlier times children would not have been fully into Beta until puberty. As with our electrically-driven, high EM saturated industrial civilization we are imposing an artificial environment on our children´s development, and ourselves, at a very deep level.

A final point to bring into the intrinsic order of life and how we are embedded into it is phi, the Golden Ratio. When we examine the numerical series of the Schumann Resonance and corresponding human brainwaves, 1, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21…we find the Fibonacci series.

This mathematical series was created by an Italian mathematician in the 13^th century. What is of interest is that the formula for arriving at phi is contained in the series. When we divide 5 into the next number 8 we arrive at 1.6.

Thereafter each subsequent division of the lower into the next higher number moves closer to phi, which is an irrational number 1.618 similar to pi, 3.14. The importance here is that phi has been found throughout nature in such diverse things as the spiral whorls of sunflowers, the DNA helix and the shape of galaxies.

“Biological life has always taken place in a sea of naturally occurring EM radiation of cosmic, atmospheric and geomagnetic origin, which can be categorized as terrestrial or extraterrestrial radiation…” (3)

This reveals that there is a deep connection, a universal unity to life, which human consciousness resonates with in a precise, measurable way. We could say that the earth-brain resonance, as reflected in phi, is God’s signature…

References

Human Electrophysiological Signal Responses to ELF Schumann Resonance and Artificial Electromagnetic Fields, Irena Cosic, Qiang Fang,1 Emil Jovanov, Harry Lazoura
Ibid
Ibid

from: http://blog.world-mysteries.com/science/the-unity-of-life-consciousness/

Thanksgiving Nor-Easter

Posted on November 25, 2014 by marcia

Unwelcome Nor’easter Poised to Snarl Wednesday Travel

By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 2:44 PM GMT on November 25, 2014

After basking in record warm temperatures in the 60s and 70s on Monday, the Northeast U.S. is bracing for a Wednesday winter onslaught, as a significant Nor’easter will bring heavy snows to the roads at the same time that millions of people hit the roads in advance of the Thanksgiving holiday. The unwelcome storm will form off the coast of South Carolina Tuesday night and track north-northeastward, parallel to the coast, on Wednesday. Snow will begin in the Southern Appalachians late Tuesday night and spread northeastwards on Wednesday. Areas to the east of the I-95 corridor will start off with heavy rain, but the rain will transition to wet, heavy snow on Wednesday afternoon as cold air spills southwards along the coast. Little or no accumulation is likely in Washington D.C., which hit a pleasant 74°F on Monday. The story is different, though, in Philadelphia, where a Winter Storm Watch for 2 – 3 inches of snow was posted on Monday–even as the temperature rose to a record high for the date of 72°F. Higher snowfall amounts of 4 – 8″ are possible in New York City, which also experienced a record high on Monday–64°F at Kennedy Airport. Boston will also be severely impacted beginning late Wednesday afternoon, with snows of 4 – 6″ possible. Portland, Maine, which hit a record 63°F on Monday, is under a Winter Storm Watch for 4 – 8″ of snow. The heaviest snows will come Wednesday afternoon into Wednesday evening in the big cities, and may take some time to accumulate on the roads due to stored heat from the warm temperatures of the past few days. Traveling earlier in the day Wednesday is definitely recommended if you have the flexibility, as road conditions will steadily deteriorate through the afternoon into evening. The worst conditions will be experienced inland from the coast, where widespread snow amounts of 6 – 12 inches are likely along a swath from Northeast Pennsylvania and Northwest New Jersey into Maine, including Hartford, Connecticut and central Massachusetts cities like Worcester. As usual with a storm of this nature, small changes in the forecast track of the system can cause large changes in the amount of snowfall near the coast, so stay tuned to the latest forecasts.

Figure 1. Snowfall forecast for the New York City area made on Tuesday morning, November 25, 2014. Image credit: NWS New York City.

Figure 2. Snowfall forecast for the Boston area made on Tuesday morning, November 25, 2014. Image credit: NWS Boston.

Figure 3. Snowfall forecast for the Philadelphia area made on Tuesday morning, November 25, 2014. Image credit: NWS Philadelphia.

