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New Minister of Antiquities in Egypt

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New antiquities head, new plan, protestors satisfied
The newly appointed secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities says he will meet protestors’ demands, promises reform
Nevine El-Aref , Sunday 2 Oct 2011
Today, in his first day in office, newly appointed Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) Mostafa Amine met with protestors camped in front of the SCA’s Abassiya building for four days.

Amine told Ahram Online that he told protestors that he agreed with Prime Minister Essam Sharaf to immediately resolve their problems and to appoint all temporary staff who have spent more than three years working at SCA.

As a first step, he asserted, 4065 temporary employees will be immediately appointed to be followed by more appointments until the almost 12,000 temporary employees are all made permanent. The protestors were convinced and promised to end their protest.

But what about fresh graduates?

Amine responded that for the time being it is impossible to hire new graduates as “We have to appoint the temporary staff first, as they have priority.” “They are among the SCA’s staff and its office echelon,” Amine pointed out, asserting, “I have to first fix the conditions of the SCA’s temporary staff and then see about outsiders.”

Amine said the delay in appointing the temporary staff is not the fault of the SCA’s last secretary general, but rather is the fault of the previous government. Even the 4065 temporary employees that former Minister of Antiquities Zahi Hawass had approved appointing were not appointed due to government reluctance amid fears that other ministries would ask for the appointment of their temporary staff.

Amine also met top SCA officials and listened to their complaints. He informed them of the details of his meeting with Sharaf in an attempt to open a new page with them and other SCA staff. “I am the son of the SCA and all the staff are my colleagues,” Amine said.

Asked about the fate of Egypt’s ancient monuments under his tenure, given his specialty in Islamic and Coptic monuments, Amine assured that his training would not be an obstacle to caring for ancient Egyptian monuments. “My duty is to preserve Egypt’s antiquities, whether Islamic, Coptic, Jewish and Pharaonic,” Amine confirmed.

Amine told Ahram Online that he wants some time to reorganise the SCA and its administrative and archaeological works, but he promises to complete the SCA’s mega projects such as the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) overlooking the Giza Plateau, the National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation (NMEC), as well as removing all encroachment at Al-Muizz Street and at Sphinxes Avenue in Luxor in order to reopen it soon.

Amine said that his first decisions as SCA secretary general were to appoint former secretary general Mohamed Abdel Fatah as the head of the NMEC Supreme Committee, and Adel Abdel Satar to head the Islamic and Coptic Antiquities Department. Amine was formerly head of that department.

for more, go to:    http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/9/40/23109/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/New-antiquities-head,-new-plan,-protestors-satisfi.aspx

 

10/04 Severe Weather — AZ

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Arizona Dust storm causes pileups on Tuesday due to Severe Thunderstorms

Published on October 5, 2011 11:30 am PT
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(TheWeatherSpace.com) – Phoenix has seen its fair share of dust storms and thunderstorms this season, far more than most. However, on Tuesday one of those storms created a major pile-up, killing one and injuring many on Interstate 10 between Phoenix and Tucson.

TWS Senior Meteorologist Kevin Martin warned people in Arizona that severe thunderstorms would hit and a severe thunderstorm watch was needed for the area. There was no severe thunderstorm watch issued for Phoenix residents.

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Explosion on the Sun 10/04

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FARSIDE CME: Yesterday, October 4th, something exploded on the far side of the sun and propelled a spectacular CME into space. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory recorded the cloud as it emerged from behind the sun’s limb:

Analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab have combined observations from SOHO and the twin STEREO spacecraft to calculate the CME’s trajectory: It is heading for Mercury. The CME will hit the innermost planet on Oct. 5th around 04:30 UT plus minus 7 hours. Energetic particles accelerated by shock waves at the leading edge of the cloud could also have minor effects on the MESSENGER probe in orbit around Mercury. The CME’s forecast track shows that Venus might also receive a blow on Oct. 6th.

Pituitary Attunement fr/Hathors through Tom Kenyon

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Transmission of Light: The Pituitary Dimensional Attunement

A Hathor Planetary Message through Tom Kenyon

From our perspective the ascension process can be viewed as two converging energetic streams.

