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How are all you Daughters of Earth doing, close to one week post gathering?
As one of the Rainbow Temple facilitators, I had an insight/idea/suggestion. Last year, Alisa helped us prepare for a shift in our relationship to our money and our beliefs about abundance. She suggested that all women prepare for the next DOE by saving the money that we would need to attend ALL YEAR LONG, so we could not say” I don’t have enough” one month before the gathering.
I am suggesting that we prepare for next year by using “film therapy” with respect to issues of race, ethnicity, class, and body image.
What a concept! At my Facebook “Temple of the Healthy Spirit” fanpage, I will be posting links to films, trailers to films, and you-tube clips relevant to films to help us think about these topics with some depth. I will also create a category for this topic, at my website; let’s call it the RRC (race relations commitment) category.
Why this topic and why now? Because London is going up in smoke, as I am writing this on August 12 and we have the same issues to address on this side of the Atlantic.
So let us begin. Start simple. This weekend, a new film is out, called “The Help” (trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GYmhc8Xk8g) Get yourself to the movie. Better yet, take a friend. Best of all, take a friend from a different ethnic/class/ or racial group.
And, if you haven’t GOT a friend who “qualifies”, then that’s a real opportunity for self examination, isn’t it?
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Being a sci-fi child was unusual, in my family African-American artistic artistic. My scientific temperament made me feel the black sheep much of the time.
My geeky tendencies were nurtured outside of my family from an early age. Max, my third grade science teacher introduced me to atomic theory. I saw a standard drawing of a nucleus, a proton and an electron and had an epiphany. It represented EVERYTHING. Finding the language of math and science to explore this way of seeing the world was a given for me, from that day onward.
Then there was ”A Wrinkle in Time”, read aloud by my fourth grade teacher. This mythopoetic story of Meg (clumsy misfit struggling to find her place in the world, suddenly transported into a great struggle to save Earth from Dark Forces) prepared me to believe in miracles, and in the power of love.
It is with very mixed feelings that I have witnessed the end of America’s space program. The return of the shuttle Atlantis on July 21– the same day “we” walked on the moon–IS the end of an era. It was an era that started on the wrong foot. A race AGAINST the Russians. The planting of a flag, CLAIMING the moon for “us”.
A poem I wrote in 9th grade still reads true, all these many years later:
“I once heard a Navajo woman,
who was withered,
Like the last leaf of Autumn
Say,
Upon hearing that man had reached the moon,
Very quietly,
Very softly,
‘I don’t think that man was meant to go to the moon’
And I knew that when she died
A small piece of humanity would die with her.
Because she still saw the moon
As luminous power in a night sky,
As a Goddess, to be respected–
Not a rock on which to plant a flag
Or a dumpsite for discarded LEMs.”
Could the millions spent on the space program have been better utilized? What were we humans exporting, anyway? How could we simply leave all our junk up there out in space? Was space becoming the new “away” for throwing things away?
About two weeks ago, I was having a conversation with my geeky MIT grad buddy, the product of parents who are both engineers who work for NASA. His defense of a continued need for the space program boiled down to “having somewhere to do the dangerous experiments”.
Hmmm.
Like exploding nuclear bombs? Or biologic warfare tests?
It was not until 1992 that anyone looking like me went into space. Mae Jemison was a dancer, and a doctor, as well as an astronaut. She resigned from NASA in 1993. In 1996, she filed a police brutality report against a Texas police officer, following her arrest for a traffic violation.
That incident alone enforces my belief that we have a lot more work to do ”down here” before our government gets back to space exploration.
We’ll get there; in the right time in the right way.
With the REAL Right Stuff next time.
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Love a bi-polar day. That could be my son (diagnosed), or my mother (would fit today’s criteria)…
I love and HATE the idea.
Labels make me crazy. I have spoken about this, on my radio show:
http://ia600507.us.archive.org/8/items/ChannelingTheMuse_108/CTM062510sanity.mp3.
l I counsel about this, and help people create healing ceremonies for themselves:
and I am campaigning HARD to wake folks up to the problems with long term use of psych meds:
http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/drug-induced-dementia/
and provide SAFE suggestions for tapering and monitoring while adjusting or eliminating such meds:
http://willhall.net/harmreductionguidecomingoffpsychdrugs/
So, what do I think about Love a Bipolar Day?
I am remembering getting excited about the Wayseer Manifesto, and having a cynical friend remark that 80% of the 9 minute video could be a diagnostic study of mania:
Things that make you go “HMMMMMM”.
What I know–
#1 Labels suck the life out of people.
#2 Mental diversity is simply not tolerated, in the United States of America.
#3 Americans are consumers, not citizens, and consuming drugs (legal and illegal) is a multi billion dollar business. One in three Americans are on psychiatric meds; THAT is sick.
#4 the closer a person is to nature, the less likely they are to fall into unpleasant relationships with EXTREME STATES (that would be develop neuroses, become depressed or anxious, have a nervous breakdown, or become psychotic)
#5 the difference between a shaman and a schizophrenic is the voice in the shaman’s head STOP when asked to stop.
#6 the difference between a mystic and a madman (or woman) is a mystic knows when to keep their mouth shut.
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Wow. Weeks of wonder. The Extreme Weather issues are hitting closer to home. Personal relationships are heating up. I am having more miscommunications, with more necessity for CLARITY in setting boundaries, while offering love and support from an appropriate distance. Friends are dancing with physical health crises, including dancing with death. As local celebrity Bob Paquette was honored after his sudden death at age 55
(see my archived radio show: http://ia600607.us.archive.org/30/items/ChannelingTheMuseLifeAndDeath/CTM060311final.mp3) I find myself in awe of the depths of living I learned he had experienced…
That is my brief report in, for Full Catastrophe Life. How is everyone else doing, out there?