Air travel will be heavily impacted
Heavy rains will cause flight delays at the large airports of the Northeast beginning Wednesday morning, and these delays will increase on Wednesday afternoon as the snow flies. All of the major airlines are allowing people to change their tickets for free at the airports expected to be affected by Wednesday’s storm; here is one such list of cities from United:

Albany, NY (ALB)
Allentown, PA (ABE)
Atlantic City, NJ (ACY)
Baltimore, MD (BWI)
Bangor, ME (BGR)
Boston, MA (BOS)
Buffalo, NY (BUF)
Burlington, VT (BTV)
Harrisburg, PA (MDT)
Hartford, CT (BDL)
Manchester, NH (MHT)
New York/Newark, NJ (EWR – Liberty)
New York, NY (JFK)
New York, NY (LGA – LaGuardia)
Philadelphia, PA (PHL)
Portland, ME (PWM)
Providence, RI (PVD)
Rochester, NY (ROC)
Syracuse, NY (SYR)
Washington, DC (DCA – National)
Washington, DC (IAD – Dulles)
White Plains, NY (HPN)
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, PA (AVP)

from: http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2867

Ursula K. LeGuin at National Book Awards – WONDERFUL!!!

Posted on November 23, 2014 by marcia

Ursula K. Le Guin Burns Down the National Book Awards

The local literary supernova brought the book world to its feet with an acceptance speech that censured Amazon and sparked an international frenzy.

Published Nov 20, 2014, 1:10pm

By Ramona DeNies

Ursula K Le Guin accepts the the 2014 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from fantasy best-seller Neil Gaiman

After accepting the 2014 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at last night’s National Book Awards, Portland writer Ursula K. Le Guin deployed a speech that lanced Amazon, her own publisher, and other “commodity profiteers” who “sell us like deodorant.” It went off like a bomb, bringing the entire room to its feet.

“The speech started out as a smattering of applause, but by the end she got a standing ovation,” said Theo Downes-Le Guin, Le Guin’s son who also runs contemporary art gallery Upfor on NW Flanders. We caught up with him this morning by phone as he assisted his mother through New York airport security on their way home (he also escorted her onstage last night). “I was incredibly proud of her. She made me cry.”

But those moved by Le Guin’s speech went far beyond attendees at the black-tie Manhattan event.

Overnight, Le Guin blew up web editions of the Los Angeles Times, Guardian, New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, and more. National Public Radio ran Le Guin’s anti-capitalist critique as breaking news last night and again for morning commuters. The hashtag #nbawards is almost entirely devoted to frothy Le Guin tweets (including one from fantasy titan Neil Gaiman, who introduced Le Guin prior to awarding her medal).

Theo Townes-Le Guin escorts his mother, Ursula Le Guin, on stage

What prompted the adoration? Statements like those below from the 85-year-old author (read the full transcript here).

On the commodification of art:

Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not quite the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship. Yet I see sales departments given control over editorial. I see my own publishers in a silly panic of ignorance and greed, charging public libraries for an ebook six or seven times more than they charge customers.

On Amazon’s recent attempt to undercut the imprint Hachette:

We just saw a profiteer try to punish a publisher for disobedience and writers threatened by corporate fatwa, and I see a lot of us, the producers who write the books, and make the books, accepting this.

On power:

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art—the art of words.

On her fellow authors of fantasy and science fiction:

I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries—the realists of a larger reality.

Who isn’t happy about Le Guin’s speech? The contingent from Amazon, who—according to NPR’s Petra Mayer—“notably had no comment on Le Guin’s speech or the ribbing they endured throughout the night.”

Downes-Le Guin says his mom “challenged the status quo in a room not only full of writers but also book publishers.”

We couldn’t be more proud.

What do you think? View her speech below:

New Particles Discovered at LHC

Posted on November 23, 2014 by marcia

Never-Before-Seen Particles Discovered at Swiss Collider

by Calla Cofield, Staff Writer | November 20, 2014

The LHCb detector at CERN.
Credit: CERN

Two new subatomic particles have popped up at the world’s largest atom smasher. The never-before-seen particles could help physicists glean key information about the building blocks of matter in the universe.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland, is a veritable particle piñata: The massive underground machine accelerates two beams of protons to nearly the speed of light and smashes them together. Breaking the protons apart with so much energy creates a shower of new particles for scientists to study.

One of the experiments at the LHC, called LHCb, identified two never-before-seen baryon particles in their most recent particle cache.

“Nature was kind and gave us two particles for the price of one,” Matthew Charles of the CNRS’s LPNHE laboratory at Paris VI University, said in a statement.

The new particles are known as Xi_b’- and Xi_b*-, and are each made up of three quarks. Quarks are believed to be truly fundamental particles, meaning they are not made up of smaller particles. Protons, a key ingredient in atoms, are also made up of three quarks.