The first involves your KA body, your subtle energy body (i.e. your etheric twin or spiritual double). Any method that raises the vibratory rate of the KA is a method for ascension.

The second stream involves the physical body and the transformation of matter into light. The complete metamorphosis of matter into light is a very advanced form of ascension, and is generally only seen in highly developed Initiates.

However, the seed forms of this metamorphosis can, and do, present themselves in various stages of the ascension process.

The sound meditation we wish to share with you is a vehicle to increase the inflow of spiritual light (i.e.interdimensional light,) into your endocrine system. During the ascension process the hormones that comprise your biological sea and the inner realities of your body go through a refinement. This sound meditation is a gentle yet potent means to facilitate this upward movement.

The Meditation

We wish to share two methods for working with this Attunement.

The first is for beginners, those of you who are unfamiliar with the inner realms of your own consciousness. The second method is for those of you who are more advanced.

Both of these methods work quite well. Recognize where you are in your own development and choose accordingly.

The First Method

In this approach you simply place your focused attention in the area of your pituitary gland, the master regulator of your endocrine system. As with all of the previous Dimensional Attunements we have given, the sounds you will hear are analogs of fluctuations in the light realms, and they will create a movement of energies in the pituitary, so long as you hold your attention in the general area of the pituitary gland. This area is located approximately one inch (or 2cm) behind the bridge of the nose.

This general area is all that you need to focus on. It is not necessary to be exact. Simply resting your awareness in the area will accomplish the task. The operative word here is “rest” your awareness. This is not concentration. You simply rest your attention in the area of the pituitary gland and allow the sounds you hear to affect the area. When your mind wanders, simply bring it back to focused attention on the pituitary.

The Second Method

For those of you more familiar with your inner realms, we suggest you imagine that the area of your pituitary gland is a white lotus flower floating on a still and infinite body of pure water. This mental impression shifts your brain/mind into a highly receptive state and generates a quality of consciousness that is very helpful to this particular type of transformational work. We suggest the white lotus because all colors and all frequencies are held within it. You can imagine this lotus as a partially or fully opened blossom, or if you prefer, you can imagine it as a closed bud.

Hold the mental impression of this white lotus in the area of your pituitary gland, and as with the first method, when your mind wanders, bring it back to the lotus and the area of your pituitary.

Whether you use the first method or the second, the catalytic sounds will cause a movement of subtle energies within the pituitary creating a cascade of energetic effects throughout all of the glands that comprise your endocrine system. As you continue to experience this Attunement, you will become more familiar with its subtle and potent effects.

We suggest that before you begin, you spend a few moments separating yourself from the concerns of your daily life. Draw a line between this short meditation and the rest of your life. The meditation is approximately five minutes long, and after you are done listening to it, we suggest you spend a few moments in silence, sensing the area of your pituitary. If you are energetically sensitive and aware, you can feel the subtle effects in all of your glands.

As we said previously, this Attunement is subtle, yet potent. And this odd paradox is based upon an intricate relationship between matter and energy.

As you move into the more subtle levels of matter (i.e. sub-atomic particles) there is more potential energy. Likewise, as you move into the more subtle levels of your own consciousness there is also an increase in energy (i.e. the powers of consciousness).

The patterns that comprise this Attunement are precise and they form complex relationships in the subtle realms of consciousness.

Do not be deceived by its simplicity. This Attunement is a potent transformer of consciousness.

We therefore suggest that you experiment and find your own comfort zone with this particular Attunement.

When you generate an increase of light-flows within the pituitary gland and the endocrine system, you release a potent and powerful purification. Each of you has your own comfort zone in this.

For some of you, listening to the Attunement once a day will be all you can comfortably handle. Others may feel drawn to listen to it multiple times.

As you proceed to listen to this Attunement on a regular basis, you will find your energetic nesting or comfort zone expanding, and you will be able to listen to it multiple times. But the guiding principle is your comfort zone.

If you listen to this Attunement too often for your own energetic reality, you will know that you havecrossed the line. You will recognize that you are releasing more energies within you than you are comfortable dealing with. The simple fact is that as the glands comprising your endocrine system receive fluctuations of light, via the pituitary gland, they release inhibiting patterns of energy and consciousness.