Now I am going DIRECTLY to the esoteric. Transmissions from the Hathors keep feeling “right” to me, now. I pass them along to you…
By their very nature Chaotic Nodes tend to generate transition states of consciousness. Transition states of consciousness emerge when perceptual markers disappear. And when this occurs you enter a null zone in which your old reality no longer exists, or has changed radically, while your new reality has not yet come into existence.
Due to the fact that you have entered an even more intense phase of the Chaotic Node, we wish to share with you our views regarding transition states, in the hopes that you will be able to utilize this knowledge for your own benefit.
For our purposes we can divide transition states into three primary categories: 1) personal transition states, 2) collective transition states and 3) physical death.
Personal Transition States
Let us turn our attention to personal transition states first, for your personal perception is the pivotal point around which your perceived reality operates.
Your perception of reality is fundamentally a personal creation. It is influenced by the collective perception of your culture, time, place and circumstance, but fundamentally your perception of what is real and not real is a creation—your creation.
Your perception of reality depends upon habits of perception, if you are like most persons. You are used to experiencing certain realities in your life and these tell you where you are, so to speak. You wake up in the morning and you look to the clock and the collective perception of time is immediately before you. Your choice to engage this illusion, or not, is a personal one. Indeed, one of the signs of spiritual mastery is the ability to navigate cultural illusions successfully while clearly understanding their nature.
When a situation in your personal life shifts dramatically there is a tendency for the perceptual markers to disappear or re-organize themselves.
Let us present one possible scenario. If you have worked at the same job for many years you have built your life around the demands of this position. You eat lunch at a certain time. You return home at a certain time. You interact with others in specific ways, tailored to fit the demands of your job.
If that job were suddenly removed, unexpectedly, those perceptual markers would disappear. There would be no need to get up at a certain time, eat at a certain time, return home at a certain time, and the people you interacted with for the bulk of your waking hours would no longer be available to you.
This situation is inherently disorienting for most people. Again, the perceptual markers have disappeared.
The same phenomenon occurs when any radical shift in your personal life takes place. If a relationship that is important to you suddenly ends the perceptual markers of that relationship disappear, and you enter the transition state of consciousness.
If you have a health crisis and your physical life is affected in radical ways the perceptual markers disappear, and this can be disorienting. You have entered a transition state of consciousness.
As the Chaotic Node increases in its intensity more and more persons will experience the shock waves of their old reality crumbling before them. What was certain in their lives is now uncertain. What was solid ground is seen to be no longer solid. We mean this both figuratively and literally.
There is another wave of transition states that is emerging from this Chaotic Node. It is already affecting many persons, but its affects will spread out in consciousness much like a tsunami.
This particular transition state has to do with the collapse of the collective lies of your culture. Increasingly more and more of you will see behind the shadow play; you will sense the puppet masters, and although their identities may elude you, you will see with increasing reality that aspects of your culture are a manipulation,
a limitation, and in many cases, downright lies.
The lie that we are speaking to here is not the lie of economics, the lie of wars, or the lie of confining religions, but the lie of your identity—a lie that ensures your imprisonment. This lie is the belief and cultural assertion that you are nothing more than a physical human being and that there are, in fact, no other realms of being beyond your earthy experience.
The recognition of this lie is a harbinger of personal freedom, but in its beginning stages it can be quite disorienting. This is because multidimensional experiences are so different from your earthly day-to-day experiences. If you find yourself marooned between your earthly and multidimensional life, you have entered a transition state of consciousness.
Our purpose in sharing this information is to suggest a practical course of action during transition states of consciousness.
When you personally enter a powerful transition state you might, like many human beings, remain stuck in overwhelm. Many individuals find the shock of realizing that their perceptual markers have disappeared, along with the reality that they assumed to be real, deeply disturbing.
Due to the fact that time is accelerating—and by this we mean more events taking place in less time—remaining in a state of shock or overwhelm is a psychological indulgence which you cannot afford. The essential point we wish to convey here is that regardless of the nature of the transition state, whether it is personal in nature having to do with changes in your personal life, or due to recognizing your cultural manipulation—you are the creator of your reality.
You may have stories to explain why suddenly your life is bereft, but these are just stories. You may blame other persons, situations, or institutions for your problem, but this is misplaced responsibility. Your stories may be true and there may be other persons, situations or institutions to blame, but when you have entered a transition state of consciousness, you are at the central vortex of a powerful creative process. There is no reason or need to cry over “spilt milk” as one of your folk sayings goes. What is lost is lost. What is gone is gone.
Now the central question becomes, “What will you do?”
Will you remain stunned, in shock, in overwhelm, anger and sadness? Or will you step into your identity as a creator of your life?
To those of you who choose to remain in lower states of consciousness, we have no comment.
Our comments are for those of you courageous enough and bold enough to step into your identity as creators. If you are one of these, here is what we suggest.
When everything disappears, meaning the perceptual markers of your former reality, understand that you have entered into a void point.
A void point is a critical transition between an old reality and a new one. That which was, has ended. Instead of regretting the loss, you accept the void. This is, for many persons, a challenging undertaking, because in the void point there is nothing that can be done. You must simply be a witness to it, and to yourself, for in this no-man’s land there are no perceptual markers.
Be careful what new markers you put into place, for these ideas and beliefs will be the stars in the new sky of your mind, and you shall navigate your way into these new times by the stars (thoughts and beliefs) that you have placed in the heavens of your own consciousness. So be wise when you go about creating new stars, our fellow navigators of the Mystery.