Xi_b’- and Xi_b*- consist of one down quark, one strange quark and one bottom quark (also known as a beauty quark). Other particles consisting of this same quark combination were seen at the LHC in 2012, and by experiments at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in 2007.

So what makes Xi_b’- and Xi_b*- unique? The quarks contained in them have different “spins,” — an important property of particles that includes a number and a direction. Differences in the quark spins can make two particles unique, even if they contain the same combination of quark types.

The differences in spin also give Xi_b’- and Xi_b*- slightly different masses, which is crucial to detecting them. In fact, “if [Xi_b’-] had been just a little lighter, we wouldn’t have seen it at all,” with the approach the scientists used, Charles said.

So far, the new particles appear to be behaving the way scientists predicted they would. Physicists have mapped out all the particles that should come from different quark combinations. This is part of the Standard Model — the reigning theory of particle physics that outlines how the universe should behave. Scientists say that confirming the existence of all the particles in the Standard Model is the first step in looking for physics that goes beyond the Standard Model — that breaks the rules.

“If we want to find new physics beyond the Standard Model, we need first to have a sharp picture,” said LHCb’s physics coordinator Patrick Koppenburg from Nikhef Institute in Amsterdam. “Such high-precision studies will help us to differentiate between Standard Model effects and anything new or unexpected in the future.”

On July 4, 2012, scientists at the LHC announced they had found an elementary particle called the Higgs boson, which could help scientists understand how matter has mass. The Higgs is thought to be associated with a field that can impart mass on particles that pass through it. The discovery of the long-sought Higgs boson also represented the final piece of the puzzle predicted by the Standard Model.

The new baryon particles were detected from data collected from 2011 to 2012. After a long shutdown for upgrades, scientists are preparing the LHC to once again start colliding particles, but at higher energies and with more intense beams than ever before, according to CERN, the research organization that operates the LHC. The collider is scheduled to restart by the spring of 2015.

The new work appears online and has been submitted to the journal Physical Review Letters.

from: http://www.livescience.com/48834-new-particles-large-hadron-collider.html

Ancient Egyptian Book of Spells Translated

Posted on November 23, 2014 by marcia

Ancient Egyptian Handbook of Spells Deciphered

by Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | November 20, 2014

An Egyptian Handbook of Ritual Power (as researchers call it) has been deciphered revealing a series of invocations and spells. It includes love spells, exorcisms and a cure for black jaundice (a potentially fatal infection). Written in Coptic (an Egyptian language) the 20 page illustrated codex dates back around 1,300 years. This image shows part of the text.
Credit

: Photo by Ms. Effy Alexakis, copyright Macquarie University Ancient Cultures Research Centre

Researchers have deciphered an ancient Egyptian handbook, revealing a series of invocations and spells.

Among other things, the “Handbook of Ritual Power,” as researchers call the book, tells readers how to cast love spells, exorcise evil spirits and treat “black jaundice,” a bacterial infection that is still around today and can be fatal.

The book is about 1,300 years old, and is written in Coptic, an Egyptian language. It is made of bound pages of parchment — a type of book that researchers call a codex.

“It is a complete 20-page parchment codex, containing the handbook of a ritual practitioner,” write Malcolm Choat and Iain Gardner, who are professors in Australia at Macquarie University and the University of Sydney, respectively, in their book, “A Coptic Handbook of Ritual Power” (Brepols, 2014).

The ancient book “starts with a lengthy series of invocations that culminate with drawings and words of power,” they write. “These are followed by a number of prescriptions or spells to cure possession by spirits and various ailments, or to bring success in love and business.”

For instance, to subjugate someone, the codex says you have to say a magical formula over two nails, and then “drive them into his doorpost, one on the right side (and) one on the left.”

The Sethians

Researchers believe that the codex may date to the 7th or 8th century. During this time, many Egyptians were Christian and the codex contains a number of invocations referencing Jesus.

However, some of the invocations seem more associated with a group that is sometimes called “Sethians.” This group flourished in Egypt during the early centuries of Christianity and held Seth, the third son of Adam and Eve, in high regard. One invocation in the newly deciphered codex calls “Seth, Seth, the living Christ.”

The opening of the codex refers to a divine figure named “Baktiotha” whose identity is a mystery, researchers say. The lines read, “I give thanks to you and I call upon you, the Baktiotha: The great one, who is very trustworthy; the one who is lord over the forty and the nine kinds of serpents,” according to the translation.