The only guideline here is to proceed in a manner that is comfortable to you. Those of you who are more warrior-like in your nature can push the river, so to speak. But do realize that you are greatly accelerating the energetic transformation of your endocrine system. And if your perception, your thoughts and feelings, speed up too much, then slow down. Listen to the Attunement less often and find your comfort zone.

for the rest of the message, copyright information, as well as a link to the Pituitary Dimensional Attunement, go to:    http://tomkenyon.com/transmission-of-light-the-pituitary-dimensional-attunement

 


 

 

2011 Ig-Nobel Prizes

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Doomsday Math & Beetle Sex: Highlights from Ig Nobel Science Awards

by Natalie Wolchover
Date: 30 September 2011 Time: 01:27 AM ET

beetle attempts to mate with a brown beer bottle
A male Australian jewel beetle attempts to mate with a “stubby” beer bottle.
CREDIT: Darryl Gwynne

The Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony is like a mad hatter’s tea party. Held each fall in olde-worlde Sander’s Theatre at Harvard University, it honors scientists from around the world who have made important, but also completely off-the-wall, contributions to their fields.

This year’s ceremony was a variety show of chemistry-themed sing-alongs, a Win-a-Date-with-a-Scientist contest, audience-wide paper airplane throwing, and hilarious acceptance speeches that had to end before the 8-year-old time-keeper started screaming.

Of course, ridiculous hats abounded.

Honorees at the 2011 Ig Nobels included Australian biologists Darryl Gwynne and David Rentz, who, 23 years ago, discovered a tendency among the males of a certain species of beetle to try to have sex with bottles of a certain brand of beer. “We’ve been waiting for the phone to ring ever since,” Gwynne said as he accepted his long-awaited Ig Nobel Prize in biology. [Photo gallery of 2011 Ig Nobel winners]

The theme of the 2011 ceremony was “chemistry,” and thus, winners received miniature periodic table tables.

The crowd favorite this year was Arturas Zuokas, the mayor of Vilnius, Lithuana, who received the 2011 Ig Nobel Peace Prize for demonstrating that the problem of illegally parked cars can be solved by crushing them with an armored tank.

Judging by the cheers, it seems that many Ig Nobel audience members were among the millions who have watched a viral video showing Mayor Zuokas himself driving a tank over an illegally parked Mercedes. “It’s very popular everywhere. On Youtube it has almost 7 million hits!” Zuokas told Life’s Little Mysteries. Even better, his campaign worked — with drivers more mindful of their actions, the city of Vilnius has seen the problem of illegal parking significantly “curbed.”

Another winner was Peter Snyder, a neurology professor at Brown University who studied the cognitive impairment that results from really, really needing to pee. Apparently the “urge to void,” as Snyder calls it, destroys memory as much as going without sleep for 24 hours, or being drunk.

The honorees played along with the act. Makoto Imai, who, with a team of colleagues, was awarded for inventing a fire alarm that sprays wasabi in order to wake up sleeping people, told the audience: “The next application will be to use wasabi spray to reduce the uncomfortable smell of shoes.” Cue: his assistants, demonstrating the spraying of shoes with wasabi.

This year’s Mathematics Prize went to several people for making predictions of the end of the world that failed to come to fruition; among them was Harold Camping, the evangelical talk show host behind this year’s May 21 doomsday call.

None of the mathematics winners accepted invitations to attend the ceremony, but Marc Abraham, the founder and emcee of the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, said they had been awarded “for teaching the world to be careful when making mathematical assumptions and calculations.”

The Ig Nobel Prizes are ultimately meant to make people excited about science. They do this very well.

from:  http://www.livescience.com/16313-doomsday-math-beetle-sex-highlights-ig-nobel-science-awards.html

Occupy Wall Street Protests Spread

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‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests spread to D.C., Boston, L.A. and Chicago

View Photo Gallery —  The movement is seeking to gather 20,000 people to set up beds, kitchens and peaceful barricades in order to occupy Wall Street for a few months as Boston protests support their effort to end corporate greed.

Tuesday, October 4, 12:55 PM

The ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protest movement that began last month has begun to take root nationally, with sympathy rallies planned in other major cities across the U.S.. As Colum Lynch reported :

New York’s budding anti-capitalism protest movement began last month with a vague sense of grievance over the widening gap between the rich and poor in America.