Collective Transition States of Consciousness
The human collective, from our perspective, is currently like an immense cosmic serpent shedding its old skin, writhing and twisting, scraping off old encumbrances. Some of these take the form of economic turmoil.
Some of them are political in nature. Some of them are the collapse and transformation of cultural institutions. And some of these writhings and twistings are related to earthquake and volcanic activity, as well as aberrant weather patterns.
As natural and manmade disasters increase, more and more of you will find yourselves entering transition states of consciousness. Obviously those who experience an earthquake, volcano or destructive weather directly are the most prone to enter transition states, but those of you who are empathic in nature can experience the brunt of a natural or manmade disaster as if you were physically present.
Indeed as the veil that separates human consciousnesses from one another dissolves, more and more of you will experience the changes taking place in the world at a visceral level.
We now wish to address the question of a new creation for those of you who may find yourself in the aftermath of a natural or manmade disaster, such as an earthquake, a volcanic eruption, or destructive weather patterns.
If the destructive force is strong enough, the perceptual markers of your former reality may no longer exist. Your home or place of business may no longer be there. You may find yourself dealing with shortages of food and water, and there are any number of variables that can come together to create a state of shock and overwhelm.
We wish to be very clear in what we are about to say. Shock and overwhelm in the face of disasters are a natural mammalian response, and if you are to transcend and transform the moment you must reach upward to higher dimensions of your own existence, your own being, to those realms of consciousness that are beyond time and space.
To the extent that you are able to incorporate the transcendent aspects of your being as part of the equation for your survival, you will be able to mitigate the shock and overwhelm.
The central feature that needs to be identified in the midst of chaos, any form of chaos, is the portal of opportunity.
This opportunity for survival or for a new life may present itself in ways you do not expect. This is because the perceptual markers are no longer in place and your consciousness may not recognize an opportunity when it presents itself.
There is a deep-seated human habit, or tendency, that wishes to conform new realities to those of the past. This would be an unfortunate habit to engage in these situations.
There is much we could say about the hyper-dimensional realities involved in choice making during chaotic events, but we wish to “cut to the chase” and give that which will be most practical. Perhaps some other time we can share with you our philosophical musings about your infinite nature and the infinite possibilities that reside within you. However, for now, let us be a little simplistic and give you a formula to recognize and create opportunities for new life and a new destiny when they present themselves to you.
Assuming that you have entered a transition state of consciousness and that you have befriended the void point and are more or less comfortable with the great uncertainty of your situation, this is what we suggest.
Be curious and expect miracles.
By entering a state of curiosity you engage an aspect of your mind that is free to move unfettered by expectation. It becomes very much like the mind of a child, and it is this innocence—which is not the same as childishness—that allows you to enter a vibratory state of consciousness, which greatly benefits you.
By holding the expectation of miracles you release the power of creation within you, and to the extent that
you accomplish this you will find increasing incidences of serendipity, coincidences of benefit and unexpected treasures, whether they be physical in nature or mental and emotional.
This combination of curiosity about what will happen next joined with an expectation of miracles will move you rapidly from the void point to a new life, a new creation, regardless of what might be happening for those around you.
During collective transition states of consciousness it is helpful to remember that each person is the creator of his or her own reality, and in the midst of chaos people will make different choices and enter different personal realities*
Do not be swayed by those who enter lower vibratory realms. You cannot save them from themselves. Look upward and live upward with curiosity and an expectation of miracles, and even in the gravest of situations miracles can, and will, occur for you.
Physical Death
One of the greatest difficulties for embodied beings is the transition state of consciousness you call death. This is due to the fact that all perceptual markers, including the five senses, disappear. If a person identifies solely with his/her material existence, he or she will find this transition state to be most difficult. This is because what she or he identified with no longer exists.
Although the physical world continues on, there is no input into consciousness from the five senses. It is as if the world has vanished and the body along with it. The great I Am, the central feature of transcendent consciousness, no longer receives information from the body, the five senses, or the external world. This can be deeply disturbing and disorienting for someone who has not directly experienced the other realms of his or her being.
Metaphorically speaking, you are like a vast tree, a Tree of Life, with many branches and many, many leaves and blossoms, and your current physical existence is just one of these leaves and one of these blossoms.
When a person passes through the transition state of consciousness you call death there are several options. If you are in a spiritual tradition the central figure of which is a guru, avatar or savior, you can follow the path of this being into the vibratory realm of his/her consciousness. In some religions this is known as heaven.
If you follow the path of a guru, avatar or savior understand that you are entering into his/her heaven, her/his vibratory attainment, and by necessity you enter also into his/her limitations in consciousness**
From our perspective the universe is infinite in nature, and by this we refer not to external space but to the interdimensional realities of your universe, and there is no single being in existence, from our experience, who understands and embraces all that is.
If, however, you wish to join your guru/avatar/savior in the death realms we have a few suggestions. One is to mentally call upon his/her name. This is an ancient understanding encapsulated in the Egyptian term Ren, meaning name. When you call upon the name of a spiritual being an aspect of him/her is compelled to move toward you.
If, in that moment of encountering your guru/avatar/savior, he or she deems you worthy, you will be taken by him/her into his/her heavenly realm.
For those of you in eastern spiritual traditions there are mantras connected with specified deities. Chanting these mantras mentally during death, or in the death realms, has the same effect.
For those of you who are not part of a spiritual tradition that follows a guru, avatar or savior, then the transition state of consciousness called death offers other possibilities.