“The Baktiotha is an ambivalent figure. He is a great power and a ruler of forces in the material realm,” Choat and Gardner said at a conference, before their book on the codex was published.

Historical records indicate that church leaders regarded the Sethians as heretics and by the 7th century, the Sethians were either extinct or dying out.

This codex, with its mix of Sethian and Orthodox Christian invocations, may in fact be a transitional document, written before all Sethian invocations were purged from magical texts, the researchers said. They noted that there are other texts that are similar to the newly deciphered codex, but which contain more Orthodox Christian and fewer Sethian features.

The researchers believe that the invocations were originally separate from 27 of the spells in the codex, but later, the invocations and these spells were combined, to form a “single instrument of ritual power,” Choat told Live Science in an email.

Who would have used it?

The identity of the person who used this codex is a mystery. The user of the codex would not necessarily have been a priest or monk.

“It is my sense that there were ritual practitioners outside the ranks of the clergy and monks, but exactly who they were is shielded from us by the fact that people didn’t really want to be labeled as a “magician,'” Choat said.

Some of the language used in the codex suggests that it was written with a male user in mind, however, that “wouldn’t have stopped a female ritual practitioner from using the text, of course,” he said.

Origin

The origin of the codex is also a mystery. Macquarie University acquired it in late 1981 from Michael Fackelmann, an antiquities dealer based in Vienna. In “the 70s and early 80s, Macquarie University (like many collections around the world) purchased papyri from Michael Fackelmann,” Choat said in the email.

But where Fackelmann got the codex from is unknown. The style of writing suggests that the codex originally came from Upper Egypt.

“The dialect suggests an origin in Upper Egypt, perhaps in the vicinity of Ashmunein/Hermopolis,” which was an ancient city, Choat and Gardner write in their book.

The codex is now housed in the Museum of Ancient Cultures at Macquarie University in Sydney.

from: http://www.livescience.com/48833-ancient-egyptian-handbook-spells-deciphered.html

Texas Earthquake 11/23 (Near Dallas)

Posted on November 23, 2014 by marcia

Slightly damaging earthquake close to Dallas, Texas

Last update: November 23, 2014 at 10:19 pm by By Armand Vervaeck
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5km (3mi) ENE of Irving, Texas
8km (5mi) W of University Park, Texas
9km (6mi) NW of Dallas, Texas
10km (6mi) S of Farmers Branch, Texas
296km (184mi) NNE of Austin, Texas

Most important Earthquake Data:

Magnitude : 3.3

Local Time (conversion only below land) : 2014-11-22 21:15:47

GMT/UTC Time : 2014-11-23 03:15:47

http://earthquake-report.com/2014/11/23/minor-earthquake-northern-texas-on-november-23-2014/

How Cities are Taking Action

Posted on November 23, 2014 by marcia

Want to See How Governments Are Making Real Progress? Look to the Cities Tackling Our Biggest Problems

New energy is transforming our cities into hotbeds of democracy and progressive innovation.

by Sarah van Gelder

posted Nov 19, 2014

: Photo by Martha Williams.

If you’ve been looking to the federal government for action on big challenges such as poverty, climate change, and immigration, this has been a devastating decade. Big money’s dominance of elections, obstructionism by the Tea Party, and climate denial have brought action in Washington to a near standstill. But while the media focuses on the gridlock, a more hopeful story is unfolding. Cities are taking action.

Cities can’t afford to wait for the ideological wars to play out.

Climate change is a case in point. Cities are already experiencing the damage caused by an increasingly chaotic climate. Many are located along coastlines, where rising sea levels coupled with giant storms bring flooding and coastal erosion. Some low-lying areas are being abandoned.

Others cities face protracted water shortages due to diminishing rainfall and shrinking snowpack. And cities are subject to the urban heat island effect that can raise temperatures to lethal levels.

Cities can’t afford to wait for the ideological wars to play out.

On Oct. 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy slammed into the East Coast, flooding lower Manhattan, filling subway tunnels, twisting up the boardwalk along the beaches in the Rockaways, and turning Long Island and New Jersey communities into disaster zones.

Just two weeks later, Munich Re, a major insurance company, reported that weather-related disasters in North America had increased five-fold over the previous three decades, causing $1.06 trillion worth of damage. And the disasters are just starting, the report said.

While Congress debates whether climate change is a vast left-wing conspiracy, Houston is spending $200 million to restore wetland ecosystems in anticipation of increased flooding. The 4,000-acre Bayou Greenways project will absorb and cleanse floodwater while creating space for trails and outdoor recreation.