But in three weeks, it has provided fuel for a broader national anti-corporate message, drawing inspiration from the Arab Spring but struggling to define its goals beyond a general feeling that power needs to be restored to ordinary people.

Now similar protests are springing up in Boston, Los Angeles and Chicago, and organizers in Washington plan a march at Freedom Plaza on Thursday to “denounce the systems and institutions that support endless war and unrestrained corporate greed.”

On Monday morning, the scene at the heart of the self-styled Occupy Wall Street movement — Zuccotti Park, two blocks north of Wall Street — had the feeling of a street fair, with women in brightly colored wigs playing with hula hoops.

A collection of protesters wearing white face paint with streaks resembling blood at their lips conducted a “zombie parade” down Broadway to underscore what they see as the ghoulish nature of capitalism.

Despite having no single leader and no organized agenda, the protesters insist they are on the verge of translating their broad expression of grievance into a durable national cause. “The criticism has focused on the lack of cohesion in our message and demands,” said Arthur Kohl-Riggs, 23, a political activist from Madison, Wis. But what the critics don’t understand, he said, is “the value of forming a direct democratic movement” that is not controlled by political elites.

 

The protests gained more institutional support when a national transit union, the Amalgamated Transit Union, pledged its support Tuesday. As Michael Bolden explained:

The “Occupy Wall Street” movement has been winning support from many quarters, but the latest comes from the world of transportation.

On Tuesday, the Amalgamated Transit Union, with more than 190,000 members in the United States and Canada, pledged its support.

to read more, find the links, and check out the photos, go to:    http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/occupy-wall-street-protests-spread-to-dc-boston-la-and-chicago/2011/10/04/gIQA9IOOLL_story.html

 

Protest Washington – Koch Industries

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Occupy DC: Protest Of Koch Industries’ Downtown Office Planned

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WASHINGTON — Occupy DC protesters are planning a protest of Koch Industries‘ downtown offices Tuesday evening. Jeffrey Light, an attorney involved with the protesters, told The Huffington Post that protesters will meet in McPherson Square at 5 p.m. before heading over to Koch’s offices at 600 14th St NW.

“It might be closer to 5:30,” Light said. “But we’re telling people to be here at 5. We’re going to march down there and protest outside their building for a little bit.”

Light said the group is expecting 20 to 30 people to show up for the early-evening protest, which is inspired by Bloomberg News’ recent expose of Koch Industries and its owners. At 6 p.m., after the protest, Occupy DC will be holding a General Assembly meeting — one of the twice-daily meetings during which consensus is sought about every detail of the group’s existence and purpose, from food to philosophy — when they’ll talk about who and what to protest tomorrow. A protest of former Vice President Dick Cheney’s planned appearance at the Newseum could be in the works, Light said.

They’ll also be talking about whether to keep their camp going at all, given the complementary — but separate — Stop the Machine protest scheduled to begin on Oct. 6 in Freedom Plaza, six blocks away.

Light told The Huffington Post that Occupy DC is discussing the possibility of merging with Stop the Machine. He isn’t yet sure if the merge will happen; it’ll depend on what the General Assembly decides.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/04/occupy-dc-protesting-koch-industries_n_994288.html

Phoenix Rising Star on Remedies in case of Emergency

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EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS REMEDIES

By Phoenix Rising Star

If you’ve been reading the past few issues of Ma’at, you’ll see a pattern of emergency preparedness. When I began this, I had no idea how extensive this topic was, nor did I realize how many people, websites, practitioners, groups, organizations, and non-organizations are currently practicing their version of preparedness. I have received feedback from people with great suggestions, people also feeling guided to stockpile, and people with ideas to share and learned so much from everyone. A compilation of this feedback will be featured in November. If you’ve been holding back any ideas, suggestions, questions, or anything else and would like to be considered for contribution, please send your emergency preparedness related writings to sedonaheartwalk@yahoo.com attn. Phoenix.

This month features two practitioners for which I have great admiration. These practitioners love their work, live their life work, love to share their knowledge and expertise, and are excellent resources for alternative healing. When I initially contacted them for assistance in this article, I just said, “Send me your top ten remedies for emergency situations.” Each in her unique manner singled out and compiled more than ten, which I consider a bonus. May you find help and support from these suggestions for emergencies, as I did.