As with the other two transition states of consciousness, the death realm has a void point, and its dominant
features are stillness (silence) and darkness. All possibilities exist within the Void, but no actuality is in existence. It is like the acorn of an oak tree. The oak, the giant tree itself, is potentially within the acorn, but it does not yet exist.
So when you find yourself in the Void, which you will recognize by the fact that you are utterly alone in darkness and utter stillness, know that you are in the central nexus of your creative powers.
What you choose to create next will determine the course of your destiny and what worlds you will inhabit or realms of existence you will reside in. This is a critical juncture.
Many persons frightened by the darkness move to the light prematurely. And what they do not realize is that in their yearning they create the light. A portal opens before them, like a tunnel, and they can move into this tunnel of light, encountering those they have known before, thereby entering back into embodiment or other vibratory realms of existence without having fully understood the consequences. This is certainly one option open to you, and one that is often taken.
Another option, however, is to remain at the void point, residing in the Void itself, becoming aware of your Self as pure consciousness—transcendent to all phenomena.
If you reside in this state of awareness long enough without the need to create something, you will discover your identity as the great I Am. And from this point of awareness you can choose the circumstances of your embodiment. You can choose the worlds you will inhabit or the realms of consciousness where you will reside.
This latter method gives you the greatest opportunities, though it is the most difficult for most people. ***And the reason for this difficulty has to do with the fact that most humans find it uncomfortable to not have a body. The yearning for a body and the experience of the material world often draws a person from the Void prematurely.
In summation, due to the intensifying phases of the Chaotic Node many of you will find yourselves in transitional states of consciousness. Regardless of what level you find yourself engaged in, whether it be your personal life, the collective experience, or the transition state you call death, know that you are the creator of your reality.
The Hathors
April 20, 2011
footnotes:
* having walked away from conventional medicine 6 years ago, with all of the wildness and wonders of a “post MD life”, I really resonate with this… what is going on for YOU??????
Where this gets “magical” for me, is in bringing in multi-DIMENSIONAL possibilities.
I am having experiences with dimensional shifts, small miracles, and outrageous serendipity, more and more. Time to begin talking about this with other advanced guard. I
Check out “Extreme States Revisited” (see attached flyer) this THURSDAY JUNE 9th from 5 to 7 p.m. at 74 Federal Street in Greenfield. Adrian Montagano and I will be sharing our process, then opening the event for hearing the experiences of others.
**this line reminded me of a Sci Fi book by Robert Heinlein called “The Book of Job”… in it, everyone gets the Life after Death that they are expecting. You might find this to be an interesting read, but I hate Heinlein’s sexism:
Heinlein’s book of Job (review on amazon.com)
“This book is more psychedelic and postmodern. It centers around a conservative protestant minister who’s life is turned upside down when, after walking through fire while on vacation, he finds himself in another world that is just slightly different than his own. Every time he gets a little used to it, the world changes again and he has to start from scratch.”
Ursula LeGuin does a mind-blowing number on this concept of multiple dimensions and personal reality, with her novel, “The Lathe of Heaven” Made into a movie (which I “serendipitously” just found IN IT’S ENTIRETY on line:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6032236535078716306#)
THAT’S the kind of coincidence I mean.***My Near Death experience with suicide gave me a great opportunity to have my faith in post death existence secured. YET I have found myself totally stymied by the out-of body/alone/YIKES of this experience, when using the consciousness expanding herb, Salvia Divinorum. This is my personal check in on NOT being ready, should I be asked to transition into death, tomorrow…
How are you doing?
What about with loss of beloveds, relationships, professional work, home, or STUFF?
I intend to begin an in depth exploration of The Tibetan Book of The Dead; being midwife to The Great Transition has it’s homework assignments.
How are YOU dancing into This Great Transition?
Filed under: feral M.D. blogs | Tags: alternative healing, alternative spirituality, conscious evolution, cultural creatives, cultural diversity, fear, health, health education, holistic health, new culture, radiation exposure
Hello everyone. I have been posting information that I believe is helpful to maintaining balance and centeredness during these challenging times. what A blessing to have this information simply flow to me, through links, and blogs, and other web pages.
Here is some valuable information, posted through the H2O program (see http://www.h2opportunities.net/)
From Dori Midnight:
As you’ve probably heard, there may be some radiation moving across the
pacific in the next weeks heading towards the west coast from Japan. To keep
going, be alive, and not shut down, we need courage, nourishment, and
support – make a pot of soup
1. SEAWEED: eat nori, put wakame, kombu, and hijiki in your soups and stews.
The iodine in kelp helps draw out the radiation and protect your thyroid
from radioactive uptake.
2. MISO: good medicine full of live cultures, amino acids, minerals, and
protein. I’d recommend making a big pot this week, having a bowl everyday
and feeding it to all your friends- recipe follows.
3. MUSHROOMS: strengthen your immune system with some shitake mushrooms,
sauteed or in soups.
4. Eat vegetables, especially DAIKON radishes and BURDOCK root- stick them
in your soup too or make a shredded salad (recipe below). Daikon has been
used for drawing out radiation, post nuclear fall out- it’s cooling and
detoxifying
5. BATHS in epsom salt and baking soda (1 lb of salt, with a bit of baking
soda 2x week)
6. DRINK lots of WATER
7. IMMUNE support: do the things you know boost your immune system- sleep
well, eat garlic and Vitamin C rich foods, and go easy on the sugar
8. LOVE: send prayers, love, healing thoughts for those who need it most.
Instead of freaking out or shutting down, let your anger, fear, and grief
flow- it’s what makes us human and feel connected to what’s going on in the
world right now. Crying is a potent way to detox, friends. (emphasis mine)
9. HERBS: if you want to get herbal, some great allies are nettle tea,
cilantro (eat a lot of it or take a tincture- it helps draw heavy metals out
), and milk thistle (helps your liver process toxins). Also Yarrow
Environmental Essence from FES is a beautiful formula to support the body in
environmental disasters.