“Houston’s best defense against extreme climate events and natural disasters is grounded in its local efforts to leverage … its bayous, marshes and wetlands,” Houston Mayor Annise Parker said in a press release.

In Philadelphia, if you look up while waiting for a bus, you might find you are standing under a living roof. Philadelphia is dealing with excessive storm water runoff by encouraging rain gardens, green roofs—large and small—and absorbent streets that allow water to soak through into the soil.

Given the threat posed by runaway climate change, one would expect ambitious national and international action to reduce greenhouse pollution. But cities are out in front, taking action to reduce their own climate impacts with or without federal support. From New York to Seattle, cities are adopting efficient building standards, taxing carbon, switching to energy-efficient street lighting, promoting local food, and financing building-scale conversion to solar energy.

Cities are responsible for a new surge in bicycling, not just on the crunchy West Coast, but in old industrial cities. In September, Bicycling Magazine named New York the number-one U.S. city for bicycling, noting its hundreds of miles of bike lanes, ambitious bike-share program, and long-term commitment to cycling. “One million more people will come to New York City by 2030, and there’s simply going to be no more room for cars,” Janette Sadik-Khan, commissioner of the Department of Transportation, told Bicycling.

Chicago, named number two, is set to meet its goal of creating 100 miles of protected bike lanes by 2015, and it will soon have the nation’s largest bike-share program.

These developments are in part thanks to enlightened city officials, including those looking for low-cost ways to attract young, entrepreneurial residents.

But cities are getting more bike-friendly in large part because of persistent pressure by activists. For more than 20 years, Critical Mass bike rides have taken over streets in more than 300 cities around the world, with large groups riding together and claiming the right to a safe ride.

: Chicago will have built 100 miles of protected bike lanes by next year, and the Chicago Streets for Cycling Plan 2020 calls for a 645-mile network of bikeways, up from the current 215 miles, to be in place by 2020. The goal is to make sure every city resident is within a half-mile of a bike path. Photo by John Greenfield.

A citizens’ group in Minneapolis made the point about bike safety by building pop-up bicycle-only lanes, using DIY plywood planters to separate the bike riders from automobile traffic. Bicycle advocates in Atlanta, Denver, Oakland, Calif., Fargo, N.D., and Lawrence, Kans., followed suit.

These urban climate solutions are not only homegrown. Increasingly, cities are sharing their best climate innovations. In September, the mayors of Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Houston announced the Mayors National Climate Change Action Agenda. The initiative will be built on other urban collaborations, including the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, and the Urban Sustainability Directors Network.

Responsive to the poor and excluded

Cities are leading in other realms, too, where the federal government has failed to act.

Immigration reform is stalled at the national level. But Los Angeles, San Francisco, New Haven, Conn., and New York City are issuing identification cards to undocumented residents, allowing them to open bank accounts, sign leases, and access city services.

On issues of poverty and inequality, cities have a mixed track record. Some neglect poor and minority neighborhoods or steer polluting projects and noisy highways to those areas. Others promote policies that displace the most vulnerable residents, making desirable land available to the wealthy and well-connected. Some cities have even criminalized homelessness.

But in many cities, strong people’s movements are electing leaders with a greater connection to the poor and middle class.

The top 1 percent of New Yorkers took in 32.3 percent of the city’s total personal income; the bottom 50 percent shared just 9.9 percent.

New York City, one of the most unequal cities in the country, is a case in point. The top 1 percent of New Yorkers took in 32.3 percent of the city’s total personal income in 2009, according to the city’s comptroller. The bottom 50 percent shared just 9.9 percent.

But organizations like the Working Families Party have spent years building a grassroots power base, and their work paid off when they helped elect Mayor Bill de Blasio in November 2013. Today, de Blasio is working to boost the minimum wage and is requiring developers to offer affordable housing. And thousands of new prekindergarten slots opened up this fall, with the goal of universal access to free pre-K.

Richmond, Calif., and Newark, N.J., also have progressive mayors elected in cities with strong popular movements. Both were hit hard by the foreclosure crisis and the predatory lending that especially targets poor people and people of color. And both cities are now exploring using eminent domain to reduce home mortgages to current market value and restructure loans so that current homeowners can retain ownership.

Seattle is leading the nation by raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour, following a successful grassroots initiative in the nearby city of Sea-Tac, and an insurgent city council race that focused on a higher minimum wage. Popular movements across the country are pressing for better pay and human rights for the working poor.