Aromatherapy for Emergencies.

For those unfamiliar with aromatherapy, these plant based remedies are diffused from different plant parts. Leaves, flowers, and roots are distilled leaving a residue that is one hundred percent healing power. The residue is called essential oil. Essential meaning necessary and life providing. Oil meaning blood or life-force that floats on top of water. Not necessarily sticky, like olive oil.

Aromatherapy may be used topically, by placing a few drops directly on the skin. Different sources may recommend mixing the essential oils with a carrier oil or lotion to prevent burning the skin. Aromatherapy may also be inhaled. Inhalation of the oils causes the healing power to move to the bloodstream efficiently and quickly. Medicinal grade essential oils may be taken internally, but please consult an aromatherapist before you do this. One or two drops go a long way, and not all essential oils on the market are medicinal grade.

Rhonda Phillips of Pure Elements Wellness Spa in Idaho has years of experience with the healing essences of plants. As an H.H.P, L.M.T. and Traditional Spiritual Leader, Rhonda has developed and dedicated her business to sharing and teaching the sacred essences of the plants through aromatherapy. She believes this is her pathway to living her truth, and assisting others with achieving peace and harmony. Rhonda’s website is www.pureelementsonline.com.

Her aromatherapy reference guide is organized according to types of complaints. Individual oils are listed first, with her blends second. All these oils may be ordered through her website listed above. With essential oils, more is not necessarily better, so use discretion.

Common complaints and their essential oil remedies:

1. HEADACHE, MIGRAINE: Peppermint, Lavender, Chamomile, Rosemary, Lemon, BLENDS:Clove”n”Limes, Basil with Lavender.

2. COLDS & FLU: Lavender with Lemon or Peppermint, Peppermint, Chamomile, Ginger, Oregano, Thyme, Tea Tree, Eucalyptus, Myrrh, Rosemary, Ravintsara, Myrtle, Eucalyptus, BLENDS: Ancient Remedy, Breathe Ease, Defense

3. SORE THROATS: Ravintsara, Eucalyptus, Lemon, Peppermint, Tea Tree, Rosemary, BLENDS:Breathe Ease, Gentle Healer, Ancient Remedy

4. EARACHE: Tea Tree, Lavender, Helichrysum. BLENDS: Purify, Gentle Healer

5. TOOTHACHE: Clove, Tea Tree. BLENDS: Ancient Remedy, Gentle Healer

6. SHOCK: Lavender, Tea Tree, Rosemary, Helichrysum with Basil or Peppermint.
BLENDS: Trauma Free, Courage, Balance, Neroli Blend, Wisdom

7. NOSEBLEED: Helichrysum, Lavender, Cypress, Lemon

8. BLEEDING: Helichrysum, Lavender, Cypress. BLENDS: Heart & Soul, Pain Ease

9. PAIN: Helichrysum, Clove, Peppermint, Birch Bark, Wintergreen, Rosemary,
Chamomile. BLENDS: Freedom, Pain Ease, Clove”n”Limes

10. STOMACH ACHE: Peppermint, Ginger, Fennel, Lavender, Bergamot, Rosemary, Chamomile, Tarragon, Spearmint, Lemongrass, Lemon. BLENDS: Comfort

11. STRESS: Bergamot, Chamomiles, Lavenders, Sandalwoods, Neroli, Rose, Frankinscence, Mandarin, Ylang Ylang, Clary Sage. BLENDS: Tranquility, Connect, Create, Empower, Relate, Express, Imagine, Enlighten.

12. INSECT BITES, STINGS: Lavender, Tea Tree, Chamomiles. BLENDS: Purify, Gentle Healer

Jana Shiloh MA, CCH has been practicing homeopathy for 30 yrs ; She has taught nationally and internationally and been named “Honorary Clinical Homeopathic Associate” to the physician to the Queen of England.

She has written three books, the last of which is “HeartFusion™ the Magic of Imprinting Water” which has been endorsed by the coordinator of research for Heartmath Institute.

Her website is http://www.healthrays.com.