RECIPES:
Magical Medicinal Miso Soup
Saute one onion, sliced thin, til translucent. Add water, seaweed of choice
(I like Kombu and Wakame), shitake mushrooms (dried or fresh), burdock root,
carrots, and any other hearty roots you like. Simmer for 25 minutes.
I like to add shredded or sliced ginger near the end, so it’s strong, and
some garlic, which I like really strong. You can also add greens, like kale
or spinach. Simmer another 5 minutes.
Because you don’t want to boil your miso, I usually put a large dollop of
miso paste in my bowl and then pour the broth on top to dissolve it.
Drink and offer bowls to all your loved ones and neighbors, kiddos and pets,
family and friends.
Get your Daikon
Easy Shredded Salad
Shred carrot and daikon radish (2-3 roots)
Mix with sesame oil and a little umeboshi vinegar (also a great medicine!),
sesame seeds, whatever fresh herbs you’ve got on hand (I love mint or
cilantro), and a little tamari. Eat and feel alive and well thanks to the
plants, the sun, the water and the farmers.
Dori Midnight
community folk healing + magic + apothecary
www.dorilandia.com <http://www.dorilandia.com/>
http://midnightapothecary.blogspot.com/
<http://midnightapothecary.blogspot.com/>
And, this meditation from a channel for the Hawthors:
(see http://tomkenyon.com/who-are-the-hathors)
A Hathor Planetary Message Through Tom Kenyon
Medicines of Light:
Protection and Healing from Radiation Poisoning, Neurotoxins, Bacteria and
Viruses.
With the earthquake in New Zealand, followed by the earthquake in Japan, it
is clear that you have entered a more complex phase of the Chaotic Node
We wish to impart a method for protection and healing from radiation
poisoning as well as other physical conditions. We call this Medicines of
Light.
This is obviously related to current events unfolding in Japan, however, as
future earth changes unfold, you may face similar challenges in your near
future from other locations around the world
This method will assist you to both protect and heal yourself from exposure,
not only to radioactivity, but also to neurotoxins and to mutating forms of
bacteria and viruses. From our perspective you can expect to see an increase
of these in your near timeline.
The method involves connecting to your Celestial Soul, the BA. This action
is to connect to the realms of light that are a part of your being.
Everything that exists in your cosmos can be viewed as a qualification or
energetic expression of light—even your densest forms of matter are
essentially a form of light.
In this method you connect to your Celestial Soul, holding the intent and
expectation that it will impart to you an energetic that protects and/or
heals you. You send this intent to your Celestial Soul with the emotional
vibration of appreciation or gratitude. This is simply the vibrational
resonance that activates this higher aspect of your being.
Once you send this intent conjoined with appreciation or gratitude to your
BA, you shift your awareness into your heart chakra, receiving the energetic
of healing or protection into the heart chakra. You might experience this
energetic as a form of light, or as geometric patterns, or you may feel the
sensation of a descent of energy. You may also experience this energetic
simply as a thought/feeling.
Once the energetic is received in the heart chakra, it is ready to send.
For this phase you will need some pure water, since water holds this type of
information extremely well. Holding a container of water in your hands,
through intent, you send this energy that is in the heart chakra down the
arms into the hands and through the chakras that are in the center of each
palm. The energetic enters the water through this pathway.
We suggest you amplify this energetic by repeating the procedure three
times, for a total of three times—two more times in addition to the first.
You then drink the water. The water permeates the water element of your
body, and the healing and protective qualities eventually enter every cell.
Through this action you are qualifying light, causing it to descend through
the central pathway of your body into your heart and sending it into the
water element. The consciousness of the water receives this energetic, and
when you drink it, the body receives it.
If you find yourself in a situation where you have been exposed to
radioactivity you would engage this procedure as we have described it,
qualifying the energy that descends from the BA to protect and heal you from
any possibility of radiation poisoning. If you have other means to protect
yourself, you should obviously engage these as well, but even if you are
left with nothing but the tools of your own consciousness, you can protect
and heal yourself.
If you have been exposed to neurotoxins you would do the same. If you are in
the midst of an epidemic that involves bacterial or viral infections, we
advise you to do the same.
As you collectively enter more deeply into this more complex and intense
phase of the Chaotic Node, bacteria and viruses will mutate faster. This
method will allow you to protect and heal yourself from these mutating life
forms.
It is important to understand that you are creating the protection and
healing through the powers of your own consciousness. You have direct access
to your own light realms. You have the sovereign right to engage the light
realms on your own behalf and on the behalf of your loved ones.
If you find yourself in one of these difficult situations we have described,
we suggest you take the Medicine of Light—which is the water that you have
charged—several times a day, as your intuition guides you.
The physical ramifications of the earthquake activity in Japan and the
resulting tsunami are very difficult to deal with. But we wish to shift our
attention from the physical to the mental, emotional, and spiritual effects
created by such a disaster,
Due to the fact that you are in a Chaotic Node and energies from deep space
conjoined with solar flare activity are affecting your energy bodies, you,
as a collective, are more affected. What we mean by this is that witnessing
the suffering of your fellow humans shatters the heart. There is a
recognition that their predicament could easily be yours. This recognition
can create an opening in your heart, and it is through the heart—your
heart—that higher states of consciousness are realized, and so the
earthquake in Japan is, in many ways, an earthquake of the collective heart.