Why cities?

What is it about cities that enables them to move forward while the nation as a whole is stalled?

Benjamin Barber, political scientist and author of If Mayors Ruled the World, thinks a lot about what makes urban leaders effective problem solvers.

City leaders can’t afford to be ideologues, Barber said in an interview with YES! Magazine. “Their job is to pick up the garbage, to keep the hospitals open, to assure fire and safety services and that police and teachers do their jobs.”

This pragmatism requires civility. “Mayors simply can’t afford to trade in bigotry,” he said. “A businessman like [former New York Mayor Michael] Bloomberg has to deal with the unions, and a progressive like de Blasio has to deal with business and developers.”

“Cities are points of intersection, communication, sharing, and travel. Cities have always contained multitudes.”

Perhaps this focus on getting work done explains why nearly two-thirds of Americans polled by the Pew Research Center have a favorable view of their local government, at a time when just 28 percent approve of the federal government.

Along with pragmatism, cities have the advantage of multiculturalism and the innovative spark that goes with it, Barber says. “Cities are points of intersection, communication, sharing, and travel,” he said. “And cities have always—to paraphrase Whitman—contained multitudes.”

Nations, on the other hand, are a more recent idea, more oriented around independence than interdependence, and more competitive. “The last 400 years of nation-states ruling the world has gone very badly, with war, genocide, rivalry, and very little social justice as a consequence,” Barber said.

Cities are solving problems while nation-states are failing, Barber said. So it’s time to put cities in charge. Of the whole world.

Barber laid out a plan for a global parliament of mayors in his recent book, and now he’s working with city officials on bringing the idea to reality.

Should cities rule the world?

Mention global governance, and some people imagine black helicopters. But Barber insists he is not proposing a top-down system. Instead he sees mayors and other city leaders reaching consensus on solutions and then bringing the policy ideas home. The result, he said, would be a sort of horizontal, pragmatic, noncoercive form of global governance.

Cities could agree on a universal minimum wage, for example. Such a move would remove incentives for companies to relocate to low-wage regions. Metropolitan regions are where most economic activity is happening, Barber said. So if enough cities agreed on a minimum wage, companies would just have to pay it, thus helping to alleviate poverty and inequality.

If Detroit were redefined to include the well-off suburbs, it would be the fourth most prosperous U.S. metropolitan region.

A first step in making this vision a reality is to incorporate the suburbs and central cities into metropolitan regions. Such a move would make sense for cities whether or not they rule the world. If Detroit, for example, were redefined to include the well-off suburbs, instead of being bankrupt, it would be the fourth most prosperous metropolitan region of the United States, Barber said.

From that foundation, cities could lead even in arenas like immigration that are not normally part of urban decision-making. If more cities begin issuing their own immigration documents, “you’re going to have a fast track to citizenship inside cities, since 85 or 90 percent of undocumented workers are in cities,” Barber said.

A global parliament of cities “is a means to regulate the global economy, address climate change, deal with immigration and global trade,” he said.

It’s a bold idea that is capturing the imagination of an international group of urban leaders. On Sept. 19, mayors, city planners, and others met in Amsterdam. If all goes as hoped, Barber said, 600 mayors could join him in London in September 2015 to launch a pilot parliament.

Not everyone thinks cities are up to the challenge. Following the Amsterdam meeting, Reinier de Graaf, a Dutch architect and city planner, wrote in European Magazine, “The current vitality of cities is largely based on the luxury that more heavy duty political responsibilities are kept at bay.”

But British journalist Misha Glenny found the proposal intriguing. In a column for the BBC he wrote: “This group of can-do politicians may end up rewriting constitutions across the globe … by doing what they always have—getting on with the job.”

The idea is worth exploring when so much else isn’t working, Barber said.

“In a time of pessimism about democracy, pessimism about government, a sense of too many problems, I believe the cities movement is a powerful note of hope and optimism,” he told YES!

“Moving the focus from states to cities is a new brief for democracy,” he said. “It’s a new brief for hope. And a new sense that maybe we can, after all, control some of the forces that seem to be pushing us toward an unsustainable, unjust world, so we can move instead in the direction of the more sustainable and more just world.”

Sarah van Gelder bio pic Sarah van Gelder wrote this article for Cities Are Now, the Winter 2015 issue of YES! Magazine. Sarah is co-founder and editor in chief of YES! Magazine.

from: http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/cities-are-now/look-to-the-cities-tackling-our-biggest-problems

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