Jana’s first aid notes include these suggestions for homeopathic remedies:

1. Use very small amounts. This is “energy” medicine. The quantity of pellets is irrelevant, but the number of times that you administer them is crucial. GIVE ONE DOSE OF THE REMEDY AND WAIT 2 HOURS. The dosage frequency may be increased in extreme emergencies to every 15 minutes..

2. IF SYMPTOMS ARE IMPROVING STEADILY or GET DRAMATICALLY BETTER – STOP. To repeat a dose under those conditions could reverse the curative process.

3. REPEAT ONLY IF: There is no appreciable change (try 1-2 times more); if there was a change, but symptoms have returned; or, if progress is slow. If the patient improves, but continues to relapse, it may mean they need a higher potency. (Contact your homeopath)

Alternate different remedies if necessary about 1-2 hours apart at first, then 3-4 hours apart.

4. IF SYMPTOMS GET WORSE and aren’t a relapse after a prior improvement, DISCONTINUE USE. This may be a temporary aggravation, or it may not be the right remedy. If an improvement does not quickly follow, you may try another remedy and/or call your homeopath.

5. DO NOT GIVE REMEDIES MORE THAN ONCE EVERY 2-4 HOURS (UNLESS IT IS A VERY SERIOUS INJURY, AFTER A SEVERE ACCIDENT. IF SO ARNICA COULD BE REPEATED EVERY 10-15 MINUTES AT FIRST- THEN ACCORDING TO PAIN AS SEVERITY DECREASES) FOR AT MOST ONE DAY. By the second day, improvement should be underway. Increase the time between remedy repetitions as the healing progresses. If more than one remedy is needed for injury it is preferable to alternate remedies- separate them by 10 minutes to 2 hours.

6. Do not touch the remedy, to avoid contamination; instead, place a pellet directly into the mouth or onto a clean spoon. Let the pill dissolve in the mouth. One is actually enough.

7. AVOID COFFEE or CAMPHOR products (Noxzema, lip balm, Vick’s, or “Deep Heat” or Menthol or strong mint). They should not be used for at least 24 hours after the remedy. They antidote the effect of the remedy, and you may notice a return of the symptoms.

8. LAST, BUT NOT LEAST: Do all the other sensible things: i.e., first-aid, medical consultation when appropriate, resting, and not overworking a recently recuperated body or limb.

Suggested Homeopathic remedies for emergencies:

ACONITE: For Shock due to EMOTIONAL TRAUMA, terror, and all physical symptoms deriving from a traumatic incident like, rape, mugging, or a car or other accident. It is different from the Arnica shock which is more dazed: rather you usually see a fearful or even terrified look. Restless. For eye injuries with cuts, abrasions and wounds. For heat exhaustion or stroke if person is dull with an outward pressing headache and is worse sitting up.

APIS: For bee stings or stings of all kind that are worse with heat; hot and swollen. Allergic reactions may be helped, also anaphylactic shock.

ARNICA: This is the first remedy for injury to soft tissues, muscles, tendons and joints. For a sore, lame or bruised feeling in any part of the body from injury. For sprains and muscle strains (to be followed by Rhus Tox. or Ruta if necessary). Arnica will help reduce swelling and discoloration after injury. For shock – if the patient is dazed and/or confused. Also good after tooth extractions, and any other surgeries. Helpful in jet lag and for physical exhaustion. For broken bones, use Arnica first and then alternate with Ruta; after swelling goes down use Symphytum. For injuries from blows around the eye. Use as the first remedy for concussions, and after birthing to prevent swelling.

BELLADONNA: For heat exhaustion or stroke with violent bursting head pains, momentary unconsciousness, extreme relaxation with jerking in the limbs and with more burning in the skin. Headache is better from bending the head backwards. (see Glonoine)

BELLIS PERENIS: very much like Arnica.

Overwork, exhaustion, affinity for female organs, injury to breast and uterus.

For deep wounds from blunt objects, or: pain after surgery (deep surgeries like open heart) when Arnica and Hypericum do not remove all of the pain.

BRYONIA: After giving Arnica, use Bryonia for injuries feeling worse with the slightest movement. For constipation if there is no urging. All symptoms are worse from motion. For cracked ribs or wrenched or sprained knees.