The times before you are not easy. From our perspective, increased earth
changes are upon you. But one result of such events is that you are shaken
to your roots and the mass hypnosis pauses for a moment. And in such utter
and surrealistic devastation, many of you see very clearly that your
civilization rests on tenuous grounds. We mean this both literally and
figuratively.
And so our advice for this phase of the Chaotic Node is to learn and master
the ability to create Medicines of Light for yourself, so that when the time
arises, you know how to engage this power of protection and healing that you
possess in your very nature. And we suggest you navigate through these times
not only with your minds, but with your hearts—and let your hearts be
touched, for it is through your hearts that you will ascend the spiral
pathway to your own greatness (emphasis mine).
Filed under: feral M.D. blogs | Tags: alternative health, children, nutrition
‘Ya think??????
Hyperactivity. Fidgeting. Inattention. Impulsivity. If your child has one or more of these qualities on a regular basis, you may be told that he or she has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. If so, they’d be among about 10 percent of children in the United States.
Kids with ADHD can be restless and difficult to handle. Many of them are treated with drugs, but a new study says food may be the key. Published in The Lancet journal, the study suggests that with a very restrictive diet, kids with ADHD could experience a significant reduction in symptoms.
The study’s lead author, Dr. Lidy Pelsser of the ADHD Research Centre in the Netherlands, writes in The Lancet that the disorder is triggered in many cases by external factors — and those can be treated through changes to one’s environment.
“ADHD, it’s just a couple of symptoms — it’s not a disease,” the Dutch researcher tells All Things Considered weekend host Guy Raz.
The way we think about — and treat — these behaviors is wrong, Pelsser says. “There is a paradigm shift needed. If a child is diagnosed ADHD, we should say, ‘OK, we have got those symptoms, now let’s start looking for a cause.’ “
Pelsser compares ADHD to eczema. “The skin is affected, but a lot of people get eczema because of a latex allergy or because they are eating a pineapple or strawberries.”
According to Pelsser, 64 percent of children diagnosed with ADHD are actually experiencing a hypersensitivity to food. Researchers determined that by starting kids on a very elaborate diet, then restricting it over a few weeks’ time.
“It’s only five weeks,” Pelsser says. “If it is the diet, then we start to find out which foods are causing the problems.”
Teachers and doctors who worked with children in the study reported marked changes in behavior. “In fact, they were flabbergasted,” Pelsser says.
“After the diet, they were just normal children with normal behavior,” she says. No longer were they easily distracted or forgetful, and the temper tantrums subsided.
Some teachers said they never thought it would work, Pelsser says. “It was so strange,” she says, “that a diet would change the behavior of a child as thoroughly as they saw it. It was a miracle, a teacher said.”
But diet is not the solution for all children with ADHD, Pelsser cautions.
“In all children, we should start with diet research,” she says. If a child’s behavior doesn’t change, then drugs may still be necessary. “But now we are giving them all drugs, and I think that’s a huge mistake,” she says.
Also, Pelsser warns, altering your child’s diet without a doctor’s supervision is inadvisable (editorial comment from the Feral Physician: WTF????? How dangerous can food be if it is NOT about anaphylaxis? I do not agree that it is “dangerous” to alter your child’s diet without a doctor’s supervision!).
“We have got good news — that food is the main cause of ADHD,” she says. “We’ve got bad news — that we have to train physicians to monitor this procedure because it cannot be done by a physician who is not trained.”
Editorial comment #2: We had NO NUTRITIONAL TRAINING– other than basic biochemistry when I went to med school– don’t expect your doctor to know SQUAT about good eating habits and appropriate food choices for children)
from NPR ‘s Weekend edition:
http://www.npr.org/2011/03/12/134456594/study-diet-may-help-adhd-kids-more-than-drugs?ft=1&f=1001
Filed under: Temple of the Healthy Spirit | Tags: cultural creatives, earth changes, new culture, women's health, women's spirituality, womens' community
Wow. “Waving Overwhelming Wonder”
Every woman in our circle ( we are at 21 signed on at present, and still open to more) deserves the skill of transformational breathwork to breathe through the images and words regarding the WONDER of the last 48 hours. If you do not know breathwork, contact me– I will connect you with a sister who does.
Here’s a link to more “left brain” info: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03arUEZ5cbU
The breaths for the images and the times are the “Fear to Excitement” and the “Sadness to Compassion”. My “musings” section of Channeling the Muse going out on 3/25 will feature a guided excercise in using these two breaths; maybe anger to POWER also (depending on what happens over the next two weeks in the wide wide world)!
That is the first message on this Brand New Day. My spirit guides tell me that we have just crossed a threshold as humans, with the Japanese earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster. My vocation is spiritual doula. My circles at present are men over 50, and mermaid women. Separate and very UNEQUAL circles.
This is a mermaid message. The circle remains open through the spring Equinox. We have room for whomever wants to swim with us, and is female.
If you did not open the “Pie Jesu” link, I encourage you to do so, and to listen. We MUST make beauty and deepen the meaning of all that is happening around us. Transition is accelerating.
Message number two: we have, within us, everything that we need for these times. We have our treasures in the watery womb of our collective consciousness, and our powerful life experience. We truly are the ones that we’ve been waiting for.
Message #3. The Japanese follows the Haitian, which followed Katrina, which was preceeded by the Indonesian Disaster. Here is the dictionary.com definition of disaster:
“a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure…Obsolete . an unfavorable aspect of a star or planet (italics mine)”
I remind you that there is an article being disseminated, with very FAVORABLE aspects of the planet and the stars being brought forward (see Russo’s Revolution in Consciousness”)
Mermaids, swimming through an ocean together. Creating a psychic group mind where the waters are warm, and we are nurturing each other, and singing, and playing together.