CALENDULA Tincture: Use topically as an antiseptic to clean a wounded area. Hot applications preferable for abscesses. Use compresses for internal inflammations (lung, etc) 1oz to 1 pint or 10 drops to 1/4 cup water. Also buy the non-alcoholic spray for open wounds. Promotes healing too. Great after tooth extractions. For raw, inflamed, stinging wounds.

CANTHARIS: For severe pain of burns and all 3rd-degree burns and burning blisters.

CAUSTICUM: For the pain of burns, if they are milder burns; or sunburns; this can be diluted in water and applied locally. Also used for paralytic weakness of muscles from being over-strained and/or chilled. Contraction of tendons.

HYPERICUM: Injury to nerves – smashed fingertips and fingernails or toenails; injury to elbows or to the tailbone (from falls or during childbirth). Injuries to the spine. Shooting pains, along nerves especially; or when pain originates with a laceration or a bite. Blood poisoning with red streaks up the limb. Useful alternating with Arnica, in pain after surgery. Also for nerve pain after dental work- (after first giving Arnica) following drilling.

IGNATIA: This remedy is a very common one for acute grief. Use after a loss such as a death, a divorce or broken heart, it is even useful for animals when their owners leave them to go on vacation. This remedy is very sensitive to mint, even in toothpaste, so be sure to avoid it. One dose of a 200c is advisable, or a few doses of 30c. then usually nothing more is needed. Remember though, there are other remedies for grief, if Ignatia doesn’t work, consult a homeopath.

LACHESIS: For poisonous spider bites (Brown Recluse and others).

LEDUM: Useful in injuries with pain, puffiness and coldness of affected part. Black and blueness not completely removed with Arnica (as in a black eye or sprained kle). Wounds that feel better from cold water or ice. It is good for puncture wounds. It often antidotes insect stings and spider bites, especially if the wounded part feels cold. ( For a black eye).

RHUS TOX: Stiffness and pain in the muscles (sprains) and joints (rheumatic) on first beginning to move, improving with movement as the part loosens up, later getting weak if overly-used. Worse in cold damp weather. Restlessness, worse at night in bed. Pains in the back and shoulders as well, with stiffness. Stiffness from rising from seat,

RUTA: Strains of tendons from over-exertion Sprains (after administering Arnica first) if any pain persists. Weakness and pain in the legs, ankles and wrists. Spine and limbs are weak, especially after back sprain. Sciatica, if worse lying down at night. Often helpful in eyestrain from close work: eyes are red and hot, followed by headaches. Pains from injury to covering of bone (periosteum) where the skin is thin, i.e., shins. For formation of deposits in the bone, bone sheath, tendons, joints, and wrist where cold makes the symptoms worse. Carpel Tunnel syndrome.

SILICA: Ejects foreign objects from the body (thorns, splinters, glass, even bullets!).Must use low potency i.e. 6 or 12c

THESE REMEDIES ARE FOR FIRST-AID In addition to these remedies, follow traditional first-aid procedures. When in doubt, and if relief is not prompt, see your doctor. Homeopathic remedies still work when taken in conjunction with pharmaceutical drugs. Ultimately, when serious accidents occur, talk with a homeopath as higher potencies than normally available may be needed.

to read more, go to:   http://www.spiritofmaat.com/oct11/remedies.html

Comet Hits Sun – Raises Questions

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COMET AND CME: A comet discovered by amateur astronomers on Friday, Sept. 30th, disintegrated in spectacular fashion the very next day when it plunged into the sun. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory recorded the comet’s last hours. The end was punctuated by an unexpected explosion:

Watch the movie again. The timing of the CME so soon after the comet dove into the sun suggests a link. But what? There is no known mechanism for comets to trigger solar explosions. Before 2011 most solar physicists would have discounted the events of Oct. 1st as pure coincidence–and pure coincidence is still the most likely explanation. Earlier this year, however, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) watched another sungrazer disintegrate in the sun’s atmosphere. On July 5, 2011, the unnamed comet appeared to interact with plasma and magnetic fields in its surroundings as it fell apart. Could a puny comet cause a magnetic instability that might propagate and blossom into a impressive CME? The question is not so crazy as it once seemed to be.

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