The erotic is critical to our survival. The erotic, in the face of Disaster, is vital to our transformation, as a human species.
Here are some word pairs to simply play with/ meditate on, alone:
Separation and UNION lack and ABUNDANCE fear and PEACE
bondage and FREEDOM sacrifice and INNOCENCE perfection and FLEXIBILITY
power and INNER STRENGTH permanence and CHANGE unknown and KNOWN
time/death and INFINITY
Please call me, for a person to person check in, if you feel so moved and or are having difficulties staying in balance with the weight of the background noise these days. I have been weaving connections between mermaids, and continue to be excited abut our “field trips”. Here’s another opportunity:
Jackie Rose is turning 59 and celebrating, on 3/25 in Greenfield. Contact me for more info and a formal invite!
in love, COURAGE, and compassion;
Opeyemi
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Wow. “Waving Overwhelming Wonder”. That is the skill that I am honing as I bear witness to a world in chaos.
What May Be Coming Next has many possibilities.
In El Mundo Bueno *, the Japanese continue to demonstrate awe-inspiring interpersonal connection, and political transparency in dealing with the disaster as it continues to unfold. In el Mundo Bueno we all move forward together with a clear and powerful warning, regarding the dangers of nuclear energy. The entire world begins to move away from such deadly technolgies.
In El Mundo Malo, the problematic nuclear reactors have escalating issues. Perhaps more damage, as aftershocks of 5 and 6 (we call those earthquakes elsewhere) continue. Perhaps a meltdown. Perhaps (this being el MUCHO mundo malo) a meltdown, followed by another tsunami, and contamination of the ocean, with radiation.
I do not speak these possibilities as a fear monger, but as an oracle.
With Katrina, we were offered to possibility of looking at our emergency preparedness, our classism, and racism in this country. Did we learn our lessons?
With Haiti, we marvelled at the resiliency of a people with the spirit to be dancing on the beaches the night of their catastrophe. Then we sent aid that introduced cholera and worsened their suffering.
With BP Oil, we felt panic as raw crude bled into the gulf waters. We are chafing at the bit to begin drilling again, as gasoline prices soar to $3.50 a gallon, and the corporate villains in that scandal plot new ways to avoid paying damages.
With Haiti, we marveled at the resiliency of a people with the spirit to be dancing on the beaches the night of their catastrophe. Then we sent aid that introduced a Southeast Asian cholera and worsened their suffering.
FACT: the magnetic poles are shifting, possibly preparing for a “flip”:
“The last time the poles switched was 780,000 years ago, and it’s happened about 400 times in 330 million years. Each reversal takes a thousand years or so to complete, and it takes longer for the shift to take effect at the equator than at the poles. The field has weakened about 10% in the last 150 years. Some scientists think this is a sign of a flip in progress“
from http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/question782.htm
FACT: we have no idea what this might look like, feel like or how it will affect humans, other than the likelihood of a period of time when the earth loses it’s protection from solar radiation for an unspecified period of time. Maybe minutes. Or hours. Or days.
Learning more about how to protect ourselves from radiation exposure seem EXACTLY RIGHT, right now.
BY THEIR DIETS AND LIFESTYLE, THE JAPANESE ARE WELL EQUIPPED TO DEAL WITH RADIATION EXPOSURE, relative to other parts of the world (like the Ukraine or Three Mile Island)) where radiation exposure has happened; I still trust that the biosphere/Gaia/Mother Earth is being as gentle as possible with us 7 billion humans…
She is saying “wake up, and STAY AWAKE”
My personal response to my own fears and anxieties is to remind myself to breathe, to inform and to share actual facts with as many as will listen. I listen to that calm, still voice inside of me that is telling me what to do and how to refuel my heart with awe for the magic in my day to day world. I don’t believe that the answers are on-line, or in the world of science. We must find them in co-created ways, for oursleves. We must use right and left brains, hearts, and souls to be with all of this change.
I will post the messages that I receive from Spirit, after I go and sweat my prayers for Japan and the World on Sunday, March 13.
In love and light– OPEYEMI (eternally grateful)
* a phrase used by Starhawk in the novel “The Fifth Sacred Thing indicated the personal spiritual/ psychic power to bring forth nightmares or miracles
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I went to write about the Chaos of the moment, but Jessie has already said it all:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1912349975279
Filed under: Temple of the Healthy Spirit | Tags: alternative health, chakras, diabetes, endocrine glands, high blood pressure, insulin, men's health
Hang on to your hats, gentlemen… this is the BIG one.
No one told any of us how important and complicated this system is. It is second only to our immune systems on being unknown and unappreciated—and that includes by physicians.
Let us focus for a moment on what your endocrine system is. We are talking about hormone manufacturing places in your body, and the effect these hormones have throughout the body. Like your immune system, this network is so complex and magical that conventional medicine has been stymied by the fact that it does not break down into pieces that you could dissect, or look at under a microscope, or analyze chemically.
Unfortunately, when we doctors do not understand something, we have had a tendency to ignore it. Illnesses associated with the pituitary, the thyroid and thymus glands, the pancreas, the adrenal glands, your testicles and your prostate often have big time hormonal issues.
Like Newtonian physics was to Quantum physics, we are trying to move into “Quantum biology”. The best term to describe this shift in belief that can be comprehensible to “left-brainers” would be “psychoneuroimmunology”.
English translation #1: there is now scientific proof that our emotions (psycho) connect to our thinking (neuro) and to the homeostatic maintenance of health (immunology) in our bodies. Hormones are key players in that homeostasis.
English translation #2: science is getting “new-agey” and describing mind/body/spirit medicine.
Translation #3: lots of other non-M.D. healers around the world are going “We told you so!!!”
A hormone is defined as any chemical that is produced in one part of the body, and has an action somewhere else. These chemicals move through our bloodstream. This means that a hormone will pass by every cell that the blood carrying it passes by, or better or for worse. Add in the fact that hormones control our growth, our metabolism, our sexual characteristics, and our sexuality and you should fall down on the ground and appreciate nature, God, or whatever it is that you believe got us these wonderful living machines we inhabit. What is truly amazing when you understand the pathophysiology of the human body is that we manage to stay so healthy, so much of the time!
Let us walk through two excellent examples with big consequences.
INSULIN is a hormone. It is produced in the pancreas, and has an action on every cell in our bodies. That action is to act like a key and to let glucose into the cell. All of our cells run on glucose. A person with type one diabetes has a disease where the body has (mostly) stopped making insulin. This means that the cells don’t have a key to let the glucose into them any more, and that the glucose backs up in the bloodstream. Type II diabetes is a disease where the insulin is there, but the cells stop being able to use the key to open the door. This is called insulin resistance. More and more insulin has to be sent to the cells to make that door open. If not well managed, type II diabetics need insulin from outside of their own bodies, just like the ones who cannot manufacture insulin (type I).
Diabetes was a terminal diagnosis, before the discovery of insulin and its subsequent manufacturing (originally from beef and pork much later genetically engineered) in 1923.
Essential hypertension means high blood pressure that just happens, and nobody really knows why. There are many hormones involved with regulating our blood pressure; if this interests you, check out the simplest explanation that I could find, which is at wikopedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renin-angiotensin_system
Out of balance in one hormone and you develop diabetes. Out of balance in several hormones that regulate blood pressure and water excretion (peeing and sweating by any other name) and you develop high blood pressure.
This quick review of an organ system of the human body that is much more than an organ system is key to understanding much that limits the conventional medical model. Remember we are basically using a system (allopathic medicine) that only discovered germ theory about 150 years ago, and that based much of its understanding of the human body on dissecting dead corpses. You cannot see the immune system, the endocrine system or the nervous system– not really– in a dead body. It is no surprise that conventional medicine is not doing so well with long term treatments that work (and continue to work) for illnesses with complex endocrine components. Treatments that are coming out of of new science and research into the endocrine system will be exactly that– NEW. That means there is no long-term statistical evidence on efficacy. In the pharmaceutical world, “new” has generally meant less than 20 years of data available.
Ironically, what we ARE getting “long-term data” on relative to our body and endocrine system is the effect of endocrine disruptors. Here’s the wikopedia definition of what an endocrine disruptor does:
“interfere with the synthesis, secretion, transport, binding, action, or elimination of natural hormones in the body that are responsible for the maintenance of homeostasis (normal cell metabolism), reproduction, development, and/or behavior.”
Guess what products we are talking about now? Pesticides.
Hormone disruption is a major mechanism of many pesticides, DDT being at the top of that list. Other categories of dangerous hormone disruptors:
Polychlorinated biphenyls (industrial coolants and lubricants)
Bisphenol A (plastic water bottles and containers)
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (flame retardants)
Phthalates (toys, flooring, medical equipment!!!!, cosmetics and air fresheners)
Now you can better comprehend the connections in this great web of life, and how our own arrogance may be coming back to bite us in the ass.
Cancer. Joe Jackson sang, “everything gives you cancer” and sometimes it feels like he’s right. Certainly avoiding known cancer causing materials in our modern environment is very hard to do.
Back to the endocrine system, as it relates to cancer. There is a flurry out there of new drugs that fight cancer cells by effecting our endocrine systems. Top of the list are anti-estrogenic and anti-androgenic chemotherapies. Top of the list for men will be prostate cancer therapies:
“Compounds in development that target androgen receptor activation hold great promise for men with prostate cancer.”
from: Update on cancer threapeutics at
http://www.updateoncancer.com/article/S1872-115X(07)00048-5/abstract
I offer this health education essay because it is humbling and a reality check to truly understand that what we see as the science of medicine is very new to even beginning to try to understand the complex relationships of these special chemicals in our bodies. There is an ENTIRE journal (Homones and Behavior) for a subdivision of modern medicine called neuroendocrinology (see http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.agents/622842/authorinstructions)
Where there are drugs in our culture, we usually find abuse,too. Like opiates, steroid hormones have great abuse potential. People who are begun on hormone therapy often have difficulty with sudden cessation of their medications. Anabolic steroids (abused in bodybuilding) deserve particular mention when speaking of men’s health:
“Some health risks can be produced by long-term use or excessive doses of anabolic steroids. These effects include harmful changes in cholesterol levels (increased low-density lipoprotein and decreased high-density lipoprotein), acne, high blood pressure, liver damage (mainly with oral steroids), and dangerous changes in the structure of the left ventricle of the heart.” (from wikopedia)
Estimates run as high as 5% of the population when speaking of steroid abuse and addiction. A good site for more information:
http://www.recoveryconnection.org/drug_index/steroids.php
As is often the case in my experience of research into the healing arts, Eastern medicine (translate Traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic) has much more integrated understanding of this system than Western Allopathic medicine. Remember those particular glands/ organs that I mentioned at the beginning of this essay? It is interesting that their location coincides pretty remarkably with the Ayruvedic chakra system!
See attached image, from google search on “chakras and endocrine glands”.
